The Exodus Of The Church From The Religion of Christianity
Written by Elinor Montgomery – em*********@****co.ca
May 23 & 24, 2003
The coming out of the captivity of Egypt is to the nation Israel as the coming out of the captivity of religion is to the Church of Jesus Christ. God raised up a messenger, who went on high into the very presence of God to receive the plan for deliverance. This was a man trained by the enemy and then taken out of the palace of training to reject the great one, Pharaoh, who was as a father to him, in order to serve the Lord God of Israel. The sign Moses was given was, that upon having brought them out, he would continue to serve God on the Holy Mountain, or from on high. The leadership of the exodus of the true church from the religion of Christianity can only be the plan of God, and not of man. It will be the same God whose name is forever the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Allah is not God, and never can be. He is an idol of religion. The movement will require hearing the plan through the voice of the messenger. The exodus will be done as God stretches out His hand with the messenger, to strike Satan who holds the church captive to religion and witchcraft.
Moses was as the bride will be, a voice to the ruling power of Egypt. Let us go back to Abraham, where separation from the world begins for God’s people Israel, with the promise of the inheritance of the land belonging to his seed, through his sons, Isaac and Jacob. God crosses over the blessing, showing it will go to sons who take only Hebrew women or kinfolk for wives. It shows the crossover from a son born of the captivity of an Egyptian slave girl to a son born in liberty to a wife in wedlock. It shows a son born who strives to gain the inheritance through a heart that desires what the father has to give, as opposed to a son who does not value the inheritance of the land as much as he cares for the lusts of this world. Through the line of these three men, a people called Israel become the people of God’s portion, who receive the inheritance of His kingdom. It all begins with Abraham, a man of faith and obedience, typifying the nature of the sons of inheritance. He sets the pattern for the nation, with the firstborn of his seed belonging to God and yet we see this inheritance crossed over to the second born, who strives with man and God to inherit the land. It is not to the firstborn, but to the overcomer, who becomes as the firstborn, and shall receive the inheritance. God declares to Moses that He will always be known as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in order to show this crossover blessing of First Son to Second Son. He is a God of tribes that also receive a crossover blessing with the greater blessing going from the sons of the first company of tribes, to the sons of the second company, all of whom are blessed by their father, Jacob.
At this point, let us look to Joseph, the son placed at the right hand of Pharaoh to see this pattern put in place. Having suffered as a slave in Egypt, (typifying Jesus as the suffering servant to save man), Joseph then becomes the ruler of all Egypt (the kingdom of this world), second only to the great one (God). Through him, salvation comes to Israel, to both companies, with his true brother, Benjamin, receiving the greater blessing, as the son of Rachel, mother of the second company. She is not a mother of the ten tribes of the nation, but rather she is the mother of spiritual Israel. Benjamin is both a son and brother of love. Though Leah is buried in the ancestral tomb of the fathers of Israel, Rachel is buried near Bethlehem where she births the ‘child of the right hand’. This is the coveted position that the apostles wanted, which the apostolic church, the bride will receive. She wants to be wherever the Lamb goes.
Joseph placed the other brothers representing Israel (the tribes of the nations on the other side of the gates, outside the New Jerusalem, as believers but not overcomers), in order around the table where they are seated, according to their order of birth. Yet the gates have their names on them for they are open to them day and night, to enter or leave as they please. There definitely are two companies, the second of which, being Benjamin, is born after Joseph. He knows him but a short while, when the brothers take Joseph away from him, yet Benjamin is restored to Joseph to receive His cup and his greater blessing. Then we are given a picture of the nation of Israel in the captivity of slavery, at a time just before they are taken out by God miraculously from captivity to liberty, into the wilderness heading toward the Promised Land of Abraham to possess it. This points to the church age when the church that drank of the cup with Jesus, the apostolic church, had a short beginning before being taken captive under the Roman rule of Roman Catholicism. The true church became every bit as much slaves to the religion of Christianity as did the nation Israel become slaves to the idolatrous nation of Egypt.
Roman Catholicism took the church captive under a religious apostate priesthood. It became an institution known as the ‘Church’ having nothing really to do with the true church but rather merely served to encompass small amounts of the wheat among the tares. But God’s plans are never foiled by Satan. Israel is the prophetic pattern and principles of the precept to be put in place. Just as Moses was raised up in a face to face relationship with God to lead the nation out of captivity, the time is coming and, lo, is upon us when such a leader will again rise up having a face to face relationship with God. Like Israel, the nation, the church, the spiritual nation would be taken to its own land of liberty. From out of Catholicism, a reformation took place that brought the church partially out of the papal controls of religion and into a purified state. Yet, still, it did not shed all its shackles of institutionalism and papacy. It simply separated from the old papacy to set up a new kind of priesthood. God was preparing the church as He prepared Moses to come out of her, the institutional harlot. There were Moses-like figures such as Martin Luther, Columbus, Cromwell, and Wesley, raised up to get her in readiness for her Lord.
With a further purification in her own wilderness experience, she was taken to the land of America to be the light bearer of Israel. She was the second company, responsible to see that the torch of Israel was held high for all the world to see God’s glory. It was incumbent upon her to keep the light burning in this new land of liberty, whose Fathers of Confederation chose to covenant with God under His law and the truth of His Word as the basis for justice. From here we move to the Book of Revelation to see the failure of the church to keep the law in the land only to find an end-days church under God’s judgment for her lukewarm nature. Her failure to keep the law of God supreme in America is as great a failure if not greater than that of the first company of Israel, which was in bondage under Roman control. The church had the freedom to be a voice to preserve God’s rulership in the land, but refused to do so. Both companies went into slavery after Joseph died. Nation and church alike have reached a point of captivity to the control of Satan, the Pharaoh of the world as we head into the One World Order, under a revived Roman Empire, again. God is about to allow the sword of judgment under Rome to come down upon a sinning Israel once more.
But God had heard the cries of the people for deliverance from their taskmasters, and so He raised up one to be as the voice of God, in the same way that He will again raise up one to be the voice of Jesus, the Kingfisher of men. He raised a voice in between these two voices, one crying in the wilderness before His first coming, to make straight the way of the Lord. Now, a voice again will cry out to get ready and repent, for the judgment of God is at hand. This will not be a smooth talking voice, but rather it will be a voice as strong as Moses’ voice was before Pharaoh. It will be a voice with the spirit of Elijah in it, for it will call the nation back to God as the fire of judgment prepares to come down. The anger of God could be felt in every word of Moses, and the judgments he placed on the nation were not only severe, but they were swift.
Moses faced an enemy that used witchcraft to try and make the Word of God null and void. Pharaoh used his magicians to fool the people into believing he had the same powers as God. Was it not the picture of Satan’s age-old message that one can be like the Most High God? Was it not the rebellion of witchcraft that caused Elijah to challenge the prophets of Jezebel? This is a time today when witchcraft and rebellion rule over both the world and the institutional church. Yet, the remnant of Israel, the true church travails to bring forth the child, which will be like an Elijah-Moses company of people called the bride who will make the last call with the Spirit to the nation. She is the Voice calling those who can hear, to come out of the systems of the religions of this world. She will fish for men from the seawaters of evil as did the apostles before her, as fishers for the Kingfisher of men. She will be a voice for the Kingfisher.
Pentecost will give way to the Feast of Trumpets, followed by Atonement. The bride is as a trumpet voice, a silver trumpet calling the camp together. Judgment is about to come down as the bride, like Elijah, calls the nation of America back to God. She calls into the same deafening silence of the institutional church that faced Elijah, when there was no voice to be heard from the nation in response to his call. Do not think that one small voice cannot pull down the power of God and change a nation. The pure church is seen as the transfiguration appearing before the apostles, with Jesus in the center speaking with Moses and Elijah as a company together. It is as a time when the church will be transformed into its glorified body of overcomers in the spirit of Moses and Elijah, with the focus on only Jesus, of whom God says, “This is My Son and in Him I Am well pleased.” Likewise, Jesus will look upon His church and say, “This is My bride, in whom I am well pleased.” She will become the son of inheritance, born of the woman in labor to bring forth the man-child, the new creation in the Spirit, which will be snatched up to heaven to be raptured before the great bowl judgments are poured out.
She shall come out of the parted sea water of satanic spirits to cross on dry land. This is the purity of earth, the dust separated from the seawater, the dust of which man was created, having received new life in the Spirit, and having chosen the narrow pathway through the sea to the Promised Land. She is on her way to return, yet to go forward at the same time, to the garden of paradise. But no longer will the lure of Satan be there, for like Pharaoh and his armies, he and his harlot are destined for the bottom of the sea. It is the seawater that takes man down, the seawater of religious spirits and witchcraft. It is the parting of the sea, and the crossing on the dry land, the way of Jesus, which is the doorway for redemption that leads to her dwelling place on high. The Voice of the Kingfisher shall battle witchcraft and the rebellion of the religion of secular humanism to restore the hearts of the children to the hearts of the father.
