“… he who is filthy, let him be filthy still …”
(Rev. 22:11, NKJV)
We are still concerned with the unfolding of the believer’s high calling, as well as the fact that his calling is irrevocably linked to his/her deepest wound. In the previous teaching we looked at the activity of the demonic spirits that are manifested in and through “the sons of disobedience” (Eph. 5:6).
The great revelation at the moment is that Satan increases in a collective of adversaries – the rimmah of all people forms his body: “Then He asked him, ‘What is your name? ‘And he answered, saying, ‘My name is Legion; for we are many.’” (Mark 5:9). There is not only one demonic spirit; they increase in the collective body of adversaries. The adversaries within you and I, in the flesh, together form the body of Satan. The adversary is thus within you and me, and they directly counter the Body of Christ.
The Christ increases in the rhema-words, but the Satan also has a variety of identities that increase. But one could rightly ask – in what do they increase? Luke 11:24-26 offers a key to this: “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it swept and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.” Thus: the spirits/rimmahs increase through even worse spirits/rimmahs. In the light of this we understand Rev. 22:11: “He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.”
By now we know that the book of Revelation is the revelation of the Christ (Rev.1:1). Everything in this apocalyptic book explains something of the unfolding Christ – it is literally the book of the increase of the Christ WITHIN YOU and spells out the path of spiritual enlightenment and apokalupto, from becoming born-again to “the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” (Eph. 4:13). As you start to walk within it, you discover the unfolding Christ WITHIN YOURSELF.
To prevent this, 2 Cor. 4:4 explains, people are blinded by the god of this world in their thinking, so that the enlightenment of the gospel of the glory of Christ, which brings about the restoration of the image of God WITHIN US, does not shine upon them.
In Revelation 8 we read of the state of affairs after the seventh trumpet is sounded. We will later return to the larger symbolic meaning of the preceding chapters in greater detail. For now we can cursively suggest that the book of Revelation explains the spiritual transformation of the unfolding of our Godly nature. This all occurs when the seed of Christ is planted within us when we become born-again. As the first fruits today, those who received the seed are the first that need to transform. WITHIN us echoes the announcement of the seven trumpets, and each brings about a wondrous process of incarnation.
- Selah: Are you absolutely sure that you have received the seed of Christ?
- Read: 4-6
- Memorise: 4:6