The One I Am!
Martin Exeter August 19, 1984 a.m.
This is the day the Lord hath made, so the song went. Is it?—for us. Each of us individually decide. Again we share these moments together. This day, this hour, this moment may be the moment in our own experience, because of our own attitude, created by the spirit of the living God.
I wonder if I could speak for myself this morning and at the same time speak for each of you. If this can really be done, then we have the experience of oneness. I have a passage in mind from the Bible, which I will read in the first person, trusting that you share this viewpoint and outlook. It is a familiar passage from the early chapters of the book of Genesis.
“And I saw...”I trust these are your words as well as mine. “And I saw that the wickedness of my human ego—to the extent that it still exists, and it surely does—is great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of this human ego’s heart are only evil continually.
“I regret having provided the life force for the continued existence of this human ego. And I am deeply saddened that it is so.
“Therefore I will withdraw my life force from this human ego, so that it may no longer exist on the face of the earth; and all that has been brought forth by reason of this, my human ego, may be dissolved; for I regret having provided the life force for these things to be.
“The world that I have created in this way is corrupt before me; for my own flesh has corrupted its way in the earth. So the end of this human ego state is come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through this. And, behold, I will dissolve it from the earth.
"I create a new body, a new state, in which all that is of life, all that is mine, may be preserved.”
These are the words that I speak for myself and for all of you who will receive them as your own. Does the human ego stance persist in experience, so that much of what is seen is seen from this viewpoint? When it is seen from this viewpoint the thoughts, the feelings, the words and the actions spew forth; corruption is paramount; violence and conflict are engendered and increased. What I am saying you know. Or do you? I know it’s true, do you? If so, withdraw life force from the human ego.
Some have thought this would be a big deal. After all, there is so much that we seek humanly to achieve. There are getting on for five billion people on the face of the earth seeking to achieve in this way, and the earth is corrupt and filled with violence through these human egos. This is the reason that the state of mankind is as it is. And yet, arrogant generation after arrogant generation deems it expedient to do exactly the same thing as was done before. “Promote human achievement, my own in particular,” the individual says when identified with the human ego. Again, we know these things, but what is caused to happen by reason of the fact that we know them? Do we merely persist in the old way, imagining that somehow something of great value is going to come from it? Or do we finally reach a point where honesty can penetrate our own human hearts and minds, so that we acknowledge the futility of the human nature way and state? Nothing that can be done in that stance will bear anything but the fruit of corruption and violence. We have the evidence of corruption and violence all around us but have been disinclined, for the most part, to acknowledge the point of origin, which has been in one's own heart and mind. We are, after all, still at the center of our worlds, the worlds which we have created, corrupt and violent. If we are capable of observing corruption and violence out there in the world that surrounds us, where did it come from? Honesty compels an acknowledgment of what we have spoken of as responsibility.
This awareness emerges to the extent that each one may say, “I emerge.” I emerge, not to fortify the human ego from which life force is to be withdrawn but to create, to allow heart and mind to be filled with the spirit of the living God. This is impossible until there is space for it, for one thing, and until there is the necessary substance to accommodate that spirit. We might call that substance spiritual substance. It relates to an internal atmosphere with the nature of the stillness which was spoken of yesterday evening, so that the frenetic activity of the human ego may subside and there may be substance and space for the spirit of the one I am. Thus the truth may be known, the truth of who I am.
We may each use these words to indicate what must be, and we each are capable of being that. I am here on earth to be that. In order for this to have meaning, to be real, to reveal the truth, there must be spiritual substance to accommodate my presence. This spiritual substance has been described as being generated out of material substance. When the attitude is clear in oneself there is adequate space and stillness and a true atmosphere of peace maintained. One of the primary elements by which this occurs is as life force is withdrawn from accusation. We are very familiar with the words, the instruction given long ago, "Judge not.” We are well versed in all the reasons why we shouldn't. Why is it, therefore, that we continue to do it, continue to accuse? This is not what one will do when the truth of oneself is present. But it is what is done when the human ego is present, masquerading as oneself. And so there is accusation. It seems there can develop a block in consciousness which prevents a realization and acknowledgment on the part of human minds and hearts that they continue to function on the basis of accusation. The individual would be inclined to say, “Oh no, I would never do that!” and do it right away.
There is another passage here that might be of interest, familiar also. You know all these things. Now here is something that is finally penetrating the human mind and heart apparently:
“And I heard…” This is not the truth of the person, but the human aspect which has begun to relinquish the control and government of the human ego. “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven,” maybe that could happen this morning, “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.” This is not really, “Once in a while, well we have a little accusation,” but is characteristic of the human ego as long as it exists. And it will exist as long as that characteristic is maintained.
“Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them”—no more accusation. “Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea!” That relates to those who are centered in externals, physical and mental. “For the human ego is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” Well he has a short time, one way or the other. There are two ways, really. One is for the person to be eliminated because life is withdrawn, or the human ego might be eliminated and the person would still be there, living. It is one or the other, inevitably, and, for the most part in human experience, you know which one it has been. The human ego is characterized by this attitude of accusation. It thinks it sees things in others worthy of accusation. Why does it see those things? Because the character of accusation is in the person who is observing, regardless of whether there are things wrong in other people; presumably there are. There certainly are in us, we know that, so why should we exclude other people in that? All right, there are things that are wrong. But there are things that are wrong in us which color our outlook with respect to others, and the things of which we accuse other people are very revealing of what it is that is present in ourselves.
Finally, when the day dawns, we may at last, mentally and in feeling, begin to be aware that this is so; in which case we begin to share in the attitude of the one I am, regretting that this has been allowed to continue because life force has been extracted to keep it going. When we do become aware of ourselves, then finally we can say, with authority: “I withdraw my life force”; and the human ego can go smash! To hell with it! That is where it belongs. Another name for it is the devil. What sort of stance do we take in our momentary living? How do we view what is present with us? What is present with us is present in our own consciousness, and it is conditioned in quality by whatever it is that is present in our consciousness.
There has heretofore been a state characterized by the son of perdition—that’s the conscious outlook of the human ego—and the unholy ghost, the subconscious aspect of the human ego. If we withdraw life force from that, then there is opportunity to begin to experience in mind and heart, consciously and subconsciously, the Son of God and the Holy Ghost, respectively. Having reached a point where we are sufficiently sure of ourselves, the truth of ourselves, we may withdraw life force from the human ego and let it dissolve. Most people of course don’t have what it takes to let that happen because they are still convinced, being identified with the human ego, that if the human ego goes they go. And they are reluctant to go. The human ego is always reluctant to go, but it cannot exist if life force is withdrawn from it. And the only one who can do that is the truth of the person, himself or herself. No one else can do it for another. After all, it’s one’s own life force, the life force that comes to focus in oneself. The authority for the expression of that life force rests in the one I am. Individually speaking over the ages, generation after generation, the heavenly one I am has finally been under the necessity of withdrawing the life force from the human ego which characterized that person. Then there was a great weeping and wailing because of it. What a backwards view of things! The beauty, the strength, the creativity of the one I am, when brought forth in expression through human minds and hearts because the ego is gone, transcends anything that human beings now know.
Standing here, looking at you, receiving you all into my consciousness, I can say, “I love you.” I can also say, “I hate the human egos that may be present.” “Oh, one should never hate anything.” But what is hate? The absence of love. I don’t love any of the human egos at all, including my own; and until each one has that attitude nothing will happen. When I say I love you, as I love myself, that has something to do with the second great commandment, doesn’t it? And each one may take that attitude to others. But also there is no truck with the human ego.
It may be that a person who is just beginning to sense something of the truth must be handled rather delicately. I don’t think I need to handle you delicately, do I? If you’re real you can take it, because nothing that is said is any reflection upon what is real. It does call a spade a spade with respect to what is unreal, the human ego, that stinking entity which hangs around. Why does it hang around? Because you yourself give it life force! To the extent that any of us have done that, the human ego has remained on hand ready to betray at any moment. And we may observe betrayals occurring. Does that warrant accusation? “Oh look, that person is betraying!” Maybe. But I love the truth; do you? I hate a lie, which the human ego is. I don’t like you as human egos, at all! Over many years I have tolerated a lot of human egos, simply because I love what is making possible the existence of the human ego, always trusting that finally there would be an awakening in mind and heart to the truth.
Oh, human beings have been searching for the truth for ages. There is no need to search; it is right where one is. All that is required is to withdraw life force from that stinking human ego. Oh the human ego is so nice at times; usually when it wants something. Is it painful at all to consider these things? I think it’s grand. I enjoy it. How about you? (Congregation answered “Yes.”) Human egos are easily hurt. Are you hurt? Do you find that people can do and say things that hurt you? I suppose that is possible, to hurt human egos, minds and hearts that are involved with the human ego, and bodies too. There was One who was hurt worse than any, called Jesus. What injustice! What ingratitude! What physical suffering! Did He claim the hurt?—“Poor me! that I should be made to go through all this.” No, that wasn’t His attitude, because He had, in any case, chosen to go through all that. He was willing to receive what came to Him. Are we? Or do we try to duck out? We want it some other way, in which case of course we will find someone to accuse. “They are treating us badly. Oh what injustice we suffer! Oh what ingratitude! Oh what physical suffering!” Fine. What is wrong with that? It may finally, if we have enough of it, cause the human ego to resign, because mind and heart awaken. Mind you, the human ego never resigns without a battle; it wants to have a battle. You don’t need to give the human ego a battle; it is not worth it. Just withdraw life force and it is gone.
We share the opportunity to allow these things to occur because we are present on earth to do it; whatever our circumstances are, that is the way it should be; that is why we are here. So we accept the circumstances as they are and we do what needs to be done from the heavenly stance, from the stance of the one I am. Then there are no questions or doubts or hurts or any of these things. If we indulge in this sort of thing we have chosen to do it. We don’t need to do it. And it isn’t necessary to go searching around to talk to someone or to have someone get us out of it, or to clarify something. We accept and produce our own confusions. If they are to go away, why are they going to go away? Because you stop accepting and producing them, that’s all. It doesn't need anybody else. I can tell you that now. That is sufficient, done for all time! One must take responsibility for oneself. I do it! I am. I create. And also I dissolve; I withdraw my life force, in particular from the human ego. And when the human ego goes, the world of the human ego goes. Think about that. We have responsibility. We have authority. We have all that is necessary. Be honest enough to acknowledge it.
I made the statement back along the way, “Well we know these things.” If you agree with me, then what are you waiting for? We know these things but we continue so often to deny them. We think Peter behaved badly back along the way when he denied the Master, but we do it all the time. We deny the truth that we know, and we swallow the garbage of the human ego. It is the human ego swallowing its own garbage, not us. I never do that. And each one can say that. I never do that, and I speak the truth. If I say I do it sometimes, I am lying. I am lying because it is a false “I” who is saying that.
Let the unreality pass away. Let the truth prevail, because individually we know. I know. I don’t require you to tell me that it is so. Do you require me to tell you that it is so? If you do, what is wrong with you? So together we agree in the truth. We will never agree as human egos, you see, in a world full of human egos trying to agree, trying to work out agreements. What a waste of time! It just preserves the human ego, makes it seem important. It has to follow out all these lines of endeavor and eventually we’ll get the world into a proper shape. Well, maybe eventually the world will get into a proper shape, but not because of that. The world is full of corruption and violence because of the human ego, because I have not been present and in expression. I have been present but not in expression.
Together we provide a facility because individually we do it. We provide a collective facility by which human egos are dissolved from the face of the earth. That is the restoration, isn’t it? Dissolve the thing that blocks the experience of the oneness of heaven and earth, and the experience of the oneness of heaven and earth is there. Frantic endeavors to bring heaven on earth are futile because it is already here, just obliterated from human consciousness and experience because of the human ego. Dissolve the human ego: restoration. All very simple. Is the accuser cast down in our own experience, honestly cast down? How honest are we in this? How clear in heart and mind? How aware of the one I am?
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It Must Be The Genuine Article
Uranda July 23, 1946
“In time past I have talked to you somewhat concerning the formation of the Body, and the reality of the Unit.
That which is the beginning formation of the Head, I have called the Nucleus,
and the beginning formation of the Body as a Whole I have called the Unit.”
Uranda 1949
If we are to function properly, the purpose of function is to Let Love Radiate to all alike—regarding no one as enemy. We must radiate all of the time, as the sun shines, not being concerned about focalizations of evil. If you start looking for them, you will think you find them everywhere; you will start imagining things. The thing to do is to remember that the Body has one job, and that is to Let Love Radiate. And when, on the basis of correct function, under the direction of the Head, we do meet opposition—that is, deal with it—it will be on the basis of Love, because it is the only basis upon which we can act. Most of this might not appear to the human concept as real at the moment but that is beside the point. Since there is a Christ Body and there is a radiation of the Fire of the Christ Love, those within the scope of our radiation have, automatically, the opportunity to know, and if it were not for that radiation there would not develop a focalization of opposition—therefore, when the focalization of opposition appears, it has already had its opportunity. It would not take form on the basis of opposition unless it had had that opportunity; therefore we deal with it on the basis of its own judgment of itself. That is the principle involved. So, except as it may be brought out for consideration by the Head, the members of the Body are not to concern themselves about dealing with the dark forces, or opposition, or evil, because if you start thinking about it, meditating upon it, or trying to figure it out, you are going to cease to be a member of the One Christ Body. It can happen awful fast, and I mean awful—full of awe.
Remember always that the basic principles that you have learned all the way through still hold, and except as we give attention to the things of reality we cannot possibly hope to carry through. “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” That should mean more to you today than it ever has in the past. As members of the One Christ Body, unless we are obedient to that Word, it will be as nothing. And that has to be done in really living the Christ Life—not seething inside with resentment. Not just by saying, “I am looking for good things to think about”—and isn't that just about as sensible as the human being is sometimes?
It has to be real. Remember folks, I [the Lord of Truth] always know the difference between the real and the counterfeit, whether I make the test right in front of you and show it up or not. And remember that I am not interested in anything that is counterfeit—it does not impress me; it does not help; it is utterly valueless; and sooner or later I will see that it is tossed out into the garbage. Remember that there is just one type of thing that can be used, and that is the genuine article. Unless it is genuine, it cannot be used very well, and whatever is counterfeit has to be removed. We shall remove it ever so gently and be sure that it is filled with the real if you will let me perform the operation the way I want to do it, but if you insist on trying to work it out according to some concept of yours, you are liable to find on one bright day that with one clean sweep the Sword is likely to lay it right apart, and you can take it or leave it. Unless it is genuine, it is absolutely no good at any time. I tolerate some counterfeit, so that we may not be under the necessity of making spectacles of things, so that we can let these things change gradually and as painlessly as possible, but, sooner or later, that Sword will operate if you insist on trying to do it your way—and that is that.
In my function I actually have drawn the lovely out of each one of you. Everything that is fine and real in you I have been drawing out as rapidly as I could, so that it might be on top, but when there is something unreal inside—and even though you may try to hide it from me, I may let you think you are getting by with it a little while—but you will learn sooner or later that when I look I am not looking with human vision that can be easily deluded. I think you know that already. I have proven it too many times. That does not mean that I am going to arbitrarily reach inside of your heart and yank this or that out. No. I have consistently worked to draw from within you that which is lovely, fine, true, real and noble, that it may manifest effectively. But in that process you find that, willingly or unwillingly, as long as you stay within the range of my responsibility and authority, sooner or later, I insist that the unlovely corners be opened up and that you take a look at them. You may think that you have something tucked away so far and so deep that I shall not know that it is there, or that I cannot find it. I think a few of you could testify that there is no such place to be found.
I have accepted this One Christ Body, in which I have the fullest of love, faith and trust, on the level of its function. I [as Lord of Truth] have unified with it as its Head, and I do not think that my love or my faith could be made manifest any more than it has been—but that One Body has a lot of growing to do, and those members who are in it will have to be, sooner or later, fully purified. Any walls that remain will have to be broken down; anything hidden in the depths will have to be brought to the light. It can be done in the light between you and me before God, without the others looking on, if you will let it be so. But if you do not, one bright day I will rip it off where everybody can take a look at it—and I don't mean maybe.
I cannot make you do anything. I am not interested in making you do anything. The only thing that is any good in this One Christ Body is Love Response and what you do in Love Response of your own volition, because you want to do that more than anything else in the world. Anything that you do under a feeling of compulsion, or because you think I require it, is counterfeit. Many times I have seemed to accept it for the time, because I wanted to give you every opportunity to grow, but anything that is counterfeit is utterly no good. Only what you do that is right for the pure joy of doing right, without compulsion, because it is what you want to do more than anything else in the world—only that done in Love Response is any good.
There is one sure thing. Remember this. This Body of which I am a member is made up of many members. I will not let any member jeopardize the whole. Our responsibility is not just for the members of this Body, but for the world body of responding ones, and as the One Christ Body—while there is a training period, and while I deal with every matter with all the Love that I can, and you know it—there is that which requires that we follow the groove, that we hew to the line, that we let the work be performed according to the Plan—the Blueprint, if you please—and it will be done that way by this Body as long as I am its Head. You know that. But with respect to the necessities of outworking in this Body, it is necessary that I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance, so that you function in that realization. Behold, I make all things new—inside and out, up and down and all around, every whit whole.
These are considerations with respect to the work to which we are called, and things with respect to our function in the doing of that work. It is the greatest work on earth. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/10/a-cosmic-view-of-price-of-progress.html] It is the most important thing in all the world. Millions of lives depend on it. I have not seen any sign that anyone else was too seriously considering doing the job. To depend on someone else would be the sheerest folly. I am not taking the attitude that there are not any other people in the world who could do the work if they would. Do you see what I mean? We are not the only good people in the world, not by a long shot. I suspect that if we looked around we might find a group of people who might be called even better, who never heard of the Third Sacred School. We do not have any cause for self-righteousness, nor human pride—and pride goeth before a fall. We do not like falls. We had one thousands of years ago, a pretty big tumble—and there have been several since. There have been so many of them that it seems to me that we ought somehow to stop making them. The world is cluttered up with them; the world needs something else; the world needs something that it has not got. So instead of making another fall we would rather have that Open Gateway that lets Heaven come down from God into the earth, that all things may truly for all people be made new.
I should like to read a few words from Revelation 21: “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.” Have you heard that Voice? The Tabernacle of God is the One Christ Body on earth, in which He dwells, lives, moves and has His Being, and functions to the degree that we let it be purified and made every whit whole. “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.” That is the description in Revelation 21:3—the double three, by the way—of the manifestation of the One Christ Body on earth.
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Revelation Five
The Time Of The End
Martin Cecil December 10, 1956
We have taken a new look at that which is recorded in the first portion of the fourteenth chapter of the Book of Revelation concerning the Lamb which stood upon Mount Zion and the hundred and forty and four thousand who were with the Lamb. We see more clearly how this pattern has a direct relatedness to us in this present time. The consideration in this regard followed immediately that which was recorded in relationship to the two beasts: the one out of the sea and the other which arose out of the earth. At the point where we recognize the absolute necessity of being completely uncontrolled by any of the influences, any of the methods, presented by the great red dragon, we are in position to play our part in that which is essential in the unfolding cycles of the Divine Fulfilment. However, it is essential that we should participate in that pattern of completeness which is symbolized by the hundred and forty-four thousand which permits the action of the Lamb to manifest on earth, the action of the positive expression of the Spirit of God, with particular emphasis upon the Spirit of Truth. This relates to the Ministry of the Spirit of Truth on earth.
“These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.” We saw the meaning of that, in the recognition that the Lamb does not have reference to any single individual but to the positive expression of the Spirit of God which needs to find a channel of manifestation on earth. It is true that specific individual beings provide focalization in relationship to every aspect of the Spirit of God, but here we are considering the Spirit of God in relationship to the hundred and forty-four thousand, or to that complete pattern at any point along the way leading to the place in the outworking where there are actually one hundred and forty-four thousand individual human beings included in the Divine instrument on earth. If we are a part of that which is supposed to be complete at this point we must be following the Lamb whithersoever he goeth; our individual and collective lives must be a revelation of the controlled expression of the Spirit of God on earth; and in this regard it is evident that there must be flexibility, easy movement, in that following process.
In relationship to the working of the Divine instrument on earth there is a specific pattern, and in relationship to that pattern there is provision for control. With respect to our Program here, there are those who carry specific responsibilities in leadership in relationship to our Unit pattern. This assists all of the rest of you to allow a pattern of flexibility to operate more freely in relationship to yourselves. We know how easily human beings get set in habit patterns, how they get into a rut, and if anything arises to threaten the particular pattern of habit the individual becomes disturbed. How often we hear the statement made, “We have always done it this way.” Perhaps it may be about time to try another way.
I do not think that the last word has been spoken with respect to anything. We have certain habit patterns set quite frequently on the basis of what Uranda once said or what I once said, as though nothing ever changed in the way of outer circumstance. Action is so often upheld by the statement, “Uranda said that.” Perhaps he did in relationship to some circumstance back along the way. There was a pattern established with respect to the Children of Israel quite a while back that was excellent at that time; it was what was required; but to try to make it work now would be futile. The principles are the same but the principles need to find their proper application in relationship to present circumstances, in relationship to the vibratory pattern as it is now, taking into account all the factors involved. There is nothing, in the outer sense, the same now as it was back there. There is nothing the same now in this moment as it was five seconds ago. How frantically human beings endeavor to keep things the same! Sameness seems to give a sense of security to many.
If the sense of security is established on the basis of the outer circumstance, we have to keep the outer circumstances just thus and so in order to feel it. That is not true security. When security is centered in God, so that the individual is moving with the current of the Spirit, there is flexibility and it is easy to move in whatever way may be necessary. Just because an old pattern is passing away, there is no need for frantic efforts to maintain it. Let it go! Something new is coming. When we follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth we cannot stay in one place. It is essential that there should be constant movement because the Lamb does not stay in one place, except as we may recognize the position on Mount Zion—but that which is being offered in every moment through the positive expression of the Spirit of God is new in every moment. If we get set in a habit pattern then soon we are separated from the ever-newness of the expression of the Spirit.
We have control patterns in relationship to our Program, necessarily so. This is a basic principle of being, and it is the acceptance of control patterns as they are established in the present moment, so that the Divine Government begins to become operative on earth, that makes it possible to know that wonderful Spirit—togetherness and Love, understanding, joy—which comes by reason of harmonization in that which is Divinely established. The increasing yielding to the control pattern which is being made evident, so that there is faithfulness in this regard, is beginning to permit an increased movement and experience of the Spirit of God in action. In the measure that there is rebellion or resistance to the controls that are offered individuals exclude themselves from our Program of Ministry. There has been forward movement in this regard, for which I thank God, and that faithfulness is allowing a wonderful experience of something new, something which, insofar as the groups are concerned, has never yet been experienced. But there are evidences that it is coming, and it is coming because at last there are a sufficient number who have come to realize what has been emphasized over and over again all along the way: that it is essential to accept the controls that are established in relationship to our Program, without judgment, without any critical attitudes, but with a willingness to acknowledge this essential requirement, for we have to start in any moment where we are.
We do not have the one hundred and forty and four thousand people yet. We are not at the point of that fulness of completion. We are here, and we are working with ourselves as we are. The only pattern that we can accept is that which is made manifest as we are. Accepting that as it is now established does not mean that it is always going to be this way, but if we accept the pattern as it now is that will permit forward movement to take place so that it may become, in successive moments, what it should be then. So often there has been rebellion against accepting the pattern as it is because the individual judged it to be inadequate. The individual says, “It should not be this way; it should be some other way that I have in mind.” We have to start with that which exists and let ourselves be blended into that, at whatever level that may be, according to the pattern that is there, and then, following the Lamb whithersoever he goeth we let the movement take place, we let something new appear. We do not, on the one hand, endeavor to keep it the way it is; nor, on the other, rebel against the way it is because it is not the way we think it ought to be. We let it be as it is. We follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth, and rejoice in the changes that come, not judging the changes, but letting them be the way they are, trusting God, following the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.
We begin to move and something new begins to appear—first of all in Spirit. There is a new experience in feeling, in our attitudes one toward another, in our feeling for each other, and because there is a newness in the Heaven realm something new begins to appear in the earth realm. We begin to understand that which is essential to ourselves in relationship to this point where we are, according to the measure of that completeness which is now manifest. We can let it unfold so that we may be numbered among these who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.
“These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.” Here is the evidence of the fact that they are without fault before the Throne of God: In their mouth was found no guile. The serpent at the point of the fall beguiled the woman, and as long as the self-active mind is controlling there is guile in the mouth of the human being—that which is not truthful, that which is deceptive, that which increases the states of delusion. Those who are without fault before the Throne of God must be perfect, must have allowed the fulfilment of our Master's commandment, “Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect.”
What of that which is in your mouths? What of the control with respect to your tongue? Do you ever find that control slipping? Do you ever find your tongue giving expression to something which, when you stop to look at it, you recognize immediately is not of God? How adequate is that control? Here we have that which gives evidence of those who are without fault before the throne of God—”In their mouth was found no guile.” The Word of Truth finds expression through their lips. How closely do you watch your words? Are there words ever spewing forth from your mouths which are the expression of the dragon? I wonder! How complete is the control governing your speech? This reveals those who are numbered among the hundred forty and four thousand: “And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.”
“And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.”
This reminds us of some words which our Master spoke in relationship to the time of the end of the self-active world: “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, and then shall the end come.” We have the angel flying in the midst of heaven having the Everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people. The preaching of the Gospel is that which precedes the end of the fallen world of man. The Gospel is the Good News, the Everlasting Gospel. The Kingdom which is at hand is eternal.
The Gospel: “The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” This is the Gospel which must be preached in all the world, and what makes the preaching of that Gospel possible in all the world? An hundred forty and four thousand. But the preaching of the Gospel begins to appear as there is that in manifestation, adequately complete, which in the unfolding cycles will come to the point where there are one hundred forty and four thousand individual human beings in the pattern. The Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in all the world at the point of the manifestation of the complete instrument for the Divine expression on earth, because that is the point where the control of the Kingdom can be established on earth in relationship to the world of mankind, and consequently the world of mankind becomes aware that it is there. When that is so, obviously the end is very close at hand. In the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew, which is the record of our Master's words when He was speaking of these things, there is this passage: “Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/08/summer-is-nigh-martin-exeter-19-1987-it.html]
“So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things.” What things? Our Master had been speaking about wars and rumors of wars, famines and earthquakes and all the rest, but these things have been present with human beings right along. Our Master indicated that not even the Angels of Heaven knew what the date was, but the Father only. But what was He pointing to? Let us take a look at the illustration which He gave. “Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh”—the symbol of the fig tree. Our Master used the symbol of the Vine. We have considered the nature of the Tree of Life. At the point where this tree begins to put forth leaves, being yet tender, is the indication that summer, or the time of fulfilment to which our Master was pointing, is nigh. So it is not a matter of looking out into the world, although certain evidences can be observed out there in the world. It is a matter of looking at the fig tree, the manifestation of the True Vine on earth. When that begins to appear, and Life begins to move in the branches of it so that the evidences of that Life begin to appear as the leaves, then summer is nigh; the point of fulfilment is approaching.
As this takes place there will be certain results made evident in relationship to that which is working out in the world also, but for those who are unaware of the fig tree, unaware of the Divine Provision, unaware of the facilities which God has provided for the salvation of man, the evidences in the world appear to be of a desperate nature. There seems to be no hope; there seems to be darkness everywhere; there seems to be only that which generates fear and which leads to suffering and tribulation. But if there is a recognition, over against that, of the development of the Pattern of the Divine Design on earth which makes possible salvation for the children of men, then there can be rejoicing with respect to the destructive processes which may be observed. That rejoicing is not because we wish anyone ill, but because we recognize that the former things are passing away. So, it is this putting forth of leaves, the bringing forth of the evidences of life in the fig tree on earth, that heralds the approach of the end, for it is thus that the Gospel of this Kingdom begins to be preached on earth.
This Kingdom is a place of control. When there is on earth a Body, an instrument, composed of human beings who are no longer controlled by the dragon through the beast and the false prophet because they have accepted and acknowledged the control that is extended to them by the LORD, then the controls of the Kingdom are established on earth and begin to extend into the world. That is the preaching of the Gospel, the making evident of the fact that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand because it is right here, no longer something invisible, no longer something that we might know theoretically is within reach, but something that is made manifest on earth—the reality of the Divine control. And as you experience, in whatever measure you are willing to share in it, the putting forth of the green leaves in relationship to yourself as a branch of the fig tree, you know that the point of fulfilment is at hand.
We do not say it must be at hand because we see so much unrest in the world, because we see something building up to a point of climax. We realize that that which is intensifying in the world comes to pass because the Gospel of the Kingdom begins to be preached in the world. That is actually what forces the issue. That is what shortens the time for the elect's sake, those who elect to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom, to let the Kingdom come on earth. As we begin to see these things set forth for us, this Provision of the LORD through the record of our Master's words and the words of the One who wrote the Book of Revelation, we may recognize that we are at the time of their fulfilment in relationship to ourselves. We see that which comes to focus in the present moment.
So many human beings have thought to interpret the Book of Revelation; some fantastic ideas have been developed; but insofar as the actual reality is concerned the understanding appears at the time when it is applicable in relationship to those who consider it. If it is not in point, while perhaps principles may be comprehended its actual application cannot be understood, for the circumstance must be in point which allows the application to blend with the circumstance. Until they both come together the pattern remains merely something which is theoretical, something which may be understood in principle but not something which applies in the unfolding circumstances of the moment. It is only when that which is recorded comes to point in relationship to the circumstances of the moment that it can be seen and understood and comprehended by those who are sharing in letting it appear, those who are standing on Mount Zion, those who are providing the point of union between Heaven and earth, those who are numbered amongst the hundred and forty and four thousand.
You have the opportunity of sharing in comprehension of these things in the measure that you are letting the leaves be put forth on your branches, the evidences of Life revealed through you. So, there may be a recognition of the particular point in the unfolding cycles where we actually are. I would that you might share the vision more fully, so that you might share the fulfilment more fully, for the time is at hand.
Our beloved LORD and KING, we thank Thee for the evidences of Thy provision which we are privileged to behold. Accepting our responsibilities and moving easily and surely in response to the impulse of the Spirit, we would let the Gospel be preached through our lives as the evidence of Thy control is made manifest. We thank Thee that in the situation where we are we may accept it and let it work in us, governed no longer in any sense by the dragon but, following the Lamb whithersoever he goeth, we may be found without guile and perfect in Thy sight, an instrument of adequate completeness at this time to extend the essential control of the Kingdom into the world to guide the destinies of mankind. For only as there is that on earth which is in position to provide a point of government in the world, the Government of Thy Kingdom, is there any hope for the salvation of the children of men. Because we recognize these things to be so, we accept that to which we are ordained in Thy Name, to accomplish Thy works and the fulfilment of Thy purposes, together with all who will take their places in the Divine instrument on earth to Thy Glory, giving Glory to Thee, IN the Christ. Aum-en.
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