Rev 12:12: “Therefore rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.”
That is, the earth here represents a place where the devil has come down. But this doesn’t mean that the earth is cursed. The earth can absorb either blessing or curse. It is a substance, but it is also a collective idea. Things spoken to earth aren’t addressed to sand or clay.
And the Scripture says the devil is on earth. He is in the air, but he is on earth. We need to understand this, when we speak of mission, cities, church growth- we have to understand that cities are the places of habitation of spirits of darkness. Last night many of you had bad dreams, you experienced struggle, because the devil dwells on earth, and he is in the condition of rage – this is what the Holy Scripture says.
This is not any disturbance – he is in rage, he hates people, God…
Rev 12:13: “And when the dragon ( do not forget that the devil and the dragon are the same) saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.”
The dragon sees himself and he sees himself cast to the earth. This helps me a lot when I realize that the devil sees himself. When I face darkness in the eyes, or a man in whom darkness is, I see the devil, God gave me discernment, and I see the devil’s eyes, and he is in rage. He always hates me. I remember I preached a while ago that I am ordered with his killers, I am on his list, and he hunts me; and he is breaking through to destroy,because he is in rage. And the dragon pursecutes the woman.
Rev 12:14: “And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time from the face of the serpent. ” That is, the woman has wings. This is her response to the actions of the dragon – her wings! It doesn’t say here that the woman attacked, killed him or wounded him. It is written that the woman’s response to the dragon’s rage were her wings.
Wings are our major weapon. Wings!
Some of the birds have not striking organ, a weak beak, but big wings.
Wings are what we need to learn today – to soar, to rise up, to ascend. We rise up to see high, from above, higher and higher. What can you see from inside your little church, which you wouldn’t show to others? Yes, we are strengthened by the love of the Lord, but the progress is not clear to everyone, as it is written, “so that your progress may be clear to everyone” (1Tim.4:14) That is classic, this is the base of a normal development of a Christian’s faith, so that his progress may be clear. And the wings to rise up and assess the situation, see, no need to defend yourself- this is a low type of reflex. You touch a person, and he starts proving he is not guilty, and he is not able to see, because his major issue now is to prove himself innocent. This means he hasn’t overcome his complexes or childhood trauma. This is yet a primitive level of mind of man. One has to rise higher- why get stuck with the guilt, better rise and see how to change the situation, approach it rationally, listen first. We are talking about the wings now.
Wings will help us to stay objective in this unsimple times when people are becoming less human, we are raising the bar.
Why no one could touch Jesus – because he set it all so in his speach, in his level of spirituality, that whoever touched Him touched the Father.
So high it was, such wings He had. You didn’t touch Him personally, you touched the Father- these are the big wings.
The woman has a place in the desert. Rv 12:14: “But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she could fly to her place in the desert”. The woman has her place in the desert. I am so glad about that – I have my place in the desert, this is absolutely true. I know this place, and I find it at times. This place changes, it’s not a geographical, but a spiritual one.
And there’s food there for the woman, because it is written “where she is nourished”.
And the woman shall come out of the desert in her time, this is globally, she will come forth into this world from the desert. This gives me much hope, and I think that globally the woman is in process of coming out of the desert.
Rev 12:15: “And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.”
He wants to carry her away, not just drown, but here’s his approach, flirt, something cunning, something satanic occult, but at the same time forceful, abusing.
The current can be different, it either washes away the sand from under your feet or smashes you against the rock. But the dragon casts the flood, he wants to kill her with the flood.
Do you see: the rage of the dragon, wings of the woman, desert with food and the flood to destroy. That is his second blow- the flood into the desert, following her. As one scholar taught, anti-christ is not against opposite, but following.
Otherwise how can he bruise the heel – only from behind.
This is his level, to sting from behind – so he casts the flood after the woman, after those who are on the way, no those who sit – this is why some of us experience no attacks because they don’t show their heel.
And the key place: “But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth”. (Rev.12:16)
The earth steps forth to help the woman against the dragon. This is what often experience in my trips: you step on the land and its response. It is written how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up all of Korah when he opposed Moses – the earth helps the woman swallowing up the flood of the dragon. How effective are we in this revelation today, when we feel creation is helping us? Sometimes we do feel how the weather is for or against us, we may feel discomfort or a stop because of the weather. We prayed for a trip or an event, having a thorough preparation time, but the weather stopped it – it means creation is in discomfort with us, for some reason the earth didn’t respond to our prayers.
The Scripture says, the heaven would kiss the earth, and the time shall come when the heaven shall kiss the earth – this is actually it, when the creation is joined with the woman, and we are the creation. But very often heaven does not kiss our earth because of us. We are to carry the dimension of the kiss of the heavens and earth in our cities. This is prophetic ministry, apostolic ministry. And create an atmosphere of the divine fire, when God’s Spirit moves in the bedrooms of unbelieving people in the nights, when evil doers aren’t able to kill a man in some dark basement, for some reason. Because the heaven in this city kisses the earth. The other day we were praying for those on the edge of suicide in different ways, and I could feel we were moving in the right direction. We don’t do that often, but it was as if the Lord took us in a trance, and I was declaring things, which I saw in the vision. I think this is also a series of the wings of a big eagle with the woman. When a man is standing on the edge of a skyscraper’s roof struggling, and suddenly he decides not to do this. As it was said in that revelation that we were looking through a microscope and seeing things far away – that is us, working in the word of knowledge, when we intercede for someone who is far away, but so close in the spirit, you see a vision and you stop him, because the heaven kisses the earth.
“And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed” – because she went away from him, she rose up with the wings, but she left of her seed, the remnant, – which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ
Now the dragon is wroth with the woman, but he makes was with the remnant of her seed – he discerns them very well: they are of her seed, they keep the commandments of God, and they have the testimony of Jesus Christ – the spirit of prophecy. Holy Spirit is on them, the Spirit of prophecy is on them.
In this season what interests me in a preacher, before he says something, whether he has the Holy Spirit. I switch on the discernment to see if the anointing of the Holy Spirit is on him when he speaks, only then I will listen. I have to switch on the gift, whether this is a man of God speaking, whether he is filled with the Holy Spirit or not. If not, why should I listen to him, what can he teach me. To yell and have goose bumps doesn’t me to have the Holy Spirit. The Spirit either is there or He is not.
What is this remnant of her seed? You remember what the Lord say about the woman and her seed in the garden of Eden, the reference goes back there, from the Revelation to Genesis: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed – that is, the dragon has his seed: the antichrist, the false prophet, those three toads – those are all the seed of the dragon. Lie, wickedness, filth, abomination of the desolation as the result.
“… and it shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel”. This is what the devil can do, this is why we need the wings – that he doesn’t get us. And you have to get going in order for him to bruise your heel. He doesn’t crawl under your chair to do it. This is why some people don’t have manifestation either of the devil or of God in their lives, nothing is happening, they are not moving anywhere.
And what is crucial is the kiss between heaven and earth, when righteousness and peace kiss. And the Lord is giving us a global revelation about the earth. Remember St. Francis when he walked in the land he considered all the creation brothers and sisters. He called the sun his brother and moon his sister, all the trees and birds around were his brothers and sisters. We condescend toward him and think him such a holy foolish brother, but in reality he penetrated in the revelation and joined with the creation. They say when he passed by plants would bend towards him, and brother were amazed when birds would come and sit on him wherever he went. They thought it was because he was holy or fasting, butI think he was in harmony with the creation like with a family.
Today the church is very weak in this revelation in this fourth harmony, we ignore this. I remember when I was in Mongolia, I happened to stab a knife in the ground. They told me not to do this, because they believed that heaven was their father who gives seed of rain on the earth and it brings forth fruit to men, and the earth is the mother, so don’t stab it with the knife. I thought, yes, thank you, and I don’t think I ever did it again. This isn’t any mystic or spell, but you realize you become closer to God when you have such an attitude. These things were created by my God, my Father, and you can’t neglect things made by Him. This is our family, our home, our universe. I think this is the attitude Adam had when he was in Eden, and all of creation were watching him, drawn to him because he was personification of God, he was the apogee of all the creation. In the Millennium kingdom a lamb shall lie by a lion, because their memory shall be erased, evil shall be uprooted. A child shall put his hand in a viper’s nest and feel how nice it is. And the viper shall smile, it has such a face and it is actually its unreleased calling.
Yes, the creation received a curse because of Adam and Eve’s sin, we realize that, we are not blind. But we are to create this kiss that happens when heaven and earth are drawn to one another, not when the cursed earth turns away from heaven, But when we are joined with creation, the earth stretches itself forth to heaven and accelerates this divine kiss.
I think those trees and leaves were drawn to St Francis because he carried the divine harmony, he carried love to this creation.
This is the mantle of Melchizedek. The Bible speaks in parables and proverbs so that any person, believer or non-believer can apply it to his life, and the book of Proverbs is placed in the Bible with this intention. This is the mantle of Melchizedek. Abraham met him and new nothing of him, he never knew of his existence. So how could he give the tenth part right their, as his duty. Melchizedek gives him bread and wine – this is not any delicious thing, this is not about enjoying food, though he was King of Peace, a richest man, he hardly lacked good food. This is not about food, this is about priesthood, this is about sacred action, this is about Christ! Abraham recognized it. It was the language of Melchizedek with Abraham, outside yet unaccomplished Calvary.
And many people think like that – they haven’t met Christ yet, they need parables. Creation is also a voice to them. And we are the top of creation, a voice to them. The Lord is revealing that under the Mantle of Melchizedek we can receive keys to the people’s hearts much more powerful that just quoting Scriptures. So seek those children who know this language, joined with creation, joined with Melchizedek. Abraham would recognize Melchizedek’s servants, his children, even without Melchizedek’s presence. I can see these children of light as I am in the world – you look in their eyes and realize, this is the creation, which can’t be compared with any other. But at the same time all, which is around us is our life – we breathe air a meter and a half above the ground, we eat what it gives. And to destroy the planet, leave traces of sin on it, toss garbage, spit on it, pour asphalt, etc and expect it to make you happy – this is total insanity! Love God’s creation! Treat it as your own family and our Father created it. We are not any green party or animist, but this is the mantle of Melchizedek.
And here’s the cry of a man who doesn’t know how to approach God:
“With which shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God”( Mic.6:6-8)
Here, the answer is on the level of Melchizedek, and I invite you on this path. Think and feel the man before you, feel the creation, open your eyes not only to heaven, but also to earth and start being friend towards creation, enter this harmony.
Angels are also a separated topic. We can live and enjoy the presence of Angels, but we may also neither think of them nor see them. Brothers and sisters, it is open to us. Jesus said on the cross, “It is finished” and breathed out his Spirit onto this earth. God’s Spirit is moving – it is such a beauty! Breathe in the Spirit, drink the Life, and let us love this life around us. Let us carry this light! If to look at many Christians, they are wounded, sick, irritated, angry inside – how can this be? Perhaps you’ve never seen Christ! Why is not peace filling you? What are you doing with yourself? Why are you cutting yourself with a knife? Do not do this!
Oh, we need to see Christ! Let us lift up our eyes and see Him and what He is doing.