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Beloved friends
Recently the Holy Spirit began to minister to me from Zechariah chapter 4 where the vision of the two olive trees and the lamp-stand is discussed. It is a picture of a continuously flowing anointing of power and light being supplied to the Church which is the light of the world. We all long for that ever-flowing oil to issue forth in and through us. However, the Spirit pointed out to me that between the tree and the flow of oil to the candlestick there is a harvest and a crushing process that takes place. The requirement for continually flowing light and power is continual pressing and crushing. Paul said of himself, “death is at work in me but life is at work in you”. He understood God’s ways and therefore his faith was not destroyed by what came against his life.
In ancient Israel the olive press was the equivalent of our electricity department. The flesh of the olive is crushed under a heavy stone in order to release the oil. The olive press is God’s power-house, producing light and power. Did you know that the word ‘ Gethsemane ’ means ‘olive-press’? It is by the heavy pressing and crushing of our flesh that power and light is released from our lives. It is in that place where we wrestle and finally say, “ not my will but Yours be done” that the light of revelation and power comes forth.
There are those who are like the two golden pipes which transport and deliver that continuous fresh oil to the lamp-stand. Vessels of gold, emptied of themselves, whom God has in a constant place of crushing and dying to self, in order that light and life may flow unimpeded to the lamp-stand. Death works in the olive so that light may flow to the candlestick.
2Co 4:11 For we who live are constantly [experiencing] being handed over to death for Jesus' sake, that the [resurrection] life of Jesus also may be evidenced through our flesh which is liable to death. 2Co 4:12 Thus death is actively at work in us, but [it is in order that our] life [may be actively at work] in you.
With this in mind, the following is the best article I have ever read on the subject of dying to self and so I want to share it with you. May it help you to understand the process He has and still is taking you through:
Dying to Self
By G.D. Watson
THE more we are divinely illuminated, the more minutely and astonishingly do we apprehend the almost infinite blindness and meanness of our past lives. How do we die to self and let Christ be all and all in us? Have we looked at the blessed Christ until we have obtained a clear conception of what it is to lose ourselves in union with Him? Have our spiritual eyes surveyed this blessed possibility, until its attainability in this life has become a settled conviction with us? Then, have we calmly, deeply, irreversibly settled it that there shall be none of self and all of Christ?
The first step towards this perfect death is to have a pure divine motive. That motive must be nothing less than the ever blessed triune God Himself. That is, it must be the seeking of God as our all and in all, our last end, our exceeding great reward so that it will be for His glory, His beauty, and praise, through us, and by us, and that we have no desire to exist except as a channel for His outflow, a chosen vessel for the embodiment of His life, and the out-beaming of His glorious attributes through us.
The deepest death to self lies in the motives and intentions, hence this all-consuming motive to want to be nothing but a capacity for Christ to live in, lies at the foundation of the death of self. With this pure motive fixed in the heart we are to habitually and willingly accept every occasion for self-abasement which God's providence brings to us. We are to sweetly and willingly accept of every blow, or mortification, or inconvenience, or painful annoyance, which comes to us in the order of God's providential will. We are to calmly face these things, as appropriate occasions for losing our own will and letting the omnipotence of God take charge of them.
We must be exceedingly careful not to receive human honors or praise into our hearts. If we open our hearts to receive this honor and in our thoughts feed upon it as a social honey, or if we allow human praise to inflate our thought, it will instantly breed a human self-esteem, and this becomes a hot-bed of the self-life. We must seek in everything to be childlike, and extremely simple in our manners, words, dress, tastes, and interior experiences. Self feeds on complexity and things grand and large and loud. Christ is the very embodiment of divine and eternal simplicity.
The deeper we sink in the Christ-life, the more we become disappointing to people. We talk less. We live more quietly and interiorly. Our labors are less ostentatious. We love to live like God, a profound hidden life, in which people think we don’t amount to very much. This is one of the tests of sinking out of self.
“If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me." What is our daily cross? It is that one or more things which are unavoidable in our lives and which produce suffering of body or mind or heart. It is that thing, which in our poor judgment seems to hinder the easy flow of our religious life. Sometimes our cross may be composed of a combination of things, but as a general rule, it is some one instrument or cause of suffering to the soul. Were there no suffering of some kind involved, then there could be no cross at all, for the only thing in a cross is its pain. The Holy Spirit gives us to understand plainly that the multitudes of jolly, ease-loving, and easy-going religionists, who bear no daily suffering with Jesus, are only sectarian-born religious bastards, and not really kingdom-born souls (see Hebrews iz:8).It is your daily cross that makes you weep more than any other thing; that sends you to frequent prayer; that leads you to ransack the promises; that makes you cry out like Jesus, "Father, why is this?" that causes you to put both arms around the neck of your Savior in yearning love; that makes you sick of earth and self; that gives you wistful longings for heaven.
There is an hallucination about getting free from our daily cross which needs to be broken; it is a day-dream worked up in our minds, a beautiful vision that hangs just ahead of us, that some day we will be rid of our cross, that we will have no painful annoyances, and then our feet can fly unimpeded toward heaven. If you want deep union with Jesus, getting rid of your cross is the very thing to defeat it. There is a better victory than freedom from the daily instrument of pain, and that is to pass into that ocean depth of the Christ-life where every trial can be borne in exactly the same spirit that Jesus bore.
Boundless, tender love is the condition for triumphant bearing of our daily cross. When our cross has driven us so deep into the warm ocean-heart of Jesus that we are kept melted and flooded with quiet, lowly, tender yearning love for God and His kingdom, then the cross will have proved its own balsam and then every trial will be fuel to the flame of love. People fancy that to love the cross is to love the cross on which Jesus died. No; it means loving that very cross in our lives that drives us into deep oneness with Christ; it is to meekly, patiently, lovingly embrace to our inner heart the very principle of self-denial and self-nothingness. To bear our daily trial as Jesus did, we must take it into our very heart's love, and bear it meekly, quietly, lovingly, as unto God, and not to man.
How long it takes to accept our daily trials as a gift direct from the hands of our Lord! It is by persevering prayer that we get on the sunny side of every sorrow and on the triumphant side of every trial. Our daily cross cutting its way into our life's core by being folded round and round with many tears and loving prayer, becomes in our souls the very pearl of Christ-likeness, and more valuable than all our own chosen blessings. The Holy Spirit can reveal to us the very disposition in which Jesus bore His daily trials, and when we bear ours in the same spirit, then indeed do we have fellowship with Him. If it does not please our Father to remove our trials, it is because He wants us to seek and receive an overflow of tender love that will bear us on over the trials, and in spite of them.
The word crucifixion, as it applies to us in the Christian sense, may be defined as any pain or suffering which renders us dead to sin or to self. There may be many kinds of sorrow and suffering which do not serve the purpose of true crucifixion. In order that suffering may be a thorough mortification to us, it must be put in the will of God, and yielded to the operation of the Holy Spirit. When we yield ourselves absolutely up to God, and trust Him to take charge of every particle of our being and life and circumstances, it is then that His omnipotence takes gentle and firm possession of all our trials and sufferings, and makes them work a true crucifixion in us.
It does not matter what the occasion of the suffering may be. It may come from our own sins, or poverty, or ill-health, or loss of friends, or separations, or terrible and protracted temptations, or assaults of evil spirits, or the hatred of others, or great disappointment, or divine chastisements; it may come from many of these sources. Let it come from any cause in the universe, if we give it over entirely into the hands of God, and sink ourselves into His will, with a perfect desire for Him to work His best will in us, He will make every pain, every groan, every tear, every particle of our suffering work in us a death to sin and to self and to all things on earth, which will be for our highest perfection and for His glory.
CRUCIFIXION WEAVES ITSELF INTO A CROWN
When we suffer so severe and so long that we become dead to it, and divinely indifferent as to how much we suffer or how long it will continue; when the suffering soul reaches a calm, sweet carelessness, when it can inwardly smile at its own suffering, and does not even ask God to deliver it from the suffering, then it has wrought its blessed ministry; Then patience has its perfect work; then the crucifixion begins to weave itself into a crown.
In such a condition, our whole being lies perfectly still under the hand of God; every faculty of the mind and will and heart are at last subdued; a quietness of eternity settles down into the whole being; the tongue grows still, and has but few words to say; it stops asking God questions; it stops crying "Why have You forsaken me?" The imagination stops building air-castles, or running off on foolish lines; the reason is tame and gentles; it stops debating, and quits all dogmatism; the will ceases from its own activity; the bluster and zeal of self-action are taken out of it; the choices are annihilated; it has no choice in anything but the purpose of God. The affections are weaned from all creatures and all things; it loves nothing but God and God's will in any given thing; it has no private ends to serve; it has no motives except to please God; it is so dead that nothing can hurt it, nothing can offend it, nothing can hinder it, nothing can get in its way; for, let its circumstances be what they may, it seeks only for God and His will, and it feels assured that God is making everything in the universe, good or bad, past or present work together for its good.
Oh, the blessedness of being absolutely conquered! Of losing our own strength, and wisdom, and goodness, and plans, and desires, and being, where every atom of our nature is like placid Galilee under the omnipotent feet of our Jesus. This uttermost crucifixion destroys the littleness and narrowness of the mind; it gives an immensity to the sympathies, and an ocean-like divine love, which is beyond words. This is because creature-love is crucified, and divine love floods the whole being. When we reach the deepest death of self, we love all creatures with God's love, and as God loves them. We become the channels through which the Holy Spirit flows; He pours His thought through our minds, His prayers and loves through our hearts, His choices through our wills. The whole being is a sea of gentleness. Everything hard, bitter, severe, critical, flinty, has been crushed into powder.
Great sufferers are noted for their quiet gentleness. There are many souls, who are sanctified Christians, who have an indescribable something in them which needs the crushing and melting of some great crucifixion. Their tongues rattle so much, their spirit is dictatorial or harsh, they measure other people by themselves; there is something in their constitution which seems to need the grinding into fine flour. It is well worth the crushing of hearts with an overwhelming sorrow, if thereby God can bring us out into that beautiful tenderness and sweetness of spirit which is the very atmosphere of heaven. Perfect suffering will untie the heart and gently loosen every cord that binds us to our foes or friends - to all our possessions; to all the things of the past; to all attractive sights and sounds - and gives us such perfect inward liberty from everything on earth that the things of heaven can flow down into us. The heavenly world comes into us exactly in proportion as all the affairs of earth are emptied out of us, and nothing so perfectly empties us and detaches us as perfect suffering does.
SELAH
2Co 4:16 Therefore we do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted, and wearied out through fear). Though our outer man is [progressively] decaying and wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day after day. 2Co 4:17 For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!], 2Co 4:18 Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.
Signs of the TimesFresh Oil Releases
Beloved saints
The month of December has provided us with two signs of the times which need to be noted. It is only in reading both that we gain an accurate understanding of the time we are entering into.
Joe 2:30 And I will show signs in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Joe 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD comes.
In this month we have seen both blood and fire. One was a sign in the heavens and the other a sign in the earth. Both speak a warning and announce what is to come.
On the first day of Hanukkah, a terrible fire broke out on Mount Carmel in Israel. It blazed for four days and 44 people were killed by the flames. Mount Carmel is usually associated with the prophetic. It is the place where Elijah slew the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of the groves who ate at Jezebel’s table. Here He called on the people of Israel to decide who they were going to serve, Baal or the True God.
Do you remember that in January I shared a dream where the Bride fled from a house on a mountain covered by forests when the fire began to burn right outside? At that time, the Lord said to me that he declared the end from the beginning, and, more than that, He declared the end of the year from the beginning! When the fire broke out on the densely forested slopes of Mount Carmel, I was immediately reminded that at the beginning of the year God had declared there would be a fire coming to the Church. The location of Mount Carmel suggests that the refining fire will be coming more specifically to the prophetic arena of the Body of Christ and that it will be for the purpose of dealing with the false prophetic and those who have eaten at Jezebel’s table and then ministered to the people of God from that unclean and idolatrous platform. The fact that what was announced in a dream at the beginning of this year, has now been announced in an event on the earth, tells us that the fire is at the door and will no more be delayed. The large number of 4’s associated with the blaze also indicates that it is now fullness of TIME for the Lord to suddenly come to His temple as Malachi 3 mentions, as a refiner’s fire and a fuller’s soap. I am going to quote here from that original article ‘Fleeing the Fire’:
‘When the call goes out that the fires are at the door, the Bride knows there is no time to lose and immediately leaves this House of compromise hand in hand with the Bridegroom - she leaves empty-handed because priests have no earthly inheritance- the Lord is their inheritance. AS she comes out from among them and begins the next leg of her journey with the Bridegroom, she encounters mockers on the porch.
Jud 1:17 But, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; Jud 1:18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. Jud 1:19 These are those who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
2Pe 3:3 First, knowing this, that there will come in the last days scoffers walking according to their own lusts 2Pe 3:4 and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. 2Pe 3:5 For this is hidden from them by their willing it, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of the water, and through water, being held together by the Word of God, 2Pe 3:6 through which the world that then was, being flooded by water, perished. 2Pe 3:7 But the present heavens and the earth being kept in store by the same Word, are being kept for fire until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
Because judgment begins with the House of God, the fire that falls is in order to bring separation between true believers and those who only have an appearance of godliness. Those who remain in the house of compromise and lukewarmness are appointed for the Refiner's fire. It is shocking to realize that mockers and scoffers are found on the porch of the building that is called by many, 'God's House', yet the book of Jude warns us of those who have wormed their way into the midst of the Church and pervert the grace of God. His description would better fit an unbeliever, yet he is describing people within the church! No wonder judgment needs to begin with the House of God and it is a judgment of fire, refining fire that will separate and clearly differentiate between the wheat and the tares.
Mal 3:1 Behold, I will send My messenger, and He will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Angel of the Covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He comes, says the Lord of Hosts. Mal 3:2 But who can endure the day of His coming? And who shall stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap. Mal 3:3 And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. And He shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may be offerers of a food offering in righteousness to the Lord. Mal 3:4 Then the food offering of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to the Lord, as in the days of old and as in former years. Mal 3:5 And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says the Lord of Hosts.
God is talking about dealing with His own people both in this passage and in chapter 4 of Malachi. The Bridegroom is coming to that which is called the House of God and He is coming suddenly and without warning, just as the fire was suddenly at the door of the house in my dream. Depending on the state of your heart and life He is coming two different ways:
Mal 4:1 For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. Mal 4:2 But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings;
He is coming to refine and cleanse OR for those who fear Him, He is coming with healing and restoration. It will become abundantly clear who is really a servant of God and who is not.’
It is abundantly clear from the dream and the fire occurring at opposite ends of the year that we have reached the end of a period of grace for repentance concerning involvement with Jezebel in prophetic circles. Expect God to move His hand in graphic and clear ways in dealing with those who claim to be His mouthpiece when in reality they are speaking on behalf of the wicked hand that has been feeding them lies. God is intent on freeing His Body from the snare of lying divination. When Jesus addresses this issue in Revelation 2, He calls it ‘the depths of satan’. Notice also what characteristics of His appearance are emphasized as He rebukes them:
Rev 2:18 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: The Son of God, He who has His eyes like a flame of fire and His feet like burnished metal, says these things: …Rev 2:20 But I have a few things against you because you allow that woman Jezebel to teach, she saying herself to be a prophetess, and to cause My servants to go astray, and to commit fornication, and to eat idol-sacrifices. Rev 2:21 And I gave her time that she might repent of her fornication, and she did not repent. Rev 2:22 Behold, I am throwing her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent of their deeds. Rev 2:23 And I will kill her children with death. And all the churches will know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts, and I will give to every one of you according to your works. Rev 2:24 But to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak, I will put on you no other burden. Rev 2:25 But that which you have, hold fast until I come.
WE are now at that moment when the Bride knows it is time to flee the house of compromise or suffer the consequences. There is a journey prepared for her with the Bridegroom and she must move on into what He has for her.
The second sign which occurred in December was in the heavens, namely a lunar eclipse occurring on the Winter Solstice December 21st. The moon became blood-red due to a small amount of refracted sunlight passing through dust in the earth’s atmosphere while the moon passed through the earth’s shadow. The occurrence of this sign in the sky on this particular day of the pagan calendar immediately speaks to us of activity in the realm of darkness whereas the fire on the first day of Hanukkah identified it with events in the church.
I have often heard the moon spoken of as a type of the church but I have to disagree because of a basic understanding of the properties of light ( I sent out an article called ‘Revealing or Reflecting’ on this topic in 2009 which I will forward to anyone who is interested). To explain briefly, natural light is composed of seven different wavelengths, as is seen in a rainbow with its seven colors. When light hits an object some wavelengths of light are absorbed and others are reflected. It is the reflected rays of light which we see with our eyes; for eg. A tomato reflects the red wavelengths of light and absorbs the other six colors. Glass appears colorless because it allows all the wavelengths of light to pass through it. So we see that the natural world which we observe daily is visible to our eyes because of the process of absorption and reflection.
Gen 1:16 And God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the smaller light to rule the night, and the stars also
The lesser light, the moon, rules over the realm of darkness. Interestingly, the sun is also a star and emits light because there are nuclear reactions taking place within it constantly. Stars are made from dust (as are we human beings!). Stars differ from one another in the amount of light they emit. However they all produce light. The moon however, only reflects the light of the sun. It has no ability to produce light within itself but gives light at night by bouncing off the sun’s rays. The lesser light rules the darkness – this is a picture of satan who also operates in the realm of the second heaven, by using the process of reflection. He has no light within himself and can only appear to be filled with light in order to deceive. How did satan transform himself into an angel of light? He used the principles of natural light. By reflecting the light and absorbing none of it, satan appears to the natural eye to be a being full of light. However, within him is deep darkness. There is a kind of darkness that masquerades as light. Paul mentions this when he warns people:
2Co 11:13 For such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. Did not even Satan marvelously transform himself into an angel of light? Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works
So the sign of the blood moon on the winter solstice is telling us something about the realm of satan and what will be occurring in the season to come. An eclipse is caused by the earth blocking the light of the sun so that the moon can no longer reflect and appear to be full of light. It is seen for what it really is, a dark heavenly body. Earth in the Bible is a picture of the flesh or the adamic nature. In the season ahead, the works of the flesh will rise to such fullness that those who are masquerading as angels of light will no longer be able to ‘reflect’ the light but will be seen for who they really are. There will also be a rise in unashamed open practice of witchcraft and paganism and it will become abundantly clear who are of the kingdom of Light and who are of the kingdom of darkness. The kingdom of darkness may appear to have a covering of the blood but it is merely the meager vestiges of reflection bouncing off the dust particles in the atmosphere and will not fool us. No longer will their words appear to have a ring of Truth and Light for the darkness and amount of flesh being displayed will prove the emptiness of their claims.
Stars (which are present in the heavens all the time but are seen most clearly against a backdrop of darkness), produce light within themselves. During a lunar eclipse, the stars are still visible and in fact become the only lights in the sky. God promised Abraham that his descendants would be as the stars of the heaven. Daniel prophesied that during a time of great turmoil and darkness there would be stars to light the way:
Dan 12:3 And those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the sky; and those who turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever.
Those who dwell in heavenly places are part of the city which is above. They do not walk by the light of their own understanding or fleshly wisdom.
Rev 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they might shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
These sons of Abraham by faith will, in the time we are entering into, shine as never before, giving direction and light because they carry within them the Lamb who is the Light. In a season that will grow increasingly dark, they will be clearly seen as those who have understanding of the times and know what to do. When it is so dark that there is no natural light for men of the earth to find their way by, the stars of the heavens shine and direct the way.
Beloved, the year ahead will hold many difficulties and things that are hard to bear but it will be a time to stand as sons of the Light as never before. For those who have gone through the much painful preparation that goes into turning a heap of dust into a star, this is your moment to arise and shine! For those waiting in the wings, your cue is coming up. You’ve been there all along, unseen and unnoticed watching God’s manuscript unfold on the stage but now its time to step out and be seen for the rising star you are!
Isa 60:1 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. Isa 60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you.
Notice it’s HIS glory that is seen on you, not your own natural talents or abilities but the glory of God that will radiate from within your earthen vessel! Be sure to give all the glory to Him!
Two signs, two warnings. May we all have ears to hear and wisdom to know what to do.
Grace and strength to you in the season ahead
Christine
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Beloved saints
The month of December has provided us with two signs of the times which need to be noted. It is only in reading both that we gain an accurate understanding of the time we are entering into.
Joe 2:30 And I will show signs in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Joe 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD comes.
In this month we have seen both blood and fire. One was a sign in the heavens and the other a sign in the earth. Both speak a warning and announce what is to come.
On the first day of Hanukkah, a terrible fire broke out on Mount Carmel in Israel. It blazed for four days and 44 people were killed by the flames. Mount Carmel is usually associated with the prophetic. It is the place where Elijah slew the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of the groves who ate at Jezebel’s table. Here He called on the people of Israel to decide who they were going to serve, Baal or the True God.
Do you remember that in January I shared a dream where the Bride fled from a house on a mountain covered by forests when the fire began to burn right outside? At that time, the Lord said to me that he declared the end from the beginning, and, more than that, He declared the end of the year from the beginning! When the fire broke out on the densely forested slopes of Mount Carmel, I was immediately reminded that at the beginning of the year God had declared there would be a fire coming to the Church. The location of Mount Carmel suggests that the refining fire will be coming more specifically to the prophetic arena of the Body of Christ and that it will be for the purpose of dealing with the false prophetic and those who have eaten at Jezebel’s table and then ministered to the people of God from that unclean and idolatrous platform. The fact that what was announced in a dream at the beginning of this year, has now been announced in an event on the earth, tells us that the fire is at the door and will no more be delayed. The large number of 4’s associated with the blaze also indicates that it is now fullness of TIME for the Lord to suddenly come to His temple as Malachi 3 mentions, as a refiner’s fire and a fuller’s soap. I am going to quote here from that original article ‘Fleeing the Fire’:
‘When the call goes out that the fires are at the door, the Bride knows there is no time to lose and immediately leaves this House of compromise hand in hand with the Bridegroom - she leaves empty-handed because priests have no earthly inheritance- the Lord is their inheritance. AS she comes out from among them and begins the next leg of her journey with the Bridegroom, she encounters mockers on the porch.
Jud 1:17 But, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; Jud 1:18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. Jud 1:19 These are those who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
2Pe 3:3 First, knowing this, that there will come in the last days scoffers walking according to their own lusts 2Pe 3:4 and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. 2Pe 3:5 For this is hidden from them by their willing it, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of the water, and through water, being held together by the Word of God, 2Pe 3:6 through which the world that then was, being flooded by water, perished. 2Pe 3:7 But the present heavens and the earth being kept in store by the same Word, are being kept for fire until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
Because judgment begins with the House of God, the fire that falls is in order to bring separation between true believers and those who only have an appearance of godliness. Those who remain in the house of compromise and lukewarmness are appointed for the Refiner's fire. It is shocking to realize that mockers and scoffers are found on the porch of the building that is called by many, 'God's House', yet the book of Jude warns us of those who have wormed their way into the midst of the Church and pervert the grace of God. His description would better fit an unbeliever, yet he is describing people within the church! No wonder judgment needs to begin with the House of God and it is a judgment of fire, refining fire that will separate and clearly differentiate between the wheat and the tares.
Mal 3:1 Behold, I will send My messenger, and He will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Angel of the Covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He comes, says the Lord of Hosts. Mal 3:2 But who can endure the day of His coming? And who shall stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap. Mal 3:3 And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. And He shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may be offerers of a food offering in righteousness to the Lord. Mal 3:4 Then the food offering of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to the Lord, as in the days of old and as in former years. Mal 3:5 And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says the Lord of Hosts.
God is talking about dealing with His own people both in this passage and in chapter 4 of Malachi. The Bridegroom is coming to that which is called the House of God and He is coming suddenly and without warning, just as the fire was suddenly at the door of the house in my dream. Depending on the state of your heart and life He is coming two different ways:
Mal 4:1 For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. Mal 4:2 But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings;
He is coming to refine and cleanse OR for those who fear Him, He is coming with healing and restoration. It will become abundantly clear who is really a servant of God and who is not.’
It is abundantly clear from the dream and the fire occurring at opposite ends of the year that we have reached the end of a period of grace for repentance concerning involvement with Jezebel in prophetic circles. Expect God to move His hand in graphic and clear ways in dealing with those who claim to be His mouthpiece when in reality they are speaking on behalf of the wicked hand that has been feeding them lies. God is intent on freeing His Body from the snare of lying divination. When Jesus addresses this issue in Revelation 2, He calls it ‘the depths of satan’. Notice also what characteristics of His appearance are emphasized as He rebukes them:
Rev 2:18 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: The Son of God, He who has His eyes like a flame of fire and His feet like burnished metal, says these things: …Rev 2:20 But I have a few things against you because you allow that woman Jezebel to teach, she saying herself to be a prophetess, and to cause My servants to go astray, and to commit fornication, and to eat idol-sacrifices. Rev 2:21 And I gave her time that she might repent of her fornication, and she did not repent. Rev 2:22 Behold, I am throwing her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent of their deeds. Rev 2:23 And I will kill her children with death. And all the churches will know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts, and I will give to every one of you according to your works. Rev 2:24 But to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak, I will put on you no other burden. Rev 2:25 But that which you have, hold fast until I come.
WE are now at that moment when the Bride knows it is time to flee the house of compromise or suffer the consequences. There is a journey prepared for her with the Bridegroom and she must move on into what He has for her.
The second sign which occurred in December was in the heavens, namely a lunar eclipse occurring on the Winter Solstice December 21st. The moon became blood-red due to a small amount of refracted sunlight passing through dust in the earth’s atmosphere while the moon passed through the earth’s shadow. The occurrence of this sign in the sky on this particular day of the pagan calendar immediately speaks to us of activity in the realm of darkness whereas the fire on the first day of Hanukkah identified it with events in the church.
I have often heard the moon spoken of as a type of the church but I have to disagree because of a basic understanding of the properties of light ( I sent out an article called ‘Revealing or Reflecting’ on this topic in 2009 which I will forward to anyone who is interested). To explain briefly, natural light is composed of seven different wavelengths, as is seen in a rainbow with its seven colors. When light hits an object some wavelengths of light are absorbed and others are reflected. It is the reflected rays of light which we see with our eyes; for eg. A tomato reflects the red wavelengths of light and absorbs the other six colors. Glass appears colorless because it allows all the wavelengths of light to pass through it. So we see that the natural world which we observe daily is visible to our eyes because of the process of absorption and reflection.
Gen 1:16 And God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the smaller light to rule the night, and the stars also
The lesser light, the moon, rules over the realm of darkness. Interestingly, the sun is also a star and emits light because there are nuclear reactions taking place within it constantly. Stars are made from dust (as are we human beings!). Stars differ from one another in the amount of light they emit. However they all produce light. The moon however, only reflects the light of the sun. It has no ability to produce light within itself but gives light at night by bouncing off the sun’s rays. The lesser light rules the darkness – this is a picture of satan who also operates in the realm of the second heaven, by using the process of reflection. He has no light within himself and can only appear to be filled with light in order to deceive. How did satan transform himself into an angel of light? He used the principles of natural light. By reflecting the light and absorbing none of it, satan appears to the natural eye to be a being full of light. However, within him is deep darkness. There is a kind of darkness that masquerades as light. Paul mentions this when he warns people:
2Co 11:13 For such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. Did not even Satan marvelously transform himself into an angel of light? Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works
So the sign of the blood moon on the winter solstice is telling us something about the realm of satan and what will be occurring in the season to come. An eclipse is caused by the earth blocking the light of the sun so that the moon can no longer reflect and appear to be full of light. It is seen for what it really is, a dark heavenly body. Earth in the Bible is a picture of the flesh or the adamic nature. In the season ahead, the works of the flesh will rise to such fullness that those who are masquerading as angels of light will no longer be able to ‘reflect’ the light but will be seen for who they really are. There will also be a rise in unashamed open practice of witchcraft and paganism and it will become abundantly clear who are of the kingdom of Light and who are of the kingdom of darkness. The kingdom of darkness may appear to have a covering of the blood but it is merely the meager vestiges of reflection bouncing off the dust particles in the atmosphere and will not fool us. No longer will their words appear to have a ring of Truth and Light for the darkness and amount of flesh being displayed will prove the emptiness of their claims.
Stars (which are present in the heavens all the time but are seen most clearly against a backdrop of darkness), produce light within themselves. During a lunar eclipse, the stars are still visible and in fact become the only lights in the sky. God promised Abraham that his descendants would be as the stars of the heaven. Daniel prophesied that during a time of great turmoil and darkness there would be stars to light the way:
Dan 12:3 And those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the sky; and those who turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever.
Those who dwell in heavenly places are part of the city which is above. They do not walk by the light of their own understanding or fleshly wisdom.
Rev 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they might shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
These sons of Abraham by faith will, in the time we are entering into, shine as never before, giving direction and light because they carry within them the Lamb who is the Light. In a season that will grow increasingly dark, they will be clearly seen as those who have understanding of the times and know what to do. When it is so dark that there is no natural light for men of the earth to find their way by, the stars of the heavens shine and direct the way.
Beloved, the year ahead will hold many difficulties and things that are hard to bear but it will be a time to stand as sons of the Light as never before. For those who have gone through the much painful preparation that goes into turning a heap of dust into a star, this is your moment to arise and shine! For those waiting in the wings, your cue is coming up. You’ve been there all along, unseen and unnoticed watching God’s manuscript unfold on the stage but now its time to step out and be seen for the rising star you are!
Isa 60:1 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. Isa 60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you.
Notice it’s HIS glory that is seen on you, not your own natural talents or abilities but the glory of God that will radiate from within your earthen vessel! Be sure to give all the glory to Him!
Two signs, two warnings. May we all have ears to hear and wisdom to know what to do.
Grace and strength to you in the season ahead
Christine
freshoil@polka.co.za
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