Feast Of Hanukkah

Gaylene Womack

 

Spiritually Discerned

 

(types/shadows)

discipleministries@msn.com

 

December 14, 2005

 

 

In 168 BC Antiochus IV Epiphanes conquered Jerusalem. He killed thousand and thousands of Jews. He offered swine in the temple upon the altar for the purpose of defiling the temple. He set up idols in the temple to be worshipped.

 

The church today represents this Antiochus . . . tares and false prophets sown into the modern day church for the purpose of killing the full counsel of the Written Word; presenting a defiled gospel. The church is full of idols such as lust for money, materialism, gluttony, witchcraft, sorcery, etc.

 

Three years later Mattathias started a revolt and after he died, his son Judas Maccabees (hammer; extinguisher) finished it.

 

Years ago Father started a revolt by calling a remnant out of the manmade structure of today’s church. According to BARNA Research Group around one million have been called out of the structured church throughout the world. Satan tried to stop this revolt by harsh siftings and tribulations, which God allowed for the purpose of purifying Himself a bride. Those that remained within the sifting/purifying process have become the manifested sons of God, His firstfruits bride.

 

We have now come to the completion of this revolt. The celebration of Hanukkah is about to manifest (beginning eve of Dec. 25th), the firstfruits, the manifested sons, His firstfruits bride, are about to come forth to cleanse the manmade temple.

 

After the cleansing (represented by the firstfruits, separated remnant being purified) of the temple (now the living temple) there was found only one small cruise of PURE olive oil (Holy Spirit) with which to light their holy lamps. This small cruise of oil is representative of the ONE SMALL, purified remnant, filled with the Holy Spirit (oil), that was called out in previous years and have remain-ed faithful during the cleansing process. Now comes the miracle!

 

Hanukkah begins with the lighting of one candle on the menorah. Each evening after that, one additional candle is lit until the last evening when all EIGHT are now lit. This is also known as Feast of Dedication! The SMALL cruise of oil was miraculously multiplied to be enough to light all EIGHT candles; their own candle being the first one and then the following seven* This SMALL cruise will be used to bring the remaining body of Christ into completion . . . the completed living temple! (Eight is the number for completion.) HalleluJah!

 

The first lit candle is representative of the SMALL remnant that have been purified/ cleansed/ separated for the past years. Now remains SEVEN, representative of the remaining seven-year tribulation period of which we are about to enter (See study on A Purpose and End Result of the Seven Year Tribulation Pertaining to the Church; Daniel 12:10.) The SMALL remnant (small cruise of oil) will see you through until you become the bride . . . they have enough oil to bring forth a completed bride!* They have enough for the remaining seven days, until fresh jars of CLEAN oil could be brought into the temple . . . becoming the living temple . . . the bride!

 

Father is about to DEDICATE His living temple (the manifested sons) in this coming Feast of Dedication. A SMALL, faithful remnant is coming forth! You may ask why I think it will be this year during the Feast of Hanukkah (Dedication) of 2005. Because I know some of us have had spiritual visitations from the kingdom of our Father to prepare us for this coming Feast of Hanukkah. John 10:22,23 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple . . . read "living temple"!

 

Malachi 3:1
Behold, I will send My messenger (an angel), and he shall prepare the way before Me: and the Lord, Whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, (read "living temple", of which we are (I Cor. 6:19)) even the Messenger of the covenant, Whom ye delight in: behold, He shall come, saith the Lord of hosts

 

*It is the responsibility for each individual to keep their own lamps filled after they have entered the holy of holies (Matt. 25:4-10)

 

Becoming The Bride Of Christ

Gaylene Womack

 

The Process You Must Go Through to Dwell in the Holy of Holies

 

– discipleministries@msn.com

 

December 3, 2005

 

After you have accepted Jesus as your Savior, then you must go on to work out your salvation with fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12). There are different seasons to accomplish this. One is in the wilderness experience of Israel, which deals with sin and is your opportunity to forsake sin and go into another season (Deut. 8:2,3).

 

Another season is the fiery furnace experience of Job, to reveal false doctrines and burn them out of you and replace them with truth – these are the foundational truths - then you continue to have revelations of truth as you continue to grow (Job 34:32,35; 36:9-11). He brings you out from under Agar and puts you under Sarah. (In this current day, some are going back under Agar, known as Jewish Roots movement.) When these foundational truths are established, you go into another season. This fiery furnace experience can go hand in hand with the wilderness experience. Other types/shadows of the Old Testament are Daniel in the lions’ den (Dan. 6:16) and the three Hebrew boys in the fiery furnace (Dan. 3:23-26).

 

Yet another season is in the cave of David, waiting for your deliverance to come forth. This is also portrayed in David with his 5 stones (representative of the purified saints) in the bag, waiting for their time to come forth. They have already been purified in trials and tribulations and are now smooth stones, ready for the master’s use (II Tim 2:20-22). They are gathered together, waiting (some are literally gathered together and others are spiritually in the same place of waiting) . . . some are discouraged, some are in debt (I Sam. 22:1,2).

 

The final season of preparation to become the bride is the prison portrayed by the isolation chambers of Joseph in the dungeon. Here you are alone with the Lord, being tested to see if you will remain faithful when there is only you and the Lord and your hopes have been deferred multiple times. Betrayals have brought you to this place (Gen. 40:23), lies have been told about you and believed (Gen. 39), there is no defense, these lies have caused you to be put into the deep isolation chambers of the dungeon BUT you come to realize it was God’s will for you to be placed here; forgiveness comes for all those that hurt you.

 

When these seasons are finished, you’ve become crucified to self. You’ve participated in the sufferings of Christ and the work is now complete. Your exit from this season is done hastily – all of a sudden, totally unexpected (Gen. 41:14)! Joseph’s gift/calling brought him out of these seasons of preparation (Gen. 41:9-13; Prov. 18:16).

 

When you have accomplished these seasons, you become the bride of Christ, also known as the manifested (disclosure, revealed) sons of God (Rom. 8:19); those that have come into the full sonship of the Lord. Then you enter and dwell in the holy of holies Your inheritance of the kingdom (governmental rule) then manifests. The ones that don’t complete this process, are either spewed out (Rev. 3:16) or dwell in the outer or inner courts and are the guests to the wedding IF they endure to the end; even the guests must have on the robe of righteousness (Matt. 22:11,12).

 

The outer court saints are the ones that the antichrist wears down and overcomes (subdue, conquer, get the victory over) because they did not go on to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit (II Tim. 3:5), the power source of God’s kingdom.

 

Inner court saints have the baptism of the Holy Spirit but stayed at that place and didn’t go on into the refining fires to become the bride of Christ. They love the gifts of the Spirit but go no further. This is where the foolish virgins must go back into to buy the oil for their lamps. There is a price to pay (surrendering one’s life) to receive the Holy Spirit (oil) and a higher price to enter into the holy of holies (Luke 14:28-33).

 

When you become the bride, this is when you have become "they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of their testimony" (Rev. 12:11). This is where you inherit the governmental rule of the Lord (Dan. 7:18). The preceding is the process in which you must go through to come to this inheritance.

 

Please don’t be as the foolish virgins (Matthew 25:1-12). Don’t give up and let go of your rewards of what took years to be prepared to receive! This is the place where you receive your full inheritance of the "blessings of the Lord". It seems to me the foolish virgins got caught up in the "blessings" and miracles and allowed the call upon their lives to dissipate; they lost their inheritance because there was not time to go (back to the inner court) and buy the oil needed for their lamps and get back into the holy of holies; the door was closed and would NOT open again.

 

Keep your eyes focused on the fact that the groom IS COMING to the remnant to make them the bride and give them entrance into the holy of holies. You’ve been adorned (you’ve had a visitation from the angels of the Lord and they prepared you for His coming (Mal. 3:1), this was in the spiritual realm) but there’s still been a time of waiting, BUT I can assure you, the wait won’t be as previously experienced. Don’t get impatient and don’t allow others to deter you from your hope and vision . . . HANG on . . . the groom IS on His way! Any day now, His appearing to His bride shall be! This is not the wedding according to Rev. 19:9. This is the High Priest coming to allow us entrance into the holy of holies, as the Old Testament type/shadow.

 

Perhaps this COMING will be this year during the Feast of Hanukkah, also known as the Feast of Dedication (beginning eve of Dec. 25th) . . . He’ll dedicate the bride as the bride. HalleluJah!