Given to Jose Alvarez on 04/24/2000
Somewhere in his life he had known that Jesus wore a crown of
thorns for him. Somewhere in his life
he had seen the beautiful face of Jesus personally beckoning him to come and
follow Him. This man is a believer. His seeing Jesus had been one of the very
few times that he had really gotten excited. Yet the excitement had been short lived. He had slumped back into the boredom and meaningless of life
without the Lord. He had even known
that faith comes by hearing and knew that God’s word must be applied to his
life. Yet this had not taken deep effect
either within his life.
I
saw that the problem lied in that this man’s bondages, and hurts that was far
too great. His spirit was wounded, and
his mind was oppressed. This warrior lived behind a mask of pain, grief,
insecurity, and fear. I, Jose, have
been in a deliverance ministry for seven years. I can tell you that this man needed a great deal of personal
ministry.
I
then felt Jesus’ heart almost sob as He looked for help towards the many Anglo
ministers that had already experienced deliverance and healing in their
lives. These men of God had been raised
up and taught of the Lord. However,
most of them had their sights and plans somewhere else. They had little understanding of, or
interest in raising up and discipling their Native brethren. The same was the case with the Afro American
men of God. There attention was
somewhere else. I, Jose then thought of this scripture.
Isa 59:16 ¶ And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that
there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his
righteousness, it sustained him.
As
this visionless warrior contemplated a television set, images started to be
displayed to him of people through out the world more needy and more hurting
than himself. The Gamines of Colombia,
South America; these are the street children so covered with dirt and grime
that you cannot identify them, and those families in the Philippines that live
on top of the garbage dumps. The people
in Africa that are either dying from starvation, or don’t even have a well from
where they can drink water. Then I saw
a picture of the whole globe and knew that God is calling us there.
Suddenly,
supernatural healing and deliverance started to come to the warrior apart from
human hands, deliverance, or personal ministry given unto him. I saw a large Kenneth Copeland Bible
convention filled with many Anglo and Afro American people. They all had their Bibles opened and were
intently looking at them. Surprisingly
the Native warrior standing there in the process of now getting supernaturally
healed also seemed to be bypassing the need to attend these conferences and
seminars. God was doing something
supernatural in his life that bypassed his need for much personal ministry and
Bible teaching, if he would be willing to obey the call of the Lord to be sent
as a missionary abroad and around the world.
I believe the word “My Turn” is God speaking to the NA saying to him or
her “It is Your Turn!” The call would
take some conflict. This is the end of
the prophecy.
I
would like to make some comments to this prophecy. I want to title the prophecy “ The Last Shall be First”. If we remember the words of Jesus, “the last
shall be first” is a spiritual principle.
A principle is a law. A law
tells us that under certain conditions other corresponding conditions will
always come to pass. Thus, those that
have been last to be raised up or used by the Lord because of circumstances,
the attacks of the enemy etc. shall be first, once they are raised up. Let me further explain. When I was growing up in Miami I spent nine
years as a celibate unmarried believer.
Almost all of my friends got married before me and I was left to the
end. I became upset with the Lord because it seemed that I had been more
committed and obedient than all of my friends, and yet I was left at to the
end.
However
when I finally met my lovely wife Mary and got married it has been like a
marriage made in heaven. We have fit
like two gloves together hand in hand.
We got our family raised and built up before most other couples did, and
were one of the very first families to be commissioned and sent out by the Lord
from our church. Truly it was the
principle of the last shall be first.
We can also see this law work in the life of Joseph when he was thrown
into the dungeon and sold into slavery.
Though his brothers thought he was gone, and Joseph went through untold
suffering, suddenly God exalted him to be first. So was with David. He
seemed to be finished when Saul tried to assassinate him so many times. Suddenly God exalted him to be king. Moses was the same way. An old man of 80, all vision and hope gone
that he would deliver Israel; suddenly God exalted him to the top.
If
you read reread the two prophecies, the one about the “Young Warrior” and the one
about the “Native believer” you see how supernatural transitions suddenly
happened to the Native believer or how quickly he was healed.
I
have been a believer for twenty-one years.
My deliverance and my healing have been a long process over time. Twenty-one
years later I am still being delivered.
I cannot tell you how many Bible conferences and seminars I have been
too.
I
have been truly amazed at the suddenness of deliverance, healing, and the
ministerial calling being offered to Native believers now at this time when it
is “Their Turn”. Truly God is executing
the principle of the “last shall be first”.
God is ready to bypass much of the process and time that we as Anglos
have had to go through in order to be raised up. Secondly I am impressed that in two prophecies the believer is
rightfully in his or her regalia. God is saying. When I created you, I created you as warriors. You are and shall always be warriors. Secondly, and as we know the Indian culture
is from the Lord. The white missionaries
were deceived to try to take it away.
Thirdly
the Native believer is divinely equipped to be tremendously effective
missionaries. Why? Because of what they have suffered, they are
spiritually prepared and fit to minister to so many that are so deeply
hurting. Most Anglos have not suffered
like that. They cannot minister on most
levels to these suffering ones like Native believers.
In
conclusion, prophecy will only be prophecy until it is acted upon. We can talk
and talk about it. Only when it is acted upon, the full manifestation and
understanding of it will come forth.
Where are the mighty Native men and women warriors that will take to
heart the conflict and the challenge of the Lord’s call in getting up and going
into all the world as a witness to the great principle of the “last shall be
first” executed upon a whole people group, to the admiration of the world and
the glory of our Lord? What Satan meant for evil God has turned around for
good!