The Prophetic Hour
You may have survived the day of the Shemitah. You may have survived the moon turning pink...but will you survive the day they are marking?
Isaiah 10:5“Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.
6I will send him against an ungodly nation,
And against the people of My wrath
I will give him charge,
To seize the spoil, to take the prey,
And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7Yet he does not mean so,
Nor does his heart think so;
But it is in his heart to destroy,
And cut off not a few nations.
It is important to understand the prophetic nature of the hour we are in. Many, in immaturity, think that God can be defined by their emotions. This is delusion. Many times what children call love is exactly the opposite of love from a Father's perspective.
Because there are differences in what the immature see as love, and what the uncreated God sees as love, He has given us a way to understand the signs of love to watch for.
What is happening in the world right now is one sign of love after another...very intense signs of love that are warnings. The warnings lead to the promises that will be birthed in the maturing of love. Birth is painful.... Because of the fall...because of free will... What is born of true love is often painful.
What many in the church right now call love is simply rebellion. Jesus warned of deception more than any other aspect of His return. I see it everywhere. I believe the best days are ahead for those who humble themselves, and only for those who actually do the works that bear the fruits of repentance. I believe in the outpouring. I believe in the gifts. But, I refuse to unite around rebellion...warning after warning are in the Bible about power resting on the lawless:
Matthew 7:15“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
16“You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?
17“Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
18“A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
19“Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20“Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
21“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
22“Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’
23“And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
True fruit is the fruit of repentance. Agreeing with God that the cost of love is the maturing of rebellion alongside holiness....that the wheat and tares are so close to each other they can't be distinguished from one another until harvest. Understanding that the wheat and tares have roots mingled together....they are feeding on the same food....the same soil.
Mostly, the national charismatic conversation is one of false peace, false unity, and deception...it is easy to see because it is completely casting off the warning of love and all the signs that come with the warnings. Some are even joking about very significant signs, prophetic Revelation, and the teachers willing to warn about them. I don't agree with everything Jonathan Cahn believes about the end times, but he is certainly warning people from an actual Biblical perspective. I am seeing many who claim to be the " anointed of the Lord " mock the man and his sober attempt to save lives.
Making light of very rare signs to make people laugh is heaping death upon some of those people. Presenting faith as blithe carelessness, is not giving people true comfort, it is teaching presumption and stealing the desire to respond with holiness to an hour that will require it.
Respecting the hour you live in...valuing the signs and those even attempting to explain them as a warning ... is humility. The immature will always mock what they don't understand. The blood moon last night is a sign to back up the warnings, not an event in, and of, itself.
You cannot discard the intensity of the signs GOD calls love and still have true love. There is no love without obedience...without a choice to believe God's leadership is loving despite evidence to the contrary. Itching ears love to hear an "anointed" man redefine love to make us all feel more comfortable. Jesus went the other direction, though:
Matthew 11:2And when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples
3and said to Him, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?”
4Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things which you hear and see:
5“The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
6“And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.”
7As they departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
8“But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Indeed, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.
9“But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet.
Where was John for all His favor, obedience, and anointing? Prison.
What was about to happen to Him? Death. Who was behind it? Jesus.
Why? Love.
Jesus said His love is offensive to the immature...just like a parent's love is often offensive to a self-focused child.
John was the forerunner prophet. Did He prophesy immature love? Did He prophecy "your emotions about God....what you call God's heart...wins"? Or did He say " you better line your understanding of who God is up with who God says He is or you will be cast out forever"?
Which did HE prophesy?
Matthew 3:1In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
2and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”
3For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying:
“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
‘Prepare the way of the LORD;
Make His paths straight.’ ”
4Now John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
5Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him
6and were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8“Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance,
9“and do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
10“And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
11“I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
12“His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Jesus came to thresh...to winnow. Threshing is the breaking apart. Winnowing is the tossing up to see who is too light on love...too immature to humble themselves in the face of true love, and all the signs of the intensity of love crushing in on earth in rebellion. It will be painful to most...according to the Bible. Many will be lost. It's the written truth of love. Many crowns will be lost in the next couple of years...primarily by those who arrogantly define love based on a very immature understanding from a very comfortable perspective.
Revelation 3:11“Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.
Woe to those who follow faithful leaders offended by love and turning to fables and rebellion. They talk of His return yes, and they are bold in their proclamations of how God won't do any harm to those who are "in"... Woe to them who replace God with love. God is love... But love isn't God.
Isaiah 5:19That say, “Let Him make speed and hasten His work,
That we may see it;
And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come,
That we may know it.”
20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight!
Uncreated glory is coming. A light brighter than the sun. Who can dwell in the everlasting burnings?... Those who truly know their place...who know when He comes everyone who has ever witnessed even a little of that power laid prostrate on the ground as if dead...many arrogant, thoughtless shepherds will be taught humility on that day.
Sift your heart now. Repent now, while there is time. You won't dare define love for Him when He comes...so don't do it now. Let the main and plain truth of the very intense Word define love for you. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom...it's clean.
You may have survived the day of the Shemitah. You may have survived the moon turning pink...but will you survive the day they are marking?
Jeremiah 23:15“Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets:
‘Behold, I will feed them with wormwood,
And make them drink the water of gall;
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’ ”
16Thus says the LORD of hosts:
“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.
They make you worthless;
They speak a vision of their own heart,
Not from the mouth of the LORD.
17They continually say to those who despise Me,
‘The LORD has said, “You shall have peace” ’;
And to everyone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart, they say,
‘No evil shall come upon you.’ ”
18For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD,
And has perceived and heard His word?
Who has marked His word and heard it?
19Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth in fury—
A violent whirlwind!
It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
20The anger of the LORD will not turn back
Until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart.
In the latter days you will understand it perfectly.
21“I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22But if they had stood in My counsel,
And had caused My people to hear My words,
Then they would have turned them from their evil way
And from the evil of their doings.
23“Am I a God near at hand,” says the LORD,
“And not a God afar off?
24Can anyone hide himself in secret places,
So I shall not see him?” says the LORD;
“Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the LORD.
25“I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’
26“How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,
27“who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.
28“The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream;
And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully.
What is the chaff to the wheat?” says the LORD.
29“Is not My word like a fire?” says the LORD,
“And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
30“Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who steal My words every one from his neighbor.
31“Behold, I am against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who use their tongues and say, ‘He says.’
32“Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” says the LORD, “and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all,” says the LORD.
Isaiah 10:5“Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.
6I will send him against an ungodly nation,
And against the people of My wrath
I will give him charge,
To seize the spoil, to take the prey,
And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7Yet he does not mean so,
Nor does his heart think so;
But it is in his heart to destroy,
And cut off not a few nations.
It is important to understand the prophetic nature of the hour we are in. Many, in immaturity, think that God can be defined by their emotions. This is delusion. Many times what children call love is exactly the opposite of love from a Father's perspective.
Because there are differences in what the immature see as love, and what the uncreated God sees as love, He has given us a way to understand the signs of love to watch for.
What is happening in the world right now is one sign of love after another...very intense signs of love that are warnings. The warnings lead to the promises that will be birthed in the maturing of love. Birth is painful.... Because of the fall...because of free will... What is born of true love is often painful.
What many in the church right now call love is simply rebellion. Jesus warned of deception more than any other aspect of His return. I see it everywhere. I believe the best days are ahead for those who humble themselves, and only for those who actually do the works that bear the fruits of repentance. I believe in the outpouring. I believe in the gifts. But, I refuse to unite around rebellion...warning after warning are in the Bible about power resting on the lawless:
Matthew 7:15“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
16“You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?
17“Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
18“A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
19“Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20“Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
21“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
22“Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’
23“And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
True fruit is the fruit of repentance. Agreeing with God that the cost of love is the maturing of rebellion alongside holiness....that the wheat and tares are so close to each other they can't be distinguished from one another until harvest. Understanding that the wheat and tares have roots mingled together....they are feeding on the same food....the same soil.
Mostly, the national charismatic conversation is one of false peace, false unity, and deception...it is easy to see because it is completely casting off the warning of love and all the signs that come with the warnings. Some are even joking about very significant signs, prophetic Revelation, and the teachers willing to warn about them. I don't agree with everything Jonathan Cahn believes about the end times, but he is certainly warning people from an actual Biblical perspective. I am seeing many who claim to be the " anointed of the Lord " mock the man and his sober attempt to save lives.
Making light of very rare signs to make people laugh is heaping death upon some of those people. Presenting faith as blithe carelessness, is not giving people true comfort, it is teaching presumption and stealing the desire to respond with holiness to an hour that will require it.
Respecting the hour you live in...valuing the signs and those even attempting to explain them as a warning ... is humility. The immature will always mock what they don't understand. The blood moon last night is a sign to back up the warnings, not an event in, and of, itself.
You cannot discard the intensity of the signs GOD calls love and still have true love. There is no love without obedience...without a choice to believe God's leadership is loving despite evidence to the contrary. Itching ears love to hear an "anointed" man redefine love to make us all feel more comfortable. Jesus went the other direction, though:
Matthew 11:2And when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples
3and said to Him, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?”
4Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things which you hear and see:
5“The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
6“And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.”
7As they departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
8“But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Indeed, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.
9“But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet.
Where was John for all His favor, obedience, and anointing? Prison.
What was about to happen to Him? Death. Who was behind it? Jesus.
Why? Love.
Jesus said His love is offensive to the immature...just like a parent's love is often offensive to a self-focused child.
John was the forerunner prophet. Did He prophesy immature love? Did He prophecy "your emotions about God....what you call God's heart...wins"? Or did He say " you better line your understanding of who God is up with who God says He is or you will be cast out forever"?
Which did HE prophesy?
Matthew 3:1In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
2and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”
3For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying:
“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
‘Prepare the way of the LORD;
Make His paths straight.’ ”
4Now John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
5Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him
6and were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8“Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance,
9“and do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
10“And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
11“I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
12“His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Jesus came to thresh...to winnow. Threshing is the breaking apart. Winnowing is the tossing up to see who is too light on love...too immature to humble themselves in the face of true love, and all the signs of the intensity of love crushing in on earth in rebellion. It will be painful to most...according to the Bible. Many will be lost. It's the written truth of love. Many crowns will be lost in the next couple of years...primarily by those who arrogantly define love based on a very immature understanding from a very comfortable perspective.
Revelation 3:11“Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.
Woe to those who follow faithful leaders offended by love and turning to fables and rebellion. They talk of His return yes, and they are bold in their proclamations of how God won't do any harm to those who are "in"... Woe to them who replace God with love. God is love... But love isn't God.
Isaiah 5:19That say, “Let Him make speed and hasten His work,
That we may see it;
And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come,
That we may know it.”
20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight!
Uncreated glory is coming. A light brighter than the sun. Who can dwell in the everlasting burnings?... Those who truly know their place...who know when He comes everyone who has ever witnessed even a little of that power laid prostrate on the ground as if dead...many arrogant, thoughtless shepherds will be taught humility on that day.
Sift your heart now. Repent now, while there is time. You won't dare define love for Him when He comes...so don't do it now. Let the main and plain truth of the very intense Word define love for you. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom...it's clean.
You may have survived the day of the Shemitah. You may have survived the moon turning pink...but will you survive the day they are marking?
Jeremiah 23:15“Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets:
‘Behold, I will feed them with wormwood,
And make them drink the water of gall;
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’ ”
16Thus says the LORD of hosts:
“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.
They make you worthless;
They speak a vision of their own heart,
Not from the mouth of the LORD.
17They continually say to those who despise Me,
‘The LORD has said, “You shall have peace” ’;
And to everyone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart, they say,
‘No evil shall come upon you.’ ”
18For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD,
And has perceived and heard His word?
Who has marked His word and heard it?
19Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth in fury—
A violent whirlwind!
It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
20The anger of the LORD will not turn back
Until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart.
In the latter days you will understand it perfectly.
21“I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22But if they had stood in My counsel,
And had caused My people to hear My words,
Then they would have turned them from their evil way
And from the evil of their doings.
23“Am I a God near at hand,” says the LORD,
“And not a God afar off?
24Can anyone hide himself in secret places,
So I shall not see him?” says the LORD;
“Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the LORD.
25“I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’
26“How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,
27“who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.
28“The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream;
And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully.
What is the chaff to the wheat?” says the LORD.
29“Is not My word like a fire?” says the LORD,
“And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
30“Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who steal My words every one from his neighbor.
31“Behold, I am against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who use their tongues and say, ‘He says.’
32“Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” says the LORD, “and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all,” says the LORD.
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