A WORD OF POETIC JUSTICE FOR OUR LORD JESUS IN HIS GLORY

 This insightful poem continues to nourish me with the hope of Christ and the person that he truly is. I am blessed to have been able to write it down with such clarity.  For I believe it also ministers to the heart of the reader and prepares us for the great soon coming day of our Lord's return in poetic form.  While it also delivers a stark warning of the fullness of what the Cross means in all it's pain and glory! Your comments are welcome. 

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CROSS

There’s something amiss when the creation resist

all that the Creator stands for.

As I gaze at the cross...it reflects a world lost

With Christ knocking on every Door.

Man thinking himself good...Did that which he thought he should.

With charges of blasphemy and plenty of religiosity

Refused to believe the Word...being filled with animosity.

Delivering the Lord to the Court of courts.

And so the trial did promptly begin.

He was alone, having not a character witness nor even a friend.

And when the judge could find no law against him.

Washing his hands, I’m sure he did what he can...

All...except free this sinless man.

Guilty...Guilty was the outcry from the crowd!

And the Law that was ...became no law at all and yet....God smiled!

So there our Savior laid with out stretched arms. 

Demonstrating His love despite the harm.

And while every man is born in sin...

The injustice we profess don't compare to the injustice he was placed in.

There’s something amiss when the creation resist..

All that the Creator stands for even now....like then. 

But an empty Tomb was God’s reward for a work well done. 

Not to be hid the Lord shoned forth His only Son. 

For Jesus showed His love toward all mankind.

And now there is life after death in only His Name you will find!

But......Let the other side of the cross speak also.

That what and who we are has surely been exposed.

For in God’s love so openly displayed....

We did show our wretchedness  that day.

And God’s Law of Love resoundly defeated...

Our law of justice which we misdeeded. 

Our anger truly showed only to see the peace of God flow.

And our fearfulness for no reason illuminated God’s love for all seasons.

The Cross is the meeting place for all of this....

And believe it or not, the Creator let the creation insist!

So let us remember the wisdom the Cross is meant to bring.

God has a day for justice that righteousness being fairness ought ring.

For the other side of the cross speaks well of his return.

Sitting on the right hand side of the Father...this he earned!

But there are yet those who chose not to believe...

Like doubting Thomas...They say “not by faith but by sight must I see!”

But blessed are those who believe and have not seen!

For no more is God a mystery and neither is he a dream.

For you see.....Grace and Mercy has been born out of Injustice.

And it is the other side of the cross which gives us this message.

That our way of justice means nothing when Truth demands His Return.

For this is why the Word declares the Earth shall burn

And we who are caught up in His Rapture shall bear witness..

Revealing the Other Side of the Cross was a lesson that went Unlearned!

Copyright @Gregory Booker

The Bride & The New Jerusalem.

The Church is often described as the bride of Christ and rightfully so because Jesus loves his church as a groom loves his bride.  But in addition to that is some scripture in the book of Revelations  which provides some greater insight as to the designation of bride.  This is a case where the term "bride"  has both a symbolic and literal description and both are quite valid. I do not hear much about the new Jerusalem in my circle of christians but I reviewed it considering the Spirit's advise to read this wonderful book of the future. 

To be technical....the Bride is actually a city and it's called the New Jerusalem. For it is written in Revelations 21: 2-3 "And I, John, saw the holy city, new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them and be their God"...... And it continues Rev 21: 9-10 " And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues and talked with me, saying, Come hither for I will show the the bride, the Lamb's wife. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven."

It appears that Christians are as a bride to Christ symbolically but are shared citizens that dwell within the New Jerusalem whose names being written in the Lamb's book of Life. It's members fall into several major categories: 1)The New Testament believers in Christ (Resurrected and Raptured saints) have entry. 2) Old Testament Jews and Gentiles who believed in the God of Israel and looked forward to a messiah to come and please include Abel who died righteous in the atonement of his sin which God gave favor. I wonder if Adam will be there for he communed with God like no other and may have been quite repentant. It's an interesting thought. 3) So also do those Tribulation saints whose lives were lost by the shedding of their blood in Christ name in the final call of God's grace.

The Bride is actually a city of which has a various groups of citizens who all gave proper atonement of their sins in looking forward to a savior to come as God revealed it in past ages. The names that border the walls of the New Jerusalem are the Jewish patriarchs which God used to reach all the Gentiles of the world in breathing His Spirit upon them to write the Holy Scriptures. Suffice it to say, it is incorrect to consider the NT Church to be the exclusive bride of Christ. God does not forget the deeds of others he has touched!

I think sometimes, we need to loose things on earth to prepare the things that are coming from heaven.  For the Bible states whatever is loosed or bound on earth shall be likewise in heaven. We need to cast darkness aside in preparation of awakening the sleepy and slumbering ones to be caught up by the hope of the rapture. Clearly we need to be found walking in the power of God's vision just as it is given by his Word. There is a tearing down in order to build up! The Old Jerusalem is preparing to be a faded memory which men die over in it's final and greatest of conflict because the New Jerusalem comes down from heaven and is not made with the hands of men. In it shall be our mansion of many rooms! I feel a sense of utterance and shall go forward with it.

The current Jerusalem is a "cup of trembling" in the world today as prophesied by Ezekiel that it would be when Israel would come back as a nation. It is the center of the conflict among the Arabs and the Jews and it must play itself out among those who seek physical dominion. It has it's history and it has it's purpose for prophetic realities but peace is far from it and tensions will mount. It will be the "table of negotiations" that sets the terms and conditions that define where men stand before God. And it will set the stage that in a day God will stand before them in their unbelief! Such is the valley of decision and it will have served it's purpose.

And then comes the New Jerusalem for His Nation and for His Church and all to His Glory and given over to His Son as the Lion of Judah who rules the earth with His rod of love. And the waters shall be pure and the tress shall drink of it and their leaves shall bring a healing to the nations that remain and the people that remain after the valley of decision shall come and see the New Jerusalem. And we as ambassadors shall go forth and declare the good news of a Savior to the Gentiles and a Messiah to the Jews our Lord Jesus who has his seat in the Temple of God in Jerusalem. And then there shall be peace...lasting peace at last. Let our voices ring before the sound of the Trump as a show of faith working mightily within us! Blessing..my fellow servants. 

God's Prophetic Word Searches Our Heart

The rapture will be a gift of Deliverance to men and women who look for the coming and appearing of the Lord Jesus as their treasure and it will also be an Awakening to the doubting and unbelieving men and women who treasure those things on earth. They will know their error and become the "tribulation saints" as well as many others as declared in the Book of Revelations. The Grace of God will still be in operation but under a different administration. The opportunity for heaven will still be available but instead of thru the Church by faith, it will be available thru the preaching of 144,000 Jewish men called divinely by God. Faith will then have all the facts needed to expose with each passing day as describe in the book of Revelations...God's reality. What truth is and where it sits....in Jerusalem in the person of Christ!! Still many will defy and such is the Battle of Armageddon!!

Most of the world will come under the rule of the Antichrist advancing his agenda with an ultimatum using fear. Personally, I believe, the Antichrist will scare more people into heaven than under any other scenario and God knows it....that's the higher purpose of his wisdom because of the human heart being so preoccupied with the things of this world. There is far more scripture to support a pretrib hope in Christ than any other stated. One of the key purposes for the rapture is to comfort the people with it which apostle Paul advises us to use this doctrine for. "Therefore comfort one another with these words" he declares. There is no comfort in becoming a tribulation saint though I am willing to die for my faith in Christ. And there is no one to rapture but perhaps the fewest of numbers if it is to occur at mid or certainly post tribe season. It would certainly be a contradiction and a sad joke for such a hope to not be realized when it counts the most.

There is a difference between suffering for our faith in the normal process of human failure versus being under the wrath of God as divinely written in the Book of Revelations prepared for judgement of the highest order and intensity. Our leading world governments and nations could collapse and we all could be a part of that disciplining for a season which has happened many times past. Jesus issues a stern warning to church members left behind saying "I never knew you" ...in other words they used his name but it was for their purposes not for His glorification. Jesus spoke but they had other plans with the gospel. There is a falling away within the community of churches that is surely before us and a catching up of the remnant who will remember their first love and hope on Him still.......

The Word of God cuts both ways, dividing even between bone and marrow, soul and spirit with a twin edge sword. Cutting in to cut out the selfish mindset of so many in churches. I know plenty of "details" about God's prophetic word and none of it brings one to salvation. It is the heart that needs to be touched by the prophetic word thru the reality of what God is doing and why. Israel is God's tool for preaching righteousness once again because so many in the church are self righteous or shall we say like a "Pharisee". Protecting themselves despite what God is doing to promote Himself!! It is the way that Jesus is returning that rubs so many the wrong way much to their own loss.  Wasn't that the problem when He first came? Maranatha......In Christ love.

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Poetic Justice "The Other Side of the Cross"

This is my first blog and not sure of all the ways to use it but I decided to post my poem of poems as a way of introducing myself and my faith.  This insightful poem continues to nourish me with the hope of Christ and the person that he truly is. I am blessed to have been able to write it down with such clarity.  For I believe it also ministers to the heart of the reader and prepares us for the great soon coming day of our Lord's return in poetic form.  While it also delivers a stark warning of the fullness of what the Cross means in all it's pain and glory! Your comments are welcome. 

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CROSS

There’s something amiss when the creation resist

all that the Creator stands for.

As I gaze at the cross...it reflects a world lost

With Christ knocking on every Door.

Man thinking himself good...Did that which he thought he should.

With charges of blasphemy and plenty of religiosity

Refused to believe the Word...being filled with animosity.

Delivering the Lord to the Court of courts.

And so the trial did promptly begin.

He was alone, having not a character witness nor even a friend.

And when the judge could find no law against him.

Washing his hands, I’m sure he did what he can...

All...except free this sinless man.

Guilty...Guilty was the outcry from the crowd!

And the Law that was ...became no law at all and yet....God smiled!

So there our Savior laid with out stretched arms. 

Demonstrating His love despite the harm.

And while every man is born in sin...

The injustice we profess doesn’t compare to the injustice he was placed in.

There’s something amiss when the creation resist..

All that the Creator stands for even now....like then. 

But an empty Tomb was God’s reward for a work well done. 

Not to be hid the Lord shoned forth His only Son. 

For Jesus showed His love toward all mankind.

And now there is life after death in only His Name you will find!

But......Let the other side of the cross speak also.

That what and who we are has surely been exposed.

For in God’s love so openly displayed....

We did show our wretchedness  that day.

And God’s Law of Love resoundly defeated...

Our law of justice which we misdeeded. 

Our anger truly showed only to see the peace of God flow.

And our fearfulness for no reason illuminated God’s love for all seasons.

The Cross is the meeting place for all of this....

And believe it or not, the Creator let the creation insist!

So let us remember the wisdom the Cross is meant to bring.

God will have his day of justice that righteousness which is fairness ought ring.

For the other side of the cross speaks well of his return.

Sitting on the right hand side of the Father...this he earned!

But there are yet those who chose not to believe...

Like doubting Thomas...They say “not by faith but by sight must I see!”

But blessed are those who believe and have not seen!

For no more is God a mystery and neither is he a dream.

For you see.....Grace and Mercy has been born out of Injustice.

And it is the other side of the cross which gives us this message.

That our way of justice means nothing when Truth demands His Return.

For this is why the Word declares the Earth shall burn

And we who are caught up in His Rapture shall bear witness..

Revealing that the Other Side of the Cross was a lesson that went Unlearned!

Copyright @Gregory Booker

Minister of the Prophetic Word