The Flowing River of God
A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden.
We drink from the river of life to bring much to fruition
God’s life, eternal life, flows in us to fulfill God’s plan.
The flowing river of God’s Word enriches our spirit with divine viewpoint (Scripture) depositing a wealth of God’s essence into the fabric of our humanity. Our God-authenticated priesthood, earned by Christ our High Priest, makes possible our transformation. Scripture is literally God-breathed into our mind by the Holy Spirit—God speaking in us transforms us into vessels for God’s purposes. This is the proper function of our divinely granted priesthood.
The church, or body of believers, is designed by God to emulate God to a lost and dying world. However, even though we are a corporate body, our transformation is individual.
Scripture is the flow of divine life from heaven into the individual believer-priest thereby filling the body of believers for ambassadorship in the devil’s world. Therefore, as a result of the filling of the Holy Spirit, God speaks through His people (1 Peter 1:5,9).
In the book of Exodus, we see the nation of Israel was to be a kingdom of priests—a “peculiar treasure.” The actual temple of the Living God is his people here on earth. We represent God. Because God dwells in us, we dwell in God. Solomon’s temple actually demonstrates materially, a model replica of our own divine-designed dwelling place of God.
In the entire universe of creation, there are only two temples: One in heaven, and one on earth. The one on earth is always the believer—created in God’s own image—for God’s glory and our benefit.
The Temple of Solomon, built in Jerusalem, is a visual example of God’s temple in heaven. Our worship in material temples is symbolic of worship in heaven, but even more it demonstrates our own God-designed temple of God in us. God’s temple is literally in us. Our function in worship is to always acknowledge God’s indwelling and reverence His holy Presence, which guarantees our deliverance, both every day and eternally.
God gave us His Son. God gave us God. We believers have the Spirit-filled heaven of God dwelling in our inner self. The heavenly aspects of worship now take place on earth too. We are to be mirrors of God to humanity. God’s original design for man as vessels of truth has been restored by Jesus Christ.
The temple in Jerusalem was to be a picture of believers as God-indwelt.
Ancestral pride hasn’t changed because the human race is still human with a nature contrary to God’s own nature. The holy place is in man through faith in the Messiah (John 4: 20,21,23,24).