“Let us sit here together. As you close your eyes and are overcome with peace, remain there. Commune with Me and I will commune with you. I am always with you according to My word. Yet you only sense My presence when you focus on Me and search with the eyes of your heart. What we desire is the same. You are mine and I long for intimacy with you. Sometimes you will come to this place and it will feel as though I have not. Do not permit your feelings to dictate what is true in any given circumstance. Rather, rely fully upon My word. It does not change and it will not fail. Yesterday, today, tomorrow and forevermore it remains firmly established.
The things of this world overwhelm the senses but they cannot reach that deep place within. They cannot touch the rock, but a time is coming when the rock will crush the things of this world. The truth will be evident before all, but most will already be blinded by the ruler of this world. They will hate and reject the truth and they will seek to rid themselves of all who hold fast to it. For as long as My people who walk in My truth are present they will serve as a conscience to those who have chosen lies.
The people of this world desire to worship one who will help them to fulfill the lustful desires of their wicked hearts. They are steeped in rebellion and apart from Me they are headed swiftly down the broad path leading to destruction. I take no joy in their position and lament greatly their eternal destination.
The nations revile Me. They revile all that restricts them from achieving the full manifestation of their wicked, lustful hearts. As such, My name is not spoken in reverence. They use it as a word to curse the creation of My own hands. They seek darkness and they shall find it. The darkness will overtake them. When it does they will remember what it was like to stand in the light but it will be too late. They will cry out, but it will not be a cry of repentance. Their cries will be rooted only in their anguish. I will be the object of their anger and their grief.
Your nation is full of those who use the name “Christian” and yet they stand opposed to Me. They do not want Me. They use My name as a tool to manipulate and thus steal. These are true ravenous wolves. Their lusts are never satisfied and so they constantly seek more but more is never enough.
My hand is about to sweep across the churches of your nation. Yet as it does they will say, ‘It is the devil. Our god would never do something like this!’
So while I desire to awaken and to revive, most churches will shut Me out once and for all. They will lead the world in its hatred of Me and of My people. They will not tolerate My true servants in their presence and so they will drive them out.
Do not despair. Although it will only be a handful of churches that desire My presence and welcome Me in, the movement of My glory in them will be at a magnitude that this world has never seen.
The manifestations that go through your mind at this point are but a small portion of what will occur. What your carnal mind can imagine will never match the magnitude of My glory and My awesome power. It will be tempting to get caught up in the many miracles but do not. It is I, not My miraculous manifestations, that is at the heart of it all.
Fix your eyes on Me and give Me all the glory for what you will see and experience. My people will have never been so whole… physically, emotionally and spiritually. Rejoice! Rejoice in Me for where My Spirit is present there is true freedom. Do not be surprised as you see the broken and the bedraggled, the down and outs, as they pour into your churches. It is these that I pleasure to bring into My harvest. They will trickle in at first, but will then come in droves. Some will try and stop it. They will mistakenly think that somehow the church is losing its holiness but I tell you, it will have never been more holy. The miracles that follow will serve as evidence of this.
Beware of wolves that try to enter the gate alongside the sheep. They will disguise themselves so as to blend in, but I will expose them. You will recognize these by their fruits. It is important that you look past what they say to see what they do.
These must be removed and you must guard against them as they will persist in trying to reenter the fold. Yet My sheep and particularly My young lambs (who do not yet know My ways) must be protected. Charge your shepherds and watchmen to remain sober and vigilant. My sheep are to be holy and set apart. Be holy as I am holy.
All these things shall come to pass soon. Remember these words and watch for their fulfillment.”
Author: Mitch Salmon
Mitch Salmon is a follower of Jesus Christ and proclaimer of the Good News – The Gospel of Christ Jesus!
I was inspired to write this, after reading this article and others like on z3news.com This is a analogy story to go with a message titled “The Dream Church.” Though the events are not of a real person, but it gives a clear illustration what will happen to those false churches, pastors, and their members.
“The Dream Church”
One Saturday night, a man named Billy, who was happily in love with his church, went to bed, and shortly after he fell asleep, and began to see a white light. He began to get concerned, he thought he was dying going to Heaven, but out of no where a man appeared before him, and said, “Come with me, I want to take you somewhere.” Billy replied, “Who are you? And, Where do you want to take me?” The man who was in a bright, white robe stated, “There is no time now. We must go.” Intrigued Billy followed the man, and all of a sudden they were walking up a hill, in a beautiful field. On top of the hill set a small building. This building looked old, and tattered, with many raggedy cars sitting in the dirty graveled parking lot. Billy asked the man, who was leading him, “Where am I?” The man said nothing, and motioned his hand for him to keep following him. “Where am I?” he yelled again. The woman pointed towards the old tattered building, and said, “Come.” As they walked up to the building entrance, Billy saw praying hands, and he instantly knew he was going into a church. Billy thought to himself, “What kind of church is this?” As he went to open the door, he looked back for the man, who had led him, and he was gone. He shouted, “Where did you go? Where did you go?” Instantly another woman opened the door, with a smile on her face, and said, “Come in. You are welcome here. Jesus loves you.” Billy became awe shocked, he thought to himself, “What kind of church does this?” Billy questioned the lady, “Who are you?” The woman at the door replied, “I am an usher, and a fellow servant of God.” Billy said, “Where are the bouncers?” “Bouncers?” The usher replied. Billy abruptly spoke, “Yes! Bouncers! You are not allowed to speak to me, or greet me when I come in.” “We don’t do that here. Would you like to sit upfront?”, said the lady at the door. “Upfront?” Billy asked, “You are not supposed to ask me this question. You are to set the attractive, and more wealthy people upfront, no questions asked. And furthermore, you are only allowed 5% of unattractive and poor people, by volume to be seen in the ministry, the other 95% must sit hidden in the back.” Again the usher stated, “We don’t do this here sir. We encourage the poor, the lame, the downtrodden, or anyone in any circumstance to sit up front, because we want everybody to be apart of the family.” So Billy requested the middle seat, and as he walking, he asked “Where is the ATM?” “We don’t have an ATM here.”, the usher stated. Billy with a frantic reply, “How will people get their money out? they need money, so they can receive prayer.” “Prayer is always free here.”, the usher replied. Billy then grabbed his inhaler, because he lost his breath due to unbelief of it all. As Billy sat down, he sat down next to poor family, the family greeted him with a warm smile. Billy gazed in disbelief, and thought to himself, “This couldn’t be.” Then the music begin to play, and as Billy listened to the song, and quickly noticed this is a song he has never heard. He asked the man next to him, “This song is not on the radio, how can they play this song in church? Don’t you know it will run people away?” The then they man’s daughter, whom billy was sitting next to, excitedly replied, “We love songs about: Holiness and the Blood of Jesus.” Billy then asked the little girl, “Why aren’t you in Children’s church?” Her mother replied, “We are all one family. We worship and serve God together. Even the children get taught at an early age, to be trained properly.” “But, when will the dancers and the strobe lights be coming out?”, Billy asked. The little girl replied, “We don’t have that here.” Billy couldn’t believe it, he was flabbergasted within himself, “No strobe lights, no heavy metal christian rock band, or rap group to make me feel like I am at Club Jesus.” Then out of now where people started falling down on their face in worship, and speaking in tongues, and furthermore there was an interpreter. Billy quickly went over to the usher and said, “You must stop this. This can’t be allowed in a church. What is going on?” The usher replied, “We bring in the holy spirit here every service, and he is welcome.” Billy said, “You can’t. The pastor will not allow this. He will lose members and money.” “Not here”, the usher stated, “The pastor encourages this. He doesn’t look for money, but he looks for souls.” Billy again took his inhaler, and used it. When Billy made his way back to his seat, he knew it was time for the preaching. The preacher got up, and asked the congregation, “Do you know the other side of grace?” The preacher then went on and said, “Today we will be talking about Hell, Sin, God’s Judgment on people and nations, and all the things on the other side of grace.” Billy dropped his jaw in disbelief, he thought to himself, “Am I in the twilight zone? Why doesn’t the pastor have on a baseball cap, Jordan sneakers, showing his tattoos, so he can make it looked liked he struggled.” He whispered to the man seated next to him, “Is he allowed to talk about this? He is only allowed to talk about self empowerment, and giving the church all of your money. You can’t talk like this. People will think you are judging them.” The man next him whispered back, “We only talk about sin, mercy, helping our fellow man here, holiness, and the rewards and consequences for doing or not doing these things.” Billy couldn’t believe it. He noticed how everyone was paying attention, not on their phones, and on social media parlaying the message in bits and pieces. This time Billy really used his inhaler. After the message the preacher gave an altar call, and many came and fell face down in repentance. Billy was jittery and didn’t know what to make of this. At this point a man who had been in a wheelchair all his life, got up, walked, and gave God the biggest praise. Then another woman shouted, “My cancer is gone!” Billy then asked himself, “Where is the $25, $50, and $100+ prayer line?” He then remembered what the usher had told him about free prayer. After this they began to take up the offering, and the preacher thanked every member in the congregation, for every member, in the congregation has paid their tithes every single week. The preacher then asked for any volunteers to help fix the roof, and every eligible male raised their hand, and said, “I will help.” Billy couldn’t believe the generosity of the church, given their economic state. Next the preacher said, “We have a visitors in the church.” He asked the visitors to come upfront so every member could shake their hand, and give them a hug to make them feel welcome. Billy couldn’t believe it. He started to have “The Big One,” like Redd Foxx had playing the role of Fred Sanford on Sanford and Son. He had never seen so much love, in a church his entire life. As the service let out Billy said, “I must get out if here. What if people I know see me here?”, and as left the building he noticed no cars playing worldly pop, rock, rap, R&B, and Hip-Hop. Billy said to himself, these people are not supposed to have any substance ‘After The Benediction'” But as he ran, he saw the man who led Billy to the church. He ran to the man said, “Why did you bring me here?” Instantly the man pointed to the ground, and the floor split open. Billy found himself in a extremely hot, dark, sulfurous cell. He cried with a loud voice, “Where am I?” And instantly loud voice yelled back at him, “I hate you!” then the voice threw Billy against the wall. Billy instantly realized he was in Hell, but then a light filled the room, and he knew it was the same man who led him to church. He knew this man to be Jesus. He cried to Jesus, “I don’t want to be down here. Why am I down here?” Jesus then answered you loved money, riches, fame, luxury, and numbers more than me, and more than the lost, hurting, down trotten, sick, poor, widow, orphan. You wanted to be popular, make a name for yourself, and make money, but you didn’t want to give a word truly from God, you didn’t want to tell the people the truth, you are wicked pastor. He begged and said, “I didn’t want to lose my members, and we go into the poor house. It would make me look bad.” Jesus, said to him I brought you hear to give you glimpse of what will happen to you if you don’t change.” Billy replied, “How can I?” Jesus said, “The church you visited is a perfect church. Many think this church is only a dream, it can’t be reality. But, it can be real. You must go back, and run your church like the pastor you have witnessed. Billy said, “How can I? How will I stop the people from listening to the Taylor Swift’s, Lil Wayne’s, Nicki Minaj’s, Justin Bieber’s, and the Beyonce’s of the world? How can I tell the people that the government is wrong? How can I tell the people we will be using the church money to help the orphans, widows, and the poor? How can I tell people to stop watching the Cookie Lyons and the Shemar Moore’s of the world? How can I tell the people to stop fornicating, aduterating, commiting homosexuality, and shacking up? How can I tell the people these fake prayer clothes, and fake water doesn’t work, and it’s a scam? How can I do all of these things without being persecuted? What if they leave? How will the church bills get paid?” Jesus then answered, “Blessed are those who persecute you for righteousness sake. It doesn’t matter what they say. Your job is to speak it, and live it. If they do not receive you, shake the dust off and move on. They can not harm you unless I give them authority. For could any of your members place you here? No. Only God has this power. For what you received up there will be nothing, if you find yourself left here for eternity. You must go and speak out against these preachers.” At that moment Jesus took him to a place in Hell, where a multitude of preachers were just like him. They were all in their cell pleading a crying out to get out. Jesus spoke you had your chance.” He saw the things happening to them, Jesus turned to Billy and said, “This will be you if you don’t repent, and do what is commanded of you. Do not worry about what these preachers will say or do to you. Their kind, without repentance is here, and their members too. There are two types of churches, the fake church and the real church. The real church no longer has to be the church of your dreams. I will provide for all my real churches.” Billy then dropped to his knees, and said Lord have mercy, instantly the alarm clock went off, he knew it was Sunday morning, it was time for church. Billy arose, and said “I am going to help make the Dream Church, become the real church.”
Many think the church Billy visited was a church only one can dream of. Yet, God is looking for this church, and not the fake church Billy ran. God will always take care of the people who do his will. Many are looking for the Church in Billy’s dream, and we must make it happen. We must promote and support pastors who try and make this happen. There are more pastors of Billy’s type than the one in the dream. James Bailey is one of the pastors like the one Billy visited, and others on this site are as well. (I don’t want to name everyone, because I might miss one, and make you feel left out.) There will only be two types of churches in the last days. The fake heresy, prosperity church, and the Real, holy, stop sinning church. Choose this day which church you will belong to, and who you will serve. God bless and I hope this gives hope to those who read it, and glimpse of the sad reality of many churches today.
James, I print many of these posts out for those who have no acess to a computer. Many times I don’t see an icon for print. I sometimes have held the control key and the letter P and the print page will come up, but not always. Can you help me on this? I was asked to lead a class last spring on Bible Prophecy and what is happening currently. The enemy of our souls said to me “YOU at your age and with all your health situations. Right away the HOLY SPIRIT reminded me of Moses and Sarah. I’m not quite 80—in less then a year and half I will be. I told the person that I would pray about it and for them to also pray. The LORD confirmed it in two different ways through two different people quite quickly and that was to “WARN”. The class as of right now has been on hold, but I still feel an the LORD wants me to remind those who have computer to go to your web site and site and some others—-but to print out for those who don’t go on a computer or have one.
THANK YOU SO MUCH and many thanks for the posts and comments, as very few are warniing and hearing from the LORD in churches today.
Kathy, depending on the browser (I typically use Mozilla Firefox) when you left click on the file menu (upper left) you’ll see a list of options which includes printing. Other browsers may be different. Another option is to highlight the text and copy it out to another application like Microsoft Word. That will allow you to print as well. Hopefully that helps!
Mitch gave you two great solutions. Copying the text and pasting it into a Word document gives you more control over formatting, so that would be my preferred method.
I will certainly follow the lead of the Holy Spirit. Whatever God shows me to do I will obey. God does reveal the plan of the enemy and protect his People! God/ Jesus is great and worthy to be praised.
Mitch, I really need to hear this, thank you for relaying this encouragement from the Lord to all of us!
My “Churchianity” wife recently divorced me after 7 years of marriage. I feel for you. She considered me a man of “doom-and-gloom”, although I always reminded her that God is in control ALWAYS and as Christians, we are only called to fear the Almighty and no other. She is very much a creature of this world and is incredibly deceived. Her faith is in her money, but soon the money, the bank accounts, the 401K’s, and retirement pensions will be worthless. There are many women who use the “churchianity” schtick just to find a man they know will not be inclined to cheat on them and to have a social club. They also use “churchianity” to hide behind in order to appear to be good when they are just being deceitful. For my wife, I was her 4TH HUSBAND, but I had assumed because she was a Christian, she had learned from her ways. MAN, WAS I WRONG ABOUT THAT!!! If worse comes to worst, as in all things, FORGIVE and LOVE regardless. The Lord told me once that it is not enough to just forgive your enemies; we must LOVE them. Do not despair, for these things were prophesied by the Lord. Divorce is tough, and it hurts. I pray that your wife will see the light, but if she doesn’t, do not worry: God will see you through it, and you will be an even better servant for His Kingdom, not having to deal with a wife in opposition to His Kingdom.
Sounds like the woman at the well! Jesus went out of his way to minister to her and she told everyone she knew about Jesus. Thank God Jesus truly loves the way he does!
Hi Carl. I am not sure why I am even here reading your comment when it is 2/7/2019, but I have a Youtube channel that focuses alot on the divorce and remarriage problem in the church. My testimony is getting born again after being in church all my life thinking I was saved, but God spoke to me and revealed my husband of 22 years’ adultery as a deacon in the church with my best friend in church. About 40 people knew about it, and 4 pastors, but thought it was under grace as it went on for 2.5 years. I became suicidal, but after 9 months, I cried out to Jesus to kill me, and He did. He killed the old me, and made me a new creation in Christ. He brought me to repentance for my own sins instead of thinking about my husband’s sins. I know the voice of the Lord, and John 10 says that His sheep know My voice and they obey. God did not allow me to divorce him, and he divorced me against my will over 10 years ago, but I have never dated or even lusted after a man. I believe in the covenant of marriage, so for you to marry a divorced woman (if this was your first marriage) was not a covenant. She is still the wife of her first husband if he is alive. There is a testimony on my playlist of a woman who was married 5 times when she became a believer, and she repented and got out of that marriage. You are welcome to come to my channel-Walking by the Spirit Always-and check out my videos such as, Why Pastors Will Lie to You About Divorce and Remarriage-or my playlist which has over 90 videos of true teaching and testimonies of biblical marriage. God bless you in Jesus’ name.
We had better be careful not to pull the wheat up with the tares.
I believe I understand the point you are trying to make. There is a vast difference between the lost who do not know Jesus and those who claim to be Christians but use the title (for lack of a better word) to serve their own hidden agenda.
I need to add something more personal with regards to this. When Jesus radically transformed my life in 2009, I was one who lived a double life. I knew how to play church and had the full “churchaneze” vocabulary. Yet there was a struggle taking place inside me. I was leading a small group and teaching the scripture while struggling with pornography and sexual addiction. Still God had a plan for my life. It began when I GOT REAL before Him and was continued when I began GETTING REAL before others. He did the hard work of healing and deliverance and I did the relatively easy work (by comparison) of dropping pretense and humbling myself.
What I experienced can be applied to anyone but at the heart of it is that whole idea of getting real, repenting and choosing to pursue a new path. As a result of my experience and having worn a mask for so many years I am definitely empathetic regarding this. Now, I could have stiffened my neck and decided to continue playing the church game but I never would have been able to get right with God in the process. I would have in effect chosen pornography, sexual addiction and pleasing people as my hidden idols.
Such is the case for many of these “wolves.” If they were to get real and get right with God and then come clean with others they too will receive forgiveness and be reconciled unto God. However, as long as they play the game they remain dangerous to the Body.
Even if they have deliberately chosen to teach a demonically inspired (ear tickling) doctrine they can be forgiven and restored. Yet most will never come clean.
I like the testimony of Jim Bakker and consider it as a prime example of what can happen. His intentions going into the ministry were good but over time fame and greed took him off the path. Many were deceived by false teachings and fleeced of their money in the process. BUT GOD put a roadblock in the way and Jim stumbled over it. He spent years in prison and during that time he repented and got right with God. Now he is restored and working in the ministry once again. Even the hard falls can be used for God’s glory.
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” – Ephesians 5:11
Yes I agree these are days where we must obey God and dot the perfect will of God. Most of the people God used in a mighty way in the bible were fallen men. David Commited adultery and murdered a man, Moses murdered a man, Paul murdered Christians, Jonah ran from God, Elisha tried to kill himself, Abraham lied and tried to create his own destiny, Jacob stole his brothers birthright, Joseph went from the prison to the palace, Sampson told Delila his secrets, Jesus came out of Rahab the Harlets line, the woman at the well had five husbands and Jesus went out of his way to go see her and she told everyone about Jesus. Mary Magdoline was the first person to see Jesus after he rose from the dead. Peter denied Christ three times. God/ Jesus loves healing people and receiving the glory. It good that Jesus came into the world to save people. Zerubabal learned not by might, not by power but by the spirit he was saved. Solomon was not a perfect King, but God loved Solomon!
How are we going to evangelize the world if we fail to share the good news of the gospel with everyone. Jesus was a frien with sinners and he shared the gospel with them and cast demons out of them. John 3:16.
Laura, I may be missing the context of your statement but I didn’t want to overlook it. Can you expand on your thoughts?
Very powerful word! Thank you Lord!
Mitch, very powerful, moving, and true Word from the Lord!
Thank you and Amen!