JERICHO 
                                by J W LUMAN 
 
            CHURCH CALLED UNTO THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE SON 
 
Turn to II Kings 2. We are beginning a new phase of our search on Elisha 
following Elijah, and we will be visiting Jericho in our lesson. We find 
Elisha following Elijah. We have been in this area for some time. Let me 
refresh your memory. We are seeing Elisha as a type of that Church that 
is called unto the fellowship of the Son. Let us look at this. I 
Corinthians 1:9, "God is faithful by Whom ye were called unto the 
fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord." Elisha is a type here, in 
my opinion, of those who are called unto the fellowship of the Son, Jesus 
Christ, the Lord. Who are they? Well, actually, every believer is called 
unto that fellowship, although every believer has not heeded that call, 
and certainly, every believer has not entered into the reality of that 
fellowship, experiencing the fellowship of the Son through the 
understanding and implementation of His nature and His character, which 
is implied, and more than implied, which is stated in His three-fold 
name, Jesus Christ Lord. You have to know Him as Jesus. You have to know 
Him as Christ. You have to know Him as Lord. To do that, to know Him in 
the fullness of His name, Jesus Christ, the Lord, which is the name of 
the Son, implies... and, as I said, it is more than an implication...it 
necessitates that the nature which each of these names represents, that 
nature is revealed and is imparted to your very inner man. In other 
words, your inner man takes on His name. Your inner man takes on the 
nature and the character of the name, Jesus Christ, the Lord. There is 
more to the name Jesus Christ the Lord and bearing that name than just 
saying it, as you all know.  
 
So, as we experience the fellowship of the Son, how do we experience it? 
In knowing Him, that is, in having the Son revealed in us. As the Son is 
revealed in us, we bear His name. We bear it in our inner man. We bear it 
in our outer man to the death of the outer man and to the life of the 
inner man, but we bear the name of the Son, Jesus Christ, the Lord. So, 
we begin to bear the nature and the character that the name Jesus 
represents. We begin to bear the nature and the character that the name 
Christ represents. We begin to bear the nature and the character that the 
name Lord represents. All of this is the fullness of the nature and 
character and substance of the Son. Elisha represents such believers.  
 
                        UNTIL WE ALL COME 
 
Now, I am staying away from calling this "The Elisha Company". I do not 
know about you, but I am beginning to despise that name "company". You 
know, I have been around a fairly long time, and in Pentecostal circles, 
and in Latter Rain circles, and in Sonship circles, Kingdom 
circles....and I think circle is a good name for most of these, because 
it all goes around in circles...but everyone comes up with companies - 
the Elijah Company, the Joel Company, the David Company, this and that. 
We have more companies than we have  
Scriptures in the Bible, the Melchizedek Company, on and on. When, in 
fact all of these, the man child, the Joel, David, all of these 
tremendous truths, tremendous settings forth in the Scripture, fragments 
of the Scripture that are pointing to the whole truth, all of these are 
testifying of Christ being formed in you. Not some kind of special 
elitist company coming forth in the earth. There is nothing like that in 
the Word of God. I do not care how long someone slobbers and screams and 
hollers and demands that there is, all that is doing is segmenting the 
Body of Christ. This thing is purposed until we all come in the unity of 
the faith. There is more said in that little line than most of us can 
even begin to understand. Not until we all come into unity, but until we 
all "through the faith of the Son of God come into unity," the unity of 
that faith, the knowledge of the Son of God, a perfect Man. Not some kind 
of a perfected company. That whole which is measured out in the fullness 
of the Head Himself.  
 
I am perfectly comfortable with the statement that there is in the Body 
of Christ those who grow up before others. We look at some... In these 
companies they talk about people like Caleb and Joshua, they crossed over 
with the other spies. But the thing to remember is that all of the spies, 
including Caleb and Joshua, came back and stayed with Israel, some to 
their own death, and others, Caleb and Joshua, to the life of the whole. 
But, the point is that Caleb and Joshua did not get them a little company 
and go over and settle in Canaan, and say, "This is ours, and the rest of 
you are beneath the privileges." No, they labored with the whole of 
Israel. And what a crossing it was! What a passing over it was, before 
the priests with the Ark of the Covenant, as a result of the witness of 
this two-fold witness, who all the time were in the wilderness, yet 
themselves lived in Canaan. And they did that until the whole passed over 
into the reality of it. Now, I know that some come into a maturity before 
others, but that is not to create a separate company. That is simply to 
bring forth a witness in the whole to the bringing forth of the whole and 
the full knowledge of Jesus Christ. So, I am not going to tell you here 
that Elisha is representing some kind of a company. No, Elisha is 
representing God's full intention for the whole body of Christ. He has 
called the whole into the fellowship of the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.  
  
And, since God is not a part God, but a whole God, in everything that He 
does, His purpose is to bring the whole, yes, the whole Body. Not all of 
established religion. We are not talking about organized religion. We are 
talking about the whole, genuine, blood washed, born-again, Spirit 
translated Body of Jesus Christ. But He is going to bring that whole Body 
into the fullness of the Son, else there will be no full manifestation of 
the Son. God is not interested in a bunch of little companies running 
around with their half-baked manifestations of Jesus. All that is doing 
is building up a bunch of people, and a bunch of ministries, who are in 
the first place ignorant of what the Scriptures teach, and in the second 
place are on an ego trip. Now, this Gospel is for the whole Body of 
Christ, and it is not producing segments in that Body. It is not 
producing divisions in that Body. It is bringing forth and forming Christ 
in that whole Body. I am telling you, if there are those in whom Christ 
is formed first, those who press in first (and there are those who do 
that), it is not for the purpose of separating them from the Body, making 
of them some sort of a company, but is for the purpose of establishing 
the two-fold witness, the complete witness of Christ in the midst of the 
Body that shall not stop until it fills up the whole Body. Not stop and 
say, "Look at the company we are." No! But always know we are a part of 
the whole Body of Christ. There is a difference here. There is a 
difference in understanding that has to come into our hearts, one 
dividing us from some kind of company we have become, and the other 
letting us understand we are of one Body, and that whole Body must be 
filled with this Gospel and Christ must be formed in that whole Body; 
because it takes the whole Body to manifest the fullness of Him. This 
Gospel is not purposed to make companies. It is purposed to bring forth a 
full grown Son in the earth.  
 
                       FOLLOW ON TO KNOW THE LORD 
 
Elisha and Elijah had to do with such a dealing of God. Now, Elisha is 
following Elijah, and I am going to speak of Elisha as the Church, as the 
whole Body of Christ. You know in past lessons I have told you the only 
difference between the Church and the Body of Christ is that the Church 
is the visible, local, tangible representation of the whole invisible, 
spiritual Body of Christ. And, as you and I grow up into Him, as His 
Body, into Him Who is the Head in all things, as we grow up into Him in 
Spirit, in the Heavens, we will become a manifestation of Him as the 
Church in the earth. So, one is the manifestation of the other. I am 
looking here at Elisha as being that Body of Christ who is following 
Elijah and bringing forth a manifestation of him in the earth, Elijah 
having to do with that Heavenly type of Christ and of all that is Heaven; 
and Elisha having to do with those believers and all believers who will 
follow on to know the Lord, even beyond themselves.  
 
So, we are looking at him going to these three cities. We have been 
dealing with those, Gilgal the place of the circumcision, Bethel the 
realization of the House of God that we are, and now, Jericho. II Kings 
2:2, "And Elijah said unto him, 'Elisha, tarry here I pray thee, for the 
Lord hath sent me to Jericho.' And Elisha said, 'as the Lord liveth, and 
as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee." So, they came to Jericho." 
Now, one of these days, I trust the Lord will give us liberty to deal 
with this statement, "As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will 
not leave thee." But we are not able to deal with this just now. "So, 
they came to Jericho." Jericho is the encounter we want to deal with, and 
we are going to deal with it in the broad spectrum of the Scripture, not 
in just this fragment of Scripture right here, but the very understanding 
and meaning of Jericho must come to mind here.  
 
                       JERICHO - A WALLED CITY 
 
Jericho was a walled city, in fact, it was a double walled city. It 
guarded the entrance to Canaan, by which at least from the direction that 
Israel was coming. It guarded that entrance. Jericho was a city built 
upon a mound of earth, like a hill, built upon a hill. Not a mountain, 
but a hill, a high mound of earth. In one of its original states it had a 
moat built all around it, but at this time the moat has been replaced, 
and there is a high mound of earth. And, there are two walls around 
Jericho at this time. There is first an outer wall, a brick wall made of 
the brick of that time, and that wall is six feet thick. Then there is a 
space of 12-15 feet beyond that wall, and a second wall which is 12 feet 
wide. It is said that, at one time, these walls were at least 30 feet 
high. Now, that is quite a fortress. Thirty feet high, a wall 6 feet 
thick, a space of 15 feet, then another wall that is 12 feet thick. 
Inside of that is a city of six or seven acres. It is like one giant 
fort. The thing that the Lord just impressed me with here, is not so much 
all these historical statistics on Jericho, although I did do some 
search, but not only Jericho; this whole land of Canaan was filled with 
walled cities.  
 
                         ONE HABITATION 
 
We have to understand that Israel is the Seed that must fill up this 
land. Now, I want you to look with me at the true type here. I want you 
to see just for a moment yourself as being Canaan. Because, you are the 
dwelling place of the Lord, and you are inseparable from those Heavenly 
places. Oh yes, raised up together, made to be seated together in 
Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. That speaks in the Greek and Hebrew 
languages, and in the language of the Holy Spirit. That speaks of a 
habitation that is made up of the  inhabitants thereof. Who is the 
habitation of the Lord? You are. Who is your habitation? The Lord is. "In 
that day," Jesus says, "Ye shall know that I am in My Father, and you are 
in Me, and I am in you." And, He goes on to say, "We will come and make 
our abode with Him." Then, those glorious statements that Jesus makes in 
John's Gospel. John 17:21, "That they all may be one." One what? Have you 
ever wondered one what? One habitation. He is speaking of a habitation. 
One habitation. That habitation is called a temple. It is called a city. 
It is called a mountain, Mount Zion. It is called a candlestick. It is 
called One New Man. It is called a creature, a creation. It is called the 
Body of Christ, which it is. It is called a Church, which is the 
manifestation of Him in the earth. But, whatever you call it, it is a 
habitation of the Lord.  
 
Exodus 15:17 speaks of such a habitation, and here it is in John 17, 
"That they may all be one, as Thou Father art in Me and I in Thee, that 
they also may also be one in Us, that the world may believe that Thou 
hast sent Me, and the Glory which thou givest Me, I have given them that 
they may be one (habitation) as We are one (habitation). I in them and 
Thou in Me that they may be made perfect." That they may be made one 
complete, totally complete habitation. So, this is what Jesus says, "You 
will know. Through the ministry of the Spirit of Truth you will come to 
know." That is an experiential knowledge. Not something that comes 
through the hearing of your outer ear, but a hearing that is formed in 
you through faith which comes by the revealed Word of God, the Son 
Himself in you, that you come to an experiential knowing that He is in 
the Father, you and I are in Him, and He is in us. One habitation of the 
Lord. So, I am not stretching it when I say, just for a moment, see 
yourself as Canaan; and see Israel as the increase of the Seed. Who is 
the Seed? Galatians 3:16, "Unto Abraham and his seed...," not seeds as of 
many, but as of one, "...Unto thy seed, which is Christ." Yes, it is so. 
Verse 29 says, "And if ye be Christ's..." C-H-R-I-S-T apostrophe S..."If 
ye be Christ's, then are ye also Abraham's seed."  
 
You see, there is only one Seed. Israel represents the increase of Christ 
in Canaan. Christ has come into Canaan. So, there is a dual reference 
there; because, not only is Christ in you, but you are in Him. So, there 
is a dual reference to this habitation. It is very muchly the Lord, and 
yet it is very muchly we who are in the Lord. It is very muchly the 
habitation of the Lord, and yet it is very muchly the place where we live 
and move and have our being. It is a living habitation of the Living God. 
So Canaan, in one instance represents Christ, and the believer is walking 
out the length, the depth, the height of Christ, the Glory of Christ, 
learning Christ, walking about Heaven, walking throughout Heavenly places 
in Christ Jesus, growing up in Him, maturing. On the other hand, it also 
represents the same thing, but this time, Christ being formed in you. The 
two are actually the same. Paul says, "Until Christ be formed in you." 
But he is not saying anything differently in reality than when he says, 
"I desire the eyes of your understanding be enlightened, through God 
giving unto you the Spirit of wisdom and knowledge, the spirit of wisdom 
and revelation in the knowledge of Him, that you may grow up and be 
strengthened in your inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by 
faith." "That you may grow in Him", and "Christ may be formed in you" is 
actually one and the same thing. So, here we have not only the believers 
walking about in Canaan, but we have Canaan as a type of the believer in 
whom is taking place the very increase of Christ.  
 
                    THE INCREASE OF CHRIST 
 
Now, I can show you that, because as this increase of Christ, as Israel 
begins to fill up Canaan, in the end what is the result of that? Well, 
David is anointed, and all of Israel is summed up in the anointing of 
David. So, in the land, which, in this instance, is a type of the 
believer, a King is being revealed, and everything in that land, which 
makes up you and I in Christ Jesus. Do you see the dual representation 
here? Everything is being summed up in the Person of the King, or is 
being summed up in the Head. So the Headship, in Whom all the Body is 
summed up, the knowledge, and Glory and wisdom of that Headship fills all 
the land, which again is a type of Christ being formed, and filling all 
the Body. So, I want you to understand that, in one instance here you can 
see that Israel filling the land is a type of Christ being formed in you. 
Now, in that view then, in the land, there are walled cities, that the 
increase of Christ must literally and virtually do away with. So, you can 
understand by this, why then the command of God to the Israelites, and 
they did not always keep these commandments. And you see, there is this 
dual type. Not only is Israel a type of the increase of Christ, but on 
the other hand Israel is a type of the believer walking out the fullness 
of Christ. And, in the type of Israel representing the believer, walking 
in the fullness of Christ, many times Israel fails, and stumbles, and 
makes covenant with the inhabitants of the land, makes covenants with the 
flesh. But, on the other hand, we find the increase of Christ filling up 
the believer, Christ being formed in you. We find Israel obeying the 
Lord, walking in the knowledge of the Lord, and utterly destroying every 
inhabitant of the land, because that is what Christ does.  
                DESTROYING THE OLD INHABITANTS 
 
When He begins to be formed in you in the brightness of His appearing, 
the original inhabitants, the flesh, the old man, JW's nature is 
literally and without mercy destroyed, torn down, replaced. In the 
brightness of His shining, the darkness is done away. In His increase, 
there is my decrease, and the decrease is to utter destruction. The work 
of the Cross is being seen here. Every time you see Israel obey God and 
destroy inhabitants, obey God and destroy cities, obey God and refuse to 
go into covenants with those that represent the flesh, you are seeing the 
type of Christ being formed in you. You are seeing the increase of 
Christ. You are seeing the working of the Cross. Remember, now, all of 
this starts with the working of the Cross. All of the increase business, 
all of this taking of Canaan, starts at Gilgal, where there is this 
tremendous circumcision, this establishing of the Cross, of the 
principle, reality of the Cross in the midst of Israel. It all starts 
with the Cross. It all starts with a circumcising, a cutting away, and 
every time you will see Israel win, every time you will see Israel in the 
right, every time you see Israel standing on good ground, every time you 
see Israel in the obedience of God, you are seeing the type of this 
working of the Cross in you, the very increase of the Lord Jesus Christ. 
And, this is something that we will be seeing here as we are looking at 
Jericho; because, just as surely as you begin to know the power of the 
Lord in the power of the Cross, and begin to come to the understanding 
that you are the Temple, Bethel, you are the Temple of the Living God and 
that you are no one's house but His House, and He begins to be increased 
in you, and you begin to know the Lord, and begin to walk in the Lord, 
and not only do you begin to possess something of His length, and His 
depth and His height, and His fullness, but also simultaneously, and 
because of that, He begins to possess you. He begins to take possession 
of your heart, of your thought, of your life. He begins to possess you. 
He begins to be formed in you. And you will be brought face to face with 
these walled cities, many of which you do not even know are there, but 
all of which the revealing of the Son of God in you will bring to light.  
 
                        THE JUDGMENT 
 
This is the judgment that Paul is speaking of in I Corinthians 4:4, "For 
I know nothing by myself..." That is, I know nothing against myself. 
"There are things in me that I do not even know about." "...yet I am not 
hereby justified..." That is, just because I do not know about them. 
"...He that judgeth me is the Lord." And, Israel is coming into Canaan 
like a giant judgment. I want you to see this very clear, true type of 
Israel, the Seed. Christ the Seed filling the land of Canaan in a giant 
judgment. The judgment is only stopped when Israel disobeys God. The 
judgment is only stopped when false covenants are made. How do you and I 
stop the increase of Christ in us? When we give our hearts and minds to 
something else. When we enter into a league with ourself. When we 
recognize a covenant with ourself, we stop His increase in the land. 
Immediately, when we take our eyes off of Him, we stop His increase. 
Immediately, when we begin to be the inhabitants of Canaan. Because, 
there is in Canaan these seven nations. I do not know how many of these 
nations we will deal with. It is not important, because all each of them 
do is speak of an indication and a fortification of our own flesh. They 
are all inhabitants of the land. They were there before Israel got there. 
But, the land belongs to Israel. You belong to Christ. Heavenly places 
belongs to Him. He has translated you there.  
 
Do not be confused, now. There is this dual type. He has translated you 
there into Himself, so that you may grow up into Him in all things, and 
simultaneously, He may possess you, He may be formed in you. Because, in 
the end of this thing, there is just one living habitation of the Most 
High God. Paul is saying this judgment, and here we find Israel coming 
into the land like one giant judgment. And when Christ begins to be 
revealed in you, His rightful inheritance, His rightful House, His 
rightful land, He begins to be revealed in you who are now in Him, He 
begins to be revealed in Heavenly places in Canaan, He executes the 
judgment, the judgment of the Cross, the judgment of His appearing. He 
brings into light truth and life; and in truth and life, He brings to 
light truth and life. And in the light, darkness cannot remain. In the 
truth lies cannot continue to abound. In the presence of life, death hath 
no power. So, as God begins to reveal His Son in you and I, a giant 
judgment, a giant truth, a giant discernment, a giant light begins to 
fill all of the land.  
 
 
                    UNTIL THE LORD COME 
  
Here is what we find, "Therefore, judge nothing before the time, until 
the Lord come..." And, that word "come" has to do with His appearing, His 
very personal appearing in you, a very manifest appearing, of God 
revealing His Son in you. Remember, Paul is talking about something 
taking place in him. He is talking about a judgment taking place in 
himself where he himself cannot judge, because it uncovers things that he 
himself does not know. Now, notice that. "Who will both bring to light 
the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the 
heart. Then shall every man have praise of God." This is a judgment that 
takes place in you. So, here it is. We are about to have a judgment take 
place in the land; and this is really the first judgment to come into the 
land. This is the first obstacle that the increase of Christ has faced, 
and it is called Jericho.  
 
                    
We are going to see that in this land, there are many walled cities.  All 
the way to Mount Zion there are many walled cities. Zion itself was a 
fortified, walled city. We are going to see that Zion, after David... 
this is way over. The increase of Christ has filled up Israel. David has 
come forth in the midst of Israel, which is a strong type of the three-
fold revealing of Christ, not only in the believer, but in all of Israel 
and the whole Body. And now, Zion, the very last mountain in Israel to 
fall to the king, and the very mountain where he will establish his name, 
Mount Zion; which is about to become what it was supposed to become all 
along, the very high thought of God. But it has been filled with 
Jebusites, and the wall around Zion is not so much brick and mortar. That 
is not the wall David is worried about. The wall around Zion was made out 
of the infirmities of the flesh. The Jebusites put their infirmed people. 
The infirmities of the flesh were placed out in front of King David. I 
want you to see that. Then here in this study also we are going to look 
at  the rainbow.  
                     THE ONE MAN APPEARS 
 
What is the significant thing about Jericho? That it was a walled city? 
Well, it was just one of many walled cities, albeit it was the first, but 
it was just one of many walled cities. What is significant about Jericho? 
Here is where the One Man, the Man Who will fill up the land with the 
increase of Himself, and the increase of His host; here is where the One 
Man appears. Here is the appearing of the Son of God, Jesus Christ the 
Lord. Here the leadership of Israel meets the leadership of Heaven. Here 
there is a revealing of the Son of the Living God, and He testifies 
Himself as being captain of the Lord's host. We are going to take time 
later on to look at that carefully, because I want you to see the very 
clear type that is set forth there; because, in Christ Jesus, we are 
dealing with much more that just the type. We are dealing with reality. 
But, Israel, as the invading host, was immediately swallowed up. Here 
comes Joshua and here comes Israel. Joshua representing the Head, which 
is Christ; and Israel representing the Body, the increase of Christ. Here 
comes Joshua and here comes Israel. Here comes everything that represents 
the increase of Christ in the land; and immediately....and what is the 
visible representation of that increase? It is Christ the Head and His 
Body, and the Church is to become a view of that increase in the land, a 
manifestation of that increase in the literal earth.  
                        SWALLOWED UP 
 
But here we have Joshua. Now, look at something. And we are going to be 
looking at this very closely. Joshua is replaced in this tremendous view, 
and in Spiritual truth. Joshua is replaced with the Captain, the Lord 
Himself. Joshua is swallowed up. Israel is replaced with the Lord's Host. 
Israel is swallowed up. There is actually a translation that takes place 
in Spirit. In that One Man was a whole Host. He said, "I am here as the 
Captain of the Lord's Host." Joshua said, "Whose side are you going to 
get on?" We are always trying to get God on our side and somebody else's 
side. The only question is, who is on His side? It is not whose side He 
is on, but who's on His side. Joshua said, "Are you for us or are you for 
them?" And he said, "Neither". There is something more here than me being 
for you, and me being against them. There is something more here, Joshua. 
"I appear here. I am the Captain. I appear here. As Captain of the Lord's 
Host do I come." And immediately, for those who have eyes to see and ears 
to hear and  hearts to perceive, Joshua is immediately swallowed up in 
that Man, and Israel is immediately swallowed up in that Man; because 
that Man represents the Captain, and He represents the Host. In that one 
Man is a many-membered Man. In that one Man is both Christ, and the 
fullness of Christ, Christ and  His Body, the fullness of Him Who filleth 
all in all. In that one Man is represented the Head and all that is 
caught up in Heavenly places, seated together in Him in Heavenly places, 
raised up together, seated together, to grow up together into Him Who is 
the Head in all things. In that one Man, all the work of God in  Christ 
Jesus is represented. He is the Captain of the Lord's Host. Immediately, 
in that one Man, we see Joshua caught up, we see Israel caught up.  
 
Now, you must see that, because it was not Joshua and Israel that 
destroyed Jericho. It is the Captain and the Lord's Host that levels 
Jericho. Israel obeys. Israel becomes, in the earth, a Spiritual 
manifestation of the Captain and the Lord's Host who are Heavenly. Israel 
is seen here as a type of the Church, which is a manifestation of the 
invisible Head and Body of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is why Israel has 
to be obedient. Church, you and I must exercise obedience in the flesh to 
the Heavenly Vision, and we will see, in the earth, the very literal, 
powerful manifestation of that Heavenly reality, of the Heavenly Captain 
of the Heavenly Host. Heavenly in that eye cannot see, ear cannot hear, 
heart cannot comprehend. But, you see, Heaven is reality itself. Even 
this Church, which is the earthly manifestation of the Heavenly Body of 
Christ will literally lay aside its dirt form, and will literally even in 
its mortal body, be transformed. This is seen in Israel. This is seen as 
Israel continues to obey through a series of obeying and disobeying, but 
Israel is finally gathered up into David. David finally represents all of 
Israel. David takes Israel and translates them into Mount Zion. Then 
finally, there is a complete transformation of Israel set forth in type 
of the house of gold that Solomon built. That is a type of all of Israel 
put together, joined together, by the Son Himself, filled with the Glory 
of God. That is a complete and utter work of transformation.  
                 OBEDIENCE TO A HEAVENLY UNDERSTANDING 
 
Right here, right now, we are seeing Israel in obedience to a Heavenly 
understanding. And, that is what must come into the Church, and it is 
only going to come into the Church as a Heavenly understanding comes into 
the Church; and the Heavenly understanding is only going to come into the 
Church as it comes into the ministry. Joshua here represents a ministry 
in whom, to whom, through whom the Captain of the Lord's Host is 
revealed. But, you understand, what Joshua saw here seems to be...He 
seems to be a man. And it seems to be just an individual man; and, until 
the man speaks, until Joshua hears the Voice, it is just an individual 
man. But, when the Voice speaks, He speaks as the Voice of many. Look at 
what John is seeing over in the book of Revelation. This vision is the 
same. It never changes. It is always the same. Everyone who has ever seen 
Him has seen Him in the same way. John hears this Voice speak, and he 
turns to see, and what he sees is One, but he sees One standing in the 
midst of many. He sees One Who is many. Then he clearly hears the Voice. 
The Voice declares Himself. He turns to see the Voice; and, when he turns 
to see, the Voice clearly declares Himself as  being one who is in 
actuality many, many who are in actuality, one. They are the increase  of 
One. So begins John's revelation of Jesus Christ, the revelation of Jesus 
Christ that is going to literally fill all of Israel, and enable Israel 
to fill all of Canaan, not only with themselves, but with Who they 
represent, Who they are a type of, Who they are the fullness of. They are 
going to fill all of Israel with the knowledge of David with the reign 
and rule of David, David being a type of Christ. So Israel is going to 
fill all of Canaan with the fullness of the Lord Jesus Christ, right on 
up to the house that Solomon built, which is a strong representation of 
even the transformation of the mortal body.  
 
                            ONE MAN 
 
Such tremendous great salvation is being shown here to you and I. But, 
what I want you to see is that, what Joshua is finally seeing all of this 
come to here at Jericho is One Man; and what Elisha is going to see all 
of this come to is One Man. And, what you and I who are in Christ in 
Heavenly places are going to see all of this come to, summed up in, is 
One Man. One Man revealed in us, that we become the revealing and the 
manifestation of One Man in all the earth, that One Man being Christ 
Jesus Himself, that One Man. And, as He is that One Man, and as we are 
summed up in Him, we are going to see Him as being One; but we are going 
to see Him as being One in many. That many will come to an understanding 
that they are not many at all, but they are One; and in that 
understanding, the many will manifest the One in all of the earth. All 
through the Scriptures, you are going to see this dual type. You are 
going to see this type of Christ in you, coming forth in His own 
increase, formed in you. At the same time and simultaneously, you are 
going to see the type of you in Him walking out the length, the breadth, 
the depth, the height. The two are actually one work of the Spirit, 
producing One Man, Who is Christ, yet One Man made manifest in many who 
are One for the purpose of the Glory of God.  
 
This is the great salvation, hidden from the world, hidden from the 
natural minds. This is the mystery of God which is Christ, which Paul saw 
through revelation as God caught him up into Heaven and revealed the Son 
in him. And Paul began to preach that same truth, that same revealed 
Christ, that same relationship of salvation to the Church, urging each of 
them to come by the same way that God may also catch them up in Spirit 
where they are in Christ Jesus. Paul declared to them where they were, 
seated in Heavenly places. There He might reveal the Son in them that, in 
the earth, they might live as the glorious manifestation of that glorious 
Son. So, it is the move of God's Spirit to this very day. So it is our 
very purpose in knowing Him. This is full salvation, the learning of 
Christ, the growing up in Him, Christ being formed in you unto His 
manifestation in the earth, and all of this to the Glory of the Almighty 
God and Father of Glory.  
 
So, now, back to Jericho. We will see all of this summed up in One Man. 
The real purpose and the real significance of Jericho is not just wall, 
though we will deal with the walls later. But, it is not just walled. The 
answer to walled cities is found in One Man, The answer to everything of 
God is found in One Man, even the Lord Jesus Christ. You and I are found 
in One Man. Because of that, our answer to everything is then growing up 
into Him Who is the Head, growing up into that One Man, because we are 
the Body of that One Man. Can you see that, if we are the Body of that 
One Man, if we are, by salvation found in that One Man as His Body in 
union with Him, then our answer to everything, everything, is found in 
Him, and is found in knowing Him, because we are His Body. What is the 
answer to the Body? The exercise of the Head. In all things? Yes, in all 
things. What is it that you in the natural, do, or have to do, what 
problem, what task, as a body faces, that the answer to it is not found 
in the head? Nothing! From having a thought to doing an action, nothing! 
So it is.  
 
From this point on in our study, from Jericho on, we are going to see 
Israel as being summed up in One Man. We are going to see leadership. 
Joshua himself, the supreme leadership. We are going to see the judges, 
the priesthood. We are going to see David. We are going to see Solomon. 
We are going to see the leadership summed up in One Man. We are going to 
see Israel as a body swallowed up in One Man. We are going to see Canaan 
swallowed up in One Man. We are going to see the answer to it all, the 
revealing of that Heavenly Man, the manifestation of that Heavenly Man, 
which is Christ in you, and you in Christ. Only the Spirit of God can 
discern the difference, and reveal the sameness of Christ in you, and you 
in Christ. I ask you to let the Spirit do that and you will begin to see 
it laid out in the Scriptures in such an unmistakable way, until it will 
be impossible for you to see anything else. We are going to see this New 
Man, this New Creation. 
 
As we do that, probably in our next lesson, I want to look at the 
rainbow. Three times in the Bible, I want to emphasize, three places in 
the Word of God where the rainbow comes into view. The last time is a 
most tremendous view of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, fully formed in a 
people. But, we will leave that just now. I am, as always, laying you a 
foundation so you can search here. Walled cities, fortresses. Now, this 
is important here, because there are so many fortresses in you and I. We 
are going to look first at the land, then we are going to see Christ 
filling the land. But, let us just take an honest look at ourselves. That 
is what Paul was talking about. There is a judgment about to come in you 
and I. I am preparing you for this in these lessons, because this is an 
awesome judgment; and I am praying that God will allow this judgment to 
be established in me, and will give me utterance to speak of this 
judgment in these lessons, to the extent that there will be an opening of 
hearts as never before for the establishing of this judgment in those who 
are hearing this Word by the Spirit.  
 
                    KNOWING NONE BUT HIM 
 
Now, we are talking about more than just lessons being sent out, and that 
is why I am taking as much time in establishing a groundwork and bringing 
you into a view that I feel the Spirit would have us have. Now, remember, 
in our original text Elisha is following Elijah to Jericho. That is the 
only way you and I are going to encounter this whole thing that Jericho 
represents. I am using Israel to show what Jericho represents. I am using 
Elisha following Elijah showing you how we are going to get there. As you 
follow on to know the Lord, having a heart and a soul set on knowing none 
but Him, saying in your heart what Elisha said, and I am going to 
transliteralize what he said. "If I stop following you, let my soul die. 
If I set my sights to know any but you, let my soul die. If I decide to 
stay with a lesser ministry than that which is birthed in me by the 
revealing of Jesus Christ, going on to know Him, let my soul die." Now, I 
am speaking in this lesson to those who are of that mind; and if you are 
not of that mind, then I am not speaking to you. It is just that simple. 
Those who will say, "There is nothing else to know but Him. If I cannot 
know Him in His fullness, then let my soul die." Those ministers who will 
say, "I am not looking for another sermon. I am not looking for another 
gift, and I am not trying to occupy another office. I am not trying to 
fill up another building with people. That is not what it is all about. 
If I cannot know Him. If this glorious Christ cannot be revealed in me to 
the point of literally transforming everything that I am into the 
fullness of Him. If the declarations of my mouth are not declaring Him, 
not for my good, but for the good of the Body in the bringing forth in 
clear manifestation the Kingdom of God in the earth. If not for that, 
then let my soul die." To those I am speaking. This is what Elijah and 
Elisha said. This is the attitude of heart that we must have here.  
 
                    TEARING DOWN THE WALLED CITIES 
 
Now, as we have that attitude of heart, back to Joshua and Israel, we are 
approaching the land in which there must be this increase of Christ. You 
are the land, and God is desiring an increase of Christ in you. This is 
what Jericho means. Elisha says, "I am going to Jericho. If I go not to 
Jericho, let my soul die." Now, I am telling you what Jericho means for 
you and I. It is a place where walled cities are encountered and defeated 
in the appearing, in the revealing of the One New Man, Jesus Christ, in 
Whom we are caught up, summed up, swallowed up for the purpose of knowing 
Him; and in knowing of Him, the walled cities are going to be torn down 
in you, and His increase in you, you who are His Body, you who are His 
Canaan, there is going to be a tearing down of every walled city, a 
demolishing of all the inhabitants thereof. Yes, only Rahab escapes, and 
she escapes because she has been to the Cross. The scarlet thread, the 
red rope hanging out of her window, the identification with death, burial 
and resurrection; she escapes because she has been to the Cross. Nothing 
except that which comes by way of the Cross can possibly find life in 
Christ Jesus. No Jebusite, no Havite, no Hittite, no Gershite, no, none 
of these things, works of the flesh come by way of the Cross. They come 
to the Cross and are by the Cross done away, and all that is left after 
the Cross is they who live only by Christ, and they are required to have 
the red string, cord tied to themselves. They are marked by the cord. 
They are marked with the mark of His death. 
 
                         THE MARK OF HIS DEATH 
 
What is that mark? It is an inward knowing, an inward confession of their 
hearts that says, "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet 
not I. Christ liveth in me. This is the confession, the mark that will 
fill up the land. You must have the mind-set of Elisha before you can go 
to Jericho. "If I go not there, let my soul die. I will not leave off 
following you now." Who are the overcomers of the book of Revelation? 
They are those who counted not their lives dear unto themselves, but 
followed the Lamb whithersoever the Lamb would take them. They are the 
overcomers. The cry of the overcomer, I am telling you again, is, "I am 
crucified with Christ." That is the testimony, that is the cry. That is 
the witness. "For they have overcome by the blood of the Lamb and by the 
word of their testimony." Well, here is the word of the testimony of 
those who overcome by the blood of the Lamb. "I am crucified with Christ. 
Nevertheless I live..." Because they understand the greatness of the life 
that they now have. "...Yet not I"... because life is not a thing, but a 
Person. "...Christ liveth in me. And I live this great life in the flesh 
by the faith, by the understanding that it is not I but Christ Who 
lives." So, Paul follows that up in another letter with another statement 
that sums it up and says, "For to me to live is Christ."  
 
Are we ready to go to Jericho? That is what I am asking you in this 
lesson. Walled cities. When Joshua and Israel invaded Palestine, they 
faced formidable Canaanite defenses - stoutly walled cities erected on 
mounds which seemed to reach to Heaven dotted the land of milk and honey. 
Canaanites were famous for their masonry, and by 2000 BC had erected 
massive defenses. Now I am only reading this to you, because it is a 
picture of me and you, or it would not be used in the Bible. I am looking 
at some historical statements, but it is there for our admonition. 
Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, true to 
archeological excavations, had impregnable walls, even the walls of the 
Jebusite Jerusalem which David finally took. These walls have been fully 
verified by archeological excavations. All I am telling you here in 
reading to you from this encyclopedia of Biblical facts concerning these 
cities, is that these cities had walls. Canaan was filled with walls. You 
and I are too. The increase of Christ, which Israel represented, they are 
the ones that made the walled cities known. They did not go around one. 
They destroyed every one of them in obedience. When they were obedient to 
God they destroyed every one of them, and destroyed all of the 
inhabitants thereof. What do we see in this destruction?  
 
                DESTRUCTION - THE WORK OF THE CROSS 
 
Recently, Janie and I were riding down the road, and she said, "Why were 
these things that the Israelites did so bloody, so devastating?" She was 
talking about the complete devastation of cities and destroying of 
people, and I said, "Well, it is because we are looking at a type of the 
work of the Cross with regard to everything that is not Christ." Here, 
there is a representation of the increase of Christ in the land and that 
increase represents the work of the Cross; and, in His increase, all else 
is decreased. But, the decrease is not just to some measure of decrease. 
It is decreased into oblivion, into nothingness. This is the work of the 
Cross. When you see the destruction of Jericho here, you are seeing the 
work of the Cross. When you see the destruction of the Amorites, and the 
Perizzites, and all of these, you are seeing the work of the Cross. It is 
by the work of the Cross. It is by the work of the Cross. And, how is 
that work wrought into your life? Through the increase of  Christ. These 
cities were not torn down before Israel got there. They were torn down 
after Israel got there. When do you come to the realization that it is 
not you who lives but Christ? When God reveals His Son in you. You do not 
have that realization until God first reveals His Son in you. But, at the 
revealing of the Son there is an immediate understanding that, "It is not 
I but Christ." At the revealing of the Son there is an immediate 
application and working of the Cross; and, out of that working of the 
Cross, comes the increase of the Son. But, it all starts with the Son 
being revealed in you. Upon Israel's coming and marching around seven 
times, representing.... 
 
Do you understand why they did that? All of the reason they did that we 
will look at a little more here. But here is Israel, and they did not 
just show up and have a picnic. No, it is a specific order, and the 
revealing of Christ in you is in a specific Spiritual order. It takes 
place in a specific time. We are not talking about numbers of days or 
hours, but a specific time ordained of God and a specific manner ordained 
of God. We found in one of the Bible Conferences recently, that the word, 
"mystery",  and it is not "mysterious". There is nothing mysterious about 
this Gospel, but this Gospel is a mystery. And, the word, "mystery", in 
the Greek language means "something that is not attainable by the natural 
mind, but must be revealed by the Spirit." But, it is not just something 
revealed by the Spirit, but it is that which the Spirit reveals in a 
manner and in a time, both of which are appointed of God. So, the mystery 
has to do with the Spirit revealing that which is revealed of God by the 
Spirit in a manner appointed, and at a time appointed of God. And, of 
course, the mystery of God is Christ. So, we are seeing here that Jericho 
suffered the effects of the Cross only when Israel is set into order 
after the pattern of the revealing of Christ. When Christ is revealed in 
you, when Christ is revealed in the land, the land begins to feel and 
suffer the effects of the Cross. The result of that is the increase of 
the Seed. This too, shall take place in you and I. That is the reason you 
have to have a heart set like Elisha, or you will turn back; because I am 
telling you now, when the Son is revealed in you, He sets into operation 
the judgment of the Cross; and out from that flows forth in you the 
increase of Him. It is His increase that works our decrease in all 
things.  
 
We must understand that, and we will continue to look at it in our next 
lesson; because here we are facing walled fortresses. And, I want to deal 
in our next lesson with some of these walled fortresses. Also in the next 
lesson we will deal with God's answer to the walled fortresses, which is 
the appearing of His Son. In the appearing of Christ, in the increase of 
Him, the fortresses are torn down, and the increase of Christ continues. 
In His appearing the fortresses are leveled and His increase fills the 
land. The Lord continue to lead us. A good area of search that you might 
want to take up just now would be the first several chapters of Joshua. 
You might want to read the book of Joshua and see there the pattern of 
this One Man. Remember, the One Man has appeared. Before anything has 
happened, there has been an appearing of the One Man. Joshua and Israel 
has been caught up in Him. And, the result of His appearing, the result 
of God revealing His Son in the land, the devastating work of the Cross, 
and out of that devastation comes forth the increase of Christ. That is 
the order of His appearing. That is the order of the revelation of the 
Son. May God give us a stout heart to say, "I will not turn back. If I 
do, let my soul die. I will follow on to Jericho." If we will, it is here 
that we will begin to know Him in a measure, in a way in which we have 
never known Him before. Judgment will come into the land; but as a 
result, the increase of Christ shall abound.