Today’s Reading:
Song of Songs 2
2 Chronicles 20
The season has changed, the bondage of your barren winter has ended, and the season of hiding is over and gone. The rains have soaked the earth and left it bright with blossoming flowers. The season for singing and pruning the vines has arrived. I hear the cooing of doves in our land, filling the air with songs to awaken you and guide you forth.
Song of Songs 2:11-12 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
My nightingale sound is trumpeting now. My nightingale sound is trumpeting now. The sound is getting louder and louder and is awakening the dawn. You can hear it even at daybreak now. You will even hear My nightingale trumpeting its sound at noon and in the evening and at all times of day. This will be a disorienting sign but a fixed sign that darkness has been thrown into chaos — that darkness has lost its grip on time. My nightingale will alert you, that the enemy’s grip on time has slipped, and you have moved visibly, publicly into the place with the righteous raised upper hand.
In Hebrew, the word for nightingale, zamir appears only once in the Bible and means “singing.” Zamir is also a homonym for the word pruning. I believe the reference to the nightingale’s song in this word from the Lord is both literally about the sign we will see with nightingales singing outside the bounds of their normal song times, as well as the people of God rising up and singing worship to the Lord as an act of spiritual warfare.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nightingale
See also the footnote in the TPT version for Song of Songs 2:12
“You need not fight in this battle; station yourselves, stand and see the salvation of the Lord on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.’ Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out to face them, for the Lord is with you.” Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord, worshiping the Lord. The Levites, from the sons of the Kohathites and of the sons of the Korahites, stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel, with a very loud voice. They rose early in the morning and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa; and when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, O Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, put your trust in the Lord your God and you will be established. Put your trust in His prophets and succeed.” When he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who sang to the Lord and those who praised Him in holy attire, as they went out before the army and said, “Give thanks to the Lord, for His lovingkindness is everlasting.” When they began singing and praising, the Lord set ambushes against the sons of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; so they were routed. For the sons of Ammon and Moab rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir destroying them completely; and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
2 Chronicles 20:17-23 NASB1995
The nightingale is mocking them, is disorienting them and is leading them down many false paths. They associated her sound with their dark deeds being covered, concealed and that the time of darkness was available for them to reign, to conceal and to do their dark trades. But now the sounds of the nightingale will confuse them into self-exposure, will lure them out to doing these dark enchantments and rituals in public, in the light. They will misread and misinterpret the sounds of the nightingale. They will believe that her voice is proclaiming that their dominion has overtaken the time. They will believe that darkness has usurped light and this is the meaning of her round-the-clock song. But no, they are sorely mistaken. The nightingale’s song at all hours of the day and night was an agent of confusion sent by Me to expose the enemy, and it will serve as a great symbol of the war turning.
”Can you not discern this new day of destiny breaking forth around you? The early signs of my purposes and plans are bursting forth. The budding vines of new life are now blooming everywhere. The fragrance of their flowers whispers, “There is change in the air.” Arise, my love, my beautiful companion, and run with me to the higher place. For now is the time to arise and come away with me. For you are my dove, hidden in the split-open rock. It was I who took you and hid you up high in the secret stairway of the sky. Let me see your radiant face and hear your sweet voice. How beautiful your eyes of worship and lovely your voice in prayer.’
Song of Songs 2:13-14 TPT
Watch as the nightingale becomes a first symbol of victory in this war. Many will wear this symbol proudly. This symbol will show that light triumphed over darkness. It will show that the Lord, the God of Jacob once again usurped the enemy and has taken back the rights to the clock and the times. The nightingale will become a symbol of America and even many nations of the world being re-set on the right path at the right time toward destiny. It will mean embarrassment, exposure and many slippery failures for the enemy. Watch and listen for the out- of-time sound of the nightingale.
How to Respond
- Take note of any reports of nightingales and watch for an increase of the enemy’s missteps and self-exposure of wickedness.
- Pray, Holy Spirit thank You that You are Jehovah Sneaky, that You fight for us, and that You confuse the plans and purposes of the enemy. Help me to be one who understands the times and seasons as You move. I want to be in alignment with You.
- Declare, the Lord changes the times and seasons. He raises up kings and He takes others down.
- Decree, The Lord is bringing confusion into the enemy’s camp. He will make them believe that their darkness has overtaken the light, but they will be sorely mistaken. They will misread the sound of the nightingale and begin to operate in broad daylight in a way that causes their downfall. Many will fall because of their own brash misunderstanding of the sound of the nightingale. Many in the camp of the enemy will be exposed because they misread the times.
For more encouragement from Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in years past:
2023: This Is the Revival of the Transformed Individual
2022: This Is Spiritual War — Take It On
2021: Restoration & the Glory of the Lord Are Here
