LAST REVIVAL .. THE COMING REVIVAL .. REVIVAL PROPHECY .. APOSTOLIC RESTORATION
NOW AVAILABLE:Living Laodicea - a revelation of the last move [DN Hoets, 1991]
"We are on the eve of the LAST TIDAL WAVE - the greatest worldwide outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the history of the Church."
A multitude of prophecies [DN Hoets]
Important. Also look at the historical context over the past decades [Reformation].
Benny Hinn told millions at a recent gospel crusade in Argentina that the last world-wide outpouring of the Holy Spirit is at the doors.
1. "THE PERFECT STORM--PREPARE FOR A DOWNPOUR OF MY SPIRIT!" Read more...
2. "Get Ready For the Ride--We Are About to Experience the Tsunami of the Holy Spirit!"
3. The Signet Ring \ God's Promotion Day
4. "For 2008, Prophetically, I Hear SICKLES--God is Preparing to REAP NATIONS"
UNVEILING GOD'S PLAN FOR SOUTH AFRICA [DN Hoets]
Prophetic Word Archive
Jonah - Understanding the timing of the Coming Tsunami in the midst of the Storm
Truly, the American church and by extension the church worldwide (as being influenced by the US) can be likened to Jonah going down into the ship headed for Tarshish. Jonah went down into the lowest parts of the ship and fell fast asleep.
The church has slipped into a deep sleep, embracing the easy message of ease, success and prosperity (Prosperity gospel) and other forms of Charismania that deny the way of the cross such as the Lakeland revival.
However, God has in His mercy sent a storm - a severe global economic storm - to wake us up and to bring revival to Nineveh. Surely we are in the midst of the economic storm now and should expect the ship (our comfortable success and prosperity gospel) to shatter soon. Some have already been thrown overboard and are seeking Him for restoration in the depths of the sea.
I believe and sense the Holy Spirit indicating that we are closer to the coming Tsunami of the the Holy Spirit than ever before. It is imminent. Let us cast aside all weights and things that will hinder us from fulfilling His call as we await His summons to Nineveh.
As we come out of the place of prayer, covered in seeweed and barnacles (Presence and anointing of the Spirit) and bleached from the large fish, the world will recognise the anointing and repent as the Jonahs arise and go to Nineveh.
However, the revival in Ninevah is short and Nineveh eventually returns to its ways and is judged by God years later. Similarly the world will decend into tribulation after this coming Tsunami and darkness will once again descend upon the earth. However, the Lord is coming to take us [the revived church] to Himself very soon and we will escape the coming darkness that is to descend upon this earth.
Malachi complements Jonah's message. In Malachi 4:1 "the day is coming, burning like an oven", we see the conditions that precede the coming outpouring of His Spirit. We are in an oven. The heat is turned up. Is this not what is happenening today, especially in the US as economic conditions worsen?
Healing will be central in the coming outpouring. The miraculous will be the hallmark of the coming Tsunami. It will come from those who have grown fat like stall-fed calves in the wilderness and who have come to the place of repentence in belly of the fish. [Malachi 4: 1-3]
1. "Nineveh"
2. "Lakeland"
The Perfect Storm
By DN Hoets
VERY SIGNIFICANT PROPHETICALLY: SENATE ENQUIRY
FOUNDATION SCRIPTURE
For the time has come for judgment to
begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? [1 Peter 4:17]
NEW: Understanding the BLUEPRINT OF THE LAST DAYS [DN Hoets]
A Desperate Cry for Revival in 2008 [Lee Grady]
Note: God has a sovereign plan for The Last Revival.
Kenneth Hagin's Forgotten Warning [Grady]
2007 Hall of Shame - Selected Blogs [2008 Resolutions]
The Flying Scroll [DN Hoets]
The scroll sent out represents the divine decree of judgment by God and is seen in the natural by Grassley's letters given to six ministries representing the Prosperity / Word-Faith Movement.The curse will enter the houses of the Prosperity ministries throughout the earth and even the houses of some of the Prophetic Movement who refuse to warn the people of God concerning this Great and Final Apostasy. Some so-called prophets today only prophesy good things but never warn the people of God concerning the slippery pathway of the Prosperity Movement and other judgments to come.
The Two Sticks [DN Hoets]
The stick UNITY has been broken.The stick GRACE is broken
too. If we do not separate ourselves from the Prosperity
Movement, we will not receive the abundant grace that
is
coming to the body of Christ.
"And he shall bring forth the capstone
With shouts of "Grace, grace to it!"" Zechariah 4: 7b
1968 PROPHECIES of the LAST DAYS
1965 VISION OF COMING DECEPTION
On which road are you travelling? The narrow path or the wide path of the Prosperity Movement?
Death of the Preacher
Another Gospel [David Wilkerson] Scroll down - audio.
The Great and Final Apostasy [David Wilkerson]
Whatever happened to Repentance Preaching [David Wilkerson]
Revival is Like Judgment Day
This is the last message preached by
Dr. J. Edwin Orr on April 21 1987.
History of Revival Series [Dr Edwin Orr]
UPDATE:
Kenneth Copeland rejects Grassley Deadline [31 March 2008]
Hinn cooperating, Copeland not, in probe by Sen. Grassley
Copeland requests an IRS Audit
MinistryWatch.com Calls on Copeland and Dollar to Comply With Senate Demands
Wikio
Without Walls Turns Over Financial Documents
Senate probe of 'prosperity preachers' reports progress
Baucus joins Grassley in follow-up letter to ministries
Possible subpoenas for Dollar, Long if they don't submit financial docs
Senator Backs Televangelist Probe
The devils in Washington
Kenneth Copeland Reportedly vows to “Fight Dirty”
Kenneth Copeland and Creflo Dollar …
Senator Grassley Not Giving Up!
Senator Awaiting Records of Ministries’ Finances
Business Week: Televangelists could survive inquiry
Creflo Dollar refuses to hand information to Senator
Copeland's Response - Over my dead body (Although he handed some documentation to the senator before the deadline, it was legally kept under wraps and also incomplete. It seems that only Joyce Meyer has fully complied.) Huckabee's support.
Televangelists fail to answer Senate inquiry
Televangelist Joel Osteen (also of the Prosperity movement) shuns lavish lifestyle
[Behind the Smiles: A Closer look at the Teaching of Joel Osteen] ; Spiritual Diabetes
Ministry Salaries
The President of ORU, Richard Roberts, has resigned. God has responded with His blessing by removing ORU's debt.
Lesson: The blessing of God will come from His Sovereign Hand as we turn from the Prosperity Movement to Jesus Christ taking heed to His reformation. The Lord spoke to me earlier this year saying that His blessing would increase significantly from 24 September 2007. This blessing has and is coming to those of the reformation and not to those of mixture.
UPDATE: Oral Roberts University (ORU) unanimously accepted the remaining $62 million sum of an initial and conditional $70 million offer made by the family that founded chain stores Hobby Lobby and Mardel. “We stand together today knowing the future of ORU is strong,” said Mart Green, the donating family’s representative since November. According to Green, his family’s proposal focuses on a new model of “shared governance” that carries forward ORU’s “mission and founding vision for generations to come.” Green will assume chairmanship of a new board of trustees, which will replace ORU’s board of regents. Former regents will transition to a nonvoting, newly formed board of reference. Green will carry his family’s lone vote on the board, which will be made up of nine to 22 members, beginning initially with 13 trustees. Oral Roberts will continue as ORU’s chancellor, and will also be named a lifetime trustee. [AP, 1/14/08]
IMPORTANT: Kenneth Copeland and his son-in-law, former chairman of the board are no longer on board. Benny Hinn and Creflo Dollar's role diminished. Duplantis.
Centuries ago, an outcry arose by many people concerning the abuse of the church. When Johann Tetzel was selling indulgences in Germany, he came into Wittenberg. Money for church buildings. Martin Luther was enraged and put up his "95 theses" or statements on indulgences and he pinned them up on the church door at Wittenberg, bringing in the Reformation.
Today, the outcry is getting louder and louder.
In the 1980's, Jim Bakker - a prosperity televangelist having airconditioning in his doghouse - was sent to prison. In prison, he saw the error of the properity gospel, repented and refutes this doctrine to this day. His ex-wife, Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, who divorced Bakker when he was in prison, has died recently, indicating an end of an era.
Billy Graham was different. He lives a simple life free from sexual and financial scandals. How different he is to the high-living preachers and sex scandals [Catholic Church in Crises, Pro-gay agenda splitting Anglican Church, Desmond Tutu's response, Earl Paulk, Divorces of Juanita Bynum and Paula White] that are surfacing today.
Graham's son Franklin explained that some of his father's popularity was his decision to set up a standard of accountability. "Evangelists were known by leaving the unpaid bills behind. An evangelist would take up a love offering and then leave town." The elder Graham put a limit on his salary and dedicated the rest of the monies to ministry. "Daddy gave a really good name back to evangelicalism."
Ruth Graham, who died recently: when singer June Carter Cash gave her a mink coat, she refused it—saying that an evangelist’s wife could not live lavishly. Graham’s down-to-earth moderation seems refreshing at a time when some evangelists are defending extravagance [Extract from Lee Grady].
Another generation of prosperity televangelists has arisen. They are at the center of the controversy. However, the Prosperity Movement has grown over the past decades and has tentacles throughout the earth. Todays televangelists under scunity are symbolic of the whole Prosperity Movement. All roads lead to Kenneth Copeland in this movement. He is a father figure who has taken up the reigns from Kenneth Hagin who passed away a few years ago.
A senate enquiry - based on complaints from church goers, media and whistle blowers - has sent shockwaves throughout the US.
Lavish lifestyles using the donations and offerings of the saints. Generous salaries and housing allowances. Amenities such as private jets (often more than one and some even with their own airport) and Rolls-Royces. Lavish billionaire lifestyles using the donations and offerings of the saints. Cosmetic surgery, extravagant Hollywood lifestyles, vacations to exotic islands, many multi-million mansions, a $23,000 marble-topped commode, a $30,000 conference table, a $11,219 French clock...
YouTube - Latest televangelist expose - Kenneth Copeland!
Kenneth Copeland's jet is only supposed to be used for ...
David Wilkerson Blasts Faith Preachers In Sermon by Billy Bruce in New York City, 1999
"If you want to be blessed, you have to find the most blessed evangelist or pastor you can find because he that has been given much receiveth much, he that has little, even that which he has will be taken from him. If you find the most blessed prosperous preacher and give him money, then you will be blessed. The more blessed he is, if you give to those that are most blessed - it is a pyramid scheme. If these men were in the secular world, they would be in jail. Here is the transcript of the "Reproach Of The Solemn Assembly" by David Wilkerson.
“We don't need your money...we don't need your money, but we want you to be blessed, and we want to release the blessing into your life, and that's what this is all about” - (Paul Crouch Jr. - TBN Fall 2007 Praise-a-Thon November 10th 2007)
Videos
Senator Probes Megachurches' Finances
Senator Grassley Speaks Out Against...
The Door
Cartoon
Jets
TV evangelists call signals from the same playbook
Clark: Prosperity preachers undermine the real Christian message
The Prosperity Movement or Word-Faith Movement or Positive Confession Movement or name-it-and-claim-it gospel is at the centre of the scandal. The "Prosperity Movement" is the focus, primarily, because of their fundraising pitches. Governing boards that are not independent. Leadership is often concentrated in one person or family. Dictatorship.
Oral Roberts University [ORU] - the Prosperity Movement's current university - is being shaken with allegations of misuse of university funds - lavish living, exotic vacations, etc. - by the head of ORU. One accusation is that the family used a university jet to send one of their daughters and her friends on a trip to the Bahamas. More ...
The same outrage is spreading throughout the world.
A short while ago, the Daily Dispatch in East London, South Africa, published a series of articles about a local prosperity ministry in East London, linked to TBN South Africa. Empires, lavish lifestyles, a very thin line between business and ministry dealings. One common thread - a strong "Prosperity" emphasis to the gospel. The local East London ministry has strong ties to the Copelands.
Lee Grady of Charisma, the well-known Charismatic magazine, has raised these issues of excesses and fund raising methods by Christian television over the past months and sees God's hand in this long overdue (long-suffering) cleaning of His house. TBN, on the other hand, in an open letter to the Charisma Magazine, sees this as an attack from Satan and that this attack will affect the entire church in the years ahead. TBN sees it as another Spanish Inquisition. Copeland's daughter sees the investigation as similar to the persecution of the Jews by the Natzis.
[There may be some truth to this. Near view. Far view. Dave Wilkerson in The Vision (1974) spoke of taxation and persecution coming to churches, context of a global recession. Persecution does lie ahead and this may eventually lead to it.]
The rise of the Apostolic
I believe that the true apostolic movement will be of opposite character to those of the Prosperity Movement. The Prosperity preachers come in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves [Matthew 7:15 Context Matthew 7:13-27]. 1 Corinthians 9 characterises the true end-time apostolic movement. They follow Paul's example - they work and present the gospel free of charge.
Even secular magazines, are focussing on the Prosperity Movement and questioning their emphasis.Time Magazine has had numerous tv evangelists on its front cover over the past months.
The Financial Mail [a leading financial magazine], South Africa, December 2007 issue, has this on its front cover - the business of religeon.
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Uganda
Nigeria [1][2][3][4][5] [6][7]
Kenya
South Africa [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
"[The prosperity gospel] is the most sweeping movement within the continent of Africa," says Dolan. "The African people at large in the church have bought into it hook, line, and sinker. It offers tremendous promise to an economically deprived people."
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Will the strain of the ORU scandal lead to the death of Oral Roberts - one of the two said to die as a sign of the coming worldwide move of God?
The world is crying out for the true gospel. They will not follow the Prosperity Gospel. They see through it. The Prosperity Gospel must decrease. There is a middle road between the extremes of the Prosperity Gospel and the Poverty Gospel! Blessed are the poor in spirit... (trusting in Jesus and not in themselves). The spiritual walk needs to be emphasised. Reform is the order of the hour. Let us not only deal with the fruit, but cut to the root. Doctrine needs to be dealt with. Reform.
My main concern with the Prosperity Gospel is not wealth and excesses - this is all that the world sees - but the damage that such a gospel (in its strong adherence to principles and spiritual laws, undermining the Lord's sovereignity and its unbalanced understanding of 'faith') does to our personal relationship and fellowship with Jesus. The key to a whole, healthy personal relationship with Jesus is overlooked and is not emphasised in this movement. Often the teaching of this movement contradicts that which is needed for a healthy anointed personal relationship with Jesus.
I strongly recommend that those coming out of this movement read Jeanne Guyon's classic, "Experiencing the depths of Jesus Christ," as the basic truths concerning our personal relationship with Jesus are clearly shown. Watchman Nee too. These truths are not taught in the movement. Let us move from the gospel of prosperity (gospel of poverty, social gospel) to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
...Contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain men have crept in unnoticed,... Jude 3,4
Outwardly the reformation deals with abuses and excesses. Inwardly the reformation is concerned with restoring our personal relationship with Jesus Christ. This reformation has been taking place over the past 20 years. It is a like an iceberg. Many only see the tip of the iceberg. Truly, it is much more widespread and deeper than the current senate enquiry. It affects all nations, not only the US.
The Lord showed me a house in the Spirit. It was burning. He gently reminded me that this fire was from Him. It has been sent to purge His house before He visits His people.
Hence, the series "Pure Gold" which deals with the Sacred Cows that need to be driven out of the Temple.
LATEST PROPHETIC WORD : Pure Gold (sequel from The Temple)
Indeed we are come to the completion and perfection of death. The preparation of His chosen vessels is complete. Death to self and to the flesh. The end of an era. Death is also coming to the Prosperity Movement through judgment. Purification. God is behind it! And the reformation is much bigger than Grassley or the media.
A Time of Correction
Corrections have begun in the House of the Lord!
Corrections continue in the House of the Lord
Read it and Weep (Excellent articles, many by Lee Grady of Charisma)
Why did the Glory leave us?
State of the Church
We are on the eve of the Coming Tsunami of God - the coming worldwide revival. It is truly at the doors! Resurrection life. New beginnings.
"Removing the Mountain" dovetails with the Coming Worldwide Revival
Zechariah 4: 6b-7
Not by might nor by power, but by My
Spirit,
Says the Lord of hosts.
'Who are you, O great mountain?'
Before Zerubbabel you shall become a
plain!
And he shall bring forth the capstone
With shouts of "Grace, grace to it!"
The context is the building of the latter temple (Haggai 2:9). See 'The Great Shaking' below for a deeper prophetic understanding. Before the completion of the latter Temple, a great mountain must be removed. The mountain is the 'Prosperity Movement or Word-Faith Movement'. This is done not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit and by My Sovereign hand. The twist is that 'Removing the Mountain' has always been central to this very movement in its teaching by positive confession.
As the mountain is removed, the coming tsunami of God will come. I am sensing that this coming worldwide move of God will dovetail with the judgment which has come and is still coming to His house.
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Is the Senator's investigation the proverbial "storm in a teacup" or the beginning of "the perfect storm"? A storm sovereignly orchestrated by God. Let us not forget that the latter rain comes in the form of a storm - the perfect storm.
Blueprint of the Coming Worldwide Move of God
The Coming Move of God (Tsunami of God) manifests simultaneously as judgment comes; and judgment comes in two phases.
Firstly, it manifests as judgment comes to the house of God, and specifically on the Prosperity Movement. When many see the error, they will move away from this movement. It will be worldwide.
At the same time, His vessels have completed the preparation needed for the coming move of God. The tsunami of God, together with the rise of the apostolic movement, occurs at the same time.
The second phase occurs when a world-wide event occurs. Many have spoken of this. David Wilkerson in his message "The Last Revival" (listen to the audio clip) and others believe that this is coming. It will affect the world and cause many of the world to turn to Jesus in this late hour. The end-time harvest will accelerate as a great shaking takes place. Haggai confirms His sovereign hand in the end-time harvest.
HAGGAI 2: v6-9:
...I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations...
[Note: The first part of this passage - verse 6 (natural) - was fulfilled in the 2007 - the year of the flood, which precedes the spiritual Tsunami of God. See The Great Shaking below.]
What could this be? The collapse of the American economy? Andrew Strom seems to think that an economic collapse is coming (Economic judgment is Imminent). David Wilkerson too. Is not God first judging His church as to stewardship of money (Prosperity Movement) - the senate investigation being the beginning? Satan seems to have been allowed to test the Laodicean with money. This is the opposite test that Job experienced - the test of staying faithful to God in poverty. How has the Laodicean faired? The world judges the church as we failed to judge ourselves. However, will not God judge the world afterwards. Will not this judgment be concerning money - the collapse of the economy - a severe depression?
CALIFORNIA BEGS for JUDGMENT
The DREADED "D" WORD
US housing slump fuels crash fears
Pat Robertson's Word for 2008
Wilkerson's The Vision 1974 [chapter 1: A (economic) crash is coming.. ] - Highly Recommended.
(Prophecy mentions housing problem, credit crises, after fat years, severe global recession)
More wrt David Wilkerson's Economic Vision
The Coming Economic Crash Caused by World Debt [Don Koenig]
The first phase deals with the church. The second phase deals with the world. Sovereignity is stamped on the coming worldwide move of God.
The US is the focus of both judgments. (Why? Remember Stanley Frodsham's prophecy: Great darkness is coming upon the countries that have heard My gospel but no longer walk in it) However, what affects the US, affects the whole earth like a series of aftershocks following a severe earthquake.
Are other judgments also coming to America?
"It is simply about the many similar prophecies of calamity and physical judgment coming upon this nation. There seems to be a pattern, and I don't want to cause undue alarm, but simply to discuss these things so we are not unaware of them." Andrew Strom. Read more...
Disasters Where? [Andrew Strom]
Consider an extract from Stanley Frodsham's prophecy: "My wrath shall come upon them. The darkness shall be so great and the anguish so sore that men shall cry out for death and shall not find it. There shall be a lingering death, famine and great catastrophes." Read more...
However, Kenneth Copeland doesn't believe that America can ever be judged! Read more...
[How does the global recession affect the Prosperity Movement? Those that believe that their success and material prosperity are due to positive thinking, positive confession and their faith are going to have their theology shattered by the sovereign hand of God in the affairs of men. Also the trend will be that donations and giving to churches will decrease dramatically due to economic constraints].
Let us watch and wait upon Him to see how things unfold in the new year. Abundant grace and glory will come as the tsunami of God comes. In this season, both the watchmen and the storm chasers are hearing from God. Both have part of God's endtime plan for His church.
The Church has been in a time of transition and preparation, and we are entering a new season. NOW is the time for the Lord's people to ARISE and SHINE! It is time to ARISE to our destiny and SHINE forth into His glorious calling... [Mike and Cindy Jacobs]
PRAYER: We lift up Benny Hinn to God in prayer in this season as we recognise the Presence of God resting on him in an unusual way. We pray that his ministry, although having associations with the Word-faith Prosperity gospel and excesses [he stands against the 'name-it-claim-it' gospel and renounced Word-Faith theology on the 700 Club with Pat Robertson and on James Robison's show a few years ago], will not be cut off and that he will become stronger in God and more effective in the years ahead. [Many who criticise his ministry do not know the Presence of God themselves which reveals their own spiritual condition.]
1. "AS GOD'S ANOINTED, WE ARE TO BIRTH WHAT IS OF THE SPIRIT" [Taffie Furr]
Earlier this year, the Holy Spirit told me that He is purifying His Church; and He said that there is a separation coming first to the Western Church, then reaching into the entire world. It is a separation of what has been birthed from the flesh and what is birthed from the Spirit of God. We will be seeing many ministries and projects and churches being exposed; and among them, those who have been self-appointed, claiming to be in service to the Lord, will suddenly step down as the purifying of the Church begins.
2. GOLDEN LOAF OF BREAD [ Geoff Sadler]
As long as I've been a Christian (20 years), I can't remember a more exciting time than this, and this is only the beginning. God spoke to me recently that VERY SOON He is going to do something more radical than we have ever seen Him do before. The RAIN of His glory and REIGN of His Kingdom are about to be poured out on the earth like never before.
The Great Shaking
By DN Hoets
A great shaking will take place.
Afterwards there will be a shaking in the kingdom of God;
Then the end will come.
Words spoken by the Holy Spirit years ago.
I clearly remember the time when I uttered these words and knew at the time that they were significant. It was one of those moments when the Presence of God manifested unusually and such an eternal moment is never forgotten. The fullness of the shaking is upon us now! The great shaking precedes the coming tsunami of God - sovereignly brought about by His hand in the core - the depths of Jesus Christ - in His remnant waiting in the wilderness.
HAGGAI 2: v6-9:
"For thus says the Lord of Hosts:
Once more (it is a little while) I will SHAKE heaven and earth the sea and dry land;
and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations,
and I will fill this temple with glory,' says the Lord of hosts.
'The silver is Mine, and the GOLD is Mine,' says the Lord of hosts.
The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,'
says the Lord of hosts.
'And in this place I will give PEACE,' says the Lord of hosts.'
First, the WORLD is shaken. This occurs in the (1) natural. There is a significant exponential increase in the birth pangs which Jesus spoke of which will precede His coming for His people, with a special emphasis in the natural.
In the heavens - strong winds, hurricanes (2005 record year in US - 26 storms surpassing the record of 21 set in 1933, including Hurricane Katrina - the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history).
On the earth - fires (California Fires), heat wave (SE Europe 26/07/2007), floods (2007 - the year of floods: South Asia - India, Bangladesh and Nepal - the current floods across South Asia are being considered as the worst floods in living memory, Southern Pakistan, Jakarta floods - Indonesia, Intense rain in Central and Southern South America has caused flooding to occur in Argentina, Bolivia (February), US (Texas), UK & Wales (July 2007), Australia - Gippsland, China (June, July), Korea (August), Africa - massive flooding in a third of Africa : August, September 2007, the worst in decades, Mexico - "not just the worst natural catastrophe in the state's history but, I would venture to say, one of the worst in the country's recent history"), South Africa.
Under the earth - earthquakes, tsunamis (Thailand, India, Indonesia 26/12/2004 Measured in lives lost, this is one of the ten worst earthquakes in recorded history, as well as the single worst tsunami in history).
(2) The nations will be shaken. Wars and rumours of wars will increase. Terrorism (11/9/2001). Watch Iran.
ISAIAH 59:19, 60:1-3
So shall they fear
The name of the Lord from the west,
And His glory from the rising of the
sun;
[worldwide demonstration of the God's glory
- causing awe and wonder among the nations]
When the enemy comes in like a FLOOD,
The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a
STANDARD against him.
Arise, shine;
For your light has come!
And the glory of the Lord is risen
upon you.
For behold, the darkness shall cover the
earth,
And deep darkness the people;
But the Lord will rise over you,
And His glory will be seen upon you.
The Gentiles shall come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your
rising.
Note: Both (1) and (2) have occured simultaneously in Africa recently (August-September). The countries torn apart by civil war and rumours of war have been worst affected by severe flooding, the worst flooding in decades. Much of Africa's harvest has been destroyed by the floods. Some predict that 2008 is be a year of disaster without compare as famine, war and death grips most of Africa.
Many interecessors have sensed that the coming worldwide outpouring of the Holy Spirit (tidal wave) to be concentrated in the regions where the floods have come i.e. first-world nations. The natural precedes the spiritual. What of Africa? The floods in Africa have been far far more severe than that of Europe and the US. Does the recent catastrophic floods indicate Africa's central role in the coming worldwide move of God?
Afterwards there will be a shaking in the KINGDOM OF GOD - the coming tsunami of God.
Sovereignity and grace is stamped on this final work of the Lord and is confirmed by the 5 "I will" 's in the closing verses of Haggai.
Then the end will come.
NOTE:
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(1) Kim Clement - The US Earthquake Prophecy
July 28, 2007 — Harrisburg, PA
"In this Nation, yes, there shall be three earthquakes says the Lord. Not earthquakes of judgment but a sign in the earth. The wind has brought the rain. Signs from above. Fires have come on top of the land. Signs on top of the land. Fire consuming religion, consuming witchcraft, consuming control and the synagogues of Satan shall be invaded by the forces of righteousness, says the Lord of hosts. No more reasoning. No more debating. Go and show. Don't go and tell, go and show. For now you have embarked upon a period of manifestation, says the Lord. Now there must be a sign underneath the earth. And surely your earth shall shake saying to you three times and showing you three arenas. The heavens where the wind came and the rain came to America. On the earth the fires that came in the middle of this nation and shall continue in the west. And then underneath the earth - the shaking. And God says, you know why? Because the demonic powers that have held tight are now being released and being taken care of and being completely annihilated, says the Spirit of the Lord. They will never be above you, they will always be beneath you says the Spirit of the God..."
Related News Links:
FOX NEWS: 4.5-Magnitude Quake Rattles Los Angeles- August 9, 2007
During the early part of 2007, God began to deal
with me regarding signs that He was sending to the
earth through the disruption of weather patterns. You can read about these on my website (Kim Clement).
God had spoken to me about the fact
that this would work in favor of His
people and specifically how the weather
manifestations in the USA would be a
sign of the dawning of a great spiritual
era.
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(2) Benny Hinn speaks of this - A Shaking is Taking Place Around the Globe.
"God has been telling me in shocking ways that we are truly in the closing moments of this generation. What we do for Him during these remaining hours will determine where millions, perhaps billions, of souls spend all eternity.
Now, more than ever, we know that judgment is coming. Terrorism, unlike anything we have ever experienced before, is already unfolding. And during this time, God is giving us a window of opportunity unlike anything we have ever dared to imagine! "
"There is a purification moving over our globe. God is causing massive changes.
There is a shift going on in governments all around the world."
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The Purpose of the Shaking
By DN Hoets
SEPTEMBER 24, 2007: I am raising up my chosen vessels sovereignly in this hour of shaking, says the Lord. They have the true foundation deeply established in their natures. A deep personal fellowship with Jesus Christ and the deep work of the cross are central to this foundation.
At the same time, the world is being shaken, its strength weakened. Fear and uncertainly grips the hearts of the people of this world. Their knees knock together in fear. The Lord's intention is that every knee shall bow and that they surrender their lives to His Salvation and Lordship. Every knee shall bow - whether in this day of grace or at the Great White Throne judgment. However, the Lord is gracious and kind and does not desire that any should perish.
The 5 'I wills" emphasise God's sovereign hand in this season:
HAGGAI 2: 21-23:
I will shake heaven and earth.
I will otherthrow the throne of
kingdoms;
I will destroy the strength of the
gentile kingdoms.
I will overthrow the chariots
And those who ride in them;
The horses and their riders shall come
down,
Everyone by the sword of his brother.
'In that day', says the Lord of hosts, 'I
will take you, Zerubbabel My servant, the
son of Shealtiel,' says the Lord, 'and I will
make you as a signet ring, for I have chosen
you,' says the Lord of hosts.
My blessing will increase and rest on these vessels of Mine. Many of My people are under My curse HAGGAI 1:6. Many take My plans and My purpose from others, but do not have the true foundation established in their hearts. From this day, I am raising My vessels and My blessing will rest on them alone.
I will make them as a signet ring. Apostolic authority will rest on these vessels and will increase significantly in the days ahead. Their message is 'The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine.' As My people are taken from glory to glory in the coming sovereign move of My Spirit, a sifting and refining will take place. The brass will go. Only the gold - the pure gold - will remain in My temple. Those who heed and welcome My vessels will have My blessing rest on them. Those who choose to go their own way and reject My vessels and their message will remain under My curse.
The curse on today's Laodicean church is given in HAGGAI 1:6:
Now therefore, thus says the Lord of
hosts: "Consider your ways!
You have sown much, and bring in
little;
You eat, but do not have enough;
You drink, but you are not filled with
drink;
You clothe yourselves, but no one is
warm;
And he who earns wages,
Earns wages to put into a bag with
holes."
The way out - HAGGAI 1:7-8:
Thus says the Lord of hosts: "Consider your ways!
Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified," says the Lord.
Spend time alone with Jesus Christ. Prayer. Go up to the mountains. Bring wood - solid wood not melamine - which comes from spending time in His Presence. However, there also needs a shift in the foundations. More that simply spending more time in prayer. The foundations need to be changed!
The Prophet, Evangelist and Apostle
By DN Hoets
In the Book of Haggai, we see the prophet, evangelist and apostle.
The prophet Haggai 1: 2-6
Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, saying:
'This people says, 'The time has not come,
the time that the Lord's house should be built.''
Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in
your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in
ruins?'
Now therefore, thus says the Lord of
hosts: "Consider your ways!
You have sown much, and bring in
little;
You eat, but do not have enough;
You drink, but you are not filled with
drink;
You clothe yourselves, but no one is
warm;
And he who earns wages,
Earns wages to put into a bag with
holes."
The prophet speaks of the restoration of the prophetic movement that has arisen during the past few years. Unfortunately, there has been a mixture in the prophetic movement.
The prophet is concerned with God's times and seasons. Many call themselves prophets. However, the true prophets will always rebuke that which is of the flesh and own effort. The true prophet will NOT proclaim that all roads are acceptable in this hour. On the contrary, he will proclaim that the way is narrow and the foundations different from the mainstream; charismatics included. The true prophet points the way and directs, 'Go up into the mountains and bring wood and build the temple...' He also goes a little further, 'Stay and linger in the mountains that you bring solid wood...'
The evangelist Haggai 2:7 1:6
I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations (Jesus)...
You have sown much, and bring in
little...
The end-time move of God brings in the final harvest of the church age. Evangelists will have a key role in this hour. However, those raised up by the Lord over the past decades will bring in much. Those who have not been obedient to the Laodicean call of the Spirit will have sown much, and bring in little.
Notice that in Haggai 2, verse 6 (evangelist) and verse 8 (apostle) are found in the context of the coming glory. Verse 7 and verse 9 speak of the coming glory. Often the apostle will do the work of an evangelist and also bring the prophetic word.
Desire of All Nations
In both Jewish and Christian tradition, the phrase “the desire of all nations” (Hag. 2:7) has been generally interpreted as a messianic title of Christ.
Charles Wesley followed this interpretation when he wrote in his Christmas hymn “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” —
The apostle Haggai 2:8
'The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,'
says the Lord of hosts.
The final restoration at the end of the age is the restoration of the apostolic movement. Many today claim to be apostles. However, I speak of those whom the Lord has raised up and their central purpose is to take the church from where they are today into the coming glory of God.
True apostles will clearly distinguish between the gold - fine pure gold - and the brass. They will be instrumental in leading the way in the coming move of God.
'Be strong', Do not fear! (Verse 4-5)
Some called may 'fear' as the time draws near as they are weak in themselves - poor in spirit. However, as the enemy comes in like a flood in the great shaking, the Spirit of the Lord will cause those called and prepared to BECOME STRONG through His Presence in the coming season. They will rise up as evangelists and apostles in the coming hour.
The Prophet Zechariah, who ministered with Haggai, also emphasized the importance of trusting the Holy Spirit for the enablement needed to do God’s will: “Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts” (Zech. 4:6). A.W. Tozer once said, “If God were to take the Holy Spirit out of this world, much of what we’re doing in our churches would go right on, and nobody would know the difference.” What an indictment!
The work (Verse 4)
The work is to 'Go up to the mountains and bring wood...' The mountains speaks of the exalted place in Him - the secret place - and the wood is the revelation coming from His Presence. This revelation births the coming apostolic movement. Dead works, works of the flesh and church works done in our own strength does not find a place here. They are left at the foot of the cross.
“To work is to pray,” said St. Augustine.
The Mixture, Repentance and Separation
By DN Hoets
In the Book of Haggai, there is a passage which stands out.
Haggai 2:11-14
Thus says the Lord of Hosts: 'Now, ask the priests concerning the law, saying,
If one carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with the edge he touches bread or stew, wine or oil, or any food, will it become holy?' Then the priests answered and said, 'No.' [HOLINESS IS NOT INFECTIOUS]
And Haggai said, if one who is unclean because of a dead body touches any of these, will it be unclean?'So the priests answered and said, 'It shall be unclean.' [UNHOLINESS IS INFECTIOUS]
Then Haggai answered and said, 'So is this people, and so is this nation before Me,' says the Lord, 'and so is every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.'
The remnant had come from Babylon to build the Temple. Not all the Israelites came from Babylon. Many stayed in Babylon. Only a remnant returned. A narrow and hard road to take. It was much easier to enjoy the comforts of Babylon. Similarly, many today are in Laodicea. A remnant - few in number - have heeded the Master's call - the Laodicean call - in this late hour.
Even amongst those of the remnant there is a MIXTURE. Some have kept the old foundations where there is much of self (Haggai 1:6) and the world; and have simply embraced the vision of the coming move of God. The blessing of God will NOT rest on the mixture. Every work of their hands is unclean and what they offer is unclean.
Repentance is needed. Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand! Different foundations! Uproot the foundations! A separation is needed.
Ezra 4: 1-3
Now when the adversaries of Judah and
Benjamin heard that the descendants of
the captivity were building the temple of the
Lord God of Israel,
they came to Zerubbabel and the heads
of the fathers' houses, and said to them, ''Let
us build with you, for we seek your God as
you do; and we have sacrificed to Him since
the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who
brought us here.''
But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest
of the heads of the fathers' houses of Israel
said to them, ''You may do nothing with us to
build a house for our God; but we alone will
build to the Lord God of Israel, as King
Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.''
Only, once the new foundations are established, will His blessing be present!
Note: This is why the blessing of God has been lacking often. Even the prophetic movement is a mixture. [See The Coming Tsunami]
You have sown much, and bring in little...
By DN Hoets
Sowing seed. The law of seedtime and harvest. Many Scriptures speak of sowing the Word. However, let us sow in the Spirit. Sowing in the flesh has little fruit. Much effort. Little fruit. Frustration. Disappointment. Speaking the Word. Being positive. The power of confession. Being the prophet of your own life and destiny. Sound familiar?
This is not Biblical. It may appear to be biblically correct, but is not. This teaching destroys your personal relationship with Jesus Christ. I strongly admonish to break ties with extreme Word-Faith ministries such as the Copelands as they mislead many. This teaching is widespread in the Charismatic movement and is contrary to the coming move of God. Those who hold this teaching will be bypassed in the coming move of God. Take heed!
I admonish with tears as I once, many years ago, was a close follower of this teaching and would still be following this teaching if it were not for the Lord's grace and mercy towards me. Many are walking in the light that they have. Let us be careful how we deal with our brothers and sisters!
Locally, in South Africa, and even in East London, there are prominent ministries who have put forward "The Year of the Open Door" as the prophetic word for 2007. This comes from the prophecy given by Kenneth Copeland for 2007. Read more ... Even though there is nothing "wrong" with this word biblically, it comes from Kenneth Copeland (leader of the Word-Faith Movement - Creflo Dollar, Jerry Savelle, Fred Price and others), a ministry and movement which is very unbalanced and teaching which is contrary to the coming move of God. One should be distancing oneself from such ministries and not embracing their prophetic word and teaching!
Notice the emphasis on man's role in us being co-labourers with God. Self is emphasised. How different is this from the message of the cross in the coming worldwide move of God!
Look at the following verses, first, spiritually. Eating, drinking and being clothed is a type of us feeding on Him, drinking of His Presence and being clothed in His Presence. Notice the dissatisfaction, unfulfillment and void.
The curse on today's Laodicean church is given in HAGGAI 1:6:
Now therefore, thus says the Lord of
hosts: "Consider your ways!
You have sown much, and bring in
little;
You eat, but do not have enough;
You drink, but you are not filled with
drink;
You clothe yourselves, but no one is
warm;
And he who earns wages,
Earns wages to put into a bag with
holes."
The way out - HAGGAI 1:7-8:
Thus says the Lord of hosts: "Consider your ways!
Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified," says the Lord.
Spend time alone with Jesus Christ. Prayer. Go up to the mountains. Bring wood - solid wood not melamine - which comes from spending time in His Presence. However, there also needs a shift in the foundations. More that simply spending more time in prayer. The foundations need to be changed!
Is "Obey God's Word" preaching helpful?
Many ministries are Bible-thumping hear, believe and obey ministries. However, they don't lead you into a deep personal walk with Jesus Christ which is essential to truly obeying and fulfilling the Word of God.
The gospel is not simply one of hearing, believing and obeying precepts. Rather it is one of coming to know Jesus Christ and to grow closer to Him, knowing His Presence, His Voice, His Nature and His Heartbeat. A gospel such as this is misleading. It is more Old Covenant than that of the New Covenant.
Again, let us be careful in dealing with this as they are often walking in the light that they have.
Contamination
Jesus my Source
Today's church has the Word of God as its source. Tomorrow's church has Jesus Christ - a deep personal fellowship - as its source. This shift needs to take place. Few understand it. Most are Word people and rely on the Word of God and not primarily resting in Jesus Christ and abiding in Him - especially those in the Word-Faith Movement. Many no longer truly understand or know the continual experience of abiding in Him!
Remember we worship the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and not the Father, the Son and the Holy Scriptures!
JOHN 6:39-42
You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. I do not receive honour from men. But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.
Even at this time some of the fresh movements of house church and the apostolic prophetic are being seduced into becoming religious systems. Sadly, parts of the house church movement are not hearing the Spirit of God and are relying on the old system of teaching the Bible as understood by the minds of men without the reality of hearing from the Holy Spirit. This produces a work of religion in a different location or format and not the kingdom of God.
Christian religious systems ultimately rely on the Bible as understood by the minds of men applied to practical circumstances for direction of the system and its people.
The kingdom of God system ultimately relies on the Holy Spirit revealing the mind of Christ and the will of the Father through intimate relationship. Hearing and obeying the leadership of Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit will confirm and clearly make known to us what the Bible is saying. [Extract from Ron McGatlin www.openheaven.com ]
Consider
Haggai 2:11-14
Thus says the Lord of Hosts: 'Now, ask the priests concerning the law, saying,
If one carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with the edge he touches bread or stew, wine or oil, or any food, will it become holy?' Then the priests answered and said, 'No.' [HOLINESS IS NOT INFECTIOUS]
And Haggai said, if one who is unclean because of a dead body touches any of these, will it be unclean?'So the priests answered and said, 'It shall be unclean.' [UNHOLINESS IS INFECTIOUS]
Then Haggai answered and said, 'So is this people, and so is this nation before Me,' says the Lord, 'and so is every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.'
Keep away from religious systems and ministries!Similarity between Johnathon Edward's preparation and God's preparation for the Coming Tsunami of God
America was transformed by this Great Awakening which began through the ministry of one man - Jonathan Edwards.
From his youth, Edwards spent much time in secret with God seeking His Presence. He would often walk alone in the fields or the mountains praying to God with a deep affection. He spent much time reading and meditating on the Song of Solomon until he had a deep understanding of God's sweetness and light. He experienced God's presence as a sudden intrusion from "the other world" upon his natural senses. Edwards was used in a great way because he sought to be intimate with the actual Presence of God.
"I had an inward, sweet sense of these things, and my soul was led away in pleasant views and contemplations of the loveliness and sweetness of Jesus Christ. The sense I had of divine things would often kindle up a sweet burning in my soul, that I know not how to express."
Those prepared by the Lord for the coming worldwide move of God have gone through exactly the same transformation through His sweetness as did Johnathon Edwards.
Revival is essentially a spirit of prayer that rests on a person at all times. The Holy Spirit reveals the Father Heart of God - especially His great burden for lost souls. The spirit of prayer, or soul travail, begins to rest on a person with such magnitude and frequency that he can easily say, "I pray in the Spirit at all times."
In such a state, God will sanctify the person entirely - body, soul and spirit - so that he comprehends and experiences the holiness of God. The fulness of Christ then begins to overflow the person; God, who is infinite, goes on to sanctify everything around Him, using the individual saint as a channel of His love.
Extract from The Forerunner
Crossing over the Jordan
"Finally, God's Order is: 'Cross the River Jordan' NOW!"
by Bob Jones and Rick Joyner
Are you one who longs and has labored for a move of God to break open and for the Church to function like we read of in the Scriptures? If so, get ready to be amazed, encouraged and directed into one of the most stunning things God has ever made available to the Church.
A significant season with dates in June and July (7th) surfacing in prophetic circles. (Read more...)
Indeed, the word of the Lord is "Cross the River Jordon NOW." This is true worldwide. All true apostolic correction and instruction to churches should line up with this prophetic word. The apostolic movement which is to arise and manifest in its fullness in this season has this message central in its mandate from Jesus.
A third experience
Born again (Passover) ... Baptism in water (Crossing the Red Sea) ... Baptism in the Holy Spirit (cloud by day, pillar of fire by night)... Dying to self or taking up your cross (Jordon crossing).
Some saints, such as Kathryn Kuhlman, entered the third experience when they were baptized in the Holy Spirit, but most, like the Israelites, experience this distinctly at the Jordan, a place of death. Jeanne Guyon's book 'Experiencing the depths of Jesus Christ' [a well-known Christian classic] deals with this third experience extensively.
Kathryn Kuhlman: 'dying a thousand deaths'
Taking up her cross ... dying to herself ... allowing God to become totally alive through her ... it was the baptism of the Holy Spirit and it changed the direction of her ministry ... Kathryn started preaching under the new power that she had received ... soon people who were attending her Bible studies reported healings that occurred during the services... that ministry grew worldwide and included regular services in Los Angelos which began in 1965.
SIGNIFICANT FACTS
According to the World Christian Database, there are nearly 80 million renewalists in the United States, including pentecostals, charismatics and neo-charismatics. However, the majority of pentecostals reside in the developing world. The World Christian Database estimates that there are 84 million renewalists in Brazil -- the highest of any country in the world -- 72 million in China, 41 million in Nigeria, 38 million in India and 25 million in the Philippines.
Pentecostalism is the fastest growing Christian movement in the world and ranks second to Catholicism in numbers -- especially if one assembles all of the different factions of the pentecostal movement. Approximately one quarter of all Christians in the world today are pentecostals or charismatics of one stripe or another.
In the year that King Uzziah died...
By DN Hoets
Isaiah 6 : 1-4
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw
the Lord sitting on a throne, high and
lifted up,
and the train of His robe filled the
temple.
Above it stood seraphim; each one had
six wings:with two he covered his face, with
two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
And one cried to another and said:
"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
The whole earth is full of His glory!"
And the posts of the door were shaken
by the voice of him who cried out, and the
house was filled with smoke.
The prophetic word, "In 2007, I will call many Elijahs out of their cave [Thomas]" is correct. The timing of this is given in Isaiah 6. Certain people will die soon. When this occurs, the prophets of the wilderness will begin to surface.
When this happens, Jesus Christ will be lifted up and exalted ("I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up"). The message of these prophets is Christ-centred in truth. Heaven will truly come to earth. The glory of God will settle on the earth and the whole earth will be full of His glory. A shaking takes place and the Shekinah glory of God - His manifest Presence - increases significantly ("the house was filled with smoke").
Read more...
The Measuring Stick for 2007
Any ministry or church that does not have the coming tsunami first and central in its vision for the new year, 2007, is out of step with the Holy Spirit. Beware of any ministry that does not know of the coming move of God. Some even scoff at the prophetic word. Be wary of those who have the vision, and also a mixture in their ministry and lives.
Stormy weather has recently affected the US, Europe, the UK and Australia (first world nations). The natural precedes the spiritual. Is this not the sign given that the coming winds of God are at the doors? see [8] and [9] above
Is war coming? 40% See 2007 War With Iran As Second Carrier Deployed
A new nationwide poll reveals that four in ten Americans predict the U.S. will go to war with Iran in 2007 as a second aircraft carrier is deployed to the Gulf, putting 5,000 more U.S. sailors in the region, bringing the total to 16,000 in a clear escalation towards a military air strike on the country.
An unusual outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Jews occurs after the Ezekiel 38-39 war. After the rapture and the close of the church age, the emphasis shifts fom the Gentiles to the Jews.
The Coming Tsunami
by DN Hoets
The charismatic era has ended*. The end-time revival has begun (Read more...). We have seen two somewhat murky waves - the Toronto and Prophetic movements - the birth of Isaac. The Tsunami is ahead. Has the time come for the Tsunami of God?
John Wimber's separation from the Toronto movement marked the end of that wave. Has the fall of Paul Cain and the separation of Andrew Strom from the Prophetic movement marked the end of wave of the Prophetic movement?
Is this not an indication that the next wave is at the doors - the great tsunami?
I am in agreement with Andrew Strom and others concerning the Gideon company. The way has become narrower. Many who have key roles in the first movements and remained camped in them will not be leaders of the coming tsunami. This is necessary as it is the fullness of the progressive fulfillment of, 'Cast out this bondwoman and her son...'. Ishmael - the leaven of the Laodicean - must go!
I see a purer, sounder and deeper move coming from the wilderness (Read more...)... unlike the mixture that has surfaced until now... a tsunami whose waters will also reach the Historic churches and the Catholics.(Read more...)...
The 'glory of God' is descending. Until now, the glory of God has been hovering above the earth. The 'glory of God' will rest on the earth in the coming Tsunami.
*The moving of the cloud of God's glory is largely due to the Prosperity Word-faith movement's cancerous stranglehold on the Charismatic movement. The Charismatic movement has come under the judgment of God. Ichabod - the glory has departed.
NOTE: Just as the religious people took one aspect of our Lord's coming - as a conquering King - and rejected His role as the suffering Servant, so too, many today accept the 'end-time revival' but reject the 'end-time deception' that has brought the church into Living Laodicea. Some vice versa - mostly heresy hunters err this way. Both are true. The true prophetic word will include both aspects of the truth. The coming Tsunami not only brings life to the church but judgment and destruction to many.
1. Exposing the whitewash and foundation Read more...
2. The Bride of Christ Read more...
3. Reverence: the key to the Inner Court Read more...
4. Still Waters Read more...
5. Isaiah's Prophetic Picture Read more...
ARTICLE 1: Has the end-time harvest already begun? ...China...India...
ARTICLE 2: From the Shallows to the Depths ("The Wilderness Foundation")
ARTICLE 3: George Barna's Book: The Revolution
Riding the Third Wave
In the closing years of the twentieth century a new movement has been sweeping across Christianity known as the "Third Wave", "Third Wave of the Holy Spirit" or the "Signs and Wonders" movement.
The Third Wave is the third major move of the Holy Spirit; with the Pentecostal movement in the early twentieth century being the "first wave"; and the Charismatic movement of the mid-twentieth century being the "second wave."
The sheer size of the Third Wave is impressive. The movement "comprises 18,810 independent, indigenous, postdenominational denominations and groups." The Third Wave eclipses numerically all Pentecostals and Charismatics combined, with 295,405,240 adherents worldwide, while Pentecostals and Charismatics number 65,832,970 and 175,856,690 respectively.The Third Wave's greatest success is in the prophetic African independent churches; in Asia, especially amongst the House Church movement in China; and in Latin American countries, especially Brazil.It is estimated that by the year 2025 that the Third Wave will be able to claim nearly a half-billion members.
Those who are in the Third Wave do not regard themselves either as either Pentecostals or Charismatics.
The main figure in what is known as the "Third Wave" is a man by the name of John Wimber ...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Signs and Wonders was a phrase used often by Charismatic leaders in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It is closely associated with the ministry of John Wimber and the Vineyard Movement. One of the major emphases of the belief is that the Gospel cannot be effectively communicated to unbelievers without supernatural manifestations brought on by the Holy Spirit (such as prophecy and healing).
The Healing of the Waters
by DN Hoets
The first miracle - the healing of the waters - opens the door to the coming tidal wave of the miraculous.
Elisha took up Elijah's mantle with the double portion of the Spirit. He moved back across the Jordon and into Jericho. Here the miracle took place.
The coming tidal wave of the Holy Spirit brings forth the miraculous. The miraculous has broken out in some places to an extent. However, this is not the final wave. It is still future, but very close.
This mantle falling on those waiting in the wilderness occurs only after some die. The death of certain people in His sovereign time precedes the coming tidal wave. This truth has been a constant theme of the Holy Spirit over the past decades. Pastor Ed Roebert of Hatfield, South Africa spoke of this. Benny Hinn and Kim Clement have spoken of this truth too. Some will come out of the wilderness with Elijah's double portion after the death of certain people. When they come forth, moving in the miraculous, the first miracle will be central to worldwide explosion of the coming tidal wave.
Today the waters are bad. The ground is barren. Death is present. The waters are the waters of Jericho, which speaks of warfare and characterises the modern Charismatic movement. Although the Charismatic movement is central, the whole church is the ground of the last move of God. This is the same truth that Paul Cain brought forth - that today's church is barren and dead like Sarah's womb. Many don't like to hear this, but it is the truth.
Unless the waters are first healed, you will not flow nor have any part with the last move of the Holy Spirit. The waters are the waters of the present church. Today's church cannot bear His glory. There needs to come a change. The coming move of the Holy Spirit will come on the wings of repentance. Only to the extent that the church repents will their waters be healed.
Elisha said, "Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it." This speaks of the the NEW work which the Lord has been doing in the wilderness over the past decades. Those coming out from the wilderness are salty - very salty.
And he (Elisha) went out to the source of the water, and cast in the salt there, and said, "Thus says the Lord:'I have healed this water, from it there shall be no more death or barrenness.'"
The source of the problem in today's church is being dealt with! Let us pray for revelation concerning this.
Those coming from the wilderness will come with tremendous authority. Apostolic authority. As Elisha pronounced a curse on those who mocked him as he went up to Bethel, so will the coming apostles from the wilderness walk.
Elisha had to keep close to Elijah to receive the mantle and not to be found camping in Gilgal, Bethel, Jericho or in Jordan. However, once the mantle fell on him, he returned and ministered to those in Jordan, Jericho, Bethel and Gilgal. Similarly, those in the wilderness have not camped in any of today's movements including the Toronto and Prophetic movements. They will minister to these movements later so that the waters can be healed - yet only on the wings of repentance.
Selah.
The army from the wilderness
by DN Hoets
Joel 2: 3, 11a
A fire devours before them,
And behind them a flame burns;
The land is like the Garden of Eden
before them,
And behind them a desolate wilderness;
Surely nothing shall escape them...
The Lord gives voice before His army,
For His camp is very great.
A people come forth from the wilderness with fire. They have become a Garden of Eden in the wilderness - the miracle of the wilderness. They bring forth the Garden of Eden as they go forth. What they have experienced in the wilderness is manifested as they come forth out of the wilderness. Those who do not flow with this army will remain a desolate wilderness. Barrenness and death will remain in their lives and ministries.
When do they come forth? When the day of the Lord is at hand. When darkness abounds. The deeper the darkness, the more these people shine with the brightness of His glory.
The call to those who have not been through the true wilderness of God is given in Joel 1:5
Awake, you drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you drinkers of wine,
Because of the new wine,
For it has been cut off from your
mouth.
Joel prophetically speaks of Laodicea. A people who have been devoured by satan. No new wine. Branches white. Ruined fig trees. Stripped bare and discarded. A desolate and bleak state. This is the prophetic picture of today's church - a backslidden church bereft of the glory of God.
Yet, from this devoured people, an army arises - an army seperated by God in the wilderness for the past few decades.
Vision of the Two Fields
The Lord showed me two fields in the Spirit. They were both white. The first was the field in John 4:35
Do not say, 'There are still four
months and then comes the harvest'? Behold,
I say to you, lift up your eyes and look
at the fields, for they are already white for
harvest!
The second field was that of Joel 1: 6-7:
For a nation has come up against My
land,
Strong and without number;
His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And he has the fangs of a fierce lion.
He has laid waste My vine,
And ruined My fig tree;
He has stripped it bare and thrown it
away;
Its branches are made white.
Who will the Lord send to harvest the first field as His people are like the second field?
The cry that goes forth is given in verse 5:
Awake, you drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you drinkers of wine,
Because of the new wine,
For it has been cut off from your
mouth.
That is why the Third Wave has come to the Body of Christ - to bring the new wine and to turn water into wine - the beginning of the miraculous that ushers in the end-time harvest.
Look at Joel 2:12- 13a
"Now, therefore," says the Lord,
Turn to Me with all of 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.
The fresh move of the Holy Spirit concerns the HEART and our fellowship to Jesus Christ. Jesus is central in the Third Wave and the HEART relationship to Him is crucial. Religeon and the flesh must go.
Prayerfully consider the message of Joel.
Defiling the temple of God
By DN Hoets
1 CORINTHIANS 2-3
Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
On the surface, we may regard this as advice to look after our physical bodies by exercising and not smoking, etc. Although there is some truth in this, this is not what Apostle Paul was bringing to light in these chapters.
The context is ministry.
Ministries can defile the temple of God when they are off-balance and soulish.
Very few ministries are sound today. The spiritual condition is much worse than many realize because of our blindness and lack of discernment.
Some preach all the right things; yet in a predominantly intellectual manner with little power. This soulish ministry results in defiled fruit. Some appear regularly on Christian television. They are born-again, baptized in the Holy Spirit - preachers - yet their ministry is predominantly soulish and comes from the natural man.
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The Tabanacle of David
By DN Hoets
These chapters - AMOS 8, 9 - give the prophetic picture of the transition from the charismatic era to the last move of the Holy Spirit which had its beginnings in the early 1990's.
In chapters 8 - 9:10, we see death, judgment and an emphasis on praise and worship. In the last portion of chapter 9, the raising of the tabanacle of David is revealed and a day when the plowman will overtake the reaper.
Moving the Mountain
By DN Hoets
There are two pictures of moving mountains in the Scriptures. Often the picture in Zechariah 4 is overlooked. To be true to Scripture, we need to look at both accounts before forming any doctrinal emphasis. If we do not do this, our perception of the truth will be distorted and we transgress and lead others into error.
Let us first consider Zechariah 4: 6-7
This is the word of the Lord to
Zerubbabel:
'Not by might not by power, but by My
Spirit,'
Says the Lord of hosts.
'Who are you, O GREAT MOUNTAIN?
Before Zerubbabel you shall become a
plain!
And he shall bring forth the capstone
With shouts of "Grace, grace to it!"'"
Also verse 2-3, 14:
And he said to me, "What do you see?"
So I said, "I am looking, and there is a
lampstand of solid gold with a bowl on top of
it, and on the seven lampstands with seven
pipes to the seven lamps.
Two OLIVE TREES are by it, one at the
right of the bowl and the other at its left."
So he said, "These are the two anointed
ones, who stand beside the Lord of the
whole earth."
Here the emphasis is on "Not by might not by power, but by My Spirit." It is not a soulish command to the mountain. Sometimes we have - and especially those in the faith branch - have taken the words of our precious Lord wrongly. We ignore the rest of the Bible and instead of throwing our view back into the Scriptures and letting the Word give true balance, we prematurely form doctrine.
We need to be careful speaking to our mountain! Unless it is done in the Spirit and initiated by the Holy Spirit, we err. Some even teach others to err in this.
Mark 11: 22-23
So Jesus answered and said to them,
"Have faith in God.
"For assuredly, I say to you, whoever
says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be
cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his
heart, but believes that those things that he says
will come to pass, he will have whatever he
says.
Therefore I say to you, whatever things
you ask when you pray, believe that you
receive them, and you will have them.
Those in the Third Wave understand this and tend to lean on the Zechariah emphasis as this approach is more Christ-centred. When we lean on the Holy Spirit and the anointing of God in all things, we rely more on Jesus and His life. This is the correction needed in the charismatic church today. Let us not fall into the trap by becoming soulish Christians!
I bring fire
by DN Hoets
As the fire comes, the mixture of gold and brass will heat up and melt. As the heat increases, the dross – the brass - will rise to the surface. The responsibility of these prophets of the wilderness is to bring the fire. It is the responsibility of the people of God to remove the brass as it comes to the surface and becomes clearly visible. The brass will be seen to be different from the gold. As the brass is removed, the gold will become purer and the Refiner will look down from heaven and seeing His own face in the pure gold, will bless the people of God in all His fullness ushering in the COMING MOVE OF GOD.
The missing link
by DN Hoets
The preaching has changed. Lip-service is paid to our personal relationship to the Lord. The emphasis has changed. However, revival is coming. This new anointing comes on the wings of our restored deep inward personal relationship .... and this restoration - from the shallows to the depths - will affect every aspect of our lives - both private and public. No longer will we be able to clap, whistle, etc. in praise and worship. A new reverence and spirit of worship will envelop us.