Continuing with a recent theme I've been sharing on,
concerning visions and warnings of the times we are living in now. Men
of old saw these days and were moved on by the Spirit of God to speak
and share these things with us.
May these living words produce a consciousness of God that gives birth to a holy fear and awakening in your own life.
The Vision
"In
the midst of the turmoil, the fear and the anxiety that's in our nation
and in our world, as I was walking and meditating, I heard the voice of
God. I've heard that voice many times. It's too familiar to me, and
there's no way that I can fail to understand His voice because I'm
familiar with it. And instantly I heard that voice and I heard it and
then I saw with my eyes something I'd never seen.
Suddenly,
in the clouds in the skies above New York City and the east part of the
United States, and which hung there for quite sometime and then spread
out across America, without touching the ground, and then God diffused
it away from America and sent it out to the nations of the earth. And I
saw and I heard. What did I see? I saw something coming down from above:
Smoke and vapor and blood, or it looked like that to my eyes, to my
spiritual eyes.
There it was hanging so huge until it
almost blotted out the sky. Instantly I thought about 9/11, when the
terrorists attacked the Twin Towers and through television all of us in
America, and probably the world, saw those more than 100-story-high
buildings crumple and heard the cry of thousands of people who were
being either killed or wounded. I remembered the fear that struck my
heart and knew that what I was feeling everybody else was feeling and
remembered that never in the history of the world, and certainly not of
America, that something of this proportion had struck the human race and
was a preview of things similar to it that were going to happen through
what we now call terrorists.
First, I saw this thing
hovering and great changes coming in it to where I couldn't miss it. And
then I heard, something came into my ears, and it reminded me of what a
friend of mine had said when the first space capsule was released into
the sky.
He was a newsman in New York City and maybe
half a mile or more away from the capsule. And he said when that thing
lifted off the earth, there was a sound, and the sound itself moved the
weeds and the growth, and he said, "It penetrated my body." He said, "As
I talked to others, they felt the same thing." He said the sound was so
enormous that nothing had ever happened like it in the history of the
world. Instantly, I thought of that because the sound that was coming
into my ears was penetrating my whole being.
And then I heard God's voice. He said: "I'm making a sign."
This
is a sign according to the second chapter of Acts, where the apostle
Peter, upon the giving of the Holy Spirit, the baptism of the Holy
Spirit, said there'll be signs in the skies."
He said,
"This is one of the signs of the end time because the world is not ready
for the second coming of my Son." He said, "My church is not ready for
the second coming of my Son."
He said, "The Jews, with
whom I've had the covenant for thousands of years, they're not ready for
the second coming of my Son." He said, "The nations of the earth are
not ready for the second coming of my Son."
He said,
"America has been set aside by a special covenant that I made with many
of the people who came to found this nation several hundred years ago,
that this was My nation and the gospel was going to go out from it
unlike any other nation and there'd be more gospel going out from
America."
And He said, not only would there be a
powerful military presence in the United States unlike any other nation,
but it would be the center of the gospel that I was sending out.
And
He said to me, "You remember that I said in My Bible to my disciples
2,000 years ago, 'Go into all the world and teach all nations, and when
that teaching has reached the nations then shall the end come.'" And
then he startled me. He said, "With all of the widespread force of my
church in the world, but particularly in the United States, which is the
source of most of the gospel that's being preached in all the world,"
He
said, "There is a wasting of My power, there is a failure to grasp the
end time. And the church, they are coming to church on Sunday morning
mostly for themselves. And the preachers, for the most part, are not
really concerned about the nations of the earth."
"They're concerned about the little group that is there,
and they sing their songs and they get up and preach." And He said,
"When 9/11 struck, there was a fear that came into the hearts, even of
My people of the church and of the people outside the church. And
millions the following Sunday or two rushed to go to church."
"But
the preachers were not prepared, and most of them didn't even preach on
it and didn't even talk about it being the sign of something that's
coming hundreds of thousands of times bigger."
He said,
"When those planes of the terrorists struck the Twin Towers in New York
City and they gradually came tumbling down, it was something bigger than
people had ever seen, but it's nothing in comparison to what's going to
happen in the second coming of my Son." And so He said, "My church was
not prepared to deal with that, and people came to church and then
nothing much happened and they dropped back and many of them went back
to their bars," as I heard Kenneth Copeland say.
"And
there I was with my whole creation that's alive in the earth, not
counting all those who have died—millions who have lived and died, all
of whom will be resurrected at some time in the future, having to do
with the second coming of my Son, some to everlasting life, some to live
forever in their new bodies and some to everlasting shame and contempt
forever lost." And He said, "I love people. I created them. I love them
by creation. I love them because I sent My only begotten Son." And
instantly I thought of the great show that Mel Gibson made of The Passion.
When
millions upon millions went to see it and are seeing it now all over
the world. I remember when I sat there with my wife, watching it, and
how my soul was stirred and the tears sprang from my eyes and my body
trembled as I saw something about the sufferings of Jesus, the Son of
God, to save the human race and so that the devil would not destroy
God's creation. He would not destroy men, women and children that God
had created and for whom Jesus had died and rose from the dead that we
might be born again—we might repent of our sins and have salvation and
come into a readiness for the coming of Christ. And He says, "As you
know in the Bible, the second coming is in two parts. One is called the
rapture, one is called the revelation.
"And first of all
I'm going to rapture, or catch up, My people—the people who are born of
my Spirit and filled with My Spirit and serving me. I'm going to catch
them up in a moment of time and they'll meet My Son in the clouds and
come on into heaven, into My presence. And then not long after I'm going
to bring that bride of Christ back with Jesus when He comes the second
time to the earth, and that'll be the beginning of the judgment of the
nations."
But He said, "The thing that is breaking my
heart is that I commanded my people, I commanded My church to preach the
gospel in all the world and to teach all nations. And while they are
evangelists and pastors and prophets and apostles and all kinds of my
workers in various parts of the world and in some of the nations of the
earth, it's just a drop in the bucket to what I commanded My disciples
to do."
"And I love people so much I cannot afford to
let people go on like they are. And then He directed my attention to the
book of Matthew, the 24th chapter, where He speaks in the 24th chapter
and beginning at verse 35:
"Heaven and earth will pass
away, but My words will never pass away. Concerning that day and hour no
one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. As were
the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in the
days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and
giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, and did not know
until the flood came and took them all away, so will be the coming of
the Son of Man."
Now, He reminded me in the 6th chapter
of Genesis that the earth was filled with violence and it was so full it
couldn't be any more full and it grieved the heart of God that He had
made man and he decided that He would destroy man and begin over, and He
established a remnant and it was a family: Noah and his family. And He
commanded him to build a huge boat that would take two of every living
thing in it so when the flood came—and they'd never had rain before in
the earth, it had been watered by a mist.
But He said,
when the flood comes and this boat with this family and two of every
living thing gets in it and the flood lifts them up from the earth
that's being destroyed, or from the human race that's being destroyed,
the flood that lifts the ark, or the remnant of my people, in Noah's
day, will come down in judgment upon the people of the earth.
And He said ...
Now, there's got to be preaching with fire in the belly!
There's
got to be an anointing of the holy ghost. My church has to wake up
because what I'm revealing in this sign that "every" eye is going to
see, "every" ear is going to hear. They'll see this thing. They will not
necessarily know what it is, but it's a wake-up call about the Second
Coming of my son!
It's not going to come and touch the
earth. It's going to be seen, it's going to be heard, and people are
going to become aware of the drama of the end time, of the Second Coming
of Christ. When He splits the skies and comes back with His bride and
takes over the reign of the earth and He destroys the Antichrist, who
will arise at that time. He will destroy the followers of Antichrist and
He'll establish His kingdom upon the earth. And He said, "I cannot let
anybody live and die without knowledge that my Son is coming back the
second time."
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