The significance of 08-08-08

I think that I have pieced the whole 8-8-8 thing together.

Last year, IHOP-KC and Morningstar ministries went on a 40 day fast ending on 8-8-08. God had given Lou Engle the word out of Exodus 32, "Show me your glory!" Meanwhile, Mike Bickle was given a word about the necessity to wrap our face in the mantle of His name. We were hoping for 1 Million on the Mall for TheCALL DC II and an overt demonstration of His power. (It didn't happen the way we wanted it.)

Meanwhile, in a recent bulletin, Rick Joyner said that the End-time Church was birthed at 08-08-08, a statement sure to get a whole lot of controversy! Continuing on, he wrote that there are 8 churches in the book of Revelation; the first 7 of Revelation 2-3 and the Bride of Revelation 19.

It was about that time of year that I learned that I had misinterpreted a key prophetic word (that I have posted on this blog). All the crazy stuff was about the last phrase of the prophecy...
Who I am before God is much more important than anything God does through me.

Putting it all together...
The last-days church will be the greatest Church. God has saved the best wine for last. The prayer of Jesus in John 17:15-20 will surely be answered. We will be in whole-hearted unity with God (even as Father, Spirit, and Son are one) and in whole hearted unity with each other, all with radiant love in the darkest times.

The only way unity at this level comes is through extraordinary humility. It is only through understanding our greatness before God is in the fact we radically love Jesus (when so many do not), not at what mighty works God does through us (or decides not to do through us) by His Spirit.

In Matthew 4:1-10, satan tempted Jesus using the phrase, "If you are the Son of God..." Three times he struck, two of them striking at his identity...and then the temptation to misuse his identity. In every case, Jesus said "NO" for the sake of love. Loving the Father rightly was His identity, no matter what the cost.

The End-time Church will have their primary identity in who they are before God...as those who Love him with an unstoppable, ever lasting love. Some will be before multitudes with many talents, others will simply be before God with one talent. Most will be somewhere in between.

What will prevent bitter envy and jealousy from taking root in the End-Time Church is that their greatness and glory will all about loving the Father and Son with an unstoppable, fiery love accompanied by infectous joy, unshakable peace, and awesome acts of power. One generation will serve and help the next generation go farther in God and so on until we all obtain mature understanding of the ways of God. It will be our finest hour!