Vultures, Fire, and Center Stage


Vultures

 One day, I was in my car looking at a parked car in front of me; it’s registration date read 222. Then I looked down at the clock in my car: 12:22. The next day, I also looked at my clock at precisely 12:22. By this time, I was so intrigued with why I kept seeing this number that I felt compelled to pray about it. I heard in my spirit that I should check out the Strong’s meaning of 222. The meaning that jumped out at me was "flame of God" which is also the name Uriel, who is said to be an archangel. I did an Internet search, and this is what came up: Archangel; fire in palm; carrying a scroll, a flaming sword and a disc of the sun. This immediately made me think of Revelation 19:17-21: “Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, ‘Come, gather for the great supper of God, to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.’ And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him who was sitting on the horse and against his army. And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.” It is interesting to me how God uses these things to take us on studies we would not have pursued of our own volition, for as I read Revelation 19, I was impressed with the last verse regarding the vultures. In fact, the Holy Spirit had been bringing to my mind frequently in recent days the Scripture in Matthew 24 about vultures, but I had never been able to understand it. Matthew 24:23-28: “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand. So, if they say to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.” There was suddenly a connection! God seemed to be using vultures as a symbol of judgment. I did a word search in the Bible on “vultures,” and the following texts came up:

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

 I was concluding a prayer time and I heard the Lord say, "Come with me." I saw a hand extended to me, and I said, "Where Lord?" I suddenly started to see trees. We were flying over them. I said, Lord why are we seeing all these trees? I heard, "The trees represent mankind." Then suddenly, I started seeing the trees burning. It looked like the wildfire videos we see of California and other places. The next scene, I saw a ravaged forest that had been burned, sprouting with new tree life. The next scene, I saw the fire again, but this time, my focus was zoomed in onto the pine cones that were exploding and dropping seeds because of the intense heat.  Then I heard these words: "And he who was seated on the throne said, 'Behold, I am making all things new'" (Revelation 21:5).  And again, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (John 12:24).  "But on the judgment day, fire will reveal what kind of work each builder has done. The fire will show if a person's work has any value" (1 Cor 3:13).

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

 On 8/27/18, I dreamed I was at some sort of  theater. Most of the people were in these sections of the theater that didn't even have a view of the stage. All of my family and extended family were there, including one of my grandmothers who had died some years back. She was sitting in the center overlooking the stage. I was sitting in the next row off-center overlooking the stage with my mom and one brother. Next thing I know, they are missing, and I assume they went to try to sit with the rest of the family. I went looking for them and found all the family all packed like sardines with a whole bunch of other people in these sections that had no stage view. I was amazed and said, "What in the world, you can't even see the stage!" I was trying to get them to come up to my section, because I was amazed how incredibly empty the main seating was that overlooked the stage. When I went back up to my seat, I decided to sit next to my grandma in center row. Then the next thing I knew, I realized that it was starting to fill up. I was worried my family wouldn't get a seat with a stage view on time.

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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