The
Watchmen
By Trevor Davis
2-12-20011
www.soundingthealarm.com
Watchmen are a vehicle of God and from God.
They have a calling from Him and are equipped through
Him. Their desire is to be faithful to the task of warning the
unsuspecting of certain or potential dangers on the horizon. It is like a
meteorologist that scans the data from satellite imagery or other technical
tools they use to determine what is coming from the horizon. People dress
and make their plans based on the weather report. However, it is not
merely a technical issue to be a watchman, it is a spiritual relationship with
God that illuminates the information and is encased with the message that God
is speaking.
It is not enough just to see danger coming. This is
very important. I see so called watchmen that have left the message of
the LORD, preaching the Word of God, having the testimony of Jesus in order to
sensationalize the elements of catastrophic judgments.
I have always told those I knew in ministry as well as
those listening to broadcasts that 'the message is not the elements of
judgment that come'. The true message is from the Spirit and
Word of God and calls the people's return to the Lord. The other
things are only incidental. God does warn people about things coming but
the most important thing is the relationship people have with the Lord.
This requires a commitment to the Lord to relay this to the people. We
are to please the Lord and not people.
People want to be sensationalized and tantalized.
People want to hear the latest prophecy and prediction. It fascinates
them.
That is not the role of a true watchman to placate to the
whims of the people. The sole role is to be faithful to God and speak
what He speaks, declare His Word, and of course, minister the testimony of
Jesus which is the spirit of prophecy. Rev 19:10
A watchman should have a unity with the Lord that comes by
an abiding faith in Jesus Christ. Through this unity is an oneness.
A watchman is not to be at odds with the Lord since God is separate from the
world and iniquity. A watchman has a heart that is concerned for
people. He has God's heart in his heart. This is where intercessory
prayer is birthed. To pray for others through the Spirit of God we yield
to the prayers from the mind of God for people, things and situations. A
watchman therefore is yielded to God.
Today we have many people seeing the events of judgments
that are forging but we have few that are truly serving the Lord in their
calling as a watchman. The religious churches have fallen prey to the
spirit of the world for the most part and have their hearts callous from their
sinful ways. They cannot see what is coming. They have become blind
for the most part. The blinded cult churches of man are building an
iniquitous strange fire invention that is opposed to the work of God that makes
disciples to the Lord. They are not watchmen.
The world has secular people that are gifted to see the
obvious. But, they are not serving the Lord with their abilities.
They serve their own self sadly.
Lastly, there are those who have been put in a position to
serve as a watchman to the Lord but too many have fallen from the foundation of
the ministry itself, which is Jesus Christ. How can one tell if a
watchman is from the Lord or not? Ask God. He is the one that will
cause you to know the truth. But those who do not love Him and are not
abiding in Him, they will not know the truth. If there is not godly
sorrow repentance before the Lord then those who have hypocritically named the
Lord as their Lord shall be given over to believe and promote lies that are not
from the Lord.
Trevor Davis