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The Greater Glory

What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. John 13:7 Him that overcometh, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God Revelation 3:12

What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.
John 13:7

Him that overcometh, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God
Revelation 3:12

Partial View
You only have a partial view of God’s dealings with you today. You see through a darkened glass.. only perceiving a dim shadowy silhouette. You stand in the centre of His incomplete – partially developed plan for your life. You sometimes kick against the pricks of correction, which are sent in love, to you. You ofttimes resist the chosen tool He appointed, to refine and perfect you.

Future Plan
You are to be fashioned into a fair and sturdy pillar, in the temple of eternity, but first, you are selected, felled, hewn, shaped, fashioned and whittled; sculpted from a mighty, gnarled cedar. A tall cedar tree, grown in the windswept plains of Lebanon. A noble cedar – the pride of the timberland. A regal cedar, that wrestled with the north wind blasts.. resplendent to the eye in its summer foliage – magnificent to behold in its flush of grandeur. Birds nestled in its branches. Weary pilgrims sheltered beneath its spreading boughs. Wandering creatures discovered safety under the shadow of its branches.

Parable of a Believer
You are that majestic cedar. You are that tree of mighty proportions. You are the one that stands so tall and proud against life’s horizon.. doomed to succumb to the cutting flint of the great Woodman’s sharp axe. Gashed and gnarled and stripped of branch and limb and bark. An impassioned cry rises against the felling of this mighty tree. A cry that joins the prophet’s great lament: Howl fir tree – for the mighty cedar has fallen. Howl, ye oaks of Bashan – for the forest of the vintage is come down. Zechariah 11:2

Perfected Thru Suffering
But wait and watch and follow the ensuing journey of this humiliated tree.. dragged down the mountains over rough ground; covered in reluctant pain and shame and confusion. Strapped to Hiram’s little launch; manhandled to the gate of God’s own temple. The humbled tree, a former crown of Lebanon, now set up a glorious beam. A perfect, polished pillar – resplendent in the court of the King of kings: A mighty pillar in the temple of my God. And the glory of the latter house was greater than the glory of the former. Haggai 2:9

Like Christ
Is your soul being stripped through God’s sharp axe of trials and corrections? You are being fashioned into a fair and sturdy pillar… a pillar in the temple of eternity. You are being felled; hewn; stripped; shaped; fashioned  whittled – sculpted into a chosen vessel of God for His use and for His glory. Don’t kick against the pricks of correction, sent in love, to you. Don’t resist the chosen tools He has appointed to refine and perfect you. You are chosen to become an everlasting pillar in His heavenly Jerusalem. You are selected to become a witness to the Lord:


“Established” like the pillar ‘Jachin’.
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“Strength” like the pillar ‘Boaz’.

Chastening Hand
Appointed to be a heavenly representative.. a witness of His grace to the principalities and powers in heavenly spheres – established by His strength in His Temple forever. But first, you must submit to His chastening hand. And then you will come forth as pure gold. Job 23:10

Read about Hiram and the cedars of Lebanon in – 1 Kings 5:10
Read about the pillars, Jachin and Boaz in Solomon’s Temple – 1 Kings 7:21
Read about the pillars in the Temple of God Revelation 3:12

 

Bible References

Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.

12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.

The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.

10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.

21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.

12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

Revelation 9

And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

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