Thus saith the Spirit of the Living God, for I indeed seek for those who worship me in spirit and in truth, and if man would just step back, I shall step in and overtake. I shall rule and rule here, and rule the services, I shall be all in all. I shall speak unto my people, and I say unto you, continue to yield your members to me and I shall pour blessings, and anointing, and ministry that thou hast not known before. Continue to step back, and I shall give thee all the things that I have promised in my word. It shall begin to come to pass, saith the Living God, for indeed I am looking for those who will worship me in spirit and in truth, and I shall begin to reveal to you what that truly means, saith God. Listen to my Word that is coming forth, harken unto my Word that will be spoken through my prophet this day, for it indeed shall bring life unto you. It shall quicken your spirit, and it shall continue to make you into my image, saith God, for I shall speak and I shall speak this day. Listen and ask me for understanding, and it shall mean life unto your bones, saith God. Hallelujah.

Message

We are studying today in Revelation12, "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars, and she, being with child, cried, travailing in birth and pain to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven, and, behold, a great red Dragon, having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and he cast them to the earth, and the Dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. And she brought forth a man-child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron, and her child was caught up to God and to his throne."

This is the second part of a message that is designed to help us discern whether an individual has been incarnated or born into this earth realm at the express will of the Father or at the express will of the living soul that died. Last week we discussed the characteristics of the man that was birthed at the express will of the living soul that died. We also explained that those of us that are born with the seed of the Father in us appear either wholly or in part as a natural man who was incarnated at the will of the living soul that died, until that holy seed is sprouted and brought forth in the full image of Christ. Hallelujah. Jer 31:27 says, "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast."

I would like to remind everybody today that this message is intended to impart spiritual truth and wisdom to us. It is not for the purposes of determining who is a good guy and who is a bad guy, because we understand that it is the will of the Lord that all men shall be saved. We areall cells of the one living soul that died. We see through a glass darkly right now. We do not have the full mind of Jesus Christ, so we cannot see how He is going to work out all of the things for the good, including the terrible things happening in the earth today, but He will, because he is God, and he is not man.

If we cannot understand it at this point, we are admonished to keep our own counsel and walk in that knowledge which the Lord has given us. We are to keep that which we have no understanding of in our own hearts and in prayer between us and God.

Revelation, Chapter 12:1-4 is a description of the living soul that died. We have spoken in prior meetings about different descriptions of the living soul that died, as it exists in the earth today. We could look at anyone of us here from a different viewpoint, and they would appear very different. We take this brother. This brother is a father,  we can view him with a child in his arms. He is a husband,  we could see him embracing his wife. He is a business man,  we could see him rebuking one of his employees.

There are many different aspects to this brother, so if somebody from the planet Mars, who didn't know anything about human beings at all, was doing a study on human beings, we could show him pictures of this brother looking completely different in each of his roles, because he would be wearing different clothing, and relating to a different human being each time,

This is what God is doing in the Scriptures. He is showing us His creation, the living soul that died, from many different viewpoints. Today we see in Revelation Chapter 12:1-4, a spiritual description of the living soul that died while He was in the process of producing the life of Christ. We will go through these Scriptures a few words at a time and try to understand what the Lord is saying here.

"And there appeared a great wonder in heaven...." A great wonder is a spiritual sign, and "the heavens" do not necessarily refer to the blue sky above us, they refer to the spiritual realm. We have the realm of the earth, which relates to the body, and the realm of the soul, which is in the spiritual realm, but lower than the heavenlies where the Lord Jesus Christ is. When the Scripture says, "There was a great wonder in heaven...," that means in the realm of the spirit there was a great sign. This is not a woman in a natural body. It is a spiritual woman.

Actually, it is a spiritual entity that Jesus Christ calls a woman, so that we can understand that we are looking at a spiritual female. We know that at some point, God wants us to relate everything that is happening in the Bible to Him. This entity is spiritual in relationship to God. We have been told in past meetings that this entity typifies the realm of the soul.

The Lord Jesus Christ is marrying the Church, and the soul realm is female in relation to God. We have a spiritual woman clothed with the sun, and the moon is under her feet. The sun throughout the Scriptures typifies the Lord, because it means light. I looked up the Greek word, and it is translated "light, east and sun."

I have a couple of Scriptures for you indicating that the sun typifies God. In Isaiah 84:11, we are told, "The Lord God is a sun and shield." In Malachi .4:2, we are told, "But unto you that fear my name, shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings." She is covered, she is clothed with the sun.

"...and the moon under her feet..." Well, a woman first of all, well we already went into that. She not only typifies someone who is female in relationship to God, but the word woman itself means "to generate, to come into being." As we have discussed in other meetings, this woman is going to produce a child. She is going to be married, and she is going to produce a spiritual child.

We are told in Genesis 1:16 that God made two great lights, the greater to rule the day and the lesser to rule the night.  The Son, or Jesus Christ, rules the realm of the light which is the realm of the Spirit of God, and the moon rules the realm of the night which is the realm of darkness. We know that the realm that we are living in today before we are saved is the realm of darkness, and that it is ruled by the living soul that died. It is ruled basically by man's emotions, which are base.

We are told in Genesis 37:9-10, "The sun and moon and eleven stars (this is Joseph speaking to his father) made obeisance to me. And his father rebuked him saying, Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren bow down to thee?" We have a witness here that the sun represents the father, and the moon represents the mother, and the eleven stars can represent the brothers, okay.

The Book of Revelation is a book of symbols. Parts of the Bible can be taken literally, but everything in the Book of Revelation is symbolic. The historical accounts in the Scripture can be taken literally, but there is deep spiritual truth in those books also, if you delve deeply enough . The history really did happen, but the Book of Revelation is strictly symbolic. The way that we find the interpretation of the symbols in the Book of Revelation is to go to other Scriptures, and see how God uses these symbols elsewhere. Then we try to understand what He is saying to us.

Let us go on, "... and the moon is underfoot..." The following Scriptures are for "underfoot": Romans 16:20, Satan will be bruised under our feet, Hebrews 2:6-8 says, "What is man that thou art mindful of him, thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet." The expression "underfoot" refers to the one who is in spiritual authority.

In prior meetings we have discussed that we appear to be one entity, but are not. There are many elements within us. We are soul (personality), and we are spirit (mind). Sometimes fruit is produced from the evil side of our soul, and dwells within us. The elements of the human personality have been out of order since Adam lost the covering of God, and our disorderly elements are fused together to make one spiritually dead entity. Jesus Christ is breaking us apart for the specific purpose of putting us back together in the proper order, and sometimes this breaking apart is a very painful experience.

Jesus Christ likens it in the Scripture to the plowing of the earth. We are told that we are spiritual beings growing in the earth of the living soul that died, which now abide in the physical bodies of mortal humanity. The soul is in the body, and the spirit is rooted in the mind. Jesus Christ likens our spiritual growth to the growing of a plant, so that we can understand who we are. So, before His life can come forth in us, He has to break up the earth of our soul. He has to go in with a spiritual plow, and sometimes it gets pretty painful.

When a farmer plows the earth, he turns it over, and everything that opposes the growth of the seed is rooted out. The weeds and the stones , which typify the elements in the human personality that must come out, are rooted ou. Sometimes the spiritual weeds and stones take the form of demons, sometimes curses. That is nothing to be afraid of because the whole human race is in this condition. A lot of people get frightened when they hear about curses and demons, but it is not just you. Whether you believe it or not, this is the condition of the whole human race. But Jesus Christ has come to deliver us of these things, so there is nothing to be frightened of. He is come to give us a better life in Him. Hallelujah.

"The moon is under her feet." Now we see a woman, the living soul that died, clothed with the sun. She has the authority of God upon her, and the moon, representing the base emotions of man, are under her feet. God is ruling in her, and her emotions are under her feet. Now these emotions are not going away. A lot of people that are in deliverance believe that these base emotions will be cast out of us totally. I do not believe that. I believe that when these base emotions have produced ungodly fruit, that the fruit, which is demons, must be cast out. But the emotions themselves, which are an inherited part of the living soul that died, must be made harmless, by being brought into submission to Christ, while they continue to perform their function of giving form to the creation.

If this is the first message that you are hearing, I suggest that you get the prior messages so that you can acquire a better understanding of what I am talking about. This woman's emotions are under her feet. They are in the proper position where they can do no harm, but they are giving form to the creation. "And upon her head was a crown of twelve stars." Crowns in the Scriptures represent authority, ruling, the ability and privilege of ruling, and in some cases they represent righteousness. We are told throughout the Scripture that evil powers can wear crowns. We are told during the history books of the Bible that there were ungodly kings that wore crowns.

All that it means is that, at that moment, they do have authority, and usually that authority means power. Not usually, crowns always power over the life and death of the person that they are ruling. The seven stars, we are told in Revelation 1:20, are the angels of the seven churches. We are also told in Psalms 136:9, "The moon and stars rule by night, for his mercy endureth forever."

We are told that the stars are given a position of rulership along with the sun and the moon. The sun is ruling the heavenlies, the moon is ruling in the realm of the living soul that died, which is base darkness, and we are told that the stars have authority, spiritual authority. We are talking about spiritual power being upon the head of this woman. The number twelve refers to God's perfect government. We read earlier where Joseph was telling his dream to his father, that Joseph said that his eleven brothers would be bowing down to him.

The number twelve refers to the twelve tribes of Israel which bring forth the leadership of God in the earth. In the Old Testament, the twelve tribes of Israel were in the natural, and the government of God rested upon natural Israel. The government of God, rested upon one nation in the all the earth. But in this hour Jesus Christ is bringing forth a spiritual government, and that government is in his Spirit which is in the people that He chooses.

We now have twelve stars indicating a spiritual government. We do not have a specific twelve tribes where you can count the twelve. We do not know who is who, we just know that the fullness of God's government symbolized by the number twelve is in the earth today. We only know what He tells us because today we see through a glass darkly. Nobody knows it all.

We also have a very interesting Scripture in Daniel 8:9-12, which I would like to read. Dan.8:9-12. "And out of one of them came forth a little horn which waxed exceeding great towards the south, and towards the east, and towards the present land, and it waxed great even to the hosts of heaven, and it cast down some of the hosts and the stars to the ground and stomped upon them. Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down, and a host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground and it practiced and prospered."

The little horn is an ungodly spiritual power. Horns also typify power. God is talking about anti-Christ. Anti-Christ is not a man, he is a spirit. We are told in the New Testament that there are many anti-christs, and the only way that this could be is that antichrist a spiritual entity manifesting in many men.  "Anti-Christ waxed great even to the hosts of heaven." That is the stars and the moon. "Even until spiritual power." This anti-Christ spirit is making war against the spiritual authorities that God had established, and it cast some of the hosts and of the stars to the ground, and it stamped on them. It cast down God's spiritual authority.

"...and he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away." The daily sacrifice in the Old Testament was the continuous burning of animal flesh to purge Israel’s sins. Today in the New Testament, our daily sacrifice is the presence of the indwelling Christ in us. He is our sacrifice. He dwells in us, purifies us from sin, and the smell of the sacrifice goes up as a sweet savor. We partake of this spiritual work of Jesus Christ when we believe on his name.

"...and the place of his sanctuary was cast down." We are the temple of the Holy Ghost. We are the place of the sanctuary where the sacrifice is going up. "...and a host was given to him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression...." Anti-christ succeeded in casting down some of the stars of heaven because there was transgression in the government of God. There was error, there was sin in the government of God, and as result of it they were cast down to the earth. They were no longer sitting in the heavenlies with God.

".... and it cast down the truth." My whole point is that the casting down of the stars are the casting down of the truth. I think I got ahead of myself a little bit here.

Let us go back to Revelation12, "And the woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars, (that is the government of God), and she, being with child, cried, travailing in birth and pain to be delivered." Okay, so what we have here is kingdom order. We have the woman with the government of God covering her head, and her emotions under her feet. The witness to that is in 1 Corinthians 11:3, where it says, "The head of every man is Christ and, the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God."

The sun in this Scripture typifies the Father in heaven, the crown is Christ, which is God in the earth, and the woman is the living soul that died, which is in two parts. The living soul that died has a spirit and a soul. Her spirit is attached to Christ, which is above her, and her emotions, which are represented by the moon, are under her feet, so she is clothed with the sun, that is, in perfect spiritual order.

There are two kinds of anointing that we can receive from the heavenlies. We can receive the imputed anointing or the imparted anointing.

Romans 11-21 tells us that the gifts and callings of God are without repentance. You can hear someone preaching or prophesying, see them moving in the gifts of the Spirit, bringing healing and deliverance, see great works of God manifesting through them, and read in the newspaper next day that they have done something terrible. They are not denying it, they have confessed it, so we know that it is the truth. We say, "how could this happen?"

The reason this kind of thing happens is that God will loan his Spirit to an uncleansed man for the purposes of blessing His people. God will say, "There are people out there that I want to heal and deliver. I want them to hear the Word of God. But there is no man in the earth that is in the image Christ yet, so I am going to take an unclean vessel and loan him my Spirit. I am going to give him the power to do all of these things, but, when he falls, do not be surprised because he is not perfected yet." That is the imputed anointing. People do not understand this, and expect ministers to be perfect, but ministers are not perfect. Only Christ is perfect. Ministers, and everyone else will not be perfect until the day that we are totally one with Christ.

We are not perfect, ministers are not perfect, and those who try to make themselves perfect, God will reveal to the Church and the world to be imperfect. God will bring them down. We have had some unpleasant things in the newspapers lately, and some people are saying, "Oh Satan got him, Satan...." No, no, God brought him down. God showed the world that his ministers are not perfect, and that they need deliverance just like everybody else. God will not tolerate that pride, or idolatry for any man.

I am not against anybody. I love the man that you all know that I am talking about, but he must come to a place where he can confess that he is as vulnerable as anybody else, and that being perfect is not a qualification for preaching the gospel. I even heard one preacher that really blessed me, say to his congregation, "Please do not idolize me, because if you idolize me God will have to bring me down. I am begging you not to idolize me, I am not perfect."

This woman being clothed with the sun had the imputed anointing of God, which cannot approach the imparted anointing of God.

We are told in Romans 8:29, "Whom he did foreknow, he did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son." We are in a process of being cleansed and perfected. The end result of this process is that we will be totally free from sin, and in the image of Christ. But Jesus Christ is the only person that I know of that has completed this process. This is the imparted anointing.

This woman represents the condition of the Church today, and those who have been called into Christ today. She has the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ, and is moving towards perfection, but she is not perfect. She has spiritual power to heal and deliver, but she is still a sinner. She is covered with the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ, but she still has an active sin nature.

"...and she, travailing in birth, pained to be delivered." "Also she being with child cried, travailing in birth and pained to be delivered." I looked up the Greek word translated "cried," and it is used of those who declare things publicly. It is used of those who preach. Romans 9:27 tell us that Isaiah cried out concerning Israel. Isaiah was a preacher. The word "travail" in the Greek means to experience the pain of child birth, grief, and sorrow. We are told in Matthew 24:8 and Mark 13:8 that the beginning of sorrows would describe the end times, and that Greek word translated "sorrows" is the same word translated "cried out."

What is coming to end in the end times is the rulership, the government of the living soul that died. This soul realm of deep, raging passions and sin is coming to an end. The world is not going to be destroyed, the planet is not going to be destroyed, the sun and moon and the universe are not going to be destroyed. What is going to be destroyed is the government that God placed in authority, for His own purposes for a season, the government known as the Age of Darkness, whose ruler is Satan. Satan and all his entire kingdoms are coming down, and Satan’s kingdoms exist in the carnal mind of mortal man.

God would not take Satan’s Seat down without replacing it with another kingdom, because the kingdom is a mind, and we would die if we didn’t have a mind. God is bringing down the carnal mind that brings pain, destruction, and torment into our lives, and He is going to replace it with the Kingdom of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And when that Kingdom of God, which is the Mind of Christ, is established as our new mind, we will stop sinning, and we will stop dying. And when this work has been worked out in every human being on the face of the earth, the pain, torment and grief that you see in the earth today, will have disappeared. Hallelujah!

"....She pained to be delivered." The word "pained" in the Greek means to "torture, to vex, to toil, to torment, and through the motion of going to the bottom, to be tested by torture." The soul realm is going to the bottom. Remember the moon is under her feet. The soul realm, our carnal mind, is going to the bottom, going underneath the Mind of Christ, but this cannot happen until the Mind of Christ has been imparted to us. So we cannot be delivered from the soul realm, our carnal mind, until we receive the seed of the Kingdom of God, which is the Mind of Christ.

We have people out there saying, "I can help you, I can help you, I can send you to a psychiatrist. There are also spiritual people out there that can cast out demons, but you must have the Mind of Christ to replace the kingdom of the carnal mind that is being torn down. So, "to be pained in child birth" means that Christ Jesus has entered our heart, and the soul realm, our carnal mind, that is within us is being placed under feet, or under the dominion of the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah.

We will not be able to destroy ourselves anymore. All destruction comes from within us, because, except for Christ Jesus, we do not have any power over our carnal mind. This word is also used in Matthew 8:29, Mark 5:7, and Luke 28, to describe the torment of demons. These are the Scriptures that talk about Jesus approaching people to cast out demons, and the demons saying, "We know who you are Jesus of Nazareth, have you come to torment us before our time?" I never understood that until the Lord explained it to me last night.

Jesus was only on the earth for 3 ½ years, and it was truly before the time that the carnal mind of the entire living soul that died, would be forced under the authority of Christ Jesus. The demons said, "Have you come to put us under the feet of your authority?" Hallelujah. Jesus cast out a few demons, but he was just one man. There will be many doing the works of God, because Christ Jesus is rooted and grounded in them.

This is what we have so far. "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman, the living soul that died, clothed with the imputed righteousness of God, with the moon, the soul realm, the emotions of her carnal mind in total submission to Christ Jesus, who is symbolized by a crown that covers her head, the authority of twelve stars of the government of God." The government of God in the earth today is the Church. In the Old Testament, the government of God rested upon natural Israel.

"....and she being with child," she was pregnant with the Christ child. We receive the Holy Spirit, He enters into our heart, and His work is to form the Christ child, which is in the image of God, in each and every one of us. We are told that we are saved by His life. When Christ is fully born in us we are saved, because he dwells in us, and He is our righteousness, our faith, and our life. We live no longer by the life of fallen Adam, because the life of fallen Adam causes us to die. We live by the life of Christ in us,

She was with child, she cried out, she was preaching. Now, preaching doesn't necessarily mean preaching from a pulpit. If you speak the Word to someone that God sends you to, that is a sign that you are pregnant with the Christ child. When you have the Christ within you, He can send you to someone, sometimes to a total stranger, because He has something to say to that person. That is a sign that you are pregnant with the Christ child. Hallelujah.

"....and she travailed in birth....." Some of us have trials, and we wonder what's going on in our lives. Christians that do not understand say, "Why is God doing this to me?" They do everything that they can to get out of the trial.  Peter says, "do not be surprised if the fiery trial comes upon you." Trials put the emotions and thoughts of our carnal mind under the feet of Christ Jesus, who rules and reigns by breaking it apart and rearranging it in the proper order, and fiery trials are the only way to do it.

This is the way the Lord set it up, and He is smarter than we are. I would not mind not having to go through trials, but that is the way He set it up. If we could just hold on to the understanding that God is not against us, but that the trials are bringing forth the Christ and the proper government of God within us, they would be very tolerable. I praise God for them.

"...pained to be delivered...." The word "delivered" means to "bear fruit." We are told that Christians are expected to bear fruit. In Deuteronomy 7:13, we are told that there is a fruit of the womb, and in Proverbs 12:12, we are told that the root of the righteous beareth fruit. We are told in Matthew 13:8 that, "some seed fell into the ground and brought forth fruit, some an 100-fold, some 60-fold, and some 30-fold.

Hebrew 12:11 says, "Chastening [this goes back to the trials] yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness." 1 John 2:29 says, "Everyone that doeth righteousness is born of God." 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, "that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." Chastening brings forth the fruit of righteousness, and "everyone that doeth righteousness is born of God." Trials witness to the birthing. The Christ child brings forth trials which bring forth righteousness.

"There appeared another wonder in heaven and, behold, a great red Dragon having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his head." This speaks of authority and power. This Dragon had spiritual power. The word "red" from the Greek means "fire, flame-like colored and having the color of fire." But it also means "fire," and fire is from the root word that is translated "lightning," which indicates spiritual power in the Scriptures. This word "red" is translated from the Hebrew word Adam. It is the same word, Adam. Adam is the equivalent word in the Hebrew to the Greek word, Strong's #4450, that is translated "fire."

We have a strong witness here that this Dragon is the fallen creation. One more time, the Dragon is the fallen creation. He has spiritual power, and he is a flaming Serpent with spiritual power. Remember that in an earlier meeting we spoke about the Seraphim, the flaming serpents that surround the throne of God, who have six wings. Now six is the number of man, and the fact that they have wings indicates that God has elevated man back into the heavenlies where he is no longer doing any damage, but is exalting, glorifying, and surrounding God.

If we could just accept that, God will deliver us and bring us into His image (nature), but we have to recognize our fallen spiritual condition before the son of God will appear in us. Hallelujah.

He was great and had authority. He was red, he had spiritual power, and he was a Dragon. The word for "Dragon" is Strong's #1404. He was a fascinating Dragon. That is the word that indicates witchcraft. He had seven heads and ten horns. We spoke about this the other day when we were looking at Revelation 17, where the beast had seven heads and ten horns. "Seven" is the number of fulfillment, and "heads" means the complete number of individuals that the dead soul manifested.

God told righteous Adam to go forth and reproduce, but now fallen Adam has multiplied unto his fullness, which is the number seven. He has seven heads. He has not multiplied to the full amount of people that will manifest his nature. He has ten horns, "horns" meaning power. "Ten" is the realm of the Law. The dead soul is the realm of the Law, where the Law has power, because the Law has power wherever there is sin.

If someone is not stealing in any manner shape or form, and I go to them and I say, "You should not be stealing," they will look at me like I am crazy, "Why are you telling me not to steal?" The Law is for people that do not know what is right and what is wrong. So the realm of the Law is the realm of the living soul that died, which we are all in. We sin because we do not know how to live in obedience to the Law of God. We need a Law, and we need to be taught how to obey that Law.

Fallen adam has multiplied to his fullness, and has spiritual authority in the realm of the Law. Now upon his seven heads however are seven crowns. We are told in Revelation 17 that the beast had seven heads and ten horns, and he was filled with the names of blasphemy. Over here, the Dragon has seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns. This Dragon is ruling. He has spiritual authority over God’s people. He is not underfoot, he is ruling. He is not in proper moral order in relation to Christ Jesus.

The spirit (mind) was in proper order, the soul (personality) was in proper order, but the darkness that we discussed at the first meeting, that darkness called Satan that was created to give form to the creation, he was not in proper order. He is ruling, and we are told further on down that he literally goes after this woman to devour her child. He is not underfoot where he is supposed to be. He has great power.

"And I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast filled with names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns." "Scarlet," as opposed to the Dragon, being red. Now remember, the word "red" means "fire," spiritual power. But the word "scarlet" means "to be dyed red." It is a false anointing. It is not the real spiritual power. It is a reflection of the Dragon’s spiritual power. The beast has borrowed from the color (spiritual power) of the Dragon. He does not have his own spiritual power.

He had seven heads and ten horns. He also was at the fulfillment of his multiplication in the realm of the Law, but he is filled with the names of blasphemy. He has reached spiritual maturity, and he is filled with evil-speaking children. We spoke about this in a previous message. He is filled with all of the wickedness that has been produced by the adulterous relationship of the spirit of the carnal mind and Satan.

So fallen Adam is the victim of Satan. This is the condition of the living soul that died. The power that is ruling the living soul is supposed to be God, but Satan is ruling in God’s place. This is the spirit of anti-christ. The spiritual power that was created to give form to the living soul rose up and replaced the power of God, and Adam died. And that power is now ruling as Satan. He has come up out of this place under Adam’s authority, and is now ruling over Adam. That is what happened.

There are three parts to the living soul. We have already talked about Satan, the one part that rose up and is now ruling the other two parts of the living soul, and that their illegal relationship has produced all of the names of blasphemy. Today, God is putting Satan back down under Adam’s feet, but Satan does not want to go. He is fighting like the wild, venomous beast that he is. Hallelujah.

Now this is what he did. "His tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth." Now we have already established that the stars of heaven are the government of God, and we established in Daniel 8 that truth was cast to the ground. So he took one-third of the government of God which exists in the Church today, and deceived them. He stole God’s revelation from the Church, and cast the preachers to the ground. And now they are preaching carnality, and they are preaching from a position of authority, even though they are carnal men. Most of the preachers today are not spiritual men, and the people are getting hurt from this, but God is going to deliver them.

"And the Dragon stood before the woman, (the collective groupmof believers who are bringing forth the Christ child), which was ready to be delivered, and he stood there to devour the child as soon as it was born." Daniel 8:11, "And by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground, and it practiced and it prospered."

There is a lie in the government of God today. One-third of the Church world is preaching lies, and that lie is prospering. "It practiced and it prospered." I looked up the word "practiced" in the Greek, and it means "to produce by labor, to produce or create, to make fruit, to make or prepare an offering, to wage war with." And it also is an idiom for sexual intercourse.

So, once again, as we heard on prior tapes, The Serpent rose up and seduced the spirit of the living soul, and Adam died. The Serpent usurped God’s authority, and is now fornicating with the spirit of the living soul that died. He has replaced God, married God's bride, and is fornicating with her.

We are told that by his tail he drew one-third of the stars. The Greek word "tail" means "back end, unseen, hidden, unconscious mind, dark side." So Satan deceived one-third of the ministers of God, when he rose up from the unconscious part of their mind.

These preachers are standing up there and moving in the gifts, because the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance. They can be healing, they can be prophesying by the Spirit of God at the same time that their doctrinal revelation is in the image of Satan, and this is how a minister of God can bring forth Satan's doctrine.

So, "Satan stood before the woman to devour the child." He is not in submission. He is supposed to be under the moon, the woman, who is the emotions of the soul realm. That is where he is supposed to be, under the authority of the woman, who is under the authority of Christ, but he is not. He is confronting the Woman face-to-face, and he is ready to devour the Christ child that God is bringing forth within her. I have some witnesses that man is the Serpent. In Galatians 5:15, we are told, "You bite and devour one another." In Psalms 14:4, we are told how "...all the workers of iniquity have no knowledge, who eat my people as they eat up bread." So it is the human life that is in us that is devoured, and it is devoured by the Serpent within us, by Satan himself and the evil children that he has produced through the spirit of our mind.

Here is a witness that all the parts we are talking about is one creation. We see the woman with her emotions, the moon, under her feet, nevertheless, the Dragon is a part of the living soul that died. Genesis 3:6 says, "she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat." So Adam, the righteous mind of the woman was present with her. They were one. I am suggesting to you that even though the Lord breaks the soul down for us so that we can understand its parts (the woman [spirit of the mind], the crown [Adam, Jehovah’s righteous mind] the Dragon [the nature of the earth that the living soul is formed from], and the Christ child [God’s righteous nature being born in the individual]), we are all one spiritual entity. All of the people in these Scriptures are aspects of the living soul that died, and this panorama that we see in Revelation12:1-4 is all going on within our mind.

Everything is happening on the spiritual plane within us. The woman, the moon, the crown, the Serpent, his tail, and the child that is ready to be born are all within us. Hallelujah. We are told in John 8 that the servant does not abide in the house forever. Fallen Adam who has received the gifts and calling of God, is the servant who does not abide in the house forever, but when Christ, the son is birthed in us, He will abide in us forever. When the son of God is birthed in us, when the Christ child is birthed in us, he will not leave us, and we will live forever.

The natural realm is the mirror image of the spiritual realm. What happens in the natural realm is the exact opposite of what happens in the spiritual realm. When a woman has a baby in the natural realm, that baby leaves her body, grows up, and leads an independent life. In the spiritual realm, the Christ child that is born does not leave our body, our mind or our spiritual being. He abides forever, according to John 8, and we live by his life.

I have some Scriptures for you, 1Timothy 2:13-15, "She shall be saved in child bearing." Paul is talking about the fallen spirit of our carnal mind. When that Christ child is birthed he does not leave our body, he does not leaving our mind. He joins Himself to us, and we become one, and that is how we are saved by His life. Romans 5:10 says, "For when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life." We are saved by the life of Christ because it does not leave us. It joins itself to us and becomes one with us and that is how we are saved by his life. Hallelujah, glory to God.

I have some Scriptures for you witnessing that the child that the woman is pregnant with is Christ. We are told in Revelation12:5 that the manchild shall rule all nations with a rod of iron, and in Revelation1:5-6, we are told that Jesus Christ is the first begotten of the dead. Hallelujah.

This soul realm is the realm of death. The Scriptural definition of death is the carnal mind. If we think with the thoughts of the natural man, Paul says that we are dead. This is a radical definition of death for people that do not read the Bible, because we are walking around, we are talking, we are exist, we are marrying, we are producing children, but Paul says that if you think with the thoughts of the natural man, you are dead. Jesus Christ is the first cell of the living soul that died to be restored to the life of God. This means that the thoughts of Jesus’ carnal mind were completely nullified.

Jesus was the first man that was raised up out of the realm of death because the Christ within him joined Himself to the natural man that was Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and they became one man. Hallelujah. Christ joined himself to the man called Jesus of Nazareth. They became one man, and Jesus Christ ascended into the heavenlies by the power of the Christ that dwelt within him. And that is what Jesus is doing for us today. That is the ultimate end of Jesus’ purpose in us. He will join himself to us. He will become one with us, and we will spiritually ascend into the heavenlies where He is, but our bodies will not ascend with us.

But, we are not flying away in a rapture. Our spiritual condition is being elevated from soul man to spiritual man. Christ is joining Himself to us and taking us up to where He is. There is no way we can get from the soul realm to the spiritual realm other than byChrist joining Himself to us, and taking us with him.

The type in the natural realm is that there were many American soldiers in European countries during the war, and these countries, Germany, Japan, for example, were devastated by the war. There was no way that anyone from Germany or Japan could become an American citizen other than by marrying an American serviceman. Many Europeans wanted to go to America because there was no food in their country, and their homes were destroyed, so they married American soldiers. Paul said it is a great mystery, but when you get married you are one flesh.

This is a great mystery, we are becoming one with Christ Jesus and we shall go home with Him to His Father. Hallelujah, glory to God. We are kings and priests because the Holy child dwells in us. That was Revelation1:5-6, I "And from Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead, (glory to God), and the prince of the kings of the earth, unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood." Jesus is the prince of the kings of the earth, and we are the kings of the earth, because the Holy child dwells in us.

Acts 4:27-30 says, "For the truth against thy Holy child, Jesus, whom thou hast anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilot with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined them to do, and now Lord, behold their threatenings and grant unto thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word by stretching forth thy hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy Holy child, Christ Jesus."

In Verse 27, we are told that Pontius Pilot and Herod, etc. were threatening to do damage to the Holy child, Jesus within the apostles. Now Jesus was already crucified and resurrected at this time, so we know that the Scripture is not talking about Jesus’ physical body, but about Peter and John who are saying, "Raise up your hand, stretch forth your hand and do mighty signs and wonders through us by the name of thy Holy child." Jesus had already been crucified, so the apostles are asking that the Christ child within them do the works of Jesus.

Names represent spirit, so they were saying in their prayer to the Father, "impart the to us the ability to do the same works that Jesus did," that the Holy child, this spiritual entity that was in the man know as Jesus of Nazareth, should be in Peter and John, the two servants of God that were praying this prayer.

Peter and John were saying, let the Spirit that was in Jesus of Nazareth now be in us. Christ and the Father were in Jesus of Nazareth, who is now one with the Father, and the glorified Jesus Christ is now in us by His Spirit, and bringing forth His Holy child in us. Hallelujah. Glory to God, glory to God.

We are told in Revelation19:15, that "He shall smite and rule the nations with a rod of iron." The nations are in our flesh. They are all these demonic powers and the elements of the soul that are in our flesh. He is going to rule them. This is the Christ child that is coming forth in us, he is going to rule them with a rod of iron. Rods in the Scripture refer to the tongue. By the spoken word, he is going to rule by a spoken word, a powerful....iron referring to great power. He is going to rule by a powerful spoken word, and power only comes from the Spirit of God. He is going to rule from the Spirit of God that is in this Christ child that is deep within our hearts. The soul and our bodies must come into submission to the indwelling Christ. They must come into submission.

Revelation 2:27 says, "And he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers." Our soul and body are made of clay, and the glorified Jesus Christ, by the Christ child within us, is breaking Adam’s fallen soul within us to shivers, so that we can be put back together again in the proper moral order which will restore eternal life to us.

Jesus is the one who overcame. He is the overcomer of the book of Revelation. If you read Chapter 1 clearly, you will see that Jesus is the one that is speaking. Jesus said in John 16:33, "Be of good cheer for I have overcome the world." Hallelujah. Jesus Christ is the overcomer, and now we, too, have the opportunity in Him to overcome also. We can do nothing of ourselves.

There is a big move in the Church today saying, " You do it, stand up, you do it, you know, try harder." But the truth is that we can do nothing of ourselves, only by the Christ within us who empowers us to do it. We do not sit back and lie down and do nothing, but all of our efforts must come forth from the indwelling Christ, and then there will be no failure, if it is truly Him in us doing it. Glory to God.

I want to speak about Christ overcoming in us. I am going to Colossians 2:14, if you want to join me. We will start at verse 14, "And you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses, blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way and nailing it to his cross." Now that is the Scripture that is preached as a victorious Scripture, which it is, but it has been preached without understanding. The Lord wants us to understand it tonight, so we did a word study on it.

The Greek word that is translated "blot out" is very strange. It sounds like a negative word, but, on the contrary, in the Greek it means "to make complete and to wash or anoint in every part." The handwriting of ordinances is the Law of Moses. We spoke about this in other messages, that the Law of God is spiritual, but man cannot understand spiritual things, so God had Moses write up a book of ordinances, and statutes, and commandments that man might at least repent when he does sin, because it is impossible for fallen Adam to keep the spiritual Law of God in our own power.

So the handwriting of ordinances is the Law of Moses that is against us, which was contrary to us. The reason it is contrary to us is that the natural man, by his fallen nature, sins continually, and the Law of God stands up and convicts us of our sins. If we do not know that hating our brother, as a spiritual example, is wrong, if we do not know that fornication is wrong, we would be fornicating, and very happy about it. But the Law of God stands up in front of us and says, "Thou shalt not fornicate." This is how the Law is against us.

So the Law is against our very human nature. It is directly opposed to human nature. If we did not know that it was wrong to take your coat and walk away with it, if we did not have the Law, if we saw something that we liked, we would just pick it up and walk away with it. But the Law of God says, "Thou shalt not steal." The natural nature that man is born with is in direct opposition to the spiritual Law of God, so when we are confronted with the Law of God, there is a conflict.

So the apostle says, "He blotted out the handwriting of ordinances which is the Law of Moses that was against you, which was contrary to you." The Law of Moses opposes every fallen thought, " but Jesus took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross." Now listen to what this means. Romans 3:20 says, "By the Law is the knowledge of sin." That was the function of the Law. It was never given to us to bring salvation. It was given to us to convict us of sin.

Matthew 5:17 says, "I am not come to destroy the Law but to fulfill it." Christ Jesus is the fulfillment of the Law. I prayed about that for a long time before God explained it to me. What is the fulfillment of the Law? The fulfillment of the Law is the ability to keep the Law. Fallen man cannot keep the Law in his own strength. Natural Israel could not keep the Law either, so God permitted them to sacrifice animals, which is a type of offering up the sinful flesh of men, symbolically, so that they should not be wiped out because of their sins.

And God said, I am giving you these Laws and ordinances, and I am going to let you sacrifice animals for a season, but I am going to make a New Covenant with you. The day is coming that I will impart the power to you to keep my spiritual Law, so that you will not have to sacrifice these animals, symbolizing your own death anymore, because death comes through sin." When man sins the result of it, the penalty of it, is death.

So Jesus said to Israel, I am going to cover you, I am going to protect you. You can be saved through obedience to the Law. If you sacrifice an animal, I will not take your life, but this provision is only temporary until the day that I impart the power to you to keep my spiritual Law." Now, the ability to keep the Law is in Christ Jesus. When He comes to dwell in us, and we know that this is a process that takes years, He imparts to us the power to keep the spiritual Law of God.

So when we go back to the word "blotting out," which means "to make complete, and to wash in every part," we see that what Paul is really saying is that Jesus Christ came to fulfill the Law (not the written Law of Moses, but the spiritual Law of God that fallen Adam unable to keep), and He does that by filling up every hole in our fallen nature that would make us break the Law with His own righteous Mind. He washed us and he anointed us. This is a spiritual thing that happened now. He joined himself to us and gave us whatever we were lacking that caused us to break the spiritual Law of God. Jesus’ glorification imparted that ability to us. Oh Hallelujah.

Now in Luke 23:31 Jesus said when they were crucifying Him, "If they do these things in a green tree, what will they do in a dry?" The natural man was killing the Son of God! Now, if that is what they do to a man that is filled with the life of God, what will they do to the dry trees? What will they do to fallen men that Christ is growing up in, but who have not been completed yet, like Jesus was? A man that Jesus was ministering to said, "I see them walking as trees." Eph. 2:15 says that He has taken the Law out from the midst of us. The Law of Ordinances, which is enforced by the Satanic realm in the midst of us, which is the Sowing & Reaping Judgment, rules over us until Christ is grafted to us and brings us to holiness. Jesus has taken the Law out from the midst of us and replaced it with Himself, even Christ, our hope of glorification. And this is how Jesus fulfilled the Law.

Jesus blotted out the handwriting of the ordinances that was against us by filling in the empty space in our spiritual being. Christ Jesus is the spiritual brains of fallen man, the knowledge, understanding and power that comes from God, which equips us to keep the spiritual Law of God. The Law of Ordinances was contrary to us, but Jesus took it out of the way by equipping us to keep the spiritual Law of God. That is how Jesus nailed the Law of Ordinances to His cross. Now who is Jesus’ cross? Do you think that Jesus’ cross was a piece of wood hanging out there? I suggest to you that Jesus’ cross in this context was not a piece of wood that the Romans nailed him to. We are talking about spiritual things here. Now a cross comes from a piece of wood, and we have just established that unsaved men are made of dry wood. So, spiritually speaking we are trees.

There are several Scriptures throughout the Bible that indicate that man is a spiritual tree. Jesus just called himself a tree. If you do not have the Spirit of God you are a dry tree. Jesus Christ came to us in spiritual form, and He nailed himself to us. We are His cross. Jesus nailed Himself to the living soul that died. He has secured himself to the living soul that died, and made us one, and being joined to us did not contaminate or kill Him. On the contrary, we have been saved and washed clean. Hallelujah!

Going on, ".... and having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a show of them, openly triumphing over them in it." The Greek word that is translated "spoiled" means that Christ destroyed them. He nailed Himself to a cross. The word "nailed," really means something that fastens something to something else. The Scripture says, "triumphing over them in it." That word "it" is a reflexive pronoun, and it really means "Himself." This work that Christ Jesus did, He did it within the man known as Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Jesus was a natural man, who was tempted....we have spoken about this at other meetings. Jesus was tempted by Satan, and He was with the beasts of the field. This means that Jesus was polarized in His mind, that He had been cleansed by the washing of water by the Word, that He was polarized, that is, the carnal mind and the Christ Mind in Jesus were completely separated. What is this open show? What did Jesus do? He spoiled principalities and powers and He made an open show of them, triumphing over them in Himself, within Himself, Within Himself, within Himself. Christ Jesus was the Son of God incarnated in Jesus, a natural man. Christ Jesus lived in a vessel with the beast of the field, the carnal mind that Jesus received from His mother, and Christ Jesus triumphed over that carnal mind that was a part of the natural man, Jesus, who is Himself. "Triumphing over them in himself." Satan and the Dragon and the woman all lost their individual identity, and became one with Christ Jesus when Christ Jesus within the man, Jesus, swallowed them up. Hallelujah, glory to God.

Matthew 28:20 says, "And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." Christ Jesus is never going to leave us. He is going to live within man for the life of the ages, and because He lives in us, we have His righteousness.

Now, in Ephesians 2:13-16, "But now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ, for he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us. Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the Law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain (or of the two) one new man, so making peace." Hallelujah.

The middle wall that He knocked down is the separation. There is Christ and there is fallen Adam within us, and there is a wall between the two. Christ Jesus within the man, Jesus, knocked down that wall, and made one Christ Mind of Jesus’ two minds, Jesus’ carnal mind and Jesus’ Christ Mind. And that is how Christ Jesus abolished the enmity in Jesus’ flesh, the enmity, which is the Law that condemns the natural man. You see, the enmity in our flesh is the carnal mind that tempts us to sin and then punishes us with the Sowing & Reaping Judgment when we do sin, and Satan is the unconscious part of our carnal mind. That’s why the Scripture says that Satan tempted Jesus. He was tempted by His own carnal mind. Christ Jesus is the Spiritual Law of God, so Christ Jesus has abolished the carnal mind of the natural man, which is the Law of Ordinances.

Romans 7:20-23 says, "Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a Law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the Law of God after the inward man, but I see another Law in my members, warring against the Law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the Law of sin which is in my members." The Law of sin is the realm of the soul that Christ Jesus nailed Himself to. "...that he might reconcile both unto God [both Christ and fallen Adam] in one body, [in this body, in your body, in my body] by the cross [spiritual power that was released when the two were joined], having slain the enmity thereby."

Well where is your cross? Where is your torture stake, where is your piece of wood? It is your living soul that died? Christ Jesus is in the process today of nailing Himself to us, and when that process is complete, we will be completely reconciled to God. Our carnal mind, fallen Adam, will have been swallowed up, and our personality will no longer be fallen, or unclean, but will be dwelling in heavenly places with Christ Jesus.

If you have been incarnated at the express will of the Father, these are the signs that follow you. You have the imputed anointing. Now remember, everyone that has the seed of Christ is not necessarily manifesting at this moment, but if you have been incarnated at the will of the Father, at some time in your life this will happen to you. You will manifest the imputed anointing, you will birth the Christ child, and you will experience separation, or sanctification, which is the polarizing of the two minds of fallen Adam and Christ within you. We spoke about this last week.

The thoughts of Christ must be separated from the thoughts of fallen Adam. It is a painful process. We call it tribulation. Satan will be chained in the bottomless pit, which we are told about in the book of Revelation. This simply means that when the thoughts of Christ are separated from the thoughts of fallen Adam, Christ will rise up and rule over the whole living soul that died, and Satan will be underfoot, chained to the bottom of the pit that Adam, the living soul, fell into when He died. Satan will be swallowed up, and, ultimately, the promise is that we will be glorified, which is deliverance from our solid physical body.

We will get a glorified body that will not get sick, that will not die, that will not grow old. It has already happened to Jesus. He is the only ma born of s woman that I know of that this happened to, but the promise is for everybody. This is what is coming.

The Christ child is birthed in three trimesters. Jesus referred to it as the 30-fold, the 60-fold, and 100-fold. The 30-fold birthing of the Christ is typified by faith. If you believe the Word of God, if you hear the Gospel preached and you believe, you have birthed a 30-fold manifestation of the Christ child, because you cannot believe if he does not empower you to believe.

The 60-fold is typified by power. We are told that when the Holy Ghost comes upon you, you shall have power. The sign that you are moving in the 60-fold realm is that you have the power to heal and cast out evil spirits.

The sign that you have birthed the Christ in the 100-fold, which is the fullness, is that you will stop dying. Jesus Christ is the only one born of a woman that I know of that manifested the fullness of God without measure, but it is a promise to all of us. We are growing, we are moving along.

But, we are not to be saying to one another,"You are 30-fold, I am 60-fold, you are a tare, I am a wheat." I have heard people go around saying things like this, because people do not understand. It is spiritual childishness, that is what it is. The promise is for everybody.

I have heard it preached that there are going to be wood choppers and water bearers in the kingdom, and I am going be a teacher. No, we are all going to get to the same place but at different times. Paul said we just have to finish the race. It does not matter how fast we run, but we just have to finish it. The ultimate end is that God will be all in all, and that He will be fully manifested in every human being on the face of the earth.

Christ Jesus will be ruling in every individual, and when we all have the Mind of Christ, there will be no need for leadership, no need for preachers, no need for a government in Washington, or in any country, that could be corrupt, because everybody will have the perfect Mind of Christ, and we will all be in agreement.

There will be no more war, there will be no more bickering, either on the governmental level, in marriages, or between mothers and children, because we will all have the righteous thoughts of God. What causes bickering among people is selfishness. Everyone is looking out for their own interest. "I want this, that is putting me out." That is all carnal thinking.

When we all think with the Mind of Christ, which thinks for the good of the many, we will all be in agreement. There will be no conflict, peace will rule and reign in this earth, the lion will truly lie down with the lamb, and all of the promises, the wonderful promises of peace in the earth and good will towards men, shall be accomplished.

Christ within the man, Jesus, has nailed Himself to the cross, which is fallen Adam, the living soul that died, even the dry tree that Christ Jesus nailed Himself to, thus making one new man within Himself, who was able to triumph over Satan and the other powers and principalities that rule in the carnal mind. Christ Jesus made an open show of them by utterly stripping them of their powers, and today Christ Jesus is in the earth in the form of the Holy Spirit to do the same thing in every one of us. Hallelujah.

Yea, saith the Lord, I shall fill thee saith God, yea I shall surely fill the empty places, saith God, and I shall make the valleys flat, saith the Lord, I shall bring down the high mountains, saith God, and I shall make all even in my peace, saith the Lord, and I shall deliver thee and thy need for these things, saith God. Yea, I shall give thee thy security, I shall indeed be thy security, saith God, and I shall deliver thee from thy fear, and thou shalt be tormented no longer, saith the Lord.