December 2001

THE KINGDOM OF GOD COMES TO EARTH
Paul & Emily Meuller

Part Four     April 2001

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                Something else is coming from heaven to the earth and it is described in Isaiah's prophecy. 'Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation COMETH; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. And (when His salvation has fully conic to the elect of earth) they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken' (Is. 62:1 1 - 12).

                Love wants us to know that our full and complete salvation, which is the salvation of our entire being including our bodies, is coming from the heavens of His Spirit to the earth. When He appears to complete our salvation, Christ will bring our rewards with Him. He will reward His saints with that portion of kingdom blessings that corresponds with their high calling and their individual walk with the Lord. The prophet also tells us that the Lord's work is 'before him.' In other words, there is much work yet for Love (God) to do. Love will work during this great Day like He has never worked before. Love will complete all the work He has already begun, bringing His people and eventually all mankind to the completeness and fullness of pure and perfect Love. And we shall be called 'The holy people, the redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.'

                The prophet also prophesied this anointed word of the Lord: 'Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners out of it'(Is. 13:9). Obviously, the King James translators had a negative mind when they translated this passage. For example, the Hebrew word, 'akzariy, ' which is translated cruel, actually means terrible or cruel, of harsh action, implying deadly, and in a good sense brave (from Strong's). But from reading the King James translation, you get no idea of the good sense intended here in the original language.

                Both the second and third phrases of this verse do show clearly that the Lord is moving against the sinners with His passionate anger and wrath to devastate and bring to ruin the guilty one. But we need to properly understand just who the guilty criminal is in this verse before we attempt to interpret it. The words, 'the sinners, 'refers to the criminal, or to the one accounted guilty. And that 'criminal,' that guilty one, is the man of sin that is within us all. It is against this man of sin within us all that the wrath of God is directed, not against sinful mankind in general. It is not God's plan to destroy any person of the billions of earth's inhabitants because of their sins, but to save them all from their sins and give them of His abundant Life.

                To more correctly interpret this verse, we should say it this way: The day of the Lord is coming (which is in agreement with the date this prophecy was given, but for us today, we know it has already come). This day is terrible, of harsh action, burning with the Lord's brave and sincere passion, and has as its good purpose the destruction of the man of sin within us all. He shall destroy the works of the carnal man on this day, and will bring to ruin and desolation that guilty criminal within us all (see Is. 13:11), which is the man of sin. Amen and amen! The goodness of our Father is being revealed for the Lord's elect on this great day, which is the day of the Lord, or the day of the beginning of the reign of Christ in the earth. He shall deliver us on this Day by destroying the man of sin that is in every one of us. What a wonderful Day this is when we can see it as it really is, according to Love's pure and unadulterated truth and purpose!