October 2000

“WORD OF PROPHECY”

                This is the Word of the hour!! Let all who can hear what the Spirit says, heed His Voice! God has begun calling His 11th hour sons into His Ark of Promise which is also His Ark of Rest. What does this mean? If this message burns as a Holy Fire deep in your soul, you may be called to God’s firstfruits company of sons who will soon be revealed to the world in His Power to advance (on a larger scale) the Work that Christ began when He established His Kingdom on earth! These saints are not “exalted above” anyone else on earth, they are just “called before” anyone else yet. These are Father’s Seed crop representing the earnest of His Inheritance in His Body! By their ongoing disciplines, these sanctified ones, BY FAITH, have learned to yield themselves in body, soul and spirit to their Omnipotent Lord. They have utterly relinquished their soulish lives (i.e., intellect, emotions and will)- with its human desires and ambitions- to His Sovereign Will! Though they cannot yet outwardly manifest all of the contrite brokenness that has taken place in their hearts, they are walking BY FAITH a surrendered life that shines as bright as the sun! They have presented themselves a willing, thankful, living sacrifice to the consuming Fire of God’s Love! They now only await the glorious hour when their bodies shall be redeemed from the ravages of sin.
               To what purpose shall they be sent into the world? When “Christ is lifted up” in their lives, “He will draw all men” to Himself as He promised! Just as the Temple Age established by Moses ruled till Jesus Christ was born, but then gave way to the new Church Age He established; so also, with the manifestation of these new sons of God, that Church Age is giving way to a more glorious KINGDOM AGE!! This divine work cannot be stopped or interfered with, it is predestinated from the foundation of the world. The former and latter rains are approaching! (See: Jas 5:7) The dark clouds are already gathering in the earth! What is the “ARK” into which God now calls His sons? It is the SOVEREIGN WILL OF THE MOST HIGH GOD AND HIS CHRIST!
               God ordered two Arks (2 = witness) to be constructed as a Covenant between God and man. ARK #1 was designed by God, but built by Noah (lit. “REST”). This three-story floating vessel (3 = divine completion) had no rudder or steering mechanism of any kind, so its eight passengers (8 = new creation/ new beginning) were completely at the Mercy of God! Now as “rain” had never appeared before on the earth, the building of a water craft- especially of such huge proportions, seemed ludicrous! That is why this venture was given to typify “the coming of the Son of man”! (Read: Lk 17:25-27) When Christ began His public ministry, His Gospel seemed just as ludicrous to the unbelieving world. And only the hopeless, hapless and helpless were given “hearing ears” to “Come unto Him”! Jesus knew that when He was taken out of this world, His children would be left at the mercy of the world; so He purposed to prepare and protect them from the “flood waters” about to be unleashed from the serpent-mouths of men’s carnal minds! This would be the onset of the “great falling away” of the faithful ones. (2 Th 2:3) Unbelieving Romans posed no threat to Christ till the quasi-believing Jews (those who believed in the “Letter of the Law that kills- not the Spirit of the Law (Christ) that gives Life!” (2 Co 3:6) forced them to do their dirty work for them! ARK #2 was not large enough to house man or beast; and was not carried on water, but upon priestly shoulders! Unbelieving Philistines stole away the Ark on a cart, but it wreaked such havoc in their lives they forsook it. When believing Israel reclaimed it, the priests did not bear it on their shoulders but set it on a new cart! One was slain who tried to keep it on there while God was pushing it off! Today’s religious systems keep the Fiery Presence of God at a safe distance from their carnal lives by elevating it on new carts of forms and ritual; but the new sons of God are being strengthened to OVERTHROW IT! It is the autumn of Christendom and the time is come for all dead leaves of the “Tree of the knowledge of good and evil” to fall to the earth and winter’s cold is fast approaching; Father’s Love is now drawing His children into the safety of His Will and Rest! Every false doctrine that exalts man’s free will shall be ground into the dust from whence it came! The world shall see in an unprecedented show of Power WHO GOD REALLY IS!
                 Multitudes scoffed at Noah as he painstakingly built the ark as God directed; they learned better when the rains came!! Scoffers of the Ark that Moses built according to God’s instruction; learned better as it accompanied Israel into battle! Scoffers stood at Calvary’s Cross as ARK # 3- the “LIVING ARK OF GOD” hung helplessly crucified to a world of sin and death; they learned better as He rose from the dead to reign triumphant! Now that same RESURRECTION POWER will soon raise up every son who has entered and is resting and trusting in the Ark of Christ! Noah learned TRUSTING FAITH! Moses learned TRUSTING FAITH! But Jesus Christ personified TRUSTING FAITH! His “ARK” of Perfect Faith swallowed up the former two arks in Himself! Now Christ is calling His brethren, God’s sanctified sons, to Enter in His Perfect Faith; and lose ourselves in His Love! Some who hear this call are returning prodigals who went back to the world and/or religious systems out of FEAR OF THIS ULTIMATE COMMITMENT TO CHRIST , but be not condemned; for as David learned, “Even should I make my bed (“rest”) in hell, (Lord) You are ever with me!” (Ps 139:8) Beloveds, you merely ran from the “frying pan” of God’s loving chastisement, into the “Fire” of His consuming Presence! Though you may have “left him” in the way you once knew Him; “He has never left you nor forsaken you” but has made you ready to receive Him in His Fulness! So to all He is now redeeming from their fleshly natures, He says,

“Your own wickedness shall chasten and correct you; and
your backslidings and desertion of faith shall reprove you.
Know therefore, and recognize, this is an evil and bitter thing:
first you have forsaken the Lord; and second, you are indifferent
to Me; and (third) the fear of Me is not in you, says the Lord of hosts.

BUT NOW IT IS TIME:

“Return, O faithless sons, says the Lord,
I WILL HEAL YOUR FAITHLESSNESS!!

NOW ANSWER ME :

“BEHOLD, WE COME TO YOU, FOR
YOU ARE THE LORD OUR GOD!!”
(Jer 2:19; 3:22 AV)

Amen.