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!
