The Word of the Lord for 2009/5769 (the Jewish Year)

Surely the Lord GOD does nothing Unless He reveals His secret counsel To His servants the prophets. Amos 3:7

As I have for the last several years, I have spent time waiting on God to see what he has to say about the year to come. There are 4 other earlier prophetic year end, start of new year prophecies on this particular blog. Since I want to be clear what is Direct from the Mouth of God IN RED, What is My Impression BLUE, What is shown me as a seer GREEN and What I believe is explanation by Gene at the beginning, I have been careful to differentiate them not only with titles but in coloration. Since God's word is eternal, I have been careful from time to time to include God's word where he speaks directly from the Canon of Scripture. The purpose of Prophecy is to encourage, correct, reprove and warn. All of those are here:

The Word of the LORD for
2009/5769 (the Jewish Year)

Overall Impressions from Prophet Gene:

2009 is the year of righteous Judgment – 9 is the number of judgment – Judgment is nothing to fear if it's from the Righteous Judge of the Universe
To judge is to Adjudicate Justice. That equals AD-JUST. This is an adjustment. To judge means that distractions and clouds are taken out of the way so the way is seen clearly. To judge is to restore a right balance where an unjust balance was before. The Judgment is against things and people no longer in proper alignment with the purposes of God. Re-Alignment. Adjustment. Judgment against poverty is prosperity, judgment against sickness is health, judgment against corruption is exposure. True Justice requires judgment first.
Judgment will bring down unrighteous Judges. Exposure of sin is Justice and Judgment. It causes an Adjustment.
False Justice is:

• Money given to assuage a sense of pity or guilt
• Bailouts without accountability
• Giving to the poor without discipleship

True Justice is opportunity and choice. Restoration then an admonition to go and sin no more. Nothing else matters. It's an affair of the heart. If justice reigns, one must go free and choose:

• Opportunity to fail or succeed
• Serve God or man
• Walk Upright or Wicked
• Fear God or fear man
• Sin or live Holy

Study the contrasts between the wicked and the Upright and true justice will always choose the upright. The book of Proverbs is a textbook for this contrast. Justice will reign.


At the end of 2008 much has been experienced and suffered but 90% of people who want to work are working, 90% of people are paying their rent and mortgage payments on time. A sense of tenuous optimism exists.
Some economic segments are doing badly, those depending on raw materialism are suffering most. That's the Judgment of God against Materialism. Temples to the false God of materialism are being judged (shopping malls).
Blessings are on those who restore, repair, remodel, rebuild, reuse and re-establish. It's time to take what has been wasted and discarded and make whole once again. That includes people.

Impressions from the Throne:

Fear is the main source of the pain in judgment. Uncertainty. What is going to happen?
Fear is of the devil. God has NOT given you a spirit of Fear. The wicked tremble when no one is pursuing them.Look, they say, there's a bear or a lion in the street. There isn't, but fear makes it real. They do not sow because of the wind, they do not harvest because of clouds that threaten rain.Fear has disabled them. They are stuck. Fear paralyzed.

Judgment is a cleansing. This cleansing is like a garment stained with filth. It is judged unfit to wear. It must undergo cleansing to make it right. Justice prevails to restore.

• There are additives. Soaps. Hyssop. Mixed with Pure Water.
• Requires a Disturbing action that shakes everything
• Exposure to the light
• Hanging out to Dry

and then, to remove the spots and wrinkles that allow re-use a hot iron is used to re-shape and justify the garment once again.
That is what is going on in the Spirit in this Re-alignment.

FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD

I am putting a firebreak around you. I am burning away everything that got too close to you and that in the fire might harm or even destroy you. As the fire passes by it will not harm you. What you saw as destruction was protection.
When the fire of judgment is complete you will drink from cisterns you did not dig and harvest from vines you did not plant. In that way the wealth of the wicked is being placed in clean hands.
The machine is going to stop, be readjusted and start again but under new management. One that fears My Name.
You might find yourself longing for the leeks and onions of Egypt but they are gone. You can never go back. Egypt is no more. Do not mourn for her. Weep for Zion – Your true home.
I am by judgment making the crooked places straight, the high places low, the low places high and removing anything in the way of My purposes in you.

Isaiah 45
1 THUS SAYS the Lord to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him, and I will unarm and ungird the loins of kings to open doors before him, so that gates will not be shut.
2 I will go before you and level the mountains [to make the crooked places straight]; I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut asunder the bars of iron.
3 And I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel, Who calls you by your name.

I will bring an intense light that exposes foolishness, corruption and the false balances that have been set up by the enemy.

This will require new wineskins capable of holding this new fresh wine. Old things are passing away as they are judged unworthy.
This Judgment starts with my Church that has become drunk on the old wine.

Isaiah 28
5 In that day the LORD Almighty
will be a glorious crown,
a beautiful wreath
for the remnant of his people.
6 He will be a spirit of justice
to him who sits in judgment,
a source of strength
to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
7 And these also stagger from wine
and reel from beer:
Priests and prophets stagger from beer
and are befuddled with wine;
they reel from beer,
they stagger when seeing visions,
they stumble when rendering decisions.
8 All the tables are covered with vomit
and there is not a spot without filth.
9 "Who is it he is trying to teach?
To whom is he explaining his message?
To children weaned from their milk,
to those just taken from the breast?
10 For it is:
Do and do, do and do,
rule on rule, rule on rule;
a little here, a little there."
11 Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues
God will speak to this people,

My People that survive and prosper in this judgment must be me the standard raised against the flood of discouragement and the spirit of the world.
My Judgment isn't yet finished. Much will happen still. Only by keeping your eyes firmly fixed on MY cloud by day and MY pillar of fire by night can you stay close enough to MY Glory which is the only real security you can have in the world where tribulation threatens.
Anything else you see or hear is distraction. And distractions will create lost sheep. Stay clear, guard your heart, don't look left or right.

Proverbs 4
23 Above all else, guard your heart,
for it is the wellspring of life.
24 Put away perversity from your mouth;
keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
25 Let your eyes look straight ahead,
fix your gaze directly before you.
26 Make level paths for your feet
and take only ways that are firm.
27 Do not swerve to the right or the left;
keep your foot from evil.

The world is groaning in travail.... new births of new justice causes pain and groaning.

Geophysical upheavals will increase. They are Adjustments. They will be disturbing, destructive and sometimes even deadly.
The truth of Ecclesiastes will come to life in this day. There will be a time to live and a time to die. Every purpose under heaven will be revealed. Everything else will be shown to be vanity. Vanity.
Anything other than seeking ME will be vanity.

Ecclesiastes 12:
11 The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd.
12 But beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many books is endless, and excessive devotion to books is wearying to the body.
13 The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person.
14 For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.

Unjust Social Changes will be exposed once more for what they really are. Abominations. Hidden Sin now made Public.

INQUIRY OF THE LORD for the FUTURE

What of the new president?...I asked...
As a Seer I asked to see...This is what I saw...
I didn't see him in the future.
I see the team he has assembled. I see people he placed in authority. I don't see him.
It may be that I don't see him because he will change. What I think I am seeing is not the man I see today. He will somehow move. Hidden perhaps. I hope it is a spiritual seeing and not seeing.
Maybe I don't see him because he is not there......
It disturbs me.

Economic
Fear = Opportunity
Gasoline and Oil and Energy will be ample but more expensive. This low price is temporary.
I see prices in the US $2.50 range and Crude in the $80 range.
By the first day of Spring, new spring will spring. It will not be over but things will look very different. Hope SPRINGS eternal in the hearts of MEN. Spring Brings Hope.

IMPRESSIONS OF WHAT GOD WOULD SAY TO HIS PEOPLE RIGHT NOW

Stay in connection with others - a 3 stranded cord is not easily broken. It's time to encourage one another.
Make the main thing, the main thing. Stay away from fruitless diversions and arguments.
All the things that have happened and are happening are for a purpose under heaven. Just as Islamic attacks are exposing Islam and causing self destruction, wars and collapse are exposing and causing destruction of things that were out of balance.Hatred of Israel will increase. Perhaps beyond your understanding. This worldly hatred will wash over into hatred of her sister, the Church. Churches that stand with Israel will be hated. Be careful not to fall into the popular trap of hating Israel. She is still the Apple of His EYE.

Deuteronomy 28
7 Remember the days of old;
consider the generations long past.
Ask your father and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will explain to you.
8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
when he divided all mankind,
he set up boundaries for the peoples
according to the number of the sons of Israel. [c]
9 For the LORD's portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted inheritance.
10 In a desert land he found him,
in a barren and howling waste.
He shielded him and cared for him;
he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
11 like an eagle that stirs up its nest
and hovers over its young,
that spreads its wings to catch them
and carries them on its pinions.

I see mosques that were built to expand the Islamic empire converted into houses of worship of Jesus. This is the ultimate wealth of the wicked converted into the hands of the righteous.
I see the decline of "mainline" denominations accelerating. There are now more Muslims in America (4 million) than there are Episcopalians (2.2 Million).
The challenge of Islam will only be met by Lifting Up Jesus. The challenge of the culture in this post Christian era will only be meet by lifting up Jesus just as it was in the beginning. When he is lifted up, he draws all men to himself.

THE WORD OF THE LORD:

God says He will supply everything we need:

• In alignment with (according to)
• His total Sovereignty and ownership of everything in heaven and in the whole of all creation (his Riches)
• as we draw near and stay in his anointing and flow (in Glory)

GOD IS ANGRY WITH THE WHORE CHURCH

God is about to judge the WHORE CHURCH
There is a severe judgment against the Church that bears MY name. There is a whore church will be judged as she is revealed to those who are not blinded, those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.
She is NOT who you think she is. She is a whore who has prostituted herself with the world.
She looks good. She's pretty.
She can be satisfying. Even appealing.
Very Friendly. Outgoing. Fits right in with anyone. Comfortable.
Alluring to the world who will embrace her for a season.
She will walk the streets and have intimacy with the world around her.
When she is exposed the world will be offended by her, will reject and abandon her like the trodden under whore she is. The whore Church will be surprised and wounded by this rejection. "After all didn't we dance to your tune when you piped"?
She is like that kind hearted whore of legend who takes in and cares for lost souls, does good but sells her soul to do so.
Destruction is her name and her ultimate fate. She will lead many to HELL.
All other pursuits are vanity and chasing after lesser lovers will prove to be most vain like the whore that she has become.
This isn't about style, this isn't about fashion, this isn't about tradition, this isn't about liturgy, this is about the centrality and exclusivity of the saving power of the Blood of Jesus and the rejection of all else.
Jesus, the Incarnate God man, the Christ, The only exclusive way to the father, the Creator of all things, he who was tempted and yet without sin, He, that One, Seated on the Throne as King of Kings is all that Matters. He's all there is. Jesus being lifted up draws all men to him. Church, religion, style, fashion, repels.
Jesus is the stone of offense and will become even more. The Whore Church will try to hide or camouflage the chief cornerstone but will fail to do so.
The world and it's whore church will try to silence the mention of his name. His name is power and it threatens everyone and everything that has tried to supplant him from the hearts of men.
His Spirit that dwells in and overflows from his church is all that can wash away the whoredom of the whore church.
God is saying to the whore church. Repent for your end is at hand.
I don't see her repenting. And in the Book of Revelation, she doesn't.

I SEE....as a SEER

Faith in Government will fail. Not in 2009, but it will fail. It has tried to take the place of a Jealous God. He will not allow any other Gods before him.
Man's attempt at witchcraft will fail. It is all vanity. Therefore attempts to modify the climate by human efforts will continue to prove foolish and vain.
George Bush was ordained as the Rod of God during his administration. Many of the things he did that caused great anger in the world were there to be used for The purposes of God. He has suffered insult and derision for doing what God called him to do. His legacy will be greater than his shame.

GOD SPEAKS

Fear not, I will give you rest. Those who seek me will find me and in that day I will give you a sabbath day rest. I AM your sabbath day rest. Come to me all who are weary and heavy laden. Find Rest.
Treat all that is DUNG in your life as DUNG. Do not see it as something precious to be held on to.

Philippians 3
7 But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Pressing on Toward the Goal
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world.

IMPRESSIONS from the Throne

God says, "I am doing a citizenship check. Of which kingdom are you? Where do you belong? If you are of the Kingdom of God, start to act accordingly. If not......"
Everything that has been shaken will continue to shake and more. Except the unshakable God.
Put all your confidence in him. He will NEVER be shaken. He cannot be.

God's word to his wandering Church.

• Return to me.
• Keep your focus strictly on Me.
• Stay Pure and Holy – do not be conformed to the world.
• Make Disciples First and Foremost – It is My command
• Encourage one another as the days grow darker
• What looks like a wound to you is a tearing down to build up. After 3 days I will raise you up again. All things are become new.

GOD SAYS – I HAVE TORN DOWN BAAL

On 7-7-07 I heard your cry as tens of thousands of you called out in Nashville TN. "Tear down the Baals in our lives" you said. You called, I answered.
On September 29th 2008, the first day of a New Moon, Rosh HaShana, the first day of the year 5769, a year of judgment, on the 440th day after you cried out (a full double fast), I ripped them down and gave you a sign of in market fall of 777 exact point Dow Jones Average in one day to let you know that this is of me. The Baals are torn down. Don't rebuild the altar.
The high places are being disgraced. This is not loss, you will not suffer loss, this is purification.
Set aside everything that is not of ME.
All hope and confidence must be placed in ME or it will become idolatry. I will tear down and destroy anything you place above me or in my place. I will remove anything that hinders love. Everything.
Security is only in ME.
I will take away anything that appears to look secure that isn't of ME.
When the enemy attacks, I am your hiding place. Stay under my wings in the secret place.
There will be disasters and confusions. Prepared but not surprised.
THERE WILL BE BLOOD. It was a movie.
Yes, there will, and it's free and it heals. When the time comes be ready to tap into the precious flow. I have provided all you need.
I will never leave you nor forsake you.
No matter how bad it seems. I am always with you.
When the times come, man will not be able to respond. Only I am able.
My judgments on the world and the world system are not harsh nor are they offensive. As you draw closer to me they will seem just and right. Don't judge. The sin in the church will be the sin of offense. If you are offended in me, I will be offended in you.
I started with a cleansing of my Bride, my Body, It is not yet done, judgment must begin and finish in MY house or it is NOT MY HOUSE. The refining fire must continue until you shine as pure gold.

A FINAL WORD OF IMPRESSION

Pray for justice.... Godly Justice. Not as the world sees justice... Justice over unjust balances.
Unjust Judges.
Unjust Rulers.

FINAL WORD FROM THE THRONE

Do not be fearful. Ask of ME in your time of need and fear, "Where is the God of Elijah” and strike the troubled waters with your mantle of anointing.
Then step back and watch as I part those waters.
Spend time cleaving to me and to my true church, spend less time worrying about your personal holiness. I will cleanse you by the washing of the water of my word and sprinkle you with clean water to make you pure. Trust me for your sanctification as you did for your salvation. The accuser of the brethren has nothing against you that hasn't already been made whole and pure in ME.
Lo I am with you ALWAYS.......ALWAYS

God's Word for 2008

In the last several years as the gift of a modern Prophet has manifested more and more I have published what I see and hear from God by the Spirit.

I stand by the accuracy and sometimes misses for the last several years. Unlike many prophets, I leave them in pubic for review and ridicule. To do less would be prophetic dishonesty. The modern prophet operates as encouragement and warning to the Body of Christ. Unlike ancient prophets the requirement for perfection is not part of the gift of the prophet today or the Prophetic ministry gift. As prophets of today, we see thru a glass darkly and see things that are types and shadows. We can only report what God is showing us. Your requirement is to judge it. If you don't understand New Testament prophetic ministry, I won't try to educate you here. I'm also uninterested in going into a theological discussion or debate about the gift and ministry of the Prophet with anyone. People who have experienced and operate in the fullness of the Holy Spirit after receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit have no difficulty understanding and discerning this. If you haven't you will have a much harder time and my gift of the prophetic is to those who have ears to hear coupled with discernment.

Last year's prophetic word has been surprising in it's accuracy. There are areas that I take the blame for missing it because of my flesh or improperly interpreting what I see in the Spirit. God's gift is accurate and for me I am glad without repentance. Sometimes if there is error it's a lack of maturity in the gift as manifested in me or I see something that will happen but not in the timeframe. Some of the prophetic words from 3 or 4 years ago are now coming to pass. I am of the opinion that all prophecy is yea and amen but not always when. My goal is to be faithful to the gift He has placed in me. If God ever withdraws the gift from me I will gladly lay it down. That's only between the Father and Me.

What follows is God's word for 2008 exactly as I have received it and written it down:

GOD'S WORD TO THE CHURCH AND TO BODY OF CHRIST

(recorded first person, in the voice of God)

THE PURGING HAS BEGUN - A WORD FOR THE SHEPHERDS OF MY BODY

There is a widening gulf being created and in fact manifested by My Spirit separating those who are mine from those who are simply showing up for Sunday and seldom seek my Presence otherwise.

In the last several years I have already divided out from you a third of your people. Some were lost. Some were discouraged and left. Some have become occasional. Others are no longer in the fold; shepherds have lost track of them. I will bring them back by allowing much trouble in their lives. You shepherds will have another chance to lead them to the path of repentance and redemption.

There is a further third about to be divided out from those among your flock. This is a painful and seemingly negative thing you must endure. Do not see it as negative. You must separate yourself as a tribe and become holy unto me. I am changing the face of those who are called by My Name in this Generation. They will look like Jesus.

These that are being purged must be removed for revival to be released. They are holding back the move of My Spirit. Shepherds; hear My Words; allow those who are not hungry for revival and renewal to depart in peace, in fact encourage them to either return to their first love or leave. You can no longer afford them in your midst. They have become unholy Leaven in your midst.

I am purging my bride to make her spotless and without wrinkle. She will look very different from what you believe she would look like in your imagination or tradition.

Leaders of Churches and Ministries take heed, reliance on the old ways will lead to disappointment and failure I never intended you to experience. This purging will impact your finances if you continue to rely on the old ways. I will provide, but I will now do it in supernatural ways, provision will come from unexpected places. Even Five Fold Ministers will be purged who refuse to rely on those new ways of provision for the future.

Reliance on financial provision from worldly strategies as you always have you will find you short at years end. Old ways are not my ways in this new move. Behold I make all things new.

The Purging has already begun. You have seen it all around you and have wondered if is this an attack of the Devil. NO! This purging is of me. I am cutting out the infections, the cancers, the rot, the dead flesh, the proud flesh and the disfiguring growths that were not ever meant to be part of my bride. She will be perfect and holy formed in My image.

The essential in this new body is passion and purity. I will not tolerate in 2008 what I did in 2007. The bar is raised again.

This is NOT bad news. This is good news, what will result from this will be the fuel that will catch on fire from spark of my Spirit. It will be magnificent. Beyond what you can imagine. Worldly wisdom from others wrapped up in Christianeze will not be the way I will do this. Ignore those who would instruct and mislead you to say, "this is the way, walk in it". It is not the way. There is only one way. When the purging hits your house give thanks that I have chosen to purify you and yours.

When revival comes it will come to people held to a standard of holiness and passion unseen in most of my Church in the west.

THE THREAT OF ISLAM - SUPERNATURAL REVELATION IS COMING

I am bringing revelation to the body of Christ and to secular America of the evil embodied in Islam when the Demon controlling it is released as it has been. I am mobilizing those who call my name to action, and I am stirring even those who have not yet bowed the knee.

Like music and fashion black culture has been leading America for years. Now, the prophetic image of what has happened in Black Culture is about to happen in the rest of my Body unless those I call stand in the gap.

The black man is most under attack by the demon of Muslim Fanaticism. Young men are being stripped right out of my Church. Men I had my hand on for service in MY kingdom are being deceived and misled by the Demon spirit of Islam. The result is more black men are in the prisons of America than there are black men in all the colleges, universities and seminaries today. The greatness I had for these Men is lost as is the call I had on their lives is perverted by the delusion of Islam in the Prisons. This example is a wake up call to my People.

I will expose this demon for what it is and my call is on men and women who are called by my name to pray to move my hand according to My will. Call on me and I will answer.

THIS IS THE YEAR OF PASSING THE TORCH

My church in the west is now comprised of those who are old, a few passionate middle and many among the audacious young. The young are hungry for more of Me. They will go where they can find Me. The Torch of My fire must be passed. Leaders must see that the torch is passed with intention and preparation for those who take it.

The torch of my spirit will not rest only on the passionate middle leadership I have raised up in this time. It is too much for them alone. They are too few. My Church in the west has lost a whole generation of people missing from my Body. I will not allow that to happen again. The passing of this Torch is essential for revival and renewal to come. My Glory will be held back if not released by this act of intentional preparation and release.

My people as they passed thru the desert to the promised land, some chose not to enter in, there is a generation I have chosen to enter into this new spiritual promised land. It will be a generation sold out without remorse or restraint. This is not a judgment by age, but a judgment by commitment and passion.

The demand of my spirit on those who are preserved from the purging is to become guides and guards of the hearts of those young ones I have prepared for this new move.

I will pour out my spirit on all flesh, I will not be stopped. Those who are mine will come. It will be a move not of man but of my Spirit alone.

This will not look like anything you have ever seen before. Some will say, "this cannot be of God". This will be un-like anything you have ever seen before. "Behold I do a new thing".

There will be those who will attempt to prove that this renewal and revival is not of ME. They will distort my Word to prove this falsehood.

It will be said by them of this outpouring that "This is all wrong". They are deceived and their traditions "have made the Word of God of no effect as they trample the Blood of Jesus underfoot".

True deception is mocking God concerning His truth. "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap"

Trying to tell ME how to accomplish my ends in the earth Mocks God.

The revival, renewal and purging has already begin. The only option I offer for Spiritual Survival during this time of purging is found only in passion for the pure heart of Jesus.

THIS ENDS THE FIRST PERSON VOICE OF GOD SECTION TO THE BODY OF CHRIST

GOVERNMENTAL PROPHETIC VISIONS

In this part of the word of God for 2008 I will speak in the voice of the prophet rather than in the voice of God. What follows is what God has shown me in prayer about what is coming on the earth that he wants to warn and encourage his people through.

This is the year of passing the torch in government.

The election will be held in the fall of 2008. The promise of God this year is that he will put one up and another down. Promotion is of the Lord. Only those the Father chooses to place in authority will be placed there.

Many will be displaced from position in this. Some from death. Some from resignation. Some from scandal. The torch is passing. It is His doing.

The spiritual political landscape is changing. It will not be a total victory for either conservative or liberal issues. The 2006 election that many thought was a revolution has failed, there is no change at all. That will happen again. Politics will become more entangled with the issues of faith. What a person believes will become as important as what he or she proposes in policy.

Atheism that raised it's head, will lower it as quickly as it is shown to be wanting of any answers.

I have received no clear word of who or what will happen in the 2008 elections. That may be by design. Others have received the word, Brown Bag. What that means will yet be known.

GOD'S WORD ON THE CULTURE IN AMERICA

There will be a rebellion in the culture against the invasion of privacy in this year. Cameras and other things accepted in the past will become unacceptable to many.

Gay marriage has run it's course. There will be no further encroachment this year.

Abortion will become exposed as a moneymaking scheme without a heart. It won't stop abortions but it will make the idea that abortionists are people doing good for others out for the lie it is. This evil is at the heart of the judgment of God on America.

Religious bigotry will increase in opposition against the Kingdom of God more than ever before. It will come from places you never thought it would ever come from. It will come not only from atheists and antichristians, but will come from secular nominal Christians. It will come against not only Christians but against the Jewish state as well. The divide between the Whore Church and the pure bride of Christ will intensify.

Moderate Muslims will speak out against radical elements in their religious expressions. It will be too late. Islam is a spirit that at it's core is imperialistic. It cannot coexist with other cultures and faiths.

More and more shame will be brought upon the pop culture and it's pop stars. Not by the church. But by people in media and entertainment. This is a cleansing that must be made.

Newspapers that have been falling in subscription will stabilize. That fall will slow and even stop in 2008. But, print media in magazines will fail in record numbers. Things predicted to change will not change the way experts said they will.

Unrestrained Internet pornography will become more and more invasive globally until a call will be made to control and restrain this plague on the peoples of the earth. That call will come from an unusual place. Not the church. Watch and see.

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND CHANGES IN 2008

The housing bubble that many feared will wash through the economy with far less effect than anyone thought would be possible. That's God's mercy on us all.

2008 will in large part be considered a Good Year with economic optimism by the end of the year .

The dollar will rebound in 2008. Money will flow into the economy from export sales and investments in the USA of those who hold dollars.

There will be a retrenchment in the value of the stock markets, a correction but less than thought. And it won't last long.

Oil will not hold at the prices it which it is selling today. In real dollars oil will remain a bargain.

Commodity prices retreat in 2008 as the dollar rebounds. The combination of lower commodity prices and a higher dollar will make for positive economic conditions in the USA and around the world.

Interest rates will remain below the average of the last decade. Artificial credit influences will be a dampener of the magnitude of economic recovery.

POLITICAL ECONOMIC FORCES FOR CHANGE

Deep examination of the corporate bought and paid for government we have today will reveal the cancer that exists in high places today. Pray for the exposure to happen without partisan politics as part of the discussion. God is about to shine his light into this dark area. Banking organizations, oil companies, pharmaceutical companies will be exposed for the ungodly influence they have had. There has been an un-Godly effort to pervert justice in the land. The father is going to do some house cleaning in this area.

HEALTH AND WELLBEING PROPHETIC VISION

Many assumptions we have been led to believe are true regarding our health will continue to be overturned this year at an accelerated pace. When you hear of these things you will know this is a freedom making truth.

There are health breakthroughs coming in the areas of

• Alzheimer's
• Aids
• Diabetes
• Cancers
• MS
• and some others.

There has been much seed sown in divine strategies for health that will begin to be harvested in this generation.

The number 8 is the number for new beginnings. Completion came in 2007, those seeds will come to maturity in 2008.

In 2008 nationalized health care will once again prove to have no future in the USA.

ENERGY VISION

As ethanol loses it's luster, other forms of energy not yet imagined or practical will be unveiled.

I have seen a vision of 3 that are on the horizon:

• New Direct Solar Conversion Technologies
• Energy from Sea Water
• Aerobic Conversion of Cellulose by biological reduction

Others will begin to fall into disuse and disrepute as these better technologies are revealed.

There is ONE breakthrough coming in 2008 that will cause us to look back on 2008 in amazement in this area.

Oil extraction technologies will become more and more effective in 2008 – increasing available oil globally to grow to new available levels. Peak oil will once again prove to be a theory of peak easy oil.

WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS

Iraq, by the end of 2008 the warfare in Iraq will have so effectively completed the mission that the next President will be able to bring large numbers of troops home to much applause.

The naysayers about the war will have been silenced.

Al Quieda will slink further off into the caves of Northern Pakistan and leave Iraq. Suicide Bombers, rather than being celebrated, will become an affront to the Iraqi people, both Sunni and Shia. Opposition to this evil will become a unifying force for Iraq.

The new American President will quickly recognized the necessity of keeping American bases in Iraq. America will accept this reality as they did in Japan and Germany. Iraq will become a force for good in time. The USA will maintain permanent bases in Iraq for years to come. It will be a keystone for stability in the whole middle east and welcomed by those in the Middle East.

Once again it will be recognized that the sacrifice and blood of patriots have purchased precious freedom in America. That this war has been and will be a prophetic big bang that those waging and supporting it had no idea it would have.

Turkish incursions into Kurdish Iraq will become troubling. Kurdistan is home of the ancient Medes who still live there. The USA will have a showdown with Turkey over this and Turkey will back down.

Syria will warm up to the USA as the USA takes it's place. Iran's internal forces for regime change will develop a stronger voice and gather influence.

Messianic Jewish Believers will take their recognized place of influence in Israel. This will eventually lead to national leadership, but not in 2008.

Russia's Putin will reach further to build alliances with marginal powers in the world to create distinctives between Russia and the Western World. As the USA goes thru the process of electing a new President, Putin will use this time of uncertainty to solidify his position of power without objection from the USA or the rest of the west.

Europe; with Turkey unstable, the Balkans a renewed stirring powder keg, the emerging Islamic Threat within the European population and a meaner Russian Bear next door most of Europe will do what France and England have already done; Recognize that friendship with the USA and in a way with Canada has benefits.

Great Britain and continental Europe will renew an alliance that seemed to be damaged in the past. The radical left in Europe that tried to destroy that alliance will fall silent as the threats are revealed.

Africa will blossom in some places and dry up in others politically and geographically. Some countries on the continent will become beacons of hope. Others will fall into deeper destruction. It will become more apparent that the solutions needed are spiritual in nature and help must come from inside the countries themselves. The struggle for the soul of Africa has just begun and will become more graphic and intense. Only prayer will save them.

China will continue it's headlong rush into modernity. So will India. There is no reversal. It's economic power is providing a chance for China to become more democratic and capitalistic. While there are many benefits to this, the deficits of unbridled capitalism will become apparent. India and China will show the world a better way. The west will do well to learn the lessons they will teach.

Afghanistan and Pakistan are locked in an epic struggle for survival but in different ways. The issues are different, but the outcomes are the same. Who will control these two countries? The struggle against fundamentalist Islam will be most in this arena for 2008. In the end, the demon of Islam will lose, but not without a fight.

Musharrif and his party will stay in power in Pakistan. There is no one to fill the vacuum in his absence. The assassination of Bhutto seals this. The USA has made an uncomfortable entangling alliance. The outcome of this rests in the hands of the next President.

The episodes of terror and murder around the world are manifestations of the demon present in Islam at it's worst. The bankruptcy of Islam will be revealed by these demonstrations of unbridled evil. What Iraq has learned, what Iran is learning and other middle east countries are watching is that Islam is revealed as a satanic influenced political system shrouded in clerical robes.

NATURAL EVENTS AND JUDGMENTS

Drought is a judgment of God. It always was and always will be. It's not that God is using Drought to punish but to bring people to himself.

In fact, the weather on the earth as it intensifies and puts fear in people's hearts will have the effect of drawing people to the end of themselves. The rain, cold, drought, heat, snow, wind, hurricane, tornadoes, glaciers forming and deforming, increases and decreases in snow pack. God is calling people to himself. He uses natural events to do so.

Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions will increase. The normal we once enjoyed is no longer normal. God's normal is new and it demands our dependence on him and not on our own philosophies and devices. These are birth pangs of a new age of God's Glory being poured out on all flesh.

FINAL WORD

2008 will be a painful difficult year for many. I do not see a direct attack from our enemies in 2008.

I see a joining together of the people of God as he Does what he has said he will do. Denominational separation will decrease as passion for Jesus increases. People will develop clear minds as they focused on Jesus.

The torch must be passed, that is the mandate of God. In some cases he will have to rip it out of people's hands. This will either be a new awaking or a rude awaking. The decision is ours.

The generation of Disciples picking up the torch are better prepared spiritually than any of the generations that preceded them. We of the torch passing generations must impart what we possess and encourage those who bear the fire of God in their hands and in their hearts to become firestarters across the nation.

It's a new day - for the Mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

Word of the Lord for 2007

What Follows is the vision and word of God for 2007. I have spent the Month of December waiting and writing what He told me. This is condensed from 35 pages. There was repetition. I have transcribed it exactly as I was given it without editing. I have found that nuance of Prophecy is better that way. I have faith in this word. God’s concern is the Body of Christ, It’s Jesus Bride. So much of the word for this coming year concerns her. There are some other things. At the end of this prophecy is a dire warning I hope I have misheard on. God does not want us to live in a Spirit of Fear but of Faith love and a Sound Mind. But I must give it as I heard it.


Natural Disasters
2007 started off with warm weather. Predictors say it will be warm the rest of the year. As a poke in the ribs to worldly prognosticators, it will be very cold in latter part January and early February. This will cause people to puzzle. There will be a late spring as a result. The words, “How could it have started out so nice and turned so cold”. There is a prophetic meaning in all this.

Big Rain
There will continue to be a great deal of rain in spring again around North America. Floods. This too is a prophetic sign of the latter rain. We will at the same time see an outpouring of the rain of God. At the same time, very dry areas are evidence of God starving people out.

Health
Seeds of research sown years ago will begin to ripen.
Breakthroughs are on the horizon for Alzheimer’s, Diabetes, Certain Cancers, Diminishing of Heart Diseases, even Aids. Medical Science will find new, unusual, and unique ways not predicted to deal with all sorts of ailments. The role of Faith will be included in some research.

God puts one up and takes one down
The death of the Turkman President dictator recently is a harbinger of the changing of the Guard. Even though lesser powers will attempt to take their place, those who have for years depended on oppression to hold the place of leadership will be deposed by an all powerful God.

Democracy in certain instances will fail as a second rate governmental system, autocracy will succeed for a while and then fail as Castro is, God’s original plan was for him to be king. This repeated platform of failed leadership models globally is setting the stage for the antichrist.

Longing for the former things
Uncertainty will cause a new wave of nostalgia in the land. While many have worshipped at the altar of gadgetry, the bankruptcy of this worship will become apparent. People will start to try to take back their lives from this oppression. This won’t mean retro, but talk of what we have lost and how far we have slumped as a culture will become part of the national language. This will not be the thing that brings revival; this is a symptom of discontent.

The Price of Peace will be paid
There will be a newsflash that War is Hell. Yes it is, but peace under oppression is hell too.

The War in the Mid-East’s purposes will be discovered and reluctantly accepted by most of the population of the USA. The calls to withdraw from Iraq will silence as the evidence comes forth.

The USA is on a watershed course, we either will suffer permanent defeat at the hands of our enemies and encourage others to attack us with our cowardice and vulnerability or we will stand, perhaps change tactics, but with renewed understanding continue to fight against those who would kill and destroy us.

Islam is being revealed for it’s empty theology when radicalized, the price of compromise will be come clear, the true enemy and his demonic backer will be revealed.

Religion Fails
People in the world will be less tolerant of the façade of religion. Things will have to be real or fail. Expectations of MORE will drive man to either fall away or enter into revival. The ripples of the Ted Haggard and other similar disasters will continue in those who call themselves Christian. The “Franchise System” (do what others do, or spend a lot of money on it to plant a Church) will fail. It failed long ago, it’s just that no one knew yet.

US Economy Weaker
The Economy in the USA will be softer than thought at the beginning of the year. As I write this there is significant optimism. The inverse of last year will exist. Downward pressures because of external circumstances with occasional run-ups of the market. The deal the USA made with outside forces like China will come home to roost. The true cost of globalism will be felt in the economy, agriculture and dollar weakness. The props are being kicked out. Man’s trust in economics will be tested. Everything we trust in will be tested. Most will fail other than Jesus. Our faith in a Tired Old Bull called the stock market is as useless as the tired old bull called Baal.

God will cause the price of trusting in man to be shown by the impact of globalism felt in currency devaluation, Ag Supports withdrawn, Metal Markets in disarray, Stock markets inverted from 2006.

At the same time, the price of Oil and Gasoline will continue to fall in real dollars and not the inflated value of the oil versus the deflated value of the Dollar. It will be less by over 15% a year from today.

Patriotism without Nationalism
Americans will become more keenly aware of the beauty of this country, more aware of the rarity of it’s goodness, what it means prophetically, not in a nationalistic way, but in a treasuring of what it is and who we are because it will become apparent we could lose it.

God’s Mandate in Ministry to Veterans
God is calling the Church to be instrumental in ministry to veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars. He is calling them to be proactive to minister Physically, Emotionally, Spiritually, Financially, to the Family, and in Healing. God wants to demonstrate his Glory by showing himself mighty among those returned and wounded. This is a time and a place for the Church to be the Church. Those Churches heeding this call will be multiplied. This is on the mind of God right now and the job to date is largely undone. These are the widows, orphans and wounded along the road of our lives. Will we be a good Samaritan as the Body of Christ? That’s the question God is asking.

Politics
Man is looking for a strong and pure voice to emerge in leadership. Republican or Democrat. That voice will call but right now I see no one who God’s hand is on today in any political party.

The danger in seeking a “Man” is we could get one who is not God’s Man. God is reminding us that we are cursed if we put our faith in a man or a woman if it should be Hillary Clinton.

Lame Duck President and Lame Duck Congress
What will happen in 2007 with the Lame Ducks? I don’t see anything of consequence. There will be hue and cries about the war. There will be no account passage of bills like the minimum wage. People will get up and take bows. But, nothing much will happen. Perhaps this congressional majority is a demonstration of what vacuous leadership exists on both sides of the aisle.

The Middle East
2006 was a watershed year. I hear stability. It was a prophetic act that Saddam was executed just before the New Year. It was prophetic that the election took place just after the start of 2006. That the constitution was enacted by mid 2006. Iraq is slowly becoming a country. 3000 deaths are a prophetic indicator of turn.

Iran will become less of a threat.

Afghanistan will remain in sectarian turmoil but stable.

Israel will be threatened on all sides but untouched by more than a few crazy people.

The revelation of Islam as a divided house and as a birthplace of evil will cause many to re-evaluate Islam as a religion of Peace, even those in the faith. God will not allow this false religion to prosper at the expense of his kingdom. He has and will continue to bring judgment and expose it for what it really is, empty religion and not the relationship he desires to have with those that believe.

RELEVANCE
The word for the Church of Jesus is Relevance
Relevance and tradition will be at odds. The very things that make Christianity more real to those seeking Jesus will be masked by those things that are “as we have always done them”.

True Relevance will only come by a sovereign move of God. Manmade programs will fail. There will be some hoping to pour that new wine back into those old wineskins who will fight it against the move of God. So, the new wine will find its place outside of the wineskins of tradition.

Relevance will be won or lost on the battlefields of Worship and the Word. Real worship and a genuine word from God will be received and celebrated. Those who compromise will be discarded. The bar has been raised. God is calling his church to being real in people’s lives. Without that genuine move outside of tradition and ceremony there will be dissolution of the Churches who do not connect. This will manifest by an acceleration of church closings nationwide. It appears as if God is about to clean house. He wants to release revival but will only allow it to be planted in good soil. There needs to be a breaking up of the fallow ground. That means a lot of hardened clods will be destroyed to plant the new.

God appears to no longer accept what was good enough in 2006.

Churches Close Faster
God is not discouraged; things are working together for the called for their good. There are things that grieve him deeply. That which carries his name must of necessity go thru further deep purging, cleansing and without that those places must be destroyed to be rebuilt. The good soil God needs to do what he will do next isn’t in the Church bearing his name right now. It’s a painful truth but there will be an acceleration of the closing of institutional churches in America. Nothing that doesn’t move according to the life of the Spirit of God will die. How far will God take this? I have no vision but it’s further than anyone imagines.


God has Raised the Bar
The raised bar means:
That to hear from God requires his church to block out worldly influences
The higher the bar, the higher the call.
The more opposition you sense to this raised bar in your life, the higher the call on you is and the more God will move thru you.
All moves of God are opposed by the status quo and it always looks prudent and reasonable to oppose them.

ENCOURAGEMENT NEEDED
The power of Words to be builders up and tear down agents damaging people’s souls will become a theme of the Spirit in 2007. Particularly as it has to do with parents and children. The words Emotional Wellness stand out as a buzzword for this move. The Spirit says this is important.

THE SHIFT
As things change and shift quickly in the “Normal” church it will look negative to many. It is exactly as God intends it to be. Those who understand the times and seasons will embrace the move, those who are blinded by tradition or fear will resent and reject the move. These are new beginnings, confirmation of the touch of God and the completion process of his purposes.

The Nativity as a Prophetic Movie
Shepherds (many) and Wise Men (few) came to worship. Paul said not many wise or influential come. It’s the same today, but the Shepherds were wise and the Wise Men were humble at the presence of God. Seeking God makes us even at the cross and at the manger. This equality of God’s grace will become more apparent in 2007.

The Spirit of Offense will Intensify
Trouble is going to come to try to offend leadership in the body of Christ. Those who are called to higher authority will be attacked by higher demonic authority. You will overcome if you don’t fear. The more opposition you receive the higher the calling is on you and the higher the calling is on you the more opposition you will receive. If you can understand this, take authority over it and walk on the water above it. Be very careful to avoid taking any offense in these days. Only be offended by the Devil and his minions. That which offends the mind reveals the heart.

New efforts are being made at installing a new level of Phariseism in the body of Christ. This is happening as a response to the sovereign moves of God to attempt to control what God is doing. If God has called you God wants you to know that you should:
Let no one judge you nor should you expect confirmation of the call on your life. It is not of man but of God. Walk it out with confidence and boldness. It is your divine destiny to be an instrument of God.

All Hidden Things to be Revealed
Purity will be revealed in hearts in the house of God. What we think of as purity will be revealed in the light of the Revelation of Jesus as so many filthy rags and unclean. This is not to condemn but to help us walk in light of eternity that everything will be revealed, shouted from the rooftops that we thought was hidden. A new level of understanding the completely different nature of the spirit man in us from who we thought he was as he was connected to Jesus will motivate us to leave behind lesser pleasures than the fullness of Jesus in our lives.

Division and False Unity
Accusations of being divisive will be leveled at people walking in newness by those who are unwilling or unable to enter in because of ties with the world and tradition. The call for unity tied to tradition will go unanswered by those who hear the voice of the Spirit of God. They will be seen as not being “Team Players”. Jesus wasn’t much a team player. Upsetters of man’s tradition is the call.

The ears of many will be stopped up by the Devil. As God moves in new ways in changing the face of Christianity in one generation those stuck in old ways will not hear the voice of God. Even if Paul the Apostle were to return from the grave and write them a direct epistle they would not accept it because they didn’t invent, generate or create it in their fellowship. The not invented here mentality will be a major hindrance to the Church of Jesus particularly in Chicagoland. Jesus sending his Spirit has heard too often, “No thanks, we have our own”. They do, it’s just not God’s Spirit. Learn to hear what the Spirit says. First, the Church must develop ears to hear.

The Holy Spirit will release Christians who desire to be used into roles they reach for. He is looking for vessels to use. You can occupy those roles by the Holy Spirit.

The gifts of the Spirit will more and more be recognized as operating best when they flow in the anointing of God that comes thru an infilling overflow of the Spirit of God. The ability to operate and minister without that unction and simply from skill or ability will be neutered as the bar is raised.

Church and Change are alike only in the first two letters. They seem to start out the same but they drift into meaningless dissonance quickly. Trying to make a Change Church to the Culture and keep Church without Change is an anti-maxium. The move of God that is coming will require the slaughter of many sacred cows.

Nothing will be the same in 2007 spiritually. The new normal will be a higher level of the Glory of God outpoured in your life.

Disruption Seen
There appears on the horizon in the Spirit a major disruption. This will be in the first quarter of the year. I don’t have a sense it will be terror attacks. I do have an impression it will be natural. Geotectonic in nature. While many will see this as a source of great terror and interpreted by the world as a horrible event, it will cause a correspondent release of God’s Glory on the earth. That is you. It will be the Body of Christ’s finest hour.

There is deep darkness in this vision. The end of February to April something happens. It will cause many to lose heart, even in the Church. I don't know if I have a sense that this is a tragedy concerning mass death. It is a threat. It may be a revelation. Something happens and it's big.

There will appear to be a long shadow on the horizon this year, but those who see the light and not the shadow will overcome and stand firm. Many hearts will fail for fear. There will be an acceleration of fear and a deepening of faith. Fear Fails - Faith Firms.

Evenso, Come Lord Jesus.