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Establishing the Universal Kingdom
I wrote this inspired by Brother Beau.

Heavenly Brothers and Sisters
Salvation is a present possession.

Luke 7: 49 At this those reclining at the table with him started to say within themselves: “Who is this man who even forgives sins?”
50 But he said to the woman:
“Your faith has saved you; go your way in peace.”
John 3:35 The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.
36 He that exercises faith in the Son has everlasting life;
he that disobeys the Son will not see life,
but the wrath of God remains upon him.
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John 6:47 Most truly I say to YOU, He that believes has everlasting life.
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Jesus was Lord Jehovah in the OT.
How the Son Brings his father down to dwell on the Earth.
Jehovah’s Spirit dwells inside of him.
We reflect. Copy so that he can Arise and continue in Us.

When the father was made manifest in the Son born human.
It took this long in human history to finally show his hand.
Show us the blueprints on how to live.
Why he couldn’t show man in the OT, how to completely live life before then is to do with how to act as a human as he has never had to grow up in human limited conditions before.
He loves us so much to Show us How To See it from our perspective
how it would be like for us to live through the awareness, new consciousness.


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Live in a New Temple and Kingdom
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The five crowns that can be earned as rewards by the Christian for faithful service are all described by the Greek word "stephanos". The "stephanos" of rejoicing (I Thessalonians 2:19), the "stephanos" of righteousness (II Timothy 4:8), the "stephanos" of glory (I Peter 5:4), the "stephanos" of life (James 1:12), and the "stephanos" of incorruptible (I Corinthians 9:25).

Salvation is received strictly as a gift from Jehovah God.

Eternal life in heaven is a gift, but the rewards are earned. The reward is not for being on the Foundation of Christ (I Corinthians 3:11-15),
but for what is built thereon.
(Luke 7:50; John 3:36; 6:47), while rewards are a future attainment, to be given at the coming of the Lord (Matthew 16:27; II Timothy 4:8; Revelation 22:12)."

Do not confuse salvation and rewards. They are two distinct things. Forgiveness of sins, salvation and eternal life can never be earned by any of our works. They are the undeserved, unmerited gift of Jehovah God to all who definitely accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their only hope for reaching heaven (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 4:5; Titus 3:5).
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We can be assured that the rewards that God offers to the saved for faithful service, will be valuable, and therefore, well worth striving for with all our might.
Moses esteemed the rewards "greater riches than the treasures in Egypt"
(Hebrews 11:24-26).

Here is a list of the five crowns:

1. THE INCORRUPTIBLE CROWN: (I Corinthians 9:25). This will be given to those who "keep under the body and bring it into subjection", running the race faithfully.

2. THE CROWN OF REJOICING: (I Thessalonians. 2:19). This is the soul-winner's crown.

3. THE CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS: (II Timothy 4:8). This crown will be given for those who love His appearing and who live their lives anticipating Christ's soon return.

4. THE CROWN OF GLORY: (I Peter 5:4). This crown is for faithful teaching of the Word of God. This will be given to those instructing others in God's Word.

5. THE CROWN OF LIFE: (Revelation 2:10). This is sometimes termed the "martyr's crown". It is for those who suffer for the cause of Christ. This crown, like the others, is given personally by Christ. "I will give."
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The letter is written in a sustained loftiness of thought,
which rises to greater descriptive heights
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Its thoughts are greater than its words

establishing

the Temple universal, the Church as the Body of Christ.” (Hiebert, 2.267, 268)

Now Brother Paul his fine point of view throughout,

the vision is of all the children of God (1:5). Paul speaks of “the Body” (1:23, 2:16, 3:6, 4:4, 12, 16; 5:23, 30); “the Church (1:22, 3:10, 21; 5:23-25, 27, 29, 32); “the household of God” (2:19); “the family (3:15); and “the Temple” (2:21). In none of these places is Paul speaking about a local assembly.
but the aggregate of all believers in Christ, disciples of Christ everywhere throughout the Christian age
his readers to catch the vision of one church, thoroughly united in the Lord, though it contains members of various races and is equipped by Jehovah God to render significant service in this world

To be ‘led by the Spirit’ is to walk by the Spirit - to have the power to rebut the desire of the flesh, to be increasingly conformed to the likeness of Christ, to cease to be under law. To be under law affords no protection against the desire of the flesh. ‘Spirit’ is equally opposed to ‘law’ as to ‘flesh’. To be led by the Spirit bring simultaneous deliverance from the desire of the flesh, the bondage of the law, and the power of sin…
Spread Speak the same Faith
Live now in the Kingdom
Amen in the Faith
Cc

2 Corinthians 3:18 And all of us,
while we with unveiled faces reflect like mirrors the glory of Jehovah,
are transformed into the same image from glory to glory,
exactly as done by Jehovah [the] Spirit.

1 Thessalonians 2:19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of exultation—
why, is it not in fact YOU?—
before our Lord Jesus at his presence?
20 YOU certainly are our glory and joy.

Heavenly Brothers and Sisters
It is you who make up part of the Body of
King Jesus Christ
You make Jehovah Smile.
2 Timothy 4:8 From this time on there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me as a reward in that day,
yet not only to me, but also to all those who have loved his manifestation.
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1 Peter 5:4 And when the chief shepherd has been made manifest, YOU will receive the unfadable crown of glory.
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James 1:12 Happy is the man that keeps on enduring trial,
because on becoming approved
he will receive the crown of life,
which Jehovah promised to those who continue loving him.
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1 Corinthians 9:25 Moreover, every man taking part in a contest
exercises self-control in all things.
Now they, of course, do it that they may get a corruptible crown,
but we an incorruptible one.

Keep up the faith
Forgive and Love much
Build on our Kingdom
Amen
Cc
1 Corinthians 3:12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood materials, hay, stubble,
13 each one’s work will become manifest, for the day will show it up,
because it will be revealed by means of fire;
and the fire itself will prove what sort of work each one’s is.
14 If anyone’s work that he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward;
15 if anyone’s work is burned up,
he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved; yet, if so,

[it will be] as through fire.

16 Do YOU not know that YOU people are God’s temple,
and that the spirit of God dwells in YOU?
17 If anyone destroys the temple of God,
God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy,
which [temple] YOU people are.

Jude 17 As for YOU, beloved ones, call to mind the sayings that have been previously spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,
18 how they used to say to YOU: “In the last time there will be ridiculers, proceeding according to their own desires for ungodly things.”
19 These are the ones that make separations, animalistic [men],
not having spirituality.
20 But YOU,
beloved ones, by building up yourselves on YOUR most holy faith,
and praying with holy spirit,
21 keep yourselves in God’s love,
while YOU are waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ
with everlasting life in view.
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Brothers and Sisters
We prepare ourselves
Proclaim Godhead.
Song of Solomon 8:10 “I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers.
In this case I have become in his eyes like her that is finding peace.

We lay the feast for Jehovah our God
Our Lives.

Live in the new kingdom
We see life again as fresh as when we first looked at our world.
We appreciate life as if it is brand new.
Second chance at living life.
With a good spirit


Amen in the faith
Cc
James 4:8 Draw close to God, and he will draw close to YOU.
Cleanse YOUR hands, YOU sinners, and purify YOUR hearts, YOU indecisive ones.
9 Give way to misery and mourn and weep.
Let YOUR laughter be turned into mourning,
and [YOUR] joy into dejection.
10 Humble yourselves in the eyes of Jehovah,
and he will exalt YOU.

Heavenly Brothers and Sisters
Part of running in our new found faith is to build up endurance.
As a sportsman or athlete or soldier how do you train. You follow a programme, With discipline. With pain and suffering.
And with discipline You begin to ignore the pain and push through the barrier.
You build up your body with weight training and exercise.
Running to increase your strength and agility.
Discipline is a part of running the race
and is also a vital ingredient to
the spiritual life
of all Christians.

1 Corinthians 9:24 Do YOU not know that the runners in a race all run,
but only one receives the prize?
Run in such a way that YOU may attain it.
25 Moreover, every man taking part in a contest exercises self-control in all things.
Now they, of course, do it that they may get a corruptible crown,
but we an incorruptible one.
26 Therefore, the way I am running is not uncertainly;
the way I am directing my blows is so as not to be striking the air;
27 but I pummel my body and lead it as a slave,
that, after I have preached to others,
I myself should not become disapproved somehow.
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Running the spiritual race is like daily thinking first thoughts first love of Jehovah God.
There are so many times that I just don't feel like getting up and going to work or go on my daily walk. Going outside into the fresh air. But I push myself.
And like running, there are so many times in my spiritual walk that I don't feel like reading my Bible or checking my motives or controlling my sinful desires.
Or making the effort to post spiritual thoughts.
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Hebrews 12:1 So, then, because we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us,
let us also put off every weight and the sin that easily entangles us,
and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
2 as we look intently at the Chief Agent and
Perfecter of our faith,
Jesus.
For the joy that was set before him he endured a torture stake,
despising shame,
and has sat down at the right hand of
the throne of God.

We look and observe our King
Jesus Christ
Live imitate the King
And Live his Kingdom
But expect to get roasted and flogged
To be stripped, reduced to sackcloth.
In doing so.
Amen in the faith
Cc

Hebrews 12:6 for whom Jehovah loves
he disciplines;
in fact,
he scourges every one
whom he receives as a son.”

Philippians 1:21 For in my case to live is Christ, and to die, gain.

Heavenly Brothers and Sisters
We see Brotherly Light
And Fear Jehovah .
Isaiah 3:4 And I shall certainly make boys their princes,
and mere arbitrary power will rule over them.
5 And the people will actually tyrannize one over the other,
even each one over his fellowman.
They will storm, the boy against the old man,
and the lightly esteemed one against the one to be honored.
6 For each one will lay hold of his brother in the house of his father,
[saying:] “You have a mantle.
A dictator you ought to become to us,
and this overthrown mass should be under your hand.”
7 He will raise [his voice] in that day, saying:
“I shall not become a wound dresser;
and in my house there is neither bread nor a mantle.
YOU men must not set me as dictator over the people.”
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Boys and Girls to become the Body of
King
Jesus Christ
In a playing field of Christ.

Amen in the faith

1 Thessalonians 5:4 But YOU, brothers, YOU are not in darkness,
so that that day should overtake YOU as it would thieves,
5 for YOU are all sons of light and sons of day.
We belong neither to night nor to darkness.

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…..for YOU are all sons of light and sons of day…..
Heavenly Brothers and Sisters
Living in the Kingdom Now is not becoming Sons of Jehovah God
It is realizing We are Sons of Jehovah God
We are he that makes the Kingdom work for you.
Click it into place for you.
We make it work out, make sense for you.

Deuteronomy 30:20 by loving Jehovah your God,
by listening to his voice and by sticking to him;
for he is your life and the length of your days,

that you may dwell upon the ground

that Jehovah swore to your forefathers
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
to give to them.”
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Our task as humans is not to become connected to God but to realize that we are connected.
The crown connects us with the higher self,
which is a part of ourselves that knows we are part of Jehovah God.
The crown and the higher self work to bring our consciousness into the knowledge of oneness.
It often feels like a funnel is on top of my head,
drawing down threads of truth and wisdom from the rest of the cosmos.
This strikes me as a good description of the subjective sensation of an open crown.

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Acts 17:27 for them to seek God,
if they might grope for him and really find him,
although, in fact, he is not far off from each one of us.

28 For by him we have life and move and exist,

even as certain ones of the poets among YOU have said,

‘For we are also his progeny.’

29 “Seeing, therefore, that we are the progeny of God,
we ought not to imagine that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone,
like something sculptured by the art and contrivance of man.
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But we look at him as oneself.
we have a reflection of Jesus.
We have one better than King David
who didn’t have Jesus as a guide.
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30 True, God has overlooked the times of such ignorance,
yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent.
31 Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed,
and he has furnished a guarantee
to all men
in that he has resurrected him
from the dead.”
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The ark was once a real thing on the earth.
Think of the ark in his temple
In a new kingdom.
Coming out Bright from within.

Amen in the truth
Cc
Ezekiel 25:17 And I will execute in them great acts of vengeance,
with raging reproofs;
and they will have to know that
I am Jehovah
when I bring my vengeance on them.”’”

Matthew 25:34 “Then the king will say to those on his right,
‘Come, YOU who have been blessed by my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for YOU from the founding of the world.
35 For I became hungry and YOU gave me something to eat;
I got thirsty and YOU gave me something to drink.
I was a stranger and YOU received me hospitably;
36 naked, and YOU clothed me.
I fell sick and YOU looked after me.
I was in prison and YOU came to me.’
37 Then the righteous ones will answer him with the words,
‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty,
and give you something to drink?
38 When did we see you a stranger and receive you hospitably, or naked, and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to you?’
40 And in reply the king will say to them, ‘Truly I say to YOU, To the extent that YOU did it to one of the least of these my brothers, YOU did it to me.’
41 “Then he will say, in turn, to those on his left, ‘Be on YOUR way from me, YOU who have been cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels.
42 For I became hungry, but YOU gave me nothing to eat, and I got thirsty,
but YOU gave me nothing to drink.
43 I was a stranger, but YOU did not receive me hospitably;
naked, but YOU did not clothe me; sick and in prison,
but YOU did not look after me.’
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Heavenly Brothers and Sisters
This most delightful portion of Scripture
which we continually strive , revolving around daily.
And listen with all earnestness and compunction
Here Jesus is showing the word more fearfully , more clearly with more light.
Openly showing himself as the King of his new Kingdom in all his glory.
With emphasis mentioned on his glory.
Putting forth not a few people but the whole Earth
Two types of people.
One that is obedient to a new kingdom and one that disobeys him.
He raises up the hearer, and brings before his sight
the judgment seat,
and sets round him all the Earth
Matthew 25:31 “When the Son of man arrives in his glory,
and all the angels with him,
then he will sit down on his glorious throne.
32 And all the nations will be gathered before him,
and he will separate people one from another,
just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Jesus shows the whole heaven open with his angels present.
To also bear witness.
in what things they had ministered,
when sent by the Lord Jehovah for the salvation of men.

At the moment we are all mingled together but at that time
there will be an exact separation seen by all happening.
A diversion of all the men on earth.
Revelation 22:7 And, look! I am coming quickly.
Happy is anyone observing the words of the prophecy of this scroll.”
by the Grace and Love towards men
from our Lord Jesus Christ,
to whom be glory and might,
world without end.
Amen.
Cc
Revelation 22:20 “He that bears witness of these things says,
‘Yes; I am coming quickly.’”
“Amen! Come, Lord Jesus.”

Changing from Worldly thinking to Kingdom Thinking
Walking and writing the Kingdom Life Now
Heavenly Brothers and Sisters
Write our little experience what we felt passing through our time.

Matthew 25:34 “Then the king will say to
those on his right,
‘Come, YOU who have been blessed by my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for YOU from the founding of the world.

When you choose to revolve to the right and change. How do you know .
By living the change letting the holy spirit run our lives, guiding and leading you.
We let Love gain more and more. We become more and more alive in love than being influenced by fear and giving up life and being more dead.
Take chances so what if you get hurt chase a glorious future under King Jesus Christ.
Feel Good to be Alive.
Why feel having spiritual faith is a chore. You rather rest than have any urge to be active in pursuing the kingdom crown.
Live the present salvation in the now .
Don’t let your conditioning to Satan’s institution , his system of things let you accept it and make you give up and go down the lethargic, depressed road to a sick poor old age.

How do we humans as a whole do this?
We become less fully alive by dulling our feelings with comfort eating , drugs , mindless entertainment or the pursuit of money and possessions.
And if we look cheerful, friendly and harmless to others no one minds if we are devoid of meaningful feelings and if others seem to like us hey what do we care.

But when this common attutitude so prevalent in the World finds us asking there must be more than this. This life of mine is just existing. then seek your change .
We change back to Children of Jehovah God
We die from this system and turn. Revolve right.
The Change
2 Thessalonians 2:14 To this very destiny
he called YOU
through the good news we declare,
for the purpose of acquiring
the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

When you remember every day was brighter so beautiful than today.
Our heavenly Spirits rise , We feel happy again
Habitually changing everyday feeding on new things,
Your neighbour, lift him up when he is down fill with love without strings attached.
And our conditioning of worry fear and suspicion drifts away.

It is not hard to smile, soften your face. Rewrite your thoughts. Relax your shoulders.
Let the old pattern die and replace them with the new.
But do it thousands of times.
Changing habits is a physical training, as learning a new instrument , or training for a sport.
It is possible for you to feel happy again.
Just do what we have learnt and keep at it.
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John 3:8 The wind blows where it wants to,
and you hear the sound of it,
but you do not know where it comes from and where it is going.
So is everyone that has been born from the spirit.”

Let youself embrace the new kingdom now and let a new spiritual awakening occur.
Following the spirit is like a spiritual journey in which we are led by mysterious coincidences.
Meaningful coincidences like those times we meet someone like Brother Beau who is working in the same area as ourselves.
Listening to Brother Gus and all you others
Similar thoughts moving toward the same direction.
We develop together a guiding intuition
That informs our decision making and life choices
We know intuitively our bare feet on the green grass.
New wonderment of our world.
To make us follow our higher calling
Our mission in this life.

New Citizens of a new kingdom
Amen in the faith
Cc
Isaiah 40:31 but those who are hoping in Jehovah will regain power.
They will mount up with wings like eagles.
They will run and not grow weary;
they will walk and not tire out.”

Brothers and Sisters
We Live the Kingdom Now
As Parts of the Body
The story of ones faith
Ephesians 1:5 For he foreordained us to the adoption through Jesus Christ
as sons to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will,
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Isaiah 1:8 And the daughter of Zion has been left remaining
like a booth in a vineyard,
like a lookout hut in a field of cucumbers,
like a blockaded city.
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Speak of the Body
1 Thessalonians 1:4 For we know, brothers loved by God, his choosing of YOU,
5 because the good news we preach did not turn up among YOU with speech alone
but also with power
and with holy spirit
and strong conviction,
just as YOU know what sort of men we became to YOU for YOUR sakes;
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Philippians 1:25 So, being confident of this,
I know I shall remain and shall abide with all of YOU for YOUR advancement
and the joy that belongs to [YOUR] faith,
26 so that YOUR exultation may overflow in Christ Jesus by reason of me through my presence again with YOU.
Our Flock
Children on wings of eagles
The household of Jehovah God
Ephesians 5:23 because a husband is head of his wife
as the Christ also is head of the congregation,
he being a savior of [this] body.
The family
Ephesians 5:27 that he might present the congregation to himself in its splendor,
not having a spot or a wrinkle or any of such things,
but that it should be holy and without blemish.


Amen in faith
Cc
Ephesians 1:13 But YOU also hoped in him after YOU heard the word of truth,
the good news about YOUR salvation.
By means of him also,
after YOU believed,
YOU were sealed with the promised holy spirit,
14 which is a token in advance of our inheritance,
for the purpose of releasing by a ransom [God’s] own possession,
to his glorious praise.

Brothers and Sisters
Jehovah our reverence.
The crown is symbolic of the pinnacle
of man's earthly aspirations.
Into one reverence
The spiritual race, it is about endurance, and all cross the finish line.
Jehovah God desires that we all endure to the end, but to do so;
our spiritual race is much tougher than what physical athletes endure.
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2 Timothy 2:3 As a fine soldier of Christ Jesus take your part in suffering evil.

Jesus never saves anyone whom He does not also govern.
We are soldiers.

The word soldier denotes the implication that we are in a spiritual war (against Satan and his demons, society around us and our own minds), and that this war will be tough.
Jehovah God calls those who endure hardship
blessed,
because they develop the spiritual character to endure
by resisting the temptations of Satan
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James 5:10 Brothers, take as a pattern of the suffering of evil and the exercising of patience the prophets, who spoke in the name of Jehovah.
11 Look! We pronounce happy those who have endured.
YOU have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome Jehovah gave,
that Jehovah is very tender in affection and merciful. .
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Simple obedience to clear scriptural commands flows basically from two fountainheads.
First,flows from a sincere repentance from our rebellion and resistance
to Jehovah God,
and second, flows out of a pure love of Jesus.
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Proverbs 12:4 A capable wife is a crown to her owner,
but as rottenness in his bones is she that acts shamefully.

Proverbs 19:14 The inheritance from fathers is a house and wealth,
but a discreet wife is from Jehovah.
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Eph.3:9, 8 To me, a man less than the least of all holy ones,
this undeserved kindness was given,
that I should declare to the nations
the good news about the unfathomable riches of the Christ
9 and should make men see how the sacred secret
is administered which has from the indefinite past
been hidden in God,
who created all things.
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John 1:3 All things came into existence through him,
and apart from him not even one thing came into existence.
Heb.1: 2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by means of a Son,
whom he appointed heir of all things,
and through whom he made the systems of things.
Amen in faith
In Jesus Christ
Cc
3 He is the reflection of [his] glory and the exact representation of his very being,
and he sustains all things by the word of his power;
and after he had made a purification for our sins
he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty in lofty places.
4 So he has become better than the angels,
to the extent that he has inherited a name more excellent than theirs.

Hebrews 11: 9 By faith he resided as an alien in the land of the promise
as in a foreign land,
and dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob,
the heirs with him of the very same promise.
10 For he was awaiting
the city having real foundations,
the builder and maker of which [city]
is God.