Blessed - Hunger &
Thirst after Righteousness(Matthew 5:6)
By way of APPLICATION (Matthew 5:6)
- the Lord does promise a "CROWN of RIGHTEOUSNESS" to believers who are FAITHFUL to "the gospel
of the GRACE of God" (II Timothy 4:6-8 cf.Acts 20:24),
i.e. believers whose LIVES reflect the TEACHING of the GRACE of God (Titus 2:11-13)
Under the GENTILE "dispensation of the GRACE of God"
(Ephesians 3:1-2), ALL believers shall LIVE with Him (II Timothy 2:11) by virtue of their IDENTIFICATION with Him (II Timothy 2:13)
in His DEATH, BURIAL, and RESURRECTION (Romans 6:3-5)
However, NOT ALL believers shall REIGN with Him "FAR
ABOVE ALL" and "OVER ALL" (Ephesians 1:21-22) - that right is reserved for ONLY those WHO ALSO SUFFER with Him (II Timothy 2:12),
i.e. those like Paul WHO "ENDURE ALL THINGS for the ELECT'S SAKES" (II Timothy 2:10) - for all those who "LIVE GODLY in Christ Jesus shall SUFFER
PERSECUTION" (II Timothy 3:12)
By way of INTERPRETATION (Matthew 5:6)
- the Lord's promise of being FILLED to those who HUNGER and THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS will find its FULFILLMENT
in the RIGHTEOUS EARTHLY REIGN of ISRAEL'S MESSIAH (Jeremiah 23:5-6 cf.Jeremiah 9:23-24)
Those Jews whose souls PANT and THIRST AFTER "the
LIVING GOD" (Psalms 42:1-2) and cling to the LIGHT of the "SURE WORD of PROPHECY" in
the "DARK PLACE" of the TRIBULATION NIGHT (II Peter 1:19), i.e. the TRIBULATION OVERCOMERS (Revelation 12:11;Revelation 15:2)
are those to whom the Lord promised a share in His RIGHTEOUS RULE "OVER THE NATIONS" (Revelation 2:26-27;Revelation 20:4,6)
Those Jews who "DESIRE THEE IN THE NIGHT" will
"SEEK THEE EARLY" ("in their AFFLICTION", Hosea 5:15)
and they will look for "the INHABITANTS of the WORLD" to "LEARN RIGHTEOUSNESS" via "THY
JUDGMENTS" (Isaiah 26:9),
i.e. via the SEVEN "VIALS of the WRATH of God" POURED "out UPON the EARTH" (Revelation 16:1)
of which are said - "TRUE and RIGHTEOUS are THY JUDGMENTS (Revelation 16:7)
When GOD, Who is RIGHTEOUS and "MIGHTY TO SAVE",
will act on behalf of His REDEEMED (ISRAEL) in "the DAY of VENGEANCE" - He will TREAD "the WINEPRESS
(of JUDGMENT) ALONE" (Isaiah 63:1-4), i.e. GOD is ALONE in His THRONE ROOM (Revelation 15:5-8) during the POURING OUT of the "SEVEN LAST PLAGUES" in which
is "FILLED UP the WRATH of God" (Revelation 15:1)