You are spiritual Jerusalem. You are spiritual Israel.

Jerusalem is the physical location where the temple of God was located. Now the temple of God is in His Church or people. We are the temple of God. Therefore, you are now spiritual Jerusalem. When you read the bible, you must read it spiritually. When God speaks to Jerusalem, HE is speaking to you. We as a people who are reborn and saved are spiritual Israel. When you read the bible and as God speaks to Israel, HE is speaking to you.

Many people read the bible and think when God addresses Israel or Jerusalem, many think the message was for another people and for another time. The message is for you even now as the Word is eternal. The Word is eternal. It means there is no end or beginning. Although in our physical realm, there was a past people that God spoke too and the church may consists of many multitudes, but in the eternal, HE is still speaking and now to us in our generation.

Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a mother fowl gathers her brood under her wings, and you refused!

Jeremiah 2:2 (NLT) “Go and shout this message to Jerusalem. This is what the Lord says:
“I remember how eager you were to please me
as a young bride long ago,
how you loved me and followed me
even through the barren wilderness.

We read these scripture verses and think God was speaking to another people for another time. Yes HE was but now, in the context of eternity, HE is speaking to many of YOU in the time of the present as many even today continue to forsake HIM.

Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved! How long shall your iniquitous and grossly offensive thoughts lodge within you?

Ezekiel 3:7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you and obey you since they will not listen to Me and obey Me, for all the house of Israel are impudent and stubborn of heart.

You must read the bible spiritually and as a personal letter for yourself. Whether the bible has a message of rebuke, correcting, judgment, forgiveness, and/or love, the message is for the present reader although the message may have been written thousands of years ago.

As you read the bible and understand that you are spiritual Jerusalem and spiritual Israel, you will come to realize, HE is speaking to you today from a letter written thousands of years ago but it is resonating in the present. And you will have a better understanding of the end times as you realize it is for the church today and not for a past people.

Yes, God is still working to save the people of physical Israel and Jerusalem but your eyes must be on the spiritual to discern what will come in prophecy. Your focus must be on the eternal and spiritual things.

The Jews had kept their eyes on a physical deliverance from the Romans when Jesus had come to delivered them spiritually. They were looking and focusing on the physical signs. But because their discernment and understanding were more physical, they did not recognize God and betrayed HIM. Remember, the order is first spirit, soul, and body.

In the coming days, many many will forsake HIM. Many will betray HIM once again. Those who betray HIM will be those who have focused on the physical things rather than the eternal things as the bible had commanded. Many do not know the ways of God so they will be offended as what they had hoped and expected from the point view of their flesh will not materialize. The Jews had expected the Romans to be overthrown by their Messiah. But when God came in a different way, they were offended.

Those who belong to God will be tested. Those who belong to God will OVERCOME! Those who understand the spirit of the Word will know their path to heaven. It is a road of testing, trials, and tribulations. It is but a narrow road. Those who belong to God will know the cost to follow HIM and will be willing to pay the price. Those who belong to HIM will operate in faith. It will not be a blind faith but a faith that have been tested as gold and silver, chiseled through the trials of life, and from ashes to beauty will come forth a contrite broken vessel for the work of the LORD for HIS Glory for these last days.

Those who understand the eternal will prepare for the coming days as we accumulate our prayers, worship, reading, and cleansing with our eyes fixed on HIM preparing to behold HIS Glory.

You must accept God's plan in your lives even if it means HE will break and crush you. Through the brokenness, HE desires to bring forth the fragrance of Jesus from you. Rather than resisting, may you all welcome and thank what HE has for your life and may you all pass your tests. May you ask HIM to break you so that HE may be glorified through you and that you may come to the fullness of God through Jesus Christ.

Pastor Steve Yong Kim
Fremont CA USA
Fire of God Church