12.2 Judgment
© 2017 Christ Revealed Bible Institute
Judgment. All authority flowing out is based upon the judgment within. And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them (Revelation 20:4a).
Let me drive as hard to the point as I can. I will put together five verses as “the same thing.”
According to the energeia by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself (Philippians 3:21). – God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did (Romans 4:17b). – For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. (Matthew 7:2a).
Power. – And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy (Revelation 11:3a). – The exceeding greatness of His power penetrating with purpose into us who believe, down to the finest details of the energeia of the dominion of His ability to subdue which He energeoed in Christ when He raised Him out from the dead (Ephesians 1:19-20).
The power to become what we are is not found inside of creation. Every created thing can become what it is ONLY as Another Person calls it into its place. But that very Action of calling requires a response, a permission, an offering of self to the One calling before the Energeia/Fire that does the transformation can work.
How We See. The authority to call forth into Life is now given to us. As we sit in judgment, we possess the authority to cause all things, both individual people and circumstances to go in one direction or another. And we do that by how we SEE.
This authority over all things was first given to Adam – “Subdue.” Although God transferred that authority to Jesus and to all who live only in Him, still, this authority remains upon all of Adam’s children, yet now only as accusation. Thus every individual person creates for themselves the fantasy world in which they live now and forever – unless someone else calls them out of their darkness and into who they really are.
An Example. Let me give a current example. On Facebook, I noticed an African American brother in Christ posting things seeking to expose racism in America. This brother seeks for racism everywhere he looks; thus he finds exactly what he seeks. He judges things he sees as “racist,” regardless of the fact that he cannot know the intent of the hearts he is judging.
The truth is, seeing racism in others comes only out from self-accusation, out from an inherent racism inside, that is, a specific form or story which this man’s accusation has taken. He thinks that his accusation is unique as well as true. It is neither, just one more form that seeing evil has taken in the children of Adam.
My Judgment. I, now, sit in judgment upon this, my brother in Christ. How will I judge? If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained (John 20:23).
As I see my brother, I am looking at him through eyes of fire. What does that mean? I have the power to prophecy Christ; I have the authority to call life out from the dead. The Energeia of God works in me and through me bringing all things into submission to Jesus.
My own judgment is the universe in which I live.
Torment. Here is where the word “terrible” comes into the picture. I am fully aware of the awfulness of this brother’s self-story, the racism of his own heart by which he falsely accuses others. “No consciousness of sins” cannot mean “overlooking” sin as if sin is not awful.
The brother is tormenting himself by his own false judgement of self thrown against others entirely inside his own bubble, his own self-story. There is no such thing as accusing others. All accusation is only against one’s self, since one’s self is the only thing each one knows. And, all accusation is against Christ, the One who sustains each individual by Spirit-Word every moment.
I See Christ. As I look through eyes of fire at my brother, I see Christ out from Whom he proceeds every moment. And I see that expression of Father this brother was created to fulfill; that is, I see it by faith. (God tells me nothing about the private reality of Himself through my brother.)
Yet I am not unaware of the horror of the false accusation churning in my brother’s heart against Christ, otherwise known as sin, an accusation in which he is all tangled up by fantasy, an accusation that must cease. The first thing I must do for my brother is to enable him to shut up. And that happens when he sees the Lord Jesus through me laying down Oour life for him.
The Mercy Seat. You see, our hearts are the Covenant but our eyes are the Mercy Seat. And although this Seat is a place of rest, yet it is also in constant journey. In other words, we are the Mercy Seat, not in seclusion, but as every step we take in our lives.
If I am successful in causing my brother to go silent, to cease his accusation against Christ and against himself, then I can now ask him to trade his story for Jesus’ own story of life laid down. BUT – my brother’s problem is that he imagines that his problem is other people. “But they – .” Yet I have the power to call life out from the dead.
In Me First. The power of my sight is far greater than the power of my brother’s accusation.
But look at the enormous difference between the power of my sight and all human definitions of “power.” To darkened hearts, Christian as well as non-Christian, power is to impose, to force, to cause the other person to “fix” themselves using threat of pain or enticement of reward. But our power is to see and to speak what we see, the power by which Jesus subdues all things to Himself.
Thus my brother’s transformation happens in me first before it goes from me to him. And that transformation originates in my heart before it proceeds out from both tongue and eyes.
Bearing All for All. This is the Fire that is Father – bears all for all, believes all for all, hopes all for all, endures all for all. And thus my seeing of my brother is everything first BEFORE his own false accusation could ever cease. Is this not the power of Jesus toward us? And are we not commanded by all the “be just like God” verses to be the same for others, Jesus through us?
To look at a man who loves racism so much that he seeks for it in every place and finds it all around him, a racism that is nothing more than his own accusation against Jesus and against himself and thus truly sinful, to look at him and to see only Christ and to call forth Life out from his death – that Mercy costs me everything.
Bearing All for You. Another strange practice of self-accusation is the obsession so many people have of “seeing” false things in Joel Osteen and calling him publicly by those false things. Now, they cannot ever be speaking about Joel Osteen, for they DO NOT know the man. They are always and only speaking of their own selves. But speaking publicly against “Joel Osteen” is so exciting and stimulating for so many. It is their way of blaming God for their own lack of measuring up to their own faked image of “the Christed one,” that is, of the serpent.
Yet when I see people I know engaged in this practice towards anyone, it also costs me everything to see them as God sees them, pure and holy and true.
Enemies of Christ. These pictures show us judgment in action. Let’s continue to develop our understanding of judgment. Read all of Psalm 110. Here is the heart of this most important Psalm, verse 1. The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”
Let me define what is an enemy of Christ. An enemy of Christ is a human who accuses Jesus of having created and of continuing to sustain them falsely. This false accusation is based on a fantasy they hold of themselves in their minds, that they “ought to be” great, powerful, smart, rich, good-looking, and successful, that is, like the appearance of the serpent.
A Footstool of Christ. The African American brother has concocted in his fantastical self-story the belief that “racism” is the thing that prevents him from being all of the above.
Till I, the Father, make Your enemies Your footstool. We must know what this means. You see, this “I, the Father,” is a God who has ceased from His alone works. Thus, when the Father says, “‘I’ will make Your enemies Your footstool, Jesus,” He means entirely together with us.
Let me define a “footstool” of Jesus. A footstool belonging to Jesus is a born-again human who has brought his or her own self-story entirely into submission to Jesus, trading their false accusation for the words of His good speaking.
Executing Kings. In other words, this one who has become a “footstool,” is now willing to be the image and likeness of God as they are without needing to be the outward appearance of a heavenly creature, that is, willing to be the one through whom Jesus Himself walks.
Here is the judgment. – He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath (Psalm 110:5). Every word in the Bible regarding execution and death refers to one thing only – the great day of slaughter, the Day of the Lord – the cross. If One died for all, then all died.
You see, I cannot save my African American brother from the horror of his self-accusation except I put him to death.
And We Also. And Father and I together put him to death the same way that Jesus put me to death, I lay down my life for him. By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren (1 John 3:16).
This is the horrific perversion of the crucifix and Constantine’s cross, “Jesus died because of your sins; you did that to Him.” The reality is not the “opposite,” but a different universe. I, Jesus, give you My own life as your very own in trade for all your own self-story of terrible accusation. And we also – the Mercy Seat, Father through us bearing all for all.
We Give Only Christ. And what is our life that we give? The good things of Christ inside of us, now the only thing we see as we look by judgment at you.
Jesus’ statement in Matthew 7 is there for those who are still approaching God, yet for us, we can see that the words really should be turned around. As you judge yourself, so you judge all others, and so it comes back to you again (my paraphrase). As I am willing to call my own weak form, my own stumbling foolishness, my own inability “what God looks like,” and to see only all the treasure of Christ beating in my chest, so I see the same in you and so the same Christ comes back to me from you.
Eyes of Fire. In the X-men movies (which I am not necessarily recommending), there is a character who possesses eyes of fire. When this person removes his glasses to see others by that fire, the fire destroys all whom he looks upon. This is the view of the evil one and of the false image of what “I,” the image of God, should look like.
When you and I see others by the fire of our eyes, yes, it “destroys them,” that is, it destroys their false self-story of endless accusation against Jesus. Yet, as they are willing, that same fire, our seeing of them, is the very thing that will transform them by that Fire, the same Energeia of God that is now all the good things of Christ working in them.
Another Story Complete. This is the judgment. Every individual accusation against the Lord Jesus Christ ever uttered by any and all created beings MUST be answered and it must be silenced. Every enemy of Jesus must be made His footstool.
A vacuum cannot exist. False stories cannot just go silent. Another Story must take their place, the Story of the good speaking of Christ through us.
Their transformation takes place in its entirety, to all perfection and completion, in our own hearts and mouth and eyes, before others can be even dimly aware that there might be another story for them.
The Power to Be Human. God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did. – And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy. – And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them.
The POWER to transform the universe is in our eyes and in our mouths. Creation will be set free no other way.
This power does not pretend that evil does not exist, rather, it bears all cost of full transformation inside itself that the least and the worst might be set free to trade their horrific and envious power-grasping fantasy for the good speaking of Jesus. The power to be real; the power to be what we are, as we are, human beings, that is, God-revealed.