The Revelation Series - His Countenance as the Sun II

His Countenance as the Sun II

We are continuing our study of the Son of Man in the seven golden candlesticks.  We are looking at His countenance as the sun.  In the natural we see by sun light.  Our eyes have no sight without light.  Jesus is the sun we see by in the Spirit. Without Him there is no light. 

John 1:4 “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” 

Isaiah 60:19 spoke of a day where the sun and the moon would not be the light.  Men have tried to figure this out by their own minds.  Remember, without Him we have no sight.  Jesus was the light Isaiah was speaking of.  When Christ came, he said “I am the light of the world.”  In order to see in the spiritual realm, we must see by him.  To have sight we must be born again of God’s Spirit, John 3:3.  Otherwise, man is simply bound to natural sight, with no true spiritual light at all.  Man may think he has spiritual sight, but he has NONE! 

1Corinthians 2:9  “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” 

The above is a very popular scriptures, quoted in many Christian circles.  Many quote this in regard to what is prepared for them over in glory land or heaven after they die.  However, the very next verse in this chapter says that God HAS revealed them to us by His Spirit.  What was prepared for us that we did not see was prepared at the cross.  Jesus said in John 14, “I go to prepare a place for you.”  He said if he prepares a place for us that He would come again and receive us to himself.  Where He was going was the cross.  The place He was preparing was the Father’s House. 

The Apostle Paul writes that we the church are the Temple of God (Father’s House).  Before the death, burial, and resurrection the Temple of God was in the natural Jerusalem.  According to the Old Testament scripture that Temple was God’s House.  Jesus declared throughout John’s Gospel that God was in Him.   In John 14:10 he says we are to believe that He is in the Father, and the Father is in Him.   This is the glorious relationship that He was going to the cross to share with the church.  Jesus had become the place that God dwelt. 

Jesus said, recorded in John 2, “Destroy this Temple, speaking His Body, and in three days I will raise it up.”  The Apostle Paul writes, I Corinthians 14 “Now you are the Body of Christ and members in particular.”   This is what He prepared for us.  This was never in man’s mind, that we would be His place of habitation, that the living Christ would fill us with ALL He is.  The Glory of God has moved from an Old Temple built with hands to an altogether New Temple built through the cross – death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 

We see this glorious reality only through the light of Christ.  Paul prayed that the eyes of our understanding would be enlightened through the knowledge of Christ.  These are the eyes that did not see what God was preparing.  Now we who SEE HIM by the Spirit, do understand (see) what God prepared, in order that we may declare Him to the Church.