The Earthly Species Vs. The Heavenly Species

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We are not ordinary people. We are a New Species upon the earth. Before Calvary, this Species did not exist. There is a species that came from Adam, the first man, but this New Species is part of the Last Adam. This New Species originated in heaven.

“But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive” (1 Corinthians 15:20-22).

“So also it is written, ‘The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL.’ The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. The first man is from the earth, earthy; the Second Man is from heaven. As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly. Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable” (1 Corinthians 15:45-50).

Now we need to look back to Genesis to see what God has purposed. In Genesis chapters one and two, God created man and woman. He made the woman differently than He did the man. He made the woman from the man. God did not breathe the breath of life into the woman because she took her life from Adam. Eve took both her substance and her life from Adam. Adam was made from dirt, Eve was not made from dirt because she was made from Adam. This is the “first species” on earth that ran from Genesis one until Calvary. From Calvary God has now created a New Species and this Species is called the “New Creation”. It is created differently from the first creation. The problem that exists is that we are carrying around something of the first creation, even though we are not of that first creation. We are living in this tent (our body), but there is something else living in us that is not of the old creation. One day we are going to lay aside this tent and then “we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens” (2 Corinthians 5:1).

Now there is something unusual that Paul mentions in 2 Corinthians five. He says that when we lay aside this tent, we don’t want to be found naked. This tent (our body) started out naked, but now there is a New Creation which is dwelling inside of us. So, if this tent were to be laid aside, then the New Man within us would be naked. For this reason, as Paul declares, we are “longing to be clothed upon with our dwelling from heaven”. This earthly body is not going to come out of the ground because it is of the earth and is earthy. This physical body is going completely and 100 percent back to the dust from whence it came. As Paul says, “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive” (1 Corinthians 15:22).

The life that Adam had is not the life that Jesus had. Adam’s life is called “Psuche” and Jesus’ life is called “Zoe”. “Zoe” is translated from the Greek language as “eternal life” – the Uncreated Life of God. What we want to speak about is this “Zoe” Life which is the Christian and the Inner Life. We can never make Adam a Christian because he is of the wrong species. Only that species which comes down from heaven can return to heaven. Sadly, the Church has been trying to get Adam saved for hundreds of years. They tell Adam, “Come forward and say these words. Do you believe Jesus rose from the dead? Do you believe He died for your sins? Do you believe He got resurrected from the dead on the third day? Do you believe He’s coming again?” “Yes, I believe all that.” “Okay, well then you’re saved.” But Adam is of the old species, and simply agreeing to a doctrine cannot save him by any means. You can dress Adam up, make him a faithful member of a church, teach him to pay his tithes, teach him to how to usher, and even teach him to preach, etc. Regardless of what you do to him, Adam simply cannot be saved.

Now, if anyone here is NOT saved, we want to talk to you. Our message is “The Kingdom of God” and flesh and blood can never inherit the Kingdom of God. You cannot transform “old species” into the New Species. God has absolutely NO plans to transform Adam into Christ. The only plan that God has for Adam is DEATH and BURIAL. Then there can be a resurrection into the New Species which is an entirely different kind of life. This New Life inside comes from a different Dimension.

This is what Pilate said to Jesus, “I heard you are the King of the Jews.” Jesus answered Pilate, “Are you saying this on your own initiative [by your own revelation], or did others tell you about Me? …yes, I am a King, but My Kingdom is not of this world. If My Kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My Kingdom is not of this realm” (John 19:38-36). So where is Jesus’ Kingdom? Is it up in heaven somewhere? No, the Kingdom of God is here. Jesus explained, “Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Kingdom of God after it has come with power” (Mark 9:1). The Kingdom has already come with power and the Kingdom is here. What we need to understand is that this Kingdom is not of the earthly realm – the realm which we are referring to as the “dirt realm”. His Kingdom is within us. It is in that realm that the “Lampstand Church” [referring to the Lampstand type and shadow of the Church as seen in the Tabernacle of Moses] is being built.

When you move from the Outer Court to the Holy Place, you are moving into another Dimension. It is still the SAME Tabernacle, but it is a completely different Dimension because the LIGHT in the Outer Court is totally different from the LIGHT in the Holy Place. The LIGHT in the Holy Place comes 100 percent from the Lampstand which is the Seven Spirits of God which refers to the Seven Eyes of the Lord which speaks of the fullness of the Spirit as it was revealed to John in the book of Revelation:

“John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne” (Revelation 1:4).

“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, says this…” (Revelation 3:1).

“Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God” (Revelation 4:5).

“And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth” (Revelation 5:6).

Paul explained that when you lay aside this “tent” or “tabernacle”. In the Feast of the Tabernacles (Leviticus 23, Deuteronomy 16; Hosea 12:9), God explained to the Israelites that He had made them to dwell in tents when they first left Egypt so that they could learn some important lessons. The Israelites lived in physical tents. We also live in a physical tent – the tent of our body. So in our celebration of the Feast of the Tabernacles we are remembering how God made us walk through the desert of this life in the “tent” of our bodies. Now one day we are going to lay aside this “tent”. If there is nothing in our “tent” except flesh and blood, we are going to be in serious trouble. “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption” (1 Corinthians 15:50). Our New Inner Man is what can “inherit the Kingdom”, and only what you have built within this New Inner Man is what is going to go to heaven.

Now what we need to understand is that this New Species, our New Inner Man, is built with a different “Sperma” than Adam was. “For you have been born again not of seed [or “Sperma”] which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God” (1 Peter 1:23). If you have been Born Again, you must realize that this Birth did not simply occur by hearing a message. You were Born Again when that Living and Abiding Word of God came to dwell in you. When that Word which is the Seed or “Sperma” came, it needed to fall into this dirt [us – the old species] and it created an “Embryo”. This “Embryo” cannot function, but it is Christian.

Sadly, this “Embryo” can stay inside of you for forty years and never even grow an inch. This is what Paul meant when he was writing to the Corinthians and to the Hebrews. He said that he wanted to speak them as “spiritual men”, but he was disappointed to find that they were still just babes. That “Embryo” had still not grown.

“And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ. I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able, for you are still fleshly…” (1 Corinthians 3:1-3a).

“…it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant” (Hebrews 5:11b-13).

Paul wanted to share with the Corinthians something from this other Dimension, but upon finding them in this infancy state, he realized that he had to go back down to the “dirt dimension” and share from that realm. Now there is nothing wrong with coming back down to share from the “dirt dimension”, but not if it is for people that have been in the church for twenty years! The “Milk of the Word” is good, as Peter tells us: “Like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation” (1 Peter 2:2). The biggest problem in the church when you preach the “Kingdom”, is that those who are not “of the Kingdom” cannot hear what you are saying.

We need to understand how this Kingdom comes and begins to dwell within us and how it works to prepare us for the Eternal Kingdom. It prepares us to be the Bride, to be the New Jerusalem, to be the Manifested Sons of God, and to be His bond-servants forever. Adam, the old creation or old species, cannot inherit any of this! It is the New Creation within us that is building us into the City of God. The City of God is not made with “Dirt” like this old creation. It is made with gold and silver and precious stones.

It is important to have God’s Word taught and placed in the proper order if people are ever going to be able to understand the Kingdom. Some people read a little bit of the Bible here, and a little bit there. They skip this portion and then reread their favorite portions. Some struggle to read the Bible through in one year, but unfortunately most people never really understand what God is trying to say because they cannot recognize how it all fits together. God’s purpose is to sum these pieces up into something solid, something we can relate to, something of God’s Eternal Purpose.

The term, “God’s Eternal Purpose”, is kind of a “blanket term” to explain what God has planned from all eternity. Ephesians chapter one explains that before the foundation of the world, God had an eternal purpose. God’s purpose is to sum up all these pieces in Christ. “He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth in Him” (Ephesians 1:9-10).

So we want to draw together some of these pieces that scattered and found throughout God’s Word so that we can better understand what is in God’s heart when He first spoke and said, “Let there be light.”

As we have already stated, the book of Genesis begins with Man and a Woman, and the last book in the Bible concludes with a Man and a Woman. The first book begins with Adam and Eve, while the last book begins with the Last Adam and the Last Eve. In Revelation, we discover that the Last Eve, or the Bride, the Wife of the Lamb, is the New Jerusalem. “Come here, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb” (Revelation 21:9). When John looked to seed the Bride, what he saw was the Heavenly City, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven adorned as a Bride for her Husband. So what God purposed in the earthly dimension, He now wants to bring it together and sum it all up in another Dimension.

The Church was never intended to be a “Dirt Church”. It was intended to be of another Dimension. The Lampstand is not in the Outer Court. It is in the Holy Place. The Outer Court is lit by natural light. We can preach from the Outer Court (the “dirt dimension”) to anybody of the old species. In fact, this is where evangelism works. But when you move into the Holy Place Dimension, you just cannot preach to Adam any longer. In that Holy Place, we have to preach to a different Creation, the New Species. Jesus explained this by saying, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life” (John 6:63). Jesus’ words were coming from another Dimension! Jesus also said, “…I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me” (John 8:28). It is in this other Dimension [what we refer to as the “Kingdom of God”] that God is forming the Last Eve for the Last Adam.

We are dealing with TWO MEN, and we are living with both of them. One you can see, one you cannot see. Although you can’t see the Inner Man, you can just about tell his size when you talk to him. It is easy to tell the difference between the “Chicken Saints” and the “Eagle Saints”.

This outer man that we can see and touch is what we are calling “Adam”, or the “first creation”, or the “old species”. He comes from the earth and he is going to return to the earth. He is Adam, and by Adam comes death. “For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive” ***(1 Corinthians 15:21-22). God’s does not plan for us to remain in Adam. God’s plan for us is to get out of Adam and into Christ. The only way to get out of Adam and into Christ is to be Born Again. You cannot even “SEE” the Kingdom unless you are Born Again, and you cannot “ENTER” the Kingdom until you are Born of Water and Born of the Spirit.

There are all kinds of “messages” being proclaimed in churches today, but when any specific message becomes “The Message,” then it results in ERROR! All of those messages are just individual pieces of everything that God has intended within His Eternal Purpose. If these messages do not take you somewhere, then they are completely irrelevant. Just hearing more messages is not going to change you. Messages are just going to tell you that you need to change.

We cannot preach the Kingdom of God as a “Legal System.” The Kingdom is not just a message of words only: “For the Kingdom of God does not consist in words but in power” (1 Corinthians 4:20). If you only preach it as a message, it will not help anybody, and it will offend everybody! But if you get the Kingdom Life and preach out of that Life, then it will bring Life, and people will not get offended. They’ll say, “Wait just a minute here! I don’t really understand this Kingdom Message, but I sure feel that there is Life or something moving inside of me!”

God begins with the “dirt man,” the old species, in order to explain the New Man or New Species. The only thing that the “dirt man” is good for, is that God might plant seed in this dirt. “…the sower went out to sow” (Matthew 13:3). The seed fell into some dirt. Now some dirt is “good dirt”, and some dirt is not good.

 

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If seed gets sown into our “dirt man”, then it is like leaven. Jesus explained that the Kingdom is like Leaven: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened” (Matthew 13:33). This Kingdom Seed, or “Leaven” begins to work and work until the Kingdom Seed grows. It begins to change the body, the soul, and the spirit – all three measures of meal.

This other man is the new Inner Man, a New Creation. Paul made it very clear, NOTHING ELSE MATTERS, but a NEW CREATION: “For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a New Creation” (Galatians 6:15). “…old things have to pass away and new things have to come (2 Corinthians 5:17). It is not the drunkenness, cheating, etc. that needs to pass away. It is Adam that must pass away because it is Adam that is doing all the cheating, lying, and carousing.

God wants to do away with this Adam. You may say, “But we do have to live in this body.” Yes, but once you get rid of Adam, you live in a tent. God doesn’t want you to live in ADAM, He wants you to live in a tent. Adam is male, female, black, white, different cultures, and all kinds of traditions. The New Creation is not Jew nor Gentile, it is not male nor female, and neither is it bond nor free. He is an entirely different Species.

One example of misunderstanding Scripture as it is applied to the New Species can be seen in certain legalistic church groups which insist upon women wearing head-coverings. What we want to say, as far as the New Species is concerned, is that head-coverings are actually for everyone! Why do we say this? Because our High Priest has on a head covering. So what does this head-covering really speak about anyway? It speaks, “I am not the head. My Father is my head. I am a member of the body, but I am not the head”. Jesus made it very clear that His Father was a “covering” for His head when He made these statements: “I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me” (John 5:30). “I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me” (John 8:28). “For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak” (John 12:49). “The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works” (John 14:10). Since Jesus is our High Priest, and we are to be members of His body, then in the same way as Jesus, we, too, can have our head “covered”!

We have to be members of the body of the High Priest. Why? Because only the High Priest and his sons could enter into the Holy Place. We have to move from the place of experiencing Christ as “Savior” to that place of experiencing Him as “High Priest”. We have to grow up in this Dimension (Outer Court) in order to become Sons in this Dimension (Holy Place). This is why we say that we have to go on to perfection, to maturity, to completeness, etc. This is what happens with the New Inner Man, the New Species. Being of the earth and earthy, the old species and its physical body can never be members of the body of Christ.

So how do we become members of that Species (members of the body of the High priest)? When the Living and Abiding Word came, we were born again not by the seed that is perishable, but by the “Sperma” which is imperishable, through the Living and Abiding Word of God. The same “Sperma” that came into Mary, which created, formed and grew and became Jesus, must now come into us in order to form Christ in us. What is inside of us (our Inner Man)? The Living and Abiding Word of God which is the Spirit of Christ. Peter explains that the Old Testament Prophets prophesied by the Spirit of Christ: “As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful searches and inquiries, seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow” (1 Peter 1:10-11). Peter explains the difference as to what God is doing now: “…these things which NOW have been announced to you through those who preached the Gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven” (1 Peter 1:12). In other words, there is a difference between (1) those who were of the old species of Adam who preached by the Spirit of Christ about the “other Species” and about the Messiah; and (2) the ones now who are of the New Species which preach about the Kingdom by the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven.

Now the problem we have is when the “old species” begins preaching about something they may call the “Kingdom”, but it is nothing more than a “dirt kingdom”. We can preach to the “dirt man” Sunday after Sunday, and he is never going to change until the Seed of the Kingdom gets planted in that “dirt”. If that Seed gets watered and someone begins to nurture it, then, just like leaven, it works in and around and all through us. It changes our mind, changes the way we see, changes the way we hear, and changes the way we feel. It works in us, body, soul and spirit.

Jesus was born of Mary. The Living and Abiding Word of God came in and what was formed within her was to be called Jesus: “Because,” said the angel, “He is going to save your people.” It was the Spirit of Christ that came in. In other words, when Jesus said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am” (John 8:58), He wasn’t talking about the “dirt man”. He was referring to the Living and Abiding Word of God within.

Until you have become a New Species, you are not yet a Christian. It doesn’t matter what you believe, whether you tithe, or even whether you come to church every Sunday and don’t cause any more trouble – YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN by the Living and Abiding Word of God in order to become this New Species.

At the very best, you are really just wasting your time by trying to preach to Adam. Adam is never going to grow. He is just going to hear your message and go back to the dust and dirt where he came from and he will take your message to the dirt with him. We have to remember that the God of heaven has done something to make you a different Creation. “Old things are passed away; behold, new things have come” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

There are those today that try to convince Adam that he is a New Creation, even though he is still drinking, lying, and cheating. Because they got Adam to agree to and repeat a few words, they now tell him that he is saved forever and that he can never lose his salvation no matter how he lives. THIS IS A LIE! These people are preaching “another Jesus”, “another spirit”, and “another gospel” as Paul said:

“For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted…” (1 Corinthians 11:4).

“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:8-9).

The New Inner Man, the New Species, has to be BORN. You cannot get him inside of you by any other way. He has to be born from above. Jesus said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is Born Again he cannot see the Kingdom of God” (John 3:3). I have preached to Adam in many parts of the world and I can guarantee you that Adam can NEVER see the Kingdom of God. The brain and the mind of the old species can NEVER see the Kingdom. This is why Paul prayed for the Ephesians: “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your heart (your new Inner Man) may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe” (Ephesians 1:17-19). You can only see these things from the New Inner Man, but if this New Inner Man is still just an “embryo”, then (even though this “embryo” is a “New Creation”), his eyes are not yet formed, he doesn’t yet have ears to hear, and neither does he have a heart to understand.

Jesus says, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot ENTER into the Kingdom of God” (John 3:5). So now there even more births, but it is still the same embryo. “But I thought it was only possible to be born once, right?” Yes, but we are talking about the New Species, not the old species. “Being ‘Born of Water’ does not refer to when your mother’s water broke! That was how Adam was born, but we’re not talking about old species, we’re talking about the New Species. The New Species grows from one birth to another birth, from “glory to glory.” He grows up by being birthed into other Dimensions. There is another birth referred to as being “Born in Zion”: “But of Zion it shall be said, ‘This one and that one were born in her’; And the Most High Himself will establish her. The Lord will count when He registers the peoples, ‘This one was born there.’ Then those who sing as well as those who play the flutes shall say, ‘All my springs of joy are in you.’” (Psalm 87:5-7). As the New Species grows from birth to birth, his eyes see more and more into each new Dimension.

By growing into Christ, we are growing into the Kingdom. We can’t separate the Kingdom from the King [Christ]. The King and the Kingdom must always go together. “Well, how can we do this?” First of all, it is clear that in the Kingdom there are laws and you cannot break them. But the Laws of the Kingdom are not just laws in the sense that if you keep this law and that law, then they will let you into the Kingdom. That would be how the old species interprets it. The New Species understands that when you are living in the Kingdom, then these Laws literally describe how this New Species will be living and it will look just like Matthew five, six, and seven.

Scofield [an American Theologian in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s] proclaimed that Matthew chapters five, six, and seven are humanly impossible to obey. He came to the conclusion was that these words of Jesus simply cannot be for the church in this dispensation of grace. Therefore he decided that it must be for Israel in a future dispensation of law. How right Scofield was that no man or woman can live up to that standard! Adam simply can’t do it. But if the New Man is growing up into that Dimension, he can do all those things without any trouble!

For example, how can a man look at a woman and not lust after her? Well while it is impossible for the old species, it is completely possible for the New Man, because the New Man is not male or female – he is of an entirely different dimension. He is a New Species. “Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory” (Colossians 3:1-4).

Our goal is to see people saved unto eternity! This is what we can call “Eternal Salvation” as it says in Hebrews: “He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation” (Hebrews 5:9). Or, as Peter states, the “salvation ready to be revealed in the last time” (1 Peter 1:5). We can refer to this salvation as “Kingdom Salvation”. “Well, I thought that if you said certain words and prayed a certain prayer you would be saved.” Yes, but we are not talking about that kind of salvation. We talking about a much fuller “Kingdom Salvation”.

Now we need to understand that in the Kingdom, there are laws and those who are lawless cannot enter there:

“Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the Kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).

“Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God” (Galatians 5:19-21).

Those living in the “dirt realm” cannot enter into the Kingdom Realm. If we move out of the “dirt realm” into the Kingdom Realm, it is just a small little move, but it makes an eternity of difference! We need to move out of the “dirt realm” into that invisible realm which is only invisible to those who are not in that realm. Someone may say, “What’s in there [pointing to the Holy Place & Most Holy Place]” “I don’t know, brother. All I know is that I see people going in and out of there and they say not to go there.” “Well, what’s in there?” “I don’t know, Brother, it’s invisible. I think it’s spooky.” But when you finally step in there, it’s not spooky! Your eyes are opened, and you can see cherubim, gold, the lampstand, the table of showbread, the altar of incense, etc.

So this New Man is both spirit and soul. Peter says, “Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart” (1 Peter 1:22). “Well, Brother, we tried that and just doesn’t work. We used to have love feasts, and we baked little cakes for each other, but we were disappointed.” Why didn’t it work? Peter goes on to explain that you can fervently love one another, because “you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring Word of God” (1 Peter 1:23).

There is absolutely no sense or purpose in having an “Adam Revival”! Adam has to die and be buried and you must get a resurrected people who are going to be in revival. It is not enough to just to make them spiritual. True revival is all about taking people from one Dimension into another Dimension.

In another year from now, we should be able to ask: “How many here are birthed in Zion?” and every hand should go up. “How many are seeing that mountain?” “Oh, Brother, I don’t see any mountain.” “Then where did you get birthed?” “Well, I guess I didn’t get birthed into Zion, cause I don’t see anything about Zion. Oh, I did read about Zion and the Jebusites.” “No, not that earthly Zion. This is a different Zion. That earthly Zion is just a poor picture of the real Heavenly Zion.”

Another important fact to observe, is that there is going to be a conflict between the New Creation and the old creation. If anybody has not been experiencing that conflict, then it is because there is no New Creation. If there is a New Creation, there is going to be a conflict with old creation. We have a conflict between the natural and the spiritual, a conflict between the Inner Man and the outer man, a conflict between the New Self and the selfish and self-centered old self, and a conflict between the individual and the corporate (some Christians want to be a Christian all by themselves – but then it is doubtful that they are really Christians at all). There is evidence when there is a New Creation. When there is a New Man inside you’ll know that there is something really different going on.

Now there is another conflict between being clothed and unclothed. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were unclothed, but they had the glory of God. When they sinned, they lost that glory and were found naked. We have this tent (our body), but when this tent is taken away, we have to have a building made by God for the New Inner Man or he is going to be naked. We don’t want to be naked, but we want to be clothed upon with our dwelling from heaven. Why? Because the New Man didn’t come from here, he came from heaven. Where is his new dwelling place? It is in heaven. But what is his new dwelling place? It comes from heaven. There is a change from “tent” to “building” – a change from temporal to permanent. That building is a part of something. It is a part of the Heavenly City! We get rid of the “tent” so we can get a “building”.

“For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked. For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life” (2 Corinthians 5:1-4).

If you’re mortal, don’t try to be immortal. The mortal has to be swallowed up by life. Don’t put off the mortal unless you have something to replace it. So whatever is mortal is going to be handled okay, if you just get the Life. From here [Holy Place] on in, He is the Way [Veil into the Outer Court], the Truth [Veil into the Holy Place], and the Life [Veil into the Most Holy Place]. We are moving from the Outer Court Dimension into the Truth Dimension of the Holy Place. Then we want to move from the Truth Dimension into the Most Holy Place Dimension which is the beginning of the Life Dimension. What is mortal here [Outer Court] gets swallowed up in here [Holy Place and Most Holy Place], the Life Dimension.

We can never change people from carnal to spiritual merely by talking to them. The only way for change to take place in their lives is for them to get dead, buried, and then resurrected. This is exactly what Paul is talking about in Romans chapter six where he clearly describes this process of how the mortal gets swallowed up by the Resurrection Life.

“What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin [not sins] that grace may increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life [Zoe]” (Romans 6:1-4).

The Outer Court is a place of preparation, a place where the foundation is being laid: “Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. And this we will do, if God permits” (Hebrews 6:1-3). All of these things take place in the Outer Court, but God’s purpose is for us to move on: “…let us press on to maturity”!

In Isaiah six, we read how Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up and he exclaimed, “Woe is me! I’m finished, bankrupt, and completely undone.” There is then a resurrection into New Life, the New Dimension. What is left of the mortal is swallowed up by that Life. This New Dimension is so powerful! It is illuminated by the Seven Spirits of God. God gives of that Spirit “without measure” (John 3:34). God actually gives us a “pledge”, or a “down payment” of the Spirit (2 Corinthians 5:5; Ephesians 1:13-14). In this Restoration and in these last times, God has purposed to bring us into the fulness of Pentecost.

We need to move into this other Dimension where there is no limitation. This is a place far beyond all the cultural and religious stuff. The word “Truth”[referring to the Veil of the Holy Place] can be better translated as “Reality”. Therefore, we can say that as we move into that Holy Place Dimension, the Holy Spirit begins to reveal “Reality” to us.

Remember that Adam cannot enter that Dimension. There is a distinction between Adam and the “Tent” [this body]. How do we get rid of Adam? He has to get dead and be buried. We want to get rid of Adam, but we are still living in this “Tent”. (Thank God for the “Tent” or we would be naked!) We can live in this tent without submitting to Adam and living in all the carnal stuff of Galatians five and 1 Corinthian six, for “those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom.”

“Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge [down payment]” (2 Corinthians 5:5).

He gave us the Spirit as a “pledge” or “down payment” that all these things will happen exactly in the way which He has told us they would happen. We have been playing around in Pentecost in the natural light dimension of the Outer Court. God never intended for apostles, prophets, pastors, evangelists, and teachers to originate in the “dirt dimension”. How do we know that? Because the priesthood never functions out here [Outer Court] until it functions in here [Holy Place]. Aaron and Moses went into the Holy Place and then they came out and raised their hands and the power of God fell.

“Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting. When they came out and blessed the people, the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. Then fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the portions of fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces” (Leviticus 9:23-24).

Now that is revival. Stirring up Adam to jump up and down, holler, and run down the aisle is never going to take Adam into the New Dimension. Adam is of the dirt. He can never go there.

 

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These priests of Moses’ Tabernacle are walking barefoot in the dirt. The priesthood after the order of Aaron was a “dirt ministry”. Now we can take this tabernacle and set it up vertically in order to lift it up out of the “dirt dimension”. By doing this, we would be moving it out of the horizontal “dirt ministry” and bringing it into a “Vertical Ministry” which we can call the “Ascending Life”. Now we can view this as an Ascending Life rather than merely a preparation for the Ascending Life. Once you set the tabernacle up vertically, it is all about Life. It is now an Ascending Life as Paul referred to: “I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward [or “ascending”] call of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:14).

This call to an Ascending Life is NOT for Adam, the old species. He came from the dirt and he is going to stay in the dirt. The one who can ascend is this New Inner Man within us. He is able to ascend because gravity doesn’t have any affect him! In fact, this New Species can even walk on the water!

A lot of the Scriptures that don’t make any sense to the outer man, now make perfect sense to the Inner Man. For example, Jesus said, “Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do” (John 14:13). Now Adam claims this verse and he can ask and ask and ask, but he doesn’t receive anything. Why? Because God doesn’t have any plan for Adam except for Death and Burial! Paul says:

“Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self [lying and cheating is what the old self does!] with its evil practices and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge [Greek: “epignosis” = true, exact, correct, and precise knowledge] according to the image of the One who created him” (Colossians 3:9-10).

Paul is contrasting the old species with the New Species so that we can recognize the difference between them. It is really very easy to understand: If you are cheating, lying, etc. then you are still in the old species, the old self. It is not complicated at all.

The Bible says this about the New Jerusalem:

“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death” (Revelation 22:8).

“For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie” (Revelation 22:15).

There are absolutely no liars in the New Jerusalem because lying is of Adam, the old self, and in that city there are positively no “Adams” allowed. Adam might as well just give up, because he is never going to make it there. The old species is only inclined toward “knowledge” [gnosis – general knowledge]. The New Self is clearly inclined toward “True or Precise Knowledge” [epignosis]. Therefore, this renewed person, the New Species is capable of and longs for revelation from God.

“I think I’m a New Self, but I don’t seem to have any revelation” Well, that’s because you still haven’t made the transition from the “dirt dimension” into the New Dimension. Revelation only comes from the Holy Place Dimension.

The Holy Place is only illuminated by the Lampstand which is the Seven Spirits of God. What does it illuminate? It illuminates the Showbread, which is the Living and Abiding Word. This is what you eat in that Dimension. The Inner Veil into the Most Holy Place has been TORN (but not removed). Hebrews says that this altar of incense is behind that TORN veil:

“Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies [Most Holy Place], having a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden jar holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod which budded, and the tables of the covenant; and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat; but of these things we cannot now speak in detail” (Hebrews 9:3-5).

Therefore, there is light from the Most Holy Place flooding into this Holy Place. In other words, in this Holy Place Dimension there is all kind of revelation.

It is in this present Restoration [what we are calling the “Next Dimension”] where the church must go from “preparation” to “function.” It is in the Holy Place where the Church functions. The church that men are building is only out here in the Outer Court. But the Lampstand Church which Jesus is building is in the Holy Place. How do we know that? Revelation tells us:

“And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands; and in the middle of the lampstands I saw one like a son of man” (Revelation 1:12).

“As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches” (Revelation 1:20).

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: The One who holds the seven stars in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands, says this…” (Revelation 2:1).

“Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God” (Revelation 4:5).

It is clear that Jesus, our High Priest, is not walking around in the Outer Court by the Altar of Sacrifice. Jesus says that He “walks among the seven golden lampstands”. From that place, He declares to the church, “I know and I see everything.” Jesus is the High Priest after the Order of Melchisedek, and it is in the Holy Place Dimension where this Priesthood functions. When you enter that Dimension, you’ll see Jesus just like John did in Revelation chapter one. John didn’t see Jesus from the “dirt dimension”, he saw Him in the New Dimension. In Revelation we also read that John saw the Priesthood, and he understood that God wants to make us a Kingdom and Priesthood unto God:

“And He has made us to be a Kingdom, priests to His God and Father – to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen (Revelation 1:5).

“You have made them to be a Kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth” (Revelation 5:10).

“Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years” (Revelation 20:6).

In this Restoration, it is a restoration unto “righteousness and holiness of the truth” (Ephesians 4:24). Some church organizations may focus on holiness, but for them “holiness” is a goal for which you have to “climb up”. Adam fasts, prays, cries, beats the floor, and is really intent on trying to be holy. Once he gets there, he says, “Oh, thank God, I finally sanctified!” But then as soon as he goes down to the kitchen and finds that someone has not done something just right, then, in a matter of just three minutes, all of his sanctification and holiness is lost!

In this Restoration, Paul says, “In reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind [not the carnal mind, but the “spirit mind”], and put on the New Self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth” (Ephesians 4:22-24).

The New Species is created in the “likeness of God” and in the “image of God”. Why? Because he is both spirit and soul. How do we know that? Paul says: “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:23). Now you can’t be sanctified in the soul of Adam because that Adam was only a “life-giving soul”, but the last Adam becomes a life-giving spirit.

“So also it is written, ‘The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL.’ The Last Adam became a life-giving spirit” (1 Corinthians 15:45).

The New Species receives the inheritance and the sonship from the Last Adam. Adam can make all the proclamations he wants about being the Son of God, but he’s just lying! He is the “son of the flesh”. He is the “son” that God made from the “dirt”, but he is not the “son of God”. He is “a” creation of God, but not “the” Creation! We have what came from Adam, but God wants that Adam dead and buried so that we can be resurrected into this other Dimension of Christ. In that Dimension, there is “image” and “likeness”. It is the New Species that is able to receive the promises of Abraham. Paul says:

“Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, ‘And to seeds,’ as referring to many, but rather to one, ‘And to your seed,’ that is, Christ” (Galatians 3:16).

It is not “seeds” plural, but “seed” singular. What seed is that? The Living and the Abiding Word of God. It is in this new Seed [“Sperma”] where we find all these promises. In this “Sperma” is everything that Christ is. You don’t need to go outside of Christ in order to get something. Everything is in the seed, and every seed produces after its own kind. Adam’s seed produces Adam. The Living and the Abiding Word of God produces Christ in us. If you get the seed of the Kingdom, what does that do? It puts the Laws of God and divine order of God within us. It brings us into that new Dimension of government. Adam always rebels against the government of God. He even rebels against the message of the government of God. Why? Because he is locked out! Why does Adam get so mad? “Man, I can’t get in! These people are so exclusive!” That’s right. The Kingdom is exclusive! “Well, we believe God loves all His little children the same.” He does, but they are not all going to be in the Kingdom! Some are going to be in Outer Court [New Earth], some are going to be in the Holy Place [New Heaven], and some are going to be in the Most Holy Place [New Jerusalem]. God has a place for everybody, but everybody is not going to the same place. Now when we speak, we want to speak to you about the Most Holy Place, the New Jerusalem. Of course, we’ll tell you about the other places, but those other places are just “on the way” to that place [the Holy Place and Most Holy Place].

When you enter through the First Veil into the Outer Court, that Veil is Jesus the “Way”. But Jesus is not merely the “Way”, He is the whole Way! He doesn’t just bring you part of the way and then drop you. When you come to the Second Veil, which is Christ the Truth, He is the whole Truth. Now it must be understood that there is Truth in Outer Court as well, but there is a difference between Truth in the Outer Court and the Truth in the Holy Place. The Third Veil [into the Most Holy Place] is Jesus the Life, but that Life actually begins to work once you first step into the Outer Court. So this Life we see in the Most Holy Place literally begins to work in the Outer Court. In other words, Jesus is the whole Way, the whole Truth, and the whole Life from the very beginning. In the Outer Court preparation there is also Truth and Life. There is Truth and Life in the Outer Court as well, but there is a Veil between the Outer Court and the Holy Place. It is at the Second Veil where we “see the Lord” as Isaiah did in Isaiah chapter six. In all of this, we are moving into a further Dimension of Truth, and we are also moving into a further Dimension of Life, and we are also ascending into a further Dimension of the Way. So what is actually happening? Exactly what Paul explained, “So that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life” (2 Corinthian 5:4). This has nothing to do with human effort. It has everything to do with the increasing of His Life within us. It is there that this New Species is renewed to an accurate, exact and precise knowledge [epignosis] of God.

It doesn’t actually seem that God planned this kind of set up that we see in churches today where a man stands up front and preaches to the people. In Scripture we only find one time where Paul preached before a group of people (Acts 20), and we say,”Well, if Paul preached all night, we can, too”. Somehow we have taken that one situation and made it the standard. We don’t really know what this thing called “church” should be. What we do know is that we can stand up in front and preach to a group of people for the next forty years and those people will most likely still be sitting in the very same seats without any change at all! We can see clearly that what God wants to do is to make you into a Kingdom of Priests. “Well, Brother, we don’t know anything about being a king or a priest.” But Scripture reveals to us all we need to know about what God accepts and what God rejects concerning priests and kings.

This New Species is renewed to the image of God, renewed in the likeness of God, renewed in the spirit of his mind, renewed in righteousness, renewed in holiness of the truth, and renewed in the reality of the Truth. He truly is a New Creation. He begins in an embryo form – a conception. If there is no conception, there can be no birth. It is the Divine “Sperma” of God that produces this birth. A woman doesn’t get pregnant by simply reading a book or by hearing a message about it. That woman had to receive something that will actually bring about that conception. So also, unless a person receives the Divine “Sperma” from God, there can be no New Birth at all!

Now the problem is that, without growth, without development, without training, that little seed is never going to fulfill God’s eternal purpose. The purpose, therefore, of these meetings we call “church” is to grow you up so you can do the ministry.

“***He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things. And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge [epignosis] of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. As a result, we are no longer to be children tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine…” (Ephesians 4:10-14).

Everything about God’s Eternal Purpose is about growing up into Christ so that you can do the ministry. Not as a believer, but as a priest. Paul made this statement:

“But I have written very boldly to you on some points so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me from God, to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest the gospel of God, so that my offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit” (Romans 15:15-16).

Paul ministered as a priest. His ministry was not after the order of Aaron, but after the Order of Melchisedek. This is how we have to minister. This is the only priesthood that is available to us. We can all qualify, but we can’t do it in Adam because Melchisedek was not a mortal man. Scripture makes it very clear that Melchisedek is immortal and has a perpetual, eternal priesthood:

“Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, He remains a priest perpetually” (Hebrews 7:3).

“In this case mortal men receive tithes, but in that case one receives them, of whom it is witnessed that He lives on” (Hebrews 7:8).

What God is looking for now is a mature, new spiritual man who is of the New Creation, who has become a New Self, and has laid aside the old self and has become a different Species because Melchisedek was not of Adam’s “species”. Aaron was of “Adam’s species” and he ministered in the dirt unto “dirt people”. Melchisedek is not of that “old species”. The only way we can become priests is to become priests after the Order of Melchisedek so that we can move out of the “dirt dimension” into the next Dimension which is the “Body of the High Priest” where everybody in this place is a priest after the order of Melchisedek. Only the High Priest and his sons could go into the Holy Place and this is why we say that these people are called “Sons of the High Priest”.

The New Soul is functioning with a New Spirit. The Living Word of God is living in Him. He is in the process of coming unto perfection. He is becoming the Sanctuary of God. The body is the “temple of the Holy Spirit” (1 Corinthians 3:16; 6:19). The Inner Anointing is teaching him all things. The Outer Anointing is in the Outer Court and is what the Bible speaks about when it says, “The power of the Most High shall overshadow you” (Luke 1:35), and “stay in the city until you are clothed with Power from on high” (Luke 24:49). But the Inner Anointing is what John is speaking about: “As for you, the Anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His Anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him” (1 John 2:27).

It is in this New Man where God begins to teach you. “I can’t hear God speaking.” Well, that’s because you are still “in Adam”. Adam used to hear God, and he used to fellowship with God, but the farther he got from God, the less he could hear from God. Now we are in the New Man who is the Sanctuary of God. In this New Man is found the Living and Abiding Word of God, and the Spirit of God also lives in Him. Like Jesus said, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him” (John 14:23). This is the Sanctuary of the Triune God! Now Jesus’ words and prayer in John 17 makes sense: “That they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me…I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity…” (John 17:21,23). We are “one” in this Inner Sanctuary and so we can say that John 17 has its primary fulfillment in this New Species. If God dwells in this sanctuary and He lives there and this New Man is developed enough that he can function as a priest after the Order of Melchisedek, then nothing shall be impossible! Amen.