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February 10

The Seed Of the Alabastor Box 02-02-2009
Praise Report from Ghana 
    How can I express into words the kindness and greatness of our God? The living God in his great mercy brought about the greatness of his Son being expressed through his ministry in me, unto the nation of Ghana. The Word of God had a free course during nearly two weeks of ministry which involved conferences especially for Pastors during the day.  In the evening we held services that allowed me to visit various churches. The Holy Spirit ministered mightily in the food of revelation.  
Confirmation from the Beginning of the Journey
The Fruit of the Faithful Prayers of Tree of Life Christian Fellowship. 
    The journey to and from Ghana and the ministry that took place in the nation was bathed in the fasting and prayer of a faithful body. Every day there were the faithful that prayed and I could feel their prayers as I ministered releasing the everlasting Gospel. Our body went to the church body in Ghana bearing our Lord’s life. This grace given opened the heavens.
    The beginning of the journey bore confirmation. The lady who took my bags at Newark International Airport was a Ghanaian who turned out to be a Christian. When she asked the reason for my trip, I gave explanation. Her response was a proclamation that I would be greatly loved and received in Ghana. That would turn out to be overwhelmingly true. As I found my seat on the plane, a Nigerian Lady with a baby was seated in the adjoining seat. As I proclaimed the words of Robert Burns that the birth of a child is God’s opinion that the world should go on, I found her to be a Christian as well. We prayed together as the plane took off. 
The Prophetic Word of John Lennon 
     When I boarded the plane in London for the journey to Accra Ghana, I discovered that the man seated next to me was a Christian from Ireland. God had sent a third Christian to confirm his comfort in my journey. This man was given the name John by his parents and it happened that his last name was Lennon. We had rich fellowship on our flight and he prophesied that the sum total of many years of ministry would richly and profoundly affect Ghana .His word would turn out to be remarkably true. This John Lennon was not imagining a vain world without sovereignty of nations, but rather seeking the sovereignty of Almighty God.
Impartation Beyond Expression-The Words of the Pastors
An invitation to Return 
    The teaching of the conference was from I Corinthians 4:2 on wise master builders administrating the mysteries of the Gospel. Eighty Pastors from 50 churches attended in some capacity. At the end of the first conference the various Pastors chose to have recorded on our camcorder testimonies of what the conference meant to them and asked that their words would be given to Christians in the United States. They love ministry that can be certified as not being after man but rather ministry received and communicated in revelation. They call such ministry, ministry beyond expression. Carefully read the words of hungry pastors. 
       “To simply state that I have been mightily blessed is an understatement… What has come strongest to me is the fact that the Apostle Paul, the wise master builder, could lay a foundation for the Ephesian church…..That John the Apostle who received from Jesus the greatest revelation that no other Apostle had received…John the closest to the heart of the master could pastor that same church at Ephesus and yet could have anti-christs’ come out of that church…. That is something I can’t stop thinking about and the false doctrines that have crept into the church today…. God has sent you from America and from this conference You have impacted my life and I will be approaching the Bible from a new position…” -Pastor Ebenezer  
      “Pastor Murray has taken us into very, very deep things, bringing out very deep revelation.  It is not all about emotion and excitement, but it is discovering the key issues of God’s heart and dealing with them.  God bless you Pastor.”        -Sister Comfort 
      “One of the most powerful statements given in the conference is that satan is energized against the believer when the Word of God is changed….If the devil can change any part of the Word of God, he can seduce us.  We must be very careful.  We must read the Bible cover to cover every year.  This conference has made me go deeper into the Word of God.  God bless you Pastor Murray.”           -Pastor Mike 
 
  “I do not see this as a conference, but as a holy convocation…. God told Moses to bring 70 elders unto the mount…. God said that he would take what was on the spirit of Moses and place it upon the elders….I believe Pastor Murray has been sent here to release upon us a hunger for the in-depth revelation of the Bible.  I told Pastor Murray that he has really blessed us.  His response to me was that there is blessing and formation.  Formation is greater than blessing; for when Christ Jesus dwells in us in formation there is an empowerment of revelation.” -Pastor Lord 
      “I believe Pastor Murray was sent for the leaders of this nation.  Pastor Murray has been mandated to move us forward.  There is an in-depth weight that has empowered us in this conference.  We need to organize this and bring real leadership to the church in Ghana.  This man has been a gift to us and we need him to come back for a larger conference.” -Pastor David 
      “I have realized that we must deeply read the scriptures.  We learned about the seven spirits of darkness that occupied Israel.  We learned about the seven Spirits of God in the book of Revelation.  We are in need of the revelation knowledge that was in this conference.  The eyes of my understanding have been opened with great encouragement.”  -Pastor Phillip 
What is Written is Not for Glorification, but by Request 
      The recording of the pastors’ words was by their request. The statements given are not for my glorification, God forbid! In the kind things that they have spoken, I have deep appreciation.  The pastors’ and churches in Ghana are forever written in my heart and I can never thank Pastor Pasival Secku enough for inviting me to come.  It was my great privilege and I am very thankful for those of you from the newsletter and the Tree of Life Christian Fellowship who gave and made it possible for me to go to the church in Ghana.  I am praying about returning for a second conference as they have requested.  This will take another financial miracle, but we know that God is able to make a way where there is no way.  To those of you who have prayed for me and given the money necessary for me to go, I give you profound thanksgiving for the unspeakable gift of ministry to the nation of Ghana.

A Request from the Church in Ghana 
      Pastor Secku has requested that I send them 100 copies of my book The Real Anointing, the Seven Spirits of God, and The Overcoming Church.  This book powerfully affected Pastor Secku, who has oversight and partnership with many churches in Ghana.  I brought many of my books in a suitcase at their request, but those 60 books disappeared rapidly as they were given to those who had difficulty paying.  It has always been my policy to make books available on a donation basis.  If you would consider sending a case of these books to Ghana as well as paying to have them shipped that would be greatly appreciated.   
That Which Came from America and Stunned the Church in Ghana 
      Sad Demerit #1:  The Presidential Inauguration. 
      While in Ghana I witnessed what came from America on the television and had another kind of impact. I do not believe that the naming of false brethren is an unbiblical practice.  The Apostle Paul as well as the Apostle John openly named the names of those who sought to bring man’s purpose to the church.  They had no problem naming those who bore false doctrine to the slaughter of God’s people.  The taking out of context of the words of the Lord Jesus “Judge not less ye be judged” is a classic example of handling the Word of God deceitfully.  Jesus, the Apostles, and the Prophets had no problem naming names.
      The Presidential Inauguration had two very false individuals praying a blessing upon the Obama administration.  The two individuals are Rick Warren, a member of the Council of Foreign Relations that is establishing global government unto antichrist. Rick Warren also has lesbian and homosexual members in his church.  I have absolutely no problem in ministering to homosexuals, lesbians, or people caught in any type of sin, but all ministries must lead to deliverance of sin and not acceptance of sin which is a classic violation of the Holy Scriptures.  The other is Bishop Robinson, a defamer of Textus Receptus Scriptures as well as a sodomite who is married to another man.  To pray a blessing in Jesus Name upon one who is going to take American tax payer dollars to export abortion to the nations of the world is clearly an abomination.  To pray a blessing in the Lord’s name upon a man who is going to introduce the Freedom of Choice Act, which will take all abortion out of the courtrooms in America and establish abortion permanently, is to take the Lord’s name in vain.  To pray a blessing upon a man who has promised to use the bully pulpit of the presidency to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act in states that have made a stand for Biblical traditional marriage is sin in the presence of a Holy God.  In Jeremiah 23, Jeremiah proclaims a Woe upon the pastors strengthening the hands of evil doers.  In verse 14 we find God’s thought in this matter. 
      Jeremiah 23:14:  “I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing:  they commit adultery, and walk in lies:  they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness:  they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorah.”
Rick Warren Blasphemes 
      The Ghana pastors were especially sad, as I was, when Rick Warren prayed in the name of Isa which is Jesus’ name in the Koran.  This is another Jesus.  The Jesus of the Koran never went to the cross and the Koran describes someone else as going to the cross.  The Jesus of the Koran is identified as being a Muslim and teaching his followers to be Muslims.  Rick Warren prayed in the name of Yeshua, Isa, Jesus (Spanish pronunciation), and Jesus (without Christ) in invoking a blessing upon that which God cannot bless.  Rick Warren believes he can get Muslims, Christians, and Jews to worship together on the basis that they can all proclaim the God of Abraham as their God.  I want to boldly proclaim that you cannot mix true worship with that which does not believe in the death, resurrections, and ascension unto glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.  To attribute the attributes of God to that which is not God is blasphemy.  To use the name of an uncrucified non- resurrected and non-ascended Jesus is blasphemy. 
      The American church that has been trained by Rick Warren through the Purpose Driven Life and the accompanying seminars is at a place where it has lost all discernment.  I will probably have more people upset with me for mentioning this than upset with Rick Warren for using the Lord’s name in vain before the entire world.   
Free Abortion Comes to Ghana 
      One of the first things that Obama did as the President of the United States was to lift the ban on the funding of abortion overseas.  The day before I left to return to America, the American funds reached Ghana and hospitals in Accra Ghana were advertising “Free Abortions”. For the many foolish Christians who voted with no discernment for this man and follow the false church leaders, the blood of nations is on your hands.  I call upon you to repent.  The Scripture records that this is where judgment begins.  Consider carefully the words of II Kings 24:4 which were written just before Babylon took Israel away. 
      II Kings 24:4:  “And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord would not pardon.” 
      For those of you who threw your conscience out so that your pocketbook might be stimulated, you might ask yourself how are tax payer dollars that shed innocent blood throughout the nations going to stimulate this bankrupt economy?   
      Sad Demerit #2:  Sodomites and the NIV Bible 
      In one of the sessions that I taught on being wise master builders by the administration of the mysteries of the Gospel, I had occasion to teach on the mystery of iniquity.  The mystery of iniquity can be very simply defined in this simple way.  When the last great falling away comes upon the church (just before Jesus comes) the church will violate the Scriptures (that is remove or add to) and stop convincing the world of sin by the Holy Spirit.  This will cause the antichrist to arise in the world. There must come a falling away and the rising of the son of perdition sitting in the temple as God before the Day of the Lord comes. This is clearly stated in the 2nd chapter of Thessalonians.  The great falling away is especially energized when the Scriptures are violated by being removed or added unto.  This is how Eve was seduced into bringing about the fall of the world. The fall of the world came about with the removal of one word “not”. This phenomenon of changing the Scriptures has been kept out of the church for centuries until recently. What has been rejected for centuries has now gained great acceptance within the church.  God’s people are largely ignorant of this and are busy having their ears tickled by the false teachers. This is how the spirit of antichrist will come out of the midst of the church.
      I would remind you that only two people in the Bible are called the son of perdition.  One is Judas who betrayed our Lord at His first coming; the other is the antichrist who will manifest before our Lord’s second coming.  Judas is of an apostate antichrist spirit. It is interesting to note that recently a leading Word of Faith teacher, Jesse Duplantis, was teaching that Judas Iscariot was Jesus’ favorite disciple because he handled the money.  I have to ask, does this man and his many followers have any Biblical knowledge at all? How interesting it is to see last day Christians looking upon Judas favorably.
      The NIV Bible was deeply influenced by the “evangelical sodomite community” and even had sodomite translators translating from Vatican texts.  In our second conference, the pastors’ were stunned to compare the Lord’s Prayer with the NIV’s where many words are removed from the Lord’s Prayer.  They were stunned by Luke 4:4 with the concept of living by every Word of God being removed in the NIV Bible. They were stunned by the removal of the Lord’s blood in Colossians 1:14.  They were stunned by the many Bible verses that are removed and the continuous subtle attack upon the Lord Jesus. Many Christians in America need to be stunned out of seduction. 
      In Ghana there is no open practice of homosexuality.  The idea of sodomite translated Bibles, sodomite married men representing themselves as ministers and invoking blessing upon the President of a nation absolutely stunned them.  The idea of sodomites holding church memberships and Christians supporting candidates spending millions to abort the fruit of the womb throughout the nations was beyond their ability to comprehend.  How sad that what I am saying will be largely rejected by the church here in America, yet in Ghana the speaking of truth in revelation is a great treasure.   
Final Thought 
   Has the church in America, which is losing its testimony to the nations, become a Saul?  Saul was a man with much stuff, which stood head and shoulders above the people. Does this not describe America among the nations? But Saul committed a fatal mistake.  He changed the God given sacrifice. Changing God’s perfect thought will always bring God’s rejection.  It was then the Spirit of God left him and sought out David in the wilderness. The Scripture records that the prophet Samuel wept and interceded for Saul all night long but he could not change the Lord’s mind.  The Spirit of God left Saul and an evil spirit came upon him which would lead to his suicide.  As I watched what was broadcast from USA to Ghana and saw how the church is presented to the nations of the world, I wanted to weep.  Has America become like Saul?  Have we reached a place where even Samuel’s prayers could not bring God to spare?






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The Seed of the Alabaster Box 12-08-2008

Update: Trip to Ghana
On January the 12th in the providence of God I will be boarding a British Airways flight from Newark New Jersey with a final destination for Accra Ghana.  During my time in Ghana I will be the guest speaker for conferences that will include Pastors and Christian workers. The itinerary will take me to three geographical regions within Ghana with three separate conferences.  The conferences will take place during the day and at night we will be holding crusades.  Please pray that God will give me the precise formation of sound words to be spoken.  Likewise prayers for travel mercies, health as well as protection are appreciated.                           

Profound Thanksgiving
        
    I would like to especially thank those who gave for this trip in the providence of God, giving joyfully with little provocation.  The Tree of Life congregation surprised me completely on a Sunday morning with a love offering which included giving from our branch churches in Portland Pennsylvania as well as the New Jersey church.  There was response as well from our newsletter readers.  Thanks to my family for donating, thanks Sisters and Brothers.  The Lord has supplied and at this point we are only slightly short of what is needed.  Yesterday I paid for and received $605.00 worth of shots that is required to enter Ghana.  They have left me with sore shoulders and a very weird sense of symptoms.  A meningitis shot is highly recommended and there is need for malaria pills to be taken daily while on this trip. The cost is another $320.00 or $160.00 per.  If one would like to give for the malaria pills and meningitis shot this would be more than appreciated. Thank God that airfare has been paid for; God is a great provider. In case one wonders I will not be receiving an honorarium.

    Pastor Secku who has oversight of churches throughout Ghana has read the books that God has given to my stewardship. He has felt a deep burden that his Pastor’s should be trained in discerning the great falling away as well as the need for overcoming the last great falling away through the blood of Jesus, the subjects dealt with in two of the books God has given me.  I learned that leaders of the African churches often weep for the spiritual decline of the American church.  The church that brought the Gospel to much of Africa.  Quite frankly The Church in much of Africa is shocked at the spiritual decline of the church in America.

The ministry was once on Radio Africa.  The response from Ghana was very overwhelming. We are anticipating large crowds in the evening crusades.  
        
    I am quite certain that we are moving in the perfect will of God in all this matter.  With every fiber of my being THANK YOU.  Now, let us visit the presentation of the Word.
 
What God communicates to the elect;
That Which is from before the Foundations of the World.
 
   I have become very troubled by the term the “Church”.  There is so much that is called the church that is simply not the Church of God’s Mind and heart.  I am currently training myself to call the church the elect.  This is similar to the term “born Again”.   The marvelous words by which Jesus describes our racial translation has been ruined by the myriad  of the profane that attach the term “born Again” to whatever can make a dollar in the uncrucified world of apostasy.
    
What Makes the Church Elect?
 
   What makes the church elect is when the church can receive what God communicates from before the foundations of the world to an elect in humility of calling.  Please note Mathew 13:34-35:
 
    “All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
     That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.”
 
God’s ways are not Man’s ways.  Often prayer is unanswered because we communicate to God about our wants rather than having an ear for his desire to speak to us.  God truly desires to speak to us about what was in his heart before he made the foundation that creation rested upon.  He desires to communicate the revelation of his heart so that the gospel would be communicated by such revelation. This is what we learn from the Apostle Paul in the glorious book of Galatians.  The elect is that body of believers who God communicates to, that which has been kept secret from the foundations of the world.
 
Five Profound Communications to the Elect
 
Communication Number 1: The Father’s Greatest Love For Jesus.
    
    Carefully read the words of our beloved Lord Jesus as found in the Gospel of John 17:24:  
    “Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.”
 
It is the will of God that we dwell with Jesus in Spirit and truth.  The Holy Spirit glorifies the Word of God who is Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit who indwells us will lead us into the scriptures and show us the greatness of the Lord Jesus Christ.  He will show us his glory that he had with the father before creation was placed upon foundations.  The Holy Spirit will show us the profound love that the father has for Jesus.  He will teach us of the union that dwells in the Godhead and why the father proclaims Jesus the brightness of his glory and his exact character representation.  Because the father is well pleased with the Son there is a union in glory.  What is most amazing is the reality that the exact love that the father has for Jesus, The Lord Jesus Christ loves us with.
 
Communication Number 2: We Have Been Chosen in Him Before the Foundations of the World
 
       The reality that none of us sought out God but that God has chosen us is truly one of the greatest of all the great gospel mysteries. Carefully consider the Apostles words to the elect of the Ephesians found in Ephesians 1:4:
 
    “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that     we should be holy and without blame before him in love.”
 
What is astonishing to me is that before there was creation we were known to the great heart of God by name. How astonishing that in the great all knowing God’s heart there was a desire for his chosen elect to walk with him in companionship.  That he calls us to walk in the secret place of the most high is glorious beyond expressions.  He became our high priest and Apostle that we might be seated with him in heavenly places as a spectacle before nations.  High priests are of the Holiest Place of all. The high priestly apostolic ministry of Jesus Christ does not take place in a tabernacle made with human hands but in the greater tabernacle dwelling eternal in the heavens.  We have been chosen a nation of priests for the Holiest of Holies.  We have been chosen to be Holy and without blame before him in the father’s love. The precious elect washed in the blood of sprinkling, chosen in Christ Jesus from before the foundations of the world.
 
Communication number 3: The Lamb Slain from Before the Foundations of the World Has Written a Book
 
       In the book of Revelations God communicates the mystery of his heart by the book of Life in the following as found in Revelation 13:8:
 
    “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,(Anti-Christ) whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
 
The Lamb slain before the foundations of the world has authored a book. It is the book of Life.  Each chapter has the story of an epistle.  The ink of this book is in blood, the blood of one slain from before the foundations of the world.  The chapters are inspired by his union with the Father that has brought us into union with him and one another.  This book of life was written before any of our days came into being.  While we were being knit together in our mother’s womb our lives were being conformed to the blueprint found in this book of life.  We are chapters in the book of Life known and read of all men. To be conformed to the author’s divine thought from before the foundations of the world is essential.  We dare not write our will into this great epistle for there is danger of being blotted out of his pages. (Revelations 3:5)  Oh God as you wrote upon King David’s spirit the pattern of an earthen tabernacle, do write upon our spirit the pattern of the tabernacle of the Lamb, the Lamb slain from before the foundations of the world.
 
Communication number 4: Blood has been Shed from the Foundations of the World and is Required.
He Has Called Us into the Fellowship of his Sufferings.
 
Consider what wisdom communicates as expressed in Luke 11:46-51:
 
    “And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers!  for ye lade men with burdens grevious to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.  Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.”
 
    Lawyers are what currently run this country. They are the politicians leading the nation to antichrist. The wicked A.C.L.U. under the banner of there communist founder Baldwin come continually against the Word of God and stand in the antichrist opposition to all that is Holy and according to God’s Word.  Satan is the original remover of God’s Word.  As the church follows his lead in the new age bibles, the world joins the satanic expression and we see the Word of God removed from our courthouses and public display declaring Jesus Christ.   In the antichrist atmosphere of past apostate generations that has found its expression in America, we hear Jesus express what the wisdom of God speaks.

        The wisdom of God tells us that he will send his elect with the Word of God. This elect, chosen in him, have been abiding in the Holy Spirit of Prophecy and in the Holy Spirit of Holiness. They shall come forth with the wisdom of God hidden from before the foundations of the world.  This wisdom will be rejected by the uncrucified church world as well the global empire.  Because the wisdom of God (that cries to us) is rejected, God will require the blood that has been shed, by those who would hide the testimony of Jesus.  Men destroy men who hold the formation of Jesus Christ in the inner man that there deeds might not come to light. In the shadows and types found in the Old Testament such as Abel and Zacharias, who bore the testimony of Jesus, there was a shedding of blood. This is a testimony of blood that speaks to us from before the foundations of the world.  If this was required of a generation at the first coming of Jesus Christ, think and tremble at the generation of his second coming, that counts his blood as unholy. The blood of a Lamb slain from before the foundations of the world, sprinkled from everlasting to everlasting.
 
Communication 5:  He Has Often Suffered from
Before the Foundations of the World
 
In hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit, we come upon what He desires us to hear in Hebrews 9:26:
 
    “For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of     himself.”
 
    In the Old Testament which records the beginning of dispensations, we learn of distinct dispensations of unique expression.  These expressions continue into our time wherein we see the culmination of these ages.  There is a distinct admonition upon we who the ends of ages are coming upon.  Carefully consider the ages that are now mentioned.
 
 1.     That which is from before the foundations of the world.  
 2.     Creation.  
 3.     Innocence.  
 4.     Two generations of the fall.  
 5.     The law.  
 6.     The Promise.
 7.     The incarnation, we beheld His glory.    
 8.     Pentecost, the church age of grace.  
 9.     The last days and tribulation.    
10. The millennium.  
11. The gathering of all things unto Jesus Christ.
 
Within each age we find a dispensation that longs for the utter fullness of the Lord Jesus Christ.  He is central to all that is abiding from before the foundations of the world.  In creation there is a longing for that which is without form and void to hear the cry, Let there be the light.  In innocence there is invitation to man to eat of the Tree of Life and live forever. In the fall there is murder of righteous Abel and an expression of two generations.  One generation in its seventh line is that of polygamy and murder.  The other generation sees the seventh line that is taken to heaven without death.  In each of these dispensations there is a longing for the manifestation of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Shadows however cannot fulfill the heart of God.  In these He suffers often from before the foundations of the world. 

    In the promise, there is the Promise Seed to all nations.  The seed that will crush the seed of satan.  The law is but a school master.  But in incarnation there is fullness.    Here the Lamb slain from before the foundations of the world expresses the fullness of what is often suffered.  The cross manifests the government of resurrection and ascension.  In Pentecost and grace there is gathering, but still there is apostasy wherein candlesticks are removed and His blood is trampled under foot.  He continues to often suffer.  In these last days antichrist will attempt to remove His testimony.  In the millennium He will rule with a rod of iron, and will suffer over the short rebellion of the devil and his rejection of nations.  But there ultimately comes a time when He who has often suffered from before the foundations of the world, will see the fullness of all things being gathered into His headship.  That special dispensation when all is gathered in Him.
Ephesians 1:10:
    
    “That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him.”


 


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The Seed of the Alabaster Box 11-12-2009


THIS MONTH’S NEWSLETTER IS A PORTION OF THE NEW BOOK
TAKEN FROM THE CHAPTER OF
THE MYSTERY OF JESUS CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH 
BONE OF BONE 
   The expression bone of bone and flesh of flesh has a unique history in Scripture. It is one of the first expressions of the newly created man Adam. He speaks this concerning the result of the deep sleep that God places upon him. (Genesis 2:21) This sleep foreshadows the death of Jesus Christ for the sins of the world. Out of the area of the heart of Adam God takes a rib and from that rib God brings the love of Adam’s life, Eve.
Genesis 2:23
      “And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones,
        flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman,
        because she was taken out of Man. 
    Eve being brought to life out of the deep sleep of Adam is a foreshadowing of the church that is brought forth out of the death of Jesus Christ. This is a great mystery as the sacred Scripture proclaims. In Adam’s awakening there is the proclamation of “bone of bone”. In the resurrection of Jesus there is the profound proclamation of “bone of bone” and the greatest of inspired visionary proclamation!  
 
Ephesians 5:27: 
      “That He might preset it to Himself a glorious
       Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any
       Such thing; but that it should be Holy and
        Without blemish.” 
    How God can take sinful man and make him “bone of bone and flesh of flesh” is God’s greatest creation. It is in this great new creation that the old fall of man passes away (II Corinthians 5:17) and He makes all things new.  (Revelations 21:5) The Spirit and the Bride say come. (Revelation 22:17)  God illustrates the mystery through marriage.
Ephesians 5:28-29:
      “So ought men to love their wives as their own
        bodies.  He who loves his wife loves himself.
       For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but
        nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord
        the church.”  
Marriage is under the greatest assault in this time of antichrist.  Antichrist does not desire women. (Daniel 11:37) There is the attack to establish marriage like Sodom. This destroys any society that adopts it for it is the mockery of the mystery by the power of hell itself. The entire tribe of Benjamin was nearly eradicated for accepting this sin. (Judges 21:3)
                      
SOLOMON, THE MYSTERY OF MARRIAGE
IN WISDOM AND REVELATION 
    Marriage is the wisdom of God illustrating the great mystery. This wisdom is illustrated in the Song of Solomon, one of the great books of the great mystery wisdom. In the Song of Solomon, as in other flashpoint Scriptures, we are again brought into a garden. In the Garden of Eden man is brought into the fall and driven from the presence of God, (Genesis 3:24) while in the Garden of Gethsemane the process of Salvation by blood is begun. (Luke 22:44) In the garden of Solomon, the Spirit of adoption begins the restoration of the garden of God’s intent.
   Song of Solomon 4:12 
      “A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse;
       A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.” 
 
    MY SISTER MY SPOUSE
  
    It is a most interesting terminology the idea of my sister my spouse. A true marriage must have three great loves at work within it. There must be the greatest love that requires the laying down of ones life, the giving of ones life. This is how a true man is to love a true woman. This is how the Lord loves His church. This is how a spouse, one that is apprehended to bone of bone, comes into being. The second love is that of family. The reference to a sister is the reference to the fact that in marriage family is always to stand together in the great love of God. The third of the great loves, which is the least, is the romantic love wherein the husband ravishes his wife. (Proverbs 5:19) The false imitation of this love is the lust that leads to sin. This is where the world has mocked what God intends and the result has been disease.
   Within these loves there is a great fountain that is sealed. This can be found in the spirit of a man that has been born into the mystery from above. There, where the spring is shut up by the world, his great love abides an everlasting spring that fountains. There the blood of Jesus speaks and becomes the River of Life, the highway of the heavenly Jerusalem, adorned as a bride.
Rev. 21:2-3:
      “And I John saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem,
        coming down from God out of Heaven, prepared
        as a bride adorned for her husband.
       And I heard a great voice out of Heaven saying,
       Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men, and
       He will dwell with them, and they shall be His
        people, and God Himself shall be with them, and
        be their God.” 
   The garden is enclosed. Satan cannot enter for the blood from the garden speaks of the cup of suffering that brings the perfect will of God and sanctifies. (Luke 22:42)  In that holy blood the fount is loosed and the Tree of Eternal Life that God intends from the garden manifests.   
Revelation 22:1-2:
      “And he showed me a pure river of Water of Life,
        clear as crystal, proceeding out of the Throne of
        God and of the Lamb.
       In the midst of the street of it, and on either side
        of the river, was there the Tree of Life, which
        bear twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her
        fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree
        were for the healing of the nations.” 
GROWING IN THE ENCLOSED GARDEN
ORCHARD OF POMEGRANATES
    In the garden of restoration found within the Song of Solomon, the heart touched with revelation finds an initial encounter with the orchard of pomegranates.
Song of Solomon 4:13a:
      “Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates” 
      To the Hebrews of Solomon’s time the pomegranate represented fertility. Such fertility represented new life.  Many of the ancient Jewish people considered the pomegranate tree to be the Tree of Life from the Garden of Eden. The fruit of the pomegranate tree had only one edible source, the seed. When we equate that seed fills the mystery parables, we can see why God created the seed to be the first source of food in the Solomon garden of His great love. It must also be noted that from this seed a choice wine is made. Water made into wine was the first miracle that Jesus performed at a wedding, the beginning of the great mystery reflected. (John 2:10)    
Song of Solomon 8:2:
      “I would lead you, and bring you into my mother’s
        house, who would instruct me: I would cause you
        to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my
      pomegranate.” 
    In the Torah there are 613 commands of God. It was commonly reported amongst the Hebrews of this time that the pomegranate fruit will hold 613 seeds To these believers this symbolized that in the keeping of the law there was life. That is indeed true if we could keep the law that we are incapable of keeping. Only the Promised Seed of Abraham, Jesus Christ, could do that for before Abraham was I Am. (John 8:58)
   The pomegranate also had a special place in the temple and the priesthood.  A symbolic pomegranate was interwoven with a bell into the ephod of the high priest entering into the Holiest of Holies.
Exodus 28:34 35:
      “A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell
        and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe
        round about.
       And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and
        his sound shall be heard when he goes in unto
        the Holy Place before the Lord, and when he
      comes out, that he die not.”  
Likewise when Solomon built David’s Tabernacle by precise heavenly direction, (I Chronicles 28:11-12) the pomegranate was integrated into the expression of the pillar which held the temple up.
I Kings 7:18:
      “And he made the pillars, and two rows round
        about upon the one network, to cover the
        chapiters that were upon the top, with
        pomegranates: and so did he for the other
        chapiter.” 
In an orchard of pomegranates we find an expression of an abundance of holiness, union, strength, and mystery in the eternal mystery expressed in the wisdom we know as the Song of Solomon.
  
CAMPHIRE
    The second plant of this garden of divine thought is camphire. Camphire is the perfume of love in the enclosed garden. Camphire is also known as the henna plant. Camphire is a cream colored abundant flowering plant that grows to great stature. Camphire is extremely fragrant when crushed. Camphire when crushed can produce a dye and perfume that was used on the palms of hands and feet by the children of Israel. Camphire is in abundance in the wilderness of Engedi. Engedi was the wilderness that became a stronghold to David. (I Samuel 23:29) There in the abundance of camphire, David would learn the lessons of a broken, crushed spirit that would make him the King of Israel. His lineage would be the lineage of the Messiah. This will be proclaimed twelve times in the Gospel of Matthew.
   David was hidden in the cave in the midst of camphire. It is always interesting to note that what is led by God is often hidden. Joseph was brought by God into Egypt under the most difficult and painful of circumstances. Joseph was hidden by God in slavery for many years.
Psalms 105:17-18:
      “He sent a man before them, even Joseph,
        who was sold for a servant:
        whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was
        laid in iron.” 
Despite Joseph experiencing terrible sufferings, God will ultimately lead His chosen man for a corporate purpose.
Psalms 80:1:
      “Give  ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that
        leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest
        between the cherubims, shine forth.”

    David is a similar man. It is in the wilderness of betrayal that David is brought to the camphire of Engedi. There his hands and feet will be covered in the fragrance of the grace of camphire unto corporate mystery. In Engedi David is brought into the stronghold of being hidden.  As David is hidden in the cave of Engedi, Saul comes to sleep in this cave thinking he is in safety. The enemy is never in safety when the Lord’s servants are hidden in the death of Jesus. There David will come into the test of self-will as opposed to mercy. While Saul sleeps, David cunningly cuts off the corner of Saul’s robe. (I Samuel 24:4) David’s action is restrained by the living God in the lesson of authority. David is not to touch God’s anointed. (Psalms 105:15) God touches David’s conscience and he spares the life of Saul in mercy. God has prepared David and brings him out of the hidden place into the resurrection fragrance of camphire.
I Samuel 24:8-11.  
      “David also arose afterward, and went out of the
        cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the
        king.  And when Saul looked behind him, David
        stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed
        himself. 
       And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou
        men’s words, saying, Behold David seeketh thy
        hurt?
       Behold this day thine eyes have seen how that
        the Lord had delivered thee to day into mine
        hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee:
        but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not
        put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the
       Lord’s anointed.
       Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy
        robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of
        thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see
        that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine
        hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou
        huntest my soul to take it.”
             
    In being brought out of the cave he is a shadow of resurrection. His hands spiritually dyed in camphire, have spared life in mercy. His feet in like shadow fashion walk in the resurrection power of grace that will bring all of Israel to call him king. He would walk in the fragrance of the shadow of the coming King who would be hidden in death and resurrected to where all of creation and every knee will bow to Him!  (Philippians 2:11)

    From the wilderness of camphire would arise one of the great shadows of Jesus Christ who will be called the Son of David by the blind desiring to see. (Mathew 9:27) David will be called by a corporate body, who he takes into Zion, the name of marriage mystery. The corporate Israel will cry to David “We are your bone and flesh”. May the camphire fragrance of His great grace touch our hands and feet. In the enclosed garden let there be a working of grace by the marks of the cross. (Galatians 6:17)  
II Samuel 5:1, 2: 
      “Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto
       Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy
        bone and thy flesh.”
       Also in time past, when Saul was king over us,
        thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest
        in Israel: and the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt
      be a captain over Israel.”







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