Before we proceed to the next Chapter, I am compelled in my spirit by the Lord to state the following.
There are believers, ministers, pastors, evangelists, preachers or Christian friends who say to me that my writings are “heavy” and are written in a sharp, judgmental spirit. THEY ARE RIGHT! My writings are “heavy” for any natural soul to absorb, even to read. The majority of believers naturally prefer a “lighter literature, a more palatable Christianity”. But reading interesting religious literature is just another desire of a natural religious soul because it is satisfied by it and not threatened. To cuddle up in an easy chair and read an interesting religious story is not exactly a crucifixion process, rather, it is a preservation process. I am not saying that we should never cuddle up in an easy chair and read a good book or engage in leisurely activities, but not to the exclusion of our spiritual maturing process which at times may be rather painful.
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Now, these are not my judgments; rather, they are the LORD’S JUDGMENTS AND HIS SHAKING of the Earth and of Heaven, which includes His Church. And this is His further GRACE and LOVE for His Church, where many might otherwise not make it to be His Bride without spot or wrinkle or any blemish! (Eph. 5:27) In fact, the House of God is the first to be judged (1Pet. 4:17,18) and this book is a small part of this Shaking and Judgment of the Lord. (Heb. 12:25-29) The Word He gives us now, the same shall judge us in the last day and we, believers, are sifting ourselves now by our own decisions, our belief or unbelief. (Jn. 12:47,48)
THE PURPOSE of this shaking and sifting done by the Lord even now before our very eyes is to separate all that is REAL from all that is UNREAL, ARTIFICIAL; to separate that which is DEAD from that which is LIVING; to separate all those who are WILLING TO SEEK GOD and His Truth from all those that are NOT WILLING TO SEEK GOD, rather, they close their eyes and hearts to the Truth. (Mt. 13:15// Acts 28:27// Ps. 10:4,5) This is what the LORD is doing and not any man on this earth. Yet, the Lord is doing it also through His true servants, whom He sovereignly prepared for this day and hour… and by His Grace and sovereign calling, I am one of them. Hence, I cannot care what people think or feel about me or how they judge me and my ministry. It is the Lord, Who called me and chose me, not any man. (Jn. 15:16) He will judge me how faithfully and diligently I fulfilled His calling for this ministry of His Judgments and Shaking. So, if you do continue on your own “palatable, comfortable or entertaining religious road”, you will have no excuse before the Lord that He did not warn you! But when the testing comes with all its fury, many believers shall not stand, but shall fall.
The chief Purpose and Objective of this Judgment for the Lord is that He may obtain hearts and souls that will not be moved, shaken, removed, uprooted or fall, but that SHALL STAND against all the forces of evil and darkness and these shall not prevail against them in any way! (Eph. 6:13) THAT shall be the true testimony to His Glory and Power. This is the true Remnant.
THE CAUSE of this shaking and sifting is the UNWILLINGNESS of believers to pause, ponder, meditate, seek, believe, receive and do what God clearly requires from them before the end of this world comes. Too many believers do not even seek the Kingdom and its righteousness first (Mt. 6:33). They don’t seek Truth and are unwilling to meditate on what the Lord brings before their eyes and ears and to sift the lies and deceptions from the Truth. Many leaders are unwilling to be shown by the Lord that they are not infallible and “do err from the truth” and refuse to be converted and corrected. (Jam. 5:19) They keep preaching lies and leading ignorant believers to perdition as it is written:
“FOR THE LEADERS OF THIS PEOPLE CAUSE THEM TO ERR; AND THEY THAT ARE LED OF THEM ARE DESTROYED.” (Is. 9:16)
It is true that the above Word of God is found in the Old Testament, but there is no difference between the Old and New Testament leaders since the human fallen nature is the same in both Testaments. This Word applies to the Church as much as it applied to Israel because the leaders of either Israel or the Church were always exposed to pride. This pride binds them and makes them captives to the deceptions of the devil and prevents them to see and receive the truth wherever they err from it. Now the Lord allows such ministers to mislead others and live in error in order to see how many souls are indifferent to the Truth, comfortable in their lies and how many truly seek the Truth. Do you see this? No natural soul can see this.
This present time is the time of reckoning and judgment, of shaking and sifting, it is NOT the time for a false comfort, seeking own prosperity and for continued walking on our old, sinful, fleshly, carnal, natural, religious ways of our pride, foolishness, envying, strife and divisions. (1Cor. 3:3) As the AXE (Lord’s Judgment) was laid at the root of the trees (people) before Our Lord’s first Coming, so it is also laid now, before His next Coming; therefore…
“every tree (man) which does not bring forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.” (Mt. 3:10,12; 7:17-20// Jn.15:6 – see more details later)
If the WORD OF OUR LORD declared and discussed in this book is not strong enough, persuasive enough, piercing our soul enough to consider going on our knees before Him and pleading for His Grace for us at this time, then nothing else will help us! It may be that the Lord has to allow many believers to “sink to the very bottom of their religious pit” before they would be able to begin TO SENSE the very instinct of their self-preservation. Many believers may have to experience evil, hell and pressures of this life to a far greater depth than ever before so that they would “wake up” and make a truthful decision for the Lord; that they would appeal for His Grace, Mercy and His further Patience and Forgiveness. The religious “stupor” may be so strong in many believers that they simply do not care for anything anymore. They may not know what to believe any more. They just exist until their demise. What a TRAGEDY OF BELIEVERS! They may have never acquired any true SPIRITUAL SENSE during their Christian life that would have made them sensitive to the Spirit of God in their spirit and soul.
Our spiritual sensitivity always enables us to know whether we are right or wrong, what is from God and what is not, what to do and what not to do, what to say and what not to say, how to minister and how not to minister, and that totally SEPARATELY from what our mind thinks or what our heart feels or how we mentally understand all the facts! Unfortunately, the vast majority of believers do not have this spiritual sense; rather, they walk, talk, act, minister and live as their mind thinks and as their heart feels and as they mentally understand all the “facts”. THEY WALK BY THEIR SOUL AND NOT BY THEIR SPIRIT.
The way of spiritual believers is not the same as the way of soulish, carnal believers and these two ways do not lead to the same place. If we do not see it today or are unwilling to see it, the Lord is coming to show us this Truth and His Judgment in a few years.
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The Lord desires to add an important Word to the leadership in His Church, to those many leaders that will receive this book. The Lord requires that they would read it, consider it and bring it before Him so that He may grant them the eye to SEE, that is, the faith to believe it. Also, they ought not to keep it away from anyone in their congregations and thus prevent believers from seeing His Truth and be prepared to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
THIS IS A SOLEMN WARNING OF THE LORD FOR ALL THE “WATCHMEN” IN HIS CHURCH LEST HIS WORD IN Ez. 3:17-21 and Mt. 23:13 should be used against them at the day of their judgment.
And as there was the voice crying in the physical wilderness: “PREPARE YE THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE HIS PATHS STRAIGHT” (Mt. 3:3b), so also there are voices in the spiritual wilderness of this world and of this Church that cry today: “PREPARE YOURSELVES FOR THE LORD, MAKE YOUR SOULS HOLY AND BLESSED”.
Because today it is not so much the “Way of the Lord” that is to be prepared, but the “Bride of the Lord” that is to be prepared. We ought to see and understand and believe that the midnight cry “Behold, the Bridegroom is coming; go ye out to meet Him” has already started some time ago, we are not waiting for it in the future! That is why the clock shows the time passed midnight (see book cover). The virgins are supposed to begin to rise up now and trim their lamps. (Mt. 25:6,7) The time is very short.
Do we have the ear to hear? THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION.
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To be continued next week in chapter 4 – part 1
brother Hanola
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