Let it be said and catorgorically understood and known that i am not a prophet, neither the Son of a prophet! But what you are about to read has a "prophetic tone" and "urgent ring" about it! God by his spirit some time ago began to birth and burn a message - into my spirit! And now i feel the time is ripe and rife to release it, and share it with all and sundry - being a word in season to the body of Christ. Therefore: To him that has ears to hear, let him hear what THE spirit - is saying to the churches...
THE MIDNIGHT HOUR IS APPROACHING, THE NIGHT IS FAR SPENT, THE DAY IS AT HAND, AND EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE SHAKEN ...WILL BE SHAKEN " Yet once more more i shake not only earth, but heaven also! On that day friend: The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give of her light... and the stars of heaven will tumble to the ground as a fig tree which casts of her premature figs ... when she is shaken of a mighty wind! The title of the message today is "An awful storm is on the way"
It's approaching and nigh at the door! WITH THE PROPHET JOEL HAVING THE FIRST SAY: BLOOD, FIRE AND PILLARS OF SMOKE: THE POWERS OF THE HEAVENS SHALL BE SHAKEN (ON THAT DAY) Therefore: See that you refuse not him that speaketh! For if they escaped not him that spoke from earth, how much the more shall we not escape HIM that spake from heaven ( Jesus said: My doctrine is NOT MY Own, BUT HIS, THAT SENT ME ) We are talking (DIRECT REVELATION FROM HEAVEN) AND FROM THE very heart beat and centre of God's throne, when Jesus thus spoke on the earth !! So it is in our best interests therefore to listen and heed the words and commands of the doctrine of Christ
Biblical history records that on the day of pentecost a sound came from heaven as of a mighty gushing wind - and when it came (it filled all the house) where they were sitting...
But on that day that lies ahead: A wind is coming of a different sort: A wind which will seperate tares and wheat, sheep from goats, saints from sinners, players from sayers, pretenders from contenders, mouth confessors from heart possessors ... and wise virgins from foolish ones
At the end of the day: There were only 5 wise virgins that went into the bridechamber! having had sufficienct oil in there lamps! 5 were ready and 5 were left knocking at the door (to let them in) The end time parable records that when the midnight hour did come and the trumpet sounded - the foolish simply weren't ready and HAd empty lamps (how foolish) The parable goes on to say (that the door was then SHUT)! Watch therefore, for in a day, and an hour, that you think NOT - THE SON OF MAN COMETH...
With that in mind: it brings US full circle to the topic upon which we lay the foundation to todays word of exhortation. You see the people of Noah's generation and of Lot's generation, knew not, that is they knew NOT until the event was upon them, but BY then, it took them all away ( the gist of it being - TOO LATE) ! And it took them all away...
It would be now: Back in the year of 2006 that i predicted by the Holy Ghost that America was about to be hit by a string and series of awful storms and undergo various kinds of judgments! And so with great trepidation and apprehension i went to the computer in my office and sent e-mail out (of what i saw coming) to a rather large platform ministry: However I got no response or re-action to the warning and needless to say it probably fell on deaf ears at the time. But nonetheless and notwithstanding i stood my ground and was convinced that i had heard from God! And that trouble and calamity was on the way. Indeed an awful oncoming storm was indeed on it's way...
SO I ACTED IN FAITH AND HELD FAST TO IT: AND LAUNCHED THIS MY E-MAIL WARNING: Well it would have been the better part of ONLY a few months after sending OUT thIS e-mail that an awful storm hit America and surrounding cities! New orleans WAS SIMPLY BASHED AND SMASHED - AND JUST ESCAPED perishing (from off the map) ( as it were ) Indeed Parts of that city could well have perished under a tidal wave of gushing swelling waters that compassed and engulfed her on that eventful historical day ( in fact: declared to be America's worse natural disaster ever on record) Indeed The story of the lost city of Atlantis was almost superceded with a news headline that read " NEW ORLEANS IS GONE, FINISHED, NO MORE" !!
Furthermore to this: Florida and other south eastern states were besieged, battered and bruised by one furious storm after another! Even to the point that the governor of Florida stood up and remarked on national television " Its relentless " there is no rest " one storm after another" Indeed: a state of emergency and national crisis was declared and ( SES ) state emergency crews and volunteers were having to work 24/7 around the clock to clean and mop up its ensuing mess! Which was left in the ruins and aftermath of her wake. The cost to insurance companies and taxppayers was up in the billions. Such was the propensity and the force of these huurricanes and tornadoes ... As wave upon wave... just kept rolling in ....upon her shores...
The disciple Luke said it well: When he said "The sea and the waves roaring...
Which brings us full loop yet again: To the people of Noah's generation also known to some as "the anti-Deluvian age" This was indeed an ontoward generation that bought, sold, ate, drank, divorced, made merry, partied hard and lived like the devil! that is until the day that noah entered the ark - and the flood came and took them all away! Noah was a preacher of righteousness who issued warning of an oncoming storm. But to the critics and cynics of that present time it was all but a fairy tale of mass proportion: Because Bearing in mind: It had never rained before upon the earth. So Noah's warnings fell on deaf ears! and veritably speaking he was laughed to scorn, and all warnings went (unheeded)
Jesus warned of a time also: known as "the beginning of sorrows" and of a time called "the great tribulation" he said it would be a time when "men's hearts would fail them for fear" - and for "looking out for those things coming on the earth" Therefore beloved Let us not sleep as do others, nor allow others to put us to sleep...
Scripture says: God did not spare the OLD world but condemned them with massive overthrows !! Even the angels that sinned were cast down to HELL and [placed in chains of darkness] to be reserved until the day of judgment. Only one man and his family escaped the fury of an oncoming storm - and all of the rest perished.
( His name was Noah, and he was a preacher of what?) a preacher of righteousness...
Only Noah found grace in the eyes of God and God saw righteousness in him, And spared him! And in fact, started an entire new race of people through his generations! Wow! AWESOME...
Verily, verily: The fact is: God Gave that entire generation ample time to repent, to turn from evil, to turn from vain imaginationS, to turn from the violence and the polyagamus nature of multipling in wives to themselves. Scripture records that they took wives of all that - they chose. They basically gave themselves over to the lusts and desires of the flesh, and of the mind.
Simply put: God looked down from heaven and said ENOUGH: enough is enough. I will destroy man from upon the face of the earth: As It grieved him at his heart! (I regret) that i made man now: That is how sorry that human race (made God to feel) about it all ( if i can phrase it that way )
Indeed: A tragedy and travestry of a world with (absolutely No justice) a world that had gone madly after sin !! Therefore God having no choice simply destroyed man! Because Man had become so corrupted! and so polluted! But doesn't that all seem a bit to severe and drastic? to put an end to all of mankind?? I mean: To wipe out everyone from the face of the map ...bar 1 man and his family?
Yes it was extreme - extreme justice is what it was: But its always justified when the potter tells the clay what the Divine verdict will be and what he intends to do. Bear in mind also: that we are talking in numbers of people that perished: (probably well in the vacinity of millions) that died -- just wiped out in an instant. Now I do not report these things with glee or with relish. As it was tracic loss of life in wholescale numbers - but God issued the divine sentence and ultimatum on that day...
But just harking back to that previous point where God was longsuffering and gave them between 100 and 120 years to change there minds and take up a vantage point somewhere within the ark and to climb up - on aboard! With the animals
( Genesis 5:32 and Gen 7:6 ) bears this out...
( Noah throws out a divine life-line )
And the animals begin to respond and walk up that old gang plank (TWO-BY TWO) AND ENTER INTO THE THE safe harbinger of the ARK. And It's like someone once aptly said: even the animals had sense enought to listen and to heed noah's Word OF CAUTION!!! ( AND SAVE THEMSELVES )
The window of opportunity and time span allocated to that generation of souls was more than gracious and merciful BY GOD. The accepted time for them was NOW! And there day of salvation was there - for the taking.
( NOAH IS INSTRUCTED TO BUILD AN ARK OF SAFETY )
Can you imagine or envisage? God tells a man to build a boat and yet for all intents and purposes it has never rained before upon the earth?! But Noah just acts in faith and trusts in his God - and his infallible Word! AND BEGINS TO BUILD AND TO ASSEMBLE THIS HUGE BOAT ( NOTHING DOUBTING )
Now that's faith...
And As construction gets underway and all building materials are brought forth to start this massive project - - so too come the scorners the knockers, the cynics, the critics, and the skeptics, AND OF COURSE THOSE THAT SEEM TO HAVE NO OTHER EXISTENCE IN LIFE THAN TO PULL ALL OTHERS DOWN TO THERE LEVEL ( MISERY LOVES COMPANY ) JUST ASK JOB! In fact all of them came down to have a snicker and a BO-PEEP at this massive boat taking shape and under-going construction. And There would have been the pro-verbial (devils advocates) among the gossipping milling crowd that swelled around Noah! But let's cast our minds back for a brief moment and journey on back through time and (listen on in) to some of these cynics of Noah's day...
( shall we )
" A wayfaring marauding milling swelling crowd passes on by noah's boat and see's him hammering away at those nails into gang planks and the sweat pouring of his brow in the heat of the day - and comment among themselves " Why look at the old man of 5oo years old why i think he is really suffering from old age or something similiar - why he says there is coming a flood! and when it comes it will destroy all of mankind" ( why sort of fancy yarn is this - he's spinning)???
" Why i think he has been out in the sun to long if you ask me, and is suffering from heat stroke! He says its going to rain and the storm clouds will roll in one day and flood all the earth - when the truth is: It's never rained before " Why I think he's gone don lost his marbles" another critic replies ... "i think this is sheer madness and hysteria ...fear mongering is what it is, if you ask me! and just - plom loco" and nutso stuff...
" Yes: I agree just another one of those howling and warning preachers who have nothing better to to do with there time than to warn of judgment and trying to scare "the bar-devil" and (HELL) OUT OF PEOPLE. "IM NOT LISTENING TO THAT OLD MAN ANYWAY - ANOTHER CRITIC CRIES OUT"!!!
" Yes: We can ALL do without those types among us: AND BESIDES ITS GETTING LATE: Whose coming down to THE bar for another pint of GOOD OLE lager"? It's WAY too hot out here - in this sun!! and besides im not standing here all day watching some guy hammer nails into an old gang plank! By the way guys ... whose shout is it at the local??
Yeh: C'mon ive had enough of this noah guy trying to scare everyone out of there wits and put the fear of God into people! About some alleged oncoming storm ...Yeh don't listen to the alarmist and radicals. Always Warning of calamity and birth pains ( blah, blah ) Heard it all before!!! Ad-infinitum "why when my dad was around they talked about Jesus coming then, and yet all things continue the same as they ever were! " Why if you ask me? and my opinion? They are nothing but 2-bit alarmists and extemists "types" that i think we all can do without" " Always blowing some trumpet and sounding alarms" (sssshhheeesssshhhhh)
These onlookers, scoffers and observers would no doubt have laughed, scorned , mocked, and derided noahs warnings as construction of the boat was well underway, and the oncoming storm lingered but yet - was well on its way...
( The final world stage )
In closing: If this is the eleventh hour and many voices are saying it is! And the mystery of iniquity is well at work! Then the clock must surely be reading (five minutes to midnight)! The parable of the fig tree and her leaves being ready to spring forth and bud is as relevant today (as it was) when Christ first spoke it and told it - to his twelve apostles! The question is and the question remains? Just how tender are those leaves? And How close is summer?
Many believe today and with good reason: That time is short! And that time is of the essence and utmost. And that things will begin to accelerate at a colossal rate soon and spin out of control in a world that (recieved not the love of the truth)...
But we have an ark of safety in spite of tribulation in the world: His name is Jesus (Glory): So take heart and Rejoice for Jesus has overcome the world! and all oncoming storms (NICE)
Just how close is it? Nobody knows! So We stay alert and watch for the closing out signs of his near coming. And continue to be ultra vigilant, with lamps both burning and blazing brightly! You see: Many today believe the church of Jesus Christ is at a crossroads! It's reached A fork in the road! so-to-speak! We have reached an impasse as it were ... where both compromise and apostasy have reached eperdemic proportion. But having said that: It's all predicted in the bible and in word of God For any scholar both to read and see for himself. ( 2 thessalonians 2:1-4)
( There is no excuse to be - asleep ) not really!
As the message reaches its ultimate conclusion today the one thing i wish to highlight and re-iterate more than anything else is simply this: The people of lot's generation and of noah's generation did not know what hit them, until it did hit them, and by then it was too late!!!
THE FLOOD CAME AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY: Jesus predicted a similiar outcome if we do not discern the times we live in and/or are not watching steadfast unto the end! Or we begin to say in our hearts, alas, my Lord doth delay his coming
And we begin to eat and to be drunken with the drunken...
FOR AS A SNARE WILL IT COME UPON THE WHOLE WORLD, AND WHEN THEY SHALL SAY: ALAS PEACE AND SAFETY, THEN COMETH SUDDEN DESTRUCTION! AS WHEN TRAVAIL COMES UPON A WOMAN WITH CHILD AND THERE SHALL BE NO ESCAPE...
( HOW CLOSE: IS IT THEN ) ???
That is the return of OUR LORD Jesus Christ? AND the great tribulation, and the beginning of sorrows, And the kingdom being restored back to israel?? Ecet.
Of course the father has put such things into his own hands and so to some degree we are without knowledge! But by the same token if the goodman of the house had known in (what watch) the thief cometh, he would not have suffered his house to be broken into! ( correct)?? Let it be said THEN brethren: The people of this age and of this present world ... live like the world is never going to end! and the world will always be there for them and for their offspring alike! they will wake up tommorow just like they did today and all things will continue the same as thay always have for them. Hmmm. But ye beloved are not in darkness as though that DAY should overtake you as a thief...but are children of the day and of the light. We are not of the night, brethren!
( CHILLS AND HOLY CHILLS )
Finally beloved and i will close: I can remember vividly and like it happened only yeserday: I was driving home from work and caught in thick, congested traffick. And I said to the Lord in prayer as i waited " it's close, isn't it Lord" All of a sudden i got chills, cold chills all over me ...it really dawned on me at that moment in time how things are rapidly accelerating in the world! Indeed its much closer than we all think! And that This thing can't go on, forever - you know! Soon God will begin to wind things up and pull down the curtain and flick all switches! and time as we know it (today) - will be no more. To make way and ready for " Behold i make all things new! Behold "new heavens and new earth" As one famous preacher boy once said: "It's all gonna burn one day" "Go up in fire and smoke" And if you permit me to say it: When that happens: Then time is up! And brother when that time does arrive " then the last sermon has just been preached, the last download completed, the last salvation tract handed out in the mall, the last e-mail sent, the last SMS messaage sent, the last government policy formed! The last baby born into our maternity wards .... as God's curtain of time reaches its ultimate and final climatic finish! And the revelation of Jesus christ is unveiled to a wayfaring and ontoward generation...
( HE COMETH WITH TEN THOUSANDS OF HIS SAINTS )
And may i end: With the same words of the apostle (peter) when he uttered this sentence some 2000 years ago ( but how relevant for today) " And with many other words did he testify and exhort saying - save yourselves from this ontoward generation"
How appropriate: Especially when you consider that iniquity is just going to abound in the last days and that the love of many - will wax cold?!
There is a storm approaching! Are you ready? Is your lamp trimmed and filled with oil? Are you continuing instant in prayer? John the baptist gave this advice "that we should flee the wrath to come"
( Good advice John ) !!!
DO YOU SEE THE STORM APPROACHING ?? It's on the horizon? OR DO YOU THINK THIS WORD that has been delivered today ...IS MERE FABLE AND IDLE TALES?
AND ON THAT NOTE WE END, BELOVED...
