(Edited by sister Cheryl Lowe.)
I want to share a vision I had in the latter part of 2005. Hope I am not misrepresenting the Lord in this, as I am still pondering and searching it’s meanings and implications in my own life and in the midst of the people of God in this nation as well.
A bit of background: I had this vision when a dear brother was moving to another town from Austin. We were holding a prayer meeting to say farewell at an elder brother’s home, which happened to be on the very opposite side of Tim’s home, where he and Rachael graciously invited me to live a few months later, and where our small group of families fellowshipped together for few years back in Austin,
During the prayer time, I was troubled and distressed in my heart with the departure of brother B. A. He had been a great help and a wonderful teacher to me. I felt quite uncertain of the future of my life, as it was quite unsettled at the time, to say the least… As I was sitting there in the midst of the brothers, the prayers offered really provoked me to greater distress, for they were quite general in nature. So I began to cry to the Lord for some particular insight and guidance.
Suddenly, I was caught up in the realm above. As if in a “deja vu,” I saw myself sitting with others in the same arrangement, as if it had happened another time before in my life. As I was wondering what was happening, a map of the south part of America was revealed to me. I saw a great river running from inland toward the southeast into the sea. (At the time, I was quite ignorant of the geography of the USA.) As my eyes set at the point where the river meets the sea, suddenly, a great storm rose up from the ocean and swept into the mouth of the river and up along it’s course far into the land. The intensity was so great that I saw massive regions of the southeast part of America that were terribly affected by it. At that moment, three names were revealed in my inner vision, with me still in a trance looking at myself sitting with others as in some remote past. It was quite an experience. They all have a capital letter M to start with. I instantly knew that they were the name of a River, of a State, and the last name of a person. But they flashed so fast in my mind that I could hardly register them.
I was puzzled at this and was trying to recall the three words. Again, I was looking directly down at the place where we were gathering at the moment. Suddenly a mighty explosion took off in our midst like an atomic bomb had been dropped. Yet somehow it was still was envisioned on the same map. The impact of the explosion was now rippling out towards the whole land. I could clearly see with a bird’s eye view, every wave of the expansion of the effects. It spread from where we were to the outside. But I saw that it quickly forced it’s way northwest.
At the same time, an understanding was given to me. I would witness two great moves of God taking place. The first one would a great cleaning and judgment, and the second would be a great shaking and “revival.”
I asked at that moment who from our group would be with me in this. Suddenly gripped by the power of the Lord, I couldn’t help but begin to share the vision to the group, with my trembling tone and broken English (my English was terrible at the time, but it was as if someone else was speaking in me). I found myself beginning to do things that I would never dare to do in my normal state. I began to raise my hand up and pointed to each one, saying to them one by one that they would miss this move of God, except one brother. He might be part of it. That did not end up very well. The room fell into dead silence.
I was grateful for how these brothers continue to accommodate for my life in their midst. Yet, I also recognized that the Lord would bring about some changes in my life and that my departure from them would be inevitable. This was a source of great disappointment and distress to me. I was quite “young in the faith” and unstable in life at the time.
However, through the years, I began to understand more of this vision- at least in three major stages.
The first was when I cried out to the Lord to take away the “strange” dreams and visions from me, as I had no insight into them at the time. The Lord sent an elder brother, a stranger at the time, who had a prophetic gift to call me to explain part of this vision to me. He told me that the river was Mississippi River, where Hurricane Katrina swept into. The mouth of river is the city of New Orleans. Later I learned that the state is Missouri State, where a few years later a bridge collapsed on the Mississippi River. I had no clue of the name of the person and the meaning of the explosion at the time.
The second phase was after the Lord began to reveal to me the mystery of sonship and His glory. It was also around the same time when a “revival” in Florida took place. I knew that the storm was meant for the exposure of the foolishness of the present day prophetic movement in this nation. It is the judgment of wind and flood. And the Lord also revealed to me that there would be a great shaking to expose the foolishness of the so-called apostolic movement as well. (In later days, I noticed that these mainly believe in the so-called “Kingdom Now” doctrine.) It is the judgment of shaking and fire. Years later, news came that a great fire had broken out in Texas.
The third phase, that is now, I began to have insight of the recent signs that were evidently given to signal God’s work at the present season. After exactly 7 years, another storm, Hurricane Isaac visited the city of New Orleans. I began to understand that it was one of of the many signs indicating that the season of the sons of God has come. (Psm 2. Gen. 14-15, Rev. 12.) It is also speaking that the Lord will start to reinstitute His Order and Truth in the midst of His people. The explosion will be the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom and the order of the house of the Lord, which is revealed in Malachi 3:16-4:6 and in other portions of the Scriptures. Sons will be taught by the Father and be established in the Heavenly realm to serve Him under the Order of Melchizedek. Discipleship will be restored back to the people for the purification of the Bride. The life and wisdom of the Lord will be served as bread, fish, and wine at the marriage feast that the Father offers to those who have been invited (called), believing (journey to), prepared (admitted with clean hands and garment), and rightfully seated (chosen and come to the place of His rest). They indeed will reign with Him by serving His people in wisdom, love, and holiness.
I feel it is time for me to write down this vision with my temporary understandings and share with others. I humbly submit this for your consideration.
