Voice of the Kingfisher speaks out …from a different perspective
by Elinor Montgomery
April 10, 2013
In the heart of Israel, as in the heart of the creation message of Genesis, one will find pictured the message of the waters, that of the sea and the rivers, which ran out of Eden. In the book of Genesis, the riverhead split before surrounding the Garden and running into the sea. The good earth was separated from the deadly seawaters, which, in Revelation, chapter thirteen, it is revealed to us, are the spiritual waters from out of which the beast rises. It is stated that the dragon gave him power (see Revelation 13:2) and the dragon is identified as that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan (see Revelation 12:9). He is the deceiver of the entire world.
The pure water from above was the Pishon River, which departed from Eden to surround the Garden. This was a land of good gold, or the good worship of God, unlike any other piece of property in the world.
From Mount Hermon, north of the city of Dan in Israel and west of Damascus, flows a river of pure mountain water into the Sea of Galilee, and from there it snakes its way down the Jordan River, where it runs into the Dead Sea. Directly west of the mouth of the river, where the river meets the sea, is located the King’s Town, the city of King David, called Jerusalem. Once the river reaches the Dead Sea, there is no longer any life in the seawater; for it is symbolic of the spirit of death under the rule of Satan.
These waters play an important part in depicting the spiritual history of the world, just as the waters of Genesis do. Jesus was known as the Fisherman of the Galilee, although He did not fish for fish; He was a Fisherman of men – the Kingfisher of men. He called out fishermen of the Galilee to become His church of apostles, who, like Him, were to fish men out of the spiritually dead waters of evil, ruled by the religious lies of Satan in liberalism from God. Now, if the fishermen of the Galilee did not fish men out of the spiritually dead waters, as did Jesus, the men’s ultimate spiritual journey would take them down the snake-like river Jordan and into the spiritually Dead Sea.
But there was a voice crying in the wilderness of this world, that of John the Baptist, near the mouth of the Jordan where it met the sea, calling mankind to be baptized in the Jordan waters and make straight the way for the coming of the Lord. It was the last call of the Levitical priesthood, which could not save man, calling men to prepare for a new High Priest and a new priesthood, which would be given the keys to the kingdom of God. John’s water baptism was a sign of the spiritual changing of the spiritual waters in man’s life, pointing to the coming baptism of the Holy Spirit. Only this baptism could save men of the Way from the deadly, spiritual river water leading to the Dead Sea.
This was the point where the road straightened, leading directly into the kingdom. There must be a rebirth in the Spirit and a return to the living water from above, which had once surrounded the Garden, the original site of the Promised Land. John demonstrated, in the natural water, the prerequisite for inheriting the kingdom, just as the water system within Israel demonstrates the broad road to destruction.
Genesis, chapter two, reveals that the spiritual river waters, which were separated from the headwaters of Eden, would identify the seven empires of man yet to come – the Egyptian (Cush), the Assyrian and the Babylonian system of empires, the last of which was divided into four parts, with the last empire, the Roman Empire, being divided into the early and latter-day empires to make five, making up a total of seven empires in all, throughout all of history.
By the time God set up His dominion rule in America, two of the empires’ spiritual rivers had dried up, leaving the Euphrates still flowing strongly with the Babylonian system of empires still very much alive and well, moving quickly toward the formation of the final Revived Roman Empire. It would be but a short period of history before the end would come to the Empire period, and the Lord would return to set up His kingdom here on earth with a church that also would come into her fullness of time.
Before this can happen, the fullness of the gentiles, Babylon the Great, mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth, must come into being with the formation of a One World Order of religion, government and currency, which will fill the entire world. With its final collapse, the world will at last be cleansed of Satan’s rule, and the beast will be ridden by that woman, Jezebel, all the way to the bottom of the sea to remain chained there with Satan for a thousand years.
God has placed the spiritual picture of the final days of the Babylonian system within the waters in the heart of America, exactly as He placed the world’s complete, spiritual picture in the waters in the heart of Israel. The five great lakes represent the Babylonian system of empires, from the Babylonian to the Revived Roman Empire, with a final rush of the Niagara River waters toward Niagara Falls, which suggests a powerful release of evil upon the world, the likes of which have not been seen before. The spirits, chained in the Euphrates until this time, will now be released in all their power. Niagara Falls, with her Bridal Veil Falls, represents the swiftness with which this attack of evil will come upon the world before the waters pool in the last empire to rise up, as depicted by Lake Ontario.
But, on the Canadian side, with “Cana”, the location of the wedding feast in her name, rests a limestone city not unlike the limestone city of Jerusalem with twelve gateways into it – a true Gateway City also named the King’s Town for a King. This city, like Jerusalem, is located right at the entrance from Lake Ontario to that great river called the St. Lawrence. It, in turn, opens its mouth into a large gulf, spewing its contents into the deadly seawaters close to the spot where the Titanic went down, the symbol of the final iron empire of the Babylonian system going to the bottom of the sea in destruction.
Where else but in the King’s Town would you find the second voice crying out in the American wilderness, a voice like that of John the Baptist, belonging to the bride of the church, to make straight the way into the kingdom on the path of liberty and victory from the broad road to destruction? She is calling all men out of the religious waters for the last time, having the voice of seven thunders in her midst, with the anointing of Elijah upon her. She is also calling men to an exodus from religion in the spirit of Moses, as they come out of the religious waters, from which He will separate them, in order to allow His true church to enter into His kingdom coming to earth.
Surely, these are the 144,000 true Jewish witnesses sealed by God, with His mark on their forehead, who will witness to the end in the spirit of Elijah and Moses. There will be a call for absolute purity in truth, with a total exodus from the controls and deception of religion. Though they may be killed and lie dead in this King’s Town when their witness is complete, they will be resurrected like their Beloved after 3½ days. They will be a mirror image of Jesus as His fishers of men, witnessing only to the truth of the gospels, suffering as He did under the reproach of the religious priesthood. This, perhaps, will be the greatest witness to His power over life and death, which will ever take place, outside of the cross.
The Lord is returning for His inheritance and for the return of the children to their heavenly Father, who, long ago, were turned over, as the fruit of God’s marriage bed with man, to Satan because of the harlotry of that first Jezebel-spirited woman, called Eve. With the first spiritual birth by the Virgin Mary, a new line of the redeemed was established in replacement of the fruitless line, born again of the Spirit of life as was the first fruit, Jesus, born of the Spirit of God to be followed by the fruitful line of spiritual Israel, called the church.
“Remember the Law of Moses, My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse (Malachi 4:4-6).”