KINGDOM BIBLE STUDIES
"Teaching the things concerning the kingdom of God..."
THE HEAVENS
DECLARE
Part 47
LEO --THE
LION
(continued)
Last
month we plumbed the depths and scaled the heights of revelation in the
glorious Sign of LEO, THE LION the Lion of the tribe of Judah, who is none
other than our blessed Lord Jesus the Christ.
In this Study we reach the last scene of the final act in GOD'S BIBLE IN
THE SKY. We now draw to a conclusion
these meditations on the great drama of the ages which started with Virgo, the
Virgin, and comes full circle in Leo, the Lion to pass on to other vital
truths the Spirit is speaking to the elect of God in this significant hour.
No doubt
whatever exists about the meaning of Leo.
In this Sign we see for the fourth time the symbolism of the Christ in
triumph crushing the head of the serpent.
It was seen in the Sign of Scorpio, where Ophiuchus the mighty man holds
his foot over the head of the Scorpion, the deadly enemy, about to crush
him. Again the triumphant victor,
Hercules, was seen, crushing with his foot, the head of the terrible dragon,
Draco. Further, in the Sign of Taurus,
we noted Orion the great hunter with his foot on the head of Lepus, the
enemy. Now, finally, the truth is
repeated in this last Sign, Leo. Leo
brings the whole story to completion by showing the final end of the
adversary. The almighty Christ of God
has come within us as life and wisdom and strength and victory to tear away the
flesh of our carnal mind and nature and crush every bone of our resistance to
His Kingdom of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Christ is Leo the Lion! Christ is the mighty King! Christ shall triumph within! And Christ shall triumph everywhere in all
realms unto the endless vastnesses of infinity forevermore! Praise His wonderful name!
It is
another mystery, but it is a grand fact of truth nevertheless, that Christ
first reigns IN us that He may consequently reign THROUGH us. "Then shall the King say unto them on
His right hand, Come, ye blessed of My Father, INHERIT THE KINGDOM prepared for
you from the foundation of the world" (Mat. 25:34). "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall
not INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD? Be not
deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,
nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF
GOD" (I Cor. 6:9-10). "Now
this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF
GOD.... (I Cor. 15:50).
I have met
men who professed that they had no desire, no ambition whatever, to rule and
reign with Christ. It is enough, say
they, to know that we are saved by grace and shall make heaven at last. In fact, I have been greatly criticized by
some for my hope of inheriting the Kingdom of God and sitting with Christ on
the throne of universal dominion. In
the eyes of these accusers I am vain, conceited, self righteous, presumptuous,
heretical and power-mad because I cherish the beautiful hope of sonship and
rulership in the Kingdom of God. But I
do not hesitate to tell you that Christ Himself has graciously bidden us to
overcome and share with Him His authority over the nations and all things. He would both be King IN US and exercise His
regal power THROUGH US. "To him
that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also
overcame, and am set down with My Father in His throne" (Rev. 3:21). Such reward to His faithful followers is
merely the tangible expression of the approval of God, and we may no more deny
Him the pleasure of expressing that approval than we may renounce it once it is
conferred. HE WHO DESPISES A THRONE
DESPISES HIM WHO CONFERS THE THRONE. It
was one of our Lord's rebukes to the Pharisees - "The glory that cometh
only from God YE SEEK NOT" (Jn. 4:44). The Spirit of the Lord has been
speaking to my heart. He is urging me
to become a true partaker of the HEAVENLY CALLING.
It is a
wonderful truth that Christ is the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and you will
understand a great mystery when the Spirit makes it real to you that we are the body of Christ therefore,
we are the body of Leo the Lion, we
are the body of the all-victorious King
of glory! For those who are growing
up into the image, stature, and fullness of Christ, the Sign of Leo is the
classroom in which we have special opportunity to learn to live as kings and
priests in the government of God. Every
child of God called to sonship is now in school. We may feel that we graduated from school long ago, but that is a
mistake; we hadn't even started to school at that time. When you received the call to sonship and
went out in the world on your own, you really, then, started to school. When God drew you out of the Babylonian
religious system and separated you unto Himself you may have felt you
"graduated" into a new realm and you certainly did. You graduated from kindergarten! And
immediately you were enrolled in the first grade of God's SCHOOL OF
SONSHIP. In this school there is only
one course taught, and that is the course of overcoming, which is the hardest
course to master and finish known in any curriculum in the world today. This matter of disciplining one's thoughts,
desires, emotions, habits; of training one's spirit and soul and body to
function on the level of the mind, nature, wisdom and power of Christ is of the
greatest importance and spells the difference between success and failure in
the Kingdom of God. To finish this
course marks the difference between being in the High Calling of God in Christ
Jesus, or remaining a babe in Christ, a nominal citizen in the Kingdom of
Heaven.
The reason
so many people fail to attain to great heights in the Spirit is because they
are unable to see God's purpose, and therefore they have no particular
incentive to seek the great heights that are in Him. So many Christians are far too taken up with carnal ideas and
childish notions about mansions and harps and sitting on clouds eating pork
chops with nothing to do and all eternity to do it in, to be able to grasp the
great realities of the Kingdom of God!
There are certain basic principles of the Kingdom that must be a part of
the mind-set and experience of all who press forward into sonship to God. We must learn to think like God. We must begin to RULE WITH CHRIST IN THIS
LIFE. Too many saints are weak,
frustrated and defeated. May the
dynamite of God's Spirit blow us all out of the low places of lethargy,
discouragement, oppression and defeat into a vibrant walk with Christ in the
high places of peace, joy, and triumph of His Kingdom. Strengthen yourselves in the Lord and in the power which His
supreme might imparts. Put on the
complete armour of God, so as to be able to stand firm against all the
stratagems of the devil. For ours is
not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but
with despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this
dark world the spiritual hosts of evil
arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare. Wherefore put on the complete armour of God, so that you may
be able to stand your ground in the
evil day, and having fought to the end, TO REMAIN VICTORS ON THE FIELD"
(Eph. 6:10-14, Weymouth).
We are called
to reign with Christ from the highest heaven.
Such all-embracing majesty is far too vast far my feeble understanding,
yet I know by the Spirit that the body of Christ is in practical preparation
for the explicit purpose of UNIVERSAL DOMINION. But how can a man rule over principalities and powers and worlds
and universes if he is unable to rule his own spirit? "He that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh
a city" (Prov. 16:32). The awful
betrayal, trial, mockery, beating, and crucifixion of Jesus is the most shining
example. It is difficult to imagine any
humiliation more bitter than that. It
is the worst indignity that anyone can be called upon to endure. Few have ever had to bear it. Never was dishonor less deserved, never was
dishonor more bravely borne. Through
that fierce and heated hour our Lord bore Himself with quiet dignity. Others were convulsed with uncontrolled
passion, He alone was calm and self- possessed. His victory over Himself was greater than His victory over His
enemies. In such experiences of
provocation, truly, "He that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that
taketh a city." God is a God of
principle. He does not do anything by
chance. It is my deep conviction that
what happens in your life and mine is a result of the use or abuse of the
principles of the Kingdom of God. Learn
this, beloved, and you will know one of the fundamental principles of reigning
with Christ: OUR AUTHORITY IS OVER
SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS F-I-R-S-T-L-Y
I-N O-U-R-S-E- L- V- E- S! "To him that overcometh will I
(consequentially) give power over the nations: and he shall rule them..."
(Rev. 2:26-27). "To him that
overcometh will I grant (consequentially) to sit with Me in My throne"
(Rev. 3:21).
As I have
pointed out many times before, the journey to the throne of the universe begins
in that small and undistinguished place where you are. The Kingdom of God is within you. The enChristed who are to reign with Christ
first from sea to sea, then from planet to planet, and finally from universe to
universe, are being prepared. Think not
in your heart, precious friend of mine, that you may pass your life here
careless, indifferent to the dealings of God, suddenly to awake one fine
morning to find yourself sitting with Christ governing the galaxies, because
such a thing will not be. Begin today
to MAKE WAY FOR THE KING! This present
time it but a proving ground for those who through grace will reign with their
Lord over the endless vastnesses of infinity.
He is raising us up to sit with Him in the higher than heavenlies. And the place which He is preparing for each
one is not only a world to come, and a Kingdom of Life and Light, but a place
IN HIM, bone of His bone, flesh of His flesh, spirit of His spirit, mind of His
mind, nature of His nature, life of His life!
Years ago
an IBM junior executive made a mistake that cost the company several million
dollars. IBM's founder, Thomas J.
Watson Sr., summoned him into his office.
Assuming the worst, the sullied young executive said, "I guess you
want my resignation? Mr. Watson
replied, "You can't be serious.
We've just spent millions of dollars educating you!" God is the founder of the most important
enterprise of all the Kingdom of God.
God is now in the process of hiring, educating, and developing His
management team. He is training us to become powerful rulers in that
Kingdom in the day when He initiates the next
phase of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. How much has God already spent on
your training and education? God has
made a supreme investment in us through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Without that price, none of us could even
enter into the Kingdom of God much less attain the high-ranking positions God
has waiting for those who overcame - who graduate from His school. But God doesn't stop there. He invests in us daily through His guidance
and processings, and through the continuous gracious outpourings and deep and
vital dealings of His Spirit.
In a very
real sense, God owns us. The apostle
Paul reminds us, For ye were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your
body and in your spirit, which are God's"
(I Cor. 6:20). The great King of
this Kingdom expects to see a profit for all His time, effort and
sacrifice. God, of course, is not
interested in making money. He already
owns everything. God is in the business
of developing His family sons with character. If those of us who are called now succeed in qualifying for
positions of rulership, we will in turn be able to help millions of others
become citizens of the Kingdom. To put
it in business terms, our future profit to the Kingdom of God will more than
make up for any of our present losses if we stay with the organization and
apply the new lessons! Saints, like the
junior executive at IBM, are capable of making costly mistakes. Have you ever felt that God has given up on
you? Do you feel like you are wasting
His time? Sometimes our mistakes are
very costly to us, too! Have you ever
felt that the cost is too high, and that you are wasting your time? Let's see what God says: "Being
confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will
complete it until the day of Jesus Christ" (Phil. 1:6).
God will
never give up on us. He is investing in
us with every intention of making a profit and expanding His Kingdom. Our all-wise Father sees our potential. He knows our capacity to grow and
develop. He is keener at discerning it
than we are. He is also well aware of
our weaknesses, and is ready to help.
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me," said Paul
(Phil. 4:13). The children of God make
a lot of mistakes, for children are children.
Our ability to learn from our mistakes is part of what God uses to build
character in us. In the book of
Revelation, we read that it is the overcomers - those who don't leave God's
school or resign from His purposes who ultimately are given power in His
Kingdom. "And behold, I am coming
quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give every one according to his
work" (Rev. 22:12). "For
everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom
much has been committed, of him they will ask the more" (Lk. 12:48). Have you made costly mistakes? Have you been stumbling and seemingly
wasting God's time? Don't resign! Don't drop out of God's school! His investment in you is too great! He will see you through! Graduation day is coming! The positions in His authority and glory are
waiting! Learn the lessons that will
help you to better serve in the Kingdom of God. If you do, great heavenly wealth and power and opportunity lie
ahead for you in the age and in the ages to come. Through you creation will be lifted, redeemed, restored to life
and liberty and glory - and that's where the real profit begins!
Let us learn
our lessons well and let us never presume that we have attained to something
in God that we have not yet qualified for. And let us never grasp after a place or position the Father has
not conferred upon us. There is no need
to DECLARE OUR SONSHIP - the Father Himself declares His sons: "This is My
beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.
This is My son, hear ye Him."
Some today have grown weary of waiting for the manifestation God has
promised, so they have "watered-down" the hope and settled for a
lesser reality, and are declaring themselves sons of the Kingdom on a lower
plane than God has called us to. Some
have settled for a revival" realm and now speak disparagingly of what
they term "classic sonship".
These anxious souls just can't wait for the Father's appointed
time. The place that God has called us
to will be in His time, not ours.
"The heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a
servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors until the
time appointed of the father" (Gal. 4:1-2). The story is told of a fifteen year old boy who stole his
father's car keys. The father's plan was
to give the keys to his son a year later.
The boy, however, thought that he had all the attributes necessary to
drive the car. The father knew better;
he understood the law, insurance liability, driving skills, and such like. As a result, the court will not let the boy
drive a car until he is twenty-one. Let
us earnestly seek wisdom from above to avoid such a costly error of
SELF-MANIFESTATION!
It is my
deep conviction that the time appointed of the Father for the manifestation of
the sons of God is nigh at hand. The
King is coming. Hallelujah! Sons of God shout it loud and clear! Let the earth know her redemption draweth
nigh. The Deliverer is coming, the
whole Christ-body is being prepared, and the time is at hand. In ancient times when a great monarch was
entering a city, a herald always went before him, blowing a trumpet and
shouting, "The king is coming!"
This was to prepare the people for the entrance of the king so they
would give him the proper welcome, and pay him homage. Two millenniums ago John the Baptist
prepared the way of the Lord by bringing the people to repentance so they would
be ready to receive the Lord. The voice
of one crying in the wilderness was the trumpet call announcing the arrival of
Israel's King. But He did not come as
their King in the manner they expected.
He came first as their Saviour.
He is now coming as the KING.
Before the Lord went about the towns and villages of Israel, He sent His
disciples to preach the gospel of the Kingdom and to prepare the people for His
coming. First He sent the twelve, and
then the seventy. In like manner, there
is an advance company now being prepared to herald the coming of the King; to
prepare His way before Him and to make His paths straight. The royal heralds are going forth blowing
their trumpets, proclaiming the message of the Kingdom in the power of the
Spirit, preparing the people for the appearing of the KING in a vast company of
the sons of God the King in the midst of the kings! This is the day of Leo, the Lion. What a
glorious and mighty victory lies before us!
HYDRA THE
SERPENT DESTROYED
In the
beginning of our study of the Zodiac we noted that all the Signs of the heavens
portray a progressive unfolding of truth that was hidden, like the bud of a
flower, in the ancient promise God gave in Eden: "And I will put enmity
between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel" (Gen. 3:15). We have seen the different stages of this
conflict presented to us under the various Signs. For example, in the beginning of the story, Virgo, the Virgin, is
seen bringing forth the Seed, who is going to be engaged in the redemption of
mankind, represented in Libra, the Scales.
Then immediately we see the conflict beginning and the price to be paid
as Scorpio the first picture of that ancient serpent, which is the Devil, and
Satan stings the mighty man Orphiuchus in the heel, but is crushed beneath
the right heel of this mighty man. Again,
we see the Devil portrayed as a serpent, struggling and wriggling in the hands
of Orphiuchus, reaching up to try and take the crown away from God and those
who inherit the Kingdom. We then see
satan represented as Cetus, the Sea Monster, who was seeking after Pisces, the
Fishes, representing the people of God, as he attempts to destroy them. This scene is symbolically described in
chapter twelve of Revelation: "And the great dragon was cast out, that old
serpent, which is called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world:
he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And when the dragon saw that he was cast
unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the manchild. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water
as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the
flood. And the earth helped the woman,
and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon
cast out of his mouth. And the dragon
was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed,
which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus
Christ" (Rev. 12:9, 12-17)
Again we
have seen Satan in the head and skin of the lion that was destroyed by Orion,
who holds in his hand the dead carcass of the lion, who goes about seeking whom
he may devour. Finally, he is
represented here by Hydra the Great
Serpent, who covers so much of the sky.
But now in the final scene of the last act, the Serpent is triply
destroyed (1) by the feet of Leo, the Lion (2) by the outpouring of the Cup of
wrath (3) and by the devouring fowls of the air, depicted by Corvus, the Raven.
The first
Decan, or minor constellation, in the house of Leo is HYDRA THE GREAT
SERPENT. Hydra is the largest separate
constellation in the sky, stretching more than 100 degrees across the sky below
the constellations of Cancer, Leo, and Virgo, and outside the ecliptic (path of
the sun). Hydra is the figure of a
snake, a massive snake. The name Hydra
symbolically means The Abhorred. Hydra is the symbol of the evil one who has
at last reached his end for his head is beneath the feet of Leo, the
Lion. The conquering Lion pounces on
him, and this marks the end of the reign of sin and death. As one has written: "The great Serpent
was first seen at the center of the ecliptic.
One of the stars in Draco, the
dragon was originally the Pole Star located at the very center. And that is
where Satan was after he had insinuated his way into the Garden of Eden and had
cast his slime across the path of the history of man, deceiving and destroying
mankind, and bringing all of the world into subjection to his vile will. He was at the center of all things; the
Prince of this earth, the Prince and Power of the air. But now we see that Satan is cast out. He is outside the great circle of the
ecliptic. He is about to be finally
destroyed by the Christ and cast out into utter and final darkness."
Now it was
in the midst of the Garden that man first encountered the ancient Serpent. It's not news to any of us that we are in
the midst of a war between two kingdoms: the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of
Satan. Neither is it news to us that WE
are the battleground! More
particularly, the major focal point of the battle is our mind. There the battle
rages at its greatest intensity, because the war is a struggle for our hearts
and loyalties the very souls and lives and beings of men. The simple but dreadful fact is the Serpent
dwells within us. It is that force
within us that opposes the ways of God in our lives and tries to keep us from
seeking those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of
God.
This
brings us to the curse laid upon the Serpent in that long ago beginning:
"Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy
life" (Gen. 3:14). These terms are
symbolic and spiritual. This is not
speaking of a literal snake dangling from a tree limb in some historic
Paradise. This is a symbol, and the
great Deceiver, Satan, that ancient Serpent, the Devil, has to eat dust! He was
cursed to this low realm of eating dust because that is exactly what he was
doing when he tempted mother Eve. Adam
was formed of the dust of the ground and bore the image of the earthy and as
such became the rightful food for the Serpent.
The Serpent the negative spirit realm now finds its base of
operation and fulfillment of its nature, desires, activities, and purposes IN
AND THROUGH MANKIND the dust realm.
By the very nature of things, when the Serpent eats, he seeks to satisfy
his appetite and gratify his desires.
Today, as in Eden, the sphere of Satan's activity is earth, and the
object of his devouring is the man of earth the carnal nature. Whenever we live in the earthly life of
Adam, we are earthly and also on earth and fall into the sphere of Satan's
activity, becoming the object of his devouring, drawn deeper and deeper into
that negative realm.
The very
fact that the Serpent is now to crawl upon his belly reveals that there was a
descending from one realm to another, and man, with the Serpent in him, now
grovels in the dust, trapped in the humiliating quagmire of trouble, pain,
sorrow, sin, sickness, limitation, fear, and death. Moving upon his belly limits the sphere of the Serpent's
activity, now he can only creep along the ground, lowered into the dust realm,
confined to the lowlands of the earthy and material, restricted to expression
through the man of dust. Truly he is
"the S- P- I- R- I- T that now worketh in the children of
disobedience" (Eph. 2:2). Because
of this remarkable curse you will find Satan operative in NO OTHER REALM in
God's vast universe! Satan is one with
man, the energy force of human nature, the spirit of the carnal mind,
slithering about in the lowest realms of man's earthiness, in the crooked thoughts,
perverted desires, depraved emotions, in the illusions and delusions of the
outer world of appearances, and in all the corrupt motions of the flesh.
I want to
tell you where everything is everything is right there where you are WITHIN
YOU. Everything! On the positive
side God is in you, Christ is in you your hope of glory, the word of
Christ dwells in your heart by faith, your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, the glory of God has come upon you and is arising upon you
from within, the wonderful mind of Christ is in your mind and the Kingdom of God is within you. On the
negative side the spirit of antichrist is
in you, the man of sin sits in
the temple of God which is your body, the beast rages in the ravenous emotions of your soul, the image of the beast is
seen in you by your outer actions,
the nature of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters (peoples) is in you, and that ancient Serpent, the
Devil, and Satan, is within you, the
spirit that now worketh IN the sons of disobedience (Eph. 2:2).
Men dream of
a devil a hideous and obscene monster in human form; a short, skinny elf in a
red body suit, with impish face, horns, pointed ears, a spade beard, thin
mustache, having a long forked tail and a pitchfork in his hand. If you ask one thousand church-going
professing Christians to describe for you, the Devil, would not all of them
describe him in the fashion portrayed above?
Or would they describe him to you as a snake? Millions of professing Christians suppose they would recognize
the Devil instantly. But would they,
really? I do not hesitate to tell you
that the Devil of Christianity is a myth.
Jesus, on
many occasions, drew the analogy of men as serpents devils. In my mind when Jesus uttered the following
parabolic phrase, He was revealing one of the most important and foundational
truths of all times. "Woe unto
you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation
of hell? (Mat. 23:25,33). John the
Baptist used the same terminology. "But when he saw many of the Pharisees
and Sadducces come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee the
wrath to come? (Mat. 3:7). Various
translations render this passage: Ye generation of vipers," "Ye
off-spring of vipers," "Ye brood of snakes," "Ye serpent's
brood," etc. You see, Christ and
John were well aware of who and what and where the Enemy was and ever shall be.
As in
Christ's day, so today, the churches are, indeed, full of devils! And they have no
more desire to go to the cross than Peter did.
Well does this enemy of God, enthroned in the human heart, this
adversary of redemption and of all mankind, know that, in the blessed hour when
the "I" is crucified, all his power and all his authority and sway in
that life is broken forever. His
appetite is denied, his desires are rejected, his base of operation is
destroyed, and his work is abolished in every life that has become identified
with Christ in the cross. Once a man
has embraced fully the cross of Christ and Self
has became forever dead with Him, then it is with him even as the firstborn Son
in triumph declared: "I will not talk with you much more, for the prince
(evil genius, ruler) of the world is coming.
And he has no claim on Me, there is nothing in Me that belongs to him,
he has no power over Me" (Jn. 14:30, Amplified). Satan has no power at all
when SELF is gone. Then he has no more
power in your life or mine than he had in the life of our Lord Jesus
Christ. How unspeakably wonderful the
hour for any man when Satan shall find nothing
in him upon which he can feed or lay hold, nothing
upon which he can satisfy his evil desires or his corrupt nature, nothing that responds to him or
corresponds to him. When Self is
crucified with Christ the lust of the flesh is mortified, the lust of the eyes
is dead, and the pride of life is nailed to the cross. The man of dust exists no more and from then
on it is NOT I, BUT CHRIST!
The natural
mind is the mind channeling the condition of the human heart. It is not the same mind that understands how
to drive your car, prepare a meal, or lusts after someone of the opposite sex,
that also understands the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. Not at all!
The promise is sure: "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you,
and ye shall be clean...a new heart
also will I give you, and a new spirit
will I put within you: and I will take away the stony (spiritually
unresponsive) heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a (soft, pliable,
responsive) heart of flesh. And I will
put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall
keep My judgments, and do them"
(Eze. 36:25-27). The new
creation of which the Spirit speaks is blest not only with a new heart and a new spirit but with a NEW MIND as well. For, Paul says, "Who hath known the mind of the Lord? But WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST" (I Cor.
2:16). There is by regeneration within
ourselves, beyond the realm of our conscious knowledge, a divine life, the
child of God's Spirit, ever unwearied, ever growing and maturing, to gain
control of our whole being, and transform us into the image of God.
There is
still a fierce battle raging between these two hearts, these two spirits,
these two minds, these two conditions, these two natures. This is the conflict so graphically portrayed by the Signs in
GOD'S BIBLE IN THE SKY! Praise God, the Lion of the tribe of Judah,
Head and body, that blessed company of the sons of God, is disabling the
Serpent, crushing the head of the Scorpion, and placing his foot determinedly
upon the Dragon's head. Today, although
the Kingdom of God has not yet outwardly triumphed upon this earth in all
realms, although God has not yet gained a sphere wherein He can express the
authority of His life in a full way, nevertheless there is a place, a small
sphere, thank the Lord, where there exists the condition of God's reign, which
thereby manifests God's glory, wisdom, love and power. That is the body of Christ! Today the Spirit-filled and Spirit-led
members of Christ's body are the expression of God's reigning here on
earth. What God desires today is to
perfect and expand and intensify His reigning sphere within His people and
through His people. It is through the
body of Christ, the sons of God, that God binds Satan and destroys his power of
sin and death in men. It is through the
sons of God that life, yea, incorruptible life, and blessing shall be ministered
so that all the families of the earth shall be blessed and made to live unto
God. Thus His name will be honored in
the whole earth, His Kingdom come, and His glorious will done. This is the
commission of God's sons God's MIGHTY LION!
This is the grand conclusion of the ages-long conflict consummated in
the triumph of Leo!
In his
book THE GOSPEL IN THE STARS Dr. Seiss sums it up in these descriptive words:
"During these six thousand years...this subtle and snaky spirit has
managed to worm himself into everything that goes to make up human life,
corrupting and debasing it to his own base ends, seating himself in all the
centers of influence and power, making himself the very king and god of this
world. From all these places he must be
dislodged, his dominion broken, his works destroyed, and he and all his effectually
rooted out and put down, before the heavenly Kingdom can come in its
consummation. In other words, the whole
empire and influence of the Serpent must be rent to atoms, worked clean out of
the realm of humanity, and so crushed as never to be able to lift up its head
again. Toward this end all the
dispensations and gifts of God, from the first promise of Adam until now, have
been directed. Toward this end all the
works and administrations of Christ to this present are framed. To this end He comes in power and great
glory as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, to put down all rule and all
authority and power,' and to trample 'all enemies beneath His feet.' And here, in the first Decan of Leo, is the
grand picture of that consummation.
Here is Hydra, that old
Serpent, whose length stretches one-third the way around the whole sphere,
completely expelled from the places into which he had obtruded, fleeing now for
his life, and the great Lion, with claws and jaws extended, bounding in
terrific fury and seizing the foul monster's neck" end quote.
CRATER
THE JUDGMENT OF BABYLON
The second
Decan in this final Sign is CRATER THE CUP.
Of this Decan Kenneth Flemming wrote:
"As a constellation, Crater is small and faint, so much so that the
popular modern astronomer, Patrick Moore, writes that it is surprising to find
that it is one of the original groups.
The answer to this is that the forty-eight original constellations were
not selected for their brilliance or size, nor were they chosen to divide up
the sky, but rather they were chosen for
what they depicted as signs. That
is an important part of the story of the prophetic signs in the sky. Crater lies below the hind feet of Leo and
seems to be resting on the body of the snake, Hydra. Indeed, the two stars at the bottom of the cup are also part of
the body of the snake, making the two inseparable. In classical times the Greeks supposed that Crater was the cup of
the wine-god, Bacchus; it was therefore associated with joy and gladness
(revelry). In truth the very opposite
is the case. Instead of Crater being a
cup of joy, it is the cup of God's indignation (Rev. 14:10). It is the cup of the wine of the fierceness
of His wrath (Rev. 16:19). It is the
final and dreadful cup of wrath, reserved for the devil and his angels"
end quote.
The
Psalmist Asaph wrote by inspiration: "For in the hand of the Lord there is
a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and He poureth out of the
same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out,
and drink them" (Ps. 75:8). David,
the sweet singer of Israel, also testified: "Upon the wicked He shall rain
snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion
of their cup" (Ps. 11:6). John the Revelator has unmistakably identified
for us the precise fulfillment of the prophecies concerning God's Cup of
Indignation: "And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice,
If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his
forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink
of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into
the cup of His indignation... (Rev.
14:9-10). "And the great city was
divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon
came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the
fierceness of His wrath (Rev.
16:19). "And I heard another voice
from heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of
her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached
unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double
according to her works: in the cup
which she hath filled up to her double" (Rev. 18:4-6).
Of this
"Cup of Indignation" against Mystery Babylon Dr. Seiss wrote,
"And lo! here, as the second Decan of Leo, we have the very picture of
that Cup, broad, deep, full to the
brim, and placed directly on the body of this writhing Serpent! Nay, the same is sunk into his very
substance, for the same stars which mark the bottom of the Cup are part of the
body of the accursed monster, so that the curse is fastened down on him and in
him as an element of his being!
Dreadful beyond all thought is the picture John gives of this Cup of
unmingled wrath, but not a whit more dreadful than the picture of it in which
the primeval prophets have thus inscribed upon the stars" --end quote.
The Cup of
God's indignation and wrath is poured out without measure upon the RELIGIOUS
SERPENT KINGDOM OF MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, the great whore that sits upon
many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and
the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with her defiled wine. Women in prophecy are churches. In Rev. 12:1 we find the true church of
Christ described as a woman. In Rev.
14:4 we find that the virgins who follow the Lamb were not defiled with women:
that is, man-made churches which are merely counterfeits of the one and only
true church. And in Revelation 17 we
have introduced "the great whore" which in verse five is said to be
the "mother" of harlots. A
mother must have offspring. This mother
has "harlot" offspring. She
is the "mother" of "harlots," which is but another way of
expressing the fact that she has many daughters who have followed her in the
ways of harlotry. And while
"Babylon" is first and foremost a spirit and condition within the
human heart, it also finds its expression in the outer world of visible
manifestation. Ah men's actions and
activities are but outward manifestations of an inward state of being. And outwardly the Roman church identifies
herself as the perfect fulfillment of this prophecy by proclaiming herself to
be "the mother of all churches."
The daughters are harlots because they partake of the same nature as
their mother, the "great whore."
All, both mother and daughters, are harlots fundamentally because they
are man-made institutions, whose husband is human instead of Divine. The Christ of God is the one and only lawful
husband of the one and only church, the organism known as His body. But apostasy persists in substituting in
place of this God-designed organism, an organization patterned after worldly
institutions, chartered with the State, riding upon the back of the scarlet
colored beast. All members of the
organization are therefore prostituting unlawfully with their human head, who
is usurping the place which belongs to Christ alone.
Under Old
Testament economy God alone was King of the church and nation until Israel
demanded a human king in order to be like the nations about her. Before the time of these human kings, the
government was a theocracy in the truest sense: that is, the government of the
state was by the immediate direction of God Himself. Great was the condescension of God to thus honor the nation by
becoming its political Sovereign, performing all the functions of an earthly
monarch, and receiving the customary homage paid to a temporal king. Great was the dignity lent to the nation by
the sovereign Lord of heaven and earth dwelling with them first in a
tabernacle, afterwards in a splendid palace, there having His table, His altar,
and His ministers. Great was His
condescension to tolerate their displays of external splendor and pomp, to go
forth with and command the army in war, to legislate, to execute laws, and to
do all things that pertain to the office of an earthly sovereign. And yet Israel was not satisfied. They wished to have another to rule over
them, a human king, as the nations about them had. God granted them their desire.
But Israel
"forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his
salvation. They provoked Him to
jealousy with strange gods, and with abominations provoked they Him to
anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not
to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your
fathers feared not" (Deut. 32:15-17).
"I have spread out My hands all the day unto a rebellious people,
which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; a people
that provoked Me to anger continually to My face" (Isa. 65:2-3). God was very lenient with them; but justice
demanded judgment. Therefore, since
Israel would not be in sub- mission to God as their King, He decreed that
throughout the term of HIS INDIGNATION they would, as a consequence of their
folly, be made to serve the kings of their enemies. They were conquered and enslaved in turn by the kings of Babylon,
Persia, Assyria, Greece and Rome. The
year A.D. 70 saw Israel die as a nation.
From henceforth, until the end of the indignation, she was to be but a
church, and that, in humiliation and disgrace, a slave in the lands of her
enemies. This order prevailed unbroken
for almost three centuries when, upon the raising of Christianity to be the
national religion of Rome in A.D. 324, Constantine thus began to unite church
and state again during a period when God had decreed that they should be
separate.
Under New
Testament economy the Christ of God was to be the one and only Head of His
church. But the Emperor of Rome and the
bishops of the church were for prostituting this church and causing her to
commit fornication with the kings and governments of the earth, in that she
began to be joined with them as she ought only to have been joined with
Him. God has only one church, not one
thousand and one. We nowhere in the
Word read of "Christ and His churches." No, no! It is always
Christ and His "church." Of
course this one church is of necessity divided up into many separate assemblies
for the purpose of meeting together for worship, fellowship, and ministry, and
these separate assemblies are called in the Word the "churches of
God" and the "churches of Christ" (I Cor. 11:16; I Thes. 2:14);
but the Holy Spirit gave the world but one body, one faith, one creed (Eph.
4:45), with the Christ of God the sole legislator. The many bodies, and many faiths, and many creeds, and many legislators,
and many names, and many headquarters, and many structures of the present day,
constitute nothing more than spiritual prostitution, they are harlots one and
all, who are living apart from their one and only lawful Husband and in love
with and joined out of wedlock to another.
The Roman church is the mother of all,
because all are modeled after her false system. And not only are these Protestant daughters modeled after their
mother as to elementary form and nature, but all, from the church of England
right on down to the youngest Charismatic organization, are propagating, in
varying degrees, the doctrines of their mother while, like their mother, they
profess to dispense the Word of God, pure and unadulterated. They baptize like their mother, they take
Communion as the members of the Roman church receive the Eucharist, they
proclaim eternal damnation in hell-fire far the vast billions who have lived
and died on earth without Christ, they celebrate the pagan holidays, Easter and
Christmas, and keep other religious days just as does their mother. Time and space forbid a detailed discourse
on all the harlot ways in which the harlot daughters follow their harlot
mother. We are not unmindful that a
merciful and compassionate God has used all these, even the mother, in the salvation
of souls and in bringing blessings to humanity. But there is a higher walk, an undefiled way, to which all must
submit who would know the full blessings and favor and glory of their sovereign
Lord, and who would walk before Him acceptably and know the joy of the ultimate
in accomplishment in His Kingdom. He
still commands, "Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of
her sins, and that ye
receive not of her plagues" (Rev. 18:4).
Well did
George Hawtin write: "In these dread days it is of ever increasing
importance that the elect should separate themselves from the Babylon of the
church system. This confused harlot,
drunken with the blood of saints, rich and increased with goods and having need
of nothing, adorned with gold and silver and costly array, lounging in plush
pews and entertained by elegant choirs, eloquent orators and super-star
entertainers is the greatest deceiver and false Christ in the world. If we are to be received as sons of God, our
first command and obligation is to sever all relationship with her. The effect of revelation and newly
discovered truth nourishing in the heart of the believer is often lost to him,
simply because he will not separate from this harlot system and come out from
among them and be separate. How, you
ask, can a system that is so attractive from without be so evil within? Do you not know that harlots are always
unclean, no matter how beautifully they bedeck themselves? Go their way at your peril and the same
rotting disease that curses them will soon be devouring you also. The promise of sonship is only to those who come out from among them. Be separate,' Paul says, 'and touch not the
unclean thing; and I will receive
you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye
shall be My sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty (II Cor.
6:17). Such challenging promises are
not to those cushioned believers who delight themselves in plush churches and
interesting programs, who keep the program afloat with gymnasiums, food, fun,
and fellowship, and a hundred other fleshly notions. This promise flings down the gauntlet, challenging saints to heed
the voice of Christ: Come out! Be
separate! Touch not the unclean
thing!' To all such the promise is
sure, I will be a Father to you, and ye shall be My sons and daughters.'
"Beware of what men say in these evil days. Remember that Jesus warned us that there
would be false prophets. False prophets
are always saying, saying, but beware
of what they say. Do men ask, 'Where
are these false prophets' Don't look
for them on the street or in the desert.
The church system is full of them.
You will find them standing in the pulpits Sunday and week day. They are highly thought of and highly
paid. They are as sure they are right
as were the prophets of Baal. They are
also positive that the solitary Elijahs are wrong. As evil men and seducers wax worse and worse, these prophets with
their false gospel add to all manner of delin- quency. Consequently the world sinks deeper and
deeper into sin and, while it sinks, these men imagine that we are in the midst
of a world-wide revival. We are, but it
is not a revival of faith in Christ; it is rather a revival of the very sins
that caused Sodom to be devoured with unquenchable fire and that brought the
flood on the world of the ungodly in the days of Noah. Let no man deceive you, for that day shall
not come except there be a falling away
first. That falling away is here now.
It is everywhere. It is in the
government, in the palace, in the courts of law. It is in the universities and colleges. It is in the homes, on the streets, and worst of all it is in the
church system. It is in the pew and in
the pulpit. It is in the hearts of the
populace. The man of sin, the
antichrist, is very evident in the world, but few see him or recognize him"
- end quote.
The above
word, however, is incomplete without this wise counsel from Ray Prinzing:
"There is more than just being called out' however, and that is a going
on to be built into HIS HOUSE, gathered unto Him. Called out bespeaks of a process of leaving realms behind, to go
on. Yet once this temple is built, it
says 'they go no more out', so it speaks of an arrival, entering into a state
of being in permanent victory and age-abiding life. The TEMPLE is a dimension which goes beyond just being 'called
out', i.e. the church. It bespeaks of
gathering up all the called out, and unifying them together into a harmonious
building wherein HE SHALL DWELL FOR EVER.
There is a real processing that must take place before the called out
becomes the temple. Once we have obeyed
the calling out, then out of us needs
to be purged all the ways and spirit of the thing from which we were called
out, and it is one thing to come out of Babylon, and another thing to have
Babylon taken out of us. Indeed, it
requires a long and arduous processing, a death to the old, a stripping away of
every facet of the old, until IN CHRIST, ALL THINGS BECOME NEW" - end
quote.
Crater
the Cup, is the Cup of God's righteous judgment against the serpent system of
Mystery Babylon the Great. Every word
of prophecy will come true just as it has been written. What dreadful thoughts and feelings are
awakened in the soul by the very sound of the words Mystery Babylon! They are
terrible words. They bring before us at
once, that vast mass of professed Christians who call themselves "the
Church," but are not. Mystery
Babylon is a dark and dreadful anomaly.
It is neither one thing nor the other.
It is not "Israel, nor the Gentiles, nor the Church of
God." It is a corrupt mysterious
mixture, a spiritual malformation, a hideous muta- tion, the masterpiece of
Satan, the corrupter of the truth of God, the destroyer of the souls of men, a
trap, a snare, a stumbling block by which men are made two-fold more the
children of hell than before. It is the
corruption of the very best thing the body of Christ and therefore the most
vile of corruptions. It is that thing
which Satan has made of professing Christianity. It is worse by far than Judaism; worse by far than the darkest of
pagan religions; because it has higher light and richer privileges, makes the
very highest profession, and occupies the very loftiest seat. It is without doubt that awful apostasy for
which is reserved the very heaviest judgments of God the most bitter dregs in
the Cup of His righteous wrath. If the
words penned by John on Patmos, which I have quoted earlier, do not say this,
then I have no understanding or comprehension of language. I doubt if one Christian in ten thousand has
anything like an adequate sense of the true character and inevitable doom of
that system together with all the teachings, rituals, traditions, holy days,
programs, promotions, and religious exercises which surround them. If they had it would solemnize their minds
and hearts, and cause them to sense the urgent need to flee at once out of
Babylon's clutches, and stand apart in holy separation, from Babylon's ways,
that they might escape such awful judgment as is about to be executed, for
"strong is the Lord that judgeth her."
Hear the
Word of the Lord, ye that dwell in Babylon!
"Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul:
be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance;
He will render unto her a recompense.
Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the
earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are
mad. Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her
pain, if so be she may be healed. We
would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go
every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven..."
(Jer. 51:6-9). Volumes could be written
on this passage how we have tried to heal the systems of Babylon by
reformation or revival, pouring out our life to correct its religious
confusion, to quicken its ministries, to change its emphasis, to reform its
institutions, to infuse life into its forms and traditions. But she
cannot be healed, therefore the call comes out loud and clear,
"forsake her," lest ye become partakers of her plagues. Now the hour is upon us, and she shall
SUDDENLY fall, saith the Lord. The
religious peddlers and hucksters (merchants) of the earth shall weep, and they
shall howl, they shall frantically try to revive her, but her days are numbered
and great shall be the fall thereof.
In the
symbology of scripture Jerusalem is the capital city of God's Kingdom, and will
reign over that Kingdom for ever and ever: Babylon is the capital city of the
kingdom of Babylon, which kingdom shall soon pass away. The mount Zion is the chief eminence, the
highest pinnacle attainable in grace in Jerusalem: Babylon was founded upon
seven mountains of shame. The true
church is a woman crowned with twelve stars of divine government, with the
moon, all that pertains to the night under her feet: the false church is also a
woman, with her own name and shame written on her forehead. The Head or Husband of the true woman, God's
church, is the Christ: the head or husband of the false is her paramours the
kings of the earth, and the numerous ecclesiastical "heads" from
"pope" to "pastor".
The true brings forth children unto God: the false her harlot
brood. The city of God, the New
Jerusalem, is to be the habitation of God forevermore: the city of Babylon
becomes heaps, the habitation of bitterns and owls, the cage of every foul
spirit, "and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord
of hosts" (Isa. 14:23; 34:11-17).
How
precious is the truth expressed by George Warnock: "There are a lot of
songs and a lot of teaching today about the new thing that God is doing and the
new wine that God is bringing forth to His people. But what about the new wine-skins for the new wine? 'And no man putteth new wine into old
bottles (wine-skins); else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled,
and the bottles shall perish' (Lk. 5:37).
However, it is not too difficult to discern in the midst of the joy and
rejoicing of the new thing that God is doing a desperate attempt to keep the
old wine-skins from bursting at the seams.
Wine...Renewal...Restoration...Revival... all of this in old
wine-skins. No wonder there is an
attempt to strengthen the seams, and to patch the cracks in the old structures,
and a warning to the sheep to follow their shepherds...because if something is
not done about it, it would appear that the whole thing might crack wide open,
and the new wine may be lost. Jesus has
already warned us what would happen if we try to renew the old forms with the
new Life of the Spirit. It can only be
for a short season...the old forms will just disintegrate, and the wine is
lost...
"What, then, are we going to do about it? The same thing, I would suggest, that we did before God began
bringing forth the new wine. Recognize
that the old forms are no longer adequate, and seek God earnestly for the new
provision and the new way that He has in mind for His people. When God does a new thing' in the earth it
is really a progressive unveiling of what He had in mind from the beginning,
but it is something NEW in manifestation in the earth. We always have those that resist anything
new'. They say God never does anything new that He hasn't done before. True, we have the seed of everything that
God would ever bring forth away back in time...even as far back as the
Genesis. But in the outworking of His
purposes there are constantly new horizons, new workings, new temples, new
forms and structures, new workings of His Spirit as He leads His people out of
bondage and into the fullness of New Creation Life. 'Behold the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they
spring forth I tell you of them. Sing
unto the Lord a new song, and His
praise from the end of the earth' (Isa. 42:9-10)" -- end quote.
CORVUS
THE RAVEN
Finally, we
came to the third and last Decan in the house of Leo, the final figure in the
great gallery and portraiture of the heavens, known as CORVUS THE RAVEN. The raven is a scavenger bird of prey. Ravens are powerful birds, often up to two
feet in length, with a massive, three-inch beak that tears flesh from dead and
dying animals on which they feed. The
raven that Noah released from the ark did not return because there was much
dead flesh on which to feed. What a
picture! Here, in the pictorial Sign of
the heavens, we have the same thing.
Here is Corvus, the Raven, the
bird of punishment and final destruction.
He doesn't kill his prey he consumes and forever removes from the
earth that which has been slain. He is
God's "mop up" crew. His is
the final act. And in this constellation we see Corvus
grasping the body of Hydra, the Serpent, with its feet and tearing him with his
beak. Not only is the head of the
adversary crushed, but he is finally defeated in all realms, torn to pieces and
devoured. This is already a glorious
and eternal reality within all those blessed ones who have experienced the
triumph of the Christ within. For these
THERE IS NO DEVIL ANYMORE. But there
shall yet be a fulfillment in all realms, and thus shall the inspired words of
the apostle be fulfilled, "Behold, I make all things new. Write: for these wards are true and
faithful. And God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor
crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away (Rev. 21:4-5).
Here, now,
these Studies on the Signs of the heavens must break off abruptly. There is so much more that might have been
said, and so much more still which I do not know enough to say. I cannot do better in closing this series
than to quote the true and eloquent wards of Dr. Seiss regarding Corvus the final act in the grand
drama of God's great redemptive and reconstructive program. "Blessed consummation! How should we look and pray for it, as Jesus
has directed where He tells us to say,
Thy Kingdom come - Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven! Well might one of England's great poets cry: 'Come forth out of
Thy royal chambers, O Prince of all the kings of the earth! Put on the visible robes of Thy imperial
Majesty! Take up the unlimited sceptre
which Thy almighty Father hath bequeathed Thee! For now the voice of Thy bride calls Thee, and all creatures sigh
to be renewed.' How cheering the hope,
amidst the clash of conflicting beliefs, the strife of words, the din of war,
the shouts of false joy, the yells of idolatry, the sneers of unbelief, the
agonies of a dying race, and the groans of a whole creation travailing in pain
together in consequence of the Serpent's malignity, that a period is coming
when eternal death shall be that Serpent's portion; when peace and order and
heavenliness shall stretch their bright wings over the happy sons of men; when
rivers of joy proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb shall water all
this vale of tears; when cherubim to cherubim shall cry, 'Holy, holy, holy, is
the Lord God of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory' when myriads of
myriads and thousands of thousands of angels round about the throne shall join
in the acclaim of Worthy is the Lamb that hath been slain, to receive the
Power, and Riches, and Wisdom, and Might, and Honor, and Glory, and Blessing'
and when every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the
earth, and upon the sea, and all things in them, shall sing, 'To Him that
sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb, be the Blessing and the Honor, and
the Glory, and the Dominion, for the ages of the ages!'
"Yet
such is our hope, given us as an anchor for our souls, both sure and steadfast,
entering into that within the veil, and linking us even now to those solid
shores of the world to come. We have it
in the written word of prophets and apostles, and the same is certified to us
by these everlasting stars in their ceaseless journeyings around the pathway of
the circling year. God be thanked for
such a hope! God be thanked for the
full and wide-sounding testimony to its certainty! God be thanked that it has come to us, and that ours is the
privilege of taking it to our souls in the confidence and comfort that it shall
be fulfilled!"
J. PRESTON EBY
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