36. The Deepest Love

The last line of our prayer at the end of the last lesson, “Be Your Salvation now through us,” is the practical expression of the Throne that is God. Salvation brings all who are willing into Jerusalem, the Church as Community, whatever the cost to that Throne.

The rule of Love is a rod of iron because it does not allow people to squirm away from the truth with all the antics humans are capable of applying. Honesty is the only thing that allows me to know Father-with-me, and God alone is Salvation, a God who lives inside of Jerusalem, inside of reciprocal Love.

Romans 8 & Revelation 12. Before we continue with an understanding of the corporate ministry that connects the knowledge of God with the Church, let’s place Romans 8 and Revelation 12 together.

Romans 8:1, no down-judgment, is the first description of a Church clothed with Jesus, and verse 2 is the law by which we know such a glory, the law of the Spirit of Life. Romans 8:1-17 is a description of the Church as she is, splitting the tree of life away from the tree of knowledge, and placing her entirely into the Spirit who alone leads her. Then, 8:18-27 is a description of her travail, having set her joy before her, a creation set free.

Synergeoing with God. A most remarkable thing happens, then, when we set the big verses of each chapter together. Let’s begin with Romans 8:28 and Revelation 12:11. This is the end goal of God, those who synergeo with Him for the sake of all.

We are fully aware that those who love God are synergeoing with God, that is, energeoing together with God, directing all things into goodness; these are those who are being called and summoned according to His pro-thesis, that is, His set-forth purpose. – And THEY have overcome [the accuser] through the blood of the Lamb, and through the word of their testimony; and they have not loved their souls unto death.

Symmorphosed. Next, we have the core and center of the Gospel, the ruling verse of the Bible, which we now see as the manchild.

Because those whom He pro-knows, that is, whom He knows inside Himself as part of Himself, He also pro-determined them symmorphosed with the image of His Son, into Jesus being the firstborn among many brothers and sisters, that is, of His same kind, born of the same womb. – And she brought forth a son, a boy who is about to shepherd all the ethnic families with a rod of iron, and her child was seized into God and into His throne. 

These two verses, 29 & 5, are welded together as one, with symmorphy, sharing the same form with Jesus at their core.

Already Complete. Then we come to the beginning of everything, that is, God already all before anything actually starts, verses 30 & 10.

Even more than that, those whom He pro-determined, these He also called; and those whom He called, these He has already made fully just and innocent; and even more than that, those whom He made just and innocent, these He has already fully glorified. – Then I heard a great voice inside of heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation, the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down, the one who has accused them [falsely] in the presence of our God day and night.

Victorious in Persecution. What do we find, then, in the remainder of Romans 8 and Revelation 12? We find the persecution of the Church, and we find her inside her place of safety, inside the Love of God, something not ethereal, but practical, even visible.

We are more than overcomers – they nourish her there.

But sym-morph-y is a generic sort of term, that is, morph-form, and can refer to many different structures and shapes. We share the same form with Jesus at many different levels and in many different kinds of expressions. The throne is sharing with Jesus the form that is God’s Heart.

A Corporate Experience. The deepest Love, God made visible, is brethren, men and women, walking together, committed to the Church, sharing the same heart towards God’s people, that they would be kept through the time of the exposure of the false. This quality is found only in the gathering together, in the sharing of the same Life and Purpose, in being strength to one another; it is what God calls “the manchild.”

Sharing Hheart with God, symmorphosed, is clearly a corporate experience, many brethren born of the same womb, sharing all with Jesus. God gave me a taste of this deepest of Love, a corporate ministry, that I might share it with you.

A Report of the Fruit. I now understand that fellowship of Christian communities called “the move of God,” and God’s great purpose for the specific path of my time inside of it.

Joshua told the children of Israel to be careful to follow behind the Ark, “for you have not been this way before.” But two of them had, Joshua and Caleb; they had traversed the whole land, and they had come back with a report of its fruit and the testimony of how the giants would fall. Yet most who had gone into the land with them were defeated by the giants before any fight had begun. This picture bears directly on God with me.

An Expression of Corporate Love. In 1996, at the age of 39, I sat among the elders of Blueberry Christian Community for nine months, as part of their circle and function. In some ways, that was the greatest and most important experience of my life. I observed and shared with one of the greatest expressions of corporate love and ministry that has ever existed, and I KNEW the importance of that which I was tasting.

Such profound holiness and kindness, such devotion and care, such respect and regard for one another, such hearts given to the care and nurturing of the Church: it was “the manchild” in embryonic form.

Practical Reality. Yet I could not remain, a failure and an inability that shattered me until that utterly unexpected moment five months later when God said, “Son, you passed the test.”

– I now understand the Salvation of God. But to share that understanding with you, I must go back to the origins of those communities in which I had lived for many years. You see, “the manchild” cannot be ethereal spirituality floating in the breeze, and it cannot be isolated individuals running around zapping power. The manchild is found ONLY in the practical reality of humans walking together in a shared commitment.

The Fulfillment of Tabernacles. The prophetic word and the prayer that I wrote in the last lesson come out from my own personal experience of the power of the Spirit inside the Church, as well as my firsthand knowledge of the experience of many.

In 1966, Sam Fife heard a deceitful spirit telling him that he was “the manchild.” Sam Fife pursued that deceit hard, and God brought him down even harder. He then spent a year on his knees with his Bible open until God showed him a corporate ministry as the fulfilment of the Feast of Tabernacles towards the Church. From then on, Sam Fife preached and practiced corporate ministry and corporate covering with the same intensity.

A Corporate Flow. We defined “corporate ministry” and “corporate covering” in the last lesson, many walking together as one submitting one to the other inside the fear of Christ. Very quickly, Sam Fife gathered around himself men and women of equal stature, ministry, and heart, who would be a covering to him and with him to the Church. One of those, a Presbyterian named Joe McCord, shared that when he first heard Sam Fife preach at Grey Ledges in Maine, he was caught immediately in the overwhelming flow of the anointing as he had never known before.

From 1967 to 1971, thousands of people were seized into that corporate flow. I’m not talking about hypnosis, but God.

In the Grip of the Anointing. Then, in 1971, the word shifted to a greater experience of corporate life for all, Christ Jesus as a many-membered body, members of one another – Christian community. My prophecy and my prayer in the last lesson is but a dim reflection of the power of the Anointing that caught thousands of people in its grip, almost all of whom were hearing from God for themselves, for in that fellowship, hearing from God yourself was the only option.

By the summer of 1972, thousands of people, hearing God speaking personally to them, were selling their homes and moving together into communities in the wilderness far away, caught in the overflowing JOY of Christ Life.

Sharing the Same Heart. One of those families, who heard this flow from God, was Dan and Joanne Kurtz, of Uniontown, Ohio. Their first two years of community experience at Graham River Farm was a time of joy and togetherness.

But then the difficulties began, as they must in all human experience. When I moved into their home in late 1977, I was just 21, whereas they were in their 40’s. Yet I know now that, though our outward expressions are different, Dan Kurtz and I have always shared the same heart towards God’s people. I did not know that heart in Dan Kurtz was already breaking.

Levels of Corporate Ministry. I now understand the move of God and of God’s purpose for my experience in that fellowship. For by that experience I now see clearly the “ultimate danger” already shared in this teaching, as found by vision in Revelation 12.

The manchild is born of the Church and comes to her as to his own mother.

Before returning to the history of the move of God, I want to underline this essence of a corporate ministry. My experience of such deep Love in the Blueberry eldership included John Clarke as an equal member of that circle. Yet John Clarke was also a member of that larger covering of the entire fellowship, the father ministry.

Into What Broke Our Hearts. My point is this. The wonder and goodness I knew inside that “corporate ministry” experience at Blueberry was simply an outcome of the same thing among those apostolic ministries who had devoted their lives over decades to walk together as a godly covering to the entire fellowship. And all of this was taking place inside the flow of the outpoured Spirit of God in demonstrations of power and victory, in the grip of that river of the Anointing.

But now I must take you into that which broke my heart. Indeed, Dan Kurtz knew that same breaking of heart in his late thirties and early forties, which I then knew when I came to that same age.

Without Union. During my first experiences at Graham River Farm, there were around a thousand people living in wilderness communities in that area alone, with a similar number in Alaska and Ontario, a similar number across the states, and another similar number in Columbia and other Latin American countries. These nearly four thousand people had given all to life in community in subsistence living.

They all knew the power and anointing of the Spirit, they were all caught by a vision of the fulfilment of Christ in His Church, the fulfilment of Tabernacles. But they knew nothing of our precious union with Christ, but only Constantine’s cross, “Die, brother, die.”

The Tree of Life. At Graham River many came privately to Dan Kurtz, for the kindness of his heart drew them. But he had no answers for their distress, and his heart was broken. At the Headwaters convention, in February of 1979, Dan Kurtz looked to Sam Fife for the answers so desperately needed by, yes, about 4000 people caught in Sam Fife’s devoted, unswerving, and reckless enthusiasm.

Here is God’s absolute picture. There is NO access to the Tree of Life without passing close by the tree of death. In October of 1978 at the Bowens Mill convention, God had shown us the Tree of Life, our present union with Christ, through Lester Higgins.

The Great Issue. Now, this is beyond extraordinary, for God had ensured, by what I thought was my own desperate stumbling from one place to another, that I was at the October 1978 Bowens Mill convention, the February 1979 Headwaters convention, and again at the July 1979 Bowens Mill convention where this great ISSUE between the Tree of Life and the tree of death was decided in that fellowship. Understand this, however, we are NOT talking about redemption and about God in the midst of His people. We are talking about the completion of Christ in the birthing of the manchild out from the Church.

Let’s consider “what if,” that we might know what will be.

The Importance of Practicing Union. I know without any question that the manner by which I present our precious union with Christ, in giving thanks inside of and for the sake of all, in asking and believing towards every word God speaks, in speaking Christ made personal as us, in knowing ourselves utterly inside of Jesus and Jesus inside of us, in knowing the Father sharing our lives and every step with us, comes every single answer that was so desperately needed by those four thousand people.

Jesus comes into union with you as you are right now. You are an expression of the Father inside of all your human weakness. Our every stumbling step together is the Love that is God-among-us in all things.

A Careful “What If?” If Sam Fife had preached such a word, out from the JOY that I saw on his face as Lester Higgins was preaching, then I suspect that Dan Kurtz’s heart would have been lifted up in hope, and I know that Maureen and I would never have left that fellowship.

Let me go back to 1966, when God brought Sam Fife flat on his face inside the terror of the Lord. God spoke to him, “I will take your life if you ever depart from Me again.” I know that God’s Church, our mother, is a prostitute. I am overwhelmed at the dishonesty and perverseness of those who claim to “draw near.” When people play games with what I share, it tears me to pieces.

Despising God’s People. I am certain that Sam Fife had been confronted at Headwaters with the full range of problems one would expect when 4000 modern Christians attempt to live together in a subsistence lifestyle in the wilderness.

There was good truth in what Sam Fife preached at the convention in February of 1979, but nothing of God’s HOW, and no answer to great human distress. Instead, Sam Fife had reached for the same hard word of control that Adam reached for in the garden. In essence, he spoke words of despising towards those fleshy and foolish people, clamoring for answers. He said, “I will abandon you and start over.” Two months later he was dead.

Turning from Life. Three months later, in the July Bowens Mill convention, Buddy Cobb turned that entire fellowship to the tree of good versus evil, of sin versus not-sin, the tree of death. And the Tree of Life inside of Jesus, that could be found in portions of what Sam Fife taught, was now heresy.

It was God the Father who had shared His Heart with Dan Kurtz at the Headwaters convention, and it was the Father’s broken Heart that Dan Kurtz left the move, still carrying. With this thought, let me go back into my own profound experience of the deepest Love shared together inside the Blueberry eldership, for there my heart was broken as well.

Loving My Brothers and Sisters. From February of 1977, when God showed me community already formed inside my heart, until February of 1996, I was not an elder, but a member of the congregation. Through those 19 years, I embraced the word that was taught of seeing Christ in one another and walking together inside of love. It was costly, yes, but especially through my years at Blueberry, I had come to deeply care for my brothers and sisters. There was an awareness of a gap or a divide between the elders and the congregation, but I was mostly oblivious to it. I realize now that Christ in one another meant the congregation to me more than the elders, yet I had no such clue then.

My Great Desire and Ambition. And through all those years, through my twenties and thirties, the drive and ambition of my heart was to become an elder, for I thought surely that sitting among that corporate fellowship must be the greatest experience of the kingdom of God anyone could know. I was not wrong.

Yet from the moment I sat down inside that deepest of fellowships inside of Love, I was torn to pieces without respite for the entire nine months I was there. I was in awe over the tender love, the great respect, the purity and devotion shown among the members of that circle and I was ripped to pieces because the congregation, those whom I also loved, were not just excluded, but despised as “flesh.”

A Deeper “Test.” Those inside that circle had followed Sam Fife in his devotion to a corporate ministry and to the love shared in fellowship among such a wonder utterly out from God. And they had followed Sam Fife in his hard decision against the fleshiness, against the whining and conniving of all these Christians who are “not anointed like us.”

In March of 1997, when I heard God speak to me, “Son, you passed the test,” I understood that He meant that I had justified God in all things. And yes, that is the Doorway that must be wide open in us for the knowledge of God to enter, but now I realize something far deeper, and I place my head upon the ground in worship.

A Simple Choice. The test of justifying God had occurred in August, but it was in October that the real dividing line came for me. Wes Shaw came to me with Dave Smillie, both elders whom I respected and loved inside that wondrous circle of a corporate ministry. Their argument was that, as elders, the Love of God through them was real, but as a non-elder, Randy Jordan was not. I knew it instinctively then, but clearly now. I was given a simple choice. If I wanted to be an elder, then I must despise my brothers and sisters in the same way, these whom I had called Jesus to me for years.

It was a choice between all the ambition and desire of my heart versus my love for a weak and stumbling brother.

Those Unworthy People! ALL OF THIS has come back again upon me over the last few weeks, as God has prepared me inside of real human interaction in order to write these lessons on “the manchild,” on the revelation of the deepest Heart of God.

God’s people are fleshy and carnal. They twist the things God speaks. They speak with demon-anointed words as if they have discovered something real. They betray; they manipulate; they bully. They run after every pied piper and every lying religious spirit coming down the pike. They refuse to give thanks. They do not speak Christ. They dishonor God by cursing themselves and one another. They are, in short, a mess.

I Show You the Manchild. The Church of Jesus Christ now upon this earth is a prostitute. – And she is our mother. Since the passing of John, she has known only husbands who exalt her fleshiness above the redemption of Jesus, who abuse her to control her, and who see themselves as superior, closer to God than all those fleshy Christians “out there.”

The history I have just given you is very real and very much the story of my life, more profoundly than I could ever put into words. I am showing you the manchild. I am inviting you into the sharing together of the deepest Love that exists inside the Heart of God.

A Personal Spirit Word. This is not the whole picture, however, for there must be something that ties this corporate ministry together, something that flows through them into the Church. Amos said that two cannot walk together except they be agreed. The tree of death has split the Word God speaks into pieces, with every piece fighting against the other. God has millions of ministries towards His Church, all of whom either refuse to walk together as a corporate ministry, or construct a false hierarchy over the Church instead.

The Tree of Life is the flow of a Pure and Personal Spirit Word, the Lord Jesus, flowing through the hearts of many into a Church clothed with Jesus.

Incapable. Now, in October of 1996, “I” did not “choose” to love Randy Jordan more than my desire to be an elder. I just stumbled in confusion out from the heart God had already formed.

When I think of what it means to interact with others in the formation of a corporate ministry, I know that is not something I am capable of doing. Even the strong word I shared in the last lesson scared me, that I had finally proven “what a fake I am.” And my attempts to build a “corporate ministry” so often leave me hurting and confused. The “all-over-the-place” that is God’s people is often overwhelming to me. My mind wants to despise, but my heart wants to know God.

A Picture. And here, in the great press of this present Word and experience in God, His answer to me comes, as always. God gave me a picture from history some years ago that stuck with me, though I did not know why.

After the outpouring of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit began in 1900, just a couple of years later, an African American pastor of a little church on an out-of-the-way street in southern California called upon the Lord for the same. That pastor’s name was William Seymour and his church was on Azusa Street. One Sunday, the Spirit of God came upon his congregation in power, and a mighty flow began that reached to the ends of the earth.

A Box on His Head. Then, Brother Seymour tried to speak to the congregation and the flow stopped. The story is that God spoke to him to sit there on the dais with a box on his head. As he did so, still the channel through which God was coming into His Church, thousands came from all over and the Spirit of God was poured out upon many. When William Seymour took the box off, the flow stopped. The Church today came out from his keeping on the box. Yet it was his heart through which that flow passed.

In my deep consternation over maintaining a pure Word in the midst of many, it was as God saying to me, “Daniel, keep the box on your head, for I am coming through.”

What That Means to Me. That means two critical things to me, one inward and one outward. First, I know a Jesus inside of me who is as real to me as Don Howat, yet with Him also is the Father. I just place Jesus over my mind, knowing that He is my covering and that He always keeps me inside His Salvation.

Then I can rest as a little bird tucked under its mother in the cleft of the Rock through a raging storm. And I am able to take all the pain and confusion I experience when people abuse the Word God speaks and turn it, through faith, to be the travail needed for the Church to bring forth life.

Keep Jesus upon your head, Daniel.

My Task. Outwardly it means that the going forth of this Pure and Personal Spirit Word that I love, and what people do or don’t do with it, is not any concern of mine. All of that belongs to the Father and to the workings of the Spirit.

My part is simply to continue in what God has made me to be, that is, to share the next Word with joy with the precious brothers and sisters who receive this letter and who gather on Zoom. We together bring forth this Word, for your part is as important as mine. I am not alone, for you are with me. What is given to me is also given to you and vice versa. You are my joy and my crown.

The Manchild. The manchild is a corporate ministry, brothers and sisters all across the earth, who are many walking together as one, submitting to each other inside the fear of Christ. It is our committed, marriage love for one another that is the Knowledge of God now entered into creation. Yet we do not Love only for ourselves, but for all God’s people, a Church that remains a harlot until this corporate ministry clothes her with the Lord Jesus Christ. We love her because we come out from her. We lay down our lives for her sake, that she also might be just like us, the visible expression of the Love that is God in creation.

Their Deep Concern. Then the woman escaped into a desolate place where she found a place that had been prepared for her by God, where THEY will nourish her for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

A corporate ministry as God intends, that is, “the manchild,” is not concerned for itself except to know one another inside the purpose of God. Rather, its concern is given entirely to the Church, to millions of believers in Jesus who are Jesus to us, no matter how disappointing they might appear to be. It is this corporate ministry that clothes the Bride with the sun, with the acknowledgement of Christ Jesus as all that she is now. Jesus alone makes her pure. 

THEY Are the Ones. God also calls this corporate ministry through whom together flows the deepest love of God’s Heart, “THEY” and “THEM.”

THEY are the ones who cast down the accuser for the sake of all God’s people. They are the ones who apply the absolute profundity of the sacrifice of Jesus to all who call upon His name. They are the ones who speak only Christ your life into all who hear them. And they are the ones who give their lives outpoured that Father might win a Church for His Glory.

The Task. This corporate ministry that is the manchild are we who give our all for the sake of all Christians alive upon the earth, that they might be clothed with Jesus, that they might be protected and provided for. These are we who are Mercy for the sake of all our brethren. We embrace each one as Jesus to us, excluding none. We give all for all, for Father’s sake.

Sharing All. From here forward, we will speak only of this corporate ministry, something I have tried to describe here - https://christrevealed.info/mankind/joy-set/the-church and here - https://christrevealed.info/covenant/covenant-sons/nature and in many other places, full covenant sons in fellowship together.

God honors us as individuals by sharing all with us; we honor God as an individual by sharing all with one another.

The next four lessons covering the remainder of Chapter 12 are the practical expression of this corporate ministry, this deepest expression of God-Love, as they alter the very fabric of heaven-earth for the sake of the Church.

Reading for Next Time. The next lesson is titled, “Now Is Come the Kingdom.” For that lesson, read all of Revelation Chapter 12 again, then read more slowly and carefully verses 7-12 a few times, marking in your mind each specific phrase. This is a familiar passage to you, the fourth ruling verse of the Bible. Here is the first half of that “verse.”

Then I heard a great voice inside of heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation, the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down, the one who has accused them [falsely] in the presence of our God day and night.

Let’s Pray Together. “God, our Father, we would be the expression of Your Heart towards Your Church, that You might enter into our world through our hearts shared with Yours. Father, we are small and incapable, as You made us, that You might be All Salvation through us. We know that You share our lives and our every step with us in intimate closeness and in all Your power.

“Keep us, oh God, from despising our brothers and sisters, that we would not exclude any who call upon Your name. Enable us to walk together in committed Marriage-Love, that You might be known inside of creation. Let it be so; it is so, for we belong utterly to You.”