The rise of the house of Joseph, part 18

In early October of 2001 I asked the Lord for “watch dates” so I would have some idea of when to inquire further (on those dates). One watch date given was October 28. When we inquired on that date, we were told that we would have to go to the Divine Court on November 1 and file a complaint against four enemies, using Deuteronomy 30:17, 18 as the basis of the complaint.

¹⁷ But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them, ¹⁸ I declare to you today that you shall surely perish....

We were also to decree that the angels do something to enforce this. The name of this court battle was to be: “You Shall Surely Perish.” It looked to me like someone was in big trouble, and it wasn’t us. The next day, October 29, we were led to make a decree based on John 14:17:

“In Jesus Christ’s Name we decree that the world will receive the Spirit of Truth, that it will come to see, hear, and know the Spirit of Truth.”

On October 30 I had a telephone call from Detroit. Friends had received from the Lord some kind of warning and were led to call me about it, because it involved me. It had to do with something that Satan was going to do at Halloween the next night.

About Satan

I should pause here to explain something about Satan. As I have said many times, Satan has no power of himself, but derives it from the power of the law to prosecute sinners. Where there is sin, Satan is the prosecutor hired by God to drive us to repentance and back to God. He’s the wolf that drives the sheep back into the corral. Of course, many sheep get eaten along the way, because they do not know how to find rest in God’s place of refuge and grace.

I believe that God created Satan for a distinct purpose, for he has the calling to prosecute us for our sin. God did not create him to destroy us ultimately, but to hold us accountable to the law and bring us to Christ. I have come to appreciate this more and more this past year as we have been adversaries in the Divine Court.

When they have appealed our decrees, it has often been on the basis of some sin or imperfection on our part. Usually, the answer is simply that we are under the blood of Christ and that His perfection has been imputed to us. But on occasion, there is some sin for which we must repent. It is not always our own personal sin, but often the sin of the body we represent. When we repent, our declarations are perfected and can take effect in the world.

In 1981 Satan began to work through a fairly dark-skinned gypsy from Romania. We called her the “Black Gypsy.” The end of July 2001, in the middle of the hot summer, the Lord pinpointed her location on a map of downtown Detroit. I discerned that she was in a building on a particular street between 2 specific cross streets. The Lord gave me the word “basement” or “crypt” or “treasure house.”

I could not find the right word, and since it was getting quite late in the night, I decided to call Art, who lived near there, to tell him she was in his neighborhood. He checked it out the next day. There was only one building at the location I described. It was a large warehouse called “The Personal Vault.”

Art drove through the alley between the parking lot and the building for a better look and found the Black Gypsy looking out the window, looking very much like a palm reader. He drove around for a second pass, and this time she turned her face away. So he stopped in the parking lot to pray about what to do next and to confirm that she was the one.

Suddenly, in the middle of the hot parking lot on a 98-degree sunny day, the back window of the car was iced over! I guess she threw a temper tantrum over being discovered and threw some ice at the car. Anyway, we let her know in this way that she could not hide from us any longer. We now had the capability of knowing her whereabouts whenever we wished.

This was just a minor skirmish, to be sure, but it may be of interest to readers.

The Halloween Offence

At any rate, on October 30, 2001, as we were getting our instructions for the November 1 Court date, another intercessor called and told me that the Black Gypsy had gone to Aberdeen, South Dakota for the upcoming Halloween celebration. So when Art called on Oct. 30 with a warning, I did some serious inquiry and found that the Satanists in Aberdeen were planning a Halloween ceremony that included human sacrifice of a 19-year old girl named Erin that they had kidnapped.

In praying about this, the Lord gave me Hebrews 9:9 KJV, specifically the phrase, “sacrifices could not make.” We understood from this that we were to make a decree forbidding human sacrifice. I was also given Leviticus 1:8, dealing with the burnt offering law, which we interpreted as the type of human sacrifice that the Satanists planned for Erin.

Human sacrifice has always been unlawful according to the divine law. The problem is that men have nullified this law with their own traditions. From Moses to Christ, Israel as a nation was “chosen,” that is, they were the ones elected to agree with God and decree accordingly. Among those laws was the one banning human sacrifice. The problem was that Israel usually went along with it, as the prophet Jeremiah tells us in Jeremiah 19:5.

Ye Shall Surely Perish

On October 30, 2001 we were led to make a decree banning all human sacrifice in the earth. This legally put the Satanists on notice, so that when they would celebrate their Halloween party, they could be held fully liable for violating the law. (We knew, of course, that they would ignore our decree, as this is their nature.)

At 1:00 p.m. on October 31, four of us gathered by telephone. God told us that on November 1^st we were to begin a 14-day prayer campaign known as “The Campaign of Entering the Millennium of Rest.” It was to begin with our complaint in the Divine Court, which was called “Ye Shall Surely Perish.” Since these Satanists were guilty of human sacrifice after the decree forbidding it, they were to be brought into judgment.

November 2, 2001

Satan answered our complaint in the Divine Court on the grounds that he is not under the authority of the Divine Court and thus did not sin in sacrificing a girl at Halloween. From our perspective, such appeals are ridiculous. God gave us John 16:33, “I have overcome the world.” In other words, Jesus’ death on the cross and His life on earth effectively gave Him the authority over the whole world. This authority is all-inclusive, including Satan and his Archprinces. Hence, we won the case, as usual.

As usual, Satan immediately refused to comply with the Court’s ruling, and so we were immediately led to issue a judgment against him, based on Deuteronomy 18:9-11. It is the death penalty. We dispatched the angels to enforce this judgment.

November 3, 2001

The next day, as I was preparing to teach the word to our local group, the Lord focused my attention on Romans 5:1, 2,

¹ Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand...

In other words, one must be justified to have PEACE. And we can only receive grace by faith. Then one of the intercessors called to tell me that Satan had appealed for grace and peace! I had to laugh at that one. Anyone who is familiar with the word of God would see such appeals as quite laughable—almost childish. But over the years, the enemy has used this tactic effectively.

Most Christians know little or nothing about the divine court. I knew nothing about it until the early 1990’s. In recent years I have discovered about six different authors who all began to receive revelation about the divine court about the same time in the early 1990’s. It seems that this is a revelation needed for the rise of the house of David—and later, Joseph.

Part of this revelation is that both sides in a court case have the right to appeal their case. In the case of Israel in the wilderness, there were seventy judges and Moses himself was the judge in the court of appeals. Moses instructed the judges in Deuteronomy 1:18,

¹⁷ You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.

Christ Himself is our Supreme Court Justice, for He said in John 5:22, “For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son.” We see, then, that there are levels of judgment with lower judges handling most cases. But if one party loses a case, there are higher judges who serve on the court of appeals, as well as a Supreme Court Justice.

Because of the law against “partiality in judgment,” Satan himself has the right to appeal his case. When he does so, the lower-court verdict is tied up until the appeal is answered and the higher judge has made a ruling. Not knowing this, most people who appear to win their case in the divine court seem to lose by default in the appeals court. Why? Because they assume they won their case and do not know that their case was appealed. Hence, they fail to answer even the most ridiculous appeal, which might otherwise be easily won.

That is why it is so important to learn to hear God’s voice and for the Holy Spirit to teach us about the laws of God. I believe this is why God began to teach people about the divine court in the 1990’s. The time had come for the rise of the house of David, and God was ensuring its success.

In the case of Satan’s appeal for grace and peace in the court case called Ye Shall Surely Perish, we answered on the grounds that Satan is not justified, for he has no (biblical) faith. Though he believes that God exists (James 2:19), he does not claim the blood of Jesus for justification from sin. Furthermore, Faith and obedience are the same word in both Hebrew and Greek. Satan remains in noncompliance and disobedience, and that is what dooms him. So it was a simple matter to go before the Divine Court and ask that Satan’s appeal be denied.

November 4, 2001

An intercessor again called with the word that Satan and his three Archprince representatives had attempted to use their powers to change their identities by “shape shifting” and thus avoid judgment on the grounds that they were different people.

This attempt to hide was pathetic in our way of thinking. They might perhaps hide from us, but they cannot hide from God. And when God reveals things to His servants, nothing can be hidden from them.

It is not difficult to know how to answer appeals. The difficulty throughout past centuries has been in knowing that there are appeals to answer.

November 5, 2001

After this final attempt to escape, Satan was finally bound for 1,000 years. Thus, we entered The Campaign of Entering into the Millennium of Rest. On this day the Aurora Borealis lit up the skies as far south as California and North Carolina in a wonderful display of red and green colors. I thought that was a nice touch to end this episode.

Take note, though, that although Satan was bound, the Lord specifically instructed us not to request his absorption back into the Father. He yet has a final role to play in the future for a short time, as we read in Revelation 20:7.

Keep in mind also that our court victory in the heavens had not yet emerged into the earth. We were establishing truth for a time that was yet to come.