59. Overcoming as Jesus

Covering Revelation Chapters 2-3:

These two chapters are the seven letters to the seven churches. Our interest in this study, the Flow of Gospel Word, does not include many of the details of those churches until we get to Philadelphia and Laodicea. The Flow of Gospel Word requires us to place together the qualities of Jesus expressed at the beginning of each letter with the qualities we become at the conclusion of each letter.

Jesus speaks Himself into us, and we become just like Him.

Consider carefully, “Jesus speaks Himself into us, and we become just like Him.” Those words are the essence of the Gospel and the topic of everything in the New Testament, yet I have never heard anything like them in all the Christianity I have known. God has saved us from prostitution.

Our Purpose. The Ruling Verse is Revelation 12:11. And THEY have overcome him through the blood of the Lamb, and through the word of their testimony; and they have not loved their souls unto death. – We could say that we become THEY through these seven times that Jesus speaks Himself into us and we become just like Him.

But then we discover that the purpose of becoming like Jesus is not to become like Jesus, but rather to be, with and as Jesus, those who care for the Church. Thus our purpose is Revelation 12:1-2. …A woman enclothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and upon her head a garland of victory, a crown of twelve stars. Having a child in her womb, she screamed in travail…

Dipped Seven Times. So [Namaan] went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God (the speaking of Jesus into us); and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean (2 Kings 5:14). – Truly, truly, the Gospel is written all the way through.

The Jordan, Jesus as the Way carrying us through, setting forth our souls for the sake of our brethren, these are all speaking of the same thing, you and me made just like Jesus. And the full restoration of our flesh is called the Resurrection. This picture is so useful to us, for we are dipped seven times into Jesus as He is, even as we know ourselves only as flesh of His flesh. And then we place this view with the Flow of Gospel Word through Hebrews 1-2, “We See Jesus.”

See Jesus As He Is. Before we begin with the impartation of Jesus into us, I want to discuss my odd category of “Definition.” Sometimes I think I’m just using it when I can’t fit one of the other categories, sort of as a “catch-all.” That is not actually true. My Webster’s 1926 Dictionary and etymonline.com, which I love using throughout, contain vast panoramas of the meanings given to words. The meaning of Logos – see Jesus as He is.

As I put together the Gospel Comments into each full category, “Definition” is last, but I know what most of the definitions mean – “Seeing Jesus As He Is.” We have discovered the key that unlocks the entire book of Hebrews, in 3:1, “Consider Jesus carefully.” When I left the move fellowship, I followed one thing, “I will see Jesus alone.”

See Jesus or Self. Now, in dividing the specific Gospel Verses which I bulleted into these lessons, I did not use the same layout as we saw in Lesson 58, “The Unveiling.” The layout of the verses into the lessons is to fit the space, but the layout of the Unveiling is far more important, which I hope to mark as we continue.

This lesson, however, does fit the primary layout, Revelation 2-3, the impartation of Jesus to us, that is, the flow from Transubstantiation to Metamorphosis. And again, go back to Lesson 36, “Confidence to Completion,” for Hebrews 3-4 places before us the staggering choice taking place for us in every one of these impartations. – See Jesus or see self. We look straight into the eyes of Jesus, the One who dwells in all glory inside our hearts, and we expect with all confidence that He makes us like Himself, now and always.

We See Christ and the Church. (Chapter 2) 1 • These things says the One holding fast the seven stars inside His right hand and walking inside the midst of the seven golden lampstands:

The Spirit of God has just brought to us the Jordan River, the lowest place on earth, the passage out from death into all the life of Christ, as how we are to KNOW this Jesus who walks right now in the midst of His Church. The seven stars are the ministry of Christ and the seven lampstands are His Church – the mystery of the man and the maid, as Agar described it in Proverbs 30.

2:1 Definition: We see Christ Jesus as the One who fills His Church with Himself, who walks inside of and as His Church. We see Jesus as the One who ministers to His Church through those who give themselves as Jesus for her sake.

Hear the Spirit. • 7 The one who has an ear, let him hear with the Spirit says to the churches. • To the one presently and actively overcoming, I will give him to eat, immediately and ongoing, out from the Tree of Life which is inside the paradise of God.

“I will give him to eat out from the Tree of Life” is one of the most extraordinary statements in the Bible. It is considered “other” by most Christians, something someday. Yet Jesus said, “Unless you eat of Me, you have no life at all.”

Even though it is repeated seven times, we will address hearing the Spirit only this first time. This is Gospel. – When the Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you inside of all truth… He will glorify Me, for He will receive what is Mine and report it fully to you (John 16:13-14). Yet this is to the churches. The Spirit of Truth in the churches causes us to KNOW Jesus together, that we are like Him.

The Spirit Gives Life. But consider Ruling Verse 3. We thirst first, that is, we long to know God beyond our human intellect. We drink of Jesus second. Then third, we experience RIVERS flowing out from us. We drink of One Spirit; we eat together of the Tree of Life.

7 Ruling Verse 3: The Spirit gives Life, that is, the Spirit causes us to know that Jesus fills our togetherness as Himself. The Spirit of Truth teaches us Jesus as He is, that we are like Him.

You know, this whole picture is described by Ruling Verse 2. Christ lives in our hearts, we know God together, we are filled with all the fulness of God. – Life forevermore.

7 Ruling Verse 2: Christ lives inside of our hearts through faith, so that we might search out the knowledge of God together inside of Love. It is “all the churches,” all local fellowships, whom God fills with all of Himself.

We Become the Giving of Life. Yet still, we must consider “the Tree of Life.” The Tree of Life is John 14:20, living inside the certain knowing of our personal symmorphy with Jesus. But even more, the Tree of Life is the completion of knowing our Source, going from faith to sight. This is why our minds must change into knowing ONLY the Flow of Gospel Word, for our life together is out from God.

7 Life: The Tree of Life is John 14:20, living inside the certain knowing of our personal symmorphy with Jesus, that Christ Jesus fills us with all of Himself, and we live only inside of Him. Yet this “Tree” also means the completion of knowing our Source, and reaches out to include our fellowship together.

7 Ruling Verse 5: Our intimate union with the Lord Jesus is personal, but never solitary, for our sharing of fellowship together inside such union causes the flowing forth of Life.

We See the Lamb. 8 • These things says the always first and the always final, who once was dead and is now alive.

The Jesus Secret teaches us that knowing Jesus little means seeing little in verses such as this. Yet knowing Jesus ever more means seeing the wonders hidden in the words. These words are the nature, quality, and action of propitiation, of carrying all through death and into God. They are the meaning of “the Lamb.” And this image confronts us immediately upon eating of union with Christ.

8 Definition: We see Jesus inside of us and in one another as the Lamb slain, yet alive forevermore. We see Him as the One who carries all inside Himself into life, the One who rises first, who stands beneath, and who comes after, bringing the last little one safely through. By the Spirit, we are as He is.

A Needful Contrast. • 9 I know your travail and destitution (but you are rich) and the slander of those claiming themselves to be Judeans and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. – We must bring in this line as the foundation for the setting of Revelation 12 & 13.

Some of the Pharisees who hated Jesus for telling them to love their neighbors, the Palestinians, escaped to Babylon where they wrote down their arguments. The same faction today controls our world with the false definition of “the Messiah” as “species superiority,” that they might hate their neighbors.

9 Definition: The doctrine of the Pharisees was written down in Babylon into a book called The Talmud. Today, a tribe not descended from Israel claims to be the “Judeans.” They are disciples of the Pharisees and have seized the inheritance for themselves where they are building a synagogue of Satan.   

The Second Death. 11 • The one presently and actively overcoming shall not hurt others, that is, shall not act out from the second death.

There was a “final temptation” of Christ. That temptation was to despise other people, including you and me, all who were raging in war against God for no reason whatever. The first death was sealed by Adam’s contempt, when he ate of word as law that he might control other people. The second death could be called in this way: receiving union with Christ and then turning and seeing others as if they are not Jesus as well. This is truly “hurting others”; it is acting out from a second death, crucifying Jesus again with contempt.

Yet the Jesus Secret again shows us the Lamb hidden behind these words. Union with Christ teaches us immediately to humble ourselves with God for the sake of others.

By Violence. “Come, let us kill Him, that the inheritance might be ours.”

Contempt rules our world today, even in the name of “the Messiah,” and in the violent seizure of “the inheritance.” I suspect that the final straw for the Pharisees was when they asked Jesus, with sarcasm, “Well, who is our ‘neighbor?’” His reply – a Palestinian was neighbor to a Judean, even when you (the superior race) refused. The destruction wrought by the beast from Libya to Afghanistan is driven by the overwhelming contempt for their neighbors, by those who claim to be “Judeans,” the second death on full display.

11 Definition: The old covenant is conditional on loving your neighbor, or as Jesus indicated, the Palestinians. The second death, overwhelming contempt for one’s neighbors is on full display as the faction of the Pharisees, having gotten rid of Jesus, are now seizing the inheritance for themselves by violence.

We Are Made the Proof of Life. Eating of the Tree of Life is the completion of the Blood Covenant. It is being Life for one another as the Church, the Body, the visibility of the Lord Jesus to all. We receive favor; we give favor. We receive Life; we give Life.

11 Covenant: As we eat of Life, knowing evermore of our precious union with the Lord Jesus, so we turn immediately and extend the knowing of that same union to one another. As we receive one another in just the same way that Jesus receives us (see Romans 15:7), so the Covenant inside His Blood is made complete.

11 Ruling Verse 8: Those who receive from Jesus, but fail to give the same to their brethren, act with injustice out from the second death. Our love for one another is the seal of the Covenant, the final proof of the Tree of Life.

We See the Word that Cuts Apart. 12 • These things says the One speaking forth the eager two-edged sword.

The Sword of Jesus’ mouth are the words, “Father, forgive them.” Those words cut people to pieces, judging all sin with finality. They are the words that separate people to God. We have the authority to remove sin from all (see John 20:3). This is the power of a very eager, two-edged sword, a sword cutting both ways, for the power to remove sin is never by violence. People are free to remain in death. Yet that authority must begin towards ourselves.

12 Definition: We see Jesus as the Word of forgiveness piercing through and splitting apart with judgment, seeking, “I am wrong.” We see Jesus as the One who cleanses away and removes sin, Jesus through us.

Intimate and Personal. 17 • The one presently and actively overcoming, I will give him the hidden manna, immediately and ongoing, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knows except the one who receives it. – This is the personal and intimate side of knowing Jesus.

Now, this is the third dip into the Jordan, that is, into knowing Jesus as the Lamb who carries, sent into us. We have to give our contempt to God, NOT trying any fake “self-fixing,” before Jesus will truly show us Himself inside of us. Over the last few months, God has taken me through every awful emotion I have ever known that I might bring it and give it to the Father with me as I am, for the sake of others. And in doing so, I have come to know the most intimate and personal meanings of propitiation, propitiation without limit.

We Become the Meaning of Union. The white stone is just approval, the utter knowing of our just innocence inside of God speaking us out from Himself. The cutting Word brings us to personal intimacy with Jesus. We see now that each of these overcomings is found in eating of the Tree of Life, partaking of Jesus inside of intimate union with Him. And every one is the impartation of the Spirit to us.

17 Ruling Verse 5: Jesus said that those who are forgiven much love much. His word piercing through our awfulness with forgiveness then brings forth in us “the hidden manna,” a most precious intimate knowing of our union with Christ.

17 Covenant: The white stone is just approval, the utter knowing of our just innocence inside of God speaking us out from Himself. Inside of just innocence, we know Jesus with us.

We See as God Sees. 18 • These things says the Son of God, the One whose eyes resemble a flame of fire and whose feet are like fine bronze. – Here is another way to say this same thing. – For our God is a Consuming Fire. Let brotherly love continue.

Only out from our own hidden knowing of Jesus inside sharing all with us can we then turn and see others as God sees them. Thus our walk is in the judgment of God, seeing as God sees, calling every next step our feet take by God with us. I find that calling every next step I take as God with me, sharing all for the sake of others, is the greatest judgment I have known in a life of being “Dan-i-el,” – Judged I am by God.

18 Definition: We see Jesus as the One who causes our every next step to be God with us for the sake of others, the very judgment of God, that we might see all things as God sees.

Calling God into Our World. 26 • The one presently and actively overcoming and keeping watch until the completion of My works, I will give him, immediately and ongoing, authority upon the peoples, 27 and he will shepherd them inside of a staff of iron, broken as an earthen vessel; in just the same way that I also have received from My Father, 28 and I will give him the morning star.

This is the fourth dip into the Jordan, after we have come to know the depths of intimacy with Jesus inside. Only now are we ready for the Kingdom flowing out from us, ready to set creation free. You know, every teaching on “overcoming” we have heard taught us to see ourselves and our great need to “do better.” It is Jesus whom we “watch” as He completes His works through us. And it is we who are the broken earthen vessel from which Light shines forth, as we call God into our world (see Gideon).

We Are Made Authority. In The Apocalypse Now, I called “the Morning Star” as the ability of Jesus now shared with me. Yet as the “fourth dip,” this is still preparation. Thus we call this overcoming to be the Return of our Devotion to God, which is the first ability or work of Jesus going out from us, being now turned around. That first ability of Jesus is authority, all authority in heaven and earth – to shepherd all the ethnic families. Think of our great care now extended to every ethnic family on earth.

26 Ruling Verse 9: As we see Jesus having completed His work in us, so we share His authority and His ability to shepherd and care for all ethnic families, our return to God.

27-28 Kingdom: When Jesus called God into appearance through Himself, He then humbled Himself to reveal God. We are the same, broken vessels for the shining forth of Light.

We See Christ through Us. (Chapter 3) 1 • These things says the One who possesses the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars.

Now we have to deal with this extraordinary statement, “the seven Spirits of God.” We see that it is joined together with “the seven stars,” that is, the ministry of Christ to the Church. Yet the overcoming this fifth time is to put on the Lord Jesus Christ. What do these things mean together? This is the fifth dip. The fourth dip is God turning us around, and the sixth is sharing with Jesus His passionate zeal for the Church. – Seven Spirits and seven stars? May I suggest 2 Corinthians 11:28, “My anxious care for all the churches.”

3:1 Definition: We see Jesus as the One whose anxious care for all the churches (see 2 Corinthians 11:28) moves through us as His ministry, “By My Spirit, says the Lord (Zechariah 4:6). (Zechariah 4 shows the “seven” featuring strongly.)

For the Father’s Sake. • 5 The one who is presently and actively overcoming will be enclothed in white garments. I will not erase his name from the scroll of life, but I will speak his name in the presence of my Father and before His angels.

May I suggest that being spoken by Jesus, and not “erased” means that we are about the Father’s business (see the parable of the talents), that our whole lives, including ALL our lack, are given to God for His purposes alone, God through us for others. This is NOT a roll call from a list. Jesus, speaking my name out from Himself as my LIFE, is Jesus speaking the Father’s anxious care over all the churches through me. “Enclothed in white garments” is purity, yes, but not as the absence of me. Rather, it is a purity of myself, that everything I am in every step I take is for the Father’s sake.

We Are about Our Father’s Business. Here is our Gospel comment on the robe that covers Jesus in His Church to the FEET! ~ The robe represents Jesus’ Priestly Authority and the golden sash His Royal Apostolic Authority. As we put the Lord Jesus Christ upon ourselves, so the One who is Sent by God into us and who carries us into God is now seen by all creation. ~

5 Ruling Verses 9 & 10: As we enclothe ourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ as His revelation, the first thing He imparts of Himself to us is His (and the Father’s) anxious care for all the churches. Jesus’ declaration of our own personal names inside the Father’s presence is not Him reading a “list.” Rather, it is our sending forth about the Father’s business, that His Glorious Church might be established, for it is only through her that the knowledge of God enters creation.

We See True Devotion. 7 • These things says the One who is Devoted and True, who possesses the key of David, the One who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. 8 I know your works. • Look and see, I have set before you an open door which no one is able to shut, because you have a little power; you have kept, watched over, and guarded My word and have not spoken against My name.

We must unwrap this a bit at a time, but to do that we must know our destination in this sixth and most critical dip into the Jordan, into the Lamb carrying us out from death into sharing Hheart with God. That destination is, “I will write upon Him My new name.” – The One who is Devoted and True, the One who cares for God’s care above all else – anxiously caring for all the churches.

The Key of David. To be called as “Devoted and True” by my Father is more valuable to me than all. The key of David is sharing Hheart with God. The key of David is the key that opens the city of Jerusalem. We’re talking about the greatest Love ever made visible to humans, about the Father’s Heart made known, about a Door opening to the enclothing by us of the entire Church with Fire.

7 Definition: We see Jesus as True Devotion to God, the Son through us devoted utterly to accomplishing the Father’s purpose to have a people for Himself. The key of David is boldness in God for the sake of Jerusalem, the Church.

8 Ruling Verse 8: The open door is for the Father, first, that He might enter His dwelling place. This door and this entrance is the greatest display of Love ever, since Jesus showed us Love.

Come, My People. • 10 Because you have kept the word of My steadfastness, I also will keep, guard, and watch over you out from the hour of trial about to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to try those who dwell upon the earth. 11 I come quickly. Hold tightly to what you have so that no one takes your crown.

“God, our Father, we place ourselves inside of You right now, inside of these verses, for we have come to that hour in which all things are now shaken. Even so come, Lord Jesus.”

“Come, come My people, enter into thy chambers, and shut the door around about thee, and hide thyself for a little moment, till the indignation be overpast”(from Isaiah 26:20).

10-11 Covenant: He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust” (dwell in all of Psalm 91).

We Become Pillars in God’s House. • 12 I will make the one who is presently and actively overcoming to be a pillar inside of the temple of My God, and he shall not go out anymore. And I will write upon him, immediately and ongoing, the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, continuously and actively stepping forth out from heaven, from My God, and I will write upon him My new name.  

The vast extent of meaning presented in these lines requires us to take time through it all. In a great cathedral, one is held in awe by two things, the vast expanse of the roof far above and the windows through which light fills the room. Yet neither one could be there without the mighty pillars holding up “the great weight of value” (see Galatians 6:2).

We Read What Is Written. By God’s grace and overwhelming kindness to me, I have not departed from my Father since May of 2013, when He sealed me into Himself. I have not ever, since that moment, called myself by sin, but I have given whatever I find myself to be in every moment to the Father for His Desire shared with me. And I say this, not to boast in myself, but to set before you the same WAY that is Jesus, connecting you always with God.

I will write upon him the name of My God.
I will write upon him, “New Jerusalem.”
I will write upon him My new name.

Jesus makes us to be just like Himself. If you truly want to read the Bible, read what is written upon your brother and sister – the Opening of the Scroll.

We Are Made the Second Ministry of Christ. This is our sixth “dip into the Jordan,” and the most consequential. Elsewhere it says “written upon our forehead,” but here it is “written upon us” in our totality. I think first of Aaron wearing the names of Israel upon his heart, hanging from his shoulders.

The Father’s concern is Jerusalem, so this is from inside to outside, the movement of our Hhearts shared with God. But to have Jesus’ new name written upon us is, I believe, that heart-care over the completion of His ministry. Jesus fulfilled the first half of a seven-year ministry, and He has given to us the second half. The “change of name” came with Jesus’ resurrection, thus we do not “duplicate” His ministry; rather, we bear in our hearts what the continuation of His ministry is out from His Resurrection. Let’s keep this fully in our minds.

In the Scroll of the Book. 12 Covenant: Behold, I have come, in the scroll of the book it is written of Me, to do that which You desire, O God (Hebrews 10:7). It is the Father’s desire, shared with Jesus, that rules our hearts.

12 Ruling Verse 9: As pillars in the House of our God, our task and the great care of our hearts is to lift up and strengthen our brethren, carrying their great weight of value (see Galatians 6:2).

12 Covenant: When you read what is written upon us, you read the Father’s name, His great care for Jerusalem.

12 Life through the Form for God through Jesus: When you read what is written upon us, you read the Church as the one who brings forth the knowledge of God into the knowledge of all.

12 Ruling Verse 9: When you read what is written upon us, you read the completion of Jesus’ ministry, His new name, out from His Resurrection into His Church.

We See the Witness, the Source of All. 14 • These things says the ‘Let it be so, it is so,’ the faithful and true Witness, the beginning and source of the creation of God.

Now we can begin to define the term “witness.” Witness comes directly out from “I will write upon him My new name.” A witness, in this case, is one who is the full and final evidence that Jesus is faithful and True, that as every Word God speaks, He returns to the Father, carrying His Church inside Himself. The Greek word is “Martus” or martyr. This is not physical death, but rather “to set forth our souls for our brethren,” the full revelation of the Love of Jesus (Source) for His Church.

14 Definition: We see Jesus as the witness of God, Faithful and True, the One who proves to all that God speaks the Truth. We see Jesus as the Sustaining One through whose good speaking all things become.

The Seventh Time. By the patterns of God, this is the seventh time we are “dipped into the Jordan.” I want to explain what that means. Outwardly, the seventh time is our physical bodies swallowed up by Life, our own personal resurrection. But our personal resurrection is only the outward obvious result of the Resurrection of Jesus fully revealed through us as the continuation of His ministry to the Church. Thus the impartation of Jesus to us as Witness and Source goes directly to the throne of heaven, that is, the Mercy Seat.

I am thinking of many Scriptures, stories, and metaphors that present this as the authority to GIVE LIFE, the authority to remove sin and to give Life. It is the Spirit that gives Life – out from your belly will go Rivers of Spirit. – Now is come… the Kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ.

Being Offered as Sons. • 15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish you would be cold or hot. 16 Because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am about to vomit you out of My mouth. 17 For you say, “I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing,” and do not realize that you are wretched and miserable, poor, blind, and naked. • 18 I take counsel together with you to buy from Me gold that has been refined out from fire, that you might be rich; and white garments, so that you might be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness might not be made visible to all; and eye-salve to anoint your eyes that you might see. • 19 Those whom I love, I discipline and instruct. Be eager, then, and change the way you think.

Verses 15-17 require a definition. Verse 18 is impartation inside of Ruling Verse 5, and verse 19 is being offered as sons.

What We Need. This passage conveys to us what we need in order to be offered as sons for the sake of our brothers and sisters.

15-17 Definition: A great sifting takes place among all who call themselves “Christian.” In that sifting, the outright refusal of the Lord Jesus is more honest than the one who pretends to love Jesus, yet who calls himself by sin and not by the Father’s Heart. This is the meaning of “lukewarm.” The issue is always no sufficiency in self and all sufficiency in God.

18 Covenant & Ruling Verse 5: Inside of our precious union with Christ, the Lord Jesus imparts to us all that we need, clothed with the proving of Christ, seeing as God sees.

19 Ruling Verse 9: Jesus proves His love for us by never letting us “get away” with anything, until we value His ministry through us for the Church above life itself.

The Tree of Life Again. • 20 Look and see, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone should hear My voice and open the door, I will go in to him, and I will dine with him and he with Me.

Before we arrive at the completion of Jesus making us to be just like Himself, He returns us again to LIFE, to our intimate and ongoing fellowship with Him inside of UNION. All that is the authority of the Kingdom going out from us into all creation comes always and only out from “dining” with Jesus.

20 Ruling Verse 5: We now see that it is inside of our intimate union with the Lord Jesus, dining, that is, fellowshipping with Him, soul with soul, inside of a shared Spirit and a shared body, that the impartation takes place, transubstantiation from Jesus and metamorphosis in us, that we become just like Him – as His ministry to His Church, His new name.

We Share Hheart with God. • 21 To the one who is presently and actively overcoming, I will give him, immediately and ongoing, to sit with Me inside of My throne, just exactly as I also overcame and sat down with My Father inside of His throne.

We can reword this as a paraphrase that we might see the exact meaning. – To the one who overcomes exactly as I overcome, I will give Him to sit with Me inside of My throne just as I also sit with My Father inside of His throne. - To the one who allows Me to share Myself with him in all that I am, I will give to share Hheart with the Father, to share Hheart over all things. – To share Hheart with God. To Love all as God through us. This is the joining of Ruling Verse 4 with Ruling Verse 8, the authority of Love to give Life to all.

The Authority of Love. 21 Definition: The symbol of a throne references the authority of God given to the Lord Jesus. – “All authority inside of heaven upon earth is given to Me.” That same Jesus lives in our hearts through faith, making us to be just like Himself. Our hearts are the throne of God, the Mercy Seat of heaven. We have authority from God to Love one another and to give ourselves for the sake of the Church.

21 Ruling Verses 4 & 8: We overcome out from the Blood of the Lamb, through the Word of our Testimony, the proof that Jesus is faithful and True, and by giving our souls to the Father for the sake of the Church, the THRONE of Love.

21 Ruling Verses 8 & 4: God rules all by Love. God has formed us like Jesus, that He might be Love through us. To overcome is to be God through us into our world.

The Impartation. The titles as they now are, and the comparison of the chart below, became only slowly as I brought this lesson to a finish. It has become so clear that being made like Jesus is not some “generalized” thing, but it is very specific. God our Father WANTS a people for Himself, a people in whom He can dwell. Bringing to God what He wants as the ministry of Jesus to His Church is become the entire meaning of our lives.
 

Transubstantiation	Metamorphosis
We see Christ and the Church.	We become the giving of Life.
We see the Lamb.	We are made the proof of Life.
We see the Word that cuts apart.	We become the meaning of union.
We see as God sees.	We are made authority.
We see Christ through us.	We are about our Father’s business.
We see True Devotion; we read what is written upon the Scroll.	We become pillar’s in God’s House; we are made the second witness of Christ.
We see the Witness, the Source of all.	We share Hheart with God.

The Image of God. We must bring all this back into the Ruling Verse of the Bible, coming out from the ruling verse of the Old Testament, man as the image of God, patterned by the Lord Jesus.

21 Ruling Verse 1: Image: we are already symmorphosed with Jesus as the revelation of the Father. God’s purpose is that we might synergeo with Him to make all things good out from Love, beginning with the gathering together of a people, made just like Jesus, many sons to glory already complete. This is the throne of God; this is sharing Hheart with the Father.
We must know that we do NOT Love, that Love is God our Father alone, yet now coming through us. We remain earthen vessels; the excellency of the Glory is out from God our Father, coming through us to WIN a people for Himself. This is the Father’s business; this is what its all about.

God through Us. There cannot be a more thorough and complete preparation for Revelation 12 fulfilled through us than the impartation of Jesus to us these seven times. In one sense, we can now see everything from Chapters 4 through 11 as the proving out first of this wondrous Love as God through us, before its final and open display. Yet on the other hand, we also see Revelation 12 as the greatest way to see what is now unfolding out from us into our world as the second witness of Christ.

In 3:21, Jesus places us with Himself inside the authority of God now given to us, that we might share Hheart with God. And in Chapter 4, Jesus takes us into the great dilemma of His throne, the dilemma of a Church still without faith.