Question

During a personal prophecy, it was said that the Spirit of Jeremiah was coming upon me. I have heard at one time or another most names from the Old or New Testament, where the name was being activated as a Spirit coming upon someone or the Anointing of the historical person coming upon someone. Is there a difference between a spirit of Jeremiah and an anointing of Jeremiah? If we receive the word into our lives, what should our expectancy be to walk under the 'spirit of Jeremiah'? What exactly is being imparted?

Answer

In order to understand the issue of spirit impartation, we must first meditate on the following passage:

The word "portion" in the phrase "double portion" (v9) was translated from the Hebrew word peh, which literally means "mouth". This shows that there is a connection between the "mouth" and the "release of spirits" into the Earth, as emphasised by the Lord in the following passages:

[Even though the words by Bildad against Job were inherently misguided, this verse, spoken by him, does reflect a spiritual principle. The word "wind" at the end of the verse was translated from the Hebrew word ruach, which is the word used for "spirit" in Hebrew (and is translated as such in the other verses quoted above). Therefore, Bildad understood that the issuing forth of words from the mouth releases spirits into the atmosphere.]

From all of the above, we can conclude that the coming of a "spirit" upon you leads to words being issued from your mouth, words that release the nature of that spirit upon the Earth. Therefore, those with the "spirit of Elijah" shall have "Elijah-style" words issuing from their mouths. Those with the "spirit of Jeremiah" shall have "Jeremiah-style" words issuing from their mouths, and, as those words are issued, the workings of that spirit on Earth are completed.

Declaring full-blown civil war

In 2 Kings 2:9-15 quoted above, Elisha rent his clothes in two pieces after he saw Elijah "no more" (v12). This is a prophetic figure of Elijah's separation from the realm of natural understanding and behaviour. Just as Elijah had physically departed the natural realm, Elisha was now departing from the natural realm in his heart. As he took on the spirit of Elijah, he was to sever himself from the limitations of the natural, and he was to move in a new spiritual dimension, a dimension in which you do not act as others act, or think as others think. This is the reason why Elisha "supranaturally" split the waters of the river Jordan immediately after the spirit of Elijah came upon him, for he was now acting in a "supranatural" dimension. This is also the reason why the Holy Spirit recorded the following words:

"¹⁶And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send. ¹⁷And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not. ¹⁸And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?" (2 Kings 2:16-18)

Notice how the sons of the prophets were operating at a more natural level of understanding. They did believe that the Spirit of the Lord could "take up" a person and transport him elsewhere, but they were unable to visualise the Spirit transporting a person completely out of this natural sphere. Elisha's understanding, on the other hand, did comprehend this. This shows that Elisha was thinking at a level of understanding that reached into the "supranatural". This was possible because he had wilfully "rent" himself from the natural thinking and behaviour of the former man.

Once you "rend your own clothes", you initiate a civil war in the natural realm. Why? Because you are establishing a trend of thought and behaviour that runs contrary to all that natural man thinks or does. You can no longer walk with those who walk in the natural or think like those who think in the natural. This is the reason why Scripture declares that Elisha "tarried at Jericho" (v18) as the sons of the prophets looked for the physical Elijah. He could not feel comfortable walking with them whilst they chose to walk in their natural understanding. A rift is created in the fabric of mankind whenever a man or woman chooses to operate in God's "supranatural" dimension.

{As I was writing the words above, the Spirit prompted me to think of a word that went beyond "supernatural", and the word that was birthed in my heart was "supranatural". The Lord then prompted me to do a search on the Internet to determine the difference between the words "supernatural" and "supranatural", which led us to find an interesting article on mama.indstate.edu, along with an interesting paragraph on bartleby.com}

The word "clothes" in 2 Kings 2:12 was translated from the Hebrew word beged. As we have shared before, this is the word used in Isaiah 64:6 when referring to "clothes of menstruation" (translated as "filthy rags" in the King James Version). In Scripture, "menstruation" refers to the spiritual contamination that enveloped man as he allowed the soul to lord it over the spirit. Therefore, Elisha's rending of his clothes is a prophetic figure of his rejection of anything related to the matriarchy of the soul. You cannot move in the realm of the "supranatural" until your heart chooses to make an uncompromising rejection of the soul matriarchy, repudiating anything tainted with that matriarchy as you would a garment tainted with menstruation blood.

The Hebrew word beged (mentioned above) is derived from the word bagad meaning "to act treacherously, deceitfully". As we have studied before, bagad speaks of believers who say "Yes" to God and walk with Him for a while, only to back down at the end when "push comes to shove". These are the believers who walk with God across the black-horse wilderness, only to betray Jesus when it comes time to cross the green-horse river Jordan. This is the reason why Elisha had to rend his bagad garments before he could cross the Jordan. Those who shall cross the Jordan are those who shall suffer deep betrayal and apathetic forsaking (Psalm 22:1) from those who were called to enable them.

Fatherly accumulation

After Elisha received a double portion of the spirit of Elijah, he took the mantle of Elijah and parted the river Jordan with it, just as Elijah had done earlier (2 Kings 2:8). Elijah did this at the end of his walk, and Elisha did it at the beginning of his walk in the spirit of Elijah. In other words, Elisha did not have to literally go through everything that Elijah had gone through in order to do what Elijah had done. Elijah's mantle had within it the accumulation of all the spiritual work that Elijah had forged. Once Elisha's heart aligned itself with the spiritual parameters that had directed Elijah's life, Elisha automatically inherited the "spiritual mileage" that Elijah had accumulated. This means that Elisha was enabled to multiply what Elijah had done, working towards completing the spiritual projects started through Elijah.

A "spiritual father" travails in the Spirit, forging a path that can be continued by the sons and daughters who come after him or her. True fathers are those who selflessly give themselves for their children and who have no problems with seeing their children being more successful than they were, even when their children achieve that greater success without making the sacrifices that they themselves made. This is the reason why the Lord correlates fatherhood with Elijah-type spiritual impartation:

Notice how verse 4 above speaks of God's judgments. As we have shared before, a person who rejects God's corrective judgments automatically prevents God acting as a Father in his or her life (Hebrews 12:6-8). This means that, in order for you to receive a spiritual impartation from a "spiritual father", you must be willing to accept the judgments that have directed that father's life. This principle always applies, even in the cases of "negative" impartations. If you are willing to accept the unrighteous judgments of a potential father figure, you will open yourself up for a destructive spiritual impartation from that person. That is the reason why satan also has children (John 8:44, which in reality is John 8:32).

As shown by 2 Kings 2:1-8, Elijah did not want Elisha to follow him before he departed. In other words, Elijah's judgment was "Elisha should stay behind and allow me to depart alone". Elisha, however, rejected that judgment 3 times. He did so because he knew that that judgment was not from God; Elisha knew that it came from the soul of a man who grew elitist over the latter part of his life and who forgot his calling to beget children who would carry his spirit (1 Kings 19:3, 15-17). This is the reason why Elisha swore on the soul of Elijah that he would not leave him alone (2 Kings 2:2,4,6). Elisha was willing to accept the judgments of Elijah that came from God, but he rejected the judgments that came from Elijah the carnal man. This allowed him to receive a non-contaminated impartation from Elijah, and it allowed him to walk in green-horse territory that Elijah had been unwilling to walk in. He built on Elijah's work without falling victim to Elijah's flaws.

In Romans 10, the Spirit of God declares the following:

Notice how verse 8 speaks of "words " in one's "mouth", which correlates with what we shared above. The word "believe" in verse 9 was translated from the Greek verb pisteuo, which is the verb form of the word pistis, meaning "faith"; "coincidentally" pistis is the word translated as "faith" at the end of verse 8. Therefore, we can say that "faith" is, in essence, the act of believing. According to verse 9, you "believe" in your "heart", meaning that the heart is the seat of faith. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks (Matthew 12:34), meaning that as the heart places its faith on something, the "words of faith" referred to in verse 8 begin to issue from the mouth, and these words will carry the spirit of that in which we have believed.

All of the above certifies the fact that the key to spiritual impartation is faith. Once your heart aligns itself with (i.e.- confesses) the parameters (i.e.- judgments) that directed the other person's life, you begin to operate in the other person's "spirit", and you will be able to build on the other person's spiritual work. This is what happens when we become full-fledged sons and daughters of Abraham. As we are willing to walk in the judgment system that directed Abraham's life (Genesis 18:16-19), as we are willing to "see the invisible" as Abraham did (Genesis 12:1-2, John 8:56 (which in reality is John 8:44)), and as we are willing to sacrifice the dearest in our heart unto God (Genesis 22:1-14), we become Abraham's children and we are allowed to build on all the spiritual foundation his life left behind.

"⁶Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. ⁷Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. ⁸And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. ⁹So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham." (Galatians 3:6-9)

[The phrase "I believed, and therefore have I spoken" (v13) is a popular phrase used by many preachers to promote the "claiming" of temporal blessings such as cars and job promotions. Notice, however, that this phrase is spoken in a context that has nothing to do with temporal blessings. Paul speaks of being distressed, perplexed, persecuted, cast down, and bearing death in his body. Does this sound as if Paul was using his faith to claim temporal blessings? Those who have the "spirit of faith" (v13) understand that true spiritual impartation leads to a life whose scope extends beyond banal concerns.]

As we have said before, the heart is the seat of decision-making (Ephesians 6:6). Therefore, faith involves nothing more (and nothing less) than the drafting of a spiritual contract in which you decide to align yourself with a certain judgment system. This is how spiritual impartation happens. This is how you become a son.

The word "Christ" means "anointed one". Interestingly enough, the word "son" and "Christ" appear together in 35 verses of the New Testament, starting with the first verse of the New Testament:

"And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Matthew 16:16)

"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God" (Mark 1:1)

"And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God" (Acts 9:20)

"Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ" (Galatians 4:7)

"Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son" (2 John 1:9)

Since being a "son" is a result of spiritual impartation, we can conclude from the above that the "anointing" and spiritual impartation" are equivalent. When the Spirit comes over you and anoints you (Isaiah 61:1), you begin to speak words according to the Spirit (Acts 2:2-3). These words are the evidence that the Spirit that came over you has begotten a "son" in your heart (Luke 1:35). As the Father speaks, the Son speaks (John 8:28, John 15:15).

The spirit of Jeremiah

The following New Testament passage makes a reference to Jeremiah:

"¹³When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? ¹⁴And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. ¹⁵He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? ¹⁶And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." (Matthew 16:13-16)

Notice that some thought that Jesus was "Elijah", whilst others thought that He was "Jeremiah" (v14). According to Malachi 4:5, the spirit of Elijah was to come before the great and dreadful day of the Lord; therefore, it would be "understandable" (humanly speaking) that people would think that Jesus was Elijah. But why "Jeremiah"? The fact that God recorded this passage in Scripture means that there is a spiritual connection between Jeremiah and the coming of the Lord. Just as the spirit of Elijah is to be manifested before the coming of the Lord, so is the spirit of Jeremiah. The book of Jeremiah has 52 chapters; yet, the last verse of chapter 51 says the following:

If the "words of Jeremiah" end in chapter 51, why does the book of Jeremiah have a chapter 52? Because it speaks of a "temporary silence" that is to be ended by others. In other words, the spirit of Jeremiah's work was left incomplete after the passing of the literal Jeremiah, but that work shall be completed by those who follow after him, which is represented by chapter 52. After a moment of silence, Jeremiah's work, started over 2600 years ago, is to be completed by those of you who are willing to take on the spirit of Jeremiah.

Jeremiah was a conflictive man, a man who could not leave "well enough" alone, which led to a life of much lamentation, isolation, and depression:

"¹⁵O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. ¹⁶Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. ¹⁷I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation." (Jeremiah 15:15-17)

"⁷O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. ⁸For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. ⁹Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. ¹⁰For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. ¹¹But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten. ¹²But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause. ¹³Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers." (Jeremiah 20:7-13)

Notice how Jeremiah's life was filled with shame and reproach from those around him. Notice also how Jeremiah constantly cried out to God for revenge. In order for the spirit of Jeremiah to be on you, you must be willing to accept the parameters that ruled Jeremiah's life. He was not a promoter of false "peace and love" (Jeremiah 8:11). He was not your typical "Christian minister" with a "sedated" smile that oozed "grandpa santa-claus" kindness and harmony. He was a man of violent words, words of indictment, words of confrontation against all those around him. He hated to be like that. As you got to know him, you would realise that he was a man of deep compassion and sensitivity, but, every time he tried to quell the conflictive words within him, the hand of God would grow heavy upon him, and he would be wearied into pronouncing those words again, for those words were in his bones; they were an undeniable manifestation of his spiritual essence; to deny those words was to deny who he was, for the nature of God was within him (Jeremiah 20:7-8).

A "lovey-dovey" believer cannot have the spirit of Jeremiah on his or her life. It would be too intolerable for his or her soul. The parameters which directed Jeremiah's life would seem too drastic, too extremist, too insensitive to be "of God". There would be no faith in that believer's heart that would allow the spirit of Jeremiah to be harboured in that soul. Faith requires confessing the same set of judgments, and a "lovey-dovey" heart would be too tainted with menstrual mercy to serve as a host and conduit for the spirit-of-Jeremiah's judgments on Earth.

As shown by the verse above, the "words of Jeremiah" end with an uncompromising declaration that Babylon shall sink, never to rise again from the evil that God shall bring upon her. As we have said before, Babylon often represents the pastoral matriarchy in Scripture. Therefore, Jeremiah enters into a "zone of silence" after determinedly declaring the future silencing of Babylon. Those who are willing to take on the spirit of Jeremiah shall also enter into this "zone of silence". After a bitter life filled with controversy, those with the Jeremiah spirit are "killed", but not before releasing an uncompromising scream that foretells the end of the forces that killed them (Matthew 27:50). Once they are killed, their "annoying" rebukes are heard no more, and a deceitful silence filled with whispered lamentations begins to fill the air.

The word "ready" in verse 17 was translated from the Hebrew word kuwn, which literally means "to be firm, stable, established" or "to prepare", whilst the word "halt" was translated from the Hebrew word tsela meaning "limping, stumbling". Therefore, the original Hebrew text in verse 17 says, "For I am established to be limping...". In a negative sense, "limping" or "lameness" points to the Perizzite spirit of shame that "shrinks" people's self-esteem, making them permanently dependent on and subservient to Amorite giants. Thus, the phrase "I am established to be limping" in verse 17 means that God will compel His remnant believers to appear "Perizzite weak". Because of their low self-esteem and the systematic bashing of the Amorite-Jebusite-Girgashite machinery, Perizzites are sheepishly "dumb" (i.e.- mute) by default. Therefore, verse 17 above is declaring that God's remnant shall be compelled into an apparent "sheepish silence" after a long period of speaking with unadulterated boldness. This "silence of the lambs" shall come after they are systematically "killed". Yet, in their silence, they will release inaudible, infrasonic screams. These 5th-seal screams clamouring for judgment and vindication shall agitate the deepest parts of the Earth, setting the stage for a massive 6th-seal earthquake that shall topple the Amorites who had apparently succeeded in silencing God's remnant (Revelation 6:12-17).

It is no coincidence that the deaths of Alexander Litvinenko and Anna Politkovskaya have been in the news as the Lord has had us typing this article. As indicated on bbc.co.uk, Alexander Litvinenko was a former Russian security officer who died on 23 November 2006 in a London hospital due to radioactive polonium-210 that was somehow "introduced" in his body. Litvinenko was a fierce critic of that cursed bear, Vladimir Putin, and was forced into exile in the UK due to his non-compromising determination to loudly denounce corruption in the Russian government. He suddenly fell ill on 1 November, 2006, and did not live to see December because Vladimir Putin, that treacherous bastard, aligned himself with the spirit that utters December whispers of treachery. "Coincidentally", New-York-born journalist Anna Politkovskaya died 47 days before Litvinenko, on 7 October 2006. She was cowardly shot to death in the elevator of her apartment building. As indicated on bbc.co.uk, Politkovskaya was a courageous journalist who regularly investigated and reported the many abuses in the Putin-led Russian government, despite the over-bearing pressures put on Russia's media to "submit and conform". In a period of 47 days, these 2 megaphones have been silenced. The massive attack by satan to silence God's Tannoys during this last trimester of 2006 has led to a surge of infrasonic waves that are currently rumbling in the underground. These silent subterranean whispers are accumulating a vial of violent wrath that is soon to break forth, for God's voice cannot be silenced, no matter how hard man may try to do so. The more His voice is suppressed, the more violent His silence becomes. The more His voice is sent underground, the louder the effect of the ensuing tremor.

{You can read more about Alexander Litvinenko and Anna Politkovskaya on wikipedia.org}

"¹⁷So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. ¹⁸But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world." (Romans 10:17-18)