The City of Heaven

 

Soooooo excited for heaven!!! Soooo homesick!!!! -Hope 💙💛

Dear Dad’s  packed teaching today. BLESSED! 

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Are you seeking a COUNTRY/CITY whose Builder and Maker is God? 

04/17 Daily Exhortation (Matt.6:11; Luke 11:3; Heb.3:13; 10:25)…

May HEAVEN BEAM this 4/17 in the following 4:17…

Genesis 4:17 (KJB) And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

This is a famous skeptic passage. They ask, "Where did Cain get his wife?" Well, there were 5 generations of cousins from which to select a wife. Also, this is 2000 years before the Mosaic law and the prohibitions against incest (now forbidden and rightly so). In short, the gene pool was not corrupted yet. After all, Adam and Eve had the same Father. But let’s focus on something amazing. The first builder of a city, as far as this present world is concerned, is CAIN. Enoch was the name which means “dedicated.” No matter how dedicated, the closer folks get, the more strife. 

But, Cain was MARKED and was A MURDERER…

1 John 3:12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Note that Cain is a murderer and the first builder of cities. This establishes a precedent in the Bible. Cities are notorious for HIGH MURDER RATES. 

Jude 1:11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain…

Note the “woe” or curse for those that follow Cain’s way. And note this woe: 

Isaiah 5:8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

If at all possible, as led of the Lord of course, get out of the concentrated cities. Get where you can be alone and come to the concentrated cities when needed.  

The Bible says the last days would be as the days of Noah. In Noah’s day, violence was filling the earth. 

But, alas, there is a city to which I desire to move: 

Hebrews 11:10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Hebrews 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Psalm 45:8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

Heaven is an exciting city. It is 12000 furlongs by 12000 furlongs. A furlong is 1/8th of a mile. So, heaven is 1500 miles by 1500 miles (2,225,000 square miles). 

Now, here is an interesting Providence. The 1500th verse into the Bible is: 

Gen. 49:26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

Joseph (type of Christ) gets His Gentile Bride (type of the church) before the 7 years of famine. 

Why FURLONGS? Well, “fur” is short for FURROW as in a field. 

Psalm 129:3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

This is a Messianic Prophecy about the “stripes” Jesus received upon the cross for us. The cross is a PLUS SIGN. He adds something to us. THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM is secured by His LONG FURROWS (HIS BLOOD). Hebrews 12 (think 12,000 furlongs squared) speaks of HEAVENLY JERUSALEM. 

There’s more, but time fails me for now. In short, DON’T MISS HEAVEN *FOR THE WORLD*. 

John 14:2-3 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Let’s MOVE TO THE CITY IN THE THIRD HEAVEN, BRETHREN. Homesick for that city. Some day…. –r <3