ALTARS OF HIS APPEARING 
                                 by J W Luman 
 
We will be dealing along the line of the Appearing of Christ in Judgment. 
Where He appears, in this coming is in His own House. He appears in His 
Temple, He appears in you and I. In the very beginning God had in His 
heart His own eternal plan. The scriptures are full of this; wherein He 
saw all things gathered up in Christ. And that which He saw gathered up 
in Christ is called THE NEW MAN, THE NEW CREATION, referred to as the 
House of God, the Temple of God. And through the work of Christ, that 
which the Father saw, the Son came to perform. Man after the first 
creation fell, so The Son came in the Cross; He took upon Himself the 
fulness of that first Adam, took him to the cross and crucified him. And 
then came forth in Resurrection and established in Himself eternal life. 
We, coming forth by Him, through His life have been raised up together, 
we've been made to be seated together in heavenly places. So, what God 
saw from the beginning the Son has performed; what the Son has performed 
the Holy Spirit has come to reveal. And He's come to reveal that in you 
and I. And we're beginning to see this coming of Christ in judgment, and 
that He comes in His own House. And when He does (Hebrews 10:9), His 
coming is to take away the first and to establish the second.  
 
That which He takes away is that which He in fact has done away with in 
the cross. In His appearing He brings judgment upon that in our hearts, 
in our lives, and in actuality takes away - out from His own House (which 
House we are, out from us); actually takes away that which He has done 
away. So there is what the scriptures call a "putting off of the old man" 
and a "putting on of the new man." There is what the scriptures refer to 
as "being renewed in the spirit of your mind." This is simply the working 
of the Holy Spirit revealing Christ in you. This is His coming in 
judgment of which Malachi and Isaiah speak. The same word "apokalupsis" 
is used in Galatians 1:16 where Paul says "it pleased God to reveal His 
Son in me." As a result of God revealing His Son in Paul there was a 
judgment coming into Paul, and the judgment was "I AM CRUCIFIED WITH 
CHRIST" - He taketh away the first - "NEVERTHELESS I LIVE, YET NOT I, 
CHRIST LIVETH IN ME" - He establishes the second. Whenever Christ is 
revealed after that manner, He takes away out of our hearts what He in 
fact has done away with at the cross. What has He done away with? He has 
done away with the old man.  
 
But to what degree has He done away with the old man? Totally and 
completely! But what is the old man? We're going to see that the old man 
is made up of a whole lot more than probably most of us think, because in 
Hebrews 10:7-10 it does not say "I come to take away the old man and 
establish the new man." He says, "I come to take away the first and He 
establishes the second." So we find that when Christ begins to be 
revealed in His House, everything of the first creation and of the first 
man - everything that is labeled first is taken away. A first creation, 
in the midst of which is a first man for the benefit of which there was a 
first house, and the first system and the first priesthood. All of that 
to regulate the first man. And in the coming of Christ, in the revealing 
of Christ, all of that is taken out; the first creation, the first man is 
taken out. Therefore the Temple that was dedicated to his service was 
taken out, the priesthood dedicated to keep him unto the coming of Christ 
is taken out. ALL OF THE FIRST IS TAKEN OUT. 
 
And what remains is CHRIST HIMSELF, who is the fulfillment of all that 
was a type of. You'll be surprised as we get in the scripture at how much 
of that which is first is still a basis of spiritual understanding in our 
hearts today. What Christ does in His appearing is He takes away, because 
He came in the form of the cross, in the form of man, as one born under 
the law. See He came not only as the last Adam, but born under the law, 
born of a woman, came after the lineage of Adam and the lineage of 
Abraham - all of this He identified Himself with. Everything that Jesus 
identified Himself with, He also did away with at the cross! He did away 
with it all at the cross so that in Himself He could bring forth an 
altogether new generation, New Creation, New Man, new world, new heaven, 
new earth, new house, new sanctuary - one which He Himself is unto you 
and I who are found in Him.  
 
It is unto those who are in Him, and the scriptures declare that you are 
raised up together - unto those who are in Him, He is made to be 
everything. You have need of nothing because He is made unto you 
everything; leaving us to become the expression of all that He is made 
unto us in the earth. It is not something floating around in the sky; 
this gets so tangible it's frightening. This gets so tangible to actually 
become the motivation of every thought that is birthed in your heart. 
This will actually not only control your relationships, it actually 
becomes the origin of your relationships one with another. When Christ is 
truly revealed in you, the basis on which you have formed relationships 
with other Christians or other people will be taken out, and a new 
foundation for that relationship will be established. Because you'll find 
all of us have established relationships on the basis of something of the 
understanding of the first. There is no relationship like the one that is 
founded upon the revelation of Jesus Christ! 
 
This is why Paul comes forth making these profound statements that we 
read in the scripture and haven't the slightest idea what he means, so we 
just read over it and sing songs about it - "For me to live is Christ." 
And when our minds get that it goes through our computer and it comes 
out, 'For me, life is being like Jesus. For me, life is being a good 
Christian.' Because we bring it down to some point of reference that we 
have and that we can understand. But none of this satisfies the 
scripture. Even a good Greek definition tells us none of these things 
satisfies that statement. That statement says, "To me, to live is 
Christ." This comes from the understanding of a man who has been judged 
in the appearing of Christ. And we'll see there is a three-fold judgment 
that comes in the life of every believer in whom Christ begins to be 
revealed. 
 
The revelation of Christ is nothing more or nothing less than just the 
final, complete and ultimate work of the Holy Spirit. I was raised in 
Pentecost and I can remember when speaking in tongues was equated with 
handling rattle snakes, and tongue-talking churches met in back rooms of 
little store fronts. And I remember when anyone who was anybody fought 
it. But then all of a sudden... You can go back further than that. Martin 
Luther coming out of the time of the Reformation to say salvation by 
faith - there were people boiled in oil for saying that. But a move of 
God all of a sudden became accepted and great religions came up out of 
it. I remember when I went to India - Catholics upon Catholics, sisters 
and priests, and they were all speaking in tongues. A move of God ushered 
in what we've called 'Charismatic Renewal'. And that was primarily 
speaking in tongues. What was that for? It was preparing for this 
appearing, this coming, this revealing of the Son of God - for only the 
Holy Spirit can reveal Him! And you must be truly born again by faith. 
Born again - He can not be revealed where He is not residing. 
 
So there had to first be a genuine new birth - salvation by faith. Then 
there had to be a tremendous outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and look at 
the years that this spanned. See it all took place in the course of 100 
years at the birth of the Church, but then the Dark Ages came, and the 
putting away of it and burning the Bible; just getting rid of all the 
Bibles. And the rebirth has come back over years and years, and we're now 
coming back to the Gospel Paul preached. We're now coming back to the 
declaration that John made in the last of the first century. It's the 
revelation of Jesus Christ - the last declaration made in the first 
century, just before the great apostasy of the Church. We're coming back 
to that. What are we facing? We're facing a tremendous revealing of God's 
Son! And the first revealing is going to be in JUDGMENT. And the judgment 
is He is going to judge the first, He's going to take it away. And the 
judgment is coming in us. When God revealed His Son in Paul this judgment 
took place. Paul saw the cross get off Golgotha and got up in Paul's 
heart. "...I determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and 
Him crucified." And the judgment that came in his heart was, it is "not 
I, but Christ who liveth." He taketh away the first, He establishes the 
second. The first man is after the earth, earthy, the second man is the 
Lord from heaven. The second man is not like Him, the second man is the 
Lord from heaven. 
 
We are not the body of a religion, we are the Body of a Man, we are the 
Body of a Person. We are the Body of the Living Son of God! People ask me 
what church do you preach with? And I want to be courteous, but I want to 
ask them, 'What church is there? Is there more than one?' That sounds 
facetious, but for me now it's difficult to describe something other than 
Him. I know what they are asking - Baptist, Assembly of God, etc., but 
they are not asking the right question, so I can't give them the right 
answer. We're not the body of a religion, we're the Body of a Person, and 
though we may meet in a building with a steeple on it, we're still the 
Body of a Person! We must meet - that Body must function because it is a 
Body, not because it's an organization. A Body functions, and if it 
doesn't function it's not a Body. A Body has ministry, a Body does those 
kinds of things. To organize it doesn't make it less than a Body, and He 
is being revealed in His Body. We must come to understand what Paul 
understood - SPIRITUAL LIFE IS CHRIST HIMSELF! All things with regard to 
spirituality is Christ! And that He gives me nothing, but rather He is 
unto me all things.  
 
So what must we do? LEARN HIM! Which is exactly what He said, "Learn of 
me, Take my yoke." That's exactly what Paul said, "That the eyes of your 
understanding may be enlightened, that God may give unto you the spirit 
of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him." This is what it's all 
about. As He begins to be revealed in us, in the light of His appearing, 
He will take away the first and in its place He will establish Himself! 
He will take away our first understanding of life, and in its place He 
will establish Himself! He will take away our first understanding of 
righteousness, and in its place He will establish Himself! He will take 
away our first understanding of basis of fellowship and in its place He 
will establish Himself! He will take away our first nature and in its 
place He will establish Himself! He doesn't refine my nature, He 
establishes Himself! He doesn't give to me a holiness, He establishes 
Himself as Holiness! He doesn't give me a righteousness, He establishes 
Himself as my righteousness! HE TAKES AWAY THE FIRST AND HE ESTABLISHES 
THE SECOND! 
 
In our study I have related that to three altars in the life of the 
believer - a three-fold appearing of Him, a three-fold judgment. And in 
His appearing, the first is done away and the second is established, and 
we go on to a greater realm and another realm of knowing Him. And besides 
that, this relates to the three altars of the Tabernacle, which is a type 
of the cross. We can see this in Abraham approaching this first altar and 
what is happening here is Abraham is being taken, in his heart from a 
land of his birth, this first creation, this old creation that is many; 
made up of nations, of kinds, colors, creeds - go on down the line. It's 
mankind. He is taken from the first land and he is brought into the 
second land, and he is seeing the land. How does he know he is out of the 
first? The Lord is revealing to him the second. Where are we coming to 
that first altar? We who are in Him - by virtue of new birth - we're in 
Him, but we don't know where we are, who we are, what we are or how we 
got there. Most of us understand Salvation to just be something dealing 
with a few sins, and we still see ourselves in Adam; we still see 
ourselves after the old, and not after the new. And we've got to come to 
an understanding, to a place of His appearing where the first is done 
away, and we find ourselves at home in the second. 
 
So Abraham is coming. Genesis 12:1. He is told to "Get out of thy 
country, from thy kindred, from thy father's house, unto a land that I 
will show you." It takes three altars for God to finally show Abraham the 
land. We're looking at this first altar where he begins to see this land. 
Verse 7, "And the Lord appeared to Abram and said, Unto thy seed will I 
give this land. And there builded he an altar unto the Lord who appeared 
unto him." This is a tremendous scripture. "And the Lord appeared." The 
way Abraham knew he had reached the land was because the Lord appeared to 
him. You will only know you are in Christ when Christ is revealed in you. 
You'll begin to understand "I'm in Him!" And there he built an altar. It 
wasn't just any old altar, he builded an altar unto the Lord who appeared 
unto him. So it's the altar that's associated with the appearing of the 
Lord. The appearing comes first, then the altar. First the Lord is 
revealed in me, and that necessitates an altar. What's the altar for? The 
altar is a place of sacrifice. The altar is the boundary. When he built 
the altar it created a boundary for the land that God said I will show 
you. The land that the Lord showed him is associated with an altar. 
 
You can never disassociate being in Christ with the CROSS! We must bear 
the mark of His dying that we may become an expression of His living. And 
there is only one way that you can express His life, and that is in 
bearing the mark of His dying. This is something that needs to get down 
in our heart and we need to understand that this new land is identified 
by an altar. When the Lord appeared Abraham built an altar. I see no 
other place in the Bible before this that he built an altar, and if he 
did it wasn't unto the Lord. This altar he built unto the Lord who 
appeared unto Him. This is synonymous with Paul saying that I will know 
nothing among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. You and I have an 
understanding of the Cross that it is something aside from a Person, from 
Christ - but it isn't. In the understanding of the Spirit the Cross and 
the Person are one and the same thing. And Paul related them - I can not 
know Christ without knowing the Cross, and I can not know the Cross 
without knowing Christ. It is one and the same thing. The Cross becomes a 
Person to me. And therefore the death becomes a Person, and therefore the 
life becomes a Person, and the scriptures say it is His death and it is 
His life. What I'm telling you is if it's anything less than that then 
you'll never understand the significance of what took place there. 
ANYTHING LESS THAN HIS DEATH WILL NOT LIBERATE YOU FULLY INTO HIS 
LIFE! 
 
Many say, 'my cross is my unsaved loved ones.' No it isn't. Or,'my cross 
is the difficulty I have every day.' No it isn't. Your cross is HIS 
CROSS! And His Cross is a place where this first creation died - and 
that's what the Cross has got to be. And if it's anything less than that, 
you're not fully liberated. For Abraham this altar meant he was out from 
his country, out from his kindred, and he was in a new land. That's what 
this altar signified, because he did not build the altar until the Lord 
appeared, and he built the altar unto the Lord who appeared unto him. To 
Abraham that altar was the appearing of the Lord. And we'll find that he 
had to go back to that appearing - he had to go back to that exact altar; 
he didn't build another altar - he had to go back to the same altar that 
he built at the beginning. The same thing happened in the life of Jacob. 
The altars in the Tabernacle - the brazen altar, the altar of incense, 
the altar of the Covenant - all of these altars actually are a type of 
Christ Himself. He becomes, He appears as a brazen altar, then He appears 
as a golden altar, then He appears as the Ark of the Covenant - it's in 
His appearing.  
 
And so Paul saw the Cross as a Person, not an object. And if the Cross to 
you is less than a Person, then the work of the Cross in you is less than 
it is supposed to be. It's not where I go to die, it's where He died, and 
there I died with Him. And out from there it isn't my life, out from 
there it is His life, and I live by Him! This is what these scriptures 
are alluding to. He built the altar unto the Lord who appeared unto Him - 
not to somebody else or some idea. 'Well, I've gone far enough, I believe 
I'll build me an altar here. How much does God expect anyway?' We build 
our altar ourself, and only what we imagine the first to be is taken care 
of. And actually it becomes an altar to the first, representing the first 
rather than an altar representing the appearing of the Lord where the 
first is done away. Abraham had no idea where he was until the Lord 
appeared to him. Now by Salvation you have been brought in Christ, you 
have been raised up together. But the Bible says you have come into a 
realm the eye can not see, the ear can not hear, the natural heart can 
not understand. The scripture says you have been delivered from the power 
of darkness, but you also have been translated into the Kingdom of His 
Dear Son - that man can not even fathom. You do not know where you are 
until the Lord appears and in the light of His appearing you begin to 
understand where you are. 
 
And at the time of you understanding that you are in Him, to that same 
degree you are made to understand you are no longer in the old. It is an 
altar of division, an altar of separation. And the first thing it does is 
separate one creation from the other creation. And it does that in your 
heart. Abraham was in the land - we don't know how long he journeyed in 
the land, he could have been in the middle of it. We know we are in 
Christ. But we know Abraham did not know he was in the land until the 
Lord appeared. And where the Lord appeared and when the Lord appeared he 
built an altar. And that altar separated Abraham from his father's house, 
his father's country, his own kindred. At that time Abraham was separated 
and not until then. And when the Lord appears, when He's revealed in you, 
in the light of His appearing He takes away the first and He establishes 
the second. And the first thing He works on is this creation business. 
This altar of judgment. We read that Abram after this (verse 9), Abram 
journeyed going on still toward the south until he ended up in Egypt, 
which obviously was not the land that the Lord wanted to show him. But 
notice there is no greater revealing. Verse 7 says, "unto thy seed will I 
give this land. And there he built an altar." But there's not a whole lot 
said about the land. So he goes on and he goes into Egypt. 
 
Now in Chapter 13 Abram went up out of Egypt and all that he had, and Lot 
with him into the south. "And Abram was very rich in cattle and silver 
and gold. And went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel unto the 
place where his tent had been in the beginning, between Bethel and Hai, 
unto the place of the altar which he had made there at the first. And 
there Abram called on the name of the Lord." Here is this altar of 
judgment - notice this. "And Lot also which went with Abram, had flocks 
and herds and tents, and the land was not able to bear them, that they 
might dwell as one (which is what "together" means); for their substance 
was great, so that they could not dwell as one." And because of that 
there came about strife. And so Abram called Lot. "Is not the whole land 
before you?" And he divided the land. Verse 11, "Then Lot chose him all 
the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east and they separated themselves 
the one from the other. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan; and Lot 
dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord 
exceedingly."  
 
What I want you to see is this altar became a place of judgment, a place 
of division. And until there is a division there can be no separation. 
This is a spiritual law. The last of the land that came out with Abram 
was with him - here came nephew Lot. They go down to Egypt together, and 
there they are alright together, but where they come back to the land 
that God said I'll show you, that land could not bear both of them! The 
word "bear" in the scriptures means "to take on the image of, to become 
the expression of." Abram is the one to whom the Lord appeared, not Lot. 
Abram was the one to whom the promise was given, not Lot. Abram was the 
one who built the altar, not Lot. Lot had left nothing. Lot had been 
separated from nothing. When Abram came back to this altar of judgment; 
when he came back to that, immediately a division was created between 
Abram and Lot. Why? Because this land would not bear them both. Why? 
Because they could not live as one! Why? Because they weren't one! 
 
One bore the image of the old, the other to bear the image of the new. 
This land - what are we seeing here? You cannot be in Christ and still 
bear the image of Adam. This land will not bear the image of Christ and 
the image of Adam both. You can not be in Christ and live as though you 
are not. It will not bear both Abram and Lot; it will not bear both 
Christ and Adam. This land will not bear the image of two; it will only 
bear the image of ONE! And that's the ONE TO WHOM THE PROMISE IS GIVEN! 
Unto Abraham and his seed was the promise made - not to seeds as of many 
but as of one, even thy seed, which is CHRIST! (Galatians 3:16) The only 
image this land is going to bear is the image of Christ! Look what 
happened. It didn't happen until this. Immediately after Lot was 
separated, immediately after there was a division and then a separation 
(the word is written here, not just the law of it). There was strife. And 
that's going to take place in the land. There's going to be strife 
between the first man and the second man; there's going to be strife 
between the flesh and the Spirit. There's going to be strife because one 
is suited for the land, and the other simply is not. One has been 
separated unto the land, the other has not. One is there by promise, the 
other is not. One is to possess the land, and the other is not. The land 
will bear the image of one, it will not bear the image of the other! 
 
You have been brought into the very Body of Jesus Christ; you can not 
continue to live as though you are the body of Adam. The Body of Christ 
will not bear both images and strife will come about in your heart. 
Strife will be in the land. And the means of peace was - Lot left! He was 
taken away, and Abraham remains. You can see what Lot chose - he chose 
what was good to the eye - so did Adam in the garden; what looked good, 
what seemed good. He chose that. Why? Because he had been separated from 
nothing. Lot had made no altar. But Abraham did. Now look what happened. 
"And the Lord said to Abram after that Lot was separated from him, lift 
up now thine eyes and look..." Remember all of this time he is saying 
'I'm going to show you a land.' And he's just now got to a point where he 
can begin to show it to him. And where is it? It's back at this same 
altar that is introduced in verse 7 of chapter 12. Had Abram stayed there 
at that altar he would have seen the land. But he didn't stay, and now 
he's back right exactly where he started. And now the division, the 
separation is complete. He is in the land where he's supposed to be.  
 
"Lift up now thine eyes and look from the place that thou art, northward, 
southward, eastward and westward." Do you understand in the scriptures 
that the directions north, south, east and west distinguishes creation? 
In Biblical language when those four directions are given, it is 
referring to creation - the four corners of the earth. It is speaking of 
the whole creation - the four winds, from the four corners; north, 
south... I will call my people. It is talking about a creation. What is 
He showing Abram? "Lift up thine eyes..." The word "lift up thine eyes" 
is used 650 times in the Old Testament alone, and it always means "to 
gaze into a higher realm". "Lift up thine eyes, I'm going to show you a 
new creation. I'm going to show you the land I've called you into and thy 
seed forever." Of course this was a type with Abraham, but it's fulfilled 
in Christ for you and I. But even in the type God didn't say get out your 
measuring rod and look at it. Even in the type Abraham did not see real 
estate! The only Holy Land he ever did see was when he lifted up his eyes 
- and that's the only Holy Land you'll ever see either - when you lift up 
your eyes to look into a new realm, and there you will see a new city and 
a new creation and a new house, because it's speaking of that which is so 
in Christ. 
 
See, this division and separation was necessary before Abraham could see 
the land. You're never going to be established in Christ while you've got 
one foot in Adam! You're never going to search out the east, the 
north...Paul calls this the length, the depth, the breadth, the 
height...that you may comprehend with all saints. It's the same thing - 
north, south, east, west - length, depth, breadth, height. That you 
comprehend. You'll never see the vastness of the new creation while you 
are still holding onto the old one. What enables the one to pass away and 
the other to be established? The appearing of the Lord, because He is 
that creation, He is that land! And in His appearing He takes away...the 
love of the first? Oh yes, but he does more than take away the love of 
the first. He takes away the first! He takes away the influence of the 
first because He takes away the first and you see that the first is no 
more. And you come to understand "I am in Christ". If I'm in Him, I'm not 
in Adam. It is actually taking away in your heart the existence of the 
first.  
 
To Abraham only one land exists now. "Lift up your eyes, behold, I will 
show you the land." Now to Abraham there's only one land. That's the land 
he lived in, traveled in, stayed in, looked for, hoped for. It's the land 
that came forth in Christ, it's the land you and I surely occupy as the 
city. That's what he saw. "Lift up your eyes, for all the land which thou 
seest to thee will I give it and unto thy seed forever." Galatians 3:16-
29, that's where this is. It starts out there, "Now to Abraham and his 
seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but 
as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ." And it ends with, "And if 
ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the 
promise." Genesis 13:16, "And I will make thy seed as the dust of the 
earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy 
seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it 
and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. Then Abram 
removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in 
Hebron (that word means "fellowship"), and built there an altar unto the 
Lord." 
 
So where do we find this fulfilled in Christ? Let's look at Galatians 
3:26, "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For 
as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is 
neither male nor female, for you all are one in Christ Jesus. And if ye 
be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the 
promise." Look back to verse 16, "Now unto Abraham and his seed were the 
promises made, He saith not to seeds, as of many..." That's the first 
creation - the first creation is made up of seeds; it's many. "But unto 
thy seed, which is Christ." "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's 
seed." "Unto thy seed, which is Christ." Abraham's seed - heirs of 
promise. He's trying to show us the same thing God was showing in a type 
to Abraham. He's trying to show you and I a union; that we being many, 
are ONE - One Body, One Seed, One Kind, contrary to the first creation. 
In Christ there is neither male nor female, Jew nor Greek, black nor 
white, circumcised nor uncircumcised. In Christ all are one. One what? 
ONE SEED! Because in this land there is only One seed. This land is 
promised to One seed - To Abraham and the seed. And if ye be Christ's 
(possessively) then ye are that seed! 
 
When He appears He takes away seeds, and He establishes SEED. He takes 
away many, and He establishes One. He takes away nations, kinds, colors, 
creeds. You have come out from the one and you're found in the other. 
There's no way that you can be in Him and still be of the first kind. But 
that's the way most Christians still live today. We say this is the 
Church, this is the Body, this is the Land, this is the One Seed, here 
we're in union with Him, here we're neither, nor. You can look in 
Colossians 3:9-11, it says the same thing again, "in whom there is 
neither bond nor free, male nor female, Barbarian nor Scynthian, 
circumcised nor uncircumcised, but Christ is all and in all." We can look 
further in 2 Corinthians 5:17, "If any man be in Christ, he's a new 
creation, (not just a new creature, a new creation) old things are passed 
away, behold all things are become new." But when does the judgment of 
that come? It comes in His appearing! What do we do? We build an altar. 
And what is sacrificed upon that altar? THE FIRST! And what is remaining 
from that sacrifice? THE SECOND! And after that altar you can no longer 
live after the first, you must begin to live after the second. 
 
And yet as I travel through the Church today and around the world, I'm 
still finding white churches and black churches, red churches and yellow 
churches, and I don't mean just those kind of people, I mean that 
mentality. And we are still dealing with each other as Jews and Gentiles 
- I'm talking about in Christ now. I know there are those communities in 
the earth, but there are not those communities in Him, because in Him 
there's only ONE SEED! We can explain this scripturally, but until He 
appears, it is not so in you because that first creation that you and I 
are by natural birth is still there; and will be there until He who is 
the Person of, the center of, the epitome of the second creation appears 
in us. When He appears in those who are in Him, then those who are in Him 
will understand who they are and where they are. And immediately there is 
a division in our heart, the first from the second, then there is a 
separation, the first from the second, then there is an abounding of the 
second. "NOW lift up your eyes and I'll show you... I'll show you the 
creation that you are." Now you can look from this place to the east, 
west, south, north. Now when? NOW when you are separated. NOW you can 
learn me. NOW I will show you. NOW we will understand what it means to 
actually be in Christ.  
 
Here we are in Christ by new birth, but all of our dealings with one 
another are still in the first birth. And we think of the Church still 
after the first because in our gospel the Cross didn't do away with 
anything but sins; it didn't really touch the sinner, let alone the 
creation. But He hath delivered us from the power of darkness, He hath 
translated us into the Kingdom of His Dear Son. But until The Son appears 
in His Kingdom, we're blind! Until the Lord appeared to Abraham he had no 
idea that he was in the land. All that appearing caused was a great 
separation and a great division, and it was painful to Abraham. It wasn't 
painful to Lot - Lot didn't really care. It is a painful separation, but 
once it is made then He says, "Now, look, now lift up your eyes. Now I'll 
show you what it means to be in me. Now walk out the length, now walk out 
the breadth." 
 
Let me show you something in Ephesians - the progression of Ephesians. 
You see, we say we know all this stuff, but our life betrays what we say. 
Ephesians 1:17, "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of 
Glory may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the 
knowledge of Him." Verse 19, "What is the exceeding greatness of His 
power toward usward who believe, according to the working of His mighty 
power which he wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead, and 
set Him at His own right hand in heavenly places, far above all 
principality, power, might, dominion and every name that is named, not 
only in this world but also in that which is to come. And put all things 
under His feet, and gave Him to be Head over all things to the Church, 
which is His Body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all." Why it is 
not too difficult for us to at least give a mental consent that yes, He 
did all of that, wouldn't it be wonderful if we could be with Him? Oh, 
one day we'll be there, where He is. Then we'll love one another, and 
there will be no differences then. We are ignorant, we show our ignorance 
because Paul goes on in this letter and says, "...and you hath He 
quickened, who were dead in trespasses and in sins..." 
 
Ephesians 2:4, "But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love 
wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us 
together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved;) And hath raised us up 
together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." 
Where is that? "Which He wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the 
dead and set Him at His own right hand in heavenly places..." Not only 
that, Paul goes on in Colossians 3:1, "If ye then be risen with 
Christ..." What is he talking about? Right here - raised us up together, 
made us to be seated together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. He has 
actually brought us forth in a new realm, a new creation - IN CHRIST 
JESUS! "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are 
above..." That's not talking about "above" like nine million miles, 
that's talking about a higher realm. "...where Christ sitteth on the 
right hand of God. Set your affections on the things above, not on the 
things on the earth." Why? "Because you are dead, and your life is hid 
with Christ in God." 
 
When will all of this appear? "When Christ who is our life shall appear 
(shall be revealed), then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. " When 
will we understand where we are, where He has brought us; because the 
scripture says He has brought many sons unto glory. When will we 
understand that we are in Him? WHEN HE APPEARS! One translation says, 
"When He who is our life shall be manifest, then shall your life appear." 
We understand when He appears, and it's not the understanding that we 
need to be in Him, it's the understanding we are in Him! But what does 
that understanding bring? It brings a division and a separation. From 
what? From the first. There is no way I can walk in that understanding 
and still walk in the first. There is no way that I can set my heart and 
mind on one creation and still be motivated by the other. The two are 
contrary one to the other. Immediately there comes great strife in me. 
The only time I have any strife or am ill at ease is when I seek to have 
a life of my own. Strife comes in because there's no place for a life of 
my own - there's only place here for CHRIST! 
 
I often say there is no place for a white man here, for a black man, or a 
Jew or for a Greek. The place for them is the Cross. The Cross was 
prepared for them. At the Cross they died and are done away. But then on 
the other hand there's no place here for the creation of sight and sound 
and taste and touch either - because at the Cross all of that came to an 
end. And a New Creation that is only revealed by the Holy Spirit comes 
forth. When you see that in the appearing of the Lord, "Lift up your 
eyes..." Once you see this creation, you'll never be satisfied in the 
first creation again. And never again will you see yourself in the first 
creation waiting to get to the second. Rather you'll live searching out 
the length, depth, breadth and height of the second, for the purpose of 
manifesting that in the earth.  
 
Now Ephesians 2:19, "Now therefore ye are no more..." You go through the 
scriptures and you'll find many cases what you are no more - you are no 
more servants but sons; you are no more Jews and Gentiles, but one seed. 
Galatians 3:25, "But after that faith is come, ye are no longer under a 
school master..." But the whole thing is always you are no more, you are 
no longer. You are no more strangers and foreigners. We like to picture 
ourselves living in the first creation as a stranger and a foreigner 
looking for a home. I am not a stranger, I am not a foreigner, I am not a 
pilgrim. I'm a fellow citizen of the household of God and I am at home! 
And I have been brought there through the resurrection of My Lord and my 
association with Him, in heavenly places. And where I am found upon this 
earth, whether it is in the work place, the automobile, China, India, I 
AM IN CHRIST, and I am at home. I am not a stranger, a pilgrim looking 
for a city - Abraham was. But we're the land he looked for, we're the 
seed that was promised to him, we're the city that hath foundations. WE 
ARE THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST JESUS! 
 
We still run around religiously looking for these things, and we will 
until He appears. But when He appears, for the first time, as Paul did, 
so will you and I understand WE ARE IN CHRIST! Over 200 times Paul 
declares the believer to be IN CHRIST JESUS. That's not a grammatical 
term, that is a term of reality, of union with a Man, with a Person. We 
are IN HIM, we are at home, we are HIS BODY. There is only one thing left 
- to learn Him, to walk out the length, the height, etc., to bring forth 
the fruit of it. That's what's left to do - to manifest it in all the 
earth. And every time He appears we are separated from the old unto the 
new. In the old we are many, in Christ we are ONE SEED. You can't get any 
further down than one seed. I TAKE AWAY THE FIRST AND ESTABLISH THE 
SECOND. 
 
Abraham could not face the second altar until he faced this, and neither 
can you and I. We fool ourselves thinking we can. His second altar has to 
do with Ishmael. We like to think that the only battle Abraham had was 
with Ishmael. That is not so. His first separation was from his father's 
house, his country, his kind, because God desired to show him a new seed, 
a new land, a New Creation. He hasn't seen all of it yet, and he won't 
see it until he stands on Mt. Zion at the third altar. But he is 
progressively seeing the land and progressively seeing the seed. But 
there has to come this separation. I can not walk out the length and the 
breadth of this New Creation while I'm still finding myself in the old. 
So when He appears, I build an altar, and the first thing that is 
sacrificed is the first creation - the creation of my birth, my 
nationality, that whole thing. And I find myself in and one with a New 
Man, a New Creation, a New Seed, a new land where there is neither, nor 
but CHRIST IS ALL AND IN ALL. To the believer now growth has just begun. 
The term "Christ is all and in all" is literally going to fill him up.  
 
The business of Christ becoming all to you. He's my race, He's my seed, 
He's my kind. What kind are you? CHRIST KIND! What color are you? 
CHRIST COLOR! I'm talking about relationships in Him; I'm not talking 
about mixtures of the flesh, I'm talking about dealing with each other IN 
HIM. And it's not there that you disappear, it's there that I disappear. 
It's there that the first is taken out of me, and the second is 
established. CHRIST ALL AND IN ALL. How long will we labor with one 
another then? Until it is Christ all and in all! How long will we share 
with one another? Until it is Christ all and in all! Not until we get 
tired or we get aggravated, until it is Christ all and in all - until 
TRUTH prevails! Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you 
free. When we in our heart are taken out, are no longer in the old 
creation, then we can manifest this New Creation in the first.  
 
Here's a law for you - when I am absent, He is present. When I am 
present, He is absent. I can not live in this world and manifest Him in 
it. But if I do not live in it... What are we doing? Bearing the marks of 
His dying! In bearing the marks of His dying (He died to the first 
creation), we become an expression of His life. In my absence, He is 
present; In my presence, He is absent. Because in the new it is not I, it 
is Christ. In my absence, He is present, and He is made unto me 
everything that He is.  
 
So we come to the first altar, the altar of His appearing whereby He 
takes us in our heart... That's what He's doing to Abraham here. He's 
already taken him, but now He's taken him from his heart from one to 
another. And how is He doing that? By showing him the greater! He's not 
just taking away a creation from him, He's showing him the greater 
creation. He's not just taking away an old, He's revealing to us a new. 
He's not just taking away the first, He's establishing the second. And in 
our relationships, you'll become an expression of the New Creation. I 
don't care how dark the circumstance, you will express the New Creation, 
because that's where you are. So, most of us in our hearts are not there, 
we're right in the middle of the circumstance - most of us are the 
problem, in the middle of a circumstance. And we will be until we are out 
of it. We think "out of it" means we get mad and leave it. No, "out of 
it" means dead, and found only in Him. It means we are out of it and He 
is expressed in it. And all the positive thought in the world wouldn't 
get it done, only He appearing will, because in His appearing the first 
is done away, the second is established, and then they can take you and 
put you wherever they want to put you, and you are an exhibiting of that 
creation. It can be a good situation or a bad one, a small one or a big 
one, you are an exhibiting of that New Creation.  
 
You put Jesus wherever you wanted to put Him and He was the same. And so 
will you be, in this realm, in His appearing. Now, there are yet 
appearings, there are yet things to be dealt with, but the first thing 
that's dealt with is the creation that you are of. Are you in Adam or are 
you in Christ? And that can't be just a doctrine, that's got to be a 
reality. That's the first thing that was dealt with in Abraham. Before 
anything else can take place, you've got to get out of the old land and 
be in the new land. "I'm going to show you a land, Abram, I'm going to 
bring you into it, and then I'm going to show you it." That's what He's 
doing, bringing you into this, then I'm going to reveal Myself, and in 
the light of My coming all of the first will be taken out, and the second 
will be established, so that you will become a manifestation of the 
second, rather than the first.  
 
I have called this "THE JUDGMENT WITHOUT", then THE JUDGMENT WITHIN, then 
THE JUDGMENT WITH ALL. We are dealing now with the JUDGMENT WITHOUT. Then 
Abraham is about to be brought to another altar and it is the altar where 
he's got to deal with the product of his flesh - Ishmael. And this is the 
hardest altar that Abraham will face, and it is the hardest altar that 
you will face also. He pleaded with God at this altar. As he was taking 
Isaac to the hilltop there was no struggle - there was just obedience of 
faith. But in dealing with Ishmael there was tremendous turmoil. There is 
tremendous turmoil when the judgment moves from without to within, and 
then it goes on to judgment with all. And that judgment is in Mt. Zion 
where even Isaac is laid upon the altar, and a greater than Isaac is 
brought into view. And Abraham's journey is completed, and at last he 
sees the land that he started out to see.  
From altar to altar to altar He is leading us by the Spirit of God. Too 
many are like Lot and say, 'Well, I'll choose the plains. There are no 
mountains to climb, there's no altars to build.' But, it's marked for 
destruction.  
 
                             PART 2 
  
So when the Lord appears an altar is made. No sooner did Paul say, "It 
pleased the Father to reveal His Son in me" than he said, "I am crucified 
with Christ." When He appears an altar is made and something of the first 
is sacrificed, and to that same degree the second remains. As the first 
is done away, the second is made visible and remains. There will be many 
altars, but we see it in the scripture as a three-fold altar. And this 
corresponds to the three altars in the life of Abraham. The last altar 
Abraham faced was the altar that was built upon Mt. Zion, the same 
mountain where Solomon built the House of God called the House of the Ark 
of the Covenant of the God of all the earth. These altars correspond 
directly to the Tabernacle, because we're not only a believer, we're a 
House. So not only is Christ revealed in you individually, and these 
altars built where the first is done away and the second established; but 
collectively this takes place in the House of God throughout the earth. 
And the reason is just this - HE MUST INCREASE. I MUST DECREASE! And I 
decrease at the rate of His increase - not the other way around. He does 
not increase at the rate of my decrease. There is a law here.  
 
If I come into a house which is dark and you turn on a light, the 
darkness decreases at the increase of the light. Darkness has no 
substance. When light comes, darkness flees. At the increase of Christ 
there is a corresponding decrease of me. So the scripture says He taketh 
away the first that He may establish the second. But it is all come by 'I 
COME' - in His coming, in His increase He taketh away the first, and in 
His increase the second is established. This order is always the same in 
the Word of God. 
 
So we're going to look at the second altar. We must think of a born again 
believer who is body, soul and spirit, but in the believer that spiritual 
man is Christ Himself! The spiritual man in the scripture is called the 
New Man. The soul is referred to as the inner man which must be renewed, 
and the body is referred to as the outer man which perishes. In dealing 
with the appearing of Christ, God revealing His Son in you, He appears 
where He is - in you! If you want to look at that in the Tabernacle 
that's the Holy of Holies, the Holy Place and the outer court. You're 
seeing the brazen altar, the golden altar and the Ark of the Covenant. 
That's the type of it, but the reality of it is Christ Himself. Because 
in reality we're not in some building, we constitute His Body. In reality 
we're not dealing with some object called an altar, we're dealing with 
the reality of the Person of Christ Himself, and the Cross and the 
working out of that Cross of Christ. So God is revealing His Son in His 
Holy Temple.  
 
And the first judgment, the first effect comes upon this outer man; this 
man that is white, black, male, female, Jew and Gentile. He is brought 
under judgment, and is taken out of the heart and mind of the believer. 
And there is no place found for him any more in the heart of the 
believer, in the Temple of God, the Body of Christ. There's no place 
found for him because when God reveals His Son and we come to the light 
of the Truth, we understand that in reality at the Cross, this man is 
done away. So what is in reality done away at the Cross, in His death, in 
that He became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, in that 
one died, all died - when Christ is revealed in us there is a judgment 
established in us. And that judgment is, "I am crucified and He remains. 
I am dead and He is my life." He appears in us, and He appears as a New 
Creature. So this first altar affects this outer man - of colors, races 
and kinds - and he's taken away.  
And we find that instead of being "my body" we are the Body of another 
man - the Body of that Man who is Christ Jesus Himself! And though that 
Body may still be housed in skins of flesh, that Body in fact is not 
identified with flesh, but rather with Christ Himself. So the scripture 
says, "As is the body, so also is Christ." We must understand that the 
Living, Eternal, Resurrected Christ, He who was in the beginning with God 
and created all things, He who is the Living Word, and He who now dwells 
in me, that Living Christ - He is not a Jew and He is not a Gentile - HE 
IS THE SEED OF THE LIVING GOD! As is the seed, so also is the Body. We 
are not the Body of a Jew or Gentile or any race or kind - we are the 
Body of the Seed of the Living God Himself! When He is revealed and that 
judgment comes in, it ceases to be scripture and it ceases to be doctrine 
and teaching, and it becomes reality. What has happened? We have come to 
the first altar, and there the first man, the outer man is done away, and 
he is replaced by the reality that we are not a physical body, but the 
Body of the Living Christ! And for the first time we're able to know no 
man after the flesh, and we begin to realize what it means to be in 
Christ and to be a New Creation.  
 
And in the second judgment; this is all in His appearing; He brings us a 
little farther in toward Himself. And something else is about to be dealt 
with, because here upon the throne of the soul, upon the throne of my 
heart dwells ME, and that doesn't make any difference whether I'm black 
or white, male or female - it's still ME! And I've got to be dealt with 
as ME. His appearing - and something is getting ready to be taken away. 
Beneath the flesh is a person called self, and he's just the same in an 
African, an Indian, an Irish man, German or a Texan - it's me. And sooner 
or later that one is going to have to be touched by the Cross, and this 
is the most difficult of all altars. You would think the third would be 
the most difficult, but it isn't. All of us think that we have been 
touched in this regard, and maybe some of us have. But that touch must 
become a death hold; it must become a strangle hold. And we must be 
touched there until we are no longer there. In His appearing we are done 
away. It is here where there is none of that found in Christ except in 
our heart, in our imagination. 
 
Where must I be done away? In my SOUL, where I live. I must come to the 
Truth and I must realize that it is not I who liveth but Christ who lives 
in me. And I must come to a realization it is not me who is righteous, 
but Christ, my righteousness. And that righteousness is not a thing, but 
a Person living in me; and that my only hope is in Knowing Him! My only 
hope is being transformed into His image, but we have to understand what 
'transform' means. We think 'transform' means this self taking on a new 
image. That is not even the legal definition of the word 'transform'. The 
word 'transform' comes from a root word that means 'exchange'. It means 
one taken out and another coming in. It means the same renewal must take 
place in our soul as took place in our spirit. We don't have a revamped, 
made over human spirit. "If any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is 
none of His." To be born again is to be born again not of a remade over 
corruptible seed, but of an incorruptible seed by the Word of God. The 
new birth is not an inflated human spirit, it is the literal, Living 
Spirit of Christ Himself! It is CHRIST IN YOU! 
 
And the renewed mind is not just a mind with new ideas, even religious 
ideas or with a refined nature. It is not me coming to look like Jesus. 
The scriptures do not teach that. The word 'transformed' is used, the 
word 'changed' is used and the word 'translate' is used. But it all 
implies exchange. It means an exchange of life, an exchange of mind, an 
exchange of nature. It means that in the soul the old man is put off and 
the New Man is put on. It doesn't mean the old man is learning how to act 
like the new one - learning how to control my temper, learning to curb my 
appetites. No - that's what we think it is, but it isn't what the 
scriptures teach. The scriptures teach that the renewing of the mind is 
just as much a miracle as the renewing of the spirit. That the mind of 
Christ is just that - the mind of Christ! And that putting on the New Man 
is just that - putting on the New Man! So Jesus said, I come to take away 
the first and establish the second, and eventually that's got to take 
place in our soul. Eventually we've got to come to the sacrifice of the 
creation of our own doings, and Abraham had to come to that. Ishmael is 
to be dealt with. 
 
Ishmael - the most religious thing Abraham ever did - has got to be dealt 
with. Ishmael - Abraham's attempt at fulfilling the promise of God, has 
got to be dealt with. That's what Ishmael was. God said I'm going to give 
you a son, and Abraham decided to produce one. We read in the Bible 
concerning Sonship and decide we're going to be one; not understanding 
He's the Son and we're His Body. Sons - in that the Body is many members. 
Son - in that it's just one Body and it's His Body - not mine and not 
yours. Heirs - yes, in that we are joint-heirs; heirs as those joined 
unto one. First Abraham loses a creation, now he loses his concept of son 
and who the son really is. God is about to touch Abraham's idea 
concerning Sonship, concerning righteousness, concerning His promise.  
 
One time the Lord was dealing with me beautifully regarding the promises 
of God and the eternal plan of God. And I was flooded with that and what 
I needed to do with that. And the Spirit of the Lord stopped me and spoke 
to me sternly, 'Will I ever be able to show you anything that you don't 
run out and try to do? Will you ever learn to wait upon what I show you, 
and let me bring it forth in you, rather than running out with all the 
best intentions and the most religious fervor and try to do it? Just wait 
until that which comes forth is Christ and then call it Christ. But don't 
call something Christ before it is Christ. Call nothing Christ before 
it's time. Don't run out and call that little green thing coming out of 
the ground wheat until it forms a stalk, and then an ear and then a full 
corn in the ear. And when the fruit is come, then the harvest is come.' 
 
But this is a hard lesson to learn, because we want to take everything 
that the scripture is actually teaching in regard to Christ and we want 
to apply it to self. And we come up with self righteousness, self 
holiness, self religion; strongly enforced by the scriptures. We've got 
the right promise, but the wrong son; the right father, but the wrong 
seed. Abraham had the right promise but he's applying it to the wrong 
son. He could declare the promises of God . 'God said this...' And they 
did, but not to that son. Have you ever been found doing that? You stand 
up and debate with God over His promises? And He's saying every one of 
them are true and correct, but all my promises are unto my seed, and my 
seed is CHRIST! I will not bless the wrong son; not in the way you want 
me to bless him. So Abraham is brought, and you and I are going to come 
there too. And you can't be brought there by preaching or any other way. 
You are brought there by His appearing! Sooner or later we have to come 
to this.  
 
In this appearing only One Son remains - we must get a hold of this. 
There is a glorious realization that at this second altar we come away 
and only ONE SON REMAINS. The identity crisis has finally been settled, 
and that's the problem of most every believer today - most don't have the 
slightest idea who they are, not really. They are in the midst of an 
identity crisis, and that causes all kinds of problems. We don't know how 
to pray because we don't know who we are. We know our sins are forgiven, 
we know we're Spirit filled, but still we have such confusion when we get 
into the Word and every day life. It's like, 'will the real person please 
stand up.' Well, in the second altar He does! God brings forth The Son 
that you are, not the son you thought you were, and He is ONE SON! What 
an awakening! 
 
Galatians 4:7, this is the end of what I want to talk to you about, the 
end of the second altar. "Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a 
son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ." And the wonderful 
thing about this Son is that He is seen to be a many membered Son. But He 
is a Son. The identity crisis is gone because God reveals The Son! And 
when the second altar has done its work, only one Son remains in your 
house, the house that you are, which is God's House. This takes us to 1 
Corinthians 3:17 that says, "If any man defile the temple of God, him 
shall God destroy." Well, who's house are we? We're the House of God! Now 
in our old line Holiness preaching we've said this is what color your 
necktie was or how long your hair was. And while there may have been some 
wonderful principles along that line, that had nothing to do with 
defiling the House of God. Paul says, "If any man defile the house..." He 
is coming right out of the book of Isaiah, chapter 6, "In the year that 
King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and lifted up in his house." 
 
One Son, One House - when Uzziah died I saw One Son exalted in the House 
of God and His knowledge filled all the House of God, His robe and His 
glory. Yes, Isaiah was looking to the ultimate of this thing, but the 
principle is the same. Isaiah is seeing One Son. When? When Uzziah was 
out of the way! Why Uzziah? Uzziah was a King of Israel, and there came a 
time when Uzziah thought that because I am a King, I will go into the 
House of God, and I will do spiritual service. He wasn't going in there 
to write ugly things on the wall or desecrate Holy things; he was going 
in to do service to God! But he had no place in the House of God because 
he wasn't a Priest and he wasn't covered by the garments, which 
represented Christ. That priesthood was a many membered Son answering 
only to the High Priest, who is the Person and Image of Jesus Christ. 
Uzziah had no place in the House of God, and by him walking in there, he 
defiled the House of God. How does man defile the House of God? By living 
in it! 
 
Jesus said, "No man cometh unto my Father..." And He's speaking there in 
John 14 of the Father's House. "...but by me." And that means through His 
death, through His resurrection, not through some Church ritual. We come 
through His death and His resurrection, so it is not I, but Christ. Now, 
if any man assumes to live here, he defiles the House of God. Now which 
son is living in your house? Ishmael or Isaac? Adam or Christ? Me or Him? 
Uzziah or the Lord? So if any man defiles... God will destroy him. How is 
God going to destroy him? In the brightness of His coming - the day shall 
do it! What happened? The priesthood walked in, representing an appearing 
of Christ; Christ suddenly appeared and immediately Uzziah was turned 
wrong side out. 1 Corinthians 4 - "I judge nothing until the Lord come, 
and in His coming darkness is made light, hidden things are made 
manifest." That's the judgment of this appearing. They walked in, Uzziah 
was turned wrong side out - He was a leper, and leprosy means flesh, and 
that means flesh inverted, turned wrong side out. It's putrefied - it's 
flesh with the skin ripped off. That's what happened. The priesthood 
walked in and Uzziah was seen as he truly was - leprous in the House of 
God, and he died leprous. Him shall God destroy.  
 
In the brightness of His coming, this man is destroyed, because at the 
Cross he is done away. Now in the appearing of Christ he is destroyed, he 
is dealt with in the most severe way. Why? Because in the Person of the 
Son at the Cross he was dealt with - he wasn't spanked, he was crucified! 
He wasn't taught, he was eliminated! He wasn't refined, He died! Now in 
the coming of the Lord, he's living in proud flesh. "In the year that 
King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and lifted up, sitting on His 
Throne in His Holy Temple, and His train filled all the Temple. The 
heaven shouted, the earth rejoiced, and I fell on my face!" That's the 
appearing we're talking about. And it is more than just realizing Christ 
is in you, it is the appearing of Christ in you! It is an appearing of 
Him that takes away the first and establishes the second, and now the 
first to be removed is ME! And He takes away what is in fact done away. 
 
So, 1 Samuel 16 - in this appearing only One Son remains, and my religion 
ceases to be things, and now it's a Person! He's not only Savior - He's 
Salvation! He is not only Redeemer - He's Redemption! He is Son and He 
lives in me, and He is not only the thing I learn, He is the learning of 
the thing! He is not only the object of the light - He's the Light! 
"Walking in the light as He is in the light." And it is to the 
eliminating of the first. Here we are coming to the end of the rule of 
the people's King, Saul. And we're coming to the beginning of the rule of 
God's King, David. Two sons in Israel. One who has brought division, the 
other who shall bring unity. This is the first of a three-fold revealing 
of David, or a three-fold anointing of King David, the end of which takes 
him and all of Israel to the very top of Mt. Zion where David establishes 
the throne, and names it "the City of David." A complete revealing of 
David is beginning to be unfolded here. It all starts in the father's 
house, and from there it shall fill all of Israel. So Samuel (type of the 
Holy Spirit) is told to go to Jesse's house, and to quit praying for 
Saul, and he is told to take a full horn of oil with him. This in itself 
is unusual, but the work he is about to do is the fulness of his work. He 
is not about to go down and bless a household, he is going to anoint the 
exalted Son of God! He is going to anoint God's King, and it takes a full 
horn to do that - that's the full work and ministry of the Holy Spirit. 
 
1 Samuel 16:6, " And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked 
on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord's anointed is before him. But the 
Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of 
his stature; because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man 
seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on 
the heart. Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. 
And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this. Then Jesse made Shammah 
to pass by." He went through all seven of his sons - one at a time. 
Here's what I want you to understand. In the first part of this dealing 
with Saul there is a word used, "I have rejected him from reigning over 
Israel." That term 'rejected' is one of the most awesome words in the 
scriptures. It means 'I have counted him as an unholy thing, I have 
counted him as a thing not existing.' It's terrible! The awesomeness of 
this judgment is not just the refining of self - it is the replacement of 
me. It is not me coming to the understanding I'm in need of help, it's me 
coming to the understanding that I am as dead as a doornail! And the only 
one truly living in me is Christ! And that the knowledge of Him must fill 
and transform my very soul, to the point that I along with Paul can say, 
"For me to live is Christ." 
 
There's got to be a replacing in my heart of one with another. As long as 
there's any hope for that first son, he isn't going to be replaced. So 
this word 'rejected' is used, and it's a very stern word. In dealing with 
these seven sons, there is another word used, and it's 'refused'. And I 
thought this is not as bad a word. But when I looked it up, I found that 
in the original text, the word that is translated 'refused' is actually 
'rejected'. This word 'rejected' means 'put away from, counted as 
unholy.' Here comes these seven sons, and the Lord began to let me see 
why there are seven. The seven-fold nature of man, this seven-fold who 
didn't even recognize David. He was out in the back, he was in another 
generation, another time zone. Those boys didn't recognize him. They 
didn't say, 'let's go get David and get him out here'. They didn't care 
about David. Here comes this seven-fold son of Jesse's house, offering 
himself for a substitute for David. Isn't that what Abraham did with 
Ishmael, offered him as a substitute for Isaac? That word 'rejected'. Why 
would you deal with such intensity and drastic measures? Why would that 
word be applied to these seven boys? What did they do? Until Samuel came 
to the house, they were just sitting there. All they wanted to do was be 
anointed - and what's so bad about that? Why the same word - "I have 
rejected them"? 
 
I went days pondering that. I looked up all their names. I thought their 
names would be bad, but their names meant 'love of the father' - good 
things. Every one of them have a wonderful name. Then I thought of Paul 
saying, "But what things were counted gain to me, those I suffered loss 
and do count them but human manure..." That's the lowest form - manure is 
to be taken out and done away with. And I began to see God isn't dealing 
with the worst of us, He's dealing with the best of us here. He's dealing 
with the king sitting on the throne, He's dealing with Uzziah, the king 
in the land. He's dealing with the best that household in its seven-fold 
nature had to offer. 'Bring out your best - and watch me reject them! 
Bring out your best - I'll write CROSS on every bit of it. DIE - be done 
away. You do not exist here.' 
 
See they existed prior to the Holy Spirit, prior to Samuel coming. But 
when Samuel came, he came to change the household - it's no longer the 
household of Jesse. You'll find in 2 Chronicles it's the household of 
David! Where David says, out of all of the tribes of Israel, He has 
chosen that tribe, Benjamin. And out of all of the families of that tribe 
He has chosen my father's house. Out of all of the sons of my father, He 
has chosen me. Do you see what has happened? It has all come down to 
David! It's all come down to ONE SON - and it's not me, and it's not you. 
We are the Body of that One Son. If we begin to get a hold of this in our 
inner man so there would be a getting rid of that one we've been trying 
to keep on the throne. In all our good intentions we try to make him 
right, try to make him holy - trying to make it work. When all we need to 
do is turn our heart to Him! We just need a visit from Samuel with his 
horn full! 
 
What I do not need is to speak in tongues again, what I need is a full 
horn this time. What I need this time is the Son revealed in me - not a 
blessing. I need the Son revealed in me, because all the blessings are in 
Him anyway. That's where it's bringing us - we don't need to be 'born-
again' again. We need our new birth revealed in us. We are in Him - we 
need Him revealed in us. It's come to this time. It's come to this with 
Abraham. This was not to be Ishmael's house. Until the coming of Isaac it 
was - yes it was. The household always belonged to that firstborn son. It 
was Ishmael's house until Isaac came - not until Isaac was born, until 
Isaac was revealed! Ishmael was not put out of the camp until Isaac was 
revealed, until he was lifted up by his father and declared to be the 
son. And that was after he was weaned. That related to Galatians 4 - the 
adoption. The adoption is not of me, the adoption is Him. The Son that is 
placed in high esteem is not me, it's HIM! And we can see all of that 
taking place here in 1 Samuel 16. 
 
Then I saw that it wasn't really dealing in harshness with anything, it's 
just calling true what's true! The Son of God crucified that man, and now 
it's just truth coming in that; that man is crucified - it's not harsh. 
It's just burying what is dead. It's coming to the understanding - that's 
the wrong son. It's not really even taking anything away from him, 
because he had nothing to begin with. It's just coming to Truth. It's 
coming to realize that it's not I, but Christ. In spiritual life, in the 
coming of the Lord, and in God revealing His Son, nothing is ever touched 
but what is not resurrected. In Christ Jesus nothing is taken away but 
what is not replaced by Him Himself! Never! There's not just a rejecting 
here, there's an anointing of a King! There's not just a putting out, 
there's a putting forth of a true Son! There's not just a death, there's 
a resurrection! And when He appears, in our heart there's not just a 
ripping, there's a total revival - newness of Life coming forth. And 
where there was me - now there is Him! And where there was me struggling 
to be like Him, now it's Him! Now it's Him abounding! It is an exchanging 
- one life for another life. Where? In my heart. But nothing is happening 
that hasn't already taken place as part of the finished work of the 
Cross. In His appearing, what He has finished is being established in us.  
 
You see this has already been so in the mind and heart of God. "For I 
have provided me a king." Not I'm going to - the thing was already so. 
Samuel was just down there to reveal what God had already done. The Holy 
Spirit just comes and reveals what God has already done - set His Son in 
His House - and Truth comes to light. These seven fellows were called up 
one at a time, and one at a time - rejected. What an awesome judgment! 
They were all rejected in the light of His coming, because the light of 
His coming is in Samuel. Then he finally asked, "Is this all you have? 
Are there any left?" "Well, there's one - he's out tending the sheep." 
Please read this. This is absolutely wonderful. Verse 11b, "Send and 
fetch him, for we will not sit down till he come hither." When you and I 
come to that resolve in the Holy Spirit - we will do nothing else until 
He come. "Sit down here, man." "We will not continue this feast - he 
brought sacrifice - until he come." Why should we? We're the wrong son! 
Why should we continue to desecrate a house? WE'LL DO NOTHING UNTIL HE 
COME! When we come to that resolve, He will appear. And it's only by the 
Holy Spirit - only Samuel brings this resolve in, because it is in him. 
What has happened to this household of Jesse? The fulness of time has 
come - the time of God's revealing has come to it. And that time will 
come to each believer, and if it has already come, it will come again in 
a greater fashion. It will come until it fully comes to all His House.  
 
We will not sit down till He come. We are being brought to that because 
it is the work of the Holy Spirit. I'm seeing this throughout the world. 
What used to work is not working any more. A new time is come. Samuel is 
come with a full horn. It's not business as usual. Samuel didn't say 
we'll just keep things the same, because he said for this purpose I am 
here - I'm not even here to reject these boys primarily. I'm simply 
rejecting them in doing what God sent me to do - anoint the real SON! I 
am here to bring forth the real King. I am here to exalt the Son of this 
House, that this House will forever more carry His name - as all of 
Israel shall carry His name, and as all of Israel shall be numbered in 
this very household, summed up in it. How can we do anything else? It's 
going to come to that. He's dealt with us in many ways, but sooner or 
later it's going to come to this - WE WILL DO NOTHING ELSE! 
 
And we can forge on and do it. We can try to get the answer to the next 
prayer, or we can try to get the same feeling back, but it won't work. It 
won't work if you're part of this household. Things will quit working 
because Samuel says, "We will not sit down till He comes." And when He 
comes, the Anointed One of God is revealed, and the whole horn is poured 
on top of His head! That precipitates the second revealing in Judah, 
which precipitates the third revealing in the midst of all of Israel. In 
that revealing David is completely revealed and he takes Israel, a type 
of the Church to the top of Mt. Zion, and there he rules in them in 
peace, there he reveals the Ark of the Covenant of God's glory! But 
that's not the end of it - there a Solomon is born and a house is built, 
and on and on. But the point is here he is revealed, here is the exalted 
son, here only one son is left in that whole house. And that house 
carries his name - not Abinadab or Shammah - it carries the name of 
David. And all of Israel becomes the House of David, the city of the 
King! 
When Uzziah dies, Jesus just doesn't sit in the bedroom! He sits on the 
throne and fills up the whole House! The whole House carries His Name! 
And our travels in this earth are for one purpose - to see Israel carry 
His Name! I want to see the whole Church summed up in Christ - in 
reality. "Til we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge 
of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of 
the fulness of Christ." And to me, other than that ministry has no 
purpose whatsoever. So until He comes, there's no point in going on with 
this feast, because it's His feast. Until He appears, the end of the 
feast is missing. We've come to this great feast of Pentecost, and the 
end of it is Him appearing - in His fulness. And that's a three-fold 
feast in itself, numbered up in Trumpets and Atonement and Tabernacles - 
that's Him! That's His Voice filling the earth! It's HIM! 
 
So this second altar has to do with the establishing of This Son in this 
House - One Son. Israel does not know David fully, but he's King. And he 
shall fill up Israel. That anointing had to take place, and this 
revealing has to take place because until it does, the wrong son is in 
the throne. So, the elimination of sons is that second altar, and then we 
begin to know Him. This is what is said about Abraham - because it gets 
into the circumcision. Here David is the eighth son, there the 
circumcision is on the eighth day. Here David is the eighth son, there 
another son comes forth on the eighth day. Here circumcision is seen as 
the cutting away of Ishmael. Genesis 17:24, " And Abram was ninety nine 
years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. And 
Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the 
flesh of his foreskin." Here's the key, verse 26, "In the self same day 
was Abram circumcised and Ishmael his son." The circumcision of Abram was 
Ishmael - the cutting away of Ishmael. And when Ishmael was cut away, you 
have symbolically, the eighth day, a new son. Because right after that 
came the promise again - in ISAAC shall my seed be called. Now Abraham 
couldn't mistake it this time. Circumcision - there was a cutting away. 
Now there was no mistake. Right after that - Isaac. It is beautifully 
said.  
 
God then forms a covenant, and covenant is with One Son. Not Ishmael - 
not the product of my flesh and my fleshly thinking and my 
misunderstanding. God's covenant of oneness. God's covenant of union is 
with the Son of His own loins, the Son of His own being - He is the 
Covenant Son! When was Ishmael really done away? When he was circumcised 
- he was cut away. But when was Ishmael taken away? We were done away in 
the Cross, not just 2,000 years ago - eternally. Christ was a lamb slain 
from before the foundation of the world in the heart and mind of God. 
Ishmael was done away at the circumcision. And the better covenant 
requires a better circumcision. The old covenant required a cutting away 
of the foreskin. The new covenant requires a cutting away of the whole 
man! But when was Ishmael taken away? He was taken away in Genesis 21:8-
12. This was the time not of Isaac's birth, but of Isaac's recognition, 
of Isaac's weaning. In the midst of that adoption ceremony Sarah said, " 
GET RID OF ISHMAEL AND HAGAR." And he was taken away.  
 
When are we done away? At the Cross. But when are we taken away? At the 
revelation of Jesus Christ! "I come to take away - and establish. This 
was the only time Abraham fell before God and tried to get Him to bless 
Ishmael. "O that Ishmael might live before God." Abraham had related 
every promise of God to Ishmael and now he finds out he's related it all 
to the wrong son. Why isn't Ishmael just able to stay in the camp? 
Because Ishmael, like those seven sons, has been substituted for the real 
son. That's why God deals so harshly with this man - self, because he has 
taken the seat of the Son. He is substituted for the Son and he must now 
be done away for no flesh shall glory in His presence. He must be done 
away, and that which is done away must be taken away in truth and 
reality. So we are done away at the Cross, but when the Father lifted up 
the Son and said, "Here's my son, Isaac, my only son..." You know he said 
that because God came along a little later and said that - "Isaac thy 
son, thy only son." He had only one left. This is the adoption of 
Galatians 4. When He is lifted up in you - THIS IS MY SON, MY ONLY SON, 
THE SON WHOM I LOVE - then that which is done away is taken away, and 
is replaced by Isaac, is replaced by Him! That which is done away in the 
circumcision is taken away in the adoption. That which is done away at 
the Cross is taken away in the appearing of Christ Himself! 
 
Abraham was not choosing between the two at that time, he was simply 
recognizing the One remaining! That's what must take place in you and I. 
So we come to that second altar. What an altar - ONE SON REMAINS, and we 
learn Him and grow up in Him. Then there's the third altar that has to do 
with Isaac himself, and Abraham is obedient there and his only hope is in 
the RESURRECTION!	 
 
                              PART 3 
 
Let's continue to look at the second altar in the life of Abraham and 
consequently the second altar in the Tabernacle and the second altar in 
our life as Christ begins to be revealed. He begins to appear in the work 
of divine judgment. His appearing in this work of divine judgment, in 
this second altar is synonymous with the setting of His House in order. 
And until He appears in His House, in you and I, His House is not in 
order, no matter how hard we try. We have heard a lot about setting the 
House in order, and New Testament order, the five fold ministry and 
praise and worship. And although all of these have their place and are 
true enough, the having of these things does not constitute New Testament 
order. Without His appearing and the full significance of this second 
altar, there is no order in your life - and you are the House of God! 
What sets your life in order? HIS APPEARING, and nothing else is going 
to do it. There are many things in your life that will work to bring you 
to His appearing, and I speak nothing against those things or ministries. 
But in the end, if He has not appeared, there is no order there. So 
whatever brings us or points us to His appearing, I'm all for.  
 
Abraham's house was exceedingly out of order! I don't care what else he 
had right, the wrong son was in charge. He had all God's promises lined 
up, but the wrong son was in charge. Everything was out of order. In our 
lives, until the Lord appears, everything is out of order and it will 
soon be proven to be out of order. Because the only true New Testament 
order is that order which brings forth the increase of the Lord Jesus 
Christ in the midst of the earth; that order which bears His Name. So the 
whole house of Abraham - although his rituals may have been fine, his 
whole house was out of order, so it was set up for another divine 
visitation of God, for another revealing of the Lord, for another 
appearing of the Lord - it was set up for another altar. His whole house 
was about to be brought to an altar of the appearing of the Lord and the 
true order of the house is about to appear. And the house is about to 
bear his name, and the whole house is about to begin to revolve around 
him, and the whole house is to be set to produce his increase in all the 
earth. True order is about to come to the house of Abraham! This second 
altar is an altar of His appearing and it is that altar of order. If the 
first altar is the altar of divine judgment (brass), then the second 
altar, which is gold and represents truth can be called the altar of 
divine order.  
 
So, if you want your relationships right - SEEK HIS APPEARING! And don't 
stop until He appears. If the order of your life or your assembly is not 
right - set yourself for His appearing! When the right Son is in the 
right place, order reigns! But when the wrong son is in the wrong place, 
there is no order. There is just religion, there is just futile 
application of promises, futile quotations of scripture. You don't need 
to tell me what the Bible says, you need to show me how to do that. The 
Bible tells me to love my neighbor - you need to show me how to do that. 
Until the Son appears, the scriptures are right, but the wrong son is 
trying to do it. See, in this business of being summed up in Him through 
these three altars, what we're coming to finally is a realization that 
except it be Him, it's for nothing! Except our Salvation finally be 
growing up in Him, it's futile. That finally, except He become the center 
of my searching, my searching is in vain. Spiritual life is not a 
collection of objects, it's a Person! Spiritual life is not a system of 
programs, it's a Person! All of those things may emanate out from the 
Person, but none of those things constitute the Person Himself! HE MUST 
COME INTO VIEW! 
 
I won't stop using words, but they will be words of a man who has seen a 
Person instead of a thing. That's what the second altar is about. This is 
first of all an altar that takes care of your substitutions. Whatever has 
been substituted finds tremendous rejection, and is dealt with in a way 
that it is taken out of its place. So in Genesis 16 and 17 we are seeing 
that since Abraham refused to wait on the promises of God, he has brought 
forth Ishmael. Abraham has summed all the promises up in Ishmael. All the 
promises were right - but it was the wrong son. Here we are dealing with 
judgment within, which is affecting the inner man. The inner man is being 
brought to the truth of the Cross, and the truth of the Cross is simply 
this - He taketh away the first and He establishes the second. The second 
Son is about to be established in the place of the first; the first being 
after the earth, earthy, the second being the Lord from heaven Himself! 
 
Do you hear that? At the full work of this altar, at the revealing of the 
indwelling Christ in the inner man, there will remain nothing of 
substance in my soul, nothing of truth in my soul after the first. In the 
full work of the truth and order of this altar, my heart is going to be 
set in order before God - my heart. Collectively, you and I, having 
Christ revealed in us - His House is going to be set in order before His 
Holy Throne. My heart is not going to be taught to do things better, 
that's not order. There's not going to be a rearranging of priorities. 
There are no place for priorities in Christ. To have priorities you have 
to have four or five lives - a home life, job life, social life, church 
life, etc. And most Christians wrestle with which of those lives should 
come first. That's because we think all those lives exist - and to the 
first man they do. So we think the highest spiritual order is to properly 
prioritize our life. But the Bible says that He is the firstborn from 
among the dead, that He may have preeminence in all things. At the second 
altar we move from priorities to preeminence, and the way we do it is 
that all of these lives are summed up in the CHRIST LIFE. We only have 
one life - not three, four or five, and that is the CHRIST LIFE. 
 
And spiritual growth is not trying to figure out how to fit the Christ 
life into each of these lives, spiritual growth is seeing each of these 
summed up in Him! And you'll never get that done until HE APPEARS! This 
is a hard altar because it is doing away with a son who thought he ruled 
the household, who thought all the promises were for him: Ishmael was 
fortified by the very promises of God. He is a son who is absolutely and 
totally deceived in the Word of God and totally ignorant concerning the 
Word of God. James 1:21-24 - he is that man that goes to the mirror, goes 
to the Word of God and he sees his own face. He goes to the scripture and 
sees himself. And he goes his way and he straightway forgets (which means 
in the original he has never seen the excellent man, he has seen himself 
and he has substituted himself for the excellent man). And he is called a 
forgetful hearer, not a doer. A doer waits in the Word, continueth in the 
Word - until he looks beyond, until the mirror is no longer a vanity 
mirror and he no longer walks as the Gentiles in the vanity of their 
minds. You walk in the vanity of your mind, looking at yourself. It's the 
only mirror that will really puff you up. But when you look beyond that, 
when you wait for His coming and refuse to move from that mirror until 
you see not yourself, but Him; then in the seeing of Him - ONE FACE IN 
THE MIRROR! You're looking at yourself, but you end up seeing Him; 
realizing I have no life but Him! And He is preeminent in all things - 
it's Him doing it! 
 
Then these other lives we think we have don't hold second place - they 
have no place as far as life is concerned. All of these become things in 
which you express the preeminence of Him! Not lives that you are trying 
to fit Him into. And the transformation is phenomenal because this is the 
altar of transformation. The first altar is the altar of translation - 
where we were translated. This is the altar of transformation. Here we 
are renewed in the Spirit of your mind, putting off the old and putting 
on the new - being transformed. That's why it's an awesome altar. It's 
one face passing out and another face coming in. No wonder Paul says, 
"God hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the 
glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." The appearing of another man, 
the appearing of another life. And He is preeminent. He's not first in a 
whole list of things; the whole list is summed up in Him and done away 
with. HE'S PREEMINENT! But in our theology we've taught getting Jesus 
"first" in everything, getting our priorities straight. That won't hold 
water when you go to the Word. 
 
It's not me making Him first in anything - it's me realizing He is ONLY! 
It's not me making Him first in His House - it's me realizing He's the 
Only One who lives in it! And that I'm the House. It's not me fixing up a 
room for Him in my house - it's me realizing I'm His House! He's not a 
guest here. It's me coming to that realization and Him having 
preeminence. At this second altar The Son reigns in Truth - the gold 
girdle around the paps. Things come into order. He brings His House into 
the order of His appearing; into the order of His preeminence. That's 
going to take a lot of things out of their assigned places. They just 
have to find their place in Him! That's order.  
 
That's where we've come with Abraham. Abram thought he had his house in 
order, but when he was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram 
and said, "I am Almighty God." When God declares the Son in you, who does 
the Son make known? Galatians 4 - the Spirit of Christ entering into your 
heart crying, Jesus, Jesus? No - FATHER, FATHER! No man knoweth the Son 
but the Father. No man knoweth the Father but the Son and him to whom the 
Son shall reveal. There's only ONE SON that knows the Father. The Father 
reveals this Son, for He only knows that Son - The Father doesn't know 
any other Son. He's not mixed up. And the Son is not known by any other 
than Him. It is His good pleasure to reveal the Son, but once He does, 
automatically the Son reveals the Father. Why? Because everything that 
Father is, is one with the Son. In the Son is the fulness - the full 
expression. The Son is the genuine expression. The Son is the genuine 
article, the genuine expression of His Father's image. He is the genuine 
seed of His Father's heart and loins and inner being. When you see the 
Son you've seen the Father. When you've heard Him you've heard the Word 
of the Father. 
 
He did not say I am the Father, He said my Father and I are One. When you 
have seen me you have seen my Father. The Father's Word declares the Son. 
Who else could the Word declare? That's the reason Jesus said, "I don't 
speak of myself, because I'm not my word and his word. I just happen to 
be in an earthly body, but I'm His Word. I can't do my works because I am 
His work." So when God reveals the Son in you, He's going to declare the 
Father. At the second altar, the Father He's going to declare is ALMIGHTY 
GOD! That pretty much brings everything under subjection. That doesn't 
say He's still not Loving Father, but at this altar He's Loving Father 
who is Almighty God! He has come to set things in order. He isn't come to 
argue with Abram about Ishmael. Almighty God! 
 
Most believers haven't come to that yet. They've never come to Almighty 
God - to where they've stood before the presence, the revealing of Him 
who causes us to know the Father as Almighty God. What is His 
instruction? Genesis 17:1, "Walk before me and be thou perfect." This 
altar is the altar of perfection! This is the altar of putting off the 
old and putting on the new. This is the altar of growing up in Him! This 
is the altar of the three-fold anointing of David. This is the altar of 
transformation. This is the altar where a child becomes a man. This is 
the altar where the Son is set in His rightful place. This is the golden 
altar. 'BE THOU PERFECT." Perfect means 'complete, full, grown up.' And 
what does God do? He comes right back with the promises Abraham has 
applied to Ishmael. "I'll make my covenant between me and thee." I 
skipped over the part in Chapter 15 about circumcision. Circumcision is 
the sign of the covenant. That's what we're after. "I will multiply thee 
exceedingly." Abraham fell on his face when God talked with him. If 
there's ever an altar of falling on your face - this is it! Hiding my 
face from the Almighty God! 
 
Because I am found being two-faced before the Almighty God and I can not 
bear His appearing. Who shall stand? Nobody! I'm about to have one face 
taken off, and one face remain. The Body of Jesus Christ is about to take 
on His face, His image, His countenance, His mind, His truth, and quit 
being two-faced and double minded. Abraham fell on his face - had a face 
change. "We all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the 
Lord are changed into that image from glory to glory..." It's not the 
face of Adam one time and Christ another time. It's not the face of 
Ishmael - the face of Isaac - it's just Christ! The Body begins to bear 
one face - takes off the Halloween mask and throws it away. The true face 
appears on the true Body of Christ and we begin to look like whose Body 
we are. We begin to bear His face, His name - it's the same thing. We 
bear His identity. We're not identified by our foot - we're identified by 
our face. When people see your face they know who you are. This is so 
because of this divine pattern. The face - the open expression of Christ 
is in His face - His nature. Abraham fell on his face before Almighty 
God. That's significant because that's the same thing Isaiah did, Ezekiel 
did, Paul did, John did, and the same thing you and I will do. We fall on 
our identity - we fall on our face, we hide our face from Him.  
 
"And God talked with him saying, As for me, behold my covenant is with 
thee. Thou shalt be a father of many nations. Neither shall thy name any 
more be called Abram; thy name shall be Abraham." At the second altar 
there's a name change because there's a change of face, a change of mind 
- a transformation. His name was not changed when Ishmael was born. This 
is summed up in Chapter 17:21, "But I will establish my covenant with 
Isaac." There's a name change here because Isaac is the seed that would 
bear the increase, not Ishmael. Ishmael will bear the increase of the 
Gentile nations. Isaac will bear the increase of Christ, to whom all the 
Gentile nations will have to bend their knees and confess they are not 
the heir of God. For every knee shall bow before Him and every tongue 
shall confess. The increase of Ishmael was the Gentile nations, but the 
increase of Isaac was the promise of God. So God gave Abraham a name to 
go along with it. Abraham - father of many, father of increase. Why not 
call him father of increase when Ishmael was born? He's going to be a 
great nation, but he is a nation of Gentiles, not this seed at all. But 
in Isaac is the increase of the seed; not the increase of the Jews, the 
increase of the SEED. The promise is concerning the SEED. You see in 
Christ there is neither Jew nor Gentile - it's all summed up in Him.  
 
The name He is going to give us at this second altar will coincide 
directly with you and I bringing forth the increase of Christ and not 
ourselves! We bear the name of His increase. Abraham bore the name of his 
increase, but it wasn't changed until Isaac came on the scene, not 
Ishmael. Just because there's a bunch of us doesn't mean we're an 
increase. An increase is measured in Christ! Just because there's not a 
bunch of us doesn't mean we're not an increase. The increase is measured 
in Christ and that increase will fill the earth. We will fill the earth 
with the knowledge of the glory of God - not flesh multiplied. And unto 
that increase shall every nation bow - an increase of Christ. This all 
begins to be made known to you at this second altar because it all takes 
place first in you. This is not something you first go out and do. This 
is something that first takes place in us. A lot of Kingdom preaching 
today is trying to go out and do these things, and it hasn't taken place 
in them yet. They are trying to go out and establish a rulership that 
hasn't taken place in them yet. They haven't been to an altar here. We've 
all got to come to this altar - it's got to be in me first. And then what 
you do is simply become a manifestation of the rulership within you. But 
we get a hold of all these things and there's no altar. There's no face 
change involved in them, there's no transformation of Son involved in it. 
It's just Ishmael trying to fill up the earth with more like himself - in 
the name of Isaac, because he's got all the promises. That's what it is, 
and it will be that until the Lord appears and declares Himself as 
Almighty God, and begins to deal with us in a name change. a name that 
directly relates to the increase of Isaac and not the increase of 
Ishmael. 
God speaks here about the covenant. What is the covenant? Genesis 17:8, 
"And I will give unto thee and thy seed after thee the land wherein thou 
art a stranger, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and 
I will be their God. And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my 
covenant therefore, thou and thy seed after thee in their generations. 
This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed 
after thee; Every man child (and here it is summed up, every man and 
woman, every body and girl; all who would be a son is summed up here) 
among you shall be circumcised. And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your 
foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. And 
he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child 
in your generations, he that is born in the house or bought with money of 
any stranger, which is not of thy seed. He that is born in thy house, and 
he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised; and my 
covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. And the 
uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, 
that soul shall be cut off from his people, for he has broken my 
covenant."  
 
What we have got in the Body of Jesus Christ today is a whole flock of 
uncircumcised man child - claiming the covenant. What is the covenant? 
The covenant is absolute union with God through and in Jesus Christ! 
"I'll bring you into Myself. I'll establish you in the land, in Myself, I 
will be your God, you will be My people." Basically that's the covenant, 
the end of the work is the covenant. "We will be one," saith the Lord. 
But He can not be one with Ishmael. He can only be one with that which is 
of His seed. Not only that which is of His seed - that which is His seed. 
"If ye be Christ's..." In the three places in the scripture that states 
this, it means "circumcised" - it's a divine order of circumcision. If ye 
be circumcised, then are ye Abraham's seed. What is circumcision? 
Circumcision is the work of the Cross! See, God's talking to Abraham 
about a full covenant, about a faith covenant. Moses came along and 
established a pattern of it - which is less than what God actually said 
to Abraham. That was called old, but it is fulfilled in Christ and called 
NEW, because it is of faith as it was with Abraham, and not of law as it 
was with Moses. Under law covenant had to do with being a people that 
belonged to God. But in faith, covenant has to do with a people who are 
one with God! And we are to be the manifestation of Him! 
 
How can they do that? By being the Body of His Son! And covenant is an 
understanding of that and that understanding comes in the appearing of 
that Covenant Son. And when the Covenant Son appears, somebody's about to 
get circumcised! Because He appears as a sharp sword, He appears as a 
Covenant Word, He appears to take away the first and establish the 
second, with whom the Covenant of God is made. With whom is God One? He's 
One with His Son! So when the Son is revealed in us, we come to 
understand we are One with the Son, and that costs us our lives. That 
which is not the Son is taken out, and that which is the Son remains. 
It's not me and the Son - it's the Son, who is my life. He has brought me 
in and made me One with Himself. "In that day you shall know that I'm in 
my Father, you are in me and I am in you." That is the covenant, but the 
circumcision is the understanding of the covenant, the sign of the 
covenant.  
 
Now the sign of the covenant before the full appearing of Christ is the 
cutting away of the foreskin, but that's only the forerunner of 
circumcision. The true circumcision is the CROSS where not just a 
foreskin, but where the whole man is cut off and done away! And then the 
one who remains is the one who is one with God. But where does He 
remains? He remains in us, and I begin to realize, He's my life. He's one 
with God and He's my life. He's one with God and we're His Body; He's in 
the Father and we're in Him. We begin to realize our oneness. We begin to 
realize God has done what He said He would do. We're not just 
possessions, we are in Him - one with Him, He's in us! All of this has 
been a work of the Son. But for that to be worked in our hearts, it is by 
circumcision. So Paul preaches a circumcision not of the flesh but of the 
heart, which he says is done by the Word of God, by the revealing of 
Christ in you. 
 
So when you come to this second altar, what is cut away, what is 
circumcised? Your heart is circumcised. And what is cut out of your 
heart? YOU! And how is that done? In the light, in the sharp, piercing, 
cutting light of His appearing. He appears and I am cut out! He appears 
and my heart is circumcised! He appears - the first is taken away and the 
second is established. That's circumcision. Who must be circumcised? 
Every man child - none escapes. What has Abraham been praying for here? A 
seed. What is God's guarantee of that seed; that this seed shall come 
forth, that this seed shall remain? God's guarantee of that is 'I'm going 
to cut everything else but that away! Here's my covenant, Abraham - every 
man child shall be cut off. That which remains is MY SEED.' 
 
They did it in the flesh as a type, but by the Spirit of God it's not a 
type. When he whacked off the foreskin and threw it down on the ground, 
that was a type of a whole man - the continuing of that race of that seed 
- it had been cut off. But when Jesus came in the Cross, it wasn't cut 
off figuratively, HE DIED - He put the man away. And when He appears in 
our heart, and the truth of circumcision comes, and our heart is filled 
with the truth of His appearing, there's nothing figurative about it. One 
man is cut off in understanding and in Truth, and we come to realize what 
He did at the Cross. At the Cross I was circumcised by Him! At the Cross 
I was cut off! Truth comes. See Abraham is going to come to truth here, 
and it's through the meaning of circumcision. "He that is eight days 
old..." Why? Because we are ending a seven day course. The last feast 
which is the great feast ends on an eighth day which is a Sabbath day. 
But the eighth day is a day of new order. This is the altar of a new 
order. David was the eighth son - the son of new order - the seven were 
cut off. Circumcision is the eighth day - that which remains is the Son 
of new order. A seven day cycle, a seven month or year cycle. Seven times 
seven is forty nine. Pentecost is the fiftieth - the fulness of the new 
order. You come through all these cycles of seven until you come to a 
seven-fold seven - forty nine, and now Pentecost is the fiftieth year, 
but in type it is the eighth day - a day of new order. And who does the 
Holy Spirit come to reveal? Christ! 
 
That's what circumcision is. And when our heart is circumcised, it means 
we are brought into the order of the Cross, we are brought into Truth. We 
come to realize we are no more - I am really dead! I'm really not the 
Son! He really is, and what He did at the Cross is revealed in me. My 
heart is circumcised and the True Son remains. The eighth day order - 
order has begun. It begins with the revealing of the Son. Now 
circumcision is painful - even in the natural it's painful. This second 
altar is painful. It is the cutting away of everything that is not 
Christ. That isn't to say it's not glorious, but it's painful. It's the 
cutting away of everything I've spent my life fortifying. It is crushing 
and painful and I fall on my face - but HE COMES FORTH! He comes forth 
with healing in His wings! What is He telling Abraham here? This covenant 
is the coming forth of this many membered Son in absolute union - that's 
the covenant God made with the Eternal Son before the foundation of the 
world. That's the covenant He figuratively related to Abraham; that's the 
covenant that Moses outlined in a pattern in the Tabernacle; that's the 
covenant that Jesus came and performed and brought forth; that's the 
covenant that the Holy Spirit is come to work out in us, because it's the 
Holy Spirit that writes the covenant in your heart by revealing the Son. 
And the covenant is bringing all things together in Christ Jesus. It is 
being done in our hearts who are in Him. That's the covenant. 
 
And the guarantee that this Son shall come forth is the Cross! Where 
every man child is cut off. "In that one died, all died with Him." There 
is not a chance of you and I getting in Him and still having a life of 
our own, because the Cross is the ultimate circumcision! None comes but 
by the Cross. The soul who seeks to come other than by the Cross is put 
out, has no place. But here's the problem, though we have all come by the 
Cross, by His work, by His death and resurrection, most have not come to 
the understanding of the covenant. Most have not come to the 
understanding of the work of God that is birthed in us so that we, by 
understanding may live according to covenant. A covenant is an 
understanding by two whereas they live as one, in agreement. So we have 
come through Him, and now the Holy Spirit must bring us into covenant, 
into understanding. And that understanding is basically - NOT I, BUT 
CHRIST! I AM CRUCIFIED, I AM CIRCUMCISED. I AM CUT OFF, NEVERTHELESS I 
LIVE, YET NOT I, BUT CHRIST. To most that is the scripture, to some it's 
becoming a reality, because it's being established in their heart through 
the revealing of the Son - the Son coming at circumcision, at the second 
altar.  
 
This is the Son coming to take away not the outward man as at the first 
altar, but now taking away the inner man - the one who is living in the 
house under an assumed name. He's circumcised in the heart at this 
appearing, because He's appearing as the Word of the Almighty God, the 
Word that is sharp, quick, double-edged. He's appearing as the guarantee 
that God will have what He started out to get, and the Almighty God will 
have nothing less. And when this Son appears in you, He does away with 
all that is contrary to that. Every man child shall come to the Cross, 
shall be circumcised. None lives but that they die first. The second 
altar is just you and I realizing I'm dead and He's alive! The second 
altar is you and I realizing I have no life but Him. He is made unto me 
Life. It's realizing there's only One Son here, and we're His Body. I'm 
not the Son and He's my house. He's the Son and I'm His House! 
 
Now for Abraham what was it? Verse 18. Abraham feels the pain, he feels 
the realization. He falls on his face one more time. This time he 
questions God, he laughs in his heart and says how can this ever be? 'I 
don't understand this, how can this possibly be that I have no life but 
Christ? How can there ever be such a transformation? How can that Son be 
revealed?' "O that Ishmael could live before God!" 'Lord, if you'd just 
help me to do better. I've tried and tried.' Abraham is not playing with 
God - he's as sincere as he can be. 'I don't see how this can be, just 
bless what I've produced. Help me, you are Almighty God. I've tried to 
change, God you can do something.' And God says He's going to - He's 
going to bring forth another son! See, we want Him to work on this one 
and make this one right. We want to learn how to love - go to seminars, 
spend money, with big name teachers. But God won't teach you how to love 
- He'll reveal the Person of Love in you! You see Ishmael can not love - 
Ishmael is a wild man. He is not the seed of God and God is love, so only 
God's seed can love. And until the love of God is revealed in you, you 
can not love; you can exercise the milk of human kindness, but you can 
not love. This is a hard word, but this is a hard altar! 
 
This altar is very real with most of us, this crying out - 'O God, 
Ishmael! I understand Ishmael, I produced him and I did it for you, God. 
I left my land, I left everything and I'm doing my best. I'm not as Lot, 
I've actually given things up.' We don't even know we're struggling to 
maintain our life - we want it changed, we just don't want to lose it. 'I 
want Ishmael to be whatever you want him to be God, but I just want 
Ishmael.' We all have a problem with this altar, because when we start 
talking about transformation - we think it's like metamorphosis; an ugly 
little worm, spinning itself a cocoon and coming out a butterfly. And 
that doesn't even get it said. One man going into a tomb and the virtual 
Person of the Glory of God coming out! But you see this altar is not just 
the work He did 2,000 years ago. This altar is the understanding of that 
work being revealed in you, so that what He did 2,000 years ago becomes a 
literal, living transforming reality, and you begin to walk in the 
understanding of it. Not only that, you begin to be a manifestation of 
that understanding - Not I, but Christ. There's no crying out now for 
Ishmael. They are just crying out now to know Christ. That I may know Him 
so that in knowing Him, as His Body I may manifest Him and not me. Not me 
good, not me bad, not me refined, not me - period! But HIM! 
 
I'd rather manifest a thimble full of Him, period, that a barrel full of 
me, refined. So this prayer of Abraham is of no avail. God says, "But my 
covenant will I establish with Isaac." That's it, Abraham. I come...will 
I establish with Isaac. Do you hear something there? God is speaking of 
Isaac in the positive reality of time present. My covenant will I 
establish with Isaac - because in the heart of God Isaac is already 
there! In the heart and mind of God, He understands you are in Christ 
Jesus. He sees you where you are. What He wants to do is put His 
understanding, His covenant in you. But the sign of His covenant is 
circumcision, which means that you can not come into the understanding 
that you are one with Christ, except it cost you the loss of your life. 
You cannot separate the covenant from the sign of the covenant. They are 
spoken of as one. "This is my covenant which ye shall keep. Every man 
child among you shall be circumcised." The next verse says the 
circumcision is the token of the covenant. They are connected. You can 
not have the understanding without undergoing the sign. You can not come 
to the understanding of what God has done in Christ Jesus, that you are 
one with Him; your soul can not come to understand that He is in you 
without undergoing the cost of that understanding, which is circumcision. 
And that is understanding He is my life, I have no life of my own. That 
understanding takes away the first and establishes the second in my 
heart.  
 
That is done in His appearing, when He appears at the second altar. He 
appears in you from altar to altar to altar, but this second one is where 
you come to understand it is He and not me. He is the Son I thought I 
was. Now I understand it's not me - it's Him, and I'm His Body. And I'm 
glad to be His Body that I may manifest who He is. You and I are the Body 
that He raised up in His own Resurrection. So when He starts bringing 
understanding, the sign of it - the CROSS! 
 
Genesis 17:24, "And Abraham was ninety years old and nine when he was 
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. And Ishmael his son was 
thirteen years, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. In 
the self same day was Abraham circumcised and Ishmael his son." Who was 
the circumcision of Abraham? The cutting away of Ishmael. Ishmael was the 
product of his seed. When the foreskin of Abraham was cut away, the true 
foreskin was Ishmael, the production of himself. And then after that in 
Ishmael every son was cut away, because there's only going to be one to 
remain. In the third altar God says, Thy son, thy only son - Isaac! The 
circumcision of Abraham was the cutting away of Ishmael. Even though that 
took place Ishmael remained until Isaac appeared. But in the appearing of 
Isaac the circumcision of Ishmael was fulfilled - the True came, and 
Ishmael, who was put out had to go out. Ishmael who was cut off, had to 
go off. Why? Because Isaac was revealed to be the true son, and Ishmael 
could not remain. 
 
But you say, Isaac was circumcised. Yes he was - Isaac fulfilled 
circumcision because Isaac was the first son of Abraham to be circumcised 
on the eighth day. The circumcision of Ishmael when he was thirteen years 
old was according to the eighth day, but at thirteen he was cut off. But 
the circumcision of Isaac was done right. It was on the eighth day, and 
Isaac remained as the circumcision of the eighth day. Jesus died, but He 
came forth as the order of the eighth day - the truly circumcised Son of 
God! He's the firstborn from among the dead. He had the old man that He 
took upon Himself - the me, the you - he was cut off from Him in death, 
and the true Son remained and came forth triumphant, as the order of the 
eighth day, the true circumcised Son of God! And now everyone in Him must 
be truly circumcised - they must come to the knowledge of the Lord and 
their hearts must be truly circumcised. That is, the old must truly be 
cut off. How does all this take place? GOD REVEALING HIS SON! 
 
All of this culminates in Ishmael going out, not when Isaac was born, but 
as Isaac grew and was weaned. And Abraham lifted him up and revealed him 
to all of his house as his only son. And when he was revealed as the only 
son, Ishmael had to go out. Circumcision was fulfilled - not in Ishmael. 
It was fulfilled in Isaac. Ishmael was the circumcision of Abraham, but 
the circumcision Ishmael stood for was fulfilled in Isaac. It's not you 
and I trying to circumcise ourselves. Our circumcision takes place in the 
appearing of Isaac. When Ishmael went out Abraham's circumcision was 
fulfilled because only one son remained. Abraham is a type of the 
household of faith - the House you are. Only One Son remained. Only One 
Son remained in Paul. "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, 
yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life that I now live in the 
flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God..." Only one son remained in 
his household. What is the faith of the Son of God? It's living in the 
knowledge that it's not me, but Him. It's when we have a change of face. 
"Beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, we are changed into that 
same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." We 
bear His face, His name - One Son in this House. I'm His House, we're His 
Body - One Son lives in this House.  
 
Abraham made a great feast. These feasts are all summed up in the 
appearing of the Son. All summed up in the eating of His flesh and the 
drinking of His blood - the greatest feast. The Feast of the Son. This is 
all at this second altar - Abraham threw a great feast. It's fulfilled in 
Christ, it's fulfilled in the three major feasts of Israel - Passover, 
Pentecost and Tabernacles. And all that is fulfilled in Him in the eating 
of His flesh and the drinking of His blood. We are a people called to a 
feast - we may as well start eating! When the Father reveals the Son in 
you, the Father - Abraham calls everybody to a big feast. Jesus stood up 
at the last day of the feast and said, "If any man thirst, let him come 
to me." "He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood..." All of this is 
fulfilled in Christ and it started right here with Abraham. Moses picked 
it up, but Christ came along and fulfilled it all Himself and called HIS 
BODY that feast! 
 
How do we grow? Eating and drinking we grow up. Life ought to be one big 
feast! Wherever you go, where there is poverty, manifest feast. Where 
there is sadness, manifest feast. Feast - then joy comes along - great 
festivities come along with the feast. Those who are eating and drinking 
Christ will fill up wherever they are with the sound of the feast. This 
gets down to our method and manner of living, living as those called to 
the feast!  
 
                               PART 4 
 
Now we want to look at this third altar that Abraham had to face. We will 
look at the principles of it, because the altar itself is a Person. And 
viewing Christ after this third altar, in this ever increasing way will 
bring the greatest change in our lives - that change that will ultimately 
manifest Him in the earth. This is a most awesome and tremendous 
appearing of Christ. And I believe that the Lord is hastening His coming 
in such a view. We have been talking about the coming of the Lord - a 
three-fold appearing, a three-fold revealing of Him that does away with 
the first - that first which is us. It is doing away with us in the three 
realms , in the first existence - without, within, and withal. Judged 
without, judged within and judged withal. That is when Christ becomes all 
and in all to us. And we begin to see and know all things only in Him. So 
in the light of His appearing we are brought to that tremendous judgment. 
 
In each of these altars there is a judgment made; there's a judgment made 
upon the first creation, and the second creation comes in. There's a 
judgment made upon the first son, and the second Son, which is Christ, 
remains. And now we're going to see the appearing of a greater than 
Isaac. As judgment comes upon that first, and out of that comes a greater 
appearing of Him, this shall manifest Him in all the earth. As we become 
judged, then we become a judgment in the earth. It isn't judging one 
another, lest ye be judged. It is being judged and therefore becoming the 
expression of that; becoming a judgment in the earth, "Know ye not that 
we shall judge angels?" We shall bring the judgment of true holiness into 
the earth; the judgment of true righteousness, of true relationship, the 
judgment of truth in the earth. We shall become the manifestation of that 
which Christ is. The reason the Lord appears in us is so that we might 
become the appearing of Him in the earth - in our homes, in our jobs, in 
our relationships. And that isn't only as individuals, because only His 
Body can give that full appearing of Christ. So sooner or later we'll all 
have to make the great transition from member to Body. I have to govern 
my life not as a member, but as a Body - I can no longer live as a 
member, I have to live on the account of, to meet the need of the Lord's 
Body. More and more I'm making that transition - and the Lord will bring 
you to that; where it is not you, it is us! And it is not us, but it is 
Him! And it is not me who constitutes Him, it is we who constitutes Him, 
and I can no longer live as me, I must begin to live as we.  
 
We sit and think how can we ever do that? It's not for me to figure out 
how to do it. It is for me to become obedient to it when the Lord leads 
me to that place, and when the time comes. The foot must not say 'I have 
no need of you', because there will come a time when the foot will need 
the leg, the finger will need the hand. This has to do with this third 
altar. Our purpose of growing up in Him is to become a manifesting of 
Him. And as is the BODY, so also is Christ. Not 'as is the finger', and 
the purpose of our growing up in Him is to finally become an expression 
of Him in the earth. And we become an expression of Him in the way that 
we've received judgment within. As I am judged in the area of the outer 
man I begin to express it. As I am judged in the inner man I begin to 
express it. And as I begin to be judged in the greater viewpoint of 
Christ, I can no longer live as unto myself. At one time it could be 
Jesus and me and the rest of you can either come along or not. But then I 
come to a point where it is not Jesus and me, but until we all come in 
the unity of the faith. And I am motivated in that greater understanding 
of who Christ is.  
 
It's like a little child - at first everything revolves around that child 
in their own little world. For a while you nurture that, but at a point 
in time it is necessary for that child to become a member of the family 
and recognize that and that the family doesn't operate around them. They 
must find their place in the family. There comes a time that every son 
must come to a realization that God's eternal plan does not revolve 
around me, but around a greater than I am. While He has dealt with me in 
one way for purpose of development and gift, I find that all He has 
developed me for now must be found and fulfilled in the greater than I am 
- in the greater expression of Him. And if it doesn't, what is precious 
at a young age becomes regretful at an older age. So the Lord is leading 
us as we walk and grow up in Him.  
 
So the third altar - Genesis 22. Abraham is facing the ultimate 
revelation of Christ. "And it came to pass after these things..." This is 
the winding up of these things. "...that God did test (tempt) Abraham and 
said to him, Abraham..." See, there was a name change at the second 
altar. There had to be this name change. Abram is "exalted Father", 
Abraham is "Father of many nations". And this is the realization he's 
coming to now. "And he said, here am I. Take now thy son, thine only 
son..." So you see a question has been settled here. There's only one son 
left. Abraham has come to that. And until you and I come to that second 
altar, we'll not go on to the third. " Take now thy son, thine only son 
Isaac whom thou lovest. Get thee into the land of Moriah and offer him 
there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell 
thee of." The very beginning of Abraham's journey has now become its 
ending! He began looking for such a place. "Get out, get out...to a land 
that I will show you." Now he's getting in, getting in, to a mountain 
that I will show you, in the land that I will show you. And here Abraham 
is finally going to see the summing up of what God dealt with him about 
back in the twelfth chapter. He is finally going to see from the top of a 
mountain, the land - in a way that he has not heretofore seen it. The 
summation is about to come about - Abraham hasn't seen it yet. He's seen 
parts of it; Paul says we see through a glass darkly, but when that which 
is perfect is come, then shall we know as we are known.  
 
This is what we are coming to. This is what Abraham is being drawn to in 
these appearings of the Lord. "...which I will tell thee of." You can see 
the similarities here. How will you know when you get to the mountain? 
I'll tell you. And how he's really going to know is he's going to call 
out a name of that mountain and realize something about the mountain, and 
what he says is "In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen." So God is 
bringing Abraham to a place, and he's going to know absolutely that he's 
there when the Lord appears to him. And Abraham will identify that place 
with the Lord who appeared, and so will you and I. We will identify where 
we are - I'm not just in a New Creation, I'M IN THE LORD! He has 
appeared! The New Creation is Him! He is the Lord, I'm His Body, and He 
now lives! We saw this at the beginning of this search - he built the 
altar to the Lord who appeared unto him. He identified the altar with the 
Lord. He's going to identify this mountain with the Lord, but it's an 
expanded view of the Lord; one he's never seen before. We've been brought 
to Mt. Zion - to this same mountain, in Christ Jesus, for an expanded 
view of Him; to see Him as we've never seen Him before! In the mount of 
the Lord it shall be seen! What a tremendous thing is being set before us 
in the scripture! 
 
"Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass and took two of 
his young men with him, and Isaac his son and clave the wood for the 
burnt offering, and rose up and went to the place which God had told him. 
Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar 
off." What he is coming to here, and what we must begin to understand is 
that this third altar is the place of His appearing in the power of His 
RESURRECTION! We have come to an appearing at an altar where a whole 
creation has passed out with the coming in of a realization of a New 
Creation. Then we have come to another altar where one son, the son that 
we ourself are of this house - one son is taken out - abolished, done 
away by death, and replaced by another. Now we're coming to an altar 
where the thing that is to be replaced, done away is going to be taken 
out and replaced by Resurrection, in the power of a Resurrection. And we 
will come to understand that not only have we been translated into the 
Kingdom of His Dear Son; not only have we come by death of the old man, 
but we are now made participants of the very Resurrection Himself! 
Because we must come to see that the Resurrection is not an event, but a 
Person, and yet it is not the person after the same image in which He 
died; because He died in weakness, but He is raised up in power! He died 
as one man, Adam; but He is raised up as another Man altogether. One we 
know very little about; yet one that we are part of. Abraham is about to 
see the end of this thing, which is Life Itself - RESURRECTION HIMSELF! 
 
Paul goes out saying, "Oh, that I may know Him in this way, in the power 
of His Resurrection." See, we want to know something about being 
resurrected. Jesus is not resurrected, HE'S THE RESURRECTION! To be 
joined with Him is to be joined to the Resurrection and that Man who is 
not resurrected, but who is the result of the Resurrection - a New Man, a 
greater Man, a greater than Isaac is about to appear! God open the eyes 
of our understanding that in us a greater than Isaac appear - that a 
greater than that which died, appear. The scriptures say, " Being 
justified by His death, much more we shall be saved by Him, by His Life." 
There is a greater. The death brings to an end the Adamic thing, but the 
Resurrection can not be measured by the death, because the One who comes 
forth is greater than the one who died. See, the Eternal Son of God had 
to become less than what He was eternally - to die. He had to become what 
Adam was - fallen, many - to die. But in Resurrection He comes forth in 
the power of His Eternal Self! And that's the One with whom we now have 
to do! It is the One that is the image of the Father from the beginning - 
the One, the Son that the Father saw from the very beginning is the One 
that comes forth in Him.  That's the Son we've got to see. And that Son 
is not a member, that Son is a Body - ONE SON! 
 
Here's what he's coming to see, and the significance is it's "on the 
third day", because the third day is the day of the Resurrection. So the 
place that he sees is the place of the Resurrection - he sees a mountain. 
Jesus shows this same place to Peter, James and John; introduces it to 
Moses and Elijah - in type; the Mount of Transfiguration. But where He 
has brought us is not a type. He has brought us unto this place - "YE ARE 
COME TO MT. ZION, the city of the Living God, the heavenly Jerusalem." Ye 
are come by way of and to the place of the Resurrection. We're not 
talking here about resurrected bodies, but we are talking about the BODY 
OF THE RESURRECTION; the Body that we truly are, the Body that we will be 
after this clay body drops off, and these old earth bodies will give way 
to the Body of the Resurrection. We're that Body now in reality - we must 
begin to see that and have our lives and our relationships with one 
another governed not by these bodies, but by that Body; and right now 
most of our relationships are governed by these bodies that we have, 
rather than that Body that we are. It's easy to say we're His Body, but 
to live as His Body isn't a work of the flesh - it's a manifestation of 
having seen Him in that realm and understanding you can not live as 
something other than you know yourself to be. We don't live as a Body 
because we have yet to see the Body that we truly are. By the very power 
of seeing that Body, we begin to live as that Body; we begin to 
experience the power of His Resurrection. This is what Paul put at the 
very end of his ministry as the very mark of the high calling of God in 
Christ - Oh, to know Him in this way. Paul had some knowledge of Him who 
dwelled within, but oh, to know Him in the power of His Resurrection - in 
that fulness that shall manifest Him in all the earth! 
 
This then is that place of the Resurrection. It is coming to the place of 
seeing the I AM as He truly is! His name is I AM. You remember when God 
told Moses to go out and deal with Israel, what name did He send him 
forth in? I AM THAT I AM! How will Israel identify with me? I AM THAT I 
AM! I AM WHO I AM! That is bringing a people into union with Himself, 
that's the ultimate purpose of coming forth in Christ. Jesus said, "I 
am...I am...I am..." Whose name, image, person are we to bear and 
manifest? With Whom have we come into union? I AM THAT I AM - seeing Him 
as He is; not seeing me as I am or us as we are - seeing Him as He is. As 
is the Body, so also is Christ. Him in union with those who are in Him; 
with those who are in Him for the purpose that He may be revealed in them 
so they may become a manifesting in the earth of who He is! Tell them I 
AM WHO I AM - my intention is that they know me after that name, that 
relationship. Exodus 15:17, my intention - I'm going to bring them into 
my holy mountain, to my sanctuary; I'm going to bring them into the place 
that I have provided for me to live in; that place that is not made with 
hands; that place where I reign forever. His purpose was portrayed with 
Israel, but it was fulfilled in Christ - I AM THAT I AM! 
 
Abraham is going to a mountain to see the Resurrection, to see The I AM 
AS HE IS! That's where you and I have got to come. He has brought us to a 
place of absolute darkness. He has brought us to a place that except He 
appear, we have no light. Here we see nothing but in the light of the 
knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Here we see 
His appearing in glory - from glory to glory. Here, in this place. If we 
were looking at it in the type of the house we would now be looking at it 
in the Ark of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies. This is the third altar 
in the house; this is the third altar in the life of Abraham. This altar 
is built on top of Mt. Zion where Solomon later built that House of the 
Ark of the Covenant; that Holy of Holies where He has brought us now to 
see. What appears in the Holy of Holies? The Ark of the Covenant is there 
- seeing Him as He is! The I AM THAT I AM! But the Ark of the Covenant is 
in a place of absolute, total, utter darkness. There is no light there 
except the Lord appear! You can't take a candle there, no flashlights 
allowed there. There it is when the glory of God is manifest, the Ark of 
the Covenant is seen. And it is not only just seen as an object; it is 
seen as the Glory of God! God hasn't brought us to a mountain to show us 
an object. He's brought us to the mountain that in Himself He may show us 
His Glory! 
 
So 2 Corinthians 3:18 says, "We all with open face (that means the veil 
done away. When the veil of the temple was done away what remained? The 
Ark of the Covenant.) beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord..." 
When do you see the Ark of the Covenant? When the Lord is revealed in His 
Glory. "...beholding him...are changed into that same image from glory to 
glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord." And in Colossians 3:1, "If ye 
then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above where Christ 
sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not 
on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ 
in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also 
appear with him in glory." Seeing the greater than Isaac, seeing the 
Resurrection, seeing the One who lives. He is greater than the One who 
dies! 
 
Beholding Him as He is and being found in Him, one with Him, a 
manifestation of Him as He is. When He appears then shall ye also appear. 
Who is the glory of God! It is Him! What appears when the glory of God 
settles on the Mercy Seat between the Cherubim on the Ark? The glory of 
God, but what else? The Ark of the Covenant. And in the Ark of the 
Covenant you are seen, as joined with Him, as being one with Him. What a 
picture is this Ark of the Covenant! The bottom part - the box represents 
Redemption, because it is wood covered with gold. But then it goes on and 
we see the Redeemer - the Mercy Seat itself - pure gold upon which the 
blood is put. And then we also see the Redeemed as being one with the 
Redeemer, because there are two Cherubim, representing the New Creation 
Being, the New Man. And there they stand with wings of heaven, facing 
toward one another, not looking at each other; for the purpose of the 
glory of God appearing in their midst - beholding always the glory of 
God. So we see Redemption, the Redeemer and the Redeemed, and it all 
appears as One New Man who is seen in the glory of God. When He appears, 
then shall we also appear as a manifestation of Him - seeing Him as He 
is! 
 
1 John 3, "Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, 
that we should be called the sons of God...it doth not yet appear (to the 
world) what we shall be; but we know..." We know that this outward 
manifestation only awaits His appearing in us. "...but we know that when 
He shall appear, we shall be like Him (that is a manifesting of Him) for 
we shall see Him as He is." Seeing Him as He is! But we have to come 
altar to altar to altar and all creation is waiting for this manifesting 
of Him as He is, and it will only be done through those in whom He 
appears. That causes them to walk in an understanding of their union with 
Him. But you see a first creation has to pass out; the first son has to 
pass out - then - the reality of what God has raised up. He didn't just 
kill a son to raise a Son. HE KILLED A SON TO RAISE A MANY-MEMBERED SON, 
YET IT IS STILL THAT ONE SON! It's not that Son as He died, it is that 
Son as He has always been. The greater One lives, the lesser one died. He 
became both for the purposes of God, but He could only become the lesser, 
because He was the greater; the lesser could never become the greater. He 
put it out in His death, and He came forth, and we come forth in Him - 
the greater - NOT I, BUT CHRIST! That will effect our relationship one 
with another because we have to manifest that in the earth. That's what 
being His Body is all about. That's what the expression of Christ here 
upon the earth is all about. That's what "Church" is really all about. 
That's the Church creation is waiting to see because that's the Church 
that shall be the manifest expression of His wisdom to principalities and 
powers.  
So Abraham is going to that place - the place of the Resurrection, the 
place of seeing the I AM as He truly is. He goes along. Genesis 22:9, 
"They came to the place of which God had told him of; and Abraham built 
an altar there..." This is the third and final altar.  "and laid the wood 
in order." This is similar to the first altar, the brazen altar in which 
the wood is also laid in order. "... and bound Isaac his son..." This is 
the binding that must take place in our hearts. Our view of Christ must 
finally come to the altar. This isn't our view of sin; this rather is to 
those who look for Him, He shall appear a second time without sin unto 
full salvation. This is that appearing. Abraham built the altar and bound 
Isaac his son, his only son. It all comes to a point of binding our image 
of Christ - the image that has been instilled in us of God; the image 
that has been necessary. It is necessary for me to come to the 
realization of being a son - The Son that He is, before I come to the 
realization of being a Body - The Body that He is. Because the one is 
easier - the one has to do with the getting rid of me, and the 
establishing of Him in me. But that only lays the ground then for the 
greater view of Him, in which view I've got to relate to you. There comes 
the problem. Then I find it was easier to date you than it was to marry 
you. Then we have to see that the "we two" then are ONE, and now it's not 
me I think of, but it's you.  
 
Now is a new realm, it is the foundation of the true Church, of true 
fellowship, of where the true expression of Christ in the earth is. Not 
just a collection of people, but a people bound in the knowledge of 
Christ - as One, nonbreakable, inseparable; they have problems but 
divorce never becomes an alternative because one can not divorce one - it 
takes two to do that. It's an understanding of our relationship to Him 
being manifested one to another. God bring us to that understanding! The 
Lord brought Israel to that in the second coming to Jordan. The first 
time there was the alternative - the alternative of wandering around in 
the wilderness. The alternative of Egypt was gone, but the wilderness was 
still there. But in the second coming, "out of Egypt I'll bring my son," 
the alternative of wandering around was not even there. That now was a 
place of death. God bring us to that place where turning back is no 
longer an alternative. Bring us to that place with one another where 
separation is no longer an alternative, just a seeing and knowing of Him 
and a manifesting of Him is the only alternative laying before us. This 
is the greater appearing of Him, and until we come to that, at every 
juncture we're going to exercise our options with one another. Thus you 
have church splits, and trying to hold together what should never have to 
be held together - it should stand as ONE! 
 
You can't give up on the Church - you are the Church. Abraham is being 
brought here - binding his son and laid him on the altar upon the wood. 
Only the Father can open our understanding to this. Until the image that 
I have formed of Christ in me is bound up and laid on the altar upon the 
wood - I am not in the place of His greater appearing. See, all of this 
was necessary. It didn't appear when Abraham first got there, because 
this binding is necessary. It is the passing out of the first that is 
necessary. It is all coming ultimately to the place of His appearing, but 
it is also the place of the passing out of the first. You don't just gain 
His appearing, you lose everything else that is less than His appearing. 
His appearing is to take away the first and establish the second. And a 
lot of us just don't want to bind our image of Him - we're content, and 
so we resist this altar. We're ready enough to cast out Ishmael, but now, 
"The Lord showed me this!" Are you ready to bind that too? "God said this 
is my son, my only son - this is him!" Are you ready to bind that too? 
Are we ready to be ever open to the greater appearing of Him? 
 
This is the warning that came to Mary in the garden. She came to Him and 
He said, "Do not touch me. I'm to go to my Father." The true rendition is 
"Do not seek to contain me or to grasp after me or to hold me in this 
form. Let me go in this form. I've yet to go to my Father." There's a 
purpose in seeing Him in that form unless you try to hold on to Him in 
that form. There's great purpose in the establishing firmly in you of the 
understanding that Christ is my life and God is my Father. But you can't 
hold on to that, because the plan of God does not consist of you, but a 
greater than you, and a greater expression of Christ than you are able to 
give Him. Only in our being joined and knit inseparably together in the 
appearing of Him do we see that greatest of all expressions - that will 
literally fill up the earth. When we see this it will change our ideas 
and relationships towards one another - it will necessitate that 
expression of Him that only a Corporate Man can bring forth. It isn't 
something we rush or even promote, but it is something that the Father 
will bring about. And when He brings you to that mountain in the Spirit, 
He has also brought you to that place in the earth. He never brings you 
to a place in Christ that is impossible for you to do in the earth.  
 
Abraham could not have put his son on the altar in any other place but 
the place where God had brought him. And if he doesn't do so there, it is 
rebellion against God. He didn't do that down in the flats. And sooner or 
later you and I are going to come to such a place. " Abraham stretched 
forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son." I want you to 
understand that Isaac had passed out. Abraham wasn't playing tricks with 
God, he feared God too much for that. Isaac was as dead as a doornail - 
he was gone! We are told here he was on the downward thrust and the angel 
of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, out of that realm in which 
Christ appears. "And said, Abraham, Abraham; and he said, Here am I. And 
he said Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto 
him." That which you have been willing to lose is going to come forth in 
a greater vision and a greater image and a greater way. 
 
Now Ishmael had to be kicked out, but this son is just multiplied. This 
Son just comes forth in a greater revealing. But your image of Him has 
got to go on to the altar. Abraham's idea with regard to Isaac had to go 
on the altar, and then God's idea with regard to Isaac came forth. Our 
idea of seeing Him as He is has to go on to the altar, and then God's 
idea can come forth. "For now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou 
hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." Abraham is passing 
from the natural view to the spiritual view. God has said, 'Come up to 
the mountain that I will show you." "And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and 
looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns; and 
Abraham went up and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering 
in the stead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place 
Jehovah-jireh; as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it 
shall be seen." Now let's see what he has seen. 
 
In the first place, we are not seeing here a substitute for Isaac; we are 
seeing the passing of one and the coming forth of many who are one. We 
are seeing something that is fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ; we're 
seeing a new view. We are seeing something that Isaac couldn't portray. 
So a ram is taken, and a ram is slain. We're seeing that through the 
death of one, a greater than one comes forth. "And the angel of the Lord 
called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time." "To those that look 
for Him He shall appear a second time without sin." It's not the ram seen 
here now. It wasn't a substitute for Isaac. Isaac in the heart of Abraham 
was already dead and gone! Now the ram comes in, in his stead - not as a 
substitute. And the ram is slain, so that a greater may be seen, so the 
second may be seen. 
 
"Lift up now your eyes and behold a greater than Isaac." The angel called 
out of heaven a second time because he is bringing into view not the 
first, but the second. "Behold I come to take away the first and 
establish the second." Abraham is about to see that here - the second, 
the greater than Isaac. "And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the 
Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy 
son..." Notice "by myself I have sworn." You can go to Galatians 3 with 
the covenant and the mediation of the covenant, for God isn't two, but 
God is one. This covenant is with and concerning the second, because 
there is none greater than this One! "I myself have sworn - this is my 
covenant that I am making with thee - that out of thee shall this One 
come forth. There is none greater - this One is only announced by me - 
this One is the One - by my own oath I show you this One. This is the One 
with whom I have my covenant." When He takes you up on the mountain and 
He slays your vision of Christ, then He brings in His vision of Christ 
and says, This is the Son with Whom I'm in Covenant with! And you'll 
never be the same - it can never again be you. It's a New Man, it's the 
many who are One. And all of a sudden your life has to become an 
expression of them. It's now impossible for me to live just as a member, 
but now it's as the Body.  
 
Then you begin to long to see this come forth in the earth. No more it's 
just me who needs to come to maturity. Now it's 'til we all come. I've 
seen the greater than Isaac. I've seen that great Son of the 
Resurrection. This is in Hebrews 2:9-10, the bringing of many sons unto 
glory. You've seen the many who are One, that One with whom God has made 
covenant. "That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will 
multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is 
upon the sea shore." That's never been said at the same time. In one 
place God showed Abraham the earth as the sand and as the dust, then in 
another place distinctly God showed him the heavens. He brought those 
together in the priesthood of Melchizedek, but now He brings it all 
together, and God shows him that greater Son, the greater Seed! He shows 
Abraham - the Resurrection! Here in the mountain is the whole promise - 
heaven and earth is all summed up in one appearing. And God says it is in 
this Seed - this New Creation Man - this many who are One; that all the 
nations of the earth shall be blessed because thou hast obeyed my voice. 
It is this One who will bless the nations, this many-membered One. The 
blessing is in Him, because the Covenant of God is with Him. He is the 
greater than Isaac. He is the greater than what died because He isn't a 
resurrection, HE IS THE RESURRECTION. He is made up of those who are in 
union with the Resurrection, who are the Body of the Resurrection! 
 
Paul says He's made up of those that sleep and those that shall not - the 
Resurrection. This is the Living One, this is the One that lives by One, 
and only by One! This is the One whose voice you hear in Revelation 4:11, 
"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power; for thou 
hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." 
It is the voice of a New Creation. It is the song of the New Creation. It 
is Christ all and in all. It is seeing Him as He is. It is the creation 
that Chapter five says bears the image, the mark and the nature of the 
Lamb who is slain. Father, open our eyes that we may see this One, this 
One in whom we are caught up, this One who we are to be the very 
manifesting of - the greater than Isaac. When we begin to see that it 
will affect our lives together, in the coming together in groups, until 
that coming together is taking place all over the world; not in the 
bounds of a doctrine, but in the bounds of the knowledge of Christ! 
 
The coming together will be more real and will be more explicitly made 
manifest, but the basis will not be any of these other things that have 
not been able to perform that - they have only created divisions. The 
second is divided from the first, but there's no division in it. This 
gathering is already taking place; it takes place as you are individually 
brought to this place of the third altar and begin to see Him in a new 
realm and you are cemented with others who are seeing Him in that same 
way. You see that you are One and cannot but live as One! That's taking 
place throughout the earth and there's coming forth those manifestations 
of Him locally that are built upon that appearing, rather than the 
efforts and religious things we've all tried to accomplish. So the Lord 
bring us to this place of the greater appearing. 
 
Abraham saw this greater than Isaac. He saw the greater seed, the greater 
mountain, the greater city, the greater house, the greater man. All of 
this is declared in Hebrews 11:9-12 and 17-19. It declares clearly that 
his hope was in the Resurrection. Why am I not afraid to bind my image of 
Him? Because my hope is in the greater view of Him! The word "hope" means 
expectation. My expectation is not seeing Brother Luman come to maturity; 
my expectation is seeing His Body come to maturity ad live as One upon 
the face of the earth. That's the expectation of the Father. That's the 
true expectation that Christ is. CHRIST IN YOU, THE EXPECTATION OF GLORY! 
That expectation is greater than me. It involves a whole creation Man, it 
involves that sand of the sea and the stars of the heaven brought 
together in the Resurrection. So Paul goes out, after ministering to the 
Church, establishing local expressions of the Church wherever he went, 
setting their leadership wherever he went, writing back and instructing - 
for what reason? Oh, that I may know Him in the power of His 
Resurrection! Oh, that I may see evidence of His Resurrection coming 
forth in the earth! 
 
Abraham went to the mountain to see the Resurrected One. The Resurrected 
One is many who are One! That's the Resurrection. That's the lesson we 
should learn with Lazarus. Oh yes, he'll be raised up at the 
Resurrection, Jesus says, but I AM the Resurrection! Maybe you and I are 
still looking for the Resurrection as a thing, and I'm not telling you 
that there will not be bodies resurrected. But that's only because of the 
Resurrection. If there is no Resurrection there will be no resurrected, 
and that's what 1 Corinthians 15 is all about. Have we made the 
Resurrection a thing, or is the Resurrection a Person? Jesus said "I AM 
THE RESURRECTION." The only hope for the resurrected is the Resurrection. 
And our only hope of being resurrected is to live as the Body of the 
Resurrection, because none of this will take place until He appears! It 
won't take place individually or corporately except in His appearing. It 
must begin to take place in us individually so that it can begin to be 
manifested by us corporately. This is one appearing that I come to 
individually, but I can not manifest individually - I have to be joined 
with others to manifest it. And this is truly the foundation of the 
Church, and should be the foundation of every local expression of the 
Church. And if it isn't, those local expressions will not stand - they 
will fall. The scriptures say that. The storms shall beat upon that house 
- it will come to nothing. It ceases to become any kind of expression of 
Christ. It ceases to have any purpose for existing other than just 
perpetuating itself.  
I'm telling you He is bringing forth a Church which should be manifested 
locally throughout the earth and it's based upon this foundation, upon 
this revelation. That's what Jesus said, "Upon this revelation I will 
build my Church." Seeing the greater than Isaac, seeing the greater than 
the one who dies, seeing the power of the Resurrection, seeing the One 
who comes forth - the many who are One. Ezekiel saw that One, Isaiah and 
John in the Revelation saw that One. Paul spent his whole ministry with 
regard to that One. Jesus spoke of that when He said, "greater works 
shall you do." The word "greater" there means of a greater age, maturity, 
a more mature work. He was speaking of the work that you shall be, the 
work that you shall bring forth in the earth. 
 
We say, how can anything be greater than raising the dead and healing the 
sick? But He wasn't dealing with that at all. "Greater" as in a work of 
far greater maturity. YE SHALL MANIFEST THE WORK THAT I HAVE COME TO 
FINISH! That is what we come to, this greater than Isaac, the power of 
the Resurrection. IN THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION THE FIRST IS DONE 
AWAY AND THE SECOND IS ESTABLISHED! 
 
 
 
 
Father, we thank you for your grace and mercy. Help us to understand that 
all struggling ends at the altar of His appearing. For there none remains 
but Him! Help us to know that the battle within us stops at the altar; 
where we, in the many facets of the creation we are, are brought to an 
end in the light of His appearing. And there's a transformation that 
takes place in our hearts from the old to the new, from the first to the 
second. And only in coming to the place of His appearing do we enter into 
His rest, and the peace that not only He gives, but the peace that He is. 
Cause our hearts to cry out, OH LORD, REVEAL THY SON IN ME, THAT I MAY 
KNOW HIM, THAT I MAY KNOW HIM, THAT I MAY WALK IN THE LIGHT OF HIS 
APPEARING! Amen.