October 6, 2025

JOURNEY OF FAITH
Day Thirteen

 

All praise belongs to You, Abba Father!  With all my heart, I extol You in the council of the upright and in the assembly!  Your works are great, Father; they are pondered by all who delight in them!  Glorious and majestic are Your deeds, and Your righteousness endures forever!  You cause Your wonders to be remembered!  You are gracious and compassionate, Father!  You provide food for those who reverence You; You remember Your covenant forever!  The works of Your hand are faithful and just; all Your precepts are trustworthy!  They are steadfast forever and ever…done in faithfulness and uprightness!  You provide redemption for Your people; You ordained Your covenant forever!  Holy and awesome is Your Name!  Awe-filled regard for You with the utmost reverence and respect is the beginning of wisdom, Father; all who follow Your precepts have good understanding!  To You belongs Eternal praise!  Hallelujah!  
You reign forever, Father; let the nations tremble!  All praise belongs to Your Great and Awesome Name, for You are Holy!  I exalt You, Father…my Lord and my God…and worship at Your footstool, for You are Holy!  I exalt You, Father, my Lord and God, and worship at Your Holy mountain, for You are Holy! 
Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy!  You are Awesome, Father…the Lord Most High!  You are the great King over all the Earth!  You have ascended amidst shouts of joy, Father…the Lord amidst the sounding of trumpets!  I sing praises to You; I sing praises!  I sing praises to my King; I sing praises!  For You are the King over all the Earth, Father; I sing to You a psalm of praise!  You reign over the peoples; You are seated on Your holy Throne!  The kings of the Earth belong to You, Father!  You are greatly exalted! 

Revelation 13:1-18 [NIV; amplification in italics]

And the Dragon stood on the shoe of the sea.  And I saw a beast coming out of the sea…the symbolic representation of the very person of the Antichrist himself, as well as the embodiment of all antichrists throughout all ages and in all places who were his forerunners!  He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns…the symbolic representation of the sum total of this world’s political sovereignty and dominion throughout all ages and in all places, now in its final consummation…and on each head a blasphemous name exalting himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped.  The Beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion.  The Dragon gave the Beast his power and his throne and great authority, to be his fleshly agent through whom he could act out his murderous will of blasphemies, deceits, and bloody spite.  One of the heads of the Beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed so that, though once dead, he enters again upon all the activities of life the same as if he never had been killed.  Thus it is that this Beast is a man who once was living, who was fatally wounded, whose place was in the Abyss of lost souls, and who is now empowered by Satan to come forth out of the Abyss as a supernatural personage endowed with all the energy and supernatural powers of Satan himself, along with convincing evidences of his real prior identity.  And though having been slain, he returns again to take the lead in the activities and administrations upon Earth, the chosen leader of all the sovereign powers of the Earth, given power and authority by them to act as the one sole Arch Regent of their time.  The whole world was astonished by this…amazed at his regal appearance, and his wonderful array of every one of the most desirable human qualities, and his superhuman power…and followed the Beast, admiring him, delighting in him, and paying homage to him.  He will be the idol of the world; all kings will gladly yield him their thrones, and give their dominion to him…such will be the splendor, and wisdom, and miraculous greatness of his teachings and his deeds.  He is the anti-christ…Satan’s counterfeit to the Christ…the consummate antagonist and supplanter of everything Divine, who will perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect, if that were possible.  Men worshiped the Dragon because he had given such  authority to the Beast, and they also worshiped and adored the Beast and asked, “Who is like the Beast?  Who can make war against him?”

The Beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his unparalleled authority for forty-two months.  He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander His name, His dwelling place, and those raptured and glorified saints who now live in Heaven…the Woman’s royal seed whom the Dragon had attempted to devour but who were snatched up by God to Heaven.  He is at once Anti-God, Anti-Christ, and Anti-Spirit, antagonizing each particular Person of the Blessed Trinity, trampling on Their claims, usurping Their honors, putting himself into Their place, and abolishing all worship and recognition of either.  He was given power to make war against the saints…the remaining offspring of the Woman upon the Earth…and against God’s Two Witnesses, and to conquer them.  And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.  All inhabitants of the Earth will be compelled to worship the Beast; all whose names have not been written in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world will succumb to his ungodly decrees.

I forewarn you with the utmost urgency…he who has an ear, let him hear!  If anyone is prepared to go into the self-imposed captivity of flight or exile to the mountains, the wilderness, the dens and caves of the Earth for the sake of his safety, into captivity he will indeed go.  If anyone is to be killed with the sword because he dares to take up arms against the Beast, with the sword he will surely be killed.

This calls for unparalleled patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints remaining upon the Earth, as under the Antichrist all true worshipers shall be tested, tried, and persecuted as never before in all the ages. 

Then I saw another beast, coming out of the Earth…the symbolic representation of the very person of the False Prophet himself, as well as the embodiment of all false prophets throughout all ages and in all places who were his forerunners!  He had two horns like a gentle lamb, the symbolic representation of the sum total of this world’s wisdom throughout all ages and in all places, crystallized now into its final consummation as the world’s ultimate great system of indisputable, absolute, truth.  But he spoke like a dragon, making professions and claims of absolute dominion over the minds, souls, consciences, and heart’s of people, thereby usurping the place and prerogatives of the Holy Spirit.  He exercised all the authority of the first Beast, on his behalf, as his witness, consociate, and prime minister.  And he made the very Earth, and all its inhabitants as their absolute oracle and spiritual advisor, worship the first Beast, whose fatal wound had been healed, as the one only God.  And, having Satanic supernatural powers along with the Beast, he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from Heaven to Earth in full view of men!  Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first Beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the Earth, that they would believe the lie.  He then ordered them to set up an image in honor of the Beast who was fatally wounded by the sword and yet lived…the very “abomination of desolation” spoken of by Daniel the prophet…to be located in Jerusalem in the very temple built for Yahweh!  He was given power to give breath to the image of the first Beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.  He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead as a visible badge to show their allegiance to their infernal lord, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark.  The mark of the Beast consisted of the two Greek characters that stand for the name of Christ, with a third, the figure of a crooked serpent, put between them (CHXS)…the very name of God’s Messiah transformed into a devil sacrament, which is the name of the Beast or the number of his name!

This calls for wisdom, so as to detect and discern the moral  degradation and anti-Christian principles characterizing the spirit of the antichrist which lay people open to his power, and the subtle atheism and unfaith by which people are betrayed into his hands, already working so powerfully in so many deceptive forms about us.  If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the Beast, for it is man’s number denoting evil in its greatest intensity and most disastrous manifestations.  His number is 666.

Thus we have the full embodiment of all evil now revealed and operative on the Earth, manifested in an infernal trinity, the mimicry of eternal realities. 

• First, is the unseen and hidden father, the Dragon, that old serpent, the Devil. 
• The next is the seven-headed and ten-horned Beast from the sea, “the Son of Perdition,” begotten of the Devil, his Earthly manifestation, who dies, and revives again, and reappears on Earth after having been in the invisible world, as did Christ, and is awarded the power and throne of his father the Devil. 
• And to this comes a third, the two-horned Beast from the Earth, who proceeds from the Dragon father and Dragon son, for his speech is the Dragon’s speech, and “he exercises all the authority of the first Beast in his presence,” carrying into living effect the Satanic will of both the father and the son.   

Thus, we perceive three distinct personalities…the Devil, the Antichrist, and “The False Prophet;” and these three are one…one vital essence, one economy, and one administration.  The Dragon sets up as the anti-God; the ten-horned Beast, his son, is the anti-Christ; and the two-horned Beast, proceeding from and operating in the interest of both, is the anti-Holy Spirit.  And these three together are Hell’s trinity in unity, the Devil’s unity in trinity! [Revelation 13:1-18] 

 

WHY DO I EXIST

CHAPTER 5
MOST HOLY,MOST HIGH
 

ANECDOTES

Let the heavens and all their starry hosts declare Your Glory!  Let the Earth and all that is upon it…all things visible and invisible, all things animate and inanimate, all things…whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities…let these all proclaim Your Name!  Let everything that has breath praise You, Blessed Jesus…for if we don’t praise You, the very rocks will cry out in praise to Your Name! 

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Friends & neighbors; brothers and sisters…

If you remember nothing else from the pages of “WHY DO I EXIST”… never forget this: GOD LOVES YOU.

God’s Love 4 U is… 
Unconditional
Unfailing
Unchanging
Unending

Beloved…I love you because of Who I am…not as a response to who you are, or what you do, or what you refrain from doing. 
If only you would know in the depths of your soul, if only you would just fully embrace, the greatness of My Love I have lavished upon you…that the most intense desire of My heart is to gather you to Myself as one of My Own children, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. That is the depth of My love for you.  

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WORSHIP YOUR MAJESTY

Lord God Almighty…I WORSHIP YOUR MAJESTY; Your Name is majestic in all the Earth.  Blessed be Your glorious Name, O Lord; may Your Name be exalted above all blessing and praise! 

Let the heavens and all their starry hosts declare Your Glory!  Let the Earth and all that is upon it…all things visible and invisible, all things animate and inanimate, all things…whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities…let these all proclaim Your Name!  Let everything that has breath praise You, Blessed Jesus…for if we don’t praise You, the very rocks will cry out in praise to Your Name!  

You are worthy of boundless worship, worthy of unceasing praise, worthy of eternal thanks, worthy of all honor and glory forever and ever throughout the eternal unfolding ages!  For You are glorious in Your Majesty, majestic in Holiness, awesome in Power, You are our wonder-working God.  You do whatsoever You will with the powers of Heaven and Earth.  You call the things that are not just as though they are.  You merely speak, and it is done; the very words You speak carry within themselves the Power to effect what You have spoken…immediately, completely, continually.  The mountains quake before You, and the hills melt away.  The very mountains melt like wax in Your Presence!  The Earth trembles at Your Presence…the world and all who live in it.  Heaven and Earth flee from the Almightiness of Your Presence!

Who is there like unto You, O Lord?  Who can be compared with You?  Who is Your equal?  Who was there when You formed the Heavens and all their starry hosts, and called them out, each one, by name?  Who was there when You created the Earth and all that’s on it…all things visible and invisible, all things animate and inanimate, all things, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities?  Who was there when You formed the seas and all that is in them, and set their boundaries that they might not transgress it?  Whoever, O Lord, were Your instructors, that You should acquire knowledge from them?  Whoever were Your counselors, that You should learn wisdom and understanding from them? 

No…You are God, and You alone; there is none other besides You!  All other so-called gods are merely lifeless images, carved out of wood or formed out of stone or cast in metal.  But You are the One True Living God, and You live and reign forever and ever, throughout the unfolding ages of eternity! 

Therefore…stand up and praise the LORD our God, Who is from everlasting to everlasting!  Blessed be Your Glorious Name, O Lord…may Your Name be exalted above all blessing and praise!  You alone are the LORD; You made the heavens…even the highest heavens, and all their starry host…the Earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them, the spirit world and all that is in it.  You give life, to everything, and the multitudes of Heaven worship You. 
For by You all things were created: things in Heaven and on Earth, visible and invisible, animate and inanimate, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by You, and for You, and for Your Glory!
You are worthy, our Lord and God, to have ascribed unto You ALL Glory and Honor and Power, for You created all things; by Your will they were created and by Your will they have their very being.    

OMNIPOTENT GOD OF CREATION

All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.  The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows upon it; surely the people are grass.  The grass withers, the flower fades, but Your Word, Lord God Almighty, stands forever!  

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and marked off the heavens by the span, and calculated the dust of the Earth by the measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance and the hills in a pair of scales?
Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or as Your counselor has informed You?  With whom did You consult and who gave You understanding?
And who taught You in the path of justice and taught You knowledge and informed You of the way of understanding? 

Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales; behold, You lift up the islands like fine dust.  Even Lebanon is not enough to burn, nor its beasts enough for a burnt offering.  All the nations are as nothing before You; they are regarded by You as less than nothing and meaningless.  To whom then will you liken our God?  Or what likeness will you compare with Him?

Do you not know?  Have you not heard?  Has it not been declared to you from the very beginning?  Have you not understood from the foundations of the Earth?
It is You, Lord God Almighty, Who sits above the circle of the Earth and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

It is You Who reduces rulers to nothing, Who makes the judges of the Earth meaningless.  Scarcely have they been planted, scarcely have they been sown, scarcely has their stock taken root in the Earth, but You merely blow on them, and they wither, and the storm carries them away like stubble!   

“To whom then will you liken Me that I would be his equal?” says the Holy One.  Lift up your eyes on high and see Who has created these stars, the One Who leads forth their host by number; You call them all by name.  Because of the greatness of Your might and the strength of Your Power, not one of them is missing!  

Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord, and the justice due me escapes the notice of my God?”  Have you not known?  Have you not heard?  The Lord is the Everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the Earth!  He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom.  He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength.  Even youths grow tired and become weary, and young men stumble and utterly fall; but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint!    

SOVEREIGN ALL-RULER OVER ALL CREATION

This is what the Most Holy, Most High, Triune God declares:

• Child of God!  Have you never known; have you never understood? 
  I am the Sovereign All-Ruler over all things, over all Creation…
  Sovereign over the heavens and all that’s in it,
  Sovereign over the Earth and all that’s on it,
  Sovereign over the spirit world and all that’s in it,
  Sovereign over everything that touches your life.
  At My command the heavens were created, and all their starry host by the breath of My mouth.  For I spoke, and it came into existence; I commanded, and it stood fast.  I nullify the counsel of the nations; I thwart the thoughts and plans of its peoples!  But My Own plans stand firm forever, the purposes of My Sovereign will prevail throughout all generations!
  Before Me, all the nations of the Earth and their inhabitants are but a drop in a bucket…no more than dust on the scales.  I accomplish My Own will in dealing with the powers of Heaven and the peoples of the Earth.  No one can hold back My hand or question Me concerning What I am doing!
• I exercise My Sovereignty perfectly over all Creation.  I exercise My Sovereignty immediately, completely, and continually over all things; I am not a God Who is careless, complacent, or indifferent.  No one can thwart My plans, or hinder My purposes, or override My will.  Remember the former things, those of long ago.  I am God, and there is none other; I am God, and there is none like Me.  From the very beginning I had made known the future, and told you beforehand what is yet to come, saying, “My purposes will stand, and I will do all in accordance with My Own will.”
• My beloved child, I solemnly assure you: Nothing takes place on the face of this Earth, nothing takes place in the heavens above, nothing takes place in the spirit world, and nothing can touch your life, apart from My having either Personally caused it to happen, or My having specifically, consciously, and deliberately allowed it to happen.  And all to accomplish My Own good purpose.
  I Myself have sworn, “Most assuredly…as I have planned, so shall it come to pass; as I have purposed, so shall it stand!  I Myself have purposed, and no one can override Me!  My hand is stretched out, and no one can turn it back or hinder Me!” 
  Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?  Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from My knowledge and consent!  I know the very number of hairs on your head…not one hair of your head will fall to the ground apart from My will!
• Precious child…all that I do is necessarily the very best, very kindest, most loving thing that can possibly be.  And although oftentimes you may not understand…yet, even so, you can trust in Me with an unwavering child-like trust.  For I make all things work together for your good.
  Are you still unwilling to wholeheartedly trust Me?  Concerning things yet to come, do you question Me about what the future holds for My children?  Would you dictate to Me what the work of My hands should be?  It is I Who made the Earth and created Mankind upon it!  My Own hands stretched out the heavens; I alone marshaled their starry hosts!

LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, I STAND IN AWE OF YOU   

• I stand in awe of the Most Holy, Most High Triune God, Almighty Creator, Sovereign All-Ruler. 
• I stand in awe of the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the One Who always was, Who is now and ever shall be, and Who is to come back into this world once again. 
• I stand in awe of the Lamb of God, the Lion of Judah, the Root of David. 
• I stand in awe of our Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father. 
• I stand in awe of the Prince of Peace, Great I AM, King of kings and Lord of lords. 
• I stand in awe of the Faithful Witness, the First born from among the dead, the Ruler of the kings of the Earth. 
• I stand in awe of the One Who Loves me with an everlasting Love, Who freed me from my sins by Your Own precious and priceless Blood, Who made us to be a kingdom of priests, a holy Nation…consecrated and set apart to the worship of God. 
• I stand in awe of the One Whose eyes are like blazing fire, Whose feet are as burnished bronze, the One out of Whose mouth comes a sharp, double-edged sword, quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword…piercing, even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit, even to the dividing asunder of the joints and marrow. 
• I stand in awe of the One Whose voice is Majestic and Powerful, like the thunderous roar of many rushing waters churning wildly through a narrow chasm, cascading over a great waterfall, and thundering to the depths below.

BLOOD OF CHRIST

I stand in awe of the Sacrificial Lamb of God.  You laid aside Your Divine Majesty, Glory, and Almighty consuming Power, and came into this world clothed in meekness, lowliness, and humility.  You loved me with an everlasting love, and You voluntarily lay down Your life for me even unto death.  No one took Your life, Lord; You were free to lay it down, and free to take it up again.  You stretched out Your arms on a cross on my behalf, and declared, “IT IS FINISHED!”

IT IS FINISHED, for all time and for all Eternity…available to any soul who would freely and wholeheartedly choose to appropriate as their own the rich eternal blessings of the finished work of Christ on that cross at Calvary, through their solemn marriage vows to become Your eternal bride, Blessed Jesus…the bride of Christ.
By virtue of the Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of Your Precious and Priceless Blood poured out on behalf of the souls of Mankind on that cross at Calvary, You have forever freed me from my sins…past, present, and future…and restored my relationship with God that had been severed by sin.   

• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of the Blood of Christ has secured eternal forgiveness of my sins, and has guaranteed and secured my Judicial Status of Eternal Righteousness before God as an accomplished and finished fact.
• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of the Blood of Christ has guaranteed and secured my Eternal Union with You, Lord…now joined inseparably together with You in an Eternal living union of oneness as the bride of Christ in a divine spiritual marriage…flesh of Your flesh and bone of Your bones.
• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of the Blood of Christ has guaranteed and secured that the Eternal Purpose for which God created me…to be joined together with the Triune God in a Sacred Covenant relationship…stands eternally fulfilled.
• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of the Blood of Christ has guaranteed and secured my Eternal Access into the Holy Of Holies, and into the inaccessible Light of the Glory of Your unclouded Presence, Father…as my birth-right.
• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Holy Spirit was indeed given as God’s Eternal Gift to dwell in me, never to leave me, never to forsake me…to be the Power in me Who continually guarantees and secures my capability to live my everyday life faithful to my solemn marriage vows as the bride of Christ in our Sacred Covenant relationship.
• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power of the indwelling Holy Spirit is now made continually available to me, Whose Power in me continually guarantees and secures my capability to live my everyday life faithfully within the Holy Of Holies, in the inaccessible Light of the Glory of Your unclouded Presence, Father, in our Sacred Covenant relationship. 

I WORSHIP YOUR MAJESTY

I stand in awe of the One Who will be coming back into this world once again, no longer as the Lamb of God but this time as the Lion of Judah, arrayed in all of Your Majesty, Glory, and Power, to assume Your role and to begin Your reign on Earth as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.  

In that glorious coming Day, every eye will see You, even those who pierced You, and all the peoples of the Earth will mourn because of You.  They will mourn as they now fully realize the incomprehensible magnitude of what they had done in crucifying the Lord of Glory, and the contemplation of the impending magnitude of the consequences that will now be visited upon them as a result of what they had done. 

I stand in awe of the One Who is high and lifted up…high and exalted…seated on the Throne at the right hand of the Father, and the train of Your robe fills the Temple.  Above You the seraphs cry out to one another continually day and night: “Holy, Holy, Holy is the LORD God Almighty; the whole Earth is full of Your Glory.”
At the sound of their thunderous voices reverberating throughout the farthest reaches of the Universe, the doorposts and thresholds tremble and shake, and the Temple is filled with smoke from the awe-filled Majesty and Glory of Your Presence and Your Almighty consuming Power.

All those upon the Earth who never knew You…the rich as well as the poor; the kings and princes and rulers of this world, as well as their subjects and slaves; the famous and the well-known, as well as the unknown and the obscure; the arrogant, haughty, and proud…all of these alike will run to the hills and to the mountains in abject terror, to hide in caves and to cry out for the rocks to fall upon them…just to hide them from the face of the Lamb and from Your terrible Majesty! 

In that Day, Blessed Jesus, You will stand steadfast and immovable, with You right foot on the sea and Your left foot on the land, and You will declare with invincible Omnipotent Power, “There shall be no more delay!”
Woe, woe, woe unto the Earth and its inhabitants on that Day when You utter those ominous words; it would have been better for those people had they no longer been living. 

In that Great and Terrible Day of the Lord, Father, Your Divine Son Jesus will manifest the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God against all those upon the Earth who stand in rebellion to His Throne, and He will destroy all those upon the Earth who are enemies and usurpers of His rule and authority, until He has placed every one of His enemies under His feet.  Then in that Day, Your will, Father, will voluntarily be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

I stand in awe of the Rider on the white horse, Whose robe is dipped in blood, and on Whose thigh is written, “King of kings and Lord of lords.”
I stand in awe of the One Who with one fell swoop of Your terrible swift sword against the vast countless multitudes who rise up against You, and their blood will flow…like a river…for 200 miles to the height of a horse’s bridle! 

I stand in awe of Your terrible Majesty and Glory, Lord Jesus! 
I stand in awe of Your awesome Power! 
I stand in awe of Your Majestic Holiness, Your Almighty consuming Power! 
I stand in awe of You!
I ascribe unto You all Blessing and Honor, all Glory and Power, all riches and wisdom and strength…all be unto You, Abba Father, the One Who sits on the Throne…and to the Lamb, unto You Lord Jesus, Who sits at the right hand of God…be unto to You.  Hallelujah!

REDEMPTION OF OUR ETERNAL INHERITANCE

John was caught up in the Spirit, and transported into the Heavenly Realms, there to witness a most incredulous, astounding scene…what no eye has ever seen, nor ear heard, nor has ever entered into the heart of man!  He saw before him a majestic, awe-filled Throne, and One sitting on the Throne…the Father Himself!  In His right hand He was holding a sealed scroll…a scroll with writing on both sides that was sealed with seven seals…the title-deeds to God’s wonderfully created Earth that had been forfeited and mortgaged to Satan and his seed, detailing within the required price and particulars for the redemption of that inheritance thus forfeited and disponed away by Adam’s sin.  A mighty angel came forward, and in a thunderous, powerful voice cried out, “Who is worthy to take the scroll and break its seals?” 

There was only silence.  No one in Heaven or on Earth or under the Earth could be found who was worthy, who could satisfy the requirements to open the scroll or even look inside it.
John wept and wept with uncontrollable grief because no one could be found who was worthy…that all the hopes for a redeemed inheritance promised by the prophets, and all the hopes and aspirations and expectations and anticipations of the saints down through the ages, and all the longings of all Creation itself for that glorious day when it would be freed from its bondage to corruption and decay…all seemed hopelessly lost, destined to end in utter and abject failure! 

Then one of the elders came forward and went over to John, and said, “Do not weep!  Behold!…the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David…He has triumphed over sin and death!  He has redeemed the inheritance that was lost by Adam through his sin!  He has redeemed the inheritance that had been mortgaged to Satan and his seed!  He has satisfied the particulars of that mortgage, and paid the price of redemption…with His Own Precious and Priceless Blood!  He is the true Go’el (OT:1350) Who is able to take the scroll and break forever its seven debarring seals!”   

John looked up and saw a Lamb…the very Lamb of God Himself…approaching the Throne!  He overcame by His perfect obedience unto death, and paid the price of redemption in His meek sufferings, bearing our sins in His Own body and vanquishing all legal disabilities by His atoning Blood, and thereby is adjudged worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals. 

He came and took the scroll from the right hand of Him Who sat on the Throne… that momentous act for which all Creation has ever so patiently waited for and longed for…the lifting of the title-deeds of the alienated inheritance…the legal act of repossession of all that was lost in Adam, paid for by the Blood and tears of the Son of God!

He was thereby now assuming His role and was now to begin His reign on Earth as the King of kings, and the Lord of lords.  The appointed time had now come for the rightful owner of the estate to enforce the indignation of that Throne against all who stand in rebellion against it, preparations having already been made for the sending forth in succession with the breaking of each seal a strong Destroyer in fierce assault upon the enemies and usurpers who occupy the Earth!

The entire universe was stricken with awe, and all Heaven looked on in solemn silence as that momentous act for which all Creation has ever so patiently waited for and longed for….that act of taking possession of the scroll…was being performed.  And when He had taken it, there went an ineffable thrill of joy through the universal heart of all Creation!  The four living beings and the twenty-four elders fell prostrate in adoring wonder and joy before the Lamb…that the unanswered volumes and oceans of prayers of the saints that have ever entreated their God that “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven” had now been answered! 

And they sang a new song…a song which had never before been sung:
You are worthy to take the scroll and to break its seals,
because You were, for sinners, slain,
and with Your Own Precious and Priceless Blood You purchased souls for God from every tribe and tongue and people and nation!
You made us to be a kingdom, and priests, to serve our God and Father, and we shall now indeed begin our promised reign together with You, as kings upon the Earth! 

HEAVEN AND EARTH ENGAGED IN RESOUNDING WORSHIP

Then John saw a vast host of angels…thousands upon thousands, ten thousand times ten thousand angels encircling the Throne and the four living beings and the twenty-four elders!  With loud voices resounding throughout the farthest reaches of the universe, they were singing:
Worthy is the Lamb, Who was slain, to receive all blessing and honor, Glory and Power, riches and wisdom and strength!

Then in response to the adoring rapture of these Heavenly beings, wider and still wider spread the sympathetic response, as I heard every creature in Heaven and on Earth and under the Earth and in the seas, and all that is in them join together in singing:
To Him Who sits on the Throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and Glory and Power, forever and ever!

The four living beings shouted, “Amen,” and the twenty-four elders fell prostrate before the Throne and worshiped the One Who sits on the Throne and the Lamb!
Unceasingly, day and night, the four living beings never stop proclaiming: “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty, Who was, and is, and is to come.”

Whenever the four living beings give glory, honor and thanks to Him Who sits on the Throne and Who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before Him Who sits on the Throne, and worship Him Who lives forever and ever. They cast their golden crowns before the Throne and cry out: “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive Glory and honor and Power, for You created all things; by Your will they were created and by Your will they have their very being.”  

ROYAL CHILDREN OF GOD ENGAGED IN RESOUNDING WORSHIP  

Lord God Almighty, I have gazed attentively upon You in the sanctuary and I have beheld Your Power and Your Glory.  Formerly, my ears had only heard of You; but now my eyes have seen You and have seen Your Glory! 
In the presence of the congregation, I will proclaim Your Great Name and Your Mighty Power according to all that my eyes shall see!  Surely, I will enter Your gates with thanksgiving, I will come into Your courts with praise!
I love the House where You live, O Lord…the place where Your Glory dwells.  How lovely is Your dwelling place, Lord God Almighty!  My soul yearns…even pines away and is homesick…for Your courts.  My heart and my flesh cry out and sing for joy to You, the One True Living God!  I find my home and my resting place in the shadow of the Almighty, sheltered in the arms of my God.  Whom have I in Heaven but You, Abba Father?  And Earth has nothing I desire besides You.  

Because Your steadfast Love for me is better than life, my lips continually proclaim Your Glory!  My lips shout for joy as I sing praises to You…I, whom You have redeemed!  You turned my wailing to dancing!  You removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy…that my heart may sing to You and not be silent!  It is only the dead who do not praise You, O Lord…neither the physically dead nor the spiritually dead…not by any who go down into the land of silence.  O Lord my God, I will give You thanks forever and ever, throughout the eternal ages!  I will praise You as long as I have life, and in honor to Your Name, I lift my hands and worship You!  Every day I will bless You and adore You, Precious Lord; yes, I will praise Your wonderful Name forever and ever!  

O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praises; with singing lips my mouth overflows with Your praises!  I will open my mouth and offer up unto You a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of my lips,
worshiping You for Who You are, Father…the One True Living God;
worshiping You, Lord Jesus, for Who You are…the Eternal Divine Son of God; the Messiah Whom You had sent, Father; the Sacrificial Lamb of God…
praising You for all You have done for the souls of Men down through the generations of time since Your creation of Adam… 
graciously acknowledging with a heart of eternal thanksgiving and unceasing praise all You have Personally done for me. 
Overwhelmed with gratitude, I behold Your Majestic Holiness face to Face, Lord; I bow before You with a shuddering awe-filled regard and with the utmost reverence and respect.

I owe my soul’s eternal destiny of Heaven to You.  My soul shall forever be satisfied, as with the richest of foods!  I feast on the abundance of Your house, Lord; You give me drink from Your River of delights…a River of unceasing glorious and rich eternal pleasures at Your right hand…eternal pleasures at Your  right hand beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations…rich eternal treasures that no eye has ever seen, nor ear heard, nor has entered into the heart of Man to ever begin to imagine, what wondrous things God has prepared for those who love Him…a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness nevermore to cease!    

Mine eyes have seen Your Glory…yes, the coming of My Lord;
You have opened up the storehouse where Your grapes of wrath are stored;
You’ve unleashed Your fearful lightening and Your terrible swift sword;
Your Truth keeps marching on!
Glory, Glory, hallelujah!  Glory, Glory, hallelujah!  Glory, Glory, hallelujah…Your Truth keeps marching on!  

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Beloved…be dressed in readiness, and keep your lamps lit.  Be alertly waiting for your master’s return from the wedding feast, so you may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks.  Blessed are those whom the master finds ready when he comes.  You also, be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect! [Jesus…Luke 12:35-37, 40]  

When our God shall come, even Christ, to set up His Kingdom on the Earth…a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness.  Only the redeemed will walk there, and the ransomed of the Lord will return.  We will enter Zion with singing, our heads crowned with everlasting joy!  Gladness and joy will overtake me, forever free from sorrow and grief! [Isa 35:8-10]

Brothers and sisters in Christ…

In that soon coming Day of the Lord…Men’s hearts will be failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the Earth: for the powers of Heaven shall be shaken.  When God spoke from Mount Sinai His voice shook the Earth, but now He makes another promise: “Once again I will shake not only the Earth but the heavens also.”  This means that the things on Earth will be shaken, so that only eternal things will remain.  When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. [Heb 12:26-27; Luke 21:26, 28]

The Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.  The heavens will  disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire.  In that day, the Earth will burn as an oven.  Everything in the physical, material realm will be burned up…EVERYTHING; nothing will remain. 

Beloved…keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.  But understand this: if the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.  So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect Him. [Jesus…Matt 24:42-44]

Beloved…sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of My unfailing love!  Break up the fallow ground within your heart!  For it is time to seek Me, the Lord, until I come and shower righteousness upon you!  Look off unto Me and My strength; seek My face and My Presence continually!  Those who know My Name will trust in Me, for I have never forsaken those who seek Me! [Triune God…Hos 10:12; Ps 105:4; 9:10]

At that time the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.  Five of them were foolish and did not take extra oil with them.  The wise, however, took extra oil in jars along with their lamps, and so were ready for his coming.  Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour. [Jesus…Matt 25:1-13]

In that great and terrible Day of the Lord, Father, Your Divine Son Jesus will manifest the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God against all those upon the Earth who stand in rebellion to His Throne, and He will destroy all those upon the Earth who are enemies and usurpers of His rule and authority, until He has placed every one of His enemies under His feet.  Then in that Day, Your will, Father, will be done on Earth even as it is in Heaven. [Heb 1:8-13; Isa 13:6-9; Joel 1:15; 2:11, 31; Zep 1:18; 2 Pet 3:10; 1 Cor 15:24-26; Matt 6:9-10]

Beloved…continually wash your robes in the Blood of Jesus; wash your garments that have been soiled with sin, making them clean again, dazzling and white.  Wash your feet with pure water; wash the dust of sin off your feet.  Continually and diligently do these things, that you may always abide with Me in the Holy of Holies, in My unclouded Presence. [Rev 19:7-9]

These are the days of the separation of the wheat from the chaff.  I [John] baptize you with water for repentance.  But after me will come One Who is more powerful than I, Whose sandals I am not fit to carry.  He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.  His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor, gathering His wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.  “Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace.  All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the Lord Almighty.
“Not a root or a branch will be left to them.” [Matt 3:11-12; Mal 4:1-2]

But also in those days there arose false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among yourselves.  They will subtly and cleverly teach their destructive heresies about God, even denying the Sovereign Lord Who bought them.  Theirs will be a swift and terrible end.  Many will follow their evil teaching and shameful immorality.  And because of them, Christ and His true way will be slandered.  In their greed they will make up clever lies and cunning arguments to get hold of your money.  With eyes full of adultery, their lust is never satisfied.  They make a game of beguiling and luring unstable people into sin.  They train themselves to be greedy; they are doomed and cursed.  But God condemned them long ago, and their eternal misery is on the way. [2 Peter 2:1-3, 14]

And so, my brothers and sisters, first of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.  Even so…The Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.  The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire.  Since everything on the Earth will be destroyed in this way, you ought to live a holy and godly life as you look forward to the coming Day of the Lord!  Everyone who has this hope purifies himself, just as He is pure.  So, beloved, since you are expecting these things to happen, be eager to be found by Him at His coming living a pure and blameless life and at peace… in serene confidence, free from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts.  Let me warn you therefore, beloved, that knowing these things beforehand, you should be on your guard, lest you be carried away by the error of lawless and wicked persons.  I don’t want you to lose your own secure footing.  But grow in the special favor and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.  But just as He Who called you is Holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am Holy.” [2 Peter 3:3, 10-12, 14, 17; 1 John 3:3; 1 Peter 1:14-16]

This is what the Most Holy, Most High, Triune God declares:

No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.  As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.  For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.  That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.  But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.  So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect Him. [Matt 24:36-39, 42-44]   

“Behold”, says the Lord Jesus in His last warning for the last opportunity offered to mankind to be among His redeemed, “I come for the last time like a thief in the night to gather those who would be among the elect!  Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, in watchfulness, prayer and readiness for the summons when it comes, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed, eternally without remedy.” 

PREPARE YOURSELF

We are in the Last Days; time is moving very quickly, and we are drawing near!  And so, my brothers and sisters, first of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.  They will say, “Where is this  ‘coming’ He promised?  Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of Creation.”
Son of man, you’ve heard that proverb they quote in Israel: Time passes, and prophecies come to nothing.  Tell the people, This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will put an end to this proverb, and you will soon stop quoting it.  Now give them this new proverb to replace the old one: The time has come for every prophecy of Mine to be fulfilled!  [2 Peter 3:3-4, 10-12, 14, 17; 1 John 3:3; 1 Peter 1:14-16; Ezek 12:22-23]
God is calling a holy remnant to Himself…to personal revival…a holy remnant of His children who will not bow down, who will not shrink back, who will not compromise, who will remain steadfast and immovable in their commitment to follow the Lamb whithersoever He goes.  God’s holy remnant is called to a life of obedience and suffering, self-sacrifice and self-denial…to walk along the path that Christ Jesus dedicated for us, and to follow in His footsteps as our Forerunner.  You cannot become part of My holy remnant without being willing to sacrifice your desire for anyone & all others, and for anything & all else this world has to offer.  Obedience is what characterizes the life of My child…obedience continually and unceasingly day and night.  You are called to a life of obedience.  Obedience is better than sacrifice; rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft, and stubbornness as evil as worshiping idols. [1 Sam 15:22,23]

Wherefore brethren, having now boldness to enter into the Holiest by the Blood of Jesus,  by the way which He dedicated for us…a new and living way to God through the veil, that is to say, through the veil of His flesh…let us then without further hesitation or delay draw nigh in fullness of faith; here let us continually abide in the fullness of faith. [Heb 10:19-20, 22]  Those who abide in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. [PS 91:1]

Arise My bride, and prepare to see My Face

Behold, I am coming soon!  My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done.
Then the angel said to me, “Write this down: Blessed are those summoned to the marriage banquet of the Lamb…all true believers who are members of His Universal Church.  They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with Power and great Glory.  And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect…God’s holy people…from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.”  And he said to me further, “These are the True Words of God.” [Rev 19:9]

Blessed Jesus…I rejoice and shout triumphantly for joy!  I celebrate and ascribe to You glory and honor, for the marriage of the Lamb draws near, and Your bride, the Universal Church and each of her members, has been preparing herself and has made herself ready! [Rev 19:7]  Hallelujah!

Hallelujah!  For our Lord God, Sovereign All-Ruler, reigns!  Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him Glory!  For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.  The finest linen, dazzling and white, was given her to wear.  Then the angel said to me, “Write: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage banquet of the Lamb!” [John…Rev 19:6-9; Luke 14:15-23]

The washing of one’s robes and the keeping of one’s garments relates to this very attitude and habit of looking for the return of Christ as an imminent event.  Brethren, as you hope to walk those golden streets, and eat of those immortal fruits, see to it that you have your garments clean and your loins girded about like unto men waiting for their Lord. [Seiss…Rev 21:9-22:5]

Then the king said to his servants, “The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.  Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.”  So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.  But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding garment.  “Friend,” he asked, “How did you come in here without putting on the appropriate wedding garment?” The man was speechless.  Then the king told the attendants, “Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.  For many are invited and summoned, but few are chosen.” [Matt 22:8-14]

ENDURE TO THE END

Behold, I am coming quickly.  Hold on to what you have, so that no one will deprive you of your crown.  Everyone who overcomes by means of their faith…I will make a pillar in the Sanctuary of My God.  Never again will you leave it.  I will write on you the name of My God and you will be a citizen in the city of My God…the new Jerusalem…which will come down out of Heaven from My God; I will also write on you My Own new name.

Holy:
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