ISSUE 309
Prophetic Brief
Insight and Analysis for the 21st Century
Steve Schultz
Contributing Author
I asked Steve to work with
me on this edition of the
newsletter, and it is a result
of our combined efforts.
Steve works closely with me
in SWM and in prophetic
development within
Congress WBN.
He is the apostolic leader of
Preparing the Way Network
(PTWN), an apostolic
network of churches. He is
also the Senior Elder of The
Community (TC), a Kingdom
Community based in
Fayetteville, AR. Steve also
serves on the Apostolic Core
Team of Congress WBN.
© 2010 SCOTT WEBSTER MINISTRIES.
A Time to Reap
Building as a Correct Response to Crisis in the Earth
Most people of our generation will
remember the song Turn, Turn, Turn
recorded by The Birds in 1965, and
drawn nearly entirely from Ecclesiastes
3. They sang about at “time of war and a
time of peace”, and the song lives on
today through its use in movies (Forest
Gump) and television (The Wonder
Years). In acknowledgment that the song
came straight from Solomon, an ancient
Israeli king, author Pete Seeger donated
45% of his royalties to the Israeli
Committee Against House
Demolitions (ICAHD), an Israeli peace
and human rights organization dedicated
to ending the Occupation and achieving a
just peace between Israelis and
Palestinians. Seeger said “in addition to
the music, I did write six words.”
Everything has an appointed time; is it a
time for reaping in the earth?
God tells us through Solomon
(Ecclesiastes 3:1-8) that there are times
and seasons that occur in the earth, and
he begins by saying that there is a time
for everything indicating that even
destruction and judgment have an
appointed time. When we looked in the
last newsletter at BPs formative history
and the likely relationship to the current
Gulf oil spill as book-ends of sowing and
reaping, our thoughts have to go beyond
one event into the wider scope of the
times and seasons in which we now find
ourselves. It is clear that cataclysmic
events are on the increase, and not just in
one facet of life such as oil and
economics, but across the wide scope of
life – political, social, economic,
environmental, etc. In the last 12-24
months we have seen: a) a global
financial crisis that continues to bog
down national economies b) multiple
earthquakes causing devastation across
all corners of the globe c) the
disintegration of social norms and values
such as marriage and family d) a volcanic
ash cloud that shut down Europe’s
airports and nearly crashed the
continent’s economy e) the near
disintegration of the Greek economy,
averted by a $1 trillion bailout
spearheaded by Germany, etc. What is
going on?
Page 1 of 3
JULY 14TH 2010
A Time to Reap
Revelation 14:14 “Then I looked,
and behold, a white cloud, and on
the cloud sat One like the Son of
Man, having on His head a golden
crown, and in His hand a sharp
sickle. 15 And another angel came
out of the temple, crying with a
loud voice to Him who sat on the
cloud, "Thrust in Your sickle and
reap, for the time has come for You
to reap, for the harvest of the earth
is ripe." 16 So He who sat on the
cloud thrust in His sickle on the
earth, and the earth was reaped.
NKJV
We are living in a time when the harvest
of the earth is ripe. Angels are flying in
the earth – sent by God – and are setting
in motion tumultuous events best
described by the overarching phrase: the
time to reap has come. The Gulf oil
crisis is only one aspect of reaping; there
are many others as we come into the time
when the world’s cup of iniquity is
becoming full. The question for us is:
how must we respond during this divine
season of reaping that has been initiated
upon the earth?
Many in the body of Christ – very sincere
and well meaning brothers – will begin to
lift up their voices in “repentance”,
asking that God would spare them/their
country/the earth from His judgments
which are sweeping across the nations.
This reflexive response is often tainted
with nationalism, self-preservation, fear
of suffering, and many other incorrect
 ISSUE 309
positions. Praying that crisis would pass
might seem like the correct action, but if
the crisis is God-ordained and propagated
as part of His just judgment, then praying
for avoidance would obviously be a
misdirected response.
In simple terms the paradigm is, “If we
gather and pray and repent, then God
will deliver us from evil, destruction, and
suffering.” But the correct response must
be predicated upon the proper
understanding of what it means to
“repent.” When most believers hear the
term repent, they automatically think in
terms of verbally crying out, moaning
and wailing their shortcomings and
transgressions before God. While
confession of sin is a valid practice, it
falls completely short of the reality of
true biblical repentance. I would not
begin to question their sincerity, but one
can and should evaluate the degree of
their accuracy, especially in light of what
Ezekiel wrote about what God actually
requires during a time of reaping.
Judgment Requires that we
Build
Ezek 22:30 "I looked for a man
among them who would build up
the wall and stand before me in the
gap on behalf of the land so I
would not have to destroy it, but I
found none. 31 So I will pour out
my wrath on them and consume
them with my fiery anger, bringing
down on their own heads all they
have done, declares the Sovereign
Lord."
Ezekiel ministered during a time similar
to ours, throughout Chapter 22 he
chronicles the sins rampant in the nation.
It is a long list of violations against the
standards of God, and the same defiance
© 2010 SCOTT WEBSTER MINISTRIES.
JULY 14TH 2010
Ezekiel 22:30
I looked for a man among them
who would build up the wall
and stand before me in the gap
on behalf of the land so I would
not have to destroy it, but I
found none. 31 So I will pour
out my wrath on them and
consume them with my fiery
anger, bringing down on their
own heads all they have done,
declares the Soereign Lord."
against the Lord exists today not only
within Babylon but also within the walls
of the church in the earth:
We are living in a time
✓ failure to honor and properly relate to
authority when the harvest of the
✓ oppression of the weak
✓ sexual depravity earth is ripe. Angels are
✓ the lust for resource with no regard
for the welfare of others flying in the earth – sent
✓ a disregard for righteous values and
standards by God – and are setting
✓ violation of accurate relationships
✓ self interests reigning supreme
✓ prophets who conspired to devour the
in motion tumultuous
people’s resource by proclaiming
false visions
events best described by
In light of such rampant sin, God is
the overarching phrase:
looking for a man who will build up the
wall. When the whole system is corrupt
the time to reap has
and God is faced with a failing standard,
His response is to seek for a man who come. The Gulf oil crisis
can stand during a day of judgment.
Inside of all the wrongness He’s looking is only one aspect of
for a standard to be built, He wants to see
a man building, and finding “a man” reaping; there are many
among them modifies God’s intention.
others as we come into
When they are materialistic, we have
forsaken the wrong standards of the time when the world’s
measurements of success. When they
h a v e s h u t t h e i r e y e s t o G o d ’s cup of iniquity is
requirements, we are a people of intense
perception and spiritual sight. When their becoming full. The
prophets whitewash the wall, our
prophets are builders who are
constructing accurate and effective lives.
question for us is: how
They are mixing the holy and the
profane, but we separate them and make
must we respond during
a distinction between that which is
righteous and that which is not.
this divine season of
What is God Looking For? reaping that has been
In the midst of Judah’s transgressions and initiated upon the earth?
coming judgment, God was peering into
the earth with a specific intent to find a
Page 2 of 3
 ISSUE 309
particular quality of human being which
goes beyond intercession . . . .
I looked for a man . . . . In the midst of
reaping, God is looking for a man who is
positioned correctly in the earth. This is
not an individual person or a singular
church congregation, it is a global body of
people who have the same values as
heaven, who have not been who have
hoodwinked by darkness and the
deceptions of the Babylonian realm. This
“man” is very oriented towards
constructing correct life and building
precisely what God requires. The
ministries which are representing the
grace of Christ Himself are commanded to
build “…until we all come to the unity of
the faith and of the knowledge of the Son
of God, to a perfect man, to the measure
of the stature of the fullness of Christ
(Ephesians 4:13).
Among them . . . . The corporate man God
is looking for is living right in the middle
of judgments and reaping that is taking
place in the earth; we are “a man who is
among them.” We live in the earth as
normal human beings but we are
connected to heaven and God is our point
of resource, not Babylon. Like Christ who
was God in the flesh, God does not
require an angel or some strange creature
to fulfill His purposes, He requires
ordinary people like you and I to live in
the earth during times of crisis and to be
unmoved.
Who would build up . . . . The key
activity God is looking for is building.
These are those who are embracing a
building capacity and shifting into clear
strategic action which causes people to
become impenetrable to the crisis that
surrounds them. Building is conscious
activity of gathering correct resource,
discerning the shapes and forms of the
structure and systematically managing a
process which produces strong secure
individuals. It is not only prayer that is
required, for if Noah had only prayed with
his family and not built what God
required, he and his household would
have drowned with the rest of the world.
Internal building starts with the skill of
bringing people into a new position of
spiritual hunger which leads them into a
Releasing The New Prophetic Dimension • Activating The Capacity To Build • Obeying The Command To Finish
© 2010 SCOTT WEBSTER MINISTRIES.
willingness to migrate into new spiritual
positions. It is crafting people’s thinking
systems so that the eyes of their
understanding are open to see what God is
doing and the fresh requirements he is
placing upon us.
The wall . . . . A wall represents a
boundary or a definite point which
separates two specific spheres. This
indicates that correct building activity
should bring a clear demarcation between
the Kingdom of God on the one hand, and
Babylon on the other. When judgment is
occurring the first thing required is to
"Come out of her, my people, so that you
will not share in her sins, so that you will
not receive any of her plagues (Rev 18:4).
Coming out of Babylon is not building
some type of natural fortress, but a
building of spiritual culture which
functions as a spiritual wall – it
demarcates a different value system while
also preventing Babylon’s wickedness
from entering. It is a place where such
things as faith, courage, hope,
sustainability of a correct standard,
covenant and community, love, internal
growth, longevity, righteousness and
many other qualities are celebrated and
rehearsed. The wall is building Kingdom
communities and Kingdom entities that
interface with Babylon but are not
infected by her viral ways.
And stand before me in the gap on behalf
of the land . . . . We must continue to
build a people who can stand in the day of
adversity and bring correct representation
in the midst of the separation between the
accurate and the inaccurate, the holy and
the unholy. When God was looking for a
man who would stand in the gap he was
looking for more than just an accurate
man who obeyed His law. He was looking
for a man whose correct life could stand
on behalf of the incorrectness of the rest
of the nation. That is how he filled the
gap. The position of standing in the gap is
done before God, not before man. The
people might not realize their need for a
man to stand there but God is looking for
a corporate man who recognizes the gap,
has the capacity to fill it, and the will and
self sacrifice to do so before Him.
Building correctly must flow from a
sacrificial heart and a willingness to have
JULY 14TH 2010
A Developed PROPHETIC
PERSPECTIVE
A fresh look at
Prophetic
Operations
from a
Kingdom
Viewpoint.
Coming Soon>
our efforts counted on behalf of the many.
Ezekiel 22:30 – "I looked for a man
among them who would build up the
wall and stand before me in the gap
on behalf of the land so I would not
have to destroy it, but I found none.
We have the glorious opportunity of
changing this verse and ensuring that when
God looks for a man He is not disappointed;
we have to validate His intention to find a
corporate man living “among them” but not
being like them. But we can’t do it by crying
and bemoaning the state of the affairs in the
earth. The question for us is: are we going to
cry and lament, or are we going to build?
2778 Cumberland Blvd
Suite 163
Symrna GA 30080
Tel: 678.302.3052
admin@scottwebsterministries.org
www.scottwebsterministries.org
© 2010 Scott Webster Ministries.
All Rights Reserved.
© 2010 Copyright by SWM, copy and
duplication without permission is prohibited.
Page 3 of 3