The Greater Revelation
Clo DiPlato
10-15-01
Dear Friends in Jesus:
Before I go into work, I will always open my Bible to read whatever scripture my eyes fall upon, and then I try to meditate on it throughout the day as I can allow myself the liberty of doing so.
Here is the scripture I received today, and I truly believe I "received" it.
Ac:8:12: But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
I believe this scripture represents a revelation of power and authority. The preaching of the Name of Jesus relates to power; and the preaching of the kingdom relates to authority. And since all authority in heaven and in earth is given in the Name of Jesus, there is a multiplied and compounded strength in this verse of scripture because it's delivering in an exponential measure the heavenly union between God's power and God's authority .
Philip preached "things" concerning the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is substance. It's tangible, and it's able to be perceived through our spiritual senses and it will spill over into our natural senses.
There is no true revelation of the kingdom apart from an understanding of the power and authority in the Name of Jesus. Scripturally you will not find a kingdom without an authority. You won't find a kingdom in which there is no king who has the power to weild authority and the outworking of his own will in the execution of the business of his domain. That which happens in a kingdom doesn't just happen
by chance or by way of some spontaneous spiritual combustion spinning things into existence.
No, it happens because someone has the authority to order things into a systematic and planned delivery of the will of the King into a realization that something has been accomplished and brought to reality in the king's domain. The king's word and seal is his authority, and by it his will is wrought in his kingdom. It is in the name of the king that all is realized which relates to his kingdom. Apart from the name (the authority ) of the king, there is no kingdom purpose accomplished.
You can read the accounts of the children of Israel returning from their bondage back to Jerusalem, to the Holy City, where the true king of Israel would be enthroned. "Therefore the Redeemed of the Lord shall return, and coming with singing unto Zion, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads." Yet even in order to return to the king of their own heritage; they had to submit to the word of the king of their captivity, and retain letters of release in his name so they could go about their intended business passing through his kingdom. The influence and power of the natural king caused them to have success in their mission (read Ezra and Nehemiah's accounts of the return from Babylonian captivity). In order for them to prevail against their enemies who wished them evil, they had to have the favor of the king. This was apparent through letters signed by the king requiring that they be able to accomplish what they set out to do in peace and also with help and provision.
There is much said in this day about the kingdom of God. But apart from a revelation of the power in the Name of Jesus to execute ALL authority on behalf of His people doing His will and His bidding there is no true revelation of the kingdom of God.
We've learned much about the wonderful power in the Name of Jesus, and how it works to save and heal and deliver and set people free. We've used that Name to open blind eyes, and unstop deaf ears. We've used that Name to minister His life in the power of the Spirit. We've used that Name to resist and rebuke the enemy with all authority in the Holy Ghost. We've used that Name to tread on serpents and scorpions, and we've used that Name as the healing balm to minister comfort to the brokenhearted. All in the wonderful and powerful Name of Jesus. Executing the will of the King and using His Name to bring forth His will in this earth as we have understood it.
But there is a greater revelation of His Name about to take place in this earth, and it's a new kingdom level authority to be expressed into the earth so that the fullness of His will, His glory, His power and His kingdom can be obtained by those who are pressing into it.
The greater revelation of His Name is founded upon the reality that He has a people who are actually chosen to be as His signet. The signet was the king's seal. It was a representation of the word and the will of the King. The signet bore the King's Seal, the King's Name, the King's identity; and it represented an irrefutable and uncontestable authority.
Hag:2:23: In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.
When God makes us as His signet, He is saying He is not only giving us the power to use His Name to exercise the advancement of His will and purposes in the earth; but He is saying that our very lives are going to be the expression and will of God into this earth. His Name, His nature, His authority revealed in us and through us to the earth, through the very reality of the substance of who and what we are
in Christ Jesus!! We will not just speak over people in the Name of Jesus and expect miracles (which can still happen....) But we will have a very presence about us that exudes with the power of God even as Peter's shadow healed the sick as he passed by them because of the reality of what he had working within him. Peter was as God's signet. We are going to be as God's signet in this earth!!
We are going to be the letters to Sanballat and Tobiah binding and cursing the works of the devil that would hinder the purposes of God in building up the walls and the gates and the everlasting doors that the King of Glory might come in!!
We are going to be the seal of the king that causes the enemies of Shadrack, Meschak, and Abednego to be thrown into the very fire intended to destroy God's servants so that true worship to the one true and living God might prevail in this earth!
We are going to be the sceptre of Ahaseurus extended in favor to Esther and her chosen people, and the seal of the king's ring to execute vengeance against the enemies of God's chosen people so that the righteous rather than the wicked might bear rule!!
Our understanding of His Name, and how we have used it is only a very fraction, and only a mere representation of what God intends for His people to come into in understanding of the power of His Name. It's been mighty in word, as it's been spoken, but it's kingdom expression is coming through the very "breathe of lives" because it's power and authority is going to be His breathing through us with all the evidence and revelation of the glory and power and sweetness and purity and substance of heaven
such as this world has never realized.
How are we going to come into this wonderful manifestation of the Name of Jesus, the Nature of Jesus, the Power of Jesus being expressed in it's full kingdom authority that His will might be enforced in this earth as never before??
There is only one way into this holy and eternal purpose of God, and it's by giving Him the throne rights in our lives first. The little chorus we sing expresses it best: " Sit on your throne, Oh, Lord , within my heart. Take full control of my life, I pray. Reign over me. Reign over me. From your throne, Oh Lord, within my heart!! " We will never see the power in the Name of Jesus in full authority and dominion in this earth until those who claim to love and serve Him give it to Him in full measure from their own lives.
When Philip preached the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the Name of Jesus, they were baptized both men and women. When Peter preached on the day of Pentecost, he had the "keys of the kingdom", and his message related to both the kingdom of God, and the Name of Jesus. As you read the second chapter of Acts, you will see both elements very clearly presented. There was a baptism required in order to enter into the kingdom those in his hearing had previously rejected.
Coming into a kingdom understanding of the power and authority in the Name of Jesus, the authority to execute the true will of the king of the kingdom is going to require a new baptism. Many may be led to go into the waters of baptism afresh with new revelation and understanding as to it's importance and power in the life of the believer as the the New Covenant circumcision, cutting away the excesses of the flesh so that we can be more alive to the Spirit and a fresh understanding of His kingdom in this earth.
However, I believe we are going to be baptized afresh in desire to bring ourselves into such complete conformity to His perfect will that we will not only be yeilded to the processes of God, allowing the Spirit to bring to bear the pressures that would cause the Holy engravings upon His signet (His people) to be
pressed out and carved out and hammered out in our lives to give that signet it's defining shape; but we will literally allow ourselves to be "baptized" in a consuming fire that thoroughly purges and refines as gold tried in the fire the signet that we are called to be from all impurities and imperfections into a ring perfectly measured and designed and fit for the king's hand.
Yes, we are going to fit upon the very finger of God because it's by the finger of God that righteous and holy judgment shall be meted out in this earth, and it's going to be realized in and through the saints of the most High God!!!
Lord Jesus, help us to be baptized afresh in desire to be yeilded to you and all you are doing in our lives to bring your kingdom rule to bear through the power of Your Name and Your Nature first realized in your people, and then expressed in fullness throughout this earth because we are YOUR signet upon YOUR hand, and YOUR ensign lifted up upon the land!!!
Amen and Amen.
All glory and praise to our Lord Jesus Christ!!!
In His Love,
Clo DiPilato
