HIS FEET ON MOUNT OLIVES
THE COMINGS OF THE LORD
"Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool" (Isa. 66:1). "And I will make the place of My feet glorious" (Isa. 60:13). And His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives" (Zech. 14:4).
We would do well to remember here that "heaven" is not a place away off somewhere in the ethereal blue, millions of miles distant; but "heaven I-S M-Y T-H-R-O-N-E." God's heaven is the throne from which He reigns over the earth - yea, over all things! And God's throne IS HEAVEN.
Christ is the supreme Ruler of the universe. Christ always has ruled. He always will. The Father has given "ALL things" into His hand (Jn. 3:35). So God's "heaven" is His throne from which He reigns over the earth. The earth is physical and natural; God, on the other hand, is SPIRIT.
God rules BY HIS SPIRIT, as the prophet declared, "Not by might, nor by power, but BY MY SPIRIT, saith the Lord of hosts (armies)" (Zech. 4:6). The reality of omnipotent power within God's Spirit IS God's throne! It means just this - God rules out of spirit. His power is spiritual power, His authority spiritual authority. The natural realm must always be acted upon by the higher spiritual realm.
God's footstool has been for the past six thousand years: sin, pain, fear, sickness, sorrow and death have made it one vast hell in which now at least five billions of humanity wait for the time when deliverance shall come, the curse shall be lifted, and life and glory shall break forth upon all nations and all the inhabitants of the world.
To this end God has made abundant provision. The apostle Paul speaks of the appointed hour of the manifestation of the sons of God when all creation shall be set free from the bondage of corruption and ushered into the liberty of the glory of the sons of God (Rom.8:18-22).
The first work of the manifested sons of God will consist in MAKING GLORIOUS GOD'S FOOTSTOOL. The earth is God's footstool - not merely that earth out there consisting of rocks, soil, water, and vegetation, but that "earth" which MAN IS, forecasts is OF THE EARTH, EARTHY: as is the earthy, such are they also that ARE EARTHY" (I Cor. 15:47-48).
The long age of the reign of sin and death is represented as the time when God "remembered not His FOOTSTOOL in the day of His anger (judgment)" (Lam. 2:1); but following the subduing of the nations unto Himself, the people are prophetically called upon to "Exalt the Lord our God and worship at His FOOTSTOOL, for He is worthy" (Ps. 99:5).
This beautifying and glorifying of the Lord's "footstool" will not be completed until our Lord Jesus Christ shall have "put down all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign, till He hath put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death" (I Cor. 15:24-28).
"Then shall the Lord go forth, and shall fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle. And HIS FEET shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south" (Zech. 14:3-4).
This prophecy is generally misunderstood, and applied to the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ at His second advent: and indeed, those who thus err generally go farther and assert that it will be the feet of flesh, pierced with the nails of Calvary; not realizing that now "the LORD is that SPIRIT" (II Cor. 3:17), and "YE are the BODY of Christ, and members in particular" (I Cor. 12:27), and "As the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also IS CHRIST" (I Cor. 12:12), and it is "Christ IN YOU the hope of glory" (Col. 1:27).
The scriptures are positively plain that the glorious Christ of God is a many-membered body, with Jesus as the Head. The whole world is waiting for the manifestation of this new creation Man, God's corporate Son, THE FEET COMPANY.
Long centuries ago the prophet Isaiah peered through the telescope of divine revelation and exclaimed in astonished wonder, "How beautiful upon the mountains are the FEET OF HIM that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" (Isa. 52:7).
I would draw your prayerful attention to several things in this verse. First, Paul quotes this passage in Rom. 10:15 and applies it to the gospel messengers of the body of Christ. The word "beautiful" translates the Greek word HORAIOS which is from HORA, meaning hour, day, or season. Dr. Strong explains that HORAIOS means "timely," or "belonging to the right hour or season." Dr. Thayer says, similarly, that it means "ripe" or "mature."
The spirit of inspiration is suggesting that the "feet" of him that publishes the gospel of peace bespeaks of a ministry that appears in God's APPOINTED TIME, bearing a SEASONED MESSAGE, proclaimed by a MATURE BODY that has grown up into the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ.
It has nothing whatever to do with the popular distorted and diluted "gospel" proclaimed by the religious systems, which promises merely a partial salvation, and that for only a small minority of earth's teeming inhabitants. That only a handful of the billions who have lived and died on this planet will finally make it into the Kingdom of God is certainly N-O-T "good tidings of great joy that shall be to all people!"
Second, this One bringing good tidings, publishing salvation and proclaiming the reign of God is referred to as "HIM" - a singular and masculine. Not a bride, but a MAN. And the beauty of this One will be seen in His feet. "How beautiful are the FEET OF HIM." The same truth is stated in Nahum 1:15, "Behold upon the mountains the FEET of HIM that bringeth good tidings, that publishes peace!" Again it is masculine and singular. And who is this One who brings good tidings and publishes peace?
First of all it is our Lord Jesus Christ. "And it came to pass afterward, that He went throughout every city and village, preaching and showing the GLAD TIDINGS of the Kingdom of God" (Lk. 8:1, Acts 10:36-37).
The Holy Spirit is revealing here that the ONE who came two millenniums ago preaching good tidings, publishing peace, and proclaiming the Kingdom is NOW A MANY-MEMBERED BODY. And just as Jesus was designated Head of this body (Col. 1:18; Eph. 1:22), there is a company of this body that will be known as the feet, the part of the body in contact with the earth - His footstool!
In a normal birth, the head is the first and the feet are the last to be born. So it is with God's glorious Christ, Christ the Head and Christ the body. We have arrived at the hour, my beloved, when the feet ( Sons of God) of the new creation Man are being brought forth into the fullness of His glory.
It must be a work and a ministry wrought upon a company of saints still living here upon the earth. It must be the last members of the enChristed ones birthed into the fullness of Christ at the end of this age.
The great need for those who live here on this earth is that they come to a life of absolute perfection and purity. There can be no true and full manifestation of His glory out of a people who are loaded with sins and evil spirits.
The FEET must be washed! Jesus warned Peter that if his feet were not washed, he would have no part in the glory of this Kingdom. He also told him that it was only the feet that needed washing. Speaking of His Church on earth in Eph. 5:26 He says: 'That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word, that He might present it to Himself a glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.'
That sounds like a perfected company, doesn't it? You see, there is to be a people in the last days who come into a greater knowledge of His Word than anyone who has walked this earth, except Jesus. Even Paul said, 'Now I know in part.' The part shall be done away, and the perfect shall take over. For if we are to be perfectly washed and cleansed, we need a perfect understanding of His perfect Word.
This New Creation Man shall be clean, perfect, no longer bearing the image of that earthy Adam. And to bring us to that, we need a strong cleansing agent. His Word, clearly understood, is that agent. "Not only shall this feet company be cleansed by the washing of the water of the Word, but out of them shall flow a fountain of living waters to bring life to this world. The nations shall sit at His 'feet' to learn wisdom.
This world will be set free from the bondage of corruption, and the rulership of principalities and powers in the heavenlies. Then the world will sit at His 'feet'. That is they will learn from and be governed by a people( Sons of God). Rom 8:19 To be continued....
