Ephesians ch.3 especially involves careful instructions to the loving on how to interpret prophecy

A particularly useful but neglected corner of Paul is the 3rd chapter of Ephesians, in which Paul gives careful instructions to the loving on how to interpret prophecy: Ephesians 3:16-19.

Paul could not be more explicit: "that they may comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of Christ"; explicit about what? About the supposed architectural dimensions of the temples described in Ezekiel and Revelation.

Those who reject living water, as Jeremiah tells, carve them out cisterns which can hold no water. Those who reject living water make much of rebuilding a physical temple, but this is a cistern that can hold no water. It does no good to someone whose needs involve learning how to become humbler and more sincere, helpfuller and less seeking for a reward; but a temple made out of LOVE that is the Church does do good to someone with these pressing needs. 

So, one noted that Ephesians ch. 3 is especially instructions for the loving on how to interpret prophecy.Another example of this is Paul's saying, "That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His spirit in the inner man"; this is deliberately written to parallel and explain Mark 13:26 and its description of Jesus coming in the clouds of Heaven with great power and glory. That is the entire purpose of mentioning power and glory in the context of the inner man.

Now to look at the same exact thing from a different camera angle, the coming of Jesus to the individual believer as a day star rising in their hearts and bearing particular relation not to literally appearing in the sky but to appearing in the believer's heart in a way that distinctively unlocks the Word and clues them in to what the dimensions of the temples are and similar things:

"And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with Him in the holy mount. We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts (2 Peter 1:18-19).

In this connection, one would draw your attention to the fact that the voice Peter heard during the transfiguration on the mount to which he alludes came out of a cloud. This is not a coincidence but is deliberately put there like a trail of bread crumbs for you to know that this cloud relates to living belief and its unlocking of the Word in the presence of God, who comes in this sort of cloud and not in mere aggregations of water floating in the material sky.

It is likewise not an accident that they saw specifically Jesus, Moses, and Elias during the transfiguration on the mount and in relation specifically to a cloud. For Moses is a representative of the historical books of the Old Testament, while Elias is a representative of the prophetic books thereof. Also, Peter, James and John are present in relation to these because they, too, are there not as just persons but as representative symbols specifically in relation to the Word of God and their witness to it (through their epistles).

To be clear: if we had epistles of Steve, Stan, and Tom, then Steven, Stan and Tom would have been the ones on the mount. They are the same thing, to take out or change one is to take out or change the other. The whole point is the Word and commentaries on the Word by inspired people in relation specifically to cloud (being the Moses/Elias side and the Peter/James/John side).

The 2nd Coming of God to the individual believer's heart as a day-star shows people not just because they read it in a book but in their hearts what the length and breadth and height of His love and Church are; and other related things, such as the clouds in which He actually comes, the Word of God. For He comes to people astride their receipt of the Word of God. And this is why in Revelation the 2nd Coming specifically involves Jesus as "the Word" riding on a white horse and followed by armies of angels on white horses. The point is His illuminating the Word for the loving, not some material invasion.

Godspeed.

Additional confirmations: "36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22:36-40) (Law/Moses; Prophets/Elias; note the explicit teaching that these are about love, not geopolitics).

“Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:21)

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