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Published: Sept. 12, 2020, 6:58 a.m.

REBUILDING THE ALTAR AND THE PRIESTHOOD FOR KINGDOM ENGAGEMENT.PART 5. 

1 Kings 18

After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”2 So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. 

Elijah represents heaven's apostolic system in the art of reforming and restoring a nation and society that has suffered the long reign of Ahad and Jezebel.  The return of rain will demand we acknowledge and position ourselves as the Church of the Lord to the order of divine intervention.  The ministry of order is important to the restoration of the altar and the priesthood that will represent the government of God in this season.  

As we have carefully observed from the pattern of beginnings that setting up altars is necessary to hear the voice of the Father. Without building and repairing broken or burnt altars we do not have access to the establishment of the prophetic order and initiatives of heaven. Noah, a pattern, and system of the firstborn church showed us how to access heaven again.

Building an altar is not just a ritual or religious right but a powerful principle of re-establishing the government of heaven over a place or region.  There is a present required priestly order demanded to move the things of the Spirit and the presence God from where it was to the rightful place it ought to be in this present hour.

GENESIS 8

20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

To engage the kind of powers, authorities, and dominions before the nations in this season, we cannot afford to assume all his set and ready, we need to precisely affirm we are truly ready. We must be certain that the prophetic voice which represents the ministry of Elijah is adhered to in the reconstruction of the broken altars by Jezebel. If we dare to engage the Kings of the earth and the rulers who have ganged up themselves against the Lord as his anointed without the repairing of our personal and corporate altars, we will be defeated.

We must learn from David; he had the right heart, but his good intention was not aligned to the divine order of the priesthood. The returning of authority to engage the forces of darkness corresponds to the rebuilding of the broken and burnt altars of our lives, family, cities, and the nations. Broken altars speak to the broken covenant of God over our lives and on behalf of our nations. When we allow ignorantly allow Jezebel to gain access into our space, we have to return to God in repentance and allow his approval to rebuild his altar even before building a temple for his name.

Many do not mind building a temple without a legitimate altar towards the Lord. The altar is the place of divine validation where authority and power flow from.  The re-establishment of broken covenants demands the rebuilding (repair) of altars.  The erection of altars demands a new sense of priesthood that will effectively and correctly offer the required sacrifice as required and expected. This new day we've been ushered in is demanding we adjust our prophetic sight towards the approved standard of heaven so may live and move in the governmental authority of the hour.

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