Recovering the Lost Mystery of the Gospel

 

The Sword in the Soul

 

Hebrews tells us that the Word of God is "sharper than any two-edged sword." This sword divides the human soul from spirit. At its deepest, it cuts to the core of the believers identity, separating our spirit identity from our soulish identity in natural heritage and race. This cutting and dividing of the soul from spirit is the circumcision of heart that lies at the bottom of the New Covenant, prophesied by Jeremiah, made effective through the full genuine transformational baptism of the Holy Spirit.

 

This sword is the same sword Yeshua referred to when He said, "I came not to bring peace, but a sword." It is the Word that divides a man from his natural heritage--"from mother and father, from brother and sister." Yeshua identifies His true mother and brothers as "those who hear the Word of God and keep it." It is those who embrace the circumcisional Word--the Word that divides them from their natural heritage--that constitute His true relatives. And this was spoken to Israelites.

 

Again, this is the sword that Simeon referred to when he prophesied to Mary, "Yes, and a sword shall pierce your own soul also." In no one could the sword of identity separation have pierced any deeper than for Mary, the one who brought Yeshua into the world as a Hebrew man.

 

I'm persuaded no woman before or since Mary can identify with the depth of pain felt in having to release her son to assume His transcendent identity, and to then acknowledge herself to have to become but one of  "His sisters" in the spirit. Ponder that deeply. She was not really His mother. As to all of us, He was her elder brother. Again, "before Mary, I AM." He was her root, not vice versa.

 

Yet Mary prophetically represents all Israel to that time. Simeon's prophecy to Mary was really a prophecy to Israel and "her" national identity and heritage... "a sword will pierce through your (i.e., Israel's) own soul." When Yeshua later told Israel, "I came to bring a sword," it was the sword of Simeon's prophecy.

 

Yet Yeshua is called the Prince of Peace. How can this be? He just said He did not come to bring peace. Isn't this a contradiction?

 

The peace Yeshua said He didn't come to bring refers to the peace men try to manufacture among themselves through amalgamation of heritage (oft referred to as multiculturalism, and which characterizes the concept of "babylon"). Such is the world's basis for trying to establish "peace and safety." There is a peace Yeshua came to bring, but "not as the world giveth give I unto you."  He distinguishes between one kind of peace and another. One he came to bring. One he did not.

 

The peace Yeshua did come to bring is the peace with God that comes only from circumcision of soul identity to become found in union with the transcendent transnational Christ. It is the peace that comes out of the sword when our entire being, having first been severed from natural identity, is then realigned in harmony with His spiritual genetic make-up from above.

 

Part 10

Chris Anderson
New Meadow Neck, Rhode Island

First Love Ministry
- a ministry of Anglemar Fellowship
http://www.firstloveministry.org

05/06

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