“TAKE ANOTHER LOOK” W1S180 (09-23-20) Revelation 21:9-11
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Revelation 21:9-11 (NKJV) says, “9 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.”
● So, have you ever had the words of Father God seem to cut so deep that it felt as if you were being cut by a sword in your heart? Well, it was not your heart being cut as in the organ that pumps blood, but it was something being cut within the thinking of your own soul. There are times within the human-experience, that mankind has not been able to understand the things that are of spirit, due to the hindrance of unrenewed thoughts.
● Therefore, the Eternal Christ, as us, faced the last seven plagues, plēgē {plǎy–gǎh’} within our own minds, so that the strike of His voice brings a calamity within that we often interpret as confusion. And that state of mind pulls us from the mistaken identity within and like a “twirling, flaming sword” producing a light to show us the way, brings us to the Tree of Life within, so that we may eat of the knowledge of God once again.
● God speaks His words, and then we also speak in agreement with His mind, and the many-membered body of One, becomes a two-mouthed sword declaring the end from the beginning. The soul and spirit are the immaterial parts of the human-form of our existence. The joints and bone marrow are the physical-form of our existence.
● John said that “He carried me away in the realm of the Spirit to the top of a great, high mountain, and there he showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.” The mountain is simply a metaphor of a high place, or a higher realm of thinking. It is necessary to break-out of the religious thinking and think outside the box so that you can understand the great mysteries of God, which are no longer a mystery.
● And then he shows us the contents of His mind within, by “exposing it to your understanding, so that you awaken to the truth of that which has always been truth. The holy place, Jerusalem is symbolic here of God showing you the origin of the temple of God, which is you.
● All that God is, including you and all creation, dwell as One eternal being, with a many-membered expression in any realm. And that is because you are the ouranos {ü–ddrä–nous} or heaven or abode of God, where you are infused with the glory of God, and its radiance is like that of a very rare jewel. This jewel mentioned in Revelation 21:11 is like a jasper, clear as crystal.”
● So, this precious stone, like a jasper stone, is clear as crystal, which shows us value, and purity. It is not how you see the heart stone within you, but it is how the Christ-mind views the heart or mind of mankind from within.
● Revelation 4:3 (NKJV) says, “And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald.”
● The head and the body are One, and the head sits upon the throne of your thoughts or thinking. Notice that the Christ-mind within was like “a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance,” and from that mindset, all of the various aspects of God known by mankind around the world. And God presents Himself in appearance like an emerald, which is the color green, and is not the color of money, but the color of life. Since this is the declaration of the end from the beginning, mankind can step into this open portal of the pure life of God, and live life, from out of His life in you.
● The husband and the bride are allegorically masculine as the spirit-form, and feminine as the soulish-form human-form. What this passage unveiled is that the Eternal Christ within is revealing you as the city of God, or the dwelling of the Creator. It is like you as ALL creation, sharing the same space with ALL that is the Creator, the fullness of God, Christ in you, the hope of glory.
● The word “seven” used here comes from the Greek word hepta {hep–täw’} which is a primary number associated with “perfection” or “completion,” and the seven last plagues {plēgē {plǎy–gǎh’} a strike to the consciousness of mankind came when Christ took the confusion in your awareness, AS YOU, so that mankind could walk in his true God-identity, and no longer be plagued by any form of mistaken identity producing thoughts of separation from our Creator.
● I hope you were enlightened and inspired to “dig deep into the well of the Father’s mind within,” as you watch this video lesson!