A remnant is a small portion of something. When God speaks of a remnant he is speaking of people. All through the Old Testament he has separated a remnant for himself when the whole became polluted. For example: Noah, Abraham, Elijah, even Israel herself after she became a nation. (Rom. 11: 3-5) Those obedient to God the Father’s will.

Overcomers are those, who like the remnant, are called out for God’s purpose. Under the New Covenant God requires them not to just leave something, but conquer it. God took the Israelites out of Egypt and spent forty years trying to get the Egypt out of them. It did not work, so they died in the wilderness. It is not enough to come out of a movement; you must submit to the cleansing process to get the movement out of you.

YahShua said it this way, "Men do not pour new wine into old wineskins, the skins will burst, the wine will run out, and the wineskin will be ruined." First the old wineskins must undergo a treatment to make them flexible and clean from the old wine, usually in a salt solution. An overcomer must undergo treatment of the Holy Spirit and be cleansed from old religious ideas and influences before they can begin to understand what God is doing and be in the new move of God.

If they remain in the order that is obsolete they will spiritually die, that is be cut off from what God is doing. Death removes you from something. They progress no further in understanding God or his purposes and become stagnated. With much effort they strive to pump life into their dead order and it soon become simply a religion with no power outside it’s own energies.

Old ways are hard to lay down, especially if they were good in their time, but that is exactly what God had YahShua ask them to do. "Take up your cross and follow me", he said. (Mt. 10:38; 16:24) He was the Passover lamb that was offered to God in its season to fulfill the requirements of the law, therefore making the old obsolete. (John 1:29 & 1 Peter 1:18-21; Heb. 8:13)

The priesthood of the Old Covenant lost its power when YahShua ordained a New Covenant with his blood. (Heb 8:1-13) There was then no more need to sacrifice animals, nor for those who sacrificed them. The priesthood was no longer of importance for God has, under the New Covenant, offered one sacrifice for all, never needing another.

At the vary moment that YahShua died the curtain in the Temple between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place was rent in two from top to bottom establishing the New Covenant. (Mt. 23:38) The Old Covenant was replaced and it lost God, becoming empty and vain. The Glory of the Lord departed from over the mercy seat and came to dwell in the hearts of believers in the Temple not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens.

Caiaphas, the High Priest at the time and the Chief Priest ordered it secretly repaired and set about to silence the witnesses. After all they said, " …was not this way ordained of God? Did he not establish it and here was this man, YahShua, trying to change things he would tell us first. We are, after all, the ones who received the laws and were put in charge to see that they were kept. Do we not stand before him to minister? Then why would God go outside the priesthood to reveal change? This YahShua could not be the Messiah. Where was his glory, his mark of Kingship? Where is his great army in which to deliver? He has insulted God and our intelligence expecting us to believe that he is the Son of God! Blasphemous!"

A word of warning! When an old move of God is finished the glory departs as it did with Judaism. (Mt. 23:38) There may remain a form of Godliness but there is no power; power of God that is. (2 Tim. 3:5) YahShua said of these, in spite of the power they seem to execute and all the seemingly good things they did, "I do not know you or where you come from. Away from me all you evil-doers." (Mt. 7:21-23)

God always moves out before the remnant, a type of which we see in Israel’s wandering in the wilderness. When the glory cloud moved, they were to fallow. (Num. 9:17-19) If they did not they found themselves without God’s presence. Likewise, as the new order was established, the curtain in the Temple was rent, signifying that the Glory of God who dwelt above the Ark of the Covenant had departed leaving the Most Holy Place empty. The Glory has departed each Church Age when it became obsolete and polluted.

This was no shock to God. He knew very well it would happen and made provisions for those that would remain faithful and were willing to follow him instead of man. How do you know when a movement or ministry has become polluted? Man ceases to grow in the knowledge and revelation of God, no longer enduring sound (spiritual) doctrine and exalts his place above God. Thinking himself wise, he becomes foolish and says, "I am going to preach, lay on hands and prophesy", and then expect God to bless it with his presence. They expect the Glory Cloud to follow them about, making them God and God their servant. (1 Tim. 6:3-5) Man’s ways are always backwards from God’s ways. (Mk. 8:33)

Polluted means mixed with man’s authority. God is no longer in charge in the services. Man takes control and nothing is done without their approval. You say, "Not in my church." What time does the Sunday morning service end? Did God ordain this? Who did? What time do you start singing? What do you do next? What point in the service does the minister begin his sermon? Is it always the same service after service? Rituals! Religion! Judaism! An Empty Temple, an empty Church! I have been in every brand of church on the market today and I can tell you for certain there is little differences. If you have seen one you have seen them all.

Who formed the church anyway? YahShua never set up anything nor established a form of worship. There was already synagogues and the Temple with all it’s pomp and splendor. Formula is law not grace, man’s way not God’s. As a matter of reference, look at what YahShua told the woman at the well that was concerned about places to worship. (John 4:19-24) Did man decide the way God should do things and then ask him to bless it? Backwards again!

The word Church according to the Strong’s Concordance in the Greek language is "ekklesia", meaning, "A calling out." (Mt. 16:17-18) If there is a calling out then there must be something to be called out from: Chaldea (Gen. 12:1), Egypt (Ex. 12:50-51 & Jude 5), sin and the Church Age. (Rev. 18:2-5)

Church is not a building, it is people called out by a revelation of who YahShua is. First he was the man of Galilee; the preacher and healer. Secondly the dying savior; the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world. Thirdly; he proved to be the resurrection and the life. Forth, he became, at his resurrection, the manifested Son of God.

YahShua never called himself as the Son of God. He always referred to himself as the son of man because he was in the flesh. He was called the Son of God only after he had raised from the dead. "And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead." Romans 1:4 In his flesh he was the Son of man, but in his glorified body he was the manifested Son of God.

Fifth, we see him as the High Priest entering heaven with his own blood, (Heb. 4:14) and Sixth, he becomes the door to the Father. Here is where he brings us into the very presence of the Father, and he fades into the background. We began to see what YahShua was all about. He came to reconcile us to God the Father. Seventh, he is the firstborn among many brothers. (Rom. 8:29-30) The Church Age ends here for our eyes and the focus is upon God the Father for that is the true purpose of YahShua. (John 17:3-6)

In the book of Revelations there were seven Church Ages and seven revelations of YahShua Messiah. Each revelation brought YahShua Messiah fresh to the heart of believers, because it was the revealing of God in him. (Rev. 1:1) Like rungs on a ladder, we are brought closer to our objective, God the Father.

This was the first church of the book of the "Revelation of YahShua Messiah" to the world. The word Ephisus from the Greek means "LOOSING", and that was just what happened. The religious leaders used their influence to try and snuff out this new way because of their pride and fear of loosing control of the people and their highly regarded position. They went so far as to enlist the help of Rome to obtain the eradication of the teachings of YahShua. They forbid any to speak in his name and it was stricken from all records. Those who did not comply died a martyrs death. For a while this seemed to work, but the very weapon used on the new church was the one that destroyed Judaism in 70 AD.

No sooner was the Church Age born than religious forces of that day began to infiltrate trying to mix law and grace. Because of immaturity, it soon gained the desired foothold. Their power and influences so deluded the teachings of YahShua that it prompted him to say of it, "…You have left your first love." That Church Age in spite of the strong leadership of the twelve apostles and the outpouring of the Spirit did just as God foresaw in the beginning. It quickly returned to law and formalism with its deluding influence and God had to call forth his overcomers.

The overcomers reward was, "To eat from the Tree of Life", which is fellowship with God the Father. To eat something you take it into yourself and it becomes the very life force that sustains you.

The meaning of Smyrna in the Greek is "Bitter". As the word implied this Church Age was more persecuted by Rome than it’s forerunner, prompting YahShua to say, "…You are going to suffer". The atrocities of that period have sometimes been paralleled with the holocaust under Hitler. During the later part of the Roman dynasty the true church had to go underground. All of Rome’s problems were blamed on the church and all out war was waged against any that held on to the hope of Messiah.

The overcomes will receive a "Crown of Life", which meant they would not be touched with the second death. When many were dying for their faith, YahShua held out this promise. You think death is terrible because it separates you from your loved ones and all this physical existence has to offer. Well, here YahShua spares you from spiritual death that separates you from God and all that is vital to our very existence. The first is temporary for there is a resurrection, but the last is eternal.

The name of this Church Age means, "High Tower". This period was called, "The Dark Ages" and the true church had virtually disappeared from view. YahShua said to the church, "…You dwell where Satin’s throne is."

This church sat in the very hub of Roman culture in the Roman occupied land in the Middle East. As the Roman dynasty began to crumble from within its council began to look for other means to keep control of the people. This way of Messiahianity had resilience and a faith that was unmovable against any persecution. Over the years Rome had learned it’s strengths and that was what they needed. Unable to maintain the power it had by physical force because of it’s own weakness, it embraced Messiahianity. This gave them a base of operation but they had to appeal to all the countries under their weakening authority. To accomplish this they added things from pagan religions to appease them in those cultures.

YahShua holds this out, if you overcome and do not become polluted, "I will give you some hidden manna and a new name." Hidden manna is revelations of God himself, our life force, that comes only by one on one fellowship and to give us a name of renown. We are to no longer be known as human, but as spirit beings. (2 Cor. 5:17)

In the forth century we began to see a new religious order arise from the ashes of old Rome, the visible Catholic Church. The Caesars of Rome were now Popes and the council, Cardinals, creating a more powerful Kingdom than ever they imagined. Catholicism flourished and engulfed almost all the known world. What Rome could not do in that it was weak, the Roman Catholic Church has done on an unbelievable scale. The revived Roman Empire was in full force. They enjoyed full domination of the religious scene until 1530 AD.

Most people have no clue as to the difference between earthly kingdoms and spiritual kingdoms, earthly things and heavenly things. Man is constantly pulling spiritual down to their carnal minded realm. Backwards again! We are suppose to be allowing the spirit of God to pull us up into the realm of the spiritual. The carnal or natural is tangible and spoken of as things that can be acknowledged by the five senses: see, touch, taste, smell, and hearing. (1 Cor. 2:6-10) Spiritual things are intangible and known only by the spirit that dwells inside.

YahShua tried to show this to Nicademous when he said, "You must be born of water (natural) and of the spirit, (spiritual) to enter the kingdom of God, …Flesh gives birth to flesh, but spirit gives birth to spirit." If you read, "In my Father’s house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you..." and what comes to mind is a Hollywood type home with at least fifty bedrooms, a patio with an Olympic size swimming pool then you are carnal minded. If, however, you see a place in the presence of God where you may dwell and have fellowship then you are on your way to spiritual understanding.

Meaning in the Greek language, "Sacrificing Untiringly". Unseen to all eyes but God’s and the true believers, this church was hid in the shadow of the Catholic Church. Struggling to survive and keep it’s commitment to God, it had been stripped of all it’s power, most of it’s faith. The Effort to keep going was a true sacrifice. Though Rome had changed it’s face, the fear of persecution still loomed over the believers. None could hold any belief or teaching that did not come from the clergy without incurring the wrath of the Papal, so few did so.

The true believers held on to what they had heard of the teachings of YahShua and he looked at them and said, "…You tolerate the woman Jezebel". In the Old Testament Jezebel led Israel into idol worship and sexual immorality. Setting up many high places, they sacrificed themselves before their idols.

The overcomers of this Church Age were granted the "rulership of nations". Those who had no authority with man was given the power to move heaven and earth like a king on a throne. The light was about to go out in the true church for it was the "Dark Ages".

Sardus means, "Reviving". This Church I call the "Church of Reformation" (Fundamentalism). In 1519 Martin Luther, a young Cardinal, brought the true church back into view by tacking his thesis on the door of the Catholic Church. He was visited by God and through revelation saw that grace comes by faith and many of the early teachings of YahShua were rekindled. Overnight a new movement sprang forth. Revival had come to hungry hearts. God began to restore what was lost during the Dark Ages. Bibles became available to those who wished to have one, no longer the sole property of the Catholic Church hierarchy. Salvation through grace brought hope to the dying embers of the church. (Rom. 11:5-6)

Although YahShua granted to the overcomer the privilege of being, "…resented to my father", the Sardus church received this indictment, "I have not found your deeds complete". There needed to be another movement.

The church of "Brotherly Love". The Pentecostal renewal came as it did in the beginning with a small group of believers in the spring of 1906. The hallmark of this Church Age was speaking in tongues and the gifts of the spirit. Rejected by the Fundamentalists as radical and unorthodox, the spirit and power of God spread like wildfire. Even with this new out pouring of the spirit, this church was a mere shadow of the first and YahShua said, "you have little power". Jealousies arose as men began to quarrel and quibble over theological beliefs until splits began to separate them from one another. Brotherly love was out the window and so was God. He would have no part in it. It was time to move on in God’s plan, but most was content with what they had and believed there was no further place to go. They had it all.

Those who were overcomers he promised to make "a pillar in the Temple of God". If any would hear God and not get caught up in these religious things they would be built upon the words of God and be strong enough in faith to hold each other up against the disaster of the next Church Age.

The meaning of this church is "People’s Opinion". This is the last Church Age, the seventh and the most corrupt of all. This church embraces all the Unholy Trinity; Catholicism, Fundamentalism and Pentecostalism. Fundamentals and Pentecostals were once a true move of God, but they have now become organizations, run by powerful men in what is known as the general headquarters. Under them are the district headquarters and under them the churches. You know, when men take the reigns of anything it soon becomes corrupt and more of a form rather than what God intended. They virtually organized God right out of the picture. They have become nothing more than glorified social clubs ruled by the opinion of a College of Cardinals or a general council of powerful men.

In Revelations these are referred to as mountains, that is high places, and in the Old Testament we see high places as alters of Idols and immorality. We are not talking physical idols and immorality here we are talking spiritual. People by the thousands rush here and there to hear brother so and so and have intimate relations with a ministry to the point of giving themselves over to it’s influences. Their ideas and teachings become the gospel whether God is in it or not. (Mt. 24:23-25) She turns mans attention to a ministry instead of to God. This is why she is called the Great Harlot. She seduces the people of God into a relationship with her instead of with God, whom they are espoused to.

The great religious harlot of the bible is called Babylon. To understand why she, the Unholy Trinity, is called Babylon you have to go back to the beginning in the Old Testament. We are reminded that everything that happened in the Old Testament is a type and shadow of spiritual things. (Heb. 10:1; Cor. 2:16-17) What Babylon did in the natural, the religious Babylon has done to the weakened soul and spirit of God’s people.

You see a post flood people taking it upon themselves to build a tower to heaven to escape the wrath of God when it comes again. God did not plan this or ask them to do it. As a matter of fact, God promised he would never again destroy the whole world with a flood because of sin. So why the tower? They simply did not believe God.

Babylon today is building an escape to heaven and from the great tribulation that they teach is to come. These towers (teaching or ministries) may look right, smell right, even feel right, but they are little kingdoms and high places which men built unto themselves, either literally or in their own minds. (John 17:15)

It is interesting to note that in the middle of God’s rebuke of Babylon by the prophet Isaiah we find Lucifer saying, "I will ascend to heaven: I will make my throne above the stars of God: I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,... I will make myself like the Most High". (Is. 14:12-15)

Now Lucifer, there is an interesting subject. Who is Lucifer? Well, we have been told it is Satan's name before he fell from heaven. In reality it was Adam’s symbolic name and means "morning star", the first man God created at the dawn of creation. He was also called, "son of the dawn", and he definitely fell from heaven, the garden. In his action he was saying, "I will to do what I want to do," exalting himself above God and he has many descendants in the world today.

The tower was mans way of getting to heaven without God. Do not build towers, build a fellowship with your Father God. Heaven is our inheritance.

Babel means "confusion" for there God confused their language and they became divided. (Gen. 11:9) It is that way today with religion. Theology has become so diverse, deceptive and full of confusion and "where there is confusion there is every other evil work." (Jam. 3:16) A house divided can not stand. (Mt. 12:25) The religious order of today has written it’s own epitaph.

Why are there so many churches and religious organizations? People’s opinion and people disagree so churches split apart. There is confusion, division and every other kind of evil. Is this God’s church? (1 Cor. 12:25)

The King of Babylon had a dream of a great image. Daniel said, "You are that head of gold O King". Daniel gave the King the interpretation of his image, but there is a spiritual significance here. Remember the Bible is a spiritual book. YahShua said, "The words that I speak are spirit and life", (John 6:63) and he is the Word of God from the beginning. (John 1:1&14)

Now gold when refined is the purest substance known to man. It means God likeness. As the head of the image in Daniel’s time was gold, so is the religious Babylon in our time. The King in Daniel’s time took captive the people of God, controlled, dominated and brought them into bondage, demanding they worship the statue he set up like the image in his dream. As he first, we find a modern Babylon Harlot Religious System bringing souls and ministries into denominational captivity. (Rev 13:13-16)

It is always God’s way to call the spirit of a thing after its father or mother. The religious leaders of YahShua time were told they were, "…of your father the Devil". (John 8:42-44) John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah because his ministry was to point out sin and preach repentance just as Elijah did in his day. (Mt. 11:13-14) So, the spirit of Babylon now rests in organized religion and God parallels old Babylon to the religious one in the book of revealings.

In 722 B.C.E. the King of Babylon, laid siege on Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple and stripped it of it’s gold. Likewise, religious Babylon has laid siege to God’s people and stripped them of godliness and power, taking them into organizational captivity making them slaves of the church and many times a ministry. Bound with fetters of religious ideology, they receive it’s mark (thinking unspiritual), (Mk. 8:33) and bow down to the image, both Great and small, rich and poor and worship it. (Rev. 13:11-18)

I had a person to tell me not too long ago, "Oh I need to go to church. If I couldn’t go to church I’d probably backslide. I need the love and fellowship of other believers". I am sure this is the sentiment of most church goers today. What they are saying shows their dependency upon a ministry or a minister. "Yes, but God set them in the church." Did he, or did man set them there by appointment or vote, as it is done today and then expects God to bless it?

So, who is God in their life? Our Father in Heaven, some man, friends or a building called the church? Well, they are about to find out for God will have no other gods before him and for a people who are called by his name this is a sad state of affairs. Judgement will begin with his people and then God will remember the systems of religion, Babylon the harlot. (Rev. 18) More evil and vile than the first Babylon, this one holds the very soul of man captive not just their body. YahShua pointed at the religious leaders in his day and said, "You yourselves have not entered, and you hinder those who would enter." (Lk. 11:52) In Revelation 18:4-8 we read about God’s judgement on the harlot Babylon. YahShua judged the religious leaders in his day but God will judge those in our day.

God has foretold the doom and destruction of religions just as YahShua predicted the end of Judaism while he was on earth. (Rev. 17 & 18) He likens her to a great city because that is where people dwell. A city is not so much people as a system of authority. You can have masses of people but that does not make a city. Babylon says, "I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing". (Rev. 3:13-22)

Its sad when the people who call themselves by God’s name gets so caught up in the system of churchanity until it no longer needs God. They do not say it in words, but in the deeds they do and their way of life. They profess Messiah(the anointing) and say we worship YahShua and give God the glory. God calls this lip service and says, "I never knew you, depart from me you evil doers".

Most don’t not seek God for themselves so they are thankful to have their religious leaders do it for them. Like Israel in the wilderness they say, "You tell us what God says and we will do it". (Ex. 20:18-21) They run too and fro seeking God’s word from men. They become dependant on ministries, ministers and churches for what they think is spiritual life while they are receiving only religious piety. YahShua looked at them and replies, "You do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked". (Rev. 3:17) Others are so enthralled in the religious movement that it becomes their whole life and they could never think of doing anything else, much like the elders of old Israel.

Seven is the divine number of completeness, so there were seven Church Ages. It is a rest unto God. In the Law of Moses it says, "Six dates shall you work but the seventh or Sabbath day you are to rest from your labors". Each Church Age labored to be in right standing with God and for the fruit of the earth, that is souls to be saved. All church ages complied with God’s wishes even though they all became polluted and deluded with man’s influence until it was necessary for God to call out his remnant.

When the sixth church age faded the seventh was to be the Church Age of Rest. They were to no longer labor as the previous church ages, but to cease from their own labor. The key word here is "Own". This is a special Church Age or day, The Day of The Lord. In the other church ages man worked his own self-righteousness and God winked at it, but in this one God calls on us to do a new thing, rest from our religious abilities and ideas. We are called upon not to profane this holy day, but to rest from our religious abilities and ideas. We are to lean on his ability and learn to be spiritual not religious. This is the rest wherein he has called the weary to rest.

Apparently the commandment of God for the Sabbath-rest escaped the seventh church age’s notice. They continue right on working, building church buildings instead of the inner man, going to seminaries and Bible schools to learn how to minister instead of getting alone with God on the back side of the desert and learning his will for their lives. It is there and there along that the true ministries of God are born.

Now the concern is what they can do to build up their ministry or church, souls means more revenue and no extent is too great to get them. Mass salvation prayer has taken the place of true repentance. Working to establish their own kingdoms or build their own church membership which adds prestige, glory and money.

The commandment was to rest from your labors on the Sabbath because God rested from his on that day. The author of Hebrews in the first Church Age saw the Church Age of rest and said, "There remains then a Sabbath-rest for the people of God: for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his." (Heb. 4:1-13)

The church as it is today is so self-centered and deluded that it is impossible for it to hear what the Spirit is saying. Impotent to do the will of God, a remnant had to be called out. "Come out of her, my people, so that you will not receive any of her plagues". (Rev. 18:2-5) This remnant is the Bride of Messiah going out to meet the bridegroom. (Mt. 25:6)

In nineteen forty-eight God began to call the remnant, the bride of Messiah (not YahShua, but the anointed ones) out from among them to be a separate people. (Rev. 18:4) I was called out in nineteen seventy-three and I have talked to others who said they heard the call shortly after Israel became a nation. Many others have come out since, obeying the Spirits call but not understanding it. Feeling frustrated and guilty, they no longer enjoy going to church, just do not fit in or can not seem to find a comfortable place to go. They flounder in their misery and reason in their minds, "God would not want me not to go to church. I know I must be sinning." ...Wrong! This is primarily because the church system need your money and recourses and does not teach you to mature but keeps you a baby depending upon them. The ministry gifts were given until, but until never comes in the church system.(Eph. 4:13)

The "Bride of Messiah" and the "Body of Messiah" are one and the same, but different from the Lamb’s wife of Revelation twenty-one. Since Messiah means "anointing", we are speaking of the Bride of the anointed or the body of anointed believers. "The two shall become one flesh, no longer two but one".(Mk. 10:7-9) Here it is speaking of a man and woman but Paul tells us that same kind of relationship rests between Messiah, not YahShua, and his body or bride. (1 Cor. 12:12&13; 27)

Messiah is not YahShua’ second or last name. He was YahShua Messiah(the anointed one) speaking of his position with God the Father while he was still in the flesh. After the resurrection he was the Son of God, immortal and in his body from heaven.(2 Cor. 5:2). The life of the flesh is in the blood, the life of the spirit is in the anointing.

There are two types of anointing, mentioned in the Bible. In the Old Testament or covenant God anointed for service, such as priests and kings. In the New Testament or covenant we are anointed by the Holy Spirit to do exploits and with power to live overcoming lives.

The word "anointing" is used very loosely these days without much comprehension of what it means. Do not confuse emotional display with the anointing. I can watch a fast moving basketball game and, though I do not really feel like it, I am soon caught up in the spirit of the thing. It is empty and lasts only for a short time followed by a lull.

If there is a true anointing flowing, something spiritual and eternal happens and you go away a different person. It may or may not appear in the visible realm but change rarely is noticed at first. Your inner man may sense the presence of God which can be exciting but that is only the fringe benefit. The Spirit leads, he does not push or drive someone. Nor does he display himself disrespectfully. The work of God is change, to bring you to maturity. You simply can not come into the presents of the anointing and go away the same.

There has not been an anointing in the Church Religious System for some time or we would be able to see some change, some spiritual growth or at least some revelation knowledge to brings us into a deeper understanding of God, his will and his plan for man. How can I say that? Well, look at it yourself. How long has it been since you heard any teaching beyond the foundational teachings of the first Church Age.

Is that it? Is that all there is? Is this the place God intended for us to stay? No, my friend! God is alive and progressive and when an order stalemates God just does what he always has, he just moves out. There will never be a stopping place in our experiences with God. It is one adventure after another for God is not boring. Man makes God boring and sets limits. God is not limited nor should we let the Religious System limit us. Lets move on. God has, so why not us.

Please do not confuse the Bride and Body of Messiah with the Lamb’s wife of the book of Revelations. The Lamb’s wife is not a people but a kingdom represented by a city.(Rev. 21:2) People dwell in a city, but the New Jerusalem itself is the bride of the Lamb, (Rev. 21:9-10) the kingdom of God with man. A true king really belongs to none but his kingdom. He may have a queen but he himself belongs to the kingdom. (Rev. 21:3) As the king goes, so goes the kingdom. They are united as a husband and wife, one and the same.

Twelve is the number that represents the government or kingdom of God. It is said of YahShua that the government shall be upon his shoulders.(Is. 9:6) God’s government in the Old Testament was represented by the twelve tribes of Israel. In the New Testament it was the twelve disciples and after the cross the twelve apostles and in Revelation a city with twelve gates and foundations. There are twelve manner of fruit and so on. Keep in mind that a city is more than people it is a government. You can have masses of people but that does not make a city. The city comes into being when a system of government is in place. You could remove everyone out of New York and it will still be a city.

Okay, stop thinking literal material here. God takes literal things to explain spiritual things to a carnal minded man. Let’s become spiritual in our thinking. These things are object lessons, do not just see the object and miss the lesson.

The true power of a city is its organization and authority, so it is with The New Jerusalem. She represents the unseen influence, power and government of God in a way we can understand. What will this kingdom be like? It will be like jasper(Godly halo of glory), streets of pure gold(godly paths to walk upon) and as clear as glass(uncorrupt, pure, its purpose and motives clearly seen and understood). (Rev. 21:18; Is. 52)

In Revelations twelve we are shown a picture of the Body of Messiah or the Bride. "A woman clothed in the sun,(more properly "Son") the moon is under her feet and a crown(God’s government) upon her head".

We are told this is a sign. (Rev. 12:1) and a sign is just a sign not the thing itself, only a symbol of the thing. If you are driving along on an interstate highway and see a billboard advertising something, you are not foolish enough to believe that the sign is the actual thing, so do not do that with spiritual things.

The two beasts found in Revelation thirteen is a sign also. The first beast is the government of the second Beast. They are the denominational organization and the religious systems of worship. The church rides upon the first beast and the first beast carries the woman.

It is revealed that these beasts are man instituted and man oriented. Mans number is six, he was created on the sixth day of creation along with all the other beasts. God’s number is seven, the number of completeness. The number of the beasts is 666.(Rev. 13:18) The unholy trinity, Catholicism, Fundamentalism and Pentecostalism(which includes the non denominational organization a branch of Pentecostalism). You can line sixes up from here to eternity and they will never become a seven. Religious Organizations can never equal up to what God wants because it is run by man.

Geographic Rome(Mother Babylon) is said to set on seven hills, is that not what the angel in Revelations told John? Out of her came the Fundamentalism and out of the Fundamentalism came Pentecostalism and from Pentecostalism came Non-denominationalism which is a denomination on the books in Washington whether they want to admit it or not.(Rev. 17:9)

Let’s look a moment at the woman of Revelation twelve. Where do we see the moon. What do we know from science about the moon? In the natural she has no light of her own but reflects the light of the sun and gives light to the darkness. The work of the church(moon) is to reflect the Son to the world in spiritual darkness.

Let me show you what YahShua himself says would happen. (Mt. 24:29) "The sun will be darkened and the moon will not give her light, the stars will fall from the sky(heavens)." Was he talking literal here? Remember, YahShua said, "The words that I speak are spirit and life". From the time YahShua died on the cross and rose the third day God’s concern has primarily been the spiritual, to bring man to understand their new nature. (2 Cor. 5:17)

The woman represents the ones called out, the "Bride" or "Body of Messiah who have the glory of God surrounding her (clothed in the sun). The sun(Son) has become darkened as YahShua foresaw for he has no influence in the church anymore so God’s glory has departed it and now rests upon the woman.

This is not the first time God had to remove himself from his chosen people. He removed from over the Ark Of The Covenant at the death of YahShua for the old order was dead, now he has removed himself from the modern day church(his people) because they have become a dead order, turning his light into darkness, his truths into lies and serving the creature more than the creator.

I want you to note that the woman is not a part of the moon(church), she has overcome it (the Babylon Harlot Religious System) and put it under her feet like an enemy. (Rev. 12:11)

YahShua told of a time when the stars would fall from the sky and be flung to the earth.(Mt. 24:29;Rev 12:3-4) Stars are heavenly bodies or ministries.(Jude 1:11-16) Men with the call of God upon their lives who burn out in the friction of the perverse atmosphere of the Religious System, taking it’s mark and falling from the heavens.

I can not sale anything God has given me to them for I do not bare their mark nor carry their credentials and I sure am not buying the doctrines they teach these days. (Rev 13:14-17) Hearing with carnal minds, they misunderstand the message and what the Spirit is saying unto the church.(Ro. 8:6; 1 Cor. 2:11-14)

So again I say, the church is not doing what she was ordained to do, the Body of Anointing or the Bride of the Anointing is not in her anymore. Why? Because there is to be another virgin birth soon. (Rev. 14:1-5) Where is she then? She is in the desert or wilderness, outside the camp, travailing in pain to give birth. Being cleansed from all impurities(old wine of religion), in the fast that God has called, (Rev. 12:14) She is fasting from man’s ways and learning God’s. You don’t see her, most do not even know about her, but she is there doing God’s will.

Before YahShua started his ministry there was a time of preparation in the wilderness. John the Baptist came preaching out of the wilderness, and when YahShua was baptized the Spirit led him into the wilderness where he fasted forty days and nights.

This is not an unusual thing God is doing. All great moves of God are proceeded by a trip into the wilderness, like Moses, David and most of the Prophets, even the Apostle Paul had his time on the back side of the desert.

The Bride is about to bring forth her son, many sons as a matter of fact, so that YahShua may be "the first born among many brothers".(Ro. 8:28-30) God has given us power to become Sons of God. (John 1:12-13) "And if Sons, then heirs, and joint heirs with YahShua Messiah." (Ro. 8:16-17)

Paul tells us of that glory which awaits us as Sons. (Ro. 8:18) Many today are willing to admit that the Bible calls us Sons of God, but they do not see it as another move of God. If anyone mentions Sonship everyone gets big eyed and holds their breath. Just as in the time of YahShua, religious people, leaders and elders refuse to believe that God will send his Sons. Well get ready, for he is going to do it anyway. God will again incarnate himself again in a people.

"Surely," they say, "…if God was going to change things he would tell us first. We are the ones who are ordained and are to see that salvation comes to all. Do we not stand before him to minister? Do we not do miracles in his name and has he not given us the Holy Spirit? Then why would he go outside the priesthood, …ah, excuse me, …the ministry to reveal his change. These people could not possibly be the Sons of God. They insult our intelligence expecting us to believe that they are the Sons of God. Blasphemous!"

At the beginning of the Kingdom Age the Sons of God will be revealed to a stunned world with power unspeakable and full of glory. Will they be accepted or will they be rejected just as their elder brother? (1 Cor, 2:11-15) I guess we will have to wait and see, but I suspect that the Sons of God will not fare much better with religious authority and hierarchy than YahShua did in his day. The only difference this time is that these Sons will not die, but bring immortal life to this dying world.

Whether man receives or rejects them, creation will welcome them with open arms. (Ro. 8:22-25) It knows what God is doing, has longed for and been waiting for it. Nature will partake of the freedom from decay and death that comes with the manifestation of the Sons of God. Nature is in travail for it even now as I put down these words. (Ro. 8:19-20) People, read the sign of you time.

What will the manifestation of the Sons of God mean? The end of death and decay, (Rev. 21:4) the redemption of the body. (Rom. 8:23) mortal clothed upon with immortality, corruptible putting on incorruptible. (1 Cor. 15:51-56) Stick around a few years and you will begin to see a ministry coming out of the wilderness that will have this teaching along with many others. They will bring the restoration of holiness and truth and all that was lost in the fall will be restored even the years the locust has eaten.(Joel 2:25). They will not taste death and will teach men to walk in eternal life.

The fig tree (Israel) has put forth her leaves, know that the time is at hand. I am not talking about the Israel of Palestine, but spiritual Israel. Just imagine a preaching that calls people from the grave of religious teachings and teaches them to clothe themselves with everlasting life because death has passed unto life. A time when immortal Sons of God will walk the earth with mortal man who has everlasting life in harmony and peace. (2 Cor. 5:2)

Do I believe in aliens? Most definitely, but they do not come from worlds beyond but from spiritual heaven.(John 17:14 & 16) Fantastic, outrageous, unbelievable nonsense. Is it? Did not YahShua walk with man after his resurrection in an immortal body? What about the Old Testament saints that came out of their tombs and appeared to many? (Mt. 27:52) These are the things I know will happen because we have seen them in the foretaste or firstfruit of things to come.

These sons of God will appear in the midst as he did, minister, as he did and then disappear as he did. No walls will be able to prevent them, be it natural or religious. No assassin’s bullet will cut their ministry short and nothing will be hidden from them. (1 Cor, 4:5) Everyone will recognize the fact that their very soul is laid bare before them and that no lie or deception can stand before their judgement. Yes, I said judgement. Once again God will have judges in the land to set things in order that man has messed up since the fall of Adam.

Other wonderful things that can not even enter our minds will God do in that day.(1 Cor. 15:28) We will have all of eternity to explore them.(1 Cor. 2:6-10)

So, I leave you now with two thoughts: "He sets aside the first to establish the second," (Heb. 10:9) and "…With God all things are possible."