Seattle, March 02, 2005
12. A COMMAND FOR SILENCE. An order issued to the whole of the occupants of heaven. The Lord is about to bring to completion His work of the ages. To the redeemed, the consecrated their silence will be that moment of wedded bliss. The marriage of the Lamb is come and the Bride has fully prepared herself. Don’t be misled into thinking that the Lord will receive just any kind of person to be His bride. She will have attained the standard established for us, by being wholly sanctified and washed by the Word of the Lord. The Lord does not establish standards that are too high for us to reach. He will present to Himself a glorious, radiant, luminous church, without stains, blemishes, wrinkles or any such thing that would mar its perfection in holiness. It will be made up of those who have attained the holiness and blamelessness of the Lord. Eph. 5:27 The Lord is stirred, He is moved in His heart to bring His program for this earth to its conclusion. It is the time of His visitation to the ungodly world. The consequences of sin will reach their climax. The Lord will execute His final judgments.
THE LORD WILL SING TO HIS BRIDE. This is certainly to be a most amazing experience for all of heaven. His delight in the Bride will be expressed in a song of His love and appreciation for her. She is the joy and rejoicing of His heart. Zeph. 3:17 The majesty of His presence is made manifest, by His righteousness in her. Zeph. 3:5 NIV. The pleasure of the Lord is in the lives of His people who love and serve Him. He has promised that He will beautify the meek with His salvation. It may well be said that there never has been, nor will there ever be such beauty as that which is to be manifest in His Bride. Ps. 149:4 There is also a marginal reference to Zeph. 3:17 stating that “He will be silent in His love.”
GOD IS LOVE. His great and marvelous love is the revelation of His person and being. It is the very essence of His person. It is who and what He really is in His eternal character. Real love is only understood by a personal knowledge and relationship with the Lord Jesus. The magnitude of His love will be fully comprehended when that moment of silence arrives and the totality of His love is known by His Bride. 1 John 4:8 The Lord has destined His own to accept and be filled with that love. It is the basis of the presence of the Lord in the lives of those who are His. That love is also to be perfected, to be made complete in us. Oh what a statement John then utters, for he said, “as He is, so are we, in this world.” 1 John 4:17 Challenge above all challenges. AS HE IS. We know where He is, and that is in heaven. We are made to sit together with Him, in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Eph. 1:3 We know how He is. He has been raised from the dead with a body that is heavenly. We too, are now being blest with all spiritual blessings “in heavenly places in Christ.” Eph. 1:3 The Lord Jesus has preceded us and has opened a way whereby, in this present life, we may experience what He already has become. His bride will achieve that very high spiritual status which will make her to be an integral part of Him..