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…