Voice of the Kingfisher speaks out …from a different perspective
by Elinor Montgomery
September 16, 2012
The greatest need we have in America today is the need of an operation for character transplant. The pagan world is out there demonstrating about its god while we have nothing to show for ours. We no longer stand for the God of truth, who made us exceptional as a people.
We have put Jesus and His Word of truth into a tomb. It is the tomb of the Garden of creation where sin caused a living, breathing, human being to be returned to dust. We failed to recognize who He was and that He is the way back to Garden living in a world presently ruled by gentile religious/states under the control of Satan. These nations war among themselves for supremacy, one over the other, with all having a hatred for God and a love for their gods of satanic paganism. Hence, the cry of “Allahu Akbar”, meaning Allah is great, is being heard around the world, today, by every nation covered in the filth of the Garden sin.
God is not slumbering or sleeping, but is watching and waiting for the cry of His people who desperately want Jesus to return and put an end to the violence and terror, being carried out world-wide. These are His elect of the marriage bed of man with God and they so yearn for the fruitfulness of it, which was held back by the sin of the Garden, and is still being held back to this day by the spirit of death.
He has given us a marvelous picture in the natural of the problem at the heart of the violent mobs in the East, which are now spreading to a lesser degree into the West. The Spirit of God has led men, probably unwittingly, to make a motion picture for all to see, particularly in the West. The producers probably intended to convey a green message, leading to the worship of creation instead of the Creator, but God turned it around to produce a biblical message permeating the entire Bible, but found particularly in the books of 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy. It is a motion picture about “the odd life of Timothy Green”, a most unusual child.
In the movie, Timothy represents Jesus and His apostolic church, born out of the dirt and filth of the Garden sin. It begins with Timothy (Jesus) becoming man in response to a cry from a young couple who want to come out of the curse of a fruitless marriage bed. Because of sin man became a harlot to His God, who then no longer ruled over man in the goodness, peace and provision He had intended to provide for them. It was His intention to be Head over His keepers of the earth.
Instead, man chose to be like the beast, to be ruled by a beast, and to worship the created as gods. Having broken the marriage covenant given in truth, which God said would cause man to die and return him back to dust for his disobedience, man could no longer be fruitful for his God and would be unable to provide sons and daughters for Him from a seed that can only produce children who will die.
So, the story opens with a childless couple who yearn for a child from the union of their marriage, one who would have inherited their best traits, which had been placed in them by God for life and not for death. They made a list together of each of these traits, which they thought they would have passed on to this badly wanted child. They then buried the list in a little box in the ground hoping that this would help them to come to grips with the fact that they were never going to have this child. It was a box full of regrets for what could have been. It was a cry of resignation and futility, a kind of prayer that went straight up to the light in the midst of the darkness; and God heard their cry of yearning for their all-but-lost opportunity at parenting.
In the thunder of God’s voice breaking through the storms and raging spirit of Satan’s death trap, God shone His Spirit of life upon the box in the earth and opened up the tomb to bring forth the first Timothy, the first Son of God, born of the Spirit, who would bring healing to this couple, as He would, to all of mankind, who looked to Him for salvation from their captivity to death. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations (see Revelation 22:2). It was a repeat of Genesis when God said “Let there be light”, when the light became the root of creation: Jesus said that He was the light of the world.
Timothy’s emergence as a child out of the earth points to Jesus, the great Physician who carried the filth of the sin of the Garden upon Himself. The young child, whom they insisted would be a Timothy, had leaves attached to His lower legs, and no one, no, not anyone, could separate those healing leaves from Him. He had an open door into the house of the couple who cried out to Him, for their hearts were right and ready to receive Him.
The first thing they had to realize was that the fruitlessness of their marriage was because of the filth that comes on Timothy, who will bear their sin from the Garden straight to the marriage bed, the problem of which is at the heart of the matter. This couple represented mankind, who had been harlots to their God and forsaken His truth.
However, it was love for these new parents and their child at first sight. They would choose to take upon themselves the task of normalizing Timothy and the unusual circumstances of His arrival, something that others would find very odd, indeed. How do you normalize anyone who will love so much that He will exist only for you and die to self for the sake of saving you?
People, especially family, will mock and scorn the likes of these young parents, but love sustained them through it all. Still, we all try to make Jesus fulfill our personal purposes in that we think He should be part of our cultural games of life. When we loose Him into our lives, He plays the game but not to score points for one team or the other. Most of us would see Him as weak and dropping the ball, but, in fact, He runs better than all the others put together; He does not score points for self, He scores for all men, no matter what the team’s name or for whom they choose to play.
There is no pride in Him that thrives on the accolades of man. He gives all the glory to the Father for everything comes to Him from the light invested in Him; He left behind the glory of God to become man. So, it is to the light He stretches out His arms and breathes in the Spirit of life.
Timothy gives a leaf of healing to all who love and care for Him, especially to the elect lady who builds a relationship with branches and leaves (see Ezekiel, chapter 17). She sees in Him that which few others have ever seen; and they ride the wheels of the Spirit together (see Ezekiel 1:21). To her was given a special leaf. As each leaf fell from the lower branches of the two legs (the last of the Babylonian Empires, the Roman Empire divided into two parts, the early and latter day empire) and when His work on earth was completed, it was time for Him to return to the box and the tomb, but it would never be able to contain His Spirit, which had been released as the original life-giving Spirit of the Garden of Eden.
Now man could finally be fruitful, but only because of his relationship with Jesus. This was the elect apostolic couple who would finally bring forth the bride for Christ – an adopted daughter for God through the spiritual infilling of the marriage of man to His Son. She was the true Jew and not one of those whom man had believed to be the Jew all along. She had a unique look all of her own, but she had received the blessing of the Father, which would allow her to defeat the grave as an overcomer.
Together, the first Timothy, Jesus, and the second Timothy, His bride, would walk the way of the covenant straight into the kingdom to the river of life proceeding from the throne of God and the Lamb. There, man will at last be united with the tree of life, where there shall be no more curse or closed gates preventing the fruitfulness of life (see Revelation 22:1-3).
They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. And there shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever (Revelation 22:4-5).