The Change Is Near
 

The change is near. The change that Paul spoke of in I Cor. 15..."Behold I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed in a moment and in a twinkling of an eye."

All will not go by the way of the grave. When the time of the change comes there will be some who will begin to step across the line of demarkation from mortal into the immortality. That is very near. Soon, there will be some people who have hid themselve away looking to Jesus, their great heavenly lover, not having been deceived by this world and its folly, neither pleasure or churchanity, are going on over into that change.

Though here, yet they will not be seen. You will not see them any more except they make themselves visible. They will be in another dimension, doing God's bidding in the earth. Soon, they will be gone, but here.

There will not be a revival as we have known them in American. American is weighed in the balance and have been found wanting. She has turned her back on God, having forgotten his love, mercy and divine birth and protection. She must now pass under the rod of judgment. America is weak, our enemies know it. Our enemies are no longer at the gate only, they are now among us. They are afar too.

There is a great thick and very black cloud that has fallen upon our nation. No light is breaking through. The only light that you have is the light that you have been able to store by the oil in your little vessell, waiting out the long night to pass.

What can we do meanwhile? We can remember the whole duty of man which is to fear God and keep His commandments. We must put on Christ and become Christ like, doing good, healing the sick, binding up the wounded, pouring in the oil and wine among all who has been sticken by the theif. We must teach others to do the same and to become lovers of the good, followers of Christ.

Our enemies have planned their stragey for our defeat. In concert, they will attack us within and from without with one sudden furious strike, followed by successive strikes unrelenting. We will be warned but we will be able to do little about it in time. Our cities will burn from coast to coast. Millions will die. Our defeat will seem certain.

While our cities are burning, the battle will be fierce, millions dying, those that have already passed beyond the pale will be very much at work on our behalf. In this grave time of certain defeat, America will begin to remember the power of prayer and repentance. She will go to her knees, repenting, confessing her sins. She will seek to make restitution for her wrongs, going back to the Word of God for wisdom and direction in the face of this certain defeat while cities are burning and foreign forces are occupying the country side with many batallions.

In the midst of her weeping, repenting, confessing, and turning to the Word of God, when it seems that all is lost forever, suddenly, there will be a bright light that will break through the dark sky and a hand will reach toward American. It will be her national salvation.

Suddenly, she will take new courage, with new strength, and the power of the Spirit of God upon her, she will begin turning back the enemy from her shores. The victory will come with great pain and the sacrifice of much blood, but America will in the end prevail over her enemies.

When the smoke of her burning cities are finally cleared, the sound of battle is silenced, and the long line of her defeated enemies stack arms, there will then be a new day in America. It will be a day of righteousness, justice and peace. America will have a new spirit, there will be a new vision. She will then be the great city set upon a hill that Reagan spoke about, for all the world to admire. She will remember that she is a missionary nation. She will send heralds of the kingdom of God world wide. She will be reinvigorated for the cause of good, and righteousness like she has never had, no not since her birth. Godly justice will be her crown and she will seek to instruct the nations in righteousness and justice.

Will there then be a revival in America? No. There will be a new thing in the earth. Something that has never been in the earth before. It can't be a revival for a revival is the reviving of what is ready to die. The church of Jesus Christ will go into a new dimension with God that she has never had before.

This old way of doing church will be gone forever. The righteous will seek the helpless like Jesus did. In fact, they will become like Jesus and will stand in his stead, lifting heavy burndens, leading souls to the city of light, defending the weak, cheering the sad and the lonley, seeking men women and children for righteosness. She will have a new vision of Jesus on the cross and the love that goes forth from that vision and the victory on the other side.

"It will no longer be said, Know the Lord, for all shall know me from the least to the greatest."

For the most part, churches are no longer seeking to follow Jesus. They have their own agendas and concerns, having a form of godliness but it is anything but.... Jesus is walking out of churches, not a few. He is turning to the whosoever will...whosoever will seek to exemplify his life of love and service on a one on one basis, loving others, living a life of charity, of giving and sacrifice.

The change is upon us. Let them that are asleep, sleep on...it is too late to wake them. The cry has gone out but they did not hear it in time...if ever. They tarried but they tarried in their own intoxicated religious stupor while the darkness fell around them.

How does this fit into your escatology? Don't even ask.

Bro Strange can I share this at Apostolic Library?

Bro. Strange.........

The words of this scripture that the Lord impressed on me this morning came immediately to mind as I quickly skimmed your post.......

Amos 3:7-8: "For the Lord God does nothing without revealing His secret to His servants the prophets.

The lion has roared; who will not fear?

The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy?"

I hit submit before it was ready. Notice, I finshed it. You might want to read it again.

Bro Strange can I share this at Apostolic Library?

Yes, of course, bro Jason.

It is now almost 3 AM and sleep has long since flown from my weary tear emptied eyes.

I thought to go to Tampa this year but decided against it. There is no longer any hope. Lusting for the harlots wine, they will party together each with their own party not realizing that their unholy, unsanctified partying is just about over and there will soon be no more party. In their madness, they will gorge themselves with yet one more resolution, yet one more cup of insanity hastening the judgments of a holy but furious God.

Sleep on my bretheren, but it does look like you could have tarried with Him in prayer for one hour. It would have appeared that communion of saints would have been a better choice than yet another scarlet ride on the beast out of the sea.

Insomnia?

Bad dream?

Prophetic vision?

Garlic shrimp?

Bro. Strange,

Sounds like you have done some praying and some contemplating but you sound so fatalistic. Jonah didn't think the Ninevites would repent and change their evil ways either...but God did a miracle in their hearts as they heard the word preached...let's trust this is true for our ministering Brothers and Sisters.
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God Bless, Rhoni

bro strange my dear elder, there has to be some hope somewhere in the church, you are a precious man, take heart Jesus is still god, even when men dont pay attention, god bless your passion and heart after him, dt:hypercoffee

As long as Jesus is yet alive, there is hope bro. D.T., but that is all there is left. Yet, I also know that she will sleep on in the night until we are struck with a crippling blow of military might.

Hope sprung alive in my heart after 9-11 when the whole House of Representative and the Senate stood on the Capitol steps in Washington, many of them in tears and sung together their national prayer, "God Bless America." 9-11 brought unity among them. For a while they forgot that they were Democrats and Republicans, but only Americans. But alas, alas, they party rankor is now worse than ever so soon after we were struck by our enemies on that terrible day just six years ago.

One can only hope, but on the other hand, our future is clear. The salt has lost its savor while men's agendas have taken priority over tarrying with the Lord through the night, until heaven's holy light once again crowns our brow with righteousness and peace.

Our cities will be built again, but there will be a new day in America, a new people and a new church. Righteousness will burn in our leaders as a consuming fire. The church will not return to her petty devisive issues any more, but as a holy, sanctified, purified people, she will lighten the whole earth with the glory of her Lord.

amen brother thanks for the encouraging words, dt,

Amen, sister Felicity....

He always sends his messages of warning early enough to do something about it. All too often, they are unheeded. Nineveh is the noted exception. There is yet time, but I don't see a turn around in our downward plunge into total madness, engulfed in this thick darkness.

Well I think what you wrote is prophetic and I agree with a lot that you wrote.

I wish that it was not so fatalistic in one sense. In the other sense, there is a new day to dawn after this long night has passed. It will be a day of righteousness, joy and peace when the knowledge of the Lord shall fill the earth.

We have a lot to look forward to. Yes, God did a miracle in their hearts then. They had a "revival," but what eventually become of them? We have had many revivals, but what of our outcome? We must pass under the rod, but in the end, it will yield the peacable fruit of righteousness.

Bro. Strange..

Has America really turned it's back on God?

I know that the majority of America of the most part is still a Christian Nation... Do you think we judge her by Hollywood and what is seen on TV?

Can I suggest that you look beyond some of the places you may be focused on and you just might find reason to rejoice. God is moving powerfully all over the world, but it may not be in the traditional places most OP's are looking. The promise of God is that there will be a latter rain that will prepare the harvest for a final reaping.

Beware of the false prophecies.

America is for the most part is a Christian nation.

Many other countries are godless and worshiping false gods.

I do not agree that America has turned it's back on God as a whole.

I do not believe that God will or is judging America.

We live in terrible times and sin is more in our face and public.

But there are millions of Jesus Believers that are seeking after him in America.

Sounds like a rerun of Terrell-Britton and company. Of course Terrell's did not happen but never stopped him. No doubt judgment is coming to this whole world and the church is going to leave here. That is a sure word of prophecy.
Never eat heavy before going to sleep those beans and greens will do it every time and that heavy Cajun food.:nah:angelsad

Amen to the latter rain! :roseglasses

that will have to be determined by those who sit by and consider the utterance.

What say ye OP_Carl?

Um...wow...gee.

Anyone wanna buy my car, my golf clubs, my boat, and my lawn mower?

I am going to go pray for a heart blockage.


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Might be 100 years late on that?

Nope, it hasn't happened yet in my neck of the woods.

That is just what I was thinking when I read this....

Amazing! I am afraid you are deceiving yourself to think God would/will not judge America.

This surprises me coming from you elder.

I would think you would know that God can/will judge America.

This is the second time this WEEK I have heard America is being judged.

Asuza Street got Rain....

People getting the Holy Ghost in your town?

With many of the nations experiencing the baptism of the Holy Ghost; why is this not the Latter Rain?

America along with the rest of the world will be judged she is not exempt. But this a Terrell type prophecy I have been hearing for 40 years. NOT meaning to impugn Elder Strange it just sounds so much like I have heard from that camp and Branham was constantly sinking California and the Northwest. Terrell was sinking Florida he even sunk Memphis and shook down Chattanooga, did not leave one stone on another in Atlanta, burned the cities of the nation back in the 60's & 70;s. No doubt judgment will hit this nation with the rest one day. Then this Britton style of moving from one dimention to another like the manifested sons of 4o years ago. Sorry I am a sceptic.:bedtime:bedtime:bedtime

I hear a lot of people making similar statements about the U.S. in particular. What shape is the apostolic church really in? Is it getting better?

I don't think everything Bro. Strange has shared can be discounted. IMO.

Elder, there are a couple of points I would like for you to expound on:

This--

And this--

If you don't mind, could you please explain exactly what you mean by this?

I see that.

I don't know anything about Terrell.

But I know some teach baptism different than I believe it to be, however, it doesn't change the fact baptism is essential to me.

Prophecy has and probably always will have sceptics that do not believe. Doesn't mean they are right.

We need to pray and let God confirm His Word to us.

JMO

I agree as Bro. G. A. Mangun has said something very similiar recently.

But I did know and hear Terrell that is the difference and this has the Terrell ring to it. Elder Strange knew Terrell also that is the point and Britton.

Y'all are late comers we who have experienced this through the years have been made sceptics.:bedtime:bedtime:bedtime

This struck me weird too....

With all due respect elder that could be dangerous for you. :)

Time will tell won't it?

I wonder sometimes about the spiritual perception of some people. Not that I'm an expert but I do have a little, I think. :o

Your right.

I wonder if it has to be "politically correct" first to be received???

Mal 4:1 ¶ For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea,

The day of burning is in the land. In the spirit world, all things are burning with fires of destruction. The whole world is on fire with evil. You can't see it because the eyes of the flesh are blind to what is going on in the spirit world. If you could see into that world, you would see much activity going on.

It is only a matter of time before the flames begin to burst out into the natural realm. G. A. Mangun made note of all the fires that are burning out west. But these fires are not even a prelude to the great destruction by firre that is about to hit us. Whatsoever is in the spiritual realm will manifest itself in the natural. I personally believe that it is near, though I've never heard anyone prophesy these things before.


and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Ever hear of spontaneous human combustion? It is when humans just burst into flames for no apparent reason. They just burn without any scientific explanation to it at all.

With the burning in the land, the wicked are going to be burned. Can you imagine a sinner refusing the gospel message of salvation turning to walk away rejecting their only hope of salvation, and suddenly burst into flames? Can you imagine great numbers of people at once, bursting into flames?

Christ is going to be revealed in the lives of his holy men as flames of fire...fires of indignation against the wicked.

Joe 2:3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land [is] as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

Isa 30:30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and [with] the flame of a devouring fire, [with] scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

Hbr 1:7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.


Mal 4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

Read the assurances of the righteous who fear the name of the Lord found in Psalms 91. It is great assurances for those who trust in the Lord, who know the name of their Lord and that fear him.


Mal 4:3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do [this], saith the LORD of hosts.

A flame of fire preaches to a thousand people, half of them believe the gospel and turn to God in repentance, the other half does not. That half then bursts into flames and the righteous has to walk on their ashes that are all around.

Want to scoff? OK. Read this:

Hab 1:5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for [I] will work a work in your days, [which] ye will not believe, though it be told [you].

I don't know Britton. I do know Terrell. But, I don't know anyone who has said the things that I've said here. If you heard it before, this should be a confirmation to you. It would not be wise to scoff though God always sends his message to us early. The promises of God are sure, though some times a long time in waiting. I do not expect these things that I've said here to be a long time waiting.

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The UPC pastor I was under when I was born said something like that... God told him that he would see the Rapture of the church before he died... he's been dead about 20 years now.

I think over all the US is doing pretty well as a Christian nation. The world over all is not getting worse and worse, and I can't think of a better time period that I'd rather be alive in than 2007... and I'm looking forward to 2008.