Post
Prophetic Era -
After the seeing and the hearing comes the doing.
by Curtis Forbes
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On Feb 24th I received a phone call from a very good friend of mine and he proceeded to tell me that he had a dream the previous night. He said in his dream I was talking to his dad and we were having this discussion and sharing some tremendous revelation back and forth (his dad is an awesome minister, I have only met him briefly, and we have never talked about anything at length) yet in my friend's dream, all of a sudden I told his dad "Hey brother, let me tell you what the Lord showed me about "noise"; and then the dream was over! Now you will see just how relevant this dream is shortly, so please bear with me.
After my friend describes this dream to
me, he then asked "Has the Lord shown you anything about noise?" I said
"No, not yet ... but the dream bears witness with my spirit that it is
from the Lord, maybe the Lord is getting ready to show me something
about noise, we will just have to wait and see what happens."
Seven days later on March 2nd, on a
beautiful Sunday afternoon, my family and I came home from an awesome
church service and we had some great food and fellowship together.
I was just taking it easy soaking in some prophetic worship cd's and I
drifted off to sleep. After awhile as I was just starting to wake up, I
heard the Lord speak in my spirit very strong and very bold,
"The Post Prophetic Era ... after the seeing and the hearing
comes the doing."
As you can just imagine, I was quite startled
and somewhat perplexed by this! I have never heard this phrase before
and to my natural ear this sounded like something bad, but in my spirit
I sensed strongly that it was something absolutely phenomenal.
After taking time to meditate on this and
press into the spirit for understanding, I sensed that this was
a completely different level of the prophetic than what we had ever even
seen before. Then the Lord said, "You really need to know where you
are at".
What came out of my mouth immediately was
"This is March the second" and when I said that I was immediately
quickened by it. The number "2" is the number for covenant, so I sensed
that this is a new covenant, a new promise that we are getting ready to
"March" into. Just a little later that same evening, the Lord spoke to
me again and said "Ezekiel 37" so I open my bible to Ezekiel 37, and
there is the passage about the valley of dry bones!!! This is awesome!
You talk about hearing, seeing, and then doing!
After the Lord asks Ezekiel if the bones can
live, you sort of get the feeling that the prophet just cannot wrap his
natural mind around all of these dead dry bones coming to life, and he
kind of prophesies out of duty ... in verse 7 it says "He prophesied as
he was commanded"
Wow! So here I am, 7 days after my friend
tells me his dream, looking at the word "noise" in Ezekiel 37: 7
and this "noise" came after the hearing, after the seeing, and after the
doing ... and THEN the earth shook!
Ezekiel saw the valley of dry bones, he heard
the Lord say" prophesy", and he obeyed . Then he saw something so
profound. This valley was so scattered with bones, this was not a
neat valley of fully intact skeletons perfectly placed all in even rows
waiting to be resurrected. There were ankle bones, knee caps, wrist
bones skulls, hand bones, feet bones, ribs, vertebrae, etc scattered all
over the place! Yet it says in verse 7 that all the bones came together
"bone to his bone" in other words all the bones were advanced
and relocated right back to their original body "bone to HIS bone"
The word "noise" here is the word "kohl"
in the Hebrew. It appears just over 500 times in the
Old Testament and yet very close to 400 times it is translated as
"voice". This noise or this voice was all those bones clattering
and clanking together as all of them were being relocated to their
proper place under the influence of tremendous power. It was so intense
that it caused the earth to shake!
I believe what the Lord is saying in this
statement "The Post Prophetic Era ... after the seeing
and the hearing comes the doing" is that there is
a shift taking place in the prophetic that will have such a phenomenal
impact in the natural over entire regions and the people within those
regions. There will be no denying that we serve the God of heaven!
There has been a ton of amazing seeing and
hearing within the body. The prophetic voices have been rending the
heavens and revealing tremendous mysteries to the people of God, but I
believe that the Lord is taking us into a new place were the release of
the prophetic will actually have an immediate effect in the natural; and
God will hear the noise of His own voice reverberating, resounding,
echoing, and pulsating in the earth as a sweet offering!
All though at times the word "post" is used
negatively in the sense of "a demise or decline of something", it
is also used in a very positive sense all most all the time. I spent
some time looking up the word "post" and
www.dictionary.com yielded 43
results for definitions, and 96 results for synonyms!!!
The word "post" is used to denotes connected
assignments; i.e. "we are now in the post production stage". It speaks
of advancement and momentum; i.e. "our team made it into the post
season". It speaks of function i.e. "Post Office / post master". It
speaks of employment i.e. "trading post". It speaks of strength i.e.
"military command post, out post for protection / stronghold". It speaks
of publishing and or advertisement i.e. "The
New York Post" as well as other publications, posting bulletins,
posting over the internet. It speaks of a progressive nature i.e.
"sequential, successive, subsequent". This is just a drop in the bucket,
this actually goes on and on.
In this context, it so easy to see that the
Lord has a progression, a succession; a subsequent level of growth and
development that He is wanting us to step into by faith even if we
cannot seem to wrap our mind around what He is speaking to us, just like
the prophet Ezekiel did, he just "prophesied as commanded". I love it!!!
Another very important point here is that
in Ezekiel 37:1 - 14, you see the words spirit, breath, wind... all of
these are the word "ruach" in the Hebrew, this word "ruach" shows
up 10 times in this passage and I believe that this is so important. It
is by the "ruach", the breath, spirit, wind of the Lord that we
will be able to do these things! This will be the result of face to
face communion with Him partaking of His breath and then releasing the
prophetic in unprecedented power and impact!
It is no coincidence that the word "ruach" appears
10 times. The number ten is the number for order, but it is also the
number for trouble. If we want to avoid trouble, stay in order. His
breath is His order. It is just that simple!
The month of March is known as the month of
"wind", the lion and the lamb, early spring. Many cultures recognize
March as the beginning of the year. There are many very relevant facts
about March but one that I want to I bring out real quick is that from
March onward every 5 months is exactly 153 days. This is a very profound
number that is mentioned in John 21:11 after Jesus resurrection
He appears to Peter and a few of the disciples, who having been fishing
all night and caught nothing. Then Jesus shows up on the shore and tells
them to cast the net on the right side of the boat and immediately they
catch 153 great fish and the net did not break.
Obviously this is a major miracle speaking of
supernatural harvest and many theologians have devised very complex
methods of explaining why this number is so important. E.W. Bullinger explains this, in
what I believe is the simplest and the most accurate way. In his book
"Number in Scripture", he reveals that the number 153 is the exact
grammatical value to the Hebrew phrase "the sons of God".
I believe that because of this "post"
prophetic era - or successive, subsequent, progressive shift
in prophetic function, that the Lord is preparing us to "March" into; we
are going to learn to be influenced and led by His breath! there will be
such a compelling impact resulting in a supernatural harvest of the sons
of God!
You know, the Lord could have revealed this
to me in February, but we are not going to "February" into this thing...
we are going to "March" into this progression like a Lion filled with
the breath, wind, spirit of God in close intimate relationship with
Him, revealing the Lamb of God that was slain one time from the
foundation of the world, for all of mankind; to take away the sins of
the world and we will see a phenomenal harvest of the sons of God! The
earth is groaning!!!
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