As the people of God, we enter periods of time in which Jesus Christ, as the living Word of God, enters our time in order to meet us in uncertain circumstances with the power of His prophetic Word and the promise assigned to us by the Heavenly Father.

 

This kind of visitation is similar to the situation with the blind man from birth whose eyes Jesus smeared with His saliva and mixed it with the sand of the ground (cf. John 9:1.5-7; i.c.w. Revelation 1:15b; Revelation 19:10e).

 

John 9:1.5-7:
1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. …
5 While I (Note: Jesus Christ) am in the world, I am the light (Note: enlightenment) of the world.”
6 After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes.
7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.

 

Revelation 1:15b:
… 15b and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters (Note: saliva).

 

Revelation 19:10e:
… 10e For it is the Spirit of prophecy who bears testimony to Jesus.”

 

 

There are periods of time in our lives when we approach the Word of God but also time frames when Christ, as the Word of God, enters our realm of time in order to contribute prophetic knowledge and instructs us to take action in faith. Taking action involves uniting His prophetic revelation with the truth of God’s Word in order to be encased in revelatory truth and to go forward with a mandate as a ‘sent one’ (cf. 2 Peter 1:19-21; Ephesians 5:26b-27 i.c.w. James 2:17).

 

2 Peter 1:19-21:
19 We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things.
21 For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

 

Ephesians 5:26b-27:
… 26b 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.

 

James 2:17:
17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

 

From this it is clear that it is not enough to merely receive a personal prophetic word in connection with the promise given by God, but to position ourselves in the center of the truth of God’s Word and undergo the circumcision of the heart in order to go into the future with enlightened eyes of the heart in steadfast confidence.

 

This helps us to reveal the presence of the ‘I AM! - YAHWEH!’ to the people and to call them on His behalf. This call results in the renewing of the mind (cf. John 9:8-9; Exodus 3:14 i.c.w. Romans 12:2; Ephesians 4:23-24).

 

John 9:8-9:
8 His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?”
9 Some claimed that he was. Others said, “No, he only looks like him.” But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”

 

Exodus 3:14:
14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ”

 

Romans 12:2:
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.

 

Ephesians 4:23-24:
… 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

 

 

In the context of ‘being sent’, the Lord led me to the Bible passage from 2 Samuel 10:1-5, where it talks about the affront of David’s messengers, whom he sent to Hanun, king of the Ammonites, to show him his condolences and kindness because of the death of his father Nachash, who showed kindness to David during his lifetime.

 

We, as God’s people, are in a time when the LORD is ending times of governmental rule and remembering our spiritual inheritance to do us good (cf. Jeremiah 29:11).

 

Jeremiah 29:11:
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

 

This is the reason why the adversary brings up all his arsenal worldwide to block the way of the ‘Ekklēsia – the called out ones’ in Christ Jesus, respectively to decimate them in their quality to make them stand there ashamed and seemingly powerless.

 

Satan has made use of the weapon of ‘false counsel’ to have governments make wrong decisions that go contrary to the standard of God’s will.

It is said in 2 Samuel 10 that the Ammonite princes overheard David sending his messengers to their king Hanun, whereupon they advised their king wrongly, which later had devastating consequences for them as Ammonite people.

 

They caused their king by two questions to consider David’s messengers as enemies because, according to them, they had an evil intention, namely to spy on the land in order to destroy it, which was not the fact.

 

The chiefs of the Ammonites looked through their defiled minds, which led them to incite king Hanun to do an unjust deed by having the beards of David’s messengers half shaved off and their robes cut off to below the girdle, and then letting them go.

 

When David heard of this without seeing his delegates, he sent messengers to meet them to tell his humiliated servants to stay in the city of Jericho until their beards had grown back.

 

2 Samuel 10:1-5:
1 In the course of time, the king of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun succeeded him as king.
2 David thought, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. When David’s men came to the land of the Ammonites, 3 the Ammonite commanders said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think David is honoring your father by sending envoys to you to express sympathy? Hasn’t David sent them to you only to explore the city and spy it out and overthrow it?”
4 So Hanun seized David’s envoys, shaved off half of each man’s beard, cut off their garments at the buttocks, and sent them away.
5 When David was told about this, he sent messengers to meet the men, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back.”

 

 

Behind this story from 2 Samuel 10:1-5 is a mystery of God that contains direction for us as ‘Ekklēsia – the called out ones’ in Christ Jesus at this time.

 

We may be sure that the Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ can see all humiliating interventions and knew that they would come. In this time, the first priority is to have favor in the eyes of God and not to look or to seek favor in the eyes of the world. If we have favor in the sight of God, He will also give us favor with those whom He chooses (cf. Luke 2:52).

 

Luke 2:52:
52 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

 

It is necessary that we always be aware of the love of the Heavenly Father with which He surrounds us in all circumstances, as revealed by the name ‘David’, which means ‘the Beloved’.

We move through the instruction of God’s love, which is Jesus Christ, into the time and assigned field that Father sends us to, without being intimidated by any kind of communication, false information or mistreatment.

 

Even if there are shameful or humiliating situations, they must serve us for the best, because we love God and are called according to His counsel (cf. Romans 8:28).

 

Romans 8:28:
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

 

 

This means based on 2 Samuel 10:1-5, it hides a redemptive strategy that indicates that despite the enemy’s resistance, we pay attention to God’s impending instruction in order to enter into the center of the best, for which the city of ‘Jericho – place of fragrances or city of the moon’ represents, to which David’s delegates, were instructed by him to go until their ‘glory’ was restored.

 

Jericho was the first city conquered by the people of Israel under the leadership of Joshua. It was consecrated to God in the form of a ‘first fruit’, since all first belongs to the LORD (cf. Joshua 6:17a.19).

 

Joshua 6:17a.19:
“…17 The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the Lord. …
19 All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the Lord and must go into his treasury.”

 

In a prophetic context, ‘Jericho’ indicates high worship, which is a pleasing aroma to God. High worship includes, among other things, worship of the Father in spirit and in truth (cf. John 4:23)

 

John 4:23:
23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

 

Understanding this dimension of praise and knowing the positive effect it has on the spirit and soul of the particular worshiper, namely, to bring forth confidence and boldness in the spirit man, David had the time of ‘reproach and shame’ removed from his delegates in Jericho by the time of their stay in Jericho causing their beards to grow again.

 

It is equally reasonable to assume that David had them clothed in new garments to cover their disgrace. David’s instruction includes the increase of greater wisdom and glory in the truth that is already present. (Note: girdle => cf. Ephesians 6:14a; The garments of David’s messengers had been cut off below the girdle by king Hanun.)

 

The Hebrew root word for ‘beard’ is ‘sāqēn’ and means ‘to have grown old, to grow older’ and is a reference to the communication of God’s wisdom. (Note: word explanation taken from the Elberfelder Study Bible with the word key number 2256).

 

Jericho, in the context of 2 Samuel 10:1-5, represents God’s call to each saint to enter into His presence (Note: fragrance) as well as His time to be enabled to discern God’s timing in order to continue to move forward at the proper time with godly wisdom, understanding and spiritual maturity.

 

God’s time cycle is a lunar cycle (note: linked to the moon) that announces and indicates the time of the biblical months.

Speaking in a prophetic context, David’s messengers entered the ‘clockwork of God’ at the command of their king in order to return to their king David with greater wisdom and understanding about God’s time.

 

It is the desire of Jesus Christ that we, as His ambassadors, understand the time of the Heavenly Father as He understood it when He lived on earth.

 

 

The movement of David’s delegates is akin to the advancement of the ‘Ekklēsia’ in Christ Jesus in the present time, which is put in a false light by the society of this time.

Yet God encourages us as His people to go forward in the revelatory truth of His Word in order to point out that a time is complete. This makes it necessary to go forward in His creative power and to receive the wisdom as well as the glory of God for the time to come. This enables us to move forward in a greater glory and wisdom of the LORD in the world so that His light of truth is seen and known by the people.

 

Behind the humiliation of David’s delegates, we as God’s people at this time can see an instruction of the LORD, which implies that Jesus Christ, our king has established a place where we grow even more in wisdom and understanding by forgiving and not allowing the bitterness that can arise from negative experiences to take any kind of root in us.

 

Even if we do not see Jesus Christ literally before our eyes, He sends us helpers who position us in the center of His will for this time to continue growing toward Him who is the head (cf. Ephesians 4:15).

 

Ephesians 4:15:
15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.

 

This help and orientation in this time will be given to us in the right alignment, which is necessary to have as saints of the Ekklēsia for the coming period of time.

 

Amen and Amen.

 

In His Wisdom,

 

Daniel Glimm

The prophet ‘Ezekiel – God strengthens’ reveals the quality of the Heavenly Father in the facet of ‘El Shaddai – The Almighty’ in order to help us understand that we need to position ourselves in accordance to His Son, who is Jesus Christ as the Alpha and the Omega (cf. Ezekiel 1:1-3 i.c.w. Revelation 1:8; Revelation 22:13).

 

Ezekiel 1:1-3:
1 In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
2 On the fifth of the month – it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin – 3 the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. There the hand of the Lord was on him.

 

Revelation 1:8:
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty (Note: El Shaddai).”

 

Revelation 22:13:
13 I am (Note: Jesus Christ) the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

 

 

This Positioning in the time of Alpha and Omega, which encompasses divine Fatherhood/Sonship, is accompanied by the proper discernment of the moment in the midst of temporary time. It is the temporary time that is connected with the beginning and the end and is arranged in a linear form, similar to a river.

 

Here the river ‘Chebar – length’, as it is called in Ezekiel 1:3, has a special meaning. The Hebrew root word of its name means also ‘long ago, a great while, properly extend of time => a time set in the right arrangement of length’. (Part Excerpt from the Elberfelder Study Bible to the word ‘Chebar’ with the word key number 3602*, 3603*).

 

The Heavenly Father longs that we possess the proper understanding of the beginning and end of time in Him as the Alpha and Omega, in order to emerge from this proper arrangement with the fullness of God into the new dimension of time. As a result, we meet those people who are already predestined by God in the places God has determined and bring them into contact with His strength.

 

This touch involves His glory pouring out in the form of anointing from the structure of His glorious light, so that the enemy’s resistance in the form of weakness is broken (cf. 1 John 1:5 i.c.w. Exodus 34:29; Isaiah 10:27).

 

1 John 1:5:
5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.

 

Exodus 34:29:
29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the Lord.

Isaiah 10:27:
27 In that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat.

 

 

The anointing of strength is related to the joy of the LORD and the face of the bull (cf. Nehemiah 8:10b i.c.w. Psalm 45:7).

 

Nehemiah 8:10b:
“… 10b Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

 

Psalm 45:7:
7 You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.

 

The ‘bull’ is called ‘šôr’ in Hebrew and bears horns that face directly forward, just as it is written in Deuteronomy 33:17 about the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh.

 

Deuteronomy 33:17:
“… 17 In majesty he is like a firstborn bull; his horns are the horns of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth. Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim; such are the thousands of Manasseh.”

 

The Hebrew word for ‘horn’ is ‘qärän’ and reveals strength and power. According to the Word of God, it is used as a Shofar and also as a vessel for anointing.

The Hebrew word ‘to shine/being radiant – qāran’ as used in Exodus 34:29 is closely related to the Hebrew word for ‘horn – qärän’. This means that Moses reflected the face of God in the form of the bull while he was surrounded by the fatherhood of God in the form of priesthood and accompanied by the spirit of strength.

This presence of God resulted in the manifestation of the fear of the LORD in the midst of the people of Israel (cf. Ex. 34:30).

 

Exodus 34:30:
30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant, and they were afraid to come near him.

 

 

In addition, the ‘bull’ is connected with the Hebrew letter ‘Aleph’, which carries the numerical value ‘1’ and means, among other things, ‘cattle, leader, strength, master/ LORD’. The pictographic representation of the Hebrew letter ‘Aleph’ is a ‘bull’s head’.

The ‘Aleph’ is the so-called ‘Father letter’ because everything begins with the Father, who as the Almighty is beginning and end, as the Hebrew word for ‘Father – āb’ begins with an ‘Aleph’ (cf. Revelation 1:8).

 

Revelation 1:8:
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Jesus also said that He did not come in His own name, nor did He perform His own works, but did only what He saw the Father do (cf. John 5:19.43).

 

John 5:19.43:
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. …
43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

 

And it was precisely in this way that Moses reflected the Father’s dimension to the people of Israel, which was still unknown to them. As the Body of Christ, we need to move forward with the power of God’s breath in the dynamics of Jesus’ ministry when He was about thirty years old (cf. Luke 3:23a i.c.w. Luke 4:18-19).

 

Luke 3:23a:
23a Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. …

 

Luke 4:18-19:
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

 

This is what the thirtieth year and the fifth day of the fourth month in the fifth year in the book of Ezekiel 1:1-3 reveals to us (Note: Jesus also ministered in a time of oppression, as the nation of Israel was occupied and ruled by the Romans.)

 

Ezekiel 1:1-3:
1 In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
2 On the fifth of the month – it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin – 3 the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. There the hand of the Lord was on him.

 

 

It is necessary that we as saints use the dynamics of the fullness of time, namely already the power of fulfilled time, and go forward with this power, which includes days, weeks, months and years, in order to bring the breakthrough that the Heavenly Father has already prepared.

According to the Word of God, the fulfillment of time is related to the apostolic power of God, including the meaning of ‘being sent’ (cf. Galatians 4:4a).

 

Galatians 4:4a:
4a But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, …

 

The time ahead of us encompasses a period of time (Note: length of time) in which it is necessary to position yourself in the center of God’s will, as Ezekiel did, in order to be in accordance with as well as interact with the governmental presence of the Heavenly Father in the Sonship of Christ.

 

The purpose of this is for the imminent work of God to be established and fortified in the revelatory truth of the Word of God and this is accompanied by challenge equal to the task Nehemiah faced when he rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem (cf. Nehemiah 2 ff.).

Nehemiah entered a new mission and vocation field through God’s calling, going from being the king’s cup bearer to a ‘constructor’ of the restoration of the royal city of Israel – Jerusalem.

This reveals to us that with the divine fulfillment of time, our mission field, even occupational field or job, can also change. Therefore it is important that we watch and pray in order to see with our spiritual eyes of the heart the governmental presence of God and thereupon to speak things into existence as well as to act accordingly in faith.

 

 

Our positioning as spirit filled church in the center of God’s will is equal to the fellowship of Lydia, who stayed by a river, so that the apostles who were looking for a place of prayer (Note: place of a spiritual birth) went through the city gate of the leading city ‘Philippi – horse friend’ (Note: indication of the quality of the ministry of angels). They finally encountered the company of women led by Lydia at the river (Note: symbol of the spirit filled church; cf. Acts 16:12-15).

 

Acts 16:12-15:
12 From there we traveled to Philippi, a Roman colony and the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days.
13 On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there.
14 One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.
15 When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. “If you consider me a believer in the Lord,” she said, “come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.

 

The apostles could implement the period of their sojourn into the life of Lydia and that of her community in the city of Philippi, a city of the first district of Macedonia (note: reference to the special status of the city in the form of a first fruit as well as representative of the measure of supernatural instruction through the ministry of angels on behalf of God; cf. Hebrews 1:14), and the revelatory knowledge gained from it.

 

As a result, Lydia stepped into a greater dimension of God’s presence and revelatory knowledge with her community as well as her home in order to properly administer spiritual things in the time ahead. It was the face of the LORD who showed Himself to the women through the apostles in the form of the lion.

 

This community of women, who were at the center of God’s appointed time period, acted as a kind of spiritual womb to receive the spiritual seed that the Lord released into them through the apostles, in order to bring it forth in the power of ‘travailing prayer’ at the right time.

 

Since the apostle is the first-named minister in the spirit filled church and represents God’s royalty, this office can be compared to the face of the lion (cf. 1 Corinthians 12:28a i.c.w. Ephesians 4:11).

 

1 Corinthians 12:28a:
28a And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, …

 

Ephesians 4:11:
11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, …

 

It requires our willingness to center our lives in the will of the Father in the Son, so that we can meet the people God has already predestined in the places He has established and bring them to the sphere filled with His new strength.

 

Amen and Amen.

 

In His Wisdom,

 

Daniel Glimm