A New Order Of Heaven On EArth
On July 19 2009, prior to a worship event at the Healing Rooms in Spokane Washington, I saw two angels of prophecy standing at a double door entrance. As I watched by the Spirit, I saw the doors fly open and the angels declare, “Make way for a new order of heaven on earth!” I knew in that moment that a greater measure of prophetic authority was appearing in the earth. I knew specifically, that this new realm of government was a unique dimension of prophetic and apostolic activity that was occurring in California and the Pacific Northwest. I also saw the doors that were previously opened to certain expressions or activities of the Spirit slam shut. Through the new double doors that had been opened by angelic proclamation, I saw another realm of angelic activity coming through its entrance. I knew by the Spirit that their arrival was the commencement of an intense purity of God’s kingdom that was coming upon this land and the nations of the world. The level of prophetic accuracy is increasing. The expression of the kingdom of God is changing. Unusual sounds from heaven are now in the earth, destined to reveal the heart and mind of God in untold ways.
Jesus declared in His day, “The kingdom of God is at hand.” Since then the reality of God’s kingdom has been appearing incrementally. This incremental process is the result of more and more people being inhabited by the heart and mind of God. As this kingdom realization increases in the earth, the atmosphere begins to change. Therefore, habitation is the thermostat and atmosphere is the thermometer. In any given city or state, the occupancy of the air is a revelation of what is occupying hearts and minds.
More and more people are beginning to move into a greater dimension of spiritual intimacy with Spirit of God. The fruit of this intimacy is causing a shift in spiritual activity. For example, worship is taking on a whole new expression in the earth. They way the kingdom of the church has worshiped in previous years is dramatically changing. There was a time when the most gifted and talented musicians were leading the way, but now a deeper revelation of the heart of God is beginning to take over. I am not implying that we still won’t need or have the expertise of great musicians. However, without this increasing realm of divine intimacy, the experts of worship will be restricted to the power of the soul.
Worship is rapidly becoming a spiritual journey unlike anything we have ever seen before. It is becoming one of the primary venues through which the heart and mind of God is being revealed. The frequencies of worship are now penetrating the darkest soul. Because of these fresh new frequencies there’s a new breed of angelic forces moving throughout earth. It has gotten to where I dislike using the phrase “spontaneous worship,” largely because when people hear that phrase they immediately lock into a previous understanding of spontaneous worship. Spontaneous worship is being redefined. A certain realization of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord is becoming more and more apparent as worshipers of God abandon themselves to the sudden impulse of the Holy Spirit. Even the greatest songs written are quickly becoming a manna that cannot be preserved or digested in the fields of tomorrow’s revelation of heaven.
I have been somewhat alarmed as I have observed the difficulty people have trying to worship God without an overhead projector. It seems the real struggle is the inability to worship God without having some kind of direction as to where they are going. No doubt both realms can stir up a wonderful measure of God’s Spirit, yet in the end, the very form that once led to life now has the potential of limiting us from going into a deeper realm of the heart and mind of God.
THE GLORY OF MOSES
“But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory, for even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.” (2 Cor. 3:7-11)
The anointing on Moses, though it condemned people to death, was once the primary glory to preserving life. Yet, because of a more excellent covenant, it is now a veil of limitation, even spiritual death.
One of the key factors of the Prophet’s mantle is keep the people pressing toward the highest mark in Christ, breaking through the layers of veils of ancient history. Passion is one of the primary ingredients to continually advance into the kingdom of God. Every time we encounter the knowledge of God, His heart and mind is increasingly formed in us. Each encounter provokes in us a greater longing to know Him more. There are spiritual practices of familiarity that have the power to barricade, even the most sincere people, into a realm of limited knowledge of God’s love.
The nation of Israel was could not look upon the face of Moses, not only because of the glowing countenance of God upon his face, but because the glory on His life was a temporary solution for a permanent promise. The glory upon his face was a glory that was passing away. Therefore Moses covered his face knowing that as wonderful as the glory of God was upon his life, it was destined fade away because of a greater glory that was to come. Moses stood in the presence of the Lord and said, “Show me your way.” Yet as powerful as his sight was in that moment, hundreds of years later Jesus declared, “I am the way, the truth and life.” In other words, Jesus was saying, “I am what Moses saw in an eternal glimpse of time.”
To me, the life of Moses is a clear example of how some of our greatest moments in life can become a passing expression of a greater glory that is before us.
THE GLORY OF DAVID
Even the songs of David, as wonderful as they are, can limit us from accessing a deeper realm of the Spirit; if we allow them to be the ultimate director of our worship. While David encountered the glory of the Lord in profound ways, his view of the holy place was but a mere glimpse of what has been afforded us today. This may sound shocking to some, but the tabernacle of David was only a shadow and type of the living tabernacle of today. I know there have been many good books written and messages preached about the rebuilding of the tabernacle of David and the expression of worship that was profoundly expressed in his day. Though for years those expressions served as a wonderful guide in my life, I am more determined than ever before to break free from the shadow and types of David’s day. As wonderful as they were, I am not being restored to what David saw or heard.
Thus the words of Captain James T. Kirk of the star ship enterprise, (paraphrased for this generation) “The glory of God, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise: its eternal mission; to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new heavenly realms, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”
We are breaking the barrier of seeing heaven from earth, to seeing earth from heaven. Only then we will see as far as the eye can see. This kind of sight is from the position of being in Christ and Christ in us; from the glory of Moses to the glory of David to the glory of Jesus Christ, to the eternal work of the Holy Spirit in us, conforming, us to His glorious body.
“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself .” (Phil 3:20-21)
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