Why move to a group of believers functioning as a house over a group functioning as an Ecclesia?

2/10/2021 Jane Johnson & Bill Brady   edited 7/6/2021

Summary:

The 4 Groups of Believers with their Heads Group / Head

  1. The Body of Christ / The Christ (King Headship)
  2. New Jerusalem / The Lamb (Lamb headship)
  3. The House of God / God Headship
  4. The House of Adam/ Adam Headship

In each case The Group grows up / is built up into its Head.

  • The Progression / The Journey is from Group to Group.
  • And from Head to Head.

The first 2 stages involve Marriage.

  • The Marriage with Christ.
  • The Marriage with The Lamb of God.
  • We become The Wife of each.
  • Before Marriage we are prepared as a Bride.

 

Here are some names for a group of believers.

  • Body of Christ
  • Ecclesia
  • House
  • Temple
  • New Jerusalem
  • Nation
  • Israel

There are many names for a group of believers.

  • A specific group of believers may be functioning in one or more of these names. 

 

Each of these names is for a specific identity & function.

  • The identity & function varies with the name.
  • It also varies with the Head that the group in the name is growing up into.
  • The Head of each of these groups of believer has a specific name.

The Body of Christ is one name for a group of believers.

  • The Body of Christ is made up of Members / Parts.
  • The Body of Christ is The Bride of Christ.
  • The Body grows up into Kingship Headship.
  • They also grow up into Kingship Headship as the group.
  • They also each grow up into Kingship Headship individually.

New Jerusalem (NJ) is another name for a Group of believers.

  • It is the name of The Bride / Wife of The Lamb.
  • This is another version of Body.
  • It is a Body name, but it is a higher name than Body of Christ.
  • The Bride of The Lamb is growing up into Lamb of God Headship.

 

There are 2 kinds of names for groups of believers.

  • Body names
  • Building names

Body names & Building names 

  • Body names = Body of Christ
  • Building names = House & Temple.
  • The Body names result in growth up into a Headship name.
  • The Building names result in being built up into a Headship name.
  • Building up = edification.
  • Body of Christ & NJ are both Body names & Building names.
  • Each is both a Body & a Building.

There is a key to each group name.

  • It is that the group grows up into the identity & function of the Head.
  • Headship is the key.

A group grows up into the identity & function of the Head of that name of group. 

  • The Body of Christ grows up into Kingship Headship.
  • NJ grows up into Lamb of God Headship.
  • House of God grows up into God Headship (= Father).
  • House of Adam grows up into Adam Headship.

We used the name Ecclesia for a group of believers.

  • A group of believers has identity & function given to it by its name.
  • I can see that Ecclesia may be a lower name for a group of believers.
  • We associate it with local ecclesias functioning at the Kingdom Age Level.
  • It may be a name for a local group of Kingdom Age believers.
  • As well as for the universal group of believers functioning in The Kingdom Age.

 

What is a name that can be used to include all of the group names?

  • I don’t want to make up a name.
  • There must be one found in scripture.
  • The names that are found in scripture are ones that have been given by God.
  • It is best to use them if we can.
  • Unless they have been used wrongly so much that they convey the wrong image.

This is the case with the word “Church”.

  • It is an English translation of the Greek word Ekklesia.
  • The Greek word Ekklesia translates a Hebrew word used of the Nation of Israel.
  • Ekklesia is a voting council.

Ecclesia is indeed a Kingdom Age name for a Group of believers.

  • In chapters 2 – 3 of The Revelation of Jesus Christ there are 7 Ecclesias.
  • Those Ecclesias go through a 7-step process of Overcoming.
  • Few Ecclesias Overcome.
  • Some do.

Some individual believers in each Ecclesia Overcome.

  • John individually comes up here from Earth to Heaven.
  • We follow John.
  • New Jerusalem is made up of Overcoming Kings in Heaven.
  • Some are part of Overcoming Ecclesias.
  • Those Ecclesias transition out of being Ecclesias.
  • Many individual believers have come out of a non-Overcoming Ecclesia.
  • For most believers coming out of an Ecclesia is part of Overcoming.
  • Together they become One City of New Jerusalem.
  • Those in NJ are growing up / being built up into a Head.
  • That Head is The Lamb of God.

 

House 

  • A House is made up of Overcoming Kings.
  • The LORD God built a House for King David.
  • David’s House is made up of David’s Sons / Generations.
  • A Temple is made up of Priests & High Priests.
  • King David’s Son, King Solomon, built The Temple for The LORD God.
  • King Solomon became God’s Son = A Son of God.

 

What is the order of names for a Group of believers?

  1. Ecclesia / Body of Christ
  2. New Jerusalem (which is a City)
  3. House

 

What does this reveal to us about OUB?

  • It reveals to us our past & our future as a Group of believers.

OUB was originally functioning as an Ecclesia / Body of Christ.

  • As a Body of Christ we did a Journey of Overcoming as Kings.
  • We have been functioning as New Jerusalem.
  • We have recently traded into House.

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Meet The Author

Bill has been seeking truth all of his adult life since first believing in Jesus in 1978. Bill's search for Truth brought him to Ecclesia Framework now called One United Body (OUB). OUB is now his spiritual home and family. Bill's new names are John, Father of Many Generations and Father of One. He identifies strongly with John the Beloved. He has a heart to see the Universal Body of Christ become functionally One. B Sc Cornell University, MTS Ontario Theological Seminary. Here is Bill's PayPal information should you desire to trade into him: billbrady633@gmail.com, paypal.me/BillBrady633