63. And THEY Overcame
Covering Revelation 12:7 through 13:10:
I have begun to say “This is that.” “This, that was spoken in Scripture is that which we now see happening in the news.” What if I am wrong?
I have four answers to that question. First, I am so glad that I could be wrong, for how else could I be an example of Christ to you? That sounds contradictory, but I walked away from the fakery of “I am right” whether spoken by me or by others claiming to speak for God, and I am never going back. Second, the fulfilment of prophetic word is an unfolding. The beast is a metaphor of all political (by violence) government from Adam until now. The difference now is that we are in the fulness of times, yet there remains an unfolding. That means there will likely be further expressions of the same fulfillment.
Nicene Interpretation. Third, I know that I see dimly, but I have come to trust that in what I do perceive, the Spirit of God is guiding my understanding. Thus in saying, “This is that,” I am not speaking from my intellect, but out from the same knowing in my heart from which flows this wondrous Gospel Word.
The fourth response is what I most want to set in front of you. Nicene Christianity has a fixed interpretation of the prophetic word of Scripture, of eschatology and the completion of the age, based on two things. The first is that Jesus is not here now, but that He is coming someday as a solitary and individual figure, completely separate from His Church. The second is that before He can “return,” another solitary and individual figure called “the Antichrist,” must do his thing. These two things are un-Biblical and contrary to the Gospel, yet from them come all other Nicene “explanations.”
A Highway for God. Here is what I perceive, dimly though it might be. God is Life, and God lives in a world and universe of Life, knowing nothing of the mind of good versus evil, of sin and death, through which all humans interpret everything falsely. The real meaning of the completion of this age is God coming through a Way prepared for Him, through Jesus inside of us, and through our togetherness, God becoming visible as He is. No one knows God as He is, and no one is looking for such a thing, neither will they recognize Him at first, not until the astonishment of Christians loving one another as Jesus loves us overthrows all their former objections.
Thus we are discovering that every prophetic word of Scripture is spoken out from the reality of this Flow of Gospel Word we are only beginning to know, having little to do with our former “Christian” way of thinking.
A Spirit Meaning. Here is the rule of all Bible interpretation. It is the Spirit that gives Life, the intellectual mind of the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are Spirit and they are Life.
Jesus was rebuking His disciples for interpreting His words, “Eat My flesh,” as literal cannibalism. Inside the Flow of Gospel Word, “Eat My flesh” is VERY real, yet it is something quite different from the fleshy reaction of those who interpreted His words by outward human appearance. In this way, we bring in three words in John’s vision that have a Spirit meaning in the Flow of Gospel Word, even while also having a meaning in the physical world. Those words are heaven, earth, and sea. To understand these words, we go back to the dividing line of the measurement of Christ in Revelation 11:1-2, our response to the Word God speaks.
Our Response to Word. We know that only one thing matters to God, our response to the Word that He speaks. The words “heaven, earth, and sea” serve as metaphors of bodies of people sharing three very different responses to Word sustaining them in power.
We are actually talking about Jesus’ parable of the Sowing of Seed, showing what are actually four responses to Word. The heavens are those who receive Word gladly, that Jesus written on their hearts might make them to be just like Himself, even through Fire and Travail. The sea refers to those who are cold to any word, word that is quickly taken away by demons. The earth represents first those with stony hearts, who keep control over word as theology, and second, those who receive word in the Spirit, but who soon draw back from any cost.
War in Heaven. (Chapter 12) • 7 And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But the devil did not have the strength, nor was a place found for them any longer inside of heaven. • 9 Then the great dragon was thrown out, the original serpent who is called the devil, the accuser, and Satan, the adversary, the one who is deceiving the entire inhabited world. He was thrown down into the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
John has already mentioned “THEY” in verse 6. Thus we read everything in these three verses as the background for the second mention of “THEY” in verse 11, Ruling Verse 4. It is Michael and his angels who do the work outwardly, but it is THEY who cast the dragon down. The war is over the Word God speaks inside His Church, the knowledge of God coming through her into all creation.
He Has No Strength. Inside these three verses are two staggering things that rule over how we see the world in which we live today. The first is that the devil has NO strength, and the second is that all that is not Christ is GONE from the lives of millions of believers.
I read None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen in 1977. After nearly fifty years of study and of observing world events since then, what I learned from Gary Allen remains accurate, including the role of the Pharisees in international banking. The behind-the-scenes conspiracy to control the world is great, though convoluted, yet it is utterly without strength. I listen to people puzzling over this great contradiction regarding events taking place today, who are confused by it. I am not. As Annie saw in her visions, the flood of great evil reaches always for control and always discovers that it has no strength.
Defining the War. 7 Definition: The true war from the beginning is over the Word God speaks, whether He speaks the Truth or not. Those who receive His word with gladness as Jesus inside of them dwell in the heavens, no longer knowing accusation. Yet many keep the word under their own control, either refusing to go on to know the Lord in the Spirit or, having gone a little ways, to draw back. Such dwell in the “earth,” halting between two. Those who disregard the word rely on demons to take it away.
7-8 Definition: Just as the serpent accused God of knowing evil and His Word of being untrue, so that same accuser sits upon the Church, convincing some that a God who “knows evil” is against them, convincing others to find fault with one another, as if Jesus does not dwell inside of them as all Word fulfilled. This is the issue and the battle. Yet the accuser has NO strength, and is removed entirely from those who believe into Jesus.
Setting the Stage. 9 Ruling Verse 4: The child to be birthed is the knowledge of God, that is, LIFE, coming to all as believers in Jesus loving one another. Those who travail to bring forth such a Life dwell in the heavens, and from them, the accuser is utterly cast down. We are speaking of millions of believers alive today who no longer hear accusation against God, against themselves, or against their fellow Christians. It is through them now that Salvation enters into creation.
Revelation changed completely inside of me as I wrote this lesson and the next; that is, it became completely the Gospel, with all thought of non-Gospel, non-Life interpretations vanishing away. The stage is now set for Revelation 12:11-12, Ruling Verse 4, “Victory over the Accuser,” yet complete understanding will come through our Victory over the beast.
Ruling Verse 4: Victory over the Accuser. • 10 Then I heard a great voice inside of heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation, the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down, the one who has accused them in the presence of our God day and night. • 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 dwell inside of Jesus inside His throne in heaven; we are that great voice. And as that voice, we say, “NOW.” Full assurance of faith is found inside the Most Devoted. If Salvation through us is of God, then we apprehend it with all boldness – NOW, because we know God for certain. Salvation is the power of God carrying us, yes, but NOW as those who carry others inside their hearts inside of God.
Jesus Proving Himself. We stride out from KNOWING God for certain (R-V 6), in Triumph (R-V 7), with the sword of all-sins-cleansed-away (R-V 4) in our mouths and Rivers of Life (R-V 3) flowing out from our bellies.
Thus far we have the picture of Salvation in Power now through us, the basis of casting down the accuser – when He (Jesus inside) had, by Himself, cleansed away all sin. But Kingdom and Authority are the other side of this picture, for Kingdom is the Ekenosis, going under with Father, revealing a God who walks beneath, carrying all. And Authority is that which becomes truly known through utter human weakness, no sufficiency in self, all sufficiency in God.
Here, then, is the place of proving. – Your people shall be willing in the DAY of Your power (Psalm 110). Jesus proving Himself to us.
Into God’s Purpose. On January 4, on March 29, and on April 18 of 2026, God shared with me the penetration of His sword splitting me apart, designed for Him to prove Christ to me. These were three, outwardly minor, but inwardly piercing, personal, and painful experiences coming from another person. The first was a challenge of the word of my testimony, the second was a challenge against my devotion to the vision of the Lamb through me which I have carried for many years, and the third was whether I would receive one who had wronged me, to carry that one even to my own loss.
None of these experiences were “temptations,” for I made no choice. Rather, in each, my Father was showing me Jesus already faithful and True inside of me. And I am bold enough in God to place my life into God’s purpose, into the proving of Jesus through me now as Revelation 12:10-11.
The Greatest Love. Revelation 12:10-11 is a description of the Highway for God (read ALL of Isaiah 40). We say, “God through us into our world.” This is the passage of the “manchild” out from the womb into the bright light of Day. To mount up with wings as eagles, to run and not be weary, to walk and not faint, this is not “going into” God. This is God’s Highway, God NOW through us into our world.
Revelation 12:10-11 is a description of the embodiment of God-Love, a firstfruits who give all that they are to the Father, that He might win all His Desire – a people in whom to dwell. As Isaiah so clearly and powerfully describes, the “world” is psychotic delusion only. A world of LIFE is the only thing real, and every prophetic word in the Bible speaks only of LIFE coming through, the Greatest Love made visible.
Expanded and Personal. Consider carefully and deeply everything in the previous four slides, for this is where we must KNOW Ruling Verse 4.
Then I heard a great voice inside of heaven saying: “Now, TODAY, have come the salvation, the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down, the one who has accused them in the presence of our God day and night. And THEY have overcome the accuser in themselves and in the Church, through the blood of the Lamb upon which they sit, and through the word of their testimony of Christ your only Life; and they have not loved their souls unto death, the one death of Christ.”
Christ Made Personal: I cast down all accusation, first against myself and then against all my Christian brethren. I bring all to submission to the Love of God through me.
Defining the Rule. Just as we need Jesus to know Love, so Christians who long to know the Lord must see in the ministry of Christ that same Love (see 1 John 3:16), that they might be free to be the Salvation of God revealed. These who cast down the accuser and all the mixture of Babylon, are many as one, the True witnesses of Christ, who live seized into God through faith, having turned around upon the Mercy Seat of heaven. The right question is – Who are THEY? THEY Love the Church as Jesus through them. THEY carry their brethren in their hearts in power. THEY place themselves beneath with the Father. THEY give their authority to God coming through. THEY sit with certainty upon the Blood of the Lamb cleansing all. THEY speak the Word of Christ our only life into all who will receive. THEY give themselves with Jesus to the Father that God might come Home to Tabernacle inside His people and they inside of Him.
Life and Covenant. Life: There is always a passageway from Life within to Life without. That passageway is always consecrated by Blood; it is always through faith, the word of our testimony, and it is always attended by grace, the continuous giving of God.
Covenant: The Covenant of Life, Jesus written within, must always flow out to become a Kingdom of Life, Christ Community. The Covenant is Jesus, the One who connects, and who must always be connecting with God and with other believers. Thus the passageway of Grace, the source of action, is also the Covenant.
Speak Christ: The central expression of this passageway of Grace, attended by Love, is the Word of our Testimony, the prophetic word of Christ our Life which we speak.
Symmorphosed and Filled! Ruling Verse 1: Being symmorphosed with Jesus as the visible expression of the Father is that same passageway connecting already glorified with synergeoing with God. Yet included in that exchange is many brethren, just like Jesus, born of the same womb. Accusation obliterates and destroys that connection of Jesus in one with Jesus in the other. Accusation is the enemy of symmorphy. The costliness of symmorphy is that we synergeo with God to cast all accusation down.
Ruling Verse 2: The accuser always strikes at the weakest point, which is never God, but rather, the weakness of our human flesh. By convincing Christians to say, “I am evil,” the accuser successfully prevents any knowing that God fills us now, that we are rooted and grounded in Love, or even that Christ dwells in our hearts. Thus our brethren enclothe themselves with darkness, not with Jesus.
From Rivers to Intimacy. Ruling Verse 3: The outflow of the Spirit bringing Life and healing to all is always paired and entwined with casting down all accusation. When the false voice vanishes, the True speaking of Christ Jesus must fill the empty house. This is the first purpose of Rivers of Spirit flowing forth.
Ruling Verse 4: The power of God carrying others is not dependent on accusation for its existence, but having defeated accusation, it continues as that action of connecting, of resolving all differences, of joining together forever. To subdue, then, is the action of propitiation, the action of Love.
Ruling Verse 5: Loving not our souls and union with Christ are the same thing (see Revelation 14:12-13), for we are crucified with Christ already, yet we live, Jesus as us. The strength of our Victory is always intimacy with Jesus inside.
From Boldness to Love. Ruling Verse 6: Our bold proclamation of entrance is behind us as we apprehend all that is God given to us. Nonetheless, as we turn around inside the Most Devoted, now seated upon Mercy, so we see that the passageway of our entrance is also the passageway through which we go out with God forever.
Ruling Verse 7: That passage going out with God, then, is the confidence and bold speaking of our faith, that we are just like Jesus in all ways. The celebration of His Victory goes out from us into every place we go.
Ruling Verse 8: Revelation 12:10-11 is the Action of Love, the costliness of joining others with God and with ourselves forever. This Love includes our willingness to proclaim Salvation and power, Kingdom and authority now come, for the sake of others. Love is always consecrated by Blood.
The Rock and the Fire. Ruling Verse 9: Setting creation free is not a one-time event; it is the costliness of Love forever. The thing that Ruling Verse 9 does for all the other Ruling Verses is that it sets our gaze, here inside of God our Rock, fully upon the entire creation, the great Desire of the Father that ALL would know Him. Ruling Verse 4, again, is that passageway from Rock to Fire.
Ruling Verse 10: To enclothe the Church, millions of believers in Jesus, with the Fire that is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Love of God made visible, is also to cast down all that accuses her of separation from God. The removal of the false garment happens as a function of the enclothing with the True. Removal does not come first; it comes simultaneously. In fact, that is the definition of Travail. The travail, the birthing, and the defeat of the dragon are all the same experience. It is in that Travail alone, then, that we truly KNOW our God.
The Kingdom as Father Made Known. Kingdom: Kingdom is everything coming out from the action of Love, the operation of the Covenant. Humbling ourselves with God for the sake of others REVEALS God on the one hand and impacts all on the other hand. This is the sea of glass, that going forth from Mercy, bringing everything into alignment with God as He is.
The Form for God through Jesus: The costliness of the action of Love is what joins us together inside of Christian Community; it is the visibility of God. The body itself is the visibility of the Lord Jesus, but the Father is made visible through Action, the continuous interactions of Love, always through Blood, always through speaking the Word of Truth, always through the outpoured Grace of giving. God dwells inside of such a people, and they dwell inside of God.
Fitting THEY into All. Jesus reveals Himself as faithful and True through those who allow Him to share with them the same passionate determination that carries Him into the rescue of His Church. Everything is on the line; everything is at stake. Is God Love? Does God speak the Truth? Is His Word fulfilled in the earth as it is in the heavens? Does that Word return to the Father carrying all creation back into God?
Yet it is this question wherein must lie the answer to all. – Is the Church of Jesus Christ upon this earth a failed experiment, half-baked Christians who must be “whisked off to heaven” before God can do what He says in them? Or, are there a people who will so give themselves to Jesus now in the Day of His power, that He might prove His LOVE for His Church now through them?
How Do We Distinguish Rejoicing from Woe? • 12 For this reason, rejoice, O heavens and those dwelling in them. But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down towards you filled with great fury, knowing that he has only a brief time.
We must now address something that has been puzzling me for some time. The Catholic pope presides over a horrific mixture of outright paganism and the twisting of Christian truths. Yet we cannot say that he does not trust in Jesus inside his own heart. We cast down any accusation against Pope Leo XIV as a potential brother in Christ. And thus when the mouth boasting great things blasphemes Pope Leo, it is blaspheming all the devoted ones in the heavens. Yet when Martin Luther called Pope Leo X “antichrist,” he was speaking the truth.
Judgment without Accusation. Consider the difference in Jesus’ words. “Neither do I condemn you,” spoken to a woman caught in adultery. “Get behind Me, Satan,” spoken to Peter, supposedly the first “pope.” And “Woe to you, hypocrites” spoken to those who were protecting God’s people from paganism.
To understand what is going on, we must go to purpose. Jesus had one purpose in everything He spoke to anyone. Jesus’ purpose was that, from the Day of Pentecost on, that individual might receive Him into themselves as every Word God speaks, that He might make them to be like Himself. Yet at the same time, Jesus knew that many of those to whom He spoke would refuse Him, and would perish in the horrific destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. – There is a speaking of judgment, even strongly, yet without accusation.
Great Fury. Consider the great split in Christianity regarding Word. Those who go on to know the Lord, dwelling in the heavens, come free from all demonic influence. Those who draw back, however, take to themselves that demonic wrath cast down. People of integrity, seeking to understand the world today, puzzle over the seeming insanity taking the minds of the political class. Some even suggest it must be demonic.
12 Kingdom: There will be a Christianity on this earth, millions of believers in the present age, who enter into a Glorious Salvation, already now, free from all whisperings of the evil one and from all falseness of Babylon. Yet the evil one still has a short time of great fury. Those who draw back, and those who refuse, earth and sea, take to themselves that demonic wrath cast down.
Protecting the Church. 13 When the dragon perceived that he had been thrown down into the earth, he hunted down the woman who had brought forth the male child, to persecute her. • 14 And the two wings of a great eagle were given to the woman so that she could fly into the desolate area, into her place where she is nourished for a time, times, and half a time away from the face of the serpent. 15 Then the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a torrent after the woman, so that he might cause her to be swept away by the flood. 16 But the earth quickly rescued the woman; the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had cast out of his mouth. • 17 Then the dragon was furious with the woman and went to make war with the rest of her seed, those who keep the full completion of God and who possess the testimony of Jesus, 13:1 and the dragon stood upon the sand of the sea.
God Wins the Day. I want to give only two brief comments for this passage, comments that look beyond the visible elements of the vision to see a universe of Life coming through.
13-17 Ruling Verse 4: God has placed the setting of our Victory into the maelstrom of all demonic and human opposition, the dragon and the beast. And God requires of Himself the demonstration of all practical Love, now coming through us. Just as we carry all our brethren in our hearts into God, so all provision and all protection comes through us for them.
13-17 Definition: The testimony of Christianity is that God cannot save here and now, but that He must “take us to” heaven before He can prove His Word to be True. God is compelled to prove such an accusation FALSE, through His Salvation winning the Day through all opposition.
A Wild Beast. (Chapter 13) • 1 I saw a wild beast rising out of the sea… upon its heads were slanderous names [calling good evil and evil good]. 2 The beast… resembled a leopard, and its feet like a bear’s, and its mouth like a lion’s mouth. The dragon gave to this wild beast his power and his throne and great authority. 3 Now, one of its heads was as if it had been wounded into death. And the wound of its death was healed. Then all the earth marveled after the beast. 4 And they… worshipped the beast, saying… “Who is able to war against it?”
I am including the first part of Revelation 13 because it is critical to the Gospel as the setting against which God displays the meaning of the Victory of Christ already accomplished. Refuting the non-Gospel “interpretations” is not our purpose, neither do we have the space. Yet astonishingly, I see every detail in this chapter in full display right now upon the earth.
Defining Opposition. The beast is the fulness of Adam against the Lamb and against the Gospel. – Having stated that absolutely, let me show you. But in doing so, we remember this also, that all prophetic Word is about God proving His Word True. The methods of opposition in this world have NO meaning in themselves. In other words, NOTHING of the prophetic word in Revelation, and in Chapter 13, is meant to give an exaltation of something in this world. All of it is meant to enable us to understand the hatred against the Lamb we see everywhere and the meaning of God’s Victory through us.
The dragon is all heavenly opposition, working together with the beast as all human and political opposition. Thus we can go from one headline to the next in today’s news reports, though they might cover very different people, places, and events, and perceive God’s meaning and our Victory.
Seeing Clearly. We must see clearly. The beast is a specific quality of human interaction anointed by demons that shows itself in differing ways through many over time. The beast has a mouth speaking great things, but that quality goes from one individual to another across the headlines. Yet the beast is not the speaking of the false caller, rather, it is the ACTION of injustice and hurt, the visible display of the one coming to steal, to kill, and to destroy.
It is clear to me that verse 3, the head that was “wounded to death and now lives,” one of seven, is the pretend nation of Is-l, the political Pharisee-establishment as a whole, not just one individual, having been birthed out from murder into murder. At the same time this beast is not one unified whole. Rather, it is the perfection (seven) of devouring one another, yet connecting to one body together in its war against the Lamb.
Placing the Beast. 13:1-4 Definition: Prophetic word enables us to know the Unveiling of Jesus Christ for certain. That Unveiling of Love takes place in the face of all opposition, human and angelic. Such Word does not exalt opposition, as if it means anything in itself, but rather the Lamb and His Victory. The “beast” was spoken in the curse, “Your husband (Adamic psychopathic control) shall rule over you” Genesis 3:16). The beast is all human political government, by violence or manipulation, from then until now, being made fully visible now in the fulness of times.
13:1-18 Definition: The prostitute mixes two false conceptions in her golden cup. The first is that Jesus, the Lamb, is not here now as His Church, but will come only “someday” as a solitary and separated form. And second that all opposition against the Lamb is also found in one person only, “the Antichrist,” something not Biblical at all, but which comes from paganism. All other mixture is then added to these two.
Defining the Beast. 1-4 Definition: The beast unveiled today is a vast behemoth, encompassing ALL political control, from the bureaucratic modern state to two deacons fighting over church money, Adamic humans fighting each other for control of others. Seven heads means the perfection of devouring one another, yet always connected to the same body, the world against the Lamb. The dragon is Satanic authority, already stripped away, from an accuser who no longer has any strength. It all relies on “sleight of hand,” convincing everyone to imagine power that doesn’t exist. Behind the scenes are many convoluted criminal conspiracies, expertly manipulating the visible, there to take the blame, conspiracies that try but fail. Yet two things are definite. First, the little head wounded to death but now alive is specific, the nation of Is-l, seizing the inheritance by violence and curse. And second, the rule of “technocracy,” full digital control, is the real news masked over by headlines of war and famine.
The Dividing Line Again. 5 And a mouth was given to the beast, speaking great boastings and slanders, and authority was given to it to act for forty-two months. 6 Then it opened its mouth into slanders against God, to slander His name and His tabernacle, those dwelling in heaven. • 7 And it was given to it to make war against the devoted ones and to defeat them. And authority was given to it over every tribe and people, language and ethnic group. 8 All dwelling upon the earth will worship it, those whose names have not been written inside the book of the Life of the Lamb…
The “authority given” comes from the evil one, and thus is a lie. Yet it is a lie with very sharp teeth, one might say. This refers to the dividing line in the Church, those who go on to dwell inside the heavens versus those who draw back to remain as the earth. You know what, we need verses 9-10 to understand the meaning.
Patient Endurance. 9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear. 10 If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity he goes. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed by the sword. • Here is the steadfastness, the patient endurance of the devoted ones.
Here is what I see and what I hear in these lines. I see the four Levites with the Ark on their shoulders standing upon firm in the lowest place on earth, with their backs against death and their faces towards every little one passing through. And I hear them say inside their hearts, “It matters not what happens to me. I am here, Jesus inside of me, for their sakes, for Father’s sake, and I will not move.”
Revelation 13 does not give us the view of a different world; rather, Revelation 11, 12, 13, and 14 work together to give us a many-faceted view of the same world, the setting in which Jesus, the Word, proves Himself faithful and True.
Finding the Pro-thesis. Then, let’s place Chapters 10 and 15 as brackets, or bookends, on each side of those four views, defining their meaning together. Indeed, this is the mystery of God made complete. We must go to root cause in order to perceive God’s pattern, that is, to the Pro-Thesis. Two things: first, Jesus’ purpose towards each one during His ministry, that they would receive Him into themselves on or after the Day of Pentecost, and second, that Jesus sends us now the same, but for Tabernacles, the Father filling His dwelling place.
Here is the key, the two trees, the two minds. A brother came to a Zoom meeting and listened to a Gospel of Life. At the end he said to us that evil versus good were the ONLY things real. “Life” to him was fantasy. – Who do you say that I am? – What do you do with the Word God speaks?
The Steadfastness of the Devoted. 5-8 Definition: The dragon is all angelic opposition against the Lamb, and the beast is all human opposition. The purpose of the mouth, which represents all boasting of ruling humans, is to keep everyone fixated on violence, not seeing the real takeover of technocracy. In fact, artificial intelligence is not producing the good claimed, but is actually becoming bizarrely evil, with total surveillance as its true purpose.
9-10 Ruling Verse 9: The “beast” defines nothing real; the steadfastness of the Devoted ones defines everything happening in this world, steadfastness against death and for the Church, until each little one has entered into Christ.
Chapters 10-15 Ruling Verse 4: The action of God-Love, made visible through those who Love the Church, is repeated four times in Revelation 11, 12, 13, and 14, the point of everything.
What Is Revelation About? I am discovering that Revelation is like Hebrews in that one cannot understand the whole vision without God’s meaning for every single part, and one cannot understand God’s meaning for any part without comprehending fully the whole. Yet Hebrews was a straight-arrow, ever-enlarging path through the Tabernacle, whereas Revelation is circles inside of circles, visions inside of visions, stories inside of stories. It is a worthy puzzle or mystery, and the solution to all puzzles is first cause or Pro-Thesis. – What is this about?
Revelation is about the Unveiling of Jesus Christ, Word fulfilled made visible to all through those who Love the Church. Nothing in Revelation has meaning separately from that. Thus we conclude that Revelation 12:10-11 (with Galatians 2:20) RULES everything else in John’s vision.
Let’s Pray Together. “God, our Father, this is all so far beyond us, for we are not capable of being Your Love in action. Yet we know for certain that You are God, and that You dwell as Love inside of us. And Father, we can do what Jesus did; we can give ourselves to You inside our weakness and inability, knowing that You always answer us, knowing that as we join all our Christian brethren with You inside our hearts, so You are free to be Yourself now through us into our world.
“Father, we Love Your Church, for we share Hheart with You, the Lord Jesus. Father, we are willing now in the Day of Your Son, be God through us. Love Your Church to the uttermost of all Salvation now through our hearts given utterly to You. We belong to You alone, Father, and we know that Jesus in our hearts is faithful and True in all. Even so come, Lord Jesus.”