SET IN
BATTLE ARRAY
[prophecy]
"Gather my saints together, says the Lord,
those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
(Psalm 50:5). I say to you, the
gathering is drawing near; and I will take out
from the midst of my people a company of consecrated
ones who have made a covenant with me to forsake all and
follow after me. Yes, they have followed me as stated in
Revelation 14:4, for wheresoever I have led them,
they have gone. And they have heeded my Word, and have
followed my way, and have not contaminated themselves,
says the
Lord. Therefore, says God, I will
redeem them from the earth into a ministry on the other
side of the veil, even as I shall redeem a company on
the earthly side of the veil who shall be loosed into a
ministry and into a battle for me in this last day, says the Lord.
For they shall not be limited by that which they have
known before; neither shall they be limited by the
weaknesses and inabilities they have known before.
For they shall be strong ones in the Lord to go forth
with mighty power in this day. Yes, they shall be
redeemed, liberated, into an end-time ministry of power,
says the
Lord. And those I am gathering to myself as one
man (Body) shall go forth to do exploits in my
name.
"Those that I shall gather to myself to be
taken out of the earth, even as a firstfruits to their God
(Rev. 14:4), shall also be liberated into a
ministry and into a battle. For do you think I am to
take them out just so they can have a time of ease and
waiting. I say not! For they are redeemed from among men
so that they may be fully liberated from all the
limitations of the flesh in a battle which is taking
place on the other side. For this is the
standard that I shall raise up to my people
when the enemy shall come in like a flood (Isa. 59:19).
It shall be a standard of glorified ones who shall be
used in the battle on the other side of Jordan, even in
the realms of the Spirit, to bind and cast down to the
earth the Satanic forces which dwell in the upper
realms. I say, they shall be cast down (Rev. 12:10) and
they shall be bound. And who shall do the binding? I say
to you, my
glorified ones shall bind the power of the enemy. Even
so shall they be used mightily in the battle of the
great day of Almighty God as the enemy seeks to send out
a flood to consume my people on the earth (Rev.
12:15). But is it not written that the earth helped
the woman in the wilderness? (Rev. 12:16). And who shall
be in control of the elements of the earth at that time,
that all of the forces of nature will be used to help
those that are under the attack of the enemy? Yes, I say
to you, those
glorified saints, even that firstfruits company, shall
be in charge. They shall have entered into the first
stages of that which shall eventually be an absolute
mastery over all the elements of the earth.
"So my people, listen! How shall I
raise up a standard and protect you against the enemies'
flood? I will take out of your midst 144,000 of the
choicest of my people, even those who have been faithful
and have been perfected by me. And they shall be loosed
away into that power and ministry awaiting them. For
they have been faithful and they have walked with their
God; and so like Enoch, they shall be taken, says the Lord. They shall be
caught up to my throne (Rev. 12:5), and there they shall
be invested with power to do only that which a tested
and tried people can do, even those who have overcome in
the flesh all the wiles of the enemy. Having overcome
the enemy in the flesh, they shall be used to overcome
him in his own realm and drive him out even to its borders, where he shall
be hemmed in. Then as a roaring lion shall he go forth
to consume and destroy on the earth. But those I have
raised up to me, and have been glorified
by me, shall then be used to stem the tide of
anguish and destruction which he would bring
against my people yet on the earth. For a mighty chain
shall be used to bind the power of the enemy, and that
chain which I will gradually ensnare him in and bind him
with, is none other than the might and power which my
glorified ones shall have. And then shall the battle
rage in its fury as the maddened demons of the nether
world see their domain being stripped from them, and the
chains of bondage being wrapped about them. And in great
fury shall they make their stand in that day, says the Lord.
"So you see, says the Lord, in that day of
the battle of the Lord God Almighty, I will have two
companies: even the one on one side and the other on the
other side of Jordan. One
on the west, corresponding to my glorified ones, even
the firstfruits, who will be battling the enemy into
submission in his own realm; and one on the east
side of Jordan, which corresponds to my anointed company
of overcomers who will still be on the earth. They too
shall be given great power over the enemy to drive him
out of the realms where he has operated heretofore, and
they shall be helped greatly by that Standard which I
have raised up, even my glorified saints,
to myself.
"And shall I not be in that day as
a wise military strategist who puts the enemy in a
vise, even into a giant pincers movement, that I may
crush him in between the two—one operating from the
earthly and the other operating from the heavenly? Even
so shall the enemy be overcome and defeated in the
battle of that day, says the Lord.
"And did I not portray this in my
temple of old, even Solomon's temple, says the Lord? For out in front
of the temple I placed two mighty pillars—even pillars
of brass, refined in the fires. So do these pillars
represent those who shall be pillars in my end-time
temple (Rev. 3:12), one on the one side (of Jordan) and
one on the other (symbolically speaking). For the first
was Jachin (1 Kings 7:21),
and I will establish in power those I raise up to myself, and they shall be
used to establish the
Kingdom in power. And then I shall raise up Boaz (1 Kings 7:21), even those
who have been left on the earth, and they also shall
minister in power in that realm which shall be committed
to them. Even so shall my purpose be accomplished, that
THAT which I have ordained by pattern be fulfilled in
this day, says the Lord. Now you
understand why I must remove some from your midst, for the battle
array must be set in order and prepared; and then shall
I consummate all things even as I have determined from
the beginning, says the Lord.
"Are you ready, says God? Are you ready to be
used in the battle of the great day of God Almighty? I
say, you shall be used if you will let me equip you now
with my armor, and let me train you in my ways of
warfare and if, like a good soldier, you will obey me
implicitly; for this is what I demand of those who will
be used of me to rout the enemy in these last days, says the Lord." (end of
prophecy).
[commentary]
The foregoing prophecy began with
the statement from Psalm 50:5, that the Lord is gathering together His saints, even those
who have made with Him a covenant by sacrifice. This gathering is
two-fold. First, it is a gathering together into one the
end-time Body of Christ, which is going to go forth on
this earth to do exploits in His Name. Secondly, it Is
the gathering, or taking out, of the firstfruits company
just before the time of Great Tribulation. To each it is
a "redemption" of a kind. To the "firstfrults," it is a
"loosing" from the earthly into the heavenly realm
for a ministry and a battle "on the other side." To that
Body being joined together on the earth, it is a
"loosing" from certain limitations, weaknesses and
inabilities, into a ministry of power. In either
case it can be said that we are to "look up, and lift up
our heads; for our redemption draws near." (Luke 21:28).
Jesus speaks in John 6:40, 44, 54,
of those who are to be "raised up" in the "last day." We
usually take this to mean the resurrection of the dead.
Certainly the thought of the resurrection is included,
but we need not limit the
meaning to this. There is a "raising up" from the
earthly to the heavenly realm without the experience of death, even a translation or
change from the physical to the "glorified" body. Such
will be the experience of the firstfruits before the
tribulation, because the Lord has a work for them to do on the
"other side." Translating them into the "heavenly" is a
part of His strategy and battle plan. They are that STANDARD
spoken of in Isa. 59:19 which shall be "raised up" at the crucial moment
when the enemy begins to come in like a flood. And from
their vantage in the heaven lies (Satan's own realm),
and with the newfound powers of their "glorified
bodies," they shall be able to "strike a death blow" to
the forces of Satan. At the same time the Lord will
empower His end-time Body still on the earth to go forth
and "press the battle" from this side of the veil. And
great victories will be won for the Lord because we will
have the help and protection of the "glorified ones" on
the other side.
These two end-time groups are
symbolized by the two great pillars which stood in front
of Solomon's temple. We read about them in the 7th
chapter of I Kings. They were cast out of brass. This reminds us of
John's vision as recorded in Revelation, Chap. 1, where
he sees "one like to the Son of man "whose feet
were like to fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace." Also, the feet of the
"mighty messenger" of Rev. 10:1, were seen by John
as "pillars of fire." And
those who "overcome" are to be made "a pillar in the temple of my God." (Rev. 3:12).
"Brass" is a type of the physical or "fleshly" nature of
man. Thus we see the picture of the purging, refining,
and transmuting of the base characteristics of our
"carnal nature" so that they might be cast into the image of Jesus
Christ.
Reading the 7th chapter of I Kings,
we notice that these two pillars were ornamented in a
certain way. This ornamentation pictures that adornment
and beautification with which the end-time Body of
Christ shall be graced—the beauty of holiness,
godliness, humility, glory, victory, boldness,
overcoming power, etc. For it will be a "glorious
church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing;
but that it should be holy and without blemish." (Ephes.
5:27). We also see that on each "pillar" were hung the
semblance of "pomegranates"—200 on each pillar. Even so,
does this picture the fruitfulness which shall be
brought forth by those who are "pillars" in the end-time
church. The 200 on each pillar shows that separation (2 =
division, discernment and screening) has done its
complete work, reaching into the placement of SPIRIT.
Are you willing to let the Lord make you "a pillar" in
His end-time temple?
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