A MESSAGE OF HOPE

 

A MESSAGE OF HOPE - WORKERS - AUDIO

Painting by Daniel Gerhardtz

Father gave me a message to His Bride this morning.  It came in a very special way.  A friend of mine told me that she was praying for me and that when she did, she saw me surrounded with beautiful yellow flowers.  Then when I scrolled down on a video on YouTube, I saw a lady asking a question and was prompted to answer her.  Not thinking much of it, I set myself out to find out what these yellow flowers are about.  I was led to go and see where in the Word yellow is mentioned and if there is anything of significance to me.  I came across Psalm 68: 13.

 Psalm 68: 13

 ¹³ Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

Quite a beautiful verse.  Not sure what it all meant I went to different commentaries and was truly blessed by what I found.  Instead of re-inventing the wheel, I will just simply read the commentary.  This is found on the website called Biblestudytools.com.  You will note that all the different commentaries in a way describe first trying times, but with the common thread of righteousness as silver and purity as gold.  Different scenarios are painted, all applicable to our lives, current events and prophetically.

The first part of the verse is discussed...

Though ye have lain among the pots

Kimchi takes these words to be the words of the women, or of the psalmist addressing the Israelites going out to war; that though they should lie in a low, dark, and disagreeable place, in the camp, in the open field, exposed to wind and weather; yet they should be fair and beautiful, and be loaded with gold and silver, the spoil of the enemy. But Fortunatus Scacchus refers them, much better, to the encampment of the Israelites in their tents, and to the disposition and order of their army going to battle: the body of the army in the middle, and the two wings, right and left, on each side; whose glittering armor of gold and brass, the rays of the sun striking on them, are fitly resembled by the colors on the wings and back of a dove.

Another learned writer thinks they are an address to the wings of the dove; that is, to the dove itself, meaning the Holy Spirit, expostulating with him how long he would dwell within the limits and borders of the land of Canaan; which was not long after the ascension of Christ, for soon was the gift of the Holy Ghost poured down upon the Gentiles. 

In a different view we see they are an address to the people of Israel; intimating, that though they had been in adversity, and their lives had been made bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; and had lain among the brick kilns and furnaces when in Egypt; and in the times of the Judges had suffered much from their neighbours, by whom they were frequently carried captive; and had been in affliction in the times of Saul; yet now in prosperous circumstances in the times of David, who had conquered their enemies, and enlarged their dominions, and restored peace; and especially would be more so in the days of Solomon, when they enjoyed great plenty and prosperity, and silver was made to be as the stones of the street.

Though it is best of all to apply the words to the church and people of God in Gospel times; and they may describe their state and condition by nature and by grace, in adversity and in prosperity: the former in this clause, in which there is an allusion to scullions, or such as lie among coppers and furnaces, and are black and sooty; and so it describes the Lord's people before conversion, who are black with original sin and actual transgressions; (This makes me think of the Shulamite in the Song of Solomon who at the beginning ask him not to look at her as she works in the vinyard, being black from the sun beating on her), who being transgressors from the womb, and as long as they live and walk in sin, and have their conversation with the men of the world, may be said to lie among the pots: and this may also be expressive of the church of Christ being in adversity, and black with the sun of persecution smiting her; and she might be said to lie among the pots while the ten Heathen persecutions lasted, and also in the reign of antichrist; during which time the church is in the wilderness, and the witnesses prophesy in sackcloth;

The second part of the verse...

[yet shall they be as] the wings of a dove covered with silver, and
her feathers with yellow gold:

The philosopher observes, that the necks of doves appear of a golden color by the refraction of light. And this describes the saints and people of God as they are by grace. They are comparable to the dove on many accounts: like doves of the valleys, every one of them mourn for their iniquities; like the trembling and fearful dove, tremble at the apprehensions of divine wrath, and judgment to come under first convictions; and are fearful of their enemies, and of their own state; are humble, modest, and meek; think the worst of themselves, and the best of others; flee to Christ for refuge, and to ordinances for refreshment; are chaste and affectionate to Christ, and harmless and inoffensive in their lives and conversations. Being "as the wings of a dove covered with silver" may denote the purity of doctrine held by them; the words of the Lord being as silver purified seven times, and the preciousness and sincerity of their faith, by which they mount up with wings as eagles; and the holiness of their conversation, being as becomes the Gospel of Christ: and being as the "feathers" of a dove covered "with yellow gold" may denote their being adorned with the graces of the Spirit, as faith, hope, and love; which are more precious than gold that perisheth, and are called chains of gold, see; or their being clothed with the righteousness of Christ, signified by gold of Ophir, and clothing of wrought gold ; or their being enriched with the unsearchable, solid, substantial, and durable riches of Christ,

It describes the church in the latter day, when her light will be come, and the glory of the Lord will rise upon her; when her stones will be laid with fair colors, and her foundations with sapphires; when she shall, have the glory of God upon her, and be as a bride adorned for her husband.

I am amazed at how much is mentioned in these commentaries of what Father has been talking to me about with regard to my previous devotionals, the Precious Gemstones and the Bleeding Heart Dove.  

Who knew that all of that is compressed into such a small verse? In the second chapter of Song of Solomon he is calling His Bride to come with Him, to rise, but towards the end she has been transformed by His love.

 Song of Solomon 2: 10 - 14

¹⁰ My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

¹¹ For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

¹² The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

¹³ The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

¹⁴ O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

 

When we look at the account of Noah when the Arc rested, He sent out the raven and the dove at the same time.  The raven in the Strong’s Concordance speaks of Arab and depicts the anti-Christ that will be sent out soon upon this earth as we already see the world stage prepared for his coming soon.  However, the dove speaks not only of Christ, but the Spirit of God that will be poured out in the greatest revival ever.  As I said in my previous devotional it takes tribulation for the Church to be the Church as the Most High intended.  It is during this time when He will cause the eyes and ears of our loved ones to be opened up and great miracles will happen once again as in the days of Acts when the dove descended on those who waited on Him in the upper room. 

He is about to send out the raven and the dove and as great calamity is to fall on this earth, so also great revival.  How this revival will play out, we do not know, because persecution will only increase.  With war, will come His peace as well.  Once again, how this will play out we do not know.  It is in the extremities of life that people will cling to hope in a time where there seems to be no hope.  This painting that I used on the top of this devotional is of my favorite artist, Daniel Gerhardts.  It is called "Message of Hope".  Daniel means Righeous Judge and Gerhard means Spear Ruler.  it is in this time that the Righteous Judge is about to pour out both His Spirit and His wrath upon this earth.  Where in fact as a spear will pierce the hearts of men to either call upon Him or curse Him.  When Father spoke to me this morning He gave me a beautiful word of how He is about to send out His Doves. I could not help but think of the enemy that is also sending out his birds of prey, his ravens in a time like this as this painting is depicting.  But our Father, will bring a message of hope, just like doves were used in ancient times to bring messages to people in other countries, so He is about to send out His doves with a message of hope. 

 Isaiah 60: 1 – 8

¹Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

² For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

³ And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

⁴ Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.

⁵ Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.

⁶ The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord.

⁷ All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.

⁸ Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

As you can hear there is great significance to this seemingly insignificant scripture of Psalm 68: 13.  It speaks of the Bride in her glorified state, but what kind of Bride?  One who although life has thrown her to be covered in the black soot of hardship and trials, have come out pure and of Christlike character. She has dove's eyes. She is like an army of banners!

 Song of Solomon 6: 9 - 10

⁹ My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

¹⁰ Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

I asked Father to confirm the word to me and whether He would like me to release it.  Right at that moment when I said that, I looked up and a flock of white doves flew over the field I was looking at.  You will also remember me mentioning that I replied to a lady on YouTube.  When I went back to that comment I saw that her profile picture was a yellow flower, reminding me of my friend praying for me surrounded by yellow flowers, and to top if off, the lady's name on the profile is "Dove’s eyes". My daughter also changed her profile picture on WhatsApp last night.  When I looked this morning I saw that it was a bride with a dove descending on her.  Such beautiful confirmation of what He is about to do for His doves. 

Word received 15^th July 2021

MESSAGE OF HOPE

My precious Doves, you who have a single eye, focused on Me, not only in your lives, but a heart wholly given over...I will send you out in flight to all the nations, that the token of true peace in the midst of chaos may be seen by all.

As I descended on My Son when He rose from the waters of baptism, so I will ascend upon you, you who have risen in My might from the waters of the baptism of death into new life. 

Just as your life has been sustained by My Spirit, so I will sustain you.  I will shine upon you and you will declare My glory amongst the nations so that all will call upon Me in a time of need.  For only in Me will they find true peace in a time of war and calamity. 

Arise My Doves and come away with Me.  Arise and shine with My glory that will come upon you.

You have given me your all, now I will give you all things in this time of great need.  That you may be a comfort to My people, just as I have comforted you.  That you may speak tenderly to them as I did to you.  That you may rise with healing in your wings, as I rose over you. 

So come My Doves, let us fly over the nations.  Let us bring hope, faith and love amidst the darkest hour.  I will bear you up with My wings, My Doves.  I will be the wind beneath your wings.  I will cause you to soar above the storms that the eyes of the blind may see and the deaf may hear and call upon Me. 

The window of opportunity, only a small opening.  But those who desires to be free to know My ways, will hearken. 

So come and fly away with Me.  A message of hope in a dark world where there will seem as if there is no hope at all, is what you will be.

Amen.

 

"LET ME BLEED!"

 

"LET ME BLEED!" - AUDIO

I believe Father has given me a message for the church as a whole for the days we are in.  As He always does, He leaves clues on my day to day experiences, very much like breadcrumbs.  Failing to notice them would be heartbreaking as it is not about me, but about Him.

I mentioned in my previous devotional that my daughter and I had an argument through which Father came to show me His purposes in my suffering and His heart for His enemies.  After this conversation with Him I started talking to Him about how hard and malicious my daughter can be and that never in her 16 years have I ever heard her say the words “I love you Mommy”.  Please do not think I am trying to bash my daughter.  Who I am would not have been unless Father used her.  So I am very grateful for all my hardships.  I told Father as I was lying over a footstool praying for her, that her words shred me like lashes on my back.  In that instance Father showed me His Son’s back and said that I was sharing in His suffering. I could only cry. 

The next day, my good friend Simoné, left me a message of a dream she had of my daughter.  This dream was a tremendous blessing to me and also a message to my daughter.  I want to share this dream with you for the purpose of showing you what Father revealed through the dream, which is the purpose of this devotional. 

Dream:

Simoné dreamed that she was with other people in an open auditorium, one who had no walls, but only a roof.  My daughter was standing in front with a mike in her hand with 3-4 pages from which she was reading.  Everybody were crying as my daughter with a broken heart were thanking the Lord God for His love, but mostly pouring her heart out in broken sobs, saying how much she loves me and with a broken heart thanking me for leading her to the Lord.  Simoné cannot remember everything she said, but she said that someone asked her to whom the letter was addressed to, and that she could barely answer the woman, saying that it was for her mother.  After my daughter was finished, she went to the side to her father.  Simoné could see her from the corner of her eye and that she was in an argument with her father.  She said that she knows what my husband looks like, but this was not the same person.  However, in the dream she knew it was her father.  My daughter in great anger started scratching her father over and over until he started to bleed.  He did not react in any way to her malicious outburts towards him.  She walked away about 3 to 4 steps in anger, stopped and turned around running into his arms, asking for forgiveness.  He held her in his arms and Simoné could see that he was letting her know that all is forgiven.  That was the dream.

The purpose of the dream was two-fold.  To let me know that my daughter loves me very much, even if she cannot say it, but also to let me know that every time she does what she does on a regular basis, she does it to Him, because He is the father in the dream.   He bleeds.  I cannot say how much that meant to me.  The other part serves as a warning to my daughter who loves Him very much, that every time she does it to me, she is doing it to Him.  And I know this will break her heart, which I know right now is what He is working in her, a broken heart.

My previous devotional was particularly hard for me to write.  In fact, seldom are any of my devotionals easy to write, because Father works these things out in me first, so that I can write from a place of authenticity to the degree that I have allowed Him to work it in me.  So I write from the gut by the grace of the Spirit through me.  But even though the devotional was a heavy topic, I struggled to write it because of something brooding in my spirit.  I did not know what that is until the evening late when I listened to a lady giving a prophetic message to the church for not praying and crying out to the Most High.  A seed was sown in my heart in that moment and I started to cry.  Because I asked myself why I was not crying out as I ought to?  Why am I subscribing to something, but not living in the reality of it?  And then it dawned on me.  I am overwhelmed.   I needed to acknowledge it to myself.  Not to you, but first to myself and to Him.  Everybody has a certain way to deal with high level stress.  We call it the fight or flight response and so much through the years have been said about it.  The way we often deal with high level stress is to internalize it up to the point where we are not even aware of it.  It is not that we do not pray about it or talk it out with Father, but we are now so full to overflow with information that it is difficult to keep up. I have discussed this topic previously.  It is called Cognitive Dissonance.  The ability to ascribe to something, but not being sufficiently moved by it.  I think if I had to paint a picture for our visual friends out there, I feel like a duck swimming on a sea of information and the waves are just getting bigger.  Yes, a sea and not a dam.  We are living in the age of information and what dawned on me is that the truth is out there.  Nobody can say, “I did not know.”  The enemy has to divulge their schemes on the various media platforms in order to have legal ground in the courts of heaven and not just to program us into passivity. But I think what came to me is the understanding that even we as Christians, who now see things for what they are, not only the physical, but the spiritual and that which is about to happen, still somehow are not sufficiently moved.  I realized that we are not remotely aware of how deep our self-preservation goes as well.  Sometimes we subconsciously do not want to deal with it. And on the other side we are unaware just how programmed we are to the point of not being moved, even though we know the truth. It is not important what we know, but what we do with it. We are astonished, disgusted, sad and angry, but not moved to amongst all the reality to be like the woman with the issue of blood, to press through the throngs to touch His hem.  If only we can touch the Master’s hem.  And is He not seeking those who will do what it takes.  Not once, not occasionally, but with the persistence of those desperate beyond words, holding onto the horns of the altar.  Weeping in desperation for mercy.  Rather, what I find in myself and others is a lets “be still and know that He is God” syndrome.  Not that we should not be that, but are we not subscribing to a soon world revival?  No revival has ever come without prayer in anguish and consequent repentance.  Those two elements are the backbone of revival.  Yet, we look at this world and like I said to my daughter the other day after she asked me what is new in the world, “Oh nothing, just going to hell in a handbasket”.  Really?  How is it that I could jokingly say this?  Paul said, “Knowing the terror of God I pursued men!”  We have been well rehearsed in the understanding of what is to come eschatologically, but somehow it plays off in our minds like a scene from “The Game of Thrones” in our heads, because we have been fed these realities from the portholes of hell.  Somehow, the information through the magic black screens has subconsciously limited this to what we see on a square black mirror, which we can switch off with the press of a button.  As quick as we switch it off, it is removed from our reality. Afterall, we need to go on with life. However, when virtual reality becomes spiritual reality, there will be no “reset button” as the “powers that be” would like to call it. The only One who has that button comes at the end of the age, who alone will make all things new.  I guess my gripe with myself is the fact that I know of cognitive dissonance, but have failed to see just how much it has left us numb.  We know what to say when we see or hear these things.  We say I am saddened by this, or this makes me furious, but does it really?  Do you not wake up the next morning and move on to the next subject?  Do you not simply go on with life, because in essence it is something that happens somewhere else and not in your own house?  I do.  And that is what is bothering the living daylights out of me.  The fact that I go on as if these things are removed from me.  The fact that innocent children are slaughtered, enslaved, ritualistically killed and used as prostitutes disgusts me, but somehow I sleep at night.  The fact that countless people are dying of hunger and wars all over the world, as this world is raped by the enemy and their puppets in charge, is something I know and store in my subconscious files like the windows of a Microsoft program. Even though we are not all robots as they would love to make us, we have become programmed not to call out to God until He answers.  We give shotgun prayers and have not been schooled in the school of travail. Instead we subconsciously think, “What can I do?  Please Lord, help those children”.  It is not that we do not pray, it is that we do not bleed.  We are disassociated from the reality of it even though we know about it.  We do not feel the pain.  We feel our own pain and some of us have more than others to go around with, considering pain. I have previously given a word about the midwives that are to be released in the Spirit. I am asking those midwives, not limited to only woman, how do you think this plays off in the Spirit? It can only be by the prayer of travail. By a crying out for souls! 

As much as this devotional at this stage sounds as if it is about me, it really is not.  It is about Him.  This dream of my friend made me realize that He is still bleeding, but why am I not?  He is the head of the Body and He said that when they reject us, we need to understand that they are in fact rejecting Him.  He said that whatever we do to the least of them, speaking about the little children, they do it unto Him.  He also said the following:

Matthew 25: 34 - 46

³⁴ Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

³⁵ For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

³⁶ Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

³⁷ Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

³⁸ When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

³⁹ Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

⁴⁰ And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

⁴¹ Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

⁴² For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

⁴³ I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

⁴⁴ Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

⁴⁵ Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

⁴⁶ And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Luke 10: 16

¹⁶ He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

Of course when we read this our minds tend to go to the fact that we do give to the poor and hungry and visit those in jails.  But this is not what I am getting at.  The issue is that He is saying that He is vitally connected to His creation.   That He who knows all things and are above these things, still condescends to identify with pain.  He identifies with the pain of the poor, the sick, the prisoner and the hungry.  Not in the way that we do, but in a real felt way, so much so that He says that when we do these things unto them, we are in fact doing it unto Him.  When my daughter comes lashing out on me and it feels as if I am being torn, He is saying by virtue of my union with Him, she is doing it unto Him.  He bleeds. 

As mentioned before I am reading the autobiography of Amy Carmichael.  She once was burdened under the weight of the enormity of trying to save temple prostitutes from the streets of India. Standing in her hut she looked outside to the trees surrounding them and right there the Father transformed the trees in her garden in a vision of olive trees.  There she saw our Master sitting under the trees weeping.  Tears flowed like rivers down His face and in that instance she knew that He was crying for these children.  The message was clear in that holy moment that it was not that she needed to ask Him to help her bear the burden of these children, but rather that He was asking her to bear His burden with Him.  The burden was not hers, it was His.  She asked, “Who could have done anything but go into the garden and kneel down beside Him under the olive tree?”  She wrote this following poem in which she is the “he” that comes to the Master praying in the garden.

…Darkly distinct, he saw a vision pass

Of One who took the cup alone, alone

Then broke from him a moan,

A cry to God for pain, for any pain.

Save this last desolation; and he crept

In penitence to his Lord’s feet again.

...Never an angel told, but this I know,

That he to whom that night Gethsemane

Opened its secrets, cannot help but go

Softly thereafter, as one lately shriven,

Passionately loving, as one much forgiven.

And never, never can his heart forget

That Head with hair all wet

With the red dews of Love’s extremity,

Those eyes from which fountains of love did flow,

There in the Garden of Gethsemane.

When Father started to reveal how yoked His Son is to the burden of the lost, broken, poor and imprisoned, just by a very simple dream, I could not but cry out…”Why am I not bleeding!”  Where is my burden?  Give me a burden! Where is the pain of your suffering in my life?  Not the suffering of circumstances, of which I have plenty, but the suffering of Gethsemane?  He took me to Psalm 78 that speaks of the Rock that was smitten in the wilderness.  Water poured out of this rock in the same way as when watered poured out from His side on the cross.  His Body was pierced and water and blood flowed as a spring of life from His side.  Are we not hidden in the cleft of the Rock?  Why is it that when we are smitten with truth, that out of us rivers of tears do not flow?  Why is it that when we hear and see, we do not bleed? 

The evening that I realized that I am overwhelmed, I told Father that it feels as if I am coming apart at the seams.  The next morning the song of Cory Asbury, Unravelling, was the first thing on my YouTube feed. I will play it on the audio, but for those reading the devo only, you will be able to find it on YouTube.  So I just want to play this song that you may see how pertinent it is to what we are discussing here.

I'm coming apart of the seams
And everyone's pulling at me
And I am unraveling

The smile isn't quite what it seems
But it does well to hide what's beneath
All the pressure is staggering

In the unraveling, father unravel me
When I can't feel a thing
Have mercy and let me bleed
I know it's dumb
But I have been numb
For way too long

So goodbye now, yellow brick road
Thanks a lot, what I need is back home
So homeward traveling

And in the unraveling, father unravel me
And when I can't feel a thing
Have mercy and let me bleed
I know it's dumb
But I have been numb

For way too long

I don't want to be alone anymore
I don't want to survive anymore
And I want to feel, unravel me

 

I am tired of exposing darkness for the sake of exposing it only.  I am confronted with the question of how many of what I have exposed, did I spend hours in praying for?  How much of what I have read or listened to has caused me to cry out to Him and drawn me to the Garden where He prays.  Have I been touched with His burden or have I grown numb?  So much talk and so little prayer.  Why am I not bleeding Lord?  Have I lost my faith to the fact that the prayer of the righteous availeth much?  We pride ourselves secretly in the knowing that Father uses us to expose the enemy, but have we been broken by this knowledge?  Maybe this devotional is only for me?  Maybe I’m just overwhelmed by life, but I cannot help to think that I am not alone.  And if anything, my cry is that this is a call to the Church for anguish as one of the most well-known sermons of David Wilkerson is called.  Not just prayer, but anguish.  To birth through travail the will of God!  My cry is, "Lord, stir us, break us, move us, anything, but please do not leave your Bride, your Body, numb.  Please give me my part in Your burden to bear.  Please let me bleed!" 

We read in the accounts of the synoptic Gospels of Yeshua travailing in the Garden.  Three times He went out to his disciples finding them asleep.  Every time He rebuked them for not watching and praying saying that the flesh is weak, but the spirit is strong.  They were to watch and pray.  We have become experts in watching, but not so much in praying.  This "watch and pray" is essential in the time we are at as we see the day approaching.  This praying is more than just a casual praying.  It means to beg and to bind yourself, to knit or tie.  This makes me think of a child that wants something and just will not let you go until they get what they want. Much like the woman with the issue of blood. Have our fountain dried up in the spirit? Would we not also like her do whatever it takes if we were bleeding, to just be able to touch His hem? It was in the garden He was saying this to His disciples.  Bind yourselves to me in prayer.  Are we bound to Him in prayer?  We say we want our loved ones saved, we say we want our marriages to be healed, we are enraged by the corruption, the church in deception and the reality of the spiritual dimension. We spend countless hours exposing these things, but the reality is that the knowledge of these things are not changing anything.  It is said that knowledge is power.  I submit to you that the prayer of the righteous is power!  The prayer of a people crying out to God in agony is power!  People repenting in conviction, identifying with the sins of the nation, is power! Why are we not bleeding?  Why are we not in pain with His pain? Why do we not anguish with Him in the garden as His Body?  Why is He still alone in the Garden and we, still asleep?  Why are we not crying out to Him to move us, to do anything but leave us numb!  Why are we not baptized in anguish?  This is the result of a people of God who has been baptized in truth, but living outside of the reality of it.  This is the result of compromise and being entertained with the flood of information as if it is the end in itself.  Why are we not broken over His church, but only angry?  Why are we livid with the gay agenda, but our hearts not torn over the eternal damnation that awaits them?  Why are we not even asking ourselves this?  Why has the spear not pierced our side so that it penetrates our heart?  Why is there not water and blood flowing from our side! Why are we not bleeding? 

Oh, that the Most High would break our hearts and we become as dust before Him who are not even worthy to take another breath.  Oh, that our hearts would break as Nehemiah over the broken walls of Jerusalem.  The walls and gates of this world is broken down and the enemy has plundered and raped the world.  Why are we not mourning?  Why is it that we will read a devotional like this, agree with it, but not be sufficiently moved to never be the same?  Should we then not cry out to Him and say, “Lord, even if I am the last person on this earth, Lord, break me to bear this burden with You.  Let me bleed with you.  Give of Your pain, of Your anguish for my family, for my friends, for the lost and broken, anything but this numbness!” Let me watch and pray with you in this dark hour. 

It is high time that the true Church wake up from her slumber.  It is high time that we realize that we have enough information about life to cause us to never get up from our knees!  Where is our cry for souls?  When will we cry like Praying Hyde, “Give me souls or I’ll die!”  I have said before that it takes tribulation for the Church to be the Church as He intended her to be.  Why do we have to feel it on our skin before we are willing to fast and weep before Him?

Maybe it can be said that I am guilt tripping you.  No, if anything, this is an indictment against a prayerless Church who no longer believes that the Most High will do anything, because the end is nigh.  That thinks that people are too far gone and that there is no use in praying for them.  Why have we forsaken the burden of the Lord?  Jeremiah was told that when the people ask him what the Lord is saying that he was to tell the people that the Lord has no burden.  Why did He say this?  Because the people were only interested in the tickling of the ear and were not truly interested in His burden.  Even today, the truth has become the tickling of the ear and we are no longer concerned with the burden of the Lord.

I usually look for the pictures to go with my devotionals after I have written them.  This dove is called The bleeding heart dove".  I have never heard or seen such a dove, but find it no coincidence that Father led me to this photo.  It truly speaks volumes.  The Ruach of God, the Dove of God desires to baptize the Church with a bleeding heart before He sends the fire of Revival. We take it for granted that it will happen as if we have no part in it, but just to wait. If you and I have no desire for souls, why should we have a part in it? He desires that the same bleeding heart of the Spirit of the Most High would beat in us. 

May He stir us within our depths and cause us to seek Him afresh to break our hearts.  I end with a word Yeshua gave me at the beginning of the year.  I pray you hear what He says to His Body.

BROKEN HEART

So many seek Me for My hands, but not My heart.  They seek the outpouring of My Spirit.  They seek gifts, dreams and visions and they seek miracles. 

But what do I seek?

I seek the mirror of My heart in you.

If you look carefully, you will see it is broken.  Broken for the lost.  They did not break it on the cross, it was broken before the foundation of this earth.  But the cross was the full expression of My broken heart.  The cross, the path I chose because of My broken heart.

Where are those who mourn My broken heart?  Those who have come and desired not My hands, but My heart? 

I will not deny those who seek My hands for I am the giver of all good gifts.  But, the secrets of My heart are for the broken and contrite.  For they are ever aware that for them I died.  They enter into My suffering.  They enter into which I hold dear…the broken heart for the lost.

Father, we are now at the precipice of a new beginning.  The world may be prepared for the rise of the anti-Christ, but in truth the world is crying out for the manifestation of the sons and daughters of the Most High.  May we as Your Body be known by the scars on our feet, hands, brow, back and side.  May water and blood flow from our wounds that have been inflicted by the hand of the Most High on us in our inner-chamber.  May we travail in prayer in the garden of Gethsemane with You.  Break the numbness over our minds and hearts Father.  Remove the opaque veil that causes us to see reality, but not be moved as You intended.  Break our hearts and let us bleed.  We pray this in the Name of Yeshua HaMaschiach.  Amen.

FOR THE WORKERS: THE GOOD SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEPHERDS

THE GOOD SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEPHERDS - AUDIO

 

In Genesis we read the account of Jacob that worked for Rachel 7 years only to find on the wedding night that it was Leah given to him.  He then had to work another 7 years to fulfill Rachel’s week.  From out of these two woman are birthed Israel and Judah.  Israel, not the country, but the chosen ones and Judah from which we get the name Jew.  These are the ten southern tribes scattered right through the earth and the two northern tribes now in the country Israel.  You will have to excuse me for not going into all the details of who is really a Jew or the Zionist etc…this is not what this post is about and discussing that would deviate from what the Most High wants to say to us. 

These two woman, Leah and Rachel, bore the chosen people of the Most High, of which Jacob is a type and shadow of Yeshua who will come for His bride as depict in this scripture.  This is also why Paul’s message was that the two shall become one and why there is no more Jew or Gentile in Yeshua.  There are many ways that Father describes His people.  We find for example in my previous post, "Precious Gemstones" , in which He refers to His children as precious gems.  Also we read that we are trees, or a wheat, barley or grape harvests.  We are also called fish, being fishers of men.  I am sure there are many more.  But for this devotional the focus is sheep.  The Gentiles are the lost sheep and Judah the sheep that went astray.  Yeshua mentions this in Matthew 18.

Matthew 18: 11 - 14

¹¹ For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

¹² How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?

¹³ And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.

¹⁴ Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

I had a dream a few years ago that illustrates this parable Yeshua told.  I was in an open field doing shopping.  There were no walls.  This is obviously a time during the tribulation when money is still available.  The next moment a tsunami came from the left side of me.  I saw a great amount of people running for their lives and also dying in these enormous waves.  The next moment my friend was standing next to me being highly pregnant.  She is not pregnant and her husband died just before this dream.  She was dressed in white.  The next moment her husband was standing next to us.  His name is Alex and it means Kinsman Redeemer.  Reminds you of anyone?  Anyway, as we were standing there another tsunami came from the right.  I told them we better get to higher ground.  We were running and Alex took out a compass looking for the best place to go in order to be safe.  He told us to turn onto a road that led to a very high steep hill.  My friend had great difficulty to go up being pregnant and I was helping her.  When we got to the top, we had a code to go into a place already prepared for us.  A place of rest because there were beds all around.  Then Alex told me that he was going down again, because there may be others that are struggling and he needs to go and help them.

End of dream. 

In this dream my friend resembles the left behind church that the workers will help to reach Mount Zion.  They are the lost sheep, the 99.  Alex, the Kinsman Redeemer goes back down for the sheep that went astray, Judah or the 1.  The tsunamis speak of two time periods of destruction, just like Jacob had to work two sets of weeks. 

Here in both Yeshua’s parable and the dream He gave me, we see His heart for the lost and those that went astray.  We read in John 10 the following…

 John 10: 11

 ¹¹ I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

 Both Leah and Rachel had servants.  Leah’s handmaid was Zilpah and Rachel’s handmaid was Bilhah.  These two woman were actually the half-sisters of Leah and Rachel. 

Genesis 30: 9

⁹ When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

Genesis 35: 22

²² And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

As you can see that both these woman, Zilpah and Bilhah, played a very important role in the forming of the tribes of Israel and Judah.  They were not only midwives, but also given in marriage.  We cannot ignore who they are.   Could it be that being given in marriage and being concubines, they serve as a type and shadow of the workers that will bring in the lost sheep, the Left behind or 99, and the one that strayed, which would be Judah?  They were given in marriage only later, but were responsible to bear children for Jacob. 

The reason why I am mentioning these woman is because the two things they have in common is Jacob, who is a type and shadow of Yeshua coming for His bride, and the bearing of children.  The whole of the Word of God is about the Sons and Daughters of God. I have also recently given a word from Father saying that He is about to release the midwives, which is the workers, or servants.  Just like in the dream He gave me to assist with the birth of the 99 sheep, whom my pregnant friend resembled. 

You will also remember that Father gave me a word called, “Bring My Little Ones Home”.  This word was about the children that are being used as sex slaves and those being trafficked.  Since then He has confirmed to me that this will be my assignment in this time to come.  To be a mother for little ones, not just physically, but also spiritually.  When I thought about it, I realized that in essence the workers that will go out will all be missionaries.  That is what missionaries are.  They are sent ones.  Sent to proclaim the gospel of the Good News, and to make disciples.  This is in fact to mother and father children all over the world wherever He may send us.  Just like He sent His Son to bring many sons and daughters to the Most High, so the Most High will now send many sons and daughters to find the lost sheep and those that went astray.  The reality is that some will be sheep and some will be lambs.  In John 21 Yeshua tells Peter to feed His lambs and then He tells him to feed His sheep.  The lambs according to the Strong’s Concordance refers to those who are weak and drinking milk, and that has to be carried.  This to be carried is not just in protection, but it denotes using the strong arm to sow.  They also refer to little ones, not just in stature but also in quatity. A small group. These are the remnant of Judah that will flee into the desert. The sheep refers to those who are older and are well stricken, which speaks of tribulation.  Peter's ministry was to the Jews, the Lambs. Paul's ministry was again to the Gentiles, the lost sheep. Paul is a type and shadow of Christ. This is why Yeshua said that He has come for the lost sheep of Israel. The reality is that there will be newborns, those who will be redeemed for the first time, and there will be His children that were left behind during the tribulation, due to not being ready for His return. This is true both physically and spiritually.  I know that it is a controversial subject concerning children being taken first, but as far as I can see, only the children of the redeemed are sanctified up to a certain age.   To try and figure out what this age is, is in my opinion futile because He alone knows, considering all circumstances, who are to be held accountable for not choosing Him at a certain time.  We cannot be the judge of that.  However, the reality is that there will still be children here during the tribulation as people will even eat their children and we also have promises from the Lord of how He will care for those with young during this time.

Right through the Word we find from the Old Testament to the New Testament references to shepherds that the Lord God has given over His people.  All these shepherds given by Him stands under the Good Shepherd, Yeshua.  Yeshua tells us in John 10 not only that His sheep knows His voice, but He lets us know that He is not as a hireling that runs away the moment there is danger, but like the Kinsman Redeemer in my dream, He goes back to lay down His life.

John 10: 15 - 18

¹⁵ As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

¹⁶ And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

¹⁷ Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

¹⁸ No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

He is the Lamb slain before the foundation of the earth.  In response to the Father as to whom He will send, Yeshua agreed with the Father as to the cost.  Not only the cost in leaving His heavenly abode and the union He enjoyed with the Father, but also the power given from the Father to lay His life down or take it up.  Yeshua made His choice.  He would lay His life down.  He is the Patterned Son, our Forerunner and the Good Shepherd who laid His life down for His sheep.   As the Good Shepherd He has prepared the shepherds that He will send out to feed His sheep, those left behind.  This means that they themselves have been through a great deal to prepare them for the time ahead.  The word feed has many meanings, but the most relevant meaning is to shepherd.  Right through the Word in the different context used, feed means to shepherd.  To the shepherds sent out a flock will be given that we will have to tend to and just like the Good Shepherd, we will be given power to either take up our lives or lay it down.  This is different to laying your life down in holiness.  Here Yeshua was making it clear that He meant His physical life. 

Isaiah 40: 11

¹¹ He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

Many of us in bravado say, “Yes Lord, I will lay my life down for You”.  But you will note that the issue is not whether you will lay your life down for Him.  This is the prerequisite for being a chosen Shepherd.  The question is, “Will you lay your life down for your flock?”  Quite a different story,  For Him we are willing to do anything, but for the rebellious, angry, persecuting ones who rejected Him and will in turn reject us and persecute us as we are warned that brother will turn against brother and children against their Father.  To this we are reminded that whilst we were the enemies of God, He died for us.  Not the friends and Lovers of God, but His enemies.  Yeshua said that the servant, think Zilpah and Bilhah, are not greater than their master.  He said that just as He was persecuted, so will we. 

I had a horrible argument with my daughter the other day that just left me so angry.  It was not my best moment, but I now, like all the other times, know that it was divinely allowed for His glory.  I asked Him who I am to be angry with.  With my daughter for what she did, for my reaction to her, for the enemy and how he came to bring destruction, or at Him for allowing it?  Gently, yet sternly He turned me to face the wheat field I was standing at.  Within this field, one who is not sown in, there was all manner of plants growing.  Apart from wheat, there were about three different kinds of plants of what I could see.  He said to me, “Such is the world that I love.  I love the whole world, not just the wheat”.  By this He was saying that He loves the lost and not just those that are living lukewarm lives.  And then He said to me, “The question is not to whom you need to be angry at.  The question is, “What is My will?” Right then He showed me a vision of Him on the cross looking down on, not to His beloved disciples, but those who mocked, jeered at, spat at him and maliciously persecuted him.  To them He said in that moment of extreme agony and complete devastation, “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do”.   It is not just that He died for them, but how He died for them.  With love.  What kind of love is this that dies for the ones that crucifies Him?  The same love that caused Richard Wurmbrandt after being beaten under His feet with rods for years, causing it to become a pulp, confronted by the prison guard with the words, “Why do you still pray?  Don’t you realize by now after all these years that no one is coming for you?  That your God is not going to save you?”  To which Richard replied standing on his knees, “I was not praying for me, I was praying for you”.  It is that love that transcends human understanding.  This is also why Father told me a few years back that I do not know what I am asking by wanting to be filled with that kind of love.  To which He replied, “No one has greater love than he who lays his life down for his friends”.  This is the love of the Good Shepherd that will be vital in the time to come.  The love of a mother and father that will lay their life down for their own.  Do we not have rebellious children in the natural?  Do we not love those who have not received Him as their Messiah within our households? 

John 3: 16 – 17

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

As I mentioned before, there will be lambs and sheep.  The lambs being the newly born and the sheep who have had a relationship with the Good Shepherd that we will have to feed.  In the natural there will be babies and young children and there will be grown men and woman.  The shepherds sent out for this time, will come for the lost and those that were left-behind as the Luke warm Church.  In scripture prophetically, the book of Luke refers to the Bride of Christ, Mark refers to the left-behind Church and Matthew to Judah.  It is from the company of Luke that He will send out His missionaries, those who will assist with Christ, of which Paul is also a type and shadow.  Luke was not one of the original 12 Apostles, a Gentile and a physician, accompanying Paul on his missionary journeys.  A dear friend of mine brought this to my attention that being a physician holds hands with the midwives being sent out.  He was one of the 70 sent out by Yeshua and also significant is that he wrote the book of Acts, which is the type and shadow of the time we are to enter in very soon.  Luke died as a martyr, reportedly hanging from an Olive tree…the wild olive being grafted into the Olive Tree of God.

I do not suppose that when it was time for the Apostles to lay their lives down that they struggled.  I suspect that just like Yeshua, they had a Gethsemané moment where the decision was made before the act.  That they, just like Him, even though knowing all His life that He would die on the cross, was still confronted in Gethsemané with a choice.  To drink the cup of suffering.  If He in that moment endured such agony in the garden, who are we take this choice lightly.  The Apostles all died as martyrs except John.  They laid their lives down remembering the precious words of Yeshua.

John 12: 23 - 26

²³ And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.

²⁴ Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

²⁵ He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

²⁶ If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

Why did Yeshua die?  To bring forth much fruit, which is to say, souls.  To bring many sons and daughters unto the Father.  For this very reason the Apostles laid their lives down too.  For love is the fulfillment of the law.  Not only that we love the Lord God with all our heart, mind and strength, but also that we love our neighbor as ourselves.  This is exactly what Yeshua did here on earth.  He came to fulfill the law by how He lived in loving the Father and by how He died for the lost.  I am reminded that the same words spoken in verse 23 was also spoken by Yeshua the moment Judas got up from the table to betray Him the night they shared the Passover meal. I might add here too that this was after He washed their feet and served them. 

John 13: 30 - 32

³⁰ He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.

³¹ Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.

³² If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.

In both these examples, His death is His glorification and in His death, the Father is glorified.  Why would the Father be glorified in His own Son’s death?  Because it brings us right back to John 3: 16.  The expression of His love is the death of His Son.  Just like He sent the Good Shepherd, He will send His shepherds in this end time.  Just like He sent His Son, so He will send His sons and daughters.  Paul says in Hebrews of Yeshua…

Hebrews 1: 3

³ Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:

When you read this scripture carefully, the verse is saying that Yeshua is the brightness of the Most High’s glory and the express image of His person, WHEN he had by himself purged our sins…

In Romans 8 we read that the whole of creation is groaning and waiting in anticipation of the manifestation of the Sons and Daughters of the Most High.  I now realize that as His Sons and Daughters to be the manifestation of His glory is not just the removal of this flesh, but in actual fact, just like the Patterned Son, the laying down of our lives, thereby showing the world the love of the Father, which is His glory and the express image of His person.  For God is love.  This is also why Paul ends Romans 8 with the following words…

Romans 8: 35 – 39

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

³⁶ As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

³⁷ Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

As I was talking over the calling Father showed me for this time, I had a very real fear, knowing my weakness and frailty, that I may disappoint Him.  I realized that He was giving me the responsibility to mother children that will have gone through some terrible things and times, and that my daughter has been His provision for me in this time to prepare me.  My prayer was, “Lord, what if in my weakness when pushed too far, I hurt them with a quick answer, or biting retort? What if I fail you Father!  I do not want to bring you chipped or scratched gemstones!”  His words to me was, “It is not your ability you need to look at, but rather it is about your ability to yield to Me to love them through you.”  To this I replied, “But Father, what if I fail you in that too?”  And He ever so gently said, “I am able to keep you in all things.”  At this Father led me to Psalm 23.  Our beloved Psalm that so adequately describes how He looks after His sheep.  How He has looked after me in all my life.  Every single verse a testimony of how He looks after us.  He impressed it upon my heart that this is still how He will keep His Sons and Daughters as He has always done.  But even more so He impressed upon my heart that so am I as the shepherd of the lambs to do for those He will give me.  Every single verse applies to how we as the sent shepherds are to feed the lambs or sheep as He told Peter in John 21.  Peter, do you love Me?  Then feed My sheep.  I am reminded that love is not a feeling only.  It is an act and the greatest expression of love is to lay your life down. 

I would like to read a quote from Amy Carmichael's authobiography.  She was a missionary in India who saved a thousand children sold as temple prostitutes to the Hindu gods.  Father gave her a word in a time of prayer when she was crying out for wisdom to Him as to how to look after these precious lambs.

"These children are dear to Me.  Be a mother to them, and more than a mother.  Watch over them tenderly, be just and kind.  If thy heart is not large enough to embrace them, I will enlarge it after the pattern of My own.  If these young children are docile and obedient, bless Me for it, if they are froward, call upon Me for help; if they weary thee, I will be thy consolation; if thou sink under thy burden, I will be thy Reward."

These words are followed in her book by a picture that she painted of the Shepherd, reaching for a lamb while a vulture hovers overhead.

This makes also complete sense why Peter had the following to say to the elders, which were the shepherds of the church in his epistles.

 1 Peter 5: 1 - 4

¹The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

² Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

³ Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock.

⁴ And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

 

At that I want to encourage you all that many of you have older children and family members that are not ready for His return.  You have prayed many years now and have cried so much before Him for their salvation.  Yes, they do have a choice and will be held accountable.  But He will not abandon them. He is sending His shepherds, His Sons and Daughters as an answer to your prayers.  

Psalm 126: 5 - 6

⁵ They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

⁶ He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Father showed me when I prayed for my daughter that these tears that are in the shape of seed, are actually seed that are sown and there will be a great harvest.  He says that our walls are continually before Him.  As watchman of our homes we have stood upon the family walls of our lives and we have not only cried out to them that the time is at hand, but we have cried out to Him for their salvation.  He is about to send out His shepherds, His midwives, His Sons and Daughters for a world that is lost and that has forsaken Him.  Once again the Father will be glorified, not only in the life they live, not only in the death they will die, but in bringing many sons and daughters home.  This life on earth has been all preparation to bring His beloved children back home.  I suspect that not only will mothers and fathers be sent out in this time, but also those who are of lesser maturity in the spirit with regard to their growth.  These too will be sent out as they in their willingness to abandon all have had not reached yet that point in the process of sanctification, but will lay their lives down in service to the Most High.  He knows the desire of those who long to go out and be sent.  I believe John is addressing these various states of maturity.

1 John 2: 13 - 14

¹³ I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

¹⁴ I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

Genesis 33 is a type and shadow of the end of the age where Jacob returns to his homeland meeting Esau halfway.  We read the following…

 Genesis 33: 1 - 2

1And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

² And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

⁵ And Esau lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.

⁶ Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.

⁷ And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

⁸ And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.

In Isaiah 49 we read of how He comforts Israel with the knowledge that He will look after her children.

Isaiah 49: 13 – 23

¹³ Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.

¹⁴ But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

¹⁵ Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

¹⁶ Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

¹⁷ Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

¹⁸ Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.

¹⁹ For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

²⁰ The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

²¹ Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? And who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

²² Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

²³ And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

And then in Isaiah 61 we once again here the purpose of this call and the baptism of His Spirit again on those He will send out in this time, just as in the days of the Apostles in the book of Acts. Just like He poured out His Spirit on His Son to Sheperd His flock and to also die for them, so once again He will pour His Spirit on His Sons and Daughters again. 

Isaiah 61

¹The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

² To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

³ To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

⁴ And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

⁵ And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

⁶ But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

⁷ For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

⁸ For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

⁹ And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.

¹⁰ I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

¹¹ For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.