The Rise of the Seer Prophets

Recently, I was struck by the necessity of what I had taken for granted - my sight. Suddenly, I lost vision in my left eye. Losing sight in one eye was discombobulating. I was unable to focus on anything but what I had lost. My phone wasn't working. I could only send and receive text messages. So, I texted my mom. Thankfully, she was able to call a retinal surgeon that she knew. That was at 10:30 pm. By God's grace, she reached him and schedule an appointment for me the next day at 10:00 a.m. At that appointment, I was told by the retinal surgeon that I would be in surgery the next day at 8:00 a.m.

From Monday to Wednesday, I had gone from having clear vision to needing retinal surgery. While going through this process, I began pondering the question: why did God allow this to happen to me? What is He doing in this situation? Unlike many believers, when bad things happen, I look to God, not at the devil. The series of events: losing sight in my left eye to being prepped for surgery happened so quickly and fluidly that I knew God was involved. The question was: Why? Now, I believe I know the "Why?" behind the "What?".

First, I believe God is my healer. I believe healing is God's will. Always. Nevertheless, I prayed for healing and I wasn't instantly healed. Now what? Given what happened, and the immediacy of the need to correct what happened, I felt that it was God's will for me to progress through retinal surgery. What happened to me was His sign to me that He was involved behind the scenes. And I had a supernatural peace about the process. I proceeded with the surgery.

The surgery was successful. My vision has not fully returned...yet. But the doctor says, it is well. I like when doctors start agreeing with Scripture. See 2 Kgs. 4:26. I believe him. Not because he knows what is taking place. Rather, because I heard God before the surgery. He said that my vision would be restored. I believe Him. Still, I pondered the questions: 1) What are you doing [God] in this situation?, and 2) Why [God] are you doing what you are doing it?

I believe I have some answers. Losing my sight happened right after I had hosted an Apostles and Prophets Arise conference. The last time I hosted an Apostles and Prophets Arise conference was in 2006. From that event, I prophesied over a young woman who has gone on to publish books that have touched millions of people. That was just one woman. And there were others raised up who touched their own spheres of influence out of those conferences. Significant breakthroughs took place. 

For the next 15 years, I went through hell on earth (It would take books to tell you what happened. You can start with my book, Secret Corruption.). In 2006, I received a prophetic word from a reputable prophet that essentially said, "2005 was bad, but 2006 is going to be worse." In 2005, I had been involved in terrible legal disputes. In 2007, I received a prophetic word from a prophet, a friend, who apologized to me for the prophetic word he was about to give to me. Later, that prophet told a fellow friend: if he had gotten such a word from the Lord, he would have gone home and cried.

Fast forward, from 2006 to 2021, I have moved to Florida, planted a new church in Florida, and been married to a wonderful woman for nearly 7 years. Yes, I went through hell, but God was with me and He brought me out. I have learned a great deal in the process. I have written 2 books from that experience (Secret Corruption and Breaking the Spell Over America), and more are to come. But I hadn't hosted an Apostles and Prophets Arise conference in 15 years.

The theme of this year's Apostles and Prophets Arise conference: Taking the Prophetic to the Next Level. For that conference, I invited 3 other senior prophets: Daniel Pringle, John Veal, and Indira Persad. It was a step of faith to host that conference for our new church. Hosting a conference like Apostles and Prophets Arise costs several thousand dollars. I anticipated we would have attendance similar to what we had at our conferences in Illinois - 200 to 300 people. We didn't. 

Yet, the conference was powerful. At every other Apostles and Prophets Arise conference, demons physically manifested. At this last one, we didn't have demons physically manifest. Instead, there have been significantly more demonic physical attacks from this conference than at the prior conferences. I share this with you to provide a context for what I am sharing in this blog post. I believe that an emerging generation of seer prophets is arising for this particular time period.

To understand the significance of this statement, I want to reference a point in Israel's history where something similar happened. In 1 Samuel 3:1, it says, "And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision." There was "a famine on the land— not a famine of bread or water but of hearing the words of the LORD." Amos. 8:11, NLT. People were starving to hear God. God's voice was absent, even though people were physically well fed.

In 2015, I was invited by a friend, Rusty Wimberly, to speak at a conference he was hosting in Elgin, IL. What I shared caught the attention of those present: I prophesied that a famine of the word of the Lord was coming. That famine would cause men and women, young and old, to seek God for a word from Him. It appears we are in that season. While many are claiming to have visions from the Lord, I do not see the signs of true visions from God. 

What do I mean? I mean that signs, wonders, and miracles are a testament that someone is seeing the word of the Lord. Without genuine miracles following a vision from God, questions remain regarding that vision. Seer prophets bring miracles with them. Always. One of my friends, Burton Seavey, was a seer prophet. After visiting a William Braham event in New York, he began to flow in the same gift of healing miracles as Branham. During our conversations, he would share with me what he experienced during his life of ministry - the 1950s through the 2000s. 

One particular conversation stood out to me: Burton shared a story of how God had used him to heal a blind woman while ministering at an event. What he shared caused me to take notice: He said he had seen this woman being healed in a vision long before that event had taken place. Then, he said he saw himself doing certain things in that vision before she was healed. Then, he said by faith he did what he had seen himself doing in that vision before the woman was healed. As Burton did what he saw himself doing in that vision, the woman was healed.

Immediately, I connected the dots of scripture. Jesus said, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner." Jn. 5:19, NKJV. Jesus did what He had previously seen in visions from the Father. Jesus was a seer. We can see this clearly in John 1:47-49. 

When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, 'Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.' 'How do You know me?' Nathanael asked. Jesus replied, 'Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.' 'Rabbi,' Nathanael answered, 'You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!'

In those passages, Jesus meets Nathaniel for the first time. When Jesus meets Nathaniel, he already knows him. And He starts declaring who Nathaniel is. Nathaniel was caught off guard. Nathaniel, from utter surprise, says to Jesus, How do you know me? That is a reasonable question, isn't it? Nathaniel is utterly shocked by what he hears next: "Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree." If that had happened to you, wouldn't you be shocked by it? Jesus saw Nathaniel in a vision long before He met him. And Jesus saw Nathaniel at a specific moment in time. And He saw what he was doing.

Jesus regularly operated as a seer prophet. Jesus's vision was open and unobstructed: He saw what the Father was doing. Because He saw what the Father was doing, Jesus was able to do what He saw the Father doing. We, on the other hand, often miss what the Father is doing. Because we fail to see what God is doing, we don't see the miracles we desire to see happen in our lives. That absence of miracles has long frustrated believers. Out of that frustration, prayers have risen. Many have questioned why miracles have been absent. In response, God is sending seer prophets to His church. Why? God is restoring vision to His church. God wants His church to be able to see.

Today, the church stands like the children of Israel where there was no open vision. In response to that lack of vision, he sent Samuel, a seer prophet. Why did God send a seer prophet? To open Israel's eyes to what was plain, its own blindness. When Jesus came, the same thing happened. We can see this in John 9:1-41. Jesus heals a man who has been blind from birth. The disciples, looking at the man, see someone who is in desperate need and say, 

who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind? Jn. :9:2, NASB

When we see something bad happening, we immediately think, "what did I do wrong?" Rather than looking for God, we look at ourselves. What do we see? We're naked. Then, like Adam and his wife, we try to cover our nakedness with fig leaves. But that doesn't take away our sense of sin. And, like Adam and his wife, we fail to see God standing beside us in our sin. We have closed our eyes to Him. What we need is to open our eyes to Him: To see what God is doing. And, for that to happen, we need those who can open our eyes, seer prophets.

We stand at a time when seer prophets are needed. Why are they needed? To open our eyes so that we may see. Like the children of Israel, we "have closed their eyes— so their [our] eyes cannot see, and their [our] ears cannot hear, and their [our] hearts cannot understand, and they [we] cannot turn to me [Him] and let me [Him] heal them [us]." That is the crux of man's issue: We close our eyes. When we close our eyes, we stop hearing and understanding what God is saying. "We grope for the wall like the blind". Is. 59:10.

In John 9:13-24, we see the Pharisees groping like the blind for answers on who healed the blind man and how he was healed. The man, formerly blind, sees clearly. Then, in response to the Pharisees, he states something simple and obvious: "If this man were not of God, he could do nothing." Jn. 9:33. Profound! Obvious! Clear! But the Pharisees' pride couldn't let them see what had plainly happened: a man born blind was healed by Jesus. That Jesus heard God and God heard Jesus. That Jesus was from God, not the devil.

How often we confuse the two! We blame the devil rather than seeking God. We claim we are under spiritual attack when it is really our own pride or sin that is causing us to stumble. We grope like the blind seeking answers and solutions to the issues we face. Does that describe you? Do you feel like that? It's okay. You're not alone. Others struggle with the same issue. What do we need? We need our spiritual sight restored. 

Our loving Father sees our need: to have our eyes opened. The Father is watching over us. We are not alone. The Father loves and cares for us. The Father's response to spiritual blindness is always the same: He sends seer prophets. Get ready! We are about to experience the rise of the seer prophets. When we do, our eyes will be opened.