I Still See Stadiums Filled

We are not gathering to a movement, a denomination, a revival meeting, or to our favorite teacher. Our gathering is first and foremost unto Christ (Gen 49:10). I see a people gathering together simply because The Presence is there. Imagine the Church getting as excited for a meeting of 2 or 3 as they do when a guest speaker shows up. Christ promises to be in our midst when we gather together and anything can take place in His presence! As much as I appreciate the gifts God has put in the body they are not why we gather together. We gather for Him. In these days God is calling us collectively up the mountain of the Lord to gather together as his house. I believe great things are in store for the Church. The dreams and prophecies of stadiums being filled and revival breaking out in our cities is going to come to pass. Christ will be exalted among the nations. San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Paris, Moscow, Hollywood, and more will be filled with the glory of God as the waters cover the sea.

But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. Micah 4:1

Many of us look at passages such as this one and push them so far into the future that we don't allow for them to be our present hope. Here in Micah 4 we see that the house of the Lord is established at the top of the mountains. Many nations will come and say let us go up the mountain of the Lord where He will teach us His ways. Disputes among the nations will be settled and weapons will be turned into tools for agriculture. Simply put war will cease to exist and fear will be no more. The lame and the exiled will be gathered together and the Lord will rule from Zion forever.

What if the Church lived as though this was a present hope? What if we truly believed that Christ (and us with him) was ruling and reigning right now? What if we said no to war, injustice, and social inequalities? Are we living in the last days or is this a future last days Micah is talking about?

When the Church gathered together in the Upper Room on the day of Pentecost and the Holy Spirit fell Peter proclaimed that what happened was a fulfillment of Joel's prophecy of the "last days" (Acts 2:16,17). The author of Hebrews declares that in these "last days" God has spoken to us in His Son (Heb 1:2). I John 2:8 says that this is the "last time." Paul in 1 Corinthians 10:11 says that what happened to Israel was written to us on whom the "end of the ages" has come. I would suggest to you that what we have called the "last days" is not really what the Scripture is talking about. The last days of the Mosaic economy or the Jewish age were at hand and we are now living in the new day of Christ.

All that is in The Messiah is therefore The New Creation; the old order has passed away to such. 2 Corinthians 5:17

We are the light of the world. A city that has been set on a hill cannot be hidden (Matt 5:14). As a Church we have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God (Heb 12:22). We are that city coming down from Heaven as a bride adorned for her husband (Rev 21:2). The mountain of the house of the Lord has been established. The Church as the third temple made up of Jew and Gentile is here.

The nations are going to come up the mountain to the house of the Lord. Let's continue to send, pray, and give to reaching the ends of the earth. A great harvest is coming to the Church as all nations are His. Nations like Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and more have yet to be discipled.

Let's believe for the Church to be known for peace and not war. Micah speaks of swords being turned into plowshares and the nations not knowing war anymore. War is not nor will ever be a Kingdom value. It's unfortunate that we as a Church have been suspicious of those working for peace. Our theology subtly teaches, "suspicious are the peacemakers, for they probably work for the antichrist." Christ pronounced blessing on the peacemakers for they will be called the Children of God (Matt 5:9). As a Church Christ is still saying, "you have heard it said, but I say unto you." It's time we rethink our theology of war. The Kingdom of peace has come and we have been given a ministry where we declare to all men to "be reconciled to God."

When a man’s ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. Proverbs 16:7

Daniel's stone cut out of a mountain without hands is growing to be great mountain that will fill the whole earth. The future of the Church is glorious. We are not on a pattern of retreat but rather that of dominion as Christ promised us His Church will be built and the gates of hell will not prevail against it (Matt 16:18). Let's live as though Micah's prophecy is a present hope. I still see stadiums filled... Kingdom blessings!