Think about this for a minute….. The revelation of the Word of God…..Make manifest the Word of God. All the Word has been fulfilled in Christ Jesus, the Son of God. The blessings and cursings are exposed now as the Word of God or as the revelation of Son of God, Jesus Christ, because He is the Word.

Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen, (Revelation 1:7).

As we studied the Book of Revelation of Jesus Christ, we saw the activity of the Word being made manifest on the sons of men…… There is one thing all creatures that are created will and have experienced is death….

But then what did Jesus mean when He said this in John 11:25-26: Jesus said to Martha, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though He may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?

John 8:51: Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death.

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.

Was Paul alive and did he die naturally or spiritually when he wrote this scripture? How did he die and still write the scriptures for us? In what manner?

When we die to Adam’s race in the spirit, we then are reborn into the sons of God as scripture states in John 1:11-13, He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Not only did the Word become flesh and dwelt among us, beholding His glory, full of grace and truth…. but now His Spirit full of grace and truth resides in our flesh….. because we are now the children of God growing into the sons of God in Christ Jesus.

The image of Christ in symbols as written through out the Word is the Lord’s character revealed. Remember what Jesus said if you have seen Me, you have seen the Father…….in John 14:9. The very character and essence of God is revealed through the Word of God. This Word of God is growing His children into the sons of God by the power of the Spirit…

So the image is of Christ coming from us and not our old nature’s image…. for that old image is dead. Yet, Paul stated in the letters that He dies daily too. So this is the way of the cross and growth of Christ in us.

So as we are celebrating the Babe in the manger, helpless but mighty for He is the King of all, let us not settle for just His birth in the flesh, but let us reveal His birth and growth in us….today… and the Holy Spirit’s work in us into the sons of God. Our Heavenly Father wants a family in Spirit and Truth.

We do not give gifts to each other as if we were still babes, we give each other gifts as to the age we are now. We may celebrate His birth, but He is no longer a baby….. He is King of kings and Lord of lords…. and His dominion will never cease and always increase. So should we in Him.

This is our King, Christ, the Lord Jesus: The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. His delight is in the fear of the Lord, and He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears; but with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked. Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins, and faithfulness the belt of His waist, ( Isaiah 11:2-5).

He is no longer a babe, but Judge of His creation because the Word of God judges the hearts of men. For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing, even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, ( Hebrews 4:12).

This is the Babe, the Word of God, incarnate. He has grown into the Son of God and has completed His work for His kingdom as the Lamb of God, now He is King and Ruler over all.

As He also says in another place: You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek; who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered, ( Hebrews 5:6-8).

So, if the Spirit of God now dwells in us…. Are we not also going to grow from children into the sons of God through the suffering and death of our flesh?  What we want versus what is the way of the Lord? Is that what Paul meant as he said he died daily? All his dreams, his agendas….  Jesus, as well as Paul, and many other saints, were forsaken by the brethren at very hard times.

Is it not written in Isaiah 11—-He will not judge by His eyes or word of mouth, but by the Spirit of the Lord? Are we not to do the same? Alas, we need the anointing of the Holy Spirit to obey? We are to judge by righteousness and humility…. Poor in spirit, not necessarily poor in finances, but poor in pride  and self righteousness. It is written in James 2:5, Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?  Is this the only way of the Lord? If we call ourselves followers, then we shall walk His way!

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, 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 2:9-12).

But Christ as a Son over His own house, who house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden Your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, and saw My works forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, they always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways. So I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter My rest.

Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily while it is still called ‘today’, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, while it is said, ‘today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, ( Hebrews 3: 6-15.)

These scriptures are about the grown up Babe…… He is our Lord and Savior and the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord…..So we do not loose our confidence in our faith…..It is important not to get swept away by tradition and forget the True Reality of the Living God in our midst. Let us make sure we celebrate HIM!

Our worship is not of tradition but in the Spirit and Truth now….. No other way is acceptable to our God. If we are His children growing into His sons, then we will be about our Father’s concerns and have put aside the childish things….. Armies do not let their weapons down, how much more should we be on guard not to get swept away by the deceitful pressure of the world’s spirit.

Tradition usually starts because a certain time God moved and this was so glorious that we think if we do the same thing over again the results will be the same….. Rarely does that happen…. Pretty soon all the traditions are for our flesh…. hoping that it will be a special time like last time….. We have gone back to a place because the last time it was so wonderful and yet, it was God’s grace all over the whole day….We forget that the day is the Lord’s. If He does not get the glory for the beauty of the time, then it will never be the same again, in fact, sometimes it looks like the blinders are taken off…. We wonder why we even went there at all! Traditions can become ruts that make us do the same things over again hoping God’s hand will show up…. It won’t and it puts a burden on us to do everything perfect just like last time……hoping that it will be great again…..It turns into works of our flesh instead of faith. We tend to look for the feeling and goosebumps instead of how He showing us Himself….. love, blessing, giving, righteousness, forgiveness. Let us be looking for HIM!

It is better to stop the traditions and see what God has in His plan for His day and others hearts. Life in Christ is the best adventure for He is in our midst doing something in secret, waiting for us to seek what He is up to! Love is poured out in our midst every second……Let’s look for Him today and not be too busy in our inn for our King.

Be on guard against the world’s spirit and rejoice in the God who is with us then, now and forever…..He is worthy. He always has loved us with an everlasting love….. Hey, His love never fails.

Christmas means to celebrate Christ! So let us celebrate Christ and leave the traditions alone….. See what He has planned for you as you look for Him as the Gift in the Tree of Life.

Selah!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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!