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FINANCING
THE PURSUIT
In a
visitation of the Lord, I was made to know this was the driving
force behind Nero in the first apostolic age. During that era there
was an entity called the “ecclesia.” This is the same Greek word
that Jesus used in Matthew 16:18 to describe His people - the church
who are empowered with kingdom authority to bind and loose with keys
from Jesus Himself and completely reform society and establish
kingdom rule in it. However, the word “ecclesia” was not a religious
term but rather a secular one. It spoke of the elders who sat in the
gate of a city and made decisions and decrees that determined what
society looked liked. This governmental entity called the “ecclesia”
was also led by a military group called “apostles.” The word apostle
was a naval term that spoke of the commander of a fleet of ships,
the fleet itself and the colony that fleet was sent out to establish
in the name of the king. So you had a governmental people led by a
group of military commanders released in the earth to take over
society and its cultures.
I was told
that this greatly disturbed Nero. His strategy against this
military/governmental people bent on reforming society and making it
a reflection of their King and His culture was to persecute it into
silence. This is documented historically. As a result, Nero
unleashed great hostility, anger, blasphemy and outrage against this
apostolic entity called the church. The word of the Lord to me was
just as the spirit that drove Nero against the first apostolic age
had been unleashed, so it was being unleashed against this apostolic
age that is now bent on reformation. Whenever an apostle, the people
connected to him, and those flowing with this revelation enter the
fray, they will have to contend with this Nero spirit. In the
article “The Nero Spirit,” I shared some of the characteristics that
we could expect to fight against as we engage this Nero spirit with
the mountains of society hanging in the balance and outcome.
One of the
strategies of this spirit is to cut off finances from those who are
warring to see society reformed. Yet as with everything -if we know
how to war and use the authority that God has committed to that
which is apostolic, we can see this spirit broken and the finances
we need released. I have spoken with many apostles that are engaged
for the reformation of society and it seems that many of them are
feeling and experiencing the onslaught of these spirits against the
finances they need to win this war. Ephesians 3:10 tells us that the
intent of God is to use the church or the ecclesia to cause the
principalities and powers to witness and experience God’s wisdom
against them:
So through the
wisdom of God, we are to war against these powers that are seeking
to resist the ultimate agenda of God in the earth, which is the
reformation of society. As God flows through this governmental
people called the church - led by the military group called apostles
- these powers that fight against the manifestation of the kingdom
in the earth will fall.
To understand
this warfare we are in, we must know that Jesus by His work on the
cross has disarmed these princes and powers that now occupy and rule
regions and territories. Colossians 2:13-15 tell us that Jesus’ work
on the cross accomplished amazing feats. The least of which is not
the undoing of the principalities:
To “disarm”
means to slip out of clothing and to be divested. In other words
these wicked and evil powers that dominate regions were stripped of
their authority that they were clothed with. So if Jesus stripped
them and spoiled them by His work on the cross, why are they still
in power and influence? One major reason is the cause: the sins of
people in a given region from generations gone by and now have
re-empowered them through the principle of alignment. Whatever we
align with or agree with we empower. Jesus taught this when He said
that if two or three “agree” it will be done by the Father in
heaven. (Matthew 18:19) Whether it is with God or the devil our
agreement empowers that one’s purpose in the earth.
When the devil
comes to tempt he is not simply seeking to get someone to commit an
act, he is seeking alignment with that person so that he can be
empowered. Sin is simply aligning ourselves with that which is
against God. When we do, we open the door to potential satanic
influence and work in the earth. This is what Adam and Eve did in
the Garden of Eden. Their sin created an alignment that empowered a
devil that had been cast down. Through their alignment, they gave
Satan rule over what God had given to them. So if we are to bring
down the principalities and powers from their place, we must first
break the alignment created by the past and present sins of people.
To do this we must flow with the manifold wisdom of God through the
prophetic that releases the authority of God and undoes the web that
the devil uses to stay in power even though Jesus has stripped him.
Once these alignments are broken by the wisdom of God being made
manifest through the governmental people called the church, we can
pull the powers down that resist God’s agenda in the earth with a
little finger.
As we do this,
all that is resisting God’s purposes in the earth realm will be
removed. This devilish hierarchy will try to demoralize, paralyze
and discourage in many different ways with the resistance of
finances being one of the chief ones.
We see this in
the life and combat of Gideon in the book of Judges. As Gideon was
raised up to be a deliverer and judge, he had to break the powers of
the Midianites and their kings that were oppressing and ruling over
Israel as a nation. God gave him the strategy to do so by joining
300 men to him who through the breaking of pitchers, the blowing of
trumpets and the shouting of voices caused the enemy to be found in
disarray and defeated. Though it seemed silly, it was the wisdom of
God displayed to the rulers against which Gideon was at war.
(Ephesians 3:10) As the army of aliens fled, Gideon and his 300
pursued the two kings and their armies. These kings represent to us
the principalities and powers that Gideon knew had to be broken in
order to secure peace and the establishment of the kingdom in
Israel.
The 300 were
the “ecclesia” or the governmental people of God under the
leadership of Gideon - an apostolic man who was a military
commander. As they pursued these kings to finish the job so that
these kings could not re-establish another army to come again
against Israel, they were tired, weary and worn-out but yet
pursuing. Judges 8:4-6 shows us the condition of the army and
Gideon’s request to the people of Succoth and Penuel:
Succoth and Penuel answered Gideon this way because they were still under the influence and domination of Zeba and Zalmunna, the principalities and powers that had ruled Israel. Their influence restrained these two cities, the leaders and their people from giving to Gideon and his men provisions to finance the pursuit.
This is what
many apostles and prophets are encountering as they pursue the
pulling down of these principalities and powers that are set to
resist the reformation of society. People that should be financing
the pursuit are missing the opportunity and the army of God or the
ecclesia associated with the apostolic and prophetic, find
themselves weary and yet pursuing because of the lack of funds and
finances to empower them. This can be demoralizing and is a tool of
these powers to stop the inevitable -their downfall and the arising
of the kingdom rule of God in their place.
The names of
these two kings are very significant. Zeba means “slaughter”. We
must realize the brutality and viciousness of these devilish
entities. Whoever aligns themselves with these powers against the
apostolic of God and His kingdom will suffer the aftermath of such a
move. The alignment with Zeba can produce untold sorrows and trouble
because the door has been opened through this alignment.
The name
Zalmunna means “to deny shade”. This speaks of this power’s attempt
to stop the apostolic from being established in a region or nation.
One of the purposes of the apostolic is to provide sanctuary and
covering for folks to operate under once they are in alignment.
Zalmunna’s purpose is to stop the apostolic from being established
within a region, area or even nation. If kingdom power and authority
is to be released there must first be the pulling down of these
principalities and powers. This does require the financing of the
pursuit.
There is a
different outcome though for those who will finance the pursuit of
these principalities and powers. When Paul was in prison and he
wrote to Timothy in II Timothy 1:15-18 where he spoke of those who
wouldn’t finance the pursuit and those who would:
Paul said that
all those in Asia had been so influenced by the devilish hierarchy
that they had turned away from him. He names Phygellus and
Hermogenes as those who in particular would not finance the pursuit
and were not with him. He then speaks of Onesiphorus who is said to
have “often refreshed” Paul. The word “refreshed” means to cool off
and to relieve. Whatever this Onesiphorus did, it caused Paul to be
relieved. Remember how Gideon’s men were exhausted and yet pursuing?
So was Paul. As an apostle of the Lord, Paul was consistently
engaged with principalities and powers of regions. He was in a
pursuit to pull them down. He said he did not wrestle with flesh and
blood, but with these principalities and powers. (Ephesians 6:12)
Onesiphorus was not like the men of Succoth or Penuel. He did share
his bread and refresh the apostle and therefore empower his pursuit
against the powers of hell. As a result, Onesiphorus received mercy
for himself and his household. II Timothy 1:16 clearly shows a
generational blessing coming on Onesiphorus because of his financing
of the pursuit of the apostolic:
As Onesiphorus
financed, refreshed and sought Paul out to do so, he secured mercy
over himself and his household for generations to come. Whoever will
break free from the intimidation of the principalities and powers
and align themselves with the apostolic through their giving will
experience the blessing and mercy of God for generations to come.
Mercy is that which flows out of covenant. So as Onesiphorus aligned
with Paul through his aggressive ministry to him, he was blessed and
so was his lineage. God rewards those who finance the pursuit against powers of darkness. As we do, may the blessing of the Lord flow down on us and those who belong to us. We - our children, grandchildren and even those we won’t live to see - will be blessed because we financed the pursuit, refreshed the apostolic and prophetic and empowered the pulling down of darkness that hindered the reformation of society. We will partake of the joy of the victory and not the judgment of defeat.
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