I've written about this before, but the church which God is showing us is not a building, but a people who believe and accept Christ and do and obey His Word.
To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctifed in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.
1Corinthians 10:32
Give no offense, either to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the church of God.
1Corinthians 15:9
For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Galatians 1:13
For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it.
1 Timothy 3
5)For if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?
15)But if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Galatians 2:9
And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
2 Timothy 2:19
Neverthless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are His," and "Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity."
Revelation 3:12
He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.
Matthew 16:18
And I also say to you that youare Peter, and on this rock I Will build My church, and the gates of Hedes shall not prevail against it.
1 corinthians 3:9
For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, you are God's building.
Ephesians 2
20)Having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone,
21)In whom the whole building being fitted together, griws into a holy temple in the Lord,
22)In whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
今朝、夢を見ました。正確な詳細は覚えていません。 I had a dream this morning. I don't remember the exact details.
ただ、大きなテレビ画面でアメリカが燃えているのを見ていたのを覚えています。 I just remember watching on a big TV screen that was showing America burning.
そのシーンの中で、「リパブリック讃歌」という歌が聞こえてきました。 During that scene, I could hear a song called "Battle Hymn of the Republic".
そのあと、地面に大きなマークが見えました。すると、マークが徐々に開き、中では猛烈な火が燃えていました。 After that, I saw a big -mark on the ground. Then the mark opened gradually and a furious fire was burning ferociously inside.
17)Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them.
18)For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.
29)Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens wil be shaken.
30)Then the sign og the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven withe power and great glory.
31)And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
1)"At that time Michael shall stand up, The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people; And there shall be a time trouble, such as never was since there was a nation, even to that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, Every one who is found written in the book.
A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains. A people come, great and strong the like of whom has never been; nor will there ever be any such after them even for many successive generations.
詩篇2章2節
地の王たちは立ち構え、治める者たちは相ともに集まり、主と、主に油を注がれた者とに逆らう。
Psalms 2:2
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and againstHis Anointed, saying,
1)"The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, because the LORD hasanointedMe to preach good tidings to hte; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2)To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengence of our God;
3)To console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified."
1)After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree.
2)Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea,
3)Saying "Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads."
4)And I heard the number of those whho were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed:
Revelation 9
1)Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit.
2)And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.
3)Then out of the smoke locusts came upom the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4)They were commanded not harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
Ezekiel 9:4
And the LORD said to him, "Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it."
2 Corinthians 1:22
Who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
1)Blessed is the man who walkes not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
2)But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night.
3)He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither, and whatever he does shall prosper.
4)The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
5)Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous,
6)For hte LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
25)Whome God set forth as a propitisation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously commited,
26)to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
27)Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but the law of faith.
28)Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
29)Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,
30)since there is one God who will justify the circumocised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
31)Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.
◎Establishing the Law by Faith
Romans 8
4)That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5)For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who liveaccording to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
6)For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7)Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
8)So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9)But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
◎The result of having the Spirit of Christ
Galatians 4
5)to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
6)And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!"
Mathew 5
17)"Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but tofulfill.
18)For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.
19)Whoever therefore breakes one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.