When you entered the Holy Place of the Tabernacle and looked straight ahead, at the far end was the ornate veil that separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy.

On the far side of the veil, hidden from your eyes was the Ark of the Covenant. The lid of the Ark was the Mercy Seat with two great cherubim beaten out from refined gold. Their wings covered the Mercy Seat.

On this side of the veil, visible to you, was the Altar of Incense.

The Altar of Incense represents the laying down of our life before God. The incense burned on the Altar was compounded from spices, some bitter, some sweet. They speak of death.

We must be born again (the Table of Showbread). We must be filled with God's Spirit (the Lampstand). And then we must fall down before Christ each day and worship (the Altar of Incense). We must do His perfect will at all times, our adamic personality dying in the process.

This is where the churches are today. We are saved and filled with the Spirit. Where the Spirit now is leading us is into death to self.

The Lord is looking for those of the churches who will lay down their life for His sake and the Gospel's. Will we try to use our gifts to save the world, driven by our religious ambitions, or will we turn back to the Lord and put our gifts as well as ourselves at His feet?

It is time now to overcome Satan so that Michael will be empowered to drive Satan from the heavenlies. There will be a remnant of saints who will overcome by the blood of the Lamb, by the word of their testimony, and by loving not their lives to the death.

Heaven and earth are waiting for Christians who will set aside their own lives that the perfect will of God may be done.

Will you be one of those who trust in the blood of the Lamb, who work with the Spirit until the testimony of their personalities and words line up with the Word of God, and who—most importantly of all—lay down their lives that Christ may live?

If you will do this you will help put to an end the wrestling match. Satan's shoulders are to be pinned to the mat.

God will hold you up as an example to Satan. "What else do you want to do to him (or her)? You have dragged him through the mud. You have denied him the desires of his heart. You have tested his determination in every possible way? What else are you going to do?"

Satan shakes his head. His devices have been exhausted.

The Father speaks the Word. Michael and his forces as a single shining shaft of blinding light rushing at the forces of darkness at a speed faster than thought drive Satan and all spirits related to him from the heavenlies.

Now will those in Heaven rejoice because the accuser no longer can approach the throne of God.

But woe to those alive on the earth in that day! An outraged Satan and his followers, once angelic princes of the highest glory, now forced to live among the decaying protoplasm of human beings, will vent their malice and spite on all who are not protected by the blood of the Lamb. The fallen angels will pour into the earth like angry wasps from a burning nest.

Today is your opportunity to join the Gideon's army that will satisfy the Father's demands. Forget yourself for one brief moment and get into something of real majesty and significance. Help put an end to the misery of mankind.

You can satisfy your desires later!