The “key of David” The Means To Intimacy With Christ (NIV, Rev. 3:7)

Jesus lays aside doubt and fears by announcing to the Church of Philadelphia in the Apostle John’s day, and the age of Philadelphia in ours, He is the means for apprehending intimate fathering to resurrection life.

The “key of David” is the mystical season when hearts, time, and resources come together in Christ for completing to fruition God’s long desired purpose and plan to “make” his children into the likeness of his Son.

The “key of David” is our path to union with Christ and safe passage to the other side with our loved ones.

Christendom at large is spiritually unprepared for the coming last day revival, but that does not have to include you.

Every new move of God, like the present move of the Spirit in fathering toward union with Christ, and, the last day revival to come, can only be birthed after God prepares “heart-hungry-souls” to initiate it, and draws in advance those to be initiated in its inaugural unveiling.

Twenty first century Christians are at a pivotal time in history, approaching what the Scripture likens to a “fullness of time.”

Where competing Kingdoms for the souls of men and women come to “maturity,” in the likeness of their heart devotion, colliding spiritually over the souls of men and women caught in the valley of decision.

The approaching fullness will also be a time when God divides his harvest between those who love him, and those who are called by his name but need further refining (Laodicea).

Twenty first century Christians are in one of the last two church ages, Philadelphia or Laodicea, growing side by side until the end times when the sheep will be divided into separate pastures.

With the Sardis church age (Reformation and Pentecostalism), having run its course through the mid to late 20th century, the Lord birthed the inner healing movement in preparation for the final phase of the Christian pilgrimage – intimate fathering leading to union with him.

Today hundreds, if not thousands, of parachurch ministries both big and small around the globe are preparing heart-hungry Christians to receive the fullness of the Gospel promised by Jesus in the Scriptures.

His promise includes nothing less than the fullness of his Isaiah 61 Commission – healing and restoration from the fall into “resurrection life” through Christ’s personal fathering.

The new birth ushered men and women into the Kingdom of God, Pentecost continued the race through the gifts of the Spirit, but only under intimate fathering can men and women finish the race healed and transformed into the likeness of Jesus our Savior.

Like all new “birthing’s” of God, doctrines and traditions are often the biggest obstacles to apprehending a deeper relationship with Christ.

The early church had an advantage in seeking a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ over us, the absence of the hard yoke and heavy burden of extra biblical “creeds” and their fruit in the traditions of men.

The confusing and overbearing coalition of council and church teachings from the pre, early, high, and late Middle Ages impact almost every single facet of Christian teaching today in the body of Christ.

The Reformation and Pentecostalism only exposed the tip of the iceberg, and it is a large iceberg, able to rip through the moving of God’s Spirit quickly and decisively.

Creeds and traditions “stretch” God’s timetable to centuries, when, without them, God could accomplish in one generation the last pilgrimage of intimate fathering leading to fullness in Christ.

The early church did not face the three-fold-cord of “captive” teachings, practices, and doctrines coming from the Smyrna, Pergamum, and Thyatira church ages Christ warned about in the parables of the weeds, mustard seed, and yeast (Matthew Chapter 13).

Though the first two of the three church ages just mentioned are no longer the center of gravity they once were, tragically, their fruit remains through the overarching creeds of Church Councils used to teach, interpret, and even translate Scripture.

The series New Insights and Revelation provide the keys the Lord has given me over the last decade for moving beyond the “captive” renderings of Scripture by “church councils” about the story of Christ.

The Lord is laboring to reveal once again the long-lost story of his pioneering journey under fathering before ministry, leading to his first glorification (perfection), separate and distinct from his ministry and death at Calvary.

He reserved the age of Philadelphia specifically for this purpose, to shine the glorious light of the promises of fathering, healing and restoration, so men and women will seek the path he pioneered for apprehending union with him.

The “key of David” in Christ is ours for the taking, but first we must answer his knock on the door of our heart (Rev. 3:20), so he can prepare us for fathering through the “open door” of Philadelphia. (NIV, Rev. 3:7-8)