54. We Are the Word of God
And I saw a white horse with One sitting upon it, called faithful and true, and inside of just innocence, He judges and wages war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and upon His head were many royal crowns, each having a name written, which no one perceives except He Himself. He was clothed with a garment dipped in blood. And His name is called, “The Word of God.” The armies who were in heaven accompanied Him upon white horses, each clothed in fine linen, white and pure. And out of His mouth goes forth a sharp and eager sword, so that inside of it, He may strike the ethnic families; and He will shepherd and care for them with a scepter of iron.
The Gospel Rules. We do not interpret the Gospel by these words, but rather these words by the Gospel. The sword in Jesus’ mouth, the mighty weapon that brings His enemies into submission under Him, is “Father, forgive them, for they do not understand what they do.”
Consider more gospel verses that RULE over the vision. – The Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them. – …I came that they might possess life and possess it abundantly, excessively – and beyond all expectation (Luke 9:56 & John 10:10). Jesus did not come first to save and second to destroy. Yet it is His Word that judges all things.
The Word Judges All. Here are two more lines we need to position our passage – I am not able of Myself to do anything; even as I hear, so I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek my own desire, but the desire of the One who sent Me. – …I did not come to judge the world-cosmos, but that I might save the world-cosmos. The one who ignores Me and does not seize hold of My words does have one that judges him. The word which I spoke will judge him inside of the last day (John 5:20 & 12:47-48).
That last line is what this part of Revelation 19 is about. Thus “We Are the Word of God” flows into Revelation 20:4. – And judgment was given to THEM.
Just Innocence. Let’s consider our passage one line at a time. – I saw a white horse with One sitting upon it, called faithful and true, and inside of just innocence, He judges and wages war. A white horse represents the strength of just innocence, and thus speaks the same thing to us. The word “just innocence,” usually translated “righteousness,” is a legal term. It means that one is found to be innocent of ALL charges against, by EVERY form of due process of law. It’s not a neutral innocence; it’s judged and justified innocence.
Now we want to position two phrases together, “faithful and true” and “He judges and wages war.” To do that, we must ask the question, “What does Jesus hope to accomplish?”
The Essential Questions. (I don’t yet have a clear view of the boxes on the Jesus Secret page, so let’s complete a study of the passage first.)
So – Jesus is come, now in us His body, to save. I am convinced that Paul is correct, that the human problem is primarily mental, a mind that refuses to know God by the Spirit. Yet there is a deeper problem beneath the mental rebellion, and that is the human heart. Thus here are the “salvation/life” questions in order.
1. What do you want?
2. Who do you say that Jesus is (personally to you)?
3. Do you know the Father?
The Heart Issue. Now, what we are getting at is the judgment that determines the two harvests, whether in or out. Yet more than that, we want to know what God’s purpose is in doing things the way they are laid out in John’s vision. – A Jesus proven faithful and true – judging and making war. – This one who has come into union with us in all.
We have brought the heart issue down to two things, the two parts of Adam’s rebellion. First is unthankfulness for the human form and for life’s circumstances. Second is animosity towards and manipulation of other people. WHAT DO YOU WANT? – I want to be better than God; I want to control my neighbor.
God Is at War. Understand this. God is at war against calling Jesus, every Word He speaks, to be a liar. And Jesus is at war against every wicked accusation against God in the mind of humans. The Victory of both of those wars is Jesus as every Word God speaks proven faithful and true through us His Body.
It has to be through us, because Jesus said, “Love one another just as I love you.” If we don’t, then Jesus is proven false. Yet the proof, according to Peter, is through faith. Then here is the judgment, the same as with Noah and Abraham. – “Here are these, your fellow humans, people walking this earth just like you. They heard My Word and believed into Me that I might be all that I am through them.”
Take Heed How You Hear. The word I speak will judge him inside of the last day. This is the judgment of all; none will escape. – What did you do with the words on the pages of your Bible? How do you hear? – Take heed how you hear.
In Symmorphy VII: Completion, “4.2 A Biblical Experience,” I laid out what I see to be the seven keys of the kingdom, the seven keys to hearing the Word as God means it. Yet there is something even deeper, something very personal. – He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him (John 14:20 – NKJV).
Turning on the Lights. This is the verse that brought me to total despair in February of 1998, actually from age 19 when I first read it, to age 42. – “I CANNOT keep His Word!” I HAD TO have Jesus come to me and reveal Himself personally to me, but I could not keep His word. – And in that moment, God was turning on the lights. From that moment on, I purposed that I would know Jesus and that I would know nothing else.
There are people who read the Bible far more than I do. Yet they never see the dishonesty of their own hearts. They imagine that they must “obey,” yet there is no despair in their souls concerning John 14:21 & 23.
Seeing as Father Sees. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and upon His head were many royal crowns, each having a name written, which no one perceives except He Himself. Eyes as a flame of fire is seeing as the Father sees, seeing only by substance. Here is the same thing from the Gospel. You judge according to the finest details of the flesh (by outward appearance), but I do not judge anyone. Yet if I were to judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent Me (John 8:15-16).
Then, the “many crowns each having a name written” is a further declaration that this is we inside of Jesus and Jesus inside of us. – Many together as one – given all authority.
A Garment Dipped in Blood. He was clothed with a garment dipped in blood. I used to imagine that this is “evidence” that Jesus comes the second time to destroy, for this line is from Isaiah 63.
“I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.” Why is Your apparel red, and Your garments like one who treads in the winepress? “I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with Me. For I have trodden them in My anger, and trampled them in My fury; their blood is sprinkled upon My garments, and I have stained all My robes. For the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come. I looked, but there was no one to help, –>
All Have Died. (continuing) and I wondered that there was no one to uphold; therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me; and My own fury, it sustained Me. I have trodden down the peoples in My anger, made them drunk in My fury, and brought down their strength to the earth.”
It was only in recent years that I discovered this verse. – If One has died for all, then all have died (2 Corinthians 5). Here is the judgment of the day of slaughter, of the garment of Jesus dipped in blood, when all creation perished upon the cross. – Is the cross enough for you? Or do you require something else? Do you require the old to remain – keeping God far away from you?
God’s Judgment of All. And His name is called, “The Word of God.” – Let God be true and every man a liar [a fake], as it has been written, “That You may be justified inside Your words, and will overcome inside Your being judged” (Romans 3:4).
There can be no vindication of God except Jesus be proven faithful and True as the Word made flesh in the lives of humans inside of this present age and alive on this earth. – That God might be known. That His just actions be made visible and clear. “We are the Word of God” is God’s judgment against all.
Almost Impossible. God cannot save anyone unless He can somehow succeed in getting them to SHUT UP about themselves, a goal that is almost impossible, even for God. If you are right, then God is a liar, because God has shown you that you are wrong! A wonderful part of our study of Revelation is that the issues of judgment have become very clear and simple to us.
Let’s bring in briefly the remainder of our passage before we focus on our primary topic, which is the Word become flesh now made personal as us. Again – this is not creation word, word sustaining all. This is the Word of knowing the Father, the Word of Life.
Jesus Through Us. The armies who were in heaven accompanied Him upon white horses, each clothed in fine linen, white and pure. This is a further indication that the vision is presenting to us a many-membered Christ, Jesus through us, and that each one is just like Him.
And out of His mouth goes forth a sharp and eager sword, so that inside of it, He may strike the ethnic families; and He will shepherd and care for them with a scepter of iron. (Same as Revelation 2:27 – you are even as I am.) The scepter of iron is Love. This line simply brings 1 John 3:16 back into the picture; we love even as Jesus loves.
Laying out Our Page. I will pause writing now, because I want the Devoted Spirit to give me a deeper expression of the Word God speaks, made personal as us, than I have known before.
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In fact, it is the Eucharist, – “This is the New Covenant in My Blood,” – “Eat of Me; drink of Me,” – that places our metamorphosis into the Heart of God. We become the same Word made flesh by spending time inside of Jesus as Personal Living Spirit Word making us just like Himself.
Now we can lay out our page. We will begin with our statements of faith. Then these boxes, “The Eucharist,” “Word Made Flesh,” “Word as Judgment,” and “We are the Word of God.”
Our Statements of Faith. I see the heavens open; I see Jesus as He is, faithful and True, the completion of all that God speaks through us, His Body. I see Him in myself and in my brethren. We together see as God sees; we together exercise the authority given to the Son. We know Him; we are His name. We display the completed judgment of the cross. We are the Word of God; Jesus is written upon our hearts. We share with Jesus as He brings all into submission to His love inside the Day of Completion.
The Issue. Adam (and every human since) was offered Word as Jesus personal to him to be what He is in Adam’s heart of flesh. And Adam was offered word on the outside, an impersonal word, that he could “figure out” for himself and implement, theoretically towards himself, but mostly towards others. Word as Jesus in the heart, Word made flesh now living as you – OR – words as ideas held in your mind, words you can use to cloak dishonesty and to manipulate others.
Adam’s sin was not when he was unthankful, but when he ATE of word to control others. Thus Paul said in 1 Corinthians 10, that eating is abused when you don’t comprehend the body of Christ – what you are eating.
As They Were Eating. And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the removal of sins. [Do this in remembrance of Me.] But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you [until it is fulfilled] in My Father’s kingdom” (Matthew 26:26-29 w/1 Corinthians 10 & Luke 22).
Eating together, eating the bread, the body of Jesus, is where Jesus transfers His substance to us, making us like Him.
The Bread. We together partake of the same bread. We are the flesh of Jesus together. A body is not one but many. Jesus cannot be known except through many moving as one. As I know Jesus personally inside of me, so I know the same Jesus as you towards me.
Adam rejected his own; Moses and Jesus carried their own in their hearts before God. We are like Jesus as we love one another in practical commitment and in the deepest purity of fellowship.
As we partake of the bread together, so we are sharing life with one another as Jesus together. (Feel free to join with us taking communion in your own privacy. It is the Spirit that joins us together until such time as God brings us home.)
The Cup. We together drink of the same cup. We are the life of Jesus together, for we drink together of the same Spirit, one Spirit with the Lord. Having received one another as Jesus to us, we now give thanks, for we are the Word made flesh in weakness.
Jesus said that He drinks this cup anew with us now in the completion of His Word, in the unfolding of Father with us in every moment, the Kingdom. Something incredible is happening right now.
As we partake of this cup together, so we are the very Communion of the Father made known.
The Eucharist. The Word comes to all, either as Jesus inside, made Personal and written upon the human heart of flesh - OR - as a word of outward appearance in the human mind, for dishonesty and abuse of others. We eat of the Word that is Jesus, as the Eucharist, God's picture of His Word becoming us. As we eat of Jesus together, so He makes us just like Himself, Word made flesh, the Word of God. We are the flesh of Jesus, a many-membered body, Jesus in each to all. We carry our brethren in our hearts, members of one another, sharing life together. We drink of the same Cup together, the Life of Jesus poured out for all, now flowing through us. We drink the Cup with Jesus as the Communion of Father-made-known.
Transubstantiation. Transubstantiation – Metamorphosis. Jesus actively transfers Himself as substance, WORD, the cause of all things, to us with Himself. We receive Jesus in every moment, as Himself and as Word written upon our hearts of flesh, and become just like Him by spending time with Him.
This is the Word become flesh, our flesh, personally and together. It is the singing of a Song. It is being in perfect harmony – through faith – with the substance of reality. Faith is our acceptance of Jesus to us, Personal Living Spirit Word now as us, individually and together, bread and cup.
Personal. There is only one Door into God, a Personal Jesus. Jesus said, “I, Me, personally, will come to you and show Myself to you.” He said, “I, Me, personally, will give you to eat of the Tree of Life.”
Test yourselves, whether you are inside of the faith; prove yourselves. Or do you not acknowledge to yourselves that Jesus Christ is inside of you, that is, if you are not fake? (2 Corinthians 13:5). I am astonished and overwhelmed at the effort in every direction to separate a Personal Jesus from our own beings. I have lived and walked ONLY with a Personal Jesus inside of me, as Himself AND as me, two together as one.
Living. The Word of God is living and energeoing and sharper than any two-edged sword, even penetrating through…and… judging (Hebrews 4:12).
The Word that is Jesus Personally in us is ALIVE and it Energeoes mightily, dynamic and active, accomplishing all that the Father intends. We are part of a living fabric, much more than the Body of Jesus, now the very Temple of God, the Father made visible. This Living Word is Jesus now drinking the New Cup with us, “Father, here we are inside of You, with all whom You have given to us.” It is the unfolding of the Kingdom, the Father now free to be Himself towards all.
Spirit. The Spirit is giving life; the flesh benefits nothing. The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are life. The same voices that insist on separating a Personal Jesus from us and especially from our flesh, also seek to separate word from Spirit. Both actions are death and deadness. Paul said, “Christ Jesus” to signify Spirit and Word always together, personal and living.
Spirit is the dynamism of power transforming the words on the page into Jesus in us. The Spirit is the power of God effecting all things. The Spirit is the breath of God upon our flesh, causing our weak humanity to be the very Word God speaks.
Word. What is Word? Word is fellowship between two and among many. Fellowship, communion, koinonia, sharing together, laughter, enjoyment, partaking of one another in purity and kindness, honor, belonging.
Father – Jesus – each of us personally – we together locally – the Church universal as the revelation of the Father. Word joins us all together – the Communion. A shared vision, a shared pattern, a shared knowing, a shared purpose. We are made of words, a story of words inside of a Spirit self-awareness, Father and us together.
Word Made Flesh. As we partake of every Word that is Jesus through, "Let it be to me," so Jesus Himself, inside of us, transfers His substance to us. As we spend time in union with Him, so His words become our words until we think just like Him. This is a personal union between Jesus and each one of us, yet we see as Father sees, we see the same Jesus in one another. This Word that is Jesus Personally in us is ALIVE and it Energeoes mightily, dynamic and active, accomplishing all that the Father intends. We are part of a living fabric, now the very Temple of God. The power of the Spirit makes the Words of the Bible to be the fabric of our hearts of flesh. By Word, we fellowship together with Father and with one another, the Word made flesh.
Cause and Effect. When God says, “Be silent,” He does not mean “You’re bad.” Consider how we have read these words wrong. – For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be (Romans 8:6-7 – NKJV).
The carnal mind does not cause enmity against God; neither does the spiritual mind cause life and peace. The cause and effect relationship is the opposite. Hostility against God CAUSES all wrong thinking, and peace with God, sharing your human life with Him, causes all good and true thinking. We are REAL inside of God!
The Judgment. There is nothing more wicked than to scream at God, “My flesh is evil; therefore You cannot have it. (I hate the way You made me.) My flesh cannot be Your Word.”
What kind of reaction would I get if I said this? “My heart is more the Bible than the Bible ever could be.” What do you do with the words on the pages of your Bible?
This judgment is not to condemn. God cannot save you until you stop speaking out from hostility against Him. Either you place all that you are into God through Blood, or you scream yourself with foolish words against Him. And the TESTING point, as Paul said in 2 Corinthians 13, is when a person who loves you tells you that you’re being FAKE.
Word as Judgment. The Word Jesus speaks judges all inside the Day of Completion. God asks of each, "What have you done with My Word, the words on the pages of your Bible?" He will say, " Here are your fellow humans, walking this earth with you. They heard My Word and believed into Me that I might be the Completion, all that I am, through them.” This is the judgment of all; none will escape. The death of the Cross is complete; the judgment is finished. Jesus is proven faithful and True as the Word made flesh in us. – That God might be known.
The Song of the Lamb. When we say that we are the Word of God, we are saying much more than affirming that we are created and sustained by every Word that is Jesus. We are saying that we are become Father made known, through us together, as our Love for one another.
Word is the Pro-Thesis, the purpose of God set forth from the beginning. Word is the completion, the Father now known by all. Everything that the Word of God is, we are become. The Jesus Secret II has caused us to know the extent and beauty of the Word. We are singing the Song of the Lamb.
We Are the Word of God. We desire to be with the Father, therefore, we see as He sees and judge as He judges. His Word is written on our hearts; His Word is in our mouths. We are the Word of God; we are the utterance of His Voice. We are the expression of God's thoughts concerning us, yet much more, we are the speaking of His Gospel Words, the Words of All-Salvation. We are the Father's Name.
We are the Pro-Thesis of God, His purpose from the beginning, Jesus living as us. We are the Completion of God, the fulfillment of every Word He speaks, for we love one another as Jesus loves us. We are the evidence of God set before all creation that God speaks the Truth, Jesus faithful and True. We are the revelation of God-Love, Father-made known. We are the Communion of God with creation; we are the Fellowship of Father and Son.
A Personal Living Spirit Word. Let’s set out a simple word from the Gospel. Allow these words to be Personal in you as Jesus. Allow them to be our fellowship together. Know them as Living and Energeoing, the power of the Spirit in you making you just like Jesus. We approach all Gospel Words in this way.
That Christ might dwell inside your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love, might be fully able to comprehend together with all devoted ones, what is the breadth and length and height and depth [the full extent of God], and to know even more the surpassing, beyond-all knowledge of the love of Christ, that you might be filled unto and with all the fullness of God.
Reading for Next Time. The next lesson is titled “Placing the Millenium.” For that lesson read Revelation 20 a couple of times in the JSV. We will not have a Jesus Secret page for this topic. Revelation 20 is the one chapter that contains events that are future. It’s purpose is to give us a framework to understand the unfolding of the Kingdom in our every present moment.
I do not call it “the Millenium,” however, but rather, “The Age of Tabernacles.” It is my hope that all will call it so. This is the age of God DWELLING among us; this is the Age of Father-Made-Known. It is the age of Love.
Let’s Pray Together. “God, our Father, we know with all quiet certainty that we live inside of You and You inside of us, that we share life and peace together. And Father, even as we partake of the living Lord Jesus together, in the Communion of Your Mercy Seat, so we know that we speak out from Your Heart, and that Your Words are in our mouth.
“Father, we pray for those whom we know and love, those individuals whom You have given to each of us. Keep them from all evil, oh Father. Devote them to Yourself inside of the Blood of Jesus. Win their hearts to the Love of Jesus inside of them. Be the Desire and Joy of their lives.
“Father, we pray also for our Christian brethren all across the earth, even as Jesus moves to sweep them out from the horrors of Nicene theology and into Your Salvation. We pray that their hearts would not waver, but that they would allow the old to be gone and the New to be their only life, that they would place the Lord Jesus Christ upon all that they are.
“Father, we are entering the final moments of this present age. We offer ourselves as a living sacrifice that You might prove Jesus faithful and True in every aspect of our lives. We know, Oh God, that You are all inside of all and that death is swallowed up in Victory. Father, You have given us all Victory inside of Jesus, for You have answered us.”