October 2001

EIGHT WORDS OF PROPHECY

(Received by Carole Forde January 2000)

              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 are likely 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 (which includes the intellect, emotions and will) with all 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! These overcomers 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 are redeemed from the ravages of sin. To what purpose will these sons be sent into the world? Christ said, “If I be lifted up I will draw ALL men to Me” (Jn 12:32) and He shall fulfill that Vow to Himself!
               As the Temple Age which was established by Moses had to gave way to the new Church Age established by Jesus Christ; so also, with the manifestation of these sons of God, that Church Age shall give way to a far more glorious KINGDOM AGE! This divine work cannot be stopped or interfered with, for it is predestinated from the foundation of the world. Former and latter rains fast are approaching! (See: Jas 5:7) Dark clouds are already gathering in the earth! But into what ARK are God's sons called which the Prince of Peace built for them? It is THE SOVEREIGN WILL OF THE MOST HIGH GOD AND HIS CHRIST!
               The O.T. says God ordered two Arks (2 = witness) to be constructed as a Covenant between God and man. ARK #1 was designed by God and 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 and new beginning) were utterly 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 typified “the coming of the Son of man”! ( Lk 17:25-27) When Christ began His public ministry, His Gospel sounded just as foreign to an unbelieving world. Only the hopeless and hapless and helpless were blessed with “hearing ears” to hear His Words of Life that quickened their faith and enabled them to “come to Him”! Jesus knew when the time came for Him to be taken out of this world, His children would be left at the mercy of this world; so He set about to prepare His own to be protected from the “flood waters” that would be spewed from the serpent-mouths of carnal minded hearts! This would be the beginning of the “great falling away”!! (2 Th 2:3) Pagan Rome posed little threat to the Peaceloving Messiah till the Jews (who espoused the murderous Letter of the Law instead of Christ's Life-giving Spirit of the Law (2 Co 3:6) forced them to do their dirty work!
               ARK #2 was not big enough to house man or beast, and was not carried on water, but on priestly shoulders in the same way pallbearers carry a coffin! But one day unbelieving Philistines stole this Ark of the Covenant pulling it away on a cart; but they quickly abandoned it as that holy vessel wreaked havoc in their unholy lives!! Then the believing Israelites reclaimed the ark; but not with the priests obediently bearing it on their shoulders but by trying to pull it on a new cart! One man was slain who tried to keep it on there when God pushed it off! Today’s religious systems try to keep the Fiery Presence of God at a safe distance from their fleshly agendas by elevating His Word on new carts of manmade rites and rituals! But true sons of God are being strengthened to UPSET THEIR CARTS! Then these priests of God shall carry forth the Ark of Christ's Mind- as their Head upon their shoulders where it belongs!! This is the autumn of Christendom! The time is come for the dead leaves of their “Tree of knowledge of good and evil” to fall to the earth! Winter’s cold is fast approaching! Father, in His Love, is now drawing His sons into the safety of His Will and His Rest! False doctrines that have exalted man’s (so-called) 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 (lit. "REST") as he painstakingly built an ark as God directed! They learned better when the rains came! Christ said, "As in the days of Noah, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be. For in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the Ark!" (Mt 24:37) Now the Lord says to His people, "He that has entered into that REST has also CEASED FROM HIS OWN WORKS as God did from His! So let us labor, therefore, to enter in that REST lest any man fall after the same example of UNBELIEF." (Heb 4:11) Some may have scoffed at the Ark of the covenant Moses built according to God’s Pattern; but they also learned better when they saw what happened when it accompanied Israel into battle!
               There were scoffers at Calvary’s Cross as the third and final “ARK OF GOD” hung helplessly crucified to this world of sin and death; but they surely learned better when He rose from the dead to reign triumphant! Soon the same RESURRECTION POWER that raised up Jesus shall raise up new sons who have entered and are resting and trusting in the Ark of Christ! Some may have scoffed at their painful preparations over the years, but they shall learn better when we are sent forth. Noah learned TRUSTING FAITH in his ark-building! Moses learned TRUSTING FAITH in his ark construction! But Jesus Christ personified TRUSTING FAITH as He prepared Himself as the Perfect “ARK OF ANOINTING” to swallow up both of the previous two arks! In this generation Christ is raising up new brethren as sanctified sons who are Entering His Sabbath Rest trusting in His Perfect Faith; and surrendering themselves to His Perfect Love! There are some who hear this call to Sonship who are actually returning prodigals who went back to the world or its religious systems due to FEAR OF THIS ULTIMATE COMMITMENT TO CHRIST , but I say to them, "Be not self-condemned"; for as King David learned, “If I make my bed (or “rest”) in hell, (Lord) You are with me!” (Ps 139:8) Beloveds, you may have run from the “frying pan” of God’s loving chastisement, but it is never too late to run into the “Fire” of His consuming Presence! Even though you may have “left him” in the former way you knew Him; “He has never left you nor forsaken you!” If He has made you ready to receive Him now in His Fulness, He promises to redeem you from your old fleshly nature. How does He do this? He tells us,

“Your own wickedness will chasten and correct you and
your backslidings and desertion of faith shall reprove you.
Know therefore and recognize it is an evil, bitter thing that
you forsook your Lord and became indifferent to Me; and
the Fear of the Lord is not in you says the Lord of hosts!!

BUT NOW IT IS TIME TO:

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

NOW ANSWER ME IN RETURN :

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

Amen.