Acts 1:4 KJV
[4] and, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
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The Road we are on is almost to its earthly conclusion. For 40 days Jesus has been with the disciples, preparing them in the Holy Spirit to understand the Kingdom and how the Church was to be.
The 40 day period with the Risen Lord was crucial to execute the plan that was up ahead. Luke is setting the scene for the moment that Heaven would receive Jesus to heaven. The purpose we shall see in a forthcoming chapter of our journey.
Two commands; depart not, but wait.
One was a physical command, the other spiritual. They would have 10 days between the Ascension and the Day of Pentecost. In that time they would need first obey Jesus and stay in one place.
Restrict your movements
There has in the last season great movement, great journeys, great building, great speaking, great campaigns. Jesus commands a season of quiet and still preparation. The disciples did not know what was ahead. Yet the instructions were clear…physical stillness precedes great spiritual movement. The order of things comes into focus. It’s time not to be defined by the things we’re busy with to transition to being defined by the stillness we exercise. After 40 days of intense instructions they needed 10 days to process. 50 represents the number of Jubilee. It is the two silver trumpets sounding out for a invocation of the “Teruah” which is the spiritual clamour that invokes a divine response.
For this to happen Jesus tells them that their geographic location is significant. The Church would be born in Jerusalem and would in the End Time reign with the Glorified Lord. It seems that geographical location matters in this prophetic preparation. Where we are commanded to stay is because where we stay is where we are commissioned. The Upper Room went from mourning to joy to expectation.
Wait…
Waiting is significant in spiritual things. The understanding of the “times of the Lord” come to the fore when we understand how God works. We have written extensively concerning Anna in the Temple, understanding how time is crucial in this programme that Jesus supervised. We have to understand that up to now Kronos time governed the dealings of God with men. Now they would transition to living “kairos” times. Many of them. The word “kairos” describes seasons. In this case seasons where the Holy Spirit would walk us in many generations toward Jesus’ return, itself a kairos event. It’s not in the fixed time scale of kronos.
Waiting perfects our perspectives concerning Jesus, the eternal programme, end time events.
40 is the number for transition and generational times. 50 is the number of Jubilee of REST AND VICTORY. God is wanting to take us into His Rest, for that we must wait the 10 days to come into the fulfilment of Purpose, this describes the way kairos works; fulfil the conditions God sets and receive and see the manifestation.
God is calling us come aside and wait. This waiting is intense preparation and expectation. Today everything is agitated and we must learn to be still again.
“Those who wait on the Lord shall rise…”
Isaiah captures this perfectly. The command to wait is spiritual. We must first fulfil the practical stay, depart not, then wait….
God has the perfect place, the perfect time to fulfil His purpose in our generation. All it takes is obedience…
Maranatha!!!
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