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The rise of the house of David, part 19

Round one of the Dragon War was a battle between the two covenants: Hagar and Sarah. The New Covenant was victorious, as seen in our New Covenant wedding in Victoria, TX.

Round two of the Dragon War was to overcome the children of the flesh, represented primarily by President Bill Clinton, who was a prophetic type of King Ahab. In this case, it can be seen as a battle between Ishmael and Isaac in their modern forms. The primary sign of Isaac was when Mark O’Meara won the Masters Golf Tournament, since his name means “son of laughter.”

Round three, as we will see, was about the birth of the “manchild” (Revelation 12:5 KJV) and the dragon’s attempt to kill him as soon as he was born.

God’s Sovereignty over Kings

The story of Isaac is based largely on the sovereignty of God. God is the One who chooses or “elects” people “according to the counsel of His own will” (Ephesians 1:11). He also is sovereign over the heart of kings, as we read in Proverbs 21:1,

¹ The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the Lord; He turns it wherever He wishes.

President Clinton represents King Ahab, and so we saw in 1998 how God turned his heart and caused him to pray, “Create in me a clean heart, O God” (Psalm 51:10). Ultimately, his prayer will be answered in the restoration of all things, but at that time, God merely exercised His sovereign power by humbling him for a moment.

God did a similar thing with King Nebuchadnezzar. God drove him insane for seven years, after which time, he recognized and declared the sovereignty of God (Daniel 4:33, 34). Years later, God turned the heart of Darius, king of Persia, causing him to declare the sovereignty of God over the second beast system (Daniel 6:26, 27).

God has done so with all of the beast empires. Hence, it was not without precedent for God to turn the heart of Bill Clinton. Nevertheless, these empires all failed to follow through on their declarations of God’s sovereignty. This was not due to God’s failure, but rather that it was not the purpose of God to convert the world in those days. Those empires had been raised up to bring judgment upon Jerusalem for “seven times” (7 x 360 years).

God could have poured out His Spirit in a sovereign way at any time during the days when the beast systems ruled the earth. He could have put an end to it at any moment. This was proven by the fact that each of their kings, at some point in history, were brought to the place where they had to acknowledge the sovereignty of God.

Hence, the point was proven, but God reserved the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit for the time after the beast empires had run their course according to the divine verdict.

This, then, is the underlying lesson seen in round two of the Dragon War. The Isaac company wins by God’s sovereign choice; and the Ishmael company, the children of the flesh, are overcome by the same sovereign God. Yet in losing this war, they actually win in the end, because God intends to fill the whole earth with His glory (Isaiah 6:3). Abraham was given the mandate to bless all nations, and Isaac was chosen to carry out that heavenly mandate.

Round Two Judgment on the Dragon

On August 17, 1998, Two days before Bill Clinton’s 52^nd birthday, the president went on national television to confess his sin with Monica Lewinsky. He was forced to do this on account of Monica’s testimony before the Grand Jury on August 6. He was angry and was not at all humble in this early news conference.

The same day, the Russian ruble reached its high point at 6.4 rubles to the dollar before Russia began to devalue its currency. It also defaulted on its bonds. The currency collapse began.

On August 26 the ruble dropped 40 percent in value, and trading was suspended until September 2^nd, when the ruble was valued at 13.5 per dollar. Financial markets began to collapse, and the hedge fund, Long Term Capital Management, which was heavily invested in the ruble, suddenly became insolvent.

“To save the U.S. banking system, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William McDonough convinced 14 banks to bail out LTCM. They spent $3.5 billion in return for a 90% ownership of the fund….

“Almost $100 billion worth of derivative positions could have unraveled, according to The Independent. Large banks throughout the world would have lost billions, forcing them to cut back on loans to save money to write down those losses. Small banks would have gone bankrupt. The Fed stepped in to soften the blow.

“Unfortunately, government leaders did not learn from this mistake. The LTCM crisis was an early warning symptom of the same disease that occurred with a vengeance in the 2008 global financial crisis.”

https://www.thebalance.com/long-term-capital-crisis-3306240

I took this financial crisis as a sign of the fall of the dragon after round two of the Dragon War. Yet this was not the end, because one more round had yet to be fought before the dragon was “disqualified,” even as Mike Tyson had been disqualified in the third round in 1997.

Rules of War

Recall that the Tyson-Holyfield fight (June 28, 1997) resulted in a third-round disqualification after Tyson bit Holyfield's ear twice. The first time the referee gave Tyson a warning. The second time he disqualified him. So Holyfield won by disqualification because of Tyson’s lawless behavior.

Paul warned us of this in 2 Timothy 2:5, saying,

⁵ Also if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules [i.e., lawfully].

We understood the competition in 1997 to be prophetic of three rounds of warfare in the Dragon Wars: 1997, 1998, and 1999. We knew that the dragon's disqualification would have to occur by the next Hebrew New Year (Rosh Hoshana) on Sept. 11, 1999.

Sept. 11, 1999 was also Jesus' 2000th birthday, and this was related to the birth of the manchild (Revelation 12:5). The Dragon Wars had to be concluded by that time in order to prevent the dragon from devouring the manchild.

Meanwhile, during that year we were to watch for two bites on the earlobes—the place where many wear pearl earrings. Keep in mind that Tyson's bites equated prophetically to the dragon eating pearls, first Hong Kong, and two months later Princess Diana.

Two Bites on the Ear

The first bite from the dragon came on Dec. 7, 1998, when my friend and colleague, Martin Paulat, died on Pearl Harbor Day. The second came a few months later on March 14 when Carl Petty died. Both were close friends who lived here in Minneapolis. Both were well known for their spiritual walk. Both had seen and done virtually every miracle in the Book. Both had the discernment to see the truth of the Restoration of All Things late in life. Both were, in many ways, my ears here, for I often relied upon their discernment and ability to hear the voice of God.

These dragon bites were the way that the overall battle manifested in our area of the battlefield. In the wisdom of God, as seen so often in Church history, God allows some of His children to be martyred in various ways. For this reason, many missionaries over the years have laid down their lives so that others may come later and reap a great harvest of souls. It is a point of law that even God must seek occasion in order to have a lawful claim on the enemy's property. This is seen in the story of Samson (Judges 14:4).

It appears that Martin and Carl completed their calling on earth by laying down their lives in order that we might have occasion against the dragon to finish the Dragon War.

Dragon’s End

We were led to call for a final prayer campaign of this war from August 19 to September 2, 1999. We were to call it Dragon's End. These dates were important in 1997, since we went on the trip to the Gulf Coast to set boundaries during that time (August 19 to September 1).

In July 1999 world events in Iran and China told me that Apollyon, the Prince of Persia, was going to help the dragon. In the days ahead, we received confirming evidence that this was so.

On August 19 (the first day of Dragon's End prayer campaign), Pastor Dan in Washington State called my friend John and asked him what the Lord was showing him these days. They decided to get together the next day to share discernments. So they met on August 20, and John explained to him that he was involved in a prayer campaign called Dragon's End. He said we were up against the red dragon and Apollyon, the Prince of Persia. John asked Dan if he had ever met me, since I used to live in the area. No, he said, we had never met.

Later that same day, some members of Pastor Dan's church went out to eat at their favorite restaurant not far from John's house. It happened to be located in Lynnwood, WA, the city where we had lived from 1993-1996. While at the restaurant, a woman named Heidi began to sense danger, death, and destruction. In the spirit she could hear screams and cries for help, along with a strange scratching sound. They finally had to leave the restaurant before completing their meal.

Then the high-pitched screams became louder and more intense. In the spirit she then saw a large creature screeching, clawing, and pounding the ground. Heidi was soon in full-scale intercession. They called Pastor Dan and asked if they could come to his house to obtain counsel.

When they arrived, they tried to figure out for whom they were interceding. When she asked God if it was for her children, she sensed only peace. When it was suggested that she was interceding for the Church, the Lord said it was much bigger than that. Finally, she asked Pastor Dan, “Do you know someone from out of state named Steve, who is fighting against Apollyon?”

Of course, Pastor Dan had just been discussing this with John earlier that same day. With renewed interest, Dan called John to get the full story.

John later called to tell me about it. I was then able to talk with Heidi directly to get the story first-hand. The bottom line is that Apollyon was screeching and was very upset, because he knew that he was being overthrown and cast down. His reaction was to pound the earth with his fist.

There was another part to this vision which involved China. She sketched the vision and sent it to me. I cannot say much about it here, because it involves sensitive information, but she described a friend of mine perfectly and confirmed his mission to China. Essentially, these dragon wars were designed to set China free from the red dragon. Hong Kong was merely a small indication of a greater work yet to come that would involve all of China being set free in the glorious liberty of the children of God.

We had thought at first that the dragon represented China itself, but we learned later that only the British monarchy and the City of London adopted the RED dragon in their insignias. The City of London is not London itself, but is an international financial center, or City State, located within the heart of London. This is the heart of the red dragon which has oppressed the whole world, including China itself. China uses many colors for its dragon families, such as white, blue, green, red, and gold. China is not the red dragon of Revelation 12.

The Dragon Wars ended on September 2, 1999 with the disqualification of both the red dragon and Apollyon for not fighting lawfully. These enemies were not fully overcome, however. We won by disqualification, not by a knock-out. The full victory would come in 2001, as I will show later.

The people of Apollyon and the dragon were disqualified. When the Dragon's End prayer campaign ended on Sept. 2, 1999, we were able to celebrate Jesus' 2000^th birthday on Sept. 11, 1999. Just as Jesus was protected from the red dragon of his day—King Herod—so also were the overcomers protected from the red dragon in our time.