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Earth, filled with knowledge of God, knowledge of,
and with His glory!! 1
Pray tell, what does all this mean, and when will THIS
be our story?
Is this another ‘incomprehensible allegory’,
Or a ‘future fact’, sent to us under God’s signatory?
Some believe The Gospel’s spread will be intensified,
And the number of Christian will, thus, increase worldwide.
And since we are ‘The Light of the world’,
Thus, God’s Glory to all will be unfurled.
Of God’s filling glory we learn in Ezekiel 10:4.
What knowledge of God does, 2 Peter 2:20 tells the core.
During His life on earth, Jesus walked as a man.
Stripped of His glory, still He came, with us to stand.
Forty days after He departed, He sent glory to us -
His Spirit, with power to free us from satan’s calculus.
Since then, His glory indeed has spread; it is no longer incipient.
But to fill the earth, this ‘reflected glory’ is clearly insufficient.
Recall…
Reflected light is weaker than direct light from the source.
Moreover, our flesh and our carnal minds blunt our light’s force.
Thus, our glory is both inadequate and much too weak
To fill all the earth, literally and sustainably.
So Christians can never break the ‘glory barrier’,
No matter the total number of us believers!
The fullness of Christ’s presence is our glory source.
Only it fulfills the three promises, of course!
Oh, but there’s hope...
Before He left, Christ said He’d return, no longer obscure;
Then, no longer stripped, but in the fullness of His grandeur.
Then, throughout the earth, full knowledge of Him shall be
- incontestable!
His glory - inescapable; knowledge thereof
- undeniable!
Just imagine...
Known, as widely as earth’s waters do now flow.
Known, as verdure covers where waters don’t go.
Earth, emptied of the meaningless spirit of ‘carnal mindlessness’,
Totally filled with the meaningful Spirit of ‘God mindfulness’.
In light of this, here’re two question that are most obvious:
- What’ll be the IMPACT of such knowledge so conspicuous?
- What will things look like when these promises are fulfilled?
Please share your thoughts. Here is my take.
I think you’ll be thrilled!
Glory may be a factor that will catalyze and sustain
The iron scepter rule throughout Christ’s Millennial Reign!
The ‘see it, believe it’ attitude of mortals, that time,
Will be matched with God’s AWESOME glory, totally sublime.
Consider this…
Revelation 4 pictures God’s throne encircled with a rainbow. 2
Return Christ said He would, and return indeed He will…
‘throne in tow!’
Hey…
Do you think He’d come to earth again,
and leave His rainbow behind?!
This He did once before, and this He’ll do…never again.
Rainbows are circles, though they appear as arcs.
We can’t see the part that the horizon blocks. 3
Since arcs can’t encircle, God’s throne must be in
an encompassing bow.
And since Christ sits on this throne, then on earth,
this throne shall glow.
Imagine…
Our tiny earth, far, far smaller than Heaven,
Home to God’s throne, so here’s what I imagine.
God’s encompassing rainbow will certainly the whole earth engulf.
Earth, filled with the glory and knowledge of Him
…shall be the result!!!
Earth's sky, now many shades of blue,
TRANSFORMED to an emerald green hue?!
Could this perhaps be that one, worldwide clue,
By which Christ's presence is known... through and through? 4
Friend…
If none of this excites you, check your ‘Christian credentials.’
Then ‘double-down and bone-up’ on your Bible essentials.
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1 Three separate promises: Numbers 14:21 (the glory), Isaiah 11:9 (the knowledge), and Habakkuk 2:14 (knowledge of the glory of The Lord).
2 Emerald in color. (Revelation 4:3)
3 ‘The lower the sun, the higher the top of the rainbow’, so imagine how high and round God's rainbow will be with The Son literally on earth! See: "How to see a whole circle rainbow"
4 Consider this: If an angel has enough glory power to illuminate Earth (Luke 2:9), how would Earth be impacted by the full presence of the fully glorified Christ for 1,000 years?! (See: Ezekiel 43:1-2 and Revelation 18:1)
