TABERNACLES
PENTECOST, 2005
A CLOUD AS
SMALL AS A MAN’S PALM
This
section, or as far as that goes this entire writing, is not for the casual
reader who is drifting down the muddy Mississippi of life with everyone
else. This writing and this
section is for the one who refuses to aimlessly drift toward the sea of death
and is looking for answers that are outside the box, answers that are
effectual.
The
account of the test of Carmel in 1 Kings 18 affords two testimonies that
obviously are not chronological in their prophetic messages, but two
testimonies of the same work.
There is no way that the second Remnant would ascend alive (i.e.,
Elijah’s offering being licked up by the fire of Yahweh), and after that
would come the latter rain (the rain that came when Elijah prayed). In fact, it is the latter rain that
forms the Elijah work that ascends alive, evidenced in part by the twelve
pitchers of water poured on the altar.
But of course on the other hand, it is not until the second Remnant
ascends alive that the rain covers the earth as promised as well – when
we return with the Son of God to set up His kingdom.
Also,
keep in mind that it is the latter rain that reveals that Saul Christianity is
a premature Saul work – 1 Samuel 12:17-18. So considering this testimony regarding Elijah, what do we
see in this account that gives us hope for today? The answer is found in the cloud as small as a man’s
palm.
Why
did Yahweh compare this cloud to a man’s palm? This is especially important to note, considering that this
account about Elijah is a testimony of the latter rain that breaks a drought
that has been on the land since the end of the former rain. The answer to this question lies in
understanding that which the palm represents. Here we will find Yahweh’s truth, and our abundant
hope.
You
will recall that Kyle saw himself lying on the floor where Linda also saw the
X, the very place that represented Yahshua, and where this man was to take that
position. Very importantly, it was
not that Kyle had to physically lay himself down on the floor (which never took
place), but that his works, his life, have/has in fact been a palm branch that
has prepared the way for this man.
It is in this truth, in this example, that we begin to understand the
significance of the palm.
There
is no question that we, the Bride, would not be where we are today without the
works of Kyle. Without enumerating the many things that he has been used to
effect as an Elijah to me, clearly he has been that palm branch that has been
laid down to prepare this man’s way. By seeing this per Kyle and understanding his role, this
allows us to better understand what it means prophetically when we read that
branches were laid before Yahshua to prepare the way for His triumphal entry,
and in Millennial John 12:13 we read that they were “branches of the palm
trees.”
We
have noted in A Lesson From Intercession, page __, that the Hebrew word for the palm tree is
“tamar.” This is of
course the daughter-in-law of Judah who gave birth to the two Remnant
representatives, Zerah and Peres.
But the branches of the palm tree, for obvious reasons, actually receive
their names from a man’s palm – both being open flat surfaces. In fact, in Job 15:32 and Isaiah 9:14
and 19:15 where we find mention of the “palm branch,” the Hebrew
word, “kippah” (#3712), is used. The origin of this word is actually from the Hebrew word,
“kaph” (#3709), which means “hollow or flat” and often
speaks of a man’s palm (Leviticus 14), the hollow or flat of his
hand. Thus the palm branch and a
man’s palm are prophetically one and the same.
Taking
this one step further, the hand is prophetic of a man’s works. Therefore in like regard, the palm
branch prophetically speaks of the same.
This is why Kyle saw himself lying on the very place where I was to go,
and on both occasions was used of Yahweh to get me there. His works prepared the way before
me. And this is precisely what we
see in Millennial John where the palm branches are brought forth to prepare the
way for Yahshua’s triumphal entrance – our works prepare the way
for His coming. This you will repeatedly see in this
section.
Kyle
did not need to physically lie down on the floor. Similarly, one could lay thousands of people on the ground
and that would not effect Yahshua’s return. One could cover the ground with palm branches, and that too
would fail to bring His return.
But what will bring and is bringing His return are proper redeeming
works, the works of the chosen Elijah.
Let us now return to the account in 1 Kings 18 regarding Elijah.
What
is it that marks an important beginning of the Elijah work? The answer is seen in part in 1 Kings
18:42-44, and we must digress some here.
You will notice that Elijah “crouched down on the earth and put
his face between his knees.”
Then he told his servant – “Go up now, look toward the
sea.” When some read this
account they think that the servant went up the mountain seven times; but let
us examine this more carefully.
First,
as we have just noted, Elijah told his servant – “Go up now, look
toward the sea.” When he
returned and said that there was nothing, Elijah then said – “Go
back seven times.” After the
seventh time, the servant came back to report a cloud, which we will shortly
address.
When
carefully examining this, we see that the servant did not go up the mountain
only seven times, but he went up one time plus seven times, the similar pattern
that Moses followed when he went up Mount Sinai, but in reverse. Moses’ eight trips up Sinai were
actually a seven-and-one Tabernacles Pattern, while Elijah’s
servant’s eight trips up Carmel were a one-and-seven Passover
pattern. Some translations per the
seven trips place the punctuation differently; but either way, he went back
seven times. But the greatest
truth in this is in the pattern, as you will further see.
As
we noted in Hurricane Katrina and the
Curse of 1920, page 4, both the former rain and the latter rain come as
a result of nine-part patterns.
The former rain is a 1–7–1 pattern, or the day of Passover
and the seven days of Unleavened Bread plus Pentecost. The latter rain is a 7–1–1
pattern, or seven days of Tabernacles and the holy convocation plus a
Tabernacles Pentecost.
What
do we see evidenced here per Elijah and his servant? What we see is a 1–7–1 pattern. First the servant was sent up once,
then he was sent up seven times, and then he was sent up the ninth time. So you ask – Where is the
ninth? In verse 44, Elijah, upon
hearing the report of the cloud, sent him up one more time – “Go
up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, so that the heavy
shower does not stop you.’”
Of course that is when Elijah outran Ahab to Jezreel.
It
is very revealing and noteworthy that the Passover 1–7–1 pattern,
is precisely the pattern seen in Zechariah 4 and throughout the
Scriptures:
Remnant–Christianity–Remnant. On the other hand, Tabernacles attests to the union of the
two Remnant, or 7–1–1.
In this case there is no mark of the beast 7 separating the two Remnant,
the two united holy convocations (which the 1’s represent). It is quite fitting that Tabernacles
reveals this, for it is in fulfilling Tabernacles that the two Remnant are
caught up to heaven to indeed be united as one. We thus see in these patterns once again the marvels of
Yahweh’s seamless garment of truth!
Also,
we see once again the necessity of laying a nine-part Pentecost pattern in
order to receive the latter rain, the very pattern Elijah laid, as well as the
pattern we laid at the Tabernacles Pentecost at Montauk.
It
is also quite unique that Moses walked out a Tabernacles pattern at Pentecost,
while Elijah sent his servant to walk out a Passover/Pentecost pattern at
Tabernacles. How many times have
we witnessed the like flip-flopping testimony of the two Remnant? Within this account concerning Elijah
we see this once again, as it attests to both the former rain and the latter
rain. Let us see.
The
former rain is testified insomuch that the pattern of the servant’s trips
up the mountain is that of Passover and its Pentecost (1–7–1); and
like that rain, it too was a sudden deluge. But the latter rain is testified here in three important
ways. First, the rain comes after
a three year drought (1 Kings 18:1).
This is the drought that has been on the church for 2,000 years, and
would last for 3,000 years if Yahweh did not cut those days short. Second, the test of Carmel takes place
at the close of the 2,000 year period of the church (beginning in 1948), and it
is this test that is at hand when Elijah’s prayer and intercession take
place. In fact, it is almost as if
Elijah is calling upon “that which has been” by performing his
prayer and intercession under the pattern of the former rain.
The
third way the latter rain is testified is what we want to address more
thoroughly at this time. This will
be most revealing. We notice that
when the servant reported back to Elijah, he described what he saw as –
“a cloud as small as a man’s palm (kaph, #3709) is coming up from
the sea.” With this report,
Elijah sent the servant up the mountain the ninth and final time, which is of
course the Pentecost Elijah time.
And a Pentecost outpouring is indeed what they received. So we ask a very important question
– What is it today that could be that attesting cloud as small as a
man’s palm that comes up from the sea at the end of the seven? Let
us see.
We
already know that the sea speaks of death; and by virtue of the testimony of
the 2,000 swine, the last 2,000 years have been the period of the sea of death,
the seven. (Fittingly, the first
trip was to the sea, even as the first Remnant died; as were the seven, or
Christianity, who equally die; but the ninth trip was not to the sea, but to
proclaim truth and instruction to Ahab, the Elijah that does not die.) This testimony regarding the sea was
equally attested per the strong messenger, whose right foot was on the sea of
death and his left foot on the land, the promised land. Therefore, is it not evident that when
the servant saw this cloud coming up from the sea, that he was in fact seeing a
work that was coming up out of that 2,000 year period, even the Bride coming
out of the body of Christ?
But
the testimony is more specific than just the Bride; there was something more
being evidenced. That cloud was
identified in two specific ways:
(1) it was small, and (2) it was like unto a man’s palm. Let us get straight to the point, to
that which is our hope.
It
seems evident that the cloud coming up out of the sea that was as small as a
man’s palm, is the strong messenger work that bridges the gap between the
sea of death of Christianity and the promised land of the Millennial reign. Frankly, this six-year work is indeed a
very small work, but that is the point.
And it is a palm in that it is an intercessoral work that Yahweh is
performing through man. But the hope
is that it is indeed the work, the “cloud as small as a man’s
palm,” that signals the beginning of the latter rain that will cover the
earth.
We
have already seen evidenced per the eastern gate that the waters of the latter
rain come out from the right side as a trickle. It seems evident that this trickle began at Passover, 2004. Of course the trickle actually began
before that event, even as the water from the eastern gate originated inside
the gate from “under the threshold of the house toward the east, for the
house faced east. And the water
was flowing down from under, from the right side of the house, from south of
the altar.” (More on this
shortly.) From there the water
went under the gate, and it appears that that marks the beginning of the
Millennial reign. Since 1994
Yahweh has brought forth the water of His Spirit from under the threshold, but
it could not increase until it went under the eastern gate into the Millennial
reign in 2004.
Once
that water entered into the Millennium, it is first over the feet, which speaks
of kingdom rights. Most certainly
we began receiving those kingdom rights per Passover, 2004, and at Atonement of
the same year when the Contract was signed, and then at Trumpets, 2005, when
the twelve apostles were established, and at the intercessions at the first
ever Tabernacles Pentecost whereby we received the legal rights to ascend
alive.
Likewise,
in Deuteronomy 32:1-2 we read – “Give ear, O heavens, and let me
speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. Let my teaching drop as the rain.” There is no question that beginning at
Passover, 2004, Yahweh has continually rained down His truth upon the Bride,
evidenced by the incredible writings since The Rod.
And
our hope, of course, is that which was equally evidenced by Elijah, insomuch
that he was praying with his head between his knees, then he girded up his
loins. The next level of that
ever-increasing water after the feet was likewise to the knees; and what that
will mean and when it will take place, we do not know at this time. Next Elijah girded up his loins, and
that was the next level marked by the ever-increasing water. The measurements were marked out every
“thousand cubits.” And
what might this mean today?
Obviously it is not 1,000 year increments. Any number elevated to the thousands speaks prophetically of
the kingdom; and it seems evident that as the Bride’s kingdom rights and
authority ever increase, so the level of the latter rain will increase. As we ever increase in heavenly
authority, the water of the Spirit will increase in depth.
One
thing for certain – the fourth dimension of time will unfold both the
answers to our questions and the provision. Thus we take hope that the latter rain will ever
increase: over the feet, to the
knees, to the loins, and then deep enough in which to swim, water that cannot be
forded. From there it becomes
“two rivers” (lit. of Ezekiel 47:9), or the two Remnant, and heals
the sea of death. But until that
glorious day, we for now take great hope in the little cloud as small as a
man’s palm that has come out of the sea, out of Christianity. It is a promised and noteworthy and
long awaited beginning, even as it was for Elijah, signaling that it is time
for the all-important ninth part!
Yahweh
knows how all of this is going to unfold, and we are but mere men; but there
are some modern-day parables that do encourage us. I confess, they are seemingly foolish; but we do know that
He says He uses the foolish to shame the wise.
There
are two movies and a dream that are encouraging at this time. The movies are the incredibly prophetic,
The Matrix, and another that I am almost ashamed to mention;
but nonetheless, the message is most encouraging. It is called Kung Fu Hustle.
Time
will tell, but actually this latter movie may have been used to speak some
things that lead to some very important fulfillments. We cannot go into all of this at this time, but in this
movie the killer of all killers, who is simply called “the Beast,”
is defeated by the main character, Sing, by fulfilling the long lost Buddhist
Palm that falls from heaven. Throughout most of the movie, Sing is a veritable failure;
that is, until the Beast totally mauls him for feebly raising his hand against
him. But as the landlord later
notes – “Who knew the Beast could clear the chi (life) flow and
thus unleash the boy’s true potential?” There is a great amount of encouraging truth in this
statement per Satan’s destructive works that, in the end, release the
chi/life flow. And it is not
without relevance that the Greek letter, X, that represents Yahshua, is the
letter “chi”! This is
indeed the hope and the promise we received at the Tabernacles Pentecost
intercession where Yahweh continually evidenced His X, His “chi,”
His life!
After
Sing is mauled by the Beast, he is bound in rags that give the appearance of
being in a cocoon. In like
testimony of that which is taking place with Sing, a monarch butterfly
completes its own metamorphosis and comes out of its cocoon. When the transformation is complete,
Sing comes out of his cocoon and proceeds to complete the work he so feebly
attempted before, defeating the Beast with the long lost Palm that falls from
heaven and initiating the hope of world peace (a hope he received as a
boy). And we note here as well
that the lion’s roar, evidenced in the strong messenger, equally preceded
Sing’s metamorphosis.
This
is the identical testimony seen in The Matrix.
That which takes place in Neo over time is likewise effected by the man,
Morpheus, or meta-Morphous. When
Neo comes out of his cocoon of death by a kiss from Trinity, he too defeats
“the Beast” by equally holding up his palm to stop the
bullets. And the resulting
descriptive phrases per both Sing and Neo are identical when they are each
revealed – “He is the one!”
But
that which we want to note here, relating it back to that which Elijah awaited,
is that in all three testimonies the same truth is evidenced – the coming
of the long lost and much awaited palm that defeats the enemy, the Beast! This is the palm Yahweh began to
established in 2001 when an angel came to pray for us, and it continues through
2006 – the strong messenger!
All
of this is made far more relevant and meaningful to this man insomuch that,
even before the Bride, Yahweh gave me a dream wherein, after my own
metamorphosis, on two occasions in it I held out my palms, just like we see
evidenced in these other testimonies.
At one point in the dream I held out both hands, extending the palms, so
as to close several vast iron doors that locked the demons in, their sounds
being like clanging and rattling chains.
On the second occasion, I once again extended my palms out before me as
I went down into a dark cave. As I
passed through it, on my right were people frozen in action stances as gray
stone-like statues, and they were touching my right arm and palm and coming
alive, coming out of their frozen statue state. At the end of the cave was a bright light, and there was a
platform with the original apostles standing on it. I proceeded to the platform and took my place on the back
corner. Therefore, the testimony
of the palm is personally very hope-filled. Again, palms speak of works, works that give us authority
over Satan and death.
And
let us briefly pause here and further address something previously noted. You will recall that Yahweh brought
from under the threshold of the temple the water of His Spirit in 1994 when the
Holy Spirit came upon me, and then ten years later it passed under the eastern
gate into the Millennial reign in 2004.
Actually, the conclusion of the 120 Jubilees that signaled the latter
rain was in 1993, and one would have expected that rain to have begun
then. It seems striking that ten
years later in 2003 the test of Carmel ended for Christianity, and they
likewise should have ascended alive, but that too was unfulfilled. And going forward to 1996, Yahweh took
this man to Georgia to experience a Jonah intercession. This was the year in which Yahweh added
seventy-six years and had mercy (Cursed
Time and Blessed Time, 1920 and 1996). Now ten years later
in 2006, we are in the final year of the strong messenger work. It is our hope that in this year Yahweh
will equally attest to that mercy and a metamorphosis will take place, a much
needed metamorphosis! (Per this
ten-year cycle, you will recall that Yahweh reversed time “ten
steps” as a testimony to Hezekiah that He would heal him – 2 Kings
20:1-11.)
Continuing
in this matter concerning the palm, let us now examine something else regarding
this Tabernacles Pentecost intercession on the evening of the 26th
that is of utmost importance to address.
It has often been noted here that intercession brings authority and
insight/understanding. When Yahweh
took us through the intercession wherein I was led through the laver and to the
altar, this identification has brought some very interesting and revealing
insight and critical authority.
While
lying on the floor and through my tears establishing a laver, I realized that
the altar whereupon I would lift my hands to Yahweh as a living sacrifice, was
a type of ascending alive into heaven.
In fact, it is the same as Elijah’s altar on Mount Carmel. In each case, the smoke ascending to
Yahweh attests to this ascension (Judges 13:20, 6:21, as well as the burnt
offerings).
We
thus see in the tabernacle and in the two temples some amazing truth,
particularly regarding the court and the furniture in it. Given that the furniture in the court
was two pieces – the laver and the altar – we see the following. Consider each point here very
carefully.
So
how is it that we can enter into the heavenly? There is only one way – to ascend alive, attested
to by the altar that stands at the entrance to the tabernacle.
We
have seen that Christianity is the holy place, and the Remnant is the holy of
holies. So have Christians entered
into the heavenly holy place?
Absolutely not! Instead of
entering into that place, they have died and gone to the dust, to the sea. The shortfall of Christians is that
they have never been able to get onto the altar. This (unknowingly) is why I told Kyle that I could not go to
the altar without faith. This is
precisely the problem that Christians have had for 2,000 years. As written in Hebrews 3:16-4:11, they
have come short because they too have not had the faith to go to the altar and
ascend alive. This they had to have done so by
Tabernacles, 2003, and they came short – they failed!
So
what has been lacking for them?
The same thing that had to be added to my own lack of faith – they
did not have an Elijah who would teach them and urge them and lead them on,
preparing the way for them! Kyle was the Elijah who has laid down
his life for me and thus had the authority to bring me to the place where I had
to be; otherwise I would not have been able to go to the altar so as to enter
into the tabernacle. And this is
precisely where we are today. This
man is the Elijah to the Bride, and it is by the palm branch work that Yahweh
is doing in and through me and by laying my life down for the Bride, that the
Bride will enter into the place of the One who has gone before us – the X
– and be able to ascend alive, entering into the tabernacle made without
hands. It was thus at my
intercessoral entrance into that place, that I next called all the others to
come in with me, each of them passing through the threshold of tears and the
oil that was laid down before them.
On
the other hand, Christianity is as revealed in the sons of Israel. Like the sons of Israel, they came to
the place of entering into the holy place which is theirs; but since they could
not ascend alive, the “holy place” they built for the next 2,000
years has been of this earth and must be torn down (evidenced by their earthly bodies being torn down
– dying), even as all the tabernacles and temples of this earth have each
been torn down.
Do
you see this? The only way to
enter into the true tabernacle is by ascending alive – the brazen altar. This
means that nothing that Christianity has built is acceptable to Yahweh (it is
of this earth) and has to be torn down.
And furthermore, as we learned in the intercession, the only way that
anyone will be able to enter into that heavenly temple is to be given faith by
the Elijah. Elijah truly prepares
the way for the Bride to ascend alive.
Since
Christians have never been able to enter into the tabernacle above, in truth
their work has been relegated solely to the wilderness, which we have seen is
the court (Shelah and Clay of
Spittle, page 4).
When we look at a replica of the tabernacle, we get the impression that
all that is needed to go into the holy place is to simply walk past the burning
altar and the laver. But this is
misleading. Here the natural
cannot tell the entire story. It
takes far more than just walking past the altar and saying that it is
Yahshua. That altar represents an
entrance into a tabernacle that is above, and the only way to enter into it
is the same way that Yahshua did so – by ascending alive! One
cannot enter into that heavenly place by remaining on this earth. They must ascend alive! We do not enter the tabernacle by
passing through, but by passing upward!
This
is the tabernacle into which Yahshua entered, and is the tabernacle we must
enter, and by the same means – by ascending upwards. Concerning this tabernacle and the
equal way of our entrance, we read – “But when Christ appeared as a
high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more
perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation;
… He entered the holy place (holy of holies) once for all, having
obtained eternal redemption” (Hebrews 9:11-12). Christians have never entered into this tabernacle, any more
than He entered it by death. Death
took Him to the grave, even as it has taken Christians for 2,000 years. The Bride will not follow in this way,
but will be in the first resurrection and follow Him in the way wherein He
entered into the “greater and more perfect tabernacle” – by
ascending alive!
Having
said this, there is one slight exception – having the power of
rumination, as Yahweh has given this man.
This is not something that Christians have had the power to effect; but
evidenced by all that Yahweh has shown this man, there is no other way to
explain this than that He has given me the power to ascend and descend, while
staying in this earthly body. Of
course this alone is not sufficient, for it too must lead to the true and
complete fulfillment of bodily ascending alive. But in order to do this, even as Yahshua had to precede us
and prepare the way, so He has had to give a man truth that will in the same
manner prepare the way – the Elijah work.
What
is the Elijah work? As it is written
in Philippians 2:17, it is “being poured out as a drink offering upon the
sacrifice and service of (others) faith.” The Holy Spirit asked me one day in the 70’s after
reading this passage – “What kind of testimony would you be to your
father if everything was going perfect in your life?” “Not that much,” was my
reply. My father was not following
Yahshua at the time. Then He told
me – “You have suffered financial difficulties for the sake of your
father’s faith.” Two
days later my father went to church with us, and when the pastor tried to close
the service after an altar call, he suddenly lost his voice and motioned to the
organist to continue playing, and at that extended time my father went to the
front altar. Afterward he told me
that he did not even consider going down, but all of a sudden found his feet
carrying him down there. From then
on his life changed. My father
borrowed from the faith that was afforded by another; and I trust that this
happened in my life as a testimony that the Bride will equally miraculously get
to that exceedingly more important altar.
Again,
the reason that man has never ascended alive is because there has never been an
Elijah. Elijah is the catalyst
that makes ascension possible.
As
written in the section titled, “The Legal Rights to Ascend Alive,”
Trumpets, 2005, we see that
the specific purpose of a Tabernacles Pentecost is to gain the legal rights to
ascend alive. It is incredibly
significant, though not fully realizing it at the time, that at this first ever
Tabernacles Pentecost, we were led through this specific intercession that took
this man to the very place that represents this ascension! As an intercessor, we gained the rights
to ascend alive. We walked it out
in the natural, and it will be fulfilled in the spiritual. Not only did this intercession give us
understanding, but it has given us authority as well.
You
may look at this and say – But the court furniture of the laver and the
altar as recorded in Exodus, is not in the order that you walked out, but in
the reverse. This is indeed
true. But the wording of this
order in Exodus is most interesting.
First we read in Exodus 40:6 – “You shall set the altar of
burnt offering in front of the doorway of the tabernacle of the tent of
meeting.” Reading this, one
would suspect that it is in fact the altar that is in front of the doorway to
the tabernacle as we have so addressed here; but in the next verse we read
– “You shall set the laver between the tent of meeting and the
altar and put water in it.”
But
let us ask – Is the furniture in the tabernacle and in the court, or even
the tabernacle itself, a fixed unchangeable order? No, not any more than the tribes of Israel were a fixed
unchanging order, for they too changed numerous times. For example, when the writer of Hebrews
described the tabernacle, the altar of incense was moved into the holy of
holies with the ark of the covenant (Hebrews 9:3-4). Why, because Yahweh has taken the interceding first Remnant
out of the holy place of Christianity, and moved it into the Remnant holy of
holies. Keep in mind that the
tabernacle in the wilderness represented the governmental order during the
breach/wilderness period of Christianity.
Furthermore
in Hebrews 9, verse 8 adds even more change, and not just to the furniture, as
we see here, but to the tabernacle itself – “The Holy Spirit is
signifying this, that the way into the holy of holies has not yet been
disclosed while the first (the holy place) is still standing, which is a
parable of the present time.”
Here we see that the holy place (Christianity), “the first,”
must be removed in order to make way for entry into the holy of holies (the
Remnant Bride). Thus we see that
most certainly the laver and the altar can be reversed, when in fact the holy
of holies and the holy place are reversed – the first to be last, and the
last to be first.
This
is indeed a dramatic and unsuspected change, but not entirely new either; for
in the time of David, that holy place was equally removed and the ark of the
covenant was likewise made wholly accessible. The entire tent of meeting that Moses had made, including
the altar, was at Gibeon, while the ark was in a tent in Jerusalem (2
Chronicles 1:3-6). The very fact
that the altar was not with the ark of the covenant speaks volumes, confirming
what we have been noting – that the altar brings one into the tabernacle
above where His presence abides.
Therefore, there is no need for the testimony of ascending alive, when
one is in the abiding Presence of the ark. It would be like having an elevator that goes
“up,” when you live on the penthouse. You’re already there!
Furthermore
in similar regard, though all creation attests that the male receives the
glory, and when Scripture tells us that the man is the glory of Yahweh, He equally
reverses the order and gives the long hair glory to the woman; wherein He
explained to me one day that, per this testimony, He would not give His glory
to the masculine body of Christ, but would give it to the Bride. This too is once again a totally
unexpected change – the first being last, and the last being first.
And
back to the temple, David and his men ate the consecrated bread of the Presence
which was removed from before Yahweh (1 Samuel 21:3-6). And Solomon added considerable
furniture to the temple, changing it around as well, including equally moving
the laver (more on this). But most
noteworthy and revealing was the change in the temple Ezekiel was shown.
In
Ezekiel 40-48 we read about the temple that is commonly called the
“Millennial Temple,” which is quite obviously a very significant
and timely testimony for us today.
You will notice one striking thing about this temple – while there
is once again the altar, there is no laver per se. Actually though, there is a laver, only it appears in an
entirely different fashion, one that wholly relates to the intercession Yahweh
took us through on the evening of December 26.
You
will recall that Yahweh cast me to the floor at the entrance to the area that
we could call the court, insomuch that it contained the altar and the laver;
only now the laver is moved to the entrance and the altar remains where it has
been at the doorway of the tabernacle.
And it is interesting and obviously quite significant to note that while
the laver is indeed moved about in the court, the altar never loses its
place at the doorway of the tabernacle! There is only one way
into the true tabernacle – to ascend alive.
Of
course the element contained in the laver was water, and as we saw in the
intercession, this water is formed by many tears. As you will see though, the laver looks to the outpouring of
the Holy Spirit; but there can be no question that our tears are directly
related to rain drops. All
creation groans and travails for the revelation of the Sons of God, and the
latter rain is but an accumulation of those tears and sending them down to man
for his gain, for his good, and for his benefit.
In
Psalm 56:8 we read – “You have taken account of my wanderings; put
my tears in Your bottle. Are they
not in Your book?” But even
more wonderfully, in 2 Kings 20:5-6 we read further concerning Hezekiah, for
whom Yahweh reversed time “ten steps” – “I have heard
your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the
house of Yahweh.” This is
now the third day, and it is indeed time for Yahweh to repent of the evil which
has been planned for us and take us up to His house. Or as it is written in Hosea 6:2 – “He will
raise us up on the third day, that we may live before Him.”
In
the tabernacle, the laver was a relatively small vessel of unknown dimensions
and shape containing water for cleansing the hands and the feet of the priests
(Exodus 30:18-21). In
Solomon’s temple, the sea was deep enough in which to swim, being about
fifteen feet wide and over seven feet deep. It held nearly 12,000 gallons of water, or the volume of 1⅓
eighteen-wheeler tankers, and weighed almost 90 tons. In the Millennial temple, very significantly, the water is
no longer contained in one vessel, but rather the laver/sea becomes a river,
beginning as a trickle and ever increasing until it cannot be forded! Let us now see this.
The
trickle that is over the feet looks to the laver wherein the feet and hands
were washed. Exodus 30:21 tells us
that the purpose of this for the priest was “that they will not
die.” Of course this is
precisely what the latter rain is all about – that we will not die, but
ascend alive. The water that is
over the feet restores our kingdom rights so that we will not die.
But
the latter rain water that comes from the Millennial temple must and will go to
the sea, precisely the name of Solomon’s vast vessel, and are both in
fact the same Hebrew word – “yam.” Why was it called the “sea”? Because it represents the latter rain
that begins as a trickle and increases until it is deep enough in which to
swim, which Solomon’s sea certainly afforded, and goes to the sea.
While
this alone is extraordinarily compelling and revealing, how else do we know
that this river that flows out from under the eastern gate is the fulfillment
of the laver/sea? First, because
it is the only water that is associated with the Millennial temple, taking the
place of the laver/sea.
Furthermore, in Ezekiel 47:1-2 we read that the water that flowed under
the eastern gate had its origin “from under the threshold of the house
toward the east, … flowing down from under, from the right side of the
house, from south of the altar.” What else took this specific
position?
In
Solomon’s temple, the piece of furniture that replaced the laver was the
sea. Of course this is the item
that, via a clear contradiction in its volume, attests to the 2,000 years that
Christianity receive and the 3,000 years that the Remnant Bride receive (Return of the Raven, page 4). We find that the sea
is likewise located “on the right side of the house toward the southeast” (2 Chronicles
4:10). This location description
is in relation to Solomon’s temple, while the point in which the water
comes out in the Millennial temple is described in relation to the altar. When you take into consideration the
eastern location of the altar in the Millennial temple, then the water that
comes out south of it comes out at the very location of Solomon’s sea
– southeast of the temple. They were both identically located.
ALTAR SEA
Furthermore,
Solomon’s sea is identified as being located – “on the right
side of the house.” Likewise, in the Millennial temple the
water is said to be “trickling from the right side of the house.” These similarities are
inescapable! Added to this that
the water that flowed under the eastern gate also flowed “from the right side,” there is no question that the water
that came from the Millennial temple “south of the altar,” is
the laver/sea that is no longer bound to one location, but has become a
life-giving river – the latter rain! Of course we
have already noted this to be the case per the right foot of the strong messenger as well, it too
marking the beginning of the latter rain.
And
finally, one can already see in both of these cases that the sea is no longer
located between the altar and the tabernacle either, but has moved to a
location south of it, or one could say beside it.
So
how does all of this relate to our December 26 intercession? First, the testimony of the laver was
moved, not only from the place between the altar and the tabernacle, but to the
opening of the court, even to the threshold. I laid essentially on the threshold of the court, laying
down a laver that attests to that river that flows as a trickle “from
under the threshold.”
In
the Scriptures, there are many testimonies related to the threshold, one of
which seems especially noteworthy here – the Levite’s concubine
died with her hands on the threshold, and from there was taken home and sent
out in twelve pieces. This was
addressed in Sending out the
Twelve. Also, both of Dagon’s palms
(2,000 years of Christianity’s works) and his head (Satan) were cut off
on the threshold (1 Samuel 5:4), speaking of the end of the period of Dagon
Christianity. (Compare this to
Jezebel – 2 Kings 9:33-35.)
Jeroboam’s son died when his wife entered the threshold of the
house, even though the prophet, Ahijah, said that he would die when her feet
entered the city (1 Kings 14:12-17).
(This man has waited for the fulfillment of an equally delayed promise
per Christianity.) The glory of God
went up from a cherub “to the threshold of the temple,” and He
called to a man dressed in linen who had a writing case and stood by the bronze
altar – “Go through the midst of the city, even through the midst
of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan
over all the abominations which are being committed in its midst”
(Ezekiel 9:1-4). In Ezekiel 10:4
and 18 we see once again the glory of Yahweh descending and ascending from the
threshold. In fact, the word
“threshold(s)” is used fourteen times in Ezekiel, half of its total
usage in the entire Scriptures.
The “foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him
who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke” (Isaiah 6:4).
One
of the things about the Bride that is so exciting is that we are willing to ask
the hard and often ignored questions.
Here we find our greatest truth and our greatest encouragement and
assurance. For example, we know
that the latter rain is prophesied in the Millennial temple as the water that
comes from the location of Solomon’s sea and flows out under the eastern
gate. Obviously then, this
testimony is extremely important!
This being the case, then we should ask the question as to why Ezekiel
was “brought out (of the temple area) by way of the north gate and led
… around on the outside to the outer gate by way of the gate that faces
east.” Also, if this is the
latter rain and it begins to flow in the Millennial reign when it passes under
the eastern gate, then we need to know why the gate was closed and why the
water had to flow under it and what this means.
Concerning
why the eastern gate was closed, necessitating that Ezekiel be led around
through the north gate, we read four chapters earlier in Ezekiel 43:4 that
“the glory of Yahweh came into the house by the way of the gate facing
toward the east.” In verse 7
Yahweh declares – “this is the place of My throne and the place of
the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the sons of Israel
forever.”
When
Yahshua, the Messiah, came the first time and the soles of His feet were among
men and He dwelled among them, did He set up His throne forever? No, they killed Him, and He returned to
heaven and has been there for 2,000 years. In Ezekiel 44:1-2 we then read concerning this gate that
brought Yahshua here the first time:
Then He brought me back by the way of the outer
gate of the sanctuary, which faces the east; and it was shut. Yahweh said to me, "This gate
shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for Yahweh
God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut.”
In
Bride book Song of Solomon 8:8-10 we read a clear testimony regarding the two
Remnant – the two sisters.
The first sister had “no breasts.” As a testimony of the first Remnant, she did not come to
maturity per the kingdom, the milk.
It was also declared regarding her:
“What shall we do for our sister
On the day when she is spoken for?
If she is a wall,
We shall build on her a battlement of silver;
But if she is a door,
We shall barricade her with planks of cedar.”
Just
as the eastern gate was shut and it could not be opened, we see the identical
testimony per the little sister.
Why? Because they both
speak of the same thing – that the coming of Yahshua would be blocked,
insomuch that He came the first time and was rejected and man has defiled His
sanctuary, by the Jews, but more so by Christians.
Therefore,
when the time of the Millennial reign came, the sabbath rest, did Yahshua
come? Absolutely not! Why? Because the eastern gate is closed! And it would remain closed for another
1,000 years when He would undoubtedly return in wrath, even as we read in
Jeremiah and Revelation (A Fresh
Look At End Times). But, He must have mercy on man and cut
those days short to 2,000 years.
Thus we see – as in the edict by King Ahasuerus in Esther, Yahweh
has decreed a solemn edict that will result in the destruction of His
people. What then is He to
do? In His anger He has ordered
that the gate remain closed. How
is He to solve the legal problem?
As with Esther, He uses an Esther and Mordecai to make another decree
that will offset the former.
Another
noteworthy and revealing account per this manner of coping with a hard edict is
found in Judges 21. Here the few
surviving sons of Benjamin, who in retribution were almost decimated by the
other tribes, in order to prevent extinction were told to “go and lie in
wait in the vineyards” and when “the daughters of Shiloh (came) out
to take part in the dances,” they were each to go out and catch a wife
and take her back to the land of Benjamin. By doing this, the tribe of Benjamin was preserved, and the
people of Shiloh were not guilty of giving their daughters to them (which would
have meant their own judgment).
This was Yahweh’s way of having mercy, yet still keeping the law.
So
where are we today? We are in the
Shiloh/Shelah Millennial period of the church. We cannot go into what all this might mean, but it is most noteworthy
that the 600 surviving Benjamites received 400 wives in one fashion per the
law, and 200 from Shiloh. It is
significant to note that this is the way mankind has been divided thus far
– 4,000 years of mankind and the sons of Abraham, and 2,000 years of
Christianity. Yahweh will have
mercy on these 6,000 years as well, and He will afford a way for them to
survive His wrath that He has had, and will do so in a most unusual way, but
certainly legally. It is
interesting that Christianity gets its wives from the Shiloh Millennial period,
whereas the other 4,000 years receive theirs in another way. Now back to our matter at hand.
While
it is decreed that the eastern gate be closed and the Son of God cannot return,
in order for Him to come early, Yahweh has to effect a like legal alternate
decree/work. This He does by
sending His Spirit and establishing a man and a work that is represented in the
water that comes out from under the threshold of the temple, using him/it to
prepare the way through that gate.
While Yahshua cannot come through that gate as it is (for the people are
corrupt [Ezekiel 43:6-9] and He would have to judge them in wrath), Yahweh
performs a work that will indeed prepare the way for His return through it
– the obedient people formed by the latter rain. Thus, the latter rain is in every way
the Mordecai decree that reverses the sentence of death on the church, allowing
us to do something about the problem.
It is Yahweh’s legal way of cutting short those three days
(“My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”), and making a way for
Yahshua to come once again “before the time,” early, but this time
for the good.
Do
you see this? The gate was closed
in the Millennial temple because it was not Yahshua’s time to return, so
Yahweh had to send His latter rain under the closed gate (the edict) and form
the work of the “obedient people” who will prepare His way. Even as this man was taken to a place
where I could not go via an Elijah (Kyle), so the Elijah Bride will bring
Yahshua to a place where it is not yet His time. This is the Mary who when Yahshua declares –
“Woman, what have I to do with you?
My hour has not yet come.” – replies to the servants –
“Whatever He says to you, do it.” Of course, though it was not yet His time, He did indeed
turn the water into wine (John 2:1-11), which we desperately need today!
Why
do we keep persevering in the Bride?
Because we are at a critical place in the church, in mankind, and we
have to persevere to effect that which is actually before the time. All we have had up to now is a trickle,
and it has passed under the eastern gate, but at least we have had the
trickle! And we do have hope!
So
why then did Ezekiel have to go out the north gate and around to the east? We have already seen why the eastern
gate was closed, and there was no passage through it. And we have seen that by going to the place where the water
comes from under the gate on the right, that it marked the beginning of the
Millennial reign. And we know that
that water will, in measures of depth and authority, ever increase in the
Millennium until the sea of death is healed. What then does the north gate speak of?
First,
in Ezekiel 8:3-6 the north gate in Jerusalem is “where the seat of the idol
of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy, was located.” This is very consistent with Isaiah
14:13-16 where we read concerning Satan and his desires – “I will
raise my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit on the mount of assembly
in the recesses of the north.”
Also, in Daniel 11:16 we read that the “king of the north”
stays in the “Beautiful land (the church), with destruction in his
hand.”
So
how could this gate that speaks of evil be used for good in making passage to
the ever-increasing latter rain?
In 2004, when the Millennial reign began, the Bride passed through the
north gate. How did we do
that? Kyle had rejected me in
2002, and when we came back together in 2004 he considered me to be his
enemy. In fact prior to that we
had met for lunch, and he did so with the understanding that it was as written
in Psalm 23:5 – “You prepare a table before me in the presence of
my enemies.” And quite
appropriately, Ezekiel 40:35-43 tells us that at the north gate were the
“tables” used for slaughtering the sacrifices.
When
we got together for Passover in 2004, Kyle came to me as a Satan. He had rejected me for two years (an
intercessoral 2,000 years). Even
when we got together at Atonement later that year, we were able to carry out
that all-important contract because of Kyle’s intercessoral place as
Satan. All of this was critical,
because for 2,000 years Satan had the rights to the office of the twelfth
apostle. So, for the Bride to get
out of the temple area and around to the water that flows under the eastern
gate, in 2004 we had to go through the gate where Satan is identified and gain
his place and legal authority.
(Plus I had to go to New York during this time, as well as fight my wife
in court – a very difficult place!)
By passing through this north gate where Satan’s authority
resided, we gained the passage to the eastern gate in the Millennial period so
as to be able to prepare the way for Yahshua’s return.
In
the “Addendum” of He Was Jealous
With My Jealousy, we saw that
Judas occupied the role of Elijah when he baptized Yahshua into death. When Judas killed himself, that role as
the Elijah went to the one to whom it was promised – the devil (John
6:70) – who ever since used his office to baptize the body of Christ into
death. Satan had the authority of
that office, and was the only apostle remaining to exercise that authority over
the church. In the Millennial
reign, Satan’s time is legally finished; therefore, it was critical that we
pass through the north gate to obtain that authority. And such we did per the contract on Atonement, September 25,
2004 – the “Legal Transfer
of the Office of the Twelfth Apostle.”
It
is most striking and fitting to also note at this closing, that throughout this
account in Ezekiel 40-48, including Ezekiel being led out the north gate to the
east, he too had his “Elijah,” a messenger, to lead him. Thus we see once again that the
Millennial temple is a clear testimony of today – walking with and being
led and taught by an Elijah who affords the essential faith to go to the
altar.
In
Hebrews 9:8 we read – “The Holy Spirit is signifying this, that the
way into the holy of holies has
not yet been disclosed, while the first (the holy place) is still standing,
which is a parable of the present time.” That is what this writing is all about. Christianity is now finished, and
“the way into the holy of holies” is not only being disclosed, but
authority is being gained to enter into it. Elijah is preparing the way, and it is through the
altar. That muddy Mississippi must
give way to the trickle that flows from under the threshold and under the
eastern gate. The “cloud as
small as a man’s palm” has come up from the sea.
Continue to page 5 of Tabernacles
Pentecost, 2005 for ADDING THE NINTH