[The article below is an extract from chapter 1 in the upcoming 2nd edition of my commentary on the Book of Revelation. It reveals how one of the purposes of the Book of Revelation is to attract to Christ all those who claim to prefer light to darkness. This would include many of those involved in the New Age scene, so-called “lightworkers”, and those who dedicate themselves in some way to whistleblowing evil or who identify themselves as “Truthers”. To all of them, this extract is a challenge to embrace the real light all the way. It is one to which I hope they will rise, for the time is short]

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IN MY COMMENTARY on the Book of Revelation, in an introductory chapter on “The Purposes of the Book of Revelation”, I have listed five main purposes of The Book: “To Show that Christ is the True King of the World (Rather than Humans or Satan)”, “To Bring Assurance and Comfort to the Disciples of Christ in a Hostile World”, “To Show that the Evil of the World Can Only be Eradicated Supernaturally”, “To Show the Fountainhead of Freedom and Joy”, and the purpose that I want to look at here: “To Act as a Magnet to Attract to the Christ all Those Who Prefer Light to Darkness”.

I believe this to be a most important purpose of the extraordinary contents of the Book of Revelation. There are many who seem to think it is simply a ‘handbook about the Endtimes’ for the initiated, and that only blessed Christians can receive it. I reject that notion completely, as The Book primarily covers the entire age, from the ascension of Christ to the final judgement, with special note of God’s sovereignty over all things, including evil. Many would also say that the Book of Revelation is not primarily a work of evangelism but is more a means of comfort for the saints. That surely depends on how it is presented. It is true that right at the outset John aims his words at the Ekklesia — most specifically the seven in Asia that are the subject of chapters 2 and 3. But the rest of The Book leads one on a journey into what I regard as the most stupendous material ever put to pen and which is capable of awakening any soul which is predisposed to receiving truth.

After all, who would think that a vaguely New Agey 20-something reading ‘by chance’ the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24, in a high street bookshop in the 1970s would be the spark which would set him on the pathway towards eventually discovering the truth about Christ? Well, that was me. I believe that prophetic literature — which is a suitable description of both Matthew’s 24th chapter and the Book of Revelation — is a powerful catalyst for spiritual ignition in the human soul who has an attraction to genuine Light and a propensity for words which are laden with truth.

THE BOOK OF REVELATION AND DISCIPLES-OF-CHRIST-IN-WAITING

There are many who are not yet disciples of Christ who would avidly say that they have an affinity for, or love of, Light and an aversion for darkness. They may even expose darkness in some way as a service to the community or be whistleblowers of various kinds. These are all laudable characteristics and a sound starting point in the developmental life of any human being. However, it is not enough merely to see through conspiracies, discern media lies, and be disillusioned with godless governance and the direction in which this world is heading. It is certainly a great start, as the plethora of conspiracies, media disinformation and godless governance across the globe are essentially of satanic origin filtered through the power-elite which is under satanic control. I even know people who are not in any way disciples of Christ, yet who speak with horror about there being ‘satanic influences’ in the higher echelons of society. That is a helpful perception to have. But it does not go nearly far enough. One needs to perceive not merely the conspiratorial or satanic character of world affairs but also the supernatural origin behind them and the overcoming of it all by Christ. For it is a predominantly spiritual battle which leads to mass warfare on the psychological level across this planet, and your mind — in the evil eye of the demonic realm — is the gateway to your soul. As an apostle of the Christ once wrote to the disciples of Christ:

“Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the demonic powers, against the cosmic forces of darkness, and against the spiritual dominion of evil in the heavenly realms” (Letter to the Ephesians, chapter 6, verse 12).

One can see through every conspiracy in the world, work through every trauma in one’s emotional life, detoxify one’s body with wholesome foods, become a Thoreau-like monkish recluse in the midst of glorious nature, and even disdainfully recognise that there is such a being as Satan — and those are all great things to do — but unless one becomes a disciple of the Christ, those actions and insights will all be in vain as one will not have the protection to withstand all the hideous subtleties of the demonic realm, which are ramping up to an insane level right now. Neither will one escape the clutches of what the Book of Revelation calls “the second death” — complete and conscious separation from God after the return of Christ at the end of the age.

While the mass of people cannot generally discern truth from deception, reality from illusion, these others that I mention who have an attraction for Light are not actually hostile to many aspects of truth. They can see that there is a foundation of darkness underpinning world developments, and they have some awareness of the difference between good ethics and hypocrisy. That they have this awareness and perception is a huge gift and should be regarded by them as a massive step on a ladder which can lead to an even deeper level of Light, should they so pursue it. They may not like me saying this (though that does not detract from the truth of it), but I regard them as ‘disciples-of-Christ-in-waiting’. However, there is one step further which needs to be taken in order to bring completeness to that process.

There is a door open in their hearts which is a huge preparatory blessing begging to be seized upon and opened wide. Unfortunately, negative conditioning caused by a previous bad experience of religious lunacy can hold many back from this vital next step in their lives. The demonic realm is highly adept at exploiting such experiences, making people “throw out the baby with the bathwater”. They then reach a position in which Christ is simply not ‘cool’. This is where exposure to the Book of Revelation can have a transformative effect. For it affirms their correct perception that there is a global conspiracy afoot — and a satanic one at that — while at the same time revealing to them the role of the Christ in relation to their awareness of the forces of darkness in this world.

In other words, the Book of Revelation, when read correctly, actually reveals that the Christ is the ultimate in ‘cool’! I say “when read correctly” for good reason. For, unfortunately, there is a huge mass of Christian types who treat the Book of Revelation as if it was a to-be-taken-literally Marvel Comic Hollywood production. Rather, it is a majestic symbol-laden prophecy from Christ exposing the whole panoply of the redemption of the cosmos and glorious destiny of those who love Christ’s appearance in this world, alongside the gruesome fate of those who reject all that and follow their own hearts rather than God’s will. And all this is in a parallel series of grand ‘vignettes’ which are synchronised around the ascension of Christ, the age-long witness of the Ekklesia, the fate of the satanic world-system, and the creation of a new heaven and new earth.

This next step which needs to be taken by those whom I call “disciples-of-Christ-in-waiting” is what is being proposed in the Book of Revelation: Namely, the recognition of the centrality of the Christ as that completion — the revelation of Him. For He is the fountainhead of all Light in this cosmos and came into this world as a total gamechanger. To appreciate and lay hold of this with all one’s heart is the key to the beginning of spiritual wisdom.

One may not grasp this when one first feels an attraction for the Light. One may never have properly heard about the Christ; in which case it is understandable that the connection would not yet have been made to what or who lies behind the Light and truth to which one is attracted. Or one may have heard about Him, but a knowledge of the antics of the counterfeit church down through the ages may have given one an aversion to anything connected with the word “Christ”. This is understandable; but spiritual maturity and blossoming discipleship will only come if one gets past that aversion and receives the deep truth about the real Christ. This may take time as we are speaking about a major transformation process, which I will develop in full a little further below.

What is more, one of the major parts of satanic conspiracy in this world is to prevent those who are not yet disciples of Christ from becoming His disciples. [For more about this, please see my article, “Knowledge Which Has Deliberately Been Kept from You”, available here: https://diakrisis-project.com/2021/09/22/knowledge-which-has-deliberately-been-kept-from-you/ ]. So one is involved in a real battle when one starts to have an inkling of light and truth, and only those who persevere into that discipleship will win through and overcome.

Let us be absolutely clear that when I speak of the Christ, I am talking about nothing less than God the Creator. As John puts it right at the beginning of his gospel:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not comprehended it…. The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him” (Gospel of John, chapter 1, verses 1-5 & 9-10).

You see here that Christ is described as both “the true light” and “the Word of God”. This last phrase tallies beautifully with a passage in the Book of Revelation which is one of many describing the triumphant return of the Christ at the end of this age:

“Then I saw heaven opened and here came a white horse! The one riding it was called ‘Faithful’ and ‘True,’ and with justice He judges and goes to war… He is dressed in clothing dipped in blood, and He is called the Word of God” (Book of Revelation, chapter 19, verses 11 & 13).

This is the same “Word of God” which opened John’s gospel — the One who was there “in the beginning” and who created all things. Christ is not only the Creator of the cosmos but is the microsecond to microsecond upholder too:

“In Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together” (Letter to the Colossians, chapter 1, verses 16-17).

It is clear, therefore, that the Christ is God manifested in the flesh, which John actually states categorically: “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us” (Gospel of John, chapter 1, verse 14). So, when we are speaking or thinking about the Christ, we are doing so about God the Creator who “dropped in”, so to speak, as Divinity ‘clothed in flesh’, in order to bring salvation to humanity by rescuing us from a vast swathe of darkness and death from which we cannot free ourselves, even though we may foolishly imagine that we can (and as transhumanists mistakenly seem to do). [For more information on the transhumanist phenomenon, please see my article, “Transhumanism, Posthumans and the Need for Authentic Leadership”, which you can read or download as a PDF file at this link here: https://diakrisis-project.com/2021/10/17/transhumanism-posthumans-the-need-for-authentic-leadership/ ].

He also referred to Himself, saying: “I am the light of the world! The one who follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life” (Gospel of John, chapter 8, verse 12). That act of ‘following’ Him is key, for it is the act of discipleship, and one which will transform one’s life. This has nothing to do with signing up to a religion and all that counterfeit nonsense. It is an inward realignment and transformation, which in the Greek Bible is known as μετάνοια, metanoia, which literally means a total change of mind and heart at the deepest level, as the word itself reveals when truly grasped, which goes so much further than merely being sorry for one’s sins, which is how repentance, a traditional translation of metanoia, is often inadequately portrayed, as I will expand on in a later section.

The reason I say “inadequately” is because there has often been a very superficial approach to this metanoia. One can attend a ‘hot’ church meeting in which the preacher repeatedly calls you a “wicked sinner”, scares you with images of hellfire, then bellows at you to repent, then you are supposed to approach the podium and “pray the sinner’s prayer”, blub a tear or two and then -BINGO!- you are a Christian. Supposedly. What an awful caricature of how to become a genuine disciple of Christ. Let me explain…

Firstly, one does not have to impress a preacher to give him the satisfaction of “another one reached”. One does not exist to be a preacher’s statistic. Secondly, becoming a disciple of Christ is a process which does not necessarily involve a single spontaneous decision during an emotionally-manipulative sermon. There is no obligation to the preacher which is on you right there and then — in a state of ignorance and under manipulation — to ‘give your life to the Lord’, or ‘accept Jesus’, or any other of the standard clichés one hears. Submission to God is always a general requirement in the Gospel. In fact, at the heart of the true Gospel is a call to obey it (Second Letter to the Thessalonians, chapter 1, verse 8; First Letter of Peter, chapter 4, verse 17). But if you do not hear the real Gospel, then how can you obey it, for you have not been properly ministered to?

Speaking about Christ to others should not be like an abusive parent yelling at a kid, “You wait till your father gets home. He’s going to KILL you!” Rather than threaten or try to frighten people with hellish images, I believe it is tremendously important to paint a true picture of Christ in all His beauty and glory. Scaring people into the kingdom is the lazy option and is often a dead giveaway about the disturbed nature of a preacher, not to mention a sure way of creating a herd of false disciples who will fall at the first hurdle because no genuine metanoia transformation took place, only a fearful response.

When one paints a true picture of Christ, it is that which reaches into the soul. This picture would include sharing the way that Christ has come into this world to gather His people into His kingdom, choosing in the main a ragtag bunch of flawed little people rather than some hifalutin pillars of society; laying down His life for His friends; battling and winning against Satan on their behalf both on and after the cross; overturning the hold of death during that experience; subsequently resurrecting and ascending to heaven; reigning over the world and enabling His disciples to reign over it too, and so much more. This is what attracts people to Christ!

My whole point here is that if one paints a holistic, balanced picture of Christ, we will be “the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one, we are an odour of death resulting in death; to the other, we are a fragrance that brings life” (Second Letter to the Corinthians, chapter 2, verses 15-16). One does not have to scare someone witless in order to encourage them into discipleship to Christ, for that is just plain manipulative and even abusive and unlikely to have a long-lasting effect. One instead has to paint a true picture of the Christ — showing Him to be “a fragrance that brings life”. That is how I want to be towards people in the way that I present Christ. I want to present a winsome spiritual fragrance rather than take on the mantle of a religious hustler or threatening monster.

If you now want to say that I am ‘soft on the gospel’ and that I am not getting people to repent, I reply that if someone is genuinely attracted to Christ they will not have to be browbeaten into repentance by external human means but waves of penitence will issue from within them in the dance of transformation. Let us go into this even more deeply.

UNDERSTANDING THE TRANSFORMATIVE PROCESS OF ‘METANOIA’

When one is acting in a framework of the divinely-sanctioned spreading of truth (by which I mean that one is doing so prayerfully, empathically and sensitively), one does not need to use heavy-handed tactics to ‘get people to repent’; for that would be a complete misrepresentation of what really lies behind what people call ‘repentance’, plus it would be unnecessarily manipulative. Before expanding on that statement (which I will do in full below), let me open up the true meaning of metanoia, the Greek word which is often translated as ‘repentance’. I need to do this because some trigger-happy folks will now be itching to send me messages saying that I’m not “tight enough on repentance”, etc. I am always amazed at the number of people professing to be Christians who are continually on the lookout for people they consider to be “in error” and they cannot wait to set them straight. Such rabid fault-finding is almost like a disease in certain churches and sects and in many hearts. It is an attitude which says far more about them than about the ones they are so desperate to correct. All I can say is this: “Pretended physician, heal thyself!” And do please read on.

So, about this metanoia. It is made up of two words, νοέω, noeo, to think or perceive, and the prefix, μετά, meta, which means ‘after’ or ‘beyond’, such as in ‘to transcend’ (e.g., metaphysics means elements which transcend or go beyond conventional physics). Thus, metanoeo literally means ‘to have a transformed mind’ which transcends the conventional understanding of ‘the mind’ and the limited way that it works in this present evil age and the satanic world-system in which it operates. The apostle Paul referred to this when he said, “Do not be conformed to [the world-system of] this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind” (Letter to the Romans, chapter 12, verse 2).

The ‘transformed mind’ which is involved here means a complete inner sea-change in one’s thinking so that one becomes a new kind of human — one who stops putting one’s ‘self’ on the throne and instead realises total dependence on the Divine will and law — one who instinctively eschews evil and darkness and gravitates naturally to the Light without the need for any constraining human law or authoritarian bigwig telling one what to do. A human being who has gone through (or, rather is going through) this metanoia does not need to be told to change his or her comportment, for it will inevitably change when genuine metanoia has been experienced for real, for it has its own momentum and carries its own mighty irresistible spiritual power. It is, in fact, an unstoppable process.

The folks reading these words who may say that I’ve “gone soft on the gospel or repentance” tend to see repentance as solely a one-time thing which ushers you into the kingdom of God and you have to blast people to get them to do it. But repentance is a process — once begun, it is a lifelong transformative development which can even delicately and steeringly begin long before a person wholly gives themselves to Christ. (I speak here with personal experience of that). This extraordinary process is at work when this metanoia first occurs. I say “first occurs” because, once started for real, metanoia is a never-ending process of life in this world for the disciple of Christ. For you will discover the astonishing fact that as soon as you begin even slightly to turn away from putting yourself on a pedestal in life and then realising the centrality of the Divine power behind the whole creation and feeling the urge to run towards that power and even feel as if you are falling in love with it, then that power will begin to run towards you faster than the speed of light and shower you with in-depth insights about Christ and the cosmos! (I am almost melting here while writing those words!).

So let us be completely clear that Metanoia is not just about feeling sorry and having a ‘blub’ as a one-time event. It involves a complete metamorphosis in one’s entire existence — a far-reaching shake-up disturbance of one’s mind, heart and soul which means that one can never be the same again. Such a gargantuan transformation does not involve something so superficial as the mere fear of hell engendered by a tub-thumping preacher in an emotionally manipulative tent meeting. We are talking here about a total realisation of the banality, stupidity and moral darkness of one’s life up to the point of this transformation. It doesn’t have to be a dramatic ‘road to Damascus’ experience. It can be the beginning of something which quietly lights up the soul. Everyone experiences this differently, according to what is necessary for the individual being. We are all saved by the same Divinely ordained salvific event through the cross and resurrection of Christ, but our experience of that will differ according to what is needed for each individual to be ministered to and changed.

This metanoia is the most dynamic process which a human being can undergo. It is not restricted to a single event but it is the beginning of the process of being a new creation which lasts for one’s entire lifetime. Thereafter, in the wake of such a transformation beginning to take hold, you will no longer be alone with all your former desperation, hellish stress, and nightmarish fears; but you will find yourself in the company of others the world over who are going down a similar road. This is what the Ekklesia is really all about: A global body of transformed people who have been and are continually being ‘metanoified’, if I may use that little neologism.

Thus, when one reads of someone in the New Testament saying these words, for example, “Repent, therefore, and turn again…” (Acts 3:19), they are really saying (as the Greek actually signifies), “Be utterly transformed and turn your life around completely as a new creation”. Obviously, we cannot effect that transformation ourselves but it is the result of our turning to God through Christ Jesus (which He effected in us anyway), whose Spirit then becomes our Guide on the path, mentoring us, leading us into all truth and revealing more and more about Jesus to us. Do you find reading about this to be thrilling? Then imagine how much more thrilling it is to experience it!

Truly, I think that the inadequate translation of metanoia as merely the word “repent” has shortchanged people concerning the truth about spiritual transformation and has led to a very shallow approach to so many aspects of the spiritual life. In fact, I would say that this inadequate understanding of metanoia represents a superficial, ritualistic religious mentality instead of the necessarily profound and predominantly spiritual one. This inadequate approach to true and lasting metanoia is one of the primary roots of the kind of ‘easy-believism’ which prevails in so many churches and other ‘Christian’ evangelistic settings today.

Like they do with so many other aspects of religious life, the adherents of this inadequate understanding have created a rigid formula concerning how people are restored to God. But this denies the reality of individual restoration. There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’. Every disciple has a different pathway to take to draw near to Christ. If someone is going to step onto that pathway it will involve much more than a solitary act of penitence. Of course, just so that readers do not misunderstand me, there has to be penitence — not just once but often. But when one first realises who Christ is, His majesty, His power, His rulership, and what He has come to earth to do, then that penitence will be so much deeper and more authentic than that which has merely been provoked by a hellfire preacher insensitively bellowing at people with threats.

Therefore, the way to reach into a person’s soul in order to foster a realisation that Christ is real and that a sea-change in mind, heart and soul is necessary, is to plant a powerfully beautiful vision of Christ there rather than solely relying on threatenings of hellfire. Oh, hellfire (properly understood) is real alright! But to use the threat of it as a tool to manipulate people with fear is a very superficial approach to the fullness of the Gospel and shortchanges people regarding the glory and majesty of Christ.

Furthermore, what happens in this superficial situation, in which people are told to “repent or else” right there on the spot in an emotional religious ritual, is that a very self-centred attitude is inculcated in the audience. It becomes all about the personal desire to be “saved” and the personal avoidance of ‘hell’ rather than the way that Christ personifies the beauty of God and fosters the desire to be in sync with Him. For that is the picture that should be painted for people. When it is all about ‘me, me, me’ getting saved, rather than discovering the beauty of discipleship to Christ and how one becomes part of a glorious body working in tandem with the whole creation being transformed, then it is just another extension of ego-life, but with the illusion of spirituality. I hope that I am making myself clear here. I could write a whole book on this subject alone!

THE ‘ROCKET-RIDE’ OF FELLOWSHIP WITH CHRIST

I said above: “When one is acting in a framework of divinely-sanctioned spreading of truth… one does not need to use heavy-handed tactics to ‘get people to repent’”. A human being who has placed even one foot on this pathway of metanoia does not need to be manipulated or frightened or ‘guilt-tripped’ into changing his or her mind or comportment, for it will inevitably change drastically when that metanoia has been experienced for real. One cannot simply say to a total stranger (as many do), “Right now you are bound for hell unless you repent of your sins and are washed by the blood of Jesus who died on the cross for you”. That is just a bunch of incomprehensible clichés to the average pagan in the street which fail to present Christ in a beautiful manner and instead make the motivation for “accepting Jesus” (which is itself an awful phrase) an acute fear of what will happen in the afterlife rather than a desire to change in this life. It seems to me that there is far too much reliance on the application of these religious clichés and the utilization of human strategies (akin to devising means of selling soap-flakes by an advertising agency) instead of relying on the Holy Spirit to lead people into all truth (Gospel of John, chapter 16, verse 13; First Letter to the Corinthians, chapter 2, verses 9-13). This is precisely what Christ Himself did with people such as the rich young man, whom He allowed to go away sorrowful and mull over the need to overthrow his love of wealth (Gospel of Matthew, chapter 19, verses 16-30). If a preacher did that today — let an enquirer go away without repenting on the spot — he would be accused of creating a missed opportunity! But Jesus did not harangue him with threats about him ‘going to hell’. He did not press him into ‘praying the prayer of faith’ right there and then. Instead, He pointed to the next step on the spiritual pathway which was needed by this man. He used wisdom, knowing very well that there is no conveyor-belt ‘one-size-fits-all’ when it comes to human spiritual transformation. In short, Jesus did not propagate “easy-believism” in the manner that so many do today but instead used wisdom to make a judicious spiritual application to the individual circumstances.

When we follow Christ or become His disciple, we are (so to speak) holding onto His shirt-tails on the rocket-ride through life and are thus spiritually protected and kept secure. To have an attraction for spiritual Light — although being a good start in life — is really only an intermediate state of potential which awaits a secure and permanent state of protection through full discipleship to the Christ. For when one has an attraction for Light and then hears about the Christ, thus receiving a massively fuller understanding, it is as if something within has silently fallen into place. It is as if you are receiving primordial knowledge that you feel you must surely have known already but cannot fathom when or how. One cannot be genuinely attracted to Light if — on hearing about Christ as the fountainhead of all Light — one fails to respond to that information by becoming His disciple. His sheep hear His voice and listen to it (Gospel of John, chapter 10, verse 27).

If one loves Light and rejects darkness, then one will rejoice to hear the fullness of truth about Christ and will be filled with love for Him, as He will for you. This mutuality of recognition is specifically stated by John when he writes that Christ’s disciples “follow Him because they know His voice” (Gospel of John, chapter 10, verse 4). That ‘voice’ can come to them in many ways. It doesn’t have to be a physical voice, but it could be someone speaking of Him or writing about Him, or recognizing His fingerprint in the whole creation, or just some other synchronicitous experience. Christ also says: “I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know Me” (Gospel of John, chapter 10, verse 14). When one ‘hears His voice’ (either through reading about Him or being told about Him, or however it occurs), one will then realize that one has, in a sense, really been a disciple of His all along. It was somehow destined. It is as if the long-awaited teaching has finally arrived. The knowledge of Christ is the ‘missing link’, that final piece of the jigsaw puzzle, in the quest for the fullness of Light and truth.

Thus, if one really loves the Light, one will not need to say, “Why do I have to be Christ’s disciple?” When someone who is attracted to the Light and who hears about the true Christ for the first time, a process begins whereby he or she begins to surrender his or her whole self to Him and dedicate their lives to upholding Christ’s name and doing His will. It might take some time before that process is apparent. It might even take years. Everyone is different. In some there is more resistance than in others. But it absolutely will begin in those who are to be genuine disciples.

I strongly suspect that as the world situation begins to disintegrate and intensify in the manner revealed in the Book of Revelation — as it is surely beginning to do even now — this will convince many that the proclaimers of the Christ have been right all along, that the prophecies in the Bible are true, and that they will then be smitten by a powerful series of epiphanies which propel them headlong into the kingdom of Christ.

Therefore, if you are reading this and you say that you “love the Light”, or you are some kind of “Lightworker”, then why continue to settle for reduced light (or even false ‘light’) when you can get an infinite ‘upgrade’ to the full revelation of the real thing? It is impossible to claim that one is a ‘follower of the Light’ yet still reject the Christ and all He has done, for He is the veritable source of all Light!

When someone who has so far not fully understood about Christ — yet is a genuine follower of the true Light, and therefore is really one of those ‘disciples-in-waiting’ — then hears about Christ overcoming the forces of darkness, undoing the hold of death and being the fount of all Light, it is like something inside one which says: “Aha! Now it all makes sense!” or “Ooh, that’s the missing part of the puzzle that I’ve needed to hear — the key to the door!” or “Somewhere inside me, I knew that already, though I’ve never heard it before!” Don’t you just love the inescapable transformative power of spiritual truth?

So NOW is the time to be a fearless cosmic warrior for Christ. We are all caught up in this battle whether we want to be or not and whether we know it or not. But we must choose sides. So are you on the side of Satan or on the side of Christ? There is no other. That is all the choice you have. But you have to declare your intention not merely outwardly but inwardly. The awful reality is that if you have not yet consciously chosen to follow the Christ and made it your inner intention, then you are already a slave of Satan, to a greater or lesser degree, whether you realise it or not. For everyone is such a slave, until they choose otherwise (First Letter of John, chapter 5, verse 19).

This state of slavery is completely unrealised by most people, and I have set out to explain this whole process within the pages of this book in the way it is exposed in the Book of Revelation. An example of this is the ‘mark of the beast’ which, contrary to the nonsensical popular idea of it being a barcode or microchip implant on the head or hand (which is even touted in churches by a huge number of misled Christians), it is actually symbolic of the allegiance a person has towards the satanic world-system, spiritual Babylon, and Satan himself.

One either has the ‘mark of the beast’ or the “seal of the Spirit” (Book of Revelation, chapter 13, verses 16-17 with chapter 14, verse 1); just as one is either a slave of Satan or a servant of Christ. There is no in-between, or partial mark. Having the ‘mark of the beast’ means that one will be going into the symbolic “lake of fire”, undergoing the second death — separation from God forever after physical death (Book of Revelation, chapter 14, verses 9-11), so it is obviously so much more than a mere barcode or chip implant! Conversely, having the seal of the Spirit on one’s forehead is symbolic of belonging to Christ and thereby inheriting eternal life in the new heaven and new earth. One is marked with either one or the other. (There will be much more in-depth teaching about the ‘mark of the beast’ and the ‘sealing of the Spirit’ in §8 of chapter 6 below).

Thus, the difference which exists between, on the one hand, those who perceive the ubiquitous nature of evil and are attracted to truth (and in some cases are even willing to risk their lives for it) and, on the other hand, those who have completely closed minds and blindly follow corrupt authority is actually a spiritual difference. It is one’s inner spiritual compass, rather than intelligence or intellectual capacity, which determines one’s attraction to truth and Light.

The remainder of my life is devoted to assisting the disciples-in-waiting into the deeper understanding, many of whom are already living outside corrupt societal norms, which is a great start in counterculture life, for the genuine Ekklesia is the fulfilment of counterculture, which stands outside the satanic world-system. All they need to do is to take the logical next step on the pathway of life. Namely, discipleship of the Christ as their ever-present Master. For He is there! You cannot see Him, but He is there nevertheless! I do not speak here of the neo-Gnostic teaching about so-called ‘Christ-consciousness’ that you plug into ‘as your birthright’. [NB: In finding your so-called ‘Christ Consciousness’, as the Yogapedia website avers, “the idea is to transcend physical existence and experience one’s own divinity and God-like nature”. This is the diametric opposite to the truth revealed by the real Christ. In fact, this “Christ Consciousness” is a rehashing of the satanic lie by which the first humans were bamboozled into imagining they could be little gods (Book of Genesis, chapter 3, verse 5). This Yogapedia website also claims that “Jesus Christ also became enlightened after a period of suffering, offering a symbolic guide to those who suffer on the path to discovering their true nature and higher self”, thus reducing Him to just another guru of many and completely nullifying the uniqueness of His incarnation and the centrality of His atonement]. That ‘Christ-Consciousness’ stuff is a diversion to prevent you from discovering the real Christ who was manifested in the flesh. To disbelieve Christ’s bodily manifestation in this world is what John called “the spirit of the Antichrist” (First Letter of John, chapter 4, verse 3). But the true Christ is present with His people through His Spirit — not as a way of attaining divinity or “godlike status” but through becoming a partaker in the divine nature, which is not at all the same as the Eastern mystical idea of being absorbed into the divine essence.

As the world plunges ever deeper into satanic madness, the truth about Christ, and holding onto that, will be the only thing which will keep people sane. Sadly, there will be many (probably the majority) who will shake their fists at truth and the Author of it right till the bitter end, as the Book of Revelation graphically reveals on several occasions (e.g. Book of Revelation, chapter 9, verses 10-11 & 21). That is between them and their Maker. Do not let this hold you back from progressing in your own development. If you love truth but have not yet loved Christ, then allow this Book of Revelation to work its magic in your soul and see your current perception as a generous preparatory gift for doing so.

Reading the Book of Revelation provides a major key in this process to a genuine truth-seeker and true-Light-lover as it unlocks the revelation (aka apocalypse) of Jesus Christ as the King of the cosmos and the Light of the world. Thus, the Book of Revelation acts as a magnet to attract to the Christ all those who prefer Light to darkness but who may not yet have realised the true source of that Light to which they are currently attracted and how important it is to recognise it.

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[The article above is an extract from chapter 1 in the upcoming 2nd edition of my commentary on the Book of Revelation. It will hopefully be ready for distribution as a 590-page paperback book by the beginning of November. You can reserve a copy now by contacting me at diakrisis-project@outlook.com ].

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