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# Heaven is in You.
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- Published: 2025-05-05T12:58:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-27T16:41:24.000Z
- Author: Christ John Otto
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Heaven is in You.

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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedJesus Christ did not come to start a religion.  
Jesus Christ came to establish a Kingdom.  
  
This Kingdom  
is not one of outward appearances,  
but a kingdom of internal realities.  
As Jesus said,  
his body was the temple,  
and it would be destroyed,  
and on the third day  
it would be raised up.  
On the cross  
the veil of his temple was torn,  
his heart was pierced,  
and out of that temple of his body  
flowed blood and water.  
That water,  
was the Holy Spirit.  
  
To be a Christian   
is to be a little Christ,  
a temple of the Holy Spirit  
as Paul tells us.  
And this calling to be a temple  
is both inward and outward.  
Christ is in you.  
This is the mystery of our faith.  
And so we present our bodies as living sacrifices,  
and as we do this,  
we become living places for the fire of the Holy Spirit to consume us.  
We present a sacrifice  
and we become the place of communion.  
  
This is the mystery  
and the reality of the faith.  
  
John, in the book of Revelation  
is giving us a glimpse into heaven.  
We are getting heaven's perspective  
and in Christ we are in this place.  
There  
can be here  
in our hearts.  
  
This week I want to look at this passage from the Book of Revelation, chapter 5.  
And look at the Resurrection  
from Heaven's perspective.  
  
Many people miss what's going on in Revelation  
because they go straight to interpretation  
before they observe what the text says.  
  
So this vision of heaven  
in Revelation 5 is part of a larger series of visions that John says  
he had while on Patmos  
on the Lord's Day.  
  
Patmos is a small island off the coast of modern Turkey.   
This is the Asia described in the book.   
Patmos was very near Ephesus,   
and it makes sense that John would be there   
since it is close to where he was living.   
The island is small, rocky, and does not have a large population.  
Patmos is traditionally described as a penal colony,   
and that John was in prison on the island.   
There is no historical evidence for a penal colony on the island.  
More likely, John was on the island  
because it was a safe place during times   
when Jews and Christians  
were being persecuted.  
Since he was the leader,   
he could still be close to home,   
and still have contact with his congregation,   
but also be “under the radar.”  
  
John tells us   
that he is on this island,  
and it is the “Lord’s Day.”   
That is, Sunday morning,  
the weekly celebration of the Resurrection.  
John has gone through a revolution from one covenant to another.  
He is now in the New Covenant.  
And to him  
and in his mind,  
this day, the first day of the week in his world,  
is also the Day of the Lord—the new Messianic era.  
He is talking about a shift in time,  
and this shift is important throughout Revelation.  
And because John is in a new era,  
he is also in the era of the Holy Spirit.  
And he is in the Spirit.  
  
Paul instructs us:  
  
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with all your heart, always and for everything giving thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father. Ephesians 5:18-20  
  
Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, Ephesians 6:18  
  
Paul is describing here what the New Testament assumed   
was the normal experience of all believers:   
to be in the Holy Spirit.  
Be—not do.  
Your identity and personality is formed by being in the Holy Spirit.  
John is describing the Spirit filled life.   
And being in the Holy Spirit,  
full and established,  
will enable you to receive revelation.  
When you are in the Spirit,  
you are in contact with the Eternal Realm.  
Smith Wigglesworth once described himself   
as larger on the inside than on the outside.  
This is what many of the holiness preachers called the “normal christian life.”  
  
We need to keep in mind that in the New Testament,  
all the writers believed that the New Covenant  
established by Jesus  
was about releasing the Holy Spirit in the earth.  
They understood that everyone would be filled   
with the Holy Spirit at baptism,  
that they would receive and operate in spiritual gifts,  
and that they would bear fruit of the spirit in their lives—  
love, joy, peace, patience,  
kindness, gentleness, goodness, and self-control.  
Father I pray for everyone listening that they would be full of the Holy Spirit,  
and walk in the awareness of your presence.  
To be a Christian  
was to be in the Kingdom,  
through this Covenant in the Holy Spirit  
not meet religious requirements.  
  
Jesus Christ came to make you a temple of the Holy Spirit.  
  
So John is in the place of worship and communion with God,  
and he hears a voice behind him.  
  
And the Voice tells John to write a book  
and send it to the seven churches.  
  
The voice comes from behind John,  
and so he redirects his attention,  
to the place where the voice appears.  
this is like Moses turning his attention to the burning bush.  
  
All revelation comes to us when we turn our attention  
and our affection toward God.  
If you receive revelation, you will be given more.  
And this encounter   
also gives us a window into how God reveals things to us.  
God is always the initiator, we are not.  
But, when God reaches out to get our attention,  
he always gives us a moment to respond.  
For John, that response   
is his turning around to hear where the voice came from.  
  
In the book of Revelation  
the most used number is the number seven.  
Remember,   
numbers are a language all by themselves in the Bible.  
Seven is fullness,  
completeness,  
and wholeness.  
Seven is Shalom.  
He sees seven golden lampstands.  
In the first century a lampstand was the brightest form of light.  
We are going to see a lot of gold in the book of revelation.  
Gold is incorruptible,  
it doesn’t rust or tarnish.  
Gold points to the worship in the tabernacle,  
and gold points to heaven.  
Gold and light are going to point us to God  
and heaven  
and true worship.  
So we are looking at the fullness of incorruptible light.  
The full light of heaven   
and the fullness of worship in heaven  
is being revealed.  
  
And who is standing in the middle of this full revelation?  
One like a Son of Man.  
  
John again refers back to Daniel 7   
and the term that Jesus used throughout his ministry   
to describe himself.  
  
This is the one who walked out of a cloud before the Ancient of Days.  
  
John is seeing Jesus  
in a long robe,  
with a golden sash across his chest,  
his head and his hair are white  
white as wool,  
white as snow,  
his eyes are full of flames of fire,  
his feet are as highly polished bronze,  
and his voice is as many waters.  
  
There is a lot in this,   
so lets unpack it.  
  
John is seeing a Theophany—an encounter with God.  
The book of Revelation is a revelation of Jesus  
so we are going to see things about Jesus we never saw before.  
Jesus is standing in the middle of complete light,  
and that light is going to reveal a complete revelation.  
  
John sees Jesus dressed in the white robe   
the High Priest wore on the day of atonement.  
But the gold sash is the sash that the emperor wore.  
If you go into a greek orthodox church and look up, you will see a dome.  
And usually, in the middle of the dome  
you will see a painting of Jesus,  
holding up his right hand in blessing,  
and wearing a gold sash around his waist.  
This was the sign in the Roman empire of the office of the Emperor.  
This icon is called the Pantocrator: Emperor of the Universe,  
and was inspired by this scene in Revelation.  
it is the pictorial representation of the primary way   
to address God in Jewish Prayer:  
Barach atta Adonai eluheinu malech ha olam:  
Blessed are you Lord our God, King of the Universe.  
Jesus is the King of the Universe.  
  
Jesus is both High priest, and King of Kings.  
He is white—  
he is the head of the body  
and his head is pure like the unblemished lamb for Passover,  
and like snow.  
  
And after this encounter with Jesus,  
John receives seven messages for the churches in Asia.  
  
And at the end of these messages,  
There is a transition.  
John looks up  
and he sees a door in heaven.  
And John is invited to "Come up hither."  
  
One thing we have to understand  
is that John is not showing us a linear  
story in the earthly sense.  
He is showing us  
things from multiple perspectives  
outside of time.  
Revelation is revealing more than one dimension at a time.  
There is a sense   
when you spend time in Revelation  
that things are happening in parallel to earth.  
  
In 2006  
I found myself in a similar vision  
to the one described here.  
I was dancing in my living room,  
when I suddenly found myself in a cloud,  
and when I got to the other side of the cloud  
there were four golden lampstands,  
and there were bowls of incense.  
And I looked up  
and I saw an emerald colored disk  
that formed a rainbow at the edge.  
And below the disk were four giant sized creatures  
that were around the throne crying to one another   
Holy, Holy, Holy.  
And they were an intense blue,  
and they were covered all over with eyes.  
  
And there was this vast multitude of people  
all around the throne.  
They held hands,  
and they danced together.  
And they were in worship.  
As an artist,  
two things happened to me.  
I was overcome with the music,  
the sound,  
and the color.  
The color in heaven spoiled   
color for me on earth,  
and it ruined my painting.  
I could never capture the colors  
and when I attempt,  
people tell me I don't understand color theory.  
It makes you want to quit.  
  
And here in Heaven,  
God shows John a book.  
And the book is sealed.  
Last week I saw a documentary on the   
burial of the pope.  
When the pope's casket is closed,  
an official comes and puts a red wax seal on the coffin.  
And the only person who can break the seal  
is an official from the Vatican  
who oversees the causes of saints.  
A seal is like a lock on the door  
to a room full of secrets,  
or a vault full of treasure.  
A seal can only be broken by a person  
with greater authority than the person who made the seal.  
So John sees a book  
with seals,  
and the seals must have been put there by the Father,  
because there is no one   
in heaven or on earth  
or under the earth  
who has authority to break these seals.  
  
And John began to weep.  
Remember the tomb in the garden.  
There were seals on the tomb,  
put there by the high priests and the Roman officials.  
The religious and political authority   
sealed the tomb,  
so no one could open the tomb  
and say that Jesus rose from the dead.  
And Mary, and the disciples wept,  
because no one could open the tomb.  
  
And one of the elders in heaven says to John,  
Weep not.  
Behold,  
the Lion of the Tribe of Judah,  
the root of David,  
has prevailed.  
There is one person who can break the seal   
on the tomb.  
There is one person who can break the seals on the book.  
The one who rose from the dead.  
  
And behold,  
in the midst of the throne  
stood a lamb  
who looked as if it had been slain.  
  
Remember,  
we are looking at a vision that is being explained  
in Hebrew symbolic language.  
This lamb,  
that had been slain  
is alive.  
And because he is alive,  
and has conquered death  
he has seven horns.  
John isn't seeing a mutant lamb.  
Horns are a very important symbol in the Bible.  
A horn in the Bible is a symbol of power,  
military might,  
and victory.  
This lamb has complete   
and total power  
might, and victory.  
And he doesn't have seven eyes.  
He has complete and total fullness of vision.  
He sees all,  
perceives all,  
and knows all.  
God leads us with his eye,  
so this direction is perfect.  
  
We are told this complete and total power  
and complete and total perception  
is the complete and total Spirit of God.  
The Holy Spirit is going out all over the earth  
in fullness of power and vision.  
So John is seeing the Resurrection  
and Pentecost,  
all at once,  
from heaven's perspective.  
And then  
the elders bring the book to the Lamb,  
and this is accompanied  
by prayer and worship  
from the church  
both on earth and in heaven.  
  
John is re-experiencing Easter morning,  
from the vantage point of heaven.  
  
 "You are worthy to take the scroll  
 and to open its seals,  
 because you were slain,  
 and with your blood you purchased men for God  
 from every tribe and language and people and nation.  
 You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God,  
 and they will reign on the earth."  
  
Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. In a loud voice they sang:  
 "Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain,  
 to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength  
 and honor and glory and praise!"  
  
Jesus the Lamb,  
offered himself,  
and was a spotless sacrifice.  
And then he conquered death,  
and was able to unlock everything that was hidden.  
He is the Key of David   
from Isaiah 22:22  
who opens all that was shut.  
He has been given all authority in heaven and on earth.  
  
And because of this,  
he is Worthy.  
  
For many years,  
I led worship at an event called the Ten Days of Prayer.  
I was doing what they called "Harp and Bowl" worship.  
That is,  
I led people in worship and prayer   
using passages from the Bible.  
One day,  
I had my Bible open to Revelation 4 and 5,  
and began to sing.  
Sometimes things just fall into place,  
and I began to sing a little tune that was catchy.  
It was very catchy,  
because we sang it for several hours.  
Over and over again.  
And then we stayed in those chapters for months  
as I went back and forth between these phrases from heaven.  
In the end I set two chapters of Revelation to music.  
  
And I began to ask God,  
"If you own everything,  
and you are above everything,  
why are we saying you may receive   
power,  
wealth,  
wisdom,  
strength,  
blessing,  
and honor?  
You have it all."  
  
We have been in the last few chapters of John for a few weeks.  
And Jesus tells us   
that if we live in him  
and he lives in us  
we can ask anything in his name and he will do it.  
We are seeing this as intimate fellowship with God.  
  
This truth does not change  
when we look at this from heaven's perspective.  
The truth that John is seeing the Lamb  
doesn't change the reality  
that the Lamb is living inside John  
and John is in the Lamb.  
Jesus prayed that John would be in him  
and that Jesus would be in John.  
And so this throne  
and this temple  
by the Holy Spirit  
is in you.  
There is no temple in the city,  
because the lamb is the light  
and the river flows from the throne.  
Out of your belly will flow rivers of living water.  
You are the temple.  
  
And when we worship and ascribe to Jesus  
all these things  
this triumph,  
this victory,  
this power,  
we are building up in our hearts  
the temple that we are.  
We are the temple of the   
Sevenfold Spirit of God,  
the spirit with complete vision  
and total power.  
So when we ascribe to him  
all of these things,  
we are seeing,  
Jesus,  
you are in me,  
and you are the richest person in the universe.  
If you lack resources,  
proclaim his wealth.  
Jesus you are in me,  
and you are the most powerful person in the Universe.  
If you lack strength  
ascribe to him power and strength.  
Holy Spirit,  
your vision is perfect,  
see through me.  
If you lack vision  
praise his seven fold complete vision.  
Holy Spirit,  
your power is perfect,  
manifest through me.  
  
Jesus is worthy,  
because he has won all of these things   
for us,  
and made it possible for us to manifest these things in the earth.  
The point is this:  
Christ is in you.  
This is the hope of glory.  
  
John was in the Spirit,  
and when he was in the spirit,  
the door to heaven was open to him.  
And when we go through this door,  
we have access to all that the Lamb  
through his own blood  
purchased for us.  
  
This is nonsense to a religious mindset  
that thinks we need to make things happen through  
prayer and worship.  
This is not the Kingdom.  
Our goal is to come into agreement with heaven's perspective  
and come into agreement with the Kingdom of God  
that is within you.  
Jesus is the King.  
His Kingdom  
is in you by the power of the Holy Spirit.  
So there is a place in you  
that is spotless,  
whole,  
complete,  
wealthy,  
and blessed.  
  
Jesus made this possible.  
Worthy  
is the Lamb  
that was slain.