Culture of Righteous Rule
Today’s Focus: Type and Shadows: A Suppressed Reality
Scripture: Matthew 23:37-39
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
So many times we think we are living the eternal reality of a thing and the fact is we are still living in the type and shadow of it. Now we have talked extensively about types and shadows and how they are the things not the reality but the symbols that hold you until God reveals the reality of the thing to you. Remember the pattern is eternity to time and back to eternity.
The only reason God spoke to us in types and shadows was because of sin. Sin separated us from the Father and we could not have fellowship Spirit to spirit. So God speaks in a way so that your soul can understand what God is saying. This type of communication is called type and shadow. Now God never intended on keeping you in type and shadow because remember the pattern is that we end with the eternal and if we end with the eternal, then God has to reveal the reality of the type and shadow so that we have a clear picture of what God is saying and/or doing. To speak to us in parables, types and shadows really shows the love of God. It reminds me of how we deal with children. When they are babes and adolescents we speak in way that they can understand but when they grow up, they then will see the reality of the thing you spoke to them years ago. This is the same concept with the church.
God is still speaking in types and shadows to the church and sadly God has revealed eternal realities about the church to the church but yet many still live in the type and shadow. Now for many people there has to be a trigger or that thing or situation that really hits them that they start pursuing the truth and reality of God. Only a passionate pursuer of the truth will have an encounter with Holy Spirit that will set the ball in motion to remove the veil from the things God wants to show them. Now for those of us that are comfortable in Christian religion and do not want to stir the waves and rock the boat, you will miss the day of His visitation for your generation. Here is a great scripture to how the generation in the day of Jesus was so stuck in type and shadow that they missed the reality when it came:
Matthew 23:37-39: O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold your house is left desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
God had sent prophets and men of God to show the people and prepare the people for the coming of the reality, The Lord, The Messiah. But yet the people killed them and stoned them because the Word of God convicts and brings judgment to those not aligned with it. Remember orphans view correction as violent and not discipline and love. So their reaction is and can be of a violent nature. Now until the people seek and desire the truth for themselves, they will always live and deal with God from behind the veil and that is to live in type and shadow.
I will continue this in the next message.
Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
