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DEAR FRIENDS,
WE ARE BLESSING YOU TONIGHT with fresh revelation from the Lord. Holy Spirit has been conveying much about the new year 5784/2024. One of the most important aspects is how the Lord is opening opportunities for REDEMPTIVE TRANSACTIONS to overcome cycles rooted in ungodly transactions. 

OUR TEAM WAS PRAYING ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT, our eyes fixed on the stunning Dome of the Rock right in front of us. At least two convergent, private prayer assignments were converging. Yet all of the sudden the Lord began to pour in revelation on a completely different subject. I found myself declaring:

“Father I call forth and activate the apostolic well of prayer that brought healing here, and that by Your covenant promise still brings healing to the nations! If My people who are called by My Name will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land!”

The Power of a Redemptive Transaction
The legendary promise of 2 Chronicles 7:14 was made from that very ground on that very mountain. And the experience is one of the most well-known examples of what Holy Spirit recently called “redemptive transactions.”

To fully understand the power of this redemptive transaction, we have to travel a little further back in time. Solomon’s father David was the first to transact with God on this very ground. A plague was devouring all Israel. Tragically, David’s sin while serving as king opened the door for this to occur. I don’t think many leaders understand how God holds them accountable. If we did, our words and actions would likely be very different.

1 Chronicles 21:1 states that “Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.” A good observation made by many is that Satan provoked David to claim ownership of people owned by God alone. I agree. In that context, The Bible makes clear that the primary statistic David was seeking was the number of warriors he could muster for war. How strong was his military might?

What’s really clear here is that Satan provoked him to evaluate his military might, and David followed through. This provoked God to judgment. 

David’s Discipline—Three Choices
David sought forgiveness. A prophet of the Lord was dispatched from Heaven’s council with three options for punishment. “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee for three months before your enemies while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ of plague in your land? Now consider and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me” (2 Samuel 24:13). 

Seven years of famine? Three months of being given into the hands of your enemies? Or three days of plague? These choices are all terrifying. Even more when the plague is described as “the sword of the Lord! “… or three days of the sword of the Lord: a plague in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout the territory of Israel.’” (1 Chronicles 21). 

It’s important to note all three involved the citizens suffering because of the ungodly choice David had made. The same holds true today. 

All Jerusalem Saw the Angel
After evaluation, the King made a solemn choice. “Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us now fall into the hand of the Lord, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into human hands” (2 Samuel 24:14). 

The Lord sent the plague. And 70,000 men from Dan, the farthest northern part of Israel, to Beersheba, the southernmost part, were immediately slain. 

This judgement seems so severe. As if that weren’t challenging enough to our understanding, a further revelation will shock you into the stratosphere. Again, an angel of the Lord was the messenger of the plague. And his sword brought the release!

David saw the angel of the Lord hovering over the threshing floor of Araunah (or Ornan) the Jebusite, extending his sword towards Jerusalem. A little geography lesson here. The threshing floor was located on what we now call the Temple Mount. It overlooks the City of David, the original realm of Jerusalem, just below. 

Which means that all Jerusalem, including David, had an unhindered view of this angel. 

David’s Redemptive Transaction
“Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking down the people, and said, “Behold, it is I who have sinned, and it is I who have done wrong; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let Your hand be against me and against my father’s house!” (2 Sam. 24:16).

David as king took responsibility for his sin. He literally put his life on the line in his repentance.

And God heard. He stayed the angel’s hand. 

This repentance marks the beginning of David’s redemptive transaction. David was then invited to build an altar to the Lord on this threshing floor, even as the angel of the Lord continued to hover. Araunah (or Ornan) offered to gift him the land, and even the bulls needed to sacrifice to the Lord. David’s reply is legendary, and marks the essence of a redemptive transaction with the Lord. “I will not give the Lord that which costs me nothing!” 

May this be our resolve as well as we confront the challenges at hand by engaging in God’s redemptive transactions. “Gather My godly ones to Me, those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice!” (Psalm 50:5).

God Answered with Fire
What was God’s response?  “Then David built an altar there to the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. And he called to the Lord, and He answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering. The Lord commanded the angel, and he returned his sword to its sheath” (1 Chronicles 21:27).

God answered with fire. Note that biblically, fire falling from Heaven always symbolizes either covenant with God being established, or covenant being restored—with the covenantal rights and blessings from the Lord also being restored. 

God started His redemptive transaction with mankind by cutting covenant with Abraham with a smoking firepot and a burning lamp. God led Moses and his people with a pillar of fire. In Elijah’s day, fire fell upon the altar of the Lord the the legendary prophet was instructed to restore. 

Fire fell at Pentecost. 

Fire fell on David’s altar. Twice, actually. Because when Solomon constructed the Temple on the mountaintop where Ornan’s threshing floor once stood, the altar David built was its foundational centerpiece. 

And when Solomon prayed, fire fell again. 

And this altar to the Lord, consecrated first in the midst of a dire crisis initiated by the King’s own sin, became a generational altar bearing witness to God’s covenant mercy. A generation before Solomon, all Jerusalem saw it with their own eyes. A plague was stopped. Covenant blessing was restored. 

And again, God’s promise was demonstrated before it was made! Because it was there that God spoke to Solomon, “If My people who are called by My Name will humble themselves and pray…” BELOVED, LETS DO THIS!