Revelation of the Depth

Paul Cox

When we publish a new prayer, people often ask, "When did you write the prayer?" I do not write the prayers; they are written in our schools as a cooperative effort of all of the people there. Virtually all of the revelation that has been received has started with either me getting some sort of spark, a word, a dream or an impression which is then fleshed out and developed in our school or it starts with a word from someone else. In this case, Dale Shannon had a dream three years prior to the new revelation. In the dream, I was talking to her from heaven. She saw a grid and was instructed to go in and disconnect something. I said, "You have to be a minor." Then another prayer minister asked her, "Are you a minor?" She said, "No, I am over 21." "Then you can't go in."

Later, she had a vision in which she had a yellow helmet with lights on the hat like a miner's hat. She was to dig for the answers. She got the word, “cash-in, cash-in, there are veins of gold that need to be uncovered," and she realized that it was not a 'minor' in terms of being under twenty-one, but a 'miner' to dig in the depths.

In 2008, two years later, we still did not understand what the dream and the word meant. In that year Mimi Lowe, one of our intercessors from Canada, got this word. “It is now. Paul, Paul, we give you authority to tear down the strongholds. Find the keys beneath the ground, go deep, deep, deep, they are underneath. You are going to uncover the enemy's strategy, the hiding place of the enemy. Just like a miner. Go underground and dig deep, it is there. Numbers, strategies, ledgers. Numbers, strategies, ledgers have been hidden. You will tear down more financial strongholds. It is time. It is time that finances are released. There are vaults. You will be given the combination. When you open up the vaults, information is going to come gushing out."

Then I remembered a dream in which I was in New York, in Manhattan. I saw the end of a railroad line and the bumpers that are at the end of the track. I reached into a well and pulled my grandson out by his hair and he was healed. We now understand that the well represented the depth. In the physical reality, my grandson, Cody, was born with a cystic hygroma on his face. This resulted in a surgery that affected the symmetry of his face. The dream seems to indicate that his healing will be a result of understanding the depth.

The depth is mentioned in many places in the Bible. Look at Romans 8:38, "For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing…" It would appear that the height and the depth are created beings. What more can we find out about the depth - let’s explore the depth?

Proverbs 25:3, "As the heavens for height and the earth for depth, so the heart of the kings is unsearchable." Jonah 2:2, "You help me from the depth." Depth can be understood as "of Sheol." Ephesians 3:17-88 has to say, "That Christ may dwell in your heart through faith that you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and the depth and the height."

We began getting some new understanding that in the depth there are places that are good and places that are not good. One of the places that is not good is Sheol. As a Baptist pastor I would teach on all this. During those years my basic belief was that Sheol was the place of the dead in the Old Testament and by the time we get to the New Testament this changes to an enlarged understanding that after death, non believers go to hell and believers go to heaven. I do not believe that anymore. I believe that Sheol is a place where parts of our soul can be trapped because of what we have done or what others have done to us.

After the revelation continued, we had a pastoral couple come for ministry. One of our intercessors had a vision of us going down into the depths where parts of this man and woman were trapped in Sheol. I was able to discern how they were trapped in Sheol. We asked the Lord to remove them and I could feel the bondage come off.

Next, I received a call from my daughter, Corrie, who had just been to the doctor where they had done a sonogram of her abdomen area and discovered she had a cyst. She wanted me to come over and pray for her which of course I was happy to do. I had this brand new information about Sheol so as I was praying for her I said, "Lord, take her out of Sheol.” The next day she was back in the emergency room for tests, after which she called and said, "Dad, I'm healed." I said, "What?" She said they took another sonogram and they could not find the cyst anymore. I was thinking, "This works."

Just after the revelation of the star this year, we received another word that tied the revelation of the star to the revelation of the depth. "It is a light field, a light field, a force field, a fiery field, a battle field. A bright star; we are moving towards the bright star at a slower speed. It is a light force. We are going inside the star; we are now in the depth."

As we began to explore the depth, the Lord upgraded our armor—it appears we need greater protection there. It is very strange, but it is a new set of armor that feels to me like I am enveloped in humidity and it is clammy. There was also ringing in my ears. Others have also experienced the same sensation. As we enter the depth it feels as if we are going down.

Dale Shannon then received another word about the depth. "It is a different type of suit, it's a miner suit (here is the miner again), miner gear. Put it into the car, like a mine shaft car. Dig, dig deep. There are tools down there. I am transporting you through time and space. Take the tools and take the equipment. There is more depth to learn. You have only scratched the surface. There is more, more, more. There is gold in these veins. Mine the gold, mine the treasure. You will bring it back to the surface, coming up. You will take this treasure back. He is putting inside of us a lightening rod, a shaft of light inside of each of us. You will reflect and seek His light. You will speak His light. You will taste His light. You will know His light. Transverse the light." Perhaps this speaks of the treasure in Isaiah 45:2-2, “I will go before you and make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places that you may know that I, the LORD, who call you by your name, I Am the God of Israel.

Then we received this word. “Yahweh, Yahweh, you are all builders, you are makers with Yahweh as co-creators. Your wealth, your treasure has not been rejected. Miners, miners, you must be a miner for the heart of gold. There is a fine line between heart and mind. Where is your hope stored? What is it for? Heart and mind to become builders and makers, a co-creator. It is time to find the time to know, hear and believe, taste and see; you become a miner for the heart of gold. Buy gold refined in fire. Heal the heart, heal the mind, heal the man, heal the land. Dig deeper, come up higher to be a miner for the heart of gold."

It was 2009 and we were in Collingwood, Canada when my friend, Larry Pearson, had this amazing, amazing word. Listen carefully to it because it is absolutely amazing, and just blows my mind. "We are now at the bottom of the ocean. It is about a mindset. If we only dwell in the mindset of the river, we stay in our own personal anointing. We need to move out into the ocean, in the depth, lose our lives and surrender all and enter in and cross over into the mindset of the ocean. Then we will have the mind of Christ. If we only dwell in the mindset of the river, we will lose what is in the depth. Enter into the mindset of the ocean; you will have the mind of Christ. It is the voice of many waters. It is the voice of many waters coming forth from the depth of the ocean from the mind of Christ not from the mind of man. It is time to come out of the river and go into the ocean. It is time for the mind of the ocean. It is time for the ocean liner. No longer time for personal ministries and empires. Personal ministries, empires, and anointing will be submerged. Have I not given dreams of the tsunami? I am the tsunami. You will never figure me out. Why do you lean on your own understanding to figure Me out? Your natural man cannot comprehend the things of the Father. Your thoughts are not My thoughts, your ways are not My ways. It is time to bow low that He might be lifted high. Your thoughts are not My ways. I am bringing forth a depth of Me, a depth of Me. I will be the tsunami of great glory and great power to and through My yielded bride and sons. The hirelings are being fired. The sons and daughters will rise with a depth of God in their eyes. Is there a depth of our souls that are not? He is trying to rewire the house from 110 to 220. Galatians 2:20, no longer I, but Christ. Acknowledge that you are dead. Why would you die daily when you are dead? Choose to obey the word and take up the cross daily. I have baptized you into the depths. Quit trying to die when you are dead in me. I went to the depths to take you into My depths. Record yourself dead for He has done it. Not by might, but My Spirit. As in the days of Noah there was a flood. I will flood the earth with fire and renewing fire. There is a renewing and restoring fire. I will judge evil. I will restore and bring back the garden. I will bring back your identity in glory. As it was in the beginning, it will also be on earth again. Bring back the depth of the garden (Is the Garden of Eden in the depth?) I will split forth the Adamic way of the mind of men. I will split and divide asunder that which is tares and wheat so that out of the depth comes the redeemed, the last Adam, the redeemed, the One New Man. Mark this day, heaven and earth will witness, holy congregation. This day in the Spirit something is being recorded, a recording in heaven. In the depth is deeper revelation, deeper commitment, deeper love.”

In 2009 we also received this word. "I show you a mystery. The hidden depths of God are here. The mystery of the power of God of ages long ago. The hidden mysteries created long ago. There is a mystery of knowing Him face to face in the origin. Deeper still there is a hidden treasure to be revealed."

Then Dale Shannon had another dream, “I go into the ocean to swim (the depth). The water is so shallow and I search for deeper water and I cannot find it. I swim parallel to the beach and then I swim opposite the beach going out as far as I can looking for deeper water. I finally hit a plastic wall. I find that I am in a movie set. The ocean is not real but manmade and there is no depth or width. I hit a plastic wall that was painted to look like it went into the distance." We realized that the Lord was giving a revelation of Sheol. So let’s look at a couple of passages on Sheol. Genesis 37:35. In this passage Jacob is morning the supposed loss of his son, Joseph. "All of his sons and all of his daughters rose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted so he was very sad and said, 'for I shall go down to the grave (that is really to Sheol) in mourning.” Next, Psalm 9:17 says, "The wicked shall be turned into Sheol and all the nations that forgot God." Psalm 30:3, "O Lord You brought my soul up from Sheol. You have kept me alive that I should not go down to the pit."

Picture a place called the righteous depth which is where we are to be as Christians. However, because of the fall of man, the enemy was given portions of the depth. These ungodly places are identified in Scripture; Sheol, the pit, the snare, the trap, the net, Hades, Abaddon, death (as in the place of the living dead), utter darkness, deep darkness, and the outer darkness. It appears that parts of our soul, mind, emotions and will can be trapped in the ungodly depth while we are still in the land of the living. That is why David says in Psalm 27:13, "That I might know You in the land of the living."

Another intercessor had a poem about the depth and the star—it’s sort of like a Dr. Seuss rhyme. "There is a star, a star upon Thars, which gives off light both near and far. Dimensions it knows throwing beams oh so far. Yes it circles and circles both near and so far. It appears as the darkness bringing light from above, setting free the captives, captives from birth, giving them freedom, new hope, and new birth. It shatters walls, glass partitions and more. It opens up portals and heavenlies too for My grace to pour in afresh and anew. It rearranges vibrations and it clarifies sounds, bringing healing and health as it resounds."

How do we end up in the ungodly depth? Let me summarize scriptures. Let's say someone comes and criticizes me and I accept that criticism in an unhealthy way. At that point I get put into the ungodly depth. I realized that my experience in the church where the membership came against me so violently resulted in me being put into dark places in the ungodly depth. Also, by those same words those people speak, they will find themselves put into the ungodly depth.

I have come to believe that this is the place where the enemy grabs parts of us and torments and torture us. It is the place where all sorts of condemnation, guilt, shame, and rejection is being empowered because we are multidimensional people. It is also possible that this is why some people hear voices.

Is it possible that we are picking up what is happening to many people in the ungodly depth? Perhaps it is here that we are being bombarded all the time with thoughts that are not correct. As this happens over and over again we ask ourselves, “Why do I feel like this?" It may also be that this might explain why at times we meet certain people and we immediately do not like them. Perhaps something is going on in the depth that is affecting you.

However, we are meant to be in the Godly depths which I believe are the depths of revelation and the depths of God’s love.

I checked for cubes on a couple of teenagers and found that many do not seem to be trapped in the ungodly depth. Perhaps we have found an explanation for why scripture speaks of those of old age going down to Sheol. I think this is what happens when there is a point in life where we stop dreaming and we start buying into the lies that this is all there is. We start accepting untruths that are being spoken about us. At some point we end up putting ourselves into the ungodly depth or being put into the ungodly depth.

The ungodly depth seems to be made up of many locations: sheol (Hades in Greek), snare, trap, net, darkness, deep darkness, outer darkness, pit, mire, fear, forgetfulness, grave, and death (The grave and death may be places where parts of people who are alive may be trapped. Scripture seems to indicate that there are levels in these places.
I was in New Jersey ministering and had a sense that the person was in a cage. When I felt the cage, it was a woman who had dissociative identity disorder. It felt like two ping pong balls were circling above my head but I did not know what that meant. Meanwhile, someone was upstairs praying and they reported that they saw the person in a bird cage. I was amazed as this is exactly what I had discerned. It was then I first discerned celestial beings. Since then I have discerned celestial beings many, many times. When I feel righteous celestial beings, it feels like three ping pong balls circling my head, like when they draw the lottery with those balls flying around.

Celestial beings are mentioned in Jude 8: “Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries.” They are really the doxa, which means the glorious ones or, in another translation, celestial beings. I asked the Lord what this meant and his answer was wonderful. The celestial beings are living light rays. Light is a living being. They are the glorious ones.

So our question was, "How do we get out of Sheol?" The Lord said to us, "You must go through the star and follow the glorious ones, and they will take you into the ungodly depth and take you out and set you free."

Backtracking a bit, let me tell you a vision that my friend, Persis Tiner, had for me. Keep in mind that this was before we had any information about the depth. She said, "You are walking across a bridge, like the Golden Gate Bridge. The Lord said you can keep on walking and you will continue and you will be alright or you can jump." I said, "Well, I'll jump. That’s simple." I did not realize at the time that when you jump you go into the depth.

So now, in our meetings, if the glorious ones are present we take a leap of faith and jump by praying “Lord Jesus, I repent for accepting the evaluation of others, for allowing others to determine where I should be. Lord, I realize that this has happened in my generational line also. But, I declare Lord that I want to see You in the land of the living. I am tired of living the way I have been living. Lord, I follow now Your glorious ones through the star into the ungodly depths and Lord please pull every part of me out of all parts of the ungodly depths. I declare that I will be seated with Christ in heavenly places. I will be seated in the godly depth, the godly width, the godly length, and the godly height. I will be a revealed son and daughter of the Most High God. I will take my place as the One New Man with Christ as the Head.”

Following is the prayer the Lord gave us to specifically remove us from any ungodly place in the depth. It my prayer that the Lord will bring you to new levels of freedom in your walk with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

Special thanks to Teri McPherson for transcribing my talks on the Star and the Depth. Her prayer ministry contact is Destiny Connections, PO Box 1248, Paulden, AZ 86334. destinyconnections@q.com (928) 636-2272.

Also thanks to Barbara Parker for doing the initial edit on the transcription. Barbara Parker’s prayer ministry contact is 949-830-2252. Info@standinginfaith.org.