Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near, (Revelation 1:3).

And he said to me, do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.

And behold I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work, (Revelation 22:10-12).

It is written the testimony of Jesus Christ is the spirit of prophecy….. So if Jesus Christ is the Word of God, then all the words we have just studied, we are to know and adhere to because they are the Word of God…. .. His words remind us in Matthew 7, those that hear and do His words will remain as the storms come to plummet the house or the foundation that we stand….. If we hear and do not do the Word, we do not abide in Him when the storms  come and the foundation on which we stand will fall….

Do not get slack in approaching the coming day of the Lord…… Wake up all who sleep! Your Lord is among you….. Let His eye guide you while there is the gift of grace in time…. For the day is soon approaching, the coming of the day of the Lord….. He comes with vengeance in His heart and fire in His eyes to burn all the chaff away. He has come to partake of the fruit of His travail.

Are you ready? We do not know the day or night that He will call us when our time is expired nor do we know of the time of His approaching return….. So allow His fire to burn within today and rid the chaff, so in His day, He will find His bride shining with His own reflection of His love…. Return, return to the Lord!

As we understand this wonderful book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, we study the last chapter. In verse 14- 15, Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates of the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. They shall see His face and His name shall be on their foreheads, (Revelation 22:3-4).

The Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ is for us to grow in our understanding of the ways of God to discern the signs of the time….. So as it is written in Daniel 11:33, And those of the people who understand shall instruct many; yet for many days they shall fall by sword and flame, by captivity and plundering.

If we have come to Mount Zion, or Heavenly Jerusalem, then we are there now. Spiritually we have entered into the gates of of heaven by the belief in the Door, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Alas, there is more to come into, this realm is of eternity, where He sits is neverending! We are in the Endless Frontier of the Uncreated One.

We are in His kingdom now and are from His kingdom now. Then from within us comes out the operation of His commands from His Spirit…..We are in the city of God now….. though we do not see but we partake of all the grand beautiful benefits of our Lord; His shelter, His peace, His suffering, His glory, His image, His neverending love, His righteousness, His joy, His faithfulness, His truth, His eternal nature and yes, His chastising. The most needful is we have the knowledge and understanding of Him, we grow in Him from glory to glory. We have His name written on our foreheads, we are His….. He is ours. Heaven rules us and through us and all the sons of men…. We are there now, beloved….Though we do not see we believe because we know the King of all kings.

Our natural eyes veil the spiritual beauty that is ours in our Lord, they will never see it, but the eyes of the faith do behold the Lord….. Heaven is not a place but a position where God is, where He dwells and reigns. Hey, His Spirit now dwells in you and me, right? So we are in that position if we believe it…. We are with Him where He is in Spirit and Truth….in the heavenlies.

We do not see it with our natural eyes…. As it is written by Paul in 1 Corinthians 2:14-16, But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For who has know the minds of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Most of all let it not be seen in us by our Lord’s eye…. and the prophecy of Isaiah fulfilled in us!:

Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive; for the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing. And their eyes they have closed, lest they should with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them. ( Matthew 13:14-15).

Verse 16, I, Jesus , have sent My angel(messenger) to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and Offspring of David, the Bright and Morningstar.

So let these words of Jesus Christ be found in us from Matthew 13:16-17: But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

The books of the prophets and the book of Revelation is written to admonish us the importance to live in the Spirit for the spiritual realm is the Eternal God , where He is and rules. His realm is more real than the natural realm. In fact, the natural realm comes out from Him and will return to Him at the end of time. This is where God is known by us, in Spirit and Truth….He is also known by His creation, but He desires fellowship.

But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and Truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and Truth, ( John 4:23-24).

We are to partake, in all wisdom, and obtaining understanding. We are to obey His Word, He desires us to understand Him. In understanding Him,we are living and walking in the Spirit with Him. The Spirit of God illuminates the way of understanding, wisdom and knowledge of the Holy One and His Son….Where there is a good healthy fear of the Lord. Where the Lord is, there is His kingdom and Heaven! This Door, Jesus Christ, we can enter in and partake. All those that are thirsty and are in hunger, come. Come and get your fill and delight in the Lord of Hosts. He has beckoned you, so come.

Jesus Christ came down to earth from heaven to bring us back to heaven in our thinking, our ways. So let us quit living the horizontal life and live the ascended life where He has beckoned us to be. But we have to let go of one to grab the other….. There is always a cost. Are you ready? We cannot fly in the Spirit if we are weighted down with the cares and desires of this world….. too much baggage.

So as we conclude this study:

We should know that :

Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which we have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.

For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren, nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, ( 2 Peter 2-12).

We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other, so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure, which is the manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer; since it is a righteous things with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you, and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, ( 2 Thessalonians 1:3-8).

Jesus told us that we would have peace in him, but in the world we would have tribulation…. So in our outer court of the temple, there is a storm always brewing… for the sake of the name of the Lord. However, in the sanctuary of our person, where the secret place is, our Lord’s Spirit resides……and we have peace that is beyond understanding….. Another benefit of the Lord’s.

These( who are troubling you), shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed.

Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power, that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ, ( 2 Thessalonians 1:9-12).

Our crown of life will be won as we suffer the same reproach as the Lord……We cannot be His and not know the same sufferings as the Lord….. He bore the reproach of many, many of His creatures and still does…. and we bear the same reproach if we abide in Him and obey His words….If we represent the standard of Christ here on this earth today…. if we are burning with His fire in truth, there will always be those who try to put the fire out…. They prefer to continue to do their deeds in the dark.

But the Day of Lord is coming, those who bear His reproach now will be glorified in Him later. How can a bride not suffer when her Husband is suffering and rejected by His own….. She cannot, if she is found as a faithful and a true wife/bride.

So with all His saints and all of creation…. We cry… come, Lord Jesus, come! We are watching and waiting for You.

And the Spirit and the bride say, come! And let him who hears say, come! And let him who thirsts, come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely, (Revelation 22 :17).

When time ends or our time ends and we find ourselves in the company of the saints praising and rejoicing our King, we will know that we are there by the grace of God. He has always carried us on the wings of His love, as we have been embraced by the strength of the Son of God, and blanketed in the purifying oil of the Holy Spirit. We are in Him, because of Him and His great neverending love. We can sing our song for the Lord God Almighty, You and only You are all in all. Amen and Alleluia to our God, forever and ever, Amen.

Let us receive His grace and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come and from the Seven Spirits before His throne…. As we live in Him, we give all honor and praise and glory to our Great God… For there is none like our God! Praise God all the nations. Praise God all the creatures in the heavens and the earth…. For He is worthy!

We thank You, Almighty God, that Your love never fails.

Selah!

I Am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts, ( Revelation 21:6).

So we see the vision of John beholding the New Heavenly Jerusalem, the holy city coming down from heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband as written in verse 2 of chapter 21.

I put to you another question….. Did not the Lord bestow on us already the fountain of the water of life?

Are we still waiting for the fountain of the water of life?

On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water, (John 7:37).

He gave us the water of life….. We have the water of eternal life flowing out of us… the presence of His Spirit within, never stopping, always flowing.

God has provided for us a Tabernacle to dwell within as He calls us His dwelling place…. We are His sons and daughters as well as His kings and priests within our Lord Jesus Christ for our God. We are His active body and city from heaven on this earth in the Spirit of God. Will we see the city in the natural or in the Spirit?

He has made all things new and all things are being made new. God is making His sanctuary now…. His sanctuary and His city is God made…. no hands of men can say they built it for Him….. This is His work and it is marvelous in our eyes, isn’t it?

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect…..( Hebrews 12:22-23).

Does the scripture say we are going to Mount Zion or we have come?

Jesus said to him, Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed, ( John 20:29).

For we walk by faith and not by sight, ( 2 Corinthians 5:7).

Do we see the waters of living water flowing and bubbling out of us?

Does that mean the Spirit of God, Eternal Life is not dwelling within us?

I Am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts, ( Revelation 21:6).

We have been born from above….. Did you see yourself born of your mother? How do you know she is your mother? Do you believe her? Because she probably witnessed to your birth as well as your father, right?

Why do we not believe that we are made new from above? Our God has witnessed of His Son and His plan through the written Word of God…. If we believe the witness of man, should not our faith be stronger in the Uncreated One? Do we believe that our source is in God? He is our dwelling place in Christ Jesus as the Spirit dwells earnestly with in us now?

If we did believe we are complete in Christ Jesus now, would we live differently?

Would we live with the gifts of the Spirit flowing from us fluently as our language that we speak….In the Spirit,we speak with Life in words of wisdom and knowledge being pulled out of us by the gift of faith as we lay hands on others from the healing in our wings or as the healing leaves from the Tree of Life….

Is not the works in Acts of the Holy Spirit acting through His children born from above? Was Acts showing us the city of God bringing the Light of heaven to all. Bringing to remembrance that God is here in our midst now…. Rejoice… He is here and wants you to hear His words. He has sent His Son as our Redeemer. This is the standard of our God now.

That is the heart of the our Heavenly Father…. He gave us His all as well as His Son and His Spirit is still working now to the benefit for His own…..

What if you planned so long for the coming Christmas. You were so anticipating your children to open their gifts and start to live their life with their new gifts….. You could see the joy in their faces as they saw the gifts that you laid before them….. You sweated and worked hard to provide all you could….

Then came Christmas morning, and your children gather around the Christmas tree. The presents were wrapped with brightly colored wrapping. You picked out the gift and wrapping for each child, knowing what was the best for them in achieving all they could be in the life you had provided…..

Well, you anxiously waited for them to get on the floor and open the gifts…… They never looked at them or even desired them…..They were content to remain without them….. How would you be from that response from your children?

Days came and went. The gifts are still sitting there unwrapped by your children…..Hmmmm.

I heard once a person acknowledge it is okay if you live your life as a follower of Christ and never see a miracle…..

That is a lie, please, do not get offended. You are a miracle, I am a miracle….. The work of the Holy Spirit calling us is so awesome. He opened up our ears to respond to the Son of God is a miracle. The work of the Holy Spirit in different healings are miracles…. but the most important is the miracle of a new heart that God instills in us to hear and obey Him as our ONLY ONE SOURCE. He doesn’t heal our heart, it is corrupted, He gives us a new one…. He gives us His mind. He gives us new eternal Life within……

We, the children of God testify, that  being far away, now have been brought close into the heart of the Father in Christ Jesus. The hand of God making His people again just as He did in Genesis. We see His great abundant mercy for us…. and turning our attention to Him and bringing us to life…. We are the sign and wonders of our God from the city of God…. Yes, you!

We must pursue what we do not see and feel. The realm of God is not in sight, but in faith, we have eyes to see His vision and ears to hear His voice. We have the ears to hear and wisdom to understand His voice spoken to us in the Bible….. Do we believe what we read or is it a just a book….. His words should be alive to us and bubbling within when we read and hear Him. The Word of God is life and health to all our flesh.

Jesus was pleased with the woman from Samaria because she believed the words He had said… He did no miracles but only spoke in John 4.  Even though, there was no sign to see with her eyes, the Spirit of God was hovering over her. The Holy Spirit gave her eyes to see and ears to receive the words spoken by the Word Himself, the Son of God….. She was a great witness to our Lord….They all turned to the Lord in that town, not because of any signs but because they believed the words He spoke.

We are each a part of the city of God, who is in our midst. It is written in chapter 21 of Revelation, verse 22-23, But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city had no need of the sun or the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.

Our King is in our midst, the Lamb of God is in the center….. Does not John 1 say that the Light of the world came and His own did not recognize or receive Him….  Just because His own were blind to Him does not mean He did not come…. He came. Now He has sent His Spirit  now and will be forever with us…. Let it not be known of us that we did not receive or recognize the King of all by His Spirit.

His Spirit illuminates us today…. but it is the Light into the ways and knowledge of God…. All the mysteries of God are revealed to the heart that is seeking after God. We already have the sun in this world to see by and get our natural light…. but we were excluded from the intimacy with God….. Now we have Him in our midst…Now He illuminates our knowledge and understanding  within us to know Him and to love Him.

Do we believe what is written by the Spirit of God or will we live by our sight of this world and miss Him in our midst today. It is written in John 3:13, Jesus spoke, No one ascends to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven….

He is here with us and is in heaven. We are born from above, we also come from heaven, but we are here too…. Jesus brought heavenly thoughts and ways to us and so are we to this world. We are ambassadors from another place, our origin and source is still from above, our God. We are to bring to others the vision and the mind of our God. Remind all of the standard of God and His rules, for His kingdom, heaven or the heavenly Jerusalem, still rules among men today. This earth and all that is in it from the hands of men will fade away like a leaf fallen from a tree in a cold wind. We are the mouths of heaven or the city of God now.

We are His city, His bride. According to this chapter the city is very beautiful to behold…. In our eyes our Lord is beautiful to behold…. We see His character and His endless love…. We see His beauty and we have known His beauty touch and engulf our lives….

Now do you believe what the Word says…. we are His bride, His city. Then we have to stand strong in faith to know that beauty is within each one of us, because His Spirit is within us…. making us into His beautiful and awesome image of Christ….. We are each a stone chiseled into the temple of God by the hand and power of God. We each give off different brilliant hues of His essence….Let us look for the difference hues instead of complaining our hues are not like others…. We all cannot be the arm or the neck or the calf of the Lord’s body…. We are His, and each have great purpose in His plan. Let us respect the choice of the Lord and His purpose in each other…. Honor the Lord and His people, all His people.

Open the gifts that our Father has bestowed on us through the cross and blood of Christ and the power of His Spirit.

Father, please forgive our ignorance in not believing what is before us by Your great and mighty hand. Give us more grace to act on the words of the WORD. Thank You for Your great mercy. Please renew Your Spirit within us and allow us to have the heart that is pure that we may believe all You have given us through Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ…..Give us eyes to see the beauty of You in each other as You build us into Your House, where You dwell. May we have the spiritual eyes to see the city or bride or army around us now… in all Your beauty. May we acknowledge all the parts of Your body, Lord Jesus, for each one is vital and special to You! May we all be in one accord with Your Spirit in love and honor.

We love You, please increase our love. In Jesus Christ name, we pray. Amen.

Selah!

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying: I will declare Your name to My brethren, in the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You. And again, I will put My trust in Him. And again, Here AM I and the children whom God has given Me, ( Hebrews 2:9-13).

When do you think that Jesus meant for the disciples to act on what He had said to them in John 20: 21-23, So Jesus said to them again, Peace be to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you. And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.

Did Jesus Christ want us to wait until the next world for us to obey this word He left us in Matthew 18:18-20? Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again, I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in My name, I am there in the midst of them.

I wonder who the thrones were for?

Now there are two sets of people here as we are studying the 20^th chapter of the Book of Revelation. One set will experience the “first resurrection” and the others will not experience the first resurrection. Did you notice that rest of the dead will not live again until the fulfillment of time….. Did you notice another party that will be under locked key in the bottomless pit also for a thousand years? Hmmmm……Is there any correlation that there are two sets of creatures in a pit- one is locked by death and the other a prison- a bottomless pit…. until the fulfillment of time? Where will they go when the time has been fulfilled?

This thousand years is not a literal thousand years….. if that was so….. This age would have ended or at least changed at the end of one thousand years of Jesus Christ ascending to heaven….. It has not,…. this thousand years represent a fulfillment of time according to God’s plan.

Let us study these verses 4-6: And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

What does the first resurrection mean and the second death mean? For the followers of Jesus, they experience the first resurrection……The ones that chose not to follow Jesus Christ have lost their chance to experience the first resurrection, they remain dead until the final day of judgment. Then they will rise and be condemned to the lake of fire….. Pretty gruesome….. God is real and so are His judgments!

Where was Jesus Christ crucified? The place was called Golgotha, the place of the skull…..

Why does the epistles mention so much to renew our mind and that we have the mind of Christ..?

Do you know? Paul tells us to be of the same mind…. and as I mentioned in the other blog, that once the Holy Spirit came into the followers of Christ Jesus that they were all of one accord in their goals and agenda to please the Lord….

For thus says the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones, ( Isaiah 57:15).

If we do not die to the world and the ways of thinking that belong to the world, we cannot partake of the first resurrection. Why? Because the mark of the beast still remains on our foreheads. This means we still bow to Satan or the beast nature and reject the leading of the Holy Spirit….. Our natural mind is an enmity with God as scripture states…. in James 4:4-8, Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you thank that the Scripture says in vain. The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealousy? But He gives more grace. Therefore, He says: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

If we look over the scripture of verse 4 of chapter 21 of the Book of Revelation….. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands…..

These saints renewed their mind as Paul instructs us in Romans 12:1-2; I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

They are with the Lord on the thrones ruling and reigning with Him in the first resurrection. The ones who did not believe in the salvation of God and did not renew their lives unto the Lord remain engulfed in death.

We, first, ascend to the Lord, by the repenting of our mind’s thoughts. We turn to Him and believe we are sinners need of a Savior. Then we follow through in our beliefs by learning of the Lord… The disciples were somewhat lost and confused as they followed the Lord as He walked the earth…. But they had no problem understanding and renewing their mind to the leading of the Holy Spirit when He came to indwell in them.

We first think, then do….. the mark of the beast on the forehead and then on the hands represent that- we first think, then do….. either towards the Lord if we are born anew, or the beast, which is our selfish nature, the beast nature.

After studying the above verse, should we understand this verse fully and conform our lives in accordance with it? Galatians 2:20, I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

In verse 11-14, Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged, according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

We see that eternal death are for those that did not rise in the first resurrection. May we then conclude that they did not die in the Lord and rise with Him as the Resurrected Savior in the Spirit by their faith in the word. They did not loose themselves to gain Christ…. So they remain dead in their unbelief in the first resurrection and then enter into the second death.

When we turn to the Lord and believe. We are born anew and we know that we are dead in our sins. In Christ is our only righteousness with God. All our works that we have done prior are as filthy rags…. We are dead to God in our sins…. We may be living on this earth, but according to God, we are dead spiritually in our sin and are heading for eternal death.

But when we accept that we die spiritually with the Lord on His cross, and then we carry our cross and die to the world in our soul so that we may make room for the image of the Christ to be seen by Him, we will be found in Him….We have been judged but escape the penalty because we are found in Christ….. We are not judged on our works anymore, we have been saved from ourselves. Thank God for His great plan of grace and mercy that we find in Jesus Christ.

The ones who have not chosen the Lord as their Savior, are judged by their works which are as filthy rags. They are condemned to the second death….. eternally, their home is in the Lake of fire….

And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire, (Revelation 21:15). Thank God, that we are not judged on our works if we are in Christ. The work of our Lord on the cross, His burial and His Resurrection is the work the Godhead respects and honors…. Our works are never included in God’s view. That is why Jesus Christ said to us in John 15 : 5,…… I am the vine, you are the branches, He who abides in Me, and I in Him, bears much fruit; for without Me, you can do nothing.

That is the reason why it is imperative that we are found in Him….. That we are found in Him and rest in Him. That all our righteousness is of Him…. We are being conformed to His image…. that is His work and He gets the glory…..When we come to the end of ourselves, that in us there is no good thing… We die to us and the world…. Then the Lord and His Spirit reigns in us. The Lord is the Owner of His redeemed.

Paul states in Philippians 3:7-14: But what things were gain to me, I have counted as loss for Christ. Yet indeed, I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I might gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God through faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience, ( Hebrews 4:11).

Our Lord Jesus Christ is our Sabbath rest. He is our Sabbath….. He is our everything! Praise Him forever! Praise the Father. Praise the Son. Praise the Spirit. Praise the Godhead, all Three in One!

When we hear the call of our Lord, our hearts leap to Him. Who is as beautiful as our God. Who is as beautifully wonderful and wonderfully beautiful as our God, who loves us with an everlasting love… Who can not hear His call to us for He never quits or lets go….. If we let go, He respects our decision heartbroken. But His love for us never fails. May we learn that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of all understanding to our Awesome Wonderful Great Almighty God and His Precious Son.

O Heavenly Father, may we have ears to hear what You are saying to us and may we have eyes to envision all that You have given us in Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, by the power of the Holy Spirit…. May we realize we are no longer our own, but we are the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in us….We were brought with a price; therefore may You find our worship in offering of our bodies and our spirits which are Yours. In Your hands, You make all things new. We die to ourselves in Christ and rise in Christ to Your power and glory…. May You find delight in our offerings which are more precious than silver and gold to You…. For it is written, that You delight in a pure heart, a heart that is after You. Lord, I pray that heart be found in us…. In Jesus’ name, we pray.

Selah!

He shall stir up His zeal like a man of war. He shall cry out, yes, shout aloud; He shall prevail against His enemies, ( Isaiah 42:13).

And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns! Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His wife has made herself ready. And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints, ( Revelation 19:6-8).

Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called the Word of God.

And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses.

Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.( Revelation 19:11-16).

The fullness of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, the Son of God is presented…..What happens?

And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army. Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire, burning with brimstone. And the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse. And all the birds were filled with their flesh, ( Revelation 19:19-21).

Is there a separation between the Lord and His body when He is presented? Is there a separation between the Lord and His body now as the visible world is revealed and the spiritual realm is hidden? So  we studied that there has been a war from the beginning between God and the ungodly…..That He has been separating a people for Himself ever since Adam…… Well, in Christ we are the acting body of the Holy One. He is working in us and through us…… doing what?

Psalm 149 states: Praise the Lord, Sing to the Lord a new song, and His praise in the assembly of the saints. Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. Let them sing praises to Him with timbrel and harp. For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation. Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud in their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two edged sword in their hand, to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples; to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; to execute on them the written judgment- this honor have all the saints. Praise the Lord!

Our meek and mild Lamb of God is still meek and mild to our Father, God Almighty, but He is ruthless to His enemies. He laid down His life for us to be made new in His resurrected body…… He has said He makes all things new…Now we are to renew our mind to line up with His, the Word of God.  Let us be found diligent.

Did Jesus Christ, King of kings and Lord of lords show Himself as Judge during the battles that King David fought? What about WWI? What about WWII? Does He show Himself as Judge now today? What about the future? Yes! Thank God that He has and does now and will until the end of this age!

The Lord has won and won now and later in the final battle….. Praise God that He chose us to be on His winning team….

Are we just to sit by and let injustice be done when we can lift a voice and bring the Judge on the scene? What are we to do now? As darkness tries to snuff and muff the Light of the world, the Word of God from everyone’s knowledge,…. what as the body of Jesus Christ are we to do? Of course, pray and speak Light…. then what?

If we don’t take a stand we are part of the compromise with darkness…… whether it is with our children, our bosses or neighbors even the men that run the current day church…… If the salt looses its flavor, it is no use to anyone….. We have to be salty……. We cannot be with the crowds. We must stand out against the flow of the current age. The Lord stood out when He hung on the cross….. What about us?

Did Jesus Christ ever compromise His stance for His love for God…. with His mom, His family? Did He compromise His stance of who His Father told Him to be and do for increase of finances or His health?

No, He is our Hero. There is no One like our Savior Jesus Christ….. Aren’t we His body? So aren’t we to do the same as He. He has given us all the power of the Holy Spirit to live a godly life for God…. so there would be no compromise or mixture ….. In us is the living Testimony of Jesus Christ, each of member of His body is to represent the fullness of God in this world, which is as written fills all in all. Does the church really believe that? Do we believe that we are new creation and are apprehending that new life in Christ as Christ apprehended us?  

Is it not written that we are along side of the King of kings and the Lord of lords on our white horses. What does that symbolize?

As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving…..Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ……

For in Him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power, (Colossians 2:6-10).

In Him dwells the fullness of God…. What an incredible place that God has bestowed on us…… Can you imagine all there is to gain in Christ… In my eyes, it would be like being in a F-22, a fighter jet, breaking through human bearers and going beyond into our Endless Frontier, our Lord…… and join the speed of light by the power of the Holy Spirit…. Entering in a realm of the Spirit, that we have been invited to live and breath in. Can you imagine the greatness of our God that has been given to us in Christ Jesus……? Come on start your jets and let’s fly into the unknown, but known to Him. Let us live to  be the revelation of our lord Jesus Christ in us and through us…. All things are possible to those that believe.

I do not cease giving thanks for you making mention in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance of the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and fave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all, ( Ephesians 1:16-23).

You choose this day, who will you listen to: The Word of God, the King of all kings and the Lord of all lords…… or man….. I have heard from the pulpits who stand representing God’s mind shoveling a lot of excuses for unbelief to continue to grow rapid in the church….. Excusing the lack of the spiritual gifts that the Holy Spirit is waiting to bestow among all of His children.   Has God changed? Has the Holy Spirit gone somewhere since He came to be in His children since Pentecost?  

Has Jesus Christ stopped bestowing gifts of people to His body to help them grow into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the  fullness of Christ…..Did God’s purpose in Christ Jesus change? 

Who benefits from the lack of spiritual gifts and power among the followers of Jesus Christ?   Evil….and those who make gain from the spiritual ignorance of people.  Study the Word and the One who has called you!  Who is bound when the body of Christ is walking and operating in the fullness of the power bestowed upon them?  I hope you know the answer!

We are a heavenly people worshiping a God of Spirit and Might….. or we can stay earthly. As we focus on the earth, we will receive earthly results…. if we focus on Jesus Christ, beholding Him as our all, we will receive heavenly results and gifts and blessings….. Which do you choose today? 

As Paul is instructing us to Jesus Christ and the fullness of God dwells within Him. Now take it to the next step…. We abide in Him…. What a place, a land, so to speak, that have been given to us…. our Endless Frontier….. Then Paul proceeds to admonish us in Colossians 3:1-11: If then you are raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died , and your life is hidden in Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.

But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth,( 2 Timothy 2:15).

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge- by professing it some have strayed from the faith…. Grace be with you, Amen, ( 1 Timothy 6:12, 20-21).

Beloved, the waves of the sea are rising high to weaken and wash away….. What can be washed away? Only that which not founded in Christ Jesus and His cross, burial and resurrection…. If we have any false traditions and systems in our belief that is not founded in Christ and our death and burial and rising in Him, all that is not Christ is shaken and washed away….

When we stand, we stand in the whole armor of God….not man’s ways and traditions. Only in Christ do we stand strong against the wiles of the spirit of this age.

Man’s ways and traditions and buildings will not be here. Did not Jesus say the same thing to His disciples when they showed in pride the great building of the temple? Where is it today? What was Jesus’ reply…. Does His reply hold to us today? ( Matthew 24). In John 2, Jesus had just cleaned out the temple…..( can we apply that saying to our souls and spirit ?) and the leaders were appalled at His zeal for His Father’s house and asked Him by what authority did He act. His response in verse 18 was- Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

When the abomination of desolation is revealed before us, will we know what that looks like? Will we be included with the wise virgins that kept their oil flasks full and were prepared for they were watching for when the Son of Man returns? Will we notice any abomination  in a church? Who is the church, are we not the body of Christ? So where will the abomination of desolation be revealed? What would be the opposite of Christ in us, our hope of glory? Those who have ears to hear, listen to what the Spirit is saying……

We can load up with the world’s goodies and then have to realize that we are a double minded Christian…. who is unstable in all our ways, and sort of good for nothing. For let that man suppose he will receive anything from the Lord as James warns us in chapter 1.

The storms that are coming will wash away any man-made laws and traditions that have been put into the system of Christianity…… What was, will be and be again……God doesn’t change, but sometimes man does not either…..

My sheep hear My voice....(Matthew 5).

Yet they will no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not follow the voice of strangers, ( John 10—- Our Shepherd ‘s rod….. His rod is our safety net.)

That we may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height-to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with the fullness of God…..( Ephesians 3:18-19).

And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all,            ( Ephesians 1:22).

The fullness of the Testimony of Jesus Christ is to be manifested in and by His body….. The above scriptures were not for a future time or different age…. but now…. The Book of Acts reveals the plan of God through the body of Christ which were His followers empowered by the Holy Spirit….. God doesn’t change….. we must step up to the plate of the Lord’s standard today!

We can eat the wrong dainties and loose our place in our inheritance like Esau or we can act in fear and unbelief and die in the wilderness as the Israelites did when they heard the report of the promised land….

These are written for example that we flee from unbelief and slothfulness but run to fly the race of faith in belief of all that God has given us in Christ Jesus and live His full testimony on this earth….. within us, is the ark of God….. Let us treasure the Treasure within and protect our Gift. Let us be with our King in the heavenly places which we are called….. Gain Christ, gain all.

Faith is not believing what we see or feel…. Faith is believing the unbelievable and living the inconceivable. 

When we live so much in Christ, that the unseen realm is more substantial than what we see with our earthly eyes,….we walk in overcoming faith in  Christ Jesus….This is heaven on earth, beloved.

How do we live that we may be allowing Christ to be all and in all, where the fullness of God is accomplished within His body of Christ….. Ask the Lord, He will show you. This is our Heavenly Father’s dream and thoughts toward His Son and His people….. As He called one man Israel and Israel became a nation as His thought is also the same towards our Lord Jesus Christ…… and His body, the nation of the Firstborn.

There is a Thanksgiving Meal in the Plan of God, I pray we partake of His table more than this age, beloved.  We can be a sharpened instrument in the hand of our Lord or we can be dull and set aside from the Lord’s purpose. It is up to you!

Selah!

and has become a become a dwelling place for demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.

At the beginning with Adam, somehow though it is not written in Genesis, we hear the term Adam fell…..? From where? The original place God had planned for Adam. We were designed to live in God’s glory with no separation from God. So if Babylon is fallen, does that mean the same thing? The city that God had established for His glory committed treason? So if this is true. Jesus Christ came to restore His redeemed to where? Are we still fallen if we are living in the Salvation of God through Christ? Where are we seated now if we are in Christ? Where is He seated? Do we then act accordingly in faith of His word?

Back to chapter 18:

This announcement came from a mighty angel descending from heaven and illuminated the earth with his glory in Revelation 18: 1-3.

And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out her, My people, lest you share her sins, and lest you receive her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities, ( Revelation 18:4-5).

Again where are we here? If we are seated in heavenly places with the Lord, why would any earthly thing appeal to us? Unless we are living from our flesh which is fallen, below the standard of God. We are living beneath and cannot glorify the Lord by our actions…… We cannot have both….. Jesus Christ was so different than us, why? He was showing us how to live godly and unto God alone…. He only did what God, the Father told Him to do as He stated in the Gospel of John, chapter 5.

Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on her!, (Revelation 18:20).

And in her was found the blood of the prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth, ( Revelation 18:24).

I wonder if that includes all the abortions too?

Come out of her, My people, lest you share in her sins……That little sentence is a very strong warning. How do we know we are set apart for God or have many strongholds left in our thinking that allows corruption to take place in our lives…. How do we know?

1. Look over the ones who were weeping and mourning at Babylon’s destruction….. business owners, merchants, clothing stores, food stores, even coffee houses! Could I be as bold as to say, maybe in there are owners and team players of sports! Oh-oh…. Did I touch on the untouchable idols?

What part of Babylon do we partake in and spot our garments of salvation…. and may be not even aware of it? We are not made to concentrate on two ways of life and live two ways…. Jesus Himself said, we go after one way, we will despise the other in Matthew 6:24.

God knows our hearts and our desires…. When His Spirit came on Pentecost, all of the followers of Christ became in one accord to accomplish the plan of God for God and His glory in Jesus Christ’s name…..by the indwelling of the Spirit of God.

Are we still living in our comfort zone in our own picture of salvation? I am grateful God, but just do not invade past this line of my world. Is there some part in our heart that betrays our unfaithfulness?…… Do not worry He will not run us over like a locomotive…. but He will go on with out us, if we choose this world more than His Kingdom…

If we stop at some point of our journey with the Lord because of comfort or knowing we will get persecuted for the cross, it might offend family, or affect our livelihood, do not be concerned. The Spirit of God will leave you there. However, Almighty God wants His Son, Jesus Christ, to be the Only Stronghold we live in and by.

Jesus Christ confirms this thought of God by saying in Luke 14:25-35, Now great multitudes went with Him. And He turned and said to them, If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it- lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish?

Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace.

So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple. Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is neither fit for the land nor the dunghill, but men throw it out. He who has ears let him hear.

I wonder how many of the multitudes remained after His statement. Beware of  following crowds…. Only a couple of women were at the feet of Jesus at His death…. only 120 were waiting for the Promise of God, the Holy Spirit after 500 saw Jesus Christ resurrected. Be wise when you see great crowds…… I always wait and hear to see if they are serving the faith of our death and our resurrection in Christ Jesus or cake and sweeties.

The Lord has spoken this to warn us on those that hear Him but do not do the things that He says, then his house is built on the sand and will not withstand the shakings of the storms that are coming…. and they are coming, beloved. Let us prepare the way of the Lord in our hearts and as we do, others will see the Light of the world. They may be drawn to it and may not be, but that is between them and God. The cross is the standard that all will know that Jesus Christ is Lord of all over and in us.

Paul admonishes us to not partake of the table of demons and of Christ….. We cannot serve two masters, even if is one of them is ourselves…. If we follow Christ, we have died to all of our old ways, interests and life! Remember when Peter went back to fishing after Christ’s resurrection? Jesus Christ met him at the shore and gave Peter his standing orders…. Do we not have the same?

We can judge ourselves now before the Lord and ask Him to show us our wrong ways…. He will let us know, He is faithful to complete the work He has started in us!

Or we can think since He is silent that all is okay with Him…… Not wise….. Jesus stated in the Gospel of John that His sheep hear His voice….. Check: do we hear Him? Check ourselves: Do we know that Christ lives in us?

Remember His ways are higher, so must our ways be….. seeking the heights of the hill of the Lord. We can pay the cost now in loosing our old life now or pay the cost later in trying to keep any area that should be dead on the cross  with our King….. And of course, Jesus Christ, leaves the choice to us…… But, I say, to us, choose eternal life and loose the lesser life here.

Therefore her plagues will come in one day- death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire for strong is the Lord God who judges her, (Revelation 18:8).

Jesus admonishes us today, You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God. The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached and everyone is pressing in on it, ( Luke 16:15-16).

We pursue Him. What, Lord, are You speaking to me today! What are You teaching Me today, Lord?

You are my Endless Frontier, Lord…. Show me -You, today! I love You, Lord and all Your ways are my refuge and my stronghold. My delight is in You and the table that You have prepared before me. All my springs, Lord, are found in You.

You are my Endless Frontier…. There is nothing that compares with You…. You are Life and Light to all My paths……You have flown me to Your Mount of safety and peace in the wilderness… Because of You, Lord, I have found heaven in You. I break down walls of barriers and resistance to remain in You. You have taught my hands to war and my fingers to battle, for the place You have given me before the foundation of the world in You. You are worthy of all my worship and time, Lord, You are King and are above all. May You see Your laws and precepts written on my heart…. May You find Your cross etched in my soul.

We pursue Him and then we can be assured in His faithfulness that we have no part in Babylon….We can say no to ourselves and choose the higher life every minute of our day…..If we allow Him to consume our time, He will. His glory will consume us and our hearts will be transformed to do His will and think and pray His thoughts and will out in this earth. We will not be taken away from Him when certain shaking comes to the nations….. to awaken them to God’s glory…..

First Him…

Second Prayer and Communion….with Him, in Him, and by Him.

Then Be. ( It has been said it is in the attitude! The Be Attitudes of Jesus from the Mount of God.)

You have been called to be His at such a time as this……Come and let us pursue our King for He is our Endless Frontier…..In His Spirit we can pursue the mountain of God, our Stronghold. Where we can be found in Him. Amen! And show the way for others to follow Him with all zeal. Pray that we do not turn to the left or to the right but we see the King in all His beauty and His land before us.

We love You Jesus Christ. The King of our hearts and minds.

Selah!

And understanding lift up her voice? She takes her stand on the top of the high hill, beside the way, where the paths meet. She cries out by the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entrance of the doors: To you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men. 

O you simple ones, understand prudence, and you fools, be of an understanding heart.  Listen, for I will speak of excellent things, and from the opening of my lips will come right things; for my mouth will speak right things; my mouth will speak truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips. All the words of my mouth are with righteousness; nothing crooked or perverse is in them. They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge. Receive my instruction and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold; for wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things one may desire cannot be compared with her, ( Proverbs 8:1-11).

As we study chapter 17 of the Book of Revelation of Jesus Christ, what do we find here? Without the wisdom of God, found in and given by His Holy Spirit, this chapter is an enigma….

First, we see a woman as a symbol of the city that committed treason with God. How do we know that? Verse 6 of chapter 17 explains what John saw, I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her I marveled with great amazement.

As we look at the first verse:

John was approached by one of the angels who had the seven bowls, saying,

Come I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication. And on her forehead a name was written; Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother of Harlots And Of The Abominations Of The Earth.

The response of the angel to John, in verse 7-8, was why do you marvel, don’t you get it yet?

But the angel said to me, why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns.

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.

There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time.

The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to perdition.

The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast.

These are of one mind and they will give their power and authority to the beast.

These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful.

Then he said to me, the waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues, ( Revelation 17:7-15).

Psalm 2: Why do the nations rage and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and His Anointed, saying, let us break Their bonds in pieces and cast away Their cords from us.

He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord will hold them in derision, then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress them in His deep displeasure: Yet I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion.

Back to Revelation 17:17: For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.

The Lord had Pharaoh’s heart hardened also…. However, look at how the Spirit of God brings  His people to the mind and purpose of Christ in the Book of Acts 1:14: These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

And Acts 2:1, When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

And Acts 2:46, So continuing daily with one accord the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart.

The list of scriptures continues in Acts of His people being in one accord with His will and interest as their objective. Your will be done on and in this earth, Lord, as it is in heaven….. All of heaven seeks the glory of God…. And now the kingdom of glory is within us! The Holy Spirit is the Governor of the King over and in His people in Acts and should be now. Look them up yourself; Acts 4:24, 5:12, 7:57, 8:6, 15:25.

So we can conclude that the Lord instructs all hearts….. to His glory and His purpose…. The Son of God was led by the Spirit and so now the sons of God are led by the Spirit of God….. So we must remember when evil looks to be in the rise, we have to remember that  all things are in the Lord’s hands and He renders all according to their works…. to His glory and purpose.  As it is written in Proverbs 15:4, The Lord has made all for Himself, yes, even the wicked for the day of doom, (evil). His saints are not forgotten or left behind in any thought of our God. All is in the plan of God including the prideful rising their heads…. For He humbles the proud and exalts the humble to His glory.

So do not fear at the current age of darkness rising, stand strong in the might of the Lord against it, while bearing His fragrance to all. Also look up for our Lord draws nigh, He is watching everything.

For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of the cross. And you, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight, ( Colossians 1:16-22).

I hope you noticed that the five kings have fallen……The Lord sits in heaven and laughs and holds them in derision! The beast that was and is not—- where did he go?

Could it be that he is imprisoned by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ’s name and all He represents through His death and burial and resurrection? He is kept imprisoned when His saints, Christ’s body use the authority of the name of Jesus Christ to bind evil and release heaven into their earth or hearts, the Light of the world.

Evil continues to plan to make war with the Lamb and His people…. These kings did before….These kings have been released during time…. the past, the present and future….. What was, is and will be until the end of the age…. Psalm 1 & 2 was written a long time ago setting the stage of the godly and ungodly…. Also the war against the Lord and His Anointed from the beginning has been engaging throughout time…..

The war in the heart of Cain striking his brother, Abel, who offered a better sacrifice…..Esau and Jacob……Then the envy of Joseph’s brothers led them to sell Joseph into slavery……They, God’s own, also sold Jesus into His death….. This has been going on through time…. however,…..

There is a final end. The Lord has and does and will overcome the ones that rise up against Himself and His people… That is the end of the story…. It is written…. There will be no Word of God left unfulfilled.

As it is written in 2 Timothy 2:11-13, This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him. If we endure, we shall reign with Him, if we deny Him, He will also deny us. If we are faithless, He remains faithful, He cannot deny Himself.

Praise Him forever and ever…..God knew before time that He would be rejected and kicked out of His creation by His creation, but He still went on with the whole plan! Why?

Because of you and me, because He chooses to love and have mercy on those He has called and forgiven. His love never fails….. Before we allowed our love to fail, but we now have the capacity to allow His love never to fail through us…. His Love never fails.

We who have been chosen to be His, have a special appreciation and a grateful heart for His decision. He allowed His grace to be received in our heart, no matter how hard and stubborn we were in our ignorance. He still chose us and for this, we can live every day with a grateful, thankful, and humble heart. Sort of brings to light all “our work” for Him and who does it come from Him or us? Hmmmm……. Who gets the credit? Him or us? Hmmmmmm…….JESUS CHRIST IS OUR ONLY ANSWER AND SOLUTION!!!!!

As we think on Him, let us remember to tell Him- we love Him and want Him to invade all of our lives, so all that is left is His new creation, Christ all and in all. As Paul states, Nevertheless, when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord,are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord, ( 2 Corinthians 3:16-18).

Thank You Lord! We Love You! We thank You Lord everyday that we go and grow in Your strength to  larger strength in You, the Son of God. We thank You that Your love never fails!

Selah! 

Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame, ( Revelation 16:15).

Who are the “they” in the last verse of 15? Why did the Spirit of the Lord say that He was coming as a thief? Hmmm…… Are “they” the accusers of the brethren?

When we have something precious in our lives, we stand guard at all times to keep it.  Since this preciousness is important to our heart, we hold it close or make sure that it is kept safe…. We protect what we value.  No one ever needs a watchman unless there might be an approaching enemy that wants to secretly enter and violate…. Why does the Lord always sound the alarm of storms on the horizon by His watchmen?

Blessed is he who watches or stands the guard to keep the precious from the vile as written in Jeremiah 15:19, Therefore thus says the Lord: If you return then I will bring you back; You shall stand before Me; if you take out the precious from the vile, you shall be as My mouth. Let them return to you, but you must not return to them.

What are the garments that the Lord tells us to keep? Are these of value to us? Do we even know what these garments are?

It is is written in Isaiah 61: 10, I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, My soul shall be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

So if we guard and protect our salvation in God, what will that look like? How hungry and needful are we for Him and His benefits that He has bestowed on us. If we know of our need of Him, we will not take this grace in vain…. We will seek Him as our only One Thing, that we desire and search after…God always fills us and leaves us wanting more of Him… Always!

Praise God!

Well, if we are saved, what are we searching for?  HIM.  When we were living without repentance, we reaped what we sowed…. alot of trouble!  But we gave alot of trouble too!

Well, we were separated from our God. We had little or no correct knowledge of Him. Since we were on the wrong team, we heard and believed the lies of Satan…. Satan ruled our life, which wasn’t hard because we were set out to live in a beastly manner!  Yes, even you and I had the wrong mind set to do evil.

Now, we have come to the saving knowledge of the Lord…….Haven’t we? Are we not seeking to know our Heavenly Father……by the secrets that the Holy Spirit illuminates us within? I hope we do not just read the Word of God, but eat and devour the Living Word…. that the Word becomes us and is written in and on our hearts.

Are we of the mind of David and all the other saints of Christ? One thing I have desired of the Lord, that I will seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire of His temple. For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; in the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set my high upon a rock. And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me; therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord, ( Psalm 27:4-6).

Remember we read a couple of chapters before that the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened…… Will we be found there? The Tabernacle revealed is Jesus Christ- He is the Heavenly Man of whom we are to abide in….. He is the fulfillment of the law of God which were the tablets written in stone by Moses’ hand…… So where are we in this picture of the opened Tabernacle?

As Paul cried out in Philippians 3:7-11, But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead…..

All will be rewarded for the life we have lived on earth  by our King…. Christ will be all and in all….. So what does that look like to you and me….. Well, we, the old creation, will not be. As we join in the prayer and desire of Paul, that we may be found in Him…

In our spirit, we were dead and now are alive to and in Christ….. our flesh, our outer cover is being changed from mortal to immortal. Our soul, well, we are being conformed or pressured or squeezed as we are made into the Heavenly Man’s image…. So we may be found in Him. This is the Spirit within us that puts us in hard spots, trials, adversity to the outward man so the strength will grow in our inner man…… We trust God and walk through these experiences so that the Testimony of Christ grows and grows until all that is left is…….

For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame- who set their mind on earthly things. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed in His glorious body, according to the working which by He is able to subdue all things to Himself,( Philippians 3:18-21).

The other scenario of what is being released from the seven bowls of wrath  unto the earth is a hard and destructive path that those have chosen that have rejected the Lord and His Salvation.  The plagues that affected Egypt, will effect these also…. that refused to be clothed in the Salvation of God, Christ.   We will be found clothed and crowned with God’s divine nature, Christ.

The cross will always be at work in the Lord’s followers. We die  and live unto the knowledge of the life that Jesus Christ has died to redeem us to…..As the judgment falls on those whose name is not written in the Lamb’s book, we are hidden in Christ, the Tabernacle of God. We are the ones that He says about I make all things new in Revelation……

The word of God is made manifest and glorified in and by all of His creation. We choose our cooperation with the Spirit of God of what kind of vessel we are willing to be made into….We want to be the vessels of gold that are pliable and easy to be His new creation….. that we will be found in Him…. That He sees Himself in us and says—- Hey, I know you!

Justice is a wonderful thing to know and experience….. and Jesus Christ is waiting as we His saints wait for the day of the Lord…. as we wait, we watch and know that the life we live is precious unto the Lord Jesus Christ…. He holds each one of our tears in His bottle, I wonder how big that bottle  is????…..

Also I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plummet; the hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.  Your covenant with death will be annulled and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down with it. As often as it goes out it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass over, and by day and by night; it will be a terror just to understand the report, ( Isaiah 28:17-19).

Every work will be rewarded for all that walk the earth…. It is a great hope that we have to live for and keep focused on the Lord and His way.

If Jesus Christ came into our homes today…. Would we have to change anything as He comes through our door? ( Nothing is hidden from His sight!) I do not think the Lord will care if our house is spotless as much as our hearts—- His home.  Would we stop all for Him and cherish the place to sit at His feet to hear what He has to say to us? Would  our hearts leap for Him or betray us on what we had to change grudgingly because we know we need to hear Him, but our hearts are somewhere else?  What do we hold precious in this life?   Is it the stuff in the outside world or is it the Christ that is unseen in you and me, but very much in our midst?  I wonder if our treatment of others would be any different if we really believed that Christ is in each of His followers?

He maybe knocking at the doors of the unbelievers, but according to the believers of Christ, He is in our homes now…. Do we live with His presence first? Are we excited about the new place in our God that we have….. Do we want to learn more than anything what that is for us?  Are we pulling in faith for Him to tell and make it plain to us?

What we hold precious we will keep with all tenacity and what we desire we will go after like a thirsty person to water. Let us be found in Him at His day.

Give ear and hear My voice, listen and hear my speech. Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods? When he as leveled its surface, does he not sow the black cummin and scatter the cummin, plant the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spell in its place?

For He instructs him in right judgment, His God teaches him, for the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin; but the black cummin is beaten out with a stick. And the cummin with a rod. Bread flour must be ground; therefore he does not thresh it forever, break it with his cartwheel, or crush it with his horsemen. This also comes from the Lord of hosts, Who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance, ( Isaiah 28:23-29).

I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart, and watch to see what He will say to me, and what I will answer when I am corrected. Then the Lord answered me and said: write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Behold the proud, his soul is not upright in him, but the just shall live by faith, ( Habakkuk 2:1-4)

Selah!

How do we know we sit or our position is in heavenly places? Do we see the place where we  sit or are positioned by the Lord? How do we know the Spirit of the Living God dwells within us? How do we know that we died with Christ and have risen in His resurrection? How do we know that every knee shall bow and every tongue confess Jesus Christ is Lord?

How do we know these things? These words have been written in the Word of God!  Now do we only pick and choose what we want to believe in the Word of God and leave the rest like it is a buffet line at a restaurant?   We better not.

Every word that proceeds from the mouth of God is true, whether we see it with our natural eyes or not. Every Word that came from God will be, if it hasn’t been already or is today fulfilled in our hearing….. It is our Food, we are instructed to live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.  We live  by faith and trust in His great love for us, not by our might but by His Spirit….. We were created to be positioned with our Lord in heavenly places…. Are you there? I hope so…. I am assuming that we all are reading the Word diligently, like it is the only answer to all our life’s enigmas!

If we do not understand, ask for understanding! If we have the mind of Christ, then our vision is as His and then we live the vision of His that we believe. We live according to the word of God and what He says about you and me.  If we easily take His word on the character  of the Trinity, we should also easily take the word on the character of His children….. Remember His love covered a multitude of sins. As His children are we living that way also?

When we  walk in Christ, there is no room for slander, jealousies ( by the way, slander is the fruit or thorns of jealousy and envy), or dissension among the churches. If there is any negative or darkness from the mouth of people who call on His name, I have to question about a diligence in walking His Spirit.

In the Spirit there is always growth or increase in Him, which is love and light. We walk from glory to glory.  The advancement of His kingdom would be known in the world due to the fear that quaked in hearts  that saw the power of God working through His people as written for our example in the Book of Acts…..if  we acted from the place that we have  taken the land and dwell there which is available to us in the Heavenly Man, the Christ…..

God gave designated places to dwell in the land of Canaan, the land of promise to His people…… We also have the designated position to dwell in the Spirit of the Heavenly Man, in His body….. Are we growing up in Him which is all the fullness of God dwells?  The character and attributes of God are available  and perfected in those who dwell in Him, our Lord.

The angels admonished the world with their announcements in the last chapter of 14 of Revelation. Now we see the approaching wrath of God that will be poured among men that rebuke the Living God. As Isaiah spoke out in alarm in chapter 26: 20-21: Come, My people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourself, as it were, for just a little moment, until the indignation is past. For behold the Lord comes out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; the earth will also disclose her blood, and will no more cover her slain.

There is also revealed a sea of glass, His nation. This is the Lord’s bride, who is as glass reflecting the Son. The fire of the Holy Spirit has burned away all that is not God, so Christ will be all in all…..as scripture states.  These are victorious over the beast  and over his image and over the number of his name…..

Do you believe this is possible to all that call on the name of the Lord in a pure heart—– That you and I are with the Lord in His overcomer status? The sea as glass?   I hope so….. As Jesus Christ’s work on the cross is finished…. Do you think that the Holy Spirit will allow any of His work of sanctification to go undone? I do not see that as the character of God… Do you?  Nope…. thank God!

If we are willing and obedient to His Spirit, we will also eat of the good the land- not Israel- but the government of His kingdom— Mount Zion, where we  live and dwell with the King, the Heavenly Man – Now? Yes. We also act on the authority given to us  in the name that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

We join in with all our brethren and sing the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb SAYING from chapter 15: Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints! Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy, for all nations shall come and worship before You, for Your judgments have been manifested, (Revelation 15:3-4).

Jesus Christ is the Word of God and all the Word of God will be fulfilled, all!

He has made available to all His works, His love and His calling to all, so that they may turn….. With the internet and satellites, His word has penetrated all ears…. The ones that missed the technology, He has manifested Himself….. There is no excuse for anyone to turn away from the Salvation of God because they did not hear and see His Salvation….. His love has covered all the world’s multitude of sins……. in the past, now  and in all time’s future….. The Lord has done His work……. Now the Word of God, Jesus Christ, is manifest to all in creation. Study Colossians! See for yourself!

Why do you think that no one was allowed to enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed, ( verse 8 of 15)?  These plagues are not for the followers of the Lamb…..Christ dwells in us, He sees Himself in us! Judgment has come for all the names not written in the Lamb’s book of life….. Or could it be said His Spirit was not found in them?  Or could it be for those that  His Word is not written on and in their hearts? The Lord does not see Himself manifested in those that rejected Him?

The Lord needs to no temple to dwell in when evil has been  rendered its final just reward. The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the city’s  temple as we read on in the manifestation of our King.

How important is it for us to understand the mystery that has been revealed for us- Christ in us our only hope of glory. At consummation of this age,  there is no need to be separated from our God as before….. for Christ is all and in all. There is no more sin or judgment or flesh to separate us  from this Mighty God  any longer….. Our God fixed the problem of our natural man of sin…… He longs to dwell with His people. We are all in and of Him so we may worship fully in Spirit and Truth…. How great is our God and His manifold wisdom  for all of His creation.

He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things. And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head- Christ- from the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love…, ( Ephesians 4:10-16).

You meditated and asked the Lord if Christ is all and in all of us, His body….. Is there any part of His body that is not filled with His fullness…….? You wondered why this is hardly spoken on Sunday church! Are we what He says we are? Then why is there a blockage, maybe what Paul warned about in Galatians ? We are what He says we are…… He has equipped us and gave us gifts in men…..and the manifesting of His Spirit through us by the workings of His gifts.

However, no matter what man does to try to stop the Lord, it won’t prosper for our Lord is like a freight train— Thank God, He is unstoppable….. The people in the wilderness did not make it into the land of Canaan because of their unbelief……But He chose the next generation to get in the promise with the two from the old generation who had the vision of God.

If the church may be stopped in their tracks in unbelief but the Lord keeps going….. There are some that go on with Him….. as written before, and will be now and in time’s future…. Praise God, He always has Joshua’s, Caleb’s, and Paul’s who always follow the Holy Spirit, and are willing to pay the cost….. If the Lord be with us ( and He is ), He will give us the land!  Well, the Lord is with us and in us and has given us the land- in the Heavenly Man!

Praise the Father! Praise the Son! Praise the Holy Spirit! All three in One…… Where are we in this, if Christ be all and in all?

Selah!

but whoever loses his life for My sake, will save it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels.

Then He said to them all, if anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me, ( Luke 9:24-26, 23).

We make that choice with our King, to die to live…. and boy, what a life that He gives to those who follow Him in His way!

We understand that in chapter 13, the beast marks his followers and the Lamb of God has marked us with His Spirit…… Who’s spirit did the beast mark his followers with? Hmmmmm……

The seven declaring angels are revealing the short term version in the Spirit of warnings and admonitions to be reconciled to God TODAY  because the day of the Lord is approaching and is here for those that have the mark of the beast! Do you understand what is the mark of the  beast ?   We do not know the day of the Lord’s return…We also, do not know the last breath we will breathe on this earth……  In all our understanding, get wisdom!

Meanwhile, the Lamb and His redeemed are with Him, watching all that is unfolding at the revealing of  our Lord Jesus Christ…… The white horses represent the power of the Holy Spirit….. We have died to our flesh and now live and walk by the power of the Spirit… We are marked as belonging to our Heavenly Father, we are of His Incorrutible Seed.

First angel cries out—- Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His  judgment has come;  and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water, ( Revelation 14:7).

Second angel cries out—- Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine, of the wrath of her fornication, (Revelation 14:8).

Third angel cries out—- If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name,             ( Revelation 14:9-11).

Then a voice from heaven gives the saints instructions: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them, (Revelation 14:13).

Did you notice who has rest and who won’t for all eternity?   Our faith produces rest in our God now and forever, in His Son and in the power of His Spirit to fulfill His word and purpose in our lives……. That is rest and peace!

Amen and Amen!

Now here comes the Judge in verse 14!!!!!!! Extol the One who rides on the clouds, what is His name? His name is Yah!  And rejoice before Him. The King, the King of glory. The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle……..( Psalms 68 & 24).

Fourth angels cries out—– not to us, but to the Lord,——Thrust in Your sickle and reap, for the time has come for You to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe,                 ( Revelation 14:15).

Fifth angel shows up to assist the Lord in the harvest in verse 16.

Sixth angel cries out— Thrust in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe, ( Revelation 14:18).

Seventh angel—– Thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

And the winepress was trampled outside the city, and blood came out of the  winepress, up to the horses bridles, for one thousand six hundred furlongs, (Revelation 14:19-20)

May I put to you, that after reading this chapter, we have grown to  a deeper understanding of the verse 17-18 of 2 Corinthians 4: For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things that are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Judgment is real and has come to all! Yes to all!  But as Jesus Christ spoke in John 3:17-21, For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.

May I also put to you another tradition that may need to be shaken up a bit…… The Christian world speaks of a great harvest at the end time ( Only the Father knows so  when is this to happen?)……. It references to a great number of people coming to Christ at the end of this age. Where is that written?

Again where is that written?  How did the traditions of men get that meaning?  Harvest according to Strong’s Concordance means to reap….. That is judgment or blessing depending if one lived their life here sowing to the flesh or to the Spirit…. as written in Galatians 6:7-8:

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.

Is this struggling tradition among the Christian world because we don’t like the word-Eternal Judgment…. Could this be because it makes the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ easier to swallow…..God forbid that we water down the Truth and  Grace of God. We do not need to help God draw people unto Himself. He does and has been doing the that since time!!!!!

He does not need our man made ways to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ…… That is why He generously gave us His Spirit. The Holy Spirit speaks the words of knowledge and wisdom to others through us so that they may know God knows their hearts, so they may turn. God wants them to be  reconciled to Him through His Son……

He wants us as empty vessels so His Spirit may have dominion through and over us to catch the hearts that He has stirred to come to Him….. Judgment  has fallen on all mankind, but the grace of God found in our Beloved Savior is freely given……as well as His Holy Spirit…..

Be found in the Lord on His great and terrible day….. For He is coming to be revealed in us, His saints….. We do not know exactly how that will be in the Spirit and the natural eye…. But it is written and we can bank on His return to His creation….His viewing will be to all. We who died in Christ, have resurrected in Him and will be as He is as scripture says!

The Son in all His glory….. The fullness of God presented to all of Creation.  We will be there, brothers and sisters in Christ, if we hold on to the confession of our faith….

And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God let us hold fast our confession, ( Hebrews 4:13-14).

Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection( maturity), not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits.

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him into open shame.

For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God; but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you (us), yes, things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this manner, (Hebrews 6:1-9).

Your eyes shall see the King in His beauty; they shall see the land that is very far off, ( Isaiah 33:17).

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage, do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go, ( Joshua 1:9).

We serve a great and mighty God, and His people  do great exploits for their King!

Let us believe to live the unbelievable.  In our Great God all things are possible to those that believe…… So stand strong in  faith so we may continue to see the revelation of our King in and through His people !

Selah!

For it is the number of man; His number is 666, (Revelation 13:18).

The Lord created two living beings on the sixth day….He created first all the beasts and the second was man, created in God’s own image from the dust of the earth.  First came the lower life and the second creation on the sixth day was a higher life.

Then Adam brought us out of the life intended by God….. to walk with Him and rule with Him, most important to know Him intimately….

Our spirit died, and our soulish or natural man ran things. We lost all knowledge of God…. because  those who worship Him have to be led by the Spirit and in Truth…. Adam’s race, the first man, lost that with God……

Please do not get offended, but without God, we may have more intelligence but our morality is no different then the beasts of the field…. Our thinking and ways are against God, we are in conflict with Him constantly….. But He, as a loving and powerful God, had a plan from the foundation of the world…. He knew the weakness of man found in Adam…. Without Christ, we remain like the beasts. We choose to live a life way below the standard that God has intended for us.

However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.  As the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man. Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption,              ( 1 Corinthians 15:46-50).

For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin; He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His, ( Romans 8: 3-9).

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For who has the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ,      (1 Corinthians 2:14-16).

The carnal or the natural man is enmity with our God…. The natural man without Christ has chosen to remain in the dark….. But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them, (2 Corinthians 4:3-4).

What does the Spirit mean when He tells us to calculate the number of the beast which is the number of man…… He tells us everything without us calculating ….. We have the mind of Christ, which is the understanding of God and His ways…… The beast of 666 is the number of man’s spirit, soul, and flesh totally corrupted.  God sees these as beasts because they remained without the light of Christ.

So the image of Christ is being formed within the followers of Jesus Christ, so then what is being formed in the ones that reject the truth of God in receiving the Salvation of Jesus Christ? What is being formed within?

The coming of lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they may be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness,                                               (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12)

The admonitions of the Lord have gone out. He separates those that choose Him above all else unto Himself…. He always has been and always will be…. Our Father is seeking those to worship Him in Spirit and Truth….. That is the only way and it is narrow.  However He has given us all things pertaining to live a godly life  unto to Him, by Him, and for Him….

Woe, to those who don’t turn their ear and heart to Him when He visits them again and again and again. His mercy never ending in this age….. but there will be a day of reckoning with the great and mighty God. This age of grace will come to an end.

For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of a man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have not received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God, (1 Corinthians 2:12).

Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage, ( Galatians 5:1).

And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also, walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited provoking one another, envying one another, ( Galatians 5: 24-26).

But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world,               ( Galatians 6:13).

For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you being grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height- to the know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen, ( Ephesians 3:14-21).

Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? – unless indeed you are disqualified, ( 2 Corinthians 13:5).

You were contemplating on being the temple of God as written in 2 Corinthians 6. You were seeing each member of the body of Christ, being filled with His Spirit to the fullness that God desires…… That is a never ending vision to pray and meditate on.

You were thinking we are filled with either the Spirit of the living God, or we are filled with something dark…. Light and dark cannot be in the same place…..Light comes in and darkness hits the road!

You heard Him speak: the fire of My Spirit burns away the chaff and what remains cannot be burned away……I Am a Consuming Fire.  I Am the Light that will not burn out, I  Am  brighter in My children as the day of the Lord approaches.

Father, give us eyes to see and ears to hear what Your Spirit is saying to us today, in Jesus’ name. Amen. Then the courage to go against the flow of religion to live it out by faith in You.

Selah!