"Surely
the end of mankind as a vessel for my Word
is come before Me."
Fri.,
May 5, 1990
This
is the word of the Lord sparked in me as of
Thursday night through a phone conversation
with Bruce Hehl. As we discussed the "super
revelation" mentioned in the last
letter, this word came clearly to my
heart. It's awesomeness is stunning. Please
read on as I attempt to express its meaning
to you.
The
one common denominator that has
characterized the revealed word of God
throughout history is that, except for Jesus
Christ (the Incarnate Word), God's word has
been mediated through corruptible flesh and
blood. I quote now from a letter
I wrote you all on Feb. 23, 1989:
This
brings me to..now trace the forms of
God's Word to their root essence. So far
we've looked at the Law of Moses and
also New Testament Scriptures. But if we
trace these forms back to their lowest
common denominator, what do we find? We
find that the root form that clothes
every word of God is:
Flesh
And Blood
All
word of God that comes to us through any
form that our minds can apprehend
ultimately comes to us through the form
of some human personality ...
The
living Word of God is eternal... But!
The human personality through whom it
comes is finite...
This limitation is what distinguishes form
from reality,
and law
from grace.
"Law"
is nothing more than the limitation of
human personality that clothes the
Living Word and gives our minds
something to grasp it by while the Life
works silently in our hearts. Once the
work of grace is done, the "law" passes
away.
Do
you remember this? Do you understand it? If
so, then you can begin grasping the
monumental significance of the word from
last night. What God is saying is that, even
as the Law of Moses came to an end, ushering
in Jesus Christ, so now the Law of Mankind
(whereby God speaks through the limitation
of flesh and blood) is itself come to an
end.
God's
6,000 year history (the number of man) of
relating to man through the veil of flesh
and blood is over. And once again, the
Manifested Word of God is at hand in a new
way and will come to take over guidance of
the planet. This new Manifested Word will
fulfil all that the Law of Mankind failed to
fulfil "in
that it was weak through the flesh"
(Rom 8:3), even as Jesus first fulfilled
where Israel failed.
The
significance of this word from last
night is seen when we begin comparing
realities between the Law of Moses and the
Law of Mankind. Consider: The Law of Moses
carried instructions for the people to
fulfil. But what happened? All that the Law
served to prove was that the people could
not fulfil the instructions.
Indeed,
Paul says this was the Law's only
purpose ---to expose human inadequacy
(Romans 7). The Law's instructions could
not be obeyed or give life. It
required the
Savior, the
Incarnate Word to deliver the
people from their own miserable failure
exposed by the Law of Moses.
Now
compare therefore. What was true of Israel
as the stewards of the Old Covenant in
microcosm has proven true of the worldwide
Gentile Church (focused these last centuries
in America) as stewards of New Covenant
through the Law of Flesh and Blood, the
macrocosm. So long as the word of God has
been mediated in any
way through corruptible flesh and
blood, mankind has proved himself completely
incapable as the vessel for its fulfilment.
The
failure of Old Testament Israel is the failure
of New Testament mankind to this
very hour ( a failure against which Paul
prophetically warned-- Rom 11:13-23; I
Cor. 10:1-12; Gal 3-5; see also Heb 4,6, and
10). The Gentile world has been unable to
fulfil anything of the word of God that has
come through the Law of Flesh and Blood
since Jesus Christ, whether by apostolic
scripture or by present revelation--either
on the personal level, corporate level, or
world level. All that we have proven by our
possession of this "treasure in earthen
vessels" is that we cannot fulfil the
commands of that treasure!
[For more consideration of the
weakness of the gospel under mortality and
its true mission, please see the mini
article "Has
the Gospel Failed?"]
Another
Look at the Great Commission
What
has been the hallmark command of the Gospel
Age entrusted through flesh and blood? "Go
into all the world and preach the gospel
to every creature." And now we see
after 2,000 years where the fulfilment of
that command is. Answer: No where. Just as
Israel was to be a light to the world and
failed, so the Church was to become the
light to the world, this time through
Gentile blood instead of Jewish blood. But blood
nonetheless, blood still permeated with
sin nature.
Like
Israel, the Church elected to take focal
shape in the world through a political
entity (what is now known as the USA). Yet
as Isaiah lamented, "We
have brought no deliverance to the earth"
(26:18), so now the Gentile Church under the
Law of Flesh and Blood must lament the same
thing after 2,000 years of opportunity.
So
what has the "Age of Grace" proven? It has
proven that so long as God's Word is
mediated through the Law of Mankind of any
race at any
time, man
cannot fulfil its requirements.
The Word of God can only be fulfilled when
it is manifested
through its own incarnation--
such as Jesus Christ. It cannot be fulfilled
when it must borrow a sinful habitation. It
cannot be fulfilled as long as it is cloaked
in a perishable human wineskin, whether
Jewish or
Gentile.
How
clear this has come to me
over the last year especially. Now I even
look back at (my manuscript Flight From Babylon.
What a message! And yet, it is just one
more limited appeal by God through flesh
to flesh --- utterly incapable
of fulfilment through the human body.
Last
year, I personally reached the limits of
fulfilling that message to which my weak
body was able to take me. I virtually
collapsed into a nervous breakdown. My
spirit was willing, but my
flesh is too weak to serve as a
vessel for fulfilment of that message. Like
all messages mediated through the law of our
being, it shows us what is wrong with us and
points us the way to go, but
cannot take us there.
People,
I am now of the mind that we cannot fulfil
the Great Commission so long as we are
strapped to legal bodies, nor were we meant
to. The Commission served to show us that,
tied to the law of these bodies, we can't.
We need something more. And now the words, "Surely
the end of mankind as a vessel for My Word
is come before me."
Personally,
I believe we have gone as far as we can
under the Law of Mankind. Through our
revelation, we have come to see our total
corruption and inadequacy as human beings.
As human law unto ourselves, as limited
legal repositories for the Living Word of
God, we have proven our total inability to
fulfil a single command of God through
scripture or revelation.
In
place of this, we have filled the world with
baal worship which is about to climax in the
appearance of the man of sin. We are
surrounded by Delusion Unlimited and hatred
of truth. This is what God has proven after
6,000 years of entrusting His word to
mankind, first on clay tablets, then
directly into human bodies. Now
it is time for a new incarnation of the
word of God.
More
on the Coming Super Revelation of the
Gospel
This
new incarnation which will replace the Law
of Mankind will also be the fulfilment of
the coming super revelation of the Gospel I
addressed in my last
letter. This New Incarnation will
bring to fulfilment all that the Law of
Mankind was unable through the flesh to
fulfil. Everything that was ever commanded
or promised in the New Testament will come
to fulfilment by this new super revelation
of the Incarnate Word. This includes the
Great Commission. Read on carefully...
Jesus
said He would not return til first the
gospel had been preached in every nation (Mt
24:14). Please note, however. He did not
specify how
that message would be preached. In Rev 14:6,
John sees an "angel" fulfilling the Great
Commission. Who is this "angel"?
If
you read the first five verses of Rev 14,
you see that the discussion immediately
preceding this word about the angel is the
description of the 144,000 followers of the
Lamb on Mt. Zion. I personally believe these
are the new
Word-incarnated believers who have put
on new bodies referred to by
brother Leland
Earls in his prophetic writings.
I
believe that it is these
people who as a body are the "angel"
of verse 6 who fulfil the Great Commission.
I
also believe that these
people are the fulfilment of the super
revelation and new
incarnation of the word together
with Jesus
Christ who will bring to
fulfilment the New Testament even as Jesus
Himself alone brought to fulfilment the Old
Testament.
What
will this super revelation be like?
As I said in my last letter, "I don't know".
This has never happened before. If I knew,
it wouldn't be a super revelation. If you
want to know, wait til I've put on
immortality and I will tell you. Better yet,
put it on yourself!
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As
I then daily put off my legal self through
daily releasing what remains of my first
humanity into His hands, I have been
increasingly freed from my intensity of
expectation which hopes for the promises
here and now, and also from the intensity of
obligation of seeing the New Testament and
the Great Commission fulfilled through us
now.
Soon, we
will be transmuted,
clothed with a New Incarnation of the Word
Itself, walking with the Lamb on Mt. Zion.
There we will receive the promises and
see all the commands fulfilled.
There we will also have our deep
life-long loneliness quenched, a loneliness
experienced only by those who esteem the
love for Truth above every present human
relationship.
Meanwhile, we
no longer have to lament over our
inability to learn directly from other
people, wondering if there must be something
wrong with us. Nor need we feel
any more disgust over the epidemic idiocy of
people around us and the American
baal-worship scene. We realize now that
it is all "par for the course" under the Law
of Mankind. What else should be expected?
Fret
not, O my soul. (Ps 37). Just enjoy God
and walk above it. Right now, rest in this
with me. The "show" is almost over... The
6th day is closing... The time is at hand...
Relax... Rejoice.