PROPHETIC CHAMBER
The Season We are in
 
We are now in the season where at the outside the hours of darkness are increasing and the hours of light are decreasing. This fact is not a fact to become frightened or depressed. God is pointing by this fact only to the increasing burning light within our “four walls” which is linked to more warmth!

As the one new man (note: the people of Israel and we as gentiles; see Ephesians 2:14-15) is in the season of Hanukkah and Christmas which is linked to the increasing light because the candles (“1”+ 8 candles) of the Hanukkiah (note: the special lamp stand for the Hanukkah feast) are getting every night over eight days one by one ignited and also the lamp stand of the Advent with “the four candles” is getting ignited week by week I want to make the teaching of Robert Heidler about the feast of Hannukah for us accessible which will help us to understand the time where we are in.
 
Daniel Glimm
 
The Sentimental Season of the Year
 
We are in very special season of the year. It is the sentimental season of the year, where a lot of emotional things are attached to it and these are good things.
But God also wants us to know, that it is strong supernatural season, that shows the time table of God for miracles to take place.

As you go through the time of Hanukkah (note: It is a Hebrew word and means “dedication”.), enjoy the time with your friends and family but do not forget, that it is a supernatural season. Expect from God to break through in a supernatural way.

The time of Hanukkah is also touching the month in which also Christmas is celebrated.
Christmas is a time to remember God’s love by sending Jesus.
Some believers think, if we celebrate the biblical feasts we can´t celebrate Christmas. That is not true. Because, we are a one new man in Christ Jesus, we are allowed to celebrate the feats of God on both sides (note: see Romans 2:13-18; the messianic Jews and the gentile Christians).

Even if Jesus was not born in the time frame of the 24'th - 26'th of December it means not, that we are not allowed to celebrate Christmas. It is the time frame, where we remember the sending of Jesus to the earth by the Heavenly Father.
Jesus was normally born at the time of Sukkot (note: Tabernacles).
We as born again believers should be thankful for every opportunity of remembering God’s love- JESUS and to talk about it.

Christmas is a wonderful time to celebrate God´s love. It is a time to share His love with your friends, neighbors, family and to thank God, that He loved you so much that He sent His son!
As said before is December not only the month of Christmas but also the month of Hanukkah.
Many Christians don´t know much about Hanukkah. They think of it as just a Jewish holiday.
But if you really understand Hanukkah, it is also for Christians.
To celebrate Hanukkah is a great blessing.

Hanukkah is not an Old Testament feast, which is ordained by God.
Hanukkah is not even mentioned in the Old Testament but it is found in the New Testament in John 10.
Jesus gave at Hanukkah- the feast of dedication an important message in John 10:22-38.
 
John 10:22-38 (NIV):
22 Then came the Festival of Dedication (note: Hanukkah) at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23 and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomon’s Colonnade.
24 The Jews who were there gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”
25 Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me, 26 but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.
27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.
29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
30 I and the Father are one.”
31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”
33 “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”
34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are “gods” ’ (see Psalm 82:6)? 35 If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside—36 what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?
37 Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father.
38 But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.
 
This passage reflects, that Hanukkah was a special feast for Jesus.
He went into the temple at this time to identify himself with Hanukkah.
This shows, that if Jesus was celebrating Hanukkah, it is not just a feast for the Jews it is also a celebration for everyone, who knows the God of Israel.
 
The History of Hanukkah
 
In 167 BC the Greek ruler, Antiochus Epiphanes, decreed that all his subjects must convert to the pagan Greek religion.
At that time Israel was under the domination of the Greek Empire, which was a time of great testing for the Jews.
Antiochus outlawed Judaism & worship in the temple. He forced the Jewish people to convert by torturing and murdering many of them. Then he defiled the temple, setting up a statue of Zeus in the Holy of Holies and sacrificing a pig on the altar.

Finally a Jewish priest named Mattathias could take it no more. A Greek official had come to his town, set up an altar to a pagan god and ordered Mattathias to offer a sacrifice on it. Mattathias refused. He said: ”Though all the nations that are under the king's dominion obey him... yet will I and my sons walk in the covenant of our fathers." (see 1.Maccabees 2:19-20)

Then another Jew came forward to offer the pagan sacrifice and Mattathias took out his sword  and killed him.
Then Mattathias and his sons attacked the Greek official and killed him too.
When the rebellion begun, Judah, son of Mattathias, led a small band of Jews against the powerful Greek armies.
Judah had an interesting nickname “Maccabee”- “the hammer” Maccabee= acrostic said it was the sentence: “Who is like You, among the gods, oh Lord.” This was their battle cry.

Amazingly, Judah and his followers defeated the Greek armies in 165 BC, which was a miraculous victory.
By getting back the independence, Judah´s first goal was it to restore the temple. As the temple was restored and cleansed, they proclaimed a great feast to rededicate it to the Lord.
The people of Israel gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate it.

But as the time came to enlighten the menorah in the temple, they had only the measure of oil to shine for one day.  But a miracle happened at this feast and the oil was sufficing for eight, which was a miracle of multiplication.
It was a miracle like in the time of Elisha, where the oil of the widow multiplicated (see 2 Kings 4:1-7).
 
2 Kings 4:1-7:
1 The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”
2 Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?” “Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”
3 Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few.
4 Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.”
5 She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring.
6 When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.” But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
7 She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”
 
Hanukkah is a Special Celebration for Several Reasons:
 
It is a celebration of restoration: The temple was restored.
It is also a celebration of God´s miracles. Hanukkah is furthermore called the feast of lights, which is represented by a special Menorah, that is called Hanukkiah.
Instead of seven branches of the Menorah the Hanukkiah has nine branches. One lamp for each day as a sign for the remembrance of the miracle of the oil multiplication. The ninth light is called “shamash”, which means servant and is not counted, because it serves for the ignition of all the eight lamps of the Hanukkiah.
 
What is the message of Hanukkah?
 
1) God protects His people
 
  • The enemy had tried to destroy God´s people, but God is a God who cares for His sheep.
  • God gave Judah Maccabeus a miraculous victory.
  • The first key of Hanukkah is: God protects those, who are His. The message of Jesus at Hanukkah in John 10:22 is: “I am the protector of My sheep.” – Hanukkah is about it.
2) God Wants to Restore His Temple
 
  • Judah Maccabeus´s highest priority was to see the temple cleansed and God’s presence restored.
  • He removed all idols and impurity.
  • He rebuilt and restored all that was lost.
  • He rededicated it to the Lord.
  • He led a joyful celebration to welcome the presence of God back into their midst.
  • God honored the work of Judah with a display of His glory.
 
Jesus Zeal for the House of the Father
 
Hanukkah is the celebration of the restoration of His temple. That’s another reason why Hanukkah was a special feast to Jesus, because the temple was a special place- the house of the Father for Jesus (see John 2:16).

Jesus honored the temple and called it “My Father´s House”, what reflects, that the restoration of the temple was close to His heart. It was the longing of Jesus to see the temple restored.
We can see this kind of longing in the beginning of Jesus ministry- John 2:14-17 and at the end of His ministry- Mark 11:15-17. Jesus cleansed/ purified the temple and had a zeal to see the Father’s house restored. It is still zeal today, because we are as believers an individual temple of the Holy Spirit but also a corporate temple (see 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Corinthians 3:16ff.).

One of the goals of Jesus in the world today is the restoration of God’s temple and to remove all sin/ impurity as well as restoring God’s glory to His temple.
 
3) We Serve a God of Miracles!
 
As Judah chose to honor God by restoring His temple, the glory of God came down and miracles were released! Remember, that Hanukkah is the celebration of God’s miracles.
The blessing of Hanukkah is this: “Blessed are You, Lord our God, king of the universe who performed miracles for our fathers, at this season.”
 
The “Dreidel”- A Call to Turn
 
At Hanukkah the Jews or young Jewish children are playing with the “Dreidel”, that is a spinning top and carries four Hebrew letters.: “Nun (50), Gimel (3), He (5), Schin (300)”, which carry the statement of “A great miracle happened there/here!” (note: The value of the Hebrew letters is “358”).
The same numerical value of „358“ has also the Hebrew word "maschiach"  which means Messiah (note: The word is made up of the Hebrew letters Mem-40/ Schin-300/ Jod-10/ Chet-8).
Furthermore the breastplate of the high priest which is called in Hebrew "choschän" has also the same numerical value of “358”.

Prophetically is this explanation saying: “Turn to your Messiah Jesus Christ to feel His heartbeat like John and shine with His love.” (see John 13:23-25 in conjunction with Exodus 28:15-21.28-30; Hebrews 3:1-2)

Because Jesus confronted the accusers of his time at the feast of Hanukkah with the works of his Heavenly Father, it should call us to proclaim God’s great miracles of the past, which releases faith in the hearer to trust God for miracles now (see John 10:25.32.38).
 
John 10:25.32.38:
25 Jesus answered, I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father's name speak for me, …
… 32 but Jesus said to them, I have shown you many great miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?
38 But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.
 
4) Hanukkah- A Celebration of Light. It is the Feast of Lights.
 
The message of Hanukkah is, that light overcomes darkness (see John 1). The light shines in the darkness and the darkness could not hold it (see John 8:12; Matthew 5:14).
 
John 8:12:
12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
 
Matthew 5:14:
14 You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.
 
Hanukkah is the season, where God wants to put His light on you, so that you shine more intense.
The Hanukkiah gives a picture of Jesus! The “first/ ninth” candle is called the servant candle (note: “shamash”), which directs to Jesus.

In the 7-branched Menorah the center lamp was called the lamp of the Lord but in 9- branched Hanukiah the central lamp is called the servant. This is Jesus.
Jesus is the Lord but He came as a servant to lay down His life and  release God’s blessing in the earth. This is what the Hanukkiah pictures.
The servant candle brings light to all the other candles!
Each night of Hanukkah an additional candle is added until all are lit, which pictures, that Jesus is the light, who is spreading through the world.
 
The Second Reason of the Importance of Hanukkah for Born Again Believers
 
It exists a second reason why Hanukkah is important for us as Christians.
Jesus is normally not born on December 25'th, because the shepherds don't keep flocks in the fields in late December.
At Jesus birth time, the shepherds were outside and keeping their flocks.
In Luke 1:5 it is said, that Zechariah was priest at the time of king Herod and belonged to the priestly division of Abijah.
In 1 Chronicles 24:10 it is said, that the priests of Abijah served in the temple during the 12'th-18'th of Sivan (note: June, the priests served for about two weeks once in a year).
 
Luke 1:5:
5 In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron.
 
1 Chronicles 24:10:
… 10 the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, ...
 
When was Jesus born?
 
The angel Gabriel appears to the priest Zechariah at the month of Sivan between the 12'th - 18'th and Elizabeth conceives at the 25'th Sivan and after 285 days pregnancy, John the Baptist was born at the 15'th of Nisan, which is the feast of Passover. At Passover it is in Jewish tradition, that people place a chair for the prophet Elijah for the possibility if he supposes to show up.
It is interesting that John the Baptist was walking in the spirit of Elijah and was born at the feast of Passover.
In Luke 1:36 Elizabeth was in the 6'th  month of her pregnancy, which was the 25'th of  Kislew. And the month of Kislew is the month in which Hanukkah begins.

This shows, that it was the time where Jesus was conceived by Mary.
After a normal pregnancy circa 285 days, Jesus was possibly born at the 15'th of Tishri, which is Sukkot, the feast of Tabernacles.
This reflects, that Jesus was probably not born at Christmas but He was probably conceived at Hanukkah- the feast of lights and dedication. Jesus was conceived by Mary in the midst of the celebration of the miracles of God  through the Holy Spirit, so that Mary could birth forth THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD!
 
The message of Hanukkah is:
 
  1. God cares for His people. Thank Him, that you are under His protection.
  2. God wants His temple restored. Thank Him, that we are His temple! Thank Him, that He is restoring His church.
  3. God is a God of miracles. Thank Him, that He is a living God, who works in power. Learn to expect miracles!
  4. Jesus is the light of the world. Hanukkah is a time to let His light shine.
At Christmas we celebrate that Jesus came. At Hanukkah we celebrate why He came.
This is why the Hanukkah is the key celebration for the church today.
Hanukkah celebrates what God is doing in His Church now.
God is in the process of restoring His temple. He is calling us to be an Oasis for the nations, to reveal His love and His care.

He wants us to demonstrate His power through the manifestation of miracles.
He is calling us to shine with His light into a world of darkness.
 
So be encouraged to celebrate the feast of lights in this year. You can get a real Hanukkiah or just use 9 small candlesticks. As you light the candles each night proclaim, that God’s great miracle happened at Hanukkah and that miracles happen today.

Praise God for Jesus, the light of the world.
 

PROPHETIC CHAMBER
The biblical month of 'Tebeth' is the tenth month in the biblical calendar and is linked to the tribe of Dan. It is according to the meaning also the month of ‘the mud, where one sinks’.
 
Dan, The Snake and the Lion
 
Dan was blessed by his father Jacob to be a powerful snake and by Moses to be a powerful young lion who operates with the suddenlies of God to diminish the influence of pride (cf. Genesis 49:16-17 i.c.w. Psalm 20:7; Psalm 33:17; Deuteronomy 33:22).
 
Genesis 49:16-17:
16 “Dan will provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan will be a snake by the roadside, a viper along the path, that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.
 
Psalm 20:7:
7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
 
Psalm 33:17:
17 A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save.
 
Deuteronomy 33:22:
22 About Dan he said: “Dan is a lion’s cub, springing out of Bashan (means: ‘fruitful stone less plain’).”
 
Likewise, Jesus also bears the attributes of a ‘serpent’ and a ‘lion’, among others, namely in the form of victory and triumph over sin and eternal kingship (cf. John 3:14-18 i.c.w. Revelation 5:5).
 
John 3:14-18:
14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”
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.
18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
 
Revelation 5:5:
5 Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
 
Righteous Words and Words of Wisdom
 
The snake in connection with Dan is pointing to righteous words as well to words of wisdom (cf. Matthew 10:16).
 
Matthew 10:16:
16 “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as wise as snakes and as innocent as doves. …”
 
It is important that we judge from a place of righteousness and not from a place of bitterness, jealousy or greed. In order to rightly judge in accordance to 1 Corinthians 5:12-13 we must operate in righteousness, truth and mercy.
 
1 Corinthians 5:12-13:
12 What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? 13 God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”
 
Genesis 49:16-18:
16 “Dan will provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel. 17 Dan will be a snake by the roadside, a viper along the path, that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward. 18 “I look for your deliverance, Lord.
 
The character of the mud in this biblical month points to the dimension of the first man Adam.
 
Genesis 2:6-7:
… 6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
 
It is similar to the spinning potter’s wheel representing God’s cycle of eternity and the clay representing our temporary life time in the potter’s house at the time of Jeremiah (cf. Jeremiah 18:1-5).
 
Jeremiah 18:1-5:
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.”
3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel.
4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
5 Then the word of the Lord came to me.
6 He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.
 
The Prophet Jeremiah in the Cistern and Challenging Circumstances
 
In link with the mud, we can read in Jeremiah 38:6 that the prophet was thrown by the officials of the king Zedekiah into the cistern where he sank into the mud.
 
Jeremiah 38:6:
6 So they took Jeremiah and put him into the cistern of Malkijah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah by ropes into the cistern; it had no water in it, only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
 
Romans 8:28 says that everything has to work for good for those who love God.
 
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.
 
Through this statement the cistern and the challenging circumstance of Jeremiah become a directive light for us in our time.

The cistern into which the prophet Jeremiah was thrown carried a divine statement into which God allowed the prophet to enter and to be positioned. It was the cistern of Malkijah – “My king is YAHWEH!” which was at the ground full with mud.‘Mud’ is the substance that God used as He created first time the human being (cf. Genesis 2:6-7).
 
Genesis 2:6-7:
… 6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
 
Psalm 7:15 and Proverbs 26:27 are clearly saying that the one who digs a pit falls into his own pit.
 
Psalm 7:15:
15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
 
Proverbs 26:27:
27 Whoever digs a pit will fall into it; if someone rolls a stone, it will roll back on them.
 
This means that from our challenging circumstances, blessing emerges which decimate the enemy in his seeming superiority. This means that we are positioned in the phase of transformation with our king Jesus Christ and thus are able to receive His prophetic plan for this time in our lives.
 
Coming Boldly Before the Throne of Grace
 
God’s prophetic plan for our lives is that we arise in boldness and coming into His royal ‘residence’ or rather palace before His throne of grace to activate divine justice in the world where we are personally not able to do it (cf. Esther 2:16 i.c.w. Hebrews 4:16).
 
Esther 2:16-18:
16 She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal residence in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
17 Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.
18 And the king gave a great banquet, Esther’s banquet, for all his nobles and officials. He proclaimed a holiday throughout the provinces and distributed gifts with royal liberality.
 
Hebrews 4:16:
16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
 
Divine Righteousness
 
The activation of divine justice is mentioned because the month Tebeth is linked to the tribe of Dan – ‘Judge’.
 
Dan was the 5’th son of Jacob (means: ‘heel holder’) and the first son of Rachel (means: ‘mother sheep’) who was conceived by her maid Bilha (means: ‘timidity, modesty’).
 
On the basis of Dan who was born as a fifth and as well as a first born son, we can see the hand of God and His favor upon Dan to execute divine justice.
 
Og, The King of the Amorites
 
The region of Bashan, from which the tribe of Dan sprang forth like a lion according to the blessing of Moses, was previously under the rule of king ‘Og’ (cf. Deuteronomy 33:22 i.c.w. Deuteronomy 3:11).
 
Deuteronomy 33:22:
22 About Dan he said: “Dan is a lion’s cub, springing out of Bashan (means: ‘fruitful stoneless plain’).”
 
Deuteronomy 3:11:
11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants. His bed was decorated with iron and was more than nine cubits long and four cubits wide. It is still in Rabbah (means: ‘The great’ – feminine) of the Ammonites.)
 
The name ‘Og’ means ‘He was bent.’
He was the king of the Amorites – ‘those, who live in the mountains’.
 
In the spiritual context, the plan of the ‘king Og’ is to oppress people by religion with the main goal to hinder them of entering into the fruitfulness and freedom of Jesus Christ.
The spirit of ‘Og’ drives people to live by own strength and self righteousness which is revealed by his ‘resting place’ (cf. Deuteronomy 3:11).
 
To be bent in this context can be a sign that sin is like a burden on a person who is oppressed by shame and guilt through the influence of an evil spirit.
 
For example, it can be a religious spirit that oppresses people but it is faith in Jesus Christ that is linked to freedom.
 
The Bent Woman
 
It is no coincidence that Jesus healed a crippled woman who was bent over for eighteen years (Note: 3 x 6 | 6+6+6= 18) in one of the synagogues on a Sabbath (cf. Luke 13:10-13).
 
Luke 13:10-13:
10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, 11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.
12 When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.”
13 Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.
 
Because Jesus healed the woman on a Sabbath in the synagogue, it was a sign that He confronted by the healing the hearts of the religious people who lived in a legalistic way before God but didn’t have a real love relationship with Him.
 
The religious spirit is an antichrist characteristic because in its subtle approach of pride it defines itself only through works without faith as it refuses and relativises the given righteousness through Jesus Christ at the cross (cf. John 3:14-17).
 
John 3:14-17:
14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness (see Numbers 21:8-9), so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”
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.
 
Let us glorify Jesus Christ as the Son of the living God who sits on the throne at the right hand of the Father.
 
By rising up in grace from the righteousness of Jesus Christ, this month we will speak words and make decisions that will bring down the enemy in his structures and reveal God as a judge in the dimension of wisdom.
 
Amen and Amen.
 
In His Wisdom,
 
Daniel Glimm

PROPHETIC CHAMBER
At a time like this, we are in need, as God’s people, to allow the Holy Spirit to finish things and start anew by letting Him place our spirit man on a new level of heaven and earth.
 
This is accompanied by the intervention of the LORD’s hand that takes hold of our spirit and draws us into a higher spiritual dimension associated with faith (cf. Ezekiel 3:12; Ezekiel 8:3a-b; Daniel 14:36 i.c.w. Matthew 14:31).
 
Ezekiel 3:12:
12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a loud rumbling sound as the glory of the Lord rose from the place where it was standing.
 
Ezekiel 8:3a-b:
3a-b He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. The Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and in visions of God he took me to Jerusalem, …
 
Daniel 14:36 (apocryphal text from the New American Bible Revised Edition):
36 The angel of the Lord seized him by the crown of his head and carried him by the hair; with the speed of the wind, he set him down in Babylon above the den.
 
Matthew 14:31:
31 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. ‘You of little faith,’ he said, ‘why did you doubt?’
 
A New Phase of Spiritual Warfare
 
The Lord shows that we as the people of God in Germany have entered a new phase of spiritual warfare according to Ephesians 6:12, which requires the spiritual walk in a new realm of heaven and earth.
 
Ephesians 6:12:
12 For our struggle (Note: battle) is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
 
From the Word of God we can see that at His appointed time the LORD will roll up the realm of heaven as well as the earth like a mantle and create a new heaven as well as a new earth (cf. Hebrews 1:10-12 i.c.w. Isaiah 65:17; 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 6:14a; Revelation 21:1).
 
Hebrews 1:10-12:
10 He also says, ‘In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
11 They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment.
12 You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed. But you remain the same, and your years will never end.’
 
Isaiah 65:17:
17 ‘See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
 
2 Peter 3:13:
13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
 
Revelation 6:14a:
14a The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, …
 
Revelation 21:1:
1 Then I saw ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
 
Even though the above scriptures refer to the end of times, in this context the LORD is in the process of providing a new realm from His presence on earth for us as His people to take possession of at this time.
 
The reason why the LORD has provided a new spiritual realm of heaven and earth for His people is because the darkness has intensified and is connected to the ‘dimension of the kings of darkness’. This circumstance requires that even the prophets of God are encouraged to proceed in a new way.
 
This approach is similar to the situation of the prophet Elisha, who needed a harpist at the time of ‘the war of kings’ in order to unlock the realm of prophetic strategy, which was connected with the presence of the hand of God (cf. 2 Kings 3:15-16a).
 
2 Kings 3:15-16a:
15 But now bring me a harpist.’ While the harpist was playing, the hand of the Lord came on Elisha 16 and he said (Note: prophesied), …
 
We are in a similar time in which the powers of darkness are abusing and deceiving ‘the kings’ (Note: leaders in economy and politics) on earth for their own purposes in order to cause global oppression.
 
The Fiery Salt and the New Prophetic Level Assigned by God
 
Therefore, it is necessary that we as the church – the Ekklēsia go ahead in the substance of the fiery salt and let the prophets of the LORD speak from their new God-assigned realms (cf. Mark 9:49-50, Habakkuk 2:1a).
 
Mark 9:49-50:
49 Everyone will be salted with fire.
50 ‘Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with each other.’
 
Habakkuk 2:1a:
1a I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; …
 
The statements of the prophets are received and carried by the Ekklēsia, so that His judgments are released by the decree of the Word of God and His righteousness is established on the earth (cf. Isaiah 26:9).
 
Isaiah 26:9:
9 My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
 
The words of the LORD’s prophets increase in authority as their communication moves along as in the ‘pipelines’ of ‘Enoch’ and ‘Elijah’, which is accompanied by transmitting closeness to God and the establishment of the LORD’s righteousness (cf. Zechariah 4:12-14).
 
Zechariah 4:12-14:
12 Again I asked him, ‘What are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil?’
13 He replied, ‘Do you not know what these are?’ ‘No, my lord,’ I said.
14 So he said, ‘These are the two who are anointed to serve the Lord of all the earth.’
 
The global opposing of the princes and powers of darkness requires that we as the Ekklēsia enter into a new dimension of praise and decree the revelatory truth of the Word of God.
 
In this, it is necessary that we go higher and unite with and apply the living revelatory truth of the Word of God, which is a living, powerful, sharp and two-edged sword (cf. Hebrews 4:12).
 
Hebrews 4:12:
12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
 
The Divine Combination
 
This alignment of praise and truth is clearly illustrated by Judges 1:1-3, where the tribe of Judah aligned with the tribe of Simeon, who was aware of the power of the sword (cf. Genesis 49:5).
 
Judges 1:1-3:
1 After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the Lord, ‘Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites?’
2 The Lord answered, ‘Judah shall go up; I have given the land into their hands.’
3 The men of Judah then said to the Simeonites their fellow Israelites, ‘Come up with us into the territory allotted to us, to fight against the Canaanites. We in turn will go with you into yours.’ So the Simeonites went with them.
 
Genesis 49:5:
5 Simeon and Levi are brothers – their swords are weapons of violence.
 
In order to bind the ‘kings’ and ‘princes of darkness’, it is necessary that we apply the revelatory truth of God’s Word in conjunction with praise to execute righteous judgment according to the will of God (cf. Psalm 149:6-9).
 
Psalm 149:6-9:
6 May the praise of God be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in their hands, 7 to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples, 8 to bind their kings with fetters, their nobles with shackles of iron, 9 to carry out the sentence written against them – this is the glory of all his faithful people. Praise the Lord.
 
In relation to the situation with the prophet Elisha and the minstrel, it means that Elisha was aware and recognized that the heavens were closed in his day by the present darkness, which meant that he couldn’t spontaneously give prophetic counsel or prophesy God’s strategy to his addressees. He needed the ‘sound of the hand’ (Note: harp player => praise/sound and righteousness/hand) so that the hand of God came upon Elisha and he was authorized to prophesy.
 
It was because of Elisha’s humble heart attitude and decision to first fill the room with the sound of worship, that the hand of God previously removed the heavens from the resisting darkness and then settled on the prophet so that he could prophesy the LORD’s strategy to the relevant kings (cf. 2 Kings 3:15-16a).
 
2 Kings 3:15-16a:
15 But now bring me a harpist.’ While the harpist was playing, the hand of the Lord came on Elisha 16a and he said (Note: prophesied), …
 
God’s Eternity Plan and the Pulling Up into the New Spiritual Realm
 
Since God ministers from the eternal realm and the structure of His time cycle could be described as a circle that is without beginning or end, this is an indication that God works according to His eternal plan of renewal. This is associated with an end in temporary time but also provides a new beginning at the same time (cf. Isaiah 65:17 i.c.w. 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1).
 
Isaiah 65:17:
17 ‘See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. …’
 
2 Peter 3:13:
13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
 
Revelation 21:1:
1 Then I saw ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
 
The LORD is presently moving His Kingdom people on earth up into a new spiritual realm of the heavens in order to establish His plans from there through His people in the spirit realm of the earth (Note: ‘äräẓ realm; cf. Ephesians 2:6; Colossians 3:1-3).
 
Ephesians 2:6:
6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, …
 
Colossians 3:1-3:
1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
 
In this, it is not left out that we must let go a ‘worn-out kind’ of leadership as we go deeper into the promise, just as the people of Israel experienced at different periods of time (cf. Judges 1:1).
 
Judges 1:1:
1 After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the Lord, ‘Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites?’

To enter more deeply into the God-ordained promise of the Kingdom, it requires crossing a spiritual ‘dimension of water’, which is related to the ‘region of the Jordan’ and involves putting off the old and taking in the new.
 
This is evident in the fact that the people of Israel had to pass through the Jordan River in order to enter the Promised Land, while the old generation died in the wilderness. Furthermore, Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist took place in the waters of the Jordan River as well (cf. Joshua 3:14 i.c.w. Joshua 5:4; Matthew 3:13).
 
Joshua 3:14:
14 So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them.
 
Joshua 5:4:
4 Now this is why he (Note: Joshua) did so: all those who came out of Egypt – all the men of military age – died in the wilderness on the way after leaving Egypt.
 
Matthew 3:13:
13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptised by John.
 
The Rapture of Elijah and a New Prophetic Dimension of Heaven
 
We can consider the process of the new realm of heaven opened by God with the life of Elijah at the time when Elisha followed him and was on the way to receive the double anointing of Elijah.
 
In this context, two attributes play a significant role, which are the movement and the sound (cf. 2 Kings 2:11).
 
2 Kings 2:11:
11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.
 
The fiery chariot with the fiery horses is the boundary line between the flesh and the spirit, between the natural and supernatural realms, as well as the guideline and standard of God’s Word in connection with His plan for the earth.
 
In addition, Elijah’s mantle which represents the prophetic dimension and anointing played an important role in the crossing of the Jordan.
 
When Elijah was on his way to the place of the Rapture with Elisha, they first had to cross the Jordan and this was done by Elijah folding his mantle and striking the water of the Jordan with it so that it opened. Then they could cross over to the other side together on dry ground (cf. 2 Kings 2:8).
 
2 Kings 2:8:
8 Elijah took his cloak (Note: mantle), rolled it up and struck the water with it. The water divided to the right and to the left, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
 
Elijah in a sense closed a prophetic realm in the heavens so that Elisha opened a new prophetic realm.
 
This is made clear by the fact that after Elijah was taken up to heaven by God through the whirlwind and separation by the fiery chariot with the fiery horses, Elisha received the mantle from Elijah from a higher realm.
 
At this point, the mantle was not wrapped but unfolded, indicating that Elisha was operating from a realm of anointing that carried the double in which Elijah had previously moved.
 
Elisha crossed the Jordan alone after the Rapture of Elijah, and on his way back to cross the Jordan he used Elijah’s unfolded mantle (Note: new prophetic dimension/anointing), which also became his new clothing, since Elisha had torn his old clothes (cf. 2 Kings 2:9-14).
 
2 Kings 2:9-14:
9 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, ‘Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?’ ‘Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,’ Elisha replied.
10 ‘You have asked a difficult thing,’ Elijah said, ‘yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours – otherwise, it will not.’
11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.
12 Elisha saw this and cried out, ‘My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!’ And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore it in two.
13 Elisha then picked up Elijah’s cloak that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.
14 He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. ‘Where now is the Lord, the God of Elijah?’ he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.
 
After Elisha crossed the Jordan, he moved in a new realm of anointing created by God, which He established for this time on earth.
 
God ended a time of heaven on earth by a new time of heaven on earth, which the prophet disciples whom Elisha met on the other side of the Jordan recognized by seeing the cooperating double anointing of the LORD resting on his life. Even though they couldn’t yet fully believe it, that Elijah’s time was supernaturally ended by God, they recognized it (cf. 2 Kings 2:15-18).
 
2 Kings 2:15-18:
15 The company of the prophets from Jericho, who were watching, said, ‘The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha.’ And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.
16 ‘Look,’ they said, ‘we your servants have fifty able men. Let them go and look for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the Lord has picked him up and set him down on some mountain or in some valley.’ ‘No,’ Elisha replied, ‘do not send them.’
17 But they persisted until he was too embarrassed to refuse. So he said, ‘Send them.’ And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find him.
18 When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, ‘Didn’t I tell you not to go?’
 
This means for us as God’s people that when God has created a new spiritual realm on earth, we don’t hold on to the old way and the things associated with it, but rather move in the new structure and anointing created by God (cf. Mark 2:22).
 
Mark 2:22:
22 And no-one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.’

By the grace of God, we receive in the Holy Spirit the necessary sensitivity to this new dimension of revelation that flows out of us through our worship and faithful attitude in daily life toward God’s Word.
 
Thus, we emerge with new courage leading in a servant attitude to proclaim righteousness and the will of God in decrees in prayer and daily work for the glory of the King of the whole universe.
 
Amen and Amen.
 
In His Wisdom,
 
Daniel Glimm

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