The title “the accuser of our brethren” reveals Satan’s character and, therefore, his ongoing activity. (That’s why I try not to listen to accusations against brethren. I know where they originate.)
A great courtroom procedure has ensued since the fall of man. God the Father is God the Judge of all (Heb. 12:23), Jesus Christ, the Righteous, is our Advocate (1 John 2:1-2).
The American Heritage Dictionary defines advocate as: “One that argues for a cause. One that pleads in another’s behalf; an intercessor.”1 Satan is the Prosecuting Attorney—the accuser.
…For the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
(Rev. 12:10-11)
The title “the accuser of our brethren” reveals Satan’s character and, therefore, his ongoing activity. (That’s why I try not to listen to accusations against brethren. I know where they originate. And I fear to be found on the accuser’s side in any matter.)
The Bible is the Book of the Law
Someone has said, “If man’s redemption is to be real, it must be solidly lawful.” Redemption is the crux of the matter. Adam exercised his free will and fell into the hand of the enemy.
The Blood of the Lamb redeemed man from Satan’s hold and unto God and His plan. The American Heritage Dictionary gives this definition of redeem: “To recover ownership of by paying a specified sum.”2
As a child, I heard an evangelist tell a story which helped me understand redemption.
A father and his small son worked together and built a toy boat. They whittled out its hull, painted it red, and attached a white sail. Then they enjoyed many happy hours sailing it in the river running through their village.
Somehow the father died. When the boy sailed the boat alone, it brought back good memories. Until…. One day a big wind caught the little sail and carried the boat down the river faster than the boy could run after it. Out it sailed into the sea.
The boy missed his boat so much for the long time it was gone.
About Thanksgiving time, he was overjoyed to see his little boat appear in the toy shop window. He ran inside and said, “That’s my little boat in the window! My father and I made it and it was lost to the sea.” The shop owner said, “That little boat was brought in by fishermen who found it. I’ll let you have it for what it cost me.”
The boy had no money. But he went to work. He cut wood. He sold papers. He did everything he could think of to do. Each day he counted his money. And each day he held his breath as he passed the toy shop to see if the little boat was still there.
At last, on Christmas Eve, he had enough money. But had someone bought the little boat for a gift? How thankful he was to see it still in the window. When he came out of the shop, he clasped the little boat to his chest and cried, “Little boat! Little boat! You’re twice mine! I made you! And I bought you!”
God made us and He redeemed us. He redeemed us not with silver and gold, but with “Precious Blood.”
Our Only Plea
In the early seventies my husband, Kent, worked for 18 months in Pennsylvania. During the summer of 1971, I took a leave from my job and the children and I spent three months with him in Beaver, Pennsylvania.
We liked antiques and we had lots of fun traveling the back roads of Pennsylvania and Ohio looking for goodies. Following a crudely painted sign advertising something for sale we came upon an old Ohio farmhouse and a fascinating family who lived there.
Not long out of the hippie culture they were newly born again and glowing with the light of new birth. When they discovered I worked for a ministerial association, the wife, still dressing rather like a “hippie-chick,” begged us to come back again and again to teach them the Bible.
One day she shared a dream she’d just had.
In her dream she stood third in a long line of people waiting before a beautiful gate to enter Heaven. Father Abraham met each one and asked their qualifications for entry. The first man in line said, “I was a Boy Scout leader. I devoted all my free time to young boys preparing them to be good citizens.”
“That’s good,” came the reply. “But is there anything else? Is there anything more?”
“No.”
With a wave of the authority figure’s hand, the applicant was denied entry.
The second person was a woman. In response to the request for her qualifications she said, “I was a Sunday School teacher for 30 years.”
“That’s wonderful. But is there something else?”
She offered nothing else.
“Entry denied.”
My friend thought in her dream, “Oh, they’ve done wonderful things and they’re not getting in. I’ve never been anything but a hippie!” And she felt great concern.
“Next,” came the call. It was her turn!
“And what are your qualifications to enter Heaven?”
She was surprised at her quick answer, “I plead the Blood of Jesus Christ!”
“Open wide the gates!” Father Abraham cried with a sweeping movement of his arms indicating her abundant entrance into glory.
There can be no argument against pleading the Blood. It is our only plea!
1 American Heritage Electronic Dictionary, Houghton Mifflin Company
2 Ibid
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers
Billye Brim's Christian heritage is rich. She sensed the call of God in early childhood. However, it was only after an encounter with the Holy Spirit in 1967, that she as a young wife and mother of four began to follow Him to walk out her call. For almost ten years she served as Editor of Publications for Kenneth E. Hagin Ministries where she also taught at Rhema Bible Training Center.
Immediately after ordination in 1980, she traveled to Soviet Russia in what proved to be ongoing ministry there. Since then she has literally ministered around the world several times over.
Kent and Billye Brim with Lee and Jan Morgans founded a local church in Collinsville, Oklahoma. A Glorious Church Fellowship is the foundation of Billye Brim Ministries and Prayer Mountain in the Ozarks in Branson, Missouri, and the soon-to-be-built Migdal Arbel Prayer and Study Center in Israel.
When Kent passed away in 1986, Billye was led to "study Hebrew in the Land." Studying at Ulpan Akiva in Israel led to the unique Seminar Tours she has guided in the Land from 1986 to now. It also provided a pattern for the Prayer and Study Center in Israel.
"Helping Pray-ers" is a God-given directive in her life. One place this happens is at Prayer Mountain in the Ozarks near Branson, Missouri. On 200 plus acres log cabins provide places for individual prayer or small prayer groups. Corporate prayer meetings are held twice a week in the chapel.
On Wednesdays at 12 Noon Central Time, the meeting is streamed live. Pray-ers (who have named themselves World-Wide Pray-ers) join in united prayer via thousands of computers in more than 60 nations. This prayer is focused primarily on an Awakening to God. For in a corporate prayer meeting in June 2008, Billye Brim and the pray-ers were impressed with these words: One thing will save America…an Awakening to God. One thing will avail for Israel and the nations, An Awakening to God. Several thousand pray-ers from around the world gather in Branson for an Autumn Assembly of Prayer she hosts.
Billye Brim is blessed to work with others across the Body of Christ. She strongly believes in walking out what Scripture teaches that we are one Body, with one Head, one Spirit, one Lord.
First Corinthians 10:32 is foundational in Billye Brim's ministry. The "good works that He has ordained that she should walk in" involve activity among the Jews, the Nations, and the Church-all to the Glory of God.