THE HIGH CALLING OF GOD - Audio Link
On the 3rd of January I received a dream from the Lord God. I was driving during a stormy night on a busy road and had to enter into what looked like an estate, guarded by big iron gates. However, I was faced with some frustration to get in, as the gates only allowed for a narrow opening. Eventually “zig zagging” my way, careful not to be hit by the oncoming traffic, I managed to get in and found myself surrounded by big trees and a narrow road that only allowed for one car. The road was winding down steeply and there was very little light to guide my path, except that of my car. The atmosphere was very ominous and dark. The road was also not smooth, so it was not an easy drive. I had to be very careful, fearful that I would go off the road as it became more dangerous as I drove. The road made a turn and I could see roaring waves right next to me on the way. At the bend of the road there was an incline, taking me higher and higher. Suddenly my destination was before me. A castle. At that moment the dream changed and I was inside the castle in what looked like a conference room. There was a table draped with a white table cloth, but nothing on it. It was strictly business and I instinctively knew that I was there to learn. Six people were sitting at the table, their backs only visible to me, and I was the 7th. There was a woman standing in front of us that handed each one of us a steaming hot cup of coffee. I knew that she would be our teacher. I could not see her face, only that she too had white on. Another lady was standing to the side who was also part of our group, but chose to not sit down. She was in a hurry. She grabbed some cooldrink in a plastic cup and immediately ran off to whatever she had to do. End of dream.
The interpretation of the dream is as
follows: The busy road with all the
oncoming traffic resembles the church in general. The cars, including mine, is a representation
of our lives. The narrow road through the narrow gate is speaking of Yeshua’s words
to us that many are those who are on the broad way, but so few on the
narrow. The reason for the narrow gate
and path that only holds one car, is because it is an individual and personal
decision that nobody can make for you…you decide whether you want to stay on
the busy road, where the pace is fast, or you decide to go on a journey through
these gates where you know you will never be the same again. You have to count the cost. It will not be easy. This is not about salvation. Those who are on the broad way are saved as
well. The purpose of entering the gates
is to go up the mountain. It is an
answer to a call, an invitation. It will
not be an easy decision and you will find that you zig zag a lot before the
gates, before you fully commit and are willing to pay the price. You are counting the cost each time. The ominous and dark atmosphere is that of
entering into a place of darkness before you reach the top of the
mountain. There is a descend before an
ascend. It will be a bumpy road, meaning
it will be very trying and not a journey where you can stop along the way for
some selfies and gazing over the scenery, eating some of the goodies from the picnic
basket you have prepared. Rather, it is a
dark and unknown place where you have to keep your eye on the road and focus. The roaring sea and tumultuous waves on the
side of the road speak of the current condition of this world, a storm if you
will. To not be sidetracked, but stay
the course. Meaning that on this journey
there will be distractions, but you have to remember why you entered through
the gates. It will not be easy to ignore
the distractions. The conference room
speaks of the purpose behind the invitation…to learn. To receive, and therefore, this is not a
place to speak, but to listen and pay very good attention. There were only a few and not a whole room
full of people as we would expect at a conference. This further emphasizing
that not many people choose to go down this road. The woman represents the Holy Spirit. The coffee served in relation to the
cooldrink that the busy lady drank, speaks of maturity and immaturity. Mature people drink coffee, children drink
cooldrink. Because of this lady’s
disposition, which is that of not sitting, resting and waiting with an attitude
to learn, she ran off to do her own thing, but in the end forfeited that which
she was called to. Showing us that there may even be those who start and go all
the way, but fail to commit and enter into the disposition required.
Exodus 24: 12 - 13
12 And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to
me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a
law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and
Moses went up into the mount of God.
Moses was told to come up into the
mount, and be there. That is to say to
not do anything, but wait. Not just
wait, but it is as if the Lord God was saying, “This is your place of being…BE
HERE.”
Even though no clear indication is
given as to who wrote the 91st Psalm, it is generally understood
that the previous psalm’s author is to be the author of the proceeding psalm, should
it not indicate one. This makes Moses
the author of Psalm 91. Considering the magnitude of this beautiful psalm we
can ascribe it to no other than him who went up and had his being there. It is not written from a perspective of
desiring or hoping for the reality by faith, but written from true experience
of what it means to “be there”. I
happened upon Charles Spurgeon’s commentary on Psalm 91 and think it best to quote
his opening statement to this psalm.
“He that dwelleth in the secret place
of the Most High...The blessings here promised are not for all believers, but
for those who live in close fellowship with God. Every child of God looks towards the inner
sanctuary to the mercy seat. Yet not all
dwell in the most holy place. They run
to it at times and enjoy occasional approaches, but they do not habitually
reside in the mysterious presence. Those
who through rich grace obtain unusual continuous communion with God, so as to
abide in Christ and Christ in them, become possessors of rare and special
benefits, which are missed by those who follow afar off and grieve the Holy
Spirit of God. Into the secret place
those alone come who knows the love of God in Christ Jesus. Those only dwell there to whom to live is
Christ, to them the veil is rent, the mercy seat is revealed, the covering
cherubs are manifest, and the awful glory of the Most High is apparent. These like Simeon have the Holy Ghost upon
them and like Anna they depart not from the temple. They are the couriers of the great King, the
valiant men who keep watch around the bed of Solomon, the virgin souls who
follow the Lamb withersoever He goeth, the elect out of the elect. They have
obtained to the first three verses and they shall walk with the Lord in white
for they are worthy. Sitting down in the
aghast presence chamber where shines the mystic light of the shekinah, they
know what it is to be raised up together and to be made to sit together with Christ
in the heavenlies. And of them it is
truly said that there conversation is in heaven. Special grace like theirs brings with a
special immunity. Outer court
worshippers little know what belongs to the inner sanctuary, for surely they
would press on until the place of nearness and divine familiarity became
theirs. Those who are the Lord’s
constant guests shall find that He will never allow any to be injured within
His gates. He has eaten the covenant
salt with them and has pledged for their protection.”
Hebrews 12: 18 - 25
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be
touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and
tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words;
which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to
them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was
commanded, And if so much as A BEAST touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or
thrust through with a dart: (I make mention of this beast later in the devotional.)
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I
exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city
of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of
angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the
firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the
spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and
to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they
escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape,
if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
At first glance it may appear as if
the former mountain experience is to be much more feared than the latter,
especially knowing that we have entrance by faith into the veil. However, verse 25 tells us that we are not to
refuse Him that speaks from heaven, seeing that those who refused Him speaking
from an earthly mountain did not escape, how much more when He speaks from heaven.
Upon reading Psalm 91:1 concerning
dwelling in the secret place of the Most High and abiding under the shadow of
His wings, we understand that this place is a place of thick darkness. Is it
possible that these wings are the wings of the cherubs? It is said that between these two figures
with their faces turned towards each other and down towards the lid on the Ark
of the Covenant, the mercy seat, which they overshadowed with their expanded
wings, that between these figures God was regarded as having fixed His dwelling
place. What pestilence or scheme of the
enemy will succeed? Who can barge in
there and snatch those who abide under His wings? And the most important part is that this is
the promise to those who make Him their dwelling place. To be in Him is to be in Christ. To be in Christ is to be in heavenly
places. Surely this is why no one could
touch Yeshua until His appointed time. His Father was His dwelling place. In the outer court we have natural light,
which speaks of human understanding and knowledge, then the inner court, we
have the lamp stand, Menorah, and shew bread that speaks of the revelation of
the Word, and lastly in the Holy of Holies there is no light, only darkness and
the presence of God over the Ark of the Covenant. Most visit and come and go into the Holy of
Holies, there where no natural light shines.
They have their brief moments of visitations of ecstasies, but they do
not have their dwelling there. They can
testify of moments of adoration and glory, of unspeakable peace, and yet they
do not abide.
Why?
Why do they leave? Like the busy
lady in my dream? Is it because life
beckons them with incessant calls for attention? Is it because life needs to go on? How are we
to have our being in Him when He is in heaven, on that high and glorious Mount
Zion, so terrible in its earthly duplicate that the Israelites refused to go
up? How are we to ascend, when we still
struggle so much to descend? How does He
become our constant abode?
Only in Christ. It is not that those, who make His secret
place their dwelling, do not hear the call of life to come down the mountain. It is not because they do not hear the merriment
of dancing around the golden calf, forgetting the cares of this world. It is not because they do not have family and
work responsibilities to attend to, or their part in society. No, they hear it too and yet they do not come
down.
Moses had to come up there and wait
on the Most High. As long as it took to
actually be there and not have his mind still concerned with those he has left
behind in the camp. Until he was
completely there it would not constitute being there. On the other hand, the Israelites waited too,
but patience not being their greatest virtue, they thought the man to be dead
and felt no need to wait. Even though
they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful, but became
vain in their imaginations and their foolish hearts were darkened (Roman 1:
21). This the same people who knew Him
to the degree of their own experiences from the outer court. Redeemed from Pharaoh’s slavery through the
parting of the Red Sea as they traveled, a great multitude between the walls of
water to safety. Their hungry bellies
were fed with manna and every night they saw His glory in a form of a pillar of
fire. At day He was their compass, ever
present as a cloud. He was their
Redeemer, their Saviour, their source, compass and protection…He was their
God.
Professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image
made unto corruptible man (Romans 1: 22 – 23).
Simply put, they made a beast. In
Ecclesiastes 3 the writer prays almost as if sighing that the Lord God would
make manifest to all men their true state, that they are all beasts. In fact, they have no pre-eminence above a
beast and shares the same fate when they die.
They return from where they came…to dust. All is vanity. The Israelites melted their precious gold,
which came from God Himself as spoils of war, which the Egyptians gave them
(Exodus 12: 25 – 36), and made an image unto corruptible man…a beast. That is to say one that are all together like
unto themselves, and they worshipped it.
When we lose sight of whom we are
describing and the context, we also lose sight that the Lord God knew what they
would do with the spoils, knowing man’s heart.
He knew that they would turn on Him. He who loved and redeemed them and ultimately
in spite of everything He has done, would still worship themselves. This is the condition of those who do not
make the Lord God their constant dwelling place. They will acknowledge His goodness, they are
grateful for His provision and revelations, but they will still worship the
beast.
It taketh not only a mark, number or
name to worship the beast, but only a disposition of compromise. As long as we only have an external or
symbolic view of the coming beast and fail to see that we have all fallen short
of the glory and have gone our separate way to worship the beast, we will think
ourselves to be safe from the coming due wrath, thinking that we are under His
wings and yet not.
Psalm 91: 14
14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore
will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Two very distinct prerequisites are
needed in order to enjoy this deliverance and to be set on high. We may very well call this the requirements
to enter the narrow gate of my dream.
This word “high” speaks of a place and the Strong’s concordance says to
be high is to be inaccessibly high, too high for capture. The first requirement is to set our love upon
Him and the second is to know His name.
This word “name” speaks of His character, authority, fame, glory,
reputation and renown. It is not
referring to what name we would address Him by.
It speaks of intimacy and experience.
The word “set” also means to cling.
In the previous devotional “If thine eye be single”, the Lord addressed
the issue of complete devotion and that anything other than total devotion is
in fact an evil eye. He further brought
our attention to the fact that devotion in itself is not just a feeling or exuberant
love and adoration, but rather true devotion is expressed by our
obedience. “If you love Me, you will do
My commandments”, He tells us in John 15.
This requires such a dependence on Him which is that which was the mind
of Christ. His disposition was complete
utter dependence on the Father. They
cling to Him, indeed they have set their love upon Him and no other.
In the book of John, the 4th
chapter, we read of the account where Yeshua revealed Himself to the Samaritan
woman at the well as the Living water.
This whole conversation forms the foundation of the next four
chapters. In John 5 Yeshua comes to the
aid of a man who has been lame for 38 years, lying next to the bath of
Bethsaida. An angel of the Lord would
come and trouble the waters so that whosoever would enter would be healed. However,
this poor man had no way of getting into the water unless someone carried
him. Is that not a type and shadow of us
who can do nothing without Him? He
looked up into the eyes of Him who is the Living Water and was told to rise and
take up his bed. Reading further we come
to the miraculous account of the feeding of the multitudes with the 5 loaves
and 2 fishes. He fed them with
nourishment for their bodies, just like the Israelites received their manna,
but He himself was the bread from heaven that would feed their souls. In chapter 6: 51 he says…
John 6: 51
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven:
if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will
give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
So in John 4 He reveals Himself as
the Living Water and in John 6 as the Living Bread.
What did He mean by saying that we
must eat His flesh and drink His blood?
The answer comes in verse 56.
56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
DWELLETH in me, and I in him.
This is what it means to eat His
flesh and drink His blood. When we eat
or drink something we take it into ourselves and it becomes one with us. When we take communion it is to declare that
we are one with Him in covenant and that He is our dwelling place. Might this be the reason why we are to make
sure that when we do take communion, our hearts are clean of all bitterness and
unforgiveness towards another? If our dwelling place is in the secret place,
how can we idly take communion?
Coming back to the 14th
verse in Psalm 19 concerning the second requirement, which is to know His name,
we read Yeshua saying the following to the Samaritan woman…
John 4: 20 - 24
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye
say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour
cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship
the Father.
22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we
worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true
worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father
seeketh such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must
worship him in spirit and in truth.
As mentioned, chapter 4 is
foundational to the four consecutive chapters, the issue being spirit and
truth. Yeshua told the Samaritan woman
that the water that He would give would be as a well from within, water that
would spring up into everlasting life.
And just like the lame man who had no need for his bed, we read how the
woman left her waterpot at the well.
Yeshua told her of her 5 husbands, which is a type and shadow of the
first 5 books of the Bible, the Law, which she broke, therefore being an
adulterous woman. The letter killeth,
but the Spirit gives life…everlasting life.
However, before her now stood He who called her to be His own that she
would set her love in total devotion on Him and cling to Him. She would have to leave her waterpot, the
water that will never satisfy, which is her own righteousness by depending on
herself, and cling to Him. That is to
say that there can be no clinging or cleaving to Him unless there is a total
leaving. There can be no true devotion,
unless it is total. There can be no true
oneness in Him, unless we ourselves are undivided, that is to say one
ourselves.
Paul said that he prayed that the
church would be sanctified wholly, body, soul and spirit. When all are sanctified, that is to say
holy, then all are one. We can be fully
devoted to Him in our spirit and be utterly divided in our soul and/or
body. Different things we still depend
upon. The truth is that some of us
cannot even go without our coffee, our favorite TV show, our snacks, not to
mention that which cuts even deeper, which is the approval of man. We are to come to such a place that there
will be no cutting of the corners in anything we do, whether in the mundane responsibilities,
where we feel no one will notice by a slight of hand or in ministry. Everything is worship. It does not matter whether you are standing
behind a pulpit or cleaning a toilet. If
you do not live in authenticity it constitutes that which is false. Do you have this disposition? Paul says in Philippians 3 that he leaves all
behind that he may obtain unto the high calling for which Christ has
apprehended him for. Only when all have been sanctified are we one and can we
be one with Him.
This oneness comes from the High
Priestly Prayer that Yeshua prayed in John 17.
John 17: 21 - 23
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in
me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe
that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given
them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made
perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast
loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Oneness lies at the heart of being
one with Him, which is to say to DWELL or ABIDE in Him in that secret place and
never to leave. In John 5 Yeshua says
the following in verse 19 and 30…
John 5: 19 & 30
19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth
the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son
likewise.
30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I
judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will
of the Father which hath sent me.
This was His disposition of
complete and utter dependence on His Father, clinging to Him. These two verses bare great significance to
the prophet Isaiah’s words in Isaiah 11.
Isaiah 11: 1 - 3
1And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon
him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the
fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
Notice that the word spirit
of the Lord is written in lowercase.
Why? Because it speaks of the
essence of who God is. Knowing that He
could do nothing, He did everything expressly and solely according to that
which He saw and heard of the Father in the secret place. And truly this is to be our uttermost and
only disposition in all we do. The
Apostle Paul said that he sees the invisible and eternal, the invisible weight
of glory. Not the visible things, that
which is natural to our eyes, but as God sees, which is reality. Making it his business to not engage that
which will distract him from that which is eternal. He averts his eyes, because he is jealous for
that which God sees. Seeing as God sees
is our provision for the age we are in. Jealous
not to see with natural light, or the light of the inner court, but the light
that stems from God. This the place we
are to see and hear in order that He may send us to judge righteously, having
received instructions from that place.
It is then that our words become an event that carries with it an
invisible and eternal weight of glory. In
the same way, as the Son made His abode in the Father, so we are too. We either understand by our own
interpretation of what words mean, or we enter into reality, into the mountain
and be there. Reality is truth, for
anything other than absolute authenticity is but fake, a phony or
hypocrisy. If anything, the Most High
is that which is true. All of Him is
unadulterated and He has no shadow of turning.
And that which is true is reality.
He longs for that very essence of Him in us, the reality of Him in us,
unadulterated truth in body, soul and spirit.
The essence of His being resting upon us as we have our dwelling in that
secret place. Therefore we must have an utmost appreciation
and highest regard for authenticity in everything. In Yeshua’s absolute obedience through utter
dependence upon the Father, the very essence of His Father rested upon
Him. Who being
the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding
all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins,
sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high (Hebrews 1: 3). This is why
Yeshua could tell Nicodemus that nobody ascends who has not first descended,
even the Son of Man who is in heaven.
Present tense. It is because of being in His Father, that
dwelling place, that He could tell Philip, “When you see me, you see the
Father”. Not because “the apple did not
fall far from the tree”, by trying His best to be like His Father, but because
in His body, soul and spirit, He was one and wholly devoted and sanctified,
therefore one with the Father. His
Father was that Living water and Living Bread in Him. Within Him He carried the essence of God, as
the Son of Man. All of Him for all of
the Father.
In John 6: 57
Yeshua says…
John 6: 57
57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by
the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
In chapter 4 we read of the Father
who desires those who will worship Him in spirit and in truth, showing us the
involvement as well as investment of the Trinity that we would know Him as He
truly is. Also we read of the Living
Father, the Living Water and the Living Bread, once again the Trinity
involved. The Father did not only give
His Son as the Living Bread and His Spirit as the Living Water, but he also
gave Himself as the Living Father that we may know Him and worship Him as the
true worshippers that He seeks, in spirit and truth. Meaning, that we worship Him from the basis
of who He is by coming into the mountain and having our being there. That we may be one with His Son and Him,
answering the prayer of our High Priest after the order of Melchizedek that we
read of in John 17. He longs to answer
His prayer. And just as the Father, the
Son and the Spirit gave themselves to us, we are to give ourselves body, soul
and spirit to Him. All of us for all of
Him.
Charles Spurgeon says that this call
is not answered by all and few be there that make this most Holy Place their
dwelling place. And how will we know Him
unless we desire to know Him so and are willing to count the cost? He desires to reveal Himself to us and extends
an invitation, “Seek Me with all your heart and you shall find Me.”
Knowing who the Most High is, His
essence, His glory is not to be found in the outer or inner court, but only
between the two cherubims wings, in His holy presence. In darkness where there is no natural light. There the mercy seat, to which we cling. Nobody is forced to stay and you can leave at
any time.
As long as we do not leave all behind
and go up into the mountain, and there dwell in the midst of gross darkness, we
will not know Him, but will have to be satisfied with only glimpses of
something that is transcending and eternal.
If we still dance around the golden calf and choose not to go up into
the mountain to seek this God who made heaven and earth, the God who is the
force behind the fiercest wave and storm, the breath behind all wind and
tornado, the scorching heat of the fires of hell, and the life of every soul,
we will be contend to keep on making Him in our own image and we will not know
the fear of God.
Psalm 50: 21
21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence;
thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will
reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
There is a high calling at this
moment going out to the Bride. A call to
come up and be there with Him. It is an
ultimate call that requires one to leave all behind. It will be a going down, a descending before
it will be a going up. It is a call to
come before Him as one who steps into gross darkness to lie upon your
face. There to be silent as His Spirit
searches you through and through. There
to allow Him to bring you to utter dust.
And with the psalmist you will say “when I kept silence my bones waxed
old by my groanings all day long. For
day and night Thy hand has been heavy upon me; my tears turned into the drought
of summer” (Psalm 32). This is not a call to take lightly and those who have
ears to hear, whose hearts have sufficiently been prepared for this call, will
leave all and go up. They must go, they
have an urgency that has been growing that they no longer can deny, which have
grown in intensity by the constant pull of deep calling unto deep. There to bear their whole being in the holy
presence of the Most High who is their very life. It will be a struggle as the call of this
world will demand attention and everything will fight against the mind to not
remain in that place. When you speak it
is only because He has commanded it and not because by your own free will. All voices, especially your own voice in your
mind, must be silent. There you
wait. The soul poured out in desperate
sighs and moanings as His very presence causes the soul to cry out “Woe is me!” It is a Job experience, a stripping, where
you do not walk out lightly with your blessing under your arm, but you lie
there and you want to die! You are only
fit for the grave! It is a place of
devastation before it is a place of glory.
A place where He speaks and you do not utter a word. It is the place of knowing. Only He can raise you up. You rise because like Elijah you have been given
living bread and living water and have come to the place of spirit and
truth.
Those who abide and makes the Most
High their dwelling place in Him are seated in heavenly place
in oneness in Christ and have their being in Him. They live by the Spirit and have their
conversation in heaven. They speak
mysteries and things of the Spirit that are foolishness to the wise of
this world, but are revealed to those who are as helpless and guileless as babes.
Luke 10: 21 - 22
21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I
thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things
from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father;
for so it seemed good in thy sight.
22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no
man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son,
and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
I need to clarify something without
going into too much detail before I read the Word Father has given me. This call is particularly to those who are
called to be part of the 144 000 that we read of in Revelation 7 and 14, the
virgins who followeth Him wherever He goeth. Please understand that this does
not disqualify or exclude anyone as the invitation is for all. God is not a respecter of persons. He may not have called you to be part of the 144
000, but this does not exclude you from the invitation to come up and be
there. The word virgin in the Strong’s
Concordance means maiden and therefore the words “not being defiled with woman”
speaks of being unadultered and without guile.
They will be able to operate from
both the heavenly and earthly realm in the time to come and will be the Elijah
company whom the Lord God will send for the harvest that will take place during
the tribulation. They will operate under
the office of Priest and Prophet. The
type and shadow of this can be seen in the account of Numbers 11 where Moses
was told to get 70 elders from the 12 tribes whom the people deemed upright, to
help him oversee the burden of the camp that was too heavy for him to carry as
one man. We read in verse 25 the following, “And
the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake unto him (Moses), and took
of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it
came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did
not cease.” They all received the same spirit as
Moses by the decree of the Lord and they all prophesied. They are Priests, because they have their
being in that secret place and have been set apart. The Levites are a type and shadow of them
that belonged to the Most High. Prophets
have the ability to be able to see in both realms as was the case with Elijah
who saw the heavens opened up. This
dynamic will return at the end of the age where the prophets will be
responsible to restore that which was at first, which is the knowledge and fear
of God. This will produce the prophecy
of Micah 4, which at the end will be the restoration of all things unto Him.
Micah 4: 1 - 2
1But in
the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of
the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it
shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let
us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of
Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the
law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Word from the Lord received 25th
December 2021.
COME UP
Yes, I am calling you
up to Me and yet nobody can stand before Me and live. Therefore I need all of you. Rightfully the Psalmist asks, “Who can ascend
into the hill of the Lord and who can stand in His holy place?” Only those who have clean hands, a pure
heart, who have not lifted up their souls to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
This is not a play on
words My child. This is for you to know
that before you meet Me as I AM in My holy hill, you cannot stand before Me as
YOU ARE. Know that I am about to prepare
you to meet with Me. Know that I do in
fact require more of you as those who have much, much is required. Therefore, prepare your heart, your mind to
meet with Me in My holy sanctuary for here no flesh can abide. Consecrate all of you. You are not to speak your own thing, or walk
in your own ways, nor defile My Sabbath, the rest I have given you through
faith. But you are to hear what I hear,
speak what I speak and see what I see.
Therefore, a new consecration that requires you to come out of the camp
for you to go up.
Unless you come out,
you cannot go up.
More is required, not
only that you may meet with Me and live, but that I may send you into the camp
as one whose face shines with the glory of God.
They will see and fear. They will
hear and be humbled and know that a prophet has been among them. But just like Moses, they will not hearken to
the voice of My speaking, but will harden their hearts, for their hearts are
still divided.
Therefore, I need all
of your heart. An undivided heart.
Give Me your heart
and let your eyes observe My ways. Only
then can I send. Only then can you speak
as My oracle, as one sent by Me.
Therefore, be zealous to consecrate all of you for the time is short and
soon the world and My unbelieving children will behold Me in those vessels I
have prepared. Not just the infilling,
but the vessel itself. Many will come to
Me, but much more will ridicule and scoff at My chosen ones. For they do not know Me. Know that those will be from your own
household, but also out of the household called church. Brother will turn against brother and sister
against sister for their hearts are envious and they desire the great things of
God out of the lust of the eyes and pride of life. But I search all hearts and know the intents
of their hearts to lavish all I give and spend it on their own gain that they
may receive the honor. But I will not
share My glory and honor. And they will
be given over unto a reprobate mind as they serve their own understanding,
calling it wisdom, calling it revelation.
But they have not heard from Me, but have eaten from that tree which I
have forbidden them from the beginning.
They have leaned on their own understanding and have gone their own way,
forsaking the way that leads to everlasting life and peace. Therefore, they will reap what they have
sown. They will reap thistles and thorns and shall find themselves amongst
scorpions and every creeping thing, even as you will. As I send you to stand in the midst of them
to speak My word that will burn as a fire.
Therefore, do not fear their looks or words, but know that when I send
you, I go with you, standing in the midst of a crooked and wicked generation,
just like John, My faithful servant called out of the camp to say, “Repent!
Repent!”
And just like then
the Pharisees will come out of their dark meeting places into the light and be
exposed as the vipers they are…Poisonous asps sent by that wicked one. But fear not, I am with you, just like I was
with Moses. No man shall be able to
stand before you. Every weapon formed
against you shall not prosper. This is
the heritage I have given you.
Therefore, be brave
and courageous. Set your face as a
flint, do not look to the left or the right, but come up and be here.
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