Interpretation Of Revelations: Supplementary

EOM Ida Mingle

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Rev. 1:1

1. The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

This Supplementary Interpretation of Revelation is one with the oral interpretation and expression of its ideas and principles, whereas, the first Interpretation of Revelation, brought out in 1924 was one with the movement of the Divine Laws to fulfil their Plan in the race, this Plan being hidden in figures of this Revelation to John, and since worked out in figures which become acts in living that verify the ideas contained in the words of this Revelation. Yet, it cannot be declared that the fulfillment is completed, but the years following 1922 have yielded greater knowing of these ideas and principles because of the greater activity of Being to work out its Plan. If this interpretation supersedes the first one, it is because it is made from the evidence of works that followed the spiritual insight of the first interpretation, though the Book had opened to make known what was recorded, else it would not have been given at all. It is the recording of the Word's activity in living consciousness and ways that attest Truth, and which writes the record of the Word forever upon the consciousness of the race, that others following may read, in their times of unfoldment.

Jesus Christ is the Principle of God, the same yesterday, today and forever, though set into operation in a consciousness that is united in humanity and divinity of being, hence the tendency to personalize the name. However, no person receives the action of God, as Jesus Christ, for person is the I, the self, that must die, surrender itself to the Divine Will, be spiritualized to permit the unfoldment of the Laws of God, by which Truth can be, and by which one is taught to know the Truth. The being and the knowing of Truth make up Jesus Christ, the center of Being, by which the Will of God is done in the earth as it is in heaven. This is the universal action of God, or to the entire race, because the unfoldment of Its Plan is individually completed, the organism through which the Divine Will operates being the unfoldment of the Qualities of Being. This is the consciousness of Christ, the form of the Qualities of Being called Jesus, though in the second coming, to which this Revelation pertains, and of which it is a forerunner, the embodied Qualities of Being are given a New Name; because more of God is expressed to fulfil the Plan of God, this occurring at the end of mortality, and to end mortality, at the same time establishing the knowledge's and the Plan of Immortality.

This Revelation was given to John, the beloved disciple of Christ who was also of the apostleship. One serving the Cause of God in the earth is a servant of God, hence this is applied to John in this text. John was given this Revelation to "show unto his servants" for there is never on servant of God without others, by which the Light and the Truth of the Word are carried forward and projected and incorporated into the consciousness of the race. This Revelation was sent and signified by an angel unto John, meaning that it is not something thought out by John but something revealed to him from the domain of the Spirit, the domain of angels. Angels are unfolding Qualities of the Spirit (God) in their descent toward the earth, having their abode in heaven and Intelligence's that convey knowledge's of the Plan of God, through inspiration or revelation. Thus one is given to know that which is not yet worked out as prophecy or revelation, for the Word makes itself known from heaven in this form, though in the earth it is embodied to be known.

"Even the things which must shortly come to pass." Being given in the Spirit of Omnipresence, the things of God seem very near, for in reality when present in Principles that is how they count with God, for God does not take into account time as men account for it. For this reason, scripture shows that God completed the Creation and pronounced it good, before there was a man to till the soil or the effects of the Creative Plan were revealed. Today, we witness again the same spirit as contained in the text, as though the fulfillment of the Plan of God is at hand, because it is fulfilling itself spiritually and physically, but the physical is the earth of the heavens and not the world, or outermost plane. Hence, we cannot say how long (as we speak in time) is required to work out the Plan of God to the plane of the manifest, in which time the world and its lusts must pass away (with a great noise; which even now is discerned as a mental and bodily combat). The writer witnesses to the truth that the things of God seem close at hand when working out in consciousness, yet realizes that no one knows, not the One functioning the outworking Plan of the Word as Son or Daughter, but only the Father, when the actual fulfillment comes to pass. The Father as the Laws of Being fulfil or work themselves out, revealing the fruits of Being. This is when it is, which is the only so-called Time God recognizes, which is not in Time at all but Omnipresence. Therefore, John was not deceived nor was he deceiving others from the record given in this text, even though a few thousand years have been counted to make up that "shortly to come to pass."

Scientifically, the action of God, as the first and the second coming, has two poles, positive and negative. Hence, the fulfillment of the positive action of God, through Jesus, came in the establishment of the apostleship and the early Christian church, with its followers unfolding in devotion to the Spirit of God or Jesus Christ. But it is also quite possible that the apostles did not realize this, since the insight into the Word at that time could not have been complete; hence, they were made to speak as though looking for something yet to come, but which in reality had been spiritually fulfilled in their midst; but which also set itself toward its second action, or return, for which the apostles were made to watch or hope, so as to keep the current of Intelligence alive in the race to further the outworking Plan of God. Thus all serves its purpose, but delusion arises on the plane of mortality, for "our souls sake" but which, nevertheless, serves the Cause of God among men. Today, there is a fuller Light and a culmination of the Plan of God that gives us the Truth of that Plan, thou no one can ever know all that God is working out, for what is make known in spirit when something of God is being fulfilled, belongs to the time to come, as we would say; or to the further outworking of the Plan of God that is eternal, hence without end, though having degrees of unfoldment, according to the Divine Will and Purpose. Today, we again feel that what God has purposed must "shortly come to pass," but we leave it to the Divine Laws to consummate, knowing that this thought and feeling all the better serves to get people ready to receive the kingdom of heaven in the earth.