Gold is a precious metal and one of the earths most valuable commodities that has a significant place and representation both spiritually and physically.
Gold is associated with wealth, glory, kingship, royalty and divinity.
Gold connotes prosperity.
Kings tend to have gold.
It is interesting to note that gold was one of the gifts presented to our Lord Jesus Christ when the wise men visited him when he was a toddler.
He was given gold, frankincense and myrrh, each gift has its own significance.
The gold represents the kingship of Jesus Christ, His prosperity and leadership.
This will be visibly seen and the whole world will come under this golden age during the millennial reign of Christ.
Frankincense represents the ministry and priesthood of Jesus Christ.
This was seen to some degree when He walked this earth, His priesthood continues in heaven for He is our great high priest.
The priesthood of Jesus Christ is his ministry and service, more so before our heavenly Father.
Myrrh represents the servanthood of Jesus Christ, it's symbolic of his suffering.
We have seen this in full effect when Jesus walked the earth.
He came to serve, not so much to be served.
He washed feet, slept in various locations, and ate in different homes, without owning a property of his own.
His death after being scourged is the climax of His suffering.
Thank God it didn't end there, He resurrected to an age and season of glory as King of kings and Lord of Lords!
The golden age of Jesus Christ has started in the heavens and the earth.
Our faith is likened to gold in the scriptures, in terms of its purifying and perfecting.
Tested faith is more precious than refined gold!
"That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:"
Faith and gold are both legal tenders.
One is a legal tender in the spiritual realm while the other is widely regarded as a legal tender globally in the physical realm.
The golden age or season is the kingdom of God age.
We can't talk about a kingdom and not consider thrones, crowns, royal attires, the king and queen's sceptres,, wealth and opulence which gold represents.
God who is King is surrounded by and clothed in light, with lots of royal splendor around Him.
When John the Baptist and Jesus Christ came teaching and talking about the kingdom of God they were declaring the golden age of God to humanity.
They were sensitizing people to the knowledge and understanding of the kingdom of God finding expression on earth, through Jesus Christ.
It was to bring about sons raised unto God through Jesus Christ.
It was to bring about a generation of royal priests, a new kind of people; kings and priests unto our God!
It is truth that's meant to be accepted by faith and prayed into in faith.
Faith is so precious and important!
Faith plays a big role in the golden age of the kingdom of heaven on earth, we come into that kingdom through faith in Jesus the Christ!
Faith like gold is more valuable when it has been processed, tested and perfected.
Gold is refined through a process that involves the application of heat and fire, quite similar to how diamonds are forged and perfected.
Faith is more valuable than gold, diamonds and precious stones.
The most important people in your life are people who help you discover, grow and use your faith,
Our faith is called precious in the good Book.
Our faith is worth contending for.
Like gold, true faith is not common.
We don't find real gold just everywhere, its the same with real faith.
The purest and the most costly gold is not what it is until it has been tested and processed by fire, so is faith.
The hardships, the challenges, the strange warfare, the loss, the trials and tribulation can be part of the perfecting process for your faith.
They are the fire, they are the heat that removes the dross from the gold that is your faith.
True faith has been tested, and just like gold it is more precious, valuable and rare when it emerges from the 'heat'.
Gold is great but faith is better.
Faith can bring gold but gold does not bring faith.
There is gold in your faith!
Value your faith. Protect your faith, fight for it and defend it.
Ensure you have the real faith.
Every original has counterfeits.
There's a lot of counterfeit faith out there.
Even Jesus wondered as a man, whether He would find true faith when He comes back to the earth.
Gold is a blessing.
God put it in the earth for man to discover and use.
King Solomon was blessed with an abundance of it.
His temple built to the glory of God was layered in coatings of pure gold.
Just image how that temple shore in the sun, on bright sunny days or sunrise at dawn.
What a sight to behold it must have been!
Due to God's blessings, gold was so common in the time of Solomon it was seen as frequently as the stones by the roadside.
Indeed, the reign of Solomon was a golden age of the nation of Israel.
It is worth praying, to ask the Lord to manifest the golden age of your life now!
Solomon built artifacts in the temple for the worship of God and the adorning of the temple.
Each one had a spiritual representation and meaning.
One of such artifacts were shields forged from pure gold!
Small ones were made which represent small faith but they are equally as potent as the big shields.
The shield is the representation for faith.
Shields are very important armor warriors and soldiers use for protection.
Our faith is called the shield of faith.
In Solomon's temple large shields made of pure gold were also there!
They represent big faith or the gift of faith which God gives, this is faith that's larger than the measure of faith everyone else receives at salvation.
Part of the beauty of faith is that it is effective irrespective of its size.
Its not so much its size but its application/use that matters!
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