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JUDAS UNDER THE ANOINTING
And
He called the Twelve together and gave them power and authority over all
demons,and to heal diseases. And He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of
God, and to perform healing. Mt. 9:1-2
Have
not I chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil? Jn. 6:70
The importance of the Judas
factor in Jesus’ ministry cannot be overstated. The corporate ministry of the
Lord surrounded by the Twelve serves as a prophetic microcosm of what was to
characterize the reality of ministry under the anointing throughout the ensuing
church age. The role of Judas under that anointing is extremely instructive in
today’s Spirit saturated atmosphere.
Judas, as one of the Twelve,
ministered under the same anointing under which Jesus ministered. In fact Jesus
gave His anointing to him! And frankly, it just doesn’t get any more anointed
than when you’re with the Son of God.
In the course of their
ministry, no one ever looked around and said, “How come Judas isn’t
performing miracles?” His intrinsically impure heart had no bearing on
Judas’ ability to live and function in the Presence of God. So invisible was
his true nature that, in spite of the Lord’s repeated comments about a traitor
in the midst, it was not until the very end that Judas was exposed for the son
of perdition that he was. Even as late as the Last Supper, the disciples could
not tell that their “brother” Judas was the traitor.
The Judas factor teaches us
worlds about the anointing and the Presence of God—both what the anointing
establishes and what it cannot. The anointing is given as a support
system for projecting a message that brings forth an end product. The
anointing does not function on its own by itself as a testimony to itself. It
supports a message. The specific message the anointing is sent to support is
the message of Yeshua and His cross. It is given as a witness to
that truth.
The anointing was never
meant to be ministered—nor the Presence of God experienced—apart from the truth
of the cross. But, as Judas shows us, the anointing is quite able to be
so ministered apart from its true function as a witness to the truth.
Removing the truth from the
anointing (which occurs when the anointing is diverted to witness to itself)
leaves room for a false “truth” to take its place, ie, a lie. Like an electron
in search of a proton, the anointing cannot abide alone. By design it must
support a message, a seed. And if it is separated from the message of the
gospel and of the cross, it will then automatically support a false message,
corrupting to become a lying sign and wonder.
The anointing is to the
truth very much like what the egg white is to the yoke of an egg. The yoke
harbors the seed of identity of the chick to be. The egg white is a watery
plasma that houses that yoke until the two, working together, bring forth the
one new life. Even so the anointing is the Spirit womb that houses the truth
seed-identity of the children of God. It works together with that seed to bring
forth our eventual birth into immortality.
But the seed—before it is
fully consummated—can be removed (“fall away”) and actually be replaced
with the seed of another: one who is like, but not the same as the Son of God.
It can be replaced by the seed of Judas.
As increasingly powerful as
the corporate anointing of God is becoming in the earth, His Presence alone
says utterly nothing about the state of heart of those enveloped under its
cloud here below. The power of the Presence does not prove the nature of the
seed that abides within its envelope.
God sees into every heart
beneath the anointing, under the Presence. He knows every thought of every
heart. He is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Behind every
raised hand and bent knee, He knows those who are living out the crucified
life, and those who are not. He sees every devoted heart surrendered to Him,
and every heart with one eye locked on the girl in the next row.
The imagery associated with
today’s corporate gatherings conveys very powerful portraits of a people
practicing the presence of God—whether through print, or film, or CD, or DVD or
website. The images of worship are everywhere. Images, images,
images—glossy, slick, airbrushed. But images are yet only images, and portraits
are only portraits. The Lord knows the hearts of all men, and discerns between
the polished anointed picture which will pass away and the inner eternal
reality.
As wonderful and powerful as
the anointing is today and ever increasing, it is still falling upon mortals
who live under a veil separated from the Reality for which they are being
prepared. Our worship and our gatherings now are designed to prepare us for the
final transcendent Reality—as “beauty treatments” ahead of meeting our King.
But there is no guarantee that they are or will so prepare us. They can lead to
themselves. We can bask in the pleasure of “experiencing God” purely for the
sake of the experience.
We can become enamored of
the image of our own anointed gatherings. We can become idolaters of our
anointed gatherings and of the powerful images at our disposal for projecting
them to others. Yet underneath it all, we may not have the seed of new birth in
us at all, but be harbingers of the Judas seed, whose ultimate desire is to
prostitute the Presence through the power of image to establish the Lord’s
glory on the terms of this world.
Between the image and the
nearing Reality of immortal, incorruptible trans-veil worship is a great
cataclysm at hand. A great separation is soon to take place. As the Lord said,
“One shall be taken, the other left.” It’s important to know that this
separation will not only occur in the field and at the mill. It will occur
within the very anointed house of God itself.
In the very midst of
prophetic gatherings, worship conferences and “houses of prayer,” those of the
cross who have come to full term in the anointing’s womb will be translated
into the Reality their earthly worship has ever only pointed to. Those who
never knew the truth but made a fair show of the anointing will be exposed
as Judas was finally exposed. There will be nothing to prove any more.
At that point, the power of
the anointing upon mortal worship will be removed and the mirages attached to
it. The anointing will be rendered ransid, even as manna that has passed its
shelf life. The power of the images to sustain God’s people built on the
anointing will collapse. It will seem that everything has come to nothing. The
gatherings will be scattered. The Christian Cities will implode. The debris of
thousands of Christian “theater houses” will be everywhere. The grace of God
which has sustained humanity and allowed it to bask in the perceived sense of
its own goodness will be withdrawn. The beast will turn on the harlot, and
Judas will hang himself.
But before this the anointed
Judas will come to the fore. As men are tried under the Presence and become
ever more enamored of the images associated with their own worship and
gatherings, the Usurping Replacer of the true Seed and pretender to the Sonship
throne will take his place in the glorious temple, encompassed by his corporate
harlot, who having herself abandoned the cross long ago in favor of purely experiential
(read, “sensual”) relationship with God will appear in all her exquisite
beauty—arrayed in her royal kingdom garb and her bejeweled gifts of the Spirit.
But in the cataclysm, both
she and the son of perdition will be exposed for their truthless sham. Then the
veil will be removed. And the worshippers in Spirit and in truth will
appear with our Lord—a seed without guile masked by anointing.
The moral? Don’t be swayed
by the beauty. Don’t be deceived by the images. Ask yourself, “What is the message?”
“I
desire to know nothing among you but Christ Jesus, and him crucified.”
This is tonight’s message
from the Spirit.
Chris Anderson
New Meadow Neck, RI
12/06
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