The Messenger Cometh: Will Divine Order Return to the Father's House

As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; and all flesh shall see the salvation of God." — Luke 3:3

Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute. — Luke 11:49

REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH: THE RESTORER OF PATHS TO DWELL IN

We must ask ourselves in this day of apostasy and a great turning away from the faith, as the Psalmist says, "for the godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from among the children of men." Will the crooked paths among God's people be made straight? Will the rough jagged rocks of offenses become smooth and release unencumbered paths of righteousness to walk in again as declares Elijah the prophet?

Historically many of God's choicest saints that have been sent by the Lord to turn his people back to the righteous ways of the Lord are sent to make the crooked paths among God's people straight, yet are often rejected and ignored by man-centered and man-controlled religious systems. When lawlessness — false ministers without adherence to the word — comes to the full, prophets of the highest order are sent by the Lord to expose and call out false prophets and false teachers and crooks that lead God's people astray, including those that preach the gospel for money, fame, fortune, and self-importance. These men, even leaders, are very deceptive — some unknowingly — and many times are good men with a bad message: counterfeit ministers, false apostles that appear to be true, false prophets, false teachers that are leaders in God's house that take the highest seats of his house, and although they may have an outward show of godliness, but inwardly there are all forms of wickedness and corruption. The Lord's sent ones are sent to expose and destroy the wolves in sheep's clothing, even as the false prophets of Jeremiah's day were exposed for their false prophecies, even calling out judgments upon them as their false prophecies and false systems were revealed to the few that would hear and teach the true ways of the Lord. Often true prophets are sent to stubborn and rebellious men that out of their own spirit have built great religious systems that deceive multitudes. To bring correction to false leaders often times brings with it a heavy cost of rejection, persecution, and even the loss of life to those who were sent to them — even as the prophet Amos declares, "They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly." — Amos 5:10

TAKE HEED THAT NO MAN DECEIVE YOU

The Lord's first warning to us is: "Take heed — carefully listen — that no man deceive you by any means, for many shall come in my name with false anointings and deceive not a few but" — Jesus said — "many." Often times it is much easier to follow those that deceive, for there is little cost: just follow the crowd with no conviction, no true direction, and no appointed leadership to follow.

Jeremiah 5:30 — An astonishing and horrible thing is committed in the land: the prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?

It is not only false leaders and teachers that need to repent and turn to the right ways of the Lord, but also the sheep of his pastures that unknowingly are being led by the blind, causing both to end up in destruction and great loss.

It is vital that in this hour we discern who the Lord is sending to us. Jesus unequivocally stated that whoever receives the ones I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives my Father who sent me; whoever refuses who I send refuses me, and whoever refuses me refuses my Father. When one refuses those that are sent to them, they do not realize that they are refusing the Father himself — which means you refuse your entrance into the kingdom offered to the righteous and to those that love him.

There is a critical need for the Lord to send anointed ministers into his house and a great need to set kingdom order in the churches and church systems throughout the world. In this day there are many messages among the Lord's people, but there is only a small remnant with a pure sound of heaven. Many are trumpeting with tinkling brass and sounding cymbals which brings confusion, uncertainty, and a lack of true direction among his people. It is only those messengers that are sent to his people with a prophetic anointing — such as the prophet Haggai, the prophet who was the messenger of the Lord, and prophets like John the Baptist or Elijah — it is only those that are appointed and anointed with heaven-sent authority that carry a master builder anointing with the experience and the ability to set order in the church and to make up that which is lacking.

THE WORD OF GOD HAS GIVEN US A DIVINE PATTERN OF KINGDOM ORDER TO FOLLOW

Whatever men might say, there is a great need for divine order to be set in the churches. The New Testament and the early apostles, especially the apostle Paul, left us a pattern and an order for the churches to follow. We must keep in mind that the New Testament birthed the natural pattern and a solid foundation for how churches are to operate. The first shall be last, and the last shall be first; and the secrets of wisdom are double to that which is — howbeit not first that which is spiritual, but that which is natural and then afterwards that which is spiritual. There is a natural house and a spiritual house, a natural Israel and a spiritual Israel, an earthly Zion and a heavenly Zion. These are set patterns we must follow if we are to get a true understanding of how to walk in kingdom operations and tested protocols.

In God's house there is a great lack of proving and testing the word, which often brings a quick rejection for anyone that challenges the mindsets and fabricated heresies and belief systems that men adhere to. Those that build ministries are warned to take heed how they build — whether they build with wood, hay, and stubble, which reveals human plans, human wisdom, and human strength, or whether they build with gold, silver, and precious stones. Holy wise men must build with gold, silver, and precious stones; these are indestructible metals that have been proven and tested by fire and made pure. Leaders must always test and prove belief systems and hold onto that which is good.

Leaders must ask themselves: can God set order in the churches worldwide as in the beginning? Will the whole body be fitly framed together and grow up a holy temple to the Lord? Will the Lord receive a church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish when he comes? Will not the people that enter the kingdom age be clothed in white linen robes — righteousness with right living, right thinking, right motivations, right doing, and pure hearts? "Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God, and without holiness no man will see the Lord." The foolish virgins that heard the word but did not obey it were shut out of the kingdom age, and yet may obtain heaven in the last and final resurrection — entering heaven by grace, as some think, because their names were found written in the book of life — but they will surely forfeit the eternal inheritance and reward of the kingdom. — Revelation 20

I say yes, God can and will set order in his house before he returns. The Lord has foretold us that he will thoroughly purge and cleanse his threshing floor and purify a people counted worthy to reign with him in the kingdom age as they become partakers of the first resurrection. — Luke 20:35

Was not the fivefold ministry established as an administration of Christ till we all come into the unity of the faith? Many people may think that this is not happening, but I tell you it is happening — though it be in places many cannot see, for it is not a natural work, it is a supernatural work that comes from heaven through appointed leadership and a governmental anointing that will continue to manifest more and more in these days, though it be a remnant that are called.

HOW WILL DIVINE ORDER BE RESTORED IN THIS HOUR?

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: the last-day Elijah anointing will cut down everything, every person, and every nation that does not bear the fruits of truth and godliness. At this time every valley — that is, everyone that is low and humbles themselves before the Lord — will be exalted and recompensed in the earth. Every mountain and hill, and every proud thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, shall be brought low and suffer loss when the righteous are exalted and inherit the earth. — Psalms 37

CAN WE WHO MAY THINK WE ARE SPIRITUAL, AND ON THE RIGHT PATH, ONCE AGAIN MISS OUR TIME OF VISITATION?

Luke 13:34 — Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.

There is a lack of divine order and governmental structure in God's house and among his people. There is nothing new under the sun — we live in a day like the days of old. As then the true word of the Lord was rare and precious, where there is a lack of governmental leadership and kingdom order with no open vision or pure revelation, then every man does that which is right in his own eyes.

"All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." — Isaiah 53:6. All we like sheep have gone astray — which describes human rebellion and straying from God's path.