Octave Of Redemption & Salvation On The Octave Of June.

Today is the octave of June being the 8th day.

On this day, many years ago I came into this world crying, as born of a woman; born into sin & the ruins of the fallen race of mankind.

If one should ask me: "what do you think is the purpose for which you were born, the reason for which you came into this world"?

Without taking a second thought I would say it is the Lord's salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.The purpose for which I was born and the reason for my existence is the glory of his salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
This divine purpose for my life and existence has been made known & disclosed to me in divers manners, through visions and revelations in the scriptures of truth.

I woke up this day and was led of God into meditations on the glory of his redemption and salvation in Christ. How what he wrought for us in Christ is infinitely beyond just a restoration of what was lost or man's restoration to his former estate/glory in Eden before the fall.

In speaking of the debt & penalty of our sin which Christ paid in his death, we often hear preachers say: he paid in full or he paid fully; however, the fuller or exhaustive truth is that what God wrought for us in Christ's death for us is infinitely beyond paying in full.

The grace which God has manifested in his redemption in Christ, is infinitely beyond just a restoration of what was lost/a restoration of man to his former estate/glory before the fall in Eden.
In speaking of redemption in Christ and a quickening out of death, the apostle thus speaks of the exceeding riches of God's grace manifested in his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:4-7 
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.

Mark the words: "Has made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus".
It's infinitely beyond restoration to the garden of Eden on earth, we have been made to sit in heavenly places far above whatever paradise or palace of highest glory that can be found or attained on earth.

The glory of the first man Adam, was earthly, but in God's redemption in Christ we have been called to the glory of the last Adam(Christ) who is the heavenly man/the Lord from heaven - 1st Corinthians 15:45-54.

This is the glory of his salvation which will be fully manifested when the saviour from heaven shows up to change/transform our vile, mortal bodies to be conformed to his glorious, heavenly body - Philippians 3:20-21.

The first chapter of Genesis reveals the creative work of God in restoring the earth as wrought in 7 days. 
The new creation work belongs to the 8th which is infinitely beyond that restoration; the 8th is an entirely new beginning, an octave, though reached through restoration/redemption work, but beyond it, being on the ground of resurrection & exaltation to the highest heavens in newness of life in Christ Jesus.

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