Question:

I keep reading through Ephesians 1, I'm especially trying to undersand v.3, regarding our spiritual blessings in the heavenly realm. 

Eph.1:3  -  May blessings (praise, laudation, and eulogy) be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual (given by the Holy Spirit) blessing in the heavenly realm!

Are these different than temporal blessings here on earth, different than spiritual fruit and the spiritual gifts. I'm trying to understand what exactly are the spiritual blessings of the heavenly realm?

 

Answer from Ken:

May I first suggest to always use New Testament verses to interpret the Old Testament.  Our Lord did this all the time in His ministry.  We are under the New Testament in which some of the factors of the Old Testament have been fulfilled or superseded.

Concerning Ephesians 1:3

First we are to keep a perfect attitude towards our Creator,  James 1:12‑20  as there are many who play the blame game of trying to make God  responsible for their problems.  Even in our Contracts we tend to use the works AActs of God@ for destructive possibilities of damage.  God gave the world to Adam, Adam gave the world to Lucifer.  Paul called Lucifer the god of this world, # 2 Corinthians 4:4  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.  2 Corinthians 4:3‑5 (in Context) 2 Corinthians 4 (Whole Chapter) Our Lord called Lucifer the APrince of this world@, John 12:31, 16:11, So the world is what it is due to the curse of sin and the control in the people of disobedience by Lucifer.  Our Lord Jesus Christ by his death has brought God=s Holy Light and has begun to destroy the Kingdom of Darkness and bring in His Kingdom of Light.  We are all invited to join His Kingdom if we will submit to His rule.

Second the Physical and Spiritual Blessings are considerable different.  In the temporal Physical Blessings or Gifts we are presently at war with our enemy, Rev. 12:11.  In the Eternal Kingdom there will be no tears, Rev. 21:4,  the night is over.  The former things will have passed away.  Lucifer will be consigned to the Lake of Fire for ever and ever.

So in this time we can, by faith, learn to live in our Lord=s Kingdom power if we will learn to believe in our heart (not just our head.)  Many get discouraged in trying to move in Kingdom power through intellectual understanding and miss the part where it says,  "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Prov.23:7."  Paul moves into this concept with Romans 10:9‑10 and it follows throughout the whole New Testament.  It is like a man say that he thinks it is going to rain and leaves his rain gear at home.  And another man says I don't believe it is going to rain and while going out the door picks up his rain gear.  Who really believed in the heart it was going to rain?  The head and the heart are not always in unity.  Much of what is in present day Christianity is superficial head knowledge with folks walking in presumption and not heart faith.  That is why the Kingdom does not seem to work.  Eventually they give up and make a head church based on the intellect with little expectancy for supernatural deliverance and healing, Acts 5:16.

So in time if we allow ourselves to be saturated with the word of God to where our head and heart tunes into what God says as true then we can enter into Kingdom Power and enjoy the blessings and every spiritual gift even before we graduate into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord.

As you go through the New Testament you will find verse after verse telling us that what our Lord did we can do and even more.  Take a look for "vine" scripture, John 15,  and you will find that it is possible to have your cake and eat it to.

In our file:  "Trinity‑Aloha.org"   goto:  "Keys"  and then to "God and Authority",  it may help.   Think of batteries being individually charges and then being put together.  This is what our Lord did.  He gathered weak and dead batteries then he fixed them and charged them up with faith, Heb.11.  Then He gathered them together first 3 then 12 then 70 and then 120 and they set the roof on fire in Jerusalem on Pentecost and the Church was born.  Or like  being out camping and building a fire in a rain storm.  First you find a shelter, then dry kindling, a spark from the Holy Spirit and pretty soon you can dry out wet logs like Saul/Paul.  Here are some verses on the Kingdom,  Much love in Jesus,  +K<><

The New Testament Kingdom

"Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein (Luke18:17)."

"Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom" (Luke 12:32).

"And he said unto them, 'Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come, life everlasting' " (Luke 18:29‑30). 

"For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost" (Rom.14:17).

"For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power" (1 Cor.4:20).

"Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptable with reverence and godly fear" (Heb.12:28). 

"For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Pet.1:11).