Enemy at the Gate
The following I was made to understand according to Rhema word of Lamentations 4:
The Bride of the Lord can spiritually be seen, understood and comprehended as a great city, even greater in scope and magnitude than Jerusalem. The city of God being the Bride is but the spiritual Jerusalem and can therefore in the spiritual eye be seen as a city - but not just a city but one that is fortified, one that is a fortress, one that is defended, barricaded and one that impossible to destroy. This is the city build by Jesus in three days. This is the city build by God and not by man. This must not be confused with an apostate image or representation of so much today that we deem to be the city of God or the spiritual Jerusalem. There is but one spiritual Bride and thus one spiritual city.
So, this I was made to understand and realise: At the time of Jesus and the time of the first disciples and apostles, this spiritual city to whom its only covenant was with its rightful king the Lord YHVH Himself, it was this city that grew and flourished. It grew in the Spirit and its people lived by the fear, love and faith in its Master and the ruler of the throne. Outside the walls for 300 years the Watchers (the forces of darkness), be it the earthly or heavenly bound demonic hosts, observed how to enter the city of the Lord. For this city boasts impressive walls and an impressive gate and impressive turrets. Watchmen of valor and fortitude (the apostle and prophets) stood watch on the walls, at the gate, in the city and in the hills for the movement of the enemy. Here in the city the sons and daughters of Zion walked with a golden anointing, full of the Lord and full of truth. The Watchers saw no entry into the city, yet in the night they waited, planning and scheming. Yet the spiritual Law was kept, the Covenant maintained, the House of the King attended and the truth kept all things dark outside the walls.
Then a day came in history when the enemy realised it cannot destroy the watchmen of the city. They cannot charge the walls and break down the gate. Force will not do. Deception was the strategy. So they chose to deceive the watchmen so that they will let the enemy into the gates. It was deception of skill of a most subtle and yet brutal way. It was the deception of 330AD. It was the deception of allowing paganism and Christianity to merge - the time of Constantine. Church and State merged. Church and the World merged. The lines faded. The watchmen of city fell for a disguised lie that looked like a truth. The Watchers never stormed the city - they were allowed in, legally and with permission. They were invited in, just as the Bride invites deception today for she knows not the truth anymore for the true watchmen have for too long been absent.
Once the enemy was inside the gate, the great deception began when the watchmen who so stood for right and wrong, who guarded all that was not from the Lord, was turned to believe lies and the deception. A 1000 years passed, and in that time the enemy settled in the city until the true watchmen disappeared and the elders no longer sat at the gates. The spiritual Law was discarded and the King was no longer feared and loved. But a time came when the Lord raised up watchmen again, like Martin Luther, who lifted their voices along the walls and in the city against the enemy within the gates. But these watchmen were gone again and the city fell into ruins.
So the deception continued … philosophers, scientists, humanists, theologians - men who arose in the church and men who deceived and lied. So the truth was even more blurred and the enemy now looked like friend.
Today, the spiritual Jerusalem is a city divided. Within its massive walls and vast boundaries, are thousands of factions, each following its own agenda and so many moving it great deception. Factions have built their own little kingdoms within the walls, preferring their own rules and regulations. The true watchmen have longed been quite, for so many are blind to see the enemy within and many are mute to speak against the dangers. Loyalty has been sworn to the leaders of factions and no longer the king. The city is divided and no longer poses a threat. Division is rampant. The army is in disarray. There is a struggle for power yet the King is the one to whom all power belong!
Look around, where is the watchmen to cry against all things unholy and untruthful here in the city? Where are the guardians at the city gates? Where are they in the city? Have they all sold out, seeking what the world offers?
So, here in the city, once so strong in the fear of the Lord, is build altars to foreign gods, idolatry is rife, the spiritual law discarded and every kind of wickedness allowed through the front gates because there is no longer the watchmen to guard against the enemy. No longer is there discernment between right and wrong, between sin and righteousness, for the enemy has sowed its deception for 1700 years.
So, there has been famine. There has been spiritual famine because the flock of the city has not been fed with the true Word of the Lord. The King has for a long time not resided in the city. The spirit has for a long time not been allowed to move as it should. People are starving, spiritually, for they have been fed dirty water and poisonous food. Spiritual children have died, not attended or cared for by their spiritual mothers. Spiritual fathers have neglected their duty, seeking their fame and glory. There has been physical famine, for the deception within the hearts of men has not allowed for the true free flow of blessing. Yeah, this city so rich in beauty is now but a city of dust where its splendor has dimmed.
There has been the sword - the sword from outside yet the sword from the inside. There has been outside persecutions against the Bride but nothing like the sword wielded by the factions inside the city against her own people. There has been a sword and there have been spiritual and physical deaths. There have been the Crusades and Inquisitions and religious wars. There has been spiritual murder, spiritual abortions and spiritual theft of life. Within the city the blood of the righteous runs freely and the city is defiled. Thus is this city. Defiled and broken. Truth discarded and a stench in the nostrils of the Lord. The very guardians have defiled his city -to whom He has the responsibility to guard and to keep.
Yet the House of the Lord in the city has been abandoned - the stones of the temple lie in the street. Gold has been stolen from the temple to fund own kingdoms. His house lies ruined. More and more factions abound, so does iniquity. The city has continued to trade with the outside world, allowing freely the enemy to enter and to cause greater disunity and chaos. So many spiritual blind and deaf, never perceiving or comprehending. Oh spiritual Jerusalem, fornication and adultery with this world and the spirits of darkness have left yeah naked, cold and barren of life.
This was the state of Jerusalem according to Lamentation 4. This is now our state.
So the King is once again, in the last days, raising up the true watchmen, thus bringing back true apostles and prophets, for again the Law and the Covenant will be restored. The King will bring fire and the sword against everything in the city that is not from Him. For this is His city, His Bride so all things unholy and unrighteous will be driven from the gates. Fire will cleanse the streets. Fire will destroy altars. Th Sword will yield and bring every unholy ruler to its knees. Babylon was once that sword. But the King Himself is now that sword and fire. He demands holiness.
So we have to pray for watchmen, those who will fearlessly discern the enemy and its working and by the power of the Sprit destroy it. We need men of valor who will cleanse the city and atone for all its sin. We need women of virtue to lead many backs to the heart of the Lord and to atone for the social injustices and diseases. For His city will again be cleansed and those who seek not the King will be thrown outside. For His temple shall alone stand exalted in the city. For He alone will be worshipped.
Glory belongs to the King. He alone will bring back unity and His presence and His Spirit.
Lord, bring back elders with the law in their hearts back to the city gates. Let the prophets again stand on the walls and walk the city inside. May they be stationed in the hills. Lord, restore all, for you come for a Holy Bride.
The Lord cries where are my watchmen? They have fallen asleep, and have shrunk back in terror. Don again the armour, raise the banner of the king and let all that is not from the Lord flee before His might.
As I sought th Lord's guidance on the deafness and the blindness of the Bride, the Lord gave me Isaiah 55. For yeah, the Lord will do this - He will open the eyes and the ears of those who seek Him. For those who seek Him, there will be the blessing, the power, the healing and the strength. For those who seek Him there will be life and there will be hope and restoration. And just as there will be Highway of Holiness where only the clean wander and where there is safety, so there is the city of Holiness, where the Lord reigns. It is the city of Zion, a spiritual city of purity and strength where at the coming of the Lord no thing defiled will be allowed to live in its midst. For understand, the entrance gate to the city is for the righteous and above all, for the King. For who is this King of glory who shall enter? He is the King, mighty and true. He is the Lord, graceful and powerful. For the gate shall again be kept holy and guarded and the highway to the gate shall be cleansed and be made holy.
And then the Lord gave me Isaiah 56, 57, 58 and 59. My dear warriors, read this in the Spirit and understand this to be the very word of the Lord for now and forever. For in these chapters He dealt with Israel's iniquity, its sin and here we find the Lord's approach to the righteous and to the covenant. All that we face now until the end lies in these chapters. For the Lord will no longer tolerate our iniquity and how we have opened the once holy gate t o the world of sin and paganism. Yes, there is for now a time of grace but that time comes to an end. Isaiah talks about true fasting and as I prayed the Lord again placed upon my heart the need for the people o consecrate a fast and to end their iniquity. But we find how Isaiah describes the true fasting which is ultimately the end of iniquity and the beginning of righteousness! But Isaiah 59 is the clear message that the Lord will raise up a Bride true to Him. He will do this. Yet we have a choice. To join Him or not.
For the Lord cries where are my watchmen? For those who have been given the understanding and vision to "see", these are the days of far grater discernment. Watchmen can no longer slumber for the night is upon us. If we slumber then the blood of the righteous rests on our hands.
For there is something that has been stirring in my spirit for some time that is frightfully to comprehend. The Lord said to Daniel in Daniel 9:24-27 that a time has been decreed for Israel to end her iniquity and to bring to end certain spiritual matters. In my spirit thus the Lord says this to the Bride: A time of ending of all things has been decreed. The Lord has given a certain time for the Bride to end her transgressions, her iniquity and her idolatry and adultery. There is a time and the clock is ticking. Now is the time of grace, just as Israel was given a chance of grace. There is yet so much defilement, yet the Lord is coming. The time is nearing. Watchmen, arise and ARISE FROM THOUGH SLUMBER!
I cannot reiterate enough the importance of the return to the covenant for there lies the truth and life and restoration. Shall I remind the Bride again that the antichrist or whatever power comes for the sole purpos of violating God's covenant and making a new covenant with man? Look around watchmen. Within the Bride we have signed new covenant. In this world we sign new covenants. New allegiances and new treaties. Who do we serve and with whom is our only covenant? Man or God? The enemy within or the King of the city?
AS I finished writing this on Tuesday early evening, it was placed on my heart to again read Rick Joyner's The Call, something that I had not read it many a year. So I did it quick. And amazingly, everything the Lord is now showing and dealing with Rick wrote in his book some nine years ago. Rick saw this city I have described but the completed city! He saw the army of the Lord yet to be rebuild, and this many of us have seen. He has seen the completed Bride, which we all so yearn. The Lord is speaking about the same things over and over: He is raising up the Gideon army; He is going to get this broken city right and He is preparing His bride. And those who wish to be part of this process will walk in awesome power and anointing like never before. Yet we have to walk in love, true humility and fear of the Lord.
We have to pray for the Spirit's conviction to get the Bride, the army and the city ready.
What Rick also wrote is so true: the master builders of the city are the generals of the army to be restored. We need true leaders and true women and men of faith. We need to build in wisdom and love.
And then the Lord took me to Jonah and his ministry. Such men God will again raise up who preaches and there is repentance. But look: When he preached in the great city of Nineveh a time was decreed for them to end their iniquity! And then they consecrated a fast! And they wept and mourned and repented!
Now, hear the word of the Lord: If He had so much compassion on a fallen city by sending one great man of faith, how much more will He not sent conviction and men of faith to bring His Bride to a point of repentance! For indeed, this is His Bride that He loves so the grace and mercy is now here. The Lord wanted to save hundreds of thousands in Nineveh. How much more doesn’t He want to save as the Bride?
Indeed, the enemy knows the Lord as the Lord of Hosts and the Bride will know Him so as well and soon. Yet now, now there is still the time that He calls to His Bride as the Lamb of Judah and the Prince of Peace and the Everlasting Counselor. He calls for His Bride to come home.
The Bride of the Lord can spiritually be seen, understood and comprehended as a great city, even greater in scope and magnitude than Jerusalem. The city of God being the Bride is but the spiritual Jerusalem and can therefore in the spiritual eye be seen as a city - but not just a city but one that is fortified, one that is a fortress, one that is defended, barricaded and one that impossible to destroy. This is the city build by Jesus in three days. This is the city build by God and not by man. This must not be confused with an apostate image or representation of so much today that we deem to be the city of God or the spiritual Jerusalem. There is but one spiritual Bride and thus one spiritual city.
So, this I was made to understand and realise: At the time of Jesus and the time of the first disciples and apostles, this spiritual city to whom its only covenant was with its rightful king the Lord YHVH Himself, it was this city that grew and flourished. It grew in the Spirit and its people lived by the fear, love and faith in its Master and the ruler of the throne. Outside the walls for 300 years the Watchers (the forces of darkness), be it the earthly or heavenly bound demonic hosts, observed how to enter the city of the Lord. For this city boasts impressive walls and an impressive gate and impressive turrets. Watchmen of valor and fortitude (the apostle and prophets) stood watch on the walls, at the gate, in the city and in the hills for the movement of the enemy. Here in the city the sons and daughters of Zion walked with a golden anointing, full of the Lord and full of truth. The Watchers saw no entry into the city, yet in the night they waited, planning and scheming. Yet the spiritual Law was kept, the Covenant maintained, the House of the King attended and the truth kept all things dark outside the walls.
Then a day came in history when the enemy realised it cannot destroy the watchmen of the city. They cannot charge the walls and break down the gate. Force will not do. Deception was the strategy. So they chose to deceive the watchmen so that they will let the enemy into the gates. It was deception of skill of a most subtle and yet brutal way. It was the deception of 330AD. It was the deception of allowing paganism and Christianity to merge - the time of Constantine. Church and State merged. Church and the World merged. The lines faded. The watchmen of city fell for a disguised lie that looked like a truth. The Watchers never stormed the city - they were allowed in, legally and with permission. They were invited in, just as the Bride invites deception today for she knows not the truth anymore for the true watchmen have for too long been absent.
Once the enemy was inside the gate, the great deception began when the watchmen who so stood for right and wrong, who guarded all that was not from the Lord, was turned to believe lies and the deception. A 1000 years passed, and in that time the enemy settled in the city until the true watchmen disappeared and the elders no longer sat at the gates. The spiritual Law was discarded and the King was no longer feared and loved. But a time came when the Lord raised up watchmen again, like Martin Luther, who lifted their voices along the walls and in the city against the enemy within the gates. But these watchmen were gone again and the city fell into ruins.
So the deception continued … philosophers, scientists, humanists, theologians - men who arose in the church and men who deceived and lied. So the truth was even more blurred and the enemy now looked like friend.
Today, the spiritual Jerusalem is a city divided. Within its massive walls and vast boundaries, are thousands of factions, each following its own agenda and so many moving it great deception. Factions have built their own little kingdoms within the walls, preferring their own rules and regulations. The true watchmen have longed been quite, for so many are blind to see the enemy within and many are mute to speak against the dangers. Loyalty has been sworn to the leaders of factions and no longer the king. The city is divided and no longer poses a threat. Division is rampant. The army is in disarray. There is a struggle for power yet the King is the one to whom all power belong!
Look around, where is the watchmen to cry against all things unholy and untruthful here in the city? Where are the guardians at the city gates? Where are they in the city? Have they all sold out, seeking what the world offers?
So, here in the city, once so strong in the fear of the Lord, is build altars to foreign gods, idolatry is rife, the spiritual law discarded and every kind of wickedness allowed through the front gates because there is no longer the watchmen to guard against the enemy. No longer is there discernment between right and wrong, between sin and righteousness, for the enemy has sowed its deception for 1700 years.
So, there has been famine. There has been spiritual famine because the flock of the city has not been fed with the true Word of the Lord. The King has for a long time not resided in the city. The spirit has for a long time not been allowed to move as it should. People are starving, spiritually, for they have been fed dirty water and poisonous food. Spiritual children have died, not attended or cared for by their spiritual mothers. Spiritual fathers have neglected their duty, seeking their fame and glory. There has been physical famine, for the deception within the hearts of men has not allowed for the true free flow of blessing. Yeah, this city so rich in beauty is now but a city of dust where its splendor has dimmed.
There has been the sword - the sword from outside yet the sword from the inside. There has been outside persecutions against the Bride but nothing like the sword wielded by the factions inside the city against her own people. There has been a sword and there have been spiritual and physical deaths. There have been the Crusades and Inquisitions and religious wars. There has been spiritual murder, spiritual abortions and spiritual theft of life. Within the city the blood of the righteous runs freely and the city is defiled. Thus is this city. Defiled and broken. Truth discarded and a stench in the nostrils of the Lord. The very guardians have defiled his city -to whom He has the responsibility to guard and to keep.
Yet the House of the Lord in the city has been abandoned - the stones of the temple lie in the street. Gold has been stolen from the temple to fund own kingdoms. His house lies ruined. More and more factions abound, so does iniquity. The city has continued to trade with the outside world, allowing freely the enemy to enter and to cause greater disunity and chaos. So many spiritual blind and deaf, never perceiving or comprehending. Oh spiritual Jerusalem, fornication and adultery with this world and the spirits of darkness have left yeah naked, cold and barren of life.
This was the state of Jerusalem according to Lamentation 4. This is now our state.
So the King is once again, in the last days, raising up the true watchmen, thus bringing back true apostles and prophets, for again the Law and the Covenant will be restored. The King will bring fire and the sword against everything in the city that is not from Him. For this is His city, His Bride so all things unholy and unrighteous will be driven from the gates. Fire will cleanse the streets. Fire will destroy altars. Th Sword will yield and bring every unholy ruler to its knees. Babylon was once that sword. But the King Himself is now that sword and fire. He demands holiness.
So we have to pray for watchmen, those who will fearlessly discern the enemy and its working and by the power of the Sprit destroy it. We need men of valor who will cleanse the city and atone for all its sin. We need women of virtue to lead many backs to the heart of the Lord and to atone for the social injustices and diseases. For His city will again be cleansed and those who seek not the King will be thrown outside. For His temple shall alone stand exalted in the city. For He alone will be worshipped.
Glory belongs to the King. He alone will bring back unity and His presence and His Spirit.
Lord, bring back elders with the law in their hearts back to the city gates. Let the prophets again stand on the walls and walk the city inside. May they be stationed in the hills. Lord, restore all, for you come for a Holy Bride.
The Lord cries where are my watchmen? They have fallen asleep, and have shrunk back in terror. Don again the armour, raise the banner of the king and let all that is not from the Lord flee before His might.
As I sought th Lord's guidance on the deafness and the blindness of the Bride, the Lord gave me Isaiah 55. For yeah, the Lord will do this - He will open the eyes and the ears of those who seek Him. For those who seek Him, there will be the blessing, the power, the healing and the strength. For those who seek Him there will be life and there will be hope and restoration. And just as there will be Highway of Holiness where only the clean wander and where there is safety, so there is the city of Holiness, where the Lord reigns. It is the city of Zion, a spiritual city of purity and strength where at the coming of the Lord no thing defiled will be allowed to live in its midst. For understand, the entrance gate to the city is for the righteous and above all, for the King. For who is this King of glory who shall enter? He is the King, mighty and true. He is the Lord, graceful and powerful. For the gate shall again be kept holy and guarded and the highway to the gate shall be cleansed and be made holy.
And then the Lord gave me Isaiah 56, 57, 58 and 59. My dear warriors, read this in the Spirit and understand this to be the very word of the Lord for now and forever. For in these chapters He dealt with Israel's iniquity, its sin and here we find the Lord's approach to the righteous and to the covenant. All that we face now until the end lies in these chapters. For the Lord will no longer tolerate our iniquity and how we have opened the once holy gate t o the world of sin and paganism. Yes, there is for now a time of grace but that time comes to an end. Isaiah talks about true fasting and as I prayed the Lord again placed upon my heart the need for the people o consecrate a fast and to end their iniquity. But we find how Isaiah describes the true fasting which is ultimately the end of iniquity and the beginning of righteousness! But Isaiah 59 is the clear message that the Lord will raise up a Bride true to Him. He will do this. Yet we have a choice. To join Him or not.
For the Lord cries where are my watchmen? For those who have been given the understanding and vision to "see", these are the days of far grater discernment. Watchmen can no longer slumber for the night is upon us. If we slumber then the blood of the righteous rests on our hands.
For there is something that has been stirring in my spirit for some time that is frightfully to comprehend. The Lord said to Daniel in Daniel 9:24-27 that a time has been decreed for Israel to end her iniquity and to bring to end certain spiritual matters. In my spirit thus the Lord says this to the Bride: A time of ending of all things has been decreed. The Lord has given a certain time for the Bride to end her transgressions, her iniquity and her idolatry and adultery. There is a time and the clock is ticking. Now is the time of grace, just as Israel was given a chance of grace. There is yet so much defilement, yet the Lord is coming. The time is nearing. Watchmen, arise and ARISE FROM THOUGH SLUMBER!
I cannot reiterate enough the importance of the return to the covenant for there lies the truth and life and restoration. Shall I remind the Bride again that the antichrist or whatever power comes for the sole purpos of violating God's covenant and making a new covenant with man? Look around watchmen. Within the Bride we have signed new covenant. In this world we sign new covenants. New allegiances and new treaties. Who do we serve and with whom is our only covenant? Man or God? The enemy within or the King of the city?
AS I finished writing this on Tuesday early evening, it was placed on my heart to again read Rick Joyner's The Call, something that I had not read it many a year. So I did it quick. And amazingly, everything the Lord is now showing and dealing with Rick wrote in his book some nine years ago. Rick saw this city I have described but the completed city! He saw the army of the Lord yet to be rebuild, and this many of us have seen. He has seen the completed Bride, which we all so yearn. The Lord is speaking about the same things over and over: He is raising up the Gideon army; He is going to get this broken city right and He is preparing His bride. And those who wish to be part of this process will walk in awesome power and anointing like never before. Yet we have to walk in love, true humility and fear of the Lord.
We have to pray for the Spirit's conviction to get the Bride, the army and the city ready.
What Rick also wrote is so true: the master builders of the city are the generals of the army to be restored. We need true leaders and true women and men of faith. We need to build in wisdom and love.
And then the Lord took me to Jonah and his ministry. Such men God will again raise up who preaches and there is repentance. But look: When he preached in the great city of Nineveh a time was decreed for them to end their iniquity! And then they consecrated a fast! And they wept and mourned and repented!
Now, hear the word of the Lord: If He had so much compassion on a fallen city by sending one great man of faith, how much more will He not sent conviction and men of faith to bring His Bride to a point of repentance! For indeed, this is His Bride that He loves so the grace and mercy is now here. The Lord wanted to save hundreds of thousands in Nineveh. How much more doesn’t He want to save as the Bride?
Indeed, the enemy knows the Lord as the Lord of Hosts and the Bride will know Him so as well and soon. Yet now, now there is still the time that He calls to His Bride as the Lamb of Judah and the Prince of Peace and the Everlasting Counselor. He calls for His Bride to come home.
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