(As shared at New Hope Revival Center, Smiths, Alabama, October 17, 2004)



I had a vision standing there.  When I was watching this very holy thing and the tears were beginning to flow, the Lord gave me such a beautiful vision.

But I saw this beautiful...   What did we decide to call it?   Not a diadem, but what did we say we were going to call it?   A scepter.  A beautiful scepter appeared before my eyes.   I was standing at the barrier wall of the Kotel, and a beautiful scepter appeared in a diagonal position between me and the Kotel.

And I saw this beautiful liquid begin to drip off the tip of the scepter.   And my first thought was it was oil.   But I saw that it was dripping very slowly.   And it wasn’t dripping off like oil at all.   And the Spirit of revelation came, and I realized that it was honey.   It was honey that was dripping off of that scepter.

And it was special, because I remember the story of Jonathan in the woods.   How many of you remember the story of Jonathan when the people, the armies, had become so weak from all their fasting in the war.   And Saul in all of his hatefulness had declared that no one should be allowed to eat or drink anything, but to stay in the battle.

And Jonathan came to a field in the woods.   And honey was dripping out of the trees.   And he took his staff and dipped it down in the honey and tasted it.   And the army began to scream at him, and they said, “You can’t do that.   Don’t you know your father Saul has placed a curse on anyone who would eat or drink until the battle is won?”

And Jonathan, the Bible said, as soon as he tasted that honey, he became enlightened.   His spiritual eyes were opened, and he began to see his father for who he really was.   And he began to tell the people that his father had oppressed the people of Israel too long, and it was time.   All these years, Jonathan had done everything that he could to defend his father and to be loyal to his father.  And he was never willing to admit that his father could be blamed for some of the peril that was going on in the land of Israel.

But as soon as he tasted that honey, he recognized that his father was the one who was standing in the way of the people from being what God had ordained him to be.

As I was standing there, and I saw this honey dropping down off of this scepter, it reminded me of that call that was going up from the elders, “Don’t eat the honey!”   And it reminded me of how the rabbis are keeping people so far away from some of the things that we would like for them to hear and to discern and to understand.

And when people begin to find out there’s more than rabbinical Judaism, that the Messiah has come, the rabbis are always there... many of them to say, “Don’t eat the honey!   Don’t eat the honey!   Don’t eat the honey!”

But as I was standing there, I just began to pray, “Oh God, if You just let one person, just one person dare to defy the edict of the rabbis and taste that honey for himself, his eyes would be enlightened, and he would see the Message of the Endtime, and he would want to share it with somebody else.

It’s hard to enjoy honey all by yourself when you’re standing in a crowd of hungry people.   You just want to share it.   And if somebody licks their lips enough, and you smell it, you want some of it.

I see God getting ready to do that, and I’m so privileged and so honored to have a small part in what the Lord is doing in the Endtime, not only here (in Alabama), but in the Land of the Bible.   It’s just the blessings of the Lord.

I want you to know God is faithful.   He is ever ever faithful.   And you know what I’m finding out. I’m finding out the more you cast your eyes on Him, and the more you focus your attention on Him, the less little things matter to you in life.   You just let them slide.   You just kind of let them roll off.   And the words to the song are true.   When you turn your eyes on Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, then the things of this earth go strangely dim in the light, in the brightness, of His Glory and grace.