What is our responsibility personally and corporately?
Definition of responsibility- the state or job of being in charge of something and of making sure that what happens is right or satisfactory. We each have the responsibility to fulfill our destiny. We have a joint responsibility for the Joshua Generation and harvest scrolls.
Gen 1:28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over t” s ods hldren s sons and hers, we have been given this mandate or authority to rule.
Matt 6:10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. It is our responsibility to learn how to establish the as it is of the kingdom in heaven so it can manifest on earth through us as gateways.
To engage the Pathway of Responsibility we need to take our positions on the mountains and thrones in the heavenly realms. Only when we are seated in the heavenly realms can we establish kingdom government as it is in heaven.
1 Chron 12:32 Of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do. As Sons of Issachar we need to be aware of the end of the old and beginnings of the new days, seasons, ages and eras etc.
Biblical history is counted in the generational history of families; this adds up to 6,000 years. From a biblical time frame perspective we are in the 7th day from creation and approaching the third day of church history.
God always sends forerunners to prepare for coming change. Joshua Generation are those forerunners Joshua generation must operate in the spirit of Elijah to prepare for the Lord to come. Forerunners go through times of testing and transformation to be ready themselves.
Phil 3:10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
James 1:2-4 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
New things are often strange, weird and different; they challenge the mindsets of the old order. New wineskins are different from old wineskins and are therefore often treated with suspicion New things are often rejected because there is no reference point or grid.
John 3:1-3 Now in those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,“eent or the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The voice of one crying in the wilderness, “Make ready the way of the Lord, Make His paths straight!”
When Jesus came He hung out with tax collectors, prostitutes and sinners. This totally challenged the prevailing understanding of what was culturally acceptable in His day. Jesus redefined the norms and values of society; it therefore required repentance to follow Him.
al “ehold am on to send yo lah the rohet beore the omn o the great and terrible day of the Lord”. The last words of the old covenant system were a promise that forerunners were coming to prepare for the end and the new beginning.
The spirit of Elijah spirit operates through forerunners to make a way for others to follow. Joshua and Caleb prepared for the next generation. John the Baptist makes way for Jesus. Church makes way for the world.
Those representing the old things that God has done have historically opposed those through whom God does something new When one age or period ends there is often a time of shaking to cause a shift to take place. This shift occurs both personally and corporately. This shift changes the existing established order of things. Why is change so opposed? Why do we find it so difficult to embrace change? Why do institutions resist change and defend the status quo?
The new order is usually opposed by the old established order which was once new itself. Why? Old has emotional attachment or financial security or investment into it. Old has reputation attached to it. Old has truth or revelation that has become rigid doctrine or theology. Old establishes the biblical examples of what is acceptable based on its own experience. Old has become the institution that defends truth against error as the theology police. The old is familiar, safe, secure and comfortable. The old represents what worked in the previous season.
The old ways become idols that we don’t want to let o o n the new season. Many examples of things that work in one age but God changes them.
Examples of old opposing new or the new opposing the even newer. Jews and Judaisers opposed the early Christians. Luther opposed and persecuted the Anabaptists. Catholics persecuted the Protestants. Established church opposed the non-conformists. Nonconformists opposed the Pentecostals. Pentecostal opposed the Charismatics. So much opposition to the prophetic and apostolic movements. Vineyard opposed Toronto. Bethel setting the biblical parameters of what is now accepted as the AOG did to them.
Moses and Joshua generations should have been an example of passing the baton, embracing new ways and possessing inheritance, but it took 40 years for the old to die. God used Moses mightily but Moses could not lead the people to receive their inheritance. The mantle had to be passed to Joshua and a new way for a new day. It is important to learn the lessons from the Moses generation and not make the same mistakes.
1 Cor 10:11 Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
God showed them their inheritance of the Promised Land. They refused to go in so they stayed operating in the wilderness they had become familiar with. A place of immaturity where God did everything for them and one man represented them. Food delivered supernaturally every day. Water coming out of rock that followed them around the desert. Clothes which did not wear out man demonstratons o ods rae and roson bt n realty t was or slaves who did not know their true identity.
God has been calling from heaven to His children for a generation. Releasing a sound, a vibrational frequency that carries a message. People in the wilderness are beginning to resonate with this message. There must be more than this!!
End of the old Moses Generation order and beginning of the Joshua Generation. Removal of the 5-fold earthly government and the beginning of a new heavenly order of Melchizedek.
Matt 21:43 Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing the fruit of it. God has removed the kingdom government from the old order. God is calling His people out of the wilderness to cross over into their inheritance as sons.
The pharisees shut up the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. Old orders are always in danger of becoming pharisaical.
Num 13:30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” 32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
For 40 years those offered the responsibility to be ready for the billion-fold harvest failed to raise up a Joshua Generation of mentors. Mentors are going to be needed to equip the next generation in their supernatural inheritance. God has judged the Moses generation and justice is now being delivered.
The government of God is being removed from those who have set up Moses ministries by building mountains for themselves in the wilderness. They have failed to equip sons by doing the works of God for the people instead of teaching people to do the works and become mountains.
God has weighed the old order and found it looks nothing like the reflection of the governmental pattern of heaven. The judgment has been made and the verdict given. Justice is being outworked and grace and mercy are being prepared for future release.
End of the old order of 5-fold ministry order was prophesied by Ian Clayton to have taken place December 2012. They are not releasing the baton or passing the mantle graciously. It is important to honor those who have gone before but now is a new day and the baton needs to be passed.
Eph 4:11-12 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; He did not give these gifts to create personal ministries and mountains.
“One does not understand the five ministry gifts in Ephesians 4:11-13 if you claim that they are “oernmental” These ts are or en and sern the ody o Christ, they are not governmental while the rest of us are non-government. All Christians are in government”
Eph 4:13-14 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. As a result, we are no longer to be children, Earthly equipping to maturity not creating dependency mentalities.
Maturity coming out from under the mediatorial coverings of men. No longer slaves, babies and children, we must take our responsibility as mature sons. Legislation Administration Manifestation. Doing nothing except we see what the Father is doing – through heavenly revelation.
1 Cor 5:7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump. 2 Cor 3:6 who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
We must learn to embrace the exciting opportunities that change and the new responsibilities can bring. Things will change and new things will come whether we like it or not. We need to embrace a pioneering, expansion mind-set and not a settling one.
The things which worked under the old order can become idols that we try to take with us into the new. Those idols can be people, ways of ministry, prayer, intercession, spiritual warfare, ministry mountains.
A new day needs a new way. Second hand information provided by the pastors, teachers, prophets or apostles, rabbis will be insufficient in the new day. We need first-hand experience of hearing God for ourselves. The true Church of the 3rd day will not be under the coverings of men but live under and an open heaven with free access through the veil.
Prophetic and apostolic pastoral teachers evangelists etc. have become idols of the old age. Where people were dependent on mediators who heard God for them. There was a dependency and co-dependency mentality.
There are no Rabbis in the new day. Jesus is our covering and our advocate. Jesus is our head, and we are His body. Isa 9:6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us, and the government will rest on His shoulders; We can have no government unless He is our head.
Isa 9:7 There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this. Only if He is our head.
Eph 1:22 And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church,
Eph 4:15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,
Eph 5:23 as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Saviour of the body.
Col 1:18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.
Col 2:10 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;
Eph 1:20-21 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
Eph 2:19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
True leadership is foundational and servant hearted.
Mark 10:45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to e s le a ransom or many”
John 12:26 If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
Matt 20:25 But Jesus called them to Himself and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. 26 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. 27 And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave—28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
1 Peter 5:3-4 nor yet as lording it over those allotted to your charge, but proving to be examples to the flock. And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.
Leadership is not over but under those they are responsible for.
The Moses order was mediatorial providing coverings. Prophetic and apostolic movements have carried on that old covenant approach. Teaching over past 40 years has put people under the bondage with fear inducing structures that provide coverings for individuals and churches.
Phil 2: 9 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
Col 3:1-2 Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.
Eph 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
Eph 2:6-7 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus
Matt 6:33 But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Seek first = give first place, give first priority: anything else is a religious framework that puts us in bondage.
God’s plan is for 3 generations to work in unity to establish His government like Abraham, Isaac Jacob Moses and Joshua generations should have come into agreement. Moses generation failed to transition but can still leave the wilderness Joshua generation is to rise up to be ready to equip the next generation Generation of supernatural laborers for the harvest. Those two generations will reach out to the third generation Jesus generation: those who will prepare for Jesus return.
God is calling the Joshua Generation to prepare. We need to get ready for what is coming. We need to call out to those who are trapped under the coverings of the old systems.
To be the Joshua, Joseph, Daniel, Enoch and Elijah generation – we must be willing to embrace transformation that enables us to come out of the old and enables the old to come out of us. So we can be raised up into mature sons on the third day. You are authorized to break the yokes and destroy the heavy burdens placed on my people by the old order.
You are authorized to call for the removal of the restrictions and limitations placed on my people by the taskmasters of the old order.
You are authorized to release the ordinances of heaven to take their positions in readiness for engagement.
You are authorized to administrate for the establishing of heavenly positions of sonship.
You are authorized to call for the sons of God to be seated in the heavenly places.
You are authorized to release the scrolls and mandates prepared and ready for a new generation to come forth out of the wilderness.
I call you to release lightning bolts from heaven and the sound of My glorified voice in fire to those who are oppressed and heavy weighed down under the weight of the laws and bondage of the old structures.
You are authorized to administrate the end of the religious slavery imposed to sere another’s son.
You are authorized to call for destiny to call those out of the wilderness to cross into their inheritance.
You are authorized to call for the restoration of the heritage and inheritance.
You are authorized to call for the end of the slavery of the wilderness under the mediation of the old order.
You are authorized to release the sound and frequency and light of jubilee.
You are authorized to call for the cancellation of all spiritual debts and obligations that hold people in the wilderness.
If we are to operate as Joshua Generation forerunners in the spirit of Elijah we need to allow God to purify our hearts. If we are to call people out of the wilderness into their inheritance we must be an example of foundational government. We must have the need for position, the need to be right burned out of our hearts.