Mike Bickle discusses Jesus' primary governmental strategy during the Millennium, emphasizing His role as a human king over the earth and the importance of intercession in His governance. Bickle highlights that Jesus will fulfill the cultural mandate and the Great Commission by discipling nations through a combination of supernatural power and natural processes, with intercession being the key method of His rule. He explains that the church must embrace a deeper understanding of Jesus as a king who operates through prayer and worship, and that the millennial kingdom will be characterized by a house of prayer where all nations will seek the Lord. The sermon calls for believers to prepare for their roles in this divine government by cultivating a spirit of prayer and meekness.

Thank you in Jesus' name, amen. Well, uh, tonight we're beginning session 12. We've been focusing, we spent a couple weeks, three or four weeks on the corridor of glory. And now, uh, last week and this week and the next, uh, following sessions looking at Jesus' government himself, just not necessarily his throne of glory and how it's connected to the new heaven, new, uh, I mean, the new Jerusalem and all that, but this is actually his governmental strategies and what he does, what he imparts, how he does it. And then we'll spend a few weeks looking on the government of the saints in the millennial kingdom. We'll spend several weeks on that as well. Session 12, Jesus' primary governmental strategy. Now, tonight I have a fairly extensive, uh, document here that's on the internet. Of course, you can, it's on there now and you can get it. And so, uh, it's quite a bit longer than most of them. We're not going to cover it all. We're going to skip a whole lot of it, but I just want you to know there's a lot more notes than normal. Normally I have about a six, eight, 10 pages. This is about 15 because, uh, I want to give you the materials to, uh, run with after this. If this is something that's really grabbed your heart, it's really grabbed my heart. It's a subject I'm very interested in. And, uh, Jack Hill asked me, he said, Hey, when are you going to teach on this? So I said, Jack, I'll just do it tonight. So there you have it, Jack. So Jack's the one that got me focused on this. Okay, Roman numeral one. Uh, I've spent a few minutes on review from last week. Jesus's earthly, earthly rule as a human Jewish king. A, the, the, the church needs a deeper revelation of Jesus as king. As king of the earth, not just king in eternity, as a human king on the natural earth. Zechariah 14 verse nine, the Lord shall be king over all the earth. He's an earthly king and he's a human king. And that's something that the church as a rule doesn't think much about. We think about him as being sovereign, as having power in the spirit over angels and demons, but he's king over the earth. It's a political position. It's, uh, something, uh, uh, it's, uh, overlaps, but it's distinct from being sovereign. He's sovereign. He has all power. But when it says he's king, it relates to his position over the earth as a human. His name is king of kings. Of course, he's the sovereign God as king of kings, but that's a human title. B, John saw Jesus as the ruler over two sets of kings. He's king of kings. There's two different categories of kings that the book of Revelation, uh, describes. It says in, uh, Revelation chapter one, verse five and six, that he's the ruler over the kings of the earth. That is the millennial kings. And he's also, of course, he's ruler over the kings of the earth right now, but it means he's going to manifest his rulership over them. And right now he, uh, most kings of the earth, Jesus gives them liberty to do what's in their heart. They're, they're measured. They have certain boundaries of how far they can go, but they can go a significant degree of manifesting sin. But when the Lord returns the millennial kingdom, they cannot do that. He has a manifest authority over the dominion of the kings. They must obey him or they lose their kingship. I mean, they must obey him significantly, substantially obey him. And that's what it means where he's king over the kings of the earth. It doesn't mean just that right now, as God at he's giving, he's, uh, overseeing what they're doing. He's going to judge them in eternity, but it means that he is holding them to a, a level, a standard of accountability of obedience during their kingship. So that's group one is the millennial kings. And that will be a glorious time on the earth. But number two, it's over the resurrected saints who are also called kings. Those are two sets of kings that are in Revelation chapter one, verse five and six. Now, the second set of kings, which are resurrected saints that are given spheres of dominion, that they have a significant, substantial authority. They have authority over the human, over, uh, the millennial leaders, but they answer to the Lord. They have spheres of dominion principle. They have a principalities that they're over, but it's also very significant. They function as priests. They're kings that operate through their anointing of worship and intercession. We're going to get to that in a few minutes. Roman numeral two. This is also from last week, Jesus's reign, Jesus's millennial reign. What he is going to do is complete what is often called, it's a very common term, the cultural mandate or another phrase we'll see in a minute far more common is the great commission. He's going to complete it, but let's look at the cultural mandate in Genesis chapter one, because it helps us understand what he's doing in his kingship. The cultural mandate was given originally to Adam in Genesis one, where God said, let us make man in our image and let them have dominion over the fish, the birds, the cattle, over all the earth. Let them, verse 28, multiply, uh, be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, but let them subdue it. Let them have dominion over every sphere of the earth. That was God's mandate to Adam to bring all of culture and all of creation under an active obedience to Jesus. Of course, he sinned. And when he sinned and the curse was released, he, Adam and the human race became very, very limited in their ability to fulfill the cultural mandate. But the last Adam, Christ Jesus, is going to come and exercise his authority that humans under God's authority bring his laws and bring dominion over every sphere of life. And that will happen in the millennial kingdom. It's the cultural mandate. And in the cultural mandate, Jesus will disciple every single nation of the earth. The cultural mandate, when it was re-given in the New Testament, it's called the Great Commission, but it's the same thing. It's the same thing. OK, well, you can look at last week's if you care, if you want more on that subject. OK, Roman numeral three. I'm just saying the same thing, but a little bit different languages, different languages. Jesus reigns in the millennial reign I'm talking about. The reign of Jesus in the millennium is what I mean by this. He completes the Great Commission. And the Great Commission, which is not a biblical term, it's a biblical idea. The biblical term is to make disciples of all nations. A, the Great Commission is the the Great Commission is the father's commission to Jesus. And Jesus is asking his disciples to jump in and help him. But the Great Commission is the father's commission to Jesus is the last Adam to subdue all the earth as a man under his authority by the anointing. Jesus doesn't subdue the earth is God, although he is fully God. He comes to subdue the earth as a man under the anointing. It's powerful. The Great Commission is the father's commission to Jesus has been given to him to exert his leadership over every area of life to fulfill the cultural mandate. Really, it's synonymous. The inheritance Jesus receives, Jesus has given him an inheritance called the nations of the earth. But the fact that Jesus received this inheritance, it requires that he disciples the nations to make them worthy of his glorious presence in the earth. If Jesus came to the earth and did not disciple the nations, he would have to destroy them. The only way that the nations will survive is if they are discipled. I make a point here at the end of paragraph A that I made several, quite a few paragraphs last week. I'm just repeating it. Many people, it's very common that they confuse the Great Commission, the fulfilling of the Great Commission with Jesus, what he said in Matthew 24, 14. He said it's essential. You have to give a witness of the gospel to every nation. A witness of the gospel to every nation must happen before the second coming. But a witness of the gospel in all 210 nations is very, very, very different than the discipling and bringing every one of those nations, every area of every nation into obedience to God. That's very, very different. The Antichrist empire will be going forth across the earth. It won't dominate the whole earth, but it will have its tentacles throughout every region of the earth. And the nations will be anything but discipled. But there will be a witness of the kingdom in every one of those nations in power. The nations are not discipled with large evangelistic campaigns. They're discipled when every institution of life is brought in active obedience to Jesus. And that that is happening about 1% right now of the earth is under Jesus is active. It's actively obeying his lordship by using their free will. But it's not going to always be that way. The Great Commission is going to be completed when the by Jesus himself be this is still review. Jesus is manifest dominion or his manifest authority. I mean, he has all authority as God is the second person of the Trinity. He already has authority. But as a man, he was given authority on the basis of dying and being raised from the dead. He was given all authority as a human, as a man. This is a very different thing than having it as God. And the idea isn't that God has sovereign authority over the earth. That's a very established idea. The idea is that a man under the anointing would subdue the earth and bring every area into obedience as they exercise their free will to obey. That's a that's an absolutely startling concept. That again, right now, we're about 1% of the earth is under an active obedience to Jesus or less. 1% is probably exaggerated. Because some people are startled when they say I said the nations are not being discipled now. And I go, what, you know, how could you imagine the nations are being discipled? The only way is, is to reduce the definition of what it means to disciple the nations. Reduce it to evangelistic campaigns and Bible studies. And it's far, far more than that in the way that we know it now. It will be that in the day after the Lord returns, but in a heightened way. OK, be Jesus's manifest authority over the earth occurs in three stages. It's partial right now, 1% or less. It's substantial at the second coming. For a thousand years. And it's ultimate, it's ultimate, it's total, it's ultimate after the Millennial Kingdom and the establishing of the new earth. Those are the three stages in which the Great Commission, the cultural mandate are fulfilled. Because even during the Millennial Kingdom, though it's substantial, there will still be pockets of resistance and that great rebellion at the end. See, in Jesus's millennial reign, the church and the state become one. It means that the man on the throne is also the man in a temple. Jesus on the throne, his throne is based in a temple. His throne is in a house of prayer. Jesus quoted Isaiah, but he validated it that the temple is called by God, the house of prayer. And the throne of Jesus in the millennium is based in the house of prayer. Imagine somebody coming to Washington, D.C. to see the president in the Oval Office and they have to go through the prayer room to get in the Oval Office. Because the prayer room's surrounded. That's the millennial temple. Is the place, the prayer room is the place where the throne of the universe will be established. And so Jesus, he does this very dramatic thing. He brings together the temple, the house of prayer and the throne. And again, Jesus is the one that calls the temple the house of prayer. That's what God named it. It was always meant to be a place of worship. And here in Zechariah 6, verse 12, it says it. Of course, it says it in a number of places we'll look at. It says here, Zechariah 6, verse 12, He, that's Jesus, he shall build the temple. That's the house of prayer and worship. And he shall sit and rule on his throne. He shall be a priest on his throne. In other words, he's the chief priest. He's the high priest. The high priest is the president. The high priest who runs the temple is the king of kings who runs the throne. And it's in the same location. And it says that at the end of Zechariah 6, the council of peace shall be between the both. And the both means the two offices. Because in the Old Testament, the king and the throne were very distinct from the high priest of the temple. But it's brought together. The two are brought together in total peace. And peace is more than it means they're kind of getting along without too much trouble. It means into total unity. It's going to be a complete harmony of the throne and the temple. Okay, Roman numeral four. Still a little bit of review from last week. Thrown out a few new ideas, but still on the review mode. Jesus's rule, his government, his empire will progressively increase throughout the thousand years. And some people just have a general idea. They've never really thought about it. They just have kind of an unspoken false assumption that when Jesus comes, he waves his hand over the earth. And all of a sudden, every all the cities are instantly rebuilt and all the gardens are grown and all the economies are healthy. And all the laws are learned and established and functioning and infrastructure is everywhere. And it's not true. It takes, it takes a lot of time and effort because he's not creating the infrastructure as God. He's building it as a man. I mean, as a Jewish man under the anointing. Yes, he is fully God, but he's not operating a second person of the Trinity, you know, speaking and creating the heavens and the earth. He has that kind of power, but he's living as a Jewish man under the anointing through human process, though a very dynamic, supernatural dimension, of course. And he's building through human process, the infrastructure of the earth. It's very exciting because we will be involved in this as resurrected saints. It says here in Isaiah chapter nine, and I have a lot more text. Last week, we gave about six or eight of them last week. But just one here tonight, just in review, it says of the increase of Jesus's government, there will be no end. His end, his government will increase. It will keep growing and growing and growing. Even after the millennial kingdom, it will grow beyond that. It will never ever cease to grow. It's not just that it will exist forever. It will expand forever. Forever. His kingdom is a man. I just got to keep stressing the humanity because none of us it's no we have no problem thinking of Jesus as God being sovereign. But this idea of him being a Jewish man on the earth, it's just it's staggering because then that's the only context of which the Jewish community understands this. The Messiah is a Jewish man. Jesus is going to order his kingdom and establish it. And there's a process in that. A. Jesus gradually increases. No, Jesus's rule gradually increases until all nations are discipled. They're brought under Jesus's teaching. They're brought under Jesus's values. There's the release of the power of the spirit in every town and village, every school, every business marketplace. There's an anointing of the spirit. There's the anointing of revelation. Angels interact. And there's the input of resurrected saints involved in those ventures. B. B is an important one. All Gentiles in the room look at B. We can easily miss the process involved when Jesus takes dominion over the earth. We can miss that there's a process. To most Gentile believers, the process is surprising and startling and sometimes confusing. What do you mean a process? How could there be a process? He's God. Why didn't he wave his hand and just fix it? Isn't that what the second coming is? God coming back to fix things? Because Gentile believers do not naturally think of his humanity as a king in context to the natural conditions on the earth. Gentile believers normally think of his deity in supernatural conditions in heaven. And he has that dimension in the New Jerusalem that comes down to heaven. That dimension is alive and well forever. That part of that dimension of Jesus's life is real, but that's mostly what we think about. You go to a Jewish rabbi, they're not thinking of so much of his deity in supernatural conditions in heaven. They're thinking of humanity on a natural earth. Those are now the two mindsets. Both of them are part right. The Jewish paradigm and the Hebrew, I mean, the Gentile paradigm, but the full truth is only found in both of them brought together. See, there'll be a combination of supernatural power along with natural process as God's dominion progressively affects every area of life. And the reason it's really important to know this because the 100 chapters of the Bible that talk about the end times, they reference, they point to this reality so many times. And if you don't have this paradigm, those 100 chapters, much of it doesn't make sense because we're thinking of Jesus waving his hand as God in heaven. And how could, what? Those chapters are very confusing until we understand that there is a combination of supernatural power with natural process as God's dominion progressively affects every area. Then those 100 chapters really matter. Then when those chapters make sense, then our lives begin to find a relevance in those chapters. Roman numeral five. Now we're taking on new ground now. We're looking at Psalm chapter two, Roman numeral five. This is absolutely stunning. Psalm two and its implication, absolutely stunning. It's David's revelation of the messianic king. Now obviously it's Jesus. David sees the Messiah, the Jewish messianic king ruling the earth by intercession. And this undoubtedly rocks David's mind. It shakes him. How, what? He's king. He's ruling by what? And his primary method of government in Psalm two that David sees is intercession. Now one of the reasons God showed this to David, I'm sure there are many, because he wanted David to rule his government through intercession as well. Beloved, this is a startling revelation that God was giving David. And I'd venture to say that many believers never think about this. It is like bigger than life. That's not really a theologically accurate concept. It's really dynamic. How's that? That was a little weak, wasn't it? Okay, A, Psalm two, Psalm two is the high watermark of David's eschatology or David's theology of the end times. David wrote a number of Psalms about the end times. Psalm two, just mark this in your mind, is the high watermark. David never, ever goes higher in terms of his revelation than Psalm two. It's his clearest and most significant overview of the end times, Psalms two. It had an application in his day, beginning with David verse Goliath. We looked at that last night for a minute. We're doing the life of David. So it just kind of, just kind of overlapped there for this weekend. And it had a application in the early church, Acts chapter four, the apostles quoted Psalm two and they said, hey, what's happening here in the early church is a little bit of what David was talking about in Psalm two. So it was applicable in David's life and through church history, but it has its ultimate fulfillment in the end times. Related to the second coming, it's talking about the Armageddon campaign and the battle of Jerusalem. B, oh, by the way, in A, just for those really end times students, I put what I consider to be the premier chapter or chapters of Peter, Paul, Daniel, what I believe to be their premier presentation. I mean, the one, the highest one, the clearest, the one, the highest meaning, the one with the most significant information. And you could just look at that and do with that what you want. B, Psalm two verse one to three. What happens here is that the nations, David is prophesying that the, all the nations of the earth are going to defy God. Now this was again happening in a very, kind of a small way with the Philistines and David and in a very small way in Jerusalem in Acts chapter four. But it's the nations of the earth are going to defy God and particularly what they are going to defy is God's appointment, God's choice to give the authority of the earth to a Jewish man named Jesus. The nations of the earth are Gentile. They do not like this appointment. It's all, the anger is about the choice to give the government of the earth to a Jewish man. So the nations of the earth, they gather together. They rage in Psalm two verse one to three. It's very, every phrase is filled with meaning. You might just kind of read it casually and think that's kind of neat. No, every phrase you could write pages on. The nations are raging. The nations are not just gathering together against God. They are raging. They are hostile. And we already see the nations beginning to gather. Even right now, they're beginning to gather around Jerusalem. And they're not gathering mostly around Jews and Israel. That's, I mean, they feel the heat of it. They're mostly against the father's appointment of his son, a Jewish man to be king, not over Israel. They don't care about that. They could probably live with that. You know, in a peace process, you know, if things are just right, he's going to be king over the whole earth, over all of the Gentile nations. See, the next three verses, Psalm 2 is broken down to four parts, each of them three verses. The next four verses, God the father mocks the nations who dare, who dare oppose his choice to make Jesus of Nazareth king of the whole earth. He looks at him because the nations of the earth have the biggest army, the most money, the most numbers, the greatest technology, the most unity. And the nations of the earth say, we are a force to reckon with. And God in verse four, he laughs, he mocks them because the nations are but dust. It's irrelevant, your resistance to my will. You can't, I mean, meaning you can't stop me in anything I want to do at all. It means nothing. Your power and all your power cannot stop me. And that's a, he says in verse six, I've already set my king. I've already picked the king of the earth. And I've already picked my holy hills, Jerusalem. It's not Washington DC. It's not London. It's not Moscow. It is Jerusalem. There's already a hill. There's already a capital hill of the millennial kingdom is Jerusalem, God's hill after the second coming. D, now here's where it really gets dynamic because, well, I mean, all this is dynamic as well. The father's part, but now David is going to see with revelation, he's going to have insight into the governmental operation of this Jewish man. And David really cares about this. Well, because, you know, he wants to give an accurate writing of it for, for the, for the believers through history. But David is, David takes his personal. David looks at the ultimate king and he knows he's a little king under the ultimate king. And David says, I want to rule like he rules. I want to do what he does. And so this, this revelation is startling and it's very, very powerful to David's heart when he's on the earth in terms of affecting his lifestyle. D, David has a revelation of the messianic king using intercession to take possession of each nation of the earth. And not only each nation, each area of each nation is implied under G when you look at the whole Bible and all the pastors together, when Jesus takes possession of the earth, it's every area of every nation comes under an active obedience to Jesus's human leadership under the anointing, but human, every area comes under an active obedience according to their will. I mean, they're, they're agreeing to do it. They're choosing it. And I have here the political, economic, spiritual, educational, military, agricultural, every sphere of life. Now I'm going to read it and you're going to notice five decrees that Jesus is going to make. And he's going to rule his government by making these decrees. It's a very unusual way to rule a government. He's going to make the father's decrees. He's going to simply say what the father says. He's going to say it to God and he's going to say it to humans. And in the saying of it, in the decree, the father's decree, which is called intercession. In doing this, he's going to take possession over every area of the earth, which means they will come into an active obedience to him. Jesus's intercessory ministry will be very, very prominent to his governmental leadership in the millennial temple where his throne is. You're going to notice five different categories as I read this. Jesus says, he's talking, I will declare the decree. Wow, that's his mode of ruling. That is in itself intercession, although intercession is one of the decrees as well. But this is in itself intercession. Number one, he said, the father said to me, you are my son. He goes, number one, I am God's son. He goes, whenever there's resistance, I am going to declare before heaven and earth, my identity. I am his son. I will declare it. And even the declaration of it will release power. I'd like to take off on every one of these for us, but I don't want to right now because I got a lot more points to make. Number two, Jesus is going to declare he is begotten of the father. He's human and divine in a class of his own. We'll look at that at another time, but he declares that. Number three, he's going to declare. The father said, ask of me. He stands before the father. He goes, father, you said, ask of me. You said, use intercession to take possession of the earth. And that very thing, I will. I will use intercession because you have asked me to and I will. This is a, this is a massive revelation of how the messianic kingdom will run. It will run by Jesus asking of the father. And when he asks of the father, he takes possession. He takes over every area progressively through the primary force of intercession. And that's how we are going to be involved in it too. And that seems like a little bit, maybe odd to people on the front end because we don't have myself included. We don't have, I was going to say most of us. I'm talking about church worldwide. There might be some guy out there, you know, who understands it. But most of us, we do not understand the mystery and the majesty of intercession. So this is seems, this seems like out of place, like what? Jesus said, let me tell you again, I am going to declare the decree. My father has said I would only take over the nations through intercession. I'm just rephrasing it. And he goes in, that is my MO. That is my mode of operation of my government. I will possess them. I will take them over and I will disciple them from a base of my own intercession. And my worldwide government will be involved with me in intercession. Then he's going to go on to the fifth decree. That all resistance must be dashed and broken into pieces. If they refuse his leadership, he must, there is no other third option. He must dash them and crush them. And his intercession is what's going to release that to happen. Now, these five decrees I have at the end of this paragraph D, these five decrees are made by Jesus and they are made by you if God appoints you in a position of leadership in the age to come. You will be involved in these decrees in a governmental way. Jesus is making those decrees. Now he will make them in eternity. He will make them speaking and he will make them singing them. These five decrees are critical. Every one of them are massive statements. That's not my point. My point isn't to break down the five decrees. My point is to say that Jesus governs by simply decreeing the father's decree. That's called intercession. The revelation of the majesty and the mystery of intercession. Let's go to Romans 6. David's revelation of the messianic king using intercession. I'm just going to say it again. He goes, I will declare the decree and I'm going to lock into the one. The father has said to me, ask of me. And Jesus could answer the very thing I was glad to do to spend my government in my life in my governmental role asking you. Let me say this again. Jesus says, I will decree the father's decree. He told me, son, ask of me. Use intercession to subdue the nations. The very thing I was glad to do to use intercession to conquer the nations of the earth. We're talking about after the second coming. He's doing it now as well. Beloved, what we are doing right now, we are developing. We are, we are being trained to rain. It's an, it's an old preacher statement. I've heard it over the years. Different ones said trained to rain. We are being trained during our 70 year internship right now to rain on the earth. And there is nothing more relevant to our training than meekness and operating in the spirit of prayer. Growing in meekness and operating in the spirit of prayer. Those are the two things primarily we will bring with us to our position of function and authority in the age to come. We won't bring our mailing list. We won't bring our popularity. We won't bring our houses, our cars. We won't bring our friends, our friendship list. I mean, of how popular we are is what I'm talking about. I mean, our friends will be there. I mean, praise God, we'll all be there. We will bring what we have grown in this age in meekness and in the spirit of prayer. See, this is Jesus's method of governing now and forever. This is the primary principle. Catch this. This is the primary principle in which all of his coworkers who rule in partnership with him do it now and forever. The most active way to partner with Jesus now and in eternity is being embracing, I was going to say being caught up in, but embracing this decree the father gave the son that we stand up and say, I want to be lost in this decree. I want to be my whole life defined within the boundaries of the decree the father gave the son. Jesus, ask of me. We want our lives lost and caught up in this decree of the Lord. Now, this is the primary issue of which Jesus will govern the earth. And we want to be involved with him. We call it, we want a ministry with power in it. And the body of Christ does almost everything except what the father decreed to the son to release the father's power, because the father's power would be released to the son in his humanity by virtue of intercession. I would say that again. The father's authority is what is being released. The father's authority is what's being released through Jesus in his humanity through intercession. The father insists on intercession as the vehicle to release his authority through Jesus as a man. Now, we'll look at the passage in a minute, but the principle that this whole thing is built on is in Genesis chapter one. We'll go there in a moment. In Genesis chapter one, verse two, it says that the Holy Spirit is hovering, hovering over the earth. One translation says brooding. It's hovering. Here's God, the father with all authority. The Holy Spirit's hovering, ready in a position for action, but hovering, not taking action. He's looking at the father. The father says, no, no, no, don't take action. Wait, he's hovering, he's brooding. His eyes are on the father, brooding. And then when the father's partner speaks, let there be light, then the spirit, boom, and creates light. But only when the father's partner speaks it and utters the word, and then the Holy Spirit goes back into the brooding mode again. And God's partner, his beloved son, who created in this intercessory mode is what will govern the earth in the exact same way. The spirit's brooding, the authority of the father. And the father says, not until you speak it, Jesus, until your whole governmental network lines up with you, will the spirit release the power and the authority. The most dynamic, relevant thing in the millennial kingdom will be the house of prayer ministry in the earth. I want to say it again, I want to say it boldly. The most important, the most emphasized ministry on the earth will be the house of prayer ministry when Jesus is the director of the Jerusalem International House of Prayer. For real, I'm not joking. He will be the leader of the house of prayer because the house of prayer will be the temple and the throne and all the nations that are in operation with him and agreement with him that receive the blessing and the authority of the spirit will get it, will receive it by the same principle that he receives it through prayer. It's a startling truth and David sees this. Okay, let's go to G, a couple paragraphs forward. Boy, that was good. Well, you're good because it's a couple pages, you know. Okay, look at G. Jesus taught that justice would be established through night and day prayer. Now, when he said that in Luke 18, he was referring in its context to the time from that time of his first coming until his second coming. However, however, Jesus will use night and day prayer, says it in Isaiah 62, 6. He will use night and day prayer himself to establish justice in the millennial earth. That which he put forth for church history for 2000 years is that which he will excel most in faithfully executing. Jesus said, until there's night and day prayer, there will not be justice. And wherever there is night and day prayer, there's justice will break through. Well, there needs to be justice in every single village and every single area of society, of every village, of every nation of the earth. And the only way that justice will be established is that night and day prayer is operating everywhere in the earth. Not just in Jerusalem, it will in Jerusalem. If it operates in Jerusalem, where Jesus is living in a resurrected body in the throne of glory, if a 24 hour night and day prayer is essential in Jerusalem, how much more the nations of the earth. H, even the martyrs in heaven are crying out and they get justice on the earth based on their intercession in heaven. The martyrs want justice on the earth. The word's vengeance, but the other translation says justice. The martyrs want justice, but they have to do the same thing. They only get it through prayer. Justice on the earth. Roman numeral seven. Roman numeral seven. Declaring God's decrees. Jesus said, I will declare the decree of the Lord. B, Jesus declares the decrees in two directions. It's his method of extending his rule under his father's power and authority. Number one, first, he declares to God. He declares the decree to God. That's called intercession. Second, he declares the decree to people. That's called preaching or proclamation. He declares the decree at a horizontal and a vertical level. Number four, an old revivalist axiom that is well known. The revivalist of old would say this. I've read it in the old books. We must first talk to God about men before we talk to men about God. The church is almost 100% reversed on that. We first decree to God. It's called worship or intercession. It's not only just asking. There's an asking dimension. But I would, I like the phrase intercessory worship. It can be, I love you, I love you, I love you. Or break in, break in, break in. Both dimensions. Come before the throne of God with equal power. See, we study Jesus's prayer ministry during his first time on earth. And we study his prayer ministry at his second coming on the earth. Beloved, there's a lot about Jesus's prayer ministry in the millennial kingdom. I mean, there's a lot beginning with Psalm 2. And we're going to get, you're going to see some really, I think, important passages that will inspire your heart. Why do you and I want to study Jesus's earthly prayer ministry and his millennial, which is an earthly prayer ministry as well? Because we want to understand how important prayer is for our own life now. I mean, we're talking about a sinless anointed man consumed with prayer. That's the idea. He knows something we don't know. He prays most and he is most perfect. Why? Why does the most perfect man pray most? Because he knows the Spirit's brooding and he knows the Father will not release his heart except his own son and his son's partner's decree, the Lord's decree. The Father will not release his full blessing. Let's go to Roman numeral 8. In the beginning, it says Jesus is God's, I'm using a phrase, it's a biblical concept, but it's not a biblical term. Jesus as God's intercessory oracle. That's what I'm calling him. He is the logos, the word of God. He's the living spoken oracle of God's heart as a person. His life is consumed with speaking God's heart. That's why he's called the word of God. But when he's called the word of God, another statement is he is the living intercessory oracle. He's a distinct person from the Father, but he is so captured in speaking out loud with the Father's thinking, he is called the Father's word, the word. That's the ministry of intercession he's operating in. When Jesus is called the word, he's called, in essence, he's being called the intercessor from the beginning. Because it's the Father's word, but he's a distinct person. One in essence, but still there's a distinction between the three persons in the Godhead. They're one, but there's distinction among them as well. It's the Father's word, but it's the Son's mouth. And his life is called the one who speaks the Father's heart to release it under the anointing of the spirit. That's the word of God. He's called the word of God. That's what that means, the logos. In the beginning was the second person of the Trinity, Jesus, who would give voice under the brooding spirit of the Father's heart. He's called the word. And this word, this person who would speak God's heart under the anointing, he was with God. And matter of fact, this person who had the word of the first person of the Trinity is in himself God as well. He's second person of the Trinity, but he's carrying the word of the first person in his spirit and he's given voice to it. Wow. Verse three, all things were made through the second person of the Trinity when he spoke the word under the anointing of the first person of the Trinity. Nothing was made, nothing, nothing was made. I mean, without him, nothing was, in other words, he made everything. Nothing came into being that he did not make. That's what I'm trying to say. And beloved in that same way, he's going to govern the earth. Nothing will be set into order except it's spoken the Father's heart and he will give expression and his entire infrastructure. Jesus's governmental infrastructure whether it's millennial Kings or resurrected Kings, everybody will be caught up into this dynamic drama of being a part of the Oracle. Those that decree the Lord's decrees. I'm getting way ahead of myself because I'm gonna run out of time. So it's the very end. So I probably won't get to it. So I'm gonna just kind of cheat right now without looking at the notes. But when you might ask the question, why? When you and I speak the Lord's word, whether singing it or speaking it, we internalize it. When you and I, we close our eyes or open our eyes, it doesn't matter. I'm just here in the prayer room. We're just speaking it. It internally, it marks our spirit. It marks us dynamically and it internalizes the Father's ideas and the Father's values are spoken through our spirit. And it marks us every time a little bit. And so in the very process of governing, God joins us to him and transforms us. And then all the other people that are joined to him in the same way, we get unified with one another because we have the same values and the same vision and the same direction because we're speaking the same thing. God brings his entire governmental administration into unity with his heart, into holiness and into community with one another through this brilliant administration of his power, which he gave to Jesus even before Jesus became a man and operated this way. The Father's beckoning us into the wisdom of the Trinity that we would stand in the position like the second person of the Trinity as God. And now he does it as man as well. He says, as a man, he goes, Father, let's do it like we did it in heaven. Let's do the same thing. And the Father says, oh, of course that is. Let me say what you're thinking. Let it race through my being. Let it capture my spirit, though I'm not saying that Jesus, the spirit wasn't captured with it anyway. Let me give voice to who you are and let my spirit resonate with the fullness of it. And let the spirit under the anointing move in action when I speak. Let me do as a man, what I did as God back in Genesis one. And the Father says, that's how I was going to tell you we're going to do it anyway. Good idea, Jesus. Of course, I'm making up the conversation, but that's how we're going to do it. I would have it no other way, Father. I love the way we operate. And by the way, I want your entire, your whole governmental infrastructure, your bride, all that line up with you. I want them to do it the same way as you do it. This way can't be improved upon. King David said, I'm in. I'm in all the way. But when he read Psalm two, he said a king that conquers the nations of the earth, the Jewish king that conquers every Gentile nation by asking God. David went, oh, I'm in. And he built a 24 hour house of prayer around his throne. He had worships and singers. And that's how, of course, God does it in heaven. In Revelation four and five is the worship and worshipers and intercessors around his throne. The throne is always surrounded by worship and intercession. Look at Revelation four and five. Because God, the father wants. He is the word. I mean, he is the the the ultimate word that is spoken. That's not the right theological term. I don't have language for it. But he is the word that the word is speaking. He is the word that Jesus is giving. It's the father's will. It's the father's plan. It's the father's vision that Jesus is speaking. And so are we. C. So I love this method. Even if we don't love it, it doesn't change it. It's still the only method God has. But I want to line up. I want to throw myself into meekness in the spirit of prayer in this age, because that's the only way it works in the age to come. And we are given an assignment after our 70 year internship based on the spirit of prayer and meekness in this age. It's OK to look at your neighbor and go, oh, no. That's called conviction. That's how I feel. Oh, no, Lord. I want to lay hold of this at a whole new level. C. I've already said C a dozen times. OK. D. I've already said already. But Jesus expresses himself as an intercessory oracle. He operates as an intercessory oracle as creator. Jesus operated by speaking God's heart. It's called intercession in Genesis one. That's how he created right there. Genesis chapter one, verse one to three. The spirit was hovering in verse two, hovering and God. The second person said, let there be light. Now we don't know in Genesis one is God the second person of the Trinity. We don't know till the New Testament that who's speaking when he says, let there be light. Says in Psalm 33, verse six, the next passage on the PowerPoint by the word of the Lord, the heavens were made. And it's interesting that the the word of the Lord is joined to the idea of the breath of God. Because here's the idea is that Jesus speaks it and the breath is a spirit. The spirit descends on it in power after Jesus speaks it. That's why the spirit is the breath of God. Jesus speaks it. The spirit who comes in like wind and manner and releases the power of God, the father. What a combination. And the two are so put together, the word of his mouth and the breath of his mouth. They go hand in hand because it's the son and the spirit working in total partnership under the father's authority. Now we see here Colossians one. So there is no mystery in the New Testament. Jesus created everything. Jesus was the God. When it says God spoke in Genesis one, it was Jesus speaking. E. Jesus sustains. Here it says in Hebrews. Look at this. Hebrews one, three. Well, let me read the paragraph here. Jesus, I'm getting all excited here. Jesus sustains or he upholds the created order by speaking to the father. Did you know right now the reason the son is working and the the ocean and the your your being works is because it's being upheld by the word. The intercessory ministry of Jesus is holding the universe in place right now. So I've got this opinion. But certainly the scripture just shouts at the ideas. I mean at the my building block ideas to this opinion and the building block ideas that Jesus has a passion for partnership. He wants to share his government. He wants to share the prayer ministry. He wants to share intimacy. He wants to have partnership with his people. That that's the fundamental building block. I'm making this building, this new opinion. This new opinion is this. He has an intercessory worship network in the spirit. That's meant to be kind of a funny little phrase, but I believe that Jesus has all over heaven. I don't know how this works. He has all that are participating with them. They are participating in this upholding all things through the intercessory ministry of Jesus. Beloved, everything is being upheld by his word in the present tense, not his word in Genesis one. He didn't speak in Genesis one and didn't kind of look back for a couple thousand years. He is upholding it in the present tense by intercession. What does this say about the ministry of intercession? Look at Colossians chapter one, verse 17. Jesus is before all things. And in Jesus, everything consists or the new international or the new American standard or the revised say all things hold together. I like that phrase hold together. Everything holds together by the word of his power, by his present tense intercessory ministry. There is never a time where Jesus ceases to live in intercession to govern and sustain creation. And beloved, you and I are caught up in this, in this dynamic speaking of God's heart in this massive, you know, billions of angels and saints, and we're all involved in it together under Jesus's leadership. I love it. The power of God. Some of them may go, oh, intercession is so boring. I think Jesus says, you know, if you got a few things out of the way, it might not be so boring. Intercession is so boring now because we live so constantly quenching the Holy Spirit. When we live quenching the Spirit with our eyes, the use of our money, the use of our words, the use of our time, we quench the Spirit as a lifestyle. And then we go to the prayer room and it's so boring. A boring prayer time is because the Spirit is quenched. And it's all of us. My point, I'm not trying to pick on us right now. That's not the point. My point is, as you're imagining living in intercession in the future, don't imagine it with a quenched spirit of today. Because you might look at the future and go, oh man, that's going to be a horrible eternity if I got to do prayer meetings. Well, you may feel a whole lot different when your Spirit is alive and moving, when that element of transcendence is touching your spirit. Be the most exhilarating thing you can imagine. It will be the most exhilarating thing to the human frame when we speak in the unction of God. We feel it. Our body exhilarates under the power of it. It is the ultimate exhilaration is intercession under the anointing where we're going. I've had a few of those times. Not those times, but a lot lower than that. But where I've spoke the Word of God and I had a feeling of transcendence. I felt like I was somewhere other than. My spirit was alive in the unction of God. I went, oh my goodness, there is nothing, nothing that touches this even now. And I can imagine the Lord saying, you don't have a clue where this is going. You're going to love it. Beloved, I'm lining up now. I want to get that prayer history strong. Jesus will rule. This is an important one for you to read some of the notes on because I'm going to go real brief. Jesus will rule through speaking to the father. It's the same thing. But in this passage, there's about seven or eight passages. It's called the rod of his mouth. That's intercession. It's the rod of his mouth. That's what he strikes the earth with. Isaiah 11, verse four. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth. That means he's going to speak it before the father. That's the rod of his mouth. And I have a dozen verses where the rod of his strength, the rod of his mouth is mentioned. Gee, it's called the sword from his mouth. The sword from his mouth strikes the earth and the rod of his mouth strikes the word or earth. And the sword or the rod is exactly the same thing. He speaks to the father and the spirit of God comes like a rod and dashes and breaks in power or like a sword that pierces and cuts asunder what's in what is in the way holding back in bondage. It's called the rod of his mouth and the sword of his mouth because it's the intercession that comes out of his mouth that loses the dashing or the piercing slicing power of the spirit. The spirit's authority upon Jesus as a man is what is being released. It's called the word of God. The sword is the word. We speak it and the power of the spirit moves like a sword and pierces and cuts that which is holding us in bondage or destroys that which is coming against the purpose of God. H. It's all the same thing. Here it's called the breath of his mouth. The three, four times he kills the Antichrist in his second Thessalonians 2, 8. He kills the Antichrist with the breath of his mouth. And it's clear in the next passage, John 2, he breathed on them and said, receive the spirit. He's talking about the hovering of the spirit when he went, breathe on him. When he did it, the spirit fell on him because when he speaks, the spirit moves. It's a partnership under the father's authority. And he slays the Antichrist. He speaks to him and the spirit, like a sword, slays him, strikes him. Let's say it that way, strikes him. Jesus doesn't have to put his finger on him. He goes, father, I declare the decree of the Lord, the giant that stands against you. And he speaks the word of destruction and the spirit who's hovering. So delights to do this because Jesus is destroying the, I mean, is defeating the Antichrist as a man, as a Jewish man. And he's speaking and the spirit is moving in power under the father's authority. That's how it works. And beloved, that's how we're going to do it. Jesus is modeling what you and I are going to do with forever. Roman numeral nine. I have several passages. Jesus will live in this intercessory power and exhilaration and this mystery and majesty forever and ever. He will never cease to his. He creates. He sustains and he governs all in the same way. And we will in the same way that he does in terms of a governing. Roman numeral ten. I have the Holy Spirit intercedes. He says, hey, I mean, he's he does it in us. The Holy Spirit helps us and he helps Jesus. It's almost like the Holy Spirit saying, hey, Mike, I'm hovering over Kansas City. I'd really like to do more. Let me help you. Let me help you because I want to be released more. But I need you to quit quenching me so much because you have to intercede in the will of God. Your spirit has to be flowing in unity with me when you intercede be. The twenty four elders, the government of heaven, they're doing the same thing night and day. The whole thing is intercessory. The whole thing is intercessory. Well, I'm out of time, but I'm going to take a couple more minutes. Because I'm just going to advertise the rest of these notes to you, because you can't get them by hearing them. You've got to get them by studying it, study it, study it. I'm just going to advertise a little bit of it to you without going through it in detail. Roman numeral 11. What I do in Roman numeral 11, I show you a bunch of verses, Zechariah six, Jeremiah three, where the throne of Jesus and the temple of Jesus in Jerusalem is the same. The high priest on the throne of the king of kings. I mean, the high priest in the temple, the king of kings on the throne is one operation. And Jesus is bringing the two together. I've already made that point, but I have a number of verses. It's called the, it's called a priesthood in the order of Melchizedek. It's when intercession and worship is the power behind the government. That's the order of Melchizedek. It's an eternal order. That's how Jesus did it back in Genesis one. That's how he'll do it a billion years from now. It's an eternal order where the government is released on the basis of worship and intercession. So I have a bunch of verses on that kind of real exciting stuff, in my opinion. Okay. Roman numeral 12. Roman numeral 12. I just kind of hang on here. Roman numeral 12. Cause this is, this will kind of like, huh? That will make you go, huh? A, the prayer movement in this, in that hour will consist of intercession of Jesus. The intercession of the Holy Spirit combined with the worship and prayer of the saints in the millennial earth and the worship and prayer of saints and angels in the new Jerusalem. The whole thing is one vast intercessory network entering into this decree of the Lord under Jesus's leadership. Jesus will be, will build network, a network, a global spiritual, natural and supernatural. I'm adding that network of houses of prayer that will, that will cultivate the spirit of prayer and the governmental leaders from all over the earth. All the governmental leaders of the earth will encounter the father through prayer and worship regularly. That will be the way their government will be limited or increased by the, by the dimension of their prayer and worship. Okay, now look, here's the part that I'm thinking that some of you will go, hmm, see, Jesus is going to mobilize believers in the millennium to pray for Jerusalem's progress. The verse that we know so well, Isaiah 62, is a millennial passage Jerusalem is progressively made a praise of the earth. We're talking about the throne of glory is in Jerusalem. The temple is there. The throne is there, but it doesn't dominate all the nations except, except to the measure that prayer goes forth in the IHOP in Jerusalem under Jesus's leadership. And Jesus said, I have set watchmen. I am going to get a staff second to no staff in the earth. I'm going to get singers. I'm going to get musicians. I'm going to put them on the wall. And then the purpose of God in the epicenter of God's of the millennial world, Jerusalem's authority will progressively go on the wings of the intercessory prayer meeting movement in Jerusalem. You read it carefully. That's clearly what it means. Plus some. It means more than that because it has an application. Even now we can tap into that now, but it has its full application, its ultimate application or substantial one, right then in Isaiah 62. Now look at this. Isaiah 56 talking about the millennial temple, that same house of prayer. He says, and also Isaiah 56. That's the famous verse. My house will be called house of prayer. The sons of the foreigners. That's us Gentiles. But we're talking about with natural bodies in the millennial kingdom, Gentiles who joined themselves to the Lord. Verse seven. Even them. I mean, you could hear it. Even them. Isaiah say even Gentiles. God's going to bring to his governmental complex called the Holy Mountain. That's the temple. He's going to bring them to there. These foreigners from all over the earth. He's going to say, hey, visit my governmental complex and it's awesome and get ready to pray because when you walk in there, the worship is going to blow your mind. Even them. I'm going to bring. He's going to bring them. So he hosts them and he gets them there and he hosts them there. And he makes them joyful. They walk in and these Gentile leaders and non-leaders go. They're joyful. They go. Oh, my goodness. This is awesome. And Jesus and Isaiah said, because the temple Jerusalem won't just be for Jerusalem, like we look in Isaiah 62, it's going to be for all nations. They will go there and pray for their own nation as well. And it goes on in verse eight. God says, I'm going to gather others besides I'm going to gather the Gentiles to the Jerusalem prayer ministry. Read it. That's what it's talking about. Real clear. He he's all still talking about the Israel prayer ministry. He goes, I'm going to say that says the Lord, Ezekiel 36. I will let the house of Israel inquire of me. I will let the house of Israel intercede to me. I will let them ask me for the increase of men in the nation. And Jesus said, if they pray, I will increase the population of the nation. You go, well, he's there. Why does he just wave his hand and make more humans? No, no, it's not going to work that way. If they pray, the Lord says, I will put my blessing on the processes and more the population will grow if they pray. But I'm going to let them have access to me in prayer in the millennium. Look at the verse that's so often misquoted, which is OK. It's OK to misquote this one as long as you know what it really means. But it's OK to quote ask for rain in the time of the latter rain. That's actually asking for literal rain in the millennium. They have to ask for rain or they don't get it. It's the second Corinthians second Chronicles seven. The Lord says, if I stop the heavens, you've got to ask and the heavens will open its rain. That will still happen in the millennial kingdom. Look at F. This is going back to the Gentiles again. This is amazing. The Gentile nations F will go up to IHOP in Jerusalem to learn about prayer so they can go home and exercise governmental authority through what's imparted to them. It says here in Zechariah eight, the people shall come the inhabitants of many cities. These are Gentiles. The inhabitants of one city will go to another city. They go, hey, let's get on the on the bus and let's go up to Jerusalem and tap into that prayer meeting there and let's seek the Lord. And the guy who's saying goes and I myself will go. This is a Gentile. It's depicting a conversation between two Gentiles. Verse 22. Yes, because some guy goes, what? And the prophet Zachariah goes, yes, you heard me. Zachariah does this a couple of times. He likes this. This dramatic effect. Yes, you heard what I said. Many peoples and strong nations. And again, all the nations are Gentile nations because there's only one Jewish nation. The strong nations, they will come to Jerusalem, to IHOP, and they will pray before Jesus in Jerusalem and they will ask the Jews, the locals there. You guys got revelation and spirit of prophecy and you know what's going on. Teach us what is going on and they're going to receive an impartation that they're going to go back to their strong nation and they're going to do what they do. But the all over the scripture, it's talking about how the blessing, the quality of life will increase and decrease in Jesus' possession of nations will increase according to the spirit of prayer by his governmental leadership team in the spirit and the natural. Even then, how much more now? Well, G, I'm going to skip it. It's a phenomenal one. We're out of time. Really good. G and H. It's in Isaiah 30. Really a good one. I mean, I'm sad. I have to skip that one, but I'm going to. Really a good one. Isaiah 30, two different passages. Like, wow. You see, I'm skipping. Number 14 for the PowerPoint. Roman numeral 14 application to us now. That's it. I'll just take a 60 seconds here. Jesus, I'm just going to read these paragraphs and end with this. Jesus crowned intercession. A. He crowned intercession as the chief ministry by revealing it as his foundational governmental tool in the way he rules the millennial kingdom. B. In Psalm 2, when the father said, ask of me in this trinitarian dialogue between the father and the son, the father beckoned the son to take possessions at the end of the earth through asking in this very in this very revelation, the father established intercession as the primary governmental tool of the universe. Number one, therefore, the house of prayer is the governmental center of the universe. When the father told the son, ask of me, he was pointing out to the rest of the body of Christ and all redemptive community. We must cultivate the spirit of prayers, the wisest pursuit of our life. In this one passage, the father establishes for all time, every ministry is subordinate to the ministry of intercession in time and eternity. Every ministry is second. Every ministry is second in this age and the age to come to operating in the spirit of prayer. C. In 2, Jesus's model method of government as the perfect godman reveals the value of intercession in the father's economy. Jesus's own life crowned it as supreme over everything. C. Whatever labor of ministry we do, we must do most in intercession in our ministry labors. Doesn't mean everyone's called. That's their full time occupation. But if you've got two hours a week, five hours a week, 10 hours a week, do more of it in intercession than the others. And you're following the pattern of Jesus in time and in eternity. It must be our first ministry in the spirit because that's where most of our enemies are. They're spiritual enemies. Anyway, go on and on. So you got to. There's a ton more verses on the Internet on this document. Let's stand.