10.10.2021

Leaves for Healing of the Nations (4)

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David Eells - 9/19/21

 Demons Take Over if You Open the Door

Claire Pienaar 8/27/21 (David’s notes in red)

I dreamed Riaan and I were living on a hill. (Riaan means, “little king” and Claire means, “brilliance”. They are being used as a type of the Man-child and Bride.) We had a large property that was very vast with well defined boundaries. (This hill represents Mt. Zion, the city on a hill, that is located in our spiritual promised land. Zion represents the Bride from which the Man-child rules as King David ruled from the throne of God in the midst of Jerusalem. This property has well defined boundaries because being a member of the body of the Bride requires sanctification and staying on the narrow path which is confining because of the commandment that Jesus laid down for His disciples in the New Covenant.)

At the bottom of the hill a new family had moved in right next to our fence. They had at least 5 children but maybe more. These children were everywhere, climbing over everything and intent on wrestling with my children. I tried to keep my children as separate as possible but it was very difficult. (This family with all their unruly children who want to wrestle with our fruit, Christ in us, represent lukewarm apostate Christians. They have religious demons and unclean spirits from living un-sanctified lives. They are disturbed by the Real Jesus that lives inside of us and they always want to contend with or deny the whole Word of God.)

They had moved in from somewhere in Australia, and both the husband and wife had black hair and sparkling black eyes. Their mother (not sure whose mother) was also with them, and she had black hair too. (The mother-in-law represents the mother church of religious sects and denominations. She is the mother of the harlots. Their hair is black because black hair represents being in submission to darkness and their eyes being black represent Mat.6:22-24 The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness! 24 No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.)  

They were all professors of some sort. The man was a professor of marine life. (Professor is a play on words. A “professor” can also mean: a person who affirms a faith in or allegiance to something. Marine life could represent the study of man’s ways and methods which are all under the curse represented by the water. Jer. 17:5 Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.) 

The grandmother was a professor of psychology. (Psychology could represent man's methods to bring healing and restoration to the mind rather than relying on repentance and believing the Word of God to transform the mind and bring the supernatural healing of the mind of Christ. Many people including so called Christians are in idolatry with education and humanistic reasoning. They value the intelligence and understanding of men with their degrees and they are puffed up with intellectual demons. They are proud of their educational achievements.) 

They assured me they were only renting for a time, and then they would be going back to Queensland. (The demons always assure you that their presence in your life or promised land is not so bad and they try to convince their victims to let them stay awhile. Queensland could be a play on words. The Bible describes Babylon the Great as a Queen in Rev. 18:7 How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning. Some try to join the Bride but soon return to Babylon which suits their nature.)

The wife opened up a take-away food store in my yard. (Take-away food store is a play on words. Babylon DS is in the process of taking away our food supplies to create a global famine. Spiritually the Babylonish words and thinking is what they feed.) All these really scary-looking, drugged, tattooed, weapon-wielding men were buying food. (This could represent those who belong to the body of the Beast and who have his Mark.)  I was so hungry in my dream, but I could not eat anything that she sold. I was flummoxed as to why she thought she could sell food on my property. (The vax mandates are the first step in a process to disenfranchise people and Christians from being able to buy and sell without the Mark of the Beast. Spiritually we see their apostate thinking and that it is leaven.)

The woman had a huge black dog with her, larger than life. The dog was unpleasant and it kept on coming for me. I kept on leading the dog back to her, but then she’d command it to follow me. I really got quite fed up after my 3rd attempt at taking it back to her. (This represents the woman that uses the Beast to persecute the saints. Rev. 17:3-6 ...and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations, even the unclean things of her fornication, 5 and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.)

I then walked to the front door of my house and the old grandmother pulled up in a black car and said, “Let me look at your palm. Ah, that’s why you’re scared. I am also like that…” She trailed off but I stopped listening and pulled my hand away and said, “Stop it. Stop trying to come into my life”. (Those who are in submission to the Harlot always try to use witchcraft against the righteous and they are constantly speaking word curses on us and praying witchcraft prayers against us. We should cast these attacks down and not listen to their seductive words that take away our faith.)

Their kids were in our yard, and my children were crying and saying, “They’re evil! Help us!” I had tears in my eyes. I felt like it was coming from all sides. I could only have two of my children in my arms, and one was crouching at my feet. We stood there, unsure of what was happening. (These spirits bring chaos and confusion and they bombard us with attacks from all sides to get us out of the rest and distracted from faith. They try to cause us to lose our spiritual balance so that we are not effective in doing spiritual warfare against them and getting them off of our land.)

Our property was so large but it was over-run with these badly behaved children. They acted like monkeys, defecating everywhere and swinging from the light fixtures everywhere. I just stood there, praying silently. I wondered why I had thought it good to invite them in to meet them. Then I woke up. (Once we open the door to the enemy, he will expect it is his right to come back and defile us at will.)

I received by faith at random for this dream Ezekiel 7:6, (in context 5-8) Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil; behold, it cometh. 6 An end is come, the end is come; it awaketh against thee; behold, it cometh. 7 Thy doom is come unto thee, O inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, upon the mountains. 8 Now will I shortly pour out my wrath upon thee, and accomplish mine anger against thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways; and I will bring upon thee all thine abominations. ) (God is going to Judge the Apostate leadership in the Church for all the confusion and havoc they have wreaked because they were greedy and didn’t love the truth more than they loved the world and their own lives. 1 Pe. 4:17 For the time is come for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?)

I asked The Lord for another verse by faith at random for myself in this dream. I received Acts 27:35 “God in the presence of all” (in context 34-35) Wherefore I beseech you to take some food: for this is for your safety: for there shall not a hair perish from the head of any of you. And when he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all; and he brake it, and began to eat. (When the storms of the enemy fall upon us like a flood we must stay in the Word and build up our faith. This is the only salvation for us and for our fruit as well as our loved ones that we are believing for household salvation.)

 

The Apostates Abort Christ, Our Fruit

Adriana Santoro - 9/26/21 (David’s notes in red)

I dreamed I was heavily pregnant. (We are pregnant with Christ in us our hope of glory. He is our fruit that we must bare 30, 60, and 100 fold in order to enter the kingdom of God.) I was walking through, what looked like, an eery forest that was also a graveyard. It was extremely misty, dark and damp. (The eery forest with the graveyard represents our wilderness trials of death to self and the exercising of our faith in order to bare the fruit of Christ. 1 Pe. 4:12-13 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you: 13 but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy.)

I was walking through this forest and graveyard barefoot, with a dress on, but the dress looked somewhat soaked. (Walking barefoot represents not walking in sanctification and separation from the world and its worldly ways. The dress being soaked represents being subjected to the curses of this world represented by the water.) I was walking as though I was lost, but searching for help. (We are all lost in degrees as we are searching for truth and help to understand God’s Word and His ways.) 

I was miscarrying. (When we aren’t walking a sanctified, separated life from the world, we, who are like Mary, Jesus’ mother, will miscarry Jesus, our fruit, and lose the seed which was sown in the womb of our hearts. Mat. 13:18-23 Hear then ye the parable of the sower. (Jesus was the sower) 19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the evil one, and snatcheth away that which hath been sown in his heart. This is he that was sown by the way side. 20 And he that was sown upon the rocky places, this is he that heareth the word, and straightway with joy receiveth it; 21 yet hath he not root in himself, but endureth for a while; and when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, straightway he stumbleth. 22 And he that was sown among the thorns, this is he that heareth the word; and the care of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. 23 And he that was sown upon the good ground, this is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; who verily beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.)

At first, when I was walking around, there was no one there and I found this hidden bath that was carved out of the earth and the water was clear, and there was a lot of steam coming out of it. (As we will see this bath represents religion and religious practices and idolatry that will stunt the growth of our spirit man and cause us to miscarry Christ, our fruit. Because the apostates don’t preach faith only man’s works to save themselves.) 

I then saw a woman (I don’t know who she was, nor could I even see her properly), who advised me to get into the bath because of the miscarriage. (The steam obscures our ability to see the woman Harlot Church clearly. Many start out in religion because they are still growing in their discernment. Many get trapped there and never escape her delusions and deceptions and they will go on to miscarry Jesus, the seed that was planted in their hearts.)

She told me to pray, but the unusual thing was, next to this bath was a dirt wall that had framed dull images of religious deities. Sort of like a shrine for every type of ‘god, or goddess.’ There was Buddha, Ganesha, Mary etc. (This is why this woman is called the Mother of the Harlots because she encompasses all the religions of the earth. From Babel peoples departed from the true God because of religious spirits. Since the dawn of Christianity many so called Christian religions have departed from the true God so we see that there are actually two Mothers of Harlots that branched into many daughters. In both ways satan sought to dilute the truth and lead people away from it. None of these daughters can bring forth the fruit of Christ who is the Word.)

I remember asking the woman, “Who she expected me to pray to, why this was happening and why there were so many conflicting religious photos on the dirt wall?” (The mother church is in idolatry with demonic religious spirits and receives their seed instead of the seed of Christ only, who is the rightful husband.)  I asked her if I would ever be able to carry a child again and she said, “No.” (In following the directions of this false mother church there is no way to bare the fruit of Christ. The Apostate church always gives out the bad report because they aren’t believers. They have no faith in the promises of God and they don’t teach faith. They don’t believe that Christ can be birthed in us. They even preach that we have no hope of being holy and that we will always be sinners.)

I had no blood signifying that I was miscarrying, nor did I even feel excruciating pain. I just remember feeling sick and extremely depressed as though the child had been murdered, and I knew I had lost my child. (Spiritually speaking, our fruit is murdered by the apostate Church who steals the Good News of the Gospel from our hearts with their false doctrines and the worship of another Jesus. 2 Co. 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear with him. In parallel, the faction in the church imparts spirits of faction and witchcraft which puts to death the seed of Christ in all who listen or read their words.)

At the same time, It felt as though all women (although no one else was around) were experiencing this globally; losing their children and their fertility also. (In the natural, which in Jesus’ parables is always a type for the spiritual, the mandatory vac/cin/es are causing a huge increase in spontaneous abortions and the spike proteins attach to the ovaries and the endometrium of the uterus causing infertility and an inability for the egg to implant itself inside the uterus. In this way the DS is de-populating the earth. In the spiritual, the leaven of religion leavens the lump of Christianity and is also de-populating true Christianity. Those who fall away leave a sanctified body.)

All I remember from there is laying in this steaming bath looking up at these photos. I was extremely confused as to why I couldn’t see God and had been told to pray to everyone else, as if He didn’t exist at all and mourning the loss of becoming a mother. (If we listen to another gospel then we will never become the mother of Jesus and will not be able to enter the kingdom of heaven. If we behold the face of a false Jesus we can never become the mother of Jesus. Mark 3:31-35 And there come his mother and his brethren; and, standing without, they sent unto him, calling him. 32 And a multitude was sitting about him; and they say unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. 33 And he answereth them, and saith, Who is my mother and my brethren? 34 And looking round on them that sat round about him, he saith, Behold, my mother and my brethren! 35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.)

 

Think and Speak the Things of the Kingdom

David Eells 

The Bible tells us that Death and life are in the power of the tongue (Pro.18:21). Let’s study how we can cooperate with God in this process of sanctification so that we are those who speak life and partake of the benefits of the Kingdom. (Jas.3:8-12) But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly poison. (9) Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God: (10) out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. (11) Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening [sweet water] and bitter? (12) can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither [can] salt water yield sweet. 

We want to learn, by the grace of God, to bring forth those “sweet waters.” When Moses and the children of Israel came up to Marah, meaning “bitterness” (Exodus 15:22-25), they couldn’t drink the water. God commanded that a tree be cast into the waters so that they would be made sweet. Marah represents the bitter waters of the fountain, or mouth, which were cured by the tree, which represents the Cross. The Cross has conquered our tongue and has given us this gift of the sweet waters so we can bring forth blessings, instead of the cursings, out of this spring of our mouth.

But the Bible also tells us, The heart of the wise instructeth his mouth, And addeth learning to his lips (Pro.16:23). So we want to educate ourselves to be swift to hear, slow to speak,and slow to wrath (Jas.1:19). We need to think about what we are saying and disagree with the devil because he tempts us from birth to speak the things of the world and not the things of the Kingdom. The Lord is helping us and He has already conquered the tongue, which no man can tame, but the Lord can, through His Word and promises. Jesus was the sacrifice Who gave us a new tongue through the reconciliation.

(Jos.1:6) Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I sware unto their father to give them. (7) Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest have good success whithersoever thou goest. Notice that God said that Joshua (which is Hebrew for “Jesus”) was going to cause His people to be brought into their inherited Promised Land. As we have discovered, the Promised Land is actually us! (Hebrews 6:4-8 For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. 7 For the land which hath drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God: 8 but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.)

The Son of God is being manifested in His people. (Col.1:27) ... Christ in you, the hope of glory. He is a product of the Word of God being assimilated in your life; Christ is the Word of God (John 1:14). We crucify that spiritual man when we walk in the flesh and for the Christians who have the power to do otherwise, who have been filled with the Holy Spirit and enlightened, who have tasted of the heavenly gift, this will become a curse unto them. (Heb.6:7) For the land which hath drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God: (8) but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned. 

We discovered that the word “rejected” is adokimos, meaning, specifically, “reprobated.” The apostle Paul said that he kept his body under control if, perhaps, after he had preached to others, he himself would be “rejected” or “reprobated” (1 Corinthians 9:27). God doesn’t reprobate land; He reprobates people. The Bible is very plain that we are God’s "tilled land". (1Co.3:9) For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry (Greek: “tilled land”), God's building. God wants to plow this earth, our bodies, and plant His seed in the midst of it, bringing forth the fruit of Jesus Christ in us. 

The land that ‘Joshua' wants to cause us to inherit is referring to our life. The spiritual man, the Israelite, is to conquer this land with the edge of the sword, the Word of God. The spiritual man is to take the land from the Canaanite and live in his house, our body, and plant his crop and bear the fruit of the spiritual man, rather than the fruit of the carnal man, the Canaanite.

(Jos.1:7) Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest have good success whithersoever thou goest. Notice that turning to the right or left would cause failure to take the Promised Land.

I had a dream many years ago where I was standing on a mountain, looking down into a valley and a road that went down the side of this mountain. The road had a ditch or trench down the middle of it. I was in a car, with one set of tires on one side of the trench and the other set on the other side, going down this road to the bottom of the mountain. I realized I couldn’t turn to the right or the left because, if I did, two wheels would fall into the trench and that would be the end of it; I wouldn’t go any farther. I steered very carefully, not to the right and not to the left, as I went down this mountain. The Lord gave me the understanding of this afterward that this mountain represented the kingdom of the world or man, self or the old life. I was to navigate this road and not turn to the right or left, until I got off of this mountain. Going down it represents humbling ones self.

As soon as I was at the bottom, I immediately realized that there were enemies everywhere. To the extent that we humble ourselves to the Word of God, going down the mountain of “self,” the more enemies we will have, even religious enemies or so-called “Christian” enemies. (2Ti.3:12) ... All that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. Most of the persecution toward Jesus and the disciples came from the people who called themselves the “people of God.” 

When I got to the bottom and knew that the enemy was everywhere, I went under a bush and there I found tools that I picked up, as if they were treasure. These tools were hammers, screw- drivers, wrenches and so on. The Lord later revealed to me that these tools represented the authority to bind and loose, as all of these tools do. (Matthew 18:18 Verily I say unto you, what things soever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and what things soever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.) The Lord was basically telling me that I was coming to a time, when under the bush, that I was going to pick up this authority. This also is the authority to permit or forbid. What we permit of the leaven in our lives will be permitted but it will make us powerless.

At the time of the burning bush, Moses was given authority to go into Egypt to act for the Lord. I’ve been binding and loosing for many years but I believe that we’re coming to a time of real power from God. It’s only going to come to those who humble themselves to the word and don’t turn to the right or to the left, but stay on God’s road, a self-crucifying path of obedience to the Word of God. 

When I picked up these tools, I went up another mountain, which was Mount Zion. I went through the front doors of a great temple, which I believe represented the New Jerusalem on Mount Zion. Whom did I see there? I saw Jesus sitting on His throne. I went over and sat down next to Him, as He said overcomers would do. (Rev.3:21) He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.

As I was speaking with Jesus, I heard people trying to come into the throne room by a back way and not through the door that I had come through, similar to John 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. Jesus saw these people and said, “Don’t worry about them; they can’t come in here.” Basically, it was people looking for “throne room” authority but they wouldn’t humble themselves to the Word of God and pick up that authority to bind and loose. We talk a lot about faith and speaking faith but you can’t disconnect it from obedience to the Word of God. God will give authority only to those who overcome according to Revelation 2:26.

(Jos.1:8) This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate thereon day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Speaking the Word so that you walk it will bring good success when conquering our Promised Land for the Lord. Let the spiritual man conquer the carnal man. We must think and speak according to God’s promises, even in the midst of the fiery trial. 

Do we speak according to the promise or do we speak the things of the world? Are we moved by our carnal senses to speak against what we have in heavenly places? As Christians, we are to call the things that are not, as though they were (Rom.4:17). We speak the things we have according to promise and not according to what we see in the world. This faith that we have and speak changes the things around us. This is God’s plan. We let the Word, or our agreement with the Word in what we say, come from our mouth so that we may have good success in conquering the Promised Land. We must take our land for the Lord.

Further on in Joshua, we see that he is still leading the people of God to conquer their Promised Land, in order to put to death their enemy. In this particular case, the head of God’s people, Joshua, is conquering the Amorites. (Jos.10:12) Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; And thou, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon. I believe God is showing us here to what extent He would go to give our enemy into our hands, if we would speak the Word with boldness. He will go to great lengths to give us victory over our enemy. (Jos.10:8) And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thy hands; there shall not a man of them stand before thee. 

We discovered that the “man” He was referring to was the old man who lived in the Promised Land before the new man took possession. The old man represented the lusts of the flesh, which would not be able to stand. Joshua and the children of Israel were having victory over the Amorites but they were running out of time. Remember, the Lord said that if we confess Him before men, He shall confess us before the Father in Matthew 10:32. Likewise, Joshua confessed this in the sight of Israel. He didn’t hide and speak this, in fear that it wouldn’t work or that he would be made a fool. Joshua was bold and full of faith and he spoke it right in front of Israel, (Jos.10:12) Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; And thou, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon. (13) And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, Until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

Think about this. At first, I thought God just stopped Earth from spinning, but I later realized that the moon stayed in the same relative position as the sun and Earth didn’t spin, so the whole solar system had stopped. This is a very dangerous thing to do, unless you also control the rest of the universe! Things would tend toward collision down the road somewhere. Can you imagine that God stopped the solar system and more, just so Israel could conquer their enemy? What kind of other big miracle can you imagine that God would do for us to give us victory over our enemy? God gave the Israelites an awesome victory over their enemies! Of course, they needed the time and, for a whole day, the system was frozen. 

People claim that God only did that back then and does not do that today, simply because of the verse right after it. (Jos.10:14) And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the Lord fought for Israel. Well, the Lord still hearkens unto our voice, for many people speak miracles today and they come to pass as they did in the Bible long after Joshua. But I want to point out that he that is but little in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he (Mat.11:11). This is speaking about John the Baptist, whom the Lord said was the greatest of the Old Testament prophets. 

In the Old Testament, His people hadn’t entered into the Kingdom yet. By the way, who is it living in us? Is it God or man? It is Christ in you, the hope of glory (Col.1:27). Who was Christ? He was the Word made flesh (John 1:14) and He is still in His body. He also said, the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life (Joh.6:63), meaning they are His Spirit and His life. In other words, it’s the life of God living in us; it’s the spiritual man who speaks in agreement with the Word of God. Also, remember that it is the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God (Eph.6:17). 

Therefore, it’s not as if God is hearkening unto the voice of a man, but He is hearkening unto the voice of His sons. That spiritual man in us is not man, but God. The Son of God is manifesting in His people and He speaks words out of us. When we come in agreement with the Word, we can be trusted. The Lord said, If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you (Joh.15:7). Why? The Word in you is trustworthy to God. If you fill yourself up with the Word and you desire earnestly to walk in agreement with it, God believes you are trustworthy.

A long time after Joshua, the Lord wrote this: (Isa.45:11) Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of the things that are to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command ye me. Does God really do that? When you command something to be done, like when His disciples commanded healings, deliverances, provision and so on, who is it, who fulfilled that? It was God. It wasn’t their power but the authority they had been given by God.

Authority is the right to use power. Authority is also what we do when we speak in agreement with the Word of God and God brings it to pass. In effect, what we are doing is commanding God, since He said that if we do, He will do it and Jesus said the same.

To whom did God give the power over the work of His hands? Psalm 8 was spoken concerning natural Adam and his seed, but also in type to spiritual Adam, Jesus Christ, and His seed. (Psa.8:6) Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet. This was said of man and the Son of man. Jesus said that God had given Him authority because He is son of man (Joh.5:27). Man was given authority on the earth but we lost it through Adam because he sinned giving his authority to the devil. God said, “his servants you are whom you obey.” However, we gained it back through the last Adam, Jesus Christ, because He was tested and remained faithful. 

Once again, we have been given this authority over the works of God’s hands and when we speak in agreement with the Word of God, God fulfills it. God still fulfills the Word of God in our mouths and has put everything under our feet. (Lam.3:37) Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? Even the devil has no sovereign authority; he has to get permission, as we see in the book of Job. Who gives him permission today? "What we loose on earth is loosed in heaven.” When we speak against the Word we permit the devil. To reiterate the point, Joshua exercised dominion and authority given from God, even to the extent that the solar system was frozen in place so God’s people could conquer their enemies.

The next thing we see in Joshua is that he went after the five kings who were ruling the Promised Land. (Jos.10:16-19) And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah. (17) And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah. (18) And Joshua said, Roll great stones unto the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep them: (19) but stay not ye; pur- sue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the Lord your God hath delivered them into your hand. The first thing they did was trap the five kings in the cave and then they rolled great stones over the mouth of the cave. 

Remember that Adam was created from the dust of the earth (Genesis 2:7) and this old man is earthly, but as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly (1Co.15:49). We are both earthly and heavenly, a spiritual man of the heavens and the carnal man of the earth. The carnal man of the earth has a mouth and here it’s called “the mouth of the cave.” The Lord made the spiritual men roll these great stones over the mouth of the cave. What’s the purpose of that? The five kings represent the five senses and the spiritual man put stones, that represent the Word, over the mouth so the carnal senses are not permitted to speak. If they are permitted to speak we will lose the battle.

Let me explain further. The Bible says that senses must be exercised by the Word of God so that we understand the difference between good and evil. (Heb.5:13) For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe. (14) But solid food is for fullgrown men, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil. As born-again people, we must have born-again senses. As spiritual men, we must have spiritual senses. 

Our carnal senses trapped us and ruled over us and our land because people lived according to their carnal senses and they saw and felt and heard as the world did. They couldn’t walk by faith or see the end from the beginning, as God is teaching us to do. (2Pe.1:3) Seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue. 

Can you see that God has already provided you everything that pertains unto life and godliness? You don’t have to fight and struggle for it anymore. Now you have the eyes of a dove (Song of Solomon 1:15). You have the eyes of the Spirit when you begin to see that the promise is true but the world is transitory. It’s passing away but the promise is true. (2Pe.1:4) Whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises (the stones at the mouth of the cave); that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust. 

So, if we have eyes to see, we can partake of God’s nature, we will have spiritual eyes, spiritual ears, spiritual touch, spiritual smell (or discernment), spiritual taste and words; we will have those spiritual gifts that enable the spiritual man to take over. The Israelites had captured the five kings who ruled the Promised Land in a cave and they closed up the mouth with great stones. As you know, Jesus is the Stone; He’s the Rock which is the Word of God. These great stones represent the great promises of the Word of God. We’re adding learning to our lips, which are the “mouth of the cave.”

When we study the Word of God, we learn and see what we are supposed to say and what we’re not supposed to say. The Word of God gives us restraint to not say things that would permit a curse upon our life. The Israelites knew that to conquer the Promised Land, they had to conquer these senses first, these kings that rule over the carnal man and bring the curse upon him. And this is what the parable points to; rolling out those stones in front of the mouth. (Eph.4:29) Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying (building-up) as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear. If we see and walk in the Spirit, then we speak in agreement with the Spirit. (2Co.7:1) Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 

We have the power to change our nature and this is accomplished by the Word of God. As long as you agree with the world and see your natural face in the mirror, you are never going to be any different. But we need to behold in the mirror the glory of the Lord so we can be changed into that same image. (2Co.3:18) But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit. If we have eyes to see only in the natural, then we are not going to conquer the curse for the Kingdom. When we see a need, such as someone living under the curse, we should speak things that answer the need. What we speak should give God’s people grace to overcome, grace to meet that need, whatever it may be. When we speak according to the Kingdom, we are meeting someone’s need for God and His benefits.

(Col.3:17) And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, [do] all in the name (Greek: “nature, character and authority”) of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus. Do it as if you are representing Him because you are an ambassador of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20), so speak His words to this world. That’s what we’re called to do. We’re called to confess Him before men always and to speak in His name, meaning nature, character and authority. (1Pe.4:11) If any man speaketh, speaking as it were oracles of God; if any man ministereth, [ministering] as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 

When we speak as an oracle of God, that is His Word coming out of us. We’re letting Him do the speaking. We’re letting the spiritual man, who is in communication with God through our spirit, do the speaking. We are not to let the carnal man, who is in communication with the world through the flesh, do the speaking. As Paul said, Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear (Eph.4:29). This is what it means to roll the stones in front of the cave’s mouth.

To walk holy is to walk separate. The Greek word for “holy” is the same word for “sanctified” and it means “separate”; that is, separated from the world, separated from sin, separated unto God. We speak His words, we think His thoughts and we do His works because He lives in us. The more we do that, the more we grow in holiness. It’s the place of Holiness. Without holiness, no man can see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14). Holiness is what we grow in when we bear the fruit of Jesus Christ. It is separation from the old man, who is moved and ruled by the carnal senses, unto the new man, who is ruled according to the spiritual senses. 

(Isa.11:2) And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. (3) And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears; (4) but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. (5) And righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins. We are to be walking in the Lord’s steps, if we abide in Him (1 John 2:5,6). 

Isaiah is speaking here about the Branch in Isa. 11:1 which is being raised up in our day, called the Man-child. This is Christ in His first-fruits in the end-time. We are not to walk according to our carnal senses because he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears (Isa.11:3). Instead, we are to have our senses exercised to discern good from evil (Hebrews 5:14). We are to have our senses exercised by the Word of God, which is the washing of water with the word (Eph.5:26). As our senses are exercised, we begin to see and hear spiritually; we begin to hear and speak the Voice of the Spirit.

Joshua told the Israelites to go after their enemies, since the five kings were already trapped in the cave and they couldn’t command their subjects from there because the mouth of the cave was closed off with the stones. Now the Israelites were able to conquer those whom the kings had ruled over. If you don’t stop those kings from speaking, you will never be able to conquer those that they rule over, the carnal man. (Jos.10:20) And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities, (21) that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel. (22) Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth those five kings unto me out of the cave. (23) And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon. 

(24) And it came to pass, when they brought forth those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the chiefs of the men of war that went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them. They let them out of the cave and they had to keep them from speaking, so they put their feet on their necks. 

This reminds me of the dream I had about being in a war with a giant and not letting the old man speak. When he did, he said, “Bigger, bigger, bigger!” We have a lot of giants around us; a lot of big problems and a lot of big enemies. We can’t let the old man, whom I captured in the dream and who was in bondage to me, speak out of our mouth. I’ve been ruling over him for many years but it used to be the other way around; he was ruling over me. I didn’t want to let him speak because the old man has the authority to make the situation worse and make the enemy stronger and bigger. But I refused him and demanded that the giant be reduced, saying, “No! Smaller, smaller, smaller.” So the giant that I saw ahead of us, standing before us, was not able to conquer me because I corrected the old man. 

Similarly, the Israelites put their feet on the kings’ necks, causing the five senses to not speak or to rule over the body. (Jos.10:25) And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed; be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the Lord do to all your enemies against whom ye fight. (26) And afterward Joshua smote them, and put them to death, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening. Notice that all of our enemies will be conquered in this way. Jesus Christ was hanged upon a tree, or cross, and they wanted to take Him down before evening, too. 

Jesus also was buried in a cave. So why is God applying this to the senses of the old man? We were crucified with Christ in Gal. 2:20 and that includes our five senses. We, too often, get caught up in the idea that “I” have to conquer my senses, “I” have to conquer this tongue. Well, you are putting all the responsibility upon yourself, instead of remembering that the Lord has already taken care of this problem. He was crucified on that tree and you were crucified with Christ and you don’t live any longer but Christ lives in you. (Gal.2:20) I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. 

Remember that your old senses were crucified with Christ. You have been given this gift of the new man, for by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified (Heb.10:14). This gift comes along with these new spiritual senses. We walk in the spirit according to these divine senses, the senses that are attuned to the Kingdom of Heaven, the senses that see how to walk in the Kingdom, instead of how to walk in the world. It comes quite naturally to us to walk in the world but it comes supernaturally to us to walk in the Kingdom; that is, to have our senses exercised by the Word of God to see and hear the way God sees and hears, and to smell, or discern, the way God does. It is also to have our emotions in communication with God.

(Jos.10:27) And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, unto this very day. So why cover the kings now? Well, the old man is still in the inside but he’s dead now and that’s the whole point. We are to come to the place that we don’t let that old man speak ever again. If you let him speak, let him live, let him come down off that cross, he will continue to live, to grow and to rule your life. 

You need to remember that the Lord has crucified him, including his senses. God has already taken care of this and we get to rejoice in the victory that has been given to us already. The victory is that the old man and his senses are dead and the new man, Who is Jesus Christ, lives in you. Because of your faith and speaking that faith, God will bring it to pass. It’s not that we are able to do so by our own power and ingenuity; the old man is not going to put the old man to death. It’s through faith and not by works. (Eph.2:8) For by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, [it is] the gift of God; (9) not of works, that no man should glory. 

We really can’t help ourselves but we know Someone Who can. We know we can turn to the Lord, Who gave His life for us. We also know that He has given us these spiritual senses and we can claim them by faith. We claim that God has given us a new tongue and a new life, that by one offering He has perfected us in Hebrews 10:14. “I accept your perfection, Lord. I accept that Jesus lives in me. I accept that you will put a watch upon my lips and you will not let anything go forth out of my lips that is not in agreement with your Word.” He tells us to do just that. (Psa.141:3) Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips. (4) Incline not my heart to any evil thing, To practise deeds of wickedness With men that work iniquity: And let me not eat of their dainties. 

 

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