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June
15, 2006
Shalom from
Jerusalem!
Here is
the rest of Sister Isabel Weems' summary from
Pastor Shelley's recent sermons that I promised to
send you. It reflects some of what he
learned when he was recently taken to the heavenly
realms and the Throne and what he researched after his
experience. These are things God wants His
Bride to know as we get closer to His
Coming.
Angels
Angels were an important part of
the ministry of Jesus Christ, Y'shua. In fact,
when His ministry was about to move to another
level, He announced that something was about to
happen. From henceforth you
will see the angels of God ascending and descending on
the Son of Man.
In the Garden of
Gethsemane, when He was in agony and his best friends
had fallen asleep, it wasn't any of His disciples that
wiped the sweat from His brow. The Bible said that
the angels came and ministered to Him.
Angels are camped all around us. They stay
right with us and never die. They
hear everything we say and see everything we
do. Of course we don't want to look at
them as though they were spies that are going to go
tattle on us to the Father, but we do want to be
concerned.
They are listening to our confession,
and there's often a deep conflict between the
Word of God and the confession we're making about
it. Pastor Shelley told us it is a
travesty to say we're the Bride of Christ in one breath
and say about 2/3 of the rest of the stuff that we say
in the next breath. We need to ask the Lord to let
our language reflect who and what we are.
God has seen our struggle and that's why
He is sending angels to assist, minister and help
us. May they come and drop down the dew
of God's mercy on us and give us understanding of what
He has done for us. May they give us understanding
of the Word that is going forth and minister to us the
attributes of God.
We aren't all to expect to
see a physical angel standing before us. Many will
see angels and they will announce their
destiny. Others will have the experience of
angels who will speak to them through other people,
although they will know that God is
announcing their destiny. Somehow
they are going to get a message across and we are going
to know that God is speaking, because angels
are messengers of God who bring the Word of God to us.
It's not enough to know what God wants us
to do. We need to know what
the next step is to be. If we will
just be sincere before Him, then God is going to let us
know. We just need to believe God's Word, aware
that as we serve the Lord Y'shua, we have armies
fighting for us. There are more for us than
against us. Open our eyes, Lord.
We have been
amazed as Pastor Shelley has pointed out to us that
hundreds and hundreds of times Brother Branham mentioned
angels. We've heard it and read it, but most of it
went over our heads. In his meetings,
Brother Branham would pray that the angels of the Lord
would come into the building and take their
position in every corner, beside every pew and beside
every believer. Each time he prayed a little
different request.
Sometimes he prayed
for them to minister conviction and
sometimes to bring understanding or
anoint people's faith for healing.
He would usually pray for them to come as the
sermon was coming to a close and he was getting ready to
pray a blessing over the Word of God and begin the
prayer lines. Many times when he was praying for
someone, at that moment he would start praying that the
angels of the Lord would come.
Brother
Branham spoke of recording angels,
gathering angels and even investigating judgment
angels, those heavenly spies who are sent to
see what is going on in the earth in preparation for
judgment.
There's an increase in
the prophetic anointing in the earth right now.
Angels are appearing to men and women all over the
world. Signs and wonders are taking place among
the Bridal company. It means that we are
at another junction of time.
We
want to be like Zacharias, who was able to have
a visitation from an angel because he had a righteous
household. He was keeping the
Commandments of God. If God is about to release
angels into our lives to help us out, we want to start
making preparation to step into whatever it is that they
are going to announce that has been planned for our
destiny. Then when God tells us what we're going
to do, we're going to have to come to terms with it.
Most of all, if we want all God has for
us, we've really got to watch our spirit.
God is revealing to us that we
have so much help that we have no excuse not to make
it. We have a Savior, the Holy Ghost and
the host of heaven behind us. We have a five-fold
ministry and we're able to reap the benefit of their
ministry. God uses the five-fold ministry to dress His
Bride in the Word.
We've got recording angels
writing it all down and warrior angels ready to fight.
We've got angels that gather standing around ready
to remove the obstacles out of our lives and cause
breakthroughs to come. These angels don't
do their own will and they're not called to do our
will. They will do His Commandments in a
way that's just like the ministry of the Lord Jesus,
Y'shua.
When we see the Father doing something,
when we know the mind of the Spirit,
then that's the permission and the
authority that we need.
104
times in the Bible, angels visibly appeared to
men.
108 times angels
are generically mentioned in the Old
Testament.
32 times there
is mention made of angelic help or assistance in
the Torah.
37 times angels
are mentioned specifically, relating to
the building of the Kingdom or the nation of Israel.
The Psalms refer
to angels helping, protecting and delivering the people
of God.
Daniel tells
more than any other prophet. He even revealed the
names of Michael and Gabriel.
The Torah and the
Gospels are filled with the ministry of
angels.
Acts records
6 different references to angels coming and
ministering to the early Church.
65 different times the
Book of Revelation speaks of angels and angelic
ministry.
Even with the Holy Ghost given
to the early Church, the ministry of angels was still
important for assisting the New Testament believers.
We're not going to pray to angels, worship
them or fixate on them. But we are going
to make room in our lives for angelic intervention
because we need all the help we can get and we welcome
their help.
When Pastor Shelley told us
that in one of his visions in Jerusalem he saw men and
women who had lived in the past teaching
angels, it no doubt left all of us wondering
why that would be necessary. Bob Jones
gave Pastor Shelley a very good reason for the
classes when they recently met.
He said he
was ministering one night in a place and his eyes were
opened to see angels all around him. The Lord told
him, "These are miracle angels.
They have come for the specific purpose of
bringing miracles into this building." He said it
was powerful, and as they prayed for the people till
after midnight, just about every person that was
prayed for was receiving a miracle. Some
of them were very obvious, powerful miracles.
He said that he went home to bed
and at five o'clock in the
morning was awakened to see that standing
around his bed were these angels, which he recognized to
be the same angels that had been helping to bring
miracles into the building the night before. They
were smiling at him and began to tell him they were
ready to go again. They were like little
children with lots of energy and
excitement. They told him they
wanted to go to the hospital or the nursing home to see
some more miracles.
He explained to
them that he wasn't able to get up and do that at 5:00
in the morning. They were anxious to know how soon
he would be able to go. After he prayed about it,
the Lord told him to tell the angels that he would
be ready in two days. That's when he learned
that they don't understand our
limitations. He realized that if they are
ever going to minister effectively, they were going to
have to understand the limitations that humans have that
they have never
experienced.
The
very fact that Brother Shelley saw angels coming and
going and the very fact that people have been seeing all
different kinds of things such as breakthrough angels is
an absolute sign that we are at the end of this church
stuff. What God is about to do from here
on out is going to be supernatural stuff - big
stuff!
For every demon spirit that's
telling us we are not a part of the Bride, there are no
doubt a dozen angels trying to scream, "You are
a part of God. You are a part of God."
It's up to us who we listen
to.
Prophet-Seers
There are three basic divisions of
prophetic ministry which share what God is saying to us.
Generally, anyone may prophesy by a gift of
prophecy, while others have been given the office of a
prophet. God also has prophets that are
seers. A seer is able to look upon what
God shows him and is able to describe what he
sees. The delivery can be quite
different.
Sometimes
a seer may have a hard time articulating what he saw in
the Spirit. The vision realm leaves a lot of
room for different understandings of what something
might represent. We need to remember that
the gift of seeing visions can also happen in someone's
life who is not in the office of a seer. Also,
although all seers are prophets, not all prophets are
seers.
Brother Branham was a prophet
who was also a seer. He saw things in the Spirit
realm and described them. He was a man who was
dependent on the Angel of the Lord.
There are prophets who are still alive
who are able to directly know the will and the mind of
God and share it with us, because God still has prophecy
going on in the Body of Christ. When people
who are not prophets share what the Lord speaks to them,
their gift operates more like a flowing
forth. Maybe a few words will come to
mind, and when they start to be spoken, then a whole
message will come forth.
The
Judge
On Sunday morning (June
4th), Pastor Shelley saw in vision a blast of
Fire coming forth. It was so sobering
because that was the last thing that happened in
Daniel's vision before full authority was given
to the Son (Daniel
7:9-14).
Y'shua
came in a physical body, God in flesh, and He saved the
lost and performed miracles, but He has never ruled as
Judge. He has now come to full authority.
He's about to step into that role that was given
to Him by the Ancient of Days (the Eternal Spirit
of the Father), making Him the Ancient of Days.
That's the incarnation.
There are many
indications both in the Word of God and in the prophetic
realm that the Savior is about to be the
Judge. By God's transfer of all authority
to the Son, He will not only be Prophet, Priest and
King, but He will also be the Judge.
The
greatest part is that the first thing the Judge is going
to do when He takes up His full authority in that
authority shift is to render justice to His own
people. All that satan has ripped out of our
lives and every injustice that has ever been carried out
against God's people since the beginning of time, He
will make right.
Conclusion
of Summary
There's a
full knowledge that can only be received from
the Throne, that place in the Spirit that is
above us, higher than we're living now. The Bible
said, We're seated with Him in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus. We are
to be set with Him in His Throne.
In the Book of
the Revelation there are over twelve scenes that take
place before the Throne of God. They are so
glorious that all else that's happening in the earth
pales in comparison to what is happening around the
Throne. It's going to take a new level of
surrender on our part and a new level of sensitivity for
God to open up that new realm in the Spirit to us.
God is going to have to help us
change the tone of our voice, and He'll do that by
changing the tone of our spirit,
because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh. Whatever is in our heart and spirit
manifests in many ways.
We don't want to offend
one another. There's a time to play with one
another and a time to be respectful of one another.
We don't want to rush in on someone who's just
been ministered to by an angel. We need to walk
sensitively. We need to think. There's a
sensitivity that we all want to have for one another,
and it's going to become so important.
Very, very soon it's going to be very,
very important how we relate to one another because God
is doing something.
When
what we have lost has been restored, we'll go forth with
power and authority to perform a quick, short work
that's going to cause every lost seed of God to
be saved. We'll be warriors in the last
battle. The battle plan will be clearly given from
the Throne with THUS SAITH THE LORD, and
the angels will stay by our side to assist
us.
These same angels that minister to us have
the ability to go out into the highways, byways and
hedges in order to bring people to God.
Some will be seen and some unseen - some
speaking through us and some using other human vessels
to speak to us. They will assist in any
way they are directed from the Throne.
As we wait in anticipation,
God is ministering peace to His
children. We can possess our peace and even
control it. We're not going to pray more, fast
more or shout more to get it. The only way
we are ever going to get it is to believe for it and
then receive it.
In
Closing
This
past weekend Pastor Shelley preached very powerful
messages on the absolute sovereignty of
God that was revealed to him before
the Throne. God is
REALLY in charge! We can
relax in that knowledge! I hope to share
the essence of these messages with you
soon.
Don't forget to consider attending at
least some of the 2006 International Campmeeting
in Alabama if you will be in that area this
summer. The dates are July 16 -
30. For more information
see:
To participate in any of the
Alabama services by computer, click on the box
for "Live Services" at the top right of Pastor
Shelley's website, www.revival.org.
Please pray for Pastor Shelley's
upcoming trip at the end of this month to go to
Iceland to record many more programs to be
broadcast on his program "The Eagle's Cry" on the Gospel
Channel via satellite TV. It will entail many days
of long hours of preaching to a
camera!
And keep us, here in
Jerusalem, in your prayers as the Lord brings us to
your remembrance! We appreciate you so much and are
encouraged by your kind words and
support!
Blessings
from Jerusalem!
Nancy Bergen
Jerusalem
Revival Center
PO Box 1402
Jerusalem 91013,
Israel
Tel. & Fax: 972-2-5825301
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