As it is in Heaven II

As it is in Heaven II

We are considering scripture out of Matthew 6.  Jesus said to His disciples to not be as the hypocrites when they pray, but when they pray to address God as their Father.  “Our Father in Heaven.  Hallowed be they name.  Thy Kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.”  If I analyze this prayer, I can see Jesus relates to His Father as in Heaven.  He then sets forth the coming of the Kingdom of God and the doing of the will of God.  He sets these forth as coming on or in the earth AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.  

I believe we see the picture of this in the children of Israel.  When they moved from Egypt to Canaan.  In their move was a whole different reality.  In Deuteronomy 11 this picture is set forth.

Deuteronomy 11:10  “For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs; 11 but the land, whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven, 12 a land which Jehovah thy God careth for: the eyes of Jehovah thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.”

God set forth that the land the Israelites was going to possess was not like Egypt.  It was not a land where they were going to toil their own labors.   The land they were coming in to possess was a land that was drinking the water of Heaven.  It was a land flowing with milk and honey, and the LORD’s eyes were upon it.  They had come from a land that was full of work and effort.  It was grueling to a land that was flowing with resources.  They were coming to a life of abundance from a life of despair.  They were coming to the place where the LORD would Himself dwell.  In the natural this is a picture of Heaven on Earth. 

Now this is a picture of the natural Israel.  A people that God had taken to Himself to be His people that He would dwell among them.  The picture of Canaan had to be of abundance.  It had to flow of resources and fullness because it was a picture of where God is.  Anytime God is there we will find abundance. 

This picture comes to a reality in Christ.  Jesus Himself is the place that God chose to dwell.  He is where abundance dwells.  He is where the flow of God is at.  We find what Canaan was a picture of in Christ Jesus the Lord.  God moved us from the problem, Adam or the natural man, to the solution who is Christ Jesus.  If we could hear and view what Paul writes to the Corinthians and Romans.  “In Adam all die.”  Here is the picture of the Adamic man death.  Now the greater picture.  “In Christ all are made alive.” 

 Here is how Heaven comes to the earth.  Here is where God’s will is done.  Heaven comes in a man.  God’s will is in a man.  Ephesians 1:9&10 “making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him 10 unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, I say.”  Thy will be done.  Thy Kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven.  All things in the Heavens summed up in Christ.  All things on the earth summed up in Heaven.  Here is how Matthew 6 is fulfilled.  Glory to God.