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Spirit Travel
Last month, Pastor Shelley
preached a series of messages on the subject, "Spirit Travel." Because of his
own experiences with traveling in the
spiritual realm and those of other prophetic
leaders, he felt that it was important to lay the Scriptural
foundations for it so that the Bride will be more prepared to
experience it.
Spirit travel can result in
being physically transported or spiritually
transported. There are many instances of this in the
Scriptures as well as in our modern times.
In this update, I have
presented the "Old Testament" Biblical
references that Pastor Shelley preached about as well as
some quotes from the sermons.
In a few days, I plan to send
an update with the "New Testament" references and
some modern experiences.
I believe that
these messages will soon be available
for download on Pastor Shelley's website, www.revival.org.
Enoch -
Translated
(Gen 5:22) And Enoch walked with
God after he begot Methuselah three hundred years, and
begot sons and daughters:
(Gen 5:24) And
Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took
him.
(Heb 11:5) By faith
Enoch was translated that he should not see death;
and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his
translation he had this testimony, (that he was
not) that he pleased God.
Enoch entered into a
place of fellowship, communion and unity with God until
there was nothing left of his will, himself. Somehow
Enoch emptied himself and positioned himself so he could see the
disestablishment of law.
He emptied himself of his desires and became
love. He so emptied himself that God was able to fill
him with love, such that he was transformed. There had
to be some kind of change for Enoch to go into that other
realm.
Moses - Saw the
Tabernacle in Heaven
(Exo 25:9)
According to all that I show thee, after the
pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments
thereof, even so shall ye make it.
(Act
7:44) Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness,
as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it
according to the fashion that he had
seen.
He saw it. Moses traveled by
the Spirit. Moses was caught up in the Spirit into
the Throne Room. He saw the pattern of things in the
heavens. Supernaturally he was able to remember it and
describe it down to the last detail according to the pattern which
he had seen.
He was caught up into another
dimension. He was commissioned to release it on the
earth. And because that revelation was released, the craftsmen
could build it.
Moses - Sees the
Past As God's Glory Passes By
(Exo 33:22) And it shall
come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a
cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand (power) while I
pass by:
(Exo 33:23) And I will
take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back
parts: but my face shall not be seen.
I believe that when he had the experience on
the mountain, he was able to look back all the way to the Creation and
see it as it played out, and also all the way to the
future.
Even Enoch
saw a day beyond our day. He said, "I saw the Lord
come with ten thousands of His saints."
In the realm of the spirit, there is no
chronos time. It is only eternity. Moses was caught up
in the realm of the spirit. I believe there is a realm
where we can get caught up like Moses
was.
Elijah - Ran
Faster than Ahab's Chariot
(1Ki
18:38) Then the fire of the LORD
fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the
stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the
trench.
(1Ki 18:46) And
the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his
loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of
Jezreel.
I was surprised to find
out that most liberal theologians think that was supernatural.
There’s only one thing that I can think of that would enable a
natural man to run faster than a chariot pulled by horses and that
is by the power of the Spirit of God.
Elijah -
Reputation for Appearing and Disappearing
(1Ki 18:12) And it shall
come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the
Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and
so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay
me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.
This is the reputation that Elijah has – that
he appears and disappears, he’s carried here and he’s carried
there. He had a reputation of traveling in the
spirit, of stepping into that other realm, of being carried
by the Spirit.
Elijah - Carried
to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire by a
Whirlwind
(2Ki 2:11) And it came to pass, as they still went on,
and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and
horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah
went up by a whirlwind into
heaven.
Ezekiel - Carried
by the Spirit to the River of Chebar
(Eze 3:12) Then
the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a
great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his
place.
(Eze 3:13) I heard also
the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one
another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise
of a great rushing.
(Eze 3:14) So the
spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in
bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the
LORD was strong upon me.
(Eze 3:15) Then I came to
them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of
Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished
among them seven days.
Ezekiel - Lifted
Up by the Spirit to Jerusalem
 (Eze 8:1) And it came to pass in the
sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I
sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that
the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon
me.
(Eze 8:2) Then I beheld,
and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of
his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as
the appearance of brightness, as the color of
amber.
(Eze 8:3) And he put
forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of mine
head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the
heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the
door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the
seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to
jealousy.
(Eze 8:4) And, behold,
the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision
that I saw in the plain.
He was physically picked up by this
Being of Fire. In Hebrew it means he was
shaken from the head. Do it, Lord!
He was in Babylon. This is 592 BC – six years
after the Jews have been taken to Babylon from Jerusalem.
The Hand brings him in the visions of God to Jerusalem. This
is spiritual travel.
This
is an amazing thing. The Jews are longing to know what is
going on in Jerusalem. He was carried into a realm, a
dimension, to Jerusalem. He was able to know what was
going on in Jerusalem and it matched what he had already been shown
in the plain. This confirmed what he had been
shown.
Ezekiel - Brought to the Temple To Prophesy
Restoration Over Jerusalem
(Eze 11:1) Moreover
the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the
east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at
the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah
the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the
people.
(Eze 11:24)
Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision
by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the
captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from
me.
(Eze 11:25) Then I spoke
unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had showed
me.
Ezekiel was back and forth to
Jerusalem in the spirit. He could have gotten many
frequent flier miles.
This is what is so
powerful – God let him decree a powerful Word over Jerusalem
and then carried him back. God takes him from Babylon in the spirit to Jerusalem, he sees
the sickened condition, prophesies a Word of restoration over
Jerusalem and all of heaven heard. That’s the power of
prophetic release!
Ezekiel - Carried
in the Spirit to the Valley of Dry Bones
(Eze 37:1) The hand of the LORD was
upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me
down in the midst of the valley which was full of
bones,
The whole book of Ezekiel
is that "He picked me up and brought me there,"
etc.
Ezekiel -
Transported to a Temple in Jerusalem that Did Not Yet
Exist
(Eze
43:1) Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the
gate that looketh toward the east:
(Eze 43:2) And, behold,
the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and
his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with
his glory.
(Eze 43:3) And it was according to the appearance of
the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when
I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision
that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my
face.
(Eze 43:4) And the glory
of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose
prospect is toward the east.
(Eze 43:5) So the
spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court;
and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the
house.
Here he was taken to a Temple which did not
yet exist. He was physically transported in the spirit
to a place that had not yet come to be. He was
carried to a future time in the spirit.
Not Just For the
Prophets and Disciples
I do not believe it was just for the
disciples or those in the Old and New Testaments. All
of creation groaneth. Why would creation be groaning if the
laws of the spirit were not to supercede the laws of
nature?
If you get carried away, there will be a change.
You will be different.
I feel like there
is going to be a sudden release at some point. That
release that I’m seeing is a real anointing over our eyes, an eye
salve so we are able to see. I believe there is going to come
anointed vision where we can really
see.
I see there will be more
dreams released, but some of you are going to come out of dream
cycles into visions and supernatural experiences
with God.
Prophetic Conference in Alabama - February
6-9
We are excited to announce
that Pastor Shelley is hosting a prophetic
conference at his church in Smiths Station, Alabama,
February 6-9, with the theme, "Releasing the Spirit of
Prophecy." The scheduled
speakers are Paul Keith Davis, Randy
DeMain and Pastor Steven
Shelley.
  
For conference details and
registration, go to:
If you are able to attend,
register soon, because
there is limited seating!
Pastor
Shelley's Schedule
December 29th - January 2nd, Pastor
Shelley will be a guest speaker along with Paul Keith
Davis at the Honouring the
Fathers of Revival Conference at Red
Deer, Alberta, Canada, sponsored by Frontline
Worship Centre, pastored by Peter and Cathryn
Nash. This conference will also be able to be
streamed by computer. For conference details, click
here.
Then Pastor Shelley will be
spending the first part of January
in India, invited by Sadhu Sundar
Selvaraj to preach at his special youth camp
meetings in northern India.
He will also spend several
days in Bro. Sadhu's Angel
TV studios taping "The Eagle's Cry" programs with
translation into the Indian language for broadcast on the Angel TV
satellite network. It is wonderful that his program
has become quite popular
there!
Angel TV is uplinked
from Israel to the satellites! Beginning in January,
the Angel TV programs are scheduled to be webcast
on www.angeltv.org.
In
Closing
The Lord has graciously made
it possible for me to be able to go to Alabama for Pastor Shelley's
prophetic conference! It is really a miracle! I
am scheduled to leave Jerusalem on January 24th and be
back on February 21st. I hope to see some of you
there!
We are so
grateful for the Lord's faithfulness to use you to help us
pay our basic living expenses here in Jerusalem! You have
provided some wonderful blessings to help us fulfill our prophetic
mandate here! And thank you so much to those who have
sincerely prayed for us!
Even though Hanukkah, the
season of miracles, is over, please keep
sending your miracle blessings! I will
need to pay our utilities and quarterly rent before I leave for
Alabama. Whatever you can do to help will be so
appreciated!
(Heb
11:6) But
without faith it
is impossible to please
him: for he that cometh to
God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them
that diligently seek him.
May we be those who
diligently seek the Lord and wait in His
Presence until we are able to walk in supernatural realms by the Spirit
like many of His saints have done!
Blessings, Grace and
Shalom from Jerusalem!
Nancy Bergen
Jerusalem Revival Center
PO Box 1402
Jerusalem 91013, Israel
Tel.
& Fax: 972-2-5825301
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