Sunday, December 29, 2013

The Shaking has Begun

A Distress Call - Starting on December 25,  the Lord woke me up to let the dogs out. Wondering why the Lord would do that, I laid back down to wait for them not wanting to fall asleep, because I didn't want to leave them out in the frigid weather. As I nodded off the Lord woke me again…but this time with an almost 'playful' poking in the stomach, (like multiple fingers tickling me kind of hard). I turned towards my husband, Earl. He was facing away from me, and said, "Earl, did you shake me?", (I didn't know what else to call it). I said it at least twice,  but he was asleep and didn't answer me. At the same moment I was awakened, the dogs scratched at the door so I got up, as Earl wasn't answering me, and let them in. I couldn't understand why the Lord would wake me for something so benign, but then the phone rang. It was my son, David. He was telling me that the police were going to get a search warrant to  search their trailer. He was just recently put on probation, so to be picked up by the police would be devastating. But, then he had to get off of the phone because someone was at the door. As I hung up the phone I felt like it was more than I could bear, because of all of the things that have happened in the past year, and because, if David gets arrested, he's going away for at least a few years, (or more). But, then, as I got up to go to the bathroom, the Lord spoke to me that if He cared so much about the dogs, how much more did He care about David? If He knows what the dogs are doing, and what I am doing, doesn't He know all about David? And then again, while I was in the bathroom, He said, * "...pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh..." and then, **"This is the chastening of the Lord". So, my heart was comforted, and I was able to deal with the rest of the uncomfortable events that were to happen before dawn.
The Shaking - on 12/26, on this day, Earl and I went over to the trailer park to check on David, as he did not call me back the night before. As we arrived, we could see that the police were there. They had detained my ex-daughter-in-law Melissa, and had David in custody. They were searching the trailer at that moment. I was talking to the police officer standing guard trying to fill him in as to some of David and Melissa's history, because the whole reason David was in peril had to do with Melissa's ongoing treachery. Turned out, I had been talking to the Police Chief the whole time. I don't think I would've had that opportunity in any other scenario. He let us look in the trailer for our belongings and also talk to David. I was able to give him Earl's sweatshirt as he was naked except for pajama bottoms, and to tell him that the Lord said it was His chastening. He only wanted me to 'take care of Melissa' and to get the electronics out of the trailer.                                                                                                                                                                                                      I was awakened again…someone shook me awake. This was not playful, it seemed urgent. Why? Again, I looked over at Earl with the same questions as the previous night, (did you shake me??) and again, he was asleep and did not answer me; (both times, I was on the very edge of the bed, facing away from Earl toward the middle of the room when I was moved from the direction of the center of the room). In the morning, I told Earl what happened and he said, ***'Whatever can be shaken, will be shaken'. And, I said, "that's not what that means Earl". But, later that day, without intending to,  I saw the same word, in the same context, on my computer. Then I did a study of the word, 'shaken'. Also, this is not something new to me...God has imprinted this idea on my heart long ago...that He is about to shake everything that can be shaken.
A Cry of Danger - 12/27, the next day, I read 'The Harbinger', by Jonathan Cahl and came across the same verse again in the context of the Lord's Judgement that began in NYC on 9/11! At that point I believed that the Lord was speaking to me saying that 'the shaking has begun'. First He shook me, then He told me what it meant, (through the voice of my Husband), then He verified it while I was on the computer (which details I can't remember).'                                                                                                                               That night in the early a.m. David's son, Darrell, (20 years old),  anxiously called up to us, saying that someone was outside, and had knocked on his bedroom window. Earl went outside and circled the house, and I went out onto the front porch, turning on the lights. No one was in evidence. Why was I awakened again in the middle of the night? What was the danger? What was the Lord saying?


On 12/28, I realized that I had been awakened in the middle of the night three times in a row. Twice, by the Lord Himself. Once almost playfully, letting me know He is in control of every situation, then more urgently, and then a cry from Darrell, thinking that someone was trying to break in. What is the Lord saying? Reading the Harbinger seemed to tie it together, as the Lord spoke of warning and judgment, of love and of returning. He is at work in our Nation, but it continues to run from Him. David is in jail. His, ex-wife Melissa, whom he has tried to hold onto against all reason,  has fled.

1 Corinthians 11:32, "But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world."

So...
  • From outside the house…an urgent call of distress and the comfort of God showing me that He knows.
  • From in my bedroom, an urgent awakening and the verification of God about shaking what can be shaken
  • From inside the house, an alarm
  • From outside the house, a prophecy of nine harbingers which were ignored by this Nation, and that there will be a second, and a third shaking.


We are being shaken...as individuals, as a family, as a Nation. This Nation affects the whole world. And the Heavens also will be shaken. The time is upon us. We must be rooted and grounded in the faith, built upon the Rock which is Christ, that we may able to stand as everything around us comes apart.

*Jude 1:23
"...And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh."

"...But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world."

***Hebrews 12:25-26 
"See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire."

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