As I sat praying early this morning concerning The Nations, I asked The LORD to give me strategy for Prayer

The Spirit of Revelation spoke again to me concerning “The Hour of Hardening” and The LORD began to show me a powerful Prophetic Pattern unfolding.

Again He showed me Pharaoh, and a sequence of events.

If we look In the Book of Exodus, we see a Prophetic Timeline unfolding which I believe speaks to this Hour.

See Exodus 8-14…

First, Pharaoh hardens his “own heart,” then Pharaoh’s “heart was Hardened,” and then “God Hardens” Pharaoh’s heart!

Pharaoh — as we know from scripture — was already rebellious and proud, he was oppressive and he was resistant to God before these explicit statements, where we see that the Scripture says, ”God hardened him…”  (Exodus 7:13-8:19)

The “hardening” was not God forcing an innocent man to become evil, NO!  But rather, It was God both confirming and strengthening a path Pharaoh had already chosen!

And why?  So God could display His power.  So God could execute Justice and Judgement of Egypt’s gods and strongholds of bondage and oppression, and so that God could make known His Greatness and Glory among The Nations.

And God said,  “For this very purpose, I have raised you up..”   (Exodus 9:16)

Friends, herein lies a powerful Prophetic Pattern that we can see repeated throughout the Bible — and even across history.

We know that Pharaoh became far more than just a historical king.  He emerged as a powerful Prophetic Pattern of Hardened Systems, Hardened Rulers, Hardened Nations and Hardened Hearts, that rise in defiance against God — until eventually, Judgment becomes inevitable and unavoidable!

If we look and look again we see that the Prophetic Progression is vitally important, and gives powerful strategy for Prayer.

First comes resistance to God — followed by repeated Warnings.

Then comes increasing Hardness — and then a Divine Confirmation of that Hardness.

Next comes public Judgment — and finally — God’s Glory revealed through the collapse of the very thing that exalted itself against Him.

God is not mocked!

If we pay attention, we see that Prophetic Patterns appear.

In Egypt — in Saul — in Ahab — in Babylon — and in the Religious and Political Leaders that opposed God and ignored God’s Messengers; and ultimately we will see — and are already seeing — this Prophetic Pattern unfolding in the final Antichrist System revealed to us in the Book of Revelation!

Saints, we know what begins in pride, eventually becomes judicial blindness — unto full Destruction!

Pharaoh was not merely politically stubborn, he represented an entire Spiritual and Political system built on oppression, counterfeit power, economic control, slavery and resistance against God’s Covenant People.

Open defiance against the commands of The LORD!

That is why this confrontation became far more than a dispute between Moses and Pharaoh —it escalated into a confrontation between The Living God and the gods of Egypt….

Altar vs Altar — Covenant vs Covenant!

The plagues God sent were not just random disasters appearing, but they were highly strategic and targeted Judgments, sent to turn the Hearts of Nations — back to God!

I would like to call them: ”The Redemptive Acts of God’s Mercy, sent to bring about Spiritual Awakening and a severe course corrections to the Identity and Destiny of Nations!”

We see in Exodus how God in His Justice and Mercy, systematically judged Egypt’s idols, and how the Sword of the Peacemaker, fell upon the economy, upon religion, upon their security, their water supplies, and even their Priesthood — and ultimately, even upon the Throne itself!

Layer by layer, level by level, God systemically and meticulously dismantled the entire demonic structure from the foundations up, and the shaking did not stop until every false foundation was exposed — and then destroyed!

In light of all that is taking place, what I find incredibly sobering about this Prophetic Pattern unfolding, is that when people continually reject God’s Truth, when they give themselves fully over to pride and the lust for more power, eventually God stops striving with them and He gives them over to the very thing they have chosen!

This Saints, I submit, is the deeper meaning behind “The Hour of Hardening” that we are now in.

What we are seeing unfold across Nations is not simple emotional stubbornness by Leaders drunk on power and position, .but it’s The Spirit of The Fear of The LORD coming down to fully confront and expose the spiritual condition of the hearts of The Nations and their Leaders, where even the talk of Righteousness, or the need for Repentance, has become increasingly inaccessible, because the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life have now become the ‘New Identity’!

And this is why The Word of God warns us, that repeated rebellion is so dangerous spiritually!

Warriors and Watchmen

Listen Warriors and Watchmen!  These Prophetic Warnings are not just about Pharaoh “back then” — in our history — but its about God speaking right now to every heart — to every Leader — to every Government and Church — and to every Nation that continually says,
“Who is The LORD, that I should obey Him?”

Ha! Listen!  Be of good courage!  We can have Hope in the midst of the mayhem and madness.

Pharaoh’s downfall ultimately became a global testimony to the manifest Power of God’s Glory…Salvation and Redemption.

This morning, as I sit with The LORD talking to Him about The Nations, as I talk to Him about the seeming stubbornness of Leaders and their defiance and pride, the Spirit of Revelation quickens to me, Exodus 9:16 where it says,

“For “THIS PURPOSE” I have raised you up, to SHOW you My POWER, and that MY NAME may be DECLARED in ALL the Earth”!   (Exodus 9:16)

Even the spirit of rebellion will ultimately end up serving God’s greater redemptive plan and purpose!

Again, herein lies one of the greatest paradoxes in all of Scripture…

Man freely resists God — YET GOD — in His absolute Sovereignty and Mercy — still uses even that resistance to fulfill His Divine Will!

If we look at The Cross, it stands for all eternity as the ultimate example — humanity’s greatest act of defiance, rejection and rebellion against God’s Plan. became the very instrument, the catalyst that God used for Divine Restoration and Redemption of Mankind and The Nations!

 

Blessings to you all.
~ by Veronika West

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Veronika West

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