Revelation of Jesus Christ
Revelation 1
1The 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:
2Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
3Blessed 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.
Where is Jesus Christ today? Where is He being unveiled? In His Kingdom which is each one of us. So this book of revelation which was shown to John on the Isle of Patmos is a prophecy about Jesus Christ being resurrected in the body of Christ.. Taking up His abode in man.
Vs. 2 the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Vs. 3 Blessed– happy – to be envied is he that readeth & they that hear the words of this prophecy. The Lord Jesus Christ is three things
Prophet–speaks
Priest–reconciles
King–rules. What is your calling, dare to believe all the Father has for you.
Vs. 3 What a promise to everyone that can read this book, you are blessed, if you can hear what is saying . It’s for those that will keep & fulfill within themselves the things the book is saying.
Think about it. If on the pages of this book everything is about some future world event, or external event or an historical event, then how can those who read”keep & fulfill it within themselves. It is very clear these events happen within God’s people.
This book is written to me only if I can hear. The first key to understanding this book, the book is addressed to me & to you. This book must be experienced. We are becoming over comers, who are being made Kings & Priests unto God, who read, hear & keep the things written in this book. These are the matured sons of God.
The word keep means to guard or tend. Remember Adam was commanded to dress the garden & keep it. The Lord tells us in scripture, His people are His vineyard & His garden. His purpose is the same it & keep it. The garden of God is also the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. In the beginning Adam failed to dress & keep the garden of his own soul. Men through the long millennium’s also has failed & the world has endured sorrow & pain.
The Shulamite in the Song of Solomon S of S 1:6 They made me keepers of the vineyards, but my own vineyard have I not kept. The Lord may let us tend a portion of His great vineyard. We may minister to other souls, but we have the vineyard of our own soul or lives. Those that are
following on to know the Lord, we are learning to take care of our own vineyard, our thoughts, desires, impulses. If you cannot tend the gardens of your own soul & lives, we cannot think that God will trust us with greater gardens. How can we rule over man’s souls? how can we judge Angels? how can we rule nations with a rod of iron,?how can we exercise dominion? How can we rule over all things as God has spoken, if we cannot rule His own spirit. There are thousands of men & women all over the world doing what they call the work of the Lord, but the vast majority of them have never been commissioned of the Lord. Jesus never grave no promise to the seven Church’s of Asia.. But He gave great & glorious promises of life & glory & power to him that over cometh.
The blessed age of God’s Kingdom over the nations which is now dawning shall be governed by the Saints who overcomes. Who have sanctified the Lord God in their hearts , who have put away all carnality, who have put on the mind of Christ. Having the Father’s name written in their foreheads. Who has arose as matured sons of God. Who comes to the fullness of Christ.
Garden & vineyards in the scriptures are the same as the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. This is the meaning of Eden. God is planting the plants He has chose in Christ before the foundation of the world. Each tree of righteousness.
Isaiah 61 3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Isaish 58: 11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Isaiah 51 3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Isaiah 28: 24-29 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
25When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
26For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
27For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
28Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
29This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
This is our processing We endure crushing experiences, which has broken clods of our fleshly desires & the carnal traditions of religion which resist the truth. The plowshares of the spirit is breaking the fallow ground, breaking the up the self life until it is subdued before Him..
He needs fine soil for that seed to grow. That seed which is the very life of Himself. It has to be a harvest of the same kind. The Christ coming forth in the body of Christ. So that we may replenish the earth with Christ like people. This is a whole new species, a new creation, your elder brother is the prototype. This new creation will be in the image & likeness of God.
The purpose of God first expressed in Genesis is filled in the unveiled Christ of Revelation.
The anointed prophecy gives us through John, when wrought out in our lives, will take us to the fullness of the image & likeness of God. Tells us what will take place in our lives to transform us into the fullness of Christ, to manifest the power & Glory of the Kingdom of God in the earth.
It is a process from the natural to the spiritual, from the corruptible to the incorruptible from mortal to immortal. It is the book of overcoming. Book of our metamorphosis, Book of our completion, Book of our manifestation. Book of our son-ship.
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