Mike
Parsons
with Jeremy Westcott
Arise, shine; for your light has come,
And the glory of the Lord has
risen upon you.
For behold, darkness will cover the earth
And deep darkness the peoples;
But the Lord will rise
upon you
And His glory will appear upon you.
Nations
will come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your
rising
(Isa 60:1-3).
We
are going to see heaven and earth come back into agreement and alignment. There
is going to be a major shift. That is not to say things are necessarily going to
be easier: there is a shaking coming, but with a harvest in the midst of it. We
need to mentor, teach, disciple that harvest, to see them bring the fullness of
heaven to earth. There will be great darkness, but also great light that draws
people in, because it demonstrates what the kingdom is. The mountain of the
house of the Lord will be lifted up above all the other mountains. All nations
will stream to it, saying ‘Teach us! You guys are living in health and wholeness
and privilege and blessing and favour and protection, when all around everything
is falling apart’.
"Come,
let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
To the house of the God of
Jacob;
That He may teach us concerning His ways
And that
we may walk in His paths”
(Isa 2:3).
Everything
of this earthly dimension will be shaken, but what is of God and His government
will stand firm.
The overlap of heaven and
earth
How
are we to live like that? Amongst other things we are to have new power sources,
ability to terraform, plants that produce all year round, and a new economy. We
will live in the overlap of heaven and earth. We will be not only a Joshua
generation, but a Joshua nation. The government of that Joshua nation will be a
reflection of the government of heaven. God intends us to be part of that
government – that is why one of the four faces of God is a man, and why Adam was
commanded to have dominion over the earth.
The
shaking is going to show what is of the Kingdom and what is not. We will see
cities of refuge set up, embassies of heaven on earth, and they will begin to
take ground: the dominion mandate that was given from the beginning will be
outworked: we are going to have dominion as sons of God, representing Heaven on
earth, seeing the Kingdom of God fill the earth as it is in Heaven.
Blueprint
Cities
of refuge will have a blueprint carrying governmental authority to administrate
the Kingdom. They will operate under the laws of heaven, not earth. A city of
refuge is not necessarily a physical city, but it is a place of government, a
place where God’s Kingdom is established, where the administration of Heaven is
outworked.
We
will be living under the higher laws of the realm of the spirit. And when
medicine has no cure for a disease yet the people of God live in health, then
people in the world are going to want to come and enjoy that health too. If a
plague is wiping out the world population and we are living in health then we
will have a queue a thousand miles long coming to get healed. People will come
to that which is demonstrating authority, to cities of refuge which are
operating in a completely different governmental system.
We
will be operating at a higher level of creativity, not necessarily using
technology but through organic things. Abilities Adam and Eve had, such as the
ability to control sound and light, vibrational frequency and resonance, will be
restored to us. So we will be able to do things in a totally different way from
the world, and we will need to be proficient in them by the time the world’s
ways do not work anymore.
Continual harvest
Just
as the tree of life brings forth fruit every season, there will be continual
harvest, continual health, and continual blessing. It will be a demonstration of
what heaven is like so that people can come and experience it for themselves. As
a result, along with a continual harvest of food we will also see a harvest of
labourers, which is why we need a Joshua generation to mentor them, a people who
carry that authority to expand the Kingdom.
They
will be storehouses, like Joseph built in the years of plenty. After he was
promoted out of the dungeon to the second highest position of government in
Egypt, he took 20% of the harvest for seven years and stored it. 20% of the
world population is about a billion. We will see a billion people coming into
storehouses that are ready to receive them. Where the storehouses are not ready,
the harvest will not come in, so we want to be ready! And when those storehouses
are filled, when they are the only ones who have the answers, the whole world
will come to them.
Beachheads
A
city of refuge is not for God’s people to hide away from what is going on in the
world. The ‘preppers’ have their underground bunkers and they have all their
food and water stored up because they think they need to be ready for something
terrible that is about to happen. That is all a pessimistic, defensive
mentality, a mindset of rescue and defeat. Cities of refuge will be beachheads
of heaven on earth, administrative centres from which the Kingdom will expand to
fill the earth. The mountain of the house of the Lord really will grow into a
mountain that fills the whole earth, as Daniel prophesied. That is a very
different scenario to the one the ‘doom and gloom’ prophets are envisaging. We
do not have to be fearful of anything that might happen because we carry God’s
Kingdom government as sons of God.
Capturing our hearts
God
is looking for people to engage with what was in His heart from eternity, begin
to cultivate that in the ‘what is’, so that they can release ‘what was’ into
‘what will be’. God is beginning to capture our hearts, drawing us to the
desires of His heart. Then as we cultivate that desire He will release to us the
authority to pursue and fulfil it. And it is better to be an amateur in the new
things God is doing than a professional in the old.
If
God has placed a desire in your heart for such a thing then you do not have to
be a superstar in ministry or even an existing leader; you can call it into
being. You can get a blueprint and a strategy from heaven for it. You can call
in others alongside you and begin to establish the foundation for it. It may
look completely different from any other city of refuge, regional apostolic
centre or embassy of heaven, but it will be uniquely positioned to reach exactly
those God intends it to reach, a place where people can be brought out of the
world and come into a place of dynamic encounter with Him; a place where heaven
is manifested on earth.
[This
post is based on answers Mike has given to questions during Supernatural
Mentoring and other hangouts. Subscribe
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revelation.]
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