Post #65 Revelations Part I (I know they’ll be more)

Posted and E-mailed April 19-20, 2007 Revelations is NOT on my preferred topic list but from the beginning I told GOD I’d let HIM decide what I should do and when. After all HE knows:

• --- what’ll work;
• --- what’s right;
• --- what I’d be willing to do;
• --- how to prepare/teach me to do it;
• --- what I need;
• --- what I want;
• --- what will get in the way of what HE wants;
• --- etc, so I let HIM call all the shots.

I BELIEVE that's the EASIEST way for GOD to work with us. Because the MORE we know in advance the more likely we are to JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS, get in the way of HIS WORK, and/or take credit for HIS WORK. We have to TRUST HIM and be HIS SERVANT. NO QUESTIONS ASKED. Just remember, HE WON'T ask you to break ANY of HIS LAWS along the way. However, the DEVIL will and he's NOT above pretending to be god and trying to get you to break GOD'S LAWS.

So I told GOD, one of my WEAKNESSES is that I like being appreciated/thanked. Thus, I asked HIM to do things in a way that’ll help me avoid being tempted to take credit for the work HE does through me and to make it as easy as possible for me to give HIM the GLORY and THANKS HE deserves. That gets us to toady’s message from HIM.

As I said earlier, REVELATIONS is NOT on my preferred reading list. So I DON’T find time to read that part of the bible. However, this week our bible study group readings included REVELATIONS 1:9-13; 17-19 (so we read Revelations Chapter 1 verses 12-20). That passage is assumed to be John’s vision of Christ. I thought so too, when I first read the passage during our meeting. Thus, I FAILED another one of GOD’S TESTS. It is NOT my job to JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS as GOD’S SERVANT. It is my job to:

• --- LISTEN;
• --- STUDY;
• --- LEARN;
• --- and WAIT for GOD to give me the PERFECT meaning behind HIS MESSAGES.

With that in mind, I BELIEVE GOD’S telling us, the figure in this passage is REPRESENTATIVE of any/all religious prophets, messengers … who were/are speaking words from the SPIRIT OF GOD. I DON’T want to jump the gun and say more than GOD wants me to at this time because that’s how I end up falling on my face.

Again with that in mind, I will say that the TW0-EDGED SWORD in the prophet, messenger …’s mouth represents THE WORD OF GOD that they spoke to us. It means that GOD’S WORD is a TWO-EDGED SWORD. It can SAVE YOU or it can be the DEATH OF YOU. It also REPRESENTS the POWER and CONTROL GOD’S WORD (the WORD IS GOD) has over the DEVIL/EVIL. You have the choice to be GOOD and follow the teachings spoken by GOD’S prophets, messengers … or you can be BAD and ignore the teachings spoken by GOD’S prophets, messengers … It’s a TWO-EDGED SWORD and you have the choice. One choice leads to ETERNAL LIFE the other DEATH and ETERNAL SUFFERRING.

GOD hasn’t given me enough confidence to say what the true meaning of the SEVEN STARS (seven angles) and/or the SEVEN LAMPSTANDS (seven churches) are yet. But HE seems to be trying to explain how HE and HIS prophets, messengers … will unite the seven faiths/churches. They would still be separate faiths/churches but they’ll agree on MAJOR ISSUES and work together to fight evil. Together, they’d accomplish more for their ONE and ONLY GOD and this world, than they could collectively on their own. Just like big businesses can/does put little mom and pop shops out-of-business, the devil is trying to put faith/churches out-of-business. It is ONLY as a UNITED TEAM that GOOD can/will prevail over evil. Thus the WAR between GOOD and EVIL will move to the NEXT LEVEL.