Rightly Dividing to Correctly Discern the Times

It’s amazing to discover what God has given us through the very fabric of faith from the design of Ecclesia. As a Hub, much like the church of Antioch, Ecclesia becomes a prototype of itself to leaven the world around us with Kingdom culture. Our purpose is to bring Kingdom culture into individual spheres of service to those who serve our cities. As the high places that bring oppression are lowered, the low places are raised to give the people of our cities a Kingdom voice from within the fields that they serve from.

Of Hub activity:

Much like the wheel within the wheel, which is spoken of in Ezekiel, we watch the spiritual formation of Ecclesia continually taking place around us. In the times of sending, we see the spokes grow out of the body from where people are sent from. In the next formation, the Holy Spirit gives illumination of the outer circle that is forming. Here, we gain understanding and revelation of what is being built in the earth from what has or is being established from above. We gain God’s perspectives from the birdseye view that we occupy from. Here again, we discern the times and seasons of building that God moves through to build His Church.

Of the Lower Regions:

The body ministry of Ecclesia should be able to function independently within itself. It should also be able to function in interdependence with the greater body. When this is so, we have people faithfully occupying both natural and spirit realms to cultivate an ongoing, progressive Kingdom work. These are also established to call forth the hidden works of Ecclesia. What is especially needed in these times are those who can correctly discern the move of God in order to communicate the purposes that God is moving in. All from our own processes of building.

In Scripture, the wilderness speaks of a solitary place, often uncultivated and uninhabited. The Greek word, Erēmos, is further defined as a deserted or solitary place.

Symbolic Significance of Erēmos in Scripture:

• Preparation: John the Baptist’s voice “crying in the wilderness” fulfills Isaiah’s prophecy (Matthew 3:3).

• Testing: Jesus was led into the wilderness to be tempted, echoing Israel’s journey (Matthew 4:1).

• Provision: Miracles like the feeding of the 5,000 occurred in erēmos places (Mark 6:31–44).

• Sanctuary: Revelation describes the wilderness as a place of refuge for the faithful (Revelation 12:6).

From these four points, we see the foundations and the framework that becomes established over natural time, beginning with John the Baptist. Jesus was tested in the same Erēmos (wilderness) that John the Baptist was baptizing from. As provision, the feeding of the 5,000 occurred in the same eternal place, and new set of natural, chronos times. These Erēmos (wilderness) moments mark the Kairos moments from the eternal realm of God’s Kingdom. The eternal realm marks what the Kingdom is intersecting with through the natural realms of natural time. (Reference made to where Jesus spoke, “Repent, for the Kingdom is at hand.)

In the fourth part, the wilderness (Erēmos) is described as a Sanctuary, a place of refuge for the faithful. These are the set times, the Kairos times that we rise to. We awake and arise to bring order to disorder so that we may continue to advance the work of God’s Kingdom in the earth.