I go to prepare a place for you

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afaithfulone4u

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Many would be brides are awaiting their mansion in heaven that they think Jesus is preparing for them. We are the members of his body such as legs, arms, mouths to finish out the work he has left us to do by the will of the Father who gave us to Christ. He is preparing a place in his body for us and places of positions in the government in the kingdom of God that is upon his shoulder's. We sit with him ON the right hand of God literally on God's hand of righteousness IF you are walking IN the Word and abiding in him united with Christ to be transformed by the renewing of your mind to have the mind of Christ... The Word. These who are being prepared to rule and reign with Christ for the 1,000yrs are being raised up in their standards, intergrity and character as son's of God. Our work is to just seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness and to go to the poor who are without God and bring them in to, to advance the kingdom.

John 14:2-4
2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
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Matt 26:64
64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
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1 Cor 3:16
16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
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Rev 21:22-24
22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
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Rom 12:4-6
4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
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1 Cor 12:12-20
12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
14 For the body is not one member, but many.
15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?
20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
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Isa 9:6
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
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Eph 1:3-5
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
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Eph 2:6-16
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
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Those places of abiding are for right now!!!! Jesus doesn't say...one day you will abide in Me and I in you! He says we should abide NOW! So the abodes are awaiting those with faith and surrender at this very moment in Zion...in the heavenlies.
 

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Episkopos said:
Those places of abiding are for right now!!!! Jesus doesn't say...one day you will abide in Me and I in you! He says we should abide NOW! So the abodes are awaiting those with faith and surrender at this very moment in Zion...in the heavenlies.
Exactly! He has prepared a place for all who are in his body for they to abide in now... and in the new earth to come. They are not mansions in heaven that we will some day get, for not only does the kingdom of heaven reside with in us now and we are seated with Christ now in our place he has prepared for us, but heavenly Jersualem will come down here after we rule and reign on earth with him for the thousand yrs.
We are not the bride, we are the children of God who's mother is the Bride heavenly Jerusalem. Our actions as a whole make the Bride faithful or not so restored Jerusalem must have holy children as our mother has brought us up.

Gal 4:24-31
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
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Isa 54:1-2
54:1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
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Ps 113......2013
113:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.
2 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.
3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD's name is to be praised.
4 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
5 Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
8 That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
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Those abodes are NOT for right now. They are still future, and they are about the abodes of His priests during His future "thousand years" reign, mentioned in the Ezekiel temple layout of Ezekiel 40 through 47. They will be literal abodes, here on earth, within the Milennium temple complex.
 

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Jesus was talking to his 12 disciples for crying out loud

Some people need to take a grade one elementary baby food bible study class or something

Sheesh !!!
 

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The abodes of the priests per the Ezekiel 40-47 layout IS... for Christ's priests when He returns. The Heavenly is coming here, we are not going there. This is why Ezek.47 reveals the Tree of Life and God's River emitting out from the Milennium Sanctuary there in Ezekiel's layout. So for those in ignorance of this, that means those Ezekiel 40 through 48 chapters HAVE YET TO COME TO PASS TODAY.

The Zechariah 14 chapter also gives a partial parallel to those Ezekiel events when Christ returns to this earth. The area of Jerusalem on earth is where He is coming to gather us to, and like Zech.14 states, living waters shall go out from Jerusalem.

It's obvious that many preachers are not aware of this relation to the "mansions" our Lord was speaking about in John 14 because of lack of OT study, but I assure you, the early Apostles and disciples most likely were aware. The Old Testament Books were all the Bible they had at the time.