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

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.
 
The structure of the church – the ekklēsia is in a time of spiritual upheaval, with high attention to the leading of the Holy Spirit, who guides us in the revelatory truth of the Father and the Son for this time and the time to come (cf. John 16:13-15).
 
John 16:13-15:
13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.
15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”
 
The Intensification of the Presence of the Holy Spirit and the Great Open Effective Door
 
Accordingly, as saints we are in a phase in which the Holy Spirit intensifies in the lives of those who go forward in obedience to the Word of God, which is Jesus Christ (cf. John 1:1.14 i.c.w. Luke 24:49).
 
John 1:1.14:
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
 
Luke 24:49:
“… 49 I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
 
By this the purity of God is made manifest in the midst of His people, because they move forward with the weight of His glory, speaking fearlessly the words which the LORD inspires by His Spirit (cf. Titus 2:11-14 i.c.w. Acts 2:1-4).
 
Titus 2:11-14:
11 For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.
12 It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, 13 while we wait for the blessed hope – the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.
 
Acts 2:1-4:
1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
 
With this increase of the Holy Spirit, a great effective door opens that leads into the light of the ‘star of Ephesus’, which is the walk in the first love – agąpē.
This walk and moving forward in the first love leads to an increase of understanding of the dimension of divine wisdom that is in the governmental realm of God, as well as the proper biblical understanding of time in order to bring heaven to earth (cf. 1 Corinthians 16:8-9 i.c.w. Revelation 1:20; Daniel 12:3; Genesis 1:14).
 
1 Corinthians 16:8-9:
8 But I will stay on at Ephesus until Pentecost (Note: Shavuot is celebrated in the biblical month of Sivan), 9 because a great door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many who oppose me.
 
Revelation 1:20:
20 The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
 
Daniel 12:3:
3 Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.
 
Genesis 1:14:
14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, …
 
The creation of the stars is associated with the fourth day of creation, and the number ‘4’ is associated with the Hebrew letter ‘Daleth’, which corresponds to an ‘open tent door’, so the deeper meaning of the great door is revealed as described by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 16:9.
 
In connection with this, it deals with the recognition of the Son of God on the basis of the first love – agąpē, who holds the seven stars in His right hand and walks under the seven golden lampstands (cf. Revelation 2:1).
 
Revelation 2:1:
1 “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands.
 
The Church of Ephesus and the Light of the Seven Stars and Seven Golden Lampstands
 
The two attributes, namely the seven stars and the seven golden lamp stands carry two different potentials of the light of God, which are divine government and spirit-filled passion toward the Lord.
 
The light of the seven stars encompasses the impulsive supernatural light of the angelic realm. The potential warm light of the seven lampstands is the passion of the church in the richness of faith as well as the attention towards the King of eternity, who is also her Bridegroom.
 
The fusion of the two kinds of light brings forth that the church serves the LORD as a huge satellite of His eternal reign, releasing His supernatural impulses on earth in the first love. The ekklēsia is appointed to cooperate with God’s spiritual world and its institutions as contributing in reflecting the activities of the unseen.
 
In relation to the fellowship of saints in Ephesus, it can be described as a so-called ‘guiding star’ among the churches mentioned in Revelation, since it is the church where the ‘first love – agąpē’ is called by Jesus Christ and is first in place with God (cf. Matthew 22:36-40 i.c.w. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3).
 
Matthew 22:36-40:
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
 
1 Corinthians 13:1-3:
1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
 
Without the first love for Jesus Christ, we as saints are not able to implement the will of God and receive the love of the Father, because Jesus is the love of the Father (cf. John 14:21).
 
John 14:21:
21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
 
The True Love of God – ‘agąpē’, the New Way and the Time of Unusual Miracles
 
The apostle Paul described the way of God’s love as a higher or even better way, which because of this fact contains higher revelation for those who walk on this way (cf. 1 Corinthians 12:31b).
 
1 Corinthians 12:31b:
… 31b And yet I will show you the most excellent (Note: higher) way.
 
The excellent or higher is always associated with the first with God because, among other things, the first, acts like a pinnacle that completes the construction of a building. ‘Peaks’ are often associated with beginnings in God, as are the beginnings of times such as Rosh Chodesh, the beginning and peak of the month, or Rosh ha-Shanah, the beginning and peak of the year.
 
Thus, the appointed biblical feast times by God that are linked to the people of Israel correspond to great effective open doors. It is the Holy Spirit who desires to move through the people of God to glorify the Father and the Son in these open doors (Note: appointed times).
 
The characteristic of the great effective open door encompasses a higher dimension of the truth of the Word of God, which is first opened by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth. At the same time, this open door includes unusual miracles as well as the confrontation with darkness, which is accompanied by much resistance.
It is for us to surrender ourselves completely to the guidance of the Holy Spirit for this time and the time to come, allowing Him to lead us without restriction, even if we do not know His sending and destination (cf. John 3:8).
 
John 3:8:
8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
 
The reason for not knowing His place of sending and His destination is because the Holy Spirit brings the truth of God’s Word from the supernatural realm, where the Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ dwell in order to bring His people with revelatory power to the new partial destination that the LORD has already predestined.
 
That is why it is so important to go forward in the power of faith, which includes complete trust towards the Holy Spirit. This is accompanied by new knowledge that leads to greater power in the Holy Spirit and the leaving of the ‘old way’ by believers in order to walk in the ‘new way’ in Christ, which includes the standards of the Word of God in its fullness. In addition, the spiritual ‘culture’ of people will change, which will be clearly evident in their expressions.
 
The apostolic quality will increase because of the prophetic anointing within the church which is associated with an increase of light in the form of revelation (cf. Acts 19:1-7).
 
Acts 19:1-7:
1 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples
2 and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
3 So Paul asked, “Then what baptism did you receive?” “John’s baptism,” they replied.
4 Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
5 On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
6 When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.
7 There were about twelve men in all.
 
In the coming time, there will be more frequent talk of the Kingdom of God as ‘the church’, which will be accompanied by opposition from the darkness that has settled in the hearts of believers. In those believers, the hardness and bitter attitude of their hearts will be revealed, which will show itself in mockery toward the message of the Kingdom.
 
This has to happen this way because this resistance ultimately leads to the Kingdom message reaching the right people in the right place. This is associated with a higher dimension of dominion, so that the concerned saints increase in understanding about it and walk in governmental dominion as sons of God in Christ Jesus (cf. Acts 19:8-10).
 
Acts 19:8-10:
8 Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God.
9 But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way. So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus (Note: means 'tyrant' => supreme in authority).
10 This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord.
 
Walking in the governmental reign of God results in unusual miracles that are linked to the outward and inward nature of God and to the finished work and Spirit-filled walk.
These unusual miracles are signs that do not happen directly with the intervention of any devoted saint, but with the objects with which they are brought into contact by people who stand in faith, so that healings and deliverance are experienced on an expanded level without making the carriers of the anointing aware of it. This is because it is the zeal of the Heavenly Father that His Son Jesus Christ alone receives the glory (cf. Acts 19:11-12).
 
Acts 19:11-12:
11 God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, 12 so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.
 
This walk in the governmental concept of the sons of God in Christ Jesus results also that false or illegal spiritual procedures for ‘deliverance’ come to light, so that the ‘supernatural darkness’ acts against the ‘natural darkness’, which appears in the form of ‘the sons of the father of lies’ (Note: the seven sons of the Jewish high priest Skevas; cf. John 8:44).
 
John 8:44:
44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
 
This paves the way for the glory of Christ, which emerges from the summary that has been drawn of the destruction of the value of the ‘teaching of darkness’, so that the Word of God increases in influence and strength in the earth realm (cf. Acts 19:13-20).
 
Acts 19:13-20:
13 Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, “In the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.”
14 Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.
15 One day the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?”
16 Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.
17 When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor.
18 Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed what they had done.
19 A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.
20 In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power.
 
In connection with the seven Jewish conjurers, it should be noted that the practice of so-called exorcism (Note: exorcism without spiritual legality in Christ Jesus) is made clear by the statement of the Pharisees at the time of Jesus, who had projected their action onto Jesus’ delivering intervention, accusing Him of casting out evil spirits with the supreme demon ‘Beelzebul’ (cf. Matthew 12:22-24).

Matthew 12:22-24:
22 Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus healed him, so that he could both talk and see.
23 All the people were astonished and said, “Could this be the Son of David?”
24 But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons.”
 
Furthermore, this illegal spiritual practice of ‘exorcism’ is evident from the intervention of Jewish conjurers at the time of Paul’s ministry, where Jewish conjurers distanced themselves from the truth of God’s Word, which is Jesus Christ. They were being attacked in their unlawful spiritual intervention by the evil spirit.
 
Exorcism is the practice of persons who remove demonic spirits from people through the use of oaths, vows, and promises made to them or the idols they represent. They do this by placing themselves under a demonic power that gives them access to a subordinate demonic level on the basis of an oath.
 
This results in a demand by the demonic power for the person to illegally enter the spirit realm and request a supernatural manifestation (e.g. a healing). This procedure has its root in a wrong attitude of heart, which springs from a false compassion coupled with the search for honor and recognition from people. The oath comes about for example by the relevant person giving the summoner consent and money or any form of value as a reward for this ‘performance’.
 
Amen and Amen.
 
In His Wisdom,
 
Daniel Glimm
 
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