In the life of believers in Christ, it is inevitable that we will reach phases that can be described as a low point or abyss of despair. This abyss is like the term ‘Sheol’ or ‘the abyss of the living’, where it seems that you are alive but feel dead or without life inside.

 

In Psalm 42, for example, a Levite of the sons of Korah describes that he was in a state of affliction in his soul that led him to despair (cf. Psalm 42:5-7).

 

Psalm 42:5-7:
5 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour and my God. 6 My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon – from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.

 

 

In his spirit, the Levite instructed his soul to trust in God and to have hope. In this, the memory of God’s involvement in the past played a significant role while he was enveloped by the circumstances of affliction. David also emphasized the importance of remembering God’s intervention (cf. Psalm 103:2).

 

Psalm 103:2:
2 Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits – …

 

The sheathing of affliction in the form of ‘billows and waves of the depth’ in the life of a believer in Christ represented by the Levite, can manifest itself in the fact that his soul is attacked by a certain false or evil form of communication in demonic influences, due to false belief systems or an unrenewed mindset, which uses the challenging circumstance of the believer in question to intimidate him.

 

At this point it should be noted that Levites were familiar with the presence of God, and yet there were circumstances in life that challenged them. And this can happen in a similar way in our lives of faith today. How do we deal with such circumstances?

 

It is necessary that in periods of challenge, which may include a time of testing, we apply the truth of God’s Word already established in us, much like Jesus when He was tested in the wilderness.

 

We may realize that the adversary intends to use the Word of God against us to tempt us. Here it is important that we remain in the right context of the truth of the Word of God and stand victorious against the adversary (cf. Matthew 4:1.4.11 i.c.w. James 4:7).

 

Matthew 4:1.4.11:
1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. …
4 Jesus answered, ‘It is written: “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” ’ …
11 Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.

 

James 4:7:
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

 

 

Since Psalm 42 is a song, and sound creates movement, we can see that it contains the power of hope, which helps us to move from the place of the abyss of despair to the place of hope.

 

This state is like a cell phone with a critical battery condition that needs to be moved from the place of ‘low condition, weakness, emptiness’ to the place of energy to be recharged.

 

In this process, it is necessary that we think of God’s intervention in our lives through the power of memory and thus have the place, time and image of the situation before our spiritual eye in order to overcome the state of inner distress in the power of faith by spiritually changing the place so that our inner communication (Note: thoughts) changes.

 

The consequence of this is that we take captive by faith each and every thought that opposes the knowledge of God, which means that it is contrary to the plan or promise of God for our lives (2 Corinthians 10:4-5 i.c.w. Jeremiah 29:11).

 

2 Corinthians 10:4-5:
4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

 

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

 

 

The prophet Jonah was also not satisfied with his circumstances of abyss and despair. He decided to pray in the belly of the great fish, which can also be described as the place of the LORD’s travailing prayer, which demands everything of us (cf. Jonah 1:17 i.c.w. Jonah 2:1-5.10).

 

Jonah 1:17:
17 Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

 

Jonah 2:1-5.10:
1 From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God.
2 He said: ‘In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help, and you listened to my cry.
3 You hurled me into the depths, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and breakers swept over me.
4 I said, “I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again towards your holy temple.”
5 The engulfing waters threatened me, the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head. …
10 And the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

 

Since, according to Jesus’ statement, the belly is the seat of the Spirit as well as being connected to the living waters and the great fish represents a vehicle for Jonah into his God-ordained promise, that the significance of birthing prayer is recognizable (cf. John 7:38-39a i.c.w. Isaiah 42:14).

 

John 7:38-39a:
38 Whoever believes in me [Note: Jesus Christ], as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.’
39 By this he meant the Spirit, …

 

Isaiah 42:14:
14 ‘For a long time I have kept silent, I have been quiet and held myself back. But now, like a woman in childbirth, I cry out, I gasp and pant. …’

 

Sometimes it is unavoidable that the power of God’s voice in the form of promise surrounds us like floods, waves and billows, and that His great or high thoughts must cover our spirit and mind as the weeds covered Jonah’s head, so that we look away from ourselves and look to His triumph, which He has already established for us through Jesus Christ on the cross by His death and resurrection (cf. Ezekiel 1:24a; Revelation 1:15b; Isaiah 55:8-9 i.c.w. Colossians 2:15).

 

Ezekiel 1:24a:
24a When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like the roar of rushing waters, like the voice of the Almighty [Note: Shaddai], …

 

Revelation 1:15b:
… 15b, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters.

 

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.

 

Colossians 2:15:
15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

 

 

The power of this promise is equivalent to a thrown dice in a board game, which stands on the number ‘six’ and, depending on the board game, can mean that you are in a favored position, having the opportunity to step out of an area or position and also skip other players by continuing your path and rolling the dice again.

 

=> Thus, the number ‘six’ reveals a certain momentum by creating a fresh opportunity to advance. This means that when our promise comes to pass, our normal course of action gets a major boost. This involves something tangible and specific revealing itself before our eyes, which expresses itself in favor. <= (The text set in ‘=>’ is based on an explanation from the book ‘Prophetic Wisdom’, page 84 by Graham Cooke).

 

In addition, the number ‘six’ comprises the highest numerical value on a dice and is also the number of man, because man as Adam was created by God on the sixth day (cf. Genesis 1:26a.27.31).

 

Genesis 1:26a.27.31:
26a Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, …’
27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. …
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning – the sixth day.

 

Behind Jesus Christ, who also bears the title ‘of the last Adam, who became a life-giving spirit’, there is a similar momentum to the dice roll of the number ‘six’ (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:45 i.c.w. 2 Corinthians 3:17).

 

1 Corinthians 15:45:
45 So it is written [cf. Genesis 2:7]: ‘The first man Adam became a living being’; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.

 

2 Corinthians 3:17:
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

 

This momentum was released by Jesus Christ on the cross while He was being fixed by the Roman occupiers by three nails linked to the numerical value 666. The nail is connected to the Hebrew letter ‘Waw’, which has the numerical value ‘6’ and pictographically symbolizes ‘a nail’.

 

If, from this perspective of Jesus’ triumph on the cross, we look at the square shape of the dice with the numerical surface ‘six’, which contains the three nails and the four wounds of Christ, we can recognize a certain restart in the form of renewal and refreshment (cf. Colossians 2:13-15).

 

Colossians 2:13-15:
13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having cancelled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.
15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

 

It may sound paradoxical, but the erected cross with the three nails had been used for Jesus to hang in the air where the adversary reigns for the only purpose of judging his plans and his antichrist structure (cf. Ephesians 2:2 i.c.w. Galatians 3:13).

 

Ephesians 2:2:
… 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.

 

Galatians 3:13:
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written [cf. Deuteronomy 21:23]: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”

 

The realm of the air is the realm of thoughts, where we make decisions whether we cultivate the thoughts of God or those of the adversary.

 

By Jesus’ complete surrender and submission to the will of His Heavenly Father, through His sacrificial death on the cross, He has judged the antichrist system or trinity of darkness (Note: in the form of an evil triangle => Satan, the false prophet, the beast; cf. Revelation 20:10 => two nails in the hands of Jesus and one nail in the feet of Jesus).

 

Where the adversary had assumed that the final victory would be achieved by his antichrist plan, it led to that his resistive plan has been destroyed by the work of Jesus Christ, the perfect Son of God. The three nails opened the way for the four wounds of the Son of God, who is the door into the completeness of the Father (Note: 3 nails + 4 wounds = 7 => fulfillment of the Word of God; cf. Matthew 5:17; John 14:6 i.c.w. Hebrews 12:2).

 

Matthew 5:17:
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

 

John 14:6:
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

 

Hebrews 12:2:
2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

 

The revelatory truth concerning the number ‘7’ can be found in the numerical values, which are the Hebrew letters ‘Gimel’, ‘Daleth’, ‘Zayin’.

 

The numerical value of ‘3’ is linked to the Hebrew letter ‘Gimel’, which has the pictographic depiction of a camel connected with the right of access into the Kingdom of God (cf. Matthew 19:24).

 

Matthew 19:24:
24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

 

The Hebrew letter of ‘Daleth’ is associated with the numerical value of ‘4’ and has the pictographic illustration of an ‘open tent door’ (cf. John 10:9).

 

John 10:9:
9 I [Note: Jesus Christ] am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.

 

The numerical value of ‘7’ is related to the Hebrew letter ‘Zayin’ which, among other things, symbolizes a crowned sword and thus refers to the living Word of God (cf. Hebrews 4:12 i.c.w. Revelation 19:13).

 

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.

 

Revelation 19:13:
13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.

 

 

It is the shape of the cube that points to the structure of Jesus’ first love, which is His bride or wife, who reigns as a glorious city from heaven out of the spirit realm onto the earth and carries Him as the Lamb as well as the Father in the facet of Almighty God at the center (cf. Revelation 21:2.9-10.16-17.22).

 

Revelation 21:2.9-10.16-17.22:
2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. …
9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, ‘Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.’
10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. …
16 The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long.
17 The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick. …
22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

 

If we are in Christ, then it is given to us to live without despair and to reign in hope in the anointing of the Holy Spirit, so that there is repentance and redemption in our lives and related surroundings, which receive hope (cf. Romans 15:13).

 

Romans 15:13:
13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

 

Amen and Amen.

 

In His Wisdom,

 

Daniel Glimm