'RAYS OF SON LIGHT'
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SHADOWED BY THE LEVITE
.............. Israel, a nation made up of the twelve tribes of Jacob.............. Moses was commanded of the Lord to assemble the people and to number them and to place a notable man from each tribe as their head. These were 'men of renowned' of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers.
And Moses assembled the congregation together and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers. These heads over the tribes were over thousands and thousands of the Israelites, all numbered and named after the house of their fathers, except one tribe: The Levite.
All the eleven tribes assembled together and were numbered and each placed under their own headship except The Levite.
All the eleven tribes pitched their tents upon their own campsite within the 'standards' of the house of their fathers and each tribe were placed at a particular distant from the Tabernacle of Testimony. ( see Numbers ch 1-2 )
This here is a nation of six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty people;
But the Levite after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them because the Lord had spoke to Moses and said; Thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi and do not take the sum of them among the children of Israel; But you shall appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of Testimony..........( and all that pertains to it)
And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents , every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard (government). But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony.Numbers 3; 12. The Lord says, behold I have taken the Levite from among the children of Israel' instead of the first born' And as the first born belonged to the Lord, so has He chosen the Levite for His own in place of the first born. Numbers ch 8; 17-18-19...., ' The Levite is offered up as sacrifice for atonement for the house of Israel. In other words the Levite stood between the house of Israel and the wrath of God . When the Lord smote the first born of the Egyptians, He redeemed the first born of Israel by the separation of the Levitical tribe as an atonement for the first born. Jesus was the first-born ' among many brethern'. This last remnant of His many membered body is prototyped by the Levity.
This last 'remnant' which is the 'feet' of His body is set apart for its own unique priestly ministry to stand in the gap and intercede for the rest of the body of Christ(the true church). Because of their earthly identification with Christ in the flesh, this remnant is not numbered with the heavenly, as this 'mortal' puts-on immortality and rules the earth. No tribe has the 'same' calling. The calling to this last remnant is for ' this mortal to put-on immortality and for this corruption to put on incorruption through the operation of the death and resurrection of Christ being activated within the flesh members. This is the circumcision of Christ being activated to slay the body of sin. There must be a manifestation of the death of Christ in our life' This is the cleansing of the highpriest in the heavens.
Just as the called out Levite, who carries the ark of covenant into the raging tide waters of Jordan and stands in the midst on 'dry' ground so the children of Israel could cross over, so this last remnant will stand between the raging walls of sin and death and the other tribes as they come into the awesome light of His priesthood. They too, shall stand on ' dry ground' that is , all the barriers of sin and death will give way , just as the priests before us, the touch of His feet will push back the most furious tide and His people shall pass over it all , WHEN THEY COME TO WALK IN LIGHT AS HE IS IN THE LIGHT! YOU MUST SEEK LIGHT, (KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM) ABOVE ALL ELSE.
'WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A FIRST BORN'
Under the Mosaic law the first born son was, by commandment of God separated and sanctified unto the Lord, therefore holding a higher status with the Lord by his birthright than the younger sons. By virtue of being a 'first-born son' the birthright was given , therefore the power and authority of the father's kingdom , as well as a double portion of the kingdom fell to the first-born.
However, since The Lord Jesus has come,( Is come, and Shall come ) the Mosaic laws have given way to a more excellent way. The priesthood has been changed and so have the laws. Today one must be made a joint-heir-partaker of Christ Jesus and be conformed into His image, being 'made to be' ' bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh' in order to be a 'firstborn son'. There is no other way. Jesus is the Door, He is the Way, He is the Truth and the Life, and..........NO MAN COMES TO THE FATHER BUT BY HIM! No one knows the Father until he is born into the Son; the branch must be grafted into the Vine and bear it's image, living from the same root, the same blood line! Praise God for Truth within that springs up and runs over!
One can no longer be a first-born until he becomes 'conformed' to the image of the 'first-begotten'. Jesus was the first born among 'many brethern!
Jesus declared in His prayer to the Father concerning us; ' Father the glory that thou has given me, I have given to them.......and as you have sent me so have I sent them!
(please study the 17th ch of St. John) Here you will find the reality of the Levitical prototype as Jesus speaks to the Father about this unique and peculiar people.
Please do not expect the world to see 'His image' in you! The world never saw the God Image in Christ. Jesus was the 'express image of the Father' but the world did not see it! Thank God the apostle Peter saw it and declared; thou art the Christ the Son of the living God! This was a revelation from the Father!
The Levite was a clear prototype of the' many brethern' body of Christ which is now coming into its fullness to fill all things, which is the fullness of Him according to Eph. 1;23.
Just as the Levite was chosen and cleansed as an offering unto God, to stand instead of the firstborn, as atonement for the whole house of Israel.
So is this end time remnant of the Christ Body of the 'many-brethern' which is arising in this very day as a Royal Priesthood to stand in the Jordan as the house of Israel passes over for, WE MUST CROSS THIS JORDAN! Cannan is on the other side!
We are now in harvest time, the Jordan is at 'high-tide'. That is, sin and death is reaching a consummation as did the floods of Noah, 'and took them all away'.
Sin and death is rising like a gigantic whirl wind that is reaching out its evil tendril to twist and tear at the whole of humanity.
Many are hearing its rumble, as everything that can be shaken is shaken in order to establish that which cannot be shaken.
Jordan is symbolic of death; It is appointed unto man 'once' to die, not twice!
Those who have entered into the reality of the death of Jesus Christ by baptism will overcome the death which is associated with sin, the physical death.
God is calling a body of people out to walk in immortality on this earth.
Until a people is fully delivered from the powers of sin and death then Calvary has not yet brought forth its 'purchased possession'! You see God purchased the whole man at Calvary, not just a part of him! God's first commandmant to the man He created was this; ' be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it! This commandment was given to the man which God created in His image, after His likness!
This God image man could only come through the conformation of Calvary, and no other way!
To be offered upon the altar of sacrifice one must be cleansed by putting off the body of sin (through the circumcision of Christ Col. 2; 11) There is no other way ! This is a cleansing by the 'BLOOD' here which many do not like to deal with! But unless one is dealt with through the circumcision of Christ he will remain in bondage to 'the body of sin'! So the Levite, as standing in proxy for the 'firstborn' and also in standing as our present prototype had to be cleansed
(Num. 8; 21.)
This total cleansing must take place before one can enter into the Most Holy place.
This special cleansing is a mark of the priesthood, it is this cleansing that conforms us into a living sacrifice acceptable unto God. This last remnant must run true to its prototype to every dot and tittle. Just as our true prototypes we cannot ' camp among the other tribes'; Our tents must be pitched around the Tabernacle with the Ark of Covenant, which is the Word of God.
We can have no fleshly title or inheritance among our Israelite brother ( at this time).
We see a time which is near, when we shall all stand on Mt. Zion with The Lamb that was slain,
0ne hundred and forty four thousand who have followed Him (withersoever) even into His death and resurrection! These make up the spiritual Israel who sing a new song which no one else can learn; they have the Father's name in their foreheads (knowledge). We come into His name by adoption, not by water baptism. These are 'redeemed out from among men' being the first fruits unto God…………..and in their mouth is found no guile; for they are without fault before the throne of God; ( Rev. 14; 1-5 )
These are the one who are sealed in Rev. ch 7, when the 'wind-angels' were put on hold until the sealing of Israel. Out of every tribe there were sealed twelve thousand. Here the Levite is again numbered among the tribe as they have finished their ministry as prototypes and the last remnant of His body is here, positioned as mighty pillars to rule and reign on earth.
' REFLECTIONS OF THE AGES'
The many prototypes of this last remnant of the Christ Body leaves one reeling in awesome wonder in the brightness of this most glorious revelation. Time after time we find This magnificent consummation portrayed in the ages passed as they forever pressed onward and upward toward the finish line, to this end- time conformation of the fullness of Christ in His Body. The reflections of the ages compel us to 'press forward to the mark of high calling in Christ' as the image grows ever brighter and the masterpiece is uncovered by the hands of the potter.
This is the day He comes 'to be glorified in His saints' in His body, which is His fullness. ( Ephesians. 1;22/23.)
The body of Christ is made up of all 'overcomes' from the 'seed of Abraham' including the remnant people from all the faith ages mentioned in Hebrews ch 11. These being the remnants of 'overcomers' who make up the great cloud of witnesses mentioned in Hebrews 11 . ( please read)
And then, we have John as witness to those who were' beheaded for the witness of Jesus' under the altar. And then, in the time of the opening of the fifth seal John saw a body of people who had been ' slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held'. In Hebrews 11 we find ; These all , having obtained a good report, received not the promise; God having provided a better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. All of these died a natural death, They crossed the Jordan of death in the physical.
This last remnant will overcome a physical death by being baptized into the death of Christ and by the death of Christ becoming activated in their life ' this mortal' shall put-on 'immortality'. This is the 'feet of brass' which passes through the furnace to be purified as gold. This is the 'one third' which is 'preserved' by ' eating His flesh and drinking His blood according to St. John 6;48/58. The reflections and prototypes are fading away and the real passover supper is being instituted among the first born Christ body. It is a pass over of a Lamb without spot, to be eaten with bitter herbs. It must be eaten by those who are fully clothed and with the staff in hand they stand at attention ready to cross over ( please see prototype Exodus 12; 11/12/13 ) We are in a harvest time of the 'first-fruits' of which the Levites over-shadowed.
We look at these reflection in a spirit of exuberance, with great expectation we are entering into awesome revelations in the brightness of these reflected prototypes.
Just as the prototype in Numbers 1; 48-53, this last end time remnant is not numbered with the whole house of Israel. The Levite was sat apart to care for the congregation, to stand in the gap, to intercede before God in judgement Therefore the Levite is a type and shadow of this end time remnant of the Christ body of the 'many-brethern' the harvest of sons, the joint-heir-partakers of Christ.
The Levites had no inheritance among their brethern, they had no camp ground of their own, no title or standard among their kin. They were called to stand in the midst of the storm so their brother could cross the Jordan, they were priest and intercessors who stood between the great judge and their brethren who camped within their own standards. To this we are called! It is the highest calling mankind has ever received! It is a call to lay down our life for our friend, to walk the second mile, to turn the other cheek, to divide the last loaf…….to suffer for others as did our Master and Lord Jesus Christ. We are catching the 'reflections' , we are camping around the Tabernacle of Testimony!
Like the 'lamb for a house' we have been called out, to leave the old camp site of worldly goods and relationships! We have heard the voice of the Shepherd, we have found the Sheepfold.
' Come for all things are now ready, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatlings are killed, all things are now ready! (Matt. 22;4 )
This end time part of His body which is coming into formation in this age is unique in all points of its functions because it is the very 'pillars' of the awesome formation of the Body of Christ, The Temple of Almighty God, The Father's House.
'AS A LAMB FOR EVERY HOUSE'
Among the many prototypes found on the endtime Christ body, we have chosen the one found in the book of Numbers 1; 48/53 as we begin our study on this 'set-apart, called-out, peculiar people, a special people above all the people of the earth; Duet. 7;6.
This is a people predestined to priesthood, to carry the ark of Covenant as did its prototype , the Levitical PriesthoNumbers 1; 48-53, ' And the Lord spoke unto Moses and said, ' thou shalt not number the Levite with the children of Israel, but thou shalt appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of Testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it;
They shall bear the Tabernacle and all the vessels thereof and they shall minister unto it; and they shall encamp round about the Tabernacle. And the Levites shall carry the Tabernacle, to take it up , and set it up again. And the stranger that comes near it shall be put to death.
And the children of Israel shall pitch his tent beside his own camp and every man by his own standard throughout their hosts.
But the Levites shall pitch round about the Tabernacle of Testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel; And the Levites shall keep the charge of the Tabernacle of Testimony.
The Lord further says that He has chosen the Levites instead of the 'firstborn' to offer up as an atonement for Israel. ' And they shall be to me a special people , above all the people of the earth'. Numbers 8; 18/19.
Another 'reflection' is found in our prototypes here is that found in Exodus 12; 5, where the Lord is commanding Israel to select a lamb out of the flock, ( a lamb for each house) ' and it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male of the first year(first born). To be a male of the first born one must become a joint-heir-partaker of Christ Jesus and bear his dying in our body.
We can see by scripture that this applies to the spiritual Israel as a nation , yet it definitely applies to each Christ member as an individual. Any one called into the priesthood of Christ is made to be a joint-heir-partaker of His lambship in His suffering. The called out and separated Levite was a lamb for the house of Israel, just as this last remnant of His body is also a lamb through Him, both individually and as a many member body . Jesus called them His many brethren.
What a tremendous government is placed upon this end time body, which is so obviously seen in the prototype of the Levite, chosen in place of the firstborn.
As this double portion inheritance becomes activated within the Christ body of many bretheren, the Holy Ghost is contained within this temple of God.
No longer will the spirit be poured out as in former ages. Rather it has become a river of life to flow out and run over and where ever it goes there the land will be healed! We are speaking here of the Tabernacle of God , the Ark of Covenant! Where ever it sets down there is the power of God manifested! As the Levite was the 'overseer' and caretaker of the tabernacle, so this last remnant of the Christ Body will be to the needs of the weak, the sick, the lame and the blind, the hungry and naked, the prisoners and the widows and orphans, who have confessed Him with their mouth and beleived on Him in their hearts. They are the eagles who will gather unto this great Body in the earth which is the very temple of God in the earth !
He has said that He will gather all things unto Himself, of that which is in heaven and in earth. ' Come let us go up to the house of the Lord and He will teach us of His ways!
Our joint heir priesthood in Christ is confirmed by the many scriptures which declare the oneness in the Christ Head with His many membered body. As the Vine and the branch so is Christ and His body. His cross and resurrection and ascension, His lambship, and His priesthood all must be activated into His body . This last remnant of His body is made up of kings and priests to stand in the gap for many, to bear their burdens, to intercede and offer up spiritual sacrifices for atonements.
It is only as a jointheir with Christ that one can stand as a priest after the order of Melchesedec. One must be so 'jointed ' to Him , so conformed to His image that we become one with Him in all that He is and all that He does. It is only as we are 'conformed to His image' that we are made to be Kings and Priests . (Kings and Priests reign on earth)
By one spirit are we all 'baptized' into one body, 1st Cor. 12;13.......
Konw ye not that as many of us as are baptized into Christ are baptized into His death ( Romans 6;3.) For as many of us as have been baptized into Christ, have put-on Christ, Gal. 3; 27. Do you not know that your 'bodies'
Are members of Christ? 1st. Cor. 6;15 Do you not know that you are the Temple of God ?
Many scriptures teach us of our 'oneness' with Christ. The above scriptures tell us that when we are baptized into Christ then we are baptized into His death and have put Him on. Therefore becoming bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, according to Eph. 5;30. a 'joint-heir' with Him. Thus what ever pertains to Him, pertains also to His 'body' for His body is the fullness of Him which filleth all things; Eph. 1;23.
Thus we can see and recognize our oneness and jointheirship with Him in His Priesthood!
1st. Peter 2; 5 , and you as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood......acceptable to God......( 2;9......a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people....., Rev. 1;6 , and has made us kings and priests unto God......Rev. 5; 10, and has made us kings and priests unto our God and we shall reign on earth.
You see, we are not His children, as some would claim; Rather we are members of His body of His flesh and of His bone, joint heirs with Him!
He is never called a Father to us, He is our ' Head '.
Our oneness with Him as body members is enphasized over and over throughout the Epistles.
Never does He refer to us as His children and He the Father. Rather He always referred to God as His Father and Our Father. He is the Vine which we are grafted into, the Father is the 'husbandman';
He is the Vine we are the Branches, and this is His fullness! We say these things to clarify our joint heir ship in Christ and our oneness with Him in His priesthood.
Until we have these basics clarified in our minds we shall remain confused in all the other matters.
The Tabernacle of Testimony in the wilderness was a type and shadow of the Christ body, which we find is a 'building fitly framed together for a habitation of God'. The 'City of God' spoken of in Hebrews 12; 22/24.is the world which is made up of the lively stones fitly framed together , it is a spiritual house, a building not made by hands, a habitation of God, it is the Father's house.
This remnant is beautifully prototyped by the Levitical priesthood. The Levitical priesthood was chosen by God to take the place of the 'first-born'.
This is a special people, above all the people of the world. This last remnant of the Christ body is a holy priesthood of lively stones of a spiritual house, of which Jesus is the Chief corner stone. 1st. Peter 2; 5/6.
This revealing light here brings us into what we are experiencing today as we see the type and shadow played out here. Just as the Levitical priest, this remnant of His body are not 'numbered ' with the other remnants because their functions to the Body are so different, they are the 'feet' part of the body, the pillars that bear it up........they encamp around the body and intercede for them before God, making atonement for them, laying down their lives for them in their service and living sacrifice upon the altar.
The Priests have no standard of their own; God , Himself, has called them out for His own purpose, just as He has this last body remnant. This called out, last remnant is made a pillar in the temple. Pillars are like feet, they are supports to the whole body, (building). As such, we have no earthly name or standard, such as church affiliation, as to man-made orders. Christ is our head, we have no other. Our tent is pitched in the center of the hosts round about us, we live in the shadow of the Almighty! We are in charge of the Ark of Covenant, The Word! No one can touch this 'ark' but those who have been 'cleansed' ordained and chosen! Today we are still seeing the Word of God distorted by men who are ignorant of its true meaning, and those who fail to live by its rule. But soon the royal priesthood will surround the Word Form and it will come forth in its purity and power. Soon all who desire to know , will come into the knowledge of the priesthood and the blood covenant and will come for cleansing to enter into the light of life.
To enter into the Most Holy Premises here one must have already passed through the sprinkling of blood by the operation of the Highpriest in the heavens, Jesus our blessed highpriest who has entered into the Holy of Holies by His own blood!
Unless we are blood sprinkled by the great high priest, Jesus Christ, then we are in no way a first born, therefore we have no kingdom authority and no birthright!
Neither are we 'intercessors' or priests , or Levites. Many in this day are claiming to be intercessors when they don't really know what an intercessor is.
An intercessor is one who has , himself, already passed through the blood of sprinkling by the highpriest in the heavens; He already knows about the deep groanings of Calvary, He already personally knows about Gethsemane,
It is the priest who stands in the gap for others and makes up the hedge; it is the priesthood of Christ that bruises the head of the serpent! It is the priests who cry out at the altar , and holds back the tide of Jordan for the others to pass over!
Many in this day of darkness and 'church-ignorance' are claiming to be intercessors, standing in the gap for others when they know nothing of the sprinkling of blood, or the living sacrifice of a lamb without blemish
They are still setting their own standard and pitching their tents on their own campsites; They are not numbered within the priesthood intercessors who part back the Jordan!
.We can see the similarity here in the choosing and calling out of the Levitical priesthood as to the endtime remnant of the Christ body. And also the in the acts of atonement's and intercessions. We must also consider the same similarity in the parting of the Jordan. As the Lord hath said to them; ' We must cross this Jordan.'
Jordan being a type of death, the dark waters which lie between Egypt and Cannan.
It is appointed unto man once to die, not twice. If we die in Christ, there is no other death to die. We only cross 'this Jordan' one time to enter into the promise land. If I bear the dying of the Lord Jesus in my body, then I have over come death in the flesh.
God is bringing in a priesthood that will overcome sin and death by being a joint-heir partaker in the death of Christ. Being just an 'heir' is not enough; We must be a 'joint-heir with Christ. There must be a mingling of blood by the circumcision of Christ to seal the Covenant. The Covenant we have with Christ is a Blood Covenant and can only be sealed through the priesthood.
Our ministry in this day is that of a priest. Even though it is just beginning as we are now coming under the anointing of an intercessor and are learning to suffer for others.
Yet we feel a moving of the Spirit , pulling and nudging us forward into greater ministries than this world has ever known. We feel the breath of His 'hovering' over us, and smell the lovely frangrance of His presence as that world which was to come moves in to adjust, and shake loose, to sweep out and make room for things eternal to replace that which is temporal and ready to die! That world is filling the atmosphere around the members of the Christ Body ; another world is taking over this old world of weakness and fear, of pain and death, grief and heartach. We are about to put-on a new robe, the robe of a new man, the man Christ Jesus! All the glory which the Father gave to Him he has deposited upon His Body……., that we may know the fullness of His joy!
The ministry of an intercessor is heavey upon us in this dark hour of deception and hate.
An intercessor is one who is anointed with a spirit of intercession to the point of taking upon it the sins of another. It is a groaning in the spirit which cannot be uttered.
An intercessor is one who stands between God and man as Moses stood before God for his people. Moses cried out, lay their sins to my charge! I will bear their judgments!
Another task assigned to the priesthood is that of seer. A priest must be wise and able to rightly divide the word, to prophetically lead a people and bear them 'across Jordan' . In our prototype we find that the priests stood in the middle of Jordan on dry ground until the Israelites passed over. As soon as the feet of the priest touched the Jordan waters, the waters parted back. There will be no doubt as to the priesthood ministry. There is no other ministry like that of a priest. In this last hour of time, when sin is reaching a crest, it will take a priesthood ministry to bring the people across the spiritual Jordan. We are now in a 'harvest time' when the Jordan is at 'high-tide'.
Nothing less than a priesthood ministry will hold back the waters of sin and death while the other 'tribes' pass over.
This is a ministry spent entirely in regards of another. Bearing the burdens of another, one here becomes a 'scape -goat' with the sins of others upon him. A priest proves that we are our brothers keeper. Priesthood is the highest calling , it has to do with being a lamb without spot offered up as a living sacrifice acceptable unto God.
Our high priest in the heavens, Jesus Christ, has stood before the Almighty in the process of the sprinkling of blood as he brought out His many member body and placed them as joint-heir-partakers in all that He is, even to share in the suffering of His lamb ship and on to His glory.
His body is made one with Him and become flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone!
Thus, it has entered into His priesthood as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God. It does not matter who believes this, or whoever does not believe it, it is now going into action as God reveals it to His Body! The scriptures say that , ' the secret things belong unto the Lord, but the things which He reveals to us belong to us and our children forever!
The things which are ' revealed' are the mysteries which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world to be revealed in this last day.
Our forefathers did not receive these end time revelations which were sealed up and not written. They lived in the light of their day as we must live in the light of our day. The revealing of our highpriest in the heavens and our jointhiership as partakers with Him was not revealed until this end time of consummation of all things! We cannot walk in the light which Grandma walked in, because that age has become total darkness unto us and death reigns in that which is folded up and laid away. Today we are in an age where the light of the 'Son' gets brighter all the time until it reaches a crest ' of seven times brighter!'
You can only claim what He reveals to you. If He has not revealed the oneness of the Christ head and His body to you and you have not seen the revealed ministry of the priesthood in the body, then it does not apply to you.
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