In The Watchman Repented (http://www.etpv.org/2009/twrep.html) Awinita Chenoa of Canada relates many visions and dreams she has had over time and then shares this recent one:

... This now brings me up to the 7th day of June, this year of 2009 [I have shared dreams, visions, words which I was led to share in this article]

On the 7th day of June, this year, I was looking out the window, taking a break. It was my 7th day of a fast. In my spirit man, I heard the Great Spirit Chief, the Almighty Lord God, Yhwh Elohim say, ‘I AM the Lord God of Israel. I am here. See the stone rolled away? I am risen. You overcome by My BLOOD and the WORD of your testimony. I AM the Word, come in the flesh and I live in you. Obedience now is crucial.’

As I listened to His voice within, I looked up into the sky, at the clouds and I began to see things. Following the prompting of the most Holy Spirit, I grabbed paper and a pen.

‘Death is coming to America.’ I saw in the clouds women and men wailing, full of confusion and fear. I saw many being wrongly imprisoned. I saw a woman huddling with a child and I saw great death, and a famine.

‘Men who wear black will soon be a common sight. They are as wolves; men who are possessed or controlled by demons.’ There were multitudes homeless and being ‘rounded up’; grouped together.

I saw the death rider with a scythe in his hand. ‘He shall sweep over this land.’

I saw great waters coming. I saw smoke of massive volumes. I saw angry, disgruntled leaders filled with hatred. Soon there shall be the manifestation of the leader who appears as one of ‘light’ [appears as Christ], yet he is opposed to Christ. He is arising. He is here. He is not white-skinned. He will give fair speeches and seem as a ‘god’ to many.

I saw great masses of people fighting amongst themselves, betraying each other. I saw chaos and mayhem. It seemed as though there were two separate wars; one amongst people within the same nation; and another where ‘nations’ were coming against ‘a nation’. I sensed it was the USA under attack; but it broadened, spread into Canada and southerly into Mexico. It consumed North America.

There were places of safety, shelter. There were angels commanded by God to lead and protect His people…some appeared as mere men.

Then within me, I heard, 'Give up all forms of lust [lust of eyes, lust of flesh, pride of life] and frivolous spending. Do your part and I will do mine. Look to Christ. My angels are all around you. Obey Me as I direct your steps. My angels go forth at My command. It is time to arise in willing obedience and DO. Lo, I am with you. Trust and hold fast to your faith, for without faith, it is impossible to please Me, for he that comes to Me must believe that I AM, and that I am a rewarder of those who diligently seek Me. [Hebrews 11:6]

This is the message. This is the report. The trumpet has sounded; the war drums do beat. Prepare and wait upon the Lord, for He shall direct our steps. Hear the warnings and ask the omniscient King what He would have you do. Then, simply DO. Our victory is in Him and He shall be glorified.

—In service to the King †

Revelations 5:13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

Jeremiah 4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

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In Leaving On A Journey (http://www.etpv.org/2009/bcade.html) from June 11, 2009 Ron McGatlin writes about the journey many of us are on:

... This is a journey from religion and religious systems to spiritual kingdom relationship – a journey from doing to being – from formality to reality – from part-time Christianity to full time oneness with God – from giving ten percent to being one hundred percent consumed in God – from living by the Spirit part time to walking in the Spirit every moment – from a life of saying we believe to experiencing the reality of God. This is a journey into a fresh new lifestyle that is empowered by an intimate love relationship with God and works out of us to impact and change the world around us.

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Leadership for the Journey

A new and different leadership is being formed for the transition. The new Leaders have traveled the trail and know the terrain. They are prepared, gifted, and sent to help lead the holy kingdom highway building.

The new leaders walk among the group and not above it. All are on the journey together. The new leaders have been further along the trail and experienced more brokenness, cleansing them from all the mixtures of the past.

Gifted apostles and prophets are sent by God for transitional leadership. These humble leaders have been emptied of self and the resurrection life of Jesus imparted into them by the Spirit that raised Christ from the dead. Christ Jesus has unhindered free reign to flow into and through them. The supernatural works flowing through them are only surpassed by the presence of the wisdom of God that formed all creation and the love of God that overcomes evil in its presence.

Isaiah 35:8-10: A highway shall be there, and a road, and it shall be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for others. Whoever walks the road, though a fool, shall not go astray. No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up on it; it shall not be found there. But the redeemed shall walk there, and the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

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In Proud American To Humble Son (http://www.etpv.org/2009/paths.html) from July 09, 2009 and also by Ron McGatlin, he writes about the love he has for America (national pride), but about the transition he’s made into having a greater love and loyalty to the Kingdom of God, becoming a humble son …

... The Arising of the Humble Sons of God (Sons is not gender specific.)

Across the world the purified people of God shall arise from the ashes of the past era as vessels filled with Christ bringing forth the new era of the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.

On an individual basis the scattered forerunners have been and are now experiencing the reality of this transformation as seeds of that which shall be experienced on a worldwide scale. Loyalties of the remnant are shifting from national or tribal to Christ Jesus and His kingdom. We are truly becoming no longer of this world but are experiencing our citizenship in Heaven. We are already beginning to bring the ways of our homeland in heaven to this world, thus truly becoming salt and light in the world.

There are people of God scattered across America who no longer are proud Americans but humble, pure-hearted, holy sons of God—citizens of the kingdom of heaven—just as there are those across the world in many countries who are no longer citizens of this world but are truly becoming kingdom ambassadors. Yes, they remain good citizens of their earthly tribe or nation and render unto the earthly governments all that is due them, and they render unto God all that is due to Him (Mark 12:17).

This is not a sad word, at least not in its end. I suppose every great nation of history was saddened as the end came for their reign of power. And for me the saddest of all would surely be the demise of the great nation of America. However, because the whole world is involved in this fall preceding the arising of the sons of God and the reality of the new era of the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven, this is part of the most glorious transformation in modern history.

God is bringing many sons to glory.

Hebrews 2:10: For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

This stuff is really happening. This is not religious teaching of some day by and by nebulous future. Nor is it just teachings of past history of times gone by and apostles of the past. God is doing this stuff today in our time. The era of the kingdom of God is come upon us. The saints must be awakened from dreamy sleep and become alive in the reality of God moving in our world today.

The path of becoming pure, holy sons worthy to carry His glory leads through seasons of suffering. The residue of our old nature and fallen world ways is broken off through a painful process called suffering patiently. Humility and pure love await beyond our suffering as children of God.

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In Times And Seasons In Which We Live (http://www.etpv.org/2009/tasiww.html) from June 20, 2009 by John Griffin, he writes about the time of shaking amidst predictions of end time troubles:

This season in which we are living will bring about a shaking in the Body of Christ. It is not too hard to see what is going on in many circles – blatant sin in the leadership of the church that goes unchallenged, men and women controlling and manipulating others to bring about their “vision”, out and out dishonesty in the method that money is raised, and the list could go on. There will be some shaking in leadership circles…to whom much has been given, much will be required.

And there is the general Body of Christ who have allowed charlatans to use them to perpetuate their schemes without consulting the Holy Spirit about their viability. This judgment and chastening will hit also those who have refused to grow to maturity in the Lord and to continue as babies, blindly following their leaders. When you are children, you need to have a parent tell you what to do, but when you are grown, you had better find out how to find out where to go yourself!

This shaking will lead believers to seek the face of God and to enter into a new intimacy with Him. Remember that any type of trial can send you to your knees in search for a solution to that trial, but in that time of seeking an answer from God…you find God.

Perspective of the Times and Seasons In Which We Live

... How should we view what is about to happen? Should we be fearful? Should we go about storing up food in the hills of Arkansas to wait out the coming disaster? Or is there something going on which we cannot readily see which has a greater purpose?

If we were to use Israel in Egypt after the time of Joseph, but before their deliverance from Egypt as a pattern, we would see the following applications:

The first three plagues affected both Egypt and Israel. Judgment will fall on the just and the unjust alike. Judgment must begin at the house of God. But this judgment for the believer will produce a different result from the judgment on the unbeliever. In Deuteronomy 8, we find that the Lord speaks to Israel after their deliverance from Egypt and after their wandering in the Wilderness with these words:

Deuteronomy 8:2-3²Remember how the Lord your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey his commands. ³Yes, he humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna, a food previously unknown to you and your ancestors. He did it to teach you that people do not live by bread alone; rather, we live by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. NLT

The judgments which come upon the believers (or those who will become believers) should produce humility and a sense of dependency upon the revealed word of the Lord. The plagues were used in the life of Israel as a chastening tool. It reminded them of the faith of Abraham and to whom they were called. There were in a place where they had forgotten Him or were just giving lip service to the faith of their fathers. The judgments reminded them of the awesome power of God.

However, those very same judgments will produce a hardness of heart to those who will not humble themselves before the Lord. How can we understand “Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated?” Yet, here is clearly a line of demarcation that is created by the judgments which fall in the earth. To the one who would bow his knee, there is redemption. To the one who will not bow his knee, there is a hardening of the heart.

After the first three plagues, none of the plagues affected Israel any longer and only affected Egypt. Could it be that the judgments which are now operative in the earth are now affecting the Body of Christ, the remnant of believers within the Body of Christ, and world as well? I believe so. Right now, all of these things will affect the whole world.

In summary, the judgments which are coming are likened to the plagues which came upon Egypt before the deliverance of Israel from Egypt, they served as a chastening agent, a separation agent, and a judgment agent all in one.

• Chastening agent – reminded them of their unique relationship with God;

• Separation agent – put even more enmity between Egypt and Israel, as their pressure grows, the more angry they will get;

• Judgment agent – judgment is not always in a bad sense in that it brings about a separation of God’s people from those of the world ….

John continues to write in his article about the ways people ought to prepare: by seeking God and finding His Kingdom.

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In Revelation Of The Kingdom Of God (http://www.etpv.org/2009/rotkog.html) Barbara Yoder writes about a vision she had while preaching in Indonesia: …

... What was the vision? As I preached, I saw a mountain that was beginning to arise out of the waters of the sea. Just the tip of the mountain was out of the water. I knew that the rest of the mountain was there, still submerged, but it was no longer hidden from my awareness. It was in the process of being unveiled.

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We are in the day when the church is arising and releasing the kingdom of God. As we carry out our first and primary mandate, to evangelize and disciple new believers, the kingdom will grow both numerically and authoritatively. These disciples, people like you and me, will be transformed. Movements will arise and spread throughout the earth in a wave of transformation that will revolutionize society.

How will this happen? Not through great ideas coming from men’s minds. This rolling-out of the kingdom of God and this rolling-over of every other power will happen as you and I listen to what God is saying to us and then do what He tells us to do and say what He tells us to say. ?

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In Apostolic Tree (http://www.etpv.org/2009/apotree.html) from July 12, 2009 by Ueli and Charlotte Surbeck, he writes of the Lord’s message he received after soaking several days in His presence:

... The Father Speaks

“This is an hour for great destruction on the earth. Fear not, He has sent many warnings through His Prophets and no one listened, no one listened, no one makes preparation, no one repented and no one gets out of my way. Then I heard Him say “they better get out of my way.”

“Some of the destruction will come out through your hands in the form of Rebukes the Lord told me. You are right about Ananias and Saphira; they were forerunners for the evil hearts, of today’s evil men."

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God’s Warning

God has no knights in His Kingdom and if they continue, He will remove their tongues from their bodies and there Voices from the Earth.

His Mercy is new every morning, great is His faithfulness.

He is at the end of His mercy for those who are telling lies. They are lying against the Lord! They are lying against the Lord! They are lying against the Lord! He will not contend with them any longer, finish!

Those who walk with God and fear His name will not be consumed with His wrath, but shall be filled with His joy and happiness and laughter powerfully.

God said “I have not to justify My wrath, nor My anger, nor My Judgments!

There is a falling away, there is a falling away, there is a falling away, there is a falling away, there is a falling away, there is a falling away, and there is a falling away!

What a mighty God we serve, Angels bow before Him, Heaven and Earth adores Him, great is thy faithfulness O God!

“I Am cutting down the Apostolic Tree”

Word given by the Lord on the 4th day of visitation. April 2009 to Ueli & Charle’ Surbeck.

We were having a wonderful time of Worship and the power of God fell on me and I started to sing like I have never sang before, and I remember the freedom was incredible and the power of God started to fall on me and I started having a unique visitation of the Lord and He spoke very loud to me and said:

“I AM CUTTING DOWN THE APOSTOLIC TREE; it has become rotten to me.”

He said “They are lying about Me, they are saying I said this and I said that” then I saw the Lord standing alone and all of a sudden in a very rapid motion, right next to Him a very large tree fell down and its giant roots had come out of the ground in a very powerful way, and with the wave of his arm I saw Him cutting the tree into large slices, starting at the roots and some pieces were thrown to the right side and others were thrown into a giant bonfire, that was tended by the angels.

“They are all Merchandising they have became Moneychangers in the House of God.”

He said, “There are ones (certain Apostles) I am sparing but I will establish them in My own way and in My own time, but they will have to change, they cannot stay where they are and walk with Me.”

“I am NOW setting in place the Apostles I have raised for this hour. The ones I have sanctified and I will replace the rotten ones with the pure golden vessels that I have raised up for this hour. This is a new Apostolic Tree, and it comes to bear much fruit for My Kingdom.”

I was still in the Spirit and suddenly I was prompted by the Holy Sprit to cry out to the Lord for the Mantle one of the well known Ministers that had recently thrown it away, I said Lord I want that Mantle, that was thrown away… and as a husband who witnessed what happened at that moment I can tell, that my wife when she prayed that prayer, immediately received something very powerfully from the Lord! It is the kind of prayer my wife and I together often pray and many times I witnessed how the Lord answers that prayer right away and very powerfully!

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The cutting of the Apostolic Tree

The second thing we need to understand is the fact, that God wants to bring in a Harvest, but there is so much lukewarmness and twisting in the Body of Christ, that the Lord’s greatest problem is, how to bring the Harvest in, clean it up and keep it safe! This must be the reason, that He starts the cleaning among His Apostles who are supposed to be His most humble and most powerful servants, and if there is a twisting among them, then it is in the whole Body and if He can fix it among the Apostles, then the clean up will also affect the whole Body! God hates those who overlord in His Kingdom, and this year he will deal with all those who have turned to become modern Knights and Overlords, which means they operate out of a spirit of pride, arrogance and ultimately an antichrist spirit. Maybe its one major reason He is cutting down the Apostolic Tree beside the aspect of merchandising.

When I was pondering during the past few days concerning the Word how He is cutting the Apostolic tree, the Holy Spirit remembered me a precious memory. We went to visit a man in the Hospital; it was the husband of somebody my wife knew. He was supposed to be operated the next day and part of his leg taken off. We prayed and the passage the Lord gave us was Ezekiel 36, where it says how the Lord takes the heart of stone out of His people and gives them a new heart of flesh and so we prayed that for him and of course we prayed also for a miracle of healing. Well it did happen to a degree, the doctors the next day said, how good his heart was, better as usual. They still had to amputate part of his leg, but the second leg, which was in danger was saved, Praise the Lord. As we visited him later he gave testimony, how the operation and what he went through brought Him back from a lukewarm state back to the Lord, full of Praise and thankfulness because of His goodness and Mercy.

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” John 15, 1 and 2

I feel that’s the reason, the Lord is taking His knife and doing a deep operation in the Apostolic tree, to bring back on track, what is of Him! It is true, there is much Apostolic pride, over lordship and merchandising that became normal in the Apostolic tree, including the Body of Christ, twisting Gods Power and Glory and God hates it! This is an hour, where we need to humble us a fresh before the Lord and ask Him to clean us and change us and do all the changes in our service unto Him, regardless if it is preaching on the highest level or cleaning the Restrooms at the Church!

The Merchandising

When we received the Word, the Lord gave us a warning to speak out to three leaders in America as the only warning they will get, and we will do this privately first, and the issue is merchandising.

Do we remember that the First World War was over an offering and 25 % of the World population on the earth of that time was killed; Abel!

Sacrifice and Offerings is a very important issue in the Kingdom of God!

God hates merchandising and Jesus expressed this point very clear, as he drove the moneychangers out of the Temple. But today it has become so common place that you see it everywhere in the Body of Christ. There is a demand for it at all the big conferences. How many conferences today and how many Churches have modern day tax collectors seated at the place of entry, its just disgusting. Some of the big Churches today have their stores right in the Sanctuary!

Most Mega Churches depend on the revenue from their merchandising.

But the Lord says today: Isaiah 55:1 “Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.”

So what right does any Minister in the Body of Christ has to sell or profit and to fill budgets through merchandising the word of God? So what is it in fact? It is a form of greed, the love of money expressed in the form of a supposed need to preach the Gospel.

The Lord clearly stated in His Word that the love of money and greed this will be one of the main issues in the end times and expression of the operation of the spirit of antichrist and God hates it exactly like He hated Cain’s offering! There is nothing more twisted to true Offerings as merchandising the Revelations God has given to His Body. The real Church is not a business, but a Ministry!

God wants the very simple principle of freely preaching His word freely and the walk of His servants and His Body in unpolluted faith to be restored, as well as true offerings, as expressions of our love to Him!

Money is a very important issue in the Body of Christ and reflects our character, the question is, and do we truly carry the Fruit of the Spirit in our dealing with finances to use them wisely and without greed, fear and selfishness. A second big question is do we sow into His Kingdom by the leading of the Holy Spirit, or do we use the power of wealth given to us to play religious politics?! Many millions are given today to places where nothing should be given, or with other words is like seed thrown into gravel pits instead of sown into good ground, ready for great Harvest and this has to change!

God requires today that true offerings being taken in His Kingdom as an expression of our worship to our Lord exactly like Abel offered a true sacrifice to the Lord, and he gave his best and the Lord requires the same from us today! And you know what, Abel didn’t became a millionaire, he was killed, but has a great reward in Heaven of what he offered to the Lord and is remembered for ever by every Generation through the past and the once to come!

The Offerings God requires today are great and they are first of all, so He can bless His Body who is giving in obedience to the leading of the Holy Spirit! If there was ever a time God requires from us to give it all is today, so He can pour abundant blessings on us beyond measure, like Paul said; Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account. Philippians 4:17

And how and when He will give the reward to us is totally up to Him! ...