Word for 2017/2018

Word for 2017/2018 - Martin de Jager

South Africa is at a turning point where we can go either down, or revival will break out. 22 April 2017 more than a million people gathered together near the center of our country on a farm near Bloemfontein to pray, repent and seek the Lord. The church (body of Christ) drew a line in the sand and declared into the heavens that enough is enough! After this event many prayer initiatives arose and one can feel hope arising in the people all around our nation. People are praying more and in my own life God has really placed it on my heart to pray more intercessory prayers. I am aware of a few of these prayer initiatives that arose. The one is where we pray 3 times a day for 21 days like Daniel did. On the second day of this prayer journey, I believe I received this revelation from the Lord.

Firstly they kept mentioning the 70 years that Jeremiah prophesied over Israel as the time they would be in captivity in Babylon. Almost everywhere else I read, I saw the writers mentioning these 70 years. My wife and I are on a bit of a sabbatical so we have some spare time to press in and read a lot! Daniel knew Jeremiah's prophesy and he knew the time was ready for the Word of the Lord to come into fulfillment and he prayed accordingly. When we pray we need to know where we are on "God's timeline"  and then pray according to His will and purposes. When we pray God's will, He always responds with a big yes and amen! I looked up what the number 70 means in the prophetic dream dictionary from Martin van der Merwe:

• ·         Descendant - A descendant of Israel, number of Jerusalem, an elder (Ex 15; Deut 10:22; Ex 24:1,9; Num 11:16,24)

• ·         Perfect spiritual order - It can signify perfect spiritual order. Someone who is prepared to risk all in the destruction of idolatry and carrying it out with spiritual power and significance (a son of Gideon) (Judg 8:30; Judg 9:2)

• ·         Lifetime - A lifetime (Dan 9:24; Ps90:10)

• ·         Accepted offer - A complete and accepted offering (2 Chron 29:32, Num 7:13)

• ·         Apostolic office - Can symbolize a call to an apostolic office, prior to increase (Luk 10:1,17)

• ·         Idolatrous elders - Can point to idolatrous elders (Ez 8:11)

• ·         Trial - A period of captivity (Jer 25:11), of trial and mourning (Gen 50:3; Is 23:15,17; Jer 25:11; Dan 9:2; Zech1:12; Zech 7:5)

• ·         Ill treatment - Ill treatment of leaders (Judg 1:7)

Then two verses in the Bible also were "highlighted" to me (I read from The Passion Translation)

• ·         Proverbs 20:17 - What you obtain dishonestly may seem sweet at first, but sooner or later you'll live to regret it (The bread of falsehood may taste sweet at first, but afterward you'll have a mouth full of gravel)

• ·         Proverbs 20:18 - If you solicit good advice, then your plans will succeed. So don't charge into battle without wisdom, for wars are won by skillful strategy.

Proverbs 2017 and 2018! Seven is the number for perfection and eight is the number for new beginnings! I also know that during 2018, Israel celebrates their 70th year of being a country again as they received independency in 1948.  I also searched on the internet for what else happened in 1948. I found that in 1948 (May 26) we, South Africa, had an election that changed this country! The government party that won the election was the people who implemented the "Apartheid" system in South Africa. This was very interesting to me! Apartheid is a well known word and everybody around the world is make to believe just how evil the Apartheid government was in South Africa. And I agree! Apartheid was bad! But I also believe that Apartheid has not ended in South Africa. Just because it isn't on paper, doesn't mean it doesn't exists! I believe we are in reverse Apartheid. The new government, especially the current one and other political parties in our parliament, still blame the Apartheid government for what happened and why the poor people are still poor. They fail to mention the extreme riches they all received (not even legally) since they have taken power. They keep the masses in the dark only to enrich themselves. The youth also still rebels against Apartheid, and they were not even a part of it! Now I know that these last few sentences is only my opinion (although they are all proven facts), and that it does not paint the full picture of our beautiful nation. During the Apartheid government, and I believe even more so post-Apartheid, black, white, brown and every other color of skin, has learned not only to share the same piece of earth, but also to love each other!

I asked the Lord what all of this mean, and this is what I feel Holy Spirit revealed to me thus far: 

During 2017 I want to align My people in My Wisdom. I want them to seek Wisdom and learn to love Wisdom. Seek Wisdom in every situation, especially the emotional ones! Learn to keep your mouths shut, and first come to Me for My Wisdom. No one charges into battle without Wisdom, for wars are won by skillful strategy. In 2017 I will align My church and then in 2018, after 70 years of bondage, I will pour out My Spirit on South Africa and a great harvest will come into My Kingdom. The fire will burn from the south and it will spread out north over the entire continent of Africa and even further. I will make a new covenant with My people. I will put My law in their minds and write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying "Know the Lord", for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more. I have accepted their offer as they cried out to Me and I will restore the spiritual order over South Africa according to My desires and plans. No longer will the plans of the people, even My church, be relevant before My eyes, as they have cried out for My plans and My will to be done. And this I shall do! The lie of the leviathan spirit will be fully exposed and My lovers will have the God-given authority and Wisdom to confront the snake head on and demolish it. The order of My Kingdom of righteousness, peace and joy will be established in the land once again. Many people have crushed the poor in order to obtain riches. None of it went unnoticed by Me. I will release a spirit of regret over them that will leave a taste of gravel in their mouths. Even their words will be full of drought! So My invitation stands, as there still is time, come and align yourself and your household with My divine will and plan over your life. The spirit of Elijah is at hand as I am turning the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers. As you align yourself with Me, you will see as I see and you will be witnesses as the Word becomes flesh once again...