Warriors From The House Of Cedars
Written by Elinor Montgomery – em*********@****co.ca
November 23, 2004
If the Lord is raising up His bride, she must fit two categories. She is of the king-priest line of David, which means she belongs to the house of cedars. She must also be a warrior. She is a unique kind of warrior who does not wear the armor of this world, nor does she carry a sword. Her battle is with the Goliath of our day, who will be a giant in stature called the Antichrist. Beside him, Goliath is but the little brother. David is the little brother who stands beside the bride, sister and spouse of Jesus, destined to rule and reign with Him as an adopted daughter or son of God.
What is it that binds a bride to a bridegroom? It is love, passionate love that could be translated to mean the worship of the truth. There can be worship no other way but in Spirit and in truth. David was a man full of sin, but the difference between him and Saul was his relationship to God and his complete freedom from religion and religious practices. Yes, he was a murderer and an adulterer, and yes, he broke the law; but no, he did not seek to justify his sin or turn away from God to seek refuge in religion. He heard the prophet’s condemnation and warning and went flat to the ground in repentance, for the worst thing David could imagine was incurring the wrath of God that might separate him from his Creator.
Remember, David was granted the rare privilege of eating the holy bread, the showbread, along with his hungry men – a privilege granted only to certain men of the priesthood. He was already anointed and marked as a priest of God at this point. David knew and understood well the folly of monkeying with God’s anointed. He was anointed himself, along with Saul, and once anointed and destined for kingship by God, only God would bring such a man down. Korah is the perfect picture in the wilderness, as was Miriam, of what happens when one comes against God’s anointed who will remain untouched until, like Moses, his job is done and then God takes care of the rest of it. No man can bury God’s anointed, only in God’s time will be allow it. Elijah is another example of being taken by God in the chariot of Israel when his time was up.
We have, pictured in the bride, the combination of Moses and Elijah at the end of her time of witnessing. She cannot be buried by man, nor will she remain longer than her Beloved did in the tomb before she, like Him, will be taken up in a cloud. The two aspects of Elijah and Moses surround her death and resurrection, and together, the pattern of the bride fits that of her Beloved as she drinks from his cup (the cup found in Benjamin’s sack) and surrounds her Beloved in glory, as did Elijah and Moses in the tribulation (transfiguration?). Of course, back in Genesis is the prophetic picture of the king-priest line seen in the person of Melchizedek who, as king and priest of Salem (Jerusalem), fed the bread and wine to Abraham (the Spirit of truth and the Word).
Only stones will confront the Antichrist in these final days as it was with stones that David went for the head of the seed of the serpent. The woman’s seed (the bride) will be as an apostolic stone carried by the hand of the Lord (see Elijah’s servant’s vision in 1 Kings 18:44) right to the mark on the head of the beast that will eventually fell this giant as she returns with Jesus in His army on white horses.
The Lord promises He will take one of the highest branches of the highest cedars and set it out. He will crop one of its young tender twigs and plant it on a high and prominent mountain. This is the mountain height of Israel, as close to God as one can get, and there it shall become a fruitful, majestic cedar. The high and mighty cedars are brought down, but this lowly one from the house of cedars, the house of David, shall flourish. This is none other than the bride – a mighty, spiritual warrior like David, her father. She is not one person but a small army of warriors that can best be described by Gideon whom the Lord called “a mighty man of valor”. By world standards, Gideon was quite a coward as he hid from the enemy of Israel as he did his job of threshing wheat.
The Lord did not see Gideon as men saw him while preparing the wheat for storage and ultimately for eating while remaining in hiding. The Lord spoke the Word that would change him into a warrior, as was Peter, the symbol of the church, changed from coward to unstoppable apostle that would even choose crucifixion upside down, probably a worse way to die than that of right side up. He did so from a feeling of unworthiness – not one of ego or self-importance, the state in which Jesus took Peter as He found him. Gideon was different, but he heard the Word of the Lord and asked for signs in the natural, which he was given. The bride, like Gideon, will be given the signs in the natural, but this time the picture will be chosen by God. The signs given the bride will correspond only to signs from the Word.
Gideon was going to be given an army out of Israel of God’s choosing, and they would be led to the water to see what they would do with it. In John 7:37-38, the water to which they will be led is described. “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.” The bride at the well has rivers of living water, or the Spirit, flowing from her truth to which she witnesses like Paul in writings as well as teaching. Now here is the crux of the matter. If we put our hand to bring it to our mouth, or internalize the truth, so, in turn, we can speak it, quickly responding to the sent servant’s message, then we will be chosen today among the 144,000 witnesses or warriors to the truth, as were the three hundred chosen in Gideon’s day.
Those who get on their knees in worship, without the truth, can be led to worship anything and waste their time in man’s works. Incredibly, apostate men are daily leading hundreds to worship in the music and ways of the world instead of being lappers seeking the truth. God, unfortunately for them and fortunately for Gideon, was given, and the bride will be given, only those completely immersed in the truth and desirous of only the truth to be their covering. Woe to those that hold on to the old ways and the old practices we have called for years the church, which is nothing more than religion. Put a golden calf in front of them and they will fall to their knees to worship it. Put a social program in front of them and they will race to be seen as a practitioner of good deeds, offering nothing more than a social program from the churches as we know them today.
What purpose does it serve the Lord to be on your knees in buildings of great wealth, looking up at a statue in prayer and in what is a misnomer of reverence to God? Atheists may sacrifice their lives to business success or bridge playing, tennis, golf and all the self-serving occupations – but the bride will spend her life seeking truth. All else is secondary and literally of no importance, compared to the lapping up of the tongue of the water that, in turn, will cause it to flow to others.
These are the warriors God is calling forth at this very hour as I write. They can hear the Spirit and the bride calling the others to come to the well and meet the Messiah. The question is this; “What will you do when you arrive at the well? Will you take your hands and lap it up as quickly as you can, or will you fall down to your knees and look around for something to worship? Adam and Eve were given a garden in which to worship in Spirit and in truth, but they chose something else that appealed to the flesh. Oh yes, it was the knowledge of good and evil, Satan’s tree offered, but it was the forbidden, and in their desire for a world king, they worshiped before Satan – fulfilling his desire to be worshiped like the Most High God. Their lives became useless, spiritless lives from which God and the Spirit of Life departed. They had walked away from the truth, which God had given them so they would be a bride for Jesus.
(John 6:67) “Do you also want to go away?” was the question Jesus asked His apostles. This is the question that faces the bride today as she draws near the living water. Will you choose truth, or will you also choose to go away?