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My journey in the study of God's law, part 6 (final)

The 1980’s taught me the basics on intercession and spiritual warfare, while I was under tutors who did not understand the law. Yet God Himself taught me by revelation and experience, as I saw the mistakes that were made and the results of those mistakes. In those days I resolved that if I were ever to lead people into spiritual warfare, I would follow the laws of spiritual warfare.

From 1993 to 2001 was essentially a decade of spiritual warfare. The year 1993 was forty Jubilees since the day of Pentecost in Acts 2 (40 x 49 years). These forty Jubilees fulfilled the prophecy in the life of King Saul, who reigned forty years in Israel as a type of the church under its Pentecostal anointing.

The Transition from Saul to David

When I learned the story of King Saul and its prophetic significance to the church, I realized why God had trained me for 12 years (1981-1993). I saw that my purpose and calling in life was to be fulfilled in the era of King David after Saul “died” in 1993. Timing is based on the laws of time, but it relates directly to prophecy. The law itself prophesies of what God intends to do, and He fulfills it in lawful ways.

The study of God’s law, therefore, prepared me for the prophetic work of spiritual warfare. By conforming to the divine law, we are able to know the divine plan so that we pray according to His perfect will. Not only are we able to do His will, but also to do it at the appointed time. So we found that we were able not only to win every battle but to finish the war itself.

In the 1980’s, the thing that frustrated all of us was that we would always win our battles, but that we did not have the authority to win the war itself. We were always bound by “church decision,” which, not surprisingly, desired the will of God up to a point but always failed in the end. So as intercessors, we were allowed to win battles, but not the war.

At the time, no one understood that we were still under the authority of King Saul, the rebellious Pentecostal, a man of great strength and stature, but with a lawless heart. He persecuted witches but in the end he consulted the witch of Endor. He was disqualified from having an enduring dynasty (1 Samuel 15:23). So also, the Pentecostal era failed to bring righteousness to the earth, needing a greater anointing to complete the job.

In 1993 the day of Pentecost fell on May 30. Prophetically speaking, it was the day Saul died, and we began to transition into the reign of David. In other words, the Dominion Mandate began to shift from the realm of Pentecost to the realm of Tabernacles. From personal experience, I saw that one of the chief differences was that Pentecost was ignorant of the law, having put away the law. Those who put away the law blind themselves to its revelation.

King David ruled a single tribe for seven years and six months (2 Samuel 5:4, 5) before being crowned king over all Israel. He received the Dominion in two steps. This set the pattern for us as well. The Tabernacles people (which we represented) began to rule on May 30, 1993, but we did not receive the full authority until November 30, 2000. That was seven years and six months.

Authority Over the Earth

During the transition from Saul to David, we were yet unaware that God had planned a greater transfer of authority from Mystery Babylon to the Kingdom in 2017. Babylon’s authority did not end until 2017, because there was much preparatory work that had to be accomplished in the interim.

In 1993 we had the authority to begin the work—and also to learn how to exercise authority in a lawful way. In 2000 we received another measure of authority to complete the work that the Saul church had failed to do. This was completed by 2006, which was the 2,520^th anniversary of the completion of the Second Temple in the days of Haggai.

Shortly thereafter, we began to receive revelation about the next stage. This involved the Elisha calling that was prophesied in September of 2007 and actually began on April 12, 2009. Elisha received the double portion from Elijah, and he completed the work that Elijah had started. So also we expect to complete this work as an Elisha company.

This, however, is part of the prophetic work, which we will cover later, as it is beyond the scope of our journey into the study of God’s Law. The law set the stage for prophetic application. The law has trained us to do the prophetic work that the house of Saul could not finish, on account of its rebellion and lawlessness.

Yet in 2017, when “the time of the Gentiles” (nations) expired, the earth came under our Dominion, and Babylon began to fall. This collapse, I believe, will take seven years to complete, as we have already seen the prophetic patterns in Daniel 4 as well as more recent patterns from 1993-2000.

Rebuilding the Walls of New Jerusalem

In September of 2011, some believers in Minneapolis organized a “Jericho march” around the city for seven days. By their revelation, the purpose of this march was to bring down the denominational walls that had divided the church.

In the following year we were led to do the more positive work of rebuilding the right walls, that is, the walls of the New Jerusalem, according to the pattern seen in the book of Nehemiah. This work came to a climax in September of 2012. A few of us were led to drive north to the town of Bemidji, MN to make this declaration.

The trip took a few hours, and on the way, I received the revelation of the law of victims rights. The law of God as a whole defines the rights of God and man. A judge is called to determine the extent of those rights. If a thief steals $1000, he is to repay his victim $2000, or double restitution, no more and no less (Exodus 22:4). If the judge charges him $2001, he violates the rights of the thief. If he charges him $1999, he violates the rights of the victim.

Once the judge has passed his righteous sentence, the victim then has the right to collect what is owed to him or to forgive the debt. The judge has no right to forgive, for that is the right of the victim alone. A biblical example is how Joseph forgave his brothers for kidnapping him and selling him to slave traders. Another example is how Hosea forgave his adulterous wife. The greatest example is Jesus forgave the world on the cross after becoming the ultimate Victim for all the sins ever committed.

Although this law is not stated specifically in Scripture (except perhaps in John 20:23), there are many examples of it in the biblical record.

By the time we arrived in Bemidji, the Spirit of God had revealed to us what we were to do in rebuilding the walls of the New Jerusalem. A wall is a city boundary; in the spiritual sense, a wall is a moral boundary, which to us is God’s law. Each stone in this wall is one of the laws of God.

There were two “stones” in particular that we were to place in the wall—stones that had been missing in the church. Because these stones had been missing, the church had largely rejected the law or had misunderstood it. These two stones represented the completion of the work that many had already done in rebuilding the wall.

The first law missing in the church was the law of impartial judgment. Because of this missing law, the church had mistakenly thought that men were “chosen” by virtue of their genealogy from earthly parents, traced back to Israel or even back to Adam. This has caused the church to set forth the children of the flesh as if they were chosen to rule the earth. Conversely, it has blinded them to the truth that the chosen ones are those who are begotten by the Spirit. It is the children of God who are chosen, not the children of the flesh.

This misunderstanding has caused the church to rebuild the dividing wall, rather than the walls of the New Jerusalem.

The second stone is the law of victims rights. As long as this stone was missing in the church, the believers could not see where mercy, grace, and forgiveness were built into the law. They thought the law was merciless, when in fact only the judges were forbidden to forgive sin. The victims have every right to forgive and to show grace to sinners.

Being blind to the law of forgiveness, Christians rejected the law, thinking that law and grace opposed each other. This was a key reason for the Church’s rejection of the law. So we were led to place these two laws as stones in the wall of the New Jerusalem to complete the work in preparation for the coming Kingdom.

This appears to be the culmination of my journey in the study of God’s law. As I have said, this is the foundation of the prophetic work. Without knowing the law, prophetic work cannot be completed properly. In my view, the Elisha work, which completes the work of Elijah, requires a double portion. In my experience, the double portion is not given without the revelation of the law. Those prophets today who do not know the law—especially these two key laws—will fail to establish righteousness in the earth. Either they will be partial in their judgments or they will reject the law that they see as lacking grace, mercy, and forgiveness.

But we have not been led in the same path, for we are not of the house of Saul. We have learned a better way in the cave of Adullam and in the wilderness where we have been driven out of the church for our revelation.