" THREE VIEWS OF CHRIST " 
                                by J W Luman 
 
The Lord in bringing us to a greater view of Christ always brings us back 
to the Cross, for there is no view of Christ given of God, and by view I 
mean God revealing His Son in you in an ever greater way, in an ever 
ongoing transformation; and there is no greater view or revealing of the 
Son except the Father bring us back as it were, to the Cross. And the 
Cross grows ever greater and ever deeper in our lives. For it is only 
truly by the Cross; not the Cross as just two sticks of wood, but the 
Cross in the mystery of His death, His burial, His resurrection. The 
Cross in its ever ongoing exaltation of Him and ever ongoing doing away 
with all that is not exclusively Him. So there is no learning Christ 
aside from, or exclusive from the working of the Cross. EVERY VIEW OF 
CHRIST BRINGS ABOUT HIS INCREASE AND MY DECREASE. It's just that we do 
move from that working of the Cross that is dealing with a sin and a 
sinner, and the old man, to the working of the Cross that is working in 
us in different ways. But the Cross is ever exalting Him, and is ever 
doing away with all that is not Him.  
 
Basically there are three views of Christ that we are presented with in 
the Scripture. The first view we will diagram is what I call "The Old 
Testament" view and it's a simple diagram of the Tabernacle.  
 
 
 
 
   Ark of Covenant                               Holy of Holies 
 
                                                 Vail 
 
   Altar of Incense                              Holy Place 
 
   Golden Candlestick 
 
   Table of Shewbread 
 
                                                 Laver 
 
                                                 Outer Court 
 
    Brazen Altar 
                        
 
Notice there are three altars - the brazen altar in the outer court, the 
altar of incense in the Holy Place, and behind the vail in the Holy of 
Holies is the third altar, the Ark of the Covenant. And through the 
center of this whole diagram we will put a big cross. This shows the Old 
Testament view of Christ, and all of these views are brought over and 
realized in the Person of the Lord Jesus, but the Old Testament view is a 
Prophetic View of Christ. And everything in that tabernacle is associated 
with the blood, and is associated with His death and with His dying. The 
blood is shed out in the brazen altar, and finally the blood makes its 
way all the way through and is sprinkled on the golden altar, or the Ark 
of the Covenant, upon the Mercy Seat. So the whole thing there is a 
picture of Christ and Him crucified. It brings us from the Old Testament 
into the New Testament; it brings us from sin into Salvation; it brings 
us from one creation into a New Creation. That's the way it is set up in 
the Old Testament for a type. The Tabernacle was established in the 
wilderness. Where was the wilderness? It was between Egypt and Canaan. 
They should have passed through there very quickly, but in disobedience 
they wandered around there for forty years. There are a lot of believers 
who are fulfilling that in their own life. They should pass from death 
unto life rather quickly, but they seem to be caught in a never-never 
land, they seem to be caught up in a wilderness wandering, trying to live 
in Canaan, but never getting their minds out of Egypt; so they end up 
wandering around in the wilderness. They are going nowhere - just in big 
circles. And the escape, the thing by which we pass from Egypt to Canaan 
is introduced right there in the wilderness.  
 
Right in the middle of the wilderness we have the Tabernacle, we have the 
Cross. But not just the Cross, we have Christ and Him Crucified, for 
everything of that Tabernacle represents Christ - every piece of 
furniture, every molding, every curtain. Everything there represents 
Christ in union with a people, but it represents Christ. And then the 
Cross is brought into that - the very blood that is shed. And the 
furniture itself is in the shape of the Cross. Everything there is 
causing us to see Christ and Him crucified, in union with a people. That 
is, you and I come by His death, His burial, His resurrection. And this 
is the first view of Christ with which we are faced, it is the first view 
of Christ we are presented. It is the view of Christ that all of the Old 
Testament sums up and sets forth. And that view has to be fulfilled in 
Christ - it was and is fulfilled in Christ and must be fulfilled in all 
who would find life in Christ. That view is Christ and Him crucified. We 
must come to see ourselves dead with Him and alive by Him. That sounds 
like a very simple statement, but this is a very profound work of Christ; 
it is a very profound work of the Cross.  
 
And every one of these three views has a judgment with it. The word 
"judgment" basically means "a dividing, a dividing in the midst, 
basically dividing the living from among the dead, or dividing light from 
darkness, dividing heaven from earth, dividing the first from the last. 
It's a judgment - it is a dividing, but judgment also speaks of a 
comprehension, an understanding. Even in the natural you understand that 
a judgment handed down by a judge is an understanding. It's a 
declaration, but it's an understanding. It is something that is 
determined, and that determination has immediate consequences connected 
to it. A judgment is handed down and consequences immediately are 
effected in the lives of people. It's the same with this first view of 
Christ - it has a judgment, and that judgment separates. In the type it 
separated Israel from Egypt and brought them into the reality of Canaan. 
The Cross is that great divider of Egypt and Canaan; Egypt standing for 
the old creation, an old life, a life of bondage - not just a life of 
sin, a life of bondage, a life of slavery and servitude. This is an old 
creation - the head of it - Adam, the head of it - Pharaoh, all that 
Egypt stands for - the world. Canaan represents a New Creation in Christ 
Jesus. It's called the Promised Land, the Holy Land. It comes right over 
into the New Testament and represents the very reality of being "IN 
CHRIST", of being in the heavens, of possessing the Promise of Life in 
Him. Canaan represents all of that.  
 
And this first view of Christ that is set forth in such a tremendous way 
in the Bible is a view that brings us from one to the other. It is very 
significant that the Tabernacle was not built in Egypt nor was it first 
pitched in Canaan. It was pitched in the wilderness, and it spoke of the 
way out. It brought everything of Salvation, of Redemption into view. 
Most of us think this is a very simple view, but I am convinced that very 
few Christians have actually had the judgment of this revealing of Christ 
established in their hearts. Very few Christians have actually in their 
heart, in their souls suffered the loss of the old and are now finding 
themselves only and ever more in the new. We want the Cross to get rid of 
some bad things, but the Cross gets rid of all things! We want the Cross 
to get rid of the Egyptians, but the Cross also gets rid of the 
Israelites! The Cross brings us through death, burial and resurrection 
from one creation - the good of it, the bad of it, the big of it, the 
little of it - the all of it; from one creation into another creation 
altogether. And that creation is Christ Himself! He is the Head of it, 
the Life of it, the Fulness of it, the Age of it, the Beginning - the 
Birth of it, and He is the End of it - the maturity of it and the final 
realization of it. HE IS THE NEW CREATION, AND WE IN HIM ARE MADE NEW 
CREATURES! What a tremendous volume is bound up in this view of Christ. 
And yet we must pass on from that view. 
 
For almost thirty years of ministry I spent all of my time dealing with 
little more than this view. I suppose for thirty years it was this view 
being worked out in me, because in reality you can not present Christ 
beyond your present view of Christ. Many have tried and have come up with 
a lot of false doctrines - all of which they themselves become the center 
of. We do it all in the name of Jesus, but it becomes all just so many 
words and doctrines, and it will be that way until Christ and Him 
crucified is actually revealed in our hearts in such a way that He is in 
union with us, and we are in union with Him in that realization. And it 
becomes a vision, a realization of our hearts, becomes the awareness of 
our souls - NOT I, BUT CHRIST WHO LIVETH IN ME!	 
 
I tell you, very much of the dealing of God in our lives is bound up with 
this first view. But friends, this is the view that gets you out from the 
old and into the new! There is a greater realization of Christ than this. 
Whether any one has walked into a greater realization or not, there is a 
greater realization. I'm convinced that most believers have never come to 
the judgment of this first. But some have, and the Lord is ever ongoing 
in a people. For it is His plan and purpose to bring a people on earth, 
in Christ, to a full view of Himself, and through that people, have a 
full expression and manifestation of Himself in the earth. This is God's 
plan and purpose, and this God will have.  
 
The second diagram I call "The New Testament" view. It is a diagram of a 
believer.  
 
          BODY                    Christ is in the believer. 
             
            SOUL                  The believer is born again  
                                  and has the Spirit of 
                                  Christ. We live not by our 
           SPIRIT                 human spirit but by the Spirit 
           CHRIST                 of Christ. "He that is joined  
                                  to the Lord is one Spirit." 
 
 
This brings us into the great revelation that Paul set before us in the 
New Testament. "Christ in you, the expectation of glory." "God revealing 
His Son in me that I might preach Him among the heathen." This is that 
glorious realization that it is CHRIST IN YOU, that the very living 
Spirit living in you by which you and I have life is Christ Himself! Born 
again of the Eternal Seed, the Eternal Word, the Eternal Spirit - born 
again. Christ in you! So the New Testament view is Christ in a people, 
Christ dwelling in you, Christ dwelling in His Body. The New Testament 
view is a Living Body made so by the Living Christ! We have been 
declaring this view for quite some time - God revealing His Son in you.  
 
You see the Revelation of Jesus Christ is not a doctrine or a teaching. 
The Revelation of Jesus Christ is that work by which the Holy Spirit 
reveals the Living Christ in you, causing you initially to understand 
that it is CHRIST WHO LIVES! But you see, that understanding is connected 
to another understanding. It is CHRIST WHO LIVES and not I! This is the 
view that comes, God revealing His Son in you. This is the view that Paul 
continually preached and ministered in the Church. This view doesn't 
bring us from one creation to another, from the old to the new; this is 
the view that establishes in our heart that ONLY THE NEW REMAINS. That it 
is not I who lives, it is Christ who lives in me. So you see this view is 
connected also with the Cross. So we must also put a big cross in the 
middle of this diagram, because you see there is a judgment connected 
with this view also. The view is not I, but Christ - Christ lives and not 
I. 
 
What is the dividing here? In the first view the old man is divided from 
the New Man. But there is a deeper dividing here, because here we are 
dealing with LIFE! Here we are dealing with a Living Christ, we're not 
dealing with an old man in you. We are dealing with the Living Christ in 
you, we're dealing with God revealing His Son in you. What is divided 
here is - it is not I, it is not me who is living - it is Him who is 
living! What is divided is the judgment, the understanding of the child 
from the Son. We have dealt with that dividing - the one born. THE CHILD 
MUST COME TO A REALIZATION OF THE CROSS; must come to the certainty of 
true circumcision of the heart - the child must die, and The Son must be 
revealed. This is an ever deepening work. "That we be no more children 
tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine, by the cunning craftiness of 
men..." That we be no more children divided by schisms, divisions and 
doctrines and baptisms and laying on of hands. That we be no more 
children thinking as children and speaking as children, acting as 
children. "But when I became a man, I put away childish things." 
 
That we be no more children, because Galatians 4 says "as long as he is a 
child, the heir differeth nothing from the servant..." How many 
Christians differ nothing from a servant? Serving the elements of the 
world - all of the elements of the world, not just the elements of 
nature. The things of our own life - yes, many of these are spiritual 
things, these are not sinful things. We're not dealing with the division 
of the old man and the New Man here. We're not dealing with the division 
of sin from Salvation here. We're dealing here with coming from a child 
to the comprehension of a Son. We're dealing here with coming from the 
state of "one born", one born a child, to the greater realization of that 
One revealed of the Father - the Eternal Son of God, the Son who comes 
forth in the Resurrection! That's a glorious Son. The essence of that 
Son, the Person of that Son is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, so that in 
essence, that Son is One Son. In manifestation however, that Son is many. 
One revealed in many, One manifested through many. What a Son! But most 
believers, even those who have suffered the first judgment - the judgment 
that brings you from one creation to another, a judgment that causes us 
finally to give up the dead, finally to give up the old, finally let the 
dead bury the dead; the judgment that finally causes you and I come to 
the realization that Christ and Christ only is my Life, and I live only 
in Him, and only in Him do I have Life - what a judgment. But most who 
have come through that judgment are now bound up with the child.  
 
Because you see, in spiritual terms we realize that the child does not 
grow up and get smart; the child does not grow up and get old. THE CHILD 
MUST DIE! This was prefigured in Isaac and Abraham, and "as Isaac was, so 
are we." It was prefigured there and fulfilled in Christ who was born of 
a woman, born under the law, born as a child, born to die - Christ 
fulfilled that death. And you see there is this great mystery of the 
Cross, where at the Cross not only sin and the sinner and the old man is 
taken care of and done away, but there is also the eighth day 
circumcision of the obedient child, and The Son is lifted up high, given 
a name above every name, that at the name of Jesus... Oh yes, even in 
prefigurement, you'll look back in Luke chapter 2, even in prefiguring 
this death of a child and revealing of The Son, you will notice that they 
did not call His name Jesus until after He was circumcised, although the 
angels said that was His name from the beginning. That just prefigured 
this great realization that when He, as one born, as the one born to die, 
given a body to die in, a body born of a woman, born under the law - when 
He died, when He suffered the circumcision of the child, the Father 
exalted Him highly. Philippians 2 says that, "...he became obedient unto 
death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God hath highly exalted Him 
and given Him a name..."What name? The name Jesus - not another name 
other than Jesus. He lifted the name Jesus up. He exalted the name Jesus 
above, high above every name. "That at the name of Jesus every knee shall 
bow and every tongue confess," every knee in heaven and in earth and in 
ages to come. 
 
We must understand that there was something more than sin being dealt 
with at the Cross, something more than an old man and an old creation. An 
obedient child was also being dealt with there, that the Father could 
reveal The Son in resurrection. And that judgment that He bore upon the 
Cross also must be borne in you and I! Yes, in identification with a 
greater revealing of Him, you and I as the child must die! Yes, and all 
of the things of the child are put away; when the child dies, so does the 
things of the child - every wind of doctrine, the schisms, divisions, the 
thinking of the child, the servitude of the elements of the world. When 
the child dies, these things die also. And The Son is revealed in an ever 
greater view. We come to be identified with Him in the Resurrection, and 
we come to be identified as the Body of His Resurrection. Not that body 
you see in a mirror, but that realization should have been taken care of 
at the first judgment - that old creation - the white, the black, the 
brown, the male, the female - all of that which this clay body 
represents. That man is done away, that creation is done away. Oh yes, 
the clay body here remains, but there is a view of the Lord that is yet 
to come that shall also bring an end even to this clay vessel.  
 
Right now this clay vessel is serving a purpose. This body that we have 
must become servant of the true Body that we are. That Body that we are 
is an invisible Body; it is identified only in the Person of the Lord 
Jesus. You can only know the Body that we truly are when God reveals His 
Son in you in Resurrected form, because it is His Body that you are! That 
Body is neither this nor that. This is the Body of a New Man. And one day 
that Body shall have a vessel chosen of God, determined of God that will 
give Him the expression that He desires. We really don't know what that 
shall be, but we know that when we shall see Him absolutely as He is, we 
shall be like Him - for the purpose of manifesting Him in heaven and in 
earth. Thank God we know that, so we press on. We press on to know Him, 
for only in knowing Him are these things accomplished in us, and through 
us, and in no other way, because it is not just God trying to make a 
bunch of people in a certain fashion. No, God's concern is to reveal His 
Son in a people, so that people become a full expression of His Son. And 
in getting a full expression of His Son in and through a people, God will 
determine all of these other things - He will determine the order, the 
sequence and the time of it. We set our hearts and our souls ever to know 
Christ, and to know Him in an ever increasing way, an ever increasing 
view.  
 
The second view is dealing with that judgment whereby the child is 
divided from the Son - and it is the Cross! The Cross is the instrument 
now seen not as death to sin, but now seen as circumcision to the one 
born, circumcision to the child. But it is death nonetheless, because the 
child and all of the childishness does die, and The Son is revealed in 
Resurrection power. And instead of living as the body of the child, we 
begin to live as the Body of The Son in Resurrection. We begin to live as 
the Body of Him who says, "I AM THE RESURRECTION. I AM THE LIFE." We 
begin to live as the Body of the Son of Man. "Whosoever eateth the flesh 
and drinketh the blood of the Son of Man hath life." You've read that in 
John 6, where Jesus goes on to say from verse 53 onward, "As I live by 
the Father, even he that eateth me, he shall live by me." (verse 57) We 
begin to find our life in the Person of the Resurrection! This is a view 
that only a handful of believers in the earth today have really begun to 
comprehend, but it is a view of Christ and a judgment that we must face 
if we are to go on to what Paul calls 'the administration of the fulness 
of time.' That's what this study is all about - the administration of the 
fulness of time. 
 
In Ephesians 1:9,10, "Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, 
according to the good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself, that 
(and the word "that" just sums up everything in verse 9) in the 
administration..." That is a proper rendering. This is an administration 
of the Holy Spirit, because all administrations are of the Holy Spirit. 
If you remember over in the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ and 
also throughout the Old Testament, there is always a working toward a 
full administration, an administration that presents a full view of 
Christ in a people. We see that view typically in the Old Testament, and 
we see that view fulfilled in the New Testament, to be revealed in a 
people and manifested in the earth. All the administrations are of the 
Holy Spirit, and all the administrations of the Spirit are working toward 
a full administration. So in the Revelation of Jesus Christ the book 
begins out declaring the Holy Spirit in a full administration, it begins 
out describing Him as the seven Spirits or the seven-fold Spirit, or the 
complete work of the Holy Spirit. The complete administration of the Holy 
Spirit is being seen here as Christ is being revealed in a people, in a 
full view which will give Him expression and manifestation throughout 
heaven and out of the heavens into all of the earth. This is a dynamic 
view of Christ which is a full view of Him, a complete view. The book of 
the Revelation of Jesus Christ brings us right into that view, and then 
in Chapter 1 we have the seven-fold revealing of Christ, and that 
revealing is in a seven-fold Church, so there we have the complete 
administration of the Spirit revealing Christ in a complete view, 
bringing the Church into that complete view, and to become in the earth a 
manifestation of that complete and full view. And then John begins to 
describe that view in its outworking - in the heaven and in the earth, in 
its outworking in believers, and in its outworking among the nations. 
There is a full view of Christ that is set before us - it's not another 
Christ - it's the same Christ who is now being revealed in you - but a 
greater view! 
 
A greater view will bring a greater judgment and a greater judgment will 
bring a greater manifestation of Him! So the Lord is ever bringing us to 
the third view. But not until we face the second view, not until this 
judgment is established in us - the dividing of the child. Most of us are 
still in the view of the child. We must come to this revealing of The Son 
that brings us into the reality of The Resurrection; the Person of The 
Resurrection and our union with Him as the Body, the expression, the 
manifestation of that Person. This judgment must begin to rule in us and 
must have it's full rule in us before the third and final view, the third 
and final revealing of Christ can ever take place. I want you to 
understand I'm talking about these three views of Christ, and in each of 
these views there are probably hundreds of revealings of Christ, but you 
see He is being revealed within the scope of that one view. In the first 
He is being revealed in the view of Christ and Him crucified, but it's an 
ever ongoing revelation, until we are in our hearts and souls, passed 
from the old into the new, and it is a finished thing, and it's a reality 
established in Christ.  
 
And then we're faced with another view. And it is a general view, this 
New Testament view. "CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY". But you see, in 
that there are many revealings of Christ, until that view and the 
judgment of that view has had its complete working, complete judgment in 
us and we are passed from the child into the realization of the 
Resurrected Son; into the realization of the Resurrection Himself! Paul 
the Apostle, who set forth each of these views of Christ, and even 
declared this third view of Christ, went out of this world saying, "Oh, 
that I may know Him in the power of His Resurrection..." And then he went 
on to say, "I have not apprehended (and that word is translated better 
"comprehended") Him as He has comprehended me. But this I do, I forget 
all that is behind..." Forgetting all that is behind - the good, the bad. 
That means that he never maintained himself in any view of Christ, but 
was ever pressing toward the full view of Christ! "Pressing toward the 
mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." That's the 
third view of which I'm speaking.  
 
And I don't know whether any of us will walk in that view or not, but 
somebody will, and why not us? If I don't walk in that view, I don't want 
it to be because I have "camped" in the first one. I don't want it to be 
because I can't simply pass from the old to the new; that I'm still 
having an argument with the Cross with regard to the old and the New 
Creation. And I don't want it to be that I am stymied in the second view, 
as great as it is. I don't want it to be that I'm having an argument with 
the Cross over the death of the child and the reality of The Son. If I am 
taken of the Lord by way of the grave in the second view, I want it to be 
with my eyes fastened on the third. If I'm not permitted of the Lord to 
be part of that glorious manifestation of the third view, I want to be 
walking in the good of the second view - I want to be knowing Him in the 
power of His Resurrection, I want to be knowing Him in the fellowship of 
His sufferings, and that's the way I want to be knowing you.  
 
We've got to come to know each other as the Body of His Resurrection. I'm 
tired of being restricted by old body thinking; I'm tired of being 
restricted by old body commitment; I'm tired of being bound up by old 
body unfaithfulness; I'm tired of being bound by the child system of 
things. We've got to come to know each other - out of this body of 
humanity, and we must come to realize each other in the Body of the 
Resurrection. Our commitments to one another must reflect that, our 
commitment to Christ must reflect that. Everything about us must reflect 
that - our values, our giving, our time, our ministry, our union with one 
another, our seeing one another, our thinking concerning one another, our 
gathering together with one another - everything must come from the 
things of the child and the system of the child, and must come into the 
liberty of the Resurrection! We must find liberty from all that is 
binding us, holding us and restricting us while we look at one another in 
these flesh bodies. 
 
My God, can you see what we're doing? Seeing each other in the flesh, 
considering one another, making limitations for one another in these 
flesh bodies. And if you think that's not affecting you and I in our 
relationship with God, and if you think that's not holding back a greater 
manifestation of Christ, then you're wrong, because it is. Because I tell 
you, He can only be manifested in the way that we know Him. He can only 
be manifested in the view that we know Him in, He can only be manifested 
in the view in which we are currently and presently walking. You will 
not, we will not manifest any more of Christ than we know! We will not 
manifest any more of Him than we are currently seeing. We must move in 
this second view - from the child - even the view of the body that is 
given of a woman, the bodies that we are that are given of woman - that's 
still the way we are looking at each other. Maybe it is not as the old 
man and the old creation, but we are still giving consideration to that 
body of the child, that thing born of a woman and its limitations. We are 
still thinking that way with regard to ministry. We plan everything - our 
local gatherings, our conferences, our travels, our love for one another 
- we make excuses for one another based upon the limitations of those 
bodies. 
When will we rise up in the understanding of the Resurrection? When will 
we rise above the bodies of this flesh? When will we enter into the 
groaning of 2 Corinthians 5? When will we truly enter into the groaning 
to put off - put off, and not by way of death, either. No, but that this 
mortality might be swallowed up by immortality. And dear friend, it's got 
to begin in you. We first have to stop looking at ourselves as the body 
of the child - that system upon which the Church by and large is now 
based. We've got to get out from there and move into the heavens in our 
hearts and in our souls and in our realizations. You've got to move there 
first in your heart.  We've got to come to understand we are, not the 
bodies we have, the Body we are is the Body of the I Am That I Am, the 
Body of the Resurrection. The Body that we are will overcome and overtake 
the bodies that we have if we ever get our eyes off of them and our 
considerations off of them with regard to one another, and begin to 
comprehend ourselves in the Person of the Resurrection. And then begin to 
deal and speak to each other that way, and commit ourselves to one 
another that way. And when I say commit I mean everything you and I are 
and everything you and I have - and move into the fulness of the second 
view. There are many revealings of Him there.  
 
We've got to do this before we are even able to consider this third view. 
And yet, God leads, guides and presses me towards this third view. I've 
called it "The Kingdom" view. It is the view of the King, and all that is 
involved as having Christ revealed in you as King.  
 
                               KINGDOM 
                                  
                                 SOUL 
 
                                 KING 
 
 
 
And it involves more than I can even imagine to say. And we'll have very 
little to say about it until this view is actually birthed, I mean 
revealed in us by the Holy Spirit. This is not a view of us, for it is 
never a view of us. It is a view of Him in us, and that makes all the 
difference in the world and in heaven - that view of Him. This is the 
Ascended view, this is the final view, this is the full view. And in this 
view there are many revealings of Him, but it is Him revealed as King and 
Priest - King, Priest - King who is Priest, and Priest who is King! It is 
the administration of the fulness of time and this view is the result of 
the administration of the seven-fold Spirit of God. And the result 
finally of this view is a manifestation of Him out of the heavens into 
the earth, called truly and justly "The Kingdom of God." 
 
Not something we've gone out and preached and tried to set up and ended 
up just making ourselves something. Let me tell you, before every true 
view of Christ there is a perversion of that view. It's always been that 
way. There is already much preaching about the Kingdom and the Kingdom 
view and the Throne, but somehow it always comes back to you and I, and 
somehow clergy always gets exalted from one order to another order. 
Clergy exalts itself to places that only the Lord Jesus truly occupies 
and can truly occupy. Oh God! But that's what happens when children get a 
hold of something like "The Kingdom", or "Exalted Son", and when children 
try to find their place upon the Throne. Lord Jesus, deliver us from 
children who would be kings, and who are not. But rather must die, that 
The Son be revealed. For That Son - He alone is King! 
 
The view of Christ in this third view is King of Glory! We see this in 
Psalms 24:1-10. But now we'll go to Revelation 5:6. I want to tell you 
though, if you and I are anywhere at all, we are in this second view. 
Yes, there's got to be much in this second view worked out in us. But you 
see, God always keeps the Ark before us - the Ark representing that full 
view of Christ in a people, and a people bound up and joined together in 
such a view. All three of these views are represented in the Ark of the 
Covenant. And you realize that Israel passed over into Canaan in view of 
the Ark of the Covenant, and it represents all three of these views. So 
it's an ever ongoing view. The first view established them in Canaan. The 
second view brings them on further. The third view finally established 
them in the very top of Mt. Zion, with the building of Solomon's Temple 
and the glory of God filling it and going out from it, and the nations 
coming to marvel at it, where The King is revealed in His Holy Mount! 
That same thing has to be fulfilled in a people who are in Christ! 
 
Revelation 5:6, "And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne..." So 
you see this third view always has a Throne with it. None of the others 
do. To try to realize the Throne until Christ is revealed in you as King 
is a futile effort, and will always lead to the exaltation of man. This 
is the only view of Christ that has a Throne connected to it. "...in the 
midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the 
elders..." So you see this is Christ being revealed in the midst of a 
people! He is always revealed in a people! He is always to be revealed in 
you. This is the ongoing work of God, this is the ongoing progress of 
Salvation, this is the ongoing work of faith - Christ being revealed in 
you. The tragedy is multitudes of believers have never yet come to a true 
revealing of Christ in any way - have never yet had The Son revealed in 
them. They know much, they believe much, but it's all in word, it's all 
in belief - teachings, doctrines. Many would and have died for it. And 
it's still not Christ. It's still not transforming the soul. But this 
view is the view that's connected with the Throne, and is the only view 
which is. And it's in the midst of the Church, in the midst of a people, 
a people who are in heavens. Well, where do you think we are? "...raised 
up together, seated together in heavenly places in Christ." I know most 
of us live like we're earth bound, waiting to die to go to heaven, but 
the fact of it is we are there now IN HIM! And there is a revealing of 
Him that must take place in you and I, an understanding concerning Christ 
and concerning our relationship to Christ that must take place in you and 
I. And it's not going to wait on the twenty thousand years to come - it's 
NOW! 
 
The book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ is NOW! It was written for 
NOW! It was written for the first century Church, just as much as it's 
written for you and I. If this were something yet to come, yet to be real 
- this view of Christ, then it would be alright not to be walking in this 
view. But the fact of the matter is, Christ is in you, you are in Him! 
But how many of us are walking in a full view of Him? How many are 
walking in any view at all? How many are just walking in some religious 
idea, some religious belief concerning Him? How many of us are really 
walking in a genuine relationship with the Indwelling Christ, and being 
motivated by that in everything we do and think, and everything we are 
day by day? The view grows ever greater. It's not that He isn't King - 
it's that in most of us He's not revealed as King. Waiting for Him to 
become King is futile - He's King now! But just to say He's King now as a 
matter of belief won't do either. He must be revealed in you in this 
view. In every view of Him as King there's a Throne connected because The 
Throne represents His seat of Authority. You think He has authority now? 
Wait until He's revealed as King! I have a feeling you and I don't know 
what authority is all about. We still are pretty much like those at the 
end of the book of Judges - having experienced wonderful deliverances of 
the Lord, having experienced wonderful victories in Him, we are still 
left with every man doing what is right in his own sight. 
 
You think about that. Every man doing what is right in his own sight. 
"It's me and Jesus. I don't really have to be bound up with anyone. I 
don't really have to be part of any gathering." And we use as our excuse 
for not being part of something, the carnal establishment. "I'm not going 
to be like them." Nobody's talking about being like them. But there is a 
gathering in every view of Him, and there is a binding together of 
believers and ministry in every view of Him, because that's the only way 
that view of Him can truly be made manifest in the earth. Not me nor you 
individually is going to give any one or part of these views a full 
expression in the earth. Only when we are bound together in a view of Him 
will we give that view expression, and ministry and true manifestation in 
the earth. So you can paddle your own boat if you want to, but you're 
paddling against a mighty stream, and you're going backwards. That's the 
truth.  
 
So, to be gathered up in such a glorious view. This view revealed in a 
people; The Throne, the seat of His authority established in us! Greater 
authority - coming under greater authority, exercising greater authority. 
Not every man doing his thing, not every man doing what is right in his 
own sight - don't forget this is not sinners, this is Christians. No - 
not that way. Not every ministry declaring himself to be the epitome of 
Christ, but they that are bound together, committed together unto a view 
of Christ - they shall go from one view to another, until the Lord brings 
a people to a full view of His Son. This is the view we are talking 
about. "And in the midst of it all stood a LAMB." Oh, but look at the 
Lamb, because this Lamb is KING! This Lamb is going to be seen as King of 
Kings and Lord of Lords. The view of Him is King - KING OF GLORY, but 
it's an ever ongoing view, and there are many views of Him that will 
unfold until He finally will have His Throne established in a people, and 
His Kingdom manifested through a people. Let such a view begin to consume 
our very soul! 
 
Our King is a Lamb. Enter the Cross! Right in the midst of the diagram of 
the third view, draw a Cross, because the power of the King and the 
Kingdom and the Throne is The CROSS! It is here that the Lamb rules - not 
in weakness but in strength. "...a Lamb as it had been slain, having 
seven horns (that is, complete power) and seven eyes which are the seven 
Spirits of God (complete power, complete authority and complete ministry 
in all the earth)..." This is a view of Him to which we are coming. This 
is the revealing of Him. THE LAMB IS THE KING AND THE KING IS A LAMB. 
The Lamb rules in the midst of this Kingdom. A Lamb rules in the midst of 
this Throne. The nature and character of this Throne, the strength of 
this Throne is the Lamb as though he were slain. So here's the Cross. And 
this view has a judgment with it. What is divided here? Much is divided, 
but one of the things that is divided here in this view according to 
Matthew 25:31-46 - the sheep are divided from the goats! 
 
Now Revelation 19:11, "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; 
and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in 
righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of 
fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that 
no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in 
blood (here again is the Cross!): and his name is called The Word of God. 
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, 
clothed in fine linen, white and clean." Here He is revealed in the midst 
of a people which is called an army. Why is it called an army? Because it 
serves a King! If you'll look at our King of Glory in Psalms 24, "Who is 
this King of Glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of Glory. The Lord 
strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. He is the King of Glory!" 
Here comes the King of Glory, coming in the heavens, coming in a people, 
revealed in a people. Revelation 19:16, "And he hath on his vesture and 
on his thigh a name written..." This is a name that He alone knows. This 
is the name that He, the Eternal Word of God knows. No man can know this 
name. You can call Him King, but you can't know Him as King until God 
reveals Him in you as King. You can call Him Lord, but you don't know Him 
as Lord until God reveals Him in you as Lord, because as King of Kings 
and Lord of Lords He establishes in you and in me His Throne - THE 
THRONE OF HIS DOMINION, THE THRONE OF HIS AUTHORITY. What a view! 
 
And it is a view to which we are being pressed of the Lord! I am being 
pressed out of measure concerning this view. Revelation 20:11 "And I saw 
a great white throne, and him..." Notice the Throne is always connected 
with Him. We're not dealing with a person-less Throne; we're not dealing 
with an empty Throne. The Throne is not some big chair sitting some place 
waiting for you and I to get there. No, the Throne is always identified 
to the King. The Throne is always identified to the Person who sits upon 
it. The Throne is the seat of His authority, the center and seat of His 
reign! THE SCEPTER AND THE POWER OF THAT THRONE IS THE CROSS BECAUSE THE 
RULING NATURE IS THE LAMB! But don't be mistaken, we're not talking about 
a weak Lamb here. No - this Lamb sits in judgment. "...and him that sat 
on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was 
found no place for them." Then through verse 15 and then to chapter 21, 
verses 1-8, but verse 5 stands out. "And he that sat upon the throne 
said, Behold I make all things new." What a judgment! "And he said unto 
me, Write; for these words are true and faithful." What a judgment we 
face in this revealing of Christ! 
 
But, if this judgment is made in you, you will execute and manifest this 
judgment in all the earth. We could continue to read Matthew 25:31-46 and 
Hebrews 7:1-4, then 11-16 and then 19-22, then finally Psalms 24:1-10. 
That's the King of Glory. And each of these views has a judgment. This 
view and this judgment must be borne by a people, and in and by a people 
made manifest in all the earth. May He ever come in, come in to view, 
come in to presence, yes. May His Kingdom come in earth as it is in 
heaven; in each of us, in the midst of us, and in all the earth - through 
the ministry of Christ in us. May God forever be blessed. In Jesus' Name. 
AMEN!