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WE MUST GROW SPIRITUALLY...from "little children", to "young men", to "fathers" during our time here on earth....see I John 2:13. God does not "marry" children. His ultimate "WIFE" (after the consummation) will rule and reign with Him. A "babe" (or child) in Christ is not qualified to do this and will not be "chosen" for this honor.

It is explained very well in what is told to us about the 144,000 who are "sealed" by God....those who are making the journey (through the Holy Spirit) to qualify. They are "spiritual virgins". And this means that they are faithful to God and the Bible, and they do not hold false doctrine.

The OT is filled with "secret" messages for us to search for and find, and the NT is no different. One in the NT is in the listing of the tribes of Israel, indicating it is "spiritual" Israel and not "Israel in the flesh" who are the 144,000. This is God's complete spiritual governmental number...12 X 12 (multiplied by one thousand). See Rev. 21:17 as well.

We can understand what the journey is that each of us should be taking, as explained by J. Preston Eby:

Piece of the article:

"Out of Jacob came twelve sons and they were mighty ones, God's Israel for that generation. Out of them came twelve tribes, and they were God's Israel for their generation. Then, finally, out of the twelve tribes came Jesus, and while Jesus was in the world, He was God's Israel, God's Prince.

Then out of Jesus came a generation of enChristed Israel and they were God's Israel, God's mighty ones, for their generation.

Then over the last 2,000 years have come generation after generation of enChristed Israel. Each out of the previous generation, and they were God's Israel for their generation and now, we who have been called and chosen by the Spirit of God out of the masses of the world and religious Babylon, that God might deal with us and change our nature, that he might change our name - we are God's Israel for our generation!


http://www.godfire.net/eby/rev-98.html


Another piece of the article:

All who are called and chosen of the Father as king-priests are diligently climbing up that ascending pathway! We are daily applying ourselves to this walk! By the strength and power of the Christ within, we are pressing upward through one tribe at a time.

The twelve tribes were not all birthed at the same time! The head of each tribe was born in his time, one after another, until all twelve had been birthed! This is a picture of our progression in spiritual life from one tribe to another!

As we pass from tribe to tribe we experience within ourselves all that each tribe embodies. When we have arrived at the last tribe - Benjamin - we will be sons of the right hand! We will have experienced within ourselves all the authority, power, and dominion of God's omnipotent throne! Once the reality of each of the twelve tribes has been progressively fulfilled within us, the victorious believer is then complete, mature, and has attained the first resurrection and the glory of manifest sonship. We will be able to rule over all things as sons of God!

God's promise to Abraham in the long ago will at last be fulfilled in all its glorious and eternal reality - "in thee, and in thy seed, shall ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED!" Gen.22:18.

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This link describes the journey through ALL the "tribes" in the life of the believer:


http://www.godfire.net/eby/rev-99.html


This is NOT a new concept. Chuck Missler, who has a fantastic knowledge of the Bible, has brought out the "secret coding" within the NAMES of the first ten people from Adam through Noah which gives the Gospel message in the Old Testament.


http://www.khouse.org/articles/1996/44/


If God has done this in the Old Testament, then would He not also give us lessons in NAMES in the New Testament as well? God never changes He character, or His methods of revealing truth that most people don't see unless they "search"....Prov.25:2.


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Arlene