Chapter 56: Being Bound with Heaven

​​In this chapter, we’ll conclude this section on God’s Seraphim/Angels/Joint-Heirs and consider another baptism of fire, being bound with heaven, and their ministries continue into eternity.

The Process of Perfection
Our Process of Perfection looks like this:

Individual Salvation
Born of the Blood
Redemption
Born Again
Sanctified
Born of the Water > Born of the Spirit > Born of God >

Married Exaltation
Going Onto Perfection
Exaltation
Becomes Perfected > Reaches the Stature of Messiah > Sees God the Son


Made Like the Son of God
Obtain God’s Power  >  Does the Will of the Father  >  Bound with Heaven

​Another Baptism of Fire
As with all ascensions to become more like God, God proves their resolve to follow Him. The level of testing that we see with Seraphim/Angels is that they are tried under all conditions.

Ascension of Seraphim/Angels/Joint-Heirs >>>

God’s Sons/Servants  >  Tried under all conditions  >  God’s Seraphim/Angels

Dr/ Gileadi,
“But before God responds and delivers his people, his servant/servants is “despised as a person” and “abhorred by his people”—they reject him as the Jews rejected Jesus. Yet he serves God at all hazards:”
 
“In the end, however—after they prove faithful under all conditions”
 
“The “few” who attain upper levels, who, based on certain “knowledge,” sacrifice their all, have learned the nature of the journey. When we are willing to suffer for the sake of others, to pass through the refiner’s fire and realize our nothingness before God, fear, pride, and other vagaries evaporate. Jesus may have been speaking of seraphs/saviors when he said, “He who is greatest among you will be your servant.” (Matthew 23:11.) A “servant” describes the kind of being God is and all whom he exalts above others.”
 
“The service seraphs perform and the “suffering” they endure—in paying the price of justice on behalf of others—is proportionate to the “salvation” they secure. Moses was an outcast from Egypt, settling in the land of Midian until God called him to deliver Israel out of bondage. He suffered endless hardships and setbacks as even his own people turned against him. Elijah fled and became a fugitive after King Ahab’s wife, the Canaanite Jezebel, put all the prophets of God to death. Ravens fed him before he escaped to Sidon. Finally, he wandered to Mount Sinai until God imbued him with power and appointed him over kings. Anyone who attains seraph status may expect to experience the worst. The afflictions these prophets suffered and the ministry in which they served created a reservoir of “merit” that backed up their intercession with God. When they appealed to God for anything, he could not deny them because they had offered every sacrifice a person could make. They kept his law and word on the highest human level possible. Nor did they ask anything for themselves, their whole concern being for the welfare of God’s people. They were “beloved” of God because they did his will to the exclusion of all else. They thus received powers and privileges well beyond those of others. Their blessedness surpassed all. These seraphs were the “firstfruits” of those who ascended to heaven.”
 
“He that overcometh [all] shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.” – Revelations 21:7  To overcometh all includes trials of faith and errors of truth.
 
 
Being Bound with Heaven
At the conclusion of their earthly ministries, Seraphim/Angels/Joint-Heirs are bound with heaven and overcome death. We see this concept with Enoch, Moses, Elijah, and with John. This condition is referred to in the scriptures as being translated.
 
“By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.” – Hebrews 11:5
 
Dr. Gileadi,
“Comprising the highest spiritual category to which one may ascend on this earth, seraphs compare with translated beings such as Enoch, Moses, and Elijah, who exercise divine powers. Their mission spans heaven and earth and extends to all nations.” “The ascent of God’s servant and his fellowservants to the translated category of seraphs sets them apart from all others of God’s children. Relying solely upon Jehovah to the exclusion of all else, they “ascend” to become unwearying—like Jehovah himself: “They who hope in Jehovah shall be renewed in strength: they shall ascend as on eagles’ wings; they shall run without wearying, they shall walk and not faint” (Isaiah 40:31; compare vv 28–30). For their sake, God delivers many of his people at the time he destroys the wicked of the world: “Thus says Jehovah: ‘As when there is juice in a cluster of grapes and someone says, “Don’t destroy it, it is still good,” so I will do for the sake of my servants by not destroying everything: I will extract offspring out of Jacob, and out of Judah heirs of my mountains; my chosen ones shall inherit them, my servants shall dwell there’” (Isaiah 65:8–9; emphasis added).”
 
While Enoch, Moses, and Elijah were taken to heaven after they completed their missions, John appears to have tarried on the earth to continue in the Father’s Work, which we also see in God’s Endtime Servant and servants.

 
“Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple [John the Apostle] whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me. Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?” – John 21:20-23

“And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.”
2 Kings 2:11

​God’s Seraphim/Angel’s Ministries continue into Eternity
Some may think that God’s Sons and Angels ministries end with the conclusion of this fallen world. In actually, their ministerial roles continue into the Millenium and into eternity.
 
Dr. Gileadi,
“In the end, however, both sons/servants and seraphs/saviors assume political office over those to whom they minister. They serve as “judges” and “rulers” of God’s people in the Millennium. (Isaiah 1:26; 32:1.)” “Isaiah’s seraphs parallel the “saints” of whom Daniel says, “The saints of the Most High will take the kingdom and possess the kingdom for ever.” (Daniel 7:18.) They also fit Obadiah’s description of “saviors” who “ascend on Mount Zion,” where God has determined he will deliver his people. (Obadiah 1:17, 21; emphasis added.) John’s vision of 144,000 “servants” of God, twelve thousand of each tribe, describes Isaiah’s seraph category. These stand with the Lamb on Mount Zion and are called the “firstfruits” of all the earth. (Revelation 7:1–8; 14:1, 4.) Isaiah’s “watchmen” parallel Enoch’s “watchers,” God’s emissaries who minister between heaven and earth (see Figure 97). (1 Enoch 12:2.)” ​

Figure 97 Prophetic Parallels of Seraphs/Saviors
 
Isaiah—“Kings” and “Queens”
Daniel—“Saints/Holy Ones”
Obadiah—“Saviors” on Mount Zion
​John—144,000 “Servants” of God
Enoch—“Watchers”/Angels​