THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SUFFERINGS CONTINUED THE BETRAYAL OF THE TEMPLE ELI - ICHABOD SYNDROME How incredibly sad

it is when the temple that is to be the home of the living God on earth, as it is in Heaven, rejects the living God. This happens throughout history. When the Lord allowed the Ark of the Covenant to be taken into the land of the Philistines because of the apostate leadership of the high priest Eli, we see an example of the fellowship of His sufferings that would manifest in the life of Samuel. Samuel would become the prophet of Israel. He would suffer the apostasy of Eli and his sons as well as Saul, chosen by God in His anger. (Hosea 13:11) The Most High God would bring forth the judgement of Israel in the death of Eli and his wicked sons. Shortly after his death, the judgement would manifest in the proclamation that accompanied the birth and naming of Elis grandson. The sad proclamation would come forth from his daughter-in-law in her death while giving birth proclaiming, The glory has departed from Israel. ( I Samuel 4:21) When God is rejected, He leaves. This is largely undiscerned for there is little burden to enter into the fellowship of His sufferings. REJECTING THE AMEN THE FAITHFUL AND TRUE WITNESS THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD In the New Testament we find that the same suffering comes to the heart of God in the Laodicean church. Here the Lord Jesus stands on the outside of a very wealthy, self sufficient church proclaiming that He has no entrance into the church that He has died for. (Revelation 3:20) The door was shut upon Him. Oh dear reader, how we need to weep in the fellowship of His sufferings! The same sorrow permeates His body when some of the false teachers of television ministry, so called, proclaim that we are all gods and that Jesus is not the only Begotten Son of God. Oh that lying spirit of anti-christ that grieves my being to its core. A day of terrible judgement will come upon those who make such wicked manifestations in their foolish mouths. MURDERERS FROM THE BEGINNING Perhaps nothing grips the inner man of the heart in anguish more than the men who were directly responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus. Please understand that I know that we are all responsible for His death; for our sin put Him upon the cross. Nonetheless, read, hear and keep with trembling the words of Acts 2:23: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.

Who were these men of wicked hands? Why did Jesus tell them to their face these incredible words, which identify them as murderers. John 8:44: Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

MURDERED BY THE TEMPLE THE FOUR SIGNS OF MESSIAH The Sanhedrin, of the Temple in Jerusalem in the time of Jesus, were seeking out the Messiah. They considered John the Baptist a candidate until he refuted them. (Matthew 3:7-12) They sought out the Messiah according to four signs. Follow carefully as Jesus fulfilled these signs as no one else could and yet utterly suffered their rejection. Their wicked hands would seize Him and bring innocent blood upon the heads of their children. ( Matthew 27:25) This same rejection is manifest in the false emergent church which has caused its shadow to be cast largely undiscerned in the bless me clubs that is called the church today. The substance that is casting this shadow is the false prophet that will unite the religions of the world in a falsely unified temple in Jerusalem unto the manifestation of anti-christ and the abomination of desolation. (Matthew 24:15) This is the emergent, purpose driven, sexually oriented seduction that tells men to look away from the prophetic Word of God. They do this that they may make children that are twice the child of the government of hell that they are. ( Matthew 23:15) SIGN # 1 THE HEALING OF A LEPER -THE NOTIFICATION Leprosy is that which eats away the flesh unto death. This is a picture of Adam who we as the human race corporately manifest. (Romans 5:12) The sin of Adam reigns unto death. (5:21a) To fulfill the sign and power of the Messiah, they looked for one who could reverse death unto life. They looked for the one with a dominion over leprosy. Jesus would heal a leper upon completion of the Sermon on the Mount. In the healing of the leper the first sign was fulfilled. This is exactly what Jesus fulfilled and immediately following the Sermon on the Mount He made sure that this was known unto the priesthood in Jerusalem. His instruction to the healed leper was that no man should know of the healing of leprosy, only the priest. This is very telling and unique. This was a direct sign miracle with specific direction. Matthew 8:1-4: When He was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed Him. And behold, there came a leper and worshipped Him, saying, Lord, if Thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus put forth His hand and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded for a testimony unto them. In notifying the priestly company of Israel of who He was, Jesus had set in motion a crisis that would lead to a horrible rejection unto deep suffering. He would bring about that which would call the corporate race of Adam to fall and rise as well as Israel. He would also bring about the rising of a new race as the firstborn of many brethren. (Romans 8:29) His Word released from the foundations of the world would become a sword that would pierce the souls of men to the revealing of the depths of the human heart so desperately wicked. (Jeremiah 17:9) In this reality we find the fellowship of His sufferings that He wishes to share with men most peculiar and unique. Luke 2:34-35: And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary His mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; Yea, a sword shall pierce trough thy own soul also, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. SIGN # 2 THE HEALING OF THE DEAF AND DUMB SPIRIT THE GROWING QUESTION As mentioned, there was a company called the Sanhedrin that were seeking the arrival of the Messiah. With the healing of the leper and his presentation unto them they were now in crisis. Would Jesus manifest the second sign of the coming Messiah? Would He heal one who was deaf and dumb? Mark Chapter 9 is filled with the revelation of the approaching crisis which would bring about the fellowship of His sufferings. In the first ten verses we find the transfiguration which will be the overthrowing by God of the order that was followed in Israel. The Jews were disciples of Moses and Elijah. Moses represented the law they followed. Elijah represented the Prophets they revered, though their fathers stoned them. (Matthew 23:37) But to God they were shadows of what was to come. In these beloved verses we find that they who were in the shadow of the substance cast, now disappear in the Heavenly Fathers mandate. (Mark 9:4-8) The substance has come. The shadow is swallowed up in light of life. We see Jesus, His face brighter than the sun, His body as pure light. (Mark 9:3) No one can be seen but Him in the new covenant that God would bring forth in blood rather than stone. No longer Is God speaking in the shadow of lawgivers and prophets for He proclaims; This is my beloved Son: hear Him (Mark 9:7b) Hebrews 1:1-3: God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets. Hath in these last days spoken unto us His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds; Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the Word of His power when He

had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. After coming off the Mountain of Transfiguration, His disciples asked Him a question. The question concerned what the Messiah seeking counsel from Jerusalem were asking. Jesus would ask those same scribes why they were questioning the multitudes about Him. (Mark 9:16) They could not grasp the crisis that Israel would rise and fall upon. (Luke 2:34) One with a dumb spirit was being brought to Him. (Mark 9:17) They could not grasp in repentance what was manifesting. They wished to know, Where was Elias? They were making reference to the last prophecy of the Old Testament in the Book of Malachi. Malachi 4:5-6: Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. The Lords answer was that Elias had come in the forerunner of the Messiah as found in Isaiah 40:3-5. That forerunner in the desert was John the Baptist. (Mark 9:11-13) He is now confirming to the disciples who He is. He is likewise confirming to the scribes in the multitude that have come running to Him. (Mark 9:14-15) The second sign will now manifest. THE MANIFEST SIGN

A deaf and dumb demonic spirit that has possessed a little lad has rendered the disciples powerless. This now becomes the ground by which the second sign of the Messiah will manifest. Jesus will manifest the new order of Israel that is indeed HIm by the casting out of a dumb and deaf spirit as we read in Mark 9:25-26: When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him. And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead insomuch that may said, He is dead. In this little fellow we are about to witness the profound Glory of God. The Lord will deliver him from the enemy. The Scripture proclaims that after his deliverance he is as dead. But out of the fellowship of suffering there manifests the power of resurrection. For what Jesus touches will arise in resurrection. Mark 9:27: But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.

RESTORATION In the healing of a leper the body is restored. In the restoration of the mind and ears from the devils tyranny, there is now an ear to hear what the Holy Spirit saith. In the restoration of the mind, the eternal mind of Christ is put on that there may be union with man and God. Upon leaving the second sign the disciples are without understanding. (Mark 9:32) Jesus however knows that the fellowship of sufferings in the betrayal of what was once Gods temple is about to manifest. Mark 9:31: For He taught His disciples, and said unto them, The Son of Man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill Him; and after that He is killed, He shall rise the third day. SIGN # 3 THE OPENING OF EYES IN ONE BORN BLIND THE GROWING QUESTION BECOMES BANISHMENT

One of the great chapters of the New Testament is John Chapter 9. The chapter starts out with Jesus seeing a man born blind; a man born blind from birth. One of the four confirming signs of the Messiah to the Jewish people was that the blind eyes from birth would be opened by the Savior of Israel. We must realize we are all born blind from birth. Truly only One can open our eyes, that being our Creator the Lord Jesus Christ. Blindness is the condition of the natural man. It is something we cannot help for we inherited that curse from our father Adam. Yet in mercy the Lord would bring forth the grace of sight. Oh God look upon us. John 9:1-3: And as Jesus passed by, He saw a man which was blind from his birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man or or his parents, that he was born blind? And Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. IT TAKES NEW CREATION TO SEE For new creation to manifest it takes the breath of life. John 20:22: And when He had said this, He breathed on them,and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. God formed man from the clay of the earth and breathed on him. Genesis 2:7: And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

As the Creator of all things, (Colossians 1:16) Jesus would manifest new creation in the blind man by again working with clay. He would spit on the ground and moisten the clay to anoint the eyes of the blind from birth that the Glory of God would manifest. He would then send the one born blind to the pool of Siloam. That pool was cut from a rock. Something had to come out of the rock in order for the water to come and fill the rock. Jesus is our Rock of salvation. He bore our old nature to the cross but when that nature was crucified with Him, the old nature was taken and in its place there manifests room for man to be washed by the Word and His Holy Spirit. The pool of Siloam means sent. Jesus was sent that those He would wash would come to see the Kingdom of God (John 3:3) John 9:6-7: When he had thus spoken, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said unto him, Go wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. THE NEIGHBORS RECOGNIZE THE SIGN The neighbors came to recognize that the one they knew as blind from birth had been healed by Jesus. (John 9:8) The signs of Messiah were manifesting before man and God. The Leper disintegrating is now reassembled. The deaf and dumb by devils is now hearing, and now one born blind is seeing. This is a manifestation of the graces of the Messiah. A new man is being restored. A man no longer cursed with death. A man of full mind that can now hear. A man that was blind now can see. A new man was manifesting by the Messiah of Israel and the signs of the restoration of man to God was being seen throughout Israel, even to the neighbors. THE NEIGHBORS BRING THE SEEING SIGN TO THE PHARISEES How exciting it must have been in Israel to see Jesus bringing the third sign of the Messiah. Even the common people, simply known as the neighbors, recognized what was happening by Gods graces. They brought the one who was born blind now seeing to the Pharisees fully expecting a great recognition of the third sign. What they found was quite the opposite. In fact they found objection, rejection and religion. Instead of receiving the Messiah they found a rejection by the means of the Sabbath. John 9:13-16: They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because He keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a

division among them. The Pharisees did not believe the report until they confronted the parents of the one born blind. Yet a division was forming. (John 9:16) When the parents were confronted by the Pharisees, they did something most remarkable. They allowed fear with religion to distance themselves from Jesus. If they would confess Jesus as the Christ they would be put out if the synagogue. They forsook the fellowship of His sufferings for fear, status and pride. Rather than embracing truth, they forsook the One who had made their son the third sign of the Messiah. John 9:22-23: These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already that if any man did confess that He was Christ he should be put out of the synagogue. Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.

SIGN # 4 THE RAISING FROM THE DEAD OF ONE DEAD FOUR DAYS BANISHMENT UNTO MURDER WHAT IS FAITH ? In the fourth sign the true meaning of faith becomes an issue. This question swirls around one named Lazarus. Lazarus is dead. (John 11:14) Lazarus has two sisters who grieve for him. They have faith in Jesus. Their faith comes from two perspectives Lazarus is dead four days. (John 11:17) Their faith is like the faith of many today. It is bound up in time. Martha has a faith bound to the future. John 11:24: Martha said unto Him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Mary has a faith bound to past. John 11:32: Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying unto Him, Lord, if thou hadst been here my brother had not died. The real faith of Jesus Christ comes out of eternity for eternal purposes. John 11:25-26: Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in Me though he ere dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believeth thou this? His faith is the faith we must live by. It is the faith that restores man. It restores man by new creation, the mind of Christ, ears to hear, eyes to see and a new man filled with life;

eternal life. This is the crucified life manifest by His faith unto a resurrected man in the image of God. This is the life we see in the Apostle Paul when we read Galatians 2:20: I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, WHo loved me, and gave Himself for me. LAZARUS IN THE CHURCH THE FOUR SIGNS OF MESSIAH FORMED IN THE CHURCH In Lazarus we find one who is dead and now lives by the Words of Jesus Christ. Our Lords voice is loud and specific and can be heard today in His apprehending faith. His voice cries out LAZARUS COME FORTH! (John 11:43) Now he who was dead four days comes forth, but he is bound. His body is covered in mummification of the grave clothes of Egypt. (John 11:44) His head and ears are covered with the grave clothes of Egypt learned in captivity. His eyes are likewise covered. This is the condition of the church today. It has tasted life but Egypt has joined the church covering eyes to see the Kingdom, (John 3:3) and ears to hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. (Revelation 3:13) Lazarus has come forth from the dead, but now there is a command that comes forth from before the foundations of the world. LOOSE HIM, AND LET HIM GO. (John 11:44) May the church be loosed of the cunning sleight of hand to come into the stature of the perfect and complete man. (Ephesians 4:13) May the church be loosed to put on the mind of Christ. (Philippians 2:5) May the church be loosed to have an ear to hear what the Spirit saith. ( Matthew 11:15) May the church have eyes to see (Revelation 1:12) the voice that speaks (Revelation 4:1-5) that it may come up into the Throne Room. May the church see the seven Spirits of God before His throne burning in the Candlestick that is the Church, (Revelation 1:20) instead of the teachings of Balaam and Jezebel. May the church be loosed of the grave clothes of apostasy unto a corporate man in the image of God. (Ephesians 1:10) May the signs of Messiah be loosed in the household of faith in that we are no longer strangers to the promises given Israel. (Ephesians 2:12) May the church be loosed of that which is drawing into the false prophet of the Revelation. (Revelation 13:11-15) Lord Jesus loose the church! LAZARUS THE FOURTH, SIGN CRISIS UNTO MURDER Death unto life is for the glory of God. (John 11:4) It must be realized that not all that is done in churches and temples has this motive. The fourth sign of the Messiah would reveal this in the hearts of men. We learn that many of the Jews came to believe in Jesus. (John 11:45) Others went and reported this to the Pharisees. (John 11:46) The Sanhedrin were now in full crisis. Jesus had fulfilled all the signs of the Messiah before Israel. They called a counsel and had to report that What do we do? for this Man doeth many miracles. (John 11:47) Their crisis revolved around entering into His sufferings or loving the world. So it is today. The Pharisees realized they could not leave Him alone for soon all Israel would believe Him to be the Messiah. Should that

happen, the Romans would come and take their private police force, their palaces, their profits from running Herods Temple which at that time was one of the wonders of the world. John 11:48: If we let Him thus alone, all men will believe on Him; and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation. GIFTS AND CALLINGS WITHOUT REPENTANCE In the Lazarus crisis, the high priest, Caiaphas correctly prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation of Israel and all nations. (John 11: 49-52) They would celebrate Passover who is Jesus, (I Corinthians 5:7) but love the world above the Lord Jesus Christ. The gifts without repentance will lead to the love of the world and the forsaking of the fellowship of His sufferings. To enter into the revelation of eternal life one must enter into the fellowship of His sufferings. To refuse this call is to bring forth the spirit of murder even within the church. The murder that manifested in the hearts of the counsel of the Sanhedrin because of its love for the global Roman government would now direct the devils wrath to that which manifests the testimony. For Lazarus now becomes the object of their murder. John 12:9-11: Much of the people of the jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death Because that by reason of him many of the jews went away and believed on Jesus Beloved of the Lord, the Sword of Gods Word now divides. (Hebrews 4:12) The point of dividing is the love of this world in the church, even with gifts, or the humility of the mind of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 2:5-6) Will we love the new global government that now manifests or will we enter into the fellowship of His sufferings? May resurrection power bring us to love Jesus in pure first love in the fellowship of His sufferings so that we can be truly apprehended of him. May the signs of the Messiah bring to us wholeness, hearing with his mind, comprehensive spiritual sight unto eternal life. Philippians 3:10: That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death.