You are an awesome God, thought Littlestone.
Faithful in the little things, he will be faithful in the big things.
There is no choice c with our God. We have two choices, choose life or death. Obey or disobey and receive the consequences of our actions. Be humble and submit or be prideful and exalt self and fall later…… There is no choice c……. No multiple choice with God.
There is His way or the highway of destruction of death way.
Jesus Christ is the only way to everlasting Life…..
Admission of His reign in life and admission of our sinful nature and repentance…. That alone will open the Door to Everlasting Life with our God. Then we learn how to walk after Him as His disiples.
You have seated us in heavenly places so we may always keep our eyes on You, our Prize.
The word overcomer only came in to the word of God, he thought, when Jesus overcame the world. Then again in the Book of Revelation of Jesus Christ, the last book of the bible. The other two overcomers Littlestone thought of were Caleb and Joshua who were known by God by having a difference spirit then the others in the wilderness. These two who saw the giants in the promised land, not as threats as the others, but as their bread because God was before them- making their way.
Jesus Christ saw also His enemies as dust because His Father was making a way for Him and for us. His obedience to His Father was preeminent over any threat of the enemies.
His love never fails.
There is great destruction and falling away from His Testimony when our eyes are on the lateral instead of the vertical.
Holy Spirit reveals unto each one of us of Himself in how important it is to overcome the world as He did…… as written 1 John 1-12:
Everyone who believes [with a deep, abiding trust in the fact] that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed) is born of God [that is, reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose], and everyone who loves the Father also loves the child born of Him.
By this we know [without any doubt] that we love the children of God: [expressing that love] when we love God and obey His commandments.
For the [true] love of God is this: that we habitually keep His commandments and remain focused on His precepts. And His commandments and His precepts are not difficult [to obey].
For [b]everyone born of God is victorious and overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has conquered and overcome the world—our [continuing, persistent] faith [in Jesus the Son of God].
Who is the one who is victorious and overcomes the world? It is the one who believes and recognizes the fact that Jesus is the Son of God.
This is He who came through water and blood [His baptism and death], Jesus Christ—not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. It is the [Holy] Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. [He is the essence and origin of truth itself.]
For there are three witnesses:
the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three are in agreement [their testimony is perfectly consistent].
If we accept [as we do] the testimony of men [that is, if we are willing to take the sworn statements of fallible humans as evidence], the testimony of God is greater [far more authoritative]; for this is the testimony of God, that He has testified regarding His Son.
The one who believes in the Son of God [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies confidently on Him as Savior] has the testimony within himself [because he can speak authoritatively about Christ from his own personal experience].
The one who does not believe God [in this way] has made Him [out to be] a liar, because he has not believed in the evidence that God has given regarding His Son.
And the testimony is this: God has given us eternal life [we already possess it], and this life is in His Son [resulting in our spiritual completeness, and eternal companionship with Him].
He who has the Son [by accepting Him as Lord and Savior] has the life [that is eternal]; he who does not have the Son of God [by personal faith] does not have the life.
Littlestone was meditating. As usual, his meditating turns into asking tons of questions as is his way with His King….. He does not want to leave anything unknown about the heart intentions of His King. His King always points to a horizon that is endless as He.
If the way of life is to be kept. Then the only way is to cherish the King of Life.
In making a note that the last stone that was used in the wall that surrounded Jerusalem was amethyst, which is symbolic of sobriety as written in Revelation 21…..
Stay awake from all that is trying to dull or put us asleep.
Prevent intoxication.
Be sober. Awaken from slumber. Prevent intoxication from the worlds’ temptation.
Remain steadfast to our King. Keep our eyes on things above, mainly our King.
1Peter 1:13: Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.
1 Peter 5:8: Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
1 Peter 4:7: The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.
1 Thessalonians 5:6: So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober.
Ephesians 6:18: And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.
Colossians 3: 1-11: Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.
You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.
But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
In Littlestone’s investigation on why the mention of overcomer in every letter in His King’s Book—- The book known revealing of Him to all: He found so many scriptures to remind us of the narrow road…..
Keep our eyes raised toward Christ….. Not as Peter who as he walked on the water, saw the storm and winds blowing, and sunk…We walk every day on the water by His Word and His grace of strength…. We overcome daily by our faith.
Overcomers, stand and keep our eyes fixed knowing we have been hidden in God by Christ Jesus.
He did notice the last church that Holy Spirit brought up were quite filled with themselves and their status and riches…..
Littlestone turned to scripture, Revelation 3:14-22:
“To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:
These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation.
I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!
So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’
But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.
Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.
To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
Holy Spirit was leading him on a journey. He heard big is just big but great is from above.
The last stone was amethyst in the wall written in Revelation 21, *( which is shown below).
He has given us His Spirit to live a godly life as written in Peter.
He has overcome the world and so do we by our faith in His victory.
By our faith we keep our eyes on things above because we are seated in heavenly places.
We are in class learning all we can about His life within us and apprehending Him as He has apprehended us.
The wheat and the tares are coming to head for harvest. The winds are blowing
Littlestone was concerned and praying for His body to really take heed of the warning he was seeing in the scriptures…
There is so much to be hopeful when He appears….. We do not know when, but it may be sooner then later as we all think,,,,
But, even so, we must be His bride prepared for His return.
We must not be as the five virgins who were not ready and did not have their lamps filled as written Matthew 25.
Holy Spirit is our lamp in us for His eyes to see, test and qualify…….
What house are we from?
If we are the last stone, this generation on the earth, of the wall of Jerusalem, we must be a true gem of amethyst.
Sober and diligent in His kingdom and be pliable so to be added into the mosaic of His wall, His kingdom.
Philippians 3:7-11:
But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things.
I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—
the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.
I want to know Christ—
yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.
But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Revelation 21:9-21:
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.
It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates.
On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.
There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west.
The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls.
The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long.
The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick.
The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass.
The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone.
The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.
The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.
The wall surrounding the temple made from Solomon’s charge was made from the gentiles – stones that were not handled by man, precious stones, ( us)!…….- Just a note fyi as Littlestone jotted down.
Revelation 22:1-5:
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city.
On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month.
And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him.
They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
There will be no more night.
They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light.
And they will reign for ever and ever.
Revelation 22:12-15:
“Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.
Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
In our heavenly Fathers eyes, the small before Him are great. The large and proud are as rubble before Him thought Littlestone.
As it is written, Be still and know I am God, I will be exalted before the nations, ( Psalm 49).
Remember Joshua 14:6-15:
Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me.
I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land.
And I brought him back a report according to my convictions,
but my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear.
I, however, followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.
So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.’
“Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness.
So here I am today, eighty-five years old!
I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then.
Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day.
You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”
Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.
So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite ever since, because he followed the Lord, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly.
(Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba after Arba, who was the greatest man among the Anakites.)
(GIANTS)! Littlestone remembered that Hebron means fellowship…..When we have a heart totally after our God and Lord, we have His friendship as well as fellowship.
He silently thought to himself, I choose Life and His life. No matter what comes, the power of His Word, Christ in me, is within. His strength in grace are sufficient. …..
Father God, may all those who have a heart after you walk on the narrow road which we have life, Life abundantly in Your Son by the power of Your Spirit and the word of Your power, Christ in us, who works mightily in us according to the power in which You raised Christ from the dead.
Amen and so be it now and forever for all those who are overcomers as we walk in the way of Your Son and His cross as written in Philippians 3: I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
SELAH!!
May all those who have ears to hear and a heart to understand, know the times we are in today.
But rejoice, our God is the same today and tomorrow. His love never fails.
SELAH! SELAH!!
