Notice the picture above of mansions in the kingdom of God that the saved saints will receive from the Lord Jesus. Notice the street in the picture above by our mansions that is pure gold transparent glass in the beautiful kingdom of God that is jasper pure gold clear glass. Praise the Lord Jesus for creating such a beautiful city called the new Jerusalem for ever. Revelation 21:18 says And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. Revelation 21:21 says And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
There will not be any overcrowding in the kingdom of God. Unlike this crowded world where we all live with overcrowded neighborhoods, the kingdom of God has plenty of room with many mansions that Jesus built and prepared for all his saints. Jesus said at John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
Luke 14:21 proves that there is plenty of room and even extra space in the kingdom of God with no overcrowding to provide mansions for Jesus' saints. Luke 14:21 says So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house (Jesus) being angry said to his servant (The Holy Ghost), Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. The kingdom of God has plenty of room for all its saints with extra room and no overcrowding.
Hebrews 12:22 says that in the kingdom of God there is so much room that the kingdom of God holds innumerable angels. But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels. Brother Bob's mind can not fathom how an infinite amount of angels and saints can fit into the dimensions of the kingdom of God listed at Revelation 21:16 but Brother Bob just believes with my heart that the Lord Jesus can do anything. Mark 10:27 says And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
Revelation 21:16 says And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth; and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousands furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. Now note that a furlong is 1/8 of a mile. Therefore the kingdom of God is 12000 divided by 8 or 1500 miles long, wide, and high. Brother Bob calculated this out and 1500 miles is like going from New York City to Denver, Colorado or like going from Montreal, Canada to Miami, Florida. Now get a picture and see by faith this kingdom of God 1500 miles long, wide, and high holding all the saints with their own mansions with even extra space available. Now also note that the kingdom of God is 1500 miles high so there could be 1500 levels or stories of people. Can you just think when you look up how many mansions could fill even 1 mile and wow 1500 miles high with different levels of mansions for all saints.
Ezekiel 48:35 also describes the dimensions of the new Jerusalem city of God where christians will live for ever. It was round about 18000 measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there (Jehovah Shammah). Note that 18000 measures is equal to 32000 miles. Therefore the circumference of the new Jerusalem round about is 32000 miles (this is much larger than the circumference of the earth). But the best blessing about the new Jerusalem is that the Lord Jesus (Jehovah Shammah) is there for eternity. Cornelius Lapide (a priest from the 1600s) said that the circumference of Zion was 18000 measures or 32000 miles round about. This would be the size of the new Jerusalem covering this whole earth holding saints from every nation from sea to sea. Therefore the new Jerusalem where christians live for ever in peace is 1500 miles long, wide, and high (the distance from New York City to Denver, Colorado or Montreal, Canada to Miami, Florida) surrounded by a circumference of 32000 miles larger than the circumference of this present earth.
Notice the picture above of Jesus carrying a saved saint. The Lord Jesus will always carry christians through all fears, worries, and troubles that they might face in this world. Remember that with the Lord Jesus christians overcome this world and have peace. Jesus said at John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
And since christians overcome with Jesus, they receive the overcoming blessings listed to the seven churches in Revelation 2 and 3. First, they shall eat of the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of God. Second, they shall not be hurt of the second death. Third, they will eat of the hidden manna and receive a new name written in a white stone, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Fourth, they will have power over the nations and rule them with a rod of iron and receive the morning star Jesus. Fifth, they will be clothed in white raiment and their names will not be blotted out of the book of life and Jesus will confess their names before the Father and his angels. Sixth, they will become pillars in the temple of God with the name of God, the name of the new Jerusalem, and Jesus will write upon them His new name. Seventh, they will sit with Jesus and the Father in their throne. Revelation 1:6 says And hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
The Lord Jesus is continuously carrying saved saints and keeping them. Jesus will talk to you, guide you, and assist you to overcome the troubles of this world. Isaiah 46:3 says Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: And even to your old age I am He; and even to hoar (white gray) hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Lamentations 3:22 says It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness. Psalm 34:10 says The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. Psalm 111:5 says He hath given meat unto them that fear Him: He will ever be mindful of His covenant.
Note the faith that the disciples displayed when they traveled with no shoes, bags of personal possessions, or money to tell the nations about the good news of Jesus. These disciples had incredible faith to just walk with Jesus daily with no shoes, suitcases of personal items, or money. This is proven at Luke 22:35 that says And He said unto them, When I sent you without purse (money), and scrip (a leathern sack to carry personal provisions like a suitcase with your clothes at an airport), and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.
When these disciples obeyed Jesus and walked by faith with nothing in every town they traveled to, fellow saints fed, clothed, and provided for their needs. Matthew 6:31 says Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the Gentiles seek: for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
I believe Elisha was like this when Elisha walked by faith with nothing and the Shunammite woman provided Elisha a blessed chamber, bed, table, stool, and candlestick. The Shunammite woman said at 2 Kings 4:10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him (Elisha) there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither. Brother Bob feels like Elisha when I look at my blessed bed, table for my computer, chair, and Kmart lamp with a GE lightbulb for light.
My next picture above is a blessed cartoon of Jonah sitting under a gourd getting relief from the sun. Jonah 4:6 says And the Lord prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
The lesson I want you to learn from the picture above of Jonah is to realize that any material possessions outside of Jesus can not last and only the Lord Jesus can give us joy forevermore. Many people in this world place their trust solely in money or material possessions and not Jesus, not realizing that the money and possessions will disappear and fly away. Proverbs 23:5 says Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. 1 Timothy 6:17 says Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Jonah was grieved because he did not want to see the people of Nineveh blessed after their repentance. Jonah originally did not want to preach to the people of Nineveh and was prejudice against the people of Nineveh and tried to run away to Joppa. As a result, Jonah was swallowed up by a whale and was delivered from the whale when Jonah agreed to preach to Nineveh, even though Jonah was a bigot and hated the people of Nineveh. Even after Jonah preached to Nineveh to repent he did not like the people of Nineveh and was more concerned for a little gourd than all the sinners who needed the Lord Jesus at Nineveh. God prepared four things; a great fish, a gourd, a worm, and a vehement east wind to try to straighten Jonah out. But Jonah remained hateful and did not want to see the Ninevites get blessed.
Jesus rebuked Jonah at Jonah 4:10. Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city; wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? Even when our enemies like Jonah don't want to see us blessed, Jesus will continue to bless us and allow our enemies to witness our deliverance and blessings.
Jonah preached a great revival at Nineveh with only an 8 word sermon (Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown). After Jonah preached this 8 word sermon, everyone in Nineveh (the king, all the people, and even the animals) put on sackcloth and repented of their sins. This revival was so blessed that even the animals (camels, dogs, mules, goats, and chickens) put on sackcloth, repented, and cried mightily to God for mercy and forgiveness from their sins.
Jonah 3:8 describes the revival at Nineveh where the king of Nineveh proclaimed But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. I pray in Jesus name that the leaders of every country today can be like the king of Nineveh and make laws where everyone including the animals pray together, crying for mercy from God, while they turn from their evil ways. God changed his mind and blessed Nineveh and did not destroy Nineveh because they repented. Jonah 3:10 says And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that He had said that He would do unto them; and He did it not.
There has never been a greater revival on this earth than the revival at Nineveh after Jonah preached. The bible tells us that 120000 little children under the age of 3 years old that didn't know the difference between their right hand and left hand were spared from destruction. God said to Jonah at Jonah 4:11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand (120000) persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their let hand; and also much cattle?
Now if you include the parents of the 120000 little children of Nineveh, you realize that Nineveh was the greatest revival on this earth where 500000 (half a million) people were spared and saved from destruction by the preaching of Jonah in just a couple of days. No earthly preacher (John Bunyan, John Wesley, George Whitfield, DL Moody, Billy Sunday, or Billy Graham) ever held a revival where 500000 people were saved at one time. Only Jonah saved half a million people at one time with just one sermon (a truly great sermon).
But the bible tells us that Jesus is a greater preacher than Jonah. Matthew 12:41 says The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas (Jesus) is here. This is because millions of preachers today including Brother Bob use the KJV Word of God who is Jesus to save untold millions of souls all over this earth (much greater than the 500000 souls saved at Nineveh).
Soon the men of Nineveh will rise in judgment and condemn our generation because they repented at the preaching of Jonah and a greater preacher named Jesus and His Word is being proclaimed everywhere on this internet. Matthew 1:21 says that the name of Jesus shall save people from their sins. Get saved, repent, decide to stop sinning, confess that Jesus is God, and believe the gospel that Jesus died on the cross for you, was buried, and rose again.
Notice the picture above of King Jeroboam trying to smite the man of God who rebuked Jeroboam for making altars to worship God at Bethel and Dan and did not allow the people of Israel to worship God at Jerusalem. Previously Jeroboam had expelled the prophet Amos when Jeroboam and his priest Amaziah persecuted Amos for rebuking the sacrifices Jeroboam performed to idols at Bethel and Dan. When Jeroboam tried to smite the man of God pictured above, Jeroboam's hand dried up.
Thank you Jesus, when our enemies try to harm any saint reading this, like when Jeroboam's hand dried up above, you will not allow our enemies to harm us and make a way of escape for your saints. 1 Corinthians 10:13 says There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. Jesus stopped Jeroboam pictured above from smiting the man of God by drying up his hand and fulfilled the prophecy of Job 5:12 that says He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise (wisdom).
The story of the picture above is recorded at 1 Kings 13:4 and says And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him. Also note that we all need to love our enemies and that Jeroboam needed the man of God to pray for him to have his hand restored and healed. The man of God prayed for Jeroboam and Jeroboam's hand was restored.
A final example of where Jesus protected a saint from harm occurred when Jesus delivered Lot from harm when he blinded the Sodomites at Sodom and Gomorrah. Like Lot, we all have angels around us full of bright light that blind any enemy and hide us from harm. After the Sodomites tried to harm Lot and his family, Genesis 19:11 says And they (the angels) smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. Saint reading this keep praying for your enemies and ask Jesus to deliver them and save them. Jesus will always protect you.
I pray in Jesus name that this bible study blesses multitudes everywhere with great joy, peace, and strength. Please feel free to email Brother Bob anytime at rz9tlm@gmail.com or write to Brother Bob Malkin, 2233 Pinetree Lane, Apt. N., Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068. (614) 746-7071. Till we all meet again soon to lift up our Lord Jesus, everyone have a blessed day in Jesus name.
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