28. The In-Between Days

© Daniel Yordy – 2019

There are four calendar, non-feast days in-between the Day of Atonement and the First Day of the primary Tabernacles Feast.

Of truth, we must fit the Atonement to the Church, and we must fit the authority God has given us to that same Church.

A personal and immediate circumstance has brought home to me the urgency and the reality of our authority in the Atonement of Christ to see, not “our brethren” in general, but specific individuals set free into the full knowledge of God revealed through them. And this view is that they are, right now, actively hostile to such a knowing.

May I suggest that the four days following the Day of Atonement can mean only one thing, and that is a five-fold increase in our knowledge of that Atonement and the certainty of its authority now given to us.

I have the right to command the full release of two specific individuals out from all that seems hostile to God and into the joy of sharing this word of the revelation of Jesus Christ through them with Maureen and me.

Why five days for the Atonement and for the increase of its knowledge?

It’s because we are speaking of a BIG DEAL.

The Atonement is finished in one moment but knowing its full meaning in the lives of millions of people is a BIG DEAL.

I have never seen the Atonement in the way that it has come to us over the last several letters, as a mighty deliverance service in which we have all authority, and God with us the power, to command millions of believers in Jesus into the knowledge of God among us in all fullness.

And so, in this letter, I want to review what we have learned. I don’t care if I am repeating myself, for I must know our authority, because this is the BIGGEST DEAL in all the history of the universe.

Yes, the Atonement accomplished by the Lord Jesus Christ is a BIG DEAL. But that same Atonement now fulfilled in the lives of 100 million Christians across this earth right now inside this present age – that would be pretty convincing proof that God is true.

And regardless of our uselessness as humans, you and I have a voice to speak, to call forth the knowledge of that Atonement in many, and we have the audacity to be convinced that we command all the power of God into such a mighty deliverance.

God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue.” Or to put it into simpler language – “Make lots of babies – AND – subdue.”

Bring ALL under your feet, into submission to yourself.

Let’s list what we know from the New Testament regarding this impartation of all purpose – “Subdue.”

1. Two things are left out of the concept of “ALL” that follows subdue. The first is Father, and the second is one another. Notice that the command is to “them.” That means to all humans together.

Yet God tells us – “Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: “Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons; and concerning the work of My hands, you command Me (Isaiah 45:11), and He says, “For You have magnified Your word above all Your name” (Psalm 138:2).

And regarding one another, He says – “Submitting to one another inside of the fear of God” (Ephesians 5:21).

Subdue cannot mean subjugation or control. Subdue can mean only rivers of living water giving life to all. It means connecting everyone with the knowledge of God and of love.

2. Subdue is directed towards all created things in the spiritual realms of the heavens as much as the physical realms of earth and stars.

3. Subdue is instantaneous and total. That is, ALL authority is given to humans. No authority remains for any other entity, including God Himself. We must understand what that means, however. It means that God is DETERMINED to form us together with Himself through Christ Jesus that He might be known as He is through us together into all. It means Romans 8:29.

4. Subdue cannot ever be removed from mankind. The idea of removing all authority from humans never enters God’s mind. This one truth alone so fixes the certainty of Christ inside of us that we are enabled to exercise the authority to love with all recklessness.

5. God did transfer that All-Authority from Adam and all who came out of him TO Jesus and all who live inside of Him and in whom He dwells. “All authority in heaven and upon earth is given to Me.” All authority in heaven and upon earth dwells inside of our hearts, sharing His life with us and our life with Him.

6. It is God’s will that all should be saved.

It’s a funny thing. As the Calvinists work their magic on the Greek words of the New Testament, lining them up with the serpent’s definitions, they take the Greek word, thelema, which they always translate into “want” or “desire” when referring to humans, but instead, they use “WILL,” when referring to God, as depicting an inflexible, all-controlling, and adamant “WILL.”

And so, in recognition that the Greek word, when used non-religiously, means desire or want, I have specifically translated it into God’s desire, all the way through the JSV.

Except once. One time, the Calvinist translators translated God’s thelema as “God desires,” as in “would like it very much – BUT.” In that one time, I have chosen to translate it as “God WILLS,” inflexible and absolute. And how can they complain when they want God to be like that in every way except one.

God, who wills all mankind to be saved, and to come into the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator [all-connection] between God and men, the Man, Christ Jesus, the One having given Himself as a ransom for all (1 Timothy 2:4-5).

Nonetheless, we recognize that while “all” does mean “all,” God’s distinctions of the word “all” throughout the New Testament requires each in his or her season.

And right now, we have one season before our eyes, God’s Church clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ, screaming in travail to bring forth all the life of God out of all weakness and in the face of all opposition.

We have the authority to bring this child to birth.

7. We humans possess all authority to send forth either a river of life or a river of death, to shape and form all things by life or by death. Yet only the angel of death has the power to enact death, and only God has the power to enact life.

We have the authority – God has the power – we meet together above the Mercy Seat, inside our hearts sprinkled with Blood. The River alone brings forth life; we have all the confidence of authority to send that River forth.

8. Loving our brethren, setting forth our souls for them, is the hardest thing anyone has ever asked of anyone else.

Greater love has no one than this, that he should lay down, place, establish, and set forth his soul for his friends. – If they hunted Me down, they will hunt you down as well. – They hated Me without a cause (John 16:13 & 20 & 25). – When we were enemies {hostile, that is, hunting Him down}, Christ died for us (Romans 5:10 & 8).

The word is sweet in our mouths and bitter in our bellies. For Father’s sake, we share judgment with God.

The fulfillment of the Day of Atonement in the life of the Church happens because you and I know and embrace the authority to bring millions of our brethren into submission to the Love of God towards them through us.

And there is one way only by which we accomplish that authority, and that is to go with God where He is – beneath of them, carrying them safely against our hearts all the way through.

Yet there is only one way by which we could ever go under as partakers of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that is by saying “Let it be to me,” and then by believing that it is true.

We don’t have to “want to”; we just have to believe in Jesus.

Having established our authority to lay down our lives for millions of fellow believers alive upon this earth, people who, right now, are polluted with all not-Christ imaginations, let’s look again at our practice.

How do we amplify, at greater and greater levels, that is – think doubled five times, this mighty deliverance called the Day of Atonement? And when we say, “The Day of Atonement,” we are also envisioning this great rescue on the wings of an eagle, carrying God’s people into their place.

The answer to “how do we amplify” is our confidence that God IS.

Yet I am not talking ideas, here, but pressing reality. In the last letter, I mentioned this propensity we all have to be concerned for our own salvation, as well we must. Nonetheless, now that we walk in full confidence that God IS sharing all that we are and every moment of our lives together with us, that He might travail with us for the sake of His people, we are now turned around.

Being turned around, then, includes the meaning that we become as “desperate,” one might say, for the deliverance of our brethren into life as we have been for our own salvation.

And this casting down of the accuser out of the minds and hearts of our brethren is pictured for us in Revelation 12, and throughout the New Testament, as a fierce theater of war.

Consider 100 million individuals across this earth right now, those whom the Father has given to Jesus for this, His hour of victory. These are people from every nation and language, from every circumstance of life, and from every cultural viewpoint. Some are not born again right now. You would NOT be able to pick out who is in that number of 100 million and who is not; nonetheless, every single one of them is living their lives right alongside of us living ours.

We are not “struggling against the devil,” for our own freedom; in fact, we are not “struggling against the devil” at all. More than that, our victory for the sake of these millions of people is resting entirely upon the shoulders of our brilliant Commander.

Nonetheless, this one word alone, “And they overcame him,” makes clear the vital role for which God has included us. Add to that one word, a second – “out of their bellies flow rivers of living water,” and our place inside this vast theater of war is fully described.

These two factors, then, make it reasonable and even necessary for us to think clearly about the entire picture of military strategy in order to be effective for the sake of our brethren.

We are talking of life and death. That is, we are proposing that these 100 million people (which I am using as a symbolic number) alive across the earth right now, WILL BECOME the beginning of a world of life in the very midst of a world that knows nothing but death.

Few commanders in human history have ever understood what it takes to win, not a battle, or even a series of battles, but an entire war. In fact, most wars and most battles have been conducted by both sides as stupidity clashing against imbecility. Victory, in most cases, comes to the side which happens to be least stupid or even simply lucky.

Nonetheless, there have been a few military commanders in history who understood the breadth of what was required for victory and who conducted EVERYTHING with all elements of what is required fully in their minds even over years of struggle. Sir Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, was one such commander.

To Wellington, at no point was any battle just a battle of one side against another. That’s how Napoleon saw the world and for a while his genius on a specific battlefield prevailed, although he never fought Wellington until the very end. But Napoleon lost entirely because he failed to understand the larger picture. Wellington won because he never once allowed himself to fail always to know and to prevail in the larger picture.

The French armies in Spain and Portugal were the least of Wellington’s concern, even though they outnumbered him ten to one. He knew exactly how to deal with them when he met them from time to time. Wellington’s largest difficulty was the British government back home and all the “arm-chair” generals and political sycophants, along with British public opinion. His second largest difficulty was supplies and armaments for his men along with the fact that his army was primarily cutthroats, jail birds, and Irish – who hated all English. And his third great difficulty was the people of the Iberian Peninsula and later of France, and the governing bodies of his “allies.” The French army came in at a distant fourth.

 Every single decision Wellington made had to take in these first three great difficulties BEFORE he could even think about how to deal with the opposing French. Yet from the moment he took command of the British army in Portugal in 1808 until his final victory over Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, Wellington never once failed to successfully maneuver all four of these arenas of opposition. And he gave his mind and his ability to this task every single day.

Now, nothing can be gained by any direct comparison between Wellington’s total arena of war and ours. Instead, what we learn from this study is that we, also, must comprehend the totality of this great engagement we are in over the next several years. Again, we rely utterly upon our own military Genius who lives in our hearts. Nonetheless, the New Testament is clear that our role together is also vital.

And we also are committed to setting forth our souls for the brethren.

How can we be God Love to our brethren if we ourselves are not confident inside of Love?

You see, I do NOT see us sitting inside our own “Oh – don’t I love Jesus,” waiting for God to zap all those out there that He wishes to zap and then finding ourselves thrust instantly into all victory over the beast and over his number and his name alongside of all sorts of people utterly unrelated to us.

I read something entirely different inside the covers of my Bible.

Thy people shall be willing in the Day of Thy Power (Psalm 110).

God’s victory cannot happen apart from our direct involvement because that’s how God IS.

And God’s victory is one thing only, and that is a world and universe of life, flowing out of the tree of life, arising inside the confinements and opposition of a world and universe of death.

We are directly and vitally involved in a great arena of war, and every element of potential difficulty must remain ever in our conscious faith and confidence in God.

Let’s map out four great arenas of difficulty that we face, difficulties that can make or break our joyous participation in the visible victory of the Lord Jesus arising through us into His Church. We will use Wellington’s four arenas of difficulties – except we must add a fifth. You see, Wellington’s fifth arena of conflict was himself, that at no point, in no situation, would he allow his own sentiment or feeling to prevail over the absolute need for final victory. Wellington came across as a cold man, but his men soon came to value highly the fact that his coldness meant that his every decision meant that fewer of them would die and none would die needlessly.

[In contrast, Napoleon made all of his men feel like glorious heroes and thought nothing about throwing away 40,000 of them in order to win one battle. And after he had thrown away 590,000 of his own men in his stupid invasion of Russia, all he could think about was finding more men he could inspire for himself.]

And so for us, the first arena of difficulty in which we are engaged is our own absolute confidence in Father utterly together with us, sharing all things with us, that we together suffer everything for the sake of His people.

Our second arena of difficulty is our relationship together, that is, those of you who are connecting with the Lord Jesus through this word that I share. Again, this is an issue of confidence, but it is our confidence together as Community, that God is all our connections together, regardless.

Our third arena of difficulty is the fact that these 100 million people across the earth right now who belong to this world of life we are calling forth out of death don’t like us – at all, and we, actually, don’t like them very much either. More than that, they are not only a complete mess, but live willfully in opposition to Christ as their only life. More than that, they are in love with and give their full support to those entities in this world whose sole drive is to destroy all Christians.

Our fourth arena of difficulty is both the logistics of a world of scarcity and the utter opposition of the people and the powers of this world to the very idea of a totally different kind of universe arising from beneath of them.

Yet, our fifth arena of difficulty is the opposing armies of the evil one, those whom we are casting down out of the minds of our brethren. In the end, this is the simplest part of our victory, especially since we have some pretty impressive allies on this front.

Yet that is not our whole picture, for you see, this world of life into which we are calling our brethren is a world that has never before existed inside of creation.  We are not talking about some major adjustments to the present world; you cannot fix the tree of death. We are talking about 100 million people running into an entirely different universe.

Except that is six things. If we are going beyond five, we must arrive at seven, which is what God usually does. We’ll see if any other arena of difficulty shows itself, or if we can split any of these into two.

Through the next several chapters, I want to expand on these arenas of difficulty. You see, we are so relieved that no responsibility rests upon our own shoulders, but upon the shoulders of the One who fills our hearts with His glorious Person. And we are so thrilled that this One also shares all parts of His victory and glory utterly together with us.

That’s what God means when He says that we share in His sufferings and in His glory.

“And we also” means that you and I share fully with Jesus His Gethsemane in all that Gethsemane means. Is that not what loving one another in EXACTLY the same way that I love you really means? And we share in His Gethsemane for the sake of our brethren, the Church.

To simplify, then, let’s list seven arenas of difficulty inside this vast theater of war, each one of them concerns us vitally as well as the victory of Christ through us, Jesus faithful and true.

1. Ourselves, in our own confidence in “God with me.”

2. Our togetherness with other believers in our present immediate experience, whether that includes brethren with whom we relate face to face or with those who are reading these letters and praying these prayers of deliverance together.

3. Millions of people who belong to this hour of the proof of Christ, who live in opposition to Christ right now.

4. The logistics of provision and supply, of terrain and communication inside of a world of scarcity but including the heavens with the earth.

5. The in-your-face opposition of the peoples of this earth and the overwhelming power of the rulers of human government directed against us.

6. The accuser and his armies.

7. The arena of whatever bringing forth a brand-new universe, one that has never existed inside creation before or even in our own experience, out of our bellies and in the face of all opposition, whatever such a wondrous thing is and means.

Our theater of war is far larger and far more critical than anything Wellington ever considered or faced.

But we have to reduce it down even further. Here is our list again. (1) Our own confidence in God, (2) our Community together, (3) God’s people across the earth, (4) the logistics of provision and communication, (5) human opposition, (6) angelic opposition, (7) the calling forth of a complete reality that has never been.

Here’s the thing. The very second that the first Day of Tabernacles erupts within the Church, we hit the road RUNNING. God gives us a symbolic “five days” of knowing the Day of Atonement so that we will be utterly prepared in that moment – ready and willing in the day of His power.

And he {John the Baptist, yes, but also a picture of the “Elijah” of our day, God through us now} will advance in the face and presence of Christ inside of the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers upon the children and [to turn] those unwilling to be persuaded inside of the wisdom of the just, to prepare and make ready a people made exactly and fittingly ready for the Lord (Luke 1:17).

Know this, however, that if the master of the house had been aware what hour the thief is coming, he would have watched alertly, and he would not have allowed his house to be broken and plundered. You also be prepared and ready, standing by fully ready to meet all challenge, for the Son of Man comes at a time you do not expect (Luke 12:39-41)

– Jesus is not referring to a solitary figure grandly displaying Himself high in the sky. Every reference He made inside this category of thought is referring entirely to the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles in the life of the Church. We will see that parable after parable is referring primarily to the first Day of Tabernacles.

But He said to him, “A certain man was preparing a great supper to which he had invited many. And he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to those who had been invited {born again and filled with the Spirit}, ‘Come, for now it is ready and prepared.’  But they all began as one to excuse themselves…” (Luke 14:16-18).

This parable concerns us right now totally – we will look more closely at it soon.

Finally - The voice of one calling in the wilderness: “TURN [and prepare] the way of the Lord; make smooth and straight in the desert valley a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up and every mountain and hill brought low; the crooked and deceitful places shall be made level and true and the rough places smooth as a plain; the glory of the Lord shall be UNVEILED, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken” (Isaiah 40:3-5).

I believe I have established from Scripture that it is our glory to be fully prepared towards each of these seven great arenas of battle facing us right now, that we might share all things together with the Lord Jesus Christ.