13. We Walk inside of Truth

The Age of Tabernacles has begun – specifically as of the season of Tabernacles, September-October, 2022.

I was sitting in my chair in the early morning of November 14, hoping to go back to sleep. I was thinking about the song birds and how few of them there now are. I thought, “We will need the song birds back for the Age of Tabernacles.” Then I thought, “This destruction of the earth, our Jerusalem, must stop.” And then the understanding arose in me that we have been thinking all wrong. The age of human folly cannot “come to an end.” Rather, the arising of Tabernacles swallows it up.

Like Nehemiah. Suddenly, all sorts of things re-aligned themselves in my knowing, including the whole span of our upcoming “Studies in John’s Vision.” We don’t just protect the Church from evil, but we also provide a place for her. That place is the Age of Tabernacles beginning through us now. And in that moment, Rivers of Spirit Flowing Out took its familiar place alongside of Casting Down the Accuser.

Like Nehemiah, we work now, in every step, with a spear in one hand and a trowel in the other. We protect the Church AND we build that place for her, the Age of Tabernacles.

Inside the Paradise of God. A few days ago, I puzzled over a short phrase in Revelation 2. – To the one presently and actively overcoming, I will give him to eat of the tree of life, which is inside the paradise of God. The question was concerning “inside the paradise of God”; what is the purpose of that descriptive phrase?

I had no idea then; I understand perfectly this morning. This is what we humans are supposed to be doing, God’s intentions from the start. This is not life just for us; this is eating of LIFE, that from our bellies would flow the River of the Age of Tabernacles.

Amazement and Laughter. And so I abandoned all thought of returning to sleep. I am at my computer again, at 1:30 AM, alternating between fits of amazement and laughing out loud with joy. From this moment on, the Age of Tabernacles has begun for us, coming out from our bellies, and we think of little else.

What is the most devastating blow that we can strike against the beast and the dragon? – We ignore them as irrelevant. Yes, we protect the Church with all authority, but it is to us as the flicking away of a fly, a relic of the past that no longer belongs. The earth is on our side, with all creation.

Our Smokescreen. I now see the purpose of God’s metaphor, “the wilderness”; that is, “prepare a place for her in the wilderness.” The “wilderness” is a smokescreen, a cover where no one will bother looking. And in that “wilderness,” the new age has begun, spreading out unseen across the whole earth.

How can I say that the Age of Tabernacles has begun as of the season of Tabernacles in this year of our Lord, 2022? Because in this “Studies in John’s Letter’s,” we embraced 1 John 3:16 – And we also. And we prayed the prayer of the Completed Atonement for the sake of the Church – doing so during this season of Tabernacles.

Kingdom out from Covenant. Let us establish for all time, then, that God brought to us the Experience of Completion, every Word God speaks fulfilled, across the season of Passover and Pentecost, 2022. And God has brought to us the beginning of the Age of Tabernacles in the season of Tabernacles, 2022.

The Completion is Covenant. The beginning of Tabernacles is Kingdom.

Let’s search for a phrase that can state in just a few words this reality in which we now walk, inside of Covenant, bringing forth Kingdom. Can you think of something? How about – “We Walk inside of Truth.”

Setting out the “Truth.” We do need to bring in the scope of 2 John before continuing, except I do want to set out three of our boxes, all defining “Truth.” We will look at the word “Truth” from three perspectives, in its Completion, all things fulfilled, in its Source, Personal Living Spirit Word, and in its place, that is the Church.

And right now, the book of Revelation is popping wide open to me from beginning to end. God has indeed hidden His truth in a wilderness, but now the time has come. To walk “inside of Truth” is to take every step inside a World of Life, Tabernacles, without regard for anything else.

Our Statements of Faith. My brethren and I walk together inside of Truth. Truth remains inside of us and inside of all our interactions together. We love one another inside of Truth. We receive full completion of grace in intimate participation with the Father and the Son. We love one another; we walk together inside of love. We watch carefully that none of us should lose the Word of Christ we have received or wander into contrary speaking. We submit to one another in the fear of Christ. We live and remain inside the Word of Christ; we together possess the Father and the Son. We walk inside of Truth.

The Way. We cannot continue without bringing in again the Way, that is, the meaning of “We walk.” This is from “Jesus Lives inside of Me,” from John 14:20. This way is only Tabernacles, every step inside the new age.

Living inside of Jesus is our Way to connect with the Father sharing our life with us. Jesus living inside of us is the Father’s way to connect with us sharing His life with Him, that God might enter creation through us. Life itself is our Way, moment by moment and step by step, not ‘to’ something, but rather life-unfolding, the living and dynamic expression of God with us unveiled new every morning forever.

Already Become. We will explain in a bit the transition from “I” to “We.” But following “The Way,” we will go to “Truth as Completion.”

Therefore, if anyone is inside of Christ, he is a New Creation. The old things are already gone; look and see, the New has already become. And all things are out from God, the One who has already reconciled and reconnected us to Himself through Christ, and has given to us the ministry or service of reconciliation and reconnection (2 Corinthians 5:17-18). In the in-part Church age, we applied this word of completion to ourselves, as God intended. Now, in the Age of Tabernacles, we apply it to the whole earth.

Extending Certainty. The TRUTH is, old things are already gone. The TRUTH is, all things are now brand new, all things are now out from God.

In outward appearance, the dragon and the beast are running around hurting everyone they can. In outward appearance, humans, including our brethren, are still caught in the story of death. Without denying the hurt being caused, we walk inside the certainty that we possess already the completion of all grace in intimate participation with Father and Son. And we extend that certainty out over all the earth.

The Authority of Life. What is the completion of grace, mercy, and peace – inside of Truth and Love? We possess these things in intimate participation with Father and Son, and, their reality flows out from us into all. And we see grace, mercy, and peace, in all completion out over the entire planet and among all living humans.

Again, this is not a mind game, nor any “denial of reality.” We remain fully aware of the extent of wickedness everywhere. Rather, this is the authority of the River of Life coming through us to overwhelm all.

Our Walking Together. The Truth is, the Age of Tabernacles has begun. The Truth is, we possess all authority inside of heaven upon earth. The Truth is, we have already defeated the dragon, the beast, and all the story of death. Is that not what Jesus said? – “Be of good cheer, for I have defeated the world.”

To walk together inside the Truth of Completion is, of course, the topic of an entire Symmorphy text, Completion, which we will return to soon. More than that, the seven “overcoming's” are now related directly to our walking together in the Truth of Tabernacles.

The Principles of Completion. Let’s list again the seven principles of completion. 1. Every Word Fulfilled. 2. Synergeoing as Center. 3. Full Assurance of Faith. 4. The Ability of Christ. 5. The Place of Church. 6. The Fulness of Times. 7. Calling Completion. Everyone of these things, working together in completion and all fulfillment, are found inside the word, “TRUTH.” We walk together inside of all these things now.

But consider specifically “the fulness of times.” The unveiling of the root causes of all darkness, thus bringing the age of folly to an end, cannot be anything other than the unveiling of Christ in us in all Completion – the Truth.

Truth as Completion. The Truth is that every Word spoken by God is already complete. We walk inside of all completion now. We walk inside of old things gone; we walk inside of all things brand new, all things out from God. We walk inside of every Word of the gospel already fulfilled, already complete. We walk inside of God and us synergeoing together, turning all things towards goodness. We walk inside of full assurance of faith, with no thought of evil. We walk inside of Jesus already come now. We walk inside of all Love among us. The Truth is, the Age of Tabernacles has begun; we walk inside the new age. We walk inside of all enemies defeated, including death. We together call all things complete. We walk inside of Truth.

The Ability of Christ. Note that “the ability of Christ” is at the center of the seven principles of Completion, and all completion is found only inside of Jesus, where we are. And so we want to come at “Truth” from the perspective of the Lord Jesus. – “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” “I am Truth,” makes Truth personal to the Lord Jesus.

But then in John 17, Jesus said to God, “Your Word is Truth.” And in John 15, Jesus calls the Devoted Spirit, “the Spirit of Truth.” Finally, Hebrews 4 says that “the Word is living and energeoing,” and Jesus said in John 6, “The Words that I speak to you are Spirit and they are Life.”

Personal Living Spirit Word. Personal – Jesus. Living – God-Energeoing. Spirit – by My Spirit, says the Lord. Word – Every Word God speaks. Personal Living Spirit Word.

Picture the vast flows of electricity in outer space, the great Birkeland currents that power the galaxies. These are but a dim shadow of the great FLOW of Power and Life out from Father and into all things, the Flow that is Christ Jesus. – Through Him all things become. – Bringing forth, carrying, and sustaining all by His power-filled Word. This vast FLOW of Life and Power, Spirit and Word, out from God into us is Jesus, our Savior and our Friend.

Increase Ever More. We walk inside of Jesus. We walk inside of Truth. Notice how all these things are woven together by John inside this short letter. We once thought there was very little to be found in 2 and 3 John. We thought wrong.

Now, using the dictionary to define “True/Truth” is found in Romans in The Jesus Secret II, the page, “I Believe That God Is Telling Me The Truth.” “Knowing Jesus Sent into us” is exactly the same thing, as is “We walk inside of Truth.” My goal here is to increase ever more our knowing of the vast Power and Life now flowing through us into all – Jesus.

Truth as Jesus. We walk inside of Jesus. We walk inside of Personal, Living, Spirit Word. We walk inside of our Savior and our Friend. We walk inside of all the Energeoing of God revealed. We walk inside of out-poured and Devoted Spirit. We walk inside of every Word God speaks. We walk inside of Christ Jesus who walks inside of us. We walk inside of a Jesus already come, already here, already now. We walk inside of His revelation to all as the image of the Father. We walk inside of His ability to prove God faithful and true in all. We are clothed with the sun; we bring forth Life; we walk inside of the Lord Jesus Christ.

God’s Order of Flow. I made the decision to change our confession of faith for 2 and 3 John from “I” to “We.” There is no Age of Tabernacles beginning except through us together. Christ must always begin with me, personally, and then Christ must always move into us, together. This is God’s order and flow. The moment it becomes “me and Jesus,” Christ remains, but I still dwell in pretending. The moment “us, together,” is placed first, the individual is thrust into pretending. Thus I have a box under the Scripture pages of 2 and 3 John titled “I into We.”

From I to We. God always begins with the personal and then He always moves from the personal to our togetherness as the Church. God always begins with “I love you,” to each one of us, and then He always moves to - “Love one another” inside of Jesus. There is a third movement of God as well, always arising inside each one, always flowing out to others. As we together know one another and God among us, then, out from God made personal among us together, God flows out from us to all creation.

[The second half of this two-part box will be in the next lesson, “We Prosper in All Things.”]

The Place of Truth. Now we want to consider Truth as the Church, the place of Truth, which we will call “Truth as Light.” Let’s approach this aspect of Truth again from the Age of Tabernacles now having begun.

It is John who mentions the Judean Feast of Dedication in his gospel. Even though no one wrote down the events of that Feast as it was instituted in Israel, to become “Scripture,” it was very much of God and John’s mention makes it “Biblical.” I did not know the story until just now, as I considered the birthing of a child, the central topic of John’s vision.

A New Man for a New Age. Sam Fife’s primary message was titled “A New Man for a New Age.” I have just realized now that Symmorphy VI: Mankind is the “new man,” and Symmorphy VII: Completion is the “new age.”

A child in the womb is able to come forth into the world by the first week of the seventh month – the Feast of Tabernacles. But that’s not the best. Rather, a child is not born until the end of the ninth month, falling right at the time of the Feast of Dedication.

Paul said that Christ Jesus creates inside Himself a new man. It is the woman clothed with the Lord Jesus who brings forth the knowledge of God as the new age.

The Feast of Lights. The Feast of Dedication (Hannukah) celebrates the victory of the Judeans over the Greeks (the abomination that makes desolate) and the cleansing of the temple from horrific defilement. They found one small vessel of oil that had not been contaminated. After cleansing the lampstand, they lit that sacred oil in its seven lamps, enough to last one day. Yet the lamps burned for eight days, giving enough time until new oil could be consecrated.

The “Feast of Lights” then means that, in our victory over the Beast, we have enough oil to endure through eight years, one more than the seven years of Light in the dark.

Light Is Honesty. At the same time, we recognize that, in this year of our Lord 2022, as the Age of Tabernacles has begun, the date this year, of the Feast of Dedication, is about one month ahead, December 18 running through December 26. Revelation 1 is very clear; the Lampstand is the Church. Light begins as honesty. Without honesty, face to face and heart to heart, there is no Church clothed with Jesus.

The testimony of the first Graham River was that the brethren there, though wonderfully anointed, never learned actually to love one another. In what we knew at the time, the brethren at Blueberry did learn to walk in love together.

Light as the Church. I now see that the reason we learned to walk in love together at Blueberry was the incredible dedication of Sister Charity Titus and Brother John Clarke. Five things are required for a gathering of Christians to walk in the Light as the Church.

1. The willingness to be wrong in some way in every altercation, without any need to “be right.” 2. A quickness to ask for forgiveness and to give forgiveness, regardless of what one did or did not do. 3. The determination to hold all others in the highest regard in what they share and in their purposes for action.

In the Light. 4. To speak openly and honestly with one another in all things, especially in sharing one’s motivation for an action. 5. Never to accuse or to ascribe a “motivation” towards another person, that they did this “because,” but rather to share only of one’s own internal hurt in response.

If these five things are the set of our intentions as we walk together, then we are walking together in the Light. We walk inside of Truth. But if these five things are absent, and they stand or fail together, then that group of people is stuck in pretending, for no reason at all, and they will soon tear each other apart.

The Oil for the Light. Jesus’ parable of the ten virgins and the story of the Feast of Dedication are speaking of the same thing. To walk together as Light in this world of darkness, we must have that Anointing Oil that endures. It is a costly Oil, and the cost is to walk together in all honesty and respect, in those practical things I listed.

Without that Anointing Oil that endures, some will walk in pretending and call their pretending, “Light.” There is one way only by which I will have that Oil that endures; I must be just like God; that is, I must humble myself under you with Father, that we might lift you up.

Truth as Light. Truth is found as light inside the gathering together of the Church. As I gather together with my brothers and sisters in all open honesty and in high regard for one another, so I walk inside of Truth. The Truth as light is also the flow of the golden oil of anointed Word into the Church. As we together walk inside of the Word of Christ in our mouths, spoken inside the Spirit, so we walk inside of Truth. As we are willing to be wrong, as we ask forgiveness and quickly give it, so we walk inside of Truth. As we hold one another in the highest regard and speak honestly with each other, so we walk inside of truth. As we never accuse, but only share our own souls together, so we walk inside of Truth. We walk inside of Light.

The Completion of Christ. I conclude the Jesus Secret page with a statement of faith in large and bold print, referencing Ephesians 1:23.

~ We Are His Body; We Are the Completion
of Christ Jesus Who Fills All inside of All. ~

It’s all about the completion of Christ, Jesus proven faithful and true. – I rejoiced exceedingly because I have learned of your children walking inside of truth, just as we received full completion in intimate participation with the Father. – Truth and the completion of Christ always come out from intimate participation with the Father.

Reading for Next Time. The next lesson is the final lesson of “Studies in John’s Letters,” titled “We Prosper in All Things.” For that lesson, read 3 John in the JSV two or three times.

Consider that John wrote 2 John to a woman – the channel of God into His creation. Then, he wrote 3 John to a man, Gaius. The male is the metaphor of abundance and provision flowing through. Think of the Parable of the Exuberant Father. – Beloved, I pray that in all things you would journey well and prosperously and be wholesome and of good health, just as your soul journeys well and prosperously.

Our Prayer. In our prayer today, let’s place ourselves together into all Truth. What lies ahead requires us to know all certainty and the authority which God has given us. Also, I have realized that in our study of the Apocalypse, our prayers will alternate between protecting the Church and sending forth the River of Life as the place for her.

We are introducing the Church – a hundred million or more believers in Jesus all across the earth – to the meaning of the Age of Tabernacles already begun. In a dream last night, I felt the certainty and the urgency of moving every believer into all the fullness of Christ as we stand for the Church here, in the Truth, on the Jordan floor.

Let’s Pray Together. “God, our Father, we place ourselves utterly inside of You, living every moment of our lives in intimate participation with You. We know that the Age of Tabernacles has indeed begun and that it flows now out from our bellies. Father, we are so glad we have no sufficiency in ourselves, for what could we do with such knowledge? We rest, instead, in Your All-Sufficiency, that by Your Personal, Living, Spirit Word which we speak forth, the Lord Jesus Christ, so Life swallows up all death in this world.

“Father, guide our hands, guide our thoughts, guide our speaking, by Your out-poured and Devoted Spirit, that You might be known through us in all Your Church.

“God, our Father, strengthen our backs against contempt for others that it might no longer overwhelm Your people. Let the set of our hearts be here with You in the lowest place on earth until every single one who believes into Jesus might pass from their lostness into all the Life of Christ.

“Let our mouths speak out from Your Covenant alone, written with Spirit ink all through the pathways of our hearts. Let our confidence in You be the sending forth of the golden anointing oil as Spirit Word enclothing Your Church with Living Fire, with the Lord Jesus Christ.

“God, our Father, we walk inside of Truth, we walk inside of You, we walk inside of Jesus proven faithful and true, we walk inside of Your Word fulfilled. Let it be so; it is so.”