THE FEET
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Mon, 10 Feb 1997 14:08:24 -0500 (EST)
The following is one chapter from the booklet "DAY OF ATONEMENT" written
in 1984 by Marion Fretwell 902 So 11th Ave Yakima, WA. 98902
THE FEET
"How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth
good tidings, that publisheth peace: that bringeth good tidings of good,
that publisheth salvation: that saith unto Zion, 'Thy God Reigneth'." Isa
52:7
NO study of the End-time Ministry would be complete without
mentioning the "Feet". They, being the extremities of the anatomy,
are used in prophetic language to portray what Jesus is planning for
His faithful followers in the extremity of this dispensation.
LET me give you a few thoughts, as I believe the Lord has given them to
me.
IN John 13 you will find the text of what I am referring to. Jesus had
taken a towel and a basin of water, and began to wash the feet of His
disciples. He came to Peter, who said, "Thou shalt never wash my feet."
Jesus replied and said, "What I do thou knowest not now: but thou shalt
know hereafter." What was Jesus talking about? What was the hidden
meaning of Him washing the feet of His disciples---His close followers?
Why didn't He wash the feet of everybody? Were the feet of His disciples
extra dirty? Why just His close followers? No, their feet were not
extra dirty. He was not giving them a lesson in hygiene. Nothing like
that.
JESUS was giving them a prophecy concerning the extremity of the
dispensation that He was just about to usher in upon the earth---Grace.
There will come a special cleansing to the close followers of Jesus
in the last days, which will make them "beautiful." Just the close followers
will receive it.
THE KEY which permits us to use the scripture this way is in Daniel 2,
where the King of Babylon had dreamed a dream about a great image made up of
different metal ---gold, silver, brass, iron, and iron mixed with clay The
image was a chronological preview of the four great Gentile Kingdoms
which were to come into being on the earth. The feet and toes were to
represent what we have on the earth today in the politics of the world.
RUNNING parallel to the world kingdom is a Kingdom which God is in
the process of bringing to perfection. God's kingdom is the stone which was
hewn out of the mountain, which smote the image in the feet, and
obliterated it. "And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven
set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed...". Dan 2:44
THE body of Christ, the Church, has been in existence for a long time
also, and has gone through various stages, like the image which the King
of Babylon saw in his dream. We are now living in the time of the feet.
LISTEN to what John said about what he saw when he beheld it, in
the Revelation of Jesus Christ. "And His feet like unto fine brass, as if
they burned in a furnace." Rev 1:15 This tells us that in the time of the
feet, there will be "Refined Judgment" or "Exact Judgment".
"JUDGMENT", here, as in most usages of the word in scripture, means
putting things in their proper place, or putting proper value on
things--knowing what should be where, and why.
PRESENT day believers, especially those who are walking as closely to
the Lord as they know how, constitute the "feet" of the body of Christ
in the same sense that the present day governments of the world
constitute the "feet" of the Babylonian image.
JESUS allowed a prophecy to be enacted concerning the believer of the
last days while in Bethany at a supper in His honor. Mary took a pound
of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of
Jesus, and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. See Jn
12:3 Why did she anoint the feet? Why not the head? Why not the
hands and arms? Because the special anointing was to be poured out
upon the saints of the last days. GOD HAS A SPECIAL WORK FOR US TO DO,
AND IT WILL TAKE A SPECIAL ANOINTING TO GET THE JOB DONE.
THERE is a work to be completed, Brethren, and we need to fix our gaze
in that direction INSTEAD OF SEEKING AN ESCAPE ROUTE, as we have been
programmed to do for so many decades. If you can handle it, take a look at
the many scriptures that talk about all things being put under His Feet.
That includes His enemies.
GOD intends to use His Saints--"My sanctified ones--My mighty ones for
Mine anger, even them that rejoice in My Highness." See Isa 13:3 They will
be the Weapons of His Indignation". See vs 5.
"But the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and
possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever---Until the Ancient
of Days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High: and the
time came that the saints possessed the kingdom." See Dan 7:22,27
BECAUSE "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty
through God, to the pulling down of strongholds", we cannot expect by
any fleshly means to overpower the forces of evil as they are seen in the
governmental, financial and religious institutions of the world today.
Legislation will not do it. Armies will not do it. Passing
resolutions will not do it. Our only means of attack is the Spirit of
Almighty God.
BUT THAT IS SUFFICIENT!
WHEN the Mighty Angel binds Satan, to cast him into the bottomless
pit, he will use the Chain of the SPIRIT OF GOD. If you can believe
it, the Mighty Angel is the SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH GOD, after they have
received the Anointing typified by Mary in Bethany, when she anointed
the feet of Jesus with the "VERY COSTLY OINTMENT."
IT WILL BE A VERY COSTLY ANOINTING, and few will be willing to pay
the cost to be in that company.
WE OFFER NO EASY ESCAPE ROUTE.
NOR DOES THE WORD OF GOD.
The Church world needs to get their eyes off of some of the traditional
teachings, and onto what the Word actually SAYS about what IS GOING TO
HAPPEN.