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We covered this odd list of tribes and focused on those that were deleted from this list. Now, we look at the inclusions of tribes that we would not otherwise find in any normal list of the tribes of Israel. Levi was not a distinct tribe with its own territory, but Levi made its home amongst the other tribes. Levi is Code for the bondservants of God comprised of both Gentile (identified with Ephra...

Here we have a fascinating list in the Code revealed by the number 144,000 but also in the Code communicated through the various tribes of Israel. The list is unusual, and this is the only place this combination of “tribes” shows up in the Codex . This number is like the image of the 24 elders (12+12), the collection of Jews and Gentile believers who are even now sitting on their thrones. The list...

Before destruction is released upon the earth, the Angel of the Lord—an image of Jesus—instructs that first the bondservants of God must first be marked on their foreheads or sealed with His signet, setting them apart and protecting them from the destructions to come. The image of 144,000 is a picture of all those who are even now choosing to come out of the great tribulation. Download Transcript

The 6th seal was opened, our perspective is moved from heaven to earth, with a bizarre string of 6-images: The earthquake, the sun became black as sackcloth, the whole moon became like blood, the stars of the sky fell to the earth, the sky was split apart like a scroll when being rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their place. This is a judgment against all the structures u...

Seal 5 is opened. John saw the souls of those having been slain for the word of God and for the witness or the testimony they had borne. These “ souls ” have yet to receive their new bodies which Jesus promised would be given to His bondservants at the time of the rapture. Yet all true believers who are killed during the first 3.5-years of the tribulation take part in the first resurrection , whic...

With the opening of the 4th seal, there becomes a merger between the spiritual and physical realms. The 4th horse and rider address God’s creative works from one end of the earth to the other. The pale green or ashen horse is released, and its angelic rider is identified as “Death” and he has an angelic companion that travels with him identified as “Hades”. Hades follows Death in purpose, they acc...

Seal 2 is opened and unleashes the red horse. This horse and rider are given a sword to divide and to remove peace from the earth, to set people against one another, so that men would literally butcher, slaughter, and maim one another. The removal of peace extends wars and to all other means of violence that occurs in our homes, neighborhoods, towns, villages, cities, states, provinces, countries,...

It is often presumed that with the opening of the scrolls, the End Times or the “7-year Tribulation” begins, but some of the events that are unleashed by the opening of the seals are even NOW occurring and have been occurring every moment of our now, since the time of the unveiling. The white horse and rider are released and told to ride. White speaks of purity and righteousness. There is NEVER EV...

The Lamb takes the scroll from the one who chooses to now be sitting on the throne and our attention is drawn to the only one who is worthy, the one who chose to give up His glory and do the unthinkable, become a man (which was one huge sacrifice), and then chose to sacrifice His life for the sins of the entire world. Sacrifice is a key theme throughout the Revelation narrative, and it defines the...

John sees a scroll in heaven in the right hand of the one sitting on the throne. This scroll was sealed with 7-seals. No one was worthy to take the scroll. This truth crushed John as he thought that some man should be worthy, whether it is Enoch, Noah, Moses, Daniel, Job, or even himself. But none were worthy—no man could take the scroll. Only the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the one who conquered...

In Revelation 4:8-11 we are washed over with praise and worship from the Four living creatures and from the 24-Elders. The Four start with acknowledging Adonai El Shaddai, the one who is the ultimate sovereign over all the affairs of our lives, the one who is great and mighty such that the Four declare holy, holy, holy acknowledging that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are separate and set apa...

The Four creatures around the throne are like the Cherubim (the faces, the eyes) and to the Seraphim (the wings). However, these Four living creatures do not have 4 faces, each creature has only one face: that of a lion, a man, an eagle, and a cow, respectively. Each face has overtones to the gospels: Matthew (Lion), Luke (Man), John (Eagle), and Mark (Ox). The Four have a unique role in protectin...

John’s First Glimpse into the Heavenly Realms, the Throne of God, and the Worship of Him Who Was, Who Is Being, and Who is Now Choosing to be Coming. John saw a door that had previously been opened by God and was remaining open. Jesus was calling John or commanding him to come up to His great Assembly and get His perspective of things, to come up before Him that he might understand how things func...

The Revelation is a book that with every turn of the page we find a wonderful surprise to which we can look forward both for our Eternity Now and for our Eternity Then . In this episode we will address the letters to the churches and the prophetic way they are linked in terms of the promises which Jesus makes to those who are now overcoming. To those who are now believing, He spoke only blessing a...

Jesus is their friend, but He now wants to become their lover. He commands them to choose to be zealous, or hot (like the healing waters of Hierapolis), and to have their life defined by repentance—but with this reference to being zealous and its overtones to the healing waters of Hierapolis, He is hinting at His purpose for standing at the door and knocking. He desires their deep inner healing. Y...

To find healing from their sick condition, Jesus instructs them to buy from Him gold having been refined in the fire. If we are willing , the Father will use the fire of sufferings to teach us obedience and to perfect us in Him, just as He did with Jesus. God’s goal is to have His nature fill and inhabit our bodies, hence, He has to remove all that is in the way of His occupancy. There is all nece...

The Church at Laodicea P1. Overall Theme: Let Me In Those in Laodicea are NOT hiding behind their religious deeds, they are not comingling their faith with demonic idolatry, they are not lusting after the riches of religion, and they are not manipulating others with spirituality to control and dominate them. They have not fallen into the apostasies of Cain, Balaam, or Korah . As such, Jesus takes...

Jesus now comes quickly, so he wants us to hold fast to what we now have. In our endurance, Jesus promises to come and protect over the choice we have made to live as a Chosen one, a bondservant of Jesus Christ. We must be alert for there are those who are actively hunting believers, who want to steal their crown. The secret however to enduring and holding on to the crown of victory is to enter th...

Jesus said that there were those who say they believe but are of a synagogue of Satan. This entire concept of those who are not now of God but are of a synagogue of Satan is consistent with what we studied in the Prelude in 1 John 5:19 , “ We know that we are now of God, and that the whole world now chooses to lie in the power of the evil one .” It is quite binary and a bit shocking. There is no m...

The Church at Philadelphia: Overall Theme: Hold on & Seek Refuge It is possible for a person, a people group, a church, to even now be believing or abiding in Christ. All that we have learned about the Design Point , the Substitution Principle , and how the source matters, the source is everything , can practically be lived out. Jesus assures them that because His very nature is holy, Yahweh M...

The Thessalonian church is an example of those who will be rescued from the wrath to come. Their faith is described as a work of faith and labor of agape love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father. Therefore, Jesus chooses to now deliver them from the wrath to come as He is justifying and reconciling those who let Him, those who choose to let Him...

God’s promises of protection from the wrath to come are given to His bondservants—the Chosen—to those who are deemed to be “in Christ.” But He will be clearing His threshing floor and, in His wrath, bring about a judgment of the religious masses within His household who do not live by grace through faith and therefore CANNOT bear good fruit which comes only through Jesus as a person clings to Him...

The Church at Sardis: Overall Theme: Spiritual Delusion=Death The Spirit’s command is that we repent and change how we think about our strong walls of good religious deeds. We must be willing to let God change what we believe about all our church worthy deeds, and what we believe about our need to be dependent upon Jesus for ALL things ALL the time. Jesus warns them (and us) that if we do not wake...

The Church at Sardis Overall Theme: Spiritual Delusion=Death Many churches, and therefore the spiritual lives of many individuals, have not been founded upon the truth revealed by the Spirit of God. That is not to say that their foundations are void of the truth or of that which has been revealed by the Spirit of God, but it is not complete or secured in Christ. It all starts with one big lie and...

Revelation 3 Overview: Jesus’s Letters to Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. Religion is Lambasted and Faithfulness in Humility is Honored. The Church at Sardis Overall Theme: Spiritual Delusion=Death This is one of the hardest letters for those within the religion of Christianity. It speaks of an unimaginable reality where a church with a grand reputation for being alive in Christ is in fact dea...