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In this re-blog my friend John Barber offers wise words. Personally, Nina and I greatly miss attending church and meeting dear friends and very pleased that services have been recorded and zoom meetings made available.
However, from the very outset we’ve been independently of the same mind in refusing to be muzzled when worshiping the Living Lord – my long-time readers of this blog will recall the Lord’s answer to my question in March last year that CV-19 is “Man-made”, and later being awakened to learn, “MaSks are only 1 letter away from MaRk” !!
What A God-incidence! Upon closing my phone down for the night I discovered two unusual things pointing to a highly significant prophetic word.
First, I saw my Facebook hadn’t logged off and closed properly from earlier yesterday, and its home screen showed this item Geoffrey Pick had posted in the early evening on Prophetic Releasers for UK Revival (PR4UKR):
The Enemy Plans that Back-fire, Causes the Church to Explode in Growth Christopher Wickland
’28 November 2019, Pastor Chris, of Living Word Church Network had received this prophecy. After recovering from the near-fatal cardiac arrest, he finally published it on 10 April 2020, writing on Facebook: “I knew when I received this word the enemy was angry. The plan of the enemy is to shut every church down. No more prayer, no warfare of praise, no glory to God.”
‘He added: “After chastisement, God will make the Church grow exponentially. The very weapon Satan used to destroy the Church will be the very thing that causes the Church to explode in growth.”
Inwardly impressed to consider featuring this blog’s copy of that prophetic word on its home page, I then dipped into Richard’s Watch and did something I only occasionally do – and along came my second discovery!
I checked the listing of Popular Posts and espied that actual post sitting right at the top! For some reason, visitors to this blog had already searched and seenthat post! (Geoff hadn’t provided any link from PR4UKR.)
The prophecy was received at a time of unprecedented political upheaval, not only in UK but also globally as Covid 19 was soon released in China and became a pandemic with catastrophic effects upon every area of human life and society. Also, the day before publishing news had come of Britain’s humiliation internationally, as well as scientifically. Hence inclusion of this prophecy in the catalogue of fulfilled prophecies or those coming to pass (Footnotes refer – NB. recent news to come on that individual charlatan).
HERE’s a full transcript of Christopher’s original audio by Carolyn Stewart:
“I just want to share this prophetic word. I was looking through my phone and I found this. (The current date is..we are in April 2020). And as I was looking through my phone of prophecies I found this one called ‘The Humbling of Great Britain’, which I’d never put out before. I completely forgot about it. So I think in the light of what’s going on at the moment, it is very relevant. It is a warning, but it is also an encouragement of what God is doing in our land. I thought I should release this now.
“As I said, this was given in November 2019. This was just before I died as well, so it is quite a significant prophecy. And as I said, I’d forgotten all about it. I just found it on my phone, but I feel it’s important to release it, so I’ll leave it with you. Please listen, please enjoy, please be blessed, and please spread it around as well.”
THE HUMBLING OF GREAT BRITAIN (November 2019)
“I will have the people in this land in derision”, says the Lord. “I will pour out my Spirit on this land, and those people that have called to come together to conspire, to tear down My ways and My precepts and My ordinances from this land – this green and pleasant land. Mark My words: I will have them in derision. I am in the heavens and I laugh at their futility, at the things that they’re attempting to do, to close Me off and shut Me off from My own creation and so close down and shut down My people. For that is their ultimate aim. They want Me and every trace of Me eradicated from the land and from education and from every part of this society.
“But mark My words; I have plans to prosper this country, and I will bring to shame the wise. I will shame those who have so loftily held their head up – their stiff-necked heads that have said,‘We will bring our ways! We will bring in our precepts and ordinances in this land, and we will eradicate God, and we will take Him off his throne. And we shall destroy His church.‘ But not so!
“Sadly, My own Church has failed to see how impoverished and how weakened she has become. She is literally now a remnant in this country. Yet I will do great things with a remnant. Yet when it was I can take three hundred foot-soldiers with Gideon and I can do a great deliverance, and I will do the same also in this land. I will take this small remnant of a Church that is left – those Christians that genuinely acknowledge Me as their Lord and Saviour – and will not bow the knee to Baal and to all his false practices and customs in respect to the laws that are now passing in this land.
“Mark My words, punishment will come for the sins that have covered this land. But the punishment, as I always punished Israel in times past, was so that it may bring them to repentance and may bring healing to their land; that when the people are humbled they would pray to me and I would turn in My mercy, I would forgive them their sins and I would then heal their land. I am going to bring punishment to this nation – a time of humbling – but this punishment is not to destroy this nation. This punishment is to humble her and to chastise her, that she may repent of her wicked ways and turn back to Me.
“There will not be many nations in the days ahead that will be permitted to have what this nation will be permitted. You will have a grace and a favour upon you which many other nations will not be given because I have plans and purposes for this country. And even though My own people have been faithless harlots towards Me, know this; that your faithlessness will only go to prove My faithfulness. I will be faithful to My Covenant and to My Word, and I will bring about My ways and My means for this country, and I will pour out My Spirit. And I will bring Revival, but it will not be like any revival that has been before. It will be uncontainable; it will be uncontrollable; and the world will HATE it because it will be so strong and it will be so powerful that they cannot ignore it.
“In times past they’ve been able to turn a blind eye to the things of My Spirit, but in these days everyone will know about it, everybody will know about it. And the same sun that melts the ice also hardens the clay, and men will just drop into two distinct camps: those that love Me and those that absolutely hate Me. This is why in many respects these days are dangerous days, because it will polarize people, in ways stronger than they are now; but you will know the righteous and you will know the evil.
“But mark My words, I will do something wonderful with this country; I will restore law and order to this country. This country has become lawless and it has no more order to it. And your Houses of Parliament are an example of the state of your nation, of the division of your nation, of the complexities of your nation. The wickedness and the hardness of heart and the blindness and arrogance of your nation are all set to display, for all the world to see in your own Houses of Parliament. But I am going to do a new thing. And many men will lay down their crowns and place down their swords before Me and repent and give their lives to me. And many powerful men and women who vehemently hate My name, will come to know Me and love My name.
“And some Christians might go, ‘Why, why Lord did you save them? They’re the ones who brought such depravity to our nation. Why did you allow it?’ Because that’s My grace, that’s My mercy, and the very ones that brought in those laws, I will turn into trophies of grace to make the enemy despised in his own camp, for I will make those who passed those wicked laws be the ones that undo them, for they will reveal the secrets and the dark intent and heart of sinful wicked flesh. And the world or this country at least, will look on in horror at the things that they’ve released and allowed in this country, and they will be rescinded and retracted.
“My people, you need to do this: you need to be spending these hours – because it is only hours – you need to be spending these hours in prayer; you need to be spending these hours on your knees; you need to be spending this time in the Word, learning from Me, learning from My Spirit and I will teach you many wonderful things. But this is the time, because there are many bridesmaids out there that do not have enough oil in their lamp and you need to get it in your lamp. No-one can part-exchange their life of intimacy with Me to those that have no intimacy with Me. This is your chance; now is the time to do it, for in the humbling that’s coming – this wind of change that’s going to blow through this land – it’s going to be a difficult time for this nation. It will not be a long time, but the depth of the punishment that will come will be severe, even though it will only be for a short time. It was like when I said to King David, “You can have three years of this, three months of that, or three days of the other”.
“This will be a short punishment but it will be a deep punishment; a deep chastisement to this nation. And I will humble this nation and I will turn her around. And many who are your enemies in these days will become your friends and neighbours in the days to come.
“So be prepared, be encouraged but be warned; this is not going to be an easy day that is coming, it is going to be a difficult day, a difficult time for this nation. Many Christians will cry out, ‘Why did I allow such things to come to this nation?’ But in part, everyone in this nation is responsible for the punishments that are coming.
“There is much worldliness in My Body, much worldliness in My Church, much worldliness in the mindset of Christians, much worldliness in the teachings of the Church! And the teachings of the Church have lost their anchor. They have apostasised; they have become an apostate church, in that they’ve drifted away from the truth of scripture and have chosen to allow the doctrines of men to infiltrate the teachings of the Church. The sacred scriptures should never be changed, never diluted, never touched, never altered, for they sacred and they are from the throne room of heaven itself. How dare man place his DNA and his ideas over that which is heavenly and beyond?
“So take heart to these words and this warning. Be blessed, be encouraged and get ready, for the time is now when the humbling must begin. And it will be short but long. It will be a short period of time but it will feel like the longest period of time, for it will be very intense. And for a period of three years a time of great humbling will come upon this nation, and it will be a heavy three years, a very difficult three years.
“But then things will change, things will turn, and you will go from Winter to Spring, Spring to Summer, Summer into Harvest time.”
‘The biggest political con in modern history has descended into farce. Professor McLockdown, has choked on his own junk science, resigning from Sage after the Telegraph exposed that he flouted the very mass house arrest he advocated for everyone else. But his defence – that he broke the rules because he had already caught the virus and recovered from it – is even more revelatory; turns out Britain’s most influential epidemiologist believes that not only can you gain immunity from Covid-19, but that this should release you from lockdown.
‘If No 10’s response to coronavirus was really based on “following the science”, of course, these new details about Prof Ferguson’s view might be a game-changer, prompting, at the very least, Downing Street discussions of how to rapidly loosen the rules for those who have had the virus. Like with all good farces, though, the most absurd is yet to come. Incredibly, Downing Street shows little sign of learning from the Ferguson Chapter. And, astonishingly, once again, “the science” is being compromised by political hysteria – a scandal that continues to be barely scrutinised.
‘But before we get to the meat, let us briefly chew over the cautionary tale that can be cleaved from the career of Prof Ferguson. He has a track record of making wildly inaccurate projections, for example that BSE would kill 150,000 people (the real figure was fewer than 200)…’
Thank you for reading.
[Puzzle In Sky by Idea Go, courtesy Freedigitalphotos.net]
This week’s lovely weather and time to be outdoors means blogging at my desk has been sporadic..Although I dislike Farcebook with its commie connections – plus farago of farce-checking – it’s faster to share items with a covering comment on my personal timeline. (Fbk suffices for its purpose but doesn’t facilitate capture of suitable images and content for link-free reading.) So you don’t miss them I’m popping them into this and the next couple of posts:
‘America’s singular function is to be as described deep in the Bible itself: a light for the world, a light that cannot be hidden.
‘My interpretation of the light is the truth, and I know from personal experience that truth cannot be hidden — it always rises to the surface. Although some may desire to keep falsehoods and lies alive, I firmly believe that the return to faith by many Americans today is further evidence of God’s divine Providence and his determination for America to be a light for the rest of the world.
‘What is America’s foundation? She was a new creation preordained by God yet made by man. Through prayer, toil, hardship, sacrifice, then resilience and determination, America was founded so future generations could shine, reflecting the greatness of him.’.
God-incidentally, the evening of having shared this, Nina and I saw the final episode in season 3 of ‘Leverage’ (Amazon Prime TV) wherein the team taught a novice politician to use a similar reference to ‘Light’ in preventing a coup in a small republic!
My long-time friend, brother in the Lord and End-times author Neil emailed me on evening of 1st July,
‘Dear Richard, …Just seen a “mention in dispatches”, for which many thanks. I felt it confirmed that I should send you what the Lord has laid on my heart this week.
‘As you know, I am always watching for signs (as you are) and was struck by the fact that if you take ‘dem’ out of ‘pandemic’ you are left with ‘panic’ (or is it if you put ‘dem’ into ‘panic’ you get ‘pandemic’!). I doubt there is any significance, but the democrats do seem to have infiltrated and corrupted the administrative processes of the USA (like a virus) which should certainly cause concern (panic?) and the contagion could become worldwide pandemic, as a “New World Order”.
It is quite an appropriate introduction to his weighing of what he heard (emphases other than closing ‘word’ are mine):
APPEASEMENT
(Adjusting one’s values for fear of causing offence: conceding to an aggressor’s demands)
Introduction
The Lord said to me: “NO MORE APPEASEMENT”.
We are witnessing a mutiny against God. Sin crucified Jesus Christ and sin is the explanation (prime cause) for the uproar in the world today.
What I write here is determined by God, not by my own inclination. To some that may sound presumptuous. There is no doubt that we are in a world where we deify common sense and rely on our own understanding: some seek to imply that their deliberations are the thoughts of God. My utmost resolve is devotion to Jesus Christ, an unflinching loyalty to the Word of God and humility in service. The Lord has laid this topic on my heart; as always, the reader is urged to weigh and test.
International Relations
The troubles of the world are daunting and getting worse. They are likely to overwhelm those who don’t know Jesus and don’t have the Word of God as their bedrock. That principle applies to the governance of nations as well as to the way individuals face the current mayhem.
Since World War II we have seen a rapid decline in what Churchill called “Christian civilisation”. He was committed to defending our Bible influenced democratic society and totally opposed to any sort of appeasement with the evil of Naziism. Appeasement is likely to involve compromising with sin: an acceptance that battling against sin is futile. It is seen, therefore, as both pragmatic and sensible when the opposition seems indomitable.
History has shown, however, that it is not safe to trust the liberal innocence of leaders who are blinkered by a belief in the nobility of human nature, the invincibility of logic and the conviction that others will act rationally.
Sin is a fact and it must be challenged: we are witnessing the power of darkness. The evildoers are not only delighting in their ability to manipulate the appeasers, they are infiltrating and influencing those governments where there is a reluctance to confront the issues that are undermining social cohesion. Just-cause grievance groups have been hijacked by militants and turned into aggressive anti-authoritarian movements. We used to talk about the battle for hearts and minds – it is now the battle for souls.
Through labyrinthian and all-encompassing intrigue, society is being broken down, and that is as intended by the “puppet masters” who are close to achieving the next stage in their endeavours to establish a “New World Order”. Surely what Jesus said, to the leaders of Israel when He was arrested, now applies to the whole world: “But this is your hour, when darkness reigns”. (Luke 22:53)
National and Individual
The tempest is swirling around us and whether we sink or swim depends on where we fix our gaze. Are our eyes on the chaos and turmoil or concentrating on Jesus? When self-consideration enters in, we sink. Devotion to Jesus is the foundation of our security and well-being, not devotion to causes. Devotion embodies obedience. Obedience to Jesus may lead us into causes for the benefit of mankind, but not the other way round!
Much of the church has chosen to adjust its behaviour, and reinterpret or ignore the difficult aspects of the Word of God. They do so in order to meet the demands of the liberal agenda that has permeated “postmodern” thinking and undermined the values that once reinforced society. Truth is considered subjective: if you think you are a Christian, then you are one!
As we enter this time of great trouble and sorrow, the challenges are enormous. Tribulation has been prophesied; it is not appropriate to pray against biblical prophecy. The time of distress is inevitable, its fires will either burn up a great deal of shallowness and concentrate our thoughts on what has real value, or they will make us bitter and resentful. We are in the valley of decision: it has never been so vital for Christians to make a stand.
There are many middle class, complacent church goers who are adamant (convinced) that they are Christians (the Nicodemus syndrome?). Who will tell them that if they have not given their lives to Jesus and been baptised in the Spirit, they are not Christians? Who would dare to say that they are bound for Hell? To do so would be offensive and completely unacceptable in our post-modern liberal society.
This week the Lord has made it clear to me that there is no special corner in heaven with a little bit of hell in it, set aside to cater for those who want to keep a foot in both camps.
Keeping quiet about the reality of the Word of God, in order to avoid confrontation, is appeasement!
I read this account before continuing blogging on the US election (Thursday) and realised it makes a most suitable follow-on. After prayerful weighing with our mutual friend Chris Moyler, Martin Perry submitted this prophetic dream and his conclusion impresses me for two reasons, as in the footnote. It also relates to a concluding part of the word Amanda Grace brought, as herein.
‘THE PRINCE OF PERSIA’ – a short dream.
I believe the following dream and explanation is to give God’s stratagem to defeat Satan’s plans for the world and to offer encouragement in the exposure of those plans.
In the dream I saw a soldier of middle-eastern looks, I believe he was representing “The Prince of Persia” – see Daniel 10:13.
He had happened upon what looked like, the head of a beautiful white American woman of about 28 years. old,. She was beautiful and had long black hair. Seeing this as a highly desirable trophy, he cut the head into quarter sections – front to back and side to side.
He then lifted up the right-hand side of the quartered head which had the face showing, and wrapped it up, and put into his bag as a souvenir, a trophy, for himself. There was no blood in the head. The other three quarters were of no interest to him and they were left behind.
He was very pleased with himself and was smiling at his victory!
I believe the head represents the “HEAD” of the USA, a country divided by Satan into quarters. The right and left sides of the face represent the visible parts of the USA; its political right and left wings. The back two parts of the head represent the parts of the US that are not visible; its silent majority.
The only section which he is interested in is the front “Right” section, since the other front section, the “Left,” is already in his power. And the two back sections, “the silent majority”, have no mouth; hence no voice and are therefore not a threat to his plans.
Having cut the “Right” out of the equation, he knew that the rest of the head was either silent or else in agreement with his wishes,. So this victory was very sweet indeed.
In the dream I was standing in front of the soldier, but remote from the action and invisible to him.
As he was packing his bag he heard a noise, which came from behind me. I could only see the soldier and not the beings who were making the noise, as they were approaching him.
The soldier looked up and his face changed from joy to terror as a blade of some sort fell on his neck with great speed, accuracy and supreme power. In one blow, his head was severed from his body, flew through the air and rolled across the ground some distance from his carcase. There was no possibility of recovery. I believe the noise was created by God’s heavenly host, the divine army.
In the dream, for a minute or so, he continued to expel air from his mouth in a painful sigh. I know that in the natural this is impossible, but this was the dream.
I believe it is a picture showing the end of all the doings and shenanigans etc, of the Cabal / World-wide Deep-State. At this present time, it believes it has the victory. But its end is coming very soon.
And when it comes, it will be swift and very decisive. There will be no possibility of the head being reconnected even though, for a while, its sound continues to be heard.
This means that those who continue to believe in, and push for, the Deep-State ideal will have to rebuild it from scratch, as with a new-born baby. The world-wide Cabal will have been so seriously unravelled that there is no way possible that it will continue to exist in its present form.
However, we do know from The Revelation of Jesus Christ given to apostle John that, in the final 7 years of this present Age, it will be allowed to rise again in a different form. Rebuilding will take years of time and effort. So, this looks like a very substantial victory for God’s Kingdom over this present world.
I also had a sense that the soldier who was executed was about 25 years old. This represents Satan’s Kingdom as possessing considerable strength and vigour at this time. The soldier, as a virile young man, has a proud sense of his own worth. But he has yet to reach his full Satanic maturity and wisdom.
Summary
In truth America has not been beheaded, which is why there was no blood. This was, I believe, why I saw her as a head without a body. The “HEAD” was more like a fine and beautifully executed work of art – something real in the soldier’s mind, but not the reality.
The present position of Biden in the White House is a good parallel. His position appears to be real, but it is not!
In the same way, “The Prince of Persia” believes that USA (the woman in my dream) has been delivered into his power, because he has destroyed the power of the right wing, through this stolen election.
But it is all an illusion.
Lastly, why did I see the soldier as Middle Eastern, as the “Prince of Persia?”
In Scripture, we see this Prince resisting Michael, as he comes to answer Daniel’s prayer for Israel’s restoration.
Satan’s goal has always been to establish his throne in Jerusalem, from where he can proclaim his complete sovereignty over the earth, and bring to an end God’s plans for mankind’s full redemption.
In order to achieve this goal, he must destroy the USA, which is both the most powerful nation in the earth, and the most powerful expression of the JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN basis of civilisation.
Only then can “The Prince of Persia,” the Number 1 enemy of modern Israel, arise.
Every Blessing
Martin, 27 June 2021
RB Footnote: Martin’s conclusion relates to a prophetic word brought the evening before I read this and at the close of a zoom meeting with Catch The Fire Farnborough. Also, those points are directly relevant to how the Lord’s invisible hand brought my attention, as an anti-church New Ager, to the truth of the Bible’s End-times prophecies, as told in my brief Bio Info.
WOWEE 🙂 PRAISE THE LORD! – Upon listening to this video whilst sunning myself during lunch, at 50 minutes I get to the close of Barry’s message and four minutes later am very sure of what he’s going to say next on what happened after the back-cover fell off his notebook during prayer for a top-ranking US official. And yes, my hunch is correct – we connect!
10 YEARS AGO I was blessed to receive a similar insight on God ‘s book beyond the Bible’s Book of Revelation: that is beyond the Bible’s back-cover!!
What Barry hears direct from Father expands upon my brief grasp of what He’s doing – but it’s the first time I’ve heard anyone refer to the ‘weird’ word He’d dropped into my spirit, as in Supermoon Monday’s Blood Moon and The Age To Come (Sep 2015):
The Book Beyond the Bible
‘At an inter-stream conference in March 2011 in Winchester, King Alfred’s capital of Saxon England, the Lord drew my attention to the unwritten book hiding behind my Bible’s back cover! That is, it comes after The Apocalypse, or Revelation, given to Jesus Christ for showing to and recording by His close disciple, the Apostle John.
‘As noted in Revival 1: Glory Stories, I sensed in worship that the Lord wants me to focus upon the eventual new earth and new heavens, especially the appearance from heaven of The New Jerusalem. That is, to not only be involved in and understand the times of His return, but also and more importantly to focus upon His ultimate aim for the Church, as in Revelation 21-22 and its implicit existence and purpose beyond the Bible’s cover!
‘That pre-blog email recounts subsequent encouragements for understanding that this all relates to ‘The Age to Come’.’
May This Video Bless You…
The prophetic visions and words Barry brings are mightily encouraging – and in my opinion, that personal confirmation ‘seals the deal’. His visions tell how the Lord is dealing with the deep evil across US & Canada, and within government.
It’s the first time I’ve heard Barry and appreciate his warrior prayer-mode and note how the Holy Spirit acts upon him to confirm various details of his message. It is good to know that he doesn’t follow media and other prophets. Here’s just a few items…
June 17th Vision (11 min) – saw newspaper momentously historic front-page headlines ‘Victory! DJT sweeps the nation’, and then saw masses of people coming out onto streets to celebrate like at the end of wartime.
Was taken outside White House and saw those who’d conspired evil plans, committed crimes against humanity, removed from by military and restrained with handcuffs and shackles – the crowds cheered and sang anthems!
Sight of teams of lawyers being sent to abroad to deal with criminal foreign leaders.
US-Canada Prayer Teams Meeting (21 min) – saw army of angels slaughtering demons and escorting high-level anonymous American official into high-tech facility to be given code machines used for globalist control.
There’s lots more on how the Lord is moving mightily in these days…
Barry is based in Alberta, about which I especially liked hearing how the Lord is working there because our favorite TV series (Heartland) is situated in its vast countryside.
In Johnny’s latest analysis of events he teaches from OT prophet Jeremiah (chapter 50) and stresses the similarity between the ancient Hebrew ‘shepherds’ and today’s church leaders in failing to take charge and rule from the ‘mountains’ – ie. “Occupy until I return”as emphasised by J.C Ryle (1816-1900), first Bishop of Liverpool, in his seminal Are You Ready For The End Of Time?Continue reading →
BEWARE: this and the following posts cover unsavoury and unsettling content, for which I trust my readers will understand the need for Christians to be well aware of the rampant satanic battle that’s being waged globally.
Also, please note that, as a born-again Christian I endeavour to be non-partisan in political matters. Some issues are distinctly either pro- or anti- Godly principles and I try to address those as and when I can, but some – like the following – demand a strong, vociferous response.
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Last October the bishop of Tennessee Rick Stika challenged Joe Biden on how, as a so-called Catholic, he’ll explain to God his stanch support for restriction-free abortion, as well as transgender-issues. This was followed in early November by former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States and Secretary General to the Governorate of the Vatican City, Archbishop Viganò issuing a very strongly worded statement, as blogged herein.
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Let me be perfectly frank > when a national leader’s personal sin seriously affects the policies of a government to the extent it gives demonic access rights into the entire nation, then it most definitely is NOT a private matter. In times past, Catholic kings were required to perform acts of public penance to show they were truly contrite.
THEREFORE, IF BIDEN TRULY IS A BELIEVER IN JESUS CHRIST AS HIS PERSONAL SAVIOUR AND REDEEMER, THEN ALL HIS BRETHREN IN AMERICA AND GLOBALLY EXPECT TO SEE A TRUE REPENTANCE AND TURNING AROUND FROM HIS SINS – presuming he has, in actual fact, honestly acknowledged and confessed them!!
HOWEVER, there are many other ‘personal’ peculiarities have come to the light of day that engender GRAVE concerns over Biden’s real ‘devotions’… or predictions!
For example, here’s a couple of detailed exposes from Jack Dennis over the ‘Pond’ in Texas:
AND the following report implicitly confirms those claims about children, plus opening the US southern border to child-sex trafficking (click to read and bear with bad language)…
Utterly repugnant and distasteful, but please don’t say you haven’t been warned…
Returning to my focus upon Jesus’ Return you may recall these two confirmations of my ‘nudges’:
As told in Lillian Brown’s message from the Holy Spirit to “Brace yourself. Get ready for Jesus’ soon return!”, pastor Rachel Bird mentioned having that impression some time ago and referred to visions of a supra-natural atomic bomb that her husband and I had. On the following Saturday morning Nina had an open vision that related not only to that but also to Lillian’s asking about the glory, “What will it look like?” (From 17:45 mark of her video she urges us to await God’s glory as Jesus comes closer.)
Here’s my dear wife’s example of what it may look like:
Going into our back garden she saw the sun in a cloudless blue sky sitting well above neighbouring rooftops to her right. However, she then saw directly ahead of her a second sun, making our usual sun rather dim, and sitting lower in the sky over the far horizon. Furthermore, Nina could see a broad beam of light descending from that brilliant new ‘sun’ towards the ground and, as with the normal sun, nothing impeded its light on that cloudless morning.
Her account reminds me of what I’d published last June by Christopher Wickland:
Those following these Briefings will appreciate the direct relevance of Sign #27 to this video and transcript, for which I’m grateful for Carolyn Stewart’s very helpful expertise.
On Wednesday 27th May 2020 pastor Christopher posted this alarm or warning on what’s soon to hit the world. (His November 2019 prophecy of a great humbling then spiritual revival of Britain is accurate.) As with all prophecies, please seek the Lord in weighing this vision.
In NKJV, Christopher’s Luke reference is headed ‘The Coming of the Son of Man’:
“Welcome to another thought for the day. Today I have quite a serious message and one which probably many Christians will find a little bit hard to stomach. I will start with this piece of scripture, then I will get straight into it.
“It says in Luke 21 from verse 25: “There will be signs in the sun, in the moon and in the stars and on the earth, distress of nations with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring. Men’s hearts failing them from fear and expectation of things coming upon the earth because the powers of heaven will be shaken. Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.”
“The other night I was out for a walk with my wife, and the Holy Spirit really came upon me suddenly. Something happened there and one of these things that happened was that really strongly the Holy Spirit said to me,“There will be signs in the sun very soon.”
‘I had a vision or visitation through the night last night here in Nova Scotia. I had watched a Youtube video of a brother in Christ who was somewhere in the USA I assume, in a mountainous area, who said God took him into the future in the Spirit, to see what it would be like where he was, after the rapture. Said the one world government was put in place and people had to leave their homes and tough it out out in the wilderness because the one world gov’t was set up and they only way they could keep their homes, bank accounts and so on was to take the mark.
‘It really threw me as I had been hearing things from the Lord about those who remain standing firm in Christ, reigning with Him in His Kingdom – the complete opposite. So the Lord woke up me in the middle of the night and began a series of revelation and visions to show me the difference. I understand it to be the difference between what He’s doing in USA versus Canada. Two different things, keeping them separate in order for each to stand in the gap for one another. After hours of walking through it with Him, it came back to what He’s doing with Trump on the ground. LOL.
‘First, I saw in the Spirit the round circle symbol used on British military planes since 1915. In my mind I understand it to also symbolize the rock group ‘the Who’, as they also used it for their tours and albums. Canadians are big ‘Who’ fans and I saw them a couple of times in Toronto. So it all congeals in my mind as a combination of Battle for Britain (I come from the same hometown as the man put in charge of aircraft production for the Battle of Britain – Max Aitken); and some very memorable Who songs that now bear great relevance to me: “Won’t Get Fooled Again” and “Talking ‘Bout My Generation”, for example.
‘The lyrics to “Won’t Get Fooled Again” are often going through my mind, and I feel it’s God’s way of keeping me alert, speaking to me through things I’ve experienced: “I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution; Take a bow for the new revolution; Smile and grin at the change all around; Pick up my guitar and play; Just like yesterday; Then I’ll get on my knees and pray; We don’t get fooled again.” It’s a powerful way to reach the younger generations with this kind of ministry.
‘Anyway, that’s just one thing the Lord showed me as a Kingdom-hearted Canadian. From the Canadian perspective the spiritual battle is ‘in the air’ and related to the New Jerusalem’s intercession for USA / Israel on the ground. (LOL, I just heard in the Spirit “It’s a GATED community!”)
Then I heard the Lord call me to drive to New Glasgow today, to meet Him ‘in the air’. New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, is the location where the Scottish first landed in Canada. When I even thought about going there, I saw an open heaven and the Lord Himself riding on a horse. I heard in the Spirit “Behold He comes, riding on the clouds, shining like the sun at the TRUMPET call. Lift your voice, it’s the year of Jubilee, and out of Zion’s hill, salvation comes.” I heard the word ‘Captain” as in “Captain of the angel armies” and the word ‘TRUMPET’ in the air showed me an open heaven with a TRUMP on the ground, ready to do battle on earth as He is in heaven.
Then the Lord started to sing to ME – “Holy Holy Holy, Lord God Almighty, early in the morning my song shall rise to thee..”
I felt it coming from my own heart, as if greeting the Lord ‘in the air’. Constantly feeling like the victory for Canada begins with the UK and manifests in joining the battle on the ground in USA.
So I’m going to drive to New Glasgow today and see what happens next. Hallelujah for the Lord our God, the Almighty reigns.
I ask, “From this do you sense the Rapture will happen after the major harvest of souls and revival arising from the Glory of the Lord becoming widespread? Maxine replies:
As it relates to the Rapture, as I think I wrote before, I believe I’ve been hearing from the Lord that the timeline is pushed back to take in another generation for a billion-fold harvest. All this stuff I’m seeing today comes to me as ALL being part of the rapture as it’s happening ‘in the air’ in a way that heaven comes to earth and meets me in the air. It feels like it’s part of being a Kingdom son for whom all of creation awaits, and it’s all about redemption of whatever can be redeemed in the fullness of His Kingdom. I didn’t get a sense of going UP anywhere, but instead see open visions of heaven while I’m on the ground.
‘Reading of these brothers and sisters is very exciting.’
Therefore I added:
’Also I’d remind you of what I shared last year about the word Paul Keith Davis gave me 12-15 yrs ago. In walking up an aisle at Bath City Church to give a word to someone at the back, he went past me sitting immediately alongside that aisle but suddenly whilst l walking he looked me directly in the eye and said, “Await His Return!”
’Someone I know – and of our age – confided a similar insight as applying for himself. AND a lady I know in her early 90’s believes she too will still be alive for the Rapture!!
’SOoo if those ‘words’ are true then we haven’t too long to go!’
PS. I informed Maxine about publication and she says,
“I was talking about this just yesterday to some people in my home. His Presence is unmistakable. It leaves a believer like Daniel, totally shaken to the core, feeling like I’ve died but I’m still breathing. Yet the holiness is ‘to die for’ anyway.
WOW what timing! I ‘d started drafting this 10 days ago but unable to action ’til now!
RB FOOTNOTE:
Upon re-reading to edit, I’m strongly struck in my spirit by Maxine’s hearing descriptive reference to “Captain of the angel armies”. That’s exactly the understanding I had upon seeing the heavenly battle on the night of my personal life-changing visitation over the night of 13-14 Sept 1989.
Scott Hefty has been following this blog for years but got in touch only last October to confide a couple of awesome, unforgettable visions he’d experienced relating to the ‘snatching away’ or Rapture of all believers in Jesus. We discussed them and I asked approval to publish, which he kindly gave. Events arising out of the 2020 presidential election delayed my publication, however, until the time is right – that is, now!
Here’s what Scott saw in Maryland, with a brief preface, as copied from his email reply:
As for the Rapture…
The first vision was the most powerful in my life and has guided me in many ways. More about this below, but first…
Do they give me any sense of timescale for the Rapture and Return?
Yes. It was clearly the time in which we live, meaning, I was driving the car I owned in 1991 to what was my home in the vision. (In reality, the house still belongs to the parents of a close friend). The bottom line is, I believe that I will not taste death, but I will be among those alive in 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17.
For the timeline, I look at Matthew 24:34: “Truly I tell you: the present generation will live to see it all.” However, in verse 36 Jesus tells us that, “Yet about that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, not even the Son: no one but the Father alone.” (Oxford Study Bible, Revised English Bible)
I understand “the present generation” to be those born in the time that Israel is back in her land, so I agree the century of 1950 – 2050 is our focus without saying a specific day and time. Just like the fig tree, we can see the season is soon upon us.
1990s Visions of the Rapture
In the late ’90s, (1996-1999) I was blessed with a vision in which another friend named Dave and I were at the gas station (petrol for the Brits)…In the dream I was at the gas pump filling up when suddenly a massive black cloud formed with wind blowing. As I looked up, there was a loud crack in the sky and the center of the cloud opened and Jesus was there. I looked around for Dave and he was coming out of the store with the drinks looking up in amazement. I said “Dave, it is our Lord Jesus” and we both went up to be with the Lord. I could see others from the town joining us. Similarly, I would just about reach Jesus and I would wake up. I saw this vision 2 more times but in the second and third times, our wives joined us as we went up into the clouds.
2014 Vision of ‘The Bubble’
My Maryland men’s group travels a couple of hours every spring for a retreat at New Life Bible Camp in Pennsylvania. We join some other men’s groups from the area so there are about 50 of us there. This dream/vision took place in the “upper room” of the lodge where we worship and listen to our speaker for teaching. In the vision we are there having worship with our brothers. I notice that my parents, who passed away in 2012 & 2103, are there along with some other people that I don’t know. Then Jesus walks into the room and is standing at the corner of the railing at the top of the steps. Jesus says “Greetings everyone. We are heading home this evening.” The next moment, the room is hovering above the trees encapsulated in a clear bubble. We begin to ascend and we continue to worship as I am filled with joy in not only seeing Jesus and going home, but also in seeing my parents again.
This vision replayed twice more over the next couple of months without much variation.
I pray these visions bring blessing to you and glory to God. Thanks for letting me write them down. It is the first time I have done so. I believe God is calling me to share them more often now that “the imminence of that harvest day becomes increasingly obvious” (from today’s Richard’s Watch – ).
Scott Hefty, 10.10.2020 PS – More about the First Vision.
In my dream, I was driving the car I owned in 1991, which was a 1972 Cadillac with the roof cut off like a convertible with the roof down…As I drove into the driveway, which was David’s parents’ house, the song “Grave Robber” by Petra was playing on my car radio and from all the open garages on the cul-de-sac. I suddenly heard a loud sound like a crack in the sky and a shout from above. I looked up and I saw Jesus in the clouds. I immediately rose up into the air. As I was ascending in the vision, I thought: “This is the rapture !!!” Then I thought, “No, this is just a dream. I will wake up any second now.” When I didn’t wake up and I kept ascending, I yelled out “Jesus, Jesus, my Jesus !!!” I reached out my arms to wrap them around his shoulders, and just as my fingertips were an inch away, I felt my wife shaking me awake. My shouting in the vision was making a terrible sound to her. When I told her what I had just experienced she was amazed.
I had this dream/vision 2 more times over the next month or two. The second time it was exactly the same, except my wife Debbie was there in the yard and we went up to meet the Lord in the air holding hands. The third time was exactly the same as the second vision, except we had a son and all of us went up to meet the Lord in the air holding hands.(Now we have 3 sons).
The strange thing is that at the time I wanted to tell David, but I knew he was still unsaved and it would never have made sense to him…Fast forward to 2020 and I recently reconnected with David on Facebook…I know from his profile and posts that he is a believer in Christ now. Praise God. I now am just now feeling led to tell him about this because he will, with his renewed mind, be able to understand and be blessed by the vision that involves his parents’ house.
I used to obsess about the house. Thinking I must have to live there for this to come to pass. Whether I do or don’t live there; and wherever we are when the trumpet blasts and the archangel shouts, we will see Him in the air. We will go and meet the Lord in the air.
VERY important not to miss this connection in what’s happening behind the scenes… Upon seeing Veronika’s graphics and her message of yesterday morning, I recalled my previous day’s last post The Truth continues to emerge and the 7th item within that post (which itself was a second set of 7 relating to President Trump) because it links to Monday evening’s publication by The Gateway Pundit as follows (click image for link thereto):
Therefore, I drew Veronika’s attention to the similarity of topic and meaning in Trump’s statement, albeit from a political rather than distinctly spiritual significance. “WOW!” was her reaction after reading it. So here’s the brief video (pls bear with poor sound quality!) with published transcript for you to assess, weigh and pray over:
President Trump: “As everybody knows, my family, your great country and your president have gone through a terrible ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people. They have done everything possible to destroy us and by so doing have very badly hurt our nation. They know what they are doing is wrong. But they put themselves far ahead of our great country. Weeks ago and again yesterday courageous Republican politicians and leaders had the wisdom, fortitude and strength to do what everyone knows was right. I don’t like people who use their faith for justification for doing what they know is wrong. Nor, do I like people who say, “I pray for you,” when they know that that’s not so. So many people have been hurt. We can’t let that go on.”
As with Veronika’s hearing Holy Spirit Wednesday morning that “…HIS J.USTICE SHALL –U.NDO TO MAKE WAY FOR THE –N.EW,..FOR HIS KINGDOM PLANS AND PURPOSES SHALL BE FULLY –E.XECUTED IN THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH”..” and her citing older prophetic words from last year, then this latest clearly implies those are about to come to fruition; so too the re-broadcasting of this video from November 2019 by General Mike Flynn must be a strong indication that Donald Trump’s implicit action-plan is now definitely proceeding…for the video closes with these screens.:
The following prophetic word Veronika posted this morning in stages shown, is offered for weighing and testing (as with every prophecy, per home page’s Prophecy Protocol) – and to hear from the Lord as to whether it may relate to what was blogged on Tuesday, as will be developed in the next post:
…HIS J.USTICE SHALL –U.NDO TO MAKE WAY FOR THE –N.EW,..FOR HIS KINGDOM PLANS AND PURPOSES SHALL BE FULLY –E.XECUTED IN THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH”..
As I shared earlier,..as I woke this morning the Holy Spirit spoke to me about how we have now entered into a time and a season where we will begin to see His Justice cause the THIEF NOT ONLY TO ‘PUT BACK’ WHAT HE STOLE,…BUT ALSO TO ‘PAY BACK’ WITH SEVEN-FOLD INCREASE,…
…now as I listened to the Lord speak,..I then heard Him say,… “WATCH!..AS THE MONTH OF JUNE MARKS A KEY TIME AND SEASON WHERE I SHALL BEGIN TO BRING DIVINE •JUSTICE AND JUDGMENT THAT WILL •UNDO WHAT THE ENEMY DID,..FOR NOW A •NEW AND SUPERNATURAL PARADIGM SHIFT IS TAKING PLACE,…AS MY KINGDOM PLANS AND PURPOSES ARE BEING FULLY •EXECUTED IN THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH”…!
As I pondered this word in my heart the Holy Spirit quickened to me a powerful dream I shared with you all,…
Below here is part of the Dream;
America: The Curse Will Be Reversed
October 7, 2020 Veronika West
A powerful dream concerning The United States of America.
“The curse will be reversed, and out of the belly of the beast will come seven-fold Recompense and Restoration,” says The Spirit of The LORD.
As promised, I would like to share a powerful dream I received on Sunday night, for the purpose of Prayer and Intercession!
Please bare with me, as I endeavour to share exactly what I saw and what I heard, and with the understanding I received as the dream unfolded.
This dream is probably up there with some of the most powerful and yet strangest of dreams I have received to-date!
Let’s begin. I went to bed Sunday night feeling a great sense of burden for the nations, especially for The United States of America.
With the unfolding news on President Trump being diagnosed with COVID-19, I felt such a battle raging in the heavens over the President and his destiny, and certainly for the destiny of the nation.
So as I lay down to sleep, there was a great sense of swirling and whirling in the realm of The Spirit, but as I closed my eyes and began to pray in The Spirit, a deep peace came upon me!
•••The Thief Has Been Caught and Must Pay Back Seven Times•••
I must have only been asleep a few hours when I was taken into a powerful dream encounter, where I saw a very large tree standing far in the distance.
As I looked at the tree, I immediately noticed that there was something hanging in the tree, but I could not see with any clarity what it was.
As I started to make my way towards the tree, suddenly I heard these Words, “The thief has been caught and must pay back seven times!”
As those words echoed in the realm of The Spirit, the atmosphere in the dream became heavy and I felt the weight of God’s Glory surround me. The Spirit of The Fear of The LORD became tangible and I began to pray loudly in tongues.
Thank you to my friend (and author of a useful book outlining Prophets of the Bible) for having inserted a link to this helpful summary in a Fbk discussion thread about the Glory and Jesus’ return – don’t you love his play on words in the above title!
Teaching concerning the Rapture (definition given below) continues to divide Christians who give the subject of Jesus Second Coming much thought, which sadly many these days do not. We live in, as I have often remarked, a paradigm when polarization among Christians is on the markedly increase. There are the fundie-leaning Evangelicals and the liberal-leaning Evangelicals […click to continue reading at…] The Rapture revisited — JRB Publications
I’ve occasionally encountered opposition over some postings – thereby indicating they are of particular significance, which then gets quickly confirmed within a day or two that my action was definitely on the right track. On this occasion I soon received the following from the leader of Catch The Fire in Toronto:
GOD IS CRASHING OUR CHURCH MEETINGS
By Steve Long
But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way. (NIV)
Let all things be done decently and in order. (NKJV)
Doing all things in a beautiful and orderly way. (Passion)
1 Corinthians 14:40
Around the world, the Spirit of God is moving. There are signs within Catch The Fire Partner churches that a fresh wave is here and it’s about to crash in on us again. Many other churches in other denominations and movements are experiencing similar things. God is showing up uniquely.
The ‘Luke 4:18’ Prophetic Word
Years ago, Paul Cain’s mother passed away on April 18th at 4:18 pm. (Paul was one of the key prophetic people whose ministry focused on revival.) Just before Viola died, she came out of her coma to give a prophetic blessing to her son and Mike Bickle (leader of International House of Prayer), who was also in the room.
The prophetic word was from Luke 4:18 related to the anointing. “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free.”
Fast-forward to April 2021. Chris Reed, who is about to minister at IHOP on the April 7-10th weekend, has a dream from the Lord. The dream says “When the prince has passed, 4:18 will begin.”
Chris shares this with the IHOP leadership to see if it meant anything to them. Daniel Lim, the CEO, knew of Paul Cain’s prophetic word about 4:18 and tied them together. On April 9th, while Chris was ministering at IHOP, Prince Philip of England passed away.
On Sunday, April 18th, 2021 the anointing from Luke 4:18 was seemingly freshly released around the world. It would appear that none of the churches experiencing this wave yet knew about the 4:18 word.
At Hope City Church, a Catch The Fire Partner church in Melbourne, Australia, the Spirit of God dramatically interrupted their Sunday meeting on April 18th.
Andrew McGrath, the senior leader, said, “As I stood up to preach, people fell out of their seats, unusual manifestations occurred. I had heard God say in the week leading to the 18th that I needed to start teaching on the glory, so I prepared to teach on Matthew 17 and the transfiguration. And it came. On the 18th, a spirit of prophecy flowed, and I felt I could prophesy over everyone with such ease. People have been delivered, and others were filled with the Spirit after the service in the cafe!”
God Is Moving In Catch The Fire Partners
Since April 18, churches throughout the Catch The Fire Partners family have seen an increase in God’s movements. At Catch The Fire Church in Auckland, New Zealand, gemstones appeared at the feet of many of the attendees. Pastor Stu Allan said that “The Spirit identified the evangelists in their congregation and marked them via these gems.”
At Catch The Fire Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, they are seeing the spontaneous weight of God’s glory, laughter and deliverances. Jacob Murphy says, “A few times, the preacher has moved WAY past their prepared notes into revelatory preaching.”
At Catch The Fire Church in Boulder, Colorado, the Holy Spirit is releasing spiritual sight. The seer gift is resulting in dreams, visions, and angelic activity, especially with children. Christie Owings shares, “We are experiencing God’s presence in tangible ways, and we are all filled with awe and wonder!”
At Catch The Fire Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, people who had formerly left the church angrily have come back with repentance and humility. They are also gaining a reputation as a place of inner healing and restoration.
At Horizon Church, a Catch The Fire Partner Church in Lorrainville, Quebec, they are seeing a measured increase in God’s presence. They have greater freedom and authority to release the anointing. Pastor Terry Caron says, “I feel we are entering into a new season of His glory.”
At Catch The Fire Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba, they have, over the past three months, felt a coming revival similar to the Welsh and Hebrides revivals. They’ve had a dramatic increase in angelic and spirit visitations and prophetic dreams. Pastor Ken Haslam says, “One of the words over us as a church right now is to prepare the way for the Lord.”
[NB] At Catch The Fire Church in Toronto, Ontario, Lillian Brown was preaching on the topic of end-time glory, when the glory came and she just couldn’t continue to preach ! Toronto is in lockdown and the few others in the room were on their faces under the weight of what was happening.
All of these churches, plus many others, have seen this increase in the presence of God since April 18th, 2021.
What Is An Encounter With God?
Many of the Catch The Fire Partner churches around the world share the same vision statement; To Encounter God’s Transforming Presence. We believe that God is to be experienced, not just talked about. When the Bible says to know Father God it isn’t talking about information and facts, rather it is referring to tangible experiences.
Every significant personality the Bible talks about had experiences with God. Enoch walked with God, Moses talked to God face to face, David had God’s heart, Paul met Jesus on a road, the twelve disciples all had God moments.
Revival and A History Of Critics
When God shows up, not everyone likes it. I’m not talking about people outside the church. There are some followers of Jesus who don’t like what their church now looks like.
In 1994, Catch The Fire Church in Toronto (then known as Toronto Airport Vineyard Christian Fellowship) had about 300 attendees on a Sunday. They were a growing congregation experiencing God moving occasionally via healings, some people being slain in the spirit, some people crying. People were okay with occasional occurrences, but when it was almost everyone was having tangible experiences, it frightened and confused people. Many left.
It wasn’t until September 1994 that we were able to double the size of our meeting space by leasing an empty warehouse in the industrial plaza where we were located. We told all the international guests to go to the overflow and watch the Sunday meeting from there while our church family met. Shockingly, there were only 100 people left in the church meetings. 200 attendees didn’t like the crowds, didn’t like the manifestations, didn’t like the long meetings, didn’t like something and left.
Bill Johnson tells the same story. When he pushed in for more of the Spirit at Bethel, in Redding, California, and when the Spirit came; people left. In his case 2/3rds of the church family left as they didn’t like the way that Bill and Benni were allowing the Spirit of God to operate.
The critics of what happens when the Spirit moves, often refer to the verse at the start of this blog. They say, “1 Corinthians 14:40 says that things need to be done decently and in order.” They feel that leaders aren’t leading the way they should be.
But what is the criteria? What does decently and in order mean?
As we read 1 Corinthians, we see many corrections that Paul is making for this church, and for us today. He gave protocols for how we take part in remembering the body and blood of Jesus. He talked about eating meat offered to idols. He spent two chapters talking about how prophecy and tongues fit into a church gathering.
Look at Paul’s conclusion on how church meetings are to be conducted.
Following The Spirit and Scripture
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy and do not forbid speaking in tongues. But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way. 1 Corinthians 14:39-40 NIV
Paul says that the supernatural is to be pushed into rather than being limited. We are to be expecting that the prophetic will happen each meeting (in our small groups and large gatherings). When people have prophetic words via tongues, we give room for them to be shared and we listen.
Perhaps because our church in Toronto started out as a Vineyard church, I lean on the wisdom of John Wimber who was the founder of this brand of church. He was very used to people not liking how the Spirit of God was manifesting at his church in Anaheim, California, or in his international travelling ministry.
I remember Wimber in Toronto speaking at a pastor’s gathering with several hundred leaders from our city. The question was asked by someone who didn’t like our “brand” of Toronto blessing meetings. “What I see at these meetings is not decent and in order.” He quoted 1 Corinthians 14:40.
John Wimber in his wisdom asked the pastor. “Do you allow the prophets to speak every Sunday? Do you let people sing and speak in tongues during worship?” The Toronto pastor answered “No.”
John Wimber then said something like this. “The verse you quoted starts out with Do Everything. Because you haven’t started obeying that part of the verse, you have no right to criticize me or John Arnott. We are attempting to do everything. We are seeking to lead decently and in order but you can only do that after you start Doing Everything.”
Wow. What an answer.
I remember how pastored and fathered I was as a new leader at Catch The Fire Toronto. I remember that my spirit jumped and encouraged me to push for more of the Spirit, rather than holding back.
When God Comes To Your Church
John Wimber was also famous for asking another question of pastors. “How do you know that God attended your meeting last Sunday?” He was looking for tangible evidence that God was in the room doing things that only God can do.
Anyone can speak a great sermon. You don’t need to be a follower of Jesus to do that. Anyone can say a nice-sounding prayer. Anyone can sing a song backed by a great band of musicians. None of these are evidence that God showed up to your church.
So how do we measure God being in the room?
By experiences that people have. By an accurate prophetic word or words of knowledge. By a dramatic healings and miracles. By testimonies of changed lives. By seeing demons leave people. By favour coming on people and giving them promotions and opportunities. By healing the emotions of troubled people. By raising people from the dead, and more than we can even imagine.
As we see more evidence that the Spirit of God is visiting the Catch The Fire Partners churches around the world, let’s all push in for more. Let’s celebrate when Lillian Brown can’t finish her talk. Let’s celebrate when gemstones show up, feathers float down from the rafters, people shake for an hour, and experience God is ways that we couldn’t have imagined.
It means Father God is in the room, and that is always a good thing! Let’s start by doing everything!
RB’s Footnote:
Nina and I have very fond memories of our times in Toronto, especially her awesome healing when John Arnott heard the Lord telling him ignore his message as He wanted to do some healing. So visit Catch The Fire, read their take on prophecy and politics.
Dipped into Fbk for couple minutes over last weekend and immediately saw this by Chris G Bennett and agree this is indeed part of End-time scenario. Why else would I have been directed of late to return to blogging on it??? Wot-a-way to spend Bank Holiday Monday!
PREPARING FOR THE END OF THE AGE
Thinking about all that is going on in the world, especially America right now, I suppose I, like many others, often wonder when the “reset” is going to happen. I’m an undisguised Trumpeter and I don’t mind admitting it. But sometimes I wonder why everything takes so long and I ask “what’s the hold up?” I wondered why revival isn’t yet in full swing? and why the political scene is still so corrupted?
Well the Lord answered me by bringing to my attention this passage from Isaiah –
“The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord; Make straight in the desert A highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted And every mountain and hill brought low; The crooked places shall be made straight And the rough places smooth; The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together; For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” (Isaiah 40:3-5)
God showed me that He is still preparing us for Revival. Even more than that, He is preparing the way for reform in the political world. It’s all so that the glory of the Lord can be revealed; it’s so the fear of the Lord can be restored to both sacred and secular; it’s so that, whatever the Lord has decided to do will be accomplished without too much pain for us! Being humans who tend to trust our fellow man, we need preparing for the shocks still to come because we would not believe the inhumanity of man to man – especially children! It has to be done slowly and carefully, and with great credibility, before the majority will accept it!
This may not just be the ‘great reset’. It may also be part of God’s “End of the Age” scenario. Think on that for a moment too! Jesus doesn’t even know His plan for that – if He did, He’d tell us! Yet more and more prophets are speaking into this. There’s some notable exceptions but for the most part the prophets are in agreement. So, if this really is all part of God’s End of the Age scenario, then we need to be preparing too. Preparing first by accepting and receiving the role, and the mantle for that role, that Jesus assigns to us.
Are you ready to do whatever He asks of you? Am I? I hope so, because I just want to serve His Kingdom purposes.
I so agree with Chris Moyler when he commented this :-
“When I hear from prophetic folk, “The King is Coming!”, I am NOT thinking of the biblical Second Coming, but rather the King Coming to the earth in an ABIDING rather than a mere visitation (wonderful though these are!)”
Applying a little lateral-thinking, what does ‘the King is coming’ actually say? Nothing much! The real question cannot be any single subject but rather, first, HOW is He coming? Is He coming in Revival, Awakening, Rapture, Return, or what? The question of ‘when’ is almost immaterial until we answer the ‘how’! In my book, revival is for the church and awakening is for the nation. I hope we’re all agreed that revival and awakening must come before Rapture, and that, depending upon your theology, must come before or at least concurrent with return! Although as a matter of purely personal opinion, nothing more nothing less, I believe the Rapture is not immediately imminent, but neither is it many decades, my only concern today is when the King is coming in awakening and revival. Until this final harvest is brought in, nothing else need concern us other than being like the wise virgins – ready, lamps full, wicks trimmed – but in the mean time getting on with the work at hand NOW!
Chris posted this on Facebook Friday 28th May and I greatly appreciate his stance:
ESCHATOLOGICALLY SPEAKING
Following my recent post on the coming King – “Soon and Very Soon We’re Going to See the King” – I’ve seen much discussion on exactly what that means. Is it the Rapture? Is it Revival? Is it Armageddon and the Return to Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives?
This is a very personal response to those questions, and I know there will be many who disagree with me, but here’s my current thinking – and before anyone starts to shout, “You’re wrong!”, I want to quote a scripture – “For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.” (1 Corinthians 13:12)
NONE of us, NOT ONE, is anywhere close to being the sole arbiter of truth. Please remember that and choose your words carefully IF you wish to comment in disagreement.
Armageddon and the Return – I really do think there’s a few things, biblical prophecies like the rebuilt Temple, the Antichrist, the Gospel taken to every tribe and tongue, and more, to be fulfilled before Jesus returns. However, there’s also much being fulfilled of late, many signs, which gives us the impression that it will be sooner rather than later. I think this is not yet, but events are moving very quickly and it could just surprise a few folk!
The Rapture – ah, the Rapture! With so much disagreement over whether or not there will even be a “Rapture”, the discussions over this topic are endless. But in the context of ‘Soon and very soon’, I do believe it could be quite imminent.
There are those who vehemently disagree with this, who say it’s not for years yet, I’ve even heard as much as hundreds of years! Whilst I respect them, I also disagree with them.
When Jesus tells me, whispers to me, (emphasis RB’s) that He’s coming VERY, VERY SOON, I tend to listen to Him. When He shouts it – I sit up and pay close attention. I’m not saying any of us is right or wrong, I’m only saying, telling, reporting that which I believe I’ve heard from the Lord Himself!
For those who believe as I do, there’s the belief that the Antichrist, the man of iniquity, cannot be revealed until after the Rapture – and that’s just for starters. The subject is so huge that I don’t wish to start another pointless, endless argument – I’m just stating my personal position. Many may well have different views. That’s OK too.
Revival – another ‘hot potato’ in the church! Revival has started already! Maybe not in a church near you, but it has started elsewhere in the world! The thing is that it really is different from anything we’ve seen before! To those who look for another Welsh Revival or another Azusa Street – how can it possibly be the same – that was over 100 years ago! It won’t be like the Hebridean Revival, or Argentina, or Toronto, Brownsville, Lakeland, the Bay nor any other recent move of God.
There will be an outburst of the ‘greater things will you do’ of which Jesus spoke. Greater miracles, greater wonders, more and greater signs, way beyond our imagination, will be the hallmark of this revival.
Does it mean He’s coming in Revival, in Rapture, in His physical Return to Jerusalem?
Well, I’ve already said that I don’t believe it is His physical return, but I do believe it will be BOTH Revival AND Rapture – Revival then Rapture. Revival, already started, carrying on for some time, then concluding with Rapture. How long? 5 or 6 years is my belief – within the next ten years at least!
There you have my personal position! I don’t mind if you disagree because I’m not the sole arbiter of truth, but neither are you. This is not a discussion, just a response to questions.
In view of a dispute in 2008 over one of Jesus’ parables I had to check what the Bible actually states. What happened next was so unexpected and revelatory! Excitement exploded upon audibly hearing God’s voice. I emailed church friends and a few leaders about it and thus began occasional updates on current events relevant to Biblical prophecies, which led into the launch of this blog in November 2011.
The ‘God-incidental’ jigsaw pieces described in this week’s personal posts (rather than news-related items) warrant my republishing the very first piece shown to others.:
THE END-GAME IS NOW IN PLAY
Dear Friends – further to Rev’d William Smith’s recent request re Christian Freedom, may I offer some observations upon our times and, in another message, suggest a way forward?
Last year, I encountered two conflicting claims about Jesus’ explanation of the parable on the end-time harvest of wheat and tares (Matt13:36). So I went to check scripture but upon opening my Bible a deep excitement exploded within as I heard, “This is ALL about to be fulfilled” – WOW!!
Hence, my previous remarks about a sifting of the Church – in preparation for a rapid ‘sHifting’?Jesus urged His disciples to look out for and observe signs of the times. Regarding their questions about His return at the end of this Age, the earliest Gospel account has Jesus stressing 7 times, “Watch…be alert…on your guard“ (Mark 13). Matthew 24 reports Jesus saying 4 times, “Watch…and when you see…” followed by the parables of the burglar and of the virgins:> “Don’t be caught napping!” [Is the Church still asleep?] Luke’s account has, “Be always on the watch…” (ch21:36) and chpt 12 (NIV) has sections on watchfulness and interpreting the times. In each Gospel Jesus commands, “Learn the lesson of the fig tree…”. Also, the Apostles went on to give more indicators (Acts 3:20-1, Hebrews 12:26-7, 2 Peter 3, 2 Timothy 3 and the first and second letters to the Thessalonians).
Have you studied or read/heard/given any teaching on this topic lately?So, let’s watch closely what’s happening here and globally. …continued here
Let us, however, keep our eyes fixed on Jesus as we await the blessed hope of His glorious appearing.May the Lord bless you and keep you and yours,
[Puzzle Globe and Book by Thanunkorn, courtesy of Freedigitalphotos.net]
Now, the next two confirmations of those ‘nudges’ to focus upon Jesus’ Return.:
As told in the previous post about Lillian Brown’s message on the Lord’s glory, pastor Rachel Bird mentioned visions of a supra-natural atomic bomb. Last Saturday morning Nina had an open vision that related not only to that but also to Lillian’s asking about the glory, “What will it look like?” (From 17:45 mark of her video she urges us to await God’s glory as Jesus comes closer.)
Well, here’s my dear wife’s example of what it looks like: Going into our back garden she saw the sun in a cloudless blue sky sitting well above neighbouring rooftops to her right. However, she then saw directly ahead of her a second sun, making our usual sun rather dim, and sitting lower in the sky over the far horizon. Furthermore, Nina could see a broad beam of light descending from that brilliant new ‘sun’ towards the ground and, as with the normal sun, nothing impeded its light on that cloudless morning.
Now, here’s Veronika West’s account posted on Tuesday on her Ignite Ireland Ministries Facebook. It makes an interesting comparison with what Holy Spirit gave Lillian, what Nina witnessed and what I saw nearly 30 years ago of a supra-natural atomic bomb going off but in reverse as an imploding fireball – its intense brilliance landing on the ground and rolling down Tilehurst Hill into Reading and then along the Thames Valley.
“A SUPERNATURAL LIGHT OF HIS GLORY THAT IS COMING INTO THE EARTHLY REALM THAT WILL EXPOSE EVERY HIDDEN SCHEME AND TACTIC OF THE ENEMY,…AND NO ONE WILL BE EXEMPT FROM THE EXPOSING LIGHT OF HIS GLORY”,…
“GET READY,…FOR A SUPERNATURAL FORENSIC LIGHT OF HIS GLORY IS ABOUT TO UNCOVER THE HIDDEN THINGS….IN THE EARTHLY REALM…!
….I keep hearing these words, “nothing that is hidden can be concealed,..and nothing that is concealed will remain hidden”...
I keep seeing a strange type of light that is coming into the earthly realm,…it’s a type of light that has never been seen by the eyes of man,…as I was shown this strange type of supernatural light in the realm of the Spirit,…it looked like and reminded me of the Ultra Violet light that forensic teams use that can reveal blood at a crime scene that has been cleaned,…but can no longer be seen with the natural eye,…
…the Holy Spirit showed me that a SUPERNATURAL LIGHT OF HIS GLORY THAT IS COMING INTO THE EARTHLY REALM THAT WILL EXPOSE EVERY HIDDEN SCHEME AND TACTIC OF THE ENEMY,…AND NO ONE WILL BE EXEMPT FROM THE EXPOSING LIGHT OF HIS GLORY,…now as I was seeing and being shown this supernatural light,….I was taken for a brief moment into the book of Genesis where sin first entered into the garden and the Glory departed and suddenly they saw that they were naked,…their eyes were opened,..and in shame they proceeded to try to cover what the Glory had covered,…
…but I was shown that NOW when the FULLNESS OF HIS GLORY begins to RETURN to His Church in the coming days,…when it enters the earthly realm there will be a grand UNVEILING AND REVEALING not just what’s been hidden but what we have not been able to see with our natural eyes,…
…I was shown that we are NOW moving into a time and season when the fullness of the light of God’s Glory is going so SHINE IN OUR MIDST that not only will the TRUE CHURCH / ECCLESIA BE SEEN AS A BRIGHT AND RADIANT LIGHT ON A HILLTOP THAT ALL NATIONS WILL BE DRAWN TO ITS RISING…BUT THAT EVERY DEFILED THING,…EVERY DEMONIC ACT,…AND EVEN THE SMALLEST OF IMPURITIES WILL BE FULLY REVEALED AND EXPOSED FOR THE WORLD TO SEE,…
…AND NO MATTER HOW MAN TRIES TO CONCEAL IT,….CLEAN IT,…OR COVER IT UP,…IT WILL BE SEEN,…STRIPPED NAKED, MAN WILL STAND BEFORE THE LORD….AND THE EYES OF MAN,…I keep hearing these words,…
”FOR THE SPIRIT OF THE FEAR OF THE LORD SHALL COME UPON THE EARTH EVEN AS THE LIGHT OF MY GLORY RISES UPON MY CHURCH”…!!!
Wednesday 19th May I was invited to an open zoom meeting with Catch The Fire Farnborough and the leader’s wife Rachel explained they wanted attendees to break into prayer-rooms for a specific purpose connected to Sunday’s Message brought in Toronto. She shared her own insight of recent years that the Lord Jesus is returning to the earth in the very near future. This is similar to what I witnessed of how Holy Spirit had come upon Nina a year or so ago during worship at our church near Haslemere. She was impressed to announce that Jesus is coming back much sooner that we expect!
Rachel told us about the massive impact that Message had made in bringing the reality of that vital part of Bible prophecy into sharp, personal focus. She didn’t give all the details so I asked if it’s connected to the scriptural Rapture of Christians, as in Paul’s two letters to the church in Thessalonika, Greece. I understood the speaker means it’s not the same as that but refers to a massive outpouring of God’s Presence to enable a worldwide revival others refer to as The Billion Souls Harvest prior to the full outworking of the End-times foretold in great detail in the Book of Revelation. (Similar to Smith-Wigglesworth’s vision of Britain in total revival – this post refers.)
In our prayer-room I immediately heard “John 17.1” and thus read Jesus’ prayer therein. It comes in three parts where Jesus prays for Himself, for His contemporary disciples and for all believers – that’s you and me! I got drawn to the references to glory and sensed the first part also applies today, and thus to what’s about to happen. Therefore, I prayed those parts aloud:
“Father,the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You,2 as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as manyas You have given Him.3 Andthis is eternal life, that they may know You,the only true God, and Jesus Christwhom You have sent.4 I have glorified You on the earth.I have finished the workwhich You have given Me to do.5 And now, O Father, glorify Me togetherwith Yourself, with the glorywhich I had with You before the world was…
20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those whowill believe in Me through their word;21 that they all may be one, asYou, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.22 And theglory which You gave Me I have given them,that they may be one just as We are one…
24 “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world…”
Afterwards, Rachel mentioned that the manifestation of that Message is part of the vision of fire that her prophetic husband and I had (nearly 30 years previously, as told herein).
NOW, let’s consider that significant Sunday Message – I hope you’ll be able to set aside time to watch, listen carefully and assimilate what Lillian Brown brings whilst trembling under the Lord’s tangible touch:
In the opening minutes Lillian tells of the Lord expanding over a period of two days upon just two words He’d dropped into her mind, “Brace yourself!”
MY attention was strongly grabbed when she then spoke on Moses’ journey up Mount Sinai to be alone with the Almighty and encounter His Glory because I’d blogged about that some months ago in connection with Donald Trump’s period officially out-of-office as a Mt Sinai Sojourn – AND that writing was validated by several ‘God-incidents’!
” 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.” (1 Thessalonians 4 NKJV)
The full message Lillian wanted to deliver got abandoned as the Lord began speaking to her directly as she recited the scriptures describing Jesus’ return and visions of God’s Throne Room in Heaven: Continue reading →
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