Seven Thunders - The Sixth Thunder

Bob Neumann

 

Archived prophetic words and bible teachings from the Mercy Seat Fellowship


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(I was directed to release this after sundown on THE LORD'S SHABBAT. on HIS count this is now the 34th day of the counting of the OMER. in six days we will reach the 40th day, the DAY of HIS RETURN TO ABBA. HE left two witnesses behind to confront and remind those HE left behind. we still have two witnesses, if we care to listen. HIS WORD and HIS SPIRIT. selah. old dog)

As I try to put words to all this, I find my spirit greatly grieved on many levels. As I finished this Sixth Thunder, I looked forward into the Seventh. Something I was not eager to do. But as the First pivoted into the Second, so it is with the Sixth and the Seventh.

I stood at the base of a gently slopping hill and beside me stood my MASTER robed in Glory. Without any preamble HE turned and started walking up the hill. After a short distance we came to a flattening of the route and a flagpole. The ground around the flagpole was well trampled and a path moved off to the side. THE LORD stood still near the pole and asked; "WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE WHERE THAT PATH LEADS?". I answered quickly, "No LORD". With a slight smile HE leaned against the flagpole and crossed HIS ARMS across HIS CHEST. I watched HIM stare through me. None of these journeys had brought me anything but grief in my spirit, yet I understand the meaning of duty. It would have been easy to say "NO" anywhere along the line, but it would have been wrong. And I knew it.

"What do you want me to do, LORD?''; I asked.

"JUST LOOK AND SEE."; HE said quietly.

My answer was to turn and follow the path. After what seemed a long while I came to this huge temple. All in stone with columns and steps. As I stood and stared at what looked like a cross between a county courthouse and a Parthanon knock-off I heard that still gentle voice say "GO IN". So I climbed the steps and found a strange montage. There were large tables in what looked like a library. At the table were different groups at work/study/discussion. There were those in the robes that I have seen countless times on TV and Movies that would label them as Scribes or Pharisees. Alongside them where the black robes and white collars of the early church when Constantine legalized and  institutionalized ''the church''. Moving back and forth among the scrolls and manuscripts were men in cassocks and cowls. The traditional robes of the monks of the Middle Ages. As I walked across the floor passing table after table I saw the same bizarre mixture. Golden Miters with tonsure shaved heads. Long flowing beards of Orthodox prelates mixed easily with the clean shaven puritans and Weslyans. When I came to the end there were Armani suits mixed with Hassidic overcoats. None noticed me as I watched each and every table work feverishly.

In the natural none of these groups would have sat together or worked together. The concept of ecumenicalism was far from my thoughts as I traced my steps out of this building and along to the flagpole at the end of the path. Upon my return THE MASTER immediately started again up the hill. After a short while we came to another flagpole and HE STOPPED and SMILED at me. With a gesture of sheer whimsy HE bowed and gestured with a staged flourish as I started down the path that lead from the flagpole. Once again I had to walk a ways till I came to a grand gothic cathedral, fully equipped with gargoyles and flying buttresses. Upon entering the ornate doors it was like a replay of Disney's version of Quasimodo World. People were standing near this huge alter praying loudly with theatrical gestures. They seemed to be in a contest with each other. There prayers were vain ''gimme prayers'' as they asked for money, position, and power. Yet back in the shadows, behind the bars that separated the "haves" and "have nots" I saw the poor and the needy staring at the ''upper crust''. As a parody of the middle ages, it hit all too close to home for me. The Prosperity Cult at the forefront while the wretched of the world are denied access.

Once again I returned to find THE MASTER waiting. And once again we set up the hill and came to another pole. As I began to walk the path I heard HIM SAY: "FEAR NOT". And my feet froze on the path. When I turned to look at HIM there was no humor in HIS EYES. Things were going to be different. When I came to the end of the path there stood a Renaissance Cathedral with lofty spires and I went in. Here I got the immediate feeling of dirtiness in my spirit, and a rancid taste in my mouth. In a far corner I heard a whimper and carefully approached. In the shadows I saw people kneeling and crying. I watched as one after another struck themselves with a lash and pass the lash on to the next. The concept of self-flagellation has been around a long time, but to see it was another thing. Here I wanted to move quickly, but  instead of leaving I pressed deeper into this place. In but moments I was in a smelly damp place with chains on the wall and a ''rack'' in the middle of the room. Images of the Inquisition jumped at me, yet the participants were way out of place. Among the ''unfortunate'' were a couple modern types, dressed in contemporary styles, alongside a few pilgrims in long black dresses. All female, all defenseless. Easy targets. The authority figures were a toss up between modern Episcopal and ancient Egyptian. It made sense, but it didn't.

All I knew it was wrong and I wanted to leave. So I returned to the flagpole.

Upon reaching HIM I had to ask what was going on.  With gentleness HE took my arm and moved away from the path we had traveled and the flagpole. As HE gestured upward I could see the top of the flagpole and the top was shrouded with ''haze''. Demonic deception prevented what was there to be seen. As HE tugged me back to the path HE EXPLAINED. "DON'T WORRY ABOUT WHAT IS FLYING AT THE TOP OF THIS FLAGPOLE. IT IS A COUNTERFEIT. THIS ONE IS ''YOU NEED TO SUFFER FOR YOUR SINS''. IT IS THE COUNTERFEIT OF THE WORD THAT SAYS "CHOOSING RATHER TO SUFFER AFFLICTION WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD, THAN TO ENJOY THE PLEASURES OF SIN FOR A SEASON; ESTEEMING THE REPROACH OF CHRIST GREATER RICHES THAN THE TREASURES OF EGYPT." I TAUGHT COUNT IT ALL JOY, SO THEY STRIVE TO TAKE AWAY THE CHANCE FOR TRUE JOY BY STANDING IN MY NAME.IT IS IDEAL CAMOUFLAGE FOR THE PREDATOR. AND THE WOLVES ALWAYS TELL THE SHEEP THAT THERE DUTY AS SHEEP IS TO FEED THEIR ''NEEDS''....IN MY NAME OF COURSE.

EACH OF THESE FLAGPOLES HAVE BEEN ERECTED TO DECEIVE AND MISDIRECT. THE FIRST WAS THE BASTION OF THE NICOLAOTINS....THERE BANNER SAYS ''TOUCH NOT THE ANOINTED AND SUBMIT TO THEIR KNOWLEDGE''. IT IS IN DEFIANCE OF MY WORD THAT SAYS THAT ALL ARE TO STUDY TO SHOW THEMSELVES APPROVED. BECAUSE MY PEOPLE WILL NOT STUDY FOR THEMSELVES THERE IS A WELL BEATEN PATH RIGHT TO THEIR DOOR. THE SECOND IS SIMPLY ''GOD IS NOT A RESPECTER OF PERSONS'' AND ''THE POOR YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE.....SO KEEP THEM IN THEIR PLACE''. IT DEFIES EVERYTHING I TAUGHT, BUT THAT IS ALWAYS THE CASE FOR THE DOCTRINES OF DEMONS.

It seemed a long time as we passed pole after pole as we steadily climbed upward. As before HE would stop and I would see what each ''stood for''. A number of times we came to places where the trail leveled off and numerous poles were in sight of each other. Of this two are of importance. The first was one where the poles were clumped loosely together, all within 5-6 feet of each other. Some looked old and weathered, others looked fairly new.

"THESE ARE INTERESTING, OLD DOG," BEGAN THE KING. "BECAUSE THEIR LIE IS PERVASIVE AND INCLUSIVE IN MANY WAYS. WHAT WAS BIRTHED A THOUSAND, AS MUCH AS NINETEEN HUNDRED YEARS AGO, OR JUST LAST WEEK ARE ONE AND THE SAME. A MEANS TO STOP THOSE WHO SEEK FROM COMPLETING THEIR JOURNEY".

Slowly HE touched each and gave it a name and an image in my spirit-man. ''HERE IS THE TEACHINGS OF ARIUS. OR YOU CAN SAY, ARIANISM. AND HERE IS DOCETISM. THIS IS ONE THAT SAYS I ONLY SEEMED TO SUFFER FOR THE SINS OF MAN. INTERESTING THOUGHT THAT DENIES SO MUCH OF THE WORD. THIS ONE IS THE TEACHINGS OF MARCION WHO BEGAN THE SPLIT BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT, DENYING ME AND MY WORD ON SO MANY LEVELS. MANY TODAY DO NOT KNOW THEY GATHER AROUND THIS POLE FREELY WHEN THEY REFUSE TO SEE ME IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. MAKES YOU WONDER DOG WHY THEY EVEN GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS OF RELIGION WHEN THEY DENY THE FIRM FOUNDATION.

TOO MANY TRULY LOVE TO BUILD ON SAND, DOG. THEY HAVE NOT THE TIME NOR THE INCLINATION TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE ACTUALLY STANDING ON.

(here HE stopped and presented to me a very large pole) THIS ONE IS INTERESTING, IT IS ALMOST 1900 YEARS OLD AND STILL STANDING. IT ORIGINATED WITH THOSE WHO WERE CALLED THE MONARCHIANI. YET MANY CULTS PRESENTLY CALLING THEMSELVES AFTER ME THINK IT IS A NEW REVELATION. THAT WHEN I WAS BAPTIZED BY JOHN I THEN BECAME THE SON.....SORT OF BY ADOPTION.

I WONDER, DOG, IF ANYONE OF THEM UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF 'ONLY BEGOTTEN''. THEN AGAIN THAT POLE IS OVER TO THE RIGHT.(at this HE pointed to the farthest pole in the cluster.) THAT ONE IS ISLAM, MORE OR LESS. EVEN ISLAM TEACHES I WAS BORN OF A VIRGIN AND WILL RETURN TO DESTROY THE ''GREAT SATAN''. TOO BAD THEY SAY I AM NOT THE SON AND SEVERAL OTHER POINTS. NOT EVERY 'CHRISTIAN' BELIEVES AS MUCH AS THEY DO ABOUT ME.

YOU SEE ALL OF THESE SAY "I AM NOT'' IN SOME WAY. NOT THE SON, NOT THE MAN BORN, SOME DENY MY LIFE, SOME DENY MY RESURRECTION. ALL QUESTION THAT ''I AM''....AND THEY FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THEIR OWN STYLIZED ANSWERS. THEY NEVER FOUND ME SO THEY SUBSTITUTE WHAT IS RIGHT IN THEIR OWN IMAGINATIONS. FEW EYES EVER SAW WHAT MOST OF THESE IMAGINED AND BIRTHED OUT OF SPIRITUAL IMMORALITY.

WHAT IS SAD, DOG, IS MANY WHO TRULY SAW ME AND WHERE ADJUDGED AND EXECUTED BEARING THE TITLE OF HERETIC WERE NOT. RELIGION HAS DEFINED WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE AND WHAT IS NOT. LITTLE OF MY WORD IS REQUIRED TO CREATE DECEPTION. BUT EVEN THE LAWLESS SEEK A TOUCH OF ''LIGHT'' TO ADD AUTHENTICITY TO THEIR CLAIMS. HAS BEEN THAT WAY SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING.

NOW IN THE MIDDLE (again HE pointed) ARE THE POLES OF THE STOICS AND THE GNOSTICS. TODAY MANY LEARN IN THE VAULTED HALLS OF AMERICAN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NOTHING OF ME BUT EVERYTHING OF MEN. THE ENEMY ALWAYS HAS TO USE A CONDUIT TO TOUCH THIS WORLD. THAT IS A COUNTERFEIT TOO.

After this we continued on....

At the second congregation of poles, we again stopped and HE spoke quietly. Here the poles were so close together none were more than three feet from another. As we passed HE reached out and gave names to many. "THIS ONE IS ''SALVATION BY WORKS'', DOG. BEEN HERE A LONG TIME. THEIR CLAIM IS ''YOU GOT TO EARN WHAT IS FREE''. AND RIGHT ALONG SIDE IT IS ''SALVATION BY GRACE, DOESN'T MATTER HOW YOU LIVE". REAL PREVALENT IN AMERICA TODAY, DOG. THAT IS WHY I KEEP TELLING MY SERVANTS TO CALL AMERICA TO REPENTANCE. BUT AMERICA WILL NOT REPENT.

THIS ONE IS ''SALVATION BY ASSOCIATION'' AND IT'S PARTNER, ''SALVATION BY AFFILIATION''. I GUESS WE COULD LUMP A COUPLE

TOGETHER DOG, AND SAY ''GAINING HEAVEN BY OSMOSIS''. NOW,

HERE ARE REAL KILLERS, DOG.'' (Here were a group of poles almost touching they were so close.) "THEY COULD NOT FIT INTO ONE POLE BECAUSE EACH IS SO PARTICULAR IT TOLERATES NOT EVEN THOSE THAT ARE BASICALLY THE SAME. "ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED'', ''ETERNAL ELECTION'', ''UN-LOSABLE SALVATION'', ''YES WITH SAVIOR, NO TO LORD'', AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF VARIATIONS BUT THE SAME THEME''.

''Nothing about FAITH and OBEDIENCE is there LORD?", I asked knowing in my spirit.

With a grim quietness HE SAID "FOLLOW ME''. and I did. After a while we came to the top of the mountain. HE did not say, but I knew it was ZION.

It seemed we were on the top of the world. It was a place above all else. In the center of this area was a tent, a ''pavilion''. Before me was the ''doorway''. Nothing more than a flap that can be lifted away. All you had to do is to bend a little, and stoop down to get in. Easier still to drop on all fours and scoot in. Right, just like a child. But in front of the ''doorway'' was a 'pole'. Single and alone. Something I recognized easily.

"OLD DOG", BEGAN THE KING, '' WHAT DO YOU SEE?''

It was the place I had longed for, the place DAVID sang about. THE MISHCON....THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD. The place every child of GOD longs to be. and I said so.

"NOTICE ANYTHING WRONG?", HE asked gently.

For a moment I had to wonder. Usually when HE asks what appears to be an  "open  ended'' question there is something I am missing. So I looked at ZION. Then I turned around and looked down from where we came. The mountain kept going down. The place where we started was undistinguishable from where we stood. Yet I could distinguish single poles closer to the top, and the poles that were in large clumps.

Of the ''buildings'' I had sniffed out, there was none to be seen. Just the poles scattered up the face of the mountain. So much I had seen was wrong, horribly wrong. Only there was something I had not seen. And in the middle of my consternation I once again  heard that SWEET GENTLE VOICE whisper into my spirit-man, "LOOK FOR WHAT IS NOT THERE?''.

Funny, but for the first time I heard HIS LAUGHTER. As I looked back to HIM, the quietness was gone and the beauty was pervasive. ''YOU CHEATED, DOG!'', HE LAUGHED, and I did too.

"I ASKED YOU A SIMPLE QUESTION, AND YOU CALLED FOR HELP".

and there was the answer..... "ISN'T THAT WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO, BOSS?'' I replied as we sat down by the pole.

"YES, OLD FRIEND.''; HE SIGHED. ''Then that is what's wrong.'', was my answer as we stared out and down again. Like so often I had the answer, but no clue to exactly what it meant. The problem of waiting with THE LORD is almost equal to waiting for/on HIM. So I looked out and down at the poles. All were part of the LIE. All are there to prevent man from finding ZION. To keep the children and babies from coming to ABBA. All the THUNDERS have been speaking this in different images, different ways. ALL THINGS ABOMINABLE to HIS EYES.

So I studied and pondered, in no hurry. After a while I noticed that I could see areas in and around the clusters of poles where the grass was not. The mountain side was lush with grass, but the poles were barren. Then I remembered the paths each pole had to their counterfeit of the KINGDOM. Looking back down where we had walked there was no record of our steps.

I was seeing what was not there, but was. For so long I had walked what ISAIAH called THE HIGHWAY OF HOLINESS. At least I have tried to, maybe stumbled is the right or more accurate terminology. Suddenly like out of the blue I realized there was something missing in this whole mountainside vista before me. And as this ''revelation'' began to fill me THE I AM unceremoniously laid back and plopped both FEET in my lap.

"YOU GOT IT DOG!".....and I stared down at the poles. "DO YOU REMEMBER HOW YOU FIRST GOT HERE?''

yes, I remembered. I remembered picking up the cross beam and dropping it in fear. I remember when HE asked if I wanted help. I also remember what HE did when I said yes. HE centered it on my shoulders and tied my arms to it so I could not drop it again. stooped over I could not see the picturesque hillside, only HIS FEET ahead of me. the nails came when I came to the top where the cross was planted for the whole world to see. if it wanted to.....

the next time I cradled the crossbeam in my arms close to my chest. but the weight still bore me down so that all I could do was to watch HIS FEET and to walk in HIS

FOOTSTEPS.....

so now I look out and saw no trail cut into the mountain, no path to follow. the only way to ZION IS HIS WAY. ''I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE" was playing out clearly yet the poles were there.

''DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT I TOLD MOSES, DOG?''

''Generally, yes BOSS, but specifically no."

"WHAT YOU WALKED THROUGH DOG IS A DOUBLE IMAGE, NO MAKE IT A

DOUBLE, DOUBLE IMAGE. YOU'LL LIKE THIS ONE DOG.'' (please understand that we got this thing about Rabbi/Student, if you ain't got it to a degree I know this sounds way off the wall. but really, it is a problem you need to address quite quickly because time just ran out for ''cute'')

''REMEMBER THE ORDER TO DESTROY THE HIGH PLACES AND THE ''GROVES''? BEHOLD ''THE GROVES''..... and I split a gut....(INSIDE HUMOR, SORRY)

''THEY WERE THE PLACE OF ''SPIRITUAL IMMORALITY'', BECAUSE THEY BURNED INCENSE AND THEIR CHILDREN TO OTHER GODS. THEY ALSO COMMITTED IMMORAL SINS AS PART OF THEIR WORSHIP SERVICE. IT'S AMAZING DOG, JUST HOW OFTEN THESE SINS PLAY OUT IN WHAT MANY LOOSELY CALL ''THE CHURCH''. "I TOLD MOSES TO TELL THE PEOPLE TO CUT DOWN THE GROVES AND WORSHIP ME ALONE. TOO MANY MISTAKE TALENT FOR ANOINTING AND WORSHIP THEIR TALENT AND STYLE MORE THAN ME. WHEN THEY GET CAUGHT UP IN THEIR GROVES....''

''NOW THE SECOND DOUBLE IMAGE IS THE ''ASTEROTH POLES'' THAT KEEP CROPPING UP. IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES. MY PEOPLE PREFER TO FIND SOMETHING TO WORSHIP RATHER THAN TO EITHER SEEK ME OR FOLLOW ME.''

''SO MANY SAY THEY SEEK ME, BUT IT WAS I HOW KNOCKED AT THEIR DOOR. DOG, HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU HEAR SOME POMPOUS WINDBAG SPOUT ABOUT ''I FOUND THE LORD?'' AND MAKE IT SOUND IT WAS ALL THROUGH THEIR VALIANT STRUGGLES WITH THEIR ''FLESH''. EVEN I AM SURPRISED AT HOW SELF ELEVATING SOME TESTIMONIES GET OVER TIME. RARELY DO YOU HEAR A TRULY BROKEN HEART SAY ''THE LORD FOUND ME?'' ALL THESE ''I FOUND THE LORD'' MONOLOGUES ALL COME FROM A CERTAIN IMPLIED POINT. IT IMPLIES I LOST THEM AND FORGOT WHERE THEY WERE.''

''THAT IS THE WHOLE THING ABOUT MOST OF THE POLES, THEY DENIED AND IGNORED TRUTH AS DECREED IN MY WORD, AND SUBSTITUTED A LIE. ANYONE WHO FEELS THE CONVICTION AND STIRRING OF MY MOST HOLY SPIRIT CAN CALL UPON ME AND BE ''SAVED''. BUT REGRETTABLY THAT IS AS FAR AS IT GOES FOR THE GREAT MAJORITY OF MY SHEEP. SHEEP GOT A PROBLEM WITH HEARING AND UNDERSTANDING. IF THEY CAN NOT HEAR MY WORD, THEY WILL NEVER FIND FAITH. AND WITHOUT FAITH THE CAN NOT FOLLOW ME. LET ALONE TRUST ME TO GET THEM THROUGH THEIR TROUBLES.''

''MANY WHO SAY THEY WILL FOLLOW NEVER PICK UP THEIR CROSS. SO THEY START TO WALK ON THEIR OWN INTO THE MAZE OF RELIGION. IN TIME THEY WILL FIND A POLE THAT MEETS THEIR NEEDS. NOW EVERYONE OF THOSE POLES COMES CLOSE TO WHERE I WALK. SOME HOLD TO MUCH OF MY WORD, YET ALSO THE LIE IN SOME SHAPE OR FORM.''

''THE ABOMINATION IS MAN HAS ERECTED EACH AND EVERYONE OF THESE POLES TO ENSNARE MAN. TO CONTROL AND TO USE MAN, IN WAYS COMPLETELY ALIEN TO ME. THEN THEY ALL CLAIM AND BLAME ME FOR THEIR MISTREATMENT OF THEIR FELLOW MAN.''

''It has never changed, has it LORD?'', I asked.

''SORRY DOG, BUT IT DID CHANGE. IT CHANGED WHEN I CALLED ABRAM OUT OF UR. IT CHANGED WHEN I SENT OLD MOSES BACK TO EGYPT. IT CHANGED WHEN I TALKED WITH DAVID ON THE HILLSIDE. IT CHANGED BIG TIME WHEN I SAID IT WAS FINISHED. IT CHANGES EVEN NOW AS YOU SHARE THESE WORDS. SO MANY ARE CALLED DOG, BUT SO FEW ARE CHOSEN AND WILL FOLLOW ME TO THE END. THE REASON WHY IS THERE ARE SO MANY WHO HAVE SPLIT HAIRS AND CORRUPTED MY WORD.  THEY PERVERT THOSE WHO CALL THEM PASTOR/ELDER/WHATEVER AND DRIVE AWAY MANY BRUISED AND ABUSED WHO WILL NOT COMPROMISE WHAT LITTLE TRUTH THEY DO HAVE. THOSE ARE THE SCATTERED SHEEP I WILL GATHER TO MYSELF.''

''MANY USE MY NAME AND MY WORD FOR THEIR OWN SELF-INTEREST.

THE ILLUSION CALLED ''ENLIGHTENED SELF-INTEREST'' IS A DELUSION UPON WHICH THE LEADERS OF APOSTASY HAVE BUILT THEIR IDOLS TO THEMSELVES. THEY TALK ABOUT THEIR LIGHT AND THEIR SPIRIT BUT ARE NOT OF ME. THEIR LIGHT IS DARK AND THEIR SPIRIT IS PERVERSE.

''I WARNED THAT DARKNESS CAN 'SHINE' AND DECEIVE SELF. THEN WHEN SELF DECEIVES SELF IT CAN BRING THE LIE TO OTHERS. THIS IS WHERE INIQUITY BECOMES ABOMINATION.''

''INSTEAD OF STAYING IN MY TRUTH SO MANY HAVE STOPPED

FOLLOWING AND ERECTED THEIR OWN STANDARD. BASED UPON THEIR UNDERSTANDING, NOT MINE.''

With that HE took HIS FEET FROM my lap and stood up. As HE turned to the PAVILION I noticed the ''door'' had changed. Now it was large enough to go through standing up.

"WELL OLD DOG, YOU ASKED FOR THIS JOB, SO TO SPEAK.''

"I firmly remember being drafted, LORD.'', I replied.

"YOU COULD HAVE ASKED TO BE A ''GENERAL'' OR A ''SPECIAL MINISTER'' TO THE KING.''

"Would that have changed anything?''........

so it ended....the SIXTH THUNDER......

I got no answer, just a laugh, a hug, and a nouggie. But then KINGS don't do that....and of course the GOD who is not a respecter of persons would never stoop to such stuff. and we hear continuous WORDS calling for intimacy, for fellowship, for relationship. forgive me for being blunt, but things have changed somehow. this THUNDER like the others addressed ''the sin in the camp''. yet there is no warning or call to repentance. none of these THUNDERS do so directly. the First and Second spoke of WIND. the Third spoke of threshing and separation. the Fourth had a ''storm'' and a tsunami....water... the Fifth and now the Sixth  mention no warning, I fear we have passed that time.

In my spirit I hear these words 

Isaiah 65:1-25 1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;

4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will

I measure their former work into their bosom.

8 Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.

9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

11 But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.

12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.

13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.

15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:

16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former

troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD. (KJV)

I could add Isaiah 66 now....but it will wait till the next THUNDER.

selah old dog


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