The Fountains Of The Great Deep

Recently, during prayer and intercession, Holy Spirit led me to Psalm 93. The words summed up how I was feeling; what I was seeing…

The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea than the mighty waves of the sea. Ps 93:3-4

We are living in an age when the seas are roaring, raging, rebelling against their set boundaries and assaulting the earth with destructive floods. I’m not talking about the natural seas (although tsunamis and storm surges and floods, in the natural, are all signs of spiritual realities). I am talking about the fomenting and surging of humanity in a rebellious rush of carnality and violence.

The Psalmist witnessed this phenomenon and declared the majesty of the LORD in the face of it. The prophet, Isaiah, also saw rebellious floods and decreed God’s deliverance.

…When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. Isa 59:19

Naturally speaking, when the seas rise up and inundate the earth with their foaming, surging waves, they are rebelling against their set boundaries – boundaries and limits that the LORD Himself set.

…Who shut in the sea with doors? … I [the LORD]… prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors and said, ‘Thus far shall you come and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed.’ Job 38:8,10-11

Raging seas and floods are a picture of humanity in rebellion. They are symbolic of rebellious nations and people groups (Isa 17:12). It is from the sea of rebellious humanity that the Antichrist emerges (Rev 13:1).

When the nations rise up in rebellion – deceived by that old serpent and father of lies – the people surge and rail against boundaries and limits lovingly set by God. The earth becomes flooded with violence and sexual immorality and covetousness, which is idolatry. That which is evil and abominable is pronounced good and that which is good and wholesome is opposed as evil (Isa 5:20). Bereft of any Heavenly vision, the people completely cast off restraint (Ps 2:1-3; Prov 29:18).

In Noah’s day, the flood of human depravity and rebellion preceded God’s cleansing flood of water – a cleansing, purging flood of water that exalted Noah’s ark as a refuge and a standard.

We are witnessing today a devastating flood of depravity that threatens to breach every wall of morality and sweep away every ancient boundary stone. Masses of people are being intoxicated by sexual immorality and hardened by covetousness and are raging against all that is wholesome and pure. It’s happening before our eyes. “And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman…” (Rev 12:15).

If we follow the pattern of Noah’s deliverance, God will respond again with a cleansing, purging flood of His own to deliver us! Brothers and sisters, our Covenant God delivered Noah and his family and He will deliver us too!

As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Matt 24:37

Get ready for a mighty, cleansing, purging flood to burst forth against the floods of depravity. Not a cleansing flood of water this time, but a mighty, cleansing flood of the knowledge of the glory of the LORD (Hab 2:14). Just as in the days of Noah, the LORD of hosts has appointed a day when the fountains of the great deep and the rain of Heaven will combine to create a bursting, cleansing flood of His glory!

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeeth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. Gen 7:11

The LORD of hosts is about to lift up a standard against the enemy, brothers and sisters! The sons of God are about to be manifest on the earth! Out of our bellies will burst forth the glory of the LORD as a purging torrent. Fountains of Living Water are about to combine with the Rain of Heaven to create a bursting Flood of Glory. As surely as Gideon’s clay vessels were smashed to reveal burning torches, so also from broken, earthen lives will emerge the sons of God and the purifying, renovating fire of His Love.

Earthy is about to become Heavenly. 1 Cor 15:49. Are you ready?

For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and deep darkness the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His glory will appear upon you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. Isa 60:2-3