Heaven
in a Mountain
By Rick Joyner
A fundamental calling of Christians is to experience Heaven, and
bring Heaven to Earth.
The prayer The Lord gave us to pray is
for His Kingdom to come and His Will to be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Daniel gave a very specific prophecy about how this
would happen when he interpreted Nebuchadnezzar's dream.
This dream is
remarkable for its accurate foretelling of the coming great empires of men,
which have now been fulfilled just as he foresaw. Now, it is time for the rest
of it to be fulfilled — for the little stone to grow into a mountain that fills
the whole earth. To understand what the Lord is doing in
the earth today it is important to understand this dream, along with Daniel's
interpretation, which we will read in brief from Daniel 2:28, 31-45:
"However, there
is a God in Heaven who reveals mysteries,
and He has made known
to King Nebuchadnezzar
what will take place
in the latter days. This was your dream and the visions
in your mind while on
your bed.
You, O king, were
looking and behold, there was a single great statue;
that statue, which
was large and of extraordinary splendor,
was standing in front
of you, and its appearance was awesome.
The head of that
statue was made of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver,
its belly and its
thighs of bronze, its legs of iron,
its feet partly of
iron and partly of clay.
You continued looking
until a stone was cut out without hands,
and it struck the
statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.
Then the iron, the
clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold
were crushed all at
the same time, and became like chaff
from the summer
threshing floors; and the wind carried them away
so that not a trace
of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue
became a great
mountain and filled the whole earth.
This was the dream;
now we shall tell its interpretation before the king.
You, O king . . . are
the head of gold.
And after you there
will arise another kingdom inferior to you,
then another third
kingdom of bronze...
Then there will be a
fourth kingdom as strong as iron;
inasmuch as iron
crushes and shatters all things, so, like iron that breaks in pieces, it will crush and break all these in
pieces.
And in that you saw
the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron,
it will be a divided
kingdom; but it will have in it the toughness of iron,
inasmuch as you saw
the iron mixed with common clay. . .
And in that you saw
the iron mixed with common clay,
they will combine
with one another in the seed of men;
but they will not
adhere to one another,
even as iron does not
combine with pottery.
And in the days of
those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom
which will never be
destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people;
it will crush and put an end to all these
kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever.
Inasmuch as you saw
that a stone was cut out of the mountain
without hands and
that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver,
and the gold, the
great God has made known to the king
what will take place
in the future; so the dream is true,
and its
interpretation is trustworthy."
The history of the following empires of men remarkably
followed the pattern of this dream. Theologians and historians almost
universally agree that these kingdoms were Media Persia, Greece, the Roman
Empire, then the Holy Roman Empire, which was represented by feet of iron and
clay because it was a mixture of Rome (iron) and the church (clay).
These kingdoms were all much more than just their
periods of domain in history. They were humanistic philosophies, doctrines,
customs, cultural, and religious influences that were passed down and continue
to have an influence on the entire earth. This statue was of a man because it
represents the kingdoms of man. As Daniel asserted, in "the latter
days" there will be a "little stone" that will strike the feet
of this statue and bring it all down.
Here we see
that the kingdom of God will begin very small, but even a small stone from
Heaven can easily overthrow all of the kingdoms, philosophies, doctrines, and
religions of men. When we confront such things we often feel compelled to attack
the whole statue, but all The Lord does is cast a little stone at their feet
and all that man has built in opposition or rebellion to God will collapse.
The stone is
Christ, and the mountain is His government, which is "the Kingdom of
God." This speaks of His authority and dominion growing until it fills the
earth. This is now taking place. We are called to be a part of it, by taking
dominion for the Kingdom of God wherever He has placed us. We are called to
turn our homes into a piece of Heaven. We are called to turn our jobs, schools,
places where we shop, everywhere we go, into part of the domain of Heaven.
To do this we
must understand the Kingdom of God will not be established like the kingdoms of
men. It will not come with carnal weapons, carnal force, political alliances,
or other human means, such as the statue that the king of Babylon saw in his
dream. It will come by a Love so strong that hatred collapses before it. It
will come by a Joy so powerful that depression dissipates like fog before the
sun. It will come through a Peace so profound that fear flees from it.
It will come with such patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control that all authority and
influence based on anything man has tried to build on will not be able to stand
before it.
The time will soon be upon us when everything man has
tried to build will be seen as the fragile idol it is, and it will come down.
Our job is to simply grow in the Kingdom of God that is "…righteousness and peace and joy in
The Holy Spirit" (Romans 14:17). We have a kingdom
that cannot be shaken, which is irresistible, and which will prevail. Your
purpose for being on the Earth is to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to it. Seal
Daniel 2:44 in your heart:
"And in the days
of those kings the God of Heaven will set up a Kingdom
which will never be
destroyed, and that Kingdom
will not be left for
another people;
it will crush and put
an end to all these kingdoms,
but it will itself
endure forever."