The Heavenly Court End-Game

       The Feast of Trumpets for this year has now come and gone without the rapture having taken place. If you’ve been following these blogs, you know why. Too many of the required signs—what we call the kairos signs—have not yet been fulfilled.
         We know from Hebrews 10:25 that we are supposed to see the Day of the Lord approaching, that is, the Day when our Lord and Savior comes to gather His Church, His Bride, and Body to Him to take us to Father’s House in Heaven. We also know that the purpose of this gathering at the rapture is to be seated as the heavenly court with Christ as His joint-heirs.
        This crucial part of God’s prophetic plan of redemption must happen at the appointed time. That appointed time includes the Chronos, which has to do with the chronological passing of time, and the Kairos, which has to do with the corresponding signs of that specific time period. This two-part assurance of the Chronos and the Kairos is what keeps us from being deceived by false date-setting. We need to have both, which is why we were not surprised when the rapture didn’t happen at this year’s Feast of Trumpet.
         If you’ve been following these blogs, you know that the situation is much like that of a pregnant woman. She knows there is generally nine months in the pregnancy (the Chronos) and the corresponding signs throughout her pregnancy that must be present for a healthy birth (the Kairos). Even when she is in the ninth month, the expectant mother does not rush to the hospital, no matter how much she wants to see her baby. She has to wait until she sees the final signs such as her water breaking and the intense birth pains.
       In effect, this is where we are at in God’s prophetic plan of redemption that we call the Day Code: “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” (2 Pet.  3:8). As important as both the Chronos and the Kairos are to seeing the Day approaching, there’s one other aspect that we need to understand—the End-Game of God’s prophetic plan. Or to put it another way, what is the purpose of the rapture?
        Paul makes it very clear in Ephesians 2:4-6 (emphasis added). “But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.”
         The End-Time Truth: The point of being gathered at the rapture is to be “raised up together” (our 3rd Day resurrection) AND being made to sit together in Heaven with Christ. This is why Hebrews 3:1 says we are partakers of the His heavenly calling. As glorious as this seating is for us, the heavenly purpose is summarized in Daniel 7. Thrones are put in place next to God the Father because a fiery stream of chariots of fire is released for the purposes of gathering the Body of Christ to join the Head, Jesus our Lord, at the right hand of the Father for all eternity.
          Thousands upon thousands from every tribe, nation, and tongue (Rev. 7:9) are seated with Jesus at the right hand of the Father’s throne. The books are opened that affirm God’s will and judgments, which are then declared by the heavenly court. We shall thereby take away the Antichrist’s dominion to consume and destroy. Then and only then will the Kingdom of God and His dominion rule over the kingdoms under Heaven.
          With the remnant of Israel having finally accepted Jesus as the Messiah and having come through the gate of the sheepfold the right way, they take over the earthly commission to be God’s light in the earth. This fulfills God’s promise to David that his descendants would reign once again.  This was foreshadowed when Elisha took over Elijah’s mantle in 2 Kings 2.
            While we are currently in the window of God’s chronos timing for Jesus’ return, we are still awaiting the final earthly signs and the sign of the Son of Man in Heaven. Then and only then will we fulfill our destiny as the heavenly court.