The Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God

When the veil, the foreskin of the heart, the outside shell of a nut or seed is removed from our heart through the circumcision done by the Holy Spirit, which takes place while in Redemption. It is while we are in this Redemption state that we are “given the right to become sons of God” that this circumcision comes about, when we have from the heart spoken out in true repentance. Repentance is a turning from one estate to another, like turning around on the highway when you learn that you are headed in a wrong direction to go in the other way. For it to be true repentance requires our heart felt sorrow for our sin nature and we from our heart make a confession of some sort for that heart felt sorrow of sins guilt. If we just repeat with someone else a prayer, it is like two persons trying to squeeze through a singular person passage way, "like a camel trying to pass through the eye of a needle". It is when we have heard His voice of invitation to enter His kingdom and accept the invitation as a guess, that the table is prepared before us, as in a marriage feast, and He comes to serve us, that we begin to receive revelation of Him who was behind the veil.

Matthew 22:1-14 Jesus spoke to them again by parables, and said, The kingdom of heaven is like to a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent out his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. Again, he sent out other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come to the marriage. But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: And a remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. But when the king heard this, he was wroth: and he sent out his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. Then said he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go therefore into the highways, and as many as you shall find, bid to the marriage. So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. When the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: he asked him, Friend, how came you in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen. (parallel passage Luke 12:36-37, 14:15-24)

In this passage we find “a certain king” who is the Father and “his son” who is Christ Jesus and “his servants,” many think these are the prophets of old but this is not so, they are the disciples and householders or stewards, of the Son who are sent out. They are sent out with the kingdom message and invitation to the marriage feast that was about to take place but were rejected by the very people who were all heirs of the Son of man. The servants are then sent out again into the highways, the world around and about, to find those not worthy of heirship to bring to the feast. When these are gathered there are some who are not approved, not properly clothed who become case out ones and remain speechless because of their being unprepared because they are not of the redeemed. They are spoken of in John's Revelation as the lukewarm, which today we can call the Liberals of society. This I know through personal experience as I too spent many years in the state of unbelief in Religions grip thinking all the while that I was prepared by the denominational creeds and doctrines but all the while undressed, not properly clothed in and with Christ. For when we are either cold or in the state of being lukewarm or a Liberal, we will find ourselves in outer darkness and will ultimately find ourselves in the lake of fire prepared for the devil and Satan and their fallen angels.

This next passage has four parts to it and I am showing it only as an intro for what lays ahead in the warnings against the Apostasy of the worlds churches bond by Religion. What possess the greatest hindrance for many is the fact that no where in scripture is mans false religion spoken of in clear and concise language. It is veiled and hidden from open view and requires our having received the Holy Spirit and not the false spirit of the world, which mimics all that the Holy Spirit does, who leads only to destruction through the distortion and perversion of God's word. This Peter calls the “wresting” which we will look at elsewhere. It is this that caused those who hounded Paul and his many converts and tried to bring them back under their own bondage, which was made up of Jews and pagan Gentiles.