Introduction
Before beginning this prophetic message, it is necessary for us to briefly review last year’s message and to speak a little about the meaning of numbers. When I spoke to you about nineteen, the Year of Fulfillment and Completion, I told you that nine is a number that is incomplete, one that needs one more to be ten, or in the case of nineteen, nineteen plus one is twenty. Consulting information from people who are experts in numerology, we saw its meaning, although in reality the messages I present to you have nothing to do with what they say, but with what the Bible says. Although I study, God reveals to me [blessed be the grace of God]. It is not enough to have the meanings of the number; we have to see how the Bible uses those numbers and what they mean in light of God’s revelation, as we are going to see now.
God loves what is complete, “… being persuaded of this, that He who began the good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Phil 1:6). God is never late; He has a perfect way of reckoning time, and He will insist until He achieves what He set out to do. He will not leave anything unfinished; even if it takes millennia to fulfill it, sooner or later He will fulfill it. And we can see it in the case of Abraham, who agonized for twenty-five years: from the seventy-five years he was when he received the message from God until he was a hundred, twenty-four years passed, and it is in the ninety-ninth year that God makes the covenant with him and circumcises him and his house. JAH says to Abram in his ninety-ninth year: “Sarah your wife shall surely bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will confirm my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. […] But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year” (Gen 17:19,21). And the Scriptures say that Abraham was a hundred years old when Isaac was born (Gen 21:5), which is five times twenty.
Last year we spoke more about the number twenty than about nineteen itself, because nineteen awaits twenty; it awaits what is complete. Now we have arrived at the year twenty, and we took the message of nineteen as a very beautiful prophetic illustration, but God is not playing at prophecy with us. He has seen that we have taken the prophetic messages lightly, and that is why He says: “I will not keep giving messages until you take this matter seriously.” And I, as a prophet and instrument of God, am sick, which is why I am in weakness, and not only I; some elders and leaders have had to go to the doctor with kidney stones, others for different illnesses, and like me, they have been prevented from being here. God has given a sign, and from now on we are not going to play with numbers or with prophecies. Believe me, God is serious. I do not want to go on being a prophetic sign anymore, because I have paid a very heavy price these seven weeks at my home, like a bird that has lost its nest… very complicated… But now I understand what is happening, and you will see it as you listen to this message.
The Meaning of Numbers
The meaning of twenty is closely tied to nineteen. Nineteen equals twenty minus one; it means that one unit, one stage or work is lacking to reach fulfillment, completion, or the end of the process. We use the word teleios or telos, which means end. In the 2019 prophetic message, we saw the parable of those hundred sheep, how when one was lost, the good shepherd left the ninety-nine in the fold to go and look for the sheep that had been lost (Matt 15:1-6). Of ninety-nine, one was lacking to reach a hundred, which is five times twenty. Also in the story of the lost drachma, there were ten drachmas and one was lost; the woman swept the house from top to bottom to look for the lost drachma, to complete the number ten (vv. 8-9). The number 10 signifies totality and completeness. Twenty equals two times ten, that is, double totality; twenty increases the meaning of ten because it doubles it, implying that the message is concentrated.
In the Bible, when something is repeated twice, it implies that it requires attention and urgency. For example: Joshua interprets for Pharaoh the two dreams, which had a single meaning; there was only one interpretation. But it says in Genesis 41:32 “And the dream happening to Pharaoh twice means that the thing is established by God, and that God hastens to do it”. We understand, then, that when something is repeated more than once, it means that it is firm before God. Likewise, when Jesus says: “truly, truly I say to you” or when it says “Amen and Amen”, which is the same word as “verily.” In Psalm 62:11 it says: “God has spoken once; twice have I heard this: That power belongs to God…”, so doubling the expression or the message intensifies it.
We know that ten is one of the so-called perfect numbers; it represents perfect order. Nineteen is a combination of ten and nine, which denotes the perfection of divine order in its relation to judgment, because ten is the number of totality, of what is complete, and nine is the number of judgment. Nine means that one unit is lacking to reach ten, to completeness, but ten already means that something has reached its totality, has reached the maximum, the complete; it implies that nothing is lacking, that it has reached perfect order in its cycle. For example: Noah completed the antediluvian era in the tenth generation. The Ten Commandments contain everything necessary and no more than necessary, both in their number and in their order; they contain the complete moral duty of man toward God and toward his neighbor, which is why there are ten commandments. The tithes (ten) represent the totality of what man owed to God, as marking and acknowledging God’s claim as owner and Lord of all. The ten plagues were representative of the complete cycle of God’s judgments upon Egypt. In Exodus 9:14 God says: “For I will at this time send all my plagues upon your heart, upon your servants, and upon your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth”; that is, all of those were ten.
The worldwide power of the antichrist is understood in the ten kingdoms symbolized by the ten toes of the feet in the image of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream (Daniel 2:41). So that you can put into context what ten means, you must study the whole of chapter 2, because of the ten horns of the fourth beast of Daniel’s vision according to Daniel 7: 7, 20 and 24; Revelation 12:3, 13:1, 17:3, 7 and 12. Ten nations signify the totality that were to be the scene of Abraham’s covenanted possessions (Genesis 15:19). God speaks of the ten Canaanite nations that He was going to drive out of Canaan in order to fulfill the covenant of giving that land to His people. The ten rebellions of Israel in the wilderness according to Numbers 14:22 mark the complete series of Israel’s perversions. God says in Numbers 14:22-23: “… they have tempted me now these ten times, and have not heard my voice,” that is, ten times they provoked Him and ten times they rebelled against God. Laban changed Jacob’s wages ten times (Gen 31:7). The tenth generation completes and represents the whole existence of a family or nation: “An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord, nor even to their tenth generation; they shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord forever” (Deuteronomy 23:3). The ten virgins, for their part, represent the totality of the nation of Israel in distinction to the chosen remnant, which is the bride; while five denotes those who by grace will be able to say: “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us; this is the Lord for whom we have waited; we will rejoice and be glad in His salvation” (Isa 25:9). As we see, ten continues to speak of totality, and there are countless examples I could give, but I believe that at this point we have already understood it.
Now let us study the number twenty. Twenty is double ten and can in some cases signify its concentrated sense (some relate it to twenty-one). Twenty was an important cycle in the life of a man because it represented the age for military service (Numbers 1:1-3; 30:1-16). Likewise, the special vow that someone made according to the sanctuary shekel, which was 20 shekels for those who were over twenty years of age. And according to Numbers 14:26-30 (especially verse 29), everyone who was twenty years old and upward would die in the wilderness because of disobedience. May no one here who is twenty years old or older die!
Jacob waited twenty years to obtain possession of his wives and properties (Genesis 31). There is ten again, as the totality of the deception, but it lasted twenty years of working (vv. 38-41). When did God command Jacob to leave? In the twentieth year. God appears to Jacob in the twentieth year and says to him: “The abuse is complete, the exploitation is complete, your trial is over; I brought you here for my purpose, and to convert you from a Jacob (which means deceiver) into an Israel.” And although Jacob was paying for the deception he committed against his brother (Gen 27:36) with one ten times more deceitful than he (Laban), a purpose was being fulfilled. And as we look at the whole process that Jacob went through, let us think about what Jacob’s experience was in the nineteenth year. He did not know that in the twentieth year deliverance was coming. And from what we see in the context, things became complicated in the nineteenth year, the situation becoming unbearable. Only God knew that in the twentieth year the trial was going to be completed and deliverance was coming; only God knew it. That is why, since we do not know God’s plan, we must live each day waiting for what comes next until God finishes what He began. God is faithful; God afflicts you until the appointed day, until your twentieth year arrives, in which the appointed time is doubly completed.
The year twenty is a year of deliverance. Jacob waited twenty years to be delivered from Laban’s yoke. The twentieth year was the end of his affliction and of the exploitation by his father-in-law. God tested him and approved him. It was necessary for Jacob the deceiver to be processed so that God could transform him into Israel. Laban’s house was simply God’s school for Jacob. Sometimes we despair and want our deliverance to come; but God will not send deliverance until we learn what we have to learn in the place of the trial.
Israel wandered in the wilderness for forty years, and in forty years lived in forty-eight to fifty-two encampments, and in each place God taught something, and God did not take Israel out of that encampment until they learned what God wanted to teach them. The Lord in His sovereignty determined that twenty would be the years to complete His work of testing in Jacob’s life. In those twenty years Laban changed his wages ten times; this is equivalent to every two years, and I understand that every two years, instead of raising it, he reduced it, or whatever he raised, for example, a hundred dollars—in today’s currency—he cut it back the next year, so he always ended up with the same wage. The situation was unbearable, intolerable, but that situation was necessary to teach Jacob honesty, uprightness, and character. God is a God of purpose, and He does not afflict the children of men needlessly (Lam 3:33); when He does it, it is because He has a better plan. In Genesis 32:28 we see that God led Jacob to Peniel, where he had the encounter with the Lord, and there he was reconciled with his brother. So the year twenty was a school of preparation and deliverance, and also of restoration. Therefore, the one who walks with God must know Him so as not to stumble, not to be distressed, and not to attribute any senselessness to Him.
When Jacob was leaving his father-in-law’s house, he sent word to his brother of his return, and the Word says that Esau was also coming to meet him and brought four hundred men with him (Gen 32:6). Something that gives a certain apprehension and great fear, for no one comes to greet with so many people, especially if the relationship is not the best. It seemed that the intention was not good, but Jacob, a very shrewd man, divided the camp and prepared embassies, sending a series of servants with gifts, who would pass on ahead after a certain time and at a certain distance, to soften his brother’s heart, so that by the time he came to meet him he would already be gentle and calm (vv. 7-20). If we studied the relationship those gifts have with twenty, we would see that Jacob sent: two hundred female goats (20×10); twenty male goats (20×1); two hundred ewes (20×10); twenty rams (20×1); thirty milch camels with their young (20×3); forty cows (20×2); ten young bulls (half of twenty, 20); twenty female donkeys (20×1); and ten donkey foals (half of twenty, 10), which, the young bulls and donkey foals together, make 20. Therefore, the animals that Jacob gave to his brother, more than an apparent present, were also a compensation, that is, judgment and consummation. In other words, if you do not see that in the twentieth year God restores him in his relationship with his brother, the gifts from his deception are a compensation. Jacob is paying his brother for the deception of the birthright. God is just.
Now let us look at the time of the judges, three hundred years in which God dealt with Israel. They went astray, God afflicted them, delivered them into the hands of an enemy people, they cried out to God in their affliction, and God heard their prayer and set them free, until they fell into captivity again. On one of those occasions, Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, and He sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who oppressed them for 20 years (Judges 4:2-3). Then the people cried out, and God used Deborah and Barak to defeat Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army. He fled on foot and came to the tent of Jael, to hide. This woman gave him shelter in her house, hid him, and then killed him with a tent peg (vv. 17-22). Israel waited twenty years for a deliverer who would put an end to Jabin’s oppression. So at twenty years the deliverance came. Once more the year twenty appears here as the year of deliverance, in which the oppression is completed and the deliverance comes. From nineteen to twenty the oppression is completed; it reaches its climax, its maximum, what God has determined as necessary to achieve His purpose.
God wants to deliver, but there is still slavery, because it has not yet been understood. How is God going to bring Jacob out ahead of time? It is like when you take a loaf of bread out of the oven that is not yet baked. God cannot take you out of the oppression or out of the school of affliction until you are ready, so He has to turn up the fire; He has to show you that the time has not yet come. In our case, applying it, the time has come to give birth, but we are very busy thinking that this matter of the prophetic years is a lovely way God has of encouraging us at the end of the year to begin the next one. But God is not playing at prophecy. God permitted Jabin king of Canaan to cruelly oppress Israel for twenty years; He did this as punishment or discipline for their idolatry and for doing evil in the sight of the Lord. But in the twentieth year the time of the Lord’s discipline was completed, and the year of independence, of deliverance, came. When the time of God’s school, of His dealing, of what God wants to teach us, is completed, deliverance always comes in the year twenty.
Israel waited twenty years for its deliverance through Samson, but his work never came to be completed. Samson was a man whom God chose to deliver His people in the year twenty, but because of his poor stewardship of the anointing and his carnality, he only began the deliverance and did not finish it; therefore, in the year that Israel should have been set free, it was not set free, because he was neither fit nor consistent. He would begin, but he would not finish. How sad it is when the year of deliverance arrives and we have to go on being slaves, and God has to extend the years because the fullness of time has come and we are not ready!
In 1 Samuel 7, we see that the ark was a prisoner, the presence of God was held back for twenty years, because Israel, like Samson, did not know the time of its visitation. The word says: “From the day that the ark came to Kiriath-jearim, many days passed, twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord” (1 Sam 7:2). The Hebrew word for lament is nahah, which means to groan, to weep; hence the idea of weeping aloud—it is not simply weeping, it is weeping aloud, with groaning. It is also translated as to mourn, which is a sad song. It is very common for us, the people of God, when we do not live consistently according to the will of God, not understanding the time of our visitation and living estranged from God’s purpose, that when God opens our eyes and we see the consequences of our straying, we lament and weep. To weep like women over what we could not defend like men, as that famous Spanish saying goes—it is very common for us to lament. God exhorts, calls, insists, speaks, says, but we take it lightly, and when the moment of truth comes, and affliction comes because of not listening to God, then come the weeping and the lamentations.
The ark remained in Shiloh for three hundred years. During all that unstable time in Israel’s history, Shiloh became the house of God, but what happened in Shiloh? The people of Israel went out to war against the Philistines, and as they were being defeated, they decided to bring the ark with them to the battlefield (1 Sam 4:1-8). However, the Israelites were defeated and the Philistines took the ark to their camp (v. 17), and brought it into the temple of Dagon their god, beside Dagon (1 Sam 5:2). Studying the pilgrimage of the ark from when it left Shiloh for Ebenezer, where the battle took place and it was captured, until it returned again to the place of its dwelling, we will see the following stops: Shiloh (1), Ebenezer (2), Ashdod (3), Gath (4), Ekron (5), Beth-shemesh (6), Kiriath-jearim (7), where in the seventh it rested for twenty years; in the (8) it arrives at the house of Obed-edom (a new beginning), and in the (9) it arrives in Jerusalem. When Solomon builds the temple, he brings it to its rest at stop number (10), where the pilgrimage is completed.
Then we see that the construction took twenty years (1 Kings 9:10; 2 Chron 8:1). Building the temple was a holy purpose of God, to have a dwelling place in the midst of Israel. The ark was moved from the place where David had put it, stop number 9, to the Most Holy Place in the temple, its permanent place. God decides to dwell at stop number 10 of the ark’s journey as His final rest. And the Word says that when they were there worshiping, God was so pleased that He made His glory descend and filled the whole house with it, and He said: “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made in my presence. I have sanctified this house which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days” (1 Kings 9:3). Then the ark was no longer killing people; now the blessing of God had come to the place of God’s dwelling after ten stops. When things are done as God commands, God blesses, and that is stop 10, the complete, the total.
In the time of the restorers, we see that in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, Nehemiah speaks to the king about the condition of his people, that everything was in ruins, and the king lets him go to do the work of restoration along with other assistance. Nehemiah did not collect a salary that whole year (Neh 5:14). The wall was finished in the month of Elul (which comes to be August or September on our calendar) in fifty-two days. The wall was finished on September 21 of 444, and possibly it was still the twentieth year of Artaxerxes. In other words, Nehemiah’s going and the rebuilding of the wall ended the affront, the reproach, and the weeping (Neh 1:1–7; 2:17–18) in the year 20.
Now we enter a very important part of this prophecy, which this incident of Nehemiah’s twenty years illustrates well. While Daniel was praying, humbled before God upon seeing that the seventy years of the desolations of Israel as prophesied by Jeremiah had already been fulfilled (Dan 1:2), Gabriel approached him and said: “Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Holy of Holies” (Dan 9:24). This prophecy is interpreted from when the decree went out to build Jerusalem, which was this same year 445, until Jesus the Messiah, where it speaks of the date on which He was baptized and anointed, and the date on which He was crucified; it says that in the middle of the week they will take the life of the Messiah. A most powerful prophecy telling when Christ was going to be baptized and when He was going to die on the cross of Calvary. And in the interpretation of that vision, the seventy weeks are divided like this: seven weeks, 62 weeks, and one week (Dan 9:25-27). Seven weeks pass from the decree to the wall; from the going out of the decree to rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah the Prince, seven weeks pass; but the date on which the seven weeks begin is exactly when Artaxerxes gives the decree to rebuild Jerusalem, that is, in 445, since it is speaking of the same incident in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes, when the king gives the decree that the wall of Jerusalem be rebuilt and the reconstruction be completed, and seven weeks passed.
Now we will understand why two weeks ago I was in anguish, sick, like the bird whose nest is taken away, saying, when will this situation end, Lord? The prophetic message had been ready since the last week of December, to be preached on the 31st, but I had not been able to share it because of an affliction in my bronchial tubes and a great weakness in my body. My wife knows the anguish I have lived through, because I have had serious problems with my sleep, since I cannot find a position that is comfortable for me because of the breathing problem, and many other things. And praying, unable to sleep, I say to Him: “Lord, please!” Then I fall asleep and hear a voice that says: “Two weeks, two weeks remain,” and there I wake up. Two weeks! So I went to calculate the date on which this discomfort began, and I remember that it was Thursday, December 26, 2019, and exactly five weeks had passed, because that day was Thursday, January 30, 2020. Two weeks remained, and when I counted, they fall precisely today, February 13 (number of rebellion), when the seven weeks are completed.
Thinking about these seven weeks, I remember that the decree was given precisely in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes (445), where the first seven weeks of the seventy weeks begin. It says that the wall would be built in troublous times; look at everything Nehemiah went through. This stage of the seven weeks that are completed today, for me and for those who love God’s purpose and suffered with me, were troublous times. And God says to me: “But you are going to live through seventy weeks, and these seventy weeks are going to be weeks of humbling before me.” Personally I do not know what is going to happen; it may have to do with the construction of the temple that we have planned, or with the time when it is finished being built, since that is another time of glory; I do not know, because that is as far as I know. But God reminded me of something, when we lived the experience of the purpose in New York City.
Some years ago—I do not know if many of you remember—Radio Visión Cristiana set out to complete the thirteen million (four were lacking) to buy the radio station; and they went on for four years of programming asking the listeners for money; it was terrible. In the end the people were already tired, fed up, and gave nothing, but the matter kept dragging on. Then the executive director of the station at that time, David Greco, I, and some brothers went to pray at a certain place, and while we were there humbled before God asking on behalf of the purpose, God spoke through me and said: “Seventy weeks are determined upon this people.” And I said to David Greco: “Start counting seventy weeks from today, and in April this will be finished.” And I remember that only fifty thousand dollars were still lacking and nobody was giving anything, and in the end a brother said: “To finish this, I will send the fifty thousand.” On the appointed day David called me and said: “Radhamés, this is tremendous; today we just paid the money to the bank, and we have finished, the station is ours!” because exactly seventy weeks had passed. Then God said to me: “They in the city lived seventy weeks; you will also live seventy weeks.” Therefore, beloved, count from the day of my illness, December 26, until April 29, 2021, when the 70 weeks are fulfilled. And God told me that this is going to be a time of humbling before the Lord; we are going to be humbled all this time. As the Dominicans say: “The fooling around is over!”
God announces deliverance in the year twenty. It is the year of deliverance, and we have waited for it desperately. Pastor Marcos and I, who are struggling with this matter of the construction, know that we need a great deliverance. Drawing up a plan takes a year; by the last one we already have six years, and we are still battling, and that says it all, because it is not a building but what it signifies, that a time of glory is coming. In Nehemiah’s time the people were oppressed, the enemies trampled the city, which was destroyed, because its gates had been burned and the wall reduced to ruins. But in the year twenty God sends Nehemiah, and seventy weeks begin, which are also counted for Israel. In the year twenty deliverance comes.
Prophetic Application for 2020
So far, the Bible study concerning the 20; now I turn to the application of the message, in which I am going to repeat some things, but in order to apply them. Now I come to prophesy based on the same word. My prophecy is not an invention, but is drawn from the same word applied to us. May it be that, just as effective visual acuity is rated 20/20, we improve our vision in this year 2020.
The year twenty was the end of the time appointed by the Lord for Jacob in Laban’s house. God completed His work of testing in the life of His servant; it was necessary for him to live what he lived. That was God’s plan or purpose to process Jacob and prepare him to transform him into Israel. In the natural and circumstantial realm, the year twenty was not only God’s training but the year of deliverance; he was freed from the deception and the exploitation and also from shame, affront, and reproach. In human terms, Jacob did not dare to leave Laban’s house for fear of losing his family (Gen 31:31). In the year 20, God will deliver many who are held captive by the fear of losing anything they value and who find themselves obliged to remain oppressed in a relationship of friendship, work, or of any other nature; they have not decided to make a brave and bold decision. That is why they are oppressed; they do not dare to make a decision. Others have not decided for fear of breaking God’s will, of coming out from under the yoke before time. But the Lord says to you as He said to Jacob: “Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.” The moment to leave has come; the exodus from that situation has come. Do not fear anything, God says to you; get out of there. When God puts you in, God takes you out.
God put Noah in the ark, but then the Scripture says: “And God remembered Noah… And the fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of the heavens were closed; and the rain from the heavens was restrained” (Gen. 8:1,2) and Noah was able to come out of the ark. When God sends you, He goes with you, and when He puts you in, He takes you out; He does not leave you in the place; He takes you out. So do not be afraid, do not say: “It’s just that I don’t dare, because I might break God’s will.” When the fullness of time has come, God says to you: “Turn back from that slavery and continue your march toward the purpose! Come to Peniel, come toward the face, come to seek the face!” It is no coincidence that Jacob goes out from the oppression of the twenty years to Peniel, to the presence of God. If you do not decide for fear of breaking God’s will, the Lord says to you as He said to Jacob: “Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you; I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the stone and where you made a vow to me; arise now, get out of this land and return to the land of your birth” (Gen 31:3,13).
THE LORD ANNOUNCES THAT IN THE YEAR TWENTY THE TIME OF YOUR TRIAL, OF YOUR OPPRESSION, OF YOUR AFFLICTION, AND OF YOUR SHAME HAS BEEN COMPLETED. This is the year of the Lord’s deliverance. The Lord says to us: “Do not be afraid to leave or to decide. Go out, march, dare, I am with you! The time is now fulfilled, enough, no more,” says the Lord. “My people will no longer be put to shame and exploited.” God says: “As I brought Jacob out of Laban’s house, I will bring you out in the year twenty, with honor, with protection and prosperity.” God says: “Dare to cast off your yoke of oppression; you are no longer obliged to serve your oppressors. It was only twenty years.” God commands you to leave Laban’s house; the purpose of your trial is now fulfilled and finished; march in the name of the Lord.
You are a prophetic house; God makes you live things, He applies the Word to you; live it. Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God? “Walk with me—says God—and you will see my glory; I have marvelous and glorious things to show you, but I want an obedient, submitted, humble people who have eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to understand.” Let rebellion go out from the house of the Lord! Let indifference and apathy go out! Jacob was carnal and a deceiver for a time, but God appeared to him after processing him in Laban’s house in Aram and brought him to Peniel, where he saw the face of God, and God changed his name and therefore his nature.
I continue prophesying: DARE TO CAST OFF YOUR YOKE OF OPPRESSION; YOU ARE NO LONGER OBLIGED TO SERVE YOUR OPPRESSORS. GOD COMMANDS YOU TO LEAVE “LABAN’S HOUSE”; THE PURPOSE OF YOUR TRIAL IS NOW FULFILLED AND FINISHED. When God brought Israel out of Egypt, He plundered the Egyptians; He made them pay Israel for the years of its service. Egypt was enriched by the service of Israel for four hundred thirty years; now the just God rewards His people. It says that they came out with great riches and plundered Egypt. God plundered Laban and Egypt, and He is also going to plunder your enemies, and He is going to enrich you and reward you, and He is going to give back to you what they stole from you. No one will keep the blessing of God in your life, no one; absolutely, what God gave you is yours. The same happened when the Lord brought Jacob out of Laban’s house: He plundered him and caused the blessings that belonged to Jacob for his service to return to His servant.
I prophesy that THE LORD WILL BRING YOU OUT OF THAT RELATIONSHIP OR THAT YOKE, OR SITUATION WITH A REWARD AND WITH HONOR. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT KIND OF RELATIONSHIP IT IS; IT MAY BE FAMILY, IT MAY BE BUSINESS, WORK, BUT IT DOES NOT MATTER, GOD IS GOING TO BRING YOU OUT OF THAT OPPRESSION, WITH HONOR. Thus says the Lord: no one will appropriate what by God’s covenant is your blessing. The Lord will give back to you what belongs to you. He who has ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the church in the year of fulfillment, in the year of completeness. In the year twenty no one will appropriate what by covenant is yours. God says to you: free yourself from every abusive relationship or situation. Do I not command it to you? says the Lord. If you had done this before, I would not have approved it, says God, because it was not yet the time, but in the year 2020 the period of your trial was fulfilled, your deliverance has come; run from your oppressor as Jacob did and go out to the place of your birth, to the land of your fathers and your kindred; return to those who love you, where the Father’s purpose for your life is.
Every weakness is leaving, every sickness is leaving, every oppression is leaving; the time of God’s fulfillment has come. God goes out to defend His people… God goes out to defend His people. [Sergio, this is your year, says the Lord, the year of your deliverance!] This is the year of deliverance and of restoration. God is a Father; God disciplines for a time until He restores us, and then no more. The purpose of discipline is not punishment, it is not judgment. There is no judgment for children; there is discipline until we learn what the Father wants us to learn; once we have finished learning what He wants us to learn, He takes us out of where He put us, and He takes us out with honor, prosperity, and distinction. God’s children do not suffer in vain; even our suffering has a purpose. Suffering with purpose. Write in the next book: In the church with purpose, there is suffering with purpose. We do not suffer in vain; there is not a single tear that runs down these cheeks that is in vain. God does not afflict the children of men willingly; He does it because He has to. It was not December 31, it was February 13, according to God (referring to this word).
Hear the word of the Lord, people: God will fight against your Laban, and He will make him know who you are to him, because the year twenty has come, the year in which your trial was completed and your deliverance has come, not one day later than the day appointed in the sovereignty of the eternal purpose of the Father. He has already told you that if before you did not dare for fear of violating His will, now it is He who sends you out. The Lord will rebuke your Laban as He did with Jacob’s father-in-law, and He will not allow him to go on harming you. No one else will abuse you, if you believe it, in the name of Jesus.
When the Lord, the God of heaven, was giving me this message for all of us, He gave me a vision, and I say here: I see many brothers and sisters escaping from churches where they were abused and exploited for many years; their gifts, talents, leadership, and money were used to enrich ministers or leaders who were Labans and Pharaohs, but this year their deliverance has come. How many brothers and sisters are oppressed? In how many organizations are there pharaohs and Labans exploiting the people? They leave them without milk and without wool, they use their gifts for their own purposes, to build infrastructure, to make a name for themselves, and while they put themselves on display in the media, the people pay so that they may want to occupy the place of God. God says: “Come out from among them, my people,” says the Lord. “Come out of the confusion of Babylon and the oppression of Egypt; escape from the exploitation of Laban’s house. I will provide you with pastors after my own heart who will shepherd you with selfless love, who will see in you only the price of redemption, what the Lord paid for your ransom with the precious blood of His Son.” Celebrate it, church! Year of Deliverance… Year of Deliverance.
As I live, says the Lord, I will take my sheep out of the hands of the oppressors, opportunists, and merchants of the pulpits, and I will bring them to my fold, to my flock, where they will be cared for, fed, and protected. There are pastors like Jacob, serving abusive and exploitative religious systems, but this year the Lord brings them out of there. Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God? This is fulfilled for everyone who believes it; this is not going to be fulfilled for everybody, but for the one who believes it.
I continue applying the word: Israel waited twenty years for a deliverer who would put an end to Jabin’s oppression. Jabin’s oppression of Israel was different from Laban’s oppression in relation to Jacob. This was a military oppression, not a family, work-related, or economic one; this oppression was the result of leaving the Lord and serving the Canaanite gods. The Bible says that the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin, king of Canaan (Judges 4: 2). To sell is the Hebrew word makar, which means to sell as merchandise; to hand over, to subject. An example is a daughter who is given in marriage into slavery. That is, as when a father had to give a daughter in marriage because he could not pay a debt, and he gave her as a slave, he sold her. In this way God sold Israel into the hand of the enemies. God permitted Jabin to oppress Israel for twenty years. He did this as punishment, as discipline for their idolatry and for doing evil in His sight. But in the twentieth year of Jabin’s dominion over Israel, God raised up three deliverers, and these were: Deborah, Barak, and Jael, and they delivered Israel from the hand of its powerful oppressor.
The year twenty is once again used by God as the year of deliverance or the end of the oppression by enemies. In the year twenty, the time set and determined by God’s sovereignty as discipline for His people was completed. The Lord turns it into the year of its deliverance. Jabin means intelligent; Sisera means battle order. This means that intelligence and military skill were being used against the people of God. But God raised up Deborah. Deborah means bee, wasp. God said to Israel: “I will send the wasp before you, to drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you” (Exo 23:28). Deborah is like a wasp that when it stings you, leaves the stinger. Barak means lightning. God uses lightning to destroy and to show His glory (Ps 18:14; 144:6; Zech 9:14). Jael means wild goat (the idea is that she climbs), and she climbed upon Sisera and drove the tent peg into his head.
In the year twenty God delivered Jacob from a family and work-related relationship problem, but the deliverance against Jabin and Sisera was different; it was deliverance from an oppressing enemy. This oppression was the result of disobedience, of rebellion against the Lord for having left His ways. There are many brothers and sisters who have turned away from the Lord and have had to suffer the yoke of the Jabins and the Siseras for having turned away from the Lord. But in this year 2020 the Lord announces that their oppression has ended; they will be set free from the tyranny of their enemies; you will see them come in through that door and through the doors of the churches, saying: “Brothers and sisters, forgive me, I turned away from the Lord and have had to suffer greatly, but the Lord is bringing me back to His house.” This year the Lord will send the Deborahs, that is, the wasps, and the Baraks, the lightning bolts, and also the Jaels, the wild goats. The Lord will raise up deliverers who will deliver you from the dominion of the oppressors. The Lord has the tent peg and the mallet ready to pierce the temples of your oppressor, your Sisera.
Hear the word of the Lord: Your guilt for having failed the Lord has ended. Free yourself from guilt; God has already forgiven you, God has already rescued you in this year, because He has already fulfilled the purpose. He humbled you, He broke you, He made you see your error; enough, do not blame yourself anymore, your sins are forgiven you, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Your guilt for having failed the Lord, God your Father who has disciplined you, has ended. After twenty years (I am using twenty as when a cycle is completed), today He tells you, sing with Deborah the song of your deliverance (read Judges 5 and read the song of Deborah) because that song has to be sung this year.
Jabin means intelligent, and Sisera battlefield; this contrasts with the natural weapons that God used: Deborah, wasps; Barak, lightning; and Jael, wild goat. The weapons of God are spiritual, mighty in God for the pulling down of strongholds. In the year 2020 the weak ones of God will overcome the strong ones of the world. Hear the word of the Lord: weakness will prevail over the strength of the world, because your faith has overcome the world. I see that the Lord is going to surprise us in 2020, because He will use small things and insignificant people to deliver us from powerful, skillful, and intelligent people. They will marvel at how God, with the simple, with simple weapons, will overcome the mighty. The yokes of the oppressors will be broken with the power of the anointing; they will be shattered. I see (as I was writing, I saw it) people coming out of the fire unharmed like the Hebrew young men; the fire will only succeed in burning your bonds so that they may be delivered from it and from their enemies. The fire will only burn your bonds this year. So we conclude with Jabin.
Israel waited twenty years for its deliverance through Samson, but his work never came to be completed in the way the Lord expected. Samson, because of his carnality and foolishness, did not manage to finish God’s purpose. The angel announced to his mother: “Behold, you are barren and have never had children; but you shall conceive and bear a son. Now therefore, drink no wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; and no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from birth, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines” (Judg 13:3-5). Note that the writer says “he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines” (v. 5); he does not say that he will finish. It also says later on: “And the Spirit of the Lord began to manifest itself in him in the camps of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol” (v. 25). That is, from the beginning the biblical author lets us see that the Nazirite will not finish what he had begun.
With his physical strength, Samson killed a lion, and also many of the Philistines, who as a people were stronger than Israel, but he was defeated by his own weaknesses. The woman the Philistines used to defeat him was named Delilah, which means to languish. The name Delilah comes from the Hebrew root dalál, which means to loosen or to be weak, figuratively to be oppressed, oppression, to bring low, to afflict, to exhaust, to attenuate. It is incredible that a woman whose name means weakness defeated the strong man. In Samson’s life the strangest thing happened: strength was defeated by weakness. Since God could not use his strength to defeat the enemies, He used his weakness.
Samson spent his life playing with the anointing and with his strength, making bets, proposing riddles, telling lies, and declaring false revelations. He did it several times, and in the end they used him like a toy (Judges 16:21-25). But the worst of all is that this was used to dishonor God. When they brought him in blind to mock him and to worship their god, because according to them he had delivered Samson into their hands, Samson’s prayer reveals the degree of his immaturity. Even dying, he did not know how to pray. His last words were: “Let me die with the Philistines!” (Judg 16:30). With his death, Samson killed the adversaries and also his worst enemy, himself, for he died with the Philistines. The twentieth year of his Nazirite vow was not the year of deliverance for Samson, but the year of his tragedy. God’s plan was for it to be the year of his people’s deliverance, but it became the year of tragedy, precisely because he did not know how to manage his life and was not consistent with God; beware! His pathetic story ends with an assertion: “So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he had killed during his life” (Judg 16:30). God’s purpose with Samson did not consist only of killing Philistines, but of completely delivering His people Israel from the dominion of their enemies. He began the work, but he did not finish it; Israel was not totally delivered from its enemies. Israel waited twenty years for its deliverance through Samson, but his work never came to be finished.
In the prophetic application, the Spirit announces that some like Samson, because of their weakness of character, will lose the opportunity to deliver and to be delivered in the year of deliverance. Because they are indolent and inconsistent, they will waste the opportunity to finish with honor, and their end will be dishonor; they were called to save others, but they will not even be able to save themselves. The year twenty signifies what is doubly complete; it implies that nothing is lacking, which is why it represents a deliverance absolutely finished, not partially or nearly complete. The only thing Samson completed was his death; he defeated many enemies, but not all; his victory was partial. Since his victory was partial, he did not manage to conclude the deliverance of his people. The year twenty in Samson’s case was an end without an end; it finished with his life, but not with the purpose. He who does not live for the purpose dies without purpose. Samson’s life was so strange and contradictory that in the year twenty, which always represents what is doubly finished or completed, it loses its symbolism, because his work was left unfinished. This man was chosen to deliver, and in the year twenty, when the deliverance should have been completed, it was achieved only partially; the only thing that was finished was his life.
When I was writing, I had to end with this sad warning. For several days I refused to say it, but today I must do so, and it is that what happened with Samson will be repeated in countless people this year 2020; their lives will end, but their works will not; others will have to replace them because, due to their weakness of character, they will not be able to conclude them. God wants the enemies to die, not us with them. This message should not intimidate us, frighten us, or condition us, but challenge us. God says to these brothers and sisters: Stop playing with the anointing, the calling, and God’s purpose for our lives. You do not have to die this year with your enemies, says your God. Return to seriousness and to commitment with your God. You are weak like Samson, but I am strong; I am the Mighty One of Jacob, God says to you. Do not be like Samson, who put his trust and security in the power of his anointing and not in the God of his calling. God wants this year to be the year of your deliverance, but not the end of your life.
For twenty years the Ark of the covenant waited at Kiriath-jearim, stuck there, parked. Israel lamented and cried out loudly, mourning, asking, why? The Ark was in Shiloh for three hundred years, the period of the Judges; this time was horrible in Israel’s relationship with God; it was a time of rebellion and apostasy; in the end the sin of the house of Eli filled the cup. Because of the sins of Eli’s sons, God used Israel’s madness in bringing the Ark from Shiloh to Ebenezer, to the battlefield against the Philistines. The purpose was to reveal that He was going to subject His glory to captivity because of the sins of Israel (Psalm 78:56-61). Do you know what God did? He subjected His glory to slavery when He took it to the land of the Philistines; the Lord preferred to be in a pagan temple, being humiliated, than to remain in a house where the priesthood was corrupt. The Ark was in captivity not only in the land of the Philistines, but also for the twenty years that it was at Kiriath-jearim. I interpret that its captivity began earlier. But we see afterward that “… the Lord awoke as one who sleeps, As a mighty man who shouts, excited by wine, And struck his enemies from behind; He gave them perpetual shame. He rejected the tent of Joseph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim, But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved” (Ps 78:65-68). That is, He said: Enough! And God rose up and shouted, and came out in defense of His presence, His glory and power. God awoke like one who sleeps deeply and wakes to the reality that surrounds him, and He destroyed His enemies; He rejected Ephraim and chose Judah, the house of David, to which He brought His Ark.
The Ark represents the glory of God in Israel, and its captivity represents the anger of God, who withdrew His right hand from His people. But when the end of the twenty years came, God used David to bring the Ark to Jerusalem, and then Solomon to bring it to the place of its permanent rest, and there God put His name, His eyes, and His heart (2 Chron 7:16). And what I see and interpret is that, in the lives of many brothers and sisters, churches, and ministers, the glory of God has been in captivity. These no longer feel the presence or the direction of God; they cannot concentrate on the spiritual, they are not effective in their time of prayer and communion. Neither are they flowing in the word, and they feel that their lamp is going out; they are troubled and neutralized; they have the sensation that God has withdrawn from them, that He no longer hears their prayers as before; their lives are exhausted, they are ineffective.
While I was writing my notes for this prophetic message, I received a text from one of the ministers with whom we walk together, and we share in a WhatsApp chat, with the news about the American pastor Howard-John Wesley of the Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria (Virginia, USA). This minister surprised his congregation by announcing his temporary resignation from the ministry, explaining that he “felt tired, empty, and far from God.” People think—he said on the day of his resignation—that because you work for God you are always close to God, and that the busier you are the more important you are; it is not so. Alfred Street Baptist Church is a historic church with more than ten thousand members, and it has been pastored by Wesley since 2008. It is very dangerous—he said—to try to fill people’s lives when your own life is empty. The pastor said that he is going to step away for a sabbatical period to recover emotionally and mentally. He said: “I am so tired in such a way that one night of sleep will not fix it; I am tired in my soul.” This news has produced various reactions of astonishment, but also, as happens in these cases, judgments and comments about the possible causes, but I see in Pastor Wesley a prophetic reference point. In him God is revealing a spiritual condition prevailing in this generation. The cares of this life, the deceitfulness of riches, and the other things, entertainment, etc., are choking the seed of the word in the church and in us the ministers.
Returning to our application, we see the Ark of the Lord, captive in the land of the Philistines, mismanaged by the Levites of Beth-shemesh and parked for twenty years at Kiriath-jearim. But God announces that His presence and His glory will come out of captivity and will no longer be parked or paralyzed; He will move the cloud of His presence and of His glory. How many have their “ark” parked at Kiriath-jearim, stuck for many years, lamenting before God. How sad it is to pray and not be effective! To say: “I used to worship and feel the presence, the word, the revelation; everything was flowing in me, I walked in the spirit, but now I am dry like Mount Gilboa.” Therefore, I prophesy that glory is coming, a manifestation of His presence, a sincere and deep seeking of God. We will return to intimacy and communion with God. Heaven will be perceived as near, we will experience the eternal, God will breathe life upon His people; He will put an end to weariness, sleep, lethargy, apathy, indifference, conformism, etc., and to every decadent state. The tabernacle of God will be seen again in the life and ministry of the church. We will be satisfied with the finest of the wheat, of the new wine, and of the oil. There will be abundance of every heavenly gift in the house of God. The words of the prophet Zechariah will be fulfilled: “In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitant of Jerusalem; he who is feeble among them in that time will be like David; and the house of David like God, like the angel of the Lord before them” (Zech 12:8).
God announces that in the year 2020 the Ark leaves Kiriath-jearim and is brought to the city of God and to the temple of God. In other words, the Ark will arrive at the place of its rest, where God will put “His name, His eyes, and His heart.” The captivity of the glory of God in your lives ends; a time of glory is coming, of presence and of manifestation of the Spirit, of communion; the obstacles are removed, and the hindrances. God will breathe life, the Lord will awake as one who sleeps, as a mighty man who shouts, excited by wine; the river of God is coming, He will produce hunger and thirst for His presence. We will return to the glory, we will return to communion, we will return to the presence, we will return to the year of refreshing from the presence of God. That is what God wants to do this year. And the year twenty is not necessarily 365 days; it is a time that begins now. [I confess to you that I was going to leave this for Sunday because I was losing strength, but suddenly the strength came to testify that this word is faithful and true] Celebrate the glory of God! Celebrate the glory of God! I strengthen myself in God and in the power of His might. I will have the strength of a buffalo; I will be anointed with fresh oil. God will finish in you and in me what He began; let us run well, let us run well.
We are in a time of fulfillment and deliverance. But as the word of God says, brokenness and humbling precede glory. Jacob was greatly afflicted before his deliverance, and so was Israel before being freed from Jabin’s yoke; it says that they cried out to the Lord in great affliction. The same thing happened to the house of Israel in the twenty years of the Ark’s captivity; all Israel lamented and mourned after the Lord. Note that before the year twenty there was affliction, humbling, brokenness, and that will happen with us, and it has already begun. That is why seven weeks have passed and sixty-three remain.
David was humbled, afflicted, and broken when he did not carry the Ark properly. Was David not afflicted to the point that he even said: I am going to quit this? He was afflicted, and then what did he do? He danced with all his might. Nehemiah humbled himself for three months; we will be so until April of 2021. In this time there will be fasting, prayer, outcries; get ready, for there will be no applause, there will be knees on the floor; we will seek God. Nehemiah was humbled for three months, but in every case, in the year twenty the oppression, the shame, and the reproach ended, and then the joy of deliverance came. Deborah sang her song of victory; David danced with all his might; Jacob raised an altar that he called El-Elohe-Israel (Gen 33:20), which means the God-the God of Israel; Nehemiah celebrated the building of the wall with a great feast and merrymaking.
The enemies mocked Nehemiah, and Tobiah the Ammonite said: “What they are building of the stone wall—if a fox goes up, it will tear it down” (Neh 4:3). But in Nehemiah 12 it is told that on the day of the dedication of the wall, which was built in fifty-two days, Nehemiah says: “Then I had the princes of Judah go up on the wall, and I set two great choirs that went in procession; the one to the right, on the wall, toward the Dung Gate […] The second choir went the opposite way, and I after them, with half of the people on the wall, from the Tower of the Furnaces to the Broad Wall” (Nehemiah 12: 31,38). So they were not foxes, but princes and priests, and two choirs of Levites singing, His mercy endures forever! The man put in all the people, all the singers, all the Levites, all the princes, and the entire people, and they formed two choirs crossing each other. Ah! If a fox is going to tear down this wall, what will happen when all the people dance upon the wall? And that is what is coming, that is what is coming…
Do you see why this message had to be preached in weakness? To represent that God will overcome the strong with weakness. You are weak, but God is strong. The people of God have never won by their own strength and their weapons, always by the strength of God. They will no longer mock you, saying: a fox is going to tear down what you built, because you are going to tell them: I am going to dance upon that wall. This is the year in which we are going to dance upon the wall; why? Because the wall is an emblem of this year. Why? Because the seventy weeks say that in the first seven the wall will be built in troublous times; and God is already showing us the first seven weeks in troublous times, but to build the wall.
The people were broken, Nehemiah too, the enemies mocked: in fifty-two days? I asked an architect: Do you think a wall can be built today in fifty-two days? He said: I doubt it. In China they built a hospital in two weeks, but a hospital is not the same as a wall, since in that time there were no machines, only stone and wood; oh, it was difficult, beloved. But nothing is impossible for God. Nehemiah humbled himself for three months, but in every case in the year twenty the oppression, the shame, the reproach ended, and the joy of deliverance came. God mocked the enemies; how many foxes sang upon the wall? The wall represented the end of the whole work of the reconstruction of Jerusalem; it was the last thing that was done, the wall.
It happened afterward that King Artaxerxes gave the decree in the twentieth year of his reign. It is very notable that both Nehemiah and Ezra humbled themselves before God and led the people to do the same. The year twenty will be a year of humbling, but also of glory. The end of the oppression and the shame will be the result of humbling and brokenness. I conclude by saying: “if my people, upon whom my name is called, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins, and will heal their land” (2 Chron 7:14). We will be greater on our knees… We will be greater on our knees. The enemies provoke us and lead us to humble ourselves, and humbled before God, expressing and revealing our poverty, our limitations, our powerlessness, then we receive the help of our God.
Glory is coming! Glory is coming! But first comes humbling, comes brokenness. We Christians are great only when we humble ourselves before the Great One. Glorious times are coming. The year twenty is the year of deliverance, of completion, of the finishing of everything that is oppression and shame; it is the year of deliverance.
“Blessed Father and eternal God, I see a sign in my body. Not only did I see for seven weeks the sign of weakness, but today You allowed it to be the worst day. You know the conflict I lived through for seven weeks, but even more today… Lord! What will I say to the people if I do not preach this message, when You told me in a dream, two weeks remain? I even came here saying to a preacher: ‘Get ready, because I don’t know if I am going to make it,’ because today was the worst day of the seven weeks as far as weakness. Things I had not felt on other days, something very strange. I said: perhaps I will give the introduction and then I will finish later, and I have finished with more strength. Lord God, because I am a prophetic sign.”
[Beloved, God wants us not to forget what He said at the beginning; the whole of the year nineteen He told us that the year twenty was going to bring what is complete, but when the year twenty arrived we were not ready, which is why God deprived us of the message for seven weeks, and humbled us and broke us in order to teach us through an experience what He said: The moment of delivery has come and she who is going to give birth has no strength. The year twenty has arrived; are we ready? Are we prepared? Will we receive this message with the same lightness as others, or will we take it seriously?]
“That is why You used the example of Samson, to leave a note. The other narratives and examples are of triumphs, but Samson, when the year twenty came, left his work unfinished because he played with the anointing; he was not consistent. Lord, may this not happen to anyone this year, to no one, Lord. I commend to You my life, that of my household, the lives of the elders, of the leaders, of the intercessors, of the ministers of the altar, of all the children, the young people, all of them, not only of El Amanecer de la Esperanza, but of Your church in general throughout the world, Lord.
“I know that a very strong 911 is coming, that complicated and difficult days are coming, Lord. This nation will be shaken and the world will be taken by surprise, and there will be no solution, there will be no vaccine for the plagues that are coming; it is going to be something terrible, my God; help us to lift up our heads. You decided to do it through the church. May we awaken, may we watch, may we be sober; awaken our spirit, may that time of refreshing come; awaken us, God, from the sleep we are in, from the entertainment; please, let us turn back to You, please…
“Thank You. I give You thanks for giving me the strength to deliver this word; I have finished the work You gave me to do; You did not deny us the word, You kept us in holy expectation. The people have responded today, they have come, Lord. We take the word with us, we believe the word, we saturate ourselves with the word. We leave here to live every word that has come out of the mouth of the Lord. Lord, deliverance has come, we are going to celebrate it; we will humble ourselves before You and we will celebrate together the glory of God.
“I bless Your people in Your name, in Your word, and in Your covenant, and the rest of Your people in the nations. Blessed be Your ministers; may they be flames of fire; may the church awaken; give us the miracle of Pentecost; may all the denominations become the body of Christ, what they are, and may we all unite and, as one prophetic voice, Lord, be able to preach this Gospel to the whole world. Today we conclude by saying ‘Your Kingdom come and Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.’ Speak, Lord, for Your servants hear. In the name of Jesus. Hallelujah! Amen.”
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