The secret of God’s Rest

The world in which we live is a world of make believe, but man’s ability to discern between that which is real and the fake has been greatly diminished. The whole paradigm of life changed for all mankind in the Garden of Eden, and for so many it has never been restored because the religious world has created confusion as to what is the true reality of man. We understand that if the first premise is false then whatever is built on that premise will not stand. Today religion has developed its teaching by starting with Adam, who had eaten of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, considering he was the FIRST MAN. Therefore it is assumed that all of mankind has been generated out of that one man who was cast out of the Garden of Eden and out from the presence of God. Therefore all mankind are sinners and God is angry with them placing them under a curse.

However, the very foundation of this assumption is wrong, for Paul declares in Eph 2:10 that we are all God’s workmanship, CREATED in Christ Jesus who is the only son God ever created in Gen.1:26-27. That first man never sinned and is declared to be the Only Begotten Son of the Living God. For four thousand years man walked on the earth ignorant of his true identity, until the day came when Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem’s manger. His life became an enigma, as people debated who he really was. He demonstrated abilities beyond the capacity of other men that set him apart from everyone else. Finally one day he asked the disciples who the people thought he was? They replied that the people did not know, but their best guess was that he was one of the Prophets or even John the Baptist who had been beheaded. So he turned to the disciples and asked them who they thought he was? Peter responded having received revelation from God saying, “You are the Christ the Son of the Living God.”

Peter could never have known Jesus true identity unless it had been revealed to him, for he was looking at a man just like himself from a human point of view. But now he saw him as a spirit being but clothed in a man’s body. He saw something beyond what his eyes could tell him, for he realized that Jesus functioned out of a higher dimension than mortal man. The Son of the Living God was never considered to be a part of humanity with a body, two arms and two legs. The people knew that God is spirit for Jesus himself had declared this to the woman at the well, so if God is spirit, then his son must also be spirit. Jesus did not ask the question of the disciples in order to discover for himself who he was for he already knew, but so that they might realize that he came into the world to reveal man’s true identity, for this had been lost to all mankind. It must have surely dawned on Peter and the rest of the disciples that this revelation would change their concept of their own identity.

In creation that first man of Gen 1:26-27 was Christ the son of the living God, but he was also a corporate man, for out of him came forth all of mankind, who also had the same quality and identity as Christ. But the truth of man’s origin and identity became lost in the sense of separation from God that Adam endured in the Garden. This separation from God had a dramatic effect on man’s consciousness that lowered him into another dimension of life, that destroyed the memory of his origin and true identity. Because Adam in the Garden was also a “Corporate Man” what happened to him there in the Garden of Eden, affected all mankind with the same amnesia. About 4000 years later a child was born of a virgin in Bethlehem and that child was that same MAN created in Gen 1:26-27. But this man child was BORN OF A WOMAN just as all men since Adam have been born, except that his mother was a virgin for he was conceived of INCORUPTIBLE SEED, which was the SEED OF GOD.

Now here is an amazing truth that we need to grasp, that has been overlooked by the religious world for 2000 years. The birthing of Jesus Christ into this world is the birthing of that CORPORATE MAN that includes you and I. So what does this mean? It means that there is no difference between you and Jesus Christ, for you were birthed in him. The Apostle John declared this when he said in 1 John 4:17 “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because AS HE IS SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD.” His creation out of God was also our creation. We were created in the likeness and image of God, just as he was. Forasmuch as you are manifestly declared to be THE LETTER OF CHRIST TO ALL CREATION ministered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God and not in tables of stone, but in the fleshy tables of the heart as a true expression of God.

This birthing of Jesus Christ is our birthing also for our natural birth was by means of an egg and a sperm, which produced a mortal human being. But our birthing through the virgin was a birthing through the INCORRUPTIBLE SEED OF GOD that cannot be corrupted and neither can it sin. John the Apostle made it very clear THAT WHICH IS BORN OF GOD CANNOT SIN FOR HIS SEED REMAINS IN HIM. In that birthing, our origin is out of the  SEED OF GOD that has never been tainted by sin nor affected by the carnal mind, nor can it be corrupted at all.

The birthing of Jesus Christ on the earth was indeed the birthing of that corporate man whose destiny is to set all creation free. Mary, the virgin chosen to be the vessel through whom the Christ was to be birthed on the earth was the sign given to the tribe of Judah in the reign of King Ahaz. Isaiah, God’s prophet said to Ahaz, you refuse to ask a sign of the Lord in order to discover what is God’s will for you at this time, so he says to you I am going to give you a sign whether you want it or not.  “Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name IMMANUEL, which means “God with us.” What did this mean to the King of Judah? This prophecy declared that any King that believed he could rule apart from God would be consumed by his own folly. The conception of this child had nothing to do with any MAN, for it would be birthed by a VIRGIN, but in that birth God would become visible on the earth in the form of  MAN, in a people who would be Kings and Priests unto God.

King Ahaz was arrogant and self willed, who divided Israel and brought trouble and strife to the whole nation. But in this Prophecy God was telling Ahaz that there was coming a day when God would declare his authority on the earth through a people who would recognize Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God as their Lord and King, ruling and reigning within them, for he would be IMMANUEL. This is Jesus Christ the son of the Living God, out of whom would come the whole Elohim company. This company consists of the Chosen Generation of God, the Royal Priesthood, the Holy Nation and a people designated as belonging to God. His birth at Bethlehem represents a people, who would not be born of an “Egg and a Sperm,” but of the same incorruptible “Seed of God.”

The Prophet Isaiah continued his prophecy saying that the Lord sent a “Word” unto Jacob but it hath lighted upon Israel. Jacob referred to Israel in their rebellion and disobedience, and they could not understand nor receive that word, but it is the true Israel of God that now receives the enlightenment and revelation of what the Prophet was saying. As we read this prophecy we find that this word applies to a people who are living on the earth today.

“For unto US a child is born, unto US a Son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulders and his Name shall be called, Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, and the Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his Kingdom to order and to establish it with Justice and with Judgment from henceforth, even forever.”

The religious world like Israel of old has never “heard” this word, so they did not see that it had any relevance to them. However, the Child is born TO US, and the Son is given TO US. Paul tells us in Eph 2:10 that we were created in CHRIST JESUS and therefore we were birthed 2000 years ago on the earth not of “Flesh and Blood,” but born of the spirit of God by the incorruptible seed. Jesus Christ was a corporate man in Gen.1 for all mankind was in him, so in his birthing into this world 2000 years ago he was also a corporate man, birthing a people who would take on the nature and character of their true identity, being the product of the Divine Seed.

Peter reminds us that we have been BORN AGAIN not of corruptible seed but of INCORRUPTIBLE, by the WORD OF GOD, which lives and abides forever. Because of this birthing there has been established within us, the THRONE OF GOD, which the Apostle John saw when he was invited to ascend in the spirit, where a door was opened in his understanding into the Temple of God which was his body. It was there that he saw a Throne from which God would rule over the Nations. Concerning the King who ruled from that Throne it is said, “Of the increase of his government there would be no limit.” This is the divine authority that now functions in us, until all his enemies become his footstool and he becomes Lord of ALL.

In our birthing, we are destined to rule and reign with him as Kings and priests unto our God. In the light of these things it is amazing that many Christians today still suffer from depression and are beset by enemies that enslave and imprison them and they see no way of being free. Beloved we are born to REIGN with Christ, for his name is “Wonderful” or without equal. He is also called “Counselor,” or able to guide and direct our path for he is Omniscient. He is the Mighty God, maker of heaven and earth, and the Everlasting Father who is constantly bringing his children to Birth. Then finally we are told that he is the PRINCE OF PEACE who will cause the nations to beat their weapons into ploughshares, and there will be no more wars or strife, as the Peace of God is established in the hearts of his children first. The divisions in the Christian Church and the dividing of God’s people on the basis of doctrines, must give way to  an expression of divine Love, as God’s people find their unity and oneness in the Christ of God.

The illumination of the spirit of the Lord is helping us today to see that whatever Jesus Christ is, that is what we are. Jesus told us that true sonship was to do only what he saw his Father do, and to only say what he heard his Father say. It is for this reason that Father has revealed to the Son what he is doing in the heavenly realm, because he knows that the Son will bring it to pass on the earth. This is the lesson we all must learn for this is OUR God given responsibility. Jesus spoke to Peter about this when he told him he would be given the keys to the Kingdom of God saying, “Whatever you shall bind on earth, you will know that Father has already bound that thing in the heavenly realm. And what ever you loose on the earth, Father will already have loosed it in the heavens.” In other words whatever we see Father doing in the heavenly realm, that is what we must do on the earth, for this is according to the Lords Prayer. “Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done ON EARTH EVEN AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.”

It is the corporate nature of the Christ that makes us ONE with him for if we came out of him, that means whatever he is, that is what we are. Now if we apply this also to the Cross we find again that he did not die simply as himself, for himself, but he “Tasted death for EVERY MAN.” His death IS OUR DEATH for we died IN HIM. Then it follows that we were also buried with him and this agrees with what Paul told is in Rom 6. “Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into HIS DEATH, so the reality of Baptism is not in water, but IN HIS DEATH. This means that the “WATER” is simply a symbol of his death, burial and resurrection. So we have also been BURIED WITH HIM, to be raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father to walk as a New Creation Man in a NEW dimension of LIVING. Paul continues, “If we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, it stands to reason that we would be raised up out of the same incorruptible SEED in resurrection into exactly the same LIFE THAT HE IS LIVING.

Whatever we were before our death IN CHRIST on the Cross no longer exists, for that person IS D-E-A-D, and the scripture informs us that “If we ARE DEAD then we are FREE FROM SIN, and the power of DEATH has been broken so that we do not have to die again.” To take this even further, the whole concept of a life apart from God is simply a result of the Adamic dream. The man of resurrection has never sinned for he is the product of the incorruptible seed that did not originate from the EARTH.  Through the Cross, the MAN OF SIN who is ADAM died, for Jesus Christ died as the LAST ADAM to bring to an end that Adamic consciousness that declared we were sinners. Beloved, this is the GOOD NEWS of the Gospel that Paul preached, liberating us from everything that would seek to bind us. In this new LIFE there are no limitations except those we impose upon ourselves. We are set free in order to liberate the rest of creation that has been held in bondage. All these things are being revealed today to those who have been searching for release for many years, but until this day many remain bound by their humanity, and the limitations of their MORTALITY. Today Father is revealing the TRUTH to you so that you might be free.

How is he revealing this truth to you? By you reading this word, for the spirit of God is now unveiling the Christ dwelling IN YOU, by which the seed of freedom is being planted in your consciousness. If you really want to be free, and to know the Truth of your identity, you need to reject the religious teachings of man and believe that which Father is revealing to you now. Ephesians 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former manner of living of the OLD MAN, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, having no true reality, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Then put on the NEW MAN, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Let us continue in this revelation for this is not the end but there is much more that needs to be brought to light. When we read the Bible we get the idea that it was written chronologically and so when we open the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ we consider that whatever is written there is for “The END TIME.” So we tend to dismiss it from our understanding of “Present Day Truth.” But do you realize that it was written by the Apostle John who lived in what we would term New Testament times, while imprisoned on the Island of Patmos, where abandoned prisoners lived out their miserable lives. John was not a murderer nor was he a wicked man, but he was there because of his testimony of Jesus Christ. In that desolate place where many went insane, he saw the greatest revelations of the Christ that any man has ever seen.

I just want to share a few things he recorded for us who live in the 21^st Century, even though it was written so long ago.  He begins his revelation saying, “Grace and peace be unto YOU (that is to YOU) from HIM WHICH IS,” that is Christ who still IS, but he is no longer the INVISIBLE GOD that Israel never saw, nor is he the BABE OF BETHLEHEM, and neither is he hanging on a CROSS, but exists on this earth as YOU AND ME. He is today in the form of MAN walking the streets in every town in every country, revealing himself through a PEOPLE. But John continues, “Which WAS and which IS TO COME.” Yes, he was the Messiah of the Old Testament but was also Jesus Christ the Son of the living God, living for about 33 years on the earth. But he is also the one who is to COME. For many, this means that just as he came the first time in the form of a man born of a virgin so he will return again to the earth at a particular time.

This so called “Coming of Christ” is often referred to as the SECOND COMING, but this is because they have not understood who he is. Remember that he is a Corporate Man that includes all who were created in him in the beginning. He has been revealed to a people at this time, who now understand that they are IN HIM now, and have always been in him even from creation. So our eyes are being opened to find we were involved in everything that he did including the miracles, as well as his death, burial and resurrection. Jesus Christ has been coming ever since he entered again into the invisible realm of Spirit. But he came back on the day of Pentecost to indwell 120 who were gathered unto him in the upper room. Equipping them for the task of releasing the captives, setting them free. His coming  is not to the whole world but to take his seat on the Throne that has been established in his people whose bodies  have become the Temple of God.

Let us consider further what John has to say about Jesus Christ. He called him the First begotten of the dead, but being a corporate man all of mankind including you and me, were also raised in him. Then he called him, The Prince of the “Kings of the earth,” and these refer to the saints of God for we are told that he has made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father, to him be glory and dominion forever. Then the resurrected Christ speaks and tells us, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end,” which means he was that first man out of whom all mankind was created.” He is also the Last Man or the Omega, having been through the fire of God and taking us with him, through death, burial and resurrection still in the likeness and image of God. The fire of God is not destructive but it purifies and removes that which is not of God, refining the Gold of our being. He was tempted in all points just as we have been, but without sin.

At this point John turns to SEE THE VOICE that spoke such wonderful words to him. He saw the seven Golden Candlesticks, the testimony of Christ on the earth, and in the midst of the light he saw one, “LIKE UNTO THE SON OF GOD.” What a breath taking picture is here revealed to us, for John saw the saints of God all standing in that light “In his Likeness and Image” looking like the Son of God. Let us not pass on too quickly lest we loose the import of this amazing scene. How wonderful these word pictures are showing us who we are in reality. So many Christians are still crying out to God to forgive them for what they may have done, feeling so unworthy of God’s love, because they have never seen what John saw 2000 years ago. Beloved we are the LIGHT of God on the earth today, and it is no longer a candle we hold in our hand, but a divine LIGHT radiating out of our true being, for the Light of Life dwelling in us is the Glorified Christ of our true identity. This is the LIGHT OF THE WORLD that is to destroy the darkness that has brought fear and despair upon mankind. John was given a glimpse of a people down through the ages that would manifest the Christ to all creation.

This one now speaks and says, “I am he that liveth and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore Amen, and I have in my hand the keys of hell and death.” It is time for the people of God to declare the truth to the world, to destroy the lies of religion, that have kept mankind bound in sin and darkness. John recorded these things for our encouragement and blessing, for they all speak about the people of God who are NOW, AS HE IS. This whole book is a most wonderful revelation of the Christ in his people. But now let us look at chapter twenty-one, to see the climax of this revelation. John saw a new heavens and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away. Remember we are the heavens and the earth and now the Light has come and all the shadows are fleeing away, so we have been revealed in our true being, standing in the midst of the Candlesticks.

John was allowed to see the NEW HEAVENS that have been cleansed from the contamination of the serpent. In place of the carnal mind that cannot know God, there is now the Mind of Christ. This is the mind that has never been involved with the snake, and functions in accord with Truth. According to God’s design the Heavens are to rule in the affairs of men, so as the NEW EARTH appears it is no longer flesh and blood, as it was under the direction of the carnal mind. The divine government has now been established, and Christ  the KING has become LORD to restore the body to its former glory as a Body of Light.

The Lord now  breathes his Life into every cell in our body, until it is no longer flesh and blood, but has become spirit materialized. These things were revealed through John so that we might know the Father’s will and purpose for us. The old earth of our mortality has gone, and the heavens with its warfare involving the carnal mind has now been won, so we stand clothed upon with Christ wearing the robe of righteousness. And John says there is no more sea, which means there is no more separation, for on this earth the sea separates peoples and nations. The omni-present Christ has made us one with all of creation and joined us with all mankind as one family.

This glorious vision given to John continues as he saw the HOLY CITY, the NEW JERUSALEM coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a Bride adorned for her husband. This is the City Abraham sought after, seeing it on the horizon in his journey into the promised land of his inheritance. The city speaks of the place of the Divine activity, which is not bricks and mortar, but a PEOPLE. In and through whom, everything that Father has purposed to do on the earth, will be done.  That sense of separation we believed once existed has now gone and we have been united by the mind of Christ, to find we are ONE IN HIM. Then out of the Heavens comes a voice saying,

“Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for all these former things are passed away.” Then he that sat upon the throne said, “Behold I make all things NEW, for it is done, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, and I will give unto him that is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life freely.”  

The Journey of Life

Now I would like to share with you, that most Christians have ignored the provision that God has made for his people in this world, where we can live without lack of any kind as was provided for Adam in the Garden of Eden. Instead, they would prefer to “Pay their own way,” and live by the sweat of their brow, and the consequences of their choice are poverty, sickness, pain and death.

Adam lived in the Garden of Eden where he never raised a sweat. His food was provided for him, and his fellowship with God was perfect as they shared life together as one and there was no lack whatsoever. This is but a picture of the Rest of God that he enjoyed, but to become ONE WITH US, as he partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that took him out of paradise and put him in a wilderness where he had to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. This has now become the “Norm” for God’s people today. How many people tell me they have so little time to meditate in the presence of God as life for them has become so hectic.

We now must have the best of everything and to pay for it requires more and more of our time spent working so that God is pushed into a corner and perhaps on Sunday they may squeeze in an hour, just to let God know that he is not forgotten all together. If ever there was a day when we needed to experience the REST OF GOD it is this very day. It does not make any sense to have to work so much, just to live without finding time to relax and enjoy the Lord who holds the key to abundant life. Stress is destroying our bodies, and causing heart attacks, and strokes, with many other debilitating effects. Many Christians tell me they find it impossible to sit quietly in the presence of God and meditate and hear what Father is saying to them.

The “Rest of God” is not something to which we must attain, but simply is a LIFE STYLE that is divinely appointed for the children of God. It has been made available as God’s gift to his people. What does this mean for us today? It means that we do not have to do anything to qualify in order to enter into “His Rest,” considering that it is something we must establish by our own works and faithfulness. Nor is it by attaining a high degree of spirituality beyond others, but it is a matter of simply BELIEVING GOD. It is our many WORKS PROGRAMS that keep us out in the wilderness, trying to prove our spirituality in the hope that one day I will make it and God will accept me into the promised land.

Religion is based on DOING, and this has barred the people of God from entering into GOD’S REST. How did God enter into his rest? It was as he looked at all that he had created and said, “It is VERY GOOD.” There was nothing to be added, and nothing that needed to be changed, everything was PERFECTION, so at that point GOD RESTED. The problem of mankind today is that we still trust in our sensory perceptions, sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste to determine our reality, when the truth is that the carnal mind will continue to LIE to you every time. The Christ of our true identity functions out of his own Mind that has never been affected by the snake. We will never manifest Christ in our lives until we have PUT ON that New Man, that functions out of the Mind of Christ.

But natural man just cannot BELIEVE GOD!! I hear people shouting, “God you are wrong, I am a sinner and need to be changed, I have a heart problem, I am in debt because you have not blessed me like you said you would. And I have a very bad marriage and children who are on drugs. How could I possibly enter into rest while I am in this mess?? There is an answer and I have great joy in my heart to be able to tell you there is nothing you have to do nor anything you could do to enter into God’s rest, except to BELIEVE GOD. Gods invitation to YOU to enter into HIS REST is based upon the fact that,

All God’s works WERE FINISHED to his own satisfaction totally and completely from the foundation or the fertilization of the divine seed of God from which you came in creation, clothed in perfection.

The truth here revealed was that the day Jesus Christ was born on the earth at Bethlehem, was in fact the birthing of the Christ in the consciousness of all mankind. In reality it was the liberation of all humanity from material bondage and limitation. His birth on the earth is the only true revelation of the Almighty God, declaring that he is the true origin of all mankind, and has never been separated from any of his creation. At the same time he declared man’s true identity is not, “A mortal human being,” as so many consider themselves to be. The divine abilities that were in evidence in the life of Jesus Christ are available to all mankind once we see the reflection of himself in us, for he said, “The things that I do, you can do also and greater things than these because I go to my Father.”

He revealed the secret in John 14:10 that allowed Jesus to do what we call miracles. The first step was to understand that he was IN THE FATHER, and the next thing was that the FATHER WAS IN HIM. This means that Jesus Christ the man was an integral part of God without any sense of separation at all. Then if the Father was in him, this indicated that the spirit dwelling in him was God, so that the words he spoke were in fact, God speaking through him. But the most astonishing thing about this revelation was that it was not Jesus that did the miracles himself, but it was the Father who did the work through him, using his voice and his hands and feet. Jesus made it clear that the same situation applies to us today. In John 14:20 he made it clear, that at that day of enlightenment by the spirit we would know that,

“I am in the Father and you are in me, and I am in you.”

We need to realize that every attempt to try and make ourselves perfect is a denial of the truth that God spoke in the beginning. The influence of modern society has so contaminated our mind that we find it difficult to understand that all the superficial issues of our lives, and the changes that seem evident to us are the result of the fact that many Christians are still walking “IN THE DARK.” The spirit of Christ within you, which is that still small voice is the only voice that will always tell you the TRUTH. The challenge for each of us today is to enter into HIS REST where the perfection of our being is already set. Changes beyond our imagination and blessing upon blessing is stored up for us as this becomes our reality.

Of course modern life in the 21^st century is not conducive to living in the “Rest of God,” but there is a people who are “Ceasing from their own works,” and entering into God’s Rest. The invitation remains open as the Scripture says, “There remains therefore a REST to the people of God.” It is important for us to realize that Christ dwells within us and he has already entered into that Rest while we worry our selves sick over so many things. Does not the scriptures say, “As he IS so are we in this world.”

There is nothing that we need to ask God for to enter into rest, for Christ is our true identity, and our Life. We must discover that our identity is Christ and not that imaginary mortal human being that we have falsely identified as who we are. Here is the key to unlock this seeming contradiction between our true identity and who be thought we were. Christ was spoken into existence in the beginning and that is who we are so when he came to this earth and was at the river Jordan the heavens opened and God spoke saying, “This is my well beloved son in whom I am well pleased.” There he stands representing mankind just as perfect as he was when he came forth from the hand of the creator. Beloved see yourself in him and enter into God’s rest.

The Apostle Paul tells us that the carnal mind is death. Many years ago the Children of Israel made a Covenant with death, and it would seem that many today have made that same covenant. Most Christians look upon physical death as inevitable and so as old age creeps up on them they simply become resigned to it, and often see it as a blessed release. However, Jesus said, “No man takes my life from me for I have power to lay down my life and have power to take it again.” Beloved, we also have the power to lay down our mortal life seeing it has no true reality, for God never created a mortal man. It was his own flesh and blood life that Jesus Christ took to the cross into death, and his death was our death releasing us from the bondage of our mortality, and giving us access to the Kingdom of God. 

The truth for me is that my Life is hid with God in Christ, and so there is nothing in this world that can touch it. Sickness and death result from the sense of separation, that so many feel between themselves and God. We are born into this world through our mothers and therefore we believe we are simply mortal human beings, but within this body is a spirit that is my true identity and that spirit is God. With this knowledge I can safely enter into God’s rest and know that I AM COMPLETE in him in all his perfection.

May the spirit give you understanding of these things.   Amen

                                                Des Walter                     Written   Oct  2004.