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END-TIME JOEL'S ARMY ~ SUPERNATURAL SIGNS AND WONDERS
Written by:
Evangelist Todd Bentley
Fresh Fire Ministries
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NO SICKNESS OR DISEASE
”And the inhabitant of the land shall not say I am sick.” (Isaiah 33:24) I
believe that this verse is speaking of a time in the church where there will be
such a level of healing anointing that there will be no sickness or disease,
just like when Israel came up out of Egypt.
Psalm 105:37 - ”He also brought them out with silver and gold, and
there was none feeble among His tribes.” Not one feeble or weak.
Matthew 8:16 - “When evening had come, they brought to Him many who
were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all
who were sick.”
In the ministry of Jesus, He healed every sickness and
disease among the people.
Think about it, more than three million people healed after 400 years in
oppression and bondage! Kathryn Kuhlman prophesied in her day that there would
be a day in the church where the church would say, “I am not sick!!” and in
some meetings every single person would be healed.
Many others have prophesied a great healing revival in the end times including
John G Lake who through his ministry it was reported by the Mayor that Spokane
was the healthiest city in America where over 100,000 healings and miracles were
documented.
What about the several prophesies of many of today's prophets?
For years the prophets have spoken about an end-time Joel’s Army doing
supernatural signs and wonders.
Paul Cain has prophesied a day when sporting events throughout the world will be
cancelled because the stadiums will be used for revival meetings. He says the
Lord gave him this vision around the late fifties or early sixties, and it has
been repeated more than 100 times since then. This spectacular happening will
see millions brought to Christ in a short period of time.
"The lord said this, ‘This is where my people will rise up as an army and
bring millions into the kingdom of God’ (Benny Hinn, Honolulu, Blaisdale,
January 21, 1999).”
Jack Deere states "This army is unique…when this army comes, it’s large
and mighty. It's so mighty that there has never been anything like it before.
Not even Moses, not even David, not even Paul, what's going to happen now will
transcend what Paul did, what David did and what Moses did….”
”God will change the face of Christianity in one generation.” -- Mike Bickle
God has shown me many things concerning the coming healing revival in Canada and
the North American church.
Read on our website under prophetic words, Part 1 the article “Coming Revival
of power signs and wonders" and hear about the healing centers and cities.
You may be one!!
FOUR ASPECTS OF WHAT I BELIEVE WILL HAPPEN IN THIS REVIVAL
I want to share with you today four aspects of what I believe will happen in the
healing revival.
1. There will be a renewed focus on the message repentance; sickness and
disease started with sin.
In the beginning, in the Garden of Eden there was no sin, it was Paradise
without sickness, disease, poverty or death. That was always Gods plan for us!!
When sin entered the world then came sickness, disease, poverty and death.
Romans 5:12 - “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the
world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all
sinned.” But with the resurrection of Jesus came a new law.
Romans 8:1-2 - ”There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are
in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the
Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from
the law of sin and death.”
A new force like the law of gravity is in motion today to empower us to live
holy and be made righteousness. All the Angels of Heaven are prepared to back up
that law. (Romans 5) I am redeemed from the curse of the law. (Gal 3:13)
Today Gods will is (3 John 2), “Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all
things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.”
Most of the world’s sickness and disease today is rooted in our sins of
control. Whole nations are under the curse of Deuteronomy 28 because they turn
to other god's.
Today bitterness, envy, jealousy, unforgiveness in a person's life, bloodshed,
and sexual sins etc, are roots of sickness and hindrances to healing. Two things
that I see happening in the healing outpouring is as people who are in bondage
from sickness and disease will repent of their willful sin and there is a fresh
commitment to holiness when healing is preached we will see more miracles.
James 5:15-16 - "And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the
Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may
be healed"
I've also seen that as the church and whole nations repent of its corruption,
worldly ways and they turn back to God, we will see a mighty healing revival.
Hosea 6:1-2 - ”Come, and let us return to the Lord; For He has torn,
but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up. After two days He
will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His
sight.”
When there is a renewed focus on the message of repentance and healing and
during times of repentance, healings will take place supernaturally without the
laying on of hands. As repentance and the revival of righteousness sweeps
through the church, so will more healings and miracles.
SAINT'S REVIVAL
2. This will be a saint’s revival. God is going to do away with a
clergy - layman mentality and raise up the saints, the body of Christ to do the
work of the ministry.
Ephesians 4:11-12 - ”And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some
prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the ‘equipping
of the saints’ for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of
Christ.”
I strongly believe in the local church and godly leaders, fivefold ministry and
apostolic relationships built on trust and friendship. But it will not be just
the leaders, the anointed man, pastor or evangelist, but the saints released by
godly fivefold gifts and God, will begin to preach the gospel and heal the sick.
It has always been God’s plan that every believer gets involved in the
ministry of Jesus.
John 14:12 - “He who believes in me, the works that I do he will do
also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to my Father.”
It has always been about the church. This new move is about the body.
Ephesians 1:22-23 - ”And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him
to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him
who fills all in all.”
The Ministry gifts of God train and impart until "we all come" to the
unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to
the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
Acts 6:1-7 ~ The Apostles called out seven men full of good reputation and the
Holy Spirit. They laid their hands on them and then in verse 7 reports "the
number of the disciples increased greatly". We all know Stephen full of
faith and power was doing signs and wonders, but who were the rest? In vs.5 we
never hear of them again or their works of power. I believe they flowed in an
anointing just like Stephen. God is going to use the church deacons,
businessmen, cashiers and housewives including children to work His great power.
Some children will be a part of the Samuel generation and be as young as eleven
and twelve years old. “Nobodies” as it were, a nameless faceless generation,
people we don't know just like those chosen by the Apostles, people like Stephen
will flow in this anointing.
CHILDRENS MINISTRY
3. Children's ministry: I have seen a great move of healings and miracles
by the hands of children. I had a vision of an 8-year-old boy with a bible in
his hand preaching with fire and boldness to thousands. Through the word of the
Lord he preached and the sick were recovering in their seats. I see children
being used by the spoken word and faith to grow limbs and I see them working
creative miracles.
Jesus said in Matthew 19:14 "Let the little children come to me do not
forbid them, for of such is the Kingdom of heaven."
We know that the kingdom isn't in word only but in power. Jesus drove out
spirits by the spirit of God and said the kingdom of God is upon you. Children
are going to move in the power of the kingdom, driving out spirits, healing the
sick because the kingdom is theirs.
LAST DAY ANOINTING
4. The Last Day Anointing: I have seen a glimpse of the anointing that
will be on the last day church. We think the book of Acts was glorious but the
glory of the latter house will be greater than the former. We are going out with
a bigger bang than we came in with.
In Revelations 11:1-6, it describes the two witnesses moving in great power like
Elijah and Moses and end time last day and generation anointing. I believe that
this is not just two people anointed as "super evangelists", but the
end time church, messianic Jewish and Gentile believers operating in the spirit
and power of Elijah and Moses to perform the kind of signs they performed.
Revelations 11:4 says the two witnesses are the two lamp stands. Where was Jesus
standing in Revelations Ch 1? but in the midst of the seven lamp stands, which
were the church not individuals?
"In the near future we will not be looking back at the early church with
envy because of the great exploits of those days, but all will be saying that He
certainly did save the best wine for last. The most glorious times in all of
history have not come upon us. You, who have dreamed of one day being able to
talk with Peter, John and Paul, are going to be surprised to find that they have
all been waiting to talk to you." (Rick Joyner) (The Harvest Morning Star,
9, 1990)
Jack Deere explains Joel 2 in the context of Ezekiel 9 -- When this army comes,
he says it’s large and it’s mighty. It’s so mighty that there’s never
been anything like it before…‘begin the slaughter and begin it in the temple
and begin it with the elders, the leaders of my people.’ And they walk through
the land and they start and they begin to slaughter and you know it’s already
started with the biggest names in His household? He has already started the
slaughter…and it is coming now among the Church."(It Sounds Like the
Mother of All Battles, Jack Deere, VMI, Joel’s Army, 1990).
'' ...this army is totally unique. This army, there's never been one like it and
there never will be one like it in ages to come. ...It’s so mighty that
there's never been anything like it before. Not even Moses, not even David, not
even Paul. What's going to happen now will transcend what Paul did, what David
did. what Moses did, even though Moses parted the Red Sea ... there'll be a
numerous company. . . . Well, here Joel is talking about it now in different
words, a powerful, a MIGHTY ARMY with many Paul's many Moses', many
David's." (VINEYARD MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL 1990.)
Jack Deere speaks of an invincible army. He says, "...they won't be able to
kill this army."
John Wimber also stated, "those in this army will have the 'kind of
anointing’... His kind of power ... anyone who wants to harm them must
die".
Paul Cain says that out of this unity will come an army, Joel's Army, based on
Joel 2: "I told you about ... this recurring [35 year-old] vision I had....
The angel of the Lord said, 'You're standing at the crossroads of life. What do
you see?' And I saw a brilliantly lit billboard that reads, 'Joel's Army now in
training.' . . . .I believe one day soon Joel's Army will be in training ...
until it graduates into the stadium .... But a right understanding of the plan
of God for this generation brings this tremendous inclusion.... God's offering
to you, this present generation, a greater privilege than was ever offered any
generation at any time from Adam clear down through the millennium."
"I had a vision of you people coming from . . . a circle of maybe a hundred
miles and I saw people coming from every major city within that circumference
and a great conclave was taking place, and it was the training of Joel's Army. .
. I believe that people are going to come together by the thousands and train
for the Army of the Lord. Wouldn't that be wonderful? I mean, that's long
overdue." (Grace Ministries tape)
The End time anointing is the Elijah Anointing!
In Luke 1: 17, is a prophecy that John the Baptist would come in the spirit and
power of Elijah, during the first coming of Jesus to prepare the way of Lord and
get a nation ready for God fulfilling Isaiah 40:3-4. “The voice of one crying
in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord; Make straight in the desert a
highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill
brought low; the crooked places shall be made straight and the rough places
smooth;”
The Elijah anointing turns the hearts of the nations to God like in 1 Kings 18,
the story of Mt. Carmel. Some even thought John the Baptist was Elijah the man,
but it was Elijah the anointing. In the end it won't be Elijah one man but the
spirit and anointing of Elijah on the church. Miracles and Signs like Elijah
did. In Matthew 17 on the Mount of Transfiguration the Father sent Moses and
Elijah as a prophetic fulfillment and sign of the law and the prophets, and to
show that Jesus was who He said He was. "The voice in the cloud said Hear
Him" I believe as we near the second coming of Christ, God will again
confirm the church as His voice in the land by bringing the spirit and power of
Moses and Elijah upon His end time army and releasing the fore runners to
prepare the way of Lord and get a nation ready for God.
Malachi 4:5-6 - ”Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the
coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.And he will turn the hearts of
the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers,
Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
A movement of the Prophetic, Power Evangelism and Healing
It will be a movement of the Prophetic, Power Evangelism and healing that will
turn nations to God, some in a day!!
A NEW KIND OF POWER EVANGELISM BEING RELEASED
OVER 460 SOULS SAVED, SOUTH KOREA
A church without walls in Korea, Hundreds converge on mall floors, " not
sharing the gospel but doing free God reading's (prophecy over unbelievers).”
There were 174 souls saved in 2 hours. We had our Fresh Fire Missions team of 8
and several other friends from the USA on the worship team. We hung up a sign in
Korean in the mall " Free Spiritual Readings (Prophetic Words)".” We
set up 6 tables, with two people and a translator at each. We did it in the food
court. We gave prophetic words over the lost for 2 hours, while hundreds of
others went throughout the mall praying and gathering the lost. Several of the
souls saved were Buddhists.
PROPHETIC EVANGELISM
(1 Corinthians 14:23-26)
”Therefore if the whole church comes together in one place, and all speak with
tongues, and there come in those who are uninformed or unbelievers, will they
not say that you are out of your mind? But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or
an uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he is convicted by all.
And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed; and so, falling down on his
face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.”
The prophetic anointing carries in it the power to convict, convince and reveal,
even if the word is “Jesus loves you”!! Given as a word from God under the
spirit of prophecy it reveals God.
PROPHETIC ACTIVATION
After training, equipping and teaching on the prophetic, how to hear God's voice
and prophecy, we activated and released over 1000 Koreans to all prophesy!! They
all prophesied over one another for over 30 minutes. I said, "If it can
work in the church, why not in the market?”
1 Corinthians 14:30-31 - ”For you can all prophesy one by one, that all
may learn and all may be encouraged.”
Hearing God is as easy as,
Psalm 139:17-18 - “How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in
number than the sand;”
All we have to do is ask God for one of His thoughts for a person and go for it.
Sometimes you may not know what God is showing you, but they will. You may just
have a mental picture. I was in a restaurant once practicing the word of
knowledge. I asked God to show me something about the waitress. Then I saw a
picture of a young girl around 12 at a catholic summer camp. I did not know what
it meant, but I shared it with her and she said "she was sexually abused at
a catholic summer camp at 12.” I asked my friend at the table what he saw and
he said, "I see a bird cage with birds", foolish huh!! When he asked
the waitress if it meant anything to her, she said in her apartment she collects
birds and keeps them on the balcony.
Most times we cannot operate in the gifts of the spirit in the market place is
because we turn off the gift and pressing in for the word outside the four walls
of the church. We need an increased prophetic awareness. Lets start asking God
for words when in unusual places, especially restaurants.
SAMARITAN WELL ANOINTING
God wants us to make ourselves available to Him. Ask where He wants us to go and
go!! It’s time for the Samaritan well anointing. Jesus shared with this
gentile woman in John chapter 4 a word of knowledge about her many husbands and
the result was “Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could
this be the Christ? Then they went out of the city and came to Him. The whole
city came because one woman received a word from God.”
God can use anybody. I was teaching on prophetic evangelism in Canada and a
business man and his wife decided to make themselves available, gather some
prophetic people and go to the market for 10 days, they set up a prophetic booth
offering "Free spiritual readings" (prophetic words). After each
prophetic word they offered salvation and 650 souls came to Jesus.
The voice of the Lord’s Authority and Command - I can seen the Joel army of
God moving in creative anointing through the spoken word like Elijah.
1 Kings 17:1 - “As the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand,
there shall not be dew nor rain these years, ‘except at my word’”. It was
at the word of Elijah, the heavens were opened. The voice of the Lord’s
authority and command will be released again.
Joshua spoke and the sun stood still, Moses turned water to blood. I see the
church having the same power of Jesus over the natural elements even as Jesus
had, the winds and the sea obey Him. This also will happen to us, we will move
into a wonder ministry fulfilling the rest of Joel 2. Through the church God
will show signs and wonders in the heavens and the earth. We will speak to limbs
like Jesus did when He said, "Stretch forth your hand" and it will
happen. The wonders we will do will be like in the day of Elijah and Moses to
stop the world from its busyness to see the glory of God. I don't just see
healings and miracles, but signs and wonders of great proportion stopping the
busyness of life as the glory cloud literally comes down upon the church like
with Moses. In some cities we will witness signs of the Lord’s glory for days
and capture media attention.
The end of Rev 11:6 concerning the two witnesses say's they could do their signs
as often as they desired, that's power. Pray it in. Let's believe God to confirm
His word and trust us with the last day anointing we'll need for last day
harvest. The God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses our forefathers will once
again begin to show up in the church like he visited in Old Testament times when
He visited His people. Think about it.
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