January 2002

If we have a good understanding of our Father's ultimate plan for ourselves, for this world, and for the whole creation, it will help us make it through this night of nights. Our Father, who also is our God and the God of all things, has a wonderful plan of full and complete redemption and the restoration of all things. Our faith and trust in Him and in His sovereign purpose is vital and necessary if we are to have any positive hope for the future. The circumstances of this life are becoming more negative due to the increased spiritual darkness all around us. Were it not for the presence of the indwelling Christ and our complete, unyielding and uncompromising trust in Him, we might be overwhelmed and drowned in this flood tide of gloom.

We are sons of the day, for we have been enlightened with the transforming Light of Christ. We are not children of this night; we have no relationship with the darkness; and will not succumb to the spiritual darkness of these times. We are called of our Father to awake the dawn. The Psalmist David was also going through a night-time experience, as we are, when he sang this song to the Lord: "My heart is fixed, O God; my heart is stedfast and confident! I will sing and make melody. Awake! my glory [my inner self]; awake, harp and lyre! I will awake right early [I will awake the dawn]! (Ps. 57:7-8, Amplified). We are called of our Father to bring forth the glorious new morning of the kingdom of God on earth. Therefore, we will completely trust and rely on Him Who has purposed that we should walk faithfully and triumphantly through this present midnight hour of spiritual darkness, overcoming the spiritual gloom of this hour as we do. Our hearts are fixed and confident in the Lord! To show our present status in God, we will sing and make melody to Him, in the Spirit, for we are those who shall indeed "awake the dawn!"

To fully trust our Father and His ultimate plan with positive assurance, we must know that HE IS, and also that He is a rewarder of all who diligently seek Him (Heb. 11:6). And those who have the spiritual maturity of sons of God have a history of many wonderful experiences with their Father, thus establishing and confirming within them the blessed truth that GOD IS! To all who are walking with God as His sons today, they know Him. They know Him by their past experiences, some of which took them through the "wilderness" travails of this life, and which also taught them to trust their Father and all He has planned and purposed for them. And because of their real, living experiences with their Father, as they walked with Him through this "life," the elect have matured spiritually to know their Father and His eternal plans and purposes in a greater way.

Moses and the Elect of this New Day

We find some spiritual parallels between our lives and that of Moses. The life of Moses closely parallels the life of Jesus, indicating a similarity between Moses' life and the lives of those who are in Christ. Moses was tending the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, on "the backside of the desert," when he came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There, the angel of the Lord appeared to him "in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush." Seeing that the bush was not burned, Moses stopped to see that great sight, and wondered that the bush was not consumed. Then God called his name from out of the midst of the bush and told him to put off his shoes, for he was standing on holy ground. The Lord then said to Moses, "I AM the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." When he heard the voice of the Lord coming from the burning bush, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look on God (Ex. 3:1-6).

At that time, the Lord appeared to Moses and called him to deliver Israel out of the bondage of Egypt. In this day also, seeing the many bondages and needs of mankind and of the whole creation, Father is calling us unto Himself, that He might make of us the answer to creation's problems. When Moses doubted his ability, the Lord assured Moses that He would be with him in that task. So also is He with us in all we do in His Name and in agreement with His perfect will. The Lord also gave Moses a "token," or a sign, which would be fulfilled after he had delivered the people out of Egyptian bondage. And that sign was the word of the Lord, promising Moses: "ye shall serve God upon this mountain" (Ex. 3:12), or upon Mt. Horeb, which is the same as Mt. Sinai. Moses did serve the Lord later on Mt. Sinai by receiving the law for Israel. So also shall we serve the Lord in a greater way than ever when we have ascended the heights of Mt. Zion, the holy, heavenly hill of the Lord. From Mt. Zion's lofty, spiritual heights, we shall serve the Lord with all our Father's kingdom resources, ministering His Life to all mankind and the whole creation from that high and holy, spiritual realm!

When Moses asked what name he was to use when telling Israel of God's plan to deliver them, the Lord said to him, "I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial UNTO ALL GENERATIONS" (Ex. 3:14-15).

Our Father-God is the eternal and the everlasting "I AM" to all generations! He was the "I AM" to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, just as He was to Moses. Yet, the revelation of Him as the I AM to Moses was greater than it was to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for He is the God of ever increasing power and glory. So also shall He be the "I AM" to all His chosen sons who enter into a covenant relationship with Him today, but in a greater way than He was to Moses. What He is today, He shall also be in a greater way throughout the vast expanse of the eternal future. "I AM" actually means that God is the existing One, the One who is the supreme and eternal God today, tomorrow, and forever. "I AM" comes from a Hebrew word, "hayah," meaning to exist, be, become and come to pass. It is the revelation of God who was, who is, who always shall be, and who continues to fulfill all His plans and purposes for creation's full deliverance and restoration!

When we receive that same revelation of our Father as the I AM, as the One who was, who is, who is to come, and who is always working in the earth to fulfill His purposes, we will then have firm assurance and confidence in all He has planned and purposed for this troubled world. Our Father knows the end from the beginning! He is well able to deal with all the difficult problems and situations that are arising, that will yet arise, and which are unknown to us, because HE IS THE "I AM." By our spiritual growth unto His fullness, we are also becoming all that HE IS: THE I AM!

Moses' preparation and service to God is as a pattern and an example to us of what our service to God and to the creation shall be. Moses was prepared for his service to God and to the nation of Israel by the revelation of God to him as the I AM. We also must know our Father as the I AM, but in a greater way than Moses knew Him, and by revelation not by mere head knowledge! The truth is, we are moving beyond the KNOWING realm to the realm of BECOMING all that He is! Moses knew the sustaining, keeping power of the Lord as he tended Jethro's flock on the backside of the desert (Ex. 3:1). So also have we learned by experience the sustaining, keeping power of our Father while on the backside of our desert experiences. Moses' experiences on the backside of the desert led him to the mountain of God, and so will our "desert" experiences. As the Lord appeared to Moses, so also has He appeared and will continue to appear to each of His elect in various forms and through many different spiritual experiences. And we too have stood on "holy ground," as Moses did.

The Lord said to Moses, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I AM COME DOWN to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey..." (Ex. 3:7-8). He who is the I AM declared that He had heard the cry of His people, Israel. The Lord also said He would meet their urgent need by COMING DOWN to the earth to lead them out of the bondage of Egypt and into a new land flowing with milk and honey, through His servant, Moses. So also will the I AM do with us, for He has heard the travail of the whole creation! He has COME DOWN to deliver us first, that we might be His salvation unto the ends of the earth (Is. 49:6).

At that time in history, Israel's new land was occupied by the many "ites" - by several other heathen nations, which they had to drive out to possess. Our new land in this new Day is the new land of the kingdom of God on earth. It is a "land" of peace and rest in God; a "land" that has never been occupied by strangers. It is a pure and holy "land" without an enemy or a stranger in it. It is truly a spiritual land flowing with the milk and honey of our Father's kingdom resources. It is a spiritual land that is fully prepared and waiting for us to entirely possess it. It is the fullness of God coming down from our Father to the earth, making this a new earth and the habitation of God for all mankind. This new kingdom land also includes the Tabernacle of God, where all shall worship Him in Spirit and in truth (Rev. 21:3).

After hearing God's word and His promises to deliver Israel out of Egyptian bondage, and having met God at the burning bush, Moses still doubted his own ability to do what the Lord told him to do. So the Lord told him to cast the rod he was holding to the ground. When Moses did that, his rod became a serpent from which he ran in fear. Then the Lord told Moses to reach out and pick up the snake by the tail. And when he did, the snake became a rod in his hand once again. With this, the Lord said to him, "That they (all Israel) may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, HATH APPEARED UNTO THEE" (Ex. 4:1-5). The Lord certainly goes to great lengths to help us believe and trust Him and His infallible Word!

The Lord also gave Moses another sign of confirmation, and then told him, "if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to THE VOICE of the first sign, that they will believe THE VOICE of the latter sign" (Ex. 4:8). Did you know that signs and wonders have a voice? Did you know that those signs and wonders have the power of the anointing of the Spirit to "speak" to people, even though there were no words spoken and many among them were not present when those signs were given? That is what the word of the Lord tells us! Of course, the "voices" of signs and wonders do not speak with words; they "speak" through one who has been anointed of the Spirit as a result of those signs and wonders.

A spiritual person such as Moses becomes a new person in the Spirit when they are blessed of their Father with signs, wonders and prophetic ability. Saul was given the promise of a sign from God that he would "be turned into another man" when the Spirit of the Lord came upon him (1 Sam. 10:6). There is an aura about such people that speaks louder than mere words ever could. They show forth a confidence and an assurance in God that causes them at times to glow with the light and the glory of the Lord. And all who see them and hear their message are blessed with new assurance by the aura of God that surrounds them. Their message is also anointed of the Spirit, for that anointed message came from the very presence of the Lord.

Our Father has many "voices" and many other ways or methods of "speaking." Adam and Eve "heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden" of Eden (Ge. 3:8). Do you suppose God's voice in the Garden then was a spoken voice? Or was His "voice" manifest in some other way? Only by the Spirit will we ever know! And then when Cain slew his brother Abel, God said to him, "What hast thou done? the VOICE of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground" (Ge. 4:10). Blood that speaks - can this be true? The original Hebrew words used here suggest that this was a loud voice that God heard from the shedding of blood that caused a death. And God heard it clearly in the Spirit and by the Spirit! The shedding of blood that causes death is heard by our Father, in the Spirit and by the Spirit, including especially the shedding of the precious blood of Jesus.

The shed blood of Jesus became precious blood because it caused the death of Jesus for the sins of all mankind. His precious blood was heard and received by the Father. The precious blood of Christ was then symbolically deposited upon the altar of heaven, where it remains in the Spirit, to do the progressive and continuing work of redemption for you and me and for all mankind. By the Spirit, His precious blood that speaks without words (He. 12:24-25) is also symbolically placed upon us, covering us completely and atoning for our sins. This covering of the blood of Christ upon us is our passport; it is that which gives us the spiritual right or privilege, allowing us to come before our Father and be in His presence in the holiest of all where His blood has been deposited, which is the highest realm of the heavens of His Spirit.

When the Lord gave the law to Israel, it was described this way: "These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, WITH A GREAT VOICE" (Deut. 5:22). Imagine if you can the voice of God speaking to ALL ISRAEL at once! His voice then was not merely a voice to be heard by one person, but it was the Voice of God that spoke to a vast nation of people, for God spoke "WITH A GREAT VOICE." The writer to the Hebrews later declared that God's "voice then shook the earth" (He. 12:26). Not only did all Israel hear the Voice of God from the midst of the fire on Mt. Sinai that day, but they also saw His glory and His greatness. Then they said, "we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth" (Deut. 5:24). The Lord still speaks to His people today, confirming to us that He is the God who speaks and who also lives.

The nation of Israel at that time must have numbered well over a million people, perhaps closer to two million people. At the time of the numbering of the nation, as recorded in the book of Numbers, Israel numbered 603,550, "from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go to war in Israel" (Num. 1:45-47). Only the men that could go to war were counted. The Levites were not counted in that numbering, nor were the women, the children, and the elderly. The Lord surely spoke with a great voice then, for His Voice spoke so all Israel could hear His voice and get the message he wanted them to hear and obey. And the message of that Voice, spoken to Israel's millions some thirty-six-hundred years ago, still rings in our hearts today, making it possible for us to hear and obey the message of His Voice, which was given that day in history.

If our Father can speak so loudly, so effectively, and so clearly, that between one and two million people heard Him then at the giving of the law, and many more millions are hearing Him now, imagine what He can do to make His great Voice heard among the multitudes of the nations in this sinful and troubled world! The Lord spoke to Job, saying to him, "Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like Him?" (Job 40:9, see also Job 37:1-5 & Ps. 29.) The disaster that struck our nation last September was undoubtedly the thundering Voice of God speaking to this nation, calling all His people to repentance or to a change of both mind and direction (see 2 Chr. 7:13-14 with Ro. 12:2). Our obedient repentance is the key to our manifestation as His sons! May each of us hear our Father's Voice, repent and seek the Lord for our own spiritual growth unto His fullness. This will bring forth the manifestation of the sons of God!

The prophet Isaiah declared, "Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel. And the Lord shall cause His glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones. For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian (typical of all the enemies of Christ and His kingdom) be beaten down." (Is. 30:29-31).

This scripture precisely describes where we are in time and in relation to the purposes of God for this very hour! We are now going through the midnight hour of this new Day, which began at evening time, as all the Lord's days do. God has promised that we shall have a song during this night, when we observe the principles of this new kingdom Day. And the principles of this new Day, which all the elect shall observe in obedience to His revealed will, brings us to "a holy solemnity." This "holy solemnity," when kept and observed by us, will cause us to cease the religious works of the past church age. Our obedience will also bring us into the Rest of God, providing us with "gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel." We shall also ascend the spiritual mountain of the presence of the Lord, which is mount Zion, to meet the mighty One of Israel there. Then the Lord has promised to do the rest of His wonderful work of redemption and restoration among all mankind and in all the earth! He shall cause His glorious Voice to be heard, for it is through His mighty Voice that all the enemies of Christ and His kingdom shall be conquered (see Is. 66:6)! It is also by the Voice of the Lord that we shall be called out of these bodies of sin and death, to receive our new bodies of the Life and Glory of Christ (Jo. 5:25).

This Day is the day of the Lord, but it also is the Day of the reign of Christ in the earth in a greater way (see Zech. 14:1-9). The day of the Lord is also the day of the function and purpose of the Lord's army, which is comprised of the Lord's elect. By their righteous, Godly service to their Lord and King, those elect are bringing down the worldly systems and governments of man (Rev. 2:26-29). The Voice of the Lord goes before them, as we read, "And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great (not necessarily in numbers, but in the strength of the Lord): for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?" (see Joel 2:1-11).

Again, we read, "The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain" (Joel 3:16-17). And the prophet Zephaniah prophesied, "The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even THE VOICE of the day of the Lord: the mighty man (the old Adamic man, or the man of sin within us all) shall cry there bitterly" (Zeph. 1:14). "The mighty man," which is the old Adamic man of the flesh, or the man of sin within us all, "shall cry there bitterly," for "he" knows the end of "his" dominion of sin, sorrow and death has come!

The Lord Came Down and Called Moses to Come UP the Mountain When the Lord appeared to Moses and called him to deliver Israel out of the bondage of Egypt, God told Moses that he would serve the Lord on that mountain (Horeb-Sinai), after he had led Israel out of Egypt. Thus it was that when Israel arrived at mount Sinai, having been set free from the bondage of Egypt, "Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain" (Ex. 19:3). The Lord set forth a covenant for the people, and then sent Moses back down the mountain to give that word to the people. As soon as the nation heard the word of the Lord, they told Moses they would do all that God wanted them to do. Then Moses returned to the mountain to tell the Lord what the people said. The Lord then said to Moses, "Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever" (Ex. 19:9).

The Lord said He would appear to Moses "in a thick cloud." And what was that "cloud" but a cloud of Spirit? It was a cloud of the presence of the Lord, which may have included the saints of the heavenly realm of spirit. Jesus also ascended into heaven in a cloud, for it was "a cloud (that) received him out of their sight" (Acts 1:9). It was similar to the cloud of Spirit in which He appeared to Moses at Sinai. Even so will the Lord of glory appear to His elect of this hour in a cloud of Spirit, to change us into His glorious image and likeness. The promise is, "this same Jesus (who has become Christ, the Spirit), which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven" (Acts. 1:11). Do not look for Jesus to come in the flesh! Christ, the Spirit, is coming in the Spirit and by the Spirit! The day of the manifestation and works of the flesh for us is over! We must see Him AS HE IS, not as He was (1 Jo. 3:2)! We are entering the new Day of the Life and the Glory of the Spirit of the Living, Resurrected and Glorified Christ of God! This is the Day when we shall see Him as He is, to BECOME all that HE IS!

Then the Lord sent Moses down to the people to sanctify them and prepare them for His next appearing to give them His law-word. He also told Moses, "And be ready against the third day: for THE THIRD DAY the Lord will COME DOWN in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai" (Ex. 19:10-11). Many of us know the spiritual value and prophetic importance of "the third day." The third day was a day of purification in Israel's history (Nu. 19:12). King Hezekiah was healed and his life extended, and was told that on the third day he would go to the house of the Lord (2 Ki. 20:5). Jesus was resurrected on the third day (Mt. 16:21). So also do we have the promise of that Life, on the third day. We are now coming to the end of the two days of man's confusion, chaos and maladministration, and are entering the third day in Father's time and purpose.

On another "third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage" (Jo. 2:1-2). They ran out of wine at that wedding feast, so Jesus' mother suggested that He should help them.

Jesus told them to bring six water pots full of water, which He turned into wine by the power of the Spirit. The wine Jesus made that third day was the best wine of any that was served that day. In like manner, the BEST WINE OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD shall be served by the Spirit during this new and greater, prophetic THIRD DAY! But first we must be changed to become new wine vessels, fully renewed by the Spirit, to receive that new wine of the Kingdom of God.

The promise for us on this third day is, "Come and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn (yes, God did that to us), and he will heal us (a wonderful promise); he hath smitten (us in many ways), and he will bind us up (believe it). After two days will he revive us: in the THIRD DAY he will raise us up, and we shall live (the fullness of His Life) in his sight" (Hos. 6:1-2). The anointed message from the Lord for us today is the same as the word God gave to Moses for Israel: "be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will COME DOWN" to "raise us up, and we shall live (the fullness of His Life) in his sight!" We must yet go through the spiritual darkness of this present midnight hour in Father's time and purpose. But the midnight hour also has special, prophetic symbolism for us.

The ten virgins took their lamps to meet the bridegroom when He came. But while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. "And AT MIDNIGHT there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; GO YE OUT TO MEET HIM" (Mt. 25:6). The five foolish virgins brought no oil for their lamps and attempted to borrow oil from the wise virgins, but they refused to give them of their oil. While the foolish virgins went to buy oil, the bridegroom (Christ) came. Those who were ready with their vessels trimmed and filled with oil went in to the Bridegroom, but the foolish virgins missed Him. It was also at midnight when Paul and Silas, and everyone else in that prison, were released by the mighty power of God (Acts 16:25).

Of His appearings, Jesus said, "Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping" (Mk. 13:35-36). Christ, the Spirit, may appear to us by the Spirit at evening time, at midnight, at the cockcrowing, or in the morning. We know He has appeared in the evening time, for Christ appeared to some of us at that time to impart the greater Light of the kingdom within us, according to Zechariah's prophecy (14:6-7). Some of us saw the Light of Christ shining forth, by the Spirit, at evening time to begin this new Day. It is also obvious to the spiritually wise, that Christ will also appear IN THE MORNING, to bring His prepared sons to the full glory of sonship fulfilled, which is our bodily change.

Therefore, since Christ has appeared at evening time, and we have every reason to believe He will appear in the morning (Ex. 16:7, Ps. 30:5 & Rev. 22:16), it is very possible He will also appear, both at midnight and at the time of the "cockcrowing." "The cockcrowing" hour, in the Spirit, may very well be a moment of time just before the dawn of the new morning, as it is in the natural. Those who are watching for Him, and who are prepared to see Him as He is, shall not miss the appearings of Christ in great glory to progressively change us into His glorious image and likeness. We are climbing this last mountain, which is mount Zion, the mount of our transfiguration, as we mourn and travail for Him, that we might see Him as He is and be transformed. The lamps, which we are, are trimmed by the Spirit and filled with the fresh oil of the Spirit, as we await the spiritual appearings of Christ. We are not slumbering or sleeping but are waiting for Him to appear, whether at this midnight hour, at the cockcrowing, in the morning, or at every one of those prophetic hours.

The Lord told Moses to tell the people, "be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will COME DOWN." "And it came to pass on the third day IN THE MORNING, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled" (Ex. 19:16). All that God promised was fulfilled in the morning of that third day. Even so, all that the Lord has promised for this present third day shall be fulfilled IN THE MORNING and in the way and at the time He has purposed for us, according to His own will, plan and purpose. The word tells us that these manifestations took place "because the Lord descended upon it IN FIRE" (Ex. 19:18). God is a consuming fire, but in this case the Lord was not in the fire. The fire and other manifestations then preceded His greater presence. This is confirmed in verse twenty, where we read, "And the Lord CAME DOWN upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses UP to the top of the mount; and Moses went up."

This serves as a pattern and an example for us today, as we read, "These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come." (1 Co. 10:11, NIV). We have come to the time of "the fulfillment of the ages." All that was revealed in type and shadow and by the prophetic word of the Lord in ages past is now coming to fulfillment in this new Day! Moses set the example for us, but we are following One (Christ) who is greater than Moses! The Lord CAME DOWN upon mount Sinai and then called Moses to COME UP to the top of that mount to meet Him there. In like manner and by the Spirit, the Lord is calling us to ascend another mountain. It is the spiritual mount Zion, the mount of His greater presence, glory and Life. We shall GO UP mount Zion and He will COME DOWN to meet us there face to face, as it was with Moses! We shall see Him as He is to become all that He is.

The Births of Moses, of Jesus and of us as well

Moses was born in a turbulent era! At that time, every male baby born into a Hebrew family was ordered by Pharaoh to be cast into the river. This was done because the Egyptians were troubled when they saw God's blessing on Israel as they lived among them. The more Pharaoh afflicted them, the more the Israelites multiplied and grew (Ex. 1:8-14). Both Moses and Jesus were born in similar times of turbulence (compare Ex. 2:2-10 with Matthew, chapter two). You will remember that Pharaoh's daughter saw the baby Moses floating in a small basket in the river, where he was left by Moses' aunt because of Pharaoh's ban on male babies in Israel. Pharaoh's daughter then asked Moses' aunt to find a nurse among the Hebrews to care for Moses. So she brought her sister, the mother of Moses, to Pharaoh's daughter to arrange for the care of Moses. Not only was Moses nurtured by his Israelite mother, contrary to Pharaoh's law, but his mother was paid by Pharaoh's daughter to care for Moses. If we ever wonder how our Father will provide for our needs, in spite of the many hindrances and obstacles of this life, this story should certainly encourage every one of us. Our Father is still the God who cares for His own!

The story of Moses' birth and growth to manhood confirms the wonderful truth that God was involved in his make-up while he was in his mothers' womb, before he was born, just as He was in the lives of all others. Moses' birth and early childhood shows God's care for him from his infancy to his adulthood. This is true of others and of us as well. Samson also was born at a crucial time. His mother was barren when the angel of the Lord appeared to her, telling her she would give birth to a son who would deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. Obviously, the Lord did not find a righteous and acceptable deliverer in Israel among those living, so He created Samson the way He wanted him to be. He created him while he was in his mother's womb, from his conception to his birth, according to His own sovereign purpose as He prepared him to deliver Israel. The Lord said to Samson's mother, "For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb" (Judges 3:5). The Lord even instructed her not to drink any strong drink or eat anything unclean while she carried him. Samson was to be a Nazarite from his mother's womb to the day of his death (vs. 7). God was meticulously creating a special man who would serve His purpose of delivering Israel from the Philistines!

Job also declared that he and others were made and fashioned in the womb (see Job 31:15 also Is. 44:2, 24; 49:1, 5 & Mt. 19:12). The Lord said Jeremiah was called and ordained to be a prophet before his birth. "BEFORE I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and BEFORE thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations" (Jer. 1:5). It was also according to the sovereign purpose of God that Jacob took hold of his brother's heel, while they were still in the womb (Hos. 12:3). This changed the course of history, so that the older brother's family had to serve his younger brother's family (Ge. 25:21-26). The psalmist and king of Israel also said, "But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly" (Ps. 22:9-10). John the baptist also was filled with the Spirit from his mother's womb (Lu. 1:15). And the Apostle Paul was separated unto the Lord and set apart for a special calling and service to God, even from his mother's womb (Ga. 1:15). How carefully and meticulously Father prepared some of His called and chosen ones BEFORE THEY WERE BORN and while they were in their mother's womb. Even so is our Father carefully and meticulously preparing a MAN in this hour, who shall bring deliverance to the whole groaning and travailing creation!

The Psalmist David described the infinite fore-knowledge of God and His eternal purposes, which were established before the ages were formed and before any creature existed. This includes His sovereign purposes for us and His involvement in every one of our lives, before we were born. David exclaimed with great accuracy, "O Lord, You have searched me (thoroughly) and have known me. You know my downsitting and my uprising; You understand my thought afar off. [Matt. 9:4; John 2:24, 25.] You sift and search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue [still unuttered], but, lo, O Lord, You know it altogether. [Heb. 4:13.] You have beset me and shut me in behind and before, and have laid Your hand upon me. Your (infinite) knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high above me, I cannot reach it. Where could I go from Your Spirit? Or where could I flee from Your presence? If I ascend up to Heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol [the place of the dead], behold, You are there. [Rom. 11:33.] If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, Even there shall Your hand lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the night shall be the only light about me, Even the darkness hides nothing from You, but the night (including this present night) shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You. [Dan. 2:22.]" (Ps. 139:1-12, Amplified). This present night shines as the day because of Him!

The verses quoted above are but the foretaste, the introduction, the opening, or the prelude, to the significant truths that follow in the rest of that psalm. With the understanding given by David in the verses above, and the rich anointing of the Spirit, we should be ready to read the rest of the story. And I trust that all who read from this point on will have their hearing ears and seeing eyes opened to hear and see all the Spirit would say to us in this most significant Day and time.

David continued, by saying, "For You did form my inward parts, You did knit me together in my mother's womb. I will confess and praise You, for You are fearful and wonderful, and for the awful wonder of my birth! Wonderful are Your works, and that my inner self knows right well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was being formed in secret and intricately and curiously wrought (as if embroidered with various colors) in the depths of the earth [a region of darkness and mystery]. Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days of my life were written, before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them." (Ps. 139:13-16, Amp.)

David was giving glory and honor to the Lord for creating him as He did. God is also our Creator, as He was David's. He is the omnipotent Lord and God of all, Who made us the way we are. We are not a mistake, a test, or an experiment, as if God was trying to do something in the earth and He sent us to TRY to work things out in this world. We are not thrust upon the world's scene to TRY to do something for God. Our Creator-Father made us the way we are, and in doing so, He also purposed that we shall fulfill all His will and purpose in a predestined, predetermined, and highly successful manner. Because God is our Creator, He alone can change us and make us what He planned and purposed for us to be. And it is His predetermined plan and purpose that we should live and walk in this world as if He is our Father, we are His sons, and we shall victoriously plant the fullness of His kingdom in this earth, so that the whole earth shall eventually be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. There is no failure in the kingdom of God! He who created us and then called us, will make sure that we shall do all His holy will; we shall do all He has planned and purposed for us to do in all the earth and eventually in all the universe, for His glory and honor!

To make us what we are now in the kingdom of God, our Creator-Father picked out who our parents would be, and then determined the date and time of our birth in this world. And then we were born in the time and at the place He predetermined for us to be born. He looked ahead and foresaw our physical and spiritual growth, and then predetermined that we would reach the required maturity, just when this new Day of the kingdom of God in the earth began. But even while we were in our mother's womb, God was at work on our yet unformed being, forming our inward parts and knitting us together as an individual (Ps. 139:13), to make us the person He wanted us to be for this very special and unique kingdom day and time.

David said, "My frame was not hidden from You, when I was being formed in secret and intricately and curiously wrought in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days of my life were written, before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them." And all this can and must be said of us as well! Our Father meticulously planned our birth, working in the earth to determine who our forefathers would be, as well as our parents. He created us with the correct physical and spiritual makeup, and then predetermined that we should become His representatives of the kingdom of God in the earth, at this very hour.

Furthermore, everything about our conception, our birth, and our growth, as well as our spiritual walk, was written in His great, prophetic book of life. And now we are walking out in the earth, by the Spirit, all that was written in that book before the ages were formed. If we can see the hand of our Father in the births and the lives of Moses and Jesus, we should also see that same Hand in our own lives as well. So I say it again: we are not a mistake, a test, or an experiment! We are God's final answer to this troubled, war-torn and sin-cursed world! And if we really believed this great truth, we would immediately cease any and all religious activity associated with the dead past, and would enter into the REST OF GOD! The kingdom of God has come to the earth in a greater way! It is time for the elect of the Lord to live as if they were representatives of that kingdom!

David revealed that our physical lives in this world were created and formed by God while we were in our mother's womb. But what about our spirits? Many of us know, by the Spirit, that our spirits came from God. Solomon, the wisest of men, said this about the death of a person, "Then shall the dust [of which God made man's body] return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God Who gave it" (Ecc. 12:7, Amplified). Therefore, the spirit that we are came from God. We are primarily a spirit being, living and walking on this earth in a flesh and blood body. When we die, our body, which is made up of the dust of the earth, shall return to the earth, but the spirit, which we are, shall return to God who gave it to us when we were born.

Since our spirits, the real person that we are, came from God, it may also be true that God fashioned our spirits while our spirits were with Him in the Heavens of Spirit. I believe this to be the truth! We do know that He created and formed the total being that we are. The scriptures tell us that God, Who is man's "Potter," or Creator, has power over the lump of clay that we are "to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonor. What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called..." (Ro. 9:21-24, see also 2 Tim. 2:20-21). The Lord makes vessels of wrath fitted to destruction. So also does He make vessels of mercy, which He has previously, in His wisdom and foreknowledge, prepared unto glory.

Each of those "vessels" are people. The word "vessel," comes from a Greek word meaning equipment or apparatus, specifically, a wife as contributing to the usefulness of the husband. And of course, Christ is the Husband and we are as a wife to Him, in the sense that we contribute to His usefulness in the kingdom of God. Some of the people are vessels of wrath fitted, or thoroughly completed and adjusted, to physical or spiritual ruin or loss in the earth. Others of us are vessels of mercy. Those vessels of mercy are the called and chosen saints of the Lord, who have been AFORE, OR BEFORE our birth in this world, PREPARED UNTO GLORY, even the abundant and eternal glory of the Lord in His kingdom! Our Father prepared us physically and morally before we were born to make us the person He purposed us to be. He also prepared us spiritually, by picking out a spirit for us from His vast heavens of merciful, kingdom-minded spirits, who would be compatible with His eternal purposes in the earth, for this time of the beginning phase of the kingdom of God.

If you are called and chosen of God to represent His kingdom in the earth at this time, then both your spiritual and bodily makeup was prepared and ordained of your Father to be all that you are now, and all that you shall yet become. You were given a unique spirit from God that is compatible with the principles of His kingdom. You were not sent to the earth and prepared as you were to play church. Your Father did not call you and prepare you as He did to see you squander away your precious gifts and abilities on the fraudulent, harlot church system. His vision for you is the same one that compels you to seek His face and grow to His fullness. By His grace we shall ascend the glorious realm of His fullness, to rule and reign with Christ from our Father's throne of kingdom glory, power, and authority. In this way, we bring the kingdom of God to the earth!

And now, having written all the above as an introduction, I would like to share with you a precious Word I received from the Father a few months ago. While meditating on the above truths and considering the creative ability of our Father, the Lord spoke to me and said, "I am sending babies to the earth who have within them a new spirit, even the spirit of the new order of the kingdom of God on earth." I was given the understanding that God would put a new kingdom spirit within some of the babies now being born. He also indicated that some of the children on earth, perhaps for the last ten years or so, already have that new spirit of the kingdom within them, which was given them by our Father. Can you hear and receive this word?

The kingdom of God is coming down from God out of heaven in many different ways and for one sovereign purpose of our Father: to establish the greater fullness of His kingdom in all the earth. God is using every means at His disposal to do His great kingdom work in all the earth. And I rejoice to see my Father doing a work that some thought to be impossible and which others thought could not be done at this time. In spite of the gross darkness of these times, our God is on His throne of all power and authority! He is confirming the power and glory of His kingdom! Our Father made us to be vessels of honor and mercy for this new Day! He is also creating new vessels of honor and mercy in some babies now being born, just as He has in some children who are already here! This is the hour, and we are of those who are called and chosen of our Father to be His vessels of honor and mercy to fully establish His kingdom in all the earth! Amen!

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