AS FINAL FLESH BECOMES... FINAL
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We arrive at the last chapters, the last verses, the winding up of all that went before it. The culmination of the plan Jesus set in motions eons ago, thousands of years ago, moments ago to God. Everything now is being shaken as that end approaches, nears like the end of a movie or a novel. Always closing in. Always nearing. Has been all our livers so many of us are numb to it, or never had the sense of it. But that doesn't stop it rolling up on us.
Start with Solomon.
Ec 1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. {hasteth: Heb. panteth}
6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. {return...: Heb. return to go}
8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. {to be...: or, to afflict them}
14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. {that which is wanting: Heb. defect}
16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. {had...: Heb. had seen much}
17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
(KJV)
Sol had all the money in the world and all the joys and pleasures it could bring and he ended his life with the mistakes of idolatry and the disillusionment, the jading of worldly satisfactions. Nothing seemed new. Everything seemed less, became meaningless. Even his wisdom led to more sorrow.
Today he would have had every satellite network, every connection to the world. He would have eaten at every great restaurant around the world. He would have had women on every continent, every possible drug and drink and event.
Vanity would have continued. As it does in us today. We still want every sensation sated, every dream come true, every lotto win on our record, every win on our bridge rubber. All things us.
And we arrive every so often at the realization that the next Marvel movie, the next step in drugs, the next woman or man, the next wild party, every so often we see that it does nothing, will solve nothing, will not make it all better, will not set things correct. We realize we want out of the pain. We think we can end the pain with the pleasure or we get all de Sade and think the pain is the pleasure.
Like Solomon, only some of us realize the pain comes from not being with God and only some of us find the real God in Jesus and stand with Him. We flux, fade in and out, come back, hold strong. We aim to end the best we can in being with Him and walking his way. We get lost in the Law and we get lost in regressions that stroke the old ego and point us to the Solomon mistakes. In the end, we come whimpering back like lost puppies and, if we are lucky, if we cling to our new self and walk with the Spirit, walk in the Spirit and not in the ghost of Law, we can say we held strong at last and finished the race, We witnessed well this once, then once and again. We shut off the music and the video and we listen to the Lord. We stop the Fox News and the PBS and we turn to Him beyond the politics of human mistakes and concocted solutions, of laws that name morality over the founder of morals.
We end up His and we end up moving toward this:
Re 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. {all things: or, these things}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMK5AceJYwU
And at the end of grief:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6l1kpJ0x5k
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 fearful. We seldom acknowledge it but that is the first thing the angel dwells on. Fear. We act out of fear so often it becomes comfortable. People fear Putin and rightfully so, yet he has admitted in an interview with Oliver Stone that he thought long and hard about becoming president because of the fear of what would happen to his children if he failed. he doubtless still has that fear which is why he holds to his office and kills others so often via poisons and other methods. He rules with fear but we seldom realize it rules him as well. We fear the bully; we fear the accident around the corner: we fear the pain of an injury or a failure to think things through; we freeze in our tracks in the wrong job, the wrong relationship, the wrong church for fear a move any which way will be worse.
We fear that there is no God and we don't want to look foolish before our friends by accepting an illusion. We fear that there is a God because we know we are ugly fallen sinners. We fear there is really no mercy in Him when we see giant icebergs ready ti flood Icelandic villages and see our President cowtow to another world leader.
We fear...we fear...We FEAR!
Let it go if you once feared. It is almost over. This world that holds our attention so adeptly. The video idols cannot stop the end. The child facing starvation is slowly become you and me. His emaciated face that haunts all those charities begging for funds to help him now slowly become our own face. We starve for the Truth , for the Word. We can be fed. We need nly open the Book or find it online. We can publish it here and feed others. God will feed us by it and end our starvation and fear. See clearly in the last moments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnY2oAi8v7Q
Understand now that fear is what powers all those listed above. The abominable and the murderers. what powers the strong man rulers and those who support them and cower from them, the ones seeking whores and adulterers seeking as many conquests for money as they can, so they can be in control, have the illusion of safety in control. understand god will take the time of the tribulation to make it clear to them that they are NOT in control, to their followers that the leaders are NOT God.
Sorcerers with magic and drugs can't prevail because they last but a mayfly's life to God. They can numb the pain of no God, but they can't really be God no matter how much we worship them. That is the human flaw, the belief that we give a god power by our worship. God is love. He asks our love and worship but He will never force it. He asks to fill us with himself, but He would never rape us spiritually. (Do you see the sacredness of the act of sex when we look from His perspective?) He wants so much for us not to taste the brimstone of eternal burning.
The sing "Gypsy" performed by Fleetwood Mac has been following me on pop radio stations when I go somewhere or ride in a car with the radio on pop XM stations. Apparently they are like regular stations in that they have a playlist of songs and don't vary. The song is actually about reincarnation written by Stevie Nicks who fancied herself a witch at the time. "Back to the gypsy that I was" explain some of the feeling expressed there. reincarnation ideas exist so we don't see the truth: that our sin puts us at eternal risk. Risk of losing this life without Christ's gift of salvation and the next life because we didn't take the gift. Please read these passages and know that you can talk to others about Him and that He can redeem them. Remember that He has redeemed you now, if you have accepted Him and that this glorious vision awaits your future life. You are a gypsy no longer.
But, in fear, many of us will lose Him.
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.
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,
11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
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:
13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
This is a moment that some legalists have where they argue who that number twelve apostle will be since Judas went rogue. We really shouldn't care, We really need to just be in awe of what Jesus has built for us, what we may have added the finishing touches to while He rules in the Millennium.
15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
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.
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.
18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
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;
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.
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.
22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
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.
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.
Read that last verse again. There will be kings on the Earth then. C. S. Lewis focused on this idea in Narnia even as he used mythic creatures and allusions to show how they pointed toward Christ. There will be nations then. But the kings are his people and the nations are all as Israel was meant to be. Since we are all equal, all will be some sort of royalty. Who or what we would rule over is not clear. Nature? Animals of some sort? Not each other since we are all in Him, but over something. And that rule will be a full reflection of Christ himself ruling. A rule of love and authority and honor to God.
25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
The gates being open signifies safety, absolute safety. In the days Revelation was written, gates were closed against enemy foes, shut at night, sealed against attack. But now no enemy exists. As we see below, no one in this kingdom who does not belong to God, is not indwelt by the Spirit.
26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
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.
I recall a story from decades ago. A young man committed suicide because the TV show Battlerstar Galactica went off the air. No longer televised. This was the first show by that name, starring Lorne Greene, an actor famous for the TV show Bonanza. It was widely regarded as cheesy among SF fans. Nothing like the great Star Trek. And people were surprised that anyone would commit suicide over that show. Which missed God's point in allowing it that so many of those mockingly deriding the lost young man's choice were, themselves, committing long term suicide by worshiping the other SF show and Star Wars as if they were anything different. Imagine then now in God's eyes, with every eye on a video of some sort, on the massive HDTV. on 3D screens, on, for goodness sake the cel phone. Massive stories played out on a 2 inch screen and people pay hundreds of dollars for that little phone. Or the TV reserved for gaming and video wars and car theft and young women with disproportionate body parts shooting and exploring caves. Out idols become much more sophisticated and the fact we cling to them shows they have more power as well because they aren't made of frozen wood but moving electrons.
And our fear is so much easier to quell if we are wrapped up in the story of killing all the latest monsters or zombies or bad guys on the other side of war. Imagine the distractions in the Tribulation because of all the REAL killing.
We all need to search our hearts and let the Spirit take away ther desire for the things that pull us from the Lord. Too much work. Too many idols of electrons, too much time reading stuff even here in this electronic world if it doesn't rouse you to listen to Him over the world. If it keeps you from a relationship outside the electrons.
If Westworld keeps you from the true Tomorrow World of God.
And then the further discussion of the tomorrow world.
22:1 And he shewed of me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
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.
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:
4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Understand now why the 666 of Satan could not be on the brow of any human there. There is only room for one brand.
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.
On a perfect Earth lite by His glory alone. Filled with his life anf power and truth. Perhaps even with the ones we have known and loved here. You with those you have lost and may lose before the end of things. Me, even with the son I never knew, with the parent and others gone before.
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.
7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
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.
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.
10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
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.
12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
He made us. he shaped us. We are the human clay of the world who resists the Potter and struggles to return to being a lump. We forget the shaping is meant to return s to what we were meant to be all along: His children and His people. Never the lump on the spinning wheel.
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.
https://christcommandments.blogspot.com/
15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Long ago sent to the giant black hole. Dwell on the levels of sin again. The loving of the lie, that is, anything that is not of God. Loving and making lies. The false prophet, the false leader. the one who says :Only I can solve this." Some of the liars are even fooled by their own lies into believing what they have said is true: that only they can detect other liars and murders and they can protect their own from those liars. They come to believe the liar sitting across from them as the leader they would like to be, as a petty god in a small world throttling truth to keep their power. Some even fool themselves into thinking they can see that that false leader is better than that other false leader because he tickles their ears. We forget that it ALL is lies. God reminds us constantly.
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.
First the Master speaks, the Creator. Never forget He created us.
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.
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:
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. {out of the book...: or, from the tree of life}
The Spirit and the Bride speak together. Here we have the final proof of what i have been saying, that we are merged to Him by His Spirit. We are with Him eternally by His choice and ours. There is no divorce so He has forbidden it here unless someone is so evil they are the snake and we must realize our true Husband wouldn't have us stay where He wouldn't be welcome. We need to realize we are married to each other in the Church, one body as he describes the husband and wife as one body, meant to serve differently for eternity. Each a king and queen but too eager to claim their throne and, in this world, losing our power and true voice because of it. We will be able to create like Him, but only in the true voice of eternity, not in the selfish voice of this world. Satan will tempt us to the end to claim what may well be ours before it is ours, as in Eden, as so long ago.
20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"Surely I come quickly."
We perceive the week of Creation as millions of years so our perception of his "quickly", hardly a couple days to Him, can be seduced away from the truth quite easily.
He will come quickly. His return nears like the rising of the sun on a new day. We need to shed the skins we wore here as willingly as we would shed sleep to see the dawn and be rejuvenated to have a cool drink on a light spring day when the winter of cold emptiness and freezing drizzle is being moved aside by the gentle unceasing hand of time.
We need to look to the sky. Our oil lamps filled to dimly light the path before us until the dawn.
And be ready. To be together.
21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen!
(As sung by someone gone before)
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(Next week: our final post for Final Flesh and a preview of the next blog..)
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We arrive at the last chapters, the last verses, the winding up of all that went before it. The culmination of the plan Jesus set in motions eons ago, thousands of years ago, moments ago to God. Everything now is being shaken as that end approaches, nears like the end of a movie or a novel. Always closing in. Always nearing. Has been all our livers so many of us are numb to it, or never had the sense of it. But that doesn't stop it rolling up on us.
Start with Solomon.
Ec 1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. {hasteth: Heb. panteth}
6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. {return...: Heb. return to go}
8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. {to be...: or, to afflict them}
14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. {that which is wanting: Heb. defect}
16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. {had...: Heb. had seen much}
17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
(KJV)
Sol had all the money in the world and all the joys and pleasures it could bring and he ended his life with the mistakes of idolatry and the disillusionment, the jading of worldly satisfactions. Nothing seemed new. Everything seemed less, became meaningless. Even his wisdom led to more sorrow.
Today he would have had every satellite network, every connection to the world. He would have eaten at every great restaurant around the world. He would have had women on every continent, every possible drug and drink and event.
Vanity would have continued. As it does in us today. We still want every sensation sated, every dream come true, every lotto win on our record, every win on our bridge rubber. All things us.
And we arrive every so often at the realization that the next Marvel movie, the next step in drugs, the next woman or man, the next wild party, every so often we see that it does nothing, will solve nothing, will not make it all better, will not set things correct. We realize we want out of the pain. We think we can end the pain with the pleasure or we get all de Sade and think the pain is the pleasure.
Like Solomon, only some of us realize the pain comes from not being with God and only some of us find the real God in Jesus and stand with Him. We flux, fade in and out, come back, hold strong. We aim to end the best we can in being with Him and walking his way. We get lost in the Law and we get lost in regressions that stroke the old ego and point us to the Solomon mistakes. In the end, we come whimpering back like lost puppies and, if we are lucky, if we cling to our new self and walk with the Spirit, walk in the Spirit and not in the ghost of Law, we can say we held strong at last and finished the race, We witnessed well this once, then once and again. We shut off the music and the video and we listen to the Lord. We stop the Fox News and the PBS and we turn to Him beyond the politics of human mistakes and concocted solutions, of laws that name morality over the founder of morals.
We end up His and we end up moving toward this:
Re 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. {all things: or, these things}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMK5AceJYwU
And at the end of grief:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6l1kpJ0x5k
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 fearful. We seldom acknowledge it but that is the first thing the angel dwells on. Fear. We act out of fear so often it becomes comfortable. People fear Putin and rightfully so, yet he has admitted in an interview with Oliver Stone that he thought long and hard about becoming president because of the fear of what would happen to his children if he failed. he doubtless still has that fear which is why he holds to his office and kills others so often via poisons and other methods. He rules with fear but we seldom realize it rules him as well. We fear the bully; we fear the accident around the corner: we fear the pain of an injury or a failure to think things through; we freeze in our tracks in the wrong job, the wrong relationship, the wrong church for fear a move any which way will be worse.
We fear that there is no God and we don't want to look foolish before our friends by accepting an illusion. We fear that there is a God because we know we are ugly fallen sinners. We fear there is really no mercy in Him when we see giant icebergs ready ti flood Icelandic villages and see our President cowtow to another world leader.
We fear...we fear...We FEAR!
Let it go if you once feared. It is almost over. This world that holds our attention so adeptly. The video idols cannot stop the end. The child facing starvation is slowly become you and me. His emaciated face that haunts all those charities begging for funds to help him now slowly become our own face. We starve for the Truth , for the Word. We can be fed. We need nly open the Book or find it online. We can publish it here and feed others. God will feed us by it and end our starvation and fear. See clearly in the last moments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnY2oAi8v7Q
Understand now that fear is what powers all those listed above. The abominable and the murderers. what powers the strong man rulers and those who support them and cower from them, the ones seeking whores and adulterers seeking as many conquests for money as they can, so they can be in control, have the illusion of safety in control. understand god will take the time of the tribulation to make it clear to them that they are NOT in control, to their followers that the leaders are NOT God.
Sorcerers with magic and drugs can't prevail because they last but a mayfly's life to God. They can numb the pain of no God, but they can't really be God no matter how much we worship them. That is the human flaw, the belief that we give a god power by our worship. God is love. He asks our love and worship but He will never force it. He asks to fill us with himself, but He would never rape us spiritually. (Do you see the sacredness of the act of sex when we look from His perspective?) He wants so much for us not to taste the brimstone of eternal burning.
The sing "Gypsy" performed by Fleetwood Mac has been following me on pop radio stations when I go somewhere or ride in a car with the radio on pop XM stations. Apparently they are like regular stations in that they have a playlist of songs and don't vary. The song is actually about reincarnation written by Stevie Nicks who fancied herself a witch at the time. "Back to the gypsy that I was" explain some of the feeling expressed there. reincarnation ideas exist so we don't see the truth: that our sin puts us at eternal risk. Risk of losing this life without Christ's gift of salvation and the next life because we didn't take the gift. Please read these passages and know that you can talk to others about Him and that He can redeem them. Remember that He has redeemed you now, if you have accepted Him and that this glorious vision awaits your future life. You are a gypsy no longer.
But, in fear, many of us will lose Him.
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.
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,
11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
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:
13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
This is a moment that some legalists have where they argue who that number twelve apostle will be since Judas went rogue. We really shouldn't care, We really need to just be in awe of what Jesus has built for us, what we may have added the finishing touches to while He rules in the Millennium.
15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
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.
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.
18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
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;
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.
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.
22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
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.
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.
Read that last verse again. There will be kings on the Earth then. C. S. Lewis focused on this idea in Narnia even as he used mythic creatures and allusions to show how they pointed toward Christ. There will be nations then. But the kings are his people and the nations are all as Israel was meant to be. Since we are all equal, all will be some sort of royalty. Who or what we would rule over is not clear. Nature? Animals of some sort? Not each other since we are all in Him, but over something. And that rule will be a full reflection of Christ himself ruling. A rule of love and authority and honor to God.
25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
The gates being open signifies safety, absolute safety. In the days Revelation was written, gates were closed against enemy foes, shut at night, sealed against attack. But now no enemy exists. As we see below, no one in this kingdom who does not belong to God, is not indwelt by the Spirit.
26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
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.
I recall a story from decades ago. A young man committed suicide because the TV show Battlerstar Galactica went off the air. No longer televised. This was the first show by that name, starring Lorne Greene, an actor famous for the TV show Bonanza. It was widely regarded as cheesy among SF fans. Nothing like the great Star Trek. And people were surprised that anyone would commit suicide over that show. Which missed God's point in allowing it that so many of those mockingly deriding the lost young man's choice were, themselves, committing long term suicide by worshiping the other SF show and Star Wars as if they were anything different. Imagine then now in God's eyes, with every eye on a video of some sort, on the massive HDTV. on 3D screens, on, for goodness sake the cel phone. Massive stories played out on a 2 inch screen and people pay hundreds of dollars for that little phone. Or the TV reserved for gaming and video wars and car theft and young women with disproportionate body parts shooting and exploring caves. Out idols become much more sophisticated and the fact we cling to them shows they have more power as well because they aren't made of frozen wood but moving electrons.
And our fear is so much easier to quell if we are wrapped up in the story of killing all the latest monsters or zombies or bad guys on the other side of war. Imagine the distractions in the Tribulation because of all the REAL killing.
We all need to search our hearts and let the Spirit take away ther desire for the things that pull us from the Lord. Too much work. Too many idols of electrons, too much time reading stuff even here in this electronic world if it doesn't rouse you to listen to Him over the world. If it keeps you from a relationship outside the electrons.
If Westworld keeps you from the true Tomorrow World of God.
And then the further discussion of the tomorrow world.
22:1 And he shewed of me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
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.
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:
4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Understand now why the 666 of Satan could not be on the brow of any human there. There is only room for one brand.
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.
On a perfect Earth lite by His glory alone. Filled with his life anf power and truth. Perhaps even with the ones we have known and loved here. You with those you have lost and may lose before the end of things. Me, even with the son I never knew, with the parent and others gone before.
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.
7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
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.
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.
10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
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.
12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
He made us. he shaped us. We are the human clay of the world who resists the Potter and struggles to return to being a lump. We forget the shaping is meant to return s to what we were meant to be all along: His children and His people. Never the lump on the spinning wheel.
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.
https://christcommandments.blogspot.com/
15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Long ago sent to the giant black hole. Dwell on the levels of sin again. The loving of the lie, that is, anything that is not of God. Loving and making lies. The false prophet, the false leader. the one who says :Only I can solve this." Some of the liars are even fooled by their own lies into believing what they have said is true: that only they can detect other liars and murders and they can protect their own from those liars. They come to believe the liar sitting across from them as the leader they would like to be, as a petty god in a small world throttling truth to keep their power. Some even fool themselves into thinking they can see that that false leader is better than that other false leader because he tickles their ears. We forget that it ALL is lies. God reminds us constantly.
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.
First the Master speaks, the Creator. Never forget He created us.
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.
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:
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. {out of the book...: or, from the tree of life}
The Spirit and the Bride speak together. Here we have the final proof of what i have been saying, that we are merged to Him by His Spirit. We are with Him eternally by His choice and ours. There is no divorce so He has forbidden it here unless someone is so evil they are the snake and we must realize our true Husband wouldn't have us stay where He wouldn't be welcome. We need to realize we are married to each other in the Church, one body as he describes the husband and wife as one body, meant to serve differently for eternity. Each a king and queen but too eager to claim their throne and, in this world, losing our power and true voice because of it. We will be able to create like Him, but only in the true voice of eternity, not in the selfish voice of this world. Satan will tempt us to the end to claim what may well be ours before it is ours, as in Eden, as so long ago.
20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"Surely I come quickly."
We perceive the week of Creation as millions of years so our perception of his "quickly", hardly a couple days to Him, can be seduced away from the truth quite easily.
He will come quickly. His return nears like the rising of the sun on a new day. We need to shed the skins we wore here as willingly as we would shed sleep to see the dawn and be rejuvenated to have a cool drink on a light spring day when the winter of cold emptiness and freezing drizzle is being moved aside by the gentle unceasing hand of time.
We need to look to the sky. Our oil lamps filled to dimly light the path before us until the dawn.
And be ready. To be together.
21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen!
(As sung by someone gone before)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFTy_rgPI4k
(Next week: our final post for Final Flesh and a preview of the next blog..)
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