The Lamb's Revelation

"I AM the testimony of Revelation.
I AM the spirit of the prophecy.
I am the Lamb who was slain,
who alone is worthy to open the scroll.
Yes, I am also the Lion of Judah,
but only by beholding Me as the Lamb who was slain
will you be able to see Me opening the scroll.
Only by following Me as the Lamb
will you be shepherded through the end times.
Only by knowing Me as the Lamb
will you understand what My Kingdom and dominion are all about,
and what they are not.

"My death and resurrection are not a halfway point in history,
progressing from the beginning to the end;
rather My death and resurrection are the center of history,
by which both the past and the future are defined and oriented.
All that came before were shadows looking forward to the Cross,
and all that comes after are shadows looking back to the Cross.

"Behold the Lamb slain for the sins of the world!
Just as I was crucified naked
—laid bare before the world—
and just as the veil of the temple was torn in two
exposing the Most Holy Place,
so too the unveiling of the book of Revelation
is an unveiling of the Lamb
who was slain for the sins of the world.

"Keep your eyes fixed on the Lamb
who was crucified to take away the sin of the world,
and I will open your eyes to understand things
which have been sealed from understanding in ages past—
because the time for understanding is drawing near.
Those who look to and follow the Lamb that was slain
will gain understanding. But everyone will stumble who
looks for an earthly kingdom, an earthly country,
an earthly Jerusalem, an earthly battle,
an earthly victory, and an earthly rest.

"Look upon Me—the Lamb who was crucified—and know My heart
for you, for your neighbor, and for your enemies.
I went to the Cross because I loved each and every one of you,
and I desire you for My eternal inheritance, for My bride.
I will draw all people to Myself through the Cross—
there is no other message, revelation or way to draw people to Me."

*****

See also: "Lamb Power" (by Hazel Holland)
Art: "Crucifixus"

Mark of the Beast

"All things are coming to the end, and I desire for you to know My heart about things to come. I am not saying I will tell you how events will appear, but I am saying to listen to My Spirit. Knowing My Spirit—My heart—will be enough for you.

"I have revealed My heart to you on the Cross: I am love—agape love. You were My enemies, but I loved you and gave Jesus for you. My heart and Kingdom are revealed to you not in power, might, dominion, control, authority or law, but in Christ crucified in weakness for the sins of My enemies.

"The Mark of the Beast to come is the characteristic of its heart: absence of My agape love, and antagonism towards My heart of agape love. If you know My heart of agape love, you will know the Beast regardless of its appearance.

"My power follows and flows out of My agape love, but the heart of the Beast is power alone. The beast will seek power and dominion in the name of winning peace and working righteousness, and signs of supernatural power will be displayed as proof of its blasphemous claims. Many who have sought Me only for My power will taken in by the Beast, for although they professed My name, they did not know My heart of agape love.

"Your heart's response to the Beast is more important than the outward appearance of things: Will you be marked in your mind by agreeing with the heart of the Beast, or will you feign agreement but be marked in the works of your hands given to the Beast? Or, instead of these, will you suffer persecution as Christ did because of My agape love?"

Locked Out ("No Room For My Spirit!")

"I stand at the door and knock, but you have locked Me out! With your doctrines you claim to have built a perfect place for Me to dwell, but in truth you have built them up because you have been so afraid of being deceived. You believe that your safety and your approval in My sight are because of the correctness of your doctrines, and once you've arranged them you do not want them to be changed. In trying to lock the door against deception, you don't realize that you have also locked Me out.

"You believe you have locked out spirits of darkness with your 'superior' construction of doctrines and systematic theology. But I see many among you who are held captive to the spirits of the enemy which have been loose among you, because superior doctrines and systematic theology cannot drive out the enemy; only My Spirit can. Only My Spirit can give you rest and peace from your fears of being lost and of not pleasing me."



"But you have made My Spirit, too, into a doctrine—into just another part of your beliefs in your theological system. You have mathematically arranged My words from Scripture into your own equations, in order to prove that your house is well-built and that I am at home with you more than in any other house. Yet deep inside part of you knows that I am bigger than your doctrinal house of cards, and that if you allow Me to come be Myself, your house of doctrines might be severely damaged or even done away with.

"I wait outside your locked door. Will you let Me in? Yes, I will change your house and I will knock down walls you have built. But I will also take away your darkness and your fear. Your house will not appear as theologically or systematically 'safe', but you will have peace and safety because My Spirit will be among you, and I will give you rest."

*****

See also: "The Empty Chair" (art link)

Outpouring of the Spirit of the Cross

"My children,

"Do you imagine that I will pour out My Spirit mightily
in order to help you drive out your enemies from your land?
Do you believe it is My will for you to defeat your enemies
and secure the land as your own 'godly' country?

"I will do no such thing!
I gave My Son on the Cross to die for
the sins of both you and your enemies,
not so that you would gain land and hate one another,
but so that you would gain Me and love one another,
even as I loved you while all of you were My enemies.
My Son died for the sins your enemies have committed against you,
and My Son died for the sins you have committed against your enemies.

"The nations are My inheritance, not your land.
You, your neighbors and your enemies are all My inheritance,
My precious treasures worth the price of My Son.
Israelis, Palestinians, I am speaking to you!
You will not know My peace until you embrace the spirit of the Cross!
You will not know the outpouring of My Spirit until you repent
of your lusting for land and country,
and abusing one another to gain these.

"My Spirit is the Spirit of My Son crucified.
When you join in the spirit of the Cross,
then you will know the outpouring of My Spirit.
But until then any victories you have
in your lust for your historic land,
for vengeance and for your religious glory
will be given by a spirit of darkness,
by a principality of evil instead of by My Spirit.
No matter how divinely blessed your victories may seem,
they are not in the spirit of the Cross.
If they have not the love of My Son crucified,
they are nothing in My sight and are fuel for eternal fire.

"Yet in times of darkness and distress,
before you have succeeded in eradicating one another,
I will pour out My Spirit on those who look to Me,
who cry out to Me in intercession for My love for one another—
instead of crying out to Me for victory taking back 'land'.
I will raise up among your brothers and sisters a people
who will be filled with My heart for your enemies
as I was filled with love for you at the Cross.

"They will receive My Spirit,
and will walk forth speaking words of life
—words of repentance and forgiveness—
in the midst of your battles against one another.
They will care about My land—that is, people!—
instead of sacrificing lives for perishable things
such as dust, dirt, buildings and borders.

"They will arise in My Spirit, the spirit of the Cross,
and they will be hated even as My Son was hated and sent to the Cross.
They will be hated, slandered, spoken against, persecuted
and martyred for My sake and for the sake of their enemies.
But I will continue pouring out My Spirit on them and through them
to the broken, to the thirsty and to the wounded among you.
Even as they are slain their testimony will continue to sound."

*****

Art: "Outpouring"

"Where is Your Center?"

"My people, what are you doing?
Why are you glued to the news and to the politics of Israel?
Why are you looking to her for direction
and to know where you stand with Me?
Haven't I already made you pleasing in My Father's sight
with My death on the Cross for you?
Or was that not enough to be certain?

"Behold, you have returned to the wilderness!
You have been wandering around,
tossed to and fro by the events of the news
and what you believe must happen to and through Israel.
Your peace has been removed from you
because you have left the Cross
and sought direction from the Old Covenant.

"But I AM the one that the prophets pointed to.
The Messiah was not crucified to point
to fulfillments in the nation of Israel,
but rather the ancient nation of Israel existed to point
to the coming Lamb who takes away the sins of the world.
This testimony of ancient Israel is complete—
I have fulfilled the Law and the Prophets to every jot and tittle.

"The final events of earth's history
will not center around the nation of Israel,
but around Me and My agape love,
as revealed when I was crucified for you
while you were still My enemies.
The book of Revelation is the testimony about Me,
not the testimony about Israel!

"Come back to the Cross and lay down your
efforts to please Me through 'loving Israel'.
Come back to the Cross and stop walking around in circles.
Come back to the Cross and find rest
from attempting to figure out where you are,
and where your nation and the world are
in the chain of 'end time events'
according to your Israel-centered map.

"In Me you need no map, only My Spirit
and what I have accomplished for you on the Cross.

"Hear Me, My people!"

*****

See also: "A Thought Not To Passover"
Art: "Back to the Wilderness"

"Your Home is Above, Jerusalem!"

"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
- Yeshua ha Moshiach, Matthew 6:21

Oh Jerusalem, My love
Your treasures are above!
Here your cities crumble, fall,
Waste away and rust.

But inside you is a longing,
A longing for your home;
The Kingdom sure and eternal,
The King upon His throne.

Once in the past there was glory,
A glory now long gone;
A promise unfulfilled it seems,
An ache without a balm.

How hard and long you've struggled
To regain what was lost;
You've fought and killed and bled and died
For things not worth the cost.

You cry out "Oh Jerusalem!"
And I cry, too, it's true.
But when I cry "Jerusalem,"
It means I cry for you.

For you need no more blood to spill,
Nor for lost glory ache;
For I drank all the bitter pill,
I drank it for your sake.

An everlasting, new glory
I have for you above:
A Kingdom that is far surpassing,
Eternal as My love.

Your future is held in My hands;
Believing Me you're safe.
Look no longer to things below
Which distract from My face.

Oh daughter much beloved by Me,
Distracted is your gaze!
Oh that your eyes would turn to Me,
Instead of to a maze.

One thing is needed, just one,
To survive all to come;
A faith humbly to seek My face
And abide in My love.

To save your life ultimately
It must be counted loss.
Forget your house and great treasure;
Find peace, embrace My cross.

Oh Jerusalem, My love,
Your home is here above.
With Me, I long for you to be
At rest, safe in My love.

*****

Art link

Inheritance of Shadows

"Come out of the shadows! Come out of the shadows!
I did not give My life for you on the Cross
so that anyone would inherit perishable land;
I died to give an imperishable inheritance,
kept in heaven above for My children.

"My children in Israel:
I said that I go to prepare a place for you—
why have you not waited for Me?
Why have you gone in your own strength
to possess the things that belong to the earth?
Why have you sought your own kingdom instead of Mine?

"Look to your father, Abraham, who knew
that this world was not his home
and instead desired an eternal country.
He has come into the light,
but you have chosen to dwell in the shadows,
in the chains of slavery below!

"Friends of Israel:
Why have you been assisting their spiritual suicide?
Why have you been letting them drink from the 'Dead Sea'
of desiring land instead of giving them
the water of life in the New Covenant?
Why have you been encouraging them to seek Me
in the shadows instead of in the light?

"Come back to Me, Israel and friends of Israel!
Come back out of the shadows and into the light!
Even as I called Abram out of the land of Ur to a new land,
so too I am calling you out of setting your heart on land
and into desiring heavenly inheritance instead."

*****

Art: "Abraham's Inheritance"