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Spiritual showdown, altars being rebuilt and wells reopened across Britain – Veronika West

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Section 8 of my paper The State of the Prophetic in the UK summarises the One Voice Prophecy Conference in Reading held 8th February 2020. The previous evening one of the guest speakers, Veronika West, told me she’d arrived without anything to share. So I was delighted upon my returning to the conference hall the next day, to hear her giving an unscheduled message on insights the Lord had given her overnight on what she’d sensed during her flight from Northern Ireland!! He alerted her to: “Get ready for the stage is set for a spiritual showdown!”

I was keen for this important message to be available and pleased when Geoffrey Pick posted his video of it on Prophetic Releasers for UK Revival (Facebook group). Last week he inserted a few points with regard to the covid-19 and Chris Moyler’s close transcript. I’m grateful for their kind permission to republish the full message. The 12-minute video of Veronika delivering this message may be watched on Fb by clicking either the following image or on Google via top of page picture (preferred):

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VERONIKA WEST:

One Voice Prophecy Conference, Reading, 8th February 2020

The LORD said to me in a dream “How long, United Kingdom, are you going to falter between two opinions?” 

Elijah went before the people saying, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him. But if he is Baal, follow him.” (1Kings 18:21)

And we know what happened; there was a showdown. Elijah called for an altar to be built and filled its moat with water, and the prophets of Baal built an altar and they called upon their gods…Elijah began to mock them saying, “You’re going to have to call a little louder!”

(1:02mark) Then Elijah does something: He says one word and God sent his fire. And in this dream, I heard the Spirit of God say this (which is also a powerful proclamation):

“Get ready, get ready! For the stage is set, for a Spiritual Showdown is about to take place in this land! Watch! For now I am raising up a remnant that will Roar with a call for the rebuilding and the restoration of the broken-down Altars in this land.

(1:53) Listen! For a sound is beginning to arise from the ground of this prodigal nation. A sound of weeping and wailing will once again be heard, as the call to come to the altar returns to the land. Now, watch and pray and pay close attention, for a remnant mantled with the spirit of Elijah is rising in this land – one who will begin to roar, causing a Prodigal Nation to come back to its senses. A nation that was lost will turn, return and be reformed! Listen! Now is the time to repair and rebuild the torn-down altars in this nation.“

(2:45) In the dream, I saw altars begin to be repaired and rebuilt in the nation. And I saw Scotland – I know that Emma and David Stark are here, and I don’t want to say this is for their ministry – but I saw an altar being rebuilt in Scotland. Then I saw an altar being rebuilt in Wales, and I saw an altar being rebuilt in Ireland, and I saw an altar being built in England. I saw altars being built all over this nation.

(3:18) But what was incredible is that as I saw the altars being repaired and rebuilt, I saw the Giants falling – I saw Giants falling! And, as the altars were being repaired and rebuilt, strongholds were being dismantled, demonic thrones were being overthrown. The I saw something incredible as I saw the altars being rebuilt – and I saw a weeping and wailing and saw many coming back to the altar. And the LORD said,

(4:02) “The words ‘altar call’ have not been upon the lips of My shepherds, but NOW I am restoring and I am putting back on the lips of My shepherds the words, “altar call.”

And as I heard the Lord say that I saw something amazing happen in the dream as I saw these altars being rebuilt. As they were being rebuilt I saw wells being uncapped and opened and I spoke with the Lord in my amazing dream (I speak to the LORD, to the Throne of Revelation in my dreams and I go back and forth), He said something – not strange, but the Lord said,

“Altars of awakening, wells of revival and restoration…It will take the apostolic grace to build the altars of awakening, and it will take the prophetic grace to uncap the wells of revival and restoration.”

(5:09) And then the dream shifted, and the LORD showed me a horse and an ox being yoked together in a field, and they looked uncomfortable. The horse had great strength, and he wanted to gallop; and the ox had his head lowered, ready to pull and to plough. The LORD said, and there was no sense that this yoking was oppressive,

(5:58) “I am yoking the apostolic and the prophetic, I am yoking them together in a new way in this next season.”

I saw that the prophetic horse wanted to run ahead, but the yoke prevented one going ahead of the other. The yoking enabled them to work together in humility, with their mantles of apostolic and prophetic grace, that God is releasing.

And the LORD had me prophesy as the altars were being built, that the wells would be uncapped and be open, and I saw the apostles building and rebuilding the altars, and the prophets were coming behind them, speaking to the wells of revival.

(7:05) I see altars being rebuilt across this nation, in north, south, east and west, and then I heard the Spirit say this about Reading,

“As the altars are being rebuilt across this nation, Reading shall become an altar, an altar where fires of revival shall fall. Reading will become a tower on a hillside that cannot and will not be hidden any longer. Reading will arise and shine when glory has come upon you. Watch, for all nations will be drawn to the brightness of your rising.”

Thank you, Jesus! And then  I heard the LORD say,

(8:03) “The Gates shall now become an altar, a place of fire, a place of revival… Even what is happening with the building, is highly significant and prophetic.” He said, “I am pulling down the old meeting place, because I am building a new altar in this place.”

(8:57) And as I was praying this morning for The Gates, as I was praying onto the ground of the Church, I saw angels very involved in dismantling different parts of the building. I had a sense that some of you here may be somewhat sentimental about the building, but the LORD wants you to know that HE is tearing it down! He is now repairing and rebuilding the altars.

(10:10) I encourage you, the leadership of the Gate. The LORD has chosen you because you have been faithful. Because you have been faithful in the little, I will make you faithful with much. And I saw the nations coming to the altar. I saw revival, I saw the outpouring, and I saw the fires fall. Thank you, Jesus!

(10:40) Prayer: “Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you for what you are doing in this nation at this time, in this season. We thank you LORD that you are releasing apostolic grace to rebuild the altars, and that you are releasing prophetic grace, and prophetic mantles to speak to the wells of revival and outpouring in this land.

(11:20) “So Father, we say, here we are! Thank you, Jesus for what you are doing in this land. You are bringing together the five-fold ministry, and you are bringing Reformation, Restoration and Transformation in this nation. You are not just rebuilding the altars, you are tearing down every demonic stronghold in this nation. You are overthrowing thrones of darkness that have been long established in this nation. We humble ourselves as apostles, prophets and shepherds, teachers and evangelists, and we come together LORD as one to turn the key, to see you do a great and an awesome thing in this land.”

[Veronika West 8.2.2020]

AMEN and again AMEN

Footnotes & Facebook Thread:
  • [RB-Feb] GOOD TO HEAR ANSWER to my frequent asking and urging the Lord to do something direct about the demonic rebellion in our lands and to make Himself powerfully and obviously known to everyone for Veronika reports the Lord as telling her “GET READY, GET READY FOR THE STAGE IS SE T FOR A SPIRITUAL SHOWDOWN”!!
  • [GP-May] ‘Just before COVID-19 became an issue – first record of UK transmission was just 20 days later 28th Feb 2020. Veronika West speaks of “a spiritual show-down,… weeping and wailing … repair and rebuild (massive demand for cement) … demonic thrones fall … (crown virus) … altars are being rebuilt (in people’s homes) …”
  • [VW-May] ‘Geoffrey Pick I’m so glad you mentioned this Geoff, at the start of the corona virus the Lord took me back to this word concerning a Spiritual Showdown that was afoot, I had more revelation concerning this showdown which unfortunately I was not able to bring at the conference but I believe the key message for this Nation at this critical time is GET BACK TO THE ALTAR (emphasis RB). IT’S TIME TO REBUILD THE ALTARS OF AWAKENING…I believe the Apostolic and Prophetic MUST BECOME BETTER ALIGNED in the days ahead IT’S CRITICAL FOR REVIVAL IN OUR NATION. I believe this Spiritual showdown has begun in our Nation and we must CHOOSE WHOM WE WILL SERVE. I PROPHESY AS THE ALTARS OF AWAKENING ARE REBUILT  THE WELLS OF REVIVAL WILL BREAK OPEN. IT’S TIME!!’
  • [GP-May] ‘Amen – We are in a massive time shift forward from where we were in the natural what has been built in months would take many years to achieve – We are building a stronger team each day with more in place even today.’
  • [RB-Feb] Veronika’s prophesying about Reading being on a spiritual hill and of the Lord’s fire coming down confirms impression I’d brought at the conference’s planning meeting in November. It reminded me of a previous vision of decades ago in which I’d ‘seen’ an imploding (!) ‘atomic bomb’ with fireball rolling down Tilehurst hill and along the Thames Valley towards the capital, as told in June’s 2nd of four jigsaw pieces!
  • [RB-today] Listening and checking CM’s hard work of transcribing, Veronika’s speaking in detail on angels rebuilding The Gate, reminds me of an exceptionally powerful dream in September 2011 of seeing the Kingdom being set up by angelic teams. This ‘coincided’ with a prophetic word Bill Johnson brought about that date later being appreciated as of significance for the kingdom in Britain (as told in Father, Your Kingdom Come!).

‘British public turn to prayer as one in four tune in to religious services’ — CTNTP

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This is so well-timed in view of the prophetic word Pastor Chris Wickland received on a national humbling and revival just before he died and was returned to life…

Did you see this on-line article published by The Guardian last Sunday? This is so encouraging! The nation is being called to prayer! theguardian.com/world/2020/may/03/british-public-turn-to-prayer-as-one-in-four-tune-in-to-religious-services The Text of the main article is also reproduced below: A quarter of adults in the UK have watched or listened to a religious service since the coronavirus lockdown began, and […]

continue reading at ‘British public turn to prayer as one in four tune in to religious services’ — Call The Nation To Prayer

Prophecy of great humbling, then spiritual revival in Great Britain (GPS #47.3 cont’d – F/P #165.1)

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A great thank you to Carolyn Stewart for transcribing this vital message (previous post refers). Note it was received last November at a time of unprecedented political upheaval in Parliament and speaks directly into this year’s unprecedented economic situation arising from global covid-19 pandemic. And yesterday came news of Britain’s humiliation internationally, as well as scientifically. Hence inclusion of this prophecy in the catalogue of fulfilled prophecies or those coming to pass (Footnotes refer).

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“I just want to share this prophetic word. I was looking through my phone and I found this. (The current date is..we are in April 2020). And as I was looking through my phone of prophecies I found this one called ‘The Humbling of Great Britain’, which I’d never put out before. I completely forgot about it. So I think in the light of what’s going on at the moment, it is very relevant. It is a warning, but it is also an encouragement of what God is doing in our land. I thought I should release this now.

“As I said, this was given in November 2019. This was just before I died as well, so it is quite a significant prophecy. And as I said, I’d forgotten all about it. I just found it on my phone, but I feel it’s important to release it, so I’ll leave it with you. Please listen, please enjoy, please be blessed, and please spread it around as well.

THE HUMBLING OF GREAT BRITAIN (November 2019)

“I will have the people in this land in derision”, says the Lord. “I will pour out my Spirit on this land, and those people that have called to come together to conspire, to tear down My ways and My precepts and My ordinances from this land – this green and pleasant land. Mark My words: I will have them in derision. I am in the heavens and I laugh at their futility, at the things that they’re attempting to do, to close Me off and shut Me off from My own creation and so close down and shut down My people. For that is their ultimate aim. They want Me and every trace of Me eradicated from the land and from education and from every part of this society.

“But mark My words; I have plans to prosper this country, and I will bring to shame the wise. I will shame those who have so loftily held their head up – their stiff-necked heads that have said, ‘We will bring our ways! We will bring in our precepts and ordinances in this land, and we will eradicate God, and we will take Him off his throne. And we shall destroy His church.‘  But not so!

“Sadly, My own Church has failed to see how impoverished and how weakened she has become. She is literally now a remnant in this country. Yet I will do great things with a remnant. Yet when it was I can take three hundred foot-soldiers with Gideon and I can do a great deliverance, and I will do the same also in this land. I will take this small remnant of a Church that is left – those Christians that genuinely acknowledge Me as their Lord and Saviour – and will not bow the knee to Baal and to all his false practices and customs in respect to the laws that are now passing in this land.

“Mark My words, punishment will come for the sins that have covered this land. But the punishment, as I always punished Israel in times past, was so that it may bring them to repentance and may bring healing to their land; that when the people are humbled they would pray to me and I would turn in My mercy, I would forgive them their sins and I would then heal their land. I am going to bring punishment to this nation – a time of humbling – but this punishment is not to destroy this nation. This punishment is to humble her and to chastise her, that she may repent of her wicked ways and turn back to Me.

“There will not be many nations in the days ahead that will be permitted to have what this nation will be permitted. You will have a grace and a favour upon you which many other nations will not be given because I have plans and purposes for this country. And even though My own people have been faithless harlots towards Me, know this; that your faithlessness will only go to prove My faithfulness. I will be faithful to My Covenant and to My Word, and I will bring about My ways and My means for this country, and I will pour out My Spirit. And I will bring Revival, but it will not be like any revival that has been before. It will be uncontainable; it will be uncontrollable; and the world will HATE it because it will be so strong and it will be so powerful that they cannot ignore it.

“In times past they’ve been able to turn a blind eye to the things of My Spirit, but in these days everyone will know about it, everybody will know about it. And the same sun that melts the ice also hardens the clay, and men will just drop into two distinct camps: those that love Me and those that absolutely hate Me. This is why in many respects these days are dangerous days, because it will polarize people, in ways stronger than they are now; but you will know the righteous and you will know the evil.

“But mark My words, I will do something wonderful with this country; I will restore law and order to this country. This country has become lawless and it has no more order to it. And your Houses of Parliament are an example of the state of your nation, of the division of your nation, of the complexities of your nation. The wickedness and the hardness of heart and the blindness and arrogance of your nation are all set to display, for all the world to see in your own Houses of Parliament. But I am going to do a new thing. And many men will lay down their crowns and place down their swords before Me and repent and give their lives to me. And many powerful men and women who vehemently hate My name, will come to know Me and love My name.

“And some Christians might go, ‘Why, why Lord did you save them? They’re the ones who brought such depravity to our nation. Why did you allow it?’  Because that’s My grace, that’s My mercy, and the very ones that brought in those laws, I will turn into trophies of grace to make the enemy despised in his own camp, for I will make those who passed those wicked laws be the ones that undo them, for they will reveal the secrets and the dark intent and heart of sinful wicked flesh. And the world or this country at least, will look on in horror at the things that they’ve released and allowed in this country, and they will be rescinded and retracted.

“My people, you need to do this: you need to be spending these hours – because it is only hours – you need to be spending these hours in prayer; you need to be spending these hours on your knees; you need to be spending this time in the Word, learning from Me, learning from My Spirit and I will teach you many wonderful things. But this is the time, because there are many bridesmaids out there that do not have enough oil in their lamp and you need to get it in your lamp. No-one can part-exchange their life of intimacy with Me to those that have no intimacy with Me. This is your chance; now is the time to do it, for in the humbling that’s coming – this wind of change that’s going to blow through this land – it’s going to be a difficult time for this nation. It will not be a long time, but the depth of the punishment that will come will be severe, even though it will only be for a short time. It was like when I said to King David, “You can have three years of this, three months of that, or three days of the other”.

“This will be a short punishment but it will be a deep punishment; a deep chastisement to this nation. And I will humble this nation and I will turn her around. And many who are your enemies in these days will become your friends and neighbours in the days to come.

“So be prepared, be encouraged but be warned; this is not going to be an easy day that is coming, it is going to be a difficult day, a difficult time for this nation. Many Christians will cry out, ‘Why did I allow such things to come to this nation?’ But in part, everyone in this nation is responsible for the punishments that are coming.

“There is much worldliness in My Body, much worldliness in My Church, much worldliness in the mindset of Christians, much worldliness in the teachings of the Church! And the teachings of the Church have lost their anchor. They have apostasised; they have become an apostate church, in that they’ve drifted away from the truth of scripture and have chosen to allow the doctrines of men to infiltrate the teachings of the Church. The sacred scriptures should never be changed, never diluted, never touched, never altered, for they sacred and they are from the throne room of heaven itself. How dare man place his DNA and his ideas over that which is heavenly and beyond?

“So take heart to these words and this warning. Be blessed, be encouraged and get ready, for the time is now when the humbling must begin. And it will be short but long. It will be a short period of time but it will feel like the longest period of time, for it will be very intense. And for a period of three years a time of great humbling will come upon this nation, and it will be a heavy three years, a very difficult three years.

“But then things will change, things will turn, and you will go from Winter to Spring, Spring to Summer, Summer into Harvest time.”

Footnotes:
  • Epidemiologist behind highly-cited coronavirus model drastically downgrades projection (26 March 2020)
  • Govt’ scientist resigns after breaking lockdown rules to meet married lover (5 May)
  • Britain criticised around the world for ‘complacent’ and ‘calamitous’ coronavirus response (6 May)
  • Despite Ferguson fiasco No 10 about to make its second major blunder (7 May) viz:

    ‘The biggest political con in modern history has descended into farce. Professor McLockdown, has choked on his own junk science, resigning from Sage after the Telegraph exposed that he flouted the very mass house arrest he advocated for everyone else. But his defence – that he broke the rules because he had already caught the virus and recovered from it – is even more revelatory; turns out Britain’s most influential epidemiologist believes that not only can you gain immunity from Covid-19, but that this should release you from lockdown.

    ‘If No 10’s response to coronavirus was really based on “following the science”, of course, these new details about Prof Ferguson’s view might be a game-changer, prompting, at the very least, Downing Street discussions of how to rapidly loosen the rules for those who have had the virus. Like with all good farces, though, the most absurd is yet to come. Incredibly, Downing Street shows little sign of learning from the Ferguson Chapter. And, astonishingly, once again, “the science” is being compromised by political hysteria – a scandal that continues to be barely scrutinised.

    ‘But before we get to the meat, let us briefly chew over the cautionary tale that can be cleaved from the career of Prof Ferguson. He has a track record of making wildly inaccurate projections, for example that BSE would kill 150,000 people (the real figure was fewer than 200)…’

Is this global pandemic from God’s hand? (#121.10-1 cont’d)

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Before we look at the actual scriptures referred to in the previous part about the current contagion being “man-made”, especially relating to the ‘Mark of the Beast’, it’s useful to present those that are my foundation for following Jesus Christ as the Lord of my life:

Foundational Discipleship
“If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me. These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.“ (John 14:23-26 NKJV)
“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.” (John 17:20-23 NKJV)
“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” (John 3:5-8 NKJV)

Discipleship re. Prophecy/Deliverance

Having practised deliverance ministry and prophecy, I’m of the opinion that ALL Matthew chapter 7 is applicable to the latter; especially verses 1-2 on judging others, 15-23 on true and false prophets and entry to heaven, 24-27 on building upon the Rock.

Moreover, I’m well aware of the judgements the Lord brought upon His chosen people for not only straying from His ordinances, given as they are for their well-being and protection, but also for rebelling against Him by turning to worship false gods. [Paper collated by Joel Rosenberg, What does the Bible teach about pestilence, plagues & global pandemics? refers.]

Here’s a tidy-up from my jottings, ‘End of March (in lock-down for UK) Thoughts’ :

IS GLOBAL PANDEMIC FROM GOD’S HAND?

The Almighty or ‘El Shaddai, ‘ according to rabbinical tradition, means ‘God of utter ruin and destruction Who can do anything’.

Rev 13:7…’no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.’

Instructions for avoiding virus-contaminated surfaces when shopping state it is best to use cashless-payment, instead of handling cash or touching card machines: ie, wave a hand instead of part with cash or tapping buttons!
Therefore, if this pandemic is from the hand of God, it means He is in cahoots with satan and enabling its strategy to introduce a cashless society described in Rev 13:7..!!!

1 Peter 4:17…For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?

Matt 13:24-30… He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

Rev 2-3…Jesus’ letters to the 7 churches warns sinners therein of the need to repent, or else face judgement and extraction as well as the removal of His lampstand therefrom.

ALL three passages clearly imply unrepentant sinners and apostates within churches will be judged first, before other believers and the as-yet-unsaved general public.

WHY have the blatantly apostate leaders of churches who permit same-sex marriage and twisting of scriptures not died from this pandemic? If it’s time for these passages to be put into effect then the Church should be judged and leaders repent and turn, or die.

Amos 3:7… Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.

I was unaware of any prophets hearing specifically about a global pandemic before it started in China. (I’d noted Veronika West’s of April 2019 about plague in USA.) Therefore, I took note of Dr Sharon Stone’s explanation of what she heard upon seeking the Lord on this matter in early March, “This plague is before its time and it is illegal.”

Sid Roth’s Coronavirus and the End-times on 19th March featured Emma Stark and Tracy Cooke, which drew discussion at Prophetic Releasers for UK Revival. However, it was too long for me to spare the time but I noticed it began with Tracy talking about a dream of being in the Wuhan lab and seeing US politicians. As blogged a couple of weeks later in Visions of Spiritual ‘Atomic Bomb’, I returned to the video because Emma’s contribution had been recommended by a pastor to whom her vision applied.

I wasn’t, therefore, persuaded by unsubstantiated claims of the virus being engineered at a laboratory, but was open to the possibility. This is why I did not exclude it from all the various scenarios I put to The Almighty on 23rd March, as told in the previous post. Hence my surprise at hearing the Lord’s immediate response to my asking if the pandemic is from Him – “No, it is man-made.”

There’s another connotation to ‘man-made’ other than engineered: it can be a consequence of our unrepented, sinful activities because they give satan legal rights of access to interfere with our lives. We thus move ourselves from under the Lord’s blood covering and protection.
Maybe Jesus was mindful of that state-of-play when saying:

Matt 24:4-8 (‘The Signs of the Times and End of the Age’) Jesus..said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for [a]all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, [b]pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.”

This passage states what natural and human activities/events will happen in the future, but there’s no indication that they’ll come direct from the hand of God.

Yet, the time must come when He will, of necessity, humble humanity to its knees in repentance before His holy glory.

Matthew 24:6-8 in Greek (Scripture4all: click image for link)

Prophetic Word for Great Britain and A Canopy of Prayer — CTNTP

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Prophetic Word for Great Britain and Updates By Suzanne Ferrett of Passion for the Nation (and team member of CTNTP), on Wednesday May 6th, 2020 Hi everyone, a couple of new items. Firstly for those who have not seen it yet, Cindy Jacobs has given a prophetic word to Great Britain: [it appears below and […]

via Prophetic Word for Great Britain & a Canopy of Prayer — Call The Nation To Prayer

Keep Praying and Bless: Day 49 – THE ALL SUFFICIENT ONE

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OUR BUILDINGS MAY BE CLOSED BUT THE CHURCH IS VERY MUCH ALIVE!

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In our continuing the cycle of prayers for the British Isles AND Ireland which started in 2012 for blessing our land for 70 days preceding the London Olympics and cleansing the Olympic flame’s route, today’s repeat is appropriate (and 7 x 7) as a follow-up to many churches’ song The UK Blessing. (My apologies for previous post’s failed video link as it was shared from Call The Nations to Prayer.)

Decree:

“I AM JEHOVAH JIREH – GOD OUR PROVIDER – THE ALL-SUFFICIENT ONE”
“So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.” (Genesis 14:22)

We decree: God is the provider of all needs, physical, emotional and spiritual, for individuals, families, communities and nations.

Aaronic Blessing: The Lord bless you and keep you, The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you, The Lord lift up His countenance toward you and give you peace. Thus, we put His name upon you and He will bless you (Numbers 6:24-27).

We bless the people in the British Isles with more than enough resources to fulfill God’s purposes in their lives.

Plus the Lord’s Prayer and the Prayer of Protection.

NB: See Day 1 for scriptural principles of decrees and blessings, plus background.

The UK Blessing – just released on YouTube! — CTNTP

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The UK Church is coming together in Unity – through prayer and praise! Write up by the Producers, as on YouTube: At this unique and challenging time in the United Kingdom over 65 churches and movements, representing hundreds of others, have come together online to sing a blessing over our land. Standing together as one, […] 

via The UK Blessing – just released on YouTube! — Call The Nation To Prayer

PS: Apologies for previous broken link – video now runs by clicking above image

The Benjamins – Israel turns 72 and the crown virus shattered – Johnny Enlow (GPS #46.2 cont’d)

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Johnny’s article in full as promised in previous post…

Watching – Trevor Roff

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WATCHING

 Another three weeks! The last three were enough; now we have to suffer another 21 days (minimum) of social isolation and lockdown. Even the strongest of us will surely begin to flag; there are only so many tasks to perform, rooms to clean, phone calls to make, books to read, walks to explore and TV programmes to watch. So what are we going to do?

In my last article, I wrote about waiting, and making it a positive thing rather than just a period to endure. But watching and waiting are often spoken together. Parents will often tell their children to “Wait and See,” with the clear implication that something important (usually good) is going to happen soon.  And we always refer to night watchmen, not night waiters! Times of waiting should always be approached with patience and with the expectation that something good is going to happen or that something bad may be prevented by watching. So, in the Bible waiting is often synonymous with watching. The same Greek word is used in the New Testament for both keeping awake and for spiritual alertness, in other words, watching. We need to become good “watchers.”

So, how can we make sure that this time of waiting can be positive rather than frustrating?  The Bible tells us: “be on your guard; stand firm in the faith” (1 Corinthians 16 v 13). It is very easy to be negative about your circumstances, to allow your mind to drift into possible future scenarios. “Will I catch the dreaded Covid-19?” “How will I ever manage to pay the bills, put up with the kids for another month, or find another job when this is over?”

The Bible can help us here. Instead of dwelling on circumstances in fear or frustration, we can turn our thoughts away from ourselves to God’s peace and purposes in our lives. Psalm 130 verse 5 states, “I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope.”

This turns our situation on its head; instead of fear there is peace, instead of doubt there is faith and instead of frustration there is hope.  This time of waiting can become a time of watching instead, looking to see what God can do and wants to do in your life rather than trying to sort it all out yourself.  Watching means that we trust God to work in and through our lives to accomplish what he wants to do. Isaiah 30 verse 18 tells us that “the Lord longs to be gracious to you ….blessed are all who wait for him.” The old hymn Great Is Your Faithfulness is actually a quotation from Lamentations 3 verses 22-24. Why not look it up and see how it can apply to you?

Let’s all become watchers rather than just waiters!

Waiting – Trevor Roff

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WAITING

Queuing is arguably one of the things we Brits do best; we are prepared to arrive early at the supermarket and wait for hours to get the last loo roll or carton of eggs. If there is a queue, we want to be in it! In fact in the days of World War Two, it was a well-known maxim: “If you see a queue, join it.” (This was in the days of wartime rationing, when folk didn’t know when the next delivery of vital foodstuffs would arrive.) Now, of course, we have to queue at least two metres apart because of coronavirus!

But as we self-isolate and wait for Covid-19 to burn itself out, there will inevitably come a sense of frustration that the end of it all is still far off. How many more days and weeks will we have to wait before we can resume our normal everyday lives? We may in fact find ourselves saying with the psalmist, “How long, Lord, how long?”

This present situation can very easily become like a prison, with no end in sight: no outings, no social activity, no nights out, no family gatherings, and no corporate worship. We discover the same frustration that the people of God felt many times when they were at their wits’ end and God seemed far away. Many times they cried out that same phrase, “How long?”

But that cry begs the question in reply, “What are we impatient for?” If we read the Psalms, we soon discover that God’s people were thirsting after several things, like deliverance, revenge, mercy and forgiveness. But when they had calmed down a little, they realized that their needs were for much more than a sense of vindication or victory over their enemies. They were desperate not so much for their own bodily comforts but for the reassurance that God loved them and would be with them, no matter how long their present situation: “Turn, O Lord, deliver my life.” (Ps. 6 v 4), “Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him.” (Ps. 37 v7)  “with you there is forgiveness, …. listen to my cry for mercy.” (Ps 130 vs 2,4). There clearly had to be some point to all this waiting, and for us in 2020 the same truth holds good.

It’s not the waiting that is the problem; it’s how we respond to the waiting. Psalm 130 again: “I wait for the Lord … more than for the morning …  and in His word I put my hope.”  “We wait for the Lord; he is our hope and shield.” (Psalm 33). The psalmists had clearly moved beyond their immediate feelings of frustration, boredom and uselessness to see the higher purpose in such a trying situation: “Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.” (Psalm 90).

Now that is an outcome well worth aiming for!

Hiding – Trevor Roff

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Trevor Roff, a friend at church circulated a brief message of encouragement and kindly permits me to republish it, and sent me the two earlier ones penned after the contagion came. So I’m publishing all three as ‘medicinal meditation’ over this long- weekend. May the Lord bless you thoroughly and saturate you in His Spirit:

HIDING

When small children feel afraid or when they are playing tag, their strong temptation is to run away and hide. The chaser becomes the enemy, and the threat from the pursuer becomes increasingly menacing the longer the chase continues. After a time, the danger increases in the children’s minds to the point where discovery is terrifying and is to be avoided at all costs.

We adults are living in such a time today. Coronavirus has taken such a hold in our collective consciousness that our primary response to its threat is one of panic and fear. We stay in our homes not only to protect others from catching the disease but from our own inner fear that we might also become victims.

But God knows exactly how we are feeling. When King David was feeling scared he cried out, “Hide me in the shadow of your wings,” (Psalm 17 v 8).

If you are like me you cannot prevent a shadow of fear flit through your thoughts as to the likelihood of your succumbing to the disease, especially if, like me, you are over 70 or have a history of cancer or some equally dangerous condition. Your first thought is to run away, to hide, even if it is only the comfort and safety of your own home, where you try to avoid any contact with the outside world! 

But later in his life, David had grown in his faith and could cry out with confidence in Psalm 27 v 5: “He will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent.” David has grown in his faith and now states as a fact that God will protect him from the dangers he faces. That is God’s desire for us too, that we will grow in confidence to firmly trust that God will see us through this ‘deadly pestilence.’

Not only that, God does more to console and strengthen David, as the verse continues, “He will lift me high upon a rock.” Our heavenly father longs not only to protect us, but to also give us the faith to believe that He will not only see us through the storms ahead, but also make us beacons of faith and confidence to those around us. If we are willing, he will enable us to be witnesses of God’s saving power. And we can help our friends and neighbours to see beyond this monstrous pandemic to the One who has power over life and death and is inviting us to trust him for the future, wherever it may lead us.

Holy Fire caught during church video meeting

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Three weeks after our first video meeting with Catch The Fire Farnborough, as told in this confirmation of the establishing of ‘new wineskin’ church, pastor Bird asked one of the attendees to read a scripture he’d submitted as being relevant to this new church:

The Coming Glory of God’s House (NKJV – BibleGateway)

2 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first of the month, the word of the Lord came [a]by Haggai the prophet, saying: 2 ‘Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying: 3 “Who is left among you who saw this [b]temple in its former glory? And how do you see it now? In comparison with it, is this not in your eyes as nothing? 4 Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,” says the Lord; “and be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land,” says the Lord, “and work; for I am with you,” says the Lord of hosts. 5 “According to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so My Spirit remains among you; do not fear!”

6 ‘For thus says the Lord of hosts: “Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; 7and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the [c]Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this [d]temple with glory,” says the Lord of hosts. 8 “The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,” says the Lord of hosts. 9 “The glory of this latter [e]temple shall be greater than the former,“ says the Lord of hosts. “And in this place I will give peace,“ says the Lord of hosts.’

I’m amazed that once again a scripture brought to our attention had been highlighted in my old Bible, as in the attached photo. This was probably done in connection with having heard “Hebrews 12” over 29 yrs ago and when I highlighted v 26 about ‘The Shaking’, which is why I’ve oft referred to it when blogging (see tag). Continue reading →

Let the True Prophets of God arise over nations – Veronika West

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How ‘God-incidental’ that in responding to reader Mary’s comment I felt prompted to stick Lana Vawser’s prophecy of February 2016 on coals of fire on prophets’ heads to this blog’s homepage. A hour ago Veronika posted this on Ignite Ireland Ministries.

Moreover, it fits a scripture connected to judgement beginning at the house of God that I’d homed in on days ago: from 1 Peter 4:17 > Malachi 3:11, NKJV: “I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes” (a demon I’d seen many decades ago!):

“LET THE TRUE PROPHETS ARISE OVER THE NATIONS WITH THE SOUND OF THE ROAR OF REDEMPTION AND RESURRECTION POWER IN THEIR MOUTHS AND LET THE VOICE OF THE LYING DEVOURER BE SILENCED”….! These are the words I heard this morning as I went before the Lord….!

In prayer this morning I felt such a tangible weight of the Spirit fear, grief, despair and deep discouragement covering the Nations, I saw in the Spirit many Nations that were covered by a thick heavy cloak of darkness and I saw the words, “DEMONIC OPPRESSION” ,….and then I heard these words, “HOPE DEFERRED HAS MADE THE HEARTS OF MANY SICK”…!

Then I saw many people across the Nations sitting indoors with a yoke of heaviness around their necks and the voices of familiar spirits were whispering in their ears, lies and more lies were being spoken over them and then I heard the Spirit say, “Look many are standing on the threshold of their greatest breakthrough…many are on the very cusp of the dreams and visions they have carried for decades being made fully manifest… but! listen!”…. Continue reading →

Back-from-dead pastor in ‘Close Calls Caught on Camera’ – BBC1, Wednesday 22 April at 11:45am TODAY!

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Do you recall news of pastor Christopher Wickland’s revival from death at a trampoline park in Southampton three months ago? It was publicised in the local press and BBC South Today.

The account has now got a longer slot in tomorrow morning’s Close Calls Caught On Camera on BBC1 at 11:45am Wednesday 22nd April – and yet again No. 22!!!!

NOT TO BE MISSED!

[Published at 11:22 on 21.4.2020 – not planned or scheduled, but just so happened!!]

A Trumpet Call: Conclusion & Prayer of Repentance – Neil MacKereth

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Continuing Neil MacKereth’s paper A Trumpet Call:

CONCLUSION

The theme of much of the foregoing is about whether it is right for our nation to ask for God’s protection when we are not willing to accept His advice and precepts. As mentioned above, it is only by His amazing grace and mercy that we can have a glimmer of hope.

For about 45 years, I attended C of E services and read or listened to the Confession, from the Book of Common Prayer, without paying much heed to what it really says. At last it has come alive to me; it has burst into flames of reality. It is absolutely a prayer for our time.

‘ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father; We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare thou those, O God, who confess their faults. Restore thou those who are penitent; According to thy promises declared unto mankind In Christ Jesus our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake; That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, To the glory of thy holy Name. Amen.’

These words have power to those who listen, but are completely without point to the indifferent: they can easily be ignored. However, the Coronavirus is like a trumpet call from the watchtower: it cannot be ignored. It is heard by rich and poor, great and small, rulers and labourers, saints and sinners. The Lord is telling us that the idols that we worship have no value.

Almighty God, on behalf of our undeserving nation, we cry out to You for mercy.

Neil MacKereth, 6th April 2020

AMEN and AMEN AGAIN!

A Trumpet Call: Can Covid-19 change the nation’s values? – Neil Mackereth

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Neil MacKereth, author of Signs, the Significance of Bible Prophecy, emailed saying, “I continue to be amazed at your prolific output…I am adding to your reading load with the attached – a bit longer than recent docs, but I felt urged to write it. Hope you can find a moment to read it.” Running off a hard-copy I mulled it over at leisure but was brought back to it a few times in view of its thought-provoking content. Therefore, you too may find it of noteworthy interest…

A TRUMPET CALL
Can Covid-19 Change the Nations Values?

“If you ask me what I think to be the design, I believe it to be this—to waken up our indifferent population, to make them remember that there is a God, to render them susceptible of the influences of the gospel, to drive them to the house of prayer, to influence their minds to receive the Word, and moreover to startle Christians into energy and earnestness, that they may work while it is called to-day.” (Charles Spurgeon, ‘The Voice of Cholera’ sermon, August 1866)

INTRODUCTION – THE SITUATION (April 2020)

Covid-19 is a virulent and pitiless virus which is sweeping across the world. So far, it is an uncontrollable pestilence: it is a law unto itself. It advances like a desert wind, ignoring those in authority and all the usual constraints that govern inter-national relations. It destroys people and livelihoods, undermines governments and economies and is testing the very foundations of our way of life and our values.

It is not localised, or in some way compartmentalised, as Ebola was, or forest fires are, or tsunamis, or earthquakes. It cannot be ignored, ridiculed or responded to half-heartedly, as global warming has been.

I pose some questions for your consideration: Continue reading →

Is massive catch of fish 4 months ago in the English Channel a prophetic sign?

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Almost three weeks ago I received an unusual report from Devon and eventually was able to acknowledge and thank ‘Valerie’, asking permission to publish in due course if the time should become available. Over Holy Weekend I realised it’s a suitable follow-up to the scheduled posts on the miraculous catch of 153 fish by Jesus’ disciples. (If you’ve not yet read them, please do so as soon as you’re able).

‘Valerie’ writes on 27th March and encourages us to weigh and pray about this (note, emphases are mine):

‘Your site has taken me up higher and in deeper with the Lord. My husband and I are in a Local HOP (inspired by Ffald-y-Brenin) and members at an Anglican church. We would not say we have the gift of prophecy as such, but believe we have witnessed a prophetic sign. The story below has been submitted to FYB and to local church leaders. This morning, I felt the Spirit prompt me to send it on to you also. The text below was dated 18th December 2019. [RB: note, almost 4 months ago.]

‘Three weeks ago, we were watching the BBC TV news report (on Spotlight SW) about the record-breaking haul of fish at Brixham, Devon. As we watched it, we both experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit upon us and sensed deep within that this was the Lord speaking a word of encouragement to the local churches and to the nation.

‘The skipper being interviewed was Adam Cowan-Dickie, father of Luke Cowan-Dickie who plays rugby for Exeter Chiefs and for England. In the 3rd week of November (2019) his trawler, Margaret of Ladram, had four consecutive days of their nets completely full of fish. The unusual thing is they were all Dover Soles on all four days. Yes, they were all soles / ‘souls’. Apparently, this would be exceptional if it happened on just one day, as Dover Sole usually make up around 17% of any one catch. It was an historic, record breaking event for the port of Brixham and the catch was very valuable indeed – worth £126,000.

‘The same week I met a chap who knew a lot about fishing and I mentioned the story to him. He told me about this species of fish. He said they lie flat on the seabed in the silt and mud and they prefer darkness to light which is why they are more active at night. To catch them, they need to be raised up out of their murky habitat by the trawl nets. He agreed it was a miraculous event.

‘Apparently, the skipper had been waiting for the opportunity to fish in those beds for a little while, hoping no-one would come in and snatch away all the soles, but he had no idea when he put down the nets that they would be filled right up – and 4 days in a row! I wondered about the number 4 (4 months /years? 4 nations of the UK? 4 days before Lazarus was raised?) but have no clarity on that.

‘Our impression is that a Kingdom harvest is ready and waiting to be brought in.

‘I leave this with you to test and weigh up before the Lord (and) acknowledge it is not quite the usual style of prophecy on your site!’

Footnote:

Now my reply was dated 7th April and the next day Neil Thomson asked at the foot of Veronika West’s vision of an angel at No.10 Downing St about the ‘short time’ in office that she’d prophesied for Boris Johnson after winning the general election. I got a prompt response and shared my own thoughts on the matter, which I hope to blog on soon. Veronika had been reminded of this only the previous day, 7th April, upon seeing the Daily Mirror headline shown here >>>

So it would seem that ‘Valerie’ makes a very valid point about the significance of four months December 2019 to April 2020!  Therefore, in my opinion, this massive catch of fish does signify an approaching massive catch of souls! How say you?

Jesus Christ’s identity hidden in the Bible’s opening sentence

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We continue the previous post’s conclusion drawn from Jonathan Hill’s thesis with this startling discovery:

ALPHA-OMEGA HIDDEN WITHIN GENESIS 1:1 (AS ALEPH-TAV)

In Appendix I (pages 202-203) on the meaning of number 37 and its palindromic partner 73, Jonathan says both form the numerical value for the fundamental Hebrew word ‘wisdom’. He tells how this pair play a role in a multiplication, the result being the precise number of the Hebrew for the creation verse of Genesis 1:1. He goes on to relate this to 666 and a diagrammatic representation, which he interprets as meaning:

‘This transformation represents the dispensational truth that at the second coming of Christ, the dominant spiritual hierarchy of the world changes from 666, the number of the ‘beast’, to 12 – the governmental number of Israel. All this information including this powerful intervention of God is elegantly and visually encoded in the first verse of the Bible.’

This claim continues by divulging this astounding mystery:

Furthermore, this relates to Jesus’ Crucifixion Described Within the Holy Name of God, published on Good Friday, to which my American reader Tim Shey submitted this most instructive video:

REVELATION 1:8, 11 – 21:6 – 22:13

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” (NKJV, BibleGateway.com)

Footnote

If you’ve yet to read my overview of Jonathan’s book Unlocking the Sign Miracles of John go to Astonishing Mathematics Within Genesis 1.1 & John 1.1, and continue for more details at Amazing Geometrical Symmetry of Genesis 1:1 & John 1:1.

A post-Resurrection miracle as a ‘mystery’ now revealed – part 2

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[First published 2018]

His disciples came to Jesus and said, “Why do You speak to them in parables?” and He replied, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. For whoever has, to him (and her) more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. Therefore, I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand…” (Matthew 13:10-13 NKJV)

Definition: ‘Mystery’, Greek musterion (moos-tay-ree-on; Strongs #3466). From mueo, “to initiate into the mysteries”, hence a secret known only to the initiated, something hidden requiring special revelation. In the NT the word denotes something that people could never know by their own understanding and that demands a revelation from God. The secret thoughts, plans and dispensations of God remain hidden from unregenerate mankind, but are revealed to all believers. In non-biblical Greek musterion is knowledge withheld, concealed or silenced. In biblical Greek it is truth revealed (Col 1:26). NT musterion focuses upon Christ’s sinless life, atoning death, powerful resurrection and dynamic ascension.’ [New Spirit-Filled Study Bible]

Prophecy: “2018: I will impart to My Prophets the ability to see clearly My Numbers…” (delivered by Leisa Ebere, read in full here).

The above, ancient meaning of ‘mystery’ is rarely understood and appreciated, even by those solidly grounded in scripture. As told in my testimony, my pre-Christian life got immersed in that esoteric knowledge, and so I’m experienced in this matter and can attest that the difference between that discipline and holy revelations from the Almighty is like the contrast between His Light and the devil’s darkness. Continue reading →

A post-Resurrection miracle as a ‘mystery’ now revealed – part 1

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[First published 2018]

Not long after Father God brought Jesus the Messiah back from the dead by His Spirit, the One who’s the radiance of His glory went once again in search of His ex-fisherman friends. Of the two sets of brothers who’d been partners in the fishing trade on the Sea of Galilee before deserting their nets to follow a peripatetic teacher, their boss had an exceptionally severe crisis of self-confidence.

GONE FISHING!

So this ‘son of Jonah’, named Simon, decided to return to the simple life of sitting in a boat with buddies and dragging a net in the hope of getting a catch – but it proved to be an exercise in futility!

A few years earlier on that inland sea, the four fishing partners encountered and had been ‘called’ by The One to follow Him. Jesus amazed the crowds there with His teaching and had asked Simon if He could address them from his moored boat. Jesus knew the men had worked hard all night without having caught anything because, when He’d finished speaking, He told Simon to sail into deep water and lower his nets despite the fruitless night – Simon was overwhelmed by the result!  They’d got such a large number of fish that another boat was called for – then both began to sink with their massive weight!!

So Simon changed his tune. Upon hearing Jesus’ instruction he’d objected because of the poor night, yet respectfully referred to Him as “Master” – but in amazement at the fresh catch breaking nets and sinking boats, Simon addressed Him with the superior term of “Lord”; thus suggesting he was beginning to understand the status of this astonishing teacher. In the account by one of those partners, John, they’d previously met Jesus immediately after His baptism in the river Jordan and Andrew had brought his brother Simon to see Jesus, who then spoke of his identity and implicit destiny, “You are Simon son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas,” (which is translated ‘A Stone’, Petros/Peter: John 1:42).

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After that huge catch of unspecified quantity, Jesus called Simon into his destiny: “Do not be afraid. From now on you will catch men!”  That is, a fisher of men. When they’d landed their boats the four foresook all and followed Him (Luke 5:10-11). Continue reading →