PROPHETIC CHAMBER
Note:
The following message is the first part of a teaching that consists of two parts and we recommend to read the message chronologically.
 
God’s concern is to position those saints who are ready to establish the revelatory truth of His Word for this time and the time to come among His people in the places He has assigned and to establish them in the order of His Word, much as Isaiah 22:23 reveals.
 
Isaiah 22:23:
23 I will drive him (Note: Eliakim – ‘God raises’) like a peg (Note: nail) into a firm place; he will become a seat of honor for the house of his father.
 
The Firmly Hammered Nail and the Stewardship and Fatherhood of God
 
This nail represents chosen saints who move forward in the realm of leadership in the faithful stewardship and fatherhood of God as well as in the revelatory truth of the Word of God. On this basis, they serve those who abide in the structure of the bride of Christ and His governmental presence (Note: capital city Jerusalem; cf. Revelation 21:2.9-10) as devoted worshipers (Note: house of Judah – ‘worship, praise’).
 
This results in a spiritual legitimate authority in Christ Jesus to receive an intensification in the God-assigned anointing, which is accompanied by authority of access and is equivalent to a so-called ‘master key’ of a building.
 
This authorization of access derives from the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the knowledge that you are loved by God as well as you are meant to be in a pure relationship in truth with Him. From this follows that we get authorized to open the doors of the realms in the Spirit to which we are sent on God’s behalf (cf. Isaiah 22:20-22).
 
Isaiah 22:20-22:
20 “In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim (Note: Eliakim – ‘God raises’) son of Hilkiah (Note: Hilkijah – ‘portion of YHVH’).
21 I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah.
22 I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
 
By the uncompromised walk of believers in the revelatory truth of God’s Word as well as in obedience to His instruction, they belong to God’s ownership arsenal (cf. Exodus 19:5).
 
Exodus 19:5:
5 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, …
 
We can assume that this nail was hammered into a fortified wall and is destined to carry a God-assigned multitude of believers in His assigned responsibility in the standard of the truth of His Word in this era and the era to come.
 
The Spiritual Dimension of Eliakim and the Pure Shining Light of the Menorah
 
It is the mission of saints sojourning in the dimension of ‘Eliakim’ to initiate the God-ordained awakening in His people, which is equivalent to the raising of the twelve-year-old daughter of
Jairus (Note: means ‘He enlightens’), the ruler of the synagogue by Jesus Christ.
 
This is due to the raising of the daughter, when Jesus gave the command ‘Talita kum! - Little girl, get up!’ which was used towards her, in which the Hebrew word ‘qûm’ is a word component at the end of the name of ‘Eliakim’. This raising up was about God’s plan to let the truth of God’s word shine in a stronger intensity of revelation.
 
The task of the ruler of the synagogue is, among other things, to assist in preaching the Word of God (Note: Torah) to the respective community of saints. Furthermore, they are responsible for the observance of the spiritual order (cf. 1 Corinthians 14:33a) and the distribution of the respective tasks in the congregation, as well as for the maintenance of the congregational building (Note: synagogue).
 
Based on this in connection with the raising of Jairus’ daughter, we can see that it was in God’s plan to bring the truth of His Word, the knowledge of His established spiritual order, and the understanding of righteous administration in relation to the fellowship of saints into a greater dimension of the power of His revelatory light with the goal of shining out from this realm (cf. Psalm 36:9 i.c.w. James 1:17).
 
Psalm 36:9:
9 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.
 
James 1:17:
17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
 
The intensification of the revelatory light is revealed by the command and intervention of Jesus, who expelled from the place all those present in the house who were in disrespect because of unbelief. Jesus allowed only Jairus, Jairus’ wife and His three disciples Peter, James, and John to enter the house, while Jairus’ daughter lay dead (Note: spiritually asleep) in bed (cf. Mark 5:35-40).
 
Mark 5:35-40:
35 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” they said. “Why bother the teacher anymore?”
36 Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.”
37 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James.
38 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly.
39 He went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep.”
40 But they laughed at him. After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was.
 
Accordingly, including Jesus, there were seven people in Jairus’ house, which is a reference to the ‘dimension of the Menorah’, namely, the seven-fold Spirit of God (cf. Isaiah 11:2).
 
Isaiah 11:2:
2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him – the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord – …
 
From the alignment with Jesus and the persons in the house of Jairus, it is evident that the Menorah was to shine in a new way in the full capacity and purity in the fiery essence of God to the people to taste and see the face of God (cf. Hebrews 12:29 i.c.w. Psalm 34:8).
 
Hebrews 12:29:
29 for our “God is a consuming fire cf. Deuteronomy 4:24).”
 
Psalm 34:8:
8 Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
 
It was the fiery warm light of the Menorah that shone forward from south to north and with whose cone of light the twelve shew breads (Note: also called ‘bread of His presence’) were irradiated (cf. Exodus 26:35 i.c.w. Numbers 8:2-3).
 
Exodus 26:35:
35 Place the table outside the curtain on the north side of the tabernacle and put the lampstand opposite it on the south side.
 
Numbers 8:2-3:
2 “Speak to Aaron and say to him, ‘When you set up the lamps, see that all seven light up the area in front of the lampstand.’ ”
3 Aaron did so; he set up the lamps so that they faced forward on the lampstand, just as the Lord commanded Moses.
 
This means in the context of the raising of the twelve-year-old daughter of Jairus that the ‘living Menorah’ of the church – ekklēsia in the form of Jesus as the revelatory truth of the word of God, His three disciples as the apostolic mission of God, Jairus together with his wife as the covenant relationship in first love (Note: agąpē) and his ‘sleeping’ daughter as the church – ekklēsia in the rest of God, was ignited. This ignition reveals the call to go ahead as ‘Ekklēsia’ in a new way on behalf of Christ with the burning power of the new day in revelatory truth and in the structure of the new wineskin (cf. Isaiah 26:19).
 
Isaiah 26:19:
19 But your dead will live, Lord; their bodies will rise – let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joy – your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.
 
It was the duty of Aaron the high priest and his sons to clean the lamps of the Menorah in the morning, so that it would shine in its sevenfold light in purity with the beginning of the new day, since in the biblical context the day begins with evening (cf. Exodus 27:21 i.c.w. Genesis 1:2-5).
 
Exodus 27:21:
21 In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law, Aaron and his sons are to keep the lamps burning before the Lord from evening till morning. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for the generations to come.
 
Genesis 1:2-5:
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.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning – the first day.
 
The Instruction of Christ and His Seizure
 
Jesus’ instruction to the daughter of Jairus was related to His seizure of her hand, which involves the transfer of God’s strength and His plans for the saints who are serving in the office of the fivefold ministry in the church and are destined to equip the ‘Ekklēsia’ with the nourishment of the Word of God and its mysteries for this time (cf. Mark 5:41-43 i.c.w.. Matthew 4:4; Ephesians 4:11-13).
 
Mark 5:41-43:
41 He took her by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!” (which means “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”).
42 Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished.
43 He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.
 
Matthew 4:4:
4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God (cf. Deuteronomy 8:3).’”
 
Ephesians 4:11-13:
11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
 
In order for the ‘great light’ of the Menorah to effectively shine with the new day of the LORD, it is necessary that we remove the voices and presence of unbelief from the foreordained realm of God’s manifested plans. As it is revealed to us by the incident at the house of Jairus, the ruler of the synagogue, where Jesus, as mentioned earlier, entered Jairus’ house with His three chosen disciples to remove unbelief from the house in the form of mourning and mockery.
 
This action is tantamount to the cleansing of the lamps of the Menorah by the high priest, so that it may once again shine unclouded in its fullness and purity. => Jairus’ daughter is to be seen here as a symbol of the new wineskin in the apostolic order (cf. Mark 5:22-24.35-37).
 
Mark 5:22-24.35-37:
22 Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet.
23 He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.”
24 So Jesus went with him. A large crowd followed and pressed around him. …
35 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” they said. “Why bother the teacher anymore?”
36 Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.”
37 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James.
 
Amen and Amen.
 
In His Wisdom,
 
Daniel Glimm
 
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PROPHETIC CHAMBER
Note:
The following message is the second part of a teaching that consists of two parts.
It is recommended to read the message chronologically.
 
Here it is no coincidence that Jesus Christ previously healed the woman with the issue of blood, who had already suffered from this severe and isolation causing disease for twelve years (cf. Mark 5:25-34).
 
Mark 5:25-34:
25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years.
26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse.
27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.”
29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
31 “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”
32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it.
33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth.
34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”
 
The number 12 has special significance in this context because it is mentioned twice. In this context it is connected with the apostolic order and the new administration.
 
This means that the next generation or administration, represented by the twelve-year-old girl, lay dormant while the old leadership, symbolized by the woman suffering from blood flow, pushed through to sustain the new life of the apostolic order and allow the fresh life to increase in her temple-body.
 
Through the condition of the woman healed of blood flow who was walking towards Jesus and the daughter of Jairus raised from the dead who was in a reclining condition, we can see the two woods of the cross of Jesus, with the elder revealing the vertical beam and the younger revealing the horizontal beam of the cross of Jesus.
 
This encompasses God’s call to the older and younger generation of the church – ekklēsia to proclaim and reveal the triumph of Christ before the visible and invisible world. <= (Note: The text set in ‘=>’ is based on a revelatory teaching from the book ‘Redeeming The Time’ by Chuck D. Pierce, published by Charisma House, ISBN 978-1-59979-378-8, page 10.)
 
The Weighty Glory of God
 
Returning once again to the biblical passage from Isaiah 22:20-23, the assigned measure of believers includes a measure of glory that each individual saint bears and contributes as a whole to a weight associated with the ‘weighty glory of God’, called ‘kābôd’ in Hebrew.
 
The word ‘kābôd’ describes, among other things, ‘honor, dignity, glory, majesty, prestige’ and ‘heaviness’ (Note: part excerpt from the Elberfelder Studienbibel on the Hebrew word ‘kābôd’ with word key number 3593).
 
The presence of the so-called ‘heaviness of God’ points to God or even persons who are in high authority from God. The reason for this is that God is uniquely the ‘King of Glory’ (cf. Psalm 24:7.9-10).
 
This type of God’s presence is characterized by the presence of His being, which is a consuming fire. Moreover, the LORD is surrounded by a dark cloud (cf. Psalm 18:11).
 
Psalm 18:11:
11 He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him – the dark rain clouds of the sky.
 
By rightfully abiding in this presence, there is an increase of glory in the form of splendor in the personal life of each saint (cf. Exodus 24:16-18 i.c.w. Exodus 34:29).
 
Exodus 24:16-18:
… 16 and the glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the Lord called to Moses from within the cloud.
17 To the Israelites the glory of the Lord looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain.
18 Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
 
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.
 
It is necessary that we allow the hand of the LORD and the power of His Word to anchor us deeply in the revelatory truth of His written Word for this time and the time to come (cf. Isaiah 22:23 i.c.w. Jeremiah 23:29), so that we may reliably lead those whom God has entrusted to us in the responsibility assigned by God.
 
Isaiah 22:23:
23 I will drive him like a peg (Note: nail) into a firm place; he will become a seat of honor for the house of his father.
 
Jeremiah 23:29:
29 “Is not my word like fire,” declares the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?
 
The Importance of God-assigned Boundaries
 
In this context, it is necessary to know your God-assigned boundaries in order to be enabled to responsibly bear the weight of His glory without independently expanding your field of responsibility, which can mean ‘giving in’ in the form of breaking a nail out of the wall in one’s God-assigned position as described in Isaiah 22:25.
 
Isaiah 22:25:
25 “In that day,” declares the Lord Almighty, “the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.” The Lord has spoken.
 
As saints in Christ Jesus, our mandate is to move in the responsibility assigned to us by the Father and to act dutifully in authority therein. This includes observing the boundaries established and assigned by God and extending ourselves within that framework without pushing the boundaries by ourselves (cf. Deuteronomy 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:17; Proverbs 22:28, Proverbs 23:10).
 
Deuteronomy 19:14:
14 Do not move your neighbor’s boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
 
Deuteronomy 27:17:
17 “Cursed is anyone who moves their neighbor’s boundary stone.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”
 
Proverbs 22:28:
28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors.
 
Proverbs 23:10:
10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, …
 
It is of high importance that we know our identity and field of responsibility in order to exercise in it the authority that God has assigned to us.
 
The Expansion of the Boundaries and the Established Boundaries of Jesus and Paul
 
In order to properly expand the field of responsibility in Jesus Christ before the eyes of the LORD, it must first have been decided with God and expanded by Him (cf. Exodus 34:24 i.c.w. Deuteronomy 12:20).
 
Exodus 34:24:
24 I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God.
 
Deuteronomy 12:20:
20 When the Lord your God has enlarged your territory as he promised you, and you crave meat and say, “I would like some meat,” then you may eat as much of it as you want.
 
Jesus and the apostle Paul also lived according to this principle and paid attention to their boundaries (cf. Matthew 15:22-24; 2 Corinthians 10:13).
 
Matthew 15:22-24:
22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”
23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”
24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
 
2 Corinthians 10:13:
13 We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will confine our boasting to the sphere of service God himself has assigned to us, a sphere that also includes you.
 
The Boundary of Authority through God-appointed Leadership
 
It is necessary that we as the ekklēsia understand God’s order in His kingdom of leadership and authority in order to live in God given and holy protection. It requires healthy submission that enables us to experience the protection afforded us by the wings of God (cf. Psalm 91:1-2).
 
Psalm 91:1-2:
1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
 
Not every Christian is called to leadership, and this must be respected and understood. If we do not respect this, we intervene in a field of authority that leads to a disproportion in the church, resulting in many unnecessary difficulties and dangers such as it was explained with Korah and his company in the Torah (cf. Numbers 16).
 
The Boundary of Authority through Assigned Responsibility
 
To walk in the assigned field of accountability in the authority of God, we must know what authority is and how as well as when it takes hold.
 
In the kingdom of God, authority is a consequence of accountability. Generally speaking, we have authority in any area of the church or ministry only to the extent that we have responsibility for that area. If we have no responsibility for a certain field, we have no authority and mandate in it.
 
In order to have much authority and be competent in it, we should be under the covering or mentoring of saints who have more authority than we do. This is evident, for example, in the leadership of the people of Israel by Moses and Aaron, the following of Elisha towards the prophet Elijah, and the following of the disciples of Jesus.
 
Amen and Amen.
 
In His Wisdom,
 
Daniel Glimm

PROPHETIC CHAMBER
Tammuz means ‘offspring of life, real child of the depth of the waters, the Lord of the green growing grass, which is caused and nourished by fresh water’. It is the month that is aligned with Ruben who was the first born son of Jacob and his wife Leah.
 
The name Ruben means ‘Behold a son!’
 
Ruben and the Turbulent Waters
 
The sphere of Ruben is connected to turbulent waters and thus a watery place of self-reflection because water is self-reflective (cf. Genesis 49:3-4).
 
Genesis 49:3-4:
3 “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, the first sign of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.
4 Turbulent as the waters, you will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father’s bed, onto my couch and defiled it.
 
This self-reflection should take place in the presence of the crystal sea of the throne of God – the domain of the Heavenly Father and His standards in the sobriety of the spirit and not in the sphere of one’s own water which is the domain of the heart including the weighing based on one’s own understanding of the Word of God in connection with a false understanding of identity.
 
This false weighing is akin to someone looking into a mirror and then forgetting how one looked like (cf. Revelation 4:6a i.c.w. James 1:23-24).
 
Revelation 4:6a:
6a Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. …
 
James 1:23-24:
23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
 
The dimension of Ruben is a principle of sonship because he was the first born son of Jacob. It is about to have a right to provision which means that we have a relationship where God just gives us access to inheritance because of the characteristic of Ruben as the firstborn.
 
Due to the special position and inheritance as a firstborn it is of high importance to be aware of the boundaries of authority without violating a higher realm of authority by our own drive.
It was Ruben who slept with his father’s concubine and thus violated as a son the sphere of authority of his father (cf. Genesis 35:21-22a).
 
Genesis 35:21-22a:
21 Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder (means ‘a tower of a flock’ => vision for the generations).
22a While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it. …
 
The Brim – God’s Set Boundary
 
In the time frame of Tammuz God brings our inner man to the brim which represent our spiritual boundaries. He shows the potential of His set boundaries for us that are linked to protection and security of our field of authority.
 
The reason boundaries are set is that this is the place where we train ourselves for rulership because a man who rules his spirit is greater than a man who rules a city (cf. Proverbs 16:32).
 
Proverbs 16:32:
32 Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.
 
A person who rules himself is greater than a person who rules a nation. So God is training us in order to help us understand how to move sensitively in the spiritual realm.
 
In this dimension of Ruben it is needed to learn how to respect boundaries and what it means to walk in God’s principles. The walk in God’s principles and in His order implies that desire is in agreement with God’s appointed time and standard in order to obtain what one desires according to God’s will (cf. Psalm 20:4).
 
Psalm 20:4:
4 May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.
 
The manifestation of the pure desire according to the standard of the Word of God causes a realm of life to become visible. This realm extends into the future and testifies of the eternal life in Christ, the firstborn (cf. Proverbs 12:13b i.c.w. Romans 8:29; Colossians 1:18).
 
Proverbs 12:13b:
… 13 b but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.
 
Romans 8:29:
29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
 
Colossians 1:18:
18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.
 
The Phase of the Teaching by the Holy Spirit
 
The time frame of Ruben includes a phase of learning from the Holy Spirit and being taught about the personal God given potential as the excellency of strength, honor and power (cf. Genesis 49:3) by people who are in a higher spiritual authority. As it was Moses who redeemed the tribe of Ruben by his given blessing because he had the authority over water (cf. Deuteronomy 33:6) as well as this month is also related to developing self-control (cf. John 16:13a i.c.w. Galatians 5:22-23).
 
John 16:13a:
13a But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. …
 
Galatians 5:22-23:
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control.

It is the fruit of self-control that helps to keep the waters calm and not stirred up at the wrong time.
 
The turbulent water is connected with sexual lust, physical and carnal desires and feelings which do not match the standards of God.
 
It is important that we don’t stir up the water in a wrong way, otherwise it will come from the inside to the outside and swallows us by the circumstance of pleasure. This means that we no longer have control over desire, but desire takes over to control us (cf. James 1:14-15).
 
James 1:14-15:
… 14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.
15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
 
We shouldn’t be controlled or driven in our feelings by what already surrounds us, but should practice the soberness of the spirit and be led by the Holy Spirit (cf. 1 Peter 5:8).
 
1 Peter 5:8:
8 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
 
That is why it is important to be trained to walk in the Spirit and keep up walking in the Spirit without falling into sinful patterns (cf. Galatians 5:16-17).
 
Galatians 5:16-17:
16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
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.
 
The dimension of Ruben is mainly about what gives someone pleasure and this is why it is a phase where the Holy Spirit is examining our heart and mind (cf. Psalm 17:3a; 1 Chronicles 29:17a; Jeremiah 17:10; Jeremiah 20:12a).
 
Psalm 17:3a:
3a Though you probe my heart, though you examine me at night and test me, …
 
1 Chronicles 29:17a:
17a I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. …
 
Jeremiah 17:10:
10 “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”
 
Jeremiah 20:12a:
12a Lord Almighty, you who examine the righteous and probe the heart and mind (note: reins), …
 
Living in Submission
 
Since, according to the Word of God, the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, it is wise to live in submission under mature saints who are in a higher spiritual authority and not too hastily advance by your own feelings (cf. Jeremiah 17:9).
 
Jeremiah 17:9:
9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
 
Therefore, it is helpful to have fellowship with wise saints who live in humility before God without making compromises.
 
Ruben is the sphere where the Holy Spirit deals with us personally (Note: current behaviors and level of maturity) and we should not step back from this process. When we allow this to happen, the Holy Spirit takes us further and further into higher spiritual dimensions so that we can deal with greater things entrusted to us by God.
 
In the time frame of Ruben, it is worthwhile to study about boundaries in the word of God that are associated with water (cf. Numbers 21:13.24; Deuteronomy 3:12; Joshua 19:26).
 
Numbers 21:13.24:
13 They set out from there and camped alongside the Arnon, which is in the wilderness extending into Amorite territory. The Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. …
24 Israel, however, put him to the sword and took over his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, but only as far as the Ammonites, because their border was fortified.
 
Deuteronomy 3:12:
12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
 
Joshua 19:26:
26 Allammelek, Amad and Mishal. On the west the boundary touched Carmel and Shihor (note: river) Libnath.
 
Ruben and the Four Rivers of Eden
 
Ruben as a firstborn son has four positive characteristics and these are equivalent to the principle of the four rivers of Eden that bring treasures of the soil to the surface. Even if only one river is mentioned, which is named directly with treasures of the soil, it can be assumed that this principle is imparted to the other rivers because God is a God of abundance and fruitfulness (cf. Genesis 49:3 i.c.w. Genesis 2:10-14).
 
Genesis 49:3:
3 “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might (1), the first sign of my strength (2), excelling in honor (3), excelling in power (4).
 
Genesis 2:10-14:
10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.
11 The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.)
13 The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.
14 The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
 
We may be confident that where we have submitted ourselves to the training of the Holy Spirit, we suddenly see the blessing of God flowing from the area where we have seen drought in our lives due to a wrong attitude of heart and our false conclusions of the past (cf. Isaiah 41:18).
 
Isaiah 41:18:
18 I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.
 
Through the training of the Holy Spirit, which has caused us to renew our spirit and mind, we gain access to walk in the high ways of God and proceed in His high plans (cf. Romans 12:2; Ephesians 4:23; Hebrews 9:14; Isaiah 43:19; Isaiah 55:8-9).
 
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:
… 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; …
 
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 (Note: useless rituals), so that we may serve the living God!
 
Isaiah 43:19:
19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
 
Isaiah 55:8-9:
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
 
Tammuz – The First Summer Month

Tammuz is the first month of summer, so there is the boundary of a season which can be seen in this month. And the reason why God brings us to the ‘brim’ is because He is revealing the ‘sum’ of the sown seed of the last three spring months.
 
This seed works like a film strip that we created by our deeds according to our faith in the past three months in order to re-look and adjust according to God’s will.
 
In the last three months a new divine thing began to grow in the hidden which God brings up in the coming season. The atmospheric conditions of Tammuz are the ‘fire’ that brings our spirit into movement so that what God has placed into us is becoming done and finally ‘cooked’.
 
The Unfolding of the Hidden Realm
 
God is unfolding the ‘gift wrap paper – riddles/parables’ of the hidden realm in order to show the ‘fold – entrance’ of the sphere of intimacy with Him.
 
Within the fold is the truth that was laid aside over a period of time which now comes up. It is now the season to take this truth again, becoming one with it and nurturing it (cf. Exodus 33:21-23; Jeremiah 13:4.6 i.c.w. Ephesians 6:14a).
 
Exodus 33:21-23:
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.
23 Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen.”
 
Jeremiah 13:4.6:
4 “Take the belt you bought and are wearing around your waist, and go now to Perath (note: Euphrates => 4’th river of Eden, it flows to an unknown place) and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.” …
6 Many days later the Lord said to me, “Go now to Perath (note: Euphrates 4’th river of Eden) and get the belt I told you to hide there.”
 
Ephesians 6:14a:
14a Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, …
 
Amen and Amen.
 
In His Wisdom,
 
Daniel Glimm

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