From the book Zion Is A Relationship. The Days of Zion Isa. 1: 1 ¶ The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 Now it will come about that In the last days The mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; And all the nations will stream to it. 3 And many peoples will come and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in His paths. For the law will go forth from Zion And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And He will judge between the nations, And will render decisions for many peoples; And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, And never again will they learn war. Here is a prophetic vision that stretches from now right into eternity. The Hebrew word for last, as in the last days, is achariyth, which means just that, latter or end. Verse two states that there comes a time when the mountain of the house of the Lord, which is Zion, is raised above the hills and is established as the chief of the mountains with the nations streaming to it. This reveals a realm of ministry flowing from Zion that supersedes all other ministry. It is the ministry of the priesthood and all other ministry, which is symbolized by the lesser hills, gives way to it. The realm of ministry that the church realm has known of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers are all part of the hill realm that yields to the chief of the mountains, the Zion priesthood. Already the Lord is de-emphasizing these ministries. This does not mean they are no longer in operation, but the anointing of the Lord is gradually shifting from them to the function of His priesthood. Nothing done by the Lord is instantaneous. Gradually, almost imperceptibly, changes occur in the spirit. It is just like the days after Pentecost. The church had been established, yet the temple worship continued until the temples destruction in 70 AD. At a given point the new order in its entirety finally displaces the old. The fact the nations stream to the mountain of the house of the Lord indicates a spiritual upward flow. Right now we dont see this. There is still the downward pull of futility upon creation. But we have a promise of a reversal of gravity. There is to be an upward flow, and as we know, things dont naturally flow uphill; they flow downhill. As the breakthroughs into the Kingdom of God continue, we will see this reversal of the spiritual gravity. People will be drawn upwards into the Kingdom of God. The Lord will no longer reach down as much as people will reach up. And many peoples will come and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob... As discussed in the chapter Zion Is A Relationship all the earth will eventually seek the Lord in Zion. And for what purpose will they come? That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in His paths. For the law will go forth from Zion And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. It is through the Zion priesthood that the ways of the Lord will be revealed to the nations. The word of Christ is to be ministered on a level unlike what the church age has produced. Anointed teaching and preaching must give way to the life and nature of the Lord housed in the utterances of a priesthood. Verse four clearly shows that the priesthood is to be the dominant expression of Christ in the coming Kingdom age which is unfolding. We have yet to see the nations beating their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. We are in but the beginning of Christs priesthood being established in a people. As already mentioned, none of the things prophesied concerning this next age of the Kingdom happen instantaneously. There is an unfolding revelation of Jesus Christ leading us into it. Yes, at some point the things that are must give way to the things to come, but everything functions as an unfolding. This is the big mistake of futuristic teaching in Christianity. Everyone sits waiting for God to do something. Everyone sits waiting for Christ to reveal Himself in the manner in which they have interpreted Scripture. But there is no waiting! There is just pioneering our way into that which God is opening up. John said in 1st John 2:2: Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. We dont know exactly what lies ahead nor how it will be manifested; we only know God is speaking and opening the door to the next age.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 13:52:05 +0000
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