Days of Awe — David Davis

Welcome everyone, good morning, hallelujah, it's wonderful to see all of you in the House of the Lord. We believe the Lord has been touching us already and I have great expectation of what he wants to do in the rest of this meeting.

Living in the Days of Awe Every Day

You know, when you come to the House of the Lord, you ought to get prayed up, really be in prayer before you even get here, and be open to what the Holy Spirit wants to do and wants to say to you, and so I want to talk to you today about Days of Awe.

Next week when we move into Rosh Hashanah, or the Feast of Trumpets, the ten days between the Feast of Trumpets and Yom Kippur are often referred to as the Days of Awe. A time where religious Jews, and I hope many of us, are fasting and seeking the Lord's face and reading his word and getting closer to God.

And as powerful as the ten days of awe may be, you and I should be living in Days of Awe every day of our life. That's what I want to talk to you about. Lord, I just bring this message before you. It's your word.

You gave it to me, and I ask you, Lord, help me bring it forth under the anointing of your Holy Spirit that we all might be changed. Would you transform us in some measure this morning, everyone that has ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to all of us, in Yeshua's name?

So these last three fall feasts, the Feast of Trumpets, then Yom Kippur, and the Feast of Tabernacles, all of the feasts have prophetic significance. There's a prophetic, chronological order to the Feasts of the Lord.

Now they're called the Feasts of the Lord.

They are his feasts for us.

So my question is, Shabbat is a Feast of the Lord. So, here we are on Shabbat. Have you feasted on him this morning? I see a few heads going that, and one hand going like that. Shabbat should be a feast.

I'm not talking about the chicken we had last night, it was good. I'm talking about feasting on the presence and the glory of God. Each day with him should be a feast. His feast. For instance, the seven major feasts begin with Passover, and Passover is a prophetic feast, because it represents, you know that it's been fulfilled by the blood of Yeshua on Passover in Jerusalem.

Then we have the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Firstfruits, Shavuot, Pentecost, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, thousands of Jews came to the Lord, it's a big harvest feast, and then the gospel went all over the world.

Then there's the long, hot summer, and I hope it's almost over. This has been a long and hot one. For some reason, my wife and I decided not to go out of the country this year, but stay here in August.

I'm not sure if we're going to do it again. However the Lord leads, praise God. So now we're entering into these days of awe next week. These feasts foretell God's plan of redemption. If you want to study them and dig out nuggets of what they really mean, just meditate this whole week on, oh, let's say Leviticus 23.

The Feast of Trumpets and the Voice of God

Now the days of awe that we'll be entering into next week, the Feast of the Blowing of the Trumpets. Did something happen in here when people blew shofars this morning? Well sound was heard, but what do the trumpets, the shofars, what do they represent?

They represent the voice of God. When the Torah was given on Sinai, what was happening? Shofars were blowing, the mountain was shaking, lightning, shofars were blowing, and the people were terrified. When you hear the shofar, it can also represent gather together.

You can study the use of the shofars in the Bible. Now, when I was in the United States Marine Corps before most of you were born, we knew something about trumpet calls. When that trumpet blew in the morning, you better get out of bed or you're in trouble.

You better get dressed in a hurry, run out and stand at attention. We were being gathered together because something was about to happen. We were going to march somewhere, that's what was about to happen.

And so in the Bible, when you study the Feast of Trumpets, it's about the blowing of shofars that are calling the people to come together, and it can be a voice of alarm. It can be a voice of the enemies coming.

It's a warning to the people sometimes. It could be simply celebration, but the voice of the Lord is really what we're talking about. The blowing of the shofar, it can represent victory in battle. The greatest, in my opinion, the greatest miracle in the Bible is when the children of Israel marched around Jericho seven days and nobody talked.

You know, our internet website is called Medabrim, which means talking or words. But what happened after they marched around Jericho seven times? It was a totally, totally impregnable stronghold that nobody...

How are you going to get in there? And then they blew the shofars. What happened? The walls fell down. So this feast of the blowing of the shofars that we're about to enter into, it should be an alarm in our spirit to get ready for what's coming.

Something is about to happen. It's a foreshadowing. The trumpets can also represent judgment. How do we know this? The seven trumpets in the book of Revelation. The trumpets will blow, the shofars will blow as the Lord is judging the world for sin.

So the feast of trumpets is coming. The shofar also represents the return of the Lord. He's going to come back with a shout and the sound of the trumpet, amen? How many people have shofars in here? Stand up with your shofars.

Can we have a victory blast? Hallelujah. Let's just blow that thing and we're having a victory. Let's get your weapons out. Hallelujah. Blow the trumpet in Zion. Blow. Hallelujah. Lord, I ask you to release healing right now in the name of the Lord.

Healing because of the voice of the Lord has been sounded. Thank you for healing right now, Lord, supernaturally by your spirit. Hallelujah. Look, the Lord is here. He's talking to us. When you hear the sound of the shofar, get ready because something's coming.

Eventually you're going to hear it, we're going to hear it, and he's coming. He's coming back. Hallelujah. Now, the ten days of Av, beginning next week, the days of Av culminate in Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur, in fact, turn to Zechariah chapter 12.

Zechariah chapter 12. Have you ever experienced the awe of God? His awesomeness? No one's looking at me. Well, everybody's trying to find Zechariah, that's why. It's near the end of the Tanakh. Zechariah chapter 12.

Yom Kippur, Repentance, and the Fulfillment of Zechariah

The day of atonement is when the nation tries to atone for their sins. The whole nation stops. No one's driving cars. A lot of people are fasting, trying to confess their sins and get right with God. It's the ending of the day of awe.

But let's look at Zechariah chapter 12. It hasn't been completely fulfilled yet because it also represents our nation turning to the Lord in repentance and revival. The final fulfillment of Yom Kippur will be the repentance of our whole nation in coming to the Lord, and then it'll be life from the dead for the whole world.

So the blowing of the shofar is saying, something is coming. Okay, look at Zechariah chapter 12. Let's read verse 9. It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

This is what the Lord says. Nations are going to come against Jerusalem. But look what's going to happen. Verse 10. And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplication.

Then they will look on me whom they pierce, as they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only son and grieves for him as a firstborn. And that day there will be a great mourning. There will be mourning all over the land.

Will that be a day of awe? Families. You can study the verses that follow. Whole families are going to be repenting all over the nation. Children, grandparents, teenagers, young people, old people, all over the land, repenting all over the nation.

Repenting when they realize it's been Yeshua all along. Why did the rabbis not see it? Why did so many millions of people that called themselves Christians do such terrible things to us? But they're going to repent when they see that it is our sins that put them on that cross.

National. All over the land. And then a fountain will be open for clean cleansing. There will be a revival that will hit the whole world. These days of awe we're moving into, they are wonderful, wonderful days.

They all point to the return of the Lord. Now, some of the great prophetic voices of the last couple hundred years, like one is a man named A .W. Tozer. I have all of his books. I read them. And other great men of God like Andrew Murray and Charles Spurgeon.

Recovering the Awe and Wonder of God

They all say one of the reasons the body of Messiah is so weak is that we've lost the awe of God. The awe of the Lord. When you met him, was there a sense of awe? I was in awe for days. Kind of staggering around wondering what happened to me.

He's so magnificent. He's so wonderful. Why didn't I know? Awe means wonder. The wonder of God. He's a wonderful God. He's the most wonderful. Wonderful, astonishment, majesty. Do you meditate on the infinity of God?

I was sitting on our little mirapesa this morning. Look at the Mediterranean. You look at the horizon, it doesn't seem to end. It's like getting a little glimpse of the infinity of God. He always was.

He always will be. He wasn't created. We're created beings. We need to get back to tasting and experiencing and walking in the awe of the Lord.

We need to get back to tasting and experiencing and walking in the awe of the Lord.

The Exodus and the Awe of Redemption

When the children of Israel were in slavery, and it had been prophesied that they would come out after 400 and some years, one day, one night, when they put the blood over the doorpost, and then it was time to go, and as they went, and they got to the Red Sea, how were they going to get across the Red Sea?

The greatest army in the world was thundering down upon them to destroy them. And then the Lord opened the Red Sea. Think about it. The children, the grandparents, the teenagers, they're going on dry ground, and then these it's like walls of water are up there.

The kids must have been saying, Oh my, wow! Mommy, look at that! How's the water standing up there? And the mother might have said, I don't know, God did it, but come on, let's get out of here. And they all went through in wonder.

The awe of God was over the whole nation.

As the families went, carried all their belongings with them,.

All night long, the waters had gone back. They got to the other side, the enemy was still over there, and all the waters came back. Did the kids say to their father, Daddy, where are the bad guys? The bad guys were chasing us.

He said, they're gone. What could you do? What could you possibly do? You could only do what they did. They worshipped the Lord. They worshipped the Lord. We just sang what they sang. We sang what they sang.

He is Nora Tehillot. Tehillot. He is awesome, awful, terrible, wonderful, awe-inspiring in praises. That's what they sang on the other side of the Jordan. The whole nation was singing, he's wonderful, he's awesome.

And what was Miriam doing? And the young ladies, they were dancing with their tambourines, hallelujah. The awe of the Lord was all over the whole nation of people. They had seen this great, great, awesome miracle.

Isn't this wonderful? It's wonderful. Look, for centuries, thousands of years, Jewish people have been having Passover Seder. They read the story every year. We love the Seder. We have Seders here. We have them at Caramel.

We have them downtown. We have them in our home. And we read the story. The great Passover got people from slavery into freedom. The wonder of God was all over the camp. The kids must have been saying, Mommy, how did it happen?

There was the Red Sea, and then it opened, and we went, and now it closed up. I don't get it. How did it happen? They must have been soaking in the awe of God, looking at one another, We're free, we're free, we're free, we're free.

They must have been soaking in the awe of God, looking at one another, We're free, we're free, we're free.

Oh, brothers and sisters, if only the story ended there. But it didn't. Within days, they started to complain. They started to come against Moses.

After the Red Sea crossing,. After the Red Sea crossing,.

They lost the awe of God. Forty years, wandering around in the desert. I wonder how many funerals Moses and Aaron officiated at. They lost the awe of God and didn't go straight up into the promised land.

They lost the awe of God and didn't go straight up into the promised land. Oh, you don't want to be somebody that knew the awe of God and lost the awe of God.

Isaiah's Vision of the Holy Lord

The awe of God is something that we need. Turn to Isaiah 6 for a moment. Isaiah, one of the greatest of the prophets, the most widely used of the Lord. In chapter 6, verse 1, let's read this. Isaiah 6, verse 1.

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim. Each had six wings, with two He covered His face, two He covered His feet, and with two He flew.

And they cried to one another, Kaddosh, Kaddosh, Kaddosh is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of His glory. And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of Him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

The great man of God has this vision of the Lord. The Lord is high and lifted up, and the train of His robe, His robe is light. It was like glorious light.

Was filling the whole house of God.

And there were these fiery angels flying back and forth, back and forth. And all they could shout, all they could sing was, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts.

And in the vision, Isaiah sees all of this.

Then the thresholds of the building of the temple start to shake. Let me ask you something. If some fiery angels started flying back and forth in here right now and were saying, Kaddosh, would you have the awe of God on you?

If those doorposts started to shake there, would you have the awe of God on you? If you had a vision of the Lord and light was all over the temple, would you have the awe of God on you? This great prophet has this incredible vision.

Smoke was coming up. Why was smoke coming up? There was an altar. An animal was being sacrificed. The smoke was going up in front of the Lord. And as the great prophet sees this, he starts to scream or cry out, Whoa, whoa, whoa, I am undone.

He was undone because he had a glimpse of the awe of God. Look what he says. I'm a man of unclean lips, verse five. I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the king, the Lord of hosts.

One of the fiery angels flew down to the altar and took a coal and put it on the mouth of the great prophet. He said, you touched my mouth. Your iniquity is taken away. In his repentance, in the glory of the Lord and the awesomeness of the Lord, the Lord met with him and removed his sin.

Verse eight. Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send? Who will go for me? And I said, here I am. Send me. He was touched by the Lord and the awesomeness of the Lord before he was even prepared to be sent.

Who did he see? We know who he said. The best commentary on the Old Testament is that the king of Israel uses the New Testament. The New Testament tells us who he saw. John 12 .51 is Yeshua.

He had a glimpse of the Messiah.

And he was undone. This awesome one that we serve, this awesome Yeshua, we've been worshiping him all morning here. He's high and lifted up and his train fills the temple. And everywhere he goes, there's light and the darkness can't live.

This prophet, through one vision of the awesomeness of God, he then received words from the Lord that have been changing the world ever since. He wrote Isaiah 53. Who's Isaiah 53 about? It's about Yeshua.

Ariel has been doing this video that's going out. 1 .3 million people have watched it. It's on the internet. 1 .3 million people. All they do is read Isaiah 53 to Jewish people on the street. And person after person says, that's Yeshua.

Isaiah 53 was written by Isaiah who got the vision of Yeshua. The children of Israel lost the awe of God Saul, the king, he was anointed of the Lord. He lost the awe of God. It's tragic when you read in the history of God's people, people that lost the awe of God and walked away from him.

Elijah and the Miracles of Everyday Awe

But there are people in the Bible who understood and had an experience and walked in the awe of the Lord and lost and then came back to the awe of God. We need the awe of God. We need the experience. We need to understand it.

We need to read about it. Read the glories of God in the Bible. Just fill you up with faith. Here we are on the mountain where Elijah called the fire down from heaven. Was the awe of God here that day?

Was that a day of awe?

The people that were there must have talked about it the rest of their life. The people that were there must have talked about it the rest of their life.

Elijah was a man like you and me and he prayed that it wouldn't rain and it didn't rain. Then he prayed that it would rain and it rained and the earth gave forth its fruit. Elijah was a man just like you and me.

You know, we think of the awe of God sometimes. And look, I want to live in the days of awe all the time. Being awestruck by what he does. Just little things happen and you realize that was God. And you're just in awe of him.

Look what he just did for us. Look what he just did for somebody. Elijah was told to go and sit at a brook, at a stream. And a bird would bring him food. Now, would you have gone and done that? Would we have done that?

He sat there at that stream and every morning a bird showed up with some food. And every afternoon brought him meat and bread. Do you think he had the awe of God? I mean, imagine you're sitting there.

He didn't have a watch, so he was wondering what time it was. But his stomach was saying it's dinner time. And here came this raven with his steak or his shawarma or whatever it was. It was meat, it wasn't falafel.

The awe of God walked into the prophet. My God takes care of all my needs. When we started House of Victory, we didn't have any money. We didn't have anything. And every day for 25 years there have been three meals on that table.

Hallelujah. Eric, it's the raven that's brought it. Listen. We need to walk in the awe of God. The Lord tells him to go to a heathen widow. He tells Elijah to go to this heathen widow. He went. So he goes to what is today Lebanon.

They had no food. So every morning they got up for breakfast and Elijah prayed and the food multiplied and food showed up. The little boy, the son of the widow must have come and wake up Elijah and say, it's time for breakfast.

We don't have any food. Will you pray so we have food? Listen, those were days of awe. That little boy with that prophet and that prophet who finally got a son and the father's heart was being developed in him.

You should realize that we can live in the days of awe all the time.

He meets all of our needs.

With my God, nothing is impossible. The boy died. Elijah took that boy. Took him up to his little prophet's chamber and laid him out on his own bed. He laid himself out on that boy and cried, Lord return his soul to him.

Three times. The third time the boy's eyes started to flicker. He looked up and he saw his Abba. His father praying for that boy. He came back to life. He picked that boy up and took him back to his mother.

My friend, those were days of awe. We should live that way. We have seen people that have been addicted to drugs for decades. I'm looking at a couple right now. They got delivered. They got set free. They got a new life.

And they're walking in the days of awe. Hallelujah. They came out of the days of awfulness into the days of awe. So when Elijah came up here and confronted the false prophets, he prayed one simple prayer.

Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel let it be known this day that you are God in Israel. That I've done all these things at your word. Hear me oh Lord, hear me. That this people may know that you are God in Israel.

The heavens opened. The fire of God came down on the sacrifice. Burned up the sacrifice. Burned up the wood. Burned up the water, everything. And all the people that had come up to Mount Carmel, they started falling on their face all over the top of this mountain.

Whole families crying, Adonai, who Elohim? Adonai, who Elohim? The awe of God was all over the top of the mountain. Elijah saw it. He participated in it. He knew it was going to happen. The Lord told him it was going to happen.

Then what did he do? He went and prayed some more and this thunderstorm came. There hadn't been any rain in three and a half years and he prayed and it rained. Hallelujah. The Lord had told him confront Ahab and I'll send the rain.

Then he ran across the valley here to Jezreel. The hand of the Lord came upon him. He was running supernaturally ahead of Ahab's chariot. Where was he going? He went right to the palace of Jezebel. God took him there.

The hand of God took him there. Then Jezebel hears what happened and she threatens to kill him and he runs. My friends, the greatest of prophets can lose the awe of God. He lost the awe of God. God could have taken Jezebel out like that.

Was God finished with his prophet? Don't worry about it. He's the God of second chances. The poor prophet is laying under a tree in the desert and feels like a total failure. What did the Lord do? He sent an angel with some food and something to drink.

Elijah Hears the Still Small Voice

Awesome. The awe of God. He goes to this cave up and down Sinai. In the cave. Let's turn there and look at it. Let's look at 1 Kings chapter 19. 1 Kings the 19th chapter. We're in the cave with Elijah.

The man who lost the awe of God and in the cave let's read chapter 19 verse 11. There's a he in the cave with him. There's somebody in the cave with him. We know it's God because it says so. He's in the cave with Yeshua.

Verse 11. A still small voice. God God displays his awesomeness to his prophet. The boulders were flying around. See these things? These were jackhammered under the big stone, the rock under this building.

What would you do if these things started flying around in here now? I mean the terror of the Lord must have been on the prophet. He's standing there watching the mountain break apart. Fire comes. Wind comes.

Earthquake comes. And then there's silence. After this awesome display of the power and the judgments of God the prophet lists this silence. Then he hears a still small voice. He wraps himself in his cloak and his cloak is Haderet Eliyahu, the name of our clothing center.

His cloak comes from the root of the glory of God. The prophet is wrapped in the glory of God. He's seen these awesome displays of the power of God. And the Lord says to him, What are you doing here? Elijah, what are you doing here?

I have a question for all of you. What are you doing here? I have a question for all of us. What are you really doing here? I don't mean in the meeting. What are you doing with your life? Are you walking in the hall of the Lord?

The Lord's saying to him, What are you doing here? I've got something else for you. You're not going to be here. I'm going to send you somewhere else. He must have been terrified, but he was wrapped in this new anointing, which is what his cloak represents.

Elijah's Restoration and Elisha's Double Portion

The Lord says, I want you to go up the Jordan River and I want you to get this young man named Elisha. He gave him his address and told him where to find him. And he said, There's 7 ,000 more that you don't even know about.

There's a harvest out there and you, prophet, whom I'm restoring and recommissioning, I want you to take your anointing and put it on that young man. And the two generations, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, will work together and bring in the harvest.

I believe that that prophet left that mountain, walked up the Jordan Valley. He must have been so excited, I'm going to meet my spiritual son. My father's heart was beating so fast that it had been breaking for his son.

He meets Elisha, he puts his cloak on him and the two of them go out and walk in the awe of the Lord and bring a huge revival to Israel. Those days that they spent together in caves and sleeping outside and wherever they were, Elisha must have said, how did you know that the fire of God was going to fall on the top of the mountain?

Because I prayed to the Lord and that's what he told me he was going to do. When Elijah, who got the glory of the Lord back, who got the awesomeness of the Lord back, the son said to him, I want a double portion of the Spirit that's upon you.

He said, it's a hard thing because it costs you everything. But if you see me when I go, you'll get the double portion. They walked along and they talked. The heavens opened. A fiery horse and a chariot came down.

Elijah was gone in a whirlwind. His young disciple son was on the other side of the Jordan crying, Avi, Avi, my father. He lost his father who went to be with the Lord. But he had seen the awesomeness of the Lord.

He picked up that cloak and went back to that Jordan and said, where's the Lord God of Elijah? He hit the Jordan. The Jordan opened up and he went through on dry ground. And all the other sons of the prophets who hadn't gone all the way, they stood there and they said, the Spirit of Elijah is now on Elisha.

Walking in God's Awe and Presence

Listen to me. God wants us to walk in days of awe softly before the Lord. Going deeper into his awesomeness every day. Because of the difficulties that are coming against our nation, we need to know about the awesome wonder of God.

Is there anybody here who's never experienced the awe of God? Raise your hands. Anybody? Everyone here has experienced the awe of the Lord? Is there anyone here who knew the awe of the Lord and lost it?

Raise your hand. Okay, several of you. Now listen to me. God wants to give you a double portion of a revelation and a realization and a reality of the awe of the Lord. If you want a new reality of the awe of the Lord, a realization in your heart,.

I'm going to ask you to stand up and come up here. I want to pray for you. Let's stand. Anyone that needs to really know the awe of the Lord in a deeper measure, you just come up here now.

Hallelujah. These are days of awe for all of us. Yeshua paid the price that we can have the double portion. Look, we don't want to live in the mundane, just the stuff of the world, politics or whatever it is.

We need to live in the awesome presence of God. Tozer said, we lost the presence of God. We need the presence of God. My God is an awesome God. Your God is an awesome God. He's awesome and wonders. Hallelujah.

Awesome in praises. He took us out of Egypt. He took us across the Jordan. We don't want to lose the awe in the desert. We want to be like Caleb and Joshua and walk in the awe of the Lord right up into the promises of God.

If you lost the awe, God gave it back to Elijah.

If you lost the awe of God, God gave it back to Elijah.

Responding to the Awe of God

The Lord wants to give you an awesome revelation and realization of who he is in a deeper way. Everything about him is awesome. The Messiah dying on a cross for the sins of the world whoever heard such a gospel.

It's awesome. He came to get us. It's awesome. He's the good shepherd. He goes after every sheep. He's awesome. He's high and lifted up and his train fills the temple. But he also lives with the humble heart.

This God of eternity He's awesome. You need to know how awesome he is. You tell the Lord now the days of awe are here and you're living in them. You're going to walk through seeking his face every day.

Sometimes he's so awesome to me and my wife. I say, Karen it doesn't make any sense but he must like us. He loves us. And he'll be awesome for you. Let's lift our hands. If you want to lift your hands otherwise just lift your heart.

You tell him, Lord, here I am. I give you my whole heart. I give you my heart. Take it, Lord. Take it, Lord. Take my heart. I want to know how awesome you are. You've been awesome in the past and you will be in the future.

Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Lord, I pray you'll touch every one of these hearts here with a desperation.

To know how awesome you are. We're going into the days of awe. These poor rabbis don't know about you but we do. Our days of awe are every day of our life. You are awesome in praises. Doing wonders. Hallelujah.

Now if there's sin in your life you put it right here on this altar. If you've been looking at stuff you shouldn't be looking at just tell the Lord I don't want to do it and forgive me, help me. If he needs to take a coal off the altar and touch your mouth because you've had unclean lips you tell him you're sorry he forgives you.

Hallelujah. Lord, let sweetness come out of our mouth. Lord, we hear the sound of the trumpet. Something wonderful is coming for each and every one of us. You're opening doors like we've never seen before.

You're looking down at your body in the land and you want to bless your body like never before. You are the awesome one. You are the one who does wonders. Hallelujah. Let's sing this. Sing it from your heart.

Who's like you? No one. This is what they sang at the Red Sea. Who's like you? He's glorious in his holiness. Hallelujah. Awesome in praises. He still does wonders. He'll do them for you. You believe in his awesomeness.

Hallelujah. Lord, you are awesome in praises. Hallelujah.