Lance Wallnau (33:10)
Do you ever wonder about what is the catalyst behind warfare? Spiritual warfare? I got an unusual proposition to give you in the world's most unusual kind of Bible study, which is what I like to do. Finding things that most people miss and don't appreciate. In the Bible called royal dainties and the Song of Solomon. I'll tell you what they are. One of them is this thought right here is that the Spirit of God is revealing things to his saints now that must be birthed so that the prophetic can hear it, so the intercessors can pray it out. Paul said his warfare was because of the abundance of revelation. An angel was assigned to me, a tormenting spirit or a adversary. In other words, Paul said the abundance of revelation was the catalyst behind because when God reveals something to you, he authorizes you to manifest it. When God reveals something to you, he authorizes you to make it manifest. And how does that this is why the prophetic and the intercession take such a beating. I know many of you are not heard properly, but I'm praying that all of us become Daniels who have daytime jobs, even secular work we gotta do, but we can seal ourself into the prophet's office or the prophetic realm to pray so that we engage angels in our intercession and are actually following up in ways that affect the course of history. So let's start right now with last week. I was talking about the generations of Jesus, and it's an interesting teaching, and I was studying it with some folks that were from the latter Rain movement. Actually, I was reading some of their works and they were talking about how they believe that there's a final company in the earth that is going to be a manifest son of God, or a manifestation of the sons of God, or an overcoming generation in the book of Revelation, or a bride who is clothed with the glory of God, or the final generation that is going to be a glorious victorious bride that is caught up to before him. That what you really want to call it, the translation or the rapture, or the meat of the Lord in the air. However, your interpretation of end times is there is a fully formed and mature body that Apostle Paul said that. He prayed that the five old ministry was going to continue until we come to the fullness of the stature of the fullness of Christ. So there's this yearning in the earth for a manifestation of the maturity of Jesus in a corporate man. And this is what the Spirit of God is going to bring in the final iteration of expression of the kingdom. And it's proven by the fact that there are 14 generations in the first sequence of verses I covered last week. 14 generations, the Bible says, and 14. But if you count the last 14, there's only 13. Which means Jesus himself has his own seed, his own reproduced in a sense, a son or a man or a company in his image and in his likeness. And that will happen now if revelation is what causes the warfare. Let me, let me make that point again here. Gabriel, for instance, is coming down in the six months in Luke chapter one, verse 26. He's already visited Zechariah. He spoke to him, the angel Gabriel, and, and freaked Zechariah out. He said, hey, God's heard your prayer. And Zechariah goes, what prayer? Well, for your wife to have a baby. He goes, man, I haven't prayed that in 30 years, 20 years. I stopped praying that when we got old. And the angel says, stop talking because your prayer is in God's presence. It's a now prayer. The prayers I want to tell you right now, prophetically prayers you prayed when you were 18, 20. I'll go anywhere you want, Jesus, if you just send me anywhere, I'm going to follow you. All those sincere prayers you prayed. How do you know God isn't coming to you right now and saying, I'm doing it? You have to have your faith up to get God to answer the prayers of your passionate fasting prayer youth. That he's now saying is the fullness of times. Because Zechariah, he was out of sync with his own prayers. And the angel said, hey, I've come to give you the answer, man. It's like in our realm, time is, you know, a second is like a thousand years. Sorry about that, but I gotta. I gotta make you mute. You're gonna mess up your own miracle which shows you have authority to affect the spirit realm by what comes out of your mouth. You have authority to affect the spirit realm and the angelic activity by what comes out of your mouth because you're authorizing something by your utterance. So anyway, the angel in six months now goes to Gabriel, Gabriel's the angel to Nazareth, to a town in Galilee. The angel goes to meet Mary, talks to Mary and starts to give her the instructions about what's gonna happen. I wanna talk about Gabriel for a second. I've fallen into the trap. Sometimes you hear preachers preach things. Michael's the warrior angel, Gabriel's the messenger. You know, it's like, wait a second. They're all warrior angels. And I'll prove it to you. Because the only angel with a sword fighting principalities, talking to Daniel is Gabriel. And Gabriel is a revelation angel who warrior wars to give to people on earth the divine word that must be birthed, the divine direction that must be manifest, the divine utterance that must be conceived and meditated upon and birthed in the body of Christ. So watch what happens here. We'll go to in Daniel and Daniel go to Daniel. You might have to search for a moment. You'll find him after Ezekiel and Jeremiah. Anyway, so in Daniel, chapter eight, verse 16, we have. While I, Daniel, I'm going to verse 15 was watching in a vision. He had a vision. He fell into a vision and he was trying to understand it. Before me stood one who looked like a man. And I called a man's voice, and I heard a man's voice from the calling Gabriel, tell this man the meaning of the vision as he came near the place Where I was standing, I was terrified and felt prostrate. Son of man, he said to me, understand the vision that concerns the time of the end. And I immediately fell into a deep sleep with my face to the ground. And then he touched me and raised me up. An old Pentecostal preacher told me once, did you ever notice how most people fall backwards when they fall into the spirit, when you pray for them? Kind of like they fall back and glide back in the glide path of someone to catch them. He said, you know, when God sometimes when God rarely shows up, you face plant and your nose doesn't break either. Well, I want you to think about that. If God's there, bam, you go down on your face and your face doesn't get mauled. While I was sleeping in a deep sleep with my face to the ground, meaning he went out under the power face first. He touched me and raised me up on my feet and said, I'm going to tell you what happened later in a time of wrath. And he starts to reveal to him what's going to happen later. What I want you to catch is the angel comes. In that case, he comes looking almost like a man, which is why the Bible says you've got to be careful, that you might be entertaining angels, unaware they could look ordinary. But now in the next iteration, go to chapter nine, we start to get an unveiling of who he looks like in the spirit realm. In nine, chapter nine, Daniel is praying and confessing and standing in the gap and wrestling for God to deliver his people because he understood reading Jeremiah's prophecies. It's great that a prophet was reading another prophet's prophecies. I think it's so humble. He wasn't like, I'm Daniel, I have angels visit me. He goes, what does Jeremiah say? He's written Jeremiah and Jeremiah. The prophet said, 70 years. And Daniel was looking at the clock and praying, oh, my gosh, we're at the 69th year. We're almost at the 70th year. Nothing's changing. He's about to pray. Cyrus into office. He's about to pray the end of the Babylonian dynasty. He's about to pray. A transition in politics while he's in government. He's interceding and he's about to get angels involved with casting principalities out because the time is up based on a prophecy that he's dialing in on. He's in a revelation war. And he's pressing in. He's pressing into birth, the manifestation of the timing of God. Some of you guys are hearing what I'm saying now. And while I was speaking verse 20 and praying and confessing my sin, he identified with the failure of the church. He wasn't like rebuking the church. I'm not like them. He's saying, it's me too. It's me too. We're all part of this generation. And the sin of my people. I'm making requests to God for his holy hill. While I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in an earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice, around the time when Jesus is going to say, father, into thy hands I commit my spirit. It's interesting. These times are fascinating. Gabriel flies swiftly. He instructed me and said, daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding. You understand something that what was it? Was Daniel there praying for like, I don't know, 21 days or something? What was going on during that time? He was in warfare for the angel to break through to manifest the revelation. Remember, warfare is over Revelation. For the abundance of revelation. An enemy was a spirit was sent to afflict me. So as soon as you began to pray, as soon as you began to pray, I was sent with an answer. I've come to. In other words, the moment you started praying, I was sent. How many of us have an answer the moment we pray? But we stop persisting in prayer because the answer didn't manifest? How about persisting till the answer manifests? Then he says 77s are decreed and he gives them a really powerful Daniel 9 revelation about the next 420 years, right up to the Messiah showing up. Why am I talking about this for a Christmas broadcast? Because this same Gabriel is the one sent to Zechariah and sent to Mary. And the same Gabriel's running around today. Who knows who is being sent to build your faith? Maybe it's going to come to you. Then chapter 10 says, in the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, he succeeded now in birthing a transition. The revelation got authorized through Daniel to manifest. Well, in that third year, there was a revelation given to Daniel once again, the understanding of the message to him came in a vision. And here we go. There's the three weeks morning. This is where we go with the 21 days. And I ate no choice food for 21 days, for three full weeks. We don't know in chapter, chapter nine how long he was working on that one. But this was 21 days in chapter 10. I got that clear. Now, on the 24th day of the first month. I was standing at the bank and I looked up and there was a man dressed in linen, with a belt of the finest gold. His body was like crystalite. His face was like lightning. His eyes like flaming torches. His legs gleam a burnished bronze. His voice sounded like an amplification of a multitude. And I Daniel. Here's the fascinating thing. Daniel was the only one who could see him. If he looked at his friends, they didn't see anything, but they could sense it. They sensed it. And the men that were with me didn't see it. But such terror overwhelmed them. They fled and hid themselves. See, that's the fear of the Lord. That fear of the Lord actually could be angels are in the room, and if you could see, it would petrify you. And they hid themselves. So I was left alone, gazing at a great vision. I had no strength left. I turned deathly pale. I was helpless. Then I heard him speaking. And as I listened, I fell into a deep sleep. Here he goes again. Face plant, face forward. Poom. But his nose didn't break. He went down under the power. Daniel, you're a highly esteemed. Consider carefully the words, I'm about to speak to you. Stand up, for I have now been sent to you. Do not be afraid. So here's the interesting thing. When angels minister to you, they speak words that correspond to the virtue that comes into you. So they're saying in the spirit realm, don't be afraid. Courage comes in. They're saying to you, you know, be strong. And suddenly you can stand up. See, they speak to you and they touch you in the spirit realm. And you don't necessarily always hear what they say, but you get the virtue. You get the transaction. Does that make sense to you?
