In this article I want to pursue somewhat uncharted territory. Not that many have not experienced the wide variety of His spiritual encounters, but somewhat uncharted in the sense that few ministries open themselves to meticulously explaining their particular walk in the Spirit. How does God speak to them? What experiences have they encountered? What windows of heaven have been opened to them?
What awakening have they received about their life in the pre-existent Ages? What direction do they have for those seeking a fuller relationship with His Spirit? What has God shown them about this Age and the world to come? What mistakes have they made in this pursuit? What discoveries have they made that would help others in breaking through into the higher realms of spiritual experience?
Two thousand years ago the Apostle Paul told the Corinthians that they were the people upon whom the end of the Ages had come. It was the last days of the Hebraic Age and the beginning, of what has often been called, the Church Age. To those awakened in this day, we also see that we are the people upon whom the ends of this current Age have come. We are at the concluding end of the Church Age and at the beginning end of the manifested Kingdom Age. This is the end of the Church Age not the end of the Church.
This is the Age of the manifestation of the Spirit of God in His people and the fullness of the Melchizedek Priesthood. I will walk in them and dwell in them. I will be their God and they shall be my people. God in and through His people walking among us and experiencing His creation through us.
We become His eyes. What we touch He touches. When we speak, He speaks. What we experience He experiences. We become His flesh, His Body. What does this unity look like? How does this relationship between God and His people manifest? How does this relationship with God in and through His creation bring forth the fullness of the Kingdom – the domain of the King?
To that end we should consider the unique and often unexplored ways of the operation and manifestation of the Spirit. In entertaining the Spirit, it becomes readily apparent that the ways He manifests and interacts with mankind are almost limitless. In fact, our understanding of His interaction with His creation is mostly hindered by our ridged perception, our experience and our desire.
Feeling after and finding greater things in the Spirit requires us to be willing to have a perception alteration and a deep desire to discover and live in His Presence. Jesus gave this instruction to those who desired to seek after and find Him.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.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. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
This is the experience the Apostle Paul had. The same experience that the Apostles Peter and John describe. The Revelation of Jesus Christ is not about earthly catastrophes or the rise of satan in the anti-christ. It is about the Revelation of Jesus within you just as He was revealed in and to and through the Apostle John.
Though the Apostle Paul was highly educated and powerful in the Scripture His understanding came through the Spirit, as he said by the revelation of Jesus Christ. But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. Gal 1:11-12. This is the revelation that is describe in the last book of the Bible.
To hear Jesus knocking we need to hear His higher voice. His voice is His knock. Hearing His higher voice allows us to open the door. If we do this He will come in and sup with us. This is feasting on the Word of God with Jesus. He gives the promise that to him who overcomes He will grant to sit on His throne just as He overcame and sat down on His Father’s throne. To overcome is to come over from the natural side to the spiritual side; From the earth to the heaven; from the flesh to the Spirit.
Not everyone hears. Only those with a spiritual ear will be able to hear. Those who live by the letter of the Word will never hear. Only those awakened to a higher realm will hear and see; Rm 2:29; 2 Cor 3:6. This requires a perception alteration. To put new wine (the spirit of revelation of the Word) into old wineskins (belief systems of human effort rather than spiritual enlightenment) will cause any higher revelation of the Word to be lost; Rm 7:6
Now we know, what many do not, that all things in the Book of Revelation occurred within John. As it was with John so it can be with us. This book is about Jesus’ revelation within you. In the scripture passage above there is a door, a voice and a throne.
Now let us journey with John as He felt after and found this higher place for it is the place for all who are awakened by allowing the Spirit to alter their perception. The promise was made at the end of Chapter 3 of Revelation and in the beginning of Chapter 4 it becomes realized as John hears the voice and finds the door and the throne.
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.And immediately I was in the Spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
If any man hear My voice. The voice of Jesus was as a trumpet to John. His hearing was awakened, he heard the Jesus knocking. The door Jesus was by, the door to the throne, was now opened. Where was it opened? In heaven, the throne room (war-room) of God. Heaven is my throne and earth is my footstool; Is 66:1; Acts 7:48-49. Jesus is the ladder of God connecting the heaven with the earth; your heaven and your earth; Gen 28:12; Jn 1:51.
What did John hear the voice say? Come up hear and I will show you things. Come up hear and you will sup on the Word of God. As soon as John responded to the call of Jesus, he was in the throne room. He heard the voice, he saw the door, he entered the throne room. Jesus is not far from any one of us. Like John we can feel after and find Him in the higher realms of His Spirit.
Many years ago, Mark had preached a sermon called “Apprehending That.” It was based on Philippians 3:12. The gist of the message was that God finds us so that we then can seek and find Him in greater relationship. If haply we may feel after and find him. The Apostle was apprehended by God and now he was seeking to apprehend God for the purpose for which God apprehended him in the first place. The purpose was Paul’s pressing toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Religion has told its followers that someday, if they behave themselves, pay their tithes and keep the rules, they can go to heaven and escape this evil world. Jesus is saying to each of us that heaven is as near as awakening to His voice and ascending to the throne room. The Kingdom is at hand – in our grasp. He is not far from any of us.
Today many are engaged in an effort to bring forth the Kingdom of God. They seek a method to make the promises of God a reality in the earth. How can we get the message and lifestyle of the Bible to become the norm for all nations, peoples, tongues and tribes of the earth? Old methods will not bring new results. We know that whatever is done, to be effective, must be done by and in the Spirit but how can this be accomplished?
The Spirit is continually wooing us. Lovingly encouraging us to seek His Presence. To seek and find the presence of the Lord is to seek and find His love. The simplest, swiftest, and surest way to bring forth the purpose and plan of God is to seek His Presence, which is to seek His love. This desire above all else opens every door. It in many ways is the throne room experience. The Presence of God is like being saturated and marinated in His love.
In the Song of Solomon, the Shulamite was being pursued. She did not know who she really was. Why would the King want her. She had received a false identity from the world but her lover told her who she really was. Through a series of events, she goes from an outer court relationship to a holy place relationship and finally into a throne room relationship with her love.
Her love comes to her bedchamber and calls from behind the door, he is apprehending her. She just got herself cleaned up and ready for bed. She hesitates. How can she get up when she is ready to sleep? He jiggles the door handle. Her heart becomes excited. She runs to the door to open it but her lover has left. She must now apprehend, seek after, him.
She is almost frantic as she goes out into the city. Has anyone seen my love? She describes him. He is all together lovely. To see Jesus, we must see Him in His entire Body, every background, nationality, social position, economic condition, we have to put Him all together. He is all together lovely.
The watchmen find her. The watchmen are the religious hierarchy that was to keep watch for God over His people. The watchmen beat her and strip her and leave her injured. This is like the abuse of religion. She leaves looking for her love and then she remembers the garden, He is in the garden where she finds him in a third-dimension relationship.
The Apostle John describes his revelation of Jesus in poetic terms. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 1 Jn 1:1
John is not just describing a knowledge about Jesus but expressing an intimate relationship with Him. It is one thing to know about someone and quite another to have personal, intimate knowledge of someone. This intimate knowledge comes from relationship in the throne room. As Jesus spoke about His intimate relationship with the Father, He tells of hearing and seeing the Father, and only doing what the Father has directed. So intimate is this relationship between soul and Spirit that He describes it in its highest expression as; I and My Father are One! This is the same relationship the awakened are offered.
We are offered the opportunity to spiritually hear and see and handle the Word of life. This is not a religious relationship of knowledge but a high relationship that surpasses knowledge. And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God; Eph 3:19.
You can go to heaven, now. You can live from the throne, now. You can experience unsearchable riches, now. You, as many other can now attest, can be filled with the fullness of God, now. These are not reserved for a future on the other side of the grave but are available, now.
The Revelation of Jesus to, in, and through you is your promised access to the fullness of the Spirit. Those who are awakening are experiencing ‘this’ Revelation! It is ‘this’ revealing or appearing in His Body that will translate the world into its Kingdom position. It starts with a remnant and awakened Body through whom He can walk fully in His creation. The Revelation of Jesus Christ is an awakening to His love to fulfill His plan for the Ages. The eternal Presence of the Holy Spirit – oneness with the Father, is your destiny!
*Excepts taken from copyrighted book: “THE BOOK of REVELATION SEEN FROM THE THIRD HEAVEN” by Roger Roth Sr.
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Roger Roth Sr. is a ministry son of Dr. Mark Hanby. Together with his wife Karen, they are the set ministry of a local church in Northeastern Wisconsin, and oversee the Bloodline Network Newsletter. They consider it an honor to work with Dr. Hanby for many years, helping to oversee the ministry of Papa Mark’s extended family—”The Father’s Heart.”
Any questions or comments please contact them at rogerandkaren@live.com
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