Days of Elijah
It's true that every time we hear the
name "Elijah" we immediately envision all the miraculous feats that
marked his ministry. So this is naturally what we have been expecting in
fulfillment of these prophecies. But when we read the entire story of Elijah,
we see that there was more to his arrival than the obvious. Of special interest
is the part of the tale from I Kings
17:2-5:
The word of the Lord came to Elijah: "Go away from here, turn eastward and
hide yourself by the brook Cherith, east of the Jordan. You may drink from the
brook, and I have commanded the ravens to supply you with food there."So
he went and did according to the word of the Lord.
This "hiding away" of Elijah is of great significance. It comes from
the very opening of the account of his ministry, long before a single miracle
or power-confrontation is ever recorded. ThE context is this: Elijah arrives on
the scene to make a declaration of drought to king Ahab, and no sooner does he
appear than he "disappears." He has come, and yet he just as quickly
is "gone." He knows where he is. But nobody else does. This
"other" part of the story of Elijah-the "hidden" part-can
go a long way to encourage those of us who have been hearing and believing in the
manifestation of the end time Elijah spirit, only to see everything but! Let's
try to put some perspective on this. In the process, we'll see that the days of
Elijah are indeed here after all as predicted.
For decades, people with Elijah-class hearts have been sitting in the backs of churches
ruled by Ahabs and Jezebels. Despite their best efforts to remain at peace and
to hope for repentance and change, they have been eventually precipitated by
the Spirit intoconfrontations where they have ended having to declare the
departure of God's glory ("Ichabod") to the leaders of these
ministries. This emergence and precipitation of believers to such declarations
is in fact the first fulfillment of the prophecies of the return of the days of
Elijah. Note more carefully the declarations and their effect. These
"Elijah"believers and their declarations have not made the headlines
of theChristian tabloids. Usually they are known only within the church they've
been led into confronting. And their departures are often a hush-hush affair. But
their story has been multiplied thousand-fold throughout the body of Christ.
Warning after warning and declaration after declaration of the departure of the
Spirit has been made by Elijahs to Ahab pastors and leaders of ministries of
all sizes. When translated into prophetic terms, the essence of these
declarations is that "there will be no more rain" in this church.
Again, this has been prophesied multiplied times over in thousandsof churches
by innumerable Elijahs of all kinds-young ones, old ones; men, women; pew
sitters, church staff; new comers, old comers - none of whom know the others
across the body of Christ. And what we are seeing now in the body-wide church
is a veritabledeath and famine in fulfillment of these multiplied declarations.
What is the consequence for the Elijahs? They have been of course ushered
straight out the doors of the churches. They are no longer to be found or
heard. They are in fact, hidden away. This hiding is itself part of the pattern
in early fulfillment of the days ofElijah. On the surface, it appears that the
Elijahs have been
"kicked out." But from the Spirit's perspective they have in fact
been led to hide themselves away.
Not that the Elijahs have understood this. They haven't. They usually have not
heard a voice saying, "go hide thyself by the brook Cherith." But in
reality, that is what the Spirit has mandated - even against the attempts of
the Elijahs to be profitably engaged with the body of Christ. Even in spite of
themselves, theLord has hidden them away.Meanwhile the death continues. The
real kingdom word of God and the power
of the Spirit are hardly to be found in any western church today. The rain
is indeed stopped, just as the Elijahs have declared it would. The land is
utterly parched. There's hardly a morsel of real bread to feed on anywhere.
Lots of show and theater. Not much else. The prophecy has come true: a
"famine for hearing the word of God."Not only this, but the famine in
the church is affecting the surrounding culture and governments. The knowledge
of God is disappearing from the face of the culture. It's getting so bad that
laws are being passed under various guises to effectively prohibit the
preaching of the gospel
insupposedly"Christian"nations. The Elijahs hidden away and
seeing this, like John the Baptist confusedly ask, "Where is the Lord of
God of Elijah?" They can't understand why they aren't being released to
confront the society and the governments of this world with the bold claims of
Christ - why their "hands are tied" as if in prison, having to stand
by and watch society totally kick out our God from its midst, and possibly even
eventually kill them all like sitting ducks.As one who lives in the
"east" of his country as Elijah was sent to, I have had larger cause
to meditate on this story. But here is what God wants me to understand, and I
pass on to you. A time is coming when we will indeed be released to confront
the Ahab churches and the godless society they have allowed to fester under
their watch. There will be a culture wide Mount Carmel
showdown. There will be some kind of repentance, false prophets will be slain,
and the true rain will indeed fall that has been prophesied. (Don't ask me when
or how). Meanwhile however, other things will still happen before this:
1)
The Elijah movement will still be fed and watered by the Spirit
in hiding. We will still find spiritual nourishment and can pass it on
to one another, despite the surrounding famine.
2) The
"prophets of Baal" serving a false "culture-intoxicated
Jesus" will still keep "rain dancing" in the theater churches,
singing meaningless songs about "revival" that they don't really
understand and ultimately don't really want. Such rain dancing will
manifest itself in earnest at the Mt.
Carmel confrontation to
come.
3)
Before all this happens, the Elijahs will be paired with a
"widow people" in "Zarephath" where together they will be
mutually
supplied by the Lord (the "meal" of the Word and "oil" of
the Spirit
will not fail here) until the confrontation back in "Israel" is
ready.
Zarephath was outside of Israel.
This means that the present
hidden Elijah movement will make some kind of Spirit-directed encounter and
form some kind of alliance with a divinely "prepared"
yet equally unknowledgeable people outside the church as we
know it. Watch for this.
Days of Elijah
It's true that every time we hear the
name "Elijah" we immediately envision all the miraculous feats that
marked his ministry. So this is naturally what we have been expecting in
fulfillment of these prophecies. But when we read the entire story of Elijah,
we see that there was more to his arrival than the obvious. Of special interest
is the part of the tale from I Kings
17:2-5:
The word of the Lord came to Elijah: "Go away from here, turn eastward and
hide yourself by the brook Cherith, east of the Jordan. You may drink from the
brook, and I have commanded the ravens to supply you with food there."So
he went and did according to the word of the Lord.
This "hiding away" of Elijah is of great significance. It comes from
the very opening of the account of his ministry, long before a single miracle
or power-confrontation is ever recorded. ThE context is this: Elijah arrives on
the scene to make a declaration of drought to king Ahab, and no sooner does he
appear than he "disappears." He has come, and yet he just as quickly
is "gone." He knows where he is. But nobody else does. This
"other" part of the story of Elijah-the "hidden" part-can
go a long way to encourage those of us who have been hearing and believing in the
manifestation of the end time Elijah spirit, only to see everything but! Let's
try to put some perspective on this. In the process, we'll see that the days of
Elijah are indeed here after all as predicted.
For decades, people with Elijah-class hearts have been sitting in the backs of churches
ruled by Ahabs and Jezebels. Despite their best efforts to remain at peace and
to hope for repentance and change, they have been eventually precipitated by
the Spirit intoconfrontations where they have ended having to declare the
departure of God's glory ("Ichabod") to the leaders of these
ministries. This emergence and precipitation of believers to such declarations
is in fact the first fulfillment of the prophecies of the return of the days of
Elijah. Note more carefully the declarations and their effect. These
"Elijah"believers and their declarations have not made the headlines
of theChristian tabloids. Usually they are known only within the church they've
been led into confronting. And their departures are often a hush-hush affair. But
their story has been multiplied thousand-fold throughout the body of Christ.
Warning after warning and declaration after declaration of the departure of the
Spirit has been made by Elijahs to Ahab pastors and leaders of ministries of
all sizes. When translated into prophetic terms, the essence of these
declarations is that "there will be no more rain" in this church.
Again, this has been prophesied multiplied times over in thousandsof churches
by innumerable Elijahs of all kinds-young ones, old ones; men, women; pew
sitters, church staff; new comers, old comers - none of whom know the others
across the body of Christ. And what we are seeing now in the body-wide church
is a veritabledeath and famine in fulfillment of these multiplied declarations.
What is the consequence for the Elijahs? They have been of course ushered
straight out the doors of the churches. They are no longer to be found or
heard. They are in fact, hidden away. This hiding is itself part of the pattern
in early fulfillment of the days ofElijah. On the surface, it appears that the
Elijahs have been
"kicked out." But from the Spirit's perspective they have in fact
been led to hide themselves away.
Not that the Elijahs have understood this. They haven't. They usually have not
heard a voice saying, "go hide thyself by the brook Cherith." But in
reality, that is what the Spirit has mandated - even against the attempts of
the Elijahs to be profitably engaged with the body of Christ. Even in spite of
themselves, theLord has hidden them away.Meanwhile the death continues. The
real kingdom word of God and the power
of the Spirit are hardly to be found in any western church today. The rain
is indeed stopped, just as the Elijahs have declared it would. The land is
utterly parched. There's hardly a morsel of real bread to feed on anywhere.
Lots of show and theater. Not much else. The prophecy has come true: a
"famine for hearing the word of God."Not only this, but the famine in
the church is affecting the surrounding culture and governments. The knowledge
of God is disappearing from the face of the culture. It's getting so bad that
laws are being passed under various guises to effectively prohibit the
preaching of the gospel
insupposedly"Christian"nations. The Elijahs hidden away and
seeing this, like John the Baptist confusedly ask, "Where is the Lord of
God of Elijah?" They can't understand why they aren't being released to
confront the society and the governments of this world with the bold claims of
Christ - why their "hands are tied" as if in prison, having to stand
by and watch society totally kick out our God from its midst, and possibly even
eventually kill them all like sitting ducks.As one who lives in the
"east" of his country as Elijah was sent to, I have had larger cause
to meditate on this story. But here is what God wants me to understand, and I
pass on to you. A time is coming when we will indeed be released to confront
the Ahab churches and the godless society they have allowed to fester under
their watch. There will be a culture wide Mount Carmel
showdown. There will be some kind of repentance, false prophets will be slain,
and the true rain will indeed fall that has been prophesied. (Don't ask me when
or how). Meanwhile however, other things will still happen before this:
1)
The Elijah movement will still be fed and watered by the Spirit
in hiding. We will still find spiritual nourishment and can pass it on
to one another, despite the surrounding famine.
2) The
"prophets of Baal" serving a false "culture-intoxicated
Jesus" will still keep "rain dancing" in the theater churches,
singing meaningless songs about "revival" that they don't really
understand and ultimately don't really want. Such rain dancing will
manifest itself in earnest at the Mt.
Carmel confrontation to
come.
3)
Before all this happens, the Elijahs will be paired with a
"widow people" in "Zarephath" where together they will be
mutually
supplied by the Lord (the "meal" of the Word and "oil" of
the Spirit
will not fail here) until the confrontation back in "Israel" is
ready.
Zarephath was outside of Israel.
This means that the present
hidden Elijah movement will make some kind of Spirit-directed encounter and
form some kind of alliance with a divinely "prepared"
yet equally unknowledgeable people outside the church as we
know it. Watch for this.
Days of Elijah
It's true that every time we hear the
name "Elijah" we immediately envision all the miraculous feats that
marked his ministry. So this is naturally what we have been expecting in
fulfillment of these prophecies. But when we read the entire story of Elijah,
we see that there was more to his arrival than the obvious. Of special interest
is the part of the tale from I Kings
17:2-5:
The word of the Lord came to Elijah: "Go away from here, turn eastward and
hide yourself by the brook Cherith, east of the Jordan. You may drink from the
brook, and I have commanded the ravens to supply you with food there."So
he went and did according to the word of the Lord.
This "hiding away" of Elijah is of great significance. It comes from
the very opening of the account of his ministry, long before a single miracle
or power-confrontation is ever recorded. ThE context is this: Elijah arrives on
the scene to make a declaration of drought to king Ahab, and no sooner does he
appear than he "disappears." He has come, and yet he just as quickly
is "gone." He knows where he is. But nobody else does. This
"other" part of the story of Elijah-the "hidden" part-can
go a long way to encourage those of us who have been hearing and believing in the
manifestation of the end time Elijah spirit, only to see everything but! Let's
try to put some perspective on this. In the process, we'll see that the days of
Elijah are indeed here after all as predicted.
For decades, people with Elijah-class hearts have been sitting in the backs of churches
ruled by Ahabs and Jezebels. Despite their best efforts to remain at peace and
to hope for repentance and change, they have been eventually precipitated by
the Spirit intoconfrontations where they have ended having to declare the
departure of God's glory ("Ichabod") to the leaders of these
ministries. This emergence and precipitation of believers to such declarations
is in fact the first fulfillment of the prophecies of the return of the days of
Elijah. Note more carefully the declarations and their effect. These
"Elijah"believers and their declarations have not made the headlines
of theChristian tabloids. Usually they are known only within the church they've
been led into confronting. And their departures are often a hush-hush affair. But
their story has been multiplied thousand-fold throughout the body of Christ.
Warning after warning and declaration after declaration of the departure of the
Spirit has been made by Elijahs to Ahab pastors and leaders of ministries of
all sizes. When translated into prophetic terms, the essence of these
declarations is that "there will be no more rain" in this church.
Again, this has been prophesied multiplied times over in thousandsof churches
by innumerable Elijahs of all kinds-young ones, old ones; men, women; pew
sitters, church staff; new comers, old comers - none of whom know the others
across the body of Christ. And what we are seeing now in the body-wide church
is a veritabledeath and famine in fulfillment of these multiplied declarations.
What is the consequence for the Elijahs? They have been of course ushered
straight out the doors of the churches. They are no longer to be found or
heard. They are in fact, hidden away. This hiding is itself part of the pattern
in early fulfillment of the days ofElijah. On the surface, it appears that the
Elijahs have been
"kicked out." But from the Spirit's perspective they have in fact
been led to hide themselves away.
Not that the Elijahs have understood this. They haven't. They usually have not
heard a voice saying, "go hide thyself by the brook Cherith." But in
reality, that is what the Spirit has mandated - even against the attempts of
the Elijahs to be profitably engaged with the body of Christ. Even in spite of
themselves, theLord has hidden them away.Meanwhile the death continues. The
real kingdom word of God and the power
of the Spirit are hardly to be found in any western church today. The rain
is indeed stopped, just as the Elijahs have declared it would. The land is
utterly parched. There's hardly a morsel of real bread to feed on anywhere.
Lots of show and theater. Not much else. The prophecy has come true: a
"famine for hearing the word of God."Not only this, but the famine in
the church is affecting the surrounding culture and governments. The knowledge
of God is disappearing from the face of the culture. It's getting so bad that
laws are being passed under various guises to effectively prohibit the
preaching of the gospel
insupposedly"Christian"nations. The Elijahs hidden away and
seeing this, like John the Baptist confusedly ask, "Where is the Lord of
God of Elijah?" They can't understand why they aren't being released to
confront the society and the governments of this world with the bold claims of
Christ - why their "hands are tied" as if in prison, having to stand
by and watch society totally kick out our God from its midst, and possibly even
eventually kill them all like sitting ducks.As one who lives in the
"east" of his country as Elijah was sent to, I have had larger cause
to meditate on this story. But here is what God wants me to understand, and I
pass on to you. A time is coming when we will indeed be released to confront
the Ahab churches and the godless society they have allowed to fester under
their watch. There will be a culture wide Mount Carmel
showdown. There will be some kind of repentance, false prophets will be slain,
and the true rain will indeed fall that has been prophesied. (Don't ask me when
or how). Meanwhile however, other things will still happen before this:
1)
The Elijah movement will still be fed and watered by the Spirit
in hiding. We will still find spiritual nourishment and can pass it on
to one another, despite the surrounding famine.
2) The
"prophets of Baal" serving a false "culture-intoxicated
Jesus" will still keep "rain dancing" in the theater churches,
singing meaningless songs about "revival" that they don't really
understand and ultimately don't really want. Such rain dancing will
manifest itself in earnest at the Mt.
Carmel confrontation to
come.
3)
Before all this happens, the Elijahs will be paired with a
"widow people" in "Zarephath" where together they will be
mutually
supplied by the Lord (the "meal" of the Word and "oil" of
the Spirit
will not fail here) until the confrontation back in "Israel" is
ready.
Zarephath was outside of Israel.
This means that the present
hidden Elijah movement will make some kind of Spirit-directed encounter and
form some kind of alliance with a divinely "prepared"
yet equally unknowledgeable people outside the church as we
know it. Watch for this.
Days of Elijah
It's true that every time we hear the
name "Elijah" we immediately envision all the miraculous feats that
marked his ministry. So this is naturally what we have been expecting in
fulfillment of these prophecies. But when we read the entire story of Elijah,
we see that there was more to his arrival than the obvious. Of special interest
is the part of the tale from I Kings
17:2-5:
The word of the Lord came to Elijah: "Go away from here, turn eastward and
hide yourself by the brook Cherith, east of the Jordan. You may drink from the
brook, and I have commanded the ravens to supply you with food there."So
he went and did according to the word of the Lord.
This "hiding away" of Elijah is of great significance. It comes from
the very opening of the account of his ministry, long before a single miracle
or power-confrontation is ever recorded. ThE context is this: Elijah arrives on
the scene to make a declaration of drought to king Ahab, and no sooner does he
appear than he "disappears." He has come, and yet he just as quickly
is "gone." He knows where he is. But nobody else does. This
"other" part of the story of Elijah-the "hidden" part-can
go a long way to encourage those of us who have been hearing and believing in the
manifestation of the end time Elijah spirit, only to see everything but! Let's
try to put some perspective on this. In the process, we'll see that the days of
Elijah are indeed here after all as predicted.
For decades, people with Elijah-class hearts have been sitting in the backs of churches
ruled by Ahabs and Jezebels. Despite their best efforts to remain at peace and
to hope for repentance and change, they have been eventually precipitated by
the Spirit intoconfrontations where they have ended having to declare the
departure of God's glory ("Ichabod") to the leaders of these
ministries. This emergence and precipitation of believers to such declarations
is in fact the first fulfillment of the prophecies of the return of the days of
Elijah. Note more carefully the declarations and their effect. These
"Elijah"believers and their declarations have not made the headlines
of theChristian tabloids. Usually they are known only within the church they've
been led into confronting. And their departures are often a hush-hush affair. But
their story has been multiplied thousand-fold throughout the body of Christ.
Warning after warning and declaration after declaration of the departure of the
Spirit has been made by Elijahs to Ahab pastors and leaders of ministries of
all sizes. When translated into prophetic terms, the essence of these
declarations is that "there will be no more rain" in this church.
Again, this has been prophesied multiplied times over in thousandsof churches
by innumerable Elijahs of all kinds-young ones, old ones; men, women; pew
sitters, church staff; new comers, old comers - none of whom know the others
across the body of Christ. And what we are seeing now in the body-wide church
is a veritabledeath and famine in fulfillment of these multiplied declarations.
What is the consequence for the Elijahs? They have been of course ushered
straight out the doors of the churches. They are no longer to be found or
heard. They are in fact, hidden away. This hiding is itself part of the pattern
in early fulfillment of the days ofElijah. On the surface, it appears that the
Elijahs have been
"kicked out." But from the Spirit's perspective they have in fact
been led to hide themselves away.
Not that the Elijahs have understood this. They haven't. They usually have not
heard a voice saying, "go hide thyself by the brook Cherith." But in
reality, that is what the Spirit has mandated - even against the attempts of
the Elijahs to be profitably engaged with the body of Christ. Even in spite of
themselves, theLord has hidden them away.Meanwhile the death continues. The
real kingdom word of God and the power
of the Spirit are hardly to be found in any western church today. The rain
is indeed stopped, just as the Elijahs have declared it would. The land is
utterly parched. There's hardly a morsel of real bread to feed on anywhere.
Lots of show and theater. Not much else. The prophecy has come true: a
"famine for hearing the word of God."Not only this, but the famine in
the church is affecting the surrounding culture and governments. The knowledge
of God is disappearing from the face of the culture. It's getting so bad that
laws are being passed under various guises to effectively prohibit the
preaching of the gospel
insupposedly"Christian"nations. The Elijahs hidden away and
seeing this, like John the Baptist confusedly ask, "Where is the Lord of
God of Elijah?" They can't understand why they aren't being released to
confront the society and the governments of this world with the bold claims of
Christ - why their "hands are tied" as if in prison, having to stand
by and watch society totally kick out our God from its midst, and possibly even
eventually kill them all like sitting ducks.As one who lives in the
"east" of his country as Elijah was sent to, I have had larger cause
to meditate on this story. But here is what God wants me to understand, and I
pass on to you. A time is coming when we will indeed be released to confront
the Ahab churches and the godless society they have allowed to fester under
their watch. There will be a culture wide Mount Carmel
showdown. There will be some kind of repentance, false prophets will be slain,
and the true rain will indeed fall that has been prophesied. (Don't ask me when
or how). Meanwhile however, other things will still happen before this:
1)
The Elijah movement will still be fed and watered by the Spirit
in hiding. We will still find spiritual nourishment and can pass it on
to one another, despite the surrounding famine.
2) The
"prophets of Baal" serving a false "culture-intoxicated
Jesus" will still keep "rain dancing" in the theater churches,
singing meaningless songs about "revival" that they don't really
understand and ultimately don't really want. Such rain dancing will
manifest itself in earnest at the Mt.
Carmel confrontation to
come.
3)
Before all this happens, the Elijahs will be paired with a
"widow people" in "Zarephath" where together they will be
mutually
supplied by the Lord (the "meal" of the Word and "oil" of
the Spirit
will not fail here) until the confrontation back in "Israel" is
ready.
Zarephath was outside of Israel.
This means that the present
hidden Elijah movement will make some kind of Spirit-directed encounter and
form some kind of alliance with a divinely "prepared"
yet equally unknowledgeable people outside the church as we
know it. Watch for this.
