Jeremiah 8:11, “They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious.
‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.”

Ezekiel 11:13, “Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died.
Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice,
‘Ah, Sovereign LORD! Will you completely destroy the remnant of Israel?’”

Fireworks! Don't you just love them?!

When people in the US see fireworks they always say “oohh!” and “aahhh!” or they honk their horns if they are in their cars! I moved to Hong Kong a while ago and we have a lot of fireworks, only we don’t watch them in our cars and we don’t say ‘ooohh’ or ‘aahhh’ when we see them … here the people say, “Wahhh!”

And I remember driving home one night during university when I lived with my pastor and I saw a great blue flash in the sky that lit everything up like it was lightning, although it was a clear night and there was no thunderclap. The light came from the direction of my pastor’s house, in fact it seemed to be located directly over it, and it was odd that the light registered in my spirit more than in my eyes, although I clearly saw it as well.

Sure enough, when I got home I realized a visiting prophet / healing evangelist from Dublin was at the house ministering. That confirmed my suspicions: it was not natural lightning but spiritual fireworks, angelic combat in the heavenlies, Kingdom clashing against kingdom! Say it with me … “Wahhh!”

Forecast: 100% chance of Fireworks

Let it be known that the chances for more spiritual fireworks as kingdoms clash as we enter these end days are 100%. Right now many of the Lord’s real servants are pressed down, suppressed, shunned, overlooked, marginalized …. but this will not continue for long. In fact the shift is already underway.

There are four or five prophecies I am aware of for this general season that describe the removing of the old leadership and a restoration of the Lord’s true servants in their rightful places.

What is Grace? Many often think it is God’s permission to sin without being punished, but that is not exactly true. In fact, the word grace or charis, as used in the New Testament, has three or four different but similar meanings, which is one reason why there is little understanding of this miraculous source of power. Grace can mean kindness, or it can mean to give something freely that is undeserved, it can also mean the gift given, but when most commonly used by Paul it was the free gift of the power to be transformed that enabled him to live a life like Jesus, overcoming his normal human carnal nature. Without this empowerment, we cannot live overcoming lives as believers ... WITH IT we can overcome the trials of the entire fallen world.

In this short teaching you will learn what Grace is, why you need it, and where you can access it in your time of need.

Strength to win a battle

When you are in a battle and a certain kind of strength is needed to win, and you lack that strength, what does it look like as you fail that battle? Suppose the battle was one that you needed Love to win, and if you don’t have enough love to win that battle, you’d fail. What will it look like as you lose that battle? Or what if you are in a battle and to win you needed Joy, but you lacked the joy needed to overcome. What would that look like to fail such a battle? Not a pretty picture! Or what if you needed peace or patience to overcome a battle, which you didn’t have enough of at that time, and what if someone had a camera that followed you around and was going to record your struggle as you failed that test. What would they record with their camera as the circumstances surrounded you, attacked you and you slowly slipped into anger, rage, hopelessness, selfishness, ambition, revenge, pride, … and then whatever else you fell into to relieve your stress at your first failure … faking your victory by play acting (hypocrisy), hiding behind a mask of pride (self-righteousness) or less religious sins: drunkenness, lust, pornography, adultery, drug use, or the utter darkness of self abuse, suicide … and on the list goes.

Is this the kind of rare battle that only professional counselors, ministers or superheroes of the faith encounter? No, I think this is a scene from any of our lives.

Opinion / Editorial

Is the Swine Flu a real threat? According to world media this is a real crisis, but it is important that we do not get our news only from secular sources. Having read or skimmed through nearly two novels worth of prophecies posted each month, I find it interesting that I really can’t recall a clear prophetic word predicting an outbreak of global sickness or plague for this time. I know according to the Bible plagues will come, but I am beginning to think this Swine Flu at this time is not one of them.

However, it is possible I simply missed reading those warnings. Prophets were warned about Katrina, and even the devastating Boxing Day Tsunami in Asia, but news of these prophetic warnings only emerged much later. So we do see that our reporting and sharing of prophecy is still maturing. So maybe the people He’s told prophetically about Swine Flu haven’t shared their insight. Or maybe we have a prophetic blind spot in this area. Maybe we’ll get caught off guard and we’ll learn a big lesson.

But it is also very possible that this is not a real threat. We need to test prophecy by the witness of God’s Spirit and personal confirmation … but all the more we need to test the secular news the same way!­­—asking the Lord to confirm and clarify what the global secular media is preaching.

Why I believe the Financial Tsunami hasn’t actually hit yet

In the course of publishing HKI last issue I stumbled upon a prophecy by David Wilkerson which I still don’t really know how I found. I knew immediately to include it in our selection, although at the time I didn’t know anyone else was even aware of it. It first caught my attention because the Lord told David the exact same thing he told me more than a year ago, which is that it would be wise for me to store up a month of food. I don’t know the whole theological basis for storing up food—I’m just obeying what He told me to do.

I recall a true story of a man standing in line to get on an airplane and the Lord told him to get out of the line right away. The man was upset at having to change his travel plans and had to be told two or three times. He was finally right at the counter about to check-in when he decided to obey and just walked away from taking that flight. Of course you know the plane subsequently crashed and everyone on board was killed. Probably out of survivors’ guilt he asked God why only he had been warned. The Lord corrected him: God had warned them all not to take that flight. But this man was the only one who obeyed.

The way most of us currently minister in church will NEVER produce the Kingdom we long for, for the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk ... but of power. (1 Corinthians 4:20)

We’ve all been told there is to be a great shift from Church age to Kingdom age, but we have not yet known very well what this shift will look like. We know scripturally and by way of type that it is David’s kingdom, we know it is heralded by signs and wonders, we know it is the real Bride becoming separate from the harlot (sheep from goat, wise from unwise, wheat from tare, clean from unclean, new wineskin in place of the old) … and we know it has to do with the saints’ maturity and empowerment by personally knowing God through communion (intimacy) with the lover of our souls, Jesus—but without any real substantive change in the way we ‘do church’ we still hear all of these platitudes and aspirations parroted from pulpit to pulpit, mechanically, as the new trendy buzzwords that sell religion to the starving masses …. will this new promised shift just be more of the same old religion? Will its power be stolen and a program put in its place, to be mass-manufactured and marketed as another sham, low-fat, plastic shrink wrapped substitute for the juicy, meaty, real deal? Maybe. The Lord told me recently that the first test of a false spirit of religion is to watch for the counterfeit, since it knows what God is doing and will always make a fake. So yes, there will be imposters, as there were in Jesus’ day, and as Paul and Peter warned us about. It is unfortunately their loss because the reality of this Kingdom is truly within our reach, and those who have discovered real worship in spirit and in truth are actually going to lay hold of it!

The Lord has led me into a new season of both rest and new activity. I have been given far fewer prophetic words to release but instead the Lord has opened up many doors of training and equipping which have been bearing much fruit.

One of these new activities is a training, equipping and prayer ministry, we call Prayer Mountain. We basically started by meeting once a month to spend three hours to soak, intercede, seek the Lord for prophetic insight, share these revelations, and lay hands on each other in small groups to impart and stir up gifts in each other and generally to spend more time getting to know the Lord better personally.

Now we meet twice a month and are praying to start mission trips, seminars and other activities to share what the Lord has been revealing to us, if the Lord wills.

What I want to share in right now is something the Lord revealed in one of these meetings, which has the potential to actually change your life.

All week I’d been hearing Him cry. First we were in prayer and He said, “Wake up my people!” in desperation, and indicated there was a great looming catastrophe and then He began to weep, “Wake up my children, my children, ....” Before this time I had several times taken sudden notice of my young daughter who is 10. And I realized there are believers in many places that have such wonderful children but they are being kidnapped and forced to covert to other ungodly religions. The horror of having my daughter taken, abused and forced to live as a heathen, the horror she’d endure and the real possibility of her losing her faith in the Lord through such a trial brought me to tears each time I thought about it. This was the understanding I was suddenly filled with when I heard Him cry about Him losing his children. God has THAT KIND OF EMOTION for EACH human, old or young … and I stared into the vast depth of his grief and could not look any more into it. I had to turn away. Then I heard Him just weeping over these ‘children’ who are about to fall away. The death of ONE child can be tragic beyond recovery … God is about to lose a great many who will walk away, blame or deny Him.

The Death of King Saul, the Book of Zephaniah
and the Word to the Church in Pergamum

I Give This Word In Holy Fear.

It is weighty and serious and something I don’t delight in. I feel the constraint of caution and at the same time the compulsion of obedience to deliver it.

I believe we are about to witness what is arguably the most important shift in power the church will ever go through in this age. The fall of the ruling “King Saul” system. There are three passages that the Lord has shown me that help to explain this shift:

• I Chronicles 10:13-14 — The Lord put Saul to death … and gave the Kingdom over to David.

• The Book of Zephaniah — The “remnant” will have their fortunes restored, will plunder the land and inherit it.

• Revelations 2:12-17 — Jesus rebukes those in Pergamum who hold to the teachings of Balaam and the Nicolaitanes, fighting against them with the ‘Sword of His Mouth, giving gifts to the overcomers.

I first got the word on Pergamum about six months ago, but it was only at the beginning of making this issue that the Lord told me it was now time to release it. However, it wasn’t until weeks later when I stated reading through the month’s prophecies from ETPV that I saw more than a dozen words discuss the same issue. This shift is certainly now coming upon us.

The Word to the Church in Pergamum:

Balaam, Nicolaitans, and Hidden Manna

When I first heard the Lord give this word, I had no idea what it meant, and I am only learning now as I am doing this research, which you ought to check up on yourself in case you feel it is incorrect.

First, this is the relevant part of Scripture from The Book of The Revelation of Jesus Christ, with my emphasis in bold:

^12. “And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: The One who has the sharp two-edged sword says this: ^13. ‘I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is; and you hold fast My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. ^14. ‘But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of immorality. ^15. ‘So¹ you also have some who in the same way hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. ^16. ‘Therefore repent; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.
^17. ‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.’

Let the Lord expose our sin so we can be restored from our captivity

Our calling on the earth is to be Priests of God Most High. This is not widely understood or taught in most modern churches, but it is a biblical truth that we must sooner or later embrace in order to find and fulfill our destiny in the Lord. A priest is someone who ministers or serves the Lord largely on behalf of other people who may not know the Lord as well (be in right relationship with Him). When you ask an older sister in the Lord to pray for you, seek the Lord for a prophetic word for you, or support you in some other spiritual sense, you are asking her in a way to minister to you as a priest. We don’t call it that, but that is the basic idea.

The error of the Nicolaitans in establishing a false hierarchy, artificially separating the “clergy” from the “laity” in the Body has created some of our discomfort with using the term ‘priest.’ In the New Covenant we have through the Lord Jesus, we are ALL called to be priests: men, women and children alike. We are not divided into a special class of ruling ministers and a common class of peasants: No, we are all brothers; joint heirs with none other than Christ Himself. So we are rightfully uncomfortable using the term ‘priest’ if there is some suggestion that only a select few individuals are privileged to minister in this way. This is a right and calling available to all believers.