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Since 1985 I have been in private business.  On January 1st, 1990, FATHER told me to begin the day with one hour of prayer before work.  As a brash young man, I said “Okay, if YOU want me to pray each morning, wake me up by 5 A.M.”.   HE gladly did so… every weekday until HE concluded it after 10 years.  In the midst of this ten year season, HE placed me in the financial “wilderness” and it began in March of 1995.  When I realized my revenue stream had dried up, I asked HIM to “fix” it.  Instead, HE told me that it is ordained that I enter this wilderness for a season and I knew immediately it was to be an eighteen month period.  Thankfully HE sustained us and we did not file bankruptcy.  I had to place my trust IN HIM, not man.  HE provided for us through various unexpected sources during that time of testing.  Each of us must go through our own wilderness adventure, unique to our gifts and callings.  Don’t try to evade this test but just get through it and overcome the obstacles set before you.  Know that HE has your back and will sustain you through the experience.  If you will embrace it, this will be a time of great instruction, cleansing, and preparation.

Jesus had to go through the wilderness, the children of Israel were led through the wilderness, the Sons have had to experience the same process, and finally the woman is sent there as well, but only for a short time:

Revelation 12:14   But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.

The woman is removed from the presence of the serpent.  In response, he does something interesting:

15 So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.

The serpent spews water or words out of his mouth like a flood in an attempt to deceive the woman and cause her to be carried out of the wilderness by a flood.  What kind of words is the serpent attempting to spew out?  He tries to deceive the woman with subtle half-truths that would turn her toward his path of destruction.  However, FATHER’S desert location of protection causes the flood to be soaked up thus nullifying his attempts of this great deception.

As opposed to the serpent, Christ washes His bride with Living Water:

Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,

We can see FATHER’S Divine Intent of Love operating in the woman’s place of separation, protection and preparation.  The wilderness is a place of safety and transition from the worldliness to the Promised Land.  During this transition, we must have the “world” removed from us so that we can be presented to FATHER in a perfected state.  For the overcomers, HE is maturing us into the Body of Christ.  As for the church, HE is preparing a glorious bride to present to Himself.

The carnal man wants to see the wilderness as an adverse place of punishment where want and lack reside.  The spiritually mature see it as a necessity of preparation toward Spiritual perfection.  We must be willing to take on the sufferings of Christ as we are processed into maturity and He will comfort us through this process:

2 Corinthians 1:5  For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.

As we fully trust FATHER’s path HE has placed us on, we will then view the path as an opportunity and blessing bestowed upon us in preparing us for a greater work than anything we have experienced in the past.  The wilderness is a bridge that must be crossed in order to fulfill our calling, one step at a time.  Rather than closing your eyes out of fear, open them wide and enjoy the view.  Be of good courage and know that the Captain of the Host leads the way to victory.  Many may veer off the path and return to the world’s ways but don’t worry, they will be restored in their own time.  There is no need to fret about them leaving the path but simply know that this path culminates in Spiritual perfection and plays a part in the restoration of all mankind.

When I was younger I questioned and complained about the trials and tests.  It was a sign of immaturity and lack of trust IN HIM.  Now I understand the challenges set before me and expect HIM to provide the path to overcome any and all obstacles.  In HIS Wisdom, HE provided a wilderness to be used as a place of maturing, increasing in wisdom from Above, understanding, and knowledge. The wilderness is where the children of Israel first beheld the Glory of the LORD.

We must be willing to give up the past in order to embrace the present and the future.  This time of separation allows us to cut ties with that past and all the customs we adhered to that kept us in that state.  There are many precious memories but there is no going back and we must look forward to the next impartation FATHER has in store for us as we ascend in HIS Love.  Whether one has been selected for HIS Body or HIS Bride, a time of separation for preparation is vital.  Consider Joseph’s time of separation as he needed to get the attitude of “entitlement” out of his character and have the attitude of gratitude instead.  His separation was severe in one sense yet in each phase he was blessed within the arena he was placed but it was all in preparation of his high calling.

The wilderness is designed to simplify our lives.  We cannot take excess baggage with us and that which we take will be quickly jettisoned.  It becomes a nuisance as we are being prepared for our calling.  The world’s trappings are no longer of value or interesting to us as we ascend spiritually.  We will ask ourselves, “What was the point?”  As we shed our worldly reasoning and priorities, questions such as “What was I thinking?” will surface.  We then see how the carnal man was so subtle in his deception by keeping us focused on the temporal.

In Matthew 11: 11, Jesus told us that John the Baptist was the greatest prophet born of a woman.  This includes the major and minor prophets of the Bible.  Where did this great prophet reside?

Matthew 3:1   In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,

2   and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”

3   For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying:

​​​“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:

​‘​Prepare the way of the LORD;

​​Make His paths straight.’ ”

Though Annas and Caiaphas were high priests in the temple, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.  These high priests were amongst the multitudes and missed the Word of THE LORD.  What does this tell us?  When someone is called to a wilderness adventure, we should see it in a positive light for quite often, this is where the real action is!

Revelation 12:13   Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child.

My awareness and focus on the “Sons of GOD” revelation came in the fall of 1995.  At the time, I was a Sunday school teacher for the young married couples.  What do you think I began teaching?  Why the Sons of GOD, the 153 fish, the elect, the overcomers!  Week after week we would explore the various Scripture references and most of those in the class were very interested in this thread throughout Scripture.  It was Pentecost weekend in late May and we had a special speaker on that Sunday night.  Both Pam and I saw through the supposed ministry by the “worked up” anointing projected by this man and his female assistant.  He laid not a hand on us.  This is when Pam received a “new car smell” during her personal worship while the speaker was doing his thing.  We discussed it on the way home.

When we arrived home, Martin Paulat had left a voice mail to call him for FATHER had given him a vision about me that he needed to share right away.  I called him and he shared the following:

“I saw you walking down a path.  I said, ‘Lord, is Bob on the right path?’  HE said, ‘Yes’.  Then I saw three arrows shot at you and I looked to see where they came from.  Bob, may GOD forgive me if I am wrong, but they were shot from the Pentecostal church.”  End of Vision.

Little did I realize that the three arrows would be “shot” in the month of August culminating on August 25th, 1996.  Those were three attempts of attacking the revelation FATHER had been imparting to me.  It was time to be “birthed” out of the church or “woman”.  On the last Sunday of that month and after the final shot, FATHER said it was time to depart.  By the end of that week, I picked some personal items and never set foot in the building again.  I had no animosity toward the leadership.  They did their job as part of the birthing process and I simply looked forward to a deeper relationship with FATHER.  That new car smell was an indication of taking a new form of transportation and leaving the old behind.  It was time to leave the camp.

I share this event not to focus on Pam or myself but to share a word of encouragement to those who have also been “birthed” out of the physical church.  It is by design, not intended to be a form of rejection.  The true definition of ekklēsia means “called out ones”.  This is the church that Jesus spoke of in Matthew 16 when Peter had the revelation that He is the first begotten Son of GOD:

18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

20 Then He commanded His disciples that they should tell no one that He was Jesus the Christ.

On a personal level, the woman represents our soul whereas on the corporate level it represents the church.  Once the departure of the manchild occurs, the church is left in a weaker state, susceptible to being pursued by the dragon.  The dragon was unable to consume the manchild and was cast out of that realm so for a short time the pursuit continues for the woman who had fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God.

Revelation 12:14   But the woman was given two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.

Here we see the woman sustained in the wilderness by FATHER.  The wilderness is a time of trial and testing for a short time.  Just as manna was given to the children of Israel in the wilderness of the Old Testament, the Word has been fed to the church to sustain it during their journey as well.  The fact that the serpent is pursuing the church reveals to us that the church is important to FATHER.  HE is the One Who provides a place of refuge.   The serpent understands the value of the church or there would be no pursuit to deceive it as well.  The church served its function in tutoring my family until we were mature enough to go out on our own into the deeper truths.  We must not be critical of the church as we should not be critical of our own soul where the battle has raged in the past.  Each has a function and when each takes the position to serve, that purpose is fulfilled.  I appreciated the vision by Paulat, the arrows shot, and the wisdom to depart.  It opened up a much deeper relationship with FATHER and removed the separation created by (and the reliance of) the five-fold ministry so that I heard directly from FATHER rather than through men and women.  I believe it is important to hear from others whom FATHER has given a Word for the Body but not as a substitute for a personal relationship with HIM.  Our trust must be focused on HIM not men.

If Christ is the firstfruit and the Sons of GOD are the firstfruits, then the church is the resulting fruit of the harvest, hence the reason for the serpent’s focus on the woman.  Ultimately, the church becomes the glorious bride as Revelation 21 reveals:

1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.

2 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Remember, the Sons are around the throne residing in the Temple and outward is the city, the dwelling place of His church.  Babylon must fall and then the Bride is made ready.  The church will see Babylon fall with all of its illusions, perceptions, doctrines, creeds, and traditions.  Mystery Babylon has kept the earth and the sea in confusion and chaos.  It has misled and misdirected the church to support its agenda unaware of its carnal intent.  The Sons are raised up to represent the unsoiled Truth and will sweep away the refuge of lies as the Water of the Word becomes as hard as hailstones.  These hailstones will break away the encrusted lies upon lies that have been fed to an unsuspecting population.  The ruse will be up.  The flesh depicted by the sea will be no more.  FATHER provides a path of escape for the woman in order to sustain her until her time arrives to be redeemed and fully restored, she is transported by “two wings of the great eagle”.  In the Song of Moses found in Deuteronomy chapter 32, we find the reference to the eagle’s wings:

10 ​​“He found him in a desert land

​​And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;

​​He encircled him, He instructed him,

​​He kept him as the apple of His eye.

11 ​​As an eagle stirs up its nest,

​​Hovers over its young,

​​Spreading out its wings, taking them up,

​​Carrying them on its wings,

FATHER has a plan of restoration for everyone and none will be deceived by the serpent or consumed by the dragon.  All mankind will be restored, each in his own order or timing and none will be lost.  The woman will be sustained and nourished by FATHER and the serpent is unable to pursue her since there is no food to sustain it in this desert.  The Sons are caught up to Heaven and the church is protected and sustained in the wilderness.  The Revelation of Love and its ultimate plan of redemption is moving forward in it perfect plan.  Neither the serpent nor the dragon can prevent the plan from coming to fruition and all attempts to deceive and devour will be overcome.  The pursuit of the woman is temporary.

Revelation 12:12  “Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”

In the above passage, there are two contrasting situations- rejoicing and wrath.  Depending on your vantage point, you will experience one or the other.  The wrath described as woes will be for a short time.  Since most of mankind has not taken part in the Order of Melchizedek, they will experience the woes for this short time.  This time bespeaks of exposure and judgment of the carnal nature of man.  Whether on a personal level or corporate level, the illusions brought on by the adversary will be revealed and there will be a great battle as a result.  When mankind’s eyes are opened, the overcomers will minister on a broad basis with signs following.  Their Love will be irresistible and the wisdom proceeding out of their mouths will draw all men unto them.  They will operate in the fullness of THE SPIRIT and have the LIVING WORD in theirs mouths and it will be a two-edged sword.  It will come forth as fire and devour the wood, hay, and stubble in men’s lives. 

IN CHRIST we have our being!  We will have put on the incorruptible and shed all those weights that beset us in the past.  The trappings of the world are but a distant memory placed in the shredder and converted to dust.  We will look back at the LORD’S doings and see how we were being led and navigated through the times of preparation, testing, and trials in order that we are fully prepared and perfected for such a time as this.  There is rejoicing in our heaven to be given this mandate to bring forth Heaven on earth both individually and corporately.  We not only live outside the box of men’s understanding, but the box has been placed in the shredder as well.  Nothing is impossible for those who believe IN HIM fully and completely.  Our level of anticipation of change has grown dramatically as our interest in the worldly things as evaporated.

We will rejoice as we see the lawlessness fully revealed, not because we have escaped it, but we are called to be the answer to it, as a standard of Truth and righteousness.  We have been prepared to confront it and have been conscripted into the overcoming army of THE LORD.  We have been made aware of this coming battle and this is what we have been trained for.  Paul speaks of this confrontation in 2 Thessalonians 2:

7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.

8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.

9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,

10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,

12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

With the Mind of Christ, we are no longer moved by the other realms or those who dwell in them.  We see turmoil all around us yet we remain unmoved in our walk and are no longer drawn into debates and arguments in order to vindicate or justify the positions of those dwelling in the “sea”.  We know that FATHER will gather us together at the appropriate time by any means necessary.  Jesus eluded to this in Matthew Chapter 24:

30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

His elect are gathered from heaven, not the earth or sea.  The elect have already matured to walk and be blessed in heavenly places, being ordained to do so before the foundation of the world as Paul shares in Ephesians Chapter 1:

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

It is my belief that only those who are exposed and pursue the fullness of this understanding have been set apart and chosen.  This group must not be apologetic or reluctant to press forward to serve all of mankind in Love.  Consider that the masses are rejecting this message of Love by the billions.  Just as Jesus did not surround Himself with thousands of disciples to spread the Gospel in the 1st century, do you think FATHER needs some huge army to usher in the Age of Tabernacles?  Gideon’s army was whittled down to just 300 from 32,000.  Aren’t these parallel stories given to us in order that we might see that it is quality, not quantity, that matters to FATHER when implementing HIS Plan?  A small acorn brings forth a huge oak tree and the same is true for a mustard seed.  This assures mankind that FATHER accomplished the Plan rather than some group of men claiming credit for HIS results.  Let HIS GREAT POWER AND AUTHORITY speak of HIS MAJESTY for all of mankind to behold.  You and I are chosen to be vessels of honor pointing to the salvation brought to all mankind by Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Commander of the army.

In the natural, the odds are overwhelming against the elect.  Ahhhh!  Just the way FATHER wants it.  Let THE LORD be magnified as the Army of THE LORD rides.  Let those true worshippers in Spirit and in Truth carry the Living Word to the world, backed by the power and authority from Heaven.  The “place” of worship is in Heavenly places, not some building or patch of ground FATHER departed from centuries ago.  Those buildings and that land are not sacred any longer thus they become of none effect, they are “no more” in Heavenly terms.  FATHER moved HIS glory from the external to the internal and that is why we are called the temple of the Holy Spirit.  As a Holy Priesthood, we are called to minister outward after having received from FATHER inward.  We are those who stand in the gap between Heaven and the world.  As we take on our callings established before the foundation of the world, the Heavens will rejoice!  Let the rejoicing begin for those who dwell in them!  Are you rejoicing as a result of this revelation of Love being revealed to you, in you, and through you?  Let us not tarry for the woes are upon the earth and the sea and our Love for mankind causes us to place a great priority to curtail the suffering as we are empowered.  After all, that is what Love does.  We get it!  Rejoice O Heavens, Rejoice!

Revelation 12:11   “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.”

The last enemy destroyed is death.  Paul focuses on this Truth right after he shared the sixteen attributes of Love, its pursuit and the desire of Spiritual gifts with their appropriate operation in chapters 13 and 14 of 1 Corinthians.  After Paul speaks of the many witnesses of Christ’s resurrection, in chapter 15 he deals with the last enemy to be destroyed:

20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

21 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.

22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.

23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.

“Each in his own order” speaks of different groups being made alive at different points or time.  Throughout Scripture, the three feasts represent the three “orders” of resurrection from death to life.  The first eleven chapters of the book of Revelation focuses on the Order of Melchizedek.  Those who are called and chosen to this Order will be among the firstfruits who put on the incorruptible replacing the previous state of corruption.  These loved not theirs lives unto death and they are willing to fully set aside their will and its state of corruption for HIS will, the state of being incorruptible.  Jesus is our example to be followed.  He is the firstfruit of the firstfruits.  We must not be disappointed when we minister to others and they show no interest in what has been revealed to us.  This is an indication that they have not been called to walk out this path and that is okay.  There is no criticism or condemnation toward them for Our Heavenly Father is the ONE Who determines our callings.  Our responsibility is to plant seed and HE will provide any increase in wisdom, understanding, and knowledge.  HE is the ONE who opens and shuts eyes and ears as HE disclosed to Moses in Exodus chapter 4:

10 Then Moses said to the LORD, “O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”

11 So the LORD said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the LORD? 12 Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say.”

Our trust in FATHER’S Divine Intent allows us to live in peace among the brethren knowing that HIS plan will come to pass and by those vessels of honor HE has prepared in these last times.  Moses was selected and empowered for his calling.  HE will bring forth those whom HE ordained before HE formed them in the womb.  Relax!  Let HIS vision be our vision thus we do not need to expend a tremendous amount of energy trying to do HIS will.  Let us each submit to HIS Words daily and HE will navigate us through the time of perfection and commissioning.  Once fully matured, we too will minister with signs following, similar to our elder Brother Jesus Christ.  His pattern of ministry provides an expectation of fruitfulness in that He assured us that we would do “greater works”.  We should expect nothing less for His Word is Truth!  In order to do this we must put on incorruption and not let unbelief impair this outcome.  Jesus spoke of this counterintuitive Truth of “dying” in order to live in Matthew 16:

24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

This Truth is all about trust.  Do you trust your mind, will, and emotions or do you trust Our Heavenly Father?  The world wants you to live in fear and scarcity without the notion that Love will intervene on your behalf.  The ego promotes this idea in order to maintain control.  Once you overcome your flesh and are willing to lose it, you will gain true life.  You give up the counterfeit for the genuine and you no longer accept a half-truth but instead embrace the full Truth.  You must have faith IN FATHER and HIS Divine Intent of Love.  If GOD be for us, who can be against us?  This is why we are told to be of good courage and we must forget about our ego’s empty promises of grandeur, never to be delivered but always kept just out of reach.  We must set aside those cravings that come about at a time of weakness only to provide a temporary satisfaction but later demand more attention.  We must not let the earth and the sea’s attraction deter us from “coming up hither”.  Both realms assure us of a life of corruption and it is now being revealed to us that the life of incorruption is in our grasp.  Yes, it is a narrow path shown to us by HIS Love but nonetheless it is now visible and accessible to those who will put on the incorruptible and lose their life in its current state of corruption.  What a beautiful promise!

Psalm 37 speaks of this trust and contrasts those who trust in FATHER versus those who trust in their flesh:

1 Do not fret because of evildoers, ​​Nor be envious of the workers of iniquity. 2 ​​For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, ​​And wither as the green herb.

​3 ​​Trust in the LORD, and do good; ​​Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. 4 ​​Delight yourself also in the LORD, ​​And He shall give you the desires of your heart.

​5 ​​Commit your way to the LORD, ​​Trust also in Him, ​​And He shall bring it to pass. 6 ​​He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, ​​And your justice as the noonday.

​7 ​​Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; ​​Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, ​​Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass. 8 ​​Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; ​​Do not fret—it only causes harm.

​9 ​​For evildoers shall be cut off; ​​But those who wait on the LORD, ​​They shall inherit the earth. 10 ​​For yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more; ​​Indeed, you will look carefully for his place, ​​But it shall be no more. 11 ​​But the meek shall inherit the earth, ​​And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Jesus plainly laid it out for us: trusting Our Heavenly Father brings forth life, trusting in “self” brings forth death.  Let this last enemy death be destroyed.

The twelfth chapter of Revelation requires more discussion when one considers the impact of the birthing of the manchild, the manifestation of the Sons of FATHER.  The first eleven chapters focus on the assessment, training, and maturing process.  This chapter speaks of the manifestation and ramification of pursuing this isolated path.  The Sons are not a majority among those walking the earth and are described as a “few”.  Jesus focused on three disciples within twelve within seventy, not five thousand or more.  Quality, not quantity, is the focus.

The elect are tried and tested by the enemy in many aspects and methods as they are being prepared for service.  You will be devoured with fierceness and wrath if possible and this method speaks of a great dragon.  This method is a head-on attempt to overwhelm and intimidate you into submission and uses fear as the modus operandi .  Secondly,  there will be attempts to slyly seduce and deceive you into submission using lust and pride.  Next, you will be attacked with slander and accusation in order to discredit you.  Your past will be brought up as though everyone else who walks the earth has led an angelic life but you.  People tend to judge themselves by their intentions and everyone else by their actions.  Fourthly, you will simply be confronted by an opposing force that will try to hinder your progress in attempt to make you simply give up your walk.  You feel restrained as though you are walking out a perpetual uphill battle.  These four areas or methods of testing are described and given names in Revelation 12:

9   So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

When we uncover the source of our trials and tests, we have a better perspective and are no longer overwhelmed by the challenges set before us.  The first time you overcome something, you have no past success to draw from at a personal level.  The second time it gets easier.  Bringing the unknown into clarity provides us encouragement and assurance of our goal as we walk this path.  Consider Abraham who was 99 years old when he was told he would become a father.  What past experience could he reference?  He simply believed Our Heavenly Father’s Word to him and now we read of his inclusion in Faith’s Hall of Fame in Hebrews Chapter 11.  The process calls for us to encounter, overcome, and conquer.  Once we conquer, we rule and reign, first at the individual, internal level, then at the external and corporate level.  Without overcoming the internal, how can you ever expect to rule in the external?  This is why I am compelled to direct your focus to the revelation of Love for its power is creative, not derivative.

Revelation 12:12   “Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”

Woe means “great sorrow or distress”.  Those who inhabit the soul realm as well as the sea realm will suffer great sorrow and distress.  Why?  They are unable to overcome the lies and deception and are tossed about by every wind of doctrine.  They are in constant turmoil and are consistently trying to fill a void in their lives.  They attempt to satisfy their longings with entertainment, hobbies, or any other activity that will take their mind off this emptiness.  Some use extreme sports where others rely on substance abuse.  Is the solution to their problem 300 additional channels of entertainment of TV?  All of these serve to drown out the Voice of FATHER Who will immediately respond and minister to them if called upon.  Those who choose to walk in these lower realms will be subject to teaching that omits the revelation of Love.  This is precisely why those at the pulpit speak of impending doom and destruction.  They use fear and manipulation to keep the congregation in subjection.  They promote doctrines where the members of the church need to be under their “covering” as though they have some supernatural power to protect others when in fact they are being deceived themselves.  Paul speaks of these various doctrines in 1 Timothy chapter 4:

1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,

2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,

3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;

5 for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

Can you imagine what will happen when those who have been deceived come face to face with the GOD of Love?  They will suffer great stress and sorrow as they look back at how they have been deceived and blinded all those years.  HE will wipe those tears away as a Loving FATHER does in response.  The church has placed restrictions on nearly every facet of life in an attempt to evoke loyalty by peer pressure.  You can’t do this and you can’t do that.  If you leave our congregation, you will be shunned.   The Kingdom of FATHER promotes unity and forbearance, not isolationism and elitism.  The Sons of FATHER are called to minister life and unity, not death and destruction causing separation.  Woe to them who omit the revelation of Love from their teaching.

Overcoming the unknown is done by placing your trust in Our Heavenly Father.  All power in Heaven and in earth has been given by FATHER to HIS first begotten Son and He returned to the eleven disciples and announced this Truth in Matthew 28:

16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, (ascended) to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them.

17 When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted.

18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All power and authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

20 teaching them to observe (keep, watch, guard) all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

FATHER is raising up Sons to teach the nations to embrace ALL things He commanded.  What is the greatest commandment Jesus focused on?  Love!  Yet in the current environment, that is the one “thing” virtually no one places as his or her primary focus.  This priority or focus separates those who are ascending and being drawn upward from those who remain in the earth or sea.  HIS Love is like a magnet.  It creates an aura that little children can see and draws them to its light.  It creates a higher vibration in the body and repels sin and sickness.  Rose oil has one of the highest vibrations of all essential oils and it is no wonder that one thinks of Love when they see a bouquet of roses.

As for me, I am ready to go and make disciples of all the nations but only after I have been endued with power and authority from Above.  It requires an anointing to operate in this fashion.  Prior to being anointed, we must be fully prepared and commissioned.  We must have the full revelation of Love operating in our lives.  When the fullness of this state occurs, I will know with full assurance and those around me will see it.  I long for its fullness and wake up daily with an expectation of its imminent arrival.  I am not discouraged if today is not the day.  I will continue ascending in Love till that day arrives.  Each day we will encounter the unknown and each day we must rely and trust Our Loving Heavenly Father to lead us down this narrow and rather unpopulated path until the fullness of time arrives.  Once the internal has fully transformed, it will emanate to the external.  This will be the sign to all that one of the Sons is “in the building”.  Suddenly…

Even the Heavens declare Love and joy have come forth:

More on the comet:  http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/new-years-comet-lovejoy-reaches-its-peak-watch-it-n281561

On September 1st, 2011, I wrote in a blog series titled “Now is the Time”:

“The Word of THE LORD came to me early last month and said “Now is the time!”  Now in this ninth month of the year and it is time to come forth and speak to the “called out ones”. “

Next month will mark 42 months, 3 1/2 years, or 1260 days since I was given this Word by FATHER.  It hardly seems that it has been this long since I was given this Word.  This Word is a specific reference to Revelation 12:

10:   And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

The Fifth Gospel speaks of three realms:  heaven, earth, and the sea.  These three realms refer to us individually and internally as the spirit, soul, and body.   One of the mysteries being revealed is that the revelation of Jesus Christ is specifically directed to those who are called to be raised up as Sons on behalf of the rest of mankind as a Holy Priesthood, a Holy Nation to minister restoration to all mankind.  The mystery of this last book focuses on internal, not the external.  Depending on your perspective, you will either study this last Gospel in seeing the full manifestation of Love or the complete and utter destruction.  In one sense, both views will be satisfied.  Those who currently thrive in the earth and sea realm will see destruction of all they hold sacred.  The current religious order as well as the current political and social systems will collapse into a heap of rubble as the Kingdom of Our Heavenly Father descends to cover the earth.

Those who are being matured into being led by the SPIRIT are ascending in Love to the heavenly realm.  Throughout the book of Revelation, this Spiritual realm references heaven.  When the accuser of the brethren is cast down from heaven, we are no longer subjected or moved by the accuser in our Spiritual walk.  Just as Jesus was tempted in the Spiritual realm, we have been also tempted but the Living Word and Holy Spirit provided us with Truth in response to the lies and deceit of the accuser.  This set us free from him and hence he has been cast out of our heavenly realm.

Those who are earthly-minded function well in the Pentecostal church realms.  They rely on religious doctrine, customs, and activities to satisfy their soulish desires.  They are not called to come up hither and instead walk in the earthly realm.  This does not make them bad or evil.  They are often well-meaning individuals who are content with their various church activities and are led by their mind, will, and emotions.

Those who dwell in the sea succumb to fleshly desires and cravings.  They follow after idols and live in constant turmoil for they walk after the flesh.  Their wicked intentions are manifest at all levels of society.  They are constantly sinning and dealing with enemies of some type.  They have no peace so they are always restless looking for the next big thing to satisfy their fleshly desires.  They have been given over to a reprobate mind.

These three groupings each represent a “third” and represent a relative location of destination.  When the accuser is cast out of heaven into the earth, he is removed from those who walk in the Spirit and no longer affect them.  They focus in a different dimension where the Divine and Spiritual are located, not in some distant galaxy.  This higher dimension is accessible to us who physically walk this earth just as those who walk according to the soul do so while covering the same real estate in the physical.  Heaven is all around us just as radio waves are all around us.  We simply need the correct “receiver” to tune in to the Spiritual.  When we walk in this Heavenly conscious state we are no longer moved by the lower temporal states because we know they are subject to change.  The higher Spiritual Laws supersede the lower natural laws.  Jesus fully understood this when He performed miracles of healing, speaking to the winds and sea, and disappearing/appearing.  As we fully embrace this higher dimension, greater works will we do for the Kingdom.  Paul reveals this dimension motivated by the Love of FATHER in Ephesians Chapter 2:

4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Jesus made this totally clear in Luke chapter 17 when He was dealing with the Pharisees who were looking for an external sign of the coming Kingdom:

20 Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation;

21 nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”

Jesus directed our focus to the “internal” yet men have continued in their quest to redirect our attention to the “external”.  Why?  To keep us from ascending and walking in the higher realm where FATHER’S Love resides as the primary, Divine Intent of all those who access this realm.  They love not their lives to death but instead have given themselves as a Holy, acceptable sacrifice.

We have been birthed out of the Woman (church) and caught up to this Heavenly realm.  The devil does not focus on the woman since the church presents no problem to him.  It is this manchild who ascends to the highest realm that demands the devil’s attention.  Only those who walk in Heavenly places will overthrow the temporary dominion claimed by the devil.  The result of the warfare waged against the devil is that a loud voice announces “Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ”.  What is the result of this declaration?

Revelation 12:12   Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”

Of the three groups of people mentioned above, those who dwell in Heaven- rejoice!  Those in dwell in earth- woe!  Those who dwell in the sea- woe!  Wrath is coming.  This loud voice in Heaven is none other than Our Lord Jesus Christ, the chief of all messengers and messages originating out of Heaven for He his the Word made flesh for all of us to be able to see and hear.  You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free!  The Sons are able to fully embrace this Truth and have been prepared for this particular point in history.  The Apostle Peter wrote of this aspect of salvation in his first Epistle, chapter 1:

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,

5 who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

In Matthew 28:18, Jesus said “All power and authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.”  As the first of many Sons, He revealed that all power is given for the ministry by the Sons of FATHER.  Also in Matthew, Jesus had just presented the parable of the talents and differentiated between the good and faithful servants and the unprofitable servant being cast into outer darkness.  Immediately He speaks of the Kingdom:

31 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.

32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.

33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.

34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

We have been summoned to come up hither.  We have been told to “Come, you blessed of My Father”.   Now is the time to come!

Jesus was the first begotten Son and represents the pattern and process of Sonship.  Those who are called to the Order of Melchizedek will follow the same path to maturity and the New Testament provides us with sufficient examples of this maturing process.  Many are called but few are chosen so we must realize that overcoming obstacles will differentiate those who are chosen.  Mysteries are given to the initiated and are not intended for those who are not chosen.  These mysteries are unlocked through the revelation of Love thus we see why overcoming is tied directly to Love in the following passage:

Revelation 12:. 11   And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

The blood of the Lamb was given to us by FATHER’S Love and the overcomers Loved FATHER more than their own lives, even to the point of death.  Men will attempt to pressure you to submit to their way of thinking by accusing you of missing the mark in any area of your life possible.  They will attack you from any and all points just as the Pharisees attacked Jesus and tried to trap Him on more than one occasion.  They would incite followers to attack Him as well:

Luke 23:1  Then the whole multitude of them arose and led Him to Pilate.

2 And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Christ, a King.”

Here in the above passage the Son of the Lord God Almighty is being accused by the multitude.  Why?  Because the Pharisees, those held in high esteem, had already been accusing Jesus in Luke 11:

53 And as He said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to assail Him vehemently, and to cross-examine Him about many things,

54 lying in wait for Him, and seeking to catch Him in something He might say, that they might accuse Him.

These are the very same men that Jesus went to the Cross and loved not His life unto death.  We will be accused by those who disagree with what FATHER is showing us as we ascend to the highest realm.  The accusers have no basis of Truth to accuse us and don’t Love us so they will use any means necessary to discredit us.  Be not dismayed and continue to Love them in spite of their backbiting words and let the words from your mouth express Love for all mankind.  Sometimes it is best to just be silent:

Matthew 27:11 Now Jesus stood before the governor. And the governor asked Him, saying, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

Jesus said to him, “It is as you say.” 12 And while He was being accused by the chief priests and elders, He answered nothing.

13 Then Pilate said to Him, “Do You not hear how many things they testify against You?” 14 But He answered him not one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.

When the accuser is cast down, FATHER’S Word is what proceeds out of our mouths and we know what to speak because we are led by THE SPIRIT and have the Living Word in us.  Our lips are fruitful because we walk in the assurance of HIS Word to us individually.  Though the heathen rage, we are not moved for we live by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of FATHER.  We understand that these accusers are motivated by their carnal nature.  This nature will accuse you in attempt to disconnect you from FATHER’S Love and Presence.  The accuser will bring up every lustful thought, evil desire,  and fleshly emotion of the past.  He will convince you that you are unworthy and hopeless and that you are not holy enough to come into FATHER’S Presence.  This is why we must understand the power of the blood of the Lamb, that perfect sacrifice that resolved the past, dealing with all of our sins.  The past is done, finished, cancelled, voided out, and we must let it stay that way.  We must let the Word of our testimony express the Love of FATHER WHO restores us, matures us, and raises up in Heavenly places.  We leave the old things behind and no longer allow the accuser to impact our testimony.  We cast him down from our thinking and not allow his lies and deception to impact our walk.

This twelfth chapter speaks of war and conflict and conveys the the good news of overcoming all of it.  The battle takes place in the mind and by being Spiritually perfected we no longer are moved by the accuser and those men and women who are used as vessels of dishonor, as instruments of condemnation.  Those who accuse you reveal who sits on their throne… the father of lies.  Further, they reveal that they do not worship Our Heavenly Father Who is the GOD of Love.  Being your enemy, they then become the focus of your Love.  How beautiful!  You see, the real enemy is how we react internally to the external forces.  Each of us must assess our internal reaction, not what we project to others.  That is actually a form of manipulation and deceit in itself.  As the Living Word cleanses us, we are no longer moved by the external for THE SPIRIT leads us.  We must not take on the role of accuser ourselves whether verbally or in thought.  We must see those who accuse us as being overcome by the devil and that FATHER’S Love will ultimately intervene in their life.  If everyone had the revelation of Love, there would be total peace throughout the earth.  We must not forget the Overcomers are to lead all of creation to this final result so we must not be critical of those who are blinded by their own lusts.  Paul reminds us of this reality in Ephesians 6:

12   For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

We must look at the accuser of the brethren as part of our maturing process.  When we are not moved or impacted by the accuser, it is another indication of being spiritually mature.  After all, FATHER created the adversary who plays a vital role in our testing and maturing process.