WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.820 We're gonna continue this morning talking about the tower, talking about the high 00:05.820 --> 00:15.900 places, and being a sentinel, being able to come into the prayer assignment, you know, 00:15.980 --> 00:22.140 that was given us, so that intercessory prayer doesn't go by the wayside. It's 00:22.140 --> 00:26.100 God's lighting it up in other places too, which is really cool. I mean we've 00:26.100 --> 00:29.840 always talked about intercessory prayer here, and we've done intercessory prayer, 00:30.160 --> 00:36.600 but he wants us to go into, you know, a more mature intercessory prayer, where we can see, 00:36.720 --> 00:44.360 you know, the climbing the tower, how do you get up there, and to be able to push 00:44.360 --> 00:49.840 into the things of the deep. What we see is a trend right now, where sometimes God, 00:50.630 --> 00:56.100 I can't say he doesn't use just new believers or, you know, just anybody, 00:57.380 --> 01:05.940 that he never does that. But maturity is a priority for God. I mean, his word is to mature us. 01:06.560 --> 01:12.000 The five-fold are there to help mature the saints, and they better be maturing also. 01:12.580 --> 01:17.680 They better have somebody over them that's helping to mature them, and spending time with the 01:17.680 --> 01:25.420 Holy Spirit in those things. And so if you think that that's a priority to him, then we just don't 01:25.420 --> 01:29.660 get to go, oh, here's an idea, I guess I'll go start giving words of knowledge, or I'll start 01:29.660 --> 01:34.040 doing this or that. It's something that's cultured between you and God. It's something 01:34.040 --> 01:39.700 you hunger for, and he gifts inside of us, and he brings that to life, and it's very 01:39.700 --> 01:45.140 personal and relational. There's a whole thing that goes with it, but there has to be maturity 01:46.100 --> 01:52.720 to hold the ground for that. So we talked about the watchman on the wall, and I'll just review 01:52.720 --> 01:58.480 just a little bit. I had brought in the beehive and talked about the sentinels that go out. 01:58.660 --> 02:03.900 That's their whole job, is to protect the hive. And certain hives are just there for we don't 02:03.900 --> 02:15.100 even know what reason. I saw a video on wasps. It's like, what do we need them for? And I'm 02:15.100 --> 02:20.820 and they raise them in those big hives, but then they split the hive and they eat all the eggs. 02:21.080 --> 02:25.960 So I'm like, I don't need that. I mean, maybe you guys, maybe that's why they're here. I don't know, 02:26.040 --> 02:33.280 but you know, they're pulling them out with with tweezers. And I'm like, okay, but if we represent 02:33.280 --> 02:39.640 a hive that produces, like a hive that produces honey, and our Lord is sweet, and what he has 02:39.640 --> 02:46.920 for us is sweet, then you've got to have those guards that are there. And all the bees guard the 02:46.920 --> 02:53.100 hive, but the sentinels are the ones that are on watch all the time. And you'll get stung by anybody 02:53.100 --> 02:57.580 up in there. You put your hand in the hive, you're gonna get stung by anybody. But the sentinels 02:57.580 --> 03:02.240 are the ones that are sensing and they're going out and and they're especially that's 03:02.240 --> 03:07.340 that's what's built into them. And it goes by vibration. It goes by what they're what 03:07.340 --> 03:14.160 they're feeling. And that's how that's how they do things. So if like I said, if you walk by a hive, 03:14.220 --> 03:19.640 they can feel the vibration of you on the ground. You know, they're very much in touch with that, 03:19.700 --> 03:24.400 they flutter with their wings, and that's how they sense all that. And if you're not a part of 03:24.400 --> 03:30.040 the hive, they know it. And so they come out and take care of business, don't they? Well, 03:30.140 --> 03:35.080 that's part of what a watchman is. If you look it up in the Greek, it means a sentinel. 03:37.160 --> 03:43.840 So very much a comparison to the sentinels that are sent out by the hive. And what we're 03:44.620 --> 03:53.120 protecting, you know, is the assignment. We have an assignment that needs to be protected. 03:53.280 --> 03:57.540 We have an assignment over our family that needs to be protected. This church has an 03:57.540 --> 04:02.820 assignment that needs to be protected. The commands from the Lord need to be protected. 04:02.820 --> 04:09.800 All of those things are precious to us, and it's just like the queen is precious in the hive. 04:10.100 --> 04:16.580 Then we went on and talked about the tower, because when you take it apart, doesn't always 04:16.580 --> 04:24.100 say it. I mean, we know that God is our high tower, right? And that's, a lot of times we'll 04:24.100 --> 04:30.880 refer to that, but it doesn't always say it in the King James. But when you break down 04:30.880 --> 04:37.660 what the King James means, it's talking about a tower. So the watchman walked along the wall 04:37.660 --> 04:44.500 and they reminded the Lord of what he already said. That's prophetic. That's prophetic. The 04:44.500 --> 04:50.800 prophecy speaks to the future, but it also holds on to this is what was said, and it will prophesy 04:50.800 --> 04:56.120 that out. So if you're speaking into your family and you're praying over your children, just an 04:56.120 --> 05:01.840 example of that, as I could speak over my children, like right now, just by using the word and saying, 05:02.120 --> 05:09.520 in the last days, God will pour out of his spirit on all flesh. That includes my children. You're 05:09.520 --> 05:15.620 prophesying what he said in his word, and they will prophesy and they will have dreams and you 05:15.620 --> 05:21.800 take that apart. So those are types of prophecies that it's already said. So you're saying what 05:21.800 --> 05:28.240 he said, right? And it will move your family down the line to success, which is the word 05:28.240 --> 05:33.700 blessed means empowered to prosper, to have success down the road. So you're plying this 05:33.700 --> 05:40.060 and it's causing growth. And other other things we prophesy into situations that causes things 05:40.060 --> 05:45.520 to change, which gives options for maturity. That's that's just what's gonna we're 05:45.520 --> 05:52.460 confronting things. Those are the standard way Christians should live. But when you move into 05:53.400 --> 05:58.060 climbing the tower, which we're going to talk about this morning, God's allowing you to see 05:58.060 --> 06:04.240 deeper and deeper things, higher and higher things, even when we lived in Colorado and we 06:04.240 --> 06:08.340 dealt with a lot of witchcraft here, no different in here. Of course, this is flatter here, 06:08.780 --> 06:14.520 but they were attracted to the Boulder area because of the mountains. And they considered 06:14.520 --> 06:20.500 that, you know, Satanists love the high places. So, you know, they'll set up camps or worship 06:20.500 --> 06:27.500 places in the high places. So for them, they're doing a physical thing. And we're talking about 06:27.500 --> 06:32.980 the tile tower and climbing it or climbing up on the wall so we can see further. They're doing 06:32.980 --> 06:37.960 that physical thing as a representation that the devil is going to show up there. He, you 06:37.960 --> 06:43.680 know, the devil always copies the plan of God. He can't create anything. But in any case, 06:43.680 --> 06:48.300 that's how they view that. They go to the high places to get their downloads 06:49.280 --> 06:56.300 and move things around. And so we climb the tower with God. He is our high tower and He's called 06:56.300 --> 07:04.620 us up step by step of operation. So I don't know if you have the picture of just like a fire 07:04.620 --> 07:11.340 tower. You can see that? Ever climb on one of those puppies? You think we'll just get up 07:11.340 --> 07:18.300 there? It's a bit. It's a bit to get up there, you know? So depending on the tower or whatever. 07:18.520 --> 07:26.380 So you're heading up there. But look at how far away you can see whether, you know, 07:26.400 --> 07:31.200 if you're around the ground versus you just climb up that little bit higher. And sometimes 07:31.200 --> 07:36.680 right in a flat place, you know, a flatter place and then you got to climb that tall 07:36.680 --> 07:41.480 and all of a sudden you can see for miles. I mean, we think, you know, you could guess, 07:41.820 --> 07:45.880 well, maybe that's this many miles or whatever. Many times I'll do that. My husband will tell me 07:45.880 --> 07:51.220 it goes, actually that's about 300 miles away, you know, or whatever. But it looks closer than 07:51.220 --> 07:58.620 what it is. But you can see a long ways. And in biblical times and war times and 07:59.400 --> 08:05.740 where you communicate with different tribes would communicate, you know, by maybe there's 08:05.740 --> 08:12.020 an area where fire is up there and say there's war and they see an enemy coming, they light 08:12.020 --> 08:18.120 the tower, right? And then all of a sudden someone else watching from the other mountains goes, 08:18.360 --> 08:24.540 okay, that's lit, something's happening. And then that's how they communicate. And so in the 08:24.540 --> 08:29.360 future here, probably during a church service, I'm going to show you the ministries that we're 08:29.360 --> 08:37.140 involved with. And I'll do that through visual on the Minnesota map. Here's the towers, right, 08:37.260 --> 08:41.380 that we personally are involved with. We're not the only ones, they're not the only ones, but 08:41.380 --> 08:49.040 God will bring you in a company that is a company of agreement. And you'll be surprised how many 08:49.040 --> 08:54.080 we are connected into all the way up to the north. You know, many times you'll think, well, 08:54.080 --> 09:00.120 it's red like, oh no, there's ministries we're connected into. And so if we light a fire on our 09:00.120 --> 09:06.460 tower, it goes boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, right? We make sure we're connected in because we have 09:06.460 --> 09:13.740 a regional assignment and that regional assignment we can't do by ourselves. They have an assignment 09:13.740 --> 09:19.120 in the region and so you light the whole thing up depending on what it is that we see. 09:19.740 --> 09:26.400 So it's very interesting to me right now that I brought up witchcraft and, you know, 09:27.020 --> 09:33.720 the crafting or the witchery or spellbinding things and how we've had people come in and out 09:33.720 --> 09:40.020 and of the church and personal conversations with them and things like that. Probably since 09:40.020 --> 09:45.560 before open heavens this has been going on more revealed. I'm not saying it hasn't been 09:45.560 --> 09:51.520 going on before that, but more revealed. Well, in that it's really interesting talking to the other 09:51.520 --> 09:57.240 towers, communicating with the other towers, they're going through the same thing. Now, 09:58.240 --> 10:02.920 people have either been here this whole time with plans and we just were blind and didn't see it 10:04.200 --> 10:10.520 or there's an assignment going on right now. And I think it's more, it's been an assignment, 10:10.520 --> 10:15.600 but I think it's being brought to light. And I think because of intercessory prayer the ones who 10:15.600 --> 10:23.420 are seeing it are the intercessors. Because if you're on flat land, you know, got trees all around you, 10:23.640 --> 10:30.100 you're going to discern to the level that you see. Right? Just think about that. Like, 10:30.160 --> 10:33.720 we're in a room right now. This is what we see. Now go ahead and discern. I mean, 10:33.760 --> 10:38.700 that's all you're going to see is what is here. But you climb up even a little bit. 10:39.160 --> 10:42.960 You get a little, where the ceiling's at, all of a sudden you're going to see 10:43.800 --> 10:52.280 farther. That only comes through intercessory prayer. So prayer is not a duty. It is where we 10:52.280 --> 10:56.440 just go away. We're supposed to pray and read our chapter a day. You know, it's so religious, 10:56.460 --> 11:03.960 so redundant. It's more of like, we're in a war. And our general said, this is what we need 11:03.960 --> 11:07.980 to do. So we're going to climb up and see where the enemy's at. We're going to see where 11:07.980 --> 11:11.660 the good things are at too. We're going to see what's coming our way from God, 11:11.860 --> 11:17.840 but we're also going to see the demonic. And you will find the revelatory will start flowing 11:17.840 --> 11:24.180 really intensely. And that's what's happening. That's what's happening. Now you can up the 11:24.180 --> 11:31.520 ampage of that just by fasting. Because you can see more when you're out of the way. 11:31.980 --> 11:39.240 So to climb a tower, to go back to that tower that has the ladders on it. So here is where the 11:39.240 --> 11:47.000 average Christian lives. They live in a cabin in the wooded area. Right? And we spend our time, 11:47.060 --> 11:53.220 we do our Sunday, we do whatever it is, and the discernment is at that level. And so we 11:53.220 --> 11:57.940 don't see any farther. And can you go to heaven like that? You know, when you die, you'll 11:57.940 --> 12:03.820 go to heaven. Yeah, that'll be great. But how effective you were in the war? Totally different. 12:04.620 --> 12:10.220 And we're called as soldiers, we're called to come underneath his authority, to submit, 12:10.320 --> 12:17.000 to come underneath his mission, to do his will. And his will is for us to rule and reign. I can't 12:17.000 --> 12:22.680 rule and reign if this is all I see. You know, my friend group and my family. And so 12:22.680 --> 12:29.340 I'm discerning on my friend group and my family all the time. And that's it. And you'll 12:29.340 --> 12:36.380 lack information, the word won't come alive to you the same. All you have to do is step up 12:36.380 --> 12:41.360 just a few steps and all of a sudden revelation will start flowing. And you see beyond, 12:41.600 --> 12:47.680 until you see beyond, until you see world vision. The average person does not have 12:47.680 --> 12:54.200 world vision. And this is how we know when we, when, then they go down those videos where they're 12:54.200 --> 12:58.680 interviewing people on the streets and, and asking them questions, whether it be about 12:58.680 --> 13:04.520 government or the Bible or stuff like that. The lack of knowledge is just like 13:06.580 --> 13:11.480 huge opinions on how the government should be run. And they don't even know how the 13:11.480 --> 13:17.240 government should be run. Like how it is run, how you vote, what the cause and effect 13:17.240 --> 13:21.780 and everything, but huge opinions on things. And you can't be an expert on something you 13:21.780 --> 13:28.520 haven't been a part of and never done. But pride says, I'll be an expert anytime I want to be. 13:29.240 --> 13:36.300 And I'll voice my opinion. So what happened with Todd and Dietta when Faith and Freedom 13:36.300 --> 13:43.000 was born, that was like, I saw something. It came up enough where it was like I saw 13:43.000 --> 13:47.940 something. Well, of course, a lot of revelation was happening around what do we do with the 13:47.940 --> 13:53.400 government and all this stuff and, and COVID and all the baloney that was going on. Because 13:53.400 --> 14:01.340 2020 was the year our eyes got opened farther than they had been before. Well, in order for, 14:01.360 --> 14:06.280 for them to continue that ministry, you can't run the ministry on the level you came up 14:06.280 --> 14:11.720 to and just do that for years. It's going to require like you come up. Oh my goodness, 14:11.720 --> 14:16.600 I just saw this. I just saw that. What do we do with it? Oh my goodness. And stuff keeps getting 14:16.600 --> 14:24.160 revealed. Now the thing is, when you step into revelation where people, you can end up failing 14:24.160 --> 14:31.220 or you can end up falling off the tower is when we can't handle the information that we see. 14:32.840 --> 14:38.000 Then we just slowly climb back down the tower. The problem is, once you see something, 14:38.000 --> 14:44.220 you know it. And once you know, you can't not know. So you actually have to deny that you saw the thing 14:44.220 --> 14:51.960 you, you saw. And so it's either going to require you to do something or you're going to step down. 14:52.040 --> 14:59.740 But when you step down, then there's this sense of like abandoning ship or you went AWOL as a 14:59.740 --> 15:09.220 soldier. Right? It's like too late. You saw. So there's so much going on right now. And I ran in 15:09.220 --> 15:14.960 all kinds of different places. If you just go, excuse me, off the knowledge of maybe what you 15:14.960 --> 15:20.820 saw in the news or whatever, we're not there. You know, I like to talk to people who are there 15:20.820 --> 15:27.740 like Robbie Dawkins has been there for a long time. Videotaping and seeing all the bodies 15:27.740 --> 15:32.960 laying in the streets and how they burned 40,000 of them and stuff. I mean, he's like right there. 15:33.360 --> 15:38.760 Same thing with Charles Caruca when he was down in Minneapolis when ice was moving there. And I 15:38.760 --> 15:42.860 mean, he's right there. He's like, and this is what happened. This is what we need to pray. 15:43.140 --> 15:48.200 And his eyes are watering because of the, you know, the tear gas and all the stuff that 15:48.200 --> 15:53.360 was going on. I mean, he was right there. I like to see that because we have been trained 15:53.900 --> 16:01.680 by the television. The tele will tell us the vision, right? If you don't know the vision here, 16:01.780 --> 16:08.100 let the television tell you. And so there's a trust there that it's not of God. It's a world 16:08.100 --> 16:14.260 system kind of thing. And so then if we can't go over to all these places to know what's 16:14.260 --> 16:20.260 happening in the world, then we got to go higher on the tower. We got to get knowledge, 16:20.800 --> 16:25.780 understanding and wisdom. But as you go higher on the tower, you're going to see into things and 16:25.780 --> 16:31.620 you're not even there. You ever do that with your children? You've been praying about them at this 16:31.620 --> 16:35.760 level. You've been praying, Lord, I just want to see this behavior change and you just start 16:35.760 --> 16:40.860 and act unsafe in this area or whatever. And then all of a sudden you just go into fasting for, 16:41.400 --> 16:46.660 you know, heart change for yourself and see what you can see. And it moves you up the 16:46.660 --> 16:52.200 tower and you're like, oh, that's what's going on. Nobody has to tell you, just know. 16:52.900 --> 16:59.940 And oh, it can be heart-wrenching, you know, gut-wrenching if you see into certain things. 17:00.080 --> 17:05.280 And so then you have to expand your capacity to be able to handle the things that are shared. 17:06.060 --> 17:12.160 That's why I know God doesn't give deep revelations to people who don't know how to climb the 17:12.160 --> 17:18.740 tower. It's a false doctrine that's out there right now that where people, you know, they've 17:18.740 --> 17:22.780 been saved a year, they haven't been in any training, there's no discipleship going on, 17:23.020 --> 17:28.500 and suddenly they're a prophet. It's like, man, you're going to get yourself in trouble. 17:29.140 --> 17:34.360 This is going to backfire and the devil will just keep leading them that way till pride is 17:34.360 --> 17:37.420 at the point. He's like, yeah, I think this is high enough, then I'll let you fall. 17:37.420 --> 17:44.440 And they end up face planting. I don't really like the seminars where it's like, come on, 17:44.520 --> 17:47.700 we're just all going to prophesy. Let's all just start prophesying. I don't like those. 17:48.680 --> 17:51.720 I don't like them at all. Make me very uncomfortable because I'm like, 17:52.360 --> 17:56.540 I don't always know what I'm doing and I've been working on this project for years. 17:57.300 --> 18:02.360 Right? And so it's kind of like putting somebody on the football field and they've 18:02.360 --> 18:04.820 never played football. Well, that's how they're going to learn. Yes, 18:04.820 --> 18:09.200 but they learn on the smaller things on ground level. 18:10.040 --> 18:14.700 They're not going to speak into the worldly thing, the whole world. They're going to speak on 18:15.760 --> 18:21.600 the ground level. Do you see that? So can you prophesy? Yes, on the ground level. 18:22.360 --> 18:28.040 You'll learn there. And so let's take a look, for instance, that we looked at this before 18:28.040 --> 18:34.420 at Ezekiel 3.6. Son of man, I have appointed you as a watchman to the house of Israel. 18:34.820 --> 18:42.400 Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, warn them from me. So a lot of what we began to see is, 18:42.580 --> 18:46.940 oh, this is going to be good. God's bringing the blessing. I just know in my spirit, I saw this. 18:47.380 --> 18:50.680 He gave me a picture of that or whatever. Those are kinds of things that come out of 18:50.680 --> 18:57.660 intercessory prayer, but you'll also see, eh, I like what I see. That's that attack. 18:58.000 --> 19:02.520 That's that thing. That's the devil's plan. That's the snare. And he'll warn us about 19:02.520 --> 19:09.060 different things. And then whenever you hear a word from my mouth, warn them. Many times, 19:09.200 --> 19:14.660 we become that prophetic voice then, even in our family that says, we can't be doing this. 19:14.820 --> 19:20.180 The Lord showed me some things and we're going to stop this in our household. It's affecting us. 19:22.000 --> 19:27.880 See, we need to warn. So that's like the sentinels. They'll go out and they're buzzing. 19:27.880 --> 19:33.860 The whole hive knows sentinels are on to something, right? And they, I guess from the vibration sound 19:33.860 --> 19:38.800 and some sentinels going back in, these, the ones in the hive start rearranging 19:38.800 --> 19:46.340 because they know there's a possible threat. So that comes out of this type of thing. 19:46.660 --> 19:51.000 When I say to the wicked, you will certainly die and you do not warn him or speak out to 19:51.000 --> 19:56.060 tell him to turn from his wicked way to save his life. The same evil man will die in his 19:56.060 --> 20:02.000 sin, but you will be responsible for his blood. However, if you've warned the wicked and he does 20:02.000 --> 20:08.680 not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he will die in his sin, but you have freed 20:08.680 --> 20:14.380 yourself from responsibility. Well, what is that have to do with climbing the tower? 20:15.140 --> 20:19.700 That's the depth and the level it might come to when you speak out on behalf of God. 20:22.480 --> 20:28.120 Ezekiel, Leviticus, I mean, any, anybody who's prophetic, these are the forgotten 20:28.120 --> 20:33.320 chapters and this is the excuse for it. It's more like, that's the Old Testament. We're in the 20:33.320 --> 20:38.040 New Testament now. God's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and so much of the Old 20:38.040 --> 20:42.200 Testament is a picture or a type of how we're supposed to be in the New Testament, 20:42.200 --> 20:48.220 or it's come through the cross. So God doesn't recant on his way of thinking like, 20:48.220 --> 20:54.160 well, I don't think that way anymore. We're in the New Testament. No, that's how important the 20:54.160 --> 21:02.720 Watchman is on the wall. So let's take a look at Ezekiel chapter 33. 21:04.780 --> 21:10.240 You know what? I'm going to go to, instead, I'm going to Habakkuk. All right. 21:12.460 --> 21:18.220 We've read Ezekiel before and it talks about the tower. And it talks about, 21:19.560 --> 21:26.020 it calls it the place where you take your stance. But this is kind of wild. How many of your favorite 21:26.020 --> 21:31.840 book is Habakkuk? And I can rock in that every morning, you know. I speak that over my children 21:31.840 --> 21:39.400 or whatever. Talk about a prophet. Talk about an oracle of God. Talk about, and as he 21:39.400 --> 21:45.900 starts out in verse or chapter one, talking about how this thing is a burdensome message, 21:46.000 --> 21:52.020 is how it says it in the amplified. And this is a pronouncement from God, which Habakkuk, 21:52.180 --> 21:58.740 the prophet, saw this. How did he see this? He climbed the tower. He was beyond that level 21:58.740 --> 22:04.560 of just hanging out and everything always stays the same. He had moved into a place with 22:04.560 --> 22:12.420 God where he started to climb this thing and he saw into things. And he begins to talk and talk about 22:13.100 --> 22:18.220 in verse two, oh Lord, how long will I call for help and you will not hear me? I cry out to you, 22:18.300 --> 22:24.520 violence, yet you do not save. Why do you make me see iniquity and cause me to look on wickedness? 22:24.780 --> 22:29.700 For destruction and violence are before me. Strife continues and contention arises. 22:29.700 --> 22:35.080 Therefore, the law is an effective and ignored. I want to stop right there. 22:36.760 --> 22:40.260 Sometimes we don't read these kind of things because we interpret them wrong and we're like, 22:40.300 --> 22:46.020 wow, he was in a mood. He's all disappointed. God wasn't doing something or whatever. 22:46.600 --> 22:53.400 Know what he's trying to show is what has been happening. It's like, what's your plan, 22:53.700 --> 22:57.820 God? What's the deal? That's where he's coming from and you'll hear it as we go along. 22:58.340 --> 23:04.920 And justice is never upheld for the wicked surround the righteous. So stop again and say, 23:05.520 --> 23:11.760 if we just stop there, doesn't that describe America right now? It's like, wait a second, 23:11.920 --> 23:17.740 we're all saying therefore justice becomes perverted. It's the next verse. The Lord replied, 23:18.040 --> 23:22.900 look among the nations, see, be astonished, wonder, for I am doing something in the days 23:22.900 --> 23:28.880 you would not believe it if you were told. I think he's saying that to us now. 23:29.660 --> 23:34.540 We're like, why is this happening? How can they just do? The babies are being killed and there's 23:34.540 --> 23:38.320 all the stuff happening. You could keep naming the things that are happening. Where are you, 23:38.480 --> 23:44.340 God? And he comes back with, look among the nations, see, be astonished, wonder, 23:44.720 --> 23:49.740 for I am doing something in your days. You will not believe it if you were told. For behold, 23:49.740 --> 23:56.040 I'm raising up the Chaldeans who rule in Babylon. They were considered the enemy, 23:56.200 --> 24:03.780 they're opposite of God's kingdom. And so, can you see that there's different tribes of people 24:03.780 --> 24:10.160 being allowed to come up and try to rule? They're going to try to take over America. 24:10.840 --> 24:15.760 They've already taken over different countries. I mean, and there's not just one, but there's 24:16.320 --> 24:20.940 there's some strong things. And it's like, why is he letting this happen? Well, why did we let this 24:20.940 --> 24:25.900 happen on top of it? Why is this happening? That fierce and impetuous nation who marched 24:25.900 --> 24:31.040 throughout the earth to take possession of dwelling places that do not belong to them. 24:31.940 --> 24:37.060 The Chaldeans are dreaded and feared. Their justice and authority originate with themselves and 24:37.060 --> 24:43.800 are defined only by decree. Their horses are swifter than leopards and keener than hungry 24:43.800 --> 24:49.180 wolves in the evening. Their horsemen come galloping. Their horsemen come from far away. 24:49.360 --> 24:55.380 They fly like an eagle, swooping down to devour. And they all come for violence. That's what's 24:55.380 --> 25:01.140 happening right now. Their horde of faces moves eagerly forward. They gather prisoners like sand. 25:02.440 --> 25:10.860 We were sitting down eating comfortably, you know, when Robbie was informing everybody that, 25:10.860 --> 25:16.640 you know, I think about 20,000 people were killed today. And we're like, oh, that's too bad. It's 25:16.640 --> 25:24.300 happening over there. That's a lot of people. And there are a whole lot more that, you know, 25:24.460 --> 25:32.300 have been beheaded and shot and all of those things just in Iran over Christianity. So they 25:32.300 --> 25:38.840 make fun of kings and rulers and are laughing matter to them. And didn't we just see this 25:38.840 --> 25:46.260 in the president's dress? They're just sitting there mocking, right? They ridicule every stronghold 25:46.260 --> 25:52.520 and heap up rubble for earth mounds and capture it. Then they will sweep by like the wind and pass 25:52.520 --> 25:58.940 on, but they will be held guilty. They and all men whose own power and strength is their God. 26:00.240 --> 26:06.500 Are you not from everlasting? Oh, Lord, my God, my holy one, we will not die. Oh, Lord, 26:06.500 --> 26:11.580 you have pointed the Chaldeans who rule in Babylon to execute your judgment. 26:11.960 --> 26:17.060 And I don't believe that means that, you know, God said, all right, I'm going to talk to the Chaldeans 26:17.060 --> 26:22.080 so they can, you know, get it together and go against you. No, he just lifts his hand off of 26:22.080 --> 26:27.440 certain things. The hand of the Lord moves. It brings judgment and it brings blessing 26:28.340 --> 26:33.100 on the hand of the Lord moves. And many times that's a prayer that I only pray in certain 26:33.100 --> 26:39.060 times because I take that, I take that as a big deal. You know, I don't just pop that prayer, but 26:39.060 --> 26:43.540 when you pray that the hand of the Lord will move over a situation, there's going to be a dividing 26:43.540 --> 26:49.020 out. And it's probably not going to be pretty. And so he's that God who does that. 26:51.820 --> 26:57.380 And you, O Rock, have established them to correct and chastise. Your eyes are too pure 26:57.380 --> 27:03.060 to approve evil. And you cannot look favorably on the wickedness. That's the same God that we serve 27:03.060 --> 27:08.960 today. Why then do you look favorably on those who act treacherously? Why are you silent when the 27:08.960 --> 27:15.260 wicked Chaldean oppressors destroy those more righteous than they? Why do you make men like 27:15.260 --> 27:20.420 the fish of the sea like reptiles and creeping things that have no ruler and are helpless 27:20.420 --> 27:26.300 against their enemies? The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook and drag them away 27:26.300 --> 27:31.260 with a net. He's having a pretty intense, he's on the tower, having a pretty intense conversation 27:31.260 --> 27:37.220 with God and gather them together in their fishing net. So they rejoice and are glad. Therefore, 27:37.320 --> 27:44.020 they offer sacrifices to their net and burn incense to their fishing net. Because through 27:44.020 --> 27:50.240 these things, their catch is large and they have luxurious, and they live luxuriously 27:50.960 --> 27:57.120 and their food is plentiful. Will they continue to empty their net and mercilessly go on destroying 27:57.120 --> 28:02.700 nations without sparing? So these are the kind of conversations. When you crawl the wall, 28:03.380 --> 28:08.240 it isn't the, you know, hey, God, can you help us with the new car, you know, that we need? And 28:08.240 --> 28:15.480 you know, that's that's main level stuff. And when you began to fast and pray, 28:15.480 --> 28:19.080 it go, you took care of the main level, you're climbing up the tower now. 28:20.180 --> 28:27.800 It starts to spread out your influence. It's more away from you than it is toward you. 28:28.300 --> 28:34.000 He's talking about a world scene. He's talking about a lot of land. He's talking about a lot 28:34.000 --> 28:40.280 of people. And you have to get up higher on the tower to pull that off. Amen. 28:41.440 --> 28:48.680 I will stand. This is chapter two at my guard. So after having this whole conversation and 28:48.680 --> 28:53.380 God saying, you don't understand it, but I got it. And he's saying, yeah, but this is what I'm 28:53.380 --> 28:58.100 seeing. I mean, we could name some things this morning or what we're seeing and we don't even 28:58.100 --> 29:05.160 see what really needs to be seen. I don't even know if we can handle what's really going on. 29:07.060 --> 29:18.920 And then he says, I will stand at my guard post and my station myself, I will station myself on the 29:18.920 --> 29:25.580 tower. So to station yourself means you're not climbing back down. You've reached a certain 29:25.580 --> 29:30.640 level and you're just like, I'm moving from this spot. I'm going to see what I need to see. 29:30.640 --> 29:35.000 And I'm going to call a spade a spade. I'm going to speak on behalf of the Lord, 29:35.040 --> 29:40.540 but I got to get to the tower and I've got to station myself and I will keep watch to see what 29:40.540 --> 29:47.120 he will say to me. So he's looking and he's discerning the whole time. Now, what do you need 29:47.120 --> 29:53.100 me to hear, God? What do you need me to hear? And what answer I will give as his spokesman 29:53.660 --> 30:03.720 when I am reproved? The word reproved means corrected. So he laid out, this is what I'm 30:03.720 --> 30:10.520 seeing, God, right? Layed out all the evil stuff and what's going on. And God had already told 30:10.520 --> 30:16.220 him, I got this and you know, you don't even see what's really going on. And so he said, 30:16.220 --> 30:23.300 yeah, but I'll climb the tower and then I will see. And then you go ahead and correct me about 30:23.300 --> 30:31.200 each one of these things. This is what I saw on main level, but when I got up higher, I still 30:31.200 --> 30:40.600 corrected. I saw the bigger picture. See how prophetic this is? Being a watchman is just 30:40.600 --> 30:46.780 not a being a part of a prayer team. That's low level stuff. Yeah. 30:49.500 --> 30:55.660 This is where a lot of people will pull the next verse out and and preach sermons on the next 30:55.660 --> 31:01.700 verse. But you have to look at what was going on in the whole story. Like we skipped a part of 31:01.700 --> 31:08.060 the movie when you go back and start over. Then he says verse two, then the Lord answered me 31:08.060 --> 31:14.960 and said, write the vision. So he's going to be on the tower, then write the vision and engrave it 31:14.960 --> 31:21.720 plainly on clay tablets so that the one who reads it will run for the vision is yet for the appointed 31:21.720 --> 31:27.300 future time. He's asking him all these lower level things. Well, this is what's going on. 31:27.420 --> 31:33.000 This is what happened. And Lord's saying, go station yourself on the tower. You're going 31:33.000 --> 31:38.340 to see into some pretty deep things. And when you do, you write the vision of that because that's 31:38.340 --> 31:48.760 where your future lies. Peace comes from revelation of future things. I'm telling you, you try to, 31:48.920 --> 31:53.260 you're on the main level, we're living everyday life and we just stay living that life and we 31:53.260 --> 31:58.380 haven't come up to the higher things of God or his higher thoughts or whatever. Then you just 31:58.380 --> 32:03.000 get caught up and that, well, why did that? And I don't know why Christmas went that way. And hey, 32:03.040 --> 32:10.020 there's a bigger world. And once you start climbing that, all of a sudden, your answers to the 32:10.020 --> 32:14.300 questions you have and like, why didn't this work out for it right for me, God? I don't see. I 32:14.300 --> 32:18.880 tried to do the right thing. And then I lost my job or this didn't happen the way that I 32:18.880 --> 32:26.780 wanted it to all of those things. You climb the tower and he will reprove you. Not in 32:26.780 --> 32:31.420 the way where he's like, you were wrong. It's more like, let me show you what's real. And you 32:31.420 --> 32:36.860 stand and you're like, I stand here corrected. I thought it was this. And you're like, no, 32:37.080 --> 32:43.480 it's this. That's why he had to climb the tower. That's why the Lord answered to him the way 32:43.480 --> 32:49.280 he did of like, I'm doing something, but you're not seeing into it. And so he's like, 32:49.380 --> 32:54.220 well, all right, I will climb the tower. I'll get, I'll station myself so I don't leave. 32:55.140 --> 32:59.220 I'm up there and I'll keep watch to see what you will say to me. 33:02.700 --> 33:10.460 If people understood that about intercessory prayer, it would run so deep to think that when we agree 33:10.460 --> 33:15.720 in prayer, like when we have those Friday nights, we need to come up to a level where it's like, 33:15.800 --> 33:20.880 we just climbed the tower. I saw into some things for my own personal life. You can keep 33:20.880 --> 33:25.580 that to yourself even, right? Doesn't have to be shared with everybody, but you're seeing at a 33:25.580 --> 33:29.920 higher level. That's where fasting for me. Sometimes I'm trying to get up the tower 33:29.920 --> 33:33.540 to that next level so I can see a little bit farther out so I can see 33:33.540 --> 33:41.380 why is he doing this? Oh, here, let me show you. If you saw farther out, you'd see why this 33:41.380 --> 33:47.860 is happening. And a big part of what happens to us where we get kind of tormented within 33:47.860 --> 33:54.700 ourselves is why did this happen to me? I don't understand. No, you don't. So what does it require? 33:54.980 --> 34:00.380 Keep rehearsing that or requires maybe some prayer and fasting. So you separate from yourself. 34:01.280 --> 34:05.600 That always helps for me. It's like, I got to fast. Why? Because I got to get up higher in 34:05.600 --> 34:10.140 the tower. I'm not trying to earn it. I'm just getting rid of myself. I don't want to have 34:10.140 --> 34:17.200 to carry all of this up the tower when I'm climbing. So I better fast. I better get 34:17.200 --> 34:22.680 rid of myself. And as I'm climbing up, even as you're climbing, you can look around and be like, 34:22.720 --> 34:33.540 this is a higher place. Amen? The answers are in the higher place. They're not at the lowest level. 34:34.160 --> 34:38.120 The lowest level, you get interpretation from the word. 34:39.980 --> 34:45.820 See, everything's by the word and the spirit. We start out as baby Christians where the 34:45.820 --> 34:52.720 the spirit brings the word to life. And then we just were there, lower level. All right, 34:52.740 --> 34:56.240 I understand that. I understand why you went to the cross. I understand why you did this 34:56.240 --> 35:01.620 or whatever it is. And you're at that lower level. But now discernment goes, what's the attack 35:01.620 --> 35:06.960 against us? Why is it there? Where did it come from? Is it tied to generational things? 35:07.480 --> 35:10.500 Is it, you know, there could be so many variations. How did you see that? 35:10.720 --> 35:13.560 Well, I climbed up the tower a little bit and I looked around. 35:16.160 --> 35:22.400 And I'm accountable to what I saw because you can't not know once you see it. Amen? 35:25.100 --> 35:31.700 So write the vision and engrave it plainly on clay. So here's the problem. The world has 35:31.700 --> 35:36.460 actually taken this in businesses and it works. You know, like when we write the vision, 35:36.560 --> 35:41.800 everything's built around that or whatever. But it works to the level of where did you 35:41.800 --> 35:48.720 get that vision from? Did you get it from yourself? Or was it born out of the tower 35:49.260 --> 35:56.160 and what you saw from God? Because you can build the whole thing around a vision of a man. 35:56.800 --> 36:03.380 But to build it around what you saw is a totally different thing. The church should 36:03.380 --> 36:10.220 not be built on a man. It should be built on higher level thoughts. You see what I'm saying? 36:10.220 --> 36:16.180 And so he says, for the vision, verse three, is yet for the appointed future time, 36:16.360 --> 36:22.400 it hurries toward the goal of fulfillment. It will not fail, even though it delays, 36:22.660 --> 36:28.100 wait patiently for it, because it will certainly come. It will not delay. 36:30.900 --> 36:35.660 So let's just go back over the steps. It's more teaching this morning than anything 36:35.660 --> 36:40.920 because we have to get this concept. If we don't get the concept, then we can't start climbing 36:40.920 --> 36:50.080 the tower. So if we're living everyday life on flat land, and we're here, and that's our biggest 36:50.080 --> 36:56.840 site. That's where I see immaturity keeps people real up close to themselves, like a narcissist is 36:56.840 --> 37:02.040 like this. They see them, their mirror is right here, and that's all they see, right? And so, 37:02.040 --> 37:05.500 because it's all about themselves, it's very selfish. And in the last days, 37:06.140 --> 37:11.420 people will be lovers of themselves. This is all the farther they can see. 37:12.480 --> 37:19.080 So spiritual sight is the less you're all about being selfish, and you're dying to self, and 37:19.080 --> 37:25.420 you're coming into Christ. It moves farther away, and the farthest away gets this like world vision. 37:26.620 --> 37:33.700 You're seeing things on behalf of the world now. And your little peddly, you know, whether or not 37:33.700 --> 37:38.940 you got to get your nails done or whatever, it doesn't matter. You start to lose interest in 37:38.940 --> 37:44.280 all that because you've climbed the tower now. But when we only show people that it's just 37:44.280 --> 37:52.320 the main level, their whole goal is it only goes that far. Well, you keep people, if this 37:52.320 --> 37:57.080 was our community and we all lived in the same space, and this is all we saw all the time, 37:57.440 --> 38:00.200 it would start turning into the Lord of the Flies, you know what I'm saying? 38:01.180 --> 38:06.120 There'd be packing orders, there'd be all kinds. Because you're stuck just seeing the same thing, 38:06.220 --> 38:10.880 and who's the most important, and all that comes out. And so selfishness comes out of that. 38:11.160 --> 38:16.260 But what he did is he told the Lord all these different things. Why are you letting this 38:16.260 --> 38:22.040 happen? Why did this just happen at the Capitol? What is going on in Iran, God? How 38:22.040 --> 38:27.340 come and we'll get stuck there? The only way you're going to get a godly answer is climb the tower. 38:29.380 --> 38:35.680 Okay? And then he says, I got this. You just, you haven't seen it yet. So then he says, I will 38:35.680 --> 38:40.860 stand at my guard post and station myself on the tower. I will keep watch to see what he'll 38:40.860 --> 38:50.120 say to me. You're coming up the level past this everyday life to that place where you're 38:50.120 --> 38:55.580 to actually handle what he says. So you might have to stay on, you know, a couple steps up. 38:56.000 --> 39:04.780 If that was like, whew, you have to grow into seeing that. And that takes maturity. And 39:04.780 --> 39:09.080 so much of the body of Christ, if they even attempt to do that, they just step off the 39:09.080 --> 39:14.200 tower. They're like, I can't. That is way too much information for me. I just do this. 39:16.660 --> 39:31.260 Let's stand. For the vision, when we write it and engrave it plainly on clay tablets, so that one who 39:31.260 --> 39:36.720 reads it will run. For the vision is yet for the appointed future time. Where did he get that? 39:36.900 --> 39:44.890 He got the vision on the tower. He got the vision on the tower. It hurries toward the 39:44.890 --> 39:52.870 goal of fulfillment. Your destiny is going to come to a place of fulfillment. The only way 39:52.870 --> 39:57.130 that can happen is climbing the tower. So you can't say, I'm not an intercessor. 40:00.130 --> 40:05.070 These prayers sound like, Lord, how are you today? I'm doing good. I need a few of these 40:05.070 --> 40:14.470 things. What do you want me to do for you in the main ground? But as you begin to climb 40:14.470 --> 40:21.450 that, it takes you to a place of responsibility and you have to grow. We have to grow. 40:22.410 --> 40:32.770 God help us. Help us to see. And Lord, so we're just asking that you get us off the main level. 40:33.470 --> 40:38.990 You get us to a place where the shaking that's going on, the shaking that's happening, 40:39.370 --> 40:47.730 is in a spot where we're not satisfied with the main level anymore. We're not satisfied with the 40:47.730 --> 40:54.050 information we have at the main level. We're coming up. We want to see higher. Help us to 40:54.050 --> 41:02.910 increase the capacity to house what we see. It's going to take maturity. It's going to take 41:02.910 --> 41:13.980 growth. Hallelujah. Let's begin to praise him. Praise you, Lord Jesus. We lift you up, Lord God. 41:15.000 --> 41:22.800 This is a very holy moment. Revelation is here. Revelation is here. It's here to pull us up out 41:22.800 --> 41:29.420 of everyday living into the higher thoughts. It's here to come up those next levels of places 41:29.420 --> 41:36.380 where you want us to see those things, Lord God, that tell us why this is going on. And here's where 41:36.380 --> 41:42.640 you're going to go in the future. You're doing that in us. We ask for that as a body. 41:45.900 --> 41:48.360 Our goal is to station ourselves on the tower. 41:50.420 --> 41:55.060 Just like he said, to hear what you're going to say to us. 41:56.240 --> 42:00.140 To see farther out, to discern into things.