VISION: Seal Zeal: Steal Zeal

VISION: Seal Zeal: Steal Zeal


Around 25th September 2006


I saw an oval, many leaf shabby looking table. It’s veneer looked very ugly and superficial. It was not real wood.
All the leaves of the table had not been pulled out, but could, if extension was required.

Around it were sitting a few men. These were the false teachers and preachers, who had a great love for money.

In this instance what they were talking about had less to do with making money in the short term, and more to do with their survival and unfinished political/ personal agendas. They were concerned on how they could fulfill those.

They were brainstorming collectively. When suddenly, one man at the table had a brainwave.

“ I Know a zealot!” he said with some considerable excitement.

Soon, the other men too started to jog their memories for names of ‘zealots’ they could enlist to help finish their own political/personal agendas.

This derogatory term ‘Zealots’ was used by these false teachers / preachers / lovers of money, for those men and women who were on fire for the Lord, despised the false, and had an uncompromising walk with the Lord.

These who had Zeal with knowledge, had the Seal upon this knowledge.

Next.

I saw a man, who had zeal with knowledge, called to the ugly table. On the table was a perfumed cheque, it had been written with a flourish and the writing looked very impressive, just as if it were written by a calligrapher.


The man who had zeal with knowledge, just glanced at the cheque, which to him emitted a stench, and said to the crafty man, “ your money perish with you.”

It appeared that these crafty men, knew that their end was nigh, they just wanted to survive in there as long as they could, by buying an extension to their tenure, so as to fulfill their agendas, because now, more than money was at stake. It was an issue of control, power and prestige.

They knew that if they could tempt the ‘zealots’ with money they could steal their zeal and apply it to their own crafty purposes.
They were using every tactic with these men who had zeal with knowledge.

“Brother, we only want the Kingdom to advance, we are giving you this money for the sake of the gospel.”

Actually what these crafty men wanted was that those whom they called ‘Zealots’, would ‘front’ the ‘revival’, so that they could have a control over it. (Just like the mafia would plan a ‘legit’ business). This would fit in neatly with their political agendas. They were planning strategies that sounded like licensing of Franchises.

Where some of those who had zeal with knowledge were seriously wondering what to do, because the offers looked so genuine, (as in these cases, the crafty men used subtle tactics), doors divinely closed, so that these men were relieved of even considering partnering with these crafty men.

Nonetheless, on the other side, there were some few men and women, on their knees, weeping, who were truly cut up about being misled /deceiving themselves and misleading /deceiving others. These too were offering money, but this offer had no strings attached to it, no franchising, and no ‘control’ agendas.

It appeared that those who had zeal with knowledge would have a giant task of discerning ahead of them.

REMEMBER ACHAN’S SIN, was the warning being given to these who had zeal with knowledge.

Exodus 30:9

Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.

Bombay-India
Swarna Jha