MAY PASSOVER, 2001, REPORT
May 17, 2001
Dear
Remnant Bride Inquirer,
As you may know, May 7-15 marked the Remnant bride's first anniversary.
This important time was acknowledged by the gathering of Remnant bride representatives
here in my home in Enumclaw, Washington. Let me provide you a report on
this marvelous and highly attesting time.
There is so very much that could be shared, but I believe it best to focus this
account on one outstanding point or repeated testimony. This will be
done, but first allow me to share about the first moments we shared together.
We know that the bride starts out as a very small rib, and this is what we had
at this first gathering. Others had planned to be here, but as you read
this report, you will understand why this did not take place.
There were four men who were here the entire time. Others came and went,
providing valuable conversation and testimony. There was David Houston
from Mississippi, Jack Manning from Maine, Kyle Nixon from Seattle, Washington,
and myself. This provided the four lepers needed to walk toward the enemy
and put them to flight by Yahweh's amplifying power (2 Kings 7).
The first time ever for this bride to begin to come together took place in, of
all places, a church building. My nine year old daughter, Grace, was
playing in a cello orchestra, and we met there at this church in two groups -
Kyle and David in one vehicle, and Jack and I in another. The music event
was held in the church auditorium.
When we sat down, it just so happened that we four lepers sat beside each other
in one row. As I said, here the Remnant bride came together for the first
time! Hallelu-Yah! Before the performance began, I turned and saw a
solitary man sitting directly behind us, definitely in prayer. He was
crouched forward, with his head planted in both of his hands, much like Elijah
would have been praying, with this head almost between his knees. I
thought it strange that someone would be praying here, for preparations were
well underway toward beginning the concert. Plus, there were ample places
someone could have gone to pray, and not towards the front where we were
seated. I turned my attention away, and later looked again; and still,
this solitary man was in his crouched position directly behind us, clearly
intently praying!
After the concert began, Kyle moved out of his position at the end of the row,
and into the row immediately behind us for a better view. When I looked
back at Kyle, there was no one else there! The row was empty, and the
praying man was gone!
This was such a strange happening that immediately I began looking around for
where he had gone. Had he moved to another location by some family
member? But no, he was not anywhere to be seen! These events were
so strange, particularly when realizing that this Remnant bride rib was
together for the first time, that I wholly anticipated we had just been visited
by a ministering spirit, an angel, who was praying for this Remnant bride. Do
I really believe this could be true? Given the importance of this first
time gathering and the very unusual circumstances, I am fully persuaded that
the man fervently praying behind us was indeed an angel. Even after the
event was over, we immediately searched for this man and he was nowhere to be
found! But this event was to be marked by many other attesting and
marvelous signs.
One apparent emphasis of this Passover time together was to rest in Yahweh.
This we practiced over the ten days together (the men came early), and we
wondered what the disciples did in their equal ten days of waiting. We
had no agenda, but just enjoyed being together, sharing, praying, eating, and
learning.
One of the new things brought out early in our gathering was that Tabernacles
is a two-thirds/one-third pattern. The first (Trumpets) to the fifteenth
(Tabernacles) is divided two-thirds/one-third by Atonement (which means
covering) on the tenth. This was a most affirming truth that brought
forth even further insight and emphasis, as you will see. Of course in
this pattern, we are at the Atonement, or covering, period per the church.
On the morning of the last day, Joseph Herrin sent me an e-mail which mentioned
the account in 1 Samuel 30 where David had pursued the Amalekites after they
had taken their wives, children, and possessions from Ziklag. I read his
e-mail, and afterwards went on a walk in the woods. I was not thinking
about anything in particular, other than Yahweh and what He was doing.
But there was one thing about this account that really puzzled me.
I knew that Christianity is divided two-thirds/one-third, but in this
account we find the reverse. Here, David left one-third of his army with
the baggage, and took the two-thirds portion to defeat the enemy and restore
their wives and children. This did not reconcile with the division of
Christianity, for it is not the two-thirds part that defeats the enemy, Satan.
So, I was greatly perplexed about this!
As I was walking along, suddenly without any specific pondering about this
matter, Yahweh dropped the answer into my understanding. The first
Remnant is the work that receives a single portion of the Spirit, while the
second Remnant receives a double portion. The first Remnant failed to
bring forth the Son of God and His pure kingdom; and like the group that stayed
behind, they too "were too exhausted to cross the brook." The
first Remnant is represented by the 200 who stayed "by the baggage."
But while the first Remnant was too weak to accomplish this victory over the
enemy, the second Remnant double portion represented by the 400 men will
succeed! There is also much to be discerned here by considering the
Egyptian who had not eaten bread or drunk water in three days (the period given
to the church). To revive his spirit, he was given a piece of fig cake
and two clusters of raisins. From there David went on to overcome the
Amalekites and regain their families and possessions.
This sets up a very interesting contrast. While Christianity is a
two-thirds/one-third work; conversely, the Remnant is a one-portion/two-portion
work. This is the same portioning, only in reverse order! There is
something quite dramatic and relevant in Yahweh's regard for this repeated
portioning. In Kyle Nixon's writing titled Lucifer: A Bride in Heaven, posted on the Remnant Bride
e-group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RemnantBride/message/293
(which I very highly recommend you read), we find that Satan is replaced by the
Remnant. And we know that the angels were equally split this same
two-thirds/one-third, with one-third cast to the earth (Revelation 12:4).
This understanding on the 200/400 resolved the big question I had on this
matter, and opened another revealing testimony about what is taking place now
with the Remnant.
This also brings light to a painful intercession in which I am presently
involved. My children fit the first Remnant -> Christianity ->
second Remnant pattern. I have two older daughters (the first Remnant),
followed by a son (Christianity, or the masculine body of Christ), completed by
two younger daughters (the second Remnant). To my great pain, my two
older daughters are precisely like the 200 who were too exhausted to go into battle.
They too want to stay by the brook Besor, or "cool water."
I have been through many intercessions in the last 20 years, but they
have been particularly painful in the last six years. For this reason, my
daughters are too weak to go into battle; and like the first Remnant, they are
headed back into Christianity and staying behind as I continue on. I am
certain this loss is much more painful for me than it was for David, for I am
losing them to Christianity. Thus, I have a very personal interest that
the double portion second Remnant succeed. It affects the welfare of the
loved ones I find myself having to leave behind.
I am an intercessor by calling, and I know that it is essential that I live out
this present price and pattern, but it is painful! However, seeing this
does help relieve some of the loss, and gives me hope for them. You will
recall that when the victory was secured by the double portion second Remnant
group, David declared that the share of the spoils for those who went into battle
was to be equal with that for those who stayed with the baggage. I know
that Yahweh is saying here that the first Remnant will receive the same rewards
of the second Remnant who effect the needed victory. I trust my daughters
will be reunited with me to be one in purpose and delight, and share in the
spoils of the victory that I know I must continue to pursue.
This has been a most revealing testimony regarding the one-portion/two-portion,
and the two-thirds/one-third. And furthermore, Yahweh provided even a
third testimony to this in our Passover time together, that is seemingly very
silly but most revealing.
Before my oldest daughter went to Dallas for three months, I asked her to sow
up a long open slit in a seam in our couch that was created by a metal clasp on
my son's knife. She did not get it done then, and for over three months
it was open. She is home now, and just minutes before I got home from
picking up Jack Manning, she closed the slit. The interesting thing about
this slit was, one, that it was in the couch's side, in the front. And
two, it was precisely at the one-third/two-third mark in the couch. (If
you study the word "couch" in the Scriptures, you will see that the
couch is prophetic of the kingdom of God.) When we came together for this
May Passover, as strange as this may seem, I could not help but see that Yahweh
was saying something through this. I believe the testimony He was telling
us is twofold. First, that obviously we are at the two-thirds or 2,000
year point in the church. But even more importantly, we are at the
one-third mark in this bride work, which is at the place of the closing of the
opened side of the body of Christ.
This one-third or first year portion would represent those who were exhausted
and stayed at the brook Besor. It would be a period of exhaustion and
weakness, which I have personally experienced more than at any time in this
period since 1994, or even in my life. It has also been marked by the
loss of some who began this Remnant journey, but in growing weak have not
continued. This includes my two older daughters, and nearly my wife.
It is my sincere hope now that we are at the place of going on and
building this bride who will be the double portion that defeats the enemy. This
now postslit time should in fact be the bride-forming period - Adam's side was
closed and Yahweh next fashioned the bride from the rib that was removed.
Our experience indicates that this first year has been a time of
weakness, smallness, and even loss, identified with the first Remnant.
Now we should be entering into the double portion bride-forming period.
And very briefly, let us note that Esther likewise went through a one year
period of preparation before she went before the king for examination - Esther
2:12.
In retrospect, unquestionably the one testimony that has continued to surface
throughout this Passover gathering has been the one-third/two-thirds witness.
Even in my personal evening Bible reading, it just happened that I was
reading Isaiah 44 at the beginning of this time together, which is the
two-thirds mark in the book of Isaiah (66 chapters long). Read Isaiah 45,
which is the first chapter in the third part of that book, marking the
beginning of the Millennial reign. In Yahweh's timing for the church, we
are at the Isaiah 44 and 45 two-thirds/one-third transition period. This
was yet a fourth witness.
Now for a MOST amazing conclusion! Already we had seen some amazing
things from Yahweh, including some matters that have not even been covered here;
but even more was in store!
Sometime towards the latter period of our gathering, we were sitting in the
living room and Kyle Nixon stretched real big with his arms over his head, big
enough that his shirt came up and I saw his right side. I noticed that he
had a long dark mark on his skin about the size of a man's finger; but this was
not the kind of thing one asks someone about, so I said nothing. On the
morning of the sixteenth, after our gathering was complete and I would be
taking Jack to the airport, Kyle called me. He told me that his son asked
him - "What is that scar?," which he saw on his side. Kyle had
no idea what he was talking about, and looked down to see the long dark
"bruise" on the lower part of his side, the very thing I had seen
only days before. What was this mark on him? He had absolutely no
knowledge of what could have caused it. He had never hit himself or
strained himself; but suddenly here was a bruise on his side precisely where
the side of Yahshua would evidently have been pierced. Was it a stigmata?
I'll let you decide, but here are the facts.
On the seventh and eighth days of the Feast of Dedication, January 27-28, 2001,
Kyle and I went to Spokane, Washington to seek where Yahweh might have His
Remnant bride to begin residing, as we put into practice the covering of the
bride by holding all things in common. The day before we left, I received
an anonymous gift of $700. While at the home where we spent the night on
the 27th, Kyle was experiencing a pain in his right side and asked me to pray
for him. (Recall that Yahshua told His disciples to cast the net on the
right side of the boat, where they caught 153 fish - John 21.) I laid my
hand on his side, and prayed for his healing as he requested. Looking
back, I now see that I had laid my hand just about where that mark developed.
Just a day or two before our Passover gathering, I received from the same
person for the second time another anonymous gift of precisely the same amount
of $700. And it was in these now Passover events that a bruised side
mysteriously came upon Kyle, right where I had laid my hands during the Feast
of Dedication!
Why Kyle? For a number of reasons, but one in particular. Kyle has
been led through a series of intercessions where he was placed in the
intercessoral position of Yahshua - repairing the breach and in the prophetic
position of both the first and the second Remnants. (And I might add here
that this intercession was entirely directed by the Spirit, often without the
foreknowledge of Kyle.) Per this intercession, Kyle was the proper person
for this testimony of Yahshua to appear.
Why a bruised side? I believe there are two main testimonies we need to
see. First, when I prayed for Kyle, laying my hand on his side, we had
just received $700. Then when Yahweh placed this sign on his side,
likewise we had just received the identical sum of $700. These two
"7" witnesses are the same testimonies seen in Jacob obtaining his
two brides - he worked 7 years and 7 years - and the dove was sent out by Noah
with two 7 day periods in-between. Why? Because in both of these
instances, it looks to the two-part bride coming out of the body of Christ, or
Christianity. This is the Nahor -> Terah -> Nahor testimony in the
taking out of the Rebekah bride for Isaac as addressed in the writing, The Promise, where we find that the meanings
of those names result in the following testimony: piercing -> delay
period -> piercing. This pattern lays out the two Remnant bride, with
the 2,000 year delay period of Christianity between.
Thus, it is evident that Yahweh was giving testimony to taking out the two-part
bride - once with the laying of hands on Kyle's side, and finally with the
stigmata of the bruised side. Why is it bruised, or as Kyle's son asked -
"What is that scar?" I believe that Yahweh provided this sign
to tell us the identical thing He was telling us with the couch - that the side
of the body of Christ has been closed, and it is now time for the bride to be
fashioned!
The very fact that I saw the stigmata is a testimony. I saw no one else's
side during that time; but Yahweh had it that I saw Kyle's side and the
testimony of the wound. My name is Gary, meaning "sharp spear,"
and Yahweh showed me the attesting sign that was given on the place that during
the Feast of Dedication I had laid my hand.
What will these testimonies mean for the Remnant bride? Let us see what
happened on another occasion when a man's side was struck. In Acts 12, we
read of Peter's imprisonment where he was bound between two soldiers. It
was equally on a Passover when an angel came into the cell and "struck
Peter's side and roused him" from his sleep, telling him - "Get up
quickly." As he stood, his chains fell from him and he was led out
of the prison, the gate opening before him. We see then that not only was
Yahshua's side struck during Passover, but Peter's side was also struck during
Passover. And now in 2001 at Passover, Kyle's side was struck! And
as all of this took place with Peter by the presence of an angel, it was an
angel who prayed for us as we gathered together for the first time. Our
hope now for all members entering into this bride is the same testimony
evidenced with Peter - fetters will fall away and they will be led out of
prison.
In similar testimony, we read that when Yahweh closed the side of the ark, the
rains began to come upon the earth (Genesis 7). If all the testimonies we
received about Yahweh closing the side of the body of Christ are in fact signs
of the time, then what we can expect now is the flood waters of the latter rain
to begin to cover the earth! These would not be floods of destruction,
any more than the 3,000 saved on Pentecost were slain the way the 3,000 were
slain on the first Pentecost (Exodus 32:28). This flood will be the flood
of the Spirit that raises a Remnant up alive from the earth.
Every indication from this Passover gathering was that the side of the body of
Christ has been closed and it is now time for the bride to be formed. The
first year first Remnant period of weakness, exhaustion, and loss is complete,
and it is time for the two year victorious period to begin. This
corresponds with my own life as well. May I share some affirming personal
testimonies here?
It has been seven years since the Spirit of Yahweh came upon me in June, 1994.
Seven is the number marking completion. Seven periods of seven
likewise bring one to Jubilee. Thus, eight is the number of new
beginnings. And nine is the number of fruit. Likewise, seven
presidents died in office every twenty years. The eighth president in
this sequence was Reagan, who defeated death. The ninth is George W.
Bush, our much welcomed present president.
Additionally, in 1972 I failed to enter into the ministry upon His calling.
Seven years passed until He renewed that call in the eighth year, or
1980. Then in the ninth year, He fulfilled that call and placed me into
ministry.
Furthermore, specifically 100 years ago in 1901, my cousins, the Wright
brothers, were testing their glider off of Kill Devil Hill on the east coast.
That year was a very difficult time for them. In fact, they had
experienced so little progress that they considered their trip a failure; but
they kept going. 1902 brought new advances in their progress, and in 1903
they were the first to ascend alive into the heavens with power. If 2001,
2002, and 2003 follow the same pattern of my cousins in 1901, 1902, and 1903,
then for those who want to ascend alive in power off of "Kill Devil
Hill," the next two years could be very important and MOST revealing!
As I said, many other signs and evidences occurred, but these are the most
important for you to understand. It is now with great anticipation that
we look to Yahweh to complete what He has begun.
May Yahweh be praised for His exceeding greatness!
Blessings to you,
Gary