Bill Burns ministry
The Door
Revelation 4:1 After these things I looked, and
behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first
voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with
me, saying, "Come up here, and I will show you things
which must take place after this."
The things that I have seen concerning the year 2008 I
am now revealing to those who have ears to hear
eyes to see, and a heart to serve. If you are one of
these, then you have this promise from the Lord.
Revelation 3:8 "I know your works. See, I have set
before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for
you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have
not denied My name."
This door will open for you as you continue to ask,
seek and knock (Matthew 7:7-8).
On December 24th the Master said, "As you worship
Me, I will open a door to you of My great favor and
blessings, which will come down like rain to water a
dry and thirsty land." He also exhorted us to "face the
new year with great courage and without worry."
The Vision
I saw a celestial place in the spirit that has been
called the "New Plateau" in various prophetic words.
A plateau is "an extensive level expanse of elevated
land; a period of stability" (Webster).
This plateau is a high or elevated place in the spirit
realm to which the Lord is calling His people in 2008.
In the vision I saw a large plateau with a multitude of
doors around the perimeter of the expanse. These
doors were doors of bright light, and they had the
names of people engraved upon them. I watched as
a seeker came up in the Spirit to the plateau and
began looking for the door with his name on it. As the
believer found his door he began to hear the sound of
knocking that was coming from the other side of the
door (plateau side). The door would then open at the
sound of the Master's voice. (Revelation 3:20).
And, the Lord said, "I am calling you, My people, to a
higher place than you have ever been before. It is a
place of favor and blessings, and it is a place where
My treasure is hidden. Come up here, Beloved, and I
will give you some of the hidden manna
(revelation)."
2008 A Year of Treasure Hunting
As people went through the doors of the New Plateau,
an angel would give each one a backpack that
contained food for the journey (manna) and a canteen
of living water. The pack also contained a treasure
map and digging tools consisting of a small pick and
shovel attached to the backpack.
Instructions on the pack read: You are to become
prospectors in this season. The Bridegroom's
treasure chest has been opened for the Bride, and
His gifts will be found on this plateau.
Matthew 13:52 Then He said to them, "Therefore
every scribe instructed concerning the kingdom of
heaven is like a householder who brings out of his
treasure things new and old."
The Word (Scribe) has opened His treasure chest and
has brought gifts to this place to be found by His
beloved Bride.
In this place you will find revelation of that which is
written, the old, and receive that which is new -
spiritual gifts, prophetic words, visions and also that
which you need physically such as healing,
deliverance and prosperity.
In this place and in this season you have many
prospects - those things that have the possibility of
future success. Many opportunities will come your
way as you go prospecting. These treasures that you
find will expand your spiritual perspective, and you will
gain revelation of the Lord's kingdom and your part in
it. Be sure to enjoy the journey with faith and
anticipation of the goodness of the Lord and that
which He has in store for you.
The Circle of Life
This year, which is the Hebrew year 5768 is the year of
the full circle of life, which is perpetuated through new
beginnings. The Lord is going to impart His grace or
empowerment to perfect man by giving him a new
beginning in 2008.
What goes around, comes around. What began in
2007 will continue on a higher level in 2008. Last year
the Lord gave me a word in which He would do a
specific corporate work for the Body of Christ, which
was broken into four quarter of the year. This year
everything that was done in four quarters last year will
take place simultaneously in various ways for each
individual. You will have to use your discernment to
perceive that which the Spirit of God is doing in your
life and what He is leading you into.
A Season of Divine Vision
This will take place as revealed in Ezekiel's vision of
the four wheels or circles. In Ezekiel chapter one the
prophet sees four living creatures and four wheels. A
wheel was beside the creatures on the earth, but it
carried them into the spirit realm. The rims of their
wheels were full of eyes (spiritual vision). You will find
your ability to see spiritually will increase dramatically.
The Spirit of the Lord will lift you up (Ezekiel 1:20), and
as you are lifted up to the New Plateau you will see
and hear that which is going on in the valley of
vision.
John 16:13-15 "However, when He, the Spirit of
truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He
will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He
hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to
come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is
Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father
has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine
and declare it to you."
A Time of the Fulfillment of Covenant
Promise
The Lord recently said to me that He will fulfill His
covenant promise of healing and that 2008 will also
be a time when many covenant promises made
through prophetic words will come to pass. When
Israel was given a new beginning, they came out of
Egypt (bondage), and they went into the promise on
the other side of the Jordan River. The first place they
went was to Gilgal to establish a covenant of the
promise of victory (Joshua 4:19 and 5:1-9).
Joshua set 12 stones from the Jordan River, which
represents the anointing, in a circle in Gilgal. Gilgal in
Hebrew means a rolling wheel.
Once again this promise is confirmed in the year of
the circle that brings life to God's people. New
covenant promises will also be established in this
season.
A Season of Divine Decrees
2008 will be a season in which the Spirit of the Lord
will establish divine decrees through the mouths of
His prophets. These decrees will open the doors of
the Lord and shut the doors that Satan has opened
against God's people. A decree spoken into the
heavenlies by the Spirit of God will establish His
purposes among His people and will become a
shining light of direction for His people.
Psalm 148:6 He also established them forever
and ever; He made a decree which shall not pass
away.
As surely as the Lord has established all of creation
by decree, He shall also establish His people by
decree in 2008.
Prophetic Psalms for 2008
Psalms 8:1 O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is
Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory
above the heavens!
2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You
have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies,
That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your
fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have
ordained,
4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the
son of man that You visit him?
5 For You have made him a little lower than the
angels, And You have crowned him with glory and
honor.
6 You have made him to have dominion over the
works of Your hands; You have put all things under his
feet,
7 All sheep and oxen--Even the beasts of the field,
8 The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That
pass through the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your
name in all the earth!
This will be a year of divine visitation and one in which
the Lord will establish His order (dominion) over His
Church. The decrees of God's people will silence
Satan's voice of accusation (verse 2). Great spiritual
victories will be achieved by the Lord's anointed ones
in 2008. Thrones of principalities will be destroyed by
divine decree.
Psalms 28:1 To You I will cry, O LORD my Rock:
Do not be silent to me, Lest, if You are silent to me, I
become like those who go down to the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my supplications When I cry to
You, When I lift up my hands toward Your holy
sanctuary.
3 Do not take me away with the wicked And with the
workers of iniquity, Who speak peace to their
neighbors, But evil is in their hearts.
4 Give them according to their deeds, And according
to the wickedness of their endeavors; Give them
according to the work of their hands; Render to them
what they deserve.
5 Because they do not regard the works of the LORD,
Nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them
And not build them up.
6 Blessed be the LORD, Because He has heard the
voice of my supplications!
7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; My heart
trusted in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart
greatly rejoices, And with my song I will praise Him.
8 The LORD is their strength, And He is the saving
refuge of His anointed.
9 Save Your people, And bless Your inheritance;
Shepherd them also, And bear them up forever.
Again, the Lord will hear the voice (decree) of His
saints, and those who are working against the
purposes of the Lord will be removed. The Lord will
be our strength, and His blessings will be inherited by
those who faithfully serve Him.
Conclusion
The year of preparation is coming to an end, but it is
not complete. Those things that began in 2007 will
continue, but on a higher spiritual level.
The time of new beginnings is upon us and will now
start to unfold. God will take some back to visit the old
places where it will be like Jacob's journey back to
Bethel to remember the covenant. From Bethel, Jacob
went on to Bethlehem to establish spiritual authority
for the birth of the King of the twelve tribes of Israel.
May your journey in this year be blessed, and may the
Lord, Your God, visit you and lead you upon the path
that He has designed for you. Follow the path of life,
and you will fulfill your God-given destiny.
