This is what the Lord has shown me about the words that I have released over the course of the past several months. As He has been speaking to me and giving me visions, I have been very cautious to release them just as I received them, though I am by no means perfect in this. It is my fervent desire to be faithful to Him and that which He gives me, and it is with fear and trembling that I have released these words, knowing full well the implications and consequences for speaking in such a way.
It is my faith in Him that has sustained me, that He is not a hard man, and that He never calls me to do something that He will not show Himself faithful in. In this, He has not forsaken me. My word is by no means binding, nor does it carry the weight of scripture, for we know that we see dimly, but know this, that what I have heard in the secret, I have spoken on the rooftops, and what I have seen in private, I have bore witness to publicly. When I am given little and am faithful in it, He gives me more, including understanding of that which I was given in the very first place. All of the words that He has given me are tied together.
On March 3rd, I released this word;
"Within a month, gas prices will have effectively doubled. This is tied directly to the shaking on March 13th. That which is high will be brought low and that which is low will be brought high, though that which is brought low will exalt itself and that which is brought high will humble itself."
A few days earlier, I was driving to work, and as I was passing a gas station, I glanced up and saw the sign where the price of gasoline was. In my mind's eye, I saw the price jumping up suddenly, and I heard exactly what I wrote down, though I must be clear that when I hear Him, it is like an impression upon my mind. I believe that this is part of the seeing dimly, and it is in staying faithful in the wrestle of trusting Him and not doubting, even without knowing why, that pleases Him. He is not a hard man, demanding that we get it perfect every time, but He is a good Father, pleased when we reach for Him like a child reaches to please their parent, earnestly desiring to be faithful. However, I cannot please God without faith, and it is precisely this that pleases Him, and I cannot have faith in Him without first becoming like a child toward Him.
As I continued on to work that day, I jotted down the words on a scrap piece of paper as I was stopped at a red light. This is certainly not the first time this has happened to me where I receive a word and write it down. In the past, I have either done nothing with it, even when I have felt led to share it, or I have shared them in a much smaller way as I have felt led, whether with one person or in a group prayer meeting. However, with this, I felt almost immediately that I was supposed to release this word in a much more public way.
Over the course of the next several days, I pressed in in prayer about this word, and over and over He affirmed that He wanted me to release it in the most public place I have access to, without knowing at all what it really meant. This was incredibly risky and costly, but I was more concerned about being obedient and faithful than I was about what others might think, or whether I got it perfect or not.
Two days after I released this word, God began to open my understanding that the gas actually spoke of the oil, that it was the oil that was becoming more costly, and then He linked this to the parable of the Ten Bridesmaids. He began showing me that it spoke of the spiritual reality that now is the time to get serious about storing up oil, of getting vision to sustain the days to come, as confusion and offense will dramatically increase. This was a word of warning to those who believe, not to those who don't believe, as those who don't believe are not waiting for Jesus to return.
The eye is the lamp of the body, and by filling it with light, we are storing up that oil to sustain the night. We fill it with light by repenting, by turning from our own ways and agreeing with God about them, and then by gazing upon the One who is light. This results in revelation about Him, which is the spirit of prophecy. The more that we gaze upon Him and talk to Him through the Holy Spirit living inside of us, who reveals Himself to us through His Word to us, the more we actually get to know Him. This is the act of beholding and becoming, of being renewed in spirit and in mind, of being sanctified and set apart in Him. Vision and revelation go hand in hand, as that which is revealed is unveiled. Where we lack vision, we cast off restraint. All of these words are about getting vision for what the Lord is doing in the earth right now and putting on restraint in response to this.
The same day I released this first word, I received a second word. On March 7th, I released this;
"On March 17th, those that plaster the wall with untempered mortar will be exposed. Their hidden parts will be made bare, and their wall will be tested with wind and fire. Offense and confusion will increase. This is a sifting of My people.
"You have written the name of your gods on your heart, the Baals, for them you love more than I. I am not your God and you are not my people. You have sold yourself for nothing, believing it is for your own profit, but you are poor, blind, wretched, and naked. Repent and turn from your harlot ways, and I will be your God. But if you will not repent, I will cast you far from Me, and there will be no one to help you.""
The Lord also gave me four passages of scripture along with this word. They were Ezekiel 13:1-16, Ezekiel 14:1-11, Revelation 3:14-22, and Joel 2:1-19. For the sake of space, I will not post them here, but I will put a link to the original post in the comments.
On March 13th, reports began surfacing of Russian troops being sighted in Egypt. While this does not seem to be that big of a deal here in the United States, it shook the surrounding nations. For quite some time, there has been a balance of power in the Middle East, but due to some very specific events in the past seven years, that balance has been shifting. Russian presence in Egypt has far flung implications. Here is an excerpt from an article from The Jerusalem Post;
"On March 13, press reports emerged that Russian special forces personnel and drones had been sighted in Egypt’s coastal town Sidi Barrani, located only 100 km. from the eastern Libyan territory controlled by the Russian-backed Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. If Moscow acts to change the balance of power in Libya, as it did in Syria, it would create a Russian ring around the southern half of the eastern Mediterranean, entirely overturning the strategic calculus of every actor in the region."
Here is another excerpt from an article from EUBulletin;
"The old power structure in the Middle East is being replaced by a new political make-up in which Russia is playing an increasingly dominant role. After it has established itself as a key player in the region through its involvement in the Syrian conflict, Moscow is now reshuffling cards elsewhere in the region, most notably in Libya.
As the United States’ and the European Union’s influence is declining and North Africa’s major players – Algeria and Egypt – have no objectives to having the Kremlin involved, Russia is steadily changing the regional dynamics. Moscow has entered the battle in Libya, where it had docking rights in the eastern port of Benghazi at the time of Qaddafi. Now, it seems to be supporting the side of Khalifa Haftar, who will be the likely beneficiary of the battle that has increasingly focused on the country’s vast oil fields and access to the abundant Oil Crescent. And although the Kremlin remains committed to the UN arms embargo on Libya, its support for Mr. Haftar’s forces come at the time when his enemies are weakening. This move also sends a rebuke to Western powers that have largely failed to prevent Libya from falling into chaos."
What I began to see from this was that the Lord was linking this to getting vision for where this all is going. My friend Tom, who has been watching and tracking what is taking place in the Middle East for quite some time, specifically in relation to Israel and the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy concerning the end of the age, has a lot of insight on the events taking place. As I began to study this out and wrestle through some hard passages to wrap my mind around, I began to see, with clarity, the storm that is about to break in the Middle East.
On March 17th, something very specific and unprecedented happened in Israel. As Israeli warplanes ventured into Syria to carry out airstrikes against a convoy carrying weapons to Hezbollah, Syrian forces fired several anti-aircraft missiles in retaliation. One of them was intercepted by Israel's Arrow defense system, an intercept system that targets incoming missiles and ballistics to defend the nation which is one of the most advanced in the world. This was the first time that this defense system has been used. Below are some excerpts from an article in the New York Times;
"This time, however, the Syrian missiles set off Israeli air raid sirens and aerial defense systems in the Jordan Valley, and the Israeli military said its Arrow air defense system had intercepted one of the missiles that appeared to be heading toward Israeli territory — the first confirmed operational use of that antimissile system.
While the Israeli aircraft may have escaped unscathed, the sirens and explosions served to thrust Israel’s years long shadow war in Syria uncomfortably into the limelight.
Israel has repeatedly declared its neutrality in the struggle between Mr. Assad of Syria and rebel forces. At the same time, Israel has been carrying out a covert campaign to prevent the transfer of sophisticated weapons from Syrian territory to Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese Shiite organization that is aiding Mr. Assad, and against which Israel fought a fierce monthlong war in 2006.
While Israel has made no secret of its policy of acting to prevent such transfers of weapons, it had thus far assiduously refused to confirm or deny involvement in any particular strikes, preferring to maintain ambiguity in the hope of lowering the pressure on the other side to retaliate."
Moreover, this defense system has largely been financed by the United States, along with the two other layers of the defensive missile system in Israel - Iron Dome and David's Sling. David's Sling is the newest addition, having been deployed and fully operational as of April 2nd of this year. Together, these systems form a defensive wall against any foreign missile or ballistic attack on Israel. In fact, it is overseen by the Israeli Ministry of Defense's "Homa" administration, which is translated "Rampart", as well as the US Missile Defense Agency.
Now, read this passage from Ezekiel 13, the same passage that the Lord highlighted to me when I received the word about March 17th, and consider the word that was released;
Ezekiel 13:1-16
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, ‘Hear the word of the Lord!’”
3 Thus says the Lord God: “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing! 4 O Israel, your prophets are like foxes in the deserts. 5 You have not gone up into the gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in battle on the day of the Lord. 6 They have envisioned futility and false divination, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord!’ But the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope that the word may be confirmed. 7 Have you not seen a futile vision, and have you not spoken false divination? You say, ‘The Lord says,’ but I have not spoken.”
8 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have spoken nonsense and envisioned lies, therefore I am indeed against you,” says the Lord God. 9 “My hand will be against the prophets who envision futility and who divine lies; they shall not be in the assembly of My people, nor be written in the record of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord God.
10 “Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying, ‘Peace!’ when there is no peace—and one builds a wall, and they plaster it with untempered mortar— 11 say to those who plaster it with untempered mortar, that it will fall. There will be flooding rain, and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it down. 12 Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the mortar with which you plastered it?’”
13 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “I will cause a stormy wind to break forth in My fury; and there shall be a flooding rain in My anger, and great hailstones in fury to consume it. 14 So I will break down the wall you have plastered with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered; it will fall, and you shall be consumed in the midst of it. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.
15 “Thus will I accomplish My wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it with untempered mortar; and I will say to you, ‘The wall is no more, nor those who plastered it, 16 that is, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace,’” says the Lord God.
I believe that what took place on March 17th was the testing of the wall that is being built around Israel. This is an excerpt from an article from CNN;
"The Israeli military would not explain why Arrow was used against an anti-aircraft missile, fueling speculation that Israel was either testing the Arrow missile or that its Iron Dome missile defense system wasn't within range of downing the anti-aircraft missile."
This wall, the majority of built with the aid of the United States, along with the election of the current president here in the US, have emboldened Israel as never before, even in the midst of increasing opposition in the surrounding nations. They are looking to him as one who will uphold and defend them, who will be their champion in the global arena. Israel has long looked to the United States as her protector, but as opposition against her as increased in the nations, the leaders in the United States have become increasingly hostile toward her over the past few decades, backing her into a corner and strong-arming her to try to make peace agreements and carve up her land.
This wall signifies a false peace for Israel. All around her, the nations are being stirred up in hatred of her. In the global arena, she bears the reproach of almost every nation. She is called an occupying force, an illegal entity on someone else's land. In the midst of this, Israel is becoming increasingly reliant on the United States as both an ally and a supplier of funds to equip and sustain her defences.
What we are seeing taking place in the Middle East is the collapsing of man's attempt at establishing peace apart from the leadership of Yeshua. About three and a half years ago, the farthest reaching negotiations for peace in the Middle East began taking place between Israel and Palestine, with the United States as the one most invested in coordinating it. Right before this, the United States, along with five other nations, brokered a deal with Iran where they agreed to lift sanctions and treat Iran as a legitimate nation in return for Iran disarming. This means that at the same time the United States government was intending to broker peace in Israel, they were also dealing directly with her sworn enemy.
This, along with many other happenings in the nations surrounding Israel, including the toppling of the leaders in Egypt and Libya, due in large part to the United States involvement in instigating uprisings and equipping rebel forces, including what we now know as ISIS, but also many other groups committed to the reinstitution of an Islamic Caliphate in the Middle East, helped to stir up Israel's enemies against her in a marked way in order to try and pressure her into conceding her legitimacy and claim to Jerusalem. What began the massive upheaval of power in the Middle East in 2010, what has been dubbed the Arab Spring, was a series of protests that were largely manipulated behind the scenes by the United States government, as well as major corporations such as Google and Facebook, in an attempt to undermine the sovereignty of the governing bodies in order to promote a more friendly political environment for westernized democracy and capitalism.
This push for reform in the Middle East has led to the strange mixture of far left leaning Westerners partnering with ultra conservative, fundamental Islamic groups, most notoriously the Muslim Brotherhood, who are well known for their hatred of both Israel and the United States. The Muslim Brotherhood was birthed in 1928 as a push toward a unified Islamic State in the Middle East, with many Arab States united under Sharia law, coming into being in the wake of the dissolving of the Ottoman Empire after the first World War when Western powers divided up the Middle East and set in place new borders between states that reflected the desires of the annexing nations upon the geopolitical playing field.
As the United States has tried to stay out of the conflicts overtly, our manipulation behind the scenes has led to much unintended backlash, including the formation of ISIS out of the bloody Syrian civil war, which also came out of the Arab Spring revolutions. In this instance, the United States supplied rebels with both training and weapons in an effort to apply internal pressure upon Bashar al-Assad to step down as President. As it became apparent that the United States did not actually care about supporting them, but that they were only being used by the United States to further its own agenda for its own gain, the rebel forces began defecting to Islamic militant groups, even forming the group ISIS, or ISIL, which began to sweep through the Middle East, taking territory and instituting Sharia law, in addition to the many attacks abroad that have been attributed to or inspired by them.
The United States has even partnered with the surrounding nations, forming a ten nation coalition of Arab states to fight against the spread of ISIL. These ten nations agreed to lend support to the United States in fighting the Islamic group, but in practice, there has been little to no support given. Mostly what has come about from the United States' many attempts at creating a more favorable environment for democracy and peace has fallen apart, creating major upheaval and a geopolitical minefield of shifting allies and enemies, all operating in close quarters with one another. In the midst of it all, hatred of Israel is a near constant, and the failed attempts by the United States to advance her own interests have left a bad taste in the mouth of the majority of the Arab nations.
The same can be said with the United States' attempt at brokering a peace deal between Israel and Palestine, even in the midst of all the turmoil. The more that the United States has attempted to negotiate peace in the Middle East, the more that the nations have stirred themselves up against one another. It is this environment that makes the presence of Russia so alarming, as many conflicting nations have begun aligning with Russia in their common hatred of Israel. Russia is at once aligned with Iran and Egypt, Israel and Syria, even while it is finding itself increasingly at odds with Western countries. It has become a game of political theatre, where the heads of states make bold claims in order to be recognized legitimately on a global level, while the popular consensus has only gone further in the other direction, as evidenced by the internal combustion of these states turning to and forming militias that are both independent of the state while also being supported, not always in word, but in action, by the state.
On April 4th, the President of Syria carried out a chemical attack on his own citizens, killing 90 and wounding many more. Three days later, the United States took action and bombed an airfield in Syria, the first time that the United States has intervened in Syria's civil war. This has only escalated tensions between Russia and the US. Since then, more agreements have been made in an attempt to de-escalate tensions, but these have only served to complicate matters more by creating more political boundaries that are bound to be crossed.
In the span of just over a month that I released the first word, related directly to having vision for what is coming, both Israel and the United States have entered into the conflict in Syria in an unprecedented way. Also, in mid-April, gasoline prices effectively doubled in the Gaza strip, as the Palestinian Authority Fatah has tightened its stance on the governmental group Hamas, which has held control of the Gaza strip for ten years after a split in the Palestinian government left Gaza under Hamas control and the officially recognized head of the PA, Fatah, controlling the West Bank. The gas prices themselves did not double, but the taxes imposed upon them by the PA in an effort to exert pressure on them to concede the Gaza Strip to Fatah has effectively doubled the price of gas, which Hamas is unable to pay.
As a result, Gaza's only power plant has shut down, leaving the Strip in a blackout state for the majority of the day. This has led to the severe cutback of medical services as the hospitals rely solely on generators to provide consistent energy, the fuel on hand for which is rapidly depleting. At the same time, there was a disruption in the energy flow from Egypt, which is the only other source of energy to the Strip other than Israel, who supplies the majority of energy. If this wasn't complicated enough, the PA has also explicitly told Israel that it no longer wants to pay for the energy that the Strip consumes, declining Israel's service in providing the little energy that it does get, while at the same time cutting salaries for those governmental employees in the Strip who were getting paid on the condition that they would not work and curbing the flow of medical supplies into the Strip.
This chain of events has left Israel with the choice of either continuing to supply the Gaza Strip energy at its own expense, in turn allowing Hamas, a group sworn to the destruction of Israel and with whom Israel has already entered into two wars with within the past ten years, to continue to operate, or to cut the supply of energy with the risk of plunging Gaza even further into crisis and entering into another war with Hamas. This comes at a time when the current US President is becoming increasingly confident in his own attempts at bringing the Israeli-Palestine conflict to an agreement.
This brings me to the last word that I released on April 11th. That morning, as I was showering, I had a vision. In this vision, I saw the earth splitting and a horn rising up out of the earth, and all the grass around it bowing down to it, and I heard 'In three days, there will be a massive shaking of the nations. The earth will split, and out of the earth, a horn will clearly begin to emerge.' This was the hardest word to release, as it was the most intense spiritually. I knew that what I was seeing was a spiritual reality, but as I wrestled all day with it in prayer, my desire to be faithful with what had been given me won out. This is what I released;
'In three days, on April 14th, there will be another massive shaking of the nations. The earth will split, and out of the earth, a horn will clearly begin to emerge. I also saw the grass of the field bowing down and worshiping before it.'
At this point, I had not seen heads or tails of whether or not anything even remotely close to the previous words I had released had transpired, mostly because I wasn't really looking. I knew that I needed to be faithful, and every time I released a word, I felt the Lord's pleasure on it, and that was enough for me. I did not quite understand any of it, but I had faith that He wouldn't lead me to take a risk in order to trick me.
The next three days were some of the most humbling days of my life, but also some of the most rewarding. What I found that was in the midst of being publicly humiliated, misunderstood, and accused, it was all I could do to cling to my Beloved, knowing that He had not left me nor forsaken me. I knew that He had led me there for a reason, regardless of whether or not I could see it at the moment, and I trusted in Him with all of my heart, all of my soul, all of my strength.
And then, the 14th of April came and went without much of anything significant to mark it, or at least that I could see. I wasn't even quite sure what to look for, other than I knew that I would know it when I saw it. There were events surrounding the day that were incredibly significant, such as the Mother of All Bombs being dropped for the first time the day before and tensions with North Korea escalating as we sent US warships in their direction in a show of force, but when nothing seemed to come out of the events of that day, I found myself asking the Lord why He led to release that word in the way that I did. As I began to talk to Him about these things, He began to open my understanding of the vision that I saw.
The land that I saw was the church. As there was a shaking in the church, there was a massive split. Out of the split, a man arose, which is the horn that I saw. The horn is a symbol of power or strength, as well as the summit of a mountain. The grass that I saw worshiping the horn was the glory of man, the flesh, which fades away and is corruptible, glorifying the man and exalting him by enthroning him on their praises.
As I began to see this, I began to see that this was something that had already taken place. Last fall, as the presidential elections were coming to a head, there was a major split in the church that was taking place over the candidates. Out of this split, many prominent leaders in the church decided to throw their weight behind the Republican candidate, and a large portion of the church followed suit. As a result, this candidate was elected, mostly on the back of the church, causing major offense and division both in and out of the church.
Many of these prominent leaders in the church actually began to assign this man the prophetic fulfillment of a modern day King Cyrus, a Persian king who God used to judge the Babylonian captivity of Israel and to restore the land back to God's chosen people, as well as to help restore the fallen Temple. As such, this man became like a champion for righteousness in the eyes of the church, and many looked to him in hopes that he would restore the fallen state of the world, to bring an end to abortion in this country, to bring peace to Israel, and the list goes on.
The problem with this is that the church, instead of crying out to God in repentance for the state of the world and this nation, for how far we have strayed from what God calls good, instead of desperately assaulting the heavens with desire for the only One worthy to restore all things, to bring to an end sin and corruption, began crying out for a man to rule over them, to be the one who would fight our battles for us and who would change things from the top down. God answered these cries, and gave His people what we wanted, an arrogant, self-centered man who cares nothing about the truth of the Word of God, who does not display the heart of God nor does he produce the fruits of the Spirit of God, who has become a symbol of corruption, greed, and dishonesty to most of this generation, to be our solution to the problems in the earth.
As I began to realize that this was what the vision I had was about, I began to see that the shaking that was occurring on and around the 14th all had to do with this man shaking things up by exerting his power, his will, upon the nations of the earth - the MOAB being dropped in Afghanistan, the airstrike in Syria, the deployment of warships in North Korea. Again, this vision that I received had to do with getting vision, of seeing clearly a reality taking place in the earth, just as all the rest of the words that I had received.
In keeping with this, I received this word on April 25th, which I released on May 16th;
"I received this word on April 25th;
"On May 17th, I will cause a storm to break out in My fury."
And again on May 14th concerning this;
"In My fury, I will consume the waste places, for I have called, and you have not answered, and I have spoken, but you were silent. I will lay bare the foundation of all that exalts itself above Me, for I am zealous for My House and I am zealous for My Bride. You have spoken nonsense and envisioned lies for My people, therefore I will set Myself against you, and out of your own mouth I will judge you, and according to your thoughts and your ways, it shall be a snare to you and those who follow after you. Can a dam hold back the ocean? Or can a shack withstand a mighty gust of wind? So also shall your house be to you in that day, for you have neither heeded My words nor listened to My rebuke. Therefore, I shall deliver you into the hand of your adversary and give unto you the desires of your itching heart, that you might taste the fruit of your own hands and return to Me once again."
This is pertaining to Ezekiel 13:1-16."
On May 17th, a bill was introduced in the United States Senate that would impose new sanctions on Iran in an effort to crack down on their "destabilizing activities" in the Middle East. This is in contrast to the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action that came out of the talks between the P5+1 countries that began secretly in 2013, which was signed in as an interim agreement on November 24 of that year and which was signed in as a final agreement a year and a half later, on July 14th, 2015, in which it was agreed upon by the United States, China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, Germany, and the EU to lift sanctions upon Iran in exchange for Iran putting a stop to its manufacturing of nuclear weapons. Part of the agreement was that no new sanctions would be put in place related to their nuclear activity as long as they uphold their part of the treaty.
These sanctions were introduced under the pretense of human rights violations, as well as Iran's support for terrorism in the region, which is allowed under the JCPOA, but which can easily be perceived as the United States going against its word at a time when the current president is making sweeping changes and abolishing many agreements and laws that his predecessor worked so hard to instate. At the same time as this, the US relationship with its European allies is becoming increasingly strained, as our current president has made an effort to break from the policies set in place in order to present a form of protectionism. This includes an incredibly strained relationship with Germany, as well as many countries in the NATO alliance. These are countries that have also had a hand in the JCPOA who have not broken policy with the agreement.
As this bill has been introduced, Iran has already begun implementing counter-measures, including stepping up their presence in Syria in an attempt to establish a permanent base near the Israeli border there. These sanctions, coupled with the increase US support of Iran's sworn enemy, Saudi Arabia, in the form of a $110 arms deal and a push to step up unified support from Sunni-majority countries in the region to push back against Iran's increasing grab for power, have served to stir up Iran aggression in the region.
On May 18th, US forces carried out an air strike on Iranian-directed forces who had breached a deconfliction zone, the first time that the US has directly struck Iranian proxies in the Syrian civil war. This has begun escalating, as Iran sees this as an act of aggression, and has already begun bolstering its troops in the region in an attempt to establish a permanent base. The US has also stepped up its military presence in the region in response. The US has largely stayed away from directly confronting Iran and its proxies in the Middle East in an effort to uphold the JCPOA, as any direct confrontation could be seen as a breaking with the agreed upon terms, opening the doors for Iran to go full course ahead with developing nuclear warheads. This escalating conflict in the region, coupled with the newly introduced sanctions bill, is a significant shift toward the breaking of the JCPOA.
When this storm breaks, it will result in war. Already, Syria has become a hotbed of activity with the convergence of a complex and diverse array of military and political factions, with a multitude of overlapping lines and alliances, and much like a hornet's nest, it is all being shaken by one man in particular - the current president of the United States, who recently returned from his first diplomatic international visit in the region. During this visit, in which he visited Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Vatican City, as well as Germany, the president presented himself as the one who will bring stability and peace to the region, but in his wake, he has only succeeded in escalating tensions on a global scale, shaking up alliances and breaking not only his promises, but his predecessor's as well, including a ten nation coalition of Arab countries who aligned themselves with the previous president in order to fight ISIS which is beginning to break up and turn against the current president.
In the midst of this, the conflict in Syria is the pressure point of the mounting tensions, and when this tension snaps, what will result is a proxy war in the region which is guaranteed to spread out into world war. This proxy war is already beginning. As forces advance on the last stronghold of ISIS in Syria, Racca, which is the caliphate's self proclaimed capital, it is only a matter of time before the common enemy of this conflict is eliminated, and in the wake of this will be a massive power struggle between the US, Russia, and Iran involving a multitude of nations, all vying for their own self interests. It does not take much imagination to see this for what it is, a recipe for war.
This is the point of all the words that I have received and released, that man's attempt at creating peace on the earth apart from the Prince of Peace, of bringing the earth into an age of unprecedented peace and morality, of restoring the climate and reversing the stain of sin upon the earth, of bringing economic prosperity and equality to every nation, is coming to fruition. What is in the heart of man apart from God is bearing fruit in the earth in a massive way, much like in a time of harvest. God is lifting His hand of restraint on the desires of man to try and rule the earth apart from Him, to decide between good and evil apart from what He says is good and evil, to handle His chosen people, Israel, as man sees fit, to execute judgement upon the earth apart from the only One worthy to judge the earth in all righteousness.
This is the judgement of the Lord, that every man, woman, and child, regardless of age, nationality, gender, religion, or position would see what it is the heart of man apart from God and be given a chance to respond. The Lord loves each and every person on this planet. He created each one, fashioned them in their mother's womb, and He desires that none should perish, but that all would have eternal life in Him. However, with this comes a choice. We receive the leadership that we desire. If we choose Him, we die to ourselves, to our self leadership, and in return we receive life, but if we choose our own way, if we choose the way of man, we receive the wages of sin, which is death. He is merciful, and all of this is intended for us to taste and see that He is good, that He preserves those alive that put their trust in Him, even in the death of the body. Judgement is primarily a warning unto repentance, and is one of the highest expressions of His love, that He would stir us into repentance instead of just allowing us to die in our sins. He chastens those that He loves, just as a good father chastens his children.
I believe that we are already in a time of judgement, that all the walls that man has built to convince himself that he can make things right on his own are beginning to crumble, and that when they fully break, there will be a time of trouble unlike the earth has ever seen before. As I have see a multitude of prophetic utterances from the Bible unfolding before my eyes and brought them before the Lord, He has given me words that, as I have sought them out, He has used to show me what He has doing in the earth right now. Regardless if this is the fullness of the fulfillment of the time of the end of the age or not, what I have found is that there will never be enough signs and wonders, enough fulfillment of prophecy, to convince me, or anyone else for that matter, of what God is doing and what time it is.
Just as it took faith to see for those who were looking in truth for the Messiah to recognize and follow Jesus when He walked on this earth, despite the multitude of signs and wonders and fulfillment of prophecy, it will always take faith to believe the Lord. It will never look exactly the way that we imagined it in our mind, but if we humble ourselves and stay soft to the Lord, He will lead us in the moment. For this very reason, the Pharisees and the other religious authorities entirely missed the first coming of the very Man they were waiting for, because they were not seeking out the truth in faith, but searching the scriptures to justify themselves in their ways. When He turned out different than they had expected, not adhering to their ways of thinking or doing the things that they thought He would, they were offended in Him, and this led to His betrayal.
And the truth is, the prescription is the same regardless of whether we are in the fullness of His judgements or not. We are clearly in the midst of birth pangs, at the very least, though what is coming is massive desolation of the earth, according to the Bible. In fact, the prescription has always been the same, even prior to the revelation of the heart of God through Jesus Christ here on earth - it is to gather ourselves together, as His people, humbling ourselves and crying out in repentance toward Him. The word says that the judgements of the Lord begin in the house of the Lord, and if we, as His body, are not willing to humble ourselves and admit how far we have fallen short of obeying and walking out His commandments, of how far we have strayed from actually taking Jesus at His words to us, of how much we have twisted the truth of justice, of love, of mercy, of generosity, of truth itself, of how we have married the world and the values thereof instead of staying faithful to our Beloved, of how often we find Bible verses to justify ourselves in our sin instead of turning from our ways, bearing the fruit of repentance, and receiving true grace to get closer to HIm, if we are not willing to admit and confess these sins, not just as individuals but as a corporate group comprised of individuals, than how can we expect Him to show us mercy in a time of judgement?
The truth is we as His Body here on earth, and especially in the Western world, are more deserving of His judgements and His wrath than those who do not call themselves followers of Christ, simply because we ought to have known better. Instead, we have twisted the truth of the Word of God to fit our own agendas, our own ideas of right and wrong, good and evil, to advance our own glory here on earth, and to store up wealth here on earth instead of in heaven. Luke 12:47-48 says, 'And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.'
However, if we are not willing to humble ourselves and repent, if we instead claim that we have no sin to repent of, than we make Him a liar. Repentance is not a one time thing. It is a perpetual coming before Him, turning from our ways, dying to ourselves, to our flesh, growing in maturity and likeness of Him, allowing Him to teach and chasten us as He wills. It is the process of sanctification, of working out our salvation, of bearing the fruits of our relationship with Him, of growing in holiness, in meekness and humility, in generosity, in love, of growing in lovesickness for our Beloved.
Even more than our own sin that we need to repent of is the sin of the land that we occupy. Written into the fabric of creation is a reality that for every murdered soul, punishment is required at the hand of the land, and with over 50 million babies murdered through abortion alone, there is a whole lot of blood on our lands. This is the basis of justice, and is clearly outlined in the story of Cain and Abel. However, God Himself is the only one that can rightfully judge and bring the necessary judgement. As His people, we ought to be growing in holiness so that we can agree with Him in His judgements and partner with Him in them, but we, as His body here in the United States, have walked in the other direction. Instead of growing in holiness through repentance and obedience, we have put our hope in a man to restore justice in the land, and in doing so, we have revealed the truth about what is in our hearts, not only to God, but to the world around us.
Even now, He is beginning to judge and correct His Body. I am a part of His Body. That means unless I repent and begin to get serious about agreeing with Him about my position in His body, including repenting and crying out for mercy for things that I have not directly been a part of, I am actually showing myself in need of correction. The whole point of this is that I might humble myself, see that what is happening is much larger than me, and come into agreement with God about it. He is doing something very specific in the earth right now, and He desires for His body to be awake, alert, and in agreement with Him about it, because a flood of persecution and tribulation is coming to His Body.
We must understand that the value system presented to us in the culture of today is absolutely different than the value system of the kingdom that is coming, and I am not just referring to the culture outside of the church. We live in the midst of Babylon, and it is imperative that we come out of her, for she is falling, and great is her fall. We have become an idolatrous nation, claiming loyalty to Him but playing the harlot with Babylon, and in His mercy He has given us opportunity after opportunity to see this and repent through allowing His judgements to begin touching the land, but we have mostly only hardened our hearts toward Him and continued headlong in our ways. The scriptures are full of passages describing this exact reality, over and over and over highlighting the process, stressing the importance of repentance and crying out for mercy, not our idea of what mercy should look like, but true mercy that can only come from His hand.
There is so much more that I could say about all of this as I have been watching and praying and repenting. Every day, we move closer and closer to world war with increasing speed, and every day, news article after news article testifies of the rising escalations in conflict, even directly tied to the words that I received and released. As His people, it is time to humble ourselves and repent, for massive offense and betrayal is coming. I received this word toward the end of April pertaining to the vision I saw of the horn rising out of the earth;
"I will cut off the horn of this wicked man, and those that exalt him shall be cut off with him. In that day, they shall share in his punishment, for him they have exalted instead of Me. Because they have chosen to be led by arrogance, I will ensnare them in their ways, for they would not heed My warnings, nor give ear to My rebuke. Therefore, be zealous and repent, for My kingdom is at hand." (Psalm 75, Jeremiah 22, Revelation 3:14-22)
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For several months, these words have weighed heavy on my heart. I pray that which is from me falls to the ground, but that which is from You, oh Lord, would not return void. Father, forgive me for my complacency in this. Have mercy on us and open our eyes to the truth of who you are and what You are doing, for You are good, and Your mercy endures forever. Amen.
Here are a bunch of links to news articles that I have come across since I started writing this;
