2013 is the year of the government and priesthood of God. In the year 2000, the Lord spoke prophetically to this house, and told us that the first years of this millennium were going to be prophetic years. When the year 2012 arrived, the Lord told us that 12 was the year of His government and of the authority of His Word. But He also told us that 2012 would not be a chronological year, confined to 365 days, but that it was the beginning of a time in which God was going to restore His government on the earth.
We know that God reigns sovereignly, and that He does whatever He pleases in the heavens and on the earth. But, as the apostle Paul said in Athens, God has overlooked, and has not taken into account for millennia, the ignorance of men, but in these days He announces to all men, everywhere, that they should repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world (Acts 17:30-31). Jesus Christ is Lord, but the book of Hebrews says that we do not yet see all things put under Him (Hebrews 2:8), yet we do know that He is reigning and will reign for all eternity. Although evil, at the same time, is apparently ruling in every area, God continues to work, continues to save, creating new creatures and fulfilling His purpose. In the church, despite its condition, God has caused a faithful remnant to remain, a conscious people who do not bow the knee to the baals; a people who have their heart in God and who wait on Him, who do not lose heart, who are not discouraged, who are guided by the Spirit, who are not entangled in the cares of this world, in the deceitfulness of riches, but who are a people who wait on God. That people will not be disappointed, nor ashamed, nor confounded. He who is to come will come and will not tarry. “The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever” (Isa. 40:8).
As we enter the year 13, we want to unveil its numerical meaning. And this is not kabbalah, nor superstition, nor astrology, nor any esoteric divination or occult practice, but a biblical revelation for understanding what God wants to tell us through numbers. It is important to note that each of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet has been assigned both a phoneme and a number. Thus, their meaning hides symbolisms that simultaneously express a spiritual or a physical reality. For example, it is quite remarkable how, in the names of the men whom God has used to fulfill His purposes, when the value of the letters is added up, the numerical result is always related to 8, whose meaning speaks to us of equity, justice, a new beginning. But when it has to do with the names of some rebel or ungodly person, the sum always comes to 13, whose meaning is related to rebellion, sin, decay and apostasy. For the descendants of Seth, if you add up the numerical value of those names, the result is always 8, but when the descendants of Ham and of Saul are added, the total sum is related to 13. Therefore, the Holy Spirit uses numbers to decipher the nature and character of things, and with allegories and figures He makes us understand spiritual truths hidden in them, opening up the wisdom of God in a mystery, that hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages for our glory, so that it might now be made known through the church (1 Cor. 2:7; Ephesians 3:9-10).
In Genesis 14:4 the first mention of the number thirteen in the Bible is made. The text says that several kings served Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, for twelve years, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled. That is, this king had government and authority for twelve years, but in the thirteenth year the subjected kings staged an insurrection. From here on, every time the number thirteen is spoken of in the Word, it is related to rebellion, apostasy, disloyalty, corruption, disintegration, revolution and/or some idea related to these things.
In Genesis 17:24-25, we find that Abraham was circumcised at the age of 99, but Ishmael, his son, was circumcised at the age of 13. We know that the birth of Ishmael was a plan against the designs of God, orchestrated by Sarah and Abram when they doubted the word of God about giving them descendants. Ishmael is the fruit of human will, and a manifestation of rebelliousness against what God had already determined. This boy was born in rebellion and for rebellion. By being circumcised, Ishmael enters the covenant, yet he was a stranger to the covenant; he had the outward sign, but not the heart of the covenant. He represents all those who claim the covenant according to the flesh, but not in the spirit. He had the sign of the covenant in the flesh, but not in the heart, for he was born as a rebellion against the government of God. In Genesis 16:12 we see the character of Ishmael: a wild man whose hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him. He was born in rebellion and was rebellious, and later he departed, because he had no part with Abraham. In 25:12-17 the twelve tribes of Ishmael are spoken of, but when the multiples of the twelve names are taken, it comes to thirteen. We conclude, then, without a doubt, that the character of Ishmael was rebellious, his birth represents rebellion, and so does his genealogy. That is why, when the apostle Paul speaks to us of the allegory represented by Sarah and Hagar, two covenants, that of the flesh and that of the promise, he also says that the Scripture affirms: “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman” (Gal. 4:30).
In this year 13, which is a continuation of the year 12, in which -through the church and the preaching of the gospel- God will be taking His place and imposing His rod of authority in the church. He will make a separation between the children according to the flesh (Ishmael) and the children of the promise (Isaac). God is going to make a demarcation, beginning this year, between the children of the bondwoman and the children of the free woman. As it was said: “Cast out this bondwoman and her son, for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac” (Gen. 21:10), so the Lord says to you today: “Cast out rebellion, take every human plan out of your house, and every work that God did not do, even though He has accepted and blessed it temporarily, as He did with Ishmael.” Everything that is conceived in a womb where God was not the one who begot it, the result is Ishmael, rebellion against God. Everything that is gestated without God is rebellion. Only what God begets bears as its fruit: the government of God, the wisdom of God and the purpose of God. Through the ages the two have been mixed together, and there was a time when Ishmael and Isaac dwelt near each other, but when Abraham died they related to each other for a time, but in the end they separated (Genesis 25:11). And God, in this time, especially in the year 13, is going to begin to separate every work that was not done in God’s plan, for “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted” (Matt. 15:13), just as the wheat will be separated from the tares, because everyone who is Ishmael or like Ishmael hinders the purpose of God. That is why God says to you: “Take Ishmael out, send him far away, because, being in the house, they will behave as enemies of the children of the purpose. When Hagar saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on Sarah, her mistress (Gen. 16:4), and Ishmael, when he grew up, mocked Isaac (Gen. 21:9).” The same thing happens to us with those who were born with the spirit of Greece, who call the godly ignorant and mock our faith, because they are based on reason, on intellect, on human philosophy and theology. But it does not matter if they laugh at us, or what concept they have of us; what matters is that we have been born of God, that we are of God and we are going with God.
God is going to step into the middle, as the Word is described, the two-edged sword, which pierces even to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerns the thoughts and intents of the heart (Heb. 4:12 R60); in that way God is going to separate what is not His, what does not agree with His plan. The time has already come; we are all in the same house of Abraham, the Ishmaelites and the descendants of Isaac, together though not mixed, but God is going to separate them, because He does not want to bring confusion; God does not like mixtures, God is definite, God has a single thought; there is no relationship between darkness and light, between Christ and Belial. Our God is one, and one is His purpose, so I prophesy that part of God’s purpose in this time of government is to begin to separate what is not His, to cast it out, so that what is not His may be seen clearly.
We know that the children of Israel come from four women, two of them the servants of Leah and Rachel, when they, who were the wives, could not give Jacob more children. Rachel’s case was that, although she was Jacob’s beloved, she was barren, but in the end the Word says that the Lord remembered her and she had her first son, whom she named Joseph, Jacob’s eleventh son, whose name means “the Lord adds,” announcing with hope that God was going to add more sons to her. And so it was; after a time Benjamin was born, the twelfth son. But when this boy was about to be born the delivery became complicated and Rachel thought the child was going to die, but he was born and the number of government was completed. The twelfth almost died, which is why the mother named him “Benoni,” which means “son of my sorrow,” but the father, with his authority, said no, and called him Benjamin, which means “son of my right hand.” Note all that happened for the twelfth to arrive, and for the number of government to be completed. In the world of darkness there will always be opposition to the establishment of government; Benjamin was born so that there would be government. The number twelve does not represent just a number, but a spiritual truth, and it is that the Lord governs, that God reigns, and that His is the scepter, His the crown, and His the authority.
There was death in the childbirth, for although the twelfth son, Benjamin, did not die, Rachel his mother died, because many times for there to be government there must be death. When Israel goes to Egypt to be reunited with his son Joseph, he meets his grandsons, and says to him: “Now your two sons Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in the land of Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine” (Gen. 48:5 R60). In other words, Jacob claims the two sons of Joseph as his own, leaving the twelve incomplete, for now they are thirteen, since with that action Joseph is no longer mentioned. There is no such thing as the tribe of Joseph per se, because for Joseph to be able to have two portions in Jacob’s inheritance, he had to disappear. So it is with those who wish to bring sons into the kingdom: they have to disappear. Christ, having to bring many sons to glory, had to die, which is why He said: “Verily, verily, I say to you, that unless the grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (John 12:24 R60). Christ had to die so that we might be counted in Him.
Returning to the meaning of the numbers, we see that there were problems in forming the twelve, and after it was formed, it goes off balance, growing to thirteen. But what we see in God’s conduct is that, in order to complete His number twelve, one is omitted so that there will not be thirteen. In Revelation Dan is omitted; when Moses blesses the tribes, Simeon is omitted (Deuteronomy 33); when the names of the princes of each tribe were chosen to spy out the promised land, one is omitted from (Numbers In conclusion, in order for there to be twelve, one is always omitted so that there will not be thirteen, because there cannot be rebellion, but government, for the Lord reigns in Israel. Now, since there were thirteen, God says: “… the Levites are wholly given to Me from among the children of Israel, instead of all the firstborn; I have taken them for Myself instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel” (Num. 8:16). From then on Levi is no longer counted, because the Lord takes him for the priesthood, completing the twelve again, so that now there is government and there is priesthood in Israel. To break rebellion I take one out for the priesthood, which is why we will see that God destroys rebellion with the priesthood, which is its antidote.
In Genesis 49 we see Israel blessing the tribes, but of Simeon and Levi he curses their fury and says: “Let my soul not enter into their council, nor my spirit be joined to their company” (Gen. 49:6), because of the vengeance they took on the people of Shechem for the violation of Dinah (Genesis 34:25-26). Nevertheless, when Moses was forty days on the mountain, and the people made themselves a molten calf and worshiped it, Levi rose up at the voice of Moses, who said: “Who is on the Lord’s side? Let him come to me. (…) Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Let every man put his sword on his thigh, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and let every man kill his brother, and his friend, and his neighbor” (Exodus 32:26, 27). And it says that the sons of Levi rose up and killed about three thousand men that day, with which he consecrated himself before the Lord. Every time there is disobedience, there is sin against the government of God. That is the reason why God was so severe with Saul and not with David. David’s sin was a sin against the holiness of the Lord (adultery and murder), for which he was punished (2 Samuel 12:9-13); but Saul’s sin was disobedience to the government of God, and he was rejected (1 Samuel 15:18-23). Every time we honor the name of the Lord by being zealous for it, we take the side of His government. When Levi vindicated himself before the Lord with his zeal on behalf of the government of God, God later chose him for the priesthood. On that day God ended the curse and the rebellion of Levi in order to make him His priest.
The antidote to all rebellion is a priesthood faithful to God. The priesthood of Samuel, for example, saved Israel from the rebellion of the house of Eli; the priesthood of David, in a certain sense, saved Israel, because while Saul killed the priests, David defended them (1 Samuel 22:18, 23). The rebellion of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, who coveted the priesthood, almost caused the Lord in His wrath to consume the tribes of Israel, but Moses in intercession, and Aaron with the censer, caused the plague to cease (Numbers 16:48). We see at Baal-peor how, following the counsel of Balaam, the king of Moab introduced women into the camp of Israel, and the children of Israel began to sin with foreign women, not only with sexual sins, but with idolatry and fornication (Numbers 25:1-2), rebelling against the Lord, so the plague began, but Phinehas stopped it when he thrust two of them through the belly with a spear, and the plague among the children of Israel ceased (Num. 25:7-8). Therefore, we can say that the priesthood saved the congregation of Israel and restored the government of God. A faithful priesthood always saves the government of God.
In conclusion, every time there was rebellion against the government of God, what appeased the wrath and restored His government was an offering, a mediation of the priesthood by which God was pleased. The sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary appeased God’s wrath against man, caused by the rebellion of Adam. We know that Adam disobeyed the government of God when he believed an animal more than he believed God (Genesis 3:1-19). But the book of Hebrews says that a priest is appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins to God (Heb. 5:1), so that Christ the priest, on the cross of Calvary, made Himself an offering while being at the same time the priest, and appointed high priest, with one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified (Heb. 10:14) and destroyed the rebellion against the government of God that Adam our father committed, and it is the priesthood of Christ that saves us, as offering, as priest and as high priest. The antidote against rebellion and sin against the government of God is a priesthood that pleases God. That is the work of the intercessors, who as priests intercede so that God may forgive the sin against the government and the will of God.
In that teaching that we shared with you, which we titled “The Despised Mantle,” we were studying about the priesthood, whose mantle, the linen ephod, is despised by those who like to be seen by men. One of the uses of the ephod was to inquire of the Lord (1 Samuel 23:9; 30:7); in other words, without priesthood there is no government. The priesthood is not only the antidote against the sin against government, which is rebellion, but neither can there be government if there is no priesthood. The medicine to immunize us against the sin of rebellion is the priesthood. The church that desires to have efficient and effective government must carry out a priesthood faithful to God. The hope that the government of God be reestablished or restored in homes is that a faithful priesthood that pleases God be carried out. There will never be government of God where there is no priesthood that pleases God.
In order to undo the thirteen, which represents rebellion, and to reestablish the representation of government -which is the twelve- God took the tribe of Levi and appointed it to be His priesthood. Then there was priesthood and government of God. But these two things worked separately. Judah (David) had the government and Levi the priesthood. Generally, whenever there was harmony with God in Israel it was because the king and the priest were together and united (2 Chronicles 29;30). Now, David was the prototype that represents the unity between the priesthood and the government. David was king, but he also put on the linen ephod before the Lord (2 Samuel 6:14). In fact, he was the only king the Bible mentions who wore the attire of the priests, a linen ephod, and who pleased God (1 Chronicles 15:27). David had his affections in the house of the Lord, and although he belonged to the tribe of Judah and not to that of Levi, we can affirm that he was also a priest, a Levite at heart, not by election, but by holy calling. There are those who worship because they have a position, because they are at the altar, but there are those who worship and do not even sing, but they worship because their heart is in the worship of God. David was a worshiper and he was also a priest, although he was not of the house of Aaron, because he was a type of Christ, in whom the two ministries are fused. The book of Hebrews says that no one who was not of the tribe of Levi could be a priest, but when there is a change of covenant there is a change of priest, so that in Christ a descendant of the tribe of Judah was called high priest, inaugurating a new priestly order, not appointed according to the law of the commandment concerning descent, but according to the power of an indestructible life (Hebrews 7:11-16).
In Christ, God changed the covenant and also the priesthood by interposing two decrees. The first decree we find in the second psalm, where it says: “Yet I have set My King on Zion, My holy hill. I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me: You are My Son; today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations as Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth as Your possession” (Psalms 2:6-8). The Lord establishes His government in the Son, giving Him authority and declaring Him king of all the nations and the ends of the earth. With the second decree, the Lord gives the Son the priesthood in Psalm 110, where it says: “The Lord has sworn and will not relent: You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek” (Psalms 110:4). That is to say, government and priesthood were two ministries exercised in Israel by two tribes, independently: Judah in government, and Levi in priesthood. But in Christ these two ministries were united because it pleased the Lord. He is king and priest, and He made us kings and priests to reign with Him and to minister to the Father with Him (Revelation 1:6). Government and priesthood are two rods: the rod of Moses, government, authority; and the rod of Aaron, priesthood. Jesus sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high –government-; and from there He intercedes for us –priesthood- (Hebrews 1:3; Romans 8:34).
In the church, for centuries and millennia, the two ministries have been divorced to this very day. The government of the church, sadly, in general, is no longer the government of God, but of men, because the church is not allowing Christ or the Holy Spirit to reign. The Lord once said to me: “Israel’s sin was against the Son, but the church’s sin is against the Holy Spirit.” Jesus, the king of the church, sent the Holy Spirit to guide the church, so that it would submit to Him, but the church has removed the Spirit from the government and has sat down to reign without Him. The church sits in councils that bring nothing together; they govern through committees, deliberations and assemblies, like the political bodies of an organization that makes decisions with every possible power and constitutes itself as the supreme decision-making body. Today they are not guided by the Spirit, as the first church was, but God is restoring His kingdom, and there is a people who are seeking God, and who say, contrary to the Jewish people, “We want Him to reign among us!” That is what we call the message of the kingdom: that He reign; that His glory be sought; that we not seek what is ours, but what is Christ’s; that we take up the cross and follow Christ; that we not seek our own conveniences; that we not walk with our own agendas; that we not be monopolizing and manipulating the counsel to do our own will, but that we kneel and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to us what the Father wants to do, because the church belongs to Christ and Christ is the Lord of the church. Therefore, Jesus Christ must reign first in the church, so that afterward He may reign in the world.
In Psalm 110, which represents the heart of this prophetic message, it says that His people will offer themselves to Him willingly (v. 3), but it also says: “The Lord is at your right hand; He will crush kings in the day of His wrath. He will judge among the nations, He will fill them with corpses; He will crush heads over many lands. He will drink from the brook by the way, therefore He will lift up His head” (Psalms 110:5-7). In other words, the people who serve Him willingly will reign with Him, but the one who resists, He will break like a clay vessel. In the year 12 a time began in which the Lord will be taking control and authority in the church, and the one who opposes Him He will break like a vessel, but no one will prevent Christ from reigning in the church. And I come to tell you, church, that although this began some time ago, and there are churches that have been submitting to God, even if they are not many, the Lord is going to intervene with His power through the Holy Spirit, as He did at the time of Pentecost, in the first century, and He will enter the church and many will submit to His government. But the government of God will enter through the priesthood, says the Lord, because first we must minister to the Lord so that in His presence, as in the book of Acts, God may reveal His will. And just as the ancients consulted the Lord with the ephod, so we will have to consult the Lord with the priesthood. There is no government if there is no priesthood. The year 13 is not a year of 365 days; the rebellion began in Eden, and we are still in the 13. Christ destroyed rebellion on the cross, and beginning in this time, from the 12, God is going to begin, like a conqueror, to take dominion and to remove from the midst all rebellion and to create awareness, and through the priesthood the government will be restored.
Jesus chose twelve apostles, but Judas Iscariot betrayed the Lord, and eleven remained, and the government of God was broken as to number. In the book of Acts, Peter takes Joseph called Barsabbas and Matthias, and prays that the Lord, who knows the hearts of all, show which of the two God has chosen, to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell by rebellion (Acts 1:24-25). Then they cast lots and the lot falls on Matthias, who was counted with the eleven, completing the twelve. But, as with Israel, later on the Lord comes and chooses a rebel, Saul of Tarsus, adding one to the apostleship, which now counts 13. The one chosen was an enemy, a rebel, who was against Christ, called Saul, whose name means “asked for,” like Saul, but unlike the latter, who was asked for by the people, Paul was asked for by God. He went out to persecute Christ, but then he was found by God (Acts 9). With Saul chosen, the number of the apostles is thrown out of order, and from twelve they count thirteen, but then, Luke narrates, Herod unleashed a bloody persecution against the Christians, among whom he killed James (Acts 12:2), and the government was constituted as twelve again. The mysteries of God. We understand that when there were thirteen in the tribes of Israel, with Ephraim and Manasseh, God subtracted by taking out Levi, and here God adds Saul to the twelve apostles, and they count thirteen, but then He subtracts one, calling James into His presence, and there were twelve again: the government of God. He did that yesterday, and He will keep doing it today, adding and subtracting, to complete His purpose. In other words, where there is rebellion He is going to take out, and where something is lacking in order to see government He is going to add, by the Word of God, for He has already done it twice, and He will do it three times, says the Lord.
Here in our church there is a mystery too: we were twelve, then seventeen, and now we are twelve. We have seen how God takes away and puts in, adds and subtracts, to complete His purpose, the number of His own. He has done it and He is going to do it; it is the sovereignty of God, to which we say amen. Now, why did the Lord take out? Because there was unfaithfulness in the priesthood, for in the final analysis government is lost when the priesthood is lost. The people you see who are in authority and go astray, slip when they begin to neglect the priesthood, the relationship with God. When God is neglected, the things of God are abandoned. There will never be good government if there is no good relationship with God, because it is in the secret place that God reveals His will. “Praise is beautiful for the upright. (…) The intimate communion of the Lord is with those who fear Him, and He will make them know His covenant. (…) Who is the man who fears the Lord? He will teach him the way he should choose” (Psalms 33:1; 25:14,12). Those who fear Him have priesthood, which is why they have direction, they have instruction and they have government.
The taking of Jericho reveals to us, in this teaching, a spiritual strategy of our God. The word Jericho, its multiple gives 13, rebellion; and the sum of all the names of the peoples who inhabited it gives multiples of 13, rebellion. This city was closed, tightly closed, but it was the gate to the promised land, and God brought down its walls. The Lord made its walls fall with thirteen turns, the number of rebellion. We can say, then, that God ended rebellion with rebellion. Paul was the 13th apostle, the rebel, but God took him and made him the champion of Christianity, as far as ministry is concerned. The Lord converted the rebel, prevailed over the rebel, and takes the thirteen as an instrument to fulfill His purpose and destroy rebellion.
God has always used that strategy. We see it when Israel rebelled against God in the wilderness and He sent them fiery serpents that bit the people (Num. 21:6). When they saw that many of the people of Israel were dying, they acknowledged that they had sinned by rebelling against God and against Moses, and begged that the plague be taken away from them. Then the Lord told Moses to make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, so that anyone who was bitten, when he looked at it, would not die but live (Num. 21:8). Later Jesus uses that incident, speaking with Nicodemus, and says to him: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so it is necessary that the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:14-15). In the same way we see how David, when he was fleeing from Saul, came to Nob, to the city of the priests, and met one of Saul’s servants, Doeg the Edomite, so he said to Ahimelech: “Is there not here at hand a spear or sword? For I did not take my sword or my weapons in my hand…” (1 Sam. 21:8 R60). And the priest answered David: “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you want to take it, take it; for there is no other here but that one.” To which David responded: “There is none like it; give it to me” (1 Sam. 21:9). That sword was Goliath’s, for what David used was a sling and five stones, but with that same sword David cut off Goliath’s head (1 Samuel 17:51). That is why there is no better sword than that one, because with the very sword the giant wants to kill you with, with that same sword you will defeat him.
The Word says that on the cross of Calvary, He who knew no sin was made sin for us, so that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. 5:21). In other words, in what way did Christ destroy sin? By becoming sin. And how did He destroy death? By dying in order to rise again. That is why the inspired writer said: “I will redeem them from the hand of Sheol, I will deliver them from death. O death, I will be your death; and I will be your destruction, O Sheol” (Hosea 13:14). By dying, Jesus Christ abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, swallowing up death in victory (2 Tim. 1:10; 1 Cor. 15:54). And God is now going to take the very weapon of rebellion to destroy rebellion. With the same weapon the devil used to destroy lives, God will use that same weapon to rescue lives. Many of the restoration and rehabilitation ministries are led by those who suffered and nearly died from violations, bondage and substance abuse, but who now use their experiences to bring life and rescue many whom the devil is destroying. From this year the Lord is going to take the devil’s own weapon to defeat the devil. It is a greater defeat when you are defeated with your own weapons, and that is how God will prevail against evil and against all rebellion.
The book of Esther brings us the last illustration of the weapon of our warfare that God is revealing to us today. We know that Haman made himself an enemy of God when his hatred for Mordecai led him to orchestrate the plan to wipe out the Jewish people. The biblical account says that for a year Pur, that is, the lot, was cast before Haman, for each day and each month of the year; and the twelfth month came out, that is, the 12th, which is the month of Adar, the day when he appeared before King Ahasuerus to ask him to issue a decree against the Jewish people (Esther 3:7,9). Thus, on the thirteenth day of the first month the king’s scribes were summoned, and it was written exactly as Haman ordered, to the king’s satraps, to the governors of each province, and to the nobles of each people, to each province according to its script, and to each people according to its language, to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews, young and old, little children and women, in one day, the thirteenth of the twelfth month, that is, in the year following the issuing of the decree (Esther 3:12,13). But it says in Esther 8:12 that King Ahasuerus, after Haman was dead, issued a new decree giving the Jews the authority to defend themselves against any attack, so that when the appointed day arrived, the very day on which the Jews were to be exterminated, the exact opposite happened. They defended themselves against all who hated them, and no one could withstand them because a great fear fell on all the peoples (Esther 9:2).
Note that the horoscope pointed to the 13th day of the 13th month as the day of vengeance, yet the exact opposite happened. In the same way, Balaam could not curse Israel, because every time he opened his mouth he blessed them, “for there is no omen against Jacob, nor divination against Israel” (Num. 23:23). The world, full of superstition, trembles because we have arrived at the year 13, a number that, in tradition, represents bad luck, an ill omen. To such a degree is triskaidekaphobia that even airplanes do not have a row of seats numbered thirteen, because no one would buy those tickets. But for the church to fear the thirteen or witchcraft is not possible, because witchcraft should be afraid of us Christians. The Lord said: “And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents in their hands, and if they drink anything deadly, it will not harm them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover” (Mark 16:17-18). Nothing will harm us, neither witchcraft, nor sorcery, nor horoscopes, nor curses, nor superstitions, nor omens, nor voodoo, nor anything. If the devil enters your life it is because of your fear, because fear sets the snare, and fear is to the devil what faith is to God. Through faith grace enters, and through fear the devil enters. Faith is the channel through which grace passes. Our God overcomes superstition, rebellion and everything that rises up against His government and His purpose.
For all that has been said, many extraordinary things will be seen this year, things very much like these, because God draws this message from the Scriptures themselves, the message so that we may have faith. Calvin said, fear God and you will not have to fear men; and I tell you: fear God and you will not have to fear the devil.
This year there will be much antichrist activity in the context of John, not in the eschatological sense of the son of perdition, but in the sense of the many antichrists who arise as a sign of the last times (1 John 2:18). From now on, things against Christ will be unleashed such that whoever is not firm on the rock will tremble, and God in His sovereignty will permit it to see whether we lay hold of the word, whether we have made use of what we have heard, to see where our faith is. Many activities are coming against Christ, against the gospel. Against the truth, against the church.
There will be many manifestations of rebellion in the political and social world, and also in the church. The thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. God is going to bring out much rottenness of the heart, many things that were hidden, intentions hidden for years, but God is going to cleanse it, and I see Jesus riding on His white horse with the insignia of Faithful and True; He comes to trample serpents and scorpions, He comes to subdue peoples, He comes with the rod of His power, He comes to sweep away rebellion, He comes to establish His government on the earth.
The authority of the government of God will be imposed this year over rebellion and will be visible and manifest. This will be the year of the victory of the government of God against rebellion.
The government of God and the priesthood will be fused in the church; just as in Christ God joined the two rods, so the two ministries will be joined, government-priesthood,
Rebellion, corruption, disloyalty, and apostasy, everything that the 13 represents, will be unmasked this year and from this year on.
Heaven will be closed to those who have the heart and the rebellion of the house of Ahab and Jezebel, but open to those who have the heart of Elijah, of Elisha and of the sons of the prophets.
From this year God will add to complete His government, and subtract to perfect it. He will add and take away. What is against Him He will take away, and what is lacking He will add so that there may be perfection in His government and in His purpose. It does not refer only to people, but to everything that rises up against what He has established. Wherever something is lacking He will put it, and what is excess –which is not of Him- He will remove, so that there may be perfection in His purpose and in His government. He will complete what is lacking so that there may be government, and He will remove what prevents there being government in the church. It seems the same but it is not equal.
This year is the year of the government and priesthood of God. The 12 is the year of government, but it also represents a time not confined to 365 days. And in the time of my government, which is the 12 onward, I pass through the thirteen destroying rebellion through my priesthood, and then I am going to join the two ministries. Government that begins in the 12 with the priesthood that destroys rebellion, and that is the way God will prevail against evil. Generally the prophets were priests, and we see how the prophet carries God’s message, but also brings the people to God.
God joins government and priesthood as the first strategic weapon to establish and impose His government to destroy rebellion. He who is of God hears the word of God.
Abrupt things will happen this year, such as have never been since there were people on the earth. Events that will shake the planet and men. Times of anguish, the powers of the heavens will be shaken. The political, social and economic world will be shaken from now on. Heaven will be closed.
Spirits of demons will come out of their lairs to deceive the children of men. The devil has prepared his final strategy, with the most powerful weapon, but God is also prepared to put an end to it. That is why God wants a people who are prepared and who will not let themselves be deceived. A people who are watching and praying.
The impossible is made possible.
God will bring about a coordination among His ministers, people who never knew each other doing the same thing; they will take part together in coordination, participating harmoniously in one purpose to fill the earth with His glory.
God touches the hearts of the intercessors. The intercessors will increase, the flame of evangelism will rise, and sorcerers, rabbis, atheists, Jews turning to the Lord; many rebels will return to the way.
I see God igniting the East; there will be transcendence in Syria, and the conflict will pass to other nations, and there will be serious problems. Israel will soon be at war. I see times of anguish for Jacob, in order to have mercy as He had at Peniel. Israel will see the face of God as Jacob saw it, and will see the One they pierced, and they will see Jesus, the Christ of God.
Many Jews will be converted like Saul of Tarsus, and the name of God will be glorified.
India, China, Arab countries: the Lord will prevail as He did in Berlin by bringing down the wall.
Strange work, miracles and wonders He will do among people of other religions so that they may believe
Apostolic and prophetic times, and times of the restoration of all things. He will trample the serpent.
It is not a time for trifles; do not let the devil deceive you; it is time to seek the Lord. There will be earthquakes and tidal waves in some places, for men will reap what they have sown; they went after fables and statistics, but I am God.
Prophetic anointing, anointing of prophetic songs, apostolic times. God will be glorified in these days.
Light from God is coming, and the darkness will be dispelled; rise up, righteous ones; gird up your loins, O valiant one, for the Lord comes like a whirlwind and will roar like a lion
Time to overcome with the sword of the Spirit. Take the word, read the word, search the word, meditate on the word, believe the word. God will reveal Himself to those who seek Him.
I will impart zeal for the word, zeal for prayer, zeal to seek Me, zeal to defend the truth, zeal for what is right, zeal for righteousness. A spirit of brotherhood, of love for one another; they will love those who do them wrong. I will transform the heart; join your heart to Mine, says God.
Blessed are all those who hear this word and obey it and keep it in their hearts and remain on guard, alert; blessed are those who stay awake and keep their lamps burning and keep the oil like the wise virgins, because soon the cry will be heard. Glorify Your name, O God. Amen
Prophetic message given to our congregation on December 31, 2013, by Pastor Juan Radhamés Fernández. To watch this message, click here.
