As we have stated numerous times in the course of this Study, the book of Revelation is first and foremost a spiritual book. It is a book of spiritual realities communicated by means of signs and symbols. You will not read the fulfillment of its prophecies on the pages of Newsweek magazine, but you will see them manifest in the lives of men and women who walk with God and in the great accomplishments of the kingdom of God on earth. The word of the Lord in its spiritual meaning does not describe for us the carnal warfare between nations. For what have wars between nations to do with the kingdom of God? God does not conquer by carnal weapons, therefore the warfare between nations has nothing whatever to do with the kingdom purposes of God! This is where people go astray in their thinking. They suppose that God acts politically or militarily. Oh, no! The battles beheld in spirit by the eagle-eyed seer of Patmos signify spiritual combats, combats between light and darkness, between spirit and flesh, between Adam and Christ, between the carnal mind and the precious mind of Christ, between truth and error, between righteousness and evil, between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Babylon, between life and death. A man must experience this combat within himself to become a spiritual conqueror and possess the promised land. Our Lord, when in the world, carried on such spiritual warfare in an infinitely greater way than others, overcoming the compounded powers of the world, the flesh, and the devil, opening up the way to victory and triumph for all who are willing to follow Him into the lifestyle of the kingdom of God.
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Ah, the hand of God in our life.......we are also called His garden.
Though the trees do grow we are not to eat from two. One makes us "like" God in Mind and one makes us "like" God in Life. Much later we are invited to eat of one. This also forbids the other.
I don't know.
I feel like he is trying to tell me something.
It is interesting, we're told to add our faith.
1 Peter 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Those all sound like spiritual tools. I was thinking of "the weapons of our warfare are not carnal" too.
I think that the only spiritual tool we should concern ourselves with is Faith. Guard it diligently for it is the door through which all passes.
Knowledge of Good and Evil to the left Life to the right.
The Bible is pretty adamant that there is only one Judge. While the Duty was passed from the Father to the Son the Son returned it to the Father who will return it to the Son again. Oh what a Judge Christ was!