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.

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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.