As the church – the ‘ekklēsịa’ (note: ‘the called out ones’; cf. John 17:16) we are in a phase of enormous change worldwide, in which it is of importance to reconsider all procedures on the basis of the truth of the Word of God and to stand in the ‘NOW’ of the Lord as well as to act from it.

 

This moment of time is related to the saying of the Word of God ‘When the time has come …’ (cf. Mark 1:15; Luke 9:51; Galatians 4:4).

 

15 “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”

 

51 As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.

 

4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, …

 

 

This fulfillment of time means that it is imperative that we align our minds and spirits according to God’s will and bring them into conformity with this time we are in in order to discern and serve from His perspective and plan (cf. Romans 12:2; Ephesians 4:23-24).

 

2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.

 

… 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

 

The renewing of our mind and spirit entails weighing the particular influences we are facing or encountering in light of the truth of God’s Word and aligning ourselves accordingly. If God has established a time of transition and shift on earth, we as people of God need to realize that this may cause a breach like it happens when an earthquake occurs. It behaves allegorically speaking in the way that two time plates collide, whereby the new time pushes itself under the old time and breaks it up.

 

This leads to the point when every believer in Christ needs to make the decision to enter into the new that the Lord has prepared, which was not yet known before (cf. Isaiah 43:19; Isaiah 48:6b-7).

 

19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

 

… 6b “From now on I will tell you of new things, of hidden things unknown to you.
7 They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot say, ‘Yes, I knew of them.’

 

This new or unknown brings with it a sense of something ‘uncertain’ that must be illuminated in His light in order to act according to the resulting revelatory truth (cf. Psalm 36:9).

 

9 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.

 

It is necessary for us as God’s people to recognize that we have entered another phase of God’s promise, which is connected with the rising light of God’s truth (cf. Isaiah 60:1-2).

 

1 “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.
2 See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you.

 

This confronts in threefold form the twofold darkness of the adversary (note: darkness over creation or territorial area => realm of promise and government) and darkness over humanity => realm of relationship).

 

 

In order for the Heavenly Father to surround us with the luminous presence of His Sonship and Fatherhood, it is first needed for us to rise from our circumstance and enter into the realm of His revelatory presence. This results in our recognition of His revelatory truth for this time in order to align ourselves according to it and walk in it (cf. Psalm 36:9 i.c.w. James 1:17).

 

9 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.

 

17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

 

Walking as a disciple of Christ in this truth (note: decoded Word of God) results in freedom that is accompanied by great inner joy (cf. John 8:31-32 i.c.w. Psalm 16:11).

 

31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.
32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

 

11 You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

 

It is necessary for us as God’s people to recognize when we are in a state that has already been prophesied, so that we do not separate ourselves from the manifestation by any kind of wrong view by still speaking of it as a coming state or coming event.

 

When we move in this knowledge, we can effectively act according to the guidance of the Holy Spirit in truth.

A failure to recognize the times, can cause people to suddenly find themselves in the past because they do not properly recognize the moment in the present, thus separating themselves from the future plans of God Himself.

 

This kind of separation results in moving forward in hope that does not manifest because people have not properly discerned the times (cf. Proverbs 13:12).

 

12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

 

The proper discernment of the times can lead to problems with those who have not properly discerned the times because the relevant believers were previously in the present, but are now living in the past due to the advancement of time. This results in an unwillingness to leave their ‘place of time – time dimension’ that separates them from the promise of the future that the Lord has in store.

 

It is necessary that where the new is already happening, we should not put our focus on speaking about something ‘coming’ that is already among us and is manifesting.

 

 

In link with the present time I want to quote analogously an important statement that Chuck D. Pierce made concerning the process of a shift in which we find ourselves as God’s people:

 

‘There comes a time when the new happens. At this moment of time, our whole being should make a shift. Difficulties may arise that should prevent the believer from moving into a new phase of time. Therefore, it is enriching to know what the word ‘shift’ encompasses.
A shift is ‘a change of place, position or direction’ but also the substitution or replacement of one thing by another.
 

In addition, a shift involves changing gears to get to a higher speed. Furthermore, a shift can be orchestrated by the darkness, which involves a devious or deceitful plan.

Therefore, it is necessary that we, as saints in Christ properly perform our duty to watch over any influence of temptation that might subvert spiritual authority and to repel it and as well as thereby destroy the plot of darkness (cf. Mark 14:38).’

Mark 14:38:
“… 38 Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

It is not left out that shaking occur during a shift and namely in an interpersonal and also general context. Therefore, we should be guided by the guideline of the Word of God which functions like the writing of Jesus in the sand. So that we can stop the accuser of the brethren by His course of action (cf. John 8:6-8; Revelation 12:10)

John 8:6-8:
6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.
7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”
8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

Revelation 12:10:
10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.

Based on the above biblical passages, it is clear that the power of the revelatory truth brings forth His rebuke or division, so that the covenant plan of God can come forth in a new way (cf. Matthew 10:34 i.c.w. Hebrews 4:12).

Matthew 10:34:
34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Hebrews 4:12:
12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

The Love of God and the ‘Sword’

The power of the ‘sword’ is active because of the love – ‘agąpē’ of the saints in question for Christ and the plans of the Heavenly Father and His will for His church – ‘ekklēsịa’ in the present time (cf. Matthew 10:35-39).

Matthew 10:35-39:
35 For I have come to turn “ ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law – 36 a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
37 “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38 Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
39 Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.

Thus, it is clear that the change initiated by God is creating a shift that can cause rifts in any of the above mentioned areas, even in interpersonal relationships.

It is the structure of true love – ‘agąpē’ and passion toward God the Father in Christ Jesus, which is like a basket of figs that has only healthy figs or fruit in it, without tolerating anything rotten due to false love (note: humanism, false understanding of sexuality/intimacy) (cf. Jeremiah 24:1b.2).

Jeremiah 24:1b.2:
… 1b the Lord showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the Lord.
2 One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early; the other basket had very bad figs, so bad they could not be eaten.

The reason for the earlier mentioned statement is because the Hebrew word used for ‘basket’ is ‘dûd’ and is related to the Hebrew word ‘dôd’ which is used for ‘beloved’. (note: word explanation taken from the Elberfelder Study Bible with the word key number: 1765, 1766).

 

We are appointed as God’s people to bear healthy figs or fruit as trees, and to completely discard all that the enemy has brought into the church and society in terms of humanism, wrong understanding of sexuality and intimacy as well as perversion in order to reveal God’s holy nature.
 

Amen and Amen.

 

In His Wisdom,

 

Daniel Glimm