Wednesday, July 23, 2003 (37)BUT JERUSALEM. The real Jerusalem. The true city of the Most High. That which He is constructing for His own habitation. The city which has its origins in the heavenly. The city of freedom and pure worship unto the Lord. The city which is the spiritual mother of all the redeemed. Gal. 4:26Marvelous reports, glorious and glowing messages are give concerning you, O, City of God. Ps. 87:3 Being His City, prepared by Him and for Him she is to be beautified above all. Those belonging and accepted as being a part of the city are they who are born there. They acknowledge that the true Jerusalem, the Bride of Christ is their mother. Their names are written in the Lambs book of life. The Lord has promised that she will be established, she is the perfection of His work. The most gorgeous of all the creation of the Lord. Ps. 87:4-5 None will even see, understand or participate in the majesty of that city except they have been born a new. John 3:3 The Lord has explicit standards which must be followed in order to be a member of the Bride of Christ. John 3:3 Furthermore unless one has been born of the water and the Spirit he cannot be a part of the kingdom of God. All this makes the new birth and water baptism an imperative to be obtain membership in the consummate plan of the Lord in this end of the age. John 3:5
IT IS WRITTEN. One of the different, yet wonderful acts of the Lord in building the family of faith and the progeny of the Lord Jesus is the barren women who were made to be fruitful and bare children. We have already noted Sarah to be one of these women so blest. Bareness is a term that is used by the scriptures in relationship to the Bride of Christ. The prophecy is found in Isaiah 54:1 she is exhorted to sing, rejoice and be glad. To emit songs of praise, to raise her voice in joy and worship. Her condition of bareness is about to be reversed and the barren, the desolate, the destitute will bear more children that she who is married. Paul made reference to this scripture in Galatians 4:27 and related it to the Jerusalem which is from above. At one time barren, to her embarrassment, but her circumstances are to be reversed and she is to become abundantly fruitful. We apply this to the woman of Revelation twelve, the Bride of Christ who is to bear a manchild who is so precious and dear to the Lord that he is immediately snatched up into heaven. This woman will keep house, she will know what it is to bear children to the joy and rejoicing of her husband. She is to be the mother of children. Ps. 113:9 This is a cause for which we are to Praise the Lord. Note, Isaiah said, more are the children of the desolate (formerly), now, to be fruitful and bear children. Then, Isaiah prophesied that in the new heavens and the new earth the name of this barren woman would continue to be remembered by the Lord and her descendants were to continue before Him eternally. The creation of the new heavens and earth has the same purpose for which the Lord created this world on which we live, only all things will be new, sinless and unspoiled. Isa. 66:22.