Signs of the Times
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Beloved saints
The month of December has provided us with two signs of the times which need to be noted. It is only in reading both that we gain an accurate understanding of the time we are entering into.
Joe 2:30 And I will show signs in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Joe 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD comes.
In this month we have seen both blood and fire. One was a sign in the heavens and the other a sign in the earth. Both speak a warning and announce what is to come.
On the first day of Hanukkah, a terrible fire broke out on Mount Carmel in Israel. It blazed for four days and 44 people were killed by the flames. Mount Carmel is usually associated with the prophetic. It is the place where Elijah slew the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of the groves who ate at Jezebel’s table. Here He called on the people of Israel to decide who they were going to serve, Baal or the True God.
Do you remember that in January I shared a dream where the Bride fled from a house on a mountain covered by forests when the fire began to burn right outside? At that time, the Lord said to me that he declared the end from the beginning, and, more than that, He declared the end of the year from the beginning! When the fire broke out on the densely forested slopes of Mount Carmel, I was immediately reminded that at the beginning of the year God had declared there would be a fire coming to the Church. The location of Mount Carmel suggests that the refining fire will be coming more specifically to the prophetic arena of the Body of Christ and that it will be for the purpose of dealing with the false prophetic and those who have eaten at Jezebel’s table and then ministered to the people of God from that unclean and idolatrous platform. The fact that what was announced in a dream at the beginning of this year, has now been announced in an event on the earth, tells us that the fire is at the door and will no more be delayed. The large number of 4’s associated with the blaze also indicates that it is now fullness of TIME for the Lord to suddenly come to His temple as Malachi 3 mentions, as a refiner’s fire and a fuller’s soap. I am going to quote here from that original article ‘Fleeing the Fire’:
‘When the call goes out that the fires are at the door, the Bride knows there is no time to lose and immediately leaves this House of compromise hand in hand with the Bridegroom - she leaves empty-handed because priests have no earthly inheritance- the Lord is their inheritance. AS she comes out from among them and begins the next leg of her journey with the Bridegroom, she encounters mockers on the porch.
Jud 1:17 But, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; Jud 1:18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. Jud 1:19 These are those who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
2Pe 3:3 First, knowing this, that there will come in the last days scoffers walking according to their own lusts 2Pe 3:4 and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. 2Pe 3:5 For this is hidden from them by their willing it, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of the water, and through water, being held together by the Word of God, 2Pe 3:6 through which the world that then was, being flooded by water, perished. 2Pe 3:7 But the present heavens and the earth being kept in store by the same Word, are being kept for fire until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
Because judgment begins with the House of God, the fire that falls is in order to bring separation between true believers and those who only have an appearance of godliness. Those who remain in the house of compromise and lukewarmness are appointed for the Refiner's fire. It is shocking to realize that mockers and scoffers are found on the porch of the building that is called by many, 'God's House', yet the book of Jude warns us of those who have wormed their way into the midst of the Church and pervert the grace of God. His description would better fit an unbeliever, yet he is describing people within the church! No wonder judgment needs to begin with the House of God and it is a judgment of fire, refining fire that will separate and clearly differentiate between the wheat and the tares.
Mal 3:1 Behold, I will send My messenger, and He will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Angel of the Covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He comes, says the Lord of Hosts. Mal 3:2 But who can endure the day of His coming? And who shall stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap. Mal 3:3 And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. And He shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may be offerers of a food offering in righteousness to the Lord. Mal 3:4 Then the food offering of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to the Lord, as in the days of old and as in former years. Mal 3:5 And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says the Lord of Hosts.
God is talking about dealing with His own people both in this passage and in chapter 4 of Malachi. The Bridegroom is coming to that which is called the House of God and He is coming suddenly and without warning, just as the fire was suddenly at the door of the house in my dream. Depending on the state of your heart and life He is coming two different ways:
Mal 4:1 For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. Mal 4:2 But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings;
He is coming to refine and cleanse OR for those who fear Him, He is coming with healing and restoration. It will become abundantly clear who is really a servant of God and who is not.’
It is abundantly clear from the dream and the fire occurring at opposite ends of the year that we have reached the end of a period of grace for repentance concerning involvement with Jezebel in prophetic circles. Expect God to move His hand in graphic and clear ways in dealing with those who claim to be His mouthpiece when in reality they are speaking on behalf of the wicked hand that has been feeding them lies. God is intent on freeing His Body from the snare of lying divination. When Jesus addresses this issue in Revelation 2, He calls it ‘the depths of satan’. Notice also what characteristics of His appearance are emphasized as He rebukes them:
Rev 2:18 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: The Son of God, He who has His eyes like a flame of fire and His feet like burnished metal, says these things: …Rev 2:20 But I have a few things against you because you allow that woman Jezebel to teach, she saying herself to be a prophetess, and to cause My servants to go astray, and to commit fornication, and to eat idol-sacrifices. Rev 2:21 And I gave her time that she might repent of her fornication, and she did not repent. Rev 2:22 Behold, I am throwing her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent of their deeds. Rev 2:23 And I will kill her children with death. And all the churches will know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts, and I will give to every one of you according to your works. Rev 2:24 But to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak, I will put on you no other burden. Rev 2:25 But that which you have, hold fast until I come.
WE are now at that moment when the Bride knows it is time to flee the house of compromise or suffer the consequences. There is a journey prepared for her with the Bridegroom and she must move on into what He has for her.
The second sign which occurred in December was in the heavens, namely a lunar eclipse occurring on the Winter Solstice December 21st. The moon became blood-red due to a small amount of refracted sunlight passing through dust in the earth’s atmosphere while the moon passed through the earth’s shadow. The occurrence of this sign in the sky on this particular day of the pagan calendar immediately speaks to us of activity in the realm of darkness whereas the fire on the first day of Hanukkah identified it with events in the church.
I have often heard the moon spoken of as a type of the church but I have to disagree because of a basic understanding of the properties of light ( I sent out an article called ‘Revealing or Reflecting’ on this topic in 2009 which I will forward to anyone who is interested). To explain briefly, natural light is composed of seven different wavelengths, as is seen in a rainbow with its seven colors. When light hits an object some wavelengths of light are absorbed and others are reflected. It is the reflected rays of light which we see with our eyes; for eg. A tomato reflects the red wavelengths of light and absorbs the other six colors. Glass appears colorless because it allows all the wavelengths of light to pass through it. So we see that the natural world which we observe daily is visible to our eyes because of the process of absorption and reflection.
Gen 1:16 And God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the smaller light to rule the night, and the stars also
The lesser light, the moon, rules over the realm of darkness. Interestingly, the sun is also a star and emits light because there are nuclear reactions taking place within it constantly. Stars are made from dust (as are we human beings!). Stars differ from one another in the amount of light they emit. However they all produce light. The moon however, only reflects the light of the sun. It has no ability to produce light within itself but gives light at night by bouncing off the sun’s rays. The lesser light rules the darkness – this is a picture of satan who also operates in the realm of the second heaven, by using the process of reflection. He has no light within himself and can only appear to be filled with light in order to deceive. How did satan transform himself into an angel of light? He used the principles of natural light. By reflecting the light and absorbing none of it, satan appears to the natural eye to be a being full of light. However, within him is deep darkness. There is a kind of darkness that masquerades as light. Paul mentions this when he warns people:
2Co 11:13 For such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. Did not even Satan marvelously transform himself into an angel of light? Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works
So the sign of the blood moon on the winter solstice is telling us something about the realm of satan and what will be occurring in the season to come. An eclipse is caused by the earth blocking the light of the sun so that the moon can no longer reflect and appear to be full of light. It is seen for what it really is, a dark heavenly body. Earth in the Bible is a picture of the flesh or the adamic nature. In the season ahead, the works of the flesh will rise to such fullness that those who are masquerading as angels of light will no longer be able to ‘reflect’ the light but will be seen for who they really are. There will also be a rise in unashamed open practice of witchcraft and paganism and it will become abundantly clear who are of the kingdom of Light and who are of the kingdom of darkness. The kingdom of darkness may appear to have a covering of the blood but it is merely the meager vestiges of reflection bouncing off the dust particles in the atmosphere and will not fool us. No longer will their words appear to have a ring of Truth and Light for the darkness and amount of flesh being displayed will prove the emptiness of their claims.
Stars (which are present in the heavens all the time but are seen most clearly against a backdrop of darkness), produce light within themselves. During a lunar eclipse, the stars are still visible and in fact become the only lights in the sky. God promised Abraham that his descendants would be as the stars of the heaven. Daniel prophesied that during a time of great turmoil and darkness there would be stars to light the way:
Dan 12:3 And those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the sky; and those who turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever.
Those who dwell in heavenly places are part of the city which is above. They do not walk by the light of their own understanding or fleshly wisdom.
Rev 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they might shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
These sons of Abraham by faith will, in the time we are entering into, shine as never before, giving direction and light because they carry within them the Lamb who is the Light. In a season that will grow increasingly dark, they will be clearly seen as those who have understanding of the times and know what to do. When it is so dark that there is no natural light for men of the earth to find their way by, the stars of the heavens shine and direct the way.
Beloved, the year ahead will hold many difficulties and things that are hard to bear but it will be a time to stand as sons of the Light as never before. For those who have gone through the much painful preparation that goes into turning a heap of dust into a star, this is your moment to arise and shine! For those waiting in the wings, your cue is coming up. You’ve been there all along, unseen and unnoticed watching God’s manuscript unfold on the stage but now its time to step out and be seen for the rising star you are!
Isa 60:1 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. Isa 60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you.
Notice it’s HIS glory that is seen on you, not your own natural talents or abilities but the glory of God that will radiate from within your earthen vessel! Be sure to give all the glory to Him!
Two signs, two warnings. May we all have ears to hear and wisdom to know what to do.
Grace and strength to you in the season ahead
Christine
freshoil@polka.co.za
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Beloved saints
The month of December has provided us with two signs of the times which need to be noted. It is only in reading both that we gain an accurate understanding of the time we are entering into.
Joe 2:30 And I will show signs in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Joe 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD comes.
In this month we have seen both blood and fire. One was a sign in the heavens and the other a sign in the earth. Both speak a warning and announce what is to come.
On the first day of Hanukkah, a terrible fire broke out on Mount Carmel in Israel. It blazed for four days and 44 people were killed by the flames. Mount Carmel is usually associated with the prophetic. It is the place where Elijah slew the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of the groves who ate at Jezebel’s table. Here He called on the people of Israel to decide who they were going to serve, Baal or the True God.
Do you remember that in January I shared a dream where the Bride fled from a house on a mountain covered by forests when the fire began to burn right outside? At that time, the Lord said to me that he declared the end from the beginning, and, more than that, He declared the end of the year from the beginning! When the fire broke out on the densely forested slopes of Mount Carmel, I was immediately reminded that at the beginning of the year God had declared there would be a fire coming to the Church. The location of Mount Carmel suggests that the refining fire will be coming more specifically to the prophetic arena of the Body of Christ and that it will be for the purpose of dealing with the false prophetic and those who have eaten at Jezebel’s table and then ministered to the people of God from that unclean and idolatrous platform. The fact that what was announced in a dream at the beginning of this year, has now been announced in an event on the earth, tells us that the fire is at the door and will no more be delayed. The large number of 4’s associated with the blaze also indicates that it is now fullness of TIME for the Lord to suddenly come to His temple as Malachi 3 mentions, as a refiner’s fire and a fuller’s soap. I am going to quote here from that original article ‘Fleeing the Fire’:
‘When the call goes out that the fires are at the door, the Bride knows there is no time to lose and immediately leaves this House of compromise hand in hand with the Bridegroom - she leaves empty-handed because priests have no earthly inheritance- the Lord is their inheritance. AS she comes out from among them and begins the next leg of her journey with the Bridegroom, she encounters mockers on the porch.
Jud 1:17 But, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; Jud 1:18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. Jud 1:19 These are those who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
2Pe 3:3 First, knowing this, that there will come in the last days scoffers walking according to their own lusts 2Pe 3:4 and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. 2Pe 3:5 For this is hidden from them by their willing it, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of the water, and through water, being held together by the Word of God, 2Pe 3:6 through which the world that then was, being flooded by water, perished. 2Pe 3:7 But the present heavens and the earth being kept in store by the same Word, are being kept for fire until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
Because judgment begins with the House of God, the fire that falls is in order to bring separation between true believers and those who only have an appearance of godliness. Those who remain in the house of compromise and lukewarmness are appointed for the Refiner's fire. It is shocking to realize that mockers and scoffers are found on the porch of the building that is called by many, 'God's House', yet the book of Jude warns us of those who have wormed their way into the midst of the Church and pervert the grace of God. His description would better fit an unbeliever, yet he is describing people within the church! No wonder judgment needs to begin with the House of God and it is a judgment of fire, refining fire that will separate and clearly differentiate between the wheat and the tares.
Mal 3:1 Behold, I will send My messenger, and He will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Angel of the Covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He comes, says the Lord of Hosts. Mal 3:2 But who can endure the day of His coming? And who shall stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap. Mal 3:3 And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. And He shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may be offerers of a food offering in righteousness to the Lord. Mal 3:4 Then the food offering of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to the Lord, as in the days of old and as in former years. Mal 3:5 And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says the Lord of Hosts.
God is talking about dealing with His own people both in this passage and in chapter 4 of Malachi. The Bridegroom is coming to that which is called the House of God and He is coming suddenly and without warning, just as the fire was suddenly at the door of the house in my dream. Depending on the state of your heart and life He is coming two different ways:
Mal 4:1 For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. Mal 4:2 But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings;
He is coming to refine and cleanse OR for those who fear Him, He is coming with healing and restoration. It will become abundantly clear who is really a servant of God and who is not.’
It is abundantly clear from the dream and the fire occurring at opposite ends of the year that we have reached the end of a period of grace for repentance concerning involvement with Jezebel in prophetic circles. Expect God to move His hand in graphic and clear ways in dealing with those who claim to be His mouthpiece when in reality they are speaking on behalf of the wicked hand that has been feeding them lies. God is intent on freeing His Body from the snare of lying divination. When Jesus addresses this issue in Revelation 2, He calls it ‘the depths of satan’. Notice also what characteristics of His appearance are emphasized as He rebukes them:
Rev 2:18 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: The Son of God, He who has His eyes like a flame of fire and His feet like burnished metal, says these things: …Rev 2:20 But I have a few things against you because you allow that woman Jezebel to teach, she saying herself to be a prophetess, and to cause My servants to go astray, and to commit fornication, and to eat idol-sacrifices. Rev 2:21 And I gave her time that she might repent of her fornication, and she did not repent. Rev 2:22 Behold, I am throwing her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent of their deeds. Rev 2:23 And I will kill her children with death. And all the churches will know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts, and I will give to every one of you according to your works. Rev 2:24 But to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak, I will put on you no other burden. Rev 2:25 But that which you have, hold fast until I come.
WE are now at that moment when the Bride knows it is time to flee the house of compromise or suffer the consequences. There is a journey prepared for her with the Bridegroom and she must move on into what He has for her.
The second sign which occurred in December was in the heavens, namely a lunar eclipse occurring on the Winter Solstice December 21st. The moon became blood-red due to a small amount of refracted sunlight passing through dust in the earth’s atmosphere while the moon passed through the earth’s shadow. The occurrence of this sign in the sky on this particular day of the pagan calendar immediately speaks to us of activity in the realm of darkness whereas the fire on the first day of Hanukkah identified it with events in the church.
I have often heard the moon spoken of as a type of the church but I have to disagree because of a basic understanding of the properties of light ( I sent out an article called ‘Revealing or Reflecting’ on this topic in 2009 which I will forward to anyone who is interested). To explain briefly, natural light is composed of seven different wavelengths, as is seen in a rainbow with its seven colors. When light hits an object some wavelengths of light are absorbed and others are reflected. It is the reflected rays of light which we see with our eyes; for eg. A tomato reflects the red wavelengths of light and absorbs the other six colors. Glass appears colorless because it allows all the wavelengths of light to pass through it. So we see that the natural world which we observe daily is visible to our eyes because of the process of absorption and reflection.
Gen 1:16 And God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the smaller light to rule the night, and the stars also
The lesser light, the moon, rules over the realm of darkness. Interestingly, the sun is also a star and emits light because there are nuclear reactions taking place within it constantly. Stars are made from dust (as are we human beings!). Stars differ from one another in the amount of light they emit. However they all produce light. The moon however, only reflects the light of the sun. It has no ability to produce light within itself but gives light at night by bouncing off the sun’s rays. The lesser light rules the darkness – this is a picture of satan who also operates in the realm of the second heaven, by using the process of reflection. He has no light within himself and can only appear to be filled with light in order to deceive. How did satan transform himself into an angel of light? He used the principles of natural light. By reflecting the light and absorbing none of it, satan appears to the natural eye to be a being full of light. However, within him is deep darkness. There is a kind of darkness that masquerades as light. Paul mentions this when he warns people:
2Co 11:13 For such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. Did not even Satan marvelously transform himself into an angel of light? Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works
So the sign of the blood moon on the winter solstice is telling us something about the realm of satan and what will be occurring in the season to come. An eclipse is caused by the earth blocking the light of the sun so that the moon can no longer reflect and appear to be full of light. It is seen for what it really is, a dark heavenly body. Earth in the Bible is a picture of the flesh or the adamic nature. In the season ahead, the works of the flesh will rise to such fullness that those who are masquerading as angels of light will no longer be able to ‘reflect’ the light but will be seen for who they really are. There will also be a rise in unashamed open practice of witchcraft and paganism and it will become abundantly clear who are of the kingdom of Light and who are of the kingdom of darkness. The kingdom of darkness may appear to have a covering of the blood but it is merely the meager vestiges of reflection bouncing off the dust particles in the atmosphere and will not fool us. No longer will their words appear to have a ring of Truth and Light for the darkness and amount of flesh being displayed will prove the emptiness of their claims.
Stars (which are present in the heavens all the time but are seen most clearly against a backdrop of darkness), produce light within themselves. During a lunar eclipse, the stars are still visible and in fact become the only lights in the sky. God promised Abraham that his descendants would be as the stars of the heaven. Daniel prophesied that during a time of great turmoil and darkness there would be stars to light the way:
Dan 12:3 And those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the sky; and those who turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever.
Those who dwell in heavenly places are part of the city which is above. They do not walk by the light of their own understanding or fleshly wisdom.
Rev 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they might shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
These sons of Abraham by faith will, in the time we are entering into, shine as never before, giving direction and light because they carry within them the Lamb who is the Light. In a season that will grow increasingly dark, they will be clearly seen as those who have understanding of the times and know what to do. When it is so dark that there is no natural light for men of the earth to find their way by, the stars of the heavens shine and direct the way.
Beloved, the year ahead will hold many difficulties and things that are hard to bear but it will be a time to stand as sons of the Light as never before. For those who have gone through the much painful preparation that goes into turning a heap of dust into a star, this is your moment to arise and shine! For those waiting in the wings, your cue is coming up. You’ve been there all along, unseen and unnoticed watching God’s manuscript unfold on the stage but now its time to step out and be seen for the rising star you are!
Isa 60:1 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. Isa 60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you.
Notice it’s HIS glory that is seen on you, not your own natural talents or abilities but the glory of God that will radiate from within your earthen vessel! Be sure to give all the glory to Him!
Two signs, two warnings. May we all have ears to hear and wisdom to know what to do.
Grace and strength to you in the season ahead
Christine
freshoil@polka.co.za
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