We read in Luke 10, when in preparation for “the harvest”, Jesus sent out the seventy, two by two, he instructed them when they came to a city to look for “a man of peace”
The peacemaker who is blessed in Matthew 5:9 are not the same as a peacekeeper. I believe it was Derek Prince who said, “The main motivation of all religion is the maintenance of the status quo” Finding true peace can entail finding ourselves at war with the ‘established’ order of things. Someone else said, “Jesus came to disturb the comfortable and to comfort the disturbed.”
The “peacemaker” we were sent to in Newtownabbey where the “Be – Leak Mug Club” formed, blessed us with the use of her car. The number plate spoke volumes…..
REZ “‘I have REZerved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.’ So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.” (Rm.11:4,5)
99 is the Gematria for AMEN in Greek. This is the AMEN company, the remnant who simply agree on earth with what God has declared in heaven. (Deut.19:15, 2 Cor.1:20-22)
24 represents PRIESTHOOD** “Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first REZurrection. The second death has no power over them, for they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.” (Rev. 20:6)
The townland of Newtownabbey is the New Town build on the site of an Abbey established a thousand years before by the White monks from Scotland. Whitehouse and Whiteabbey are other local names that reveal the DEEP circles of spiritual heritage of the area. Indeed a meeting in ‘Abbot’s Cross’ marked a pivotal experience in Hilary and my spiritual awakening 50 years ago. We were conscious in our Be – Leak Mug Club meetings of standing on the shoulders of many who had gone before. “As for the faithful in the land, they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight.” (Ps. 16:3)
How WIDE are the circles of which we are a part came afresh this morning when Tom sent me the latest “Give him 15′ from Dutch Sheets. Dutch speaks about the significance of 777 which I referenced two blogs ago and applies it to our currently being at a Red Sea impasse!
https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?e=622c9b5d64&u=21ae4b9aa9f11e4a8320b5ed6&id=b605c60865
Another circle I have recently referenced is Dr. Stephen Jones’ recent series of blogs, detailing the effective spiritual warfare engaged in over the last few decades, most recently in The Rise of the House of Joseph.
https://godskingdom.org/blog/series/the-rise-of-the-house-of-joseph
The above photo was taken from a wider one behind which there is yet another personal story from the trip. I realized it prophetically overlaps with both of these circles. The only wider picture we have from the adventure is me with my eyes closed…..praying?!
Middle of nowhere!…….stopped dead!…….blown out tyre! …..stripped NUTTS!..……absolutely CORNER– ed!
GOD HELP US!!!
…….and He did. “Out of the blue” a man drove up, removed the old, and put on a ‘better than before’ new. (Would that be called Restoration?)
…….and the name of this ‘angel’?
Joseph of course.
Bottom line……..
If you feel the world is going NUTTS, (or maybe just YOU!), and we’re broken down and CORNER-ed…no way out!
Relax!
…..Joseph (Jesus in his Second Coming – The Prince of Peace)……is on His way : – )
