Seer Chapter one

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The Seer.

The Seer is one of the Seven Prophetic Ministries which will be revealed in the Endtime.

The Lord gave me a revelation of these ministries in 1988 and just recently He told me that it was time to share with others what He had shown to me.

NAMES AND FUNCTIONS

Seer in the word of God.
A Seer is someone who can see beyond human vision, who can see in the spiritual realm and discern the mind of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit moved on people in the old times and caused them to write books, and most of these books became books in the Bible. They were written by revelation of the Holy Spirit. In the Old Testament we read how several seers wrote books about the lives of the kings of Israel and Judah.

Expressed by name.
And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name…(1 Chr 16:41)

When I first read the above scripture I saw the words „who were expressed by name" and the Holy Spirit drew my attention to the different names of the people that were appointed in certain positions. When I made a study of those names I found a picture of the true function, character and task of the different ministries.

The Ordinance of king David.

Our type of the Seer in the Bible is Heman. We find him in the „ordinance of David", in the first book of Chronicles. (1Chron 6:33/15:19/16:41/25:1,5). The Bible calls him: „the king’s seer in the words of God" and also „to lift up the horn". He was a singer, a worshipper and prophesied with harp and psalter and cymbals. He was chosen by God and expressed by name
(1 Chron 16:41).

Name Heman:
The rootword in Hebrew is „to support, to confirm, to be true and trustworthy, to uphold, to feed, to nurse like a mother, to carry like a father. His name and the names of his sons, give us a picture of the ministry of the Psalmist, who is called to minister to the Body of Christ and the Seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn.

Lifting up the horn.
It was Heman’s duty to anoint people with oil and place them in their right function in the temple. The Seer of today has the ability to see the end product in people, so that he can train and support them until they can take their place in the Body of Christ and function where God has placed them.

Teaching.
Heman is a type of the Teacher in Eph. 4:11, who teaches by revelation. Prophetic teaching we are talking about, which is teaching by revelation of the Holy Spirit. We all know that Jesus was THE TEACHER and our example and when He taught, the people said: „ this man speaks with authority", and they were amazed .

Function Hidden in Names
The Holy Spirit has again hidden in the names of several teachers in the Old Testament, the true function, character and task of the Teacher and we will examine some of these names.

Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests. And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people. (2 Chron 17:7-9)

PRINCES AND ROYAL AUTHORITY

1. Benhail: "My son is a man of valour."

The meaning of his name makes me think of another man in the Word, who was called a man of valour. His name was Gideon. (Judges 6) What type of man was Gideon? God was with him and He sent him to deliver God’s people from the Midianites which ruled over them and robbed them of their harvest. Midian belonged to Babylon. Their strategy was to mislead, to deceive and to rob them of their harvest. The definition of the word ‘deception’ is, to rob you of something, by misleading you and causing you to believe a lie. Human tradition robs the Word of God of its power.

He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. (Mark 7:6,7,13)

Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees and scribes, the teachers of the Word in His time, while He was on earth.

Paul warned the Christians about following the traditions of men.
Beware lest any man spoil (rob) you through philosophy (human wisdom) and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments (principles) of the world, and not after Christ. (Col 2:8)

Gideon: When we first meet Gideon, we do not see a man of valour. He was afraid and had an inferiority complex.

And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. (Judges 6:15)

But God saw the endproduct. He always sees the endproduct ! That is good news for us! It doesn’t matter what you or your life look like at this moment. What God intends to do with us is what really matters in this world. Before the foundation of this world God had us in mind and intended for us to be His children and His plan for our lives was then already written in His books. Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love.

For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will because it pleased Him and was His kind intent - (Eph 1:4,5 Ampl.)

An good example is Cyrus. Just like the life of Cyrus. Years before he was born, God knew he was going to be there and God knew his name and what he was going to do. And so it is with us.

Who has roused up one [Cyrus] from the east, whom He calls in righteousness to His service and whom victory meets at every step? He [the Lord] subdues nations before him and makes him ruler over kings. He turns them to dust with the sword [of Cyrus], and to driven straw and chaff with his bow. He [Cyrus] pursues them and passes safely and unhindered, even by a way his feet had not trod and so swiftly that his feet do not touch the ground. Who has prepared and done this, calling forth and guiding the destinies of the generations [of the nations] from the beginning? I, the Lord--the first [existing before history began] and with the last [an ever-present, unchanging God]--I am He. (Isa 41:2-4)

Gideon believed God and he was obedient and did not let the circumstances cause him to fear. He said to the people, Look on me, and do likewise (Judges 7:17). Paul said the same in 1 Cor 11:1.

Gideon had success and his brothers from the tribe of Ephraim were jealous and they rebuked him sharply. And now we see a little bit of Gideon’s character. He did not think he was better than his brethren.
(Rom 12:3) and he gave a friendly answer.

(Prov 15:1) and they calmed down and were no longer angry with him. He was a humble man and was not looking for position.

Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian. And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you. (Judges 8:22-23)

WHAT THE NEW TESTAMENT SAYS ABOUT THE TEACHER

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. These things command and teach. Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. (1 Tim. 4:1-12)

So we learn from the meaning of this name that a prophetic teacher must not teach tradition or doctrines of men; he/she must teach that every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. He/she does not have to be perfect, God is able to change him/her, so that he/she becomes a person, who is an example, in word, in manner, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith and in purity

2. Name Obadiah: Worshipper of God.

His name tells us that this was a man, totally dedicated to God. What does that mean? In Ezechiel God told the prophet that only the sons of Zadok would serve Him, because they preferred to minister unto Him. The other priests were more concentrated on serving the people. They were told to carry on with what they were doing, but God called the sons of Zadok to minister unto Him and then God could minister through them to the people. So when one is really called by God to be His prophetic (like Jesus) teacher, he or she must be someone who has an intimate relationship with God. You can be so busy with your ministry that Jesus takes second place. Through personal example Obadiah could teach the people what it means to fear God, like the priests in 2 Kings 17:28:

Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. (2 Kings 17:28)

3. Name Zechariah; God remembers, recognises, approves of

Paul said about himself: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. (2 Cor 3:5-6)

The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. So many times we have seen how students were taught the letter of the Word at Bible College instead of being taught of the Spirit through able men of God. These Colleges produce men and women, full of the letter, full of Bible knowledge. They have learnt about the history of the Bible but they have not learned to know God, which is what we should teach them!

We also need to encourage young Christians to read the Word and to have a relationship with the Spirit of God, Who is their own personal Teacher. So they will become workmen, approved of God, and not of man.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
(2 Tim 2:15)

4. Name Nethaneel: Given by God.

And He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 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: (Eph 4:11-13)

The ministry of a prophetic Teacher is a gift from God, to bring the Body of Christ to maturity and to bring balance.

5. Name Michaiah: Who is God?

That is a good question. Who IS God? In Eph. 4:11 we read that one of the tasks of the five-fold ministry is to bring people to the knowledge of the Son of God. Jesus said Himself, When you have seen Me, you have seen the Father (John 14:9).
This is one of the most important tasks of the teacher, to make known unto the people Who God is. What is He like? How do we relate to God?
People often have a wrong picture in their mind of Who God is. The best way to get to know God is to read your Bible and spend time in His Presence. Read how He deals with His people, read the Psalms. In there we will find the testimonies of the Psalm writers about Who God is to them. They talk from personal experience. And by observing Jesus and how He reacts to situations and people He meets, we get to know Who the Father is. When Jesus prayed His last prayer, He said:

And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. (John 17:3-4)

And the work the Father had given Him to do was to declare God’s name to the people, to tell them Who God is. And now Jesus is sending us to do the same.

O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. (John 17:25-26)

God was angry with Job’s friends because they did not show him what God was really like.

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. (Job 42:7)

Actually, Job called them ‘clouds without water’ and Peter and Jude, in the New Testament, talked about false prophets and false teachers and called them also ‘clouds without water’. (2Pet.2:1/ Jude 1:12)

There is a prophet in the Old Testament with the same name and he said about himself:

But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. (Micah 3:8 )

And what was their sin and transgression?

The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us. (Micah 3:11)

Do we know teachers and prophets like that today? But God promises us that this will change. In the last days there will be righteous teachers and prophets in His church.

And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in His paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. (Micah 4:2)

23 Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise and skillful person glory and boast in his wisdom and skill; let not the mighty and powerful person glory and boast in his strength and power; let not the person who is rich [in physical gratification and earthly wealth] glory and boast in his [temporal satisfactions and earthly] riches; 24 But let him who glories glory in this: that he understands and knows Me [personally and practically, directly discerning and recognizing My character], that I am the Lord, Who practices loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth, for in these things I delight, says the Lord (Jer 9:23,24 Ampl.)

We are not called to teach head knowledge. We are to teach by revelation and by personal experience. One day a young prophet came to me and asked me what I thought about his message, his teaching. My answer to him was, Brother you served us some delicious potatoes, but I couldn’t get them down my throat. The gravy, which makes it soft and easy to go down, was missing. He looked rather surprised. I then explained to him that the gravy is that which we know and have personally experienced with the word we are teaching. The apostles and Paul knew that the only way one could teach was from personal experience. Paul said:

Be ye followers of me, even as I also am (a follower) of Christ. (1 Cor 11:1)

The apostles said:

[WE ARE writing] about the Word of Life [in] Him Who existed from the beginning, Whom we have heard, Whom we have seen with our [own] eyes, Whom we have gazed upon [for ourselves] and have touched with our [own] hands.
And the Life [ an aspect of His being] was revealed (made manifest, demonstrated), and we saw [as eyewitnesses] and are testifying to and declare to you the Life, the eternal Life [[ in Him] Who already existed with the Father and Who [actually] was made visible (was revealed) to us [His followers]. What we have seen and [ourselves] heard, we are also telling you, so that you too may] realize and enjoy fellowship as partners and partakers with us...(1John1:1-3)

LEVITES

1.Shemaiah: Hearken to God, obey, publish, declare, discern.

Shemaiah was the type of a man who could hear God. He had the ability to hear and discern. God has something to say about the teacher who teaches by revelation in Jer. 23:

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD…. For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it? (Jer 23:16-18)

But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. (Jer 23:22)

The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour…. I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
(Jer 23:28-32)

The Word of God is powerful and will do a work in the hearts of the people, if…. the Word that is brought, is God’s Word for the people for that specific day in that specific place. The Seer, the Prophetic Teacher has to stand in the counsel of God and bring the word he receives from God, for the people he is ministering to. Another thing is, that he must be careful what he teaches the people. I have seen teachers which are bringing the words from other teachers, not their own. There is nothing wrong with that, one can use the teaching of others to illustrate a point, but one must be true and mention where they got their teaching from. Unfortunately that does not always happen. I know a prophetic teacher who used the teachings from another person because when God called him to teach, he did not think much of his own revelation of the Word, or his own ability to teach. Now when this prophet teaches about the things of the Spirit and his own experience, his teaching is alive and powerful and has changed the lives of many and myself too, but the other teaching which became the major teaching in his ministry was copied by many and brought reproach and did not profit the people at all. It was not his own teaching.

I know another man of God , whom I really respect, but when he starts teaching I switch the TV off. Not because I think I am better than him, absolutely not, but the word he brings, does not do anything for me. But when he starts teaching about his relationship with the Holy Spirit, from his own experience, it is so anointed and a blessing and inspiration to many. I love listening to that type of teaching.

Another thing I have observed is, that people like to import teaching from abroad and make it their own, while it might not be the teaching God wants for that specific country or continent. For example, the teaching about discipleship was from the Lord and it worked well in South America. The people there were used to listen to their priests. They came from Catholic background. But when this teaching was imported in the North of America it went totally out of balance and ended up in manipulation and control, bringing reproach and division in the Body of Christ. The teaching that worked well in the North of America was the teaching on faith and prosperity. God has used the Americans to bring much blessing to the rest of the world and God has blessed them financially and America is known as the country where the people just love to give to the work of the Lord. Ministers in other parts of the world thought this was great and tried to import this teaching and make it their own, in their part of the world, but from what I have seen, this teaching does not have the effect it has in the land of origin. It is not the major teaching for their country or continent. Sure, the teaching on faith and prosperity is part of the word of God and helpful to the Body of Christ, but when applied as a major teaching in other countries it has gone out of balance and brought reproach, manipulation, pride, deception and division.

And so there is more. The teaching about church growth, works so well where it came from because God is raising up an army in that part of the world to invade China and other countries in the east, given over to false religions and eastern philosophies. The prophetic praise and worship coming from countries like Australia and New Zealand create in the spiritual realm a buffer between the eastern countries and the west. We need to be led by the Holy Spirit, even in our teaching.

2.Nethanjah: Gift of Jehova

Again this ministry is a ministry given by God to bring the church to maturity.

3.Zebadjah; Gifted by Jahweh.

The Seer is gifted by the Lord to be able to see and discern in the spiritual realm. The Seers cannot teach or write, because they are so clever or have attended Bible College, they can teach because God has enabled them to teach and they can see the mysteries of God, which are hidden in the Word, only to be revealed by the author of the Word, the Holy Spirit.

4. Asahel: brought forth and ordained and sent by God

When people were questioning the teaching of Jesus, he told them:

Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but His that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. (John 7:16-18)

Nicodemus (who himself was called a teacher) said to Jesus:

For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. (John 3:34)

When God has really sent you (then it was Jesus and now it is us) you will speak the words God wants you to speak and teach what God wants you to teach and you will be fully equipped by Him to do what you are sent for. You receive the Spirit ‘not by measure’ and this means that God will give you the gifts of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 12) which you need at that moment, to do the work which He has beforehand prepared for you to do. (Eph 2:10)

5. Shemiramoth: famous, well respected, having authority, of good reputation.

This makes me think of what they said about Jesus, but also about other men in the Bible like Daniel and David.

About Jesus they said:

And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. (Matthew 7:28-29 )

About Daniel they said:

There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the Spirit of the holy God [or gods], and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him; and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father--the king, I say, your father--appointed him master of the magicians, enchanters or soothsayers, Chaldeans, and astrologers, Because an excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding to interpret dreams, clarify riddles, and solve knotty problems were found in this same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.
(Daniel 5:11,12)

About David they said:

Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him. (1 Samuel 16:18)

The most important thing they said about David was, „and the Lord is with him"!

About Peter and John they said:

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. (Acts 4:13)

About the believers of those days they said:

Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
(Acts 2:47)

And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them. (Acts 5:13)

6. Jehonathan: given to and by God, devoted to God, zealous for God.

Moses really stood in the counsel of God:

But not so with My servant Moses; he is entrusted and faithful in all My house. With him I speak mouth to mouth [directly], clearly and not in dark speeches; and he beholds the form of the Lord. ..(Numbers 12:7,8)

About Phinehas God said:

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel. (Numbers 25:10-13)

God said to Eli, who was an unfaithful priest because he refused to discipline his sons:

And I will raise up for Myself a] faithful priest (Priest), who shall do according to what is in My heart and mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before My anointed (Anointed) forever (1Sam 2:35)

And Paul said about himself:

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. (1 Corinthians 4:1-2 )

And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
(1 Timothy 1:12-13 )

7. Adonijah: The Lord is my Master.

I am not my own, I am bought with a price. Do you know what that means? One of the things it means is that people do not owe you. That makes me think of Jesus. He came down one day after a night’s prayer on the mountain and many people were there waiting for Him. The Bible tells us that Jesus was moved with compassion for them, for they were like sheep that had no shepherd, but yet He told the disciples that they had to move on to the other side. Jesus was not motivated by the needs of the people, He was motivated by what His Father wanted Him to do. That is what God expects from us as well. Paul said to the Corinthians:

Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. (1 Cor 7:23)

8. Tobijah: Jahweh is good.

What is God like? The Teacher needs to tell the people Who God is from his own personal experience with God. This is repeated over and over again.

There should be more emphasis on the goodness of the Lord in our teaching. The Pharisees wanted to stone the adulterous woman, Jesus forgave her. God’s love and mercy is greater than His wrath.

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? (Rom 2:4)

9. Tobadonijah: To please God

The rootword in Hebrew ,‘towb’, means : merciful, joyful, happy, friendly, loving, pleasant, loved, and favoured.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. (James 3:17)

When we ask God for His wisdom, to be able to teach His church, He will give it to us.

AND LASTLY THERE WERE PRIESTS

When we spend time in the Presence of the Lord and He sends us, we know that He hears us and will confirm the words we speak. It has been my own experience, when the Lord sent me somewhere to teach on a certain subject, that He would confirm that Word and move by His Spirit in that realm. For example, when the Lord leads me to speak on healing, I know He hears me and will confirm His word and after the teaching I invite the people to apply the Word they have heard and teach them how to pray for the sick and God shows them that His Word is real and alive.

Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers.. (Isa 44:24-26)

The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. (John 3:2)

And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. (Mark 16:20)

God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? (Heb 2:4)

2. Jehoram: God is lifted up.

When Jesus is lifted up He will draw all men to Him. And when we are sent and speak God’s Word, we will lift up the One Who sent us. (John 12:32)

We do not need to be perfect. When we lift up the Lord in our teaching and do not draw attention to ourselves ,then will Jesus say about us, That same one is true and there is no unrighteousness in him. (John 7:16-18)

These were the Teachers that were sent forth by king Jehoshaphat to teach the people.

And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people. (2 Chr 17:9).

There are some more teachers in the Bible, whose names are significant to this ministry of the Seer/Prophetic Teacher.
We find them in the book of Nehemiah.

Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength. So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved. And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them. And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law………... Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. …..Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them. And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God. (Neh 8:7-9:3)

Taking our place.

The first thing I want you to notice is that these teachers caused the people to understand the law and then the Bible says, and the people stood in their place. That could mean two things. They stood in their place, they stood to attention, but the Holy Spirit told me something else here. When people understand the Word, they will know where they belong. They will know their place in the Body, where God has called them to function. God spoke to me through His word in Ezekiel :

Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them. (Ezek 43:10-11)

God gave me this Rhema Word after He had given me the revelation about the seven different prophetic endtime ministries. This teaching about the Seer/Prophetic Teacher is part thereof. I wrote down what He had shown me and shared it with a few people. That was in 1988. But few understood what I was talking about, so my notes were put in a file and kept all these years. When God started to move worldwide with signs and wonders in 1994, I was so in love with Jesus that everything else seemed unimportant to me and so I asked God what I should do with all my notes. He told me not to throw them away, reminded me of the scripture He had given me that time and said, These are the measurements of the temple, and now is the time to bring them out and show them to the people.

It is important that we know our place in the Body of Christ .

The names:

The first one mentioned is Ezra. His name means ‘helper"
He is a type of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said about the Holy Spirit:

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. (John 14:26)

Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come. (John 16:13)

2. Nehemiah: Jehova comforts, has compassion, encourages.

Again this reminds us of the Holy Spirit, Who was sent to be our Comforter, our Helper and our Teacher. He came alongside and encourages us in our walk with the Lord.

3. Jeshua: God saves, delivers.

This name was given unto Jesus and also to Joshua. The father of John the Baptist prophesied about Jesus:

That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
(Luke 1:74)

Jesus told us to abide in His word:

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on Him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:31-32)

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; (Isaiah 61:1-2)

Jesus quoted this scripture and He told the people that it applied to Him and His ministry. He came to set the captives free.

Specific prophetic teaching ministries, to bring deliverance.

There are certain ministries, raised up by the Lord, to teach the people how to get free. The first thing the people need to be taught is that they should read their Bible and apply the Word to their own lives, in order to be free. The truth will set them free. But many people cannot read the Word because they are bound and their eyes are blinded to the truth by things they carry from their past life or things that have been passed on from past generations. It causes them to not be able to grow and they have no appetite for the Word. It is the devil, who blinds the minds of the people and old things need to be renounced and broken down, so the people can be free. After the word had been read to the people in the Book of Nehemiah they gathered together:

And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. (Nehemiah 9:2)

They separated themselves, they took a decision to follow God with their whole heart, and then they confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. They had to do that in order to be free. And that is still so today. When I lead someone to the Lord, the first thing I make them do is also to confess whatever occult thing or new age practice they have been involved with, renounce it and they also have to renounce their star sign (the captain they appointed over themselves to bring them back into bondage). Confessing that Jesus is now the captain of their salvation and they are no longer under the control of the birth star that ruled their life before.

God said in Ezekiel 37 :23 that He would bring His people out of captivity and cleanse them. And He has raised up certain teaching ministries that help the people to get rid of things from the past, like when their fathers and past generations have been involved in Freemasonry etc. You see that is not the work of the shepherd, the pastor. His work is to bind up, to love and care and he must bring in those ministries to set the people free which God has entrusted to his care.

Nehemiah prayed for the people:

But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not…. Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants (slaves) in it: And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress. (Neh 9:36-37)

The kings he is praying about are a type of the principalities and powers in high places, demonic forces which have dominion over our bodies. Not our spirits but our bodies and our possessions. They bring us great distress. We need to be taught and helped to get free .

4. Bani: to build up, to repair, to restore, to put on their feet again, to obtain children.

There is a beautiful scripture in the Amplified Bible about this facet of the teaching ministry:

And if you pour out that with which you sustain your own life for the hungry and satisfy the need of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity and gloom become like the noonday. And the Lord shall guide you continually and satisfy you in drought and in dry places and make strong your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not. And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of [buildings that have laid waste for] many generations; and you shall be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets to Dwell In. (Isa 58:10-12 Ampl.)

The teachers are asked to pour out that which sustains their own life. That word which they have proved and know that it works in their own life. That word will build faith in the hearts of the people and satisfies their need. Then these teachers will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets to dwell in. We read in the Bible that it is a great responsibility to be a teacher but here we read what beautiful promises are given to the true teacher!

5. Sherebiah: Jehova burns. He is like a devouring fire.

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. …. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: …. For our God is a consuming fire.

(Hebrews 12:5,6,25,29)

The Holy Spirit convicts us of sin and judgment and He will use the Teacher to bring a Word which convicts the people of their wrongdoing, like it happened in the days of Nehemiah. People started to cry when the Word was read to them and they repented.

For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. (Nehemiah 8:9)

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. (Malachi 3:1-3)

6. Jamin: right hand.

The right hand of God is a wonderful place to be at. At His right hand there are pleasures for evermore. He saves us by His right hand. He upholds us by His right hand and so much more. The minister of the word, the Prophetic teacher can bring so much joy and pleasure to the people which hear him. I know a sister who has people hanging onto every word she speaks, when she starts teaching the Word. I once tried to describe the way she brings the word . It is as if she comes with the most delicious chocolate, wrapped up in beautiful paper. She slowly unwraps the paper, all the time telling you the wonderful qualities of the wrapping and by the time she gets to the chocolate, the actual word she wants to share, you are sooooo hungry to taste what she is bringing! It’s a wonderful gift! Have you ever had that you were reading the Word and you had this feeling of being washed and cleansed. It’s a wonderful feeling, I can assure you! I always ask the Holy Spirit to sit with me when I read and be my Teacher and wash me in the Word. Try it, He does!! He loves to teach us.

But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
(1 John 2:27)

This Anointing is the precious Holy Spirit. The Prophetic Teacher needs to teach the people how they can have a relationship with the Holy Spirit.

7. Akkub: to deceive, unreliable.

Have you read what the Word says about our heart?

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9)

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
(Matthew 15:19)

This teaches us not to run after men. They can be righteous today but tomorrow they might fall. Paul warned the people about false teachers:

For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them(selves). (Acts 20:29-30)

Jesus gave us a measuring stick in the Bible, in John 7:

And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him (John 7:15-19)

Jesus did not say that man was perfect. None of us is, but the mark of a true Teacher sent by God is that he lifts up the One Who sent Him and does not seek to draw people after himself. That shows you where his heart is. He has a heart after God and God is able to change him if need be. Just like He did with Jacob. God calls Himself the God of Jacob. He changed Jacob and gave him a new name: ‘Israel" which means „conquered by God".

8. Shabbethai: from the Sabbath (the rest).

In the book of Hebrews God says that we must enter into His rest.

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. (Hebrews 4:9-11)

In Isaiah 58 it gives us a definition what this Sabbath, this rest is all about.

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. (Isaiah 58:13-14)

Not doing our own ways, nor finding our own pleasure, nor speaking our own words. Just being obedient to the leading of the Holy Spirit, that is what it means to enter into the Sabbath rest. Ezekiel was told to write down how God wanted to have things done in His temple, so that the people might be ashamed, because they had followed their own ways and rules. Another example we find in Deut. 12:

But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:.. And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

For everyone of us there is a specific place in the Body of Christ where we belong. It has to be a place where the Lord shall choose to put His name. What does that mean? When things are done God’s way, he will come and His Presence will be there. So this means, it will be a place where God’s Presence is and where things are done according to the Word of God. In this time God is busy shaking most churches and there are I think, more people outside than inside the church, but when the wind lies down, we will see new churches and fellowships emerging. God will cleanse His people and then he says in Ezekiel 37 that He will place them and He will multiply them. The Presence of the Lord was also in the first church in Jerusalem and we see that nobody just joined there, but God added daily such as should be saved.

FUNCTION AND CALLING

About three years ago the Lord spoke to me one morning and said: „No more washing machine parts in the cuckoo clock…" Can you imagine what that would look like? The washing machine would not be able to function properly with a part missing and the cuckoo clock would not be able to tell the time. It would be destroyed by the weight of the machine part. Each place where people of God come together, however small it might be, has a specific function and calling in their own neighbourhood or city and God will bring the right people together. No more standing by the wayside and waving at people to come in, because „it is so nice here in our church", or „this is a convenient place to go to for us". One preacher once said, If God has not set (placed) you, He has to upset you, so you will move. So do not be in too much of a hurry to join a church. Rather let God lead you to the right one. And if that right place does not exist yet, just stay where you are and enjoy intimate fellowship with the Lord and with those He brings on your path.

Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes. (Deut 12:7-8)

Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God. (Deut 12:28)

What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. (Deuteronomy 12:32)

9. Hodijah: To God be all honor and majesty!

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
(2 Cor 3:5-6).

Let us be careful to give God all the glory. Paul had studied with the best teachers to become a teacher of the Law himself, but then he met Jesus and was filled with the Holy Spirit and he learned that his knowledge of the Word was useless unless this Word was empowered by the Holy Spirit.

I am the LORD: that is my name: and My glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands. (Isa 42:8-12)

10. Maaseiah: Made, woven by Jahweh (needlework).

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. (Ps 139:14-16)

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. (Eph 2:10)

Any other work we try to do, however good and noble it may seem to be, will just be wood ,hay and stubble. When it is tried by God’s fire. Only the works which God has prepared beforehand for us to do, will count.

11. Kelita: lacking in parts / deformed / cripple

As I read the meaning of this name, the first scripture that came in my mind was this one.

Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. (Lev 21:17-21)

What a strange name for a teacher. Specially when that name has something to tell us. So I asked the Holy Spirit, What is this name doing here? Well one thing I know. When a teacher wants to teach the Law, then he himself must obey that Law.

LAW

That reminds me of something which happened in our church in Port Elizabeth in South Africa. A big argument had started in the church about whether we should eat pork or not and the pastor decided to do something about it. He called a meeting and gave us some homework to do. Next time we would meet we would have a discussion. Everyone who said that it was allright to eat pork had to try and convince the other party that they could not and everyone who felt that it was wrong to eat pork had to convince the other party that it was allright to eat pork. I went to the Holy Spirit and asked Him to show me, what He had to say in this matter. First I went to the Law. God said in Deuteronomy:

And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase. (Deut 14:8)

We know that the Old Testament shows us a shadow of the real thing.

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. (Heb 10:1)

So now I had to find out what this shadow of things in Deuteronomy 14 had to tell me. I meditated on the word I had read and then I saw it!

When you look at a pig, it has a divided hoof, so when you do not know any better, you would say, the pig is clean. But the One who knows pigs, because He made them, also knows that this animal does not chew the cud. It did not eat it’s food, chewed it, stored it and brought it up and chewed it again, before swallowing it. What does that make you think of? These scriptures came in my mind:

The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. (Ps 119:130)

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
(James 1:21-25)

Now I could see what the story of the pig in the Old Testament was trying to tell us. This pig was a type of a believer who looks good on the outside, he goes to church, but he does not spend much time in the word and even if he does, he does not meditate on what he reads and he is not a doer of the word either. That is a dangerous position to be in, as we can see in one of the stories about Jesus. Nothing Jesus did was without significance, He was always trying to demonstrate something. Now let’s see what Jesus does with pigs (swine).

And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit…..But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many…. And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. (Mark 5:1-14)

Jesus set the man free that came to Him for help, but look what happened then. The devils asked permission to enter the swine (pigs). And forthwith Jesus gave them leave (permission to do so)! The Lord told me that He would not stop the devils entering into someone who is not a doer of the Word. Someone who does not let the Word enter into his heart and cleanse him. Devils like darkness. The entrance of the Word brings light and devils don’t like to dwell there. We know the sad end of the story. The swine committed suicide!

Now let’s go back to our Teacher

If this man was really what his name said he was, he would not be allowed to offer the bread. He would not be allowed to be a teacher. I don’t know why his parents gave him that name. They obviously felt that there was something lacking in his life, or maybe he was really a cripple. How is the situation now for us who believe? We are told by Paul not to know anyone in the flesh. What did he mean? We must remember that our brethren are just earthen vessels, but filled with the treasure of heaven!

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; (2 Cor 4:7-9).

I understand that this name was found in the Old Testament, to tell us not to look on the outside, not to judge by what we see with our eyes.

Someone who is handicapped or has a chronic disease, someone in a wheelchair, weak in their physical body, but filled with revelation from God’s Word is as much qualified to be a Teacher, as someone who is healthy and has no handicaps. The revelation is from God!

Disabled

Once I attended a conference in Johannesburg in South Africa. I met someone there who had had a motor accident which had severed his spinal cord. This brother was rather depressed and I was talking to him to try and encourage him. The Lord then gave me a word for him. God said that He would use this brother to pray for the sick and they would be healed. This brother said, How will they believe me? They will not come to get healed, to someone sitting in a wheelchair. I believed God. Right at that moment I saw my little daughter walk towards us. She had developed an allergy from a mosquito bite and her whole face was full of scabs and sores. I had asked many people to pray for her and also tried all sorts of medicine, but she was not healed, it only got worse. I was worried about it. Such a pretty little face and what if this allergy would leave her with a face full of scars. I pointed at my daughter and said, brother will you please pray for my daughter? He did and we went our way. The next morning the scabs fell off leaving no marks and the sores dried up and she was healed completely, no scars! Also no more allergy! Praise the Lord! Can God use someone who is disabled? Ofcourse He can and that is what He is trying to tell us here.

12 Azariah: Jahweh helps, succours, supports, protects, embraces.

This name tells us about God, Who protects us. We must not fear man, but fear God. When you are a prophet and a teacher you can expect to have many enemies. The rebellious will come against you, because they do not like to hear the truth. They will stir up trouble for you and speak against you. King David knew about that. At one stage his own son turned against him and this is when he wrote Psalm 3:

<<A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.>> LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me. Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about. Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah. (Psalms 3:1-8)

He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
(Psalms 91:4)

His truth, His Word shall be your shield.

13. Jozabad: Gift of Jehova.

This name refers us again to Ephesians 4:11. This ministry of the Seer, the Prophetic Teacher is a gift from God for the endtime, to bring His church to maturity.

14. Hanan: To have compassion, to show mercy, to be gentle, meekness.

Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. (Psalms 18:35)

We are to follow the example of our great Teacher Jesus. This is difficult for the teacher. When you are a teacher, you can become quite dogmatic and that only hardens the hearts of the people. It makes it difficult for them to hear you, when you hit them over the head with your Bible.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. (Rom 12:10,16)

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. (Gal 6:1)

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. (2 Tim 2:24-26)

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. (James 3:13)

Jesus went to Samaria, which was quite unusual, because no law-abiding Jewish teacher would go there.

The Samarians were not doing things the way they did. And then he spoke to the woman at the well. What would we have done if we met someone who had lived in adultery for years and had had 4 men and was living with the 5th one. We would be tempted to show her from the Word of God that she was living in sin and needed to repent. But Jesus saw her heart, her longing just to be loved and taken care of and He showed her the way to come to God and at the same time He let her know that He knew about her, but He was not condemning her. He wanted her to be healed. Jesus is our example!

15 Pelaiah: Set apart, separated.

When you are a Teacher, you must be an example. God has set you apart for this specific task and that is a great responsibility. Jesus was angry at the Pharisees, which called themselves teachers of the Law, because they laid heavy burdens upon others but did not live in obedience to the Word themselves. Yes on the outside they did the right thing but on the inside they were unclean. Teachers of the Word but not doers of the Word! Like the pigs. Not chewing the cud.

And he (Jesus) said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers (teachers of the Word)! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. (Luke 11:46,52)

Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers…But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in….. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess…..Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. (Matt 23:1-4,13,25-28)

These are the names, the Holy Spirit told me to look up. We will go on and summarize everything we have learned up till now.

What does it mean to be a teacher?

We are not sent just to teach people a lot of history from the Bible and cram them full of Bible knowledge. We can start by teaching them how to read the Bible for themselves. Ofcourse we must first make sure that they can read the Bible and that they are filled with the Holy Spirit, Who is the Spirit of Truth. He will lead us into all the truth and open our eyes that we may behold wonderous things in God’s law. (Ps 119:130).

When people are bound by things from the past, like if they have been involved in occult practises or New Age teaching or if they come from a church background where wrong doctrine has been taught, we need to help them to renounce these things and ask Jesus to cleanse them from all unrighteousness by His blood.

Normally I give the people some examples of how the Lord revealed things to me through His Word. That makes them hungry to get into the Word.

I advise them to get a brand new Bible, with big margins, a notebook and a box of colouring pencils. Then I give them a scheme which I picked up years ago from a Chicks booklet. An exciting way to read your Bible. This scheme takes you through your entire Bible in about 3 months time. It involves reading 11 chapters per day. Oh, you say, I do not have time for so much reading. Well when you pick up crumbs all day, at the end of the day you will have basket full. Carry a little Bible with you and read, while you are waiting for someone, while you have lunch, go to the bathroom etc. You will be surprised how much you have read each day. Our eyes work like a camera, everything you see, gets registered in your brain. Click, click, all day long. You do not have to understand everything you read, as long as you read it, store it inside. Then you must make time each day to sit down and meditate on those scriptures which the Holy Spirit drew your attention to, while you were reading. That’s why you need a notebook, you can write them in your notebook, so you won’t forget.

When you sit down and you ask the Holy Spirit to talk to you, you are chewing the cud, so to say, digesting the Word and becoming a doer of the Word. I find it helpful to colour in certain scriptures, so I remember them, where they are and what they are about, or I make remarks in the margin of my Bible. I also advise people to get a good reference Bible and a good concordance. Someone gave me a Dake’s Bible when I was a young Christians, but I tell people, use a Bible like that for reference, do not study the doctrine in the Bible, find out for yourself what the scriptures have to say. The Holy Spirit is your teacher. A good Concordance with Greek and Hebrew in it, like the Strong’s concordance are wonderful to use. Not all Bible translations are accurate and it is good to be able to look up what some scriptures sound like in the original text. I can give a good example here. Actually I did not look it up myself, but a good friend did and he showed it to me. How many times do we not get hit over the head with the scripture in Heb 10:25?

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. (Heb 10:25)

They tell us that this means that we should come to church as often as we can. But actually when we look at the Greek word that is used here, we see that this not speak about us assembling together, but about assembling unto Him and as the day (of His coming) approaches, to exhort one another to do this even more. Scripture interprets scripture. When you go to the literal meaning of the Greek word you can interpret it as is done, but the same word used here, is also used in 2 Thess 2:1,2

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. (2 Thess 2:1,2)

Actually I believe we are told here to not forsake our assembling unto Him (be diligent in seeking time to spend with Him) and to encourage one another to do this, even more, as we see the day of His return approaching.

There are actually different Hebrew words for the word
‘Teach’.

„Zakar": to inform, to apply, to warn , to correct or discipline.

And thou shalt teach them (the people) ordinances (tasks, equipment, existing rules) and laws, and shalt shew them the way(by personal example) wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. Moreover thou shalt provide („chazah": carefully discern and prophesy over) out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers (caretakers, overseers like fathers – 1Thess 2:11,12, helpers, servants) of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

And let them judge (defend, stand in the gap, serve, exhort, comfort and lead) the people at all seasons:….. (Ex18:20-22)

„Yara":pour like water, shooting arrows, point out with the finger, give direction, inform, instruct, making known, showing by personal example, prove.

Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. (2 Kings 17:28)

And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying, Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses. (Lev 10:8-11)

I wonder how many teachers and preachers have actually seen this scripture where we are told not to drink wine or strong drink when we have to teach .There is another scripture that confirms this:

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. (Isaiah 28:7)

This is not the Law we are talking about, this is a statute for ever. When God says it’s for ever, then it is for ever! Drink causes you to make mistakes and wrong judgments while you teach.

Pour like water:

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.) (John 7:38,39)

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
(2 Cor 3:5-6)

„lamad": to goad or prick, to instruct, to apprentice, to make disciples.

And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. (Deut 4:14)

Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people. (2 Chron17:7,9)

„yada": Teach by showing or example, giving instruction and advice, explain.

This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe,(he could write and was a public speaker, he was diligent and able) in the law of Moses which the LORD God of Israel had given... For Ezra had (1) prepared his heart to (2) seek the law of the LORD, and to(3) do it, and (4)to teach in Israel statutes and judgments. (Ezra 7:6,10)

Teaching in the New Testament:

„paro’xuno": to goad, to sharpen

(Hebrews 10:24) And let us consider (behold, perceive, discover, take notice of, carefully notice) one another to provoke ( goad, prick, challenge, stimulate, encourage, make effective, activate) unto love and to good works (the works that Jesus did and more - John 14:10-12); (the works which the Father has beforehand prepared for us to do - Ef.2:10)

„didasko": to teach, instruct.

Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:19)

„didactikos": apt to teach

A bishop(overseer) then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; (1 Tim 3:2)

And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
(2 Tim 2:2,24)

And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house, (Acts 20:20)

„mathe teuo": to make disciples

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (Matthew 28:19-20)

Summary:

What should we teach the people?

1.    Show them the way wherein they must walk and the work that they must do.        (Ex 18:20)

2.    The people of God must be taught to discern between good and evil, clean and unclean.

3.    Teach them about what God has done and will do.

4.    To declare God’s Name. Teach them Who God is.

5.    Share with them about your personal intimate relationship with the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit and teach them how
   they can have the same relationship you have. Share with them what the Word of God has done for you and how they can
   apply the Word in their own lives.

       That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have
      seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have
      handled, of the Word of life; (For the life was manifested, and we have
      seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was
      with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) That which we have seen
      and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us:
      and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
        (1 John 1:1-3)

In closing let us read what our brother James has to say
abot the the Teacher:

James 3 (Amplified)

1 NOT MANY [of you] should become teachers (self-constituted censors and reprovers of others), my brethren, for you know that we [teachers] will be judged by a higher standard and with greater severity [than other people; thus we assume the greater accountability and the more condemnation]. 2 For we all often stumble and fall and offend in many things. And if anyone does not offend in speech [never says the wrong things], he is a fully developed character and a perfect man, able to control his whole body and to curb his entire nature. 13 Who is there among you who is wise and intelligent? Then let him by his noble living show forth his [good] works with the [unobtrusive] humility [which is the proper attribute] of true wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry, selfish ambition) in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus be in defiance of and false to the Truth. 15 This [superficial] wisdom is not such as comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual (animalish, soulish), even devilish (demoniacal). 16 For wherever there is jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry and selfish ambition), there will also be confusion (unrest, disharmony, rebellion) and all sorts of evil and vile practices. 17 But the wisdom from above is first of all pure (undefiled); then it is peace-loving, courteous (considerate, gentle). [It is willing to] yield to reason, full of compassion and good fruits; it is wholehearted and straightforward, impartial and unfeigned (free from doubts, wavering, and insincerity). 18 And the harvest of righteousness (of conformity to God's will in thought and deed) is [the fruit of the seed] sown in peace by those who work for and make peace [in themselves and in others, that peace which means concord, agreement, and harmony between individuals, with undisturbedness, in a peaceful mind free from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts].Amen!

Froukje, Oss, June 2003.

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