I received this by email a few weeks ago, and wanted to share it.
In light of the book I am writing, "From the Church to the Kingdom" I found some of the revelation this woman received all the way back in the 60's, quite astonishing.
In light of the book I am writing, "From the Church to the Kingdom" I found some of the revelation this woman received all the way back in the 60's, quite astonishing.
The Fall of the Church System Elaine Cook
When the Lord spoke to me in the early sixties about the church falling, I objected: "But Lord, You said that the gates of hell should not prevail against Your church! Surely You can't let Your church pass away!"
His answer was very revealing: "I am talking about My true church!" I saw that this is the church that is to pass away, for it has man as its head, and consists of innumerable denominations, each claiming to be the true Bride of Christ. Yet, if you should say that the Spirit talks to you, they would be the first to cast a stone at you, for "the Lord doesn't talk to people today! He speaks", they say, "only through the written word, the Bible, and through chosen preachers who have attended man's recognized schools of theology. This system will fall with the rest of Babylon.
Those who have walked with us for some years know well how the Lord gave me a baby girl, Faith Melodie, and took her home at a very tender age. He taught me how the Church Age would pass away in its immature state, just learning to walk (in the spirit). I have learned these things through the things that the Lord has written upon my life-it is not some imagination on my part! (I have shared this dealing in the booklet, The Church Age Passes).
Recently, the Spirit said to me, "It is not always that a person lives to see what they have prophesied, come to pass! But you are seeing it! It is being broadcast far and wide, and anguish is spreading at the thought of the power of the church of this age passing away.
"Surely, it is the work of the evil one," they say. "We must fight against them and their wicked ways-trying to silence the Word of God!
"They fight in vain, and set out their many petitions in vain. They shall avail nothing!
"Could My children, at the end of the Old Testament Age, have prevented the destruction of their temple? Nay, they could not. I sent My Word to deliver the remnant-telling them to flee at a certain time. Those whose eyes were on the temple and not on Me were taken in the snare of fighting when I had told them to yield.
"History is again repeating itself except that in this day we are not considering a certain building, but a system-man's system of dead works and traditions. They have served the in-part realm of Pentecost, but cannot abide the coming of Tabernacles! They would rise up and revolt against My new move in the earth if I did not destroy their system and the power thereof.
"Watch and see. Those who are ordained to bring it down are working diligently, having My mandate. Be thou grateful to have fled the city and to be informed by the Spirit as to what I am doing, for it is a marvelous work, and no man shall be able to hold it back! The Church Age has passed! My kingdom is coming alive in the hearts of the people. Rejoice and mourn not when you see the walls of churchianity fall!"
In 2004, Rosemary Garzon wrote in her publication, on "The Overflowing Scourge." "In my spirit I heard this repeated many times through the night, "The calm before the storm." We are now living in this point in time, for the storm is about to break forth upon the earth. This connects with Isa. 28which the Lord has recently revealed. Vs. 14:"Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men (scoffers), that rule this people which is in Jerusalem." The men are those who have the rule over the many churches that are included in the whole church system of Babylon.
Verse 15: (Message Bible): "You say, `We've taken out good life insurance. We've hedged all our bets, covered all our bases. No disaster can touch us. We've thought of everything. We're advised by the experts. We're set."
Verse 15 (King James): "Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge and under falsehood have we hid ourselves."
The escapism doctrine of "flying away"-the rapture theory-is the covenant made with death: that they would escape. The "agreement with hell" is that big lie that all those who do not believe as they do shall be cast into hell to burn forever. The root word of "agreement" in Hebrew is "chozeh" meaning "to gaze at; contemplate with pleasure; to have a vision of; behold." Many church goers believe that it will serve the people right to go to hell for not believing as they do. This is their agreement with hell. This is the vision they behold.
Verse 16 stands as a beacon between the verses telling of the coming overflowing scourge. "Therefore I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste." His Body, who is one with the Head, Jesus Christ, shall stand as an ensign in the land, rooted and grounded in Truth. Those who come to the True Foundation shall no longer be eager to fly away (make haste); for they shall have come to the knowledge of the Truth.
Vs. 17-22 (Message Bible): "I'll make justice the measuring stick and righteousness the plumb line for the building. A hailstorm will knock down the shantytown of lies, and a flash flood will washout the rubble.
"Then you'll see that your precious life insurance policy wasn't worth the paper it was written on. Your careful precautions against death were a pack of illusions and lies. When the disaster happens, you'll be crushed by it. Every time disaster comes, you'll be in on it-disaster in the morning, disaster at night. Every report of disaster will send you cowering in terror.
"There will be no place where you can rest, nothing to hide under. God will rise to full stature, raging as he did long ago on Mount Perazim and in the valley of Gibeon against the Philistines. But this time it's against you. Hard to believe, but true. Not what you'd expect, but it's coming. Sober up, friends, and don't scoff. Scoffing will just make it worse. I've heard the orders issued for destruction, orders from God-of-the-Angel-Armies-ending up in an international disaster."
Vs. 17 (King James): "….your agreement with(visions of) hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge (the instrument of judgment He shall use to cleanse) shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it." The word "overflow" in the Hebrew means: to gush. It implies to inundate, to cleanse. By analogy, it means to gallop or to conquer.
"Scourge" means "an oar" coming from a root word which speaks of lashing the sea with oars. The other word associated with this word carries the meaning: a lash, literally or figuratively; scourge or whip. This "hail" of judgment will wipe out the lies that the people have wrapped themselves in as a protective covering. Isa.26:9, "…when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness."
Dismantling of the Old
(This dream was given to Richard L. Jones, a pastor in Tulsa, OK, U.S.A. in March, 2006)
In this dream I was in the downtown area of a large city and there was a lot of activity going on around me. The next thing I knew, I was on the top of a tall structure that was being dismantled. It was not being torn down, but dismantled and carried away on flatbed trucks. I was directing heavy equipment, like big cranes and such, that were being used to dismantle the many structures of the city. These structures were made of stone, or cast concrete facades, with steel beams used as supports for the structures. Again, I was having the cranes and other heavy equipment lower large pieces of these structures and facades to the ground so they could be moved and taken away on heavy trucks.
I awoke from my dream and inquired of the Lord what this meant. The Lord said to me, "I am dismantling the old religious structures that have been erected by men. I am clearing the way to build what I desire to be raised in this place and in this time! There is a large city to be dismantled, but I will raise up a new city built upon foundations of Divine Truth which support pillars of Righteousness and Justice. But first there will be a great dismantling and many will be exposed to the winds and the rain, to the hail and the hot sun, to the snow and the darkness. I am their Strong Tower. Oh, how I so desire for them to run to Mein that day of the great dismantling! For I am raising up a New City for those who will."
I knew then that my dream was specifically about the `dis-mantling' (removing the mantle) of the old Church structure as we know it and that God was going to raise up a new Church, one that is built according to His Divine providence and not built on the plans and ambitions of men.
Should We Fight Against the Plan of God? Elaine Cook
The writings that are crossing my desk recently have prompted me to address a topic that some of you may not wish to hear. Yet, I know the Lord wants me to speak out at this time. First, I will share an excerpt from Dr. Billy Graham's book, World Aflame, page89.
He says, "Thousands of loyal church members are beginning to meet in prayer groups and Bible Study classes. Multitudes of Christians within the church are moving toward the point where they may reject the institution that we call the church. They are beginning to turn to more simplified forms of worship. They are hungry for a personal and vital experience with Jesus Christ. They want a heartwarming personal faith. Unless the church quickly recovers its authoritative Biblical message, we may witness the spectacle of millions of Christians going outside the institutional church to find spiritual food."
On the heels of this came an urgent plea to add our names to a petition to keep Christian broadcasting on the air. It said, "An organization has been granted a Federal Hearing on the subject of removing Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, Charles Stanley, David Jeremiah and other pastors from the airwaves.
"Their petition would ultimately pave the way to stop the reading of the gospel of our Lord and Savior on the airwaves of America. They have 287,000 signatures to back their stand! If this attempt is successful, all Sunday worship services being broadcast on the radio or by TV will be stopped."
Upon hearing these reports, a vision that was given to a believer some years ago, came flooding into my mind. It was as if the Lord were saying that the fulfillment of it was nigh at hand. I've shared it before but I shall refresh your memory as the Lord did mine.
A scene showed believers coming to a well with buckets. They would fill their bucket and return again when it was empty to refill it. The day came when they found that the well had run dry. There was no water for them! The crowd stood around, angry and confused. Before long, they started to revile and to abuse the pastors who had assured them that there would always be plenty of water for them.
At the edge of the crowd stood some onlookers who seemed not to be disturbed in the least because the well was dry. They stood strong and calm in the midst of the noisy crowd clamoring for water. The crowd wondered why they were not concerned and upset. These had no buckets in their hands, but had living water within which flowed freely all the time because they had developed a personal relationship with the Lord outside the walls of the church system.
Those who have been drawn out of the church system to find an intimate relationship with the Lord have no fear of being without living waters! They will not have fear or confusion or anger when the church system falls, for fall it must.
The Lord has a plan. He is not allowing time to move on haphazardly, while He just looks on! He has ordained the ages and all that shall transpire in them. He ordered each succeeding covenant He made with His people, and one replaced another as it was its time to do so. The Old Testament time, or the Passover Age, as it could be called, was not destined to last forever. It brought forth its message and then it passed away in its appointed time.
It didn't pass away quietly or without turmoil and violence. Jesus foretold its passing when referring to the destruction of the temple at Jerusalem. He said there would not be one stone left upon another, and so it was! The death toll was greatly increased because the Jews fought so hard to preserve all that they had of God! The Roman General Titus was given specific instructions not to destroy the Temple, for it was one of the wonders of the world.
The believers of that day could not believe that God would, for one minute, condone the destruction of their beautiful place of worship! Because of this, they fought hard and the Romans fought back and went after the temple until it was just like Jesus had said-not one stone was left upon another. In the midst of all this was a remnant who remembered the Lord telling them what would be the sign of His coming and of the end of the world (age.) Mat. 24.
This chapter has always been put into the dim, distant future which the church hopes to escape by being raptured out of the world. I agree with what Jesus said in vs. 34: "Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled." He was not warning his followers about something that was going to happen 2000 years later, but about events that would soon happen, in their lifetimes!
They saw it fulfilled when Jerusalem was sacked and burned and its temple destroyed. Many are looking for its restoration in our day so that Jesus will be able to reign from Jerusalem. They do not understand that those born from above are that New Jerusalem, and the Lord will reign within them, not from some man-made throne in Jerusalem. The Passover Age was over and the move was on into the Age of Pentecost. God could not permit the temple to remain to keep the people in servitude to an "outward" worship when the worship had changed to an inner worship!
No more can He permit an "outward worship" in some temple made with hands in Jerusalem in our day! He is finished with outer temples! And, my spirit tells me that the outward symbol of Jerusalem being an earthly representation of the place where He dwells, will be completely destroyed in this day in which we live.
He has come to manifest Himself in a people in fullness, in a measure that we have never before seen! It has hardly even come to our thoughts the things that the Lord has prepared for those who are entering now into that new Age of Tabernacles, where we shall see the reign of God in the midst of His prepared ones who walk in the kingdom.
I must warn you that this Pentecostal Age is passing away and the Tabernacles Age is replacing it. The Spirit will do whatever needs to be done to deliver people from hanging on to what is to pass away. If He has to take the gospel off the airwaves; close the churches, bring persecution upon the believers, whatever…..so be it! His reason for allowing these things is for His good purposes, so that the best and the highest may replace that which was but good, even that in-part realm of Pentecost. How He has longed for a people upon whom He could lay His Head-and rest His mind upon them, that they would do, as did the firstborn Son, only those things that they saw with their Father.
The Spirit has spoken to me, "Tell My people that I have come! Tell them I have come! Did I not say unto My Own, `Yet a little while and I will come to you?' And did I not come in Spirit to fill My waiting ones so that they could know Me after the Spirit? The whole church world and the world that knows Me not, look for Me to appear again in My glorified body-to rule over all the earth and to bring it under subjection to Me.
"I say unto you that man's thoughts concerning my coming are after their own imaginations. As it was in My first coming, they looked for Me in exterior ways-as a majestic One coming to reign in righteousness subduing with My mighty power, all the power of Rome.
"They understood not and could not even conceive of My coming in a humble birth lowered to the limitations of the flesh, so that I could bring victory over the flesh for every man. Even now, they do not `see' that I have come in earthen vessels which I do sanctify by My presence to become `the temples of the living God' where I live and dwell and have My being.'
"This shall be My coming that men shall see-not a bright figure floating down from the heavens-but the Spirit of the living God arising in fullness in a people yielded completely to Him.
This is My purpose. This is My plan. This is how I shall magnify Myself-by having myriads of My creation just like Myself through whom I may do all My good pleasure. I shall arise in their heavens of spiritual understanding and be made manifest to all men. Thus shall My Name (nature) be greatly magnified in all the earth!
"Is there another god like this-who would make the worshipper into the image of the god that he worships? So have I desired, and so shall it be. "John 14:17-20. (end of prophecy)
A strange thing has come to my ears which I feel to share with you, for it was not an isolated report. Shelley B. wrote, "I've had a strange experience recently. I was praying and heard in the spirit, the most mournful, horrible cry I had ever heard. It was a woman's voice crying, "Oh Lord!"
It was really freaky and scary. I was really shaken by this because the Lord had warned me about a week before, that I was in danger of being part of the foolish virgins because I was not pursuing Him for intimacy with Him. He was no longer my first love, and that I was drawing back from Him whenever He would draw near because I was afraid to give up everything for Him, and obey Him completely. I sensed that it was the cry of the foolish virgin. I told my friend what I had heard, and he said he also had heard a terrible, mournful cry!"
On April 19/09 the Spirit spoke to me, "While nations strive over who shall possess the natural land wherein dwells the old Jerusalem, my new Jerusalem is coming down. It is coming down gently and quietly upon those who are waiting for it and have been prepared to receive all that it represents.
"These are My Beloved true virgins who are looking alone unto Me for their glory and know that it is all of Me and none of their own doing.
"The law-keepers are looking outwardly for something to fall from heaven, but My sanctified ones are looking for Me to arise within them and to abide in them in My fullness.
"So shall it be-the one shall pass away with great crying and lamentations of woe, and the other shall arrive quietly, in great awe, in the earth, and My people shall not be ashamed-those who have waited for Me-even My New Jerusalem people in the earth!"
And then, on April 25, the Spirit spoke to my heart, "How often My people approach Me in the coldness of their intellect when what I long for, is the warmth of their hearts, or the tenderness of their tears.
"When you have had a glimpse of the heart of David this day, you realize afresh why he would represent My Son-the Greater David-that was to come after him.
"It is a requirement of My Throne Company that they have a `David-heart', one that would say: "The Lord is king over all-I am but His humble servant-always under Him. This is not the place of defeat; this is the place of victory! I am able to move mightily on behalf of a humble soul who has given Me My rightful place in his life.
"Among My sons there shall be no `great ones'-only fully-redeemed ones-even those with the Father's Heart who are able to bear and bring forth after the likeness within them. These are true words!"
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