The word *Scribe* comes from the Hebrew word Saphar meaning to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e. to inscribe. In ancient Israel, scribes were also known as jurists. A scribe is also known as a calligrapher who writes from dictation what they hear directly from the Spirit of God. It is only such people that were entrusted with items of authority like the seal or representational keys of the Kingdom (Is. 22:20-22). From this we understand that scribes are the prophetic ministers or servants of God who are tasked with receiving, transcribing, decoding, deciphering and interpreting the prophetic messages they receive from God concerning times and seasons of the spirit.
A SCRIBE’S INSTRUMENTS & PROPHECY;-
Because of their mandate, every scribe has instruments of use which as we’ll learn from the scriptures given would always help them accurately detect, interpret and decipher the message from God, it’s timeline and season as well as their commands or instructions from God.
THE SCRIBE’S PEN;- We get to learn from scripture that there’s a scribe’s pen and an ordinary man’s pen (Isaiah 8:1, Jer. 8:8). Why would the Bible differentiate these with specificity unless they are different in nature and function? Although in ancient Israel feather pens were a common instrument of use with ink by all parties across the board, we come to realize that the statements; a scribe’s pen and a Man’s pen in the scriptures above were spiritual in nature and function. A scribe’s pen was used to inscribe or transcribe coded and sealed messages in a language that could only be unsealed, decoded, unveiled or revealed through the spirit of God (Dan. 12:4, 1 Cor. 4:1, Eph. 3:9). A Man’s pen or according to other translations an ordinary pen was for the purpose of recording or transcribing plain messages for the benefit of those who would read them plainly and act upon them (Isa. 8:1-2, Hab. 2:2-3).
THE INK HORN;- From our understanding of use of the inkhorn in the olden days, most people have always assumed that an inkhorn was used for storing ink only used for writing alone. But the Bible gives us another use of the ink which we never figured. The ink in the Scribe’s inkhorn as opposed to other writers as we see in Ezek. 9:1-11 indicate to us that it was not used for writing only, but also to put a mark of identification or seal on those intended by God. From this we come to understand the sealing purpose of the Scribes in using the ink as a marker or sealing instrument but also in other places in scripture we see the seal or marking not limited to people but coded or sealed messages on a scroll (Isa. 8:16, Dan. 12:4). However, the king of ink used for sealing scrolls were of a different viscosity from that of writing.
THE SCROLL;- For all intents and purposes the general understanding of the use of the scroll is for storing the information transcribed by the scribes to be passed on to the intended recipients (Jer. 36:1-32). But then on reading further we find other purposes and meanings of the scroll which are more prophetic and spiritual (Zech. 5:1-4, Ezek. 2:9-3:4, Rev. 10:1-3, 8-11). From the last two scriptures above we see a different purpose of the scroll that gives us a deeper meaning and understanding of how it plays out in executing the will and purposes of God through His servants.
So, only when you put all these instruments together by carefully studying their roles and purposes will you understand the full mystery of the role of the scribes when it comes to Biblical prophecy. Likewise, just as the scribes of old today’s scribes need to understand the mystery behind everything spoken of above to be able to unseal, unlock, decipher and understand the hidden mysteries of the seasons and times we live in. Hope this teaching blesses you.
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” 1 Peter 5:8 ~ KJV
1) BODY
“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 that darkness!” Matthew 6:23
“For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.” Romans 8:13
2) SPIRIT
“But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.” 1 Samuel 16:14
“But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.” Romans 8:9
3) SOUL
“And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?” Ezekiel 13:18
“Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:” 1 Peter 1:22
4) HEART
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” Jeremiah 17:9-10
“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:” Matthew 15:19
5) MIND
“Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” Romans 8:7
“And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;” Ephesians 4:23
“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:” Philippians 2:5
6) THOUGHTS
“The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.” Proverbs 15:26
7) IMAGINATIONS
“(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;” 2 Corinthians 10:4-5
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If the Devil finds a way of Accessing, Manipulating, Corrupting, Guiding & Leading the above 7 Key Gateways of the Human Person then he can easily control & enslave any human being regardless of whether you’re a believer or not, anointed or not. So, let us always ensure that we pray for these Gateways, sanctifying them, renewing them & transforming them by The Holy Spirit of God eternally without ceasing.
“The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?” (Isaiah 21:11)
The night watches can be classified in two categories. One category of the Old Testament which records Three Watches and the New Testament which records Four Watches.
A. The Old Testament Night Watches (Hours of Prayer)
1) The First Watch (Lamentations 2:19)
This usually takes place between 6pm and 10pm. It’s usually a time of intense intercession and seeking God’s face and intervention.
2) The Middle Watch/ Midnight Watch (Judges 7:19)
This usually takes place between 10pm and 3am. This is the time of raiding the enemy’s camp and taking control. It’s a time of spiritual battle to overcome the enemy. The danger of this watching is that it can make you preoccupied with the enemy such that it becomes difficult to meditate on God’s word.
3) The Morning Watch (Exodus 14:24, 1Samuel 11:11, Psalms 130:6)
This usually takes place between 3am and 6am. The presence and power of God is heavily felt at the morning watch.
The Lord wipes out the enemy’s forces and armies that may rise against you giving you victory in the morning watch.
B. The New Testament Watches (hours of prayer)
1) The Evening Watch (Matt. 8:16, 14:23, Mark 1:32,34)
This usually takes place between 6pm and 9pm. The NT puts the focus of this watch on restoration, healing deliverance and rejuvenation in the presence of God.
2) The Midnight Watch (Acts 5:19, 12:6-17)
This usually takes place between 9pm and 12am. NT places this watch as a time for intense prayers, supplication and intercession for God’s intervention.
3) The Cock Crow (Matt. 26:34-45, Mark 14:30-42 Luke 22:39-46)
This usually takes place between 12am and 3am. It’s a time for spiritual warfare, resisting the devil’s guises, conquering, overcoming and mortifying the flesh.
4) The Fourth Watch/ Morning Watch (Matt. 14:25, Mark 1:35,16:2, John 21:4)
This watch is associated with spiritual victory, nourishment and empowerment. It’s a time for fresh oil and fresh anointing.
JUST AS THE NIGHT WATCHES, THE DAY TOO HAS WATCHES.
THE DAY
And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: Isaiah:21:8
THE DAYTIME WATCHES / TIMES OF PRAYER
The Jews reckoned the day from sunset to sunset (Lev. 23:32). It was originally divided into three parts (Ps. 55:17). The evening, morning and at noon.
The morning watch and “The heat of the day” (1 Sam. 11:11; Neh. 7:3) which was at our nine o’clock, and from noon, and then “the cool of the day” just before sunset (Gen. 3:8).
Which then generally provides us with: –
1) The morning watch – 9.00am to noon,
2) The heat of the day – Noon to 3.00pm
3) The cool of the day – 3.00pm to 6.00pm
In the New Testament the division of the Greeks and Romans into four watches was adopted (Mark 13:35). This became applicable to both night and day watches.
The division of the day by hours is first mentioned in Dan. 3:6, 15; 4:19; 5:5. This mode of reckoning was borrowed from the Chaldeans. The reckoning of twelve hours was from sunrise to sunset, and accordingly the hours were of variable length (John 11:9).
There are frequent references in Scripture to the duties of watchmen who were appointed to give notice of the approach of an enemy (2 Sam. 18:24-27; 2 Kings 9:17-20; Isa. 21:5-9).
They were sometimes placed for this purpose on watch-towers (2 Kings 17:9; 18:8). Ministers or teachers are also spoken of under this title (Jer. 6:17; Ezek. 33:2-9; Heb. 13:17).
With the new Testament’s four watches we thus have:
1) The Early Morning watches: 6.00am – 9.00am (1Sam.1:19)
2) Morning 9.00am – 12.00 noon / mid day
3) The heat of the day 12.00 noon – 3.00pm
4) The cool of the day 3.00 – 6.00pm
1) The Morning Watches
The morning watches are quite vibrant and forming moments.
These are the times for preparation, for a journey, it is the time for departure. (Gen.22:3). It is the time to eat up, to consume or to devour, the time to use up or to destroy. (Gen. 49:27)
It is the time to issue commands, you command the day. (Ex. 8:20). This is the time to trouble the enemy. (Ex. 14:24) This is the time of offering sweet incense or sweet prayers before the Lord. (Ex. 30:7. It is the time of worship (1Sam. 1:19). This is the time to execute judgment (Jer.21:12). It is the time to have dominion. (PSA. 49:14)
2) The heat of the day.
These are tumultuous times. It is time for war and to prepare for war. (Jer. 6:4). There is oppression, spoiling, darkness and no success for those that are in darkness. (Deut. 28:29). At this time there is death (2 Kings 4:20). There is destruction at noon day. (Psa. 91:6). It is also the time you see visions and have trances. (Acts 10:9-17)
3) The cool of the day
These are victorious times. This is the time of prayer. (Acts 3:8 / Psa. 141:2). It is the time of God’s visitation. (Gen. 3:8)
It is time of offering sacrifices and sweet incense / sweet prayers. (2 Chron. 13:11). It is the time of worship, adoration and lifting up of hands. (Ezra 9:5). It is time of rejoicing, triumph. (Psa. 65:8)
The mountain of God as we are going to learn here refers to God’s dwelling place and not necessarily a physical place of prayer. Across scripture we see God introducing man to a physical representation of the mountain of God which is purely spiritual and based in heaven.
We see God introducing His mountain to man first as a place of worship and sacrifice and here we see it beginning with the story of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22. Here God tells Abraham to go to Moriah and sacrifice his son at a place he’ll show him.
The full Hebrew meaning of Moriah is Chosen by God/ Seen of God/ Approved of God/ Considered by God. An interesting history of where Abraham almost sacrificed his son Isaac at Moriah is that later in future it comes to be the very place where King David bought land from Ornan/ Araunah to build an altar to God (1Chr. 21:21-26) and also the place where King Solomon built the temple of worship for God (2 Chr. 3:1).
We then see a shift move from Mount Moriah to Mount Horeb/ Sinai and here we find the story of Moses and the Israelites (Ex. 3:1-6, 19:10-20). The Hebrew name of the Mountain is Horeb which Means desert/ to be desolate/ to lay waste or be dried up while the Arabian/ Syrian name is Sinai which means thorny.
Here we see God appearing to Moses on numerous occasions; first when He calls him to go and save the Israelites from Egypt, when He appears to show Himself to the Israelites and when He calls Moses up the mountain to receive the ten commandments (Ex. 3:1-6, 19:10-20, 33:18-34:9).
The next time we see God interacting with man on a mountain is found in the account of Elijah when he was running away from Jezebel. At Mount Horeb Elijah was able to have an encounter with God whereby God set him up on a series of assignments.
But as we come to realize later in scripture, what seemed to be like a physical encounter with God on His mountain had nothing to do with the physical at all but all spiritual (Heb. 12:18 – 22). This scripture explains to us the nature of such an encounter and that the previous encounters we’ve looked at were just a shadow and a mirror of the real actual encounter in the spiritual realm and by extension heaven itself.
Encountering God on The Mountain
The Bible tells us that God showed His ways to Moses and the children of Israel His acts (Psalm 103:7). This all happened at the Mountain of God. How is their experience different when they all encountered God at the mountain? We see this in a number of scriptures in the Bible.
As we can see in Deuteronomy. 4:10-12, 5:23-27, the children of Israel saw the manifestations and acts of God and even heard His voice but didn’t see Him or experience His nature the way Moses did (Ex. 33:18- 34:6).
In fact, the Bible records that when the children of Israel heard the voice of God they were so afraid of being consumed that they asked Moses to hear God on their behalf and tell them whatever they have to do and they’ll do it (Deut. 5:23-27).
It is therefore possible to go to the mountain of God to encounter God but the experience each one will have may totally differ from another depending on one’s expectation, character and interaction with God. This is perfectly explained to us by the experiences of the Israelites and Moses as well.
The encounter of Elijah with God on Mount Horeb explains to us what to expect and how to react when encountering God on the Mountain (1 Kings 19:8-18). God instructed Elijah to go stand upon the mountain before Him and Elijah had a very unique experience.
When he was on the mountain Elijah experienced a manifestation of a strong wind, an earth quake and a fire as the Lord passed by but the Lord wasn’t in any of those elements. The interesting thing is that Elijah waited until he heard a still small voice which he knew to be the Lord before he made a move to the mouth of the cave covering his face with his mantle. It’s only then that he did receive instructions from God.
The problem with most believers is our haste when we are at the mountain, not waiting for the voice of God so we get down with whatever we find at the mountain. Some have always come with the force of a fire, wind or earthquake claiming it to be God and the move of God yet God was never part of those things. Unless we train ourselves to hear the voice of God it’s always easy to miss Him when He speaks to us while at the mountain.
Missing God on the Mountain
Having looked at the encounter of Moses, the Israelites and that of Elijah with God on the mountain we come to realize that people usually have different experiences on their encounters and it is very easy to miss the presence of God leave alone knowing His ways and nature while at the mountain.
From what we have seen, the Israelites were able to have an experience of God but were taken by the physical manifestations of God on the mountain while Moses on the other hand was more focused on a deeper intimate encounter with God on the mountain.
On the other hand, though we Elijah experiencing fire, earthquake and a strong wind on the mountain, he was not taken by them but chose to focus on the very presence and voice of God which came as a still small voice.
Manifestations of the presence of God always act as evidence of His presence but are not His presence by themselves. Lack of this understanding is what has always led many Christians astray through deception. Most Christians today always seek after signs, wonders and manifestations of the presence of God yet they don’t seek after God Himself.
This is why it is easy to sin, transgress and indulge in iniquity in the very presence of God while the manifestations are still evident like the children of Israel who worshipped the golden calf at the foot of Mount Sinai despite the ongoing manifestations of His presence atop the mountain (Ex. 32:1-7).
Deception of Mountains
This misplaced understanding of the presence of God and of His mountain as well as the desire for the manifestations of His works and not ways has made believers move from one mountain to another in order to experience the same with the belief that they’ll encounter God and experience Him in the same. But the truth is that this denies them the act of seeking God diligently and in truth while paying much detail to the leading of the spirit of God.
Not every so-called mountain of prayer we approach is the mountain of God. And if what Elijah experienced is something to go by then not every manifestation of signs and wonders act as evidence of the presence of God let alone God being found in their midst. This is why believers pick so many strange powers, curses and complications from different mountains they visited with the hope of meeting God.
For this reason, God made a promise of destroying the ‘false mountains’ that has misled His people into much deception in the last days and establish His mountain on top of all other mountains (Jer. 50:6, 51:24-25, Ezek. 6:2-3, 34:6).
The Bible in John 1 talks of Jesus, being God and with God in the very beginning but later became flesh and dwelt among us. Besides the testimony of the Gospel of John, we see the evidence of the presence of Christ in heaven and part of the entire creation process throughout the scriptures.
In this we see constant fellowships, conversations and communion of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit together as one in perfect unity (Gen. 1:26, Col. 1:15-17).
Word Made Flesh
When Jesus was made flesh and started dwelling among humanity this fellowship and communion had to continue even though he was in a mortal flesh and dwelt among men.
So, we see the development of the continuation of this fellowship through Jesus life as he grew up.
At the age of twelve we see him spending four days ibn the temple at Jerusalem that Got his parents worried (Luke 2:42-49). As being fully God and fully man in the Flesh, Jesus had to maintain his fellowship & conversations with the Father.
This introduces us to Jesus Christ’s prayer closet which I call The Lord’s Prayer Room (Matt. 6:6).
Jesus’ Moments in Prayer
To understand the nature of Christ’s prayer room we need to keenly study his prayer life in the flesh and relationship with God the Father and the Holy Spirit (Heb. 5:7).
Because of being in a vulnerable human nature and form as opposed to one He had before becoming flesh, Jesus had to solely rely on the Father and the Holy Spirit through his own personal prayer life (Matthew 3:16-17, Luke 4:16-21, John 5:30-37, Acts 10:38).
The following scriptures tell us the patterns of Christ’s prayer life; –
Jesus going to a mountain to Pray – (Matt. 14:23, Mark 6:46, Luke 6:12).
Jesus praying and fasting in the wilderness – (Matt. 4:1-2, Luke 4:1-2, Luke 5:16).
Jesus praying alone and sometimes joined by disciples – (Mark 1:35, Luke 9:18, 28-29).
Jesus at Gethsemane/ Mount of olives – (Matt 26:36-44, Mark 14:32-39, Luke 22: 41045).
Jesus personal conversations with The Father – (Matt. 11: 25-26, Luke 10:21, John 11:41-42, 12:27-28, 17:1-26). This also includes all the conversations with God at Gethsemane and at the cross.
From the patterns of Jesus’ prayer life, we learn about; His intimacy with God, the hours of prayer, the reason for fasting, solitary prayer, need for prayer at the ‘mountain’ and the importance of intercessions.
A further and deeper look into this helps us understand the nature, patterns, seasons and times needed to build an effective prayer life of a Christian as well as intimacy with God.
The Experience/ Process and Steps Through the Prayer Room
1) The Entrance (A Place of Open Heavens)
This is a place of cleansing, purification & clothing into a new garment. It is a place of baptism whereby the flesh dies so that the Spirit can live. Many believers don’t realize that during prayers we also go through a process of baptism so as to connect engage & move into the spirit from the flesh.
Since God is Spirit, we can never have effective fellowship & communication with Him through our flesh without the spirit. The baptism here signifies activation of your spirit to connect with God.
It is this act that opens the heavens for a believer which is a gateway into the prayer room. We see this evidence of open heaven during the baptism of Jesus Christ (Luke 3:21-22).
At this place a number of things take place;
a) the flesh dies while the spirit is activated
b) you get adorned in new garments
c) you get to know the presence of Christ, experience the power of the Holy Spirit and hear the Voice of the Father.
Only successful navigation of the above processes in the Lord’s Prayer Room will guide you into the very mountain of god where God dwells.
2) The Mountain of God (The Dwelling of God)
When we speak about the mountain of God at this point we don’t speak of the prayer mountain where you go to pray but the very presence and dwelling place of God.
Here we speak of an experience similar to Moses at the mountain with God at Mount Horeb, Elijah’s experience with God at Mount Horeb and what we see described in Hebrews 12 (Ex. 34:1-7, 1 Kings 19:8-12, Heb. 12:18-22).
A number of things happens at the Mountain of God once one gets to that point; –
a) Having an encounter with The Father (Ex. 34:1-7, 1 Kings19:8-12)
b) The will of self dies so that God’s will can prevail (Gen. 22:1-18, Matt. 26:39, 42, Mark 14:36, Luke 22:42, Rom. 12:1)
c) One is set on the ancient path of Wisdom, Mysteries (Job 15:18, 28:7-28, Rom. 16:25-26, 1 Cor. 2:7-10, Eph. 1:17, 3:3-5, 9-10)
d) One gets unlimited access to the bread of heaven & streams of life (Neh. 9:15, Psalm 78:25, 105:40, John 6:33, 1 Kings 19:5-8, Deut. 8:7, Num. 33:9, Psalm 36:9, 78:15-16, Jer. 2:13, 17:13, John 7:38-39, Rev. 7:17, 21:6, 22:1,17).
e) One gets to have a supernatural experience with the spiritual guides in prayer namely The Holy Spirit, Angelic Guides, Witnesses/ heroes of faith & Christ himself as The Wisdom of God (Psalm 48:14, 73:24, Dan. 4:13,23, John 16:13, Acts 8:29-31, Job 28:7-28, Psalm 136:5, Prov. 1:20-33, Isaiah 49:10, 58:11, Jer. 51:15)
3) The Altar (A Place of Sacrifice)
In the prayer room this is a place of death and resurrection. It’s a place of crucifixion of the flesh and old self in order to gain a new one. It’s also the place and point of the one covenant that binds us all which is the covenant of the blood of Jesus Christ. (Gen. 22:1-2, Mark. 14:24, Heb. 9:1-28, 12:24).
4) The Throne (A Place of Crowning/ Elevation)
This is the place of sanctuary and habitation of those who overcome in the Lord. It is the place of breakthrough and victory in prayer over the forces of darkness. It’s also the place of anointing, restoration, rejuvenation and transformation of the spirit of the one praying. (Jer. 17:12, Heb. 8:1, 12: 23, James 1:12, 1 Peter 5:4, Rev. 2:10, 3:11).
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“And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the Visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.” (Ezek. 8:3 KJV)
A number of things to consider from this verse;
– a) Between Heaven and Earth; –
This signifies the spiritual realm but not just anywhere in the spiritual realm. Those who have studied the spiritual realm know that sense of direction and geographical locations is very key. If you didn’t know, then know that every level of the spiritual realm has Gates and Gate Keepers. That is *First Heavens, Second Heavens and Third Heavens. The phrase in this verse marks or signifies the Gates into the Third Heavens. This is because it says He was brought to Jerusalem.
– Gates & Gate Keepers; –
The first time we come across the idea and understanding of Gates and Gate Keepers in the spiritual realm is in Genesis.
“So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.” Gen. 3:24 KJV.
Understand this; every spiritual location is guarded by different kind of gate keepers that represent what they are guarding. The way of the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden is guarded by Cherubim and a whirling sword because of what they were protecting. However, Jerusalem in Ezekiel, which is The Heavenly Jerusalem has the Seraphim as its Gate Keepers. This is because they the ones who bare and display the nature of the consuming fire among other distinct roles and features.
-b) Jerusalem; –
This signifies the Heavenly Jerusalem, Mount Zion and the Throne Room of God.
“For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,” (Heb. 12:18-19, 22-23)
This means that The Visions of God can ONLY be found in one place in the spiritual Realm; that is Jerusalem, on Mount Zion, in the third Heavens otherwise known as the abode of the Throne Room of God. other visions however can be found in other places all over the spiritual realm.
– c) Door of the Inner Gate Looking Towards the North
It’s interesting because outside this gate is where you find the singers and worshippers (Ezek. 40: 44-47, 1 Chron. 25: 1-31). Surprisingly the chambers outside the inner gate as explained in Ezekiel 40 and 1Chron. 25 were occupied by the 24 Levitical Orders of Worship of 12 Each that is represented by the 24 Elders in the Throne Room (Rev. 4:4-11, 5:8-14).
So, Why the Inner Gate that looks towards the North. Remember, the physical Geographical Compass is not the same as the spiritual geographical compass. However, it is a temporal representation of the eternal reality in heaven (Hebrews 8:5).
-d) The Seat of The Image of Jealousy that provoketh to jealousy
Why the seat of an image of jealousy, what is this image, and what does it mean? This phrase in our main scripture of Ezekiel 8 above has always been misinterpreted by many believers and ministers of God. The greatest clue as to what this seat represents is given to us by its location. It’s found in Jerusalem, which is Mount Zion which is the location of the very Throne Room of God; meaning the Heavenly Jerusalem. This understanding would help us know what it is and its role.
From the time of the issuing of the Ten Commandments we’ve always known that our God is a jealous God and can also be provoked to jealousy (Exodus 20:5, Deut. 32:16,21). And why would there be a seat and an image in heaven for this very purpose? This requires understanding. Remember that God gave Moses specific instructions that everything about the tabernacle should be an exact replica and representation of what is in heaven. (Heb. 8:5). If this is the case, where would the seat of the image of jealousy be and what could it be?
For those with understanding, you would know that there is only one seat in the tabernacle and anything that doesn’t give glory to God in the tabernacle would provoke Him to jealousy. I’m speaking about The Mercy Seat of God. (Exodus 25:17-21, Lev.16:11-17). The image of Jealousy is therefore The Ark of The Covenant (Ref. 1 Samuel 1:1-11).
Why is the teaching above so Important to the Seer Prophets? Because they’ll be receiving the Visions of God Before the Mercy Seat!!
INTO THE VISIONS OF GOD
The Rebirth and Rise of The End-Time Seers
“Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the Lord: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.”(Isaiah 66:7-9)
We are in a season of Labour and birthing, there’s a birthing in the Spirit, a birthing of the Sons of God, A New Season of the Rise of Prophetic and Apostolic Seers whose sole assignment will be as Oracles of God meaning those who bear direct messages from God and delivering it to the people.
These are the sons of God that will be manifested in this season. Not the popular belief by most Christians that the sons who will be manifested are ordinary believers who don’t even know what an intimate relationship with God means. Being a Christian is not a direct ticket to manifestation as a son of God in this coming Revival.
This kind of seers will be the bearers and custodians of the Visions, Revelations and Mysteries of God for the season we’re entering. They’ll have the ability to unlock, decode and interpret mysteries that have been locked for ages past and set apart for these end times we live in.
Three Key Things about the Assignment of the Seers; –
1)- God will continuously test their power of sight in order to ensure that they see the message being relayed in the vision clearly before sending them (Jer. 1:11-12)
2)- They’ll act as keepers of the watch for God over the physical realm and affairs of men in relation to the times and seasons of the time in coordination with The Watcher Angels who will be their Ministering spirits (Isaiah13:1-3, 21:6, Daniel 9: 1-4, Zechariah 1:8-11). Enoch was such a seer, no wonder he acted as a mediator between the fallen watchers, men and God.
3) – They are to watch over the King’s House and over the House of the Lord (2 Kings 11:5-7, Isaiah 22:20-22 // Job 12:14, Rev. 3:7). This basically means Protectors/ defendants of the Gospel of the Kingdom as well as the interests of the Kingdom of God and His will on Earth including the mysteries and revelations of God.
VISIONS, MYSTERIES AND REVELATIONS OF GOD; PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE
I. Visions of God
What are visions of God? Whenever an individual sees a vision either through a dream or open vision we refer to it as his or her visions. Likewise, the visions of God are just what the phrase means. They are therefore occurrences, perceptions, and thoughts within the Mind of God concerning His will and the entire creation as a whole of things that were, that are and that are to come. They are The Blueprint of God Concerning times and seasons of man and creation as a whole; both physical and spiritual (Gen. 8:22, 1 Chr. 12:32, Jer. 5:24, 8:7, Dan. 2:21, Matt. 16:2-3).
So, in order to get to the visions of God one has to get to the Mind of God, for His visions are hidden in His thoughts and can also be referred to as the hidden things of God. (Romans 8:27, 1 Cor. 2:10-11). This can only happen in our spirits, and not just spirit but within the spirit of our minds. It is for this reason that we need to be constantly renewed in the spirit of our minds (Eph. 4:23). It therefore means that Visions of God are not things that just happen to believers but you have to be personally taken into them by the Holy Spirit as it happened to Ezekiel.
One can be carried into the visions of God by The Holy Spirit either through dreams of the night (Job 33:14-16), through open Visions (Amos 7:1-3) or during times of prayer and meditation on God (Psalm 63:6, Matt. 17:1-3). However, besides the visions of God believers can also receive other visions which more than often revolves around their day to day lives as believers which usually come as warnings, information or instructions (Acts 9:10-16, 10:9-20).
II. Visions of God, Mysteries and Revelations (Their relation)
The above three though distinctly different and individually unique they all point to one thing; The Blueprint of God concerning the Times and Seasons of Man and Creation. We’ve talked about visions; mysteries on the other hand are coded messages and information from God that cannot be understood by the natural or carnal mind unless decoded through the Holy Spirit. We can refer to them as Coded Instructional Prophetic Manuals of God. Most of the mysteries have been hidden for ages but revealed at the time and seasons assigned to them by God (Dan. 12:9-10, 1Cor. 2:7, Col. 1:26-27).
About revelations of God, we need to be very clear; they are revelations which are exclusively a preserve of God but choses to reveal to His saints as He wills. Here we also see the Revelations of Jesus Christ that was given to Him by God to show His servants. (Deut. 29:29, Rev. 1:1). Now, let’s get this clear; the Book of Revelation is not on the Revelations of John but revelations of Jesus Christ. However, those very revelations are not Jesus’ own revelations but those given to Him by God The Father.
The Visions of God are Visual Accounts of the Mysteries of God which upon their decoding, unveiling and interpretations become Revelations of God passed down to the People through His saints.
III. Past Present and Future
“Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;” (Rev. 1:19)
Just a brief explanation to understand what we’re talking about. How did Moses come to write all the first five books of the Old Testament in details without error, especially the Book of Genesis? Moses was carried into the visions of God and had a first-hand account of the entire creation including the Trinitarian council in Heaven concerning the making of man (Gen. 1:26).
Such visions gave the prophets of God unlimited access to information and details that were top secret and would naturally not be revealed to man even by angels except they were taken into the very heart of it to see them. Think of Prophets like Ezekiel, Amos, Joel, Zechariah among others. Most of the visions they were shown focused mainly on the original plan of God for the times and seasons of Man, his fall, and future judgment. However, a number of prophets were given detailed accounts of the vision of God concerning the end times and only Daniel was told to seal what he saw.
For this reason, The End-Time Seers are going to play a major role because the visions they are about to be shown concerns their PRESENT which was shown to the past prophets as the End-Times. In addition to this, God will give them the ability to unseal, decode, interpret and relay the messages that were sealed by past prophets especially Daniel and John (Dan. 12:9-10, Rev. 10:4).
“If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.” (Joh 3:12-13 ~ KJV)
The Physical Realm
The physical world we live which is a three-dimensional world exists in and is measured within the parameters of space, distance and time.
That is why we have the units of time (second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year, decade, century, millennium, age) to measure theages of our existence and the units of space, distance and geographical orientation/ direction (metric system & others for space and distance and the compass for geographical orientation) to measure mass, position and direction of our world geographically.
From this we can tell the sense of direction of galaxies, solar systems, planets, continents and even nations whether on Eastern, Northern, Western or Southern direction. We can also attempt to estimate their ages chronologically.
But when one seriously considers the entire space and numerous galaxies the human understanding of space, distance and time starts to lose meaning and seems inadequate.
That’s why no one alive knows the exact definitive mass in size of the entire space system with all the galaxies in it as well as their actual ages in time.
So, if this is the case with the physical realm, how much more when it comes to understanding the spiritual realm?
The Spiritual Realm
“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Cor. 2:12-14 ~ KJV)
We’ve all come across the question of the whereabouts of heaven and people would unconsciously point up. But what if you are in space, which direction is heaven?
It is at this point that we realize the spiritual world or realm exists outside our parameters of space and time and therefore cannot be measured by it.
It is what we may refer to as the fourth dimension which exists as a parallel universe to ours but not with the same timelines, distance or direction.
There’s so much evidence about this in the scriptures. This we get from most of Christ’s teachings about himself as well as other prophetic teachings in the Bible that form the foundations of our faith and belief in God that existed before creation.
So, if this is the case; how would we know the sense of time, space and direction when we come to spiritual realm as a whole?
There’s a way by which we can tell the seasons, timelines, ages, directions and geographical locations of all spiritual matter in the spiritual realm.
All these centers around the spirit of God and for us to know and understand them the we have to know and understand the movement of the spirit of God.
From this we’ll come to realize that our sense of direction, time and space when it comes to the spiritual realm is totally different from the understanding of our physical world and realm.
The Ophanim and Spiritual Navigation (Ezek. 1:19-21, Daniel 7:9)
“And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.” (Ezek. 1:19-21 ~ KJV)
In Ezekiel 1 and 10, apart from the cherubim we see intersecting wheels which had eyes all over them. Many believers would assume that they are just wheels but they are a group of Angelic beings called The Ophanim whose major assignment is to guard the Throne of God wherever it went.
They also represent The Infinite Power, Move, Will and Purpose of The Spirit of God while their eyes represent the sight, visions, revelations and mysteries of God.
By this we come to understand that the Ophanim are in charge of and are indicators of the eternal movement of the Spirit of God, His Visions, Revelations and mysteries both past, present and future. (Gen 1:2, Ezek. 1:19-21, 8:3, Rev. 1:1)
This would mean that to understand the spiritual realm in terms of its time, space and direction one has to study the activities and movement of the Ophanim and what they hold which include the cherubim and the Throne of God (Ezek. 1:19-21).
The Spiritual Realm
Spiritual Movement; Time, Space and Direction
Spiritual timelines, seasons and ages as well as locations are controlled, dictated and managed by the movement of the Spirit of God. We see this all across the Scriptures when we read about the movement of the Spirit of God.
And from what we learn in Ezek. 1:12, 19-20 we get that the movement of the cherubim which carry the throne of God is dictated by the movement of the Spirit of God, and that the spirit of the cherubim is in the Ophanim, i.e. the intersecting wheels.
What would this mean? As the spirit of God moves, the Throne moves with Him and everything about the throne. This also means that The Move of God is determined by the Move of the Spirit of God who is the Holy Spirit.
Therefore, for us to understand the spiritual timelines, seasons, space and direction we need to understand the Move of the Holy Spirit. And for us to understand the Move of the Holy Spirit we need to discern the activities and movement of the Ophanim for they carry the spirits of the Cherubim that bear the throne of God.
There are three prophets and one apostle who were able to see and behold the wonders of the throne of God; Isaiah (6), Ezekiel (1&10), Daniel (7) and John in Revelation (4) yet only Ezekiel gives us a detailed description of what was and about the throne.
If you study carefully you’ll come to realize that in the books of the four above we see detailed descriptions of Biblical prophecies, mysteries and revelations in terms of time and location. Something we don’t see with other prophets.
This is due to their experience and exposure to the throne room and the Throne of God. And one would not have an experience with the Throne of God without being exposed to the Move of the Spirit of God. So, any prophet who claims to prophesy about the spiritual timelines and seasons must have first had an experience with the throne of God and the Move of the Spirit of God. Without this it is pure guesswork.
Spiritual Compass: Sense of Spiritual Direction
We have our natural compass which measures direction from North, East, West and South. We see many references in scriptures using the compass above to show us which direction and place certain events or activities took place.
But when it comes to spiritual direction, we have to go beyond our physical compass. If what we read in Ezekiel 1 and 10 is something to go by, the Throne of God is always in constant motion and sense of direction is always known from the position of the Throne of God.
So, if something Appears west of the Throne of God, we get to know it from the position of the throne. And if the throne moves to the west of it then we would say that the object is located on the east side of the Throne of God.
This tells us that the Throne of God is the Centre of the entire spiritual realm and everything in it. Thus, the spiritual sense of direction is always known from the current position of the Throne of God.
Time and Space; – Ageless Infinity
Trying to understand how old the spiritual realm is, is just like trying to understand how old God is. The scripture calls Him the Ancient of Days,the First and Last one without beginning nor end (Dan. 7:9, 13, 22, Heb. 7:1-3, Rev. 1:17, 21:6, 22:13).
But what we can say confidently is that time and seasons in the spiritual realm don’t move in a similar way to our physical timelines (2 Peter. 3:8).
One can therefore spend months or years in the spiritual realm but when considered in physical timeline can only be a single day. This should inform us especially when we are counting the apocalyptic prophetic timelines, specifically in the book of Revelation.
Concerning space, and speaking from personal experience I come to realize that the actual size and space of the spiritual realm is up to infinity. It doesn’t have a point of beginning nor end like our earth or solar system. This is why no one can even quantify the size of the heavens.
But what we should know is that there are Three Heavens in the Spiritual Realm; First Heavens, Second Heavens and Third Heavens. And that every level of the spiritual realm has Gates and Gate Keepers and their sizes in expanse are close to infinity.
Sigmund Freud in Psychology talks about the carnal mind of a human being made of three components namely; The Id, The Ego & the Super Ego. The Id usually acts on instincts without considering the consequences, The Super Ego operates as a moral conscience (sound mind) while The Ego is the realistic part that mediates between the raw desires and impulses of the Id and the bargains of the Super Ego.
This psychological explanation helps us understand how the human mind operates and why we make certain choices and decisions in life. Without the intervention of the Spiritual Mind it is almost impossible for man to avoid a destructive and immoral path that will lead him astray because of the fallen nature of man. For this reason, God has warned us numerously across scriptures on the dangers of the carnal mind & how to deal with it (Prov. 29:11, Isaiah. 26:3, Ezek. 11:5, 38:10, Rom. 1:28, 8:7, Eph. 2:3, 4:17, Col. 2:18, Tit. 1:15).
The Spiritual Mind
When God decided to create Man, He said; ‘Let us make Man in our own image, after our likeness’ which literally refers to a spiritual being. This is because God Himself is spiritual in nature (John 4:24). It would therefore be proper to understand that this spiritual person has a mind that is not carnal but spiritual and operates in a spiritual manner as directed by the Spirit of God (Deut. 18:6-7). By this we can then understand the scriptures that speak about the nature of this type of mind, how it operates and what to do in taking care of it (Rom. 7:22-23, 25, 8:7-9, 12:2, 1 Cor. 2:16, Eph. 4:23, Phil. 2:5, 2 Tim. 1:7, 1 Peter 4:1).
HOW TO ACTIVATE YOUR SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS
The Paradox of The Carnal Mind & Spiritual Mind
Have you ever wondered why most of the time as a believer your carnal mind is usually more conscious than the spiritual mind? Or sometimes wondered whether you are spiritually conscious at all or it’s the carnal consciousness that operates in your spiritual life? Many times, believers try to understand and explain spiritual matters and revelations without much success because the carnal mind usually plays a major role in the process by engaging its logic and intellect. We know that this usually doesn’t work with spiritual things because they are spiritually discerned (1 Cor. 2:12-14).
Consciousness of Man
So, how can we be spiritually conscious and operate in the spiritual mind at all times? To answer this, we need to understand man’s consciousness; both physical and spiritual and how man loses his spiritual consciousness in the first place. In Genesis 1:27 God creates man in His image and likeness and we understand that the nature of man created here is spirit (because God’s likeness is spirit). That’s why Man here is both male and female and has a singular name for both; Adam (Gen. 5: 1-2). However, in Genesis 2:7 we see God forming a body for man (flesh), breathing His breath into him & man becomes a living soul.
From the two creation stories in Genesis 1 & 2 we see the origins of the spirit of man and the flesh of man. It suffices to say that this is also the origin of the spiritual mind and the carnal mind.
Physical Consciousness
A human being’s physical consciousness begins at childbirth. The child usually first becomes conscious of its surrounding environment from the first cry. This consciousness/ awareness usually grows with time depending on the experience the child has through his interactions with the environment by way of his senses; touch, sight, taste, smell and hearing.
This is usually catalyzed by the people within that environment from the baby’s mother to everyone else around him. In a few years the child’s consciousness will have mastered many things around him including movement, sights, sound, speech and language.
Spiritual Consciousness
Because of a disconnect between God and Man that was necessitated by the fall of Adam, spiritual consciousness was lost to humanity and is however regained through a reconnection with God later in life. In spite of this it is important that this consciousness is however not lost until some point after child birth.
A child in the womb is spiritually conscious from time of conception all the way through to some stages in childhood when physical consciousness overrides spiritual consciousness. A great example is a testimony of a pregnant woman who was fond of singing a certain worship song during pregnancy over and over again but after childbirth she stopped and after a while forgot the song.
Later she heard the daughter at three and a half years old singing the same song word for word without ever hearing it anywhere. She was astonished and on asking the daughter where she learned the song the daughter insisted that she just knew it. So, we can say that in the womb the baby was spiritually conscious.
This spiritual consciousness can be lost from around the time of child birth because those around the child concentrate more on building the child’s physical awareness & consciousness at the expense of the latter. So, the child grows to be more physically conscious than spiritual.
Maintaining & Regaining Lost Spiritual Consciousness
Being in touch with our spiritual selves as often as we can with the help of The Holy Spirit can help us regain power and control over our spiritual minds as well as consciousness. Imagine the first lessons we teach a baby; how to talk (Baby talk), certain sounds, sights through games like peekaboo and eventually how to walk. These are activities that help a child get in touch with his physical self and consciousness as he grows.
Now, imagine applying the same energy not only for the child but all of us in exercising all our spiritual senses to master our connection with our spiritual minds and eventually more accurately connected with the spiritual realm.
Most tools available are almost similar to those in exercising the physical consciousness but one spelled out clearly in scripture is one God gave Joshua as instructions (Joshua 1:8). Here we have meditation on the word, there’s also prayer, fellowship with God, worship among others.
To regain one’s spiritual consciousness you need to do a number of spiritual exercises to renew the spiritual mind and gain full access and control to all your spiritual senses (Rom. 12:2, Eph. 4:23, 1 Peter 1:13). In a Later teaching I’ll talk about the Seven Spiritual Senses which are; – Sight, Hearing, Perception, Touch, Smell, Taste & Feeling (Intuition). In this teaching I’ll explain how to exercise them in order to regain spiritual consciousness.
EXERCISING YOUR SPIRITUL SENSES
The Seven Spiritual Senses
Have you ever wondered how some people have mastered a high level of tolerance or endurance by way of their five physical senses? For instance, consider someone who has a high level of tolerance to very hot chili. This couldn’t have happened overnight.
It takes some time for such an individual to develop a strong palate and be able to use his sense of taste to develop tolerance to the chili. This of course would include the exercising of his palate through regular consumption of hot chili to develop the high tolerance. In the same manner as we look at the spiritual senses we’ll realize that we need to regularly exercise them in order to be consistent with their effective use in the spiritual realm.
1) The Sense of Sight (1 Sam. 3:1-3, 2 Kings 6:17, Jer. 1:11, Luke 4:18)
We all understand that we are spiritual beings living in a physical realm. However, it is not lost to us that the spiritual realm exists concurrently with the physical. As we need physical eyes to see in the physical so do we need our spiritual eyes to see in the spiritual.
Alienation from regular use of spiritual eyes has reduced many believers’ spiritual sights to mere occasional visions which may appear through dreams or open visions. But if one regularly engages his/ her spiritual eyes then visual access to the spiritual realm will get easier and easier.
We can confirm this with the prophets in the Old Testament that the more time they spent with God, the more they sharpened their spiritual sight. From two of the scripture above we see God testing Jeremiah’s sight at one point and in another instance, we see Elisha asking God to open the eyes of his servant that he may be able to see in the spirit. We can say spending more time in fellowship with God and other believers as well can help us sharpen our spiritual sight and see more in the spirit.
2) The Sense of Hearing (Psalms 143:8, Isaiah 64:4, Rev. 2)
There’s one age old question that believers usually ask; how can one hear the voice of God? Many have always testified of at some point being able to hear the voice of God, Holy Spirit, Jesus or even the angels audibly. But the question would be; was this hearing by physical ears or by the spirit.
There’s a possibility of hearing not only the voice of God or angels in the spirit but be able to pick so many different sounds in the spiritual realm by your inner ears. But this requires training the spiritual ears to hear. There’s a prayer I always like praying to God to help me in this; – ‘Lord teach me to always hear your voice clearly that I may respond and obey.’ So many activities take place in the spiritual realm every single micro second and our ability to be able to pick them or hear them depend on the sharpness of our spiritual ears (1 Kings 19:12-13, Rev. 22:8). Meditation on God and His word usually helps in sharpening one’s ears to be able to hear more clearly in the spirit.
3) The Sense of Perception (Deut. 29:4, 2 Sam. 5:12, Job 33:14, Prov. 1:2, Jer. 23:18, 1 John 3:16)
This is a sense of knowing that comes from the Hebrew root word yâda which means to know, to discern or to discover. Ever wondered how the spirit of discernment works in your spirit? It is through this sense of perception whereby you get the ability to know, discern or receive certain information about someone or something that you didn’t have earlier.
So, your ability to frequently perceive certain information in the spirit depends on your regular use and application of this spiritual sense. It’s regular exercise also sharpens our keenness to discernment. It is this sense that helps us gain more understanding of the revelations and the mysteries of God. And how would one exercise it? By regular renewal and rejuvenation of the spirit of the mind.
4) The Sense of Touch (2 Kings 13:21, Matt. 8:15, Mark 5:27-30, 16:18)
This sensory ability primarily requires the exercising of one’s faith for it can manifest spiritually as well as physically through the physical body. It’s mostly used in the healing ministry by channeling spiritual energy from one individual to another.
There’s also the capability to hold or touch certain objects within the spiritual realm and feel their texture. For instance, I can tell you that the texture of angel’s wings is a blend between the touch of fur and feathers but very soft and tender to touch.
However, the spiritual sense of touch is mainly for the purpose of the transfer and flow of spiritual energy and anointing from one person/ object to another. Exercising this sense requires both unwavering faith and subjecting the flesh to the cross as well as the fire of God for purging.
5) The Sense of Smell (Psalm. 115:6, Ezek. 20:41, 2 Cor. 2:15, Eph. 5:2, Phil. 4:18)
Most believers will tell you that the most common spiritual smell they know is that of Sulphur; an evidence of the presence of demons. Can I tell you that every spiritual being has a scent, and if your sense of smell in the spirit is sharp you can be able to distinguish them.
Those who know and have experienced will tell you that God The Father has a sweet scent of Old Wood or old books in a library, Jesus Christ has a scent of a flower garden with a mixture of roses, lilies, lavender among other sweet smells. The spiritual sense of smell can help us distinguish different scents like incense, myrrh and other glorious fragrances. Regular deep intense worship tends to help sharpen this spiritual sense.
6) The Sense of Taste (Job 6:30, Psalms 34:8, 119:103, Heb. 6:4-6, 1 Peter 2:3)
Every spiritual blessing, gift and food has a different unique flavor. And just as the physical body has a sense of taste, the spirit also has a sense of taste. It’s written life and death is in the power of the tongue; and it’s the tongue that has taste buds. The sense of taste can help one be able to tell whether certain uttered words carry curses, defilement or spiritual poison.
How so? The moment certain words are uttered a believer is able to taste the flavor they carry in the spirit instantly. This would help you counter any negative spiritual utterances and attacks immediately they’re uttered without needing to discern whether they’re malicious or dangerous.
Likewise, you can also taste the beautiful flavors that come from the worship of the saints as they raise their voices to God. This experience is always felt by angels during a gathering of worship of the saints. The same way a sweet fragrance of worship rises up to heaven, its different flavors can also be experienced by God and all those present. Regular celebration of the Lord’s table/ communion as well as worship usually helps in exercising this spiritual sense.
7) The Sense of Feeling (Mark 5:29, Acts 17:27, Eph. 4:19, Heb. 4:14)
Yes, feeling is a spiritual sense. We have a sense of perception unto discernment and a sense of feeling that permeates one’s entire spiritual being. Whenever a believer has a sense of jolts of energy similar to electric currents flowing through his/ her body, then understand that it is this spiritual sense that is active and has nothing to do with your physical senses.
The spiritual sense of feeling helps us to be aware of certain changes in the spiritual atmosphere like the presence of God or evil. Whenever evil is present in a place, the negative energy would connect with our spit beings and it is this sense that will help us be aware of its presence.
The same happens when the presence of God permeates an environment. This sense can help us locate the presence of God within a certain environment. We can also experience this sense when the power of God flows within our beings to either heal us, anoint us or rejuvenate us. Baptism of the Holy Spirit, praying in the Spirit as well as spending time in fellowship with the Spirit of God not only activates this sense but sharpens it and expounds it more and more.
Hope this teaching helps you not only in exercising your spiritual senses but in activating your spiritual consciousness.
For us to be able to understand this we need to know and understand the parties involved, including their roles, how and why they execute them. These Spiritual shifts and timeline usually center around major Acts and Moves of God in the affairs of Man within the lives of History Making Individuals (Gen. 12:1-3), a People (Ex. 12:1-11), a nation/ nations (Isaiah 66:7-9) or even the whole world (Gen7:1-10).
THE WATCHERS OF THE MERCY SEAT (Isaiah 6:1-4, Dan. 7:2, Zech. 6:1-8)
In a previous teaching about the ministry of angels I talked about The Seraphim with reference to those in Isaiah 6 who were before the throne of God. By understanding we get that The MAIN role of ‘The Seraphim’ is Executing God’s Wrath/Judgement as well as God’s Mercy (Numb. 21:5-7, Isaiah 6:6-7) but in The Throne Room they’re tasked with tending to the fiery altar before The Throne of God (Isaiah 6:6).
From the statement above, we see that the Seraphim in Isaiah 6 perform the duty of tending to the fiery altar before the throne of God. But generally, The Seraphim act as The Watchers of the Mercy/ Judgment Seat of God. We get this from the purpose of The Mercy Seat which is not only a Seat of Mercy but also a Seat of Judgment. On a Separate teaching on The Mercy Seat I explain this in details, but here I want to focus on the Spiritual shifts.
To understand Spiritual Shift, we need to understand the different category of the Watchers of the Mercy Seat. We have Three categories who by distinct nature are all Seraphim; Those who tend to the Throne Room Altar before the Mercy Seat, those who execute God’s Wrath/ Judgment & Mercy, and then those who Facilitate & Execute Shifts in Spiritual Seasons and Timelines.
They always move and operate harmoniously and unison. They all act in response to the Agenda, Will and Purpose of the One seated on the Mercy Seat in accordance with the Will and purpose of God for His entire creation which is all Centered around The Mercy Seat that is found in the Holy of Holies which is also the very Centre of The Heart of God (a teaching for another day).
Their sequence therefore is that the first to move and act are those who tend the fire of God who will not only purge the lips of the Saints of God but will use the fire on the Altar before the Throne of Mercy and Judgment appropriately as directed (Isaiah 6:6-7, Rev. 8:5).
This will be followed by the Timeline Shift Watchers who will guide, display and manage the seasonal timeline shifts. Their purpose is to prepare the saints for the shifts in seasons and help them position themselves appropriately as per their callings, mandates and assignments (Zech. 6:1-8, Rev. 8:6-11:19).
Finally, the last group to follow are those that execute of the Mercy and Judgment of God. However, this doesn’t take place until God puts a seal on those that are pure and haven’t defiled themselves. This last group however appears and executes their mandates after certain Major Seasonal Timelines as has been throughout the history of Mankind (Ezek. 9:1-11, Rev. 7:1-3, 16:1-21).
THE SPIRITUAL SEASONS AND TIMELINE SHIFTS WATHCERS
These seraphic watchers are The Four Spirits of Heaven and the Trumpeters who perform all duties that pertain to spiritual shifts. Their work is to display, guide and execute the sequence and Timeline of the Seasons of the Move and Acts of God across the face of the Earth.
They usually appear in different forms to signify the seasons whenever they execute their mandate in facilitating the Spiritual Seasons and Timeline Shifts as we see in scripture (Zech. 6:1-8, Dan. 7:2, Rev. 8:6-11:19). For instance, in Zech. 6 we see them presented as *Chariots with Red Horses, Black Horses, White Horses and then Dappled Grey Horses which signify seasons of War, Famine & Death Economic collapse), Power and Dominion then Pestilence and Disease (pandemics) respectively (Rev. 6:2-7).
Every time there is a Spiritual Shift in the Land, in a Nation or around a certain people; the presence of the Four Spirits of Heaven and the Trumpeters is usually very evident and only those in the Spirit can be able to discern them and their activities.
The Discernment of these watchers help Believers to know how to position themselves spiritually according to the Wil and Purpose of God in regard to their calling, roles, assignments and mandates within and for The Body of Christ in their respective jurisdictions. Without this it is very easy for someone to miss their time of visitation and alignment with the Move and Agenda of God.
Apostle Jesse Jackson Mirega 