The Advancement of the Body of Christ in Uncertain Times

During the Christmas holidays, my wife received a colorful dream at night. In the dream she was with a twelve-year-old brown-haired girl whom she was holding by the right hand. My wife was standing with the girl at the edge of a rectangular swimming pool that contained murky water.
 
While she was looking at the water, a walrus emerged from the murky water, and a short time later it dived down again. In addition, she could see two moray eels in the water and some eels swimming below the surface.
 
After my wife saw this, a white horse emerged from the water to her left, galloped on the water to the right side of the pool, and suddenly made a U-turn toward my wife. While this was happening, she heard a voice speaking to her in a gentle as well as instructing tone: “Touch it!”
 
When she touched the horse’s chest with her right hand, she felt its warmth and heard its breathing from its nostrils. Then the dream ended.
 
Since the Holy Spirit spoke some time ago that prophetic instruction will be released in the month of December (note: prophetic word from the 11’th of November 2020 => The Strong Forehead of the Prophets and the Gate of Benjamin), which extends into the future time, we see an instruction for us and the saints who are spiritually aligned with us.
 
The pool of murky water represents the society in which we find ourselves and with which we are surrounded without being a part of this world (cf. John 15:19 i.c.w. John 17:14).
 
John 15:19:
19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
 
John 17:14:
14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
 
Since we, as God’s people, are in a time that is uncertain or humanly not clearly foreseeable as to how things will develop in the future, it is important that we move forward with the power of faith in the structure of the new wineskin as the body of Christ (cf. Hebrews 11:1).
 
Hebrews 11:1:
1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
 
As the church – ‘ekklēsia’ we are in an apostolic age of moving forward in wisdom and knowledge that are hidden in Christ Jesus (cf. Colossians 2:2-3).
 
Colossians 2:2-3:
2 My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
 
It is walking in the spirit of wisdom and knowledge that opens up a new dimension of the fear of the LORD, which acts like a key to gain access to the chambers of God’s depths (cf. Psalm 111:10 i.c.w. Proverbs 1:7a; Proverbs 9:10).
 
Psalm 111:10:
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.
 
Proverbs 1:7a:
7a The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, …
 
Proverbs 9:10:
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
 
These depths are connected with the hidden things of the spirit and its kind of mysterious communication, which includes the conversation between God and man as a friend (cf. Exodus 33:11 i.c.w. 1 Corinthians 2:9-16).
 
Exodus 33:11:
11 The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.
 
1 Corinthians 2:9-16:
9 However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” – the things God has prepared for those who love him – 10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.
14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
 
Even when God speaks to one of His friends in coded language, parables, or even riddles, they understand the Lord’s communication as clear and distinct because they are in a close relationship on a spiritual level with God (cf. Numbers 12:8a i.c.w. Matthew 13:10-13).
 
Numbers 12:8a:
8a With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the Lord. …
 
Matthew 13:10-13:
10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”
11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.
13 This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
 
The Church – Ekklēsia
 
The church – ‘ekklēsia’ is not an institution or a building in the spiritual aspect.
The Bible calls the ‘church’ the body of Christ, which according to 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 is made up of different members. Each member has been created by God in such a way that it is dependent on the other.
 
The head of the ‘church’ is Christ (cf. Ephesians 1:22-23). The ‘church’ through Jesus Christ, has rights of access to the spiritual spheres which are divided into different categories. These are the first, second and third heaven (cf. Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 3:1).
 
This means that the ‘church’ is destined to rule in these spheres by the kingship and priesthood of Christ (cf. Revelation 1:6; Revelation 5:10). It is destined to reveal the manifold wisdom of God to the powers in the heavens (cf. Ephesians 3:10-12).
 
The ‘church’ doesn’t move in the letter alone, but in the Spirit (cf. 2 Corinthians 3:6; John 4:23-24).
=> The Greek word for ‘church’ is ‘ekklēsia’ and means people who gather together to accomplish something, or a group of people who are called out for a specific purpose. The first time this term of a called out people appears in the Bible is when the people of Israel went out of Egypt. They were called out in order to enter God’s inheritance that He had promised to their forefather of faith, Abraham.
 
In the New Testament, we find this principle in the way that God called out His church or ‘ekklēsia group’ and had them come together as one people. This alliance was called out to carry out the plan of God in the earthly realm (cf. Hebrews 8:1-13 i.c.w. Hebrews 12:23).
The expression ‘ekklēsia’ means the New Testament community of the redeemed in its twofold aspect, namely all people who are called through and to Christ into the fellowship of His salvation as well as the global church of all times.
 
This may be a community of saints consisting of two or more persons – a family or household – gathered around the presence of Jesus in order to pray prayers that are in harmony with the Father’s will, so that His will may be manifested in the saints’ respective spheres of influence. <= (The text placed in ‘=>’ is based on an explanation from the prayer letter ‘Ekklesia Everywhere!’ dated 23’rd of August 2020 by Chuck D. Pierce GZI and a reference to the Greek word ‘ekklēsia’ from the Elberfelder Study Bible with the word key number: 1558).
 
The twelve year old girl is a hint that we function as the church – ‘ekklēsia’ in this apostolic age in the structure of the Messianic Jerusalem and act in the wisdom and knowledge of the ‘twelve year old Jesus’. He represents the Lamb of God in the form of the lamp by dwelling in the Sonship of Christ as well as in the center of the Heavenly Father as the temple. From this comes the revelatory knowledge and glory for this time and the time to come (cf. Luke 2:42-43.46-49 i.c.w. Revelation 21:22-23).
 
Luke 2:42-43.46-49:
42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom.
43 After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. …
46 After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
47 Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers.
48 When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.”
49 “Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?”
 
Revelation 21:22-23:
22 I did not see a temple in the city (note: Messianic Jerusalem), because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.
 
We should not react disturbed when we encounter carnal behaviors in the lives of believers that are associated with pride, cunning, impurity, compromise, coldness of heart, … (Note: Represented by the walrus, the moray eels and the eels in the dream.)
These behavioral patterns are the cause of the challenging circumstances in the world that provoke believers abandon their faith, so that due to the intensity of the challenge, they give up in faith and allow the influence of the world to enter (cf. Matthew 24:12 i.c.w. 1 Timothy 4:1).
 
Matthew 24:12:
12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, …
 
1 Timothy 4:1:
1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.
 
We should not be intimidated by the influences in the world, but continue to go forward in what Christ Jesus has called us to do (cf. Galatians 5:16).
 
Galatians 5:16:
16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
 
The result is that we receive a new spiritual apostolic strategy that grows out of steadfastness in faith and approaches us like the white horse in the dream. In this, it is important that we become one with its movement and strategy in order to receive the love of the Heavenly Father for this time and the time to come. This results in supernatural power and acceleration that allows us to apostolically strategically act victoriously and in purity in the spiritual battle (cf. Ephesians 6:12-13).
 
Ephesians 6:12-13:
12 For our struggle (note: battle) is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
 
Apostolic spiritual warfare involves going forward with the revelatory knowledge of an apostle as a stratospheric minister.

=> The effect of apostolic revelatory knowledge is mostly felt on the spiritual level. The intensity of the spiritual aggressive attitude is directed from the heavenly sphere. Paul’s exhortation to Timothy to make war with his received prophecies is explained by the Greek term ‘strateia’, or warfare as directed by apostles (cf. 2 Corinthians 10:4; 1 Timothy 1:18).<= (note: The text placed in ‘=>’ is based on an explanation from the ‘Prophet’s Dictionary’ by Paula A. Price, Ph. D.; page 61 and page 62)

The White War Horse ‘Judah’ and Apostolic Strategy

The white horse in the dream is a call from God to the saints in His Body to embrace His militant, pure apostolic movement to go forward in the structure of the new wineskin in devotion and apostolic praise for this time and the future to come.
 
As a result, we carry Jesus Christ as King of Kings so that His kingship is recognized on earth (cf. Zechariah 10:3b-5 i.c.w. Revelation 19:11-16).

Zechariah 10:3b-5:
… 3b and I will punish the leaders; for the Lord Almighty will care for his flock, the people of Judah, and make them like a proud horse in battle.
4 From Judah will come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler.
5 Together they will be like warriors in battle trampling their enemy into the mud of the streets. They will fight because the Lord is with them, and they will put the enemy horsemen to shame.

Revelation 19:11-16:
11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war.
12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself.
13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.
14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.
16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: king of kings and lord of lords.

=> Apostolic worship means that the worshipers themselves give themselves to the purposes of God in their worship, which has as its content that the Bride of Christ joins the invitation of her Bridegroom, who is also King, when He invites her to come with Him to His Kingdom (cf. Song of Songs 2:10.13). This is the moment when the Bridegroom enters into His apostolic function.
The King’s apostolic call to go with Him implies that worshipers should come to an understanding of how to support His apostolic function in their worship.

Worship should not be limited by tradition, culture, or personal imagination.
The purpose of apostolic worship is not to remove the place of passionate and intimate worship, but from the intimate relationship with Jesus Christ as Bridegroom to follow Him as King into His Kingdom, which enables worshipers to release from the governmental perspective of Christ His apostolic decrees on earth.
Apostolic worship brings all aspects (note: perspectives) of worship into their full expression. <= (The text set in ‘=>’ is based on an explanation from the book ‘Worship as it is in Heaven’ by Chuck D. Pierce & John Dickson.; page 25).

The Kingdom government previously mentioned is preceded by miracles of multiplication so that people begin to recognize the Kingship in Christ Jesus.

This results in the Body of Christ moving into a higher dimension of governmental rule in God as King in order to act in faith at the right time in spiritual kingship. This results in an ‘awakening’ within the church – ‘ekklēsia’ so that it comes to the possibility of walking supernaturally in faith with Christ Jesus (cf. John 6:14-15 i.c.w. Matthew 14:22-26, 28-29).

John 6:14-15:
14 After the people saw the sign Jesus performed (Note: the sign of multiplication), they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
15 Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.

Matthew 14:22-26:
22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd.
23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, 24 and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.
25 Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake.
26 When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear.

It is the potential of ‘murky water’ that leads to repentance, enlightened vision, and a new wineskin in the form of the renewed mind with childlike faith in order to see and operate in the Kingdom of heaven (cf. Matthew 3:5-6; John 9:6-9; 2 Kings 5:10.14 i.c.w. Matthew 18:3; Matthew 19:14).

Matthew 3:5-6:
5 People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan.
6 Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

John 9:6-9:
6 After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes.
7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
8 His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?”
9 Some claimed that he was. Others said, “No, he only looks like him.” But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”

2 Kings 5:10.14:
10 Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.” …
14 So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.

Matthew 18:3:
3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:14:
14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
 
The majestic beauty of the Lord’s kingship is recognizable in the impact of pure love in the Kingdom of God precisely because of the evil and proud attitude of people in an increasingly disoriented society of self-appointed rulers.
 
Amen and Amen.
 
In His Wisdom,
 
Daniel Glimm