HEAVEN'S REALITIES
by Revivalist Todd Bentley
PART 1 of 2 

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  Heaven's realities are heavenly and earth's realities are of the earth-different-yet just watch what happens when they converge! You'll see the fullness of God's kingdom, and it's a supernatural one, at work in the earth-"on earth as it is in heaven" (Matt. 6:10). What's more, by understanding their partnership (revelation) and by learning to walk in that supernatural realm (demonstration), you'll defy human logic because both revelation and demonstration only come by the Spirit of God!

  Now having said that, some of you might think this is all pretty "heady" stuff! So, today, I want to ground this teaching series by emphasizing the purpose for learning about heaven's realities as well as the purpose for walking in the supernatural. Both are meant to glorify God-His goodness and His redemptive love-so that the lost would come into right relationship with Him.

  May this truth help us to block any improper motives from creeping in, including pride, as we mature in our ability to demonstrate the reality of God's supernatural kingdom. Now we're ready to jump into heaven's realities!

~HEAVEN AND EARTH PARTNER TOGETHER~

  Before I share an example about how heaven and earth work together, let me preface this by saying that heaven is real. Not only does God have many angels on assignment, but there is an angelic realm in heaven devoted to finances. Why? It's because God oversees the wealth of this world and He has certain proven strategies in place. After all, it's His wealth, no matter whose hands it's in. His angels are on assignment to watch over your finances, to gather money, to gather investments, to bring favor, and to bring power in your life so that you can have favor and wealth. He wants to provide for you! One of His names is Jehovah Jireh, which means God our provider.

  In this regard, on three occasions over the past couple of years I've had a visitation from the Lord in which I've seen the angel of finance. Every time this happens (in our meetings) there is an incredible financial breakthrough-something is opened up in heaven, it invades the earth, and people respond by giving generously. And afterward many testimonies come in to Fresh Fire reporting the abundant blessings that people have received in return!

  So let's look at what happened in a meeting when I went into a trance-like state and I saw, for the third time over the course of a few years, the angel of finance. [A trance is simply a dream-like state but you are awake. For more information on trances, refer to Acts Chapter 10.] In that trance I experienced one of heaven's realities and then that experience became a reality here on earth.

  Here's what happened. At first I saw heaven open, and as I ascended a ladder into the heavens I saw full vibrant wings and feathers! These feathers were white and as real as they would be in the natural realm; that's how vivid it was. Then I noticed wings that moved and there was an arm under one wing and another arm under another wing! As the wings lifted I saw every precious gem you could think of under those wings; and then I saw the angel standing, having a body like a man with six wings. I knew it was the angel of finance.

  Next, I saw a door called "treasure" and the door was open. Without thinking or considering what to do, I found myself in a treasure room in heaven. The only item in this room was gold coins, and I began stuffing those coins into my pockets until they were falling out. Then, after filling up another pocket, I opened my trousers and started filling my trousers with gold coins. After that, I stuffed them into my suit jacket. I even opened my shirt and started stuffing gold coins down my shirt!

  Still in the trance, I asked the Lord, "What am I doing?" "You're getting the offering!" He said. Now we weren't receiving the offering yet in the meeting, but God said that I was getting the offering! Now, we don't usually, if ever, see it that way, yet God was saying this because the offering, the money, is in heaven. After I heard that answer, I made a conscious decision (in this experience) to get even more gold. Now I was collecting more, stuffing as much as possible anywhere I could fit it, even my ears!

~HOW REAL IS HEAVEN?~

  That encounter with the angel of finance, and then the treasure room, is an excellent example of heaven's realities. And before I share how that reality manifested on earth-in other words, how the offering that was "taken" in heaven manifested on earth in the meeting, you need to know something unique that my associates make a practice of doing.

  If an anointed point is made by a minister of the gospel and an associate wants that particular point activated in their life, they will immediately sow into it. By that I mean, they will run up to the pulpit or the altar-"I want that"-and sow into the anointing in that moment of glory, by placing an offering there. Bam! Just whatever is said, they sow into it. Of course they can't buy the anointing, but on the other hand they can sow into it.

  So, after the trance, when I began preaching on reigning in God's kingdom and on resurrection power, something I said struck a chord in one of our associates and he ran up and placed forty-one dollars on the pulpit. Then, within five minutes, someone walked up to him and gave him four hundred dollars! Two minutes after that someone else walked up to him and said, "Here's another one hundred dollars!" Then all of a sudden as a spirit of giving hit the people in the building-people got up spontaneously and just started piling money on the platform; they just kept coming.

  Over the course of the evening the offering was almost three times as much as all the other offerings combined! Yet it didn't stop there. People began giving financial gifts away to others in the meeting, as the Holy Spirit led. In fact, the meeting was so supernatural that when one person grabbed an envelope to give, when they opened the envelope there was already money in it! And the next day a very excited man said to me, "Todd, you're not going to believe what happened! I gave in that offering three times last night. I received $300,000 today!"

  As a confirming sign that a spirit of giving and revival hit in the meeting, when our Road Manager, Mark, was taking the offering in the morning he saw something by divine revelation. He saw gold teeth; people getting gold fillings. Then, right in the offering, a man got one giant gold tooth! And more people got gold teeth; I think there were seven others. But here's the best part! Remember, the purpose for heaven's realities (the supernatural) being manifested in the earth is for God's goodness and redemptive love to touch the unsaved, so that the lost would come into right relationship with Him. Well, one of the hired workers, an unsaved man, was totally blown away when the first man got a gold tooth. He said, "I don't want to even look in his mouth and see a gold tooth because it will wreck me!" Nevertheless he did take a look-he got wrecked!-and gave his life to Jesus Christ. Yes, Lord!!

  Friends, it was all blessing upon blessing-on earth as it is in heaven! Pondering all that happened in the meeting, I asked God, "Why was that one offering so supernatural?" Here's what He told me: "It was because you went into heaven and by a revelation you got the offering in the spirit-realm. So it showed up in the natural realm." Listen. Not only was that offering affected by a spirit of giving, the people were affected too, to the point that they poured out financial blessings freely on each other!

  Wow! Heaven's realities became visible, manifesting on the earth-financial blessings, people encouraged, gold teeth-and because of that "wonder" a man made a decision for Jesus Christ. Still, even with this evidence, I want to challenge you. "How real is heaven? Can we really go into the invisible realm, change something in the invisible, and then see it show up in the natural realm?"

~HEAVEN'S REALITIES BECOME REAL IN THE EARTH~

  I say we can change things, and the reason why we can is all because of God. His faithfulness! His desire to teach us by giving us revelation! By a revelation I got the offering in the spirit-realm (in the invisible) but it was birthed, first, by God's rhema word to me. Romans Chapter 4, Verse 17b teaches: ". . . God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did." God calls those things into existence that don't exist in the visible realm. He calls them forth and speaks them into existence as if they already are, because they are-in heaven, in the eternal purpose of God in eternity-in the real world.

  Remember, heaven is real. In heaven, they already are. There's already a true copy. For example, Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. God told him to "make all things according to the pattern shown to him on the mountain" (Heb. 8:5). David was given the pattern for the Temple that his son Solomon would build (1 Chron. 28: 11-19). The blueprints existed already in heaven.

  Once we learn how to partner with God by seeing whatever He directs us to see in the heavens in the invisible realm-touch it, and see it in the heavens-and once we learn how to speak with authority in that realm, then it manifests here on the earth. What you do in that kind of experience will change what happens to you in this realm.

by Todd Bentley