A Vision of Vessels of Fire and 300 Flaming Foxes - The Secret of Being Set Alight with the Fire of the Spirit
I had a vision while praying, very full of color and amazing glory. I saw earthen/pottery vessels, much like those they use in the Levant, filled to the brim with golden, fiery amber like liquid being poured out on to the ground and as it kindled with fire everything around I understood it was a blessing, blessing everything with this fire.
Immediately after I had another vision of foxes, brilliant orange red with fiery red tails running with great intent in fields of dried wheat ready for the harvest and it all went alight. There were 300 foxes, somehow I knew (see Gen 5:23, 6:15).
The Lord spoke to me as follows when I saw this as I was praying and writing, (I believe He speaks to each of His sons and daughters):
"For you are a vessel of fire, pour forth your flames and let them catch fire, as surely as the foxes' tails set alight the field of dried sheaves so shall you set alight the stubborn people's dried hearts for Me. You shall see the hard soil become tilled and the iron-clad ground open up in softness to receive the seed of My Word through your mouth.
And then later:
"You are a man ["woman" for the precious sisters] of fire, your hands, your tongue, your eyes, you are of fire, fire of the Holy Flame of My Spirit. What you set alight with the Fire of the Spirit it shall BURN WELL the forests of harvest of Lebanon [see Isa 19:17] and beyond. Your glance shall cause the many to fall and rise for the Fire of My Spirit within You, NURTURE THE FLAME."
I asked the Lord, how do I tend this flame, how do I feed the Fire?
I then began to see a tongue of fire, the same tongue in James (ch. 3) but for good, it sets the people/trees on fire for the Lord, like the Burning Bush Moses saw, it is not destroyed, but brilliantly shines.
The Lord then prompted me to search out "fire", specifically "the temple lamps" of the OT.
I went ahead though to look for just fire and saw many verses showing fire as judgement (the 1st mention: Gen 19:24), the presence of God (Exo 3:2, Exo 19:8), even the place where God's voice is heard out of (Deut 5:24), and also the shining of a flaming fire (Isa 4:5).
One very beautiful one was how this FIRE could even devour the curses around us:
Finally, I got around to doing what the Lord quickened me to do so first to search for the lamps that were first placed in the tabernacle and later in the temple.
Look at this: PURE OLIVE OIL BEATEN - Shemen Zeit Zak Kateet.
As I pondered this, I realized the Spirit and the Fire are TWO things, not one, how I jumped to this verse, I don't know, but it suddenly popped in my mind:
So the FIRE is the Lamp/Flame/Light which feeds or burns the OIL.
So to be on Fire, fill the OIL. But not just any oil - PURE BEATEN OLIVE OIL. But could this be really true? How can we really show this olive oil and the Spirit Fire to go together?
Lo and behold, the first mention of OLIVE is found in Gen 8:11:
The DOVE and the OLIVE - in One - that is the Symbol of the Spirit confirming that the OIL of the lamps is the Spirit but the Fire is not. The Fire FEEDS of the Oil, so they are not one. Moreover, the olive BRANCH is a representation to me of Jesus (see Jer 23:5, Jer 33:15, Zech 3:8, Zech 6:12)
As I thought about this, from out of nowhere these words were quickened to me at this point "Christ Crucified" so I looked up that verse, I knew vaguely of it being something Paul had written:
CHRIST = the Anointed One = the Olive Oil, we anoint with olive oil and that's how it was done in the OT
CRUCIFIED = beaten (also see Isa 53:4),5
Thus,
JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED is the PURE BEATEN OLIVE OIL than keeps the Lamps burning always but to have this effect you have to SEE/PERCEIVE Him as such in you.
I believe it's by meditating on CHRIST CRUCIFIED. This what we do in Communion, the BODY BROKEN, the BLOOD SHED, remember the words of Jesus, DRINK MY BLOOD, and EAT MY FLESH. There's something about the Crucifixion that sets us ALIGHT with the FIRE/LOVE of God.
This is what God is desiring to pour out on us. By the way, the first mention of FIRE in Leviticus is the fire of the offering. God's love offering to us was His Son on the Flames of this Altar. Fire also purifies and cleanses and everything for Temple service had to purified with Fire and Water otherwise only Water if it was flammable.
Immediately after I had another vision of foxes, brilliant orange red with fiery red tails running with great intent in fields of dried wheat ready for the harvest and it all went alight. There were 300 foxes, somehow I knew (see Gen 5:23, 6:15).
Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest'? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest. John 4:35I later was to understand that we are the vessels of Fire and also the Foxes of Fire setting alight the harvest with Fire (good fire).
The Lord spoke to me as follows when I saw this as I was praying and writing, (I believe He speaks to each of His sons and daughters):
"For you are a vessel of fire, pour forth your flames and let them catch fire, as surely as the foxes' tails set alight the field of dried sheaves so shall you set alight the stubborn people's dried hearts for Me. You shall see the hard soil become tilled and the iron-clad ground open up in softness to receive the seed of My Word through your mouth.
And then later:
"You are a man ["woman" for the precious sisters] of fire, your hands, your tongue, your eyes, you are of fire, fire of the Holy Flame of My Spirit. What you set alight with the Fire of the Spirit it shall BURN WELL the forests of harvest of Lebanon [see Isa 19:17] and beyond. Your glance shall cause the many to fall and rise for the Fire of My Spirit within You, NURTURE THE FLAME."
I asked the Lord, how do I tend this flame, how do I feed the Fire?
I then began to see a tongue of fire, the same tongue in James (ch. 3) but for good, it sets the people/trees on fire for the Lord, like the Burning Bush Moses saw, it is not destroyed, but brilliantly shines.
The Lord then prompted me to search out "fire", specifically "the temple lamps" of the OT.
I went ahead though to look for just fire and saw many verses showing fire as judgement (the 1st mention: Gen 19:24), the presence of God (Exo 3:2, Exo 19:8), even the place where God's voice is heard out of (Deut 5:24), and also the shining of a flaming fire (Isa 4:5).
One very beautiful one was how this FIRE could even devour the curses around us:
Isa 10:17 - The Light of Israel shall be for a FIRE and His Holy One for a FLAME and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.This fire burns even curses, wow!
Finally, I got around to doing what the Lord quickened me to do so first to search for the lamps that were first placed in the tabernacle and later in the temple.
Exo 27:20 They bring the PURE OLIVE OIL BEATEN for the LIGHT to cause the LAMP to BURN ALWAYS.
Are you ready to learn how to be set alight so that you burn brightly always? Because there is a phenomenal secret here!
So this is how we, the Lamps will have the FLAME that BURNS ALWAYS:Look at this: PURE OLIVE OIL BEATEN - Shemen Zeit Zak Kateet.
As I pondered this, I realized the Spirit and the Fire are TWO things, not one, how I jumped to this verse, I don't know, but it suddenly popped in my mind:
Mat 3:11 He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire.They are two, not one. One comes out of the other. A person can have the former and not the latter (but not the latter without the former). I also thought this was just two different ways of saying the same thing about the baptism of the Spirit! But now I see these speak of different manifestations of God's glorious power and Spirit in us.
So to be on Fire, fill the OIL. But not just any oil - PURE BEATEN OLIVE OIL. But could this be really true? How can we really show this olive oil and the Spirit Fire to go together?
Lo and behold, the first mention of OLIVE is found in Gen 8:11:
And the dove came in to him in the evening*; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
As I thought about this, from out of nowhere these words were quickened to me at this point "Christ Crucified" so I looked up that verse, I knew vaguely of it being something Paul had written:
For I determined not to know [see/perceive] anything among you save Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.1 Cor 2:2JESUS = the Pure One
CHRIST = the Anointed One = the Olive Oil, we anoint with olive oil and that's how it was done in the OT
CRUCIFIED = beaten (also see Isa 53:4),5
Thus,
JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED is the PURE BEATEN OLIVE OIL than keeps the Lamps burning always but to have this effect you have to SEE/PERCEIVE Him as such in you.
"We preach CHRIST (anointing oil) CRUCIFIED (beaten)... but unto them which are called... Christ the POWER of GOD and the WISDOM of GOD. 1 Cor 1:23,24and then, Paul continued:
...Jesus who of God is made onto us WISDOM and RIGHTEOUSNESS and SANCTIFICATION and REDEMPTION. 1 Cor 1:30:Doesn't that enlighten the parable of the 10 virgins... they were both sleeping and when the darkness came and it came time to rise, only those with OIL could BURN.
So how do we keep alight always?
I believe it's by meditating on CHRIST CRUCIFIED. This what we do in Communion, the BODY BROKEN, the BLOOD SHED, remember the words of Jesus, DRINK MY BLOOD, and EAT MY FLESH. There's something about the Crucifixion that sets us ALIGHT with the FIRE/LOVE of God.This is what God is desiring to pour out on us. By the way, the first mention of FIRE in Leviticus is the fire of the offering. God's love offering to us was His Son on the Flames of this Altar. Fire also purifies and cleanses and everything for Temple service had to purified with Fire and Water otherwise only Water if it was flammable.
This is the Fire Jesus wanted to kindle so strongly.
After seeing all this, the Lord prompted me to search out "fire" in the NT and to examine the first verse about fire after the verse about baptism with the Spirit and Fire (because fire is mostly associated with judgment by the way in both the OT and NT).
I came across this familiar but perplexing verse and was tempted to let it go however, I felt this wsa the one the Lord meant, even though I wasn't so sure if it the bill of being a positive depiction of fire:
"I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! Luke 12:49
I didn't know what to make of this fire. In the next verses it talks about division, etc, but if you look at Luke 12, it's really about living zealously with God, seeking His Kingdom and His Righteousness, being singular in mind, focused on Him and letting go of our self-sufficiency to trust in Him. So I figured, there must be a good connotation to this fire here. Because Fire does evoke a sense of passionate zeal and single-mindedness and intent.
And sure enough, I found that the word bring actually meant to pour our when used for liquids, certainly fire is closer to a liquid than solid state! But what really struck me was its similarity to the vision of the vessel I had.
Jesus wanted to POUR OUT this liquid like liquid Fire.
And kindled as it turns out doesn't really mean to be burned, consumed or destroyed by fire as most assume it must mean in this verse, but rather to alight!
This means Jesus was intensely desiring the FIRE that would set us ALIGHT, like the Burning Bush of Moses which was not consumed, this was the FIRE He wanted to see in all of us. To be Zealous for His Kingdom, His Glory, His Righteousness and Everything He is (Rev 3:19).
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In conclusion, there is no greater thing to meditate on but on Christ Crucified and as you do so watch how God will set you alight with His fire and how you will bless the many around you even unto the ends of the Earth! Grace and Peace to you all!
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