We want to say at the start how saddened we are for all that
was lost during the recent fire at Notre Dame. We also want to join our hearts
in empathy for the French people and their broken hearts at this loss. Beyond
attempts to step into the prophetic context we do not forget for a moment what
this iconic building has meant to Paris, France and Europe. We weep with those
who weep.
Let us press on to what I believe we may glean and learn
from this tragic event.
Yesterday morning I woke up and was impressed to read the
following scripture. This was before I had turned on the news.
John 15:1-6 (NASB)
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch
in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that
bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. You are
already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and
I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the
vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are
the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart
from Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me,
he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them and cast them
into the fire, and they are burned.”
Before I go on, let’s put this more into a historic context.
This past Sunday was Palm Sunday and begins the Holy Week leading up to
Passover and the celebration on Resurrection Sunday.
God has been speaking to many of us about crossing into the promise land. A
few things we recognize that Moses was dead! (The name Moses means, “Drawn Out.”)
He served his purpose to draw the people out of a futile life of bondage into
the life God had intended for them. The old leadership of the nation was over; a
new leader was on the scene. In this hour we are being brought out from under leadership
that is bound by the traditions of the past. We are being set free from the powerless
form of godliness into a living reality of His Kingdom.
Moses was a leader that brought the people out of slavery. He led them through
the wilderness where they still carried the stigma of Egypt and a slave mentality.
A whole generation had to pass away so a new generation would come forth
without servitude perspective but with the knowledge we are sons and daughters of
the King.
In the wilderness we talked about, preached about, and sang about the
Gospel of Salvation. This is a new generation that is now moving into the promise
land and we are declaring the Gospel of the Kingdom. We are not only crossing
over but experiencing the Gilgal of history where the Ekklesia of God has the
full stigma of sin and the world system rolled off.
On God’s calendar, the 9th of Nissan, the children of Israel began crossing
the Jordan River under the leadership of Yashua Ben Nun--Joshua son of Nun. Joshua
means, “Yehovah IS Salvation.” On the natural calendar for 2019, April 14 would
be the same day as the 9th of Nissan. We commemorate the children of
Israel crossing over into the promise land on the 10th of Nissan or
this year, April 15th. It is also noteworthy they celebrated Passover
on 14th of Nissan, which on the natural calendar is April 19, 2019. On the 16th Nissan or April 17th the miracle of the Manna ended and they began to occupy the promise land. They had to get cows for milk and some bees for honey and tend them. They did not arrive at a place to lay down and rest, they were in a place to build, remove their enemies and go to work.
We are in the time of fulfillment of the promise that He would
shake everything that could be shaken. The foundation of Notre Dame and its solid
walls are still standing. The Bells are still there to ring out His praise. But
the inside, the guts if you will have been removed. The Word says, “first the
natural, then the spiritual!” What happened to Notre Dame is a prophetic
picture of what will happen to the institution commonly called, “The Church.”
The wood, hay and stubble will be burned up. The pretense of what people have interpreted
as God’s will, revelation and appropriate worship will be confronted by fact, “our
God is a consuming fire.”
We realize this will be a good thing in the end. Even if the enemy of our souls meant this for evil, God will turn it around. This is not just destructive in
the sense of simply tearing down but a building up. The fact is somethings must be broken before
we realize it needs to be fixed. When He said, “perfect them in Unity.” The
Father intends to answer that prayer. Fire has a purging, purifying and
refining quality. And what we saw before our very eyes was the beginning this
process in earnest. There is no, “Oikos – Building,” that will be exempt anywhere
in the world. It is the Jeremiah anointing to tear down. It is the pruning of
the vine. All this is so that we may build better than we were and bear far more
fruit. Look at this from heavens perspective and see this will ultimately be
for good.
Our Yashua of Nazareth (Yashua Ben Yehovah) is leading His Bride into the Promise Land, without spot or blemish.
Daniel 12:9-10 (NASB)
He said, “Go your way, Daniel,
for these words are concealed and sealed up until the end time. Many
will be purged, purified and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly;
and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will
understand.
