And Even Greater Things
I feel to share a little bit about the ministry of the "two witnesses" today. Let me start with this ...
Early on in my Christian experience, I was made very aware of the lack of dynamic miracle working faith in God’s people, the major cause for the powerlessness that we see in modern day Christendom. From the very first day that I opened the bible and began to read the New Testament gospel accounts, I knew in my spirit that something was seriously wrong with the thing that many people call "church" today.
My "church" experience (not that it was all bad) was for the most part joining in with people who tote bibles to places where they sit for extended periods of time and listen to preaching and teaching. Most of this preaching and teaching was about the things that Jesus did (and said that we all should be able to do), yet in reality, almost none of the people in these places were actually doing any of these things. Now, I'm talking about stuff like giving eyesight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, healing all kinds of diverse diseases, raising people from the dead, turning water into wine, casting out demons, having the resident power of God within us to do all that Jesus did (and said we too should do), but that was not happening in this place called "church." No, what I saw there was a lot of people making “faith statements” based upon an intellectual acquiescence to religious doctrines and traditions, but I did not see any real, dynamic, miracle working faith in action, something that I longed for with all of my heart and KNEW was ours in Christ Jesus.
So, I sought the Lord with all of my heart about this and He then asked me to COME OUT of man's system of religion to come to HIM in a much greater way. He said that real miracle working faith is birthed out of intimacy with the Father, and that we must be able to pray in the NAME of the Son in order to bring the Father's will from heaven to earth. He said that we will be given whatever we ask for in the Name of the Son, but that is not saying, “In Jesus’ Name amen” at the end of our prayers, but is praying in the NAME/CHARACTER/NATURE of the Son of God, which in all actuality is not us praying at all but is the Holy Spirit proclaiming through us the perfect will of the Father. It is in this way that His Kingdom comes and His will is done. To pray in this way is also not to pray “Whatever Your will is, Lord.” No, this kind of prayer is most often to discern exactly what the Father’s perfect will IS .. and then pray THAT until it comes to pass.
Now, what I am describing here does not come easy. It comes only through a LIFESTYLE of intimately “waiting” upon the Father in the Spirit (and this very often with much prayer and fasting). It is for this reason that I believe Jesus often refused natural food when the disciples were eating, and is why He also often retreated to a quiet place to be alone with the Father. I think that Jesus was in this way waiting upon the Father so that He might discern THE FATHER'S perfect will in the things that were shortly to come to pass for Him and others. At that time in His-story, Jesus was heaven’s perfect Witness upon the earth, but even He needed to discern what heaven’s perfect will was before He could give witness to that will in the natural.
This I believe set a pattern for us to follow, beloveds, and is an expression of a very awesome ministry that shall soon be seen upon this earth. Yes, heaven shall once again, very soon, have a powerful earthly witness to the Father’s perfect will. This I believe will be the “Two Witness” ministry that is revealed to us in Revelation chapter 11; a CORPORATE witness made up of a people who walk with God and truly live as sacrifices for the benefit of other people.
In order to better understand this, beloved, let's keep in mind that the book of Revelation speaks in symbolism and metaphor and is seldom to be taken in a literal sense at all. As a matter of fact, doing so can actually lead us away from the truth of what the Father is actually saying.
I have written recently about the sounding of “trumpets,” something that the book of Revelation has quite a lot to say about. The “sounding of trumpets,” as that applies to us today, is really “messages” that are being sent forth from heaven to quicken those who are appointed to hear them. There are many messages going forth in this day that (even though opposed by the religious ones) are being received by those for whom they are now appointed. I believe that these messages are spiritual tools that are being used by the Father to prepare His remnant for the awesome ministry of which I speak of here.
Let me explain this just a little bit more, and in doing so, close this letter ...
The witnesses of Revelation 11 are more than likely not two individuals (as many in the church teach today) but are primarily THE WITNESS OF TWO. Jesus said in John 5:31-32:
“If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness that He witnesses of me is true.”
The witness that Jesus spoke of was the witness of His Father. Everything that Jesus did and spoke of while in a body of flesh was confirmed by “two witnesses,” one earthly, and one heavenly. Jesus did not speak of or do anything that was not already witnessed to Him by the Father in the spirit realm.
Keeping this in mind, and in the light of many things that the Father has been revealing to many of us in this day, it seems that the “two witnesses” are to be revealed soon and they shall be a corporate expression of Christ manifesting the perfect will of the Father in the earth realm. These shall not only do everything that Jesus was able to do, but even "greater things” than that, and this because there will be many of them. Whether these saints number in the hundreds or the thousands remains to be seen. However many they shall be, they shall speak from the very throne of God for God Himself will speak through them.
Beloved ones, the scriptures seem to reveal that the “two witnesses” are:
A people who shall become one with God (and with each other) for the purpose of “witnessing” to His will on the earth perfectly - just as it is in heaven. These shall be as one corporate witness of the Father.
The other witness is God Himself.
As with all things, you should seek a heavenly witness to what I have shared with you here (if you have not already received one). For if I bear witness of myself, then my witness is not true. BUT ... if what I say to you bears witness in heaven, well, then truth has come to you. -- D