|
The Fall
Feasts
Most of you know that we are in the middle of
commemorating the Fall Biblical feasts of the Lord.
The Feast of Trumpets
has ushered in the year 5768, for which Chuck
Pierce has received this meaning: "The Year of the Full Circle of Life - A New
Beginning Is Yours!"
The Day of Atonement has
led the Jewish people into repentance and the hope of being written
in the Book of Life.
 And now Succot, the Feast of
Tabernacles, is at hand.
We
believe that Succot does not represent the fulfillment of the
Millennium, but rather the glorious harvest of the sons of
the Kingdom who are coming into maturity during these last
days, looking like their King.
It
represents that season of tabernacling with the
Bridegroom, bringing forth His
character as the proof of intimacy and working the works of God
in the earth.
Perhaps by now most of you know that it can be calculated through
clues from the Scriptures and through the historian, Josephus,
that Y'shua was born during the time of
Succot. Follow these links to read two
wonderful sermons where Pastor Shelley preached on this
subject:
Things the Angels Desire To Look
Into
We can
all witness that heaven and earth are drawing closer in this
hour as we either hear the testimonies or experience first
hand unprecedented divine visitations. Here
is another amazing experience that Pastor Shelley had that I have
been anxious to share with you.
On June
16th, Pastor Shelley shared with his congregation his
experiences from a month-long trip to Israel, Singapore and back to
Israel. He
explained that it had been very difficult for him to be away
from his family for so long, but early in the morning on
June 4th, just after he had returned to Jerusalem from
Singapore, God gave him a divine experience to help his
loneliness. This is what he shared:
(1Pe 1:3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a
lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the
dead,
(1Pe 1:4) To an inheritance
incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in
heaven for you,
(1Pe 1:5) Who
are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to
be revealed in the last time.
(1Pe 1:9)
Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
(1Pe 1:10) Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched
diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
(1Pe 1:11)
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which
was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings
of Christ, and the glory that should
follow.
(1Pe 1:12) Unto
whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did
minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that
have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from
heaven; which things the angels desire to look
into.
I’ve
never had a Scripture made any more real to me than that verse of
Scripture a few days ago.
I
went to bed praying that night. And at 3 o’clock in
the morning (there’s something about 3 o’clock), I
woke straight up, sat up in the bed and looked
over at the digital clock.
And all of a sudden this Presence filled up the
room. My eyes just started tearing
up. And it reminded me of the Presence that came in Tucson and
the one that came in Daphne when the portal opened
up.
I
didn’t see anything, but this was such an encouraging
Presence. And I thought, "I’m a little disappointed
because I don’t see anything. But I sure love what I
feel."
 And all of a sudden, the room
just lit up like somebody pulled the cord on a light and
it was jam-packed full of all kinds of
angels. I saw fat ones and I saw skinny
ones. And I saw tall ones and I saw short
ones.
The whole room was full of angels.
And not one said a word. And I didn’t say a
word.
But
all of a sudden, from the doorway there were four
or five more that came into the room. There
wasn’t any room for them, but they just pushed in. And
for about five minutes, I watched them elbowing one another,
shouldering one another, pushing in.
Then a few more
came. There was no room for them to get in, but they
were pushing their way in. And as all these angels
started making room for others to come in, they were getting closer
and closer to the bed.
So by
this time, there were some that were leaning
over toward the bed because the room was so
full. And nothing was said. The whole
thing just lasted about 12 minutes.
Nothing was spoken. They had a wonderful
look on their faces with beautiful smiles.
They all looked different. Some
appeared to be even more than angels. Some appeared to
be beings of some kind.
The
thought came to my mind, "Why are they pushing in
here? Why are they shoving in and elbowing one
another?"
I
mean, they weren’t fighting, but they were making room for one
another. And here would come a few more, and they would
squeeze into the room. And the whole room would shift to make
room.
And I
thought, "Why?" They had such a look on their
faces.
Then I was filled with the knowledge that
they were excited to be in my
room. They had come, excited to be in my
room. And when there wasn’t enough room, they pushed in to be
in my room.
And
God gave me that Scripture, which screamed out in my head,
"Which things angels have desired to
look into." And I knew that it wasn’t about
who I was or anything that I had done, but it was what
salvation had accomplished in my life. They came to see
it.
Brother, that was more than a thousand-dollar check to
me. That was the reward of thirty years of ministry. I
knew that what God was accomplishing in my life had the
attention of angels.
You
may never see them. I hope you do. But I believe they
fill our lives. I believe they fill your lives with
the same expectation and the same
anticipation.
We are now being made the partakers of the very things
that angels desire to look into, to investigate, to
understand. A supernatural
impartation of understanding is being revealed in this hour
to a Body of believers, and angels are
standing in
awe.
I thought about how God had called William Branham to
be a wave sheaf offering to this
generation, how God had made a perfected son, an
adopted son. And He had waved his ministry over the heads of a
generation of people so you and I could say, "If he can come
to that adoption, if he can come to that place where he
surrenders his body, soul, and spirit, and the Spirit of Jesus
Christ takes His abode in Him, then there must be some more
sons. There must be some
'messiahettes.' There must be some sons of God that
are yet to come
forth."
And
what did God say to me just a few weeks ago in Fort Morgan on the
beach? He said, "This is the
revealing of the sons of the Kingdom."
I
knew that something had shifted. I knew that something had
shifted for me personally and that something was shifting for the Body of Christ that
caught the attention of the angels. And they
were elbowing for the opportunity to stand in my room and see me and
be where I was.
And I
thought, "This is better than fried chicken and banana
puddin’!"
June 6th -
Crossing Over the Jordan
I also wanted to share with
you about where God had us on June 6th,
the 40th anniversary of the reunification of
Jerusalem.
We went to the Jordan River
near Jericho where:
- the children of Israel crossed
into the Promised Land
- where
Elisha smote the waters with Elijah's mantle
-
where Y'shua was
baptized
This is a closed
military zone because the country of Jordan is right on the
other side. You can see that the river is very narrow here and
terrorists could easily come across otherwise.
But Karen Dunham, who has
been doing amazing work to help the Palestinians in the refugee
camps in Jericho, received special permission from the Israeli
army to have the site opened up to a few Christian groups for a
few hours.
After praising the Lord in
the more than 100 degree heat, many people were ministered to
and the Lord was present in a powerful way. People
were laid out under the power of God. And the Israeli
soldiers were there, guarding us with guns. When people
started falling out in the Spirit, they were taking pictures of
them with their cellphones.
Pastor
Shelley told his congregation:
Bob
Jones had released and taught us that this was going to be a
great turning point, and it is. It has been. No doubt
about it. There’s life-changing things that have
happened since June 6th.
What
is it that Bob Jones had said about June 6th?
"It’s a day of crossing over into
the Promised Land to take our
inheritance."
And
where did God put us? Not by any place of ours. He put
us right on the banks of the Jordan River where the children of
Israel crossed into the Promised Land on the day for
which the spiritual fulfillment was prophesied.
That’s spiritual!
"Isn’t that God? Isn’t that the
Lord?"
In a conference in Lancaster,
California, last month, Neville Johnson said that with the the 40th
anniversary of the Six Days War in Israel would come Israel
and the church being restored together and the harvest overflowing
our churches.
He pointed out that
"40" in the Scriptures means the end of a
period of probation and testing. Forty represents
grace and a new beginning (40 = 5 x 8). God is now giving us grace for a new
beginning.
 God is going to cut off the flow of
the Adamic nature (like He stopped the Jordan River
flow at a place called Adam). It is not just a theory, but
an experience, because there are many
things that Christians just can't overcome.
In His baptism, Y'shua (as
the Ark) crossed the Jordan for us 2000 years ago so that we
would know the way. We are crossing on the 3rd
day!
The Father said, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased." This generation is going to hear
that! We are going to reap the harvest!
In
Closing
God gave us the
miracle and we were finally able to pay our rent, thanks to
those who gave and to some who loaned! We are so, so grateful!
Now we need to pay
back those who loaned money and pay for
our ongoing expenses of
Jerusalem monthly taxes, food and utilities.
If you could help us, as soon as
possible, it would mean so much to us, and I believe it would please
the heart of our Father!
Please be praying for
Pastor Shelley as he has an urgent mandate from the Lord to
write a book about a revelation that God has been fine-tuning within
him for many years. He is away with his family for a
month to be able to get more quality time to devote to this
undertaking. There have been prophetic Words that this book
will be a blessing to hungry souls world-wide.
Here is a closing Word
that the Lord gave to Neville Johnson recently for us, His
Bride:
"Tell them I have
put eternity in the heart of man. Tell them it is time to
dwell there."
May salvation have its
perfect work in all of us. May we be lifted from the soulish
realm to the realm of the spirit and press in to dwell in
eternity.
May we be
filled with anticipation and become sensitive to the angels
that are trailing us to watch the
Lord's progress in our lives.
Shana
Tova from Jerusalem! (Have a good year!)
Nancy Bergen
Jerusalem Revival Center
PO Box 1402
Jerusalem
91013, Israel
Tel. & Fax: +972-2-5825301
| 
