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LIGHT OF THE WORLD INSPIRATIONS The Great White Throne by Tony den Hartog Preached 4/6/2009 A transcription of tape 2886 Transcribed by Jackie Weber Revelation 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. This is the beginning of the opening up of what I would call heaven--a place where nothing can enter that defiles or makes a lie, and where you will no longer be influenced by every wind of doctrine and the sleight and cunningness by which men lie in wait to deceive you and lead you astray (Eph 4:14). This world is full of deceptions, misleading directions, and things that human beings really want to know. But, unfortunately, human beings cannot know anything of spiritual value. This is why Paul says, "I am crucified with Jesus: nevertheless I live; yet it is not I that lives" (Gal 2:20). It is not the human "i" (the one controlled by the Hebrew order of things) that lives. You must remember that the Hebrew mind is not a spiritual mind. Neither is Islam or all the other religions which have formed themselves out of the feeling that we are separate from God. The whole world lieth in wickedness (1Jn 5:19); and we all have the sense of needing a Messiah, something to save us from this "untoward generation" which humanity lives in (Acts 2:40). There are two worlds.There is the outer world that we observe with our senses and are constantly involved with. We are attached to the peoples, systems, laws and everything else that this world represents. How can you escape the wrath of this world? In this world the devil goes around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour (1Pet 5:8). The devil can do things only in the realm that we call the "without." The devil cannot operate in the "within." This is why we are encouraged to live not by observation, but rather from the "within" (the inner world). We are not to live by what we can see, feel, analyze or think we need. For everything that humanity needs is not what God is going to give you. So you may as well stop praying for things, because God is not going to give you anything. So what is God going to give me? You have the right to receive a gift--the gift of righteousness. It is really a state of being that has no guilt or lack within itself and needs nothing from the outer world to satisfy itself because it is totally satisfied already. I am perfectly and completely satisfied that I do not need anything of this outer world to improve me in any way. As long as you have the belief that you are lacking something, you are living from the "without." Jesus said: Mark 4:11 Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables. Jesus spoke in parables to the general public, but to His disciples he spoke of the Father straightforwardly, not using parables, pictures or shadows. He said, "If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father" (Jn 14:9). You must see Jesus the way He is now. I'm not talking about the man who walked on the shores of Galilee healing and doing all these wonderful things. Even to know that Jesus is wonderful, but it will not give you life, though it might give you healing. Jesus said, "I must go away" because as long as He was walking in the "without," He could minister only to those who were "without." And He could in no way bring people up to a spiritual level of understanding what the Father and the Kingdom of God is until He was crucified--because His humanity had to go away. He as a human could not help them. Don't look at man whose breath is in his nostrils (Is 2:22). No man can help another--even Jesus in His manhood could not. But now He is no longer a man. And if you want to come to the "within," then you will no longer be a man or woman either. You will now be a priest after the order of Melchizedek, the administrator to bring people up hither to a place where they can see and know themselves the way they are known of God. Revelation 4:1 After this. . . . --after this which Jesus had said to him that overcomes (Rev 3:21). Do you know anyone in the world who can really say, "I don't want or need anything; you can keep everything--because I am totally satisfied since I awakened into Its likeness"? In the world today there are many presentations by those who call themselves mystics or gurus. But with all their mystical teachings and all of their "I Am-ness that I Am-ness," they have not been able to bring to India the freedom that they deserve. Jesus said, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me." In other words, "That which was ordained from the beginning, that thing which is called the absolute "I"-ness, or the absolute Being, was revealed to Me as the Spirit which is now upon Me. He has anointed Me to bring good tidings to the captives" (Lk 4:18). So if you are captivated by your fears or phobias, I am here to make you see freedom, to make you see through the appearance realm of this world to that which lies within. It is so wonderful, because after awhile you begin to see people in a totally different light. As you begin to look at Jesus the way He is known, you begin to transform in your own being into the same image from glory to glory (2Cor 3:18) and from one degree of light to another degree of light and are entering in to the Most Holiest (Hebrews 9:3) by the blood of the Lamb. The "blood of the Lamb" is not a chemical, but rather an idiom for the pure nature of God (not human nature) which is the nature of non-resistance, a nature that doesn't judge anyone. No matter what you do in the humanity that you live in, Jesus (or God) will never judge you. People want to know if there is a judgment coming. Judgment is always here now, never tomorrow. Whatever you sow is what you are going to reap (Gal 6:7). If you stick your hand in the fire and get burned, that is the judgment. It is not God who is going to judge you. God has sent Jesus as the propitiation for our sins (1Jn 2:2) because we have been living in the "without" realm--a realm where we live in the illusion of a separate sense of self. In this realm you think that you want this and need that; and with all that wanting and desiring, you usually finish up in hell. For God cannot be petitioned. How, then, can we experience salvation? Psalms 27:1The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom [or what] shall I fear? . . . . 2 When the wicked . . . came upon me to eat up my flesh. . . . The "wicked" are not people. These are parables or symbols of things that work in the unconsciousness. I would say that sixty to seventy percent of all the diseases in the world are caused by guilt, fear, anxiety and related feelings. I know, because I have experienced this myself. But I have now received the free gift that Jesus provided in His ascension into the place that is called God's throne. Revelation 4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. 2 And immediately I was in the spirit. . . . He traveled not distance, but from the outer to the inner and began to see and hear unspeakable and wonderful things that were unlawful to be uttered (2Cor 12:4), seeing the mystery of the "I AM." And this "I AM" is not a Hebrew or Dutchman, not a male or a female, but the very activity of that creative consciousness in which all things are contained within themselves; and nobody needs to ask God for anything because it is already there. All things are already yours (1Cor 3:21). "Well, if I have all things, how can I taste, see or spend it?" That's the secret; you don't have to have money to spend. Isaiah 55:1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. God wants to usher us into a whole new dimension by His love and grace. In that dimension you will be altogether satisfied, even if they crucify you upside down. For you will be able to say, "Crucify me, and in three days I will come again." What we call physically dying will never cause you to miss anything, for that is not death. You will never see death. All you will ever experience is a gradual unfoldment as you go from one degree of glory to another degree of glory. How many lifetimes that will take I don't know and don't want to know. I'm not talking about reincarnation, for I don't reincarnate. If I'm driving around in a car and the car breaks down and the motor blows up and I buy another car, I don't reincarnate into another car. It is only a new vessel that I use to express myself in. The vessel is not what I am. I'm not a body. Revelation 4:2 . . . and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. Only one sat on the throne. And that one is "within." You can call that Christ, the Father, or the Holy Ghost; but it is all one. It is self-contained and has total authority. Revelation 4:3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. 4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold. 5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. 6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. These are actually parables or symbols of what is happening not only in the "without," but also in the "within." If you really desire, you can actually come into that same place where Jesus was--in a place of government. You will also be translated out of the "without" world into the "within." But once you enter into that "within" realm where the throne of God is, and when you are seated IN Him, you can never judge anybody from an outward standpoint; you have now come beyond judgment. You cannot judge even the vilest sinner. You can only say, "Father, forgive them; they do not know what they are saying and doing" (Luke 23:34). You have now become a priest that the people need. People need a priest. Jesus is the High Priest. He experienced the pain, sorrow and the anguish of soul; He bore the sicknesses and diseases of the world. Then he gave up the ghost, died and entered into a different realm. He ascended into that throne room realm where the Father is, and where you are seated once you come through the judgment. If you are still comparing notes as to what is and is not true, you will never get to the place where you will no longer judge. "What about you, Tony? Do you still judge?" If I find myself judging, I must repent. I must acknowledge that what I am saying is not coming from the throne room of God--because my Father judges no man (Jon 5:22). If I'm a son of my Father, I have to do the same as my Father. Like Jesus said, "I speak only those things which I hear my Father say." Jesus was so successful because His pure consciousness drew people to Him; and He loved every one of them, regardless of their behavior. Jesus came to deliver us from the cosmic (or karmic) law of "as ye sow, so shall ye reap." Karmic law works, whether you are good or bad, black or white. And it continues to work until the curse of it is broken by you receiving the free gift. You must begin to acknowledge that Jesus bore your sin and carried your diseases. Jesus took upon Himself the nature of what I would call the "without." He was born of a woman, born under the law; He therefore bore the curse of the law. Unless you get to understand the two ways of Jesus, you cannot enter into the mystical realm or the new heaven, or the place where all government is, which is the throne of God. You can enter into that realm only by acknowledging that your "old man" (or your humanity) was crucified and is dead. And dead men don't judge anyone. If one died for all, then we are all dead (2Cor 5:14). First there has to be the death of that thing that caused all the trouble--which was Adam and his fear and anxiety about life. That was the serpent man. "But I thought the serpent was the devil." That's right; man became the devil. That devil was not an opposite to God, but to himself. There are no opposites to God, nothing that fights God. How can you fight God? How can a bunch of darkness fight the brightness of God's light? Can the darkness overwhelm the light? What happens to the darkness when it approaches the light? If all that is dense and dark, if all the forces of evil would try to attack the light, they are consumed by fire the moment they come even close to the light. When I came to the light, I was consumed by fire, by the baptism of fire. God did not forgive me my sin. God cannot forgive sin; He just wipes it out. God cannot make darkness into light. God cannot improve darkness. Darkness has no substance, no nature, no constitution. It is simply a non-existent thing that God never ordained. But we have lived in it so long that we have thought it is real. Everything that God has not ordained is not only a lie--it is just simply not real. Revelation 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. That simply means that they went from the outer (earth) realm to the inner realm. From the realms of war, conflict, resistance and constant arguments to that "within," that knowingness. "I know whom I have believed, and am [fully] persuaded" (2Tim 1:12); I am here, there and everywhere; I am "THAT"--but not in my humanity. 1John 1:1That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For THE life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. We saw it and tasted it. That's the substance. And Jesus could say, "Before Abraham, I am THAT." I am that which was from the beginning. I am the Word. I am the living essence that lives and abides forever--never, ever ceasing. It contains everything that you need. There is no disease or death in it. There's nothing else but light, love, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Come out from among them, all ye that suffer and are heavy laden. Be ye separate, saith the Lord. Touch not the unclean--the outer. For the outer (the "without") is the unclean, no matter what you call it. People think perhaps God will be pleased with them if they give up something or obey some laws or the ten commandments. No, God cannot be pleased with you because you try to obey a commandment. If you could obey the ten commandments to the letter, you would be the only one who ever did; not even Jesus did it. Jesus fulfilled the law by dying. Whatever law there is, you cannot be freed by it. If you want to really experience the law of the spirit of life that was also in Christ Jesus (Rom 8:2), you must die. John 4:7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water [outer water] shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. It is now no longer salvation for the Jews; all those who are true worshipers will experience salvation. You don't have to be a Jew or be good or bad. You simply have to recognize the Spirit and the wisdom by which Jesus pointed out that if you think you can look to a husband or wife for satisfaction and fulfillment in life, you have not found the well from which living waters will spring up. Out of your innermost being shall flow rivers of living water in which there is the fulness of life and joy--everything that you need. There is no attachment to anything or hanging on to anyone for your security. You have found self-fulfillment. When you have found self-fulfillment, you are coming closer to that place called the throne. What kind of judgment is the white throne judgment? The white throne is the place of the inner kingdom where everything is already perfect and harmonious. When you come to that recognition, you begin to overcome all feelings of "I want" or "I desire." You will find total satisfaction as you awaken into that place where all things are already there. Wherever you go, it is there. If you find yourself thirsty on a raft in the middle of a sunny ocean--if you recognize that "'I' am here, there and everywhere," suddenly a little cloud will appear above the boat and it will begin to rain. For out of your innermost being that water will flow. And fish will jump into the boat so that you will not hunger either. Jesus said, "Eat of my flesh; drink of my blood; and it it ye shall find satisfaction." Are you eating it? Are you feeling this substance? The realization of it is coming now. God is preparing a people that are willing to lay down everything that they have trusted in--even physical life--to the point where they say, "Lord, here I am; speak, your son (or daughter) is listening." There is something happening that is breaking the barriers of self preservation. Revelation 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion. . . . Mount Zion is that perfect government out of the throne, out of the perfect order that God has ordained after the order of Melchizedek. It is the avenue through which all life comes and everybody is completely satisfied. Eventually this whole world which we know today as black or white, good or evil, Baptist or Moslem is going to be consumed. It is all irrelevant and is all going to go--until "I" is the only one left. When "I" am lifted up, "I" will draw all men unto myself (Jn 12:32). Everybody has this "I" that governs within himself. But, unfortunately, the whole of humankind is overshadowed by a feeling of lack, fear and anxiety about "What shall I eat or drink?" "I'm losing my house", etc. Who cares about the house? Go, sit in the park and the birds will bring food to you. The ravens will feed you. You don't need anything. And if you let go of all these feelings of needing and wanting security, all things will be added to you. You have previously worked so hard. Now it is time to "be still and know that I am God" (Ps 46:10). "I" is your total sufficiency. But if you think that you are going to be something in your humanity or that people are going to acknowledge your deity, it will all vanish and pass away. People have mistaken the book of Revelation to be an account of things that are going to happen in the "without"--wars, earthquakes, famines, etc. But those things are happening right now. You don't have to be afraid of the future. People are dying by the thousands right now and we are wondering why God is letting these things happen. It is not God that is letting them happen; it is our stupidity. It's all because we desperately want to live. We want to protect our assets and our lives. But Jesus said, "If you try to preserve your life and do everything possible to secure yourself, you will lose it" (Mt 16:25). Revelation 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads. 2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: 3 And they sung as it were a new song. . . . What song are you singing? There's a river of life flowing out from me. It makes the lame to walk and the blind to see, Opens prison doors and sets the captives free. There's a river of life flowing out from me. It's no longer a river of life coming towards me to bless me; it is now flowing out to the world to bless the world. Verse 4 These are they which were not defiled with women. . . . It doesn't mean physical. "For they are virgins" (v 4). That doesn't just mean women; it means men also. And this has nothing to do with sex. They are totally and completely dedicated and married to Him that rose from the dead. And they bring forth fruit unto God. Romans 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God --thirty-fold, sixty-fold, and a hundred-fold. Many children are born into this realm. For when you are married unto that, you will bring forth children unto God. And the church as a whole in that recognition brings forth the "man child" (Rev 12:5). The man child is not referring to a male, but to this child which in the beginning was ordained by God to have authority and dominion. And that child lives within you; but it is still overshadowed. It comes out into expression when we surrender. Revelation 14:4 These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. 5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. They are not only before the throne of God, but are seated in the throne of God. The throne of God is a light which is so bright that it is called the white throne. It speaks of wholeness, purity and completeness; but, more than that, it means the tremendous authority and the dominion that is in that throne realm company. Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. . . . This "heaven" is called the lower heaven; it is actually the psychic realm, the realm of human and mind activity. It is all fleeing away because there is no activity other than God--no more mind realm, no more trying to be, no more concentration and visualization. This is the throne of pure recognition. So when people come to you, they will sense your non-judgment. You are no longer anything. I am nothing, I am nobody; but at the same time I am "that"; and "that" draws all men unto "me." Not to Tony, for there is no Tony. There is no Jesus either. There is only that life-giving Presence that draws everything into Itself without judgment. But we'll have to come. God will not force you to come. When things are not going so well in what we call the outer world, when you are going through divers temptations, you must say to yourself, "I don't care if they take everything away from me; I'm looking at Jesus, the author and finisher of my faith, who, for the joy that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame, lest I should be weary and faint in my mind" (Heb 12:2-3). Jesus conquered death, the devil, every principality and power and every ruler of the darkness; He made an open show of them and triumphed over them in it (Col 2:15). So we are breaking through what I would call the outer realm. It's like the rocket that goes up and drops one of its sections so that it can go into a different dimension and eventually come to the place where there is no more gravitational pull--then it just orbits. I am here, there, and everywhere. I am in heavenly places, far above all principalities and powers and all the rulers of the darkness. I am all over the place. If you think you see me sitting here in a chair, you are in the "without." As you enter into that realm of the throne room, the white throne, then you are actually coming into a place where all the darkness is going to be judged. You come to the throne. And as you come, all the dirty rags, all your false securities, all your feelings of guilt, all your fears and anxieties are falling off; they are judged and cast into the lake of fire never to be remembered again. You come closer and closer until you see yourself the way you are known. Then God says, "Sit down, you have overcome the world even as I have overcome the world." Then you will sit and begin to do the same thing. People will come, and their rags will fall off. They will say to you, "I used to know you, but now you are so different; something is happening to you." No, it is not happening; it is already done; it is finished. I am dead, but at the same time I am alive in the very Presence that contains everything. And everywhere around the world, people will touch the hem of the garment and will be made whole. It's just a matter of time. But there is going to be a time when there is no more time. "And time shall be no more." Time itself is fiction. God doesn't know what time is. There is only an eternal now. We have now risen into that realm Jesus was referring to when He said, "I go to prepare for you, that where I am ye may be there also" (Jn 14:2-3).