The Mark Of The Lord And The Sealing Of The Elect
Rosemary LaVigne
Pagosa Springs, Colorado USA
Email R888@centurytel.net
We are about to venture into a very controversial subject, but one that needs rehearsing for this very end time prophetic season. This season in which we are entering into is one of the most perilous in the history of the Father’s Called Out and Set Apart Ones.
“For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved
may be made manifest among you.”
1 Corinthians 11:19
We must acknowledge by this scripture that is found in 1 Corinthians 11:19 that our Father is allowing the heresies to exist among his people, so that those of his “true” called out ones may be approved and made manifest among you. The word approved is rendered and is seen as the Greek word dokinos – properly acceptable (current after assayal); that is approved – tried. And we can see this is seen as those whose faith is tried and sorely tested, if need be by fire. Now the word manifest is rendered as the Greek word fan-er-os and is used here in this verse 19 and means- shining; that is approved (literally of figuratively) manifest public - open-ly).
It is the Lord that is allowing the heresies in the body of Christ to exist in and among the Christian churches that use His name falsely. Many preach another Jesus and another gospel unfortunately, but true. For it is written in Galatians chapter 5:19-23 that one of the things that will keep a believer that uses His Name falsely out of the kingdom is “heresies.”
Galatians 5:19-23 Amp V
Vs 19 “Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency,”
Vs 20 “Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies),”
Vs 21 “Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
Vs 22 “But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness,”
Vs 23 “Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against such things there is no law [that can bring a charge].”
It has been for sometime now that the Lord has been quickening scripture here that is dealing with the true “nature” of the MARK and the IMAGE of the beast. This we shall teach more in Part Two of this message to follow. And as well what is the seen as the Mark of the Lord that is placed upon those who love, honor, reverently fear and obey Him their only God and Father of Jesus Christ. This Mark of the beast nature is seen as the Mark that which is the “false mark” that many have already taken in the spiritual realm in their mind and in their foreheads which is seen as their un renewed thinking processes. This too is seen as the realm and seat of their “soul.” This which is their thinking and their carnal reasoning’s which keep them from seeing the spiritual things that our God desires to reveal to them that call themselves Christians, but yet walk in their old ways of the uncrucified flesh. It is these that he sees as they still walk in the old “nature” and the worldly and fleshly “character and nature” of the “beast within.” It is those who have not died out to the “old man” of their flesh nature and still walk in the world and do what is the world does.
The Lord has shown us for many years that as well as a spiritual mark there too shall be a literal mark as well as a spiritual marking of those with the nature of the beast system and its ways that are contrary to God’s holy ways that are righteous and all holy. So far it is that we are not sure whether it will be a computer chip or an invisible type ink that can also be scanned like a tattoo to identify an individual that takes the mark of the beast that is found in Revelation 13:15-18 Amp V.
Revelation 13:15-18
Vs 1 “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”
Vs 16 “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:”
Vs 17 “And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
(The name again is the authority and character of the beast.)
Vs 18 “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”
The three 666’s is seen as the number of man in his completion as the number for man is the number six as man was made on the sixth day of the creation. This the three 666’s are of what is the beastly nature - character and authority in its completion and perfection. The mind of man completely taken over by the beast nature).
The Lord has been also revealing the truth of what is the true “Mark” of the Lord for many years now, which we desire to share with you here. The “mark” and “image” of the Lord and the very character of Jesus Christ is the true “Mark” that we all need to be pressing in for if we do not have it as yet. It is the mark and the sealing of the Lord that shall preserve and keep the Father’s children who are called his servants from harm’s way in these final awesome climatic days that are before us all. It is in these final days of the antichrist rule of men with the “nature and the character of the beast” and their worldly ways and their false religious system that we are now living in. The false system of false religion that shall turn on the true believers that are In Christ just as the Catholic Hierarchy did in and during the Roman Catholic Inquisition that took place many years ago when thousands upon thousands of true Christian believers were tortured and martyred because they were called heretics by the Roman Church and her iron rule, because they would not conform to the doctrines of the Roman church’s false ways in teaching the people.
We know that the scriptures speak of the “carnal nature” of the “old man” of our flesh that we are to reckon him “dead.” In the book of Romans we can read of this old man of the “flesh” and as the Apostle Paul writes in Romans chapter 8:1 and verses 6-14 Amp V for clarity here.
Romans 8:1 -6-14
Vs 1 “THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit.”
Vs 6 “Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].”
Vs 7 “[That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot.”
Vs 8 “So then those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him.”
Vs 9 “But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, if the [Holy] Spirit of God [really] dwells within you [directs and controls you]. But if anyone does not possess the [Holy] Spirit of Christ, he is none of His [he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God].”
Vs 10 “But if Christ lives in you, [then although] your [natural] body is dead by reason of sin and guilt, the spirit is alive because of [the] righteousness [that He imputes to you].”
Vs 11 “And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, [then] He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you.”
Vs 12 “So then, brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh [we are not obligated to our carnal nature], to live [a life ruled by the standards set up by the dictates] of the flesh.”
Vs 13 “For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever.”
Vs 14 “For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.”
Before we move along in this discourse to follow let us look into the meaning and spiritual purpose of Water Baptism as we out of obedience to our initial conversion experience into Christ Jesus. It is that we part take of this service in acting in obedience to our Lord. It is that we partake of the waters of baptism by an immersion in the waters of “death to self” which is seen as or likened to the old man of our “flesh” going down in the waters of baptism. This experience of baptism in water it is to identify us believers in Him with his, Christ’s death, burial and the resurrection.
The Purpose of Water Baptism
Romans 6:4-23
Vs 4 “We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life.”
(We too shall be raised in the likeness of his Christ’s Death in Resurrection Life and Power.)
Vs 5 “For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be [one with Him in sharing] His resurrection [by a new life lived for God].”
Vs 6 “We know that our old (unrenewed) self (the old man of our flesh) was nailed to the cross with Him in order that [our] body [which is the instrument] of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin.”
Vs 7 “For when a man dies, he is freed (loosed, delivered) from [the power of] sin [among men]”.
Vs 8 “Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,”
Vs 9 “Because we know that Christ (the Anointed One), being once raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him.”
Vs 10 “For by the death He died, (Meaning the one - HE who is identifying with and in Christ’s death) He died to sin [ending His relation to it] once for all; and the life that He lives, He is living to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him].”
Vs 11 “Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus.”
Vs 12 “Let not sin therefore rule as king in your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies, to make you yield to its cravings and be subject to its lusts and evil passions.”
Vs 13 “Do not continue offering or yielding your bodily members [and faculties] to sin as instruments (tools) of wickedness. But offer and yield yourselves to God as though you have been raised from the dead to [perpetual] life, and your bodily members [and faculties] to God, presenting them as implements of righteousness.”
Vs 14 “For sin shall not [any longer] exert dominion over you, since now you are not under Law [as slaves], but under grace [as subjects of God's favor and mercy].”
Vs 15 “What then [are we to conclude]? Shall we sin because we live not under Law but under God's favor and mercy? Certainly not!”
Vs 16 “Do you not know that if you continually surrender yourselves to anyone to do his will, you are the slaves of him whom you obey, whether that be to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience which leads to righteousness (right doing and right standing with God)?”
Vs 17 “But thank God, though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient with all your heart to the standard of teaching in which you were instructed and to which you were committed.”
Vs 18 “And having been set free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in thought, purpose, and action).”
Vs 19 “I am speaking in familiar human terms because of your natural limitations. For as you yielded your bodily members [and faculties] as servants to impurity and ever increasing lawlessness, so now yield your bodily members [and faculties] once for all as servants to righteousness (right being and doing) [which leads] to sanctification.”
Vs 20 “For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.”
Vs 21 “But then what benefit (return) did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? [None] for the end of those things is death.”
Vs 22 “But now since you have been set free from sin and have become the slaves of God, you have your present reward in holiness and its end is eternal life.”
Vs 23 “For the wages which sin pays is death, but the [bountiful] free gift of God is eternal life through (in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord.”
It is when we that are called God’s children are in full and complete union with Him who is Jesus Christ and the perfect will of the Father; we take on his “image” in completion of our character. This is in which we coming into progressively into the nature and character of Christ at our maturity in Him. It is this which is also seen as his Christ’s “nature” and his name. The name signifying the nature of a person and to be like him is to be in the likeness of his “image” as well. It is as Paul writes in 2 Thessalonians 5:23. We are preserved blameless unto the coming of the Lord - spirit, soul (the soul seen as our psuche is the realm of the “mind” and its thinking processes.) And it is the body that houses the “soul and the spirit” in us comes last to be preserved unto the coming which is the second singular coming of the Lord to be glorified IN his saints. All of this processing does not come overnight. It is a continual progressive processing of the salvation of our “soul” the realm of our thinking and reasoning’s then our bodies are saved seen as the redemption of the body.
(The meaning and rendering of the word “baptism” is found to mean – An initiation following a true conversion experience by and through the sinless blood of Jesus Christ. It is following Christ in the waters of baptism by immersion that we obey him. Jesus is our example at the Jordan river which is seen as our baptism unto death as he Jesus was our example when he went down into the waters and was baptized by John. And that which follows our initial conversion experience into Jesus Christ and is that which purifies or cleanses us from the ways of our “old” nature seen as the “old man” of our flesh seen as the carnal beastly nature. A person who goes under Christian baptism by immersion is saying, “I identify with the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. They in turn are to reckon their “old man” of the flesh dead. One can not offend a man that is dead!)
We felt to write all this as it is necessary to know, we who are the Father’s children and can be delivered and be freed of the “old man” of our flesh nature and his ways, if we are willing to be taught the truth of the matter at hand. It is that which is seen as the old nature that has the “image” of the beast stamped on him or her from our natural birth as babies from our natural mother’s womb. This “old man” is seen as our “beastly” nature to do the things we ought not to do.
The Father’s Signet Seal
The Marking of the Elect Sons of God
It was when the Lord first began showing us through study what the “MARK” of the beast in the “spiritual” realm in and what the “Mark” of the Lord is as well in the spiritual realms of the renewed mind. The soul realm of the triune man in that is IN Christ. Is was that as I began many years ago to think a lot of my studies of the how the Spirit of the Lord began showing us what the “Mark” of the Lord and the “Sealing” with a “Signet” Seal” of the elect sons of God is as well, and how this deals with the “character and nature” of Jesus. It was as the word reads that Jesus Christ was and is the express “image” of his Father’s “character.” We can find in John 17:6 we use the Amplified Version of the scriptures here for more clarity that it was the Son Jesus that came to reveal the Father to us by his ways.
John 17:6 Amp V
“I have manifested Your Name [I have revealed Your very Self, Your real Self] to the people whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me, and they have obeyed and kept Your word.”
We can see here that the NAME in the Bible always represented a person’s “character” and their nature. Jesus the Son of God came to manifest the Father’s very self - meaning that he came to manifest the Father and his nature. Names were changed in the scriptures to “reveal” the “new” character and the new nature of that person. Some of the examples of this are seen in Abram which his name was changed to Abraham. Jacob’s name was changed at the place called Jabbok and Penuel also the place of “the face of God.” The name of Jacob was changed from a “supplanter” and cheat to his “new” name - Israel - “A Prince who Rules with God.” Jesus came to “manifest” the Father’s NAME, which is seen as the Father’s Holy character seen in his name in all he did and said.
The Name of the Father that is Written on the Foreheads of the 144,000
Revelation 14:1 KJV
“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.”
The Greek word for NAME is the word onoma meaning a ‘name’ (literally or (figuratively), (authority - character); and the Greek word for WRITTEN is seen as the word grapho- a primary word to “grave or engraven” especially to write (figuratively to describe- (write (-ing –ten). And the Greek word for FOREHEAD is the word Metopon. This word and its meaning is rendered as (the face) the forehead (as opposite the countenance – forehead.) I am led to give you the reader here the Webster’s definition of the word forehead as well.
Webster’s definition of the word FOREHEAD is as follows and means – the part of the face between the eyebrows and the line between where the hair normally begins. Mine added here it is that we see this as the area of “the mind the seat of our “soul”), that which sits in the middle of our foreheads.
The Spiritual Marking of the Elect Sons of God
This which is that found in Revelation 14:1 speaks of the marking and the sealing of the Father’s elect sons. This we see on the foreheads of the 144,000, which is the name – the nature and the “image” and character seen as the Name of the Father that is written in or on the foreheads of the Father’s firstfruit sons and daughters that is found in verse 1 of Revelation 14. Also this brought to mind the “Name” of the Father which is Written or what we see as inscribed that of “His” image and nature of Holiness unto the Lord that is seen on the foreheads that are sealed of the 144,000 thousand that are also found in Revelation 7:1-8 as well.. These are also seen as the firstfruits that are redeemed from the earth that are found in verse 4 of Revelation chapter 14 and are the same bond servants of our God.
Revelation 14:4-5
“These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.”
Vs 5 “And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.”
These in which John writes of as he sees in vision that are the firstfruits unto God and the Lamb are those who come into their maturity in Christ first in the Father’s harvest of sons and daughters with others to follow in their “order.” 2 Corinthians 15:20-23.
Our God Has Orders and Ranks
1 Corinthians 15:20-23 KJV
Vs 20 “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.”
Vs 21 “For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.”
Vs 22 “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”
Vs 23 “But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.”
This word for ORDER in the Greek text is the word tagma – rendered and has the meaning of something orderly; arrangement; (troop); that is (figuratively) a succession; order.
Before we move along here the Spirit of the Lord reminds me to write of the women who John sees as riding the scarlet colored beast in Revelation 17. This whore an adulteress woman is seen as Mystery Babylon the mother of harlots.
The Hidden Manna
If we can go back to Deuteronomy chapter 14:11-14 here it is that we can read the scriptures below and take hold of understanding that the land we are to possess is “our land,” which is seen as our “earthen vessels.” God calls this land a land of MILK and HONEY” which we see as the WORD as a symbol of “milk” and “honey” being the “revelation” and insight into the MYSTERIES of God’s WORD. This is the Hidden Manna that is given to him that overcometh that is found in Revelation 2:17.
Revelation 2:17 KJV
“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 hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”
The hidden manna is that which is given to him that overcometh and it in this white stone is a new name WRITTEN. The word again for written is the Greek word for grafo to grave. We know now the new name deals with the character and nature of the Son of God and His Father. NO man can know of this name saving he that receiveth it. It is like the scripture in Revelation 14:-2 seen as “the new song.”
The New Song
Revelation 14:2-3
“And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:”
(The voice of many waters speaks in Bible symbol as of many “peoples” and the voice of thunder is seen as and heard as the prophetic voice of the Lord.)
Vs 3 “And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.”
This new song must be learned and a people to be able to understand this song of what is seen as this new song and what is means. This takes us to the scriptures in Revelation 5:1-14 just before the Lord’s White Horse Army Goes Forth Conquering and to Conquer seen as the opening of the first seal of all seven seals. The number seven is that which is the biblical number of “perfection and completion.”
Golden Crowns
Revelation 6:1-2 is when the first seal to be removed. It is seen and written by John as the rider on the white horse having a victor’s golden “stephanios” crown on his head and a bow. Crowns in the Bible always speaks of being ON the Head of Kings and Princes. We see this symbolically and spiritually as the area over and covering the MIND that is in the middle of the forehead. The head is where the anointing oil of kings was poured and is seen as well as the Glory of the Lord that shall reside in the Father’s elect sons and daughters also seen as kings and priests of the earth ruling as kings with the Son Jesus Christ in his Father’s throne. (Revelation 2:26-28; 3:21)
It was the good kings that came out of the tribe of Judah. We take the whole scripture here from verse one to verse 14 in that is found in Revelation chapter 5 first here.
These Also Sang the New Song
The Song of Victory they Sung Was Over the Mark of the Beast Nature
Revelation 5:1-14
“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.”
Vs 2 “And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?”
Vs 3 “And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.”
Vs 4 “And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.”
Vs 5 “And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.”
Vs 6 “And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.”
Vs 7 “And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.”
Vs 8 “And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.”
Vs 9 “And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;”
Vs 10 “And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”
Vs 11 “And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;”
Vs 12 “Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.”
Vs 13 “And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.”
Vs 14 “And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.”
The Land We Go In To Possess Is Our Land!
Deuteronomy 11:11-22
Vs 11 “But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:”
Vs 12 “A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.”
Vs 13 “And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,”
(The soul is the mind realm of the triune man in Christ).
Vs 14 “That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.”
(The corn, the wine and the oil come to full harvest at the Feast of Tabernacles at the end of the Holy Year when the “land” brings in her “fruit’ unto maturity as well. (See Hosea 6; 1-3 and James 5:6-9)
Vs 15 “And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.”
Vs 16 “Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;”
Vs 17 “And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.”
Vs 18 “Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.”
(Let us take note in is that the words of the Father be in our hearts in our “soul” that is the area of our “mind” and are his the Father’s words are to be bound for a “sign” upon our hand, that they may be as frontlets between our eyes. The place between our eyes is seen as the “forehead” between the eyes where the seat of our “soul” is located, which is the area of the mind of the triune man that is in Christ. It is where our reasoning’s our intellect our emotions, desires and thoughts are seated. Take note this in Deuteronomy chapter 11 speaks of the “hand and the forehead” or what is seen as the frontlets between the eyes. Is this not where the Mark of the Lord is to be found in his true people? The hand does the movements and the mind which is the area of the soul does all the reasoning’s and thinking. We are reminded here that the word of God reads. “We are to let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” (See Philippines 2:5)
Deuteronomy 11 Continued here as we move along.
Vs 19 “And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”
Vs 20 “And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:”
(The door- posts of our house would be seen as the sides of our forehead again seen written in the mind (the soul) of the saints.)
Vs 21 “That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.”
Vs 22 “For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;”
The Importance Of The Spiritual Present Truth Of The Feast Of Passover And Its Spiritual Significance For These End Times
We are reminded here of the Lord to go to the first Passover that is found as we see in Exodus chapter 12 and on through chapters 14. This is to see what happened when the 10th and last plague came on the firstborn of those that were outside the “houses” of the Lord’s people that we see in Egypt today without the blood of the Lamb Jesus Christ that is found on the "door-posts" of their "houses." It is that Egypt which is seen as a type and a symbol of the carnal "world system” of rule today both in the natural governments and in the false religious systems of religion as well today. It is in that the Lord's true people are in this world, but NOT of it. It was when the tenth and last plague of the death angel came upon them. It is that which is written and found in Exodus chapter 11 at about midnight the darkest part of the night they the Father’s true people had the blood of the lamb that was slain upon the door-posts of their houses and the death angel “passed” over them. This is the meaning of the word Passover as well which we see in the death of Jesus Christ the sinless Lamb for a house that was slain for us who believe and obey him.
The First Born are Sanctified
In verse 2 of Exodus chapter 14 it is that we can see that the Lord told Moses to sanctify the “firstborn” whatever is first to “open the womb” among his people. It is as the Lord quickened these scriptures that are found in Exodus 14 to me here. It is that he showed us that those who are the first born are seen as the “firstfruits” and are what ever is first to “open the womb” that are sanctified unto the Father. It is these first born sons that are born first seen as the sons of God that birthed from the woman that are found written of in Revelation Chapter 12. These sons are seen as the “first born” from the womb born from the sun-clothed woman and are seen as and likened to a type of the firstfruits that are written of in Revelation 14. They are also seen as the man-child that is birthed with much travail from the sun-clothed woman who is seen as the Lord’s called out ones. These believers in Christ that are seen in this chapter of another prophetic time frame of forty and two months. They are seen here in a three and a half years prophetic period and end time frame in Revelation chapter 12. It is in where the word reads in verse 10.
Revelation 12:10
Vs 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.”
Vs 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.”
The word lives in the Greek text and the word Psuche has the rendering of and the meaning – as the breath; the immortal soul of man - the mind.
We have already explained in greater in-depth study in another message in teaching of who this man-child is that is found in Revelation chapter 12.
(Ask and request for the Booklet message entitled “On to Hanukah and This That Day.” The message on the birthing process as it is seen of the birth of a baby from the view point of all seven festivals of the Lord. The end of the birthing of the baby and the culmination of the “full” birth of the Sons of God and that which is seen on the Feast of Dedication also called “The Festival of Lights.” This festival is seen as Hanukah which is the word for dedication that takes place in the Hebrew month of Chislev. Seen as the ninth month of the Hebrew calendar and as well seen as our 12th month of our present calendar in the month of December. We have seen as it takes 280 days and approximately 9 “full” months from Passover and the feast of Unleavened bread when the “sperma” of God the Father seen as the “Word” - Jesus Christ that was made flesh and dealt among us enters into the new born again believer’s heart seen in Mark chapter 4 as the “seed” the WORD OF GOD that enters the ground of our hearts and progressively grows and produces some thirtyfold, some sixty fold and some one hundred fold fruit. The word of God who is the “seed” seen as Jesus Christ.
The “seed” seen as the Word of God - Jesus does begins its journey to full birth in the womb of the Mother beginning at Passover and in 9 months about it is “the seed” that was sown in our hearts begins to “bear fruit” when it is full gown and ready to be birthed. The fruit is seen as the nature and the character of Jesus Christ.
John 15:1-6
Jesus speaking here
Vs 1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.”
Vs 2 “Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.”
Vs 3 “Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.”
Vs 4 “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.”
Vs 5 “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Vs 6 “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.”
Nine the Biblical Number of Maturity for the Righteous
And Also the Number of Judgment for the Wicked
It at the same time the number “9” which is seen as what is maturity for the righteous and yet judgment upon the wicked. And it is the Mother that is seen as the sun-clothed woman in Revelation 12 and it is she is the one through her travail in birth pains to deliver to full birth this “baby” that is seen as a “full grown” the man-child. These are seen as the Sons of God that come forth from the womb of the Mother as seen spiritually as the “first born” sons of God. It is these sons that follow Jesus Christ as the Father sees as the first of the “firstfruit” son to come forth in resurrection power and life in and on the Third Day. These which we see in the first fruits and also seen as the man-child overcomers that are found to be caught up to the throne of God and given the rod of iron in Revelation 12:4-5. This rod of iron is seen as the authority that is given and granted to “kings” with the Name which is seen as the Father’s authority given to Him that overcometh. And it is these sons that are to be granted and are approved to be given this authority to use their Father’s NAME to rule all nations as we see written in Revelation 2:26-28.
Revelation 2:26-28
“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:”
Vs 27 “And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.”
Vs 28 “And I will give him the morning star.”
It is this rod of iron is also seen as the rod of “authority” to speak the Father’s words with his power of authority as if it were he that is speaking himself. It is that this man-child company of sons seen in Revelation chapter 12 are given this authority in Jesus Christ the Father’s first son of the “first born” firstfruit sons to sit with Jesus in His throne.
Revelation 3:21
“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
The Man-child
Revelation 12
It is these of this man-child group of firstfruit overcomers that get the victory first over the mark of the beast nature and are given and granted the opportunity to feed the sun-clothed woman as she is taken in to her own personal wilderness place that is prepared of God for her there. And she is taught in the Father’s instructions coming from His Word and is taught by the hand of the man-child overcomers during this three and one half years. The woman that bears and births the sons is seen in this chapter of Revelation 12 is seen being fed and nourished with the Word of God to bring her who is the woman also into that place of full maturity as the sons have already come. Also bringing her into full “ripe age” of his the Son’s mature Bride, the Bride of Christ with the Father’s nature seen as his “character” in her as well.
The Two Witnesses
(What did the two witnesses do that are seen as a type of Moses and Elijah and what they do is found in Revelation chapter 11. It is that they prophesy with the testimony of Jesus as the Spirit of Prophecy for three and one half years and there was NO RAIN in the days of their prophecy!)
Revelation 11:1-6
“And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.”
Vs 4 “These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.”
Vs 5 “And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.”
Vs 6 “These have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.”
It is without going into too much detail as this will take us off our message subject of the Mark and the Sealing of the Father’s elect sons. We see that the “rain” that is withheld by these two witnesses in the days of their prophecy which is seen and represents “wholesome pure doctrine.” It is as we have shared in other writings in more detail as is seen in Deuteronomy chapter 32:1-3. It is “rain” that is seen as “doctrine” in instruction in righteousness. The word “latter rain” that is used and is seen in Hosea 6:3 and Job 29:23 and is rendered as the word “Eloquence” and means writing and speech that is vivid, forceful, fluent, graceful and with persuasive POWER. Many have only understood the latter rain as power, but it is seen as “teaching” the truth in writing and speech and that is with persuasive POWER.
James 5:7-9
“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.”
Vs 8 “Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.”
Vs 9 “Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.”
The fruit of the Spirit is seen in the “image” and the full character of Jesus Christ.
Colossians 2:14-16
Vs 14 “I giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.”
Vs 13 “He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,”
Vs 14 “in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.”
Vs 15 “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.”
(This word “image” found in the Greek word eikon and the word means and has the rendering of –likeness, statue, profile or (representative) resemblance or image.
Hebrews 1:1-3
“God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,”
Vs 2 “has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;”
Vs 3 “who being the brightness of His 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 at the right hand of the Majesty on high,”
(This word “image” that is found in verses 2 here in Hebrews 1 is the Greek word that is pronounced charackier and the word is what we use in the English speaking people and is pronounced as the word “character.” And this means and has the rendering of a graver (a tool of a person); (by implication) engrave (character); the figure “stamped” that is exact or (figurative) representatively – express image.)
I would like to add here that it was those of the tribe of Judah and Dan that are written of in (Exodus 31:1-5). And Bezaleel was this one named of the tribe of Judah seen in Exodus 31. This one called Bezaleel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah that we see here in Exodus 31:1-2. Bezaliel of the tribe of Judah whose name means “in the shadow of God” and Uri means “Light of the Lord” and the name Hur means “white, or splendor.” Bezazeel was called and chosen of God by name.
Called in
(1) The Spirit of God
(2) In wisdom
(3) In Understanding
(4) In Knowledge
(5) In all manner of workmanship
It was Bezeliel who the Lord tells us through the inspiration of Holy Spirit that he was filled with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and ability, in understanding and intelligence, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship. To devise skillful works, to work in gold, and silver, and in bronze. And in cutting of stones for setting, and in craving of wood, to work in all kinds of craftsmanship. And it was Aholiab son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan with him and all who were wise hearted the Lord gave wisdom and ability to make all that he had commanded. Part of the workmanship was in the “engraving in the carving” of the “names” of the 12 tribes of Israel on the “stones” of the Breastplate of Judgment and also upon the shoulders of the high priest and also the “engraving” with a toll of the craftsman to “engrave” the “Signet Seal” seen as “Holiness unto the Lord” that was graven in the “gold” band that was over the “forehead” that was found to be upon the head of High priest. This being the seen as the “Signet Seal” that is seen over the white linen mitre that was placed upon the head of the High priest. (Linen in Bible language is seen “spiritually” in types and symbols and speaks to us of “Purity and Righteousness). It was this final sealing with the “Signet Seal” of all three seals that was placed upon the “forehead” on the gold band that was tied with a blue lace on the forehead of the High priest. The signet sealing that was graven with a tool of the workmen in the tabernacle. It was placed upon the “gold” band that was tied with a blue lace. (Gold in Bible symbols speaks and is in the spiritual veiled language that speaks of the “divine nature and character” of the Father and his Son Jesus Christ. Christ being our Great High priest over the Father’s end time “temple and house” of his glory that is made up of “living stones” of both Jew and Gentile believers made of the one new man that are in the faith of the Messiah Jesus Christ). This sealing of the High priest that is found in Exodus 39 is seen as the last work of when the Tabernacle of Moses was FINISHED. (See Exodus 39:30-32) The Tabernacle of Moses was completed and reared up in the first day of the first month. The first month being Abib or April the beginning of months for Israel. See Exodus 12:1-2 and this is found in Exodus 40:17.
More as we move along in this study on the “sealing” and the engravers these who are the WE that do the sealing and marking of the 144,000 that are found in Revelation 7:1-3. It is as John sees these 144,000 being sealed before the winds of destruction are loosed upon the earth.
In our studies we found that the stone of the Tribe of Judah which was a stone which was also used in making seals. (Ref: Unger’s Bible Dictionary)
In that which was part of the workmanship of Bezleel of the tribe of Judah we can see in the engraving of the “names” of the 12 tribes of Israel on the breastplate of judgment and on shoulders of the high priest and the also the engraving of the Signet Seal seen as Holiness unto the Lord that was found on the “forehead” of the High priest as the last article to be set upon him when the Tabernacle of Moses was FINISHED.
And as we scan these verses there we can see that those who continue to walk in the carnal nature of the flesh it that the Lord tells through Paul’s writing to us in verse 8 of Roman’s chapter 8 as it reads there.
This carnal fleshly nature that is an enemy unto our God, for it is those who continue to walk in this “nature” of the “old” man of our flesh. These will find themselves be in a state of great danger when we come to the place when as the scriptures tell us concerning what is written in Revelation chapter 13:15. It is this which speaks of buying and selling concerning the mark of the beast.
Revelation 13:11-15
Vs 11 “And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.”
Vs 12 “And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.”
Vs 13 “And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,”
Vs 14 “And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.”
Vs 15 “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”
Vs 16 “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:”
Vs 17 “And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
Vs 18 “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”
Revelation 7:1-3
“After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”
In other messages in teaching it is that we have shared with you the reader what this Mark and Sealing is and what the words “seal” and “sealed” present in the Greek text.
We share here briefly in closing this part One of the message and what we see as the sixth man ministry seen in Ezekiel chapter 9:1-6.
The Writer with the Inkhorn
Ezekiel 9:1-6
The Sixth Man Ministry is the writer’s ministry that comes before the seventh man in the throne room.
Vs 1 “He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.”
Vs 2 “And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.”
Vs 3 “And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;”
Vs 4 “And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.”
(Take special note it was in the forehead that the mark was placed. See Revelation 14:1-5 and Revelation 7:1-8)
Vs 5 “And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:”
Vs 6 “Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary." Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.”
Vs 7 “And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.”
Vs 8 “And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?”
Vs 9 “Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.”
Vs 10 “And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.”
Vs 11 “And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.”
The one man in linen is seen as the engravers or the “writers” with the ink horn by their side that carry the slaughter weapon in their hand and the “hand” is seen as the ministry of power. Take note as well in verse 3 that the glory of the Lord had risen to the threshold of the house. It was leaving the house at that point. The men that stood by the brazen altar is seen as the altar of JUDGMENT as brass in Bible symbol and type speaks of JUDGMENT. Now compare Revelation 7:1-3 as well when the destruction is loosed after the servants of our God are sealed from harm’s way.
The ancient men that are before the house are seen as the leaders today. As Peter wrote and is found in 2 Peter 4:17-18.
It is in Ezekiel chapter 9 which we see and that which what these men represent as we see as here are the “the writers and engravers” and are seen as the ones with the writer’s ink horn by their side. These are commissioned to place the Mark of God upon the ones who sigh and that cry because of the all the abominations they see in the midst of the “city” seen as the Church today. The Church seen as that “city” and temple of God as they the many claim it is his House and Temple, but make it a den of thieves and peddling merchandisers. They the “engravers” seen as the sixth man ministry the writers with the ink horn are found in Ezekiel chapter 9 with “a destroying weapon in their hand.” The destroying weapon is “The Word of God.”
2 Peter 4:17-18
“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?”
Vs 18 “And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?”
(Leadership is always judged by our God first in his Church and then the Body of Christ is judged and then the world without Him is judged in the end).
We shall share more in detail on this subject the Lord permitting of the Sealing and the Mark of the Lord and the Mark of the Beast a little further along in this study in Part Two to follow as time permits to write it all.
Isaiah 16:15-16 KJV
Vs 14 “And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.”
Vs 15 “For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.”
Vs 16 “For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.”
2 Thessalonians 1:5-12
Vs 5 “Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:”
Vs 6 “Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;”
Vs 7 “And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,”
Vs 8 “In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:”
Vs 9 “Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;”
Vs 10 “When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.”
Vs 11 “Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:”
Vs 12 “That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.”
The Greek word for the “name” is on-o-ma a token of (authority – character) name.
The Mark of the Lord And The Sealing of the Elect
By Rosemary LaVigne
PART TWO
"Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things"
Joel 2:21
Philippians 2:12 AMP V
12 Therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed [my suggestions], so now, not only [with the enthusiasm you would show] in my presence but much more because I am absent, work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling (self-distrust, with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ)."
Also consider these words as well as they are for all of us (ALL) who name the name of Christ Jesus.
Romans 5:3-4
3 Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance.
4 And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and tried integrity). And character [of this sort] produces [the habit of] joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation.".
And this is the end when we have come to this place in our God..
1 Peter 1:9 KJV
"9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
The soul is the area of the mind of the triune man that is in Christ Jesus.
The Greek word "soul" here in Peter is the word psuche and it is at the end that we receive the salvation of the soul.
This is what the Holy Spirit was saying to him that overcometh that is found in Revelation chapter 2:17.
17 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 hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it."
The Greek word for name here in Revelation 2:17 and it's meaning is as follows taken from the Strongs Concordance of all Bible words..#3685 a name (literally or figuratively) authority- character..
The white stone and the new name is the nature and what is the character of our God written on that white stone. The Greek word and the #1125 means to grave, especially to write figuratively to describe - describe - writ-(ing-ten). This is the same Greek word for the word "written" found in Revelation 14:1 where it speaks of the Father's "name" that is written #1125 in the foreheads of the 144,000. The forehead is the seat of the soul the MIND of the 144,000 of the Father's firstfruit overcomers sons and daughters. This the Father CHARACTER is the new name as a name denotes the person's character and Isaiah also writes found in Isaiah 62:2.
2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name."
The Hebrew word for name here in Isaiah 62:2 and it's meaning is as follows.
#8034 Strongs' Concordance -a mark or memorial of individualality; by implication honor, authority- character.
The new name given to him that overcometh is the nature and what is the holy character of our KING. Thus "sealed" with the Sig-NATURE of the King's signature ring. A people as seen by HIM as an authentic article a living letter that shall be known and read of all men...Living epistles of his of the Father's favor and choosing raised up to glorify their KING--and to declare His Holy Name unto the peoples and the nations of the world. (See Isaiah 60; 61:1-11) These the Father's radiant jewels that are set in his crown.. seen as living letters as genuine "seed" sons of God. Thus whether we be male or female young or old it matters not to our Holy and Almighty God. It is the heart that He our Holy God--- seeks after. A little people with a humble and contrite heart to know Him. A heart that loves to do their Father's will. A heart that loves and reverently fears Him in Awe and Great respect for who He is like little king David and others of the Old Testament who were part of the Father's remnant saints that went on before us. The great cloud of witnesses that are written of in the Book of Hebrews...A little people in their own eyes. A people made willing and of a repentant heart. Also Paul and others of the "New Creation" man or both Jew and Gentile believers that were called-- then chosen from the many that were called in Jesus Christ. Those who are the asleep in Jesus that God will bring back with Him when he comes again. And to it is to know Him in the fellowship of His sufferings. He who is Christ and to lift Him up above the world's and all the religious confusion of voices and to make Him ---Christ Jesus KNOWN unto this last generation as KING and LORD over our lives.
For I am reminded here as the Apostle Paul wrote found in Philippians chapter 3:8-21.
"Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
The resurrection of the dead Paul writes that he might
attain unto that resurrection of the dead...of which is seen as the first
resurrection that is found in Revelation 20:6. And as it reads also in
Revelation 2:11 that--- "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." The second death is seen in Revelation 20:13-14 "And the sea
gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead
which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second
death." The overcomers will NOT be hurt by the second death.
Continuing in Philippians 3:12-21.
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
The Mark is the Prize
The Herbrew word for name here in Isaiah 62:2 and it's meaning is as follows.
#8034 Strongs' Concordance -a mark or memorial of individualality; by implication honor, authority- character.
The mark for the prize is to have his-- what is spiritually seen and understood is the Father's Name seen as his "character" written and engraved deeply in our minds -- the soul of redeemed men and woman that are chosen and are in Him. The Mark as seen as the Father's SIG- Nature sealing by Him written in our minds seen as Holiness to the Lord. A mind that is pure as the pure in heart shall see God. (Hosea 6:2; Matthew 5:8: 1 Corinthians 13:12.)
Psalm 24
"1 The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
The Sound of A Trumpet - Storm Warnings
Rosemary LaVigne
Pagosa Springs, Colorado USA
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