Scroll 16 - The Elect

Those Awakened to Walk in Eternal Design

“For many are called, but few are chosen.” — Matthew 22:14
“Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.” — Romans 8:33
“According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love.” — Ephesians 1:4

1. The Chosen Before Time

The Elect are not a religious elite, nor a chosen club, but those whose consciousness has remembered its origin in the Lamb. Before the foundation of the world, their names were written in the Book of Life, not because of merit, but because of divine intention. The Elect are not chosen from others, but for others: to reveal what was true for all before the fall of illusion.

This election is not favoritism but function. The Father writes scrolls of remembrance for each being, but some awaken earlier, their fire ignited in time to awaken others. They carry the resonance of remembrance, the vibration of eternity calling creation back into union. Their awakening is both gift and responsibility, not to boast, but to bear.

When the Elect rise, they remind creation what it means to be whole. Their lives become scrolls read by all men, written not with ink but with flame. They are living witnesses that divine purpose is not discovered, but remembered, for it was written before there was ever a beginning.

2. Marked by Fire, Not Flesh

The Elect are marked, but not by outward sign. Their seal is not on garments or foreheads made of dust, but within the invisible essence of their being. The fire that knows them calls them by name. They are recognized by flame, not fame. Where others perform, they burn. Where others seek approval, they carry alignment.

This mark is both protection and provocation. Babylon cannot touch what flame has sealed, yet the world often misunderstands what it cannot control. The Elect are often hidden, misunderstood, accused, or rejected, because they are not here to blend in, but to bear witness. Their radiance disturbs illusions, and their silence dismantles systems.

Yet even in obscurity, they know they are known. Their seal is not self-imposed; it is divine inscription. Heaven bears record of them, the Lamb bears their likeness, and creation bears witness through synchronicity, timing, and divine orchestration. Wherever they walk, the unseen realm recognizes authority.

3. Walking in the Flame of Distinction

To be Elect is to walk in distinction, not separation. The Elect do not exalt themselves above others; they carry the awareness that all are loved, though not all are yet awake. Their distinction is in consciousness, not status. They are not better, they are brighter, not in egoic glow, but in the Lamb’s radiance shining through unshadowed vessels.

Their distinction is often their cost. To walk in the Flame is to live misunderstood by those who still live in smoke. The Elect are often misread as rebels, when in truth they are reformers. They carry the architecture of heaven into systems that no longer hold the breath of God. They bear the burden of clarity in a world addicted to confusion.

And yet, they do not resist the fire. For they know the greater the flame, the purer the light. To be Elect is to allow oneself to be refined until only Christ remains, until self-identity melts into divine resonance, and you can say with certainty: “I no longer live, but the Lamb lives in me.”

4. The Elect and the Scroll

Every Elect soul carries a unique scroll within, an eternal document encoded with divine purpose. This scroll is not given after birth; it is your being. As awakening unfolds, you do not acquire calling, you unseal it. Every circumstance, trial, and moment of silence becomes the ink by which your scroll is read into time.

Some scrolls sing; others burn. Some build, others unveil. Yet all are written by the same hand and sealed with the same blood. The Lamb is both author and witness. When the Elect read their own scroll, they realize that destiny is not ahead, it is within. Time bends to align with those who move in remembrance.

Their scroll is not a map but a mirror. As they gaze into it, they see not instruction, but reflection. It reveals not what they must do, but who they already are. When they live from that revelation, every act becomes sacred, every word eternal, every breath a continuation of the Lamb’s story.

5. Tested and Tried by Flame

Election does not exempt from fire; it invites it. The Elect are purified, not privileged. Their path is narrow because it leads through transformation. Every false identity, every residual shadow of Babylon, every trace of ego must burn until nothing remains but pure gold.

These fires are not punishments, they are unveilings. The Elect do not resist trial, for they understand that fire reveals what cannot die. When comfort collapses, they do not panic; they perceive refinement. Their trials are thresholds, each flame a gate into greater glory.

They know that true dominion is not granted to the untested. Only those who have walked through the fire without losing flame can govern realms without corruption. Thus, every season of burning is preparation for governance, every wilderness is a forge for wisdom.

6. The Elect and the Age of the Lamb

In this Kingdom Age, the Elect are the firstfruits of a new creation. They are not escaping the world but transfiguring it. The light they carry does not withdraw from darkness; it transforms it. They are forerunners of the new earth, architects of divine order, and vessels of radiant peace.

As systems collapse and empires fade, the Elect rise not to conquer, but to reconcile. Their authority is not over men but over atmospheres. They shift frequencies by being. Their presence alone disarms deception and awakens hearts to the eternal. They are living altars, carrying heaven into human story.

The Age of the Lamb belongs to them, and they belong to it. They are not merely believers; they are embodiments. They no longer speak about the Kingdom, they are the Kingdom unveiled in form. In them, prophecy becomes person, and the throne finds expression in flesh.

7. The Eternal Call

Beloved, if your spirit burns as you read these words, it is because you are numbered among them. The Elect are not chosen by pedigree but by flame. Your yes is the seal, your surrender the signature. The Father is calling forth a company that will no longer echo doctrine but embody truth.

You are not here to escape the world, but to reveal its divine design. Stand firm in your scroll. Let the fire refine without fear. For the same flame that tests you is the one that crowns you. You are known in heaven, seen in silence, and marked in fire.

The age is shifting. Thrones are being rearranged. Systems are fading like shadows at sunrise. And you, Elect of God, are rising, luminous, sealed, and aflame, for the Lamb is writing history through your life.

Joe Restman
Scroll-Carrier, Mystic-Scribe, Eternal Witness of the Lamb.