TIME FOR
ACTION Most
Christians would be aware that things have changed and changed very quickly and
not for the best. What to do about it? While some are endeavouring to stand
against the tide of anti-God activity, others see the downward trend as a sign
that Jesus is coming to ‘rapture’ them shortly and take them out of the mess.
People are looking for answers. They need to understand just what is going on.
We need a Biblical worldview.How does
God see things? First of all
we need to understand who we are. How many know that Christians are the Seed of
Abraham? What difference does that make? Let the
Bible speak:- “Now to Abraham and his Seed were the
promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And
to your Seed” who is Christ.”Galatians
3:16 “And if you are Christ’s, then you
are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Galatians 3:29 There is One
Seed and that Seed is Christ AND the Church.- Jesus and His Church are the Seed
of Abraham, and we inherit all the promises made to Abraham.Abraham had physical seed through Isaac and
spiritual seed through Christ. To the physical seed God gave the Land of
Canaan, which they had to possess; To the spiritual Seed, God gave the Earth. “For the promise that he would be heir of the
world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the
righteousness of faith.” Romans 4:13 That’s us!
We are heir of the world. We also have to possess our inheritance. The journey
of Israel from slaves in the kingdom of darkness to conquerors possessing the
Promised Land is a template for how the Church will possess their inheritance.
Israel had to possess the Land, bring down the strongholds of the enemy and
establish the rule of God, i.e. the Kingdom. Our inheritance is occupied by
satanic forces with their entrenched strongholds. “We know that we are of God and the
whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.”1 John 5:19 During the
temptation of Christ, Satan showed Jesus all the kingdoms of the world and
boasted that they were his. This is still the case. That’s why we have a messed
up world. Jesus removed his authority over the world by bearing all the sins of
the world. Authority over the earth now belongs to the Seed of Abraham but
Satan still operates illegally. Jesus has done all the work but we have to enforce
His victory in the Earth till the satanic strongholds crumble. This is a
spiritual war against spiritual enemies:-
“For we do not wrestle against flesh
and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of
the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly
places.” Ephesians
6:12 A generation
of the physical seed of Abraham rose up under Joshua and claimed the Land of
Canaan. Eventually the Kingdom was established under Solomon, son of David and
the glory of God filled the temple. This current
generation is the Joshua generation. This is the generation destined to rise up
and liberate the earth from the clutches of the wicked one. Since the
resurrection he has been waiting in fear and trembling, knowing that his days are
numbered. All he could do was exercise his only remaining powers, to deceive
and accuse, to keep the Seed of Abraham from rising up and claiming the Earth
for the Kingdom. He does this by blinding our spiritual eyes to spiritual
realities. He is also quite happy to let us believe in wrong teaching about the
end times; anything but the truth. Wrong teaching has bred an apathetic Church,
just waiting to be raptured out any moment now; when what we are supposed to be
doing is getting on the offensive against the enemy. Jesus said
that He would build His Church and the gates of Hell would not stand against
it. Time to wake
up Church! It’s not just about taking us to Heaven when we die; it is about
bringing back the King and the Kingdom to rule over our Earth. The Earth is our
inheritance; the Kingdom of God ‘on Earth as it is in Heaven’ is our Promised
Land. But we have to claim it. The Hosts of Heaven are waiting to do battle
with us. The Victory is ours! Amen
