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 to Mike’s YouTube channel to keep up to date with this unfolding revelation.]
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