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Journal Entry: Dumitru Duduman
Date: 8-10-2010
I heard in the Spirit a quick burst of rapid yet light knocking on the front door waking me up this morning at 4:49 am. I have experienced this numerous times over the course of the past seven years in the home we currently reside. I listened in the natural to make sure no one was actually knocking on the door and there was no one there. I closed my eyes and went back to sleep.
Later I saw in the Spirit the man Dumitru Duduman; As I stood in a long hallway or tunnel, He came walking up to me. The tunnel was filled with very soft, white morning light. When Dumitru got closer to me, I recognized him as a much younger man than the pictures I’ve seen later during his life. (Dumitru passed away May 5, 1997) Again, I was awake asking the Lord to show me what this is about, I closed my eyes and went back to sleep.
Sometime afterwards, I heard in the Spirit a loud, “Ga-gong”, which awakened me. Now, the morning light was actually coming in the windows signaling the beginning of a new day but all that was on my mind was to seek the Lord to find out what was this about.
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During my morning quiet time, while praying for Lord to reveal the meaning of these three events, I was led to a book I refer to at times, “The Comprehensive Hebrew Calendar” by Arthur Spier. What I discovered is that today is a new moon and the beginning of the month of Elul. Elul is the last month of the year (5770) in the Hebrew calendar and is the agriculture month of processing grapes, figs and olives in the agricultural cycle.
Elul (very brief explanation)
Elul in Jewish understanding is the key to unlocking the inner and most potent meaning of the heart. Elul is made up of the Hebrew letters aleph, lamed, vav and lamed are an acronym for the phrase from the Songs of Songs: Ani L’dodi V’dodi Li, which means, “I am to my beloved and my beloved is to me.”
This phrase symbolizes the bride and groom, husband and wife or our personal life with Christ. In the Zophar (Jewish commentaries) Elul we are “back to back” in relationship with God and by the end of Elul we are “face to face” with God. It’s a month of a complete turning around of our lives back to God if we choose to do so.
This doesn’t mean that in Elul God is more easily reached because He is there always. Beautifully, Elul is about letting go of hurt, anger, unresolved arguments, disappointment, abandonment or whatever root of pain we may have and return to God with all sincerity. Elul is a time for breaking out of boundaries by turning our soul back to an inner intimate walk with God.
What does seeing a vision of a younger Dumitru Duduman mean?
In Dumitru’s first recorded spiritual encounter in America, he clearly states he was wide awake when it was given to him in 1984. It is titled “America Will Burn” and it is the first of many he received until his passing May 5, 1997.
An angel showed up and transported him to California, Las Vegas, the state of New York and all of Florida and then said, “This is Sodom and Gomorrah! In one day it will burn.” The angel took him back home and said, “All of this I have shown you – In one day it will burn.”
I strongly believe the Lord showed me a much younger Dumitru to point me to his first spiritual encounter in America where he was given a revelatory experience to warn America what is coming if it does not repent and turn back to God. The Lord wants to warn this nation and the church yet again.
The Lord of Lords is calling out to His people to return to Him and become His bride. The only way to escape the judgments coming upon this nation and world is to fully abide in Christ. He will protect His bride. Those who live a holy life will be saved, only those whose names are written in the Book of Life will be saved. The mountain is Christ and by Him you are saved, stand on the mountain above the judgments which are to come.
Please read the entire text to appreciate the warning given to America in 1984 and once again being signaled to this nation.
To read the full text of this Dumitru’s encounter please go to America Will Burn
Bro. Bill
Tags: America Will Burn, bride & groom, dumitru duduman, Elul, my beloved, prophecy, supernatural, vision
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Journal Entry: May 5, 2010
Title: The Bride
I was standing in the back of an empty church and the pastor was standing behind the pulpit all dressed in black. I saw a bride wearing a beautiful wedding dress. She sat on the front row pew looking straight ahead.
The pastor looked straight at her and said, “I will select your music and choose your dress.” He went on to dictate other matters in her life. She had heard enough. She stood up and said loudly, “It is my wedding! I’ll select my music and I’ll choose my dress!”
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The dream reveals how man treats Christ’s bride and how she is dictated to and controlled from the pulpit in so many areas of her life. Many have personnaly suffered great consequences from the abuse of power in the organized church system in their life from time to time. The way man looks at people and the the way Christ looks are very different.
Christ looks at believers at His bride like this.
The Bride Awaits
“You are altogether beautiful, my darling, And there is no blemish in you. “Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, May you come with me from Lebanon. Journey down from the summit of Amana, From the summit of Senir and Hermon, From the dens of lions, From the mountains of leopards. “You have made my heart beat faster, my sister, my bride; You have made my heart beat faster with a single glance of your eyes, With a single strand of your necklace. “How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, And the fragrance of your oils Than all kinds of spices! “Your lips, my bride, drip honey; Honey and milk are under your tongue, And the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon. “A garden locked is my sister, my bride, A rock garden locked, a spring sealed up. “Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates With choice fruits, henna with nard plants, Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, With all the trees of frankincense, Myrrh and aloes, along with all the finest spices. “You are a garden spring, A well of fresh water, And streams flowing from Lebanon.” Awake, O north wind, And come, wind of the south; Make my garden breathe out fragrance, Let its spices be wafted abroad. May my beloved come into his garden And eat its choice fruits!” Song of Songs 4:7-16
Christ calls His out of the world and from places of danger unto His garden where she is loved, refreshed and nourished with choice fruits. The ultimate personal invitation by Christ is to “Come with me.” Christ looks upon each believer much differently than we do ourselves. We see our faults and failures as well as those who surround us. However, He sees us finished and complete in Him. He sees us as what we will become in Him, not where we are at today. What a beautiful picture of the bride and Christ in the verses above. Stop beating yourself up for all your faults and mistakes. Just open your heart before God from time to time and allow Him to show you anything that is unpleasing in your life. Then He will free you from the guilt, shame, lift the burden, and break the yoke by the anointing of Holy Spirit.
Christ does not control or dictate to people but is the consummate gentle loving Lord, who continually pulls and draws individuals to Him. He desires nothing more than to be in a personal intimate relationship with you.
Enter in!
Bro. Bill
Tags: bride, freedom, leadership, pastor, Song of Songs, wedding
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The Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered around Him when they had come from Jerusalem, and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed. Mark 7:1-2
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, “Why is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors and sinners?” Matt. 9:11
And a man was there whose hand was withered. And they questioned Jesus, asking, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might accuse Him. Mat. 12:10
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Below came from an unknown source. I haven’t been able to trace the author of the writing but wanted others to read it and be blessed as I was.
Religion is a powerful influence in human life but its effect varies widely. It does different things to different people. Take, for example, Saint Francis. While still a young man, he renounced his claim to a family fortune and took vows of poverty that he might serve the poor. But he is remembered as a happy man. One of his biographers said: “While other worked at sainthood, Francis played at it.” He preached to the birds and the animals. He sang to the moon and the sun. His name has become synonymous with love and kindness and generosity.
A couple of hundred years later, in Spain, we encounter a totally different kind of man. His name was Torquemada. He was the inquisitor-general of the country. His job was to track down and root out heresy. And he was good at it. In just a few years, more than two-thousand heretics were put to death.
Torquemada was a deeply religious man. But the World Book Encyclopedia says of him: “To this day, his name is often used to stand for wanton cruelty.” Two separate lives, as different as night and day. One was gentle and kind. The other was harsh and cruel. And each of them was shaped by religion.
We see the same contrast in today’s Gospel. Jesus is warm and loving. His first concern is for human needs and how to meet them. The Pharisees are harsh and rigid. Their chief concern is keeping the Sabbath day and seeking to it that others do the same. If the disciples go hungry and a man with a deformed hand is unhealed, so be it. The important thing is that the Sabbath not be violated. If this requires people to suffer needlessly, then they will just have to suffer.
That is clearly mean-spirited attitude. And it was motivated by a deep religious devotion.
The worst thing about this kind of meanness is that we almost never know that we are mean.
I can assure you that those Pharisees did not think of themselves as mean. That was the farthest thought from their minds. They regarded themselves as defenders of the faith. They were the advocates of civic righteousness. The observance of this commandment had bonded them together and kept them distinct throughout their exile in Babylon. To give it up would be a denial of their history and heritage. So these Pharisees saw themselves, not as mean people, but as patriots. They were defenders of the faith and champions of the nations.
That sounds noble, but it is a dangerous thing. It is always dangerous when causes become more important than people. From there it is but one short step to cruelty. And the bad part of it is we do not even know that we are cruel. The Spanish inquisitor, Torquemada, has been dead for centuries. But if he could come back today, he would be astounded to know that his name has become a synonym for cruelty. When he killed all those heretics, he was not being mean. He was just a true believer, defending the faith of the church.
We can see this contradiction in others. It is much difficult to see it in ourselves. We can rationalize almost anything to put ourselves in favorable light. Others may be cruel. But we are simply doing what has to be done for the good of the cause. Every mean-spirited person who ever lived has rationalized his deeds with some such argument. In matter of religion, we can be mean and not even know it, because we call it something else.
Consider one other thought: When religion makes us mean, it is an indication of confused values.
We are making something more important that it really is. And we are making people less important that they really are. This was clearly the case with the Pharisees in today’s Gospel. They may have cared that the disciples needed food. They may have cared that the man had a withered hand. But they were more concerned that the Sabbath be kept inviolate. It was all a question of priorities. Which are more important, real people and their real needs or the proper observance of a holy day? Jesus came down on the side of human need. The Pharisees were more concerned with guarding the Sabbath and keeping it prim and proper.
You and I have to take a position in that dispute. We must align ourselves, either with Jesus, or the Pharisees. Our point of contention will no longer be the Sabbath. We have moved on to other concerns. It may be some political positions, or some financial objective. But if we regard anything as more sacred than people, we will end up doing something mean. And we will do it in the name of righteousness. We will convince ourselves that God is on our side and my friends that is a mistaken conclusion. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The God that has been revealed in Christ is wholeheartedly dedicated to one thing – real people and their real needs. They are more important to him than sacred days, or sacred books, or sacred sites, or sacred anythings.
The New Testament makes it clear that one thing was supremely sacred to Jesus. And that one was a person, any person and every person. When religion makes us mean to people, we can be sure of this: It is not the religion of Jesus.
Bro. Bill
Tags: devotion, mean-spirited, Pharisees, religion, Sabbath day, Torquemada, values
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Recently, while watching an ice carving demonstration during a cruise vacation, I couldn’t help but notice the parallels between what the block of ice experiences by the hands of the master ice carver and what a Christian experiences by the hand of God.
As you watch the video pay close attention to the part of the activity where the assistant cruise director asked people to try and guess what the ice carver is making. All manner of guesses came from the audience as people thought they knew what the ice carver was making. As the carver continued his masterful job the block of ice slowly begins to take shape and eventually the image became crystal clear just as the master carver saw it.
Sometimes as Christians we encounter people who think they know who and what we are by only seeing a short segment of our life.
Just remember God’s not through with any of us yet and know that we are all on different paths and have different gifts in the body. As saints we need to believe the best in one another and treat each other as we would want to be treated.
Mat. 7:12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Tags: cruising, ice carving, identity
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A few years ago, I asked the Father what theology meant to Him and He responded, “Its man’s attempt to explain what he doesn’t understand.” Wouldn’t it be great if every speaker in the body of Christ provided a real honest disclaimer as to where they gained their knowledge? Did it come from their own intellectual studies, attending a Bible college, downloaded a sermon off the Internet, books, or did it come by revelation directly from Holy Spirit?
I have continually witnessed how man elevates various individuals as anointed teachers of God. People run to these teachers like a feeding frenzy in order to gain more understanding of the things of God. Often the individuals teaching gain such a following that they inadvertently create an army of followers that “parrot” everything they say without questioning if it is really Holy Spirit taught Bible truth. If there is any one thing missing in the body of Christ it is discernment for the true things of God.
“O God, Thou hast taught me from my youth; And I still declare Thy wondrous deeds.” Ps. 71:17
Who is to be teaching and instructing the believer?
The prophet Jeremiah correctly prophesied the time would come when it would be no longer necessary to have someone teach the believer how to know the Lord.
“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they will be My people. V34. And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ “for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” Jer. 31:33-34
When in meditation I was conversing with my Father and I said in a contemplative manner, “Lord, there are so few anointed leaders, teachers, pastors in the body of Christ and the people suffer because of it.” Immediately, I was strongly reproved by my Father when He responded resolutely with “Second Timothy Two Fifteen!”
“Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth.” 2 Tim. 2:15
I felt terrible for what I had just said and quickly repented for my error in thought. There is no excuse for the true believer not to know and understand His word. The responsibility falls directly upon every believer to press into God and to be taught by Holy Spirit the truth. God requires each believer to be thorough in gaining true knowledge of Him through the rhema (revealed) word of God for themselves so they are able to accurately separate falsehood from true Christ doctrine. A word from God, which you hear for yourself, is one of the greatest things in the walk of faith. You know that you know and that is the Rock on which the called out ones build their foundations. Holy Spirit can make the written word come alive as your mentor if you are seeking truth from a sincere heart. You won’t be disappointed for truly the Father will reward those who diligent seek Him.
And without faith it is impossible to please {Him,} for he who comes to God must believe that He is and {that} He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. Heb. 11:6
What did Jesus promise?
“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.” John 14:26
John 14:26 clearly instructs the believer that Holy Spirit is your teacher and that He will teach you all things. This means Holy Spirit will teach you things about God and everything in between, which includes things for your employment and challenges you encounter in your daily walk. The Greek word for Holy Spirit is parakletos (par-ak’-lay-tos) which means an intercessor, counselor, advocate or one who comes along side. I have great faith in Holy Spirit to help me understand God’s word, to help me in my daily walk as well as to help me in my secular or domestic tasks. It’s very exciting to have Him teaching us about all things!
God wants to remove false knowledge from the believers.
When Jesus encountered the Pharisees (religious minded) they knew scriptures but didn’t know the heart of God. They knew the legal aspects of the law and used it to lord over the Jewish people. The Pharisees added many other requirements such as washing of hands, cups, pitchers and copper pots which were according to the traditions of the elders and not Moses’ law.
“This people honors me with their lips but their heart is far from Me, but in vain do they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the precepts of men. Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.” Mark 7: 6-8
Jesus speaking to His disciples said permission has been granted for the believers to know mysteries.
“And He answered and said to them, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted. “For whoever has, to him shall more be given, and he shall have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.” Matt 13:11-13
The “whoever does not have” refers to “does not have” God’s revealed truth. They have a doctrine which was created by their own prideful intellect and people will defend their doctrine vigorously as perceived truth out of pride. Pride will blind us from knowing and growing in the truth of God. Prideful knowledge creates a filter as we study the Bible so we only see things written in a way that reinforces what we already believe to be truth. Our own confidence in our knowledge will prevent us from seeing greater truths in His revealed word. Only those who remain humble and are truly seeking truth will receive it from God. God opposes the proud but comes near to the humble.
But is this truly God’s plan to have man teach man the things of God?
It is my observation that believers who rely only on man to teach them remain immature in Christ and fail to mature in the things of God. A baby will stay a baby if the parents don’t train the child to hold the spoon and feed themselves. This is the parent’s responsibility not the child’s. Sure it’s messy at first but any responsible parent knows it is necessary in order for the child to mature. The child needs supervision and encouragement for a time as they learn to manage the process of self-feeding but it isn’t long before they are normal, healthy, maturing children.
We have no excuse for remaining babies in Christ. The only reason we will remain a baby and not mature is that we are dependant on someone else to feed us God’s word. In the natural, if we eat only one meal a week will we grow up a healthy maturing individual? Of course not! A weekly sermon that many so depend on to keep them going could be their stumbling block to maturing if it’s the only time of the week they give time for the things of God. Are they not being spoon fed what someone else has cut up, chewed on and put in their mouths? Remember our accountability to God according to 2 Tim. 2:15.
For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. Heb. 8:10-11
Do you truly believe that Holy Spirit is your teacher as it says in 1 John 2:27?
And finally…”And as for you, the anointing which you have received from Him who abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you, but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.” 1 John 2:27 (keeps us from being deceived by false doctrine as mention in verse 26)
“And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.” Eph 4:11-14
First of all, these are not offices in the body of Christ as many would have you believe. Many use this verse to promote their influence and power just as the Nicolaitans (means conquer of the people) used their titles to conquer and control the people and make believers subordinate to a clergy hierarchy system after the original apostles died off at the end of the first century. Apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastors and teacher are ministry gifts (read the context verse in Eph 4:4:8) that flow according to Holy Spirit’s direction to equip the body of Christ, until we all attain unity of the faith, maturing daily in the things of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 12:28 clearly places these as ministry gifts and not positions in the body of Christ.
“And God has appointed in the ekklesia (which means the called out ones) first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues.” 1 Cor. 12:28
Are we not to have teachers?
If I listen when an anointed gift is flowing through a person I will certainly be taught some things by the anointing that quickens the truth in my spirit. The one teaching must realize that the gift isn’t flowing in them all the time as some would have you believe. I have learned some valuable tools from people when a ministry gift is flowing through them and they are speaking about a subject that Holy Spirit has made rhema to them. However, at other times I have seen the same individuals teaching in total error on a subject using their own prideful intellect because that they just wanted to speak about a particular subject without truly understanding God’s rhema truth in the matter.
Summary -
It is my sincere appeal to all who read this that you humble yourself before God and surrender at His feet everything you have been taught, all knowledge, all doctrine, all understanding and ask Holy Spirit to teach you all truth. If you are one who believes you have an appointed office then you need to truly get before God and seek His face in the matter and take the message given by Jesus about self-promoters to heart.
On August 28, 2001 Holy Spirit gave me to read Matt. 7:21-23 and then I heard the Father say, “It’s about relationship.”
“Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.” Matt. 7:21-23
These individuals (ministers) were using a ministry gift to promote themselves and were not in a personal intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. Jesus said, “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.” John 14:15.
How do we get to know someone?
We spend time with them, we converse together, we learn all you can about one another and we share our heart’s most intimate feelings. It’s not about building up a ministry. It’s not about building facilities. It’s about building a relationship with the living God. If you are sincere in wanting to know truth, to know your God, then you will run and get on your knees and surrender to Him and trust Holy Spirit to teach you all things.
It is very difficult and uncomfortable to let go of ‘our’ knowledge because knowledge puffs up an individual’s ego. It requires much more work to present ourselves before God continually seeking His understanding of the scriptures than just trusting what man teaches or what you can understand using our intellect.
“If we are honest with ourselves, we must admit that it is difficult to let go of the comfort and warmth of what we think we know, for a journey of naked hope. But there is no other path.” St. John of the Cross
Are we so confident in what we know to be God’s truth that we can’t strip ourselves bare of our intellectual understanding? We must allow Holy Spirit to begin to lead us into deeper understanding of the things of God. Indeed if you humble ourselves, we will find that Holy Spirit is truly our Teacher and we will begin to journey into what He wants to teach us individually about Himself. Then, we will begin to truly discover His heart. It’s His promise to us.
Bro. Bill
Tags: 2 Timothy 2:15, apostles, bible college, evangelist, holy spirit, leaders, pastors, prophets, teachers, theology
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Often I receive inquiries about the prophet/seer and I hope you see why we need this ministry gift operating freely in the Church today. If it were only so…
Anonymous–
The prophet in his day is fully accepted of God and totally rejected by men.
Years back, Dr. Gregory Mantle was right when he said, “No man can be fully accepted until he is totally rejected.” The prophet of the Lord is aware of both these experiences. They are his “brand name.”
The group, challenged by the prophet because they are smug and comfortably insulated from a perishing world in their warm but untested theology, ;is not likely to vote him ”Man of the year” when he refers to them as habituates of the synagogue of Satan!
The prophet comes to set up that which is upset. His work is to call into line those who are out of line! He is unpopular because he opposes the popular in morality and spirituality. In a day of faceless politicians and voiceless preachers, there is not a more urgent national need than that we cry to God for a prophet! The Function of the prophet, as Austin-Sparks once said, “has almost always been that of recovery.”
The prophet is God’s detective seeking for a lost treasure. The degree of his effectiveness is determined by his measure of unpopularity. Compromise is not known to him.
He has no price tags.
He is totally ”otherworldly.”
He is unquestionably controversial and unpardonably hostile.
He marches to another drummer!
He breathes the rarefied air of inspiration.
He is a “seer” who comes to lead the blind.
He lives in the heights of God and comes into the valley with a “thus saith the Lord.”
He shares some of the foreknowledge of God and so is aware of impending judgment.
He lives in “splendid isolation.”
He is forthright and outright, but he claims no birthright.
His message is “repent, be reconciled to God or else…!”
His prophecies are parried.
His truth brings torment, but his voice is never void.
He is the villain of today and the hero of tomorrow.
He is excommunicated while alive and exalted when dead!
He is dishonored with epithets when breathing and honored with epitaphs when dead.
He is a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, but few “make the grade” in his class.
He is friendless while living and famous when dead.
He is against the establishment in ministry; then he is established as a saint by posterity.
He eats daily the bread of affliction while he ministers, but he feeds the Bread of life to those who listen.
He walks before men for days but has walked before God for years.
He is a scourge to the nation before he is scourged by the nation.
He announces, pronounces, and denounces!
He has a heart like a volcano and his words are as fire.
He talks to men about God.
He carries the lamp of truth amongst heretics while he is lampooned by men.
He faces God before he faces men, but he is self-effacing.
He hides with God in the secret place, but he has nothing to hide in the marketplace.
He is naturally sensitive but supernaturally spiritual.
He has passion, purpose and pugnacity.
He is ordained of God but disdained by men.
LET HIM BE AS PLAIN AS JOHN THE BAPTIST…
Tags: function, God detective, ministry gift, Prophet, recovery, seer
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It was July 15, 2009, while on our annual family vacation at the beach, that I was given the first of a series of dreams that week about the state of church and Christ’s bride.
The first thing revealed to me was a dream about the condition of the ministry gift of prophet.
Journal Entry: Dream – Restoration Required – 7/15/2009
I was in an office consisting of four separate rooms; I knew by the Spirit that the office represented the ministry gift of the prophet. Each room was in various states of disrepair due to a serious lack of care and maintenance. Someone before me had begun renovating several of the rooms but for whatever reason had quit before finishing. In the remodeling process, one of the newly renovated rooms already had large holes in the ceiling caused by rain leaking through the roof damaging the new ceiling and carpet.
The largest room hadn’t been touched; it had a large gap in the wall between the window and ceiling where I could see to the outside. The gap allowed dirt to enter the office covering all the equipment and furniture. Anyone who worked or came into the office would get dirty due to its neglected condition. The office was truly awful, non-functional and a disgrace to the company. I said, “Get the president of the company and he will repair this!” End Journal Entry-
Meaning:
I woke up from the dream pondering what I had seen. By the condition of the office, Holy Spirit was showing me that the current condition of the ministry gift of prophet is in disrepair, unsightly, dysfunctional and dirty to God. It is polluted with dirt and foreign matter which doesn’t belong making it unclean before Him. Obviously, there had been no one performing maintenance on this office for a very long time, even though the office was in daily use. The people, which had previously occupied this office, had tried to renovate it but apparently had gotten discouraged when met with resistance, gave up and acclimated themselves to the existing condition. They submitted to the system.
This dream was followed by eight more dreams dealing with the condition of the church today and the transition by the Spirit; we’ve entered into the preparation of the bride of Christ. By Holy Spirit placing this dream first in a series of dreams that followed, tells me that the ministry gift of the prophet must be restored as God purposed it in order for the body of Christ to transition into the time of the preparation of the bride.
Why must the prophet be restored?
God is restoring the true ministry gift of the prophet to the believers today. Without the authority of the prophet’s voice speaking in the church today, the church is blind to the direction of what God is doing or about to do at a given time. The prophet represents the eye to the body of Christ, God revealed His method in Amos 3:7.
“Surely the Lord GOD does nothing
Unless He reveals His secret counsel
To His servants the prophets.”
The prophet is the watchman on the wall, watching and listening to see what the Lord will say.
Habakkuk 2:1-3
“I will stand on my guard post
And station myself on the rampart;
And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me,
And how I may reply when I am reproved.
Then the LORD answered me and said,
“Record the vision
And inscribe it on tablets,
That the one who reads it may run.
“For the vision is yet for the appointed time;
It hastens toward the goal, and it will not fail.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
For it will certainly come, it will not delay.”
The way man view things and the way God views things are very different.
Isa 55:9
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.”
The way pastors and teachers view the word is different from the prophet. The pastor/teacher speaks of the expressed or the explained word, the prophet speaks of the illuminated or revealed word.
Today, there may be no true prophets operating within the walls of the organized church system. I didn’t say there were no true prophets, but their voice and ministry gift are stifled under the control of man and they aren’t given the opportunity to speak freely. Any true prophet of God would certainly rebuke the divisoin the church system has created in the body of Christ, regardless if it’s denominational or non-denominational.
Turkish proverb: “If you speak the truth when everyone else believes and is practicing the opposite, make sure you are sitting on a very swift horse.”
How does the great revival come?
Holy Spirit has shown me that just as the prophet John the Baptist prepared the way for Christ, first coming so shall it be that the prophet(s) will rise up preaching repentance preparing the way for His second coming. No true revival can be had without the conviction of sin, righteousness and judgment by Holy Spirit. John was purposed and birthed into the Earth and entered into his assigned ministry at the appointed time and so it is with all true prophets. Their birth is a supernatural event witnessed by those only trusted by God and they have been prepared outside of the sight of man.
John came out of the wilderness speaking not in the synagogues of organized religion of the day, but to whomever would listen. John’s purpose was prophesied in the Old Testament which was to prepare the way of the Lord and so shall it be now that true prophets will seemingly come out of nowhere (the wilderness) speaking to the people warning them to turn from wickedness and bear fruit worthy of repentance. People came out of the synagogues to hear him because John wasn’t allowed into the religious system of the day and so shall it be in these times as well. Most all great revivals occurred outdoors and in the streets.
Matthew 3:2-3
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” For this is the one referred to by Isaiah the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord, Make His paths straight!’”
The true prophet despises the religious spirit that manifests in organized religion because he sees it for what it is and what it is does to the people of God. He sees the harlotry being committed before God as people pursue self in a religious system which is controlled by a foreign spirit, the Babylon spirit. Escape From Babylon Thus the true prophet or the end-time prophet will operate outside the walls of the church just as John the Baptist. The revival which will come will not take place within the walls of the existing church system. Any move of God in the current church system will be to draw the people away from its control and unto Christ for He is calling forth His bride to come out into an intimate relationship with Him.
But we must remember that the church system has many who are Christ loving, sincere people, who truly have a heart for the things of God. The very leadership that is controlling the sheep is being controlled by the system they serve and don’t even recognize it for what it is.
“Always separate the failure of the system from the hearts of the people in it.” Jake Colsen
When God decides to bring revival, he will bypass the old regime (leadership, structure, theology) and move outside of the Church system. Many will return to the home meetings for intimacy in fellowship just as the early saints gathered.
Luke 5:37-38:
Jesus said it this way; “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins…”
(Ez. 34:9-10; Ez. 34:15-16 [NLT]
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I now consider these shepherds my enemies, and I will hold them responsible for what has happened to my flock. I will take away their right to feed the flock, and I will stop them from feeding themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths; the sheep will no longer be their prey. … I myself will tend my sheep and give them a place to lie down in peace, says the Sovereign Lord. I will search for my lost ones who strayed away, and I will bring them safely home again. I will bandage the injured and strengthen the weak. But I will destroy those who are fat and powerful. I will feed them, yes—feed them justice!
I was perplexed when I first heard the Lord say to me after this dream, “My bride comes not so much from the church as from the world.” I now understand why Christ spoke the following words.
Matt 22:1-14
“And Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables, saying, The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king, who gave a wedding feast for his son. And he sent out his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were unwilling to come. Again he sent out other slaves saying, Tell those who have been invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fattened livestock are all butchered and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast. But they paid no attention and went their way, one to his own farm, another to his business, and the rest seized his slaves and mistreated them and killed them. But the king was enraged and sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and set their city on fire. Then he said to his slaves, the wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the main highways, and as many as you find there, invite to the wedding feast. And those slaves went out into the streets, and gathered together all they found, both evil and good; and the wedding hall was filled with dinner guests. But when the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw there a man not dressed in wedding clothes, and he said to him, Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes? And he was speechless. Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; in that place there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen.”
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Journal Entry: Dream-Escape From Babylon
Date: 1-10-2010 – 3:30 AM
I saw a man sitting in a chair looking despondent when suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared before him. The man asked, “What are you here for?” The angel responded, “I am here to deliver you from the spirit of Babylon.”
The angel took the man by the hand and immediately they began to soar vertically at a high rate of speed into the air. I could hear demons moaning and shrieking as the angel carried the man upward while ascending through level after level of the demonic Babylonian kingdom.
As they climbed higher and higher I saw what appeared to be the top of a large dome made of reinforced concrete. The dome had rows of elongated slots which came to a point on the ends making the structure incredibly strong and prison-like. Each slot was filled with darkness and it was an impossible barrier to escape from- without the power of the angel to deliver the man. I heard the man say, “I didn’t even know I was in prison.” Then the dream ended.
I believe the man in the dream represented me being delivered from the religious system.
-End Journal Entry-
What spirit did the angel come to deliver the man from? It was the spirit of Babylon. The spirit of Babylon is the spirit which rules the world and the church system today. This includes all forms of religions which are made up of countless doctrines, creeds, separatism, denominations and non-denominational churches alike.
The word church in the Greek word ekklesia which basically means called out ones. It isn’t a church building, it’s believers in Christ.
Spiritual Babylon is the “institutional, organized” church system. In the church system people feel safe, sufficient, significant, assured, justified and secure. It gives forth status, position, reputation, security and identity to many all the while the institution itself grows in its power and importance. Many people depend on the church system for their livelihood, significance, preeminence, validation, power and recognition. The man in the dream was imprisoned by the system and didn’t even know it. This is the way millions of God-loving saints are today. They are imprisoned in a church system of man’s making and do not even realize it.
In fact, I find the comparison of prison and the church system very astute. Prison inmates are under the control of the warden’s rules and regulations just like the many people in the pews today are under the control of leadership’s rules and regulations of man’s own making. There is no freedom for the congregation in the church system today, just like there is no freedom for an inmate in prison. A prisoner doesn’t get to do anything unless someone “lets” him do it. I have heard leadership say, “let the people do this or let them do that.” The word “let” truly indicates control of the congregation and this shouldn’t be! If someone stays in prison long enough they become institutionalized. The same thing happens to people in the church system if they stay in it long enough. They become institutionalized or indoctrinated to what that particular church system believes.
I have watched the church system for sometime now with all of its organization, orchestration, formats which restrain the free flowing leading of Holy Spirit. However, I have upon a few occasions seen Holy Spirit move within in the confines of a man inspired church system. I had to know from God why Holy Spirit moves when He does.
Holy Spirit showed me a picture of a stake driven into the sand high up on a beach. There is was, a lone stake driven in the sand, far away from the surf. The stake represents the church system beliefs, what it is about, its creed, denomination, faith statement, doctrine, identity, etc. Then I was shown a picture of the ebb and tide of the ocean. The tide comes in and the tide goes back out, this cycle is repeated daily. Occasionally the surf is so stirred that the waves come up far enough to reach the stake only to eventually recede back out to sea. The Lord said, “I move upon my people like this in their personal time and occasionally during a meeting to soak them in My presence and to draw them unto Me, to teach them to follow after the ebb and tide of My Spirit. When I move on a congregation, I am not validating the church system as the religious think. I want to draw people out of it and unto Me, I want them to learn to follow the ebb and tide of My Spirit.”
scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” Gen 11:3-5 NAS
When meditating about the dream of the angel delivering the man from Babylon, I asked the Lord if He had a scriptural example of what I had seen in the dream and immediately I was reminded of when Peter was in prison and the angel of the Lord appeared to deliver him. Once Peter was delivered from prison, he went to his fellowship made up of the people praying for him. What spirit was behind the imprisonment of Peter? Could the answer be the spirit of Babylon? Most certainly because the Babylonian spirit operates through the flesh (carnal man) and wants approval from man! Herod demonstrated both in Acts 12:1-3.
Observe the spirit of Babylon in operation in this verse:
”Now about that time Herod the king laid hands on some who belonged to the church (GK. ekklesia means “called out ones”), in order to mistreat them. And he had James the brother of John put to death with a sword. And when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also.” Acts 12:1-3 NAS
“For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.” Rom 8:14-15 NAS
When I heard the Lord say to me a few months ago, “My bride comes not so much from the church as from the world,” I was somewhat taken back by this statement as to what He meant. I didn’t understand then what has now been made so clear to me now after much prayer, study and revelations.
The reason the bride must come out from the institutional church system is that the church system is incapable of preparing the bride of Christ. It can only institutionalize its congregants to be dependant upon the church system. In fact its interest is truly to grow the institution’s power and influence and not grow the people. In a recent Barna Group survey, 9 out of 10 pastors were surveyed and said that the church (system) was full of babies. However, each pastor commented that they had no babies in their own congregation.
The Babylonian spirit is a spirit that sets out to extinguish faith with false doctrine which leads man into works. For when faith dies there is no faith which leads people to ascend to God in their own way. It disrupts the plan and purposes of God by its influence of a non-God spirit.
The Babylonian spirit influences ministries to do works such as, let us build, let us make a name for ourselves, let us do great projects, let us be like God. It replaces the faith with works and does not follow nor seek the leading or direction of Holy Spirit.
The spirit of Babylon is found in the story of the Tower of Babel. “ And they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name; lest we be
“So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made fervently by the church to God. And on the very night when Herod was about to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains; and guards in front of the door were watching over the prison. And behold, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared, and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter’s side and roused him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And his chains fell off his hands. And the angel said to him, “Gird yourself and put on your sandals.” And he did so. And he said to him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.” And he went out and continued to follow, and he did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision. And when they had passed the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened for them by itself; and they went out and went along one street; and immediately the angel departed from him. And when Peter came to himself, he said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent forth His angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.” And when he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.” Acts 12:5-12 NAS
Unlike the dream, Peter knew he was in prison but the man in the dream didn’t realize his imprisonment. Not knowing one is in prison is a far greater plight to a person because he is blind to his real circumstance.
It you are within the confines of the church system you need to stop and take “inventory” and weigh truthfully what has been written here before God and trust Him to show you truth. God has appointed some to work within in the confines of the church system for a season only for reasons known to God and the believer. Perhaps it is to observe and learn up close and personal what the church system is really about. My heart is for the people to be delivered from the prison of the church system and to be brought into a personal and intimate relationship in Jesus Christ.
“And as for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.” 1 John 2:27-28 NAS
Bringing the bride of Christ out of the church system can only be done by the Spirit of the Lord because the church system is a stronghold in her mind through years of indoctrination. God has to take the church system out of the bride before she can ever be free and be presented to Christ as His bride.
By the revelation of the Lord, we are in the time in which the focus of the Lord is to “prepare” His bride. That’s it! Most in leadership of the church system won’t recognize the paradigm shift that has occurred in the Spirit, thus they will continue on in the confines of the system. As in the first century, the existing religious system (Pharisees, Sadducees, etc) didn’t recognize the time of the Lord’s visitation and so shall it be now.
The dream is a continuing theme which Holy Spirit keeps giving me to warn those who will listen and heed the warning of the committing adultery with the spirit of Babylon (church system). For more on this subject please read these articles. The Adulterous Church, The Preparation of the Bride Pt. 1 The Epoch, Jewels – My Bride, Vision of the Three Legged Donkey, Millions Will Perish.
Scripture References:
“ And when He approached, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes. “For the days shall come upon you when your enemies will throw up a bank before you, and surround you, and hem you in on every side, and will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.
And He entered the temple and began to cast out those who were selling, saying to them, “It is written, ‘And My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a robbers’ den.’
And He was teaching daily in the temple; but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying to destroy Him, and they could not find anything that they might do, for all the people were hanging upon His words”. Luke 19:41-48 NAS
“And another angel, a second one, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who has made all the nations drink of the wine of the passion of her immorality.” Rev 14:8 NAS
“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you may not participate in her sins and that you may not receive of her plagues; for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.” Rev 18:4-5 NAS
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“The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost.” Rev. 22:17
“I brought you through another year, I am faithful and true to My word. Be pleased in Me and know that all things work for your good because I have called you. In the midst of all the naysayers, doubters, scoffers and an obstinate generation, I do have some who blindly follow Me along the path I have chosen for them.
This is a quick and easy way to My glory even though to you it doesn’t seem easy or quick! The might of the Lord assures your safe arrival to the next destination in the Spirit; a level which is filled with intrigue, mystery and adventure. You say, “Lord what is all this about?” I tell you that the time of many mysteries are to be solved and it will play out as you seek Me. I will unveil even more than you can imagine.
Palaces are filled with the rich, powerful and influential people but they don’t have any influence with Me nor is their wealth impressive before Me. I say that the truly rich are the ones who pursue My heart and My ways with all sincerity. These are the ones that will inherit My Kingdom; never forget this.
The world you live in is upside down just as Satan has poisoned it with worldly thinking and worldly ways. This will blind all who pursue its wealth, its fame, its glory, come out of it all the more saints. Flee its influence for the day is soon coming when I will send forth My judgments upon the whole world and it’s evil. Submit unto Me, resist the Devil and he will flee from you; indeed he will.
Now you say, “I am ready to come closer this year, I am ready to come up higher in You Lord. I am weary of being where I am.” But I say My child come unto Me and I will show you that your victory and destiny lay in winning at the level you are at now for this is the mystery of contentment; the secret to being happy in all things says the Lord. Many saints want to hop from level to level as quickly as they can like in a Mario Brothers computer game, “Ha” I say, for life in Me isn’t that way. I’m in no hurry to see you gain levels, the next level only promises you more of the same. Am I not the same yesterday, today and tomorrow?
Here is the saint’s assignment in the coming year:
Come unto Me, forget your way, your understanding and come with a pure heart, with pure motives, come only to love Me and let Me love you. Come to My feet and weep and I will restore your soul, I will grant you the desires of your heart. My ways are not your ways so quit trying to figure Me out; you can’t! My ways are written in My word over and over again, My values have been clearly spoken. My plans for you are My plans are they not? So come to Me and I will begin to take you further along the journey into Me. Your destiny isn’t a place, your destiny is Me, I AM your destination. Just come unto your God and experience My depths and you will escape your world, your life and your understanding.
This is the year for the saints to ignore the world altogether. Why are you spending so much time in worry about a system that is passing away and passing away very soon? Don’t get involved in the debates. These things are better left to politicians, to leadership and to those whose steps are mired in that system.
For My people, I am opening up My Kingdom and giving access like never before, come and see if this isn’t true. My bride will begin to assemble herself in her courts; the court of My Presence. Her garden is empty of her presence at this moment, desolate, gray and flowerless, dry, dirty and contemptible because her garden is not kept.
But now I am calling her out from the world, from the harlotry that she is doing. I am calling her out of her playing and adultery with foreign spirits, unclean spirits, which have caused her devotion to Me to be small. Her shame is great, her values are not mine. Her priorities are not Mine nor is her heart and the lover she has chosen has done nothing but abuse her.
Now I say I am calling her out, I am moving upon her heart to set her free, I am calling her to Me. I am breaking the chains of her adultery, her addictions, and her fornications. I am calling her unto Me; to her garden, a chaste garden for only Me. I am calling her to her garden of preparation, for the Lord says, come to Me and I will give you garments of white linen to cover your nakedness and I will clean your heart, I will put My heart in you.
This is the year…Come!”
Scripture References:
“Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and the nursing infants. Let the bridegroom come out of his room And the bride out of her {bridal} chamber.” Joel 2:16
“Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready. It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright {and} clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.” Rev. 19:7-8
“And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.” Rev. 21:2
“Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”” Rev. 21:9
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In fall of the year things go dormant. They change and evolve from life to deadness as it so seems to the casual observer, but life abounds in the tree absent of foliage. There is life even in death; for if only my people understood this. For there to be more life there has to be more death.
Now and going forward you will begin to come out of darkness into the light and see that truly it is day, a day like no other; for I am the one who molds and prepares the chosen few in the secret place.
Limelight is for the self-promoters who flail away trying to get to the top of their precedence. Little do they know that the mountain of prominence which they climb will soon be leveled by the breath of My mouth.
Come to Me. This is a time of great joy as I transition the body of Christ around to their places. You will see new faces appear that have My heart. A heart to follow Me to the end; the expected end that I have chosen and fashioned, a glorious end where I AM. Am I not the Omega, waiting for the culmination of the age? You are closer now that ever, closer now than most think.
Now, I say raise your voices and rejoice for I give you life, liberty and the ability to find happiness in Me.
For I AM Ever Faithful,
Your Loving Father
prophecy- 12/18/2009
Bro. Bill Nelson
Tags: Alpha and Omega, body of Christ, deadness, dormant Christians, prophecy, self-promoters, transitioning
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