Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Anamnesis Prayer Meeting - Week 1 Day 3
Date: Friday, 11th November 2022
"For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: [2] Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity. [3] And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. [4] And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron." (Heb. 5: 1-4). The personality being focused on in this chapter is no one else but a High Priest. This is a discourse on the importance of the High Priest. The duties described here are not those of a priest but those of a High Priest. A High Priestly status is an office of glory; such does the works of glory.
The High Priest offers for sins and this is a glorious task. This is how our Lord Jesus will remove things that are not glorious from men in order to make them glorious. No one can heal men of the state that is against God’s glory except the High Priest. It is only the High Priest who has the capacity to offer for men.
Jesus is in heaven right now to discharge His High Priestly ministry. This ministry is currently being run in heaven by Him. However, our Lord Jesus is not always busy in heaven because there are only a few men who desire or press on to become glorious. It means that this ministry of the High Priest is lying in wait most of the time; it is waiting for functionality. Jesus is waiting for men who will come into glory. The Holy Spirit intercedes or prays for men to be able to come into that dimension where they can be received by Jesus. Also, so that they can be brought into the ministry of glory. It is not everyone who will be willing to obey the High Priest.
There is a purpose to meeting with the High Priest and receiving things from Him. The High Priest has dealt with our sins from the altar dimension. The Old Testament pattern is that the High Priest and the Priest face the altar and turn to the people. Jesus has worked on the altar and purged our sins and right now wants to remove those sins from our souls. The purging of sin from the altar is a legal cleansing, it gave a right to the High Priest to go into the souls of the people and take away their sins. If Jesus had not purged the altar, He would not have had the right to purge the people.
The High Priest offers for our sins. Sin refers to life. It can only take reasoning or judgements from God for sins to go away from people. “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” (Isaiah 1:18). When sin has grown to be blood, it is not ordinary. Our Lord Jesus will turn our crimson sin into wool; He will make our scarlet sin as white as snow.
“His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire…" (Rev. 1:14). The head comes first and then the hair. Head speaks of the innate capacity for judgement and hair grows on it. This being is like God; he is Michael the archangel. Lucifer does not look like this.
Sin is more than obvious offences that men commit; it is a life. Sin is a life that men will protect, and it means that life must be offered to remove it. An offering for sin is in accordance with the pedigree of the sin. A sin that is not scarlet or crimson-like does not require blood to purge. Water is also blood. When Jesus was pierced, water and blood came out of His side.
So, snow deals with scarlet while wool deals with crimson. “I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.” (Daniel 7:9). The hair of God is as white as wool. This establishes the fact that wool is higher than snow. Animals in extremely cold regions (like the polar bear) develop hairs to protect themselves from cold. It means that what brings hair is snow. If there is no snow, there would not be hair. Snow comes as a result of temperature fall. As long as there is snow, the animals will need to protect themselves from it.
In God’s judgement, hairs stay on snow. Snow is lower in judgement than wool; it is a lower judgement to wool. Consequently, this tells us that scarlet is lower than crimson according to Isaiah 1:18. They are both red, but scarlet is not as red as crimson. Scarlet and crimson are kinds of iniquity. Iniquity begins with scarlet and ends as crimson. When cleansing, snow is administered to scarlet and wool to crimson. The red of crimson is a terrible iniquity.
The High Priest is endowed with these two levels of judgement – snow and wool. This is His fullness. Holiness and righteousness are parallel to each other. For anything to be holy, it must have a foundation of righteousness. This tells us that there are two whites. There is the white of snow, and it is not the same as the white of a wool.
The white of a wool may not even be as bright as that of snow; so it is not about the colour but the nature. The white of a snow cannot be sustained when temperature changes, However, the white of a wool is not conditional and it does not change with temperature. Snow falls while wool grows. This tells us that wool has more life than snow. These two things can be gotten as we reason with God (Isa. 1:18). God wants to reason with us until we become white as snow, and He will continue until we become as wool.
Reasoning speaks of judgement. When God judges among the mighty gods, he is making them snow and then ultimately, wool. These gods are those who can respond to reasoning or God’s judgement. This tells us that iniquity will not go away from a man if the Head of the Church is not reasoning with him. Reasoning is a dialogue meant to bring us into a season of understanding. We come into a grace and liberty dimension through dialogues and instructions.
Jesus was raised with the capacity of being so high in the priestly dimension so He would be able to contend with the things the adversary had sown in our souls. The adversary sowed iniquity in two ways. Therefore, to take iniquity away, Jesus had to first reason with God concerning us, and then He would reason with us. As the Mediator between God and man, Jesus will firstly have us be saved and then come to the knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4). Mediation will occur after one has come to the knowledge of the truth. The man that will be engaged in mediation must be a man of truth.
Mediation is a world of intercession where minds are engaged beyond the spiritual. Mediation is purely divine; therefore, only divine minds are present in mediation. Divine nature is developed in a man through mediation. It is in mediation that the High Priest gives us something to offer.
The High Priest is so equipped that He knows what to say to God for us. He reasons with God because He wants us to be reconciled to God. The High priest goes between God and men; not any kind of men but those who can stand in judgement. They are the congregation of the righteous or the Church of the firstborn who are about to be written in heaven (Psa. 1:5; Heb. 12:23). So, mediation starts when a Church is present in Presence.
The ministry of mediation starts with snow thoughts. Snow thought is a thought of whiteness. God intends to make us white, not just as snow but as wool. When our whiteness is as snow, it can still be affected by temperature. When our whiteness is as wool, it has become permanent. It has become a thing of nature.
When a man receives snow thoughts, he receives the whiteness of righteousness. Such a man is not meant to stay at this point, but he should go further so that his hair will grow. The hair is the glue that makes snow stay. When hair grows, the man would develop a permanent state that would keep the state of the snow.
Snow is a kind of white wisdom. Michael’s hair is snow, but God’s garment is snow. God’s hair is as white as wool. Wool is a higher judgement than snow. Wool is soft; it is a natural produce from plants. Clothes can be made from wool. When God gives wool judgement, He is giving a white judgement that is commensurate to a permanent dimension of judgement. When God works on a man through judgement, the man becomes white. A white man with a white soul, heart and mind is a god. It means that this white is a breakthrough to life.
Some of us are receiving the snow judgement of everlasting life. We need to get to the end of it, which is the wool judgement. When we attain this, we can then say that we have received a permanent residency in everlasting life. We cannot be white without the ministry of the High Priest.
There are two doctrines in everlasting life that deal with iniquity: commandments and words (John 14:20-21, 22-23). “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. [21] He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” (John 14:20 -21). The Father is in the Son and the Son is in the Father. The Father and the Son are one but they are not the same. To have commandments here is to have revelation knowledge but it is possible for a person to have this knowledge and not have measure or nature. Measure speaks of the Father’s decision to the Son.
The commandments we are to keep here are the revelation knowledge of the Father or everlasting life. It is the snow life of everlasting life, and it is enough to deal with scarlet sins. A man can have commandments and not keep them, that is, a person can have everlasting life and not keep it. We can be given revelation knowledge, but it is possible that we are not doing or keeping it. Paul had an abundance of revelation, but God’s love permitted a messenger of Satan to buffet him (2 Corinth. 12:7). Holders of the message of faith towards God would not agree with this because they are not yet in this operation of faith. They are little in faith because it is little faith that fears the devil. Whosoever is raised spiritually will have no fears.
The commandment of the Son is to love Him. There is the place of the Son in life everlasting. The Son is the first work. While Jesus was on earth, He raised the standard of first work and finished it. Jesus was already a work of God at Jordan, but by chapter 17 of the book of John, He said He had finished the work. This was when He completed the curriculum of the Fatherhood of God (John 17:4). Therefore, Jesus is both the Father and the Son (this Son is not Christ). It is after we have kept the commandments of the Son that the Father will permit the Son to manifest Himself to us. This is the time we will have the fullness of the Son and not just His commandments.
“Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” (John 14:22-23). A man who has loved the Son is one whom the Son has manifested Himself to. Such is the man that can keep the words that the Father gave to the Son. They are the Father’s own words; they are the words for the last work. The words are not the same as the commandments; the words are higher. The words speak of wool. These words are judgements. This is another dimension of whiteness.
One who only has the first work can still turn back because such a one is not sealed (as snow is subject to change). Such a man must move to the next level. His commandments are snow releases, but His words are growths of wool. So, God is giving us wool in the spirit. In John 14:21, it was only the Son that would come and manifest Himself to men. But in John 14:22, it is both the Father and the Son that will come and make an abode with men. This is the acquiring of the fullness of God.
“Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.” (2 John 1:9). If we find anyone transgressing, the problem is usually traceable to the person’s Christ. It would mean that the person did not end his Christ curriculum well. The end of an allocation is always to abide. For us to dwell, we must need an abode.
The Son has both the Son and the Father. However, we must first do the Son since the Son did the Father. The Son is the abode of the Father but we are to become the abode of both the Son and the Father. This means we will have the doctrines of the Father and the Son.
The doctrine of Christ creates the base. A man who is Christ has something he obeys. There are two doctrines that Christ will do: the doctrine of the Father and the Son. The Father and the Son are called God. Before anyone can have the Father, such a one must have had the Son. The Son of God is the first work while the Father is the last work. However, persons and doctrines are wrought in us through love. There must be a coming before there can be a fullness.
When the Son is manifesting Himself to us, He is not giving us doctrine but the gifts or reward of keeping His doctrine. They are things that should be done after we have received doctrine. So we would not have just knowledge but we would also have measure or fullness. Jesus had fullness. “And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.” (John 1:16). The use of the word “and” tells us that we must do something before we receive grace for grace. We must have done Christ before we come into receiving grace for grace. The doctrine of Christ forms the basis for “grace for grace”.
There are two graces: snow and wool. The Father used to be all grace but because the Son obeyed Him, He then patented the grace to the Son. So, in the world of everlasting life, we must first know the Son. We cannot penetrate the Father without the Son. The phrase “grace for grace” here does not refer to knowledge. Commandments come from knowledge while fullness comes from visitation. Fullness is a gift of person — a grace that installs personality. That is what is called a rod. These grace for grace are the rods of glory.
We are leaving the season of knowledge. We will be interfacing with the reality of the knowledge. The Father is blessing us with the reality of Himself. There are things about the Truth, which is a person. God will first come in learning but He will come again as a gift of a person.
The Holy Ghost is not in us by knowledge; rather, He is in us as a Person. So also, God will not just come to us as knowledge, He will also pour Himself as a person. So, this is the pouring of the persons of God – both the Father and the Son. Scriptures will open to messages of receiving grace as a person. We are dealing with a being that is not in this realm. This is a God. No one can cross this boundary if the Father and the Son have not made up their minds to come and make an abode in us.
Blessings!
Summary
1. (Heb. 5: 1-4). It is a glorious task for the High Priest to offer for sins. This is how our Lord Jesus will remove things that are not glorious (sins) from men in order to make them glorious. No one can heal men of the state that is against God’s glory except the High Priest. It is only the High Priest who has the capacity to offer for men.
2. The ministry of the High Priest is currently being run in heaven by Jesus. However, our Lord Jesus is not always busy in heaven because there are only a few men who desire or press on to become glorious. This means that the ministry of the High Priest is lying in wait most of the time; it is awaiting its functionality.
3. Jesus is waiting for men to come into glory because He has dealt with our sins from the altar dimension. Jesus has worked on the altar and purged our sins and right now wants to remove those sins from our souls. The purging of sin from the altar is a legal cleansing; it gives the right to the High Priest to go into the souls of the people and take away their sins.
4. (Isaiah 1:18). Scarlet and crimson are high sins. When sin has grown to be blood (red), it is no more ordinary – it is iniquity. However, our Lord Jesus will make our scarlet sin as white as snow; He will turn our crimson sin into wool.
5. Sin is more than obvious offences that men commit; it is a life that men protect. This is why it must be offered to remove it. An offering for sin is in accordance with the pedigree of the sin.
6. Scarlet and crimson are two kinds of iniquity. Iniquity begins with scarlet and ends as crimson. This is why crimson is a more terrible iniquity. When cleansing iniquity from the souls of men, snow is administered to scarlet and wool to crimson.
7. Jesus was raised with the capacity of being so high in the priestly dimension so He would be able to contend with the things the adversary has sown in our souls. Therefore, to take iniquity away, Jesus had to first reason with God concerning us, and then He would reason with us.
8. The High Priest is endowed with two levels of judgement to deal with iniquity: snow and wool. This talks about His fullness; it is the same way holiness and righteousness are parallel to each other. For anything to be holy, it must have a foundation of righteousness.
9. We cannot become white in our souls without the ministry of the High Priest. When God works on a man through judgement, the man becomes white. We should get to the end of the snow judgement of everlasting life, which is the wool judgement. When we attain this, we can then say that we have received a permanent residency in everlasting life.
10. There are two doctrines in everlasting life that deal with iniquity: ‘the commandments’ and ‘the words’ of the Son (John 14:21, 23). The "commandments" of the Son that we are to keep are the snow-life of everlasting life or the Father, and they are enough to deal with scarlet sins. A man who has loved the Son is one who can keep the "words" that the Father gave to the Son. These words are for the last work – the Father.