The Revelation of Jesus Includes His Body! (Be Ready!)

Fighting against people is NOT fighting the devil. It's fighting for the devil. It really is.

Ephesians 6:12 NKJV — For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

1 John 4:17-21 NKJV — Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him because He first loved us. If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

If you think someone is held captive by lies, attacking them is what Satan does. He is the accuser. It's the one-two punch of accusation, then condemnation.

Jesus sets captives free! Speaking truth in love manifests the fruit of the Spirit. It doesn't shrink back from truth, no. But, it goes forward in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness (not mocking or sarcasm), gentleness, goodness, faithfulness (putting the weight on Jesus to make the seed of truth grow, not logical arguments), and self control.

Ephesians 4:11-24 NKJV — And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

This ^ isn't a message to unbelievers. This is a message to believers.

Jesus isn't hoping the world would "get saved." He is willing to save you into complete agreement with His personality as a witness to the unbelieving world. If you impatiently deflect that onto "everyone getting saved," not only will they not get a witness, you will not get His heart.

He could have turned the stone into bread. He didn't. He stayed in patient communion with God, knowing, in faith, that He would see justice and righteousness cover the earth. Anything less is a false witness.

Hebrews 13:8 NKJV — Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Isaiah 42:1-8 NKJV — “Behold! My Servant whom I uphold,
My Elect One in whom My soul delights!
I have put My Spirit upon Him;
He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. He will not cry out, nor raise His voice,
Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed He will not break,
And smoking flax He will not quench;
He will bring forth justice for truth. He will not fail nor be discouraged,
Till He has established justice in the earth;
And the coastlands shall wait for His law.” Thus says God the LORD,
Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it,
Who gives breath to the people on it,
And spirit to those who walk on it: “I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness,
And will hold Your hand;
I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people,
As a light to the Gentiles, To open blind eyes,
To bring out prisoners from the prison,
Those who sit in darkness from the prison house. I am the LORD, that is My name;
And My glory I will not give to another,
Nor My praise to carved images.

If we aren't like this Yeshua^, we simply aren't like Yeshua at all.

There is only one gate. No one convinced you to love Jesus by gospel arguments or praying against the will of people.

Jesus isn't looking to kidnap a bride against her will... He wants to show off a willing body of believers, being led by His Father in Spirit and truth into all the fruits of the Spirit, to the unbelieving world, as an invitation that they could be loved, too!

If you love Him at all, you saw His love for you. It was never arguments, reasoning, or fear that connected anyone to God. It was HIS goodness that led them to repentance.

Romans 2:1-5 NKJV — Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

This means, practically, if you want to agree with Jesus about the harvest in these days, get YOURSELF into the place of sanctification (night and day prayer is the ultimate expression of people who want to change at any cost) so you may shine as one God has been generous to with His heart. If I am forgiven much, I will love much.

Most of the church thinks they have graduated from the gospel and all there is to do is share it. This is the greatest deception Satan has ever foisted on the believers. It has short-circuited the witness of Yeshua's power to change hearts and turned the message into an impatient desperation to get people to agree with something they have never witnessed...

You never graduate from the gospel. It will be good news to the redeemed in a billion years. You will always need Yeshua to save you.

You were made to be dust without Him leading you into ever-increasing realms of His being...

Philippians 2:12-16 NKJV — Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.

The pressure of the last days is tempting many of the believers into impatience with the world. This is the satanic strategy to short-circuit the witness of Yeshua through His companions. Don't fall for it.

We must humbly assess how much like Yeshua we really are, and mourn our lack, if we want to grow at all.

This is what it means to "be ready."