Heaven Comes Down: Our “Jonah Moment
10/13/24 2:52 PM
Summer Joy Christner
Received on October 11-12 2024
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These last three months have been our “Jonah-in-the-belly moment.” Our country was visibly bereaved of a leader on June 27, and the nations have viewed our nakedness with pleasure. We have been orphaned. We have been widowed. For three months, darkness has covered us—until the arrival of hurricane Helene.
Helene means “shining light.” In the midst of great darkness, we have seen a bright and shining light. The great fish has finally opened its mouth. Daylight is visible, and dry land is in sight!
In the midst of quarrels and division, God is coming through for His people! The great fish has opened its mouth, and our sacrifice is presenting in the form of willing hands and loving hearts for a hurting humanity. Our tithe is long overdue, but it shall be found in the “mouth of the fish” as we continue to reach out with the true Gospel—with the hands and feet of Jesus. As we emerge, as a living sacrifice, from the mouth of our tomb, we welcome the broad daylight! The warmth of our spiritual summertime meets physical winter with a song!
In her darkest moment, the Church will be crowned as she experiences the ring of fire of her spiritual birth. The ring of fire when the sun is eclipsed, is a sign of revival, or new birth—through pain and darkness.
In our darkest moment, we will find a loving Father. We will find a husband.
This great pain weds us to Christ, our Saviour, even as we drink the bitter cup that He drank for our sakes. We too, will drink a bitter cup to save many. But we will drink it with joyful hearts. Our song of hope will rise and will become heard throughout the land.
The sign of Jonah comes to a generation that speaks faith—but does not exercise it. It comes to a generation that is split in allegiance between Christ and the things of this world. This sign comes to those who have been spiritually unfaithful to Christ, their professed lover.
What is the sign of Jonah, and why is it necessary? The sign of Jonah is a spiritual baptism of darkness—so that transformation can occur. Deep waters cover us until we have truly been washed clean.
The unbelieving generation needs more than simple signs. They need to see a miracle. When Jonah was spit out on dry land after being swallowed alive for three days—that was a miracle. When Jesus emerged from death and the grave after three days, that was a miracle. When believers rise up during their time of darkness and sorrow and are transformed into the hands and feet of Jesus—that is a miracle. When believers begin to deliver on the empty promises of others and fill the needs that have been unmet—even at great cost to themselves—this is a miracle.
When the Church emerges, victorious, from her spiritual grave—this is the sign of Jonah. This great sign is what our generation needs to witness, in order that we might bring in the final harvest!
My husband and I have been actively in a state of fasting and forgiveness for Israel, for a little over 7 years. Seven years ago, on Rosh Hashana (September 21 and 22, 2017) we mailed a prophetic message from God to 700 church leaderships across the USA. It was a charge for the Lord’s “King David” to rise up and bring the rest and peace of God’s Kingdom to His people. This was a trumpet call for leaders to lay down their weapons of division and to take up the banner of Love.
My husband asked God, “where do I call these leaders to meet?” He heard the Lord’s reply, “X marks the spot.”
So he called the leaders to meet with him under shelter #4 at a park in Salem, Illinois, on September 30, 2017, (Yom
Kippur). This location is 70 miles north (as the crow flies) from the intersection of two total solar eclipses (of 2017 and 2024).
None of these leaders answered the call to Salem on Yom Kippur of 2017. But God is never late. He is always right on time! Was the battle of Jericho fought and won in a day? Or was it won on the seventh day?
Beginning in April through June of 2018, I fasted 69 days for the release of God’s people. On the seventieth day I broke my fast and proclaimed freedom over the captives. On that very same day, my fourth child was conceived after a period of infertility. This was God’s doing. He showed me that my child’s name was Chavelah Shalom, which means Life and Peace. It has now been six years since I publically pronounced freedom over God’s people.
Good things come to those who wait. It’s now time to celebrate, because we have come to the end of our “Six Day War.” We have arrived at the time of our spiritual Sabbath. We have wrestled with the Lord, and have had our joints displaced. Now it’s time to rise up against Esau and bring in the final harvest! It’s time to revive Jerusalem. This effort commences now with the birth of the Sons of Light, otherwise known as the birth of the Revelation 12 child.
The birthing process begins with a parting of ways with our securities and our comforts. It is a soul-searching process which results in a living death or a putting to death the deeds of our flesh. It could feel like drowning for a time, because God requires us to step out upon the dark waters in faith, into the storm—and to trust completely in Him for everything. When we die to self, He will take us by the hand and guide us intimately.
The Lord’s beloved child is now floating down a deep river, crying out for Jesus. Even in death, this child is destined to rise up with the power of Jesus flowing through his veins. It is in death that he finds his voice. In death, he finds strength in his heart to rise and meet the true heart of his Saviour at last. God’s children come face to face with the One whom they were created to reflect! God’s children discover the blessing of walking hand in hand with Christ on a daily basis, with the power to see and hear Him more clearly. Yeshua stands before and behind us. He rules within us. Galatians 5:24, 25 “And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”
The birth of Yeshua began 2,000 years ago. The birth has been in process, waiting for that great day in which the Body of Christ is FULLY birthed to reflect His image—to repair our broken mirror of twenty centuries!
The sign of Jonah is the number of resurrection as it pertains to death and life again. This is why God created seed bearing plants on day three. Every plant produces seed which is buried—so that it may spring forth into a new life. This points to a metamorphosis. It points to a Phoenix rising from the ashes. It points to a regeneration. We will be “buried before we rise.” Jesus was buried for three days, but we also undergo similar process, because we are the supports in His temple.
Revelation 3:12, 13 “Him that overcometh will I MAKE A PILLAR IN THE TEMPLE of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”
John 2:18-21 “Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body.”
In a single day, America’s image was destroyed in the earth. After 46 periods of leadership, our emperor suddenly had no clothes. He has been perceived as a mere puppet. In the days of old, King Saul was also stripped of his power, even while holding office for a time.
In August of 2024, the Lord gave me these words:
“By the faith of Abraham, I will be a surrogate to Judah.
“I will raise up a son unto you, Oh Judah! He will become a great blessing in the earth, ascending and descending upon Jacob’s ladder during the Great and Awful Day of the Lord.
“He will bring Light and Life to many. He will be the hands and feet of Messiah to a multitude, ruling the earth with a servant heart.
“Hear my voice now, Oh Judah. Your heart was faithless and unbelieving. But the Lord has answered before you called. The Lord has cast His favor upon you. Now let your light so shine before men, that they might see your good works and glorify your Father in Heaven!”
Isaiah 9:2,5-7
“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined…. For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”
Jeremiah 30:5-8
“For thus saith the Lord; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
The song “Somewhere over the Rainbow” was gifted to the world in 1939, during the Holocaust. It was written by Yip Harburg in light of a longing and desire for the establishment of Zion.
Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwo’ole later recorded this song in a single “take” (in 1988) during the middle of night—at 3:00 am. There were dark hours before he began singing, and there were dark hours after he finished. Likewise, there are dark days behind us, and there are dark days still ahead. But I want you to remember one thing. There IS a pot of gold at the end of our “nighttime rainbow.” The rainbow symbolizes that God will never again need to wipe out the entire earth with a flood, because He will ultimately fulfill His covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He will wash the earth with His righteousness instead.
When we “look beyond the rainbow” we peer with hope beyond our present distress, and focus on building the Kingdom of Christ. He will not leave us, but will fulfill all of His promises to us. Isaiah 55:5 “Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.”
The Holy Spirit led me, back in August of this year, to put together a playlist of songs for God’s people, titled “Sons of Light.” I just now added the last, and 47th video today, on the “Benjamin Paul Christner” YouTube channel. This last video features the revival of the leader of the Lost Boys of Neverland. It demonstrates how the power of love can be so transforming that it enables us to overcome the powers of darkness. It enables us to put an end to Satan’s kingdom.
Please watch the entire playlist in order, and let the Holy Spirit reveal to you the things that God would have you to understand during this time. If my message has resonated with you here today, then you will understand many of these spiritual songs in a Light that you have never seen them before.
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2 Thes. 3:16,18 “Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all…The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.”
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