13. Misusing the Holy Place
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Most Christians in the Holy Place do not use the things they find there as God intends. Leaven in the Feast of Pentecost is dishonesty, but dishonesty is just a shield. Dishonesty is the practice of covering over a profound contempt for other Christians.
When I watch a preacher of “obedience,” I see clearly the contempt he holds for his hearers; I also see how he words his dishonest covering over of his own continual lack of obedience. Yet his hearers imagine he is a “man of God.”
Everything experienced in the Holy Place is the “things of God,” not God Himself, not His Person nor His Heart.
The Preachers. Look at the preachers just outside the Gate. They preach human ritual performance as the way of salvation.
BUT – those preachers of the Altar of Sacrifice teach their people to trust in Jesus as the Way, with a bit of Bible thrown in. Though these preacher know little, they do not misuse the Sacrifice.
Look at the preachers just outside the Door. They preach human intellectual performance as the truth of salvation.
BUT – those preachers of the Table and the Lampstand teach their people to trust in Jesus as the Truth, with just a bit of the dealings of God thrown in. However, there is a measure of misuse of the things of the Spirit (leaven).
Abuse inside the Rescue. Look at the preachers just outside the Veil. They preach the performance of self “dying” to self as the life of salvation.
BUT – those preachers of the Ark of the Covenant, Christ living as you, teach their people to trust in Jesus as their LIFE. Because our flesh is now His, there is no misuse.
The largest amount of abuse inside God’s emergency rescue, then, is the misuse of the Altar of Incense.
But before we look at that, let’s consider first the partial misuse of revelations of the Word and Spirit power. The difference, all the way through, is always a matter of the heart. The sign of an abusive heart is contempt for others.
God versus the “Things of God.” Here is an absolute law of God. The Heart of God, the core of His Person, never leaves the Holiest, for it is the Holiest.
God’s Heart is known only by those who allow Jesus to carry them through the Veil.
Those living in the experience of the Holy Place, that in-part time of learning Spirit-knowing, cannot know Father in Person, but they can hide His Word in their hearts. EVERYTHING experienced in Holy Place power and glory, the revelations of the word, the anointing of wisdom, the healings, the great deliverances, the seeing of great demonstrations of power, these are only the things of God.
Spinning a False Self-Story. Nothing in the Holy Place signifies God with you.
That’s why we never build a house for ourselves inside of the things of God. That means we do not identify ourselves by those things. We do not use the things of God to spin our own self-story.
Spinning a self story out from your experience with the things of God will always contain the aroma of contempt for others, that is, the words, “You ought to be —.” When I hear the words, “You ought to this” or “You ought to that,” I know that the one saying those things does not know Jesus as He is; they do not know their incredible connection with Father.
Knowing the False by the True. Now, we know the false only by knowing the true. When we do not know the true, we are confused by the false. But when we are intimately familiar with the true, the voice of the false is clearly awful to us.
God’s true ministries are those who are turned around and seated upon the Mercy Seat of God, going forth with Father as His revelation to every hurting heart.
You will always hear them say something along these lines. “My gifts and abilities are for you, to use as you wish, little or much, for I live to see you singing in all the joy of our Lord and our God singing through you.”
No False Yoke. You will never hear God’s true ministries laying a false yoke of obligation on anyone, and you will never see them trying to be something they are not. You will see them on their knees before the least and the littlest; you will hear them say, “It is my honor to serve you.”
People use two things to make themselves superior over their brothers and sisters in the Holy Place – their revelation of the word and their anointing in the gifts. And you will hear them say, in one way or another, “Because I am great in the things of God, you must submit to me.”
This is essence of Christian evil.
Humbling Myself under You. Consider the letter I sent out with Knowing Jesus as He Is.
Notice that there is no suggestion that you ought to love me. Listen, if you try to love me, you will find only one of two responses. If I sense you are serious, I will run away as fast as I can. But if I sense a good heart in you, I will wait until I have the right words to turn you from your folly and to show you that Jesus is already your only life. – Your “love” stinks.
By seeing the love of my Father already filling your heart towards me, even though I know that you WILL abuse me, I am humbling myself under you. I do that ONLY because I know my Father by speaking the same word that is Jesus.
Abusing the Altar of Incense. Of far greater devastation than the abuse of the revelation of word and the power of the anointing, however, is the use of the Altar of Incense to drive God’s people away from God. – “Stop sinning first.”
The purpose of the Laver of Washing is to wash you clean, but the preachers who reject the Holy Place use the Bible to make people dirty. “See how sinful you are.”
The purpose of the Altar of Incense is to remove from you the terrible grip by which you hold onto your sinfulness. The preachers who reject the Holiest use the “dealings of God” to bind people to their sinfulness.
Whipping God’s People. The terrible thing, however, is that these preachers are next to the Holiest. They know the things of the Spirit of God and make use of the anointing in every direction.
Not only that, but they preach the realities of the Holiest, they point to union with Christ, they talk about Christ revealed through His body, about becoming just like Jesus.
But even while they catch the hearts of God’s people in drawing near, they then whip them with false fire. “YOU have to stop sinning first. YOU have to repent of your self. YOU have to die to your flesh. YOU have to become ‘obedient.’ YOU have to pretend to be like Jesus as YOU have never pretended before.”
The Gospel of Satan. And God’s people draw near, because they long to know their full union with Christ. But the whips of “YOU OUGHT” drive them back. They draw near, and are driven back, over and over. – This is the gospel of Satan.
God said to Adam and Eve, “You ARE like Me.” The serpent said, “You shall be, ought to be, will be like God someday, but right now you ARE NOT.”
Drawn near and whipped back. Drawn near and whipped back. I can show you in most messages preached in charismatic and deeper truth circles the exact wording of this horror.
Beating with Strange Fire. But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour that he is not aware of, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 24:48-51).
I include the whole passage, and I am overwhelmed, for I have never before seen just how clearly this testimony of Jesus fits the preachers in front of the Veil, beating God’s people with strange fire.
Strange Fire. God placed a vivid picture of the offering of strange fire and the “cutting in two” at the beginning of each of the Covenants, the New just as much as the old. In each case it was the action of two individuals, Nadab and Abihu in the old and Ananias and Saphira in the New.
Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them. So fire went out from the Lord and devoured them… (Leviticus 10:1-2).
The censer, the fire, and the incense are all referring to the Altar before the Veil.
By Your Own Energeia. Strange fire is your own energeia separate from synergeoing with God. Strange fire is every part of your own self-story featuring “I not-Christ.” Strange fire is offering your own righteousness to God, “God, I will obey You; I will seek Your will and do it.”
Strange fire is pretending to be like Jesus; it is wearing the masks of Holy Place experiences as your identity, rather than the Jesus of your heart. Strange fire is the “love” you try to offer to others without knowing Father with you.
Strange fire is drawing near, but never entering in.
Two Kinds of Strange Fire. You are fully responsible for your own strange fire; you cannot blame any preacher you might have heard. And the strange fire you try to present to God goes in two directions, towards yourself and towards other Christians.
Strange fire towards other Christians CANNOT enter the Holiest, all it will do is pretend that it has entered. And the most wicked strange fire in the Altar of Incense is contempt for those preachers who keep God’s people out.
Strange fire towards yourself, however, does not cease until the end of your first season inside the Holiest BECAUSE it is Jesus alone who carries you through.
Horrifying to Me. When I consider the teaching of Buddy Cobb, under whose ministry I sat more hours than any other, I can see with my mind that the majority of his teaching was designed to keep God’s people from entering into union with Christ.
BUT – if I should say that Brother Buddy “has his portion with the hypocrites and unbelievers,” I would be cast off from God right now without any chance to repent.
In fact, just writing those things next to Brother Buddy is horrifying to me. When God said to me, “Son, you passed the test,” He meant that He Himself had removed that wicked, wicked thing from me. – Touch not Mine anointed and do My prophets no harm.
Holding Contempt in One’s Heart. You can do an end run around the preachers in front of the Veil, bypassing them quickly and easily. But if you hold contempt in your heart for them, a willingness to speak against, you are NOT doing an end run around, you are joining them as the worst of the lot.
Judge nothing before the time. Judge nothing before the time. You will ALWAYS get it wrong.
There is no doubt in my mind that the very moment the Lord Jesus shows Himself as He is to Brother Buddy, all that was wrong in his understanding will vanish as if it never was.
Jesus Is Well Able. I am sitting here simply aghast at the wickedness of placing Brother Buddy’s name next to the words “hypocrites and unbelievers.”
Contempt for other Christians is the sin of Adam, the cause of all death and ruin. Contempt for other Christians, especially for those who are in any way leaders inside the Church IS the second death. It is binding one’s self to never ever knowing Father’s heart.
God designed the Altar of Incense specifically with the capability of removing that contempt from you forever. Your job is to trust that Jesus IS well able to do so.