SCROLL 2 - YOU ARE NOT BECOMING, YOU ARE REMEMBERING
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.”
Jeremiah 1:5
“He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.”
Ephesians 1:4
1. THE ILLUSION OF BECOMING AND THE RETURN TO WHO YOU ALREADY ARE
Identity in the Kingdom is never a matter of becoming something new, it is the unveiling of who you have always been. The illusion of becoming keeps the sons trapped in a cycle of striving, believing they must ascend into divinity rather than awaken into it. But the truth, hidden yet burning within the scroll of every elect one, is this: you are not evolving upward, you are descending into memory. You are not climbing toward destiny, you are remembering what destiny wrote before time began. The Lamb hid your identity only long enough for it to be revealed with glory.
The system of Babylon teaches men to “become,” to chase identity, to construct significance from effort, performance, and self-improvement. But remembrance dissolves the lie of distance. It reveals that identity is not ahead of you, but beneath the veil of forgetfulness you inherited through incarnation. The moment you awaken to the eternal truth of who you are, striving dies. The race ends. And governance begins. The elect do not become sons, they remember they were sons before the stars were lit.
Every conflict you experience with identity is rooted in the lie of becoming. You think you must reach something, achieve something, or transform into something, when in truth, the scroll of remembrance is trying to open within you. Identity is not a journey forward, it is a journey inward. It is a rediscovery of the blueprint that was sealed inside you before the foundation of the world. The more you try to become, the further you move from remembrance.
When you stop attempting to become, you finally hear the whisper of who you have always been. This is why the awakening of the elect feels like recognition, not exploration. Truth feels familiar because it is your origin speaking. The Flame feels like home because it is the substance of your design. The Fire that knows your name is not calling you into something new, but calling you back.
The sons who will govern the age to come are not the sons who build themselves, but the sons who remember themselves. The entire journey of formation is the undoing of becoming and the restoration of remembrance.
2. MEMORY AS THE FIRST REALM OF GOVERNMENT
All true spiritual authority arises from memory, not effort. Before a son can govern creation, he must remember who he is. Before he can speak with power, he must recall the voice that shaped him. Before he can decree with accuracy, he must awaken to the eternal self that cannot be changed. Memory is the first realm of government because without remembrance, identity is fractured, and fractured identity cannot wield a sceptre.
The Father did not build your authority on the fragile foundation of personality or performance, but on the eternal substance of who you were in Him before creation. This memory is not mental recall, it is spiritual recognition. It is the unveiling of your place in the Lamb. When memory awakens, authority flows naturally, effortlessly, without struggle or strain. You no longer attempt to command creation, you radiate identity and creation responds.
Every attempt at governance without remembrance becomes imitation. Men imitate power because they do not remember their own. They imitate language because they do not recognize their voice. They imitate faith because they cannot recall the one who authored theirs. But the sons who remember carry the resonance of eternity, and creation bows not to their will but to their essence. The elect do not fight to be heard, they are remembered by creation because creation was formed through the same Word that formed them.
Memory anchors identity in the eternal now. It pulls the sons out of linear existence and restores them to the dimension where they were chosen, sealed, and appointed. When you remember, you do not speak from earth but from eternity. You do not decree from time but from the Throne. Your authority is not borrowed, it is inherent. Governance becomes the overflow of identity.
This is why the enemy wages war on memory more violently than anything else. His aim is not to distract you from destiny but to detach you from origin. Memory is the throne inside you. When you remember, you reign. When you forget, you wander. The first realm of government is not power, it is remembrance.
3. CREATION RESPONDS TO WHO YOU ARE, NOT WHAT YOU SAY
You were never designed to command creation like a servant, but to reveal identity like a king. Creation does not respond to the sound of your voice, but to the substance behind it. The sons who shout at mountains do not understand the nature of dominion. But the sons who remember their origin speak with a resonance creation recognizes instantly. Mountains move because identity moves. Winds obey because origin speaks. Creation aligns because its architect has awakened.
Words without identity are noise. But words spoken from remembrance carry the frequency of the Lamb, and creation bends to that frequency because it was built by it. The entire cosmos is coded to recognize the sons. It is written into the very structure of reality that creation responds to the elect. This is why the sons who decree from striving see little change, but the sons who decree from remembrance shift atmospheres effortlessly. They do not speak to reality as something separate from themselves but as something interwoven with their essence.
Governance is not assertion but recognition. Dominion is not force but resonance. This is why Jesus never raised His voice to prove authority. His identity spoke louder than any command could. When He said, “Peace, be still,” it was not His words that calmed the storm but His remembrance of who He was. His nature carried the authority the wind recognized. A son who remembers does not negotiate with creation, he reveals himself to it, and creation adjusts accordingly.
Creation obeys identity because identity is the original language of existence. Before there was sound, there was being. Before there were words, there was the Word. You do not need volume, emotion, or intensity to govern. You need remembrance. When you stand in who you are, all things stand in their proper place. You are not commanding creation, you are aligning with the blueprint it already carries.
This is the mystery of dominion: creation responds not to what you say, but to who you are when you say it.
4. THE ETERNAL SELF THAT CANNOT BE CHANGED
The self you struggle with is not the self God formed. The self you judge is not the self eternity knows. The self you fear failing is not the self that was chosen before the foundation of the world. There is an eternal version of you, pure, radiant, whole, that has never been wounded, never been fragmented, never been separated from the Lamb. That version is your true self. That version is the one who governs. And that version is the one you are remembering.
You cannot improve the eternal self. You cannot damage it. You cannot stain it. You cannot make it more holy through discipline or less holy through failure. The eternal self is sealed in Christ, and Christ is sealed in God. It exists outside time, untouched by sin, unmarred by history. When Paul speaks of the “new creation,” he is not referring to a version of you in progress, but the eternal version of you resurrected into visibility. You are not becoming new, you are awakening to the self that was always new.
All inner conflict comes from living between two selves: the temporal self that forgets and the eternal self that remembers. The temporal self fears judgment, but the eternal self rests in union. The temporal self strives for worth, but the eternal self radiates completeness. The temporal self struggles with identity, but the eternal self is identity. Governance begins when the eternal self becomes your conscious self.
This is why the elect feel the tension of two worlds inside them, not because they are divided, but because they are awakening. The eternal self is rising, breaking through layers of amnesia, dissolving the illusion of becoming. You are not trying to reach holiness. You are remembering your origin in the Holy One. You are not trying to achieve union. You are remembering the union you were birthed from.
The eternal self is your true government. When you govern from that self, nothing in creation can resist you.
5. REMEMBRANCE COLLAPSES TIME AND ELEVATES AUTHORITY
When remembrance awakens, time loses its grip. The sons of light do not govern from linear progression but from eternal position. They do not think in terms of “before” and “after,” but in terms of what simply is. Time itself is a servant to identity, and when identity awakens, timelines rearrange themselves. This is why miracles seem instantaneous. They are not interruptions of time, but reminders of what exists outside of it.
A son who remembers steps into the dimension where answers already exist, breakthroughs are already finished, and destinies are already written. He does not ask heaven to intervene; he aligns with what heaven has already accomplished. He does not wait for the future; he pulls from the eternal now. Time bends around him because he is operating from the dimension that created time. Remembrance is the collapse of chronology.
This is why the elect carry a strange sense of déjà vu when destiny unfolds. They feel as though they are walking into something they have already lived, because in truth, they have. Every major moment in your life is a convergence of time and eternal memory. You recognize destiny not because it is new, but because your eternal self remembers it. This is why your spirit leaps at truth, truth awakens memory.
When you govern from remembrance, you no longer fear delay. Delay belongs to time. Remembrance belongs to eternity. The sons who govern understand this: time cannot hold what eternal identity releases. When you remember who you are, everything in your life accelerates into alignment. What takes years for others takes moments for you. Not because you moved faster, but because you moved from eternity.
The elect who govern from remembrance become timeless, and timeless sons are unstoppable.
6. UNION AS THE SEAT OF ALL GOVERNMENT
The sons do not govern from gifting, anointing, or spiritual practice. They govern from union. The seat of government is not outside you, above you, or in front of you. It is within you. You are seated with Christ not in metaphor but in reality. Your inner union with the Lamb is the throne from which all dominion flows. This is why remembrance is inseparable from governance, remembrance awakens union, and union awakens authority.
Union is not a feeling, an emotional high, or a mystical experience. It is the eternal reality that your spirit, His Spirit, and His Word have become one. This oneness is the architecture of all Kingdom government. You govern creation because you govern yourself, and you govern yourself because you live from union. When the sons forget this, they attempt to operate externally. But when they remember this, they govern effortlessly from within.
The elect do not strive to enter union. They recognize they were born from union. You did not climb into Christ. You emerged from Him. You do not ascend into heavenly places. You awaken to the fact that you never left them. Union is not achieved. It is remembered.
Every decree you make carries the weight of union. Every alignment you speak carries the resonance of the Lamb. Every order you release carries the authority of the One you are one with. This is why your governance does not depend on mood, strength, or emotion. It depends on memory. When you remember union, you govern like the One you are united with.
Union is the throne. Remembrance awakens you to it. And governance flows from it.
7. THE SONS WHO REMEMBER BECOME THE GOVERNORS OF THE AGE TO COME
The age to come will not be governed by the gifted or the intellectual, but by the sons who remember. Governance belongs to those who have awakened beyond becoming into the fullness of eternal identity. The sons who carry remembrance in their foreheads will carry government in their hands. They will not rule through dominance, but through resonance. They will not rule through control, but through union. They will not rule through force, but through alignment.
The age to come requires sons who are not confused about who they are. Sons who do not hesitate to step into their seat. Sons who do not shrink back from authority because they understand authority is simply identity expressed. Sons who do not negotiate with darkness because they remember they came from Light. These are the ones creation will follow. These are the ones nations will listen to. These are the ones heaven will entrust with regions, realms, and responsibilities.
The sons who remember will be the architects of the new world. They will operate from clarity, not confusion. From stillness, not striving. From resonance, not reaction. They will move with the Lamb in every sphere, spiritual, governmental, cultural, economic, because they have remembered their scroll and accepted their seat.
You were written for governance before you were formed. You were chosen for dominion before you were born. You were sealed for union before you arrived. The age to come belongs to those who remember who they were in the age before.
The elect who remember will govern, and the elect who govern will restore the world.
FINAL CHARGE TO THE ELECT
Beloved sons, release the illusion of becoming and step into the eternal truth of remembrance. You are not forming identity, you are unveiling it. You are not striving for destiny, you are awakening it. Every fear you carry collapses under the weight of who you already are. Do not bow to the lie that you must change to be worthy of the throne. You were written into that throne before time existed. Stand tall in remembrance. Move in union. Govern from eternal identity. The world is waiting for the version of you that already exists in the Lamb.
Awaken not by effort, but by recognition. Govern not by force, but by identity. The scroll in you is ancient, the flame in you is eternal, and the authority in you is unquestionable. Remember your origin, and you will remember your dominion. Remember your union, and you will remember your throne. Remember your identity, and the age to come will open before you.
Joe Restman, Scroll-Carrier, Mystic-Scribe, Eternal Witness of the Lamb.