The Seven Mountains: Chapter Two: "An Elijah Revolution"
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For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.
the world is ripe for change and the supernatural that’s why we are so obsessed with renovation and makeover shows.
the reality of what we are staring at is why the world so hungers for the supernatural.
A tsunami is a great makeover.
An Elijah revolution is coming and it will have transforming effects as powerful as a tsunami and it will effect the entire world. This statement is a bold one and it is not necessary to make his point. a lot of what he says in the first few chapter comes out of anger and judgement for the Church in america. Much of this comes from being tucked away in south america. the reason I make this statement is not that I don’t believe in the basic primis of this book I chose the book, I chose the book, but also to teach us how to think theologically Critically.
To think theologically critical does not mean to be critical of the person writing, it means to be able to discern the meet from the bones.
a lot of missionaries have a critical spirit when they return to the U.S.A. they see the wealth we live in and the waste it produces, they are right in matter of fact. they are often wrong in spirit and motivation.
we say around here “if you spot it you got it.” I have done exactly what i am pointing out here as the pastor of this Church.
I cant say that I have never been frustrated or upset in the last 20 years to the point of Judgement.
What i can tell you is that my Judgement has never produced the desired change.
the statement that I am not sure that I agree with is, “the older generation is dying and the younger generation is refusing to enter a dead church.”
I do not agree all Churches are dead.
in order to see a move of the spirit we are going to have to leave entertainment based attractions and get back to some good ole fashioned “Churchen”
We have to get back to manifesting light and truth.
Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification.
Therefore, brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues.
The Apostle Paul tells us what about prophecy? page 18. give me the Greek definition and all.
Prophecy is an important part of the Elijah Revolution because it will restore the voice of God in the affairs of men.
Pg 18 Disambiguation.
And Elijah came to all the people, and said, “How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people answered him not a word.
The meaning of revolution
The meaning of revolution
The meaning of revolution
The meaning of revolution
1. A drastic far-reaching change in ways of thinking and believing;
2. The overthrow of one government or system and its replacement with another:
3. A sudden and momentous change in a situation.
It’s antonyms include terms like stagnation and status quo. The incoming Elijah Revolution tsunami is going to eradicate stagnation and status quo. Things will never be the same again. All three definition of the term revolution will be evidenced. It will be a “sudden and momentous change in a situation,” it will “overthrow” one system and replace it with another, and it will bring about a “drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving.” It will be metamorphic in this sense that is not coming to improve were slightly upgrade our present reality. It’s coming to overhaul and transform everything that has to do with how we think or act.
Why and Elijah Revolution?
Why and Elijah Revolution?
The word revolution as a stand-alone word is not a very satisfying term.
The term implies a fight against the status quo without defining the nature of the replacement.
Many have been motivated by revolution for its own sake, but that only joins the spirit of lawlessness that is increasing today across the earth. That would only further aggravate underlying social ills.
A movement of revolutionaries will always carry a spirit of rebellion unless it clearly articulates and presents a valid replacement system.
A movement of revolutionaries will always carry a spirit of rebellion unless it clearly articulates and presents a valid replacement system.
We can’t just be against things; we have to know what we’re four. If not, will find ourselves in a similar category as the guerrilla movements in many nations.
They know what they’re against but rarely can they articulate what they stand for.
(Here is a classic example of what I mentioned earlier, he begins to criticize churches that is clearly not a part of. How easy is it to misunderstand a culture the you’re not involved with, spiritual or otherwise? The premise of my assumption is that it is extremely easy to misunderstand the culture that you are not familiar with. My conclusion is simple, in the church we should not comment from the outside looking in. If we’re engaged in a conversation that requires us to speak against another church, we should be very careful as to how we approach it. First of all we should preface all of our comments with a simple, “I don’t know about that” what I have found to be true in the word of God is…)
We can already see this dynamic-a thirst for change-at work in churches in the United States.
People are clearly unhappy with the status quo.
They are tired of going to church as spectators of boring, and traditional churches in droves, not because they are losing interest in God, but because they God. The spirit of religion is so preset and in the mainline churches that it is suffocated the the Holy Spirit out of church.
Not only can most church meetings function perfectly well without the Holy Spirit, they couldn’t function if he actually showed up.
Again Mr. Johnny Enlow seems to be very judgmental here. He assumes the only time the Holy Spirit is moving is what is visible in an assembled group of people. Is this always the assumption we want to make about the Holy Spirit?
I believe that Mr. Enlow and I would have similar preferences to doctrine and worship style. However I think we need to be very careful that we don’t pronounce judgments outside of the Holy Spirit. It is Jesus in the first six chapters of the book of Revelation who pronounced judgment on the churches in Asia minor. Not an apostle.
I don’t disagree with many of his conclusions. We need the power of the Holy Spirit! We need the power of the Holy Spirit like never before! We don’t need judgment from one another! That’s not going to help us move in the power of the spirit!
The Elijah Revolution will cause formally “dead” churches to explode with fires of God in them, while those that reject the revolution will weather, die, and disappear. The tsunami will either resurrect churches or bury them.
There is a rapidly growing house move in the United States of America. Some of it carries the spirit of the Elijah Revolution with it, while others of it is just rebellion.
Some house church is even thrown off the biblical mandate of church gatherings to foster the rebellion of I don’t have to listen to anybody I don’t want to. I like to submit to anybody I don’t want to. And I can even keep my money, only tipping God here and there.
The bottom line is that we have to check our motives to make sure we’re for something and not just against something.
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.
the Holy Spirit does not oppose pastoral leadership only the witchcraft that occurs in the name of leadership.
Who was Elisha?
Who was Elisha?
In order to fully embrace the light was a revolution, we need to understand who Elisha was, what he did, how is life applies to us today.
Elisha first shows of the first Kings 17 as the prophet of God called to confront Israel with her Baal worship.
His arch enemy was Jezebel, a prophetess of Baal he tried to kill him time and time again.
Elijah was able to decimate the prophets of Baal, and to finally anoint Jehu, the one would destroy Jezebel.
As his closing act, he released the “double portion” mantle to Elisha before being taken up into heaven by a whirlwind.
We want to look at the prophecies of a coming “Elisha” and what is focus will be.
The most significant prophecy close from , after which the Bible remains silent for 400 years.
The last two verses of the Old Testament leave us with an expectation of Elisha revolution that will precede the Lord’s return:
Malachi 4
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
And he will turn
The hearts of the fathers to the children,
And the hearts of the children to their fathers,
Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
I believe it will be a revolution of mercy because its purpose would be to avert catastrophic judgment.
The key to the restoration is for the hearts of the fathers and their children to be turned towards each other.
This turning is profoundly needed in every level of church life in every level of society.
The lack of true fathers has created devastating voids.
It’s a major contributing cause of the loose sexual morals and homosexuality, as well as many illnesses and social dysfunction.
The absence of true fathers in the house of the Lord has also led to serious dysfunctions in the body of Christ.
So the last communication from the Old Testament addresses what is today a very serious issue. By being the last information of the Old Testament, the promise of Elisha was taking serious by all scribes and Pharisees.
Even 400 years later in Jesus day, it was clearly known by all that “Elisha” must first come. And today Orthodox Jews still put Sharon out for Elisha at the Passover-just in case you return, as Malachi promised. Jesus disciples asked him about this in :
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And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
Jesus answered and said to them, “Indeed, Elijah is coming first and will restore all things. But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him but did to him whatever they wished. Likewise the Son of Man is also about to suffer at their hands.” Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist.
Jesus validated the Jewish expectation that Elisha would come before the Messiah showed up.
He also established that John the Baptist came in the “spirit of Elisha” (Luke 117 and that there would be a future “coming of Elisha” that would proceed is return. Jesus simplified Elijah’s task down to the restoration of all things which Peter also referred to in a sermon in acts:
and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.
The word restoration APKATAASTASIS in the original Greek text is very powerful. It means “restoration of true theocracy” and “restoration of original intent.” The implications of this Scripture are, of course huge. Jesus is retained in the heavens until Elijah’s revolution. Even as John the Baptist prepare the way for Jesus to come, the Elisha revolution will prepare for his final return. We know John the Baptist revolution didn’t go far enough because it brought repentance but not restoration of all things. His and Jesus’s death however, became the scenes for the coming restoration of all things that will precede Jesus return.
An original plan and design of God’s triumph and will establish him as ruler of the nations. Exactly how that will look is debatable, but he clearly entails the crushing of Satan here on earth before he returns for his bride.
The Until Factor
The Until Factor
‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool” ’?
Matthew
This passage is intended to shape our eschatology. Together with acts three, it will give us critical information about God’s timing-“the until factor.”
In essence, the father says to the son, “once you have purchased redemption for mankind, you sit at my right hand.
You will have done your part on earth ‘till I make your enemies your footstool.’
You will remain up here as the head, and your body on earth will crush your enemies.
The last generation will be the foot generation and all rules earth over your enemies. Until they do so, you’re not going back to rescue, rapture, save, or anything else.
Your body, in fact, will not be a beautiful bride until she is accomplished the crushing of Satan.”
The restoration of all things and making Satan the footstool are both the same work.
One makes room for the other and all of the proceeds Jesus return.
Just make sure this passage didn’t get undersold the Holy Spirit is placed it in , , and 10:13, as well as in
Elijah will come first and raise up that which will destroy the spirit of Baal. In the spirit Jezebel on the earth. We’re going to take on the false prophet and the beast, were going to annihilate both of them. When they are crushed, we will come to the Lord and say, “the kingdom of this world and become the kingdoms of our God” .
Will present the nations of the world to the Lord as for us to present to the bridegroom. Lovesick for his bride, Jesus will no longer be a restrain himself and will burst through the clouds to sweep us of our feet. Our Prince charming will, on a white horse to take us away.
(See .)
But he’s not coming for a lazy, spoiled prostitute-he’s coming for and overcoming, conquering love-motivated bride who is made herself ready by fulfilling our mission. (See .”(The Elisha revolution is the catalyst for all these things.
1. The profit-the Elisha revolution will restore the profits ministry and prophetic gifts to their proper place. (See first Corinthians 14:1.) tells us, “and it shall come to pass in the last days says God that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh and your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions your old men shall dream dreams… And they shall prophesy. The outpouring of the last days is an outpouring specifically of everything prophetic.”
2. The intercessor-the Elisha revolution will soon sweep through the church and prioritize prayer to the point we will truly be called “a house of prayer for all nations” (). The world beyond “second heaven” in her session where we overlay conscious of dark forces and the strategies will step into “third heaven” intercession, where we go into the heaven see the Council of God and released his decrees on the earth-thus bringing the will of God “on earth as it is in heaven” ().
3. the-exposure-of-Jezebel Jezebel manifest as a religious spirit, as a spirit of seduction or as some combination of both. The revolution will completely remove the spirit’s cloaking device that allows it to hide. tells us that “she calls herself a prophetess” and hides in God’s house. By the power of the Holy Spirit, Elisha revolutionaries will expose her.
4. Decimeters of Baal’s prophets- Jezebel as a servant of BAAL, the God over abortion, homosexuality, divorce, self-mutilation, all Mammon (Wall Street terms the bull market comes from that flooring God) the Elisha revolution will make an open show the superiority of God over false gods with Mount Carmel like confrontation. Mardi Gras descends from Bell worship and is one in the New Orleans is lapsed expose the great devastation before Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast I wrote in my prophetic newsletter warnings that we as a nation have an altar bail from mobile to New Orleans and that the next year hurricanes would decimate them it was a varies specific to New Orleans and Biloxi bail must be confronted and must be defeated this will be a significant work of the Elisha revolution.
5. Practitioner of the supernatural-Elisha comes as the antidote to the religious spirit-which is a form of godliness but no power (two Timothy 3:5). Religion has a spiritual look but no substance or power. The Elisha revolution will usher in a major healing revival everywhere he goes and will demonstrate the power of God. Elisha revolutionaries will walk in unprecedented power and presence of the Lord. Through their words alone they will cancel droughts and plagues, and adverse weather. Supernatural experience will be there “Brad,” and they will demonstrate the truth that “greater is he that is in me then he that is in the world” (one ). They will step in to a greater works than Jesus promise us (). Our promise land walking on water, walking through buildings, being supernaturally transported, raising the dead, feeding thousands available, healing quadriplegics, casting out demons, turning water into wine, finding gold interfaces mouth-and greater!
6. Eliminator of that ambiguity-the Elisha revolution tsunami will sweep through and confront those who “falter between two opinions” (one Kings 18: 21). God what evidence himself so powerfully that it will allow many who have faltered in double mindedness to focus on what-and who-truth is. We’ll even see physical manifestations of “the God who answers by fire” (one Kings 18:24), and there will be an explosion of testimonials like those described in one Kings 18:39; “now what all the people saw it, they follow their faces; and said, the Lord, he is God! The Lord he is God!” They had been faltering between two opinions until they saw and Elisha demonstration.
7. The winter of double portion-Elisha did tremendous things in his generation; he also released even greater things to the next generation. His successor, Elisha receive double portions of the spirit. In fact, he performed exactly twice as many recorded miracles as did Elijah. Likewise, our ceiling is to be our children’s four. They are to start building where we leave off, particularly in the prophetic anointing in the anointing to restore all things. Every nation as a redemptive destiny, and the Lord is urging us to asking for the nation’s inheritance (). The generation that will that is produced from Elisha revolution will have unprecedented faith to prophesy to, over and formations and will see a small thing to believe that a nation can be taken in a day. It was Elisha who finally anointed Jehu as King, and it is he who finally destroyed Jezebel the proper, timely restoration of the apostolic ministry is the key that will finally deal Jezebel her deathblow. We currently have many premature and in mature manifestations of the apostles because the prophetic hasn’t yet been fully established Jehu represents the apostolic role, and until Jehu is in place, Jezebel will be able to operate at some level or another. Jezebel’s final removal from five place will be enforced through true apostles the Elisha revolution prepares away for all this to happen.