Rivers of Deliverance

  “Be sensitive in prayer this day, for there are unique rivers of anointing that come forth from your spirit. Even as you pray in the Spirit shall there manifest rivers of deliverance that shall change circumstances and move mountains.”

 

 

The 43^rd book of the bible – St. John: It depicts Christ our “Personal Savior; The Son of God”

 

John 7:38 (KJV)

 

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

 

Here the bible is telling us that there are rivers (plural) that come from our spirit. They each produce different results. Sometimes the anointing will be upon you asking for your needs; other times it will be warfare or intercession. You must be sensitive to The Spirit to allow the Holy Ghost to manifest different expressions or “rivers” to produce deliverance!

 

Now in order to know of these rivers we must go back to the beginning of the book of      Genesis 2:10-14 and look at the river that came out of The Garden of Eden.  We know that Eden was not a physical garden of vegetables and trees but was the hand of God at work in and for His people. 

Remember what God said to the King of Tyre in Ezekiel 28:13:  Thou hast been in Eden (place of power then for the Adam people just like heaven is today for us) the garden of God.  

This king was the “garden of God” that He had put in this Eden, this place of power, ruling and reigning and dominion.

Now in Genesis 2:16, the LORD God had given him (the man) [composed of both male and female] orders.  He had planted the garden eastward, and there is where he put him.

 “Plant” means you fix it; position it.  God did that with Jesus.  He had already ordained the third manifestation of the Godhead which was the Holy Ghost.  He brought Him (the manifestation of the Holy Ghost) into fruition through Jesus the Christ.  Jesus knew that He would not be bound inside that body eternally, and when He was finished with it, He deposited it back into the Spirit so that now He could be everywhere, by the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit.  This is where God has planted us in the Holy Ghost, in a place of dominion, authority and power. 

Genesis 2:10: And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence (there) it was parted, and became into four heads.

This river is not a physical body of water because we discovered in John 7:38-39, Jesus is speaking of the Spirit of God, and He said “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water”.  (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)  At Pentecost it was given as a universal gift for whomever will receive it.

Here this river is God’s Spirit.  A river is a stream.  A few synonyms for stream are, to gush, a current, down pouring, outpouring, flowing, a flood.  Another definition is prosperity.  Now that this garden has been planted in Eden, the LORD God is making provision for the man, and it’s through this river, which is the spiritual aspect of the Spirit of God.

Verse 10: And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

It says it parted from there, from that point, and became into four heads.  “Parted” means dispersed, stretched itself and became into four heads. “Became”, meaning, to exist; or came into being.  This verb indicates more than just simple existence or to identify, but it makes a strong statement about the being or presence of a person or a thing.  Remember the hymn that says “God in three persons; blessed Trinity”.                                                                                                                                                     See how God dispersed Himself as Father, Son, Holy Ghost, which is in the church. 

It became into four heads. The word “into”, means motion toward something, which was a goal God set for Himself, to bring His people to. 

• Ephesians 4:13: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

Remember God saw the ending even in the beginning.  God dispersed Himself as Father (Old Testament), Son (between the Old and the New Testament - making the two into one), and the unveiling of The Holy Ghost in the church at Pentecost in the New Testament.

This river made motion toward becoming “four heads”. The “head” is the top, the first, the sum of something.

• Ezekiel 28:12: Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, “Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum”.                                                “Sum” means to consummate, be brought together, confirmed, a pattern, bring a balance by weight or dimension, to equalize, to arrange.  In Ezekiel 28:14, God said, “Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth”.  God had made him just like Himself.  Was not Jesus just like God?   
• Philippians 2:5-6:   Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.  

This king was powerful.  God said from the day that He created him, he was perfect until iniquity was found in him: Ezekiel 28:15.

Genesis 2:10: Synonyms for “head” are:  to be first, chief, director, having authority.  I thought about Revelation 21:16: And the city lieth foursquare.  We are “the city” of God.  We are His New Jerusalem and we are four-square. The “four-squares” are those areas Jesus said that we must love God with:

• Mark 12:30: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. 

We are to love God with those four squares or heads.  What we feed off of is the river of life.

These rivers were to ensure a vast irrigating supply of life-giving waters to these four heads and lead man to a full moral and spiritual development.  The LORD God gave the man specific commands and specific prohibitions to govern his behavior.  He also gave him (the man - male and female) the power of choice (tree of life and tree of knowledge of good and evil) and set before him the privilege of growing in the divine mind and work of God.

The name of the first river is Pison (Pi’shon).  When you talk about a name, you are talking about a mark of individuality; exact position; authority that’s within this first river.  It means  united or being one.  [The river of the "Father"].

“Pison” means a great outpouring, increase; dispersive (that’s why it is the Father); to scatter; to sow; to spread; grown fat (richness).                                                                                                                         This is descriptive of the Spirit of God at work in man’s awareness.  

It is the Spirit dispersing ideas of intelligence within man.  When God made man, He gave him a brain and He gave him intelligence to be able to understand what knowledge is and to accept it.

 In Pison, is where God is giving man the ability of intelligence to really know who he himself is and to know who God the Creator is.  The problem in the church today is that most people don’t know who they are.  We are more than just mere men.

 John 10:34: Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods”.  Jesus said this, so we can believe it!

Pison encompasses the whole land of Havilah (to twist or twirl in any manner; writhe in pain; travail).  In reality, it is the struggles of the life of the “natural man” that he goes through to get to maturity.  For us to get to perfection in God, we have to go through a developmental process.  So that’s what Havilah is for us.  We have to go through stages of growth and metamorphosis to come to maturity. 

Genesis 2:11: The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah. 

Every land/area of man’s being must come to perfection - not just the soul, or the mind, or the part of spirit (heart), but the body as well.  Some say “all God wants is the soul; he doesn’t care about the body because it’s going back to the dust”.  But this is a lie from the pit of hell.  He wants the whole man (heart, soul, mind and body).  Jesus died for the whole man, the body as well.  Paul said in Romans 8:22: And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.  Because our “body” is the temple or dwelling place of God:

• 1 Corinthians 6:19-20: What?  Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own?  For you are bought with a price:  therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

The River Pison, compasses the “whole man”.  It doesn’t make any difference what we go through, God is there with us and in us to give us victory over those areas, and whichever area we don’t yield to Him, there is an enemy assigned to it.

 That brings up the four princes of hell - Satan, Lucifer, Belial, and Leviathan (the most deadly because it works within the church walls).  That’s why the priesthood had to be changed from the Levitical priesthood to the Melchizedek priesthood, Hebrews 7:11-12.

Still in Genesis 2:11: The river Pison compasseth the whole land of Havilah where there is gold.

 Example:  If you compare a man to an elephant, there is no comparison to strength in the natural.  But God has given that little man power over that great big elephant.  God can give you dominion over anything.  It’s the anointing that makes the difference according to:

• Isaiah 10:27: And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. 

Inside of man, that’s where the gold is.  “Gold” in the Hebrew is gold-colored or yellow like oil. 

• Revelation 3:18: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich and white raiment (light covering, the righteousness of God), that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear.
  The “gold” is the divine nature or the very character of God in us and the power of God that dwells in us.

2 Peter 1:4: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

We know that yellow is the color of wisdom:

• James 1:5: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.                 Verse 17: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
• 2 Corinthians 4:7: But we have this treasure (a deposit, wealth) in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 
  [It is what God has deposited in us, like putting money in a bank - if you leave it there, it will be there when you need it, and it accumulates interest].

Back to Genesis 2:12:  And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.  The gold of that land is good.

The word “of” is a preposition.  A preposition is a word placed in front of a noun or pronoun to show a connection with or to something.  “Of” means to proceed or to carry on or to continue an action or process, or composed of.  So the people (the reason for saying “people” is that “the gold of the land is good” and “good” in Hebrew is defined as  “male and female”!   So, “the male and female of this land are good” because of what God has deposited in them, His “divine mind”, and made them in His own image and after His likeness.  They are composed of the divine nature of God Himself.  On the inside of us is the divine nature of God!  What’s in us gives us the ability to be in charge of and rule over the creation as the Adam people did in the beginning in the Book of Genesis.                                                                                                 

 Today’s church is waiting for Jesus to come back, but Romans 8:19 states, “For the earnest expectation of the creature (creation) waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Genesis 2:12:  The “gold of this land is good”.  In it is bdellium and onyx stone.  Bdellium means something in pieces.  There are different manifestations of this bdellium.

First:  Bdellium is an aromatic plant whose gum when yielded is similar to myrrh.  Myrrh was an ointment used to wash dead bodies to cover the stench, typifying how God can remove the stench of sin and death from us and also heal every wound and remove the hurts that’s been dealt to us with the bdellium.

Secondly:   Amber is a hard translucent yellow or orange fossil; just in jewelry.  Yellow is the color of God’s wisdom (James 1:5, James 3:17).  Yellow is the ministry of omniscience - all knowing as God knows; judge righteously; mercy.  This is the deliverance of people from under the hand of condemnation; deliverance of people who don’t understand things the way God understands them, from the Pharaoh's of religion holding God’s people in bondage through philosophy, vain deceit, traditions of men, rudiments of the world, and not after Christ: Colossians 2:8.

 You know how religious people judge those who live together?  Scripture does say “If any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry” (1 Corinthians 7:36).  If they marry it takes away the reproach of religious folk.  We will judge the situation not knowing what God is doing in this situation.  It may be just the thing to get you (or them) where God wants you (or them) to be. 

How many know whatever people are going through, God is at work.  It may be things that anger us or we don’t like, but God is at work.  Just like with Jesus - imagine what His mother went through during the crucifixion, but it was God at work.  He had to go through this or we wouldn’t be here.  God knew Jesus was the only one who could do this who was God Himself, and He did!!!

Hebrews 6:13 says, “Because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself”.

Also manifested in the color yellow is a pearl.  It takes seven years for a pearl to form which denotes difficult stages on its way to perfection.  Remember Havilah is a place of testing and trial.

 Pison encompasses that whole land of Havilah.  When you were in your lowest state, God was there.  When we were in places we were not supposed to be, He was there.  He’ll never leave thee, nor forsake thee: Hebrews 13:5.  He was there even when we weren’t mindful of Him.  Some people say that the Holy Ghost won’t live in an unclean temple.  If the Holy Ghost leaves, who is going to get you fixed or cleaned up?  He is the only one who can do it.

Then there’s the onyx - (unravel the letters, you get oxyn); it means to blanche or remove the color from something; to bleach.  That’s what God did in us through the blood He bleached us and made us white as snow with Jesus' blood.  The “onyx” is a gem, and it is linked to different colors.  Maybe the beryl from its pale green color and green is the color of knowledge.  It has colors of black and white in alternating layers. 

Remember when God said in Genesis 1:5: “The evening and the morning”.  The evening symbolizes the dusk which is the early part of the evening just before darkness or night.  That’s where Adam was when the LORD God asked him in Genesis 3:9: And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, “Where art thou”?  He was in the “EVE”ning.  Adam knew he had moved into the part of the day which went toward darkness - the Havilah.  But Pison is compassed all around us. 

The “evening and morning” fit with black and white in the “onyx stone”.  God has brought us out of darkness into His marvelous light.  Even with the black and white or light and darkness, God shows how He created man in His image and put him in a place of dominion, authority and power moving him from humanity into divinity.  The LORD God brought him (man) from the earth to the heavens, which are the elevated places in God.  Green is the color of knowledge and resurrection.

• Hosea 4:6:  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. 
  With knowledge we can live!

Genesis 2:12: This river Pison is God with us, in us.  Whether the situation is good or not, it doesn’t matter. 

The four quarters of man’s earth are in Revelation 4:7:  John looked and around the throne were the four living creatures.  

The first is the lion and the lion is placed right here with the “first river” in Genesis 2, which is “Pison”. You see Pison encompasses Havilah, which encompasses the trials we go through. The lion represents - our soul which houses our emotions.  It has to be the first thing conquered in order for us to overcome! 

Pison typified the Father which takes care and protects the family!!! [That's a characteristic of the male lion].

The Second River is Gihon (Gi’-hon).  [The river of the "Son"].

• Psalm 46:4: There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

 We are God’s tabernacles and His holy people or “holy city”.

• Isaiah 62:12: And they shall call them, “The holy people, the redeemed of the LORD:  and thou shall be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken”! 
• Matthew 5:14: “You are the light of the world; a city, set on a hill cannot be hid”!

The river has been flowing even since Genesis through the manifestation of the Godhead (Father, Son, Holy Ghost, and the church). 

Revelation 22, John is given the vision, and it started out a river in Genesis and fulfilled a river in Revelation.  Our God is unending.     

• Malachi 3:6: For I am the Lord, I change not.
• Ecclesiastes 1:9 says, “There is no new thing under the sun”.
   

Genesis 2:13: And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. 

Why is Gihon the second river?  Remember the definition of “name”?  It is a mark of individuality; position; authority; order; character; work.  The purpose of the second river is God emphasizing, “I am going to do it again”.  Second means to fold or duplicate; to be diverse.   Why diverse? It’s because of the many people; not just the Jew but Jew and Gentile.   

• Ephesians 2:15: Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.  A “new man” includes all tongues, nations, peoples, multitudes.

You see; It started with the Father first.  He says I am Spirit, but I’m taking on another form;   I’m going to duplicate myself as man.  Still God, but I’m taking on the form of man.                    It was God putting on flesh, in flesh bodies, as male and female.     

Genesis 2: 11 talks about the first river Pison and the gold of that land (Havilah), which was good. (Remember that “good” comes from the Hebrew word which is male and female); that gold is the divine nature of God.

But Genesis 2:13, talks about the second river is called Gihon.  It means to gush forth, to issue, to break forth, draw up or to take out; denoting movement, formation, growth, development. 

God replicates Himself and is duplicated even from the book of Genesis, and it’s going to continue forever.  God formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited, Isaiah 45:18.  Therefore man will continue to inhabit it, because   God made us eternal as He Himself is Eternal!!

• Galatians 3:28: There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

 Just like Adam was a body of people, male and female, it’s the same thing today we are Christians, a body of people, male and female, but yet one body.  There is nothing new under the Sun.

• 1 Corinthians 12:12: For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body:  so also is CHRIST.

Like the physical make-up of man, that’s how God duplicates and replicates:  the DNA is God, the RNA is the Son; the transfer RNA is the Holy Ghost.  It says in John 16:13: Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth.  We need the Holy Ghost to discern and rightly divide the word of truth so that we can understand it.  And that’s what the transfer RNA does.

We need the Holy Ghost to transfer the revelation to us.  We are the fourth part which is the ribosome which is the protein (the building block of the body who is the church)! 

We have the DNA, the RNA, the transfer, and the ribosome.  In the ribosome (the church – God’s people) is where the work is being done so that we can become God in the earth, like the LORD God did in Genesis chapter two, doing what God did in chapter one.

So we have God Elohim that created man (male and female) in Genesis chapter one, who was the manifestation in physical form of the LORD God in Genesis chapter two. And the LORD God formed man (male and female) and caused them to take on the image and likeness of God, who was called “Adam” (Genesis 2:19).

The duplicating process or doing again has continued into our day.  As God sends us to people, we will do the same as they did then, “make and form” men and women into God’s image and  likeness of God through the power of the Word of God as The Word of God is ministered into them in its fullness by the Holy Ghost.  Of this Kingdom, God’s Kingdom, there will be no end, Isaiah 9:7. It is a continual thing.

• Isaiah 2:2: And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow into it.

We are God’s kingdom in the earth.  He even said that to Israel that they were a kingdom of priests unto Him, Exodus 19:6.  Jesus was the Kingdom of God, walking around on two feet. 

• Mark 11, when Jesus made His triumphal entry into Jerusalem, they shouted, “Blessed be the Kingdom” (they were prophesying but didn’t know it) of our father David who cometh in the name of the Lord”. 

The Kingdom rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, which was the plan of redemption:  

• Exodus 34:20: But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb:  and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck.
   [Thank God Jesus the Lamb, saved our necks from being broken]!                                                           

Now we are God’s kingdom of priests and kings in the earth:

• Revelation 5:10: And has made us unto or God kings and priests: and we shall reign on (over) the earth! 
• 1 John 4:17: As he is, so are we, in this world!

God’s power flows through His people. Some say that God doesn’t need His people, but that’s a lie.  The devil wants them to believe that because it will keep them from knowing who they really are.  God does need His people.  He’s the Creator but He uses people.  We can’t see Spirit, and He is Light, and light travels at 186,282 miles per second.  But He slowed Himself down enough to take on form as a man so that He could be seen, and He shows Himself in people. God was Jesus in flesh form:

• St. John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God:  Vs 14: And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.
•  Ephesians 5:30: We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 
  God planned it like that.  Jesus said:
• John 15:16: “You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you to go forth and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit remain:  that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you".

Genesis 2:13: This Gihon means to issue out.  Didn’t it say in John 7:38 that “out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water”?

This Gihon is the same that compasseth Ethiopia

Ethiopia is a country in Africa, mountainous in NE Africa; sharp contrast, hot, dry desert in the northern southern borders. Red seaports are two of the hottest places in the world. It has good soil.  It’s two times as large as Texas and has two times as many people.  It’s isolated by rugged mountains, one of few that never became a European colony. 

The name Ethiopia comes from a Greek word meaning “sunburned faces”. 

Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole Ethiopia, meaning it revolves, surrounds, borders, the whole land (meaning all of Ethiopia).  Ethiopia means burned faces or country of burning.  It is signifying that which is darkness (or carnal).  Something that’s burnt is that which typifies darkness which is “carnality or darkness of error”.  The law ministered death because it was put into place to give people something to live by until truth came, until Jesus came.  “Jesus came to fulfill the law” in love.

• Matthew 5:17: Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets:  I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
• Romans 13:8: Owe no man anything but to love one another:  for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.

 From the beginning if man had obeyed what God said, God wouldn’t have had to put rules or laws in place.  All they had to do was obey.

The one who God Elohim our Creator gave the orders to, the LORD God, did what God said, and had dominion over the earth.  The LORD God formed the (aw-dawm) Adam, it was this man who fell for He had made covenant with him, but he stepped beyond his bounds to keep step with the “woman”, the religious church system that she represented.

Ethiopia symbolizes darkness of error – the religious order that man has lived in that brought mortality or death upon the creation because of disobedience due to the lack of knowledge. 

• Hosea 4:6:  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. 

With truth, darkness/ ignorance/ death can be dispelled out of man when the “true light” of God shines through his body which can cause him to live. 

• Matthew 6:22: The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 

The light of the body is the eye.  Our spiritual vision has to be corrected so that we can see only “Christ, the true light”.  The light of the body is brightness; transparency; the knowledge that reaches the mind to penetrate through the darkness to clear our vision so we can see and understand spiritual things.  And it starts in the mind!

• Romans 12:2: And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

As Gihon (this developing process) denotes formation, growth, a gushing out.  As this developing process/formation process gushes forth out of us with truth as a rapid stream, it will kindle (set on fire) and light up the dark places of Ethiopia, giving us light and life!   

• John 8: 32:  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
• John 14:6: Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life (the Zoe life-eternal life).

Matthew 4:16: The people that sat in darkness “saw” great light.

 “Saw” means to know by perception; come into knowledge/understanding; awareness.  These are they that come to know who God really is and who they are in God. Human knowledge is by observation; spiritual knowledge is by revelation. Hallelujah!!!

• 1 Corinthians 2:14: But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:  for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 
  [The natural man can’t understand things of God so we need our vision changed to the “right angle”!!]                                                                                                                                                 [This is the "calf" (body/strength)]: [Revelation 4:7]: And the second beast was like a calf.                                                                                                                                                            (Man in his immature state until he reaches maturity and acquires the strength of the Oxen.  When he does he takes on the "cherubic anointing"]! 
• Ezekiel 1:10: As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side:  and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
• Ezekiel 10:14: And everyone had four faces:  the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.   [Notice, the "face of the ox" is not there in this verse]!
• Ezekiel 28:14: (God speaking to the King of Tyrus):  "Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth".

Genesis 2:14: And the name of the third river is Hiddekel (Hid’-de-kel): that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria.  [The river of the "holy Ghost"].

We are seeing that these Rivers represent the manifestation of the Godhead.

God’s Spirit is at work in the Rivers of Deliverance:

1- Pison - manifestation of the Father

2- Gihon - manifestation of the Son

3- Hiddekel - manifestation of the Holy Ghost

The name of the third river is Hiddekel. Remember the “name” is a mark of individuality; exact position; honor; authority; character; order; appointment; work (not in the sense of “labor” but the moving of Spirit to accomplish what God has put into place); purpose!

Hiddekel, means to be quick/swift; propagator (to breed).  God is the God of multiplication, reproducing Himself; to pass on by heredity certain traits or features; to spread from person to person or place to place; diffuse; generate; be reproduced or multiplied by generations.

Hiddekel is a generative (generational) process; a stream of people or things coming in. 

• Micah 4:1: But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.

 Mountains are kingdoms, and people shall flow into it.  This is the Spirit or power of God propelling or rapidly streaming throughout the totality of man, which is his heart, soul, mind, body.  Man was created to be a total overcomer and help others that may not be an overcomer to become an overcomer. 

As stated earlier, Hiddekel is the river of multiplication, which taps into the third manifestation of the Godhead.

This is the river that goeth toward the east of Assyria.  It is going in the direction of the east of Assyria.  We know what the East is. It is the beginning of the dawning of a new day.  Keep that thought in mind.  That’s where God is; where the Sun rises; daylight begins; where the revelation comes from, the east (the region of light).

 

 

The east is on the inside of us.  East is where wisdom comes from.

• Matthew 2:1-2: Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came “wise men” (the scripture didn’t say it was three) from the east to Jerusalem, to worship him. 

Who are our wise men?  Those twelve apostles that Jesus chose: Peter, Simon, Andrew, James, John, Phillip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, the other James, Thaddeus, Simon, and Judas.                                               When those wise men came bearing gifts, those gifts were everything Jesus needed to become what the Father had ordained Him to be.  The “gold” (the divine nature of the Father); the “frankincense” (His priesthood); the “myrrh” (His death and resurrection)!

Assyria was a mighty empire captured by Babylon.  It symbolizes that which is natural or materialistic.  When we are carnal minded, we don’t see God as the Head of creation or the universe.  We are trying to do things of ourselves just like Enos did. But he discovered there was a higher power he had to depend on as we’ve discovered, and it’s the Almighty God! 

There is a higher power in the Holy Ghost that we have to depend on in order to succeed in whatever it is we do or to get the benefits that God has put in place for us through Jesus Christ.

• Joshua 1:8: This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
• Acts 17:28: For in him we live, and move, and have our being.

God has the blessings in place for us but there is no something for nothing.  God says “When you let go, you will see the blessing".

Assyria is that which walks by what it sees and not by faith.  Sometimes we find ourselves like that. We have to remember David and how he killed that lion and bear with his bare hands.  Goliath is no bigger than the lion or bear in God’s eyes. That’s the way we have to see the Goliath’s, as peons, that launches attacks upon us, as we walk by faith and not by sight.

Assyria focuses on that which is natural.  The river flowed toward the east of Assyria even though the natural man is at work there is some light in there.  Like Jesus in the bottom of the ship asleep; frightening things were going on around the ship He and the disciples were in, but the light was there.  That same “Light” (Jesus) is in us! They woke Him up.  There may be dark things happening around us, but if we awake the “light” that’s in us and allow the light to shine, it can dispel the darkness around us or that may be working in us!

The east - our wise men - we have to send them into our Assyrians (dark places), but it has to be by faith (Peter) and hearing (Simon) and strength (Andrew). We have to bring these gifts to our CHRIST CHILD that’s on the inside of us, so as to bring Him to maturity in us, so we can come out of Assyria and walk by faith and not by sight to become the overcomers God has ordained us to be in all things.

• Philippians 4:13:   I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.
  (Andrew shows us “strength” (power; energy; vigor; might; endurance).

Hiddekel is reproduction; multiplication.  That’s what happened at Pentecost when it was given as a universal gift. God moved on people in the Old Testament at will (whenever He chose to).  At Pentecost, it was given as a universal gift.  He multiplied the Body of Christ, and we are everywhere - still multiplying and reproducing!

Regardless of what you are going through, just multiply your praise; let Hiddekel do the work! Keep clapping your hands and stomping those feet!  Praise shall continually be in my mouth!                        [This is the "face as a man" (the heart/spirit)].  Though he (male & female) is "man-faced" yet he houses the "face of God": 

• St. John 14:9: "He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father". 
• 1 John 4:17: As he is, so are we, in this world.
• Psalm 119:11: Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Last, but not least:

Genesis 2:14: And the fourth river is Euphrates.  It didn’t offer a place where this river is headed.  God’s Word is a revelation within itself and can only be revealed by removing the covers from our eyes so we can see God as He really is, and seeing ourselves as He has made us, and that’s God in flesh form.  [The river, denoting the church]!

Fourth (meaning four square or four parts).  Revelation 21:16, talks about the “four square city”, and God has made us four square in the sense of the four areas Jesus said that we must love God with:

• Mark 12:30: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength [body]).

Let’s take a look at the likeness of these “four living creatures” as they pertain to the “four areas” of man’s personality as mentioned in Ezekiel and Revelation:

• Ezekiel 1:5-10: “four living creatures”:  the face of a man, face of a lion, face of an ox, and the face of an eagle.  
• Revelation 4:7: And the first "beast" was like a lion (soul-emotions); and the second beast like a calf (man in his immature state) [oxen is man in his spiritual maturity]; and the third beast had a face as a man (the heart or spirit); and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle (the mind).

Euphrates is the Hebrew word perath which means to break forth; rush; bear fruit; bring forth fruit; make fruitful; grow; increase.  What did God tell man in Genesis 1:28?  “Be fruitful and multiply”.  This is what God wants for man, but if man is walking in darkness, he is not being fruitful. 

• Romans 7:5: For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Euphrates is the dividing line between that which is truth and that which is error.  There is a dividing line between life and death, love and hate, light and darkness.  Euphrates is the river that feeds Babylon, which is confusion, which symbolizes the river of power that feeds the false church system (the adulteress woman).

 When God gave John the revelation in Revelation 16:12, he said “And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared”.

This Euphrates River runs between the Gentile nations and the Promised Land.  In relation to the Gentiles, the Jews thought they (the Gentiles) were nothing but dogs.  Jesus settled it according to the writing of Paul:

• Galatians 3:28: There is neither Jew nor Greek (Gentile), there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
• Ephesians 2:13-15: But now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.  For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.

God is going to dry up the powers of systematic government that feeds the foundations of the systems of religion so that the sons of God or kings of the east can possess the land.  From the rising of a new day, God will not let anything stand in our way.  We’re marching forward in the name of Jesus the Christ!

• Jeremiah 51:63: And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:

Euphrates is not a good place to be.  We want to be in the Promise Land. 

The word of the Lord said throw that book into Euphrates as a sign that Babylon would sink and never rise again. (Jeremiah wrote of all the evil to come upon Babylon).  I believe that even the confusion that’s in the church today because of traditions of men shall dry up as the truth of God’s Word prevails!

God is tearing this religious system down.  The confusion is fallen!  God has brought us out of Euphrates and placed our feet in the Promised Land! Hallelujah!!!

• Revelation 17:5:   And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.  

The confusion has fallen for us because we have grasped hold of the truth.  God has brought us out of Euphrates and placed our feet in the promise land!!! 

• Revelation 18:1-2: And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.  And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird”. This is a description of the “traditional religious system”!
• Revelation 17: 6: And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.                                         
    [He wondered because he knew he had seen her (the church) before]:
• Revelation 12:1: And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the Sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.                  [This is the true Church in her fullness walking on the power of the devil, clothed with the light or righteousness of God, and the sons of God ruling and reigning over the earth]!  But in Revelation 17, she (the church) has succumbed to the systems of men, philosophies, vain deceit, traditions of men, rudiments of the world, and not after Christ: Colossians 2:8; and she (the false church system) is become the habitation of devils; the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird (Revelation 18:2].                                                    If you don’t believe it, preach these kinds of kingdom messages [you can overcome now; you don't have to die, you can live eternally; you are already in heaven in Christ] to those bound in tradition and watch how they will react toward you!!! 
  The same religious system that fought against and killed Jesus is the same system today that is still fighting against those preaching “the truth of God’s Word”!

Hebrews 12:22:  But ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels.

 We are come and are become Mt Zion, the city of the living God!

The word of God says in Revelation 16:12:   And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates (as we go and minister the fullness of God’s Word to His people, that’s the vial being poured out upon the great river Euphrates); and the water thereof was dried up (when the message of truth is received, the poison water of religion dries up because the waters of life are poured into you)!

 John 7:38 – speaks of “Living waters” (not dead or poisonous water) shall flow out of us! That’s because “the waters of life” has been poured into us!!!  Hallelujah!!!  

And the great river Euphrates, and the water thereof was dried up that the way of the kings of the east (those not bound by the systems of men and are preaching the fullness of God in us right now) might be prepared: Revelation 16:12.

When we look at the river in Genesis 2 that the LORD God caused it to come out of Eden, it didn’t say rivers came out of Eden, but it said “a river” came out of Eden. The river parted and became into four heads.  In Genesis 2, it started as a river. 

• John 7:38-39:   He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

When we get through Pison (the Father), Gihon (the Son), Hiddekel (the Holy Ghost), and Euphrates (the false church), as the water/river flows, and the power of God flows into the people, it will bring everything to us that we need.  That’s what the LORD God was doing with the man - providing for him everything that he needed in Eden.

 This river though it became into “four heads”, yet in Revelation 22, it goes right back to a river. 

In Genesis a river came out of Eden, parted and became four heads.  In Revelation it went back to a river. 

When you really look at it, you see how God’s Spirit put on flesh in Jesus and when He finished with it, He put it back into Spirit, but yet He is still flesh in His people by the Holy Ghost!  And He wants His people to come back to the place of dominion, authority, and power His people (the Adam race) were, in Genesis, being “one man” (or one body-male and female) in the earth!  And God has made it possible through Jesus the Christ!

• Ephesians 4:13: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.  

It started as one Spirit and it has come back to one Spirit. 

• 1 Corinthians 12:12-13: For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit!                                                                       [This river typifies the "face as an eagle" (the mind]!  [The "eagle" flies above the storm, soaring in heights of victory]!!!
• Luke 17:37: Whithersoever the body is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
• Romans 12:2: Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove, what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
•  1 Corinthians 2: 13-14: Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.  But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God:  for they are foolishness unto him:  neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
• Philippians 2:5: Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:  Vs 6: Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God
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Prayer:

Holy Spirit, We make ourselves available to the many different expressions and rivers of life that You want to flow from our spirit. Help us learn to flow in these rivers with precision and accuracy so deliverance can come forth. In Jesus’ the Christ Name, amen!!!

 

Evangelist Jackie Burton