Mike Bickle emphasizes the prophetic significance of Joel 2:28-32, highlighting the promise of a global outpouring of the Holy Spirit that will occur in the last days. He explains that this outpouring will be accompanied by signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth, serving as a call for believers to engage in corporate prayer and fasting. Bickle stresses the importance of calling on the name of the Lord, which leads to deliverance and salvation, especially in times of crisis. He encourages the church to cultivate a lifestyle of prayer and prophetic ministry, as these will be crucial in the end times. The sermon serves as a reminder of the urgency to prepare for the coming awakening and the return of Christ.

Session 11, just a couple quick announcements. Most of you know already that this Sunday night we will not have the FCF service Sunday night because we're all going to be involved in the Grandview Outreach. The outreach will be in two different high schools, one just about two miles down the road, Grandview High School, and one about five miles down the road, Belton High School. And so we're gonna be involved in the Grandview and the Belton outreach on Sunday night, so no service. But Sunday morning, I wanna encourage you, if you typically don't come to Sunday morning because you're not scheduled to, to either come or tune in. Wes Hall, our beloved Wes Hall, is going to be giving an announcement and some direction. The Lord has spoken some things about the awakening, and he's gonna share that on Sunday morning, which happens to be our 11-year anniversary of going 24-7 also. So it's a great deal. I mean, it's cool. Birthday, awakening, word of the Lord, outreach to the area, reaching young people all in one full day, and you'll get your money's worth that day. Okay, let's go ahead and turn to session 11. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for the word of the Lord, and we thank you for this amazing prophetic oracle that you gave your servant Joel years ago. That is equipping and inspiring the people of God, even in this hour of history. And we thank you in Jesus' name, amen. This is our ninth class, and it's our session notes number 11, because the session notes don't correspond exactly with the class number. It's our ninth class. We're looking at the most well-known passage in the book of Joel. Joel 2, verse 28 to 32. But typically, the thing that's known is I will pour out my spirit. But there's quite a few significant descriptions of what the Lord's going to do related to the global outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And these are very significant, and they're often overlooked. Even though we honor the main point of the passage, I will pour out my spirit. Let's read it just to kind of get the flow of it, and then we'll look at it kind of line by line, at least part of it. Again, we won't cover all the notes. And those of you that have, those are just kind of visiting at this class, you have abbreviated notes. So again, you're gonna have to kind of pay more attention than those with the syllabus, where when I mentioned the page turning, et cetera, because your pages won't line up exactly with the majority. Says in Joel 2, verse 28, it shall come to pass afterwards. You wanna circle that word afterward, because that's the key word in this whole passage. We'll look at that in a moment. I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. Your sons and daughters shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams. Your young men shall see visions. And also on my menservants and my maidservants. I will pour out my spirit in those days. And I will show wonders in the heavens, which means the sky. And I will show wonders in the earth. And the three particular types of wonders that are gonna be shown, particularly on the earth are blood, fire, and smoke. Those are terrifying signs, by the way. Verse 31, the sun, now he goes to the heavenly wonders, will be, it will be so dramatically touched by the power of God, it will be turned into darkness. The moon into blood. Now, this whole thing will happen before the second coming. That's another key word, the word before. Before the great and awesome day of the Lord. The signs in the sky and the earth, the outpouring of the spirit will happen before the second coming. And so that's one of the key verses that lets us know there is going to be a global outpouring of the spirit backed up by signs in creation, signs of the heavens, signs of the earth. And these will grow and escalate in their importance and magnitude leading up to the second coming of Christ. Verse 32, and the idea is in the midst of all this danger and even drama, but the dangers, the part that Joel was emphasizing here in verse 32, it shall come to pass that anyone that calls on the name of the Lord, anybody that establishes a prayer life is what he's really saying. It's not talking about kind of a one-off, help Lord, you know, on the way, all of a sudden trouble. But those that have set their life in a place of calling on the Lord, even in the midst of this drama and trouble, as well as the glory and the greatness, whoever does this will be saved or they will be delivered. Now, to call on the name of the Lord is the same idea in the New Testament called watch and pray. Jesus used the phrase watch, those that watch, those that wait. It's the same idea, those who call on the name of the Lord. It's much more than, again, a one-off desperation prayer in a moment of crisis. Although if you're in a moment of crisis, give that cry. But it's talking about more than that. It's talking about a life of calling on the name of the Lord. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and you know, Mount Zion is a subunit of Jerusalem. It's only several acres. It's a small part of Jerusalem. So Mount Zion and Jerusalem often are synonymous ideas. It's literal earthly Jerusalem. There will be deliverance. You say, that's good. Well, the point is, we'll read later on in Joel chapter three, Jerusalem will be the most dangerous place on the entire planet. That's the point. Even in the most dangerous city on the earth, there will be supernatural intervention and deliverance. So if it's true in the most dangerous city on the earth, then we know it's true in the other cities of the earth. Because again, this passage, though it's talking directly to the Jewish people in the city of Jerusalem, it has its application to all that call upon the name of Jesus worldwide and throughout all of church history. But it comes to a crescendo in the generation the Lord returns. Let's look at Roman number one, the promise of the outpouring of the spirit. A, the word afterward is the key phrase. After what? That's the key idea. Afterwards, after what? That's the question we're supposed to ask. And when you read the whole context carefully, I believe it's clear that it's after the turning to the Lord with all of our heart, with prayer and fasting. It's the corporate wholeheartedness described in chapter two, verse 12 to 17. I believe here in verse 28, Joel 2 28, he's going back to chapter two. He's going back a few verses to verse 12 to 17. After the corporate wholeheartedness. Now, what I mean by corporate wholeheartedness, Joel's saying it's not enough for one godly man or for one godly woman to turn the tide of a nation. He said it's going to take a group of dedicated believers. So it's more than individual wholeheartedness, although it always comes down to individual wholeheartedness. Joel's saying it's not enough that you're devoted. Exert your energy, spend the money it takes, take the risks to get a people in your geographic area or in your country to be wholehearted. It takes a lot of energy and effort to develop and to cultivate a corporate group that has sustained wholeheartedness. It's not wholeheartedness for summer. It's a community of believers, and it could be all over the land, not just one place, that live with a spirit of wholeheartedness with prayer and fasting as a part of their lifestyle. That's what he's talking about. Now, having called people to prayer over the years, I can tell you this, it takes a lot of energy. It takes a lot of time, a lot of money. It takes a lot of line-up online teaching from the word. It takes a leadership team that embodies it. There's many issues involved in establishing a community that has sustained corporate wholeheartedness. There's nobody that I honor more. On this point than Lou Engel. When I look at Lou over the last 10 or 15 years, this guy has put so much energy and effort and taken so many risks, financial risks, on these million-dollar events that nobody's committed to. He's at the point. Nobody else is necessarily committed. They go, well, we'll give maybe. Lou signs his name on it. But not just the financial, but even the risk, the social, the stigma that goes with calling thousands, millions of people to fasting and prayer. And I've watched him crisscross the nation for 15 years nearly, pressing this. I mean, just tirelessly, although he's tired, but tirelessly doing this. And I go, Lou, it is remarkable. He is a picture to me of what it takes to build or to seek corporate wholeheartedness, to see thousands in a sustained way seek the Lord. So it's not a small thing. This word afterwards. So whether you're 20 or whatever age you are, set your mind. You are going to be one that helps cultivate wholeheartedness, not just in your own life, but in whole regions. You're going to give yourself to serve the fasting and prayer initiatives of your region or your nation all the days of your life. That was a decision I made back in my early 20s. I'm 55 now, a long time ago. I said, based on this passage, Joel, I am going to spend my life energies strengthening people to do this. It is the place of power and it's the place of safety as the events of the Lord, the good and the bad. I mean, the difficult ones begin to crescendo and get more intensified as we get closer to the time of the Lord's return. But here's what he says afterwards. Then God will manifest his zeal and his compassion. It's the two, it's the passage we looked at in the last class. Joel 2, 18. He's going to release spiritual blessings and material blessings. And you can add to that note there that in chapter three, verse one to 21, he's even going to after this, he's going to give world leadership to the people of God, particularly the Jewish people. In Joel chapter three, we'll look at it the next class. World leadership God is giving to these people who turn to the Lord with all of their heart. Now that's in the millennial kingdom, but still there's a continuity. There's a connection between what we do in this age and what happens in the age to come. And Jesus taught that principle in Matthew 25. He said, what you're doing now in days of smallness, it will result in you having leadership and government and influence and my purpose in the age to come. But he says this to the nation of Israel in Joel 3, you're going to have leadership and victory worldwide, but you have to respond with all of your heart, even in these days. Well, I'm getting ahead of myself as usual, but so we'll move on. I'll make that point in the next class. Paragraph B, Jesus promised that if his disciples would tarry in prayer, to tarry means to wait, means to not get in a hurry, to whatever, however much time it takes, take it. Now in that particular situation, it took 10 days, but it may take 10 years, whatever, however long it takes till the full breakthrough happens, tarry, which means wait, persevere. He told him tarry in the city of Jerusalem until the fullness of the power breaks out. Now, basically Jesus is teaching the Joel 2, verse 12 to 17 principle of wholeheartedness. There's 120 of them that pressed into God. They all failed. I don't know if all of them failed, certainly all the guys did, the leaders failed. They all had to get forgiveness. They had to return back to a commitment to the Lord, receive his mercy. They pressed in and fasting and prayer for this 10 days. Now nowhere does it say fasting, but we assume there was that element because I believe that Jesus is actually pointing to the book of Joel when he's talking to his disciples because he meets them for 40 days after the resurrection. He appears to them for 40 days, teaching them what's happening. And at the end of Jesus' 40 days of talking to them, I mean, Jesus has a resurrected body. They have natural bodies, obviously. They're just, you know, there they are in the room and Jesus had a resurrected body 40 days. He's teaching them what the prophets say about what's coming. And then after the 40 days of teaching, he tells them now go into a prayer meeting. I don't think there's any question that in that 40 days, Jesus spoke from the prophets where it was required to gather together to seek the Lord in prayer. And there's no passage more dynamic in my opinion or more descriptive than Joel chapter two. And the other one that would equal it is the 2 Chronicles 7, 14. If my people were called by my name. And so my assumption is Jesus pointed to those two passages because after 40 days of teaching, he goes, now go do it. Go to the prayer room together with all of your hearts, seek me and you're gonna see the breaking in of God. And of course, when the breaking in happened, Peter got up and said, this is what Joel said. How did Peter know that's what Joel said? My assumption that for 40 days, Jesus, when he taught them, he made that point to them. I believe that the fact that Peter mentioned Joel was not a spontaneous insight on that moment on that morning, but he actually, they understood they were doing Joel chapter two. Because the great teacher himself had been in their midst teaching them from the prophets he said. That's what the scripture says. Paragraph C, in Acts chapter one and two, the pattern is followed. They follow what Joel taught and the outpouring of the spirit. And again, Jesus having taught them for 40 days, I have no question that he appealed to this. Pray, seek me, outpouring of the spirit. Pray, seek me, outpouring of the spirit. I assume he emphasized it a number of times. So they gather, corporate intercession, they cry out to the Lord and the breakthrough comes. And Peter says, this is what was spoken of by the prophet Joel again. I don't believe that that was just a spontaneous thing that dawned on him that moment. I believe that the community understood they were seeking the Lord according to Joel two with fasting and prayer for the purpose of an outpouring of the spirit that would confirm the coming of the Messiah. Top page 100, paragraph E. What did Joel speak of? Because Peter said, this is what Joel spoke about. What did Joel speak about? He spoke of, yes, the fact of the outpouring, but Joel spoke about more than the fact of the outpouring. He spoke of the conditions necessary for the outpouring as well. So I believe that Joel gave the promise and the pattern of the outpouring. The promise, it's coming, the pattern, seek me together with all of your heart, entail. Seek me entail. I've been asked many times over the years, how long is entail? I said, entail, we get the fullness. And whatever breakthrough we get, we're gonna continue to seek the Lord for another breakthrough, a greater breakthrough. So as far as I'm concerned, I will be operating on that entail until the day I meet the Lord. No matter what measure he gives us, I want more. Gives us the level of the book of Acts, I want twice the book of Acts. The Lord releases twice the book of Acts, I want twice again what we have. I mean, Jesus is really powerful. He has a lot of power. So let's go for it. Roman number two, the down payment of Joel's prophecy. I believe that what happens on the day of Pentecost, 2000 years ago, was only a down payment. Now it's significant, but it's a down payment guaranteeing the fullness will come at a later time. It was a down payment, which was a dynamic blessing in its own, but it was also the guarantee. It was a first fruit sort of thing. It was a guarantee of more to come. Paragraph B, the promise of Joel chapter two was not completely fulfilled in Peter's day. What Peter saw was only a portion of what Joel promised. You can't look at the day of Pentecost and said everything Peter said happened. Only a small percentage of what Joel said actually happened in Peter's day. And I don't believe Peter believed it was fullness either. The reason I say that, you'll read some commentaries and they'll tell you, don't press in in fasting and prayer for the fullness of Joel two. It already happened, it's past tense. And they wanna dismiss themselves from the urgency and the responsibility of seeking God for a greater breakthrough. And we're not interested in dismissing this passage. We wanna enter into the fullness of it. In our day, in the lives of our children, grandchildren until the Lord returns, however long that is. Now, the reason you know it was not completely fulfilled in Peter's day, paragraph B, there are significant differences between what Peter saw and what Joel prophesied. Joel said the sun and the moon would be affected. Well, the sun and the moon were not affected in a global way, in the way that Peter says. And some people say, well, at the cross it got dark and there was an earthquake. I don't believe that fulfills what Joel was talking about. Joel was talking about the outpouring of the spirit that would be associated with the sun and the moon growing dark. Joel went on to say something else. Blood and fire and smoke would be signs that would be witnessed on a global level. Blood, fire, smoke. That did not happen in Joel's day. A little fire did. Fire rested on 120 disciples, intercessors. I like the fire. I would love for fire, because it didn't just say that the fire rested on them. When you read Acts 2, the story of that prayer meeting, it says each one saw the fire on the other. Beloved, how would you like to see with your eyes the fire resting on the other? Because you might be tempted to go run into a mirror, see if it's on you, but I think you'd already know it was on you. Blood, fire, smoke. But it's fire on 120. This is a global, there's a global dimension. It's not fulfilled with just 120 people experiencing the fire of God for an hour or two. That's only a down payment, which again is a guarantee of more to come, paragraph C. And even more significantly, as Peter said, on all flesh. Now, when he says on all flesh, it's talking about all human beings that call on the name of the Lord. The power of the Spirit did not fall on every believer in the earth, in the sense. Well, in one sense, it would be true, because there's only 120. But this has a global dimension where all the nations of the earth will have a people with the spirit of revival operating in the power of the Holy Spirit, all nations. You could put the word all nations there in the place of all flesh. It's not the same word in the Greek or Hebrew, but it's the same idea. When the Holy Spirit told Joel all flesh, he meant all the nations of the earth would prophesy. This prophecy requires a global dimension. Turn to page 101. Now, I believe that Peter understood this, paragraph D. Peter understood this global dimension because, remember, he has just been with the resurrected Christ for 40 days of teaching on the kingdom. And you can write that verse down. It's in where it talks about that, Acts 1, verse 3, where it says Jesus appeared and spoke for 40 days about the kingdom. But also in Acts chapter 3, right there in context to the day of Pentecost, Peter mentions a far bigger dimension of the Holy Spirit's move than what they experienced that day of Pentecost. Here's what Peter said. I mean, this is in context to that very outpouring of the spirit. He lets the people know there's a far bigger dimension than what they were experiencing just in that hour. He said in Acts 3, verse 19, repent that your sins would be blotted out, that times of refreshing would come from the presence of the Lord, verse 20. And what would happen that when Israel repents, because he's talking to the Jewish people in the city of Jerusalem, this is actually a word spoken specifically to the Jewish people in the city of Jerusalem. He said, when you repent, not only will you have your sins blotted out, not only will there be a season of refreshing, but here's what will happen. Verse 20, the Father will send Jesus. That's the second coming. The Messiah will come again. Here's Peter on the day, again, in those early days right there, right after, in context to the day of Pentecost, and he says to them, Jesus is coming again. This is a declaration of the second coming of Christ here, that the Father, he, which is the Father, will send Jesus, but heaven must receive, or the word is, or the idea is, heaven must keep or retain Jesus, must keep Jesus up there until the times of the restoration of all things. Here's the point. There's coming a time where the restoration of everything prophesied would happen, everything prophesied, far more than 120 people being filled with the Holy Spirit. There's coming an hour, Peter said, when everything prophesied, the fullness will be released, and then Jesus, it's related to Jesus' second coming, and so my point is, Peter had the big vision. He had the vision of the big picture. He was not at all satisfied with 120 people filled with the Spirit, as this is all that God had to give. He greatly appreciated that and valued it, but he knew that it was only the beginning, the down payment, the token, that would be the promise of much more to come. There's coming a day when everything will be restored, everything will be, the full power of God and every sphere of society will be completely restored. Roman numeral three, the timing of Joel's prophesied outpouring. When is this outpouring going to happen? Peter said that it would happen in the last days. It would happen in the last days. That's the key phrase. Now, the phrase last days is used five times in the New Testament. We have it there in the notes, but it has two distinct different meanings, that actually two meanings that overlap with one another, but there is a distinction in these two meanings, though they do overlap and they are connected. Meaning one, the last days began on the day of Pentecost. The last days began with the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus, the outpouring of the Spirit. So it's been the last days in one sense for 2000 years. And if you think of the verse in 2 Peter 3.8, I don't have it written down, where the Lord says to the Lord, a thousand years is like one day. And one day is like a thousand years because God dwells in eternity. He interprets time very differently than we do. And so if a thousand years is like one day to the Lord, then from Adam to Jesus, 4,000 years, that's four days. That's four days to the Lord. And the last 2000 years is two more days. So there's those six days, and then the millennial kingdom is the seventh day. So that seventh day pattern, I believe is going to be employed again. And so in reality, it's the last two days compared to the six. It's in the last days. It's in the final moments. That's not just cute. I mean, that's actual. That when is the last days from that perspective? It's the final two days out of the six. But then other passages, I have them written down there, talk about the last days as being the final years of the last days. In other words, the generation the Lord returns. I refer to those final years as the end times. I talk about the last days for 2000 years and the end times. I typically will use the word end times to refer to those final decades leading up to the coming of the Lord. But the scripture also calls those the last days as well. So the last days can mean the last two days that are 1000 years each, the last 2000 years, or it could mean those final years leading up to the coming of the Lord. Either way. But again, I call it the end times. In reference to the last day so that people don't get confused on it. And just so you have it clear, and I think many of you do by now, that this idea just keeps reoccurring that when you read commentaries or you hear people interviewed on, they talk about the end of the world. The world never ends. It's the last days of this age, not the last days of the world. People talk about the end of days or the end of the world. No, no, time will go on forever, and the earth will go on. It's the last days of this age, meaning in this age, the nations are ruled with satanic interference. That's what this age, that's one of the main characteristics of this age. There's demonic interference in the government of the nations. But that's only for 6000 years. It's only for six days. And then when God's Sabbath day comes again, the seventh day, the millennial kingdom, Satan's in prison, the age is new. There is no interference from Satan in the government of the nations. The age is over, the world is not over. People again ask me, I run into this all the time. They go, so wow, you believe in the end of the world. I go, no, absolutely not. They go, you don't? I thought that you guys are really into the end of the world. I go, no. I'm into the devil being thrown in prison. That's what I'm into. That's the end of the age. And I'm into Jesus's physical presence governing the earth from Jerusalem with the heavenly and the earthly realm totally brought together on the earth. That's what I'm into. When I say that to people, they kind of smile. They go, cool. I mean, they kind of feel the spirit touching them a little bit right there. And they kind of go, whoa. You know, like, where'd you come up with that idea? Well, it's in the Bible, all through the Bible, actually. Okay, Roman numeral four, the bottom of page 102. Number 102, our inheritance. Joel says, I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. Your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall prophesy, your young men shall prophesy or see visions. Then in 1 Corinthians 14, 31, everyone can prophesy. Everyone can. Now, I have, God's will is that every single believer can operate in the spirit of prophecy. Now, there's many different expressions of the spirit of prophecy, by the way. The spirit of prophecy isn't only the most dramatic expressions of the open vision and the kind of the world-changing prophetic utterance. There are subtle impressions. There's many different expressions of the spirit of prophecy. And for those of you that are just completely new with this, I wanna recommend a book I wrote on it called Growing in the Prophetic. It's free on the website. You can download it. And I break down the different expressions of the spirit of prophecy, how it works, how beginners work with it, how we govern it, how it operates in a public assembly, a lot of different facets of the spirit of prophecy because a lot of folks have wrong ideas about the spirit of prophecy. They only have in their mind the most dramatic expressions of prophecy that kind of surpass Elijah himself. I remember talking to one pastor and he said, I'm just so offended at IHOP. And I said, tell me why? He goes, you guys think you prophesy. I said, what we do? He goes, you even teach people to prophesy. That's blasphemy, that's horrifying, that's presumptuous. I understood what he was saying. And I said, why? He said, because prophecy, if you prophesy, it equals to Scripture itself. And you're saying that you can teach people to give utterances that are infallible and equal to Scripture. And I said, by that definition of prophecy, I understand your trouble. But there's many different dimensions of prophecy. And in the New Testament, it's very different than the Old Testament. I wouldn't explain it to you for a while. And he said, oh. I said, no, we just tell them to value the impressions they give and to give expression to those impressions. It's a very elementary expression of the spirit of prophecy, but it's important that we express it and we grow in it. I said, you prophesy all the time. You don't call it prophecy. You just call it wow. That's what you call it. I said, you're talking to that one lady in the counseling time and you give her this new idea and it touches her heart and there's a breakthrough and you walk away going, whoa, that was good. That was prophecy. He went, oh, huh, where's that in the Bible? I appreciate that. But I don't have energy. I've been asked for years about this prophesying the gifts of the spirit. I don't have energy to argue about it at all because I'm so sure everyone is going to prophesy. So I've had many through the years say, where's that in the Bible? I go, I don't wanna argue about it. Let's do this. Let's talk about the beauty of Jesus, the magnificence of Jesus. You love him, I love him. Let's spend an hour enjoying Jesus. Here's why. You're gonna prophesy in a minute anyway, so I don't wanna argue about it. I said, you're gonna heal the sick and prophesy and if you don't, your wife will and then you will a minute later. It's true. It's true. And I said, let's talk about Jesus. I go, you're a cool guy. You love God. I love God. We had an hour. Let's go somewhere together in our fellowship because I'm so confident that everyone will prophesy and everyone will heal the sick. That's where we're going and we're racing towards that hour. It's possible now, but the day is coming. It's gonna be more than possible. It will be actual. All the body of Christ will operate in the prophetic anointing before the Lord returns. It is the inheritance of the church for 2000 years, but it will be an actual experience of the church in the final years before the Lord returns. Now in Joel's day, paragraph A, this was really dramatic. Now we can't really grasp how radical what Joel said because in Joel's day, only one small group of people ever prophesied. It was mostly older Jewish man that were prophets, kings, and priests, very small. I mean, a fraction of 1%. I mean, like a thousandth of 1%. I mean, a fraction of a fraction of 1% prophesied. It was so rare. So Joel comes on the scene. I can picture him. He's in Jerusalem, I'm imagining. He goes, well, huh, this is gonna be new information. The young people are gonna prophesy. The eyes get real big. The young people, like just all the young people. Yeah, huh, not just Elijah, not just the king, not just David, no, all the young people. Wow. The girls are gonna prophesy. I can imagine this guy. I can imagine these Jewish ladies, the girls. Yes, the girls. But even worse than the young and the girls, the Gentiles are gonna prophesy, not the Gentiles. So young Gentile girls are gonna prophesy. Do we have any young Gentile girls in this room? Prophesy, prophesy, prophesy. This was mind-blowing in Joel's day. It's easy for us to see it now. The young ones, Jeremiah 1, 7. The Lord told Jeremiah, don't say I'm but a youth. Jeremiah 1, 7. I don't have that on the notes. 1 Timothy 4, 12. Paul told Timothy, don't despise your youth. Young people can prophesy. They're not earning it. Well, if they've been in the kingdom 10, 20, 30 years, finally they're ready. No, you can begin to prophesy the day you're born again. It's true. Now, the key is that we wanna cultivate the spirit of prophecy with a spirit of truth. We want prophecy that's true, not just hamburger helper prophecy. We wanna cultivate an atmosphere where people actually understand they're not presumptuous, but neither are they held back in unbelief, but they understand how it works. And not that the book I wrote on that answers every question, but I try to stay away from presumption because presumption, we don't want to believe we're doing something. It's not even true. The Holy Spirit doesn't believe it, but we kind of all believe we're doing it. The Holy Spirit says, that's not what I'm doing. But neither do we wanna go the other direction and be so cautious with unbelief that we're just, it's gotta be so real. It's gotta be so real and that the fear sets in and we never ever prophesy. We wanna avoid presumption on one hand and we wanna avoid unbelief on the other end. We want a spirit of truth as we prophesy. But this is where this thing is going. Do not despise your youth is what God told them. Prophesy now. Paragraph B, the only qualifier to the all flesh. And again, all flesh means Jews, Gentiles, young and old, male, female, all nationalities, everybody, all ages, new believer, old believer, brand new believer, seasoned, but everybody can prophesy. The only qualifier, he says, it's those who are my menservants and my maidservants. They are servants of Jesus. And this is more than just, they name the name of Jesus in a worship service. It's in their spirit to be true servants of the Lord, really obedient, humble servants of the Lord that are eagerly seeking Him. It's not a statement of maturity. It's a statement of sincerity, the servants of the Lord. Because some people say, hey, you know, if I went forward and prayed the prayer, you know, Jesus in my heart, I could prophesy. And I go, well, yeah, yeah, technically. But the reality means if we're servants, if there's a sincerity in our heart to be obedient bondservants of the Lord in our life. Not that we earn prophecy by being bondservants, but it positions us with the right spirit to receive those impressions and then to give expression to those impressions in a responsible way that glorifies Jesus. Top of page 103, Roman number five, the spirit of prophecy. Now, paragraph eight, what I'm saying in paragraph A and B is this. We operate in the spirit of prophecy all through church history. And we operate in the spirit of prophecy today. But there's one timeframe in church history, those final years before the Lord returns, it will be an issue of life and death. It won't be like if we prophesy, the meetings will be more exciting, it will be true, but prophecy will be much more than making meetings exciting and making our life kind of zippier. Prophecy will be an issue of life and death. It is not possible to make it through that hour without operating in the spirit. And so I just wonder, you can read those notes on your own. We are to seek to prophesy, but beloved, we want to prophesy now, not wait till then. But I'm telling you, though it's powerful now and important now to prophesy, it will be a life and death issue in the days to come to operate in the spirit of prophecy. So prophecy, it will train the church, it will equip the church to win the harvest. It will equip the church to expose the deception of the enemy. We will expose the enemy's plans against us. We will understand the Lord's promises. There are many things that the spirit of prophecy, the supernatural dimension of dreams and visions will strengthen us in. Now, one of the key things about the spirit of prophecy is we never believe or receive a prophetic utterance, a dream or vision that does not honor the written Word of God. We say that over and over again. It must honor the written Word of God. Anything that contradicts the Word of God, we throw away the prophecy, no matter if an angel appeared to us, if it goes against the written Word of God, that's self-evident, but it's worth saying over and over. Now, the spirit of prophecy will be one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, it's hard to say what the most is, reality in the world. Meaning the spirit of prophecy really is, we're speaking the Word of the Lord. It's just a little, I mean, just a small expression, a very, very small expression of what Jesus was doing in Genesis 1. Jesus spoke in Genesis 1 under the Father's authority and the power of the Spirit was released and the heavens and the earth were created and put in order. Now, bring that way, way, way, way, way down, but it's the same idea. Jesus, our bridegroom King, is inspiring us by His Spirit to speak His words. And when we speak His words, the power of God is released. It's the, that holy arsenal of God's kingdom is the spoken Word. We speak the Word in a, again, a very small way, comparison, but to what Jesus did in Genesis 1. He spoke the Word, the power of God was released, things were set in order. And so now a hundred million, a billion believers will speak the Word under Jesus's leadership and in much smaller dimensions, but it's the same Holy Spirit moving and the church is equipped. The devil's plans are exposed. They are cut off. They are thrown down. It's by the spoken Word, whether speaking or singing. I mean, singing the Word is even, it's gonna bring it to another dimension because with the singing of the Word, so many more people will be captured into the musical dimension. I mean, a person can speak the Word of the Lord and it's powerful, but when you sing it, then a hundred thousand people in a stadium can all do it together. It has a whole nother dimension when prophetic music is added to it. But this thing about the prophecy, it's not just kind of a neat thing that makes our life more exciting and meetings better. It will be an issue of life and death, but more. It will be the very arsenal of the kingdom of God striking the works of darkness. It will be the utterances of our God, Jesus Himself, through His corporate people, under His leadership, the Word going forth and the power of God backing up the Word. That's where this thing called prophecy is. When Joel said, you'll all prophesy, he was saying you will all operate in heavenly arsenal at the highest dimension, which is the spirit of prophecy. The power of the spoken Word or the saying, it's the same thing, and the spirit breaking and in power when that Word is given utterance. And even if you're in a ministry time or with a friend and you speak a little encouragement, it doesn't matter what context. You could be with a friend just having a cup of coffee together and you speak a little impression, you get power touches the person that hears it, even a little bit. You know, it moves their heart. They go, wow, that helped me. That's the power of God. But it doesn't happen if we don't speak it. It has to be spoken. Or again, saying is the same idea. Okay, let's look at Roman numeral six. Prophetic ministry. Here's the cosmic signs or signs in the heavens. Middle page 104, middle page 104, Roman numeral six. Now, Joel brings it to a whole nother level. He brings in the signs and wonders in the heavens, which is the sky and the earth. Signs and wonders that affect the sun, the moon and the stars. Now notice here in this very short book of three chapters, Joel emphasizes the heavenly signs three times in one little book. Joel connected the heavenly signs to the spirit of prophecy. This is a very, very powerful reality. Turn to page 105. I have a handful of verses there. You can read those on your own about the signs and wonders in the sky and the earth. And this is just a little overview. And I have more notes at the end of this session we're not gonna look at. And those of you that have the abbreviated notes, if you're just coming in first time here today, go to the internet and you get the four or five extra pages that you don't have on the notes. And I give a list of the signs in the heavens and other places in the scripture where those signs are prophesied. Let's go down to paragraph E. Often there's a connection between the dream and the vision and the sign in the sky or the sign on the earth. Now, I'd never known anything about this. I still don't know that much about it, but I know just a little bit more. I remember kind of the shock of my life was in 1983. And I have this, as most of you know, these stories on our prophetic history, the eight sessions that I did at our 10 year anniversary. I went through stories, testimonies of things that happened, supernatural things that happened that were speaking about this young adult worship movement that would break forth globally many years later. And we're in the very beginning, early days of those promises. So it's 1983, I've just moved to Kansas City, been in St. Louis for seven years, church planning. I'm 27 years old and I come to Kansas City and I don't know anything about dreams and visions and signs in the heavens. And nobody was ever talking about that. I mean, occasional guy here and there was, but they seemed always a little bit weird. So I didn't have any experience. I meet Bob Jones. I remember the day I meet him, it's March, 1983. He walks into my office and you know, it's just a shock to me. I mean, just a paradigm shift straight from the hills of Arkansas, right into my office over in Overland Park. And he begins to talk to me. He goes, I'm gonna tell you, he turned to Acts chapter two, says dreams and visions. I go, yeah, I know the verse. And he goes, signs in the heavens. Okay, he goes, did you know there was a relationship between the dream and the vision and the sign in the heavens? No, I never thought about it. He said, here's how it works. The prophet gives the vision or the dream. This is going to happen. The people go, well, maybe it will, maybe it won't. Then the prophet says, this is what's gonna happen in the sky. He predicts a sign in the heavens in the weather patterns or a sign in the sky that no man could manipulate. And he gives the date. It will happen down the road. And the people, like they hear the vision and they go, well, maybe the vision is good. Maybe it's not good. Who knows that they hear this confirming sign because nobody can manipulate a sign in the heavens. I don't know if you've ever tried to make one happen, but they're really hard to make happen. So the guy gives, the prophet gives the dream or the vision. The people go, okay. They're not overly moved. A month or two months later, whatever, the sign in the heaven happens on the very day the prophet said. So now you go back and read the transcription. You want to read that prophecy again. Because men can fake a healing. You can fake a healing. You can fake a salvation. You can fake a manifestation. You can fake a vision. You can fake a dream. You can fake anything, a heavenly experience. I mean, you can fake testify didn't really happen. You can fake all men. And I've seen fakes of so many things that for so many years, because it's, there's such a temptation for people to fake it. So they look cool and they look powerful, but nobody can fake a sign in the heavens. And so this happened three times in 1983, three times. And really not since then. It happened three times in one year. And that was about it. And there's one or two times since then. And it happened in a secondary way, but three dramatic times. It happened in one year. Now I thought this was how it was always going to be. Now it's 27, 28 years later. I look back and they happened three times in one year. And that was the good year. And almost not since then, a little bit. Signs in this. So Bob tells me this, I'm not going to go into it, but he says, this is, this is going to happen. And you know, he tells me you're good. There's going to be this young adult worship movement that singers, musicians. He says, you're going to be over in Grandview next to Harry S. Truman's property. Now we're over in Overland Park in a nice affluent neighborhood and things are going good. And the church is growing. And I said, we're not going to next to Harry S. Truman at Grandview. I said, Bob, our people don't really shop there. And he said, mark my word, they will. I said, well, you know, whatever. And he goes, singers, musicians. He goes, are you a singer musician? I go, no. He says, and it's going to be prayer for Israel. Do you ever pray for Israel? I go, no. So he goes, you don't know anything about this youth movement, the singers, musicians, Grandview, Israel, you know nothing about this. He said, and from Asia, they're going to be connected to you in a very dramatic way from Asia. He goes, do you have a heart for Asia? Do you, are you connected with the believers in Asia? I go, I don't pray for Israel. I don't know very many singers, musicians. I'm not one. I don't know about this young adult movement. I'm not connected to believers in Asia. No. And Bob looks at me and he says, he really meant this, seriously. He said, the Lord told me you'd be dull. I didn't think you'd be this dull. He actually said that to me. And he said, well, let me tell you what's going to happen. And he gave a sign in the heavens. I don't want to go through it now. You can hear the history, the prophetic history from September, 2009, when I, again, I gave the eight sessions on our 10th year anniversary. And on that very day, on the first day of spring, the weather pattern, he said, that was out of the ordinary happened. Then a few months later, it happened again. And a few months later, it happened again. It happened three times. Dramatically, dramatically, he gave the prophecy, pointed to a sign in the heaven. A comet will come on this day. He said, three months in advance, there will be a drought. And on August 23rd, the rains will come. He said this in May. And the second worst drought in the history of Kansas City happens, recorded history, and on August 23rd, three months later, the rains came. When those rains came, I dug up that transcription. What did he say back then? Three times, he gave a word. And then it confirmed by a sign in the heavens. Now, again, I thought this was gonna be kind of how it always was. And now you understand, God only does this when he is confirming a salvation purpose far bigger than any one person's life or sphere of ministry. Now, some of the young people would hear these stories back then. So they wanted a dream and a vision, a comet. You know, the weather pattern's changing to confirm their girlfriend. Yeah, I wanna, you know, if God, you want me to marry her, then let a comet come. You know what? If you like her, just go talk to her. Don't wait for a comet. Don't wait for an angel. If you like her, talk to her. This is as easy. If she likes you back, then see where it goes. While I'm waiting, I heard that prophetic history. I'm waiting for a dream, a vision, or an angel. She is the angel. She's right in front of you. So my point is this. Don't take these kind of cosmic signs and weather patterns in the sky that cannot be manipulated by man and ask for them to confirm domestic issues in your life. Whether you should go to school, not, get a job, get married, buy a house. No, because all these years since then, again, that was the three times. And again, a time or two since then, but of not even of the same magnitude. And it's like, what was that about? And then it became clear because the Lord was confirming a worldwide purpose that would have a implication far bigger than my life or my ministry. Okay, let's go to page 106. Roman numeral eight. Roman numeral eight. The end time deliverance and the harvest. It says those that it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, there will be deliverance. Those are key words, saved and deliverance. Now again, Jerusalem in this hour of history, in the future, it's yet future, will be the most dangerous city on the earth. And if there's deliverance, if you call on the name of the Lord and the most dangerous city of the earth, then there's deliverance everywhere in the earth if you call on the name of the Lord. That's the principle that we can all walk away with. It's interesting. It says they shall call on the name of the Lord. That's the Joel 2, 12 to 17 theme. That's the solemn assembly theme. It's the people who call on the name of the Lord individually, but even more dynamic is when we call on the name of the Lord collectively. We're going after it together. Yes, we do have our individual life, but when people are going hard after God together with a wholeheartedness and they call on the name of the Lord, it's a lifestyle. It's what Jesus called watching and waiting before the bridegroom. There will be deliverance. There will be salvation. I have five different in paragraph A down. I have five different dimensions of what it means to be saved or to be delivered. A, I mean B, the first thing, we are saved or delivered in the sense we're born again. We're forgiven for our sins. The second, we're saved in the sense of physical death. We're saved from disasters. That's what he's talking about actually. He's talking about being saved from disasters in an hour of crisis in the city of Jerusalem. Paragraph D, the third thing, we're saved in the sense of God supernaturally provides the necessities of life, food, water, et cetera. We're saved, we're sustained supernaturally that we've called on his name. Number four, this applies to all of us. We're saved in the sense we enter our full destiny. We're saved, we're delivered from spiritual barrenness and aimlessness. We enter into all that we were called to do. We enter into our calling by calling. Our divine calling is related to calling on the divine. We call on the name of the Lord and it prepares us to enter our calling. And then number five, top page 107, we're saved, we're delivered from deception. There'll be so many deceptive schemes of the enemy, but we could be saved if we call on his name. And again, Jesus really develops this fifth point in the gospels and Matthew 13, and I mean, Mark 13 and Matthew 24 and Luke 21, those three key passages where he says, if you watch and wait, you will overcome the snares of the evil one. And so I just have more there on signs in the heavens, et cetera, et cetera. You can read that on your own. And again, those of you that have the abbreviated notes, you can get that on the internet. It's quite a few more pages. Amen, let's stand.