"The Secret of GOD," as revealed by John in the Revelation of Christ, between the chapter notes on chapter 14-1, with a renewed mind and our victory as foretold.

We are now entering the between the chapter notes of chapter 14, they are as follows: "From Mt. Sinai to Mt. Zion, and 144,000 Virgins."

From Mt. Sinai to Mt. Zion:

Revelation 14:1, "Oh wow! You've got to see this! The little Lamb, standing on mount Zion and with Him a hundred and forty four thousands with the Lamb's Name and the Name of His Father written on their foreheads." (Sonship redeemed! Heb. 1:1-3)

Compare Hebrews 12:18-29:

Hebrews 12:18-29, "We are not talking of a visible and tangible mountain here, one spectacularly ablaze in a setting of dark blackness and tempestuous winds. (Witness the vivid contrast between the giving of the Law and the unfolding of grace; The exclusiveness of the one and the all inclusive embrace by the other. The dramatic encounter of Moses on the mountain is by far exceeded by the mountaintop experience to which we are now welcomed and co-elevated to through Jesus Christ! Humanity is fully represented and co-seated together with Christ in heavenly places! [Eph. 2:5-6; Hos. 6:2]) Shrill trumpet sounds and a thunderous voice uttering human language. This filled the people with such terror that they begged for silence! Beast and human alike felt threatened and excluded from that terrible mountain! Even Moses, the representative of the people, was extremely terrified. He was shivering and shaking. Who could approach GOD and live? How impossible it seemed to find favor with such a "terrifying" GOD! By contrast, we have been welcomed to an invisible mount Zion; The city of peace (Jerusalem), the residence of the living GOD, the festive assembly of an innumerable Angelic host! We are participating in a mass joint-celebration of heavenly and earthly beings; The Ekklesia-church of the firstborn mirror-inscribed in the heavenlies. ( Our original identity, Ekklesia, is from ek, a preposition that always denoting origin, and kaleo, meaning to identify by name, to surname, is endorsed by Jesus, patterned in Him, the first born from the dead. As evidenced by Paul in his epistle of Galatians 2:20.) Jesus is the spokesman and arbitrator of the new testament order. His blood signature sanctions humanity's innocence (redeemed, restored by awakening). This is a complete new language that communicates better things, in that it is the very substance of what was communicated in the shadow-type message of the blood sacrifice that Abel brought. (Abel's faith was a prophetic introduction to the sacrifice shadow system of the Old Covenant. Heb. 11;4, It was faith that made the difference between the sacrifices of Abel and Cain, and confirmed Abel's righteousness. GOD bore witness to righteousness as a gift rather than a reward! Even though he was murdered, his faith stil has a most relevant prophetic voice.) If Jesus is the crescendo of GOD'S final message to humanity, you cannot afford to politely excuse yourself from this conversation. Consider the prominent place that Moses played in the history of Israel: if you think that Moses or any of the Prophets who spoke with authority on earth deserve honor, how much more should this word that GOD declares from Heaven concerning our sonship, and our redeemed innocence revealed in the Messiah Himself, deserve our undivided attention. When He introduced the prophetic shadow of what was to come (the Law system), His voice visibly shook the earth. (Ex. 19:18.) But now the Messiah has come (He is the desire if the nations; He is what heaven and earth were waiting for [Hag. 2:6-7]). The voice of GOD (articulated in Christ's birth, life, ministry, death, and resurrection) has rocked not only the systems on the earth, but also every unseen principality in the heavens, to their very foundations! In the words of the Prophets, "'Yet once more will I shake every unstable system of man's efforts to rule himself.'" GOD clearly indicates His plan to remove the old and replace it with the new. The second shaking supersedes any significance in the first shaking. Then it was a physical quaking of the earth; Now the very foundations of every man-made system was shaken to the core while the heavens were impacted by the announcement of His permanent rule on earth as it is mirrored in heaven. We are fully associated in this immovable Kingdom; An authority that cannot be challenged or contradicted. Our  participation echos grace (and not Law-inspired obedience) as we accommodate ourselves to GOD'S delight, yielding in awe to His firm embrace." ( The word, euaresto, means well pleasing, to accommodate yourself to GOD's delight.) His zeal for us burns like fire. [Deu. 4:24.]

Galatians 4:22-31; Psalm 50:2, "The Law records the fact that Abraham had two sons: one by a slave girl, the other by a free woman. The one is produced by the flesh (the DIY-tree of unbelief) , the other by faith (the promise). There is a parallel meaning in this story of the two sons: they represent two systems, works and grace. Sinai is an Arabian rock mountain named after Hagar, (outside the land of promise). Its association with the Law of Moses mirrors Jerusalem as the capital of Jewish legalism. Hagar is the mother of the Law of works (that brings only condemnation by judgment). But the mother from above, the true mother of humanity is grace, the free Jerusalem; She is the mother of the promise. For it is written, "Rejoice oh childless one! Erupt in jubilee! For though you have never known travail before, your children will greatly outnumber her who was married!" (Married to the Law. Is. 54:1) We resemble Isaac: we are begotten of faith, the promise is our parent. Just as when the flesh child persecuted the faith child, so now these Jerusalem Jews in their Christian disguise seek to harass you; However, Scripture is clear: "Expel the slave mother and her son; The slave son cannot inherit with the free son." (In exactly the same way, rid your minds radically from the slave mother and child mentality. Light dispels darkness effortlessly.) Realize whose children we are my Family: we are not children of the slave-mother, the Law, but children of the free mother; We are begotten of grace!

Psalm 50:2, "Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, GOD shines forth."

Then in the context of this Psalm Elohim says - 'do not engage Me with blood sacrifices engage Me with the fruit of your lips, announcing by Today the perfection of beauty that shines forth out of Zion - a and I will show you, your salvation Jeshua!'" (The Mirror, with editing.)

May the LORD our GOD increase our understand of Him and His ways. In our next post we shall look into the 144,000 virgins note.