The Apostile John, with divine inspiration, would pen words thich were keyed to Jewish days of captivity in Babylon, yet, somehow, mysteriously connected and directed to Christians in the early Church...and perhaps for Christians now, as well.

It was the greatest division of time and times in the history of the world.  It was a division of the time Before Christ and the times after Christ.  ”A time and times and the dividing of those times.”

Jesus' first disciples were "astonished" as Jesus began to introduce them to a totally new government that would shortly be introduced into the cultures of God's humanity in the earth.

Creation is waiting for His church to manifest the glory of God, in the earth,  through a fully functioning government of God, operating in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation.

“Some must enter in” to the rest of God and allow Christ in them to fully manifest his life and nature to the world.  It is God's plan that the Church follow the pattern of His Son.

Paul said; even though he himself had not yet attained this goal, he would forget those things behind him and press on toward that goal.

Have Christians given up on the idea that it is even possible to actually reach the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, in this life?  Is perfection what God had in mind for his Church?

Our new birth in the Spirit or “being born again” creates in us a new Spirit. We are a new creation immediately, however it is only the down payment; the redemption of our souls and bodies are a process.

Our light is the divine nature of God that is birthed in us when we first believe and is manifest to the world, progressively, as we grow up in Christ, in the Spirit.

His righteousness is to be manifest through us for the world to see and thereby that God might be glorified in us… in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation…