“spirit of service”

An ominous shadow is moving across the land and beginning to inhabit the souls of men. The shadow I am speaking of is the “spirit of service.” This spirit appeals to a natural desire within all of us ‘to do’ or ‘to be found doing.’ The appearance of this spirit on its surface can seem not only good but even necessary, but what lies beneath is the substance that a Holy Elohim finds so repulsive in man, that is, the self-will that defiantly says, “I will, I can, Yes we can!” The pinnacle of a humanity with this mindset is to build, improve, and rectify without much if any acknowledgement of an Elohim who gives sunshine and rain to both the righteous and the unrighteous. Without this acknowledgement man continues to build his skyscrapers, institutions, and societies as if they are the reason for our existence. And if our towers fall or our culture becomes corrupt, then we will just rebuild them with granite rather than brick. This is the essence of defiance. The reliance on human will rather than on an Elohim who gives all things.

I recently received an important manuscript from a dear prayer-warrior who keeps prayerful watch over the saints around the globe from her post in northern Minnesota. The manuscript, compiled by Sue Bradley with urgent messages from Pastor David Wilkerson of Times Square Church in New York City and Rabbi Jonathan Cahn of the Beth Israel Messianic Congregation in Lodi New Jersey, warns of an impending judgment of Yahweh upon America with the epicenter occurring in New York City…again. The article provides both historical and biblical understanding as to why New York City and Ground Zero is the focus of His judgment just like Jerusalem and the Temple Mount were the center of His judgment in ancient Israel. The fall-out from the crisis though will affect the entire land – as in ancient Israel so also in contemporary America. A link to the manuscript is provided below:

The Watchmen, 911 and the Harbingers

If you have been reading this blog, you know that I have been spending some time in the book of Ezekiel—especially as the word relates to the restoration of the two sticks (two houses) into one stick in Ezekiel 37. As I studied the chapters that come before and after Ezekiel 37, I was pierced in my spirit by what I read in Ezekiel 33. I tried to lay the impact of those verses aside but couldn’t seem to forget them. Several weeks later I received the manuscript from the Ben Israel community in northern Minnesota that confirmed what had already been provoked in my spirit. The manuscript begins with the following passage:

Ezekiel 33:1-6

“Again the word of Adonai came unto me, saying,
Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them,
When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts,
and set him for their watchman:
If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him.
But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come,
and take [any] person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity;
but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel;
therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from Me.”

I’m compelled by what Yahweh has confirmed in my spirit through Ezekiel 33 to sound a trumpet of warning. In the manuscript, Pastor Wilkerson gives his account of how he came to this prophetic revelation and a practical word that he received from the Holy Spirit for his own direction to employ before and during the crisis. And while both Pastor Wilkerson and Rabbi Cahn provide prophetic understanding regarding the coming judgment, I would like to add a word of encouragement. I firmly believe that the coming events are part of the restoration process of kol Yisrael—both houses made into one new man. Derek Prince, a late great man of Yah, prophetically saw the God of Israel bringing Christians and Jews together through the affliction imposed by external forces—namely communism/socialism, humanism, and most importantly Islam. Mr. Prince described these forces as operating like a pincer to encircle and cut-off the people of Yah to destroy them. As the heat gets turned-up though, these two groups will begin to increasingly see each other for who they actually are and the stick called Yahudah will be joined to the stick called Yosef that is in the hand of Efrayim—and they will be one-stick in the Hand of Yahshua. Todah Rabah Yahweh!