Netser Teaching
Netser is a “branch.” Yesterday I began to rejoice as I started receiving things about this. The first thing that came to me was about Ezekiel 17:22. “I shall take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and set it out. I shall pluck from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I shall plant it on a high and lofty mountain. On the high mountain of Israel I shall plant it, that it may bring forth boughs and bear fruit and become a stately cedar. And birds of every kind will nest under it; they will rest in the shade of its branches.” (Psalm 91:1)
Every work is initiated by our Father must begin with the open door of the human heart. I pray with all my heart that I and my people may learn the lesson intended for us from the Corinthians. Our Father sovereignly preserved these letters for our instruction, that we could be saved from an arrogant delusion of someday outgrowing our need for the ministry of the “tender one” who has been used to bring the anointing of Messiah to us in the first place. What do we know of Messiah except what we have received? A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven (not on a direct circuit, but by the age-old way of YHWH, through His anointed ones).
A “branch” is of the same stuff, the same substance, as the tree itself. I am a branch whose origin is from the good growth that has issued forth from the “tender one” planted on a high and lofty mountain of Israel. How lovely are the feet of those who bring us the good tidings of SALVATION. Upon this mountain, such a one can see up ahead so that Israel wouldn’t be without rudder or direction. Apostolic ministry, seers and visionaries of the New Covenant – there must be some on the mountain for Israel’s sake.
My origin is of that anointing. I never existed, in Messiah, before this anointing came to my life. I was “nothing,” and now everything that I am is because I am connected to this good growth. I can now receive the life giving sap that rises up from the roots to nourish all the branches. My connection to this lofty cedar tree is my connection to the Source, my Father. It is through the ministry of reconciliation that this anointing of Messiah has brought to me, that I am reconciled. Now I draw my life from the same source as the lofty cedar. My growth is pure as long as I am connected. But when I, as a branch, am cut off from the life giving Source, I grow brittle and dry – and am in danger of falling. (John 15) “If anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up ….”
And you know the fate of the branch that grows brittle. But what I rejoice over is that I am a BRANCH! (The night I repented at the table 6 weeks ago, I went to my room immediately after and started reading John 15 about the branches that abide in the vine!) And I know that the tree I come forth from is GOOD because I can see its luscious fruit. I see people loving each other, laying down their lives for each other and being connected the head – individually – not slavishly coerced or ruled with a heavy hand. I see people “let go” – let go to grow up into the Head and as a result of this, blessing others. I even see others who have never been involved in Chattanooga or have not personally known you and yet they are brought also into this anointing through the ministry of those who have received the anointing – the growth is good. The cedar would bring forth boughs and bear fruit and become a stately cedar. A stately tree is anchored to the ground through an extensive and ancient root system. No little gust of wind or exposure (even false and malicious, slanderous exposure) can topple it. It is anchored.
So it will sway, but not break off. It is resilient because YHWH of Hosts is its strength. Isa. 49:5 It is a good growth. There is now a proliferation of other trees. Their growth is not good and their sap does not come from the same Source as the stately cedar. These trees are having their “season in the sun” but the spirit and power of Elijah is coming upon the earth. Mal. 4:1; 3:18
“And all the trees of the field will know that I am Sovereign – I am YHWH. I bring down the high tree, exalt the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry flourish. I am YHWH. I have spoken I will perform it.” Eek. 17:25 The spirit of Elijah will demonstrate that the El of the true growth is YHWH. (This El is YAH- Elijah). Col. 2:19
Last night you said you wished you could be speaking to thousands of Christians about the truth of the anointing. What is being formed in all of us is the way that those thousands of Christians are going to hear this word. Multiplication not addition-multiplication. A seemingly astronomical sum can be surprisingly quickly arrived at by multiplication. Israel is going to teem, because He is saving “the heart,” “the pioneers,” the “trailblazers.” What Numbers 24 said is going to be realized. Numbers 23:24; 24:5-6
How, in nature, could a branch ever turn on the tree proper and despise it and cut itself off from that tree it grew from? Yet, it is going to happen, in the days when tribes and clans are spread out with many people in many places. Perhaps the disease that kills a branch is the malady that Diotrephes had (3 John 9). But a true BRANCH will maintain its integrity! It will remain attached, and the sap will never cease to flow, even to the uttermost extremities – to all the leaves and tender buds (children). A branch is truly blessed that abides.
I want with all my heart to be a Netser. I am not ashamed of it, or how it sounds. My Father loves me; He loves me so much that He gives me a handle, a means of grace to remind me. And the people of YHWH can forget so quickly. I need this grace. I am honored. He kept me, somehow, even when I cut myself off from the sap. He is restoring the flow to my dried up condition. There is hope for a tree. And there is hope for a branch, if it truly is a branch! Job 14:7-9
Called and Chosen (and by HIS GRACE) Faithful,
Netser