Heaven: Now and Not Yet, Here and Still There

Consider this: If heaven is coming to earth, as we are told in Revelation and Matthew and for which we pray every time we pray as the Lord prayed, and, in fact, ALREADY the Kingdom of Heaven IS coming on earth, then what God’s people tolerate on earth is already being tolerated in the Kingdom of Heaven…..HERE…A sobering thought. And it is preventing the second coming of Christ and the eternal reign of Christ on earth OR our neglect of unrighteousness and our complacency in defending good against evil is hastening the full blown appearance of the Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Christ in Matt 24 and the GREAT tribulation to come upon the earth. Those who think when it gets bad enough, all good little believers will be raptured away to a sinless paradise anyway, so “who cares what anybody else does or how bad it gets”, may have a surprise coming. Some are already living transcendently, in the world but are not of it….They are ALREADY still living in this realm but abiding with Christ in the Kingdom of Heaven. You won’t know who they are, even when you walk side by side…..They can BE in the world and do their work and tend to life, as necessary, but their HOME is already elsewhere, as is their treasure and their hearts and minds. But their lives are different, even here, even now. It is a life marked by one existing alongside the border of the supernatural realm and stepping in and out of it, as God wills for his purpose, so that God is closer and more personally engaged in that life even in this physical existence. They know who they are and their numbers are increasing……    ( CBB 2/13/2020 )