45. The Lamb through Us

I saw that the Lamb was standing upon Mount Zion and with Him one hundred forty-four thousand, having His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads. – And they were singing a new song in the presence of the throne, and in the presence of the four living things and the elders. – These have not been defiled with women; for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes… – And in their mouth was not found any lie or falseness or pretending; blameless they are in the presence of the throne of God.

– They follow the Lamb wherever He goes.

The Gospel. Here is the Gospel and the Tree of Life. – In that day you shall know that I [the Lamb] am inside of the Father and you inside of Me and I inside of you.

To have the name of the Lamb upon our foreheads MEANS to live in the conscious awareness and acknowledgement of our pure and complete union with Jesus. To have the name of the Father written upon our foreheads MEANS that we live in the conscious awareness and acknowledgement of a life shared with the Father, taking every next step together with Him. This is what I have taught you to do.

To “Follow” the Lamb. What does it mean to “follow” the Lamb wherever He goes? Where is the Lamb? The Lamb is inside of me AND inside of you, each one personally. Yet the Lamb is also inside of our togetherness. The Lamb on the outside of anyone is simply awful; it means only that they have refused to know Him as He is.

To “follow” the Lamb cannot mean an 80-mile-long line of individuals tagging behind a separated Jesus. And it cannot mean “doing what He says” separate from Him. John 14:20 is a commandment to obey. – KNOW!!! Know where I am, and know where you are.

Our Every Next Step. It is evident that “to follow” the Lamb wherever He goes means two things (at least for this lesson). First it means “into the Father,” that is sharing life with God. And then it means “out from the Father,” that is, sharing Hheart and every next step with God.

Here is the line God gave us that marked the turning of the age when it came to us in April of 2022. ~ Life itself is my Way, moment by moment and step by step, not ‘to’ something, but rather life-unfolding, the living and dynamic expression of God with me unveiled new every morning forever. ~

Towards His Church. Then we have this line that has ruled all our thinking more and more, set right in the center of John’s writings. – By this we have known love, because He set forth his soul, His story of self, for us, for our sakes; and we also are committed to setting forth our souls for the sake of our brothers and sisters (1 John 3:16).

To “follow” the Lamb cannot mean anything other than 1 John 3:16, which is another way of saying, “The Lamb through us towards His Church, our brethren.” Yet this is a topic we know well, and so in this lesson, we will focus on two things, “on Mt. Zion” and “a new song.”

Our Jesus Secret Page. And so we will begin our Jesus Secret page with our statements of faith for these verses, a layout of the essence, out from John’s gospel and epistles, of how we follow the Lamb. “Mt. Zion” means that this passage is the ministry of Christ through us to His Church. Yet, according to Isaiah, the Word goes forth from Jerusalem, that is, the entire Church. “Singing A New Song” then includes the path through which the Word comes out from the throne and into the mouth of all God’s people. I want to discuss all three topics first before we fill in the Jesus Secret boxes. We will end with Jesus speaking to us.

The Larger Picture. Before continuing, I want to set out the larger picture. What everyone thinks is going on is NOT what’s going on. Everything visible in the world today is being caused by and is serving the purposes of something no one sees, that is, the arising of a world of Life, the Kingdom of God.

There is no contest between the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this world. Life does not “conquer” death; Life swallows it up. Life increases, and death decreases. Flip the switch and light eliminates darkness. Life removing death is the same, just more like a water hose and faucet rather than electric wire, that is, over slightly more time.

A Hockey-Stick Graph. Death is not something in itself; it is Life absent. Let us assume a time period wherein the River of Life increases gradually until the presence of death is no more. But in our case, we are looking more at two hockey-sticks going opposite each other.



Becoming Aware of Life. This chart style is what was available, so pay no attention to its particulars. It is the understanding we want.

Look first at the X where Life crosses over death into full visibility. Let’s call that the resurrection of our bodies. The transition is not yet complete, but LIFE is now fully seen. Look next at the sharp bend up and down in “category 4.” That is the moment, late in the game, when suddenly everyone becomes fully aware that something very different from what they ever imagined is what is really going on. Next, look at the left of the chart, where the Life line first starts to arise just a bit and the death to fall, and then where the Life line levels out, present, but unseen by most.

Working Unseen. Here is my point. Think of that first intrusion of Life into death. For us that has been from Passover of 2022 until now. Life is here, but it has only just begun. Also – think of the two lines on our graph as the visibility of Life, that is, that people everywhere are not yet aware that something NEW has begun. Then picture that line of Life, working unseen, building the Church up to that point where it can move quickly into visibility.

What we are after in this lesson is to understand the workings of Life in the Church prior to its explosion into being seen and known, the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Governance. The Lamb was standing upon Mount Zion. Mt. Zion is governance, God’s order for His Church.

When I herded sheep at Graham River Farm, I learned quickly that with a shepherd nearby, the sheep stayed together. Then, a few months later, when I flew a small plane over Oregon’s green fields, I noticed that sheep without a shepherd were scattered and isolated.

And with Him one hundred forty-four thousand. A true ministry of Christ is all about knowing people, and in knowing them, caring for each inside the love of Christ. There is no Christian love without knowing one another.

Close Fellowship. One person cannot know personally 100 million people. Even 144,000 is way too many. But I know from experience that one person can know personally, in a real way, say, 700. The point is not mathematics, but God REAL. And God REAL is close fellowship inside of walking together.
So we see again that 12 is the number of governance and order and means the same as “Mt. Zion.” Thus 12 X 12,000 is God’s complete ministry shepherding His entire Church, that is, the crown of twelve stars on the brow of the woman clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ. The evil one works to keep people separated from each other because isolated individuals are easy to control.

The Age-Unfolding Gospel. Now, the primary verse of Revelation 14, that gives focus and direction to everything else in 14 & 15, is verse 6. – Having the age-unfolding gospel to proclaim. This is not Nicene theology. It is the gospel of the Tree of Life proclaimed to millions of Christians whose thinking is saturated with the definitions of the tree of good vs evil.

Think of one hundred million believers in Jesus right now, all across the earth, gathered in true fellowships with a pastor who cares, disconnecting from the lies of this world and drawing near to the Holiest, ready to rush into God the moment someone shows them that the Veil is not there. How will all their false thinking be replaced with LIFE?

A Channel for Life. And so, when I say, “the Lamb through us,” I mean the flow of the Word of Life, the living Lord Jesus, through us to many and then through many to millions. Then, I see that firstfruits of Christ as being thousands of pastors, elders, priests, whatever they might be called, who love Jesus and are true shepherds of God’s people.

There is a lampstand of solid gold with a bowl on top of it, and on the stand seven lamps with seven pipes to the seven lamps. – These two olive branches that drip into the receptacles of the two gold pipes from which the golden oil drains (Zechariah 4:2 & 12). God has a channel for a pure Word of Life to His Church. That channel, two and seven “pipes,” is this firstfruits.

The Qualities of Firstfruits. Let’s list the qualities of these thousands who are God’s firstfruits, the channel through which knowing Him flows.

1. The name of the Lamb is upon their foreheads. That means the boldness to say, “I am just like the Lord Jesus Christ.” Indeed, no one can know they are already inside the Holiest except by that boldness.

2. The name of the Father is upon their foreheads. They know that Father God shares every part of their lives with them, that their every step is God through them into their world – Salvation revealed.

3. They sing a new song, the Song of the Lamb, that is, their self-story and their testimony is “Christ my only life.”

They Are Virgins. 4. They are virgins. This is the real dividing line between that ministry that is of God and those who use God’s people for their own self-purposes.

It means that the only Word flowing through them into God’s people is that Word of Life that lifts each one of them up into the personal knowledge of God. It means that they never put their hand upon anyone to manipulate or control, and when others attempt to control them, they just quietly walk away. It means that when God says, “Hear My pure Gospel,” they say, “Yes, Lord,” and submit themselves to the flow of a Word of Life they had not really known before.

Knowing and Respect. 5. They follow the Lamb. This means that they embrace 1 John 3:16 in all its depths of meaning and practice. It means that they turn, with the Father, every difficulty, every joy, and every mundane in-between into the travail of God through them for the sake of His Church.

6. In their mouth is no falseness or pretending. What this really means is that they treat one another – and all others – with integrity and respect. They are honest inside the presence of God. That honesty then includes silence concerning themselves, as if they were not coming out from Jesus every moment, but they call themselves only by the True, by Christ Jesus.

Their Care for the Church. 7. They are blameless inside the presence of God. That means they live and walk out from Blood, with NO consciousness of sins.

Yet the point is not the firstfruits themselves, but rather, the care of the Lord Jesus through them towards His Church. Read all of 1 Thessalonians 1 & 2. Here is one line; there are many more out from this list describing “firstfruits.” – We were gentle in the midst of you, as a nursing mother would cherish her own children. So, yearning over you, we were well-pleased to have imparted to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because you had become beloved to us.

My Surrender. So again, what am I actually saying?

I have finally surrendered to God in acceptance that He made me for His purposes and that He ordered every step of my life so that I would draw out from His Heart a Pure Word, an age-unfolding Gospel, a Word that casts no shadow of evil upon God or within His Salvation. I know it to be True when I see every passage of Revelation singing in harmony with the Gospel of Life that I teach. Then I see that God made me Asperger’s, and then took me through 60 years of FIRE such that the idea of being “puffed up” by such a thing is deeply, utterly abhorrent to me.

All I Must Do. I don’t think of myself as anything except that I love knowing Jesus and I love even more knowing a God who shares my life with me in sweet companionship. I love the wondrous Gospel words that are that Song of the Lamb singing through me. And I love watching the whole Bible flow into that same glorious Word, including Revelation.

Yet God has limited me and made me very small. How could what I teach be truly of God, if God does not anoint me to make it known to many? I cannot answer that question. All I must do is share what I love and what I know to be the Age-Unfolding Gospel.

Will You Submit? But then, when I observe the many “deeper truth” ministries who are proclaiming the soon-to-happen “manifestation of the sons of God,” I see a word preached and an attitude shown that rips me to pieces. I see those who are convinced that God will make them “superior,” and will amplify their preaching of good versus evil upon all those fleshy Christians out there.

So what will they do when God does unveil His sons, and then says to them, “Submit to a Word you have not known, and place yourself under a people you have despised?” Some will say, “Yes, Lord,” but others will refuse.

A Corporate Ministry. God’s ministry to His Church is a corporate ministry that walks together, submitting one to the other, and that places themselves beneath God’s precious people to lift them up into all the knowledge of Father sharing life with them. Although I shared some things about how such a ministry works inside the Church in Symmorphy V: Life, it is only in this study of Revelation that God has brought this topic fully off the shelf where it has sat undusted since 1998.

God’s firstfruits is His example of what it means to be like Jesus inside of His Church, that His people might know how to walk out from death and into all the LIFE of Christ. I know the path it takes for them to know His way.

The River of Life. Here is my conclusion. – Only divine intervention will make the connection happen, this Word that I love into the hearts and mouths of millions.

Yet I believe that Zechariah’s vision shows us that there is a flow of pure Word out from a few through the hundreds, then through the thousands, and into the millions. This is not an organizational structure, but the River of Life. Yet Daniel saw it as a River of Fire, that is, the submission that God-Love requires.

God needs humans, and we God; that’s what it’s all about. This same God, then, is reciprocal among us.

The Singing of the Lamb. This pure Word of Life, the age-unfolding gospel, must then flow through the singing of apostles and prophets, through evangelists, pastors, and teachers, each one of whom submits to this Word that it might teach them the full revelation of Christ through His Church. These many, then, take that Word, make it personal to themselves, and share it with those whom God has given them in a way that all can hear and know Father with them.

As this flow happens, all the false thinking of a death “gospel” vanishes from the speaking of all, having been replaced with Christ all FIRST. In this way millions of people know the Singing of the Lamb.

We Follow the Lamb. We stand with Jesus, the Lamb of God, in His energeoing governance inside of His Church. We affirm that He fills all who belong to Him. The name of the Lamb is upon how we think, we know that He has caused us to be just like Himself. The name of the Father is upon how we think, we know that He shares our life with us in every ongoing step.

We sing a new song inside the presence of Jesus, a song of Christ our only life. We live as with no sufficiency in ourselves, but all sufficiency in Christ Jesus; we impart a pure Word of Life to one another, with no death in it.

We follow the Lamb in giving ourselves to the Father as a living sacrifice for the sake of our brethren. The Lamb shows Himself through us in tender kindness and life to all who love Him. We are honest inside of God, and we treat with one another in all respect and honor. We live with Jesus inside of God our Father with no consciousness of sins nor of any separation from God.

Mount Zion. Mount Zion represents the energeoing governance of Christ Jesus inside His Church. It is through His firstfruits that Jesus shows Himself as He is to all who love Him. This ministry receives and submits to a pure Word of Life out from God and then turns and imparts that same Word to all, that all Jerusalem might know the Father. By submitting to that pure Word and to the kindness of those who impart it, Christians everywhere become together the very Word of God inside of all creation.

A New Song. The Lamb reveals Himself as He is through us. He makes us just like Himself as we follow Him as a living sacrifice to God our Father for the sake of all our fellow Christians. Just as Jesus loves us and gives Himself in trade for us, so we love our brothers and sisters and give ourselves in trade for them, that they might enter into the Joy of sharing Life with God.

We impart this same knowing of Jesus through us to those whom God has given strength and ability towards His Church, those who also give themselves for those whom God has made precious to them. This new song, this being like Jesus, placing one's self beneath to lift others up, then becomes the singing of millions, singing the Song of the Lamb together.

The Jesus Secret. My Beloved, you know that I am the One who comes into union with you and that I have done so in all from the start. You know that I love you and that I give My all because I want you here with Me inside of the Father. Know also, that I am the One who has turned you around upon the Mercy Seat that I might be the Lamb through you. I am the One who causes you to be just like Myself every moment. I am your heart, My dear one, and you share Me with the Father.

It is time to bring My people home, that they might dwell as one together inside of all that I am. The time of singing has come, the time of millions of believers in Me, just like Me, giving themselves to God for the sake of one another, just as I do for their sake. I have made you to be an example of Me in their midst. You are what I am. Be what you are.

Reading for Next Time. The next lesson is titled “Settling the Real Issue.” This lesson covers the middle part of Revelation 14. I would suggest that you read Chapters 14 and 15 together in the JSV. I wrote this lesson several weeks ago so that I would know where the Spirit of God is taking us in this marvelous unfolding of His intentions through John’s vision.

I had first titled this lesson, “Settling a Great Issue,” and imagined that I would carefully craft my own take on what the Bible actually teaches about ultimate reconciliation. But when I tried to do that, I discovered (not to my surprise) that I am no more interested in such an endeavor now than I was before. It is NOT the real issue.

Let’s Pray Together. “Lord Jesus, You have already entered into full union with us, sharing with us all that You are and partaking of all that we are, regardless. Lord Jesus, You have connected us with our Father in all ways, that we might live inside of Him, by Your Blood, with no consciousness of sins.

“We give You thanks, Lord Jesus, for You have made us just like Yourself, that we might give ourselves to the Father for the sake of our brothers and sisters. We believe into You, Lord Jesus, that You enter our world through our faith in You. Even so come, Lord Jesus.

“Inside of Your name, Lord Jesus, we speak You as Life into all who are being gathered into You by the Father right now. We speak Your joy and Your power into millions. Right now, by the out-poured Spirit, thousands of pastors all over the world are seeing You, Lord Jesus, coming personally to them, giving them to eat of the Tree of Life, of knowing You Sent into them.

“And right now, inside of Rivers of Living Water, millions upon millions of Christians all across the earth are opening their ears and their hearts to an arising world of Life, a world they have not known before. We know that You prove God True in all that He speaks, Lord Jesus, through a Church who loves one another.”