CROSSING OVER - THE PROCESS OF SANCTIFICATION

 

This is going to be a meaty devotional with regards to sanctification and the process Father takes us through.  Sometimes we wonder when it will ever end.  Why does it take so long and why does it have to entail so much suffering?  I believe this devotional will shed some light on that and be a bit of roadmap and understanding of the process He takes us through and why.  It is always for His glory.

We are going to start with 1 Peter 3.  We know that Peter is here addressing the married woman with regards to her apparel, but I want us to read it with regard to sanctification, the cleansing process.  Each time He speaks to the wife, He then is also speaking to her as the Bride.  Paul made it clear that the husband is the type and shadow of Yeshua and the wife is the type and shadow of the bride of Christ.  We can therefore read it in that context.

1 PETER 3

¹ Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

² While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

³ Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

⁴ But let it be the hidden man of the HEART, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

⁵ For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

⁶ Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

PROVERBS 4: 23 – 24

²³ Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

²⁴ Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

The Amplified Bible says, “Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it FLOWS the issues of life.  We know that the Word also says that out of the abundance of the heart we speak.  We also know that by this scripture that our heart is as a fountain or a well.  Out of it flows the issues of life and where it flows out is our mouth.  What we confess, how we think and react.  Everything flows out of the heart.  When we look at 1 Peter 3, Peter was talking about the adorning of the heart with a chaste conversation, a gentle and a meek spirit.  This is the disposition, character or the adornment of the Bride of Christ.  It is one of the inner-man.  This does not mean that we have to look like scarecrows in the outer-man, it just means that our inner-man is of utmost importance above all else, as it is to Him.  Jeremiah 17: 9 says that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.  That is quite something to hear that our heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.  Rightfully we can ask ourselves, “What is the remedy to root out this deceit and wickedness?”  The only answer to that is the cross.  We have to go to the cross.

Because we are discussing sanctification, I thought it would be good that we get almost like a panoramic view of the process He takes us through.  We understand that our origin is Egypt or the world, but our destination or inheritance is Canaan.  We know that we will one day rule and reign with Him on this earth as Priests and Kings.  He takes us from Egypt as slaves, broken, sinful and deceitful and takes us through a process and makes us Priests and Kings unto Him.  What a process that is!  Out of Egypt we have to first go through the Red Sea.  Now the Red Sea speaks of the Blood of the Lamb.  It is only through grace that we are saved by faith.  It is a gift and we have not done “diddly squat”.  We have not done anything.  We have just received our freedom out of bondage from Egypt and have to go through the Red Sea washed in the Blood of the Lamb.  Moses stood in front of the Red Sea and with his rod of authority or staff, he was told to place it into the water.  The Lord God opens the water so that we can go through.  Our Salvation has nothing to do with works.  We can go through without doing anything.  When we go through the Red Sea, we go into the wilderness.  The wilderness, as spoken in my previous devotionals, is for the testing and the trying of our faith and love.  The purposes of the wilderness is to get Egypt out of us and to make us like the wilderness, which is barren and dry.  To depend absolutely on the pillar of fire by night and the cloud by day, and whatever manna and meat He provides.  It is a process where He teaches us to depend upon Him more and more.  He has to take us through this wilderness experience, through this sanctification, testing and trials in order to purify us.  It is then that we get to the Jordan.  So, it is from Egypt, through the Red Sea, into the wilderness and then the Jordan.    Yeshua was baptized in the Jordan.  The word Jordan means “to go down” and speaks of death. We are baptized to the old man and being raised up with new life in Christ Jesus.  A death and a burial.  This is why Yeshua had to be baptized in the Jordan, because it was a type and shadow of His own death and resurrection.  We too, through our sanctification process eventually reach the Jordan.  There was no Moses to place a staff in the river.  Note, it is a Red Sea to a river.  Less can go through a river than through a sea.  This speaks of the way being very narrow.  Who went through?  The priests went first.  They were told to place their feet on the water, without the water parting.  Makes one think of Peter walking on the water. The moment they did that by faith, the water parted.  This was not required of the Israelites when they crossed the Red Sea. They did not need faith to know that they can go through, it was wide open.  But, the Jordan River was not open and it was up to the priests to step in and walk through with the arc of the covenant, holding it there until the whole of Israel passed over.  The Jordan is a type and shadow of the sanctification process that has come to an end.  Did you know that it can come to an end, to a fulfillment, a completion?  From then you no longer live, but the life you then live, you live by the faith of the Son of God.  You have then officially died.  This is a very long process to get there. 

When we look at this we see that at the Red Sea we receive the cross.  Through the wilderness during our sanctification process, we carry the cross, but with one purpose, which is to get to the Jordan in order to be crucified on that cross.  We daily crucify ourselves, walking in sanctification to get to that point.  This is the purpose of the cross.  You can look at the Wilderness as the Via de la Rosa.  Here we are carrying our cross daily with the purpose to get to Golgotha and die in Christ and with Him.  Even your own baptism in water was just like Yeshua a type and shadow of your own death and resurrection that will take place, which He promised He will complete.  He was in agreement with the baptism.  Once you get to the Jordan a complete death takes place for the purpose of entering into your inheritance.  Like I said, Egypt is our origin and Canaan is our inheritance.   Moses was involved in the wilderness as a shepherd.  He was guiding the sheep through the wilderness, protecting them.  Joshua came as a High Priest and a warrior.  Specifically we hear from the beginning that the Lord told Joshua in that just as He was with Moses, He will be with him and that he must be bold and courageous, because every place he places his feet, that HE has given him.  Immediately Canaan gives us the idea of giants, land to be overcome and absolute dependence, as was the case with the walls of Jericho that was not their doing.  It was not them.  They did not put a hand to it.  Quite a difference from what happens in the wilderness.  In the wilderness we deal with the giants within, but in Canaan, we deal with the giants without, which is the demonic forces, principalities and powers.  In Canaan it is about warfare and taking spiritual ground, but in the wilderness, it is about our own life we need to overcome.  For an inheritance to take place there has to be a death.  We see that in the case of Jacob when he died that he called for all his 12 sons, blessing each tribe.  He gave them his blessing and their inheritance.  Joshua also right at the end divided the inheritance, the land between the 12 tribes.  This speaks of the millennial reign right at the end of the tribulation.  Yeshua said that His disciples, His workers going through the tribulation, will rule and reign (Luke 22).  In order to rule and reign, you first have to overcome your wilderness experience.  It is a journey.  He wants you to know that you are not to compare yourself to other people, where they are.  Unless you want to use their example as a means to stir up your faith.  But not to compare yourself with others.  Just like we look to our children and they, more often than not, do not meet our expectations, we love them still the same.  We do not love the one child more than the other.  We may love them differently concerning their personalities, but we love them.  They are our children.  Whether you find yourself in Canaan, the wilderness, or you find yourself just having gone through the Red Sea or standing at the brink of the Jordan, He loves you the same. 

About 9 months ago, I had three visions.  They hold hands with the process He took me through when I came to my own personal Jordan.  The first one was of me standing in a bathroom, having only white linen on.  The next moment I fell to the ground.  The bathroom speaks of sanctification and me falling dead on the ground.  This is self-explanatory, the process of death in sanctification.  Then I had a vision of a close up of a castration of a man.  I could not see all the detail, just that which was necessary.  The blood, that which had to be cut off and the taking away.  A very vivid and clear vision.  Then my friend, Chantel, saw me on an operation table, dead.  The next moment I sat up straight as one resurrected from the dead.  That same afternoon, I had a vision of my heart in His hands.  This was my actual heart being manually pumped.  You get this in the medical field with cardiac arrest.  The heart can no longer pump on its own and the doctor has to cut into the side, or when the chest is open, places his hand where the heart is and manually pumps the heart.  At that time I received what is typical spam messages. I usually ignore them and just delete them.  But one arrested my attention, which was from a Mark Tucker.  I do not know a Mark Tucker, but I felt led to look up the meaning of the name.  Mark means God of war and Tucker was interesting.  The name Tucker is actually a tucker process to clean material.  Another name for it is a fuller.  A fuller and a tucker is the same thing.  Let’s read the process of this “fulling”.  This fulling process is very rigorous and the most extreme part of the sanctification process.

Mark means consecrated to the God of war and Tucker means to torment.  Referring to the softening of cloth by beating and trampling on it in water.  Tucker means to full as a fuller that spins and works with woolen cloth.  I decided to look up tucking of cloths, something I have never heard of before.  It is said that woven cloth from the weaver’s loom still contained the sheep’s natural oils and greases.  We are His sheep and He is the Tucker or Fuller that prepares us for war.  Its fibers also had an open, loose texture.  It was the job of the fullers – or as they were more commonly called in the West Country, the tuckers – to turn this basic cloth into the finished article.

This means cleaning it, shrinking it and then reshaping it to produce a thickened and textured fabric.  The first step is scouring, to rid it of tis grease and other impurities, smeared with soap and soda, submerged in troughs full of hot water or put between rollers.   Then the cloth is taken to water-powered mills to enter the fulling process.  It is placed beneath large wooden mallets known as fulling stocks.  This makes me think of Jeremiah who was placed at the entry of the gates in stocks to be confounded.  It says the cloth might be passed through the stocks several times, with the contents of the troughs changing each time.  First, it would be pounded while submerged in human urine, then change to the cloth was pounded in troughs containing earth, a natural form of dry/powdered clay.  Together the urine and clay cleansed and thickened the cloth’s fibers.  Lastly the cloth was pounded in troughs holding soapy water.  (Incorporation of Weavers, Fullers and Shearmen).

Well now!  Did not see the human urine part coming, but all in all this seems like quite a grueling process.

So the tucking or the fulling of the cloth is to make it into a finished article.  Now this is by no accident that Father is saying this to me.  No wonder He is telling me to prepare myself for being more tolerable or to endure more.  Talk about brace yourself!

So the purpose is:

·         Cleaning, shrinking and reshaping.

The process is:

·         Cleaning would be holiness and repentance

·         Shrinking would be humility (stay in the dust of humility)

·         Reshaping (persecution)

So the elements are:

·         Fulling Stocks – rollers or mallets

·         Human urine

·         Earth – dry powdered clay

·         Soapy water

Now you can understand why He showed me the castration, because it speaks of impotence.  Also the manual pumping of the heart, not because it is resuscitated, but held in the hand of God, which is its life.   There is no life in the heart the moment the hand is removed.  Complete and utter death.  In Isaiah 7 we read of the fuller’s field.

ISAIAH 7

³ Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;

The fuller’s field had a river called the Gihon River that was one of the four original rivers from the Garden of Eden.  This fuller’s field was also called the “Spring of the fuller”.  Remember, we spoke about the heart being the spring of life or the fountain of life?  This fuller’s spring is also called the Virgin’s fountain.  Immediately when you hear the word “virgin” you  have to think of the words purity, cleansed, maiden, without guile, bondservant, the 144 000 virgins.  In the original Strong’s the word virgin means maiden.  It does not say man, because it is symbolic.  A bondservant is a eunuch and they were castrated.  Bondservants or eunuchs followed the King wherever he went.  They obtained the trust of the King.  However, the King castrated them so that they could not procreate with the King’s wives.  They were entrusted with his wives.  They are entrusted with His Bride.  The workers are His eunuchs.  He works in us to get to that point of sanctification where we go through the Jordan, where all our ability to produce out of ourselves is cut off.  Just like castration.  The process of sanctification in the wilderness is that of circumcision.  It is merely the cutting off of the flesh, just the front part.  Those in the wilderness can still produce out of their flesh.  They can still produce seed to bring forth, but those who have gone through the Jordan have been cut off.  They have entered into a death where they no longer can produce seed.  They no longer live by their own faith, but live by the faith of the Son of God, in whom they are because they have entered into His death through His dealings with them.  Sanctification is a process.  When you think of the cross, the Via de la Rosa, and what He went through, we must remember that He told us that the servant is not greater than his master and that we are to take up our cross and follow Him.  This is what He meant.  Christianity is not comfortable and if your Christianity is comfortable, safe and easy, then you need to question it.  You need to ask yourself, “Am I really busy with sanctification?  Am I really listening to Him in this process and am I working with Him towards the Jordan where I can cross over into Canaan where I can rule and reign, having received my inheritance?” 

When we look at the Virgin’s Fountain or the Gihon River, being one of the four original rivers flowing out of Eden, we know that Eden was the Garden.  It was the heart of the earth. In Song of Solomon we find the King always in the garden with his bride.  This garden represents the heart of the Bride. It has four rivers, just like our heart has four chambers.  He says in Proverbs 4, “Trust in the Lord with ALL your heart.”  Let me put it this way, “Trust in the Lord with all four chambers of your heart.  Trust in the Lord with all the springs of your heart.”  David said to the Lord, “Lord, all my springs are shut up in you.”  What he was saying was, “I have no ability within myself.  I have no dependence on anything, but You.  I solely depend on You and You are my source.  You hold my heart in your hands.”  These four chambers had me thinking, “What could they represent?” 

Chamber 1 - Our natural ability:

The idea that came is that the first chamber is probably our natural ability.  That we depend on our strength, our gifts and talents.  How do we depend on it?  It means they give us something.  They become a source of something, whether affirmation, love or praise.  Maybe a form of idol worship in our heart.  They become our source.  Even your physical strength with regard to men and natural beauty with woman.  To be able to control and manipulate with our bodies.  He has to sanctify this chamber and dry up that stream, so that He can be the source.

Chamber 2 - Our physical ability:

That which you can touch, like money, friends, family, husband, wife, job or ministry.  These are things that are physical, on the outside.  We can be co-dependent upon these and end up not being able to live without it.  There is an emotional attachment to it and we hold on to it.  It gives us something, like all the other things give us something and becomes a source.  He will have no other idols before Him.  Every stream in that area in your life He wants to dry up.  You need to know what that area is.  Very often your mouth will testify what is in your heart, because out of the abundance of our heart we speak.  Your mouth will tell you whether you are holding onto this person.  That can be offence, fear, intimidation, the relationship dynamic is telling you whether this is a source that you live from.  That is why the book of James ask, “Can bitter and sweet water come from the same fountain?”  It speaks of our heart.

Chamber 3 - Our soulish ability:

This would be your emotions, will and intellect.  To be emotionally controlled instead of spiritually controlled.  Your emotions decide whether something is right.  You go on what feels rights.  You are easily manipulated by other’s emotions.  Guilt, fear, anger and many more needs to be sanctified.  Then your mind, your way of thinking, your disposition, your opinions has to be sanctified.  The Word says that we are to give our bodies as a living sacrifice and renew our mind so that we can be transformed.  Our mind needs to be renewed to have the mind of Christ.  Our intellect or knowledge also has to be sanctified.  Man prides himself in what he calls wisdom.  Man prides himself in his understanding, especially revelation.  Man prides himself in the knowledge of good and evil.  Man lives and thrives from that tree.  It has delicious fruit on it.  He has to sanctify everything that we think, even what we think of Him. 

Chamber 4 - Our spiritual ability:

My spiritual mentor, Art Katz, said that the very last area that the flesh hides is the folds of the priestly or religious garb.  Flesh hides behind a religious spirit.  Something can sound devoted, pious, pure and scripturally correct, but deeply woven into the fabric of that priestly garb is a Pharisee, a hard heart of bitterness and pride.  Even though our doctrine may be right, He sometimes comes and devastates us, like I said in my “Remember Me, Church of Smyrna” devotional.  This is so that we may know Him in reality that even our spirituality falls to the ground and we become like dust.  Pretty much like Job.  When Satan came to the Lord God to ask for permission to test him and break him down, the Lord God asked him, “Have you seen my righteous servant Job?”  Job was righteous before the Father.  He praised him, but in all his righteousness he still had to be brought to dust.  In fact in Job 42 Job says, “I have heard of thee with mine ear, but now I see (revelation) and loath myself and repent in dust and ashes.”  Even Job, being righteous, all his categories, his spiritually and what he has done thus far, had to be broken down.  He had to be devastated and brought to naught.  That heart, all the springs, all four chambers have to dry up completely so that the only one that brings life to it, that is its source, is the hand that holds it.  This is so much different that circumcision.  Castration is death, a complete and utter death He wants to bring us to.

In Genesis 24 we find the account of Eliezer, Abraham’s servant, was sent to find a wife for Isaac, who is a type and shadow of Yeshua.  Eliezer said that two things that he would know that she is the one for Isaac.  The one is that she would follow him and the other is that she would give his camels drink as well.  When he reached the well, he found Rebecca there and she did all these things.  Afterwards she received jewelry, and this jewelry speaks of the inner-heart of 1 Peter 3 that has to be adorned.  She is a type and shadow of the Bride that is being adorned because of her heart.  This adornment also speaks of kingship and rulership.  There is also another well where a woman met Yeshua (Isaac) in John 4.  Every afternoon she would bring her waterpot to the well to draw water and in the end He tells her that He wants to be that well, the spring in her, her heart.  This is what He is saying to you and me, “Your heart, I want to be the spring of it. And in order to be the spring of your heart, I have to dry up every spring you depend upon. Once My living water is that spring that pumps in you, it will be in spirit and in truth. It will be My resurrection life, because you would have gone from death into life.  Abraham at 84 years of age called Hagar aside and she became a source to produce an heir instead of trusting the Lord.  Abraham had to become impotent.  The Lord loves barrenness and impotence.  He needs us to get to that point so that our dependence will be so vitally connected to Him, because He will be the only source of life.  Many of us have Him as our source, but also still parts of the chambers of our heart as a source.  He is patient with us to deal with every chamber to dry it up.  It is not easy, but He refreshes, He restores, He heals and teaches us and guides us.  In every process you grow.  More than anything, as your well dries up, He fills you every time more and more.  The process is a dying process unto life. 

Another example of this we can find in John 11 with the account of Lazarus.  Lazarus’ father was also called Eliezer.  He was a priest.  Lazarus is a type and shadow of the 144 000.  Here is Lazarus that died and the disciples told Yeshua that His best friend has died.  Yeshua said that He was not going to go immediately.  They were taken aback by this.  You can imagine when you tell your best friend that his best friend has just died and he tells you he is not going.  You will not understand why and in fact, you will be offended by it.  Martha and Mary were also offended. At that time they believed that the soul of the deceased can still enter into the body on the third day, but at the fourth no longer.  Yeshua waited for the fourth day.  The fourth day would constitute complete and utter death.  He waited until that there would be no argument against the fact that He is the Resurrection and the Life.  Should He have gone there sooner, they would have still be able to say that it was by some natural means that the soul Lazarus entered into the body.  But, as Martha and Mary says, “Lord, he stinketh.”  Yeshua cried not because Lazarus was dead.  He knew that He was going to raise him from the dead.  The shortest verse in the Word is, “Jesus wept” and it was because of their little faith.  They did not belief that He is the Resurrection and the Life.  How could they when they themselves have not entered into that death yet?  What kind of death did Yeshua have to enter into, not talking about the cross, for His walk with the Father to be in such dependence?  Surely all His springs were shut up in the Father.  This is why He could say, “When I speak, it is not my words, but the words of my Father.  The works that I do is not me, but my Father through me.” He said this authentically.  What a bold statement He made by saying that He, as a man, is the Resurrection and the Life!  He knew that He was dead and that His only source was the Father in Him.  He wants to raise up now in resurrection life.  The following chapter, John 12, we read the following…

JOHN 12: 1 – 2

¹ Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

² There they made him a supper; and Martha served: BUT Lazarus was one of them that SAT at the table with him.

This sitting at the table with Him is a statement of rulership.  Yeshua said to His disciples that when He comes back, He will serve His servants and that they will sit at His table with Him.  It speaks of those who have gone from death over unto life.  In this very same chapter, Yeshua mentions his own death by speaking about the corn of wheat that has to fall to the ground and die, but we are in union with His death.  He is saying to us, “Unless a corn of wheat falls to the ground and die, it will abide alone.”  The wilderness is where the corn of wheat is still falling, but the death takes place when it is buried under the ground.  Like a little seed buried in the ground and have to stay there for four days.  Some people’s four days are different than other’s four days, until life is birthed and comes out of death.  No death, no resurrection life.  His promise to us is that corn of wheat will produce many.  “That impotence that is resurrected with My life, will no longer abide alone, but it will bring forth much fruit.  A harvest will come in when you die in that ground.  When you are willing to go all the way to cross over the Jordan.”

The Lord told Joshua to erect pillars in the Jordan.  I have seen a video of these pillars and they are massive.  We are pillars and He makes us pillars of faith and raises us up in the Jordan unto new life.  The purpose of the pillars was so that the next generations could ask what the pillars are for.  And they would answer, “The Lord God took us over the Jordan.  Not we, but He.” 

We find the same thing with Jacob where he died and was able to give his sons their inheritance.  There has to be death before there can be an inheritance.  The same with Jacob when he was wrestling with the Angel of the Lord.  He walked away with a limp and a new name, being called a prince and the name Israel, meaning “God prevails”.  The word “prevail” means to overcome.  As the Lord told me many years ago, “You cannot rule unless you have overcome.  You have to overcome your wilderness in order to rule in Canaan and walk as a prince or princess of God.” 

Another example of this we find in Ezekiel 37 with the account of the Valley of dry bones.  When something has come to the point of bones, it means there is no life in it anymore.  It is brittle and breaks and there is no marrow in the bones.  We know that life is in the blood. Not just a dead body with flesh, muscle, bones and marrow, but only dry bones with no life in it.

EZEKIEL 37

¹ The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

² And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

³ And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.  (It is as if he himself has been brought to dry bones and could only say, “Lord, only you know.”)

⁴ Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. (Think of Yeshua speaking to Lazarus, the dead.  When He said, “Lazarus come forth!” He was prophesying unto him.  It was a word that constituted an event.  It was a resurrection word and here the Son of Man is told to speak to these dry bones to resurrect them.)

⁵ Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

⁶ And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and y shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

⁷ So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.

⁸ And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

⁹ Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

¹⁰ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

¹¹ Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are CUT OFF FOR OUR PARTS.

¹² Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

¹³ And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,

¹⁴ And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.

Here we have the Son of Man that has to speak to the wind.  This wind is the Ruach, which means he had to command the Spirit of God to enter into theses bones and the sinews and flesh.  The kind of faith that the Son of Man had to have in order to command the Ruach, the Spirit of God to enter, is only the faith that is the faith of the Son of God, which we too are called to, to live by the faith of the Son of God.  Paul said, “I no longer live, but the life that I live, I live by the faith of the Son of God.” Paul entered into the grave and indeed he is the son of resurrection, an extension of the Christ life after the cross.  He is calling us to live by that same faith and the only way to do it is to enter into the death of the cross. 

We are called to speak to the dead bones, the Lazarus and the dead.  To speak a word that constitute an event.  How much more in the time we are going in where there will be such devastation during the tribulation.  There will be great brokenness and death.  People will not have hope and joy, but there will be mourning, sorrow, trembling and fear.  There will be dead bones and graves, literally.  We as the Son of Man Company will have to be able to speak a word, not just any word, but a resurrection word to raise up the dead.  The reason why Yeshua showed me this heart being manually pumped, is to understand that when He brings us into such a death, there is no other source in you any longer.  All four chambers have been dealt with so that He is your strength, because you have none.  He is your joy, you have none.  He is the hope of glory, Christ in you.  He is your faith and your peace.  There is a difference between giving it to you and being it in you.  It is the person of Christ through the Spirit of God operating through a body that is wholly given up to Him.  You are a living sacrifice, dead in all your categories, completely given over to the Spirit of God, so that the Spirit of God can say through you, “I am the Resurrection and the Life, come forth!  Live with my breath in you!”  People will be able to come out of their circumstances in the time to come with a word spoken by the Son of Man Company. 

When I look at this great army raised, I see them as the Royal Priesthood, the virgins, the warrior virgins that were cut off.  All their parts were cut off and they stand up as mighty warriors to possess the land. Let’s go to Zachariah 3.

ZACHARIAH 3

² And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? (Think of a whole burnt offering that was done before the priests went into the inner-court.  Everything was incinerated into ash. The priests did not have any part in the whole burnt offering.  And here we find Joshua, a brand plucked out of the fire.

³ Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.

⁴ And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

⁵ And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the Lord stood by.

⁶ And the angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua, saying,

⁷ Thus saith the Lord of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.

⁸ Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch.

⁹ For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

ZACHARIAH 6: 11

¹¹ Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;

Crowns were given.  Not just one, but many.  In the Word it mentions 12 crowns that we can receive.  There is always a prerequisite for a crown.  There has to be an overcoming.  Something we need to do in order to obtain these crowns.  Crowns is not only for the purpose that we will one day lay it before Him, as wonderful as that is, but the crown is because we will rule and reign.  How much every person will get to rule and reign over is up to the Lord God.  He has a purpose with everything, but the point is that we will receive these crowns when we overcome. 

PROVERBS 23: 26

²⁶ My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

Remember that Job said that he heard of Him by the hearing of the ear, but now he sees?  The Lord God brought him to ashes and had his whole heart.  He is saying to us, “Let me have your whole heart.  Give me your heart, that part where all the springs have to dry up.  Give Me your whole heart, every chamber, every part that you have not yet given to Me.  Allow Me to dry up the streams, trust Me in the process.  What I have in store for you is My life so that you no longer live with drips of My life, but that you live completely from My life.  I meet you at the well of your heart.  Are you a Samaritan woman with five husbands that are her source, or are you a Rebecca, whose heart is completely Mine?  That you have given all.  No adultery, pure and serving Me?  Are you willing to be cut off that My life can be in you?” 

PROVERBS 21: 1 – 2

¹The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

² Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.

We would like to say that our heart is in His hands, but not everybody’s heart is in His hand so that He can manually pump it, because you no longer have life in you.  It is a long process and He is willing to take you there if you are willing.  You have to be brutal. You have to be willing to pay whatever the cost and understand that He will by His Spirit make you willing and able to do it.  Whether you are able to do this now before His coming and whether you will be doing it during the tribulation if you are a worker, understand that He will finish the work He started in you.

I would like to share a word that He gave me awhile back.  It is a very serious word.

YOU MUST STAND BEFORE ME ALONE

 (Received on the 22/2/2020)

Are you willing for Me to take all your securities away? All those things you have come to depend on? Not physically, but spiritually. To bring a death to your spirituality, however profound and prolific it may have been thus far? The issue is not whether it has been of Me, but whether you are willing that even that which I have given you, I have the right to take. For unless I have full play in what needs to stay or go, am I Lord? I AM either Lord of all, or I am not Lord at all.

For if I AM to do a new thing, does it not stand to reason that the old must not just be left behind, but die? Are you willing for me to bring you to such a death? An utterness towards Me where I will raise you up. Not you yourself out of your own spirituality, however true, but even as death unto death and life unto life. Unless the sacrifice is dead in all its categories, there remains still a residue of self. Even if it is a spiritual self. Yes, complete death is the requirement for the call upon your life unto which I AM calling you. A call where I WILL do through you and not you. For all your spiritual doing to cease, and to allow Me to be all that you need for that call. Not sustained by your spiritual life for which you have died numerous deaths, but sustained by My resurrection life alone.

This is not a call unto which you are required to perform, but Me. Even if you are only the vessel through which I will do so. But it is a call of utterness unto Me. To stand before Me alone and no man, even yourself. No dependency on anything but Me, not even your spirituality that has grown this far.

Am I not the husbandman that has the right to My trees? Yes, I AM, even so, should My pruning be severe, I still require My children to submit. More and abundant fruit, requires greater death. Do not be deceived. Have I not said that unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground, it will abide alone, but if it falls to the ground and die, it will bear fruit and will not abide alone.

Have you decided on the boundaries of your life to what extent you are willing to lay all at Myaltar? I have given My life for you. I laid My life on the altar. Consider the cost of the call for no call is without cost. Always a death first.

Will you cross over with Me?

My anointing will go before you and I will make a way.

I WILL make a way.