“And you shall charge the sons of Israel, that they bring you clear oil of beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually.”

God specifically instructed the people to use olive oil for the purpose of anointing. The olive tree is a symbol of God’s people. In order to produce oil from the olive, the flesh of the olive must be crushed. It is God’s will to take all mankind through a crushing process that they might cease from sin and live righteously. We must die to our will and desires and live to do the will of God. This is a painful process, but God provides much grace to those who freely submit to this work.

ONLY those who have allowed God to deal in this way with their flesh will receive power. Because the church today does not want to experience suffering, but have been taught that God desires that they experience one pleasure after another, they have not received divine power to fulfill the call on their lives.

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money... lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power.

“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.”

Again, God has given us a parable to help us to understand this truth. The church in Scripture is compared to an olive tree.

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?

The saints of Yahweh are pictured in scripture as an olive tree, and it is from the crushed fruit of the olive tree that the oil of anointing comes forth.

Individually, we are pictured as olives in this tree. When our soul life has been crushed by God the oil of anointing is manifested and we become a light unto the world. It was olive oil that was used to light the lamps in the Tabernacle of Moses and the Temple of Solomon.

"And you shall charge the sons of Israel, that they bring you clear oil of beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually.”

All who would be disciples of Christ must follow in His footsteps. He learned obedience through the things He suffered, and so must we. Consider also that Christ’s greatest suffering was at Gethsemane where it states that His soul was grieved unto death. Gethsemane was a garden on the Mount of Olives and it literally means “olive press.”

The reason the church has so little power today is that she will not submit herself to the preparation process that all must pass through to have the oil of anointing released from their lives. We must all be crushed, putting an end to the habit of being self-directed, choosing our own way, and doing things in the power of our human abilities. A church that loves self, loves money, and loves pleasure will not receive the power of God.

God has a remnant who are being prepared at this very hour to receive a powerful anointing in coming days. The church thinks these ones are suffering for their own sins, even as the Jews thought Yahshua was suffering as an evildoer.

Many think that they will be satisfied to do without the power of God as long as they can avoid suffering, but they are deceived. Yahshua said:

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.

In our previous presentation we saw that the earth must undergo pangs as a woman in childbirth. The overcomers will be passed over when God brings His most severe judgments to the earth. Those in the barley resurrection will be passed over when others are cast into the second death, which is the Lake of Fire. None can avoid God’s purifying work in their life. You can only postpone it, but if you do you will suffer loss and the purging will be much more difficult.

It is better to fall on the Rock, which is Christ, and allow Him to break you, than for Him to fall on you and scatter you like dust.

We have seen images of the Shepherd pouring oil on the sheep, we have seen images of the olive and the olive press where the oil for anointing is produced. In all of this we see God’s plan for man to be prepared to walk in spiritual power. We have an anointing of the Holy Spirit that produces the life of Christ within these vessels of clay, but that life is only manifested when our soul life is crushed, when we die to our own way of doing things.

We must fall on the Rock and be broken to pieces in order that the anointing within might be manifested. If we are not pressed and beaten as the olive, if our flesh remains protected and intact, then the oil of anointing will not come forth. We are called to be broken vessels before God, that He might reveal His power in and through us.