Prophetic Words - 8th August 2021
There Will Be A Reversal of the Edict, I Am Making Churches of Nations.
This Prophetic Word is Part 3 of the vision that God showed me of a buried gold crown.
Following on from this, God told me for the third time, that there will be a reversal of the edict.
In addition, God followed this with a further Word, "I am making churches of nations."
In Part 2, we reviewed Ezekiel Chapters 1 to 7, as God pours out His wrath on sinful humanity.
Now, we review the final part of this Word together with 1 Kings Chapters 1 to 7 in order to determine God's heart for His people.
1 Kings Chapters 1 to 7
As I reviewed the chapters relating to the final part of this Word, I found a wealth of wisdom and a signpost to God’s plans as we are taken through God's ordinance.
These chapters highlight a conspiracy to try and thwart the rightful reign of God’s chosen man, which results in the death penalty and downfall of all those who follow the way of wickedness.
It then takes us out the other side towards God's grace, wisdom and blessing. We must walk in the blessing that God has for us, give Him all the glory and be grateful.
We do not need to steal, cheat or betray others to achieve success and those who are intent on wickedness will always fall on their own sword.
We have the opportunity to experience such divine abundance if we follow righteousness, and it is the divine birthright of living rightly, and with God, all things are possible.
Adonijah Sets Himself Up As King
This chapter begins with Adonijah, Haggith's son, putting himself forward as king, carrying out all the preparations, inviting people to the celebration and taking this seat without king David's knowledge or permission, a seat that was in fact promised to someone else.
Zadok the priest, Benaiah, Nathan the prophet, Shimei and Rei and David's special guard did not join Adonijah and Nathan told Bathsheba, Solomon's mother what was going on and advised her what she must do to save both her and her son Solomon's life.
When this was brought to king David’s attention, he took an oath, as surely as the LORD lives, who had delivered him out of every trouble, to surely carry out that very day what he swore to Bathsheba by the LORD, the God of Israel, that Solomon her son will be king after him, and will sit on his throne in his place.
King David called in Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet and Benaiah and gave them instructions, and before Adonijah could complete his wicked plan, Solomon, the rightful heir, was blessed, anointed and appointed, and he took his seat on the royal throne.
At this, all Adonijah's guests rose in alarm and dispersed. But Adonijah, in fear of Solomon, went and took hold of the horns of the altar, asking King Solomon to swear to him that he would not put him to death with the sword, which Solomon agreed if he showed himself to be worthy, but if evil was found in him, he would die (1 Kings 1).
David's Charge to Solomon
When the time drew near for David to die, he gave a charge to Solomon, telling him to be strong, act like a man, and observe what the LORD required, walking in obedience to Him, and keeping His decrees and commands, laws and regulations.
David told him to do this so that he may prosper in all he does and that the LORD may keep His promise to him, which was, if his descendants walk faithfully before Him with all their heart and soul, that David will never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.
He also gave him instruction on how to deal with those who had crossed him and those who had stood by him, and then David rested with his ancestors and Solomon's rule was firmly established.
Adonijah, still intent on taking control, went to Solomon’s mother Bathsheba with malicious intent, again trying to usurp the throne and take over the kingdom, and when King Solomon found out, he ordered his execution and Adonijah paid for his sin with his life.
Joab, who conspired with him was also killed and 3 years later, Shimei, one of the men who had called down bitter curses on Solomon’s father was also struck down, and the kingdom was established in Solomon's hands (1 Kings 2).
Solomon Asks For Wisdom
Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt and married his daughter and showed his love for the LORD by walking according to the instructions given him by his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.
King Solomon went to Gibeon, the most important high place, and offered 1,000 burnt offerings on that altar. The LORD appeared to him in a dream and said to ask for whatever he wants.
Solomon, recognising that he was only a little child who did not know how to carry out his duties, asked God to give him a discerning heart to govern His people and to distinguish between right and wrong.
The LORD was pleased that Solomon had asked for this and told him that since he had asked for this and not for long life or wealth for himself, nor had he asked for the death of his enemies but for discernment in administering justice, that He would do what he had asked, that He would give him a wise and discerning heart, so that there would never have been anyone like him, nor would there be.
Moreover, he would give him what he had not asked for - both wealth and honour - so that in his lifetime he would have no equal among kings. And if he walked in obedience to Him as David his father did, God would give him a long life (1 Kings 3).
Solomon's Officials & Governors
So King Solomon rules over all Israel, together with his officials and governors, and the people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore; they ate, they drank and they were happy.
Solomon rules over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These countries brought tribute and were Solomon's subjects all his life.
Solomon had peace on all sides and during his lifetime, Judah and Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, lived in safety, everyone under their own vine and under their own fig tree.
Solomon had great provision and nothing was lacking, he also had 4,000 stalls for chariot horses and 12,000 horses.
God gave Solomon wisdom, very great insight and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore. Wiser than anyone else, his fame spread and people came to listen to him, sent by all the kings who had heard of his wisdom (1 Kings 4).
Preparations For Building The Temple
When Hiram king of Tyre (modern day Lebanon) heard that Solomon had been anointed to succeed his father David, he sent his envoys to him, because he had always been on friendly terms with David.
Solomon sent back a message saying that he knows that because of the wars wages against his father David from all sides, he could not build a temple for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD put his enemies under his feet, but now the LORD had given him rest on every side, Solomon intended, therefore, to build a temple.
He then instructed Hiram to give orders that cedars of Lebanon be cut and that his men would work with his, and Solomon would pay whatever wages he set, as no one was so skilled as the Sidonians.
When Hiram heard Solomon's message, he was greatly pleased and praised the LORD, for He had given David a wise son to rule and he sent word telling him that he will do all he wants. There were peaceful relations and the two of them made a treaty.
King Solomon conscripted 30,000 labourers, 70,000 carriers and 80,000 stone cutters, as well as 3,300 foremen who supervised the project and directed the workers. They removed from the quarry large blocks of stone to provide a foundation and the craftsmen and workers cut and prepared the timber and stone (1 Kings 5).
Solomon Builds The Temple
In the 480th year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the 4th year of Solomon's reign, he began to build the temple of the LORD.
The word of the LORD came to Solomon: "As for this temple you are building, if you follow My decrees, observe My laws and keep all My commands and obey them, I will fulfil through you the promise I gave to David your father. And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel."
So Solomon built the temple and completed it in all its splendour and prepared the inner sanctuary to set the ark of the covenant.
Solomon overlaid the inside of the inner sanctuary, the altar, the inside of the temple, the front of the inner sanctuary and the whole interior with pure gold and made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, identical in size and shape, with their wings spread out and touching, and overlaid them with gold also.
The temple was finished in all its details according to its specifications and Solomon had spent 7 years building it (1 Kings 6).
Solomon Builds His Palace
It took Solomon 13 years, however, to complete the construction of his palace, which was much bigger than the temple.
He built the throne hall, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge, and he covered it with cedar from floor to ceiling, and the palace in which he was to live, set farther back, was similar in design, and he also made a palace like the hall for his wife, Pharaoh's daughter.
All these structures, from the outside to the great courtyard and from foundation to eaves, were made of blocks of high-grade stone.
King Solomon sent to Tyre and brought Huram, who was filled with wisdom, with understanding and with knowledge to do all kinds of bronze work and made all the temple's furnishings.
When all the work King Solomon had done for the temple of the LORD was finished, he brought in all the things his father had dedicated - the silver and the gold and the furnishings - and he placed them in the treasuries of the LORD's temple (1 Kings 7).
False Prophets & Buried Crowns
Adonijah is representative of the self-appointed "leaders" who are setting themselves up as gods (lower case g to reflect their lower class status).
They are false prophets who have the world believing their lies, those who do not bow down to them are being persecuted and prosecuted, and they are unwittingly setting themselves up against God Himself.
God puts curses on Israel's enemies who hate and persecute them (Deuteronomy 30:7) and He takes vengeance on His foes and vents his wrath against them (Nahum 1:2).
Kingdoms the world over are going to topple, heads are going to roll and worthless crowns will be buried beneath the rubble, sand and dirt their kingdoms were built on.
We are at a crossroads and many of us will not make it to the other side. We must choose which side we are on and draw close to the one true God, the only Source of righteousness.
Rend Your Heart
Even now, God asks us to return to Him with all our heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.
We must rend our heart and not our garments.
We must return to the Lord our God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and He relents from sending calamity.
Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave behind a blessing.
We must blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly, gather the people and consecrate them, asking God to spare us (Joel 2:12-17).
God Is Pouring Out His Spirit
And afterward, God will pour out His Spirit on all people.
Our sons and daughters will prophesy, our old men will dream dreams, our young men will see visions.
He will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance (Joel 2:28-32).
Blessed or Cursed By God
With God's guiding hand upon our life and His blessing, we are capable of so much greatness, yet we constantly turn to sin.
The chapters of 1 Kings 1 to 7 clearly shows the pain and penalties of sin and the joy and blessings of right living.
In stark contrast, Ezekiel 1:7 shows the devastation that is unleashed as a result of God’s wrath as punishment for sin.
God loves us, He wants to live with us, He wants us to prosper and receive His divine blessing, but we must allow Him to refine us.
We can either do this willingly or He will haul us over hot coals. Either way, the kingdoms of this world are falling, the wicked will be swept away, God will anoint and appoint His King, who will rule and reign and righteousness, and all will come to know that He is LORD.
How God Will Make Churches of Nations
Psalm 83 shows us exactly how God will make churches of nations as anyone who sets themselves up against God's people, are enemies of God Himself.
God will humble them and bring shame and dismay upon them, so that they seek His name and know that He alone is the Most High.
The Asaph who wrote Psalm 83 was one of the men David put in charge of the music in the house of the LORD after the ark came to rest there.
He was Heman the musician's associate who served at his right hand, and who, together with all the temple musicians, was a Levite (1 Chronicles 6:31-48).
Asaph was also a seer (2 Chronicles 29:30), the Chief minister (1 Chronicles 16:5) and together with Jeduthun and Heman, were set apart by David for the ministry of prophesying, together with some of their sons, under the supervision of the king (25:1-7).
Conspiring Against God's People
Asaph pleads to God not to remain silent, turn a deaf ear or stand aloof, and urges Him to see how His enemies growl and how their foes rear their heads.
With cunning they conspire against God's people, they plot against those God cherishes.
They gather together to destroy God's people as a nation, so that Israel's name is remembered no more (Psalm 83:1-4).
Forming An Alliance Against God
With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against God.
Asaph lists the nations who band together and asks God to do to them as He did to Midian, as He did to Sisera and Sabin at the river Kishon, who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
He asks God to make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, who said, "Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God." (Psalm 83:5-12).
Seeking God's Name Through Shame
Asaph asks God to make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.
As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze, he asks God to pursue them with His tempest and terrify them with His storm.
Asaph then asks God to cover their faces with shame, so that they will seek His name and that God lets them know that He alone is the Most High over all the earth (Psalm 83:13-18).
God's Plan Will Stand
God will issue a reversal of the edict that has been set by the so-called superpowers and "leaders" of this world to destroy us, and the wicked will fall to their knees.
God’s plan is the only plan that will stand.
His is the only reset and that reset will lead those He loves back to Him.
God is calling us to repent, He is blowing the trumpet and sounding the alarm, we must listen to the call and take heed.
All will come to the altar, all will know that God is LORD and all will worship at His feet.
There Is Only One God, The God of Israel
God is the first and He is the last, apart from Him there is no God (Isaiah 44:6).
Sing to the Lord, proclaim His salvation day after day. Declare His glory among the nations, His marvellous deeds. For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; He is to be feared above all gods.
For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens. Splendour and majesty are before Him; strength and joy are in His dwelling place.
Ascribe to the Lord, all you families of nations, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength, the glory due his name; bring an offering and come before him.
Worship the Lord in the splendour of His holiness. Tremble before Him, all the earth! (1 Chronicles 16:23-30).
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