In Del Fehsenfeld’s book, Ablaze With His Glory, he describes the present condition (written 21 years ago) of the church here in the U.S.A. as in such a state of spiritual and moral decline that the “glory of God” has or is about to depart from his temple, the church, just like he did with Israel. And, the author describes how we are in such great need of revival here in the church in America that judgment of God is inevitable. Brother Yun echoed many of those same sentiments concerning the church in the west.
When my husband and I were having our time of prayer together, I prayed, asking the Lord to help me to see ourselves through his eyes. After he showed me the following (below), I asked him if he was showing me my husband and myself and he said, “No.” I asked him if he was showing me the church in America, and I believe he responded by saying that this is a picture of America and it is a picture of most of the institutional church in America.
Then, I had A VISION: I saw a penny sitting on the threshold of a doorway with the door closed. The threshold was to the left (or west) of the door. END
I inquired of the Lord if there was more. Then, I saw an image of a human heart in my mind, and then the Lord brought these questions to mind:
Q: What pumps blood into the human heart?
A: As the heart pumps, systolic pressure on the arteries pushes the blood through the arteries into the veins. This continuous pressure circulates the blood back into the heart. Just like a water pump on a car's engine pumping water through the engine, radiator and back to the water pump to start the process again. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_pumps_blood_into_the_heart
Q: What is the purpose of the valve in the heart?
A: to prevent blood from flowing backwards when traveling through the heart. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_purpose_of_the_valve_in_the_heart
Valve – “a device that controls the movement of liquids or gases through pipes or other passages by opening or closing ports and channels” (Encarta).
I inquired if there was more, and then the Lord put this verse from Revelation 19:9 in my mind:
Then the angel said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!' "And he added, "These are the true words of God."
And, this one from Revelation 22:14-15:
"Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Habakkuk 3:
A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. On shigionoth . 2 LORD, I have heard of your fame;
I stand in awe of your deeds, O LORD.
Renew them in our day,
in our time make them known;
in wrath remember mercy.
3 God came from Teman,
the Holy One from Mount Paran.
Selah
His glory covered the heavens
and his praise filled the earth.
4 His splendor was like the sunrise;
rays flashed from his hand,
where his power was hidden.
5 Plague went before him;
pestilence followed his steps.
6 He stood, and shook the earth;
he looked, and made the nations tremble.
The ancient mountains crumbled
and the age-old hills collapsed.
His ways are eternal.
7 I saw the tents of Cushan in distress,
the dwellings of Midian in anguish.
8 Were you angry with the rivers, O LORD?
Was your wrath against the streams?
Did you rage against the sea
when you rode with your horses
and your victorious chariots?
9 You uncovered your bow,
you called for many arrows.
Selah
You split the earth with rivers;
10 the mountains saw you and writhed.
Torrents of water swept by;
the deep roared
and lifted its waves on high.
11 Sun and moon stood still in the heavens
at the glint of your flying arrows,
at the lightning of your flashing spear.
12 In wrath you strode through the earth
and in anger you threshed the nations.
13 You came out to deliver your people,
to save your anointed one.
You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness,
you stripped him from head to foot.
Selah
14 With his own spear you pierced his head
when his warriors stormed out to scatter us,
gloating as though about to devour
the wretched who were in hiding.
15 You trampled the sea with your horses,
churning the great waters.
16 I heard and my heart pounded,
my lips quivered at the sound;
decay crept into my bones,
and my legs trembled.
Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity
to come on the nation invading us.
17 Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,
18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.
19 The Sovereign LORD is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to go on the heights.
For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.
My Understanding: I looked up the U.S. Penny - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(United_States_coin), and I learned that the 2010 penny has a new design for the back of the penny. On the front is Abraham Lincoln, “In God We Trust” and “Liberty.” On the back is “United States of America,” and a shield with “E Pluribus Unum” (Translated: “Out of many, one”) written on it, with a scroll across the shield reading “One Cent.” The Wikipedia site says that the shield is the “Union Shield.”
“It was the symbol of the day, as far as the Civil War,” said Gary Marks, a member of the citizens advisory committee. “When people saw that, they knew what it meant: It was a northern symbol.” Wheat, Marks said, is a symbol of prosperity, and a flag with 34 stars wouldn’t look any different than a modern flag on a coin the size of a penny. The union shield, by contrast, is unique symbol of unity and exactly what Congress intended when it passed the law requiring that the design reflect Lincoln’s legacy of preserving the union, he said. http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x1409370872/New-Lincoln-Penny-to-be-unveiled-in-Springfield-Feb-11
Lincoln’s way of preserving the “union” was to bring our nation into a civil war, to declare “Habeas Corpus,” i.e. to suspend the rights of U.S. citizens, and to arrest U.S. citizens on the suspicion of being against the union, etc. He didn’t care about the slavery issue. He was all about preserving the union whether the slaves were freed or not. Check it out!
The Lord has been showing me for a long time that Obama was made in the image of Lincoln, i.e. he is a clone of Lincoln, and that he intends to follow the same pattern as Lincoln for the U.S. in preserving another union, i.e. the union of the New World Order.
“The GREAT SEAL of the United States of America: The design for this national emblem was completed in 1782. Some consider its occult and masonic images an American mission statement. The inscribed motto, E Pluribus Unum means "Out of many, one." The words Novus Ordo Seclorum mean "a new order of the ages," according to this website: www.greatseal.com. The two sides show the symbol of the eagle (first a phoenix) and the eye in the pyramid. See All-Seeing Eye & Eye of Horus & Great Seal. But the more correct meaning would be NEW WORLD ORDER [novous = new, ordo = order, seclorum = secular or world] See also www.greatseal.com & A More Perfect Union.” http://www.crossroad.to/Books/symbols1.html
Obama gave a campaign speech with the title, A More Perfect Union, in 2008: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/03/18/text-of-obamas-speech-a-more-perfect-union/
Based upon these verses the Lord gave me from Revelation, I believe the door in the vision represents the door into the Kingdom of God, and it stands closed to most of America’s institutional church and to the nation as a whole, represented by the penny. The door (Jesus Christ) is the heart valve that opens and closes channels (of communication with God) in order to prevent the blood from flowing backwards. I see the blood as the blood Jesus shed for us on the cross for our sins, but it also represents our spiritual life-blood via our relationship with Jesus Christ. God is closing the door of communication between himself and America via his judgment on her so that the lifeblood of his true church cannot flow backwards, i.e. I believe a line is going to be drawn in the sand and either we will be on one side of the door or the other, but there will no longer be any middle ground.
Also, the way that blood is pumped into the heart is through “continuous pressure.” I believe the Lord is saying that the church in the U.S.A. needs to undergo some divine discipline and persecution (the continuous pressure) in order to pump the lifeblood of the Holy Spirit of God back into the church. The door will be opened for those who “wash their robes” in the blood of the Lamb, and then they will be able to enter the gates into the City of God. So, God is going to have to shake our nation and to do some threshing (the penny on the threshold) before the people of the USA that are outside of true fellowship and union with Christ are going to be able to enter through the gates into the City of God.
A threshold is “the point at which something begins or changes” (Encarta); “the starting point for a new state or experience” (worldnetweb.princeton.edu). So, the United States of America is on this threshold, i.e. we are at this point at which something new is going to take place, and it involves a closed door between our nation and Almighty God, as well as it involves him threshing us on this threshold. On one side of the coin it reads “Liberty” and “In God We Trust,” but on the reverse side for 2010 it has an image (the union shield) that depicts the preserving of a union via war, via suspension of human rights, and via incarceration of its citizens. This is the flip side of the history of Lincoln that is downplayed in our history books and our memory of him.
I believe the Lord is saying here that America is on a precipice – “The brink of a dangerous or disastrous situation” (thefreedictionary.com); at a point when something begins to change, and it involves divine judgment upon our nation, which will in turn pump the lifeblood of the Holy Spirit of God back into the life of his church, I believe. So, with judgment (systolic pressure) will come revival, and with the washing of the robes (cleansing of sin) will come entry into the gates of heaven for those who have been cleansed by the blood of the Lamb. So, that’s the good news!!
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