Charts and Graphs of the Signs and Markers of the End of the Age
I created a flickr photostream to house and display charts and graphs of the markers and signs indicating the end of the age. Please send me other graphics if you find some to be added to my stream.
Thanks,
Trent
Still looking for the signs or haven't we seen enough?
The New Jerusalem = realm of God = Eternity / Eternal Life = The Mystery of God
The New Jerusalem descends intact (UNcreated,) having always been for it is God's dwelling, not man's ... and thus the sign or allegory is lost on materialistic minded interpreters.
The glory of the nations are brought into the City, but note that as that is revealed, there is no occupants of the City. There are streets of gold, but nobody walking upon them ... rather the City IS the people ... no man will walk upon these streets (if we follow the allegory) ... rather the men of the City ARE the street, themselves. ... even the individual bricks of the walls ... for John did see the names of the patriarchs on the actual bricks and structures.
Therefore we know that in the dwelling of God (New Jerusalem) it is us (His servants) that make up the place in which He dwells ... and it is right to say that He lives IN us on that day in complete fulfillment for we are that of which His dwelling is made ... the individual parts and places of the City, Itself.
Greater still is the mystery that is yet to be revealed than what was revealed to John in that allegory ... Yet to those that meditate and allow the Lord to teach them what the City means, a treasure of understanding can come ... for all of God's truths are simple and pure ... yet immeasurably deep and inexhaustible.
Table for Two
The more I grow, the more I realize that relationship is the crux of it all.
Often we approach the relationship to God with a systematized forensic understanding of the basis of relationship (ie. the facts of the gospel.) ... but at some point, we begin to realize that the relationship makes true those facts ... not the facts making true the relationship ... and all that stuff, no matter how much we think we have it figured out, is meaningless apart from God, Himself ...
What if there was no Bible (as the past has shown to be the case) and no religion (see Abraham) ... would there not be an essential table set at the heart of man that seats only two? Would there not be a place in the very heart of us to build something of a personal and unique understanding between God and each of us? And wouldn't this fit under the heading of "relationship?"
Then what is all this religious stuff we pile up around this table, so that we can hardly see it?
You are blessed. You are loved. You are building something that religion cannot replace, when it is you and the Lord baring your heart to each other ... crying and shouting, being heard, and understood ...and seeing how the other responds.
I have found the most impressive communication of God's love has come to me after shaking my fist and cursing Him.
This is how we ripen for the harvest ...
