Greetings Beloved Reader,
My prayer for all of us is that we understand the moment in time we are now experiencing with the Lord. So many Christians are unaware of the deep intimate work the Lord is desiring to do in our hearts in preparing us to be a people made for His Glory!
In 2008, a divine change has come. I have written in our prophetic alert about the Western Gold Rush, and I am seeing this happen more and more each day. A Flame of God's burning presence has come to His hungering ones that is transfiguring them with Glory. The remarkable thing to me is that it is the 25 and under age group that is responding to this flame the most.
I have been blessed to watch the Lord gather these young ones to Himself and set them on fire with repentance, brokenness and His Glory. Many of these young ones are leading intercession with a burning passion throughout our region. The testimonies I hear from them is this, "we have never seen or felt the Lord like this in our lives. His fire is burning in us and all we can do is cry out to Him to establish us as His army."
Beloved, their is such an awakening happening in the hearts of the youth that is unparalleled to what I have ever seen. I have seen and attended youth conferences and rallies and they have been wonderful, but what I am witnessing now is EXTRAORDINARY! What is making this moment so extraordinary is whom they are seeing. They are seeing the Revelation of Jesus Christ as seen by John on the island of Pathmos.
In the Book the "Anointing of the Moment," God spoke to me about a changing of the day from the second day to the third day. He spoke to me that we are in a season of overlapping of the two days. Another words, these two days are existing at the same time. That is impossible in the natural realm, but not the super natural realm. The Lord can multi-task and work throughout time as He sees fit. (If you want to order a copy of the book, go to resources link on the http://www.flameofire2007.org/ site, it is worth the investment)
We have taught in the previous lessons about the conversation with Jesus with the Pharisees concerning Herod's' threatening against Jesus in Luke 13:32. I am not going to scripture reference them here since I have done that in all the preceding blogs. You can look for these references there if you like. When the Pharisee's came and warned Jesus of Herod's threatenings, Jesus said, "go tell that fox, that today and tomorrow I do healing and miracles, but on the third day I finish my course."
I wrote also in the previous blog the parallel truth found in Hosea chapter 6 verses 1-3. It says He has torn us, so He can heal us, after 2 days He will revive us, but on the third day He will raise up that we might live before Him. This teaching is going to be on these words, but on the third day He will raise us up. That is exactly what the first 4 chapters of the book of Revelation bring forth to our understanding.
The third day begins with a DIVINE CHANGE in our REVELATION of who JESUS IS NOW!
Most of the church still sees Jesus as their Savior and some as the Baptizer of the Holy Spirit. Many have gone on a little deeper to know Him as Healer, Provider, Friend and more. But on the third day a DIVINE CHANGE becomes necessary for the the people of God. A change that will take us past our present knowledge of God who is working in our midst, to the REVELATION that HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY AND FILLING US WITH HIMSELF AND MAKING US ONE! This new REVELATION of Jesus is going to be the answer to the prayer that He prayed in John chapter 17:22-24: Listen to His prayer
Joh 17:22 And the glory which you have given to me I have given to them, so that they may be one even as we are one;
Joh 17:23 I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.
Joh 17:24 Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.
This is what John the Beloved is going to see on the Island of Pathmos. This is the FACE to FACE Revelation of Jesus that is HERE right now as He stands in the midst of His church as a Refining Fire!
Most of us Christians believe in our minds that Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We even have written songs about this fact, but have we really seen or understood that HE IS THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS? If we have seen or known like this, we would never be still living the lives we are still living before him filled with luke warmness. This seeing the Lord as King Eternal is the very change that is necessary to complete the work that the Lord through the Holy Spirit has started in us. Beloved, I would dare to say that without this REVELATION of JESUS as KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS, we won't be able to fully change. (1Jn 3:2 My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is. )
How are we going to see the revelation of Him like this? That is a very good question to ask. We have written about Malachi chapter 3:1-3 as the condition for the Lord to come and reveal Himself in this manner is to be seeking Him diligently. We have stated that when He comes, He is coming as a Refining Fire and Fuller's soap. In 2007-2008 a call has gone forth from the Spirit of the Lord to come and WALK, DANCE or STAND in the very FLAME OF GOD! With this prophetic call, the Lord is bringing forth the revelation of the Holy of Hollies as our destination and dwelling place.
The Lord has begun to have me declare the sound of the war trumpet being sounded to His church to come dwell and live behind the veil. Most of our present church meetings bring us right up to where the veil has been torn in two, but very few have entered into the REALITY of the REAL LIFE IN CHRIST that lies behind the veil in the Holy of Hollies. The LIFE OF GOD HIMSELF, JAHOVAH GOD! That is what John is about to experience on the island of Pathmos. He is going to see Jesus Christ the one he so loved, as GOD ALMIGHTY HIMSELF!
We can not "go on to know the Lord" as it says in Hosea 6:3 without HIS COMING TO US AS A DAWN! The DAWN represent the beginning of a NEW DAY. OR A NEW REVELATION! In the book of Revelation chapter 1, We literally SEE THE DAWNING OF THIS NEW DAY! This new day is nothing less than the true and final REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST TO HIS CHURCH!
In 2004, I visited the Kansas City House of Prayer that Mike Bickle started. I was able to receive prophetic ministry from their prophetic team. One of the young ladies on this team spoke this psalm over me and said this is what God is speaking to you.
Psa 24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein. Psa 24:2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods.
Psa 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? Psa 24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, And hath not sworn deceitfully. Psa 24:5 He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, And righteousness from the God of his salvation. Psa 24:6 This is the generation of them that seek after him, That seek thy face, even Jacob. Selah.
Psa 24:7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in. Psa 24:8 Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle.Psa 24:9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; Yea, lift them up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in. Psa 24:10 Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory.
Selah.
Beloved Reader, this was a prophetic word released in the depth of me for our generation and why I am writing these blogs. Psalm 24:3 begins to speak of the INGREDIENTS NECESSARY to experience this REVELATION of the Lord as King of Kings. The question that burned in me through this prophetic word was, WHO IS THIS KING OF GLORY? What a question the Lord asks prophetically in this psalm. This psalm begins by declaring that everything belongs to the Lord. Then it ask a question, WHO CAN COME UP THE HILL OF THE LORD?
Who can come up the "mountain" of the Lord another translation writes? Who can begin to see God as He really is as the King of Glory? Then the psalmist gives us the answer in verses 24:4, HE THAT HAS CLEAN HANDS AND A PURE HEART! What does the Lord come to do in Malachi chapter 3 but to purify the priests like silver and gold. This would be having clean hands and a pure heart.
I pray you remember the historical truths of these events found in Revelation chapter 1 and psalm 24. A cry is going to come forth in this psalm, "Lift up your heads Oh ye gates,and be lifted up you everlasting doors. And the KING OF GLORY WILL COME IN. WHO IS THIS KING OF GLORY, THE LORD STRONG IN BATTLE, THE LORD OF HOST! This prophetic prayer is going to be answered as John the Beloved is going to be lifted up as an everlasting door to show us the King of Glory. He is going to reveal to us the REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST THAT IS COMING ON THE THIRD DAY TO THE CHURCH!
John was the Apostle that Jesus loved. He was the one that constantly put his head upon Jesus chest and loved him so much. If anyone should recognize Jesus intimately it was John. Yet it is this same John that is about to have encounter with Jesus he just was not prepared for. He was going to see the Lord in the Spirit as HE REALLY IS AS GOD ALMIGHTY!
I am going to try with the grace of God to expound this event that God prepared for him and for us 2000 years later in these blogs as far as it has been given to me. This Revelation is still be revealed and will continue to be until we see Him face to face. There is a hunger rising up in the hearts of His bride that is beginning to burn like an oven as we have never seen before. This burning desire to come into the FLAME OF GOD is bringing the presence of the Lord into our hearts as a flame of fire to refine us like gold and silver. At the same time it is also doing something supernatural with us as well. This FLAME OF GOD is actually beginning to lift us up out of the "earthly, carnal, and partial" revelation of Jesus as our Savior, to see Him as LORD OF LORD AND KING OF ALL KINGS!
This is what begins after 2 days, the revelation of Jesus Christ as He really is even BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, Praise GOD! The revivals or former moves of God over the past 300 years have awakened us to God's presence once again, but the revivals of the past and present have not been able to "finish the work." The finishing work of God is going to take a deeper and to us a "new revelation" of who He is! Why is this important to us? Because the church was brought into its birthing process by a revelation of who Jesus really was 2000 years ago. Let us see the beginning of the birthing process of the church in Mathew's Gospel chapter 16:13-18.
Mat 16:13 Now when Jesus had come into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he said, questioning his disciples, Who do men say that the Son of man is? Mat 16:14 And they said, Some say, John the Baptist; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. Mat 16:15 He says to them, But who do you say that I am?
Beloved, that was the QUESTION of all QUESTIONS! The Lord was seeking an answer that had to be REVEALED FROM GOD HIS FATHER to usher in the birthing of the church. Jesus asks the disciples two questions. First, who do men say that I am? This question is what most of the church history is based upon. We have learned about our present Jesus through the teachings of men for the most part.
We go to church on Sunday and listen to messages, teachings brought through Sunday and Wednesday services. In these services men through the Holy Spirit tell us who Jesus is. The original question of Jesus has echoed for 2000 years. The disciples past answer and our present answer to this question represents two part of the tabernacle, the outer courts and the Holy Place.
In this place of "having services" men are used to reveal who the Lord is by teachings, sacrifices and offerings or tending to the instruments of God found in the Holy Place. However, none of these things could cleanse the conscious of the true worshippers then and they can not today. So many people in the Body of Christ today feel so unworthy to come through the veil that was torn in two for them. They are laden down with guilt, comdemnation, sadness and unforgiveness that they cant even LIFT UP THEIR HEADS! Thousands of years ago, God touched a psalmist that would see our day and cry, LIFT UP YOUR HEADS OH YE GATES, AND LIFT UP YOUR HEADS YOU EVERLASTING DOORS!
All throughout this nation, God has been pouring out His great love to LIFT THE HEADS UP OF THOSE WHO HAVE AN EAR TO HEAR AND EYES TO SEE! Beloved the heads that God is lifting up in this present moment are not the heads of the unsaved, but the heads of His body and are going to church in such comdemnation. So many believers are condemned, filled with sorrow, guilt and shame because they are not living the "perfect Christian life" that they keep working harder and harder trying to earn God's love and favor. This has made a generation of believers that don't really "know the Lord as Himself." Many know Him for what He has done, what He provides, how He heals. The majority of Christians know the Lord for His works and what He provides, and not His ways of intimacy and love.
Our present generation of American Christians when asked this same question Jesus asked the disciples of who do men say that I am may come up with the same answers as 2000 years ago. Some say you are John the Baptist, some say you are Elijah or Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. Their answer seems staggering to us when we see how they walked with the Lord every day. Did the disciples really know who He was? The disciples that had been with Him from the beginning of the ministry, did they truly know Him as God Almighty?
The Lord continues this discussion with the disciples and personalizes the question a second time. BUT WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM? WOW, BELOVED! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE MAGNITUDE OF THIS QUESTION? I AM NOT EVEN SURE I DO AS I WRITE THIS! Jesus wanted to test and see if they could truly see who He is! Peter replies, the other 11 do not. Did Peter beat them to the punch? Or in contrast were the 11 clueless to who He really was. Listen to what Peter and Jesus say to one another in this dialogue.
Mat 16:16 And Simon Peter made answer and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Mat 16:17 And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven. Mat 16:18 And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell will not overcome it.
Peter says, YOU ARE THE CHRIST THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD! Right here in this moment the birthing process of the church begins. It begins with a REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST AS THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD! Why is this important to us. It is this beginning revelation that causes a travail to come forth to birth the church into it's purpose. The travail begins with a REVELATION OF JESUS.
I am going to bounce around, so I pray you can follow the flow of the Holy Spirit with me. I am going to have to continue this in other blog writings because there is so much the Lord wants us to see and understand. To understand the significance of this beginning revelation we have to go to the book of Zechariah chapter 4:1-9. I am going to put the whole chapter here, but I am going to focus with the grace of God on just one scripture for now! Please keep this for your reference notes because there is much in this chapter that will guide us in the book of Revelation.
Zec 4:1 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep. Zec 4:2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have seen, and, behold, a candlestick all of gold, with its bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are upon the top thereof; Zec 4:3 and two olive-trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.Zec 4:4 And I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
Zec 4:5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these are? And I said, No, my lord. Zec 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts. Zec 4:7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain; and he shall bring forth the top stone with shoutings of Grace, grace, unto it. Zec 4:8 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, Zec 4:9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto you.
This is where the Holy Spirit is bringing us understanding to understand the DIVINE CHANGE that we are now entering into is. This is how we can see the overlapping of the two days. How can the Lord have two days functioning together at the same time? Many in the Body of Christ are saying we are at the close of the second day, and they are right. Many in the Body of Christ are saying that the THIRD DAY has begun, and they are right.
There has been much bickering on what day we are really in, and the answer to that question is that WE ARE IN BOTH! THEY BOTH ARE RIGHT! Which day you are living in as a Christian is determined upon where you have allowed the Lord to bring you. Are you being led with Peter, James and John up the mountain of transfiguration to see the THIRD DAY, or are you with the 9 still living at the base of the mountain where they could not cast the devil out of the boy?
I can not tell you how or why some are hearing this and going up the mountain and some are not, but I can say those who are not are going up the mountain are getting pretty angry with those who are! Most of the church leadership are unawares of this place of spiritual lifting the Lord desires us to see on this Mount of transfiguration or understand the process.
This can bring great confusion in our midst with those who are seeing this process. I pray that we could all relax a little bit and give each other grace and love. Those who are not yet seeing this overlapping of days love the Lord and so do those who are seeing it and proclaiming it. Can we not just let God test and prove all things and shine the light in a greater way? There are some sadly that are seeing and rejecting this present work of God. All we can do is pray for each one to see the Lord as He wants to be seen and trust the Lord with the rest.
The Bride of the Lord has heard His call and she is coming up the mountain. They have the first revelation of Jesus already in their hearts, "you are the Christ the Son of the living God." This is the alpha or the beginning birthing of the church that was to be born on the day of Pentecost in Glory! (Romans chapter 8. Zech chapter 4, John chapter 2) There is another birthing that will bring forth a "new revelation of Jesus Christ as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the FINISHING WORK OF GOD.
Zachariah is going to prophecy this FINISHING WORK it listen: Zec 4:9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it! Do you see it Beloved Reader? He (whose hands started the work) that has begun a good work in you, will be FAITHFUL(whose hands will finish the work) to COMPLETE IT? The hands of Zerrubabel our nothing less prophetically than Jesus hands who is in charge of building the Temple of God.
Jesus asks the disciples, "Who do men say that I am?" They answered Him by what they heard spoken, " Some say you are Elijah, some say Jeremiah." Jesus says, BUT WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM? Here Beloved in Mathew we see the corner stone or BEGINNING REVELATION OF THE CHURCH BIRTHING: YOU ARE THE CHRIST THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD!
But Zerrubabel hands are also going to finish the work as well, SO ARE JESUS'S. what is the last book of the Bible called. THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST TO HIS CHURCH! This revelation is not like the "beginning revelation" of Jesus as savior. This revelation is going to come to John the Beloved as a "voice like many waters coming from BEHIND HIM!" He does not recognize this voice, nor will He recognize this side of Jesus." Jesus has to REVEAL HIMSELF ALL OVER AGAIN TO JOHN AS THE KING OF GLORY FOR HIM TO UNDERSTAND HIS END-TIME PLANS." BELOVED THIS IS THE SAME HANDS THAT STARTED THIS WORK IN US. NOW WE ARE GOING TO SEE THE HANDS OF JESUS FINISHING THE WORK IN US. IT WILL BE BIRTHED BY BRINGING FORTH A REVELATION OF THE GLORY OF JESUS CHRIST AS GOD ALMIGHTY.
This is a DIVINE CHANGE of THE REVELATION OF GOD! A finishing revelation that God Himself is laying in His Church as a FINISHING STONE! This stone is going to release in us what Jesus said from the cross, "FATHER, IT IS FINISHED! ARE YOU JUMPING UP AND DOWN YET? Listen to the last part of verse of Zechariah 4:9, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts has sent me unto you.
This Revelation begins in the book of Revelation with a divine change of the "voice of the Lord." Today go home and re-read John's description of Jesus in Revelation chapter one and pray over this before the next time we get together on this blog site. Allow the Holy Spirit to open your heart to the "new day" that is dawning and in our midst. Zechariah 4:10 tells us how important this "little truth" of the beginning of the third day overlapping the second day is. Let us read this together.
Zec 4:10 For who hath despised the day of small things (beginnings)? for these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; these are the eyes of Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
Yes Beloved reader, this is a small thing to many in the Body of Christ right now. Many are completely unaware of the DIVINE CHANGE that has come.This change will finish the work Jesus has begun in us, and we will see the Glory of the Lord being revealed in us (Isaiah chapter 60.) This Finishing moment begins with a SECOND REVELATION of JESUS CHRIST!
This second revelation doesn't save you, the first one did. The second revelation brings the finishing of what He started into our life. The timing of these events begins with Jesus asking us in our day the same question He asked His disciples, "BUT WHO DO YOU SAY I AM?" What will our generation say back to Him? That depends on our true hearts desires. If you are desiring the Lord to come to your temple like a refining fire, then the Lord will work in you the very REVELATION HE GAVE TO JOHN ON THE ISLAND OF PATHMOS!
This PRESENT generation is going to say, know and experience the FINISHING WORK OF GOD AND DECLARE IT WITH A GREAT BOLDNESS! THIS GENERATION OF "BURNING ONES", THESE "HOLY ONES" OF THE MOST HIGH GOD,WILL BEAR WITINESS OF WHO HE IS RIGHT NOW: Listen to the voice of God in the youth that is now here:
YOU ARE THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, HE WHO IS AND WHO WAS, AND WHO IS TO COME. WE WILL FEAR NOT, BECAUSE YOU ARE THE FIRST AND THE LAST, AND THE LIVING ONE. THE ONE WAS DEAD, BUT BEHOLD YOU ARE ALIVE FOREVERMORE, AND YOU HAVE THE KEYS TO DEATH AND HELL!"
Beloved this was the true purpose of His revealing to John HIS FULL GLORY. This REVELATION OF JESUS is to declare a DIVINE CHANGE HAS COME to the church! If we will just come to Him and WALK INTO THE FLAME OF GOD. The Holy Spirit says," He who has an ear to hear, what the Spirit says to the churches . A DIVINE CHANGE HAS COME and these very words you are hearing are to burn in your heart so we can have the testimony: That we have been with Jesus and kwow Him as KING AND LORD!
Rev 1:8 I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. Fear not; I am the first and the last, Rev 1:18 and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
Until next time Beloved!
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