Friday, September 12, 2014

Revelation 4:2-3

At once I came under the [Holy] Spirit’s power, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with One seated on the throne!
· The Holy Spirit teaches us all things. So if He has to take us up to Heaven to do it, He will. If it is a vision, He will use a vision, or a dream, or a sermon. Whatever it takes to teach us, the Holy will use it to insure that we are kept.
· Notice here that John only sees that One is seated on the Throne. This verse really shows us the Truth of our unity with our Father. Jesus is seated with God in Heaven and yet when John sees the Throne, there is only One. Our Father had it written that we have been raised up and made to sit together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. 

· And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together [giving us joint seating with Him] in the heavenly sphere [by virtue of our being] in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One). Ephesians 2:6 
· There is absolutely no separation between our Father and Jesus and when John sees the Throne, the place of ultimate authority, He only sees One. Jesus teaches us in John 17:21-24, that we are now one with our Father as He is One with our Father. The Truth is if you have seen Jesus, you have seen the Father, John 14:7, and we are now one with Jesus. So if you have seen us, you have seen the Father! Just look at the power that we have been grafted into and become one with. Really take hold of it, because the revelation of who we now are in Christ and Who He is within us, will give you a peace and an actual joy of being around for all that we are about to study.
· The Door is open, the separation is gone. The two, Jesus and His Bride, have become one flesh. Nothing is kept from us, nothing is hidden from us, because Jesus was successful and removed anything and everything that could.   
·For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:30-32
And He Who sat there appeared like [the crystalline brightness of] jasper and [the fiery] sardius, and encircling the throne there was a halo that looked like [a rainbow of] emerald.
·Jasper has several colors in it. Jesus sacrifice has allowed people from every tribe, tongue, and nation to be His Bride.
·Sardis is red. Jesus shed His Blood to give us life. His Blood is still active and alive. His sacrifice has eternal power.
·Emerald is Green and it represents that Jesus is the King and that He has life and the rainbow represents that there is now peace between us and our Father because of Jesus.
·Jesus is all of these things. Jesus has John tells us the power and complete victory of Himself before He ever has him talk about the Great Tribulation.
·Jesus says these things not to brag about Himself. Ask yourself this: why would Jesus have to go on and on about how great He was if we were going to be up in Heaven when the Great Tribulation comes? He tells us these things to show us that we will be kept, as He is in total and complete control of the events of the end times.   

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