The book of Revelation is written instruction for God’s servants, the bond slaves of Jesus Christ. Our Father uses the book to reveal hidden spiritual meanings about scriptural passages that have hidden messages from above and foretell unfolding events. God is doing so now in and through His true bond servants. God will completely reveal Jesus in a manner that will bring creation a lasting salvation, He desires that ALL men and women come to understanding and would believe and follow Him even now.
The life He intends us to have is now granted by grace. Now our lives are filled with faith formed love, peace and joy as we rejoice in what is spiritually about to happen. Our Father’s ways are unknowable until they unfold within our personal experience. We cannot understand Him unless His Spirit teaches us. His Spirit teaches the truth about the book of Revelation. His Word does include these written instructions from the apostle John called scripture. God is only known by men through His Spirit and His Word. It is God breathed affirmation of the truth of the apostles.
The book of Revelation clearly reveals the history of His believing people in chapters two and three. They were of imperfect conditions, at work but in servitude. The candlestick churches eventually emerge through centuries standing as the Laodicean church, a church rich with need of nothing. Jesus is outside, knocking for attention from His people to hear more about how Christ is formed in a more perfect church. We are beckoning all to hear what Jesus is saying. He is calling. His wisdom is at the gates of our life. We are taught by His Spirit of a Devine understanding, an acceptance of His judgments. He is coming with enlightening truth. We are now zealous to repent of every idea or condition that corrupts the brethren called to sonship.
The candlestick churches of Jesus Christ have made many wonders in heaven. Yet His overcoming bond servants are counseled to open a door within their hearts that allows them to see and hear HIM. His Spirit touches our spirit to open the doors that lead to spiritual food that’s been hidden. He feeds us great wisdom to understand His coming! We desire to understand and be led by His Spirit. They have a measure of the temple of God. Two witnesses have the correct measure of a man that can stand before the God of heaven and earth.
Some people are spirit filled people, taught of the Lord. They know things in the spirit of the Lord’s Day, as their spirit has been made alive and knows the mind of Christ. God’s truth is springing up within His third day followers. They are wells springing up lasting life that will make a great river of life. We are joined to the spirit of life that is in Jesus. He is giving His brethren sufficiency, a way up into spiritual mount Zion, so that we take part of His resurrection from the dead and be perfectly fit in the city of God:
"But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel." Hebrews 12:22-24 NAS
This scripture points to a “registering as enrollment in heaven” which must be the attainment for some Christian believers through overcoming the candlestick church systems of their day. This sealing process is God’s only method in making sons of every generation. Many are attaining full sonship, as saints have been overcoming throughout the past two thousand years of church history.
Yet even the best of the churches seems to lack the full measure and spiritual depth that opens in our inner experience with God and His Son. God raised Jesus from death, just as He is now raising more sons and daughters, delivering them out of the grip of death every day. They draw from a third day spirit given by God. He has revealed insights to overcoming believers who learn to “sing a new song”. They can talk about being enlightened, being redeemed from among men.
We see through new testament scriptures that the entire community of believers in Jesus are to be redeemed. We are to be as one people, purged of the old divisions, purified by spiritual truth. We’re to be formed by our Father to fit in a perfect place, made to be perfect, whole in Him. The ultimate union of the Godhead is found in the church of the firstborn, His church. This is the CHURCH HE BUILDS that is without spot or wrinkle. Some are granted to be “arrayed in fine linen, clean and white” through joining a spirit union as a marriage to Him.
All the various branches of Christianity make up heavenly companies of the Lord’s people. Vast amounts who are now hearing the call to wake up and see with new vision are enabled to see the glorious city, the new Jerusalem. This is a place of peace and love, to be enjoyed. It is heaven, a place we fit in, an order which COMPLETES the promise of our full and lasting salvation.
The Day of the Lord exists within our heart to deliver a word of His LASTING DELIVERANCE INTO A GLORIOUS CHURCH, ONE NOT HAVING DIVISION OR STRIFE, nor FACTIONS like “WRINKLES”, OR ANY SUCH THING THAT DIVIDES, FOR THE PEOPLE HERE ARE MADE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.
Deep messages are revealed in the book of Revelation! They are communion in our hearts with God’s plan for Jesus and His followers. The Revelation points to righteous behavior in each of us and gives POWER to each who will understand His promises and judgments are to ALL mankind. We are to KNOW we are chosen instruments to bring judgment about His perfection and fullness even now.
One thing is certain: God has complete power and full authority to do what He intends, even to the changing of the lowest beastly characteristic raging within the life of any person. The inspired thoughts of scripture declares:
“Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, Thou stillest them.” Psalms 89:9
“The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.” Psalms 93:3-4
God must rule over the INNER storms raging within men and women. When He speaks, those hearing His promises are made still, free from man’s inner tempests. This draws us to His peace, to experience his REST! He can quickly move us out of the storms if the right mind is created within our being. He calms the torrents of passion that direct the ‘streams of our life,’ delivering us from vain imaginations. Yes, only God can calm the waves of frustration and fear that bind men in darkness!
God’s fiery word breathes within us to blow away our doubts. His hidden truth exposes our turbulent emotions, separating us from fleshly zeal. His present truth quiets unnecessary anxiety within us. He draws us from temptation and gives us peace. The Spirit of sonship arises from within us with a spirit of peace, joy, righteousness, confidence, understanding, and strength to rule over our soulish life. Those who are not His, not controlled by His Spirit, are subject to the RAGING SEAS that inflame. These do irritate people with agitating, surging passions ruled by lying emotional propensities for beastly, carnal appetites and tending toward violence. Paul described these “works of the flesh:”
“Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” Galatians 5:19-24 NAS
The Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead brings crucifixion to the flesh of His servants. This frees their inner spiritual being. God writes upon us, controling what influences us. He guides us to great peace, overflowing joy, unfailing love, unwavering righteousness, and sure power. It is necessary we gain clear conscious awareness of God, His Son Jesus, and who we are within our renewed spirit,. We must be made aware and aligned in knowing God’s will concerning His Sons.
The Father is supplying GOD LIFE to His sons and daughters. Their spirit can recognize true love, perfect peace, being joined to a divine love. Comfortable lives may draw us aside to stir up inner tempests, yet He is ever faithful to calm the seas of our lives as our inner character is changed. He changes us until we fit into a peaceful place where we can make peace, forever. From now on we seek peace in our hearts. We are led to a place on “seas of glass” where our thoughts and intents are purified until every lie is swept out. Many are being cast into the “lake of fire” which is God’s presence, bringing godly fires that refine people. Yes, His sons and daughters are refined and can see clearly what God is doing in heaven.
God promises to raise us into the spirit of the Lord’s Day. The Laodicean church overcomers are given spiritual eyes to see with and spiritual wings for strength to rise up from within in order to release us from our every earthly woe. The Godhead is not like gold or silver graven by man’s art and device. God is appearing WITHIN the spirits of just men.
Men in this present evil world do lie and cheat to perpetuate their operations. The power of lying tongues still hold many Christians, with the “blind leading the blind” to the ditches of their own part of a church system that uses worldly means of money and power. They are taught to honor false concepts and traditions, the teachings of a Jezebel system that feeds the pride in peoples’ hearts about being a member of their organization. The candlestick church heavens have left God’s people incomplete, with wrong concepts “marking” their followers with a beastly mark.
Millions of Christian believers are voting in America in allegiance to their church’s vision. How tragic has been the Lord’s people walking in such natural mindedness — men using worldly standards to water down what is broadcast by spiritual revelation. Christian people are taught to fill their lives with earthly aspirations, yet seem not to be taught by the Holy Spirit. S
Spiritually minded men find life and peace as they they progress to more fully belong with Jesus. The Lord’s Day has come for them! He came to rule first in our spirit with messages explaining the book of life Jesus is. The symbolic book of Revelation points to a new way. Our fellowship is to be with the Father! He gives understanding to the minds of God’s sons and daughters. Each kingdom truth is like a key that liberates our inner being to life itself!
Man is endowed with a very intelligent human consciousness which affords a quality of spiritual communication with God far beyond any other animal. Man has something of flesh and blood as well as something not of flesh and blood. Man has an inner being, a soul which lives on as a spirit after physical death. We will not all die as do the animals. Paul pointed out the contrast between the natural body of man and the spiritual body in man, when He taught:
“ If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.“ I Corinthians 15:44-45 NAS
“…they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh: but they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit.” Romans 8:5
When a young man meets a beautiful young lady and quickly decides that he wants her to be his wife, he pursues her, spends every moment with her, proposes to her — in order to get her for himself. At that point in the young man's life she is what he is AFTER. This is the idea Paul has in mind when he speaks of being “after” the flesh or “after” the spirit. He refers to what men are pursuing and as what they are “minding”.
Most men are busy pursuing after worldly goals, mindful of worldly, natural things. Few are truly motivated to pursue “after” the spiritual truths found in scripture. God knows perfectly what we as a person are pursuing after, what is first place in our heart, what we think about certain things leading us t “be mindful of” or pursuing after. We know that people are AFTER the spirit when they seek it like gold or silver. Then they come to know His thoughts and His intents of heart.
Right-wing politicians are spending their time and money here in America supporting rich, prideful men who lie to influence the political process of our governmental institutions. Political power of a despot will not bring Christian standards to this nation. The people of this nation seem blind to real freedom. We must have a new vision of freedom, realizing that the truth of CHRIST makes us free. These lies of men lead us into the ditch of despair and division. This worldly DOMAIN is deceived by strife, jealousies, furies, factions, dissensions, sects, all from the “human caprice” and by the “craftiness” of the fleshly minded devising programs designed around the concerns of this world.
God's judgment and kingdom is coming with messages that are being revealed to His bond-servants. Christ reigning from within quickens the truth of God’s word, flowing from those who believe as the scripture has said. Scripture is inspired of God, so we commune with our Father when being quickened from the servant’s handbook. The revelation of Jesus Christ becomes active in each of our inner lives.
A few people have been pursuing a vision taught of God’s Spirit. Its intention is to FULLY enthrone people with Christ. God is in man and we are HIS dwelling place. A lasting order of peace, love, and joy is created within us. He is constantly manifesting a pure supply of truth in our inner person. An anointed flow is springing up like wells of water in a desert place because we are those who are “after” the spirit. Those who know Him do worship Him in spirit and truth, following after in active pursue of the Father’s goodwill. God’s light of life shines within His sons. They, like Jesus, only do what they see the Father do. We are becoming like Him! Oh, yes we are destined to see Jesus as He is, face to face, as sons enthroned with Jesus Christ! The spirit of sonship keeps coming, “conquering and to conquer”. Even today God’s bondservants see Him clearly!
“See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.” 1 John 3:1-3 NAS
How can a man purify himself if he is forever worrying about worldly problems that affect his physical life? Will purity come from an earthly mindset about political issues? Are we lead by His Spirit or working on ways and means that cater to man’s worried mind? Or, are we worried about how we can provide a better old age pension, how to afford the rent, buy a better home, get a newer car, have fancier clothes, how to access more entertainment to see, hear, taste, and feel what is available in the world?
Man expends his energies to make sure of his survival in temporal physical bodies that desire worldly comfort for themselves and their family. Images of worldly comfort flood man’s mind with false images to keep us motivated to live “after” the standards set by the world. This leaves men in ignorance of God, with a hollow quality of life. It’s a poverty of true security which seeks the wealth of this world. Our flesh is surely “after” worldly wealth and the high esteem of owning such things as successful businesses, large houses, and vast lands, fine clothes, bodily adornments, stuffed bank accounts, and luxuries of all sorts. All of these things are very definitely common to Americans, but they are, nonetheless, marks of living “after” the flesh.
Those who pursue after false worldly standards are not minding the things taught of the Spirit, but most pursue temporal things as they are exposed to what ends up deadening spiritual development. As such,attainment of knowing and understanding God’s glory escapes them in this life:
“…for she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.” I Timothy 5:6
“They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh,” Romans 8:5
We need to truly grasp the meaning of those scriptures in order to be released from our own fleshly thoughts. The way of Christ exposes the carnality of mind that identifies with fleshly thoughts. Christ casts down “the dragon thoughts” that lead to fear and torment of others. Light is coming into our spirit, coming to our mind, so the old way of being must be cast out! NO FLESHLY WAY OF THINKING, SPEAKING, OR UNDERSTANDING HAS ONE IOTA OF GOD’s BLESSED ANOINTING. Thank God, through CHRIST we have access to the RIGHT WAY OF THINKING, SPEAKING, AND UNDERSTANDING!
“…To be carnally (fleshly) minded is death…” Romansh 8:6
Speaking to His own church He said:
“Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.” Revelation 3:1
“To you hath He given life who were dead in trespasses and sins…” Ephesians 2:1
The natural minded man is dead to God, yet we have been quickened and are regarded by God as being alive in our spirit. It is not possible to please God by keeping laws and ruleS. In the strength of religious efforts in the candlestick churches, their sacraments and forms of worship are of the natural creation —they practice folly! When Christ is ministered in our SPIRIT, we have communion with Christ, with a quickening word of truth that is sent TO OUR SPIRIT BY HIS SPIRIT.
There is a small minority of “called out” ones who spend their lives minding the things of the spirit. The welfare of their inner spiritual person becomes foremost in their lives. These seek to partake of the MIND OF CHRIST. They find that a new, distinct, and supernatural endowment is quickening their spirit. The eyes of their spiritual understanding are open to perceive beyond this physical world.
Timeless truth becomes available to each son or daughter with distinction in the quality of character and motivation that is generated when we set “after” godly goals. The word of God is ministered to His people as He gives spiritual eyes and ears that have not waxed gross from hearing the world’s message of it! Our thought life becomes pure in quality so that God considers us to be spiritually minded, communing with us from within.
His people are not filled with fearful looking on the things coming upon the world. Death surely is working in this world, but we are really alive and need to qualify as being registered in heaven. We are aiming to be counted among those in heaven NOW. We are living in an hour when God is moving powerfully in the Spirit of the Lord’s Day! Our hearts are harkening to His voice and we hear what He is saying to us now while the rest of the worldly minded go on more or less unconcerned that God has a King. Even most Christians are content with traditional religious pursuits, activities that sink deeper and deeper into man’s morass of confusion, corruption, and immorality.
BUT NOW, there has come a mighty change! True revelation of Jesus Christ comes to release us from man’s carnal interpretations of scripture. The reasonings of our own natural mind cannot understand its own futility and worthlessness UNTIL the light of God's spiritual realities shines within. Why do so many congratulate themselves for being committed and involved in various church programs that pridefully show themselves as good church citizens? Some Christians do not want to let go of their time-tried orders of traditional church, their worship “comfort zones”. They have became stunted, blind, and remain spiritually outside the city of God. They have really become prisoners of an abhorrent cesspool of religious works created by well meaning MEN!
“I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,’ and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.” Revelation 3:15-21
“Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of man; and his number is six hundred sixty-six.” Revelation 13:18 NAU
Oh, what a wonder is this number of religious men with beastly understanding of God’s Word! Here is wisdom: understand it by counting the number 6 as MAN, two 66’s as MAN’S RULE (like Nebuchadnezzar’s image, 66 cubit high), and three 666’s as MAN RULING IN SPIRITUAL MATTERS WHERE HE OUGHT NOT TO BE! There are beastly (carnal) markings that reveal the understandings they teach because the people are marked with their leadership’s viewpoints instead of God’s. Christianity has been chockfull of false prophets sent to misrepresent HIM to the masses of people—His own people. Do you suppose millions of believers living in political, economic, and religious upheaval will come out of that way apart from a divine intervention of the Holy Spirit? Such a thing will not be.
New light will draw us nigh to agreement with the testimony in Jesus. Hearing Him speak words that change us from being vengeful to being peaceful,. We are enabled to feel secure in God because of the communion we enjoy and to which we are joined. The two witnesses of God are His Word and Spirit. They teach our spirit to grow and recognize the beautiful grace in Christ Jesus. Then our earthly state of mind vanishes, so that we are not dominated by it or troubled because we perfectly perceive the soundness of mind Christ has granted us. When compared to the shameful and base things of vile men who are only “after” gaining worldly wealth by fleshly means, we are rather seeking FIRST His Kingdom and His righteousness.
"Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6: 31-34 NAS
Seeking first the Kingdom of God from our hearts leads to wonderful virtues being accrued to our being. In pursuing “after” heavenly treasures we come to know the truth in Christ. We know about His people and have seen the hidden spiritual meanings in His Word. He has called us to be His tabernacle — God in man. It is time to wonderfully enjoy what God has offered! Our inheritance as sons is coming to operate in us, showing us how to be walking “after” His spirit and remain ever mindful to live according to His age-lasting truths:
“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:21
“And he that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son” Rev. 21:7