The Glory Paradigm

By Frank Frantz and Anne D. Thompson

In both the Asuza Street and Welsh revivals, people prophesied about a miraculous move of God that would be characterized by the presence of God's glory cloud. We might wonder: What will it be like? How can we prepare for it?

While God hasn't revealed His blueprints, He hasn't left us clueless either. He sent an Old Te

• Language: English
• Publisher: Frank Frantz
• Release date: Jun 2, 2023
• ISBN: 9781088109113

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INTRODUCTION

Back when I was a kid, I used an axe and a two-man saw to cut firewood. That took a lot of effort. Because cutting firewood this way required so much work, someone coined the phrase, he who cuts his own wood is twice warmed!

Woodcutting is an example of how times have changed. I don’t want to say that when I cut wood, using a chainsaw requires no work. It does, but with little effort, I can cut more firewood, and it’s definitely faster.

Today, we do almost everything with power equipment. Electric tools and appliances have made life so effortless. In fact, life is so easy that we buy exercise machines to maintain our physical health!

In the spiritual world, however, not much has changed. We don’t have spiritual lawnmowers to level the devil or chainsaws to cut down enemy giants. Life is like it’s been for centuries: it’s the persistent fight of prayer and faith that defeats our enemies.

This book is about a spiritual transition from the old way we’ve been living to the new way that’s coming. In the Bible, the book of Exodus gives us the history of a time when God brought His new way of acting to the Earth.

In the Exodus story, we can see a division between God’s old ways and His new ways. During the period of God’s old ways, Moses was a soldier and leader, a man of action. At the age of forty, he brought his talent (abilities, anointing, and energy) to the table to start a slave revolt. He saw himself as a deliverer who was going to liberate the Israelites through blood, sweat, and tears.

Moses killed an Egyptian taskmaster, wanting to stir up a revolt that he was certain God had called him to lead. He saw himself as God’s liberator par excellence! Unfortunately for Moses, God wasn’t looking for a liberator par excellence. More than that, a blood, sweat, and tears slave revolt wasn’t on His agenda at all.

God’s liberation of the Israelites was going to come from His tools that the world had never heard of or seen. God planned to liberate His people by His new power tools of signs and wonders.

To put it simply, Moses’ slave revolt was an axe and two-man saw plan when God was formulating a chainsaw solution. God had a plan that was so much better, but because Moses had never heard of signs and wonders, he was clueless.

Moses had to go to a wilderness technical school to prepare for these new tools. It was like a forty-year university training.

Moses’ revolt was a plan conceived in the old era, which began with the Abrahamic Covenant and ended with the Israelites’ exodus. God’s goal for these four hundred years was that Abraham’s descendants become a very numerous people.

During this era, an Israelite population explosion was God’s big-ticket item, and His visible manifestations among the people were on the back burner. As a result, the Israelites felt that God was far from them.

When God appeared to Moses in the burning bush, everything changed. Signs and wonders began, and God’s glory hovered over His people. It was an instantaneous era change.

Similar to the Israelite population boom, Christianity has spread across the globe. There’s no nation that hasn’t felt its presence.

Like the Israelites in the ancient paradigm, Christians are subject to severe persecution in many parts of the world. In countries like North Korea and Afghanistan, people suspected of being Christian are routinely killed on the spot.

Ever-increasing areas in Africa are being overrun by raiding Muslim extremists who attack Christian villages and kill as many Christians as possible. In many Islamic nations, sharing the Christian faith with a Muslim is a capital offense punishable by death. In China, Christians are routinely imprisoned and treated as second-class citizens.

Our time for deliverance has come! A new era heralded by God’s glory cloud will signal our liberation. God will bring His new power equipment to bear on a world hostile to Him and His people.

This book is about God’s coming signs, wonders, and glory. What God did in Exodus back then, He will do for His church now, but in a new way. With the Israelites, He turned one tiny tribe into His nation. With us, He will create His kingdom of believers from every tribe and tongue.

Moses’ plan to lead a rebellion when he was forty appeared ridiculous in light of God’s signs and wonders plan for the Israelites. We find ourselves in the same situation as Moses. Our current giftings and ways of doing things are out of sync with the way God will do things when His glory manifests on Earth.

Moses, as an ancient paradigm for what God has planned for us, is the subject of this book. I pray that the Holy Spirit guides you and enlightens you as you read The Glory Paradigm.

Frank Frantz

PART I

THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT

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THE PARADIGM

That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which it may be said, ‘See, this is new?’ It has already been in ancient times before us.

—Ecclesiastes 1:9–10

The Paradigm

A few years ago, Jonathan Cahn wrote a fascinating book called The Paradigm. In that book, he presented some striking parallels between the historical Ahab and Jezebel and our modern Bill and Hillary Clinton.

The word paradigm carries the idea of a model or a sequential pattern of events. In the case of Ahab and Jezebel, they made Baal worship the state religion, emphasizing a debauched morality and the human sacrifice of babies.

Cahn felt the Clintons had recreated this same religious transformation in modern America. Biblical morality became obsolete, and abortion rights became central.

To Cahn, the central, most evil tenant of Baal worship was the sacrifice (burning to death) of babies to gain Baal’s blessing. Baal was a prosperity god, a powerful god whose goodwill people sought through the blood sacrifices of their children.

The word Baal means lord or master. So, it carries the same idea as the Old Testament word for God, Adonai, which most English Bibles translate as Lord. While Baal worship existed among the Israelites as far back as the times of the Exodus, Ahab and Jezebel made it the national religion of Israel. For the Clintons, they enshrined abortion as a centerpiece of American democracy.

Before reading Cahn’s book, I considered abortion a cruel sin of convenience and selfishness, but Cahn presented it as a religious rite of sacrifice to the ancient god, Baal. I decided he was right. Our national pro-abortion leaders support abortion in language that can only be interpreted as religious in fervor and intensity. They’ve gone far beyond advocating abortion as a pragmatic solution to an unwanted pregnancy.

Jezebel took the lead in establishing Baal worship as the state religion in Israel. She embellished it with a magnificent temple and hundreds of Baal prophets. In response to this abomination, God called a wild man, Jehu, to destroy Jezebel, her family, the Baal temple, and its leaders.

Carrying this paradigm into the present, Cahn sees Trump as the twenty-first century wild man who will bring about the demise of our modern Ahab dynasty, the Clintons. Neither Jehu nor Trump exhibited great spiritual virtues. However, they were both set on destroying that which God hates, Baal worship, and in particular, the mass destruction of innocent babies.

Another Paradigm

While paradigm is not a word we’ve traditionally used to describe a reoccurring cycle of events in history, the concept is as old as the Bible. In Ecclesiastes, it is written, "That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which it may be said, ‘See, this is new?’ It has already been in ancient times before us" (Ecclesiastes 1:9-10).

In the middle of the quoted scripture, Solomon wrote, What has been done will be done. That’s prophetic. A cycle of events that have occurred in the past must reoccur sometime in the future, eventually.

Cahn, with great discernment, was able to see a modern unfolding of events in the United States that had a precedent in an Old Testament saga. There may be others before him who applied the same historical analysis to current events, but his book was the first that has come across my path.

There may be multiple ancient paradigms that speak to world events today. This book explores one of these biblical paradigms that offers great insight and understanding for our generation.

In the first decade of the twentieth century, revival fires spread across the globe. Perhaps the best-known revivals were the Azusa Street revivals in California and the Welsh part of England. At both of these, people gave prophecies about a tremendous coming global revival that would exceed anything the world had ever seen.

These prophecies precisely said that this great awakening would be a glory revival. The Azusa Street prophesy was more specific in that this glory revival would take place in about a hundred years. The Azusa revival went from 1906 to about 1915. So, we can expect the fulfillment of these prophecies in the twenty-first century.

What are revivals? Revivals are times when people are transformed by the powerful working of the Holy Spirit. The ultimate work of revivals is that people repent of their sins and are saved. Often healings and other miraculous interventions occur.

In U.S. history, we’ve had two great awakenings that changed the social landscape of America in the eighteen and nineteenth centuries. Awakenings are like revivals but tend to be of much longer duration and cover more expansive territory.

I’m calling the coming revival a glory revival, but it could more accurately be called a glory awakening because of its global dimension and longer duration. However, glory revival fits into current Holy Spirit terminology used in church circles which is why I’ve chosen this term.

What is a glory revival? When a cloud demonstrates God’s physical presence, we call that a manifestation of His glory. Many times, God’s glory cloud appeared in the Azusa meetings, and amazing things happened. People were spontaneously saved, healed, delivered, and received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And God’s visible presence accompanied these miraculous happenings.

In the Gospels, it’s written that a glory cloud descended on the Mount of Transfiguration. While its aspect was like a bright cloud, its appearance was so awe-inspiring that Peter, James, and John fell on their faces with great fear.

When Solomon dedicated the temple in Jerusalem, God’s glory emerged with such power that no one could enter the temple (see 2 Chronicles 7). In this narrative, we sense the power of God’s presence without being told anything about its physical quality.

The most astonishing manifestation of God’s glory is recorded in the Books of Moses, also called the Pentateuch or the Torah. From the time the Israelites left Egypt until they entered the Promised Land, God’s glory resided constantly, day and night. That’s forty years! Because Moses recorded the events that led to the appearance of the glory and all the events that transpired during these forty years, it’s a paradigm worth studying.

With prophecies about this coming revival, understanding God’s glory is important. The book of Exodus is a great place