7. The Apocalypse Part II

The Unveiling of [that is, the apokalupsis – the removal of the cover to reveal] Jesus Christ, which God gave to Him to show His servants what is necessary and proper to come into being immediately. And He signed the unveiling, having sent through His angel to His servant, John, who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, of all that he saw. Benefited and enlarged is the one knowing the unveiling for certain and those hearing the words of the prophecy and watching over to guard the things having been written inside of it; because time is near (Revelation 1:1-3). 

In the last letter I connected you and me fully to the Apocalypse (the unveiling) by showing how the Jesus of our minds becomes the Jesus we already know and love, the Jesus of our hearts. In this letter, now, I want to place the Apocalypse into its setting, that is, to know the ground where the battle takes place.

You see, knowing ourselves comes first, knowing the enemy comes second, and knowing the ground comes third. I wrote Designed by Word and am writing Set My People Free primarily to know the enemy.  I am confident that I have and am accomplishing that purpose there. Thus I will not include the same thing here.

What is the ground of the real World-War? What is the setting of the Apocalypse?

The Apocalypse is Love One Another in all that Love One Another is and means, that is, God among us.

Yet the visible expression of Love one Another is the most fragile thing there is in the human experience, fragile in appearance, though absolute in substance.

Yet we cannot understand the overwhelming impact and power of Love One Another except we place it into the setting of its revelation.

Look across ALL the argument throughout the entire world. Everyone judges the PROBLEM. Everyone offers the Solution. If there are 7 billion humans, there are 7 billion different definitions of “the problem” and 7 billion different proposals for the solution.

Sift through all that cacophony. Can you find in any of that screeching noise any hint that “God not known” is the problem and “Love One Another” is the solution that will break off all that is wrong? (And I’m not talking about pretending “let’s all just love everybody.”)

Look across all the mental ideas throughout the entire Christian Church. In Christianity, for the most part, there is one problem, and that one problem is “disobedience” as it is found inside the tree of right and wrong, and there is one solution – and that is “When Jesus comes back.”

The cacophony in the Church, then, is this. If there are 1 billion Christians, then there are 1 billion mental ideas as to “what disobedience is” and 1 billion mental images of “Jesus coming back,” all strikingly similar to the same set of images in the minds of the Pharisees who murdered Jesus-as-He-is.

And most Christians aren’t looking for any answers to the problems on this earth. They just want to get the hell out of here and let God strike everyone dead and throw them all into hellfire forever. Great solution! End of the “problem.”

Let me define “Love one another” as the Apocalypse.

Take me, KNOWING that I am coming out from God’s thoughts concerning me, spoken as the Lord Jesus Christ now becoming me and written in Person as Spirit Word all through the pathways of my heart. Then take you, KNOWING that you are coming out from God’s thoughts concerning you, spoken as the Lord Jesus Christ now becoming you and written in Person as Spirit Word all through the pathways of your heart.

Take us and put us together in the same place.

Now we walk together in absolute CONFIDENCE that God our Father, Himself in Person, IS our source and, Himself in Person, IS all our connections together. In short, that God IS Love.
Now you are seeing the Apocalypse.

Look again at the six billion images in the minds of the unregenerate and the one billion images in the minds of Christians. Do you see the Apocalypse anywhere near the images of their minds? No, you don’t.

No one is looking for the very thing that will change the ages. And when it comes, it will take them all completely unawares.

Now here’s the thing. When all the 1 billion Christian mental theologians SEE the Apocalypse, you and me, walking together, loving one another with a pure heart fervently, the cover by which they have clothed themselves will be stripped away, and they will weep.

Here is what God says about those 1 billion Christians.

Behold He comes in the present now [in submission to faith calling Him] with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, including those who pierced Him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him and will strike against Him.  Even so, let it be (Revelation 1:7).
And here is what God says about those 6 billion unregenerate.

And the kings of the earth and the great ones, and the commanders and the rich and the strong, and every servant and free hid themselves into the caves and into the rocks of the mountains, and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall upon us, and hide us away from the face of the One sitting upon the throne and away from the opposition of the Lamb, because the day of His opposition has come and who is able to stand?” (Revelation 6:16-17).

But what is it that will be throwing all these billions of people into such a tizzy?

It is the Apocalypse, they will see believers in Jesus loving one another, God among us.
And in that moment, they will KNOW that they had everything utterly WRONG.

Which is a great place to start – guilty and silent before God, the threshold from death into life.

What is the great wickedness that the Lamb opposes? It is “I have a sinful human nature of my own. I, not Christ.” And what is the weapon by which He strikes them all down? The sword of His mouth, the Word in our mouth – Father forgive them.

This is what I mean by total and absolute UPSET.

No one is looking for such a thing.

No one imagines that a handful of losers, incapable of being or doing anything, just loving one another as God among them, will overthrow all the screaming rage and seeming power of EVIL across this planet.

Now, God set two secular “prophets” into the world in the first half of the twentieth century, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. Their two works that foreshadow the last years of human folly are 1984 and Brave New World, respectively.

George Orwell, using communist East Germany as his model, set before us the chains of tyranny that come when accusation rules all human interaction. In contrast, Aldous Huxley showed a model of tyranny wherein people love their chains and willingly wrap those chains around themselves. Some like to debate which one is most pertinent. I do not.

Both together now describe the abyss into which all human cultures on this planet are plunging.

I have thought for some years now that the great trap for us lies at the juncture of the required vaccination shots, the cell phone, and the debit card. I just read that MIT, I think, has announced that they have developed microwave technology that allows them to insert specific words and thoughts into people’s minds such that they are hearing a voice speaking to them inside their heads. Of course, this technology has actually been long developed.

You see, how can we live without our smartphones? Yet they are letting us know, quite clearly, that by the cell phones we love and can’t live without, they can cause us to speak and to act however they wish.

At the same time, inside this love of technological connectivity that is the Internet, the very tool that allows me to share what I write with you, ACCUSATION coming out of religious puritanical fervor is becoming the very definition of human society. China’s version of accusation is the “social rating” score they will keep on every Chinese citizen. Those who score low (accusation) will not be able to function in society.

I don’t read what other people put on Facebook, even including my readers, because accusation is so loved by Christians. It’s bad enough to see God’s people accusing one another publicly, it’s even worse to see my readers accusing either other Christians or themselves.

And I hunker down and connect my gift to Father that I might show you with my limited abilities and my scattered words a different Life to live.

The Marxist government of East Germany learned that the most effective way to control society is to create an atmosphere in which everyone is accusing everyone else of criminality and treason. In contrast, Google is the most powerful corporation over what people think in human history because we LOVE what it does for us.

It seems to me that accusation is increasing as the nature of politics across the world as well, and that nothing has enabled this accusation in the way that the world wide web has done.

And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a torrent, so that he might cause her to be carried away by a flood (Revelation 12:15).

“So that he might get his words into her mouth.” – Total accusation, then, enabled by total communication and connectivity is the setting inside of which the Apocalypse arises.

The society of accusation formed by the Marxists in East Germany could not be total because total communication was not available at that time. Today, it would be a simple thing for anyone on this planet to find one little thing I have said in my writing, take that one thing out of context and broadcast it across the whole world as hate speech and treason, getting millions of people tweeting their ire and condemnation against me personally, by name and by face.

That thought is, indeed, a bit sobering.

The second witness of Christ will be the most hated group of people ever in human history. Love one another will be mocked and derided by all. Gunning Jesus down in the streets will spark the greatest party ever thrown among humans, with the majority of Christians partying the fiercest (Revelation 11).

We are at the end of this present age. Everything is moving rapidly toward fulfillment. We are no longer in the dispensation of the in-part church age. We are, in this year of our Lord, 2019, inside the time-period of the dispensation of the fulness of times.

And no one has a clue what is really going on. We are not speaking of the “end of the world,” but rather, the end of a world of death. And one thing only causes human folly to cease, and that is a world of life arising among them, setting everyone free.

You know what, I am not a loving or giving person by nature. And truth be told, I have never really liked “love one another,” in spite of the fact that I write those words all the time. I know what walking together IS. And I know that me putting up with you and you putting up with me is excruciating. More than that, I am less able then ever to “deal with” all the “noise” that is social interaction to me. Going to the grocery store is about the best I can do, and all I think about is how wonderful it will be to get back home. I’m the last person on earth that should be writing this. I think that’s why God has me doing so.

But as I KNOW my source, and as I am considering the power of “Love One Another,” I am becoming intrigued with the idea. It might be a prize more valuable than we have known. It might be the greatest treasure of the universe. It might be time for us to go a-pirating together, do you think?

What could I do if I had two hundred billion dollars in my bank account and possessed full liberty and control over its spending? I have a lot of very good ideas, and I am well-able to live inside the dream as I imaginatively impact the world with all my money.

What could I do if I had “Love One Another” in my daily ongoing experience and possessed full liberty and control over the Life flowing out from such treasure? The multiplied-billionaire is a pauper with very limited reach compared to the treasure and the power you and I would possess together.

The terrible curse of the billionaire is that I would be alone. The wondrous blessing of the Apocalypse is that I never have to be alone again, even while I would be fully able to enjoy solitude and togetherness, quiet meditation and boisterous fellowship, back and forth.

When Paul described the “armor of Christ,” he was describing defense. Even the Word as the sword in our mouths is defensive in nature. What I am describing is our one offensive weapon, the rivers of Spirit flowing out bringing life and joy to all, and the source out from which that river flows is loving one another with a pure heart fervently, that is, the Apocalypse.

Okay. Love one another is the Apocalypse. The Apocalypse is love one another. Isn’t that what Jesus said? – “This is My commandment that you love one another in exactly the same way that I love you.”

I mean, look at that. If Jesus’ Word were to be fulfilled in our lives, the ages would turn. For the first time in my life, I’m beginning to think that I believe in Jesus.

As a spy from the land of Christ, I can testify that there is a power of the Spirit inside of Feast of Tabernacles Community that does not exist in the experience of Christians elsewhere. And there is a protection around Christian Community that simply takes your breath away.

Let me share two such occurrences. And I am telling you the truth.

In a move community in Columbia, South America,the guerilla fighters took control of the community and placed all the brethren into the Tabernacle at gunpoint, probably around 75-100 people, brethren, some of whom I know personally. In fact one young man inside that Tabernacle that day sat in my classroom at Blueberry in Canada not long after.

The Marxists poured gasoline all around the Tabernacle, on the ground under it and on the bottom of the walls. Meanwhile the brethren inside were singing praises in the anointing and power of God known only inside of Third Feast community. The guerillas then spent the next hour or two trying every way they knew how to light that gasoline on fire. They could not do it; they could not get gasoline to burn!

There came a moment when they understood that heavenly power was standing between them and the family of God; they left. The family was unhurt.

When I lived in Christian Community at Bowens Mill, Georgia, a massive tornado went right over our community, consisting primarily of older mobile homes. The massive gum tree just before the buildings started was pulled out of the ground and broken. The huge pines just on the other side of where the buildings ended were plucked high into the air and slammed down as toothpicks upon the ground.

I was the first one outside, along with my future father-in-law, and as we walked around the community, seeking to find if anyone had been hurt, we were absolutely STUNNED by what we saw. The tornado had lifted from the ground to go over the first building, taking the tops of the trees off with it and then touched down again just beyond the last trailer. Inside that bubble of the community, every pressure of the wind had passed through under perfect control.

Not one person was touched. Every tree that might have crushed a trailer stood unharmed. Every tree that went down fell between trailers. One trailer only suffered more than superficial damage. It was a trailer owned by a couple who had been asking God for the provision to repair some problems with their trailer. They lost nothing more than a few clothes, but then their insurance (it was the only trailer insured) paid, not only to repair the tornado damage, but to perform all of the remodeling they needed.

I walk always in the certain grace of God, keeping and protecting me and my family. I have watched with my eyes as the wall surrounding my body stopped death in its tracks more than once. But I also know firsthand the drama of God among His people, keeping and empowering us together, and such experiences are far more glorious than any individual grace.

Consider those two examples I gave of the demonstration of God among us – they are simply a foretaste of what I am talking about – the power of the Apocalypse. The enemies of Christ are confused and turned away by the power of Love One Another. The forces of nature bow in obedience to the power of Love One Another.

This is what I have always believed, since age 21, that Third Feast Christian Communities ARE the forward outposts of the conquest of all creation by the Kingdom of Love. I have tasted the fruit of that Kingdom, and I bring back the report of it to you. We are well able to go up against all that sin and death because our God is with us; He is our Source and we His appearance. And we are well able to conquer and to take back to ourselves all our inheritance, all the Story that is Christ.

Yet there is something else that is essential to the power and life of Third Feast Christian Community, and that is what I have known as a full “apostolic covering.” And it is only after writing Symmorphy V: Life that I now know what that means inside of union with Christ and how it must work. The “apostolic covering” I knew in the move fellowship was pointing in God’s direction but provided only a limited and partial example of the real.

For the first time in my life, I am able to consider the cost of such a foundation and covering for God’s people and to be able to say, “Let it be to me according to Your word.” And I am able to give myself to God in such a way only because of two things that have become new in my consciousness. The first is this unhindered flow of my Father through Christ as the Source of all that I am. And the second is the placing before our eyes of that most wondrous of prizes ever offered to any group of pirates – the infinite treasure and power of – Love One Another.

But “apostolic covering” must have its own chapter in this “Art of War.”

Let’s lay out a specific framework, now, of how I see the Apocalypse happening over the next “ten” years. And again, I do not say “ten years” as any kind of prediction. I am using that concept as a means for us to focus our faith on God arising among us. And as we expect God, so He arises.

Of truth, I have already laid out this framework in Symmorphy III: Kingdom – Chapters 24 – 26; that is, the first time I really understood what the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles in the life of the Church actually might look like.

It begins with “two or three gathered together inside of My name.” Brethren then come, drawn to taste and to KNOW the LIFE experience coming out of these two or three gathered inside of “Love one another in exactly the same way that I love you.” – That is, whosoever will may come and drink.

Then, as brethren come to drink and to know, so they become. In this way the foundations for the next community of Christ are formed and set forth. Yet all this is happening, still, in “the secret chambers.” That is, the world does not yet perceive the incredible OVERTHROW forming itself in their midst.

I saw a title of a YouTube video, a TED talk, something along these lines – “Why Religion Will Never Make a Comeback in the West.” Please don’t get “religious” about the word “religious.” It means, to us, Christ Revealed. – They do not see; they cannot know.

You see, even as these foundations of Christ Revealed begin to spread across the earth (picture the root hairs of a fungus spreading unseen beneath the surface of the soil), so the open rule of evil will be increasing along with the danger striking against Christians all across the earth as the blame for all human wrongfulness is charged against them (and us).

And they shall nourish her there (Revelation 12:6).

This line is one of the most significant of all occurrences of “hidden manna” in the Bible. It has been the definition and calling of my heart since I was 21.

“They” are not defined in John’s vision; that is, “they” are whosoever would be “they” by the audacity of their faith in the face of God All-Carrying. “Her” is millions of Spirit-filled believers in Jesus across this earth, the target of the evil one, fleeing from the fury and ruin of all accusation in this world. And “nourish” is what I am talking about. “Nourish” is what I have given my life for, “nourish” is all I would become. “Nourish” is the entire reason I write and continue to write, for by all the proving of Christ inside of me, I would not be left out of “they.”

“Nourish” is the River of Life flowing out from brethren together sharing Hheart with God.

Then, at the point determined by our Master Military Strategist, Christ Jesus, the cover will be removed and all humans on earth will see “LOVE ONE ANOTHER” grown full and complete beneath of them.

And the knowledge of Father Revealed will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.