"And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall".
I praise God for this scripture for it is referring to souls being delivered from bondage to Satan. HalleluJah! This is the ministry Jesus referenced when he said he had been sent to "preach deliverance to the captives" (Lk:4:18). That which Bel (Baal, Satan) has swallowed he will vomit back up, like the fish did with Jonah, he will expel the souls he trafficked in! (Rev:18:13). Baal was a Babylonian god that offered his followers pleasure (entertainment), fleshly pleasures in exchange for worship. His name literally means "Master, husband, Lord" and truly Satan is all of these to all who submit their souls to him. In fact, Babylon is to Satan what the New Jerusalem is to Jesus - his bride! "Not everyone that saith unto me Lord, Lord shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven but he that doeth the will of my Father" (Mt:7:21). My personal theory concerning all those deceived by the deceiver is that each of them are they who were predestined by God's foreknowledge to be ones who would turn from the truth to a lie, anyway. I don't believe Satan can rob God of a single soul. I believe all who would believe on Jesus and receive eternal life will do so. I've even seen God go to incredible lengths to reach people, amazing stories of God's great grace. All who end up believing they are married to the Lord but are actually married to Satan I have to believe this was a choice they made, maybe not consciously, but from their hearts (remember man looks on the outward appearance but God looks on the heart). IF we call Jesus Lord but do the will of the father of lies, we will not enter into Jesus, that is in to the rest of God. Many have caused great harm and suffering in the name of Jesus. Hitler used his name. Like the Jews in Rev:3:9, many in the Church today say they are christians but are not, for they lie. They really belong to the "Synagogue of Satan". Nevertheless the day is coming when God will "deliver out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up"! Many currently deceived by Satan are destined to be set free, are destined to come out of him completely, to leave Babylon forever! Hallelujah! They shall know the truth (Jesus) and the Truth shall set them free!
And the "wall of Babylon" shall fall just as surely as Jericho's did. Some years ago, around 1995, God gave me a vision of a mighty river. He told me "this river is my Spirit in the midst of my people". Then he showed me a huge dam blocking the river. He told me the dam is "the religions of man". He showed me man's ways, man's religions, stop his Spirit from flowing in the midst of his people. The dam releases the flow according to Man's wisdom, man's timing, in little trickles if at all. In other words, man is in charge of it, in control. In some places the river hasn't flowed for a very long time and they are parched and extremely dry and thirsty. And the dam is hard. Religion hardens human hearts so nothing of God's Spirit can get through. As I beheld the dam, a tiny crack appeared. Then another and another till I saw a tiny leak and the Father said "that's Toronto". Then another leak appeared and he said "that's Pensacola". Then another appeared and another till the dam was full of leaks.
GOD was showing me the daw was soon coming when his Spirit would begin to spring forth from his people all over the world AND NOTHING SATAN'S KINGDOM OF RELIGION CAN DO WILL STOP IT. The whole massive religious machine man had built with Satan's backing and wisdom, to prevent God's will from being done in the earth, was weakening until I saw the entire dam collapse and I immediately heard the Spirit say "AND GREAT WAS THE FALL THEREOF". I knew this was in scripture somewhere and later found it in Mathew 7:27. This parable also aptly describes God's kingdom verses Satan's with the simple difference being in God's kingdom HIS WILL IS DONE, not just heard and talked about. Again I ask you, does your church demonstrate the Kingdom of God? Is there prophecy, healings, miracles, above all LOVE? As I saw the dam collapsing the Holy Spirit warned me, do not gloat over churches caught in Babylon, enduring judgment but rather pray for them, for "even as I judge the pastors and churches caught in religious bondage, even as their world crumbles around them, many will turn to me with all thier hearts and be saved" at the last moment, like the thief on the cross and the jailor whose jail (church) crumbled around him to dust.
I believe that dam God showed me is the very same wall God speaks of here in Jeremiah 51:44. Thank God that even now it is weakening all over the world and even now beginning to collapse. I believe everyone reading this blog will come out of Babylon completely, as FREEdom is lovingly ministered to their hearts, furthe weakening the wall which SHALL FALL! If you're wondering at all if you or a loved one are in Babylon or not, this blog is a great tool. If you can receive the truth herein with gladness, if you rejoice to read this revelation, you are free or nearly free. If you reject these truths, if you cannot accept the premise in this blog, you are still in Babylon and need to come out to deliver your soul! Break the wall around your own heart now, if it isn't already broken. Let him crack your hardened heart till a leak appears, till his SPirit begins to flow in you, out of your belly. Come out and be separate precious one.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 51 verses 42 & 43
"The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby". O how I long for this day! Verse 43 confirms the fact that Babylon has become the ruling (demonic) principality on earth. Just as Babylon started out as one city but in this verse is much more (her cities), so did the spirit of Nimrod, who founded Babylon, begin with one man, yet now inhabits many men, billions around the world. Demonic spirits can grow or diminish in strength depending on how much they're worshipped, on how much flesh they're given access to, on how many hearts they inhabit. Nimrod is a type of Satan and he is the reigning spirit over all fallen flesh. Nimrod truly is a fore shadow of the anti-Christ. So we see that Babylon is a "City full of cities" even as our Father's house is a "House full of mansions". "House" here refers to his lineage, his people, the house of Usher, the house of Waxman, etc. We also see from these verses, she is covered with the sea and she is a dry land. These verses seem to contradict one another until we know that in God's language, seas represent the nations of men. He is telling us the very nations Babylon consumed will rise up in the Lord's hand as instruments of judgment and consume her. As she did to others.....
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Jeremiah chapter 51 verses 38 - 41
"They shall roar together like lions; they shall yell as lions' whelps. In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake saith the Lord. I will bring the down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with the he goats. How is Sheshach taken! And how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations".
"Sheshach" is yet another symbolic name for Babylon, as are Merathaim and Pekod. Just as Jesus was led as a lamb to the slaughter so shall everyone be led who rejects him. Even as we are "accounted as sheep for the slaughter" (Rom:8:36), so shall those who slaughtered us be slaughtered. "And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise" (Lk:6:31). Yea, though they roar like lions they shall be led as lambs. Always call the devil's bluff for he walketh about as a lion, seeking whom he may devour, yet he is not a lion, merely as, or like a lion and he may not devour true, Holy Spirit filled christians and even if he does devour someone, they may yet be delivered out of his mouth. He is again seeking to mimic Jesus who IS THE LION OF JUDA, who when he devours, none may recover.
Verse 39 reminds me of this passage from Romans - "Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleaness through the lusts of their own hearts" (1:24) and verse 28 - "God gave them over to a reprobate mind". Like Pharaoh, God hardens an already hardened heart, knowing all the while they that are his, knowing who will repent and who will not. We must be led by the Spirit in all we say and do, especially when we are evangelizing. You don't want to waste the Gospel on someone God has given over to a reprobate mind, someone God has forsaken. Only the Holy Spirit knows the difference. I've recently come up with a word to describe people who choose to go to Hell instead of Heaven. I call them "Hadists". It's a cross between "Sadist", people who like pain, and "Hades", the Greek word for Hell. When witnessing to someone, if they reject the Gospel, you can use my word. Say to them, "Oh I see, so you're a Hadist". When they say what? Say, "You're someone who would rather go to Hell than Heaven, who WANTS TO GO TO HELL". Let the Holy Spirit lead you in all you do. He will witness to those who reject him because he still loves them but make sure he's the one leading you to do so. If God puts them in a perpetual sleep, if he makes them "feast and become drunken that they may rejoice", far be it from us to wake them up. Like Nabal, who "held a feast in his house like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him for he was very drunken" (1 Sam:25:36), they, the world, all who dwell in Babylon are completely unaware of their impending doom. For the very next day, the very heart of Nabal that was merry, turned to stone and ten days later he died for THE LORD smote him. Even as the phillistine's hearts were merry and they called for Samson to mock him and his God, then sudden destruction came upon them all, so shall it be with Babylon. Even as they are worshipping their god in their temple, in their bodies, death will surprise them. Then death will not be their end, but the beginning of eternal torment. "As it was in the days of Noah..." (Lk:17:26).
"Sheshach" is yet another symbolic name for Babylon, as are Merathaim and Pekod. Just as Jesus was led as a lamb to the slaughter so shall everyone be led who rejects him. Even as we are "accounted as sheep for the slaughter" (Rom:8:36), so shall those who slaughtered us be slaughtered. "And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise" (Lk:6:31). Yea, though they roar like lions they shall be led as lambs. Always call the devil's bluff for he walketh about as a lion, seeking whom he may devour, yet he is not a lion, merely as, or like a lion and he may not devour true, Holy Spirit filled christians and even if he does devour someone, they may yet be delivered out of his mouth. He is again seeking to mimic Jesus who IS THE LION OF JUDA, who when he devours, none may recover.
Verse 39 reminds me of this passage from Romans - "Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleaness through the lusts of their own hearts" (1:24) and verse 28 - "God gave them over to a reprobate mind". Like Pharaoh, God hardens an already hardened heart, knowing all the while they that are his, knowing who will repent and who will not. We must be led by the Spirit in all we say and do, especially when we are evangelizing. You don't want to waste the Gospel on someone God has given over to a reprobate mind, someone God has forsaken. Only the Holy Spirit knows the difference. I've recently come up with a word to describe people who choose to go to Hell instead of Heaven. I call them "Hadists". It's a cross between "Sadist", people who like pain, and "Hades", the Greek word for Hell. When witnessing to someone, if they reject the Gospel, you can use my word. Say to them, "Oh I see, so you're a Hadist". When they say what? Say, "You're someone who would rather go to Hell than Heaven, who WANTS TO GO TO HELL". Let the Holy Spirit lead you in all you do. He will witness to those who reject him because he still loves them but make sure he's the one leading you to do so. If God puts them in a perpetual sleep, if he makes them "feast and become drunken that they may rejoice", far be it from us to wake them up. Like Nabal, who "held a feast in his house like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him for he was very drunken" (1 Sam:25:36), they, the world, all who dwell in Babylon are completely unaware of their impending doom. For the very next day, the very heart of Nabal that was merry, turned to stone and ten days later he died for THE LORD smote him. Even as the phillistine's hearts were merry and they called for Samson to mock him and his God, then sudden destruction came upon them all, so shall it be with Babylon. Even as they are worshipping their god in their temple, in their bodies, death will surprise them. Then death will not be their end, but the beginning of eternal torment. "As it was in the days of Noah..." (Lk:17:26).
Monday, March 28, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 51 verses 36 & 37
As we declare verse 35 against Satan and his kingdom, God will respond with verses 36 & 37 - "Therefore, thus saith the Lord, behold I will plead thy cause (we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous, 1 John 2:1), and take vengeance for thee (once we thoroughly purge our hearts of all that is of Babylon and in disgust plead verse 35 against her), and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry and Babylon shall become a heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing without an inhabitant".
Remember "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord" (Rom:12:19). Praise God that he is just and righteous in all his ways. When his righteous wrath is done - Babylon will be reduced to a "dwelling place for dragons", in other words, fit only for demons to dwell there. See, Hell was intended by God to be a "dwelling place for demons", the lake of fire a final dwelling place for every being in rebellion against him. He never intended for man to go there. It is not his intention that any soul should perish. When Babylon's sea and her springs are dried up, man can no longer dwell there. Amen.
It is interesting that a result of judgment is to become a "dry place". A dry place is anywhere there is an absence of water for water is necessary to sustain life, so we could say Babylon will become a place unable to sustain life and indeed IS a place unable to sustain true spiritual abundant life. In the end of days, all who thirst must go to Jesus for he is the water of life. Interestingly, Jesus said "when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest and finding none". This leads me to believe Babylon and Hell are in the end, one and the same or at the least, Hell is the destiny for all who remain in Babylon, for Hell is a dry place, completely lacking water, where there is no water forever and all who end up there will forever be "seeking rest and finding none" (rest from their torment). No wonder it is an astonishment and a hissing. This is a repeat of Jeremiah 25:9 and a repeat of verse 41. In fact, she'll be such an astonishment among the nations that all the kings of the earth (remember, we are all created by God, therefore we are all royalty, we are all kings) who have committed fornication with her and lived deliciously with her shall bewail her and lament for her when they see the smoke of her burning. Standing afar off for fear of her torment, saying "Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour is thy judgment come. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her, for no man buyeth any more"(Rev:18:9-11). No more will money be used. No more will one person benefit and prosper at the expense of another. See, once Babylon falls, buying and selling go with her. God's kingdom operates on love, freely giving and receiving. Money isn't necessary because love will see to it that all are cared for and all needs are met.
We could in our lifetime see a world wide economic collapse so great that buying and selling become impossible. Buying and selling are Satan's way of bringing all men into a "constant dependency on him" (remember Nimrod?). When his kingdom is judged and destroyed, all that is of him will go too. No wonder the merchants of the earth, all who are caught up in Babylon's system of buying and selling, "cast dust on their heads and cried, weeping and wailing saying alas, alas that great city" (Rev:18:19). Yet as the world mourns over her, (all who have the mark whose names are not written in the Lamb's book of life), God commands his people to rejoice over her (Rev:18:20), as well we naturally should do anyway, without a command from God. We should all rejoice to see her fall, not to see people suffer but to see this world finally free from Satan's kingdom and influence.
Remember "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord" (Rom:12:19). Praise God that he is just and righteous in all his ways. When his righteous wrath is done - Babylon will be reduced to a "dwelling place for dragons", in other words, fit only for demons to dwell there. See, Hell was intended by God to be a "dwelling place for demons", the lake of fire a final dwelling place for every being in rebellion against him. He never intended for man to go there. It is not his intention that any soul should perish. When Babylon's sea and her springs are dried up, man can no longer dwell there. Amen.
It is interesting that a result of judgment is to become a "dry place". A dry place is anywhere there is an absence of water for water is necessary to sustain life, so we could say Babylon will become a place unable to sustain life and indeed IS a place unable to sustain true spiritual abundant life. In the end of days, all who thirst must go to Jesus for he is the water of life. Interestingly, Jesus said "when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest and finding none". This leads me to believe Babylon and Hell are in the end, one and the same or at the least, Hell is the destiny for all who remain in Babylon, for Hell is a dry place, completely lacking water, where there is no water forever and all who end up there will forever be "seeking rest and finding none" (rest from their torment). No wonder it is an astonishment and a hissing. This is a repeat of Jeremiah 25:9 and a repeat of verse 41. In fact, she'll be such an astonishment among the nations that all the kings of the earth (remember, we are all created by God, therefore we are all royalty, we are all kings) who have committed fornication with her and lived deliciously with her shall bewail her and lament for her when they see the smoke of her burning. Standing afar off for fear of her torment, saying "Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour is thy judgment come. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her, for no man buyeth any more"(Rev:18:9-11). No more will money be used. No more will one person benefit and prosper at the expense of another. See, once Babylon falls, buying and selling go with her. God's kingdom operates on love, freely giving and receiving. Money isn't necessary because love will see to it that all are cared for and all needs are met.
We could in our lifetime see a world wide economic collapse so great that buying and selling become impossible. Buying and selling are Satan's way of bringing all men into a "constant dependency on him" (remember Nimrod?). When his kingdom is judged and destroyed, all that is of him will go too. No wonder the merchants of the earth, all who are caught up in Babylon's system of buying and selling, "cast dust on their heads and cried, weeping and wailing saying alas, alas that great city" (Rev:18:19). Yet as the world mourns over her, (all who have the mark whose names are not written in the Lamb's book of life), God commands his people to rejoice over her (Rev:18:20), as well we naturally should do anyway, without a command from God. We should all rejoice to see her fall, not to see people suffer but to see this world finally free from Satan's kingdom and influence.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 51 verses 34 & 35
"Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me; he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out. The violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitants of Zion say, and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say". This confession, this declaration, is an important ingredient in every soul's deliverance from Babylon. Each "inhabitant of Zion", every saint being freed from religious bondage, from Satan's kingdom on earth, must clearly see and understand what Religion has done to them. They must see how horrible and ugly this spirit truly is. Through religion, Satan (the true king of Babylon) has crushed them, has devoured them, made them an empty vessel, has swallowed them up like a dragon (Jesus referred to Satan as a dragon and so does Revelations). He has filled his belly with their delicates. EVERYONE COMING OUT OF BABYLON must prophecy, must declare, loudly, "The violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea". I praise God that the souls that Satan has swallowed he will be forced to vomit up. As we look ahead to verse 44 we see God declare "I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up" HALLELUJAH! The result of our confession (man shall believe in his heart and confess with his mouth to be saved), the result of our heart's cry (out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks), is verse 36 to the end of the chapter. God is moved by our faith. He didn't just write all this for us to read but for us to receive the revelation of what he's revealing, the understanding of it, so we can by faith speak it back to him. He is an interactive God. Our faith in his desire and ability to deliver us moves him to the doing of it. He responds to the passionate of our hearts and tongues. It wasn't till the people of Israel "sighed by reason of the bondage, AND THEY CRIED, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage" (Ex:2:23), that God sent them a deliverer. If you are content and comfortable in your bondage, you won't be delivered. It is only when people are desperate enough for it that they cry to God with all their hearts that he will respond and send deliverance. We must ache for it; we must deeply yearn for it and stop at nothing till we are free.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 51 verses 28 - 33
"Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. And the land shall tremble and sorrow for every purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon, a desolation without an inhabitant". Yes, God will raise up one nation to put down another. In judging Babylon, which has infected and enslaved all the nations of the earth, God uses those same nations to judge her. "And the land shall tremble and sorrow" could be a reference to the earthquakes Jesus mentions in Mathew 24:7. Sorrow usually follows an earthquake. Certainly the land in the natural realm always reflects what is happening in the spirit realm. The earth quaking speaks to us of God shaking our flesh, delivering us from lust of the flesh and all that is in us that is unclean and that does not come from God, but from the enemy. Just as the earth opened up and swallowed Korah and all who rebelled against Moses, so shall all who come against the Moses of our day, the apostles and prophets God is raising up, be swallowed up by their own fleshly lusts and desires, thereby making their own flesh a grave wherein will die all that is Holy and Godly.
Making Babylon a "desolation without an inhabitant" is referred to in one form or another no less than 12 times in these two chapters of Jeremiah. Surely that alone is a clue that He's referring to more than just the physical Babylon, because that has been at least partially rebuilt since Jeremiah's day. It was reported that when war came to modern day Iraq, it was discovered that Saddam Hussein was actively trying to restore Babylon to it's former glory by rebuilding her.
"The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women, they have burned their dwelling places; her bars are broken". As goes her king (Jer:50:43), so go her mighty men. This passage can't help but remind me of the gulf war and more recently the Iraq war, where we heard reports of tough, hardened Iraqi soldiers cowering in their underground bunkers refusing to come out and fight, surrendering at the first opportunity, due to the relentless air assault they had to endure. Her dwelling places were certainly burned and her bars broken. And there is no greater insult to a soldier than to be told he's "become like a woman".
"One post shall run to meet another and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end, and that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire and the men of war are affrighted. For thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, the daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come". God is telling Satan, the king of Babylon, when his final judgment comes, there is no escape. The secret underground passages out of the city are stopped, the reeds around the city that they could use to hide in, are burned. Satan desired to "sift Peter as wheat", well, now it's his turn! I can see the messenger demons running to and fro in panic, telling Satan his city is taken, halleluJAHWEH! Contrary to what some believe, Satan is not omniscient, nor is he omnipresent. He does not know everything and he can't be everywhere. As his kingdom is finally judged and defeated, it might be a while till he fully realizes it. Or he could just read this blog. Not only is Babylon judged, but her spawn, her daughter is judged as well. Throughout scripture we see that our offspring inherit our blessings as well as our curses. As the daughter of Zion is being raised up (to become the Bride of Christ), so is the daughter of Babylon being threshed, sifted, consumed.
Making Babylon a "desolation without an inhabitant" is referred to in one form or another no less than 12 times in these two chapters of Jeremiah. Surely that alone is a clue that He's referring to more than just the physical Babylon, because that has been at least partially rebuilt since Jeremiah's day. It was reported that when war came to modern day Iraq, it was discovered that Saddam Hussein was actively trying to restore Babylon to it's former glory by rebuilding her.
"The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women, they have burned their dwelling places; her bars are broken". As goes her king (Jer:50:43), so go her mighty men. This passage can't help but remind me of the gulf war and more recently the Iraq war, where we heard reports of tough, hardened Iraqi soldiers cowering in their underground bunkers refusing to come out and fight, surrendering at the first opportunity, due to the relentless air assault they had to endure. Her dwelling places were certainly burned and her bars broken. And there is no greater insult to a soldier than to be told he's "become like a woman".
"One post shall run to meet another and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end, and that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire and the men of war are affrighted. For thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, the daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come". God is telling Satan, the king of Babylon, when his final judgment comes, there is no escape. The secret underground passages out of the city are stopped, the reeds around the city that they could use to hide in, are burned. Satan desired to "sift Peter as wheat", well, now it's his turn! I can see the messenger demons running to and fro in panic, telling Satan his city is taken, halleluJAHWEH! Contrary to what some believe, Satan is not omniscient, nor is he omnipresent. He does not know everything and he can't be everywhere. As his kingdom is finally judged and defeated, it might be a while till he fully realizes it. Or he could just read this blog. Not only is Babylon judged, but her spawn, her daughter is judged as well. Throughout scripture we see that our offspring inherit our blessings as well as our curses. As the daughter of Zion is being raised up (to become the Bride of Christ), so is the daughter of Babylon being threshed, sifted, consumed.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 51 verses 24 - 27
"And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the Lord". He is not just judging Babylon but also the land that allows her to exist, the land of the Chaldeans (the root meaning of Chaldea is magicians, professional astrologers and sorcerers). This is what the city and tower of Babel are all about - attaining spiritual power and authority apart from God. But see that they did their evil, magic and sorcery in Zion, in our sight. Like the Israelite who took the pagan woman in plain sight of all the camp so have these done. They've mixed the Holy and the profane in our sight! And we have done nothing to stop it, no it continues all over the world today as christians gather together before the Lord bringing the false religious spirit of Babylon right into the houses of worship that bear his name. "Ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house - they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations" (Ez:44:7), whereas we are called to "teach my people the difference between the Holy and the profane and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean" (Ez:44:23). Purity is a vital step to maturity. No more drinking of the cup of devils in the house of the Lord.
"Behold I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyeth all the earth: and I will stretch our mine hand upon thee, and I will roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain". In verse one from this chapter, Yahweh declares he is sending a "destroying wind". This is in reaction to the "destroying mountain". This mountain that destroys is pride, for a mountain is high and lifted up just like our hearts when filled with pride, just like the graphic depiction of Satan's heart found in Isaiah chapter fourteen. God says here he will stretch out his hand. Jesus is seated at the Father's right hand and we are seated there in Christ. God saying "I will roll thee down from the rocks" is a graphic description of the humbling that will take place of all who refuse to bow before him voluntarily. Talk about your rock and roll! Every knee shall bow, whether willingly or unwillingly.
"And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate forever, saith the Lord". We should all prophecy this verse today - it is the utter destruction of God's enemies forever. Like Jericho, we should never lay her foundation again, that is rebellion against God, striving with him, nor use any part of her in building any other foundation for any house. No more religion in the House of the Lord forever, not even one Babylonian garment will be allowed in the Lord's camp. We should all "Set (ye) up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz, appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillars". "Set ye up a standard" is a reference to the Apostolic ministy God is restoring to the nations. "Blow ye the trumpet among the nations" is a reference to the ministry of the Prophet and "prepare the nations against her" partly refers to the ministry of prayer and intercession. When these three are flowing together in one place, we will see all God has planned and purposed come to pass in that place. "As the rough caterpillars" is a reference to locusts, or more properly "to destroy, to lick up". The Lord truly is the one to raise up nations and he brings them low and in the end, they all serve his purposes. He can wipe them off the face of the earth forever if he so chooses. He can bring mighty nations low (take heed, USA) and he can make lowly nations mighty (take heed South Korea). God is even now appointing captains against Babylon in every nation on earth. We are now in a time where it is possible to find apostles and prophets God has set in place as "captains of the host" leading the way out of Babylon in all nations, Hallelujah! Unfortunately, just as there is an abundance of false pastors in the earth today, we can also find false apostles and prophets in every nation on earth. Many who claim to be apostles are not. Yet some are not false, just immature. They receive their calling and jump the gun, going forth as an apostle or prophet when not yet ready. It was forty years at least from the time David was anointed as king over Israel till he actually sat on the throne. Like Paul, apostles need their time in the back side of the desert before they are ready to wear the mantle God has prepared for them. What they most often need is a mature apostle to sit under, to disciple them, yet so many so called apostles end up running to and fro, from church to church, with very few personal, intimate relationships with those they claim to be an apostle over. The model Paul provided us was to move to the nation and city God was calling them to be an apostle to. He went and lived with the people. See how many he knew and loved personally in his letters. Sadly, very few "apostles" I've met today are doing this. I think they are more interested in making a name for themselves, in having the most churches under them. This isn't God's heart for them. He wants them to be under the churches they are serving, not the other way around. Being an apostle is a great burden to carry in the spirit realm, few are willing to do it.
"Behold I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyeth all the earth: and I will stretch our mine hand upon thee, and I will roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain". In verse one from this chapter, Yahweh declares he is sending a "destroying wind". This is in reaction to the "destroying mountain". This mountain that destroys is pride, for a mountain is high and lifted up just like our hearts when filled with pride, just like the graphic depiction of Satan's heart found in Isaiah chapter fourteen. God says here he will stretch out his hand. Jesus is seated at the Father's right hand and we are seated there in Christ. God saying "I will roll thee down from the rocks" is a graphic description of the humbling that will take place of all who refuse to bow before him voluntarily. Talk about your rock and roll! Every knee shall bow, whether willingly or unwillingly.
"And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate forever, saith the Lord". We should all prophecy this verse today - it is the utter destruction of God's enemies forever. Like Jericho, we should never lay her foundation again, that is rebellion against God, striving with him, nor use any part of her in building any other foundation for any house. No more religion in the House of the Lord forever, not even one Babylonian garment will be allowed in the Lord's camp. We should all "Set (ye) up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz, appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillars". "Set ye up a standard" is a reference to the Apostolic ministy God is restoring to the nations. "Blow ye the trumpet among the nations" is a reference to the ministry of the Prophet and "prepare the nations against her" partly refers to the ministry of prayer and intercession. When these three are flowing together in one place, we will see all God has planned and purposed come to pass in that place. "As the rough caterpillars" is a reference to locusts, or more properly "to destroy, to lick up". The Lord truly is the one to raise up nations and he brings them low and in the end, they all serve his purposes. He can wipe them off the face of the earth forever if he so chooses. He can bring mighty nations low (take heed, USA) and he can make lowly nations mighty (take heed South Korea). God is even now appointing captains against Babylon in every nation on earth. We are now in a time where it is possible to find apostles and prophets God has set in place as "captains of the host" leading the way out of Babylon in all nations, Hallelujah! Unfortunately, just as there is an abundance of false pastors in the earth today, we can also find false apostles and prophets in every nation on earth. Many who claim to be apostles are not. Yet some are not false, just immature. They receive their calling and jump the gun, going forth as an apostle or prophet when not yet ready. It was forty years at least from the time David was anointed as king over Israel till he actually sat on the throne. Like Paul, apostles need their time in the back side of the desert before they are ready to wear the mantle God has prepared for them. What they most often need is a mature apostle to sit under, to disciple them, yet so many so called apostles end up running to and fro, from church to church, with very few personal, intimate relationships with those they claim to be an apostle over. The model Paul provided us was to move to the nation and city God was calling them to be an apostle to. He went and lived with the people. See how many he knew and loved personally in his letters. Sadly, very few "apostles" I've met today are doing this. I think they are more interested in making a name for themselves, in having the most churches under them. This isn't God's heart for them. He wants them to be under the churches they are serving, not the other way around. Being an apostle is a great burden to carry in the spirit realm, few are willing to do it.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 51 verses 19 - 23
"The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of Hosts is his name". What a fantastic way to describe the Lord - "the former of all things". Next time you are in fellowship declare "I worship the former of all things". Hallelujah that the Lord is our portion and we are his inheritance forever! He has redeemed us and we belong to him, along with natural Israel, even as he belongs to us. I think we get the better deal because we get him! And burn this into your brain - HE IS NOT LIKE THEM! He is not vain or brutish or a liar. He will not be confounded and he will not perish. Neither shall anyone found in him. No one is like him, apart from him. Apart from him, we can do nothing. Apart from him, we are nothing. Apart from him we are "without form and void" (Gen:1:2). These words in Genesis in the Hebrew are "Tohoo" and "Bohoo" and they mean "Desert, a worthless thing, in vain, confusion, wilderness, a desolation, to be empty, an undistinguishable ruin". This is a perfect description of the human soul apart from Christ but come to think of it, they also perfectly describe Babylon, Satan's kingdom on earth. So Genesis one could also be a depiction of the building up of the New Jerusalem, and the new heavens and the new earth found in Revelation 21.
"Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee I will destroy kingdoms: and with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; with thee also will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and his maid, I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock, and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandmen and his yoke of oxen, and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers". Pride hardens us, hardens our hearts. When the Lord confronts a heart like this, whether it is in a man or a woman, in the young or the old, in a shepherd or his flock - it will be shattered and broken in pieces. To borrow a phrase from an old Jerry Lee Lewis song, with a slight twist - "there's a whole lot of breakin' goin' on"! All who exalt themselves in pride will be completely broken. Put another way, all who choose to live in Babylon, the kingdom of pride, will be "utterly destroyed". The one referred to here as his battle axe and his weapons of war I believe is Jesus - "the Way, the Truth, and the Life" but it could also refer to Israel - the rod of his inheritance, and all who are grafted into Israel, every saint from among the gentile nations. As his covenant people, Jew or gentile, we are extensions of him in the earth. Remember, we are being formed into his HIS IMAGE and likeness and he is a lion as well as a lamb. Depending on who we're facing, we are also either a lion or a lamb. Our calling is to utterly destroy Babylon by becoming free ourselves and freeing as many as we can from her wickedness.
God includes the shepherd and his flock here. I believe judgment begins in the house of the Lord and unfortunately, many, many churches are led by pastors who are not after God's heart, who have led their churches into bondage. Many of these are sincere and well meaning yet are still in bondage and wicked before God. If these leaders of God's people will not repent and turn from their wicked ways, they too will be broken along with the rest of Babylon. Fall on the stone (Jesus) and be broken or it will fall on you and grind you to powder (break you in pieces) Mt:21:44. If God would take the kingdom from Israel, or better put, take them out of the land he promised them forever, if he would give it to a nation that will bear him fruit (Mt:21:43), will he spare you, oh christian if you doing the same thing Israel did, refusing to become so intimate with him that you bear him fruit? Are you not fit then for nothing but to be pruned and cast into the fire? We must abide in him and the seduction of our souls is to get us to leave him for another lover, another spirit, an Absalom spirit that woos us away from him. Absalom was very handsome and looked (outwardly) better than David - younger, stronger (but not wiser). Religion is also more appealing outwardly, to those who have no eyes to see or ears to hear what the Spirit is saying and doing.
Absalom appealed to their pride and flesh, just like Satan did to Eve, the old "you deserve better" line, etc. This Absalom spirit tells those in the churches the same - "you're better off with me, I sympathize with you, God doesn't recognize your unique gifts, talents and abilities. I'll make a place for you in my church". This other voice wooing God's people today is the religious spirit, whom, when unmasked, is Babylon on earth. It's voice will always speak a lie for God does recognize our gifts and callings - he gave them to us! He does want us to fully mature, to be able to walk in the same power and anointing Jesus walks in - it's Satan's false kingdom that wants us to remain mere caricatures of who God's birthed us to be. Satan wants us all to sell our royal birthrights for a bowl of beans. When he offers us the choice of taking pleasure now in exchange for paradise later, when he offers us his mark in order to buy and sell so we may eat, this is the same thing Esau did when he gave up his inheritance for earthly gain, for something to eat. The same temptation will face us all. As did Esau, so will all who take the mark, they'll trade their heavenly inheritance and calling for an earthly one, in essence trading spirit for flesh, supernatural for natural, life for death, godliness for gain. What profit is there for a man to gain the whole world, to gain worldly wealth or wisdom, if it costs him his soul? O let us all overcome the temptation to trade our Heavenly calling and inheritance for an earthly one. Let us suppress our "earthly appetites" while growing in our hunger and desire for more of him, for more of our royal heavenly calling. Let us not become spiritual Esau's, giving up eternal pleasure for the momentary, fleeting pleasure the sin of living in Babylon provides.
"Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee I will destroy kingdoms: and with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; with thee also will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and his maid, I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock, and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandmen and his yoke of oxen, and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers". Pride hardens us, hardens our hearts. When the Lord confronts a heart like this, whether it is in a man or a woman, in the young or the old, in a shepherd or his flock - it will be shattered and broken in pieces. To borrow a phrase from an old Jerry Lee Lewis song, with a slight twist - "there's a whole lot of breakin' goin' on"! All who exalt themselves in pride will be completely broken. Put another way, all who choose to live in Babylon, the kingdom of pride, will be "utterly destroyed". The one referred to here as his battle axe and his weapons of war I believe is Jesus - "the Way, the Truth, and the Life" but it could also refer to Israel - the rod of his inheritance, and all who are grafted into Israel, every saint from among the gentile nations. As his covenant people, Jew or gentile, we are extensions of him in the earth. Remember, we are being formed into his HIS IMAGE and likeness and he is a lion as well as a lamb. Depending on who we're facing, we are also either a lion or a lamb. Our calling is to utterly destroy Babylon by becoming free ourselves and freeing as many as we can from her wickedness.
God includes the shepherd and his flock here. I believe judgment begins in the house of the Lord and unfortunately, many, many churches are led by pastors who are not after God's heart, who have led their churches into bondage. Many of these are sincere and well meaning yet are still in bondage and wicked before God. If these leaders of God's people will not repent and turn from their wicked ways, they too will be broken along with the rest of Babylon. Fall on the stone (Jesus) and be broken or it will fall on you and grind you to powder (break you in pieces) Mt:21:44. If God would take the kingdom from Israel, or better put, take them out of the land he promised them forever, if he would give it to a nation that will bear him fruit (Mt:21:43), will he spare you, oh christian if you doing the same thing Israel did, refusing to become so intimate with him that you bear him fruit? Are you not fit then for nothing but to be pruned and cast into the fire? We must abide in him and the seduction of our souls is to get us to leave him for another lover, another spirit, an Absalom spirit that woos us away from him. Absalom was very handsome and looked (outwardly) better than David - younger, stronger (but not wiser). Religion is also more appealing outwardly, to those who have no eyes to see or ears to hear what the Spirit is saying and doing.
Absalom appealed to their pride and flesh, just like Satan did to Eve, the old "you deserve better" line, etc. This Absalom spirit tells those in the churches the same - "you're better off with me, I sympathize with you, God doesn't recognize your unique gifts, talents and abilities. I'll make a place for you in my church". This other voice wooing God's people today is the religious spirit, whom, when unmasked, is Babylon on earth. It's voice will always speak a lie for God does recognize our gifts and callings - he gave them to us! He does want us to fully mature, to be able to walk in the same power and anointing Jesus walks in - it's Satan's false kingdom that wants us to remain mere caricatures of who God's birthed us to be. Satan wants us all to sell our royal birthrights for a bowl of beans. When he offers us the choice of taking pleasure now in exchange for paradise later, when he offers us his mark in order to buy and sell so we may eat, this is the same thing Esau did when he gave up his inheritance for earthly gain, for something to eat. The same temptation will face us all. As did Esau, so will all who take the mark, they'll trade their heavenly inheritance and calling for an earthly one, in essence trading spirit for flesh, supernatural for natural, life for death, godliness for gain. What profit is there for a man to gain the whole world, to gain worldly wealth or wisdom, if it costs him his soul? O let us all overcome the temptation to trade our Heavenly calling and inheritance for an earthly one. Let us suppress our "earthly appetites" while growing in our hunger and desire for more of him, for more of our royal heavenly calling. Let us not become spiritual Esau's, giving up eternal pleasure for the momentary, fleeting pleasure the sin of living in Babylon provides.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 51 verses 17 & 18
After he gives us his credentials, why he has the right to judge Babylon, because of who he is, he then contrasts man with himself and shows us why man DOES NOT have the credentials to exalt himself, why man should humble himself - "Every man is brutish by his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish". See, all religion, christian or otherwise, is based on man's knowledge. Christianity as we know it around the world is largely based on our knowledge, not of the Bible alone but of our knowledge of good and evil which is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ALL denominations distinguish themselves by their KNOWLEDGE of God's word, by their doctrines. They often have the silliest little quirk in their doctrine to justify their separation from everyone else. GOD HAS REVEALED TO US CHURCH CARPETING MUST BE BLUE! ANYONE WHO HAS ANY OTHER COLOR CARPETING IS IN DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD AND THEREFORE NOT HOLY, LIKE US! You may laugh but some of the churches out there are just as silly. The point is, most churches believe they have revelation and knowledge that no one else has, or no one else is following. To God, this is all brutish, foolishness. We can only receive knowledge (to keep us from perishing) as HE reveals it to us, and this comes by knowing HIM for in him "are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (Col:2:3). As we follow him, we become storehouses of true wisdom and knowledge from above, which is "first pure, then peaceable, then gentle and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality" (Jm:3:7). God's wisdom is for everyone who will receive it and is not partial to one denomination or another. God's wisdom trancends all earthly, fleshly boudaries men may erect through the pride of having knowledge of God without love. "Knowledge puffeth up" (1 Cor:8:1) but "love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up (with pride) (1 Cor:13:4). Yes, we are the "treasures from which he brings forth the wind". The Holy Spirit is the Wind and he issues forth from us just as he did when Jesus breathed on his disciples and they became alive to him in the Spirit. Just so can we breathe on each other, or he can breathe on us through us or through the laying on of hands.
All that is of man is vanity, empty, death and not life. Just as a woman cannot produce life without a man, so can we not bring forth eternal life without the Holy Spirit. We can produce nothing of eternal worth or value without him. Only the Holy Spirit can lead someone to Christ, using our tongues, our hearts, surely but we are instruments of salvation in his hand, not the other way around. They made idols out of stone and wood, in other words, they worshipped what their hands and minds had made, they in essence were worshipping themselves. We make idols out of our doctrines, our knowledge and so called wisdom of God's word. All of it is vanity, all of it stems from pride and in the day of his visitation, they'll perish, as wood, hay and stubble. His coming will expose every work, every church, and every denomination for what they truly are. Those that are the work of man, built on man's wisdom and ways,will burn and never bear fruit, like the fig tree Jesus cursed. Those that are of God, founded and built by him, will "flourish in the courts of our God" (Ps:92:13).
We must dwell in his house and not one of man's design. If you are dwelling in the wrong house, perhaps it's time you made a move, in the spirit. The Holy Spirit runs the "moving company" that can translate you from man's kingdom to God's and the move is easy for you'll take nothing with you but your soul. All the great cathedrals of the world are testaments to man's greatness and abilities, not God's. If man wants to testify to God's greatness and abilities, he should go and heal someone in Jesus' name, or prophecy, or perform miracles. God's greatness lies in the house he is building "a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building" (Heb:9:11). "Not made with hands" signifies it is a work of the Spirit and not man. All man can do is build these great edifices of stone and glass, only God can build human hearts and souls into a fitting dwelling place for the God as great as he is. Only Jesus can build the Father's house for only he knows how to perfectly please the Father. He proved this every day of his life on earth. Imagine that, not one disappointing day did Jesus live. The "works of our hands", the cathedrals and great buildings most churches are so eager to erect for God's glory, all cry out "look at how great and awesome a work man has done with his own hands and knowledge". This doesn't glorify God at all. All that money and effort to build such fine buildings outwardly would be much better spent on building human souls inwardly. Man won't always see the work we are doing but God sees it all. It would be far better to be "spending on sending" missionaries who have laid down their lives for the sake of the gospel , to fulfill the command to go into all the world and preach (demonstrate) the gospel to every creature.
Protestant building projects are no better than catholic cathedrals with their drain on precious funds and time that could be far better spent invested in the spirit rather than the natural realm. This isn't to say there aren't building programs inspired by God; God knows the tabernacle was one! So was Noah's ark! But I'll tell you this, if God directs a people to build a facility to meet in, He'll provide the funds or just give it to them. They certainly won't have to beg, borrow or steal to build it. The Egyptians will pour wealth upon them as they leave the world and it's wisdom and ways behind. I've seen churches declare that God has told them to expand and build a bigger building, even though they can't fill the one they have, then struggle for ten years and still not be able to build it. Of a truth, he is just as satisfied with "House churches", in fact, he prefers them. He likes being invited into our homes. He hates being limited to a special building somewhere. He hates it when people do not meet with him in their homes but relegate him to a certain time and place each week. He humbled himself to dwell in the Temple for a time and a season but as soon as he tore the veil, he's never looked back. After the veil, he met with them in the upper room, then house to house and heart to heart. We should redesignate all of time as BV and AV, Before the veil was torn and After the Veil was torn.
All that is of man is vanity, empty, death and not life. Just as a woman cannot produce life without a man, so can we not bring forth eternal life without the Holy Spirit. We can produce nothing of eternal worth or value without him. Only the Holy Spirit can lead someone to Christ, using our tongues, our hearts, surely but we are instruments of salvation in his hand, not the other way around. They made idols out of stone and wood, in other words, they worshipped what their hands and minds had made, they in essence were worshipping themselves. We make idols out of our doctrines, our knowledge and so called wisdom of God's word. All of it is vanity, all of it stems from pride and in the day of his visitation, they'll perish, as wood, hay and stubble. His coming will expose every work, every church, and every denomination for what they truly are. Those that are the work of man, built on man's wisdom and ways,will burn and never bear fruit, like the fig tree Jesus cursed. Those that are of God, founded and built by him, will "flourish in the courts of our God" (Ps:92:13).
We must dwell in his house and not one of man's design. If you are dwelling in the wrong house, perhaps it's time you made a move, in the spirit. The Holy Spirit runs the "moving company" that can translate you from man's kingdom to God's and the move is easy for you'll take nothing with you but your soul. All the great cathedrals of the world are testaments to man's greatness and abilities, not God's. If man wants to testify to God's greatness and abilities, he should go and heal someone in Jesus' name, or prophecy, or perform miracles. God's greatness lies in the house he is building "a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building" (Heb:9:11). "Not made with hands" signifies it is a work of the Spirit and not man. All man can do is build these great edifices of stone and glass, only God can build human hearts and souls into a fitting dwelling place for the God as great as he is. Only Jesus can build the Father's house for only he knows how to perfectly please the Father. He proved this every day of his life on earth. Imagine that, not one disappointing day did Jesus live. The "works of our hands", the cathedrals and great buildings most churches are so eager to erect for God's glory, all cry out "look at how great and awesome a work man has done with his own hands and knowledge". This doesn't glorify God at all. All that money and effort to build such fine buildings outwardly would be much better spent on building human souls inwardly. Man won't always see the work we are doing but God sees it all. It would be far better to be "spending on sending" missionaries who have laid down their lives for the sake of the gospel , to fulfill the command to go into all the world and preach (demonstrate) the gospel to every creature.
Protestant building projects are no better than catholic cathedrals with their drain on precious funds and time that could be far better spent invested in the spirit rather than the natural realm. This isn't to say there aren't building programs inspired by God; God knows the tabernacle was one! So was Noah's ark! But I'll tell you this, if God directs a people to build a facility to meet in, He'll provide the funds or just give it to them. They certainly won't have to beg, borrow or steal to build it. The Egyptians will pour wealth upon them as they leave the world and it's wisdom and ways behind. I've seen churches declare that God has told them to expand and build a bigger building, even though they can't fill the one they have, then struggle for ten years and still not be able to build it. Of a truth, he is just as satisfied with "House churches", in fact, he prefers them. He likes being invited into our homes. He hates being limited to a special building somewhere. He hates it when people do not meet with him in their homes but relegate him to a certain time and place each week. He humbled himself to dwell in the Temple for a time and a season but as soon as he tore the veil, he's never looked back. After the veil, he met with them in the upper room, then house to house and heart to heart. We should redesignate all of time as BV and AV, Before the veil was torn and After the Veil was torn.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 51 verses 15 & 16
Then he gives us his credentials, not that he needs to prove himself to us or anyone but out of mercy for us the reader and for them the hearer - "He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding. When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens and he causes the vapor to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain and bringeth forth wind out of his treasures".
As we hear this, we should fear him, tremble before him, before his highness. He alone can say these things - no other god can claim what he alone can. I love the phrase "When he uttereth his voice there is a multitude of waters in the heavens". This speaks to me of souls filling up Heaven because they've heard his wonderful voice. Many waters in scripture speaks of nations and his voice, his glorious voice, delivers us and brings us all home safely to Heaven. But once we're there, like the rain, he pours us back out again on a dry, thirsty earth, longing for his touch, for his presence. We are vessels that he uses to carry his presence to those too weak in the desert of Sin to come to him.
By following his voice and no other we will all be kept safely in his will for us - this is one reason why Prophecy is so important to God and to us. A church without prophecy is a church blind and deaf to his voice, his will for them (his voice always reveals his will) but worse than that, a church without prophecy is one that isn't intimate with him for he speaks to us in a still, small voice, a whisper and in order to hear a whisper one must be very close to the one who is whispering. Do not ever believe that all revelation that God has for you will come solely through your pastor. In fact, most of what God has to say to you he will tell you directly if you will listen. He will also use chosen vessels throughout the congregation to speak to the congregation, maybe even you, but he will never limit himself to one man.
Is your church a Martha church or a Mary church? Is it busy, busy, busy with programs and activities but no real relationship with Him? Or are they able to "wait upon the Lord", corporately together, caring for nothing more than his very presence in their midst? So hungry and thirsty for him they'll refuse to have another "service" without him? Do they take the attitude of Moses who refused to take another step without his presence? Better yet, examine not only your church but your own heart. Are you a Martha or a Mary? If you've read these blogs, enough of them, I suspect you are a Mary, desiring him even more than serving him. Service is good and necessary in our walk with him but it must never preclude simply being with him, spending precious time in his presence, letting him do with us as he pleases, lying at his feet as Ruth did at Boaz' feet.
As we hear this, we should fear him, tremble before him, before his highness. He alone can say these things - no other god can claim what he alone can. I love the phrase "When he uttereth his voice there is a multitude of waters in the heavens". This speaks to me of souls filling up Heaven because they've heard his wonderful voice. Many waters in scripture speaks of nations and his voice, his glorious voice, delivers us and brings us all home safely to Heaven. But once we're there, like the rain, he pours us back out again on a dry, thirsty earth, longing for his touch, for his presence. We are vessels that he uses to carry his presence to those too weak in the desert of Sin to come to him.
By following his voice and no other we will all be kept safely in his will for us - this is one reason why Prophecy is so important to God and to us. A church without prophecy is a church blind and deaf to his voice, his will for them (his voice always reveals his will) but worse than that, a church without prophecy is one that isn't intimate with him for he speaks to us in a still, small voice, a whisper and in order to hear a whisper one must be very close to the one who is whispering. Do not ever believe that all revelation that God has for you will come solely through your pastor. In fact, most of what God has to say to you he will tell you directly if you will listen. He will also use chosen vessels throughout the congregation to speak to the congregation, maybe even you, but he will never limit himself to one man.
Is your church a Martha church or a Mary church? Is it busy, busy, busy with programs and activities but no real relationship with Him? Or are they able to "wait upon the Lord", corporately together, caring for nothing more than his very presence in their midst? So hungry and thirsty for him they'll refuse to have another "service" without him? Do they take the attitude of Moses who refused to take another step without his presence? Better yet, examine not only your church but your own heart. Are you a Martha or a Mary? If you've read these blogs, enough of them, I suspect you are a Mary, desiring him even more than serving him. Service is good and necessary in our walk with him but it must never preclude simply being with him, spending precious time in his presence, letting him do with us as he pleases, lying at his feet as Ruth did at Boaz' feet.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 51 verse fourteen
"The Lord of Hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillars, and they shall lift up a shout against thee". From here on out, the entire flow of these passages kicks into a higher gear. A passion flows from our God that we should all take very seriously. In fact, all of the pleading, all of the passionate prose we see in scripture as God deals with His people, Israel, should be taken to heart by His people, the Church. For through his prophets, he would speak to us exactly the same way, if we'll listen. Yes, in these passages in Jeremiah, God is crying out to us today as much as he was to them. He is crying out to us with the same passion Jesus has on the last day of the feast. Till now, much of the word against Babylon has been "the Lord hath" or "the Lord will", here, the prophet switches to first person - "I will fill thee with men". This has happened to me while prophesying. There is a high level of passion here. God is becoming very emotional, exposing his heart, speaking from his heart to us, not just his mind. What we do on behalf of the Lord must also come from our hearts, not just our minds or we'll end up with religion. We must respond to his passion for us with as much passion of our own directed back to him. He calls us to love him with all our hearts, minds, souls and strength because this is exactly how he loves us!
I've seen churches in dead denominations that were very much alive because they were sincerely serving the Lord with all their hearts and I've seen churches that appeared to be alive, but were only going through the motions outwardly, mimicking the Holy Spirit with no real presence. The heart is the key. In scripture, there are 957 mentions of the heart, while the mind is mentioned only 137 times. The priority is "Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart" (Dt:6:5), then the mind, soul and strength. It's spirit, soul then body. If our hearts do not belong to him, if our spirits aren't walking with him, we will end up with "religion". So we can say, religion is the false pursuit of God with man's mind and not his heart. This is one definition. This is why religious christians are forever getting into debates with each other about doctrine. Truthfully, it isn't our place to determine sound doctrine, only the Holy Spirit can do that. Those submitted to him will recognize his voice in teachings they hear, those not submitted to him won't and will argue instead. They are forever discussing doctrine, elevating doctrines even above God himself. Jesus couldn't even teach the Pharisees because they were convinced in their pride that they knew better than God. It is because all they can do in their approach to God is know him soulishly, not spiritually. They can even get emotional about God occasionally but they never stop eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Knowledge about God is all they have to go on. They are carnally minded when their hearts do not belong to him because if they did they would not reject him when he comes to them in the form of the Holy Spirit, or in the form of an apostle or prophet, or even as a Jew.
Another note from Jeremiah 51:14 is that God swears by himself. This is very for indeed, he can swear by no one higher. He actually swears an oath that he must fulfill, so serious is he about judging and destroying Babylon. There can be no inteceding on her behalf at this point, it's too late for that. Would to God we his people would also become this serious about fleeing Babylon, then exposing and prophesying against her. Especially now that the battle has begun. Then, in verses 15 & 16, he gives his credentials, not that he needs to prove himself to us or anyone but out of mercy for us...
I've seen churches in dead denominations that were very much alive because they were sincerely serving the Lord with all their hearts and I've seen churches that appeared to be alive, but were only going through the motions outwardly, mimicking the Holy Spirit with no real presence. The heart is the key. In scripture, there are 957 mentions of the heart, while the mind is mentioned only 137 times. The priority is "Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart" (Dt:6:5), then the mind, soul and strength. It's spirit, soul then body. If our hearts do not belong to him, if our spirits aren't walking with him, we will end up with "religion". So we can say, religion is the false pursuit of God with man's mind and not his heart. This is one definition. This is why religious christians are forever getting into debates with each other about doctrine. Truthfully, it isn't our place to determine sound doctrine, only the Holy Spirit can do that. Those submitted to him will recognize his voice in teachings they hear, those not submitted to him won't and will argue instead. They are forever discussing doctrine, elevating doctrines even above God himself. Jesus couldn't even teach the Pharisees because they were convinced in their pride that they knew better than God. It is because all they can do in their approach to God is know him soulishly, not spiritually. They can even get emotional about God occasionally but they never stop eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Knowledge about God is all they have to go on. They are carnally minded when their hearts do not belong to him because if they did they would not reject him when he comes to them in the form of the Holy Spirit, or in the form of an apostle or prophet, or even as a Jew.
Another note from Jeremiah 51:14 is that God swears by himself. This is very for indeed, he can swear by no one higher. He actually swears an oath that he must fulfill, so serious is he about judging and destroying Babylon. There can be no inteceding on her behalf at this point, it's too late for that. Would to God we his people would also become this serious about fleeing Babylon, then exposing and prophesying against her. Especially now that the battle has begun. Then, in verses 15 & 16, he gives his credentials, not that he needs to prove himself to us or anyone but out of mercy for us...
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 51 verse thirteen
"O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come and the measure of thy covetuousness". This verse is a companion verse to Revelation 17:5 (many waters) and Revelation 18:12-14 (abundant in earthly treasures). Lusting for and becoming obsessed with earthly wealth, lust of the eye and lust of the flesh, for material things are a sure sign of being in Babylon. This is why the "prosperity teachings" are so dangerous with their fixation on earthly treasure. Jesus taught us to take no thought for earthly treasure, not even what we will eat or wear yet many in the churches are taught to be consumed with thoughts of these things. It is Babylon who is consumed with the pursuit of earthly treasure. Read Revelation chapter eighteen again. True treasure is stored up above, in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust can corrupt them.
See, this verse ties in "treasures" with "covetuousness". Satan's entire kingdom on earth is founded on this, love of money. All this results when self is exalted instead of Christ. Father frees us from all of this when we come to him. If we don't accept this freedom at first, we often return to him as prodigal sons, realizing the true worth of worldly wealth and where we end up when we pursue it. When our hearts belong to him we can do crazy things like sell our land and homes and give the money away, knowing he is watching it all and we will be well rewarded. "There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my sake and the gospel's, but he shall recieve an hundredfold NOW IN THIS TIME, with persecutions" (Mk:10:29&30). There it is again, persecutions. Don't trust a gospel preached to you that does not include suffering. In this verse, the leaving we do can often be because we've been kicked out of fellowship with brethren, sisters, father or mother, etc. because of the gospel. All true saints will gain through suffering but those who's hearts are set on the ways of Babylon, lusting and coveting things, like the man who stole the gold, silver and Babylonian garment, will suffer through their gain. Wordly wealth brings sorrow unless it is given to us by our God, which is always then done to serve his purposes. Only he can "make rich and add no sorrow with it" (Pr:10:22). Every thing about God's kingdom and Satan's are in direct opposition with each other. Satan turns truth into a lie and seeks to present his lies as the truth. In John 10:33, the Jews answered him saying "For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; because thou, being a man, makest thyself God". They, looking upon God, accused him of being only a man, while at the same time Satan tells them, being only men, "Ye shall be as gods". So we see Satan desires to put man on God's throne as God, while at the smae time denying God his own divinity, making him only a man. Jesus did become a man so we could become as God, but we are as God only when we spring forth from him, the only true God. We are "gods" when we are his offspring alone. They accused Jesus of "Making himself God" for this is what their father, Satan did, he made himself God and this is what his offspring do, they, by eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, make themselves gods. They accused him of doing the very same thing they were doing and this points out a common denominator among religious christians, they can never see themselves in the same light they judge others in. In fact, quite often we have come across those who judge others with the same spirit they are walking in themselves. They accuse others of committing the same sins they are committing. When confronted with this truth, they have a choice of softening their hearts and repenting or hardening their hearts and lashing out at whoever exposes them. As christians, we are not "born of the flesh, nor of the will of man but of God" (Jn:1). Still, God provides anointed men and women, tried and tested, to provide covering for his precious people, so they have mature examples to follow on their journey to becoming more and more Christ like. They are to encourage God's people that it is possible to grow in wisdom and stature before God and man, just like Jesus did.
See, this verse ties in "treasures" with "covetuousness". Satan's entire kingdom on earth is founded on this, love of money. All this results when self is exalted instead of Christ. Father frees us from all of this when we come to him. If we don't accept this freedom at first, we often return to him as prodigal sons, realizing the true worth of worldly wealth and where we end up when we pursue it. When our hearts belong to him we can do crazy things like sell our land and homes and give the money away, knowing he is watching it all and we will be well rewarded. "There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my sake and the gospel's, but he shall recieve an hundredfold NOW IN THIS TIME, with persecutions" (Mk:10:29&30). There it is again, persecutions. Don't trust a gospel preached to you that does not include suffering. In this verse, the leaving we do can often be because we've been kicked out of fellowship with brethren, sisters, father or mother, etc. because of the gospel. All true saints will gain through suffering but those who's hearts are set on the ways of Babylon, lusting and coveting things, like the man who stole the gold, silver and Babylonian garment, will suffer through their gain. Wordly wealth brings sorrow unless it is given to us by our God, which is always then done to serve his purposes. Only he can "make rich and add no sorrow with it" (Pr:10:22). Every thing about God's kingdom and Satan's are in direct opposition with each other. Satan turns truth into a lie and seeks to present his lies as the truth. In John 10:33, the Jews answered him saying "For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; because thou, being a man, makest thyself God". They, looking upon God, accused him of being only a man, while at the same time Satan tells them, being only men, "Ye shall be as gods". So we see Satan desires to put man on God's throne as God, while at the smae time denying God his own divinity, making him only a man. Jesus did become a man so we could become as God, but we are as God only when we spring forth from him, the only true God. We are "gods" when we are his offspring alone. They accused Jesus of "Making himself God" for this is what their father, Satan did, he made himself God and this is what his offspring do, they, by eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, make themselves gods. They accused him of doing the very same thing they were doing and this points out a common denominator among religious christians, they can never see themselves in the same light they judge others in. In fact, quite often we have come across those who judge others with the same spirit they are walking in themselves. They accuse others of committing the same sins they are committing. When confronted with this truth, they have a choice of softening their hearts and repenting or hardening their hearts and lashing out at whoever exposes them. As christians, we are not "born of the flesh, nor of the will of man but of God" (Jn:1). Still, God provides anointed men and women, tried and tested, to provide covering for his precious people, so they have mature examples to follow on their journey to becoming more and more Christ like. They are to encourage God's people that it is possible to grow in wisdom and stature before God and man, just like Jesus did.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 51 verse twelve
"Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for the hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon". I praise God that he is a doer of his own word! I thank God he is not like a man who often says one thing but does another. As God told Jeremiah in chapter one verse twelve - "I will hasten my word to perform it", so should we all be "doers of the and not hearers only". We should all be "making the watch strong" by interceding against her, we should all be prophecying her imminent defeat. "Now therefore perform the doing of it" (2 Cor:8:11). "Arise therefore and be doing and the Lord be with thee" (1 Chr:22:16). "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine and doeth them I will liken to a wise man. Everyone that hears and does not shall be likened unto a foolish man - which built his house on the sand and the rain descended and the floods came and the winds blew (the destroying wind) and beat upon the house (of Babylon) and it fell - AND GREAT WAS THE FALL OF IT" (Mt:7:24-27). This "fallen house" is Babylon, made up of all who hear the word but do not perform it, do not obey it, do not love it, strive against it and the one who brings it, the Holy Spirit.
See, the rains descending and the floods coming and the winds blowing reminds us of Noah's day of judgment. This all speaks of multiple ambushes set up by God - the rains, Words of judgment coming from above, from the heavens, from God's very throne room, floods, words of judgment coming from us, from the earth, from within the throne of God set up in our hearts (out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks), and the wind blowind speaks of the work of the Holy Spirit in the earth today for "He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness and of judgment" (Jn:16:8). I can sympathize with Jesus in verse 12 of that same chapter of John - "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now". Much of this blog you are reading will be hard for some to bear, in fact, some will not be able to bear it, but for those who can, I write on. And in deed, some who can't bear this word now, will be able to do so later, as they mature in Christ. Yet some babes in Christ will receive this word with gladness while some saints that have been with the Lord a long time will reject it. Just keep in mind, wherever Jesus' ministry goes on earth, controversy follows, because many do not love the truth but strive against it. (psalm 2).
"And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him, for some said he is a good man; others said nay, but he deceiveth the people" (Jn:7:12). "But the multitude of the city was divided, some held with the Jews, and some with the apostles" (Acts 14:4). "Some mocked and others said, we will hear thee again, howbeit certain men clave unto him and believed" (Acts 17:32).
All these scriptures testify of the fact that wherever Jesus ministers, especially through his apostles, division and controversy follow and it will always be so. Today, wherever he sends apostles and prophets, controversy follows because there will always be those among us who do not love the truth but choose the lie and it is these that will stir up controversy over the Truth. In our ministry, About Our Father's Business, we can certainly testify of this. We take heed to the same advice Jesus gave his apostles for it is good advice for apostles of any age - "Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents and gentle as doves, but BEWARE OF MEN; for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their "synagogues"(Mt:10:16&17).
We haven't (yet) been physically scourged but we have certainly been "scourged in their churches" through their tongues. They have spoken out against us and cast us out of their fellowship, and out of their hearts. This of course, causes us to rejoice! "Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! For so did their fathers to the false prophets" (Lk:6:26). Sometimes when I hear of a ministry being maligned, when I hear rumors and innuendos warning me about them, most often I thank God for that ministry, knowing this is a sure sign they are sent from God and effectively ministering for him. Conversely, pastors and ministries that stir up no controversy, that are well spoken of by all, are usually accomplishing nothing for the Lord. The fact is we cannot be both man pleasers and God pleasers. Far too many churches are concerned with pleasing men, the world and Babylon.
See, the rains descending and the floods coming and the winds blowing reminds us of Noah's day of judgment. This all speaks of multiple ambushes set up by God - the rains, Words of judgment coming from above, from the heavens, from God's very throne room, floods, words of judgment coming from us, from the earth, from within the throne of God set up in our hearts (out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks), and the wind blowind speaks of the work of the Holy Spirit in the earth today for "He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness and of judgment" (Jn:16:8). I can sympathize with Jesus in verse 12 of that same chapter of John - "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now". Much of this blog you are reading will be hard for some to bear, in fact, some will not be able to bear it, but for those who can, I write on. And in deed, some who can't bear this word now, will be able to do so later, as they mature in Christ. Yet some babes in Christ will receive this word with gladness while some saints that have been with the Lord a long time will reject it. Just keep in mind, wherever Jesus' ministry goes on earth, controversy follows, because many do not love the truth but strive against it. (psalm 2).
"And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him, for some said he is a good man; others said nay, but he deceiveth the people" (Jn:7:12). "But the multitude of the city was divided, some held with the Jews, and some with the apostles" (Acts 14:4). "Some mocked and others said, we will hear thee again, howbeit certain men clave unto him and believed" (Acts 17:32).
All these scriptures testify of the fact that wherever Jesus ministers, especially through his apostles, division and controversy follow and it will always be so. Today, wherever he sends apostles and prophets, controversy follows because there will always be those among us who do not love the truth but choose the lie and it is these that will stir up controversy over the Truth. In our ministry, About Our Father's Business, we can certainly testify of this. We take heed to the same advice Jesus gave his apostles for it is good advice for apostles of any age - "Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents and gentle as doves, but BEWARE OF MEN; for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their "synagogues"(Mt:10:16&17).
We haven't (yet) been physically scourged but we have certainly been "scourged in their churches" through their tongues. They have spoken out against us and cast us out of their fellowship, and out of their hearts. This of course, causes us to rejoice! "Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! For so did their fathers to the false prophets" (Lk:6:26). Sometimes when I hear of a ministry being maligned, when I hear rumors and innuendos warning me about them, most often I thank God for that ministry, knowing this is a sure sign they are sent from God and effectively ministering for him. Conversely, pastors and ministries that stir up no controversy, that are well spoken of by all, are usually accomplishing nothing for the Lord. The fact is we cannot be both man pleasers and God pleasers. Far too many churches are concerned with pleasing men, the world and Babylon.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Jeremiah 51 verses ten and eleven
"The Lord has brought forth our righteousness, come and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God". This is referring to Jesus "The Lord our Righteousness" (Jer:23:6) and his finished work on the cross. Even as we are declaring "Babylon's fallen" we are declaring "Zion is rising", we are declaring in Zion the work of the Lord our God. Even as we battle against Babylon, with a sword in one hand we are building up (new) Jerusalem with a building tool in the other (Neh:4:17). Even as we see Babylon wherever we go, as we learn to recognize her foul stench, we keep our eyes on the prize of our high calling in Jesus Christ, we keep our focus on the New Jerusalem. The very name of our Lord, JESUS, comes from the hebrew word "Yhowshuwa" and literally means "Jehovah saved" or "the self existent, eternal One frees us to be safe, to deliver us, to defend us, to bring about our Victory". Isn't that wonderful? Especially in this day when deep darkness covers the earth. Yes, we declare in Zion the mighty salvation of our God! The question is, saved from what? From Babylon, Satan's kingdom on earth! You are thinking, from sin. Right? Well, Babylon is the kingdom of sin on the earth today and Satan is it's king. He first led mankind into sin and he is now seeking to keep us there. Come out, saith the Lord, and be ye separate!
"Make bright the arrows; gather the shields; the Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes for his device is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple". We are his temple, Hallelujah, and he will avenge us for every tear of suffering we've ever shed. "Vengeance is mine, I will repay saith the Lord" (Rom:12:19). This verse should send every sinner on earth to his knees, crying out for mercy. "Rejoice over her thou heavens and ye Holy Apostles and Prophets, for God hath avenged you on her" (Rev:18:20). The heavens will rejoice because she will no longer invade the spirit realm with her stink and once the spirit realm is cleansed of her presence, the natural realm will follow suit. Satan was cast out of heaven, the spirit realm but has now gained access again through us, that is fallen mankind. The only way to cast him out again is to cast him off of us and out of us and give ourselves completely to the Holy One, our wonderful God. After Babylon's judgment, things will be as pure as God originally meant them to be, in both heaven and earth. This is why when it's all said and done, God creates a new heaven and a new earth for the former are just too soiled by the presence of Satan and his ways, his sins, which most of mankind have embraced. Regardless, God is perfect and just in all his ways and he will not let his saints go unpunished. But he singles out his apostles and prophets in Revelation 18 because above all, they have suffered at the hands of Babylon's king and his subjects. Think about it. How many churches do you know that openly embrace apostles and prophets? That honor them and give them a place to stand and minister the Grace and Anointing God has imparted to them? I thought so. Very few, if any at all. We should weep before the Lord for this grievance and cry out to him to forgive us and ask him to send to us his holy apostles and prophets without delay. I am available to travel during the month of July if anyone reading this would like to extend an invitation. But wherever they come from, you who are reading this should desire thier ministry, for without apostolic and prophetic anointing you cannot be freed to become who Christ has appointed you to be. At least you who are reading this have this blog and hopefully other sources of Apostolic and Prophetic anointing. Actually, very few are able to handle the "meat" found in this blog, most so called christians are only able to handle milk and will choke on this. But some will digest it and grow and mature so that the Holy Spirit can begin to impart deeper revelations to them. I rejoice for this. If God has spoken to you while you read this blog, if he has given revelation, please share it with me. Perhaps I will pass it on in this blog.
"Make bright the arrows; gather the shields; the Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes for his device is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple". We are his temple, Hallelujah, and he will avenge us for every tear of suffering we've ever shed. "Vengeance is mine, I will repay saith the Lord" (Rom:12:19). This verse should send every sinner on earth to his knees, crying out for mercy. "Rejoice over her thou heavens and ye Holy Apostles and Prophets, for God hath avenged you on her" (Rev:18:20). The heavens will rejoice because she will no longer invade the spirit realm with her stink and once the spirit realm is cleansed of her presence, the natural realm will follow suit. Satan was cast out of heaven, the spirit realm but has now gained access again through us, that is fallen mankind. The only way to cast him out again is to cast him off of us and out of us and give ourselves completely to the Holy One, our wonderful God. After Babylon's judgment, things will be as pure as God originally meant them to be, in both heaven and earth. This is why when it's all said and done, God creates a new heaven and a new earth for the former are just too soiled by the presence of Satan and his ways, his sins, which most of mankind have embraced. Regardless, God is perfect and just in all his ways and he will not let his saints go unpunished. But he singles out his apostles and prophets in Revelation 18 because above all, they have suffered at the hands of Babylon's king and his subjects. Think about it. How many churches do you know that openly embrace apostles and prophets? That honor them and give them a place to stand and minister the Grace and Anointing God has imparted to them? I thought so. Very few, if any at all. We should weep before the Lord for this grievance and cry out to him to forgive us and ask him to send to us his holy apostles and prophets without delay. I am available to travel during the month of July if anyone reading this would like to extend an invitation. But wherever they come from, you who are reading this should desire thier ministry, for without apostolic and prophetic anointing you cannot be freed to become who Christ has appointed you to be. At least you who are reading this have this blog and hopefully other sources of Apostolic and Prophetic anointing. Actually, very few are able to handle the "meat" found in this blog, most so called christians are only able to handle milk and will choke on this. But some will digest it and grow and mature so that the Holy Spirit can begin to impart deeper revelations to them. I rejoice for this. If God has spoken to you while you read this blog, if he has given revelation, please share it with me. Perhaps I will pass it on in this blog.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Jeremiah 51 verses eight and nine
"Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her, take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed". I praise God for his "suddenlies", especially this one. I thank him that "Babylon is suddenly fallen". In Revelation 18, God declares no less than three times that "in one hour is thy judgment come", in one hour is she made desolate. If one day is to the Lord as a thousand years (2 Pet:3:8) than one hour is about 41 and a half years! If I am correct and the "Judgment of Babylon" has begun in 2007, it will take to 2048 to finish it. In terms of the history of mankind, a blink of an eye, a "suddenly fallen". God does not enjoy judgment and wants to do it quickly, like any good Father. When Jesus announced his public ministry, he quoted Isaiah 61:1&2 but stopped in the middle of verse two - "to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord". From that moment till 2007 we have been in an "acceptable year", in a season of acceptance wherein all mankind may be saved, when he has "opened the door of faith unto the gentiles" (Acts 14:27) but now we have entered in to the second part of Isaiah 61:2 - "The Day of Vengeance of our God".
Notice that his acceptance, his Mercy and Grace, last for a year while his vengeance is for a day. Behold how great a heart of compassion and love our God has for all mankind! Even in the midst of judgment he seeks to heal her. Even so, we must keep our hearts full of compassion and love for our people, our precious fellow souls who should be in God's Kingdom but are caught in Satan's kingdom, Babylon, instead. We must intercede and pray for them though "We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her and let us go everyone, into his own country, for her judgment reacheth unto heaven and is lifted up even to the skies" (Jer:51:9).
They desired at the start to "build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven" (Gen:10:4) and truly they have achieved this goal but with the opposite results, for by lifting themselves up in pride, their judgment had "reached unto heaven" and they will be brought low forever. Christian, do not mistake God's Grace for something it isn't for it is only given to the lowly and meek. I can at varioius times during this prophecy, discern the voice of the Father, at other times, the voice of the Son. In fact, there are times when even as the Father's wrath is being poured out, the Son is pleading and interceding on behalf of those being judged. Mercy often does triumph over judgment but not always. Here, the Son, who ever lives to make intercession, is speaking on behalf of the God head, WE would have healed but she is not healed, forsake her. You should, dear reader, desire all who are in Babylon to come out with you but leave them if they will not join you on your journey to freedom. When they say "give us oil for our lamps have gone out (Mt:25:8), do not do it! We must not sacrafice our freedom for those who will not be healed themselves. Don't even look back at them as they are being judged, remember Lot's wife!
I was once ministering to an elderly woman, trying to bring her deliverance when the Lord tapped me on the shoulder and said "mind if I interrupt?" Of course Lord! By all means, I said, chagrined! He then showed me a vision of the woman in a jail cell, curled up in the corner on the floor in a fetal position, moaning. My heart went out to her and I cried exactly Lord, that's why I'm here! He then simply told me to turn around. When I did, I saw that the door to the cell was wide open. He then said "I set her free ten years ago". The sad lesson I learned that day is that many Jesus has set free and offered healing to are refusing to accept it. This is why Jesus asked the man at the pool of Bethesda, "will you be made whole?" (John 5:6). We must all ask ourselves this same question because surely he is asking us now "will you be delivered and set free of Babylon?" The ones that top the list of those going into the lake of fire in Revelation 21:8 are the FEARFUL. How many of us would God heal if only he could? If only they would allow him to? "OH Jewrusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings AND YE WOULD NOT" (Mt:23:37). See, in Christ, we are gathered together where we all become one new man but in Babylon we are all seperated and "scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth" (Gen:10:8). We are divided from each other as long as we remain in Babylon. To follow Christ, we must go "outside the camp". Be ready as God draws others out with you so you can help them heal as you walk the road to freedom but only those who come out can be helped. Forsake those who remain for those who remain in Babylon, no matte how wise and spiritual they may appear, if they remain in Babylon, they'll be judged for where they're at, not who they are FOR WHERE THEY ARE IS IN A PLACE OF DISOBEDIENCE TO THE LORD. The foolish virgins were, after all, virgins, but did not make it in. Verily, verily I tell you a truth, those who remain in Babylon in our day cannot reach spiritual maturity anyway. The very word "Babylon" contains the word "baby" and that is what all who dwell in her will remain, spiritual babies in the disciplines of God, unable to "grow up into him in all things". They may become very powerful in spiritual darkness while remaining totally ignorant of God and his ways. But remember, they do not believe they are in Babylon, following Satan but are totally convinced they are followers of Christ. When you try to show them truth, they will crucify you, or attempt to. Satan has come to them disguised as an angel of light. Only those who truly love the truth will receive it and be set free by it. Don't waste your precious time on those who don't love the truth. Let God lead you to those he wants you to plant the precious seed of life, the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, in.
Notice that his acceptance, his Mercy and Grace, last for a year while his vengeance is for a day. Behold how great a heart of compassion and love our God has for all mankind! Even in the midst of judgment he seeks to heal her. Even so, we must keep our hearts full of compassion and love for our people, our precious fellow souls who should be in God's Kingdom but are caught in Satan's kingdom, Babylon, instead. We must intercede and pray for them though "We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her and let us go everyone, into his own country, for her judgment reacheth unto heaven and is lifted up even to the skies" (Jer:51:9).
They desired at the start to "build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven" (Gen:10:4) and truly they have achieved this goal but with the opposite results, for by lifting themselves up in pride, their judgment had "reached unto heaven" and they will be brought low forever. Christian, do not mistake God's Grace for something it isn't for it is only given to the lowly and meek. I can at varioius times during this prophecy, discern the voice of the Father, at other times, the voice of the Son. In fact, there are times when even as the Father's wrath is being poured out, the Son is pleading and interceding on behalf of those being judged. Mercy often does triumph over judgment but not always. Here, the Son, who ever lives to make intercession, is speaking on behalf of the God head, WE would have healed but she is not healed, forsake her. You should, dear reader, desire all who are in Babylon to come out with you but leave them if they will not join you on your journey to freedom. When they say "give us oil for our lamps have gone out (Mt:25:8), do not do it! We must not sacrafice our freedom for those who will not be healed themselves. Don't even look back at them as they are being judged, remember Lot's wife!
I was once ministering to an elderly woman, trying to bring her deliverance when the Lord tapped me on the shoulder and said "mind if I interrupt?" Of course Lord! By all means, I said, chagrined! He then showed me a vision of the woman in a jail cell, curled up in the corner on the floor in a fetal position, moaning. My heart went out to her and I cried exactly Lord, that's why I'm here! He then simply told me to turn around. When I did, I saw that the door to the cell was wide open. He then said "I set her free ten years ago". The sad lesson I learned that day is that many Jesus has set free and offered healing to are refusing to accept it. This is why Jesus asked the man at the pool of Bethesda, "will you be made whole?" (John 5:6). We must all ask ourselves this same question because surely he is asking us now "will you be delivered and set free of Babylon?" The ones that top the list of those going into the lake of fire in Revelation 21:8 are the FEARFUL. How many of us would God heal if only he could? If only they would allow him to? "OH Jewrusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings AND YE WOULD NOT" (Mt:23:37). See, in Christ, we are gathered together where we all become one new man but in Babylon we are all seperated and "scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth" (Gen:10:8). We are divided from each other as long as we remain in Babylon. To follow Christ, we must go "outside the camp". Be ready as God draws others out with you so you can help them heal as you walk the road to freedom but only those who come out can be helped. Forsake those who remain for those who remain in Babylon, no matte how wise and spiritual they may appear, if they remain in Babylon, they'll be judged for where they're at, not who they are FOR WHERE THEY ARE IS IN A PLACE OF DISOBEDIENCE TO THE LORD. The foolish virgins were, after all, virgins, but did not make it in. Verily, verily I tell you a truth, those who remain in Babylon in our day cannot reach spiritual maturity anyway. The very word "Babylon" contains the word "baby" and that is what all who dwell in her will remain, spiritual babies in the disciplines of God, unable to "grow up into him in all things". They may become very powerful in spiritual darkness while remaining totally ignorant of God and his ways. But remember, they do not believe they are in Babylon, following Satan but are totally convinced they are followers of Christ. When you try to show them truth, they will crucify you, or attempt to. Satan has come to them disguised as an angel of light. Only those who truly love the truth will receive it and be set free by it. Don't waste your precious time on those who don't love the truth. Let God lead you to those he wants you to plant the precious seed of life, the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, in.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 51 verse 7
"Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine therefore the nations are mad"(mad as in insane). This passage immediately brings to mind Rev:17:1&2 - "Come hither, I will show unto thee the Judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication".
So we see that her wine is the wine of fornication, both physical and spiritual (to commit physical fornication we must commit it spiritually first. This is why Jesus said if we lust in our hearts we've committed adultery already for our bodies will only do what our hearts tell them to. All sin begins in the heart and then manifests in the body). Whatever is in our hearts will show up in our flesh. If we have a pure heart, we will have clean hands, and vice versa.
Ultimately, all nations and peoples end up serving the Lord's purposes, including Babylon. He uses the fornication of following after other god's, of committing spiritual whoredoms to his advantage - the golden cup in the Lord's hand is similar to the one found in Rev:17:4 - "And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls (she sure looked good outwardly, as does Religion!), having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornications". As she has poured out her abominations on the world, which gladly drank of them, so shall she be poured out by the Lord, giving the world in the end what they've craved all along, abominations and fornications resulting in eternal damnations. Truly she sits on many waters, meaning all nations have committed fornication with her. Truly they are all mad (insane) for it is insanity to refuse our loving God and follow Satan and his ways instead. All who choose sin are followers of Satan, the originator of sin, which is rebellion against God, against his way, which is Holiness. Remember, all things work together for our good. God is always in control., He hardened Pharoah's heart to serve his purposes, "He (God) put in their hearts to fulfill his (Satan's) will and to agree and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled" (Rev"17:17). With Pharoah, God futher hardened a heart that was already hard towards him. He will do the same in our day by hardening hearts that are already hardened to him "for whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate" (Rom:8:29). God knows ahead of time all who will come to him in true repentance and all who will not, so knowing this why shouldn't he use this knowledge to his advantage?
So we see that her wine is the wine of fornication, both physical and spiritual (to commit physical fornication we must commit it spiritually first. This is why Jesus said if we lust in our hearts we've committed adultery already for our bodies will only do what our hearts tell them to. All sin begins in the heart and then manifests in the body). Whatever is in our hearts will show up in our flesh. If we have a pure heart, we will have clean hands, and vice versa.
Ultimately, all nations and peoples end up serving the Lord's purposes, including Babylon. He uses the fornication of following after other god's, of committing spiritual whoredoms to his advantage - the golden cup in the Lord's hand is similar to the one found in Rev:17:4 - "And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls (she sure looked good outwardly, as does Religion!), having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornications". As she has poured out her abominations on the world, which gladly drank of them, so shall she be poured out by the Lord, giving the world in the end what they've craved all along, abominations and fornications resulting in eternal damnations. Truly she sits on many waters, meaning all nations have committed fornication with her. Truly they are all mad (insane) for it is insanity to refuse our loving God and follow Satan and his ways instead. All who choose sin are followers of Satan, the originator of sin, which is rebellion against God, against his way, which is Holiness. Remember, all things work together for our good. God is always in control., He hardened Pharoah's heart to serve his purposes, "He (God) put in their hearts to fulfill his (Satan's) will and to agree and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled" (Rev"17:17). With Pharoah, God futher hardened a heart that was already hard towards him. He will do the same in our day by hardening hearts that are already hardened to him "for whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate" (Rom:8:29). God knows ahead of time all who will come to him in true repentance and all who will not, so knowing this why shouldn't he use this knowledge to his advantage?
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 51 verse six part two
Getting free of Egypt does us no good if we then go into bondage to Babylon. After all the mighty signs and wonders God wrought on behalf of his people to free them from Egypt, it must have broken his heart to send them into Babylon but he will never tolerate his people following other gods, walking in such pride and arrogance that they leave him and follow man made idols and demonic creations. Sending them into captivity into Babylon was showing them outwardly what had already happened inwardly. In fact, bondage to Babylon, to religious pride and rebellion against the Holy Spirit is than bondage to Egypt because there God's people are deceived into thinking that because they've left Egypt, they are free! If once we accept that Christ is our Lord and Savior, if we go from there, from following the Holy Spirit (for he is the one to lead us to Christ), if we then forsake him and follow another spirit (any spirit that seeks to replace the Holy Spirit is a false, anti-Christ spirit, all demonic spirits try to do this), if we turn away from him, the only one who knows the path of life, do you think we'll make it? Do you think the seventy that turned away from Jesus and quit following him made it? No, only those who refuse to forsake him, who refuse to follow any other Spirit but his, even at the cost of their own lives, only those who say "Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou (alone) hast the words of Eternal Life. And we believe and are sure that thou (alone) art that Christ, the Son of the Living God" (Jn:6:68&69), will make it in. Who were the goats that stood before his throne in Mathew 25? They were ones who thought they were followers of Christ, who thought they were in covenant with him, pleasing to him, while the whole time they were in service to Satan, through the flesh. Satan is just as pleased with "good" works done on his behalf as he is with evil deeds; as long as they are done for him. And in case you don't believe millions of people around the world could submit themselves to a spirit of destruction, just look around the world at the millions of people who smoke or drink themselves to death each year, who take poison (drugs) into their bodies, knowing it will harm and eventually kill them. Satan doesn't send anyone to Hell, he doesn't have that power or authority, no he simply invites souls to join him there. We destroy ourselves and no one else (James 1:14&15). "Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction (that leads to Babylon), and many there be that go in thereat" (Mt:7:13). "Many are called but few are chosen" (Mt:20:16). They aren't chosen because they didn't choose to obey the call to come out of Babylon. What is your excuse? But I have to bury my father, but I have to attend to my farm and family, but, but. It's time to get off your "but" and follow Christ. The apostles had no such qualms. He simply said "Come, follow me" and they dropped everything immediately and followed. The first ones in to the New Covenant, the Eternal Covenant, en masse, will be the last and the last ones in, as a nation, the Jews, will be first. We are now in "the time of the Lord's vengeance", we are in the "Day of Judgment of our God". This is prophesied throughout scripture and this day is here. Do you think it's mere coincidence that earthquakes have been increasing dramatically in strength and frequency in the last few years? It's only going to get worse and the only safe place to be on earth is in the Body of Christ.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 51 verse six
"FLEE OUT OF THE MIDST OF BABYLON, AND DELIVER EVERY MAN HIS SOUL; BE NOT CUT OFF IN HER INIQUITY, FOR THIS IS THE TIME OF THE LORD'S VENGEANCE, HE WILL RENDER UNTO HER A RECOMPENSE". I am saying to you as an apostle of God, with all the authority God has placed in me, this verse is the cry of God's heart for every single saint on earth today. Prophetically speaking, we have all entered into the "time of the Lord's vengeance". As surely as we must flee fornication (1 Cor:6:18), as surely as we must flee idolatry (1 Cor:10:14), so must we flee from Babylon, the source of idolatry and fornication in the earth today (Rev:18:4). Flee, he says! Run as fast as you can! Don't pause to think about it GET OUT! We're talking of an (eternal) life or death situation here! Deliver your soul, be not cut off in her iniquity. Remember, God judges not only those in rebellion against him, but those found in the midst of those in rebellion to him.
This might be an appropriate time to comment on the teaching "once saved, always saved". This teaching purports that you can become born again, then turn your back on God and live for the devil your whole life and yet make it to Heaven, no problem. This is like saying a woman or man can get married, then leave their spouse, become an adulterer, but expect to remain in their spouses house and receive an inheritance! Many are called into the Body of Christ but few are chosen to go on to become his bride. Saint, the salvation of our God is more precious than any other love we'll ever know, but it comes to us through covenant. Both parties must keep the terms of the covenant for it to remain valid. It isn't enough for us to say a pledge of love to him, we must consummate the marriage, we must do and obey what he tells ut to, we must walk with him, becoming more and more intimate with him each day, till one day, the world can't tell us apart. Carefully study Jeremiah chapter three, especially verse eight - "And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not but went and played the harlot also". Look at verse 14 - "Turn O backsliding children saith The Lord for I am married to you and I will take you one of a city and two of a family(out of Babylon) and I will bring you (back) to Zion". Hear the passion in God's heart for his people! Hear his heart's cry! As much as he loved her he still divorced her for adultery, though he later took her back. And do you O christian, say this concerns the jews only; I have a better covenant, a more sure word of prophecy? "Be not high-minded but fear: for if God spared not the natural branches (Israel), take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore both the goodness and severity of God (behold both the lamb and the lion): on them which fell, severity, but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be cut off" (Rom:11:20-22). This and many other verses (Rev:22:19, Psalm 2:12) show us our salvation is final and eternal as long as we finish the race, not just start it. We must continue to walk and talk with him daily. We must fulfill our side of the covenant by becoming his bride, by being intimate with him (kiss the son, lest he become angry).WE MUST CONSUMMATE OUR WEDDING VOWS for know you not that when you pledged yourself to him at the altar it was a wedding altar? The bottom line is we can't live like Hell and go to Heaven. We must obey him; we must FLEE out of Babylon, out of all fornication of body and spirit, out of pride. So many believe because they came out of Egypt (sin), because they said a "sinners prayer", they are home free but that prayer at that altar was the start of our salvation, it opened the door. After the door (Jesus) is opened to us, we must step through and keep on walking till we arrive at the Father. Many know Jesus but not the Father. Our salvation must be "worked out with fear and trembling". If we work it out with "pride and haughtiness" we won't make it (Ph:2:12 & 1 Cor:2:1).
to be continued.....
This might be an appropriate time to comment on the teaching "once saved, always saved". This teaching purports that you can become born again, then turn your back on God and live for the devil your whole life and yet make it to Heaven, no problem. This is like saying a woman or man can get married, then leave their spouse, become an adulterer, but expect to remain in their spouses house and receive an inheritance! Many are called into the Body of Christ but few are chosen to go on to become his bride. Saint, the salvation of our God is more precious than any other love we'll ever know, but it comes to us through covenant. Both parties must keep the terms of the covenant for it to remain valid. It isn't enough for us to say a pledge of love to him, we must consummate the marriage, we must do and obey what he tells ut to, we must walk with him, becoming more and more intimate with him each day, till one day, the world can't tell us apart. Carefully study Jeremiah chapter three, especially verse eight - "And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not but went and played the harlot also". Look at verse 14 - "Turn O backsliding children saith The Lord for I am married to you and I will take you one of a city and two of a family(out of Babylon) and I will bring you (back) to Zion". Hear the passion in God's heart for his people! Hear his heart's cry! As much as he loved her he still divorced her for adultery, though he later took her back. And do you O christian, say this concerns the jews only; I have a better covenant, a more sure word of prophecy? "Be not high-minded but fear: for if God spared not the natural branches (Israel), take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore both the goodness and severity of God (behold both the lamb and the lion): on them which fell, severity, but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be cut off" (Rom:11:20-22). This and many other verses (Rev:22:19, Psalm 2:12) show us our salvation is final and eternal as long as we finish the race, not just start it. We must continue to walk and talk with him daily. We must fulfill our side of the covenant by becoming his bride, by being intimate with him (kiss the son, lest he become angry).WE MUST CONSUMMATE OUR WEDDING VOWS for know you not that when you pledged yourself to him at the altar it was a wedding altar? The bottom line is we can't live like Hell and go to Heaven. We must obey him; we must FLEE out of Babylon, out of all fornication of body and spirit, out of pride. So many believe because they came out of Egypt (sin), because they said a "sinners prayer", they are home free but that prayer at that altar was the start of our salvation, it opened the door. After the door (Jesus) is opened to us, we must step through and keep on walking till we arrive at the Father. Many know Jesus but not the Father. Our salvation must be "worked out with fear and trembling". If we work it out with "pride and haughtiness" we won't make it (Ph:2:12 & 1 Cor:2:1).
to be continued.....
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 51 verse five
"For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the Lord of Hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel".
How apt a scripture to describe the Church today - spiritually to God what Israel is naturally. Of a truth, everything that has happened to Israel in the natural has happened to the Church in the Spirit. The story of Israel in scripture and indeed on to today IS THE STORY OF THE CHURCH. "To the Jew first and also to the Greek" (Rom:1:16) is a principal God abides by. In other words, they, the Jews, are his proto type, or model, for all mankind to follow and learn from. But there is a greater tie between the Church and Israel than with the rest of humanity. They are destined to be one in Christ, together making up his Bride for eternity. He has not forsaken Israel today and replaced them with the Church. Rather, they experience his will in the earth in the natural first, then it happens to the Church. No wonder we should be praying for Israel! For example, Israel wandered in the wilderness of the world for almost two thousand years till 1948 when they miraculously became a nation again. Ressurected from the dead so to speak. In the spirit realm, the Church mirrored Israel, wandering without an identity or home. Scattered. This is when the majority of the thousands of denominations formed. But since 1948 a dramatic change has taken place in the Church (not in the denominations) but in true believers - God began to restore the five fold head ship ministry in 1948. First, in the fifties, evangelists. Then in the sixties, pastor, then in the seventies, teacher, eighties, prophets, and finally in the nineties, apostles.
Another example, right after Israel had a war, in 1968, the Holy Spirit was poured out in what has become known as the "latter rain" movement.
Israel and the Church are intimately connected and neither can escape it, yet neither as a whole realizes it right now. To summarize: everything that happens to Israel today is a prophecy, a first fruits event that directly affects the Church. And even here in Jeremiah 51:5 God states he hasn't forsaken Israel or Judah, so today we see he hasn't forsaken his Church, the saints, the called out (of Babylon) ones, tied up in religious bondage around the world, though their land, their flesh, is filled with the sin of following another god. As he mightily delivered Israel, so shall he deliver his people spiritually, today. I believe the last great harvest of souls God will bring into his kingdom in these last days will come from among his people caught in dead, religious churches and denominations, where millions are trapped today, HalleluJah! The jail will be shaken and the jailors and their families will be saved!
How apt a scripture to describe the Church today - spiritually to God what Israel is naturally. Of a truth, everything that has happened to Israel in the natural has happened to the Church in the Spirit. The story of Israel in scripture and indeed on to today IS THE STORY OF THE CHURCH. "To the Jew first and also to the Greek" (Rom:1:16) is a principal God abides by. In other words, they, the Jews, are his proto type, or model, for all mankind to follow and learn from. But there is a greater tie between the Church and Israel than with the rest of humanity. They are destined to be one in Christ, together making up his Bride for eternity. He has not forsaken Israel today and replaced them with the Church. Rather, they experience his will in the earth in the natural first, then it happens to the Church. No wonder we should be praying for Israel! For example, Israel wandered in the wilderness of the world for almost two thousand years till 1948 when they miraculously became a nation again. Ressurected from the dead so to speak. In the spirit realm, the Church mirrored Israel, wandering without an identity or home. Scattered. This is when the majority of the thousands of denominations formed. But since 1948 a dramatic change has taken place in the Church (not in the denominations) but in true believers - God began to restore the five fold head ship ministry in 1948. First, in the fifties, evangelists. Then in the sixties, pastor, then in the seventies, teacher, eighties, prophets, and finally in the nineties, apostles.
Another example, right after Israel had a war, in 1968, the Holy Spirit was poured out in what has become known as the "latter rain" movement.
Israel and the Church are intimately connected and neither can escape it, yet neither as a whole realizes it right now. To summarize: everything that happens to Israel today is a prophecy, a first fruits event that directly affects the Church. And even here in Jeremiah 51:5 God states he hasn't forsaken Israel or Judah, so today we see he hasn't forsaken his Church, the saints, the called out (of Babylon) ones, tied up in religious bondage around the world, though their land, their flesh, is filled with the sin of following another god. As he mightily delivered Israel, so shall he deliver his people spiritually, today. I believe the last great harvest of souls God will bring into his kingdom in these last days will come from among his people caught in dead, religious churches and denominations, where millions are trapped today, HalleluJah! The jail will be shaken and the jailors and their families will be saved!
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 51 verses two - four
"And I will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: For in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. Against him that bendeth, let the Archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men, destroy ye utterly all her host. Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans and they that are thrust through in her streets".
Babylon is reaping what she's sown. As she has bent the bow against God's people Israel, and in our day, the Church, for the Church sprang forth from the loins of Israel, so everything that happened to Israel, is happening or has happened to the Church also, (even as Levi paid tithes to Melchizedek in the loins of Abraham), even so is the Archer bending his bow against her.
"Lifting himself up in his brigandine" speaks of pride. When we "lift ourselves up" instead of falling before him, lowering ourselves, walking the path of humility, crying out for mercy, we end up hardened to his will and his ways. If we choose pride, it forms an armor around our hearts (brigandine means "a coat of armor"). This armor can become so hard that nothing of God can penetrate it. In fact, every one of us will either end up clothed in this armor of pride, this brigandine, or we will be clothed in the "full armor of God" (Eph:6:11).
I'm curious as to just who God is speaking to here, to whom is He commanding to execute these judgments against Babylon? Yes we see angels being sent in Revelation to pour out his judgments but could we, the people of God, both Jews and Christians be involved also? I believe angels work in synchronicity with God's people to effect his judgments. Could we be the dreadful army found in Joel chapter two? We must be pretty dreadful for Satan to flee from us, to become as a woman in travail at the mere rumor or us! Could we be "A great people and a strong", "Neither shall one thrust another, they shall walk everyone in his path" (Joel 2:2&8)? This is what we're arriving at, a day when everyone knows their anointing from God and walks in it and stays on the path God has set them on, they stick to the ministry God has called them to faithfully, and they don't thrust each other, they don't take their sword (the tongue) and use it to wound a fellow soldier in the army of God. No more will saints be wounded from "friendly fire". Saints, the kingdom of God is within us and in his kingdom, the lion and the lamb lay together in perfect harmony. Christ is both the meek and gentle lamb, the suffering servant and he is the Lion of the tribe of Juda, riding a great white horse with a sword at his side, who can stand the day of his coming?
As Christ is, so are we, we are each meant to be lambs and lions; Lambs toward one another and to the hurting, dead world around us but lions towards Satan and his company of traitorous angels, now known as demons. "Let the Saints be joyful in glory. Let them sing aloud upon their beds. Let the High Praises of God be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hand; to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishment upon the people; to bind their kings (demonic forces of every shape and size) with chains and their nobles (workers of witchcraft, sorcery, etc.) with fetters of iron; to execute the judgment written (in Jeremiah 50 & 51 and elsewhere): THIS HONOR HAVE ALL HIS SAINTS. PRAISE YE THE LORD" (Psalm 149:5-9).
Traditional churched christians today are typically not taught how to be lions but only lambs. They are making the same mistake at his second coming that Israel made at his first. Israel was looking for their Messiah, their Christ, their saviour to arrive on a great white horse, as a mighty conqueror that would overthrow Roman rule and deliver Israel from bondage to man physically. Instead he arrived on a donkey, meek and humble, saying to Peter "Put away your sword" (John 18:11), like Moses should have done, quit striving to deliver through your own strength and ability, quit believing God needs you to deliver him and start knowing you need him to deliver you. Jesus then, set us all free from bondage to man, to flesh, spiritually. Today, many in churches are looking for Jesus as a gentle lamb, when he is going to return on a great white horse, "and he that sat on him had a bow and a crown was given him and he went forth conquering and to conquer" (Rev:6:2), delivering us in the physical realm from evil. The first time he cleansed the spirit realm from evil, the second time he will cleanse the earth itself from all evil. We are being made into his image and likeness therefore we are also commissioned to "go forth conquering and to conquer", darkness with light, just as he did and will do.
Babylon is reaping what she's sown. As she has bent the bow against God's people Israel, and in our day, the Church, for the Church sprang forth from the loins of Israel, so everything that happened to Israel, is happening or has happened to the Church also, (even as Levi paid tithes to Melchizedek in the loins of Abraham), even so is the Archer bending his bow against her.
"Lifting himself up in his brigandine" speaks of pride. When we "lift ourselves up" instead of falling before him, lowering ourselves, walking the path of humility, crying out for mercy, we end up hardened to his will and his ways. If we choose pride, it forms an armor around our hearts (brigandine means "a coat of armor"). This armor can become so hard that nothing of God can penetrate it. In fact, every one of us will either end up clothed in this armor of pride, this brigandine, or we will be clothed in the "full armor of God" (Eph:6:11).
I'm curious as to just who God is speaking to here, to whom is He commanding to execute these judgments against Babylon? Yes we see angels being sent in Revelation to pour out his judgments but could we, the people of God, both Jews and Christians be involved also? I believe angels work in synchronicity with God's people to effect his judgments. Could we be the dreadful army found in Joel chapter two? We must be pretty dreadful for Satan to flee from us, to become as a woman in travail at the mere rumor or us! Could we be "A great people and a strong", "Neither shall one thrust another, they shall walk everyone in his path" (Joel 2:2&8)? This is what we're arriving at, a day when everyone knows their anointing from God and walks in it and stays on the path God has set them on, they stick to the ministry God has called them to faithfully, and they don't thrust each other, they don't take their sword (the tongue) and use it to wound a fellow soldier in the army of God. No more will saints be wounded from "friendly fire". Saints, the kingdom of God is within us and in his kingdom, the lion and the lamb lay together in perfect harmony. Christ is both the meek and gentle lamb, the suffering servant and he is the Lion of the tribe of Juda, riding a great white horse with a sword at his side, who can stand the day of his coming?
As Christ is, so are we, we are each meant to be lambs and lions; Lambs toward one another and to the hurting, dead world around us but lions towards Satan and his company of traitorous angels, now known as demons. "Let the Saints be joyful in glory. Let them sing aloud upon their beds. Let the High Praises of God be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hand; to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishment upon the people; to bind their kings (demonic forces of every shape and size) with chains and their nobles (workers of witchcraft, sorcery, etc.) with fetters of iron; to execute the judgment written (in Jeremiah 50 & 51 and elsewhere): THIS HONOR HAVE ALL HIS SAINTS. PRAISE YE THE LORD" (Psalm 149:5-9).
Traditional churched christians today are typically not taught how to be lions but only lambs. They are making the same mistake at his second coming that Israel made at his first. Israel was looking for their Messiah, their Christ, their saviour to arrive on a great white horse, as a mighty conqueror that would overthrow Roman rule and deliver Israel from bondage to man physically. Instead he arrived on a donkey, meek and humble, saying to Peter "Put away your sword" (John 18:11), like Moses should have done, quit striving to deliver through your own strength and ability, quit believing God needs you to deliver him and start knowing you need him to deliver you. Jesus then, set us all free from bondage to man, to flesh, spiritually. Today, many in churches are looking for Jesus as a gentle lamb, when he is going to return on a great white horse, "and he that sat on him had a bow and a crown was given him and he went forth conquering and to conquer" (Rev:6:2), delivering us in the physical realm from evil. The first time he cleansed the spirit realm from evil, the second time he will cleanse the earth itself from all evil. We are being made into his image and likeness therefore we are also commissioned to "go forth conquering and to conquer", darkness with light, just as he did and will do.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Jeremiah chapter 51 verse one
"Thus saith the Lord, behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind".
As with chapter 50, from the very first verse we see that God is AGAINST BABYLON. Here, we have a clear expression of what or who Babylon is from God's perspective - Babylon is made up of "them that rise up against me" and we know that all who are against him will be judged and sent away into everlasting punishment where "there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Luke 13:28). But look closely at this verse - not only does God judge those that rise up against him but also those that dwell in the midst of those that rise up against him!
Christian - if you are in a place of religious bondage, a church or denomination that resides in Babylon and refuses to come out and God opens the eyes of your understanding and calls you out and you refuse to follow him and remain among those in rebellion to him; you will be judged along with them! If you are a wheat among tares and God wants to rescue you, deliver you, separate you and you choose to remain among the tares; when the tares are gathered up to be burned, you'll be burned right along with them! Like the virgins who ran out of oil, you'll be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Complete obedience to the Holy Spirit is the only way to survive these last hours left to mankind. I'm sorry if I'm bursting some religious bubbles here but this knowledge could save your soul. May God's people no longer be "destroyed for lack of knowledge" (Hos:4:6). May the "spirit of whoredoms" (Hos:5:4) no longer defile them. May all of God's people today make a clean break from Babylon, coming out of her completely and not giving God half their hearts while keeping the other half in Babylon.
Many have a false sense of love and devotion, of loyalty. When God opens the eyes of thier understanding concerning their church or denomination, they say "Oh I'll stay in my church so I can win some to God". No saint, get out completely, then try to win some. This is like christian women I've met who meet unbelieving guys and marry them! Their excuse is always, oh I'll make a believer out of him, you'll see. Sadly, this is rarely the case. They usually end up unequally yoked to an unbeliever and they end up with a miserable marriage. If you belong to a whole church full of unbelievers, don't be unequally yoked with them either! If you do, you too will end up with a "miserable marriage" to the Lord!
The "destroying wind" mentioned here is the same one found in Psalm one, verse four - "The ungodly are not so but are like the chaff which the wind drives away". This wind is the wind of his Spirit and he will soon blow over the face of the whole earth, over all flesh, like a mighty hurricane, and all that is chaff, like dead leaves, all that is dead, all that is of sin, of death, all that are dwelling in Babylon because they choose to remain there, will be blown away, cleansed from off the face of the earth as surely as those in the flood were dealt with, till all that remains is in perfect union and submission to our God Almighty, forever and ever, world without end, amen. Think about it, what do you do with the dead leaves in your yard? You rake them up and dispose of them, often by burning them! God is no different. Those he sends to Hell to him are dead leaves, needing to be disposed of. This day, choose life, not death. This day, choose to leave Babylon for the New Jerusalem. This day, set your soul free by obeying the Holy Spirit's desire to set you free from Babylon, from all that is of sin and death on this earth. Selah.
As with chapter 50, from the very first verse we see that God is AGAINST BABYLON. Here, we have a clear expression of what or who Babylon is from God's perspective - Babylon is made up of "them that rise up against me" and we know that all who are against him will be judged and sent away into everlasting punishment where "there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Luke 13:28). But look closely at this verse - not only does God judge those that rise up against him but also those that dwell in the midst of those that rise up against him!
Christian - if you are in a place of religious bondage, a church or denomination that resides in Babylon and refuses to come out and God opens the eyes of your understanding and calls you out and you refuse to follow him and remain among those in rebellion to him; you will be judged along with them! If you are a wheat among tares and God wants to rescue you, deliver you, separate you and you choose to remain among the tares; when the tares are gathered up to be burned, you'll be burned right along with them! Like the virgins who ran out of oil, you'll be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Complete obedience to the Holy Spirit is the only way to survive these last hours left to mankind. I'm sorry if I'm bursting some religious bubbles here but this knowledge could save your soul. May God's people no longer be "destroyed for lack of knowledge" (Hos:4:6). May the "spirit of whoredoms" (Hos:5:4) no longer defile them. May all of God's people today make a clean break from Babylon, coming out of her completely and not giving God half their hearts while keeping the other half in Babylon.
Many have a false sense of love and devotion, of loyalty. When God opens the eyes of thier understanding concerning their church or denomination, they say "Oh I'll stay in my church so I can win some to God". No saint, get out completely, then try to win some. This is like christian women I've met who meet unbelieving guys and marry them! Their excuse is always, oh I'll make a believer out of him, you'll see. Sadly, this is rarely the case. They usually end up unequally yoked to an unbeliever and they end up with a miserable marriage. If you belong to a whole church full of unbelievers, don't be unequally yoked with them either! If you do, you too will end up with a "miserable marriage" to the Lord!
The "destroying wind" mentioned here is the same one found in Psalm one, verse four - "The ungodly are not so but are like the chaff which the wind drives away". This wind is the wind of his Spirit and he will soon blow over the face of the whole earth, over all flesh, like a mighty hurricane, and all that is chaff, like dead leaves, all that is dead, all that is of sin, of death, all that are dwelling in Babylon because they choose to remain there, will be blown away, cleansed from off the face of the earth as surely as those in the flood were dealt with, till all that remains is in perfect union and submission to our God Almighty, forever and ever, world without end, amen. Think about it, what do you do with the dead leaves in your yard? You rake them up and dispose of them, often by burning them! God is no different. Those he sends to Hell to him are dead leaves, needing to be disposed of. This day, choose life, not death. This day, choose to leave Babylon for the New Jerusalem. This day, set your soul free by obeying the Holy Spirit's desire to set you free from Babylon, from all that is of sin and death on this earth. Selah.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 50 verses 45 & 46
"Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them. At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations".
Hallelujah! As Babylon is taken and falls in Ireland, and around the world, as the foul religious spirit over the nations is defeated and cast out, the cry of freedom and victory will be heard among all the nations of the earth. From here "The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation, he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth" (Jer:25:30). And what's amazing is that he will use the "least of the flock" to accomplish his purposes against Babylon. "Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom is greater than he" (Mt:11:11). From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. Now, Jesus is saying it is the "least" who will be "greatest". It is the least who God will use to destroy Babylon from off the earth. It is the most humble that God will use to destroy the "most proud". It is the "meekest and the weakest" in their own strength that God can pour his strength into. We must become emptied of all that is us in order to be filled with all that is him. Our strength must fail us for his strength to save us. In our weakness he is made strong. Through following in Jesus' spiritual footsteps, we are all used by God to "destroy the works of the devil" (1 Jn:3:8). But we can only "take away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images and cut down the groves" (2 Chron:14:3), if we are walking in humility. Only Jesus could cast out the money changers in the temple (the equivalent today would be prosperity teachers, who focus their whole lives on what they call prosperity, getting more and more money and material possessions). Anywhere there is a fixation on money, anywhere they take up more time to take an offering than they do to worship, somethings amiss. I understand that America's god is Mammon (money), which also happens to be Babylons's idol, and teaching God's people to give generously of their finances is a way to deliver them from following this false god but if their hearts haven't been given to him, their money won't be given from their hearts, so if you use emotional pleas or fear or condemnation to motivate them to give it won't do them any good. And if their do belong to the Lord, you won't need to compel them to give, God will do that himself. In our services, the Father's Spirit told us not to take offerings; he said "My people give them". Not that we can't take one for special occasions, like a guest minister or a financial emergency or to give as he leads, but we are not to take one for ourselves. He told us to trust him to move on the hearts of his people, that they should give as he prompts them to, not as a man propmts them to. God's people do not have to be taught to give, for them, giving is as natural as breathing.
Only Jesus can go to the high places in our hearts and tear down our heart's idols because only he is sinless when it comes to pride, and it's fruit, idolatry. Only Jesus through the Holy Spirit can confront Babylon and succeed in casting it out of us, as he cast out the money changers in the Temple. If we'll allow him to, he will deal with Babylon in each of us, we we can then in turn be used by Him to deal with Babylon around us. We can't deal with Babylon in someone else till we've dealt with Babylon in us. And even then all we can do is expose them to the truth, and show them a life that is free from Babylon's influence. God will have to do the delivering himself. Suffice it to say, as this message spreads throughout all the earth, wherever there are saints, this message will go, and may I quote the words of an old song "You ain't seen nothing yet!"
Hallelujah! As Babylon is taken and falls in Ireland, and around the world, as the foul religious spirit over the nations is defeated and cast out, the cry of freedom and victory will be heard among all the nations of the earth. From here "The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation, he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth" (Jer:25:30). And what's amazing is that he will use the "least of the flock" to accomplish his purposes against Babylon. "Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom is greater than he" (Mt:11:11). From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. Now, Jesus is saying it is the "least" who will be "greatest". It is the least who God will use to destroy Babylon from off the earth. It is the most humble that God will use to destroy the "most proud". It is the "meekest and the weakest" in their own strength that God can pour his strength into. We must become emptied of all that is us in order to be filled with all that is him. Our strength must fail us for his strength to save us. In our weakness he is made strong. Through following in Jesus' spiritual footsteps, we are all used by God to "destroy the works of the devil" (1 Jn:3:8). But we can only "take away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images and cut down the groves" (2 Chron:14:3), if we are walking in humility. Only Jesus could cast out the money changers in the temple (the equivalent today would be prosperity teachers, who focus their whole lives on what they call prosperity, getting more and more money and material possessions). Anywhere there is a fixation on money, anywhere they take up more time to take an offering than they do to worship, somethings amiss. I understand that America's god is Mammon (money), which also happens to be Babylons's idol, and teaching God's people to give generously of their finances is a way to deliver them from following this false god but if their hearts haven't been given to him, their money won't be given from their hearts, so if you use emotional pleas or fear or condemnation to motivate them to give it won't do them any good. And if their do belong to the Lord, you won't need to compel them to give, God will do that himself. In our services, the Father's Spirit told us not to take offerings; he said "My people give them". Not that we can't take one for special occasions, like a guest minister or a financial emergency or to give as he leads, but we are not to take one for ourselves. He told us to trust him to move on the hearts of his people, that they should give as he prompts them to, not as a man propmts them to. God's people do not have to be taught to give, for them, giving is as natural as breathing.
Only Jesus can go to the high places in our hearts and tear down our heart's idols because only he is sinless when it comes to pride, and it's fruit, idolatry. Only Jesus through the Holy Spirit can confront Babylon and succeed in casting it out of us, as he cast out the money changers in the Temple. If we'll allow him to, he will deal with Babylon in each of us, we we can then in turn be used by Him to deal with Babylon around us. We can't deal with Babylon in someone else till we've dealt with Babylon in us. And even then all we can do is expose them to the truth, and show them a life that is free from Babylon's influence. God will have to do the delivering himself. Suffice it to say, as this message spreads throughout all the earth, wherever there are saints, this message will go, and may I quote the words of an old song "You ain't seen nothing yet!"
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Jeremiah Chapter 50 verse 44 part two
Many of today's saints trust in "their house", in the "place that is called by his name". They are putting all their trust in their denomination or church, yet if their house of worship is bowing to Baal, if they are dwelling in Babylon, no matter how Holy they appear outwardly, they will find themselves forsaken by the Lord. He only forsakes those who forsake him first, by the way. He has promised us he will never leave us or forsake us, but we can leave or forsake him. 1 Samuel chapter 12 describes this scenario. In verse ten the people acknowledged they had forsaken the Lord and so must all who claim to be christian but are not followers of Christ claim today. We must also renounce our desire for a king. Verse twelve reveals "ye said unto me, nay; but a king shall rule over us: WHEN THE LORD YOUR GOD WAS YOUR KING". We should never say to the Lord "Nay". This is our first mistake. "The fool hath said in his heart, NO GOD" (Psalm:14:1). The words in italics were added by the translators. This is how the verse should read. Saying no to God is extremely foolish, especially because he always has our best interests at heart. Wanting a king, in other words, wanting a MAN to rule over them has led to all kinds of problems for God's people. What this earth desperately needs is a people personally led by the God of this universe, personally directed by him, manifesting his reality on a daily basis. The whole system of pastor or priest as head of each local assembly comes from this desire to have a king, a man, rule over them. It certainly is not scriptural. The pastor is to be part of a plurality of elders led by the Holy Spirit, but not the head.
We should all cry out to God or beseech the prophets to cry out to God on our behalf "Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king" (1 Sam:12:19). In this day and in this time, God is raising up powerfully anointed apostles and prophets and pastors who are speaking his will and his voice to a blind and deaf generation. But none of these will rule over God's people but rather will serve them. If some of this word you are reading even now appears to be harsh to you, please keep in mind, I have the same anointing God put on Jeremiah. He also said to me "Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. See, I have this day set thee over nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build and to plant" (Jer:1:9&10). The point I wish to make is that in order to build and to plant God's kingdom in human hearts, Babylon must first be uprooted, pulled down, destroyed and thrown down. There are twice as many negative actions here as there are positive. Also, they fit a pattern set by the Lord. He wants us to uproot all that is of Babylon in our hearts. This is painful but far less so than the next three. If you do not allow him to uproot the spirit of religion out of you, if you do not humble yourself, he will pull it down. This pulling down speaks of lowering, of being humbled, of humility. If at this time you do not forsake Babylon, he will destroy it and you along with it and then throw down every last vestige of her left in the earth. Only then can he build you up as the New Jerusalem and plant you in his vineyard forever, only after Babylon has been "utterly destroyed" in you! Let him break all that is of pride in you, for it is in the soil of a broken heart that the things of his Spirit may grow.
Those who have "ears to hear" will respond with joy and come out of Babylon completely. In fact, throughout the law and the prophets, if you substitute the word "church" for "Israel", you have a clear picture of the spiritual history of the church. Much of the church believes they've replaced Israel. They haven't replaced them; they've followed in their footsteps!
We should all cry out to God or beseech the prophets to cry out to God on our behalf "Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king" (1 Sam:12:19). In this day and in this time, God is raising up powerfully anointed apostles and prophets and pastors who are speaking his will and his voice to a blind and deaf generation. But none of these will rule over God's people but rather will serve them. If some of this word you are reading even now appears to be harsh to you, please keep in mind, I have the same anointing God put on Jeremiah. He also said to me "Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. See, I have this day set thee over nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build and to plant" (Jer:1:9&10). The point I wish to make is that in order to build and to plant God's kingdom in human hearts, Babylon must first be uprooted, pulled down, destroyed and thrown down. There are twice as many negative actions here as there are positive. Also, they fit a pattern set by the Lord. He wants us to uproot all that is of Babylon in our hearts. This is painful but far less so than the next three. If you do not allow him to uproot the spirit of religion out of you, if you do not humble yourself, he will pull it down. This pulling down speaks of lowering, of being humbled, of humility. If at this time you do not forsake Babylon, he will destroy it and you along with it and then throw down every last vestige of her left in the earth. Only then can he build you up as the New Jerusalem and plant you in his vineyard forever, only after Babylon has been "utterly destroyed" in you! Let him break all that is of pride in you, for it is in the soil of a broken heart that the things of his Spirit may grow.
Those who have "ears to hear" will respond with joy and come out of Babylon completely. In fact, throughout the law and the prophets, if you substitute the word "church" for "Israel", you have a clear picture of the spiritual history of the church. Much of the church believes they've replaced Israel. They haven't replaced them; they've followed in their footsteps!
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Jeremiah chapter fifty verse fourty four
"Behold he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her? For who is like me? And who will appoint me the time? And who is that shepherd that will stand before me?"
This verse is almost identical to Jeremiah 49:19. As I read this my heart's cry is "I will Lord, I will stand before you". He asks, "Who is like me?" I answer - "we are Lord, your covenant people, both Jew and Christian. We are being made into your image and your likeness. Hallelujah! Just as Adam and Eve were at the beginning, so shall we be at the end. I pray the chosen man he may appoint could be many end time generals he is raising up, acting as one, in one accord with the Holy Spirit and therefore with each other. Yet no one may appoint him the time - all times and seasons are in his hands. Sadly, for far too long, with the voice of the apostle and prophet silent in many a land, which means of course, his voice is silent, with his voice rebuked or ignored, God's people have this testimony - "THE STORK IN HEAVEN KNOWETH HER APPOINTED TIMES: AND THE TURTLE AND THE CRANE AND THE SWALLOW OBSERVE THE TIME OF THEIR COMING, BUT MY PEOPLE KNOW NOT THE JUDGMENT OF THE LORD. WHY THEN IS THIS PEOPLE of Jerusalem SLIDDEN BACK BY A PERPETUAL BACKSLIDING, THEY HOLD FAST DECEIT, THEY REFUSE TO RETURN, YET THEY SAY, WE ARE WISE AND THE LAW OF THE LORD IS WITH US" (IS:8:5-8). Substitute the word "Word" for "Law" in the last verse and you have a clear picture of much of the self titled Body of Christ today. Remember, the Church as we know it in much of the world is following in Israel's footsteps. Consider these passionate words from the Lord to the Jews and apply them to the majority of "christians" today, following the religious spirit and not the Lord's Spirit, for every sin Israel ever committed has been repeated by the Church- "BEHOLD, YE TRUST IN LYING WORDS THAT CANNOT PROFIT. WILL YE STEAL, MURDER, AND COMMITT ADULTERY (remember, in the New Covenant, we have only to look with lust, we have only to hate our brother or sister with our heart to committ these sins, for our covenant is a better one, written in our hearts, not outwardly on stone tablets) AND SWEAR FALSELY, AND BURN INCENSE UNTO BAAL, AND WALK AFTER OTHER GODS WHOM YE KNOW NOT; AND COME AND STAND BEFORE ME IN THIS HOUSE, WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME, AND SAY, WE ARE DELIVERED TO DO ALL THESE ABOMINATIONS? IS THIS HOUSE, WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME, BECOME A DEN OF ROBBERS IN YOUR EYES? BEHOLD, EVEN I HAVE SEEN IT, SAITH THE LORD. BUT GO YE NOW UNTO MY PLACE WHICH WAS IN SHILOH, WHERE I SET MY NAME AT THE FIRST, AND SEE WHAT I DID TO IT FOR THE WICKEDNESS OF MY PEOPLE ISRAEL. AND NOW, BECAUSE YE HAVE DONE ALL THESE WORKS, SAITH THE LORD, AND I SPAKE UNTO YOU (I sent Apostles and Prophets to you), RISING UP EARLY AND SPEAKING, BUT YE HEARD NOT; AND I CALLED YOU BUT YE ANSWERED NOT; THEREFORE WILL I DO UNTO THIS HOUSE, WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME, WHEREIN YE TRUST, AND UNTO THE PLACE WHICH I GAVE TO YOU AND TO YOUR FATHERS, AS I HAVE DONE TO SHILOH. AND I WILL CAST YOU OUT OF MY SIGHT AS I HAVE CAST OUT ALL YOUR BRETHREN, EVEN THE WHOLE SEED OF EPHRAIM. THEREFORE PRAY NOT FOR THIS PEOPLE, NEITHER LIFT UP CRY NOR PRAYER FOR THEM NEITHER MAKE INTERCESSION TO ME: FOR I WILL NOT HEAR THEE"(Jer:7:8-16).
I say to you this day, these verses directly apply to denominational christianity today. Yes, Lord, this house has become a den of robbers in my eyes. Oh how many churches are fleecing the people for every penny they can get, without a thought for the well fare of their souls! Oh how many people are putting their trust in their church or denomination, which is called by your name Lord, and not putting their trust in you! Psalm 78:60-64 describes what God did at Shiloh, he forsook his people there. This is the worst judgment God can pass on a nation or a people or an individual. When Jesus cried "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (Mark:15:34), he was bearing the worst judgment man will ever face, that of being separated from our Father who is in Heaven, hallowed be his name. Thank God Jesus bore this judgment on the Cross and all who trust him will never have to face this. Selah.
To be continued...
This verse is almost identical to Jeremiah 49:19. As I read this my heart's cry is "I will Lord, I will stand before you". He asks, "Who is like me?" I answer - "we are Lord, your covenant people, both Jew and Christian. We are being made into your image and your likeness. Hallelujah! Just as Adam and Eve were at the beginning, so shall we be at the end. I pray the chosen man he may appoint could be many end time generals he is raising up, acting as one, in one accord with the Holy Spirit and therefore with each other. Yet no one may appoint him the time - all times and seasons are in his hands. Sadly, for far too long, with the voice of the apostle and prophet silent in many a land, which means of course, his voice is silent, with his voice rebuked or ignored, God's people have this testimony - "THE STORK IN HEAVEN KNOWETH HER APPOINTED TIMES: AND THE TURTLE AND THE CRANE AND THE SWALLOW OBSERVE THE TIME OF THEIR COMING, BUT MY PEOPLE KNOW NOT THE JUDGMENT OF THE LORD. WHY THEN IS THIS PEOPLE of Jerusalem SLIDDEN BACK BY A PERPETUAL BACKSLIDING, THEY HOLD FAST DECEIT, THEY REFUSE TO RETURN, YET THEY SAY, WE ARE WISE AND THE LAW OF THE LORD IS WITH US" (IS:8:5-8). Substitute the word "Word" for "Law" in the last verse and you have a clear picture of much of the self titled Body of Christ today. Remember, the Church as we know it in much of the world is following in Israel's footsteps. Consider these passionate words from the Lord to the Jews and apply them to the majority of "christians" today, following the religious spirit and not the Lord's Spirit, for every sin Israel ever committed has been repeated by the Church- "BEHOLD, YE TRUST IN LYING WORDS THAT CANNOT PROFIT. WILL YE STEAL, MURDER, AND COMMITT ADULTERY (remember, in the New Covenant, we have only to look with lust, we have only to hate our brother or sister with our heart to committ these sins, for our covenant is a better one, written in our hearts, not outwardly on stone tablets) AND SWEAR FALSELY, AND BURN INCENSE UNTO BAAL, AND WALK AFTER OTHER GODS WHOM YE KNOW NOT; AND COME AND STAND BEFORE ME IN THIS HOUSE, WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME, AND SAY, WE ARE DELIVERED TO DO ALL THESE ABOMINATIONS? IS THIS HOUSE, WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME, BECOME A DEN OF ROBBERS IN YOUR EYES? BEHOLD, EVEN I HAVE SEEN IT, SAITH THE LORD. BUT GO YE NOW UNTO MY PLACE WHICH WAS IN SHILOH, WHERE I SET MY NAME AT THE FIRST, AND SEE WHAT I DID TO IT FOR THE WICKEDNESS OF MY PEOPLE ISRAEL. AND NOW, BECAUSE YE HAVE DONE ALL THESE WORKS, SAITH THE LORD, AND I SPAKE UNTO YOU (I sent Apostles and Prophets to you), RISING UP EARLY AND SPEAKING, BUT YE HEARD NOT; AND I CALLED YOU BUT YE ANSWERED NOT; THEREFORE WILL I DO UNTO THIS HOUSE, WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME, WHEREIN YE TRUST, AND UNTO THE PLACE WHICH I GAVE TO YOU AND TO YOUR FATHERS, AS I HAVE DONE TO SHILOH. AND I WILL CAST YOU OUT OF MY SIGHT AS I HAVE CAST OUT ALL YOUR BRETHREN, EVEN THE WHOLE SEED OF EPHRAIM. THEREFORE PRAY NOT FOR THIS PEOPLE, NEITHER LIFT UP CRY NOR PRAYER FOR THEM NEITHER MAKE INTERCESSION TO ME: FOR I WILL NOT HEAR THEE"(Jer:7:8-16).
I say to you this day, these verses directly apply to denominational christianity today. Yes, Lord, this house has become a den of robbers in my eyes. Oh how many churches are fleecing the people for every penny they can get, without a thought for the well fare of their souls! Oh how many people are putting their trust in their church or denomination, which is called by your name Lord, and not putting their trust in you! Psalm 78:60-64 describes what God did at Shiloh, he forsook his people there. This is the worst judgment God can pass on a nation or a people or an individual. When Jesus cried "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (Mark:15:34), he was bearing the worst judgment man will ever face, that of being separated from our Father who is in Heaven, hallowed be his name. Thank God Jesus bore this judgment on the Cross and all who trust him will never have to face this. Selah.
To be continued...
Monday, March 7, 2011
Jeremiah chapter 50 verses 41 - 43
"Behold a people shall come from the north, and a great Nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth". Like verse 9, this speaks of a great nation "from the North". We know that Mount Zion, the throne room of God, sits in the heavens on the "sides of the north" (Ps:48:2). I believe the great nation mentioned here, the "many kings raised up from the coasts of the earth" are God's great end time army of saints, the true sons and daughters of the Most High God. They are truly coming to Ireland, for example, from the coasts of the earth. I've met the Lord's kings sent from America, Africa, Europe and elsewhere, right here in Ireland.Remember, all of us in the Body are a nation of "kings and priests". Some of the african pastors I've met are true examples of God's own heart, mighty in word and in deeds. They are a credit to the Body of Christ, sent by God for such a time as this to break the back of Babylon here in Ireland, and the same is happening all over the world. God is raising up men and women who are free from Babylon's influence, and is sending them forth all over the world. You who are reading this blog, may be one of these kings God is raising and sending, hallelujah!
"They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon". It's about time we all became like "men to battle", for all of us who belong to Christ are in his service as soldiers, fighting the good fight of faith. We are to have no mercy on the devil, his demons and his will in the earth. "The sea" or seas in scripture represent the unsaved nations of man so this verse is telling us God's great end time army, like the sea, will be made up of all people's and tongues. God is no respecter of persons, outwardly, but has great respect to each person's heart. His warrior Bride will "roar like the sea", in other words, as much of a tumult and a noise the nations make, as much as they rage and take counsel against the Lord and against his anointed (Psalm 2), so shall we make a mighty noise, a roar (like the lion of Juda), when God commands it ON THE SEVENTH DAY, in the seventh millenium. A shout will be heart that will bring down the wall of Babylon around the earth. Like a brass ring, she will shatter at the sound of our battle cry. Once man's voice is silenced, God's voice can be heard. Our place is to shout. Here God speaks to the "daughter of Babylon". See, Babylon will be so utterly destroyed; even her seed will not remain. Everyone who serves and follows Satan is his spawn, his daughter, so to speak. As Jesus told the Pharisees "ye are of your father the devil" (Jn:8:44), so will he say of many in leadership today. They appear to be a part of the Body but are not. Many today are a part of the body of Satan, who appears as an angel of light. They are tares among the wheat and will be judged accordingly.
"The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail". This verse reveals to us Satan's reaction upon hearing of us, upon the mere knowledge of us, God's great, mature, end time army, full of faith and power to "overcome the wicked one" (1 Jn: 2:13), full of the anointing of the Holy Spirit. In spite of all of Satan's efforts, God is still delivering his people into freedom around the world, freeing them from Satan's grasp, teaching them how to do to Satan what he did to them - bind him, defeat him utterly, ultimately destroying all the works of the devil, all sin (for sin is of the devil). Isaiah 13:1-9 are companion verses to these found here in Jeremiah, especially verse nine - "And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them, they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth". Let me tell you, when a woman is travailing, she is completely helpless to do any thing else. It's interesting to me that when Jesus was prophesying about the last days in Mathew 24, he says in verse eight, "all these are the beginning of sorrows". Sorrows here refer to birth pains, as of a woman in travail. Could these verses be related? Could the "pangs of a woman in travail" found in Jer:50:43 be the same ones referred to in Mathew 24:8? Could Jesus have been referring to the final judgment of Babylon, the "Day of Judgment of our God" as I believe he did in Luke 17? Saints of God will not escape this travailing, either. We will and must travail to see righteousness birthed in the earth, to see precious souls born unto God. We must travail in prayer and supplication before God to see them saved.
We do know that God will always confirm his word in the mouth of two or three witnesses, do not be surprised if you hear the same thing I am teaching and preaching in this blog from another source. Even the very Godhead will bear witness to one another's word, amen.
"They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon". It's about time we all became like "men to battle", for all of us who belong to Christ are in his service as soldiers, fighting the good fight of faith. We are to have no mercy on the devil, his demons and his will in the earth. "The sea" or seas in scripture represent the unsaved nations of man so this verse is telling us God's great end time army, like the sea, will be made up of all people's and tongues. God is no respecter of persons, outwardly, but has great respect to each person's heart. His warrior Bride will "roar like the sea", in other words, as much of a tumult and a noise the nations make, as much as they rage and take counsel against the Lord and against his anointed (Psalm 2), so shall we make a mighty noise, a roar (like the lion of Juda), when God commands it ON THE SEVENTH DAY, in the seventh millenium. A shout will be heart that will bring down the wall of Babylon around the earth. Like a brass ring, she will shatter at the sound of our battle cry. Once man's voice is silenced, God's voice can be heard. Our place is to shout. Here God speaks to the "daughter of Babylon". See, Babylon will be so utterly destroyed; even her seed will not remain. Everyone who serves and follows Satan is his spawn, his daughter, so to speak. As Jesus told the Pharisees "ye are of your father the devil" (Jn:8:44), so will he say of many in leadership today. They appear to be a part of the Body but are not. Many today are a part of the body of Satan, who appears as an angel of light. They are tares among the wheat and will be judged accordingly.
"The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail". This verse reveals to us Satan's reaction upon hearing of us, upon the mere knowledge of us, God's great, mature, end time army, full of faith and power to "overcome the wicked one" (1 Jn: 2:13), full of the anointing of the Holy Spirit. In spite of all of Satan's efforts, God is still delivering his people into freedom around the world, freeing them from Satan's grasp, teaching them how to do to Satan what he did to them - bind him, defeat him utterly, ultimately destroying all the works of the devil, all sin (for sin is of the devil). Isaiah 13:1-9 are companion verses to these found here in Jeremiah, especially verse nine - "And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them, they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth". Let me tell you, when a woman is travailing, she is completely helpless to do any thing else. It's interesting to me that when Jesus was prophesying about the last days in Mathew 24, he says in verse eight, "all these are the beginning of sorrows". Sorrows here refer to birth pains, as of a woman in travail. Could these verses be related? Could the "pangs of a woman in travail" found in Jer:50:43 be the same ones referred to in Mathew 24:8? Could Jesus have been referring to the final judgment of Babylon, the "Day of Judgment of our God" as I believe he did in Luke 17? Saints of God will not escape this travailing, either. We will and must travail to see righteousness birthed in the earth, to see precious souls born unto God. We must travail in prayer and supplication before God to see them saved.
We do know that God will always confirm his word in the mouth of two or three witnesses, do not be surprised if you hear the same thing I am teaching and preaching in this blog from another source. Even the very Godhead will bear witness to one another's word, amen.
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