Psalm 24 Swing wide ye ancient Doors

Psalm 24 Swing wide ye ancient Doors

by Chris Welch (Notes) on 4 May 2013 at 11:53 PM

You know part of what Universalism is doing is correct...it is seeking to make fluid the door hinge that is the Cross, the Torn Veil, to the world. What is mainly wrong with universalism is that it is a leftbrain movement that is reactionary. It is a reaction to another leftbrain movement...those that took the operation of Bill Bright (Campus Crusade for Christ)and took it only in their understanding, and made pillars out of the 4 spiritual laws. (4 potted steps to being saved by signing your assent to 4 main principles which include you are a sinner and Jesus paid the price for you. But 2 leftbrain movements, the one a reactionary response to the other, do not HOLY SPIRIT LIFE make! 

However there is a dual dynamic going on between the spiritual celebration of Passover, and the spiritual celebration of the Day of Atonement. That is my first point.

Jesus we are told entered once for all into the Holy Place. And we know at what time of year He did this. It was Passover. It was NOT on the Day of Atonement which was later in the year. I'll leave you to mull on that one while I pull down some fresh armoury.

Secondly, preachers have fallen awkwardly into 2 camps. Those that continually seek to get fresh people to the altar rail, to asking Jesus into their heart at the foot of the Cross, and those who preach to believers, to strengthen them in their faith and to mature them.

Thirdly, let's examine for a minute the two older forms of church in the West. The Catholic chuch and the socalled episcopal church. In 2009 I was minding my own business worshipping the Lord alongside the others in a Havant Glory Conference when something of the Presence of heaven invaded our reality in a perceptible way, and what I heard and prophesied forth was:
I hear the sound of the moving of heavenly furniture. God is moving His throne from where we have been sitting on it cheekily in God's house, back to where it rightfully should be, with Jesus Himself sitting on it.
Since that time there has been rumbling as the whole scriptural basis for Pyramid pastors has come underscrutiny, coupled with that other new Cart of David (remember that Old Testament rucous) the system of tithing. Neither tithing as a system has anything to do with the New Covenant priesthood that we all are activated to be by the Spirit, nor does some pyramid CEO pastor leadership.

But there is another issue more related with this post, that I had been alerted to a year beforehand, when I first began commenting on Dan Bowen's blog.

So concerning the Catholic and Episcopal churches do you know what the Lord has against them primarily?
The priests?
The Pope or Archbishop system?
Baptism of infants? Well not in the first instance.

It actually quite surprised me what the Lord said.
He said the furniture is in the wrong place and it needs to be put back into the right place.
What?
He said both the Catholic and Anglican churches have made the Lord's supper a point of entry into the Kingdom of God, but the point of entry is the brazen altar of the heavenly Tabernacle....it's the sacrifice of the Son on the Cross.
It's the killing of the animal and the clothing with its skin that was presented to Adam and Eve to cover themselves. It's looking fully at the work of Jesus on the cross to die for our sins, and our SIN.
It is what Sylvia Pearce calls our first deliverance, the shed blood of Jesus, which is particularly celebrated in the Romans chapters 3 to 5.

The table of Shewbread, which is us partaking of the Lord's Body in remembrance of His total exchange as us, happens once into the Holy Spirit realm of the Holy Place. This is the place of Inner transformation...or at least the beginning of our transformation from within out. And this is very similar to the mid pupae stage of a chrysalis as a caterpillar changes to a butterfly.

The socalled MASS is a totally wrong and sinful concept. It is strange fire in the House of the Lord, for it blurs the distinction between the Old creation and the New. It seeks to work on the Old creation that is condemned to destruction and seek to improve or transform that. And to do that comes from the pit of hell and is the very heart of Cain Religion, as opposed to Abel offering a Lamb in his stead.

I cannot describe to you what an abomination  putting the Table of Shewbread out in the place of the brazen altar is. And now, in recent years God is announcing that no more will this be tolerated in the House of the Lord.
This  then is too, part of His rearranging of the furniture in the heavenly places.

ALL TRUTH IS PARALLEL. What happens here is what happens inthe spiritual places and viceversa!!.

However...and this is a big however. The two totally different actions of the Cross. The one which allows us entrance into the heavenly places at the brazen Altar, which speaks of Passover, and leaving darkness to join the Kingdom of Light.....is seemingly deliberately allowed to happen simultaneous to the other operation, which is the Day of Atonement. This is the day we recognise in the Spirit the second simultaneous deliverance....the Body Death of our old man, our sin nature, our spirit that was lost and bound utterly in the Satanic realm of sin judgment and death.

And this dichotomy of errr....when do we celebrate each?  which has confused the church for nearly 2000 years.
This is further strengthened by the two goats...or pairs of animals being sacrificed. One,representing death in our place, the other representing the exchange part of the deal, whereby we actually still live, but only because the old part of us was left in the wilderness of beyond, while our actual spirit was raised up now bound together with Christ in fusion, so we are alive together with Him in the heavenly places.

So you see, I don't think  the idea is that preachers should get too hung up on not preaching the Cross to believers, but only to unbelievers. I think the idea is that we always preach the cross anyway....and people do with that what they want relative to what they currently perceive in that Cross for them.

Certainly to those experiencing more and more of the Life side of the cross...it'snot the dead end rather dperessing message that many of us had to listen to...but like Paul always said....to us it is the fragrance of Life to Life. It grips us as THE MEANS to Life. It grips us as a Life principle....the Cross in the Heart of God (Alan Parker on Jacob Boehme). It grips us, because as we preach it we sense the immeasurable power of God going out to break every person's chains. Rather than think of it as a subject of shame it is the all time best HIDING PLACE for the Power of God on earth...because nobody would think of looking in such a place for power, and to this day people are completely fooled by it...not knowing that it IS THE POWER OF GOD unto salvation.

Everybody can access the Cross. The Cross gives access to every part of God. But it is a PATH. It's not a clever theological concept. It is both the entry and the continuous means whereby we EXPERIENCE GOD.

Christ’s Mass By Fred Pruitt

Christ’s Mass

By Fred Pruitt

Israel was not allowed to make images of God because God is not out there where we can look at Him.

Jesus came so that we would all come into the image of God in which we were created. We are the only image of God. God is the Only One Person Who is all of us. There is no other person. The same One Image in each.

Although I suppose it is necessary, I tire of even my own constant effort to make sure that, theologically, a distinction is always clearly made between the “created” and the “Creator.”

Let everything I have written heretofore on the subject stand as witness that I have ever held this “distinction,” and still do.

Nevertheless, there is only one image of God — the Christ of God reflected in you and me. No other image of God, no other likeness, can I find. The life of resurrection is the resurrected Life of Christ in our normal selves.

For a time God has winked at our ignorance. He allowed, no purposed, that the Church of Christ in her infancy and growing up would only know Him in an outer sense. He allowed, no purposed, that a priesthood would arise (“Catholic” or “Protestant” — same difference), an earthly priesthood, that still in a dim way reflected, and still today reflects heavenly mysteries. That the people, the “laity,” (“Catholic” or “Protestant” — same difference), would be much as the children of Israel, dependent on the the priesthood to intercede with God for them, and dependent on rituals (“Catholic” or “Protestant” — same difference), to feel close to God or forgiven. And always, with God separate and apart from the people.

But the call of today is the prayer of Moses: “Would God that all the LORD’S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!” (Num 11:29). And of course this is fulfilled in Jesus Christ, Who by His sacrifice not only delivered us from sin and sins, but has also made us, in this present moment, a holy royal priesthood, kings and priests unto God – everyone of us who is in Christ. We are now “Emmanuel.”

The concept of “laity” apart from the “priesthood” is henceforth declared null and void. Thus saith the Lord.

This doesn’t mean that everybody now walks off their jobs and leave their spouses and children and buy tents and take up the sawdust trail. It means that wherever you are, whatever you are doing, in the present moment, you are the outpouring of the Grace of God.

You are the image of God that shines in your world. God enters the world by you. You are His opening to the world of Himself as He really is.

It has nothing to do with how well you behave according to the appearances of the flesh, or how many scriptures you know, or if you have all your doctrines lined up. He is Love. John says if we love our brother, we are in Him, for God is love.

“No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.” (1 John 4:12)

No man has ever seen God. John says this to our ears in plain English. But then “what” is God?

He is You and Me loving each other.

We will never take it any farther than that.

There will never be a more “objective God” than the love you live in that flows from you out of your belly.

When it says it flows out of your belly it means that it is a natural outflow of the life you live. The individual members of the Church grow up in their consciousness into the Head, which is Christ, and become organically One Person. To be organically One Person means that we spontaneously bear the fruit of the Vine in the relaxation of simply being ourselves, having trusted the Invisible One to manifest Himself into visibility by the spontaneous flow of the Sap from the Vine into the Branches which we are.

It means that you forget yourself. The scriptures say that, “when my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.” (Ps 27:10). This has more than a fleshly meaning. Our “father and mother” are our earthly dependence. We rely on them to support our earthly life, to insure our survival. But only until adulthood. When we are adults in this world, we are expected to go out into the world and leave the dependence on our mother and father and make our own lives.

To be an adult means that the focus of our lives, in maturity, becomes focused not primarily on our own survival but on giving life to and sustaining life for others. You become secondary to yourself and those to whom you are given are primary. You live to insure their lives. That is human life in maturity.

Spiritually, it means that our “father and mother” are whatever supports of self-will or repositories of self-reliance that we might have thought we’d reserved for our own welfare are gone, that there is nothing in this world or the next, that can hold us up, except the Invisible God, Who is our very Own Self.

“Whosoever he be of you, that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.” (Lk 14:33-35) The ONLY “thing” we have is what we take to be “ourselves.”

To forsake “all” therefore is to forsake everything there is, everything we see, everything we know, everything we are, everything we’d like to see, to forsake EVERYTHING that we perceive or possibly could perceive, for the Invisible One Who is Nothing to our senses or perception or human minds.

It is to be “crucified,” to see that “we are dead.”

Our lives are hidden in Christ in God, and when we see Him, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

Oh my goodness.

It means that He is not “lo here or lo there.” It means that “it” is “within you,” which means that God has no geographical location, except as manifested in You.

You cannot look around and catch any glimpse of Him.

And it means that EVERYWHERE you look He is all you see.

You are Him. You are you. The Same person.

Bingo.

This is the true “Christ’s Mass.”

Merry Christmas to all, and God bless us everyone!