The Cross was place of Intimacy
Beyond the Brick and Mortar: 5 Radical Shifts in How We Experience the Divine
INTRODUCTION: The Architecture of Separation
For too long, we have lived within an "Architecture of Separation," wandering through a landscape of religious "man-made clutter" that keeps the Divine at a distance. We have been taught to seek God in the shadows of "Temples of Dust"—buildings, rituals, and titles that are ultimately perishing—while our souls groan for the "Building from God," the eternal habitation not made with hands. The Spirit is currently sweeping the house clean of these distractions, ushering in a "Last Day Move" that is not about a physical renovation in Jerusalem, but a radical awakening to a union that already exists. This is the transition from external observation to internal habitation, where we move past the "household gods" of tradition into the vibrant reality of the Temple of His Body.
1. The Living Temple: Beyond the Architecture of Dust
The religious mind remains fixated on the horizon, waiting for a physical temple to be rebuilt in the Middle East. Yet, the true Temple of God was raised three days after it was "destroyed" on Calvary. We are witnessing a counter-intuitive shift: God does not reside in cold stone, but in the "body of Christ"—a living architecture that includes your own physical form.
Through your union with Christ, your body has become the sanctuary of the Holy Spirit. You are no longer a visitor to the Divine; you are the "household of God," the place where divinity finds its rest. As the disciples realized after the Resurrection:
"But He was speaking of the temple of His body. Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said." (John 2:21-22)
2. The Groom’s Kiss: When the Cross Became a Wedding
The carnal mind views the Cross as a crime scene—a place of divine wrath where an angry God struck down a victim. But the spiritual eye sees a wedding. The Cross was the moment Jesus, our Creator and Husband, joined Himself to our brokenness to heal it from the inside out. It was a "spiritual surgery"—the circumcision of Christ—that cut away the "body of death" and the "sins of the flesh."
At the moment of His death, the veil—a barrier four inches thick and sixty feet high—was torn from top to bottom. It was the Groom lifting the veil to kiss His bride. While religion has spent centuries trying to sew that veil back up, the reality remains: humanity has been set free from the union with sin and death and brought into a transformative embrace with the Living Word.
"When Jesus our creator and Husband died on the cross... The veil was torn and He kissed His bride… all humanity was set free from there union with sin and death."
3. The "Manna-fest": Silencing the Control Freak in the Mind
The primary obstacle to experiencing this union is a "Control Freak" called the Carnal Mind. This mindset thrives on the illusion of separation, feeding on doubt, worry, and fear. It is a state of being that makes us "weak and sick" because we fail to "discern the Lord’s body"—failing to see that we are in a perfect union with Christ rather than a union with death.
The antidote is the "Manna-fest." Just as Manna means "What is it?", the Last Day Move is a revelation of the Bread of Life that descends from Heaven. When we hold fast to the "Head" (Christ), we operate on the "higher thoughts" of Isaiah 55, where the Word never returns void. By discerning our union, we evict the Control Freak and allow peace to become our natural state, for the "body of death" has been swallowed up by Life.
4. The Open-Air Access of Mount Zion: Humanity Overlaid with Gold
To understand the radical access we now enjoy, we must look past the Mosaic Tabernacle—with its veils and animal sacrifices—to the Tabernacle of David. David’s tent on Mount Zion was a simple, open-air structure with no dividing veil. The Ark of the Covenant sat in plain view, symbolizing a union between Heaven and Earth that is accessible to everyone.
Inside that Ark was the blueprint of our reality: Acacia Wood (our humanity) overlaid with Gold (His divinity). This is the "Mystery of Godliness." It is a blueprint of a one-room habitation where the daily sacrifice of animals is replaced by continuous praise and thanksgiving. You are the Ark; you are the wood overlaid with gold, a dwelling place where the divine and the human are fused together without a veil between them.
5. The Mystery of Fusion: Restoring the "Bone-of-His-Bone" Reality
The Creator has always desired a marriage, not a visitation. This intention was hidden in the first "kiss" of creation, when God got down on His knees and breathed His own life into the nostrils of Adam. It was a moment of intimate affection that was restored when the risen Christ breathed on His disciples, saying, "Receive the Holy Spirit."
We are not "visiting" God once a week; we are "members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones." Just as Eve was taken from Adam’s side to be his perfect match, the Church has been brought forth from the side of Christ to be one spirit with Him. This is the great mystery of fusion: we are not two, but one.
"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church." (Ephesians 5:31-32)
CONCLUSION: The Spring Rain and the End of Hesitation
Zechariah 10 warns us that "the household gods utter nonsense" and keep the people wandering as sheep without a shepherd. This nonsense is the religious clutter that causes us to "hesitate" and remain "slow of heart to believe." But the "Spring Rain" of doctrine is falling, catching us up into the truth of our union.
The time for trying to "build a house" for God through religious effort is over. God has already raised the House—the glorified body of Jesus—and in that House are many "mansions." These mansions are not future rewards in the sky; they are dwelling places of mutual indwelling: "I in you, and you in me." Stop laboring in the dust and start resting in the mansion of your union. The House is finished, and you are already home.
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INTRODUCTION: The Architecture of Separation
For too long, we have lived within an "Architecture of Separation," wandering through a landscape of religious "man-made clutter" that keeps the Divine at a distance. We have been taught to seek God in the shadows of "Temples of Dust"—buildings, rituals, and titles that are ultimately perishing—while our souls groan for the "Building from God," the eternal habitation not made with hands. The Spirit is currently sweeping the house clean of these distractions, ushering in a "Last Day Move" that is not about a physical renovation in Jerusalem, but a radical awakening to a union that already exists. This is the transition from external observation to internal habitation, where we move past the "household gods" of tradition into the vibrant reality of the Temple of His Body.
1. The Living Temple: Beyond the Architecture of Dust
The religious mind remains fixated on the horizon, waiting for a physical temple to be rebuilt in the Middle East. Yet, the true Temple of God was raised three days after it was "destroyed" on Calvary. We are witnessing a counter-intuitive shift: God does not reside in cold stone, but in the "body of Christ"—a living architecture that includes your own physical form.
Through your union with Christ, your body has become the sanctuary of the Holy Spirit. You are no longer a visitor to the Divine; you are the "household of God," the place where divinity finds its rest. As the disciples realized after the Resurrection:
"But He was speaking of the temple of His body. Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said." (John 2:21-22)
2. The Groom’s Kiss: When the Cross Became a Wedding
The carnal mind views the Cross as a crime scene—a place of divine wrath where an angry God struck down a victim. But the spiritual eye sees a wedding. The Cross was the moment Jesus, our Creator and Husband, joined Himself to our brokenness to heal it from the inside out. It was a "spiritual surgery"—the circumcision of Christ—that cut away the "body of death" and the "sins of the flesh."
At the moment of His death, the veil—a barrier four inches thick and sixty feet high—was torn from top to bottom. It was the Groom lifting the veil to kiss His bride. While religion has spent centuries trying to sew that veil back up, the reality remains: humanity has been set free from the union with sin and death and brought into a transformative embrace with the Living Word.
"When Jesus our creator and Husband died on the cross... The veil was torn and He kissed His bride… all humanity was set free from there union with sin and death."
3. The "Manna-fest": Silencing the Control Freak in the Mind
The primary obstacle to experiencing this union is a "Control Freak" called the Carnal Mind. This mindset thrives on the illusion of separation, feeding on doubt, worry, and fear. It is a state of being that makes us "weak and sick" because we fail to "discern the Lord’s body"—failing to see that we are in a perfect union with Christ rather than a union with death.
The antidote is the "Manna-fest." Just as Manna means "What is it?", the Last Day Move is a revelation of the Bread of Life that descends from Heaven. When we hold fast to the "Head" (Christ), we operate on the "higher thoughts" of Isaiah 55, where the Word never returns void. By discerning our union, we evict the Control Freak and allow peace to become our natural state, for the "body of death" has been swallowed up by Life.
4. The Open-Air Access of Mount Zion: Humanity Overlaid with Gold
To understand the radical access we now enjoy, we must look past the Mosaic Tabernacle—with its veils and animal sacrifices—to the Tabernacle of David. David’s tent on Mount Zion was a simple, open-air structure with no dividing veil. The Ark of the Covenant sat in plain view, symbolizing a union between Heaven and Earth that is accessible to everyone.
Inside that Ark was the blueprint of our reality: Acacia Wood (our humanity) overlaid with Gold (His divinity). This is the "Mystery of Godliness." It is a blueprint of a one-room habitation where the daily sacrifice of animals is replaced by continuous praise and thanksgiving. You are the Ark; you are the wood overlaid with gold, a dwelling place where the divine and the human are fused together without a veil between them.
5. The Mystery of Fusion: Restoring the "Bone-of-His-Bone" Reality
The Creator has always desired a marriage, not a visitation. This intention was hidden in the first "kiss" of creation, when God got down on His knees and breathed His own life into the nostrils of Adam. It was a moment of intimate affection that was restored when the risen Christ breathed on His disciples, saying, "Receive the Holy Spirit."
We are not "visiting" God once a week; we are "members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones." Just as Eve was taken from Adam’s side to be his perfect match, the Church has been brought forth from the side of Christ to be one spirit with Him. This is the great mystery of fusion: we are not two, but one.
"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church." (Ephesians 5:31-32)
CONCLUSION: The Spring Rain and the End of Hesitation
Zechariah 10 warns us that "the household gods utter nonsense" and keep the people wandering as sheep without a shepherd. This nonsense is the religious clutter that causes us to "hesitate" and remain "slow of heart to believe." But the "Spring Rain" of doctrine is falling, catching us up into the truth of our union.
The time for trying to "build a house" for God through religious effort is over. God has already raised the House—the glorified body of Jesus—and in that House are many "mansions." These mansions are not future rewards in the sky; they are dwelling places of mutual indwelling: "I in you, and you in me." Stop laboring in the dust and start resting in the mansion of your union. The House is finished, and you are already home.
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