328. Baal–Perazim

Amazing things are taking places in our days. The Jews are gathering to their homeland. They are being driven out from all their hiding places in order to be gathered on the mountains of Israel. Soon their Messiah will come and will be a glory for His people. He is the one for whom they have been waiting for centuries. When the bride has been raptured, tribulations will break out, but then all the Jews will have been gathered in their country as in the ancient days in Goshen when the plagues went over Egypt. The bride will be on Mount Zion.

The same is happening with the spiritual Israel in our days. “For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly: and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.” Rom. 2:28-29.

All of the upright who have become Jews inwardly will be driven out from sects and denominations. These denominations will become an outer court which will be trampled down by the heathen, for all denominationalism is of the devil; it is a work of the flesh. Gal. 5:20. The spiritual Jews will be gathered on Mount Zion with the general assembly and church of the firstborn.

They will be redeemed from the earth and from among men. Rev. 14:1-5. This is the bride, the one hundred and forty-four thousand.

In these last days hunters and fishermen are out to capture souls in order to gather the spiritual Israel. You who are a Jew inwardly, you sense within that no one but the bridegroom Himself can give you nourishment. “Your lips, O my spouse, drip as the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon. A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.” Song 4:11-12. [Emphasis added]. No one understands her; she is sealed and enclosed. Through her relationship with her bridegroom she has become full of the Spirit of wisdom and revelation. “A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.”

“Awake, O north wind, and come, O south! Blow upon my garden, that its spices may flow out.” That is to say, “Come, all kinds of tribulations, come from the north and come from the south, so that the fragrance can come from the enclosed garden.”

“My beloved is mine, and I am his. He feeds his flock among the lilies.” Song 2:16. It is the bridegroom’s responsibility to shepherd and defend his bride. She must not dishonor her bridegroom by defending herself.

“Who is she who looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, awesome as an army with banners?”

The bride is a “mountain Christian.” She belongs to the city that God has established on the holy mountain. “The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God! And of Zion it will be said, ‘This one and that one were born in her: and the Most High Himself shall establish her.’

“The Lord will record, when He registers the peoples: ‘This one was born there.’” Psalm 87.

But of Esau it is written, “We have heard a report from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying, ‘Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle.’” Obad. 1.

“The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; you who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’”

That is how the flesh speaks in its pride. This is Esau.

“‘Though you ascend as high as the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down’, says the Lord.”

“Oh, how Esau shall be searched out! How his hidden treasures shall be sought after!”

That is the fate of everyone who puts their confidence in their natural human understanding. The natural man does not understand the things which belong to the Spirit of the Lord.

“‘Will I not in that day,’ says the Lord, ‘even destroy the wise men from Edom, and understanding from the mountains of Esau? Then your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. For violence against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.

“‘You should not have stood at the crossroads to cut off those among them who escaped; nor should you have delivered up those among them who remained in the day of distress.

“‘For the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near; as you have done, it shall be done to you; your reprisal shall turn upon your own head.

“‘But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

“‘The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame; but the house of Esau shall be stubble; they shall kindle them and devour them, and no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,’ for the Lord has spoken.

“Then saviors shall come to mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.”

Therefore, do not be highminded, but fear—for all flesh will come to its Baal Perazim.