Get Ready for a Wild Ride!

Get ready, Brethren, ’cause we are about to go on the ride of a lifetime!
We are fast approaching the opening of the Seals and the fulfillment of the Book of Revelation. As I shared in  The Horror of Darkness and The Everlasting Covenant-- Revelation is Genesis in reverse:

The list in part is:

Genesis 7—Great Upheavals in Nature—Last day cosmic activity

Genesis 6—Signs of the days of Noah—Violence, evil imaginations, corruption (the Hebrew word for ‘violence’ is hamas!)

Genesis 5—Translation of Enoch—a picture of the Rapture of the Church!

Genesis 4—Cain—a picture of the Antichrist (Cain’s mark parallels mark of the Beast; Cain punished 7 times parallels 7-year Tribulation)

We see the assurance of a Pre-Tribulation Rapture in this pattern; however, God has warned through prophetic voices that certain judgments will occur prior to our great escape.

Also in that article I share what some of those judgments are--a great earthquake in the United States and worldwide darkness.

Earthquakes have been used distinctively by God to highlight some of the most important events of the Bible. The three main purposes for biblical earthquakes are judgment, deliverance, and communication. The lesson is obvious—God does not do anything really big without emphasizing it with an earthquake! icr.org

When these things will occur, I have not been shown; however, I speculate that it will be this year because the Rapture Tapestry is revealing a very high probability for a Spring 2020 Heavenly Catching Away!

Wild Ride

Tim Henderson shared in a video his Rapture Dream Feb.20, 2020 and as I listened immediately a dream or vision the Lord gave me years ago came to mind. In Pastor Tim’s dream his wife was holding tight to the car strap because he was forced to drive fast and wild because many chaotic things were happening along the way.

My dream entailed Diane Keaton wildly pulling up in a red convertible to let a man get in the car beside her. The thing is, although she was in the driver’s seat, it was as though the car was driving itself. Then the car drove off with Diane waving her hands in the air as she shrieked in delight! (The reason, I believe, Diane Keaton was in this prophetic dream is because she is hilarious in a scene where she and her friends make a wild escape in a window washer’s rig in the movie, The First Wives Club.)

The First Wives Club (4/9) Movie CLIP - Thrilling Escape

Vehicles represent ministries, so as I considered the dream, it came into my spirit that in the last days there will be a wild movement of God where He will allow women to be “in the driver’s seat”. It will be all God’s doing--HIS ministry so to speak--not specific persons leading such as in previous revivals. I believe we have entered that time. Foxnews.com in a September 27, 2019, article reported that Iran has the world’s fastest-growing church that is mostly led by women.

Fall of Damascus/Fall of America

Part of our wild ride is this COVID-19 coronavirus. The Call of the Bride blog posted the following article link:

2005 China Defense Minister Speech: Bio-Weapons Will Clean-up America for China Invasion and here’s an excerpt:

With the "coronavirus" outbreak in the news, and questions swirling if the disease is a Bio-Weapon released accidentally, a well-known speech by Comrade General Chi Haotian, Vice-Chairman Of China’s Military Commission, December, 2005 gives the world insight into the truth. Here are some excerpts to prove that the Chinese openly discussed using biological warfare not only against the US, but on their own people. . .

So I am wondering if this bioweapon will be one of the main causes for people to flee the cities--

Another vision came. I saw rioting with a mob carrying lit torches. [And the Spirit of the Lord said:] Trouble will come from the cities but with it will come great revival.

New York, Chicago, L.A.

What this 2005 article reports lines up with Henry Gruver’s (and others’) visions of a coming invasion on America. I believe that the Bride will be raptured before the United States is overrun by enemy troops because when the missiles come down, we go up!

We see that everything is aligned for the Ezekiel 38 war and many watchmen believe that the next prophecy to be fulfilled is Isaiah 17:1—the fall of Damascus. This may be true; however, in my spirit I believe the fall of America will be closely linked with Damascus’ demise.

Why? Because no one comes to Israel’s aid when she is attacked by Gog and Magog in the Ezekiel 38 war!

[Excerpt from 5780 Year of the Mouth and Birthing]

As I shared in the above quoted article, the fall of Damascus may be linked to the fall of America. Now that the Trump Peace Plan has been revealed, judgment on America is soon to follow.

Chaos, Rapture, Wrath

REMEMBER HOW THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD REVEALED THAT CHAOS would ensue but that this is NOT HIS WRATH:

It is becoming clearer to me that we will see some catastrophic events due to judgments—decisions God has made to lift His hand of grace—before the coming of His actual WRATH. (For a better understanding of “judgment versus wrath” please read my "New York, Chicago, L.A." article.)

Because of God’s judgments the Dragon, Satan, will be allowed to cause chaos. But before you become dismayed about all this (as I was when I began to put this all together), the Spirit of the Lord has been revealing to His people a magnificent ending!

He has shown that His glory will flow through them like never before! [Excerpt from Erasing the Line in the Sand for a September Rapture]

In this Age of Grace His will is that those sealed with His Spirit should "Occupy til I come" and be about the Father’s business.

My husband Tom called a family meeting in early February and said he believed the Rapture was just around the corner and that the days leading up to it will be more and more chaotic and that we needed to spiritually hunker down.

At the end of the video I mentioned above, Tim Henderson asked the Lord if there was something further he needed to know. The Lord told him to BE ENCOURAGED and DO NOT FEAR as you see things happening and the days become more and more chaotic! Just keep doing what I have called you to do!

This is what I believe the Spirit of the Lord is speaking to His people--Buckle up (Ephesians 6:11) and hold on tight (Psalm 73:28)! And don’t be afraid (2 Timothy 1:7; Isaiah 41:10) for this wild ride will culminate in a wild escape!

Updated 3/26/2022.

When a Woman Cries

You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book. Psalm 56:8 NLT

There has been much written on the subject of suffering, but the simple truth is that if you stand for the true God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, our Yahshua, and live a holy life, you will experience pain and suffering. (2 Timothy 3:12; Romans 8:17; 1 Thessalonians 3:4; Hebrews 11:25)

Simply living in the world and not being of that world results in evil befalling us. Many times pain comes at the hands of our own brothers and sisters in the Lord.

Life can push the strongest follower of Christ into a pit of depression and despair. I know--I've been there. I refused to remain there and have continued to 'put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness' (Isaiah 61:3).

One recent morning I sat in my little office/guest room seeking His presence as some worship music played. I dropped into a place of deep, deep rest where my body and mind were at peace but I was still awake. The sensation was like being in a different realm while bodily on earth. I stayed in that place for over an hour.

I had experienced this before and breathed a prayer of thanks when I 'awoke'. Immediately I heard in my spirit, "I love you, Lyn. Rest in that."  

As if to confirm His love to me, I then was led to read a message a friend had emailed that same day. It moved me to tears of joy so I'd like to share it with you...

 

"This Time I Will Praise the Lord"(En Español) We cannot pass through life without getting hurt. Pain and disappointment in this world are inevitable. How we handle our setbacks, though, shapes our character and prepares us for eternity. Our attitude is the pivotal factor determining the level of our protection from strife. Regardless of the hardships we have faced, and in spite of the mistakes we have made, the end of our lives can either be full of praise and thanksgiving or full of misery and complaint. In the final analysis, what we have experienced in life will be as rich as the desires we have had fulfilled or as painful as the things we regret. The Bible tells us, "Hope deferred makes the heart sick" (Prov. 13:12). Deep disappointments in life have a way of never leaving us; they enter our hearts like fire and then harden into our nature like lava. Setbacks can leave us cautious about new ventures and suspicious of new friends. Our woundedness restrains our openness. We are fearful we will be hurt again by new relationships. Gradually, unless we learn to handle heartache correctly, we become embittered and resentful cynics. We lose the joy of being alive. The Source of Fulfillment It is our own desires and the degree of their fulfillment that produce either joy or sorrow in our lives. Even basic desires for marriage or friends can enslave us if they consume our attention. Are these desires evil? No, but if having our desires fulfilled is the main reason we have come to Christ, it is possible our lives simply will not improve until our priorities change. The Lord is concerned about fulfilling our desires, but to do so He must pry our fingers off our lives and turn our hearts toward Him. Indeed, the reason we are alive is not to fulfill our desires but to become His worshipers. Personal fulfillment can become an idol; it can develop into such an obsession that we are living for happiness more than living for God. Thus, part of our salvation includes having our desires prioritized by Christ. In the Sermon on the Mount, He put it this way: "Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself " (Matt. 6:33-34). God wants to, and will, satisfy us beyond our dreams, but not before He is first in our hearts. A wonderful example of this can be seen in the life of Leah, Jacob's first wife. Leah was unattractive, unwanted, and unloved by her husband. Jacob had served Laban, Leah's father, seven years for Rachel, who was Leah's younger sister. On their wedding night, however, Laban put Leah in the nuptial tent instead of Rachel. Although Jacob actually did marry Rachel a week later, he had to work another seven years for her. So Jacob had two wives who were sisters. The Scriptures tell us that Rachel was loved by Jacob, but Leah was hated: "When the Lord saw that Leah was hated . . ." (Gen. 29:31 KJV). We must understand this about the nature of God: the Lord is drawn to those who hurt. "The Lord saw . . . Leah." What wonderful words! In the same way water descends and fills that which is lowest, so Christ reaches first to the afflicted, to fill the lowliest and comfort them. The Lord saw that Leah was unloved. He saw her pain, loneliness, and heartache. Leah, though unloved by Jacob, was deeply loved by the Lord, and He gave her a son. Leah's reaction was predictable. She said, "Surely now my husband will love me" (v. 32). Worse than living your life alone is to be married to someone who hates you, as was Leah. How Leah wished that Jacob would share the love he had for Rachel with her. Who could blame her? Leah's desires were justified. She had given him a firstborn son. In her mind, if the Lord could open her womb, He could also open Jacob's heart. But the time was not yet; Jacob still did not love her. Twice more Leah gave birth to sons, and each time her desire was for her husband. She said, "Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons" (v. 34). Yet, Jacob's heart still did not desire her. For Leah, as well as for us, there is a lesson here: you cannot make another person love you. In fact, the more pressure you place upon others to accept you, the more likely they are to reject you instead. Leah's concept of fulfillment was based on attaining Jacob's love and now her problem was worsening. Not only was she unattractive to Jacob, but also her jealousies were adding to her lack of loveliness. Three times we read in this text that the Lord saw and heard that Leah was unloved. He saw her affliction. Through all her striving for Jacob and her disappointment with her marital relationship, the Lord was tenderly wooing Leah to Himself. As Leah became pregnant a fourth time, a miracle of grace occurred within her. She gradually became aware that, while she had not been the focus of her husband's love, she was loved by God. And as this fourth pregnancy drew near to completion, she drew nearer and nearer to God. She became a worshiper of the Almighty. As she gave birth to another son, she said, "This time I will praise the Lord" (v. 35). She named that child Judah, which means, "praise." It was from the tribe of Judah that Christ was born. Leah had been seeking self-fulfillment and found only heartache and pain. But as she became a worshiper of God, she entered life's highest fulfillment: she began to please God. It is right here that the human soul truly begins to change and enter God's stronghold. As Leah found fulfillment in God, He began to remove from her the jealousies, insecurities, and heartaches that life had conveyed to her. A true inner beauty started growing in Leah; she became a woman at rest. Likewise, we each have character defects that we are reluctant or unable to face. Others have seen these things in us, but they have lacked the courage to tell us. Both physically and personally, these flaws in our nature are what leave us anxious, threatened, and unfulfilled. It is not counsel or classes on success or self-esteem that we need; we simply need to discover God's love for us. As we begin to praise Him in all things, we simultaneously put on the garments of salvation. We are actually being saved from that which would otherwise have destroyed us! Disappointments and heartaches cannot cling to us, for we are worshipers of God! And "God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God" (Rom. 8:28). If we continue to love God, nothing we experience can ultimately turn out harmful since God takes all we pass through and, in His redemptive power, works it for our good. The Tree of Life You will remember the verse we quoted, "Hope deferred makes the heart sick" (Prov. 13:12). The verse concludes with, "But desire fulfilled is a tree of life." As our desires are fulfilled, we are fulfilled. Since it is the fulfillment of our desires that fills us with satisfaction, the secret to a rewarding life is to commit our desires to God. Let Him choose the times and means of our fulfillment, allowing the Lord to prepare us for Himself along the way. The truth is that in ourselves we are incomplete; but in Christ we have been made complete (Col. 2:10). You say, "That's easy for you to say. You have a wonderful wife and family. You are blessed. But you don't understand my problems." Yes, I do. My wonderful marriage was very difficult for the first few years. We struggled with many things in our relationship. My wife and I both came to the place where we were unfulfilled in each other. But, like Leah, we both looked to God and said, "This time I will praise the Lord." In fact, we named our second child the very name Leah gave to her fourth: Judah. For us, as for Leah, our lives were turned around as we chose to delight in God in spite of being unfulfilled with each other. As we became His worshipers, He began to work on our hearts until we were not only more pleasing to Him, we were also pleasing to each other! What I am relating to you is the very thing that saved and blessed our marriage! Psalm 37:4 reads, "Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart." As you delight in God, you change. The negative effects of disappointment and grief fall off. As love and joy from God begin to fulfill us, our very souls are restored and beautified. Yes, delight yourself with Jesus and your self-destructive tendencies will actually begin to vanish. Christ will beautify your life from the inside out. The Outcome of Leah's Life What happened with Leah? Well, the long years came and went. In time, Rachel and then Leah died. Jacob, on his deathbed, spoke to his sons: "I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave . . . which Abraham bought . . . for a burial site. There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah, there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah" (Gen. 49:29-31). Jacob had buried Leah in the ancestral place of honor! Oh how those words, though few, say so much! They tell us that God had, in some marvelous inner way, beautified this afflicted one with salvation. After Leah found fulfillment in God, God gave her fulfillment in Jacob. Over the years, inner peace and spiritual beauty shone forth from Leah; Jacob was knit to her in love. It is not hard to imagine that when Leah died, she left smiling, with the praises of God upon her lips. Become a worshiper of God! As you surrender your desires to Him, as you put Him first, He will take what you give Him and make it beautiful in its time. He will take what has been bent and imbalanced within you and make you stand upright in His light and glory. Therefore, this day speak to your soul. Tell the areas of unfulfillment within you that this time you will praise the Lord! Lord, I am a Leah, unlovely and always seeking the love of those who have rejected me. How foolish I have been. How blind. There is no love, no fulfillment in this life apart from You. You are the Tree of Life that satisfies all desires; You are the Healer of my heart. I love You, Lord Jesus. Amen.   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Adapted from a chapter in Francis Frangipane's book And I Will Be Found By You, available at http://go.netatlantic.com/t/26858292/72654390/147514/75/ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Resting in His love,



P.S. Cassandra Boyson had a powerful encounter with the Lord related to this subject. To read about it, go to Quest Unto Glory. 

Are You For or Against Women in Combat?

Are you for or against women in combat? Spiritual combat that is…

While meditating on my Lord as I trudged along on the mindless treadmill, I began to think on Deborah of the Old Testament. In my mind’s eye I saw her sitting under the palm tree in counsel with Barak.

As I pondered this, I heard in my spirit, “Women arising on the battleground is a sign that women are arising on the battleground of the spirit realm”.

As most of you are probably aware, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta recently announced the lifting of the longstanding ban on women serving in combat. This is not to say that I believe the Spirit of the Lord is necessarily condoning this change in America’s military policy, but I believe that it is one of the many signs that women are ARISING IN RECOGNITION of who they are in the Spirit.

Women have always served in combat but not on equal footing with men. “The recent policy change allowing women to fight in combat is a change not in job description but rather in recognition. [NEWS LINK]” Just as women have always served in physical combat, so have they always served in spiritual combat. This earthly policy change is a manifestation of what is happening within the spirits of God’s people.

This is not to say that women should be considered higher than or better than men, but in the Body of Christ they are finally going to be RECOGNIZED for who they are in Christ as they were always intended to be—ALONGSIDE MEN! It is not that one gender is better than the other. They were created with different strengths and weaknesses so they would need to work together!

What better place is there an example of this than in The Book of Judges in the account of Deborah and Barak:

And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, [saying], Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun? - Judges 4:6 KJV

Deborah acknowledged the anointing of leadership on Barak. What is interesting, though, is that he insisted that she be AT HIS SIDE:

And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, [then] I will not go. - Judges 4:8 KJV

There are commentators who write that Barak was weak and nonheroic because he would not go into battle without this woman. I disagree. Hebrews 11:32 records that Barak is an example of a man of faith. I believe Barak was moved by faith by making this demand because he acknowledged the anointing on Deborah as a judge appointed by God (Judges 2:16; 4:4) and a military leader of Israel [Judges].

From the very beginning of creation, Elohiym created man and woman to have co-dominion over the earth.

So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. - Genesis 1:27-28 KJV

WHY would our God want women to be recognized on equal par spiritually with men? Besides the obvious answer that our loving Heavenly Father sees His children as having equal worth I believe the answer is in Judges 4:9 where Deborah reminds Barak that he will not receive honor even though he goes into battle BUT “the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Just as He told Gideon to choose only a small army to defeat the larger enemy army so that man would not get the glory for the victory, God chose Israel at this time to receive victory at the hands of a woman so that the Lord God would receive the glory!

We are living in a time of great urgency. It matters NOT whether you are for or against women serving in spiritual combat—they are already there! It is going to take ALL of us who are born of God’s spirit to arise and be who we are called to be in these last days.

Do you agree?

Another article I wrote on Deborah can be found here: To Beeeeeee