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The work of Elisha, part 3

On October 31, 2007 eight of us met in Oklahoma City where we learned about the ten callings that God was establishing. This date was precisely 490 years after Martin Luther nailed his famous “95 Theses” on the Church door at Wittenberg, sparking the Protestant Reformation. This Reformation was sparked by Luther’s discontent with the sale of indulgences, by which the corrupt Church claimed the right to sell heaven’s benefits on the open market. It was all about money.

490 years later, while we were meeting in Oklahoma City, Meredith Whitney published a very important report about the financial practices of Citibank, which exposed the insolvency of the entire banking system. This is when the current banking crisis rose to the surface. Again, it was about the misuse of money. Within a year (September 2008) her analysis proved to be correct, as the entire banking system melted down.

Hence, there is no doubt that the date of Oct. 31, 2007 was extremely important in modern prophetic history. When we gathered to seek the Father’s will on Oct. 31, 2007, we did not know what to expect. But the revelation came that we were to wash each other’s feet with water with SALT in it. It was for this reason we began to call ourselves the Salt Company.

Months passed with no further revelation about this. Then the word came in early March of 2009 to call another meeting of the Salt Company. We still had no particular revelation of the purpose of this gathering.

But when the Elisha company was commissioned on April 12, it occurred to me that Elisha’s first main work involved salt. I then came to see that this was another prophetic marker that was similar to so many that we have seen over the years. The blessing that was spoken that day at the Passover conference in Manassas, Virginia commissioned the Elisha company on the wave-sheaf offering after Passover (“Easter”).

The Salt Company was to meet on the Second Passover to heal the waters of “Jericho.” This was to begin the actual work of healing the nations. So we met on May 8-10, 2009 to bless the nations, so that they too might benefit from the work of Elisha.

Two Passovers

In the days of Moses, when Israel was about to celebrate their first Passover in the wilderness, some men had just buried their father. In doing so, of course, they had touched his dead body and were therefore rendered unclean and ineligible to keep the Passover. Yet God had commanded all of them to keep the Passover. This created a dilemma with these contradictory commands.

So they appealed to Moses, who, in turn, appealed to God for a Supreme Court ruling. This was the origin of the law of the Second Passover, described in Numbers 9:9-11,

⁹ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁰ “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If any one of you or of your generations becomes unclean because of [touching] a dead person, or is on a distant journey, he may, however, observe the Passover of the Lord. ¹¹ In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight, they shall observe it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Because the spiritual significance of Passover pointed to the death of Christ through the sacrifice of the Passover lambs, it was their blueprint for justification by faith in the blood of the Lamb. Hence, the New Testament shows that Jesus died on Passover for the sin of the world, “and not only for ours only, but also for those of the whole world” (1 John 2:2).

The larger problem is that the vast majority of people in the world are unclean by reason of touching a dead body. They are on a journey far from God. They are ineligible to receive justification by faith in the blood of the Lamb, either because they are in a state of death (mortality) or because they have not yet found the path to God in the House of Prayer for all people.

But God has made a way for them, for the day is coming when every knee will bow and every tongue will swear allegiance to Him (Isaiah 45:23; Philippians 2:10, 11). The Second Passover, then, is God’s way of ensuring that Christ’s death on the cross will apply to the rest of the world. Those who keep the first Passover (during their lifetime) are blessed early; the rest will be blessed later, even in the midst of divine judgment called metaphorically “the lake of fire.”

So we gathered at the time of the Second Passover (May 8-10, 2009) to pray and decree the reconciliation of the world. As the “Salt Company,” God was adding salt to the sacrifice, so that “everyone will be salted with fire” (Mark 9:49). thereby making peace with His “enemies.” Thus, Paul was able to demonstrate the love of Christ, for we read in Romans 5:10,

¹⁰ For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

It is for this reason that we are also ambassadors for Christ. We come not with a message of wrath, nor with a demand to “turn or burn.” We read in 2 Corinthians 5:18-20,

¹⁸ Now all these things are from God [by God’s sovereign decision], who reconciled us [believers] to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, ¹⁹ namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. ²⁰ Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ…

Our ministry, then, must carry “the word of reconciliation” to the world, which is summarized as “not counting their trespasses against them.” This was a word of prophecy, not eliminating all judgment for sin, but ensuring that Christ’s death on the cross would ultimately bring peace to the entire world and not just to the ambassadors who carry that word.

The revelation of the Second Passover shows that God has planned for a second occasion whereby men will be justified by faith. Though they may not be eligible for justification through the first Passover (in their own lifetime), they will certainly keep the second. At the Great White Throne judgment, the full truth will be known.

Men now reject God because they do not really know Him. They imagine Him to be what carnal men have described, and they reject their image of God. But in that day, their imaginations will be corrected. At that point, the goodness of God will become so obvious that no one would possibly deny Him. They will join in the song of Moses and of the Lamb in Revelation 15:4, saying,

⁴ “Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy; for all the nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”

Most Christians understand the prophecy and purpose of the first Passover; few understand or even know about the second. Hence, they know about the salvation of those who believe during their lifetime, but they know nothing about the blessing of the Second Passover.

Grace in the Second Passover

The Elisha work began with the healing of the waters of Jericho, after Jericho’s destruction at the hand of Joshua. In essence, Elisha’s jar of salt healed the waters of Jericho, in order to prophesy of the greater healing of the nations yet to come. It is the pure water coming from under the throne of God that brings life to the nations, and the leaves of the tree of life bring healing to the nations.

³ And there shall no longer be ANY curse . . .

Hence, all curses are temporary, because Christ’s death on the cross has the power to nullify all curses. When Joshua [Yeshua] conquered Jericho, he—as a type of Christ—laid a curse upon it, as recorded in Joshua 6:26. Elisha—another type of Christ at the end of the age—removed that curse, using salt. The Author of the curse has the lawful right to remove it.

We should not think of God’s curses as being permanent. They are all subsets of the “curse of the law” (i.e., judgments for disobedience), which are meant to correct us and cause us to repent, so that the curse can be removed from us by the blood of the Lamb. Psalm 130:4 says,

⁴ But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared [i.e., respected].

No one respects those who have no ability to forgive. When the nations gather at the throne of God, the reason that they will all “fear” Him is because they respect His ability to forgive and His wisdom in creating a plan whereby He could save them all without violating His law.

Virtually all believers know that the regular Passover extends grace to them as believers. The Second Passover is a law that firmly establishes the salvation of all mankind. It is a tragedy that so few people study the law, thinking that it has no grace built into it. Grace is built into both Passovers, and the amount of grace found in the Second Passover is greater than the first.

It is evident that God does not hate people and nations who are unbelievers. He intends to save all mankind in the end. He intends to do so lawfully, and the law itself lays down the rules and prophesies about how He will do this. Those rules bring into question God’s ability to fulfill His intention. Most people do not believe that God is capable of saving all mankind by overruling their “free will” or by revealing Himself to those who never had opportunity to hear the name of Jesus.

The blessing spoken prophetically May 8-10, 2009 marked the beginning of Elisha’s salt that heals the nations. The word was implanted in our hearts, and we bore witness to the Spirit. It is our intention to fulfill this ministry of reconciliation in the years ahead.