PROPHETIC CHAMBER
Jesus Christ has redeemed us by His blood and made us kings and priests, and this is why it is essential that we are aware of our assigned responsibility and authority in Christ (see Revelation 1:5-6).
 
Revelation 1:5-6:
… 5 and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, 6 and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father – to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.
 
What is Authority?
 
=> Authority, from lat. 'Auctoritas' (originally from 'auctor', meaning 'author', 'creator', 'promoter'), is present wherever order is required and needed to organize life and areas in society.
 
=> A) Authority is the lawful right and the power to enforce obedience, alter and restrain behavior.
B) Authority also includes conduct by one person or group using the authority of a higher one.
 
Authority is linked to positions and to persons who are in positions. People enter authority when being assigned for particular jobs or set in an official post.
 
This means also authority is held within positions, so that titles of positions provide information about the work, scope of duties and range of power. These titles exist prior to the person's entering into a position, so that authority precedes authorization and persists.
 
Authority creates the place where lawful actions and legitimate initiatives and also power can be exercised.
 
Leaving or exiting positions removes an individual's authority because it was resident within the office. A person may have a considerable influence (note: through life and work experience and/or by contacts acquired during the period of service) after leaving, but legal actions are not longer permitted.
 
Authority exercised apart from an official position (note: may include lawlessness or influence) is limited in its ability to lawfully effect change or enforce rules that govern conduct and behavior.
 
In order to achieve the effects of an authority figure, an influential person as a recipient of the influence must be legally installed in an office with authority to enact, legislate, or perform what the influential person desires or envisions. <= (based on an explanation of the term 'authority' from the book 'Divine Order for Spiritual Dominance' by Paula A. Price, Ph.D.; page 26 and page 27)
 
True Authority And Abusive Authority
 
=> In a biblical context, governing authority occur where leaders get favored by God and by men (see 1 Samuel 2:26; Luke 2:52).
 
1 Samuel 2:26:
26 And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the Lord and with people.
 
Luke 2:52:
52 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
 
By the assigned power of God people occupy the Promised Land and it's authority. As an example we could take the rulership of a king, so the right hand of the king would symbolize the side of power that instructs and the left hand would represent the side of authority. This means authority is located within the Kingdom and power is exercised with the intention to expand the Kingdom.
Therefore it is important, that responsible leaders within the Body of Christ as well as in the secular area are not reigning by power in terms of control but through the authority that they have. However, when they only rule by power, they are dictators.
Governance in authority will take place when persons find favor in the eyes of God and men.
Dictators govern by positional authority over people who have been forced to being subordinated.
 
True spiritual leaders with a humble heart, are focused on doing God's will and not the will of men. It is God who puts favor into people's hearts for their executives, so that they can work effectively in their given authority. This favor supports them to take influence in the hearts of men.
Therefore it is important that leaders do not demand their authority by humans. If this kind of demand occurs, it would only lead to and be developed from this area of 'power' that ultimately leads to an oppressive dictatorship. God does not want His people to be governed dictatorially, but fatherly-royal (see 1 Corinthians 4:15).
 
1 Corinthians 4:15:
15 Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
 
We have to know what authority is, how and when it works in order to walk in the authority of God within the assigned realm of responsibility. In the kingdom of God authority is the result of responsibility.
 
Generally speaking, in every area of the church we only have authority to the degree, to where we have responsibility. If we are not responsible for an area or defined scope of duties, we simply do not have authority in it.
 
And in order to have much authority, a person must stay submitted to saints of a higher level of authority than herself/himself.
 
We can see this also in the examples of the leading of the people of Israel by Moses and Aaron, in the following of Elisha after the prophet Elijah and the discipleship of Jesus. <= (note: based on a message from John Paul Jackson†, that he once taught at a conference)
 
Speaking the Right Words

Especially persons in leadership positions should speak in the right way, so that the God of Israel is glorified. To speak the right words means to be like Naphtali, the son of Jacob, who was blessed by his father to speak beautiful words (see Genesis 49:21).

Genesis 49:21:
21 “Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns (note: words). …”

The Hebrew word for “good/beautiful” is “šäṗär” and derives from the Hebrew root word “sâṗar”, which means “to be beautiful, to please, to glisten” (note: partial excerpt from the Elberfelder Study Bible with the word key number: 8475* – šäṗär and 8473 – sâṗar as well as the Strong's concordance with the word key number: H8231 – shâphar).

That is why it is important to God that leaders in the body of Christ should have covered their words with the glory of God, just as God engraved His ten words with fire through His index finger into the two tablets of stone (see Exodus 31:18 i.c.w. 2 Corinthians 3:6b; Proverbs 25:11).
 
Exodus 31:18:
18 When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
 
2 Corinthians 3:6b:
… 6b for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
 
Proverbs 25:11:
11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
 
In this context, the Holy Spirit revealed to me the principle of proper government and authority through the 24 elders before the throne of God (see Revelation 4:4.9-11).
 
Revelation 4:4.9-11:
4 Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. …
9 Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever,
10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:
11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”
 
Seated in the Heavenly Places

This means that according to the standard of the Word of God we are supposed to stay in the heavenly places in the Spirit where the living God governs (see Ephesians 2:4-6 i.c.w. Colossians 3:1-2).

Ephesians 2:4-6:
4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions – it is by grace you have been saved.
6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, …

Colossians 3:1-2:
1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

This area of government is in the midst of pure water, reflecting the presence of God's fertility and being (see Revelation 4:6).

Revelation 4:6:
6 Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back.
 
The Crystal Sea in the Throne Room of God

It is the crystal sea that simultaneously reflects any movement in the throne room of God in one moment. This “upper water” prophesies with its character the essence of the God of Israel – YHVH – I AM.

This reflection is also an indication of the unity of the heavenly movements, because they are simultaneously reflected in the crystal sea in different areas.

All movements in the throne room are united by the presence of the crystal sea with the governing being of the Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ (see Revelation 4:2-3 i.c.w. Mark 16:19).
 
Revelation 4:2-3:
2 At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it.
3 And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby. A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne.
 
Mark 16:19:
19 After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God.
 
24 Elders in the Throne Room of God
 
The twenty-four elders in the throne room of God described in Revelation are among other things a clear indication of the structure of the one new man according to Ephesians 2:15 (note: 12 sons of Jacob, 12 apostles of the Lamb => the sonship of God that results from the work of the redemption of Jesus).
 
Ephesians 2:15 (Jewish New Testament by David H. Stern):
... 15 by destroying in his (note: Jesus Christ) own body the enmity occasioned by the Torah, with its commands set forth in the form of ordinances. He did this in order to create in union with himself from the two groups a single new humanity and thus make shalom, …
 
It is said that the 24 elders sit on a throne in white garments with golden crowns (note: crowns of victory => because of the victories achieved by the triumph of Jesus on the cross) and unite with the high praise of the four living beings of God. They do this by rising from their thrones with a humble heart in order to appear on the crystal sea kneeling down worshiping God and giving Him glory.
 
For us as saints living on earth it is required to be in agreement with heaven, which also means that we are living in the understanding of the one new man in the royal priesthood (note: 24 => 24 priest classes; see 1 Chronicles 24:1-19) as sons of God in Christ in the realm of divine government.
 
This is closely associated with true humility that comes from the sound of God's being and enables us to leave our respective thrones assigned by God for the reverence of God, and then return to divine government again.
 
This process involves a continuous interchange between kingdom government and worship, equivalent to the two different movements of the human heart (note: systole and diastole).
 
The Meaning of True Spiritual Worship
 
This kind of worship has the effect that each individual saint recognizes himself in his identity in the structure of the one new man in the royal priesthood of God as in the crystal sea without forgetting about who one is in Christ Jesus in the Father. This prevents from becoming proud or arrogant by defining ourselves through our God-given gifts, abilities and works.
 
Our God-given responsibility and the resulting authority comes first and foremost from heavenly worship, which doesn't demand anything from God, but rather involves giving everything to Him for His glory.
 
At this point, it is repeatedly noted that it is the sound of the worship of the four living beings before the throne of God that inspires the 24 elders to leave their thrones to go down on their knees worshiping before God's throne as they lay down their experiences of victory in Christ before God and join with the high praise of God.
 
This process involves the coming together of the worship of heaven and earth, consciously linked together by God. This is also illustrated by the story of creation, in which the “waters” play an important role (see Genesis 1:1-2.6-8).
 
Genesis 1:1-2.6-8:
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. …
6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”
7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.
8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning – the second day.
 
Personally, I don't consider it a coincidence that Moses, while leading the people of Israel through the desert together with his brother Aaron, also faced challenges related to the people's desire for sweet water.
 
In all the events the desire of the people of Israel for drinkable water was centered on the wood, which is an indication of the importance of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, His resurrection and the authority entrusted by Him (see Exodus 15:23-25; Exodus 17:1-2a.5-6; Numbers 20:1-2.7-12).
 
Exodus 15:23-25 (The transformation of the bitter waters of Mara):
23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.)
24 So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”
25 Then Moses cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became fit to drink. There the Lord issued a ruling and instruction for them and put them to the test.
 
Exodus 17:1-2a.5-6 (The water of the rock in the desert of Sin):
1 The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
2 So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?” …
5 The Lord answered Moses, “Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
6 I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.
 
Numbers 20:1-2.7-12 (The water of the rock in the desert of Zin):
1 In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
2 Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron. …
7 The Lord said to Moses, 8 “Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink.”
9 So Moses took the staff from the Lord’s presence, just as he commanded him.
10 He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?”
11 Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.
12 But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”
 
Those three events mentioned above were experienced by the people of Israel and their leaders (note: Moses and Aaron) at different times and in different places. This makes it clear that it is necessary, especially for saints who have received the grace from God to be allowed to stand in spiritual leadership, to correctly recognize and evaluate by the Holy Spirit the times and places of God.
 
This is also linked to the need to act correctly and to speak to people according to God's will. This is about the right application of the power of Jesus' triumph on the cross.
 
The Place of Mara
 
Mara, was the place where the Lord, through righteous action, removed interpersonal bitterness through the wood (note: cross) to provide His love to the people of Israel (see John 3:16 i.c.w. John 4:10).
 
John 3:16:
16 For God (note: the Father) so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
 
John 4:10:
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
 
The Desert of Sin
 
The desert of Sin (note: means “excrement” => region of sinful behavior) was the place where the Lord, through His given authority to Moses (note: symbolized by the dry rod), already encoded the revelatory truth about the power of the forgiveness of sins by the death of Jesus on the cross, in order to lead the people of Israel through forgiveness into an expansion (note: “Rephidim” means “expansions/extensions” => cooperative expansion; see Romans 3:22-26 i.c.w. Colossians 3:16).
 
Romans 3:22-26:
22 This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement,9 through the shedding of his blood – to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished – 26 he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
 
Colossians 3:16:
16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
 
The Desert of Zin
 
It is said that the people of Israel in the first biblical month (note: Nissan/Abib => It is the month in which Passover – The blood of the Lamb is celebrated and where Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose from the dead) lost their prophetic voice (note: Miriam; see Exodus 15:20) in Kadesh (note: means “consecrated” => place of separation with God) in the desert of Zin (note: means “rock embankment” => region of security in God).
 
This place was an encoded indication from God to His people that He wanted to give them a new vision, so that they would go as consecrated ones secured with a renewed conscience in the power of the blood of the Lamb into their God predestined future (see Hebrews 9:14).
 
Hebrews 9:14:
14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
 
Self-control in Dealing with Words
 
It means high responsibility in every form of leadership to control oneself in action and communication before God and the people. This involves, in the assigned authority by God, releasing the revelatory truth (note: water from the rock) through the power of the spoken word of God (note: prophecy) based on the victorious death of Jesus and His resurrection (note: green rod; see Numbers 17:5.8 i.c.w. Luke 23:31).
 
Numbers 17:5.8:
5 The staff belonging to the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid myself of this constant grumbling against you by the Israelites.” …
8 The next day Moses entered the tent and saw that Aaron’s staff, which represented the tribe of Levi, had not only sprouted but had budded, blossomed and produced almonds.
 
Luke 23:31:
31 For if people do these things when the tree (note: wood) is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
 
Unfortunately, Moses didn't control himself in the desert of Zin and acted out of false zeal of the generation line of Levi, so that he was forbidden to enter the Promised Land (see Numbers 20:12).
 
Numbers 20:12:
12 But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”
 
It was Levi, the son of Jacob, who, out of unbridled anger or revenge, together with his brother Simeon, carried out his own judgment on the Shechemites (see Genesis 34:25-31).
 
Genesis 34:25-31:
25 Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male.
26 They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem’s house and left.
27 The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where their sister had been defiled.
28 They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields.
29 They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.
30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me obnoxious to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
31 But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
 
The reason for the prohibition of entry into the Promised Land against Moses is hidden in the fact that he was in a consecrated place of safety in God, in the time frame of the blood of the Lamb, and in a higher responsibility towards the people of Israel, because the staff of Aaron had already been flourished and was lying in the presence of God (see Numbers 17:23.25-26).
 
Moses violated by his uncontrolled action and speaking before God and the people the rock and the authority of God transferred to him by the resurrection power.
 
The Water of the Rock and Unbridled Anger
 
It says in Numbers 20:8 that the rock would give its water. This means that the water was not some ordinary water, but the water of the Son of God, because the rock is already a reference to Jesus Christ.
 
In 1 Corinthians 10:4, the apostle Paul writes: “… and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.”
 
When Moses first came into contact with the rock in the desert of Sin, he followed the command of God and acted by faith.
 
The second time, however, he fell into the unbridled drive so that he was displeased and negatively called the people of Israel “rebels” (see Numbers 20:10a).
 
4.Moses 20:10a:
10a He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, …
 
Furthermore, he struck the rock twice, once for Aaron and once for himself. As a result, God forbid both of them to enter the Promised Land and as well as the blessing.
 
This clearly shows how devastating it can be to fall into unbridled anger.
It is fundamentally wrong to let things get beyond control and at the same time being convinced that one must prove one's relationship with God to someone. In such situations, God cannot stand with you, which always has a corresponding consequence.
 
From the Word of God we can see that there was no such humble man as Moses (see Numbers 12:3).
 
Numbers 12:3:
3 (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)
 
Moses waited longingly for years and had an exemplary humble heart, but in spite of all this his unbridled anger destroyed his future.
 
Unbridled anger has the consequence that a person who is close to you and very much appreciates you is “transformed” by words into something that doesn't correspond to the will of God at all. As a result, you cannot receive God's blessing in a certain area of life.
 
Thus it becomes clear that as a saint it is necessary to be sober and considerate in one's choice of words and not to fail in the end, after all the challenges and miracles in life.
 
Moses didn't disappoint the God of Israel in his failure, but himself.
The reason why Moses challenged the God of Israel in his action is because God wanted to show the people of Israel that Moses had already reached a higher place and level in Him, so that he no longer had to use his rod but was already in the authority of the Word.
 
According to the access to the throne of grace by the blood of the Lamb of God (note: Jesus Christ), we can learn from the consequence that Moses had to carry the principle of authority, which consists in the fact that the more responsibility we have, the stricter/higher the standards for our actions are (see Luke 12:48b).
 
Luke 12:48b:
… 48b From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
 
(note: This message is based on a revelatory teaching from the book “Tribes of Israel – Tribes of Israel” by Gwen Shaw.†)
 
Amen and Amen.
 
In His Wisdom,
 
Daniel Glimm

PROPHETIC CHAMBER
In connection with the weighty presence of God, which is also called “kābôd” dealing with “honor, dignity, glory, majesty, prestige” and “heaviness” (note: partial excerpt from the Elberfelder Study Bible on the Hebrew word “kābôd” with the word key number 3593), the Holy Spirit is emphasizing Habakkuk 2:11.

Habakkuk 2:11:
11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

Even if this biblical scripture is about the warning call due to the burden of the unrighteous path and its consequences, Jesus used it against the Pharisees after He had entered the city of Jerusalem as king and had been proclaimed king by His disciples and the people (see Luke 19:35-40).

Luke 19:35-40:
35 They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it.
36 As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road.
37 When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen: 38 “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
39 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”
40 “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”
 
Based on Luke 19:39 we can see that some Pharisees asked Jesus to silence His disciples as they were proclaiming Him king.

Personally, I believe that Jesus' disciples discerned the timing correctly and felt the weighty presence of the majesty of God. Therefore, they were unable to remain silent about the truth of Jesus Christ as king.

In response to the Pharisees' demand to Jesus to instruct His disciples to be silent, Jesus used the content of Habakkuk 2:11 against them in a positive context, by codifying the weight of the movement of His kingdom. The disciples were led to announce Jesus Christ as king in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.

How the Pharisees were behaving, who in our day represent the influence of the religious spirit, shows clearly that they intended to stop the movement of the kingdom. It is the religious spirit that tries to forbid the advancement of the Kingdom of God or Heaven.
 
Kingdom of God
 
=> The Kingdom of God is the dominion of God within the believer through the way of the Holy Spirit.
It is the presence of God that dwells in a person as His holy habitation. This presence releases to the recipient the Godhead's embodiment which includes all the benefits, provisions and power characteristics of the Creator God and His eternal kingdom.
The embodiment releases the hand of God to move and exercise His authority wherever a believer is present. <= (The text set in “=>” is based on the definition from the „Prophet`s Dictionary„ of Paula A. Price, Ph. D.; Seite 298, word number 737)
 
The Kingdom of Heaven
 
=> The Kingdom of Heaven is the dominion and power of God's orders, systems, rules, and ways in the affairs of men. It is the influence of the Church of Jesus Christ in the world and what imposes the authority of Jesus Christ upon the world as the ruler of the Kingdom of God and His heavens. <= (The text set in “=>” is based on the definition from the „Prophet`s Dictionary„ of Paula A. Price, Ph. D.; Seite 298, word number 738)
 
Pharisees
 
=> The term “Pharisees” means “the separated ones”. They have been the strongest religious party since the time of the Macabean wars. They were eager to honor the inheritance of Israel, the Torah and the traditions of their fathers. Not only the writings in the Law of Moses, but also the verbally transmitted detailed and strict rules of application, the “Statutes of the Elders”, i.e. the older teachers of the Law (see Matthew 15:2), had to be observed in daily life. Their danger was legalism, which leads to self-righteousness, pride and loveless hardness. <= (note: The text set in “=>” is a part excerpt from the Luther Bible 1984 No. 03/07, dictionary word number: 15)
 
The Religious Spirit
 
=> The religious spirit is a demonic power, which wants to stop with all force the transformation process of the church. This approach or attack is carried out by the religious spirit through all ages.
When one considers the literal meaning of “religion”, the word means “to think about divine things”.
 
Furthermore, the word “religion” has three meanings in the Word of God:
  1. external religious acts, such as prayer and going to church;
  2. the feeling of absolute dependence;
  3. and the observance of moral laws as a divine institution.
James 1:26-27 defines “religion” from the Christian point of view:
 
“If someone thinks he serves God and does not keep his tongue in check, but deceives his heart, his worship is void.
A pure and immaculate worship before God the Father is that of visiting orphans and widows in their tribulation and keeping themselves immaculate from the world.”
 
Religion is associated with worship, and when it is pure, it is very powerful. However, religion is also defined as an organizational system of doctrine with a cheap pattern of behavior.
 
This means that behavior has to demonstrate a proper form of worship. This is where we move from pure and unpolluted religion into rituals and traditions. Demons of doctrines rob people of their freedom to worship the holy God in purity through institutional rules and regulations of worship.
 
The religious spirit especially resists the apostolic and prophetic anointing because demons hate God-given revelation and pioneering nature for the church. They (note: people under this religious influence) resist the gifts in the body of Christ which bring revelatory freedom to the members of the body.
 
They try to stone the revelations of the apostles and prophets because their revelatory words establish God's foundation in the church for this age.
1 Corinthians 12:28 establishes an order of ruling gifts in the church for victory in the world. This order is:
 
Apostles and prophets.
 
Religious spirits try to resist the order of God and His initiated change. It is the Spirit of God who helps people's thoughts and thought processes to implement change and transformation on earth. However, it is the carnal mind of man that opposes this and is in enmity with God (see Galatians 5:17).
 
Galatians 5:17:
17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.
 
Religious spirits try to block strategic thinking for the future. They can bring people into a routine, or into a rut, so that they do not want to go into a change associated with victory. In the New Testament, the disciples of the Lord should have a revelation about how He is, who they are and who their enemies were.
 
Through Jesus Christ, the Pharisees or scribes were given the choice either to oppose the divine nature of the Son of God or to align themselves with Jesus. It was up to them either to observe the rules of worship at the place where changes in behavior took place in worship, or to begin worshiping in spirit and truth. <= (note: The text set in “=>” is an analogously excerpt from the book “God's Now Time for Your Life”," pages 113-116 by Chuck D. Pierce, ISBN: 0-8307-3834-7)
 
The Cry of the Stones

Jesus pointed out to the Pharisees by saying “the stones will cry out” that He had already established a unified way of thinking in the hearts of His disciples, so that they proclaimed the truth of God as living stones (see 1 Peter 2:4-5).

1 Peter 2:4-5:
4 As you come to him, the living Stone – rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him – 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

The disciples of Jesus have already been under Jesus' apostolic guidance, so that they joined together like molecules or atoms in the stone of the wall according to Habakkuk 2:11 as one unit and therein began to proclaim the revelatory truth about Jesus Christ.

The Power of the Magnet

The call to the discipleship of Jesus and the subsequent discipleship of the disciples can easily be explained by the power of a magnet.
When Jesus Christ (note: symbol for the magnet) called His disciples to discipleship, He drew them into discipleship with His presence. Using this example of a magnet, it means that Jesus Christ as a “magnet” drew the not yet magnetized iron pieces (note: His disciples) to Him.

As the disciples followed Him, they developed the same pulling power, so that the people to whom the disciples were sent came into contact with the power of Jesus (see Mark 3:14-15).

Mark 3:14-15:
14 He appointed twelve (note: apostles) that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach 15 and to have authority to drive out demons.

This clearly shows how essential it is to be in a true apostolic alignment with saints.
 
=> To explain the discipleship of Jesus using the example of the magnetic power, it can be said that the magnet can have the same size and weight as a piece of metal and even be made of the same material. Chemically, they are identical, but the magnet possesses powers that the normal piece of iron doesn't carry.

The difference between these two pieces of iron (note: the magnet and the average piece of iron) is that in the non-magnetic piece of iron the molecules are not properly connected. They are all present in the iron part and have their own magnetic fields, but they do their own thing and go their own way. The result of such a process is that there is no magnetic power.

However, the non-magnetic piece of iron can become a powerful magnet if it is brought into a strong magnetic field for a certain time, causing the molecules in the piece of iron to align properly, so that the force of the alignment is evident.

Similarly, God led His people to Sinai and brought them for a year into the strong magnetic field of His glory to bring them into the right alignment. He even connected them physically by positioning the Tabernacle in the middle and having all tribes camped around it.

To the east He positioned the tribes of Judah, Issachar and Zebulun. In the south He positioned Reuben, Simeon and Gad. The Levites set out with the revelation tent. In the west He positioned Ephraim, Manasseh and Benjamin. In the north He positioned Dan, Asher and Naphtali.

Each of the tribes of the people of Israel were placed in a certain place by God in a certain wind, so that His power could move accordingly correctly. First, the tribes were all in alignment.

God knew that they were all different, which meant that each tribe had its own calling and destiny. Everyone had their own gifts and abilities.

For example, Judah understood warfare and worship (see Genesis 49:8-12; Judges 1:1-2). Issaschar understood the times and seasons (see 1 Chronicles 12:32). Zebulun knew how to be successful in business (see Genesis 49:13; Deuteronomy 33:18-19).

God took the tribes of Israel and aligned them together in such a way that all had the opportunity to walk in prosperity. And in exactly the same way Jesus has aligned His disciples (see Mark 6:7).

In 1 Corinthians 12 we can read that God put His body together on earth, indicating that He has a plan for each individual saint in His body to put him together with the right tribe so that he may succeed and flourish like a flower would.

Not only were the tribes connected, but they were also in link with the ark of the covenant, suggesting that everyone was in touch with the glory of God. When each tribe was properly aligned, there was a place for the glory of God to come down and dwell among them. <= (note: The message set in “=>” is based on a revelatory teaching of Dr. Robert Heidler of Glory of Zion Ministries, which he wrote in the book “A Time To Advance” on pages 173-175.)
 
Conclusion

In connection with Habakkuk 2:11 God shows that when He comes upon us as His people with His weighty presence, it is required to remain as living stones according to God's standard in His intended apostolic alignment for us (note: stones in the wall), so that we can proclaim as one the revelation of God.

In all of this, it is important that we carry the green wood (note: cross of Jesus => the simplicity of Christ; see Luke 23:31) in the center of our community, which means having a humble heart in order to understand correctly the groaning of the Spirit in us and the speaking of God (see Romans 8:26).

Romans 8:26:
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.

The result is that through the revelatory knowledge of God we can respond to people in comprehensible words, whether they want to hear the truth or not (see Habakkuk 2:11 i.c.w. Luke 19:39).

Habakkuk 2:11:
11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

Luke 19:40:
40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
 
It is time to get rid of our own ideas and disappointments from the past and give ourselves fully to the Holy Spirit in His sovereign guidance in order to glorify Jesus Christ and the Father who sent Him out of love with what is assigned to each one of us.
 
Amen and Amen.
 
In His Wisdom,
 
Daniel Glimm

PROPHETIC CHAMBER
Jesus Christ, who is the fulfillment of the Torah and the prophets, shows us the importance to read the Word of God from the view of His accomplished work of redemption.
 
Doing this in this way means that the truth of the Word of God is active in a redemptive character, leading us deeper into His freedom (see Matthew 5:17, John 8:31b-32.36).

Matthew 5:17:
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law (note: Torah) or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

John 8:31b-32.36:
… 31b “If you hold to my (note: Jesus Christ) teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” …
36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

The Hebrew Servant in the House of his Master

In connection with this, the Lord led me to Exodus 21:1-6, which deals with the principles and law of Hebrew servants.
 
Exodus 21:1-6:
1 “These are the laws you are to set before them: 2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.
3 If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.
4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
5 “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’
6 then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.
 
In this regard, the Holy Spirit emphasized the person who purchased a Hebrew slave and brought him into his house to serve him there.

Since Paul spoke of the fact that not the one who is outwardly circumcised is a Jew, but the one who has been circumcised at heart, we as Gentile believers can recognize a reference to the Hebrew servant (see Romans 2:28-29).

Romans 2:28-29:
28 A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.
29 No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.

On the basis of this principle it was revealed to me, that there is a connection between Jesus Christ and us as faithful believers who are preciously redeemed with His blood and set into the administration of authority and divine relationship (see Revelation 1:5-6).

Revelation 1:5-6:
… 5 and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, 6 and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.

True Discipleship

True disciples are people who not only believe in Christ, but have the heart of a true disciple. This means that these believers do not consider their own life, family and possessions as their own, but as serving potential for Jesus Christ and the Heavenly Father (see Matthew 10:37 i.c.w. Galatians 2:20; Exodus 21:5-6).

Matthew 10:37:
37 “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. …”

Galatians 2:20:
20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Exodus 21:5-6:
5 “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’ 6 then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.

True discipleship means to be fully submitted to the authority of Jesus. This implies an absoluteness of ‘discipleship’ going far beyond any traditional understanding and standard. A disciple of Jesus Christ must be willing to leave everything and anytime behind for the sake of the beginning dominion of God (see Luke 9:57-62; Luke 14:25-27).
 
=> True disciples of Christ are disciples/students who always learn, grow and search more for the knowledge of their callings and goals as well as implement what Jesus instructs them to do. This way of life is an expression of love towards Jesus Christ (see John 14:23).<= (note: The text set in “=>” is based on a quotation by Rick Joyner).
 
Jesus Christ made clear which persons He considered His immediate family members. They are the ones who do the will of His Heavenly Father. Jesus made this statement while in the midst of His sermon He had been interrupted by the earthly relatives and by a comment from a person belonging to the crowd He was addressing (see Matthew 12:46-50).
 
Matthew 12:46-50:
46 While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him.
47 Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.”
48 He replied to him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?”
49 Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers.
50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
 
It was the plan of the adversary to prevent Jesus Christ from talking about deep revelatory correlations regarding the deliverance from unclean spirits tormenting people. The adversary did this by first trying to prevent Jesus from preaching by placing people with religious mindsets in His path to challenge Him by demanding a sign from Him. These were the scribes and Pharisees.

Jesus revealed to them their heart attitude instead and referred to signs through the life of the prophet Jonah and that of the Queen of Sheba as already existing. Furthermore, Jesus drew attention to the presence of His coming victory on the cross, His resurrection and His greatness of wisdom (see Matthew 12:38-42).

Matthew 12:38-42:
38 Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
39 He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
41 The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here.
42 The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, and now something greater than Solomon is here.
 
After Jesus spoke of his triumph and the wisdom bestowed upon Him by His Heavenly Father, He spoke of the actions of an unclean spirit and of the man after his deliverance. Jesus referred in this context to the necessity of the inner filling of a delivered person with the presence of God (see Matthew 12:43-45).
 
Matthew 12:43-45:
43 “When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.
44 Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order.
45 Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.”
 
And exactly after these revelations the adversary attacked again by interrupting Jesus in His speech, by making some of His relatives appear, as mentioned before, who wanted to talk to Him.
 
This situation is an indication of the attack of the adversary by the influence of ‘familiarity’. If the enemy cannot stop the flow of revelatory truth by the influence of the religious spirit, he will try to do it with familiarity.
 
What is “familiarity”?
 
=> Originally a spiritual term that defines the breeding ground of contempt. From this perspective, it deliberately spawns disrespect and rebellion. Familiarity has its roots in the familiar spirit – the old Greek Pytho spirit and the ancient work of Satan’s ancestral spirit network in human genealogy – their family lines.
Familiarity is the perverse extreme of friendship and relationship that seeks to promote the undeserving and diminish authority. Familiarity operates with the attending forces of slander, gossip, abuse, slight, neglect, criticism, or judging. Attending is an original Latin form of the word familiarity.
These are known weapons in the arsenal of Satan. Prophetically, familiarity may be seen as the calculated onslaught of Satan taking place in the life of a minister or servant of God. It manifests ultimately as an impending warfare set to wage against the church of the Lord Jesus Christ and all established authority in general. <= (The set text in “=>” is a definition of the word “familiarity” from the Prophet’s Dictionary by Paula A. Price Ph. D.; word number 501, page 212)
 
This familiarity is a scheming attack set by the adversary to undermine the release of the wisdom and revelation of the Son of God with the aim of preventing it.
 
Therefore, it is important to stop this influence in its beginnings by not allowing oneself to be distracted from one's goal of speaking the revelatory truth which the Holy Spirit reveals and to consequently live in discipleship.
 
Following Jesus and Servant-hood
 
The sincere following of Jesus is a healthy form of “slavery” (note: in servant-hood), which has its seat in the sonship of Jesus and is connected to the tender yoke that leads to inner rest (see Matthew 11:29-30).
 
Matthew 11:29-30:
29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
 
The Time of Spiritual Testing
 
We cannot avoid being tested by the Spirit of God at different times as to whether we are really serious about our relationship with Jesus Christ.
 
It is similar with the Hebrew servant of Exodus 21 and the disciples whom Jesus, after speaking about His flesh and blood, asked if they would also go away, which they denied, because they recognized Christ by Peter's statement as the Holy One of God (see John 6:55-56.60.66-69).
 
John 6:55-56.60.66-69:
55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. …
60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?” …
66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.
68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”
 
Through Peter's statement the disciples of Jesus decided in some way to remain in the “house of their Master” and thus continued to be part of His family in order to reveal Jesus Christ as the door leading to the presence of the Heavenly Father (see Exodus 21:5-6 i.c.w. John 10:9).
 
Exodus 21:5-6:
5 “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’ 6 then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.
 
John 10:9:
9 I am the gate (note: door); whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.
 
It is the blood of the Lamb that is connected to the "door" and guarantees divine protection and freedom for His people into the God given promise (see Exodus 12:23 i.c.w. Galatians 5:1).
 
Exodus 12:23:
23 When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
 
Galatians 5:1a:
1a It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. …
 
It is essential to clearly note that each individual human being has a free will to decide for something or against something.
 
However, each individual must be aware that the decisions made have consequences. Everything in life has consequences. Ultimately we decide by our decision in which house we want to live (see Galatians 6:7-8).
 
Galatians 6:7-8:
7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
 
Amen and Amen.
 
In His Wisdom,
 
Daniel Glimm

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