Today I wanted to share a short Word. We had a revelation today. The Lord gave a dream that God was giving a scroll which had Zachariah 2 written on it. Let us read it:
“Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. So I said, “Where are you going?”
And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”
And there was the angel who talked with me, going out; and another angel was coming out to meet him, who said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying: ‘Jerusalem shall inhabit ( tr. be inhabited) as towns without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it. For I,’ says the Lord, ‘will be a wall of fire all around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.’ ”
“Up, up! Flee from the land of the north,” says the Lord; “for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven,” says the Lord. “Up, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.”
For thus says the Lord of hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye. For surely I will shake My hand against them, and they shall become spoil for their servants. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me.
“Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst,” says the Lord. “Many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and they shall become My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you. And the Lord will take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem. Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for He is aroused from His holy habitation!” (Zachariah 2)
It’s interesting, of course, I always wonder at prophets. “He told me to measure Jerusalem.” With a rope? Measure Jerusalem? Only an Angel can do this, it takes him few seconds; “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length”
It turns out, Zechariah is a young man. I don’t know, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was over forty. But the Lord looks at the spirit.
“Again I raised my eyes and looked, and behold…”
Do you know what you will see? You won’t see the old God. You will see God in a new way. Every time you raise your eyes and see God, you see a New thing. Just yesterday you were preparing a sermon, it was top fresh. But today this is “old stuff”, because something has happened during the night – you’ve reached somewhere. Even the Earth is rushing. It is flying in space. We are all flying. It is written that the years fly by like sound. That’s why you bring the old thing, and it’s already full of worms.
“And again I looked up and saw.” A man with a measuring tool. An Angel comes with a measure today. Today Angels do not come empty-handed. They don’t bring us apples and pears. They bring us a measure so that we understand times and seasons. And today measurements are relevant in the Angelic world.
Measures. By what measure do you measure? With it shall be measured to you, only with an adding. Measure the land. Now listen. How long have you measured the land? Do you know how many people live in your city? Do you know how many migrants there are? Do you measure your cities at all or not? “Measure the land,” says the Angel.
“If you have risen with Christ, then seek those things that are above, where Christ sits, at the right hand of God.” But you have to measure the land. And we need to reconsider the unit of measurement of land again.
What is your unit? What unit do you measure with? Our measures are millimeter, centimeter, decimeter, meter, kilometer. What unit is this? By what measure do we measure? It was the Angel’s rope. I don’t think it was a meter long. I don’t think the rope was measured in meters. Meter equals one hundred centimeters. It’s different with the Angels.
Actually, in the Bible they measured with elbows – it involves human thing. A man’s elbow is half a meter. You see how the Lord determined. It – it never says about meters, but about elbows.
Today, many pastors do not read the Bible – not only for months, but for years they do not read – they have completely lost the habit of the Holy Scriptures. They have rejected it. They look with their eyes and listen with their ears. First thing when you wake up, what do you need? – Your cell phone! You open the phone, look, forget that the Bible is there somewhere, and you start answering right there. You already get out of bed “on edge.”
We are in this century today. Your measure – where is the Bible in it? And man starts reshaping his thinking and psyche. He starts receiving cold stuff from those showcases, which someone has cooked. How do you know how he cooked it, how he lives. You don’t know what spring this water flows from.
There is no sermon more pure than reading Scripture! But many preachers preach today, and don’t even read the Word. Notice this, watch this. He comes forth to speak, but he doesn’t even read the Word, doesn’t open the Bible, the Scriptures, and he only speaks his own thing. Well, there, he will “pull up” a couple places, and even those he says distorted and incorrect. But as for reading the Word, there is no Word.
A serious person comes and thinks: “I want to find God. The guy is cool, but I didn’t come to him. I want to come to God. These thoughts, you know, are of no use to me. Yes, they are beautiful, but they will not help me. I need God.”
Read the Scripture! And what kind of measuring line do you have? What is your measure? What do you measure with? measure the truth, measure your land, measure your life? What have you got in your hand? Lace? Rags? Or what? I wish I could have seen how the Angel carried it. And in his hand was a measuring line
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He says: “I am going to measure Jerusalem to see how wide it is and how long it is. I go to measure it with a rope”. The rope can be wound up and put in your pocket. Come, unwind and try on again. The rope is always with you, it doesn’t take up much space.
And today the Lord is giving new measures. New, because these are new times. It’s not any last year’s thing, nor when you experienced spiritual uplift and even revelation. Today there is a different measure. God changes measure. Take this. God is changing the measure. Now there is a different measure. Now is the time of a different measure. New measure, which was never before.
God doesn’t make the past. He can call thing forth, but in a new way. This is a new measure! This is the time of a new measure. Find it in your life!
Measure Jerusalem? Wow. Remember what the Lord says? “Measure the temple and those who worship in it. And don’t count the outer courtyard. It was given to the Gentiles.”
That is, there will be a time when only the true people will be on the Lord’s list. And the visitors, the parishioners, so to speak, don’t even have to be counted. “Do not count the people of the outer court!” They are the Gentiles. The outer court was given over to the Gentiles. And sometimes we trade our souls, just so that a person may come. And the Lord counts, He examines, and He says to measure Jerusalem.
What does God mean when He says that this man has come with a rope, to measure Jerusalem to see what the breadth was and what the length was? Yes, Angels came to Sodom to see if the cry of the land met the truth. And they saw that the ratio was correct – the land was crying the truth.
“And there was the angel who talked with me, going out; and another angel was coming out to meet him, who said to him, “Run, speak to this young man…” That is, he calls this one an Angel here. At first, he sees him as a man with a rope and calls him not an Angel. After this man begins to speak, Zechariah now says, “And there was the angel who talked with me, going out; and another angel was coming out to meet him” – He already sees two Angels coming towards each other.
I believe that we stand in the midst of the presence of Angels. And you know, it is very dangerous to move against this movement. How can we move against the Angels? It starts in our head: we don’t believe. Then we start to think differently. We don’t think the way God thinks. Then we lean towards the side of evil in our head against our neighbor or allow some other things that, like rotten thoughts, emit a stench. And then the Angels have to sweep us away: either violently, or simply ignore our presence. Because they stop using us in harmony of God’s movement. And we have nothing left but a swamp. Stay alert to your thoughts. Because we are in the Angelic presence.
And he told him: “Go fast. Run and tell this young man.” The Angels do not hesitate. Angels do not put off until tomorrow. The Angels don’t wait until Monday. The angels say “fast”. The angel was higher in rank than the other, and he commanded that Angel to speed up.
What about your speeds? What’s on your spiritual calendar? Internal movement is the first thing that should be inside the calendar. When will you fast? When are you planning a big one? When do you plan to read the book of Isaiah from start to finish? When do you plan to reconcile with this person? When do you plan to move to Antioch? Your internal movement, internal calendar? Do you have it scheduled or not?
And so it is with the external calendar as well, when you have events that you need to be prepared for? This is why many of us are not successful. They give energy, but there is no success. Because there is no agreement with God’s calendar, there is no synchronization, there is no connection.
I like that he says, “Tell this young man. Go fast and tell this young man.” I see that they were peering at him, at this Zechariah. They were watching him, and they put hope in him. Because Angels move in the spiritual world, but people live on earth. With God, the redemptive work of Christ has to happen through people. Angels move things in the spirit world. They manifest themselves to God’s people – those who are worthy and able. But people move things, they move events on this earth. People save people by the power of the Living God.
And they looked in hope at this young man, they were looking closely. Until they revealed themselves to him, he wouldn’t see them. But they saw him. They were watching him, the way Angels watch you in your room.
“Go fast and tell this young man.” – I l add it from myself: “He is ready.” “Go quickly and tell this young man. Because he is the only one here amidst all of Jerusalem. He must be preserved. Tell him quickly. I believe he is ready. He’s ready to run with this message.”
What do the Angels say about you? “Don’t go to him. He never listens.” What do the Angels say about you? What do they tell each other about you?
Jerusalem shall inhabit the neighborhood, because there will be so many people and animals. Now listen. This is meat. The angel did not say, “Jerusalem shall be inhabited.” The angel said: “Jerusalem shall inhabit the neighborhood.” This is first time in my life I hear this. Usually cities are inhabited. But the city itself is not inhabited by anyone. But here it is written that Jerusalem itself shall inhabit. But does this require a rope? How will it inhabit? Jerusalem itself will inhabit all its neighborhoods because there will be many people and animals in it. Jerusalem will grow. There will be no end of Jerusalem. And all things there will become keen to Jerusalem. And this means that there will be one nature, the same DNA – both on the outskirts and on the periphery, and in the center, near the temple.
And here is the Angel. I like it the way he says: “Go quickly!” Quicker! I feel such fatherly love here, as the Angel tells the other one to tell this young man. “Jerusalem shall inhabit the neighborhoods.” This is a ministry to youth, it’s wonderful!
Today the Lord wants to speak to young men, and Israel still had to accept young men.
This is also focus on growth, get focused on growth. There is no need to say that people are leaving, and this is the Lord cleansing, you have to believe it.
Take this revelation, change the speed, change the measure, and begin to believe and focus on growth.
Look at every person that God sends the next day as if he were yours, lift up the lion’s grip. “I shall be for him,” says the Lord, “a wall of fire around him, and I will be glorified in his midst.”
““Up, up! Flee from the land of the north,” says the Lord; “for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven,” says the Lord. “Up, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon”.
Why do many say today: “they have become weak and hardened, because they loved the world.” How can you be defiled if you are free in the Lord? Are you in the world or in the church? Even in church, people may be in prison, they come to meetings with complexes, closed, downtrodden, intimidated, but in the world, it happens that a man walks with God and is not defiled at all.
“For thus says the Lord of hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye. For surely I will shake My hand against them, and they shall become spoil for their servants. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me.”
Who Me? Here Christ comes forth. We read the book of Zechariah, but this is not an Angel speaking. What Angel can say this: “I will shake My hand against them, and you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me.”
Sent, that is, sent to the nations, here is Christ the Apostle. And the Apostolic Church must go to the nations.
“Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst,” says the Lord. “Many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and they shall become My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you. And the Lord will take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem. Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for He is aroused from His holy habitation.”
The sign to the nations that is spoken of here is Christ among us, in the Body, in the Church.
The nations shall be drawn, they shall come to the Church in which Christ dwells, then the Lord will take possession of Judah – His inheritance in the holy land – and will come to Jerusalem again.
There all flesh is silent before the face of the Lord, for He rises from His holy habitation! The Lord will visit and choose the elect, the flesh must be silent, and the Lord is already coming to do it, He rises from His holy habitation to do this work – so that Christ may be glorified.