Executive Summary: Smyrna is described as a master craftsman, shaping the future with skill and detail according to a deep-seated plan. This plan is executed with obedience to God's will, akin to Gabriel who announces God's will. This is not theoretical knowledge, but transformative, active knowledge. The genius of Smyrna lies in executing God's plan communicated through various means, enabling the ecclesia to lay aside every weight. The natural ability of Smyrna is in crafting to perfection consistently, with obedience. The blindspot is Eliezer, who carries out his master's objectives and overcomes his own reason, rejecting wilful blindness and choosing the finished work over self-righteousness.
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NAME OF CHURCH: SMYRNA The master craftsman at work shaping the future with artisanal skill and adding hours of painstaking detail to a plan that is not in front of you but buried deep within your soul. This is the implementation of a plan, script of score to perfection without hesitation, repetition or deviation exceeding all expectations.
ECCLESIAL ARCHETYPE ”Each of you has an interpretation” (1 Cor 14:26) in response to an open conversation that clarifies what it is we must do to take the first steps in obedience to the heavenly vision making room for the execution of the will of God - what we do now, others will understand later.
MODAL EXCELLENCE This is the Gabriel who stands on the right hand side of the altar of incense charged with execution of God’s will, announcing news that will be a fragrance of life for the obedient and the stench of death for the rebel. Such perfect love battles passivity and lukewarmness and restores confidence and faith in the power of love and of a sound mind.
NATURAL ENDOWMENT This is not theoretical head knowledge that puffs up, but healing leaves that transforms the world around us closer into the image of God as it was from the beginning. It is knowledge that doesn’t get in the way of obedience, a preset, active indication of God’s presence.
GENIUS: EXECUTION ”If I have all faith to move mountains” (1 Cor13) - One who comes alongside to execute the plan of God communicated through angels and prophets, by vision and by dream, by the incarnation and by the giving of the Spirit so that the ecclesia can lay aside every weight in order to run.
DEFAULT NATURAL ABILITY One who executes the will or plan of God accordingly, obedience without delay; not what the hands craft but the ability to craft to perfection on a consistent basis.
BLINDSPOT: ELIEZER Looking for a wife for Abraham’s son, Isaac who carries out exactly the broad objectives of his master employing every available stratagem to complete the assigned task and complete the mission according to plan. And overcoming his own autonomous reason. He rejects wilful blindness, sustained by choices that resists the spirit and man of lawlessness. By faith, he believes God to bring back Rebecca and thus chooses the finished work over that of establishing a righteousness of one’s own.