Based on Biblical timelines, current events and prophetic markers, I believe that this past Pentecost Sunday, May 28, 2023, we literally crossed a threshold between the Age of Pentecost and the Age of Tabernacles. I believe that the full payment of the Holy Spirit is about to be released into the world, stewarded by the overcomers whom God has been preparing for just this moment in time. The Holy Spirit is about to be poured out in the earth in order to complete the final anointing of the Pentecostal church in preparation for the Tabernacles Age before us.
Dr. Stephen Jones of God’s Kingdom Ministries says,
“The feast of Tabernacles remains in the background, awaiting its own manifestation, but we must take note that Pentecost is a time of preparation for the feast of Tabernacles. It is an interim feast between Passover and Tabernacles. In fact, Pentecost is a type of Jubilee, because Pentecost falls on the 50th day from the wave-sheaf offering, while the Jubilee is the 50th year on the calendar.”
Dr. Stephen Jones
Our Jubilee is upon us. God is about to give us back what Satan has stolen. We will recover all. God has chosen a remnant of grace, and these will be acceptable offerings to God. Those who have submitted to the purpose of Pentecost will qualify. The purpose of Pentecost was to receive the fiery law written on one’s heart which results in intuitive, instinctive obedience (lawfulness, not legalism).
But across Christ’s body, believers are sensing that something has shifted in the spirit realm. Listen to what some of the prophetic voices are saying within the past couple of weeks about the uniqueness of Pentecost this year.
I heard the Lord say, “You have waited long enough! I am sending My Holy Spirit in greater power than you’ve ever even dreamed or imagined. I have spoken to you before about a second Pentecost – not like the original but an outpouring nevertheless that you will marvel at. It will knock you off your feet and you will only be able to prostrate yourselves before Me and cry out for mercy! Miracles will just spontaneously begin to happen and men will count themselves cursed who do not experience some of My power on that day!”
I could do nothing but praise Him and give Him Glory as I experienced this new open vision. Now I wait in eager anticipation to experience it again in real time! I know Pentecost this year is just a week away and I’m approaching the day with faith and hope overflowing!” — Chris G. Bennett
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Hear the word of the Lord: “Correct your own doctrine, and correct it fast, and correct it quickly; for soon we will be on the other side of all of this, and wherever you land, on that side is where you’ll stay. For this is the time of correction—for you to correct yourself with the Word. Speak for mercy and grace; call for it,” says the Lord, “and I will surely give it. But if you do not, and you land on the other side of this outcome, and you remain unchanged when you get there, there is where you will make your bed; there is where you will be—like Og, King of Bashan. You will be there, for you will have your own idea and build a bed so big that you’ll think only a god could lay in it. —Robin Bullock
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Recently, I had a dream, and I heard the Lord say, “YOU WILL RECOVER ALL.”
As He spoke these words, I could feel the creative power of His word already bringing forth that which He had spoken. I knew, when He spoke this, it was not a word for “a far off time,” but He was making a declaration of what is coming to pass and springing forth now.
I so strongly sensed in the dream that as His voice was going forth, it was activating recovery, and I knew recovery was coming from EVERY direction. There will be no direction left untouched.
Expect Recompense, Recovery and Restoration!
When I awoke from the dream, I could feel the Lord’s heart for His people – that now is the time to look UP at Him, and not at what has been lost. I could feel His heart encouraging His people to not fix their eyes upon the “losses,” but to keep their eyes fixed upon the Lord, with the expectation that He will restore and recover all.
The Lord has been speaking so much in the last few years about recompense, recovery and restoration. And in this dream, when His decree went forth, I KNEW that we had now entered the time of the greatest divine recovery, and that it would be ABOVE and BEYOND what we had ever seen before.
It is time for a sevenfold restoration (Proverbs 6:31), double for the trouble you have endured (Isaiah 61:7), and a total divine recovery (1 Samuel 30:18). It is time for a tidal wave of His blessing, His provision, and His restoration! — Lana Vawser
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From what The LORD is showing me, this Pentecost is going to be a baptism of Holy Spirit Fire for many.
The effect will be that a Remnant Army of ordinary people, on Fire for God, will be released into many Churches.
More importantly, this New Army will be armed with The Message of Salvation, The Power of Holy Spirit for Healing and Deliverance, and all the gifts of Holy Spirit Baptism.
Oh, I see Father God rubbing His hands in joyful anticipation of what is being birthed this Pentecost.
Stand by Church — your Salvation, or your nemesis, is coming. — Chris G. Bennett
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These prophetic words resonate deeply with me, because the Holy Spirit has been giving me personal revelation along the same lines. One thing that the Holy Spirit has impressed strongly upon me is that it is time for the outpouring of the seven spirits of God. It is time for Pentecost to fully come.
The Seven Spirits of God
Isaiah 11:2 references the Holy Spirit using a seven-fold description:
“The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him—the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.”
The prophecy is that the Messiah would be empowered not by seven individual spirits but by the One Spirit, described seven ways. Seven is the symbolic number of completion, fullness, and perfection. We see the fullness of these seven spirits referenced several times in the book of Revelation:
Revelation 1:4–5,
“John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne, and from Jesus Christ…”
Revelation 3:1,
“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God…”
Revelation 4:5,
“From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.”
Revelation 5:6,
“Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.”
So John tells us that the seven Spirits of God are like seven blazing lamps standing before the throne of God. This suggests the light of Divine revelation.
In fact the seven spirits are listed in Chiasmic order.
Let me take a moment to explain what I mean. A chiasm (also called a chiasmus) is a literary device, common in scripture, in which a sequence of ideas is presented and then repeated in reverse order. The result is a “mirror” effect as the ideas are “reflected” back in a passage. Each idea is connected to its “reflection” by a repeated word, often in a related form.
Some chiasms are quite simple. The common saying “When the going gets tough, the tough get going” is chiastic. The words going and tough are repeated, in reverse order, in the second half of the sentence. The structure is ABBA. Another example of a chiasm, also with the ABBA structure, is Benjamin Franklin’s axiom “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” Other chiasms are more complex, even spanning entire poems.
A longer chiasm is found in Joel 3:17–21. This one has seven parts, diagrammed this way: ABCXCBA. I won’t take time to read the passage right now, but the ideas presented in this prophecy follow this arrangement:
A – God dwells in Zion (verse 17a)
B – Jerusalem is holy (verse 17b)
C – Foreign invaders are banished (verse 17c)
X – The blessings of the Kingdom (verse 18)
C – Foreign enemies are destroyed (verse 19)
B – Jerusalem and Judah are preserved (verses 20–21a)
A – God dwells in Zion (verse 21b)
What does that have to do with anything, you may ask. Well, the listing of the seven spirits of god is a Chiasm. Interestingly, the classic Jewish temple lamp called a Menorah is also arranged like a chiasm. John probably saw the seven spirits of God which are also called lamps that stand before God’s throne as if they were mounted on a Menorah.
- Wisdom
- Understanding
- Counsel
- Spirit of Adonai
- Power
- Counsel
- Knowledge
- Understanding
- Reverence (fear) of the Lord
Wisdom is paired with Fear of the Lord, as Proverbs 9:10a says, “…The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom”.
Understanding is paired with Knowledge. Proverbs 9:10b, “…and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.”
Counsel is paired with Power. Proverbs 8:14, “Counsel is mine and sound wisdom;”
Now, during the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) there was a great ceremony called the “Illumination of the Temple,” which involved the ritual lighting of four golden oil-fed lamps in the Court of Women. (Show Illumination of the Temple) These lamps were huge menorahs/candelabras (seventy-five feet high) lighted in the Temple at night to remind the people of the pillar of fire that had guided Israel in their wilderness journey. All night long the light shone their brilliance, it is said, illuminating the entire city.
In celebration and anticipation, the holiest of Israel’s men danced and sang psalms of joy and praise, before the Lord. This festival was a reminder that God had promised to send a light, the Light, to a sin-darkened world. God promised to send the Messiah to renew Israel’s glory, release them from bondage, and restore their joy. Imagine that you are in ancient Jerusalem during the Feast of Tabernacles.
Visualize seeing these massive menorahs giving a tremendous amount of light. Now imagine the impact of the words said by Jesus in the Temple courtyard when he announced, “I am the Light of the world.”
What this suggests is that the seven-fold spirit of God will be ignited and illuminate the world as we transition from the age of Pentecost into the age of Tabernacles.
But these same seven spirits are also described as resting upon the lamb of God which was slain in the form of seven horns and seven eyes which are sent out into all the earth. This suggests perfect ruling strength, and perfect all-seeing observation of everything that happens on earth. Clearly there is a unity among the holy fire that burns in the presence of God’s eternal throne, and the surveillance and governmental authority of God’s kingdom here on earth in time and space.
But how are the Seven Spirits carried into the entire world? This occurs as Spirit-filled Believers in Christ Jesus carry the fullness of His radiating presence everywhere they go! That is you and me! WE are his tabernacle and His temple after all. It is from us that the seven-fold spirit of God will blaze if we ask for it and submit to it.
Holy Spirit has been nudging me over the last couple of weeks to ask for the fullness of the seven Spirits of God to be poured out on myself, my family, our local churches, our communities, our nation, and our world.
Let’s unwrap what the outpouring of these seven spirits would look like.
1. The Spirit Of The Lord (Very simply, the Spirit of the Lord brings liberty)
2 Corinthians 3:17
“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
Isaiah 61:1
“The Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the distressed; He has sent me to comfort the grieving and to proclaim release to captives and freedom to prisoners. Therefore, the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me.”
2. The Spirit Of Knowledge (Knowledge is information…a clear perception of a truth, fact, or subject. True knowledge is to know Christ, His mind, His purpose, His goals, and His will. True knowledge is to see things through the eyes of Christ, rather than to lean upon one’s own understanding.)
John 14:25–26.
“I spoke these things to you when I was in the room with you. However, the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will instruct you in all things and remind you of everything I said to you.”
3. The Spirit Of Understanding (Understanding is discernment. To separate or distinguish. It is perceptive insight with the ability to judge.)
Proverbs 3:13–18
“Blessed are they who find wisdom and understanding, for their gain is better than their gain from silver, and their profit is better than their profit from gold. Nothing you desire even comes close to comparing to her since she is more valuable than jewels. She holds a long life in her right hand while holding wealth and honor in her left. All of her roads are peaceful, and she follows pleasant paths.”
4. The Spirit Of Wisdom (Wisdom is the skill to devise a successful plan.)
1 Corinthians 2:1–16
“And I did not come to you, proclaiming the word of God with high words or knowledge. I made the decision to just know about Jesus Christ and him crucified among you. In order for your trust to not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God, I was with you in weakness, fear, and great shaking, and my speech and my message were not in convincing words of wisdom but in demonstrations of the Spirit and of power.”
James 3:13–18
“Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
5. The Spirit Of Counsel (Counsel means to give advice, to recommend as a course of action, to warn or instruct.)
John 14:16–17
“I will ask the Father, and He will give you another helper, that He may be with you forever; that is, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.”
6. The Spirit Of Power or Might (Power is the ability to accomplish one’s goal.)
Psalm 46:1–3
“God is our fortress and stronghold; he is a constant source of assistance. Therefore, even if the earth gives way, the mountains tumble into the sea, the waters will roar and foam, and the mountains tremble from the surge, we will not be afraid.”
7. The Spirit Of The Fear Of The Lord (The fear of the Lord is not to be afraid of God, but to reverence Him and recognize His rights as the Creator to rule all that He has created, and His right to establish laws in accordance with His nature that define righteousness.)
Jeremiah 46:27
“But do not be alarmed, O Jacob, my servant, nor be discouraged, O Israel; for I will bring you from a great distance, and I will save your descendants from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return in peace and comfort, and no one will frighten him.”
Sounds like a seven-fold empowerment and anointing that all of us could use in our lives, right? Wouldn’t being filled with this kind of anointing completely change the landscape of our lives and circumstances?
But wait, there’s more.
In Rev 12:3 and other passages, we are told that Satan is symbolized as a dragon with seven heads and ten horns. It says later that the ten horns are kings who rule with the beast for an hour (Rev 17:12). Some teach that the seven mountains are a succession of historical nations but let’s consider another position.
Revelation 17:1–18: 9 reads,
“And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains”.
Today the Holy Spirit, in all His fullness, is being sent forth into the entire world. Just as there are Seven Spirits, we also find that there are Seven Cultural Mountains where Believers are to carry an impact and influence for Christ Jesus the Lord. As disciples of Jesus are empowered by the Holy Spirit, they in turn are commissioned to “go therefore into all the nations” carrying the light of the world with them. This is another dimension of the Seven Spirits being sent into all the earth. (Show Seven Mountains)
According to the seven mountain mandate teaching, the seven mountains are:
1) Education
2) Religion
3) Family
4) Business
5) Government/Military
6) Arts/Entertainment
7) Media
These are the mountains of influence that the dragon has used to rule our culture. As a society, our thinking has been molded and our circumstances shaped by what has flowed down to us from these mountains.
But it is time for another mountain to arise. A mountain ablaze with the seven spirits of God!
Isaiah 2:2-3
2In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. 3And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.”
For the most part, Christians have been negligent in influencing society outside the church. Christians have left the mountains susceptible to the “gates of hell,” which are spiritual portals over the “kings” (influence-shapers) of those mountains.
Perhaps in a future blog post we can explore the amazing scriptural symbolic parallels between these seven mountains of culture and how they correlate to the seven Nations of Canaan that Joshua drove out in Joshua 3:9-10, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perrizites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. I encourage you to do your own research.
Perhaps in a future blog post we can explore the parallels between these seven mountains of culture and the seven hills of Rome on which the Great Harlot of Babylon sits as described in Revelation 17:9. But for now, I’ll just have to ask you to explore the history and the meanings of those seven hills of Aventinus and Viminalis and Palatinus and Quirinalis and Caelius and Esquilinus and Capitolinus. You’ll have to do the research yourself.
A CALL TO ARMS
Forgive me as I badly parody Aragorn’s speech at Helms Deep.
Sons of God! Daughters of Pentecost! My brothers and sisters. I see in your eyes of some of you the same fear and hopelessness that would take the heart of me.
The mountains of culture rampage across our nation and our communities seemingly unchecked and unchallenged.
Godless, Satanic, Marxist, Woke, CRT based education ravages the most vulnerable among us, indoctrinating our precious children and young people at the most critical age in their development.
Idolatrous religious spirits of permissiveness, complacency, legalism, control, bondage, condemnation, compromise, ritual, judgmentalism, perfectionism, and carnality who pose as angels of light seduce us into their counterfeit kingdom where they consume us, suck our bones dry, and then abandon us on the dunghill of shattered visions, deadened hearts, and sullied glory.
Our families are relentlessly and ruthlessly bombarded with disrespect, betrayal, dishonor, unfaithfulness, selfishness, lustful temptations, bitterness, frustration, and discontent until our marriages are blown apart, our children crushed and abused, and the safe haven of our homes become toxic waste dumps of seething resentment, anger, strife and bitterness.
Economically, we are conned by materialism, scammed by unscrupulous and avaricious Mammon, and exploited by tyrannical overlords until we find ourselves caught in an endless greed/despair cycle. Heartless moneychangers manipulate us into poverty, then laugh at our despair as we try desperately to get ahead financially but continue falling further behind.
Our governmental leaders pervert justice, oppress the poor and weak, persecute the just, suppress the truth, flaunt their jackbooted power, and shake their fist in the face of the King of Kings who is the judge of all the earth from whom merciful law and justice flows.
Arts and entertainment have become flagrant displays of hedonism, forcibly rubbing the face of our culture into the sewer of the most depraved and obscene practices known to mankind.
Media, once the protector of truth, has become a propaganda arm, squelching free expression, honest difference of opinion, and legitimate research. Those who seek and speak the truth are maligned, slandered, and destroyed under the unappeasable juggernaut of sophisticated psyops, toxic ideology, and disinformation.
These, my brothers and sisters, are the grim seven mountains of influence that cast a shadow of death and destruction across our culture.
A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day!
For this day, I have seen in Daniel 2:34-35, a stone cut out without hands, striking the statue of these mountain kingdoms on its feet of iron and clay. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed all at the same time and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men and Women of God! Humble yourselves and receive the fullness of the seven spirits of God.
Let the seven lamps be kindled within the temple of your heart, let them burn away your fear, your despair, your doubt. Let them blaze until by their glorious light your eyes are opened and you look out to recognize that the mountains threatening you are themselves encircled by the chariots of the Host of Heaven.
Lift your voice and shout, for this day you will see the deliverance of our God!
This day, Pentecost has come in its fullness and is even now melting into the Great Tabernacles Age when God Himself shall dwell with us and we with Him.
Most of these thoughts I delivered from the pulpit on Pentecost Sunday, 2023. And then today I discovered that on the same Pentecost Sunday that I was issuing this call to arms, Kent Christmas was doing the same thing.
Double witness.
It’s on. Are you in? Let’s take back those mountains.
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