The morning after the Father told me, "You have an anointing from the Holy One," the Father gave Michael a dream, the prophetic significance of which we didn't realize until later. He posted it on our church forum, East Gate.
This morning, I visited with one in whom my soul delights. Virtue went out of me and I felt the long draw of her being nurtured as a young baby sucks upon the breasts of its mother. I visited with others shortly after and then came into my home with my energy drained from me in a quiet peace. I fell into a deep sleep. I dreamed a dream, and in the dream, I was helping the one in whom my soul delights bear the child formed in her womb. She gave birth to twin girls. Their names were Hephzibah and Beulah..
I, the father of the daughters, then went to take the daughters up and they were one child [spirit]. I enfolded the child in my arms with the tenderest affection and care. Immediately, came the tempter who began to utter nonsense and doubts about the child into her ears. It was a flood of words and thoughts which were intended to make the child ill at ease. With surprise and amazement at his apparent rudeness, I turned her away from him and his flood of words, and began to sing to my daughter.
The songs that began to come to her from My breast were songs of praise and completion. I knew My songs would go into her and preserve her from the one who sought to take her peace away. The songs did not come from My mouth, but from My spirit, and they were full of the chorus of heaven when My child heard them. The child was kept safe and secure from the noise of the tempter and she lay peaceful and quiet in My arms as I sang to her.
After awaking from my deep sleep, I knew it was I who keeps the child after the one in whose soul I delight bears it. It ascends into the heavens where I am. "Her child was caught up to God and to His throne." All of God's children must be caught up to Me, for that is where they are preserved. So, the land is married and I dwell with the one in whom My soul delights.
For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her vindication goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch. The nations shall see your vindication, and all the kings your glory; and you shall be called by a new name which the mouth of the Lord will give. You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate; but you shall be called My delight is in her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married. For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. Upon your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest, and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth. The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: "I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored; but those who garner it shall eat it and praise the Lord, and those who gather it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary." Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway, clear it of stones, lift up an ensign over the peoples. Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, "Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him." And they shall be called The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called Sought out, a city not forsaken. Isa. 62:1-12.
Just as the Father ordained a physical witness to authenticate Messiah's death, now at the end of time, when the anointing of the Lamb has returned, to consummate "the marriage of the Lamb," His death to Himself was required that the anointing of the bride might be released and come forth to Him. She was redeemed from the earth to be wedded to her true Husband. "I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain." Rev. 5:6.
Trusting in His atonement for salvation...the righteous will continually follow righteousness, because Christ, who is formed within, is righteousness and truth. They will be imbued with a pure, fervent love, a love begotten by the love of God. ST 11-13-01.
The sealed fountains of earnest, Christlike love will be unsealed… All heaven is waiting for channels through which can be poured the holy oil…If all were willing to receive, all would become filled… Into the hearts of all who are united to God by faith the golden oil of love flows freely." COL 417-419.
Let every soul note the importance of having a supply of oil. Fill your lamps with holy oil from the two olive trees. This oil is the symbol of the Holy Spirit, which is poured into the minds of believers, that they may be co-workers with heavenly agencies. The wise virgins, the waiting ones, had their faith and love and patience nourished by the oil of the Spirit of God. Thus it must be with each one who is saved. It is by the Spirit, the gracious agency of heaven, that the ... church of the living God is to put on her beautiful garments,--the white robe of Christ's righteousness,--that she may be ready and waiting for the summons. 1888 Materials 959, 1073,1761.
"And Jesus (the anointed) increased in wisdom [specifically, the varied knowledge of things human and divine, acquired by acuteness and experience] and stature, and in favor with God and man." Luke 2:52. Wisdom in this verse also means, "the intelligence evinced in discovering the meaning of some mysterious number or vision" [or communication from the Father].
On a Sabbath morning Michael went out into the hills and through His Spirit He called the church to come out to be with Him, and nobody came. That morning, I was sitting at the computer typing out notes from Father to send to Michael. All at once I became conscious of a distinct awareness of the Father trying to get my attention. I stopped what I was doing, and listened. I asked Him if He didn't want me to send over the notes just then, but just go to Michael. I seemed to feel like I was in a state of suspense, but not receiving any further instructions. It didn't even enter my mind at that point that Michael might be out somewhere calling us. I was almost done with the notes, and not having received a negative response to my question, I finished, and then went over to Michael's home. Both witnesses arrived at the door of His house from different directions at exactly the same time. We recognized the Father's divine appointment, and as Michael wasn't at home, we prayed together. We asked that if He were calling us somewhere, the Father would take us out there to be with Him.
Later, when Michael came home and said that He was indeed calling us, and told us what time He called, it was the very time that I felt the Father trying to get my attention when I was sitting at the computer. I realized in this calling, that I could not limit Father by His past methods of leading me. I had been called to the home of Michael before in this way, but had never been called into the wilderness. I learned that I must be quiet and listen rather than continue on my way when the Father brings me to this place of attention.
The witnesses have had many instances since then of experiencing that sensation, or awareness that the Father was soliciting our attention. It doesn't always come in the same way, thought or feeling. He is quite varied in His approach, but we are learning to recognize Him in whatever guise He comes.
At another time recently, I was once again typing at the computer. Once again I felt the Father's soft and gentle "advance." Immediately stopping everything, I waited and listened intently. Unexpectedly, my eyes were drawn to the top of a hill, and I saw an indistinct form walking through the trees. My heart leapt within me. I strained my eyes to see. Yes, it was Michael, walking in the cool of the evening with the Father. Everything in my being went out to Him. It felt like my heart was coming out of my body and encompassing Him. I felt Him, and knew what He was feeling. Usually, the witnesses are sensitive not to intrude when Michael is alone with the Father, but now I felt a very strong drawing to go out after Him. Quickly shutting down the computer, I got ready and pursued Him. He was no longer visible as I climbed the hill, keeping my eyes and ears wide open. As I walked through the trees, I still didn't see Him anywhere, and said, Father, only You can connect us, and bring to pass the completion of Your unction. As I walked and looked, the desire coursing through me so strongly was to find Him "Whom my soul loveth." Finally, I stopped, and said, "Father, where is He Whom my soul loveth?" Immediately my eyes were drawn to a small opening in the trees, and I saw Him Whom my soul loveth walk past that opening down below the hill now. He was a ways away, and I followed as quickly as I dared, without disturbing His communion. Finally at the pond, I caught up to Him. As He shared with me what He had been praying and feeling, it was exactly what I had felt He was feeling when my eyes were drawn to see Him. In me, one of the witnesses, Father had come in bodily form to touch the heart of His Son, and bless Him. Michal
The love that came down from the Father on the witnesses for Messiah isn't an "out-of-sight, out-of-mind" love. It is a divine love that was captured in words by something Taken said one time when the Father drew us together to pray for Michael. "The more I am with Him, the more I desire Him. The more I am not with Him, the more I desire Him." Taken
Take delight in the Lord [receive from the Father the anointing of the bride for the Spirit of Michael] and He will give you the desires of your heart [total emptiness to love Michael with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength]. Ps. 37:4. When this has occurred, then in turn, each member of the bride will testify, He brought me forth and delivered me into a large place [to the wedding], because He delighted in me. Ps. 18:19. This is not a theological business exchange, but the free, spontaneous, reciprocal communion of divine delight and love from the Father. This delight cannot come from the natural man. But every virgin can ask the Father to be drawn into and totally Taken "with" Michael in His work for His bride. Then the free, spontaneous reciprocal communion of divine love from the Father will flow between each member of the bride and the Groom.
The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the Lord of hosts: for the Lord is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the Lord. Jer. 33:11.
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 2 Cor. 11:2.
And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. Rev. 21:9.
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land [entire being] shall be married. Isa 62:4.
And now "Put on Christ... Lay hold by faith on His might. Make peace with Him, and you shall make peace with Him. Nothing else will carry you through the closing scenes of this earth's history." 21 MR 42.
Father specified the earmarks of the bride's spirit — heartfelt delight that couldn't be more pleased with the heavenly Husband of her being, and a genuine loving to be married (one with) and possessed by Him. Does it seem strange that it is a requirement for the wedding that the bride be delighted with the Groom in every part of her being?
While still in the earth, before my redemption from it, I experienced the human marriage as well as close human friendships with all their complexities, but the marriage with Michael cannot be compared to these human connections. I have never experienced being so humanly unattached to a soul, yet so inseparably bonded to that same soul, as has occurred with the marriage of Michael, the marriage of the Lamb. The nature of this union is not only experienced between Michael and the witnesses, but between the witnesses themselves. This reveals to those who curiously look on that it is not a sensual or sexual union of the fleshly desires that make up this bond. Those who think it is, use their sexual fixation, and their own natural earthly marriage, to try and visualize their reception of the marriage of the Lamb. It cannot be done. It is not in the same world. It has been made evident to all who witness it, that there is no entrance into the heavenly kingdom without the personal revelation of this marriage in the soul.
This divine marriage that we bear witness to is so humanly unattached, it has not any trace of control, expectation, obligation, domination, or displeasure. It is free from human influence and intimation of one's will to the another. Yet in such spontaneous flowing together we find ourselves thinking the same thoughts at the same time, reading each other's divine mind. Sometimes Father pictures something to one of us in advance of its occurrence, and that one is given the privilege of watching Him bring to pass what He has hidden in that one's heart. Sometimes He intimates to all of us what He is going to do, but we have no idea or picture of how that would look because it has never happened before; and then when He brings it to pass, we see clearly that it is exactly like He said. In this divine relationship, Father gives us every interaction and every reciprocal exchange. It is a heavenly dependent relationship where nothing passes between us except what is given from the Father. It is also a relationship where each one is true to what is given. If something isn't given it doesn't happen. This divine union is filled with divine delight as we continually see the Father's image in the other as we recognize His precious likeness reproduced. This is the divine marriage after the order of Michael.
The divine marriage of the Lamb is of a different nature altogether, and completely out of the realm of even the very best, and most perfect and "spiritual" human marriage. This marriage that came down from the Father is not anything like, or remotely resembling, familiar human interactions. It is a divine relationship that is entirely free of the other souls in it, yet so bound up with their souls in such an intimate way that we are bonded together as if the same person. Human relationships have with them incessant expectations, eternal displeasure often hidden, manipulation, coercion, the need for approval or attention, delight in self-glory, all things that have nothing whatever, at all, to any degree, to do with Michael. There is no way that this divine relationship can be explained so that the natural man can understand it. The truth as it is in Michael and His marriage can never be explained, but only experienced by those who receive the anointing of the bride. This marriage successfully annihilates all hope that humanity can finally work it all out. It cannot.
We have nothing to get from each other, nothing to need. When we are to be together the Father draws us together. One divine purpose flows through us and that is to do the will of our Father and to finish the work He gave us to do. The Father has taken our lives. We have no life left but His. He is our thoughts and feelings and we spontaneously flow together within Him. Often the witnesses experience the Father as an alternating current flowing between us, giving to one the initiation of an event, and then giving the other the next sequence, back and forth. These times are so precious, watching the movings of the Father flowing back and forth reciprocally.
In one instance, the Father gave one witness the unction to go to a certain place and the other witness the unction to follow. Upon arriving at the appointed destination the other witness was given the picture of what was to occur. And the witness that was given to initiate was now given to follow. The whole relationship is one of watching for the appearing of the Father's movings and listening for His word - through whomever of us it comes, and intuitively sensing the leadings of His personal presence. The Father's word and presence hold us together and keep us in the conscience and unconscious flow of His will. No matter what our activity, or event, we are always completely absorbed in the Father's will and presence. We always see Him with us and He is never excused, or forgotten as we are about seemingly common things, as in our daily meal. The Father flows with Himself in us.
It is the divine Spirit of the bride, the Holy Spirit (Presence) of the Father, coming down out of heaven upon this land, that has given us the divine capacity to respond and yield to one another, to speak His personal living word, and to recognize it being spoken.
The Father is everything to us. His word and Spirit, His personal thoughts and feelings, His thinking and movings are His divine counterpart come into us. We have been given the Gift of the divine marriage with God. Michael is our Gift. Michael is the divine marriage. He is the green cord that has been let down to connect us with heaven.
You can recognize if this living, responding, yielding, reciprocal communion is residing in your soul temple. It will be an internal replica in your land, of the external, visible, divine union of the Father, the Word, and His Spirit, that has come down upon this entire land, in the human form of Michael and the two witnesses.
Everyone is a part of and included within these two physical representations of the body of Christ. The strong prayers that the Father has come down upon Michael to pray for us, are for you personally. Everything the Father gives Michael to do and to be with each witness, has been included in the perfect fund that the Father draws from to nourish you personally.
Some in the land have wondered how they are to partake of the heavenly marriage. Exactly how does one eat all of it? One perplexed wedding guest said something like this to us, I know something is wrong with my picture, but, honestly, this is how it looks to me. It is like we have been personally invited to come to the marriage feast of the Lamb and fully partake; and when we are seated, the only food that I see is placed before Michael and the two witnesses in the form of their close personal union with each other, and the rest of us get to watch you eat from afar and with our keenly excited imaginations roaring. What is wrong with this picture?" The Father told me, "There is absolutely nothing wrong with this picture." This relational experience is exactly what each witness has experienced as we have seen the Father come down on the other witness with power, and flow with such beauty and preciousness with Michael, while looking on as a witness to that exchange but not actually involved in it. The witnessing witness is taken up with the delight of the awesome flow in the participating witness with Michael, and finds herself being filled up with the nourishment of it, she knows not how. "Through the air" is how Michael puts it. The Father told us on the day of Pentecost that the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of the Father, and His Son Michael, and He is very purposed to bring each wedding guest to the full knowing and feeling of the marriage of the Lamb. As you read these pages, you are reading about what happened to you. What has occurred in the new land is a living parable (heavenly drama) of your deliverance from your earthly husband, the adversary of your soul. It is your drawing to the Son of God. It is your awakening to the present divine realities that the Father has brought about. It is your heart being drawn out to ask and require and receive from the Son every divine word of the Father.
The living relationship that the Father has given the Witnesses with Michael is simply the outward reflection of the precious, intimate, and unspeakable relationship that each of us has with the Father Himself. No one can love us like the Father loves us. Sometimes He uses human instruments to love us, and at other times His intimate encounters with us are direct and invisible, and very much felt; but He can not hide from us anymore. "Daddy, I see you," is our continual delighted response to everything that comes to us. "And you shall no more be called forsaken… My delight is in her…" This day is this scripture fulfilled in your hearing.
Not the slightest inclination or thought of interfering with each other's time alone with the Father ever occurs. There is no earthly event or need which can seem important enough for that interference to occur. People make excuses as to why their communion with the Father is not unbroken as is Michael's and the two witnesses. They do not realize what the Father brought the witnesses through to obtain this heavenly Pearl of great price. We had to break through every natural barrier and obstacle that thought to stand in the way. We had to "hate father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and our own life also" in order to enter into Michael's marriage with the Father. Hunger, lack of money, screaming children, broken cars, rattle snakes and a direct lightning hit could not even have begun to move us from communion with our heavenly King. That is the reason the witnesses and Michael do not have these interferences. It is because they will not have them. They refuse entrance to any of these distractions. This communion is most holy ground. It is very special to us when Michael says, "Father is calling." We know that every time the Father has drawn Michael deeper into Himself, we are drawn deeper into the Father and the Son, because we are connected to Him, we are on Him, and a part of Him.
Such sweet yearning for you precious Father, in this place of utter inability; the sting of disbelief and separateness has been taken away. No mortal can know the sweetness of such utter dependency on the Father for every breath, word, prompting and sense of direction. Father, the perfection of your ways overcomes me with love for you. What else could knit us to Your heart in such indissoluble union as the gift of Michael's emptiness, inability and utter dependence on you. Your own hand brings us into the gift of having absolutely nothing and being absolutely nothing, apart from everything we partake of when we are on You and in You. I don't have anything apart from You. Michal
My dearest Faithful One,
"My Spirit pants for Thee, Thou living Word." I walked alone this afternoon, and I felt the yearning so strongly I could hardly breathe. My Spirit is short of breath for Your Words, for they are Spirit and they are Life to me. I crave more of Your faithful love, that I may love like You love, encompassing each need I encounter and swallowing it up in the same healing, redeeming love from the Father that I see pouring out of You. I am experiencing relief in just communicating to You my intense desire to know You in a deeper way. I know You are being anointed to supply my need exceedingly, abundantly, above all that I can ask or think. I know I am feeling the groanings of the Spirit, and those divine prayers are always answered. "Faithful is He who calls you, who also will do it." Michal
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April 15: Yesterday I woke up thinking about the land, and my heart was drawn out to the people in regard to Michael and what He has given. Don't they know how He loves them? Don't they know what He has given them? Don't they feel His heart-cries for them? And don't they know He would choose to be lost just so they could be saved? Don't they feel Him? Doesn't their heart burn within them at the very thought of Him? Doesn't their soul cry out from it's very depths just for Him? Doesn't their heart just break and are they not overcome with longing for Him? Don't they feel His precious healing touch? And isn't their only desire for Michael? Don't they know He has given of Himself freely and with great desire just for them? Don't they know He loves them as if they were the only one? Don't they know He is Messiah, the Son of God, the Father Himself revealed, God in the flesh? Don't they love Him with their whole body, mind and heart? Don't they crave Him with such intensity of desire that their heart aches and they feel like they cannot bear it? I do.
Michael, You drew me with the cords of a man, with bands of love, and You are to me as One who lifts up and eases the yoke over my cheeks, You bent down to me and gently laid food before me, (You are my manna from heaven) You took me up in Your arms and healed me. To know You is to love You. I love You.
Again this morning my heart was drawn out and my only desire is to be consumed and brought to my end so that I can love Michael in the way He deserves to be loved and be a constant support and comfort to Him. Father told me last June that He would reverse the direction of my desires and the current of my life, and that He would make me inaccessible to the things that now come between us. I am so grateful for His Faithfulness to me.Taken
2-14: I abandon myself to Your will and purposes, Father, to whatever seems good to You. Here I am available and willing and empty for Michael. I want to go to the depths, Father. We are Michael's witnesses. We are evidence, we are proof of Who He is. We are His testimony. He is ours. He is our knowledge. Michael is nothing, therefore we are nothing but an empty vessel that the Father flows through. We are proof of Who He is. We are the experience of Who He is. Taken
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