• Isa 66:22  For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. 

    Isa 66:23  And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD. 

    Isa 66:24  And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. 

    Mar 9:48  Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

    When we look upon our past or when God hands us over to relive our past, is what these verses are meaning “their worm shall not die” and “the fire is not quenched”. We become consumed by how low we had been living in our earth, feeding off our carcases. Feeding off our carcases is feeding off our dead world. We can see it in the world where we recognize those who are still feeding off their own carcase. It is eating swine and unclean animals which represent unclean doctrines and motives we lived by. To forsake your life is to deny your life as ever having life in it. Seeing it as a rotting carcase where there was no life in it and we were dead to the truth that Christ was The Creator and we were separate from Him in thoughts and deeds. But, today we can rejoice because Christ has revealed The Father to us. We are now sons of God and heirs to the throne. We are being transformed from a dead corpse, (who must see himself as dead before he can live), into a life giving spiritual host who contains life and has become heir of all things. We have no life giving thoughts of our own and everything that does have life in it comes from Christ, Who is The giver of life. Thoughts of the flesh that do not glorify The Father are dead thoughts and must be seen as dead thoughts that cannot have eternal life. They are for the dead carcase and feed off the dead carcase. They are carnal thoughts from a carnal mind, they are temporal thoughts for temporal gratification of the flesh. We fed off these thoughts in our past and thought we were alive, but we were dead. The thoughts were worms and they fed off the satisfaction of the temporal flesh. Spiritual thoughts focus on eternity, where there is no death and all is for the glorification of God. The simple question to ourselves should always be, “how will God be glorified in what we are thinking or doing?” Every thought has a purpose, for life or for death – that which will glorify God and that which will glorify flesh. Christ has redeemed us from all filth, in the eyes of The Father and we are seen as Christ Himself, without fault. But, Christ is also in us, walking through our lives converting our world in us to present it to The Father blameless. It doesn’t take much comparison with the truth to see what is carnal and what is spiritual. Carnal thought is based on the flesh for the flesh with no thought of God being glorified or the other person. Spiritual thought is based on the glorification of God as God and Christ as Lord and the good of my Brother.

    “For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.”

    Interacting with those outside of truth is like Apostle Paul trying to interact with the mob at Ephesus because, unlike the world outside, we have no motive in what we say or do but to glorify God as God and Christ as Lord. Those who do not know truth are driven by motives for the flesh, they are still being eaten by the worms of their mind. All is for their physical life and every thought is carnal. It is fairly easy to see through them because we were them and they were us. Every motive that drove us was a motive for the flesh and the glorification of the flesh. Every word or action was for us to be seen by others – whether good or bad – whatever the motive was that was driving us to present ourselves to others. We still catch ourselves from time to time trying to lean to our own understanding, or trying to glean attention for our flesh when interacting with the world out there because we have a world within us that is still being eaten by worms. Some of our thoughts are still focusing on the flesh and we feed off our flesh. This is why the serpent was told that he would eat dust all the days of his life. Our carnal mind is a worm, a serpent that slithers through our earth feeding off our fleshly life. To be carnally minded is death and when we eat from it we will die.

    “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”

    “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”

    “And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:”

    Eating from the carnal mind is eating from your knowledge of what is good for you and what is bad for you, with no thought of my Brother or God. It is the same as eating dust. The dust is driven by whatever false doctrine for self blows into my tree of the knowledge of good and evil. No matter what is presented to me in a day will be for The Kingdom of God or the kingdom of self. The word “carnal” means “flesh, stripped of skin” (stripped of a covering). So, we are being shown the carnal mind’s motives, “STRIPPED” of any covering. Covering being any thing that hides or covers the true motive of an action. A simple example is Ananias and Sapphira trying to present part of the sale of their property to the church but hiding part for themselves.

    “But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things. And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him. And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in. And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much. Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out. Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband. And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.”

    The motive in Ananias and Sapphira’s heart was to be seen one way but actually being another way. The Spirit of God in Peter removed the covering and exposed the motive and lie behind their attempt to appear to be good people. The same Spirit exists within The Elect of God and it exposes our true motives behind the things we do or don’t do. What is fully offered and what is held back for flesh. What is being presented as an unblemished sacrifice and what is being presented as a lame sacrifice. One is a sacrifice without blemish and one with blemish.

    “A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible. And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.” 

    If Christ is walking through our world preaching repentance then He is at the same time exposing the truth behind every sacrifice. We can admit to the truth or continue on with our lie and reap the consequences of eating from the dust of our earth, death. Sacrifice without thoughts of the flesh gaining from it or sacrifice something with the thought of gratifying the flesh. When we were in the world, even my own flesh would not be pleased with a half hearted sacrifice. I would push my flesh to the limits for the pleasing reward that I knew would bring about the best results. Physical exercise or denying my flesh for a reward. Making myself sacrifice for a good outcome in homage to my governor, my flesh, that governed me all my life. The carnal mind cannot present an unblemished sacrifice because it does something in hopes of receiving something in return, for the flesh. The carnal mind is at enmity with God, is against God, hates God because all the carnal mind wants is what is for the flesh. Sacrificing for God out of a pure heart can only come from a pure heart that has been changed by the Spirit of Christ in us.

    For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh (in our sacricing to God a blemished sacrifice); but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit (a true unblemished sacrifice). For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be (offering an unblemished sacrifice of self). So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God (with a blemished sacrifice where the thoughts of personal fleshly gain is in mind). But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.”

    To be carnally minded is to be eaten by worms. Thoughts feeding off the flesh and for the flesh in every sacrifice. It is a burning hell to live in this state because you are always trying to get something for your flesh, even in your denial of flesh is still for flesh. Knowing what you want is not good but at the same time your flesh hates God for holding back what you want, which causes a blemished sacrifice.

    “From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil (your devil, your serpent that lusts against God), and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. “

    “Enmity” against God means we are at odds with Him. What is good as an unblemished sacrifice is an evil against our carnal mind and it makes us feel deprived. We feel our flesh’s wants are not met so we become angry and at enmity against God and give a blemished sacrifice of self. We know we are wrong but the desire to have what we want is so strong we attempt to offer a partial sacrifice in hopes it will satisfy God. Then when that fails we slither into another angle, another shape, to attempt another try at getting what we want. Wolf covering itself in sheep’s clothing. To The Elect we begin to see our serpent trying to slither so we kill it before it takes us too far. We struggle to uncover the serpent who is so slick that he even fools himself at times and we fall for his lies. But Christ who creates all things for the church uses these times to teach us what we did not see. It is never a loss. Our dead, inside us, rises to the surface and are resurrected and the parts of us that are already alive rejoice at the resurrection of our dead, our total sacrifice. We do not have to mourn as others over the plight of our dead/sacrifice because we believe that Christ is going to recreate all of us. There are parts of us that we will not know have been recreated until we have walked away from this temporal shell called a body and reunited with a WHOLE new man, a WHOLE new world.

    “But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”

    There is a world inside of us that will be recreated into the image of Christ. A world full of religious Jews and gentiles alike that God so loved that He sent His Son to die for. Both seeking to rule the world. Both are lost and both are dead. But as Apostle Paul mourned for his literal Jewish brothers so we mourn for our religious brothers who have a zeal for God but not according to knowledge. Because the religious Jew in me is always trying to establish his own righteousness through works. And my gentile in me is always trying to consume something for his flesh. This principal is layed out in Romans 1 and 2 where the gentile is shown as an idol worshipping beast and the Jew is shown as a religious man judging the gentile yet doing the same thing the gentile is doing showing he is not a Jew but an uncircumcised gentile at heart. Every person ever created has both of these in him. Both have to die to be made alive and neither can stay the way they are. Not all of me will be saved, there are parts of me that will never repent and will be lost in the world of the unknown. But, from their rotting corpse a new seed will grow and their dead bodies will act as fertilizer for the new ground. A new man rises from the dead and we rejoice in what God is creating. If we make friends with it then we are enemies of God.

    “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”

    To snuggle up to my flesh’s world is to be an enemy of God Who created the flesh to die for a new man to rise from. The flesh is a fertilizer for my new man and a fuel for the fire. The worm feeds on the old man and the old man is the fuel for the fire, his words are the ignitor that sparks the fire.

    “Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.”

    The worm feeds on him and poops him out making fertilizer for a new ground. Just like a worm bed is made to make good fertilizer so the old man is used as compost for a new heaven and a new earth. We can look upon the carcase of our old man and understand what he was and why he was what he was. His worm will never die while we are still encased in these fleshly bodies because he will always be a reminder of what we were. As long as we are still encased in these fleshly bodies the fire of truth will continue to consume him. Every day he must be consumed and we can never make friends with him. Every day we are being taught to ask for the spirit of Christ to create a giving heart within us to sacrifice ourselves for each other with no blemish. This is a pleasing sacrifice, a pleasing unblemished sacrifice to God, a denying of the self centered, self consumed carnal mind that is always trying to give a little and get a lot. Like Ananias and Sapphira, trying to offer a little to get a lot. It’s ALL or nothing in an unblemished sacrifice. Like Christ Who gave it ALL. A blemished sacrifice is blemished because the flesh is corrupted with the worms of our carnal mind. We cannot stop thinking about self, therefore God withholds what we ask for because He sees our heart is still focused on the flesh, feeding on itself. But again, Christ is walking through The Elect’s life coverting these dead in us and recreating a new world where everything is done in honor of God and for our Brother. Everything is for us and not against us. Nothing can stop Christ from coverting the world in us that The Father so loved. All is for us and all is ours.

    “Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.”

    “Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and they redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.”

  • Isa 8:1  Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.(“swift is booty, speedy is prey”) 

    Isa 8:2  And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah (“Jehovah (Yahweh) is my light (flame)”) the priest, and Zechariah (“Jehovah remembers”) the son of Jeberechiah. (“Jehovah blesses”)

    Isa 8:3  And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz. (“swift is booty, speedy is prey”)

    Isa 8:4  For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus (“silent is the sackcloth weaver”) and the spoil of Samaria (“watch mountain”) shall be taken away before the king of Assyria (“a step” (in the sense of successful) to be straight (used in the widest sense, especially to be level, right, happy); figuratively to go forward, be honest, prosper: – (call, be) bless (-ed, happy), go, guide, lead, relieve.). 

    Damascus and Samaria are our old man’s thoughts of being prudent and searching everything out through his own knowledge, weaving a covering, a perceived safe place for his world – a covering that is actually a sackcloth – a covering of mourning. It brings only despair for the elect. The old man silently weaves his own sackcloth, that which holds his goods, like Judas who held the money bag. The old man thinks it is by his understanding and a lot of knowledge and experience does he succeed in life. By his own watching from his mountain of pride does he become successful or succeed in life. His Samaria and Damascus are familiar spirits and wizards. He despises waiting for the soft calm waters of Christ leading us and strives for his own knowledge through much searching and carnal learning. The old man rejoices in a “firm” (Rezin) understanding of God as austere and it is through this false knowledge does the old man believe he is “decked” or “bedecked” by God, the meaning of the name “Remaliah”. Because of this false understanding of God the old man is destroyed by the very opposite, which is the overflowing river of success by simply waiting on Christ as our guide, our Way. The name Assyria has a positive meaning to the new man who waits on Christ and that meaning is H804 -“a step”, from H833 (in the sense of successful) to be straight (used in the widest sense, especially to be level, right, happy); figuratively to go forward, be honest, prosper: – (call, be) bless (-ed, happy), go, guide, lead, relieve.” There is nothing the old man can claim as his because it is not through wisdom or carnal knowledge do we come to be successful in anything that God has us do. Like when we brought Rocky home and he took off running. We both felt at a loss on how we were going to get him in the pen. Then Christ had me scratch on trees and make mooing sounds which led him right into the pen. It wasn’t my knowledge or experience, a famaliar spirit gained by experience, but Christ leading me to do what He had me do to show His power in controlling all things and it becoming a success. Before we have the knowledge to even cry out to God, the success comes, “swift is the booty” and Christ is glorified, (For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.) Our own knowledge, as parabalized in Damascus and Samaria, are taken away and we are successful because God has heard us before we even know to cry out to Him. Assyria is the parable of the knowledge of truth that Christ is all wisdom and He, as an overflowing river overtakes our own wisdom and knowledge. Christ is our power and might, He and He alone is all we need. “All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers. And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what wasin thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every wordthat proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For (remember that word ” FOR” in what comes after in the next verses) the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hillsA land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thingin it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. (remember the word “FOR”? This is why.) When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.  Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: (the way He has us dress, walk, talk, and everything starts and ends with each other and no one else is allowed between us.) Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end; And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth, that He may establish his covenant which He sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.” 

    Isa 8:5  The LORD spake also unto me again, saying, 

    Isa 8:6  Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly (gently, secretly, softly), and rejoice in Rezin (H7526-Probably for H7522; Retsin, the name of a Syrian and of an Israelite: – Rezin.H7522-From H7521; delight: – (be) acceptable (-ance, -ed), delight, desire, favour, (good) pleasure, (own, self, voluntary) will, as . . . (what) would. ) and Remaliah’s son; (From an unused root and H3050 (perhaps meaning to deck); Jah has bedecked; Remaljah, an Israelite: – Remaliah.) What is being said is that the old man delights himself in his own self, his own voluntary will and he calls this his god that has decked him with fine gold and riches. The name “Remaliah” means “protected by Jehovah but it is the same as when Christ said many will use His name and in the end He will say I never knew you. Like the man trying to use the word “lord” as his success yet he was not successful in selling us anything. His lord was himself and his sheep’s clothing was torn off to show a wolf claiming a title of lord.

    Isa 8:7  Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: (Christ is overflowing over everything we ever thought was our wisdom or knowledge and causing us to submit to His plan. According to carnal wisdom we are fools but according to Christ our King we are the blessed and He alone is our sanctuary. It is easy to see Christ as the Assyrian king overtaking the things in us that trust in ourselves when you remember these words , “These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets (Isaiah 8 about Assyria), and in the psalms, concerning me.”)

    Isa 8:8  And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. (My old world praises itself and calls it god, the meaning of the name Judah. And it thinks that God is with it, the meaning of the name Immanuel. But, my old man’s Judah and Immanuel will be taken and overcome.)

    Isa 8:9  Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. (When my old world, who thinks it’s godly, tries to assemble together or clothe itself it will be broken to pieces. Any counsel of my old world or the world out there that takes counsel against solely trusting in Christ will come to nothing and will not stand.)

    Isa 8:10  Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us. 

    Isa 8:11  For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, 

    Isa 8:12  Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. (The Lord’s hand is strong against me in making an alliance with the world in me and the world out there. I don’t have to fear their fear and do what they do because as the next verse says The Lord is my fear and dread. My alliance is to Christ and to Christ alone. I will wait upon The Lord and not my own knowledge or the knowledge of the world.)

    Isa 8:13  Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 

    Isa 8:14  And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. (Christ is our sanctuary and we are to trust in Him and Him alone. Faith in Christ as Creator is a stone of stumbling to the world in me and the world out there and a gin and a snare. It is a crime against my world and the world out there to soloely trust in Christ and not go to the world for their advice.)

    Isa 8:15  And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. 

    Isa 8:16  Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. (The Elect of God are sealed with this testimony and the law of the spirit to trust in Christ and Christ alone.)

    Isa 8:17  And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. (Christ hides His face from the supplanter in me that tries to supplant its own wisdom for the wisdom of God in Christ.)

    Isa 8:18  Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 

    Isa 8:19  And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: (going to the world for their advice about our livestock or land. Being confederate with the world. This is what it says about a wizard: “through the eyes one experiences his world and learns from it”. Seeking knowledge from what my fleshly eyes see, from my experience.) should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? 

    Isa 8:20  To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. 

    Isa 8:21  And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. 

    Isa 8:22  And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness. (There is no knowledge in my world, it’s all peeping and muttering. No truth only darkness.)

  • To know God is a vengeance on my way of life. God’s vengeance on earth is played out in my earth when the truth exposes the lies of my earth, that I think I know something independent from Him by my laws. Christ is The Light of all knowledge that God says to my world, “let there be Light”; “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” Christ then shines into my life and exposes all that exists in darkness, without understanding of truth. Everything in me, from birth was in darkness because it thought it lived according to what its own darkened sun, knowledge, gave it. If I see my world as the literal world with a sun, a moon, stars, gravitational pulls, a sea, and land I can understand the truth of who and what I am without the knowledge of God. The sun, moon and stars represent the light I think I get from understanding things, life and people. This is called Baal worship.

    “And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded”

    “And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.” 

    “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.”

    This is what the vengeance of God is consuming in our world. It is consuming every thought of self/Baal worship and exposing the lie of free will. Everything in me that does not submit to the supremacy of Christ as Lord must be destroyed. Beyond the earth, in what we call space, is the darkness that is never ending. This is a parable of where the parts of me are sent, into eternal darkness, never to be remembered. The following verse is to be seen, as all scripture, as inward.

    “I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt (This saving us out of our old world), afterward destroyed them that believed not.  (the parts in us that are unbelieving). Likewise also these (put your birth name here) filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee (my self righteous serpent disputing against the truth of my total depravity and trying to claim righteousness by law). But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves (all we know in the flesh is beastly and for the flesh). Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever (Thoughts! thoughts about whatever and whoever that have not submitted to Christ as Lord.). And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.”

    If I read these verses inwardly and see all of it within my own personal world it is easy to see the meaning behind the names that are mentioned, Egypt, Michael, the devil, brute beasts, Cain, Balaam, Core, clouds, water, winds, fruit, raging waves of the sea, wandering stars, Enoch, seventh from Adam, thousands of saints, murmurers and complainers walking after their own lusts and all for advantage of the flesh. I see all of this in me that has to be destroyed. Peter had it and is why Paul rebuked him openly. What he was doing was for the advantage of the flesh.

    “But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?”

    I am shown daily the hypocrisy that is still crawling around in my world. The hard speeches, speaking in my mind against dignities, my grumbling about the way any day plays out. Like King David said, “I am for peace, but when I speak they are for war.”  Daily I have to fight back the constant attack of my old Canaanite world that is always trying to fight for their country. I feel the sweat of blood running down my face as I struggle to fight against a world that KNOWS it is dying and cannot stop its ultimate death. The one dying in a fight tries hard to stay alive, even when they know it’s over. At times I feel like a dying man, who tries to eat one last meal even though he knows it will make him sick. One last great stand is what my old world tries every day. But, thanks be to God that Christ is the one doing the fighting and giving me the strength to go on. I know that my new man will live at the death and demise of my old man. Everything in my beast hates Christ because everything in me wants the glory of being my own lord by my own laws. I want to stand before God in my own strength and claim my own righteousness.

    Above when Jude was quoted I need to remember that he is speaking of the way my old man is inside me. He hides himself in me, like Judas among the disciples, feasting on Christ’s love for me. But, like Judas, my old man wants to look religious, but not be religious. I want to act as though I’m concerned for the poor, but I’m not.

    “Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.”

    The bag is where I keep my money. The bag is me and my worth is within myself, not Christ. We live and move in these bag skins and in them we hold our own worth. This worth is what God’s vengeance is consuming. Everyone thinks they have worth within themselves and no one believes that they are totally evil. No one believes that what we were created from conception was a serpent feeding on itself, dust. Because none of us believe the truth unless it is given to us to believe the truth of these scriptures.

    “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

    My old man does not believe these scriptures because my old man finds worth within himself as his and titles it Christ. We want the name only, not the life.

    “And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.”

    The vengeance of God is real to an Elect of God. They know that every thought must be brought into obedience to Christ. I have to fight hard every day to keep my thoughts in line with truth. I fight hard against the thoughts of planning anything. The other day I was in the hardware store and heard the man behind the counter say that snow was coming next week. I was shocked that it was coming so early and gasped. I told the man, and couldn’t believe as it came out of my mouth, “that’s not good, it’s too early for snow”. My old man thought God should not be making it snow so early. My old man thinks he knows what’s good and what’s evil. Then my old man wanted to look up the weather “FORECAST” and plan to be prepared. The carnal man whithin me who is dying and fights hard everyday to not die says there’s nothing wrong with that thought but the new man says, “don’t plan, rest in Christ as Creator and have peace. Live day by day and remember that Christ said “take no thought for tomorrow.” My old man loves to know what’s happening at all times so he isn’t taken off guard because he actually believes “he’s on guard” and that his planning and prognosticating actually have power to affect his world. The new man within me knows this is a lie – that nothing happens outside of Christ and nothing can thwart the will of God. To the new man the knowledge of Christ being all in all is peace but to the serpent nature it’s death. It wants, NEEDS to feed on the dusty thoughts of the protection of the flesh but the new man is learning to rule over him. “EVERY” thought must be brought into obedience to Christ, not some.

    “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.”

    So the vengeance of God is against the old serpent thoughts of “you shall be as God” in every aspect of my life. Every thought is examined whether it is for the flesh or for the Spirit. Apostle Paul said if we walk in the Spirit we will not FULFILL the lusts of the flesh. He did not say that there were no lusts of the flesh that wanted to be fulfilled but that we could have dominion over them by walking in the Spirit. If we see the reason behind the thought we can learn to discern between flesh and Spirit. Flesh is always about the flesh and the Spirit is always about God and my Brother/Sister. I used to love country music until the Spirit of Christ began having me listen to the lyrics that were being pumped into my heavens. Every song was about adultery, getting drunk, being in a bar, bar fighting, fast trucks, dogs, or some other thing that made the flesh lust. Music downplays the hurtfulness of sin. It makes evil melodious and makes us think these things aren’t that bad, everyone does it. Just this morning after I had gotten out of bed Christ allowed an old song play into my head. I heard the lyrics and repented for allowing it to play in my head. About an hour later it sprung up again and I stopped it before it even got a word out. The other day I was talking to my wife and I said “I don’t know how some of these businesses stay in business.” The next thought was, “Christ creates everything to be what it is, it’s not based on good food, good customer service, good product, etc. etc. It’s based SOLELY on Christ and Christ alone. He and He alone is The Creator of everything. Christ has thankfully been putting a watch on my mouth but the thoughts still come. Thoughts are like the Canaanites that were kicked out of their own land by the Israelites, by God. They want their land back, so they fight in every which way to get a foothold to take back their country with thoughts that originate from a dead old world where the serpent was supreme because he believed he knew everything. To bring every thought into subjection to the obedience of Christ means that I carry around the dying of the Lord Jesus so that the life of Jesus may be manifested.

    We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”

    If my flesh does not feel distressed, perplexed at what’s happening to it, persecuted, forsaken and cast down then I am not being led of the Spirit of Christ. What did Apostle Paul mean by “I die daily” if the flesh is always happy? I never saw a happy dying person who knew they were dying. Nor have I ever seen a happy dead person laying there in that lifeless, cold skin, void of a heartbeat. Christ did not project Himself as always walking around just whistling to the birds. Scripture says He was without food, without shelter and was hated by everyone. That’s what is going on inside of an Elect. They are walking around in an internal world that does not want to feed them, does not want to shelter them and hates them to the core, wishing for their death so they can go back to listening to country music, drinking whiskey while driving down old country roads, and thinking they got the world by the tail. “And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.” But instead the flesh is being shut down. He is dying and there isn’t anything he can do about it. “And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.” My satanic nature is no longer on the throne and he is being told what to think and what not to think. So he’s mad as hell and will fight to his last breath just like the guy on the cross next to Christ railing on and on even though he’s minutes from death. That guy is my old man. My man of sin. The old Serpent. The Devil in me. The great red Dragon who is mad as hell that he’s lost his kingdom. The old man losing his throne IS VENGEANCE on him. Every thought has to be put down, every desire, every sweet memory of flesh has to be seen in the light of truth, that it was for flesh and not for the kingdom of God. Daydreaming about the past in any situation before receiving the truth is an enemy of the cross of Christ. My flesh often wants to think of my childhood and people from the past and romanticize it as being very good. Yet it was through those years I learned all the doctrines I am still fighting today. Vengeance on a world of make believe. Vengeance on a world that imagined its own personal greatness as an individual separate from God. This is why the Apostles had surnames. They saw their life, before Christ, as dead and gone and they were to see themselves as a complete new creation, speaking in a new tongue, a new language where everything is spoken in parable.

    “All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.”

    He spoke to the disciples in parable and they needed Him to explain everything He said. Christ spoke in parables to keep the Truth away from the flesh. They didn’t yet have the His Spirit inside of them to interpret. Christ was still outward to them.

    “His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.”

    This is what happened to the disciples on the day of pentecost. The Spirit of Christ came upon them and began to speak in parable and they finally understood it. Look at what Peter said:

    “But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

    Did the sun stop shining that day? Where was the blood and fire and vapor of smoke? Peter said that the things that they were hearing was a fulfillment of what Joel had prophesied. Where were the literal signs in heaven and the signs in the earth beneath? It was parabolic language of what was taking place within them. Their heavens were shaken, their own knowledge had stopped shining, no moon, no church light in their world, it had turned to blood, unclean because they saw their religion as unclean. The Spirit of God had descended on them, The Spirit that John the Baptist said would burn them with fire.

    “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

    This is the vengeance of The Lord that will come to every Elect that will be blessed to enter the kingdom of God and love God with all their heart and soul and their Brother as themselves. This is the judgment of Christ upon my old world and the judgment where the prince of this world is cast out of my world and new heaven and earth are created.

    “Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.” ; “Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.” “Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.”

    “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.”

    Notice the personal pronouns. “I saw,” “I John saw,” “I heard.” We see our first heaven pass away. We see a New Jerusalem descending in our minds from Christ, all parabolic speech. We hear a great voice out of our new heavens saying that God is living within us now. Then we begin to know that the former things, all I ever was in my old world is passing away. The sun of my own knowledge is being darkened, its light is seen as unclean, in blood, and we see these words as faithful and true. This is the vengeance of The Lord on a world that was never meant to remain. It was only created as a womb for the Elect to be born OUT OF and then destroyed. The prince of my world is cast out and now Christ speaks to me and guides me into all truth. All of this is a new tongue, a new language from a new world. The prince of this world is my anti-christ nature that wants and desires all glory for all things. Christ in me is The Spirit of Christ speaking to a new man from a new planet, a new earth. New earth means that I don’t desire what I used to but desire truth in all things. That truth is a new Sun of righteousness where my old sun of unrighteousness used to shine, now Christ is The Light of my world. The sun of my own righteousness is not needed because I don’t trust in the literal anymore, in my years of knowledge acquired as a deadman. I don’t think I have a light of truth separate from The Truth and The Light. My new moon is my new Church and she is clothed in Christ. Her light is the reflection of The Sun of righteousness not her own light. I have no knowledge except Christ and Christ alone. When the new world begins to appear the old world fades away and it is a vengeance upon a people inside me that never wanted Christ as their ruler. “But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.” Every thought passing through a dark heaven/mind is as a small light from a distant darkness that cannot comprehend anything. We think we know everything, but in truth we know nothing. We come into this world dead in thought of God and unless Christ enters us we die in the same condition. We may speak of God, say the name “Christ” but inside we think we are the SUN that shines upon our earth. “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Many things in me believe that they are worshipping Christ and use His name but it is all based on INIQUITY, self righteousness, self glorification, Baal worship.

    “When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.”

    Parable speech again. Trusting in myself that I will stand before the Almighty God based on my goodnesses or alternately I will not stand before the Almighty God because of wicked acts is the definition of “self righteousness.” Believing I stand or fall based on what I do or don’t do is self righteousness. God created the literal heavens and earth I did not. God created my first heavens and earth, I did not not. God has created my new heavens and earth, I did not. I lay no claim to anything but Christ as my Creator. I did not create what I was and I did not create what I am, or what I am going to be. Christ has and is doing it all. To think, or shine in my world a ray of hope in something I’ve done is to rely upon your own sun or moon or stars, that you apparently created. “Knowledge puffs up.”

    The vengeance of God is parable speech of God exposing everything I thought I was, based on my own sun light, my own knowledge. “If I speak the language of men and of angels and have not LOVE (Christ), I am become as sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.” To know God is to know love and to love is to have Christ as your Sun. The Sun shines on the good and the wicked. God gives everyone everything, we can claim nothing as ours, not even our past sin. Our past life was the creature that was subjected to vanity by God so that the new man would have a hope of deliverance. All sin from the past was a vanity we were subjected to so that when it was revealed who we are we would have a hope of deliverance. Before I knew who I was I did not want a deliverance from who I was because I loved myself, my vain creature. But now that I know who I am I want deliverance from this creation. I look for the deliverance from the vanity of the flesh. I groan within myself in hope of the day I walk away from this skin bag and all its desires, hopes, hatred, and pride. My sins of the past were based on ignorance of the supremacy of Christ. Now I am being delivered from the past and only have a future set before me. A day when I will be released from this world and enter behind the veil. The curtain will open and I will walk through it into eternity, without the pulls of this flesh dragging me down. The vengeance of God is coming to the old way of thinking and threshing my mind, separating the wheat thoughts from the chaff thoughts and then gathering the chaff to be burnt in the fire. Wheat represents thoughts based on the Spirit and chaff thoughts based on the flesh. One is for God and my Brother, wheat and the other for self and self alone. Peter explains it this way.

    “Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” 

    The word “old” in “old sins” literally means past sins. Past because Christ now lives in us and we are not seen as the old man anymore. We are seen as in Christ, without sin. But, as Christ walked this literal world full of sin yet without sin, so our new man is walking around in a world full of sin. Everything that was in the world when Christ walked around literally is in our world that we are walking around in inwardly, within us. We have to contend with everything He did but within our own world. We have disciples and followers who are being converted and we have a world full of antichrists, who hate us for being here. My Caiaphas, Annas, Pilate, Judas and so on all hate the new man who has exposed the lies of the old world. It was so much better for my world before my new man showed up preaching repentance to a world that did not know it needed to repent. It had problems but it was controlled by Pilate and Pilate was controlled by religion, my Jews. My gentile had its own laws and my Jew had its laws and they argued from time to time but in the end they got along for the whole of the world. All parable speech, a new language for the new man, who exists in eternity and is desiring to be clothed with eternity. He has the down payment but looks forward to the full reward, where he is loosed from this world into a world where there is only ONE RULER, Christ. He walks around in a world where he sees all the superficiality of it and all its inhabitants. He desires to be in the new world where he is not subject to the vanity of his own world where there is nothing good in it. All of it, from the sun to the moon to the stars, the sea, to the land and all its inhabitants, man and beast alike are all corrupted and there is NONE good in it. “There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”

    My creature knows this and knows it must all come to an end and I groan within myself because my new man sees all the lies. He yearns to dwell in a place where you can look someone in the eye and know they are real and not fake. I long to be in a place where all of creation is without sin. No more death, no more pain, no more worry, where true love exists, and is the foundation on which the world exists. But before we can get there we must go through the vengeance of our old world’s power. The removing of every Canaanite, Hitite, Amorite, Girgashite, Perizzite, Hivite and Jebusite from the land in which we are overtaking as Christ’s kingdom.

    “When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.”

    A new King has risen from the heart of this world and He will rule this world and expose all Amorites hiding in the bushes and rocks. He will not leave one stone unturned, “See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” Every thought exposed and shown from where it slithered from, “you shall be as God, knowing good and evil.” Vengeance belongs to God and God will avenge His people from a world within them that hates truth and loves a lie. As Pilate asked Christ, “what is truth?” The truth is God is the Creator of everything through Christ and we can claim nothing as ours separate and independent from Him. His power comes to us when we have the knowledge of our absolute weakness. When we acknowledge our utter helplessness that is the power of God. “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:; “And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong“. Power comes in weakness. When my flesh is weak in its own power then the power of the cross rests upon me. When I know nothing then I know everything comes from Christ. When I am powerless He is all powerful. It is the opposite of everything I have ever been taught. It is the opposite of every hero movie or book ever read. Christ humbled Himself and walked in the strength of His Father. Christ claimed no power at all, all that was His came from His Father. Humility is strength and power. Thoughts of my own mental or physical power is thrown out when I receive the power of Christ because my thoughts of strength are against the truth of Christ being all power. Vengeance to my world is that I am made weak and feeble and give up all rights. Nothing is stronger than humility. Christ riding in on a white horse is “TRUTH” coming into my world proclaiming Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords. His eyes as a flame of fire because they are seeing all the pride that is still in me that is going to be burnt up. His name is The Word of God because all that He proclaims is what God has spoken. He is the living manifestation of God.

    And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. 

    The flesh sees Christ riding in on a white horse like the Jews saw their Messiah appearing, coming to take vengeance on all the gentiles. My flesh sees Him the same way, coming in to wreak havoc on all those who are not “good” according to my standards. I see Him this way because I believe that I am better than others and have something they don’t have therefore they are going to receive the wrath of God in literal terms. Yet what “I John” am really beginning to see is the white horse as the power of God riding through my life and Christ is sitting on it. I am coming to see that when I claim no power as from me or by me I am weak and when I am weak He is strong. Strong to defeat all the pride and arrogance that is still hiding in my land. The power of Christ is a broken spirit and a contrite heart. “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.” This is what brings God near to us riding on a white horse. “The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.” My Leviathan is the king of all my doctrine/ children of pride. “Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?… He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.” I thought in my Leviathan pride that I was all good in the eyes of God based on my knowledge of scripture. I saw everything outward as though the book of the revelation of Jesus Christ was a prophesy of a literal second coming where Christ would destroy all wicked people. I did not know that the revelation of Jesus Christ was inward, inside of me and it is what every Elect must go through. Like Paul, Christ Himself must reveal Himself to us. No man can know His name.

    But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. 

    He learned what he knew because of the revelation of Jesus Christ IN HIM. He was not taught it by man, or other Apostles, but by what was revealed IN HIM. He got knocked off his high horse and was blinded. Parable speech saying, He began to realize he knew NOTHING, he was blind and didn’t know it. It manifested in literal blindness for a time and then as Christ taught him truth he began to see the truth of his own utter impotence. He had no power and fell to the ground on his face and it is here in this humble state do we begin to resurrect from the earth and be transformed into the kingdom of God. This is the wrath of God on my world. I would have never thought God wanted what He wanted. I was ignorant to the truth for many years and am coming to see my utter impotence within myself for the purpose of laying hold of true power, a broken spirit and a contrite heart. Pride is of my devil and all pride is satanic. “You shall be as God” is the enemy of the cross of Jesus Christ because it denies the sacrifice of self for someone else. “For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” The wrath of God is coming to my world to take vengeance on everything in me that thought it was a god and served itself and no one else. Every thought of knowledge, in any fashion or any subject, where I thought I knew something indepedent from God must be brought into obedience to Christ as The Author and Finisher of it. Nothing is mine. Nothing belongs to the flesh. The little the flesh has must be taken from him and given to the new man who has everything. To have everything is to know you have nothing of yourself. All comes from God and is given to you to give to someone else. “Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.” It is the same thing that is spoken in parable in the following verses:

    “And all that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.”

    When we believe together and have all things common we sell our possessions and goods and part them to each other when the other has need. Our physical possessions are only a parable of our time, our joy, our happiness, our care, our patience, our kindness, our heart. We sell what belongs to us and we give to one another daily, hourly minute by minute. We “rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.  Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.” As the other has need, we give up our time for the other and give to them whatever they need. We continue daily in God and Christ Who are our temple. “And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.” We break our bread daily by putting down the flesh for the other. From one house to the other we break our bread for the other. Deny the flesh and its own desires for the other person’s need. This is breaking bread and confessing our sins one to another, from house to house. Eating the meat of denying the flesh for the other in gladness and singleness of heart. We have one goal and one only, to serve God with all our heart, soul and mind and each other as ourselves. And as we do this The Lord adds to us daily the parts of us to be saved. The parable of a commune village couple. Everything is equally given to the other when the other has need. When one is sad the other is there to comfort. When one is happy the other is there to rejoice with it. Each breaking their own bread for the other. Christ said He was “the bread of life” and we too become the bread of life to each other. This is what was meant and IS MEANT by the Lord’s supper. Showing us to break ourselves for the other. Shed our own blood in figure to wash away the sin of the other. Die to self for the other. “And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.” As often we break our own bread and sell our own possessions for the other we do show the Lord’s death. This is what He did and is what we are to do. As often as we deny our own flesh’s possessions and sell what we have for the other we are remembering what Christ did for us. He died for our sin so we could live. He gave His life for me so I could give my life for you.

    “Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.”.

    Giving my life for someone else is eating Christ’s flesh and drinking His blood. This is proof of Christ living in us and us in Him. Eating manna is reading the word of God but not applying it with love. Love is the life in the blood. “And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.” To love is to die to self, to break your own bread for the other. To drink Christ’s blood is to forgive the other’s sin. If I know what I have been forgiven for then it becomes easy to forgive the other’s sin. This is a wrath to my old man and not the wrath the carnal mind has imagined. It is a wrath of God to me to die for you. It is the wrath of God on my flesh to die for someone else so that they can live. My flesh hates this doctrine because it is the second death to it. I can die to my own wrongs and accept that Christ dies for me but to do the same for others is a second death, if it hurts. If it does not hurt then I have been resurrected and the second death does not hurt me. To die for you becomes second nature and not a death. If I am living and reigning with Christ then I have partaken of the first resurrection in that area of my life. But, if I am not, then I must go through the lake of fire of God’s love being burnt into me in the areas of my life where I have not partaken of the first resurrection.

    “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years….And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”

    It is the wrath of God upon my old man in every area of my life until everything is resurrected and a new man stands before the throne without spot or blemish. An offering in the old testament had to be without blemish and without spot, “Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke.” This is when what is sacrificed does not hurt because it is without blemish. There is no yoke on it and it is blameless. Nothings weighing me down and nothing pulling at me from my old man. Then I can, in the first resurrection, die by breaking my own bread and spilling my own blood for your sin without it hurting me. All of this takes time and is wrath upon my world who hates Christ’s doctrine of selflessness. But if we are an Elect of God chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world then we will come to the first resurrection by the death of the old man. We rise from his dust/ground from which he was made. We have to die to resurrect. We must first descend before we ascend. “Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?” We must die, descend, before we can resurrect, ascend far above all the principalities and powers in our heavens “which he wrought in Christ (Who is in us), when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own 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 world, but also in that which is to come:And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,” : “Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:” We must go through the fire of God’s eternal love, which is a wrath/death to my old man and a life/resurrection to my new man. This is eating the flesh of the Son of man and drinking His blood. This is eating bread that gives eternal life. Eating manna means we are reading scripture but it doesn’t have love in it, it is based on doctrine or tradition or whatever makes the old man feel he has done enough. The wrath of God to my old man is the demise of his thoughts, his desires and everything that made him think he was something independent and separate from God. It is where he is put down and a new man rises from the earth who is then taught the fire of God’s consuming love. “Our God is a consuming fire” ; “God is love.” All the carnal imagery of Christ literally riding through a literal heaven followed by a myriad of literal angelic beings to take vengeance on the ungodly is a puffed up, self righteous fairy tale of our carnal minds, our self righteous old man. If it is not happening inwardly within our own world, why do we think the literal is real? If I can’t stop being a selfish sloppy unclean swine now in this earth inside me, why do I believe that Christ is going to come in a literal white cloud and wisk me away to bliss, even though I remained a selfish swine being driven to and fro in my mind and emotions? We must become like Him to see Him. True love must reign before I can dream about being wisked away in a chariot. All of this is a work of Christ in me and it is not a work that I can perform on my own strength. But it will happen to God’s Elect because we are the Elect of God in Christ Jesus, predestined to be conformed to Christ’s image.

      “Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.”

    Eating this bread in a cold doctrine and not based on the love of God is eating unworthily, bringing judgment to my world. Having no forgiveness for sin and not being kind and gentle will bring judgment to my world . Not discerning the Lord’s body is not serving out of love but out of a cold doctrine or tradition where the tradition is put above the love of God. Even if the doctrine holds truth, if it is done out of an adherence to a doctrine and not the love of God it is unworthy of the kingdom. The Pharisees were the most adherent to doctrine, precepts and laws, YET Christ said that unless our righteousness surpasses theirs we would not enter the kingdom.

    “For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

    And Christ also said to hear what they said.

    “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.”

    Do what they say but don’t do it like they do it. What were they not doing or doing wrong even though they had truth? They did it to be seen and glorified in their flesh as if they were “good.” They bound heavy loads on people that they themselves could not keep. They did not have love, which is the true fulfillment of all law and is the foundation of the truth of Who God is. “God is Love.” I have often kept doctrines of truth to my own demise because they were not held out of love. They exalted me and not Christ. David ate the show bread that no one but priests were allowed to eat. Why wasn’t he stoned? Christ and the disciples walked through the corn and picked corn on the sabbath. Hosea was told by God to marry a whore and have children of whoredom. Ezekiel was told to eat bread mixed with cow dung, which is unclean. Christ ate with pubilcans and sinners. According to the law He would have defiled Himself by doing that. Scripture goes on and on to seemingly contradict itself but it is only for the true meaning to come out. If you want to live by law then you will die by law. If you are given to live by the SPIRIT of the law that God is love then you have been given life. But it is a learning process to learn true love, through God’s wrath consuming what is in our world that does not live by the spirit. God’s love appears as wrath to a selfish, self-centered world. His wrath is administered by trials that test our love. Things that cause us to be patient and kind when the letter of the law says to do otherwise.

    “And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, hey say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him.”

    The law said she should be stoned, period! What changed about that law? “You that are without sin cast the first stone at her.” That was the true law. The world in me as a whole is under the literal law that all may be guilty before God.

    “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”

    The Elect are under the law of the Spirit. This means that the law of the flesh is being fulfilled by the law of the Spirit of life (love) that Christ had. What the law could not do in the flesh, fulfill the law out of love for God and neighbor, God sent His own Son to fulfill, that we who are in Christ may stand without fault before God in the Spirit. Our flesh, our carnal mind still wars against the Spirit and must be put down again and again by the law of the Spirit. It is a wrath to the old man to be continually told that the law of the Spirit triumphs the law of the flesh. I cannot allow the flesh to get angry, bitter and resentful over its laws being broken because the law of the Spirit says to love and be kind when the opposite is what the law of the flesh says should happen. The law says she should be stoned. The spirit says she’s to be given forgiven. The rock that is thrown at her is Christ and Christ crucified. Forgiveness. Christ said He did not condemn the woman and that was a judgment of forgiveness. And forgiveness is a wrath to the carnal mind because the carnal mind wants vengeance. Forgiveness is by faith and the law is by works. In the law there is no forgiveness, only judgment according to precepts. Faith says that judgment was placed upon Christ and He alone has obtained eternal redemption for us. To love, as Christ loved, fulfills all law, for love is the fulfillment of the law. The carnal mind hates and cannot love because it holds to laws and not the Spirit. To hold on to the Spirit of the law is to know that we are all guilty before God in the flesh but Christ fulfilled the law and took our judgment upon Himself. If we are given to believe this then we become Christ to each other. The carnal mind hates this because the carnal mind wants to believe it has its own righteousness based on a law it is keeping (name it within yourself.) The Spirit of the law that says none are righteous, no not one, and that righteousness belongs to God and Christ alone and that I am in no wise righteous on my own, is HATED by my flesh. It denies it any power or glory whatsoever. To the fleshly mind, law is power! Love without laws of the flesh is to become lawless. What the carnal mind cannot understand is that love is more powerful than laws and if I have Christ’s love in me then what I do or don’t do is because of the power of the Spirit within me. The man of sin that Apostle Paul speaks of in II Thessalonians 2 is lawless of the spirit of love. He is us and we are him in the flesh, the carnal mind. Briers, thorns, thistles, and weeds grow where there is no love. They choke out love. They are the parable of anger, rage, bitterness, and depression because their laws are not being met. True love does not need law. This is why it is a Spirit of freedom because it cannot lie, cheat, and steal from others. It needs no other laws because true love has compassion, kindness, gentleness, and patience and allows itself to be defrauded. Love understands that people struggle against their flesh, just as you do. Love knows that people do not have it in them, of themselves, to be kind and gentle because they are flesh just as you are. Love knows that only God is love and only Christ can administer His Father’s love into my heart. This is wrath to my flesh because my flesh wants to live by the literal laws it has made up according to its world’s standards. This is the ten horns of the beast that Babylon sits upon. It is our fleshly laws that we live by according to the seven days a week, seven heads of the beast.

    “So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.”

    Law makes me angry and bitter because no one lives by my laws according to my world. Love gives peace and a sound mind because love knows that only God is love and only God can create a loving heart within us and our new man finds rest in this knowledge. Love trusts in God not in man. Love is a thief to the flesh, to the carnal mind because it steals its honor, which we have stolen from Christ. Christ is a thief to our flesh but He is only taking back what rightfully belongs to Him. To truly love is to give yourself totally to others without the thought of getting something in return, not even the glory of being a “good” person. Law tries to impersonate love by checking a box and then expecting a gold star, while true love is the unfeigned, hidden man of the heart, which can only be Christ. Love is a wrath to the flesh, a hell that torments and kills the man of sin that has controlled all flesh based on the carnal law of “checking boxes.” The truth that this law-keeping is worthless in the sight of God is a torment to our old man. There is a great gulf between true love and law keeping and only Christ can bridge that gulf.

    “And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentanceBut after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God.”

    “And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.”

    God’s wrath has come to the Elect and they are being taught the Spirit of love from a new heart that operates out of the truth that no man can be Christ to another unless they have Christ in them. Therefore we do not judge anyone according to the flesh. The following verses are to be seen as what is happening inside our own world and how we must go through these trials to come to be intimate with what true love is, was and will be.

    What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called…”

    “And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.”

    And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.”

    “And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.”

    “And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.”

    True love is the wrath of God on my world.

  • God drives us (The Elect) from Eden to till our own ground. Toiling in our own efforts, under the prideful delusion that we can be apart from Him is the start of our creation process.

    “Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.”

    God puts ministering spirits (thoughts/Cherubims) at the rising of our sun (East), from where knowledge comes from, hence God, to distract us from knowing truth, the tree of life.

    “So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”

    Ministering spirits are thoughts, words that enter our mind to keep us distracted with anything and everything that keep us from the truth, which in parable is “a flaming sword which turned every way.”

    So he drove outH1644 (divorces)(H853) the man;(the hypocrite)H120 and he placedH7931 at the east (east is where light comes from, knowledge) H4480 H6924 of the garden (fenced in)H1588 of Eden (Eden means pleasure – to know God is ultimate pleasure, where we are fenced in from all evil)H5731 (H853) Cherubims (represent our imagination corrupted by tilling our own ground with the ministering spirits that are sent to us to keep us from enjoying God in truth)H3742 and a flamingH3858 sword (Covert light that is a perversion of truth to keep us, guard us, from knowing truth, the tree of life.)H2719 which turned every way, (perverting the truth)H2015 to keep (guard)H8104 (H853) the way (road traversed to know God in truth)H1870 of the treeH6086 of life.H2416

    Then when Christ is revealed in us, the Elect, God sends truthful thoughts, ministering spirits, to guide us to Christ. But, these are only thoughts that lead us to where we begin to know the voice of Christ from the voice of the stranger. The voice of the stranger represents evil, individualistic ministering thoughts. They minister to us what our flesh covets.

    “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, (ministering spirits/thoughts) Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds (every person is a world); Who being the brightness of his glory (truth from the east), and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high (Christ created it all, in my own world and in the world as a whole. There is no more knowledge than that. No thought of God, angel, can ascend higher than this truth. The thought that Christ is The Creator and I create nothing is to know Christ is The Tree of Life.); Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? (No thought, that I have ever had, will be next to God, as an image of God. Only Christ is the express image of God.) And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him (When Christ is revealed in us every thought worships Christ as its Creator. There is nothing that exists but Christ and His Father). And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever (Christ’s throne, power, is from the ages of the ages and will never end as the one and only power.): a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity (iniquity is self righteousness, Ezk.33:13, eating from your own tree of thought that you can know good from evil. Christ has loved righteousness which means He knows all and everything He is, was and will be comes from The Father. He knows He does not exist separate from The Father and now He is teaching the elect this truth.); therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows (Christ is exalted above every thought that sees itself as a thought separate from God. These are the ministering thoughts that were sent to guard, keep us from the truth). And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands (our earth and minds are a creation of Christ): They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed (new heaven and new earth that has been changed from the terrestrial to the celestial): but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? (I cannot overcome by thoughts that claim independence from God.) Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? (Heb.1)

    God sent lying spirits to Ahab through Ahab’s prophets for the purpose of killing him.

    “And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left (ministering spirits). And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? (keep Ahab from truth) And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.”

    This is yet another parable of what goes on in our minds. These are the thoughts, spirits that are sent to keep us from the tree of life. The tree of life is the cross, the tree on which Christ hung to give life unto the world within the Elect. When we eat the fruit that hangs on the tree, when we confess that we are not Christ, nor are we God, we get eternal life. This is called repentance, this is the fruit that hangs from the tree of life, which is the cross. When we are given to see that Christ is, was and will be the only perfection of God The Father and that He alone bore our sin we are eating from the tree of life. To confess that Christ’s cross removes our sin is to have life. To have life is to know The Father. All selfish or sinful thoughts that pass through our mind/heavens are ministering spirits that we must confess and know that the tree of life/cross cleanses us from sin.

    “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”

    “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

    “As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”

    The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is eating from our own tree as a tree that contains good or evil separate from God, as an individual, separate from God.

    “And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.”

    At first the man sees men “as trees, walking.” Men are described as trees all over scripture. God uses trees to represent men because in God’s perspective men are as inanimate as a tree. Just as in the natural a tree cannot pick itself up and move. God uses this natural reality to show us the absurdity of men’s thoughts that they are independent beings moving above of their own volition, charting their own paths with thoughts they claim as their own. Then Christ puts His hands upon the man’s eyes and MADE HIM LOOK UP, above himself, giving him a higher perspective into the truth of the kingdom of God, and then it says he was restored and “saw every man clearly.” To see clearly is to know that everything about myself is a creation of God. We do not blink or have a heartbeat without him. We are as inanimate as a tree without Him. We live, move and have our being in Him. It is not until we confess we are blind can we be “restored” to see everyone in Christ’s power. When we are given to see ourselves for what we are, created beings with no power of our own, then we are granted to see ourselves and God clearly. This truth is depicted in Daniel 4 in the story of Nebuchadnezzar, who is likened to a great tree who is cut down by God because of his pride. In the end Nebuchadnezzer is restored to understanding and utters these words “…and at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up my eyes unto heaven and my understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honored Him that lives forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His Kingdom is from generation to generation: and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and He doeth according to His Will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him, what doest thou?”

    Now, speaking as a man, if Adam, after eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil had confessed his sin and repented instead of putting the blame on the woman (who represents his flesh) and then God for making her (his flesh), he would have been given life. He would have eaten fruit from the tree of life. But what came out of his mouth was blame towards the individual for making him do what he did and blame towards God for making the woman. “And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.” What he saw after eating the fruit was a knowledge that God had made a mistake in making the woman. It wasn’t his fault, it was the woman’s and God’s. Thus begins the journey of the first creation, fitted for destruction, which will lead to the second creation, that leads to eternal life. God creates us to be prideful and hard-hearted and to see ourselves as independent from Him on purpose so that He can show us mercy and make us into eternal spiritual beings who will ultimately understand Him and the depths of His mercy, patience, and love. This can’t happen without first creating us rebellious. All of it, the first rebellious creation to the last man, a spiritual being with eternal life, is authored by Christ. We are made to be witnesses to our own creation. We witness the egregious ways we have been made to rebel against the Lord and we witness His mercy on us as He patiently endures this all the way through to our perfection. Seeing our first beastly sin nature that He created is essential to becoming a mature spiritual being in Christ without spot and blemish. The cross heals us from sin and gives us life. The cross opens our heavens to look up and see ourselves clearly, as creations of God in Whom we live and move and have our being. The cross represents the necessary death of the first creation, our own death to self and any identity separate from God. This is where the law comes in. The law is made to show us our sin and to make our sin abound even worse.

    “Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.”

    Again, speaking as a man, if God had never given the law not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil there would have never been the sin of individualism from God. Man would have never known he was a creation. But to know God The Father we must know that we are not Him. We must know that what we are at any given minute is a creation of God and not a creation of myself. I do not create good or evil. I did not create myself evil and I do not create myself good. Before He begins to create me into a vessel of honor I must first see myself, separate from God, as a vessel of dishonor.

    “Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called…”

    The law brings sin out and grace covers that sin even more. The law brings sin out because the law says you shall not covet. To covet is to want anything more than you have in any given minute. The law is not just contained in the ten commandments but is intertwined with any thought where we covet more. I bought a chicken sandwich the other day and thanked God for the meal. Then I began to eat it and it was, to my taste, dry and not the savory sandwich that I thought it should be. God made the chicken from an egg. Hatched it. Raised it until it was slaughtered by someone whom He had also raised and then brought the chicken to the establishment where I had bought it. He had a person cook it – a person He had created and then had them put it together in a sandwich to give to me. Now, in between all this there are thousands of details that are left out on the processing, packaging, distribution, etc. etc. that God did to get the sandwich to my hands and then I had the audacity to complain that it was not what I, as an individual, a created being without a whit of creative power, wanted. I had thanked God for the sandwich but my words and thoughts betrayed the prayer by complaint. I was not thankful but was unthankful and my prayer was not in truth. So, the law is brought in to point out to us what God endures throughout our creative process as He brings us to an awareness that we are not Him. But, as the scripture says, “where sin abounds, grace did much more abound.” God, in His mercy, does not smash us for every sin but sees us as He created us, as creations not CREATORS. And as our awareness grows more and more of our sin which abounds, we see and are a witness to His grace and His great mercy which does so much more abound. Again, the cross is where we are healed in our continual confession of what we are and what we are not.

    I am learnig what it means to be at liberty in Christ. What are we being liberated from? From the veil that is upon our heart, that is covering the fact that the glory of the law, that pointed out my sin, is being done away with. It was very glorious for sin to be pointed out.

    “But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:”

    This verse tells us that it was glorious for sin to be revealed in us. The law written on tables of stone was glorious because it brought LIGHT to what we are in the flesh, as it did to Adam eating the fruit. We do not know what we are in the flesh until it is pointed out by the law. But what was so glorious that we cannot look upon it, is faded away by the greater glory of Christ, Who promises to make us into a new creation, free from the sin of individualism and thus making us eternal beings in Him. The law is glorious in that it works as a mirror to show us what we are in the flesh, in the first creation. It’s glorious because it was needful to reveal our man of sin, who thinks he is an individual god knowing good and evil. But then Christ far exceeds the glory of the law, which revealed our sin, because He overcomes what we are in the flesh. Christ took the glory of the law which required death, upon Himself. He is the fulfillment of the second covenant in that He frees us from the condemnation of the glory of the law. We are given new hope because we are changed from seeing sin as a separation from God to seeing it was needful at that time to show us that we cannot be righteous in and of ourselves. It sucks all hope of attaining righteousness by laws out of us and puts all hope in Christ. The Spirit of Christ is the power that changes us, not the law of the flesh. Our change comes from the power of God through the spirit of Christ. He is now creating us into new beings with a spirit of holiness. He doesn’t leave us in sin as sinful beings. He came to erradicate sin, not leave us wallowing in darkness, just shrugging our shoulders at sin because we’re helpless to control it. But darkness cannot enter the kingdom of God. We are helpless in our darkness, this is true, and without Christ we would also be hopeless. But Christ has come to change us into beings of true holiness. We are the woman caught in the act of adultery who Christ tells to “go and sin no more.” If we are Elect, He will see to it that we go and sin no more, starting in this life here in the flesh. It is glorious to be brought to a place of utter repulsion at what you are in the flesh but so much more glorious to see the second covenant that promises to change us into the image of Christ.

    Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;”

    The second covenant tells us that what you were made in the flesh from your first creation is being remade by Christ in your second creation. Our first creation was by God, therefore our second creation must be by God. It is not of man, by law, to remake man, the change comes from a heart that has been remade by Christ. The change comes from a heart that knows only God can be The Creator not man. The first covenant was given for us to see and acknowledge what we are in the flesh without the spirit of God.

    “What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.”

    We do not know we are dead until the law shows us we are dead – dead from knowing God. If we do not know God then we are spiritually dead. When the law is brought to our attention then sin is seen and comes alive. It spreads like leaven and covers our whole being, in every thought, word and deed. It, as the scripture above says, “wrought (fashions in me) in me all manner (all kinds) of concupiscence (longing for what the law says is sinful).” But until the glory of the law shows us this we are in a state of ignorance and blindness, thinking we are right with God based on our own good works, thinking we are a god. We don’t know we are in sin, made and fashioned in sin. At first, when we are shown what we are, we don’t want to look at it and cover it, like Moses did. By covering it we don’t deal with it through the Spirit of Christ. We should run to Him for deliverance from it. Instead we attempt to make ourselves righteous and make void the cross of Christ. The deceitfulness of sin tells me that I can fix the problem of sin by my own power. This is what the Pharisees did and all people do in the flesh. I remember when sin was first pointed out to me I said in my mind, “well if that’s all I have to do then I’ll do it and make myself right with God.” I put a veil over the glory of the law and said I could fix it myself. I did not see how glorious the law was and diminished it to a work of man and not the power of God. I essentially thought, “Adam messed up but I’ll fix it” not seeing that Adam could have no more stopped himself from sinning as I could stop myself. That’s the point. We cannot remake what God has made in either case – a sinner or a saint. I did not make myself a sinner and I cannot make myself a saint. I am going from the glory of seeing myself as a sinner by the first covenant to the glory of being made a saint by the second covenant.

    “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

    And this second covenant, as the first covenant cannot be broken. God has sworn that He will complete what He has ordained. We are then given the faith of Christ to believe that what the law of the flesh has shown me cannot dissannul the promise of eternal life that is in Christ, promised before I was ever shown what I was in the flesh.

    “And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.”

    “For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.”

    We are saved. We are the children of God. Christ has secured us and God, Who doesn’t change and cannot lie, has given us His promise that nothing can change what He has made or has started.

    “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifiethWho is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for usWho shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    The glory of the law of the flesh was not given to separate us from God but to act as a goad to drive us to Christ, our mediator, “it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.” Christ is our mediator and has secured us without fault. Nothing can stop God from making us what He has promised He will make us, “Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.” It is glorious to be shown you are a sinner and not the righteous person you think you are. It is glorious to be shown your man of sin.

    “Let no man deceive you by any means: for except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposes and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God shewing himself that he is God.”

    It is bitter water to drink to be shown what you are and what you are not. It is wormwood. This is the purpose of the law.

    “And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.”

    It is as a great lamp, a great light to see ourselves in the light of the truth. But, as Saul, we kick against this truth. It is a mercy from God to show us what we are in the flesh because it then shows us His unending mercy. He is very merciful to us and even though He should, He does not destroy us. The more you are shown of what you are inside your flesh the more mercy you are given.

    “He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in meThis I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. “

    Knowing what we are without Him drives us to know Him. Knowing, deep within, deeper than head knowledge, who and what I am and that there is nothing redeemable in me brings me to the cross where I am sacrificed with Christ and become one with my Creator. I cannot be one with Him when I am still one with myself. I cannot be made a new man unless I am shown my old man. I cannot be a beast around the throne giving glory to God as long as I don’t see myself as a beast, as the great red dragon. The more we are given to see what and who we are by our first creation the more we are given to see the power of the cross. The glory in the cross of Christ taking my sin upon Himself outweighs the glory of my sin and I am changed into a new man day by day.

    It is not possible for a person to honestly look upon himself and judge himself in truth. There is not a man on earth who has or can, in total truth, be honest about who and what he is. Only God can try the heart and reins of a man. It is an honor from God to give us to see ourselves in truth. It is glory, a dignity, to be able to see yourself for what you are at your core. When Christ brings me to remember the sins of my life I am repulsed and filled with such shame that I cannot think about it long or it will take all hope from me. It sinks me into a loathing of myself and total disgust at what I am as a natural beast. “And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.” If you are an Elect then you know exactly what I mean. You have been brought down to the pit and have seen, in truth, what you are as a beast. No man, NO MAN, will enter the kingdom of God without first tasting of the bitterness of what he is at his core. Because unless you see that there is NOTHING good in you, NOTHING, you cannot follow Christ to where He went, to the cross. “… follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be…”; “Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God” We must be shown who and what we are so that we can be divested, stripped of all hope in ourselves. If we hang on to one strand of hope in ourselves we will have to be shown we have no hope through another trial or remembrance of a past wrong. All strength must be seen as originating and coming from outside of self before we can take one step towards holiness. In the words of Christ, we must die.

    “And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”

    To fall into our ground and die means we give up all hope of having anything based on our good works. To truly understand that we are nothing, less than nothing separate from The Creator. To love your life is to lose your life. To hate your life is to gain life in Christ. Look at the scripture quoted above and slowly read the words. How is Christ predicting He will be glorified? BY DEATH. His death will glorify God. Why? Why did Christ have to die to glorify His Father? Why death? And why such a horrible death? Christ’s death glorified the law and testified on our behalf that we, by the law, deserved to die. The law is glorifying. It glorified The Father in testifying that what the law said about us is true. Again, if you have been given to see what you are at your core then you will easily agree that you deserve to die. You would be the first to find yourself guilty and the first to throw a stone at yourself, if you have been given to see yourself in the light of Christ and the law. Christ’s death took what you have been shown about yourself and placed it upon Him. He took the punishment so that we don’t have to. To be totally forgotten for all of eternity in the place of the unknown, hell, is where we deserve to be but Christ has delivered us from the grave to live forever, to be known by God forever. It is the greatest evil to think and glory in your own works, good or evil. To take the credit for anything is to claim Godhood. So, God in His infinite wisdom made us natural beasts to do things that would make us blush with shame. He gives the law and with it exposes our sin. Sin is the thought that you can live one second independent from God. So, God gives us the law to expose us and show us that we are not what we think we are. The law has requirements and the requirement of the law is separation from God, death. Christ takes that separation upon Himself for us so that we can have communion with God in truth. What is communion with God in truth? To know that He and He alone is The All in all of me, I do nothing of myself. This is how we die and bring forth much fruit. And this is going where Christ went, to the cross.

    “He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.” 

    To serve Christ is to follow Christ to the cross, bear your own cross and die to self. If we love our life then we will lose our life. If we hate our life in this world we will keep it unto eternal life. But what does that really mean to hate our life? It means we find nothing in this life independent from Christ as its Creator and we love The Creator above all things. We claim nothing as ours. To love family, friends, houses, property, your PRIDE: in your identity, your appearance, your opinions, your way of thinking, talking, dressing, living, eating, anything that we are not willing to lose, above Christ, is to love yourself more than Him Who created you. This is what Christ was getting across to Peter when He asked him three times if Peter loved Him more than these. He then goes on to explain to Peter:

    “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.”

    We don’t give ourselves up willingly. The flesh, our man of sin, our identity, our sense of godhood was created to be obsessed with survival. Christ has to enter us and get us to a mature place spiritually (hence we are “old”) and then He causes us to “stretch forth our hands and have another gird and carry us where we would not.” It is Christ Who is doing all the work. We simply witness what we were and what we’re being changed into all the while knowing the changes being made must be wrought by Christ because we know our flesh could never, would never submit. We have been shown what we are without Him and if left in that state, we are hopeless and helpless in our delusion of godhood, sin. To know Christ is to know true freedom from the lust of the flesh to be its own glory, to be free from thinking I am, that I am, to be free from the slavery of spending our entire lives living for what is dying and will go away forever. To serve Christ is to be honored by The Father. To live unto God is to be free from the attachment of this world, to be free from the attachment of MY world with all of its wants and desires. To be free from my world is to live unto God and Christ as everything. This is troubling for the flesh because it causes the flesh to be crucified. But, as Christ, if we are an Elect, a follower of Christ, then it is our hour. It is why we have been brought to this hour, to be crucified, die to self, and live unto God.

    “Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.”

    If we are given the privilege to know God, then we are given the privilege to be glorified by God as Christ was – glorified to know what we are in the flesh and be glorified by God to be recreated into what Christ is. We go from the glory of the law to the glory of grace.

    “Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.” 

    The Father is glorified when we are brought to know what we are in the flesh and then He is glorified in graciously recreating us. He does not leave us dead in sin but raises us above sin and we become overcomers of the flesh and its sinful desires to be its own god. The prince of our world is cast out and we are drawn to Christ on the cross. We are drawn to lay down what we have known as our life and live unto God. The prince of our world is cast out who drove us to and fro looking for his own life separate and independant from God. The prince of our world is cast out, thrown out by our death on the cross. His cares, his wants, his desires are all crucified in the hour of his death, whenever that hour may be. He dies and is thankfully forgotten, buried in the place of the unknown because we never want to know him again. He was a prince who ruled our world as an iron fisted dictator who got fat on living for self. He acted religious and kind, or he acted like a good person without religion, but in either case he spoke as a dragon with the horns of a lamb. Behind the veil, the flesh, was a serpent, a dragon who only cared for himself and no one else. But when he is crucified on the cross his cares are forgotten, his desires are thrown away and all that remains is the desire to serve God with all my heart, soul and mind and my neighbor as myself. This is a process that takes time and patience. Dismantling the temple of the man of sin, brick by brick, happens day by day. God will be glorified by the death of the old man and then glorified by the life of the new man. Christ is drawing us to God by our being lifted up on the cross and by our being lifted up from the grave, day by day. He is drawing ALL in me, in my world, to Him, to know The Father. The voice, this truth comes for us to know.

    “The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This he said, signifying what death he should die.”

  • Joh 3:1  There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: (This man is me. There was “A MAN” of (Anthropos-G444, mankind), an individual of mankind who saw himself as “victorious among his people”, other anthropos (meaning of Nicodemus G3530). Not only did he see himself as better than the rest of mankind, he was a “Pharisee” of the people. He was a “separatist” from among the people. He was an individual from the rest of the human race. He was religious. Every human is a Pharisee because every human believes he has made himself what he is, separate from all other people and he rules his own life.)

    Joh 3:2  The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. (We come to Christ at first, in our own darkened thoughts of individualism, “by night.” We are given enough understanding to know Christ is Who He is but we still can’t shake our own darkness in the way we see life and the way we think. We think we live and move and have our being by our own works. We are still thinking the miracles are fleshly healings of the blind, deaf, dumb, lame, sick and even dead. We don’t see that these miracles are testimonies against who and what we are, and that we need to be healed spiritually. We see them as fleshly miracles for the flesh. We don’t see that we are in darkness, without form and void of any truth, whatsoever. We, as Nicodemas, can acknowledge the physical miracle but we cannot see beyond the physical. We cannot see into the kingdom of God. Christ tells us that we are still not seeing clearly because we are not yet born again and still seeing the miracles for the flesh and not for what they are in the spirit – healings of our spiritual infirmities. In the healing of their/our literal ailments, Christ is telling us that He came to heal us spiritually.)

    Joh 3:3  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (To see the kingdom of God is to understand the kingdom of God is spiritual and within. To understand the kingdom of God is to ascend up to heaven in our thoughts, go beyond the firmament that separates earth from heaven. The firmament is a parable of the chasm between the natural mind who sees everything from a beastly standpoint of being our own god, and the spiritual mind that has no boundaries and sees all things from our Creator. This means we see Christ is in control of all things and we do not have a will or a single thought independent from Him. This is spiritually understanding the kingdom of God: to not give the flesh, the carnal mind, any credit for what it is, was or will be and to know everything is a creation by Christ, for Christ and by Christ do all things consist. Heaven is in our mind, our perception of what is real and what is not, what we see naturally vs spiritually, between what is celestial and what is terrestrial. To be born again is to see the truth that Christ’s miracles are a testimony to where we all are in the first creation. To see spiritually is to see ALL THINGS are a parable of a truth in understanding God as God. No man can ascend into this knowledge but Christ Who has descended from this knowledge to give His Elect the healing of their blindness, to give them Light.)

    Joh 3:4  Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? 

    Joh 3:5  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (To be “born again” is to be able to perceive between what is fleshly/water and what is spirit. We cannot ascend into the heavens unless we can perceive the difference between the two. Men are made of blood and blood is unclean. Men, in the flesh, are as water because they are unclean in their thoughts of God and because they are as unstable as water. “Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh. Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.” ; “For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.”)

    Joh 3:6  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 

    Joh 3:7  Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 

    Joh 3:8  The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. (We must be born again in our understanding of God to rise above fleshly understanding into spiritual understanding. The flesh cannot understand the meaning behind the Spirit’s words. It hears but cannot understand where it comes from and where it is going with its thoughts. The thoughts of the spirit are foolishness to the flesh, just like being “born again.” The spiritual can understand both where the flesh is coming from and where the spirit is coming from, where the flesh is going with its thoughts and where the spirit is going with its thoughts. But the carnal mind cannot understand the spiritual. It only understands naturally as a beast.)

    Joh 3:9  Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? 

    Joh 3:10  Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? 

    Joh 3:11  Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. (Christ is telling the flesh that it cannot understand these things even if they are explained to the flesh in a fleshly parable.)

    Joh 3:12  If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? (Christ is saying “I’ve explained it to you in a fleshly parable and still you are not able to understand it unless you are spiritually born from above.”)

    Joh 3:13  And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. (No carnal thought or “man” has ever ascended (had a thought) that can understand the spiritual realm/heaven. But Christ has come down in the form of thoughts from the spiritual/heaven into His elect. (Heb 1:1) “He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all. And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man (G3762-not even one- no carnal mind, not even one, can receive the truth, we must be born again to receive the truth.) receiveth his testimony.” The fleshly mind cannot ascend above its flesh. The flesh must die to its fleshly thinking before it can be born again to perceive heavenly thinking. The kingdom of God and heaven are synonymous. Christ tells us that nothing in us, no man, has ascended above their earth into the kingdom of God but He, Himself, Who has come down from the kingdom of God to explain these things to the Elect so that we can be born again. Born again means our thoughts become childlike and we realize and thus confess we know nothing of God – like a child who has no knowledge or experience of the world and relies solely on its parent, we must be taught everything from a spiritual standpoint. You must throw out everything you’ve ever learned or think you know and see everything new. This is being born again. A person cannot make themselves be born again. Christ must enter them and this is how the new man is born. When this happens, the spiritual language and thus the kingdom of God is opened up to our understanding. Spiritual language is parabolic. “But without a parable spake he not unto them” and so a tree is not a tree, it’s a man/doctrine. A rock is not a rock, it’s Christ. Dirt is not dirt, it’s flesh. Water is not water, it’s unclean thoughts. A beast is not a beast, it’s the unconverted flesh. The Great Whore sitting on a beast is not a great whore sitting on a beast, it’s the spiritual state of the Elect before we are converted. The Dragon is not a dragon, it’s the antichrist spirit that resides in us. So on and so forth. Anything and everything has a spiritual meaning and speaks a spiritual language. And just like in a natural language where the same word can have multiple meanings, in spiritual language symbols can have multiple meanings. When we are born again and begin to see through spiritual eyes, the Holy Spirit which is Christ within us, teaches us to understand the spiritual language. This is what “speaking in tongues” is actually describing.

    Joh 3:14  And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 

    Joh 3:15  That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. (Moses was told to make a brass serpent to hang on a pole for the people to look at and be healed from the bites of the serpents. God sent the serpents as a chastisement for their complaining against Him about the journey they had to take leaving Egypt and the manna they had to eat. The serpents that were sent by God were a fleshly parable revealing how God sees these thoughts as poisonous. Their complaining came from the serpent within them that always is concerned about the flesh, “But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.” Before we are converted, all we are concerned about is our flesh. We must spiritually look at what has bitten us when we have a complaint about the life we are being told to live as we get farther from Egypt. Christ has become our unbelief and to look upon Christ on the cross is to look at what has made us and is remaking us. Christ is seen by the flesh as the serpent that has bitten our flesh because Christ is The Creator Who has called us out of Egypt and has made us to eat manna, to eat His flesh. To eat His flesh is to walk in the spirit and not be so concerned with the flesh. To eat the spiritual meat is to be content with whatever the day brings and not try to change it into an Egyptian meal that would feed the flesh. While walking in the world as fleshly beings we lived by the bread of our own minds, what was learned by experience or by our own carnal wisdom. This bread was sweet to us and filled our fleshly thoughts, our spiritual dead bellies. But we have been called out of our Egypt and told we are headed for the promised land. The journey is through the desert, filled with days of thirst for the flesh and hunger for my own ways based on my own experience. It is the time where we are taught the spiritual. We are taught to look unto Christ Who created us for this time and to be recreated into sons of God. Everyone who looks to Christ as The Creator of every minute of every day is healed from their serpent thoughts of individualism and healed from a carnal mind that lives and moves and has its being in itself, eating itself, like the serpent eating its own tail, we eat from our own wisdom. If we are given to look to Christ then we are healed and are entering the promise land, a new world where the lie of individualism is destroyed and oneness with God is shown.)

    Joh 3:16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

    Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (God loves the world within His Elect that sees Him as the All in All, so much so that He has sent Christ to die to Himself so that we can live unto God. Christ has given up His life so that we can have life….by following His example and dying to ourselves. Christ has shown the life of a spiritual being in contrast to an earthly being. Christ came to this earth in a fleshly body, born in the lowest state, in a stall with animals (which is a parable of Him entering into flesh, which is a beast, which is the unconverted flesh.) He was laid in a manager which is the parable that He would be the “food” or “bread of life” to all Believers – we must eat His flesh and drink His blood to live – a parable of the Truth He would reveal to His Elect that in Him only is life.) He came in the flesh and lived a life He knew was totally dependent upon His Father. When a man said he wanted to follow Christ, Christ told him “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” He did not have a home here on earth, meaning He did not feel at home encased in a fleshly body, around carnal earth-bound thoughts. His thoughts had no home among the dead.

    Joh 3:18  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 

    There is a world inside of the Elect who are walking out of Egypt/the world of the flesh into a heavenly world and are beginning to see God in ALL THINGS. He that does not see God in all things is condemned already because he has not seen His life as a creation of Christ but a creation of choices made by his own flesh.

    Joh 3:19  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 

    Joh 3:20  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 

    Joh 3:21  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. My new man, that has been created in the image of Christ, is being made free from the place of the unknown, he is known and is beginning to know ALL THINGS. He is freed from condemnation because he has been born from above. He is made to see that what he is, was and will be is, was and will be a creation of Christ for the glory of God. The opposite is to hate The Light and stay in the darkness of your world, void of form and be condemned into the abyss of the unknown. “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” To stay in the darkness where we are void of truth and without form is to love the darkness of our own judgment. To love your thoughts as a free being unencumbered by anyone or anything is to hate Christ, Who is The Light. The carnal mind hates Christ because when we come to Christ He explains to us what is carnal and dark about our thoughts. We do not want to be reproved by seeing what Christ sees in us. We would rather stay hugging our lies of individualism and carnal wisdom than come to Christ where we can be shown that everything we have ever been, are or will be is, was and will be a work of God and not our own,”are wrought in God.” To the new man, this is “good news” indeed but to our old man, our old serpent, it’s death. In Christ’s words “But he that DOETH TRUTH cometh to the light, that HIS DEEDS may be MANIFEST, that they (HIS DEEDS) are WROUGHT IN GOD.” See Christ on the pole and our serpent bites (fleshly thoughts of godhood) won’t hurt us. See Christ as The Creator and not myself and I am healed from whatever takes place every day. “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils (refute false doctrines, lying thoughts); they shall speak with new tongues (spiritual language, understanding parables as explained earlier); They shall take up serpents (overcome/be victorious over the lying doctrines of goodhood represented by the serpent); and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them (no longer hurt by the lies of our old man/serpent nature) ; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” (our new man, Christ in us, touching our old man with the truth and healing the many parts of us still in bondage to the deadly doctrine of self worship.)

    With spiritual eyes, we can look at the story of Paul on the island of Melita and understand what Christ is teaching us about the battle being waged inside of a believer. Here is first layer of understanding:

    “And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks (representing the Barbarians because men are trees), and laid them on the fire (the fire of right judgment of God), there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. (the heat of judgment drives out the false doctrines residing in our carnal mind represented by the serpent) And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live. (This explains the Barbarians’ false belief in works – retribution and recompense based on good and evil works, “what goes around, comes around.”)  And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm. (Their false doctrine has no affect on Paul because he knows the truth that it is Christ Who created him to do and be everything he is, was and will be.) Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.” (When their false doctrinal expectations aren’t met that based on his works, on law, he should have been killed by the serpent, the serpent nature in them slithers to yet another false doctrine – creature worship, hence the “to and fro” thoughts of the serpent nature. The serpent’s curse of eating dust as long as it shall live is a parable of how our thoughts cannot go any higher than the earth, or enter the kingdom of God, before Christ enters us and we are converted. To the carnal/serpent mind ALL things are a result of some other element in creation, thus eating dust. It worships the creature rather than the Creator and it will slither to and fro until it lands on something that makes sense to the “wisdom of men.” And when one doctrine fails, it moves on to something else – “ever learning and never able to come unto the knowledge of the truth.”

    Now we can take this same story and use the spiritual language for even further inward interpretation and explain what goes on inside of a believer, inside the kingdom of God. Christ, represented by Paul, gathers bundles of false doctrines together that are within us and brings them to the light of judgment, Who is God, Who is a consuming fire. Fire represents the truth of God that He is working all things. The lies of the serpent that reside within us try very hard to get us to take credit for our own works, seen by the serpent attaching to Paul’s hand – our hand representing our works. But when Christ gives us to see that it’s not our hand but HIS hand, the result is more faith and we are able to shake off the lying thoughts of our own godhood into the consuming fire of God’s love and we’re unhurt by them. This is looking at the serpent on the pole and being healed. Yet the Barbarians within us, watching all of this, are the parts of us that are not yet converted meaning anything about ourselves that we’ve not yet stopped taking credit for creating or having created. We’ve not yet been given the faith to see Christ clearly in those areas. We still have the blind living among us. In these areas of our life, we are still worshipping the creature (ourselves!) because we see even our faith as ours and thus worship ourselves as a god. We give ourselves the “atta boy” for our knowledge that Christ is the Creator and all is of God….even the understanding itself, the serpent will try to steal for himself because as scripture says “…even the devils believe.” We have no ability to believe or not believe anything. All must be given to us from God through Christ.

  • I grew up in a family where God was not spoken of much. I went to an Easter service once, when I was very young, around 7 or 8 years old, with an uncle. I remember walking into the building and into what they call the “sanctuary” and feeling scared. Up on the wall behind the “altar,” was a picture of some men dressed in robes and hanging all over another man in the middle. They all looked effeminate and very white. I only went there for the food because I was told there would be lots of good things to eat. When I got home I told my Dad about it and asked him “Who is God?” He told me there was no such thing as God and that God was for weak people who couldn’t handle their own lives. My Mom believed in a god and had a picture for awhile of “Jesus” on the wall until my Dad broke it. The wisdom of men in our home was god was for weak people and we knew what Jesus looked like because we had a picture of him. Then in my teens, I went to another religous service of about 10 or 15 people at most. These people told me that God was angry at me because of my sin and that if I didn’t do a sinner’s prayer I would go to hell, a place where bad people go to be tormented in a flame of fire for all of eternity. So, hey I wasn’t stupid, I confessed I was a bad person and got saved. I can go on and on about different religous meetings I was driven to throughout the many proceeding years, and all the different slants on the truth of Who God was and Who Jesus was.

    From about 16 years old until I was in my early forties I was driven by the Spirit to read and study different Christian doctrines all claiming to be the truth. Everyone had the truth and everyone was right. There were countless different denominations. And there were splits and denominations within denominations. There were divisions between people in the same denomination all the way down to divisions in the people who gathered together under the same roof. There were endless doctrinal divisions from what bible to read, how to be baptized, the Lord’s supper, how to pray, how to be saved, who is saved, who is not, etc etc. No denomination had unity. There wasn’t unity even within the same gathering. It was a given that everyone had their own ideas based on their own thoughts because everyone believes that everyone has the “God given right” to believe what they believe based on their own free will. Here in the sleepy little community we live there are at least 50 churches. Two of them are directly across the street from each other. There are divisions on every corner and in every corner of every building that is titled a church. As of this writing, there are approximately 45,000 different denominations that say they believe in the same man called Jesus. This reality of division isn’t just in what’s called Christianity but it’s in all religions around the world. This is a result of man’s belief in a free will. Whether religous or secular, all believe they have free will and are their own gods. All believe in their hearts that they are the god of their life, making their free choices and directing their lives based on these choices they’ve made by sorting through a litany of competing ideas and information. To the beastly mind, nothing can bind it. It moves about where it wills and rules itself so it has been given over to believe. Until we are converted, and Christ begins to rule and reign within us, our world lies in darkness, and we live among the dead because we have been given over to the idea that we are directing our own life. Myriads of spirits (ideas/beliefs/thoughts/opinions) are running amok throughout our world. This is described in the parable of the man on the island of the Gadarenes:

    “And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes (which means “reward at the end”). And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:  Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.  And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.  But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done. And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid. And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine. And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts. And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him. Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.”

    All of what I have just explained outwardly about denominations of division is happening inside of a believer because inside of a believer is the old man, called a Dragon in scripture, who slithers through him from one place to another with thousands of different thoughts that claim to be the truth – not just thoughts about religion but ALL thoughts. We are the man on the island of the Gadarenes. There is a world inside of us created by God that is filled with unconverted heathen (thoughts) that worship countless false gods and this world within is ruled over by the Satanic doctrine that claims “I am the god of this place.” He sits in the temple of our mind claiming to be equal with God. As an Elect of God, once you are converted, you will spend the rest of your life fighting against these powers and principalities – the legion of false kings all vying for preeminence in your little fiefdom. This is the revealing and subsequent toppling of the man of sin that Paul talks about. It MUST happen before the end can come. Before we are converted, we are the man on the island of Gadarenes, but once Christ takes up His position on the throne, toppling the man of sin, then we witness the truth that “the Kingdoms of this world (our world within) have become the kingdoms of Our Lord and of His Christ and (we know) He shall reign forever.” This is the gospel of us being crucified daily. Like the man from Gadarene, we are told that we must go back to our “home” within and fight the daily battle to remind ourselves of the false doctrine Christ has freed us from – that we are the god of our world. All of the Elect must be brought into the submission of Christ being Lord of our world. Though nearly all of scripture reads like “one and done” events, the truth is nearly all scripture is written in a Qal or aorist tense which means all things are happening over time, and coming into being. God sees everything outside of time so for Him it is one and done as He knows the end from the beginning. But we are being recreated by Him and this is a process that is played out in our time on this earth.

    The Apostle Paul said he died “DAILY.” If he had been perfected then what was he dying to? If he was perfected already then why did he need a “thorn in the flesh” a “messanger of Satan” to buffet him? “…lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations.” He was given to wrestle with something so that he was not exalted in his flesh. We all have thorns in the flesh that God has created and uses for molding us into the image of Christ. The wisdom of men lures us into saying we have attained and we do not need to wrestle with anything. But scripture says we are not yet reigning:

    “Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.”

    The Corinthians were believing they had attained already and failing to recognize the wrestling that was required to rule and reign. The fight within us against our everyday thoughts is strong and constantly leaves our flesh feeling foolish. Last week we gave personal examples of building our cow feeder and growing grass. We told these little stories to show the seeming silliness of the flesh’s struggles. Some may think they’re inconsequential but if you’re fighting the Dragon within you then you understand that every previously taken-for-granted seemingly nothing thought becomes a struggle between the Truth and a lie. And these two small examples really only scratch the surface of the struggle because as scripture says, we must bring EVERY thought into submission to Christ. Stop for just a moment and consider how many thoughts go through your mind in one day, one hour! When Christ takes over the throne of your mind, every thought will be judged in the light of Truth and separated like sheep from goats. And it’s this process that kills the old man a little more every day. The beast that rises from the sea of humanity in me is a beast that dedicates every minute of every day to himself so much so he creates an image of himself called the man of sin. And unless your man of sin has been revealed to you, you’ll find these struggles laughable because you believe you’ve attained already. Every thought must be brought into subjection to Christ’s authority so every thought is a struggle. Stop and think about what this verse is saying don’t gloss over it….”every thought” has to be brought into obedience to Christ. Every thought has to be scrutinized and examined as to where it is coming from.

    “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.”

    This is the simplicity of the gospel and the wisdom of God. There’s no special prayer, no magic spell, no special ceremony that will make us overcome the flesh in a one and done. When we deny the flesh its “rights” then we are walking in the Spirit. It is Christ in us that makes this happen. Left to our own, the beast nature cannot ever deny itself. Every morning we pray that God’s will be done and that we see Him in all things. Yet throughout every day we forget Him and go about doing what the flesh desires at any given moment. But even in the seeming failures, the kingdom of Christ within us grows ever stronger. We have to remain in faith that Christ is the Author and Finisher of our faith, not us, and we know He does not fail. So we take our chastisements knowing that without chastisement we would be bastards and not sons. When we are walking in the spirit of Christ, knowing that He is one with the Father (which makes US one with the Father) then the fight gets easier with every battle. You will begin to see real changes in your life. Changes in your heart. Changes that you know with certainty you could not and did not achieve but it is the power of Christ within you. Your desires will change. And where we are not walking in the spirit, this too will be conquered because “he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ” and we “…Press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.” Notice scripture uses the word “mind” because this is where the battle is waged.  

    In my previously darkened, worldly Christian view, Christ was served on Sunday, (which is the first day of the week, not The Sun god day, from which the name is derived) and the rest of the week was mine. I went to the building every first day of the week, stamped my card, praised the speaker for such a powerful message, went to the “linger longer” and ate some homemade food and then off to wherever my flesh desired. Then, because I am an Elect, God began creating some big problems in the life I called mine. He began chipping away at my flesh. Recreating my world through trials, through earthquakes and floods that shook my world to its core. Then once He laid the foundation He began to work on the more subtle things that are deep within my earth’s core. And that is where we are today. The gross outward fleshly things of the flesh have been conquered. Now the hidden things in me must be driven out to expose them. The great temptations and wonders that I have seen, that the great stretched out arm of the Lord used to bring me out of my spiritual Egypt, will be used to uncover the hidden things in me.

    “The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid. Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.”

    We are now to the simplicity of the gospel. Every thought, which is a Canaanite, Hivite, an Amorite that is secretly holding on to itself, will be driven out by a hornet, a stinging truth that will expose it and crucify it. This is bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ. It doesn’t matter where you live, how you were raised, how poor or rich you are in the flesh. If you are an Elect of God then you will be made into the image of Christ where every word, every thought, every action will be to the glory of God, consciously.

    “Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. As he spake these words, many believed on him.”

    “When you”….have lifted up the Son of man…..”Then shall you know”…That Christ is The “I Am” of every minute of your life and that you do nothing of yourself! When I am given to see my man of sin as the one who has crucified Christ as being my Creator, THEN you shall know that your life was a creation of Christ and that you did not create anything, good or evil. Then and ONLY THEN, can you speak what has been taught to you by God. I crucified The Son of God by claiming my worth or worthlessness upon myself. To preach Christ crucified is to understand that out of anyone ever created, Christ had the rights to claim His own goodness, but would not, “why call me good? there is none good but God.” He actually had rights as the only begotten Son of God, as the True Creator of all this is seen and unseen. But even though He had all these rights He still laid all His life, thought, word and deed, at the feet of His Father’s power. “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.” He claimed nothing as His own. He had the power to do anything He wanted but denied that power of self to be one with His Creator, unto the death of His flesh. He had the power over death but did not claim that to save His own flesh. “He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.” That’s the message. Christ could have saved Himself but He didn’t. He gave up His rights and died for those who could not do what He did. This is the message of Christ crucified, unto the Jew a stumblingbock and the Greek foolishness. Flesh claims to be the creator of its good and evil in its life, not Christ. Flesh is all about coming off the cross, saving its own life, saving itself. Yet, this is the path to death! This is the stumblingblock and the foolishness of the message of the truth. Claim your life as a free will being over your good and evil and lose it all. Claim nothing as yours, good or evil, and gain Christ, which is everything. It’s an unthinkable and impossible message to the flesh.

    “For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known meThat they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

    To the religous Jew in me this is a stumbling block because I want to establish/claim my own good works based on a law. I am a whited sepulchre. I look good on the outside but inside am a ravening wolf and don’t even know it. This is the truth of all flesh. The Jew in me loves law because he still thinks he can attain his own righteousness through law. The Jew within me hates Christ and is jealous of Christ because Christ sets the bar too high for the flesh. He obliterates my righeousness by revealing my heart, the truth behind all my good works – self glorification. “There is none righteous, no not one.” Christ himself even asked “Why do you call me good? There is none good but God.” EVEN CHRIST would not claim His own righteousness. The Jew in me is appalled at such a doctrine because it says I cannot ever be a child of God through the good works I desperately wish to claim as my own. To the Greek in me this is foolishness because he believes in intellect. The Greek within me mocks the idea that God has actually used His own Wisdom to make me believe I’m wise and then blinded me with my intellect. He mocks the truth that his intellect is worthless rubbish next to the truth of Christ. The Greek in me is appalled because this doctrine says I must crucify my intellect, in other words, the myth that all the data in my head is contributing one iota to the preservation of my life, and leaves me at the mercy of what I see as chance and not my own wisdom. Faith in Christ destroys these two versions of false doctrine but not without a fight.

    “For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.”

    The wisdom of God was manifested in The Son of man because as a man in the flesh He lived His life as a sacrifice of self unto His Father, a sacrifice unto every thought. He never claimed a thought as His own. The Elect of God are known of God even when they do not know Him. He has clothed us even though, again, we didn’t know Him, as the above verse from Isaiah said. We walk through life every day struggling between the flesh and spirit. My flesh urges me to do something for my flesh and the spirit urges me to submit every thought to God. One is for the flesh and the desires of the flesh, good or evil and the other for the spirit where it is always for the good of another, not my flesh. I either take enjoyment out of giving to Christ or I take enjoyment in giving to my flesh. This is where the dying to self daily comes in and the crucifying of myself comes in.

    “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

    “I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.”

    This is where I learn to do all things without murmuring and complaining, because I know that it is God within me creating a will in me to do His good pleasure.

    “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;”

    The daily challenge is to fight the urge of the flesh to do its will and good pleasure. But as the sons of God, Christ is doing exactly that, creating a will in us to see Him as all things and to glorify God for all things. This is what God told Moses. “I AM, that I Am.” There is only ONE I AM and it’s not me. There is only God and He is everything. This is a stumbling block to my religous man because he does not submit to the truth that God made him a beast and that it was God Who made Him with a serpent in him. It is foolishness to the Greek in me because it says that it was my own wisdom that has made me or broken me. It is foolishness to my flesh to believe God is interested in even the minutest detail of life…what I wear, where I go, what I eat, who I associate with, when to talk, when not to talk, and each and every one of my thoughts. We cannot escape His Sovereignty. We must learn that everything has a season.

    “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.”

    Each season is a season planned by God, not me. And all of it is inward, inside me, in the world God has created in me, the world God so loved that He gave His only begotten Son for it. A man must be born again to see that he is a world and not in a world. The spirit of God blows me where He desires I go. It is not my planning or my intellect or my works.

    “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man (a world) be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God (is within himself). Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit….For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

    The word world is “Kosmos” G2889 and means “orderly arrangement, that is, decoration; by implication the world (in a wide or narrow sense, including its inhabitants, literally or figuratively [morally]): – adorning, world“. Did I “decorate” my world or “arrange” my world or did God? Did I morally create what I am today or did God? Your answer within yourself is the revealing of who you are and will be. If Christ is The Creator of your world and you see Genesis one and two as your daily creation by God then you are a Son of God. If you confess that you thought you were your own world’s creator, then your man of sin has been exposed and you are on your way to crucfying him. If you believe it was your own freewill choices that created who and what you are then you are spiritually dead and in the place of the unknown. There is a great chasm between you and the truth and your rich man cannot be with the beggar Lazarus, (who did not own or possess anything), in Abraham’s bosom. I do not want to claim anything as mine, good or bad. Our world should be adorned and decorated by The Creator not ourselves. There is no condemnation to those who believe Christ is their image, the Son of man, their man.

    “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.”

    Flesh loves flesh. Flesh loves darkness. Darkness hides the truth that we are beasts with hearts of stone. The Light exposes everything and my flesh hates that exposure as much as looking into a magnifying mirror where every wrinkle, freckle, scar, hair and blackhead is exposed. Flesh loves the darkness, which is the lie that it’s its own god. But the Spirit rejoices in the Truth. The Elect come to The Light, the Truth. Why? Because Christ is in them and He rejoices in the Truth that our deeds ARE WROUGHT IN GOD through Him. Everything was a working of Christ that has planned my life and I lay no claim to it. Our life is a “work, a wrought” of God by Christ, for Christ and all for the glory of God. Who IS The All in all of us. By Him we live and move and have our being. He IS THE I AM, THAT I AM. Come to The Light and see all your works were a work of God creating you into the Image of Christ. Look at the Serpent on the pole and be healed. See yourself as The Serpent that imagined himself as a god independent and separate from The God and be healed of its bite. The alternative is to stay in darkness and die in unbelief. See every day as an opportunity to be healed and you grow more into the image of Christ, healed from the serpent’s poison of free will. This is the simplicity of the gospel. Die to self, live unto God. Sacrifice your godhood and be made into the image of Christ Who gave Himself for the life of your world that He created. Sacrifice it all now and get abundantly more in the future.

    “Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee. And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, (your world) for my sake, and the gospel’s, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.”

    This is the wisdom of God that seems so foolish to our flesh. It seems like suicide to my flesh. But that is exactly the point. What seems so foolish to my flesh is the wisdom of God. My flesh cannot comprehend denying its own life for something it cannot physically see or touch. It comes down to who do we want to be the wise masterbuilder of our world? Christ or myself? Is Christ The Wise Carpenter or am I? The wisdom of God is the foolishness of the cross, where we are crucified, and is wiser than anything we ever thought we had created.

    “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”

    This gospel of the kingdom of God must be preached in all your world for a witness, then the end will come in your world. In all areas where you have claimed freedom from a power outside yourself.

    “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”

    When all our world has been preached to, then the end of the flesh ruling us will come, it’s power will be broken and hung upon the cross as a thief. The end of our world and the reigning of a new world where Christ sits as King of kings and Lord of lords of it. But, until then, we need patience to endure the fight.

    For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.”

    It will take patience to continue in faith and not turn again to works of righteousness based on my own free will. I fight to the end because He that has begun a good work in me continues to work in me a will to fight. It is not me but Christ in me. The faith of Christ is moving mountains and parting waters within our earth. Healing the sick, the blind, casting out devils and raising the dead. Every thought is brought into obedience to Christ as the power and as its Creator. Christ is the force that is burning my world up and at the same time creating a new world. I am seeing a new world descending from my heavens arrayed in white, holy and pure because it is the truth that Christ is King.

    “And I saw (am seeing) a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away (passing away); and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. “

    To be an overcomer I must submit to Christ as my sole Creator and overcome the thoughts of self creation. I created nothing, nor am I creating anything. God is The All in all of me. God is The I AM that has made me what I am. When I am crucified with Christ then I will know I am what Christ created me to be and that I did nothing of myself. The Father has always been with me and has not left me alone. I have always done what has pleased Him.

    “Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.”

  • “And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.”

    A person with a carnal mind makes decisions on what they know naturally, through information gathering and experience, thinking it’s coming from himself. If you’ve read many of the other studies you know that the man of sin is within us and is the old serpent who from the beginning has asked “did God say?” It is the deceiving spirit/thoughts within us that claim they have knowledge separate from God and cause us to question God’s authority as the sole Creator in even the smallest matters. Scriptures plainly say that we do nothing of ourselves and all things are of Christ The Creator:

    “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”

    In Genesis Chapter 1, when God created the woman, he put Adam to sleep…Adam being asleep is a parable of us not knowing where our wisdom comes from. While Adam was asleep God created wisdom (wisdom is called a woman in proverbs) and presented it/her to him. When Adam awakes he takes credit for the woman as coming from him. “She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man.” Adam, though he awakes, is still a walking dead man. His statement that woman came out of him reveals he is mortal, without the knowledge of God or Christ. The truth is everything comes from God, but we take credit for all things as coming from ourselves or other men. Every thought comes from God. He uses some thoughts to reveal Himself to us and build us up into the kingdom of God and some thoughts He creates for man to worship himself as a beast, thus hiding Himself from man. Some thoughts build up the spiritual and others are for the flesh. “For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God.” Some are for the first Adam, flesh, others are for the benefit of the second Adam who is a life-giving Spirit, in other words Christ in us. Christ is represented by the woman in Genesis. God made Christ to be all wisdom. “But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. “

    The woman was taken from Adam’s rib. The word rib is H6763 from H6760 – a rib, literally of the body or figuratively a door. Christ is the door. “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” Our first man Adam, believes all thought/wisdom passes in and out of himself. The new man, the spiritual Adam being created in us is being brought to understand all comes through Christ alone. He alone is all wisdom. “All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.  I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.” All thoughts that do not pass through Christ as the door, that come from our flesh, based in the lie that they originated from ourselves or any other man, become thieves and robbers. We attempt to steal glory from Christ who is the true owner of all things. As we grow in understanding of Christ, we realize all we need is Christ. He alone is wisdom. This Truth, that Christ is ALL, quells the “storms” of thoughts that attempt to capsize us into fear and unbelief. This Truth keeps us humble and wards off the roaring lion of pride who is constantly looking to seek whom he may destroy. “And will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent for it is written I will bring to nothing the wisdom of the wise and the understanding of the prudent.” This is picking up our cross and following Christ. It is daily, hourly, minute by minute, crucifying our own wisdom.

    So how does the “wisdom of men” playout in our everyday lives? Scripture teaches that the wisdom of men is at the core of unbelief in God and instead puts faith in ourselves, in our own “wisdom.” It is in every aspect of our lives and must be identified as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It is the beast of Revelation with two horns like a lamb but speaks as a dragon. “And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.”

    My carnal mind, my man of sin, my satanic nature believes that it “knows” things (most of the time EVERYTHING) and that with this knowledge that he obtained through life he can produce something. He believes the knowledge came from him, not Christ, and it is his knowledge, not Christ Himself, that creates. But the truth of scripture tells us, and though we’ve already quoted it, it bears much repeating: “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”

    When I was young I worked on a thousand acre cattle ranch and farm where I was taught how to handle cattle. Every year they would truck in six to eight hundred cattle and we would put each cow through the corral and then through the chutes to remove their horns, give them shots, tag them and then brand them. Then we would spend the next year getting them fat to send them off to be slaughtered. In my time working at this ranch, my carnal mind was taught various skills through experience. One of the things I learned was how to build cattle troughs. Some days ago my wife and I had the thought to build a trough for our two cows. I set out with complete confidence in my “experience” and no thought that without Christ, nothing is created. So according to MY wisdom I had attained in my past life I set out gathering lumber and things needed to build this feeder. Right out of the gate I did not ask God for the guidance. To teach me a lesson, God put it in me to rely on experience, and thus it never eneterd my mind to ask Him for guidance. So, off we went and my wife who had been persuaded to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil with me, trusting that I knew what I was doing, separate and independent from Christ, helped me in the assembling of this feeder. Not too long after starting I got my first warning to stop and pray because I got a splinter in my right hand. Then my attitude began to change and the Lord set about revealing my old man who claims to know everything. Consequently, I began to get grouchy and stern. My wife would suggest something and I would disregard it. I didn’t need advice, I knew what I was doing! When the skeleton of the feeder was complete we chained it to the bucket of the tractor and took it to where I had decided was best. My man of sin was being set up for failure by God (praise God!) God had me flying high on pride in carnal wisdom. Well no sooner did the cows begin feeding from it I realized that I had put the two main support legs in the wrong spot causing the cows to have to step over them to get to the feeder. I realized that in winter with the ice and rain they would be slipping on those support legs and they needed to be moved. So I had to remove them one at a time and put them on the ends where they belonged, which was another blow to my pride. (Hadn’t I done this before? Shouldn’t my experience have prevented such a silly mistake? Hmmm.) Still locked in stubborness, the Lord continued the lesson. When it came time to put the metal on the roof, each roof joist was two inches too long. Now my man of sin was roaring. The bruised pride of my flesh was howling. To sum up, one thing after another had to be adjusted until we finished the trough. It was not the smooth operation my flesh had anticipated based on its years of experience. By then my back and legs were aching, my shoulders were hurting, and both of my hands were swollen and in pain. My wife, as the Lord prompted her to do, asked me “what were you thinking when you were building it?” In her simple question, I realized that I had leaned to my own understanding and not relied on Christ as The Builder and Maker. The pain was a chastisement from God because I thought I was the builder. I reaped what my individualism from Christ had gotten me. I asked for forgiveness, repented from taking an ounce of credit for building the feeder and from being dismissive to my wife. The pain began to ease up. By bedtime it was almost all gone and I slept well. “And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.”

    My old man thinks he knows what’s best for me. He has been there and done it all. He is arrogant, rude, and bull headed. He believes he has all wisdom. He never trusts in God and was not made to trust in God. He was made like a beast to think for itself and made to be destroyed. Every detail of life is like every cut, every screw, every piece of the cattle trough. It is made by God, fashioned by God and placed by God. I do nothing. My old man does not believe this, he believes that God is there just for the big things and the details are left up to me to finish. Apostle Paul said “in God we live and move and have our being.” That is a bold statement of entirety. And the scriptures quoted above from Colossians that Christ created everything and by Him all things consist also proves that we don’t take a breath without Him giving us that breath. The power of The Spirit Apotle Paul spoke of was what was played out in my pain. I erred from the truth in unbelief not seeing Christ as The Builder and my unbelief was what Christ died for. But the beauty and power of resurrection played out in chastisement, which brought knowledge of why I was being chastised, then confession, then repentance, then physical relief and conversion. This builds our patience and faith in The Creator.

    The wisdom of men goes a lot deeper than we think. If you’ve read the Revelation study then you understand that the 144,000 represent every minute of every day given to Christ as Creator in loving God with all my heart, soul and mind and my neighbor/Brother as myself. I was not doing that in the building of the feeder. I had left my first love and started mixing with my old man’s ways. Because I am who I am in Christ, God was not mocked and I reaped what I had sown. I had planted to the flesh’s natural laws of wisdom and recieved the laws of the flesh in pain. If we walk in the Spirit then we shall reap from the Spirit: “…love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.”

    This same principal of the wisdom of men plays out in our mourning for the loss of loved ones. The wisdom of the natural man tries to explain what happens to the dead. Common Babylonian thought (religious or secular) says everyone has a free will independent from God and everyone makes free will choices. These choices, which are independent from God, decide whether one will spend eternity in heaven or an eternity in hell. Most use the parable of Lazarus and the rich man as their foundation. Then you have those who believe in the wisdom of men that say in another life God will gather all of the human race and use selected people to reprogram/convert them thus teaching ultimately a free for all in which everyone ever created will be in a place called heaven. These are teachings for the “itching ears” of the flesh. They soothe the flesh in one way or another either with retribution and reward based on works, or the laissez faire attitude of eat drink and be merry because we all end up in heaven anyway. There are thousands of different ways according to man’s wisdom to get to either of these two outcomes. But the truth is simple, so simple that the carnal mind cannot conceive it. The truth is that what God has promised to Abraham will enter behind the veil, the kingdom of God, because of Christ being The Seed promised to secure them. Christ is The Seed promised to Abraham and Christ has secured ALL of Abraham’s spiritual seed. “And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. “

    Isaac representing the single seed of Christ, was the promised child, not Ishmael who represents our flesh. Christ is the promised seed to whom all the promises are made. Because we are in Christ, we also partake of the promise and the inheritance. Scripture says if you are in Christ, then you are heirs to the promise. The new man is the promised child, not my flesh. “Flesh and blood will not inherit the kingdom of God.” All of Isaac’s seed, Jacob, is loved, not Esau’s seed. Jacob represents the Elect (new man) and Esau (old man) represents our flesh. Then you have all the twelve tribes that come from Jacob that represent the One tribe. Again if you’ve read the Revelation study you understand that twelve equals one, as twelve hours equals ONE day and twelve months equal ONE year. The ONE tribe is Christ. All who are in Christ are ONE with Him and everything in them are ONE with them. We are in the spiritual, Abraham’s inheritance, as promised to him by God, secured by the One Seed who is Christ. “Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. “

    “I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.”

    All that God has promised to Christ are the same that were promised to Abraham. Christ is The Seed in which all come through. Like Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness, so we believe in Christ and it is accounted to us for righteousness. We are the offspring of Christ, we are His seeds, children. We are the children of the promise that are counted as heirs. “Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.” The promised children are those whom God has chosen to be children of the promise and given to Christ. Just because someone was born in the literal lineage of Abraham that does not make him a child of promise. The promised children are those who have Christ in them, The Seed. It is not according to lineage or to a denomination, or to knowledge, or birthright in the flesh. If you are a child of God promised to Christ, then you have The Seed in you and that Seed grows in faith and in belief according to the promises of God. The inheritance is not based on works of the flesh or because of your lineage, but solely based on the Election of God. “Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded unto this day.” “…the election hath obtained it…” nothing more needs to be said! The election of God obtains what has been elected. And if you are an elect then you are justified in Christ and are glorified in Christ and walk as Chris.

    “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, THEM he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”

    False doctrine places the belief before the election and basically says that my belief saves me. But the truth is that we believe because we were elected to believe. Our belief is a manifestation of our election before we were ever born. We were chosen to believe because Christ was predestined to be in us. We did not come out of the womb knowing who we were, it was manifested to us who we were by our belief. God chose us to believe. It is a work of God that we believe in Christ, it is not a work we can do. Election obtains the promise to believe and that belief from God is counted for righteousness. The belief is God’s work that is righteous. “But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:”

    We are no different from any other human on earth in the flesh. But we have been chosen by God before the foundation of the world to be in the kingdom of God through The Seed. We are an offspring of Christ, an heir to the throne of God with Christ. False doctrine teaches us that our freewill is what gets us eternal life. We either choose life or we choose death. False doctrine teaches that I believe in Christ because of my freewill, to turn from my sin and receive atonement. The truth says I believe because I was chosen by God to believe. It is a work of God that I believe. “Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”  It’s not a work of the flesh to believe it is “the work of God, that we believe” in Christ. It is a work of God for us to believe that Christ is in us creating us into sons of God. This is the simplicity of the gospel. So simple that the wisdom of men cannot attain it. “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”

    The serpent in me was made to slither through me to cause me to doubt God. The doubt either causes me to lean on Christ or it causes me to separate from God. It either causes me to trust Christ as my savior or trust in my works as savior. It separates the wheat from the tares. It either trusts God that Christ is recreating me or it chases its own fabled free will to believe. Stay in Christ we have life, chase our own servantry and we die. This simplistic parable is played out in the story of Shimei. Shimei cursed David as he fled Jerusalem from Absalom:

    “And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.” After David is restored to the throne he pardons Shimei. “Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him.”  But, upon his death bed king David told Solomon to remember what Shimei had done:

    “Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,….And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword. Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.” 

    So Solomon gives Shimei an order. Build a house in the city and you shall live. If you leave the city you shall die. And that is exactly what he did. He built a home and lived in it for three years until his servants ran away and he went chasing them. The word came to Solomon and he executed Shimei for disobeying his order. “And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither. For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head. And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days. And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath. And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath. And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again. And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good. Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with? The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head; And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever. So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.”

    If we remain in Christ as Savior (represented by staying put in Jerusalem, the “teaching of peace”) we live, if we chase after our own works we die. If we are in Christ we remain in Christ. The parts of us that are not in Christ chase after our own works and die in unbelief. As the kingdom of David was established in the hands of Solomon by the death of Shimei, so the kingdom of God is established in the death of our old man. Christ’s kingdom is established by the death of our own Shimei (our own wisdom) and we are blessed as Solomon. Stand in the simple truth that the election has obtained us and Christ is The Seed in us, and we live. Go running after your own servantry through works (works based on wisdom of the flesh) you die, yet the Kingdom of God is established. The world in me is chasing their servants, their works and wisdom all will die and the Kingdom of Christ will be established. Our citizenship in the kingdom of God is based on God’s election and He sent His Son to establish our citizenship by His own death for our cursing. The debt was paid in full, all we are told to do is stand in the New Jerusalem and never leave it. Staying in the church, staying in communication with Christ strengthens the new man and produces peace. Leaving New Jerusalem and mixing with the doctrines of the world produces death. Either way the kingdom is being established. If you believe you are a son of God, you believe because you were predestined to believe. The alternative is to turn to your own vomit and die in your fabled free will. Because both of these events must happen, they both are part of the process that establishes what and who you are becoming in the kingdom of God. All the Elect start off as Shimei, in the flesh, with a paid debt for our cursing, as David pardoned Shimei. But our fleshly wisdom chases after our works and those parts of us have to die. “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” When we stay in the wisdom of Christ, which is knowing our Election is based solely on God’s choice, not our works, represented by staying in Jerusalem in the story above, then we are standing in liberty and our debt remains paid. The story of Shimei helps us understand the following verse: “For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins but a certain looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.” If we chase after our works, after anything that comes from ourselves or believe we have anything that comes from ourselves, after we have received this understanding, then we sin willfully, and that part of us will be judged and destroyed.

    “Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.”

    I was blinded by my own experience, my own works, in building the cow trough and it did not turn out as I had planned. Trust in Christ as The Creator of everything I am and all goes wel. Trust in Christ as The Great Carpenter and it is built correctly. The name “Shimei” means “renowned”. The people who came out of the mixing between the sons of God (Seth’s lineage-new man) and the daughters of men (Cain’s lineage-old man) were said also to be renown. The word “renown” is H8034 and means the following; “an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character: –  + base, [in-] fame [-ous], name (-d), renown, report”

    Shimei in us is our thoughts of worth, our own “mark of individuality.” Solomon orders “Benaiah” to kill Shimei. “Benaiah” means H1141; “Jehovah has built.” What “Jehovah has built”, which is Christ in us, will destroy the “mark of our own individuality.” “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.”

    If my thoughts of citizenship in the kingdom of God are based on the mark of my own individuality then that part of me is dead and in the place of the unknown. If I live and move and have my being because of Christ in me, then I am living in the New Jerusalem and not needing to chase servants. If I chase my own individuality then that part is a dead man, walking around with the mark of Cain, the mark of individuality. And if anyone tries to kill my individuality then I will take vengeance seven fold on them. I will fight for my rights as God has put in all flesh, which does not enter the kingdom of God. As beasts, by nature, we will fight for our rights to the death. It’s called pride. “And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.” If I fight for my rights as a free will being then that part of me is dead and in the place of the unknown. If I am a child of God because The Seed is in me, then I have no pride of being renown, and give ALL GLORY TO CHRIST FOR WHO AND WHAT I AM. Christ has translated me from the kingdom of the sons of men (Cain-old man) to the kingdom of the sons of God (Christ-new man) where we don’t mix with the cursed individuality of my old man. We long to just rest in New Jerusalem, city of peace, but there are still Shimei thoughts in us that chase after our own servants. Shimei never rests in New Jerusalem because the flesh loves its individuality more than its King Who Is Christ. The flesh would rather hold on to its illusion of free will individuality unto its last breath than to submit to Christ as its Creator and sole reason to be in the kingdom of God. Die to self/Shimei and live in the city of peace/Jerusalem.

    So, now we must ask “what classifies a thought as individualistic?” Any thought that pits its will against the will of God is individualistic. I’ll give a seemingly small example, yet very real in the individualistic thoughts of our flesh. We, my wife and I, went through great lengths to grow Fescue grass on our property. The ground all around our home was nothing but dirt and mud when it rained. There was no grass, of any kind, in the area around our home due to the ground being upended in the removing of trees and tractor work. It was muddy during the rains and dusty during the dry times. So we took our tractor and tilled the ground up and seeded it with fescue grass. It didn’t do much. We kept sowing seed, watering, sowing seed, watering, fertilizing, spreading straw to protect the seed and so on, yet not much praying or asking God to reveal His will. Well, three years later we had a beautiful lawn around most of the house. Then this year we noticed that the color of the grass had changed and at closer inspection we found that most of the fescue grass was gone. Where there was fescue grass there was now mostly stilt grass. Stilt grass is considered by man’s wisdom to be an invasive weed grass that is basically good for nothing and does not make for a “pretty” lawn. Much of our property has this stilt grass because it was filled with groves of trees and not much else will grow in woodlands or under dense canopies of trees. Another disturbing to our flesh bit of man’s wisdom is that grazing animals won’t eat it. It didn’t occur to us to care much about it when we first bought the property. We didn’t mind the stilt grass at all. At least it was green we had said. But in the acres closer to the house we wanted fescue grass. Anyway, when we first discovered the “invasion” of stilt grass into our highly prized areas that had been sown with fescue, it was sorely disappointing to us. We both knew that this aggravated disappointment was not how we were to receive this, and that we were leaving “Jerusalem” the city of peace, in which we know we are to remain. We remain in Jersalem by submitting ourselves to the authority of Christ in all things because He Authors all things. The new man in us knew it was Christ who first caused the fescue to grow and it was also Christ who was causing the stilt grass to take it over. HOWEVER, because Shimei, our old man, is still with us, we went running after our works which left us feeling cheated by all the work we claimed as our own to grow the fescue, along with anxiousness over the possibility that fescue may never be able to take root anywhere on this property and it will remain a haven for stilt grass – a grass that grazers won’t eat! The Lord has given us two cows so it was a little mystifying to us that He would deny the growth of a suitable grazing grass. And lastly, our pride was hit because we wanted the “look” of a fescue lawn. Like Shimei we were able to intellectually agree with Christ’s ruling and “stay in Jerusalem,” knowing that He is the Author of all things but ultimately the temptation was too great for Shimei, our old man, who simply cannot help but run after his servants, his fleshly works that he so desires to claim as his own. If we weren’t still claiming our own works, taking credit for all the hard work of sowing seed and then reaping the satisfaction of seeing it grow, like we were the creators of it, then when God thwarted our fleshly desires, we would have been able to take it in stride with perfect peace. Instead it disrupted our peace, caused frustration and disappointment and even a little anxiety that we wouldn’t have the “right” grass to feed our cows. All of this comes from taking in and mingling with man’s wisdom, claiming our own works, and taking our eyes off of Christ. This situation may sound silly to many people but it shows the level of detail God uses to reveal what is in us and to make His desired changes within us. God isn’t just in the “big” events of life. He IS life. When God thwarts our fleshly desires, big or small, the truth is always revealed about what is going on within us. We can speak great swelling words of righteousness but when tested, the truth of whether they are truly words of God’s righteousness or self righteousness will always be revealed. This is why God creates these scenarious, for our edification and for ultimately destroying a little more of Shimei with each situation, thus establishing more and more of the kingdom of God. These situations destroy our peace and bring frustration, disappointment, fears, even bitterness sometimes. The Lord has killed off a little more of our Shimei with this situation and restored our peace about whatever it is He desires to grow on His property. He is all wisdom and knows all things. We know nothing. He is a loving and benevolent Provider, Father and Husband. What more do we need to know? This is rest. This is remaining in Jerusalem.

    The truth is whatever Christ desires is what we should desire. We should not have an individualistic desire separate from Him. Christ said that His Father and He were one. He said that the words that came out of His mouth were not His words but His Fathers. And He said He always did what the Father desired. Christ has no desires of His own outside of His Father and so too with us. If we have been united to Christ and His Father as one, then what they desire, we desire, or should desire. What They want for our life, is what we want. This truth is shown in the parable of marriage. What God has brought together let not man (the individualistic thoughts of the man or the woman) put asunder. “And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

    My thoughts should never divide my wife and I. They do at times, but Christ is teaching us to be of the same mind. This marriage example is the parable of the union between Christ and the church, His Bride, New Jerusalem. So, when we read the parabolic language of scripture regarding marriage between a man and a woman, it is speaking of Christ and His union to the church. The man and woman are parables of Christ and the church. Look at the following scriptures:

    “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 

    Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thingHusbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”

    Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.”

    I quote these scriptures to show the truth of being united to Christ and for the purpose of expelling false doctrine. Christ is teaching us to submit to His desires in EVERYTHING. As He told the wife to do to the husband. And He tells us that He loves us as His own body and will not become bitter against us, as He told the husband not to do against his wife. It is easy to become bitter when we are walking in the flesh. When we are in the flesh the husband is not loving the wife as himself but is becoming bitter. He is not seeing her as the church. The wife is not honoring her husband as her head, as Christ, and is being disrespectful to her husband. These parables unlock the door for us to see our relationship with Christ. What and how I treat my wife is how I am treating my relationship to Christ. If I am talking down to her then I am talking down to Christ’s church. If she is being disrepectful to me then she is being disrespectful to Christ. How I treat her is revealing how I am treating Christ. This is the way we are to see individualism. Ever bit of scripture is to be seen inwardly and not outwardly. The parable of the man and the woman is also a parable of my relationship to Christ, inwardly. Another good example of individualistic thinking inwardly is the story of King Ahasuerus and Esther. The King is first married to Queen Vashti. He has a big banquet and requests that Vashti present herself to the people to show her beauty. But, she thinking of herself as an individual with rights, refuses:

    “On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king, To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on. But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.”

    Vashti’s beauty is outward. Without inward beauty we cannot please Christ, our husband. He creates us to have the inward beauty of a chaste heart.

    “Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:”

    Inward beauty is what we are called to present to Christ when we are called upon to be humble, peaceful, kind and merciful to others. My old man does not want to be one with Christ but desires his own individualism before Christ. This is Vashti and she is replaced by Esther. Our old church called Babylon is prideful and arrogant, like Vashti. It thinks it sits on its own beast and all seven days, seven heads, are dedicated to her. Esther represents the New Jerusalem, the new Queen. She is humble, quiet, respectful, and submits to her husband in everything. Again, this parable of a husband and wife is speaking of Christ and the church. “This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.”

    There is no individualism in the kingdom of God. Everyone and everything is created by Christ and for Christ. This is our lives as Elect. Everything in them are created by Christ and for Christ for our good. He doesn’t let us run amuck, but purges us and prunes us to bear fruit. He slowly subdues the Canaanites living in our land that are individualistic. The name “Canaan” means “humiliated” H3667 and comes from H3665 which means “properly to bend the knee; hence to humiliate, vanquish: – bring down (low), into subjection, under, humble (self), subdue.” Christ is teaching us to subdue the individualistic thoughts in us as natural brute beasts and rule them. Submit to Christ in EVERYTHING as scripture says to do and we obtain it all. Fight for your rights as a man or woman as an individual and you get nothing. Become one with Christ you get it all.

    “Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own. I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee. O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee

  • Christ is The Resurrection. The resurrection is not an act in the future, but it is Christ. He is the resurrection, which means as we learn of Christ we are being resurrected. The resurrection is not a one time future event but a daily, hourly, minute by minute rising from the carnal mind under the firmament, to a descending from the firmament above, which means in less parabolic terms, our thoughts are descending from the spiritual realm into the natural realm and then ascending back up above the natural from what the spiritual teaches us. This is the process of resurrection.

    “And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. “

    “But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of ChristTILL we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him (RESURRECT) in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.”

    The carnal mind thinks in carnal thoughts that do not rise above their own heads. The Spiritual mind rises into the heavens, above what the natural mind can comprehend. Terrestrial vs Celestial.

    There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.”

    Our resurrection is not a one time act in the future but a daily recreation ascending above the terrestrial into the celestial. This is why Christ said to Martha when she thought it was a future, literal resurrection:

    “Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.”

    Our natural creation was created subject to vanity for the purpose of resurrecting above the corruption of vanity into the realm of the celestial where everything has purpose. Everything is subject to vanity yet even the vanity has a purpose. Last night my flesh wanted to sleep because the vain thought I had was I wanted to be rested naturally so I could get some things done that my vain thoughts had been subject to. But I did not get very much sleep yet woke up not feeling as tired as my carnal mind says I should have been. Christ is my rest not my sleep. I just resurrected above my terrestrial carnal mind into the celestial mind, spiritual. Natural flesh is subject to natural law but the spiritual mind of Christ rises above natural law. When we resurrect above natural law, and see Christ as the source of everything, even the natural benefits from it.

    “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.” 

    As an Elect, we are being resurrected every day, every minute by the spirit of God. Our carnal mind is being delivered from the vanity of the terrestrial into the celestial, which means we are learning not to be carried away by every thought (wind of doctrine) that passes through our heavens. We are learning to judge every thought based on its usefulness for the body of Christ. (Bring every thought into the subjection of Christ.) How will it be useful for the growth of the church? It begins to think for the body and not for its own individualistic nature. It is based on the love of the body of Christ and for the body of Christ. It stops thinking individualistic, terrestrial, and thinks universal, celestial. I am not speaking about what’s best for mankind in the natural literal world, but specifically for the church of God. It first starts inside myself, my own world, and then goes outward to the church as a whole. Again, I am not speaking of a denomination, or a sect or for all of mankind, but for the Elect of God who are hidden throughout the literal, natural world.

    “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

    If you are an Elect then your deadness is hearing and rising from the grave of your vanity. A vain life is one based solely on your fleshly wants and desires. A terrestrial earth that is BOUND by things that your flesh desires. When you begin to hear the voice of Christ then at the same time you are being judged. Judged in the sense that you are given to judge the reason you do the things you do. Some things have life and some things are judged unto condemnation. Love is always resurrected into life and hatred is always condemned. To love Christ and the church above your own wants, needs, and your own time is to be given life and partake of the celestial, the eternal, which means we are given to resurrect above the grave of the flesh and its natural laws. What oncw meant so much to us becomes vain and corrupt.

    “Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.”

    The natural laws of the flesh that we have been bound to are vanity. They do not rise or resurrect above into the celestial heavens above the firmament.

    “And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.” 

    When we are still bound by carnal thinking then our thoughts are based on the terrestrial, the flesh, the waters, the doctrines, under the firmament, which are subject to vanity. All waters under the firmament are used on the flesh and from those waters more terrestrial appears, more of you, dry land appears. But if you are being resurrected then you are seeing great lights in your heavens and now they are controlling your earth, your earth is no longer controlling your heavens.

    “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.”

    The great Light is Christ and the other is The Church. The stars are the prophets and Apostles and anyone who carries the truth to others to give them light in darkness. These great lights expose the vanity of our earth and our earth is controlled by them. The natural laws of the earth are then controlled by the greater lights, greater truths and we die to self and rise from the dead vanity of our fleshly lives. We then are driven to seek out those who are of the same heavenly mind as us. We desire to dwell in the heavens together as ONE body and not as separate stars existing in our own universe.

    “For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.”

    “Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. ” 

    The earth is reseeding itself over and over again as God designed it to do. Year after year the earth has continued to reseed itself in the vanity of the flesh and for the flesh.

    “And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.”

    It is unnatural to not be self centered and always put self above others, to self seed. The vanity of the world has seemingly gotten wiser in itself. It has sown tremendous amounts of seed in itself. The internet is a good example of this. Ask it any question and it queues up a response gathered from itself – all the worldly ideas of man compiled together, aptly called A.I., or Artificial Intelligence. It is artificial because it is not based on God as its Author and the source of ALL. This little truth is the greatest enemy of Christ and His body. This little truth is played out in the Israelites getting defeated by the little place called Ai in Joshua 7. They thought this little place was too small to pray to God about and in the end they were defeated by such a small thought. Even the smallest thought, if it doesn’t begin and end with Christ as The Creator is artificial intelligence and will defeat you every time. Little thoughts are tested/judged a thousand times a day in every detail of life. We have been flooded with artificial intelligence since birth but like Noah and the ark, Christ has brought our ark to rest on a mountaintop and the process must begin of reseeding the earth, but with the ONE seed from above, Who is Christ, Who is all things. The earth reseeding itself is a parable of how we naturally, as an “earthy” being, have been about self and only self. But the Elect are being taught to seed each other, not their own earth.

    The Church is one body made up of hands, feet, arms and legs, etc. and we all, if Elect, should be desiring to seek the needs of the other parts of this body. When one part of the body suffers or is weak, the whole body suffers. Natural law of the flesh says I have my own seed to plant and you have yours. But the truth says, if we are Elect, then we all have the same ONE seed, Christ, and are to be spreading that seed for the benefit of the NEW EARTH, called the church, which is made up of other believers. What grows from that one seed feeds us all. We need you and you need us because as the body we are to grow together into the Bride of Christ. We are all in the process of resurrecting from a dead body of unbelievers. The new heaven and earth is first within us and then it translates to other believers. As more Elect are gathered together the new heaven and new earth grow. The celestial overtakes the terrestrial.

    “Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.”

    The Celestial taking over the terrestrial is the Elect becoming one mind. This is why we are told to come out of the world because the world is terrestrial and any seed passed on by them is only for the flesh, its temporal and terrestrial. This is why the Elect come together and spend time together because as a united body they know they are not an individual earth anymore. God has used animals, the natural, to explain the spiritual. Most animals pack together with their own kind. Most humans have the same natural tendency to pack together with those of their same mind. This parable in the natural is to be seen and taken seriously in the spiritual realm. We are the last of the Elect that are being gathered in the eleventh hour. We are being resurrected from this world for the glory of Christ. But to be resurrected we must die to the literal world. We must be separate from the world to be resurrected from it. To separate from the world is to resurrect from it. This must first happen from your world within and it will translate to the world out there. This is what Christ said.

    “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.”

    It is a high calling to be called and chosen to be in the kingdom of God. We should never take it lightly or with a flippant attitude. If we do then we shall suffer the consequences if we are an Elect. We should take great thought into what we are setting out to do.

    “For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold 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, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace. So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. “

    To begin our resurrecting process we must deny ourselves. This is hating our own life. We must deny what we think we know, who we think we are, what power we think we possess and give everything to Christ as The Author and Finisher of all that we are. All we have is because of Him and solely because of Him. We do not possess a free will independent from Him and we are not little gods separate from Him. If you have read the “about” page you know that these writings are not meant for proselytizing anyone but for the purpose of gathering other Elect from the four corners of the world together into one mind. If we are being resurrected then we are leaving our world behind and looking for the new heaven and new earth. Just like in the world when you desire to speak to your natural family and desire to be with them so in the body of Christ we should have an even stronger desire to be with our spiritual family. The natural is merely a shadow of the truth of the spiritual. If we have the desire to be one with Christ then any oneness we have with the world is dying and we are resurrecting from it.

    “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.”

    These words of Christ are seen by the Elect as the last trumpet calling them out of their Babylonian lives and resurrecting into a new heaven and new earth where Christ reigns supreme over all. Give it all up now and you get more in the life to come and now in this life. But the death of the old man must come first. From death comes life. The man of sin must be seen first before he is destroyed and we rise from the earth he was made from. It is a troubling thought to my flesh to let its desires fall to the ground and die for someone else but that is exactly what must happen. To serve Christ, our old man must die and that troubles him. The following words are just as much to us as they were to Christ literally.

    “Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This he said, signifying what death he should die.”

    It is glorifing to God for us to die to the flesh and live unto Him and when we do He will glorify us even more.

    “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.” 

    This is not speaking of Peter’s literal physical death but “signified” his death to self, to no longer be “self-willed.” As an Elect, the seed of Christ is in you, which means He will pick you up and carry you where your flesh would not. He will cause you to give up more than could even imagine. But all that is lost is also replaced with greater riches than you could imagine. God is faithful and the more He causes us to sacrifice now the more He promises we’ll get later as we resurrect.

    “Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed

    thee. And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life. “

    It’s easy to sit on the couch and read these words. It’s easy to agree with something and then walk away thinking you’re already doing all you need to do. But what isn’t easy is to deny your flesh and become one with others. It’s hard for the flesh to not forsake the assembling of ourselves together and fight the inward battle of persecutions that come with resurrecting daily. The word “assembling” in Hebrews 10:25 is translated “gathering” in 2 Thessalonians 2:1, where it says,

    “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him”

    “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”

    We are being gathered in the resurrection now if we are Elect. We are ascending if we have first descended into the lower parts of our earth. As Jacob saw Angels descending and ascending in his vision so we too should be seeing what we are in the terrestrial and then ascend above it in the celestial.

    “And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. “

    This is mortal taking on immortality. This IS-RAEL, the Israel of God. When we begin to resurrect we leave the artificial intelligence and what we become IS REAL. What we are IS REAL and what we are taught by artificial intelligence is not real. As the graves were opened after Christ’s literal resurrection and people walked into the city so we too are being resurrected and walking into the new Jerusalem, appearing before many (all the many within us who do not yet believe), denying the artificial intelligence we have learned from the man of sin within us, taking up our cross and following Christ.

    “And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.”

    Abram left Ur of the Chaldees. Chaldees (H3778) means “astrologer, clod breaker and wise”. Leave what U R (you-are) breaking up hard ground where you’ve been planting your seeds of artificial intelligence and enter The I AM and what you will become IS REAL (Israel). Become immortal by leaving the mortal thoughts of your wisdom separate and independent from God. Everyday should be a teaching of what is real and what is artificial. An ox is not an ox. A dog is not a dog. A tree is not a tree. A mountain is not a mountain. Leaven is not leaven. Everything we see in the natural is a parable of the spiritual.

    “And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread. Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.”

    “And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.”

    What we see with our natural eyes tells us about the spiritual. What we feel in the natural tells us about the spiritual. The other day I had a headache. When I told my wife she asked me what I had been thinking. I told her my thoughts and we prayed and the headache left me. The headache was a symptom of a spiritual head ache, thoughts that were centered on flesh. Yesterday I had heartburn, again we prayed and the heartburn left me. I had been thinking about the things that I was putting in this study. These are examples of the celestial ruling the terrestrial.

    “And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?”

    Everything has God as The Author and the Finisher, not what I eat or because of some other natural occurrence. Mixing with the world (within and the world out there) causes us literal sickness and when confessed the natural is overcome by the spiritual. This is resurrecting from the grave of our dead lives in which we have existed. Christ said “I Am The Resurrection.” To be in Christ is to begin our resurrection from this world within that causes separation from truth. Focus on the natural reap the natural consequences. Focus on the spiritual reap eternal life. Fit into the world and we shall reap from the world. Fashion yourself after the world and you shall die with it. If you stop and examine your thoughts, you will be surprised by what has caused you to be sick or in pain. If you are an Elect then God will open your understanding and the natural mortal will be swallowed up by the spiritual. The sting of the dead thoughts based on natural laws will fade away into the spiritual. God is All things. Not some things but All things. Everything exists because of Christ and Christ alone. I was naturally a drunk for years until The Lord showed me I was drunk on the false doctrine of Babylon. He then removed the false doctrines and the natural fell away also. Once He moved me to stop craving Babylonian drink, He removed the literal desire for alcohol. Babylonian drink is self love. Self love in any thought brings a consequence. Put Christ and His body of believers first, love them above yourself and the sting of death based on the law of self love will fall away. You will be healthier and happier. When we stop mixing with the world within us of self love, self preservation, and self glorification and we will begin to resurrect. Our prayer for ourselves and each other should be to ask God to free us from our world within and to put Him above all things and love Him above ourselves and all things. As God frees us from listening to vain words from the world, family, friends, co-workers, etc., and from our very own thoughts we will begin to experience eternal life. Don’t take pride in what the world takes pride in. Forsake the Babylonian holidays. Forsake worshipping the day your flesh was created called birthdays. Forsake keeping days, months, times and years and see how fast your so-called loved ones and friends will turn on you. When we walk away from the world we can experience what Enoch experienced, “for he was not.” See God as All and we won’t be.

    “And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.”

    “By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.”

    We fight daily against the worldly doctrines in us concerning health, tomorrow, money, planning, and whatever worldly doctine that puts its artificial intelligence before The One and Only. It is a daily, hourly, minute by minute struggle against years of believing a lie. We are not floating around on clouds with nice comfortable concepts about life but are daily battling our flesh. Minute by minute we are confessing ignorance of truth and fighting against the flesh who just wants to relax with the world and turn off the constant war. It is the parable of the constant wars Israel fought against the Canaanites. But we should not be alarmed by these wars because Christ said they would come.

    “Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. “

    The nation of the carnal mind against the nation of Truth are the wars, rumours of wars, and nation against nation Christ spoke about. All of it is inside of us, not outward in a literal world war III as I used to believe, where a literal man of sin would set up camp in literal Israel and Christ would ride in on a literal white horse battling against some evil man. My natural understanding read like a comic book. God’s wisdom is foolishness to the natural man. However, the SPIRITUAL war inside of the Elect is real, more real than even any natural event because it has eternal consequences.

    If you’re reading this and you think it’s just a nice study and it makes you feel good but doesn’t give you the desire to separate from the world and interact with the Body then you may as well turn on the t.v., surf the internet and slide back into the grave. You may as well put on fancy clothes, go to the nicest resturants and mix with the “in crowd” and enjoy what you have now, because it is all you’ll have. All who have faith without works, as James says, have their place with the rest of the world in the place of the dead, the place of the unknown to God, called Hades. You cannot be lukewarm, God will spew you out of His mouth. Live like the world or live like a king destined for eternity with Christ. As David, the Psalmist said, the dead know nothing. There will be no tomorrow for the dead. God is the God of the living, living because we are living in Him. We all have fleshly families in the world and I am not saying we should hate them. However, the Truth that is in us should hate the lies that reside in them. What concord has the truth with lies? None. The lies are what we are turning from. Christ won’t honor a self-righteous stand against family. What I am saying is that if we live our lives unto God then what we know as friends and family will separate from us. But what we lose in the flesh God will give us in spiritual family. The body of Christ will override the flesh and we can as the family of God resurrect more and more until we have walked away from this world and entered eternity with our Creator. Put The Body of Christ first, love the brotherhood above all and know what true love is, was and will be. Interact with the body and you will grow with the body.

    No one goes to war by themselves to fight against an enemy that has existed for thousands of years. If you are warring as we are warring then you should know that we need each other to fight our enemy. You have something we need to help us fight and we have something you need to fight. If you are in the battle as we are then feel free to reach out to us at “being1inchrist@gmail.com” and we as a growing body can fight this war together and enter eternity. Every part of the body needs the other body parts and no body part is an individual. The hand is not the head, the eye is not the hand and no part is the whole. We all need each other to fight as a whole united body. Christ is The Head and He will use us as He needs us and as He created us to be in His body.

    “For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.”

  • A few weeks ago we went looking for a Jersey calf to buy so we could raise it up to be part of our little farm. We have been in the process over the past few years of clearing land, cutting down trees, grinding stumps, bush hogging, tilling and then planting good seed. It has been hard, back breaking work. The land was basically a wilderness with a mix of forest, overgrown groves and swamp when we bought it a few years ago. It was full of trees, good trees like hickory, white oak, red oak, poplar and wild dog woods. But it also had a lot of wild stuff growing that had to be removed. The property used to be a farm where people raised cattle and somewhere along the line it was forsaken and then another owner took possession and planted row after row of trees on what used to be pasture land, as part of some government program where they paid him a little money to do it. The groves were never tended and the whole property grew up into a wilderness. Because the trees were never thinned out, many died and the ones that didn’t grew very tall and thin. We bought this property knowing it would be a challenge but believing God was moving us to do it. So, that’s what we’ve done and in just three years it has developed into the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen. There are spring fed ponds with fish, creeks running through it and along its boundary and within that boundary is an oasis. What has taken place is a change that we never imagined. We knew it was going to be good but we never knew it was going to be amazing. We look back and wonder how the Lord accomplished all He has through us? Hundreds of trees we’ve cut down, acre after acre of trees, just the two of us with chainsaws. Then we sawed and bucked them into piles and burned them – pile after pile. Then every stump had to be ground down. Where there was once nothing but thorns, briers, weeds, suckers, and closely packed in rows of trees is now acres of beautiful grass. This change happened as a parable of what is taking place in us. What we were when we bought this place is not what we are today. A new man has been born and is growing stronger and overtaking the old man who was filled with a wasteland of overgrown groves.

    Deu 12:3  And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. 

    All through this process, the Lord had been putting on our hearts to get grazing animals. We would talk it over and feel optimistic but then our “laws” about the work involved, which was really just our unbelief in God, would overtake us and the excitement would ebb away and we’d chock up the conversations to mere nighttime entertainment. Then one day we stopped at a farm to buy some peaches. The woman selling the peaches was sitting on her porch. It was a picture of peace and tranquility. We noticed that in a field next to the house was a horse quietly grazing. The Lord prompted me to ask the woman about her horse and what all it took to care for him. Her answer surprised us in its simplicity. She said all she did was put a bale of hay out for him and he just grazes and feeds on the hay. He really didn’t even require shelter she said. With that short conversation, the Lord obliterated our fears and made us realize our level of bondage. This woman was quite unfettered with laws about the do’s and don’ts of “proper” horse ownership. This small interaction was what the Lord used to get us off our proverbial fence of fear and unbelief resulting from our laws, and the Lord renewed our excitement and enthusiasm, in other words our faith, and thus we started our hunt for an animal who could enjoy the acres of property that He had had us clear.

    Our first thoughts were a little unclear about what to get…sheep perhaps, or maybe a small donkey or perhaps a small pony? We started the search on the internet, looking at different possibilities based on what people had for sale in our area. Then we came across a picture of a 2 month old Jersey calf and she was the cutest thing we’d ever seen. All uncertainty was gone. This was definitely what we wanted. The owner of the calf said they couldn’t speak on the phone so we had to text back and forth. They wouldn’t answer the texts right back and it took hours just to get them to answer each time. Finally after a few days, they texted that they wanted a deposit for her before we came to get her. That set off alarm bells of a scam but after talking it out back and forth we remembered the scriptures that said, “…resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also” And “Why do you not rather take wrong? do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?” So, though we suspected a scam, we wanted to trust God and sacrifice our carnal reasoning and belief in our own wisdom that we might be taken advantage of, and went ahead and attempted to send the deposit through the internet. It failed. We tried again, but it wouldn’t go through. So, we concluded The Lord had said no. God had tried us, moving us to sacrifice our own wisdom and carnal reasoning.

    The next day we decided to go for a drive and see if the Lord would put us in contact with someone who might have a smaller size animal for sale. We live in a rural community so you can’t throw a rock without hitting a farm. After talking to a few people here and there, we were told about a particular dairy farm in the area who might have calves for sale. We found the dairy and drove around it until we found the owner. We explained to him what we were looking for and he said he had a premature heifer calf for sale that no one wanted. It was only 5 days old and IF IT WAS STILL ALIVE we were welcome to buy it. So we drove to a building on the property and there laying in the straw was a VERY small little black animal. It looked as though it was a newborn it was so small. We went into the pen and it looked small and weak but it was walking around, slowly. We paid the man and loaded up the little heifer in the back seat of our vehicle, where we had laid some blankets. We then drove a short distance to a farm store where they sold replacement milk for calves. The people at the store asked if the calf had had any of its mother’s milk and I said I didn’t know. They said we had to feed it colostrum or it wouldn’t survive, which we bought along with the replacement milk.

    Once we got it home and started cleaning it up it began peeing from the wrong end. It was then we realized we had bought a little bull. We didn’t really want a bull but that’s what God had given us. His tail was matted with dried manure and he was horribly skinny. We immediately tried to make him drink this colostrum. But he would have none of it. We concluded that because he didn’t want it he didn’t need it so we moved to the milk but he he didn’t want that either. We couldn’t get him to use the bottle so I got our turkey baster and began putting it in his mouth and he began sucking it down. For a few minutes I was unbelieving that he was going to eat but he did. After getting some milk down him, we gently cleaned him up and then let him rest. That evening we went back outside to check on him and he seemed to be resting well. The next morning I went out and got him up and made him stand on his feet. He was really wobbly but I kept him standing. My carnal belief was that this would make him stronger. Again I tried to feed him but he didn’t seem interested so I went back to the turkey baster and he seemed to drink the milk down pretty good. I kept this up until he had drank about a pint of milk. Then we cleaned him up again and he started pooping and urinated which I thought in my carnal reasoning were good signs. Because I am still learning to just trust God in His love and goodness I need signs to bolster my belief because my old man is faithless and unbelieving. About four hours later we repeated the process and he seemed to eat pretty good and acted a little lively. My hope that he was going to survive perked up. Again, because my old man is faithless in the goodness of God I need signs. This process continued on until the next day when that morning I tried to give him the bottle and to my amazement he began sucking the bottle. I was thrilled and so happy because the sign of him sucking the bottle meant that he was getting stronger. That day he drank almost a half gallon of milk. Then later in the day, in one of our checks on him, he was covered in flies. And at closer inspection we saw that under his tail, on his rear end, he was covered in maggot eggs, which were hatching into maggots. My faith took another blow and I began to doubt his recovery. We took warm rags and cleaned him up again. It was not a pretty sight. We then went and bought a spray for this problem and got rid of the flies. That evening he seemed to be pretty comfortable but still very weak. We would walk him around a little and he would sniff the ground and wag his tail as though he was interested in his surroundings. But he was so weak that each step was a trial. All the time we were doubting his success at living, as though he could be successful at living on his own. We are so riddled with false doctrine and unbelief that we don’t even know it. The Lord puts us through situations and trials to show us we are a people who draw near to him with our lips, but whose heart is far from him. We have been living out one false doctrine after another not even realizing it, all based on signs, experience, and by what we see. We have almost no experience living by faith in a Creator Who loves us and cares for us, though we profess doing so with our mouth. Christ said that “all things are possible to him that believes.” But truthfully we don’t believe. To our core we look for signs and wonders or we rely on our experience not Christ as our Creator.

    Back to the calf, this process went on until the next day when I went out to get him up and he was even weaker. I couldn’t understand it because he seemed to do so good the day before. I got him up and he was like a limp spaggetti noodle. Yet I got him to stand and he started eating off the bottle so my faith started getting stronger because of the sign of him eating. I walked him around a little and then laid him back down.

    A couple of hours later we went back to check on him and he seemed to be resting good and we cleaned him up again. My wife kept wiping him down and keeping him clean. That afternoon we went back out to check on him and he was so weak he could hardly pick his head up. We were both very faithless. I tried to talk as though I believed he was going to be ok but in my heart I was unbelieving. I did not trust God to be the God of the living but that this little animal was going to die because he didn’t get on his mother at birth, or because he was premature, or because I didn’t get the colostrum into him, or because, or because or because. The sin of my unbelief gave these laws their strength. I doubted the power of God. I could speak great swelling words but my heart was far from truth. ” This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. ” We cleaned him up again and went to the house praying God would be merciful and let this little calf live. We didn’t really believe God would allow the calf to live because of what we saw with our eyes. We needed proof like Thomas needed proof. “Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”

    We have lived a lifetime trusting in what we see and hear in the world. Trusting solely in God is shunned as being childish, stupid, and naive. To trust God fully with my whole heart and not doubt is almost laughable to the world in which we exist. Like Peter walking on the water, we start out with great faith but as soon as the waves mount up, down we go, sinking into the sea of doubts and fears. Everybody is this way, no one is exempt from their Devil who has the power of death, which is to be unbelieving. Unbelief produces fear and then death. Fear and death are the results of unbelief.

    “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;  And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”

    Unbelief in Christ as The Creator and as The sustainer of all life produces a fruit called fear and when that fruit is eaten it will result in death. “In the day you eat thereof you shall surely die.” There is no hope in unbelief. Unbelief produces a life of fear, which leads to trusting in self, in our experience and it will eventually lead to death. There is no hope for the wicked. To be unbelieving is to be wicked. I was unbelieving about little Bubba, the name I had given the calf. That evening, just before dark I went out to check on him. As I walked to the pen, I had to walk through the shop where we kept his milk. The thought passed through my mind, “if you believe God has given him life then make him a bottle of milk to feed him.” But then the next thought of unbelief came right on its heals “let me FIRST see if he’s alive.” I walked to the pen unbelieving and it brought death. Bubba was dead. As I stood over him I felt such sorrow because I knew that I did not believe in Christ fully the way I said I did. I doubted and I feared according to my own carnal experience. The wisdom of my world was foolishness and it brought forth death. I rubbed his shiny black coat and I wished God had given me the faith to believe but I had not yet grown to believe totally in the power of God. The power of my Satanic thought overcame the witnesses in me of God’s love. I unplugged the fan I had hanging over him, walked to the house and delivered the news to my wife. I then started walking to the back field to get the tractor so I could bury him. The tractor was still hooked up to a roll of fencing wire because I was still in the process of fencing off some acres for Bubba to graze in when he got weaned. As I rounded a corner post of the fence, there on the ground, at the corner post lay a snake about 3 feet long. I knew what he was. He was my unbelief. He represented the serpent in me who loved self more than God. He was the serpent in me who taught me to eat from the tree of my knowledge of good and evil. So I picked up a large limb laying on the ground and smashed his head. I said, “I’ll bury you with Bubba you *** ** *****”. I was so angry that I had listened to the unbelieving serpent who exalted its own knowledge over the truth and killed the witness in me of the love of Christ.

    “And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.”

    I picked up the snake and threw him in the tractor bucket and drove to the pen. I picked up Bubba’s limp body and layed him in the bucket also. I then drove to what we call the bottom field and buried Bubba on top of my unbelief. It was a sad evening for us and we both knew the reason why it all took place. This was a tangible lesson of what is still in us. But even though we are faithless the Lord remains faithful and He doesn’t allow trials to bring us down but instead they are for the purpose of making us stronger.

    “I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.”

    Christ is the power behind all things. He alone has all power. It is not as though my unbelief was stronger than Him but the two do not meld together. What comes from Christ is faith in His Father and what comes from a carnal mind is faith in its own wisdom, carnal wisdom. Christ does not reward us according to carnal wisdom. But when we are faithless He remains faithful because He cannot deny Himself. The next day after Bubba died Christ refreshed me through His word. He showed me that the covenant that He has made with me is according to the covenant He made with Abraham. Abraham believed God and it, his belief, was counted to him as righteousness. Believing in God as the Author and Finisher of everything in me and in the world is righteousness. Believing that what God has promised me will come to pass is righteousness. The sign of circumcision was given as a witness to the righteousness of faith. What was the covenant given to Abraham? That he would be heir of the world.

    “For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world”

    We have that same promise. We shall be heirs of our world. Whatever has brought us love and joy in God we will possess it, if we are believing. The sign is our being circumcised from the old world that brought us pleasure. Our hearts are circumcised from the love of our old world. When circumcision in the natural takes place it is a painful experience.

    “And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city. And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore…”

    And so likewise when the heart is circumcised it is a painful experience. To give it all up now in the flesh, all I love, so I can obtain it all in eternity is a painful experience. Abraham left it all. Paul left it all. And so everyone called out of their world are being called to leave it all. Christ has called us to separate from the the world in us and that will cause a separation from the world out there. Leave it all behind to gain it all in eternity based on the covenant that our seed will possess the promised land. Family that is left behind in this life will be brought into the next life by our faith.

    “Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. “

    God is justifying the Elect by faith now and those who are uncircumcised in us, our family, will be justified through our faith. They will possess the promised land because of us. We are Christ’s inheritance and they will be ours. They will inherit eternal life because of our circumcision as we have inherited eternal life because of Christ’s circumcision from the world. His death has brought us life and our death to this world will bring them life.

    “For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.”

    The Seed is Christ in us. The Elect have Christ in them, The Seed to Whom the promise was made. Everyone who believes (not says but BELIEVES) Christ is the sole reason for eternal life have Christ in them. Belief is a gift of God, it cannot be acquired any other way. His life brings life to us. We are the unbelieving wife that is sanctified by The Husband, Christ. The covenant with Abraham was that his seed would possess the promised land and that Abraham would be heir of the world.

    “For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.”

    Then it says that Abraham never got to see the promise come to pass but he still believed it would come to pass.

    “These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.”

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    If you are in Christ, if The Seed of Christ is in you, then are you Abraham’s seed, and if Abraham’s seed you possess it all. Everything that has been promised to Abraham belongs to you. This world is not what we should want but the world to come. Leaving this world and embracing what the eyes cannot see is what we should be desiring. We are nomads in this world and what we are striving for is to see the new Jerusalem where we are totally free from the sin of unbelief. Not everyone has The Seed in them, only the Elect of God.

    “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.”

    As I focus on the day I get to meet my Savior and Lord face to face and thank Him for all He has given me, the things of this world are fading. I feel the pull for the world to come is overtaking the pull of this world in me. What was so important to me is fading and looking ahead at the promise is much stronger than it used to be. To walk up and hug my Dad again and to see his smile is worth more than this world can offer. To see Bubba running in the field and kicking up his hooves is to see life with a Savior Who gave it all up for me. The story of Joseph is a good parable of what the covenant is all about. Joseph represents the Elect of God who are beloved of The Father.

    “Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.”

    Joseph dreamed two dreams that showed his reign over all his kin. These dreams are prophesies of what will happen to us. The whole of our world will be belessed because of Christ separating us from this world to preserve life in the world to come.

    “For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf. And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words. And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. “

    The whole of our world will be blessed because of Christ separating us from this world to preserve life in the world to come.

    “Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:”

    The name “Goshen” means “drawing near.” The covenant that God gave Abraham is that his seed would be blessed above all the seed of the earth. If The Seed, Jesus Christ, is in you then you are a son of Abraham. If you are a son of Abraham you partake of the covenant that God gave to Abraham. Your seed will be as the stars of heaven. We know that Christ is The Seed and that it is solely because of Him are we allowed to partake of this covenant. He alone took our sin of unbelief upon Himself to make it possible for us to have life. He has done so to secure the covenant that God made to Abraham. Abraham separated from the world and was a nomad in the world and so was Christ. So it is the same for us. If we are the seed of Abraham then Christ will guide us to forsake this world and love God first above all people, places and things. It is an inward separating at first that will then move us to separate from the outward world. We are in the world but not of the world. Christ is inside you if you are a seed of Abraham and Christ will lead us away from what we were and away from the desires of the flesh. The promise will get stronger and stronger and so will the belief of knowing that one day You will have it all, just like Joseph. He was circumcised away from his world for the purpose of “drawing near” (Goshen) his uncircumcised family. It will require us to forsake what is dearest to us now in this life as Abraham did by his willingness to sacrifice Isaac.

    “And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen. And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. “

    It is not an easy road for the Elect but it is worth every denial of your flesh to know The One and Only God and His Son Jesus Christ. To deny my flesh in every detail of self gratification, self worth and self reliance will gain us everything we ever loved. To deny my “only son” my flesh is to love God above all. Holding on to one ounce of flesh for the attention of the world outwardly or my world within is a blemish that will cost us part of our inheritance. In the parable of the talents, the one who gave it all got double, the one who gave nothing got nothing. What is the worth for getting an ounce of attention or satisfaction from my world? Is it worth denying The Lord? These are the questions I ask myself today and hopefully God will grant us to answer and say that the world’s attention is worthless. We will gladly sacrifice it all for Him to gain everything. Unbelief in the covenant of grace is the sin that holds us back from knowing peace and brings forth death. It is the sin that casts constant doubt and is the serpent in the garden of our mind that asks “did God say…?” questioning God’s covenant that life is based on Christ alone, The Seed, not on my works of my carnal mind. It was the sin of unbelief that caused Bubba’s death. The strength of sin (unbelief) is the law of the carnal mind.

    “The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.”

    It was my belief in laws of the world, rather than belief in God, that fell from grace. Because Bubba was a premature calf, because he did not get his mother’s milk, because of something I did or didn’t do, etc. all were reasons I was believing over the power of the covenant of grace that said God is life and in Him is no death. Abraham was willing to sacrifice Isaac because he believed that God would raise him from the dead.

    “By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.”

    Denying the carnal mind, which is the world, is what we are being told to do. Love not the world in me but love God. All things are possible to those who believe. Deny the tantilizing pull to side with my world within, my carnal thoughts, laws, that say they know best. Abraham believed that leaving everything for God was better for him than to stay in Ur with his brother. He was called to leave it all behind for a greater world to come.

    “These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. “

    For us denying the world is denying what the world teaches us. The carnal mind, which is “enmity against God” believes what it sees with its eyes and knows what it knows from experience. We operate from what we have learned from living in this physical world (which is basically just one big school) and from our life experiences. Scripture calls this worshipping the Queen of heaven. Heaven is our mind and the Queen is Babylon. Babylon in thought because it babbles on about what it knows from its own learning and experience. It is about outward show with no inward beauty. All it thinks about is self.

    “Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee…. Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. “

    This is unbelief in The God of Abraham, the One and Only God Who is our sole source of life. We would rather trust in vanity and lying words of the world then trust in the living God Who gives us our every breath. I know these things and yet am still having to be chastised because I lean to my own understanding. I still have to fight against the thoughts of my experience. I still have to ward off the thoughts that say just get on the internet and find out what you need to know or do – all a sea of self reliance, self thought without an ounce of truth or faith because it’s all based on the idea that we live and move and have our being by what we KNOW. Not God. We can all say we trust in God but when the iron is put into the fire it always burns off dross. Abraham was called to leave it all behind and trust in God as his sole support. His belief in God as his life was rewarded in animals, land, wives and children now in this life and in the life to come more children than can be numbered. Belief in Christ gives us the hope that we will get it all. All that God promised Abraham will be given to us, the children of Abraham. We are children of Abraham because The Seed, Jesus Christ is in us.

    “Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.”

    Unbelief separates us from these promises and brings about death. Unbelief is the sin that doubts God’s goodness and is the sin that brings sorrow. I have asked myself, “What and where was God not faithful to you in your life?” He has always been faithful to me and has never left me without what I needed. He has always given me more than I asked for and when He didn’t it was because it was for my good. I am constantly fighting my fleshly, carnal, satanic thoughts of self preservation. They are always there trying to get me to lean to my own understanding and forsake God as my sole reason for life. In God we live and move and have our being as Paul said to the people on mars hill. We don’t live unto ourselves, we live unto God. Unto the parts of us that are believing, all things are pure because they are from God. But unto the unbelieving parts of me, nothing is pure, because it sees itself as separate from God and questions God…about everything. My faithlessness questions God’s goodness as a trap and as being naive. The serpent in me is always asking “did God say?” It was a fight for Abraham when he feared Pharaoh and Abimelech would kill him and take Sarah. Though he was faithless and gave in to his unbelief and lied about Sarah to save his life, God STILL rewarded him because God is faithful when we are faithless. Unbelief separates us from God and has us relying on our flesh.

    “Take heed, 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 called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.”

    The decitfulness of unbelief is exactly that – deceiving. As the serpent in the woman deceived her, so the serpent in us deceives us into trusting in ourselves as God. The sin of unbelief is the besetting sin that always has us doubting the goodness of God. It hardens us from God and has us trusting in our own wisdom. The wisdom of my world is foolishness to God and it always leaves me sorrowful.

    “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

    “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.”

    To believe that Christ is The Author and Finisher of everything, that by Him were all things created, and that by Him do all things consist is the faith of Abraham. God remains faithful because He cannot deny Himself. And because this is true, the story of little Bubba doesn’t end in his death. The very next day after Bubba died the Lord sent us on another drive in the country. We stopped by a farm and asked them if they had a Jersey calf they would want to sell or knew someone who did and the man said yes, he did have a calf. He said she was a very small 8 month old calf who was born in the winter during the hard cold and the tops of her ears had gotten frost bitten along with the tip of her tail. He said she also had a bad foot because of the cold. We told him we’d like to see her so he told his boy to round her up. The boy jumped on his horse and took off. About 30 minutes later there he came with a calf limping slowly in front of his horse. She was a small red Jersey heifer. As we looked at her we saw that her back right hoof was nearly missing. He said because of her bad foot, he would probably fatten her up and use her for meat instead of a milk cow because she couldn’t be bred. She was perfect! My wife and I both immediately wanted her so that evening we made a pen in the back of the truck and went back the next morning and picked her up. She is sweet, gentle and the most mild mannered cow I’ve ever seen. My wife gives her a bucket of milk every day. She has never bawled or acted in any way homesick. She fit right into the space she shares with our two dogs, chickens and turkeys. We thoroughly enjoy spoiling her with treats. She limps around the property contentedly grazing, and we thank God for His faithfulness in giving her to us the very next day after Bubba died. She has been such a blessing to us because we know that God was faithful to us when we were faithless and gave us “Lily,” the name we gave her. We were unbelieving about God’s power when it came to the first calf and that unbelief produced death. But because we had been given a “mustard seed” of faith God blessed us with Lily. God has lovingly used these trials to grow our faith because we are the children of promise. We have the inheritance, we are the inheritors, but as all children of promise we must go through the trials until we are mature enough to be given the inheritance.

    “The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.”

    Faith is the least of all seeds but for the Elect it is The Only Seed that will produce the results that are pleasing to God. To trust Him SOLELY as our provider is what He wants from us. His desire is that we never lean to our own understanding but trust Him and Him only, Who gave His only begotten Son for us and will now freely give us all things.

    “Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. “

    “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?”

    Belief is the key that unlocks the doors of heaven and allows us to see the glory of God. We deny the flesh’s thoughts and laws and receive the blessings of God. The flesh hates faith because faith requires patience and hope. The flesh has its own worldly ideas on what is good and evil for it based on laws it has learned through experience. Faith needs no experience but just trusts in the Creator as a benevolent, loving God Who takes pleasure in blessing His children. All was made for us and He will give us all things. Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness. And all those who believe in God do so because they have The Seed in them, Christ. And if Christ is in you, you will deny the world in you with all its fleshly knowledge and experience and trust solely in God as The Author of everything. Everyone says they believe in Jesus but not everyone denies their flesh by denying their fleshly knowledge. Through trials, God separates the sheep from goats within us. The sheep (thoughts based on faith) know and trust their Shepherd implicitly, while the goats run after their own wordly understanding. Through this process, He increases the mustard SEED of faith within us. If you continue in faith you are a Child. If you return to your vomit and eat what comes from your head knowledge you are a slave and not a son. If God had given us up to the flesh, then when Bubba died I would have concluded it was because I didn’t follow the directions given to me by the colostrum gods, or because he was premature, or some other natural law. But God was faithful and showed me that it was none of these things but rather my unbelief in Him that brought about death. We did not fall back into our flesh but attributed everything to The Creator and Author and Finisher of everything. God Who will not deny Himself and Who could swear by no greater than Himself remained faithful to us when we were faithless.

    “For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.”

    To not trust God is to dishonor Him. When God says He will bless you and you don’t trust Him it is a dishonor. God has created everything through Christ. Everything is consisting because of Him and Him only. Every life of every human, animal, bug, worm, disease or even death is what it is and consists because of Him. Nothing lives by itself or is sustained by itself. Mankind as a whole are under the delusion by God to believe that there are certain natural laws that we are in subjection to but the truth is that God is not bound by anything. He made Moses live without food or water for forty days, twice. He had Elijah go without food or water for forty days. He made a donkey speak. He put money in a fish’s mouth. He rose Christ from the dead. God is not bound by the laws He has put man under and to the Elect, neither are we when we are blessed to believe in Him. Faith can move mountains because it means we are trusting in The King as king over everything, all things are subject to Him. But before He allows us to rein in life He first puts us through school by laws.

    Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

    I have believed in laws that I thought would give me life – i.e. eating right, exercising, and good hygiene. But these laws cannot bring or sustain life. All are under sin and because of the sin of unbelief no law can give me life or cause me to live forever. The law to me was a schoolmaster that showed me that no matter what I did I could not sustain myself from sickness or injury. I tried to live by these laws and still I got sick and got injured. It should have been obvious to me that no matter what I did or didn’t do I still got what I was trying to avoid. I remember walking into stores wiping my hands and the cart with cleaner and still I got sick. Then when a couple of people I knew got what the world called Covid I went into their house, helped one out of bed and another out of the tub with no protection and did not get sick. My laws said I should have but God is greater than laws. These laws constantly fail us or get broken, which acts to bring us ever closer to Christ who is unchanging and faithful, teaching us to trust in Him, not in laws of “you shall be as God.” Justification comes from believing in Christ not in laws. As we are brought to Christ and as He begins to reign more and more over all authorities, powers and principalities in our mind, we are no longer under the schoolmaster of the law, we live by faith in God, not in laws. Christ has proven His Kingship by conquering death, the greatest and most feared law of all. We are being taught to walk by faith not by sight. We want to unclothe ourselves from this body that operates under laws. We want to be free from having to live by laws and that is what Christ is doing for the Elect. As the author and finisher of our faith, He is creating a belief in us that we are the promised children and we will walk away from this mortal body by entering immortality through faith.

    “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.”

    Our earthly house can be dissolved by faith in The Creator Who created this house. As Paul said we are groaning in this temporal house because we are bound by laws. We desire to be clothed in faith in God and not faith in laws. We are burdened in this house by constant laws of the flesh, which produce fear and death. But once we are given to walk by faith and not by sight we will put off this house of laws and put on the new house of faith. We can become clothed in eternity with no bounds. We have the earnest of the Spirit, the down payment now and as we grow in faith we will ascend above the laws that have kept us bound to mortality. If we are at home in this body, in other words, comfortable in our laws of delusion that we have control, then we are absent from The Lord. But we obtain immortality by trusting in God, Who is above the laws of the flesh. The schoolmaster of law should show us truth by the opposite of what it is. The law of the flesh is unfaithful and inconsistant. People get cancer and die right away, others linger on, while some seem to survive it altogether. People exercise, “eat right”, and obey many other so-called health preserving laws, yet die at an early age. Others disregard the laws of the health god and smoke, drink and eat whatever they want yet live into their 90’s and I’ve known them all. Yet no law can stave off death or even delay it. It is all delusion and comes to the same end. Laws of the flesh are inconsistant but God is and always will be faithful as He changes not. So, we labor not to trust in laws but in the Law Giver. We labor to enter into rest in Christ. We trusted in laws and it brought the death of the calf. Yet God gave us faith to trust in Him and He brought us life in the second calf.

  • Rev 20:1  And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 

    Rev 20:2  And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 

    Rev 20:3  And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. 

    Rev 20:4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 

    Rev 20:5  But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 

    Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

    If you have read the writings on the “Revelation of Jesus Christ” then you will know to some degree that the phrase “thousand years” means “Teaching” and that it is a parable of something else.

    H505

    אֶלֶף

    ‘eleph

    eh’-lef

    Properly the same as H504; hence (an ox’s head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand: – thousand.

    Total KJV occurrences: 504

    H504

    אֶלֶף

    ‘eleph

    eh’-lef

    From H502; a family; also (from the sense of yoking or taming) an ox or cow: – family, kine, oxen.

    Total KJV occurrences: 8

    H502

    אָלַף

    ‘âlaph

    aw-lof’

    A primitive root, to associate with; hence to learn (and causatively to teach): – learn, teach, utter.

    Total KJV occurrences: 4

    “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

    Each day is as a thousand years to an Elect because each day we are being taught by Christ. We are being taught how to die to self, which is the first resurrection. If you are given to learn to die to self, then the second death of dying for someone else’s sin against you, doesn’t hurt you. You are reigning in life because you do not live unto yourself. God is teaching you every minute of every day that it is a creation from Him. It is the covenant we have been given by God through Christ.

    Jer 31:33  But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 

    Jer 31:34  And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. 

    It is a daily teaching. It is not a one and done, but a daily, hourly, minute by minute instruction into the knowledge of God. If you are being taught of God then He is showing you who and what you are as a Serpent beast. This Serpent beast is the most subtil, self righteous beast of all His creation.

    Gen 3:1  Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.

    The Serpent slithers through life as an angel of light, portraying to all other beasts that it is good and contains knowledge in and of itself. It rules the world within us. He influences everything about us from the way we talk, walk, dress, where we live, who we associate with, what we believe about ourselves and others, so on and so on. His premise is simple: You are the god of your own world and as such you are justified (righteous) in all you do. All have a serpent in their garden from the church elder (Jew) to the gang member (Gentile), it’s there, posing as an angel of light but only the Elect are blessed to be shown their serpent nature, their man of sin. As an Elect, you will be brought to see this within yourself. It MUST take place for the purpose of teaching. The first resurrection is where we die to this serpent nature and are being taught to live for others at the cost of the serpent’s desires. Christ told the Pharisees that they were children (images) of their father the Devil.

    Joh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 

    This was a lead up from the beginning of John 8 where the Pharisees brought the woman taken in the act of adultery and brought her to Christ. They quoted scripture to Him from Moses and how the outward law said she should be stoned. There was no forgiveness. It also says they did it to tempt Him. But Christ simply says “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”

    To die to your own desires to be God (to be the judge) is the first death and while we learn this daily, the second death becomes less and less painful until it doesn’t hurt to die for others’ sins against us. All Christ has to do is remind us of what we have been forgiven for and that makes the fire of love burn up my serpent desire to judge anyone. As we are tried in this truth, our Satanic nature is thrown into the lake of fire, which is the love of God. In the parable of the lake of fire we are taught the enormity of God’s love for us. It is a consuming love and it consumes the Serpent’s desire to be as God. It consumes the unforgiveness we all have and teaches us love for one another. The Serpent teaches me that I am my own god and that I can judge who and how I want. Revelation 20 describes it in a parable as a Dragon. It is the same great red Dragon of Revelation 12 that is attempting to devour the man child (our new Christ like nature that is developing) as soon as He is born. He attempts to devour this new creation with raging selfishness. Reigning with Christ for a thousand years is learning to rule this beast within us on a daily basis.

    Gen 1:28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 

    We are being taught how to rule the thoughts that we are independent from God and have the right to hold unforgiveness towards a Brother/Sister, or towards anyone. Reigning with Christ will bring peace to a world within where there is nothing but chaos and darkness. The world within us, before our conversion, is a world with no Light and no forgiveness, full of darkness in its lack of understanding.

    Gen 1:2  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 

    When in the darkness of being ruled by our man of sin, we live in a dead state where everything is about ourselves. If I do concern myself with others, it’s for my own good. Life is all about my happiness, what brings me joy, what will make me FEEL good about myself, how I can get attention and FEEL good. It is a world where every thought, every second is somehow for my own personal happiness and no thought for anyone else. This is the man of sin who is hidden to us. He is too subtil to be recognized. Our world within may be full of “good” works but we have no idea that they are motivated by a serpentine nature looking to survive. Remember the serpent’s famous mantra “Thou shall not surely die.” His purpose is to drive us to the pursuit of self above all others. NOBODY knows that this is what truly motivates them. We will deny this to our dying breath (because we will surely die!) if left in our original beastly state. This is what we, the Elect, are being delivered from. It is our Egypt (a world of slavery to self) and The Dragon is our Pharoah. We are being delivered from an inner world of constant selfish drive, where dying to myself, the first death, is unthinkable and impossible. And, dying for someone else’s sin is even more so. It’s simply not in the nature of the beast to forgive. True forgiveness brings about death of self. This is the antithesis of the beast mind/nature. True forgiveness forgets that a wrong ever took place. The beast nature is all about learning from and remembering its experiences so that it can stay on top of all threats.

    Rom 5:7  For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some

    would even dare to die. 

    Rom 5:8  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 

    When I was young and would make a mistake I was told “You’d better get your mind right” which meant if someone hit me, I was to hit them back even harder, to teach them not to hit me! Then I went into the army and they reinforced that same ideology. Then as I began working it was the same. To get to the top you have to step on some people. Forgiveness was never taught, it was seen as weak. Oh, sure I could forgive AFTER there was REPENTANCE! This was my serpent/Pharisee version of forgiveness which was based on law, my own law that protected me from humiliation. But forgiveness based on my own death to pride, and my own desires for retribution, was impossible. The core of “turning the other cheek” is this…ALL belongs to God in Christ. I have no “rights.” My preservation comes from the Father and His Will is the only Will in the universe. Knowing what you are being forgiven for is the foundation of being an Elect. Knowing you were created The Great Red Dragon is the height from where you must fall. You must know, really know at the core of what you are is Lucifer, Satan, The Great Red Dragon, The Beast, and Leviathan.

    Isa 14:11  Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. 

    Isa 14:12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 

    Isa 14:13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 

    Isa 14:14  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 

    Luk 10:18  And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

    Rev 12:9  And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 

    Rev 13:4  And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? (who can tame their Leviathan?)

    Job 41:1  Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? 

    Job 41:2  Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? 

    Job 41:3  Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? 

    Job 41:4  Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? 

    Job 41:5  Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? 

    Job 41:6  Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? 

    Job 41:7  Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? 

    Job 41:8  Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. 

    Job 41:9  Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? 

    These verses plainly show that we cannot war or overcome our own beast. No one can tame his beast, no one. And if you think you can, then you’ve been tamed by it. Simply ask yourself, is there anything that you wish you didn’t do or behave in a certain way? And if there is, then you’ve been shown you do not have a free will independent from sin or from God. We do not have the power to do or not do something. We are either a servant to sin or a servant of Christ. We are not and never have been free despite what The Dragon says. This is the parable of our bruised heel and the serpent’s bruised head spoken of in Genesis: Our new man must continually kick the serpent in the head to get him off his supposed power on the throne.

    Gen 3:14  And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 

    Gen 3:15  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

    Rev 13:3  And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 

    Rev 13:4  And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? 

    He has a head wound unto death because He cannot rest in the truth that Christ IS THE CREATOR, not himself. It takes a humbling experience to know truth. But the truth still does not stop Him from trying to crawl back up on the throne every day. And this is where the thousand year reign comes in. As an Elect we get up every morning knowing that today the enemy will come. He will come as a roaring lion or a lamb speaking as a dragon (angel of light), seeking what part of me he can attempt to destroy by unforgiveness, by selfishness, or by self righteousness. Each day, one day is as a thousand years, we are taught something about dying to self through the second death. If it hurts, then in that area we have not FULLY partaken of the first resurrection. It gets easier for the Elect to die for their Brother/Sister’s sin, when you know what you are at your core. This is reigning with Christ and this is having dominion over the beast of my field. It is a fight. It’s not for the weak of heart and is why there are so few who ever will be chosen. Many will be called to the fight but not many are chosen to go all the way to the cross.

    Mat 20:16  So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

    It takes a humbling experience to know truth. Everyone experiences humbling situations but only the Elect are given the gift of the revealing of the man of sin and the resulting humiliation by what they see in themselves. This is the head wound where the Serpent’s pride is humiliated. At the same time it is a bruised heel to the Elect because the Serpent trips them up in their daily walk, by tempting them in their flesh. It is the Serpent eating its tail until he is dead. Christ uses this circular method to kill the Serpent in us and recreate a new man where the Serpent does not exist.

    Rev 21:1  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 

    Rev 21:2  And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 

    Rev 21:3  And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 

    Rev 21:4  And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 

    Rev 21:5  And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. 

    Rev 21:6  And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 

    Rev 21:7  He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 

    Rev 21:8  But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. 

    This last verse is explaining our pain in the second death. Where there is still pain from pride involved in forgiving someone then we still have a part of us that must remain in the lake of fire (God’s consuming love) until it is completely burnt up and no longer exists. To truly forgive, we must see and fear God as being All in All. This releases us from the sin of pride. But the parts of us that are still trying to hang on to their “godhood” are fearful, unbelieving, abominable in the sight of God, murderous to the truth, whoremongers, sorcerors and idolaters in that they are constantly chasing and worshipping false doctrines/false gods to satisfy their beast. There are areas of our life that are still believing in our own righteousness which makes us a liar. Only God is righteous.

    Mat 19:17  And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. 

    This is the process of the subtil Serpent whispering lies to us, as he slithers through us as an angel of light telling us we can be as God to know what’s best for our life or what’s evil for our life.

    Gen 3:4  And the serpent said unto the woman (put your name there, instead of woman), Ye shall not surely die: 

    Gen 3:5  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

    And then it is the process of us overcoming the Serpent by denying it what it so desires, godhood.

    Mat 4:1  Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil

    Mat 4:2  And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 

    Mat 4:3  And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 

    Mat 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 

    Mat 4:5  Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 

    Mat 4:6  And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 

    Mat 4:7  Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. 

    Mat 4:8  Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 

    Mat 4:9  And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me

    Mat 4:10  Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve

    Mat 4:11  Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels (comforting messages of Truth from God) came and ministered unto him. 

    Luke 4:13 says that after the temptations the Devil left Christ “for a season.” As at the end of each teaching in school comes a test, so at the end of a teaching in an area of our life comes a test/temptation. Our old man is restrained for short periods, long enough for us to hear the Spirit of God and take in more of His Truth, and then once again our Satanic nature returns to us and we go to war against it. In this way, our new man is created and gets stronger, while the old man becomes weaker.

    Rev 20:7  And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

    Our Satanic nature never gives in because it is created to be the iron it takes to sharpen us. It is our brother, the old man, who God uses to sharpen us.

    Pro 27:17  Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

    Why friend? Because the Serpent comes to us as our friend! As he did The Woman in the garden.

    Mat 26:47  And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people. 

    Mat 26:48  Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast. 

    Mat 26:49  And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him

    Mat 26:50  And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him. 

    He comes, as I keep repeating, as my friend, my old friend, the old red Dragon, who has horns like a lamb but speaks as a devil. He has been with me my entire life, tripping me, causing me to fall, and then saying “let me clean you up.” He has been betraying me my entire life from one pit fall to another and always trying to come in as a messanger of light. He says to me “this is what you should do” or “that isn’t fair” always acting as if it is for my own welfare. He has been my closest confidante my entire life and I called him God! This is why it is so hard to crucify him.

    Psa 55:12  For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: 

    Psa 55:13  But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. 

    Psa 55:14  We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. 

    AND THIS IS THE THOUSAND YEAR REIGN: Coming to know who is my brother and reigning over the serpent in me, my brother. It is as waking up from a hard night’s drunk, hungover from a lifetime of drinking the serpent’s potion and then coming to see what he has done to me.

    Gen 9:20  And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 

    Gen 9:21  And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. 

    Gen 9:22  And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without

    Gen 9:23  And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. 

    Gen 9:24  And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger sonhad done unto him

    Gen 9:25  And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren

    Gen 9:26  And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant

    Gen 9:27  God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant

    As the Elect, we have lived a lifetime of exalting self over everyone and everything, never actually knowing that we were being led by Christ as a lamb to the slaughter of our old man. We go through a lifetime of self exaltation so that this old man can ultimately be crucified to the cross. Yet it is by looking upon him, the serpent on the cross, that I can be healed from his bite. I am healed by confessing this is what I am, look at it hanging on the cross. Christ took on that form and my sin so that when I looked upon my old man hanging there I could also see Christ there saying, “forgive him for he knows not what he does.” It’s from this humbled place that I can do unto my Brother/Sister as Christ has done for me. The pain of pride is burned up and we can forgive them, for they know not what they do, just as we didn’t know for so long. This is how we are not hurt by the second death and reigning with Christ every day, a thousand years. This is being a priest to my Brother/Sister by forgiving them as Christ has forgiven me. We forgive to our own hurt, yet we aren’t hurt. Our new man is preserved through the fire.

    Nothing in scripture is to be seen in a linear, one and done, event. The thousand year reign is describing our daily teaching experiences we are going through in which we are learning to hear and heed the Spirit of Christ who is reigning in our life and teaching us to submit to His loving authority by dying to self in a daily battle. We know that anything we do to the least of these our brethren we are doing unto Christ, offending Christ. So when we do not forgive each other, we’re tresspassing against Christ. My brother/sister has no more control over anything than I do. We must remember that these exercises the Lord puts us through are for our good, for developing the new man, and for ultimately creating us to be like Him and live with Him in eternity. For the joy that was set before Him he despised the shame. Likewise, we have a joy set before us – the promise of being free from the slavery to sin (the delusion of being my own god) and an eternity of peace, love and joy which results from having Christ as my head.

    As we keep repeating, the thousand year reign is a daily, hourly, minute by minute teaching, showing us how to reign, how to bring every thought captive under the supremacy of Christ as The Alpha and Omega of every minute of our lives.

    2Co 10:5  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 

    2Co 10:6  And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

    The first resurrection is NOT a one time event, one and done but a minute by minute ressurrecting from something in me that was spiritually dead and now comes forth as a living creation. This process plays out in every Elect’s life. In Matthew 18 this process is played out in parables. From the first six verses where we are taught that being resurrected is becoming a child. A child is a new beginning, something resurrected from the dead. Then in the next three verses we are taught that offences will come to this child in us and woe to that man to whom those offences come through. This child is our new man/Christ in us, giving us new thoughts grounded in Truth, and the man who is causing the offence is our old man, or our old way of thinking, which has been ruled by lies or the GREAT LIE, from which all lies stem, that “you shall be as god.” Then in the next five verses we are taught that the child in us is special to God and He is always watching out for us, watching over those precious new thoughts of Truth that are being developed whithin us. And He tells us that we are like a lost sheep, lost in our world of dead doctrine. He then goes on to teach us about how the old man trespasses against our new man and that he is then corrected. If he receives the correction then he is converted from an old man to a child, in other words, we’ve gained our brother. If he is not converted then more trials are sent until he is converted or he is not converted and is never resurrected. Not everything in me is resurrected, only that which is suitable for The Master’s use.

    2Ti 2:20  But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 

    2Ti 2:21  If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work. 

    Back to Matthew 18, Christ then moves on to the parable of the unforgiving servant who is forgiven a great debt but cannot forgive his fellowservant’s small debt. He is then cast into prison until the great debt owed is paid for in full (describing the pain of the second death.) This parable explains the inward struggle of the first resurrection and how the second death will eventually not hurt us. We must always remember that the first resurrection is in aorist tense, which means it is ongoing and present all the time. My old Satanic nature is always offending Christ in me. Christ then comes to me in scripture, and in new ways of thinking where it is explained to my old man where he has offended – generally it’s always the same way – trying to control or be the god of a situation. If he receives the teaching humbly, he is converted in that area from an old man to a child. If he does not receive the message then another trial is sent our way with many more witnesses against our error. Again, if I am given to receive it, I am converted in that area of my life and have partaken of the first resurrection in that area of my life. If not, then a huge trial with many witnesses are sent to me. If I receive it, I’m converted, if not then that part of my old man is lost and not converted. If you are an Elect, then you are an Israelite. If you are an Israelite then this is what you should know about yourself.

    Deu 9:4  Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. 

    Deu 9:5  Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 

    Deu 9:6  Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

    The first resurrection is understanding that Christ made me what I am and He alone has begun to resurrect me from my spiritually dead state. Whatever the day holds has been created by Christ for my good. To receive this message is to be as a child, a new beginning where I know nothing. As a child I know that my old man was forgiven a great debt that cannot be repaid and that the old man was created to do exactly what he has done and still continues to do. It is not my place to hold unforgiveness towards myself because what I did in a spiritually dead state was only what I was originally created to do. But, as a child I know that when my old man tries to whisper to me about right and wrong or how it used to be, he is offending Christ. Christ in me is then sent to my old man and he is taught his offence and converted. Or, he stubbornly refuses, as he was created to do in that area of his life, and he stays dead. My previously drunkard and rebellious old man is not resurrected as a drunkard and rebellious old man. That part is dead and will never be resurrected. What is resurrected is a child who does not desire these things, who does not have the desires to do what he saw the old man do, it repulses him, because he is a new creation.

    Mat 18:1  At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? 

    Mat 18:2  And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, 

    Mat 18:3  And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. (the first resurrection)

    Mat 18:4  Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 

    Mat 18:5  And whoso shall receive (accept) one such little child in my name receiveth me. (the second death doesn’t hurt)

    Mat 18:6  But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.  

    My old man does not want to receive a gullable, naive child who just goes through every day without a care believing that God has it all outlined for him, with no planning, no thought of the day, no responsibilities! This is a repulsive stench in the nose of a man who has led a life he thought he planned. In the first resurrection, we are being taught to see Christ as Lord of every minute of every day. I am to submit to what Christ has laid out for me and see it all, whatever the day presents to me, as coming from the hand of my Creator. My old Serpent offends me regularly by trying to cast doubts on what or how the day is playing out. This saddens the child in me and Christ then reminds the old man in me what his supposed planning had gotten him – a life of bondage and problems. A millstone, that which grinds wheat to flour, is placed on the old man’s thoughts and they are milled into nothingness. He would have been better off to have drowned in the sea of the world’s doctrines then to offend the Christ in me.

    Mat 18:6  But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

    In other words it would have been better for me not to know the truth then to deny it. But, even though my old man knows the truth he still tries to speak great swelling words of vanity to my child in me. He promises me liberty but in truth he is still a slave of his own lusts. Liberty to him means being out from underneath the thumb of God’s will, which is impossible of course, but it doesn’t stop the thoughts from coming, constantly rising up out of yet another head wound to try to regain his position on the throne. It’s futile but he was created to be relentless. Parts of him will never be converted and will go to the place of the unknown, never to be remembered….THANK GOD! But, as after every teaching comes a test. The Serpent tries to amass an offensive of false doctrine like a dog returning to it’s vomit. It is then destroyed by the fire of the truth and incinerated into the unknown.

    2Pe 2:18  For when they (the old man) speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 

    2Pe 2:19  While they (the old man) promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 

    2Pe 2:20  For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 

    2Pe 2:21  For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them

    2Pe 2:22  But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. 

    Rev 20:9  And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. 

    But, as was said, “it must needs be that offences come.”

    Mat 18:7  Woe unto the world (the world of the old man) because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! 

    Mat 18:8  Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. 

    Mat 18:9  And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

    It is better for us to give up our whole life, as we saw it, give our right hand, right eye, and walk through life maimed, then to go along with the teachings of our stiffnecked old man who thinks he’s his own god. I am lost before I know the truth, lost in my old man’s world of godhood. But Christ comes to us and begins to resurrect us from the grave of the rotting old man. He leaves all for me. My old man had better take heed that he does not despise the little naive child in me because Christ stands guard over him. “Take heed what you hear.” And the same applies outwardly to each other.

    Mat 18:10  Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels (thoughts) do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. 

    Mat 18:11  For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. 

    Mat 18:12  How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? 

    Mat 18:13  And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. 

    Mat 18:14  Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

    Christ is in us and whatever is being done to the child in me is done to Christ.

    Mat 25:40  And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

    So when my old man slithers through me, as the serpent he is, he is offending Christ in me. This offence must be dealt with by correcting the old doctrine in me, played out by what the old man has learned and is trying to bring me back into bondage to, godhood. Christ then brings the old man into judgment and he is either recreated into a child or he stands stubbornly on his doctrine. The process is repeated by more trials until the old man is converted or he is incinerated. Not all of me is saved. I am separated inside as sheep and goats, and some enter the kingdom and some are destroyed. In either case a new creation arises from the grave of my spiritually dead, and resurrected into life. The second death is repeating this process for another, when their old man comes against us. The second death doesn’t hurt us if we have been sufficiently resurrected (mature enough spiritually) to know that our brother/sister is fighting the same battle. His/her old man can no longer “hurt” my new man who knows the great debt he has been forgiven and so it should be no trial to forgive their much smaller debt against us. This parable is describing the thousand year reign where we are taught the truth and converted from a spiritually dead beastly life to a life giving spiritual being, who possesses life within them. Our first beastly Adam was made a beastly soul, our last Adam is BEING made a life giving spirit.

    1Co 15:45  And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 

    Mat 18:21  Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? 

    Mat 18:22  Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. 

    Mat 18:23  Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. 

    Mat 18:24  And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. 

    Mat 18:25  But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. 

    Mat 18:26  The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. 

    Mat 18:27  Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. 

    Mat 18:28  But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. 

    Mat 18:29  And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. 

    Mat 18:30  And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt. 

    Mat 18:31  So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done. 

    Mat 18:32  Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: 

    Mat 18:33  Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? 

    Mat 18:34  And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. 

    Mat 18:35  So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses. 

    It should be obvious to us by now that our old man will offend against Christ within us. But, we must remember that he is BEING recreated, BEING resurrected. We often lose sight of all we have been forgiven and this plays out in unforgiveness towards others. We must be forgiving towards others and FORGIVING TOWARDS OURSELVES. We cannot let the old man bring us down by his constant badgering and complaining. He will never be happy until he’s dead. Herein lies the patience of the saints:

    Rev 14:9  And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast

    and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 

    Rev 14:10  The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without

    mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the

    presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 

    Rev 14:11  And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest

    day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his

    name. 

    Rev 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. 

  • I used to think that suffering for Christ was being ridiculed for being a Christian. I was taught by mainstream religion that if I lived as a Christian I would be persecuted. I thought that not siding with my old drinking crowd was what Peter was speaking of in the following verses:

    1Pe 4:3  For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: 

    1Pe 4:4  Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: 

    I had a few times, very few, that I actually spoke up against someone’s religious opinion but that didn’t bring life threatening persecution or physical danger. I am sure in other parts of the world where Christians are persecuted that would happen but not here in the United States. So, when I read Peter, James and Paul’s writings they left me scratching my head because I was always reading them outwardly. When I was given to see the battle inwardly, I absolutely began having persecution from the beastly gentile within me.

    Remember, scripture tells us that words are spirits. Right out of the womb, we begin taking in spirits (words) that teach us “doctrines” of how to see the world and our place in that world. We learn about ourselves, our environment, and how to best survive and thrive in our environment from our family, friends, community, schools, jobs and the endless information we’re bombarded with from media and anywhere and everywhere there are words. This is the building of our earthly “temple” and the man of sin (our identity in flesh and blood) who sits in our temple acting as God. Our temple built of lies, and our life as the god of that temple otherwise known as the man of sin must be brought down brick by brick. This process will be what we struggle against and ultimately be the cause of our “end times” persecution that scripture describes.

    Everything and anything we hear and read can become a doctrine. I’ll give just a small example from my life. For me, country western music and watching westerns was one of the ways I was drawn into forming an image of my beast. Music put a melody to words that the more I listened the more I began SEEING and believing what they were saying. Watching westerns instilled me with ideas and beliefs about how men were to treat women and that “country folk” were tougher than “city folk.” Drinking and bar fighting were glamorized, along with adulterous affairs and one nights stands.

    This is only a small example of how “legions” of doctrines enter our “temple.” We form relationships with people who have “familiar spirits”, meaning they have been filled with the same spirits of information and, therefore, see the world as we do. Our beast is comfortable with others of its kind. This example I gave of country western-style music and movies is only an obvious example of a much more pervasive and insidious reality. The man of sin within us is surrounded by a fortress of lies posing as altruistic and moral but is at his core self justifying and self preserving. He is antiChrist because he comes from a darkened perspective that sees himself as god. Only Christ can reveal this ‘leviathan’ within us aka the man of sin, who will also ultimately be our persecutor. Once the scales fall off our eyes and Christ begins to reveal this man of sin within us, we will begin to see things differently and a war is started between the new man (Christ being formed within us) and our old man. It’s the fight between Jacob and Esau, the spirit of Christ and the spirit of satan.

    Back to my example of country western indoctrination…as the scales have begun to fall off my eyes and Christ within me begins dismantling my temple of lies with a rod of iron, an example of the struggle manifests when someone crosses me and I don’t/can’t act in a way I would have in the past, the way I was taught in westerns about “being a man.” The old man inside me calls me a coward. When someone does something against a doctrine of mine and I don’t “set them in their place,” then I’m persecuted with thoughts from my old beast who ruled my old world. Thoughts that fire up fears that I’m letting someone take advantage of me. It’s frustrating and sometimes agonizing to keep my mouth shut in the face of what my beast perceives as a full assault on his “manhood.” Every streetcorner church preaches “turning the other cheek” but this goes from a saying to reality for the Elect. Our new man is being taught to SUBMIT to Christ as the true and only Authority. We have no “rights.” We are slaves of Christ and whatever situation He places us in is to be submitted to in humility…as unto Christ. Saying all this to say that the persecution is inward and very real for those whose world is being destroyed. If you’re a chosen vessel of Christ then your world is going through an earthquake like never before. I’ve experienced hard times, seen death, held hands of dying people who were dear to me but the death of myself has been the hardest death I’ve ever experienced. So, when Peter says “think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you,” he was speaking about the inward battle we will go through in the destruction of our earth and the recreation of a new earth, founded on the doctrines of Christ.

    1Pe 4:12  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 

    1Pe 4:13  But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 

    1Pe 4:14  If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

    Heb 12:3  For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

    Joh 1:10  He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 

    Joh 1:11  He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 

    Look at the preceding scriptures closely. Let’s look at them inwardly. Christ not only died to His literal flesh on the cross but lived 33 years walking around the dead. Those He created hated Him and didn’t even realize He had created them. This happened in the natural but is also happening NOW within us. As an Elect, Christ will enter us and endure the “contradiction of sinners against himself” that live in us – the world of doctrines within us of self preservation and self worship that know and receive Him not. Our old beast hates the truth and fights tooth and nail against it. My old fearful Satanic beast nature hates the new man in me being formed by the doctrines of Christ, so much so he would rather be dead than see his world taken from him. Everyday there is an inward fight to lay down and submit to the doctrines of Christ. My old world does not understand why I’m not living like I used to. I would liken it to the parable of the outward world’s doctrine of “schizophrenia.” Two people, two nations dwell within me, Jacob and Esau. What the outward world would call diving into your “psyche,” scripture would call exposing the man of sin. It’s the man on the island of the Gadarenes, who was filled with legions of devils.

    Luk 8:27  And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs. 

    Luk 8:28  When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not. 

    Luk 8:29  (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.

    Luk 8:30  And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him. 

    The Elect of God begin to recognize that these doctrines we have taken on are legions, spirits that are spoken words. Words are spirit, Christ said in John 6:63, and words make us what we are. Of course we know, or should know, that God is the Author of all things. As part of our creative process that is Authored completely by Christ, we are given over to these doctrines for a time. Once we have been given to see the truth inwardly, we are then taken on a journey where we begin walking through the nations within us, converting doctrines, casting out devils, healing the sick and raising the dead. We see that the time of our old world is coming to an end and we no longer have to live according to the will of the doctrines/people in it. Our world is falling apart. Our heavens are being opened and our Satanic nature is falling out of our heavens. Christ is descending into our world to rule it with a rod of iron.

    Luk 10:18  And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

    Rev 19:11  And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. 

    Rev 19:12  His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. 

    Rev 19:13  And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. 

    Rev 19:14  And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. 

    Rev 19:15  And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 

    Rev 19:16  And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

    The outward manifestations of our beast such as lying, cheating, stealing, drunkenness, adultery, etc. have outwardly been brought into subjection to our Satanic nature for it’s own good, preserving itself through religion. This was not a change of the heart. The Subtil Satanic nature within me said, “You’d better get it together boy or you’re gonna destroy yourself.” It was merely my serpentine nature desiring to be seen as a good man or as Christ called it, “the goodman of the house,” it was the voice of the serpent telling me I had driven myself to such low standards and now I must lift myself back up. Christ, Who is the Creator of all things used the “wickedness” in me to correct me.

    Jer 2:19  Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. 

    Job 12:16  With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.

    When Christ is revealed IN us He then begins to expose the inward beast that has led us by the nose. The outward goodman is not the issue as much as the inward goodman. Christ said that unless your righteousness EXCEEDS the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees you shall in no wise enter the kingdom of God. And then He said that He did not come to destroy the law and not one jot or tittle shall fall from the law until ALL has been fulfilled. Then He said that if you look upon a woman to lust after her you have committed adultery in your heart. All of this is inward.

    Mat 5:17  Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 

    Mat 5:18  For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 

    Mat 5:19  Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 

    Mat 5:20  For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceedthe righteousnessof the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. 

    Mat 5:27  Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery

    Mat 5:28  But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart

    Mat 24:43  But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. 

    Mat 24:44  Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh

    The goodman of my house cleaned up his act alright, outwardly, but the heart was never changed. He still believed that his thoughts were not the problem. Now that Christ is marching through my life He is exposing the thoughts, the doctrines, the teachings and beliefs that molded a man after his OWN image, a man who thought that he sat in his own temple and that he was the goodman of the house. Scripture calls him the man of sin. He was molded by the “angel of light” – my satanic drive to be my own god. What has ruled my world has been kept secret until Christ took the scales off my eyes. Before we go into the next set of verses it must be pointed out that the entire religous world is looking for Christ’s outward return in the future. Everyone is looking for a second coming in which an evil man must appear first and sit in the literal temple in literal Israel, or some version of this message. But, because our Satanic world is not divided against itself we are always putting off Christ’s return in the future, outwardly, for some other person or generation. We don’t want to be exposed NOW. No one wants to deal with what Christ’s return will be like, NOW! No one knows they are the man of sin. Without Christ’s intervention, it cannot be known. This truth is why Paul was telling them not to be shaken IN MIND “BECAUSE” the day of Christ IS AT HAND. Christ is here, in you, if you are an Elect.

    Let’s look at the following verse. The words “as that” are most often translated “because” 183 times out of 204. Instead of using the word “because” as it was most often used, the KJV translators used the words “as that” because it made more sense with a doctrine that believed Christ is returning outwardly, in the future, rather than returning inwardly in the life of every believer. Here’s the verse in the KJV so you can see the Strongs numbers.

    2Th 2:2  That yeG5209 be notG3361 soonG5030 shakenG4531 inG575 mind,G3563 orG3383 be troubled,G2360 neitherG3383 byG1223 spirit,G4151 norG3383 byG1223 word,G3056 norG3383 byG1223 letterG1992 asG5613 fromG1223 us,G2257 as thatG3754 theG3588 dayG2250 of ChristG5547 is at hand (the word is present).G1764 

    In other words, Paul is saying don’t be so shaken by what you’re going through because the day of Christ is “present” in your life. I told you that this would happen when I was with you. What you’re going through is the revealing of your man of sin.

    Now in verse three the KJV translators continued the narrative about a future outward coming of Christ by ADDING these words, “for that day shall not come.” Look after the words are written, there are no Strongs numbers to back up those words. They are a continuation of the false doctrine of a future man of sin and a future return of Christ. Look at the verse.

    2Th 2:3  Let noG3361 manG5100 deceiveG1818 youG5209 byG2596 anyG3367 means:G5158 forG3754 that day shall not come, exceptG3362 there comeG2064 a falling awayG646 first,G4412 andG2532 that manG444 of sinG266 be revealed,G601 theG3588 sonG5207 of perdition;G684 

    Now, when you replace the words “as that” with the more commonly used word “because” and take out those added words from verse three, here is what you get:

    2Th 2:1  Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 

    2Th 2:2  That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, “because” the day of Christ is at hand. 

    2Th 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; (the falling away of the scales from our eyes, exactly what happened to Paul himself. This is why he can tell them not to be alarmed because he had been through it, verse 5.)

    2Th 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 

    2Th 2:5  Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things

    We are being gathered now. Christ’s return started 2000 years ago on the day of pentecost when He entered the believers and they began to speak in new ways never heard. A new tongue is a new way of understanding (hearing) something never before understood (heard). It’s the same as saying “I never heard that before.” The truth crosses all language barriers and cuts to the heart. Christ told them to go wait for Him to return and that is what He did.

    Act 1:4  And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, butwait for the promise of the Father, which,saith he,ye have heard of me

    Act 1:5  For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence

    Wait for the promise, ye have heard of me, and you shall be baptized with the holy ghost NOT MANY DAYS HENCE. I’m going to return soon and you’ll be baptized IN FIRE.

    Mat 3:11  I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire

    Mat 3:12  Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. 

    These verses are saying the same thing that Paul is saying in II Thessalonians 2. Don’t be alarmed by what’s happening to you. It’s what I told you would happen. It’s the revealing of your man of sin and he will have great wrath once he sees he has lost his power. No one wants to go through this fire of everything you ever thought or think being brought into subjection to Christ and going through the fire of judgment – peeling back each layer of the onion that covered the man of sin. Every thought, every word, everything is brought under the fire of the spirit of God and everything is shown what it was and where it came from whether from Christ as Creator or from the man of sin as creator. Christ will not share His creation with anyone and this is a consuming fire that will burn up the chaff with unquenchable heat. Christ is holding us back from seeing His return until He first reveals the man of sin in us and then at the same time He begins returning in our life, lighting up who and what we were from creation as beasts with a subtil serpentine nature and who we are as the man of sin who opposes and exalts himself ABOVE ALL, EVEN GOD HIMSELF. We are Lucifer claiming he is God and that he made himself evil and now has made himself good. He claims he is the creator of everything and God is not in control of his life…HE IS! AND NOW YOU KNOW….

    2Th 2:6  And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 

    2Th 2:7  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 

    2Th 2:8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 

    2Th 2:9  Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 

    2Th 2:10  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 

    2Th 2:11  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 

    2Th 2:12  That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 

    The man of sin in us is revealed and at the same time Christ’s brightness as THE ONE AND ONLY CREATOR consumes our man of sin whose coming together was after or by our Satanic nature. We had signs and lying wonders that deceived everything in us. God Himself sent us the strong delusion. But we praise God because all of what we thought we built will be destroyed by the brightness of the truth. Everything that I thought I built will be judged by the light of truth and because it denied God’s love in Christ and thought it built itself, it will be destroyed forever. A new heaven/mind and earth/body are being formed and Christ is being seen as The Creator of my old world and the new world that I exist in and am learning to exist in. I described one simple, small aspect of the making of my man of sin and what Christ used to build him up and then tear him down. You have your own man of sin that has been erected and will come down if you are an Elect. The return of Christ is now in the life of the Elect. Our satanic nature wants to put it off down the road on a literal second coming in the literal skies. But, that is a sign and lying wonder for those who are still blinded by their man of sin. So, as Paul said “don’t be shaken in mind” when Christ begins showing you what you are. It will indeed shake you to your core. Every thought, every act, good or evil, will be examined, no stone left unturned and then you will see the truth of the Godhead and how you have not built anything. I did not make my first creation, Christ did. And I am not recreating myself, Christ is. My past life has been sufficent to bring me to where I am today. The fulness of my Gentile has been fulfilled, “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.”

    1Pe 4:3  For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: 

    1Pe 4:4  Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: 

    I am left scratching my head in unbelief, amazed at the depths I had fallen and the heights I had risen, and all for the worship of my own godhood. I AM the man of sin! A Satan influenced nature (S.I.N.) that was deceived into thinking it was God. But, the good news is I am giving account now by seeing Christ as The Creator. He is judging what I saw as dead and what I saw as living. I am being judged as dead and yet I am now living unto God in the spirit. The end of me is at hand. I am not drunk anymore on false doctrine. I’ve been sobered up by Christ’s return. I am being taught what it means to love and worship God in truth. I can love out of a pure heart of knowing that what I and you are, were and will be is by the hand of God. We didn’t create ourselves, God did. I can now have fervent love in truth.

    1Pe 4:5  Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. 

    1Pe 4:6  For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. 

    1Pe 4:7  But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. 

    1Pe 4:8  And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins

    1Pe 4:9  Use hospitality one to another without grudging. 

    1Pe 4:10  As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 

    1Pe 4:11  If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 

    Now the following verses should have a deeper meaning to you if you are seeing the return of Christ in you.

    1Pe 4:12  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 

    1Pe 4:13  But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 

    1Pe 4:14  If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 

    1Pe 4:15  But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters. 

    1Pe 4:16  Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. 

    1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 

    1Pe 4:18  And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 

    1Pe 4:19  Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator

    Judgment starts the process by the revealing of our man of sin. We shouldn’t be alarmed at what we see about what it took to get us where we are today. We will be taught to rejoice in what we are seeing because what we are seeing is something that no one in the world, who is not Elect, is privileged to see. No one sees what they are, everyone denies they are Satan, everyone has been sent the strong delusion. We were deceived by the man of sin that Christ created.

    If Christ’s return is an outward future descending from the clouds, then why did Paul say that God revealed Christ in Him and that Christ is in us?

    Gal 1:15  But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, 

    Gal 1:16  To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: 

    2Co 13:5  Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

    So, if you are an Elect then Christ has returned and is walking through you exposing the man of sin in you. That man of sin is repeatedly exposed in parable form in scripture from Genesis to Revelation. He can be seen in characters like Pharoah, Nebuchadnezzar, Lucifer, Leviathan, Pilate, Pharisees, Sadducees, Judas, Herod, scribes, elders, Romans, the Dragon etc. Now you can think it not strange the wrath our man of sin will have against the new man being created within us.

    Rev 12:12  Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. 

  • Babylon has personal pronouns like she, hers and thee. Jerusalem has personal pronouns she, hers and thee. Cities have personal pronouns of she, her and thee. The Dragon, the beast, the false prophet all have personal pronouns. Wisdom is called a she Pr.1:20. A tree is called he and him. Pastures and valleys are called they, Ps.65:13. Heavens and skies are called they, Ps.19:1-2. The flood is called they, Ps.93:3. Love is called a her, 1 Cor.13:5. The mouth is spoken of as it is an entity from the person, Pr.18:6; Ps.73:9. The tongue also is spoken of as an entity in James 3:5-9. And Satan is called a he, his, him, whom, thee, thy, thine, thou all through scripture. Satan is called by many names. The Dragon, the devil, the serpent, throughout scripture and so are we. Christ called Peter Satan in Matthew 16:23. People were said to have devils Mt.9:32. People are called adders, cockatres, and serpents, Ps.140:3; Is.14:29; 59:5. Doctrines, or things taught by people are called cockatrices eggs and adders. Lucifer is called “son of the morning” in Isaiah 14:12, where it is said to be talking to the king of Babylon. In 2Co 11:14 it says,

    “And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”

    An angel is a message and angels are messages, G32. In Hebrews it says that angels are ministering spirits sent forth to those who will be heirs of salvation as a flame of fire.

    Heb 1:7  And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. 

    Heb 1:14  Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

    So do literal angels appear to us as literal flames of fire? No. Fire is the word of God in truth that burns up lies within me. Words are spirits, messages of truth or lies.

    Joh 6:63  “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, andtheyare life.”  

    The heart of man is not literally his heart but a parable of the core of his desire. It is in the mind, the intellect, where we devise things. It is in the core of the mind, our heavens, is where our earth is controlled. Our heart is just an organ, it cannot think or devise anything. Thoughts are ideas, plans, lights that enlighten us about any subject. Thoughts are our stars, our moon that we think give us light about life.

    Gen 6:5  And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 

    Mat 15:18  But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 

    Mat 15:19  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 

    Mat 15:20  These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man. 

    This is the meaning of the word “heart”;

    “G2588- Prolonged from a primary κάρ kar (Latin cor, “heart”); the heart, that is, (figuratively) the thoughts or feelings (mind); also (by analogy) the middle: – (+ broken-) heart (-ed).”

    Human reasoning calls the core of what we are our “unconscious mind” meaning we don’t even realize it’s there. Scripture teaches us that because we were created beasts, the core of what we are is always concerned with our own preservation and lusts. Our thoughts are not about God as our provider but ourselves as our own providers and the source of our pleasure. We think that what we have is because we worked for it or some other reason, but not that it is, was and always will be God Who provides for us in whatever state we are in. If I work as a mechanic or a doctor it doesn’t matter because God has made me to be where I am, doing what I am doing, giving me the ability to do whatever job I’m doing. I have no ability of my own separate from The Creator. All that I am, was or will be is by the hand of my Creator and I am not Him. This is where Satan steps into the picture. The serpent was said to be more subtil than any of the other beasts in the field of God’s creation.

    Gen 3:1  “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made…”

    According to Christ, the field is the world, ” The field is the world” and in Jeremiah it says that we are the earth, “O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.” The word “earth” in Jeremiah 22:29 is also translated “world”. So, we have a world within us that we are living in. Each Elect is operating within his own world. Within that world are many doctrines we have learned throughout our world’s creation. These are the wheat and tares. When wheat seeds, truths are dropped into us they germinate through a process of stages of death. Wayside stage, stony ground stage, thorny stage and then good ground stage, Matthew 13. The first stage is where our own satanic nature quickly steals it away because we can’t understand it, at that period of time. “When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.” We, the Elect, are born into this world with Christ’s seed in us. Before the foundation of our world we were chosen to be the Elect because we were promised to Christ.

    Eph 1:4  According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 

    Eph 1:5  Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 

    Joh 17:12  While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 

    The serpent nature that is created in our mind, was created there as an opponent of truth. The reason for this opposition is for us to learn between good and evil – between Christ in us and the beast in us. Between the Shepherd’s voice and the voice of a stranger. How wise good is and how simple evil is. God is in total control of every detail of life. This is wisdom. I need not worry about anything. This is Good. Then you have the doctrine “God gave me a brain” to make freewill choices with and with that brain I must devise and slither through life, from side to side, ekeing out my own self preservation. This is evil. This is Satan. This is simple human/beastly intellect.

    Rom 16:17  Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them (Satanic doctrines, thoughts) which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. 

    Rom 16:18  For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly (beastly nature); and by good words and fair speeches (“you shall be as gods”) deceive the hearts (our mind)of the simple. 

    Rom 16:19  For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. 

    Rom 16:20  And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. 

    There are satanic doctrines that come as a message of light, that say, God indeed has created it all so I am free to do anything I want. This is the height of the beastly nature created in man so man can expend all his energy on fulfilling whatever beastly lust he desires. If it came into my mind, whatever it may be, it must be good because it’s all from God. If I want to lie, cheat and steal, take advantage of people, it must be good and condoned by God because all thoughts come from God. This is calling good, evil and evil, good.

    “Isa 5:20  Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 

    Isa 5:21  Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent(H995-intellect) in their own sight! “

    But, it doesn’t have to be so sinister. Any thought that does not give The Creator honor for it, is satanic. I live and move SOLELY because of my Creator. I do nothing that is not a creation of my Creator.

    Act 17:22  Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. 

    Act 17:23  For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you

    Act 17:24  God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 

    Act 17:25  Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; 

    Act 17:26  And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 

    Act 17:27  That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: 

    Act 17:28  For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 

    Act 17:29  Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device. 

    Act 17:30  And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: 

    Act 17:31  Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. 

    Act 17:32  And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter. 

    If someone is doing evil deeds it is either that they are dead and do not know the truth or they are an Elect and God is crushing them to powder. Satan is not divided against himself. Most try to be good so that they can be seen as good and live. We eat right, exercise, we try to keep good company and so on and so on. Our Satanic nature does not set out to cast demons (false doctrines) out of us because we are not divided against ourselves. We hang on to doctrines that toss us from one place to another because these doctrines keep us alive. Again, we eat right, exercise, go to doctors when we don’t feel good. We go to church or at least hang out with good people all to be seen as good or in control of our lives. We teach our children good ethics, we try to be good to others, etc. etc. all the time being our own god, thinking WE are doing it never knowing it is all a creation of our Creator. We do nothing. We think we are gods but are dead, spiritually.

    Joh 5:25  Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 

    The beast in us has no life other than natural life. It is spiritually dead. No person can hear the words of Christ unless they are an Elect, chosen before the world began. No one actually believes they’re going to die. All believe they’re going to live on in some way after death because the Satanic doctrine has taught us that “ye shall not surely die.” This is the original serpentine doctrine “ye shall not surely die” that has spread throughout all of mankind and has made man believe that he is a god that will never die. He knows he will die physically but believes he will go on in some form or another according to whatever spin they have on that doctrine of “ye shall not surely die.” Not even an atheist really believes his existence ends upon his death. He may not believe in The God, but you can bet he believes in himself. Christ said that He only has life and unless we are in Christ, seeing Him as Creator of every minute, then we are dead. Unless we eat the flesh of Christ, The Tree of Life, we have no life in us.

    Joh 6:53  Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. 

    Joh 6:54  Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 

    Joh 6:55  For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 

    Joh 6:56  He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. 

    Joh 6:57  As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. 

    Joh 6:58  This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. 

    The Serpent that I was created, which is called The Dragon, Satan, old Serpent, Devil (Rev.12:9) always believes it knows better than Christ. See what Christ was saying to Peter when He called him Satan. Peter was trying to do good, according to his satanic intellect of self-preservation, and convince Christ that He would not die. But read Christ’s response:

    Mat 16:22  Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. 

    Mat 16:23  But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. 

    What was Peter doing wrong or thinking wrong? Why would Christ call Peter Satan? Because it was Peter’s intellect, his satanic carnal reasoning that thought it needed to correct Christ and show Him that He was not going to die, just like the serpent in the garden “ye shall not surely die.” The desires of the beast are always trying to live in this life, trying to evade death and convince itself that it will not die. Peter was hoping for Christ to live forever in a fleshly body so He could reign in this world and free the Jews from the Romans. This was Satanic. This is the beast, the serpent, the devil, this is Satan, our beastly nature that is trying to preserve itself at all costs. To die to self is life unto God. Seeing God as The All in all in every minute of every day is Christ-like. Whatever He provides for me at any given moment is what He desires I have. James comes right out and says we are devils by nature.

    Jas 4:1  From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 

    Jas 4:2  Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 

    Jas 4:3  Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts

    Jas 4:4  Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 

    Jas 4:5  Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy

    Jas 4:6  But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 

    Jas 4:7  Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil (Resist pride), and he will flee from you. 

    Jas 4:8  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded

    Jas 4:9  Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 

    Jas 4:10  Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. 

    Jas 4:11  Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 

    Jas 4:12  There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? 

    Look at Jas 4:5 again – the spirit that RESIDES IN US lusts to envy. This spirit of envy that resides in us is the same spirit that ultimately crucified Christ. This spirit envies God and lusts to be God.

    Mat 27:18 “For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.” This is Pilate speaking of the Pharisees.

    Mat 26:3  Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, 

    Mat 26:4  And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him. 

    Mat 26:5  But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people. 

    These verses in James plainly say that we, as the Elect, at times, are double minded because the spirit of the devil in us, lusts to envy against God, because we do not have something we want for our flesh. Lust for the flesh, beyond what we have at any given moment is the serpent whispering to us that we know better than God. I want this and if I don’t have it then I will set out and do whatever it takes to get it so I can consume it upon my flesh. Feed it with more for the flesh. We live in a time that everything is at the tip of the fingers. If my flesh desires something I just get on my phone and go to amazon and order it. I’m not saying that this is in itself evil. It works for the world and He benevolently gives them what they desire at every minute.

    James said that what was in me was a lust to envy against God and this lust is the devil in me. I have fights and wars within myself because I am constantly warring against the devil in me. I don’t need those outside me to corrupt me. I have enough in me to deal with than to worry about their sin. And that is what religion in me does. It points a finger at everyone else instead of dealing with the devil in me. It points its finger at others because it cannot deal with what it is. James says to cry and weep, to humble ourselves and God will lift us up. Mourn for what is still in me and this is resisting the devil in me. Mourn for the fact I still see the serpent slithering through me, lusting for more than what I have been given at any given moment. If you have read our post on the 144,000 then you understand it is every moment of every day seeing God as Creator of it. Every 1440 minutes of every day loving God with all my heart by seeing everything I have in that minute is from Him and I need nothing more and loving my brother/sister as myself. Adding these two commandments to every 1440 minutes of every 12 hour day is the 144,000 redeemed to God out of my world. The Serpent, in me, whispers about planning out my day, planning for my future. But James says all such devilish thoughts are evil and sin.

    Jas 4:13  Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 

    Jas 4:14  Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 

    Jas 4:15  For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 

    Jas 4:16  But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil

    Jas 4:17  Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin

    The Serpent, the Beast, The old Dragon, and Satan in me are all one and the same. Four ways to see myself in the flesh, WHOLLY, foursquare, what we are from one end to the other, always bent on the flesh’s satisfaction. I repeat, only the Elect are given to see themselves for what they are.

    Scripture says that God does not tempt me but that I am drawn away by the lust in me and am tempted. The whispers of the serpent that I can be my own god.

    Jas 1:12  Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. 

    Jas 1:13  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 

    Jas 1:14  But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed

    Jas 1:15  Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 

    Jas 1:16  Do not err, my beloved brethren. 

    Jas 1:17  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 

    Jas 1:18  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 

    How was the woman tempted in the Garden? By her own lusts. The serpent IN her. Remember the “field” is the world and the world is within me. The world God created within me.

    Gen 3:1  Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 

    Gen 3:2  And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 

    Gen 3:3  But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 

    Gen 3:4  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 

    Gen 3:5  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 

    Gen 3:6  And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

    Satan can be seen in us in various examples in scripture. Satan is in me from creation, but I don’t even know it. It will not expose itself, be divided against itself, because it has a lust to live. The lust to be as God and answer to no one is the beast within me that will lie, cheat and steal to get what it sees as good for food, pleasant to the eyes and make me wise. From youth we’re taught to go after what we want. I was taught that I could have anything I wanted if I just worked hard enough to get it. Others are taught that they can have anything they want, all they have to do is steal it. Either way, they are doctrines from the same serpentine source – do whatever it takes to get what you want. Satan’s kingdom is not divided. We’ve been taught that the one doctrine “work hard” is good and the other doctrine of stealing is evil. But in God’s eyes, for the Elect, both of these doctrines are beastly doctrines that He is freeing us from. In the beastly world, there is a distinction, rightfully so. But we are a peculiar people, called out from the world, who are being created to trust and know God intimately. We rely completely on Christ. We throw away our worldly knowledge of so-called wisdom in how to provide for ourselves. We through away our drive to survive and succeed. We threw it all away like menstruous rags for the free gift of rest in Christ.

    Pro 30:18  There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: 

    Pro 30:19  The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid

    Pro 30:20  Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness

    In the world, men are like serpents as they slither words across their mouths to get what they want from a woman, slick, slithering words to deceive. Women do the same as they entice the man with what they want and act as though they don’t know what they’re doing is intentional. These are acts in the natural that reflect the spiritual state of the Elect while they are still as yet unconverted and living in the original beastly/carnal state. Our thoughts are constantly fornicating with the world’s thoughts. We don’t yet trust Christ so we are constantly luring and being lured into adulterous affairs of the mind with doctrines that “teach” us how to preserve ourselves and be our own god. They’re adulterous because we are destined to be married to Christ.

    But lest the serpent deceive us and we don’t uncover his most “subtil” form, we will expose him in religion. Religion is the form of codes I live by. The serpent’s lies have fooled me and everyone else to see the word religion only as beliefs about God obtained through a church, a mosque, a temple, etc. But religion takes on any form where I have a set of laws or tenants I live by. The atheist, the street gang member, the mountain man who lives out in the woods alone fulfilling an image he has formed in his mind as a god. Everyone, without exception, is in a religion run by their Satan. Every prayer is to the fulfilling of the beast’s lust. It goes no higher than the mind it is in. It does not matter where the Elect come from. They are all one in the same, fighting their Satanic nature that has driven them all over the place trying to be their own god. The Elect must be broken, must die before they can come to see what they are. Christ said it and we don’t hear it until He causes us to hear it. ” Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.”.

    The Elect are born with two people in them, like Jacob and Esau in the womb of their mother, two nations that war against each other.

    Gen 25:21  And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 

    Gen 25:22  And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD. 

    Gen 25:23  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger

    Gen 25:24  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. 

    Gen 25:25  And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. 

    Gen 25:26  And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them. 

    Gen 25:27  And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents

    Gen 25:28  And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

    The serpent comes out first, red and hairy and is given the title of heir of the throne, like Esau. He is a worldly man, “a man of the field” and his lust for the world is so strong it eventually strips him of his rights as heir. He gives it up for a bowl of food (a parable of his overwhelming drive for self-preservation). Jacob, who is Christ in us, is meek and humble, dwelling in His tent, inside us, not in the world. Jacob had twelve tribes derive from him. If you’ve read the other studies you know 12 means one. 12 hours equals one day, 12 months equals one year, twelve tribes equal one nation, Israel. Esau married outside the family in the form of the descendants of Ishmael. And he had many wives and his children had many wives of the Canaanites. They were worldly people. Esau and his descendants represent the original serpent nature in us to be like the world and to carve out our own identity. When Christ begins to reign in our lives, all we ever worked for, this identity, is shown to be superfical and corrupt according to worldly lust. We then begin our conversion from seeing through the eyes of the serpent, to seeing through the eyes of Christ. The nation of the beast in me sees Christ as a thief, stealing his kingdom, as Jacob did to Esau. Our “Goodman of the house”, The Serpent, sees Christ as stealing what I’ve worked for my whole life.

    Mat 24:42  Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. 

    Mat 24:43  But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. 

    Mat 24:44  Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. 

    The Serpent in me, my intellect, which has amassed a lifetime of worldly knowledge, sees Christ as a thief, stealing what I have worked so hard to achieve. When Christ begins walking through my life He exposes every little detail as a lie – not just outward overt sins or even secret sins I’ve done, that no one knows about but, He shows me how the smallest things were sin and I didn’t even know it. One that was exposed in me, that the world would see as prudent, were my eating habits – the doctrine of “eating right.” I learned from other serpents in the world that organic was to be better esteemed than regular food, along with grass fed cows and free range chicken eggs, etc etc. Gluten was evil. Wheat was evil. Sugar was evil and on and on and on. I preached my religion to all out there who were taken by the “conglomerates” who had “tained” our food. I could go into great depths regarding this satanic doctrine but so we don’t go off course I’ll stop there. These doctrines that seem to be prudent exist on the basis of self preservation. I wasn’t wrestling against my flesh but against the spiritual wickedness of my heavens, my mind, where Satan had amassed a huge golden calf for me to worship to protect myself, preserve myself because God couldn’t, it was up to me to do it. As one man sternly told me “God gave me a brain!” insinuating that God created a brain in me and left it up to me to figure out what was good and evil for my body. But, as scripture says, we don’t wrestle with our flesh and blood but with the powers and principalities of my heavens, my mind, my Devil.

    Eph 6:10  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord (not myself or my intellect, but The LORD), and in the power of his might. (He is The Power, not me or my intellect)

    Eph 6:11  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil

    Eph 6:12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 

    Did you see that? Be strong in The Lord, the power of HIS might, which is the armour that allows us to stand against the wiles of our Devil, whose doctrines are in our minds that are based on the worldly knowledge that keeps us from seeing Christ as The Only and Sole power of All things. Our struggle isn’t against our literal flesh but against the mind that controls the flesh. Everyone’s Devil has its own set of rules that tosses them from one place to another. The Devil, the old Serpent, the Dragon and Satan are names in parabolic form that expose what is in us from creation and what is being exposed as trying to be God of its own world. Thankfully God so loved The Elect that He gave His only begotten image for them to believe in. He loves our new man, who is born again into a new WORLD.

    Joh 3:3  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 

    Joh 3:4  Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? 

    Joh 3:5  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 

    Joh 3:6  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 

    Joh 3:7  Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 

    Joh 3:11  Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. 

    Joh 3:12  If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? 

    Joh 3:16  For God so loved the world (born again world), that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

    Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 

    Joh 3:18  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 

    Joh 3:19  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 

    Joh 3:20  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 

    Joh 3:21  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. 

    Job is a parable of this truth and how God reveals to us what is deep within our hearts. Scripture says that we must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

    2Co 5:10  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 

    Standing before the judgment seat of Christ is us being shown what is in us. Standing before the judgment seat is everything in me being presented to God, “whether it be good or bad.” Are we worshipping God out of love or still worshipping (trusting) our works to hedge our flesh in from judgment? What is being judged are our fears of anything other than God. Am living in fear or am I trusting in God as my strength?

    1Jn 4:16  And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 

    1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 

    1Jn 4:18  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love

    1Jn 4:19  We love him, because he first loved us. 

    Christ is teaching us to love God as our Father and fear nothing. The story of Job reveals that Job does not know perfect love. He is in constant fear that any day the judgment of God will take everything he has. God ultimately reveals to Job his bondage of trusting in his own works, rather than in God’s love for him.

    Job 3:25  For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. 

    Job 3:26  I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

    Job is us, we are Job. Satan, who is adversarial to God, is our fear. God is bringing us before the judgment seat and showing us that we have fears in our hearts, things “which we greatly fear.” Scripture tells us that perfect love casts out fear and that fear has torment. Satan is the manifestation of the fear we have, as a beast, that presents itself before God as self-preservation in place of trusting God as my loving God Who only has my best in mind. It is hidden right there under our noses just like good thoughts we have of God, called “sons of God.” The story of Job is our story of how our thoughts are presented before God, good and bad. Good represented as “sons of God” and bad as Satan. Satan represents all the fearful thoughts that are adversarial to the thoughts of God’s love. They are in opposition to the truth. Bad thoughts present God as an austere God who is angry and displeased with everything I do.

    Luk 19:20  And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin: 

    Luk 19:21  For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow. 

    Luk 19:22  And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee,thouwicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow: 

    Luk 19:23  Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury? 

    Luk 19:24  And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that hath ten pounds. 

    Luk 19:25  (And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds.) 

    Luk 19:26  For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him. (fear gets everything taken from me)

    Luk 19:27  But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.

    To see God as love is to see God in truth. Satan represents all of our beastly thoughts of fear that God is going to take something from me. He has me hedged in now but who knows what’s around the corner? The story of Job is a parable of what is going on inside our heavens. We see God has blessed us, hedged us in, but we have fear He will somehow snatch everything away. These are thoughts God sees about where we are serving Him out of fear. These all must come up before God and be separated as sheep and goats.

    Mat 25:31  When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 

    Mat 25:32  And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats

    Mat 25:33  And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 

    Mat 25:34  Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

    Job 1:6  Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. 

    God points out how good we are doing but in the back of our mind is fear that any day the hammer will drop. These fears always lead to the temptation to worship ourselves and be our own god by taking matters into our own hands and creating our own hedge, which is all a delusion which must ultimately be shattered. So the very thing we fear comes upon us. The end of the story is that after fear has been purged from us, we are blessed with double of what we had before we were cleansed from our fears.

    Job 42:1  Then Job answered the LORD, and said, 

    Job 42:2  I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. 

    Job 42:10  And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before

    What does fear produce? Bondage. Who had the power of fear and of death? The Old Serpent, Satan, The Devil our beast.

    Heb 2:14  Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 

    Heb 2:15  And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

    Christ resurrecting in us and showing us the true love of The Father destroys the power of the devil along with all the tormenting fear, which produces bondage. He is freeing us from fear and showing us love. Perfect love casts out Satan (fear) because Satan (fear) produces torment. I cannot be free if I am constantly believing God is angry with me and at any minute He might kill me or strike me down with a pestilence. He does chastise us but as a Father does a child, not in senseless lashing out from anger. The fear we have as beasts is that we don’t know why or how but at any moment the hammer is about to fall and God is going to bring some horrible disease upon me. This is the core of the doctrines that push us to judge good and evil for ourselves and “eat right”, exercise, and jump through endless hoops to stay alive. Fear is THE ROOT of the trifecta of pride, lust and envy. If you read Job and see how The sons of God and Satan are presented before God, and you know that this is all in parable form to teach us, then you’ll see that Satan is Job’s fear that God is seeing in him. God allows Job’s fear to overcome him for a period so that God can show Job pure love. The end result is double of what we had before we went into the trial. We are always better off by going through the trial.

    Jas 1:2  My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 

    Jas 1:3  Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 

    Jas 1:4  But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 

    Jas 5:11  Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. 

    So as we are coming to see, satan is not a literal fallen angel. “He” is not an individual angel or entity floating around outside in the atmosphere creating havoc. He IS the messages that float around us, rather come at us as a flood from all angles – any and all messages of “light” that teach self-preservation. The whole world lies in wickedness (1 Joh 5:19). There is nothing that comes out of the world that doesn’t contain this poison that looks like “light.” These messages appear “wise” and “prudent” and they are…for YOUR BEAST who is afraid of death. Satan is not a monster in a literal hell of flaming fire tormenting people. He IS all of the false light messages (thoughts) inside of us which create our own personal hell of torment through fear of anything. Satan is the personification or parable of the subtil parts of our intellect (our field which is our world.) It is where we lust, envy and fear everything around us. The Elect are being delivered from this beast as his temple is being dismantled one stone at a time.

    Mat 24:1  And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. 

    Mat 24:2  And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 

    We see fear as an angel of light, protecting us from danger but, in truth, fear is darkness from the knowledge that God is my protection. I need not fear anything. Satan is called an “angel” of light – a parable for a “message/thought” of light to protect me. Lucifer is described as the “son of the morning” which is a parable describing us as our own light through our own intellect. But in truth it is darkness because there is no light but The Light, Christ. When God delivers us from our hard bondage we take up a proverb against the doctrines we held as “light” when we are delivered from fear as described in Isaiah:

    Isa 14:3  And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve

    Isa 14:4  That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon (Lucifer. what we saw as light to our world), and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 

    Isa 14:5  The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. 

    Isa 14:6  He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. 

    Isa 14:7  The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. (this is being ressurrected.)

    Isa 14:8  Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. 

    Isa 14:9  Hell (the place of the unknown) from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 

    Isa 14:10  All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? 

    Isa 14:11  Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. 

    Isa 14:12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 

    Isa 14:13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 

    Isa 14:14  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (all of this is envy towards God)

    Isa 14:15  Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 

    Isa 14:16  They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 

    Isa 14:17  That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? (were these the lies I was in bondage to? The fears?)

    Isa 14:18  All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. 

    Isa 14:19  But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. 

    Isa 14:20  Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. 

    Isa 14:21  Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. 

    Isa 14:22  For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD. 

    Isa 14:23  I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts. 

    God is cleansing us from every fear, every doubt, all pride, and creating a new heaven and new earth that loves God as The One and Only, The All in all things. We get to see what Christ saw, the fall of Satan from our heavens, our minds. Where the thoughts of fear once enlightened us, with a false flash of light, we see Christ as our strength.

    Luk 10:18  And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. 

    Each time “Satan” appears before the throne it is a fear in us that needs to be eradicated depicted as a flash of light, a message, that appears as a good protection, but in truth it is a false light keeping me from seeing Christ as my protection. All of these fears turn into a false doctrine that lead us to trust in something other than God as The All in all. Fear imprisons us and does not let us see God as love. God is love and every time the word love is said in the following verses you can replace it with God.

    1Co 13:4  Charity (God) suffereth long, and is kind; charity (God) envieth not; charity (God) vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 

    1Co 13:5  Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 

    1Co 13:6  Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 

    1Co 13:7  Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 

    1Co 13:8  Charity (God) never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 

    1Co 13:9  For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 

    1Co 13:10  But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. (when God is seen as the All in all)

    1Co 13:11  When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 

    1Co 13:12  For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 

    1Co 13:13  And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity (God).

    I am still being shown the fears that are in me. We all have fears. In the wild, amongst beasts, fear is what keeps them alive. It’s no different in the human animal. In our original nature, we are always on the watch, scared of being eaten (taken advantage of) by something bigger than us. We see that every word and deed is motivated by fear once the cover is blown off our subtil satanic nature. Literal death isn’t the only fear. We fear the death of our pride, our reputation, our identity. Everyone has these fears: fears of family problems, money, health, disease, jobs, social unrest, wars, politicians, leaders, the fear of not being saved from death. Will my family be saved? Will my children be saved? Perfect love casts out fear. God is love and what He does with all of mankind is His business and now that we know, or are coming to know He is love, we can expect that whatever He does will be for our best. When these fears and doubts arise Christ reminds us that it is not for us to know all the details of every life. We are to concentrate on our own life and worship Him with it.

    Joh 21:20  Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? 

    Joh 21:21  Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do?

    Joh 21:22  Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, whatis thatto thee? follow thou me.

    It’s not my business to worry. Worrying is bondage. I am told to rest in Christ as The One and Only Creator. He is The Light, there aren’t any more flashing lights I need to worry about. Satan has fallen as lightning, is falling and will continue to fall from my heavens in the many false lights I once believed in. My Luciferian thoughts of being God are falling from my heavens. I am not The Light, Christ is The Creator….THAT IS LIGHT!

    Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 

    Joh 1:2  The same was in the beginning with God. 

    Joh 1:3  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 

    Joh 1:4  In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 

    Joh 1:5  And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 

    “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” Knowing this is Life. “In Him was life.” If I know every detail of every day is a creation of Christ then I can rest in Christ as The Author and finisher of it. I need not worry or have fears about any of it, I have entered New Jerusalem, NEW PEACE. New Peace based on the truth that Christ is The Creator, not my flashing lights, my intellect.

    Rev 21:1  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 

    Rev 21:2  And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem (Jerusalem means peace), coming down from God out of heaven (coming down from God out of my new heavens), prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 

    Rev 21:3  And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 

    Rev 21:4  And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.(Lucifer has fallen) 

    Rev 21:5  And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. 

    Rev 21:6  And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 

    Rev 21:7  He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 

    Rev 21:8  But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. 

    The areas that are still fearful and unbelieving, like Job, must be burnt out of me. But praise God because it will only make me twice as strong as I was before I went through it. “The LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.”

  • What does “fairness” mean? What is fair and what is not fair? We make a god after our own likeness and call it a fair god. We don’t want to believe that there is a God Who creates billions of people and then when they die He doesn’t give them another life, out of fairness. The god we form in our minds is a god after our own likeness, a god we form after our own beastly nature. Everyone has a version of this god in their own minds, but basically it’s the same type of god. The true God gives life and breath to everything, continually, at all times. We breathe because He is giving us each breath we take. Our heart beats because He is causing each beat. We see with the eyes He has given us. We hear through the ears He has created to hear. We taste, feel, smell every second of every day because He graciously gives it to His creation. But, no one thanks God for these miracles on a daily, hourly basis. We all take for granted what He graciously gives us and He does so without us asking for them. He gives us physical attributes that are unique to just us. He gives us each our own individual characteristics. If I live 1 year or a 100 years it was a grace of God. He as my Creator owes me nothing. He does not answer to me. He does not bow to my wants. He provides for me every day what He has ordained I have or HAVE NOT.

    Mat 20:15  Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? 

    Man was created a beast – a higher beast than the literal animals but still created on the 6th day like all other beasts, Gn.1:26-31. Man was created in the image of God to rule the lower beasts, to have dominion over them. He was created in the image of God in the sense that He rules over all creation. Mankind is given to rule in whatever creation they live in – fishermen, hunters, governors, kings, businessmen, fathers, mothers, etc.

    Gen 1:27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 

    Gen 1:28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 

    God created everything and everyone, no person or thing created itself. Therefore, fairness does not come into play. God does what He desires with His creation and does not ask me if I like it or not. Does a child have the right to ask its parents why did you create me the way you created me? It’s a silly question and a very small comparison to how a creature can ask its Creator, why did you make me this way?

    “….Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? “

    The beast screams at God for killing swaths of people in a single act. It screams about fairness, inequality, human rights as though he is kinder than God, as though the beast has rights outside of its creation. But the beast does not yell praises to God for the amount of people who are born every day, or for the sun rising on another morning and the literally millions of details that go into everyday that keep billions of people alive. The beast focuses only on the unfairness of death. I am not God, nor am I a little god independant from The Only God. If I am seeing this truth then The God has raised me above the beastly nature He created and has called me a god.

    “Joh 10:35  If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken”

    Fairness has nothing to do with it. God chooses whom He pleases to know Him and have fellowship with Him, we do not. Out of the same lump of dirt He created all beasts from, He chooses some to know Him and leaves the others in the state He benevolently created them. It’s not about deserving or not deserving. It’s about The Creator’s choice to choose or not to choose one above another. Is it unfair when someone chooses one puppy out of a litter and not the others? Do the other puppies have rights that you violated? Is your choosing one over the others unfair? So, on a much greater scale, God does not owe me an explanation on why He chooses some to know Him and not everyone. To ask such questions is beastly and ignorant of the majesty of God. Do I as an individual citizen of my country have the right to walk into the king’s palace, the president’s office, the governor’s office, the mayor’s office or even the local sheriff’s office and start talking to the ruler himself? No. So, again, if I have been given to understand this principle on such a small comparison, then if I have the spirit of Christ, I can understand it on a much greater scale when it comes to The Creator. We don’t have rights or as some say, “God given rights.” No one has rights. Enjoy what The Creator has given us and thank Him daily, hourly, minute by minute for what He has so benevolently given us. If He has chosen to reveal Himself to you and make himself known, then you have been blessed above all creation. If He hasn’t then you won’t know He hasn’t and none of this will matter to you. It is easy to be kind to your fellow beast when you know that all that you have is a gift, not out of deserving or because you are a better beast than the rest, but because every breath is a gift from God, not a debt you’re owed. We deserve nothing, because we have created nothing.

    1Ch 29:10  Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. 

    1Ch 29:11  Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. 

    1Ch 29:12  Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. 

    1Ch 29:13  Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. 

    1Ch 29:14  But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. 

    1Ch 29:15  For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. 

    1Ch 29:16  O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own

    The beast in me does not like to hear such things because it leaves my beast at the will of another. It strips me of all worth and all rights. That’s the point. If I have come to see myself as stripped of all rights, then and only then, am I able to worship God in truth and see my neighbor as myself. I cannot force myself to believe this truth but it must be given to me to by God, to rise above the beastly nature and live a life unto God as Creator. All of mankind were created beasts – higher beasts than dogs, horses, serpents, and cows. Yet, we were still created a beast in the image of God to rule and use other beasts as our help meets. God rules all, so when man is said to be created in His image it is the fact that man is given to rule other beasts. To rule and have dominion is an image of God. Mankind is a help meet created by God to bring about His ultimate creation – beings who know Him and can worship Him in truth by ruling their fleshly beast and bringing it in subjection to God by dying to its wants for someone else’s. Not all of mankind will know Him in truth but were created as help meets for the ones who will know Him, as the beasts were created for Adam. Is God unfair because He created everyone a beast and then selects some to know Him and others not to know Him? No. It is His creation not mine. He does what He desires and I have no right to question Him. He does not reveal His plan to me. I am just happy He has chosen me to know Him. What He does with everyone else is His choice and fairness does not play a role in it. Christ is the One Whom God has chosen to create, to use as the One Who will reveal God to us. In Christ is the very image of God. Christ comes to those who have been chosen by God to know God and He reveals Himself to them. He then begins to show us Who The Father is, was and will be. His very life is a revealing of Who God The Father is. He becomes The Head of our body and we begin to have a new mind. Where our beastly mind once was, it is replaced with the mind of Christ. Instead of having a mind of the most subtil creature, a serpent, we have the mind of Christ, Who created the serpent.

    Col 1:15  Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 

    Col 1:16  For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 

    Col 1:17  And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 

    Col 1:18  And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 

    Col 1:19  For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; 

    Col 1:20  And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. 

    Col 1:21  And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 

    Col 1:22  In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 

    The mind of the beast is being removed and the mind of Christ is replacing it. This process is done through trials until we come to see what we are from birth, a beast. Then when we are given to see ourselves as a beast He begins to recreate us into higher beings where we are introduced to God as The All in all. This is played out in our life more than once. God lifts us up and then tears us down in a process of revealing Himself to us. The Spirit of Christ comes to us and gives us eyes to see and ears to hear the Truth that it is God Who is ruling and reigning in our life.

    Dan 4:24  This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king: 

    Dan 4:25  That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will

    Dan 4:28  All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. 

    Dan 4:29  At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 

    Dan 4:30  The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty

    Dan 4:31  While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee

    Dan 4:32  And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will

    Dan 4:33  The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws. 

    Dan 4:34  And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation

    Dan 4:35  And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? 

    Dan 4:36  At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me. 

    Dan 4:37  Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

    Dan 5:18  O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: 

    Dan 5:19  And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down. 

    Dan 5:20  But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: 

    Dan 5:21  And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will

    Dan 5:22  And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; 

    Dan 5:23  But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is,and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:  

    Nebuchadnezzar represents those who are coming to know God as God and Daniel represents the mind of Christ that interprets our misunderstandings or dreams. Not all men are put through trials where they come out the other side knowing God. And, many people raise their hands to themselves and claim their works as theirs and are never broken for it. Only an Elect can come to see the truth. God shows us that we think we run our world and then He turns us over to our flesh where we are driven with the desires of a beastly heart unto destruction. This beastly heart is a heart like everyone else – a heart that desires only things for the flesh – things that are superfical, without love, true love for God and for my neighbor. The beastly nature, created in all of us, cares for its own desires above all others because it believes it deserves it. The beastly nature sometimes acts out of pity for other beasts. But, this act is exactly that, pity, not love. The pity displayed to the other beast is actually for itself, so it will feel better about itself and relieve itself of shame. It is not out of a sincere love for the other beast but as an act of preservation for itself and in turn it gets what it wants, even if all it wants is to feel better about itself. If we are an elect, God does not allow us to stay in this place but creates a sincere love in our hearts for Him and for our neighbor. He puts in us a desire to search for Him with all we have because in Him we have a true life free from “SELF.” This truth is then displayed in how we treat our neighbor. If we know God as our God and as The only God, then that will show in the death of the beast within for the life of the other. We will die to self out of love, not duty, not pity, not works, not self preservation. Instead we die to our own beastly desires so that, in doing so, the other can live by seeing Christ in you.

    “And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”

    If I am not loving my neighbor as myself then all my acts of supposed love will be empty, pointless noise in God’s

    ears.

    “I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. ” 

    “Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.”

    All doctrines (ideas) that drive us as beasts are based on what the beast gets out of it. Every action of a beast of the field is an action for its own self preservation. To the Elect, those doctrines are being removed from us and we are being changed to act out of love for one another at the cost of our own preservation. We die to self for the life of someone else. Christ is this example. He allowed His own body to be broken for the life of His Elect who did not know Him, love Him, worship Him and who were just as selfish and dead as everyone else. Fairness has no role to play in it. He chooses whom He wills and that’s that, no one can question it. Yet we all do. But, what will that questioning matter in the end?

    “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.”

    “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

    The above scriptures cover it all. Whoever knows God, knows God because God chose him to know Him, not because of a blood line we were born in, not because my flesh willed it, and lastly not because someone else willed it for me to know God. The Elect know God because God willed we know Him and for no other reason. Fairness does not factor into it. The Elect come to know this truth to such a degree that they willingly lay down their lives for others. The truth breaks you down to such a low place that you cannot but want to become a servant to all. It does not make you look down on others but it does the opposite. It creates a heart in you to love all because you know that what you see in them was in you and by no choice of your own you were changed by the hand of God. If left to myself, I would still be just as dead in spirit as everyone else. It creates a Christ-like heart that dies for the undeserving because I am undeserving. We are beginning to love out of appreciation for what we have been freely given. I cannot work for it. I cannot buy it. And, I, as a beast, cannot create it. It is the Godliest act of love that a new creation can have – to love those who are not deserving of love. It shows a converted heart. What God does with His creation is His business, not mine. I have been called to treat everyone the way I would be treated, with honor and love. Who God saves in the end is His business, not mine. Fairness does not play a role in it.

    Joh 21:20  Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? 

    Joh 21:21  Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? 

    Joh 21:22  Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, whatis thatto thee? follow thou me.

    It’s not about fairness, it’s about changing from a self-centerd beast to a Christ-like being who sees all created by Christ and for Christ, and by Christ do all consist – who they are, where they are, and what they are.

    Col 1:15  Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 

    Col 1:16  For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him

    Col 1:17  And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.  

    Neither fairness nor deserving play a role in whom God chooses. None of us deserve it. This creates the true image of God in the Elect. We rule by serving. To be greatest in the kingdom of God you must be a servant of all with the truth that none deserve it.

    Mar 10:42  But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. 

    Mar 10:43  But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: 

    Mar 10:44  And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all

    Mar 10:45  For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. 

  • The number twelve signifies “one.” Twelve tribes equal one tribe called Israel. Twelve hours in a day equal one day. Twelve months equal one year. We say 12 hours in a day because this is how Christ described the day: Joh 11:9  Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. 

    The meaning of the number “1000” is teaching. “eh’lef” and is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. H505- Properly the same as H504; hence (an ox’s head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand: – thousand. H504-From H502; a family; also (from the sense of yoking or taming) an ox or cow: – family, kine, oxen. 502- A primitive root, to associate with; hence to learn (and causatively to teach): – learn, teach, utter.

    There are a literal 1440 minutes in a 24 hour period. 60 x 24 = 1440. Twelve of those hours in a day are figuratively in darkness and 12 are in the light. But because there is no darkness in the kingdom of God all of them are seen in The Light. Scripture teaches that God sees and understands everything:

    Psa 139:12  Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. 

    What this verse is saying is that God created it ALL. God brings teaching out of our darkness. God is NOT the darkness. He uses the darkness to teach us. Darkness is being void of understanding, void of Truth. God has no darkness in Him.

    1Jn 1:5  This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 

    The two separate periods of 12 hours are one twelve hour period because God is dispelling our darkness. This is not to be confused with false doctrines that say everything is light. This is calling evil good and good evil. If you’re in Christ, the Light, He separates you from the darkness, just as night is separated from day by the Sun. He separates us from evil. He doesn’t leave us there, in the darkness. Christ is the day star, the bright and morning star and we are referred to as children of the day, which is Israel.

    2Co 6:14  Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 

    Christ is calling us out from our darkness within. We are not to commune with the dark doctrines we once held to. He is guiding us out of the night. As we grow more and more in maturity and recognize the “night” doctrines we once held, He teaches us night from day, light from darkness. This is the great tribulation for the flesh. The flesh wants so badly to hold onto its dark doctrines of self, its delusion that it is master of its domain.

    Joh 21:18  Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. 

    Christ is the one who must carry us through this process. Even though He is doing all the work, we will feel the pain of our dying fleshly doctrines. All of our doctrines for self-preservation must die. Every thought I ever had about what “I shall eat and what I shall wear” must die. What you eat and what you wear is parable speak of everything about your beast who is consumed with his own identity, separate from God. Our beast is driven by fear of death. All of its beliefs and judgments are for self-preservation and are lies. A beast has no understanding that there is a Creator over it, giving it its every breath. This is living in darkness.

    The 144,000 represented by 12 x 12,000 is God explaining our transition into eternity by living in the day, one SINGLE day, not many days as in a linear temporal understanding but always the present and worshipping Christ as the Creator. He is teaching (remember 1000 means “teaching”) us not to live in a 24-hour day that has 12 hours of darkness. He is bringing us out of this temporal beastly nature and creating us into a new man in His image. The 144,000 are lifted up out of time and being taught to worship God as Creator and submit to HIS AUTHORITY every minute of every day – living in the present, in the ONE DAY of REST of which Christ is our rest and He is Light. This is impossible for the flesh. We are in a process of Christ’s making. We can’t make this happen by our own efforts, though it bears repeating that we will feel the sacrifice and pain of this process. He is recreating us into something new. As the elect, we are not destined to live and die as beasts but instead He lifts us up out of this state and brings us to the “promised land” to new Jerusalem, the city of peace where we trust Him for EVERYTHING and take no thought for the morrow. He becomes our husband and we become one with Him. The verses below are parable speak of Christ leaving His home with the Father to come to us and take us as His bride and be eternally joined to Him in ONE BODY.

    Gen 2:24  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

    Mat 19:5  And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 
    Mat 19:6  Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

    There are twelve hours of darkness in a 24 hour period but, because darkness is dispelled by light, the day is seen as one twelve hour period of light. God begins to show us our darkness (like the literal sun rise), we begin to see what was hidden in the darkness. As the light grows brighter and brighter, nothing is hidden. What was hidden was our belief that we were independent from God. As Christ lightens our darkness, we become one with Him. We see we do not exist outside of Him.

    Mar 12:29  And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 

    There is said to be 12,000 chosen from each 12 tribes of the ONE called Israel. Because we are being taught, which means 1000, to love God with all my heart, soul and mind and my neighbour as myself, in each twelve hours of every day it equals 12,000.

    Rev 7:3  Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.  
    Rev 7:4  And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. 
    Every minute, every hour, every day, every month, every year is of Christ, The Prince of God. Each name of each tribe is an offshoot of Christ and for Christ. Tribe meaning offshoot, which means “a thing that originated or developed from something else”, like a vine.
    “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.”
    So each minute, each day, each month is a servant of Christ. We are bound by time right now and serving Christ as servants. We cannot do anything without Him, literally. The names of the tribes of Israel tell a parable of how Christ is served in this eon.

    Juda- Christ “He shall be praised”, Rueben-“behold a son”, Gad- “a troop” a gathering=church, Asher-“blessed”, Nepthalim – “wrestling”, meaning our wrerstling is coming to an end, witnessed by the next name, Manasses – “forgetting”, Simeon- “Listening”, Levi- “joined”, Issacar- “reward”, Zabulan-“exalted”, Joseph-“let him add”, Benjamin-“son of the right hand”.

    So when you put them together you get:

    “Christ shall be praised, as we behold a son in the gathering of the church within us. We are blessed from the wrestling between flesh and spirit, as we forget this life. We now listen to Christ, are joined to Him, rewarded by Him as He is exalted, and let Him add to us daily because He is The Son of The right hand of The Father.” All of this is the 144,000 – 1440 minutes of every day when lived by the two witnesses, loving God with all my heart soul and mind and my neighbor as myself. Israel means “God prevails” and He does so in every minute of every day.

    Rev 7:5  Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand. 
    Rev 7:6  Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand. 
    Rev 7:7  Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. 
    Rev 7:8  Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.

    Remember the 144,000 come after the four horsemen have symbolically ridden through our lives and the 6th seal has been symbolically opened, which leaves us with no light from our own sun and what we once saw as light becomes unclean as blood. Now we are coming to worship God in every minute of every day. Every minute is being sealed as a minute lived unto our Creator, not unto us. It must be repeated that, walking in the light means He does not leave us in darkness. He does not leave me doing overt sin and He brings every thought of any freewill judgment under His authority. He does not leave me living amongst the dead but slowly draws me out from the dead thoughts that I have of a freewill. There is not a human being that ever lived, that has not come out of the womb believing he has a freewill to choose, because, as natural brute beasts, this is how God created flesh and saw it as “very good”, Gn.1:31. It is not my right to try and change the world. What I am doing is looking for more Elect. Christ is drawing the elect out of that beastly state through His word. If you are reading this and are given to see it as truth then you are being drawn from a world that lives in darkness.

    God has given us a parable of this truth in a certain Cicada bug He created. It lives in the ground as a grub, in total darkness, for 18 years. Then it burrows up out of the darkness as a grub (a worm, “fear not thou worm Jacob”), attaches to a tree, a limb, or branch and a new creature comes out of it with wings. It leaves behind a shell, a figure of what it once was, as it flies away. The Elect are as like these Cicadas. We live in darkness until we are called from the ground, our flesh, where we lived in darkness. What is left behind is a shell of a man, dead, without life. All that is left is a transparent shell of what once lived in darkness. It’s transparent because I see clearly now through that shell of flesh and see the truth of what I was as a beast. After they leave their shell, they begin making a “singing” sound to draw other Cicadas to themselves. These are His words going out and is a parable of Christ calling His elect to Himself through the Truth. Only the elect will hear the singing (“Sing unto the Lord a joyful noise”) and leave all to be joined to Him. Christ does not leave us a grub that exists in darkness. He transforms us, He calls us from the dust, we leave behind what we once were and fly away in The Light, to something new. (“Behold He makes all things new.”) Every denomination or doctrine I have ever been in has had the mantra of trying to save the world and that they were going to run the world. The Elect come to see that they are not called to change the world, because it is going exactly as Christ created it. The truth that Christ came to preach is what was preached in Genesis chapter one. His Elect were in darkness, void of understanding of who they were, so Christ said “let there light”. He separates the light from the darkness and begins creating a new heaven and a new earth within them. He resurrects us from the shell of what we were and we fly away. The dust that we fed on as a grub was our flesh and now we fly away from that dirt shell as a new creation. The desires of eating dust fade away as we fly away a new creation in The Light, Who is Christ.

  • The second coming of Jesus Christ happens in the life of every believer, during their lifetime. This is why Christ said “This generation shall not pass til all these things be fulfilled.” There is only one generation, singular, one seed (seed of Christ) of which every believer/elect is a part. And as a believer, every “jot and tittle” of scripture must and will be fulfilled in your lifetime, inwardly. The Kingdom of God is within. The Kingdom of God comes not with observation. If you are looking “out there” for a Jesus to descend from literal clouds, then you are still in darkness. He must descend within the believer first, before any literal can possibly happen. If you are an elect, Christ is descending from the clouds that had blocked the light of Christ in your heavens (mind) and now you are being shown the man of sin who you’ve been unknowingly ruled by. This is the starting point.

    2 Th 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 

    2Th 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 

    Who is this man of sin, the son of perdition, who opposes God and exalts Himself as God…sitting in the temple of God, as God? What temple? Is it the Jewish temple in Israel? Is it the Islamic or Hindu temple? Where is this temple? What continent will this temple be located? Wherever I’m standing right now, today, is the location of that temple. The man of sin is in my temple saying that he is God, proclaiming his sovereignty over all the kingdoms of my world, in a thousand different ways. Remember the Kingdom of God is Within. How do I identify this man of sin within me? I will give a small example from my life, of just one of the countless ways my man of sin was exposed. I used to drive a half an hour out of my way and pay 3 times more for a certain milk that I believed was better for my health. This thought (doctrine) was passed on to me by another person who described this “milk god” to me. He said it was non-pasteurized (because the pasteurization god is VERY bad), non homogenized (this god is even worse), bottled by a local farmer (because the “buy all things local” god needs my monetary support because apparently he’s a lesser god than the supermarket god, who already has all the followers he needs. All of these “judgments” are for self-preservation of my beast. I do not believe that there is a God sovereign over ALL things, and by Him all things consist. There is only ONE God, one Creator. The man of sin does not believe this. He believes he is the god of his world and he can and should make all the choices, decisions, judgments that will benefit his survival and pleasure. Anyway, back to my milk example. After months of extra driving and spending, one day this “special” milk/god was unavailable to purchase. In a pinch, I had to relent and buy a generic brand of milk. I wasn’t happy about it but had no choice. Here is where the spirit of God steps in and exposed my false doctrine about milk and my man of sin at the same time. To my surprise, this generic milk tasted better than the “healthy” milk I was running “to and fro” to purchase. In a still small voice, the Truth came to me, the spirit of Christ spoke to me and asked “Who makes all milk?” and I said “You do, Lord.” And He then tells me to “Rest in that knowledge and have no fear. I provide all you need. All is pure to the pure in heart. See me in all things and you will have rest.” And this is an example, a small ray of the brightness of His coming described in the book of Revelation. This is going on daily, hourly, minute by minute in the life of a believer. He is converting and recreating a new man, in HIS image who worships God in Truth, as the sovereign power over ALL THINGS. He rules the powers, principalities, thrones, dominions in my world, as well as the world outside.

    This example is a speck of sand on a beach. From birth we begin forming our temple to the man of sin – it’s the formation of our identity by a thousand different choices we make everyday from the time we’re old enough to start making decisions. This is Eve eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This is the “strong delusion” sent to all mankind that he himself is god and can chart his own path and make his own choices and must do so, to survive and have pleasure. This god is in darkness, blind to the Truth. This god is our beast nature that all mankind has – made by Jesus Christ, the ONLY creator, for a purpose. It’s the petri dish He is using to draw His elect out of, changing them, into an image of Himself….no longer to be a beast, but a son of God.

    The Israelites being led out of Egypt by a cloud is a type and figure of the darkness that keeps parts of me from seeing Christ. It’s darkness to my old man, but light to my new man. It’s also parable and a prophecy of the process of the second coming because as I’m led out of my Egypt (old ways of thinking/believing i.e. I’m my own god), it becomes light to my new man (new way of thinking/BELIEF in Christ as my Creator).

    “Exo 14:20  And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.”

    The truth is darkness to my man of sin. My man of sin exists in his own works and everything he does is for himself. He is a beast at heart but covers his beastly nature with lies that makes it appear he is not a beast. When Christ begins His descension in an elect’s life He reveals to us this beast.

    “Rev 17:8  The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.”

    The man of sin is the serpent whispering to our flesh that it can eat of the knowledge of good and evil and be its own God. If you have read the Revelation of Jesus Christ In Us post in full then you have begun to understand that the serpent in the garden of Eden is in each of us. It is the mind of a beast that reasons in itself that it is God independent and separate from God. The garden, the woman, the serpent are parables of what is created in each Elect’s life. Parables are made by God for the Elect to rightly worship Him (not ourselves). When Christ is coming into your life He begins to unlock these parables and allow you to see God in the truth of His sovereignty – that He is the Creator, not you. This is freedom in Christ:

    Mat 6:25  Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 

    Mat 6:26  Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 

    Mat 6:27  Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 

    Mat 6:28  And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 

    Mat 6:29  And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 

    Mat 6:30  Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 

    Mat 6:31  Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 

    Mat 6:32  (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 

    Mat 6:33  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 

    Mat 6:34  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. 

    This is our creative process where we begin to see that we are BEING created into the image of Christ which is His second coming.

    “Gen 1:26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 

    Gen 1:27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. “

    We are being created into the image of Christ, Who was created in the image of God.

    “Col 3:10  And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him (Christ created us):”

    “Col 1:15  (Christ) Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 

    Col 1:16  For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 

    Col 1:17  And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”

    Two things happen when Christ begins coming into an Elect’s life. First the man of sin is revealed. As the scales fell off Paul’s eyes so the scales fall off our eyes and we see in reality who the beast is, was not and yet is. First there must come the falling away of the scales from our eyes to see ourselves at our core.

    “2Th 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 

    2Th 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”

    Then when we are shown our man of sin Christ appears to us and we begin seeing in truth of what we were, are and will be as a beast on a daily basis. Each day gets brighter and brighter until Christ has totally risen in our hearts and we are the new man – made into the image of Christ. The complete day of Christ is not fully revealed until every dominion of the man of sin in our lives is seen for what they are. Then shall Christ be fully revealed and we shall have walked away as Enoch and been changed in a twinkling of the eye. It is our last trump. Christ is holding the revealing back until He has prepared us to see what we are. Then when Christ removes the scales, the man of sin is revealed. But we must remember that we don’t see Christ, the day of Christ until we see who we are as a beast. And this process is not a one and done, a 10 second sinner’s prayer but a process of being shown over and over until the deepest, darkest dominion of the man of sin is revealed and put down. We must not think it strange about the fiery trial we must go through as the man of sin is being put down. 1 Peter 4:12

    “2Th 2:1  Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 

    2Th 2:2  That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 

    2Th 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 

    2Th 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.2Th 2:5  Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 

    2Th 2:6  And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 

    2Th 2:7  For the mystery of iniquity (self-righteous serpent doctrine) doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 

    2Th 2:8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 

    2Th 2:9  Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 

    Again, if you have read the Revelation study in full you know that Satan is not a fallen angel, a spirit floating around creating havoc at every turn, tempting me to do things I don’t want to do, against my will and causing outward world wars and chaos. He is the serpent that was created in our garden.

    “The parable of the serpent, that tempted her, was her own fleshly lust to have more than what God had provided, to be an individual from her husband and from God – to think for herself, to make her own decisions about what was good and evil for herself as an individual.” Eve is the personification/parable of what is inside all of us. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”

    “The word “Serpent” in Genesis 3:1 is the following; H5175 from H5172 . H5172 : A primitive root; properly to hiss, that is, whisper a (magic) spell; generally to prognosticate: –  X certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) X enchantment, learn by experience, X indeed, diligently observe. It also says that the serpent was more “subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made”. “H6175-cunning (usually in a bad sense): – crafty, prudent, subtil. From H6191;properly to be (or make) bare; but used only in the derived sense (through the idea perhaps of smoothness) bo be cunning (usually in a bad sense): –    X very, beware, take crafty [counsel], be prudent, deal subtilly.

    “The word “beast” is most often translated “life and living”. “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life “beast”; and man became a living “beastly” soul.” God breathed into man the breath of the beast and man became a beastly soul. Man had the same appetites as the beasts, the same lusts. “And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.” Notice the beasts of the earth and man are all eating the same food. Whatever the beast in me eats, my man eats.

    The word “field” is defined as “H7704-From an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat): – country, field, ground, land, soil, X wild.” The serpent was/is the hissings, whispers to our ground/the field (our flesh), thoughts that turn to lusts for control. These beastly thoughts are good for food, pleasant to the eyes and make the beast wise in a billion different ways. The thousands of thoughts that are in the flesh, our ground, the dust we were created from, everyday that tempt us with godhood. “And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: “The beast/serpent survives on our flesh’s wellbeing and these serpent thoughts slither through us and drive us to and fro. “And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” But because we are made up of two people, the old man/new man, the serpent’s lusts are not always met and are constantly being kicked by the new man not wanting to be controlled anymore. For us this means that the serpent is losing his headship to drive us to and fro as it desired. “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” The serpent thoughts walk up and down in our earth and toss us to and fro, in lusts and fears that drive us from one place to another looking for security. All mankind is made this way, even Christ’s flesh had it. He was made in flesh just like ours, yet, unlike all other men, He had the Spirit of God without measure. He was able to rule His beastly flesh and the thoughts of individualism from His Creator. He heard the thoughts of the serpent from birth, born in a manger next to beasts, from family, friends, and whoever He came into contact with, because everyone around Him was a beast. Yet, He overcame those thoughts and they never once turned to lust and conceived sin.” (Quoted from the Revelation Study in an earlier post.) Christ being tempted, yet overcoming, in the wilderness is a prophecy of Him ruling our earth (our wilderness/nations within) with a “rod of iron” during the thousand year reign. The word thousand means “teaching”.

    Rev 12:5  And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

    Rev 20:4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.  

    We cannot expect a literal thousand year reign of Christ outwardly, if He is not first ruling and reigning WITHIN us. How can we expect to be given rulership over the earth when we cannot rule our earth within – when we are still worshipping “milk” gods and attributing power to the creature which is worshipping the creature more than the Creator, through doctrines of men. In countless ways we are still guilty of idol worship.

    The reason the doctrine of an outward return of Christ is so appealing and prevalent through all religions is because the beast is lazy and doesn’t want to change. My beast within wants to hang on to his rulership and use Jesus in name only.

    “Isa 4:1  And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.”

    He doesn’t want to actually be ruled by Christ and separate from his world inwardly which will translate to a separation from the world outwardly. An outward second coming means I can hang on to all my idol worshipping and live comfortably in a beast nature. Then when Christ comes some day, maybe in my lifetime, maybe not – what does it matter? – He’ll “poof” me out of here and give me perfection. Then I can reign over all those out there who are beneath me. Nobody’s flesh wants to hear “then shall there be great tribulation” which is why we put it on the future, for somebody else. The metamorphosis from beast to son of God within is great tribulation…now…in the life of a believer. You cannot escape it nor put it on some other generation to come.

    I will post more shortly on the correct understanding of the thousand year reign.

  • The Revelation of Jesus Christ is the Revelation of Jesus Christ IN US. It is the good news and is exactly that, good news. It’s a life free from the slavery of the flesh, the world and all false doctrine. I was taught that the good news meant I was saved from a literal hell where I would be tormented for the eions of the eions without mercy. But, the Truth, the good news is Christ is setting us free from the false doctrines of the world where we were taught to fear everything: people, races, disease, pesticides, what I ate, what I drank, war, political upset, aliens, what others thought of me and the biggest fear – DEATH. There is no end to the list of fears. If we fear anything besides our Lord we are serving an idol. But the good news of Jesus Christ tells me that I have nothing to fear. All things are a parable of something else: men, women, beasts, a dragon, trees, water, the world, the sun, the moon, animals, grass, flowers and so on are all a parable about Christ and His Creation. “All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:” All of scripture occurred in the natural. There was an actual Adam and Eve, a serpent in the garden, a flood, all the way down to Christ who did indeed come in flesh, but all of these people and events were created by God to ultimately explain to us a bigger spiritual picture to get the elect to understand Himself (the Godhead). God wrote scripture in parables, natural things, places, people, etc. to bring home a bigger picture. “Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. ” If you are given to see this then you can look inward into yourself and see these parables revealed within yourself, the beast, the dragon, the whore, babylon, trees, kingdoms, etc.

    I was taught that God made the earth thousands of years ago and then basically said, “I made everything now you go out and be your own god”. What is known as the fall of mankind is actually part of creation. Sin is part of our creation. “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” ; “Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.” Sin is unbelief in God as God. “And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.” God has created everything I need, I do not need to lust after more than what He has already given me. Lust is thinking you can have or need something more than what He has given you that will look good to me (to protect me), be good for me (to protect me) and make me wiser (at self preserving). God is still creating every second of every day: new grass is growing, trees are growing, new animals are being born, new children are being born. He is obviously still creating outwardly and this is a parable of the inward creation He’s doing in the Elect, that is going on right now. All things outwardly are a parable of what’s going on inside the Elect. 

    The world is under the rulership of a Satanic doctrine that has been passed down from generation to generation, from the beginning of the first thought of individualism. “ye shall be as gods” . “…the whole world lieth in wickedness.” When the first thought of “ye shall be as gods” slithered into the mind of the woman it was as leaven and began to spread throughout all of mankind. Because man was created as a beast, this idea takes root and every thought is always the same. We think we are our own god. Man was created on the same day the other beasts were created, the sixth day. “And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind:… and God saw that it was good…. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth…. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” Natural beasts have one thing in mind – self preservation – wrapped up in many titles, such as, existance, comfort, food, and procreation. Man’s flesh, at its core, is a beast just like all other beasts. “I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.” When the woman, who was created from the man, saw the tree of the knowledge of good and evil as good for food, pleasant to her eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she thought that it was in her best interest, as an individual, as a beast, to eat it. We don’t know how long this process took to go from a thought, to a lust, to conception, to the manifestation of the sin. From there she gave to her husband, (shared the message), and he too partook of the thought. Again, we don’t know how long this took for him to see it, lust after it, then eat it. It reads as if it was all done in a day, but we don’t know that. When we first get a whisper, to see something, to lust, to conception, to sin, this can take minutes, hours, months, or years. Every situation is different. But, when they saw things they had not seen before, they thought it wise to cover themselves and hide from God for their own protection. ” And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.” The parable of the serpent, that tempted her, was her own fleshly lust to have more than what God had provided, to be an individual from her husband and from God – to think for herself, to make her own decisions about what was good and evil for herself as an individual.” Eve is the personification/parable of what is inside all of us. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”

    “The word “Serpent” in Genesis 3:1 is the following; H5175 from H5172 . H5172 : A primitive root; properly to hiss, that is, whisper a (magic) spell; generally to prognosticate: –  X certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) X enchantment, learn by experience, X indeed, diligently observe. It also says that the serpent was more “subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made”. “H6175-cunning (usually in a bad sense): – crafty, prudent, subtil. From H6191;properly to be (or make) bare; but used only in the derived sense (through the idea perhaps of smoothness) bo be cunning (usually in a bad sense): –    X very, beware, take crafty [counsel], be prudent, deal subtilly.

    “The word “beast” is mostly translated “life and living”. “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life “beast”; and man became a living “beastly” soul.” God breathed into man the breath of the beast and man became a beastly soul. Man had the same appetites as the beasts, the same lusts. “And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.” Notice the beasts of the earth and man are all eating the same food. Whatfever the beast in me eats, my man eats.

    The word “field” is defined as “H7704-From an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat): – country, field, ground, land, soil, X wild.” The serpent was/is the hissings, whispers of our ground, thoughts that turn to lusts for control. These beastly thoughts are good for food, pleasant to the eyes and make the beast wise in a billion different ways. The thousands of thoughts that are in the flesh, our ground, the dust we were created from, everyday that tempt us with godhood. “And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: ” The beast/serpent survives on our flesh’s wellbeing and these serpent thoughts slither through us and drive us to and fro. “And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” But because we are made up of two people, the old man/new man, the serpent’s lusts are not always met and are constantly being kicked by the new man not wanting to be controlled anymore. For us this means that the serpent is losing his headship to drive us to and fro as it desired. “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” The serpent thoughts walk up and down in our earth and toss us to and fro, in lusts and fears that drive us from one place to another looking for security. All mankind is made this way, even Christ’s flesh had it. He was made in flesh just like ours, yet, unlike all other men, He had the Spirit of God without measure. He was able to rule His beastly flesh and the thoughts of individualism from His Creator. He heard the thoughts of the serpent from birth, born in a manger next to beasts, from family, friends, and whoever He came into contact with, because everyone around Him was a beast. Yet, He overcame those thoughts and they never once turned to lust and conceived sin. “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”

    Christ had the thoughts that came to Him from what He had heard in His thirty years of life but those thoughts never conceived into sin. He knew He was flesh because He hungered, yet the thought/knowledge that God, His Father and Creator, would take care of Him overcame any desire to use His power outside of God’s Will for Him. This is faith. His desire to wait on the Lord and to be one with His Father was stronger than His flesh’s cry for self-preservation. He didn’t have to turn rocks into bread, even though He could have. He could rule the the world, and all the beasts in it, but it was not a temptation to deny His Father, Whom He loved more than His flesh. The Elect of God are those whom God The Father has predestined to rise above the serpent doctrine, beastly lusts and be created into the image of their Creator, Christ. The whole of the world lies in darkness, not knowing they are created and have a Creator over them. Everyone is being led by their own lusts in some doctrine, like cattle feeding on a hill side. The whole world is under the waters of the sea of false doctrine, in darkness, without the knowledge of God who is the only Power, and The Elect are rising from that sea as the the land rose from the flood of Noah’s time. What the world has been given is exactly what God sees as good. He provides for them every day in breath, heartbeats, food, clothing, shelter and so on and so on. It is not our place to judge them IN ANY WAY for what they are or what they do, good or evil. I don’t judge a rabbit for eating grass nor a coyote for eating the rabbit. They both are doing as their Creator has ordained they do…AS WE DID! The Elect are separated unto God, as The Levites were separated from the other 11 tribes of Israel unto God himself. We do not act the way the world acts, anymore- watch T.V., listen to radio, watch YOUtube, have a FACEbook page, surf the web, or stay up on politics, as examples. We are separated from the world (in the world but not of it) as much as The Lord desires at any given time – not because these actions make us right with Christ but because He wants us as His Bride to be chaste and stay untainted by what we have been brought out of. “Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: “

    This does not mean we should look down on God’s creation but be very thankful we are being separated from it unto Himself. We are separated from it because as Paul said “… what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”

    So Christ is separating us from our world inwardly and the world out there, unto The Father so we can have fellowship with Him. We are being birthed into the family of God. So what is called family is not speaking fleshly but spiritual family. The fleshly family is just the flesh that Christ created to bring us into this world to start our creative process of revealing Christ in us. The flesh is still flesh and only desires things of the flesh. Our natural/flesh families speak of things of the serpent just like any other person in the world, if they have not the Spirit of Christ within them. Again, this does not mean we judge them but we heed the scriptural warning of what does light have to do with darkness? Nothing. Plus, it is not being kind to try and strap anyone with the truth when they are not called. Allow them to enjoy to the fullest what they have been given in this life. We are in the process of BEING cleansed from the legions of false doctrines our flesh has accrued over our lifetime. We had taken on the image of an idol, of the serpent, godhood. I cannot reiterate enough that it is not our place to judge anyone in the world. We are to be kind and pleasant to all. But at the same time we must come to know that they are not our family and we are not to place ourselves in situations where we have to mingle with them at any length. We must remember that they are beasts, just as we were and a beast and they will bite and attack without warning through SUBTIL false doctrine. However, if they are of the Truth, and part of the Elect, they will remain with you and separate from the world with you.

    The image of the family is a good parable of our relationship with God as our Father. In a family unit a child trusts their parents implicitly and looks to them for food, clothing, shelter, comfort and protection. The parents feed them, clothe them, house them, comfort them and protect them from all forms of danger. Parents don’t let their children make friends with just anyone. They don’t let them see, hear, smell, taste or feel things that will harm them, so too with God as our Father. He separates us from the world and all its forms of entertainment, friends, family, etc. He is doing so for our good as a parent does for their children. But at the same time our Father does not teach us to judge those outside our family. He simply says, “thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.” ; “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, “.

    He has chosen us from all the families of the earth, but it must first start within us and then it will produce the fruits of separation outwardly. Christ is first separating us from all we ever thought, the families of my earth, everything I thought I had learned and it will produce a fruit of a separation from the world out there. BUT IT MUST HAPPEN INWARDLY, WITHIN MY OWN EARTH, OR IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN OUTWARDLY. God will not bring about a separation from the outward until He has accomplished a separation from our own earth inwardly, first. If I am given to see my own beastly nature in FULL truth, not just outward overt sins, but inward lusts that no one else sees, then I will be given the separation from that beast, inwardly, then outwardly. And, as always, it is little by little, here a little and there a little until our whole earth is leavened by the kingdom of God inwardly. The Elect must first be shown who they are in the flesh as a beast so that they can be compassionate to the other Elect who are being pulled out of the fire and so that they can be appreciative of who they are and what they have been saved from. I cannot know compassion until I see myself truly as you are. This is the hardest lesson because our beast has taken in a lifetime of bricks (ideas/beliefs) building the idol of self (to preserve self). The beast thinks he has the ability and right to judge all of life (the pride of life). He judges everything without impunity – nations, peoples, what’s good, what’s evil, what food he should eat, clothing to wear, and so on and so on. The doctrines are limitless. Hence….THE BOTTOMLESS PIT! “And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.”

    Christ is teaching us to stop depending on our own judgment and have faith in God as our Father. It is the greatest protection we can obtain when we are given to see God as our Father, Who watches over our every breath. He says He will never leave us nor forsake us and all is for us. “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.” ; “Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.” ; “Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.”

    The good news tells me that Christ did not come to destroy my life but that I may have a new life and live it more abundantly. “The thief cometh not, but for to kill, and to destroy: I Am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” The thief is the serpent’s doctrine that I can be my own god, independant from God and this brings death. “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” And we have been eating it from birth. The serpent’s doctrine tells me that I map out my own life and it is up to me to make my life what I desire independent from my Creator. The good news tells me that I am God’s son and that He provides for me everyday I live. To know God is to have eternal life. To know God is to learn how to rest in your Creator. The things written in the following writings should not be seen as though we have risen to some utopia where we do not struggle. It should be seen as your daily struggle between the old man/Babylon and the new man/The bride of Christ who is being formed in you to rule your earth with a rod of iron. “And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations “(nations within me”): And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. “

    We struggle everyday in some form or fashion. Every day my flesh pits itself against the new man who must then use the Truth as a rod of iron to bring my flesh into subjection to the Truth. Everyday the old man tries to rule over me through old habits and doctrines learned in 50 plus years of living in the world. Sometimes I am given the victory and sometimes I just stand. From God’s standpoint we are always winners. Everyday we get stronger and stronger. The flesh is getting weaker and weaker, just like in natural life. It is the life of an Israelite pushing more Canaanites out of the promised land. That is what that story is all about, destroying the Canaanites that are living in our land through false doctrine that is spewed out like the serpent’s flood after the woman who bears the man child. “And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood”. The water is doctrine. The flood of water is all the millions of words that the serpent’s doctrine is spewed out through people, t.v., radios, music, the internet, books, education, and so on and so on that we have learned since our fleshly birth. But, again, the good news is, we, as the Elect, are being delivered from this flood, daily, hourly, minute by minute. The deliverance is not a one and done but a daily, hourly, minute by minute deliverance. This is why Christ said ” in the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer I have overcome the world”. He is overcoming inside of us because Christ has resurrected in us and is now walking through the believer’s life giving him the strength to rest in Him as LORD. When Christ shows us that we are the man of sin in Thessalonians 2 and that we are sitting within our temple, our bodies, as if we are God, exalting ourselves above everything called God, He has shown us the abomination that has caused the desolation of our lives, Mt.24:15. “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.”. But at the same time He tells us that our temple must be destroyed brick by brick, “See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”. He then goes on to tell us that we must be the Babylonian whore before we can become The Bride of Christ – old man, new man.

    These truths are given to the Elect, believers. An Elect is a believer and a believer is part of the generation of Christ. An Elect, a Believer are one in the same and they are Israelites. “And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.” ; “Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;” ; “And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of IsraelFor Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.” A generation in scripture, are the Elect. “A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.” The Elect are all believers in Christ and are the seed of Christ. We make up the generation of the family of God. If you are an Elect, then your life is a generation because you are in Christ. As a second is a part of a minute, a minute is part of an hour, and both are part of The Day, Christ. The Day Star. Knowing this, these truths, the following verses make it easy to see youself in them and what they are talking about. ” Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. ” The tribulation is within you when Christ takes off the scales from your eyes. Your life as a whole is shaken and if you receive the truth your world experiences an earthquake that shakes it to its core. Your whole belief system is seen as Darkeness. Beliefs, doctrines, fears all begin falling from your mind, heaven, and you begin seeing Christ descending in the cloud of witnesses of your life as THE LIGHT. He then begins gathering you, the Elect. And you shall not pass, until ALL these things are done within you, your generation.

    This study only begins to touch on the inward application of the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ in us.   I hope and pray you have been chosen to see and hear what has not been seen or heard by many. Many times I have gotten close but was not given to go all the way. Eventually I turned back to flesh, and watered the truth down by lies that Christ used at that time to keep me from going all the way. But now I “..know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:” I wasn’t given to see the mystery of iniquity within me until the time was given to me by Christ. I wasn’t ready times before, but now He has made me ready and the scales have fallen from my eyes to truly see myself as I am. At the same time, Christ is revealed to me and I get to ascend above this earth inwardly. No one, NO ONE wants to look at what has been slithering through them as they live their lives. My every thought, every action has to be judged inwardly and the intent made manifest of where it came from. If I am given to TRULY and HONESTLY see what’s inside of me, then I am allowed to see Christ ascending from the cloud of witnesses in my past. As I have stood and watched Him be taken by clouds in my life, dark times that hid Him, I am now able to see Him RETURN! He has never left us nor forsaken us. “And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”

    May Christ be glorified in everything, because Christ “…is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” 

    The book of Revelation

    (The word “revelation” is also translated “coming, appearing, lighten and manifestation”. The word “signified” means to indicate, and to make known. The name John means “Jehovah is a gracious giver”. So when we see these things inwardly, within ourselves, it is telling us that the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, His appearing, is a signified revelation of Christ inside us and it is for the purpose of making known to us that Jehovah is, was, and will be a gracious giver in everything that applies to us, has applied to us and will apply to us. “But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:”. In essence, “God is love”. So, from here on out everything we’ve learned, or will learn is/was/will be, for the purpose to show that God is graciously giving to us The truth about Himself, and how He is to us, has been to us and will be to us, Love. “to know God is eternal life” and “God IS love”. “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened (inward); that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ (in us), when he raised him from the dead (in us), and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places (in us), Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion (that we thought we had in the flesh according to worldly doctrine), and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet , and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all (inside us).”

    Christ’s life is to be seen inwardly within us – is, was, and will be, casting out devils, healing the blind, the sick, the lame, calming storms, the plagues, the hail, the angels, the mountains, the creatures, heaven, earth and so on and so on. All is inside of us, in our lives and can be seen inside of us. “How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery”. Everything is a parable – trees, animals, clouds, rain, fire, the blind, the lame, the sick, Babylon, The Bride of Christ, the beasts, serpent so on and so on. All is a parable, signifiying, making known a truth to us about Who God The Father is, was, and will be to His chosen people, love. We are learning about Christ’s life, death, burial and resurrection in us now, Christ in the flesh. Not a figure who just lived 2000 years ago, but right now within us. And because we too are a parable, the scripture does not say what we will be, but actually says we don’t know. It does say we will be just like Christ. And it does say we will see Him face to face. But, Paul says that what we are planting now is just bare grain, that it may chance of wheat or some other grain, a spiritual body. Which means we stop seeing things carnally and we see everything as a parable, spiritually. “And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body”. And in 1 John 3 it says “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is”. Saying all that to say, the revelation of Jesus Christ is the understanding of who God is and who we are right now, who we were and who we will be. It is a revealing of the truth of God to us while we are still housed in these corruptible, fleshly coverings, badger skins that are covering the tabernacle in our wilderness journey to the promised land, eternity, “And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.” The skins that God clothed Adam and Eve in, is exactly this, a skin covering over the inner working of what makes us tick and Who God is. These fleshly skins cover over the inner workings of the hidden things of God, which are in parable form, the brain, the heart, lungs, vessels, stomach, gaul bladder, liver, muscles and so on. We are only now getting a peak into the inner workings of our organs, which are a parable of the workings of God within us. Each organ is a parable of the truth of God and the truth of us. In Ezekiel it says that God will give them a new heart. Does He mean He will literally take the old physical heart out and give them a new physical heart? “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh”. Did they literally have a heart made of stone? We know He was talking in a parable about how they were hardened and not pliable. In one aspect we think our work, our labor, our dealings in the world are what keep us alive. But, as we come to know the truth we are realizing that it’s literally God Who pumps our heart, puts air into our lungs, Who literally keeps us alive, every minute of every day, which is love. We have in the past glorified the vessels of gold and silver and brass within ourselves, which are a parable of our physical bodies, and exercised regularly, eaten “right” (according to false doctrine), but now we see that it is God Who has kept us alive and is keeping us alive. Look at the words of the following verses about us. “O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down. But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all thisBut hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified“. Gods of gold, silver, brass, iron, wood and stone, wives, concubines, lords all are a parable of what is in us. The way we see things about ourselves, about Who God is. Instead of glorifiying Him as The One in Whom we exist, we have glorified ourselves with our own set of doctrines, how we eat, sleep, walk, talk, exercise, etc. Everything is a god if it is not given to The God. So, the book of Revelation is exactly that, a book that will reveal God as God. And it will show us what has brought us to where we are today and where we go from here. The book of Revelation is not a literal book to foretell the future in the world and of a literal seven headed beast that rises from the sea or a huge whore who sits upon a beast. It is a book revealing how we were created, what we are, Who Christ is, was and will be. Before understanding comes, we are the beasts of this book in different forms, and we are Babylon. Now, we are messengers to our own earth and we are becoming The Bride of Christ. Messengers in the sense we are taking reins over the flesh/earth and producing fruits of the spirit and killing fruits of the flesh. It is a wrestling between nations within us, Jacob and Esau, spirit child and fleshly child, child from above firmament and child from below the firmament. We must remember while reading, the words of Christ “The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”.

    Rev 1:1  The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: (The revelation of Jeus Christ to the child above the firmament by the message in us that God is a gracious giver will shortly come to pass. God will reveal it to us by the message/angel/the spirit of God in us. “I will send you the comforter, who will show you all things”. Christ’s revelation is to reveal to us The Father. “All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.“. Christ is here to reveal The Father to us and in doing so give us eternal life. “These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”)

    Rev 1:2  Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. (It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. The comforter is the Angel/Messanger of Exodus, “Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.” This was a parable of the future indwelling of the same spirit Christ had, within us. To teach us not to fear because what was, is and will be is straight from the hand of God for our good. We are to always cast out any fear or reverence made to any doctrine we learned while living in the land of Canaan as Canaanites, before we were changed into Israelites, that does not always see Christ as The Creator of everything we were, are or will be. Everything in us is happening for us to know God as our Father and as our God, Who has graciously been giving to us, is graciously giving to us and will graciously give to us all things.)

    Rev 1:3  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. (The blessing is not put on us as something we can or cannot do, it is a blessing that God has put upon us to hear and to see presently. The “blessed is he that reads” is in present tense. The revealing is here, today, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, until we become full in the knowledge of Who God is, was, and will be, LOVE. “for God is love”)

    Rev 1:4  John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; (Asia is a parable of the whole of the body. Asia means orient and orient means pearl. We are Christ’s bride, who was found by Christ in the world. He gave up everything for us and has made us one with Him. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it”. So there are not seven individual pearls/churches/assemblies out there in the world, but one assembly of believers, assembled in Christ and His power/throne. We are not assembled in a building the world calls churches, but assembled in Christ and that make up what is called The Bride of Christ. So, again with the spirits, there are not seven spirits, but one spirit. The number seven means complete. At the end of the 6th day God rested on the seventh day, because all was completed. Seven ewe lambs for a witness between Abraham and Abimeleck that the well was completely Abraham’s, Jacob served seven complete years for Leah and then seven complete years for Rachel, not two seperate sevens but a witness of seven being completion. A witness that we must see ourselves as completely Babylon/Leah before we can completely see ourselves as the Bride of Christ/Rachel.

    Rev 1:5  And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, (Christ was a faithful witness to the outward world in how He served The Father, which is the first faithful witness from the dead of the first Adam’s lineage, which were also the kings of the earth. But, the true meaning of these words are that Christ in us is the faithful witness of how He has never left us and has been the Lord over the kingly doctrines in us. He has loved us and washed us from our sins by patiently showing us who we are in the flesh and who we are in the spirit. He washes us from our sins in His own blood – He was a lamb for the slaughter to make atonement for our sin of not giving all glory to God. Inwardly, He washes us with His blood in showing us the example of His life of denying Himself for the Father and He shows us how to do the same thing for Him. When I deny myself for you, for your sin, then I have been taught to die to myself as Christ did. He did not rejoice in iniquity, love does not rejoice in iniquity, but pointed it out and then forgave it. “neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more”. This is how He has made us kings and priests. We can see sin in each other, reprove it as a king and then forgive it as a priest.)

    Rev 1:6  And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 

    Rev 1:7  Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. (The cloud led Israel through the wilderness and in Hebrews we are told there are a cloud of witnesses that testify to Christ’s faithfulness in our lives, as pointed out in Hebrews 11, where the parable of our lives is seen in the people mentioned in it, Abel, down to Rahab. The cloud of witnesses of our lives in Hebrews 11 are the ways He was always there with us through our lives, and faith sees it that way. There are plenty of witnesses covering us in our lives. So, when we see Christ for Who He is, was, and will be to us, every eye in us sees Him. Even the parts of us that pierced Him, crucified Him. All nations in us will see Him now that He is revealing Himself to us as The Alpha and Omega, the beginning and ending of everything in us, which was, which is and which is to come, Christ is all of it, He is Almighty. Everything is in us and about us. “Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.”.

    Rev 1:8  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

    Rev 1:9  I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. (John, which means Jehovah is a gracious giver, is our brother and is in tribulation on the island called Patmos, which means “my killing”, for the word of God and for testimony of Jesus Christ. The parable of this means, that we are in tribulation in the process of dying to self because of the truth of the testimony of the word of God that testifies of Jesus Christ in us. We struggle daily to believe that Jehovah is a gracious giver when we are required to die to self. The two thoughts do not meld together in our earth. But what we are receiving from God is eternal life in knowing Him, He is graciously giving of Himself to us, to know Him. But, my flesh feels like it is on a deserted island where we are being killed, which is in fact the case. We must die to our own desires and wants for God and for the other person. Self must fall into the ground and die for there to be life. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”; We are the corn (grain) “Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:“. We are being taught here on Patmos to live for God and others and to deny our own flesh, daily, hourly, minute by minute. We are being taught to live by the spirit and die to the flesh. Die in our ground and bring life to whoever God has placed in our world. Die to my flesh and bring life to theirs.

    Rev 1:10  I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, (“in the Spirit” means we are walking by the spirit, we are putting the spirit of the law to love God with all my heart soul and mind and love my neighbor as myself as the light that lightens our every step in this world of darkness where everything has operated in the reverse, love myself first, then God, then you. The Lord’s day is Christ. Because Christ is The Day of rest, He is where we rest from our own labors, everyday. The great voice is the revealing of Christ in us. The Trumpet, the last trumpet, as an announcement of The King being revealed inside us, The King is coming. “Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God”; “greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world”. Christ has come in our flesh, He dwells within us. If you are a child of God then Christ is returning in you. The voice is behind me because I don’t see the truth until I look behind me. What I thought was life was a lie and not the truth. As I look back over my life, as the truth causes me to do, I see the fathfulness of Christ to a man who existed in a lie. My whole life was a lie from beginning to end. As David said, I was moulded in inquity/self righteousness and in sin was I conceived. I thought, as all people do, that I was who I was because I had mapped out my own life, good or evil. But the truth is that Christ made me what I was and today what I am. Made by God for God. “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”. When we are given to look behind us we are able to see that it was always Christ and He was always there, The Aplha and Omega, The First and The Last of all things, ALL THINGS.)

    Rev 1:11  Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. (We hear it “behind” us as a trumpet , a great voice that is telling us to see the complete/assembly/church in us. To see Christ in us as The Alpha and Omega, The First and The Last of everything in us that has been, is or will be, He assembled everything in us. Then we are commanded to write/enscribe in a book and send it to the complete assembly within us. When it is revealed to us what is being said to us, it describes our life, the book, “the books were open” and we send it, we give it to the complete assembly, the complete collection of our life and then begin to see Christ in every aspect of my life. We assemble every part of our life and give it to God as a gracious giver. We see God as God and ourselves as instruments used by God for His own glory. Patmos, my killing, means we assemble everything as a creation of Christ for the glory of God The Father. This means we begin to praise God for what we have gone through and which has, looking back, shown us what love is. How Christ lead us through every step and never turned away from us because each step was a creation to create what we are today. The revelation is a killing of the serpent’s doctrine of freewill, Where I thought I was the god of my world. Each step was the Potter fashioning us into a vessel of honor, suitable for The Masters use.

    Rev 1:12  And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; (Love is a light, a flame according to Song of Solomon 8:6. So to love someone or something will show with the light of the attributes of what love is. Love is the voice of Christ calling to us as His undefiled Bride. We hear His voice when we are awakened out of our dead state of sleep. “Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth. “; “I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled”. Love is long suffering, is kind, does not envy, does not glorify itself, is not prideful, is not rude, is not self seeking, is not easily provoked, does not think evil, does not rejoice in sin, love rejoices in the truth, love bears all things, love believes all things, love hopes all things and love endures all things. Christ is The Light, Christ is Love. Christ is the complete Light of God’s love, which is showed in us when we look back at the attributes He showed us in our book/life. To actually sacrifice yourself for someone is true love, the attribute that Christ is revealing to us. When I truly see all the love He has shown me I will then assemble the complete light in me for my neighbor, and be long suffering, kind, rejoice in truth, bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, for you. All of me will be sacrificed for all of you. I will fall into my ground and die for you, as Christ fell into His ground and died for us. He fell into the ground He had created. Christ stands in the midst of the assembly of all of me and gives the light to the areas of me that still are being created to show His love/light to you. He is standing in the midst of the complete me and giving the light of love to me to have towards God and then my neighbor. Love is the completeness of the assembly, the seven golden candlesticks, longsuffering, kind, rejoicing, bearing, believing, hoping, and enduring. Love is the beginning and ending of all things, The Alpha and Omega, the first and the last and is why in the first statement to the church of Ephesus in us we are told we have left our first love. “Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent”. And the last statement to the Laodiceans in us we are told that as many as He loves, He rebukes and chastens, “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent”. Love is the power that Christ uses to direct us from the throne, in every minute, every hour, every day of our lives.)

    Rev 1:13  And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. (Christ is inside us, in spirit. He is clothed in love, because Love covers all transgressions. A transgression is a lack of love for the other. Over His heart is a golden girdle symbolizing that love is the true riches, like gold. His hair, which is His glory, is white like wool, as white as snow, symbolizing His pureness in His love for us. His eyes are as a flame of fire because He burns with the love He has for us. His feet are as the color of brass as if He has walked through fire and He has. His love walked through the fire of God’s judgment upon us and He did it for us. He took our sin upon Himself as His sin. Not like Adam who contributed his sin to Eve. Christ considered our sin as His and bore the judgment of it. He did not blame us but took it upon Himself as His very own sin. “And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.”; “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”. Christ’s voice is as many waters, because there is much in us that He sees to love, we are many in one, like the many waters Babylon sets on are people within us (Rev.17:15), so the voice that is calling, is calling many people in us by the sword, the word of God that is telling us about this great mountain of love that God has for us. He has us in His right hand and His countenance shines on us with the warmth of love, like the symbolism of the warmth of the sun in its strength. And what happens when we fall to His feet? He says “fear not; I Am the first and the last: I am He that lives (Christ is saying, I’m living for you), and was dead (in you) ; and, behold, I am alive for evermore (in us), Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.” Perfect love casts out fear because Christ is living and reigning in our lives. Love is the key that opens the doors and shows us we have no more sin, without spot and we are now known to Him. Hell is the place of the unknown and the sting of death is sin. He sees no more sin in us and we are now known. For a man to know a woman in scripture means they had intimate relations, “And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived”. The place of the unknown, hell, means being in a place where you are not intimate with Christ, unknown to Him. This is why it is described as hell. It is a hell not to be known by Christ because you exist in a state of confusion, a place where you cannot know what truth is because you are existing in a place where Christ is not revealing Himself to you. He does not reveal Himself to you and He does not see you. “And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ” To be in a place of confusion is to be intimate with your flesh and not with Christ. Flesh is a beast in and of itself without the knowledge of God – a natural brute beast. “But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not (they don’t KNOW); and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;”. It is as having sex with a beast, when we are intimate with our flesh and not Christ. As though our flesh contains intimate knowledge in and of itself separate from God. “Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.” To be intimate is to reveal your nakedness, be unclothed. Spiritually this means you come to Christ without any covering of your own righteousness, your own works. When this happens we stand naked and bare before Him, without shame. “And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.” He then clothes us in His righteousness and we conceive and bring forth children, doctrines, of Christ to carry on His name. “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.”; “And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.”; “Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine. Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.”.)

    Rev 1:14  His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 

    Rev 1:15  And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. 

    Rev 1:16  And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.(Christ’s right hand represents the place from where power is wielded and where we are, in His right hand. His word, His truth, is the word of God that comes from His mouth to us dividing what is soulish/fleshly/beastly love and what is spirit/spiritual love. “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.” Naked, uncovered, intimate in knowledge of what is true love. He uncovers us so that He can be intimate with us and we can be intimate with Him. Not sexual intimacy, which is only a parable, but true intimacy where we are seen as we are seen and known as we are known. We end up in pleasure (the meaning of Eden), innocent from sin, as Adam and Eve, “And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.” It is not a place of immaturity, but a place of innocence, a mature spiritual being, taking pleasure in not knowing the stain of sin, not covered by sin. It’s a spiritual life where we live without being dressed in clothing that makes us feel good about who we are, or that gathers attention from others. It’s a place where we can be who Christ created and give Him credit for it. We only get clothing when we think we can determine good from evil, when we think we can see for ourselves. Adam and Eve were only clothed after sin. “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.” Being clothed in anything other than what Christ has originally created, is in fact the sinful state of thinking your mature enough to be separate from Him. To KNOW, without Him. “And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.”) 

    Rev 1:17  And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: 

    Rev 1:18  I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. 

    Rev 1:19  Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; (The things which we have seen, are, and will be, the same, because Christ is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. His love for us will never change and never waver. How we have seen His love for us when we were in our worst, how we see His love for us now, is the way He will love us tomorrow. The mystery has been unlocked by seeing Christ’s love for us as never ending, never changing. It is a great voice, a revelation, a revealing of Who God is, was and will be, LOVE.)

    Rev 1:20  The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. (The complete message is in Christ’s power to the complete assembly of Christ’s church. He is calling us from the four corners of our earth and assembling everything in us to one Author. Every day is an assembling of the truths of Christ, a star, a message of light to the truths of Christ in us. There are seven days in which we worship God, not one. “And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.” Seven days we worship God, as a complete church, not one. Religion teaches six days are for us to be healed and one is for the LORD.) The entire outward world and our world within is in the satanic religion called “self.” We believe in and worship the god of self, unknowingly. It is not limited to a theological bias or system. We are locked up in a beast nature that seeks to preserve self above all others. This is our religion. Any time the word religion is used in this study, it is representing this reality.

    Rev 2:1  Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; (Christ holds the complete spirit of love, light, as scripture describes love as a spirit, in every light of every seven days/seven stars. “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” ; “But the fruit of the Spirit is love…”. The message of the love God has for us in every seven days/stars is complete in the church/assembly of us, the seven golden candlesticks. We have the past and present and they fortell the future of the love God has for us. If we want to see the future, then look at the past. God’s love for us has never changed, even in the worst of times. He is always holding our hand and never lets go of His wife’s hand.)

    Rev 2:2  I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: (We have been brought to a place where we cannot bear evil within us anymore and have seen the lies of the false doctrines we’ve been through. He has brought us to a place where we are now actually laboring to enter the complete rest of Christ’s creation, which is foretold in these verses. “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them (the word “hosts” means,”mass of people”. Mass of people within us). And on the seventh day (Christ) God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day (Christ) from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day (Christ), and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.”; “Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world (our world). For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works (all His works/creations in us). And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein (new creation/new man), and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief (first creation/old man): Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus (Joshua) had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works (6 days), as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest (Christ), lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature (the word creature means “original formation”, our original creation/formation) that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.”

    God had prophesied from the beginning that He had created us to rest in Christ from the six days of our creation/formation, our lot. The story/parable of creation is the story of an Elect’s life. We need not doubt His love for us. Doubting is unbelief and unbelief leads to works to obtain a covering, something that we already have and to obtaining something by our own merits. The creation, creating its own rest, its own covering, which is sin. Eating from the tree of our knowledge of good and evil. The six days are a story of our life and how He loved us by creating us naked, without the knowledge of sin – not needing clothing. We need not fear because He created Christ for us to rest in. My fear comes from unbelief. Not believing God is faithful. Even though I have a lifetime of witnesses/clouds showing me that God has always been there. I still doubt because of the deceitfulness of sin, eating from my tree of what’s good and what’s evil, my 10 laws, my ten powers, my ten horns “saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns”, “I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns“. A nature that believes it must protect itself, cover itself, leads us to sin. A day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. The word thousand means teaching, you’ll see that later, therefore He is saying that He has been teaching us each day of our lives to get to where we can see seven days as Christ and we can rest from our own six days of works. He loves us and there is nothing that can shake that truth, that foundation. But, as always we must never forget that the foundation is in fact love and that is our starting point, – not law, not ceremonies, not fasting, not speaking in tongues, not prophesying, not attending meetings, but solely the unmerited love God had for us, has for us and will always have for us. “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.” We cannot add anything to that. This is why He warns us that we must not ever leave our foundation, first love. And He warns us to never add to this truth by our own works or subtract from the truth of God’s love for us by thinking we did something that will cause Him not to love us. “And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” As king Ahasuerus took the kingdom from Vashti and gave it to Esther for refusing to submit, so the same thing happens to the old man in us who fails to submit to Christ as Creator. And the same example is told in God taking the kingdom from Saul and giving it to David. “And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.”. The name “Agag” mean “I will overtop” and the name “Amalek” means “dweller in the valley”. When we are without the knowledge of Christ we are always trying to overtop our valley dwelling. When we are in the valley of the unknown/hell, we try to overcome it or rise above it by works of the flesh to satisfy the desires of my flesh, the people who desire the gold of the Amalekites. This always leads us back to the valley where we exist in a state of confusion, a dog returning to its vomit or a pig returning to wallowing in the mire. The only way our valley can be filled and the mountains brought low is by knowing the love of God in Christ, not by works. “Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; “. This is why the kingdom is taken from our old man, Saul, because he “desired”, his name’s meaning, to listen to the people to keep Agag (I will over top) alive. All of me must die. I cannot leave a bit of me alive that desires to be something independent from Christ. “the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed. Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD? And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal. And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.”.

    Rev 2:3  And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. (He has had us bear the weight of unbelief, which has caused us to learn patience with our creation, which is a labourous work to stay in faith that God never stops loving me. This is like a man and woman when they first meet how they don’t see fault in the other. Every little odd habit or idiosyncrasy is seen as cute and lovable, this is our first love. So, God is warning us to not let the deceitfulness of sin, self worship, self covering stop us from seeing God’s love for us in Christ. To focus on God as All in all and to love each other as ourselves is where we are to stay. This IS fighting against the Amalekites and killing Agag.).

    Rev 2:4  Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. 

    Rev 2:5  Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. (Remember from where we have fallen is the same as remember the way you used to feel when you were first given the truth of my love for you. You didn’t question why. You were just happy you were known by me. Nothing else mattered. Then life creeps in and you begin to worry about things you would have laughed at before. Our first love does not see fault in or judge God’s plan, we embrace it and follow it with joy. Removing our candlestick means He removes the light for awhile until we are back to where we need to be. But with every stumble we get stronger because God does not ever let us fall to a point where we cannot get back up. “For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again.”)

    Rev 2:6  But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. (The name Nicolaitan means “victory over the people” – in other words, pride. Hating the Nicolatian doctrine is hating the doctrine of pride where we are taught to always protect ourselves and be victorious over everyone else.)

    Rev 2:7  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.(The tree of life and knowing God’s Spirit of love is one and the same. The fruit of The spirit of God’s love for us produces fruits, life. “the fruit of the Spirit is love”; “And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 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:”. To eat the fruit of the tree of life in the paradise of God is to live in His love for us and it is happening now. We are eating now and our nations are being healed. The fact that the nations still need to be healed even while in the paradise of God is showing that it is happening now while we are still in these fleshly bodies. When I love you more than myself then I am eating from the tree of life, producing a fruit of the spirit, dying to self and being healed at the same time from the false doctrine of self love. True pleasure, Paradise, which means “pleasure ground”, is to know God as love.)

    Rev 2:8  And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; (Christ is the first and the last of everything created in our lives out of love and we were dead to that truth but now we are alive to that truth. He was unknown to us but now He is known. We now have intimacy with that truth. He has revealed the revelation of the truth of His everlasting love to us through His life, death, burial and resurrection in us. He has uncovered Himself to us, revealed Himself and we to Him. This IS the revelation of Jesus Christ.) 

    Rev 2:9  I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. (Our works, tribulation, and poverty are His workings in us and is why He knows them. If we still thought they were our own works He would not know them and they would be in the place of the unknown, hell. He also knows the blasphemy of the doctrines in us that think they know, that call themselves jews, but are actually of the temple of Satan. This means there are works, past or present, still in us that are led after the flesh – any and all aspects of our life that we’re still taking credit for, good or bad, selfish doctrines that still need the healing of God’s love. The synagogue of Satan is our bodies, when we worship self. As we are now the temple/synagogue of God, when we live according to flesh we are in a different temple – the synagogue of Satan. We are living in our world where Satan is the prince. “Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.”. The word “world” is “kosmos” and means; “Probably from the base of G2865; orderly arrangement, that is, decoration; by implication the world (in a wide or narrow sense, including its inhabitants, literally or figuratively [morally]): – adorning, world.” It comes from G2865 and that means “From a primary word κολυμβος kolumbos (to tend, that is, take care of); properly to provide for, that is, (by implication) to carry off (as if from harm; generally obtain): – bring, receive.”. When we choose flesh over spirit we are jumping from one temple to another. What the literal Jews did in the old testament by worshipping under every green tree (men are trees, and trees are a representation of men/doctrines/beliefs) See mark 8:24. We are decorating our world, adorning it with cares of the flesh, providing for ourselves as though we are the providers for it and not God. All of Satan’s kingdom believes it has a freewill independent from all people, gods, or things. It believes that it is up to it to provide and decorate its world as it sees best for its world. God is not seen as The Author and Finisher of it but as a ruler Who created everything and left it up to us to do something with it. This doctrine is spread throughout the world on the authority of God Himself so that He could be hidden from the masses who He has used to provide for His elect. Everything revolves around God The Father, Christ and The Bride of Christ for the purpose of God being glorified as God of all. “Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.” Everything is a parable and unless you are given to see God as love you are living a parable and not knowing truth. All of scripture is written as a parable. No one can see through the parable unless it has been given to them to see. If you are a son of God and have Christ in you, then you will see the parable and in seeing it you will be made free. Christ said He only spoke in parables and Christ was in Peter, Paul, John, james and jude who wrote other books. These also are to be seen in parable inwardly. Paul said “Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” The Israelites passing through the Red Sea on dry ground is a parable of this truth.)

    Rev 2:10  Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. (We need not fear what we shall suffer, even though we will be tried and will have tribulation, we must continue to see Christ as loving and that will produce a crown of life. The Satanic doctrines we have learned since birth must be put to death by an overwhelming love that says “not by law, but by love”. Ten days means the complete law of flesh, ten horns, poured out on us. Denying the flesh’s food and only eating the spiritual food for life, Christ, produces a clearer vision and healthier countenance as Daniel did.”But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs. And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king. Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse (look up this word and it’s root H2235 & H2232)to eat, and water to drink. Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king’s meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants. So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days. And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat. Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse. As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king. And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.”. So, if we eat the pulse of Christ, the seed of Christ, His doctrine, instead of the meat of Satan, worldly doctrine, everything will appear clearer. Deny the love of the flesh and eat the love of the spirit. Pulse is being fruitful by denying the flesh’s meat/doctrine of self love and eating only Christ’s doctrine/seed/pulse.)

    Rev 2:11  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. The second death is where we must die to our own personal false doctrines, our own laws, that are as close to us as parents or siblings. Dying for someone else’s sin is a second death and it doesn’t hurt if I know what I have been forgiven. “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.”. Why is it called the second death? I can accept the death of my own faults (first death) and have them buried with Christ and never remembered, but your faults I have a hard time burying. It is a second death to put myself down in the grave for your faults. It’s even harder to die for someone else than it is for myself. I can see my own sins cast into the unknown before God and be made white, but, when it comes to forgetting your faults, that’s a second death for me and harder than the first (this is covered more in depth in chapter 20). This is why gossip is so destroying. This is the doctrine that say they are Jews and are not. This is the Devil casting me into prison for ten days to try me by my own set of satanic laws, 10 horns. This is being faithful unto the death of my own finger pointing and not being hurt by it. He says we will be tried. He says we will be cast into prison. So, it doesn’t mean it’s not going to be hard, but it also means that when we die to these things in us it becomes a joy to die, it doesn’t hurt our new earth. It is dying for you now, and dying for you kills me without pain, I want to forgive, I want to die. We are learning to die to something and it not hurt us because the opposite is to live unto ourselves and be hurt, feel the pain of unforgiveness. He doesn’t say we are going to escape the second death, he says we won’t be hurt by it when we go through it. Everything in us that is not yet converted, written in the Lamb’s book of life, must be killed by the second death. When we see false doctrine as an apostate Jew serving Baal, we will gladly die to get rid of it. Remember we are dying to our own set of laws based on God’s law, we call it OUR LAW. “The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.” It is our law that cannot forgive, because according to our law we are bound to judge. We believe that judging according to our law is serving God, we cannot forgive when the law has been broken because we are commanded to kill if the law has been broken. So, by God’s authority, we must kill according to law, because we believe only God has the right to forgive. “When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?”. So, the trying of our faith, being cast into prison by the devil, and the second death all have to do with forgiveness, which is an expresion of love. If we can forgive each other when we break each other’s phoney Jewish laws, we are not hurt by the second death, and we become Christ to each other, able to forgive sins. Only God could forgive sins, but Christ gives us the power and indeed the commandment to forgive sins that have been committed against us. What we loose on earth shall be loosened in heaven and what we bind on earth shall be bound in heaven. We become Christ to each other with THE AUTHORITY OF GOD TO FORGIVE SINS! “Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: asmyFather hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.”. We must forgive Christ for making us what He made us and know it repented Him, grieved Him at His heart that He made us on our earth. “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”. We hold unforgiveness towards Christ for making us what He made us. That unforgiveness manifests in unforgiveness towards each other. If we cannot forgive each other how can we forgive Christ for making us what He made us? It grieved Him for making us what He made us but it is in this state we learn love. Honestly,who hasn’t asked God, “why did you make me this way?” There doesn’t have to be forgiveness unless there’s a law broken. He made law for sin to abound, so we can learn what love really is and is not. “Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:”; “for where no law is, there is no transgression.” Forgiveness is not needed when there is no transgression. Once we have learned forgiveness towards each other there is no need for transgression, no need for sin to abound.)

    Rev 2:12  And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges; (Two edges because it kills our old man in two ways, the two commandments: 1) love the LORD God with all our heart, soul and mind and 2) you as myself. It discerns the thoughts between the love I have towards God in truth and error, between soul and spirit, between flesh and spirit, between good and evil.)

    Rev 2:13  I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. (Satan’s seat is the exaltation of the flesh. Satanic doctrine feeds on us as dust for power, “for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”; “dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life”, so Satan’s power is exalting ourselves over anyone or anything. It doesn’t matter about right or wrong it has to do with power in one way or the other. Women are a parable, as men are, in scripture. Women are told to submit to their husbands. We (the elect) together make up the body of Christ, the woman, the Bride. We are to submit to Christ in all things, give Him the credit for the creation of all things, not ourselves. Submit to Christ in His doctrine of peace, love, joy, patience, etc. to each other, our neighbor. Antipas means “like the father.” Antipas is the witness in us of the truths of Christ that reflect The Father, which are overcome and killed by Satanic doctrines in which we still dwell. Telling us it’s our power that did something good or evil. We still have doctrines of hatred that we use to get our way over our neighbor and in turn it is killing Antipas, the witness, the other person. We want to be loving, kind, patient, and longsuffering but the doctrines still in us of Satan exalt our thoughts to not submit to Christ and not be kind, but be judgmental and harsh, cold and unloving because we were not exalted. Satan’s throne is hatred of anyone and anything that does not exalt the flesh, which we live by. “Get thee behind me,Satan: thou art an offence to me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.”. So, in the next verse He shows us what is still in us.

    Rev 2:14  But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. ( This is falsely judging each other in a way as to bring the judgment of God against them. As Christ exposed the Jewish leaders of doing to the people. “For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.” Listening to the doctrines of Baal, the self god, and judging according to our past judgment, thoughts derived from our past doctrines held by the world in a way to exalt my flesh over your flesh, or over any inanimate object, the doctine of the Nicolatians, having victory over the people, each other’s flesh to control them for our flesh’s purpose, condemning each other when we are not doing anything wrong. This is the story of what Jezebel did to Naboth and is a parable of OUR story. 1 Kings 21. Jezebel means “Baal exalts” or “Baal is husband to” or “unchaste”. Naboth means “fruits” and he is a Jezreelite, which means “sown of God”. Jezebel devises two false witnesses against him and has him stoned so that she can acquire Naboth’s vineyard for her husband Ahab, which means “brother (that is, friend) of (his) father“. We want the fruits, sown of God (what rightly belongs to God.) Unrighteously judging each other leaves the accused feeling condemned, stoned of God, so we can obtain what we do not have (self righteousness). I was a prolific rock thrower when I was a child, which translates to a judgmental person who threw barbs at people to destroy them. Balaam (not of the people) taught Balak (waster) that he himself could not curse the Israelites but if they were enticed to sin, they would become a curse to God. So, he enticed them by his women, not to submit to their husband/Christ, to eat things offered to idols, themselves, and to mix with them, have sex with other nations not of the Israelite nation, Israel meaning “God prevails and he shall be a prince of God.” To spoil themselves with the people of the land, our old thoughts of power, mixing holy seed with the unholy. This parable is teaching us we are not to listen to the doctrines/seed/people of our land that were here before us, our old man’s nations that taught us not to submit to anyone. We are not to mix what we are learning with the inbred (“Moab”, a son of one of Lot’s daughters-Gn.19:37) doctrines that came from us as we were living in the world, unconverted in heart. I judge in my Moabitish doctrines by having intimate relations with them. This is closely listening to, being in agreement with, the doctrines that came from my father Satan’s world. Mulling over the thoughts in my mind, which to me are wise. “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,” The word “wise” in Romans 1:22 means the following “forming the best plans and using the best means for their execution.” This is the same as the doctrines of the Nicholatians, which means victory over the people. We are not allowed to mix the doctrines of Christ with the doctrines of the old world. The old world doctrines teach judgment unto death with no mercy and self above all others. Christ’s doctrines teach peace, love, joy, patience, and rest in the complete sovereign hand of Christ in our lives for our good and not for evil. It is harder to believe in the mercy of God than it is to believe in His anger towards us for something we’ve done wrong independent from Him. Satanic doctrine sifts us as wheat, to cause us to sin so we can then reap the judgment of God, as Balaam taught Balak to do to the Israelites. But Christ has prayed for us that when we are tried we will come out stronger and then convert each other by what we’ve gone through. Jezebel is unchaste in her desire for control. The Jezebel doctrine exalts Baal, her godhood. It is the spirit of the world, which lies in wickedness, that exalts its own supposed truths over the other person. Instead of taking the lower seat it exalts itself to the higher seat over the other person in judgment. Christ-like love is patient, kind, believing, and peaceful, the opposite of a doctrine of Baal that teaches war, anger, malice and leaves me bitter. This truth is hidden manna, a name no one knows but Christ. Now that we are becoming one with Him, we too are learning this truth. We are given the same name, title, the same truth on a white rock, a stone, a piece of the total truth, a piece of Christ and are now eating the same meat/manna. “I have meat to eat that ye know not of.”, This truth is the sword of His mouth that He uses to fight against the old doctrines in us that are still listening to Jezebelian and Nicholatian gods. This truth, stone will crush Satanic doctrine, “And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly”; “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”.)

    Rev 2:15  So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. 

    Rev 2:16  Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. 

    Rev 2:17  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. 

    Rev 2:18  And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; (This is a continuation of the last message because the seven churches are one church, where we were told about the doctrines not of Israel (Balaam-false prophet/Satan) teaching our religious beast (Balak) to cast a stumbling block before us by teaching us to trust in ourselves and not God, which equates to eating things sacrificed to the idol of our old man and commiting adultery by getting into bed with inbred doctrines within us from the world (Moabite women). This brought God’s judgment upon Israel. Satanic doctrine does not have the power to just curse us, it must go through Christ for permission to touch us, as seen in these verses about Job and Peter, Job 1:6-12 & Luke 22:31-31. So there are doctrines that are still affecting and moving us that bring God’s judgment on us, which explains the physical sickness we go through at times. Paul said the Corinthians were sick and dying because they were not discerning the LORD’S body, “For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.”. So, we too must not be discerning the Lord’s body in certain areas and being led away to trust in our own doctrines. These doctrines are not outward manifestations of sin but internal thoughts of asceticism, severe self denial and austerity against the truth. Heaping laws upon ourselves that we cannot move with our finger, as the Jewish leaders did to the people, so we do to each other. Or they are doctrines that teach us that all is good, we can do whatever we want, associate with whoever we want, call everything God for own flesh’s desires. Living in overt outward manifestations of sin and calling it Godliness. Associating with the world, who know not God, and thinking you’ve reached some higher maturity. Denying the scriptures that tell us to come out from amongst them and not TOUCH the unclean. “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.”. They called Christ a glutton and winebibber because He just walked around from house to house and never seemed to care about life. But, the Pharisees on the other hand were very austere and dotted every “i” and crossed every “t”. The thoughts of us being lazy, and all the thoughts of what we “should” be doing are in fact the thoughts of Satanic doctrine trying to tempt us into working for the flesh so that we can get more done, and get more glory because we know we have but a short time left in our lives. Satanic doctrines are not allowed to just kill us as the angel of death, as it was used in the old testament, because it has to have permission, and it can only go so far. Look at these verses about how it is limited. “Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth , and from walking up and down in it. And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD. “; “Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life. So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.”; 1 Chr.21 “And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly. And the LORD spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying, Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. Either three years’ famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me. And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man. So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father’s house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued. And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.” We get sick because we are listening to the austere doctrines of Satan, Jezebel, and Balaam, which are all three parables of the doctrines of the world that adhere to what seem to be very wise, smart and dare I say, godly. David numbered Israel as though it was in numbers of people that made him feel he had increased. Bragging about anything Christ has done through us for the attention of someone is a doctrine of Satan that brings the judgment of God. Putting our trust for our welfare in any so-called wise or prudent (Jezebel) way of thinking rather than as a devoted wife who sees her husband Christ as the Author of all things brings judgment of God.

    Rev 2:19  I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. (Our works, charity, and service and patience are all Christ in us, not of us, but by Christ in us. This is why the last works are more than the first. The more we learn to submit to Christ as Head the more we are molded into His image.

    Rev 2:20  Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. (We have covered that Jezebel is the doctrine of the beast, Satanic doctrine, that has taught us that we are the prophetess of our own world religion. She, as Babylon sits upon the beast with seven heads, 7 days devoted to her, and ten horns symbolizing the ten laws she lives by that seem to be in conjunction with the laws of God but are seen by her as her work that comes from her strength. This is sacrificing to the idol of my flesh and committing fornication against Christ. Jezebel is the unconverted Bride of Christ.

    Rev 2:21  And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. (the word “space” means “an individual opportunity”. We are given space, an individual time opprotunity to repent and we don’t, so we receive judgment. Yesterday I was given an individual time opprotunity to repent from the pride I took from Christ in building the entry to the property and gave my flesh glory in building it. Last night I was in severe shoulder pain because I took the glory of Christ upon my flesh. I was cast into a sick bed until I repented. He had searched my heart and found pride of life.

    Rev 2:22  Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. 

    Rev 2:23  And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. (The truth searches our hearts and sees the pride and glory we take from Christ and apply it to our flesh. When these doctrines are found still in us they are exposed as evil works. These self centered, self glorifying doctrines are children, as children represent doctrine in scripture.)

    Rev 2:24  But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden. (Because we are growing, “the rest in Thyatira” that do not hold these doctrines and do not know the depths of Satanic doctrine as they speak, those parts are not hurt of the second death or given none other burden. Those parts are freed and do not have to carry a burden of the flesh. We just hold what we have and do not turn back.)

    Rev 2:25  But that which ye have already hold fast till I come. 

    Rev 2:26  And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: (The parts in us that Christ has overcome and converted to see that all works are Christ’s works get to have freedom from the doctrines of the nations in us that were formed by a Jezebel thought. A Jezebel thought is to kill anything that does not give me what I desire by false witness. Freedom from them IS power over them. They shall be ruled with the rod of iron, Christ’s love for us, and all forms of self worship, self love will be broken into peices like an earthen vessel. As Christ received of His Father to deny His flesh so we have Christ resurrecting in our body and ruling it to the glory of The Father.)

    Rev 2:27  And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. 

    Rev 2:28  And I will give him the morning star. (The morning star, the rising SON, is the truth, the light of Christ that illuminates our life as a life given by Christ, created by Christ and consisting by Christ. Dying daily to our own personal strength and giving all authority to Christ as King of our kings and Lord of our lords, as the Alpha and Omega of every minute of every day which equals 1440 minutes. This is parabolically represented by the 144,000 (this will be explained in more detail starting with the 5th chapter), the four beasts which represent every corner of our life, north, east, south and west and the 24 elders which represent 24 hours of a day. Christ, the morning star, owns all of us, every second of our existence. As we come to know this more and more, we become more like Christ. We are given the morning star.

    Rev 2:29  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. 

    Rev 3:1  And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. (Seven spirits are the complete assembly of Christ in us. The seven stars are the lights of every seven days. seven Seven vials, seven trumpets, all are one and the same, messages that are given to us, as the elect, in various ways. Through blessings, or through trials, all and one are the same thing, the complete truth of God being delivered minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, month by month, year by year to love The Lord God with all our heart soul and mind and our neighbor as ourself and destroying the areas in us that do not keep these two witnesses. “Red ones” is the definition for Sardis, just like “odour of affliction” is the name of Thyatira, again the meanings are connected. Red ones meaning the core of the nature of man in us is red and the death of that man is an odour of affliction. Our old man is afflicted and this affliction is brought on by the two witnesses. To love God with every thought and my neighbor as myself is an affliction and a death to my red man. “H119-To show blood (in the face), that is, flush or turn rosy: – be (dyed, made) red (ruddy)”. To die to the red and ruddy, myself, is to live unto God, Who covers us in white raiment, not red raiment.”He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment”)

    Rev 3:2  Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.(The works are the areas where we still claim ownership as a work of ours and not a work of Christ. These works are not perfect because they are stained by the crimson red sin of self. We must always be watchful that Christ is the Creator of all things in our heavens and our earth and strengthening this truth kills off the red ones that are ready to die.) 

    Rev 3:3  Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. (We must constantly be watching and remembering how we received and heard the truth, through trials, through sin. To be kept from trials we give all glory to God as Creator through Christ. Every second is given to Christ as Creator and that is how we stay clothed in white raiment. When we lose this thought throughout the day we are visited by Christ as a thief. He steals what we claimed as ours and it upsets us and we go down, get downtrodden. The work is too much we say and we say what’s the use, why do more? It is not an easy walk to examine every thought and bring them into the obedience of Christ. The flesh is lazy and would rather stay in a place of being lukewarm.)

    Rev 3:4  Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. (There are parts of us that have already been converted, “a few names even in Sardis”, and are walking in white.)

    Rev 3:5  He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. (Being clothed in white is walking in Christ’s works, seeing Him as Creator of all and is the book of life. To know God The Father is Eternal life, “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” To not know The Father is to not know life, nor have life, equivalent to having your name blotted out from the book of life. Your life is unseen to God The Father, which means you are in the place of the “unseen”, Hell. “properly unseen, that is, “Hades” or the place (state) of departed souls: – grave, hell.”)

    Rev 3:6  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. (I am to hear all that is being said by the complete message to the assembly within me. If I have an ear I will hear.)

    Rev 3:7  And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; (When we are being seen by The Father, rising from the place of the unseen, it means we have an open door, our heavens are opening up like a door and as the sun begins to rise over the horizon and cannot be stopped, so the Truth of seeing God The Father cannot be stopped, the door cannot be shut. The love Christ has for us is too strong to be stopped, or the door be shut, He has the key of David, which is a love for us that surpasses everything. David’s name means “beloved” and Christ has love for us that cannot be stopped or shut.)

    Rev 3:8  I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. (Nothing in my earth can shut the love of Christ off from me or from showing us the love God The Father has for us. We have been brought to a place where all our works appear as dung because we have been seeing them as our own, independent from Christ. This leaves us with little strength or no hope in the flesh. This truth is keeping Christ’s word and not denying His faith.)

    Rev 3:9  Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. (The synagogue of Satan is our temple of the flesh where we have unseen works based on the flesh. Our works of unrighteousness that are exposed as lies and not true Jews, true Jews are circumcised in heart, not in letter. These doctrines fall from our heavens and are trampled under foot and worship at our feet. “For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.”. As we have recently learned, circumcision is true repentance from the flesh’s thoughts of righteousness. True repentance is being cut away from any worth we find in the flesh and claiming no rights, no goodness, no pleasure, or no evil as ours, but as a work of God seeing us. An uncircumcised penis covers the head of the penis, the head is not seen. An uncircumcised heart means Christ is not seen and is covered. “Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.” A covered penis hides where pleasure/life comes from, the head, as an uncircumcised heart covers where pleasure/life comes from, Christ, The Head of pleasure and truth. To be in Eden is to be in Christ, Eden means pleasure, (H5731-Eden = “pleasure”). This is how we have learned and are learning that Christ loves us. All gentile doctrine or false Jewish doctrine, foreskins, will come and bow to the truth that Christ is The Creator of our lives, and He only sustains us, they will be cast to our feet. This is Him putting down all powers and authority until God The Father is seen as The All in all. This is the parable of David killing 100 Phillistines and bringing their foreskins as a proof of their death, (1 Sam.18:27). Foreskin hides the truth of where all true pleasure and eternal life comes from, Christ. Foreskin is the covering lies of false doctrine. In Christ literal circumcision is not needed when you realize what it represents, the parable of having an uncircumcised heart.)

    Rev 3:10  Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.(The hour of temptation on my whole world is the same hour of temptation Christ went through and that was to sacrifice Himself on the cross.”And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.” The two horned beast that appears like a lamb of religion but speaks as a dragon spewing out flames of condemnation within me hates for me to repent from self worth. It is, was and will be our greatest struggle in our earth, to deny self and be crucified. This great hour of temptation will come upon every corner of my world until, like leaven, the love of self is dead and it doesn’t hurt me to die , which is being kept from the hour of temptation. The part of me that gets it will be kept safe from this trial and Christ’s spirit in me will overcome and not be hurt by this second death, kept from the hour of temptation because it will not be a temptation for me to exalt flesh over the spirit of truth. Christ’s love for me, His sacrifice is my crown, I have nothing else to set upon my head, for He alone is the crown of our life. He is not covered by the foreskin of my own desires to be a god separate from Him.)

    Rev 3:11  Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. 

    Rev 3:12  Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. (When Christ has established the truth in us, we are no longer moved, we are like pillars that “go no more out”, but are able to stand on Christ as our Chief corner stone. What He has built cannot be torn down nor moved because He laid the foundation for us to be built upon. He is the great carpenter not me. His name is truth, the name of The Father and the name of new Jerusalem, all the same name, Truth. “I am the way, The Truth and The Life”; “God is love”.)

    Rev 3:13  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. 

    Rev 3:14  And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; (Laodiceans means “justice of the people”. Christ is our beginning of creation within us and He is faithful to the truth of Who The Father is, was and will be in us. Christ is justice of the people for us. What He sees in us is faithful and true. He knows our works inside us, and parts of us are lukewarm, where we are neither on fire for Him nor cold against Him. There are parts in our earth that He is conquering that have little enthusiasm to change. So because He is faithful to God The Father to put down all rule and authority in us, to recreate us, He comes against these nations in us and exposes their nakedness. “Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.  For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.”)

    Rev 3:15  I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 

    Rev 3:16  So then because thou art lukewarm (luke warm- little enthusiasm, inactivity, doing just enough to get by with no fervor or great desire to increase.), and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 

    Rev 3:17  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: (The areas that are satisfied with staying the same, are still deceived by thinking they need not change but are rich and need not change anything. To have this attitude is to be wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. It is wretched state to want to stay the same. It will only produce more misery, leaving us poor in good works, blind to why we are suffering, and naked from the covering of Christ. True love of God The Father and of my neighbor comes with a challenge, a trying of the genuiness of my love. True love is not something that is love at first sight like the movies. True love comes with Christ’s spirit within us causing us to forgive, be kind, see the truth but being blind to judging it as the person’s fault, but truthfully seeing that Christ is The Creator and has arranged a situation where we are tried by the other person’s selfish actions. Knowing that I am just as much clay as they are and that to get forgiveness I must give forgiveness. This is buying gold tried in the fire. This is washing one another’s feet. This is eating the bread of affliction and drinking the cup of affliction. This is following Christ’s example. This is being rich towards God and neighbor. This is being clothed in white raiment and my own shame being covered. Unless I cover your sin, my sin cannot be covered. Unless I forgive, God still must create situations that forgiveness is needed by me until I truly forgive. Once true forgiveness is created in me the trials have done what they were sent out to do and are no longer needed. This is called “vanity and vexation.” Because He loves us, He rebukes my unforgiveness and uses trials to chasten us, teach us how to love. As Christ anointed the blind man with clay made of spit, so he could see, He anoints our own spiritual eyes to see that we are just as much clay as our neighbor. If I see this truth then I am blind to self righteous judgment. “For judgment I am come into this world (my world inside me), that they which see not might see (I don’t see what I am until He shows me.); and that they which see might be made blind (once I see what I am, I become blind to self righteous judgment). The Pharisees (within me) which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin (If I knew I was clay just like you, I would not judge self righteously): but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth. (but, because parts of me still think they are better than you, see your sin, my sin of self righteousness remains and must be tried unto purification.”)

    Rev 3:18  I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 

    Rev 3:19  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. (Because He loves us, He doesn’t allow us to stay in a state of seeing sin in each other. He puts us through trials to see that we are clay just like the other. When we become blind we are then seeing the truth and our nakedness is covered. Trials are no longer needed in that area of our life, cities of Israel, “But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.”.)

    Rev 3:20  Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. (He is knocking at our hearts to show us that to open the door of our hearts, seeing ourselves as clay, blinds the Pharisaical judgment in us and is the way Christ lived, shutting down the Pharisee and opening our hearts to loving God and our neighbor. To love is not to have self righteous judgment. To love is to be blind to your neighbor’s sin which means I am seeing my own sin. I am seeing that I am what I see in them, I am clay just as they are clay. When I am given to see this truth, and live it, I am eating with Christ and He with me. This is also overcoming. Seeing myself as clay is seeing, and being blind to your sin, is being blind. What I see in you is what is in me and therefore I do not see my right to judge. How can I judge you for what I am. It is a throne from which power is wielded and a rod of iron that rules the nations in me that are self righteous towards others. I now have ears to hear what the Spirit says to the churches in me, they sound like a trumpet blast to me, who was once deaf. From here, a door is opening to see what is in me, which is the next thing John sees. “After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven”)

    Rev 3:21  To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 

    Rev 3:22  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. 

    Rev 4:1  After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. (When Christ gives us to see how we live without the understanding of who we are by creation, clay, He begins to show us how we judge. We walk around in our earth wielding a sword of judgment, based on what we know as beasts, we are comparable to literal beasts who were created on the same day we were created, the sixth day. “But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed”. These beasts are us inward and we are them, created without understanding of Who God is, was and will be. We have no idea that every thought and every action is an action predestined by God to bring Him glory. But, because we are learning that everything is founded on God’s love for us, every action is an action given to us for us to worship God with all our heart, soul, and mind and love our neighbor as ourselves. The door being opened shows us how we lived as beasts, judged as beasts and acted as beasts. Every lot that was layed in our lap we saw as a lot given to me by me and not by God. Circumstances brought something about in my life – chance, luck or unlucky chances that just happened in my life and I had to deal with them according to the knowledge and experience I had learned in my life. “The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.”. The open door shows me how I took God’s plan and made it my plan. I saw it as an opprotunity by chance to have something for me to expend upon my flesh for flesh. But, now I see there is a throne, a power overruling my supposed power, that power is Christ as my Creator, The Head. Only ONE sits upon this throne and that one is not me, it’s Christ. I don’t give life, He does. There is no such thing as chance, or luck, all has been predestined by God to bring Him glory. These truths are as a trumpet to me, sounding out a voice that I had never heard.  

    Rev 4:2  And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. 

    Rev 4:3  And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. (Christ sits upon the throne over all people in me and out there in the literal world. He is to look upon as “jasper” which comes in many colors and the color of Sardine, flesh colored, put them together you understand that Christ created many colors of flesh and rules them all, nations, tongues and people of all flesh. The color of a rainbow again represents the covenant God has with all flesh, He rules in the entirety of all man and beast since the foundation of the earth. Mankind does not have a free will indepedent and separate from the Father and is in the hands of God as clay, molded as He sees fit for His own pleasure. The rainbow represents the covenant God made with us to never flood us with false doctrine again. “O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”. “I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.” “And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood (false doctrine) after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.”.

    Rev 4:4  And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold. (Round about the throne/power of God is 24 hours of each day that He is directing over all literal nations, tongues and people outwardly, which represents us inwardly. This truth is the crown of Gold on each hour. Elder meaning “of age; older”, the hours that have been in operation since before man and beast were created, of old, of age.)

    Rev 4:5  And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. (Each day, of the seven days a week, are a revealing of God’s love to us. Each day God speaks to us in various forms of creation, in every hour of every day in every part of the earth. These are words of Christ revealing the revelation of God The Father to us. “the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”. He speaks to us things that seem to the flesh to be thunderings and lightnings but they are voices, words being spoken to us that we may glorify Him for His majesty. While we are without understanding, unseeing, in hades, we cannot receive these truths, these words, so we continue on in ingorance of the majesty of God and believe we are the one in control over our lives. We think we make of each day what we make of it, not a Creator. When we begin to hear the voices, see God in everything which is seeing the truth, we are then able to walk on a sea made of glass, where there are no more waves (thoughts) of life rattling us. We have come to see that everything is from the hand of God. We are now “full of eyes seeing before and after”, in all four corners of our life. See the next verse.)

    Rev 4:6  And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. 

    Rev 4:7  And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. (The four beasts are one beast, portrayed in different ways of our understanding, foursquare, whole. When Christ is seen as The Creator of all my life we see Him as The Lion of Judah and Judah means praise. Then when we see Him as the lion we become a calf because we sacrifice all we ever thought we knew. This makes us a new man and we begin to fly like an eagle on the power of God. “the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.”; “I am crucified with Christ”; “And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.”; “Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself. But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”

    Rev 4:8  And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. (Again, the 24 hours of each day and night is seen as a creation of God and we begin to see this in all four ways of our new creation. We have eyes that see everything in all 24 hours, represented by the 4 beasts each having 6 wings, 4×6=24.)

    Rev 4:9  And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, (When Christ opens the door of our spiritual eyes we give Him glory as The lion of the tribe of Praise/Judah, we praise Him in all things, which leads to us sacrificing our own thoughts of godhood for the praise of God and the love of my neighbor. This shows we are a new man and we fly on the wings of an eagle which represents the spirit of God over all things in the earth. We see God as the power in every 24 hours of each day. We have no crown on our heads as being kings of each hour, only Christ is given praise for what He has created in each hour. Only Christ is worthy to receive glory and honor and power in each 24 hours of every day, seven days, for He is The Creator of all things in each hour and each day and for His pleasure were they created.)

    Rev 4:10  The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, (We cast our crown, our own thoughts of glory before the throne…)

    Rev 4:11  Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. 

    Rev 5:1  And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. (Paper is made of the inner bark of a tree. We are trees, “And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.”, and Nebuchadnezzar is said to be seen as a tree in Daniel. The book that is in the right hand of God is our life that is lived out in each seven days. Being in God’s right hand shows that it is in God’s power what takes place in those seven days in all of creation. These days are sealed up to mankind as a whole because all mankind are created beasts with only the baser cravings in mind. No one knows the inner workings of why they do what they do and if the next breath will come or the next heart beat because God directs mankind by the servitude of their base senses, what stimulates them to desire what they desire. “He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”. Even these desires are under the power of God and He sets one desire up and puts one desire down, He rules in the kingdom of each individual, “Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.”.)

    Rev 5:2  And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? (No man of himself is worthy or able to open his own understanding by studying the Bible, reading, science, meditation, studying nature or astrology. Only God has the power to open the spiritual eye of a person and share His truths with them. This truth only comes through Jesus Christ. He alone is given to understand the secrets of God, for He is the first begotten of God. He alone was the first to know all things, create all things and then sacrifice them to God as The Power of them. After sacrificing all things, giving the power to God, He then receives all power over life and death. And this truth is given to us by Christ. Once all power and authority within myself sees truly that all power and authority I have comes from Christ, “I” as an individual power, am crucified, resurrected a new man and then given power to rule my world with the power of Christ as The Head, Authority of all power that I possess. Only Christ can open our spiritual eyes to see what we do not see and hear what we do not hear, drawing us up from spiritual death, hell, the place of the unknown. He speaks all day in every 24 hours of each day in words that we do not perceive nor can perceive. Only the elected by God, for His own pleasure, can see or hear the truth about what happened, is happening and will happen in their lives.

    Rev 5:3  And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. (No man in my heavens/mind, or in my earth which what I see in the mirror, or, under my earth, still as yet unseen about myself, what I think I control, can open the truth and see God as The One and Only Supreme Power that moves every part of His creation for His own pleasure. We cannot even look upon such a thing, because, such a thought is so repulsive to me that I cannot and will not entertain such a thought. We believed, and still do at times believe, that we are the cause of our happiness or unhappiness. We cannot open the book to see how to walk on the sea of our lives without waves causing us to sink. Such power, to totally divest one’s self of all control is a power greater than we can possibly imagine. To strip one’s self, speaking as a beast, of every step of each day, of every thought of each day, of every second of each minute, of each hour of each day, of each week of each month, of each year is to know God as The All in all of every 1440 seconds of every 12 hours of light. 12 hours are also represented by the 12 tribes of Christ, Who is Israel, which means “He shall be a prince of God.” 12 hours of light in a day, which is Isaac, the new man, versus 12 hours of darkness, which is Ishmael or the flesh. The flesh gets its kings first which is why each day starts in darkness according to Genesis. “The evening and the morning were the first day” So night comes first. As Jacob held onto Esau’s foot at birth so light (the Truth, the new man) comes quickly on the heels of darkness (lies). Each one had twelve tribes derive from them, Gn.35,25.) Ultimately, the 144,000 represents the totality of everything in me loving God with all my heart, soul and mind and my neighbor as myself. (This is explained more in upcoming chapters.)

    The word “tribes” in Revelation 7:4 means and comes from the following; “From G5453 (compare G5444); an offshoot, that is, race or clan: – kindred, tribe. to germinate or grow (sprout, produce), literally or figuratively: – spring (up). From the same as G5443; a sprout, that is, leaf: – leaf.” As we grow in knowledge of this truth, reading the leaves of our book/tree, it is used to heal the nations in us, who grow and heal more nations and we understand that this truth will spread throughout our world converting my earth. This Truth of Christ as Creator and sustainer of ALL is the tree of life (He IS the tree of life from which all life springs). The leaves are used for the healing of my nations in Revelation 22. Christ is the truth that has brought this truth to us. He is the life, the first leaf that was sent to begin healing us. He is the single (first) olive leaf in the mouth of the dove, the spirit of God. “and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.”. The 12 hours of the day, the twelve months, the twelve tribes are all one in the same parabolically: Light, Christ is The Light, He is The Creator and sustainer of ALL, “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”.)

    Rev 5:4  And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. (We understand that it has caused and does cause much sorrow because we cannot open and see what the next minute will bring or how to change the last minute that just happened. The world is covered with unclean beast droppings that have come out of the heart of man called writtings that try to explain man’s nature through philosophy, psychology, science and religion. All to try and control man/beast but no one is able to control the beast because God has him doing what He created him to do. Man, of man cannot even look at, get a glimpse into what he is. “And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?” When we come to understand these truths, we do so because God has predestined it be so in our book, but it is only to the elect and no one else. I then, as a beast, want more beasts to see what I see, but that too is a beastly excrement because it is not of my choosing or will that I see what I see. “And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward (the elect), and the spirit of the beast (all others) that goeth downward to the earth? Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?”. Like an animal, feed him, and let him rejoice in his works for that is all he has, you cannot make him see what the end is, nor should you try.

    Rev 5:5  And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. (Christ’s life shows us that there is no power but of God. His very words were not His but His Father’s. “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.”. He opens the book of my life, not me, He loosens the seven days that I am able to get a glance into the truth that each day is a day made by God in my life for His glory.The next verse explains it more.)

    Rev 5:6  And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. (Our heart is as a throne. Because from our heart it is revealed what and who we give power to. The four square of who and what I am in any given 24 hours, who I give glory to as the power is either Christ’s spirit of sacrifice or the beast giving glory to himself. The Lamb in me has seven horns, powers (Dan.8:6), and seven eyes, the light of each day, “walk in the day”, “light of day”. These seven spirits, truths, assemblies, churches, are sent forth into all my earth. Each day is a day of God and each light of each day is a light of God. What I see in any given hour of any given day is a light, a spirit, words being spoken to me revealing the truth of Who God is, was and will be in my earth. This is taking the book out of the right hand of God and revealing it to us.)

    Rev 5:7  And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. 

    Rev 5:8  And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. (When He takes the book from His Father and reveals it to us, we begin to see each hour is a hour planned by God for our good. Each hour falls down before Christ Who created each hour. Each day plays a tune/harps to God through Christ because each day has been sacrificed to God as The All in all. The day was not created by the creation but by God. God has placed the pleasing odour of our prayer into our hearts to want to see truth. It is not because we willed it nor because we were born into some certain lineage, but solely because God The Father chose it to be so. “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth”. Prayer means “oratory”, which is from G4336 From G4314 and G2172; to pray to God, that is, supplicate, worship: – pray (X earnestly, for), make prayer. which you can see is from G4314 which means “forward to” and G2172 which means “wish”. So, our wish towards God is to see Him as The Author and Finisher of every minute, every hour, of every day. There is no night when we see God as The All in all because we see everything is from Him through Christ , Who is Light. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”.)

    Rev 5:9And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; (To be worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof is to sacrifice every minute of every hour of every seven days to God as The All in all, to give up everything as God and not me. Christ gave up His power and became human, beast-like and walk around encased in what He had created. He felt the pulls of the beastly nature, to see itself as a god and having the assumption of freewill choices, experiencing how creation does not know the beauty of total reliance upon something outside itself. “Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.” Giving up His oneness with The Father, He became obedient unto death, experiencing death in not knowing God. He was made like us in the flesh so He could become a merciful and faithful High priest for us, to experience the pulls of a fleshly, beastly nature so that He could mercifully intercede for what cannot intercede for itself. “forgive them, they know not what they do”, relates not to just His murder but to everything we do minute by minute because we know not what we do, nor what we say. We murder the truth while walking in flesh every minute of every day. Every word or action from every human is done out of a beastly nature, just as a dog eats its own vomit. Even kindness to each other can be seen in packs of animals for self preservation, not out of love but for the furtherance of its kind. Christ had to learn what The Father knew to become a merciful and faithful priest for us and He did so for the furtherance of His kind, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” The Elect are given truth, reborn in the knowledge of Who God is, was and will be to us, and have become sons of God, made in the image of God for the glory of the Father, so that we can commune with God and He with His creation. “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God”; “Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.”.)

    Rev 5:10  And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. (Because every word of God to us is to be seen in our own inward world this verse tells us that we will make intercession for ourselves through Christ and we will reign over everything in us by Christ, in our earth.)

    Rev 5:11  And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; (There are many messages being said every day all day long inside us, in interaction with others, with creation, situations and parables, trees, cars, buildings, birds, animals, storms, weather, sicknesses etc. etc., ten thousand times ten thousands and thousands of thousands, enumerable. All are saying the same thing, “worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom and strength and honour, and glory and blessing”. It is in the sacrificing of ourselves, our own godhood, to God as Supreme and to love our neighbor as ourselves, do we become as Christ, a lamb slain. Everything in me tells me that to love The Lord God with all my heart, soul and mind and my neighbor as myself is where there is power, riches, wisdom, strength, honour, glory and blessings. Everything in my heavens and earth knows this to be true and is being molded into this exact new creation. God sits upon the throne, not me. To be sacrificed to my own wants and needs for my neighbor is being a lamb and everything in me falls down and worships God as The All in all of me and The All in all of everything in heaven and earth, literally and metaphorically.)

    Rev 5:12  Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. 

    Rev 5:13  And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. 

    Rev 5:14  And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever. 

    Rev 6:1  And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. (In the last few verses we were shown how all of heaven and earth within us, ten thousand times ten thousand, thousands of thousands, innumerable amount, fall down and worship God as The Supreme power. This is a great noise and a thunder to my world where I worshipped myself. Now He is showing us how this truth, white truth/white horse/power of light in my world is sent out to bring everything in me under this covenant. As the rainbow was a bow in the sky that shot forth light unto all creation that God promised He would never flood our world again with false doctrine, so He rides again through our life with a covenant/bow conquering our world through love. He is showing us through His unmeritable, unchangeable love that He will not allow the false doctrines of our beast to rule us anymore. He is conquering us through His unchangeable love, showing us the truth of His intentions to us that they are always for our good because He loves us. To my beast it is a noise, an unrecognizable noise, comparable to thunder, a rumbling, that Christ is teaching me what love is and is not. It shows me that the true crown, the true power of all, is love.

    Rev 6:2  And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. 

    Rev 6:3  And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. 

    Rev 6:4  And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. (Our fleshly beast nature operates under laws, habits, and packs of the same kind (think schools of fish, packs of dogs, etc.) It is in these we find our peace because it is familiar to us and makes us feel safe. These “schools of thought”, beliefs, laws organize our world and teach us how to operate in it to preserve my life – all under the delusion that we are in control. But, scripture tells us that when we feel peace and safety then sudden destruction comes upon us, “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”. So, true love takes peace from my beast and makes me lose my feeling of safety and security. Love is a sword that kills the nations in me that find peace in laws. Love takes my beastly peace and replaces it with faith in God and not in myself. I feel safe when everything is in order, in its place, and I feel in control. But love is just the opposite. Love does not try to preserve its life. Love does not keep record of wrong. Love is not self centered and does not rejoice in the evil of self love. This great sword of True love (love of God and my neighbor as myself) takes the beast’s peace and kills all hatred, anger and bitterness (which are all fruits of the flesh which is consumed with self-preservation) because true love knows that Christ is always out for our best and I can rest. This power/horse is red, the color of the heart/love stripped of pale, sickly flesh. Red, like Adam’s first creation, before he got covered in skin. The root of the word Adam means, “To show blood (in the face), that is, flush or turn rosy: – be (dyed, made) red (ruddy).”. )

    Rev 6:5  And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. 

    Rev 6:6  And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(Love is a true balance because it looks to God for everything. God is love, I am not. So, love channels its way from God through Christ to us where Christ is seen as the true act of God’s love for us. When walking in the truth all judgment is balanced in the truth that God is love. For me to know love or feel love I must be balanced in God’s love. I cannot judge according to pale sickly flesh. All balanced judgment must come from God and God’s judgment is based on love, my carnal judgment is not. If I realize this truth then I don’t find peace and safety in my flesh but in truth. A day’s wages of balanced judgment/wine earns very little for the flesh. But, when anointed with the spirit/oil of God, Who is love, all judgment/wine is rightly balanced. Love is the true balance between good and evil. If I am being self centered I am evil. If I am being selfless I am partaking of God’s love. God’s love is not hurt by my self love/self righteousness/self balancing, I am.)

    Rev 6:7  And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. 

    Rev 6:8  And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. (Selfishness has no love in it, it is death, pale, greenish and no one knows what it wants, in other words, hell – the unknown. It kills by its laws that are unknown and ever changing. You can’t live without feeding on true love therefore you starve to death in a sea of unknown laws that change from day to day. My beast, my flesh is never satisfied and is always trying to get something for itself and never knows what it wants. The more you give it the more it is dissatisfied. It is a power that is unsatisfied and running wildly through my earth like a horse, not knowing what it wants or where it’s going. It runs headlong into trouble without fear because it doesn’t understand self destruction. “I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.” ; “Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.”. My flesh is that horse without God’s love. Nothing can tame it, it is wild and uncontrollable, bent on destruction and the unknown follows with it, hell.) 

    Rev 6:9  And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: (Under the altar of God’s love where we are slain by putting God first then my neighbor we cry out for the death of our old man, who kills us by self love. These are the same as the two witnesses, love God with all my heart, soul and mind, and my neighbor as myself that are overcome and killed by hatred and self love. We want all of the old man to pay for what he has done by being converted and all of us, inside, to know God’s love. The parts of us that are still dwelling on the earth.)

    Rev 6:10  And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? 

    Rev 6:11  And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. (We are being told to rest. Rest and believe that the rest of us will be killed and all will be fulfilled. We are given white coverings in the areas that have been killed/converted. We have been clothed in Christ. I am not the man I was just a short while ago because parts of my old man have been killed and converted. But there is still more ground to cover, more nations to be conquered and made to see God’s love. I get rest, assured that what God has started in me will continue until all of my earth has been converted, killed by selfless sacrifice. All of the Israel in me shall be saved from the place of the unknown. “But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.”; “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”)

    Rev 6:12  And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; (We were just told to rest in assurance that what Christ has begun He will complete until all is conquered. These six following verses foretell the fulfilling of that promise. The great earthquake of seeing the truth blocks out my self righteous sun and turns it black. My light is my sun, my self righteous judgment of the flesh, that I thought was lighting my footsteps at night is being turned to blood, sacrificed. All my theories, doctrines, ways and thoughts fall as self love, they cannot stand against the true wind of the doctrine of God’s love. My heaven, my mind is rolled up where it cannot be read anymore. Every power I thought I had, big as a mountain or small as an island is moved out of its place. The kings of my earth, great men, rich men, chief captains, mighty men, bondmen, free men all are parables of doctrines I held to myself in self love, hiding in holes and under rocks from the wrath of true love. These dens and rocks of mountains are holes I see in the truth and hard things to believe about true love. We use them as excuses to hide us from judgment. These are areas where we question God’s true love in questions of “what about this?”, “what about that?”, “what about him or her?” Areas where we think we can hide from the truth but it is all to no avail, God’s love is coming to everything in me and nothing can hide from it and nothing can stand up against it. “Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.” The flesh is always looking to point the finger somewhere else diverting the heat of judgment away from self.

    Rev 6:13  And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 

    Rev 6:14  And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 

    Rev 6:15  And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 

    Rev 6:16  And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 

    Rev 6:17  For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? 

    Rev 7:1  And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. (Four winds are the whole four square of truth (we’ll see more of this concept of the four square of truth in the description of the new temple that comes down from heaven in later chapters.) This is the truth that comes to us that delivers the new man and at the same time separates and scatters the old man. The earth is our adorned old man, our fleshly identity, the sea is the doctrine of many men that we have been swimming in and made our living and the trees are us standing as an individual. The truth does not blow on our earth or sea until it is commanded to do so. The wind is coming, it is going to destroy, but we see that happen when it is time, when we are sealed by the spirit. He seals us with the spirit/wind so that as the destruction starts we don’t fall away. “And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”; “O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.”; “I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was greatThe tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth: “.”The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.”; “For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.”.)  

    Rev 7:2  And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, (the seal from God comes through the knowledge of Jesus Christ Who is The Sun of righteousness that rises from the east. To know God as love is to have the seal of Christ forefront in our minds (our forehead) every minute, every hour, every day. 

    Rev 7:3  Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. (Our trials do not really begin until our old world is exposed for what it is, was and will be. At The same time we are being judged as being a self-centered, standing alone tree in the middle of earth, who only cares and loves itself, we are being freed from it, into the truth of loving God in heart, soul and mind and my neighbor as myself. Everything in me is hurt by the truth because it exposes me as a self centered, self loving whore who only seeks what is best for her at the cost of all others. Every minute of every day that is created by God for His servitude is seen as my servant, not God’s. Every month of every year is seen as a name for me, they are named after gods, not numbered servants of God The Creator, but named months after myself. But, in truth, time, minutes, hours, days, months and years are numbered by God for God, not for me. Time is God’s servant, to mold His people and to fashion His people into sons of God. Twelve hours of light in a day of every month is 12×12=144. 60 minutes in every 24 hours of every day and night equal, 60×24=1440, add the two witnesses to that number, to love God with all your heart, soul and mind and your neighbor as yourself you get 144,000, the meaning of Christ being in absolute control of our lives as “a Prince of God” Who teaches us that “God prevails” in every minute of every day, the meaning of the name Israel. We add the two witnesses to each minute of each day because before we were brought to the truth we did not love God and our neighbor as ourself. We just existed in the 1440 minutes for ourselves. Each tribe name below is a parable of a month and a name by which we praise Christ and how we live every minute of every day foursquare.)  

    Rev 7:4  And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. (Every minute, every hour, every day, every month, every year is of Christ, The Prince of God. Each name of each tribe is an offshoot of Christ and for Christ. Tribe meaning offshoot, which means “a thing that originated or developed from something else”, like a vine. “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.”. So each minute, each day, each month is a servant of Christ. We are bound by time right now and serving Christ as servants. We cannot do anything without Him, literally. So when we see each name of the tribes of Israel they tell a parable of how Christ is served in this eon. Juda- Christ “He shall be praised”, Rueben-“behold a son”, Gad- “a troop” a gathering=church, Asher-“blessed”, Nepthalim – “wrestling”, meaning our wrerstling is coming to an end, witnessed by the next name, Manasses – “forgetting”, Simeon- “Listening”, Levi- “joined”, Issacar- “reward”, Zabulan-“exalted”, Joseph-“let him add”, Benjamin-“son of the right hand”. So when you put them together you get, “Christ shall be praised, as we behold a son in the gathering of the church within us. We are blessed from the wrestling between flesh and spirit, as we forget this life. We now listen to Christ, are joined to Him, rewarded by Him as He is exalted, and let Him add to us daily because He is The Son of The right hand of The Father”. All of this is the 144,000 – 1440 minutes of every day when lived by the two witnesses, loving God with all my heart soul and mind and my neighbor as myself. Israel means “God prevails”. And He does so in every minute of every day.)

    Rev 7:5  Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand. 

    Rev 7:6  Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand. 

    Rev 7:7  Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. 

    Rev 7:8  Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand. 

    Rev 7:9  After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; 

    Rev 7:10  And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. (when we get down to every detail in every second of our life, it is an innumerable amount that say “salvation to our God which sits upon the throne and unto The Lamb”.

    Rev 7:11  And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, 

    Rev 7:12  Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.(Everything in me falls down and worships God as supreme, I claim nothing as mine, not even what I called, “my sin.” An innumerable multitude that exists and existed in the four square of me, in messages represented by angels, in days represented by elders and four beasts representing the foursquare of me, all of me, in every detail falls to the glory of God. All is sacrificed as from Christ and for Christ and I am left as naked, without shame because I am covered in Christ, covered in the white robe, white light of Christ. To be unclothed from anything that I considered to be from me, is to be naked and yet clothed in Christ. “And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.”.) 

    Rev 7:13  And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? (then one day/elder I get it, And the message comes to me from Christ , “do you know what all this was about – every detail of your life? And I say “Sir, you know” and He says the next four verses to me.)

    Rev 7:14  And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 

    Rev 7:15  Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night (24 hours) in his temple (my heart): and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. 

    Rev 7:16  They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. 

    Rev 7:17  For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. (When we really come to know the truth all spiritual tears will be wiped away. No more spiritual hunger or thirst, no more tribulations wrestling with this ugly flesh and no more judgment, heat of the sun. All will be good because I will see God on the throne loving me with every detail in the good/day or night/evil. No more fear, no more pain, no more sorrow, all will be seen perfectly right in what ever I had to live out. Christ will be seen as leading us as lambs to living water/living doctrine that allows us to see as we are seen.) 

    Rev 8:1  And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. (When we are given to see the seventh day as Christ, as the rest of God in Christ, we have silence. The seventh seal is seeing the day of rest as every day, not a literal 7th day. My heavens go silent, all is at rest, we get a short break but because Christ is doing a quick work in us, the trumpets are getting ready to sound. The trumpets are revealings of things in us that are still needing to be recreated. The trumpets are the seals, the seals are the trumpets. They are the unsealing, the revealing, the sounding of the things I did not hear or see about who I am and Who Christ is, was and will be. The trumpets are preparing us for the death of our old man, the nations within us, our selfish, unloving first Adam, who brought death to my earth through self love. “For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.” We have already been sealed by God, so what is coming will not rattle us to such a degree that we fall. The trumpets are going to sound but the truth will hold us up and we shall not be shaken.)

    Rev 8:2  And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. (True love reverberates through life like a trumpet, it shakes everything that we ever knew. It changes us, reshapes us, and recreates in us a trueness we never had before. We give everything up for it, we deny ourselves, and make a new person for love. Love is a complete message, a rest, seven, and at the same time causes us to work harder than we have ever worked before and do it for love. True love is as trumpets bringing change to a world where all we ever knew was selfishness.) 

    Rev 8:3  And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. (The altar is where we see God’s love for us. The altar is where sacrifice is made for true love, blood is spilt, our heart. True love is gold. To know or experience true love there must be a sacrifice on my part, blood must be spilt. God showed His love for us by sacrificing His Son Jesus Christ for us. Each angel that stands before the altar/heart is a message that comes to us from the heart of God, comes to us in the way of sacrifice on our part. To have works of righteousness we must die to self, which is loving God with all my heart, soul and mind and my neighbor as myself, is sacrificing my desires for yours. Each time a message is brought to me that I must put down my desires for yours it is putting an animal on the altar to be burnt, my beast, my flesh. Love is a consuming fire and it takes fire to consume a carcase on the altar. If God’s love is in me then I will sacrifice myself on the altar because I am consumed with the fire of God’s love, which will be displayed in my being consumed with love for you. The destruction of my old earth comes by fire, not water. “For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.” My earth was once covered by the water of God’s word and it brought me to a place to see God as always angry at me. The word by itself, without being seen through the eyes of love/spirit, drowns us from ever knowing God as love -the difference of being baptized in the baptism of John and the baptism of Jesus Christ. One is based on repentance for one to come and one is based on repentance from self to The One Who has come, wed my earth by selfish desires are destroyed. This is what the next verse is saying “the temple of God was opened” in my new heavens, new mind, new spirit and there is “seen in His temple the ark of His testament”. The ark is my heart and above my heart are the two cherubims/two witnesses, whose wings span over my heart touching each other. The law is contained in the two witnesses, The law was placed in the Ark of my heart wthich is being baptised into Christ’s selfless love. One is by the letter about an image to come and one brings the image of Christ upon us and we begin to speak in a new language. “And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism. Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.” Like a pharisee, who knows scripture, can quote it but only sees it through eyes of laws based on do’s and don’ts, it doesn’t change him, he still speaks the same. “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. I receive not honour from men. But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.” All I heard after being flooded by the word was judgment, judgment, and more judgment. I heard very little about love. We lived our lives under the cloud of being judged by God but not judged out of love, but judged by an austere God Who could not be pleased no matter what I did. Every judgment by God is done out of love, not an angry austere god who cannot be pleased. This is the god that has ruled me all my life. Never praising, but only correcting. These thoughts are why and how Satanic doctrine gets an advantage over us. It presents God as a harsh God that cannot be pleased and for the slightest mistake you can expect wrath. But the smoke of God’s love is always the same, die to myself and experience true love. Forgiveness is the sign of true love, of the true law of the spirit. The letter of the law or a law does not show love. Forgiveness shows love. “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”; “But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.”.)

    Rev 8:4  And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand. (Incense gives a sweet aroma. So, the sweet aroma of true love prays for forgiveness for myself and for others. If I am forgiving then my prayer will always be, “forgive me/them, I/they know not what they do”, which will be true love. True love will burn up my selfishness and create a new heaven and new earth wherein dwells righteousness. I know who I am and what I am without true love, therefore I can forgive them because, as me, they know not what they do without true love.) 

    Rev 8:5  And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. (True love is fire and it will consume my earth until there is no selfishness in it. I will begin to hear voices I’ve never heard, thunderings I never heard, lightnings I never saw and it will be an earthquake that will shake the very foundation upon which my earth was founded, selfishness.)

    Rev 8:6  And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. 

    Rev 8:7  The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. (Men are trees, “I see men as trees”. Grass is the glory of man, “For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:”. Hail sweeps away lies and when hail is mingled with fire it represents that I sacrifice my old man’s lies by seeing the truth about who I am and who you are. “Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place”. Love does not hold grudges because it sacrifices my own law. My own laws are lies and not true judgment. When true love is cast to my earth then I am sacrificed to my own hurt for you. I put others before myself and in doing so I am seeing you as more important than myself. If you are more important than myself, I have been tied to the altar and consumed. My self/tree is burnt up and all the glory I gave myself is burnt up like grass. I sacrifice myself and my glory for you.)

    Rev 8:8  And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; (The mountain of love is cast (being cast) into my earth and it kills off a third of me. Not all at once, but little by little. My sea of false doctrines begins to become unclean to me (like blood) and I see it as a waste. Parts of me begin to die, which is represented by creatures and ships.)

    Rev 8:9  And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. 

    Rev 8:10  And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; (I always thought this star was Satan but indeed it is not. The Star is the love of God, Christ, that begins to make my old doctrines bitter to me. It makes my waters, my judgments bitter and undrinkable, wormwood. I die to myself because I no longer can drink these bitter waters. Bitterness comes from thinking I’ve been wronged, my law has been broken and there is no forgiveness because I do not recognize who I am and who you are. If I see myself as you (both of us made from the same lump of clay) then forgiveness comes easy. But If I see myself as better than you and you as purposely (with a freewill outside of God) doing evil to me then I become bitter. Bitterness can only come when there is no love.) 

    Rev 8:11  And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. 

    Rev 8:12  And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. (The light of my laws, the sun, moon and stars do not shine as bright when I am given to see love. And even better than that, what I once saw as darkness is not as dark anymore because I truly see that my neighbor cannot help do and be what they do because they are not their own god. This truth humbles us when we realize that God, out of all of creation, according to His own will, predestined us to be recipients of His love and eternal life, not based on anything we have done to deserve His love but solely based on His own will. “Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” “In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:”

    I am coming to see the magnitude of grace, a love shed upon us, that pulls us up out of the unknown and reveals God’s true nature to us. God is love. Love is not based on what I do for Him but based on His own benevolence towards a creature that does not know, or can know what true love is. If I have received such benevolence towards me then that same spirit will show towards others, not because anyone deserves love, but because they can offer nothing in return. I cannot offer God anything for what He has done for me but I can offer it to you. “Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants which owed him a hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by throat, saying pay me that thou owest. And his fellow servant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt. So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done. Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.”.) 

    Rev 8:13  And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! (My beast nature believes that if I love the way scripture tells me to love I will be a whipping post for my neighbor, woe after woe after woe. I would be taken advantage of, seen as a fool, and everyone would just walk over me. Because I don’t see God as love and thus my protector, parts of my world still rely on my own 10 horns/laws. It is hard and scary to give everything. Because I think if I give everything then I will be taken advantage of, my neighbor will use love as an excuse to do wrong and wipe their mouth and say I have done no wrong and you have to forgive me. And at times they will because God has ordained it be so, and we must forgive, to be forgiven. But if I truly see God as love and my protector and the Author of all things….if I know that He is shaping and molding ALL things according to His Will and His Will for me is to know His love and be a conduit to others, then I will know that whatever situation He has Authored in my life through events and others is for my good…even the evil (selfishness) that I do/have done (which works a good in revealing to me what still has to be converted) and the evil done to me (providing the opportunity to learn true forgiveness which results from total reliance on His righteousness, not my own because I have none.) It is in this way that He recreates us in His image. This is to know Christ who reveals to us the Father Who is love and Eternal Life. When He gives us to believe this, He will also give it to us to give all and expect nothing in return. The Spirit will enable me to “turn the other cheek” and “be defrauded”. True love always hopes and never thinks evil, true love will always expect the best, not the worst. It is a woe to my old man because he is dying to everything he ever thought kept him alive. True love is where you offer someone forgiveness when the law says they should be stoned. True love offers forgiveness where forgiveness is against law. “Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”; “Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.”. This is true love. Offering forgiveness when the law says you deserve to die. The letter of the law is right but the spirit of the law triumphs over the letter. “And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ (everything that was held against us is paid for in Christ’s death.): Buried with him in baptism (buried in Christ’s selfless love), wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God (risen in Christ’s selfless love to others), who hath raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” ; “Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.”)

    Rev 9:1  And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. (When I am shown what true love is, a key is given to me to see within myself. Within me is a bottomless pit of lies that has no bounds in false love, false humility and selfishness. Within me is nothing but smoke and mirrors. To love yourself above everyone else, true selfishness, is the sign of a lazy glutton, who would never lift a finger to truly work at love. Love is a work, a daily work, the hardest work we will ever do because it requires the death of self. So, it is why the smoke of my very own false doctrine and selfishness burns my eyes from seeing clearly. “As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him”. A sluggard does not want to work because it causes him to exert himself, die to self. Smoke hides the light of Christ and keeps true love from entering in me. This is why we are given the key to see within ourselves, to see the unclean doctrines that move us to self worship, lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and the pride of life, all that is in my world and how I love my world more than anyone or anything. “Love not the world (ourselves), neither the things that are in the world (our world). If any man love the world (himself greater than his neighbor), the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever”. We cannot love God and Mammon/ourselves, which, mammon, the love of self, is our true riches if we are not born from above.)

    Rev 9:2  And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. (This is seeing our own smoke of selfishness and how it blocked the love of God and the persuasion of the spirit of the love of God. God has brought us out of our own world, an iron furnace, where we were kept captive by the selfish doctrine of Satan to love self above all others. This love of self is the greatest and most damning law that we hold. “But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt (our world), to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.” ; “Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently“. The word used in this verse “unfeigned”, means undisguised, sincere and is from G5271 which means, play a part, or pretend. Self love always plays a part of loving someone other than self but it’s exactly that, only a part being played, acted out, under disguise of caring when every act of the flesh is only for itself. Like Joe my dog, he whimpers and whines and lays down with his face on the ground as though he is poor and needy, when in fact all he wants is food. After being fed he walks off with his head in the sky and pees on the first tree and starts barking in the air, his humility is gone as soon as he gets what he wants. He is as God created Him, a beast without regard to anyone or anything except self preservation. This is what we are without the spirit of God, wolves in sheep’s clothing. “But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed”, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. ” 

    Rev 9:3  And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. (Locusts feed on grass. The glory of man is said to be as grass in Peter. Locusts are the truths of God that feed on or expose our own lies about our own glory that were in a bottomless pit. We would rather feed on ourselves, like the serpent eating dust, eating ourselves, loving and living off of and for ourselves rather than love someone more than myself. Their power is to feed on the lie of my own glory. They seem as an evil because they are constantly stinging me when I feed on my own glory. All glory is from God, I don’t have any glory, so when I take credit for something I am stung by the truth. The parts of me that are still unconverted are stung by the truth.) 

    Rev 9:4  And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. (These are the lies that exist within me, feed on me to such a degree that it ends up hurting me, causing me all kinds of grief, as my life testifies to. I am in a sense hurting myself, cutting myself like the man on the island of the Gaderenes. I can’t see that feeding on my own glory is hurting me. I see it in some degree but can’t stop because I can’t stop putting myself before others. I want to die to myself but I can’t. I think I have learned something after my last mistake but it doesn’t take long before a new lie about my glory amasses with the other lies and the locust feed on them, exposing them.” The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands”. It says that these locusts, that sting like scorpions, should only hurt “those men” which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. The word “men” is anthropos, meaning mankind as a whole and it says in the definition, “to include all human individuals, with the added notion of weakness, by which man is led into a mistake or prompted to sin”. What is hurt are the parts of me that are not yet loving sincerely or loving with a feigned love. Feigned love is not a truthful love, but a love that operates with an intention or motive disquised by a lie. This tells me that true love is not everywhere in us, because we are loving the other with a hidden intention. That hidden intention is a motive to pretend I love you so in turn I will get what I want for myself. It is the principle and law of the entire outward world and the beast kingdom of which Christ is calling us out of. The law of “scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” and “tit for tat”. We have been immersed in this doctrine since birth and it’s a totally natural way for the flesh to live. It disguises itself as true love and at first is hard for us to even recognize it as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. But it is anathema to the operation of the Spirit, which is to lay down your life, your pride, your desires, your perceived god-hood for the good/life of another. True, unfeigned love is kind and patient even when my desires are not met. The purpose of the locust is to sting us in the areas of our life where we are practicing feigned love or self-love. Those stings come in the form of mood swings, frustrations, depression, angst, etc. – any unpleasant mental, emotional and physical state. Think of God’s question to Cain when He enquires about his unacceptable sacrifice. “Why has your countenance fallen?” Why are you angry and upset? When we do a half-hearted work for others to fulfill one of our own laws and please self, the result will not engender peace and joy if God has sent the locusts through our life. The locusts will hurt those parts of me that do not have the seal of the love of Christ in their mind. ” For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: “.)

    Rev 9:5  And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. (This sting of the locust torments me and makes me desire death because it leaves me burning and stinging with the truth I know about myself. Every work done without true love receives a judgment and that judgment reveals itself in my mood. If I go away from the work with a box being checked, a law fulfilled, it will manifest in bitterness within myself and leave me burning inside from the judgment of God. If a work is done in unfeigned love for my neighbor, I have nothing to be tormented about. God is not unjust to forget to reward us for truly loving the other. Joy and peace comes in the giving. God gets joy out of giving. “But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. “.)

    Rev 9:6  And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. (God is The One Who has sent the locusts to sting me and the stings end up making me want to die to self. I desire to die to self but I cannot because it is not in me, in and of myself, to die to the selfishness in which I have governed my life. God has sent these locusts, which are glory eating monsters to me, stinging me every time I glorify myself over my neighbor in my conscience. They are a destruction over me, destroying monsters, which the name of the king over them means, destruction, destroying angel. It is a destroying message to my flesh. That message is love my neighbor over myself, which means I must sacrifice myself daily. I must die to self but I can’t.)

    Rev 9:7  And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. (This destroying message is seen as a power that would be a gold crown to me if I were able to receive it. I know that the message is a crown of gold and it is stronger than me, but my flesh resists the message, like a horse. I see it as a face of a man, but I am not that man, Christ is. I don’t have it in me of myself to die to my flesh, deny myself daily, hourly, minute by minute, to love God and my neighbor as myself every 1440 minutes of a 24 hour period (144,000.)

    Rev 9:8  And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. (Hair is a parable of glory in one fashion or another. Corinthians says that the woman’s hair is her glory and it typifies the glory of her husband. “the woman is the glory of the man.”;” But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.”. The glory that exists in the message of dying to self covers my sin of selfishness. And this message is a devouring message because it is a message that tears my flesh as lion’s teeth would a prey. There is righteous glory in becoming like Christ and dying to my own desires, for you. On the other side of the coin there is unrighteous glory in my flesh, in my lack of dying to self. The destroying message that is sent into my world is eating up my glory like locusts eat grass. My glory fades, Christ’s glory does not. My desires are fleshly, Christ’s desires are spiritual. “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.”. What is it that I cannot do if I am led by a law of self preservation, tit for tat, doing just enough to get what I want? Die. I cannot die, even though I search for it daily, hourly, I cannot quit putting myself before all others. This truth of the locusts that are eating up my glory, showing me where I am being selfish on a minute by minute basis cannot be killed. Once it has been loosed it will do what it was sent by God to do, torment me until I finally submit in all areas. Then when all power and authority in my world has been conquered by Christ’s message of love, Then God is seen truly as The All in all. Christ is seen in my flesh as a destroying angel, Who has sent His message to me in a minute by minute basis with a power so strong that I cannot stop it. I see it as a crown of gold to die to self but at the same time I resist it in every turn. But it cannot be stopped because over its heart is a breastplate of iron. The sound of the message is heard in all areas of my life, many horses, many chariots, running through my life showing me where I need to die to my own glory.)

    Rev 9:9  And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. 

    Rev 9:10  And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. (The tail is just a message that is left behind after the message has been sent forth, like the burnt gasses in the sky after a plane. The tail follows the head as this message follows Christ. Scripture says that the ancient in me is the head of me and the lies that come from that head is the tail. “The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.”. So, from where my flesh stands it sees Christ as a head of lies that is telling me I am a dead man in all areas of my life because I am a selfish beast that exists every seven days naming them after what I desire and am led by my own laws (ten horns) that govern me and everything and everyone around me. I am a beast that has risen out of the world’s sea of false doctrine having seven heads and ten horns. The truth hurts me five months, until that part of me is finally sacrificed. The number five has the most mentioning in scripture connected to sacrificing, 5 rams, 5 goats, etc. The locusts are teaching me how to die and sacrifice myself for another.

    Rev 9:11  And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. (To my old man Christ is a thief, a destroyer of my life. He has come in the night, when I am without knowledge and stolen everything in my house. He is a destroyer and the Hidden message of the total sacrifice of myself is a total destructive message to my old man. “But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.”; “All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers (every doctrine I ever had): but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief (how I see Christ to my world) cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life (but I don’t see it as life but death to my world), and that they might have it more abundantly.I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.” Before we knew the truth or started coming to know the truth, we did not see Christ as offering us everything. We saw Him as a thief, coming to steal, kill and destroy all of me. Our flesh teaches/receives a message from the bottomless pit where Christ is presented as a thief. But, the truth of Who Christ is teaches me that when I am given to give up all of me, I receive more than I gave up. “Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.” Christ has come to set me free from seeing God as a thief and having life and having life more abuntantly. “The thief (the way my flesh saw God’s message of love) cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” What I was taught all my life was that I needed to hang on to all that I knew or had learned within me. But, what Christ is saying to us is, “give up all that you think you know, were, are, or will be and you will have life and have it more abunantly. I am not a thief if you see Me as everything. I am a thief to your old man who thinks he is God. Sacrifice all of yourself to gain all of Christ. Where does this message of WOE to my old man come from? From the altar, where sacrifice is made to God. This is why Christ preached a message of no works. Because He is telling me to sacrifice my works on the altar, like Abraham did to Issac, and I can have everything. Sacrifice all that I claim as mine and I will receive 100 fold more than I ever had. I will know true love.)  

    Rev 9:12  One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter. 

    Rev 9:13  And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, (The message comes from the altar, where sacrifice is made.) 

    Rev 9:14  Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. (The last day of me, the sixth message, the sixth angel, releasing the message of total sacrifice to all four corners of my earth. A huge woe to my earth, an earth shattering message. A message that has been prepared for us to receive at this given time, meant in the words that say that the message was “prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month and a year”, it was prepared for us to receive it when we receive it, today. Today is the day of The LORD. That message is the message of true love, give up everything you think you deserve, have learned, or think you are and Christ will give us more than we can imagine. Stop fighting for your rights because the old man doesn’t have rights, he’s not a god. We are going to experience real freedom in the surrendering of all rights. The waters from “the good and abounding river” -Euphrates is now given to us, which are a curse to the old man to love someone more than himself.)

    Rev 9:15  And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. 

    Rev 9:16  And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. (Two hundred thousand thousand is not literally two hundred million but a huge number of ways The LORD is telling us to die to self. It is an army that is too large for us to comprehend. Every second of every day, metaphorically, for your whole life. Every second, every minute of every hour of every day of our life is to be sacrificed to God and my neighbor. Two hundred thousand thousand, every second of my life.)

    Rev 9:17  And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(This is the way the message looks to my old man, as fire, brimstone, roaring, fire and smoke. When in fact what is being offered is life, peace, joy, and abundance. Christ is seen as a thief to my old man’s RIGHTS but to my new man He is as a Shepard leading me to green grass. Die to my rights and receive everthing free of charge. I can have it all when I give it all up. The response to freedom is as the response the Jewish leaders gave Stephen, they gnashed at him with their teeth and stoned him to death.) 

    Rev 9:18  By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. (A third part of me that is killed by the sword, smoke and brimstone is a good thing. To die is to have life. But a third doesn’t mean a third, it means all of me. A third part is the part that is refined and made a new man. “And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.”. It is on the third day that we rise from the sea and begin producing fruit. “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day”. So, a third is a good time when we are dying to self and the new earth is rising from the sea, and then producing fruit. It is how we see the message, as a thief or as God giving us everything.)

    Rev 9:19  For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. (The message that comes from God is seen as a hurting message to my old way of life. The message is seen by all as a serpent and as hurting the person’s rights. This why the Pharisees said Christ had a devil, they were comparing Him to Satan, a serpent. “And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered. But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils. And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven. But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth. If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub. And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges. But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.”. In the world of the first Adam we have “God given rights” and no one can violate those rights. In the new earth we don’t have rights because rights are the knowledge of what’s good for me and what’s evil for me intimating that God will do me evil. And no one, in the first Adam’s world, has the right to do me evil, NOT EVEN GOD, I HAVE RIGHTS. To see God as The All , in all of me and to see that He created me for good not for evil, is to let go of my rights and have an abundant life in Christ as my Good Shepherd Who is leading me to pools of water and fresh pasture. We will lack nothing, want for nothing. “A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever”.)

    Rev 9:20  And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 

    Rev 9:21  Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. (As we have talked about, not everyone is given life, first the natural then the spiritual, then comparing spiritual with spiritual. We understand that not everyone that has ever lived is given eternal life, just as not everything in me goes on to eternal life. “Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.”;”Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” The first part of me that came out of Egypt dies in the wilderness and never sees the promised land, but my new man, the offspring (something that comes from something else) of my old man, sees it and possesses it. What and Who I was up until I was given to see across the Jordan was needed to get me TO THE JORDAN. But, as Moses didn’t get to cross (the law without love and mercy), so none of the old man gets to cross. I can look out amongst the world and see my old man walking around thinking he knows so much yet is oblivious to the truth. He must die that I can live. “Ye know nothing at all, Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man (the 1st Adam) should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.”; “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” One Adam must die, the first Adam, that the second Adam can live. My old man, old nation, must die and never be resurrected, all rights relinquished, so that the second Adam, the second nation within me, can go on. The death of an old world for the life of a new world, one sacrificed for the other. My first world did not know what love was, is or will be, but through its death my new world is beginning to understand what sacrifice is. The two witnesses, a witness to the death of what love isn’t to the witness of what love is. One is sacrificed for the life of the other. My old man cannot love God with all his heart, soul and mind and his neighbor as himself, but the new man can. This is what is taking place within us. Showing us that the old man will kill the witnesses against him and the new man will raise them from the dead as they are created to love the Lord God and his neighbor as himself.

    Rev 10:1  And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: (After seeing in the last verses of chapter 9, that no matter what torment my old man was subjected to, he will not repent, I see Christ’s message in looking over my life. Christ is clothed in a cloud of witnesses in how He watched over me. The rainbow still represents His promise to never destroy us, our new man, but shine His light upon us as He walks through this life. He carries our book in His hand, and stands upon the sea of false doctrine and the earth which rose from that sea. He cries out to us that our future has been planned, The seven thunders, the close of all things is at hand. We want to know how it plays out but we cannot until the time of the thunders, which will dispel what’s left of my old man. How will it all end? When or how will we walk away? How will we be changed? In a twinkling of an eye at the last trump. When the last trumpet has sounded, the last bit of truth we are given then our time here is no longer needed, time as we have known it will come to an end. We will have been taught the mystery of God and we can then step into another realm where we will live in total peace. But first we must taste of the bitterness of the little book. It’s called “A little book” because the time is short, things are progressing faster. When He has brought us to this place we will REALLY see that God created our heavens and the things therein, our earth and the things therein, and our seas and the things therein. The truth is sweet in our mouth but bitter to our old man as we will see in the proceeding verses.)

    Rev 10:2  And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, 

    Rev 10:3  And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. 

    Rev 10:4  And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. 

    Rev 10:5  And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, 

    Rev 10:6  And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: 

    Rev 10:7  But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. 

    Rev 10:8  And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. 

    Rev 10:9  And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. 

    Rev 10:10  And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. 

    Rev 10:11  And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings. 

    The two witnesses represent the two commandments of Christ in which all the other commandments are fulfilled: Love The LORD thy God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind and the second to love your neighbour as yourself. This witness is in us, inward, if we are the children of God;

    1Jn 5:10  He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. 

    Mat 22:35  Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 

    Mat 22:36  Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 

    Mat 22:37  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 

    Mat 22:38  This is the first and great commandment. 

    Mat 22:39  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 

    Mat 22:40  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.(the two witnesses)

    Zec 4:12  And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves? (all the law and prophets hanging on these two witnesses. If we have the witness it is signified by emptying all of the golden oil, love, OUT OF OURSELVES.

    Zec 4:13  And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord. 

    Zec 4:14  Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth. (these two commandments are the two witnesses that are the anointed ones that stand by the Lord of my whole earth. My whole earth revolves around these two witnesses and what doesn’t, shall be killed.)

    Rev 11:1  And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. (We are to measure ourselves – judge ourselves, we are the temple and the altar is our heart, the place from where sacrifice is made.)

    1 cor.11:31 “For if we would judge ourselves…”, the temple, 1 cor.6:19 “…your body is the temple…”, 1 Kg. 12:27 “If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord…”

    (How much of ourselves obeys the two witnesses to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul and mind and to love our neighbour as ourselves? How much of us is sacrificing ourselves for each other in the temple and how much of us is in the court, seeking self above the two witnesses? The answer to these questions is the result of eating the little book. In our mouth it is sweet as honey, good and acceptable to love God and our neighbor as ourselves. But, when measured, it becomes bitter to our will because we see how much of us is still in the courtyard, how much of us is still given over to the gentile, who is treading the holy city – the truth. How much of ourselves we put before the other.)

    “Rev 10:8  And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. 

    Rev 10:9  And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. 

    Rev 10:10  And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. (Col_3:19  Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. (Christ does not become bitter in loving us.)

    Rev 10:11  And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”

    There is still much in me that needs to be witnessed to, and that needs to receive and extend love, and that will be seen by these two witnesses as bitter as eating the little book. The little book is the last of our story, Rev.20:12-the books were opened. The seven thunders are the trials that are used by these two witnesses to dispel the gentile that’s left in me, 1 Sam.2:10 “The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed. The time of the gentiles is our time of seeing how we have been and continue to be in areas of our life disobedient to the truth. It’s the time we will tread under foot the holy city, the truth, and each other.]

    Rev 11:2  But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. 

    Rev 11:3  And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. [Clothed in humility we will witness to all that is in us to love the Lord our God with all our heart and to love our neighbor as ourselves for a symbolic 3 1/2 years, the time of Christ’s ministry on the literal earth and the time of Christ’s ministry within us, the time of the gentile, forty two months. This is when the man of sin is revealed within us sitting on the throne as God. Pilate represents the Gentile in me, the part of me who knows Christ in me is innocent and His message is the Truth, but hands Him over (and my new man) to the hordes of doctrines in me to shut the voices up, yelling in me…crucify Him, crucify Him. They desire the things of the world in us, the lust of the eyes to see things the way I’ve been taught my whole life, the lust of the flesh to have dominion over others in a judgmental way, and the pride of life to be right. We desire a murderer, our old man, Satan, over Christ. We would rather serve our own flesh’s yellings and desires than to see Christ as King and each other as holy and without blame. (Luke 10;27-28,2 Thess.2:1-4,Lk.23:18-25, Jn.8:44). We want to be seen and heard, like sin.

    Rev 11:4  These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth

    I would rather stay angry and accept my own judgment as right, than to accept the bitter truth that Christ is telling me to obey. Love God despite what He has presented before me to obey, deny self’s lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and the pride of life and see what is before me as God’s predestined plan. To swallow this is to deny self in all ways and put the other before myself. In doing so I am to deny my own desires and love my LORD God with all my heart, soul, and mind and deny the opposite, lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life. To see God as All in all , to love Him as All in all and to love my neighbour as myself is sweet in theory, but a bitterness to my own will. I scratch your itch, you scratch mine, is the law of the flesh, I get what I want, you get what you want. But this is totally opposite of the truth. I scratch your itch then I scratch my own itch by rubbing against a tree as you walk off. But God has ordained it that me scratching your itch is obeying Him and what your neighbour does is between him and God. What the flesh sees as disrespect and unloving is the bitterness that it gets from a lifetime of believing tit for tat. Anger can only come from my pride being stung from a situation that didn’t go my way, the flesh’s way.

    Gen 4:1  And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. 

    Gen 4:2  And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 

    Gen 4:3  And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. 

    Gen 4:4  And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: 

    Gen 4:5  But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 

    Gen 4:6  And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? 

    Gen 4:7  If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. 

    If you take the Lord’s correction in stride then you do well but, if you don’t then you become angry. Anger is sin lying at the door making sure our flesh (pride) is taken care of. Sin wants my flesh to be king, not Christ. And we are given over for a time to ruling our kingdom of sin by giving it what it wants: anger, bitterness and wrath when it is disrespected. This is what the story of Israel wanting a king is about:

    1Sa 8:4  Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, 

    1Sa 8:5  And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations

    1Sa 8:6  But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. 

    1Sa 8:7  And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them

    1Sa 8:8  According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee

    1Sa 8:9  Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them

    1Sa 8:10  And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king. 

    1Sa 8:11  And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. 

    1Sa 8:12  And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. 

    1Sa 8:13  And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. 

    1Sa 8:14  And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. 

    1Sa 8:15  And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. 

    1Sa 8:16  And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. 

    1Sa 8:17  He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. 

    1Sa 8:18  And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day. 

    As pilate gave Christ to the people to shut them up and to stop a riot so we give in to sin’s demands and in doing so we are ruled by it. We are given the delusion that we are ruling as a king but the people are ruling me, people being the hordes of demanding self worshipping doctrines that actually make me a slave.

    Mat 20:25  But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. 

    Mat 20:26  But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; 

    Mat 20:27  And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: 

    Mat 20:28  Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. 

    Sin demands that it be seen and that its needs be met. Conversely to be a king you must serve. Sin’s desire is for your flesh to be seen and served but the truth says that to be a ruler you must not be seen. Sin is unseen, desire is unseen, but it wants to be seen by how you display it. Sin wants your flesh to get the attention and thereby it is satisfied. No kingdom wants a ruler who is not seen. All people want a king or ruler who best represents them in appearance and in speech. To truly rule over sin is to not allow yourself to be seen and to not serve yourself before another. If people were sin (and they are) you would rule over them by not lifting yourself up but quietly giving them what is best for them but doing it unseen. God gives to the entire world every day and rules over them and is unseen in a human form. He quietly gives us all what we need and we loudly scream that it was us who did it and we want and desire more. Flesh without the spirit of Christ in it, moving it is the personification of sin. Flesh desires God and He rules over it, yet it doesn’t know it. Every second He keeps hearts beating, lungs working, gives hearing, taste, smell, and feeling, He is the single source of life. Not one second can be added or subtracted from a life by flesh’s actions of self preservation. The Lord gives, the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. There is no in between. It’s not the Lord gives some AND my flesh gives some by exercising and eating right.

    Mat 6:25  Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 

    Mat 6:26  Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 

    Mat 6:27  Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 

    Mat 6:28  And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 

    Mat 6:29  And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 

    Mat 6:30  Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 

    Mat 6:31  Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 

    Mat 6:32  (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek: our flesh) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 

    Mat 6:33  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 

    Mat 6:34  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the dayisthe evil thereof

    There will be enough evil today from the desires of self glorification and self satisfaction and self preservation to deal with than to think about tomorrow. Today the flesh will be screaming for something it desires, something in which it will be honored, and it must be dealt with by silence or with the verses we just read. God will give us every second of this day what we NEED. If we buck against these two witnesses then we will be chastised because we did not seek first the kingdom of God but our own desires, which is called sin. Sin is lust of the eyes for something it does not have, lust of the flesh to satisfy what the eyes see and in the end it will result in the pride of life, satisfaction in having more than what God had given it. An acronym for S.I.N. is Satan, Influenced, Nature. It is the hissing of the serpent that gives us the ideas we have. The hissings that tell us we’re not satisfied and deserve more and in doing so can be our own god, things can be better….”for my flesh”. These things that you see can make you happy and in being happy you can have the pride of your life. Pride in that it is your life and you made it what it is. If you do not satisfy your lusts then Satan, i.e. the doctrines we learned from the world that rose as a dragon from the sea of lies in the world, attacks your flesh by screaming to us crucify him, crucify him and tries to cause us to curse God. Accepting what is put before us is doing well, grumbling is not doing well. When we are grumbling, sin is hissing at the door of our pride telling us that it’s not fair. “you’re not getting what you want”, “you deserve more”. These are the hissings of the serpent to goad us into killing Christ, killing the two witnesses. God did not accept the works of our hands in religion but presented Christ to us. We don’t like that our works are not accepted so we kill Christ. That’s what the literal Jews did, what Cain did to Abel, they did to Christ. What the Jews did to Christ we did to Christ in our own lives, therefore the earth does not yield to us her strength to overcome. So the earth doesn’t yield what we want, so we make a religion, a city above the earth/babylon, in our heavens, and call it by our own name. And it is there we worship a god after our own likeness. It is where we amass a city on a hill against the truth called Armageddon, where we fight against the truth.The earth not yielding her strength is the same as “you’ll know them by their fruits”. If we have received the truth then the earth yields her strength and we grow the fruits of the Spirit: peace, love, joy (Ga. 5:22). If we do not, then a city is made above the earth, called religion/Babylon/Armageddon, and we talk a good show but produce no works.

    Gen 4:17  And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch

    Tit 1:16  They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

    2Pe 2:18  For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 

    2Pe 2:19  While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 

    Rev 17:5  And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYL-ON (you can know her by her constant babbling, she babels on and on and on about everything and anything that is for her flesh.)THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

    Gen 11:1  And the whole earth (my whole earth) was of one language, and of one speech. 

    Gen 11:2  And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 

    Gen 11:3  And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 

    Gen 11:4  And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 

    Gen 11:5  And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 

    Gen 11:6  And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 

    Gen 11:7  Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. 

    Gen 11:8  So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 

    Gen 11:9  Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 

    The two witnesses, love God with all your heart, soul, and mind and love your neighbor as yourself tell us the opposite of what our eyes, flesh and pride tell us. God and You come first, then me. The hissings of Satan that desire the things that be of flesh, tell us that it’s not fair that we don’t come first before the other. Like the worldly saying “you’ve got to take care of yourself first”. If I don’t get what I want for my flesh then I deserve to get mad or “my countenance falls”, “I go down”, and bring you into judgment by my laws. God tells me that not getting what my flesh wants is a sacrifice, putting the other first is a sacrifice, a sacrifice of my flesh. This is the sacrifice that pleases God because it is the Spirit that Christ had. He never put his flesh before God, He always did what The Father desired, all the way up to the death of His literal flesh.What was it and how did He do what the Father desired? He sacrificed His flesh for those whom The Father had given Him (Joh 17:12  While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. ). If this testimony of the witnesses is received then we are accepted, but, like Cain, we do not accept it all the time (because this is a process of creating the new man, not a one and done), because we are still putting ourselves first at times. When we reject this witness in any situation then we are driven to the land of Nod, “wandering”, “vagrancy”, and the root to the word is “mourning”, our countenance falls. And the same thing happens to us, that happened to Cain (who is us) when we don’t accept the witness against our lack of sacrifice, we are hurting the witnesses, killing Able/Christ.

    Rev 11:5  And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed

    Gen 4:15  And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. 

    Hurting the witnesses is putting myself first before my Brother, killing the truth that to serve God is to serve my Brother as myself. When we do not serve each other but serve ourselves first, fire proceeds out of the mouth of the witnesses in the form of the scriptures being brought to our minds and we suffer in the land of Nod. We must be killed by truth as we reject the tesimony of the witnesses, to love God with all my heart, soul and , mind and my neighboor as myself. Christ spent His life dying to Himself and serving others, this was Him obeying the witnesses.

    Mat 20:28  Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister (serve), and to give his life a ransom for many. 

    Luk 22:27  For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth

    If my attention is given to serving you, my wants and needs will be put aside and there will be no reason to go down. Following Christ is dying to self and putting the other before myself. When we hurt or kill the witnesses we are hurt in the same manner.

    Rev 11:6  These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. 

    The power to shut up heaven is the power to not allow the word to come to us and console us.

    Deu 32:2  My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

    The power to turn the water to blood is the power to turn all that I love into something unclean and in turn cause many plagues in my world. As I judge true love as unclean, then in turn what I desired is then turned unclean. What I bound in my heavens towards my neighbor, lack of true love, was bound in my earth towards me. What wasn’t unclean becomes unclean because of my own unrighteous judgment on the other person. I reaped what I had sown. I go down because what I want for the pride of life is shown to be unclean. What should be clean, water, is seen as blood, unclean. “Let my people go”, Pharoah, and when we don’t turn loose from our own lordship, the water is made into blood. What was for us to drink and to satisfy our thirst is made into something undrinkable and unclean. The truth turns into something that looks unclean to me. (Ex.5:1;7:19)

    Zec 14:17  And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.  (no word, no spirit, water to blood.)

    Zec 14:18  And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 

    Zec 14:19  This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 

    The families of the earth are the families of my earth. All that has been raised up in me while living this life. All that I have ever learned must be brought under the authority of God in Christ. Christ must reign in me through these two witnesses until all power and authority of the families of my earth have been brought unto God to worship Him in truth. Christ will reign in me until He is All in all and then we have a right vision to see The Father as All in all. The feast of tabernacles is where each neighbor is seen as having a tabernacle of God and therein am I to worship God, love my neighbor as myself is worshipping God.

    1Co 15:24  Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power

    1Co 15:25  For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet

    1Co 15:26  The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. (nothing left to die to, all is seen as God)

    1Co 15:27  For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. 

    1Co 15:28  And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all

    If we reject the witneeses’ testimony we are rejecting Christ’s life. To reject Christ’s life is to reject The Father;

    1Jn 2:23  Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father

    Rev 11:7  And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. 

    The bottomless pit is the unlimited, unrestrained doctrines of our flesh, for ourselves only, for the beast, the beastly doctrine which comes from a bottomless pit within the sea of lies we exist in. The lust of our eyes for self, the lust of our flesh for self and the pride of life for self is never satisfied. It is an endless emptiness, a bottomless pit that drives the flesh to desire more than it has in all things and in every minute of every day.

    Pro 30:15  The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough

    Pro 30:16  The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough. 

    The word Grave is “pit” (H7585), bottomless pit. The barren womb is the stomach that is not pregnant with the man child (Rev.12:2). The earth is our flesh (Jer.22:29) that is not filled with the water of the word. The fire is the tongue (Js.3:5-6). The beast that ascends out of this bottomless pit of my desires in my heart, is my beastly, carnal nature, that Satan whispers to me-“did God say…?” Gn.3:1, that I am born with. It is never satisfied and when presented with the two witnesses, it despises them and sees Christ as a thief. The two witnesses are tormenting to me because they tell me to put God before my desires and to put you before my desires. It tells me that to be a son of God I must do what Christ did and put everyone before myself. When Christ tells the parable of the good Samaritan in Luke 10:30-35 He is speaking of Himself. For He came to my world as an unclean Samaritan, God in the flesh of The Son of Man, as a Samaritan, jew and gentile mixed (made the two one-Eph.2:15), and put oil into my wound, (the oil of the two witnesses) and wine into my wound, (new doctrine/new wine). I fall from the teaching of peace (Jerusalem) to a “place of fragrance/ its moon” (Jericho). Fragrance being what is pleasant to my flesh, what I want for the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life. And “its moon” is where I am only reflecting a light of my dark church. The light I am reflecting is darkness, it is not “The Light” but dark light. Dark light based on my ideas of a god that satisfies my flesh, instead of the truth. It is a reflection of self, darkness, because my flesh loves darkness more than the Light of the two witnesses. “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil….But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how greatisthat darkness!” 

    I fall among thieves, false doctrines of Who God is, was and will be, who come to steal, kill and to destroy the two witnesses. I see the truth as a thief. “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” 

    Which takes us back to the verse;

    Rev 11:7  And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

    Rev 11:8  And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified

    Rev 11:9  And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. 

    Rev 11:10  And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

    When I hear the two witnesses, it is tormenting to my flesh, because it puts my neighbor first and me last. So my beast kills the two witnesses with my own law and judgment. It tells me that my neighbor is wrong by my 10 horns, my 10 commandments made up from my religion and are worthy of death. The doctrines made up of laws from man’s point of view are beastly and they drive me to overcome the witness of the two witnesses. The three and a half days represents the time of Christ’s ministry in us, where we are in the exact same spiritual state as those Christ ministered to when He came in the flesh – we still have many beliefs and doctrines in our life represented by people, kindred and tongues that are spiritually dead and hate the message that Christ is bringing. This happens many times, not just once and over. This is part of the process of being recreated.

    Rom 7:5  For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. 

    Rom 8:2  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death

    Gal 5:2  Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing

    Gal 5:3  For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 

    Gal 5:4  Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. 

    Gal 5:14  For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself

    Gal 5:15  But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.(overcoming the two witnesses)

    When the witnesses are killed I am free from their torment and am happy and then give gifts TO MYSELF. Their dead bodies lie in the street of my religion that worships the beast and which crucified Christ, My Sodom, My Egypt, “it’s moon”. It’s like when you’re freed from a relationship where you felt in bondage. As soon as you were released you said “Now I’m going to take care of myself” and you start buying gifts for yourself. This is how the flesh feels about the two witnesses. Having to love God with all my heart, soul and mind and my neighbor as myself is impossible for flesh and blood, and is why flesh, of itself, cannot and will not receive such a message of the kingdom of God. And the kingdom of God does not come with eyesight, in the literal clouds, Christ has returned already, if He is living in us.

    1Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 

    Luk 17:20  And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation

    Luk 17:21  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you

    Joh 14:18  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

    Rev 11:11  And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. 

    Joh 14:18  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

    Christ tells us He will not leave us comfortless. He will not leave us dead, without The Father of Life. He will not allow His love to die, He will raise His love above the families of my earth and bring them to the new Jerusalem to worship. “Comfortless” is G3737 and means;

    “Of uncertain affinity; bereaved (“orphan”), that is, parentless: – comfortless, fatherless”.

    Christ does not leave me without comfort, He does not leave me without The Father, nor does He leave me as an orphan. He comes to me in scripture to remind me of the love that has been bestowed upon us that He will never leave us nor forsake us. He is always holding our hand. We are taught to bring the nations within us to “the teaching of peace”-Jerusalem to sacrifice unto God. Sacrificing ourselves to each other is sacrificing to God. This is played out in the two witnesses hearing a voice from heaven saying “come up here”. Come up ABOVE your earth, above the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life. Love triumphs over everything.

    Rev 11:12  And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. 

    The thoughts of my welfare, my doctrines, my laws are put down when I see the two witnesses as rising from my street. The enemies of love, which are hatred, anger, bitterness, selfishness, etc, which are based on a law, are beholding the truth rise above them. My thoughts are scared of what I see and this great truth becomes a great earthquake that causes a tenth/part of my city to fall. This process continues until all of my city (doctrines, laws constructed like Babel in me to raise itself up to heaven, to the throne of God, (Gn.11:1-4) falls to the truth that God is, was, and will be All in all, in every twenty four hours (24 elders) of each day, in all four corners of my earth (east, north, south, west= the four beasts, Rev.4:6-8;5:6-14;6:1-6;7:11;14:3;15:7;19;4). The seven thousand that are slain in the earthquake represents the teaching we receive in the rest of Christ, Who is the seventh day. 7×1000=7000, which denotes the reigning during the 1000 years, which thousand means teaching. Christ is teaching us to reign in rest in every minute of every 24 hour day, in every month. The thousand years are not literal, but the time we spend learning to rest with Christ while the dragon is bound and we are at rest. Because only a tenth part falls at a time, it is a process of entering into rest.

    Heb 4:10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works (in every minute of every day), as God did from his. 

    Heb 4:11  Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. (“Lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief” is the man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho where he FALLS among thieves. Thieves are the false doctrines that steal our peace, which is what Jerusalem means, “teaching of peace” or the “1000 year reign”. When we fall among false doctrines we are overtaken by anger, malice, bitterness all based on laws, where there is no peace. These steal our peace and leave us half dead. Half dead because the flesh is dead but the spirit in us is alive.)

    “eh’lef” is the beginning of the Hebrew alphabet.

    H505

    אֶלֶף

    ‘eleph

    eh’-lef

    Properly the same as H504; hence (an ox’s head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand: – thousand.

    H504

    אֶלֶף

    ‘eleph

    eh’-lef

    From H502; a family; also (from the sense of yoking or taming) an ox or cow: – family, kine, oxen.

    H502

    אָלַף

    ‘âlaph

    aw-lof’

    A primitive root, to associate with; hence to learn (and causatively to teach): – learn, teach, utter.

    Total KJV occurrences: 4

    Christ becomes the first of all things in our world, every minute of each day. 60 minutes, times 24 hours, equals 1440. Add the two witnesses to that number, love God in every minute and your neighbor as yourself in every minute and you get 144,000. The beginning of all languages starts with the first letter, that Letter (Christ) then goes on to teach us about Who our Father is, was and will be to us for eternity. Christ is the “Alpha”-bet and from there we learn, are taught a new language where everything starts with Christ, a new language that no one knows but the elect – a new tongue.

    Rev 7:3  Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads

    Rev 7:4  And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

    Act 2:1  And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place

    Act 2:2  And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. (resting)

    Act 2:3  And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 

    Act 2:4  And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.  

    Every minute of every day is a servant to God! That truth must be sealed in our forehead. Every month, 12 months, twelve tribes worship God! The 12 tribes of Israel, (which Israel means , “God prevails” H3478), are a parable of every hour of every day, where God prevails in the life of a believer as The Light. When we are reigning with Christ, we are hearing the two witnesses, witnessing and giving God honor through Christ for the love He has shown in our creation of every minute we live. The dragon is tormented with this thought. My flesh hates this thought and is also tormented in a fire of God’s love. Our flesh does not want to give God praise for every minute of every day unless it is going the way it wants to go. The flesh and the evil doctrines/spirits that move me throughout life hate the truth because it dissolves me of any power, in and of myself. All that comes from the unclean spirits are dissatisfaction, discontentment, anger, and always wanting more than what has been given to me in every minute of every day. We are being taught to try the spirits (1 Jn.4:1).

    Rev 11:13  And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. 

    Rev 11:14  The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. 

    This is the second shock to our flesh, stages of growth of the man child in us, birth pains and a woe, a great earthquake to all that we have ever believed. It is the beginning of walking away, entering into eternity, where time does not exist. Because we see that God is All in all. Christ has put down all rule and authority in our false lives and now we are beginning to rest in Him.

    Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. 

    This is entering into rest, when the kingdoms of this world, my Kosmos, my “orderly arrangement” have been given over to Christ where He reigns in my life, not me. He orderly arranges this life, not me. “The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD. All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits. Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. “.

    Rev 11:16  And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, 

    We worship God in truth, in the 24 hours of every day.

    Rev 11:17  Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned

    He has taken the power that we thought we had in any given hour, released us from the prison of the city of Babylon, and has made us to reign with Him from all thoughts of self worship, no more unclean spirits of freewill or independance. And this truth angers everything in me. I am either a child of Satan who only worships himself in every hour of every day of the month or a child of God who sees God as the guide for every minute of every day of the month. One ruler has me thinking of my flesh and how to satisfy it, and The True Ruler has me thinking of Him as supreme and how to worship Him in peace, love, joy, happiness, not seeking the flesh’s desires but what God desires. “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” We cannot serve Christ as Lord of our lives and serve ourselves as lord of our lives. Christ is teaching us to desire Him before everything and to see that He has the best in mind for me in every hour of every day. That best is to teach me, represented by the 1000 years, to love God with all my heart, soul and mind and my Brother/Sister as myself. This angers my flesh because my flesh questions such doctrine and sees it as suicide, the death of my individuality. And whoever does not have this doctrine I am not to bid them God speed. For in bidding them God speed you are agreeing with their worship of themselves and that Christ has not come into our flesh to teach us that every hour of every day of every month is to be seen as “God prevails”, not me.

    2Jn 1:10  If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed

    2Jn 1:11  For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds

    1Jn 4:1  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 

    1Jn 4:2  Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: (Jesus Christ has come in yours and my flesh, today, to teach us that God is to be seen and glorified in every minute of every day, not my flesh. Every hour is to bow to His throne as supreme. This is the “second coming.”)

    1Jn 4:3  And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world

    Antichrist because it is “ANTI” and against giving every minute to the truth of the two witnesses.

    Rev 11:18  And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. 

    The nations of lusts that have long dwelt in my flesh and that have been run by the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life are angry that my man of sin is not being honored. They are all “the dead” that the time has come for them to be judged and at the same time my new man is rewarded with the likeness of Christ. When my new man is rewarded, who walks after the spirit of the two witnesses and not after the desires of the flesh, those who destroyed my earth by sin are destroyed. I see the truth in why I do the things I have done and am given the strength to no longer do them but deny them. In doing so, those who destroyed my earth are destroyed. The law is in my heart, which the Ark is a representation. “I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.”. “The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.”; “I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.”; “Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.”; “the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenantAnd over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.”; “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; “.

    Exo 25:17  And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. 

    Exo 25:18  And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. 

    Exo 25:19  And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof. 

    Exo 25:20  And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. 

    Exo 25:21  And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee

    Exo 25:22  And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. 

    The work of God upon my heart is a BEATEN WORK. A work that has to take shape by being shaped by hard truths and being seen from the opposite of what love truly is. This is why the top plate that seals/seats the ark/my heart is called the MERCY SEAT. Mercy is covered by the two witnesses, Love God with all your heart, soul and mind and you as myself. It’s here, at the mercy seat does God speak to us, “AND THERE I WILL MEET WITH YOU, and commune with you FROM ABOVE THE MERCY SEAT FROM BETWEEN THE TWO CHERUBIMS“. It is only now am I beginning to see into my heavens and only now am I seeing what is in my heart. The ark/heart can only be seen if heaven is opened and heaven is my mind from where peace comes from or anger. If I see the ark with the two witnesses above it and from there commune with God then I am dwelling in peace. But if what I see is the law only and no cherubim, no mercy, then I am walking in the flesh under the law of the flesh which operates under tit for tat. God has dealt with me my entire life from between the Cherubims, above the mercy seat. I was Israel walking in the desert of my life. But, now that He has entered me He is asking me to do the same for you and you for me. Deal with one another from between the two cherubims covering the mercy seat. There can we commune with one another as God did for us before we knew what love was, the total denial of yourself for someone else. The death of self, for the life of someone else as Christ did for us, we must do for each other.

    Joh 13:12  So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? 

    Joh 13:13  Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. 

    Joh 13:14  If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. 

    Joh 13:15  For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you

    Rev 11:19  And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail. 

    It took lightnings, voices, thunderings, great earthquake and great hail to get us to where we are able to see the two cherubims and now once we have seen them and are being beaten into shape we will see what was in our heavens. The heavens are open now, we can see the true intent behind what we did in the ark, in our heart. Now shall there “appear” two more “great wonders in our heavens” we will see, a woman and a dragon. We will now get to see the war that took place to get us to where we are today, the beaten work of gold. We are the temple that is open and now we can see what was truly in our heart/ark, behind the veil in the holy of holies.

    Rev 12:1  And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun (the light of Christ-“put on Christ”, Ga.3:27), and the moon under her feet (The light of Christ we are clothed in is reflecting light to guide our walk while we are still in the darkness of this world,Lk.1:79; Jn11:9-10. The moon under her feet means she has the light to see to walk, it’s not under her feet as in submission to her, Jb:31:26;Jer.31:35.), and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: (12 hours of our day given to God as supreme, Jn.11:9. We don’t get outside today like the serpent, who names the days of the week after himself, We stay in The Day of rest, Christ, not days, Mt.6:34.)

    Rev 12:2  And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. (This is Christ being formed in us, Ga.4:19;1 Tim.2:13. Our struggle between old man and new man; Romans 7. Those who are going through the change, being recreated will be in a struggle between their old man who only wants what’s best for his flesh and the new man who only desires to serve God and his neighbor. It is our process of being resurrected, dying daily to the old man and resurrecting daily as a new man. If I don’t die to self, then I live alone, but if I die I bring you with me. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.”; “I die daily.”)

    Rev 12:3  And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon(red because he is desiring man to live through the first Adam-which means red-H121; dragon because he is as a dragon eating man, Jb.30:29;Jer.51:34;Ezk.29:3), having seven heads (7 days a week he claims as his) and ten horns (his own version of the ten commandments – a complete law of his mind about serving self through planning out his seven heads/days of the week; Mt.15:9;Is.29:13-20;2 Thess.2:8), and seven crowns upon his heads. (the pride that he has in seeing himself as the ruler over his 7 days, which is every day and why he named each day after gods/himself. Each day of the week is named after a false god, monday, tuesday, etc., look them up and see where the names derived from. God didn’t name the days, He numbered them in Genesis – 1st day, 2nd day, etc.)

    When Christ comes into us we are the woman who is clothed in Christ and walks from the light of Christ that reflects from us. We have a crown on our head because Christ has begun to reign over all our thoughts represented by the 12 stars – 12 represents 12 hours of the day. We have become children of the day. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.  A single, continuous day of rest is where we begin to reside, not in days. We are groaning within ourselves because we are with child, a new man is being formed within us, a man who seeks God in truth according to Christ and not by the precepts of men. It is a groaning process because we are at the same time in battle against the Great Red Dragon, who tries to constantly lure us through fleshly lusts of more than we have TODAY, contractions, labour pains, through hissings of thoughts, winds. The man child is getting ready to be birthed in us so it causes contractions, in wanting to stay in our own spiritual womb. He is into planning for the future, preserving his flesh by any and all methods at his disposal, it is the hissings of our serpent. He has seven heads, with seven crowns upon his heads. The seven heads are the seven days of the week, which he has named after himself with names of gods. His ten horns are the ten commandments in which he lives by, teaching the precepts and doctrines of men instead of the truths of God.

    Rev 12:4  And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. 

    Mat 15:9  But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines (stars) the commandments of men.

    Heaven is our mind. Our mind, before recreation, is darkness. In that heaven there are stars, thoughts, that are focused on self and because they are focused on self they are satanic in nature and give the glory to self. The dragon draws a third part of the stars/thoughts from the elect through false doctrines of men, the tail, through teachings of this world and from men who teach things from experiences of the flesh.

    Isa_9:15  The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

    He draws a third part of the stars from our heavens, from our minds, where we perceive and commune with God through thoughts, spirits, like a wind blowing through our minds/heaven, thoughts that turn to lust and when lust has conceived, we sin.

    Joh 3:8  The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit

    Joh_6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

    Eph 4:14  That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive

    “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made”. Remember the principle that all scripture is a parable. The “serpent” and the “field” are parables of our inner world. The field is our world within (thoughts/beliefs/desires/doctrines, etc) where the serpent resides.

    Mat 13:38  The field is the world; the good seed are the children (doctrines) of the kingdom; but the tares are the children (doctrines) of the wicked one; 

    Jer 17:9  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 

    Mat 15:19  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 

    Satanic doctrine is subtle, cunning, and prudent through experience. Look at the way the meaning of the word “subtle” describes him.

    H6175- Passive participle of H6191; cunning (usually in a bad sense): – crafty, prudent, subtil.

    prudent, 8

    Pro_12:16, Pro_12:23, Pro_13:16, Pro_14:8, Pro_14:15, Pro_14:18, Pro_22:3, Pro_27:12

    crafty, 2

    Job_5:12 (2), Job_15:5

    subtle, 1

    Gen_3:1

    1) subtle, shrewd, crafty, sly, sensible

    1a) crafty

    1b) shrewd, sensible, prudent

    The word “serpent” H5175-naw-khawsh’ comes from the root word H5172-naw-khash’ and means, A primitive root; properly to hiss, that is, whisper a (magic) spell; generally to prognosticate: –  X certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) X enchantment, learn by experience, X indeed, diligently observe. (diligently learn by experience)

    enchantments, 4 Num_24:1, 2Ki_17:17, 2Ch_33:6 (2) enchantment, 2 Lev_19:26, Num_23:23 diligently, 1 1Ki_20:33 divine, 1 Gen_44:15 divineth, 1 Gen_44:5 enchanter, 1 Deu_18:10 experience, 1 Gen_30:27 learned, 1 Gen_30:27 (2) observe, 1 1Ki_20:33 use, 1 Lev_19:26

    He draws a third part of our day by winds/thoughts of prognosticating about what and how we are going to plan out the day, the next day, the week, the month, the year, and our life. He feeds off us, LIVES off us and without the world of false doctrine within me to feed on he would not exist. He himself is not omnipresent but his doctrine is poison that has spread through all ages, his body, the world, and all people. His doctrine influenced us and the entire world that we are born with a free will, independent from all others and independent from God Himself. He is sent by God to deceive all that do not and cannot receive the truth. “Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” Mankind believes his life is planned by good advice, prudence in what he does with his time, his money, which he has according to his work, making sensible choices for his day, week, month, life. Like Laban telling Jacob that he had “LEARNED BY EXPERIENCE”, H5172 the root of the word serpent, that he had been blessed by Jacob’s being there with him. Satan is blessed by mankind. All that he has is because of mankind, he lives off mankind, as man himself lives off meat. “Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread”. Flesh is meat for the serpent (“dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life” Gn.3:14), a house for him and a life for him. Without man to feed off, he does not exist. He is like the mythical vampire. When we have come to the place where we do not prognosticate, enchant, or prophesy about what we are going to do today, tomorrow, this week, etc., etc. we will have broken the power of death, which the satanic doctrine had, and live a life in today, rest in Christ as all in all in every minute of every day. And when we have been taught by the Spirit of God not to judge according to experience in the flesh’s knowledge then we will be free from Satanic doctrine chewing on us as a cow chews on cud.

    Jas 4:13  Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: (prognosticating,prophesy,learning)

    Jas 4:14  Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 

    Jas 4:15  For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 

    Jas 4:16  But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil

    Jas 4:17  Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin

    And what is the accronym for S.I.N.? Satan Influenced Nature. Hissing plans to us through thoughts of tomorrow. These are not thoughts specifically given to us by a being named Satan, but from learned experience, the poison that has infected us through spirits-words-doctrines-schools, mankind. Mankind has been the vehicle which Satan has spewed his lies through doctrine, teachings of life from experience and has tried to FLOOD the elect with false doctrine that has raged against our lives as a torrent, trying to keep us from the knowledge of who we are, the predestined elect of God, and who he is. But the flood does not overtake us because the earth opens her mouth, and helps us. The flood tries to come after us in the form of thoughts of what we “should be” with the goal of shaming us. The flood is swallowed up by the knowledge that Christ made me what I am, just like drinking poison and not being hurt. I can take no credit for the story of my life, the high (prideful) nor the low (shame) points or anything in between. The world’s doctrines are about constantly passing judgment on our own life and others. This is the flood we fight against. Our flesh’s weaknesses were created in us by God and can be seen in things like lack of drive, ambition, laziness, stubborness, emotional problems, drug/alcohol addiction…name it. They were used to help us by preventing us from succeeding in the Satanic doctrine of pride of life and self preservation. Many of us have never succeeded in any ambition, whether jobs, schools, relationships, etc. according to world’s standards. Think of Samson, Rahab, John the baptist, people who as scripture says wandered around in the wilderness. “they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.” We are the offscouring of the world by God’s design. Any lack we may have of any or all of the qualities the world idolizes for success has been what God has made in us to help swallow up the flood of false doctrine that came to us in the flesh’s/Satan’s drive for self-preservation i.e. planning for our future, our health, etc. Satan has been thwarted by our flesh’s/earth’s lack of prized worldly qualities. 1Co 1:26  For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.  Satan’s doctrines scream, “Get off your lazy butt and go to work!”, “Look after your health!”, “Stop wasting time!” because HIS TIME IS SHORT! “Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” For those parts of us who feel they have attained in life through hard study, hard work, etc. they have been given over to believe a lie, just as much as the parts that feel that they have failed. What we have or what we are is because of our Creator, nothing more. We can claim nothing as our own. The very ambition and drive, or the lack thereof, in any area of us where we thought we had succeeded or failed (according to Satanic doctrine) belong to the Creator, not me.

    Christ was called a glutton and winebibber by the prudent of His day, dressed in long fancy clothes, rich, and seemingly the smart, religious of the day, because all he did, to them, was eat and drink. Not true of course, but to the prudent and sensible Christ was not doing what a man should do. He had no drive.

    Satan is/was laying in wait to devour Christ as He is being formed in us. But the truth is caught up to God. We are continuously being caught up to God by the truth to give the glory to God for everything. We are given two spiritual truths/wings that have caught us away from Satan into the wilderness – the wilderness being our doctrinal separation from the world/Egypt, where we are fed for our symbolic 3 1/2 years, the time of Christ’s ministry within us. Those two spiritual truths are the two witnesses. When our time is complete and we are whole in the two witnesses, we will then be able to rule the nations within us with a rod of iron, truth. God is All in all.

    1Co 15:24  Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 

    1Co 15:25  For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 

    1Co 15:26  The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 

    1Co 15:27  For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. 

    1Co 15:28  And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all

    Christ has made us, formed us, and has led us to where we are now and will lead us to where we will walk away from this world as Enouch, by walking with God. When our time is complete, we will not exist (the meaning of the words, “he was not”), for our testimony will be that “we were not”.

    Gen 5:24  And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

    Rev 12:5  And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. 

    Rev 12:6  And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. 

    Rev 12:7  And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, (Michael’s name means “Who is like God”. This is Christ. And Christ leads a war with all His messages to us between to love God with all your heart, soul and mind and your neighbor as yourself and, the dragon’s angels/messages of serve yourself as a god and love yourself before all others. Do what’s best for you, what’s pleasant to your eyes, and what will make you wise, Gn.3:6. Loving God and you as myself triumphs over the dragon and all his messages of individualism and godhood. Their place cannot be found anymore in my heavens when this is taking place. This is a daily war, not a one and done. It is in aorist tense, continual.)

    Rev 12:8  And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 

    Rev 12:9  And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him

    He is cast out of our thoughts from ruling them anymore. He still whispers to us about the way it was or could be but the pull has lost its strength and the desires are passing away. All my life’s learning was a satanic school of technology teaching me how to run the computer of my mind, my world and how to have the most out of my efforts. Countless hours, days, and for what? So that I could house a LIE for Satan to live in where I served Baal instead of God.

    Mat 4:8  Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them

    Mat 4:9  And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. (The world is yours, all you to have to do is take it, give credit to yourself, worship yourself.)

    Mat 4:10  Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 

    Mat 4:11  Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. 

    We were building a temple for ourselves to be worshipped, a tower of Babel/Babylon, offering gifts and sacrifices to ourself daily, inside our own temple. Every time we gave ourselves credit for something we were giving credit to a satanic doctrine. All the years I spent beating my body into shape by exercising to look good and preserve my health was a sacrificing of my bull to a satanic doctrine of self-worship, given over to a delusion that I was god of my life and driven by satanic doctrine to lean on my own understanding of how to maintain and preserve my life. Every choice we ever made was made in honor of self. Unknowingly, every prayer was a prayer to ourself as God. The old testament god Baal is the representation self worship:

    2Ki 10:18  And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much. 

    2Ki 10:19  Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal. (We have to be “wise” to the workings of satanic doctrine before we can ever hope to be conquerers of it within. Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.)

    2Ki 10:20  And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it. 

    2Ki 10:21  And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another. 

    2Ki 10:22  And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments. 

    2Ki 10:23  And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only. 

    2Ki 10:24  And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him. 

    2Ki 10:25  And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal. 

    2Ki 10:26  And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them. 

    2Ki 10:27  And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.” All the worship of me must be killed and every thought brought under the obedience of Christ as Head. Individualism worship must be killed and all of its images.

    Rev 12:10  And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, NOW is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. (Now that we are seeing from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims, the great dragon, which IS the accuser that dwelt in my mind, my heavens, is cast down, who accused us day and night, 24 hours a day. But, now those 24 hours are seen as from Christ, therefore they fall down and worship Christ and not Satan. The 24 elders/age, each day, of creation, is seen as an age from my Creator and not from me. Before being indwelt with the spirit of God we existed and lived by laws based on judgment of the flesh – what was best for me as an individual, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of my life. These laws accused me before God day and night. The word “man, men, mankind” in the new testament is “anthropos” and means literally “man faced”. It means whatever constitutes mankind by how they act, see or think, which is by laws of their flesh. Everyone has their own set of laws based on their own experience or learned knowledge of how others should be and also how they want to be seen. These laws accuse or approve ourselves and others in our heavens, our minds, where we make judgments. But, because we are born with a serpent nature that only has self preservation in mind like all other creatures, our laws within us are for us, individually, and for our own flesh. When Christ enters us and begins walking through our world, He then casts these laws down (like demons) by showing us they are not coming through the two laws, love God with all my heart and soul and my neighbor as myself. He casts all thoughts of self down and a new man rises with a new nature, called resurrecting. Christ’s mind is now softly showing us minute by minute what is selfish nature and what is Godly nature. As the next verse says they loved NOT their lives unto the death.)

    Rev 12:11  And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. (Doing what Christ did for me is overcoming by the blood of the Lamb. When we give our lives for each other, always putting the other first before my own wants and doing it from above the mercy seat and from between the two cherubims/two witnesses. Sacrificing myself for the other is overcoming the devil by the blood of the lamb, doing what Christ did, dying for my sins, so I must in turn die to the doctrines of my flesh for your sins, your selfishness, which means we love not our lives unto the the death of our lives, we starve it to death by withholding selfish food from it. The bread Christ broke was a symbol of His body being broken for our sin, our selfishness. So, in turn, we are told to do the same, break our bodies for the other person, die to selfishness and live unto someone else. Symbolically spill your own blood for the life of someone else. The parable of the blood on the sheets after a virgin has intercourse for the first time. “…these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.” When there is no shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. “And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.”. When we die to self and spiritually spill our blood it is a witness that we are virgin to dying for someone else and virgin to purity. The blood that is spilt is the blood of the old man, who was virgin to selflessness. Dying to self is something that had never been done and it causes pain and pleasure at the same time. We overcome the accuser by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. Blood is the marker and our word is the token of the truth of our virginty, we had never known selflessness, we were virgin to it. It is the new covenant between Christ and the church. Blood has been spilt and a child has been conceived, the new man. A new man who dies daily for someone else.)

    Rev 12:12  Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. (I can rejoice in my heavens/mind because the truth is setting me free. But woe to my flesh that exists in false doctrine/selfishness, for my devil (devilish thoughts like demons) are going to raise a lot of noise. For I am the most subtle beast of my field that God had made, called the serpent. This serpent will send floods of thoughts trying to make me give in to the lust of the flesh/selfishness. More will be created in the literal world to distract and lure us to anything and everything to keep us from serving Christ and my neighbor. Look at how people all have their faces in their phones, constantly being distracted with more knowledge to tickle their flesh. From this, we sense that an end is near. As Christ told Daniel, knowledge shall increase, but Paul says knowledge puffs up. The great wrath of the Dragon is knowledge. The word serpent means “to look”, “fascinate”. Today if we want to know something, we don’t ask God, we “LOOK” on our phones and ask it. We speak to a device in OUR hands and think we get truth. This is wrath because he has flooded us with knowledge of good and evil, stuffing our mouths full of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil and making us gluttons of knowledge.)

    Rev 12:13  And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. (When my satanic doctrines (thoughts/beliefs) which are so entrenched in me see that they are no longer able to control me by selfishness, they then begin to persecute the church in me with great wrath by calling the doctrines of Christ a thief because they will eventually lead to my old man’s demise.

    Rev 12:14  And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place (Dan.12:13-“and stand in thy lot at the end of the days”), where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. (With these two doctrines of love God with all my heart, soul, and mind and love you as myself I am able to fly away from the serpent doctrines, into a hidden place where I am nourished with the truths of Christ. Nourished with the word of God until our time of Christ’s ministry, 3 1/2 years is over, and we die to self and are resurrected, and walk away as Enoch. Escaping from the “face” of the serpent means from his doctrine of “outward appearance”, because that is what the word means. “(G4383- the visage; from G3700); the front (as being towards view), that is, the countenance, aspect, appearance, surface; by implication presence, person:(outward) appearance, X before, countenance, face, fashion, (men’s) person, presence.”. Christ’s doctrine of an inward beauty is between us and God, not the Satanic doctrine of an outward appearance as the world teaches and as religion teaches, like the root of the meaning of “Eve” H2332- lifegiver from H2331- to declare or show-show. It is lifegiving to my flesh to show who I am as an individual. “Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”;” Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.” The serpent loves to appear outwardly beautiful but has no inner beauty. This was us at one time when we slithered through life in the serpent’s image, worshipping ourselves in our appearance but had no inward beauty. We were virgin to purity because we were so wrapped up in self that we had never been defiled by selflessness. Selflessness is a defilement to the nature of mankind and it is cheating on our first husband Satan to lie down for selflessness. “Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.” Our world revolved around self, not anyone else but solely self. This is true sinful nature. Even the law of commandments is used for self to make myself pure, not you. When using the commandments for self, selfishness is made bigger and stronger because it causes me to look upon myself as virgin to your defilement, it makes me SELF RIGHTEOUS. “When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.” But, when the commandments come out of our heart/ark and go through the mercy seat and then through the wings of the two Cheribums, love God with all my heart , soul and mind and you as myself, selfishness is broken, blood is spilled and our virginity to selflessness has been impregnanted, and we bring forth fruits of our husband Christ, children, doctrines of Christ. We begin to die to self daily and live unto each other. The birth pains leave us and we have pleasure in bringing forth selfless children to Christ.)

    Rev 12:15  And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. (This is the flood of false doctrine of outward appearance, showy, like everyone else. The flood of indifference to your wants and needs. It doesn’t enter my mind about your wants and needs because I’m so caught up by the flood of selfishness that what you desire, or need doesn’t enter my mind.)

    Rev 12:16  And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 

    Rev 12:17  And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. 

    Those whom he goes to make war with, inside us, are any and every way he can keep us from giving God credit as The All in all. He tries to drag us away with selfish, self-preserving thoughts, desires and judgments based solely on me and my needs. Remember satanic doctrine is SUBTLE. Only the spirit of Christ within us can expose the depths and lies of self. Only the Creator who created our subtle serpent in our garden can reveal him to us.

    Everything in us that has been formed and taught by Satan’s world is a huge mountain, a mountain that he used to cover everything in us. But now Christ is that mountain, not Satan. The word “Gog” means mountain and the word “Magog” means covering. Satan’s doctrine has covered us all our lives, now that Christ has cast him into the sea, his own pool of false doctrine, he no longer controls us. We are now able to see all the doctrines of our outward appearance, health, financial stabilty, how we saw people, religion and life was all a Satanic doctrine filled with lies of life. We now are given the privilege to see what controlled us and how he controlled us by watching how he rose from his sea of false doctrine in us. We are now STANDING upon the sand of the sea, all the nations in us WHERE SATAN ONCE STOOD, but now his cover has been lifted, he is exposed as the lying murderer he is and we have been freed from his selfish doctrine of “me”. The sand of the sea represents the boundary that held Satan in, the edge of the pool of the waters of false doctrine, our very own flesh.

    Mar 11:23  For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. 

    Rev 20:8  And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog (G1136-“mountain”) and Magog (G3098-“overtopping: covering” ), to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 

    Jer 5:22  Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? (the meaning of the word “sea” is “to roar; a sea (as breaking in noisy surf)”. The doctrines of the world are always trying to make us fear something, as a noisy sea beating against the rocks, threatening to overcome them. But they can’t. They are limited in what they can do to the elect, the church, those assembled under the truths of Christ. The world operates under fear. Fear of war, fear of terroism, fear of political leaders, fear of civil war, fear of people, fear of health problems, fear of money problems, fear of how we look in the mirrior, fear of anything and everything. The wrath of the dragon in every instant.

    Gen 22:17  That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies

    Gen 22:18  And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. 

    Christ is The Seed, He is now living in us and is now THE Mountain that covers us. He will now bless all nations within us and we are now given to inherit our earth, inwardly while being released from our satanic lies. There are new nations being formed in us that will replace the satanic nations that were in us, as Israel replaced the inhabitants of Canaan. As each nation in us is destroyed a new one from The Kingdom of God takes over. With the fall of a false doctrine, a true doctrine rises and we multiply. We need not fear, the fear that is represented by the fowls of Satan’s false doctrine of accusatory lies.

    Gen 15:11  And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. 

    Gen 15:12  And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. (FEAR)

    Gen 15:13  And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; (This affliction is ending, we are coming out with great substance. Four is the number that shows all four corners of us that is the whole of us will be afflicted by the lies of the world.)

    Gen 15:14  And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance

    The nation of the Serpent in us is being judged, it is being removed from possessing our earth. We are now coming out of our past nation WITH GREAT SUBSTANCE.

    Rev 13:1  And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. (I am seeing what was created in me when God breathed the breath of the beast into me and I was created a beastly soul. “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;H2416 and man became a livingH2416 soul. ” The same word translated “life” and “living” is also the word “beast” in this verse, “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beastH2416 of the field which the LORD God had made.” This beast has seven heads for each day and each day named a blasphemous name after himself, each day thought of as only for himself. There is no God but himself. Ten horns, ten complete laws within himself that guides him in his own swamp of false doctrine called the sea. But now we are standing on the sand, made to rise up out of this sea of false doctrine and are standing on the promise that we are the children of promise.” I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. ” This promise, if we are believing, stops all the waves of the sea of false doctrine from crashing over us and consuming us. It is a promise of God to deliver us from the sea of false doctrine and set us on dry ground where the lies can no longer overcome us. “Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? “; “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”.

    Rev 13:2  And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. (The beast within me, is always changing, he’s spotted like a leopard, spotted with false doctrine, mixing, using it all for camouflage. We use our camouflage to tear up, like a bear, everything around us, and roar out my individualistic nature like a lion. All of it is brought out of me and entices my beast into lusts through messages on t.v., radio, internet, movies, people, fleshly families, fleshly friends – all carrying a satanic message like leaven from a satanic kingdom of false doctrine which surrounds all seven days in me and gives me the illusion of having power and authority over my life). “Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.” ; “I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.” “Then Jesus said unto them, take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadduccees.” These are the same people He called serpents. Without the spirit of God, we all have a Pharisee and a Sadduccee inside of us holding onto our beliefs like a religion, crucifying all who disagree.

    Rev 13:3  And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 

    The one head that was wounded unto death was the seventh day, where all work was to stop as a parable of resting in Christ. This is a wound to our beast because we do not want to rest in Christ as the All in all. That head was healed by changing the seventh day to the first day and so we find no rest. We used to go to a brick and mortar building on the first day, do our homage to satisfy our conscience and then go do what we wanted for the rest of the day. Symbolizing that we never rest on the seventh day in Christ. The seventh day was made for us, not us for the seventh day. Christ was made for us to rest in, not us made for Christ to rest in. It was made to teach us that when God rested on the seventh day we rested in Christ.

    Mar 2:27  And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: 

    The seventh day is not the end of the week literally but the end of our week, our life. Christ is the seventh day. In Him we rest from all our works, our life. “For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.” God rests from all that He created in our lives and gives all authority to Christ. God created Christ for God to put all authority in Christ and therefore God rests from His own work, everything is done through Christ. We don’t work to try and please God in religous ceremonies, meetings, laws. We work to stop working. Seeing Christ as all works, every hour of every day. If I see Christ as creating every minute of every hour of every day then there is no work for me to do, except work to stop working. The beast never rests because his master, the serpent’s lustful nature, has but a short time to get his work done. He is working as hard as he can to stay alive in man. Since the Sabbath was instituted man has tried to defile it.

    Exo 20:9  Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 

    Exo 20:10  But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 

    Exo 20:11  For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

    In Nehemiah it tells how the Jews were buying things brought to them by the people of the land on the sabbath and Nehemiah closed the gates and made sure this didn’t happen anymore, Neh. 13:13-22. This is a prophecy of God closing the gate of our temple/mind and not allowing anymore buying of false doctrine from the world/ “people of the land,” when we should be resting. The beast’s work is never done in trying to stay alive. Just one example of His burdensome doctrine is to “manage” our health as if we have any control whatsoever over our existence. Even the smallest thoughts/concerns/fears related to our own self-preservation are a “work” of the beast. The Lord is our strength and our life. We live or die based on His Will, not on our own judgments of prudent eating. It’s not what goes into a man that defiles him but what comes out. What the Lord provides us (and that’s everything) is always good and undefiled. To the pure all things are pure. It’s what comes out of us – our eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil – our own judging of things good or bad is what defiles us. The Lord knows what we need, when we need it, and He provides it. It has always been this way and will always be this way. This is all part of take no thought for the morrow. To know and believe this, is to live without fear, and to rest. Take no care what you shall eat or what you shall wear for all these things the Gentiles seek. The beast changed the sabbath from the seventh day to the first day and then has kept everyone working, a parable of not resting in Christ. It is a parable of us making up our own day to worship God so we don’t have to rest in Christ.  ” And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” The beast is Pharaoh running the work camp of the world inside of us and outwardly. Christ told us His burden is light. He IS the Sabbath. We rest in HIS works.

    The beast in Revelation 13 is depicted as a lion, a bear, and a leopard, and his power comes from the dragon. Remember four always means whole – four beasts, four corners, four square, four winds means whole. I don’t want to be healed with rest. I want to be healed by my works – religious or otherwise. I want to be healed by my ideas of self-preservation. That is the deadly head wound being healed. Because we do not believe that God loves us, we cannot rest. What’s keeping me alive are my works, not God. Works are rest to our beast nature!

    Rev 13:4  And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? (In worshipping the beast, ourselves, we are worshipping the Dragon. It is impossible by flesh to stand alone, as Christ did, against all Satanic thought, teaching, doctrine and way of life represented in humanity. The regular norms of greeting one another, the way they dress, what they speak about and how they speak, everything coming from the Satanic doctrine of freewill and self preservation. The beast in all humanity believes that a god created them to live forever. Everyone has the seven heads they live by, seven days a week that have been named by the dragon, and the ten horns, their laws that they live by in those seven heads. To stand against this beast is impossible by flesh, but is possible if we have the Spirit of Christ living in us. The beast of humanity has a satanic doctrine that gives it a great mouth, that speaks their truths so eloquently. No matter what language or people, all speak the same doctrine, the self willed, freewilled decisions that they make for their own personal betterment or betterment of humanity. We do not need a literal Satan, a supposed fallen angel, a good angel turned bad, or a spirit created to roam the earth wreaking havoc. Because we are that beast within. The truth always has a counterfeit. If I believe there is a being out there running around that causes my problems then I am not believing that God created ME as the beast. The serpent doctrine teaches I am pure from birth. Scripture teaches I am a beast from birth with the serpent in me from birth. “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” Scripture teaches I am the beast, the dragon, the false prophet, the great Babylon whore. I am Nebuchadnezzar, I am Pharoah, I am a tree. They are all parables for those who have the truth. If we are given to be truly honest about who and what God has made us, then we will witness to this as truth. If we believe there is a being out there to blame for our troubles then we are not believing Christ has created my life and all things in it. “For by him were all things created (in my life), that are in heaven (my mind), that are in earth,(my body), visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers (these powers being what and how I think I’m running my life): all things (in my life visible and invisible) were created by Him and for Him: and He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.”

    Rev 13:5  And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. 

    Power has been given to my beast to speak great words of knowledge, which are words of blasphemy. This knowledge has been erected, like the tower of Babel, in us from infancy. We are immediately infused with a free will doctrine through parents, family, friends, community, the world as a whole. We go to schools to learn more knowledge of self-preservation and free will. We are constantly learning how to be our own god. Christ IS The tabernacle of God where we worship. This power is given to us to see for forty two months, 3 1/2 years, typifying the 3 1/2 years of Christ’s ministry in us. Christ’s ministry in us shows us all the blasphemies we speak. It is given to us to see what we did not see that we are a beast.

    Rev 13:6  And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. 

    The Beast blasphemes God by giving all credit for all things to anything other than God. (Daniel 4:28-34). The beast tells flesh that they can know all things and can understand all things because they are gods. The beast curses us because we are being taught by Christ within us that we do nothing by ourselves because all things come from God Himself through Christ. He curses us because we dwell in heaven and not on the earth. The beast, which is all knowledge of man together as a whole within me, blasphemes God by warring against the truth that has been given to us. He, at times, overcomes us and we go down, we fall into self pity, self loathing, and we concentrate on the flesh as being denied. We miss our works.

    Rev 13:7  And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 

    The beast, all human doctrine, which is Satanic thought, overcomes us at times and wars against us, the new man. The beast had the power over all ways of thought in us that had to do with self/flesh and those parts of us that are still not yet converted, that still dwell on the earth, fall into the doctrines of the beast. But, because our beast is being sacrificed, we overcome him by putting God first and loving the other as ourselves. Everything in us used to worship the beast but now we are being converted and our beast crucified. “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” ; “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.” Renewed in knowledge after the image of Christ. Before conversion we had erected an IMAGE of the beast.

    Rev 13:8  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 

    Again, everything in us used to worship the beast because the beast is not written in the Lamb’s book of life. The beast was created to carry us to where we needed to go, like a donkey, to get us where we are today, resting in Christ as The Creator. But the beastly nature does not go on, it is sacrificed for the new man. “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” We can only overcome by becoming a lamb, by submitting to our sacrifice. Our beast was predestined to be a sacrifice from the foundation of our world. We, the elect, were never intended to die, because we have been ordained to life. Our flesh will die but we will go on in the new creation that is being created. When we received the truth, we receive the testimony of Christ as a lamb being slaughtered. So, we too take up our cross and become a lamb, and die daily to the beast, sacrificing ourselves for God and for the other person. Nothing in our flesh, that operated by Satanic doctrine was ever written to last forever, in the book of life, because it stood alone as an individual, as a god of itself and for itself, bound by time.

    Rev 13:9  If any man have an ear, let him hear

    Rev 13:10  He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. 

    If I lead you into captivity through some doctrine, then I must go into captivity. If I kill you with the sword, the word of God, then I must be killed with the sword. “He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.” If I strive with you by a law and not see you as myself, then I must be chastised in the same manner. “And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.”. That’s why the verse ends with, “here is the patience and the faith of the saints”. To be a saint I must have patience with you and faith that God is working in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. The beast does not have patience because the beastly doctrine of the world is tit for tat. The beast does not have faith because the beast believes that each beast has the power in himself to controll himself. We are taught by the second beast that has two horns like a lamb but speaks as a dragon, lives by the worldly doctrines taught to us, to serve flesh, to adhere to the first beast’s doctrine of love yourself before all others, that flesh is a god, the flesh has its own self determining power, is what we are taught, that maps out it’s own life according to what is best for it. When I was a child I spoke as a child, but when I became a man I put away childish ways/thoughts/the beast. The man we become is Christ Who sacrifices His flesh’s desires for His Father and for us.

    Rev 13:11  And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 

    He is coming up out of the earth. This means that what comes out of flesh in thought and word is what it has been taught by the world in me, the 1st beast. But, because we are coming out of the old world in me, made by the world in me, we are hated by the world in me. “If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you”. The world of beastly doctrine in me hates the new man in me because it no longer serves the world in me. It is in a constant state of being put to death by serving God and you first. It literally angers my flesh to put it down and to not give it its way. To say to my flesh, that my neighbor’s wants and needs must come before mine is a curse to my beast that has been formed and molded by 50 plus years of living for self, eating spiritually what’s best for me and waiting on no one. It curses me on a regular basis as a fool, a sap, a glutton for punishment because it is not being served the way it deems it should be, first. Not discerning the LORD’S body is not serving the other before myself. I am not discerning that Christ is in you and what I do for the least of these my brethren (for you) I am doing for Christ. Conversely, whatever evil I do to you, I am also doing to Christ. ” If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? “I am not discerning Christ in all things. When I eat, spiritually, within myself, by myself, and not wait on you to get there with me, then I am not discerning the LORD’S body. If we are one body, then I must patiently wait for you to get there before I eat or drink and must have faith that in my patience I possess my soul. Possessing my soul is keeping the beast nature under control. I possess it, it does not possess me anymore.

    1Co 11:20  When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. 

    1Co 11:21  For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. 

    1Co 11:22  What? have ye not houses (inside my own body) to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not. 

    1Co 11:23  For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: 

    1Co 11:24  And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me

    1Co 11:25  After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drinkit,in remembrance of me

    1Co 11:26  For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come

    1Co 11:27  Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord

    1Co 11:28  But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. 

    1Co 11:29  For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. 

    1Co 11:30  For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep

    1Co 11:31  For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 

    1Co 11:32  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. 

    1Co 11:33  Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another

    1Co 11:34  And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come. 


    Luk 21:16  And ye shall be betrayed both by (all my world, inside me) parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. 

    Luk 21:17  And ye shall be hated of all for my name’s sake

    Luk 21:18  But there shall not an hair of your head perish. 

    Luk 21:19  In your patience possess ye your souls

    Rev 13:12  And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 

    The beast nature only changes forms. In our time as a beast, before we are converted, our beast morphs many times but is always exercising the same power (love of self) of the beast that came before it. We are given over to worship the beast whose deadly wound appears to be healed – with some new doctrine or bit of knowledge. We are beasts because we have not yet been given the faith to believe that Christ is actually sovereign and that He loves us and can be trusted to care for our every need. The beast cannot rest from his constant drive to preserve his life. His deadly wound is the fear of death, and it is healed by his false doctrine to rest in himself. But after our conversion, Christ begins to relieve us of this fearful carnal nature by imparting to us the true healing of the truth about Himself, that He is love and that we are in him and can, therefore, rest.

    Gen 3:4  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 

    The subtil beast of my mind speaking to my fleshly beast, “ye shall not surely die”. Eat of any fruit and you shall go on to be a god. Eat now, before your husband, and feed yourself, so that you can be a god. Serve yourself, you don’t have to wait for the other, teach them to eat for themselves and they too will be their own god and choose what’s best for them. Like the old fleshly saying goes “give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”. Every man or woman for themselves is the doctrine of the beast that rises from the sea. You are what you create, worship yourself and take rest in it, 666.

    Rev 13:13  And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 

    Fire from heaven is judgment, just like the old saying I just mentioned, it is a judgment that a man’s life exists in his own work. As Elijah called fire from heaven to consume the enemies of truth, all the Baal worshippers, so the beast imitates the truth with firery judgment in the form of his ten crowns. Judgment comes in many forms in the serpent’s world because as a serpent it moves from side to side in a manner that best suits the serpent. It looks holy, acts holy, imitates the truth, has all the right sounds and gestures, yet under the cover of this great sea is nothing but self centered flesh worship. Like Nebuchadnezzar who had all the utensils of the temple that he had robbed from the true temple to use in his own temple, that he used for the worship of his own god (himself), yet they were not in truth as in the original temple. So, the beast can emulate the truth so closely that in the flesh, without the spirit of God, you cannot tell the difference. They call for judgment but judgment that is for the glorification of the flesh. They do not contain the two witnesses/the two cheribum with them, hovering over the mercy seat. It is judgment without mercy and faith, without love.

    Mat 23:23  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightiermattersof the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. 

    Luk 11:42  But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

    Rev 13:14  And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 

    We were deceived by this fiery judgment of the beast in many false doctrines of the sea of humanity. These “miracles” play out in thousands of ways throughout our life. Attributing power to affect your heaven or earth to anything other than God is what this verse is speaking about.

    Think of any common physical ailment/discomfort, say heartburn. My learned satanic doctrine told me this was a result of eating spicy food. My learned satanic doctrine told me that taking an antacid cures my heartburn. I take the antacid and my heartburn goes away. This is a “miracle” of the beast. We have been deceived by a lifetime of this “learning by experience” (the root word of the word serpent) and seeing these kinds of “miracles.” But the truth is Christ does all things and by Him all things consist that are in heaven and on earth. What this means in plain terms is that nothing happens, visible or invisible in our mind or in our body that is not created by Christ, for His purpose. i.e. my heartburn was created by and for Christ for a purpose. The purpose is to reveal an area where I am in sin. If I ask Him to reveal to me my sin, He is faithful and just to forgive my sin (and let me know my sin so I can confess it) and He takes the “judgment” of heartburn away. “The Lord gives, the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” Christ is teaching us to take nothing out of His hands and to forsake the satanic doctrine to attribute power to anything other than Him. I AM NOT SAYING THAT ANYBODY SHOULD STOP TAKING MEDICINE. Every elect is in different stages of their creation. Whatever God has you doing is between you and Him. As an elect, He will little by little free you from whatever false doctrines He has placed in your world, gently, in His time.

    From birth we were deceived by false doctrines that our parents, friends, T.V. gave us, from their life experience, not from a clear vision of God. From there we began to worship the flesh and all his image. We modeled ourselves, shaped ourselves after the image of the beast. The way we walked, talked, stood, dressed, combed our hair, who we emulated, what we saw as pleasant to the eyes, was good for our flesh, and gave us a sense of pride, gave us good health etc. was all and one creating an image that was of the beast. We were told, because we dwelt on our earth, “that we should make an image TO THE BEAST” and for 50 plus years that is what I have done. In every waking moment it has always been about the flesh. Then the image that we made of the beast, in our flesh, spoke in a manner that glorified the beast. From birth we have been building the beast, the Baal temple that we worshipped at, where the beast is glorified as a god, in our flesh’s image, under our green tree, in the way we presented our flesh.

    Deu 12:1  These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. 

    Deu 12:2  Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree

    Deu 12:3  And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

    Rev 13:15  And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 

    The first beast has given our image power to spiritually kill all those who do not emulate what my beast spoke and lived, through the doctrines of the world. If you do not worship my beast the way I say it should be worshipped, give me all the accolades it deserves, give me all the atta boys it wants, then I will kill you with words and judgment of the beast. All humans are in some pack, like beasts. Everyone has their own pack and it is formed and fashioned after the beast. Family packs, Military packs, veteran packs, law enforcement packs, political packs, denominational packs, college packs, school packs, hunter packs, wealth packs, poor packs, rich packs, fashion packs, street gang packs, patriotic packs…it’s endless. And if someone does not emulate our pack we destroy them with judgment/words. If you don’t worship my beast then I will kill you by judging you as unworthy to live in my world and lock you out of my world, out of my pack. We must be taught to stay out of beastly packs because they only have the flesh in mind to glorify the beast.

    Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty”. 

    Rev 13:16  And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 

    Rev 13:17  And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (mark =lust of the eyes, name = lust of the flesh, number =pride of life.)

    Rev 13:18  Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. 

    The number 666 refers to the day man was created, who man worships, and that he is stuck on the 6th day without rest, resting in himself. He does not have a 7th day to rest on, because there is no rest to the beast/unclean. He has seven heads, seven days, but one, the seventh day, has a deadly head wound, meaning he cannot rest. He is always working to be worshipped, his seventh head has a mortal head wound that was partially healed by continuing to worship, rest in himself as a self made man. Man is created on the 6th day, man worships himself and man rests in himself. Man worships himself in everything that is made in his heaven, his earth and in his sea. The truth tells us that God is The Creator of our heavens, our earth and our sea and that truth, IS REST. But the beast has us make an image to ourselves telling us we are the creators (6) of our heavens, earth and seas, therefore we should make an image of ourselves and worship it (6) and rest in it (6) rest in a head that has been killed and is dead without truth about resting in God as Creator.

    Rev 14:7  Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. (God made our heavens, earth and seas, not us, He is to be worshipped, not us.)

    Luk 12:16  And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man (our beasts image) brought forth plentifully: 

    Luk 12:17  And he thought within himself (his heavens), saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? 

    Luk 12:18  And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. (his earth)

    Luk 12:19  And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink,andbe merry. (rest)

    Luk 12:20  But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? 

    Luk 12:21  So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. 

    His heavens, his earth and his rest all come from his own creations, the mark of the beastly nature, which all people have, about what’s good for life, how to succeed, how to flourish in this life and how to save for earthly retirement so we can relish in what we have done. We think in our heavens we are what we make ourselves. We adorn our fleshly earth with clothes, the right foods, the right hair style, the right fashions, the right house, truck, car, the right friends, etc. etc. and worship ourselves. And in all this we have our deadly head wound that keeps us from rest. In Hebrews it says they could not enter rest because of unbelief. There is no rest because we are dead and without spiritual life. The flesh does not know to love God with all our heart, soul and mind and love each other as ourselves and is waiting at every minute to devour any semblance of the man child as soon as he is born and kill the two witnesses. The dragon does not rest, he cannot rest and the only semblance of rest he has is in creating for himself more of everything so he can attempt to rest in evading death.

    Rev 14:11  And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name

    The smoke of our torment is the smoke that comes from the judgment of worshipping ourselves, that judgment is no rest, which is The smoke of God’s jealousy.

    Heb 4:3  For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

    Heb 4:10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works (the mark of the beast), as God did from his. 

    Heb 4:11  Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. 

    Deu 29:18  Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations (anything in me turning away from rest); lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; (gall and wormwood is wrong judgment, Amos 6:12)

    Deu 29:19  And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst

    Deu 29:20  The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. 

    When we get the victory over the mark of the beast it means we have entered into rest in that part or area of our life – rest from our own works – rest from worshipping an image that drives us to look, talk, dress, and sound like the rest of the world. Friendship with the world is enmity against God (Js.4:4) because friendship with the world within me means we have a mark, a name, or a number of the beast in that area of our life/world that drives us away from rest. If we are in Christ, wherever there’s a mark, there is no rest, no peace for that area of our life.

    Isa 57:20  But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 

    Isa 57:21  There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked

    No rest means no peace and no truth in that area of my earth. God has created all things in me through Christ and has rested from His works on The Seventh Day. Christ is The Seventh Day. We can rest from trying to please our little god in daily sacrifices. God has declared us righteous in Christ and we cannot add to that rest. As Christ’s image we can rest from our works for ourselves and labour for the other. To stop working for ourselves, labouring for God and you is rest. Laboring to enter rest is the labor it takes to stop trying to please the beast. The beast must be sacrificed daily, as Paul said he died daily. This is the truth in the parable of the daily sacrifice of Leviticus 28, two lambs without blemish, every day, the 1st and 2nd commandment. Die to self, live unto God. Die to self, live unto my neighbor. Die to self results in having peace. It’s not about what I want but about something much bigger than myself. Every minute of every hour that has been lived to God and you equals/numbers 144,000. Every corner of my life, four corners-north, east, south and west, that has been devoted to God and you is the four beasts around the throne, not being tossed anymore by every wind that comes from false doctrines in me, that I’ve learned in my time living in my earth. The word “wind” in the following verse means from all four corners of my earth. “That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;”; “And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.” And when every minute and every corner has been devoted to God and you, all has fallen down and worshipped God in truth. Every minute has its own trial, its own song and therefore no hour nor corner can know it. It must be lived a minute at a time. And only I, inside myself know what every minute brings that tries me in some way to either rest in Christ or worship my beast. Every minute is redeemed from my earth where the beast that rose up out of my earth did rule. Every minute is not defiled by some doctrine of men because it is pure from all taint, it is virgin to my earth because every minute follows Christ which is virgin to a world where all I thought of was myself, my beast and its satisfaction at all costs. I ravished myself in myself. Every minute was devoted to self worship, which is having the mark, the number, the name of the beast. Every 60 seconds, every 60 minutes, was devoted to the beast that was created on the 6th day. Here is wisdom, let him that has wisdom count the number of the beast, 666. Every second, every minute counted and devoted to the beast, and his worship, 6 days a week.

    Rev 14:1  And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads. 

    (The Lamb standing upon mount Sion is a parable of Christ standing alone in righteousness, the 144,000 are every minute of every day He stands alone fulfilling His Father’s will to love His Father with all His heart, soul and mind and to love us as Himself. The 1440 minutes have His Father’s name in their forehead, is every minute of every day and the two commandments from which all other commandments hang in every minute of every day, 1440 plus two 00=144,000.)

    Rev 14:2  And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: (A new song that is a new voice which is as many waters, great thunder and harpers harping is what takes place when we begin to see God the way Christ does, from on top of mount Sion, in every minute of every day through the two witnesses. It is as a new voice, as many waters, running over everything I ever knew, the shepherd’s voice. It is as a great thunder because it shakes everything I’ve ever known and it is as harping, singing a new melody in my heart. )

    Rev 14:3  And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. (It is a new song to my heart, to all four corners of my earth and to every hour of my day. Nothing can learn it but each minute that is devoted to The Father. Each minute is redeemed to God as Creator through Jesus Christ. It is a new song because it is a new thought to devote every minute to God and my neighbor, it is virgin to my world. )

    Rev 14:4  These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. (Not one minute is defiled with false doctrine because each minute is virgin in thought to Christ only as Creator. It is shown as virgin because each minute follows Christ as Creator of them, not myself. Each minute is redeemed from my earth, from me sacrificing each minute to myself and now are the first fruits unto God and the Lamb, they are sacrifices to Christ and His Father. Each minute is a servant to Him Who made it. I didn’t make time or anything that occurs therein, God did, therefore time is God’s servant. When I am given to see time as God’s servant, created by God, then each minute is virgin, because it is devoted to The Creator and not to me. Again we must remind ourselves that this process is all in aorist tense. It is taking place minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. We mustn’t get discouraged when we think we are failing or falling short because Christ said it would be a trial and we must endure until the end of time. No more minutes but just a place where everything is seen as God. “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”; “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting (lacking) nothing.”)

    Rev 14:5  And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. (Each minute is without fault and therefore there is no guile in them, they are not put into my hands but into the hands of The Creator. I did not create time that was formed by the rising and setting of The Sun/Son, Christ did. Therefore every minute in that time between the rising and setting of the Sun is a time created by God through Christ for God’s pleasure. This makes Him The Author and finisher of all things. The Riser and Setter of all things in all the literal world and internally in my world. )

    Rev 14:6  And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, (Another angel is the message of the everlasting gospel to preach to my earth that every hour is made up of every minute planned by Christ to bring glory to His Father through the two commandments from which everything hangs. To the four beasts of my earth, four corners, east, south,west and north, or every nation, kindred, tongue, people,saying… )

    Rev 14:7  Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. (Fear God, give glory to HIM, for making heaven/my heavens, earth/my earth, the sea/my sea, fountains of water/ my fountains of water not myself, for the hour of His judgment is come upon my earth, judging my earth for taking credit for any minute of any hour of any day as a creation of mine. It seems as a judgment to me because I was never aware that God was creating every minute of my life. But, in truth, it is a revealing of the truth that Christ stands alone as Creator through His Father, as the Creator of everything in me, my heavens, my earth, my sea, and my fountains of water. My thoughts were centered around myself as creator, my earth as creator, my sea of doctrine as creator and the waters I drank as creator, but now are given to Christ as The Alpha and Omega. This is a judgment, a truth that I did not know and walked in ignorance of.)

    Rev 14:8  And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. (Now, Babylon, the confusion of my mind (the meaning of Babylon/Babel) has fallen from my heavens as creator, who made all my nations in me drink from the wine/judgment of her fornication, which taught me that I was the creator of my own life, that I had freewill, which is cheating on God as Creator. That I made each brick/minute and slimed it with what boiled up from my self-centered nature. “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.”. Her wine/judgment taught me that each minute, each hour, each day was mine to make of it as I willed. All schools of thought in my life were a religion that taught me the doctrine that I was an independent being from all others and therefore I made of my life what it was or was not. I created my own hell or heaven independent from God. The wine of wrath of her fornication is the thoughts of us not knowing Christ as Creator. This thought is a fornicating thought because it is being gratified by my own thoughts of godhood and falling down under every thought/green tree for pleasuring myself, not God or my neighbor.)

    Rev 14:9  And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, (Worshipping the beast is worshipping myself in any way, in any image as mine, in any mark that’s mine or put my hand to what’s mine, all independent from Christ as Creator of each minute. If I do not see Christ as The Creator of each minute of my life then I receive wrath, I live out the conseqences of such thinking in anger, bitterness, jealousy, all results of being drunk on the false doctrine of godhood. This only applies to those who God has chosen to reveal Himself to. All others are living out whatever life He has planned they live. They are not judged because the world has already been judged and their lives reflect that judgment. If they do not believe then their unbelief is the judgment. He has judged that they believe not. It is not their judgment to believe or not believe, it is a judgment by their Creator. “”.)

    Rev 14:10  The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: (God’s wrath is poured out upon me/the elect when I worship myself. I am tormented in the fire of judgment because I know that what is being preached to me is truth, but the struggle against my beast is hard. The beast with the head wound is constantly seeking to be healed by works, he has a drive to keep on working because he knows he has but a short time. Rest is not in his best interest to stay alive. To be tormented in the presence of the holy angels and Christ is to be tormented by the true messages of the gospel, delivered by Christ. Angels are messengers, “G32- angel, messenger.”. I am tormented by the messages that I have received throughout my life that have shown the faithfulness of God to make me what He has desired to make me. When I am not seeing Christ as Creator in every minute of every day I show the results by having a bad attitude, murmuring, complaining, judging those in the world, and in a bitter mood. He chastens me, teaches me these truths through the messages/angels who send judgment on my earth in the form of physical chastisements: physical sickness, pains, depressions, etc. These are the tormenting messengers sent to me to confess my fornication of giving credit to something other than God which is lying down, spreading my legs for every Satanic thought that passes by. “But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.”)

    Rev 14:11  And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. (We have no rest when we worship ourselves and feed the beast. It is tormenting to us who are beginning to get the first fruits to comprehend that every minute belongs to God. Whether it is good or evil, day or night, my works no longer bring rest because Christ is causing me to see that it’s a work of the beast. It is attributed to time, not eternity. But, we have the first fruits, seeing that every minute is sacrificed to God and the two witnesses, to love The LORD God with all my heart, soul and mind and my neighbor as myself, so we are learning to have patience with the process and faith that what Christ has started in us He will complete. We are being taught to rest from our labours of the flesh and the work of Christ will follow, which is the next two verses. )

    Rev 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. 

    Rev 14:13  And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. (We are blessed to die to ourselves as gods, independent and separate from The God. Knowing this truth allows us to rest from our own works and that work of rest will follow us. We are blessed to be judged or made known Who is, was , and will be The Author and Finisher of my world. It is what was behind what Christ told Peter. “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.”) When you have entered this process or “become old”, Christ will cause you to go where your flesh does not want to go.

    Rev 14:14  And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. (We are able to see the cloud of witnesses of how Christ was always there protecting us even before we knew Him and Christ sitting on that cloud of witnesses, crowned as LORD and having in his hand a sharp sickle that He harvests our earth with. The sickle is sharp, for it is the word of God. It carves us, separates us as Abraham did the sacrifices he made to God. “And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.”; “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.Heb.4:12,13 )

    Rev 14:15  And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. 

    Rev 14:16  And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. (The other angel is the message of God that announces that Christ has entered us and we are now being harvested, set free from the beast, the second coming has begun, and every eye in me shall see Him. We are ripe for the picking.”Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen”.)

    Rev 14:17  And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. (This is the second commandment, the next message, to love my neighbor as myself, which is again the sharp word of God. When the first message comes to Love the LORD God with all our heart, soul and mind, it is then followed by the second message, which then leads to internal judgment of who and how I saw myself, God and others. Three times Christ asks Peter, “Do you love me”, And then says to him, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not”. The truth carries us where we do not want to go, deny yourself and feed my sheep. We are led by the hand to our own crucifing of ourselves, to always putting God first, then our neighbor. It becomes the great wine press that squeezes every ounce of blood from us, every ounce of self will. It is a fire that burns all of ME up. We see it as the wrath of God upon our selfish beast that only cares for itself. It is against everything in human nature to love and put someone before themselves. It squeezes the sacrificial blood from us to the point we cannot get on our own power anymore, our own horse. Horse represents power. Why to a horses bridle? Because we are sacrificed to the point that we cannot lead our beast anymore, to the point, that it is impossible to ride the power we thought we had. We can’t get on our “high horse” anymore because we are humbled.)

    Rev 14:18  And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. (fire of judgment by the word of God. Each minute of each hour of each day is the time when our “grapes are fully ripe. ” I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”)

    Rev 14:19  And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. (each minute, each hour, each day is our flesh cast into the great winepress , where more blood is required, more sacrifice of the beast to see God in every minute of every hour of every day.)

    Rev 14:20  And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. 

    (It squeezes the sacrificial blood from us to the point we cannot get on our own power anymore, our own horse. Horse represents power. Why to a horses bridle? Because we are sacrificed to the point that we cannot lead our beast anymore, so far so, that it is impossible to ride the power of the high horse of pride we thought we had. It is done outside the city, the new Jerusalem, which means we are still encased in these flesh shells and have not yet taken on the new man in a literal form.)

    Rev 15:1  And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. (Above, it said the grapes were ripe, which means the same as these seven last plagues. Seven represents complete rest, so in “complete rest” we are now standing on a sea of glass, we are now able to stand on the sea of false doctrine where we once swam in and lived. We are now complete to avenge our earth from the sea of false doctrine. God’s wrath on all false doctrine is now taking place in our world, minute by minute.)

    Rev 15:2  And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. (We are now standing on the sea of false doctrine, judging minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day over the sea. We have now gotten the victory over the beast, his image, his mark, and the number of his name by worshipping God in the now and not planning anything by hours or by days, or months or years. Every minute is a sacrifice to Him Who made it.)

    Rev 15:3  And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. (This puts the song of the hundred and forty four thousand in us and is the same as having harps of God, the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb, all saying the same thing, “great and marvellous are Thy works, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY; just and true ARE THY WAYS,Thou King of saints. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.” No man in me can learn the song of the 144,000, nor have a harp, nor the song of Moses or the song of the Lamb until they are judged and purified by seeing every minute of every day belongs to the worship of God as All in all and love each other as ourselves.)

    Rev 15:4  Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest. (“who shall not fear thee” and “all nations” are one in the same in me. Everyone in me and all nations in me, legions, (all my thoughts and doctrines) shall indeed come to see that every minute of every day is a creation of Christ and this is His judgment being made manifest in me. The temple is now open.)

    Rev 15:5  And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened: (the temple is now open, we see inwardly.)

    Rev 15:6  And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles. (We are now becoming the complete message, clothed in pure and white linen, we have golden girdles to cover our hearts/breasts and are now sent out to avenge our earth. We are the complete seven, the angels (messages/thoughts) that are sending plagues to our own earth to bring in all nations within us to worship God and The Lamb. Apostle Paul said that the Galatians saw him as an angel of God in Galatians 4:14. This is a witness to the angel telling John don’t worship me, I am of thy brethren and have the testimony of Jesus, worship God. Rev.19:10, 22:9. We are the angels of God, sent into our world to judge it. Even Christ said that in the resurrection we become as the angels of God. We are in the resurrection. Luk 20:36  “Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection”. Equal to the angels Is G2465 and means “like an angel”, not literal angels but messages. We become like the angels of God, bringing messages to our earth. Sent out to minister unto those in us, who will be heirs of the kingdom. “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation”? Heb.1:14.”)

    Rev 15:7  And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever. (Four is whole, east, north, south, west, and one is unity, so one of the beasts is the whole of the beast, the whole sacrifice of our beast, “As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us” Rm.8:36-37. God’s wrath is poured out on our world BY US! We are the seven angels, which means complete, that has been sent to pour out the wrath of God on our own earth”. “but let a man examine himself/judge, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup”; “For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.”.

    Rev 15:8  And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. (We are now able to enter the temple and this is why it was said in the first verse, the temple was open. No man can enter the temple until we are complete and ready to pour out the wrath of God upon our own earth. And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled” 2 Cor.10:5,6. But we are complete, for we are sent by God to our own earth.)

    Rev 16:1  And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. (This is where we begin revenging our disobedience in our earth, we no longer let our earth slide or get by, we rule it with a rod of iron. “Go your ways” means, “to lead (oneself) under” , which means we are then to lead our nations under the rule of Christ, which is under the two witnesses. Our nations no longer are leading us, for the beast, for self, but we are the king and priest of them. We are now ruling over sin. “If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.”.)

    Rev 16:2  And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image. (A “NOISOME” sore means “a mode of thinking, feeling or acting” which means the flesh sees the truth as a noisome, grievous way of thinking, feeling or acting, compared to the way it has been living. It is a great voice that is a noisome sore to my nations who were being run by the beast. It is a noisome sore to love God with all my heart, soul and strength and my neighbor as myself.)

    Rev 16:3  And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. (The sea of false doctrine becomes a sea of the dead because everything that lived in the sea dies to the truth. “And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians. And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them. But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.”

    I see that all I ever knew or believed was a lie of my father the Devil…

    Rev 16:4  And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. (The waters/doctrines we lived by become blood because they become unclean to us. Moses and the rod he used to strike Egypt with plagues is a parable of Christ walking through our earth ruling it with a rod of iron. “Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.” What was once clean to drink as an Egyptian (all the false doctrines of self worship/self preservation) are now made unclean.

    Rev 16:5  And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. (Christ’s message has shown us the pollution of our waters, which makes us see Him and Him only as righteous. We see Him as the Lord over our life, was the Lord over our life and will be Lord over our life.)

    Rev 16:6  For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. (My own doctrines/waters shed the blood of all Truth (saints and prophets) and make my beast worthy to receive judgment.)

    Rev 16:7  And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. (Christ is righteous in judging these waters as unrighteous because these waters we lived by shed innocent blood, killed truth represented by clean water.)

    Rev 16:8  And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. 

    Rev 16:9  And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. (The nations/doctrines/thoughts in us are being scorched with righteous judgment that Christ has delivered to us to judge our earth with. Then after we are scorched with a judgment, we refuse to give God credit for the scorching and instead give credit for our suffering to some other false doctrine explanation. i.e. Caffeine kept me awake last night. Giving caffeine credit for the sleepless night is not repenting to give him glory. Caffeine is not a god and has no power in and of itself. Until He gives us to recognize the reason for the judgment, we must be scorched again. This scorching brings the eventual repentance of the false doctrine within me once I glorify God by giving Him the credit for the scorching (sleeples night) and not the caffeine idol. This is a process we go through in every detail of life. It is God’s method for releasing us from the bondage of worshipping false gods. For the elect, Christ’s judgment leads to life more abudant Joh 10:10  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. Christ is the thief who steals from my old man but gives back life abundantly to my new man by conquering false doctrines. The truth is a plague to my flesh and an unclean thing. The truth names Christ as everything, which is a plague to my thoughts and doctrines of the men in me. I eat what my doctrines tell me is good for me. I exercise because my doctrines tell me it is good for me. I wear what I do because my doctrines tell me its fashionable. There is no facet of our life that is not tainted by the Red Sea. The truth scorches all I ever believed. And this results in the vial being seen as being poured out on the seat/the foundation/power of my beast, which was led by the nose, by the satanic doctrine of, you shall be as God.)

    Mat 3:11  I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: 

    Mat 3:12  Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

    Rev 16:10  And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, 

    Rev 16:11  And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. (The seat of the beast is seen as full of darkness, self love. “The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.”; “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how greatisthat darkness! No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (yourself).” My earth is seen as full of unrighteous judgment and therefore it is in darkness, because all doctrine in me is based on self love/treasure. This makes us gnaw our tongue in pain and blaspheme God because of His judgment exposing our selfish, self-righteous doctrines which are darkness. My flesh loves the darkness of my own doctrine more than the doctrine of Christ, which is light.)

    Rev 16:12  And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. (Euphrates means- fruitfullness in Hebrew and “a good and abounding river” in Greek. Everything we saw that had fruitfullness and was good and abounding about our doctrine is dried up, making way for our earth’s new king to rise from the east. It says kings because each of us has a new king to rule our earth, who rises from the east, from where light comes from, Christ. East is not east but a parable of where light comes from, from the rising of Christ upon my earth. Christ is coming to battle, figuratively, against all my old doctrines that ruled my earth. They are all unclean spirits that have ruled me from the Dragon, the beast and false prophet, the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.)

    Rev 16:13  And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 

    Rev 16:14  For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. (Three unclean spirits represent as you probably well know by now: 1. Lust of the flesh, 2. lust of the eyes, and 3. the pride of life aka 666. They come out of the mouth of Satan, which is seen in our beast and his doctrines are what our beast speaks as a prophet. They attempt to mount an attack against Christ with a flesh preserving diatribe of false righteousness/humility/goodness that is all meant for the preservation of the flesh, to maintain our man of sin’s seat in our temple acting as God. These doctrines (unclean spirits/frogs) present themselves as our “friends”. They are words of “good advice”.

    Psa 55:12  For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: 

    Psa 55:13  But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. 

    Psa 55:14  We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. 

    These unclean spirits come to the kings of our earth, the kings being the rulers of our most cherished doctrines of self and entice them to fight against the knowledge that Christ is ruler of ALL. They tell them that He has come to destroy their kingdoms and they must fight!

    They see Christ as a thief and as someone who is coming to steal what is rightfully theirs by nature, like Israel taking the land of Canaan from the people who were already there and giving it to the Israelites.

    When we walk according to the three unclean spirits, we are exposed as naked, like Adam and eve. As long as we watch that we do not take credit for any minute of any day by a mark, a name or a number, we are keeping our garment of Christ covering us. But when our earth wants credit for anything as a god according to the three unclean spirits we lose our covering and stand naked.

    Rev 16:15  Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. (Christ is seen as a thief to my world of a freewill being who thinks he makes himself good or evil, not knowing that Christ rules in the kingdoms of men. He makes us what He desires and then says return. “Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him. This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men. “; “Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.”.

    Rev 16:16  And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. (From the old testament the word Armageddon is made up of two words , “mountain” and “assembling of crowds”. Our old nations have assembled together as a crowd/city to be a mountain against the truth. A mountain that is amassed by the supposed good self-preserving doctrines based on the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. It’s shown as unclean in every way because it all comes from a self righteous doctrine…self righteous being anything and everything that pits itself against Christ as King. We are the complete angel sent into our world to defeat it and to rule it with a rod of iron, not outwardly to cause contention and strife but inwardly to rule my own earth. That rod of iron is love God with all your heart soul and mind and your neighbor as yourself. It is a rod of unmerciless iron to give up my own life for the truth and then for another.

    Rev 16:17  And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. (The air is the spirit world, and when we are brought to the truth we are given to see the flesh, our world and the sea as unclean in the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life. When we can see it as Christ sees it, then, “it is done” and because we are now judging ourselves, ruling our earth, it is done, the kingdoms of this world are becoming the kingdoms of the LORD and His Christ. It becomes a great earthquake to our world because we now are able to hear the truth in thunderings and lightning. It reverberates through our world like after shocks of a great earthquake. Every mountain and hill, which represent our pride, are cut to the ground. We thought we had learned a lot in our life but nothing comes close to the truth and nothing has been such an earthquake that it has removed every mountain and hill (prideful doctrine). Nothing has changed us but this. Every doctrine before only gave us a way to serve ourselves, which is serving Satan, the beast and having his mark.)

    Rev 16:18  And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. 

    Rev 16:19  And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. (The city was divided into three parts, like the three unclean frogs, and seen unclean in three ways, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, which expose us and we are found naked, exposed as unclean in our assembly of crowded lies upon our mountain. The three unclean spirits, the serpent, the beast and the false prophet cannot hide anymore, the shame of their nakedness is exposed. Therefore every nation in us has fallen and Babylon has come into remembrance before God. We are sent to judge ourselves and to expose her nakedness as unclean in thought and in word.)

    Rev 16:20  And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 

    Rev 16:21  And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great. (Instead of the truth falling on our world like a rain, water of the word, it comes in the form of a 100 pound block of ice. Judgment upon our earth is how our earth sees it. We don’t receive the truth as a soft rain of correction but as a hail ball striking us with a plague of truth that is noisome and grievious to how we saw life and lived life, which was through the eyes of satanic doctrine, the beast and the false prophet, three unclean frogs of the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life. It is done. After Christ was fully judged and had received the full bitterness of the judgment He said “it is finished” and died, for His judgment brought forth death for our sin, which was finished in Him. James says “But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Our judgment is finished in Christ in the sense we are given the right to now be sent forth into our world to rule it. No man can rule his own life. All mankind, without Christ, without the Truth, is a slave of sin. Once we have been freed we then begin to rule our world, through Christ, with truth. That truth is seen as hail, lightning, fire, earthquakes, plagues and total devestation to a world that was lived under the lies of Babylon. It destroys our mountains, our hills, dries up our fountains, and turns the sea of false doctrine we traded in into an unclean filth of lies and deceit. Now Babylon, our religion, which “BABBLED-ON” about self, is judged and we are given a close look into the way she lived so sumptuously.)

    Rev 17:1  And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: (One angel is as a complete seven angels, a complete message, a complete revelation to the truth of who Babylon in us was. That begins to “shew” us what we are, because we are blind to the truth. “Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.” One angel is also one day (today) we receive the truth. We are receiving the Truth, day by day, it’s not one and done. One of the seven angels/vials/thunders etc. is a reflection of the concept that the Truth of Christ is being revealed in stages, day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, until the complete knowledge of Christ as our Rest (represented by the number Seven) has been revealed to us in all areas of our life. For He saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

    Rev 17:2  With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. (Her wine is an intoxication of self worship, self awareness, and self beauty. It is an intoxication on how I saw myself in the lust of my eyes, the lust of my flesh and that which gave me pride in my life. Nothing is left unseen, no stone is left upon another stone, where we had built our temple to our own goddess. “And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things ? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” Christ is saying, “don’t you see that this temple represents you and every stone you used to build yourself up and it has to come down?” We ate the forbidden fruit that made us see ourselves as gods and therefore we had intimacy with Satan. From there we began building ourselves a city called Babel, brick by brick. “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.”.

    “And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar (wilderness); and they dwelt there.  And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded (He carries us away to see our own city/temple, the next verse in revelation).And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down (we’re the us united with Christ being sent by God to take a look at what we have erected), and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.”.)

    Rev 17:3  So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness (Shinar): and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. (This process is seen as the wilderness, Shinar, Babylon, a dry place, a solitary place and a waste place. A place where she is seen as sitting on a scarlet colored beast, our flesh stripped of all covering of Christ, skin, is scarlet-red, full of names that begin with me, mine, self, I. The word “flesh” means stripped of all skin, meat…”. This is where we are in a state stripped of any covering of Christ, which is represented by skin, the meaning of this verse. “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.” This is God’s prophecy to us, the Elect, that we are covered in Christ. Babylon has seven heads/days devoted to her wisdom and all lived by her supposed commandments. “Full of names” means she is filled up, from eating things to herself, fat on herself, calling everything by a name that is best for her, making her own judgments for good and evil, which is blasphemy against our Creator. Yet, she is the same woman that in Revelation 12, after giving birth to the man child, was taken to the wilderness, to a place prepared, to feed her 3 1/2 years, the ministry of Christ in us. How are we fed? With the judgment of God. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void (no right or clear judgment); and darkness was upon the face of the deep (dark judgment with no light-hell). And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light (Christ begins showing us right judgment). And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” Why judgment? Because it is through the judgment of our earth are we then created, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”, into the new church that is arrayed in white, the bride of Christ. Babylon, who lived in confusion-darkness, becomes the Bride of Christ who knows her Husband’s voice, “I heard thy voice in the garden”. As Israel lived forty years in the wilderness until all the elders who came out of Egypt died and new Israelites were born, so we must live a symbolic time in our own wilderness until we come to see the truth and hear Christ’s voice. Being circumcised on the eighth day is becoming a new man. We must be shown that we are Babylon, the great whore, before we can be the Bride of Christ, the virgin, clean and white.)

    Rev 17:4  And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: (We are seen as being clothed in purple, which is blue and red mixed together, blue for heaven and red being our earth as our own creation, and scarlet, which is stripped of all covering of Christ. Decked with thoughts of ourselves as being majestic and god-like, which is represented by gold, precious stones, and pearls. We think we hold in our hand a golden cup that drinks each hour of each day as ours but in truth it is an abomination to think we control anything and it is fornication against Christ as Creator. But, again she is the woman of chapter 12 who is taken to the wilderness, we are given the truth and begin judging ourselves in this earth, a wilderness.)

    Rev 17:5  And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. (Upon my forehead is the mark of the beast written. It is a mystery to me, hidden, that I am worshipping myself. I am as yet unaware of what I am. I have the thoughts of my greatness, but, in truth I am a harlot. I have not yet come to realize that I am selling myself to the world in how I speak, talk, dress, carry myself, which all are abominations of my own earth. I am mixing (fornicating) with every false doctrine that comes my way. Only the elect are blessed to come to see the mystery. It is only the elect who can be the whore. We have been, before the foundation of the world, betrothed to Christ. Therefore, it’s not our place to judge anyone in the world. Rom 2:1  Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. 

    Rev 17:6  And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. (We were drunk with the blood of our new man because while we are told throughout life the truth in different ways, we denied it and continued to kill the truth. We kill the truth by our own religion. It was religion that killed Christ. So, it is religion that kills Him in us. Whenever we read scripture and it testifies against our religion, we kill it and do it as though we’re doing it for God. There are many forms of religion and all people have a form of religion. Religion encompasses all modes of beliefs/opinions. It’s not limited to a theological system but rather it’s any way we kill the truth by our own self-preserving doctrine that denies the truth in place of my lie. Seeing the truth, we are marveling at what depths we take to deny the truth. Yet, we are shown how and why we sink to such lows. We are the spirits in prison that Peter speaks of; “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah (Noah means-rest), while the ark (the ark is my heart) was a preparing (What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? ), wherein few, that is, eight souls (new circumcised soul, new man) were saved by water. The like figure (parable, like the eight souls are a parable) whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:” Our hearts represent the ark where sacrifice is made and our conscience is cleansed from sin. “Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled (like blood sprinkled on the ark) from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.”; “Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round aboutAnd thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.” Aaron is a parable of Christ and we are a parable of Aaron’s sons. This sprinkling of blood on the right ear, right thumb and right toe is also a parable of showing how we are blood stained in killing the truth.) 

    Rev 17:7  And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. (Why are we so taken back about how low we had gotten. It was a SECRET, the word mystery. It was a hidden secret to us at the time. We shouldn’t be so taken back because it was done out of ignorance. We were slaves and did not know it. God turned us to destruction and has said “return”. Christ is The Creator of ALL THINGS, for by Him were all things created for him and by Him ALL THINGS CONSIST. Col.1:15-17. The beast carried us to make this image of ourselves. It is the way God sees us, as the whore of Babylon. We think we are clean and white, but it “is not” as it seems.)

    Rev 17:8  The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. (Our beast was and is not. It ascended out of the bottomless pit of the false doctrine of the sea and for us has gone into perdition/destruction. We wonder/marvel at the beast that was, is not and yet still is a beast because we see that the power of the beast for self worship is so strong that none can war against the beast, Rev.13:4. The parts of us that still have the mark of the beast and are still going to be judged by us, admire the tenacity of our beast. The beast is all about self and self glorification at the cost of everything. The flesh admires such tenacity and glorifies the beast with more honor. )

    Rev 17:9  And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. (Seven mountains are the seven days the woman sits on. She/we think we are in total control of every day.)

    Rev 17:10  And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. Five days a week are fallen to our judgment through Christ, the parable of a work week, the parable we are learning that righteousness is a work of Christ in me. The sixth day is being conquered in the form of we did not create ourselves, which means the seventh day has not come, our day of total rest, because we still have people in us who believe they create themselves. And when the sixth day has fallen totally under judgment to Christ, the seventh day has come, the day of rest. All days seen as one day, the beast will have been totally judged. “For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.” The judgment must be complete rest, the meaning of seven. But as we get closer to our complete judgment it gets faster, hence the meaning of “he must continue a short space.”)

    Rev 17:11  And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. (The eighth is the new day, the new man. The eighth day is the day the new man is circumcised. We thought we were the new man in works, in the past, by religion, we thought at one time we were circumcised, but now we see that the beast was not the new man we thought he was. My flesh/carnal man was made a beast by God. I got religion and thought I had undone my beastly nature. But God showed me all that was in me, by opening up my bottomless pit, and how I WAS NOT what I thought I had made myself. Then God shows me I am still a beast and that it must be destroyed by seeing Christ as the Cretor of all of it. Abraham was called uncircumcised, the beast that IS. We are from creation a beast, just like the beasts that were created on the same day we were created. The Israelites recieve the law of circuncision of an outward sign, religion, the beast that WAS NOT. We get a form of religion and we appear to be something WE ARE NOT to such a degree that we kill our very Creator to keep our religion showing that we are something WE ARE NOT. “Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. ” But because God loves us and desires we know Him, He uncovers our beastly nature and unlocks the bottomless pit. From here we see a beast ascending out of the countless ways we kill the truth in denying our beastly creation – a bottomless pit of lies and deception. The beast is a beast from creation, it tries to cover over its beastliness by eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil to show it is not a beast, and then is seen as a beast again when our eyes are opened. Our religion was still working for self preservation, not love. Therefore we must judge ourselves, circumcise ourselves, “Jer 4:4, Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart…”; The beast that was and is not, is the culmination of becoming a new man and being circumcised, by seeing yourself still as a beast, covered in religion. This is the process of Babylon becoming the Bride. Being destroyed, being circumcised is the new day, the eighth day, entering into eternity, where there are no days, times or years, all is God, He is All in all. Every day is seen as the same day, seeing God as everything. Everything has been freed, it is the year of jubilee. What I was, what I thought I was not and yet am, was all created by Christ and for Christ. The beast was created by Christ and is of the seven. It becomes a comfort to know that even the beast was a creation by Christ as part of our being created into the eighth, the new man, circumcised in heart. I can not glory in creating any of it. “But by the grace of God I am what I am…”)

    Rev 17:12  And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. (Our commandments receive no kingdom because they are judgements of the flesh, beastly and used for the beast. They receive power as kings to rule a wicked world within me for one hour. One hour is a parable of a short period where my commandments rule me, I seem to be what I AM NOT. A time where I seem to be running the show, but it’s a time only from God to show the beast cannot be contained, as verse 16 says. By these kings it is apparent that I cannot even live by my own commandments. They eat my flesh and burn me with fire. The power we think we have according to some religious doctrine is a power that worships the beast and attributes all to my own understanding, trying to keep it together by laws I have made for myself. With these we make war against Christ, replacing the two witnesses/two commandments with our own set of ten commandments, whereby we try to rule Babylon within us. But, as the elect know, Babylon sits upon my flesh and cannot be ruled by any law. She is the man on the island of the Gaderenes, unable to be restrained by my own set of laws. Gadarene means “involving or engaged in a headlong or potentially disasterous rush to do something.” My Egyptian world has one leader and I give all strength to my leader, myself. By this thought I war against Christ but am overcome to see that Christ is Lord of my lords and King of my kings. Because I am given to see this, I am called, chosen and faithful to give all honor to Christ as The True LORD AND TRUE KING. I am given to see that I AM NOT what I have tried to present myself as.)

    Rev 17:13  These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. (We attribute the power as coming from ourselves. I am the beast. I use law to cover my beastly nature to make it appear I am not a beast anymore. Pretending to be something I am not, I am a wolf in sheep’s clothing.)

    Rev 17:14  These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. (We war against resting in Christ, but as it says, we are overcome and see Him as Lord of my lords and King of my kings, which happens because we are the predestined called, chosen and faithful. He calls us, He chooses us, and He creates us to be faithful. And, He does it through the process of Babylon becoming the Bride. He does it by uncovering our beastly nature and showing us the bottonless pit of false doctrine I used to appear as a lamb when in fact I am a wolf.)

    Rev 17:15  And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. (People, multitudes, nations and tongues are doctrines in which we live and move, the legions in the man on the island of the Gaderenes, unable to be controlled by anyone, tempestuous waters. We sit on our high mountain with no regard to the supremacy of Christ and we sit as a woman without a head. The people, multitudes, nations and tongues are the bottomless pit of false doctrine I use to cover my beastly nature. I use these lies to appear to be all things to all people so that I can gain more for myself, not Christ. I take the following principle and use it for my own profit. “For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save someAnd this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you. ” I become all things to all people for myself not for the gospel’s sake. Through religion I am not what I appear. This is a process the Lord puts us through to show us the depths we go through to cover our nakedness in our own fashion. It is not a coincidence that the word used for fine clothing, finely covering ourselves, is the word fashion – the prevailing style or custom. Religion comes in many fashions. Religion is the doctrines we live and fashion ourselves by. It doesn’t mean just an outward congregation of a denomination or sect in the realm of theology. One definition of religion is Any pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance. Religion is ALL the ideas/beliefs/opinions/activities (people, multitudes, nations and tongues) that we use to carve an image of ourselves which we use to both set ourselves apart from some while becoming associated with others…and this is ever changing…like a serpent that winds back and forth to every wind of doctrine. It is any set of principles we use to set ourselves up as better than others, so that we can APPEAR to others as something we are not. We are not any of the things we portray because we of ourselves aren’t anything at all. We are merely creations of the Supreme God who does all things according to HIS Will and HIS Purpose. And His Purpose and His Will is to build us up a fleshly temple, that has all the outward appearance of the true but is actually just a beast who has no knowledge of God but acts and thinks under the delusion that He himself is a god. This temple must be brought down, brick by brick, to make way for the new Temple, the one built “without hands” (without works of the law absent of love). He is building the new temple now within us through the process of dismantling the old temple and tearing down all bricks/idols of self.

    Rev 17:16  And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. (God is going to use every facet of our beastly nature – the complete ten horns of our own laws to love self above all others – to turn on us and devour us. It’s a blessing that He will not allow the whore to continue on in her self worship and her life will be wrought with all manner of failures and even disasters. In our state as a whore, we will wonder why, unlike so many others, our lives fall apart, time and time again. All of the things we are worshipping within ourselves continually destroy us. This will work out uniquely in every Elect’s life. Every Elect will have their version of this scenario and will understand what is being spoken of. Though the whore loves herself, the beast has been given to fulfill the Lord’s Will of destruction.

    Rev 17:17  For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. 

    Rev 17:18  And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. (The ten horns are laws we try to enact upon ourselves, religion, to eat our flesh, try to control it. But, our lust for the eyes, the lust for the flesh and the pride of life triumphs over our very own laws. We reign over the ten kings because we cannot be stopped by any law of the flesh, laws of the flesh cannot contain her. I remember asking myself, “what is wrong with me, why can’t I get it together?” It was because God was showing me, looking back, that I cannot control my beast by any law, doctrine, multitude, tongue or nation. “Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh” Col.2:18-23. It may look good, sound good but, IT IS NOT. It cannot satisfy the lust of the flesh to be its own god and get out from under the headship of Christ. I have tried many times in my life to enact laws upon my very own flesh, but, to no avail. My whorish flesh (beast that carries me) cannot be restrained by man made laws. She desires too much and is never satisfied. I tried every law there was known to control my drinking, my bad temper, my foul mouth, my lust for attention at all costs, all to no avail. I could never buckle down and just do what I knew was right before Christ. God put all those laws into my flesh to eat my flesh and burn my flesh, “Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound” Christ, burning my flesh with my own ten laws, worked to show me that only two laws would change me, not my laws, but His. But as He opens our eyes to the truth of the beast we are originally created as, He then begins to put the law to love Him above all things, before all things and to love my brother/sister as myself in our heart. The power of God within me is changing me. It was not a set of my own regimented laws or ordinances, it was the love of God for us that changes us, not our laws. He used our own set of laws to destroy us and to lose all hope. We agreed with Him that something had to change, but He showed us that we could not bring about that change. Then, when there was no hope in our flesh, He gave us life AND….BABYLON FELL! She falls from a vessel of wrath, loving herself, to a vessel of mercy, loving Christ as Head of her and loving my brother as herself. “What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction (Babylon): And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy (the bride), which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.” We, as natural brute beasts, which are driven all over the place, cannot love God with all our heart, soul, and mind and each other as ourselves. The flesh is as a beast and always puts itself first in all things. It will ACT and DISGUISE itself as something it is not and do so with the intent of its own welfare. As we know about wild animals, the flesh is as a beast that only hunts for its own survival, not yours. The flesh’s only thought is self preservation and never purely sacrifices itself for another beast. When we do its only so that we can get something out of it, therefore it is not a sacrifice. You’ve seen beasts hunt in packs to kill a larger animal, but once the animal is down and feeding starts, they begin fighting amongst themselves. They fight over the kill because they, as individual beasts want to make sure they are filled first. It’s a pack to get the kill done, then it’s every beast for himself. Having this truth, this message, this angel is great power over the beast and Babylon and it enlightens our earth with glory. Knowing this, we can say with confidence, “Babylon the great has fallen, is fallen” and we see her as a habitation of devils, foul spirits and was a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. She made everything in me drink of her wine of fornication, despite all my efforts to control her. “Babylon the great has fallen, is fallen”, is in aorist tense, “is, was, and will be”. She is falling, was falling and will continue to fall within in us every day, 24 hours a day until she is recreated into the Bride of Christ without fault, clean and pure, until she is changed from a vessel of wrath to a vessel of mercy – from a selfish, self seeking vessel to a vessel who gives herself for another. From a wild ass to one that Christ rides into our city on, a colt, a colt of an ass, which has never been ridden, a new creation that has never been ridden – the Bride/colt coming from Babylon/ass. Look at all the imagery in these verses about the ass and the colt. “And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loosethem,and bringthemunto me. And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them. All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them, And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way. And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest. And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. “.)

    Rev 18:1  And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 

    Rev 18:2  And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. (This is how we see our old way of thinking and living when Babylon has fallen from our heavens. “He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.”)

    Rev 18:3  For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. (Everything in me drank her wine and it made me feel rich in my own works. How I walked , talked, dressed, what I drove, who I gathered with. All was for me to worship me, a fat, gluttonous whore who could never get enough of HERSELF. This is what we all are when turned to destruction by our Creator. If we are starting to see ourselves in the flesh as this whore, then it means we are being recreated in the pure Bride who sacrifices herself for another. She gives herself for another at all costs to her flesh. It is 1 Corinthians 13. “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”)

    Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. (The voice is the truth/the message/the angel we have seen and heard that is causing us to come out of her. It is a power outside of ourselves, the power of Christ that is dragging us out of her. It is not a law, a precept, a doctrine that we have formed, it is the power of God, Who is love, that is lovingly calling us out of OURSELVES, away from the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life for ourselves. He is calling us to stop worshipping our flesh/ the beast/ Babylon. He is calling us to love Him as Head and each other above ourselves.) “And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. ” ; “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. “

    Rev 18:5  For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 

    Rev 18:6  Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. (Iniquity according to Ezekiel 33:13 means self righteousness. Self governance.”When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.” What was best for my flesh, trusting to myself as a god is iniquity, self love. So, now we are told to reward her double according to her works. How is Babylon rewarded and made to drink of the wrath of God? “Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned”. Song of Solomon 8:6-7. The love of God is so strong for us that nothing can quench it. It is a fire that consumes our selfish nature with total thoughts of Him first and you second. The love of God is a wrath to my selfish nature, it is the opposite of what the flesh wants, which is self love. The love of God consumes self with Him, it burns up the selfish nature of self glorification and destroys the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life. It’s so consuming that it seems as a double judgment, love God and you. “If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn: But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.” I used to love myself only but now I am told to love God with all my heart, soul and mind and you as myself. This commandment is as the first borne of the truth which I hate, to love my neighbor above myself. If I am being led of the spirit, I am being baptized in the fire of God’s love, the baptism of the holy spirit AND fire. The baptism of the holy spirit is the submersion into the image of Christ, which means I love God first and you as myself, double my old thought of a single, self love of myself, the beloved wife. God pours His truth into me and it requires me to stop loving myself and then love Him and you and hate self love.”I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Mt.3:11-12″).

    Rev 18:7  How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. (Our flesh has done all it could by doctrines based on the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life, to make itself live deliciously. So, in return it is as a punishment to Babylon, in me, to love God first and you second. I thought, by my doctines, I was on top and would see no sorrow, but the truth has been a sorrow to me. “O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down. But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: “.)

    Rev 18:8  Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. (The judgment of truth upon my heavens and earth come in one day, the day of The Lord. Everyday is now the day of The Lord, not the day of Me. Every day I am to love God first and you second, and hate myself. “The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ” ; “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.”.)

    Rev 18:9  And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 

    Rev 18:10  Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. (The kings of my earth, the merchants that got rich on my self love, are one in the same, just like Nebuchadnezzar’s son. The more I loved myself only, the richer I got in earthly knowledge, wisdom, and ideas of how to act, talk ,dress, fashion myself etc. When these thoughts come now they are dismissed, I no longer buy that merchandise anymore. It makes my flesh mourn and go down into depression because I am not worshipped first. Doctrines of self are the gold, silver, stones and everything mentioned in verse 12 that are all being destroyed. I am to see them as the fruits of the flesh and for the flesh of my old man, who must die daily. What I once lusted after is now become an abomination because it is seen as a fruit by my flesh and for my flesh. It is seen as for the adornment of my Babylonian whore who only loved herself and sought only what was best for her, hourly. She ruled the 24 elders and the four beasts.)

    Rev 18:11  And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: 

    Rev 18:12  The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, 

    Rev 18:13  And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. 

    Rev 18:14  And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.

    (What I once lusted after has departed from me and being departed from me, they are seen in the light of truth as self glorifying and self worship. They are seen as “nought”, useless, ignorant, and self loving, dung according to Phillipians 3:8. We have been married to Christ, He is The Head, which means we are no longer single, to serve self first. He is now our heart’s desire, He has replaced the love of self with Himself.) 

    Rev 18:15  The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, 

    Rev 18:16  And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! 

    Rev 18:17  For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, 

    Rev 18:18  And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! (Shipmasters are the way we guided our own ship through the world/sea of lies. Now we see, that we did not and do not guide our own ship. This truth makes our flesh weep and cry because we desired so much and it has all come to nought. As we begin to receive the truth with joy, because we have been saved from Babylon, released to go rebuild the temple to God and to God only, recreated into the Bride of Christ, then we see we are freed from ever having to repeat what we went through, no more shame, no more sorrow, no more blame, we are freed from religion and joined to Christ as The Creator. We don’t have to cast dust on our heads anymore, our heads are dead. We don’t have to go down, because we are freed from the doctrines that made us slaves to the flesh and to Satan. Freedom comes when self is dead and God and you are alive, ” This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. Lazarus is dead. And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.” Lazarus means “who God helps”. “Who God helps” dies to self and rises from death to live to God and you. He knows we are dying and lets us die. We mourn for our death and He raises us up a new man. The is what the story of Lazarus represents. I can rejoice in the truth that Babylon has been judged, who has made me a slave to time. My heavens are now becoming free from needing the attention of the world and the desire to be one with it. I can stop working. Christ was an enemy of my desires and was seen as a thief, Who only wanted to steal my life from me.

    Rev 18:19  And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. 

    Rev 18:20  Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. 

    Rev 18:21  And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. (In one hour, which means there is only one hour, time stops once we have received the truth, my world is upended. I am no longer held to time and in a rush to get everything done, because we now live in eternity, where Christ rules everything, and we go to Him for everything, not ourselves. No more playing music to myself, no more building homes to myself, and no more of the daily grinding to myself. The 24 elders, 24 hours are become one hour that never ends. The four corners of my globe fall to the feet of Christ as Creator. I am no longer the light of my world and no longer am I to hear the wedding bells of myself being united to the world, in me or out there. I am separated from a world inside me called Babylon and that reflects in separating from the world out there. All of my great city is seen for what it was, the death of anything that really mattered. She killed anything in her that did not worship her. She is the beast that has two horns like a lamb but speaks as a dragon. She killed all in her that did not worship her. She now is seen as self worship and nothing but superficiality, dung, because everything she did was for the worship of herself, not God. It was all for fulfilling lusts of the eyes , lust of the flesh and the pride of life, superficiality. The attributes God gave us in creation for His pleasure were used for Babylon’s pleasure. I took the gold He made in me and flaunted it to the world to see. Any skill that He gave me I turned into my own worship instead of using it to worship Him. By false doctrines, sorceries, was I deceived. But, all that we have gone through in Babylon was the creative process to become the bride of Christ. We now use the skills in us to remodel rooms inside us, cut down trees inside us, make His property pretty inside us, as a parable of what is happening inside us. Whatever skill He has given you is now for His glory, not for money or fame. All things in the past for self are now for Christ and in doing this we are created into the bride. We can now say ALLELUIA because we have been set free from Babylon, she has been judged, as 19:1 begins with.)

    Rev 18:22  And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; 

    Rev 18:23  And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. 

    Rev 18:24  And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth. 

    It seems dire and melancholy to my flesh, woe is me. But if I am seeing it in truth it should be ALLELUIA because I have BEEN judged, Satan’s doctrine has lost its hold because his doctrine has been judged, “I saw Satan fall as lightning from heaven” (my heavens), “the prince of this world has been judged”. Satan’s doctrine of lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and the pride of life have fallen from my heavens. I am back to where I am just united to my husband Adam, from where I was made naked and the name Eve (“the mother of all living” for herself) is dead and gone. No more individuality. “Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.”;”This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”;”And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.”;”And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.”. She is dead and now she who was once called Babylon has been recreated into The Bride of Christ. It was all part of our creative process, to first be called Babylon and then be created into The Bride of Christ. I see it for what it is, it was a needful and important part of my creative process. He doesn’t now love me despite the fact I was dung, but because He created me dung first to be created into the bride of Christ. Dung is used to fertilize the earth for the growth of something better. We were made dung on purpose, to fertilize the new tree! “What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?”; “He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dungit: And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

    Rev 19:1  And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: (Our heavens are becoming free because of Christ entering us and resurrecting in us, showing us that He alone is omnipotent, not us. He is granting us salvation, freeing us from the slavery of the great whore within me, that corrupted my earth into the worship of herself and not God. Freeing me from the slavery and burden of self, where I thought I birthed everything that lived, not God.)

    Rev 19:2  For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. (We see Christ as true and righteous in entering our earth and exposing it to us by resurrecting out of the dead state it was in. Babylon now is resurrected in him as His Bride. She is made from Him. Like the woman came from Adam, the church comes from Christ as Adam’s rib was taken from him and a woman was made. So, Christ was pierced and we were made from Him. “And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.”;”But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.” Everything in her is being avenged and recreated. He rides into us on a colt, meek and humble. But to our old man, this imagery is seen as Him coming into us riding on a horse, with eyes of fire, a great sword, and reeking havoc by meekness, humility, kindness, and gentleness – the opposite attributes of a beast, hell-bent on satisfying its lusts for itself.)

    Rev 19:3  And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. (Every second of every day is a time, an eion, which if we claim as ours, then we will smell the smoke from that judgment that was placed upon that Babylonian thought, which is the same as the beast and the false prophet being thrown into the lake of fire at the end of this chapter. Our flesh is the beast spewing false prophecy about self. This conversion is always going on. Her smoke rises up everytime she attempts to add a selfish thought to the new creation. It’s like this verse that says ” Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.”) 

    Rev 19:4  And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.(Every hour of the day in all four corners of my world fall down and worship God.) 

    Rev 19:5  And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. 

    Rev 19:6  And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. (The voice I’m hearing now is teaching me to praise God in all ways, in the smallest ways and in the greatest ways. All people, nations, tongues and tribes now are learning to praise God as God and for creating Christ to be King of our kings and LORD of our lords within us. He is becoming the only power. It is as a mighty thunder to our old ways of thinking. This verse is foretelling our end state because this same multitude, the voice of many waters is the same multitude of tongues, people and nations that Babylon sat on. “And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:” ; “And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.” We/they are converted.)

    Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. (How did she become ready? Through a lifetime of trials, showing us that we are not a little god separate and independent from The God. We are the creations of Christ and we were created in a creative process by a life He had predestined we live. It was our life in the past that He has used to create us, dung us. We had to be the beast/Babylon before we could be the Bride/new Jerusalem. We had to be a beast so that we could be a bride. We have to see what we were was beastly, not so we could stay there, but so we could see it and die, so we can be resurrected. We were not resurrected to stay as a beast, but through it become a new creation, a bride. We all go through it, as elect, then became married to Christ, each other.)

    Rev 19:8  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. (We are now arrayed in the righteousness of Christ, clean and white. We are no longer dressed in scarlet. The past is buried, dead and gone, love, which is God, does not hold a record of the past. It has been paid for, it does not exist. All things are becoming new and all things, that have become new, are of God. The past is gone, never to be remembered. Babylon has been judged, is judged and is becoming the bride of Christ, clean, white and without fault. “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.”.)

    Rev 19:9  And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. (We are blessed to see these things, these new things, we are blessed because to see them is to be called to our wedding feast, where we feed on what tore us down. What devastated us, now has no power, it has lost its power over us. The power of the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, the pride of a life of independence from God is dying daily to the truth that even in my worst moments, Christ was leading me through the life He authored for me, holding my hand. It cannot separate me from the love of God, for it was my creative process. It was my six days of creation and now we are being taught to rest – rest on the seventh day, to live on into the eighth day, the new man, the new creation, the Jubilee, where everything is freed from time, from the stain of sin, and the past is forgotten. We live in eternity where we learn to forget the past and live in the now, unto Christ. It is a time of eating, the supper of our Great God. It is the time after our baptism, our flood, where we now eat the beasts and they are now scared of us. Where, before the flood they were not afraid of us, they were part of us, they were our help meets. Now they are food for us. “And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.” , “And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.”)

    Rev 19:10  And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. (We want to worship the message, but as the saying goes, “my religion is not my lord, Christ is”. We worship God for showing us the message and the message is, Christ is The Creator and the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. The prophecy that has been told from the beginning. We were created for this time of creation! We were created to be created into the image of Christ, from Christ. Creation has now started from the original dust that He created, we were created dust and now God has breathed the breath of life into our dust and we are being created into the image of Christ by becoming one with Him as His Bride. ” And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul”. God creating Christ and creating us from Him. “This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.” )

    Rev 19:11  And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. (Now heaven is opening and we see Christ as faithful and true and He is now showing us true judgment, which is war against all false spirits of the false prophet and the beast that had us believing, through false doctrine, we were gods separate from The God and had need of nothing from Him. He is also warring against all false doctrine that says I am such a turd that I cannot be loved. The war is this, God created me dust, dung, a vessel of dishonor to recreate me into a vessel of honor. I did not create myself dust first, Christ created us dust and now is breathing life into us and recreating us. “Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”; “Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts (because I thought I made myself dung). Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves (opened your hell, the place of the unknown), O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.”. He places us into our own land which is Christ.

    Rev 19:12  His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. (His eyes see all things and purify all things, to be seen as His. We are the crown upon His head that were thorns. But, now are rays of light. The word crown is made up of two words, which means “the channel of the act to bind”. A crown is a round ring that sits upon a head and has points going up, representing the light that comes from that Head. Christ is that Head and has made us rays of His glory. Christ is the channel of every act that binds up all things under His power. There is no crown in us but Him. It is a crown/a ray of light to give all power unto Christ as Creator of all things in our heavens and in our earth. This truth, this name no one knows but Christ. Now that we are becoming one with Him we too are learning this truth. We are given the same name, title, the same truth on a white rock, a piece of the total truth, a piece of Christ. Rev 2:17  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. )

    Rev 19:13  And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. (Christ is clothed in a vesture dipped in blood because He sprinkles us with peace from His life, death, burial and resurrection within us. Lev 7:14 …. it shall be the priest’s that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings. We are given peace in Christ from the sprinkling of His blood, upon our hearts, His sacrifice. We become a sacrifice like Christ, To Christ and to each other. When Christ rides through our life, the blood from His vesture sprinkles us and we are sanctified. “But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place (our hearts), having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? Heb.9:11-14″  He purges our hearts from Babylonian thought to the Bride’s clean thoughts. He purges us from self love to loving our neighbor as ourselves.)

    Rev 19:14  And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. (Heaven is in our mind, the armies are the doctrines of Christ that war beside Christ against the adversary of our minds.  “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled”. 2 Cor.10:3-6.”Eph 6:12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” The insidious satanic doctrine of the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life, is a spiritual wickedness high in our heavens that is coming down.)

    Rev 19:15  And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. (Out of His mouth goes the word of God that is sharper than any sword and is able to divide between soul and spirit. He rules our world with the word of God which is as a rod of iron to my flesh but as a shepherd’s staff to my new man, to love my neighbor as myself. It is as the fierceness and wrath of God upon my flesh but as milk and honey to my new man. It seems as a great fierceness to my flesh to deny myself, sacrifice myself every minute of every day for God and my neighbor. But, to my new man, The Bride of Christ it is the most beautiful thing I can ever know. It is a battle to force your Babylon to give up her rights. All my life I have given her what she desired. She rode upon my beast and drove me to where she desired. My own beast tried to control her but it did not work. She led me headlong into hell with her constant lust for anything and everything to consume upon herself. So, now when I present her with the love of my neighbor before her, she becomes angry and sullied up. She drives me into a mood and I become bitter. But, then Christ’s love for me steps in and reminds me of what He has done for me and His love overcomes the bitterness. I then am given the victory over Babylon by giving to my Brother/Sister first, which brings peace.)

    Rev 19:16  And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. (The truth allows our new man to see Him as King of our kings within and LORD of our lords within. It is peace to The Bride of Christ and hell to Babylon, who loses her rights as Queen of individualism.)

    Rev 19:17  And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; (The message of Christ, His doctrines are seen standing in The Light and are seen as fowls to my old man, who is as a dead corpse. The new doctrines where Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords in all areas of my life, act as a fowl that feed on the old doctrines of the flesh. The new doctrines are BEING GATHERED to Consume the old doctrines as it is a supper to them, last supper. When the old man thinks something is in error based on one of his lords, there is a fowl, a doctrine of Christ to eat it as a dead corpse. “For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.” Mt.24:27-28.)

    Rev 19:18  That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. (Every thought where the flesh is dead in it, there is a fowl to eat it up. The doctrines of Christ are seen as unclean fowl to my Babylon. It is seen as a thief stealing from it. The flesh’s captains in thought, horses are powers in thought, the flesh of all thoughts BOTH free and enslaved are eaten up. Thoughts where I think I am free and thoughts where I think I’m in bondage, all are consumed and given to Christ as King and as Lord. The flesh gets no worship independent from God, Babylon loses her Queenship and bows to Christ as her Creator. The flesh relinquishes his rights and bows to God as The All in all, and becomes the Bride of Christ.)

    Rev 19:19  And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. (Every hour the beast and the kings of our earth gather against the truth in battle. But, for us, everyday is a victory even when it seems as a loss. There is no loss to Christ, all belongs to Him and He is the Creator of all.)

    Rev 19:20  And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. (Each day the beast within me and the false doctrine it lives by that it is king, that stamped all areas of my life with its image, are taken and cast into the fire of God’s love, where it is burned alive. Every day is a victory no matter what the outcome because every day, every hour, the 24 hours of every day, fall down to worship Christ as the Creator of them. There is no hour but what He has created. Whether my flesh liked the outcome or not, of each day, it still doesn’t diminish the truth in any degree that Christ is, was and will be the Creator of each hour of every day, and He did it out of love for us.)

    Rev 19:21  And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. (What’s left of the beast/old man and his false prophet, that he is his own god, is killed with the word of God. Killed by the word of God in the sense that the word of God testifies to the truth of God’s love for us. I was never a king in my own world. It was all a creation of God through Christ to create us into the Bride of Christ, to know the oneness of being united to Him Who supplied, supplies and is supplying everything I thought I had created, am creating or will create. He is The Creator of me, I am not. This truth is going through every inch of me to bring glad tidings to a world run by a ruthless dictator who was never satisfied. The main thing is taken away, that the flesh is a god independent from The God and we have a will independent from the will of God, but what is left of the damage done by this false prophet still has to be dealt with, “verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”; “But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.”. Every part of the false image erected to myself must be destroyed, part by part, limb by limb, stone by stone. Everyday decisions in the smallest matters are seen as not mine, but Christ’s. My wants are put aside and God is first, then, my Brother/Sister. I have to die to my flesh’s wants and needs for the growth of the new man. One must fall into the ground and die and the other grows from that death. “that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.” Unless I die to my wants I cannot live. To live is to die and to die is to gain. Each part of the image of the old man must die and then simultaneously the new man is created from that dying seed. This is how Satan is bound. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.” It is the understanding of Lazarus and the rich man. They are the parable of Babylon and The Bride. We thought we lived by the riches of our own knowledge. But, when Christ comes to us we see that we are poor and full of sores/sin which brings us to a state of being poor in spirit – not exalting myself. The Bride (Lazarus) gets relief and my Babylon (rich man) is tormented. The rich man cannot cross the great gulf into Abraham’s bosom, but a converted Lazarus can and does. The new man ate from the crumbs that fell from the scraps of the rich man but now Lazarus is comforted and the old man is tormented. The rich man was clothed in purple and fine linen like Babylon because he is Babylon. See the parable in Luke 16:19-31.)

    Rev 20:1  And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. (Again the message/angel appears to me even brighter. I now have the key to open the bottomless pit of self preservation, selfishness and the total superficiality of the flesh at its core, self worship. I now have the key in my hand to lock up Satanic doctrine when it whispers to me that my flesh is not being taken care of, my wants are not being met, or I am being taken advantage of, etc. The key says, “I have no wants or needs if I am trusting Christ as my Creator“. This repeated truth locks up Satan’s attacks on Christ and binds him until I am taught (the meaning of a thousand=teaching) this truth in every aspect and area of my life. It is not a one and done but a life exercised by this truth. “But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”)

    Rev 20:2  And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, (the word “thousand” means teaching)

    Rev 20:3  And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. (I am now able to lay hold on the satanic doctrines I lived by/the serpent’s lies, which are all the false doctrine of the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life, and do what Job could not do, bind those lies represented by Leviathan. ” Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? ” That great serpent, dragon, leviathan who decieved my flesh into getting his mark, his name, and the number of his name, me, me , me, You are what you create, worship yourself and take rest in it=666. He is bound until the teaching is complete in that area/boundary of the life Christ created and then he is let loose to try it again in another area of my life. “But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.” This process is the process of the growth of the man child in the womb of the woman. The process gets faster and faster. As more of me is conquered, the time of the trial gets faster, shorter. What I once lived is now becoming seen as a lie and a doctrine, a thought, a teaching of devils. It is the process where every time a part of the man child is born and caught up to God, He must be born again in another area. His head is grown first, then his chest and then a leg, an arm, a hand, a finger, a foot, a toe and every time each part is birthed, it is caught up to God as the All in all of its creation. Then comes the end, when all power and authority of this creation is done, God is seen as The All in all of my creation, the man child is born fully and he rules his earth with a rod of iron. Each time a part is born, Satan is standing right there to consume it. But, that new truth is caught up to God as Creator of it, by overcoming the temptation to take credit for it. “For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another”. So, each time a body part is created for the whole of the man child, Satan is standing right there to devour it with the temptation to believe it created itself and therefore should honor itself as its own creation. It tries to tell me that I have made myself better by my own freewill. But, because I have the truth it is caught up to God as The Creator. “the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born”.)

    Rev 20:4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (Judgment is handed out to them that thought they sat upon thrones, thought they were something they were not. This is being beheaded. My head is replaced with Christ as my head. I am seeing the power of Christ in areas of this life where there was no power. I am now reigning in areas of this life where I was once a slave. I am seeing right judgment where there was no judgment or wrong judgment. “is there not a wise man among you? No, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?”. But there is a wise man among us now, a new man, a new Head, who is able to discern what is Christ “good” and what is Satanic “evil”. One gives all authority to God as All in all and one gives authority to flesh as All in all. When Christ is ruling in our hearts we put Christ first and then each other. When Satan is ruling we put ourselves first, always. Those who sit upon thrones, are the same who have been BEHEADED for the witness of Christ and not for the witness of themselves. They are new doctrines where the concept of a past, present or future of receiving the mark is not a thought. They exist in aorist tense, which just “is”. They are new creations who are living and reigning with Christ.

    Rev 20:5  But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. (The rest of the dead in me that have not been recreated are still “dead” and have no life. They cannot live until they are brought from the dead and seen that they were dead, the second death and taught the truth that not only must they die to themselves but they must die for their brother. Remember that a thousand means teaching.

    “eh’lef” is the beginning of the Hebrew alphabet.

    H505

    אֶלֶף

    ‘eleph

    eh’-lef

    Properly the same as H504; hence (an ox’s head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand: – thousand.

    H504

    אֶלֶף

    ‘eleph

    eh’-lef

    From H502; a family; also (from the sense of yoking or taming) an ox or cow: – family, kine, oxen.

    H502

    אָלַף

    ‘âlaph

    aw-lof’

    A primitive root, to associate with; hence to learn (and causatively to teach): – learn, teach, utter. Total KJV occurrences: 4)

    Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. (Blessed are the creations that are going through the new creations of a new heaven and new earth, on whom the second death has no power. They are reigning with Christ and are priests to those who have not yet been resurrected. They are reigning with Christ, interceding, being priests of God and Christ for those who still have to go through the second death in me, shown that they are dead. In the first death, if I see myself as forgiven for my sins then I will not be hurt by dying for your sin. It means I have been part of the first resurrection. I truly have taken part of being resurrected. And, in the areas where I receive that truth, I am able to die for your sins, the second death. The second death doesn’t hurt me because I see what I have been forgiven, so, it becomes a joy to die for your sins and not judge you by my 10 horns. “Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.” It didn’t hurt Christ at all to forgive the woman. 30 plus years ago when God first began moving me to read the bible I got an instant move to change certain areas of my life. Those changes were based on me, by me and for me. They looked right, walked right, but still had no internal change. I “anon with joy” received forgiveness for what I had done, but when I was tried by forgiving my neighbor, the devil in me instantly devoured the truth by claiming my own rights of self preservation. I did a lot of preaching to anyone who would listen but it was still for me and about me. It was never for my neighbor. I could speak great swelling words that people would listen to but they were all vanity. “For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.” My doctrines were based on lies of fear and a literal hell where a god would literally burn some of his creation alive without end because they didn’t acknowledge him. I didn’t understand that no one can acknowledge God unless He allows them to and reveals Himself to them. “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.” The first resurrection is where we come to actually know forgiveness. This translates into forgiving others for their sin, a second death. In my first so-called belief system, I thought I believed my sins were wiped away but if you crossed me, I would deal with your sin with eye-for-eye, tooth-for-tooth. “The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.” A person received my forgiveness by changing, as all religion teaches. If I have been part of the first resurrection then the second death, dying for your sin, does not hurt me. Christ died for me before I ever knew Him and the same must be done on our part for our neighbor. Christ died to His flesh every day by never taking credit for one minute of that day. Then He died for us and it did not hurt Him spiritually because on the cross He said, “Father, forgive them, they KNOW NOT what they do.” He did not scream, “kill these unbelievers for what they have done to me”. This is what is taking place within us now. A new man, new thought is being resurrected. The old man and all his thoughts are cast into hell, the place of the unknown. The murderous thoughts, adulterous thoughts, lying thoughts, are not resurrected. But a whole new being is made. It took years and years for Israel to clear the Canaanites from the promised land and it is the same for us. Sometimes we make headway, and sometimes we just hold our ground, yet we never lose because Christ is recreating the Canaanites into Israelites, the parable of killing the inhabitants of the land and replacing them with Israelites. As the inhabitants are hard to get out and God sends hornets to drive them out from where they’re hiding, so Christ is doing the same in us, little by little, day by day, hour by hour. “I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.”)

    Rev 20:7  And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 

    Rev 20:8  And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. (Remember what Gog and Magog means, ” A covering mountain” The word “Gog” means mountain and the word “Magog” means covering. Satan’s doctrine has covered us all our lives. So, when a part of this life has been recreated in the womb it is caught up to God because it has been through the thousand years and taught the truth and been made to see that it was dead and the satanic thoughts of me, me, me are uncovered. Satan was bound in that part of this earth. But, then he is loosened to attack, by trying to gather together what is left of “ME”. As long as there is a “ME” left in this earth, a hiding Canaanite, an individualistic thought, the satanic doctrines within me (leftover Canaanites) will try to gather it against Christ. The number within this earth that will be gathered against Christ is said to be as the sand of the sea, the same number that is said to be converted to Israel. All of this earth in me will be recreated, because ALL was dead. “I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.” All of this earth in me was satanic but all of my earth will recreated to be Christ-like. What was the old earth is not resurrected as old earth but a totally new earth is created. All dead, who existed in the unknown, stay unknown. All will be recreated because the message of the kingdom of God within this earth is as leaven, it will spread across the whole globe within. All within us will be recreated, remade into a new creation. The first creation is done away with and not remembered. The truth will create a new heaven and a new earth. The old heaven and old earth are forgotten and cast into hell, the place of the unknown. Unknown because we don’t remember them anymore. “The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.”. Which is the meaning of the first verse of the next chapter. “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea”. No more sea, where there were waves of doctrines that tossed us here and there, because it’s all sand. All of this earth will be a new heaven and a new earth, a new man. The first heaven and earth was under the power of a Satanic thought, that thought was singular, individualistic and started with “me” and it tossed me all over the place. The lust of MY eyes, the lust of MY flesh and the pride of MY life, reeled me here and there, to and fro, “Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” The light that revolved around the globe revolved around itself and its light was the reflection of its own light, which is actually darkness. We know the sea is controlled by the moon. The moon has no light of its own making. It only reflects light. We did not see that the light that reflected from the moon was actually The Light, Christ, The Sun of righteousness, The Creator of all things. “But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings”.

    Rev 20:9  And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. (All that I have ever learned about my godhood, encompasses the truth, that Christ is The Creator, not me, and fights against it. I fight tooth and nail to save just a part of me. Like Ananias and Sapphira in Acts chapter 5, I attempt to pretend I have given it all, sold all of me, but hidden within me is a lie. I have kept some of me for my own self preservation and God exposes it. The fire is the Spirit of God that submerges our earth in Christ’s love, like the flood, and the parable of baptism, all of my earth is dead, knows not the love of God, and then rises a new creation, little by little. After the waters began to abate from the earth after the flood, it took time, it did not happen all at once. So, now our earth is rising from the sea of false doctrine, until there is no sea, “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.” False doctrine encompasses the “Beloved city”. We are beloved of God. We don’t love God against our own will but because the love of God is our new will, we want to, it doesn’t cause us to become bitter. We are taught to love God and each other out of love and not letter. Not because we have to love God but because we want to love God at the cost of laying down our own life for each other. “no greater love a man has than to lay down his life for his brother”. What God desires is a converted heart, not a letter keeping pharisee who keeps the law out of duty. Love is a fire that burns up all of self and recreates a heart that acts out of selflessness. “Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.”. We are devoured by, overcome by, consumed by Christ’s love until we cannot resist Him and He becomes all that matters.)

    Rev 20:10  And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. (The Devil that deceived them was the thought of self preservation. Each self preserving doctrine has to be thrown into a fire where the reflection of love burns it up and eventually overcomes our self seeking, self guided nature, with Christ first and our brother next. It is burnt away and a new doctrine is birthed based on truth. Self is consumed with the truth, self is killed with truth, and self then becomes a whole new earth with the love of Christ and the love of each other. There can be no self where these two laws exist. The word “Devil” means “the channel of an act to throw”. ” G1228- From G1225; a traducer; specifically Satan (compare [H7854]): – false accuser, devil, slanderer. G1225 – From G1223– denoting the channel of an act and G906- to throw (in various applications, more or less violent or intense); (figuratively) to traduce: – accuse.” So, when we are being gathered by a devilish thought, a false prophet, it is the channel of an act, a thought, that throws us like the waves of the sea of false doctrine to and fro, all based on self love. Self, individualistic thoughts are the channel which is used to throw us into acting certain ways, to and fro, that are against the truth to love God with all our heart soul and mind and each other as ourselves. It accuses everyone and everything around us that we are being taken advantage of and OUR NEEDS are not being met. We come first, then our neighbor, then God. The word “ever” in “for ever and ever” is “aion”-G165 and means an age, a period of time. We are tormented by God’s love until a new heaven and earth are created.)

    Rev 20:11  And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. (A great white throne means no darkness, The Power of Truth that God is All in all, from which our old heavens and earth flee from. When we are seeing this power then our heavens of devilish thoughts and our earth’s desires are not found anymore in that part of our earth. We are consumed, engulfed, submerged in love for God and that reflects in love for each other. Selfishness has been defeated and a new creation is seen. “I saw a new heaven and a new earth”. “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.”. The former shall not be remembered nor come to mind. Anything and everything that is not part of the new man is forgotten, cast into the unknown, never to be remembered. It’s not that we are converted and still see the old man and speak of him, but it is as if he never existed, he is unknown, not a cleaned up old man, but an entirely new creation.

    Rev 20:12  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. (Every day, for an elect, their book is opened and read. We see the dead (false doctrine) within us, small and great, stand before God. What has not been found in the book of life (what has not been seen as a creation of Christ) is judged as dead. Dead because it has not taken part in the first resurrection which is seeing Christ as Creator of all. What we saw as our works separate from God is our book. The first resurrection means you have died, self does not exist in that area of your life/your book. But, when it is found in your book it must be purified by the love of God. When it is burnt up a new creation rises and I am not hurt by the second death, dying for your sin. If I have taken part of the first resurrection, which is seeing that I was created as a beast and so were you, then dying for your sin, your beastly nature, does not hurt me. This is the second death. King David took part in the first resurrection, in parable, when he was shown his own sin by Nathan in 2 Samuel 12. He had come to see his beast nature. Then David partakes of the second death, parabolically, when he is accosted by Shimei in 2 Samuel 16. He knows 1) Shimei’s actions are not his own but from God, 2) he had no right to defend himself before God ” And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came. And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man. Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head. And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so? And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him. It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day. And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill’s side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust. And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there. ” I am now seeing the dead within me stand before God, judged as dead. This is the first resurrection where I have been resurrected to see Christ as all in all of my life. I have been given to see my life as a creation of Him, not my own, as well as the beast that I was originally created as. When we come to see what He is saving us from, and the magnitude of our own sin, we can then take part in the second death and it won’t hurt us. The second death being dying for someone else and their sins, against us. Daily my life is read and what was found dead in me is resurrected and given life. At the same time I am seeing life in the parts that have been recreated, that are rising out of the sea of false doctrine and out of the pit. Only the elect can see what is dead and needs to be recreated. The dead cannot see the dead, everything is unknown.)

    Rev 20:13  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. (When we are in a sea of false doctrine we are dead, buried in a sea of lies and are unseen by God. But once the false doctrine of godhood is exposed, then we become alive, are delivered from death and are delivered from not being seen by God. We are now seen as alive and delivered from hell, the place of the unseen. We are judged “every man according to THEIR WORKS”. If you think it is yours and by you as a freewill god, then it is dead and without life. This is death and it is unseen, in other words hell. It must be thrown into the fire of God’s love where you are recreated as a new man with only the works of Christ as your claim. You claim nothing for yourself. All is given to Christ as Creator. This is a new thought from a new heaven which translates into a new earth.)

    Rev 20:14  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. (Death is a place of not being seen by God in our works. Our works are not seen in that area of our life because it is still tainted by self. When my dead are cast into the lake of fire it means that it is being purified and being burnt so that the truth can be made to stand before God. I can then be made alive to die for your sin, the second death. As was said earlier, it is easy to see my own sin forgiven but to then die for (forgive) your sin is a death that has to be conquered. The second death does not hurt me when I am seeing the truth we are all made from the same dung pile. Neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more. “…the dead know not any thing…”; “Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truthThe living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.” I must be burnt by love. Hell, the unknown, which is being dead to the love of Christ must be tried by the fire of God’s love, where we are taught to break our bodies and spill our blood metaphorically for our neighbor. It is a second death to die for my neighbor. I can easily receive my own forgiveness, but to forgive you is a whole other death. The truth behind this parable, “Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt. So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done. Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses. “; The second death. We are appointed once to die for ourselves and then the judgment, to die for your sin. The following verses explain this truth inwardly:

    “Heb 9:1  Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. (Our first state before we know love. It looks good, has divine service and a WORLDLY sanctuary but without true love.)

    Heb 9:2  For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. 

    Heb 9:3  And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; 

    Heb 9:4  Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; 

    Heb 9:5  And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. (The two cherubims are the two commandments love God with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself, overshadowing the mercy seat.)

    Heb 9:6  Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. 

    Heb 9:7  But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: 

    Heb 9:8  The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: (entering the holy of holies is dying for my neighbor-“For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” We must die for our neighbor even as Christ died for us, this is a second death. As long as my first tabernacle is still standing in religion I have not entered the holy of holies, I have not spilt blood for your sin.) Heb 12:4  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 

    Heb 9:9  Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience

    Heb 9:10  Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation

    Heb 9:11  But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 

    Heb 9:12  Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 

    Heb 9:13  For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 

    Heb 9:14  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (unfeigned love.)

    Heb 9:15  And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.(new testament-new covenant, die for each other. “For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.” My body broken for my brother and my blood spilt for my brother, shows the Lord’s death.) 

    Heb 9:16  For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. (If I am testifying I know Christ then I must die for you. My testimony of Christ’s love will be shown by my love for my brother. I, as the testator, must die for you before you can partake of the testament.) 

    Heb 9:17  For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. (If I do not die for your sin then the testament is of no good. I must die for the testament to be in force. Just words have no strength if I am not dying daily for you.)

    Heb 9:18  Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. (Christ’s blood spilt for me, the first testament, my blood must be spilt for you, the holy of holies.)

    Heb 9:19  For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, 

    Heb 9:20  Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. 

    Heb 9:21  Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 

    Heb 9:22  And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. (Without the shedding of my blood for you then there is no remission of my sin. Mat 6:15  But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. My forgiveness of your sin is the testament of the new covenant. My blood is shed for you as Christ’s blood was shed for me. If I took part in the first resurrection, then the second death of dying for your sin does not hurt me.)

    Heb 9:23  It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these

    Heb 9:24  For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: (inside me, the holy of holies.)

    Heb 9:25  Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 

    Heb 9:26  For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 

    Heb 9:27  And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (I die, then I die for you, the judgment.)

    Heb 9:28  So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. (Christ appears daily, hourly, minute by minute in us to each other, when we forgive each other. This is salvation. If He is returning within me, then I am forgiving to you and say as Christ said to the woman in John eight, “neither do I condemn you”. I am not hurt by dying for you. If we have been part of the first resurrection then Christ appears a second time in me, to forgive you for your sin, die for you and not be hurt by death! )

    Heb 10:1  For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. (Religious worship of any kind is of no use without the work of dying for my neighbor, faith without works is dead.)

    Heb 10:2  For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. Religion, of any kind, cannot clear my conscience from sin. And if my conscience is not clear, then I see your sin and am not able to forgive it.

    Heb 10:3  But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 

    Heb 10:4  For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 

    Heb 10:5  Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 

    Heb 10:6  In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 

    Heb 10:7  Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 

    Heb 10:8  Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 

    Heb 10:9  Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. (He takes the letter of the law away from my heart and replaces it with the spirit of the law. Instead of seeing my neighbor’s sin by the letter, I see it by the Spirit. What I see in them is what I have been forgiven for, the first resurrection. I am then able to forgive your sin and not be hurt by it. Freely as I am forgiven for my sin against Christ, I forgive you for your sin against me, and it does not hurt me. Freely we’ve received, freely we must give.

    Heb 10:10  By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 

    Heb 10:11  And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 

    Heb 10:12  But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 

    Heb 10:13  From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 

    Heb 10:14  For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. (If I am sanctified in the truth then I forgive anyone and everyone without question and in this I am perfect, the first resurrection.)

    Heb 10:15  Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, 

    Heb 10:16  This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; (When the law is in my heart to love you above myself then my sins have been blotted out. I have no conscience of my sins and the accuser cannot accuse me anymore. I have a new heaven and a new earth.)

    Heb 10:17  And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 

    Heb 10:18  Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. (No more offering for sin because where there is forgiveness there is no sin, like the verse above. For those who look for Him He returns a second time without pointing out my sin.)

    Heb 10:19  Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 

    Heb 10:20  By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 

    Heb 10:21  And having an high priest over the house of God; 

    Heb 10:22  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. (I can have a boldness to enter into the presence of God to intercede for you because I have taken part in the first resurrection where my sin was forgiven. Therefore, being made a priest, I can now easily forgive my neighbors’ sin and it does not hurt me. I no longer have an evil conscience in that area of my life.)

    Heb 10:23  Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 

    Heb 10:24  And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 

    Heb 10:25  Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. 

    Heb 10:26  For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 

    Heb 10:27  But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. (Considering each other as forgiven is provoking one another unto good works. We don’t forsake each other and judge each other but forgive, forgive and forgive. It is a sin not to forgive and a way to bring chastisement to ourselves for not forgiving. We can expect chastisement when we forsake loving one another. If I don’t forgive you then I have despised what Christ has done for me and I can fearfully look for judgment and fiery indignation upon myself in chastisement. It is sin to not forgive you.)

    Heb 10:28  He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 

    Heb 10:29  Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 

    Heb 10:30  For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 

    Heb 10:31  It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

    Heb 10:32  But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; 

    Heb 10:33  Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. 

    Heb 10:34  For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. 

    Heb 10:35  Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 

    Heb 10:36  For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. 

    Heb 10:37  For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. 

    Heb 10:38  Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 

    Heb 10:39  But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.”.) 

    Rev 20:15  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Whosoever is not found? Whosoever is still seeking self in the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life, without forgiveness towards his neighbor. Whosoever is not forgiving their brother is still in an unseen state. The word “found” means ; “to be discovered, recognised, detected, to show one’s self out, of one’s character or state as found out by others (men, God, or both)”. These are the parts of us that are not found right before God in love, so they must be purified by the fire of God’s love, which means situations are amassed from God, through others, to place us in situations where we are required to forgive, and be purified by love. The parts of us that are still clothed in Babylon’s garments are burnt up. Then we have been exposed to what’s still in us and are immersed into the fire of God’s love where “ME, I” are burnt up. Then we become seen, rising from the sea and becoming a solid ground where works are done from a place of loving God with all our heart soul and mind and each other as ourselves. But because it is a spiritual baptism, a spiritual flood, we don’t rise, we descend from the waters above the firmament. We descend from above because our creation is by God out of heaven, born from the Spirit, from above the letter of the law, born from above. “And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God (the waters above the firmament), Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal…”. ” And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven . And the evening and the morning were the second day. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good”. We do not rise from our own waters from beneath the heavens, we descend from the waters above the firmament, from heaven. This means we begin to see the totality of it all as a plan of God not a plan of man. We descend from where we were created, from the hands of God, like Jacob’s dream: “And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. ” Look at the next two verses:

    Rev 21:1  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. (When I am part of the first resurrection, “I saw a new heaven and new earth”, am seeing-aorist tense. I am now seeing. I am no longer in a dead state of the unseeing. I am descending from the waters above the firmament, forgiving others as I have been forgiven.)

    Rev 21:2  And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (Again, “and I John saw (am seeing) the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming DOWN from God out of heaven”. I am seeing the truth, we are alive from the dead of the unseen. The dead are being converted in me and I am seeing from where I was not seen. Seeing things in me that I did not see before. I/they were dead – unseen. I am descending from the baptism of the spirit. “Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.” We have to descend from heaven into our own earth before we can rise up above it and forgive the other.)

    Rev 21:3  And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. (We are now understanding that God’s dwelling is within us, we are the tabernacle. “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” Heaven is within, the earth is our bodies. Because we have new heavens and a new earth, God is in us, moving our flesh-new earth, guiding us to see Him the way we should see Him, not as Baal, but as The God Who is recreating us after His image, after Christ.

    Hos 2:16  And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi (husband/fellow man); and shalt call me no more Baali. 

    Hos 2:17  For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. 

    When God is first in all things, and acknowledged as the Creator of All things in our heavens, that truth will reflect in the way we treat one another. “But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;  And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge(new heaven directing a new earth) after the image of him that created him:” Many people do not commit obvious outward sins, that does not mean they are recreated. It has to do with the intent behind the work. So, the attributes of Christ are now being brought out from within us where God dwells. Our selfish nature of self love is being broken and a new genuine love of God is being instilled within us, that looks on the needs of each other before our own needs and wants, with no hidden agenda of self.

    Rev 21:4  And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. (This verse plainly states that our other heavens and earth brought tears, crying, pain, death and sorrow. Our new heavens and earth will bring forth the fruits of the Spirit of Christ living in us, love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. The former life is passing away-aorist, we are becoming a new heaven and a new earth descending from God, minute by minute. The former life is passing away and in the end will not be remembered. “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” The pain and sorrow of the former life is fading, it is getting farther and farther away from us, in time it will not be remembered. The new life replaces the old and in replacing it, it no longer pulls us the way it did. What we once lusted after in the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life doesn’t have the pull it once had. Like stones found in the ground of a lost city, sometimes we can see where we used to be, but know, that what once was, is dead and gone.)

    Rev 21:5  And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. (It is now so obvious to a new mind that directs a new earth, new earth in the sense that it is not used for fulfilling the lust thereof. Behold-(aorist tense-keep beholding), I make-(present tense) all things new. These words, that He is making all things new are “TRUE AND FAITHFUL”. Keep beholding as I continue to make a new heavens and earth in you, presently. Don’t be fearful or unbelieving. Know what I said to Jacob I am saying to you, that what I have started I will continue until you are completely risen from the grave of the unknown. “And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.” If we are fearful and unbelieving we will face sorrow. Believe that Christ is recreating what, in the face of all odds (giants), seems to be uncreatable.)

    Rev 21:6  And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. (“the fountain of life, freely” is the same thing Christ told us when we were the half gentile, half Jew, called a Samaritan. ” Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worshiphimin spirit and in truth. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.” Christ is telling us that He is NOW speaking to a new heaven and a new earth.)

    Rev 21:7  He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. (When we overcome in an area of our earth we are inheriting all of that boundary, as the boundaries of Canaan that Israel overcame. He then becomes our God and we become His sons. “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.” When we have this hope we begin to purify our earth as a new creation.)

    Rev 21:8  But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. (The parts of us that still are unbelieving, that are still struggling, have to be converted. The parts that are still unbelieving that Christ is controlling everything, that He is indeed recreating us, are these fearful and unbelieving. We are not to judge according to sight, like the literal Hebrews who did not believe that Christ would defeat the Canaanites in the land of promise. We still struggle against sin, our wrestle is not against flesh and blood, as an independent agent but against the powers, rulers of darkness of this world, in my mind, that are always doubting, “did God say…”. They are always doubting, always accusing, always complaining, unforgiving, always trying to puff us up so that we can be defeated by such minor trials. We have said it before, if we would remember what we have already come through we would be whistling our way to the finish line. Our lives are a testament to the faithfulness of Christ. If you cannot forgive your neighbor from your heart, then you are fearful in not seeing the sovereign power of God over your neighbor, unbelieving in the message of forgiveness, abominable in your self righteous stance against your neighbor, murdering your neighbor in self righteous judgment, a whoremonger in defiling the truth with your own judgments, a sorcerer in putting spells on people through your so-called knowledge, an idolator who worships themselves which makes you a liar.)

    Rev 21:9  And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife. (When we have gone through the last plague then we see The Lamb’s wife, The Bride. The plagues are what shows us the truth. This happens after we come out of a trial. We see the truth with clarity. But, sometimes in the trial we are doubting, unbelieving, and being abominable because our satanic nature isn adversary that is always shooting fiery darts of unbelief at us in the thoughts we have. “Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked”. The Serpents’ doctrine never rests because it is stuck on the sixth day, a beast of the field, never able to enter God’s rest. He is stuck eating our earth, feeding on flesh and has great wrath against us because he knows he has a short time, as we talked about earlier. He is a subtle voice within me, the most subtle of all the creation that God made. Why did he make him so subtle? To make us stronger for the race that is set before us. We are always wrestling with him to make us stronger. “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” God is using all of our trials inside us to cleanse our inner man, creating a new man, a whole man, whose head, chest, arms, stomach, hips, legs and feet are a complete new assembly, a complete church, the seven churches. The seven churches of chapter one through three are one church not seven individual churches. It is a description of our whole new man, a whole assembly of one united assembly, who live by the 12 hours of the day, not days. The book of Daniel describes us as Nebuchadnezzar and our story of being cut to the ground, feeding on grass like an animal but then recreated. When Christ has fully brought us to where God is seen as the All in all, in all four corners of our earth, in every day, in every twelve hours of the day and in every minute, 1440, of that day, we are a new creation. Each Day seen as loving him and you, then we will have walked away and been resurrected, the 144,000. We will then be carried away in the spirit of the love of God, to see that great city, the whole, seven, assembly descending out of heaven from God. See the next verse.)

    Rev 21:10  And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 

    Rev 21:11  Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; (The glory of God is seen on us, not our glory. Our light is Christ, most precious, jasper, polished as the word jasper means, where we see clear as crystal.)

    Rev 21:12  And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: (God has walled us in, in the sense that nothing within us happens without His direct authority. We now, knowingly, live each hour of each day by His direct commands. When we are able to see that Christ is The Creator of each hour, of each day, we are given the wall of protection from the evil spirits of the first creation. They are only allowed to go so far with us and that is just for our own creative process. There are twelve hours in one day “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.” Each day is all we are to live by, for each day has enough evils to be dealt with, “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof”. These are the twelve gates that we go in and out into the kingdom. “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” Christ lived His natural life day by day, always leaning upon The Father for each day. He was an example of sacrificing His flesh to the desires of planning out His own life. He never planned and He always knew that His life existed by the hour. “Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.” We are to sacrifice our thoughts of planning out days, months, times and years, “But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. ” The new Jerusalem is the Israel of God, who do not plan or attempt to control their lives. “And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.” Our lives are being taught to live in a four square universe, where every minute is a minute given by God which is the explanation of verses 15-17. It is a process to learn how to live in this universe, which is why there are three gates on each side. It is a process to go in and out to understand these truths. Three days, three nights, the process of dying to self and being resurrected is the gates of the wall. “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” “The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened”. “But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established”. Three days of death, three is a process and is witnessed by the growth of the kingdom of God in us. There is no night in the kingdom, so why three nights? There is only a night when we are without communication with God, we are walking in the night. But in the kingdom we are learning there is no night because through this process we are learning that all is day, even what we perceive as darkness because the darkness to us, is light to Him. “If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.”.

    Rev 21:13  On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. 

    Rev 21:14  And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.( An apostle is an Israelite, Ga.6:16. The truth is seen in many different titles, but all come back to the same source, Christ as The Creator, He alone is the foundation of the 12 hours of each day. Each hour is delegated by Christ to be sent out to witness of Him, which is what an Apostle means, to be sent out.) 

    Rev 21:15  And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.(The gates and the wall are one measurement, the Apostles and names of the tribes of Israel are one.) 

    Rev 21:16  And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. (the three gates into any side of our city means, the length is by Christ, the breadth is by Christ and the height is by Christ. “That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. ” Three gates on every side makes the 12 Apostles, the twelve tribes of Israel, in truth. Time, (minutes, hours, days, months and years) are numbered and named by God for God, not for me. Time is God’s servant, to mold His people and to fashion His people into sons of God. 3 gates on all 4 sides, 3×4=12. Twelve hours of light in a day of every month is 12×12=144. 60 minutes in every 24 hours of every day and night equal, 60×24=1440, add the two witnesses to that number to love God with all your heart soul and mind and your neighbor as yoursef you get 144,000, the meaning of Christ being in absolute control of our lives as “a Prince of God” and teaches us that “God prevails” in every minute of every day, both the meaning of the name Israel. Each name below is a parable of a month/hour and a name by which we praise Christ and how we live every minute of every day foursquare.) )

    Rev 21:17  And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. (144 cubits. A cubit is said to be the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, but every distance from elbow to finger in every man’s arm is different. So, this means that it is whatever we reach for in every minute of every hour. What am I spiritually reaching for in every minute of every hour? Is it for my own flesh’s glory or for the glory of God? We are learning, in the 1000 years, to reach for Christ as The Creator. So, when we are complete, we will have walked away, been resurrected and reached for Christ as The Creator of every minute of this life. Our city becomes four square, the length is as large as the breadth, the height is as large as the depth, they are equally the same, The Father is All in all of our earth/city. Every minute, every hour, every day is seen as for Him through Christ.)

    Rev 21:18  And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. (The wall is built of polished gems, the meaning of the word “jasper” which means we are covered with silt of our world until we are polished by Christ and made to shine forth the attributes of the spirit of our Father. We are a polished pure gold to God. “that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace”)

    Rev 21:19  And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; (Each stone is not an individual stone but a uniting of one wall. Each part of us is a precious stone that makes up this wall. Peter was called a stone, and we are stones that are placed in the kingdom. We were precious to Christ and is why He sold all He had to come into this world and buy us with His own blood. These twelve stones are the same as the stones that were upon the breatplate of Aaron’s ephod that he wore when he went before God in the temple, which is a parable of us being upon Christ’s heart when He went before The Father and bore our sins. The meaning of the stones are that we are as precious stones to Christ and He wears us upon His heart. This wall surrounds our city and is a reminder of who we are to Him, a reminder to us, not Him.

    Rev 21:20  The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. 

    Rev 21:21  And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. (And every gate is made of a pearl, that Pearl is Christ. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.” When Christ is found, we sell all of ourselves by sacrificing all of ourselves for Him. Christ is our gold, He is what guides our steps. We are also a pearl to Christ, Who gave up everything for us, sold Himself for us, to obtain us. Everything becomes transparent, able to be seen. “For there is nothing covered (in us), that shall not be revealed (to us); neither hid, that shall not be known. Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.”) 

    Rev 21:22  And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. (There is nothing temporal in the kingdom of God, no literal temple, no literal flesh, it is all spiritual inside our new heavens and new earth. The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Truth we look at, no need for parables anymore. Same as the next verse – no literal sun or moon, they too are parables of the truth.)

    Rev 21:23  And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. (No literal sun or moon, they too are just parables of the truth.)

    Rev 21:24  And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. (The nations in us walk in the Light of The Lord God almighty and Christ, this is bringing our honour and glory into it. We become kings in our earth, ruling it with a rod of iron, the love of God and our neighbor.)

    Rev 21:25  And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. 

    Rev 21:26  And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. (There is no more need for parables, dark sayings, no night, (“I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old”), because the gates of our minds, each day, 12 hours, twelve gates, will be totally open to receive the whole truth. This is the glory and honour of the nations within us.)

    Rev 21:27  And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life. (Nothing in it will be of my planning or making. Nothing in it with my name on it as it was a creation of mine, which would be a lie, which is the meaning of the word “worketh”, “to make, with the names of things made, to produce, construct, form, fashion, etc. to be the authors of, the cause”. It only has life if it is seen as coming from the creation of Christ as the Author. In the world when something is named after a person it is called an “EPONYM”, such as a place, an object or a concept. Christ is our EPONYM because everything comes from Him and is named after Him, because He is the Author and Finisher of all things and all things were made by Him and for Him. “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” This truth is the river of life, the water that we can drink and never be thirsty again, the next verse.)

    Rev 22:1  And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. (This truth is clear as crystal coming from the throne, the authority of God and Christ, without taint, the pure water of the word, Christ. The truth is a pure love, an unfeigned love, that can come from a heart that has been cleared from guilt and self righteousness. A conscience that is clear from evil, without stain of the sin of self righteousness. “Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good (clear) conscience, and of faith unfeigned:”;”For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.”; “Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:” Pure heart, pure love, clear water that quenches the thirst of everyone around me, even my enemy. “If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.”)

    Rev 22:2  In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, hope, virtue, and godliness. These 12 fruits of the spirit are for our healing and they come from true love. They are fruits that come from Christ when we are walking in the spirit of Christ, which is unfeigned love. The months are not months because there is no time in the kingdom but are parables of the 12 tribes of Israel. Israel meaning “He shall be a Prince God”. Christ is The Prince of God and Christ is The Healer of the nations in us. When Christ healed literal people on earth it was a parable of Him healing us. Every person healed in scripture, the blind man, the hunched over woman, the bleeding woman, the man with the withered hand and all the people that came to Him in droves that were healed, were all parables of us inwardly as we are healed by The Prince of God from the plagues of sin, selfishness, self love, godhood.)

    Rev 22:3  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: (No more curse because there’s no more self love, sin. The curse causeless shall not come, but because there is no more sin, there’s no more curse. We serve Him as The All in all, Creator of all. The curse comes when we serve ourselves, the cause of the curse, selfishness, sin.)

    Rev 22:4  And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. (the fore front of every thought will be God as All in all.)

    Rev 22:5  And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. (When there is no absence of light/Christ, there is no night and no sin. Sin cannot keep us from seeing the truth. Christ is becoming our light and showing us that all is from His creation, which is causing us to reign over life.) 

    Rev 22:6  And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. (John literally wrote this letter. John means “God is a gracious giver” and was a parable of all the elect who will read this letter and see it inwardly and how Christ created us dust to be formed into new creations and is a gracious giver to those who have not love. Notice the word is “servants” in this verse. This letter was written to The Lord God’s servants, plural, not servant, singular. This message was sent to all who are given to see this letter inwardly in their world, in their earth, as servants.) 

    Rev 22:7  Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. (All these sayings are true, for Christ is true. We are given these messages to show us what must shortly/quickly/speedily come to pass in our lives. BEHOLD, He is doing a short work/quickly/speedily in our lives. We are blessed to guard/keep the sayings of this prophecy, to always see it inwardly and not outwardly. If we hear this message then we are to receive it inwardly within our own world. There is no reason to judge anyone outwardly, “For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth.” We should concentrate on our world within us as an individual, a couple, a family, or an assembly of believers. Always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks you why you live the way you do, and if Christ is in them He will drag them to you. “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw (drag) him: and I will raise him up at the last day.”)

    Rev 22:8  And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. (We are now seeing and hearing the truth in full. We want to fall down and worship before our own feet as though it is given to us for something we have done right or deserve. We want to worship the messenger, not Christ. But the truth says to us, “see thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant…”. We are our own servant, we know what we know because Christ has given the message to us to hear and see. It did not come from us because we were something in and of ourselves, but solely because He chose to show us what we know. We were told that we had an “evil spirit” when we first delivered this message to others and now I see it was “evil” to them, like Christ was called a thief. As the spirits in the guy on the island of the Gaderenes said to Christ, “have you come to torment us…?” It is a tormenting message to hear that we must separate from all false doctrine inwardly, from our old world and that will reflect in separating from the world out there. The truth will cause us to separate from all forms of false doctrine. For the elect, Christ will bring a stop to the sea of lies we’ve been swimming in that came to us as a flood at every turn: T.V., music, internet, fleshly friends, fleshly family, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and children, etc. The truth will cleanse our inner man and the new man will not sit and listen to false doctrine coming in any form. He will not eat meat that is sacrificed to an idol.

    2Co 6:14  Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 

    2Co 6:15  And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 

    2Co 6:16  And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 

    2Co 6:17  Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 

    2Co 6:18  And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. 

    All that we were must be destroyed and a new heaven and earth created. What has happened inwardly then translates outwardly to the literal world. First the natural, then the spiritual, but then we must see everything spiritual so we can compare spiritual with spiritual. What we left outwardly was a parable of the inward. This is what is evil to those who have not been given to see nor hear.

    “Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God (how to compare the spiritual with the spiritual): for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ”. We are now being taught to speak spiritual wisdom to our earth, not earthly wisdom, but spiritual wisdom, which means we judge all things by the spiritual. All of our circumstances of life – daily events, trials, people, animals, work, home, etc etc. which are written by Christ, can be seen and understood as parables to explain the spiritual workings of the inward. We are learning that all things outward are a parable of the inward. Our natural man cannot understand these things because they are spiritually discerned. So the things of God are hidden in the parable of the natural. We compare the spiritual meaning of the natural to understand the spiritual meaning of the inward. We have received the Spirit of God so that we can understand what He is saying to us by understanding the spiritual meaning of the natural. So we judge every detail in every minute of every day inwardly because all these natural things have a spiritual meaning to us, the elect. They are natural things but actually spiritual lessons for us to understand what is going on inside of us. When we go outward, judge those in the world, we are not seeing the truth within us.)

    Rev 22:9  Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. 

    Rev 22:10  And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. (Seal not the sayings of this prophecy. Let these truths grow and let them be told inwardly to ourselves because the time is at hand, like the writing on the wall.)

    Rev 22:11  He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. (We, as long as we are STILL in flesh, are unjust/filthy because we are subject to this world. Yet, at the same time we are righteous/holy. We cannot ever deny or try to waterdown what our flesh is, if left to itself, yet we cannot ever allow that truth to stop us from the truth that our new man/new earth is righteous and holy, STILL. The one does not erase the other. What we were and still are at times in thought, cannot disannul what we are in the eyes of God because of Christ. What we are in flesh is not what we are in spirit. “(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were“. Our enemy loves to remind us of our past so we can forget who we are NOW, presently. From Babylon comes the Bride of Christ. Babylon is still Babylon and The Bride is still The Bride. Worldly knowledge/religion is still filthy because it teaches that what it is, is made from its own works. But, The Bride of Christ is still The Bride of Christ because she knows that to be one with Christ means that what she is, is from outside herself, from God. She knows and takes pride in that she was made from His rib.)

    Rev 22:12  And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 

    Rev 22:13  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. (Behold, I come quickly/speedily and His reward is with Him. To be rewarded we must be one with Him and then we will be rewarded according to Christ’s work in us. The reward is to know God and the power of His resurrection from our dead lives, our own personal graves. The reward is to see Christ as The Alpha and The Omega of everything in me, the beginning and the end of everything in me, the first and the last of everything in me. This is the reward, where there is no more crying over the past, no more shame, no more regret, no more fear. All is seen as a work of Christ from beginning to end and all for the glory of God The Father.)

    Rev 22:14  Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. (We are blessed to do His commandments, which is to love God The Father with all my heart, soul and mind and each other as ourselves. The word “with” in Love God “with” all my heart, soul and mind means to see Christ as lovingly creating our lives for the purpose of glory, not shame. “With” means that the following things mentioned “love” are done by seeing it all as a work of Christ. The world in us says that the word “with” means it is an action done by me to love God. But love is not in me, in my flesh, to love anyone or anything more than myself. It is not “with” me to love God and you unless I am given by God to see God as my Creator and you as myself. I can love myself, so if I see you as myself, then I can love. “This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends”.)

    Rev 22:15  For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. (Outside these truths is everything that loves to see itself as the alpha and omega, which is a lie. All six of the things mentioned above have one thing in common, self gratification, returning to our own vomit like a dog, stirring up enchantments from myself, going after anything to pleasure myself, killing all that does not agree with me, worshipping myself, and all of it is loving a lie. )

    Rev 22:16  I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. (I have sent the message to testify unto YOU these things IN THE CHURCHES that are within us. The Seven churches are one church not seven individual churches in some generation in time. They are represented by the number seven because the number seven represents Christ – our rest – the seventh day. They are seven complete churches (assembled together in the Truth) within us that make up the whole of us and are at rest. They are these seven that make up a person, and when the truth is completely known, they are one complete church. They are these, my head, chest, arms, stomach, thighs, legs and feet, seven parabolic parts that make up the whole of a man – the spiritual seen in the natural. Christ is the Root and Offspring of David (whose name means beloved) – He is the source (Root) and the result (Offspring) of all things within us. We claim nothing as our own. He is the bright and morning star that illuminates this Truth within us.

    Rev 22:17  And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. (The Spirit of Truth and the Bride are one and they say come. “come” what? Take of the water of this truth FREELY. It doesn’t cost my new man anything, it costs my old man everything, but that is what the truth is all about, taking from the lie, that has not and giving to the truth, that has. Taking from him who has not and giving to him who has. Taking from the old man is taking from him what has clothed him, lies – exposing him as wayside ground, stoney ground and thorny ground. The more I know of the kingdom, the more that is exposed of the old man, his ground (we’re made of clay) gets harder and no longer produces the fruit of self. That’s why Christ said “take heed therefore how you hear” because the more you are given the more is required to be exposed of the old man. “Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.”; “And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that hath ten pounds. (And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds.) For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.” This is taking from him who thinks he has, the old man, and giving to him who seemingly has not, the new man. It is the parable of taking from the Canaanites all they had worked for and built and given to the Israelites who did not work or build anything. It’s taking from the rich and giving to the poor. “The poor you will have always” and “the rich suppress the poor”, and “blessed are the poor in spirit”. The poor is a parable of those who claim nothing as theirs, yet they possess everything “as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.” “The poor you will have always” because they inherit eternal life! Yet they are rich because they possess all things. God gave the satanic nature in me to possess and deceive everything in my world, “all has been given to me to give it to whom I will”, “the god of this world”, “the prince of this world”, yet all he has worked for has been taken from him and given to the new man, the elect, who did not work for it. All who are thirsty, who have walked in the wilderness, come take this truth “FREELY”.

    Rev 22:18  For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 

    Rev 22:19  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. 

    Adding to and taking away from the words of the book are two sides of the same coin. When we add our perceived ownership of our works into what is solely His creation, we must be corrected with the plagues of this book and when we take away from the words of the book, I say I’m not what He says I am. When I refuse to see or acknowledge or try to “take away” the truth He is showing me about the original beast He created me as, then that part of me is not seeing itself in the book of life. We cannot “take away” or ease ourselves from the truth that we are a creation, not the Creator. The lump of clay cannot say to its Creator, why have you made me thus? This delusion of being God will not continue on into the book of life or the holy city. This gospel of salvation is freeing us from the doctrine of the beast. We are told not to add to these things, which we do, and so we have to go through the plagues written in this book of our life until we give back what is not ours, Godhood. We are to walk by faith, not works of a law, and if anyone adds to that “Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”. Drawing back to works of the flesh is drawing back from faith in Christ as Creator. Faith will produce works, no doubt, but Faith produces them not me. Christ is The Author not me. Faith which worked by love, “Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.” Faith in God as The All in all and to love my neighbor as myself, is the work of God in our lives. This faith will produce the works that Christ is doing in us, making us a new creation.)

    Rev 22:20  He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. (He is coming, daily, hourly, minute by minute, the Sun of Righteousness rises brighter and brighter in our heart, soul and mind, where we are taught to love God and each other.)

    Rev 22:21  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. (The unearned favor of our LORD JESUS CHRIST be with all of me. That’s truth, which truth means, Amen. That’s true love. The revelation of true love is seen in the life, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ within us. It is as pure as water coming off snow capped mountains and leaves my conscience as clear as the same waters, untainted by selfish needs, wants, desires or judgments of my old flesh. No flesh wants pure love because pure love requires that I die for your sin and am buried to my wants. “Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth:”. “This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”)

    I pray that you were given eyes to see these things and to see them inwardly. All of scripture from the literal creation, to the flood, to the tower of Babel, to Abraham being called out of Ur, to Issac, to Jacob to Samson, to David, to Christ coming to the world, are all to be seen happening within us. If Christ has resurrected in you, you will begin to see Him in a totally different light than what you saw Him before and the graves will be opened inside you. “And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. ” He is casting out demons, healing the sick, healing the blind, resurrecting the dead, putting down the Pharisee, causing us to walk on water, all of it inside us. But, even as Peter began to sink because of the waves, we too begin to sink under the pressure of life, family, friends, jobs, community, desires of the flesh, and doctrines we’ve held for years when we look away from Christ. I cannot reiterate enough that it is a daily, hourly, minute by minute struggle against a beast who has risen from the sea of lies to create an image of ITSELF. To deny it ALL is like building a house. The cost is high, so Christ told us to count the cost. ” If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold 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, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace. So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. ” All of me must be forsaken to obtain Christ. Again, this is daily, hourly, minute by minute. The forsaking of myself and walking with Christ is daily picking up my cross and following where we would not go in the past. There are minutes, hours, days we’ll feel like failures, like the man who laid a foundation but could not finish the work, but the beauty of it is, Christ is The One doing the work in me to pick up my cross. It’s not me independent from Him. When I am weak He is strong. It’s good news to be liberated from the world in which I was a slave. His burden is light. The Revelation of Christ in us is recreating a new heaven and a new earth, where there are no lies. Christ is all and if I claim anything as mine, it’s a lie. We look forward to grow more in Christ into the man child assembling together with all who are chosen and Elect. There is still much to learn, much to be taught and I pray your eyes have been opened to see the truth. I will end with these verses:

    “The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth; For the truth’s sake (Christ is the way, truth, and the life, which dwells in us), which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever. Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it. For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh (that deceiver was in us and is BEING cast out). This is a deceiver and an antichrist. Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds. Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full. The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.”