Here is a portion of our book Hidden Manna for the
End Times, chapter 6, entitled
Caught Up to the Throne:
The Jewish
Feast of Hanukkah typifies the time of the
anointing of the Man-child at the beginning
of the Tribulation in order to spread that
anointing throughout the Bride and the larger
Church. Hanukkah is celebrated for eight days
and nights, starting on the 25th of
Kislev on the Hebrew calendar. Hanukkah is a
Hebrew word meaning "dedication." It celebrates
the victory of the Maccabees over the Grecian
beast kingdom of 165 B.C. and the rededication
of the Temple that had been defiled by that
kingdom. Their situation typifies the same
spiritual situation we are seeing presently in
the Church. The beast kingdom of this world has
defiled the Temple of God's people with its
thinking and ways. The Hellenists, who were a
type of the worldly Christian and their leaders,
felt that their brethren were not a modern
sophisticated society like the Greeks and so did
everything they could to merge Israel into the
Grecian beast kingdom in culture and thought. As
a true type, the light of the menorah of Israel
was put out during those days when God's people
indulged in the lukewarm darkness of the world even
as today in spiritual Israel, the Church.
The Maccabees
were a priestly family of Jews whom God used to
cast off the bondage of Antiochus IV Epiphanes
at the head of the beast kingdom. Judas
Maccabaeus and his army recaptured Jerusalem and
reconsecrated the temple. We are told that he
wanted to light the menorah of the Temple but
they had only one small flask of oil,
which would last for about a day. God answered
their prayers with a miracle and the oil lasted
for eight days. The Feast of Hanukkah celebrates
this miracle of the multiplication of the oil
for the light of the Temple, which is now the
people of God. Hanukkah is also called the
"Feast of Lights". As Jesus told His disciples,
"Ye are the light of the world" (Mt. 5:14).
The one small
flask of oil was a remnant in Israel and
represents the Lord Jesus birthed in the
anointed Man-child of our day. The first seven
days of Hanukkah represent the miraculous
revival of that light through the Church in the
seven day/years of the Tribulation. This was
symbolized by the lighting of the Temple
menorah, a seven-branched lampstand representing
the seven Churches. Jesus, as a type of the
Man-child, was circumcised eight days after His
birth, symbolizing the cutting off of the flesh
on the eighth day/year, called the Day of the
Lord. This will be after seven day/years of the
Man-child's Tribulation ministry when the old
body is cut off and the new body is received.
I do not
believe the
First-fruits Man-child will be anointed during
the Feast of Hanukkah but God is still about
to fulfill that sign in the days to come by
rededicating the New Testament Temple and
multiplying the oil of the First-fruits
Man-child in them. As Jesus multiplied His
anointing through His apostolic witnesses to the
larger Church, so the Man-child will multiply
that anointing through end-time witnesses to
miraculously restore the light of the Church.
On the evening of the 24th of Kislev begins
Hanukkah on the 25th when Haggai was told by the
Lord that He would bless them "from this
day" by shaking the heavens and earth
and breaking the power of the nations over them,
sending them into the wilderness tribulation behind
the man-child. (Hag.2:10) In the four
and twentieth [day] of the ninth [month-Kislev],
in the second year of Darius, came the word of
Jehovah by Haggai the prophet…
(19)
…from this day will I bless [you]. (20) And
the word of Jehovah came the second time unto Haggai
in the four and twentieth [day] of the month
(Kislev), saying, (21) Speak to
Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will
shake the heavens and the earth;
(During the 8 day/years of Tribulation/Day of the
Lord){22} and I will
overthrow the throne of kingdoms;
(Kingdoms fall to the One World Beast empire)and I
will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the
nations; and I will overthrow the chariots,
and those that ride in them; and the horses and
their riders shall come down, every one by the
sword of his brother. (This is as when
Egypt's power was broken over the called out ones of
Israel as they went into the wilderness tribulation
to learn to walk by faith in God. At this time
Israel was led by their man-child, Moses, who is
being typed here as the first-fruits Zerubbabel,
meaning "born from Babylon." War
may very well cover their flight into the
wilderness.) (23) In
that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, will I take
thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of
Shealtiel, saith Jehovah, and will make thee as a
signet; for I have chosen thee, saith Jehovah of
hosts. Notice "In that
day" of Hanukkah, Zerubbabel will be a
signet, which is a seal of authority such as kings
have. The man-child will come with the authority of
God to bring God's people out of bondage to the
world and through the wilderness tribulation.
Also on this day the foundation of the Lord's house
not made with man's hands is laid again after a
great falling away since the time of the Apostles.
(2:18) Consider, I pray you, from this
day and backward, from the four and twentieth day
of the ninth [month], since the day that the
foundation of Jehovah's temple was laid,
consider it. It is through the
shaking of the nations in the tribulation that God's
"desired" people come out
of them to become the temple of peace.
(2:7) and I will shake all nations; and the
precious things (Hebrew: desired)of all
nations shall come; and I will fill this
house with glory, saith Jehovah of hosts. (8)
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith
Jehovah of hosts. (9) The latter glory of this
house shall be greater than the former, saith
Jehovah of hosts; and in this place will I give
peace, saith Jehovah of hosts. In
the former rain, Jesus, the man-child, laid the
foundation of the former glory house. (1
Cor.3:11) For other foundation can no man lay than
that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.So also in the latter rain, Jesus in
Zerubbabel, as a type of the man-child, will lay the
foundation of the latter, greater glory house.
(Zech.4:9) The hands of Zerubbabel
have laid the foundation of this house; his
hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that
Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto you."
Notice this verse is saying that it is the Lord who
is coming in Zerubbabel to build the house of God.
Man-child Sends out the Witnesses
Amos Scaggs
(David's notes
in red)
After the revelation above of the
sealing of the number of the
first-fruits I received a vision
from the Lord showing two stages of
His work in and through His last day
disciples.
The
first stage
was these modern disciples were
being gathered, including myself.
Preparations had been made by the
Lord well in advance. We were
adequately taken care of and our
needs met without asking. We
gathered together in fields,
feasting and listening to JESUS
while he taught us his ways.
(This is a repetition of history.
Jesus, manifested in the
first-fruits/man-child, will
teach and protect the disciples for
the first three and one half years
of the tribulation just as it was in
the Gospels. They will be trained
to be his witnesses and signs and
wonders will follow their teaching
just as it was with the first
disciples.)
We were going through different
parts of the world but seemed to be
in the same field.
We were
also given protection well in
advance. We were being given
monetary things from Christians that
believed in and were sympathetic to
our cause but stayed in their
prosperous communities. They were
good people and kind to us. When we
left this first teaching stage they
even came to see us off on our
journey. (These
brethren were not called to be among
the man-child or witnesses, who are
God's apostles to raise up the
end-time Church but they are called
to support these ministers. Just as
the witnesses were hand picked by
Jesus in the Gospels, so it will be
this time.)
The
second stage
was that we were gathered into
groups of two’s and three’s and
being sent out into the world. Some
would never return to see their
families ever again. We were being
sent in different groups and then
being dispersed. One had the same
spirit and anointing as
John. Another had the same spirit
and anointing as Peter. Another had
the same spirit and anointing of
James and so forth.
(The two witnesses who have the
spirits of Moses and Elijah also
have the spirits of the Apostles.
As Jesus sent out the corporate two
witnesses two by two in the Gospels
and then in the Book of Acts, so in
our day will the man-child send out
the corporate
two witnesses. They will give
their life to raise up the Church
and the true five-fold ministries
according to type.)
I also saw two rich people that were
in government power. These were two
older friends that partially raised
me when I was younger and have been
dead for 30-40 plus yrs. He was the
Lt. Governor of Ohio and his
wife. I was finishing up some
meaningless work that I was doing
for them so I could leave in a
rush. She said, I will have a baby
by another means if you won’t help
me. He said, “It will have to be by
other means because I can’t help
you.” She said, I think I’ll have
one by a Cherokee. (The
woman here is a remnant of the
apostate Church, which will realize
that it could not bring forth the
fruit of Christ through their
patriotic, allegiance to their
husband, the beast government, so it
will be done by "other means." The
Cherokee represent the witnesses who,
like them will hold tenaciously to
the roots of their forefathers, the
apostles and Christ himself. The
Cherokee are an oppressed minority
who live in camps separate from the
world representing these coming
witnesses of primitive
Christianity. These will rise up
and sow the seed of their
forefathers into the apostate Church
to bring forth the fruit of Jesus in
them. These are a weak people in
themselves who lost their land to
the American beast but have held to
the "Great Spirit" whose power will
bring the true Church back to her
roots.)
I thought the Cherokee child would
be born mature as Adam was.
(God will do a very quick work in
His people.
{Rom.9:28} for the Lord will execute
[his] word upon the earth, finishing
it and cutting it short.)
I was in
a Middle Eastern place, possibly in Israel, a desert
environment. I saw a group of men standing around,
discussing an empty grave, mentioning that one
of their patriarchs was missing. I had the
impression they were Israelites. (These
people who are observing represent New Testament Israel,
the Church, who are circumcised in heart not flesh and
know that Jesus was their patriarch that was
resurrected. They are about to enter into the desert
wilderness of tribulation, world wide.)
They
began looking up at the sky. As they were looking up, I
saw great fear come over their faces. I looked up as
well and saw two men coming down from the sky dressed in
sackcloth. We all instinctively knew that these men
were Moses and Elijah. Elijah landed first and within
seconds, Moses landed. (Obviously
Moses and Elijah are not going to physically come down
from the sky but their holy anointing will be born from
above into the hearts of men who will then return the
fear of the Lord to the Church as the Lord also
interprets in the end of this dream. This will happen
the same way that it happened when Jesus walked the
earth. Peter said that Jesus was the “prophet”
that Moses said would come - just like he did.
{Acts 3:22} Moses
indeed said, A prophet shall the Lord God raise up unto
you from among your brethren, like unto me. To
him shall ye hearken in all things whatsoever he shall
speak unto you. {23} And it shall be, that every soul
that shall not hearken to that prophet, shall be utterly
destroyed from among the people.
In Hebrews 3:5-6, Paul compared Jesus to Moses in that
both were heads of their houses.
As a type
for the end-times, Jesus raised up a corporate body of
two witnesses that went forth two by two and confessed
several times that they were His witnesses. He said to
them, “The words that I have spoken unto you are
spirit and are life.” Jesus sowed the Word of
the spirit and life of Moses and Elijah into the two
witnesses of His day. The great patriarch that was
resurrected from the grave and caught up in this dream,
returns as the spirit of Elijah and Moses first in the
man-child of our day. Moses and Elijah individually are
types of the man-child but combined they are types of
the two witnesses. As it was with Jesus, the man-child
will sow this seed and anointing in the corporate body
of the two witnesses of our day.
We
shouldn’t confuse types here. In another type, Jesus
revealed that John the Baptist came in the spirit of
Elijah. Although John preached repentance as Elijah
did, he spoke no miracles or judgments like Elijah. The
prophetic difference for our time between these two
separate manifestations of Elijah is that one came
before the man-child, Jesus, and a much greater group
came after Him. The later manifestation is accompanied
by Moses’ and Elijah’s miracles and the judgments they
pronounced. John represented those in our day who come
before the man-child and faithfully preach repentance
but the miracles and judgments will come through the
man-child and the witnesses afterwards.)
We also
knew instinctively that if these two men were impeded or
restrained in any way by any individual, the consequence
would be death. As Elijah and Moses started to walk,
the men dispersed on either side, like the parting of
the Red Sea, for their own safety, as if to recognize
the holiness of these men. This is the strange part of
the dream. I well knew that I could be killed by
touching either of these two men. I thought to myself,
this man Moses was just in the presence of God himself.
So I hugged him. I waited for the consequence of my
actions and saw in his face that it was permitted by God
and I was spared. He smiled and then walked his way.
(Only those who are holy among God’s people will both
love and have no fear of the anointing of the
witnesses. These witnesses will have the total
protection of God until they are finished their
testimony. {Rev.11:5} And if any man desireth to
hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth and
devoureth their enemies; and if any man shall
desire to hurt them, in this manner must he be
killed. {6} These have the power to shut the
heaven, that it rain not during the days of their
prophecy: and they have power over the waters to
turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every
plague, as often as they shall desire. {7} And
when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast
that cometh up out of the abyss shall make war with
them, and overcome them, and kill them.)
Elijah
and Moses went on separate paths into the desert. Two
different groups followed each man. They each set a
tabernacle (podium) and started preaching to their
respective crowds. Immediately, a bleacher (seats)
appeared behind me, so I sat down and started to listen
to what they had to say. (I was at a distance
witnessing the whole of both groups). (This
symbolizes that two corporate bodies will receive the
anointing of both Moses and Elijah. You will notice in
the above text from Revelation says that all of the
witnesses had power to do both the signs common to Moses
and the signs common to Elijah; not some the signs of
Moses and some the signs of Elijah. These witnesses
will not only bring repentance, miracles, healing,
deliverance, and provision to the body like the
witnesses of Jesus did but will also bring the miracles
and judgments of Moses and Elijah.)
Appearing
beside me was a beautiful woman who started talking to
me. I ignored her because I wanted to hear what Moses
and Elijah had to say. Her words then turned into
flattery, saying how special I was and what a great guy
I was. As I continued to ignore her, her flatteries
turned more and more flirtatious. As I turned to her, I
wondered why she was doing this because I wanted to
listen to the preaching and she was distracting. So I
told her, “I am trying to listen to these men of God”.
I turned my attention back to the preaching. She then
responded with a sexual proposal: "I would not stop you
if you want to have me."
(The harlot of apostate Christianity, who receives the
seed of men and not her husband, will attempt to
seduce any from hearing the witnesses with her
flesh-pleasing doctrines.)
As the
dream ended, I asked the Lord, "Who is this woman?" The
Lord replied, "Jezebel." And then I heard from God that
Jezebel hates men who have the anointing of Elijah
and Moses. (Notice
that the way the Lord uses “men” here is to indicate
many. He didn’t use “the men” which could indicate
two. The Jezebel harlot of Christianity, worldwide,
will seek to hinder the witnesses
who are also a worldwide body.)
PS: It
is beyond my words how to describe how Technicolor and
vivid this dream was. It felt as if I actually met
Moses and Elijah.
