This message carries a staggering content that carries a revelatory truth that is intended to help us to understand the heart of God even more intensely.

 

Because of this, every reader is encouraged to read the content with spiritual eyes and listening ears and to ask the Holy Spirit for spiritual understanding in this regard (cf. 1 Corinthians 2:13 i.c.w. Revelation 2:7a).

 

1 Corinthians 2:13:
13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.

 

Revelation 2:7a:
7a Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. …

 

There are reports of experience in the Word of God that can seem distressing to us because God wants to bring an important point to our attention.

 

If we merely read the experiences and reports with our natural eyes and mind, we will only evaluate what we read with a rational mindset, so that we will come to a conclusion that doesn’t correspond to what the Holy Spirit actually wants to communicate to us.

 

Therefore, it is essential that we have enlightened eyes of the heart and ears of disciples as well as being conscious of the fact that all things must serve us for good, who are called by God according to His counsel and who love Him (cf. Ephesians 1:18; Isaiah 50:4 i.c.w. Romans 8:28).

 

Ephesians 1:18:
18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, …

 

Isaiah 50:4:
4 The Sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.

 

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.

 

 

Let’s take a look at the story of 2 Kings 6:24-30, where a famine is reported in the city of Samaria (Note: means ‘belonging to the watchman’), which was caused because of the siege by the Arameans under the leadership of King Ben-Hadad (Note: means ‘son of him who thunders’).

 

The affliction of the Arameans highlighted values in the society of Samaria, which included the value of the head of a donkey and dove’s dung.

 

2 Kings 6:24-25:
24 Some time later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram mobilized his entire army and marched up and laid
siege to Samaria.
25 There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a cab of seed pods (Note: dove’s dung) for five shekels.

 

This reveals to us as God’s people that we are not exempt from challenges in which the adversary causes us distress because the LORD allows it in order to point out significant things for this time and the time to come as well as to strengthen us in our faith (cf. James 1:2-4).

 

James 1:2-4:
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

 

These significant things include the need to go forward in understanding of the biblical times, as did the tribe of Issachar, whose calling was to know the times and what was required to be done in each season (cf. 1 Chronicles 12:32).

 

1 Chronicles 12:32:
… 32 from Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do – 200 chiefs, with all their relatives under their command; …

 

It is the tribe of Issachar that is associated with the symbol of a donkey, since it was likened by Jacob to a donkey that serves on the basis of God’s rest (cf. Genesis 49:14-15 i.c.w. Hebrews 4:9-10).

 

Genesis 49:14-15:
14 “Issachar is a rawboned donkey lying down among the sheep pens.
15 When he sees how good is his resting place and how pleasant is his land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and submit to forced labor.

 

Hebrews 4:9-10:
9 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; 10 for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.

 

Furthermore, the LORD calls us to go forward in the gift of discernment of spirits (cf. 1 Corinthians 12:10) in order to discern right from wrong and then to separate what is right from the wrong. This may be indicated by the donkey’s head and the dove’s dung of 2 Kings 6:25.

 

According to the Hebrew-biblical understanding every new beginning or beginning of time (Note: beginning of the year and month) is connected with the ‘peak’ or the ‘head’ (Note: Hebrew ‘rō’š’). Thus, the donkey’s head may indicate the enabling of the understanding of the end and beginning of God’s cycles of time.

 

 

Furthermore, Jesus Christ, as King of kings, communicates with His church – His ekklēsia on earth, which has internalized His sacrificial death by taking the Lord’s Supper and lives in it every day and serves Him with passion (cf. Luke 9:23; Galatians 2:20; John 6:54-56).

 

Luke 9:23:
23 Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.

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

 

John 6:54-56:
54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.

 

In this case, Jesus is speaking to us, His ekklēsia from a higher spiritual level which includes the level of the prophetic vision of the watchmen. This is clearly evident from the conversation between the woman and the king who is walking on the wall in accordance to 2 Kings 6:26.

 

2 Kings 6:26:
26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”

 

It is the wall that forms the foundation of the prophetic watchmen who gave themselves in prophetic intercession for the cause of God (cf. Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

Isaiah 62:6-7:
6 I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest, 7 and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.

 

Based on the conversation between that woman and the king, we can see that another woman was in contact with the woman who had the conversation with the king on the wall. This is revealed as she mentions the second woman, who had a share in the ‘flesh of her son’, since the two women ate him together after he was cooked due to the famine caused by the Arameans (cf. 2 Kings 6:28-29).

 

2 Kings 6:28-29:
28 Then he asked her, “What’s the matter?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’
29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.”

 

This situation should not be received and analyzed with the rational mind at this point, but with the spirit.

 

This boiling condition is a reference to Jesus Christ on the cross, who laid down His life for us humans so that all who believe in Him may go forward in salvation in His Sonship (cf. John 3:16).

 

John 3:16:
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

 

The second woman, mentioned only by the first woman in her conversation with the king, who also had a son whom she hid, is a reference to the ekklēsia with a certain characteristic, namely, to understand the value of the mysteries of Christ.

 

 

She is moving forward in spiritual maturity and the mysteries of Christ, which are the treasures of wisdom and knowledge that are like pearls of great value (cf. Colossians 2:3).

 

Colossians 2:3:
… 3 in whom (Note: Christ) are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

 

These pearls are especially guarded and shared only with those who possess the mindset of the Kingdom and have previously partaken of Jesus’ sacrificial death by dying to self and honorably taking the Lord’s Supper in continuity to live Christ Jesus by serving Him (cf. Matthew 13:45-46; Matthew 7:6 i.c.w. John 6:54-56).

 

Matthew 13:45-46:
45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls.
46 When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it. …”

 

Matthew 7:6:
6 “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. …”

 

John 6:54-56:
54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.

 

The message may sound shocking but we should have true hunger for the Word of God which is Jesus Christ, who is the true sacrifice.

And this results in confrontation in our inner man in order to decide whether to continue on the path with Christ, who is the undivided truth, or to go against it (cf. Amos 8:11 i.c.w. John 6:60.64-67).

 

Amos 8:11:
11 “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land – not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord. …”

 

John 6:60.64-67:
60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?” …
64 Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him.
65 He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.”
66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.

 

As devoted disciples of Christ in His Sonship and Kingship, we can contribute from the level of the true church – ekklēsia to the transformation of Jesus Christ who turns as King of kings into prophetic intercession before the throne of God (cf. 2 Kings 6:30; Hebrews 9:24).

 

2 Kings 6:30:
30 When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore his robes. As he went along the wall, the
people looked, and they saw that, under his robes, he had sackcloth on his body.

 

Hebrews 9:24:
24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence.

 

He does this in order to release the Spirit of grace and prayer over His people (cf. Zechariah 12:10a-b).

 

Zechariah 12:10a-b:
10a-b “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, …”

This kind or power of intercession results in people in society beginning to recognize Jesus Christ as the redemptive truth and finally receive redemption.

 

Amen and Amen.

 

In His Wisdom,

 

Daniel Glimm

In order to enter more deeply into our God-given promise, it is necessary that we are aware of two specific things. In the first place, we should be aligned with the right saints and not live in independence.

 

Secondly, we should have the proper spiritual vision, just as Caleb and Joshua had when they were sent out by Moses with the other 10 spies to the Promised Land (cf. Numbers 13:1-3.6-8.16).

 

Numbers 13:1-3.6-8.16:
1 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders.”
3 So at the Lord’s command Moses sent them out from the Desert of Paran. All of them were leaders of the Israelites. …
… 6 from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh; 7 from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph; 8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun; …
16 These are the names of the men Moses sent to explore the land. (Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.)

 

Caleb of the tribe of Judah and Joshua of the tribe of Ephraim obscurely point to the importance of understanding God’s two cycles of time, which are the cycle of redemption and the cycle of blessing.

 

 

Each biblical month is assigned to one of the twelve tribes of Israel according to the monthly system of the holy year (Note: cycle of redemption). The assignment of the twelve tribes to the months are related to the camp order of the people of Israel from Numbers 2, because we too, as God’s people, are on the path of the Kingdom (cf. Hebrews 13:14).

 

Hebrews 13:14:
14 For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

 

Thus, the division of the tribes of Israel into the biblical months is as follows:

 

1^’st unit:
Judah – Abib/Nissan
Issachar – Iyar/Siv
Zebulun – Sivan

 

2^’nd unit:
Reuben – Tammuz
Simeon – Av
Gad – Elul

 

3^’rd unit:
Ephraim – Tishrei/Ethanim
Manasseh – Bul/Marcheshvan
Benjamin – Kislev

4^’th unit:
Dan – Tevet
Asher – Shevat
Naphtali – Adar

 

Since this order of the tribes of Israel is the same three times in the Word of God and Ecclesiastes 4:12 and Matthew 18:16.20 speak of the importance of the threefold, we can see God’s revelatory direction in this arrangement of the tribes of Israel (cf. Numbers 2; Numbers 7:10-83; Numbers 10:11-28).

 

Furthermore, the scripture from 1 Chronicles 27:1-15 reveals to us that David’s army was divided into 12 divisions, each consisting of 24,000 men. Each division was assigned by David to a specific month of the year in which it had to perform active duty.

 

From 1 Kings 4:7-19 we can see that king Solomon, the son of David also divided his servants or governors according to the months of the year.

 

 

There are two annual cycles mentioned in the Word of God.
The first annual cycle is the so-called civil year, which begins in autumn and is also titled the blessing cycle, because God blessed Adam at the creation of the earth.

The blessing cycle is opened by the biblical month of ‘Tishrei/Ethanim’, which is assigned to the tribe of Ephraim. This biblical month is associated with Sukkot, also called The Feast of Tabernacles, which celebrates the harvest and glory of God.

 

The second annual cycle is the so-called holy (Note: biblical) year, which begins in spring and is also called the cycle of redemption because the people of Israel were saved from death by the blood of the Passover lamb and went out of Egypt to freedom.

 

The cycle of redemption is opened by the biblical month of ‘Nissan/Abib’, which is assigned to the tribe of Judah.

 

Nowadays, the people of Israel orient themselves according to the so-called civil year (Note: cycle of blessing), which means that they celebrate the New Year, also called Rosh ha-Shanah, in autumn.

 

Both beginnings of the year honor God, if we have previously prepared a place for Him in faith.

This recognition of God is revealed by filling the place with His hidden or mysterious presence and glory, as God did at the completion of the tabernacle in the first biblical month of ‘Nissan/Abib’ and at the completion of the temple by Solomon in the seventh biblical month of ‘Tishrei/Ethanim’ (cf. Exodus 40:1-2.16-17.34-35 i.c.w. 1 Kings 8:2.8-12).

 

Exodus 40:1-2.16-17.34-35:
1 Then the Lord said to Moses: 2 “Set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month. …
16 Moses did everything just as the Lord commanded him.
17 So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year. …
34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 35 Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

 

1 Kings 8:2.8-12:
2 All the Israelites came together to King Solomon at the time of the festival in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month. …
8 These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.
9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.
10 When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the temple of the Lord.
11 And the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled his temple.
12 Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud; …

 

This means that God always fills the opening of His annual cycles established on earth with His presence and glory. For this, however, it is necessary that we, as His people, are ready to receive Him honorably, so that His glory intensifies on earth.

 

 

It was Caleb and Joshua who joined together as a team, having a special gift of faith and the right spiritual eye and so were able to carry the large cluster of grapes from the land of ‘Canaan – lowlands’ on a pole together and alongside bring back pomegranates as well as figs to Moses (cf. Numbers 13:23-26).

 

Numbers 13:23-26:
23 When they reached the Valley of Eshkol (means ‘cluster of grapes’), they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates and figs.
24 That place was called the Valley of Eshkol because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut off there.
25 At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.
26 They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land.

 

The location of the finding of the grapes took place at the time of the first grapes (cf. Numbers 13:20c), which is a reference to Jesus the first and begotten Son of God who laid down His life for us on the cross in order to bring us into covenant with the Father.

 

Numbers 13:20c:
… 20c (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)

 

 

Jesus was the grape (Note: the Father’s love) that hung lifted up on the pole of the two spies (cf. John 3:16-17) to call us by His blood as kings and priests. The pomegranate wears a crown on its ‘head’ (cf. Exodus 39:22-26 i.c.w. Revelation 1:5-6).

 

John 3:16-17:
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Exodus 39:22-26:
22 They made the robe of the ephod entirely of blue cloth – the work of a weaver – 23 with an opening in the center of the robe like the opening of a collar, and a band around this opening, so that it would not tear.
24 They made pomegranates of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen around the hem of the robe.
25 And they made bells of pure gold and attached them around the hem between the pomegranates.
26 The bells and pomegranates alternated around the hem of the robe to be worn for ministering, as the Lord commanded Moses.

 

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

 

As called ones we are entrusted with bringing healing (Note: figs, cf. 1 Samuel 30:11-12; 2 Kings 20:7) to the people and the nations (cf. Revelation 22:2).

 

1 Samuel 30:11-12:
11 They found an Egyptian in a field and brought him to David. They gave him water to drink and food to eat – 12 part of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived, for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights.

 

2 Kings 20:7:
7 Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” They did so and applied it to the boil, and he (Note: Hezekiah) recovered.

 

Revelation 22:2:
… 2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

 

 

The Hebrew word for pomegranate is ‘rimmôn’, which also means ‘marrowy’, because the color of the pomegranate resembles the color of the marrow of the bones, which is responsible for the production of blood, wherein is life (cf. Genesis 9:4). The Hebrew root word is ‘rāmam’ and means ‘to be exalted/honored’.

 

Based on this explanation, it is clear that Joshua and Caleb brought the ‘complete victory of Jesus Christ on the cross’ back to the camp of Israel and therefore had a very different view than the intimidated other ten tribal leaders because they were assessing the situation from an ‘elevated perspective’.

 

It was the spies Joshua and Caleb who recognized in the spirit realm that over the giants in their future land of promise the ‘protective shadow’ had departed, because they carried in their hearts the absolute confidence of the future victory ‘through Jesus Christ’ by revelation (cf. Numbers 13:30; Numbers 14:6-9).

 

Numbers 13:30:
30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”

 

Numbers 14:6-9:
6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes 7 and said to the entire Israelite assembly, “The land we passed through and explored is exceedingly good.
8 If the Lord is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us.
9 Only do not rebel against the Lord. And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will devour them. Their protection (Note: shadow) is gone, but the Lord is with us. Do not be afraid of them.”

 

This clearly shows that if you are a saint in Christ Jesus and you do the right thing at the right time with the right people, strategy is in place that guarantees success and secures the generations.

 

Amen and Amen.

 

In His Wisdom,

 

Daniel Glimm