The Woman under the Palm Tree
II CORINTHIANS 4:3-4
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
(So then if the gospel is reveal to you, then it is revealed to those who are save)
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. (Notice - the god of this world has blinded the minds of his subjects, while the true God has opened our minds and understanding to the truth – look how Lucifer treats the subjects of his kingdom by deceiving and blinding them, but then look at how the true God opens the eyes of our understanding to His subjects to know the real truth)
JUDGES 4:4-5
4 ¶ And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
The Woman under the Palm Tree
Deborah was the fourth Judge of Israel – and notice that she was a prophetess, and a prophet is an eagle, and we know that the anointing that is on the bride of this hour is the eagle anointing, (Lion, Ox, Man, and Eagle), and the eagle is the forth anointing that God released upon the church of this last age to bring the victory for this age.
JUDGES 4:4-5
4 ¶ And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
Notice that Deborah is a married woman, and her husband’s name is Lapidoth, and Lapidoth means flames (plural), like the flames from the wicks of the seven golden candle sticks that produced the light of the seven church ages that represented the message of Christ in each church age (the seven spirits of God).
So we notice that she is not an espoused woman, but she is a married woman to this man who is the light giver. And so we can see that Deborah is representing the bride of this hour that has united in marriage to Christ.
5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
The palm tree in the bible is a symbol of eternal life.
The date palm is where you get dates from, and the palm tree as a fruit-bearing tree is known to be remarkably nutritious because the date as a food source will sustain life for a very long time without the need for any other kind of food.
*We know that Christ is the tree of eternal life – He was that tree in Eden that Adam fellowshipped with and partook of that would have sustained him and kept him alive for eternity. And that is why when Adam was separated from that tree which was Christ, he eventually died because no other tree could sustain his life indefinitely.
So this Palm tree in the bible represents Christ.
***So here we find this woman Deborah a married woman who is anointed with a prophetic eagle anointing dwelling under and feeding from this tree that is representing eternal life.
And so we can see clearly that she represents the bride of Christ for this hour, because as the bride of this hour we have been married to Christ by the acceptance of his word of this day, and we are also under a prophetic anointing, and since the opening of the seven seals we have also had full access again to the tree of eternal life (Jesus said that - the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and eternal life).
**So we are dwelling under the palm tree of eternal life again in this hour.
5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
**So here in the book of Judges (where everyone did that which was right in their own eyes), Deborah represents the bride of this hour.
But we want to backtrack and background this and then pick this story up again over the next few weeks (Lord willing) because we are continuing with our subject on wars and the greatest and last battle where Satan will be destroyed once and for all.
JUDGES 1:19
19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
Notice – even though the Lord was with Judah, he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley because they had chariots of iron – in other words they were more advanced in military weapons, and to be more advanced in military weapons of iron you have to know something about chemistry, and to know something about chemistry you have to be more advanced in science. To fight against chariots of Iron you need weapons as powerful or more powerful.
JUDGES 4:1-5
1 ¶ And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.
2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
4 ¶ And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time. (So Deborah was up against an army at a time when technology and science had advance the level of military armament and mobility and might)
5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
***So here we are now getting a picture of this hour that we are living in.
So we want to look into this advancement of military might as symbolised here in the bible, because as the bride of Christ in this hour we also find ourselves and the state of the world in this same condition of a time of an advance level of military armament and mobility and might.
So what has brought us to this condition in this day?
MATTHEW 8:20
20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
This word “air” in the Greek is the word “ouranos” - {oo-ran-os'} = the aerial heavens or sky, the region where the clouds and the tempests gather, and where thunder and lightning are produced - the vaulted expanse of the sky with all things visible in it
EPHESIANS 2:1-2
1 ¶ And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
This word “air” is the Greek word aer = the atmospheric region (where man habitats and breathes) (the prince of the power of the “atmospheric region”), in other words the price of the power of the fourth dimension that channels into the region of where human habitation exists, because we know that sound travels through the air that are all around us, but we also know that radio and television waves are also all around us in the same space that we occupy – and so Satan uses the power of the influence of these waves of the 4th dimension of radio and television, and that is why it is called the power of the air – not the air that you breath, but the air waves of radio and television.
Brother Branham explains these dimensions to us.
PRESENT.STAGE.OF.MY.MINISTRY_ JEFF.IN V-11 N-2 SATURDAY_ 62-0908
21 Now, when we come along, we remember that we live here in three dimensions. And I don't know whether I can name them or not. One of them is light, and the other is matter. Tommy, you remember what the third is? Huh? Atom--time. Right. Now, light, matter, and time. And our five senses contact them dimensions. Our sight contacts light, our feeling contacts matters, and so forth.
22 Now, but we have contact through science, the fourth dimension, as it was. Because coming right through this building now comes pictures, voices of radio, pictures on television, that our senses does not contact that, but yet they have a--a tube or crystal that picks up those ether waves and manifests them. So, you see, right in this building now is live actions of people in the air, live voices. They're here. We know it. They're absolutely the truth. And the only thing you do, they--they catch it on... I don't understand the mechanics of--of those things that science has invented, but we know that it proves to us there is a fourth dimension.
Now, the fifth dimension is where the sinner, the unbeliever dies and goes to. The fifth dimension is the--kind of the--well, the horrible dimension. Now, this man...
And when a Christian dies, he goes into the sixth dimension.
And God is in the seventh dimension.
Now then, you see, the Christian when he dies, he goes under the altar of God, right into the Presence of God, under the altar. And he's at rest.
So here is the prophet of God telling us clearly of these 7 dimensions and the discovery of the 4th dimension is what connected the other dimensions of heaven and hell to this realm.
THE.REPROACH.FOR.THE.CAUSE.OF.THE.WORD_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-16 SUNDAY_ 62-1223
14-3 … Noah lived in a scientific age, where there was a scientific achievement that they were able to manufacture that were beyond anything that we've manufactured today. They were brighter, more intelligent. Their science was far advanced to ours.
So we know that in Noah’s day they had also discovered this fourth dimension of radio and television electromagnetic waves, and that discovery had allowed the information revolution of that day to advance to a place where they could combined the great minds of the world to advance science to the point where they could send things into space. And it also corrupted the morals of that age in the same way that it had done in this age because Jesus said that as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when the son of man is being revealed to his bride.
I THESSALONIANS 4:16-17
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (This is the same word “air” – the atmospheric region where man habitats and breathes)
Where did Ruth meet Boaz? In the field before she became his wife, so meeting the Lord in the air is the connected to the message of this hour that has introduced us to Christ by the voice of the seventh angel.
Where did that voice sound in this generation? It sounded into the airways from the seventh dimension through the transmitter and channel of a God sent prophet.
So where did the source of this message come from? It came from another dimension; it came from the heaven of heavens and into the airways by the voice of the seventh angel, and just like hell is also coming into these airwaves from 5th dimension through the 4th. In this age, both dimensions (heaven and hell) now have access into these 3 dimensions through the channel of the advancement of scientific knowledge. That is why the tape recorder had to be invented for this hour, so it could record the voice of the prophet of God, or we would not still be living in the days of the voice.
REVELATION 9:1-2
1 ¶ And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth (that fallen star is Lucifer): and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. That key was the key of scientific knowledge of the 4th dimension of the radio and television waves. Look at the influence and the impact that radio and television has had upon the inhabitants of the earth in the last 100 years. The key was the key of knowledge that unlocked the power of that dimension to man, and the bottomless pit is hell, and so hell was opened up in this last age though that medium – and that is why you don’t have to die to go to hell in this age, you can be a soul in prison now while you are alive on the earth. And Lucifer has become the god of this evil age.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Spiritual darkness began to perpetrate the airways of man’s habitat by this discovery of the 4th dimension of electromagnetic radio waves.
THE.GOD.OF.THIS.EVIL.AGE_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0801M
164 As, She is part of the Groom, true to Him in every point, waiting the Wedding. Uniting, not at the ecumenical council; but in the sky, at the Wedding Supper. She has been given... This is for our own church. The... She has been given, and revealed to Her, the Seven-Seal mysteries of the Bible. See? She sees the folly of the deceiver, so very close to the Truth, that almost deceive the Elected. She sees it.
What the world has been blinded to by the influence of the prince of the power of the 4th dimensional air waves of the influence and the deception of radio and television, our eyes have been opened to by the revelation of God in this hour by the voice of the seventh angel’s message.
So there was a great battle in Judges Chapter 4 that Deborah was about to face against an advanced scientific enemy that no previous age could have defeated that enemy.
So we want to see how she did this, because this is speaking of us in this hour.