Warning!

Shall I be cast away? Who has trodden underfoot so great a gift? Deliverance is of the Lord, salvation is of his making. Are not the free free indeed? The time is come, let all things be brought into the light. I have called yet you did not answer me. I said come unto me, I will give you joy for mourning, beauty for ashes. I said I would cause the darkness to flee and your hope to break forth as the sun. Yet you loved your bondage, you loved your life. Who shall neglect so great a gift? The gift of my Holy Spirit? That I may impart myself, for I am a Spirit, that men might walk with me holy and without fear. Judgment begins in my house and I will be a swift witness against your prophets and your dreamers. Let the dead bury the dead but to him who has an ear let him come and be made whole. Every mountain shall I make level ground and every valley shall I exalt in its place. Shall a man be mightier than his maker? So they have thought within themselves, boasters, men of evil works. They hold not me in their conscience. I will call no longer. Him that is righteous let him be righteous still, he that is good let him be good, him that is a liar let him be a liar. The Spirit and the Bride surly say come, and all them who have an ear say come. I will throughly purge my threshing floor. Who shall escape my day? Foolish man, you say within I will survive, by my standard will I stand. Yet in my day you shall flee and as a man who ran from a bear and met a snake, so my judgment shall surly overtake you.

Then I hear the Lord say: What do you see my son?

I said: I see the statue of liberty standing in the gulf (of Mexico)

The Lord: You have well seen. Now is that time. She shall drink of my cup, even the bitter dregs. What do you see?

I said: I see tanks and men ( allot of 'em)

The Lord: Surly the enemy prepares their onslaught. (Though much will be happening spiritually this is physical and the understanding is just that)

For those who have not read A.A. Allen's vision of America from the 1950's. I will post the part the Lord stirred me about what he just showed me.

The ticking of the telescope stopped. The man before me had used up his dime's worth. As he stepped away, I knew that I was next. As I stepped to the telescope and dropped in my dime, immediately the ticking started again. This ticking was an automatic clock which would allow me to use the telescope for a limited time only. As I swung the telescope to the north, suddenly the Spirit of God came upon me in a way that I had never thought of before. Seemingly, in the Spirit I was entirely caught away. I knew that the telescope itself had nothing to do with the distance which I was suddenly enabled to see, for I seemed to see things far beyond the range of the telescope, even on a bright, clear day. It was simply that God had chosen this time to reveal these things to me, for as I looked through the telescope, it was not Manhattan Island that I saw, but a far larger view.

That morning much of the view was impaired by fog; but suddenly as the Spirit of the Lord came upon me, the fog seemed to clear until it seemed that I could see for thousands of miles, but that which I was looking upon was not Manhattan Island. It was all of the North American continent spread out before me as a map is spread upon a table. It was not the East River and the Hudson River that I saw on either side, but the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans; and instead of the Statue of Liberty standing there in the bay on her small island, I saw her standing far out in the Gulf of Mexico. She was between me and the United States.

I suddenly realized that the telescope had nothing to do with what I was seeing but that it was a vision coming directly from God; and to prove this to myself, I took my eyes away from the telescope so that I was no longer looking through the lens, but the same scene remained before me.

There, clear and distinct, lay all the North American continent with all its great cities. To the north lay the Great Lakes. Far to the northeast was New York City. I could see Seattle and Portland far to the northwest. Down the west coast there were San Francisco and Los Angeles. Closer in the foreground lay New Orleans at the center of the Gulf Coast area. I could see the great towering ranges of the Rocky Mountains and trace with my eye the Continental Divide. All this and more I could see spread out before me as a great map upon a table.

As I looked, suddenly from the sky I saw a giant hand reach down. That gigantic hand was reaching out toward the Statue of Liberty. In a moment her gleaming torch was torn from her hand, and in it instead was placed a cup; and I saw protruding from that great cup a giant sword, shining as if a great light had been turned upon its glistening edge. Never before had I seen such a sharp, glistening, dangerous sword. It seemed to threaten all the world. As the great cup was placed in the hand of the Statue of Liberty, I heard these words, "Thus saith the Lord of hosts, drink ye and be drunken and spue and fall and rise no more because of the sword which I will send." As I heard these words, I recognized them as a quotation from Jeremiah 25:27.

I was amazed to hear the Statue of Liberty speak out in reply, "I WILL NOT DRINK!"

Then as the voice of the thunder, I heard again the voice of the Lord saying, "Ye shall certainly drink." (Jeremiah 25:28) Then suddenly the giant hand forced the cup to the lips of the Statue of Liberty, and she became powerless to defend herself. The mighty hand of God forced her to drink every drop from the cup. As she drank the bitter dregs, these were the words that I heard: "Should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished, for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts." (Jeremiah 27:29)

Though there is much more to that vision but what the Lord impressed upon me was that much was happening. Judgment is coming. First in His house: upon the pastors we led the flock astray and then the prophets who prophesied lies. He will cast out every unprofitable servant, every one who rejected the call to be separate, all who were luke warm, double minded, faithless and unbelieving. Yet let us not deceive our selves that we could never fall under such a category. We were saved by grace (speaking to them that believe) through faith in Jesus Christ. Now is that time to be full of the oil, full of the Holy Spirit. Free of every chain of bondage, every beam cast from our eyes that we be not deceived in the time to come. This is how we will be known: that we loved one another even as Christ loved us. We must let this love dwell in us for God is love, perfect love that casts out all fear. May we be found worthy to stand in His day. This nation will fall, the time of tribulation upon the earth shortly to come, who will stand? Those who sought Him early, those who's garments were unspotted from the world walking in their own righteousness. Those who are baptized in the Spirit who know the voice of God. There is a rest unto the people of God. There is still time to enter in, however short that time may be, God is able to see you through.

Jeremiah 16

3For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

4They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

5For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.

6Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

7Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

8Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

9For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

Revelation 18

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

5For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

6Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

7How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

8Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

9And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

10Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

James 4

1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

With Love In Christ,
Austin