To keep us from being distracted by the flurry of events, changes and threats of our day, it is important to know to whom we belong and what the final outcome is. Fortunately for us we have scripture.
Since we are receiving a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, let’s be careful of what is important to us.
Hebrews 12 puts it like this.
25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, how much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I [k]shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain”. (Meaning we only keep what has not been created but what’s eternal)
28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we [l]may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire. (Consuming all that is visible)
We are instructed here to make the distinction between the Heavenly and the Earthly, the temporary in contrast with the eternal, and that which is factual in comparison with the things only understood by the spirit of the mind by faith. That “everything that can be shaken will be shaken as being the things that are visible and factual”. (The visible are the things that will be discredited and removed as having served it’s purpose in bringing Gods offspring to Glory).
Yes the visible is the trap for the fallen angels and the cooperating powers that are in defiance to the Almighty God.
But we the Elect of God, of those who are foreordained, we are instructed here to let them have it. Let them have it all. Even as Christ said when He was on trial “if My Kingdom were here, I would send legions of angels and they would fight”. This should be our posture as well. However we may be able to be at rest in our rest as God rested in His, and He did that because all His corrections were put in place from the beginning so as to not have to put forth any other corrections fir His will and planned outcome to come into fruition, which is us the elect.
Even as the disciples were approached by some who asked if they could purchase the gift of God and they replied “your money perishes with you”. Therefore it is also true that, you perish with all the things that you have,, if you hold on too tight. As scripture instructs. Yes you may enjoy them but hold on loosely.
And “Our God is a consuming fire”. Showing us that it is our Heavenly Fathers purpose to set a trap on earth, to attract all the rogue and rebelious spirits, to have them vacate the lower heavens to which they were partitioned, to go even lower for the physical. They hade today in all sorts of positions of power of which they occupy by stealth. After they have cemented themselves in, the entrapment is complete, the heavens are purified and the evacuation from the lower sub sectors is complete . It is in this way that the Heavens are cleansed. Even as it’s spelled out in the Revelation; Babylon has become a snare and a trap for every foul and unclean and hateful bird”, speaking of fallen angels and their willing cohorts too.
This is all the more reason for you to hold on loosely and be ready to let go of this age. This is the reason to “come out of her my people lest you partake of her sins and recieve of her judgments”. These things are also used to try our hearts because great is our reward in Heaven. But remember, The Kingdom of God is at hand so the things and blessings and safety are within reach.
And just like the angels told Lot and his family in Sodom, “we cannot do anything until you depart”. For them to leave the plains for the mountains”. Which means for us to arise to our inheritance different then when Lot sat in the gates of the city.
With this understanding you can choose your battles and fight for what you can keep of things eternal and spelled out through scripture.
Don’t hold on too tight for the things that you have and that you’ve worked hard for because God has a more enduring treasure for you in Heaven. Are we not pilgrims and sojourners? Your forever inheritance is of a different substance.
And again with Christ on trial “My Kingdom is not from here or I would fight, but my Kingdom is not from here”. He also told them “I am from above and ye are from below” and “you are of the earth and you do the works of your father the devil.”
Here is Peter’s narrative on the two realities
But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and [b]perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward [c]us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be [d]burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Hang fast and hold firm because “The Kingdom of God is at hand.