19. We Remove the Seven Seals
Audio Only:What are the four horsemen of the Apocalypse?
That is a question that leaps out at everyone who reads Revelation, a question that has been asked and to which answers have been concocted for the last 1900 years. You and I even once asked this prevailing question. We did so because we were foolish and did not know God.
Asking the wrong question will take you into death; asking the right question will take you into LIFE. Revelation Chapter 6 presents a question a billion times more important than the four horsemen, a question that, to our utter astonishment, few have asked or answered.
The Big Question. The BIG question, the question that must be asked first, the question out from whose answer comes all the meaning of the remainder of John’s vision, is this.
What is the Opening of the Scroll?
Who cares what the seals are, the moment they are broken off, they are gone forever. What matters is what happens in our world today as that Scroll is opened wide for all to read. Yet when we realize what that Scroll is, and what it’s opening to be read MEANS to all creation, we will see these seven seals as God means them, as the wicked spirits of anti-Christ sitting upon the Church, preventing the gospel of our Salvation from even being perceived.
The Apocalypse. The opening of the Scroll is another way of understanding the Apocalypse, Christ made visible through His Church. Here is an absolute fact of all present reality. – The Church, which is His Body, the fulness of Christ who fills all inside of all (Ephesians 1:23).
So why don’t Christians know and believe the truth? The Church is only Christ Jesus now. Jesus fills every particle, nuance, and moment of every member of that Church, those whom the Father has given to Him. Jesus is written, not just on the hearts of each, but across the fabric of all together.
Swept but Empty. Jesus made it clear that the truth does not do anyone any good unless we KNOW the truth. – This is age-unfolding life, to KNOW… Jesus Sent into you. Thus we see that Jesus predicted exactly what would happen through the history of the Church.
“When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it swept and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first” (Luke 11:24-26).
Unread and Unknown. Christianity through the in-part Church age has refused to know that God fills her full, that Jesus is her only life, and that Rivers of Spirit flow out bringing life to all. Christians have looked at one another and failed to see the Lord Jesus, as incredible as that sounds.
Instead, the message of all sects of Christianity of which I am aware can be stated in this way. Sweep your house clean (try not to sin), keep everything in order (follow our sect’s guidelines), and go to heaven someday. And the Salvation of Jesus that has been written upon all through these 2000 years is unread and unknown.
A Deliverance Service. What happened then is clear. In place of the essential truths of the gospel, and into those places of power and influence in the heavenlies over the Church, there came seven powerful and wicked anti-Christ spirits, each one of which has successfully distorted Christian thinking into something that “sounds” right but is NOT. And all of them work together for one purpose, to keep anyone from opening the Scroll that all creation might read and know the Salvation of God written inside the Church.
And I watched when the Lamb removed one of the seven seals. – Revelation Chapter Six is a mighty deliverance service, a deliverance that is world-wide.
Seven More Wicked. Here is our layout of the seven demons ruling inside of “Christian” theology and practice. A fuller explanation of these things and how they work is found in Symmorphy VII: Completion, Chapter 5 “A Perfected Opposition.”
These ARE the seven seals being removed.
Our Layout. We will look briefly at each in this lesson before we pray to remove it from the Church. And so our Jesus Secret page will first contain a very brief explanation of what the removal of the seals is, followed by a single large “Ask and Believe” box in which we will pray for the entire Christian Church in all heaven-earth.
I want to mention two more things before we start. First, the seals of Revelation 6, including the four horsemen, are NOT the punishment of God coming against wicked humans of this world. The seals are the attack of Christians against the All-Salvation of God.
Placing the Story. Then, we have seen that story is defined by the opposition of the “enemy” and that the main characters of the story become known by their victory over that opposition.
When I say that I have wept over the Church since I was twelve, I can assert with honesty that the concepts preached out from these seven anti-Christ spirits are the specific causes of all my distresses over the years. These things were WRONG; I knew they were wrong, but I did not know how or why or what was the Gospel Truth.
This is Story. We come out from the character arc of the seven overcomings and into the battle. This demonic horde sitting upon the Church is our first enemy to defeat.
We Pray for the Church. We are sent for the sake of the entire Church with the sending of the Lord Jesus, a Church that cannot read the Salvation of God. We pray for deliverance for the Church. We remove the false image of Christ. We remove the entrance of contempt. We remove all limitation placed on the Atonement. We remove death as if it is salvation. We remove the unbelief that will not enter into God. We remove the practice of dishonesty. We remove all accusation against God. We set our brothers and sisters free to know the Father through knowing Jesus Sent into them.
Driving Jesus Away. Driving Jesus away inside the imagination of a Christian is the greatest need of the evil one.
This desperate task is accomplished in three primary arenas. First is to dismiss the Word, as if it is ideas to discuss and to debate, ruled over by the human intellect. The second arena is the seeing of the eyes, “Look around, you don’t see Jesus, do you,” as well as splitting the vision, “Jesus, yes, yes, but FLESH, look at your flesh.” The most important arena, however, is to re-define Jesus out from the human lust to be superior over others, that is, contempt, to turn Jesus into a “God” of imagination only.
A Contrary Image. Thus was created a contrary image of an “above-you” Jesus who requires you to “get up out of yourself” before you can know Him. This caricature of Christ is then called “God,” yet cast as a tiny and incapable, bounded and far-away entity who cannot accomplish Salvation Now. Yet this image shoots arrows that destroy faith. Here is one. “When Jesus comes back!” And in the shouting of those words, Jesus here, Jesus now, Jesus filling His Church with fulness of glory, Jesus our only life, vanishes from the minds of all who are struck by that barb of gross unbelief.
While this false image has conquered Christian imagination, what it cannot do is sustain and carry all right now.
“Conquering” the Covenant. The most terrible part of this “super-Christ,” however, is that it “conquers” the Covenant. In Christian imagination, you cannot be like this “Jesus” now. Being like Jesus is no longer something you receive through faith, but rather something to “achieve,” something unattainable during this “present life.”
Here is another barbed arrow shaft. – “Jesus is perfect and you are not.” This is a killer arrow that destroys faith in a Jesus whose ability is made perfect inside of our inability. It is this wicked image of “Christ” that blinds the eyes of most so that Jesus walking this earth as us, His body, cannot be seen, being replaced by “going to” heaven in order to see.
We Cast Down the “Super-Christ.” Inside the name of Jesus, we bind the false spirit-image of an above-you and faraway Jesus that rules in the minds of our brethren. We cast down this wicked image of contempt, that it might be utterly forgotten, that the knowing of Jesus Sent into them might prevail, this One who loves and shares all with each.
Removing Peace. Adam removed peace from the earth because he chose contempt above Jesus in the Tree of Life. Cain killed Abel out from the same contempt. The Pharisees wanted Jesus dead because He did not fit their image of superiority, the same image of superiority that mesmerizes Christianity.
The desire to be superior over others comes only out from the entrance of contempt. It is always contempt that removes peace, that pits one human against another. God made humans weak, yet gave us hearts to rule. This became our “fatal flaw” when we turned away from God.
He Was Unthankful. We are weak, that we might be filled with God. We have hearts to rule, that we might love with God. Yet until God brings us into complete harmony with His own Being, singing the Song of the Lamb, when we look at weak and foolish Christians, feeling contempt is normal. There is one thing only we must do with our contempt. We must place it with ourselves utterly into God. And there, inside His presence, we bury that contempt, knowing that God alone saves us from death.
Contempt began in Adam because he was unthankful for his human condition. Adam hated being like God. Contempt is buried inside of giving thanks, God-with-us, in all.
We Bury Contempt into God. Inside the name of Jesus, we bind the anti-Christ spirit that magnifies contempt for others that defines the theology of our fellow Christians. We send them with their contempt into God, for God alone saves us from such death. In its place we plant the Seed of thanksgiving. Give thanks in and for the sake of all.
Belittling the Sacrifice. Just as it is contempt for other Christians that drives the image of the “super-Christ,” so it is contempt that then reduces the One Unlimited Sacrifice for sins down into a measured and limited “atonement,” to be bought and sold. The only way to continue holding other Christians in contempt is to belittle the Sacrifice of Jesus. This is, I think, the most wicked of the seven demons of anti-Christ, the one who says a “limited atonement.”
This is the “black horse” that measures the atonement, thus creating a famine of Word. Jesus’ blood, death, and resurrection – not enough, not enough, not enough for you. This famine replaces all-now with “I wish” – someday.
Selling Forgiveness. The terrible aspect of this demonic practice in Christianity is that the sacrifice of Jesus became something to be sold by the hierarchy and purchased by the penitant. It was for this reason that Jesus drove the sellers out of the temple, for they were selling the sacrifice at a high price.
Someone wrote to me: “I was at a fellowship and we were given a piece of paper to measure our walk this last week. Of course, it brought guilt as I did not measure up.” – “You are a sinner, weep over your sins.” – They don’t tell you that this is actually the worship of SIN, done only with one’s back turned against the Lord Jesus your only life. This false worship is what drove God out from Solomon’s temple.
We Set the Atonement Free. Inside the name of Jesus, we bind that corrupt demon that measures the Atonement wrought by Jesus and offers it for sale. We cast down the false thirst that cries, “Not enough, not enough for me.” Father, release the love of Jesus into the hearts of all who call upon You. We set the Atonement free to be absolute inside of all.
Death “Saves the Day.” So, if the Atonement of the Lord Jesus is tiny and ineffective, if it cannot bring All Salvation here and now inside of you, then how does God actually save? In rides the horseman of Death with hades following close behind. Death is how God saves you; die and “go to” heaven.
Salvation, then, became no longer living inside of Jesus and Jesus inside of us. Instead it became a “change of geography.” Here and now you cannot know God. But the moment you transfer over to this other “geography” wrongly called “heaven,” then you will be instantly perfect without any involvement between you and Jesus. You will be “saved” – someday!
Hades Follows After. “You will not surely die, you’ll just ‘go to’ heaven.” Death, then, is able to do what Christ inside of you CANNOT do, that is, make you every whit whole.
Yet the price inside the Christian soul of this savage and imaginary elimination of Jesus as our only-life-now is what God calls, “hades,” but what Christians call “hell.” You want to know Jesus, but He’s just beyond your reach. You want to be like Him, but you haven’t ‘died’ enough. I lived inside this hell for years, frightened out of my wits.
And so the “how” of God became no longer the reciprocity of faith as the Bible says, but a corpse in the ground and a faithless “heaven” someday.
We Swallow up Death. Inside the name of Jesus, we bind the anti-Christ spirit that blinds our fellow believers from the Tree of Life inside of Jesus and replaces it with death taking them to “life someday.” Yet the Life inside of us for our brethren is greater than the death in their imagination. Inside the Victory given to us by Jesus, we swallow up death. Death can deceive no more.
Refusing to Enter. There are few travesties in Scripture greater than the picture of dead Christians in heaven hiding out inside the Altar of Incense, refusing to enter into the Holiest, into the knowledge of God.
In God’s pattern, the Altar of Incense enables us to believe that we are inside of God-Love right now. It represents turning all the difficulties of our life, together with God, into goodness and blessing for others. Yet these Christians, “gone to be with Jesus” are screaming at Him to destroy those whom they despise. In fact, this is why they refuse to live inside of God, because, with Jesus, they would have to speak, “Father, forgive them.”
Fake Prison Bars. Why do Christians refuse to believe that God their Father shares every moment of their life with them and that they synergeo with God making all things good? You see how this demon works by constantly pointing to the “big guys.” “Oh no, Jesus is above you. Oh no, you are just a sinner ‘saved by grace.’ Oh no, you have not died enough, get back on the cross, loser.” And the bottom line is always contempt for others, “I am more right than they.”
And so a believer can sing, “Let me enter in,” for forty years with tears and still continue to refuse to believe God has already placed them into Himself. They are kept out by a demon imaging fake prison bars into their minds.
We Open the Prison Doors. Inside the name of Jesus, we bind the carnal demon that images a “sin” consciousness to our brothers and sisters as the reason why they cannot enter into God through a wide-open veil. Let the hypnosis of a barrier be gone. You are already inside of God, know Him with all boldness of heart and soul.
Without a Cause. Adam hid from God behind fig leaves and tree trunks and when that did not work, he poisoned the universe by blaming his wife. Fig leaves and tree trunks just don’t do it anymore, now people need mountains and caves to hide from God. And when that does not work, they blame the Lamb who saved them – “The wrath of the Lamb.”
As Jesus said, “They hated Me WITHOUT A CAUSE.”
They have no reason to say “the wrath of the Lamb,” yet they say it anyway. These are Christians who believe and are taught that God is against them.
A Demon of Dishonesty. All Christians who refuse an absolute Atonement, as if Jesus should have done more to prove His love for them, turn and pretend to their fellow Christians that they are righteous in outward show. This is the dance of faces, the wearing of masks. It is a denial that “I am already crucified,” by refusing to say, “Please forgive me, I was wrong.”
The refusal to believe Jesus’ Love, imagining a “Jesus against me” instead, is not actually a lack. Rather, it is a powerful demon of dishonesty. People who prefer to be right in self then refuse no sufficiency in self. Salvation is stepping into the Light. “God made me weak.”
We Turn on the Lights. Inside the name of Jesus, we bind the unclean spirit of dishonesty that claims rightness and teaches pretending, all to stay away from light. We cast down all loathsome sufficiency-in-self remaining inside the Church. We turn on the beauty of honesty. It is good to be human. It is good to be weak and filled with God.
Accusation Against God. Close your eyes and open your ears into the heavenly realms. If you were able to do that (which you don’t want to be able), you would hear some 40-50 billion sentient beings screaming non-stop hatred and accusation against God. God, You are evil. God, I hate the way You made me. God, I hate the circumstances of my life.
They hated Me without a cause.
The foundational rule under Nicene theology is that the devil spoke the truth in the garden, that God is God because He KNOWS evil and that wanting to be “like God” is the temptation of the devil. This is the essence of filth.
Horrendous Pain. God has endured these false screams against Him for six thousand years, with great pain and agony of soul. Close your eyes again and think about all the many times you spoke complaint against your circumstances or shame against yourself. Think of the horrendous pain you have caused a God who has always shared your life with you.
Then listen again. Hear that most incredible moment in the utterly unnecessary war of humans and angels against Love, that moment when it ALL GOES SILENT. Hear the moment when all accusation ceases. God is always GOOD, and God is always TRUE.
We Silence All Accusation. Inside the name of Jesus, we bind the anti-God demon that rules inside all creation, screaming accusation against God that He knows evil, that He made us falsely, that His way is not good, and that He does not speak the truth. We silence all in the name of Jesus. God is good all the time. God is always telling us the truth.
Two Parts of Deliverance. We do not continue to pray these things as repetition, but as affirmation and certainty, standing firm against all evil. Deliverance happens in two ways, very slowly and then all at once. During the “very slowly” part, not much seems to be happening. Yet we hold fast, knowing that things are shifting in the heavenlies.
Christ does not come to fill any human except through a deeply personal interaction with them. We are giving Him the open door and the time to do just that. Then, when we see the result in the Church of this mighty deliverance, we will be overwhelmed, but not surprised.
Reading for Next Time. The next lesson is titled “Two Covenants or One.” It begins with this statement. – John’s vision is a complete mess. – We can actually see a cohesiveness of thought and meaning from Revelation 1:1 through 8:1. But that cohesiveness seems to vanish from 8:2 on. Yet there are things we skipped thus far, including this. – And heaven was swept aside, like a scroll being rolled up.
There are many more great issues of confusion that must be dealt with besides the question of the Covenant; we will address more of them in the next lesson as well as in lessons coming up. If you want, read “The Two Covenants” in The Covenant.
Let’s Pray Together. Let’s complete this session with a simple prayer of peace for our brethren.
We release the sweet Spirit of God into the knowing of all. Father, cause each to know Jesus Sent into them as their only and absolute life. Even in the agony of the massive departure of once-familiar religious fetishes and deceits, make Your Love known to each one, Lord Jesus. As You bring no sufficiency in self, but all sufficiency in God into the heart of each, let there be peace, deep and true, and overflowing joy.
“It is so, even as we pray, Lord Jesus.”