Rev. Dr Joe Boot is Head of Public Theology and Director of the Wilberforce Academy at Christian Concern. In Freedom, the Church and State Absolutism he discusses in-depth the relationship of church and state, and what Biblical law ought to look like in a New Covenant world.
In my humble opinion, it is essential reading for Christians in these Days of Noah.
Introducing medical information on the bio-engineered nature of Covid-19, I questioned PM Johnson’s legislation for compulsory covering of faces in shops: is it the real reason? If not, then he should say so and tell the truth!
Readers who recognise how the Lord presents me with prophetical ‘jigsaw pieces’ as well as ‘God-incidents’, will appreciate the importance of this week’s three main items coming to my attention – all inside one day! – and demanding a lot of work. I was greatly relieved to discover it was indeed a ‘divine arrangement’, as indicated in this email from an intercessor:
“Dear Richard, I’m fwd this as it literally was the next item in my inbox after yours on the virus being man made…. another God-instance!”
Its attachment goes into great depth upon ‘The Great Covid-19 Deception And What You Need to Know to Survive’– confirmation ALSO comes in its referring to what I’d omitted from the notes William Koenig published, viz: “Dr. Boyle has a great distaste for Bill Gates, Fauci, WHO, CDC and big pharma’s agenda.” OH WOT !!!!!!!!
SO dear reader, please be assured of the validity of my blogging upon this subject.
THE FOUR FFFFs
These are the four legs of my life > Faith > Family > Friends > Facts. After those are Biblical and modern prophecy followed by everything good in life, with all politics at the bottom of course. (Regular readers may have realised I’m conservative by nature and preference.)
So believe me; I do NOT wish to write on political issues, especially when needing to reduce valuable time blogging. Also and contrary as one may think, I’ve not forgotten those encouraging prophecies of Boris’ fresh term of office being ‘on Churchill’s chair’ – BUT both words clearly implied it would be for “a short time,” one even warning he may soon die! Praise the Lord that Boris survived his personally perilous attack!
Indubitably, the Lord knew of satan’s strategy for the pandemic and bringing widespread fear and turmoil. In fact, I believe it tried killing a pastor to whom the Lord had just given a detailed prophecy of 3 years of humiliation and economic woes for Britain!!
SO, events need to be addressed and my readers informed – and Boris prayed for too!
BULLDOG?
As a boy ‘baby boomer’ I became aware of politics when Winston Churchill resigned his second term of office as PM – AND that he and fellow Brits were of the ‘bulldog-breed’. Everyone needed backbone, bite and bottle to doggedly survive and win a dreadful war.
But at present, that’s missing in ‘Bojo’ and the British public – decades of liberalism and anti-Christianity have produced ‘wusses’; The Telegraph’s Allison Pearson agrees in her Compulsory face masks are proof the British bulldog has become the scaredy-cat of Europe!
MOREOVER, only today we’ve encountered crassly stupid and contrasting policies in asking coffee shops about their allowed facilities for friends meeting together!
So this morning’s news comes as absolutely no surprise!
The interviewer concludes with this revelatory, oral confession direct from the PM (emphases mine):
“I think it is more about trying to reassure those scared witless people that it is safe to go outside, it’s safe to go to shops.
“I think it acts as a constant reminder to everyone that this disease is taking over our lives and it continues to reinforce the obsession and hypochondria around one single illness to the detriment of every other aspect of life.”
In responding to a reader’s comments to Humiliating Muddle of Mixed Messages upon the BBC’s coverage of Matt Hancock, I write about Boris’ above remarks:
“This clearly implies the satanic origin of this attack upon society, which has come as a consequence of our rebellion against God and thus removing us from His protective blessing. I pray the Lord speaks to Bojo direct about the demonic spirit of fear behind it all, AND that he gets competent, anointed direction from the few Christian leaders who know how to deal with it and lead him as our nation’s political leader into repentance.”
Any Amens?
[Puzzle In Sky by Idea Go, courtesy Freedigitalphotos.net]
Can’t avoid chuckling whenever the Lord’s playing a game with me. Mulling over what I think He’s showing me about my End-Times Briefings, I recalled a prophecy given me in 2009 that, “An impartation like Daniel had is going to come into you and you will start understanding the ‘riddles’ of the Lord in a different way…”
In returning to the next Briefing (No. 8) I’d thought of bringing its originally drafted ‘end’ to its beginning, thereby wrapping up the previous Briefing on my first ‘jigsaw pieces’. Hoping to schedule the new Briefing for weekend reading, I ‘closed’ it last Thursday with:
“Perhaps the above copy pages will whet your appetite to learn more about watching for Jesus’ Return.” BUT I got nudged to continue: “Last year my wife was touched by the Holy Spirit and heard, “It’s sooner than you think!” (see Back to Bible Basics: Direct Word on Jesus’ Return and Vision of Iran).
LOL! That reference to Iran takes us full-circle back to start of the ‘Invisible Jigsaw’ over 30 years ago, as told in Briefing 7. So I’d thought of making those remarks a postscript. BUT next, the ‘morning-after high’ brought an insight as I checked and tagged pages in Jonathan Hill’s latest book!
Astonished, I found one CONFIRMS the next Briefing’s number, and thus their sequence!
The full content of this series hadn’t been thought out in any depth but simply published as and when possible. In fact, I’d wanted to publish Briefing 8 in its own right over six months ago!
Chronologically from a personal viewpoint, the whole series would have a very different sequence, viz: No. 7, 5, 1, 2, 3, 8+, 6 and with 4 omitted as it was popped in on a whim! So Christopher Wickland’s vision of the Sign in the Sun would come last! However, what Jesus taught should be foundational and thus began this current series of Briefings.
Moreover, it dawned upon me that one cycle of 7 Briefings has been completed, with an intermission for a mathematical preparation for the next cycle. Thus, we’re starting the next octave as though going up a level, somewhat like musical notes: A, B, C, D, E, F, G (see Wikipedia image). Also likewise, this new cycle begins with examining a particular scripture in some depth.
Furthermore, we could regard the two cycles of Briefings like the staves for the bass and treble clefs in musical scores, our ‘interlude’ on mathematics the space in between them! Or better still: this post is the ‘Middle C’, which is the note that hovers between the two staves.
Bringing prophetic pieces together. How many? 8!
Next, we consider that maybe it wasn’t a ‘star’ or astronomical sign that sent ‘wise men from the East’ looking for a baby born in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago, but a rare wisdom and visions bequeathed by the Hebrew prophet Daniel to a school of prophets??
How a New Age follower got hooked into the Bible’s prophecies.
A unique take from die-hard anti-Christian confronted by facts in non-Christian book!
As an ex-unbeliever rescued by Jesus Christ in person and ‘born-again’ by Holy Spirit into life everlasting through His sinless blood, I reiterate Chuck Missler’s concern:
“You may not believe what the Bible says, but what’s utterly astonishing is that so very many claim to believe in Jesus yet have no grasp of the idea Christ is to literally return and rule!”
The aim of these Briefings is to help my readers be better informed and thus grasp that truth. If an ardently anti-church guy deeply involved in New Age teachings, who viewed ‘Bible-bashers’ as bigots, could grasp and keep hold of this mind-blowing stuff, then how much easier is it for believers in Jesus to fully appreciate these things?
So, come on a revelatory journey with me: Continue reading
Nina and I were privileged to be involved with this beautiful song which premiered at 5 pm today (Friday 5th June). :
‘Let light, Let love’ was written by Encore Choirs’ leader Josh Robinson during the coronavirus global pandemic. The song was a chance to use the power of music to bring people together in an unprecedented time. The song gives a message of hope and light. The project was in aid of Age UK, for those who are more vulnerable and less likely to get the communication during this time. We want to ensure everyone is connected, and by using the power of music we can lift peoples’ spirits.
Click for Encore Choirs’ Home and Online Choir pages and Facebook. (PS. This song has since been played on local radio stations and featured in three local newspapers.)
A set of this video’s cleverly crafted images immediately brought to my mind what Jean Darnall heard in 1967: Continue reading
Further to my asking does security intel validate a word on the origin of the covid-19 pandemic, as indicated by US Secretary of State Pompeo, the former head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove has discussed further details in an exclusive interview, as below.
In that post I covered some ideas on the virus’ origin and possibility of it having been engineered, and reported,‘This generated an interesting flow of information in parallel with dealing with true and false prophets, questions over whether or not the situation is directly from the Lord and how it relates to scripture and End-times – even believers’ confusion over it all…
‘And so I mulled all those matters over in my mind last Monday night…Upon waking Tuesday morning, 24th March, I thus asked the Lord, “Is the pandemic from You?” ~ and then got the immediate answer: “No, it is man-made!!”
Further validation appears in an article published in last week’s Telegraph: Exclusive: Coronavirus began ‘as an accident’ in Chinese lab, says former MI6 boss and, in view of the depth of discussion it is important to read the full article. Alternatively, read the overview in its former editor Charles Moore’s op-ed Was Covid-19 created in a lab?
Here are some extracts: Continue reading
Thank you to the reader who gently took me to task for mixing personal remarks with others’ prophecies. There’s absolutely no way I’d wish to engender disunity – and I do not want to be misconstrued (for the sake of brevity the remark wasn’t in full context ).
As others may have felt uneasy over my lead into the previous post, please allow me to clarify:
First, my service to the Body of Christ is like being an air-traffic controller in an airport tower watching incoming and outgoing aircraft, or coordinating messages on the Lord’s ‘GPS’ (Global Prophecy Signals). Moreover, I see what they bring may fit into certain patterns, or jigsaw pieces. – I wanted to name this blog ‘Invisible Jigsaw’ but couldn’t find a suitable graphic! 🙂
Hence my frequent blogging about prophecies that come by ‘coincidence’ and ‘marry-up’, or fit into a ‘jigsaw puzzle’, thereby confirming what others hear from the Lord. This is in accord with the protocol for prophecy at 1 Corinthians 14:29-32, viz:
‘Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. And if a revelation comes to someone who is sitting down, the first speaker should stop. For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged.’
Secondly, as and whenever possible I notice events indicative of prophecy coming to pass and have logged nearly 190 examples. This is not for the purpose of measuring anyone’s capacity to prophesy, but simply to prove that contemporary prophecy works.
(When revamping that catalogue’s content, the Lord took me to task over truncating its opening scripture on true and false prophets – so I retained it in full. It got confirmed that afternoon when a website requested removal from my directory within The State of The Prophetic in the UK on the grounds of theological objections to others! In fact, whilst revamping I’d noted that site’s very small number of prophecies.)
Therefore, my introductory comments to prophecies on this blog are provided not only as personal observations, but also as a contribution to weighing and testing them.
A couple of recent items, however, have confirmed details of my points in a protracted discussion on an issue that unusually generated a righteousness anger within me.
Two readers drew my attention to a critique of The UK Blessing. I agree in the main with its author’s remarks on churches’ failure to follow Biblical teaching and not encouraging repentance; but not his claiming, “Though well-intentioned, what these singers are doing cannot be justified from Scripture, nor does it express the message that God wants to communicate at this time.”
The article had attracted dozens of responses and as my wife’s healing of a broken knee-cap had been powerfully accelerated, I briefly commented upon two facts: an error in his quoted timing and the Holy Spirit’s effect through that song. Polite debate ensued, but I was saddened to be wrongly accused of attacking him in person! Maybe it arose from my later quoting Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount as implicitly authorising the song ?
Another commentator felt uneasy with the song and agreed, “it’s true that people aren’t really wanting to hear the message of repentance…even now. It’s all about unity….. It doesn’t seem right to me.”
Therefore, I quoted Jesus’ prayer for unity in all who believe in Him. The addressee fully accepted this and from his own background agreed with my additional remark:
“Little wonder satan seeks to destroy and rip apart the Church. The back-stabbing between various clergy and churchgoers made me utterly despise churchianity as a child and I ended up in the devil’s camp for decades. Only Jesus’ personal rescue when I almost died 30 years ago made me see sense and get saved and freed me from it – praise you Lord!” [See ‘Churches in Conflict’ in first part of my personal story.]
Following my introductions in this trilogy upon a common theme, I’m humbled to hear the Lord too refers to the ‘Counterfeiter’…
Don’t be anxious about the increased political control or tyrannical oppression that is hanging over our nation. The principalities from hell may believe they are advancing, but they are headed towards a trap with no way back. If we can put up with some temporary madness and seeming loss, the enemy is playing right into…
Continued at WHY HE DOESN’T ALWAYS SHOW US OUR FUTURE — wandaalger.me
After being blasted by the Holy Spirit last Friday evening Nina felt able to take the wrap-around thigh-to-calf velco brace off and try walking normally and then sleep without it – NO PAIN AT ALL! Thank you Lord.
And so much easier to walk, albeit carefully, without being weighed down by brace and needing any support of a wheeled frame or crutches!! Moreover, no need trying to sleep with a straightened leg. Thank the Lord her leg wasn’t in a plaster-cast!
Yesterday, the orthopaedic consultant and the casualty doctor whom Nina first saw 25 days ago were amazed at her rapid progress because the latter had said it would take 6-8 weeks for the fractured knee-cap to knit and be strong enough to resume normal activity!!! The consultant’s nurse just gaped; mouth open!
Afterwards, Nina saw the casualty doctor, who had to check Nina was the same person whom she’d seen and given that long prognosis. So Nina showed her 3 times how well the knee bends. “It shouldn’t be able to do that!” the doctor exclaimed and agreed the unexpected progress was “indeed” the result of prayer-support – AND we know it was Holy Spirit’s tangible fiery touch too! WE PRAISE YOU LORD! (The consultant advises it’s helpful to take walks using two-poles to avoid any fall, and take care on stairs.)
Reclining armchair enables sitting whilst wearing leg-brace
When I blogged here about what happened we hadn’t realised the healing the Lord was bringing but, as pointed out last night by the pastor of Catch The Fire Farnborough and who’s seen miracles overseas, worshiping Jesus is the best place to receive healing. (We well know this from 14 years ago when Nina was able to dance in worship whilst officially registered as permanently disabled – see From ‘Disabled’ to Enabled.)
You may have read about the Holy Spirit’s powerful double-visit in The Blessing Videos Fulfill…Prophecies but for the record here’s the fuller account with third visit:
‘..(Friday evening) Nina was hit by a double ‘strike’ of the Holy Spirit whilst hearing this song twice! We’d been invited to watch The Surge, an online broadcast of leaders of the charismatic movement arising from the Toronto Outpouring…After John and Carol Arnott’s ‘welcome’ this historic event began with its own rendition of The Blessing, opened by a pianist at CTF Bournemouth followed by singers across the global family of CTF-PIH churches.
‘Upon my turning towards Nina whilst they sang, I saw her sizzling in her recliner-chair as she felt Holy Spirit surging up and down her.’
‘After the 2-hour session we watched The UK Blessing and at the end Nina stood up to move as best she could with a leg in brace to go upstairs. However, YouTube autoplay went on to the song’s version done in South Africa and, with her feet firmly placed at the foot of the stairs, she found herself gently falling face-first into the carpeted stairwell as a black African sang “…And make His face to shine upon you”!! WOWEEE!!!!
‘Then, I was struck that this song of the Old Testament’s Aaronic blessing could fulfill a number of prophecies of recent years. The latest of these was issued just 3 weeks ago by Christie Johnson of Australia’s Gold Coast, as republished on this blog in Watch the Horizon, Here Come the Waves of Awakening, one element of which reads:
‘3. The Sound and the Wind – A New Sound of Worship: “I first heard an unusual sound that I wasn’t familiar with. I believe this is speaking of a new sound of worship that is going to precede the mighty outpouring. This worship is beginning to break forth, even now, all across the earth…”
‘Moreover, the song’s verse that felled my wife speaks directly into the application of that prophetic vision and word: ‘Divine strategy for this new sound:…this is a moment of setting yourself in a position to gaze upon the face of the Beloved….!!’
Over the weekend, Nina mentioned friends had asked if she’d seen another version and so we sat to watch ‘The Blessing (Kids)’, but this time it brought far more than a ‘sizzle’!
Nina was transfixed in her recliner with her body shaking and eyes almost popping out on stalks…!
Following a reader’s comment upon the Battleground Has Shifted by Abel Praise, I’ve been chatting with Abel on-and-off whilst drafting GPS #47.4.
We find we have a very similar appreciation of how the Lord is working in and aligning our personal lives. In my drafting I’d been looking for Revd Thomas Harry’s previous paper I’d blogged about and found it was FOUR years ago (ie 2016).
THEN I heard a ‘ping’ from another reply from Abel and was stunned upon reading his saying,
“I trust The LORD working out very significant things. Since 2016 I have kept significant chronicles of labors concerning Britain. The LORD had visited me with in dreams, visions, to contend for; and I noticed the intensity of prayer leads increased since last year and Britain has been very frequent on my prophetic radar. I have watched The LORD directing the march and we’re marching along. Beautiful things lay ahead…”
I immediately replied, “LOL LOL LOL >> I’ve just copied title and link from old post into the one I’m working on Confirmations of 2016’s Prophetic Words for a New Season
And so I tell Abel ever so briefly what I’m drafting and he says,
“It is truly amazing. I have seen The LORD had granted you such significant wisdom for prophetic profiling and sequencing. It’s what it takes to decode the road map and I am amazed at the work you are accomplishing with this wisdom in Richards Watch. For those who see and understand the implementation of heavenly blueprints, it will be a great treasure…. Every bit of the puzzle is sacred.”
Now, in starting that previous post(102nd on GPS) I was nudged to check when I began blogging on this topic – it was 12.12.2016! NO OTHER YEAR would do!!!
[Puzzle Globe and Book by Thanunkorn, courtesy of Freedigitalphotos.net]
Do you recall news of pastor Christopher Wickland’s revival from death at a trampoline park in Southampton three months ago? It was publicised in the local press and BBC South Today.
The account has now got a longer slot in tomorrow morning’s Close Calls Caught On Camera on BBC1 at 11:45am Wednesday 22nd April – and yet again No. 22!!!!
NOT TO BE MISSED!
[Published at 11:22 on 21.4.2020 – not planned or scheduled, but just so happened!!]
We’re pleasantly surprised to receive this video of a song our friend Joshua Robinson had sung in Cosham Baptist Church’s online service for Resurrection Sunday. (Video is by Ignite Media and song composed by Georgia Hall. Josh is choirmaster of Encore Choirs in Petersfield and Farnham, and coach at Free The Voice.)
May you be blessed too…
The Cross at Ffald-y-Brenin, ‘miraculously’ provided and located as directed by the Lord.
[First published 2016]
Reflections upon the events of Jesus’ betrayal and execution whilst we were on a Quiet Day’s ‘Appointment in Jerusalem’, added to my ongoing meditation upon His personal prayer made, not in the garden of Gethsemane, but earlier in the upper room at the close of their Passover meal (John 17). That ‘celebratory remembrance’ proved to be more than a ground-breaking event. It was truly a heaven-breaking-in pivotal time in human history in which Jesus offered up Himself as the Paschal Lamb, not only for His first disciples but also for everyone who would ever believe in Him – eg. you and me! AND enable everyone to come into the full freedom of salvation from their sins and satan’s consequential authority over their lives – should they so choose. Continue reading
This month there’s been more references popping up on items of a prophetical nature from six years ago. (The first related to the media mirroring my ‘bulldozer’ vision – three #45 entries at Fulfilled Prophecies refer.)
One directly connecting the prophetic with the current pandemic is a story penned by Kathy Laity, and which Malcolm Sim of Fire International Ministries kindly drew to my attention
Kathy informs Prophetic Releasers for UK Revival, “In 2014 my book The Watcher’s House came out. It’s a prophetic novella based around heavenly encounters but primarily the four teenagers journey to heaven, each encounter Jesus in a different form of healing before gathering the leaves from the trees for the healing of the nations, to bring back with them to earth because there is a pandemic raging. The parallels with what is happening globally are striking and I’ve sensed there‘s a key within the book. I’ve been pondering it for days, then today Lana Vawser released a word about it’s time to release the leaves for the healing of the nations…[per Rev 22 – RB: that No. again!]
“I’ve been releasing a couple of chapters a day…on my blog because it’s so relevant for what is happening with the covid19. It’s a teenage novella which carries hope and promise. If you’re interested, I’ve just posted the third instalment. The link is below.
THE WATCHER’S HOUSE
An enticing narrative, so I encourage you to read How It All Starts (lower on page).
One of Kathy’s friends just having reread The Watcher’s House comments; “I read it a couple of days ago and loved it again. So apposite for these times. Who could have known or seen into the future six years ahead? Only The Father and the Son!!”
MOREOVER, in view of the whole story’s prophetical nature I was pleasantly surprised to see its content echoed very recently by Chuck Pierce’s prophecy team in this update on his prophecy on the pandemic, The Nations In Turmoil:
Your Time to Climb!
God says, “I am releasing a new level of faith within My people! What you did not see in the last season you will now begin to see. You will now begin to see and ascend in a new way. Reach up and climb the waterfall before you. As you reach up, a stairway will form to where I am taking you.
“Climb what I have set in front of you! Climb what I have set in front of you! Although the enemy has laughed and said you will never get to the top and through the next door, this is your time to climb the stairs I have placed in front of you. I am already behind that door at the top of the stairs and laughing at your enemy.
“In this season of overcoming joy, begin to release your laugh and experience My freedom that will enable you to overcome. Even though you may feel you are at the point of absolute failure and defeat, My angels will help you ascend…step by step…and cause you to keep pressing forward.
“I am opening a new portal in the heavenly realm and assigning new angels to help escort you up into the heavenly places and back onto the earth. I stand in the heavenlies and laugh, and I cause you to stand in the earth and laugh at your enemies. For at this time and this season, I will cause you to laugh at your enemies as an overcoming and victorious spirit rises within you as you have not had in times past.
“There is a new source of wind in the earth. This movement is not just My breath that is going forth, but the wind created by the wings of My angelic hosts. I am releasing a unique host to create winds to blow away occult coverings, and to bring forth winds of refreshing and rain from the atmosphere.
“There are things I am beginning to shake within you that will cause a new breath to come into you. As you ascend, you will be positioned on My new trajectory of advance.” (Prophetic word given by: Brian Kooiman, Sheryl Price, Chuck Pierce, Mistie Lohse, Eleanor Roehl, Lisa Lyons, and Dee Dee Roberts)
Thank you Lord for the encouraging healing following this reporter’s meeting with the author of this book…
Have you a desire to see signs, wonders and miracles, people healed and set free? Well it is much a case of gaining the right perspective of who we are in Christ and responding to His voice! David Gilbey, UK Coordinator of CTNTP, records what happened last week, and what it led to three days […]
Continue at Releasing Heaven – a personal testimony — Call The Nation To Prayer
The prime purpose of my personal profile on Facebook is to circulate items on this blog to regular users of that social medium. There’s also a Fb business page that I started soon after launching the blog, but its automatic connection for posting blogs no longer functions. So I have to copy-paste interest addresses from each blog into both my Fb accounts whenever I have time to do so.
Therefore, my WordPress readers may be unaware that Malcolm Sim (Fire Ministries International) commented on my Fb copy of ‘Miracle 80’, “WOW, SO POWERFUL”.
I replied, “Upon attending (and later associating with this church outside Haslemere) its Tuesday ‘Refresh’ mornings we were pleased to learn they know Christopher and his wife Rachel, whom we’ve known for some years and are prophetically very gifted.
“The current Refresh series is on ‘God Speaks In…’ with Christopher speaking on ‘…Signs & Wonders’. As he drew to a close before inviting folk to respond, he walked over to me and whispered that the Lord is saying my watching is to get “louder”! Next, Nina went forward at ministry time, got floored by Holy Spirit and surprised to be given a word from Chris that proved to be key to healing a buried issue in her childhood.”
[Readers may recall a connection with him as recounted in ‘Jigsaw Pieces’ Portray 27th June’s Significance in Prophecy.]
SO very pleased this is on video as we’d heard it when pastor Bird led a mid-week meeting at our church a few weeks ago. Please be sure to watch and learn about what the Lord did for a Hindu mother and her daughter…(note Personal PS).
In the video below, we hear a member of Fleet Baptist Church sharing last year how on a mission trip abroad, he prayed for a woman who had had a tumour on her neck for 17 years, and the next day it fell off. Watch below (The original video was shared by “The Wall of Answered Prayer“):
Drag to enlarge – click for digital version of DIFFERENT header!! (£Telegraph)
This example (24th) of the media mirroring a prophecy took me by surprise as it relates to one that left me deeply stunned 16 years ago – I can still recall and see it!
The above article was at the foot of the left-hand page opposite the editorial column of Daily Telegraph’s Wednesday 4th March edition. Its authors are John Cruddas, Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham, and Danny Kruger, Conservative MP for Devizes. They begin by stating,
“If last year’s general election tells us anything, it is that the social fabric of the places we live in matters. The corners of the country we represent could hardly be more different, but the issues that animate our constituents are strikingly similar. On doorsteps from Dagenham to Devizes and beyond, voters of all parties lamented the slow ebbing of community spirit, the fraying of their neighbourhoods, and the uprootedness that seems to characterise modern life”
Their headline reminds me of what I’d ‘heard’ as describing what I was seeing only feet right in front of me in 2004, as told in my email of 18 August 2011 on Dr Sharon Stone’s prophetic words on riots in the UK and a shop-front notice ‘Due to the imminent collapse of society we are closing at 6pm tonight’.
Here’s my pre-blog email Comments Upon the Collapse of Society with original notes in blue text. Its emphasised text relates to the above headline:
‘Dear Friends, Further to circulating a word received through Lance Lambert on the eve of the London Riots (see email 9 August) and Dr Sharon’s insights 12 August (original email and link n/a but amended Oct 2016), I was reminded Billy Graham’s grandson is coming to stir the youth of Britain in late September. (HA! Only after having inserted that line to precede my comments written below, have I just noticed its title, Will Graham Set to Rock the UK, alludes exactly to the climax of the event I’m writing about….)
‘Personally, I’m encouraged that this word (through Revd Dr Stone) confirms the gist of an open vision that came at the opening of worship at the start of a conference in St Albans in October 2004.
‘Before me I ‘saw’ a map of Britain surrounded by the sea, as though painted on rotten sacking – like old, wet coal-sacks I saw in my youth. It seemed the Lord was saying the fabric of our nation (society) is so rotten He could tear it apart so easily.
This ‘map’ then began to rip apart in the middle, from about the line of Hadian’s Wall down along the line of the Pennine chain to the Midlands, and I sensed the Lord say, “I’m going to put the backbone back in Britain”. (I recalled that the Pennines are known as the spine of England.)
‘But out of the (frayed) tear arose a very long rock, which I understood as meaning the Lord would restore our strong, spiritual backbone when we stand upon Him, The Rock.
‘[Previously I’d noted, ‘Could the Lord be allowing increased persecutions here for the purpose of putting the spine back into Christians and making us stand up strongly?’… And Parliament has since been, and continues to be, thoroughly shaken and ripped open – do it to the media and elsewhere, Lord…Did you know that mounted, body-armoured police in Manchester interrogated a street preacher just because he was inviting people to an Easter service? Next, a hate-crimes unit visited him at home!!!]
‘It wasn’t so much the unexpected and unbidden nature of the event that startled me. It was because I thought I heard the Lord say that He would rip the nation apart as easily as an old sack because of its rotten nature!! That troubled me for I considered such to be contrary to his loving nature.
‘But NT scriptures do speak of judgement and He gives many repeated warnings of such impending action (eg. as given this month through Lance Lambert). Yet, we must plead His remembrance of mercy and of Jesus’ sacrifice, through which comes the fullness of true blessing. All rather a profound mystery. Also, let’s not forget that the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD (Isaiah 11.2) were aspects of the Holy Spirit prophesied for the descendant of King David’s father Jesse: Jesus Christ.
‘NB: the vision was submitted to several church leaders for weighing yet without any response! However, upon our attending a prophecy school the next year at Bath, I submitted it to Dr Stone who immediately agreed its validity.’
CONCLUSION
If you’ve ever seen rotting jute sacks you’d notice how easily the fibres fray and split apart.
The closing of this upsetting vision of Britain’s prospects beyond 2004 is encouraging in the dramatic re-appearance and restoration of our Christian spiritual spine. Moreover, , many prophets have now been receiving powerful visions and words from the Lord on such a great change in our spiritual destiny.
My paper on The State of the Prophetic in the UK refers to prophecies being known to take a decade or more before they begin to manifest, or even fully come to pass. For many years, however, the fragility of the fabric of our society has been all too apparent, as amply demonstrated in the near demise of our democracy last year.
And now two Members of Parliament from opposing political parties recognise the deep need to repair the many issues at the heart of our communities. Although not referring to the cause of these deep-rooted symptoms as extensive societal and political rebellion against the Lord, they may realise it is the only way and hope for our four nations.
In fact, you may have read this on Danny Kruger’s opinion of the solution > MP Urges Britain to Return to its Christian Heritage.
So, the pendulum is beginning to swing back….
In acknowledging Neil Mackereth for An Oracle, I told my long-time friend one of the prophecy ministries listed in the Directory section of The State of the Prophetic in UK politely asked to be removed rather than appear with some of questionable doctrinal background.
Neil replies and adds PS to his ‘oracle’ as follows:
Interesting to hear (that) comment – something else the Lord has been highlighting to me over the last few days is unity (or rather the lack of unity) – one would expect a common “enemy” to unite those facing the threat. So far, Global Warming has encouraged more bickering and dissent than unity. Now, a more obvious (immediate) and rapidly evolving threat provides an opportunity to put differences aside, humble ourselves and plead God’s forgiveness. What an opportunity for Christians to set the example in humility, unity and heartfelt intercessory prayer for the nations.
The other point that comes out so clearly in Habakkuk is his conviction (through the insights God gives him) that God is in charge no matter how daunting the challenges may seem. This is abundant faith which banishes fear.
I am still a “work in progress” on that front!
…God Bless, Neil
P.S. I probably should have quoted 2 Chronicles 7:14 in full and included verse 13.
“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people if My people who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.“ (2 Chronicles 7:14)
RB’s Footnote: It was that utter lack of unity and back-stabbing between churches 50 years ago that made me deepy contemptuous of clergy and churchgoers. In rejecting their claims and doctrines I unwittingly turned towards and got trapped in the devil’s domain! Therefore, it was the fault of so-called ‘Christians’ disobeying the Lord! (As summarised in False ‘Gospel’ Lured Me To The Devil’s Door.)
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Fridays start our long weekend but I’m interrupting the break to post today’s (28th Feb) headline news in the light of the word received by Leisa Ebere yesterday, and amending the title of a blog scheduled for posting tomorrow. This afternoon’s news reports “When asked how close the UK was to cancelling big events due to the the virus, Health Minister Jo Churchill said. “We are taking the advice of the Chief Medical Officer and assessing the situation on a day-by-day basis. Any decision to cancel events or mass gatherings have to be assessed at the time, based on clinical guidance and based on risk.” [UPDATE 12 Mar: World Health Organization in Europe declares global pandemic, at phase 6 level.]
The scheduled item and its original title reads: Continue reading
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