Quiet in Qaanaaq - the emergence of the bigger picture

This thing about the Highway The first time I heard about the concept of the 'Highway' was in 2001 at Jericho Walls when I heard about the San people (one of the first people groups in Southern Africa) who had travelled up through Africa with Elizabeth Jordaan to repent of the things their ancestors did that brought curses on the land.   In 2002 when He started speaking to me about the Highways the only scripture I had was Is 35:8 about the Highway of Holiness that will be. In 2003 while I spent the year at the House of Prayer in Jerusalem various visions and revelations started making me aware of how this Highway is a preparation for the Lord's return, and that it is about His Kingdom coming 'on Earth as it is in Heaven'. As I prayed for Africa that year the stark contrast between His Kingdom and what is going on in Africa came in sharp focus and I understood that He wants His church to prepare a 'Way of Holiness' through it.   In 2005 when the anointing suddenly struck for me and Eugenie to do the Southern Highway the Lord placed such a strong burden for creation on my heart (Rom 8:19) that I could not speak of the vision without crying for creation. It was clear to me that everything was suffering because of our disobedience and that Creation itself was longing for the Kingdom of God and the return of the King of Glory. I was given the action with the stones to do, and that was enough for me – I went ahead and did it with the gracious help of my beloved sister and the wide-eyed prayers of all our family and friends.   In 2006, when he spoke about the other ends of the Earth and the 7 Highways the plight of creation was still foremost on my mind. In May 2007 the Khoi (the other first people group in Southern Africa) told me about the Highway they were called to walk to Jerusalem. I was reminded again about the significance of the 'Ends of the Earth' in various scriptures, and what the people of the ends of the earth are called to do. We went along on the Khoi Highway, and when I was thinking about the other 6 of the 7 Highways I was wondering if they should include the first peoples of all the ends? On praying about it I concluded: no, these Highways are about the Earth telling God how it felt about the Sons of God.   Somewhere in he time that I was walking with the Khoi I had a very strong revelation of Jesus Himself actually being 'THE WAY'. He laid down His life to make a way for us to the Father. The church in Acts was also referred to by the Jewish authorities as a sect called 'the Way'.   The WAY and the WEDDING I was working at the Convocation in Jerusalem between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in 2006. In this time the Lord started speaking to me about the 7 Highways. I shared my thoughts with the three Chinese ladies that shared the room with me. The Eastern Highway was burning in their hearts and they knew of various prophetic actions that were made along the old Silk Highway. After the convocation they were aware that I was walking around the old city 40 times to collect the stones from mount Zion for the next Highway in the same way as I did it for the African Highway: by praying for Jerusalem. On the last round I did around the city they joined me, and when we came to Mnt Zion where I picked up the stones every time and blew the shofar, the Holy Spirit was all over us, and we cried and laughed. One of them tore out of her Chinese Bible the whole book of 'The Song of Songs' and gave it to me as a personal love letter from Him for me and for His church in China and for His Bride. I have been carrying these pages in the cover of my passport ever since. The stones I picked up with them are now in Qaanaaq.   In March this year we did the 2nd Highway (Northern Highway Part 1), basically with the same mandate as the one of 2005 with the stones, but where we did not seek fellowship with any church along our way through Africa, we now looked for believers along the way to submit the vision to. One of the major connections we made was with a prophetic group in Russia who was in preparation for a trans-Siberian journey that would involve prophetic conferences in all 7 regions of Russia. The God given mandate of these conferences was to awaken the Bride of Christ in Russia in preparation for the fulfilment of a prophetic word Hudson Taylor gave more than 100 years ago. This prophecy said that a very large revival would break out in Russia and spread through Europe and all the world, and that this would be the last great revival before the return of the Lord (or something in that vein, I'll try to get the exact words).   On the Northern Highway Part 1 I started working on a prophetic wedding dress. In the vision I had of the dress it included the Eph 6 Armour of God, and I spent many a happy hour on those Russian trains embroidering a scripture about our righteousness in Christ on what is to become the front of the bodice of the dress. For this Highway I prepared to do the belt and the helm, with the following words embroidered on the belt of truth: 'Jesus Said: I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the father except through me.'   As you may know, Kavod Ministries, the congregation I belong to, is a very busy though not a very big congregation. Almost everyone of the 15(give or take) of us are in some form of ministry, and we are forever sending people out and getting feedback on what has been done. During the July school holidays in SA it was hard to get every-one together to send me out on this Highway, so in the end I got sent out at the wedding of one of our members – a beautiful lady of Jewish birth. She had little silver bags with fudge on the table for each guest. At the end of the evening I had enough silver wedding bags for each of the countries I will be going through, so I can keep the stones of the countries separate until I come to Jerusalem.   On the day that I flew out of SA I was also sent by a little groups of ladies at Irene's house. On the way there I ran out of gas. To my rescue came my friends Erna, Olof and Jason, who were all together at Erna's place to make preparations for Jason's wedding… Jason, the beaming bridegroom was the one who helped me get the fuel in my car. I then went to Irene's with my mother, the back-up rescue team who came all the way from the farm and decided to join me at the last moment. At Irene's the whole theme of the anointing oil she prepared was cleansing by the blood and resulting intimacy with our saviour.   That night I flew to Egypt with Elizabeth Jordaan, the 1999 San Highway forerunner who was on her way to teach on prayer in Jordan. Much of what the Lord used her to teach me on recently is the need for intimacy in relationship with the Lord we pray to.   Many of the testimonies I heard in Nuuk on arrival in Greenland was around the trials and victories that marriages of god's workers in this nation have gone through for the Gospel. The day I arrived in Ilulissat I was given leftover wedding cake that Liz & Kurt had baked for the wedding of  Inuit church members the day before.   The WAY to Heaven – Burn or Burn In Qaanaaq I was isolated with only 'Heaven is so real' to read. I felt that I had to finish the book before the Highway started because I had the sense that it held some message that needed to be part of this Highway. The message that stood out for me was the urgency with which the Lord is seeking to 'know' each of us personally, and for each of us to know Him personally as the one and only love of our lives.   My spirit witnessed with everything she said in the book, and to my shock I had to hear that this little Korean granny is honestly expecting to see Jesus returning in her lifetime. This concurs with some of the words I have been hearing in Jerusalem, and a general sense that many of the people close to me have been talking about in the past year. What my mind always says when it hears things like this is: But, they were expecting Him any minute since Acts, and He still hasn't come. The counter argument that is arising in me now is: If he does come tonight, am I really ready? And the people I know and love?   The urgency with which Choo Thomas warns that our half-hearted devotion is simply not enough shook me. Jesus gave everything and He wants everything in return, our all and all and nothing less. It's not as if I did not know or try to live this before. But this is not our lifestyle or way of exhorting one another in the church today normally. So I have been allowing myself to slip here and there, and my message to myself and others have not been a strong 'Burn with Love for Him or burn in Hell forever!'   The end of the Earth Her revelations about the rapture and the tribulation and all that left me theologically a bit confused, but spiritually very sure that I want to live in His absolute and perfect will second by second. The question that arose with relation to the Highways was: what is it really that I'm praying for? What is this petition each place I set my foot is 'signing' when it gives its little rock to be presented to the Lord on Mnt Zion to ask for the revelation of the Sons of God? That verse in Revelations about the old Earth that is replaced by a new earth came up, and my old favourite in Is 40:3-5 about the way for the Lord in the desert involves a lot of mountains being made low and valleys being raised up… Are those stones saying they want the old Earth to pass away and the new earth to come? Are these Highways about creation actually accepting the Gospel in the same way as we each have to do individually, giving our all for the one who gave all for us? Is creation declaring publicly that it is now ready for the old to pass away and the new to come?   If this is so, the significance of these Highways in the bigger scheme of things is far more weighty than I imagined before. I'm actually struggling to believe this myself, but I am starting to feel that this prayer is the voice for creation's testimony of her faith before baptism. Creation is preparing to get baptised and to take part with Him in His death, so that she can take part with Him in His resurrection. Creation is willing to pay the price for the Kingdom of God… are we ready for the mountains to be made low and the valleys to be raised up? For the sky to role up like a scroll?