Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 3:20 p.m. – The Lord gave me A VISION:
I saw a Native American Indian. Then I saw a man riding a horse swirling a lasso. Then I saw a man carrying a woman as though she were asleep or dead.
I had a very brief thought about the man of my previous vision who was in a movement that followed only the teachings of Jesus in the Bible but did not believe he had to follow any of the other teachings in the Bible and/or that the other teachings, he believed, were not relevant to today.
Next I saw a Native American Indian village like it would have looked like many years ago. And, I saw an Indian girl with dark hair just standing there alone.
Following that I saw what looked like a campfire. I saw an idol; a god that was being worshipped or conjured up in the smoke of the fire. And, I saw a man playing a flute. The smoke was rising from the fire and was dancing to the sound of the flute.
Then, I saw a cow biting something, then kicking its rear legs into the air and then it was like there was a scuffle of some type between animals. END
Then I heard this song: Speechless / Steven Curtis Chapman
Words fall like drops of rain
My lips are like clouds
I say so many things
Trying to figure You out
But as mercy opens my eyes
My words are stolen away
With this breathtaking view of Your grace
And I am speechless, I'm astonished and amazed
I am silenced by Your wondrous grace
You have saved me
You have raised me from the grave
And I am speechless in Your presence now
I'm astounded as I consider how
You have shown us
A love that leaves us speechless
So what kind of love could this be
That would trade heaven's throne for a cross
And to think You still celebrate
Over finding just one who was lost…
And, then immediately following that one, he gave me this one: Smile / Chris Rice
‘Cause I just want to be with You
I dream about Your promise to return
I just want this waiting to be over
And I wake up hangin’ on Your every word
I just want to be with You
For now my feet are planted here on earth
And it helps to know the Day is getting closer
And it helps to know the day is getting closer
But every minute takes an hour
Every inch feels like a mile
Till I won’t have to imagine
And I finally get to see You smile!
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Amos 6:
Woe to the Complacent
1 Woe to you who are complacent in Zion,
and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria,
you notable men of the foremost nation,
to whom the people of Israel come!
2 Go to Calneh and look at it;
go from there to great Hamath,
and then go down to Gath in Philistia.
Are they better off than your two kingdoms?
Is their land larger than yours?
3 You put off the evil day
and bring near a reign of terror.
4 You lie on beds inlaid with ivory
and lounge on your couches.
You dine on choice lambs
and fattened calves.
5 You strum away on your harps like David
and improvise on musical instruments.
6 You drink wine by the bowlful
and use the finest lotions,
but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
7 Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile;
your feasting and lounging will end.
The LORD Abhors the Pride of Israel
8 The Sovereign LORD has sworn by himself—the LORD God Almighty declares:
"I abhor the pride of Jacob
and detest his fortresses;
I will deliver up the city
and everything in it."
9 If ten men are left in one house, they too will die. 10 And if a relative who is to burn the bodies comes to carry them out of the house and asks anyone still hiding there, "Is anyone with you?" and he says, "No," then he will say, "Hush! We must not mention the name of the LORD."
11 For the LORD has given the command,
and he will smash the great house into pieces
and the small house into bits.
12 Do horses run on the rocky crags?
Does one plow there with oxen?
But you have turned justice into poison
and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness-
13 you who rejoice in the conquest of Lo Debar
and say, "Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?"
14 For the LORD God Almighty declares,
"I will stir up a nation against you, O house of Israel,
that will oppress you all the way
from Lebo Hamath to the valley of the Arabah."
My Understanding: This is a message for the USA and/or specifically for the Native Americans (“you notable men of the foremost nation”). Since it is a nation of people to whom the people of Israel come, then I would say it is the USA as a whole. The Lord is saying we are a nation of complacent people who feel secure (falsely).
I believe this is also a message against The New Age Movement that embraces the teachings of Christ, the teachings of Buddha, the Native American teachings, the ancient Celtic Pagan teachings, and modern science's latest findings and teachings. http://www.streetdirectory.com/trav...ment_and_motivation/the_new_age_movement.html
The Lord is saying about the USA that we are bringing near a reign of terror by our complacency. We dine on fattened calves, which was illustrated by the cow eating something and then the cow kicking up its legs as if to resist something or someone. I believe what I was seeing was a cow being slaughtered. God just made it G-rated. Cows have also shown up recently in my dreams and visions to illustrate some type of animal sacrifice in false religious practices. And, the improvising on musical instruments is related to this flute playing. To improvise usually means to make something up, so the Lord is showing here a religion that is man-made.
Then, he hits us between the eyes when he says, “but you do not grieve over the ruin of Judah.” This is POWERFUL! The Lord is saying here that we are a country that is following after man-made religions that are a mixture of various cultic religions that are self-gratifying, but we are not weeping over the sinful condition of our nation. Not many people these days weep over sin. Even “Christians” join in with the ungodly in our churches in laughing with the world over sin.
So, God says our feasting and our lounging are going to come to an end. He is going to send a nation against us (the man on the horse with the lasso) to round us up and to carry us into exile and/or to kill us. God is going to deliver up America and everything in it to foreigners. The woman being carried was dead (see v.10) and was being carried away from the house to be burned with other dead bodies. This could be the result of disease.
God has already given the command to smash the “great house”, i.e. the United States of America and/or Washington DC. It is because we have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness. We make great conquests and feel we have done them in our own strength. So, the Lord is going to stir up a nation against us who will “oppress us all the way.”
Nonetheless, God is still a God of grace and mercy and he longs for us to return to Him. He rejoices over even one lamb that was lost but now is found. And, one day soon he is going to come again for those who are truly his. I know the day is getting closer. One day I will get to be with my Lord forever. If you have not made that decision to give your life to Christ, now is the time! Don’t wait until it is too late.
