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Passover 2010 and Beyond
Christine Beadsworth
Mar 31, 2010
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Passover
2010 and Beyond
I must confess, my dear brethren and 'sistren', that I
am almost at a loss as to what to communicate to you this month. I get
the sense that things are snowballing at such a rapid rate that one is
hard-pressed to comprehend what is happening, much less communicate it
in a coherent fashion. I do realize that many of my readers do not have
access to the sources of confirmation and information that I am blessed
to receive and so I will do my best to bring us all onto the same page
so to speak.
We have just entered the season of Passover (Monday
evening 29th
March/ evening of 15th
Nisan) and are traversing the feast of Unleavened Bread which lasts
seven days. The counting of the omer has also just begun, on the evening
of 30th
March (which is the beginning of the 16th Nisan) and continues for seven
times seven days, culminating in Pentecost or Shavuot on the 50th
day. Many saints with
understanding of the times have commented on the events that unfolded on
23rd
March, exactly one week before Passover. Three main things took place
which speak very loudly of the season that the world is entering:
1)The president of the United States signed the
Healthcare Bill (which some are calling the Deathcare Bill) into place
using 22 black pens to form his signature. 22 is an important number to
world occultists who are striving to bring about a one world government.
This occurred on the anniversary 77 years previously of Hitler's
signing of the Enabling Act which gave him power to rule by decree and
ultimately decide who lived and who died – exactly the same power as the
Healthcare Bill covertly gives to Obama with 22 strokes of his pen
armory. The choosing of this day to sign this act was no accident but a
careful lining up of numbers and dates in order to maximize the demonic
power necessary to bring about diabolic plans.
2)The president of Israel , while on an official visit
to the United States, was treated abysmally by Obama because he would
not conform to demands by the US government. He and his government
delegates were abandoned in a windowless room to think things through –
not unlike a troublesome child who will not conform and is given time
out – and eventually decided to go to the Israel Embassy rather than
risk their phone calls being tapped from that room. It is unthinkable
that America's greatest ally in the Middle East should be treated in
such a fashion.
3)A 25 foot high statue of Anubis, the Egyptian god of
the dead, sailed into New York Harbor on a barge with a suitcase by its
side bearing many stickers, on its way to an exhibition of Tutenkamen
and his Egyptian Culture ( recall that on a visit to Egypt last year,
Obama was presented with a plaque naming him as the new Tutenkamen of
the world). During this voyage the statue directly faced the Statue of
Liberty. This day is also the 235th
anniversary of Patrick Henry's famous 'give me liberty or give me death'
speech which began the shooting portion of the American Revolution. It
seems that the image of these two statues facing each other constitute a
changing of the guard in the spiritual realm over America. It seems
Lady Liberty is handing over her watch to the seasoned traveler Anubis.
Anubis is a jackal head on a human body and it is surely no coincidence
that coyotes were spotted four times in Manhattan in the week before
Passover. A coyote is an american Jackal!
The fact that The critical weighing of
the heart scene in the Book of the Dead also show
Anubis performing the measurement that determined the worthiness of the
deceased to enter the realm of the dead (hell) is very significant given
previous discussions we have had about us being in a time when our
lives and the fruit thereof are being weighed as the next season begins.
The demonic god Anubis was given permission to take up residence in the
United States of America when the diabolical Healthcare Bill was signed
into existence; the statue on the barge was merely a sign in the
natural realm of what had occurred in the spiritual realm over America.
Those who live outside America may wonder
why I place emphasis on occurrences that are not in the area of the
world where I reside. Beloved, we must understand that what plays out on
American soil directly affects the whole world; especially when the
residing president of America sends such a antagonistic message to the
nation of Israel both by his non-verbal actions and his words. This past
week has displayed the hidden contents of this leader's heart in a way
that plainly displays where his loyalties lie. Those with understanding
of the times know that we are speeding towards a major conflict in the
Middle East and that biblical prophesy is being fulfilled before our
eyes (if only we have eyes to see it!) The fact that the american
government is presently planning to build a new embassy at Battersea in
England in the shape of a crystal cube, a deliberate counterfeit of the
heavenly city that is described in Revelation, gives more cause for
concern.
So, with all the above in mind, I am very
much aware that this Passover 2010 marks a point of no return for all
on planet earth and it is of the utmost importance to ensure that the
blood of Christ is on the doorposts of our hearts and those of our loved
ones. The chasm between those who are of Christ and those who serve the
agenda of the realms of darkness is ever-widening.
As satan and his cohorts and lackeys
hurriedly roll out their plans for world domination, we must ever
remember that the upcoming battle's result was decided 2010 years ago
when Christ declared, ”it is finished” and that the Word of God tells us
that at a time when dense darkness is on the peoples, the glory of the
Lord rises upon His saints. He is coming to be glorified in His saints,
no matter what the kingdom of darkness is plotting. Remember psalm 2 –
God sits in Heaven and laughs because He has ALREADY installed His king
on His holy hill of Zion. Now is the time to ask of Him and He will give
you the nations for your inheritance and the uttermost parts of the
earth for your possession. Now is the time to ask for souls. Now as the
darkness gets denser is the time to arise and shine as never before,
knowing that we are citizens of another kingdom and dwellers in a city
that is not built with hands!
Now that we have noted what is playing
out in the kingdoms of this world, let us focus on what is occurring in
the kingdom of God during this pivotal season. The Spirit of God has
been highlighting for me the season of the counting of the omer and its
spiritual significance in this year of 2010 and beyond. So I hauled out
an article I wrote in 2007 on 'the Completion of Passover'. While it is
too lengthy to insert here, one particular part really jumped out at me.
It is referring the Israelites' entry into the Promised Land:
'After all the men have been circumcised, the Word tells us
that they ate of the food that was in Canaan.
Jos 5:11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on
the morrow after the Passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the
selfsame day.
This ‘old corn’ was, in fact, stored grain that had been
parched or roasted in the fire. It was not brought from the wilderness
side of the Jordan but had been grown and harvested and processed by
people living in Canaan. How the Israelites came into possession of this
‘stored grain’ is not clear but it was obviously obtained from those
who were there already.
Here we have a picture of the Body of Christ being fed
by those forerunners who
have been through the fires of purification and have been held in
reserve for such a time as this. Their walk has been a lonely one, venturing where the Body
has not been as a whole. They have been hidden and unknown and
uncelebrated, while nourished by the very grain they will be offering to
the Body. What they have to share will be new to the Church. The Hebrew
root for the word ‘old grain’ means ‘transition’. The word they speak
will transition the Church into a place of fresh understanding of old
truths. It will be a word purified by fire, a word in which all the hay
and stubble has been removed; a word that can be built on. The reason
that the hungry in the Church will be able to embrace and partake of
this word, will be because these people will be
the message. Their lives will speak. The Word of revelation from the
Throne-room will have become flesh in them. Their words will be spirit
and life.
So, according to Joshua 5, on the first day of the Feast of
Unleavened Bread in Canaan, God’s people eat both unleavened bread ie.
Bread without hypocrisy and sin (not the puffed-up hypocritical diet of
teaching offered by the Pharisees) and roasted corn i.e. fresh
teaching from vessels who have been refined in the fire. There is a
double portion of nourishment coming to the Body of Christ for a season
after the refining work of the circumcision time. Interestingly, the
Hebrew word translated ‘selfsame’ day carries within it the idea of
coming from the same substance. It is the exact word used in Genesis by
Adam, as he described his wife, newly formed and standing before him.
Gen 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and
flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out
of Man.
This picture of Christ’s Body feeding on the double portion
has, hidden within its folds, the emergence and recognition of the
Bride of Christ. She is of the same substance as Christ. The words she
speaks testify that she has been with Jesus. Therefore, the roasted corn
represents the forerunner-company of the Bride. In the formation of
the very first bride, the rib which has been hidden deep within the
body of Adam, close to his heart, is removed and formed into Eve. The
word for ‘rib’ comes from a root word meaning ‘to limp’. These
forerunners are those who have wrestled with God in the darkness until
their names and characters have been changed. They are the over-comers
who humbly walk with a limp, knowing that in their weakness, God’s
strength is perfected. They do not speak in the persuasive words of
men’s wisdom but in a demonstration of the Spirit and power.
While the Body of Christ has been in a slumber, God has
been working with this rib, this group who has come apart and are being
molded in His hand - He has been building and forming Christ within
them. As they are unveiled to the Body at large as it arises from its
slumber, there will be immediate recognition that they both come from
the same substance, the incorruptible seed of Christ - and there will be
an embracing and cleaving to become one.
Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
The father and mother of idolatrous pagan practice and
religion will be left behind and the embracing of this fresh revelation
of Christ, who is Eternal Truth, deposited in the limping Company will
restore that which has been removed and missing in the Body.
AS you can see, there are many
confirmations of things we have discussed in the previous months of this
year; primarily the mention of a bridal company who has been preserved,
or put on ice, for such a time as this. It is surely no coincidence
that today, the 31st
March, being the 16th
of Nisan, is the very day when Esther, who came to the kingdom for such a
time as this, finished her 3-day fast and went, uninvited, before the
king in order to overthrow the plans of the diabolical Haman. On the 17th
Nisan Haman was hanged and many years later Christ rose from the grave –
hallelujah – perfectly correlated timing from the hand of God!
My ponderings on the omer led me to
yet another article written years ago, namely one on Pentecost and there
I found an explanation of firstfruits offerings and the counting of the
omer:
'A first-fruits wave
offering was required at Passover, when the barley harvest was brought
in. This Firstfruits celebration that occurs the day following the
Sabbath after Passover is considered Early Firstfruits. Jesus fulfilled
this, becoming the first-fruits barley offering that was presented to
the Father after His resurrection on the third day. Fifty days later,
the Latter Firstfruits occurs, called the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost).
The time between Early
Firstfruits and Latter Firstfruits is called the "Counting of the Omer".
Omer" is a Hebrew word that means "sheaf, measure". It was during this
counting of 49 days, the counting of the Omer, that Jesus appeared to
His disciples and taught them. He appeared to over 500 people in one
setting, as well as to His chosen disciples and close friends. He
prepared them for the bringing in of the harvest after Pentecost by
updating their understanding of scripture and expanding their knowledge
of Truth manifested - there was a
continual emphasis on harvest throughout the time between Passover and
Pentecost. Jesus Himself spoke to the disciples about them becoming
witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and even to the ends of the
earth in order to bring in the harvest. Out of those 500 people, only
120 moved on to the next appointed meeting with the Godhead. They
remained in Jerusalem after the ascension, waiting for the promised Holy
Spirit who would empower them to do what was required of them'
Note that the time between
Passover and Pentecost was a time of whittling away, a removing of
chaff if you will both from understandings and in numbers of followers
until the day of outpouring. Remember also that not only were people
removed, but during the wait in the upper room, Matthias was added to
the disciples to make up the full 12 again. The counting of the omer
period is a time of adjustment all round, of removing what is
unnecessary and adding what is necessary in order to achieve fullness.
It is a time of kingdom adjustment. Matthias was among the 120 but
unnoticed until the lot fell to him by the hand of God. Similarly there
will be those amongst the number who have been waiting for the final
empowering and outpouring who will be ushered into center stage by God
and appointed as part of the governmental apostolic company who would be
His witnesses even to the uttermost parts of the earth.
Finally, with the omer
still looming large in my thoughts, the Spirit led me to a description
of the preparation of the firstfruits barley offering by Alfred
Edersheim:
Already, on the 14th of Nissan, (on the
day Jesus was crucified) the spot whence the first sheaf was to be
reaped had been marked out by delegates from the Sanhedrin, by tying
together in bundles, while still standing, the barley that was to be cut
down. Though, for obvious reasons, it was customary to choose for this
purpose the sheltered Ashes-valley across Kedron, there was no
restriction on that point, provided the barley had grown in an ordinary
field— course in Palestine itself— not in garden or orchard land, and
that the soil had not been manured nor yet artificially watered
(Mishnah, Menach. viii. 1, 2). * (* The field was to be ploughed in the
autumn, and sowed seventy days before the Passover).When the time for
cutting the sheaf had arrived, that is, on the evening of the 15th of
Nissan, just as the sun went down, three men, each with a sickle and
basket, formally set to work. ...they cut down barley to the amount of
one ephah, or ten omers, or three seahs, which is equal to about three
pecks and three pints of our English measure. The ears were brought into
the Court of the Temple, and thrashed out with canes or stalks, so as
not to injure the corn; then 'parched' on a pan perforated with holes,
so that each grain might be touched by the fire, and finally exposed to
the wind. The corn thus prepared was ground in a barley-mill, which left
the hulls whole. ...Though one ephah, or ten omers, of barley was cut
down, only one omer of flour, or about 5 1 pints of our measure, was
offered in the Temple on the second Paschal, or 16th day of Nissan. ...
The rest of the flour might be redeemed, and used for any purpose. The
omer of flour was mixed with a 'log,' or very nearly three-fourths of a
pint of oil, and a handful * of frankincense put upon it, then waved
before the Lord, and a handful taken out and burned on the altar.
Note
that the omer of flour resulted from ten omers of barley. In other
words, this firstfruits omer that was offered by the priest was a tithe
of the firstfruits barley harvested. So now we know that the omer
represents the Tithe company spoken of in Malachi 3 that is brought into
the storehouse in order that there may be meat in God's house. They are
those who fear the Lord and whose names are written in the Book of
Remembrance, who are at the appointed time openly displayed as His
jewels!
As I
read the description of how the omer is prepared, being thrashed with
canes in order to remove the chaff without injuring the grain, I saw
with new eyes the preparation of this tithe company, experiencing the
discipline of God as true sons that they may share in His holiness
according to Hebrews 12. They are also parched over the fire, which
speaks of them being parched corn eaten on entering the Promised Land,
and finally they are exposed to the wind, speaking of the ministry of
Spirit of God who blows where He wills.
Today,
31st March is the very day upon which this
omer of beaten and milled barley was offered up to the Lord. This
company who have been through great preparation for this moment in
history, are even now being offered as as a sweet offering, mixed with
oil and frankincense, before the throne of God. Their lives are laid
upon the altar – here am I, I delight to do Your will! In the pattern of
Jesus, the Firstborn from among the dead, they too prepare themselves
to be endued with resurrection power, coming forth from the place of
death – death to self, death to their own plans, death to their desires –
in order to form part of the many brethren of which Christ was the
first! The place of the tomb becomes the womb of the morning from which
spring forth His young men who are as the dew (psalm 110).
In part
two I will discuss the many patterns and confirmations found in the
omer and the counting of it, but for today, may the Spirit of God
multiply and enrich your understanding!
In His
love
Christine
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In passionate pursuit of Him always....( I am my Beloved's and He is mine!)
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Topic: Passover 2010 and Beyond ~ Christine Beadsworth
