During my prayer time on June 5 2016, around 6:00 am, the Father spoke the following words to me.
“The gates of this nation are soon to be shut. The trap has been set. The devices have been prepared. A clamping down, a locking away of the freedoms of the past is at hand. This is not a time to fear, but of great faith!
Listen closely to My words and hear My plans. Enter into your prayer chambers and there I will speak. It is there I will give you direction. For many voices will seek to fool you, pollute you, and misguide you. I did not send them. They have an assignment of distraction, rooted in disbelief. They, the shepherds of Babylon, are lying to My people.
Prepare for war. Not just a battle between the world and the Cross, but a battle between My true church and the apostate lukewarm church. I call them a church, but they are not My church. For My Bride, My people, hear My voice, they know Me and I know them. Raise up your shield of faith. Take in your hand the Sword of the Spirit and prepare for war. It will be a war of Truth!”
The Father then led me to Hosea chapter 4. I want to minister this prophetic word to you, because it has great significance for the Church right now.
Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. (Hosea 4:1)
The first key for us to understand is God has a problem with the Church! He takes issue with our sin and pagan practices, both in and out of the Church. This verse says He has a controversy, a problem with us! The Hebrew word rib, which is translated as controversy, means to have a case against, a legal case or law suit. In other words, God the Father says, I’m taking you to My court for your sins! America has been subpoenaed and the Church has been indicted, sued by the Grand Jury of the universe, God’s Throne!
Why did God take Israel to court? Why is He now weighing us in the balance of righteousness? Because like Israel, we have turned our back on Him, and have foolishly followed our leaders! Here is the prophetic parallel.
3-Point Indictment from Verse 1:
No Truth:
The Hebrew word emeth, which is translated here as truth, means firmness, faithfulness, and reliability. Today’s pastors are not willing to tell the truth, because they are afraid to. No backbone, no courage, no guts, all mouth and no muscle to do the heavy lifting! They would rather offend Heaven and appease man! They are in touch with their feminine side and it shows in their preaching, in their daily lives of wanting to be pampered!
No Mercy:
The Hebrew word chesed, which is translated here as mercy, refers to not showing favor, goodness, or kindness. Many churches could be called the Me Church because it’s all about me. I don’t want to hear about abortions or those so called Christians in Syria and Iraq; they don’t belong to my domination, so why should I care? Who cares about the children and their exposure to the perversion of transgender devils, we must be kind to everyone. We have it all mixed up in the church of America. We cater to the devils of our society who have a plan to destroy us, and we show no mercy, no compassion to whom we been called to protect! We are living life upside down!
No Knowledge of God:
The choice of words used in the Hebrew really makes the point clear. The word daath, which is translated as knowledge, means to have skill or discernment. To have skill applied to understanding one must be willing to employ that “skill” into searching for truth. To say no knowledge of God meant no skill in pursuing the fullness of knowing Him. The Church doesn’t fully know God because pastors haven’t given their people the skills to learn. They haven’t shown the Church the zeal for the knowledge of God, the passion of pursuing Truth! Our pastors only teach us a New Testament Jesus without teaching us how to discover the totality of the Godhead within the Old Testament. In other words, we only know half of the truth, half of the character and half of the attributes of the Trinity. In reality we don’t know the God we say we serve and love! The name for God in this verse is Elohiym (Strong’s 430), the plural form of His name. The same word is used in Genesis 1:1. The reason for the use of this word is to reveal the totality of who He is. The prophetic application for us today is that must know Him in totality. We must know His love but His anger as well, His grace but His judgments. We must embrace Him as He is, and if we continue to allow these preachers to paint a modern picture of the Father, with the brushes of just a New Testament Jesus, we miss the fullness of God!
America’s preachers don’t want to give us the skills to learn about the Father because they don’t like who He REALLY is! That is why we are not ready for judgments, we have bought the lie that the God of the Old Testament in essence does not exist! Jesus fixed the Father, calmed the Father down, and all is well. The Church is at fault for not using the skills given to us to search the scriptures, to see if it is so. We let these snake oil salesmen get away with preaching doctrines of devils because most of us are too lazy to flip a few pages and study! We are more willing to buy fast food than a Strong’s Concordance. We don’t study to show ourselves approved! )2 Timothy 2:15)
God said to Israel as He is saying to us, I’ve got a problem with you! YOU DON’T KNOW ME! As a result, you don’t know how to act, how to live, or how to operate in My Kingdom. That is why we have pastors and Church folk acting up in the House of God. How can they respect the House, when they disrespect the owner of the House! Verse 2 proves it.
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. (Hosea 4:2)
Because we don’t apply the Truth, Mercy, and Knowledge of God, we become a cesspool of sin! This is why our nation will burn with a fervent heat. We have completed a metamorphosis into the Babylonian Church of America, where Pastor Pagan preaches doctrines of devils to a group of dead folks! And we wonder why judgment is here in America.
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. (Hosea 4:3)
Romans 8:22 is the parallel scripture, which explains why all the wildlife and sea life is dying off. The earthquakes, volcanoes, and flooding are easy to understand. The earth is saying, “It’s time. I’m groaning, I’m waiting for the Church to arise. I’m waiting for the Creator to redeem and restore.”
Yet the Church still wants to know how to have my best life now because we simply don’t know God!
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. (Hosea 4:6)
Verse 6 tells us again we are destroyed because we are not using the skills, the passion, or the pursuit of knowing Him. This is not about memorizing Bible scriptures. This is about experiencing God in His fullness! This is not even about attending a Church; it’s about knowing the One who created you! We have as a Church rejected knowing Him, therefore He will reject knowing us! Read all of Matthew 7 not only verse 23.
For the sake of time, please read all of Hosea 4. Read about the priest taking the Sin Offering and eating it. Taking the Hallowed things of God and using them in a profane manner. This is the Church right now! Listen; there is no difference between the pew and the pulpit. Sin is sin! Nobody gets a free pass! If your church is pagan in its practice, GET OUT OF IT NOW! Separate yourselves from those who choose to reject the knowledge of God.
And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. (Hosea 4:8)
Four Ways to Stay Out of Babylon:
In conclusion, I want to give 4 things the Father gave me that will keep you out of the bedroom of Babylon.
- Be transparent with God. Simply put, repent. Just expose yourself to the Father in complete honesty. He already knows your sin, and is willing to help you through it. He is a redeemer and a restorer, but He can’t heal what you’re willing to conceal. King David is my hero in relation to transparency, please read all of Psalm 51, and know God is a good God.
- Get out of the Babylonian Churches! Get your family out as fast as you can. Start a house church, prayer group; anything will be better than to hang out in the den of thieves.
- Surround yourself with Truth. Read the Bible for yourself, study it, and live it. Fast from watching Christian television! Stop listening to the propaganda of both the church and the world.
- Get baptized in the Holy Spirit! This is one thing the preppers don’t have on their list! I didn’t see this on FEMA’s website, and you surely don’t hear about it most churches. We must have the blessed infilling of the Holy Spirit who leads us into ALL TRUTH! (John 16:13) He will guide us in these last days, we need Him! The Holy Spirit is not a feeling, He is a person, a part of the Trinity, and I will be as plain as I can; we don’t know Him either! If we did, our hearts would grieve with His. Our services would be full of weeping, repenting, and wrestling in the Spirit for lost humanity, no we do not know Him. Our churches and our nation’s condition are proof. Ask Jesus to baptize you today in the Holy Spirit! Matthew 3:11. We must be filled if we are going to endure the judgments that are at our door. CBN’s course on the Holy Spirit is one of many available ways to discover more about the Holy Spirit.
Keep running with Fire!
Author: Pastor Benjamin Faircloth
Benjamin Faircloth is the President and Founder of World Outreach Ministries International and also the Pastor of Ignited Church in Lavonia GA. His wife Jennifer is also a Pastor at Ignited Church, which was birthed out of a desire to see the glory of God restored to the church and to help others discover their destiny in Christ! Benjamin has been in ministry since 1991.
Pastor, This message is about getting out of Babylon if I’m not mistaken; the implication being that “some” of christendom IS Babylon the Great. That being the case how can the leaders of God people help the saints of God to be able to distinguish the “right” place to go? It seems to me that in the entire ecumenical system that we have before us only causes the children of God to go round and round in the wilderness.
There are those pastors who, like you, preach basic Truth but that’s as far as we ever get (for centuries round and round we go). We can never seem to leave “the principles of the doctrine of Christ, (and) go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment” (He 6:1-2).
There is evidently something fundamentally wrong somewhere, maybe we do not clearly understand Babylon or the extent of HER.
The Lord Jesus’ desire for us is that we “go on unto perfection” unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, unto a perfect man (corporate).”
It is God’s will that we STOP wandering in the wilderness!!
Hi Steve, Henry Kissinger said the day of reckoning is coming to the church. The luciferians are well-versed in their spirituality and display a strong ability to socially organize, and mobilize on an actionable level, and I think for these reasons, and the like, is why they are wielding the cultural influence (the dominant idea), in many respects, with regards to institutions (education, church, etc.), the economy and goverment. Perhaps that’s what he was referring to.
Hello 7Acres, In Rev 17:3-6 The Apostle John wrote, “I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND (ALSO) ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.”
Let us first mention that John saw many, many strange and unusual things while receiving the Revelation and of ALL the things he saw and heard this WOMAN is the ONLY THING that caused him to be “Amazed with great amazement.” The question then becomes WHY did only this one thing in the whole of the Revelation take him (John) aback?
Secondly, the Greek word interpreted mystery is musterion and, in accordance with Vine’s Dictionary, “denotes, not the mysterious (as with the Eng.word), but that which. being outside the range of unassisted natural apprehension, CAN BE MADE KNOWN only by divine revelation, and is made know in a manner and at a time appointed by God, and to those only who are illumined by His Spirit.” That being the case we should be able to clearly understand who or what SHE is.
Lastly, if the Book of Revelation is written symbolically, which we know that it is as the Lord Himself set the stage with “the seven stars ARE…” “the seven candlesticks ARE…” (Rev 1:20). Then we should be able to, by understanding with what or whom SHE is arrayed, (and the interpretation of those things will be found in Scripture) be able to determine exactly who she is.
Remember, the Apostle John was “amazed with great amazement.” For further insight click on my name.
The points of origin to where we’re at can be much traced from a sociological and spiritual standpoint. For instance, the type(s) of dysfunction the church is experiencing, denotes the types(s) of poverty the church endures, tolerates, and perpetuates. Rick Joyner talks about this, referring to churches as “spiritual plantations” with regards to poverty, and discusses the three cords that have to be broken in the church; the control spirit, the political spirit, and the religious spirit. He says there is a coming civil war in the church. I think martyrdom of sorts, in this country, may very well begin in the church.
Pastor:
A pastor friend of mine in California, my former home, attempted to deliver a sermon somewhat like this study (but much milder in nature). The congregants left in droves. He was told that many would leave permanently if he dared to speak about judgment again. Needless to say, he proceeded to change his messages to accommodate the church members. Now, everything is just “hunky dory” and things will improve nationwide (so they believe).
I told him that I would rather resign than have their blood on my hands. He retorted that he had to make a living too!! I love the guy, but this situation is indicative of most churches today. As a consequence, l don’t attend church; instead, I study and pray on my own. This word definitely resonated with spirit, and I have read it over again several times. Thank the Lord that you are not too timid to tell the truth! Indeed, there will be no blood on your hands when you stand before him in eternity! The Lord bless you, and I am praying for you. Perhaps I should have become a pastor insead of a teacher!
Thank you for the confirmation. I have been asking for truth and the father has delivered as he always does. II John 9-11 keeps coming to my mind. The doctrine of Yeshua is of the father and the son. In other words you need the whole truth not half. I recently had to leave my church because the pastor began to preach that the old testament was for info only. My spirit disagreed immediately and the father later gave me a dream telling me to leave that Church. Thank you again for giving this word. The father is beginning to separate the goats and sheep.
Thank you Joshua! I agree the separation is taking place! Blessings!
I see an axe in the spirit and sense the Lord is saying that with that axe He will chop off everything and anything that does not belong to Him. My axe will even uproot the roots of all those things holding you back from becoming everything that I had planned for you to become. My plans for you are to prosper you and not harm you. To give you a hope and a future. Pass all your burdens onto Me for I care for you. I will remove everything that you have picked up along the way that does not belong to Me. I have come for a bride without spot or blemish and that bride is YOU!!!. I want you to come before Me as pure, trusted, honest children of God. Your name will be honored wherever you go because you serve Me and I am a king. You are my sons and daughters, therefore My Princes and Princesses. You will be honored wherever you go for you bear My name. You are sons and daughters of the Most High God. Keep putting your trust in Me for I care for you. After I have tested you, you will come forth as gold.
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Thank you Marilee!
Pastor Ben: your 4 ways to stay out of Babylon is so spot on! Thank you for these encouraging words. Also David Ramirez was recently on Sid Roth speaking on having a closeness with Holy Spirit. Totally supports what you have said here. Thank you so much for sharing these words of wisdom!
Thank you MVP for the encouraging confirmation! Blessings to you!
Excellent Word to the Church… An anointed message, if this doesn’t grip your heart and fly right, I don’t know what will except the Judgements of God. WHEN there are judgements in the earth is WHEN My people will learn righteousness (His Righteousness), ISAIAH 26:9. Oh Church, we don’t have to wait until there are judgements in the earth we can KNOW now His Righteousness and have that Relationship we need in Him!
Thank you Patrice! Blessings to you!
All pastors (and members of their flock)bneed to be aware that DHS/FEMA are foreign organizations that are similar to a “Trojan Horse” and they have recruited ~100K pastors to help in their nefarious plans in the 501(c)3 “Churches”. All that they need is a (planned) disaster to get things rolling.
“Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. (See Revelation 18)
Thank you for sharing, Matthew!
Cling to me like never before. Be strong and courageous and do not fear. Rise up my fellow warriors and prophets. Listen and obey the Holy Spirit in the big and small things as I test you. The tidal wave is coming. Judgement is coming. The awakening is coming. But do not fear as I will hide you under the shelter of my wings. As a mother bird provides and protects her young so I will do for my chosen ones. Do not fear. Rise up. Pray like never before. Do not hold back. This is war, fight in prayer as if you are in a true battle as you are. Labor with my spirit. Be Holy. Seek righteousness. Refuse to be distracted or sidelined by the enemy. All your life, every trial, every challenge was preparation for such a time as this. You are ready. Go deep. Go forward. Do not shrink back for I am with you always says the LORD. Do not fall for the familiar schemes of the enemy that he uses in your personal lives.
Amen Donna!
Wonderful word from the Lord, Pastor Faircloth. It is so easy to understand and so supportive in what we, as true believers, should be focusing on and doing. I will spend extra time with the Lord tonight searching these scriptures. May God’s hand and Spirit be upon you, Pastor Faircloth, as you send forth His word. Bless you.
Thank you SusanY! Blessings to you as you study the scriptures…Pray Ephesians 1:15-23 over yourself before you study!
Thank you Pastor for relaying this clear word. A comment from Rick Wiles on a recent Jim Bakker show really stuck with me regarding what the Lord spoke to you … “I call them a church, but they are not My church.” Rick said he would not call the apostate a “church” anymore. He said Jesus tells his flock to be in the world but not of the world. Satan tells his flock to be in the church but not of the church. The word your received confirms this distinction.
That is awesome Rosemary! Blessings!