In mid August I had a powerful prophetic encounter with the Lord.
God spoke to me about a sin that’s really bothering him.
Sexual Predators
Years ago, some of us learned the Catholics had a few, perverted priest-leaders. And many of us undoubtedly thought their problems were probably just because of some weird Catholic beliefs.
Unfortunately, sexual predator wolves have now turned out to be inside every single one of our denominations, and our independent works, among our singers, our preachers, our theologians, and our mega ministries.
This isn’t a brand new problem but I hear the Lord saying
It’s not a problem that was limited to last year or the last 40 years.
It’s still happening.
There are still monsters among us.
They try to hide their predatory and lustful actions.
When I had this prophetic encounter, I could feel that this was bothering God much more than the recent known sins had bothered us.
So, God made me to know that He wanted voices to shoot the arrows of justice at this wickedness. He showed me that He wanted the prophetic sword to swing at this devil.
We’re not at war with persons. Sins are committed by persons. But temptations, traps, and seductions are firstly concocted by devils.
- Persons can be forgiven.
- Persons can sometimes be restored.
- But devils must be resisted.
- Devils must be stomped, cast out, shaken into fires, sent into swine, told where to go, beheaded.
Sanctification is like the beheading of devils. We can ask forgiveness for messing up. But until that devil is beheaded, we are in all probability going to repeatedly mess up.
Alas, there is an evil spirit that must be addressed. There is a spirit that needs to be beheaded. There’s a reason that Ephesians 6 reveals truths to us about spiritual warfare and one of those truths is that the sword of the Spirit is available to us.
I strongly sense we shouldn’t allow this revelation to be lost on immature, emotional responses. We must understand from God’s point of view.
God hurts. Yes, He can be grieved (Eph. 4:30). Our behaviors can really sadden and bother God. And that’s what this prophetic encounter was about. He was sharing with me His heart.
Accordingly, here’s some specifics of what God showed me:
For the last TOO MANY years God has been watching as some of our spiritual leaders have fallen into the same trap as…
—David
—Phinehas
—Hophni
And God is STILL seeing grievous sin from within.
This prophetic word isn’t about past sins, for the most part. Although…
God does want to expose the pattern and the spirit that has been the underlying root.
This prophetic word is even more so about the ongoing, and yet undiscovered, sexual predators within the body of Christ.
Concerning this ugly blight, I clearly heard Holy Spirit saying:
Where are our Nathan’s?
Where are our voices?
Where are our prophets?
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Nathan was a Prophet who addressed the hidden sin of King David (2 Sam 12). David had become a sexual predator (2 Sam 11). Nathan pointed a spiritual prophetic sword at David’s chest and said “you’re the [guilty] man.”
John Baptist was a prophetic “voice” that pinpointed sin with the spiritual sword of the Lord. One such occasion, John denounced the unlawful marriage of King Herod (Mk 6:18). Herod was a sexual predator.
An unnamed prophet (man of God) came to Eli the high priest and Judge over Israel. This unnamed prophet delivered a prophetic word to Eli that rebuked him for his dishonorable sons and his pilfering of sacrifices (1Sam. 2:27–36). The sons of Eli were Phinehas and Hophni. Both of these sons were sexual predators.
God Sees:
God is seeing the hypocrisy among us.
God is seeing the perversion…the sexual sins. and not just any sexual sins, but ministers who become secret sexual predators.
This prophetic word God is giving me is God saying…
“ENOUGH! No more of this filth.”
Like the sexual predator sins of David, Herod, and Phineas and Hophni, God is seeing the same sexual predator sins again and…
they are yet hiding within the current church.
Some, in recent times, have already been exposed. I feel that God is saying to me those individuals repeatedly ran spiritual stop signs and pleadings of the Spirit. Likewise, I believe they also refused to hear godly warnings, just as Phinehas and Hophni refused to hear godly warning. Eli told his sons that their actions were sins against God and if they continued, there would be no mediator for them (1 Sam. 2:25).
God is angry. And God is ready to cut. He wants to sever the body from this fiend.
God wants to bring a mighty work of sanctification.
Consider this, Phinehas’ name means mouth of the serpent. In Genesis’ story we were also hearing from the mouth of a serpent, and a subsequent penalty of death came to the Earth. There was also a separation established between man and God. In essence, the glory departed. Eventually a curtain was even hung. Then, In 1 Samuel we hear from this Phinehas (mouth of the serpent) and again a death punishment follows the related sinful action. Literal death came to Eli the high priest, and to his two sons, Phinehas and Hophni. Also, on the same day, Ichabod was born. Ichabod’s name was a prophecy…the glory has departed.
Hear me on this: In Genesis’s garden, the serpent said, “did God really say…”
A. The devil was attempting to soften the Word of God.
B. The devil attacked the warnings of God’s Word.
C. The devil tried to erase the punishment mentioned in the Word of God.
Dear friends, the Lord says:
this serpent is speaking still.
- The mouth of this serpent has entered the pulpits of today’s church and has
- exaggerated grace into erroneous application
- made itself fat with earthly excess, and has
- Theologically put out the fires of Hell with its supposed now-we-know-better intellect.
Pay Attention!
This is Happening Now:
- We have the talking serpent
- We have the sin of sexual predators
And thus…
WE WILL HAVE:
I. Death on the land.
Death is a punishment associated with this spirit:
1 John 5:16 says “There is a sin that leads to death.”
- animals died for Adam and Eve to be clothed and humanity received a promise of death
- Uriah died in David’s betrayal.
- Eli, Phinehas, and Hophni died.
- John Baptist died
II. NO GLORY.
We will continue living with Ichabod. For the most part, the glory has departed from the American Church. There are occasional, small tastes of it, but it’s sparse and that reality will continue for now.
- God will only share His glory with those who climb the mountain of the Lord
- He will listen for Davids. The real Davids are those who are after His heart. The path to God’s heart is repentance, contrition, humility, brokenness.
- However, God reserves the right to make surprise visits. Sometimes He knocks on the door and gives us opportunities to open to Him (Rev 3:20). Still yet, the glory filling the room is soo different than how we usually do church that it might be challenging for some doorkeepers to really allow such occurrences. Besides, will we even recognize Him, if He comes for a visit?
God has been watching these sins unfold and they are sins against Him. I didn’t use to know why Eli told his sons that these sins are against God and there is no one to mediate for them (1 Samuel 2:22-25). But Jesus later explains a scenario to us, saying “when you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it unto me. (Matthew 25:31-45).
We must see the victims differently. They are the least of these. They are the vulnerable ones. They matter to God. Those who take advantage of them are wolves.
These ARE sins against God. These sins require heavy, great, sincere, zealous repentance (Rev 3:19).
O God, a prayer of us asking forgiveness doesn’t even seem sufficient anymore.
Heavenly Father, do what you need to do. Let your word go forth and accomplish what you deem righteous. We surrender. We trust you. We say yes.
Now, if you would, help us. Aim our voices to be like arrows of justice. And raise up prophetic preachers of righteousness that will wield your sword in resistance to this enemy that has sneakily brought warfare inside our camp. Anoint our prayers, prophecies, declarations, sermons, and songs with a fresh, new anointing. An anointing of purity, sanctification, and deliverance.
Great Expectations 
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