Ex. 17:5-6
5 The Lord answered Moses, ‘Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
6 I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.’ So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Num. 20:7-8
7 The Lord said to Moses,
8 ‘Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so that they and their livestock can drink.’

Drinking of water from the rock by the Israelites, in Exodus 17, was a type of the early rain of the Holy Spirit.It took place on the first Feast of Shavuot (Pentecost). After wandering in the desert for thirty-nine years, the Israelites drank water from the rock once again; a type of the latter rain of the Holy Spirit. The latter drinking of water from the rock happened not long after the first month of the ancient Hebrew calendar and it must have been during a Feast of Shavuot.

In comparing the two episodes of Israelites drinking water from the rock, we can see that God commanded a paradigm shift in the second episode. In the first episode, Moses was instructed to strike the rock with his staff; whereas in the second episode, Moses was instructed to speak to the rock. Moses failure to implement the paradigm shift disqualified him and Aron from leading the Israelites into the Promised Land.

How do we interpret this paradigm shift in the New Testament?

Going by what the prophets have been saying about the year 2019, I came to the conclusion that this is the year the latter rain of the Holy Spirit comes down. I expected the latter rain to come down during the Feast of Shavuot this year, but then the feast came and went and there was no latter rain. Even then, the prophets are still saying that the great move of God will take place in this latter half of this year.

My native village operates some kind of Hebrew calendar. The first month of my village's Hebrew calendar this year began by May's new moon. Going by my village's Hebrew calendar, the Feast of Shavuot should begin by sundown today and the latter rain could come down by tomorrow.

The original people of my village are descendants of Judeans who fled to Egypt after Nebuchadnezzar conquered Judea (Jeremiah 43).

Expect Great Signs and Wonders in the Next Six Months
Ben Lim, Los Angeles, CA
Jun 27, 2019

The next six months of 2019 will be marked with the supernatural. Truly, it will be a time of seeing the rise and fall of many. We will see many rise up in the supernatural power and grace of our Lord. We will turn back and look around and be stunned and surprised at the amount of new breed, five-fold ministers who have risen out from the caves of hiding and from the ashes of despair and desolation.
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It's 'Now O'Clock': Step into Heaven's Time Zone!
Helen Calder, Melbourne, Australia
Jun 30, 2019

The Holy Spirit is breathing upon God's people. He is saying, "Beloved! Awaken and arise!"
http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word.html?ID=22256

The Paradigm Shift

Lk. 11:13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!’

Ac. 1:4-5
4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: ‘Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.
5 For John baptised with water, but in a few days you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit.’

The way of receiving the early rain of the Holy Spirit is by praying for it, in the name of Jesus. The name of Jesus is like the staff of Moses in Exodus 17 and Numbers 20.

In the early rain, the recipients are servants of God. In the latter rain, the recipients are sons of God. There is a difference between praying to be included in God's household and receiving what is rightly yours as a son of God.

Hence, in the drinking of water from the rock by the Israelites in Exodus 17, Moses and the Israelites were not yet full members of God's household and the use of the staff that Moses used in Egypt was necessary. In the latter drinking of water from the rock in Numbers 10, Moses and the Israelites were already sons of God. Moses should just speak to the rock to release water for them to drink and become more like God, which was their right as sons of God. Unfortunately, Moses did not understand that their status changed after the earlier drinking of water from the rock. The status change warrants a paradigm shift.

In the past few days, I began to declare as follows:

In the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Let the latter rain of the Holy Spirit fall upon me and every member of my family and fill us up with living water to overflowing, so that out of our hearts shall flow streams (or rivers) of living water—Jn. 7:38

Jn. 7:37-39
37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, ‘Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.
38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.’
39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.

The festival of Jn. 7:37 is representative of the Church age. During the closing days of the Church age, rivers of living water will be flowing out of the believers in Jesus Christ. By this time, the believers will come to full realization of their rights as sons of God.

Resurrection of Israel

Ez.37:1-10
1 The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.
2 He led me to and fro among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry.
3 He asked me, ‘Son of man, can these bones live?’ I said, ‘Sovereign Lord, you alone know.’

4 Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones and say to them, “Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!
5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.
6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.”’

7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone.
8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

9 Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.”’
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet – a vast army.

The vision in Ezekiel 37 began with a valley filled with dry bones. The prophet was led to preach God's word to the bones (Mk. 16:15-16). This apparently led to the bones receiving the early rain of the Holy Spirit, which transformed them from dry bones to bones covered with tendons, flesh and skin. But they still could not manifest as sons of God. They could not overcome all of the devil's schemes (Ep. 6:11). Finally, the prophet was led to speak to the breath (the rock of Exodus 17 and Numbers 20). The prophet spoke to the rock to breathe into the people of God. Breath entered the people of God and they arose and could overcome all of the devil's schemes—a mighty army.

In the final part of the fulfillment of the vision of Ezekiel 37, there will be no prophet to prophesy to the breath. The people of God themselves will come to the realization that it is their right to drink water from the rock and so will ask the rock to give them water to drink.