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The rise of the saints, part 13

The two “stones” (laws) each were placed in the wall of the New Jerusalem after a 52-day cycle, based on the pattern of Nehemiah 6:15. There were two cycles of 52 days, each beginning on a day correlating with the eighth day of Tabernacles. The first cycle began on July 22, 2012, or 7/22, which, on our western calendar was like the eighth day of Tabernacles. The second cycle began on the eighth day of tabernacles on the Hebrew calendar, October 8, 2012.

Hence, the first stone was placed on September 12, and the second on November 29.

Placing the Second Stone

The second cycle of 52 days extended from October 8 to November 29, 2012. It happened that I was scheduled to speak at a conference in Texas on the weekend of November 30 to December 2. So the evening before the conference began, a group of us met in the hotel room to place the second stone in the wall—the law of impartiality. This was done by a prophetic declaration after some discussion and discernment.

I then explained this to the full group at the conference itself in my second talk on Saturday, December 1, 2012. I had known for many weeks already that I was to share this at the conference. Yet to understand the significance of our prophetic act in placing the stone on November 29, we must look briefly at some history and see how it correlates with the revelation of John 2:18-21.

The 46 Years from 1947-1993

On November 21-29, 1993 we conducted our first prayer campaign called prophetically the Jubilee prayer campaign. It was held 46 years after the Palestinian Resolution had been introduced to the United Nations on November 21, 1947. That Resolution was passed eight days later on November 29, 1947.

The 46-year cycle was based on the sign of Jesus’ authority given in John 2:18-21,

¹⁸ The Jews then said to Him, “What sign do You show us as your authority for doing these things? [i.e., for driving out the bankers from the temple] ¹⁹ Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” ²⁰ The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days? ²¹ But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

King Herod the Great had begun the reconstruction of the temple, and his successors had finished it shortly before Jesus began His ministry. The Greek word for temple is naos, which appears 46 times in the New Testament. The Jews’ statement, “It took forty-six years to build this temple,” carries a numeric value of 3,588 (46 x 78, or 276 x 13).

The numerical pattern links that statement both to 46 (“temple”) and 276 (“the flesh”). Together, this points to that fleshly temple, which looked beautiful on the outside, but like the Pharisees themselves, was full of dead men’s bones (Matthew 23:27). In reality the Most Holy Place in that temple was an empty room, because the Ark of the Covenant had been removed and hidden by the prophet Jeremiah just before Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonian army.

The point is that the fleshly temple was assigned the number 46, the biblical number for “temple,” as well as the number 276, which is “the flesh.”

The Meaning of the Number 276

As with all of the sacrifices under the Old Covenant, the burnt offering was a prophetic type of Jesus Christ. In Leviticus 7:8 we read that the priests were to get the “skin” of the sacrifices,

⁸ Also the priest who presents any man’s burnt offering, that priest shall have for himself the skin [Heb. ore] of the burnt offering which he has presented.

The Hebrew word for “skin,” both here and in Genesis 3:21, is OR (ORE). Recall that after Adam and Eve sinned, they were clothed with “garments of skin.” When they lost the glorified body through sin, God gave them fleshly skins to replace the spiritual garments that they had just lost, to cover their nakedness. Garments of skin represent the mortal body of flesh, which Paul calls “the earthly tent” (2 Corinthians 5:1) in which we are now “clothed” (2 Corinthians 5:4).

The Hebrew word ore (“skin”) has a gematria of 276 (ayin = 70; vav = 6; resh = 200).

Because we are the temple of God (1 Corinthians 3:16), we see that our temples are clothed with “skins,” or fleshly garments, but we have the promise of heavenly garments that we will be given at a future time (2 Corinthians 5:1). These heavenly garments are yet reserved for us in heaven.

In Spanish, oro is “gold.” In English, ore is often synonymous with “gold.” Gold signifies the divine nature and relates to the heavenly garments. Hence, this suggests that there are two types of garments, because ore can be both “skins” and “gold.”

The gematria of “the flesh” in Greek is 6 x 276.

“All flesh” in Hebrew is 2 x 276.

In Acts 27:37 we find Paul on board a sinking ship with 276 souls aboard. We read,+

³⁷ All of us in the ship were two hundred and seventy-six persons.

The gematria of that verse is 3,036 (276 x 11). The number 11 is the biblical number for imperfection and disorder. Hence, all flesh (276) is imperfect (11) on board this ship of fools, and yet all who were on board that ship were saved, for Acts 27:44 concludes, “And so it happened that they all were brought safely to land.”

The Greek text uses the word diasozo, “to save thoroughly.” This story is a parable of the restoration of all things. Perhaps Luke had in mind the promise of God in Isaiah 40:5, which he quotes in Luke 3:6, saying, “and all flesh will see the salvation of God.”

Thus, the “skin” can represent either the mortal body or the immortal, glorified body that Jesus had after He was made a Burnt Offering for sin. When it speaks of the mortal body, it is linked with the flesh; when it speaks of the immortal body, it is linked with Christ's body.

The fact that ORE means “gold” in other languages illustrates the fact that gold represents the divine nature, which is our heavenly clothing.

To tie this all together, the statement in John 2:20, which carries a numeric value of 46 x 78 or 276 x 13, speaks of fleshly temples in a state of rebellion and depravity (13). Yet the temple of Christ’s body, though it may die, will be raised up in three days. Christ Himself was raised up on the third day; the body of Christ will be raised up “after two days” in the third millennium (Hosea 6:2), for we know that “with the Lord one day is like a thousand years” (2 Peter 3:8).

History of November 29

As I said earlier, the Jubilee prayer campaign in 1993 occurred precisely 46 years after the Palestinian Resolution was debated and adopted in the United Nations (November 21-29, 1947). The Jewish state thus was given 46 years in which to build their fleshly temple. When their time was finished, we went before the Divine Court to make the case for the overcomer temple—the body of Christ—to be the true temple of God.

We met again seven years later from November 28-30, 2000 to mark the end of the transition from Saul to David, this being 7½ years from the prophetic death of “Saul” (May 30, 1993) until November 30, 2000, where David conquered Jebus and renamed it Jerusalem. In our case, we overthrew the fleshly city of Jerusalem and declared the heavenly Jerusalem to be the capital of the Kingdom.

On November 29, 2012 we reached another major milestone in prophecy, for we were led to place the law of impartiality as the “stone” in the wall of the New Jerusalem. The revelation was that this law was vital for the overcomers to understand when they are called to rule and judge the nations from their Capital City.

The specific prophecy that was declared on this date was to “cast out the bondwoman and her son” (Galatians 4:30). The children of the flesh—that is, the children of the earthly Jerusalem—will not be heirs with the “children of promise” (Galatians 4:28, 29). Those who are loyal to Hagar-Jerusalem and consider themselves to be her children are not overcomers. In other words, they will not be rulers in the Kingdom of God. The rulers will be the children of prophetic “Sarah,” the heavenly Jerusalem.

These rulers are birthed by the New Covenant and are thus the children of promise. They have the faith of Abraham, “being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform” (Romans 4:21). Old Covenant faith, derived from “Hagar,” bases salvation on the promises of men (as in Exodus 19:8); New Covenant faith, derived from “Sarah,” bases salvation on the promises of God (as in Deuteronomy 29:12, 13).

So the revelation since 1993 in particular has progressively revealed the distinction between the children of flesh and the children of promise. It has been a revelation of the two covenants and the quality of faith assigned to each covenant. This revelation has applied to both Jews and Christians, each in their own way. The Jews, of course, remain under the Old Covenant and are children of the fleshly Jerusalem.

Many Christians too consider the fleshly Jerusalem to be their spiritual mother on account of their belief in Christian Zionism. More than that, their plan of salvation is based on the pattern of the Old Covenant, where men’s decisions (and vows/promises) determine their salvation. They need to understand John’s teaching in John 1:13 that we “were born, not of blood(line), nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”