There is a word that the Holy Spirit is bringing to the church in this season, and which many prophetic ministers are catching and releasing in different ways, and which can be summarised like this: ”I am bringing revival in unprecedented ways to show my glory and my power in these last days before the King returns. And it will be now as it was at the beginning of the gospel: I will choose and use the unknowns, the unqualified, and the unrecognised; the fisherman, the labourers and the tax collectors, because they are the ones who will show for my glory and not desire to keep it for themselves. I will demolish ministry platforms and pull down the strongholds of pride and selfish ambition that have divided my church; the church, the Father and the Son will be one in the Spirit, and the glory of the Lord will cover the Earth as the waters cover the sea.”

We have heard this word in many ways, and we acknowledge its truth. But I believe the Holy Spirit is grieved by those who would build a platform for themselves to pronounce it against others; who lift themselves up in order to declare that this is the season of the lowly.

The book of Obadiah is a prophecy against the Edomites, the house of Esau, whom God judges for their arrogance and “violence against your brother Jacob.“

The prophet writes:

“The pride of your heart has deceived you,
You who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
Whose habitation is high;
You who say in your heart,
‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

Though you ascend as high as the eagle,
And though you set your nest among the stars,
From there I will bring you down,” says the LORD” (Obadiah 1: 4-5)

Galatians 6:5 says “each one should carry his own load.“ In other words each one of us is responsible for his own faults and shortcomings . Revival has to begin in our own hearts. Peter writes “for the time is come the judgement must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what will be the end of them that have been not the gospel of God?“ (1 Peter 4:17).

I believe the Holy Spirit is saying, “Do not judge your brother as Esau did, for the pride of your heart has deceived you, and I will bring you down from the place where you exalt yourself.”

If we want to be part of the wave of God’s mercy that is going to flood this earth, let us beware of judging those who we think might be standing in its way, because in doing so we come under the judgement of the One who is “meek and humble of heart” whom we claim to be exalting.

“The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
And the house of Joseph a flame;
But the house of Esau shall be stubble;
They shall kindle them and devour them,
And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,”
For the LORD has spoken.” (Obadiah 1:18)