60. An Apocalypse of Life

Nothing that I have written thus far has changed my understanding of God and of reality to the degree that this study of Revelation has done. All creation lives inside of God, inside of Life, inside of All-Salvation-Now. All things come through the good-speaking of Jesus and are sustained every moment by Him.

Old things have passed away; all things are brand new. Now, all things are out from God.

Yet humans do not agree. Instead, entirely inside the confines of their own minds, they concoct a twisted story of right versus wrong, of God against them, trying to prove to everyone else that they are strong and not weak.

When the Cover Is Removed. The term, “An Apocalypse of Life,” means that when the cover is removed from the eyes of all, they will see that Life is and has been their only reality.

This is our concluding session, not just for this amazing study of John’s vision, but for all of John’s writing, about three year’s worth of Zoom sessions. In this conclusion I intend to meander about with no clear outline. First, I want to touch on the three most wondrous realities I have come to know, deeply inside, coming out from our study of Revelation.

A Church Set Free. The first incredible understanding we have gained is that we cast every single demon, with all their false words, out of the Church of Jesus Christ, more than a hundred million believers across the earth, BEFORE the resurrection, while the dragon and the beast are still trying to do their thing. This is the profound meaning of Revelation 12:11.

Our fellow Christians will KNOW the Salvation in whom they live, and they will turn around inside of God and be the revelation of Jesus that they are. Our fellow Christians will Love one another, God through them, and the world will know the difference.

No More Strength. The second critical understanding that is of such great value to me, one who is fearful of many things, is found in the words, “the devil had no more strength.” My whole view of what is going on in the world has changed dramatically. Let me explain.

Without discounting the evil actions taking place, of people hurting people, or the evil intent to dominate all found in the hearts of some, I know that their power to act is being removed from them. Evil men and women are setting forth great boasting plans of domination, yet when they reach to accomplish, they are finding themselves without ability.

Paving Your Own Street. Yet this loss of power, of ability to act on the larger scheme of evil impulse, does not come by happenstance. It comes by our deliberate action of casting down all accusation against God, in ourselves first, and then that which accuses others.

I have come to understand that hell is always self-inflicted. Hell is real; it is the “life” one calls upon his way.

Everyone lives inside of All-Salvation-Now, for there is no other place. Yet everyone chooses to call their lives by not. You “pave your own street” with every step you take, whether you call it God-with-me or not-God-with-me.

The Same Life of Flesh. Every human is given the same life of flesh, of straw, one might say. And every believer in Jesus is given the right to turn their straw into gold by calling it good, every next step shared with the Father, regardless. This is the horrific wickedness of “go to” heaven, for those who believe in “God-someday” then turn and call God-today as a pile of crap, for that is the common use of straw.

In Medieval Europe, we are told, they threw their chamber pots out into the street each morning; people literally walked on streets of —-. John said, of those who call their every next step by not-God, “Let him who is filthy, be filthy still.” Just keep on accusing God of falseness towards you.

A Street of Gold. In the grand scheme of things, the flesh life given to a billionaire in his high tower and the flesh life given to a drug addict lying on the sidewalk is the same. The question is never what you have been given. The question is always what you do with what you have.

I choose to call my every next step a street of gold, that is, God-with-me, the Father sharing my human difficulty with me. As John also said, “Let him who is devoted, be devoted still.” I walk inside of God; God is beneath of me, carrying me, sharing all with me. I turn the straw of my flesh into gold by calling every moment to be GOOD.


Crashing into Ruin. The majority of humans accuse God of falseness with every step they take. When I call my every next step as Father-with-me, turning it, with my Father, into pure and intrinsic goodness, regardless, I am stripping evil of its power to act. When you do the same, together with me, here inside of heaven-now, kingdoms are crashing into ruin.

Yet this is not as a vacuum; this is not a “loss of power.” Rather, it is the insertion of the power of the Spirit flowing through us into the fabric of heaven-earth. When we walk inside a God who is meek and lowly of heart, we are the ones who are acting in the earth.

Revelation 12. Now, I want to point out that these stupendous changes in our perception of reality are found in Revelation 12, the core and the ruling chapter of John’s vision. Let me iterate again. Everything from Chapters 1 through 11 flows into Chapter 12, and everything from Chapters 13 through 22 flows out from Chapter 12.

And the primary question that must be answered in order to unlock the meaning of Chapter 12 is – Who are THEY? It is evident from John’s words that THEY are believers in Jesus just like you and me. It is evident from John’s gospel that THEY are – whosoever will – and we also, the greatest Love ever made known.

A Love Story. Thus the third most amazing thing we have seen in our study is the incredible love of Jesus coming through His firstfruits to all who belong to Him. Revelation is a love story. The Gospel is a love story.

Only one thing could possibly persuade me to stop calling a life I do not like by not-God. That one thing is Jesus’ love for me. But when I turn and, together with you, share that same Love with the Father towards all whom He has given to Jesus, then something far beyond gold is released into the knowledge of all creation.

Straw into Diamonds. We are taking the straw of our lives and making it the precious jewels of the Spirit for others, that they might know the Father without reference to us. This happens only by Father-with-us, as we acknowledge Him to be faithful and True.

I am re-reading another story by Juliette Marillier, Daughter of the Forest. In this story, a young girl is given a path of great suffering in order to save her brothers from an evil spell. She must weave shirts for each of them out of her tears and loss, even though her actions seem to bring only hurt. As she finishes the final shirt, she is facing death by fire.

The Suffering of Love. She knows that when she is finished, she must CALL her brothers to her so that she might clothe them with the suffering of her love for them. Yet here is what she thinks. First, “My heart longed to cry out to my brothers, but I bade my inner voice be silent. There could be but one call; one summons, when my work was finished, and they could go free.” Then, “I worked on, and the half-made shirt, which was the last of the six, was stained with blood from my hands, and filth from the room, and it was wet with my tears. He who wore this garment would wear my love, my pain and my terror. These things would set him free.”

A Garment for the Church. We are called to clothe our brethren with a garment of Fire, with the Lord Jesus Christ, with the seeing of God. Yet we are weaving that garment with every step we take, turning the bitter pain of our lives into the goodness of God for the sake of others.

God has not given us yet that final action of LIFE, because the work of our love is not quite complete. Our task is not to produce the Love. Our task is to acknowledge God-with-us. This is the garment we are weaving for a Church appearing now as a harlot. When our work is finished, when we have woven the “filth” of our lives into a garment of Love, when we CALL our brethren into Life, nothing will prevent Jesus-through-us.

Understanding the “Prophetic.” Next, I want to ramble off into an understanding God brought into my circumstances through interaction with others. I have pondered this much over time, and have come to a startling conclusion that requires me to re-think how we are to know all “prophetic” word in the Bible.

We are looking again at these words from Chapter 22, a passage we considered when we started this study. … if anyone should place [death] upon these things, God will place upon him the striking blows written inside of this book. And if anyone should take [Life] away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and out of the holy city…

Always to Life. I had made note of this fact through my years of studying the Bible, that the writers of the New Testament, including Jesus’ own practice, would quote from the Old Testament, bringing in a line here and there and showing that the Gospel of Life comes from the Scripture. That quote was always to Life, or it was a warning to Life. Yet it was so often taken out of context, especially by Paul, ignoring completely all the “death” verses on either side.

I thought this was just something they did. But now I know that they possessed a completely different mind, an understanding of the prophetic word that we have not known, that does not exist in Christian thinking today.

Life Unfolding. God does NOT “predict” the future. God does NOT “control” anything. The perception conveyed by those two words is found only in the tree of knowing good and evil. God is something entirely different.

The ages to come, every next moment, unfolds out from the LIFE we share with God right now. This is an unfolding, a gentle movement towards, and the end result of our synergeoing with God is pure and intrinsic goodness. It is the evil one who comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy. Jesus comes through our words to save and to give LIFE.

To Magnify the Cross. Every word in the Bible against sin, every word of judgment, every speaking of curse, is for ONE PURPOSE only, to MAGNIFY the cross of Christ.

If one died for all, then all died. Absolute. Total. Complete. Finished. Already all.

Now that same cross serves two purposes. On the one hand, it is an open Door, beckoning all to run through now into all the Life that is Christ. And on the other hand, it is a closed and locked Door, a mighty barrier, keeping all sin and death far away from those who acknowledge a life lived only inside of God.

Placing Death Upon. Thus every word of “death” in the entire Bible serves one purpose inside of Christ, and that is to call people into Life.

Yet here comes a self-appointed Christian “caller,” who places death, that is, the work of the evil one, upon the words of God and removes Life from those same words. Thus they might say, “Isaiah predicted that the modern city of Damascus will be destroyed by a nuclear bomb.” Such a one is using the Word of Life to, themselves, speak and call forth death upon innocent people. They are not “predicting the future,” for there is no such thing. Rather, they are calling the evil one into further infliction of pain.

Only One Way. I find so often that when I try to teach people to call every moment of their life by God, by Life, and by Love, they go a little ways with me, and then stop in refusal. The desire to call the straw of one’s life by evil is so great.

“They’re just words.” Yes, and it’s just death, with hades following after. Common and banal; been there, done that.

Yet this brings us to the most important point of the Apocalypse to God, Jesus proven faithful and True. There is only one way that Salvation can enter the deliberate hades of every human soul, and that is by the absolute demonstration of Life and Love against death and curse.

What Happens? Here is death and curse. – “Well, that’s the story of my life.” Here is Life and Love. – “Hey, THEY are NO different from me. I can be one of THEM.” Every human is free to place Adam or Jesus upon every moment of their lives; there is no other choice.

Yet consider what happens inside of those who use the Bible to speak death against others in whatever form suits their fancy. What happens when the garment of our Love, the weaving of the difficulties of our lives into goodness for others, is finished and God anoints us to CALL the Church into LIFE?

Empty and Angry. Remember Jonah. He preached death, and when God sent life instead, he was angry and strength vanished from him. God was still with him, but Jonah alone must speak Christ.

In that moment, those who use the Bible to speak death into others, a gospel of “God-far-away,” a “Jesus-above-you” used to place self above others, a hatred of the flesh, a turning of the circumstances of life into crap, will find their strength VANISHING from them. They are free to choose Jesus in that moment, but many will prefer weeping and gnashing of teeth, crying over their great loss of a “self” separate from God. Unable to say “Christ not I,” unable to say “I not Christ,” empty and angry – hades.

Weaving Garments. The cover is coming off, and all will see that which is True and that which is false. There can be no other conclusion of this age. Yet that is not the end, for Jesus is True, and, in the ages to come, all will acknowledge Him so, in every moment of their lives.

Blessed are those who acknowledge Jesus now.

We are weaving garments for our brethren to wear, clothed with Jesus, called by His name. We are weaving them out of the suffering of our daily circumstances, “Father, this is You, sharing all with me, and we together, Father, turn it into goodness for our brothers and sisters inside of Jesus.”

Clothe Your Brethren with Jesus. The Apocalypse is the uncovering of Life and Love, of Salvation already all, of Goodness indescribable, of Joy never before known. Yes, that is already the story of your life, the only story in which you have lived. Call it to be so; see the goodness of God. Clothe your brethren with Jesus.

I understand the back and forth in John’s closing chapter because I find the same Spirit in me doing the same, a back and forth between great joy and Life on the one hand, and deep warning on the other hand. Warning is part of Life, for how can Salvation come to those who are convinced they are not lost?

Look and See. You say, “I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing,” and do not realize that you are wretched and miserable, poor, blind, and naked. I take counsel together with you to buy from Me gold that has been refined out from fire, that you might be rich; and white garments, so that you might be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness might not be made visible to all; and eye-salve to anoint your eyes that you might see. Those whom I love, I discipline and instruct. Be eager, then, and change the way you think.

Look and see, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone should hear My voice and open the door, I will go in to him, and I will dine with him and he with Me.

All Authority. In closing out our study, let’s turn our eyes again to the next few years, the final years of this age of woe and the arising of the Age of Life, of God-known among us. Life is; there is no more death. Goodness is; there is no more curse. In every forward step, we expect God to arise.

All authority upon earth inside of heaven is given to Me; go therefore… The certainty we possess that this Jesus is inside of us becomes that same authority through us into everything around us, not for grasping or self-serving, but for the proving of Jesus faithful and True, for Father’s sake.

God Acknowledged. Just as God is so different from what they claim, a God of Life versus a God who knows good and evil, so a universe of Life, the only one that exists, is so different from how the human mind perceives inside this present evil sphere. God known is God acknowledged. To acknowledge is the action of human faith towards what is real and True. This is the only thing that pleases God.

When Jesus said, “The world will know,” that knowing is found in the acknowledgment of God. Yet this acknowledgement is neither mental nor forced; rather, it is the arising of the Spirit giving Life.

Now You Believe. The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ makes the world of Life, the only world that exists, visible to all. Yet here is the PROOF of Christ – those who believe BEFORE their eyes see. Believing what is, that God speaks the Truth, becomes the only doorway into seeing what is.

That the proving of your faith, which is more precious than perishing gold, being refined through fire, that your faith might be found into praise and glory and honor inside the APOCALYPSE of Jesus Christ. Whom, not having seen, you love, into whom now you believe, though you do not see outwardly; moreover you exult with joy inexpressible and filled with glory, receiving the full completion of your faith… (1 Peter 1:7-9).

Our Seeing. Here, then, is what we SEE through faith, going forward over the next few years. We SEE an arising and an overthrow, an arising and an overthrow. As Moses said, “Let God arise, and His enemies be scattered.”

We SEE the arising of the Spirit of Life, bringing the acknowledgement of God, and we SEE the overthrow of the false thinking of the human mind. We see these things, even when there is NO outward indication that they are happening – because we believe in Jesus. Our seeing is the power of the Unveiling.

Our Speaking. To the world, we say, “Be silent in the presence of God.” Towards our Christian brethren, we say, “Be clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ. Place Him upon all that you are.” And in speaking these things, we are speaking absolute Truth; we are speaking with God from the beginning.

In all that we speak, we speak in that absolute certainty that our words are God arising, our words are the overthrow of all that speaks against. We know that our words are the thoughts of God, for God has taught us to speak the Jesus Secret, the mystery of Christ, that Jesus speaks through us.

Our Joy. You exult with joy inexpressible and filled with glory. – Who, then, is our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting and exultation? Is it not even you, in the face of our Lord Jesus, inside of His presence? For you are our glory and our joy.

Seeing Jesus in and as one another is the fulness of our Joy, for we are seeing Jesus as He is. And in seeing Jesus as He is, we know that we are just like Him, the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ.

Through eyes of Fire! – Look and see. What is the most frequent phrase in Revelation? – I looked and I saw. – The Unveiling of Jesus Christ.

Reading for Next Time. We have finished John, which is half of The Jesus Secret II. Now, I will use our Zoom session as a means of finishing the first half until it is in print form and in our hands. The first part of our session now will be a semi-rough look at my completing of The Jesus Secret II as well as the completion of the JSV into it’s own printed text.

Then, we will turn to the writing of Symmorphy VII: Completion for the second portion of our Zoom meeting. We will do only one lesson at a time, slightly less than half of what our sessions have been. We will begin with “4.1 Passover to Pentecost.” And so you should read/listen to “4.2 A Biblical Experience” as a refresher.

Let’s Pray Together. “God, our Father, we see Jesus, and in seeing Jesus as He is, we know You, that You share our lives with us. Symmorphy – Jesus causes us to share the same form with You. Father, we acknowledge You, that You are all, and that You are GOOD in all things, and especially in every moment of our lives.

“And Father, You have seized us into Yourself and into Your authority, that we might acknowledge You as humans on this earth, that we might be Your open Doorway into creation, that You might be known by all. Inside of Jesus, Father, cause us to know and to speak Your Words with authority, that You are True.

“Inside of Jesus, we see the Church, all of our brothers and sisters whether visible or in the heavens only, we see a glorious Church, filled with Jesus. Father, we clothe Your people with the Lord Jesus Christ, we clothe Your Church with Fire. We see all of our brethren as Jesus to us. We call them by You alone.

“We are Your open Door, Lord Jesus, come through us now into the knowing of Your Church. Let the difficulty of our lives be Your own Love, woven through our tears for the sake of all whom the Father has given to You. We see You as You are, Lord Jesus, and we are just like You, for You are our only Life. Lord Jesus, we are Your proof that the Father speaks the Truth. Let it be so; it is so.”