How to hear God during a crisis

Lance: Welcome, welcome, welcome. We are doing the Lance Wallnau Show. Right now, I’ve got a special focus I want to work on and its lessons from Joshua, because Joshua is the book in the Bible roughly covering the period from 1400 BC to 1375 BC. That is the journey of conquest of land and inherit that God have for his people. This is especially meaningful to me, because when we’re all trying to seek God for what he’s going to do. I remember during the 6 months before the November presidential election around see it’s January February March May June, July. Yeah, it’s around actually it’s New Year’s I was asking the Lord, “Lord what can we expect to be coming down in the future”. And see if the Lord would say anything about that and I was going through the and it was Joshua that jumped out at me and it’s when Joshua is crossing over into the land of the inheritance. 

It says in chapter 5 verse 13, and it came to pass that when Joshua was by Jericho. He lifted up his eyes and he looked, and behold a man stood opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand and Joshua went to him and said to him, are you for us or you for our adversaries? And he said, no, or you could say, neither. But as commander of the army of the Lord, I have now come. Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, “What does my Lord say to his servant?” Then the commander of the Lord‘s army said to Joshua, “Take your sandals off your foot, for the place we stand is holy”. And Joshua did so. Now the chapter sealed up we don’t know of the rest of the transaction what transpired between Joshua and the commander of the army, but we have this insight that when Joshua is about to survey the ground, he’s got to take He sees a man opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand. That means that he’s in a position ready to fight.

So, Joshua naturally as a warrior is ready to fight back. And says are you for us or for our adversary. The answer that’s interesting to me is as I’m thinking as we tend to divide in our alliances and our political spheres. “Lord what’s going to happen in the election? You could say,are you for this party, my party, or for that party?” And Lord says, “I’m not for either party, I’m for me”. It was as though the Lord lifted me up to see a heavenly perspective on this and realized that what God is saying there is, I am not involved with your affairs, you’re involved with my affairs and what is my plan for the nation. So, Mercedes, I got you here with me.

Mercedes: Yes, sir.

Lance: So, you could join me on the Bible study if you have any thoughts or Questions you want to ask while I go through this, feel free. Now, you don’t have to, but we normally do a show here but I really want to stop and pull up into the spirit and say, in the midst of the swirl of all kinds of activity, how’s the Word of God applying to where we are right now. I believe that one of the key ideas here that we want to focus on is that it’s possible. Charles Finney, one of my favorite revivalists from his period particularly the Second Great Awakening is associated with Charles Finney. Anyone is a student of Bible history or revival history I should say, your husband for instance, would know a lot about Finney. But I study Finney extensively, because I used to go sneak into the Spear Library at Princeton University which was a great theological seminary. I think that they thought I was a student, because I walked off with more books from the library that I went home with. And I got the original manuscripts of Finney, the Great Revivals from the 1830s and 40s. These are original source materials.

Before Thomas Revell had edited Finney’s work because being edited by evangelicals, there was stuff that Finney wrote that they took out and that you don’t meet the mystical Finney. You don’t meet the Finney that had these supernatural impressions and process them in his writings and, so you kind of lose a little bit of the juice on Finney. He got cleaned up a bit, but I love the full scope of what he wrote. One of the things he said was that leading into the Civil War there was a tremendous amount of political excitement, as listen the North and the South are tearing apart,you’re in a time of intense civil war development. And this is even in the 1830s and 40s and 50s leading up to the Civil War and he made an observation. He said, that it was really important not to let political excitement get in the way of revival.

That always impressed me and it was one of the reasons why I was even more radically divorced from government affairs and culture battles because I felt that well Finney said don’t let political excitement pull you out of the spirit of revival. Because the spirit of revival is in a sense it puts you in a different state of priority and humility and that factious issues can bring you back down potentially into the flesh as you get involved with it. But that’s not to say that Finney wasn’t an adamant preacher against slavery because he was. He would deal with cultural issues, but he dealt with them up to a point where his focus was the changing of the human heart. Because his business as an evangelist was to transform sinners into repentant individuals who became saints.

So, even more so, I read this and it reminds me of what Finney said. God is a necessarily a Democrat or a Republican or an independent. God is God. To the degree that a platform honors God‘s word. To that degree you could say it’s an alignment with heaven. Because we get a lot of writers my friends particularly, we get into some kind of battles every now and then. Because they’re all, oh don’t get involved with politics. Beware of politics. I don’t think that they’re approaching it the same way Finney did, where Finney saw the importance striking its sin. He said, the reason why the country is in the condition of sin is because of the pulpit because if you think about it, what happens in a nation that decays whether it’s transgender ideology or race division. These devices that are doctrines of hell that divide human nature and confuse humanity. He would say, exist because the pulpit is not doing its job as the agent that deals with conscience and this is the important word here. We never talk about this as charismatics and even evangelicals.

Conscience in a nation is the sense of what is right and what is wrong. And we’ve so drifted from a sense of conscience regarding right and wrong that I mean I’m reading headlines that are as horrifyingly bizarre. Biden promises abortion rights law as Democrats try to rally voters. In other words, we’re going to enshrine the protection of abortion. Lest the evil Republicans protect the babies and succeed in that which is the way you know I would frame it. But this is the kind of era that you could start to get very partisan in, but the reality is it’s not about party it’s about God and the nation who is going to rebel against God‘s laws is putting itself on a collision course with God almighty. You can’t win that battle if you’re going to be a country that God is blessed and you begin to blasphemy the God that blessed you. God withdraws that blessing and then you experience the consequence of no longer being a nation that is under the canopy protection and providential kindness of God. Because you are so pulling against him that you’re getting exposed to the consequences of your own sins.

The conscience is what the nation has to recover. When we talk about the fear of the Lord, what is the fear of the Lord? It’s really a conscience that is tremblingly alive to what the Lord is saying because conscience is the apparatus God gave you to really know when you’re in alignment with God and when you’re not. It’s impossible Paul said in to Timothy, he said that one of the characteristics of people that make a shipwreck of their faith is they cast away their conscience. Your conscience is that part of you that God uses to educate you as to when you’re violating what is a fundamental law in the moral universe of what is right and what is wrong. And by repeated resistance to conscience, you can actually have a seared conscience, the ultimate danger is that you can cauterize, you can so make it such a callous in your own conscience that you resist that voice of God that is trying to direct you that this is right and this is wrong. This is good and this is bad and you stop hearing that voice and then you put yourself in a position where you’re in great danger.

So, Joshua is being reminded. He may be serving God; he may be God‘s chosen people. He may be on the assignment God gave him but he must recognize that it’s not that God is behind him. It’s that he’s in submission to God and that’s where his strength is. Does that make sense? It’s not a nuance, it’s in a realignment of priorities. That as long as you are serving God, then God is in a sense on the side that you represent. So, he’s telling Joshua here. I’m the commander of the army of the Lord. Your job is to follow me. And it kind of reminds you when Peter is with Jesus and Jesus is reinstating him in his ministry and he says to him, he says, when you were young, Peter, you went where you wanted to go and you do what you wanted to do. But when you’re old, you’re going to stretch forth your hands and another is going to take you where you’d rather not go. This he said to him signifying by what death he would glorify God.

There’s something about Jesus that’s so great he could tell you’re going to die he can even tell you you’re going to die in a way you don’t want to die and there’s something in a weird way it’s edifying. Because Peter knew that this was the plan of the father and that he would glorify Godby his obedience to the plan so Peter isn’t like all preoccupied like, oh, whatever that means he’s like, wow okay, and then right away he sees John and he goes what about him it’s going to interesting like how’s he going to die? It’s kind of like what he’s asking. What’s going to happen to him? And Jesus says to him something interesting. He says, if I will that he is alive till I come. What difference does that make to you? You follow me.

Now that’s a powerful statement. If I will this happens in your country or in an election or if I don’t will if that happens or if my will is even thwarted what difference does that make to you. You don’t base your obedience to me on any external condition as to what I do with somebody else you must account to me for the race you run. That’s kind of liberating in a way because it disengages you from being overly preoccupied with things that are irrelevant to the race you have and the course God has for you. Make sense?

Mercedes: So good.

Lance: So, let’s go back to Joshua and see with that thought in mind, what are the rules of warfare to access the territory God has for you. I started to teach this last night on Daystar where I was doing Heart for the World broadcast, and I never really got to develop it as far as I wanted because of a little miscommunication which is really my fault. I live spontaneously sometimes that it’s more spontaneous than I should be and I thought I was going to be doing 2 or 3 segments. What I found out when I got, I was doing a 25-minute segment, which means that I basically had three messages and I had to give up two of them to do the one that fit the 25 minutes. I’m going to give you guys the benefit of the messages I didn’t give.

So, it starts off with this. God is a God of patterns and in the Bible, the reason why these patterns are so powerful is if you see, for instance, if I was to say to you 1, 2, 3, 4, you go 5 because that’s the next logical sequence, if I say to you well in the Bible the pattern is Passover is the Jewish feast. There are three Passover in the Old Testament was the blood on the doorpost in the lentils and if you were hiding in the house when the death angel came, you were protected by the blood. Well, that’s the Old Testament. Then, Jesus comes in at Passover. He basically facilitates the Last Supper and he shares that basically he is the lamb of God that is slain for the sins of the world and this is my blood which is for your forgiveness.

Now, you find the pattern of the Old Testament fulfilled in the New Testament. Pentecost is the same way. So, let’s do the pattern. We have Passover. You have your Old Testament type and your New Testament fulfillment, right? I’ve got the beginning of a pattern going here. Well, the next big feast in Israel is Pentecost. So, Pentecost of course was the giving of the law. Most people don’t realize it. It was the giving of the law in Mount Sinai. Now, the disciples are in the upper room and they’re praying and they’re seeking God. They have 10 days after the resurrection which they’re after Jesus’ Ascension, where they’re pouring themselves out and preparing themselves or they don’t know what. But to tarry until the power of God has come down and visited them.

Pentecost, the Old Testament type, is going to be the giving of the law of Mount Sinai with the fire and the glory of God and the law coming down from the mountain to a people that are actually having a party when Moses gets there. Well, the fulfillment of Pentecost in the New Testament is they’re gathered together in the upper room and with the rushing mighty wind, Mount Sinai no longer is coming on the stones but is going to written into the hearts of the disciples as the spirit of God comes in. And they become filled with the power of the spirit of God cloaked upon with the anointing. Now the law is no longer written on stone, but is in blazing in them because the power of the holy spirit in them will enable them to live that law of the Lord. They will be able to walk in the spirit and obey that which the father wants them to do,because the failure of the Old Testament was, the spirit was not in them and their spirits themselves were not born again and regenerated. So, God did a great work in the New Testament.

Passover made it possible to be saved. Pentecost made it possible to be filled so that you had power to live the saved life from the inside out. Well, I’ve covered Passover, Pentecost. What if I was to tell you there’s one more feast there? It’s called Tabernacles. The Old Testament type is going to be the feast of trumpets and then it’s going to be the day of atonement, when the high priest goes in before the Lord and offers a sacrifice. Then there’s a scapegoat which is released into the wilderness. Then there’s one that is sacrificed and the blood goes behind the altar, behind the veil and it’s sprinkled upon the ark of God and then the high priest comes out and the nation is given year of Passover if you will. Not just personal but national, I hardly ever hear this stuff taught this way but this is the context of it. Then in the New Testament we’re looking for the fulfillment, but it hasn’t come fully yet. What we do have is Jesus during the Feast of Tabernacles going to Jerusalem and while the high priest is doing the ritual of pouring out water and reciting the verses that applied to the Feast of Tabernacles. Which culminates in something called the feast of booths, which is going to be a whole week of sitting in a where it is on your roof where you’re actually resting for a week. You’re in the rest if you will of celebrating the fruit of Godbuilding a habitation around you. You having a habitation with God and God tabernacling with you.

We haven’t seen the fulfillment of this yet and so this becomes the great end time feast and not surprisingly whereas Pentecost was the baptism of the Holy Spirit and power coming into the upper room irrefutable piece of history. Tying the two together on the same day of Pentecost. In the New Testament, we have this period of time when the when the feast of booze would be taking place. This would be the period which the rains also would come upon the land during that season and there would be a double portion or an outpouring of rain that would come at the end of the harvest. This is the beginning of the harvest. This is towards the end of the harvest and you have the outpouring of God‘s spirit or the rain coming down in a double portion.

So, whatever the fulfillment is, it’s going to have to do this phenomenon of tabernacles. But you see the pattern? Passover Pentecost Tabernacles, and we are living now in the period of the unfulfilled feast but the patterns there and this creates a great deal of conjecture and a great deal of excitement. Because the Bible says, “I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and daughters will prophesy”.  We anticipate that the former reign which came down was here,but the Bible says, it will be the former and the latter reign at the same time. Which is a double portion of God‘s power and you can imagine that this brings to ripening the harvest of the earth so that’s to be a stalk of wheat. Where the harvest is going to be reaped and we believe there’s going to be many of us believe as many as a billion souls that will be swept into the kingdom.But don’t forget, the day of an atonement Yom Kippur is the saving of nations.

We also believe that God is going to do a work not only in souls but in nations and that in the end there will be those nations that will be sheep nations, goat nations and the Lord himself will come and deal with antichrist forces that are militating against him. Do you see how this works?Because so often I never hear the whole thing presented, but this is the engineering the patterns that God has. And for you as a believer, you’re living in the tension of this period of the third great visitation of God to the earth or you could say the third phase of the feast of Israel which are coming upon us. We’re right now coming out of that season by the way, where most of us missed it because we don’t, in the Gentile world. We really don’t focus on these profound Jewish symbols, even though the Blood of Jesus is the symbol of Passover. The spirit of God poured out is the symbol of Pentecost and the fire of God and the glory of God is what comes out in this great third feast.

I want all of you to be able to have the benefit of this this anointing that is coming upon the church because it was during this feast. Curiously enough, this third feast right here tabernacles that we have another type and it’s Ezra in the New Testament or in the Old Testament who is teaching the Jews as they’re coming back into their land as they’re coming into alignment with their inheritance. And he begins to teach from the Word of God and the Bible basically says that the priest opened the book. I’m telling you that part of the feast of Tabernacles is it’s the feast of the open book that God is going to be revealing all that he has been doing, so that that last day’sharvest of souls and the last day’s harvested nations is going to come with unlocked revelation of God‘s plan.

Now remember Daniel was told, Daniel, seal up the book until the time of the end. The feast of the open book is sealed until the time of the end. If we are living as I believe we are in the last days, then we’re living in the time of the feast of the open book. So, father, I pray for everyone watching this right now that our eyes will be open to behold wondrous things that are written in thy law. That you will speak to us. To revive us. To repair the house of God. To rebuild that which has been ruined and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. As Ezra chapter 9 verse 9says that, you would extend mercy to your people. In America and in the nations that are listening to me right now, that we might have a peace and a prosperity that will come in the midst of warfare so that we could see the reviving, the repairing and the rebuilding of a great and glorious house. The church of the living God that it can reap your end time harvest and it can reap the harvest of nations. Something we hardly ever even talk about, the nations that will come to the Lord.

Many people say well, Lance, it’s hard to figure out what it is you do because you do media stuff,even when people introduce me. They don’t know how to introduce me because they say, how do we introduce you this and I understand the problem. Because very few people actually that do from Dan Bongino to my friends like Turning Point and War Room with Steve Bannon. There’s so many great Christians that I find they’re on the battle of the front lines in certain fields. But I have a slightly different perspective because in my bloodline, I come from a part of my bloodline is Levitical. It’s from the Cohens and it’s the Levites. It’s not all of me because my rabbi father’s side married Gentiles in two generations and I’m a child of that union. But I kind of have a Jew and Gentile, like the Bible talks about one new man. And I feel at times that my heart goes out to those that are hungry to hear what God is saying and sometimes that drives us to a prophetic frenzy like what’s the Lord saying, what’s the Lord saying. But I’m telling you if you will go to the spirit of God with the open book the Lord will talk to you in ways that he hasn’t spoken in previous generation. Because I believe Mercedes, we’re living now in the time when John Joshua applies to the conquest of believers in the land of giants with 7 nations greater and mightier than us. And I line them up I said, governments and education and media and business. There’re these vertical hierarchies that are so immense and structure in the nations and yet they’re called all of them to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

We’re supposed to go into all the world and make disciples of nations. How is going to happen? The open book and the outpouring spirit until God himself is even tabernacling with us as a mighty overcoming church and we’re in that period of history where God himself is moving his hand to wrap things up. People want to know how to partner with what we do and I want to share with you. You could partner with me in this ministry of the word and every now and then I need to remind you because we’re just now starting with television. I’ve been doing the media work on various platforms, but this preaching of the word is especially important because the open book will touch every realm.

So, you can go to “Lancewallnau.com/partner” and partner with this teaching anointing. Partner with the anointing that is on the broadcast right now. I believe it’s the spirit filled Levitical Anointing. It’s the teachers and the tribes of Israel that are given the task of breaking open the book and rightly dividing it and interpreting its application. I want you to partner with that anointing. You’re not just partnering with me; you’re partnering with this anointing of the teaching gift. And it’s the teaching gift of Jesus that I believe the Lord holds me responsible for.Even every now and then I have prophets that will come to me and say, as passionate as you are about media analysis and things like that, your primary calling is teaching. You must teach the word of God.

So, “Lancewallanu.com/partner”. Would you go there now and join me and join us and join with that anointing so the spirit of God is able to open up the book to you even as I’m teaching. Thank you.

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