The cuckoo clock of prophecy in relation to trials of fire and water

 Isaiah 21:12 - King James Version (KJV)

<12> The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

Those who would teach the prophecies correctly can be as stirring and foot stomping as they like and their auditors need so long as God is supervising things. But the teaching must include the decline in the love and understanding in one church and the birth of these in another.

The preacher must understand that night is like the nephilim drowning in the flood; and it is like pharaoh and his army drowning in the red sea; and it is like the Babylonians who put Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego into the furnace who were slain by the heat. All of these are like the Jewish church rejecting Emanuel. 

And the same preacher must understand that morning is like Noah's ark, and the children of Israel crossing on dry ground, and Shadrach Meshach and Abednego walking in the fires of the furnace with Jesus.

All of these are like the disciples who believed in Him and who became Christianity, before it became gradually corrupted.

The preacher who understands the cuckoo clock of the Church and the nature of trials by fire and trials by water has the essentials necessary, so long as they are practicing these teachings, to convey these to others in countless ways and formats otherwise. The truths of the new bottle and new wine, the new heaven and new earth, are not negotiable. But many externals are flexible. 

"From within the pillar of fire and cloud' means [thus] the presence of God's goodness and truth there. This is clear from the meaning of 'the pillar of fire and cloud' as the Lord's presence, dealt with in 8110, consequently the presence of God's goodness and truth, since where the Lord is, so is goodness and truth. For what specifically is meant by 'the pillar of fire and cloud', see 8106, 8106(end), 8108" (Secrets of Heaven 8213).

These pillars of fire and cloud lead them through the wilderness 40 years, which number indicates trial, purification and temptation.

Isaiah 4:4-5 - King James Version (KJV)

<4> When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. <5> And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

This is how God writes verse 4 above in gold and silver: 

Zechariah 13:9 - King James Version (KJV)

<9> And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

And this is how God writes verse 4 in sun and moon: 

Isaiah 30:26 - King James Version (KJV)

<26> Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

It is said, "as the light of seven days", because this is the Sabbath rest in which the labours of the 6 days are bundled up. And this Sabbath rest is the conjunction or marriage of fire and water, gold and silver, sun and moon, the good of love and the truth of faith in the Church.

That is why this verse exists in the part of Exodus concerning Manna, in which a double portion is gathered for the Sabbath rest to represent the two faculties which conjunct or marry: 

Exodus 16:23 - King James Version (KJV)

<23> And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

You bake, this is fire, this is trial by fire, this is testing your love to grow it. You seethe, this is water, this is trial by water, this is testing your wisdom to grow it.

What happens to those who do not survive the trial by fire in the wilderness? 

Psalm 78:30-31 - King James Version (KJV)

<30> They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, <31> The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

Trial by fire, lust, meat, and fat are all predicated of love in the will and its examination here. When we see fat or fatty substances mentioned in a positive context, this is love of God and the neighbor. But when we see fat mentioned in a negative context, as "slew the fattest of them", then it is love of self and the world. 

What happens to those who cannot handle the fact that the Church requires purification of the will in trials of fire or bread or fat? And likewise requires purification of the understanding in trials of water or wine?

John 6:54 - King James Version (KJV)

<54> Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:66 - King James Version (KJV)

<66> From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

It was specifically in the sermon on bread/flesh/fire/sun and wine/blood/water/moon that "many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him".

They were not interested in the trials by fire and by water which involve baking or seething the manna. What do you do in these trials? You either overcome and receive of the hidden manna. Or you do not overcome, and reprobate silver and tarnished gold shall you be called. 

Revelation 2:17 - King James Version (KJV)

<17> He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

If people do not understand this, then they can still go to Heaven. They can  be the butler whom Pharaoh restored to his functions, again to pour the royal cup. But if people's wills reject this as it really is beyond all verbal language in the language of love and hate, the ladder of ascent and descent-- if people's wills reject the purification of their wills and understandings -- then this is damnable as the baker was hung. 

People whose wills reject the purification of their wills and understandings are those who are burnt up root and branch: 

Malachi 4:1 - King James Version (KJV)

<1> For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Note that this occurs in close connection to the exact same purification of will and understanding in terms of gold and silver purification that we have already seen in Zechariah, this time coming from Malachi: Malachi 3:3

Malachi 3:3 - King James Version (KJV)

<3> And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

What happens if I leave you no root? It means you have extinguished your conscience, the vessel wherein the love of good can live.

What happens if I leave you no branch? It means you have endarkened your understanding, the vessel wherein the truth of faith can live. 

Who causes the problems of the wicked? Someone else does. It's always someone else. He/she/they did the bad thing of which I stand accused with my hands dripping with guilt. God did it. The neighbor did it. I didn't do it.

All right, then! God set you on fire and burnt you up root and branch. God got so angry that He burned your flesh and bones to ashes. Except... 

Jeremiah 7:19 - King James Version (KJV)

<19> Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

They provoke themselves. God does not get angry. They provoke themselves to a blind, branch-destroying rage of root-destroying. They do it to themselves, burn themselves up root and branch.

They do not make it through the wilderness. He slays the fattest of them. Their sun does not shine 7 fold but becomes black as sackcloth of hair. Their moon does not shine as the sun but turns to blood.

"For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence". 

Revelation 13:16 - King James Version (KJV)

<16> And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

The hand is where you put His might. The forehead is where you put His glory. He gets 'jealous' when the opposite of His might is in your hand and the opposite of His glory is in your forehead: He cannot in this case enter in and sup with you, which is to have bread and wine with you, which is to strengthen you with His might and the riches of His glory. For Him to enter in and sup with you is to have the seal of God on your hand and the seal of God in your forehead. And for your Church to eat the bread that is the good of love and drink the wine that is the truth of faith is to have the sun shining seven fold and the moon shining as the sun in its spiritual sky. 

Mark 13:26 - King James Version (KJV)

<26> And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

Acts 18:30-31

"30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

31 And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him."

Ephesians 3:16 - King James Version (KJV)

<16> That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

Appendix: Paul wrote Ephesians ch.3 in order to do exactly what Philip did for the eunuch for all believers who would understand how to interpret the supposed architectural dimensions and power and glory in the clouds of prophecy. The natural operation known as inductive reasoning involves a progression from specific to general; this teaching has involved a spiritual counterpart to inductive reasoning which progresses from the natural to the spiritual and from the exterior to the interior. This proceeding occurs constantly in here and not by chance; so might as well transparently be mentioned in keeping with server intention. 

These are teachings to which you do well to take heed, as to a lamp in a dark place, until the day-star rises in your heart. 

2 Peter 1:19 - King James Version (KJV)

<19> We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

Inner man? In your hearts? Within you: 

Luke 17:20-22 - King James Version (KJV)

<20> And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: <21> Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. <22> And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.

If they give you any other teaching than that the Kingdom of God comes/is "within you", then their prophecying is for naught. If they give you any other teaching  than that you must roast or boil the manna to be given the hidden manna in the desert, that you must eat His flesh and drink His blood in trials by fire and water, that your gold must be purified and your silver in the furnace of preparation, then their prophecying is for naught. Hear, O Israel, the Word of God: "The kingdom of God is within you". Within you and still further within, rung by rung, state by state, advance in will and understanding by advance in will and understanding, ascending and descending on the Son of Man.