The rise of the house of David, part 2

In the month after the death of “Saul,” I met many key people who would impact my life and the ministry in general over the years. We were drawn toward Washington state, and I discerned that we were to move there soon.

One man in particular, whose name was David, became a prophetic type of the rising house of David. He and his wife were living in Washington, and we connected immediately. Many years later, he and his family began to work with us, building our website and maintaining all of the computers. He tries to remain in the background, but his handiwork is visible to all of us daily.

(I should also say that when I met David and Sherry, they had no children. Having had painful experiences previously, they did not think they were fit parents. So I took them aside one day and told them that they would be wonderful parents. A year later, the first of their three children was born. In recent years all of them have formed a team to build the website and to maintain the computers.)

I have met many men named David throughout the years. Most of them have had a “David” calling, each in his unique way. But when I met this David in Washington in June 1993, it was unique in that he was a contrast to David Koresh, who had spiritual power but did not have the heart of King David. This David from Washington immediately came under severe spiritual attack from another man who was functioning under the same false spirit as David Koresh.

David and his wife arrived at our house in Arkansas on August 28, 1993, where they found refuge from some very powerful spiritual attacks. Through prayer and discernment, I knew that we ourselves were to come under the same spiritual attack on September 2. Someone was going to die. We braced ourselves and prayed to cover our family and the entire mailing list.

On the evening of September 2, our oldest daughter miscarried. She was married, and technically she was no longer part of my family. Neither was she on the mailing list, because she lived nearby. I learned then how the enemy seeks a way to circumvent the law through legalism. I should have seen it coming, and I have often kicked myself for not understanding this.

A Significant Double Witness

As early as July 1993, I discerned that we were to hold a prayer campaign soon. In reviewing the word of the Lord given to me in 1990, I came to see that we were to move to Seattle, WA to conduct the prayer campaign on November 21-29, 1993. When I discussed this with my wife, she reminded me of an older word from the Lord dating back to 1985, where God said that He would soon move us west and that we would move debt-free.

This was a nice way of stating that she could not provide me with a double witness unless God would somehow provide us with at least $8,000.

I knew she was right, so I put my discernment on the shelf until God would supply enough funds to move debt-free. At the time, I was carrying about $4,000 in credit card debt. The move would cost us another $2,000 for a U-Haul and fuel. Once we arrived in Seattle, we would need $2,000 for the first and last month’s rent.

When we calculated what we would need, we realized that we would need a total of about $8,000 to move to Seattle. In those days we had never seen that much money at one time. God would have to do a major miracle for us to move to Seattle by November.

It happened that I had been invited to Dallas, TX to teach in three different churches on the weekend of September 10-12, 1993. I was accompanied by our “refugee” friends, David and Sherry. My wife stayed home with our school-age children.

On September 10 the mail arrived with two checks for $4,000 each. These came in the same envelope from David and Lois, who were from Michigan. God timed this so that I would be out of town. This was God’s word to my wife. So when I called my wife from Dallas to see how things were going, she told me what had happened and thus bore witness that we were going to move to Seattle. We both knew then that this was the will of God for us.

The Move to Seattle

I took a plane to Seattle on October 14 and found a house in Lynnwood on the 19^th. I returned to Arkansas on the 20^th, and we began our move on October 29. We moved into our rented house in Lynnwood on November 5.

On November 12, 1993 I completed my twelve-year training period, which had begun when I unknowingly joined the Net of Prayer on November 12, 1981. I had learned a great deal in those twelve years. In 1981 I knew almost nothing about spiritual warfare and intercession, and my ability to hear His voice ranged from poor to nothing. I had made mistakes along the way, but I believe that I learned from those mistakes. His judgments were corrective and revelatory.

On November 21, 1993, the Jubilee Prayer Campaign was launched, and we held our first meeting at our home in Lynnwood. The prayer campaign ended eight days later on the 29^th, but by this time we also knew that this was only the start of a seven-year season of spiritual warfare that would culminate on November 29, 2000.

The biblical precedent (or pattern) for this was the “seven periods of time” (Daniel 4:16, 23, 25) in King Nebuchadnezzar’s testimony. In his day, it was the time it took for the king to “recognize that the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind and bestows it on whomever He wishes” (Daniel 4:32). In our time, it took seven years of spiritual warfare to overcome the opposition of fleshly-minded people who thought they had the right to rule the Kingdom.

This seven-year cycle of warfare overlaid the 7½ year transition from Saul to David, which had begun on May 30, 1993 and which ended on November 30, 2000. God saw fit to blend the two cycles so that the warfare would prevail the day before the full authority would be transferred to the rising house of David.