The Consummation of the Fullness of Times
Paul speaks of another day called “the dispensation of the fullness of time” as he taught in Ephesians, that God “ in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He would gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him.”
This can cause great confusion and consternation among believers in that, if they are looking forward to other physical events as needing to take place for them to be “gathered together as one in Christ”, then they can come up short in receiving the full gift of God that have already been given as fruits from the redemption of The Cross, and not something to be given later as though we are left incomplete and maybe orphans or left wanting. Otherwise, how can the Kingdom of God be “at hand” as being within reach and ascertainable anytime anywhere?
This type of thinking leaves much room for hypothefications, conjectures and doubts. Because it is doubt that is the absence of faith and the access hole for Satan to stir up your soul with fear, of “hath God really said”? This leaves you looking for other events to finish the salvation that have been already given, to be put in place in the way scripture has prescribed. That is what a true “prescription” and a remedy is as having to do with “scripture” for the healing and filling our souls.
Just think of Adam who was asked “has God really said” that started this whole chain reaction that got us into this mess that we are in as having to do with anti-faith by not believing Gods promises because really “God has said”. And we say emphatically that “God has said…”, and for no other purpose then that, we believe.
Yes there is a time of fullness when the final numbers are reached and the gospel and creation are done. But we can be “complete in Him who is head” now, as Stated in 2nd Peter.
We concur that “God has (already) given us everything that pertains to life and godliness through the knowledge of (knowing) Him who calls us to (receive His) glory through virtue“. And “virtue” is a word to describe something clean and pure without mixture, as having to do NOT with creation, but with our faith, which is a word associated with invisible things. That invisible things are virtues.
It is these virtues that are new for you because to become like our prototype the Son of God, this has nothing to do with physical features but invisible attributes, being His contributions given to us to be begotten from above of this sort, as we read here from John that ““Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, they cannot see the kingdom of God.” and ““Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, they cannot enter the kingdom of God (as something other than your carnal experience). 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” And so we do.
This is what virtuous means, something unseen that takes faith. “Has God really said?” That is for you to decide.
Faith as defined in Hebrews says, “11 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things NOT seen. For by this the elders gained repoir (favor and honor) with God. Hereby validating what we’ve just proclaimed.
And that “one must first believe that He is, and that He rewards those (NOT of things seen) that diligently seek Him who is invisible. Instead of being a sign seeker and a prophecy watcher because “all the law and the prophets have been fulfilled”, filled to the full, as a realization to be realized, actuated and activated. To have and to own as “joint heirs” of the things of “God really HAS said”. Amen!
And we do that with word. Gods word implanted in us are our (invisible) virtues as having to do with the new you.
Meaning that the substance of faith is really an anti-substance, in that it is not of the creation of the first seven days, but something that is “from the beginning”. Even as John instructs us that “if that which is from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son who is in the Father”, and just like a collection of concentric circles laid on top of each other to look like one, it is this understanding that precedes and supersedes creation itself that we are to be enveloped into as “That which is from the beginning”.
This is your “Consummation of the Fullness of Times”, as having happened, if you are able to receive it. It is the beginning that is the same as the end that is available anytime and anywhere in-between, because it is timeless and outside and away from the time measuring system of creation as having to do with things on earth and luminaries in the sky’s. He is way above and beyond all that, and calls us to Himself. As it is written “Hebrews 12.22-23”
Once again, this can be your “Consummation of the Fullness of Times”… If you can receive it. That means there is nothing left to give or do but only to acquire this full (fullness of your own time) understanding, something under us to stand on. For this is how we walk in His word.
For you see the purpose of creation is the machine with the mechanisms to help facilitate our coming to this conclusion as NOT having to do with days, months, seasons or years or end times, but the realization and actualization and activation that God is.
To be fully vested “in Christ”, not of the world but of and “in Christ” as our culmination and our “Consummation of the Fullness of Times”. If we do not end up here, we can not be considered complete but left wanting. This is the calling for the Elect, to exude these truths.
1 John 5 puts it like this “18 We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but those who have been born of God keeps themselves (in the consumation of the fulness of time), and the wicked one does not (and can not) touch them. 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the (per)sway(sion) of the wicked one (because we are not in the world but “in Christ). 20 And we know that the Son of God has (already) come and has (already) given us an understanding, that we can know (like Adam knew Eve genetically) Him who is true; and we are in Him (the same way Eve was while she still was a rib inside Adam) who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
And just a brief interjection on this. Children is a term in reference to those young in understanding as they were called in the wilderness wanderings. Where might you be in your progression?
And “idols” can also be any other notion as something else as needing to happen physically for you to enter your “Consummation of the Fullness of Times “. This is also known as the Rest of the seventh day and the Sabbath day of God as further clarified in Hebrews that “4 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest (being your Consummation of the Fullness of Times), let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. 2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith (is that you?) in those who heard it. 3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; 5 and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.” 6 Since therefore it remains that some (maybe most today) must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, 7 again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.” 8 For if [b]Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. 10 For those who have entered their rest has himself also ceased from thier works as God did from His. 11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest (of The Culmination of the Fullness of Time), lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience/disbelief.
So then like “idols” that make you “idle” in the faith, Like a vehicle running but not in gear cannot go anywhere, so too mental constructs that make you focus on another time to come or another day to happen for you to finally get to the completion and the end of your journey itself, just becomes the idolistic notion that John cautioned us against. That “we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. That needs no additions
If you are spending time speaking of, researching and trying to figure out “end times” and future events, is to jump over the promises of God that must be believed on, to be received, initiated and activated by faith. Very much like you would activate and initiate any contract by accepting terms and conditions of the policy, in this case “The New Will and Testament” now in force and enforceable NOT from the cross of Christ. That is where payment was rendered, but He was “the lamb slain from the foundations of the world” from the beginning of time. That with the death of a testator, the heirs get their inheritance. So we did and still do “3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us to this virtue.” That we too have been offered everything God Has. But this is a development process and why Paul’s earlier understandings from Galatians, where he used the analogy of children and said “4 Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all, 2 but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father. 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.
To show us here that any such future expectations of future events only puts you on hold from your “fullness of time” and circumvents your faith. For in truth to be “in Christ” is to be in “The Kingdom of God at hand” as something graspable and attainable and is also your responsibility to press into to obtain. And He has come and given us this understanding that we are in Him this is true. This is the gospel message from God, His Son and the Sons Bride, as we quote John again, but this time from his revelation book that culminates with “12 “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to their work. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the [a]Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” 14 Blessed are those who [b]do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. 15 [c]But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie. 16 “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.” 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.
And for those squirming about “end times prophecies” you read about in the book of The Revelation? That book was written for and fulfilled within that generation who knew John the author. That book is history, meaning His-Story. As it was written “6 Then he said to me, “These words are faithful and true.” And the Lord God of the [a]holy prophets sent His angel to show His servants the things which must shortly take place. “12 “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.
And since these things are available now, we are not taking reservations, those may belong to you, But for us?? The Kingdom of God is at hand, still.