A New Age is At Hand By Mike McClung

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying,“Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear (Hebrews 12:25-28).

The kingdom of God has suffered violence since creation, but more so in the last 2000 years than any time in history.  I am very reticent about this article.  In this article, I will state my understanding, at least in part, of what I perceive scripture says regarding the last days and the coming of the Lord Jesus.  There seem to be as many different eschatological systems as there are denominations, each one claiming to be revealed truth.  I have studied, in-depth, all of them. While they all contain truth, each contain aspects that do not bear witness of the truth: firstly, in the life and teachings of the Lord Jesus, and secondly, in the contextual totality of scripture.  Just as Jesus was stretched to extremes on the cross, with His heart and mind found in the middle, so we can probably find much of the truth somewhere in the center of extreme views.  So, I tread lightly and humbly through the following article. Here, I offer my view of the restorative operation of the Holy Spirit in restoring the foundational teaching of the kingdom of God in the life of the body of Christ, so that we, the body, may go on to maturity. (Heb. 6:1.)

Year-End Letter and Lionheart Update, 2014

To All Lionheart Friends and Supporters,

We want to take a moment to thank all who have supported Lionheart Restoration Ministries, both in prayer and financially, over 2014. We have been steadily moving forward in the will and purposes of the Lord, and we’re about to enter the next phase beginning in January 2015.

We have regularly held worship, intercession, teaching and spiritual warfare events, training and trips throughout 2014 that have born fruit. We are thankful for all our friends both here and overseas that we have worked with to see the presence of the Lord established and the kingdom of God extended. Beginning in January 2015, we will begin worship and intercession watches again from our meeting facility (and home) in Louisville, TN (actually under the auspices of the city of Alcoa). We are happy to announce the opening of The Prayer Cave in early January (date yet to be decided). The Prayer Cave will be open through the week at certain times for worship, intercession and just soaking in the presence of the Lord. We will have focused intercessory watches at certain times throughout the day, along with worship watches where it will be just vertical ministry to the Lord. There will also be strategic prayer watches and initiatives that will be announced as things get more set in order. We will also be observing 21 days of prayer and fasting beginning January 2 and ending January 21, 2015. The schedule is to be announced very soon. We will be having focused teaching on issues the body of Christ is facing in our times, and focused intercession at each meeting. Everyone is invited as we come and humble ourselves before the Lord, seek His face, and cry out for revival and breakthrough in our area, this nation and the world.

We are trying to get the Prayer Cave finished and ready for operation. We could use a little help! If you would like to make a year-end donation toward the finishing of the Prayer Cave, you may do so online by clicking here, or by sending a check to our address: Lionheart Restoration Ministries, 1972 Stonybrook Rd. Louisville, TN 37777. We look forward to seeing the body of Christ become one with the Lord Jesus and one another in the coming months and years as we press forward into the harvest and His highest purposes together.  Blessings for 2015!

Grace and peace,

Mike McClung

Lionheart Restoration Ministries

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The Judge of the Earth – The Remedial Judge

The word “judgment” has received bad press, and that bad press has mostly come from the church….

In one extreme, parts of the church are now saying that God does NOT judge; He’s too nice and loving to do such a thing. This has been carried to heresy in those that deny the existence of hell and of a final judgment after death. Those who hold to such a view do not know the Lord in His awe-inspiring beauty and justice. If there is no judgment of sin, action and lawlessness, then God cannot be a just God. If He is not just, then He is not holy, without mixture. In denying this aspect of His holy nature, man thus has successfully remade God in our fallen image (at least what we would LIKE Him to be).

The other extreme related to judgment is that it portrays Yahweh as a remake of the Greek god Zeus, who sits on a throne, arbitrarily waiting to throw lightning bolts of destruction and pain in anger over the slightest thought that’s anything less than 100% moral. In 2008, I led an intercessory/spiritual warfare team to Germany to work with some of the saints in several well known cities to address some long-standing demonic strongholds still leftover from hundreds of years past, right up until the time the Nazi’s were in power. One of our stops was Wittenberg, where Martin Luther nailed his theses to the door of the church. He also ministered in St. Mary’s Chapel about two blocks from the Wittenberg cathedral. Our tour guide took us to a back room in St. Mary’s where many very old artifacts and works of art were kept. On the wall was a stone relief that was once over the entrance to a cemetery, on which depicted a very angry “Christ”, seated on a throne with lightning bolts in his hand, throwing them at dead and dying people, who were obviously out of line with either him or the church. Our tour guide told us that this was the picture that the church had painted of God, thereby keeping a repressive form of bondage over the people to control them. When Martin Luther rediscovered the truth of a loving, compassionate God, to Whom the only way was faith in the finished work of the Son apart from works (who really loved humanity so much that He Himself bore our judgment to give us grace), the people were overwhelmed with desire to know Him. The reason the Reformation took off like wildfire was because the horrid picture of an angry, perfection demanding God (a perversion of His just nature) was shown to be fallacious through the true revelation of the word of God. However, this did not nullify the absolute truth that although He is 100% love, He is also 100% just, and both parts of His nature will not rest until completely satisfied.

Because He is love, He can be fully trusted to judge justly. His judgment is not only just, but it is an extension of His intrinsic nature of love. This is why we see the saints of God, the bride of Christ, openly exalting and praising Him for His judgments when He rises to restore justice and purity in the earth in Rev. 18:20 and Rev. 19:1-4:

"Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on her!”… After these things I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Alleluia! Salvation and glory and honor and power belong to the Lord our God! For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her." Again they said, “Alleluia! Her smoke rises up forever and ever!" And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sat on the throne, saying, “Amen! Alleluia!”

The Lord is a Remedial Judge

And the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing, since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him." And the LORD said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know." Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the LORD. And Abraham came near and said, "Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Suppose there were fifty righteous within the city; would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that were in it? Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" (Gen. 18:17-25)

In the revelation of God through the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ and subsequently the interpretation of all scripture through Him who is the word incarnate, the Lord reveals Himself as a compassionate Judge who desires to heal, restore and have intimate relationship with man. If this is true, and we believe it is, how does a compassionate God deal with sin, rebellion and evil and maintain His justice?

 

No earthly situation could have been more dire than that found in Sodom written of above. Not only was sexual immorality and perversion prevalent, but it was only one of the many outward signs of the inward, animalistic corruptions that were abounding. Lot was vexed (desensitized) by living in the cesspool that had become Sodom. He was even willing to sacrifice his own daughters to the inhuman and demonic lusts prevailing through the crowd. Ezekiel tells us what the core issues were that led to such demonic, immoral and inhuman degradation in Ezek 16:48-50:

“As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done. Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.”

In spite of the demonic mindsets and activities humans have joined in agreement with (as seen in Sodom), the Lord reveals Himself first as remedial Judge in the midst of such circumstances, who desires to have mercy. He becomes a punitive Judge only after consistent rejection of His loving remediation. We may not understand this from a human viewpoint, but it is His mercy that brings judgment, because His judgments are not meant to be punitive, but remedial.

From Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words (copyright 1985):

“Do right,” – mishpat – Vines’ – “the act of sitting as a judge, hearing a case, and rendering a proper verdict. <Eccl. 12:14> is one such occurrence: ‘For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.’

Because He is holy, and His holiness demands sin and evil be judged, He must do so or be found unrighteous Himself. But also because of His transcendent nature of love and mercy, He always provides a way of redemption for humans and the means to achieve it, if it will be surrendered to and accepted.

The Lord reveals Himself as Judge in two dimensions: As a remedial Judge to those who love, yield to and obey Him and as a punitive Judge to all who rebel, agree and act with the powers of darkness. The Lord, as remedial Judge, allows discipline and hardship at times into the lives of His people to bring training to our character and form Christlikeness within us. The more we embrace the Lord and His remedial judgment and discipline, the more our character is transformed into the image of Christ, the fruit of holiness is witnessed to and we begin to share in a greater degree of His kingdom authority and power.

The Lord reveals Himself as remedial Judge in three primary ways: His word, other people and circumstances. One “external” means of bringing His discipline (remedial judgments) into our lives is making a habit of studying and obeying God’s word. Consistent meditating on God’s word, and then putting it into practice, eventually becomes internalized to become a part of our character.

Another external means of His remedial judgments are the people that He brings into our lives and the relationships that form around them. People are used by God to expose areas in our lives that need healing, breaking, maturing or any combination of all of these. The scripture is clear that relationships cause “iron to sharpen iron.”

One other means that becomes a part of His remedial disciplines and judgments in our lives is the circumstances we find ourselves in. It is to be noted that children and weak, immature people will quit when things become difficult. We are called to be overcomers, made into the image and likeness of the Son of God. This means perseverance and pressing through our pain, weakness and fallenness, engaging the grace supplied by the Spirit of God. If we are to become mature, healthy adults, both naturally and spiritually, it will only come through persistent, personal victories by faith and obedience.

The Result of God’s Remedial Judgments

This loving, remedial Judge always deals with pride. One of the first conversations the Lord had with Peter was to deal with his pride as an expert fisherman, so Peter could fully trust Him and not his own ability or training. This was not to insult Peter but to teach Peter to lean on the Lord’s power and grace and not his own understanding or abilities. The Lord uses His judgments to teach us to pray, study, worship, preach, trust and…raise the dead. These judgments come and reveal areas of our lives that are out of sync with Him and many times are actually in rebellion to Him and in agreement with the powers of darkness. Faith is put to the test through these relationships, hardships and circumstances.

The fruit of this loving, remedial Judge’s disciplining hand is freedom. Freedom comes only through the remedial judgments and discipline of the Lord. This means freedom to be in union with Him, not freedom to do as we please, which is the exact cause of Him bringing His loving discipline into our lives in the first place. Have you ever heard an undisciplined musician? Ever seen an undisciplined athlete or teacher? The purpose of this remedial Judge – His disciplines and training – is not punishment, but to form us into the men and women of God we are destined to become, lead us into deeper intimacy with the Lord and trust us with the freedom to flow in His power and authority.

Isaiah 64:8 says, But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and You our potter; and all we are the work of Your hand.  Thanks be to Him that He never discards any vessel. He just reworks it! The Judge of the earth will always do what’s ultimately right, just and compassionate. He can be trusted…even when He rises to judge.

Vision: Restoration of the Fear of the Lord - 7/6/2001 By Mike McClung

[The following is a vision that I received, almost 13 years ago. This vision came a little over one year in the first “cycle of two sevens” that the body of Christ and the world, has just come out of this past Rosh Hashanah. We are now entering “the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began” (Acts 3:21). Although I believe a modicum of this vision has been fulfilled, the Lord has prompted me to release this vision again, indicating to me that the fullness of its fulfillment will be manifesting this year, and increasing each year beyond 2014 – Mike McClung – March 2014]

On Friday, July 6, 2001, the following vision was given to me while I was leading the “Praying through the Psalms” intercessory worship watch at the then operating, International House of Prayer-Knoxville.

In the midst of praying through Psalm 36, the Lord gave me a vision of a fully armed Warrior riding a horse, wielding a very large sword, coming out of the midst of the throne of God. The immediate thought that filled my heart was that He was coming in judgment and discipline. He was very “fierce” and awesome in appearance.

Angel Parable Word From Gary Beaton

[Editor's Note: Gary Beaton is a trusted friend of Lionheart and has served the Lord faithfully as an award-winning television and film producer in the marketplace and in ministry for many years. What follows is revelation he has received for this present hour the Body of Christ is walking through. If you would like more information on Gary Beaton, visit www.transformationglory.com.]

In 2001, I had an Angelic Visitation in the night by an Angel named “Parable”.  Although Angels don’t have gender, there was a feminine sense about her, much like the Spirit of Wisdom in Proverbs 8.

When Parable first came to me, I was surprised by the mystique that came from her.  She wore a silvery hooded garment and a long flowing robe. I couldn’t see her face well, except that her eyes were full of fire and intensity.  I believe the hood that shrouded her was meant to reveal the seriousness of her assignments.  She held a silver trumpet in her right hand and I understood that she was sent as a messenger from the Throne to release the proclamations of upcoming events in America and the world.

Although she was mysterious and fierce, I understood that she came with the ultimate intent to release shakings and sweeping change for our good and one that would ultimately restore America and nations for the sake of the Harvest.  In the first visitation, she conveyed to me that she was sent to speak through Parables for those that have ears to hear and eyes to see.  Life events are often Parables to speak to us about our condition and our need for intervention that will rescue us through prayer and a genuine heart-change from godly sorrow. 

Parable is sent to the Church first, so that we may understand that in our Priestly roles, we are called to weep between the porch and the altar to stand in the gap.  Jeremiah was known as the weeping prophet.  Ezekiel came in a similar fashion.  We must stand in the gap to save this land.

Ezekiel 22:30 “I looked for someone to stand up for me against all this, to repair the defenses of the city, to take a stand for me and stand in the gap to protect this land so I wouldn’t have to destroy it. I couldn’t find anyone. Not one. So I’ll empty out my wrath on them, burn them to a crisp with my hot anger, serve them with the consequences of all they’ve done. Decree of God, the Master.”

Parable visited me again in 2005 and 2008.  She was sent again to me this last week.  I wasn’t allowed to speak of her until now, but the Lord has released me to begin telling about her since this latest visitation.  In the past, when she would be released to blow her trumpet, defined shaking events took place that acted as an alarm in hopes that America and the sleeping church would awaken and the people of America would respond.  Parable has come again and she is about to blow her trumpet signaling events that will release thundering power and lightning from the Throne.  I am not saying that Parable is the angel in Revelation 10, but the wording gives us insight through John’s phrasing.

Revelation 10:1-7 “Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire. He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land, and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he called out, the seven thunders sounded.And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.” And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay, but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.”

It sounds strange and mysterious, yet we are living in the days of the actual Book of Revelation and we need to ask for wisdom and insight about the book itself and the times we are in so we can move forward effectively.  It is in peace and confidence that we gaze into the face of our Savior and Eternal King.

Last week’s visitation was one of the most sobering Angelic visitations I have ever had.  I understood that Parable was leading an angelic army to bring a move of God through wisdom that will shake the earth in many places.  It will ultimately release apostolic awakenings in the earth that will thrust the “called out ones” into their assignments in provision and power.  The intentions from the Father are only good in terms of America, the Harvest of Souls and the Re-forming of the Church as we know it.

Daniel 11:32 “… the people that do know their God shall be mighty, and do exploits.”

Those that are secure in their walk with God will be like the Israelites in Egypt during the plagues, for they ultimately came out of bondage with the plunder.  They are headed for the Promises of God to usher in the Kingdom of God into the earth in Thundering Power.

This next move of God will ultimately become a tsunami of dunamis authority operating through a people that will hear the sound and corporately move to recover all as David did at Ziglag.  King David’s family had been taken captive and he inquired of the Lord.  The Lord told him to go and that he would recover all.  It was a fierce battle, but they came out with complete victory in re-capturing the most precious thing that had been stolen.  America and the original Republic it was founded on have been stolen and a call is being sent out to inquire of the Lord concerning their recovery.  He intends that we would go into a spiritual battle of prayer and that despite what things will look like, we will recover all and the Republic of America will be recovered for the Glory of God.

1 Samuel 30:8 “…David enquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? Shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.”

Isaiah 60:1-3 “Arise, shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.”

Just after I spoke at Bob Jones’ Memorial, I was in Atlanta leading a series of corporate meetings on a scale of love and unity I had never experienced before.  In one of the meetings, the presence of God manifested in such a remarkable way that we spent hours in the Glory together.  It was indescribable.  After 4 hours, the weight of God’s Holiness manifested in the room like a cloud and brought a deafening silence upon everyone.  For an hour, we were all frozen in our seats under the weight of His reverential, majestic presence.  You could hear a pin drop, afraid to utter a sound.

As I was waiting in the stillness, I had the veil pulled back and was taken into an open vision.  I saw a map of America and then watched as an American flag was draped across it.  As I kept watching, the flag was folded in military fashion for a fallen soldier and laid across the Northeast and the Eastern Seaboard.  Then I also watched as two of the tri-folded flags were laid upon each other up and down like the Star of David across the entire US from sea to sea.

The events that are coming are also directly related to Israel.  Angels like Parable also play a great role in Israel’s future because it is the eternal timepiece in the earth.

Hebrews 12:22-29 “For you have come to Mount Zion and unto the City of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Able. See that you refuse not him who speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven: whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying Yet once more I shall not shake the earth only, but heaven. And this word, Yet once more signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which can be shaken will be shaken. Wherefore, we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be moved, let us have grace, where we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear, for our God is a consuming fire."

The visitation from the Angel Parable, combined with the vision of the American flag during a holy moment in stillness, sends a clear message that the Lord is revealing a warning of what is coming from a loud trumpet call about to be released, most likely very soon.  It is one that cannot be halted because it is coming in a defining moment in history to affect the change needed on God’s timetable to save and restore this nation. 

The Lord made it clear to me that the military flag being laid out across America does not speak of total doom and destruction of this nation.  Rather, it is a somber signal that the “old glory” of the America we have always loved is being laid to rest so that resurrection can come to the Republic through a cleansing of the corruption and darkness that are about to overtake us.  We ultimately will enter a season of New Glory unto salvation, joy and Harvest.

Jeremiah 6:16 “…Thus says the Lord, Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls.”

Restoration can only take place by removing the old… what has been eaten away by weather, termites and left in ill-repair.  Once the old has been removed in the restoration process of a house, then the new can come in and the home can be returned to its former grandeur.  This will take place, but only by the cleansing process of repairing the old foundations and rebuilding with a new Plumb-Line of accuracy.

During the vision of the draping of the flag across America, I clearly heard two songs.  One was the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and the other was “American Pie” by Don McLean.  If you listen carefully to these two separate anthems concerning America, one is true and one is false.  The true one is the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”  Read the words of both songs together and you will see the battle being waged between Light and Darkness over this contested territory.  When I heard “American Pie” in the vision, I understood that it was about a jester’s voice laughing that the Spirit of God had left America and that the enemy was claiming full dominion. 

Instead, the Lord was saying in the vision, that it was “American Pi”… meaning we have come full circle as a nation and we are at a place of either total failure or new beginnings.  I know that God intends New Beginnings and we must rise up and contend like David, who put on the priestly Ephod to inquire for Heavenly council.  Intense prayer and weeping intervention will move the Holy Spirit to help us be like the men of Issachar who understood the times and knew what to do.   

In terms of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, the entire song is about what we are about to enter as Believers in this nation.

“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord, He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored. He has loosed His fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword, His truth is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

He has sounded forth the Trumpet that shall never call retreat, He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat, Oh, be swift my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet, Our God is marching on!”

The trumpet of Parable is a war cry, just as the trumpets took down the walls of Jericho.  In the end, God is 

going to restore the Republic.  Yet through the process I believe we are going to endure severe things that will

shake us.  We have been given a foreshadow in the past 14 years with 9/11, Katrina and the financial crash in

2008, but we will now begin to experience a greater wave of dramatic trials we have not been expecting

because there was never a true heart change in the nation or a clear grasp of the brevity of the hour we are in.

Darkness has only manifested more in the time we were granted to truly change.

Yet, we are a people founded on the true Rock and we have been given a maturing strength to overcome

adversity and strengthen others through the same process of sifting.  At the same time of shaking, we will soon

see a huge release of apostolic power to bring the Awakening of the Ages, combined with unparalleled

resources and financial provision for the Kingdom.  

There is a passing of the old guard in church leadership on many fronts and there will also come a changing of the guard in governmental leadership at the highest levels of this nation.

Now that Parable has returned, we are about to hear the true Trumpet sound and know that it is from Heaven.  What will come in the natural will be a shaking on a level we have never seen before, much like birth pangs, for all of creation is groaning, waiting for the sons of God to be revealed.   Those that are pure and have been qualified through the sanctification process will emerge in the Power of the Spirit in Humility, Love, Purity, Wisdom and Authority.  We will soon witness the early and latter rain combined to release the final moves of God in the earth in ways we have never seen.  

This is the defining scripture that needs to be read carefully:

Hebrews 12:18-29 "For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake.But ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.” And this word, yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear, for our God is a consuming fire.”

Nahum 1:6-7 “Who can stand before his indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire and the rocks are thrown down by him. Yet, the Lord is good and a stronghold in the day of trouble. He knows who trusts in him.”

There is much more to share about the Angel Parable and insight on future events that I will release in the days ahead.  In the meantime, be aware of hearing the true sound being released from Heaven in its fullness from the Spirit of Discernment.  Many have watered down the Gospel, candy-coated the message and have eliminated the Cross as well.  It is a time to see our true national condition and ask the Lord to search us, remove any blinders and give us genuine humility to forgive and cleanse us. 

The 5 wise virgins will keep their lamps trimmed and filled.  There will also come a sharp dividing line drawn between those who have a true passion for the things of God and those that are asleep.  Those lulled into slumber will soon have a great wake-up call.  The goal is win a harvest of lost souls for eternity.  Where are the Davids and the Esthers?

Philippians 2:12 “Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”

When the Parable’s Trumpet sounds, we will all hear a call to action.  I feel that what will manifest in the natural will be an attack or a series of natural disasters that will cause major outages and even affect the land and water. In the days of Israel’s past like in Isaiah 9:10, as Johnathan Cahn wrote about in his book “The Harbinger”, the Lord lifts his hand of protection over a nation because of their steadfast defiance against Him.   When it comes, we must move with intent and be about our Father’s business.  I encourage us all to buy gold refined in the fire and salve for our eyes to see.  It is time to rend our hearts and keep them tender for the sake of the Cross.

“Teach us Lord to number our days and apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Psalm 90:12

Gary Beaton

Transformation Glory Ministries           http://transformationglory.com/

Decreeing the Will of God on Earth By Mike McClung

Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints (Rev. 19:7-8).

Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband (Rev. 21:1-2).

The church will be made ready in a priestly-bridal garment.  This priesthood is a royal priesthood.  1 Pet. 2:9 says: But you (born again believers) are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light….  There is another dimension added to the priesthood that the New Testament church has been called to express: that dimension includes not only priestly ministry (worship and intercession), but also exercising authority and dominion.  Jesus fulfills both offices as the King of glory and the great High Priest of the New Covenant.  It is through exercising our roles as priests unto the Lord, on behalf of people, that we enter into our full relationship with the Lord as His eternal partner in Bridehood.  This not only means exercising dominion in prayer and worship, but also being fully developed to share dominion through decreeing the will of God in the earth as the extension of Himself as His body and bride.

The Harness of the Lord by Bill Britton (Reprinted without comment)

There is a terrific operation of the Spirit going on today to bring the Sons of God into an absolute confinement to the perfect will of God. This is the Day of His Preparation the day in which He is preparing the channel through which He shall pour forth His Glory for all the world to see. This channel is His Body in the earth that glorious company of people who are being conformed through much tribulation and fiery tests to the Image of the Son of God. This is His "battle axe and weapons of war" with which He shall subdue kingdoms and overcome all His enemies. This is His "mighty and strong One" to whom He shall commit the work of judging this world. This is His Overcomer, His "great army" with which He shall bring the nations into submission. The weapons of their warfare are not carnal, natural weapons but they are mighty weapons, mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. These are those who shall "be strong and do exploits."

The Wrath of God - Part 2 By Mike McClung

Punitive Judgment and then Wrath

The Lamb will release punitive judgment out upon the earth and its inhabitants in one last, merciful attempt to drive people back to Himself in repentance, and save them from eternal damnation. But it will only serve to prove His justice and judgment righteous and true as the reaction comes:

Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind. Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone. By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed-- by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm. But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts. (Rev. 9:13-21)