As the people of God, as we continue on our journey with the prophetic power of Jesus’ testimony, grounded in the truth of God’s Word, we are moving deeper into our promise (cf. Revelation 19:10e i.c.w. 2 Peter 1:19–21).

 

‘… 10e For it is the Spirit of prophecy who bears testimony to Jesus.’

 

19 We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things.

21 For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

 

Based on Jesus’ statement regarding the light, we are called to place the power of revelation not under a bushel, but in the presence of the Holy Spirit.

 

 

This placement in its sevenfold nature, which points to the lampstand as the menorah, encompasses the precious and fulfilling presence of the Holy Spirit (cf. Mark 4:21–23 i.c.w. Isaiah 11:2).

 

21 He said to them, ‘Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand?

22 For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.

23 If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.’

 

2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him – the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord – …

 

It is the Holy Spirit who leads us into the respective truth through the revelation granted to us, so that we may move forward with firm confidence through the power of the revelatory truth (cf. John 16:13).

 

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.

 

The realm of Jesus’ testimony can also be equated with the upper room at Passover or Shavuot (Note: Pentecost), where bread and wine, as well as wind and fire, bore witness to the love and power of the Heavenly Father (cf. Luke 22:7–9.12–13 i.c.w. John 3:16; Luke 24:49; Acts 1:13a; Acts 2:2–4).

 

7 Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

8 Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, ‘Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.’

9 ‘Where do you want us to prepare for it?’ they asked. …

12 He will show you a large room upstairs, all furnished. Make preparations there.’

13 They left and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.

 

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.

 

‘… 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.’

 

13a When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. …

 

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.

 

The two attributes of bread [Note: לֶחֶם – läḥäm] and wine [Note: Heb. יַיִן – jajin] together carry the numerical value ‘148’ in Hebrew. This numerical value is also found in the name ‘Passover’ [Hebrew: פֶּסַח – pesach], which is the leading festival among the biblical feasts ordained by God and is connected to Jesus’ body and blood (cf. Luke 22:19–20).

 

19 And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.’

20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you. …’

 

We know that it was the time of Passover, when God led the chosen people of Israel up and out of Egypt (cf. Exodus 3:17 i.c.w. Exodus 33:1).

 

“… 17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites – a land flowing with milk and honey.”

 

1 Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, “I will give it to your descendants.”

 

We must not forget that it is in the Father’s interest that we are led by His Holy Spirit into a deeper understanding of His Word, so that we may worship Him there in spirit and in truth. It is only through Christ, who is the Truth, that we can deepen our relationship with the Father (cf. John 4:23–24 i.c.w. John 14:6).

 

‘… 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks.

24 God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.’

 

6 Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through me. …’

 

 

This place for us in our relationship with the Father, in this worship in spirit and in truth, involves abiding in the upper waters of God, as revealed to us in Psalm 148, Verses 1 and 4.

 

1 Hallelujah! Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise him in the heights above. …

4 Praise him, you highest heavens and you waters above the skies.

 

The waters above the heavens encompass the sapphire realm of God’s throne room, which is located above the heads of the four cherubim as described in the revelations of Ezekiel (cf. Ezekiel 1:26 i.c.w. Ezekiel 10:1).

 

26 Above the vault over their heads was what looked like a throne of lapis lazuli [Note: sapphire], and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man.

 

1 I looked, and I saw the likeness of a throne of lapis lazuli [Note: sapphire] above the vault that was over the heads of the cherubim.

 

It is a form of supernatural communication through God’s high thoughts and ways, as described by the prophet Isaiah, whom we love to quote and whose revelatory truth leads us to submit to the Spirit within our souls (cf. 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. …’

 

This supernatural communication is connected to God’s sovereign rule, which is reflected in the crystal sea as the presence of the lion, the ox, the man, and the flying eagle, because they are before the throne of God (cf. Revelation 4:6–7).

 

6 Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. In the centre, round the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and behind.

7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.

 

It is the upper waters that encompass the communication of the Spirit and bring what is in heaven down to earth by carrying the spoken and written words of God.

 

The upper or high waters point to the release of spiritual blessings that God has in store for us, because His voice is like the sound of many waters. This sound is associated with the forward movement and the flapping of the wings of the four cherubim, who act in conjunction with the presence of God’s throne (cf. Isaiah 55:10-11 i.c.w. Ezekiel 1:24a).

 

10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,

11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

 

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], …

 

One of the Hebrew words used for ‘high’ in the Word of God is ‘gōbah.’ It is derived from the root word ‘gābah’, which means, among other things, ‘to soar, to take courage.’ (Note: part excerpt from the Elberfelder Study Bible regarding the words ‘gōbah – high’ and ‘gābah – to soar, to take courage’ with word key numbers H1386 and H1384)

 

It is supernatural courage that God the Father releases as we move forward with firm confidence—that is, in faith—in His high thoughts and along His high paths. The price we pay for this is that we can no longer follow our soul patterns of disbelief, doubt, worry, and negative thoughts. Instead, we let go of the past, the familiar, and the comfortable in order to dwell in his higher thoughts.

 

Therefore, we should be like the disciples Peter and John, whom Jesus sent out at the time of Passover to seek the upper room of the high waters. Jesus revealed to them that they would meet a man carrying a water jar who was going into the chosen building. It can be assumed that this man carried the water-filled jar on his head into the building (cf. Luke 22:8.10).

 

8 Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, ‘Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.’ …

10 He replied, ‘As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the house that he enters, …’

 

 

As God’s people, we are called to recognize His hour—or the moment of His call—by ascending the ‘steps of ascent’ He has prepared. This goes hand in hand with the revelation of God’s hand, which holds in store greater glory and righteousness. This process resembles the shadow on Ahaz’s sundial moving back ten steps, which means that the sunlight increased by ten steps (cf. Isaiah 38:8).

 

8 I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.” ’ So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.

 

In this context, the ten steps can be associated with the Hebrew letter ‘yod’, which has the numerical value ‘10’ and is connected to the ‘hand’. It is the ‘yod’ that points to the potential of ‘the small things’, which holds everything together in the Word of God to contribute to its fulfillment. The extent to which we heed, practice, and teach these things determines our ability to walk in God’s guidance (cf. Matthew 5:17–19).

 

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.

18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter (Note: Greek, ‘iōta’ points towards the tenth Hebrew letter ‘yod’ and its numeric value ‘10’), not the least stroke of a pen (Note: Greek, ‘kerạịa – hook, horn and refers to the Hebrew letter ‘yod’ and its numeric value ‘10’), will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

 

Furthermore, the Hebrew word for ‘hand’ is ‘yād.’ Among other things, it also means ‘power and might.’

 

Through the increase of sunlight and the ten steps, the power of God’s hand becomes evident for us - a hand full of light, for there is no darkness in Him (cf. 1 John 1:5 i.c.w. James 1:17).

 

5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.

 

17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

 

It is His hand that pulls in the realm of the upper waters above the heavens, so that we may live in greater knowledge of the glory of the LORD (cf. Ezekiel 8:3a; Habakkuk 2:14).

 

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 …

 

14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

 

As we seek to step more consciously into this power and guidance from God, our prayers are intensified with prophetic anointing, and our focus on acting in faith, being courageous in the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, as well as our worship, is deepened during these days. A special time as we prepare for Shavuot, the next high biblical feast.

 

Amen and Amen.

 

In His Wisdom,

 

Daniel and Tina Glimm