THE OTHER SIDE of "THE DAYS of ELIJAH" - by Christ

Anderson

on Friday 18 April 2008

by ezette

I don't know what to say...but I feel like DANCING! I honestly believe this article will
be CONFORMATION to most of you! I am more than overwhelmed after reading
this...what an AWESOME GOD WE SERVE! May it blesses you as it blessed me!
Once again it is conformation that WE ARE NOT CRAZY, that GOD IS INDEED
GOD...able to LEAD and KEEP us in the palm of His hand; that God is indeed busy
with a BRAND NEW THING...AND THAT WE ARE A PART OF IT!!! What
excitement...what JOY!

Have a beautiful day in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Your sister in Christ

Ezette

THE OTHER SIDE of "THE DAYS of ELIJAH" -by Chris Anderson.

Something doesn't add up.

"These are the days of Elijah," we've heard it sung.
"These are the days of Elijah," we've heard it preached.
"These are the days of Elijah," we've heard it prophesied.
But then I look around. "Where is the Lord God of Elijah?" I ask. How
is it that for all this singing, preaching and prophesying about "Elijah,"
there's next to nothing to be seen of the real spirit of Elijah in the
land? There are some pretenders banging a few tinkling cymbals
claiming to represent "Elijah. " But where is the true spirit of Elijah-
confronting kings, calling down fire, raising the dead to life?
As I mused on this-which I have often-the Lord used some writings of
a respected prophetic mentor (long since gone to paradise) to remind
me of the "other side" of the days of Elijah.
It's true that every time we hear the name "Elijah" we immediately
envision all the miraculous feats that marked his ministry. So this is
naturally what we have been expecting in fulfillment of these
prophecies. But when we read the entire story of Elijah, we see that
there was more to his arrival than the obvious. Of special interest is
the part of the tale from I Kings 17:2-5:
The word of the Lord came to Elijah: "Go away from here, turn
eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, east of the Jordan.
You may drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to
supply you with food there." So he went and did according to the word
of the Lord.
This "hiding away" of Elijah is of great significance. It comes from the
very opening of the account of his ministry, long before a single
miracle or power-confrontation is ever recorded. The context is this:
Elijah arrives on the scene to make a declaration of drought to
king Ahab, and no sooner does he appear than he "disappears."
He has come, and yet he just as quickly is "gone." He knows
where he is. But nobody else does.
This "other" part of the story of Elijah-the "hidden" part-can go a long
way to encourage those of us who have been hearing and believing in
the manifestation of the end time Elijah spirit, only to see everything
but! Let's try to put some perspective on this. In the process, we'll see
that the days of Elijah are indeed here after all as predicted.
For decades, people with Elijah-class hearts have been sitting
in the backs of churches ruled by Ahabs and Jezebels. Despite
their best efforts to remain at peace and to hope for repentance
and change, they have been eventually precipitated by the
Spirit into confrontations where they have ended having to
declare the departure of God's glory ("Ichabod") to the leaders
of these ministries. This emergence and precipitation of
believers to such declarations is in fact the first fulfillment of
the prophecies of the return of the days of Elijah.
Note more carefully the declarations and their effect. These "Elijah"
believers and their declarations have not made the headlines of
the Christian tabloids. Usually they are known only within the church
they've been led into confronting. And their departures are often a
hush-hush affair. But their story has been multiplied thousand-fold
throughout the body of Christ. Warning after warning and
declaration after declaration of the departure of the Spirit has
been made by Elijahs to Ahab pastors and leaders of ministries
of all sizes.
When translated into prophetic terms, the essence of these
declarations is that "there will be no more rain" in this church. Again,
this has been prophesied multiplied times over in thousands of
churches by innumerable Elijahs of all kinds-young ones, old ones;
men, women; pew sitters, church staff; new comers, old comers -
none of whom know the others across the body of Christ. And what
we are seeing now in the body-wide church is a veritable death
and famine in fulfillment of these multiplied declarations.
What is the consequence for the Elijahs? They have been of
course ushered straight out the doors of the churches. They are
no longer to be found or heard. They are in fact, hidden away.
This hiding is itself part of the pattern in early fulfillment of the days of
Elijah. On the surface, it appears that the Elijahs have been "kicked
out." But from the Spirit's perspective they have in fact been led
to hide themselves away. [Wow Friend, this is exciting!!! That is
EXACTLY what happened to most of us reading this!]
Not that the Elijahs have understood this. They haven't. They
usually have not heard a voice saying, "go hide thyself by the brook
Cherith." But in reality, that is what the Spirit has mandated - even
against the attempts of the Elijahs to be profitably engaged
with the body of Christ. Even in spite of themselves, the Lord
has hidden them away.
Meanwhile the death continues. The real kingdom word of God and the
power of the Spirit are hardly to be found in any western church today.
The rain is indeed stopped, just as the Elijahs have declared it
would. The land is utterly parched. There's hardly a morsel of
real bread to feed on anywhere. Lots of show and theater. Not
much else. The prophecy has come true: a "famine for hearing the
word of God."
Not only this, but the famine in the church is affecting the surrounding
culture and governments. The knowledge of God is disappearing from
the face of the culture. It's getting so bad that laws are being passed
under various guises to effectively prohibit the preaching of the gospel
- in supposedly "Christian" nations. The Elijahs hidden away and
seeing this, like John the Baptist confusedly ask, "Where is the Lord of
God of Elijah?" They can't understand why they aren't being
released to confront the society and the governments of this
world with the bold claims of Christ - why their "hands are
tied" as if in prison, having to stand by and watch society
totally kick out our God from its midst, and possibly even
eventually kill them all like sitting ducks.
As one who lives in the "east" of his country as Elijah was sent to, I
have had larger cause to meditate on this story. But here is what God
wants me to understand, and I pass on to you. A time is coming
when we will indeed be released to confront the Ahab churches
and the godless society they have allowed to fester under their
watch. There will be a culture wide Mount Carmel showdown. There
will be some kind of repentance, false prophets will be slain, and the
true rain will indeed fall that has been prophesied. (Don't ask me when
or how). Meanwhile however, other things will still happen before this:
1) The Elijah movement will still be fed and watered by the Spirit in
hiding. We will still find spiritual nourishment and can pass it on to one
another, despite the surrounding famine.
2) The "prophets of Baal" serving a false "culture-intoxicated Jesus"
will still keep "rain dancing" in the theater churches, singing
meaningless songs about "revival" that they don't really understand
and ultimately don't really want. Such rain dancing will manifest itself
in earnest at the Mt. Carmel confrontation to come.
3) Before all this happens, the Elijahs will be paired with a "widow
people" in "Zarephath" where together they will be mutually supplied
by the Lord (the "meal" of the Word and "oil" of the Spirit will not fail
here) until the confrontation back in "Israel" is ready. Zarephath was
outside of Israel. This means that the present hidden Elijah
movement will make some kind of Spirit-directed encounter
and form some kind of alliance with a divinely "prepared" yet
equally unknowledgeable people outside the church as we
know it. Watch for this. [WOW...believe you me, I am definitely
watching!]
~SOURCE: firstloveministry.com

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