The Oil You Must Have in Your Lamps
Volume 9 The Miracle of Supply
by Ernest Angley
August 1993
My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19). My God will supply all, all through Jesus Christ. Keep that promise in mind, say it again and again: My God will supply. Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts (Zechariah 4:6).
Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil (II Kings 4:2). That pot of oil, representing the Holy Spirit, was sufficient for a great miracle. You must have the oil of the Holy Spirit.
Remember the parable Jesus told about the ten virgins. Five were wise and five foolish. Five had oil, and five had neglected to fill their lamps. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh (Matthew 25:6-13).
At midnight the bridegroom came; although the virgins all had trimmed their lamps, the five foolish had no oil. They begged for oil, but the wise couldn’t give up their own oil. They didn’t ask for salvation; they asked for oil. Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you (Matthew 25:8,9). What was the oil those five wise virgins had? It was oil of the Holy Spirit that let them go out to meet the bridegroom. Everyone must have this oil if he or she expects to be taken with Jesus in the Rapture. You are foolish not to have the oil—make sure you know what the oil is and that you do have it.
An Ointment Poured Forth
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth (Song of Solomon 1:3). The name of Jesus has a goodly fragrance like an oil poured out. Much is in that fragrant oil; it’s a special grade, Heaven’s grade, supernatural heavenly oil that cannot be contaminated, mixed with anything of the world. Ordinary oil will not furnish the light needed when the Bride goes forth to meet Jesus. The oil of self is no good; it provided no light for the foolish virgins.
Check the kind of oil you have; find if it’s Heaven’s oil. The oil of your own opinions won’t do. The oil of what others think is a hindrance. Oil from Heaven is the only acceptable grade, the only grade that can be used to give the light demanded in that hour when the glorious morn comes.
My oils are thine, we hear the Groom saying. I made them possible for you to have. I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys (Song of Solomon 2:1). What fragrance comes from the lilies of the valley, from the rose of Sharon! The rose must be pressed to obtain the perfume in it; much perfume is in the rose.
The vessel that brought the fragrance of Heaven to Earth is the Son of God. The Bride can have no less oil, for she must be like Him, walk, talk like Him, wear His shoes if she is to be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye when the Rapture takes place.
When Jesus appears in midair for the Bride, He will come with a most glorious heavenly light. The Bride will keep her lamps trimmed so that Heaven’s oil can burn brightly to match the light of Heaven coming down with the Groom. The glorious light of Heaven is given her by God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost.
The Oil of the Godhead
What kind of oil did Jesus bring? The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (John 1:14). That wrapper of clay, that lamp, held the same oil—not another—of the whole Godhead. The attributes of Jesus, God the Father and the Holy Ghost all three are combined in the oil. The oil God will supply has great significance.
We find Jesus talking to God the Father again and again, and we hear God the Father saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (Matthew 3:17). Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life (John 8:12). What kind of oil could be in such a lamp? Oil lamps are usually limited, but not when they have divine oil. If you use earth’s oil, you are limited. If you are earthly in your spirit, giving over to self instead of to the Holy Spirit, you do not have the oil you must have. Jesus had the oil of the Godhead, the kind of oil that made Him a light to the whole world.
Great Light in Darkness
The Bibles declares, The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined (Isaiah 9:2). The light was so great that Jesus could tell His disciples: Ye are the light of the world (Matthew 5:14). His followers are His lights. To shine the way Jesus wants you to shine, you must have the same oil that He had, a mixture of all Heaven’s greatness.
Looking at the tiny form of clay laid in a manger, the Babe of Bethlehem, few recognized the oil within. The angels saw it; they rejoiced over it. Following a heavenly guiding light, the wise men traveled from distant lands to see the Babe. Nothing could blot out the path of that light leading to the Christ Child. That path of light is still here today for all the wise to find Jesus. As long as one person needing to find the way to Calvary remains on planet Earth, that eternal light will light the way. Thank God for the eternal light of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost!
And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always (Exodus 27:20). This light was to burn in the tabernacle of God, a type of the light of God in a soul that was never meant to go out. Each member of the bridal company shines out His light. We don’t have to worry about the eternal light going out. We just have to be careful not to mix any of self in with the oil. The oil must not be contaminated.
Contaminated oil is the reason so many Christians are not giving out Heaven’s light, not lighting the way for people to come to God in this final hour. Their oil has become tainted with the oil of self, with self indulgence; therefore, the glorious light does not shine out. Only the pure in heart will see God. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God (Matthew 5:8). Daily through her faith and love, the Bride sees the Lord. She is pure.
Holy Anointing Oil
Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense (Exodus 25:6). The Lord specified the kind of anointing oil to be used in the tabernacle; He didn’t let Moses decide what these precious oils would consist of. The Lord told Moses exactly what would make up the oil, where it would come from, and what kind of spices to use in it. And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment…it shall be an holy anointing oil (Exodus 30:25).
Just as the Lord specified the kind of oil used as the holy anointing oil in the tabernacle, He has specified the kind of oil for us to be anointed with. No longer in type, the anointing oil upon us through the Holy Spirit is that oil which Jesus brought and paid for. The Bride is anointed with that great oil, precious oil that money can’t buy—oil purchased without money and without price. The oil the wise virgins told the foolish virgins to buy is not purchased with money. We buy the oil of the Holy Spirit by denying self, by surrendering all to the Lord Jesus Christ in His service to do His will.
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up (James 5:14,15). This oil represents the oil in the lamp of each wise virgin, a type of the Holy Ghost. Thousands have been healed through the anointing of oil. Plain olive oil, signifying that great oil of the Godhead, can be used when anointing in the name of the Lord. How wonderful it is to study all of this and know the greatness of God!
Esther, a Type of the Bride
What did the anointing oil of the Old Testament consist of? The oil is mentioned in the book of Esther: six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things (Esther 2:12). The Lord brought Esther to the kingdom to be queen; but first came days of purification, her anointing. Esther, a virgin, is a type of the Bride of Christ with oil in her vessel going forth to meet the Groom. And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins (Esther 2:17).
Jesus will love the Bride above all others; she will obtain grace and favor in His sight, as the five wise virgins gained favor in the eyes of the Groom.
He set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen (Esther 2:17). The Bride is going to sit on the throne with her Groom Jesus, a glorious, glorious time. Vividly we see the type and shadow of the Bride of Christ in the story of Esther, the Jewish handmaiden of the Lord chosen to be queen. Just as we see how God worked His greatness through her, we know He will certainly work His greatness through the Bride today.
Rivers of Oil
The rock poured me out rivers of oil (Job 29:6). I marvel at the book of Job. He said things that amazed himself, words given him by the Lord, divine utterances, concepts beyond his understanding. Through the Holy Spirit, we pick up those same words and are given understanding of what the Lord was saying. Rivers of oil poured out are for the Bride today through the Rock Jesus Christ.
Thou anointest my head with oil (Psalm 23:5). This precious oil has strength, power, the greatness of Heaven in it, and is intended for the children of God, the very obedient.
Jesus, telling the disciples they would receive the Holy Ghost, said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water (John 7:38). Rivers of living water would be flowing from inside of them. Even reproofs of the Lord are oil to the children of God. You cannot have the whole Jesus without the whole oil. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost are all working for humanity through the power of the Holy Ghost here on Earth.
Wonderful Ingredients in the Oil
What makes up this oil? One of the great ingredients is divine love. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16). No ingredient in the oil is as great as that divine love. Divine joy makes up the oil, also, divine peace, divine patience, divine gentleness, divine goodness, divine faith in the Lord, divine humility, divine self-control. Divine wisdom, divine knowledge and understanding as God understands are all in the oil as well as divine miracle power, divine healing power—thank God!
Jesus came to give unto them…the oil of joy for mourning (Isaiah 61:3). The Bride has this oil of love, joy, peace, patience, faith, humility, self-control, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, miracle power, healing power and divine strength. No wonder she will be such a force for the Lord—just like Jesus—in her final walk. That’s the reason so many will be healed, delivered, brought into the Kingdom, the reason she will climb all the mountains, conquer all the valleys. The Bride will have Jesus-overcoming victory because she has His oils.
Having the oils of Jesus means you have His strength, His power, His greatness, His characteristics, His attributes. How marvelous indeed! When you study Jesus, you know the greatness of His oils. Look on Him as divinity and no other way; honor Him as the divine One, or you won’t have this divine oil. His attributes, characteristics are all divinity; therefore, Jesus has to be accepted as very God.
Drawn by the Fragrance
We are brought into the Kingdom through Jesus, becoming sons and daughters of God. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty (II Corinthians 6:17,18). We are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:16,17). We are heirs to this oil; His oils become ours with a fragrance stronger than all the perfumes man has ever made. His fragrance of patience and forgiveness is extraordinary, nothing can equal it on planet Earth—it’s beyond the human mind.
Remember when you found forgiveness for your sins? What perfume it was, a sweet fragrance to your soul! You had been forgiven, delivered, all your sins gone. In that fragrance of Him you have all that makes up the oil.
We enjoy lovely odors. We bathe, use lotions and perfumes to keep us smelling good. But all the perfumes on the market are nothing compared to just a tiny bit of Jesus fragrance. That small amount can more than fill an auditorium. The Bride carries the great fragrance of Jesus.
Often people can be identified by the fragrance they wear. My wife, Angel, wore a certain brand of perfume, a scent I was so accustomed to that I knew when she entered the room before I saw her. Sometimes she would come where I was working, move around me like a bee, not saying a thing. I knew what was happening. Angel had been somewhere, found a new perfume and was checking to see whether it would draw me. If I liked it, it was what she wanted.
The Bride, wearing this Jesus fragrance, will make people aware when a Jesus believer walks by. His fragrance draws people with its satisfying, refreshing, uplifting scent. Never has there been anything like it.
In Old Testament days the high priest entered the holy of holies on the Day of Atonement perfumed with special oil that no one else was allowed to have or make. There couldn’t be another fragrance like the one he wore. The people adored it. They didn’t get to experience that scent all the time; it was something they could not possess. No one but the high priest was allowed to use it, and then only when he ministered. The high priests had to have that unusual fragrance; in fact, it was against the law of God for an ordinary person to touch that fragrance; it was for only those who ministered before the Lord. The high priest’s anointing oil was a type of the oil of the Holy Spirit. The high priest is a type of Jesus, our High Priest.
Jesus went into that most holy place in Heaven for us, carrying sinless blood with Him. What a fragrance Calvary made! Never before in the history of mankind has there been such a fragrance. The crushing of the lilies of the valley, the rose of Sharon—the crushing on Calvary of the Son of God—all went into the nostrils of God. He accepted that fragrance of forgiveness for all mankind, the supreme sacrifice of His Son’s sinless blood. Now man could be free, delivered. Now it’s whosoever-will, let him come.
Oils of His Greatness
You can’t have all that is in the oil of the Spirit without the fullness of the Godhead. The fullness of the Godhead will dwell in the Bride in this her last hour. Heaven’s miracle supply will provide her with all things needed, physically, spiritually and financially. Again and again the Lord will fill the meal barrels just like He did on the ark when Noah and his family were on board. They couldn’t possibly have taken enough food to have lasted over a year, so the Lord provided many, many miracle meal barrels on that ark. Think of the animals, the people shut up, the sanitation problems. But the Noah family represented Jesus Christ, and the Lord kept the bad odors down. No air conditioning, and yet all the air was pure. The Lord supplied a miracle ark with the fragrance of Heaven.
Today on our Ark, Christ Jesus, we have great fragrance provided for our lives—no spiritual stench. The oil must not be contaminated, mixed with self or any spirit against God. If it is, it’s worthless. After you become pure and clean, a virgin spiritually in the eyes of God through the oil of cleansing of Calvary that washes away sins, go on to receive the oils of His greatness and more. God’s people have not used the oils that Jesus brought because they have not sought the whole Jesus. God offers you the whole Jesus.
The Alabaster Box
The Early Church found the whole Jesus, a marvelous fragrance. Mary released a type of that fragrance when she anointed Jesus: There came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head (Mark 14:3). The fragrance filled the room. What divinity does and will do for humanity is recorded in the Bible. The fragrance that poured forth when Mary broke the alabaster box is a type of the body of Jesus broken on Calvary, sending up a precious fragrance. Jesus contained all of Heaven’s perfume here on Earth. Because Jesus cannot be separated from God the Father and God the Holy Ghost, when His body was opened on Calvary, all the greatness of the Godhead flooded Heaven and Earth. How wonderful indeed! What a mighty help we have! No wonder we sing:
What can wash away my sins?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
The stench of animal blood in Old Testament sacrifices was not pleasing in the nostrils of God. Now sinless blood—no perfume in Heaven is greater—was shed on Calvary, carried to the altar of Heaven and placed before God the Father for the redemption of mankind.
A New and Living Way
Imagine how the angels felt as they smelled this fragrance of Calvary’s redemption. They didn’t understand it, didn’t know all about it. Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently…which things the angels desire to look into (I Peter 1:10,12). The angels only knew it was the most unusual fragrance they had ever come in contact with—and they were acquainted with all the fragrances of Heaven.
This fragrance of redemption was one God the Father had not planned when He made the first man and woman. Calvary opened up the new and living way for mankind, by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way (Hebrews 10:19,20). Men could become new creations: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5:17). How fantastic—new creations!
Thine oils have a goodly fragrance, the oils of the Groom Jesus. The Bride has been made holy; she can smell the different fragrances of Jesus that come from Heaven. These fragrances are all divine, all gifts to humanity; none sold for money. You can’t merit this oil; it is freely given to those who take Jesus into their hearts, the whole Jesus with all that He brought, all that He taught. The Lord gave Himself to make this all possible.
In the Likeness of Jesus
In this hour of the greatness of Jesus’ fragrance, the Bride will take on the likeness of Him. The whole Jesus, the whole personality of Him will be hers, personality so wonderful that the world has never known another like it. As the world looks on the Bride, they see the same traits, the same greatness, the same everything of Jesus. That’s the reason the personality of the Bride will be so powerful, the reason multitudes will be swept into the Kingdom.
The Bride will be like Him, like her Lord. She will indeed run after Him, be in love with Him. None of self whatsoever will stand between the Bride and her Lord. Because she is so much in love with the Groom Jesus, she will not have to battle self. The fragrance of Him will be marvelous as His light goes forth. So many times He has lit the way for her, and now the Bride will display that same light.
Like the victorious Christ, the Bride will be victorious, too. As she speaks it will be like her Groom speaking; she will rejoice, and He will rejoice with her. She will pray like He prayed, with the same results. That close connection with Heaven, with the perfumes of Jesus, is hers. The same oils will be in each vessel of the bridal company that were in the vessels of the five wise virgins.
It’s time to deny self, examine what’s in your vessel, your soul. Is the oil pure, or is self contaminating it? Make sure you have the oil of Jesus, or your light will go out.
His Love Will Make Her Great
The Bride will accept all the greatness of Him. No longer hindered by self, she will see that self is put down. Finding no glory in self, the Bride has eyes only for the Groom. She has His spirit of humility, knowing she is nothing without Him just as He knew in the human He was nothing without the Father. Delighting that she has everything through Jesus, her eyes are fixed on Him and no other. At last she has fallen completely in love with Him. At last she has found her pearl of great price.
The Bride will not have all the struggles of the past. The contentions, the arrogance of self—she has been delivered of them all through His love. His love will make her great—not that she will feel she is something great; she knows the greatness comes from Him. In her testimony, in her holy living, in healing the sick and casting out devils through Jesus Christ, the Bride will be great in winning for the Lord day after day.
Power in the Word
The Bride is strong, talking strength and never weakness. She won’t debate with the devil; she will declare like Jesus: It is written! Speaking the Word of God is all she has to do. His Word has greater power than all the frightful weapons man has ever made. It is written! It is written! What miraculous force, what greatness comes forth in the Word!
Jesus spoke with such power that the evil ones who had come to arrest him in the Garden of Gethsemane fell over backward. As soon then as he [Jesus] had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground (John 18:6). All He did was answer their question; He only spoke.
Let your mind go to the two witnesses during the Tribulation Period: And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed (Revelation 11:5). Fire will not be coming out of the mouth of the Bride to destroy her enemies, but she will have the fire of the Holy Ghost with the fragrance, the odors of Jesus to draw people to the Lord.
Walking Spiritual Waters
The Bride’s last hours on planet Earth will be spent lifting up Jesus and His different fragrances to the world. As she lifts Him up, the precious odors of His oils in her nostrils fill her with love that leaves no room for hate. She has peace that overcomes all storms on the inside and keeps them on the outside. Not fearing the tumults of life, she walks spiritual waters as Jesus walked the waters of Galilee when He was here on Earth. The obedient Bride will not fear what man might do to her.
Every breath the Bride takes is to do the will of the Father; nothing less will she settle for. She lives to feel His caress, His touch, His love. The light of His presence surrounds her, bathing her in it, sheltering her. Using the light of His oil, she knows what it consists of, how precious it is. With her very life she guards it, carries it on the inside—it’s stored in her soul, you know.
The Bride makes sure she has trimmed the wick—her spirit—and is keeping it trimmed, pure and clean. No contamination of this world, no contamination whatsoever is in her. She is walking the narrow way, the love road, with Him.
Come to Do His Will
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God (Hebrews 10:7). As the Son of God came to do the will of the Lord, so has the Bride. In step with Him, she wears His shoes. Free from the strain and misgivings, the doubts, fears of the past, she is gorgeous with the oils of Him: oils of divine love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, humility, self-control, wisdom, knowledge and understanding. She is not walking in fogs of doubt or spending hours, days and weeks trying to find the will of God. She knows her way, for her steps are directed by Him, guided by the Holy Spirit, nothing less. Man will not be able to guide her in her paths; the Holy Spirit is her divine guide, teaching her the divine characteristics, attributes of her Lord.
The World Will See Great Light
The power of Jesus through the Bride will be so great that many who have never seen the light of God will see it. Paul saw it when he was just a sinner, a murderer lost and undone without God. Suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven (Acts 9:3). Suddenly it came, light brighter than the noonday sun. It was so bright Paul was blinded for three days. The Bride with her great light, Jesus the light of the world, will shine for all to see.
Note the miraculous strength of Samson when he walked the divine paths of God. As long as he kept that anointing, that veil of dedication, consecration and separation, he feared nothing. The Bride with divine strength will wear a veil of dedication, separated from everything false. No false doctrine in her midst will she tolerate. Her foundation is in the pure whole truth of God. She sings it, shouts it, lives it and serves it. In that truth the Bride has the eternal life of Jesus dwelling on the inside, and from her innermost being it goes forth with power and greatness.
Think about the oil of Jesus’ kindness—that oil is hers. What kindness she will show forth! Kindness helps people, brings them to the Lord, heals them. We as the Bride have the treasures of His oils—and what wonderful treasures they are, treasures money can never, never buy. Thanks be to God forevermore!
Revelations of Him
As we look to the Lord, speak His name, He means much more to us in this final hour than in the past. Jesus reveals Himself in the light of His will, His love, patience, peace, a light that brings all the revelations of Him. Through this light came the oils of our Lord, His gifts to the Bride. She has stored them in the reservoir of her soul. Now she knows that when she hears the cry: Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him (Matthew 25:6), she has all she needs so she will be taken with Him into the clouds. The same power, the same greatness, the same odors, the same perfumes Jesus had when He ascended to Heaven from the mount are hers. She is not worried at all; she is like her Lord. The power of His Resurrection and Crucifixion works on the inside of her.
Delivered, free, the Bride is everything Jesus desires her to be. She has come into His love in perfection. Wonderful to look upon, her light is glorious because it’s His light; it comes from the same oils—His. It is an eternal light, the love light for the whole world, the peace light.
Many in the world today are crying Peace! but they lack the peace-light, the oil. Jesus alone has it. One day when He sets up His Kingdom, His light of peace will illuminate the whole earth for a thousand years. During that time all will be peace, peace, peace. All other lights are false, lacking the oils of Him. It will take the oils of our Lord to bring about an everlasting Kingdom of peace.
Not only is Jesus the Prince of Peace with the oil of peace, He is the Prince of love. From Him comes that great, great oil of love. Jesus is everything great, mighty and wonderful, our Lord and Master, the one who makes intercession for us and is coming back to Earth again to take His Bride with Him to Heaven.
Through His greatness, through His oils, we will be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. Through His oils we have the light to show us the way to Rapture ground. When the call comes and we trim our lamps to go forth to meet Him—what a glorious time that will be!
Elijah went forth with oil in his lamp, but it was nothing like the oil we can have today. That oil was sufficient for Elijah because it was God’s oil, Heaven’s oil, the great oil of the miraculous power of God, of love and the anointing of the Holy Ghost’s power. But Elijah didn’t have the oil of the Crucifixion and Resurrection. It had not been made available to mankind at that time.
This oil we have today contains all that Elijah’s oil had and more. With the oil of strength, this divine oil in our vessels, we need not worry or fret. Remember that Christ is the source from whence comes all the oil. Without Him is no oil, no eternal light and greatness.
The fragrance of Jesus is marvelous, the sweetest of savors to the Bride as the endless ages roll. She will be always separated unto Him through the great oils of His fragrance. With this oil of gladness we will rejoice in our final hour.
Know Who You Are in the Lord
Child of God, you must know who you are and what you are in the Lord and what is available to you. With the oil from Heaven to give eternal light to light all your pathways, you don’t have to worry. Oh God, help us to look up and know that we can partake of all of Jesus! The Bible speaks of mixing the oil and the wine. The oils of Him and the wine of the Holy Spirit mixed and blended together make a wonderful, holy fragrance.
We have great strength, life, life from all of God’s provisions. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6). He is life and He is our light. To Him we give all the honor and praise.
You Need the Holy Ghost
You say you are a Christian? The five foolish virgins were Christians, they were blood-washed, pure, forgiven of their sins. To make the Rapture you need something more than salvation: You need the Holy Ghost baptism. The Holy Ghost dwelt in Jesus in the manner He dwells in the lives of those who have received the Holy Ghost baptism. And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost (John 1:32,33).
Lukewarm Christians will be spewed into the Tribulation Period. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth (Revelation 3:16). The lukewarm don’t treasure the oil made available to all who are born again.
Jesus said, I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter (John 14:16). When the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost (verse 26), came, He brought with Him all the oils and perfumes of Jesus, all the oils of Heaven for mankind. He brought the nine fruits and the nine gifts of the Spirit told of in Galatians 5 and in First Corinthians 12.
The precious oils of Jesus mix together to make the one great oil that will light up Earth and Heaven as the Bride is changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. Just think, the oil that will change her she is now carrying inside.
Remember, the oil for the lamps is made up of the oils of Heaven that Jesus brought down. The Holy Ghost Himself delivers much that goes into the oil. How can anyone expect to make the Rapture without the Holy Ghost baptism? It’s a foolish virgin, indeed, who neglects to receive the Holy Ghost. As you look at people today you see many foolish virgins. They are saved, they think they are all right and feel no need of the oil of the Holy Spirit. One day they will find, like the five foolish virgins, they were too late in seeking the oil. The wise virgins couldn’t just take the oil out of their souls to give to the foolish virgins. Everyone will have to have the oil of the Holy Spirit baptism to make the Rapture.
Only You Can Contaminate the Light
Some of you refuse to go on to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the one who has come to serve Jesus, what He brought, taught and made available. The Holy Spirit has come to live and dwell on the inside of you, to serve you the whole Jesus if you accept Him.
Many will not accept what is being served. They busy themselves at the tables of self, feasting on self-indulgence. The personality of Jesus, all the greatness of Him and what He brought is missing from their lives. By considering Him to be just an ordinary man, they have stripped Him of His greatness. They go to church but fail to see this wonderful Jesus of the Bible. They don’t have the oil; they aren’t serving it.
We must first be served before we can serve. The Holy Spirit serves the things of the Lord to us, and we in turn serve what He gives us. His oil is pure, clean, holy and has the strength of Calvary, the strength of the Resurrection, the Ascension, of all the promises and love of God.
The very obedient can dine, but the disobedient have no promise of open windows all the time. Many have blamed God for a lack of supply when all the time their actions have tied His hands from moving for them. It’s the obedient who will have the miracle supply.
Are you the kind of lamp that shows forth the light of Heaven, burning the oil of Jesus? Are you that wise virgin who has received the oils of Jesus? If so, what a soul winner you will be in this your final walk! What a joy you are to Heaven! What happiness you give the Lord! The light in your vessel is shining forth not only on Earth, but all the way to Heaven.
Lift Up Your Heads
Salvation comes through Jesus; healing comes through Jesus. All His works come from Him. We are simply a source through which His power flows, vessels of clay. In this miraculous supply, ponder what is available to us, how Jesus provided it—the whole Jesus. One, two or a multitude, it mattered not; Jesus always met the demand of supply. His supply houses are open for the Bride.
Lift up your heads you virgins who have filled your vessels with the oil of Heaven. You need not worry or fret; you have nothing to fear, nothing to worry about. But you without the oil, the Lord calls you foolish. Don’t be foolish any longer. Decide to have all the Lord offers, the great miraculous supply in this the final hour. Cry out that your God will supply. How will He do it? He will supply through Jesus His Son. He supplied salvation for you, but some are not enjoying it.
With His oil in our lamps we have the knowledge of God, the knowledge of these endtime signs we now see. We are not walking in the night. The brilliant light of God exposes this lost and dying world, the Sodom’s and Gomorrah’s, the sins of the day of Noah. Again and again we flash the light of God, and we hear the man of Galilee saying, And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh (Luke 21:28).
Lift up your heads, oh wise virgins, lift up your heads because redemption draweth nigh. Why should you worry about the darkness coming upon the face of the earth? What does it matter? We have plenty of oil in our lamps. All we need do is turn up the wick to draw more on the oils of Jesus, and the flame burns brighter. You can have as much light as you need to see all you want to see and must see.
If your life is like a clean chimney for the lamp, if the wick is trimmed properly, the light will shine out. You can’t mix the oil with anything else; it won’t work with the waters of this world. It must be pure oil—His. And it works, it works, it works. Imagine how proud the Lord feels as He sees the virgins working and serving, their light shining from them up to His throne.
The Lord isn’t worried about the long night for the Bride. He knows she has an eternal light that the devil can’t put out. No power from hell can extinguish that light; no one but you can cause the oil to leak out or become contaminated. You’re the only one who can contaminate the oil. All the demons from hell could come at you at one time, and not one could contaminate the oil, saith the Lord. It’s time for us to lift our heads and shout the praises of God, time for the hallelujahs to come from the Bride like never before. It’s time to know that the Bride has joy in the valley because she has the oil of His joy.
Do You Have the Oil?
Oh neighbor, do you have the oil of the Holy Spirit? Are you one of the foolish virgins without it? Have you let the opinions of man contaminate you so that you can’t accept the pure truth of God that says you must have this oil? The virgins without the oil didn’t make the Rapture. They were saved, but they didn’t have the Holy Ghost. You can’t have this fruit of oil, these miraculous ingredients, without the Holy Ghost. It’s a must, not an option.
You who have never met Jesus at Calvary’s Hill, it’s the greatest, most wonderfully perfumed hill of all. No fragrance is quite so great, the fragrance of Heaven’s forgiveness. Receiving salvation is the most astonishing, sacred moment in one’s entire life. It was in mine. I didn’t know there could be such reality, such greatness in the Lord. I didn’t know anyone could feel so pure and clean. When I received salvation, suddenly there was no fear. God had become my closest friend, my everything.
As you place your hand in the nail-riven hand you will know you have found the Christ, the Son of God.
Sinner, come to Jesus. Pray with me now: Oh, God, save my soul! Forgive me of my sins. I’m so sorry I sinned against you, but I have come home. I have come to your feet, dear Jesus. With all humility I bow as low as I can bow, and I plead for your forgiveness. Now I believe that you are the Christ, that the blood of Jesus washes away all of my sins, all of my sins! Come on in, Jesus! Come on into my heart.
If you meant that prayer, He has come.
Healing Flows in the Oil
His great oil of miraculous power is for healing and deliverance. The miraculous power of salvation delivered your soul; why not let the miraculous power He provided for the body take you over and make you whole? Thousands have been delivered not only from sin, but from sicknesses and diseases through this Jesus ministry because His oils are being used, His greatness, His power. It isn’t the power of a human being, but the power of the divine one, the divine Son of God. All that makes up the many, many oils of the Godhead goes into making the one precious oil for the Bride to keep stored away in her soul. Redemption draweth nigh. What a Jesus, what a Christ!
Thine oils, dear Jesus, are a goodly fragrance. You who are sick and afflicted: Trust the healing Jesus—I bring Him to you. Masterful surgery He performs. With His miraculous healing powers He will deliver you just as He delivered me so many years ago. Here they are, Lord. As the servant of the living God, as your faith servant, I bring the people for healing today. Lay a healing hand on the sick and afflicted. From your supernatural gifts of healing and supernatural gift of miracles it comes in the name of your Son Jesus. Heal! Heal! in the mighty name of the Lord, in the all-powerful name of Jesus.
The healing power is flowing. Healings, miracles are taking place. It’s the flow of Him by the Holy Spirit. The name is Jesus, and He loves you. Watch yourself get well; watch all improvements daily, and give Him all the honor, the praise and the glory. Receive from Him the oils you must have to shine forth His light in this last and final hour. As you receive and use His oils, your needs will be supplied, physically, spiritually and financially.
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