Walking With Christ

⚓ Floatie — Lift Up Your Eyes

Revelation 4:2  At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne.(ESV)

Revelation doesn’t begin with a beast—it begins with a throne.

Just as Peter walked on water while his eyes were fixed on Jesus, so too can the Church walk through the storm of judgment—but only if our focus is fixed above the waves.  When Peter looked at the wind, he sank.  When we read Revelation looking at the chaos instead of the Christ, we do the same.

The horrors of yesterday’s message are real.  But they are not central.  The true heart of Revelation is not what breaks loose on earth—but what remains unshaken in heaven.

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✒️ Forge — A Throne, Not a Timeline

Revelation 4:1  After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven!  And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”(ESV)

Psalm 103:19  The Lord has established His throne in the heavens, and His kingdom rules over all.(ESV)

Revelation 4–5 is the interpretive key to the entire book.  Before a single seal is broken, before the trumpets sound or the bowls pour out, John is taken up to witness the throne.

This isn’t a break in the action—it’s the centerpiece of the vision.

• The scroll isn’t a weapon—it’s a deed, a contract, a redemptive map sealed with divine authority (Rev. 5).
• The Lamb is not revealed as a lion, warrior, or judge—but as One who was slain (Rev. 5:6).
• The praise in heaven never stops—not even as judgment unfolds (Rev. 5:13, 7:12, 19:1).

The structure of the book isn’t chaos—it’s liturgical, patterned like temple worship:  announcement, action, silence, song, and glory.

When we read Revelation from the throne outward—not from the earth inward—it becomes a book of alignment, not anxiety.

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⚒️ Anvil — Where Are Your Eyes?

Matthew 14:30  But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, ‘Lord, save me.’(ESV)

Colossians 3:1–2  (1)If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.  (2)Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.(ESV)

Here’s the challenge:  Most people read Revelation like Peter in the moment he began to sink.  Their eyes are on the storm.

• They obsess over beasts, Babylon, chips, and timelines.
• They fear the Antichrist more than they long for the return of Christ.
• They brace for collapse but forget the King who never left His throne.

Peter walked on water until he didn’t.  The storm didn’t sink him—his fear did.

Likewise, the Church today will either walk in power or sink in panic, depending on where we fix our eyes.  Revelation is not there to terrify us.  It is there to anchor us in the throne that does not move.

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🔥 Ember — I Saw the Lamb, and That Was Enough

Revelation 5:6  And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.(ESV)

For me, the moment everything changed in reading Revelation wasn’t during the seals or trumpets or dragons.  It was this:  “I saw a Lamb.”

Right there—in the middle of the scroll, the throne, the elders, the living creatures—is the Lamb, bearing the marks of His sacrifice, standing.  Not fallen.  Not weeping.  Not worried.  Standing.

In the storm of my own life—when I’ve felt like the foundations were shaking—that’s the image that steadied me.  Not a perfect theological grid.  Not a calendar of end-times events.  But the Lamb, on His feet, at the center of everything.

That’s where my worship returned.  And it’s where my endurance began.

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🌿 COVENANT TRIUMPH — The Storm Ends in Song

Revelation 21:1-3  (1)Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.  (2)And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  (3)And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man.  He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.(ESV)

The end of Revelation is not doom.  It is union.

• The throne that anchored the beginning of the book is now among us.
• The storm gives way to a city with no night, where the Lamb is the lamp (Rev. 21:23).
• The tree of life returns, and with it, the healing of the nations (Rev. 22:2).

Revelation isn’t a tragedy—it’s a wedding.  A war story, yes, but one that ends with a feast, a family, and a final “Amen.”

If you want to endure the storm, don’t memorize the timeline—memorize the throne.  Walk like Peter.  Worship like heaven.  And wait for the Lamb.

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[⚓ Floatie] [✒️ Forge] [⚒️ Anvil] [🔥 Ember] [🌿 Covenant Triumph]
This post follows the Forge Baseline Rule—layered truth for the discerning remnant.