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THE COMING PERFECT STORM
Streams Ministries International ^ | September 19, 2008 | John Paul Jackson

Posted on 10/01/2008 10:23:18 AM PDT by Joya

THE COMING PERFECT STORM by John Paul Jackson

For those of you who have followed this ministry, you have heard me say more than once during the past eight years that from 2009 or 2010, things will become very difficult. I have been praying and hoping that what I am about to write may be averted. However, I am now concerned that without prophetic people speaking up, we will not play our redemptive part in bringing change for the good.

FIVE ELEMENTS OF THE BREWING PERFECT STORM As in the movie The Perfect Storm, the storm I see coming to the United States is a combination of more than one element, and when the elements unite, the storm becomes exponentially more dangerous. However, unlike the movie, this storm is not just a storm of merging weather patterns. This storm is worse; it involves five different elements: religion, politics, economics, war and geo-physical events.

At times these five elements will be so intertwined that it will be difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish which events are driving a particular manifestation of the storm. Massive problems in these five areas will come often, or in combination, and sometimes repeatedly. Each element has potentially several events that will have national and international ripple effects. Some ripples will be worse than others, depending on where you live and how you make your living. Different areas of the United States will experience different severities. Some will experience more economic elements, others more geo-physical elements; some will experience all elements. Remember, it is the combination and the rapidity that will make the storm problematic.

Also, this does not mean all five elements will hit at the most devastating levels. For example, on a scale of 1–10 with 10 being the worst, one element may strike at a six while another strikes at an eight. It is the particular combinations of elements — the proximity of each element as well as the intensity of each element — that will make this storm so difficult and seem to last so long. This storm will not be short-lived; it will come in waves, one after another.

WHY IS THE STORM COMING? This storm is coming because the Church (the Body of Christ) is no longer the backbone of this nation. From our inception, the Christian faith has been the plumb line of decisions made at all levels of life. The Christian founding of this nation is what makes it different from every other nation, other than perhaps Israel. Other nations may have become Christian in their focus, but none were initially formed with Christianity as the core of its DNA.

The Church is to make known God’s manifold wisdom to the world and the powers of the air (Ephesians 2:2). This demonstration to the heavens is not accomplished by speaking to those powers but through righteous living. How we live opens or closes doors for Satan to legally afflict us and even rule over us via leaders who do not know the ways of God. From Adam and Eve through today, the actions of humankind have given room for the enemy to strike and attack us. The only legal way the enemy has access to us is when the hand of God lifts from us, resulting in a space between Him and us. This space increases as we distance ourselves from Him and His ways.

Anytime there is an increased distance between God and humanity, it leaves room for attack to come and for principalities and powers of the air (rulers of darkness) to take up residence. The longer dark powers reside over an area, the more the people begin to call right wrong and wrong right. Here in the United States, leaders arise from the people; in other words, as the people believe and think, so do the leaders who rise from their ranks. Eventually, the lines between right and wrong, as well as the holy and profane, become blurred. The way to God through Jesus and the Cross is no longer seen as an absolute. In fact, absolutes become touted as “intolerance” first in the world and then even within the Church. Yes, there are exceptions to this thinking within the Church, but through compromise, the absolutes of Heaven and eternity are clearly evaporating.

GOD CAN FASHION A DISASTER We are living in the days of Ezekiel and Jeremiah, who prophesied that God can bring disaster on a nation if that nation continually chooses to walk according to its own plans. God spoke this to Jeremiah:

“The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it. And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it.

“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.”’”

And they said, “… We will walk according to our own plans, and we will every one obey the dictates of his evil heart.” — Jeremiah 18:7–12

WHAT ARE SOME THINGS THAT ARE COMING? What are some of the things/consequences that will come? In time, water will be more expensive than oil, and cities will evacuate thousands because there is not enough water to meet their needs. (As Amos 4:7 says, “I made it rain on one city, I withheld rain from another city.”) Earthquakes will strike not only coastal areas but devastate the Midwest as well. Israel will bomb Iran, and anti-Semitism will escalate as fuel costs soar. A dirty bomb will explode in a coastal city. There will be thunderstorms with huge hail, 24 inches of rain in 24 hours, three feet of snow in six hours, record-setting tornadoes with winds of more than 350 miles per hour and tornadoes in unusual places. There will be an unexpected blight that will hit various hybrid seed crops and weaken the yield. In addition, drought and devastation from storms will dramatically cut into various harvests and the national food storage will deplete.

“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.”’” — Jeremiah 18:11 —

FOUR THINGS THE CHURCH MUST DO First, the Church must return to knowing God and His ways rather than just knowing about God. We have replaced power with programs, revelation with administration and the Father’s heart with organizational skills.

Second, the Church must learn how to contend for the faith again. We are weak, and we fall away so easily when crisis is not at hand. We have not been tested, and we have lost our resolve. We understand little of the adversary’s plans. We do not know how to debate our faith without becoming angry, and thus we have so few strong, clear, godly voices in political arenas. We have lost our witness — the witness that convicts others and strongly testifies that God is still God and is very, very real. We have lost the witness that demonstrates that God is a personal God in a very impersonal world, the witness that says, “What I do proves God exists.”

Third, the Church must return to the love of God’s Word and the belief that it is infallible and inerrant. This would include the conviction, understanding and knowledge that God is absolute, and there is only one way to know Him: through Jesus the Messiah. We need a new revelation that God’s power is unlimited, His knowledge is unending, His presence is with us always and He never changes. We have made God far too small, and our lives prove it.

Fourth, we will need to declare sacred and solemn assemblies of repentance and corporate fasting in many parts of this nation — a time set aside for rending our hearts before God.

“Now, therefore,” says the LORD, “Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.” So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm. Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him — A grain offering and a drink offering For the LORD your God?

Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly; Gather the people, Sanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and nursing babes; Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber, And the bride from her dressing room. Let the priests, who minister to the LORD, Weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, “Spare Your people, O LORD.” — Joel 2:12–17

CRISIS IS THE FRUIT OF FOLLOWING THE WRONG GOD God allows calamities to happen in order to draw us to Himself. What does that mean? It means that God allows us to reap the fruit of that which we serve. Walking in God’s ways brings blessings and fullness of life, while walking in the ways of the “god of this world” will bring the fruit of the god of this world: decay, destruction, deterioration and death. We make our choice, then the choice makes us. Sadly, we are developing a history of wrong choices.

Throughout Scripture, when crises hit the people of God, they turned their hearts to Him, and He heard and took action.

Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. — Jeremiah 29:12–13

May the people of the United States seek the Lord … and find Him. Remember, we still have the promise that if we turn from our wicked ways, God will heal our land.

Serving God and His Kingdom, John Paul Jackson August 2008


TOPICS: Activism; Current Events; General Discusssion
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To: Alamo-Girl
First, the Church must return to knowing God and His ways rather than just knowing about God."

I suggest a good study of the Old Testament. A good way to get a real picture of that fast is learn from the Messianic movement about the feasts and the prophetic meanings of them.

However I would keep a ten foot pole between me and the "wannabee Jew" part of the movement as if you are not Jewish, you are not to be Jewish. It is good to be Goy guys. When I see a Christian wearing a Kippa it really bugs me. When the Bible says a man should pray with his head uncovered where the heck do Christians get the "lets wear a kippa cause the Jews do!" Beware the leven of the Pharasees.

Be prepared to realize that we have as much man made garbage in Christianity as the Jews have in Rabinnic Judaism. Our paths only meet in Judaism as described by the Bible. Both paths have to bend a bit to get on track.

But to know God for who he really is, is worth it. If you are really really lucky, you will find a Jewish Rabbi or Jew that is not so stuck on the traditions and more into the word and is willing to teach the Bible from a Jewish perspective. They are as rare as hens teeth but are out there. I like the Chabad pretty well, and there are a lot of independent Jews that love God with a love that will inspire you.

Judasim from a Christian perspective is a deep river that flows fast. It is a blast!

101 posted on 09/20/2009 9:27:05 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: American in Israel; Quix

Thank you for sharing your insights, dear American in Israel. But you are quoting Quix, not me - so I’m pinging him.


102 posted on 09/20/2009 9:41:27 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Joya
I can't say I agree with this view of things (seems too far out for me) but I feel it is worth posting an edited summary so that all who see this may know of this prediction / possible coming series of events:

20 FOLD, 20 FOLD, JUDGMENT IS UPON AMERICA

THE FIRST JUDGMENT

As surely as the word "States" is divided in half, so will the United States be physically divided in half. There will be a massive earthquake that will split the United States into two parts. Because there has been a previous tremendous earthquake in the center of the United States before, we have to look at that history briefly.

In the winter of 1811-1812, three powerful earthquakes struck along the Mississippi River. The epicenter for the quakes appeared to be near a small town in southern Missouri called New Madrid. These three earthquakes have been called the New Madrid earthquakes ever since. The first earthquake struck December 16, 1811, the second January 1812, and the third February 1812.

THE SECOND JUDGMENT

Since the warning of Jackson appeared before the Great Depression of 1929 and was not heeded then we will suffer "20-fold, 20-fold, I will spell it out for you, T-W-E-N-T-Y-fold!" the calamities of the Great Depression.

THE HARBINGER OF THE TREE

On the afternoon of 06-09-09, strong winds "have knocked down a tree on the White House's North Lawn. The tree appeared to have been snapped off near its base..."

This really caught my attention. It is difficult to "snap" a tree off at the base and leave the root system in the ground. Most trees that are felled by winds or storms (tornados or hurricanes) are usually uprooted. In fact, most journalists covering big storms that down trees like to show uprooted ones to show the power and strength of the storm.

Because Nebuchadnezzar had seen "a watcher and a holy one come down from heaven saying, "Hew the tree down and destroy it, yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth ..." the interpretation was that Nebuchadnezzar was going to be cut down and driven from men and he would be found among beasts, eating grass like them, living like a mad man. "Whereas they commanded the stump of the tree roots, thy kingdom shall be secured unto you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule." (Dan 4: 26)

This dream given to Nebuchadnezzar, this king of Babylon, that showed a tree cut down at the base with the roots still in the ground said he was going to be cut down from his place of power. And it came to pass!

Let us note that Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, was cut down and though he lived he was changed into a beast "till seven times" passed over. "Times" here means "years." Therefore, we should consider the matter before the Lord of Daniel 4: 16. "Let his heart be changed from man's, and let A BEAST'S heart be given unto him, and let SEVEN YEARS pass over him." We must strongly consider this matter.

103 posted on 09/20/2009 10:16:31 AM PDT by Screaming_Gerbil (The light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash...)
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To: Screaming_Gerbil

Thanks SG.

At this point we all need to focus on being ready for it to all be over with less than a moment’s notice.

I do NOT want to hear Jesus tell me, Depart from Me, I never knew you.

SO, I live to be known by Him and to know Him.

Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe, sin had left its crimson stain, He washed it white as snow.


104 posted on 09/20/2009 1:32:22 PM PDT by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: All

Edifying site

http://www.stormharvest.com.au/


105 posted on 09/20/2009 6:13:45 PM PDT by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: Alamo-Girl

Thanks thanks. for the ping


106 posted on 09/20/2009 6:45:50 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Screaming_Gerbil

I think you are right that it is a significant message from The Lord.


107 posted on 09/20/2009 6:46:46 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Joya

Thanks. Amen.


108 posted on 09/20/2009 6:47:18 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Screaming_Gerbil

I went to that site. The picture of the folded bill is not correct. It is not folded in half. If it were, the word would not be “sta”. It would be “stat”. Close, but no cigar.

The snapped off tree, on the other hand...


109 posted on 09/24/2009 3:16:17 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: All

Daniel Eggers’ site
http://www.prayersforthepeople.com/
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Kehrli
http://www.cryfromthewall.com/
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Jeremy Lopez (similar to Bill Somers)
http://www.identitynetwork.net
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David Wilkerson’s site
http://davidwilkersontoday.blogspot.com/
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Joel Rosenberg
http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/
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Blogsite of Dumitru Duduman’s grandson, Michael Boldea
http://www.mikeboldea.blogspot.com/
Grandpa Duduman’s prophecies (column on right)
http://www.handofhelp.com/index.php
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Maurice Sklar
http://www.injesus.com/index.php?module=message&task=list&GroupID=NB006VH2
http://mauricesklar.com/
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Bill Somers’ site
http://www.etpv.org/
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Nathan Leal
http://www.watchmanscry.com/index.html
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Phil Ballmaier and Various
http://daybydaybroadcast.com/
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110 posted on 09/26/2009 7:30:35 PM PDT by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: Joya

http://www.raptureready.com/


111 posted on 09/27/2009 10:55:03 PM PDT by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: Joya

WOULD SOMEBODY DE-ENERGIZE THE MAGNET?


112 posted on 09/27/2009 11:08:55 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: Old Professer

If only it were that simple.


113 posted on 09/28/2009 2:06:47 AM PDT by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: Screaming_Gerbil; Quix; All

Kehrli

God searched the hearts of hundreds of thousands of men in Israel but David’s heart was the heart that He saw that would do all His will and glorify Him. He knew that David would not take lightly God’s instructions. David was not a double minded religious man who was only interested in appearing spiritual.

David’s desire for God was not skin deep or reserved only for special occasions. His desire for God came from the depths of his being, from the heart of his heart; his love was for God and his desire was for His glory.

David knew it was God’s love and grace that had given him this heart after Himself and he knew that he would have to trust that God’s awesome wisdom and power would be given to him to guide the Lord’s people. David totally depended upon God’s power to deliver and God’s wisdom to guide.

David completely trusted in the character, the holiness and the love of this Majestic Jehovah, and David wanted to do nothing else but to carry out His plan for His glory.

David wanted to be Israel’s ruler for God’s glory. David wanted to seek God’s favor and please His heart alone. David, the appointed one of God, was truly anointed FOR God, to bring Him glory through His people.

Even as God sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, during the time that Saul was showing himself to be a rebel, so today God is seeking out for Himself a people who are after His own heart whom He will use to rule for Him on this planet.

He has allowed the people pleasing Saul Church to almost fully reveal their rebellion and shallowness. Their cup is almost full. He is now removing the precious Holy Spirit from their midst and is searching for a people who do not love the world nor cater to the flesh.

He is seeking a people who are not concerned about their own self-image, but are concerned about God’s glory, and will not seek to please men because they fear losing money, love, or respect. He is looking for a people who are concerned about God’s honor and pleasing Him, a people who only fear losing God’s Holy Spirit, His love and His approval.

He is looking for a people who will spend as much or more time on their faces before Him as the Saul Church does indulging its senses at concerts, ski lodges, beach retreats, and

‘Christian Night’

at Disneyland.

He is looking for a people who will love His law and devour His Word, letting the Word break them into little pieces and reform them into His image. He is looking for a people who will ingest His Word with the same fervor that the Saul Church eats up books on self-help, instant answers, material success and church growth.

While millions of Charismatics in the Saul Church seek signs, wonders and money to build a strong movement, God is looking for a remnant that will seek God Himself as the only and complete answer. He is looking for a people who will not presume upon His grace and His power but still trust completely in the totality of His Word and the magnificent power of His Holy Spirit.

He is looking for a people that are so filled with the Holy Spirit of God that they only minister as God directs their hearts. They will only do as they see the Father do, and only speak the words that He gives them to speak. No more shot gun approaches to the ministries of healing and miracles. He is looking for a people that know Him intimately and know His voice!

People will lay hands on the sick because God tells them to, and because they really hear God, the people WILL BE HEALED. He is looking for a people that have been purified from their many Saulish errors and have deeply repented of speaking in the flesh with no REAL results because God did not speak to them. He is looking for a Church that prays for the sick and listens intently to God’s voice, not so they can build the church larger, but so they can please the heart of God.

No more using the power of God to build the kingdoms, churches or denominations of men. He is looking for a Church with a heart like David’s. He is looking for and will find the David Church, even in the midst of Saul.

Who and what is the David Church? The answer is fairly obvious from our earlier study of Saul and David. Certainly we can make relevant comparisons between Saul’s ministry and the visible Church as it exists today with the superficial anointing, the worldliness, the shallowness, the religiosity, the reliance on the material and the involvement with the demonic. It is very easy to call today’s visible Church the Saul Church.

But what about the David Church? Can we really expect God to raise up a Church comprised of people who (single-mindedly) love Him, depend upon Him completely, and move in such undeniable spiritual power as David did?

When we stop and think with our hearts and our minds about this issue, the real question becomes, “Could we expect God to do anything else, knowing His character, His ways and His Word?” How could God close this present age while allowing His name to be so thoroughly besmirched by such a shallow representation of Himself? He has always been concerned for His holy Name.

The Lord declares in Ezekiel 36:21-23, “”But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went. Therefore, say to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God, “It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went. And I will vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. Then the nations (non-Christians) will know that I am the Lord,” declares the Lord God, “when I prove Myself holy AMONG YOU IN THEIR SIGHT.”” God will always manifest Himself as holy and powerful, through His people to the world.

It is important to understand that the basic difference between the Saul Church and the David Church is their attitude about man and God. The Saul Church believes that man was damaged greatly at the Fall but still possesses great powers to build the kingdom of God. They believe in the freedom of man’s free will and his ability to choose God by exercising that free will. They believe in the nobility of man and evangelize because they love men and do not want to see men go to hell.

It is good to love men, even as God loves the world, however, the David Church evangelizes because it knows that this activity will please God. The Saul Church wants to see America return to the glory years of 100 years ago when most people in the country believed in being law abiding, chaste citizens. They want to see conservative, God fearing political parties that choose morally upright men to make scriptural decisions concerning abortion, homosexuality, immigration laws, drug laws and proper treatment of God’s people. The David Church is not concerned about the glory days of America but is concerned about the glory of God, and the days when men in America will glorify God.

The Scriptures give example after example of God’s people failing Him completely and God manifesting His glory through His new appointed leadership. Moses, David, and Josiah are three good examples. The centuries-long bondage to Egypt and idolatry was broken through Moses’ leadership. David led the Israelites to victory after victory, following the embarrassing reign and defeat of Saul.

Josiah became Judah’s most righteous ruler and led the people temporarily out of idolatry after the depraved reigns of Manasseh and his son Amon. Even church history shows us that the Dark Ages ...

http://www.cryfromthewall.com/chapter21AppointedandAnointedForGodHimself.html


114 posted on 10/21/2009 10:51:15 PM PDT by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: Joya

AMEN! AMEN!


115 posted on 10/22/2009 1:59:05 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix; All

Kehrli

... Today’s shallowness is not unlike those other periods of shallowness both in the Scripture and in the history of the Church. God, now as then, will not leave His name to be a joke upon the lips of the heathen. He will raise up a holy people who love Him enough to obey Him. God will build a Church which will bring honor to his name.

Years ago the Lord showed me that the shallow man-pleasing ministry that has been prominent in the visible Church was, in many cases, actually anointed by Him. He also told me that He was in the process of withdrawing that anointing from those Saul Church ministries. God revealed that He was looking through the small churches and the large churches.

He was looking at the flashy ministries and the apparently humble ministries. He was searching the pews and the classrooms. He was allowing each man to be tested so that his heart would be exposed. He was dealing with many individuals and trying them as a smelter of metals would try gold in the crucible. He heard the cries from the hearts of His people and TESTED the legitimacy of their words.

He was and STILL IS searching for men and women who are single-mindedly after His own heart. He is raising up prophets to challenge the false theologies and sins of His people and their leadership.

He will not stop until He has found a people after His own heart and He will appoint and anoint that people to love Him even more, live for Him without regard to their own well-being, and bear His life and His glory with the fear of the Lord and with the greatest concern for His Name.

He showed me that some in the Saul Church would be desperately convicted of their double-minded living and their people-pleasing ministries which so misrepresented Him, and that they would break away from these ministries.

He showed me that from some of the most self-advertising, gimmicky, cool, and hip rock-and-roll bands would come forth men who would become worship leaders in His great Church. Their music would still be loud and have the same beat in some cases, but not one note would be played to please the people.

Not one word would be spoken to attract attention to SELF. All would be done for God’s glory. He let me hear with my mind men who still played heavy-metal style music warning the people of the coming judgment of the lukewarm Church and the world.

There were no special effects, no attention-getting hair cuts or dress, no fleshly hand-clapping and remarks of how cool the music was; only a sense of AWE generated by the anointing of God through electric guitars and synthesizers that pounded out the message of a coming sentence of God’s judgment on an unrepentant Church and the who-the-hell-cares world.

The words of the singers were clear and easily understood. The crowds were learning the fear of the Lord. Some were weeping under the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Others walked out unable to stand in God’s presence.

No one thought of who was playing and the musicians and singers were glad because of this. God and only God was presented to the hearers and God and only God was being glorified. The music changed to soft music and even the style changed to fit what God was doing. No one was bound by style.

The style had become servant to the glory of God. Young people throughout the audience were on their faces seeking God’s forgiveness. Men and women stayed all night to pray to God and to praise Him from their hearts. The service, for it was not fit to call this ministry a concert, lasted until morning and many met the Real Jesus for the first time.

Many had been self-conscious attention-getting rockers from the Saul Church, but they had finally come to know the Real Jesus Christ through the awesome anointing of God.

They were becoming men and women with hearts like David’s heart. The admission was free but the people left understanding the cost. For the first time they realized the cost was their hearts and minds and souls. The cost was their own lives. But they were joyfully willing to wholly and completely give their lives to this awesome God of judgment and forgiveness; this magnificently Holy Hater of Sin and Lover of all who would come to Him on His terms only.

The David Church will be filled with many such men and women, musicians, preachers, ex-Christian television personalities, ex-stars, and ex-athletes; all manner of people whose identities are not defined by who they WERE but by whose they ARE. The David Church, like the Saul Church before it, is not a denomination or movement but really a shared attitude of the heart manifested both individually and corporately.

It is comprised of people who would gladly rather lose their physical life, possessions or earthly loved ones than lose His precious Holy Spirit. It is a people who sin and stumble into error but know that the way out is through an honest, excuse-free recognition of the fact that sin is sin and that sin is what caused the stumbling or the bondage.

They are willing to acknowledge every sin and turn repentantly away from each one, cutting off all avenues which would allow a return to that sin, regardless of what anyone else may think. They understand that complete forgiveness is in the Blood of Jesus Christ. The David Church trusts God like the Church of the Book of Acts. The David Church knows that it is not only unnecessary but evil to manipulate or bait people into following Jesus Christ. The David Church cares little for either success or failure.

This Church neither values The Big or the Little but only desires to do His will for His glory. The David Church covets the best gifts but only in obedience to Him, in His time, for the purpose of showing people the Real Jesus Christ and bringing glory to God.

The David Church is quick to defend God’s honor and trusts that when God is involved in an undertaking, He will take care of it without having His people resort to begging or bribing. The people in the David Church are uncompromising but merciful, persistent, and patient. Like David in the Old Testament, they are utterly and absolutely dependent upon God to save them from their sin, walk a holy life and minister in the power of the Holy Spirit.

The God of the David Church is a totally sovereign God who is in complete control of the destiny of His Church and this planet. This Church, like David, when judgment comes is quick to recognize their own responsibility and in no way blame the devil, men or God. They are quick to see the other side of judgment as they repent and ask for God’s forgiveness.

The David Church is utterly and absolutely dependent upon God. This Church trusts that it is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit working through God’s people that will defeat the enemy and establish the kingdom.

This Church understands that our part in this is to listen carefully and heed quickly, both from the Holy Scriptures and in our prayer life.

The David Church is God’s CHURCH for the last days!

http://www.cryfromthewall.com/chapter21AppointedandAnointedForGodHimself.html


116 posted on 10/22/2009 8:15:25 AM PDT by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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THANKS


117 posted on 10/22/2009 8:37:20 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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Kehrli Highlight

‘... they had finally come to know the Real Jesus Christ through the awesome anointing of God.

‘They were becoming men and women with hearts like David’s heart. The admission was free but the people left understanding the cost. For the first time they realized the cost was their hearts and minds and souls. The cost was their own lives. But they were joyfully willing to wholly and completely give their lives to this awesome God of judgment and forgiveness; this magnificently Holy Hater of Sin and Lover of all who would come to Him on His terms only.

‘The David Church will be filled with many such men and women, musicians, preachers, ex-Christian television personalities, ex-stars, and ex-athletes; all manner of people whose identities are not defined by who they WERE but by whose they ARE. The David Church, like the Saul Church before it, is not a denomination or movement but really a shared attitude of the heart manifested both individually and corporately.

‘It is comprised of people who would gladly rather lose their physical life, possessions or earthly loved ones than lose His precious Holy Spirit. It is a people who sin and stumble into error but know that the way out is through an honest, excuse-free recognition of the fact that sin is sin and that sin is what caused the stumbling or the bondage. ...

‘The David Church is God’s CHURCH for the last days!’

http://www.cryfromthewall.com/chapter21AppointedandAnointedForGodHimself.html


118 posted on 10/29/2009 5:03:13 PM PDT by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: Quix; All; TaraP; airborne; Amityschild; AngieGal; auggy; autumnraine; bearsgirl90; beefree; ...

Excerpt of latest from Charmaine Eggers,

And though the statue was not originally intended to be a symbol to welcome immigrants, because of Lazarus’s sonnet, it has become so.

The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
—Emma Lazarus, 1883

The Old Colossus

If Lazarus calls the statue the “New Colossus,” then what was the old?

The “Old” Colossus was a massive statue approximately 107 feet tall. Fashioned in the appearance of the sun god Helios, he has often been called Apollo, although the two deities were eventually merged together, they were, for quite some time, separate entities.

This statue was built sometime between 292 and 280 B.C., on the Greek island of Rhodes and called the Colossus of Rhodes. It was placed at the entrance to the harbor and some accounts state that ships sailed into the port between the massive legs of Helios/Apollo. He stood there until a great earthquake in 226 B.C. snapped him off at the knees. Even in “death,” Apollo was impressive.

He laid upon the ground for 900 years with curious tourists coming to see the rubble.

In the 1950s, evangelist A. A. Allen spoke of seeing a vision through a telescope on the Empire State Building in which the Statue of Liberty is standing in the Gulf of Mexico and commanded by a voice from Heaven to drink a large cup of judgment.

When she defies the command, she is forced to drink the bitter dregs. The effects are immediate and cause Liberty to struggle to stay standing.

Just as it seems she gains her balance, an ominous skull in the shape of a cloud appears from Alaska and splits into three wisps, one drifting down the West Coast, one winding its way down the Mississippi Valley, and the last wisp entangling itself along the East Coast.

When Liberty inhales the toxic vapors, she collapses facedown into the warm Gulf waters to rise no more. Shortly thereafter in Allen’s vision, he sees a nuclear attack upon the U.S.

Considering the sequence in Allen’s vision, Liberty falling in the midst of a vast respiratory illness across the U.S. followed by a nuclear attack, the current swine flu that is underway bears watching.

Though our H1N1 is not as virulent as in Allen’s prophetic word, the illness that is underway in the country of Ukraine has caught the attention of many. The reports of a bloody pneumonia that is occurring there may not be solely the current H1N1 pandemic but rather a mixture of three flu strains or even the deadly pneumonic plague.

Yes, the Black Death of the Medieval times. Autopsies are revealing lungs that have been “charred black,” like they have been “burned.”

Like A. A. Allen, my son, Daniel Eggers who writes at prayersforthepeople.com was also given a prophetic word about a day when America, symbolized by the Statue of Liberty, will be forced to drink a bitter cup of judgment; she will be judged and, and as a result, will find herself fleeing from vicious, unfeeling foreign invaders.

And like Allen, he also sees physical violence upon the statue. He wrote the following in the “Fall of the Harlot,” July 4, 2009.

The harlot’s iniquity is piled against her. Her sentence is fair and just, she has been judged by the ONE and ONLY TRUE JUDGE upon the WHITE THRONE, upon her judgment she has been found wanting.

The blood of her witnesses have all come against her, the blood of the innocent testifies to her heinous debauchery and merciless butchering of the millions presented as sacrifices to her abominable idols, the fallen who deceive men and proclaim to be gods. The harlot’s evil is repaid upon her head, crushing her harlot skull, separating her head at the joint from her body.

Her evil has been stored up against her and is now loosed upon her land, crushing her and slaughtering all who share in her lust for the blood of the innocent, who possess the red spirit of the harlot, and upon all who have rejected the BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST. (emphasis mine)

Nahman, the Child Prophet

Indeed, there are a number of prophetic voices out there, past and present, that have been warning that great judgment resulting in great destruction and great devastation is coming upon America. But it was this Google video (19 mins long)...

... that a friend (thanks cj!) sent me about a prophetic word concerning the destruction of America that made me go back and check some of these other prophetic words, and there does seem to be a pattern.

About 420 years after the destruction of the second Temple, an infant boy named Nahman was born on Rosh Hashanah about the year 490.

The Google video goes into the circumstances of his birth, so I won’t repeat all of that here. About the age of 12, this young boy gave a series of five rhymed prophecies. These prophetic words have been accepted by a number of learned ...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4447645913344335461&hl=en#

http://runningfrombabylon.blogspot.com/2009/11/when-we-see-apollo-struck-down.html

http://runningfrombabylon.blogspot.com/


119 posted on 11/22/2009 4:48:14 AM PST by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4447645913344335461&hl=en#


120 posted on 11/22/2009 4:49:22 AM PST by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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