ENTERING THE BRIDAL REALM
By Dan Luehrs
For some time I have been seeing a new realm that is very
inviting to me, it is a realm of intimacy like none I have seen before. The
Lord has shown me that the doorway is now open to all who will enter, when I
saw this realm I was in Africa on a mission’s trip and entered it at the
invitation of the Lord.
I saw a white tent with sides on it that was
made out of garments like a fine wedding dress, the door to the tent was opened
as a soft breeze was blowing it inward inviting me in. I asked the Lord, what
is this? He replied, “My Chupa, come in!” I slowly moved in like I was floating
and I saw no one else there, so I moved through the tent to look around. It was
very ornate with streamers going throughout the tent. It looked as if it went
on forever. Then a voice said, “Do you take Jesus as your only?” I said, I do!
Later I asked the Lord about this tent. He
said that it was a tent of intimacy with greater closeness and greater
revelation of His heart, just as the garden is in your heart so is the tent of
intimacy that we can come and go into at anytime. The door is now open for the
Marriage Supper of the Lamb for anyone to come into true intimacy with Him, but
soon the door would be shut and no one else could enter.
ENTERING HIS REALM
My lover has arrived and he's speaking to me! Get up, my dear
friend, fair and beautiful lover — come to me! Song 2:10 (THE MESSAGE)
God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit loves
intimacy far more than any human being could possibly comprehend. Remember He
created all types of love, His love for His bride is more intense and more
furious then all the suns and stars put together! His love burns with a passion
for His bride to spend time with her in the closeness of intimacy.
Since the foundation of the world God has been waiting for
His bride to prepare herself for the consummation of the ages. This is when His
bride becomes as He is. Then she will have His likeness and glory to carry into
the last battle to defeat sin in the flesh and completely overcome death by putting
His enemies under His feet. This is the call of the bride, to be a warrior
against the battle of sin and death and win!
“Let us rejoice and be glad!
Let us give him the glory!
For the time has come for the
wedding of the Lamb,
and his Bride has prepared herself —
fine linen, bright and clean
has been given her to wear.”
Rev 19:7-8 (CJB)
In order to qualify for the highest privilege ever given to
man, one must first learn to become intimate with the Holy One. It has been
granted to us to wear pure fine garments that are a light with the life and
glory of God. But because of other interests most of the called bride is doing
other things that steal them away from their Beloved, their high calling, and
their inheritance.
THE WEDDING IS READY
"Then he said to his slaves, 'The wedding is ready, but
those who were invited were not worthy.” Matt 22:8 (NAS)
The wedding is ready, yet the people invited are not! So the
call goes out and goes on until the wedding is filled. There are only so many
spots open and when that number is filled up the door is closed to this front
row experience of the ages and will never again be opened! So many Christians
just want to go to heaven when they die. They do not realize that the way has
been opened for them to occupy heaven here and now everyday. Right now we have
been given the closeness of His presence, yet most will not take the time to
secure it in their daily life. In the place of sitting in His presence they
choose the TV, Internet, sports, or any other entertainment (which means
diversion) as their choice of fellowship because it demands nothing from them,
but diverts them from His presence. Saying to themselves after a busy day, “I
just want to veg on the couch and do nothing!” When they could be sitting in
heavenly places enjoying the presence of God. Not realizing they have given up
the right to receive the greatest revelation that God has given to man and that
is to know Him through the person of His Son.
"But when the king came in to look over the dinner
guests, he saw there a man not dressed in wedding clothes.” Matt 22:11 (NAS)
King Jesus is going to look us over to see if we qualify by
having on the right garments. These are only given to the bride who has sought
after Him with all their hearts and have paid the price of obedience. “I advise
you to buy from Me …white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the
shame of your nakedness may not be revealed…” Rev 3:18 (NAS) This wedding will
reveal the nakedness of all who have not prepared themselves for the great
finale’ of the ages. WE MUST BE READY!
Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot,
and cast him into the outer darkness; in that place there shall be weeping and
gnashing of teeth. Matt 22:13 (NAS)
This undressed man was not prepared to walk in the realm of
the bride so he was cast out to a lower level of preparedness where it seems
like it was outer darkness compared to the glorious presence and revelation in
the realm of the bride. This is the very reason why they gnash their teeth;
they are excruciatingly regretting what they could have had as their own, but
did not because they would not pay the price to sit in the Bridegrooms presence
everyday. We know these people are not lost in hell as some teach because in
verse 12 the King calls him friend! “… Friend, how did you come in here without
wedding clothes? And he was speechless.”
For many are called, but few are chosen. Matt 22:14 (NAS)
Many are called to sit with the King in the glory of His
kingdom but few are willing to pay the price of following Him daily.
ENTERING THROUGH THE VEIL OF HIS FLESH
Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by
the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us,
through the veil, that is, His flesh. Heb 10:19-20 (NKJV)
For years I have questioned the Lord on this verse as to how
His flesh is now the veil that opens the way to the Holy of Holies where the
life and glory of the Father is. When the revelation of this verse came I felt
kinda spiritually stupid and felt I should have understood this long before but
for some reason was hidden from me.
There is a NEW and LIVING WAY! The only other way was the old
way, which was the way of death and the blood of animals to give the High
Priest access to the Holy of Holies one time a year. But now because of the
perfect blood of Jesus we have access everyday and if we do not take advantage
of this we will live with the regret into eternity! This is why we are to
boldly come into the Holy of Holies and find grace [strength through His
presence] for our time of need that we may be in.
The veil that once separated man from the heavenly realm was
torn in two when Jesus died on the cross giving us access to the eternal life
of God once again as Adam and Eve had it in the beginning. Yet God’s presence
was not left veil-less as some teach because according to the book of Hebrews
the flesh of Jesus now veils the way into the Holy of Holies. “…Through the
veil, that is, His flesh.”
When Adam and Eve sinned the way to the eternal life of God
was blocked by an angel with a flaming sword to keep them from touching Life
(GOD) in the fallen state. So it is today, the flesh of Jesus is blocking the
way of the religious, the carnal, and the unbeliever from getting to the Life
of God without submitting to Jesus.
Let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of
faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies
washed with pure water. Heb 10:22 (NAS)
Our access point to the Holy of Holies is first to draw near
with a sincere heart and in full assurance of faith that God will open the way
for us. In other words, God will not open the way for you! He has given us the
key of faith to just come with an honest hungry heart that wants more of Him
and has been purified by the pure word of God.
Now I ask you, what is the Word that cleanses us? Jesus! This
is the second point that gives us access because we have been made clean and
pure to enter in sinless. What that means for us is, the daily eating of the word
(Jesus) gives us entrance into His life (presence) of God. The veil of His
flesh blocks the way of all who will try to enter in through fleshly religious
ways of the Law because we are called into relationship. In Moses’ tabernacle
the priests daily had to eat and change out new bread in the sanctuary in
keeping of the Law of Moses. Today is no different; we must eat the bread Who
is Christ Jesus if we are to enter into the presence. This is why Jesus said
over and over in the book of John, “I am the bread of life!”
Then Jesus said unto them, “Verily, verily, I say unto you,
except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life
in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I
will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is
drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me,
and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so
he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.” John 6:53-57 (KJV)
These verses are so powerful when we see how and why Jesus is
our access point to the life of the Father. Jesus is way to the Life of the
Father in the Holy Holies. We are to eat and drink deeply of Him
everyday to experience true Life indeed!
EATING THE RHEMA WORD
Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food
which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because
God the Father has set His seal on Him. John 6:27 (NKJV)
How do we get into the Holy of Holies? We eat our way in!
That comes pretty natural for most of us, but now we are to be spiritually
hungry and feed our spirit man with the Life of God through His blessed Son.
The Father has summed up all things in the Son, so if we want life we are going
to have to come to Him as our daily bread to get it, even more than we hunger
for natural bread. Jesus said that natural food spoils, but eternal spiritual
food goes on forever, never to rot or spoil.
This eternal food that He gives us is His word. “It is the
Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken
to you are spirit and are life.” John 6:63 (NAS). Please hear me on this, The
Father is Spirit and He is life. When Jesus said that His word is
spirit and life He is saying that He is giving us the Fathers life as we
partake of His words of life.
The Greek word that Jesus is using in this context is the
word [rhema]. Meaning it is just not the written word [Logos]. Rhema means that
there is revelation coming from the word with a much deeper meaning that will
change our heart and life if we have understanding in it and only the Holy
Spirit can do this in us. We have all had a aha moment when someone was trying
to teach us something and a light went off in our head. That’s what this word
Rhema means. The book of Revelation is called, “The Revelation of Jesus
Christ.” Meaning, Jesus is the rhema (revelation) that is being revealed
through that book. We all should be praying daily for the eyes of our
understanding to be enlightened so that we will see and understand Him more
clearly until we are like Him.
We are now living in the time of the Marriage Super of the
Lamb. This is where great delicacies of the revelation of Jesus are coming
forth quickly as some of the finest of food ever given to His church. They are
coming forth to His bride who waits in the bridal chamber realm with Him. This revelation through the Holy Spirit is
the only thing that will prepare us for His coming, so that we might receive
our long awaited metamorphosis into His likeness.
“So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word [rhema]
of Christ.” Rom 10:17 (NAS).
Notice that it is the rhema (revelation) of Jesus that brings
true faith in us. True faith is when we are faithful like Him in all things. In
fact we are told that we should be living by every rhema word that comes out of
His mouth. “But He answered and said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live
on bread alone, but on every word [rhema] that proceeds out of the mouth of
God.” Matt 4:4 (NAS). Man will waist away without a revelation from God, but
once someone gets a revelation of Jesus he has a whole new paradigm to live for
and explore with his time and life. The exploration of God will go on for
eternity without boredom because Jesus will continually be revealing Himself as
the Word. On the contrary religion is boring because it is the dead letter of
the law, but when revelation comes forth it is the most exciting thing that
anyone can possibly live for. We must go from the dead letter of the word to
the rhema of the word and that is in the person of Jesus.
How could true Life ever become boring? Have you looked at
creation lately like a tree, grass, a flower, or an animal? And He is far
beyond anything ever created! Seek Him with your whole heart and you will find
Him.
An oak tree does not grow large over night but takes many
years of drinking in the sunlight above and the water beneath. God is growing
trees of righteousness, which we are to be if we will go through the
painstaking process of eating and drinking everyday of Christ. It’s slow going,
but isn’t growing up as a baby to adulthood? We are only given so many years on
this earth so lets us use them wisely and drink deeply of our Beloved.
The door is now open wide for us to receive the full
revelation of Jesus in the bridal chamber; the
truth of Who He is will prepare us to see Him as He is. It is in seeing Him
face to face that we are unveiled from hiding from our shame to receive Who and
what His is. This can only happen in the place of intimacy with Him in bridal
realm. So come, ascend higher into the realms of God!
Dan Luehrs
PO Box 341
www.churchinhispresence.org