A DOOR IN TIME TO GOD'S BEST
Martha, Mary and Lazarus are deliberately yoked (as a spiritual trinity) by the LORD as a message to His church. We all need to serve IN LOVE (Martha); we all need to relate IN LOVE (Mary); we all need to die IN LOVE to the soul life (Lazarus) that represents the self-life independent of the life and conscience of God (the first nature)..
Lazarus represents our Adamic nature. Jesus allowed Lazarus to die as an object lesson because for us to... serve fully in love and relate wholly in love, our Adamic nature has to first be crucified within us. Jesus waited so that RESURRECTION LIFE could come and Lazarus be released back into true life from all that bound him in the grave of his Adamic nature. "And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go." - JOHN 11:44. When Jesus takes away, He always gives us something better in return. The "second nature", brought in by the RESURRECTION LIFE , is infinitely better than the first nature.
At the same time, Jesus also deliberately stayed away from Lazarus for "two days" to be a further present day message for His church. The Church Age has now lasted for "two thousand years" (two prophetic days). We are at the end of this time, and those of His who have died to their self-life (Lazarus) are about to be loosed from all that hinders, so that they may both serve His will fully (Martha) and relate wholly (Mary), so that it can be fulfilled that "the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do" - JOHN 14:12
- To God alone be all the glory. Forever and ever. Amen and amen.
- God's richest blessings
