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
Thanks.
Treated as New Years involves what?
American In Israel;
Is there any heightened spiritual sense in any respect for this Rosh Hoshana? Or about any other thing currently?
Who has the End Times List??? I’d like to be added :-)
I manage the END TIMES, DREAMS, VISIONS, PROPHECY PING LIST.
Joya, LibertyRocks & TaraP manage backup for it.
What level do you want pinged at:
“A” least often but can be often given lots of noteworthy events and posts.
“B” more moderate level of pings.
“C” more frequent pings.
“D” about everything I consider interesting that crosses my path.
“E” is a private invitation only list of folks I feel have demonstrated serious discernment and prophetic gifting who I ping from time to time for their take on something. If you know someone like that, I’d be happy to know about them.
So, please let me know what level you want to be at on the list. Each level includes all the levels below it.
D please and thank you for your dedication in doing this.
Amity
SURE.
Thanks for your kind words and joining us.
FReegards.
SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by Marsha Burns — Sept. 18, 2009:
I hear your heart and know your desires. Your prayers are not in vain; they have been heard, and I tell you that I am not a God without power to perform My word. Nothing is impossible for Me, says the Lord. My will is being perfectly executed in your life and in your circumstances as you exercise faith and trust Me. You are My greatly loved and chosen vessels. Rest in the assurance that I am with you always.
Isaiah 59:1 Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.
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Rosh HaShanna is more than a New Years party, it is the birthday of Creation when man inherited creation and all that came with it, namely God.
This Rosh HaShanna is the begining of the 7 years cycle to the Jubilee, and some of the Sages say that this is the Jubilee of Jubilee’s. They say that this year is the most important Rosh HaShanna in thousands of years. They believe that this is the last Jubilee before the Messiah comes. Ie the last 7 years of this age. They have stated that the Holy Spirit will be poured out on this earth like never before in the next seven years.
THIS Rosh HaShanna is a turning point in the History of man.
Shanna Tova and may your name be written in the book of life this year!
Thanks for your kind response. Is your sense on the ground there . . . that we ARE likely to have 'festivities' before the end of the year vis a vis 'I'mANutJob?' If so, what probability percentage-wise would you guesstimate for it?
Currently I am not “on the ground” as I have relocated to Alaska for a different assignment. But as for your question, yes, things are very tense, Israel is doing air raid drills and Bibi went to Russia to try and get the Russians from supplying the technological know how to Iran for manufacturing H Bombs. I highly doubt he was successful.
I cannot give a probability on that, Nut Job is pretty unpredictable. I would suspect low as having the materials and constructing Nukes are quite a different step. The Muslim faith does not tend to lend itself to quality work or innovation.
I’ve lived in Seattle since 1966. I just closed on my rural central Kentucky property in August. I noticed something interesting about certain bible prophesy about, well, 8 years ago. Eventually it brought me to what you see in my tag line.
God is not the God of America. He is the God of all mankind that accept Jesus as their savior. I pray for my nation but, more importantly, I pray for people. However, I fully believe there were Germans praying for their nation as they watched Hitler rise to power. Sometimes a nation gets what it deserves, and sometimes it brings more to Christ.
Our nations problems as due to the choices of our individual citizens in their day to day lives as well as our choices in leaders, since we are a constitutional republic, but for how long is in serious question.
>>If Obama comes into office, this is what America will reap.<<
It is what I thought when you posted that. At that time I was shaking hands on the purchase of my house and acreage in Kentucky. The number of “coincidences” that allowed my to close on that property are amazing.
But to your post, it is coming true, regarding the “man caused” elements.
Ahhhh.
Thx.
What part of Alaska, if I may ask.
Much appreciate your perspective.
VERY WELL PUT.
THX.
God is not the God of America. He is the God of all mankind that accept Jesus as their savior. I pray for my nation but, more importantly, I pray for people. However, I fully believe there were Germans praying for their nation as they watched Hitler rise to power. Sometimes a nation gets what it deserves, and sometimes it brings more to Christ.
Our nations problems as due to the choices of our individual citizens in their day to day lives as well as our choices in leaders, since we are a constitutional republic, but for how long is in serious question.
YUP.
I googled this guy and came across this thread at godlike productions.
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message695958/pg1
The guy that posted it last january (doc savage) was verbally crucified by the people there but the thread goes on and he gets support as the words ring true.
I am watching the words of this prophet cautiously. He “seems” to be the real deal, but I’ve seen it before. What always makes or breaks these guys is the detailed short term prophesies.
Actually, so far it ALWAYS breaks them. Most of them are like magicians. It is “sleight of hand” stuff. One guy talked about the US of hundreds or thousands of years in the future that he saw in visions. It was quite detailed. But anything near term was not and was so broad that he could show that it happened in one form or another. That is, until, several years ago, he predicted a 9+ earthquake to happen near Palm Springs within that year.
It never happened.
I’ll be following John Paul Jackson to see what is happening. His prophesies are pretty short term and it is interesting that he talks of people leaving the cities for rural areas, and for the reasons they are. It is why I bought my home and acreage in Kentucky. And, without going into detail, it is naturally defensible, which is a main reason why I bought it. It is an individual finger of a plateau, about 80’ above a valley. It is excellent farmland with lots of hardwoods around the edge.
It is only 13 acres, but that is enough for our purposes.
But enough about me. We’ll see how things go. So far, when speaking to me, Jackson is preaching to the choir.
I should add that for the last few years I have sensed this stuff the way animals sense a coming earthquake. I have said I almost feel like the main character in 13 monkeys that has gone back to the time before the disaster and am a temporary visiter to what mankind “once had” as I am living in the last days of it.
No prophesy here. Just my odd feelings and my attempt to articulate them.
Maybe I need psychiatric help. ;)
You need no shrink help.
Just cheers on as you walk out The Lord’s leading in your life.
Congrats.
Thanks for sharing. Blessings,
It is my friend and JPJ’s word and the one I have received are coming to pass more each day.
I’m into part 7 of this so far this morning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9vxpntuCes&feature=related
Thought provoking at the very least, especially since I am one of those people that goes to bed seeing it as “movie time”. I have incredible and VERY realistic dreams all the time. I’ve been shot, driven a car into a concrete wall, seen a nuclear blast and felt the shock wave as it hit me in the yard, and a lot of other subtle stuff.
My interpretation has always been that it is my brain defragging every night and bits of files get partially joined in my subconscious to form stories. Maybe I should pay more attention. ;)
I live about 20 minutes from Sarah’s house.
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