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Note: This blog post is part of a series titled "The Rise of the House of David." To view all parts, click the link below.
As early as November 8, 1990, God began to drop hints of a coming spiritual battle. I had asked Him what was to be done in order to obtain the full inheritance that He had for the overcomers. His answer was that this would be obtained by spiritual warfare and then added, “I will direct the battle.”
As I pondered this the next day (November 9), He gave me the second chapter of Zechariah, which was about the vision of the surveyor of Jerusalem. The He said,
“Survey your promise, your Jerusalem. Weigh carefully if you really want to inherit it. For I will move upon you to do many…wondrous things, but in each there is a price to pay. Shall all your flesh burn, that you may inherit your promise fully?”
I asked for confirmation of this word, and He gave me Daniel 1:5,
5 The king appointed for them a daily ration from the king’s choice food and from the wine which he drank, and appointed that they should be educated three years, at the end of which they were to enter the king’s personal service.
I wrote in my notes for that day, “It appears from this that I am to receive another three years of training.” Indeed, those three years extended from 1990-1993, when the time came “to enter the King’s personal service.” This also coincided perfectly with my twelve-year training time since November 12, 1981.
A year later, on September 24, 1991, God said to me,
“This shall be the conflict in 1993, leading up to the fall of Herod’s Temple, and the feet of clay shall be crushed by the Stone Kingdom operating in My people. I will bruise the head of Satan under your feet.”
This told me specifically that the coming battle would take place in 1993 and that it was connected somehow to the fall of Herod’s Temple in 70 A.D. The word naos, “temple,” appears 46 times in the New Testament, and it took 46 years to build Herod's temple (John 2:20). I later discovered that 46 years earlier, from November 21-19, 1947, the United Nations had debated and then passed the Palestinian Resolution for a Jewish homeland.
Hence, our prayer campaign was somehow connected to that event in 1947. More broadly, too, it appeared that this prayer battle in 1993 was to mark the start of the time that the stone would begin to crush the image on its feet, as prophesied in Daniel 2:34,
34 You continued looking until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them.
The stone was the fifth kingdom in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, headed by Jesus Christ Himself, which was to arise after the completion of the fourth kingdom of iron and its extension of iron/clay “feet.” Jesus came to die on the cross at the height of Rome’s power. The Western Roman Empire did not fall until 476 A.D., and the Eastern Roman Empire (at Constantinople) did not fall until 1453. Even then, the Holy Roman Empire, based in Austria-Hungary, did not fully end until the end of World War 1 in 1919.
Christ’s death on the cross established the legal basis for the overthrow of Rome and all of the world systems, but the actual crushing of the feet was to occur at the time of His second coming. A century ago, some men thought that World War 1 was a prelude to Christ’s second coming, but they were unaware that the beast system had to be given another century of dominion in order to make up for the lost century from 163-63 B.C., where Jerusalem was independent of the Grecian beast system.
The Coming Kingdom
Daniel 2:44, 45 says,
44 In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever. 45 Inasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountains without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God has made it known to the king what will take place in the future; so the dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.
This was to be the final kingdom, never to be destroyed. In other words, it would not be “left for another people,” as the other kingdoms were. The head of gold (Babylon) was “left” for the arms of silver (Medo-Persia). The Medo-Persians were “left” for the belly of bronze (Greece). The Greeks were “left” for the legs of iron (Rome). But the Kingdom of the God of heaven will never be destroyed nor replaced by other people or nations.
In my view, this Stone Kingdom began to crush the feet of Mystery Babylon with our Jubilee Prayer Campaign from November 21-29, 1993. The house of David, which was being raised up at that time, received sufficient authority in 1993 to begin the warfare, completing that phase seven years later on November 29, 2000.
Afterward, as we will see, in 2001 the church issued a challenge that had to be answered in the divine court, and because the church refused to accept the divine verdict, there was more warfare throughout 2001. But that is for a later part of our story.
Divine Court Battles
I had expected the warfare in November of 1993 to be difficult. It had always been difficult during the Net of Prayer battles in the 1980’s. So I was quite surprised at how easily the Jubilee Prayer Campaign was won. In fact, it could hardly be called warfare. Many people remarked that it was more like a victory celebration.
It has been this way ever since the first battle. I soon came to realize that the struggles of the first Net of Prayer were entirely due to the fact that Saul was still very much alive and opposing the very people who were doing the work that Saul should have been doing! This made the battles difficult and we were always frustrated by incomplete victory. As we explained earlier, the NOP always won the battles that God led them to fight, but they always lost the war because of “Church decision.”
But our battles since 1993 have been more like court battles, where we walk into court knowing our rights and the law, having the best attorney available (the Holy Spirit, the Advocate). It is a bit like spearing fish in a barrel. We showed up on the day of battle primarily to win the court case and then to declare victory.
But we must know when the Judge has scheduled the court date. This is known only by hearing God’s voice. Not everyone needs to know, of course, but the one called to file the petitions in the divine court must know when the court will hear their case. That comes when one has a revelation of timing.
The Jericho Battle Pattern
In 1990 the Lord spoke to me in passing about the battle of Jericho, saying, “You have not yet fought that one.” Having been a part of numerous spiritual battles with the NOP in the 1980's, this Word made me wonder what He meant. The obvious implication was that the day would come when I would be involved in a spiritual warfare that was patterned after Joshua's battle of Jericho (Joshua 6).
In the summer of 1993, the Lord told us to move to Seattle and issue a “call to arms” to anyone wanting to actively participate in the Jubilee Prayer Campaign. We understood from the start that this was based upon the battle of Jericho, and we related the seven days of Joshua's battle to the seven years of our own warfare.
As it turned out, we held a total of eight named prayer campaigns in the next six years (1993-1999). These were:
As we entered the eighth prayer campaign, God impressed upon us that the seventh year was our Sabbath year, and we would not engage in spiritual warfare from Nov. 1999 to Nov. 2000. At first I wondered about this, because I took note that Joshua had been instructed to march around Jericho once each day for six days, but on the seventh day the army of Israel was to march around the city seven times. It appeared that Israel did seven times as much work on the seventh day as they did on the other days. So I wondered how the pattern would be fulfilled.
From December 1999 to the end of November in 2000, God moved upon Sunny Day Roberts, an intercessor living in Wisconsin, to schedule meetings with certain ones that she was led to invite. These were discernment meetings where those in attendance were called to discern the voice of God and to issue divine decrees based upon that Word. Such decrees are typified by “trumpets” in the Bible. There were seven such meetings within the dates of our Sabbath year, but she did not consciously try to plan seven meetings. She only did what God told her to do.
I figured out what the Lord was doing in March of 2000, about a month after the second meeting. Of course, I did not tell Sunny Day, because it was important that God should lead her without my help. The first meeting was held in Wisconsin on the night of Dec. 22, 1999. The last meeting was from Nov. 28-30, 2000, covering the seventh anniversary of the Jubilee Prayer Campaign Nov. 21-29, 1993. Only then did we know how the fall of “Jericho” would manifest in all this. After all, the walls did not fall until the very end.
The revelation and decrees that went forth in these seven meetings fulfilled the pattern of the trumpets blowing in Joshua's day, as Israel marched around Jericho seven times on the seventh day. These decrees were not of a warring nature, but a building up of the body of Christ. In this way the Sabbath-year pattern was fulfilled.
One final word about Jericho… In 1998 I needed to know what type of trumpets the priests were blowing during their march around the city. The NASB says they were “rams' horns” (Joshua 6:4, 5, 6, 8, 13). Yet when I looked up the original Hebrew word used, I found that it was yobel, the Hebrew word for Jubilee. We understand, of course, that the priests were blowing rams' horns, but this is not the term that is actually written in the passage. Literally speaking, the priests were blowing the Jubilee.
It is also obvious that Israel was not conducting “conventional warfare” in the battle of Jericho. Marching around the city blowing horns might be considered to be psychological warfare, but it was really spiritual warfare. In other words, Joshua's siege of Jericho blowing the Jubilee rams' horns might have been called their Jubilee Prayer Campaign.
It would seem that our own prayer campaign was appropriately named.
Note: This blog post is part of a series titled "The Rise of the House of David." To view all parts, click the link below.
Dr. Stephen Jones has been writing blog posts since 2005 on a variety of topics from Bible Studies to World News, and he has been writing books since 1992. Dr. Jones' most important writings came after God brought him back into the full-time ministry in 1991. It is here that all his earlier years of searching the Scriptures began to come into clear focus. He combines a knowledge of the Old and New Testaments with a personal revelation of God that began and developed during the "wilderness" period of his life, which he often refers to as God's True Bible College... Read More
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