In times like this, we as the church – ‘ekklēsia’ should be in tune with God’s vision and not allow ourselves to lose that perspective in times of distress and challenge.

 

However, if we get caught up in the circumstances of the present moment and don’t focus on the established plan of the future revealed by God, we get to the moment where we miss out on the dynamic of faith released by God for this time, which is usually designed to assist us in seeing the situation from a heavenly perspective.

 

 

We are in a time that is tantamount to the ‘arbitration of God’. This arbitration goes hand in hand with His right and the related revelatory truth that carries His heartbeat. Moreover, His arbitration is like the lot that has fallen on pleasant land (cf. Psalm 16:5-6).

 

5 Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure.
6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.

 

This pleasant land includes the knowledge of being aware that the LORD alone is our inheritance at this time. And this inheritance is an inheritance of the spiritual dimension, since God is Spirit (cf. John 4:24a).

 

24a God is spirit, …

 

In order to walk in the realm of the pleasant land, it is necessary that we be in right alignment with saints who have set their focus in the first place on the Kingdom of God, rather than on the value of interpersonal fellowship or humanistic preferences.

 

However, if we prioritize the fellowship within the church over the Kingdom, the result is that the fellowship structure is prioritized instead of the presence of the Lord, which results in not being spirited by His presence in the first place, but rather program related to meet the needs of people.

 

In all this, it is a matter of carrying out the will of the Father, as Jesus did by doing the works of the Father and speaking the words of the Father to the people. He didn’t come in His own name, but in the Father’s name (cf. John 5:19.43a; John 14:24b).

 

19 Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. …

43a I have come in my Father’s name, …

 

… 24b These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

 

This means that it is not about the name or recognition of ministries or people, but only about the presence of the Father.

 

 

We are at a crossroads as God’s people, where it is necessary to move forward with the revelatory light of the ‘arbitration of God’ for this time in order to be enveloped in this way by the essence of the Father, as Jesus said when He spoke of the unity He has in the Father (cf. John 17:21).

 

… 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

 

This crossroad is accompanied by the hand of God and the presence of His powerful and revelatory teaching, which proceeds from His Word alone. It is similar to what the prophet Elijah experienced when he heard the powerful sound of the great rain on the mountain (cf. 1 Kings 18:41.44a.45-46 i.c.w. Deuteronomy 32:2).

 

41 And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.” …

44a The seventh time the servant reported, “A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.” …

45 Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain started falling and Ahab rode off to Jezreel.
46 The power of the Lord came on Elijah and, tucking his cloak into his belt, he ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.

 

2 Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

 

This ‘rain’ is accompanied by the Spirit of the fear of the LORD and brings the prophets who have made themselves one with the truth of God’s Word into quickening to become ‘the moment’ of God’s revelation in the future to those who have set out by the Spirit of the Father (note: Holy Spirit) in order to enter into expansion (cf. Ezra 10:9).

 

9 Within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin had gathered in Jerusalem. And on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people were sitting in the square before the house of God, greatly distressed by the occasion and because of the rain.

 

The Spirit of the fear of the LORD is linked to the face of God in the facet of the Lion, who opens the way of wisdom with apostolic quality, so that the kingship of God on earth increases in substance (cf. Psalm 111:10; Proverbs 9:10).

 

10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.

 

10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

 

The kingship of God is related, among other things, to His inheritance, which carries within it His mysteries, His revelatory power, His sovereign action, and His eternal government.

 

The face of God in the form of the lion moves with the full potential of His spirit, which illuminates the ‘north’ with its light from the ‘south’. This illumination carries in itself the ‘distance of light’, which as a cone of light points to the revelatory guidance of God.

 

Here, the Lord puts His emphasis on the proper apostolic alignment of believers in the sonship of Christ, who have truly given themselves to Him in the intimate relationship with a humble heart. The purpose of this is that together in the right apostolic alignment of saints in the identity given by the Heavenly Father, we carry the presence of His face and at the same time go forward in His revelation given by Him for this time and the time to come, that results in blessings for the environment in which we find ourselves (cf. Exodus 26:35 i.c.w. Exodus 25:37; Leviticus 24:5-7).

 

35 Place the table outside the curtain on the north side of the tabernacle and put the lampstand opposite it on the south side.

 

37 “Then make its seven lamps and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it.

 

5 “Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.
6 Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold before the Lord.

7 By each stack put some pure incense as a memorial portion to represent the bread and to be a food offering presented to the Lord.

 

For this reason, as disciples led by the Holy Spirit, we can see that new connections (note: alignments) in the Body of Christ must come in the right focus and it is connected with personal and community changes.

Accordingly, in order to be blessings, we may become so by repenting and returning to the fear of the LORD where we have valued other things and humanistic values more highly than the presence of God Himself. If we do this, the LORD will intervene and provide for us in everything (cf. Matthew 6:33).

Matthew 6:33:
33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

 

Amen and Amen.

 

In His Wisdom,

 

Daniel Glimm

So that we can enter into a greater unity in the body of Christ on earth, we are in need to understand the view of man and woman correctly from the perspective of our Creator and Heavenly Father, so that we are truly able to respect and complement each other properly.

Children of God

The apostle Paul made reference to the spiritual body in Jesus Christ, in which neither nationality nor gender plays the leading role, but the first essential requirement of a born-again believer should be to know that he is a child of God (see Galatians 3:26-28).

Galatians 3:26-29:
26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Sons of God and Bride of Christ

It may be difficult to comprehend, but in the body of Christ we are on the one hand sons of God and on the other hand the bride of Christ, which means that the man should deal with the structure of the woman and the woman with the structure of man, in order to have a right understanding of the body of Christ and the required respect for the opposite gender in the earthly realm (see Romans 8:14-16; 2 Corinthians 11:2 i.c.w. Revelation 19:7).

Romans 8:14-16:
14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.

15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”

16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs – heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

2 Corinthians 11:2:
2 I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.

Revelation 19:7:
7 Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.

 

 

In the Word of God for ‘man’ the Hebrew word ‘’îš – אִישׁ’ is used and for ‘woman’ the Hebrew word ‘’iššāh – אִשָּׁה’. This naming contains a mystery about the spiritual principle of the relationship between man and woman according to the standard of the Word of God.

 

When the Hebrew letter ‘י – Yod’ from the man’s word is joined with the Hebrew letter ‘ה – He’’ from the woman’s word, the result is the word ‘יָהּ – YAH’, which is the short form of God’s name in the way of ‘I AM – YAHWEH’. From this it is clear that the bond only between man and woman is the only constellation in marriage in which God reveals Himself. If God is removed from this structure, destruction arises in the form of judgment which can be seen from the fact that without the two Hebrew letters ‘י – Yod’ and ‘ה – He’, the Hebrew word ‘אֵשׁ – ‘ēš’, which means ‘fire’ arises in the realm of the ‘man’ as well as the ‘woman’.

It is essential that men, according to the Word of God, have a true understanding of the basic structure of woman (note: Eve) and women of the basic structure of man (note: Adam) in order to be able to reflect a greater glory on earth.

The Greater Glory

I am convinced that in the coming times, according to the Word of God, true unity between man and woman will play a such important role, so that this greater glory can be revealed and reflected in the world (see Proverbs 12:4a).

Proverbs 12:4a:
4a A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, …

A Strategic Revelation

Personally, I take the following strategy from the basic structure of the relationship between man and woman created by God:
 

The man should first receive the revelation of the Father's hand and breath in order to have a divine understanding of erection and empathy (note: first the dew/mist established itself, then God's hand formed the earthly substance in order thereafter to fill it with His breath). This means that the man must first have an understanding of the woman's structure to be able to recognize or assess her correctly.

 

In the basic structure, Eve was extracted by God from Adam's side (note: The Hebrew word for “side/rib” means “ȥēla`” and means “board, rib; it also means a mountainside, the longer side of the ark of the covenant and the tent of meeting; the side of the altar or sides (floors) at the temple, boards, beams/girder”), in order that Adam could recognize her bones (note: also meant feelings) and their flesh (note: also meant a human heart that is turned towards God; see Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 36:26 => in the sense of a fleshy heart; the Hebrew word for “flesh” is “bāsār” and means, among other things, “to bring good news, to proclaim and also to bring a neutral or good news”).

 

This means that the woman assigned to the man by God becomes like the tendon of a bow (note: rib) from which God shoots His revelatory arrows.

 

The assigned woman has the potential of a bearing width (see Ephesians 3:18-19), having an understanding of God's greatness (note: mountainside), the being of Jesus (note: the longer side of the Ark of the Covenant), His presence (note: the longer side of the tent of meeting) and also His heart (note: the altar). This width/length also carries the knowledge of the priestly movement of Jesus, that is moving from east to west, just as the priest in the Word of God went from east to west to the Holy of Holies, which is furthermore related to the power of revelation and the coming of Jesus (see Matthew 24:27).

 

27 For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

 

This explanation reveals that a woman should have a similar vision or ministry character like her husband, because the promise was woven from the “ground” into the man from whom Eve came by the hand of God (see Genesis 2:6-7.21-22).

 

6 but streams (note: a mist) came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. …

21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.

22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

 

 

Therefore, carrying the similar vision by man and woman (note: referring to marriage) is, in my view, helpful in order for the woman to be the right complement, as described in Proverbs 12:4a.

This in turn means that the man, through such agreement, allows the woman to take the higher place, which does not mean the higher authority in marriage, but her rightful position before God.

The man is first “ennobled” by the woman and the woman needs the man to bring “ennoblement”, meaning that they can only reveal the glory of God on earth together (see Proverbs 12:4a i.c.w. Ephesians 5:25).

 

4a A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, …

 

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her …

 

 

If this recognition and loving respect of husbands towards their wives exists and vice versa, it even leads to accelerated responses to prayer (see 1 Peter 3:7).

 

7 Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.

 

 

In order to describe the feelings of man and woman even more deeply, let me mention the creation of Adam and Eve at this point. The first man on earth did not know any earthly father or mother. Furthermore, he also had no experience of earthly birth, death, or any competition among men.

Adam was completely unbiased to understand the life of God right, since he was created by God through the dew, His hand and His breath to be a living being from the earth (see Genesis 2:6-7).

 

… 6 but streams (note: a mist) came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

 

Before the Fall, Adam had no reason and natural desire to fight for survival, as he was placed into the fullness of delight by God (note: “Eden” means “delight”; see Genesis 2:8).

 

8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.

 

Adam and later Eve did not know what it meant to be dead, which might have been a reason for Eve's and Adam's curiosity.

The first natural human death and the pain they experienced was when their common son Abel was murdered by Cain (see Genesis 4:8).

 

8 Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

 

God, however, had experienced the pain of death earlier, because He killed a “lamb” for Adam and Eve to cover their shame or error (see Genesis 3:21).

 

21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

(note: To make garments from skins, it was necessary for an animal to die.)

 

 

Through the fall of man the portal to death opened. This provoked fear in Adam, who now knew what it meant to die, because God made it clear that he would become dust again (see Genesis 3:19 i.c.w. Romans 5:12).

 

19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

 

12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned – …

 

The decision of God for man to die caused a certain kind of fear in Adam, since God was speaking primarily to him in this context. This fear is still present today in people who do not really know Jesus Christ, which means that they are afraid of loss and death.

 

This is why men in particular carry an increased form of fear of loss within, which even appears to them as compared to “dust” and through which they suddenly feel worthless. This is the reason why men who have not properly recognized Jesus Christ try so hard to present themselves to the public by performing all kinds of achievements, possessions or work. In contrast, women do not have this kind of fear of loss to that extent because the woman has been addressed by God in a different way after the fall (see Genesis 3:16).

 

16 To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

 

 

Women who have not properly recognized Jesus Christ suffering more an inner fear of pain and long for true protection. Women are usually not as afraid as men of not being seen because they are originated from man's side and therefore women are not directly connected to the earth. They are more relational and herein cannot fall deeper than into the arms of a man. They carry this certainty deep in their hearts. Even if there are women who may not want to admit this, there is a deep desire in the nature of a woman to be appreciated by a man because God has established it in this way (see Ephesians 5:25-29).

 

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church – …

 

The knowledge concerning this basic principle should also be carried by us as the bride of Christ and we should be convinced that we have our security and appreciation in the side of Jesus Christ, just as Moses felt secure in the cleft of the rock while he saw the glory of God (see Exodus 33:21-22).

 

21 Then the Lord said, “There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock.

22 When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.

 

Jesus Christ, who is the lion of the tribe of Judah, understands men (note: lions) and also women (note: lionesses) in His body, because He carries the characters of a male and female lion (see Revelation 5:5 i.c.w. Genesis 49:8-12).

 

5 Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

 

8 “Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons will bow down to you.

9 You are a lion’s cub, Judah; you return from the prey, my son. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, like a lioness – who dares to rouse him?

10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his.

11 He will tether his donkey to a vine, his colt to the choicest branch; he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

12 His eyes will be darker than wine, his teeth whiter than milk.

 

Amen and Amen.

 

In His Wisdom,

 

Daniel & Tina Glimm