GIVING EVIDENCE TO JESUS: ''...and judgment was given unto them; and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus..."
Rev. 20:4 There is a beheading of souls taking place for the witness of Jesus. The word witness (Greek-"marturia") is translated in other places as testimony, which means evidence given bearing witness, one who gives evidence. These people were giving evidence to Jesus, the Saviour. Our English word martyr means one who lays his life down for another. There can be no testimony to Jesus if you're still selfish. But the evidence of Jesus is in those who lay their lives down for others. He's not talking about physical death. Martyrdom in that dimension would not serve the purpose of God, which is being revealed in this hour.

The purpose being revealed is that which shall be accomplished through living martyrs, through a people who have laid down their own life on the earth so that Christ can find expression through them. This involves the collecting of one's faculties, the recovery of spiritual truth; of all that was lost when we took upon ourselves the form of flesh. As we grew in the realm of flesh we became more enmeshed into the outer world experience until all memory of that which we had from before the foundation of the world was lost and forgotten.

But there's an awakening that takes place at the time God allows the Holy Spirit to brood upon the formless void of your earth and says, "Let there be light." You are reborn into the beginning of the knowledge you once had from before the foundation of the world. It starts by just knowing Jesus, the One who walked the shores of the earth two thousand years ago. That's your first remembrance. You fall in love with this man who went about all Galilee doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil. This is your beginning entrance into the knowledge, but it's so low on the spectrum of where God wants to bring you because it is only as we see Him now, not as He was then, that we start to became like Him. And if we're going to see Him as He is now, we have to see Him as He is within us because that is where He is now; he is inside us in the realm of spirit.

Heads Cut Off:

Rev. 20:4... "And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded..."The souls were beheaded. This is taking place in two dimensions, outward and inward. It represents being separated from those things, which have been in your head or have ruled you. "Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from the servant though he be lord of all... but is under tutors and governors in the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children were in bondage under the elements of the world. " Gal. 4:1-3

In order for us to enter our inheritance of life God is bringing us out from the ideas of men and traditions, which have made the word of God of no effect in our lives. This outward beheading began when we became tired of the religious programs of men. We were and still are being delivered from the bondage of religious legalism.

"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." Gal. 5:1

Processed By The Word.

There's also an internal beheading taking place. The inward beheading is for the Word of God. The soul, which formerly has been ruled and dominated by the realm of appearance, is being beheaded, separated from it, and being given a new head, the spirit. The soul (mind, will, and emotions) is learning to judge and reason by the inward realm. This is being accomplished through the Word of God.

You have been sealed unto the day of redemption. The day of redemption is the day of resurrection, the day of loosing. The seal is being loosed. Unfolding out of you is this entire spiritual realm.

"And when he had opened the fifth seal, I say under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held." Rev. 6:9

The souls were under the place of sacrifice. God, in your Christian journey in the Spirit, brings you to various altars where you offer up a little more of yourself to Him in the one true altar of Christ. The Word of God brings a death process, a beheading process to your judgment (which has been based upon flesh) and teaches you to judge by spirit. Finally, your entire mind, will and emotions are under the realm and place of sacrifice, willing to be poured out.

The Bible can be a dead book to those who read it only by the letter, although there is certainly knowledge to be gained by the letter. First you gain the letter, and then you go into definition. Once you've gained the letter and understand the definition of various words, the Spirit will bring you the revelation, the inner language, book within the Book. This will put you in contact with the realm of spirit. Then and only then, can you find the performance of the new covenant, for the performance of the new covenant shall not be dependent upon the flesh. It is going to be dependent upon the Spirit.

The Spirit wants to mingle itself, co-habit this soul realm, conceive the mind of the kingdom and project it outwardly into your outer world experiences. There's going to be a beheading, this processing by the Word of God, but you can't get processed by the Word of God unless you start reading the Word of God.

"And than from a child, thou has known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine (teaching), for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." (1Tim. 3:15-16) Flakey, intuitive people want to do everything by the Spirit and never want anyone to correct them with the Word. You have been sealed unto the day of redemption. The day of redemption is the day of resurrection, the day of loosing. The seal is being loosed. Unfolding out to you is this entire spiritual realm.

Rev.6:9 "And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony for which they held."

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