What I wrote in the following, I also had made an edit. Unfortunately, your copy/paste was without that edit:
(My Edit: "In this present mortal existence),
one can't be any closer to the new Heavens, when one is IN Jesus, nor can the new earth be any closer to me, than to have Jesus IN me."
You believe and teach above the new heaven and earth seen below is being in Jesus and Jesus being in the believer, 100% false!
Your claim above is false, I read it several times and it's openly before the forum, way out in left field, way out!
Your attempt to remove the scripture below through your symbolic allegory has "Failed"
The New Heaven And Earth Will Be a "Future" Reality In The New Jerusalem, God's Tabernacle With His People On A New Earth
Revelation 21:1-5KJV
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Simply put:
to be IN Jesus, is to be IN the KoG; to be IN the KoG, is to be IN Jesus.
Therefore, Jesus who was once only Spirit with the Father, has now in His resurrected
Immortal flesh, ascended to the Father.
Jesus Himself,
is now become the "Father's House", in which God Himself can dwell.
John 14
[
1] Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
[
2]
In my Father's house are many mansions [
garnished dwelling places FOR God the Father]
: 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.
Jesus is preparing a place for those He has made to be His "many
[garnished] mansions"**, aka "
NEW creatures", that come to Him by faith, so that
where He is, there we may be also, which is in His Father's House,
who is Jesus.
Without Jesus, God the Father
CANNOT dwell within us by Himself. If He did we would die.
For that reason, God the Father needed His Son's sacrifice just as much as we do.
As a result,
when we invite Jesus into our life (Rev. 3:20), God the Father literally COMES WITH Jesus, being within Him, so that He also can dwell within us.
**Note: 1 Peter 2:[
5]
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
There is no other way that God the Father can dwell in us, except through His Son, who then dwells in us.
Did we all forget that Jesus was baptized also.......
by His Father?? Mat. 3:16-17.
And the evidence of that is what Jesus said in John 14
[
10] Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?
the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
Edit: How many here are doing
their own works FOR Jesus, instead of Jesus Himself DOING HIS
OWN WORKS
through you?? You probably never have thought about in that way, but you should.
Jesus warns about those crying to Him about all the wonderful works THEY DID FOR HIM, but His reply will be Mat. 7
[
21] Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven;
but he that doeth the will of my Father*** which is in heaven.
[
22] Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
[23] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you, depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
***Note: I ASK ALL: are you born again of the Spirit of Christ? If not, then you are NONE of his. Rom. 8:9. Rev. 3:20.
Having the "oil" within your vessel, is what the parable of the 10 Virgins is all about.
2 Cor. 4
[
7] But we have this
treasure in
earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power
may be of God,
and NOT of us.