SURVIVING THE TRANSITION – Ron McGatlin
(Special note: Please be sure to have read the previous article, “THIS BEAUTIFUL DREAM CALLED REALITY” before reading this article.)
God is moving in and with His people in a personal way, empowering and inspiring us to live a victorious, productive, and peaceful life, thereby moving the world toward the glorious kingdom of God.
Now is the time to step into all that God has for us to be and do. Enter fully into an all-out love relationship with God and commune with Him personally and together with others. Become a God community in love with Him and one another.
THE JOURNEY INTO GLORY
The love and light of God will ignite in communal gatherings, connecting us to become His kingdom on earth. The world is being transformed in the hearts of man by the Spirit of God to transform the world and all life in it.
In the transition to the kingdom of God, there are many endings and many new beginnings, all fitting together to make the transformation complete.
Every person and living thing in this world will be in some way and to some degree affected by change in the transition and transformation into the kingdom of God, on earth as it is in heaven.
The great transition is akin to the journey of Abraham. He was sent to a place that he did not know. And we are sent to transition from our past into the future in a new world of the kingdom of God. Also, in a sense, Abraham’s journey marked the beginning of the transformative journey of today. Abraham was the Father of the Jewish people through whom Christ Jesus came to earth to begin the great transition of this world.
Genesis 12:1-4: “‘Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
2 I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’
4 So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him…”
Like Abraham, we are being sent to move from where we are to a place that we do not fully know or understand. We do not know exactly where we are going or what the journey will be like entirely. We do know that the journey is into the glory of God with us in His kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
Abraham received further instructions as he continued his journey. We are also receiving more direction as we continue the journey into the kingdom. Now, in this current generation, we are being given further enlightenment of the written word regarding the next steps in the transformation of this world from the kingdoms of man to the kingdom of God.
OUR TRANSFORMATION
Many of us are now, or will soon, undergo a profound refinement of our entire lives. God is preparing His temple. We are His temple, the temple He is coming to (or manifesting in) suddenly!
Malachi 3:1-3: “Behold, I send My messenger,
And he will prepare the way before Me.
And the Lord, whom you seek,
Will suddenly come to His temple,
Even the Messenger of the covenant,
In whom you delight.
Behold, He is coming,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
2 But who can endure the day of His coming?
And who can stand when He appears?
For He is like a refiner’s fire
And like launderers’ soap.
3 He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver;
He will purify the sons of Levi,
And purge them as gold and silver,
That they may offer to the Lord
An offering in righteousness.”
Jesus cleansing the temple in Jerusalem can be seen as a symbolic picture of His cleansing us from the “merchandisers” that have set up in us, His temple. Secular and religious living have set up tables that Jesus is turning over, and then driving out the merchandising ways. (John 2:13-17).
OVERCOMERS SURVIVE THE TRANSITION TO KINGDOM
Some believers will transition into the kingdom now, while others will not.
What about the saved believers who are trusting in Christ Jesus to get to heaven when they die, but for some reason cannot move into the kingdom of God on earth now?
God is love. The redeemed who will not transition into the kingdom now will be gloriously transitioned directly into heaven while the kingdom manifests in the world. Spoken plainly, we will have what we believe. Their passing or transition to heaven is not a bad thing; it is their time of being present with God in heaven while avoiding serious transitional suffering on earth.
WORLD TRANSFORMATION
Malachi 4:1-3: “‘For behold, the day is coming,
Burning like an oven,
And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble.
And the day which is coming shall burn them up,’
Says the Lord of hosts,
‘That will leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But to you who fear My name
The Sun of Righteousness shall arise
With healing in His wings;
And you shall go out
And grow fat like stall-fed calves.
3 You shall trample the wicked,
For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet
On the day that I do this,’
Says the Lord of hosts.”
Isaiah 61:2-3: “To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
3 To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”
A NEW WORLD
“Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said to me, “Write, for these words are true and faithful.” Revelation 21:5.
“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.” Isaiah 65:17.
Jesus is also redeeming and restoring this world just as He redeems us, making us a new creation with old things passed away. When we are redeemed, we are said to be a new creation. It is the same with this world. The redeemed or reformed world is said to be a new creation.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17.
This old world is also passing away, as it is being transformed into a new creation of the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
10 Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:9-10.
“And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. 4 And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
THE GLORY OF GOD
The glory of God will cover the earth.
And blessed be His glorious name forever!
And let the whole earth be filled with His glory.
Amen and Amen. Psalm 72:19.
Ron McGatlin
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