The 10 Bridesmaids – Part 4
I mentioned a couple of days ago that being “ready” is the main theme of Jesus’ description to His disciples of the events surrounding His return. Every time Jesus described His return, He described very intense events and then admonished His disciples to “be ready,” “watch,” and/or “pray.” The disciples completely understood that a significant “response” was necessary. They actually believed that all these events were happening during their lifetimes…which they were. They witnessed the "conception" of the “baby” that would be "delivered" through the events of Revelation.
The disciples cast aside normal life, and went after obeying Jesus’ instruction with everything they had. In John 21, we see the disciples attempt to go back to fishing, and then they encounter Jesus on the shore. Through this encounter Peter is restored, and the next thing we know, Peter and the others are in the upper room in a 24-hour prayer meeting. Peter left normal life to do night and day prayer. They still had to eat and live life, but this is what their lives were now about…keeping the fire on the altar until power came from on high.
Acts 1:13-14 And when they had entered, they went up into the upper room where they were staying: Peter, James, John, and Andrew; Philip and Thomas; Bartholomew and Matthew; James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot; and Judas the son of James. (14) These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
A week later, the Holy Spirit fell right where they were praying night and day:
Acts 2:1-2 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. (2) And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
The disciples understood the House of Prayer…24-hour prayer to music…. and believed in it much more than the modern church does. God is supernaturally raising up night and day prayer all over the world right now. This is the clearest sign that Jesus is about to return. We hear it and see it, and it sounds like a new thing…this is only because our shepherds fell asleep and stopped teaching “all-in” dying to yourself as a NECESSARY component of following Jesus. What sounds like radical Christianity in our day is really the only valid type of Christianity there is:
Mark 10:20-21 And he answered and said to Him, "Teacher, all these things I have kept from my youth." (21) Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me."
Giving most of your time, most of your money, and most of your obedience is not enough. Jesus wants it all. You are not supposed to do the “church” when it fits into your life! You are supposed to trade life the way everyone else does it for a “radical” rebirth. Jesus and the disciples clearly understood the context for this to practically play out in life is a commitment to night and day prayer and worship. This is what the temple was all about. The temple was open 24 hours a day, even in Jesus’ time:
Luke 2:36-37 Now there was one, Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity; (37) and this woman was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
When the disciples started following Jesus, they did NOT stop worshiping in the Temple. It was understood to be a part…actually one of the most important parts…of following Jesus. This was David’s Tabernacle in a permanent location. God has never stopped caring about David’s Tabernacle. In fact, Jesus got very upset at the corruption of David’s Tabernacle. He worked to cleanse the temple…He never quit the idea of night and day prayer:
Matthew 21:12-16 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. (13) And He said to them, "It is written, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER,' but you have made it a 'DEN OF THIEVES.'" (14) Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them. (15) But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant (16) and said to Him, "Do You hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes. Have you never read, 'OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES AND NURSING INFANTS YOU HAVE PERFECTED PRAISE'?"
Jesus didn’t want to replace the earthly Temple, He wanted to purify it. The night and day prayer is supposed to be the center of the Church in every geographic location. This has always been the case. The expression of desire in the 24-hour house of prayer is supposed to release faith for restoration of the land surrounding it. Healing happened IN THE TEMPLE in this passage. Children were singing perfect praise to Jesus IN THE TEMPLE.
This is actually the formula God has established for being ready for Jesus’ return: rebuilding the Tabernacle of David…24 hour prayer to music… and then the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in response to the commitment of the local people to keeping night and day prayer going. This is what happened when David started the tabernacle, when Jesus was in the temple, when the disciples created a new Tabernacle location in the upper room, and in the Churches the disciples started throughout the middle east. There is a reason that Jesus is going to sit on “David’s Throne.”
Isaiah 9:6-7 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. (7) Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
God REALLY likes David’s Tabernacle! All of the disciples understood this, even Paul, who wasn’t in the upper room, but came into His understanding later, by direct revelation from Jesus:
Galatians 1:11-12 But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. (12) For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Paul completely understood that an all-in response, that included night and day prayer, was what Jesus was looking for to usher in His return. If no one has ever taught you this, it is easy to miss. But, once you know what to look for, you cannot unsee it.
1 Thessalonians 2:9 For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for laboring NIGHT AND DAY, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
1 Timothy 5:4-5 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God. (5) Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers NIGHT AND DAY. (This is not hyperbole. Here Paul is saying that a widow has more time on her hands and can more easily pray night AND day…this is practical)
2 Timothy 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers NIGHT AND DAY, (night and day prayer was a given in these days)
Rebuilding David’s Tabernacle…24-hour prayer to music…in every geographic location the Church occupies IS Jesus’ end time plan for His Bride. This is actually the only plan there is. Many people are going to miss it, because they are unwilling to simply search out the scriptures and believe what the Word says. This concept is one of the most clear doctrines in the Bible. There are over 150 Chapters in the Bible that primarily describe this dynamic. If you haven’t heard this before, you really want to search it out for yourself. If you want to “be ready,” or get your family ready, for the intense events surrounding Jesus’ near return, get yourself connected to night and day prayer in your city. It is that simple. It is so simple anyone can do it, and so simple few will.
There is a very practical reason that rebuilding 24-hour prayer in your city IS what makes you ready to endure the persecution…the tribulation…that is coming to the whole earth. Rebuilding 24-hour prayer in a Biblical way requires great commitment…by design. This is God’s plan to disconnect you from earthly strength and comfort, and connect you to greater delight in the outpouring of His Spirit. It is supposed to be a “one thing” lifestyle. This is what will protect you in the time of trouble.
Psalms 27:4-5 One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple. (5) For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.
If you REALLY say yes to building David’s Tabernacle in your town, it should consume MUCH of your life. If you really do it, it requires time, money, forgoing earthly distractions…permissible earthly distractions. To keep the “fire on the altar” is SUPPOSED to be a regular life killer, but in return you get greater depths of supernatural life. To get resurrected, you gotta die first. Jesus is MOSTLY interested in you dying to yourself as soon as possible.
This is why: antichrist is going to hold all of the things you have to give up to build night and day prayer as bargaining chips against you.
There is a man coming who is going to promise to remake the world equitably. He is going to promise to redistribute resources equally. He is going to promise to make peace. In exchange, he is going to require much of your freedom. Antichrist is going to empty your bank accounts unless you take his new global currency:
Revelation 13:16-17 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, (17) and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Antichrist is going to monitor you and threaten to kill you if you don’t worship him and his statue:
Revelation 13:15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
Work won’t be an option for you, entertainment won’t be an option for you, vacations won’t be an option for you, grocery stores won’t be an option for you, unless you give in to antichrist’s system. This will create intense pressure on those who hold out from accepting the antichrists global socialistic system. Families will actually try to rescue children from the crazy Christians who won’t submit to the new global system and instead are trusting in Jesus’ name to cause manna to fall from the sky.
People who speak out against the antichrists wonderful plan will be labeled “terrorists.” Anyone who tries to resist antichrist will be persecuted. BUT, you are REQUIRED to resist him, according to the Bible. If you accept the antichrist system, and the mark that comes with it, you are rejecting Jesus and you cannot be saved:
Revelation 14:9-12 Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, (10) he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. (11) And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name." (12) Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
The Bible says that this dynamic calls for great patience…endurance…on the part of believers. Many believers will not be ready for this intense season. They will not have “filled their lamps” with the oil of doing the Sermon on the Mount (I talked about this yesterday), and they will not have deep roots to withstand the storm. Pressure will come. What Jesus allows to touch the earth will cause offense to those not ready. It will be illegal to be a resistor, just like in Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany, and Christians will betray other Christians to save their own skin. Rather than hold out for invisible Jesus, they will give in to the man-based plan out of fear. Many Christian teachers will agree with the antichrist to save their own skin and enhance their own prominence and position. This is exactly what Jesus warned about:
Matthew 24:9-13 "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake. (10) And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. (11) Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. (12) And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. (13) But he who endures to the end shall be saved.
This is the “great shaking” that has been promised throughout the Old Testament. God promised to never destroy the earth again with a water flood, but a “flood of wrath” is promised:
Daniel 9:26 "And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. (there is a break here in time while the Church….the 24-hour tabernacles of David are built…this has taken over 2,000 years….and then the end) The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.
There is a flood coming…a great storm. This IS the great shaking. We can see it all around us. The conditions are ripe for the flood. Just like Noah’s flood, anyone that wants to be ready can build an ark. The ark, according to the Bible, is the tabernacle of night and day prayer…for real. The antidote to all the trouble coming is to build 24-hour prayer:
Amos 9:9-12 "For I will give the command and will shake Israel along with the other nations (this is global) as grain is shaken in a sieve, yet not one true kernel will be lost (this is because they will be in an ark). (10) But all the sinners will die by the sword—all those who say, 'Nothing bad will happen to us.' (those who think nothing bad will happen will not prepare…these are the foolish bridesmaids)(11) "In that day I will restore the fallen house of David (24-hour prayer to music). I will repair its damaged walls. From the ruins I will rebuild it and restore its former glory (it will release the glory of transformation, just like David’s Tabernacle did). (12) And Israel will possess what is left of Edom and all the nations I have called to be Mine (will save every geographic location that does this). " The LORD has spoken, and He will do these things.
The rebuilding of the Tabernacle of David requires dying to yourself, if you really do it. It is one thing to come to the 24-hour house of prayer, and quite another to participate in building it. Building it REQUIRES a Sermon on the Mount lifestyle of giving all of your strength to it...by design. This is WHY it is the plan!
This is because Jesus wants you to die to every earthly comfort and strength. This is to protect you from manipulation by the antichrist through fear of loss. No one can kill you if you are already dead, and the commitment to 24-hour prayer…if you REALLY commit to it…is designed to help you die to yourself in advance. I could talk for days about this and how building the house of prayer connects to the unity of the Bride (the Sermon on the Mount is the necessary formula for unity), the establishment of Cities of Refuge that will not just endure the flood but will flourish through it, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit…the signs and wonders…the greater things…that will be poured out on the geographic regions that “say yes” to night and day prayer to music. That is for other days.
I’ll end with this simple statement by Jesus. If you are at all concerned with the direction the world is heading, the signs of trouble on the horizon, and what the Bible says about it, this is the answer clearly given by Jesus:
Luke 18:7-8 And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? (8) I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?"
Night and day prayer is supposed to be inconvenient and expensive, by design. It WILL cause division before the antichrist FORCES division. Many will not like the building of night and day prayer at first. That is ok! You are supposed to take a stand for it and tell the truth in love. This is the easiest time to stand for truth. It will only get harder as the days pass. This is what prepares you to endure the long dark night. The Tabernacle of David is the store for you to buy oil in advance, and becomes the very ark to save you and your family.
The disciples cast aside normal life, and went after obeying Jesus’ instruction with everything they had. In John 21, we see the disciples attempt to go back to fishing, and then they encounter Jesus on the shore. Through this encounter Peter is restored, and the next thing we know, Peter and the others are in the upper room in a 24-hour prayer meeting. Peter left normal life to do night and day prayer. They still had to eat and live life, but this is what their lives were now about…keeping the fire on the altar until power came from on high.
Acts 1:13-14 And when they had entered, they went up into the upper room where they were staying: Peter, James, John, and Andrew; Philip and Thomas; Bartholomew and Matthew; James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot; and Judas the son of James. (14) These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
A week later, the Holy Spirit fell right where they were praying night and day:
Acts 2:1-2 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. (2) And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
The disciples understood the House of Prayer…24-hour prayer to music…. and believed in it much more than the modern church does. God is supernaturally raising up night and day prayer all over the world right now. This is the clearest sign that Jesus is about to return. We hear it and see it, and it sounds like a new thing…this is only because our shepherds fell asleep and stopped teaching “all-in” dying to yourself as a NECESSARY component of following Jesus. What sounds like radical Christianity in our day is really the only valid type of Christianity there is:
Mark 10:20-21 And he answered and said to Him, "Teacher, all these things I have kept from my youth." (21) Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me."
Giving most of your time, most of your money, and most of your obedience is not enough. Jesus wants it all. You are not supposed to do the “church” when it fits into your life! You are supposed to trade life the way everyone else does it for a “radical” rebirth. Jesus and the disciples clearly understood the context for this to practically play out in life is a commitment to night and day prayer and worship. This is what the temple was all about. The temple was open 24 hours a day, even in Jesus’ time:
Luke 2:36-37 Now there was one, Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity; (37) and this woman was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
When the disciples started following Jesus, they did NOT stop worshiping in the Temple. It was understood to be a part…actually one of the most important parts…of following Jesus. This was David’s Tabernacle in a permanent location. God has never stopped caring about David’s Tabernacle. In fact, Jesus got very upset at the corruption of David’s Tabernacle. He worked to cleanse the temple…He never quit the idea of night and day prayer:
Matthew 21:12-16 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. (13) And He said to them, "It is written, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER,' but you have made it a 'DEN OF THIEVES.'" (14) Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them. (15) But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant (16) and said to Him, "Do You hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes. Have you never read, 'OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES AND NURSING INFANTS YOU HAVE PERFECTED PRAISE'?"
Jesus didn’t want to replace the earthly Temple, He wanted to purify it. The night and day prayer is supposed to be the center of the Church in every geographic location. This has always been the case. The expression of desire in the 24-hour house of prayer is supposed to release faith for restoration of the land surrounding it. Healing happened IN THE TEMPLE in this passage. Children were singing perfect praise to Jesus IN THE TEMPLE.
This is actually the formula God has established for being ready for Jesus’ return: rebuilding the Tabernacle of David…24 hour prayer to music… and then the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in response to the commitment of the local people to keeping night and day prayer going. This is what happened when David started the tabernacle, when Jesus was in the temple, when the disciples created a new Tabernacle location in the upper room, and in the Churches the disciples started throughout the middle east. There is a reason that Jesus is going to sit on “David’s Throne.”
Isaiah 9:6-7 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. (7) Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
God REALLY likes David’s Tabernacle! All of the disciples understood this, even Paul, who wasn’t in the upper room, but came into His understanding later, by direct revelation from Jesus:
Galatians 1:11-12 But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. (12) For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Paul completely understood that an all-in response, that included night and day prayer, was what Jesus was looking for to usher in His return. If no one has ever taught you this, it is easy to miss. But, once you know what to look for, you cannot unsee it.
1 Thessalonians 2:9 For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for laboring NIGHT AND DAY, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
1 Timothy 5:4-5 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God. (5) Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers NIGHT AND DAY. (This is not hyperbole. Here Paul is saying that a widow has more time on her hands and can more easily pray night AND day…this is practical)
2 Timothy 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers NIGHT AND DAY, (night and day prayer was a given in these days)
Rebuilding David’s Tabernacle…24-hour prayer to music…in every geographic location the Church occupies IS Jesus’ end time plan for His Bride. This is actually the only plan there is. Many people are going to miss it, because they are unwilling to simply search out the scriptures and believe what the Word says. This concept is one of the most clear doctrines in the Bible. There are over 150 Chapters in the Bible that primarily describe this dynamic. If you haven’t heard this before, you really want to search it out for yourself. If you want to “be ready,” or get your family ready, for the intense events surrounding Jesus’ near return, get yourself connected to night and day prayer in your city. It is that simple. It is so simple anyone can do it, and so simple few will.
There is a very practical reason that rebuilding 24-hour prayer in your city IS what makes you ready to endure the persecution…the tribulation…that is coming to the whole earth. Rebuilding 24-hour prayer in a Biblical way requires great commitment…by design. This is God’s plan to disconnect you from earthly strength and comfort, and connect you to greater delight in the outpouring of His Spirit. It is supposed to be a “one thing” lifestyle. This is what will protect you in the time of trouble.
Psalms 27:4-5 One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple. (5) For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.
If you REALLY say yes to building David’s Tabernacle in your town, it should consume MUCH of your life. If you really do it, it requires time, money, forgoing earthly distractions…permissible earthly distractions. To keep the “fire on the altar” is SUPPOSED to be a regular life killer, but in return you get greater depths of supernatural life. To get resurrected, you gotta die first. Jesus is MOSTLY interested in you dying to yourself as soon as possible.
This is why: antichrist is going to hold all of the things you have to give up to build night and day prayer as bargaining chips against you.
There is a man coming who is going to promise to remake the world equitably. He is going to promise to redistribute resources equally. He is going to promise to make peace. In exchange, he is going to require much of your freedom. Antichrist is going to empty your bank accounts unless you take his new global currency:
Revelation 13:16-17 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, (17) and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Antichrist is going to monitor you and threaten to kill you if you don’t worship him and his statue:
Revelation 13:15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
Work won’t be an option for you, entertainment won’t be an option for you, vacations won’t be an option for you, grocery stores won’t be an option for you, unless you give in to antichrist’s system. This will create intense pressure on those who hold out from accepting the antichrists global socialistic system. Families will actually try to rescue children from the crazy Christians who won’t submit to the new global system and instead are trusting in Jesus’ name to cause manna to fall from the sky.
People who speak out against the antichrists wonderful plan will be labeled “terrorists.” Anyone who tries to resist antichrist will be persecuted. BUT, you are REQUIRED to resist him, according to the Bible. If you accept the antichrist system, and the mark that comes with it, you are rejecting Jesus and you cannot be saved:
Revelation 14:9-12 Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, (10) he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. (11) And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name." (12) Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
The Bible says that this dynamic calls for great patience…endurance…on the part of believers. Many believers will not be ready for this intense season. They will not have “filled their lamps” with the oil of doing the Sermon on the Mount (I talked about this yesterday), and they will not have deep roots to withstand the storm. Pressure will come. What Jesus allows to touch the earth will cause offense to those not ready. It will be illegal to be a resistor, just like in Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany, and Christians will betray other Christians to save their own skin. Rather than hold out for invisible Jesus, they will give in to the man-based plan out of fear. Many Christian teachers will agree with the antichrist to save their own skin and enhance their own prominence and position. This is exactly what Jesus warned about:
Matthew 24:9-13 "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake. (10) And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. (11) Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. (12) And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. (13) But he who endures to the end shall be saved.
This is the “great shaking” that has been promised throughout the Old Testament. God promised to never destroy the earth again with a water flood, but a “flood of wrath” is promised:
Daniel 9:26 "And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. (there is a break here in time while the Church….the 24-hour tabernacles of David are built…this has taken over 2,000 years….and then the end) The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.
There is a flood coming…a great storm. This IS the great shaking. We can see it all around us. The conditions are ripe for the flood. Just like Noah’s flood, anyone that wants to be ready can build an ark. The ark, according to the Bible, is the tabernacle of night and day prayer…for real. The antidote to all the trouble coming is to build 24-hour prayer:
Amos 9:9-12 "For I will give the command and will shake Israel along with the other nations (this is global) as grain is shaken in a sieve, yet not one true kernel will be lost (this is because they will be in an ark). (10) But all the sinners will die by the sword—all those who say, 'Nothing bad will happen to us.' (those who think nothing bad will happen will not prepare…these are the foolish bridesmaids)(11) "In that day I will restore the fallen house of David (24-hour prayer to music). I will repair its damaged walls. From the ruins I will rebuild it and restore its former glory (it will release the glory of transformation, just like David’s Tabernacle did). (12) And Israel will possess what is left of Edom and all the nations I have called to be Mine (will save every geographic location that does this). " The LORD has spoken, and He will do these things.
The rebuilding of the Tabernacle of David requires dying to yourself, if you really do it. It is one thing to come to the 24-hour house of prayer, and quite another to participate in building it. Building it REQUIRES a Sermon on the Mount lifestyle of giving all of your strength to it...by design. This is WHY it is the plan!
This is because Jesus wants you to die to every earthly comfort and strength. This is to protect you from manipulation by the antichrist through fear of loss. No one can kill you if you are already dead, and the commitment to 24-hour prayer…if you REALLY commit to it…is designed to help you die to yourself in advance. I could talk for days about this and how building the house of prayer connects to the unity of the Bride (the Sermon on the Mount is the necessary formula for unity), the establishment of Cities of Refuge that will not just endure the flood but will flourish through it, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit…the signs and wonders…the greater things…that will be poured out on the geographic regions that “say yes” to night and day prayer to music. That is for other days.
I’ll end with this simple statement by Jesus. If you are at all concerned with the direction the world is heading, the signs of trouble on the horizon, and what the Bible says about it, this is the answer clearly given by Jesus:
Luke 18:7-8 And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? (8) I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?"
Night and day prayer is supposed to be inconvenient and expensive, by design. It WILL cause division before the antichrist FORCES division. Many will not like the building of night and day prayer at first. That is ok! You are supposed to take a stand for it and tell the truth in love. This is the easiest time to stand for truth. It will only get harder as the days pass. This is what prepares you to endure the long dark night. The Tabernacle of David is the store for you to buy oil in advance, and becomes the very ark to save you and your family.
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