The Ephesians church is a model of city taking, what God wants to do in these last days. There was about 225,000 people in the city, it was the center of trade and commerce.
The temple of Diana was the focal point of this city. (Acts 19) It was a Pagan, and an immoral City, a lot of idolatries in it. When Paul went there he ran into the ruling spirit over that city, and displaced it in the heavenly realm. There was an open heaven over the city. There was a great revival. Paul taught them the whole council of God.
It was a prophetic picture of what the church should be like in these last days. That church became the largest and most influential in the Christian world. One year after Paul went there the heathen temples were empty. Out of Ephesus the whole of Asia heard the word of God, over a million people.
Unfortunately 30 years go by and a new generation comes up. One generation later after Paul left, the next generation left their first love and the lamp stand was removed. The angle over the church and the anointing was removed. Today Ephesus is a heap of ruins. If we lose our first love, the Lords presence and power will depart from our life.
The great wealth of the believer is emphasized in the book of Ephesians; and in the last chapter, the warfare of the believer is emphasized in the battle against principalities and powers. Also, throughout those six chapters, there are seven references to the way we walk, instructing us in our walk.
When we learn how to walk with God, and through the Spirit have dwelt with the issues of our heart, and pass all the tests of the Lord, where His love is perfected in our life, we are exalted to the place of authority and also to the place of creativity.
From the throne issues forth that which gives life. Ezekiel 47 speaks of the waters that issue from under the threshold, from the throne; and as they flow out, they are constantly increasing. Ezekiel presents a picture of the living word flowing; and wherever the river flows, there is life. We love everybody and Gods creation.
The trees grow; their leaves are for the healing of the nations, and the fruit is perpetually feeding. The waters are creative in their very nature.
Christ Jesus the Lord is the Creator and the Redeemer; and now He is the Lord and the Administrator of all the fullness of God; and we are His fullness, who filleth all things. We are raised up and seated with Him in the heavenly places (Ephesians 1:20–23).
Two things are mentioned concerning walking: once we walked according to Satan, the prince of the power of the air; now we are walking with God. We are walking as His workmanship, created in Him for the good works which He ordained before the worlds were. We are to express them. We are to bring them to pass. He has provided them, and we are to enter into them in the name of the Lord. This is exactly what is happening in this day.
We are generating something which will never die. When Christ said, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words shall not pass away,” He was expressing a concept we now can understand enthusiastically.
When Christ speaks, His words are living words; and they will never die. We accept that those words will live on beyond everything that can be seen with the natural eye. However, we must also realize that our words do not die either. The time will come when we will give an account for every idle, useless word (Matthew 12:36).
Revelation 14:13 says of the saints of God that they do rest from their labors and their works do follow them. Why? Because the works are living.
Everything a person does has some significance; it brings forth something that will not die, that will never end. If we create a blessing in the way we walk and the way we serve God that will follow us into eternity.
If we cause a brother or sister to stumble, even one of the little ones, it would be better for us that a millstone were put about our necks and we be cast into the sea (Matthew 18:6). This is talking about understanding the consequences of our actions or the fact that they live on and on.
We have to learn how through repentance, and the work of Jesus on the cross, to deal with the negative consequences of our actions, so that they no longer keep affecting us and others.
Holy Spirit takes of the provision of Jesus and brings it to us, but we have to receive it and apply it in our lives. The promises of God have to be appropriated, so that they come into manifestation in the natural realm.
In a walk with God we learn how to appropriate the provision of God, so that it is sealed inside of us, the mark of God upon us. A lot of the church lives in the deception, that the provision of Jesus in the realm of the Spirit is already theirs. We progressively receive our inheritance as we overcome.
It is true that we are perfect in Christ, but are we walking in that perfection? The problem is that there are a lot of good Christians out there in the natural realm. They never struggled against sin and overcome it. They will be greatly surprised when they die and enter the lowest level of heaven.
God is now allowing creativity in both a negative and a positive way. Creativity is being manifested through the words we speak. When we speak negatively the enemy can use those words, to work against us. when we speak the word of God, those words have the power to create that reality in the natural realm.
Looking at the negative aspect, you see that evil and torment are being turned loose. Evil forces are being generated that sometimes become a torment to us. It is the satanic purpose to create torment for the children of God.
You may go through persecutions, harassments, and sufferings and wonder what you did to deserve them. The truth is that you did not do anything to deserve them. When the disciples asked Jesus concerning the blind man, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, “Neither, but this is for the glory of God,” and He healed the man (John 9:2, 3).
We become accustomed to thinking that the original sin of mankind’s first parents was the only thing that generated evil in the world, but we must remember that Satan had a hand in that. He did not generate that evil only to have man fall, and then to stop; he has continued to generate and create as much evil and torment as he can. The torment and evil in the world continue on and on. They are transmitted from parents, the Word says, to many succeeding generations. To the third and fourth generation, evil in a man can mark those who come after him (Deuteronomy 5:9).
We are victims of the evil that is in the world. Every one of us who has a walk with God, knows what it is not only to have the Adamic curse upon us, but also to battle that which is generating evil afresh in this generation. We are aware also that in this generation God is bringing forth the sons of God; and through them, He is beginning to speak a living word to bring forth those works that He has before ordained we should walk in. By our very walk and the way we move in God, we are generating the goodness and the blessing that the Lord would bring forth through us in His name. Two forces are being generated.
What is going to happen to the evil that has been generated? It is an undying mass, like the wastes of nuclear fission from atomic plants. What is God going to do with it? Where can He bury it? A thousand years from now it will still be active. He has prepared a place where the torment and the evil that Satan has brought against the people of the Lord, and upon all humanity for that matter, will ultimately be heaped upon Satan himself and his angels, and be consumed in the lake of fire.
Everything that makes an offense, every evil spirit, all the torment that has been generated from the very dawn of creation, must be disposed of some way. God intends to wipe away the tears from every eye (Isaiah 25:8). The time will come when there will be no sorrow, nothing that makes an offense (Matthew 13:41). God will ban all of it.
In the meantime, we have come through the regeneration. We were dead. We lived and walked according to the prince of the power of the air. We walked as the children of disobedience, in that spirit which works in them. But God, in His great mercy, loved us and redeemed us from it. He caused all the torment, the sin, the consequences of sin, and everything that we had (or could have) generated, to be centered on Christ. He opened up a way for us to become the new creation. We, who were dead, are now alive and are raised up and seated with Him in the heavenly places. But we must appropriate it; we must become the instruments of God, to loose the creation from the futility upon it.
Just as Satan has his instruments in the sons of disobedience, who create the evil and the torment in the earth, so we become God’s instruments of righteousness, his channels to release the will of God into the earth.
We become the channels through which God will move and through which His Spirit will come forth in the earth. Sometimes we find ourselves led simply as dear children, not understanding at all what we are really doing. When we stand in faith and prophesy the Kingdom and speak it into being, we are becoming co-creators with God of a new age.
Hebrews speaks of creativity: “Through faith we understand that the ages were framed by the word of God, so that what came forth was not made of anything that doth appear” (Hebrews 11:3). Through the force God turns loose within you, through the Holy Spirit within you, you prophesy or pray. Your words do not just come to tickle someone’s ears; they are a creative, generating force.
We prophesy to one another to edify, to exhort, to comfort, to bring people into a relationship with the Lord (1 Corinthians 14:3). Paul said, “Follow after love, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye prophesy” (1 Corinthians 14:1), because prophecy becomes the creative channel through which all the gifts of the Spirit can move.
The gift of faith, a word of wisdom, a word of knowledge, or the working of miracles can all come forth through the channel of prophecy. The gifts come forth through people who understand that with their lips of human clay they separate the precious from the vile. The prophet Jeremiah brought the word from God: “If you separate the precious from the vile, then shall your mouth be as My mouth” (Jeremiah 15:19).
We must begin to speak the words of the Lord and cry out to this generation the word God has to say and the plan He has for those who have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. As we speak, those who hear will find something imparted and created within them.
We have no liturgy. We have no evolved traditions. We have nothing but the Scriptures and the leading of the Holy Spirit to guide us in what we are to be. We have left much of the formality that was a deadly part of preceding generations.
We find ourselves with the brothers and sisters who were raised up by God to be shepherds and servants. We find ourselves without any of the mechanics that support church programs. We have no special music as such, only the unprepared psalms and hymns brought by the Spirit and the Word of Christ dwelling within us, the spontaneous worship that comes from YHWH.
This is by divine revelation and divine intention, for we are not creating something that is flesh, because that which is born of the flesh is flesh (John 3:6); it can never rise above its source.
If we speak words of man’s wisdom, nothing of God will be created; only ideas will be transmitted from mind to mind. But if we speak by the Holy Spirit, then our faith does not stand in the wisdom of men, as Paul writes, but in the power of God (1 Corinthians 2:5). Our faith stands in something that is generated and created by God.
We seem to be helpless. We seem to have no supportive program. Everything upon which we could have leaned, we have forsaken. We are dependent upon the fact that everything that happens must come forth by the Spirit, not by the flesh of people. We prophesy and speak a living word, and people begin to change.
People wonder what our basis is, how we survive. It is not by program, promotion, or an organization. The key is that our focus is set on what God said it should be—on the word that He is speaking.
His word is the creative agency that is bringing everything to pass. When God says something, we speak it; we record it, and send it out because His word will not return void (Isaiah 55:11). It will work.
We prophesy to one another. We may hear the same prophecy many times, but every time the flood comes, every time it flows, it is like water overflowing the banks of a river in the springtime; when that water recedes, another layer of rich soil has been deposited.
The flood may have swept away some old vegetation, but now the ground is fertile, and plants will grow that never would have grown before. This is how God works through a prophecy.
When prophecy flows, it is like a river overflowing its banks; it seems to sweep away things in your life that you are glad to see go. Sometimes you are not glad. Sometimes you are reluctantly holding on to things that God wants to sweep away, and He does sweep them away.
After the flood subsides and the prophecies have been stilled, after you have been flooded with a word, you will find that the soil of your heart is a little more fertile to bring forth what God has been saying, what He is trying to create in your life.
Prophesying to one another, ministering to one another, blessing one another—this will occupy our attention. It is time for the sons of God to enter into the greater works. It is time for us to speak the word of the Lord in all the land. It is time for us to realize what God is doing in the earth and that our humble mouths are going to speak these words which will never die.
I believe that one son of God could prophesy, speak the word of the Lord in the wilderness—where there were no ears to hear it, no human beings to evaluate it, no reporters to take it down, no microphones to pick it up, no printing presses to print it, no organization at all—but if that son had faith to believe God, they could speak by the Holy Spirit and change a whole age. Sons can change the world. This is what God has done in the past, and it is what He is doing now.
We are concerned with the creating of a blessing, the creating of the Kingdom. Paul said, “The Kingdom of God is not in word, but it is in power.” He meant that it is not in carnal words, but it is in the power that comes forth in the utterance. Paul said, “When I come, I will know not the words of these who are seditious, these who are contentious, but the power” (1 Corinthians 4:19, 20). He was not interested in mere words that had nothing to them; he was interested in words that were a channel, literally freighted with the power of God. We must cry out to the Lord to loose us into this greater flow of prophecy.
When we come together, we should prophesy the word of the Lord. No service is without significance; no meeting together is without meaning. People who come to church only to hear an interesting speaker have the wrong motivation. A minister can lead and teach his people, but they are not going to be students forever. The time is upon us now that all of us must be teachers and proclaimers of the Word so that it be created within us. We must come and exercise ourselves in God and be the creative force that God is turning loose in the world. We are only a handful, but through us God can change the whole age. He can change the world, and He is.
The Kingdom age that is to come will be a time of great blessedness. When everything that makes an offense has been gathered out and all the torment and sting are gone, when the grave has lost its victory, when the last enemy has been destroyed, then there will remain nothing but the accumulating, overwhelming, multiplying blessings that have come through all the ages and will continue to come.
Blessings are alive. God did not just talk to Abraham; when He spoke to Abraham, He turned loose something that was eternal. There may be many sons of Abraham after the flesh, those of Hebrew descent, who will never believe in Abraham’s blessing; but they who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham (Galatians 3:9).
We who are walking with Christ have inherited that covenant; we are the seed of Abraham and heirs according to the promise (Galatians 3:29). Abraham’s blessing is still alive! It all depends on the way we think. There are curses, witchcraft, and satanic intent to destroy that hang like clouds around us. If we succumb to that heaviness, if we listen to the lie of Satan, if we accept the futility with which Satan tries to condition us, we reach out into the blackness and pull to ourselves the curses, the evil, and the torment, Those are a living force.
Hebrews 4:9 says, “There remaineth therefore a promise of entering into His rest.” Those to whom it was given were not worthy. Someone must reach up into that beautiful golden cloud filled with blessing and promise that few, if any, have ever grasped. Someone must start drawing those blessings. When the prophecies are coming, reach out like a lightning rod, and begin to draw them to yourself. It is an electrifying thought to realize that God meant those words for you. Appropriate them for yourself.
People grow when they repeatedly hear a living word from the Lord and they keep appropriating it. Every time they hear it, they receive something new. They start growing; and the more they listen, the more they become alive because the word is living. It will never stop; it will never die.
It does not matter whether anyone hears or understands a creative word; it is not based upon understanding. As you worship, you draw blessings, some of which were prophesied by people long before you were aware of God at all. You reach out and you draw on that accumulative cloud of blessing that is resting over this generation.
Because they will reach into all the foreboding mass of torment, there are those who are destined to destruction; and the judgments of God will be upon them. However, I do not think that either the judgments or the blessings of the Lord are determined as much by a sovereign act of God over individuals as by the individuals deciding, at their own initiative, what they will receive. I do not believe the fatalistic concept that God foreordained that certain men could never be saved, that they were destined to be lost. It is true that God knows the end from the beginning, but the fact remains that He has released certain forces and established certain principles and laws. If a man violates those laws and exposes himself to certain dangers, he will suffer the consequences. If he puts his hand on a hot stove, he will have some blisters. If he is thirsty, either he can get a drink of cold water and be refreshed, or he can drink poison and destroy himself. The Spirit is saying, “Oh, why will you perish? Why will you be of so little understanding?”
Hearken to the words of the Lord. Listen to what He is saying. Listen to His promises. He is opening up another age to you. He is putting a trumpet in your hand and saying, “Sound the alarm! Proclaim it in all the land that there are blessings available.”
I do not think that God had a spirit of vengeance when He created hell. Hell is simply the rubbish heap of the universe where He sweeps out everything that makes an offense—all the torment, all the threats, all the curses, all the witchcraft, and all the hatred. He dumps all the evil into the pit along with those who have generated it, and they find themselves tormented beyond degree by that which they themselves generated. God did not create all that evil. But He has prepared a place for it.
Similarly, the joys that you shall enter into will be proportionate to the way that you joyfully enter into your position as the child of God, who is seated with Christ in the heavenly places, proclaiming liberty, proclaiming joy, proclaiming the release. With all joyfulness, you embrace the promises of God; and they will come back and light upon your shoulder as the beautiful dove that brings tidings of an age to come.
I believe in the principle of the boomerang. Give, and it will be given back to you; heaped up, shaken down, running over shall men give to your bosom (Luke 6:38). Send out a curse, and watch it return on your own head. Send out a blessing and see the truth of the Scripture: “It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35). Whatever you send out always circles back on you. This is a true principle. As you stand before God and prophesy the word of the Lord, you can release your brother and yourself as well. On the other hand, you can destroy yourself with your own bitterness, with your own unbelief and anxiety, until decay is complete in your spirit.
I do believe in hell. I do believe that God has prepared a place where, ultimately, all the evil will be dumped. I am determined not to be a part of it. I also believe in that eternal bliss and blessedness that God has prepared for those who love Him. Eye has not seen it, nor ear heard it (1 Corinthians 2:9). God will show us how to move into it. Let us prophesy to one another.
How fantastic is God’s plan! He raises you up from death in trespasses and sin, seats you at His right hand, and gives to you the commission of the Kingdom; “Go and make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19). Go and bless them, love them, and be the channel I ordained you to be.”
Are you ready to prophesy? What are you going to turn loose? murmuring? grumbling? complaining? Those serpents will bite you if you do. Are you going to turn loose blessing? Are you going to prophesy the word of the Lord and speak with faith? Let there be no utterances of doubt or despair, but only the utterances of faith. You will prophesy according to the proportion of faith (Romans 12:6), and a new age will dawn. You need to see your authority to create the Kingdom as a positive expression of your authority over futility.
I am coming into a new understanding of what the Kingdom will be and what hell will be, because I am beginning to comprehend the responsibility which God has laid upon man. God has given man a responsibility: either he can choose to be a recipient and a vehicle of the Kingdom of God and all its blessings on the earth, or he can choose to create the hell which he will partake of one day. I have always found it difficult to believe that God created evil and then capped it all off by creating a hell. Could God create such a place of deep torment to put His creatures if He had to be the source of that evil Himself? I do not believe so.
That which is created through human and spirit channels does not die. In some way it has the capacity to generate a force that does not disappear. It may change its form, but it does not disappear. In that way, I suppose, the spirit world is like the natural world: matter cannot be completely destroyed. It can change its form; it can seem to be an entirely different thing, but it is not destroyed. Forces generated on the human and demonic realms can never be destroyed either.
I know this principle is true of God. Whatever He does is perfect. He says concerning His Word, Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my Word shall not pass away. Matthew 24:35. He has set something in motion by His Word. It accomplishes His purposes and returns to Him; it never returns void (Isaiah 55:11). It is like a great, endless boomerang. It is like a cycle. As the force is sent forth, changes are made and other things happen, but the Word dies not. Forever, O Lord, Thy word is settled in heaven. Psalm 119:89. We do not fully realize how immutable are His counsels, how unchangeable are His ways. Nothing that He does or brings forth by His Word ever dies. There is not even one promise that is null and void.
The book of Hebrews describes quite clearly how God rested on the seventh day from His labors and promised a Sabbath rest to His people (Hebrews 4:4–6). Israel missed it; they did not have it under Joshua; and they also missed it under David (Verses 7, 8). The writer goes on to say, “There remaineth therefore the promise of the Sabbath rest” (Verse 9). Someone must enter into this promise. It will remain a valid thing hovering over the earth like a cloud with a beautiful golden lining—the gold of God’s promise and provision. The fact that no one has ever claimed it does not alter the fact that when God spoke a word it was a thing forever settled. Romans 11:29 says that the gifts and callings of God are without repentance. God sends forth a provision for people to walk in. If they do not walk in it, it is to their own hurt and to their own destruction, but the promise remains true.
When someone prophesies the word of the Lord by the Holy Spirit, he turns loose a creative force that will never die. The book of Revelation speaks of the apostles and prophets who gave their lives; it says that they do rest from their labors and their works do follow them (Revelation 14:13). They died, but what they had done, what they had said, what they had created by the Holy Spirit coming through them as channels of God’s omnipotence and wisdom, did not die. It continued on and on.
A man, filled with the Spirit of God and directed by the Lord, could stand and prophesy in the desert, where there were no microphones to record, no printing presses to publish, not even any human ears to hear, and that man could change an age. He could bring a new era into being.
Through faith we understand that the ages are framed by the word of God, so that what appears is not made of what doth appear (Hebrews 11:3). Out of the invisible, out of just a word that comes from God, things come into being. While everything was in a state of chaos, the Spirit of God was brooding over the face of the deep, over the first creation. Then God said, “Let there be. Let there be light” (Genesis 1:2, 3), and it came forth. The end of the Dark Ages was marked by one man crying, “The just shall live by faith.” A whole age can he changed because people believe God, because they stand and proclaim a word from the Lord. It can change things because that word goes on and on and on.
Other things cry out too. We read of the souls under the altar that were crying out for vengeance (Revelation 6:9, 10). We read of the blood of Abel; God said, “His blood crieth from the ground to Me” (Genesis 4:10). The world is filled with many cries that do not end. The Word of the Lord does not end; it is forever settled.
The negative forces do not die either. Satan came at the beginning to generate torment and terror, evil and sin, and to bring all manner of hatred into the world. He succeeded. When men express that evil again and again, we realize it is not just the first Adamic sin that we are dealing with. We are dealing with that which is vomited out of hell itself, causing men to rise up and curse one another. God warns us, “You will give an account for every idle word” (Matthew 12:36).
Satan constantly moves upon men to use the name of Jesus Christ in blasphemy. Satan knows that every single word is important and a man will give an account of it; sooner or later he will answer for that word. Every blasphemy, every idle word, every bit of murmuring, complaining, and unbelief will circle back upon the heads of those who uttered such and become their destruction. Remember the children of Israel in the wilderness? They murmured and complained until the serpents rose up to bite them and they began to die (Numbers 21:5, 6).
God has made a way of escape. That is the reason the Savior came. Jesus is a way of escape from the evil consequences of your own sin. Even apart from what a man has inherited through Adam (and that force is great), a man can sin, and his sin will be visited upon his children to the third and fourth generations (Deuteronomy 5:9). The horror and the evil comes upon him again and again.
Sometimes you can observe an entire generation of a family locked in iniquity, and you wonder who is responsible. They (or their forefathers) have brought the evil on themselves. There is no soundness from head to foot. They are engulfed in the torment of their own sin.
In these days, Satan has brought forth much in the way of curses, witchcraft, and evil; and it rages against the people of the Lord. We are caught in a generation where evil is rampant. Never has there been such great viciousness and so many curses coming forth as there are today. Are they effective? Of course they are effective. Can innocent people be cursed by the wicked? Of course they can be. The force is a free force, and it works. Can people put curses on one another? Yes, and God is a righteous judge who will one day judge the wicked.
There are immunities and protections that God can give His people so that they are taken out of the dominion of darkness and are translated into the Kingdom of God’s dear Son (Colossians 1:13). In that place, these forces no longer affect them, and they can gain a tremendous measure of immunity. To whatever extent they will accept the immunity, they can have it. If a man submits to oppression either consciously or unconsciously, it reigns in his life.
What is God going to do with this world? He does the only wise thing that He can do: He turns loose a handful of people and tells them, “I want you to create and to become channels. I want you to stand and prophesy My Kingdom. I will teach you to pray. Stand and cry to the Father, ‘Hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.’ Matthew 6:9b, 10. Cry it, prophesy it, speak it until it comes forth.”
God does very few things sovereignly, without human agency. He always has someone who will arise to do His will. At the very beginning of John’s gospel, it is written: There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. John 1:6. God wanted to turn something loose, so while John was still in his mother’s womb, the Lord sent His Word and filled the little, unborn prophet with the Holy Spirit. God creates channels and agents who will come forth to speak a word from God and see it come to pass.
Through faith we understand that the ages are framed by the word of God (Hebrews 11:3). If God wants to bring forth something, it does not happen by a conspiracy of circumstances nor evolve through social conditions and pressures. He does not bring forth His will that way. Instead, He sends someone who prophesies, who speaks a word from the Lord. If He wants to bring something down, He says, “Arise. Prophesy the word of the Lord against Nineveh. Prophesy against Tyre. Prophesy against Sidon. Prophesy against Babylon. Prophesy against Assyria.” These were civilizations that could have flourished for many hundreds of years. They had a stranglehold on every means of production that existed and upon the lives and liberties of men. But men of God prophesied, and those civilizations came down!
God has sent forces into the world that are resident within our own selves, and we do not yet realize their impact. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. Ephesians 3:20, 21. Where is the power of God that will change this age? It is within us. We become the channels of the Kingdom; we become the channels to prophesy it. It will happen if we believe it and prophesy it. We will prophesy according to the proportion of our faith (Romans 12:6).
Many events are happening in the world today because a few people responded to a word, “Prophesy the word of the Lord.” As God’s people speak His word through the Spirit of God within them, they become the source of a force which will not die. It will live on and on in the days of the Kingdom. Often people are blessed by prophecies they have never heard nor understood, but the prophecies have turned loose a blessing that will not die, that will not cease.
We walk on with the Lord. We cry out, and we speak the word of the Lord; we speak it again and again. We walk around our Jericho. We give our shouts, and the walls begin to come down, one by one. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end.… Isaiah 9:7. The stone cut without hands will grow until it fills the whole earth (Daniel 2:34, 35). The Kingdom starts as a little seed and grows until it becomes a tree in which the birds are housed (Matthew 13:31, 32). From little beginnings God can bring forth great things, and He starts by giving a word to the hearts of His people to stand and speak. We must understand the significance of our prophecies and of our psalms. We must understand what they generate.
The book of Revelation speaks of the four and twenty elders around the throne, of the four living creatures, and of all the hosts that are continually adoring and praising God. As they stand and worship, they are generating a force through which God is pleased to dominate all His creation.
When you worship, you are turning loose a force. Oh, how Satan hates worship! Satan hates worship because a real worshiper of God is one of the greatest forces that God has created. True worshipers turn loose the power of God.
Satan also hates prophecy; he will try to get you to despise it or think it commonplace. But your prophecies are being fulfilled to the ends of the earth; your prophecies are changing things. You may be discouraged because of the battle against you. But Satan must assault such an opposing source. Satan is continually trying to curse and come against it.
There may be times when Satan will rage against us, but it will only be for a short season because the tide is going the other way. We are not the defenders nearly as much as we are the aggressors. We are the aggressors, and we are definitely driving forward as never before. We are creating situations in which Satan rages, because he knows that his time is short (Revelation 12:12). The raging of Satan will come against the inhabitants of the earth.
What will ultimately happen to all the evil of Satan? God will send it into the refuse pit. The Scripture says that the Lord will gather out of His Kingdom everything that makes an offense (Matthew 13:41). He will dump it in the rubbish heap, a special place that He has prepared for Satan and his angels. Satan knows that, ultimately, every vicious thing that he has brought against God—every bit of hatred, every evil thing he has brought against God’s People—will circle back into the abyss with him and his instruments; and there it will live on. The fires are not quenched the torment is unceasing (Mark 9:43).
Some people think God could not create such a tormenting place as hell. He has not created it; Satan and his servants have created it themselves. The worst thing that can happen to an evil man is that he becomes a victim of his own evil. God allows that to happen. Did God create hell? No, the universe has to have a place of refuse, a cesspool, a dumping ground where the worm dieth not (Isaiah 66:24). This reference to Hades (the Greek word “Gehenna”) likens it to the city dump outside of Jerusalem. In that dump the worms fed upon the filth and decay. But in the eternal dumping ground the worms will never die.
A dumping ground is necessary. As we shake loose the oppression, the oppressing spirits make their way into the abyss. God has decreed a gravitational pull for them; they are sent downward. God says of His people: “In My name shall they cast out devils. In My name they will heal the sick. In My name they will turn the tide” (Mark 16:17, 18). The things that have come against the people of God will be bound; into the abyss they will go.
What happens to us? We become those proclaimers of the Kingdom. We begin to positively create. We must take our position and prophesy to the people the mercies and the joy of the Lord. We must prophesy to them the release from confusion and prophesy to them the peace, the joy, and the love that is to flow. We turn it loose by God’s word. The force will not die; it will not fall to the ground. Let us become God’s force and proclaim His Word in the earth!
You bless, and people will be blessed; then the blessing will return upon you. That is the reason it is more blessed to give than to receive (Acts 20:35). The law of the boomerang will work. You bless, and the blessing lights upon a person, but a great portion of it returns to you again. Through faith, dare to become a channel of God’s grace, of His omnipotence, of His faith, for through faith you understand that the ages are framed by the word of God. Speak His word. Watch a new age be framed. See it happen before your eyes.
Prophesy and watch the bones come together and see an exceedingly great army stand (Ezekiel 37). Prophesy, sons and daughters. See visions. Dream dreams (Joel 2:28). Enter into what God has for you. Proclaim it. Turn it loose. Watch it bless you.