chapter 1 of book, A Future and a Hope
This mass exodus away from the Kingdom
—the great falling away—
is now coming upon God’s people
November 2010
A Serious Time, a Serious Word
Please take time to read this word. It is serious and heartbreaking … the great falling away, an Exile of Christians, is upon us… not only an exile from churches, but people being driven away into the arms of their idols, away from the habitations God has made for them in his Kingdom ….
A few weeks ago I had a dream of a “Chicken Wake Up Call” that I published and just after that dream I saw a briefcase next to me and heard, “You already have the next word. When you are ready, open it.”
A few weeks went by and I felt the strength and peace to deal with the next message, although I had no idea what it would be, and so I told the Lord I was ready. That night … just in the morning, I had this dream … It seems very similar in theme to the word I posted with the Chicken Wake Up Call, about it not being time to build fancy houses since many people will not live in them but have to flee from them instead … but I was not prepared for the interpretation the Lord gave me …
Dream: People Fleeing Their Apartments and Dormitories: the Places God Provided for Their Safety and Training . . .
As the dream began there had been some kind of trouble that caused people to start to leave their homes. A few were very fast to react and quickly went to scout out a new place to move to and came back to pack up their things, but by the time they did the news had spread and almost everyone else started to just leave their homes. I looked and saw a line of people, whole families in fact, leaving their homes and walking away, but they were leaving empty handed without any possessions. They were leaving an apartment complex or housing development.
God reminded me when he was giving me the interpretation that this line of people were leaving at night, or at dusk, and there were a few street lights giving light to their path as they left the complex.
Then my vantage point changed, and I was on an upper floor of a university dormitory overlooking a kind of courtyard area or common area between a few buildings. I was looking into an apartment complex that faced the dormitory I was in; the wall facing me was all windows so I could see into all the flats and I realized all the people had already gone and they just left most of their things behind which were just scattered and in total disarray! At the far end of the courtyard above all the buildings was the steel beam supporting structure of some other urban infrastructure, like an overpass or a bridge. It was not open sky but was as if these housing units were in the shadow of a road or tall bridge, like you see in New York City, although it was not very clear or important or just not obvious.
I said, “Look! Everybody’s gone!” I was with a few people I knew but others I did not. And when we realized this, first we stopped preparing to leave and stopped packing our own things, and as we slowly realized there were HUNDREDS of apartments that were abandoned and everything was left behind, we started going through everything to see if there was anything of value left behind. It soon became fun and exciting in a way! So many nice things were just left behind! Many of the people were obviously well off and the kinds of things we were going through were expensive and in very good condition. I saw nice shoes, sweaters, etc.
Then someone found a Pie, like an apple pie but with a kind of handle attached to it, and we said, “Good, we should eat it soon!” Next I found a Pink Computer Printer. My actual printer has been out of toner for more than a year and so I couldn’t print anything for a long time, but this was the same model I previously had, only it was brand new—and pink!
Of the people I recognized I was with I saw TP, a lady youth leader in our community, and my estranged wife, who had been upset with me and left our family and was not talking to me for a while at that point. She later did divorce me but at the time I had this dream she was merely estranged from me. I didn’t recognize the other people we were with.
The dormitory floor we were was a boy’s floor, so it was all boys clothes, etc. and I told my estranged wife that if she went one floor down it would be a women’s floor and she’d find things for herself.
“But I can’t call you, your phone doesn’t work!” she protested firmly.
“Yes it does. Call me,” I said. She did, and it connected fine. “See, it works fine!” We were back in communication at least after being separated and estranged so long!
I then heard TP say, “The people say CURRENCY has NO VALUE anymore.”
I suddenly realized and said, “Oh, then we should look for things that we can barter.”
“Yes, good idea!” So we started looking for things to trade with others.
Then I saw a man in the stairwell coming up but he was in a state of shock. He was thinking of his wife and child and was hopeless and in total shock. His hair and clothes were GRAY, and he was VERY THIN and his left hand was tightly clenched as if he was holding onto something tightly, but when I went over to talk with him and opened his left hand, it was empty—he was very thin and even his hand was unnaturally thin, like he did not have a normal grasp, like he was missing a finger or just did not have a normal grasp.
I led him up into my room and tried to comfort him and told him, “You know God told us this was going to happen,” but it was no comfort to him. He was basically beyond help, beyond comfort right now. I was worried that he might SNAP and do something rash or harmful so I tried to keep talking with him. A man who is a caretaker for a church I used to attend but who is a little mentally challenged popped his head into my room and said to the man, “Get some paper and write down what God will tell you,” referring to the way we often lead people into spiritual communion / prayer journaling so they can hear God speak to them in their own hearts, and I thought, ‘Ok, we can try that,’ but I said again trying to get his attention, “It’s all going to be OK. God told us and MANY PEOPLE that this was going to happen …” But he was just not listening, not even able to listen to anything, and he could not even take this much in—it would SIMPLY BE IMPOSSIBLE to lead him into a time of spiritual communion with the Lord in his current state. He was too shaken, and there was too much to explain that he would not be able to understand right now.
Then he crawled into the closet and hid himself under the clothes and he was thinking about all the Christmas presents he had just bought, especially for his daughter, and that they were all now worthless.
I saw one that had very poorly drawn images of Santa on the wrapping paper—but in LARGE letters suddenly on the box it read CHURCH. Like “Church” was a cheap gift that you get at Christmas. He was looking at this in BEWILDERMENT and said, “How can this FAIL?” He was wondering how the Christmas ‘Church’ could fail.
I woke up; it was around 7 am and the Lord asked me to write the dream down immediately, and I heard Him say, “This is what will happen to my people.”
Interpretation: This is what will happen to God’s People!!
I figured I had a pretty good idea on what this dream was getting at, at first … but when God began telling me his interpretation, I was shocked. First with what it means, and then He also had a few very stern things to say to me about how I was handling the message and my attitude in general … This is a serious word and a serious time and the Lord has some SERIOUS business to do with his people, foretold in the Bible, and foreshadowed by the Exile of the Jews to Babylon … this is the Exile of the Christians to Babylon, but I am getting ahead of myself and need to let you hear the Lord’s message, if indeed you can.
Me: What is the trouble?
The Lord: News from a foreign land …
Me: Am I hearing this right? What does that even mean??
The Lord: If you don’t want the yoke of the Lord, (the restraint and kindness of serving Me, a good master) then you will fall into the snare of working towards the enemy’s plans. Did I not tell you that if you seek to gain your life you shall lose it? This is now coming upon all my disobedient house, for I will have my people be holy as I am holy, says the Lord. Do not forget that while in the wilderness I was with Israel every day of their short, pitiful, miserable lives—they murmured and complained about me the whole time not knowing what I was doing, I was doing for their good fortunes … now, have you been murmuring against me? And even yet condemning the ancient ones, who are just as much a part of your extended human family, who will also face my judgment … how do you think you shall escape the same chastisement and punishment of those who YOU condemned as disobedient and stubborn, when you are of the same ilk.
Me: What is the news of the big trouble?
The Lord: I will cast their idols into the sea, cast them down to the ground, cast them into the flames, and they will see them no more. No more will they call this country (the USA) the land of prosperity, but the land of purposelessness—vanity, vain ideas, vain people, vain pursuits, no longer the promised land but the land of woe.
Me: [Having a very hard time bearing to hear his word I said] I am just trying to listen …
The Lord: And listen you shall, I have raised you up to hear my voice and deliver my warnings to these disobedient and stiff necked people and go to them you shall! Now listen to me, you have not lost anything you were not supposed to give up for my sake to start with, yet all you do all day long is moan and whine and complain about Me being a hard taskmaster, when will you discern right from wrong? Is what you do right as an example to my people? Do you encourage them to weather the storms by your steadfastness to my word, or do you gripe and complain about me?
Me: Yes Lord.
The Lord: Now let’s have no more of this whimpering, I have GOOD Plans for my people and the sooner you realize it the better for all. Let’s get back to the story I am telling you.
They will hear the news from a foreign land and it will cause them to flee into the trees. In the wilderness, deep into the trees, hiding from ME.
They are leaving their habitations, the places I chose for them as a sanctuary and a safe place to rest in my care as I train them for war! War on poverty, war on sales, war on merchandising my truth, war on fancy clothes that bring you no relief for your troubled souls, war on relief that is not of Me and that does not relieve. War on poverty of SOUL, of heart, of home. Oh my people you have learned heresy from people who have lied to you in my name. They think holding church services is playing a game; You think I have changed that I am no longer the same, as I was long ago, but it is YOU who have changed; I am forever the same. It is YOU who have changed, changed your name and changed your team …
—Selah—
[Then there was a long pause where He was just silent … I could feel Him there, only He was not speaking, like He was contemplating what He was going to say! Although He already knows what He is going to say! I didn’t understand. I turned to the angel who was there with me strengthening me and the angel said, “He’s really upset.”
So … Selah, a pause, a pregnant pause, then … ]
The Lord: I am pronouncing judgment upon you.
You have NOT come to know Me or my ways, and it is all I can do to rescue you from the pit. DO NOT point the finger at the Jew, you Gentile, you believer in Yeshua as you say, for you will suffer the same fate on that Day. You have also fallen away. I will now purge my house as only I may. I will drive you into the arms of your lovers, you apostates, you lovers of wealth and pleasure, and you who choose YOUR OWN WAY … you mock Me? You laugh and say I am no longer the same, but just as they who fell away, you will laugh and will say, ‘NO WAY, this is OUR DAY, Good times, great fun! Let’s enjoy the well earned fruit of our labors,’ … but I shall take it all away.
At this point, He said I could take a break and go outside and take a picture of a plant I wanted to shoot for my blog … it had not rained in more than a month and things are dying back. Before I knew it I was busy cutting the wild Canna back. This plant has a small flower on tall stalks. It looks like regular Canna, which I thought it was when I found it at the beach, except the flowers are very tiny, unlike regular Canna which has HUGE beautiful flowers. It was the first time I have had to prune this planting back since I only planted it about 18 months ago … well, also the leaves died back as it grew, leaving a dried up brown mess on each stalk, and when the stalks get about five feet tall, after a few miniscule flowers, they just die as well. Rather disappointing. Especially because like I said, when I found it down by the beach I thought it was real Canna … anyway the whole planting has begun to just look like a total mess, and I felt I should prune it today, right now … as I did so, I realized a few things. All the tall stalks needed to be cut right back to their bases, and when I did this I saw that there were many new shoots under the dead leaves that I could not even see before. Now these new plants are free to grow and all the old growth that was so tattered looking is gone. What to do with all the cut stalks I was wondering, when the Lord suddenly interrupted my gardening and said, “Burn them.”
And then I knew what He was talking about!! This is the parable of the vineyard in Isaiah!!! Oh no! I just looked it up and its uncanny! This is Isaiah 5, coming not to the Jews but to the “believers in Yeshua.” I mean it’s the people who THINK they are safe and secure in their religious lives but are not so in heart, in spirit and in truth, and so are simply not safe.
Here is an excerpt of Isaiah 5 with key highlights in BOLD … He said don’t reproduce the whole chapter here because people don’t care enough to read it all and just give them the highlights …
Isaiah 5
1 I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.
2 He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.
3 “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. 4 What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad?
5 Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled. 6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”
7 The vineyard of the LORD Almighty is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the garden of his delight. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.
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9 The LORD Almighty has declared in my hearing: “Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants.
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12 They have harps and lyres at their banquets, tambourines and flutes and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the LORD, no respect for the work of his hands. 13 Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding; their men of rank will die of hunger and their masses will be parched with thirst.
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15 So man will be brought low and mankind humbled, the eyes of the arrogant humbled. 16 But the LORD Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will show himself holy by his righteousness. 17 Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture; lambs will feed among the ruins of the rich.
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24 Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore the LORD’s anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised. 26 He lifts up a banner for the distant nations, he whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Here they come, swiftly and speedily! (NIV)
I never imagined that this is what the “great falling away” or the “great apostacy” or the “rebellion” was talking about … it is the Exile of the Gentiles! Not from a physical promised land, but from the Lord’s spiritual promised land, the Kingdom …
2 Thessalonians 2:3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.
(NIV)
Hebrews 3:8-19
7 So, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, 9 where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.
10 That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’ 11 So I declared on oath in my anger, “They shall never enter my rest.’”
12 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. 14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.
15 As has just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.” 16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert?
18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.
(NIV)
At this point I realized a few things … first, as a Body we’re fast asleep in our spiritual discernment and have no idea what is going on, we don’t know God or understand Him at all, even though we assure ourselves that we do, but really we’ve just dug ourselves a great pit! I realized my initial take on this dream was just wrong! And God, the God who spoke through Jeremiah and Isaiah, has NOT changed.
Seeking further clarification of the rest of the symbols and events, this is what I heard …
Me: So the people fleeing are Christians who are fleeing from your protection and family?
The Lord: Yes, but it’s not as simplistic as that. They may and probably will still call themselves Christians, believers in Yeshua, Jesus, Messiah, whatever, but their hearts have left and are far from Me.
As a man thinks in his heart, so IS he. They are far from Me since their hearts are cold towards Me. How can I train them, wrestle with them to expose and purge the dross of sin from their hearts if they will not engage Me? I cannot do it on my own—I CAN, but I will not supplant their freedom to choose whom they shall serve; I am a HOLY and RIGHTEOUS GOD and I will not do that to anyone.
Me: Can we go on?
The Lord: Yes …
Me: I saw people fleeing, taking things with them, first just a few, then EVERYONE … Who are the early people and what are they taking? I guess I saw them getting ready to pack but I didn’t see anyone carry anything away, in fact now that I think about what I saw, most of the people leaving took NOTHING with them …
The Lord: They were trying to take the things they value from my kingdom: salvation, peace, etc., but they left empty handed because I AM the peace, and you can’t separate IT from ME and take it away … it’s all or nothing in a way.
Me: But the homes looked ransacked, they were in total disarray.
The Lord: People don’t leave in a good frame of mind. They are in a panic and in fear, doubt and unbelief … unbelief in my Goodness, not in the calamity they are hearing about. The homes reflect the unanswered questions they left behind. When they come back, as some of them will, they will have to face these scattered issues, but it will be with newfound insight and understanding and it will not be as they left.
Me: So the apartments and dormitory are the places you have provided for people in your kingdom for their safety and training, education and in preparation of their callings, etc.
The Lord: Yes, but what’s more it’s not a ‘place’ but a ‘mindset’ in a way. The Kingdom is WITHIN you, not a hotel you check into or a building you move into.
Me: I lose sight of your goodness, Lord.
The Lord: You all do from time to time, but that’s why I am here with you to the end of the age, to help get you back on track!
Me: You are much more clam and kind now than you were when you were telling me the first part of this word….
The Lord: Yes, well, I have much to show you that you do not know about Me. Let’s get back to the dream shall we?
The lamppost represents my light dawning on their conscience. (You forgot to add that in the writing up of the dream)—it was dim, nighttime when the people were leaving. Their understanding is DIM, and I am the light guiding them, showing them the way they walk, even when it is wrong and the wrong way, they will know it later for what it was.
Do you know what the PIE was, with the handle? My PEACE (like a piece of pie) was left behind. It has a handle so you can GRASP it, although you never fully UNDERSTAND it, it passes or transcends your understanding, but you can still lay hold of it. Lay hold of my Peace! It’s easy! A piece of pie! Yes, it was a whole pie, it is my wholeness, my Shaloam, my peace … sounds corny you know, but that’s the way I am (when I am not upset 🙂 ).
Me: Wahhh!! … OK, the stuff left behind that we started to sort through?
The Lord: Gifts, mantles, callings that are now being left undone. They will be given to the faithful few, a redistribution of wealth!
Me: [Laughing in Joy!] I thought it was something bad that we were stealing things or something …
The Lord: No, it is in my word. Those who have much will get more, those who have little will lose what little they have. Look it up!
Me: Matthew 13:12, and oh, Matthew 25! Just after the parable of the 10 Virgins … The Master who gave his servants Talents …
Matthew 13:11-12
11 He replied, “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12 Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
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Matthew 25:28-30
28 “’Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. 29 For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 30 And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
The Lord: Bingo! Read the whole chapter of Matthew 25 when you have time next. Let’s go on … the rescue of the disciples was not by might, nor by human power, but by my Spirit says Me, the Lord.
Then the Lord explained the some personal elements of this dream that He said were just for me and not important to share with everyone. One of these was the pink printer … which He said had to do with my mantle for publishing which must focus on things for evangelism—for babies—that’s why it was pink. So I don’t need to share those things but I asked if I should share the other parts of the dream?
The Lord: Yes, people need to see what is coming and already is beginning to spread upon the sea—the people at large.
Are you ready for the rest?
OK, a seed is coming, to restore the captive Jerusalem, you are a part of that seed if the Holy Spirit ABIDES in you, that is, you are at home feasting with him in your presence. You abide, or live with him on a continuous basis since He is pleased to live with you.
Me: Strengthen me Lord. What does it mean to see TP, the youth leader?
The Lord: It is people like her, whose heart knows how to sniff out my way, even if they are slow, or it is closed to their clear understanding still. She is following Me as I lead you.
Me: What about her being a youth leader …
The Lord: Relevant, but you are ALL youth leaders, you lead the youth of the Kingdom … let’s go on. Other people you did not know are other laborers of this harvest you have not yet met, but will work with soon … your ‘estranged wife’ are those who have been estranged from the promises of God, but they will return to Me, and you will suddenly be back in fellowship with them. A new level of understanding will be established or reestablished between you … they have already fallen away but will soon come back to the table and dine with the Lord of the feast.
She had to go to a lower level to find the things she was comfortable wearing and which would suit / fit her, since she has been away and not growing as she ought so she will have to make up for some lost time in my service. You will help people like this get back into the swing of things wearing their mantles and gifts and callings again.
People think they cannot LOSE a gift or a mantle or a calling, but I say this is not so. You can lose anything I give you if you are disobedient, stubborn or unwilling to carry out the task you are assigned to. People say the gifts and callings of God are beyond repentance but search and see what this really means, that these things are not what you earn by your good deeds, maturity or your own spiritual strength.
They are things I CHOOSE for you to do, regardless of your standing with me. I mean I choose them before you were born, before you know me, or before you walked with Me. I can take them away just as easily if you prove to be unfaithful to yourself, (since I already know what you will be and what you are), but I give you the chance to prove yourself. I won’t judge you for what you do not yet do, either to punish or reward you for your calling, only until it becomes a present reality in your walk with Me do I have the ability to decide if you are faithful or disobedient, even though I know whether you will be or not before it happens.
So these gifts are given not as a question of your right standing, but as a decision of my grace to empower you to serve me in one way or another. THEN you start the walk of repentance and learn how to serve Me and how to operate in the gifts and callings of the kingdom, if you choose to, and that is the substance of the reward of your service to Me. People who unrighteously want to STEAL from Me, and claim an inheritance I have not approved or given them say these things that the gifts and callings of God are beyond repentance so they can continue to walk in them even if they are in gross sin, but this is not true. They only look at the gifts and talents on the surface, as man sees the results of their fame as it brings in the crowds, the music albums they can create, the books they sell as a “best-selling author” or engagement fees they can command when they speak on the international preachers’ circuit … but these are not the true measure of the gifts and callings of God, since the substance of what you build is in the hearts of man, not in the numbers of people who come to an event in your name … You can be famous in man’s world because of the gifts I gave you even when you cease to operate in my Kingdom and stop building the lives of the saints in reality …. Just leave such people behind … they are blind guides, clouds without rain, leave the dead to be buried by the dead …
Me: TP said, she heard that ‘currency has no more value.’ We started looking for things to barter and trade instead …
The Lord: Yes, what does this mean but an end to merchandising in my house … I will no longer tolerate men who steal from Me to sell to you … you have freely received the Wisdom of the Ages and yet you promise restoration only if people can afford your series on DVD … this is WRONG! I allow you to make money in so many ways that do not impede the righteous from finding their Lord and Savior but what have you done? That which you have not labored for you SELL? In MY NAME! To put a HUGE STUMBLING BLOCK in the path of my sheep who are too poor or too illiterate to know how to navigate the modern world of e-commerce and business trading… how many people I want to touch with what I have shown my people but who do not even know how to use a computer or who do not own one? E-commerce is meant to be a way to make a living for some of you but not for a way to sell on line what costs you nothing to make another copy of at the expense of the lost sheep who cannot afford to eat every day … what am I saying? STOP MERCHANDISING MY TRUTH. LOVE the sheep but look to ME for your money! I’ll give you ways and partners to help you along the way as you serve Me, but stop trying to fleece the sheep! It was NEVER supposed to be this way that the Gospel advanced! This is wrong in my eyes, it is evil, an abomination really! Stop doing it. Look to Me for your support, provision and ways to make money if you need it. STOP LOOKING FOR WAYS TO FLEECE MY SHEEP!
Me: What about the man in the hallway. Gray hair, very skinny, a very weak grasp, grasping at nothing ….
The Lord: People who think the gospel is a means to get rich … that it is for carnal prosperity and earthly wealth … this is the result of his earthly wisdom, knowledge of the fallen realm that is used to define and decide what is going on with Me and My Kingdom … they simply do not understand it … this will be a hard shock on them, but do not worry, I know my own and will lead them beside streams of living water, into green pastures where they will find rest for their eternal souls …
But these paint the gospel with Christmas tree lights and narratives of donkeys and three wise men, and they just miss the point. The point is not to give them a warm, cozy tradition to worship and lie down on to sleep when they are weary working the year long for Mammon and Man’s plays, but it is to DIE to self, to the FLESH, die to the nature in you that is an enemy to Me. Such people think all I came to do was to give them a holiday off from work, and a reason to buy things for their loved ones and families, and not to worry about the poor in the world or war or famine for a season but to indulge themselves, to go to their ancestral homes and drink wine and tell stories and live the high life. … I love your families and I want you to have good times with them, eating and singing, telling stories, enjoying each others’ company before you die, but die you must and the sooner the better for all. Not physical death, I mean, death to sin and the sin nature within mankind that lies to you and hides you from seeing the truth of my ways …
They have trusted what they have poorly made, a sham and mockery of Me and my ways and it’s plain that it is fake and cheap and not worthy of my Divinity, not made by Me, but made by weak, stupid, fools in mock honor of Me … your Christmas traditions are vain attempts to satisfy your souls, decorated with chinsy painted images of a charlatan, a fake saint, a myth, a mask of deception. Led astray you will not fight for what is right and true and so you will neither see nor experience what I have told this story for.
Me: The man was thin and had a weak grasp…
The Lord: He cannot grasp the truth, underfed since he does not seek to know Me, so he is barely alive. Grasping at thin air, which is all he has left after the news has come to shatter the illusion he took for truth. He calls the fake, toy ‘church of man’ my plan, so wrong! So wrong, man.
Why not come up higher and I will tell you my real plans, but alas you are too weak, too stubborn to change, too weak to renew your heart’s thinking and you cannot bear what I have to say … it is so against all you do and believe so you cannot hear Me when I speak … I say, lean NOT upon your own ways, O man! Your own judgments will prove to be a snare to you in the day of calamity. Turn to me and live, before it is too late, I say; before That Day catches you like a thief in the night. You still have time to repair your ways, O man, but not many days hence you shall say, ‘Woe is to me, I am undone! All I care to do or say is stubble like hay burned up in the Fire of that Day! Woe is me! I ate the fast food of the people who told me they knew the way but it was all lies: hay, wood, stubble and hay!’
Prepare yourself for this is going to be a taste of that day!
Me: So what will the “news” be? From a Foreign Land? A foreign country, or a different ‘kingdom’ from yours?
The Lord: Do you want me to tell you?
Me: Umm … yes, but please make it very clear …
The Lord: I will tell you later …