WORD FOR TODAY 07/19/20 COME UP HITHER

I asked the Lord for a WORD FOR TODAY 071920

Rev. 4:1 – “After this I looked, and behold a door opened in heaven; and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.”

I have been learning that God talks to His people at their present level of understanding and to them throughout the scripture. Based on this knowledge, I can unpack this instruction and see into certain words and their relevance to me and to all those who seek to know Him.

After this – John had seen and heard God’s message regarding His Church.

I looked, and behold, a door opened in heaven – As we look into the things of God and follow after Him, and we keep looking to behold Him, a door in Heaven is opened to us that we may see and know Him.

And the first voice which I heard as it were of a Trumpet talking with me; - We begin to hear His voice trumpeting with zeal -  declaring His greatness and His glorious desire as we behold Him and look and search Him out and wait upon Him in the secret place of Spirit.

Which said, ‘Come Up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.” – The open Heaven will call us up higher into the realm of Spirit, to walk in Truth and Light, and to leave behind us the hinderance and deceptions of carnal reason and self-importance.  He bids us to walk in the Heavens and to keep our mind and heart stayed upon Him.  The things of the rational life are temporal only; the things of Spirit are vast, pure and eternal.  As we come up and forsake our own thoughts and ideas for that of the eternal life and light, He can then show us things which must be here (and) after. The things of the heavenlies defy our sense knowledge and if we have not overthrown that sense knowledge within us, we cannot see or believe the fantastic out of the box incredible mind will and wishes of God towards man. He shows us and gives us understanding of His processing in our here and now and then in our after, as we have laid down unbelief and doubt of Him, His intentions and His undying exorbitant love towards man, and the wonderful life that He won and purchased for man with His own Holy Blood.

To God be all the Glory.