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!