Vultures, Fire, and Center Stage
Vultures
Luke
17:26-37: “‘Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of
the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in
marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and
destroyed them all. Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were
eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, but on the day
when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed
them all— so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed. On that
day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come
down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn
back. Remember Lot’s wife. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but
whoever loses his life will keep it. I tell you, in that night there will be
two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left. There will be two women
grinding together. One will be taken and the other left.’ And they said to him,
‘Where, Lord?’ He said to them, ‘Where the corpse is, there the vultures
will gather.’”
Proverbs
30:17: “The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked
out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.”
Isaiah
34:1-4, 15:
“Come near,
O nations, to listen;
pay
attention, O peoples.
Let the
earth hear, and all that fills it,
the world
and all that springs from it.
The LORD is
angry with all the nations
and furious
with all their armies.
He will set
them apart for destruction;
He will give
them over to slaughter.
Their slain
will be left unburied,
and the
stench of their corpses will rise;
the
mountains will flow with their blood.
All the
stars of heaven will be dissolved.
The skies
will be rolled up like a scroll,
and all
their stars will fall
like
withered leaves on the vine,
and foliage
on the fig tree…
There the
owl will make her nest;
she will lay
and hatch her eggs
and gather
her brood under her shadow.
Even there
the birds of prey will gather,
each with
its mate.”
Isaiah
18:4-6: “For this is what the LORD has told me:
‘I will
quietly look on from My dwelling place,
like
shimmering heat in the sunshine,
like a cloud
of dew in the heat of harvest.’
For before
the harvest, when the blossom is gone
and the
flower becomes a ripening grape,
He will cut
off the shoots with a pruning knife,
and remove
and discard the branches.
They will
all be left to the mountain birds of prey,
and to the
beasts of the land.
The birds
will feed on them in summer,
and all the
wild animals in winter.”
Ezekiel
39:1-5: “As for you, O son of man, prophesy against Gog and tell him that this
is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of
Meshech and Tubal. I will turn you around, drive you along, bring you up from
the far north, and send you against the mountains of Israel. Then I will strike
the bow from your left hand and dash down the arrows from your right hand.
On the
mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with
you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild
beast. You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Lord
GOD.’”
Jeremiah
12:9: “Is my heritage to me like a hyena’s lair? Are the birds of prey
against her all around? Go, assemble all the wild beasts; bring them to
devour.”
Forest Fire
My daughter,
write this down. You must know that fire will destroy all things that are evil
but purify and reveal all things that are good. Those who have within
themselves by the gifting of my Holy Spirit seeds of righteousness, they will
produce much fruit. Though the fire should greatly try and test them, yet
they will leave behind seeds of righteousness that will not be burned up, and
in the great destruction that comes by fire, those seeds will sprout up unto
eternal life.
In a vision
I received September 7 during prayer, Yeshua took me by the hand and said,
"I want to show you something." I was hovering in the air just above
Manhattan Island. Well actually, I must have been above water looking toward
Manhattan. I saw at a distance in front of me the Twin Towers that had fallen
on 9/11. Then I saw them fall again. I heard in my spirit, "What happened
to those towers was symbolic of what is about to happen to the entire economic
system of the United States. Those towers collapsed in one hour. The economic
system of the United States will likewise collapse in one day. I am about to
replace the human system of understanding and learning and beauty and money and
idolatry with cities that I have created that are perfect and in which there is
no sin or corruption. They will be for you as an inheritance, my wedding gift
to my bride." I replied, "Lord, all I want is to be with you."
And he said, "You will be with me every moment that you desire. You will
not be held back from me by time or space any longer." Then I had a flash
vision of a door that had opened in midair and my Lord walking through it
toward me. It was as if he was showing me that we will be able to move from
place to place as easily as walking through a door.
And I
thought of this Scripture: “As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a
parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the
kingdom of God was to appear immediately. He said therefore, ‘A nobleman
went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.
Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, “Engage
in business until I come.” But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation
after him, saying, “We do not want this man to reign over us.” When he
returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered these servants to whom he had
given the money to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by
doing business. The first came before him, saying, “Lord, your mina has made
ten minas more.” And he said to him, “Well done, good servant! Because
you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten
cities.” And the second came, saying, “Lord, your mina has made five
minas.” And he said to him, “And you are to be over five cities.” Then
another came, saying, “Lord, here is your mina, which I kept laid away in a
handkerchief; for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take
what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.” He said to him,
“I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I
was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not
sow? Why then did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I
might have collected it with interest?” And he said to those who stood
by, “Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has the ten
minas.” And they said to him, “Lord, he has ten minas!” “I tell you that
to everyone who has, more will be given, but from the one who has not, even
what he has will be taken away. But as for these enemies of mine, who did not
want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me”’”
(Luke 19:11-27).
Center Stage
After I had
that dream, I realized that it was prophetic of where most people are at in the
world theater of what God is doing. Most are blinded to God's Kingdom, and in
the example of my dream, my family represented those who are consumed with
self-gratification. In what way? Because it made them comfortable to be with
those they deemed important to be in league with, to the exclusion of
what their God had to say about it. But that is slowly changing. God is waking
people up to what He is doing in the world. The seats to witness His glorious
Kingdom coming to Earth are filling. To change the illustration, as Jesus
described it, soon, the door to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb will be closed,
and those outside will be supper for the vultures of judgment.
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