Mike,

I have heard that 1986 was the 120th Jubilee from Adam. 2035 will be the 121st. And also that we will see the outpouring of the Spirit during the time of the 120th.
Did you know this? Or do you disagree?

J____

Hi J____,
Thank you for your questions.

The answers are, yes, I have heard of this belief of the jubilee, and yes, I disagree. The answer is that the Jubilee of scripture typifies the salvation of all men, and it has nothing at all to do with any particular physical date. Christ’s words are the spirit of God, and they have been being poured out on all who are given to receive them ever since the foundation of the church on the day of Pentecost as recorded in Act 2.

Act 2:1  And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Act 2:2  And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Act 2:3  And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Act 2:4  And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

These words are as much the words of Christ as any other part of scripture, and this is what Christ has to say about all of His Words.

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Since we are specifically told that Christ is our Passover and our Sabbath, it follows that He is also our days of unleavened bread, our Pentecost, our trumpets, our atonement, our tabernacles and our last great day, which is another symbol of jubilee. Christ is the fulfillment of all of the Old Testament holy days and all the types and shadows of the law of Moses.

Heb 10:1  For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

Christ is “the very image… of all good things to come”.

Heb 1:3  Who [ Christ] being the brightness of his [ Father’s] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

That is our ‘jubilee.’ Yes, there are two resurrections, and those who are blessed to be in the first resurrection will rule the kingdoms of this world for a symbolic one thousand years, after which all flesh will be destroyed and all men who have ever lived will be resurrected from among the dead to be purified in a symbolic lake of fire, which will consummate in the salvation of all men and God being all in all.
But all of this must be experienced within first.

1Pe 4:12  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
1Pe 4:13  But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
1Pe 4:14  If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy [ are ye]; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
1Pe 4:15  But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or [ as] a thief, or [ as] an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.
1Pe 4:16  Yet if [ any man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

Christ was right when He said this:

Mat 24:33  So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Mat 24:34  Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Mat 24:35  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

So I will agree with Christ, and I will believe that it is all “near, even at the door, and will be fulfilled in this generation,” not in some distant year to come, or for that matter in a distant week or month to come.
Here is Christ’s advice to you and to me concerning the things of the future:

Mat 6:34  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [ is] the evil thereof.

The whole world ignores these words of our Lord in favor of some dispensational approach to the word of God, all of which includes some form of a ‘place of safety’ or a ‘rapture’, both being two sides of the same dispensational coin which denies that Christ’s words in Mat 24 and the book of Revelation really were “near, even at the door.” They all deny that the words written in the book of Revelation were to be kept by John and the people of His day, or that those words really were to “shortly come to pass.”

Rev 1:1  The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified [ it] by his angel unto his servant John:
Rev 1:3  Blessed [ is] he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
Rev 22:7  Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

I hope that all of these scriptures which tell us all not to worry about “the things of the morrow” and to “keep the things which are written” in Mat 24 and the entire book of Revelation in “this generation” will help, and that all the things of Mat 24 and the book of Revelation are “near, even at the door,” and have always been that way since the death and resurrection of Christ; I hope they all help you to avoid be ensnared by all the guesses that we are specifically advised to avoid concerning the events of the future.

Jas 4:14  Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Your brother in Christ,
Mike

Hello Mike,

It’s been awhile since I wrote; I continue to appreciate the IWWB site and the teachings there, and receiving the emails that Sandi forwards. I still long to meet you all, and know that I will if it’s in God’s plan for me. Every time a conference is running I’m with you in spirit!
I was browsing the internet – I can’t even remember what for now – and came across a link to Arthur Wallis’ book ‘The radical Christian’. As it was available online and I hadn’t read it for many years, I spent some of today dipping into it. He says much that you would agree with I think, but equally some that you wouldn’t. Have you read the book? If not then ignore this; but if you have I would be very interested to know your thoughts about his teachings as he was considered (when alive) a very significant Church leader – at least here in England. His teaching/ books are still deeply respected by my family (mother, brothers and sisters) even though most of them have drifted away from the radical ideas of church that he expounds in his book, and are back in the orthodox church. Arthur Wallis’ passion seems to have been the restoration of the church. My father’s was end time revival – am I right in thinking that you would say neither are biblically upheld?
Only if you have time Mike….
I found the book challenging, just not perhaps entirely in the way Arthur Wallis intended.
YSIC,
M____

Hi M____,
It is always a joy to see your name in my letters.
No, I am not familiar with either the name of the teachings of Arthur Wallis, but you are right that I would take exception to either of their teachings as you characterize them.
What is missing in both is the fact that when Christ said “this generation will not pass away until all these things be fulfilled” is that “this generation”, is not any one particular generation, but the one reading at any particular time.

Mar 13:14  But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

Rev 1:3  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
 Rev 22:7  Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

“The time is at hand… I come quickly,” for any who are “reading and hearing the words of this prophecy” in any generation because we must all “keep the sayings of the prophecy of this book,” and “this book” is to be taken in its “sum, every word is to be lived by” God’s elect in every generation since Christ.

Mat 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Mat 24:35  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Psa 119:160  The sum of thy word is truth; And every one of thy righteous ordinances endureth for ever.

I hope this is of some edification. You are always in our thoughts and prayers.
Your brother in Christ,
Mike

Mike,   Thank you for helping me see the reality behind these 2 teachings in Isa 14 and Eze 28. After being enlightened to this I started to study Rev chapter 12: 7-12 and was hoping you could help shed as much light as possible to verses 7 & 12. Verse 7 –   Why and when is this happening?  Verse 9 –   When was he cast out? Verse 12 –  His time is short? I can’t even begin to explain how helpful you are. Truly enlightening. I love seeing the truth. Thanks, M____

Good morning M____,
Thank you for your questions about Rev 12:7-12. Let’s look at those verses:

Rev 12:7  And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
Rev 12:8  And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
Rev 12:9  And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Rev 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.
Rev 12:11  And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Rev 12:12  Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

You ask:
“Verse 7 –   Why and when is this happening? Verse 9 –   When was he cast out? Verse 12 –  His time is short?”

Verse 7 says, “There was war in heaven.” What in the world does that mean? You cannot hope to understand this prophecy if you don’t even understand what and where ‘heaven’ is. If you have not yet done so, read the paper entitled What and Where Is Heaven? on iswasandwillbe. com. Once you come to see that God dwells in His temple in heaven and that He dwells in His people you will understand that the war we are concerned about is within:

Rev 11:19  And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

So long as we cling to all of the false doctrines of an external heaven way ‘out there’ somewhere in the universe, this book continues to be “sealed with seven seals,” and ‘seven’ simply means that it is completely sealed, and we cannot even begin to see all the things beneath those seven seals which we are instructed and told that we must “keep.”

1Co 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co 3:17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Rev 1:3  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

So “the time was at hand” 2,000 years ago for “the temple of God… which temple you, [ and I and the apostle John] are” to be “opened in heaven” and “read and heard and kept.”
Like all who are in Babylon, I read those words for fifty years and could not see what I was reading. “The temple of God was opened in heaven,” and I am that temple. It is almost as if the scriptures are saying that “the kingdom of God is within you” and sure enough:

Luk 17:20  And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luk 17:21  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

Christ is not denying that He will one day rule this physical world and all “the kingdoms of this world.” To the contrary we are told:

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

What Christ is saying when He tells us that “the kingdom of God is within you” is that those who will one day rule in that kingdom must first die to the flesh is this age. When we “die” to this life and this age, we are transported ” in the spirit“ into “the day of the Lord.” It is only in “the day of the Lord” that we can be judged. 

Rev 1:10  I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

John had to look “behind me” simply because “in the spirit” he had already been through the judgment and the “sayings of the prophecy of this book,” and he could now look back behind him and see it all. John was in the next age in the spirit.

Luk 20:34  And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world[ Greek, aion, age] marry, and are given in marriage:
Luk 20:35  But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world [ aion, age], and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
Luk 20:36  Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection. 

When is that resurrection? Most of us put everything off into the future and in so doing we deny that “the time is at hand” to “keep those things which are written therein.” “That aion,” that age and the resurrection from the dead” are here and now for the few elect of God. They “have passed from death unto life.”

Joh 5:24  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

1Jn 3:14  We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

Rev 1:3  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

If we reckon the resurrection only to be future, then that will be the only resurrection we will know. But if we consider ourselves to be dead and to be resurrected already, then we can and will “keep the sayings of the prophecy of this book” now, and we will be dead already and will therefore “not be hurt of the second death.”

Rom 6:3  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5  For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

Rom 6:11  Likewise r eckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 6:12  Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Rev 22:7  Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
Rev 2:11  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

God’s elect are destined to rule the nations within and without for one thousand years. It is all symbolic, but it is both within and without or there will be no end to death. But there will be an end to death, and death will be destroyed. For that to happen, all flesh must first be destroyed:

1Co 15:25  For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26  The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

“The last enemy to be destroyed is death” is, like every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God,” to be lived here and now, not there and then. 
That “destruction of the flesh” is to be accomplished in God’s elect while still living in bodies of  flesh, just as we are to count ourselves dead even as we live in this flesh:

Rom 6:1  What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Rom 6:2  God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Rom 6:3  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5  For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [ in the likeness] of [ his] resurrection:
Rom 6:6  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Rom 6:7  For he that is dead is freed from sin.

If we reckon ourselves to be dead then we have life. If we don’t reckon ourselves to be dead, then we do not have life.
That is the “war in the heavens” which is even now being waged in God’s elect as they are enduring the fiery trials of His judgment during the “Lord’s day” or the “day of the Lord,”  the day of His fiery judgment on our lives.

1Pe 4:12  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that j udgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

Verse nine says:

Rev 12:9  And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

If you have forgotten verse three of chapter one, then you will not get one thing out of this verse either. Satan is “in heaven,” and heaven is within you and me; within our hearts and minds. When He is cast into the bottomless pit, he is simply restrained within us, until the time of His release within us. As Jesus told us “The kingdom of God is within you.” It is all within.
You ask, “When was he cast out?” Satan is cast out when the man of sin is cast out. Have you never noticed the similarities between the man of sin and His father? Just look at what Christ said to “those Jews which believed on Him” but “could not receive his words:”

Joh 8:31  Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

Joh 8:37  I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

Joh 8:43  Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
Joh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Christians who believe on Christ but cannot hear His word because His word has not place in them, are of their Father the devil. That just happens to be you and me at our appointed time.

Eph 2:2  Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Eph 2:3  Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

Those who endure God’s wrath while in this vessel of clay which we call flesh “will not be hurt of the second death.” Those who do not confess that they “were by nature children of wrath even as others,” will endure God’s wrath on their ungodliness later, in the lake of fire, the second death.

Rom 1:18  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

When is Satan cast out of your heaven? He is cast out when you are no longer dominated by sin in your life. He is cast out when you pass from death to life. He is cast out when you love your brothers, and you love your brothers when you love God and keep His commandments. You love God when you keep His commandments. Do not say that you love your brother or God if you do not believe that you must keep the sayings of the prophecy of this book and do what Christ and His father say to do, and that means “every word.”

1Jn 5:2  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
1Jn 5:3  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

The commandments of God are not the ten commandments. The commandments are all of His sayings and precepts. Those are the words of our Lord Himself:

Mat 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

He repeats Himself:

Mat 7:21  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Christ does not want us doing all kinds of good works and claiming obedience when we do only 50 to 90 per cent of what He says to do. Christ demands whole- hearted obedience to “every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”

Mat 7:22  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

The fire of God’s judgment burns out all the wood, hay and stubble of our lives. As those evil works are burned out, Satan is cast out of heaven, and Jesus Christ then takes up residence within His temple. But He will not be there with another:

Luk 6:46  And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

King Saul is the Biblical type of our strong delusion that we are serving God even as we disobey his commands:

1Sa 15:17  And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?
1Sa 15:18  And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
1Sa 15:19  Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
1Sa 15:20  And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
1Sa 15:21  But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
1Sa 15:22  And Samuel said, Hath the LORD [ as great] delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
1Sa 15:23  For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

King Saul is each of us at our time. The sayings of the prophecy of this book show that we are all “little in our own eyes” when we first come to Christ. But our knowledge eventually puffs us up, and we “leave our first love” all the while claiming to be “rich and increased with goods and in need of nothing.”
“Let him that hath ears hear what the spirit says to the [ seven, the complete] church es.”

Rev 2:1  Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
Rev 2:2  I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
Rev 2:3  And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
Rev 2:4  Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Rev 2:5  Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Rev 2:6  But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
Rev 2:7  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

“You [ and me and all of us] have left your first love” and done all the other sins of the seven churches, and all the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
If indeed we do “keep the sayings of the prophecy of this book” then we have not “added to or taken away [ anything] written therein.” And if that is the case, then we can trust in the truth of this warning:

Rev 22:18  For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
Rev 22:19  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Your third question is “His time is short?” Yes, indeed, “His time is short.” that is the message of this entire book. “The time is at hand… these things must come to pass shortly… I come quickly…” etc.
Why is this so? For this very reason:

Jas 4:14  Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

“A little time” means that what is done must be done “quickly” and in a “short time.”

Rev 1:1  The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified [ it] by his angel unto his servant John:

Rev 2:5  Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

Rev 2:16  Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

Rev 3:11  Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

Rev 11:14  The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

Rev 22:7  Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
Rev 22:12  And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

Rev 22:6  And he said unto me, These sayings [ are] faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.

One of “the things that “must shortly be done” is Satan’s work in our lives after he is cast out of our heavens. He wants us to hate those who have been used of God to deceive us in so many ways. He has but “a short time” because our whole life amounts to nothing more than “a vapor which appears for a little while and then vanishes away.”
One more thing you need to begin to grasp is the character of all of these words. All of these words are but part of the revelation of Jesus Christ. Peter, Paul and John all learned what they knew of the gospel through “the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

Gal 1:12  For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1Pe 1:13  Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Rev 1:1  The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified [ it] by his angel unto his servant John:

The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave to Christ is the same ‘revelation’ which Christ gives to each of us. The word ‘Christ’ simply means anointed. We, too, are anointed by God with Christ and given the revelation of Jesus Christ.

2Co 1:21  Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;

What do the scriptures tell us about Christ? They tell us that Christ is God’s Word:

Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2  The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

All things were made by “the Word of God,” Christ. Now here is what Christ teaches us about His words:

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Christ’s Words “are spirit,” and one more thing we are told is this:

Mat 24:35  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

So when Christ tells us “This generation shall not pass until all these things shall be fulfilled,” He is not talking about a passing generation. He is talking about the generation which happens to be hearing and listening to His words in any generation. His words do “not pass away.”
Coming to see the significance of this character of God’s Word prompted the name of the web site, iswasandwillbe. com. Christ declares so many times:

Rev 1:4  John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace [ be] unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
Rev 1:8  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Rev 1:18  I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

It is Christ who lives and was dead and is alive for evermore, and what is true of Him is true also of His Word.
What this means is that everything Christ is doing in us is ongoing and progressive. It is not an over- and- done- with Word. Christ and His Word are alive and working in us at all times. That is why we are told that, yes, we have died to the flesh, and yet we are dying daily. We are saved and “have passed from death unto life,” and yet we “shall be saved if we endure to the end.” We have come out of Babylon, and yet we are still struggling to shed the false doctrines which we thought we had long ago denounced.
Christ’s words, like Christ Himself, are, were and will be increasing in us as we decrease in Him:

Joh 3:30  He must increase, but I must decrease.

Christ’s Words being what they are, I will be decreasing and He will be increasing so long as I am in this vessel of clay we know as flesh.
I hope you now see when the war in heaven happens, when Satan is cast out and why his time is short. I hope you are given eyes to see and ears to hear what the spirit is saying to all seven churches, and I hope you see that the kingdom of heaven and heaven itself is within you and the gospel of that kingdom is being lived out within each of us.
Finally I hope you see that all of God’s words are the revelation of Jesus Christ which is, was, and will be lived out within us every day so long as we are in this flesh.
Your brother in Christ,
Mike

Sir,
Thank you for your website!   Its opened my understanding a great deal.   You spend a great deal on showing the truth of how Jesus Christ Is, Was and Will be.   I couldn’t thank you or pray for you enough by showing me how Jesus IS in my life and how the spiritual things are always to be.

I find however that you don’t shed any light on what the physical side of all these spiritual truths are at the end of this age. I appreciate your time and commitment to our Lord Jesus Christ!

Thank You.
M____

Hi M____,

Thank you for you letter asking if one third of Christ is missing on IWWB?

You say you have learned:
“… how the spiritual things Are always to be. I find however that you don’t shed any light on what the physical side of all these spiritual truths are at the end of this age.”

If indeed you have “learned how the spiritual thing are always to be,” what is it you are asking about? There is a very good reason why we don’t concern ourselves with the ‘will be’ third of Christ as the orthodox Christian world understands ‘He who is, who was, and who is to come.”

Rev 1:4  John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

The whole orthodox Christian world sees nothing in that verse but the “which is to come,” even though it is consistently mentioned last. They completely ignore and cannot see “the time is at hand” phrase which immediately precedes this verse.

That reason “the time is at hand” is that when the future is here, it is no longer future, but it is still Christ. Read the book of Revelation, and you show me where Christ ever emphasizes the fact that He is “shedding any light on what the physical side of all these spiritual truths are at the end of this age.” I pray that God will give you and others eyes to see that “the time is at hand [to] keep those things which are written therein,” and quit looking for the time to come when you experience “the things which are written therein” or “the physical side of all these spiritual things.

Rev 1:3  Blessed [is] he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

You have not yet been given eyes to see that “this generation will not pass till all these things shall be fulfilled” means the generation “reading and hearing these words.” You are still wondering how Peter could possibly say that the things that happened in and around the day of Pentecost were the events of Joel 2 and Matthew 24.

Act 2:16  But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
Act 2:17  And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
Act 2:18  And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
Act 2:19  And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
Act 2:20  The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
Act 2:21  And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

You have not yet come to understand that “the end of this age… the last days” is what you are now living and what Paul and John and all of God’s elect since Christ have lived. You say we are “not shedding any light on the physical side of all these spiritual truths.” All that tells me is that you are not yet satisfied with “the things of the spirit” because you are now living the physical side and are apparently yet unaware of that fact. Your life is the “end of this age” if you are God’s elect. If you are not God’s elect, then “the ends of the age” will not come upon you until the lake of fire white throne judgment.

I pray that God will give you the eyes to see that “the ends of the age are come upon us,” and you will quit trying to look outward and to the distant future when everything written in the prophecy of this book is both inward and “at hand,” and that is why the “is” is always first and prominent. I pray that our Lord will open your eyes to see that the ‘will be’ is always last for a very good reason, and yet that is always what “a wicked a perverse generation” puts first. To know the “will be” part of Christ is to acknowledge that he alone “knows what the morrow will bring,” and to acknowledge that He does not take us into His confidence to the extent of giving us the physical details you seem to so desire. You need to get your mind on the fact that “the end of the age is upon you now.” You need to realize that judgment day is now,  and let “the things of the morrow take care of themselves. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” (Mat 6:34)

1Co 10:11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world [Greek: aion, age] are come.

Paul’s and John’s second emphasis was on the past, not the future. Their emphasis was on  the admonitions of the past, simply because they both understood that “the kingdom of God is within you,” and judgment is now on the house of God.” Do you really want to know what the physical events of the end of this is will be? Here is your Biblical answer:

1Pe 4:12  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
1Pe 4:13  But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s suffering that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

Those sufferings with Christ are “the physical side of these spiritual truths.” These sufferings in our bodies are what is behind of the sufferings of the Christ, which are apparently yet unseen by your eyes. These are the sufferings which must be experienced on judgment day at the end of this age. When does judgment day at the end of this age come?

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

As I told you before, I do not want to offend you, but it is obvious by this email that God has not yet opened your eyes to see that “the ends of the ages” come upon every generation. You have not yet been given to understand the depth of that truth or you would not be so concerned with physical, future, outward events. Set your affection on things above, not on things future.

Rev 1:3  Blessed [is] he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

I hope this helps you to see why Christ tells us in the very next verse and so many times in the Book of Revelation and throughout the Bible:

Rev 1:4  John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

When we presently “know God and Jesus Christ who God has sent,” the was and the will be Christ are also acknowledged and known.

Joh 17:3  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

In our last correspondence you made this statement:

I’ve been reading the Bible for 10 months now and thanks to you I have seen truths people don’t see most their lives. I pray no truth of the word would ever offend me but bring joy to my spirit.”

Here is Christ’s own personal answer to your question. I hope and pray that it does indeed “bring joy to your spirit.”

Luk 17:20  And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luk 17:21  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

You have ‘1/3 of Christ of missing?’ in your subject box. You are right about that, but the part the whole world is missing is the fact that “the ends of the age are upon us [and] the time is at hand.”

Mat 6:34  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Mat 6:31  Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

Jas 4:13  Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
Jas 4:14  Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Jas 4:15  For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

The fact that the whole world thinks that the book of Revelation or prophecy in general, concerns itself with future events show how blind they are to these verses of scripture. Prophecy has nothing at all to do with events at the end of this age, except as “the ends of the age” are understood as this “vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.” Here is the Biblical function of all ‘prophecy,’ past, present and future:

1Co 14:3  But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

I hope this helps you to see what I told you above, our sufferings with Christ are “the physical side of these spiritual truths.”

That is the purpose for IWWB. We are not the least bit interested in supposedly sensational ‘prophecies’ of future events, or doing anything more than the scriptures call for. “He that prophesies speaks to men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.”

Your brother in Christ,
Mike

D____ wrote:
Hi Mike,
Not sure if anyone has asked you similar questions to what I am going to ask you. I know the bible says the time is at hand, but it has been at hand for over two thousand years ago. What is the meaning of  “time at hand?” Do you believe that we may be nearing the time of the end of the age? The signs given by Christ, do they have a dual fulfillment? Have you ever heard of www. endtime. com? They believe that the 6th trumpet is going to blow in which a third of man will die by war. Does Revelation portray the end of the age? Thank you.

Hi D____,
You ask if others have asked me about when this age would end?

“Do you believe that we may be nearing the time of the end of the age?”

Yes, many others have asked the questions you are asking, and this question is answered in the Introduction to the book of Revelation which is posted on iswasandwillbe. com. The reason I have that name for the web site is simply because the words of Christ “never pass away.” It is the understanding of this character of God’s Word which will answer your question.

Mat 24:35  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

We “keep the sayings of the prophecy of this book” in every generation. This Truth is posted at the very beginning and at the very end of the book of Revelation:

Rev 1:3  Blessed [ is] he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time [ is] at hand.
 Rev 22:7  Behold, I come quickly: blessed [ is] he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

Mat 24:34  Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

The words “This generation… all these things… I come quickly… the time is at hand… and keep the sayings of the prophecy of this book,” are one and all “My words which shall never pass away.”
Am I denying that the ages have a consummation, an end? Absolutely not, but what the scriptures do teach, is that at this time “the gospel of the kingdom of God,” the very gospel that Jesus preached, “is within you.”

Luk 17:20  And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luk 17:21  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

You also ask me if prophecy has a dual application, and the answer to your second question is yes, prophecy does have a dual application. You ask:
The signs given by Christ, do they have a dual fulfillment?
Read Acts two. Acts two deals with the fulfilling of the signs Christ gave in Mat 24. It is there in Mat 24 that Christ speaks about the “Sun being turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord.”

Mat 24:29  Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken

“The powers of the heavens were shaken when Christ’s apostles all fled and left him to his fate almost immediately after all of them affirmed that under no circumstances would they ever deny their Lord. That, according to Peter is what happened “before the great and terrible day of the Lord arrived on the day of Pentecost.

Act 2:16  But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
Act 2:17  And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
Act 2:18  And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
Act 2:19  And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
Act 2:20  The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
Act 2:21  And it shall come to pass, [ that] whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

I remember very well, in my own spiritual blindness, asking why Peter would say such a thing about what happened on the day of Pentecost. The sun was not darkened, nor was the moon turned to blood, neither had the “tribulation of those days” been endured.
Christ has said that these “heavenly signs” would follow the “tribulation of those days.”

Mat 24:29  Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Mat 24:30  And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Mat 24:31  And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

I saw none of this as happening on or before the day of Pentecost. To me it was all outward and physical. Not one word of this prophecy was of spirit. And yet Christ told us:

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Read the paper on iswasandwillbe entitled What and Where Is Heaven?
The natural man wants to know “ when the kingdom of God comes,” and the spiritual man answers with where the kingdom of God is at this very moment: “the kingdom of God is within you.”  All of Christ’s parables are about “the mysteries of the kingdom of God.” All of them.

Mat 13:10  And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto the [ multitudes] in parables?
Mat 13:11  He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given

So while the whole world is focused on looking for an outward kingdom, Christ and His elect are focused on where the kingdom is at this time. That is why “Is,” and “I Am” are so prominent and “Was,” and “Will Be,” are not what as prominent about Christ and His word.  ‘Was’ and ‘will be’ are, rather that part of Christ which, when made primary, are actually used to blind all of mankind to the fact that “the kingdom of God is within” those who are now being judged and being prepared to be used as God’s channel, through which all the rest of mankind will be brought into the family of God, into the Father, who will, in the end be “all in all.”

Rom 11:30  For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
Rom 11:31  Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
Rom 11:32  For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Rom 11:33  O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

“His ways are past finding out” for the natural man:

1Co 2:13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1Co 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [ them], because they are spiritually discerned.

We all take Christ’s words which he tells us are spirit, and we compare them with natural things. The sun is natural and we compare it with the natural sun expecting to understand Christ’s spiritual words.

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

The natural man cannot understand how physical words can convey spiritual thoughts, and indeed if those words are considered physical words then we will never understand how to “compare spiritual with spiritual.”
I cannot rewrite all I have written on the book Revelation in this e- mail, so I pray the Lord will give you eyes to see that…:

Rev 1:3  Blessed [ is] he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time [ is] at hand.
Rev 22:7  Behold, I come quickly: blessed [ is] he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

… Means that we need to place our focus on the kingdom of God within, and allow the spiritual Pharisiees “to demand when the kingdom of God will come.”

Luk 17:20  And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luk 17:21  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

Notice that all the talk about timetables in scripture are in response to those who wondered about when they would see their dead loved ones again. Not one of the apostles wrote a book about prophetic time tables.
The book of Revelation is not a timetable except as it is understood that we must “keep the sayings of the prophecy of this book for the time is at hand.” It is a book which tells us where we are only as we “look behind” ourselves to see from where we have come. Twice we are told that the things in this book are to be kept by any who “read and hear the things which are written therein.”  Those who say we are at a certain place in these prophecies are totally blinded to the message contained in Rev 1:3 and 22:7. They have “eyes that cannot see and ears that cannot hear” the parables of scripture which are keeping them from seeing “the mysteries of the kingdom of God… within you.”
To answer your last question, Yes, I have heard of that website. Like all orthodox Christian approaches to the book of Revelation, that site ignores and is blinded to the admonitions of Rev 1:3 and 22:7

Rev 1:3  Blessed [ is] he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time [ is] at hand.
 Rev 22:7  Behold, I come quickly: blessed [ is] he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

Nor do they have even a hint as to what Christ meant by these words…:

Mat 24:34  Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

… Or these words, the words of the very next verse of Mat 24:

Mat 24:35  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

They are mystified as to why John would call his days “the last time.”

1Jn 2:18  Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

“It is the last time” simply because “the last time” has to do with “this generation,” every and all of the generations which read the sayings of the prophecy of this book, and keep the things which are written therein. In other words “the last times” are the last times in the lives of every generation since Christ, whose eyes see and whose ears hear “the sayings of the prophecy of this book.” That is few indeed.

Mat 22:14  For many are called, but few are chosen.

I hope this has answered your questions, and I hope you can see that the primary focus of God’s Word is on the Is and the I Am, not on the was or the will be.

Rev 1:4  John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

Rev 1:8  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty
Rev 1:18  I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

I hope that you can see why when the Pharisees demanded of Christ ” When the kingdom of God should appear,” He answered with where the kingdom of God “ Is.” The kingdom of God, and the sayings of this prophecy and all the parables are one and all at this time, “within you.” You are not the good seed as opposed to the tares, rather we are all the bad tares before we come out of Babylon and  come to be the good seed. We are not the Publican as opposed to the Pharisee, rather we are all the Pharisee before we come out of Babylon and come to see ourselves as the Publican who is not worthy to come to God. We are not the prodigal as opposed to his elder brother, rather we are all the elder brother before we come to see ourselves as the prodigal son who has wasted his Father’s substance on riotous living, etc. etc. And thus we all “live by every word which proceeds out of the mouth of God,” and thus we “keep the sayings of the prophecy of this book.”
Will there be an end of this age? Certainly. As a matter of fact, the day is coming when there will be an end of all ages and an end of all flesh. But only those who perceive that day of judgment as now and within will be ruling and reigning with Christ in His kingdom over the kingdoms of this world:

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if [ it] first [ begin] at us, what shall the end [ be] of them that obey not the gospel of God?

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

The time for judgment is not future, “the time is come… It first begins at us.” Only those being judged now will be in that “blessed and holy first resurrection.”

Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Your brother in Christ,
Mike

Mike     Thank you very much for your reply.  The Lord has been doing a major overhaul the pass few years in my life of the things that I have been taught.  So coming upon your website is one of many steps the Lord has been taking me.  There is much to read and pray about. Its amazing when its time to see and understand certain things its like someone throws a switch, and the light shines upon what has always been there.  I just didn’t see it before but the inward part of me just knows it’s true. Thank You Much D____

Hi again, D____,
The pleasure and the joy are all mine,
That “inward part of me” you spoke of is the working of God’s spirit within you, agreeing with His word within you, simply because He has been preparing your heart to receive His word.
” I just didn’t see it before but the inward part of me just knows it’s true.”
Here are your own words from your earlier e- mail:
“The Lord has been leading me down some interesting roads this past few years doctrinally. I guest that what happens after being broken by the Lord for the past 7 years.”
Many of us read but a part of God’s Word and decide what part we like and what part we don’t like. Then we tell ourselves that we are the “good seed” in the parable of the sower, and we take pride in the fact that we do not consider ourselves to ever have been the “tares” growing side by side with the “good seed.”
Likewise we read of “falling on the Rock and being broken or else the Rock will fall on us and ground us to powder.” We naturally think again, that this is a simple matter of multiple choice, and we so quickly forget that “it is God that works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.”
In truth it is God who is working our will and our actions. Our apparent ability to choose is actually all the result of circumstances beyond our control. In reality our choices are all caused choices and not free will:

Gen 45:4  And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I [ am] Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
Gen 45:5  Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

Gen 45:7  And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Gen 45:8  So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

Three times we are told that what appeared to Joseph’s brothers to be their choosing, was in reality God’s working. “It was not NOT you that sent me hither, but God.”
And so we learn the depth of Christ’s statement:

Mat 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Luk 4:4  And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

“Man” is not ‘some men;’ “man” is every person who has ever lived. Everyone who has ever lived will “live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” We all must “keep the sayings of the prophecy of this book.”

Rev 1:3  Blessed [ is] he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

“The time is at hand” was “at hand” two thousand years ago for those who had “eyes to see and ears to hear” two thousand years ago.
This statement is repeated at the end of this book to make sure we don’t misunderstand that we are to keep everything said between these two identical statements:

Rev 22:7  Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

“The sayings of this book” are “every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” It is not just the book of Revelation, or the entire New Testament. “The revelation of Jesus Christ” begins in Gen 1:1 and it ends at Rev 22:21.
So “fall on this Rock and be broken, or this Rock will fall on you and grind you to powder” is again, not multiple choice. The “seven years of being broken by the Lord” of which you speak is really just Him grinding you to fine powder which can be easily conformed to “the image of His Son:”

Lev 2:1  And when any will offer a meat [ Hebrew – grain – flour] offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:

Rom 8:29  For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

“Fine flour” is flour that has been “ground to powder.” It is not an option, but a command that we make all our grain offerings of finely ground flour.

Mat 21:44  And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

The word ‘but’ makes this appear to be multiple choice, but the “sum of God’s Word” is the truth of God’s Word, and the sum of God’s Word tells us that we must live by “every word [ the good and the bad] that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”
In other words, “don’t eat” actually becomes a prophecy that you will eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It is not an encouragement to do so, rather it is God “working in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.” And since it “pleased Him [ the Father] to bruise Him [ the Son], Adam’s will was “worked” to want to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. “It was not you, but God… that He might work a great deliverance.”

Php 2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Psa 119:160  The sum of Your word is truth, And every one of Your righteous ordinances is everlasting.

2Pe 1:20  Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private [ Greek – its own – apart from the rest of God’s Word] interpretation.

If you are ever privileged to attend one of our conferences you will find that everyone there shares the same story with only the minor details being different. We all have been dragged to God through painful circumstances beyond our control. And so we all learn:

Act 14:22  Confirming the souls of the disciples, [ and] exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

It is not promised to be easy. It is promised to be hard. But it is also promised to be sure:

Php 1:6  Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform [ it] until the day of Jesus Christ:

Your brother in Christ,
Mike>

Greetings Mike,

Just wanted to throw out a question … Is it just me, or has the TENSION been slowing building in the atmosphere … in a general sense … just TENSION in the spirit …. like something is going to break …. soon …. please get back to me on this.

Happy Easter … whatever that means.

In Him,

M____

“Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this [ word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.” Heb 12:26, 27

Hi M____,

I think maybe you realize this already, but here is the answer to your question:

Rev 1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

“The time IS at hand and has been at hand for the past 2000 years for God’s ‘over comers.’

Rev 22:6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
Rev 22:7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

“The time IS at hand,” and the sayings of this book happen very quickly in the lives of those who know that they must experience every seal, trumpet and plague; in other words “all the sayings of the prophecy of this book.” Even now, as it has been for the past 2000 years, all those who understand what is meant by “keeping the sayings of the prophecy of this book” experience all of this book including the falling down of all of the mountains and the earthquakes like have never been nor ever will be again.

But Christ is not just a ‘present’ Christ. He is also a ‘was’ and ‘will be’ Christ. And yes, very much so. I feel certain that this age is drawing to its climax. I would never begin to set dates, but when it begins to wind down, it will be a “short work.”

Mike

Hey, mike!

How are you? I have been reading Revelation to familiarize myself with the scriptures before a more in- depth study. Near the end it talks about, ‘let him that is righteous be righteous still, and let he who is wicked be wicked still.’ (I’m paraphrasing.) What does that really mean? Also, could you help me understand what the scriptures say about consciousness (or the lack of ) after death, and the possibility of the paranormal and how they relate. Thanks, Mike.

S____

Hi S____,

I had the privilege of hosting a friend who also got to know me through my web page. He and his wife were on their way to Florida to visit his family. I felt honored that they came by and spent Wednesday with us. We discussed the book of Revelation while he was here. That book is “the revelation of Jesus Christ.” But everyone takes that to mean that it is a book about endtime events. Well, it is, but it is so much more than that. I would love to discuss it with you, but it is simply too big a subject to cover in an e- mail. [ Ed. note: We now have the very thorough treatis on the book of Revelation with an verse- by- verse series here]

You asked about Rev 22.

Rev 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

It seems incredible that you would ask this question, because this is what I was discussing with my guest when your letter came in. Like I said, I can’t cover the whole book here, but your question certainly forces me to point out that this book has nothing to do with endtime events in the sense that it is taught in Babylon. Look at what the context of this scripture is:

Rev 22:10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
Rev 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Rev 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Rev 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Rev 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Rev 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Rev 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Rev 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: Rev 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and [ from] the things which are written in this book.
Rev 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Rev 22:21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Do you see that word ‘quickly?’ It is the same root as the word translated ‘shortly’ in Rev 1:1.

Rev 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Now FRev 22:10 tells John not to seal this book because “the time IS AT HAND.” This was written nearly 2000 years ago. So “the time was at hand” then, ‘the time was at hand’ for each succeeding generation since that time and ‘the time is at hand’ right now! The reason for this is because of the most often repeated statement in this book. This book starts and ends with this same message, ‘I am the Lord who is, was and will be. Do what is in this book, because the time is at hand.’

Look at this verse in chapter one:

Rev 1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
Rev 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Now compare this with the verses you ask about:

Rev 22:10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
Rev 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Rev 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Rev 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Rev 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

There is no difference between the beginning and the end of this book. The statement that ‘I am the alpha and the omega, He that is was and will be’ is repeated 11 times in this book. That is an incredible number of repetitions. It is because it is that significant a point. We simply must come to understand that this book is concerned more with what each of the elect of every generation since Christ must DO, than it is concerned with when certain events will happen in only the last generation.”Keep the things that are written therein for the time is at hand…” and do “his part…[ of ] the things which are written in this book.” That is what this book is about. Now we do need to come to understand what all these symbols mean, or this book will still have seven seals on it, and we will be “weeping” because no one can open this book so we can see what our part in this book is and so we can keep the things that are written therein.

Rev 5:1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
Rev 5:2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book [ this book, telling us what we must “Keep,” and what “our part in this book], and to loose the seals thereof?
Rev 5:3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
Rev 5:4 And I wept much [ He had just been told to “Keep the things in this book and now it appeared in the vision as if this book of instructions is sealed with seven seals], because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
Rev 5:5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

The only people for whom Christ opens these seven seals are those who are “in Christ”; His elect, who literally weep to know what is His will for them. For all others this book is completely (seven) sealed. For all others we are instructed:

Rev 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

I hope you understand what I’ve said in this e- mail. The book of Revelation is not what most people think it is. It certainly has much to say about end time events, but not in the way that is normally understood. There would be much to discuss on this subject. All of the symbols of Revelation are interpreted in the Old Testament. It is not a guessing game coming out of the minds of men. The two olive trees of Rev 11 are interpreted for us in Zec 4:

Zec 4:2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all [ of] gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which [ are] upon the top thereof:
Zec 4:3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right [ side] of the bowl, and the other upon the left [ side] thereof.
Zec 4:4 So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What [ are] these, my lord?
Zec 4:5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
Zec 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

The “word of the Lord” is not in most ministers. If it is in you, then you are one of Christ’s witnesses, and “two or three” is the number for witness in scripture. These “two olive trees” which feed the oil to the seven candlesticks are those who truly witness that Christ is in their lives.

Let me hear from you,

Mike