"Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?"
Here the idea of heaven in relation to the footstool presents a rather confusing picture of two worlds where heaven as the throne and the earth as yet another. Omnipresent does not require such a world since the world itself is conceived by his Word. Instead we shall consider the kingdom of God as house whose house are we. "For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God./And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;/But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we...."(Heb.3.4-6)
Referring to this kingdom of God the Spirit places the Word or the Law as sovereign authority. "For ever, OLord, thy word is settled in heaven."(Ps.119.89). This is the throne, and speaking of the complete and whole will of God, this throne indicates where this sovereign authority of the Word rests. The Son has his rest in heaven to which John in his gospel says thus:"No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him."( Jn 1.18) On this basis he could say ' I and my Father are one.' God framed the worlds by his word so the world made to appear is His house proper and all other worlds are shakeable. "Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven./And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain./ Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear." How we serve now is part of the world made to appear from which all ungodliness and filth shall be purge. God is a consuming fire. Children of perdition have no place here.
"Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?"
Here the idea of heaven in relation to the footstool presents a rather confusing picture of two worlds where heaven as the throne and the earth as yet another. Omnipresent does not require such a world since the world itself is conceived by his Word. Instead we shall consider the kingdom of God as house whose house are we. "For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God./And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;/But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we...."(Heb.3.4-6)
Referring to this kingdom of God the Spirit places the Word or the Law as sovereign authority. "For ever, OLord, thy word is settled in heaven."(Ps.119.89). This is the throne, and speaking of the complete and whole will of God, this throne indicates where this sovereign authority of the Word rests. The Son has his rest in heaven to which John in his gospel says thus:"No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him."( Jn 1.18) On this basis he could say ' I and my Father are one.' God framed the worlds by his word so the world made to appear is His house proper and all other worlds are shakeable. "Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven./And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain./ Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear." How we serve now is part of the world made to appear from which all ungodliness and filth shall be purge. God is a consuming fire. Children of perdition have no place here.
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