AUGUST 2007 GET READY!
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The last two times I have felt like this, 9/11 took place in 2001, and in 2003 I canceled a trip to Puerto Rico, telling my preacher friend I could not come because something I did not know was wrong with my family--the next day we found my baby brother dead.
I have been in consternation for several months about what I feel in my heart. I have not even finished the last couple of letters on this site because my heart failed me.
I have even felt afraid to pray for fear of what I might hear. I believe with all my heart something is about to break out nationally and globally that will change our lives forever.
Spiritually, I believe an awesome judgment of God is coming on how ministry has handled the Anointing and how God's people have responded to the Anointing.
"O Lord, were You displeased with the rivers, was Your Anger against the rivers, was Your Wrath against the sea, that You rode on Your horses, Your chariots of salvation?"
---Habakkuk 3: 3
This Scripture has been burning in my heart. How easy it is to flirt with Hell in the pursuit of Heaven! I have known for many years there is a fine line between good Church government and manipulation, and between the individual priesthood, authority, and liberty of every believer and lawlessness. Please note what I have written about God's Judgment of the spirit of Jezebel in past letters.
I believe the Lord has shown me the rivers in this passage represent the flows of Anointing He has released upon the earth, and the sea represents what man's handling of His Anointing has produced in the Body and on the Earth.
So many sincere Christians are held hostage by vampire preachers who possess their souls and will in the name of covenant. So many God-sent servants are held back and quenched by the self-will and self-indulgence of stubborn cannibalistic saints. I hate to say this, but it seems most Christians act as though they are anointed to destroy and oppose other Christians and ministries.
Ruminating somewhere in the bowels of this great religious beast is the love of money and abandoning our First Love for this system and the kingdom and power thereof. The purpose and cud we chew over and over to try to get it down is the demon called destiny and will worship. Somewhere in this bloviating warp the mixture that kills is my intermingling, and near automatic transpositioning of my will as faith. A lot of methane gas comes from cows and garbage dumps.
A lot of spiritual and soulish flatulance rises from the never-ending pasturing and covered-pits of religion as well. Spiritual situational ethics and self-emmanent reality seem to rule Christendom. For whatever reasons, the double-standard of "the end justifies the means" greases the great religio-political machine.
I sometimes think that "seeing through a glass darkly" is almost like a baby in the womb. There is a vague awareness of sound, light, and sensation near the time of birth. Babies in utero are sensitive to emotion and sound "from another world". The trauma of birth is a necessary expulsion into what must seem a too-bright, harsh, and cruel world.
For a long time, we American saints have been in the womb of a system we should have been birthed from long ago. Many of us refused to be born--we liked the comfort and relative darkness; for others, the system refused to birth us: in either case, we are about to have a surgical Caesarean from the Lord.
And we will be forced to see how blind and naked and helpless we are without Him.
I also believe, possibly this month, that without intercession and the intervention of God, an awesome judgment is coming on this nation.
There is both a spiritual and natural diaspora about to take place. God is dividing the rivers of anointing with new rivers. He may divide natural rivers. He is dividing spiritual rivers that flow against His will.
There will be new streams in the desert!
I once had a dream that I was driving from the Eastern to the Western United States--I drove up to a roadblock and walked past the barrier: I stood on the edge of a great chasm where the road ended,so great, I could not see the other side clearly. The Lord spoke to me in that dream that the nation would one day be literally divided, with no road travel possible from one side to another, only air. I hope I am deceived!
What I am seeing naturally so disturbs me. The Lord has had me praying against nuclear and biological terrorism. This spiritually and politically divided nation is evidently governed by leaders who don't know we are fighting for the survival of America.
I know both of these things are now and soon. The Lord has shown me that if He does not intervene, there will be a flash in the sky and that many will die. I even saw the air burning and stones being consumed. He has shown me men walking the streets with no way to feed themselves, attacking homes that appear kept and prosperous, because a whole region will become uninhabitable overnight.
I saw 10-20 million people who went suddenly from having everything to having nothing with no power to do anything.
The Holy Spirit has told me since 1997 to pray for the cities forecast for destruction. These things are on tape somewhere. He told me in the late 90's a large city would be attacked, many would die, that the nation would rally for a short time, and then forget because it didn't happen to them. Many believe the Holocaust didn't really happen either. Then He said something worse would come.
I have been reduced to pray for the safety of my family, as I know cruel days are ahead spiritually, physically, and financially. I have had visions of people begging, of men selling themselves on the streets for food, not just prostitution, but literal slavery. I have seen gangs roaming the streets and attacking and pillaging.
The Holy Spirit keeps telling me to prepare my heart, and to remember New Orleans.
If I detailed the visions I have had, it would not serve the best purposes of God to edify the saints. I still hope against hope that such is preventable, for the sake of the elect and the ignorant.
Hysteria will rule many.
How unprepared I am as a leader, a beiiever, and a family man to face any sudden changes. I am ashamed I have not better prepared. I who see so much have perhaps been an infidel by not providing better for my family. I have presumed terribly upon the future.
"Come My People, enter your chanbers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation is past. For behold the Lord comes out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity..." --Isaiah 26: 20-21a
"A prudent man forsees evil and hides himself, but he simple pass on and are punished."---Proverbs 22: 3
God forvive and defend us all where we have been willfully simple and practiced selective deafness!
Spiritually there is a murderous ruthlessness that has descended upon many Christians. Someone told me they read a book written by a prophet who said that demon spirits would ride on the backs of Christians in the Last Days, and they would be convinced it was the Holy Spirit. I now believe this.
I wonder how often I have allowed them to ride on me?
God is about rise up over the rivers and sea, what man has done and built with His anointing. I had a vision the beginning of 2006 or 2007 of men and women of renown, beautifully dressed, preaching to empty, gorgeous buidlings. The people were gone because they had preached themselves and had given them nothing to stand in the Day of Adversity. They wept and preached to no one and to nothing, but what they had used the river to build.
He is riding upon us with His horses and His chariots of salvation. He is breaking the man-made dams, dikes, channels, and lakes.
"Your bow was made quite ready; oaths were sworn over Your arrows. Selah
You divided the earth with rivers."--Habakkuk 3: 9
God is coming upon us in a most unwanted visitation, quite out of our control--finally and for good,and once and for all out of our control. He has made His arrows ready to strike, His arsenal of all He wants to do to raise up the Name of Jesus.
Our ability to substitute man-made and self-serving methods to channel His Anointing and Power are forever stricken. Some Christians are in spiritual hospice, others wandering aimlessly, some locked in religious prisons. Others seek pasture with no responsibility.
This is a Move none of us have bargained for. Years ago I was lamenting the loss of the Fire of God we enjoyed in the early days of the Charismatic Movement. I mourn for those who are so young they do not remember. It was as the Days of Heaven. Everyone prophesied and flowed in the Gifts of the Spirit. Deliverance and miracles were expected and commonplace--the most remarkable salvations took place in every quarter of the Body. Then men, doctrines, polity, and self-satisfaction caused us to settle into systems of maintenance as dead and denominational than anything we had left to run after liberty in Jesus.
So many gave up everything to be filled with the Holy Spirit to arrive to settle for nothing.
The Lord spoke to me in my pondering,
"The Pageant of My Spirit is about to begin. I have been frustrated by man's control and handling of My Spirit long enough. Never again will one group railroad Me, or any church or Move that I release. You can either be on the Way or be in the Way, but if you get in My Way, I will run over you. If you don't want to be a part of what I am doing, stand to the side, but don't dare throw stones at the floats in My Parade when they pass by, and don't dare run after them and tear off the bunting."
At about the same time, a construction project began in our very old, little Southern town. Our town has never been much on historical preservation. The most beautiful buildings were torn down in my childhood for shopping centers that have since fell into neglect--sad substitute.
At the time, I was very interested in salvaging for the purpose of one day building a home for my family out of old material.
No where in our city is more than a few minutes away, so I would daily drive by this project. The bulldozers were tearing through old stores, exposing beams, brick, stone, and all many of solid, now unobtainable building supplies. I literally said out loud, "This is a waste! I can't believe they are just throwing this away. I am going to get Daddy's truck and get this stuff to build my house!"
Half a small city block was bull dozed over a week's period--every day I passed, Every day I said the same thing. Every day, the Lord spoke to me,
"No, when you build your house, everything will be new. I don't want you to use anything old."
Every day when I would pass by and complain and bemoan the loss and destruction of such old quality materials, He would patiently tell me again,
"I told you, when you build your house, you will use all new materials. I don't want you to use anything old."
Then I began to see something emerging. While demolition was taking place at one end of the block, new construction began taking place at the other end that was already cleared. I was unsure what it would be, but it was new.
Eventually it would prove to be far more functional and beautiful, an asset to the downtown area.
The Lord spoke to me,
" This is what I am doing and going to do. While others are crying destruction and waste, I am the One building. There will be nothing old in what I am building. My House will be new."
Please kneel and pray today, and repent for your sins, and the sins of the Church and the nation. Humbly ask Him for His protection and deliverance.
I believe we are in a time of literal Passover as a nation, Church, and as famiies, and individuals. I believe the death angel is passing over America.
I believe the Lord has told me that for Christians who understand the signifance of Communion, it is more relevant at this moment than it was for the Hebrews to take the Passover when they were about to come out of Egypt. We must, by faith, apply the Blood of the Lamb, over our lives again and be reconsecrated to Him.
I know any rescue of this nation will be done publicly with HIM alone receiving the glory.
THESE EVENTS, BOTH SPIRITUALLY AND NATURALLY ARE UPON US NOW. MAY GOD DELIVER US ALL FROM GALL, POISON, BITTERNESS, UNFORGIVENSS, AND EVERY SNARE OF THE ENEMY MENTALLY, SPIRITUALLY, PHYSICALLY, FINANCIALLY, LEGALLY, MORALLY, AND GEOGRAPHICALLY, IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME.
Jesus is our Ark, our Rock, our Protection, our High Tower!
in Jesus,
Vaughn Allen Clark Psalm 27: 5
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