THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 6:13-24 WHAT THE ARMOR IS FOR

Mike teaches today. 07/10/21

THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 6:13-24
WHAT THE ARMOR IS FOR

VERSES: Romans 13:12-14; 1st Peter 2:9-10; Luke 22:31-32; 1st Corinthians 2:7-8

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This lesson is not to cover what each individual piece of armor is, but rather, to speak to what the armor is to be used for. This being to win the war for our inheritance, that we, as the new creature in the image of His Son, might rule with Christ over this world. We are told in the first chapter of Ephesians that the Mystery of the Kingdom of the heavens was conceived in the mind of God before the foundation of the world (that is, before recreation of the Earth out of its destruction and chaos in the 5 days just preceding His creation of man). The mystery involved God’s desire to then form a ‘New Creature’ from man after the image of His Resurrected Son, in that they, like Him, should be holy and without blame before him in love: having predetermined us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will… (Ephesians 1:4-5) Jesus Christ having been resurrected and seated at the right hand of the Father, in power and far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world (the one we live in now whose foundation is alluded to above, and where in spite of Christ’s right of dominion, satan yet rules), but also in that which is to come (that is this world in the future in which Christ manifests as its rightful Ruler): And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body (Ephesians 1:20-23) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” (Ephesians 2:6)

God had predetermined in Christ to extend mercy and grace for an Age in the calling out of a people from all nations, first that ‘whosoever’ could be eternally redeemed from the condemnation of Adam and Eve’s sin, and additionally in answer to the Mystery of the heavenly Kingdom. That vast fullness is to be realized in the Atonement Sacrifice of Jesus Christ His Son, in that He has further set aside that Age to call those redeemed people unto a glory-filled inheritance in the heavens as the exalted Bride of His Son, attainable only by worthiness through the further empowering of the Holy Spirit. All beginning on the Day of Pentecost 2000 years ago.

This calling of a body of people that must be formed into the image of the ‘Head’ in order to rule from the heavens, is to be made up of all peoples and is most fully revealed in the Book of Ephesians. It is a prize to be won by those willing to crucify their flesh after having been redeemed. It is not to be confused with the gift of eternal life for which they did nothing but express faith in Christ’s Work of Atonement on their behalf. The mysterious heavenly calling of a Christian typically answers to that of… once redeemed out of Egypt, Israel was faced with the calling to defeat the wicked Nations of Canaan and then to set up a new theocratic government in the purged promised land. (Exodus 19:4-6) In the anti-type, Peter expresses God’s foreordained will for a people this way: “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: which (who) in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God, which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.” [1st Peter 2:9-10] This verse is inseparably connected to the Truth found in several other like revealing verses: #1) it connects to Ephesians 2:9-22 in that this ‘royal priesthood’ is the one ‘new man’… which then answers to #2) Matthew 21:43 where ‘an holy nation’ answers to Christ’s prediction of the rejection of Israel in the then yet mysterious heavenly kingdom and the extending of it to the ‘new man’ Nation. (Acts 13:44-46)

The Nation of Israel was well aware of God’s Prophets who prophesied of a future Messiah of the seed of David who would come and finally establish an earthly Jewish Nation, wherein Jerusalem would be the City of that Great King Priest and Prophet and from where He and the Jews would then rule over the Gentile Nations. But of God’s intent of Israel and its people being only a province of a bigger future Kingdom that included another higher Nation of people adapted and situated in the heavens to rule over the Nations of this Earth, was a mystery, not only to God’s chosen people, but to the wicked spirit rulers ruling over this world. (1st Corinthians 2:7-8)

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