22.3 And We Also
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As we come back out with God as the Holiest of all, we find this same Altar turned entirely around. We in no way add to that ONE SACRIFICE. Rather, we are now its full expression through us into all creation.
This reality then turns entirely around a statement that, as we have argued, is just the gospel in a third form, but that the Church in this world has falsely presented as being “the violence of God.” And if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and consumes their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this manner (Revelation 11:5). (Consumes – same word as our God is a consuming Fire.)
Something Utterly Different. Everyone pictures the end of this present age as the Church running in defeat, the devil and the beast ruling triumphant, and then, finally, Jesus coming back in a solitary form, jerking His elect up into the sky and striking everyone else dead.
And yes, the appearance of human affairs upon this earth right now looks pretty bleak.
BUT – I will not buy into a God who does not fulfill what He speaks in our lives right here on this earth right now in this age. And therefore I, by the determination of faith, see something utterly different. I see an upset so huge, a complete turn-around that is wholly unlooked for; I see a Salvation unknown appearing now on this planet through us.
What Does the Covenant Say? You who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. – Therefore… rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ (1 Peter 1:5 & 13).
The question we must ask and thus now address is this. Do we, individually on the one hand and together on the other, possess right now before the resurrection the authority, the ability, and the power to set creation free? The possession of these three things must be Covenant alone, for mere experience will not endure.
Everyone I have ever known is waiting for some-thing. What does the Covenant say?
Authority – Ability – Power. In this lesson, we will establish the authority set forth in the Covenant; then, in the next session the ability and in the third session the power. Nothing I have ever attempted to write is more dependent on the reader, including myself, being thoroughly grounded in the present knowledge of God as He is that has been developed through these Symmorphy courses.
The “God” defined by Christianity would have no place in this proposal of sons of God walking this earth right now as the Lord Jesus, turning everything upside down and inside out, establishing the Church as God means her to be, driving all demons from the human experience, exposing the nothingness of this world, and causing Father to be known by all.
All Died. Jesus said – I have the authority to lay down My life and to take it up again (John 10). John said – And we also (1 John 3). I have said in previous writing that the Cross, the Blood, and the Resurrection of Christ are larger than the universe, they are absolute, they are all-encompassing, and they are finished.
What does the Covenant say? If One died for all then all died – Old things have passed away, behold all things are become new (2 Corinthians 5). The entirety of the old creation, heaven and earth, died upon the cross of Christ; its present “appearance” since has no substantial meaning; we do not “see” it. We look at the things which are not seen (2 Corinthians 4:18).
All Made Alive. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but for the whole cosmos (1 John 2:2). The Blood is greater than all evil and has cleansed all actions of iniquity from the entire universe, both heaven and earth.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive (1 Corinthians 15:22). By substance, the Resurrection has already swallowed up all things into LIFE. Behold, I make all things new (Revelation 21:5). – Old things have passed away, behold ALL is made brand new, NOW ALL is of God… (2 Corinthians 5).
Everyone says, “All – BUT.” Paul just said, “All!”
Fire in Our Mouths. We begin by knowing all things as they ARE. We see and judge nothing as it presently appears. Fire proceeds from their mouth and consumes their enemies. Everything is out from God. Nothing is fantastical. Revelation 11 is speaking of present Christians now upon this earth before the resurrection of our bodies.
How is there FIRE in our mouths? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart (Romans 10:8). This Spirit Word, the creating and sustaining Energeia coming out from God and causing all things to exist, this FIRE is in our heart, and it is in our mouth.
How Did Jesus Defeat Us? Now, let’s deal with “consumes their enemies.” How does Jesus consume (eliminate) His enemies? How did Jesus defeat you?
You see, apart from Christ, you and I are raging hatred against God, viciously attacking Him and everyone else in every moment. Piety has no meaning. We were ENEMIES of God. So, how did Jesus defeat us? Jesus defeated us by swallowing (eating, consuming) us into Himself, and carrying us, every stumbling step, all the way through death and into life.
Jesus defeats His enemies by the simple expediency of making them His dearest and closest friends.
Consume Evil with Good. Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good (Romans 12:20-21). Consume evil (enemies) with good. Fire is Jesus; Fire is good.
Look out upon the world. Consider the darkness and the iniquity, the untold billions of lost souls, Christians included, hiding in the darkness. Everyone hurting everyone else. All of that has already died. All sin has already been absolved. Everyone is already sustained good by the good speaking of Jesus. Every evil act is being turned by God towards goodness.
The authority begins in our eyes – see as God sees.
All Authority in Heaven. Do I, individually, fully with we together, have the authority to cast down all demonic powers, to break their grip away from all humans, and to drive them in chains from off this earth? All authority in heaven (against demonic powers) and on earth (against the world-beast) is given to Me (Matthew 28). – Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven (Matthew 18:18).
And the God of peace will crush, break in pieces, and shatter Satan under your feet immediately and with all quickness and speed (Romans 16:20 – the actual meaning of the Greek). (Yet the Calvinists want to insert “shortly,” meaning, someday.)
They Overcame Him. Obviously, the fourth most important verse rules everything inside of this topic. Now salvation, and power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
Yet we know that, between the casting down and the binding with chains, there is a “short time” of apparent rage. For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time (Revelation 12:12).
Absolute Stupidity. Now, let’s couple this last thought with this present reality. John saw, in his vision, the abyss opened and dark things, both angelic and world-beast coming up out of that abyss upon the earth. We need only look to see that he was speaking of our present day. Those aggressive predator angels, held in chains from the cross of Christ until now, along with Satan, are making their biggest mistake. They would be far better off remaining where they are.
Study the great upsets in the history of human warfare; the battles of Crecy and Hattin are two incredible such upsets. Absolute stupidity driven by sheer arrogance took mighty armies down into crushing defeat, even annihilation.
Trespassers. This is what I am talking about, a totally unexpected upset, as raging, mindless, arrogant, and seemingly powerful armies come out of the realms of the heavens upon this earth to attack God’s precious people. They will not know what hit them – yet we are nothing more than believers in Jesus. This planet belongs to us, and they are trespassing on our property and torturing our brethren. They have nothing in us and can do nothing against us; let’s cast them down.
Here is our secret. All these aggressive predator angels released now upon the earth are already dead by the cross of Christ, all their sinful actions have already been absolved by His blood, and they exist only by the good speaking of Jesus every moment regardless of all their willful turning away.
Judging Angels. Do you not know that we shall judge angels (1 Corinthians 6:3a)? Yet we understand that there are two parts to our judgment over all fallen angels. The first part is our authority to bind them with chains. Even though in an age to come, we will judge them to life, we do not consider any such thing in the present time. Cast them down with all ruthless joy. Break their every hold over mankind. Speak Christ as the only life you are.
Then, How much more, things that pertain to this life (1 Corinthians 6:3b)? We have even more authority over humans on this earth than over the angels.
Authority over the Peoples. Yet our authority is the authority of Love.
And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give authority over the peoples—‘He shall shepherd them with a rod of iron; they shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’—as I also have received from My Father (Revelation 2:26-27).
You will have taken note that the ten most important verses in the Bible are also the key, driving verses of the Covenant. These verses not only are the Covenant, but they rule over all other terms in that Covenant. And thus, the seventh most important verse in the Bible MUST RULE over our understanding of this authority given to us.
Our Confidence. We are partakers of Christ AS we speak with all confidence that we ARE – God always leads us in the celebration of full and complete victory over all that opposes God. The one who says, “Well, I don’t know if I’m going to overcome or not,” is not and will not be overcoming. You and I possess all overcoming as we walk in the simple confidence that we ARE.
But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are (1 Corinthians 1:27-28).
Not Our Focus. God chose you and me to bring to nothing all the clamor of the present world-beast. This is our authority and our task. We turn on the lights, and we show each one that the darkness is complete and irrelevant nonsense.
Yet, consider the darkness of this world, the cruelty of the criminals calling themselves “government,” and all the raging hosts of demons vomiting forth from the abyss. I could care less about any of it. That is not our focus nor the set of our hearts – though we deal with it as Jesus did, with abrupt dismissal, even contempt. (Skim through the gospels making note of how Jesus dealt with demons and human authority and you will see what I mean.)
A Glorious Church. For Zion’s sake I will not hold My peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns (Isaiah 62:1). Here alone is our focus and concern – millions of Spirit-filled believers in Jesus alive now on this planet.
Do you and I have, by Covenant, the authority, the ability, and the power to call forth this glorious Church without spot or wrinkle, through whom Jesus is seen as He is and by whom the world believes and KNOWS? Do we have the authority in our mouths to consume by FIRE everything that hides the knowledge of God and to release this wondrous Church now into all the fullness of Christ through her?
By Covenant. Do we have the authority, the ability, and the power, by Covenant, to open the Doors of Tabernacles, to turn our brethren around inside the Holy of Holies, to reveal all the fullness of God AS HE IS through them upon this earth? Do we have the authority, the ability, and the power, by Covenant, to shatter the false hold of “go to” heaven, to expunge the ravening wolves called “the Church Fathers,” to be the Face of God to His Church?
You see, in coming with God out into the Altar of Sacrifice, we find the authority of Jesus won through the Atonement now the consuming fire of our mouths, swallowing up all things that oppose the knowledge of God. By what Words do we act?
Ready to Pro-phesy. This is My commandment that you love one another. – And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. Inside these words alone are found all the authority, all the ability, all the power, by Covenant, that we could ever need to bring forth upon this planet, inside this age, now, before the resurrection, a glorious Church, many Communities of Christ across this earth, family, people, loving one another with a pure heart fervently.
Let’s do it – you think? And FIRE comes out of their mouths consuming all that opposes God. Now we are ready to pro-phesy Christ.