Scripture gives two separate imageries for this same event — the appearing of Messiah — not from out of the sky, but from out of the Woman who is in the heavens, to engage in a very definitive work. In the New Testament, The Revelation describes that when the male Child is brought forth out of the Woman in the heavens, immediately war breaks out there. The dragon had been standing poised to consume this divine Child as soon as He appeared from out of the Woman, but her Son was caught up to God and His throne. This divine Offspring of the Woman — Michael the Son of God, immediately went forth with his angels to battle the dragon in the heavens. The Son of God appeared from out of the Woman in the wilderness, in Michael of Travesser. He was anointed by Father to be the catalyst for the bringing forth of the Son in every member of Messiah's Person.
In the Old Testament, Psalms foretold this appearing of Messiah as the Bridegroom Son coming forth from His chamber of consummation to undertake a very specific work.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows and proclaims His handiwork. Day after day pours forth speech, and night after night shows forth knowledge. There is no speech nor spoken word from the stars; their voice is not heard. Yet their voice, in evidence, goes out through all the earth, their sayings to the end of the world. Of the heavens has God made a tent for the sun [Son], which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber; and it rejoices as a strong man to run his course. Its going forth is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit (Zodiac) to the ends of it; and nothing, yes, no one, is hidden from the heat of it [the Son]. Ps. 19:4-6 Amplified.
"The coming out of his chamber" is defined here as "to go forth with purpose or for result." The purpose of His "going forth" was to make an atoning way through His circuit of the signs in the heavens. When this prophesy was very literally fulfilled in the new land, Michael physically came forth from out of the Woman in His consummation chamber. He had begun His course through the heavens when He entered Virgo to clothe her with the glory of the Son, and for the remainder of that year of His redemption, He entered each heavenly sign to reveal how the Son of God in every human soul bears His testing conflict with the powers of darkness, which come up against the soul He is in after His divine consummation with their own soul.
From the Day of Atonement, October 10, 2000, when Michael entered into the Woman of Revelation 12, until one year later, on the following Day of Atonement, September 18, 2001, the Son of God pursued His atoning course through the circuit of the heavenly signs. "For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and My year of redemption, the year of My redeemed has come." Isa. 63:4 Amplified. Michael went forward in His Messiahship of His bride at continual and ever deepening personal cost to Himself. He literally forged an uncharted way through every sign in the heavens, empowering His entire bride, by His patient and faithful example, to follow Him and pass successfully through every opposing power in high places, as He did, to come into the full realization of her consummation with God. As forerunner and Redeemer Husband of the Woman in the wilderness, Michael bore the full brunt of every objection to His Messiahship, from the powers of darkness. Especially in Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn and Pisces, He bore five months of excruciation, as He made an atoning way for her to follow in His footsteps through the testing of the Sonship which invariably comes to every soul after the Son is born out from it. "Is not God in the height of heaven? …and he walketh in the circuit of heaven." Job 22:12,14.
The "great sign" of "a woman" "in heaven," which Father drew our attention to in 1997, was truly a "warning of future events of ominous significance." This sign ended when the "future events of ominous significance" of which it had given warning, appeared in reality. During the final seventh year in which the sun and moon appeared in Virgo during the "Days of Awe," the Women portended in Revelation 12 — the Woman in the new land wilderness — was literally and physically clothed with the glory of the Son of God in consummation, and the Bridegroom Son came forth from His chamber to complete His circuit through the heavenly signs. This concluded the seventh year from the beginning of the new age. This heavenly sign was needed no longer, for it had met its true spiritual fulfillment and had completed the purpose for which it had appeared. Father had used this sign to initiate the process of drawing the Woman into her wilderness place, and she was again the sign which Father used to reveal that His purposes for this sign had been accomplished.
At the concluding of the seventh year — the year of rest, "the year of favor," "My year of redemption" — the Father unexpectedly came down upon me, and I felt the joyful sense of completion in His great heart, as He spoke the clear words to me, "The Final Atonement's been made!" His words which followed were captured in The Final Atonement Song.
For seven years Virgo was seen in its Scriptural lineup, clothed with the sun and the moon was under her feet. This ocurred during the very time that marks "the beginning of new things," which is Rosh ha-Shanah, and the "Awesome Days." Six of those years made us aware of the transpiring prophetic events, and the seventh year marked the actual consummation and circuit of the Son through those events. This timely relationship with the heavenly signs, and their fulfillment, cannot be missed. No longer is Virgo clothed with the Son and the moon under her feet at this precise time of the year.
The entire circle of the Son's course through the heavens, crowns the heavenly sign Virgo, resting upon her head as a "crownlike garland of twelve stars," for it is from this sign that the Son comes forth to begin His course through the heavens. Without this Woman, there would be no male Child born, no Michael to defeat the dragon in heaven. Without this Woman there would be no consummation chamber for the Bridegroom Son to come forth from, as a strong man to victoriously pursue His course through every constellation of spiritual experience in heaven.
This Woman of Revelation 12, "clothed with the sun, and the moon [congregation] under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars [the twelve lights of the heavens]," is a personification of the divine calling and identity of the congregation of God, collectively and individually. In Revelation 21, there is another description of this same Woman. She is "the holy city, new Jerusalem...clothed with God's glory...with twelve gates." Rev. 21:2-12. Paul speaks of this Woman. "The Jerusalem above, the Messianic kingdom of Christ (the Anointed One), is free, and she is our mother." Gal. 4:26 Amplified. She is "metaphorically, 'the City of God founded by Christ,' now wearing the form of the church, but after Christ's return to put on the form of the perfected Messianic kingdom."
Jerusalem was "above" when Paul wrote Galatians, but at the return of Messiah, she was witnessed "coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride...the Lamb's wife" and she is now "personally among us." This Woman is innately responsive to the Son of God, and "prepared as a bride." Prepared means "ready prepared...to give Messiah a fit reception and secure His blessings." Strong's Concordance. This Woman is prepared as a bride for heaven's bridegroom to come into her in consummation. This "City of God founded by Christ" was born from Jesus' side at His death. He founded her with His Own life. The Seed of the faith of Jesus was in her at her formation, and now that Seed already in her was consummated with Michael when He clothed her with the uneclipsed glory of the Son of God at His return. Michael brought the Woman to her consummation, the full realization of her complete Messianic deliverance. The congregation is "under her feet," in submission to this vision of God's calling for them, subject to and "reduced under her power," each to their place within her. The congregation remains under the feet of the Woman until every last human member of God's bride is indeed "clothed with the Son" of His glory, and has given "Messiah a fit reception" within them — both in birth and in consummation. "He who overcomes, is victorious, I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary of My God; he shall never be put out of it or go out of it, and I will write on him the name [character] of My God and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which descends from My God out of heaven, and My own new name." Rev. 3:12 Amplified.
"You have come to Mount Zion, even to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless multitudes of angels in festal gathering." Heb. 12:22 Amplified.
Besides the witness from the signs in the heavens for the period of the consummation, there was another witness in history which foreshadowed the twenty one days required for Father's consummation parable. This witness in history revealed why the length of time was necessary. In the historic parable from the Old Testament, twenty one days was the required time of invisible conflict with the powers of darkness over the prince of Persia who held God's people in captivity. The Scriptures record: "The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, so I left him there with the prince of the kingdom of Persia." Dan 10:13. The parallel between the nature of Michael the Archangel's intervention in behalf of the people of God in the Old Testament, and His intervention in behalf of the Woman in the new land, was very striking. In the Old Testament, the people of God had been held under captivity to a foreign prince. God had decreed the release of His people, His bride, and all the powers of hell protested, by coming strongly upon the prince of Persia to prevent him from giving his agreement to God's purposes.
In a very real way, the prince stood in the position of the earthly husband to the bride of God. In their captivity they were directly under his jurisdiction and control, and Michael had to come and break that claim in order to release them. Father had decreed their release, and Michael intervened and prevailed over the hosts of hell to see that it occurred. The agreement of the prince was required, for he was the key to releasing the people of God. But the prince of Persia himself was under heavy onslaught by satanic powers who were seeking to hold the people of God in captivity by keeping the prince from giving his agreement for their release. The king felt he rightfully owned the captives of Israel, taken lawfully in the field of battle. For a three week period invisible satanic powers held the prince under their influence, trying to convince him that he should not let the bride of God go home. Michael intervened by coming between the prince and the adversary, and by bearing the full brunt of his satanic onslaught, thereby bringing relief from the overwhelming oppression the prince was feeling, so he could give his agreement with the purposes of God and be freed from the illusion of his rights. Michael prevailed fully, and the prince of Persia signed a written release for God's people. The earthly owner let his property go free, so she might go back to her true Husband.
"Lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia." By this we see that heavenly agencies have to contend with hindrances before the purpose of God is fulfilled in its time. The king of Persia was controlled by the highest of all evil angels. He refused, as did Pharaoh, to obey the word of the Lord. Gabriel declared, "He withstood me twenty-one days" by his representations against the Jews. But Michael came to his help, and then he remained with the kings of Persia, holding the powers in check, giving right counsel against evil counsel. 11 MR 99.
The prince of Persia was also a physical, visible symbol of the ego, or former human self — the invisible, but vividly felt, spiritual dominator of the soul, who has had direct jurisdiction over the soul. It is through the presence of the self that Satan protests the right of the Son to interfere in behalf of the soul who has been intimate with him in the past. But Michael stands up between the soul and its former self, who is supported by all of the arguments of satanic power, and frees the soul to yield to the call of the Father.
This historical event, of Michael's effectual intervention and ascendancy over opposing satanic powers for the full release of God's bride, was lived out again, when Michael appeared in human form in the new land to deliver God's bride, the Woman in the wilderness, from the captivity she had been under to her natural self. All the powers of the adversary vigorously protested this, because her self, her most familiar and intimate soul companion, had been their personal agent within her soul. Through her self, they had had direct access to influence and control the thoughts of her mind and the feelings of her heart. But, Father had brought the Woman to the wilderness for deliverance, and had put it within her to cry out to Him for deliverance from her former nature which had held her in captivity, and He had instructed His Son Michael to stand up for her.
In a vision given to Zechariah, the Father foretold the real reason why adversarial spirits had power to contest the release of the Woman in the wilderness. In this vision, Michael, the Angel of the covenant, was seen with Joshua, who together with Zerubbabel had led the people home from their captivity. They were called "the two Anointed instruments who stood before the Lord of the whole earth," and foreshadowed the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11 "who stand before the Lord of the earth" now, as representatives of the heart and mind of the Woman in the wilderness.
Zechariah's vision of Joshua [who was representing the people of God, the Woman] and the Angel [the Archangel Michael, Angel of the marriage covenant] applies with peculiar force to the experiences of God's people [the Woman] in the closing up of the great day of atonement ...Here the curtain that separates us from the unseen world is lifted, and we behold the conflict that is waged over every soul who believes in Christ (Michael). Satan, with his masterly accusing power, is resisting the plan of Christ (Michael) for the redemption (final deliverance and consummation) of His people..."Now Joshua [the Woman] was clothed with filthy garments [an imperfect character], and stood before the angel." Satan was charging God's people [the Woman] with impurity. He was presenting every defect in their character [every agreement with him during their previous intimate relationship with him, and reminding her that her character still reflects his image] Through his deceiving power he had tempted them to sin [he had led her to previously be unfaithful to God, by giving her agreement at times that Father was not faithful to her; and this formed her character after the image of the adversary], and now Satan represents them [the Woman] as full of transgression and defilement.... Those whose religious life has been faulty, who have been overcome by Satan's temptations, and are unworthy of God's favor... he asks permission to destroy.... He declares that they have come under his control, that they are subjects of his pleasure, and he claims the right to work his will upon them without interference from God in their behalf [without interference from Michael standing up for them]. Ellen White, Excerpts from The Crisis of the Wedding.
Father had not brought the Woman out to the wilderness because she was good, but because He was bringing her into His vision of her deliverance, and the twenty-one-day period ordained for the consummation of her marriage to Michael was highly significant and very necessary. It actually required a twenty-one-day period of time to acquire the full release of the Woman from the opposing and oppressing powers of darkness which would have prevailed over her without Michael's direct and continuous intervention. Father orchestrated the events in His consummation parable to open to view in a special way the mysteries of the awesome and severe conflict occurring behind the scenes, between Michael and the adversary, over every soul who has requested consummation with God. The consummation was designed by Father to give His people a dramatically graphic picture of the great controversy that is waged in every human soul bride because of the unconscious ties between it and its former human self and the spirits who have made the self what it is. The entire character of the soul has been formed in the image of its previous self, and this connection is felt very intensely by it. The character is the "proof" of the self's former intimacy with the soul, and Satan relentlessly and continuously claims ownership of the soul, through the self, until the new character has been formed in the image of the Son, and his image is no longer mirrored in the soul.
From the beginning of the twenty one days to its very conclusion, Michael strove relentlessly with invisible satanic forces who were opposing Father's physical symbol of the full and final release of God's people from the earth, in order to be consummated permanently with God. The adversary was in an all-out battle to oppose the release of the Woman, who was being personified visibly in Father's consummation parable by the Two Witnesses. He was pulling out every stop, to reverse the consent of the former husbands of the Witnesses to yield their wives to the Father for His consummation parable. It was the former earthly husbands who were the key figures in the accomplishment of the consummation parable, for Father does nothing without full agreement. The husbands had already given their consent for the release of the Two Witnesses in response to the unction of the Father, but all the hosts of hell were strongly contending this release by actively coming down on them with their own intense feelings, in an attempt to get them to withdraw their agreement. Satan inferred to them that they had been tricked in some way. Pharaoh also agreed under pressure, but when the pressure was released, he changed his mind, and Satan tried to do this with the former contractors of the soul.
Michael stood up between the former husbands and the satanic powers who were trying to get to them, Himself bearing the brunt force of these satanic pressures and feelings. Because of Michael's direct intercession for those twenty one days, the invisible work of the angels who accompanied Michael at His return, and the special help by written influence of those from past ages, the earthly husband who had been given to bear the intense feelings of this excruciating event, was enabled to fully abandon his claim. And he abandoned it with blood. In the face of strong and intense feelings to the contrary, three times Salem wrote out his true intent of will: the first time, prior to the consummation; the second time, the very night the consummation began; and the third time, the final day of the consummation. That was the day when the victory of Michael's prevailing intervention in his behalf over the hosts of hell became evident — when he brought his third written decree to Michael, signed with blood. The three times he reaffirmed his complete release of his former bride, he was in actuality writing out his divorce from his own human will in order to be married to the will of the Father in him.
This same process had been seen in history before — in the Garden of Gethsemane, where against great feelings to the contrary, Jesus of Nazareth had declared His divorce from His Own will, to do the will of His Father.
And going a little farther, He threw Himself upon the ground on His face and prayed saying, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will, not what I desire, but as You will and desire. And He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and He said to Peter, What! Are you so utterly unable to stay awake and keep watch with Me for one hour? All of you must keep awake, give strict attention, be cautious and active, and watch and pray, that you may not come into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Again a second time He went away and prayed, My Father, if this cannot pass by unless I drink it, Your will be done. And again He came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were weighed down with sleep. So, leaving them again, He went away and prayed for the third time, using the same words. Matt. 26:39-44 Amplified.
There is a divine power which attends the decision of the soul in its third crisis; for it is this third restatement of purpose which marks the end of the enemy's argument in the human soul. The first stated purpose of the soul is contested in its first crisis by the adversary, as not "counting," because it is being divinely supplied to the soul. The adversary doesn't consider that to be a fair determination of the soul's true desire. When the soul affirms its purpose to do Father's will, during its second crisis, the adversary insists that with more pressure, and more input from him, he knows that the soul will withdraw its agreement from Father and give it to him. He makes the argument that the soul has in fact already given its agreement to him, or it wouldn't be feeling such strong feelings in harmony with him. But when the soul is brought to its third crisis, and it reaffirms its purpose to be divorced from its own will to be married to Father's will, the adversary has nothing more to say. He has no further ground to press his point of contention.
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