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Fasting Journal, part 3

Aug. 7, 2021: Day 6

Revelation (through a prophet that I watched and heard speaking these words):

What I spoke at creation created an image in the earth. The prophetic word unlocks the code and brings forth that image which I already created in My plan. That is why it is important to be in agreement.

The purpose of antichrist is to oppose prophecy and try to stop the image that I created.

The spoken word of God is creative. It creates an image that is not yet manifested in the earthly dimension. It requires a double witness to establish all things in our dimension. When we hear God speaking and bear witness to it in the earth, we transform the image into something tangible that is manifested in the earth.

Though genuine prophets are relatively few, all who hear God’s voice may function prophetically in this way, and even unbelievers have been known to prophesy inadvertently. Hence, God has no difficulty accomplishing His plan for the earth. All of the images that He has created by His word will emerge into the earth at His appointed time. Why? Because He has chosen and called and trained men and women to ensure that they will speak the word, bringing forth each image in its time.

For example, He spoke and created an image of the Red Sea parted. To ensure that this would be brought forth in the earth, He trained Moses for many years, so that when he arrived at the Red Sea, he would hear God’s voice and agree with what he heard. Moses spoke with his staff, and the Red Sea parted.

Moses did not part the Red Sea. God had already parted the Red Sea from the dawn of creation. He had created an image of a parted Red Sea that was the pattern, or template, of truth and reality. Moses unlocked the code, saw the plan of God, and agreed with it. When Moses heard the word and received the revelation of a parted Red Sea, his faith—which comes by hearing—resulted in agreement and he bore witness to the word of God. This brought spiritual reality into earthly manifestation.

Yet God also raises up His own opposition in order to delay such actions to His appointed time. Those who hear God’s voice also receive revelation through the opposition. God raised up Pharaoh, not to thwart the divine plan but to show forth the glory of God (Exodus 9:16).

Paul quotes this in Romans 9:17 and then concludes in Romans 9:18,

¹⁸ So then He has mercy on whom He desires [thelo, “wills”], and He hardens whom He desires [thelo, “wills”].

A few verses earlier (Romans 9:15), Paul had written,

¹⁵ For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Paul’s main point was to show the sovereignty of God, that He raises up His own opposition and raises up others to overcome that opposition at the appointed times. It is based on the will of God, not on the will of man.

Hence, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, while Moses received mercy—all according to the will of God. The mercy of God was shown to Moses in many ways, but most strikingly when he was on the mount. When Moses asked, “Show me Your glory” (Exodus 33:18), God approved, saying in Exodus 33:19, “I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion.”

We see from this that Moses asked to see God’s glory because He had received the revelation that God had already created that image, or template from the beginning of time. The time came for that image to emerge into the earth, so God gave him the code to unlock that image and to bring it forth in the earth.

Moses did not ask God on whim. It may have been a new revelation to him, but the revelation behind “Show me Your glory” had an age-long history behind it dating back to the creation.

This process of revelation is probably of little interest to most people, but inquiring minds want to know how it actually works so that we understand revelation within the context of the sovereignty of God. I heard years ago that in the Greek language, “I think” is really, “the thought occurred to me.” If that is the case, they had the right idea, because revelation does not come from the human mind but from an outside Source.

August 8, 2021: Day 7

Revelation:

This revelation came from Pastor Chris Reed, our friend who recently moved from Peru, Indiana to Charlottesville, North Carolina to join with Rick Joyner of Morningstar Ministries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZODp5ZwIx4U

His main text came from the story of Cornelius in Acts 10:1-4,

¹ Now there was a man at Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian cohort, ² a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, and gave many alms to the people and prayed to God continually. ³ About the ninth hour of the day he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God who had just come in and said to him, “Cornelius!” ⁴ And fixing his gaze on him and being much alarmed, he said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and alms have ascended as a memorial before God.”

Chris expounded upon the meaning of a “memorial” and how God “remembers” prayers and alms even when He seems to ignore them and leave prayers unanswered. God keeps a record of these things, putting them into a bowl, as it were, for future reference. Then, at the appointed time, God tips the bowl and pours out His answer into the earth.

In the case of Cornelius, we do not know how long he had been praying—or even what he had prayed—but God’s answer finally came. The answer was to send for a man named Simon, who is also called Peter, who was staying with a tanner named Simon, living by sea in Joppa. Peter was God’s answer to Cornelius’ prayer. You know the rest of the story.

Unanswered prayer is not lost. It is delayed, because some prayers need time to accumulate a certain amount of good works (obedience) before they can be answered. God serves no wine before its time.

So the revelation of the day is that prayer and fasting and alms are a memorial put into a bowl to be tipped out at the proper time. When the bowl is full, all that has been put into it will be poured out and seen. “Nothing is too difficult for You” (Jeremiah 32:17).

August 9, 2021: Day 8

Revelation:

"I will give you the staff of glory that you may glorify Me."

This was a mystery, as Scripture does not use this term, “staff of glory.” But if we understand that a staff represents authority of some kind, we may see this as “authority of glory,” or the authority to be used to glorify God in some way.

So we see that Moses often used his staff to show forth the glory of God. Only once did he fail in this by striking the rock (on the second occasion) when he should have spoken to it (Numbers 20:8-12). Moses was unable to enter the Promised Land because of this misuse of authority. God held him to a higher standard because of the level of his authority (and knowledge).

Many church leaders today also misuse their authority, and when their sins are revealed, God is not glorified but vilified.

August 10, 2021: Day 9

No revelation.

Even a silent day has its own revelation. In Exodus 17:1, the people camped at Rephidim and ran out of water. Soon they were ready to stone Moses, as if it were his fault (Exodus 17:4). God then told Moses to strike the rock so that it would bring forth water. Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 10:4 that this was “a spiritual rock which followed them, and the rock was Christ [anointed].”

It was the rock that Jacob had anointed at Bethel in Genesis 28:18, making it a type of Christ. Jacob later took it to Egypt and made Joseph its custodian. Genesis 49:24 says in Jacob’s blessing to Joseph, “From there [sam, “whence”] is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel.” In that the rock was struck, it prophesied of Christ’s death on the cross, and when the soldier pierced His side with the spear, water came out (John 19:34).

On the second occasion in Numbers 20, Moses was supposed to speak to the rock, because the second work of Christ did not require Him to die again. It was to preach the word. So also Jonah’s second call was when he preached to Nineveh. Likewise, in Acts 4, when the Spirit of God was poured out the second time, we read, “and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.”

These are revelations of the two works of Christ, of which I have written more fully in my book, The Laws of the Second Coming. We see that the purpose of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in our time is designed to speak the word of God with boldness, even as Jonah preached the word to the people of Nineveh and the apostles in Jerusalem.

But first, one must know the word of God in order to have a word to speak. For this reason, God has revealed many things in His word that are not generally known in the church. The prophets have some remarkable revelations of personal matters, but few have a deeper understanding of the word itself.

We are being prepared for the second work of Christ and not merely awaiting the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. While many see this outpouring in terms of more miracles and healings, we see it in terms of speaking the word of God to the nations with boldness.

At any rate, when Moses struck the rock the first time, water came out for the people. We then read in Exodus 17:7,

⁷ He named the place Massah [“temptation”] and Meribah [“contention, strife, quarreling”] because of the quarrel of the sons of Israel, and because they tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

When we run out of water today, we often think that God has abandoned and forsaken us. Instead of resting in His promise that “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5), we become frightened and react accordingly. The problem of the church in the wilderness was a prophetic type of what the church in Pentecost would experience as well. Little has changed.

I personally learned this lesson years ago, so when God gave me no revelation on Day 10, it did not throw me. In fact, there was a lesson in His very silence! It was the very important lesson recorded in Exodus 17. I can assure you that I did not panic.