JABEZ - pain
JACOB - natural Israel
--the Bride has an experience likened unto Jacob. She has wrestled and is now limping. She is leaning, limping, and
loving. Our trouble increases when our agenda and His agenda are different. Our agenda is to be happy on the
earth and His agenda is that we would come up leaning on the One we love with a heart of love. SOS 8:5
• Jacob’s return and fear of Esau – Genesis 32:9-12. We need to discover what was extraordinary in this prayer that
it should gain the petitioner all this honor.
1. Request: deliver me from the hand of my brother
2. The pleas are many and very powerful:
• He addresses himself to God as the God of his fathers. Deems himself unworthy, but a God in covenant with his
ancestors
• He produces his warrant: God told him to go
• He humbly acknowledges his own unworthiness to receive any favor from God. Matthew 15:27 “Truth, Lord, yet the
dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master’s table”
• He thankfully owns God’s goodness to him
• He tells God his fears. The fear that quickens prayer is itself pleadable
• He reminds God of the promise made to him
• Jacob – the poetical name for Israel
JACOB’S LADDER - “of the cliff”; of the stairs, secret place (SOS 2:14) (Genesis 28:12-17)
JADED - seen to much and no longer effects or impacts you.
JAH – “He who is”; whereas Jehovah is “He who will be, is, and was”; Hallelu-Jah (JFB)
JASPER - color of Glory
• Modern jasper is dull and not precious but in the ancient world a crystal dazzling bright stone shown with brightness.
Revelation 21:11 The city of God is having glory of a jasper – so it’s a diamond – a bright, white, shining, radiant stone –
more than a diamond. It is the first stone to describe God in 4:3. It is the first to describe the city of God in 21:11. It’s the
first stone of the foundation of the wall. 21:18, 19. And this crystal jasper radiant stone is also like the sea of glass in
15:2 & 3. The sea has the crystal qualities like the jasper.
JEALOUS - intense emotion of desire
• Jealous – intolerant of all that prevents His people from enjoying the blessings His love provides; wrath is the
obverse of holy love. (Z)
JEHOVAH – “He who will be, is, and was”; Jah – “He who is”; Hallelu-Jah (JFB)
JEREMIAH - The prophet Jeremiah lamented that his people indulged in false optimism:
“Woe is me! I am undone,
My wound is incurable;
yet I had thought:
If I make light of my wound, I can bear it.” Jeremiah 10:19
--By the time Jeremiah spoke these words, it was too late, the time for repentance had passed. It was time for
judgment. As disaster approached, the prophet laid bare the defense that had prevented the people from seeing and
responding to the situation facing Israel from within and without.
• Jeremiah had an inferiority complex:
o He felt not qualified to do what he was called to do (Jeremiah 1)
o Lord gets tired of his complaints and tells him to go to the potter’s house (Jeremiah 18)
o Lord shows him how He works with people
o Number one question asked: What is God’s will for my life?
o He shows you His will in the wheel
o God will give a revelation of the work being done in you
o Sees a potter sitting and working with two wheels – one is horizontal and one is vertical and they are spinning
together
o Begin to see how you are formed in the Lord’s hand
o See a hand on the inside and a hand on the outside and pressure on the vessel to form it
o There is pressure in you and outside of you to shape and mold your life
o Vessels found in 2 Timothy – vessels of honor and vessels of dishonor
o The five-fold ministry is the Hand of God on the outside of you forming you
o You begin to see the will of God in the wheel of God
o Then there is the firing process
JERICHO - the place of warfare (the double portion is just around the corner)
--quick understanding/discernment
• Archeologists have discovered that the walls of Jericho did not fall east or west, they fell straight down (LS)
JEROBOAM – Sin of Jeroboam: man-made religion: false system allows man to turn God into what he wants Him to be;
no power to impart life; no way of repentance; no blood sacrifice to atone for sin
JERUSALEM - The natural city Jerusalem is a parallel picture of the Bride of Christ. Natural Jerusalem today is in
complete conflict over division and territories.
• Daughter of Zion: Jerusalem
• Mother of Jerusalem: the temple built on Zion
JESUS
Hyde: Jesus gave: his own privacy
gave up home, friends, rest, comfort
His own mother
His life
Jesus’ prayers: silence, loud crying, tears (Hebrews)
--His prayers heard because of His willingness to obey
--Had to go and pray to protect the anointing of God; He came and ministered as a man anointed by God
--Jesus was born during Feast of Tabernacles (Luke) - He tabernacled among us
--Jesus dies: on Passover
--Jesus rose: Feast of First Fruits
Holy Spirit came: Pentecost
--Jesus will return: Sept-Oct Feast of Tabernacles/harvest time
--Feast of trumpets - announces return
• Jesus spent time: vs. Religious Leaders time:
o With sinners Avoiding unclean people
o Speaking and living the truth Being hypocrites
o Judging others’ hearts, not their actions Judging others’ actions, not hearts
o Being righteous Being self-righteous
JESUS’ JOBS:
1. High Priest - fixes our prayers before they get to the Father
2. Mediator - introduces lost to the Father
3. Advocate-lawyer, does not allow any evidence to come against us
JESUS - Life of
--Historians agree that at the time when He was Bar Mitzvahed (age of accountability), you became a son of the Law --
you became responsible to being obedient for all the things that God spoke through Moses
--After Jesus became a son of the Law, required then to be obedient, in the ultra-orthodox custom
--He subjected Himself to that kind of humility and obedience as a natural man
--From time Jesus left Temple at age twelve in Jerusalem until baptized there is no record of what He did
--Historians agree that John the Baptist and Jesus, lived and disciplined by a monastic order in the Dead Sea area, a
mystical community
--Diligence of obedience to the law - our Lord lived in subjection to that kind of austerity and obedience during His
developing years
--Submission in a monastic movement
--Sect set aside 1/3 of every night “to watch”
--Studied word, prayed, and “judged one another” in community
--It is possible that the very Son of God set in that context for 1/3 of every night
--Allowed Himself to be observed by His brothers to judge His conduct and tell Him where H was missing in complete
obedience
--Terminology of Gospel reflecting monastic movement
--”Judge not, that you be not judged”
--”...leave fathers, mothers....for My sake”
--God subjected Himself to the human experience of the Law in order to say “I have fulfilled the Law, and this is the
higher way”
--This sect also encouraged people to leave father, mother, brothers, -- if you are going to live that kind of lifestyle, it is
justified if you leave it to follow Me
--His obedience
--We think His obedience was just an intense spiritual determination
--It was really only three years that we read out of 33 that He lived - a good twenty where He lived the mundane in
obedience
--He disciplined Himself to hear and obey the voice of the Lord speaking
JEW - the name “Jew” was derived from Judah - meaning “God’s praiser”; man of Judah – first called this in Babylonian
captivity
JEWS -Romans 2;28
JEZEBEL - a spirit of immorality; today manifested in pornography
JOAB - lesson of God: see how you respond when passed over for promotion (2 Samuel 19-20)
JOB - a story of faith (Happy Caldwell)
Purpose of Book of Job: to show a man under a covenant with God who was made righteous by the covenant (blessed
by covenant, lived by covenant, prosperity and blessings by his God.
-Satan came to accuse because he could not believe that any man would serve God because he was God but
thought men only served God for what they could get form God
-Blessed with seven sons and three daughters (numbers of completion, perfection)
-Owned 2/3 of known world
-Job’s real problem was he had a door that opened him to satan’s attack. Job himself opened the door through fear.
His great fear was his children would break God’s covenant. Every covenant has curses and blessings.
-He who breaks a hedge a serpent will bite him (Ecc)
-Job feared breaking the covenant rather than God
-God said none like him in earth/entire planet
-Satan only interested in trying to prove and strike at God’s authority in a man. After the dominion God gave Adam.
Jealous of man’s authority.
-His righteousness reckoned by covenant
-God reminds satan that Job is in his power
-God not afraid He will lose His man
-One of underlying themes of Job is people will always misrepresent God
-Job has some areas of his life that he has wrong ideas about God
-For generations we have brought God in on all of our mess and sin
-Job’s comforters: Elijah, youngest one had to wait to speak out of respect for elders. He says “you have spoken
wrongly of God.”
-Job did not sin by charging God foolishly in his calamities (Job didn’t attribute to God). Had just said God gave and
took--under the covenant--if broke covenant then curse would come upon them. He understood curse of covenant. He
knew something was amiss and he thought curse had come upon him.
-God never changes His confession about Job. Job holds fast his integrity
-God doesn’t need satan to carry out His plan
-cursed his day, not God
-what opened the door: the thing I greatly feared
-miserable comforters: they knew he opened door through fear. They talked wrongly of God
-God says to satan: “Why did you set your heart upon my man?” satan couldn’t believe a man would serve God just
because He is God.
-it was a nine month saga
--JPJ had an angel come and highlight first two chapters of this book - in an observing position
-- for church as a whole - a time of prosperity and then time of great plunder
JOHN THE BAPTIST
--forerunner; Father’s messenger
--Nazarite - outward appearance/ceremonial/long hair of consecration
-ate locust and wild honey
-dwells in desert
-marked with circumcision
-mother: Elisabeth; Father: Zacharias, the priest
-Lived in hill country of Judah
-When Elisabeth heard Mary’s greetings, John leapt in her womb (leaped for joy) -- Mary’s cousin
--John embraced humility even when it meant his ministry would diminish in the presence of Jesus. He knew at the height
of his popularity that the coming of Jesus meant the end of the forerunners ministry
--John 5:35 “the burning and shining lamp”
--Matthew 11:7-9 -- went to “see” something, not hear
--John was a man set on fire from heaven
--People are always attracted to a great fire.
--Hebrews 1:7 -- he’ll make us “ministers a flame of fire”
--John the “turtledove” (SOS2;12) with eye directed to the Bridegroom; his Nazarite unshorn hair answers to "locks”
(veils) (SOS4)
--lived by the voice of the Bridegroom John 3:29
--Jesus preached the same as that which John had preached. The foundation of the kingdom of the heavens is set on
repentance.
--When John wrote his gospel, he had a problem of what to call Jesus before He became Jesus. He was only called
Jesus when He was born. What should he call Him? He didn’t know where to begin when he wrote his gospel. When
Mark wrote his gospel he started with Jesus’ baptism because that was when He began His public ministry. And Matthew
began with His conception, birth, and with Abraham. Luke began with Adam because He is the son of Adam. John
started his story at the beginning. Our feeble minds can’t imagine what it was like without a universe. So John said “In
the beginning, He was already there” -- I’ll call Him “the reason why”. “In the beginning was The Reason Why, and The
Reason Why was face to face with God, and The Reason Why was God. And The Reason Why became flesh and dwelt
among us.” He is the logic of the universe. He’s the one Who caused it all and it was all made for Him. The logic of the
universe is coming back to make things all right.
--John’s message:
1. Fast - Matthew 9:14
2. Pray - Luke 11:1
3. Give - Luke 3:11
• John the Baptist came in the way of righteousness – Matthew 21:32. In Luke 3:1-12 – preaching repentance for
remission of sins and showing fruits of repentance
• In Matthew 11 it tells us of the rejection of the Lord. Here our Lord encountered the same situation as John had
encountered earlier in this chapter. Both are being rejected. But how did John express his feeling? His words implied
dissatisfaction. The Lord, on the other hand, thanked the Father at the zenith of His own rejection. In Him there was no
fret, no dissatisfaction, but only fullness of unshakable peace. (Nee)
JOHN OF THE CROSS - John says that from his observations, Christ is little known by those who consider themselves His
friends for we see them going about seeking in Him their own consolations and satisfactions, loving themselves very much
and not loving Him very much by seeking to share in His trials and His death.
John says try to be:
Inclined always not to the easiest, but the most difficult
Not to the most delightful, but to the most distasteful
Not to the most gratifying, but to the least pleasant
Not to what means rest for you, but the hard work
Not to the consoling, but to the unconsoling
Not to the most, but to the least
Not to the highest and most precious, but to the lowest and most despised
Not to wanting something, but to wanting nothing
Do not go about looking for the best of temporal things, but for the worst
And for Christ desire to enter into complete nakedness, emptiness, and poverty of everything in the world.
Try to overcome the repugnance of your will towards them.
JORDAN - type of self life
• The Jordan and Jericho – Then all the people crossed at a spot where the river was close to the city of Jericho, and the
priests who were carrying the Ark stood on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan and waited as all the people passed by.
(Now in the season, we have never been so close to the Great Harvest as we are now, neither have we been so
vulnerable to enemy floods. For a brief time in history, intercession has stood in the gap, causing the demonic floods to
roll back even as far as Adam giving us a brief glimpse that what Adam lost will become manifest.)
• “Meanwhile, the people had hurried across the riverbed, and when everyone was over, the people watched the
priests carry the Ark up out of the riverbed.” “Come up from the riverbed” the Lord now told him to command them. So
Joshua issued the order. And as soon as the priests came out, the water poured down again as usual and overflowed
the banks of the river as before! This miracle occurred on the 26th of Mach. That day the entire nation crossed the
Jordan River and camped in Gilgal at the eastern edge of the city of Jericho.
• A symbol of the river of the Spirit that flows from the throne of God, in the heart of which we are borne up in the Holy
Spirit’s power – Ezekiel 47
JOSHUA - a prophetic map of our spiritual journey
• New generation circumcised, spiritual family created – Chapter 5. Marched around Jericho – marked in the spirit; cut
off area in the spirit and unto the Lord. Chapter 7 – don’t take any spoils, first fruits (tithe) belongs to the Lord. The
consequences of one person robbing God.
JOY - If lose joy, lose strength and can’t bring forth purpose of God in your region. In Feast of Tabernacle had to rejoice
for seven straight days.
--Count it all joy = take control of your joy; exercise control over your joy
--strength (Nehemiah 8:10)
JUDE - wrote to a second generation church that was falling apart. It was being corrupted from the inside. No church
can be destroyed from the outside. A church is always destroyed from the inside. They were being corrupted in their
creed, their conduct, their character, and in their conversation. These four corruptions were destroying the story and is
typical of what can happen to a second generation church and of what an happen to those who didn’t start the church
with enthusiasm and zeal and weren’t able to pass that enthusiasm for the Lord on to the next generation.
JUDGE - when judge others trying to establish your own self-righteousness.
--James 4, if you judge, not a doer
--when you judge you are guilty of the same thing
--when really upset and tell your opinion, you are judging
--Romans 2 - if you judge you are guilty; you who judge do the same thing
--the criticisms you have towards other people are the way the Lord sees you
heights of performance. (Rick Joyner)
--A long white robe with a golden sash across His breast -- any Roman would tell you that this was the appearance of a
senior Roman judge. The sash says “judge”.
• God judges of men by the temper of their minds. Exodus 33:3 MH
JUDGMENT - 1 Corinthians 4:3-5 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by a human court...
for I know nothing against myself...but He who judges me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until
the Lord comes...then each one’s praise will come from God.
--Carnal judgment - related to opinion but more insidious because it mascarades as discernment.
• God’s judgment is one year for every day of unbelief (Numbers – spies – Promised land)
• Rarely in history has God altered His usual mode of operation by breaking into the natural realm to confront sin
openly on a large scale. These open demonstrations of His zeal are called the judgments of God and their time frame is
called the day of the Lord.
• The ultimate insult one person can give another is lowering one’s expectations of him. The attitude “I would never
expect any better from you” is not one of compassion. It is the most profound form of disdain. God does not give up on
us. His exacting judgment, which we must face on Rosh Hashana, is real. We must not allow ourselves to be defeated by
the dread this knowledge inspires. God judges us, not because He wishes to punish us and see us get what we deserve,
but because He believes in our ability to transcend our blockages. Even the most severe punishments ever meted out to
humanity, such as Adam’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden, were given to enable personal rebuilding of that which was
broken in Adam and in the world.
• Every judgment that a person makes becomes a basis for his or her own judgment (NCBC-Matthew 7:2)
JUDGMENT DAY - When the Lord shall judge you in the future, He will see how you have judged your brethren in the Church
today. If today you judge sharply, in that day you cannot expect lenience from the Lord: for with what measure you mete
out to others, in the same measure iwll the Lord mete out to you in that day (Luke 6:38) “the Lord grant unto him to find
mercy of the Lord in that day” (2 Timothy 1:18). today I may barely pass. Therefore, I must lower my demands upon
others. I must increase the demand of righteousness on myself and be filled with mercy towards others (Nee)
Yet this is not to be a once act only; this is to be a developed and developing character. In not being exacting, I will
become a merciful man. I will like to forgive. I will love to treat other people leniently. And the end result shall be that
though I may not be perfect here on earth, at the judgment seat of Christ I may receive unexpected mercy (Nee)
JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST - judgment seat of Christ – only believers go there. (mb) The unbelievers go to the
Great White Throne – Revelation 20:11
JUDGMENTS (SEVEN):
1. Judgment of believers’ sin - already happened
2. Believers judgment of himself - judge ourselves
3. Judgment of believers’ works
4. Judgment of Israel
5. Judgment of nations
6. Judgment of angels
7. Great White Throne Judgment
• Judgments given:
1. To remove everything that hinders love
2. To aid in gathering the Great Harvest
3. To release God’s vengeance upon those who persecute His church
• Responses of the church to God’s temporal judgments:
1. Confusion and anger
2. Holy Spirit understanding will be granted in due time
3. Rejoicing in holy partnership
JUDICIAL HARDENING – Romans 1:24-28
• Natural perversion – immorality
• Unnatural perversion – homosexuality; sex with animals
• A debased mind; spirit of delusion
JUNKYARDS - stuff past its useability; old traditions
JUSTICE - 1. Asking for restoration (that which was taken be restored)
2. Demands restitution (punitive damages; from losses sustained over time)
Proverbs 6:30 - must restore seven-fold
• The Midrash says “thus spake the Holy One, blessed be He: If I create the world by Mercy alone, sin will abound; if by
Justice alone, how can the world endure? I will create it by both.”
JUSTIFY - buy - “I’ve earned the right”. Don’t excuse - crucify.
--when we refuse responsibility we forfeit our ability to change (LB)