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The Spirit of Burning

Some scripture verses have been brought to my attention by the Spirit this morning. Let me share ...

“Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming, says the LORD of hosts. But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers' soap. He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the LORD offerings in righteousness.” (Malachi 3:1-3)

Beloved, though we have received of imputed righteousness by faith through the blood of Jesus Christ, the word of God declares a time when God’s people will present actual offerings of righteousness to God, meaning; they will actually be made to walk in holiness and righteousness. This will only be made possible through an unprecedented fiery work of God’s Spirit that has been reserved for these, the last days of the age. The apostle Peter wrote of a salvation that would be revealed in the last time (1 Peter 1:5, 9), and the prophet Isaiah gave us some insight as to how this amazing work of God would be accomplished.

It will come about that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy - everyone who is recorded for life in Jerusalem. When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and purged the bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning...” (Isaiah 4:3, 4)

It is true that unprecedented fiery purgations will be sent by the Lord upon the whole world eventually, but before this fiery flood comes to the world "the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning" will be sent to a remnant people that they may present "offerings of righteousness" to the Lord and also DEMONSTRATE TO THE WORLD holiness and righteousness made manifest IN A PEOPLE. Prophets throughout the ages have spoken of this. I shared something from Jane Leade just yesterday, something that was written in 1679. Take a look at an excerpt from that now in the light of what I have just shared...

"This will be a fiery trial through which a very few will be able to pass or bear up in it. Whereby the waiters for this visible breaking forth are strictly charged to hold fast, and wait together in the unity of Pure Love. This trial will be of absolute necessity to all for the clearing away of all remaining infirmities of the natural mind, and the burning of all hay, wood, and stubble. For nothing must remain in the fire, for as a refiner shall He purify the sons of the kingdom."

Dear friends, God is soon going to have a corporate WITNESS in the earth like nothing that this world has ever seen before, but before this manifestation can occur there must be a fiery coming of the Lord to a remnant people "in the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning" that all infirmities of the natural mind and soul might be removed from them. I don't believe that this particular work is mandated for anyone, but rather, I believe that it is something that we must offer up to God as a FREE WILL OFFERING. This is saying that the saints upon whom the end of this age has now come have the OPPORTUNITY to present themselves now as living sacrifices upon the altar of God and that there is very great reward for doing this.

Along these lines, a brother asked me recently to tell him why I think it is that the church today is so spiritually weak and that most people in the church today can't hear God as they ought to. I said to him that I think that is because very few Christians today have gone before God and cried out to Him with every molecule of their being that they want to KNOW HIM in the power of His resurrection and that they care not what the cost of knowing Him in this way is. This brother then asked me if I had ever done that, prayed in such a way, and I shared with him that I pray that prayer almost every day, but that I first prayed it (on my knees and in tears) about ten years ago. That is when my whole life got turned upside down. That is when I got stripped of all of my material possessions and then entered into the fellowship of Christ's sufferings in a way that many times I thought that I would rather die than carry on with it. The funny thing is, over the years the fire has seemed so hot to me at times that I often thought that I might not be able to endure any more of it, but now, it is much hotter than ever, but, for some reason, it doesn't feel that way to me. No, it's almost like I've somehow become numb to the heat. I think that this is what happens when you get close to the place of really "not loving your life unto death." This I believe is getting to that place in God where "the second death" does not hurt much because there is not much of the "first death" (the dead adamic self-life) left. The next step, I imagine, is to become one with the fire. This is where the Witness needs to get to. This is why I believe that God is now releasing the "spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning" in great measure to those who are willing to go the distance with Him and who care not what the cost of this is.

- D