[Editor's note: Below are the notes that Johnny Enlow and Andrew Whalen shared from during their recent interview on Elijah Streams. We encourage you to read through them and watch this episode right here.]
The Best Is Yet to Come because of Christmas Day!
Word by
Johnny Enlow
"'For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.'
"And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:
"'Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men!'" (Luke 2:11-14)
Today, let's agree with the angels! In Luke 2:14 we are allowed the privilege of hearing what a multitude of the heavenly hosts are saying upon seeing Jesus born in a manger. While He was yet in swaddling clothes, these angels discerned and declared the "end game" of it all. Three objectives were to now be fulfilled with God having made Himself flesh.
1. Glory to God!
A storyline that gives glory to God must be the central outcome. It must be proven to powers and principalities that His great experiment of creating man in His image did not go horribly awry. His commitment to fragile humanity was made expressly clear to the angels and demons as He became one with mankind by being born to Mary. The Godhead would yet get Their glory from Their original story. This baby Jesus would now ensure that an Ekklesia would arise that would overcome the very gates of Hell.
2. Peace on Earth!
The final objective was not war on Earth but peace on Earth. He would use redeemed humanity to accomplish this. As Paul would later say in Romans 16:20, "... the God of peace will crush satan under YOUR feet..." The glory of His story is that He takes the fragile humanity He created in His image and turns them into a satan-crushing, peace-establishing force. He doesn't remove them from the planet first so HE can do it; He enforces the peace WITH them. Angels and demons both understood the assignment He was committing to. (Photo via Flickr)
3. Good Will Toward Men!
The birth of Jesus was "good will toward men" – not just because He was the life insurance policy once He burned up their world, removed them, and crushed satan. No, the angels didn't praise God, saying, "... and judgment toward men." Men and their abode, Earth, would now experience the full benefits of God's original plan: "... on Earth AS IT IS in Heaven" (Matthew 6:10).
This is what the angels celebrated on the first Christmas day. God, Earth, and men would all three be taken care of. God would get His glory. Earth would get its peace. Men would experience on this earth His good will. Any narrative that did not include these three objectives would now be known to be a false narrative. Our Father allowed the angels themselves to make the important announcement to all.
As we celebrate the day that honors when Christ was born, let us be strengthened and encouraged by what was revealed to us that very day by multitudes of angels. The best is yet to come only because of that day.
This becomes something so important. There's a song, "Angels We Have Heard on High." What were they singing? They were singing this very reality that we are talking about. There was going to be glory to God. He was yet going to get glory from humanity. That's the big surprise for demons and angels – that He's going to get glory out of that story, and peace on Earth.
This is part of an eschatology that runs rampant in the Body of Christ – that this is going to devastation, and the earth being burned up. But there was peace on Earth. The angels saw it; they celebrated it; they declared it – and good will towards men. This whole thing was not an excuse to finally judge men, and Armageddon is the "end story" of it all.
So, there is an invitation to upgrade to the angelic perspective – what they saw, what they understood; the adjustment in their own thought patterns.
We find this so true of our God, that He doesn't tell everyone around Him what He's doing. He likes for there to be surprises. There's a reason that the twenty-four elders keep casting their crowns down. He told them something else He was doing and they were BLOWN AWAY! He won't even tell His Son, Jesus, when He is returning, because He wants that to be a surprise. He loves holding back certain information (insider information) that will really bless them when they find out what He's doing.
So this was an "AHA" moment for angels and demons. [Speaking as God]: "I'm committed to humanity. You think they are worthless, they're nothing. They've failed Me before and I didn't know what I was doing... like I'm scratching My head wondering how I'm going to wipe them out. NO! I'm so committing to them that I am splicing Myself with them, because that's what it was – humanity and divinity. I'm committing to them forever. They're going to bring peace on Earth." (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
The God of peace will crush satan under OUR feet.
So this is part of the Good News story we're invited to be a part of. It connects to what we're talking about, even as a prayer movement. We have to begin to connect with the correct narrative, the narrative established Christmas Day, even by angels singing that over us.
"Thirty Is the Key"
by Andrew Whalen
Prophetic Dream (December 26, 2023):
In my dream, I was invited by someone to sleep in what looked like a library/book vault of Kingdom and Christian writings. I was amazed at how many books were in this place. I was asked if I had a written work, and I said yes. Then I heard someone say, "Thirty is the key." I knew when I heard this that thirty was a key of the Kingdom for this coming year, 2024.
In the dream, I had chills go up and down my spine when I thought about the number thirty. I was trying to figure out what the thirty meant, and then I remembered the book I had written called Dreams to Save a Nation: 30 Days of Prophetic Revelation to Fuel Intercession for America.
In the next scene of the dream, I was walking through this library of Kingdom books/works, preparing to find a place to lie down. On the way, I saw several books from authors I recognized. Specifically, I saw Bill Johnson's God is Good, and John Bevere's The Fear of the Lord. Then I saw one book that captured my attention. It was called The Demonic Gospel. On the cover, I saw demons of all shapes and sizes illustrated surrounding and touching the word "Gospel." I grabbed the book off the shelf because I wanted to read it while I was lying down.
As I was lying on a mat/bed within the library, I realized at this point there were several other people staying in this library. I noticed one man who was hiding behind the shelves, lying down. I asked one of the other people in this place who he was and if they trusted him. They said, "He has been here a long time, and though he is a bit strange, he has never caused problems." However, I discerned that this man was demonized, and then I knew that the demons in him didn't want me to read the book I had in my hands. I knew that during the night they would try to kill me if I didn't stay alert.
Next, I opened the book Demonic Gospel to read, and I began to read about 2024. I read about famous ministers and some lesser-known ministers who had died. I was shocked that they had died; however, in the book it said "idolatry = death." Then, I read how the demons seek to infiltrate the Gospel with the allowance of idolatry. I saw the words "homosexuality, LGBTQ, sexual perversion and immorality." I knew in the dream that the demonic gospel was the mixture, tolerance and acceptance of these kinds of idolatries, both in the message preached, and the messengers preaching them. (Photo via Rawpixel)
I had a terrible fear of the Lord as I knew that some ministers, whom people would never consider compromised or in idolatry, suddenly died because the glory of God in 2024 was coming with a greater intensity and expression. I also knew that, in the goodness of God, He was going to restore a shocking amount of the fear of the Lord, and it would return us to powerful prayer.
Finally, the dream concluded with me pondering the key of thirty and how we could intervene through prayer for 2024.
Judgment Begins in God's Household
1 Peter 4:17: "For it is time for judgment to begin with God's household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the Gospel of God?"
I believe 2024 will be a year where we are contending for justice to be done and judgment to sweep away wicked and evil works and workers of the devil in America. But in order for us to come into the time of God's righteous judgment upon the world systems and the ungodly, He must first visit His own house and apply righteous judgment. It is according to His goodness and love, but it will nonetheless be judgments against demonic mixture, tolerance, etc. This should both cause us to tremble, but also to have great expectation. When God removes the defilement from operating in and among His people, the breach is repaired and our prayers are not hindered or delayed, and the glory of answered prayers can advance like never before.
Thirty was the age of Christ when He started His ministry. It is a number that represents a new "wineskin" of Kingdom advancement and authority in the earth. I believe these thirty days [speaking of thirty days of prayer from Andrew's e-book below] can be both a season of personal consecration and cleansing, as well as united, powerful prayer and intercession!
(To purchase Andrew Whalen's e-book that was mentioned on Johnny's show, Dreams to Save a Nation: 30 days of prophetic revelation to fuel intercession for America, click here.)
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Johnny Enlow
Johnny and Elizabeth
Email:Â Contact@JohnnyandElizabeth.com
Website:Â www.restore7.org
Johnny Enlow is a social reformer, international speaker, spiritual mentor. He is author of RISE, Becoming A Superhero, The Seven Mountain Mantle, Rainbow God, and The Seven Mountain Prophecy. He and his wife Elizabeth are focused on awakening individuals to their call to provide practical solutions from the heart of God for every problem in society until the real God of all of life is displayed in the seven primary areas of culture in all nations: Media, Arts and Entertainment, Government, Family, Religion, Economy, and Education.
Andrew Whalen
Vanquish – Prophetic Warriors
Email:Â wordonfire11@gmail.com
Website:Â www.vanquishpw.com
Andrew Whalen is an emerging leader and prophetic voice to a generation. He functions as a prophetic warrior to advance the Kingdom of God in all spheres of society. Andrew is uniquely called to raise up spiritual special forces, equipped to achieve spiritual breakthroughs against regional and national level, demonic resistance. Andrew and his wife Kelly have pioneered and led various ministry initiatives, while also engaging in the marketplace, for over 15 years. In the last 4 years, they have served as core prophetic leaders with Lou Engle ministries. Today, Andrew and Kelly, along with their three children, reside in DFW Texas region, where they lead VANQUISH – PROPHETIC WARRIORS, and are also working to establish an apostolic training center, The Unapologetic Dreamers, and are working to establish an apostolic training center. Andrew's heart burns to see a generation take hold of everything that Christ has provided for us through His victory.
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