JUDAS UNDER the ANOINTING
Posted by: prophetic <prophetic@...>
-by Chris Anderson.
"Have not I chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil?" Jn. 6:70
The importance of the Judas factor in Jesus' ministry cannot be overstated. The
corporate ministry of the Lord surrounded by the Twelve serves as a prophetic
microcosm of what was to characterize the reality of ministry under the
anointing throughout the ensuing church age. The role of Judas under that
anointing is extremely instructive in today's Spirit saturated atmosphere.
Judas, as one of the Twelve, ministered under the same anointing under which
Jesus ministered. In fact Jesus gave His anointing to him! And frankly, it just
doesn't get any more anointed than when you're with the Son of God.
In the course of their ministry, no one ever looked around and said, "How
come Judas isn't performing miracles?" His intrinsically impure heart had no
bearing on Judas' ability to live and function in the Presence of God. So
invisible was his true nature that, in spite of the Lord's repeated comments
about a traitor in the midst, it was not until the very end that Judas was
exposed for the son of perdition that he was. Even as late as the Last Supper,
the disciples could not tell that their "brother" Judas was the traitor.
The Anointing: Support System for a Message
The Judas factor teaches us worlds about the anointing and the Presence of
God-both what the anointing establishes and what it cannot. The anointing is
given as a support system for projecting a message that brings forth an end
product. The anointing does not function on its own by itself as a testimony to
itself. It supports a message. The specific message the anointing is sent to
support is the message of Yeshua and His cross. It is given as a witness to
that
truth.
The anointing was never meant to be ministered-nor the Presence of God
experienced-apart from the truth of the cross. But, as Judas shows us, the
anointing is quite able to be so ministered apart from its true function as a
witness to the truth.
Removing the truth from the anointing (which occurs when the anointing is
diverted to witness to itself) leaves room for a false "truth" to take its
place, ie, a lie. Like an electron in search of a proton, the anointing
cannot abide alone. By design it must support a message, a seed. And if it
is separated from the message of the gospel and of the cross, it will then
automatically support a false message, corrupting to become a lying sign and
wonder.
The anointing is to the truth very much like what the egg white is to the
yoke of an egg. The yoke harbors the seed of identity of the chick to be.
The egg white is a watery plasma that houses that yoke until the two,
working together, bring forth the one new life. Even so the anointing is the
Spirit womb that houses the truth seed-identity of the children of God. It
works
together with that seed to bring forth our eventual birth into immortality.
But the seed-before it is fully consummated-can be removed ("fall away") and
actually be replaced with the seed of another: one who is like, but not the
same
as the Son of God. It can be replaced by the seed of Judas.
As increasingly powerful as the corporate anointing of God is becoming in
the earth, His Presence alone says utterly nothing about the state of heart of
those enveloped under its cloud here below. The power of the Presence does not
prove the nature of the seed that abides within its envelope.
God sees into every heart beneath the anointing, under the Presence. He
knows every thought of every heart. He is a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart. Behind every raised hand and bent knee, He knows those
who
are living out the crucified life, and those who are not. He sees every devoted
heart surrendered to Him, and every heart with one eye locked on the girl in
the
next row.
Power of Imagery Vs. Reality
The imagery associated with today's corporate gatherings conveys very
powerful portraits of a people practicing the presence of God-whether
through print, or film, or CD, or DVD or website. The images of worship are
everywhere. Images, images, images-glossy, slick, airbrushed. But images are
yet
only images, and portraits are only portraits. The Lord knows the hearts of all
men, and discerns between the polished anointed picture which will pass away
and
the inner eternal reality.
As wonderful and powerful as the anointing is today and ever increasing, it is
still falling upon mortals who live under a veil separated from the Reality for
which they are being prepared. Our worship and our gatherings now are designed
to prepare us for the final transcendent Reality-as "beauty treatments" ahead
of
meeting our King. But there is no guarantee that they are or will so prepare
us.
They can lead to themselves. We can bask in the pleasure of "experiencing God"
purely for the sake of the experience.
We can become enamored of the image of our own anointed gatherings. We can
become idolaters of our anointed gatherings and of the powerful images at
our disposal for projecting them to others. Yet underneath it all, we may
not have the seed of new birth in us at all, but be harbingers of the Judas
seed, whose ultimate desire is to prostitute the Presence through the power of
image to establish the Lord's glory on the terms of this world.
The Coming Dividing Cataclysm
Between the image and the nearing Reality of immortal, incorruptible
trans-veil worship is a great cataclysm at hand. A great separation is soon to
take place. As the Lord said, "One shall be taken, the other left." It's
important to know that this separation will not only occur in the field and at
the mill. It will occur within the very anointed house of God itself.
In the very midst of prophetic gatherings, worship conferences and "houses
of prayer," those of the cross who have come to full term in the anointing's
womb will be translated into the Reality their earthly worship has ever only
pointed to. Those who never knew the truth but made a fair show of the
anointing
will be exposed as Judas was finally exposed. There will be nothing to prove
any
more.
At that point, the power of the anointing upon mortal worship will be
removed and the mirages attached to it. The anointing will be rendered
ransid, even as manna that has passed its shelf life. The power of the
images to sustain God's people built on the anointing will collapse. It will
seem that everything has come to nothing. The gatherings will be scattered. The
Christian Cities will implode. The debris of thousands of Christian "theater
houses" will be everywhere. The grace of God which has sustained humanity and
allowed it to bask in the perceived sense of its own goodness will be
withdrawn.
The beast will turn on the harlot, and Judas will hang himself.
But before this the anointed Judas will come to the fore. As men are tried
under the Presence and become ever more enamored of the images associated
with their own worship and gatherings, the Usurping Replacer of the true
Seed and pretender to the Sonship throne will take his place in the glorious
temple, encompassed by his corporate harlot, who having herself abandoned the
cross long ago in favor of purely experiential (read, "sensual") relationship
with God will appear in all her exquisite beauty-arrayed in her royal kingdom
garb and her bejeweled gifts of the Spirit.
But in the cataclysm, both she and the son of perdition will be exposed for
their truthless sham. Then the veil will be removed. And the worshippers in
Spirit and in truth will appear with our Lord-a seed without guile masked by
anointing.
The moral? Don't be swayed by the beauty. Don't be deceived by the images.
Ask yourself, "What is the message?"
"I desire to know nothing among you but Christ Jesus, and him crucified."
This is tonight's message from the Spirit.
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