A feast on the mountain

A feast on the mountain

A Scripture place, Isaiah 25:

“And in this mountain the Lord of hosts will make” – God shall yet make! God is not waiting for us to do what He once said. God shall yet make Himself. “In this mountain” – mountain means achievements; achievements of the Lord inside man; it is actually both achievements of the Lord Himself and achievements of the Lord through you in this world. Mountain symbolizes achievement. Therefore, achieve! Do not live a relaxed life! Discipline yourself, hold yourself in your hand! As long as you discipline yourself, as long as you have responsibility, you live. Because God determined for man what is called labor. When man stops laboring, this is already a season of death. When man has no higher cause, what he lives for – I am not talking about a manner of spending your time, but a higher purpose you live for. When its an old person on pension – there’s no goal, the person simply lives to the end, perhaps there are grandchildren… But how about something else and not just eat, drink and sleep? That’s awful, I wouldn’t want such a season in my life. Better leave earlier than live in such a season, when there’s no labor. Therefore, pull yourself together, gird yourselves, labor as you live and live in labor, because labor is life. And Adam was given this as he was leaving Eden, that in the sweat of his face he should eat his bread, not only every day bread, but that which gives life to others.

Therefore, achieve. Leave former achievements and go forth to the further ones. Don’t keep the old ones, go to the further ones, take new achievements, don’t sit in one place, but take new thing, do new thing! “Behold! I make all things new!” The Lord makes always new thing!

The Lord says, He will make it “for all people” – it means there’s an open access to this mountain, for any kind of people, not only ethnical, but social, cultural, educational, economical – for all the peoples in the world, for the poor, for Asians, for Europeans, for educated and non-educated, with a lower intellectual level or ability to socially adopt, with different health and appearance etc. For all the peoples the access is open to the top. No one is given a red card, no one is banned an entrance – go to the very top!

“And in this mountain

The Lord of hosts will make

A feast of choice pieces,

A feast of wines on the lees” – You know when we eat unripe mandarins and oranges with bananas, and we are used to eating of not choice pieces. But we need to understand that choice pieces means on time, it means juicy, ripe

“Of fat things full of marrow,

Of well-refined wines on the lees’ – these are revelations of the essence. Not structural revelations, not even revelations of comfort, not of flattering, not false revelations, but of the essence and sacred sense, and revelations of the revealed Word. This food must be on our tables, brothers, at your pulpets!

“And He will destroy on this mountain

The surface of the covering cast over all people,

And the veil that is spread over all nations.” – The covering of ignorance, the covering of blindness. The covering is there, because they don’t turn to Christ. And even many Christians must turn to Christ, because when they turn to Christ, the veil is taken off the hearts. And the Lord shall destroy the covering, the covering of ignorance.

“He will swallow up death forever.” Yes, the victory of the Calvary has already come. But the victories of the church are still on the way. You can’t say that the church has victory everywhere. The church must demonstrate the full victory over the death, when she has swallowed this death. And today some prophetic people preach about immortality. But I think, it is in the sense, if to speak of the natural, it is when you overcome diseases, prolong your life, and by the power of your spirit out of your inner strength of your mighty spirit – you know, it is written that those who fulfill the Word are mighty – they push out a disease and preliminary death, and move in a higher spiritual dynamics than their body is capable of. So far we can’t be immortal on this earth, but this incredible power of God is in us, which can manifest, and it did in people like John G. Lake and other apostolic-prophetic people who overcame in their lives. They rose back from the dead and lived on for many years. They overcame the diseases by the prayers and faith of God’s people. This is all the power of the unceasing spirit in us. I think of to take away the spirit out of my body – and the spirit gives neither physical food nor drink – my body would be in a bad condition, perhaps totally ill, but I stand full of strength because the Holy Spirit gives me strength.

And so we all can do, even cross the boundaries, pour out healing on others, pour out inspiration, strength, fire – when spirit prevails in us, when it rules in our bodies. Therefore, give place to the Spirit to rule your lives, when our bodies submit to the spiritual life. And bring your body in order, some of you are killing it through your mouth. Don’t do this. And watch your tong as well, because the tong causes much trouble, so it is written in God’s Word

“And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces”- the spirit of sorrow and death shall leave – “The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth” – this will be a return of the church, return of Israel. The rebuke of His people He will take away, when instead of neglecting the church they will say, “I want to be with them, what you do outside church meetings is incredible!” Yes, our works outside the church meetings will touch people, not what we do in them.

“For the Lord has spoken.

And it will be said in that day:

“Behold, this is our God;

We have waited for Him, and He will save us.

This is the Lord;

We have waited for Him;

We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”

These are the words, but when they are revealed that we can say them on the mountain only, and we enter there prophetically, in faith, and we sing these words from the mountain – then these are prophetic actions, and this is the prophetic table we are talking about. What we need today is not good sermons, but we need to leap in faith, and I am calling you there!