10-15-2016 A Spiritual Explosion
As I was
just getting started with my AM prayer session (10/11/2016) and as I was going
over Jeremiah 1 and Ezekiel 37, (my personal scriptural prophecies which we
[Father & me] remember daily) and as we were going over the part in the
passage in Jeremiah chapter one where the caldron pot is tipping over and is
emptying which is Father’s wrath pouring out against Israel because of their
disobedience Father said that this also applies to mankind AND the new covenant
church, today, for the same reason. Mankind
should be a no-brainer as man continually draws away from God. Today’s church because much of it still is
resistant to how Father wants His church to function. In our prayer, we always start with the
caldron pot in Jeremiah then jump to Ezekiel 37, then come back to the
beginning of Jeremiah beginning with verse four.
In Ezekiel,
the valley of dry bones, God is telling Ezekiel that He is going to
reconstitute, rebuild, Israel. Today,
the dry bones represent the new covenant church. The bare essentials have always been there
(God always has His number [1 Kings 19:18]) since Jesus and the age of the
apostles but the operation of the church has fallen off quickly from how it was
originally established. In the 1/2/2016 entry into this blog we spoke
of the dry bones from Ezekiel 37.
Before we
get into Ezekiel let’s back up a bit.
The dry bones in the valley are significant to today’s church, because
even though the church has set aside the practices of the early church, the
basics, the dry bones, have always been there:
Jesus Christ is the Messiah and when we confess Him with our mouth and
believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead we shall be saved
(Romans 10:9). And the church has hung
onto that and the idea that we have a lifestyle to live for Jesus “If you love
Me, keep My commandments” (John 14:15).
From there, Christianity has become clouded over the centuries as to how
it should be culminating to where we are today. Too much of the church ordains ministers who
are still embroiled in their sins and bodies are promoted in many churches
simply because they are warm bodies who are available and willing but there are
also those who agree (okay maybe even ‘suck up’) with the leadership
irregardless of their personal relationship with Father or their spiritual
maturity, just to gain position. What
does the bible say about church leaders?
(Acts 6:1-7). I’m not just
talking about the pastor, or associate pastors or elders and deacons, but
anybody in a leadership role. There are
more passages addressing leadership but Acts chapter six describes what bare
bones are necessary for leadership roles and it speaks of people who seek after
God with all their hearts. Nonetheless,
Father has kept His number in the church (as a whole, though not necessarily in
each individual fellowship), just like when Elijah was hiding out from Ahab and
jezebel (1 Kings 19:13-18) where 7000 had not bowed their knee to Baal, God has
had His number all the way up until today.
Now a quick synopsis of the “Valley of Dry
Bones, 1/2/2016 entry in the Homecoming. We start with the Protestant Reformation of
the 1500 & 1600’s Father started connecting all those disarrayed, dry bones
in the valley with sinew as He started connecting those bones in their proper
places so they would have the shape of people, that is each bones connected in
their proper place. With the Protestant
Reformation Father started re-revealing many forgotten biblical truths.
Through the
Holiness Movement of the 1700 & 1800’s He then covered those bones and
sinew with muscle so they could function, to have the capability of movement
(our body functions because we signal our muscles what we want to do and they
respond), when called upon, as they should.
With the
Pentecostal Movement of the late 1800 into the early 1900’s He covered those
bones, sinews and muscle with skin so the church would look like what He
intended, a ‘complete’ body, but even so, it was still lacking. Yes, believers received their spiritual
language (tongues) through the Pentecostal movement but our relationships with
the Lord was not yet fully developed.
Now, today,
God is breathing life back into that package of dry bones by bringing His
children back into a true relationship with Himself, which He has desired all
along. Where we acknowledge Him as the
true, living God (Jeremiah 24:7) and that we not only live for Him but He has
given us the power to live this life and to be witnesses (John 20:22-23, Acts
1:8) and to do the things Jesus called us to do – everything He did, and more
(John 14:12)
All this is
leading up to where Father is bringing His church today.
All of
Father’s true churches, all of Father’s prophets are all talking about walking
in a closer relationship with the one true God Who created all that is. Things that I read, things that I hear,
people with whom I talk are all in agreement about our striving and God
bringing us into a closer walk with the Father.
This brings
us to what Father shared with me this past Tuesday.
Many of
God’s prophets (including Doug Addison) have said that we are in a seven year
period, a season, of God’s grace which began January 2015. In this season Father is blessing His
children, bringing restitution and restoration.
Blessing in things we have not received before, restitution for things
that have been ‘stolen’ (notably by Satan) and restoration of things we have
‘lost’. All of this comes as we seek
first His Kingdom (Matt. 6:33) which in turn encourages us to press towards His
calling for each of us as an individual(Philippians 3:14).
I hear some
prophets talking about beyond this season into the next which will be one of
great revival, an outpouring of the Holy Ghost as the world has never seen
before and, indeed, Father has shared this with me earlier this year before I
heard it from others. The current season
is preparing God’s children to serve in the next season in all power, strength,
faith and determination.
Father
showed me three numbers which are pertinent to what is currently going on and
that which is yet to come.
About two
years ago, Father had me check out the biblical meanings of numbers. I looked at seven or eight lists and they all
pretty much agreed with the two lists I mention here:
Biblenumbersforlife.com
My
definitions are taken from these two lists.
We are in
the second year of our first seven year season.
2 = union, division, witnessing
The church is two coming into the place where God intends for
us to be one in Spirit
The division represents the various talents and callings He has
placed on each of our lives
Witnessing, again we are being prepared to witness for Jesus
Christ as never before, not just in word, but in deeds as well. To be true, living representatives of His
Word.
The blessing, restitution and restoration is to develop us
into true witness for Jesus and this has already been taking place. That is Father has already been establishing
souls and growing them spiritually. This
won’t happen all at once but by as this this season progresses, Father will
have established much of His ‘army’. As
this season opened, we are already starting to see some of this coming into
place but as it draws to a close, we will see more and more of what God is
doing materializing and it will be clearly evident. It will be growing during this season to be
mature for the next.
As we
already said the next season will bring a great evangelical outbreak, an
outreach explosion, a soul harvest.
The total of
both seasons equals fourteen years
14 = Deliverance,
salvation, spiritual perfection
By the end of the second season, fourteen years in all,
Father will have accomplished most of the soul harvest. Again, it will be happening throughout season
two, but by that season’s end, Father will have grounded His church so they are
living for Him through Jesus Christ, no doubts, ready for harvest. Souls will be delivered from all sorts of
oppressive demonic influences and they will know they now belong to Jesus
Christ and there will be no doubt about their salvation and how to show love
towards Father through Jesus. Through
the operation of the Holy Ghost in and through their lives souls will be
rocketing towards spiritual perfection.
We won’t reach this perfection until we are literally with Jesus, but
souls will be walking as close as possible until Jesus calls us home.
From now,
there are just a little more than twelve years left for both seasons to
culminate at the end of season two.
12 = governmental
perfection, God’s power and authority
The perfect government resides under King Jesus, the perfect
King
God will have His way with the world.
Now, what I
know is that when Father moves, Satan does his best to counter attack. So as these two seasons press on, don’t be
surprised if spiritual attack also increases.
Expect it.
As the
second season begins, it is reasonable to expect increased demonic activity in
efforts to stop, or at least, slow down, God’s soul harvest.
It is
reasonable that spiritual warfare will increase to new levels, but as children
of God, we will be walking with Him and in His power and authority (Romans
13:1). Jesus gives us authority over
sickness and demons (Mark 3:14-15). Resist
the devil and he will flee (James 4:7) because we are resisting him carrying
Jesus’ yoke (Matt. 11:29-30), or should I l say Jesus carrying us.
Could this be the beginning of tribulation leading to
Armageddon? Don’t know, but it won’t
matter because Father is always in control.
I just know He’ll do things according to His timing and be assured that
Father is bringing all of His children into a deeper relationship with Himself
that we can be all that we can be in Christ Jesus, doing all that we can do for
His glory, serving and ministering to the needs of the people. He is preparing His children to truly live
for and abide in Him. AND there is a magnificent
evangelical explosion coming to grow the body of Christ to its fullest. And
this generation can and will be, wholly or in part, a part of that explosion.
Amen
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