The Set Time

Todd Bentley - Charlie Robinson

In this teaching titled The Set Time, I will share an important prophetic message about a shaking that will be coming primarily to the Northwest. We will discuss why it's God's desire to execute judgment against His adversaries at this set time. Before closing this teaching with a powerful prophetic act, we will examine how our prayers ascend into heaven and how they activate God's judgments in the earth.

The "set time" is now here for the fulfillment of God's promises as well as the fulfillment of our destinies. We need to prepare ourselves to pay the price that will be required of us when the fulfillments unfold. So we need to be extremely focused in this hour and pay attention to what God is saying to us; most of the time His voice is not heard audibly in our ear.

WHO CAN UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF GOD'S ANGER?

God is telling us that He will have vengeance on His enemies (Isaiah 61:2), and His Word always reflects His personality and character. Most of us don't like to think about God's anger and what could happen if He releases His fury against His enemies.

"Who can comprehend the power of your anger? Your wrath is as awesome as the fear you deserve." Psalm 90:11 NLT

But having said that, let's not forget that there is a place to receive mercy and find refuge when the day of trouble comes (Psalm 91:1-4).

God will cover us with His feathers and under His wings we shall find refuge! During our meetings, sometimes feathers manifest in mid air and gently fall upon the crowd. When this happens, it's a sign and a wonder to cherish because the feathers are a sign of God's kingdom among us, but there's more. I believe this wonder is also meant to comfort and remind us that when the storms come, when God's judgments come, He will spread His feathery soft wings over us when we run for cover under His wings.

"He shall cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler." Psalm 91:4 NKJV

SHAKING IN THE NORTHWEST

I believe it's on God's heart right now to warn us that we need to prepare ourselves for the upheavals that are ahead. We're asking: "What's next? Is there a shifting in the spirit, not just in the Northwest, but also globally?" Yes, we see this shaking happening globally and it's about to happen here. The Lord spoke to me recently, saying: "Yes, in the Northwest there will be a shaking. A shaking unlike any other shaking we have seen in the Northwest."

Before we discuss what this shaking means, I want to share one encounter I recently had. I was praying at home in my living room and suddenly there was a flash of light. Instantly I received a divine sense, a divine revelation, and I knew that I was having a visitation with the angel called "Promise." Only a few times in seven years have I ever seen this angel. When this angel comes, its assignment is to announce the fulfillment of a word that we have received from the Lord. Often the word has come with confirmations repeatedly over the years.

There actually are angels in heaven that oversee answered prayer. They oversee what God has promised so that it is released in our lives, cities, and nations. I believe that this angel's visitation is connected to the set time that we are in now concerning two significant themes: God's desire to execute vengeance on His adversaries and God's desire to fulfill His promises in our lives.

JUDGMENT RELEASES BLESSINGS

GOD IS JUDGING HIS ENEMIES

There are two elements involved when God executes vengeance on His adversaries -- judgment and blessing. So let's turn to Isaiah 64:1-3:

"Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence -- as fire burns brushwood, as fire causes water to boil -- to make Your name known to Your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at Your presence! When You did awesome things for which we did not look, You came down, the mountains shook at Your presence." NKJV

When God makes His name known to His adversaries, whole nations are going to tremble and shake in His presence! Why? Because God is rending heaven and He is coming down in a holy visitation, bringing judgment against His adversaries. It's not judgment on people or judgment on the church. God is releasing judgment right now and it's showing up with whole nations shaking and trembling -- earthquakes. It's God judging Islam. It's God stepping into the war on terror and He is opposing that Islamic spirit.

However, that's only one part of it. Christians are crying out against homosexuality, same-sex marriages, and the drug culture. They are crying out for the Joel's Army to come forth, the emerging generation of young people who don't have a sense of their identity. They are crying out for what's next. They are crying out for a move of God, and God is about to answer -- not just here, but the whole Pacific Rim is tied into this!

Now listen. When the judgment of God comes, He is responding to the prayers of the saints who are crying out for righteousness and justice. When we pray for righteousness to prevail in the earth, there comes a set time when God judges unrighteousness, and it's for a purpose:

"For when Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness." Isaiah 26:9b NKJV

When God releases judgment there will be those in the earth who will turn to Him. So judgment is blessing, but sometimes it shows up with natural disasters. And the Lord will be looking for a way to release mercy to people in the midst of judgment, because His judgments are against demonic principalities so that revival can come.

REVIVAL IS COMING!

GOD REVEALS HIS SECRET COUNSEL TO HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS

The Holy Spirit uses certain prophets in a specific way. How I am used is that when I prophesy certain things, something usually happens immediately or almost right away. I can look back and see that when I have said at different times that earthquakes will happen (in a certain area), within a few days an earthquake did hit that area.

Not long ago I was in Birmingham, Alabama, and the first night of the conference I was caught up into the spirit and saw three major highways coming into Birmingham. I saw revival coming into the city from the north. I gave a specific prophetic word over the region. The Lord told me to tell the people that they will know my words are true when tornados and floods hit Birmingham. When we left, floods and tornados came into Birmingham.

In July 2004, I was in a meeting in Vacaville, California, when I had an open vision. I saw a massive arch angel (the rank of an arch angel assigned over a continent) with one foot on Indonesia and one foot on Malaysia. Next I saw a tsunami wave rise up out of the sea and, in the crest of the tsunami wave, I read the word REVIVAL. Then I saw the tsunami wave hit Indonesia, Malaysia, and S.E. Asia. So I prophesied what I saw as a word of knowledge as well as asking if there was anyone from Malaysia and Indonesia in my meeting. Four pastors from Malaysia stood up and one man stood up from Indonesia.

These five people took the prophecy back to Indonesia and Malaysia and they printed it out. All the churches and the pastors were reading the word. So, when Charlie Robinson (FFM's seer-prophet) went over to Indonesia and Malaysia in December, they were sharing with Charlie how they believed every part of the prophecy I gave about revival coming to Indonesia, Malaysia, and S.E. Asia. They said, "It's all true, Charlie, except for one part. Natural disasters don't happen here." They told Charlie that they didn't believe the tsunami part of the prophecy for Indonesia.

So, Charlie said, "God will judge the seas," because he received a revelation from God about the seven thunders and how God will judge the seven seas (Revelation 10). (More in-depth teaching follows below under The Seven Thunders.)

Charlie had already shared with one of the leaders in Jakarta, Indonesia, that God was about to strike the waters of S.E. Asia off the coast of Indonesia because He was about to judge a principality. Charlie prophesied by faith, telling him that when God comes down and when it hits, it's going to be a mess.

Then in one of Charlie's meetings in Indonesia he felt led to have everyone roar. The church roared for a half hour! (I'll share about the prophetic significance of roaring below, see The Seven Thunders.) The Lord told him there would be an earthquake after he left. When he left Indonesia six days later, on December 26, the earthquake/tsunami happened. God was judging the seas! They called Charlie and said, "It's true. Every word of the prophecy is true!"

When the tsunami happened, the entire world said, "Destruction! Oh, God, why? Why would God allow this to happen? This is judgment. 300,000 lost their lives." But listen! The crest of the wave said REVIVAL! Who would have thought revival would come with a tsunami and an earthquake? Now, one church has grown to 5,000 people, and in the same congregations where we met before the tsunami, different manifestations are happening -- gold dust, diamonds, and feathers are appearing.

When Charlie went back in February, he said, "It (another earthquake) is going to happen again." When he left the region, he was only in the air for one hour and the second earthquake hit (an intense aftershock).

Also, not long ago, I was in Long Island, New York, and prophesied publicly, "The third earthquake will hit the Pacific." Two mornings later the island of Sumatra was hit with a 6.2 earthquake (aftershock). Recently, in Toronto, Ontario, I was with two dozen people when I prophesied, "Mark my words. Japan will be hit with an earthquake. It's the fourth one coming to the Pacific." The earthquake hit Japan a few days later. It was a 5.6.

WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN?

What does all this mean? We need to understand that God's judgments are released as answers to prayer to ultimately bring blessing and to fulfill His promises. And now we are bringing another prophetic word and this time it's for the Northwest. There will be a shaking. There will be a trembling. But I am going to tell you, the shaking will not only release God's promises and God's destiny, it's going to release revival.

Let's remember in the shaking, let's remember in the earthquake in Japan and in the disaster in Indonesia, let's remember that God is saying: "REVIVAL!"

And so, as we prepare in the Northwest for a great shaking, let's remember when it takes place it's a sign that something is about to be released. I don't know how quickly we will see a shaking and a shifting in the Northwest and I don't even know exactly what the shaking is going to look like. It may be an earthquake, it probably will be. But there is even more of a shaking than that coming in the Northwest. I sense that it will be unlike anything ever recorded that's been recorded in over 1,000 years. They don't even have documents that far back. So guess what? We don't have records!

However, God wants us to have an idea about what He's doing. God is making His name known against His adversaries. That's why this year, in 2005, you're going to hear of incredible shakings and tremblings around the world unlike those recorded in any other year. We will see earthquakes of magnitudes that have never been recorded before. And it's not just Indonesia, Malaysia, and Japan. Those are just the first. It's going to be happening all year long. The earthquakes are signs of this next revival! And God isn't leaving us in the dark. He's telling the watchmen and the prophets so that the warning is sounded. And so we must pay attention to what the Lord is telling us to do and then do it. Some of what He will command us to do may be uncomfortable to us, but we must obey Him. Our lives and the lives of others may well depend on our obedience.

Now I want to include Charlie's prophetic word about the seven thunders of God, and about the martyrs, to help you better understand the revelation I've received:

"THE SEVEN THUNDERS OF GOD" - by Charlie Robinson

ROARING RELEASES GOD'S PURPOSES IN THE EARTH

When I was in Indonesia I led the people in my meeting to roar, and the roar lasted for a half hour! Roaring not only releases what's been tied up, it tears down principalities. When we roar like a lion, when the Lion roars, something happens in the spirit -- the seven thunders of God will come. We're going to see the seven thunders spoken of in Revelation 10. God is going to judge His enemies. There is a roar of the Lion that is coming in the body of Christ. So now I want to share some my "roaring experience," because it led me straight into a profound revelation about the seven thunders of God from Revelation 10.

Just over 10 years ago when I heard about the manifestation of the roar of the Lion happening in the Toronto Blessing meetings, I told the Lord that I would roar like a lion if He wanted me to. When I was in a meeting in Toronto, I knew I was supposed to roar, but I didn't want to let it out in front of everyone. Eventually I let it go, but it was a pathetic roar! Awful! Then I let it go again and, when I did, I saw the map of Canada come in front of me and the groanings of the Spirit for Canada to see the nation set free. As I roared over Canada, I could see the veil of religion over every province in Canada coming down. So the next day God said, "Charlie, how would you like to know what the seven thunders are in the book of Revelation?" And I said, "Yes! I'd like to know that, Lord!"

God said, "The seven thunders are seven judgments on the seven seas and the seven continents. They are not judgments on people. They are judgments on principalities. When they begin to happen, tremendous catastrophes will begin to hit the earth and people will die and get hurt. But I am not judging people in the sense of directly judging people. (Why?) Because of the prayers of the saints that have gone on in those areas of the world. They will literally call down My glory and My power and things will get judged and there will be catastrophes."

Scripture (Revelation 8:3-5) reveals that there are angels in heaven that oversee the prayers of the saints. As the bowls are being filled in heaven, it's those angels that are assigned to throw the answered prayers of the saints back to the earth. That's answered prayer. But how does prayer come back to the earth? In noises, thunderings, lightnings, and in earthquakes (v. 5)! That's why revival will come, because the heavens will open because the prayers of the saints will be cast down; and when they get cast down and hit the ground, there will be tremendous catastrophes.

Look at Revelation 10:2-3:

"He had a little book open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, and cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roars. When he cried out, seven thunders uttered their voices." NKJV

The roar of the lion brings forth the thunders of God. When the thunder happens, then the lightning comes -- and lightning is judgment (Revelation 8:5). There are judgments that are hitting the earth. Unless we know what's going on, we're going to think that the devil is in control and everything is haywire. No. God is in control!

GOD WILL NOT WORK ALONE

The Lord also revealed to me (Charlie) that He is waiting for us to co-labor with Him in executing vengeance against His adversaries (Psalm 149:6,7) -- and so are the martyrs! I kept hearing a cry getting louder and louder in my spirit: "How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" (Revelation 6:10 NKJV).

Then God said, "They're not waiting for me, they're waiting for you. They're waiting for the full number of the martyrs to come to pass."

We don't like that word in North America. We don't like the word martyr. We don't like the word about giving our lives as martyrs. We like the word that they overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony . . . But, what else? They loved not their life unto the death (Revelation 12:11). They are waiting for you and me to stand up and do what we are supposed to do.

God wants us to move out of the way so that He can judge our enemies. That's what repentance does. When you repent you literally move out of the way. The Bible says that if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged with the world (I Corinthians 11:31-32). God wants to judge our enemies and His enemies in our cities, but we have to get out of the way. That's why there is mercy and grace when we repent.

The roar releases the thunder and the lightning. Lightning in the natural clears the air. Father, let your lightning come today. Let your fire come! Let your power come! Let your judgment come! Let the roar of the lion return to the church. Let it come forth so that the thunders can come.

PREPARE YOURSELF

Now, let me (Todd) continue from where Charlie left off. It's time for us to prepare to roar. Recently, during one of our conferences, when we asked God to roar against His enemies, we joined Him in a prophetic act of roaring to support of His plan to execute His judgments in the earth. We roared a second time so that those who are bound in darkness would be set free.

The sound of the roaring is meant to continue! So I want to invite you to prepare yourself to roar in a few minutes. But first, let's remember that there is blessing in judgment. The shaking is about all nations coming to know the Desire of All Nations, Jesus Christ (Haggai 2:7). God will fill this temple with glory (v. 7). It's about the glory coming.

Through Haggai 2:6-9 God spoke this word to me recently: "I will shake heaven and earth. I will shake the sea and the dry land, because I am bringing the glory into the church in the midst of all the shaking, as nations are shaking. I am making My name known to My enemies. I am bringing in the silver and the gold, and releasing the glory."

We are so close to it! This year, 2005, will be a year of shaking. Four earthquakes already in the Pacific Rim: Japan and three in Indonesia. The Lord told me that there is one more coming. That will be five. We are going to get ours as well; it could be a volcano or an earthquake. It could be both. That will bring us up to six shakings. Then we're going to see seven, eight, nine, ten shakings in other countries around the world because there is something being released in God's glory and there is something being released in God making His name known. God is judging His enemies. This is how we are going to take cities, regions, and nations.

HERE WE GO!

As the Spirit begins to move there is going to come a war cry from the Lion of the tribe of Judah to roar against our enemies in our cities and regions. Let's be bold and ask God to roar. God, roar against Your enemies! Roar over the seven continents! Roar over the seven seas! Roar over the land! Holy Ghost, come. Let there be a release of the roar of the Lion of Judah as we lift up our voice and we roar in the spirit with God. Come on, let it go! Let it go! Let it go! Come on God, judge our enemies! Make Your name known!

Listen to this: "The Lord also will roar from Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; the heavens and earth will shake, but the Lord will be a shelter for His people, and the strength of the children of Israel." Joel 3:16 NKJV

The Lord will roar from Zion and He will utter His voice. God's voice is in the roar prophesying to His enemies. The Lord will roar from Zion and His voice will go forth from Jerusalem. The heavens and the earth will shake because of His roar. The Lord will be a shelter to His people and the strength of the children of Israel when they roar.

The Bible also says when the roar of the Lion goes up in the heavens (Hosea 11:10) it causes those who are in captivity and bondage to be released from their prison chains: sons, daughters, men, and women.

Let's roar again! I want you to see the prophetic voice of God being released in the roar right now! I want you imagine chains breaking, captives coming out of bondage. We roar for the release of the captives! Let it go! Roar!

by Todd Bentley & Charlie Robinson
Fresh Fire Ministries
www.freshfire.ca

Washington State Prayer Focus

During the “Piercing the Heavens” conference in Everett, WA this past October, Chuck Pierce reviewed the year 5765 which started September 2004. “Instead of the enemy plundering you over and over, you are to surround the enemy’s camp this year with violent praise.”

The number 60, Samekh, means repeat, cycle, to go around, to surround. The number 5 means there’s a wind beginning to blow through the heavenly realm, through a window of opportunity. It means Holy Spirit, or the breath of God, is starting to move back to the church with revelation.

• Pray that there will be an increase of regional worship gatherings and the Church of Washington State will break up old cycles and break out with the Breaker Anointing.

At the 50 State Tour Gathering in December, 2003 Dutch Sheets said, “There is coming a two-fold whirlwind of God into this region that is going to bring judgment against His enemies and against this thing that is over this state, but it is also going to be bringing the order and the life of God. The word of God is His seed.”

• Continue to “call forth the wind of God to break, to pull down the curses, the demonic assignments, the witchcraft, the defilement of the word of God, the pollution of the word of God.”

• Continue to “say that every unclean, defiled word that is in the atmosphere over Washington is going to be cleansed by the whirlwind of heaven.”

At that time Chuck said, “…I saw something, from Northern California, through Oregon, up through Washington, all the way into Vancouver, B.C.…you couldn’t see what was under you. It was like you had one level of foundation, but your foundation wasn’t deep enough. And the Lord said, ‘There’s a new wave coming. It will be both a wave of evil, that will try to affect that region, but it’s (also) a wave of my Spirit’ and He said, ‘They’ve not built the foundation in that area to handle the wave.’”

• Continue to declare as the Lord said, “that the wind will produce the wave and that we are paving the way for it. Declare that the foundation that needs to be built for what is ahead will be built from Northern California through Vancouver, B.C.”

Chuck also said that the Hebraic year 5766 began in October 2005. “This is a year of staking your claim in the midst of the whirlwind.” Dutch Sheets said, “All eyes will be on Washington. Well, it’s the whirlwind state and it’s the year of the whirlwind. Then you’ve got Oregon which was God’s choice of the state that would overthrow the Jezebel structure. There’s something major going on up here in the Northwest.”

On June 4, 2005 USSPN Washington and PacificMinistries of Portland hosted a Cascadia Consultation with leaders and intercessors from Vancouver, B.C., the greater Seattle area, greater Vancouver, WA/Portland area and Spokane as well as various smaller Eastern Washington locations. This was a time of worship, and expressing the desire to enter into covenant relationship according to John 17 so that the territorial spirit of Jezebel would be displaced.

• Declare that the Body of Christ in the “Oregon Territory” will pioneer a move of humility that expresses preferring and honoring one another that will lead to the overthrow of pride and independence.

Chuck said, “Washington will be in the focus of our nation for the next three years. This year 5766, Samekh Vav, God is sending you a tent peg or a stake so you can stake your claim right in the midst of your whirlwind, so your whirlwind does not overtake you.”

First, in the natural…I Corinthians. 15:46. On August 14, 2004 Dr. C. Peter Wagner held an International worship gathering in Santiago, Spain to counter the worship of the Queen of Heaven. That day the USSPN WA leaders and four Spokane intercessors went to La Push, WA not far from James Island. The northwest corner of the state and also the nation were staked. In the mid 1700's a Spanish ship staked out the land somewhere between this location and Neah Bay for Spain and the Catholic Church.

• Declare that the Church in Washington will ride the wind of revelation and break out of error and man’s traditions.
• Declare that, in the midst of the enemy roaring in our face, we will roar back so that he will separate.
• Declare that the Lord will blow a new wind of strength on the Church of Washington
• Declare that the Kingdom of God will advance as a violent praising storm throughout Washington State and that we will not fear but be careful to hear the voice of the Lord in the storm.
• Decree that “God is going to stake the state of Washington and it’s going to come in His sovereign way this year. And all of those powers and principalities that think they’re ruling it this year, you wait till the Lord puts His stake in here.”

In December, 2003 Chuck said, “There is an evil ploy that will be devised to bring terror into this area that would stop you from moving in God’s power the way that He longs for you to move. So, the Lord says now, ‘You get in front, and you declare the order that’s coming. You gather together, you move forward.’”

In the 2004 state prayer focus we declared His light would expose all the hidden works of death and destruction. Twice in 2005 USSPN WA sent out prayer alerts to expose the four pathways in which the spirit of death and destruction wants to come into the Northwest and steal the promised harvest. In I Kings 21 the sons of Belial (meaning worthlessness, wickedness, destruction) brought accusation against Naboth. He was stoned to death and Ahab and Jezebel took his vineyard.

1) Terrorist Attack: Washington State opened the northwest gateway to the nation for the spirit of death and destruction to enter through presenting a mixed gospel, breaking many covenants and shedding innocent blood with the Native American people.

On October 4, 2005, Rosh HaShanah, seven Native American Leaders went to the White House and met with Mr. Ruben Barrales, Deputy Assistant to President Bush and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs to present to the President a “Proclamation of Forgiveness.” Dr. Flo Ellers (Tlingit/CherokeeTribes) of Washington State read the proclamation. Also present from Washington State was Rev. M. George Kallappa, Sr. (Makah Tribe), Superintendent of the American Indian Fellowship of the NW Ministry Network of Assemblies of God.

• Pray that this act will bring healing to the broken hearts and desperate peoples on all the reservations in the Northwest. (For information on Washington State Indian Tribes and Reservations for prayer see http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/wa/wamap.html#detail )
• Pray that it will add to the shift that began with Apostle Jay Swallow and the 30 other Native Americans that initiated forgiveness at Plymouth Rock.
• Pray that this will help clear the way for S.J. Res 15 Resolution of Apology to the Native Peoples to pass.

On October 20, 2005 Apostle Jay Swallow announced into the heavens the beginning of a reformation in the northwest states. He said, “Don’t try to understand it, and especially don’t criticize it. We call, now, into the heavens, we record this day, as the day of new beginnings. This day we have entered into a new covenant in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We ask you, God, to anoint this body of people, these native warriors, with the mission ahead, to regain, to clean up, and to bring back the glory of God to every reservation in every region in the northwest.”

Chuck declared, “Father, we say, from this northwest entry point, from this port, the ancient peoples and the host people to come through, we say; now there is a sound and the reversal of what has tried to disseminate (disinformation into) this land. Lord, we say there will be a cry of victory coming out of the northwest.”

2) Military Attack: On October 28, 2004 in Tri-Cities, WA during a Women’s Prayer Conference, the Lord spoke that we would reap what we sowed at Hanford Nuclear Facility regarding the bombing of Japan in 1945 if we did not repent for seeking man’s way rather than God’s way. The USSPN WA leaders were called for intercession and one was in St. Louis standing on the porch of the home of President Harry Truman who was Commander in Chief at that time. He stood in the gap with repentance and prayed that our governmental and military leaders of today would seek God’s ways in all they do. The following night 40 local women entered into repentance and intercession.

On October 20, 2005 Chuck Pierce said, “This actually will become a war center for our nation….God has chosen this area for a very peculiar time.”

• Pray for the military leaders, personal, and family members of the following installations:
Mc Chord Air Force Base, Fairchild Air Force Base, Yakima Army Training Facility, and Ft. Lewis Army Base which is home of three Stryker Brigades, Everett Navy Base, Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Keyport Undersea Warfare Research Station, and Bangor Trident Submarine Base which is the last active nuclear weapons depot on the West Coast and is the place of deployment for approximately 1,760 nuclear warheads. The base has nine Tridents including the newly commissioned secret research submarine, USS Jimmy Carter.

• Pray for the apprehension of a convicted naval aviation electrician who escaped from the brig on November 13. Upon returning from tour of duty in Afghanistan he was arrested for possessing stolen ammunition and illegally storing explosives.

3) Spiritual blindness and rejection of next move of the Holy Spirit: During a conference at a church in Seattle some intercessors discovered that a major church denomination, in 1949, held a General Assembly Council Meeting in this newly built church. The leadership of this denomination voted to reject the Latter Rain Movement that began in February 11, 1948 in North Battleford, Saskatchewan and moved across the northwest. They rejected the five fold ministry, the restoration of worship and the Tabernacle of David, deliverance and healing. An intercessor prayed, “Lord, you are about to bring something into the earth. I pray that this time it will not be rejected.” Envy, strife and divisions are like the great dams across the Columbia River that stop the full release of the River of God.

• Pray that the whirlwind of God will continue to deal with every carnal and immature mindset. I Cor. 3:1-3
• Declare that the Holy Spirit’s wind is blowing away the old, the dead, the dry legalistic structures. Acts 2:1-4
• Declare that we are people that will stand in the midst of adversity and laugh loudly at our enemies…” You will be a Holy people that My enemies will fear…Arise and shine for My glory is upon you.” Is. 60: 1-5, 19-20 (From July 11, 2005 52 Day Prayer Focus)
4) Natural Disaster: On November 3, 1970, voters of Washington State liberalized the state abortion statue by passing Referendum 20. October 5 & 6, 2003 a Washington state couple began an annual “DAYS OF GRACE” Memorial and National Day of Atonement for the purpose repentance and honoring those who lost their lives through abortion and healing for those who have been touched by abortion. This initiative, along with many other ministries and individuals, has added to the bowls of prayers.
• Declare “That nature (creation) itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and corruption (and gain an entrance) into the glorious freedom of God’s children.” Rom. 8:21 Amplified
During the Piercing the Heavens conference (Oct. 2005) Dutch Sheets shared one story after another on the ways the Lord arranged for him and others to “strike the mark” concerning the U.S. Supreme Court. Dutch read Job 36:26-Chapter 37:5 “by these storms, these lightning’s, these thundering, He judges peoples. He covers His hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark. The word for “strike the mark’ is the Hebrew word for intercession, paga.”

After much corporate worship and intercession, the lightning of God struck and Dutch said, “I hear the Lord say, ‘I am coming to abort the abortion. I am going to reverse the trends of the past.’ I hear the Lord saying, ‘There has been a season in the past where what He was trying to do was aborted by the iniquitist patterns that take place in this region,’ But the Lord says, ‘I have come to break that off of you and it will not be aborted this time. I am putting you on a new path of life,’ the Lord says, ‘and this one will not be stopped. The move of My Spirit that is coming to this region will not be aborted this time. I am going to break through for you.’” The Lord says, “I have reversed the decrees, I have reversed the curses that have held you back and I say there is a fertility in the Spirit now that is here. There is an ability to break through, there is an ability to press through to completion and what I am coming to do will not be stopped again.” The Lord says, “You will go all the way this time, into the fullness of my outpouring.” He Has Aborted The Abortive Spirit That Hovered Over This Region. The spirit of death is broken off of you!”

Chuck said, “…we went past something that was set to stop God’s plan…The Woe Is Past! Lord, we say right now the woe in the Northwest was past. Father, we say that which was meant to bring total chaos and to stop what You are going to do is past.”

• Continue to declare, rejoice and thank God that He has aborted the abortive spirit and the spirit of death is broken off the state of Washington. Declare Psalm 24

During that time I heard voices saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ.” This is from Rev. 11:15. The verse before that says, “The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly.”

On November 3, 2005– A Washington State Supreme Court judge ruled that the former lesbian partner of a child’s biological mother can be considered the “de facto parent” of the ten-year-old girl the mother conceived by artificial insemination. Justice James Johnson, dissenting from the majority opinion, condemned the court for its “judicial decree” that brought in a new method for determining who a child’s parent is. “Regardless of the various sexual orientation claims, the outcome must be that a mother has a fundamental right to make decisions for her child,” he stated. “The majority’s ruling fails to provide any protection for Britain's (the child’s Mother) fundamental constitutional right as a fit mother to make decisions concerning the upbringing of her own daughter. Worse, in my view, the majority here looks beyond a detailed and complete statutory scheme adopted by the Washington Legislature and creates by judicial decree a new method for determining parentage.” Justice Richard B. Sanders also dissented.

• Pray that this case will be heard and overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Pray for the Washington State Supreme Court: Chief Justice Gerry L. Alexander, Associate Chief Justice Charles W. Johnson, Justice Barbara Madsen, Justice Richard B. Sanders, Justice Bobbe J. Bridge, Justice Tom Chambers, Justice Susan Owens, Justice Mary E. Fairhurst, Justice James M. Johnson

During the 2004 gubernatorial election in Washington State Dino Rossi (Republican) came out ahead of Christine Gregoire (Democrat) by 261 votes. The Secretary of State ordered a machine recount which reduced Rossi's lead down to 42 votes. Then, the Democrats asked the state to conduct a manual hand recount in which many counties discovered votes that hadn't been counted earlier, including the liberal stronghold of King County (location of Seattle). The GOP filed suit to prevent King County from counting the ballots, but the Supreme Court ruled against them. The election was certified at the end of December, with Christine Gregoire winning by 129 votes. Dino Rossi filed suit and on June 6th, 2005 Chelan County Judge John Bridges rejected the central charge of fraud. Judge Bridges did subtract the overall count of hundreds of illegal votes presented by both sides, but, he goes on to say that overturning the election would "constitute the ultimate act of judicial egotism and judicial activism" and thus confirms the election for Christine Gregoire. Dino Rossi did not appeal to the state Supreme Court which officially ended the election contest.

• Pray for the continued exposure of incompetence, corruption and fraud in the elections system and state and county and city government.

Agree and declare the Word of the Lord given in July 11, 2005 52 Day Prayer Focus: “I am opening seats in Courts that will favor My People. I will plant My faithful ones, My true ones, those that are not intimidated by the liberalization of the adversary. I AM ready to contend with Leviathan. I am changing nations. In this nation, I will begin in Florida and then shake California. I will realign Minnesota and uncover in Harlingen. I will awaken New York and release fire in Phoenix. I will rearrange Seattle and open gates in Savannah….I will release authority and demonstrate My power in signs and wonders, miracles and diverse anointings.”

The first prophetic word that came forth at the Pierce the Heavens conference in Everett, WA on October 20, 2005 was from Chuck Pierce declaring the fire to burn, for it to ignite in us, catch fire and that Washington State is the smoke Signal to the nation.

The word signal in Hebrew is ‘owth. A sign, flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence or mark, miracle, token.

The word first appears in scripture in Gen. 1:14 “And God said, ‘Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for SIGNS, and for seasons, and for days, and years.’” The word, light, in Hebrew is morah and means a luminous body, brightness, cheerfulness.

The next place we find it is in Ex. 3:12. In the KJV it is interpreted token. This chapter has to do with the Lord appearing to Moses in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush and commissioning Moses as His instrument to bring His people out of Egypt. Moses says “Who am I,” and the Lord says that He will be with him and the signal will be that when he brings them out, Moses will serve God upon that very mountain.

• Pray that the Church of Washington State will rise up with the fire of God and war against the darkness in her midst and worship the Lord in spirit and truth.
• Pray that we will overcome the accuser of the brethren by greater revelation of the Blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony of His goodness and justice and by not loving our lives to the death. Rev. 12:11


Chuck shared that the anti-Christ force will get very strong in these next three years. God says, “I’m going to have a people who know how to process revelation. I’m having peoples from every nation rise up, worship together. When you put a stake down, you’re gaining victory under heaven over the enemy structure that’s in heaven. Over these next few weeks we are in a divine shifting time and I say this to the whirlwind state, get ready for the whirlwind will intensify here from this state.

The first prophecy I gave here yesterday morning about the smoke signals coming out of Washington and going up, and the Lord said, ‘I have chosen you to be my signal for the war ahead. Not only will you be my signal for the war, but you will be my victory standard in days ahead.’ And the Lord would say to you, ‘Quit worrying about the earthquake! Quit worrying about all of that here!’ The Lord says, ‘I am teaching you to stand in the midst of the shaking ahead.’”

History
The origin of civilization in the Oregon country was due to missionary spirit and enterprise, and this missionary spirit was aroused by the action of the Indians themselves. Marcus Whitman, a medical missionary and Christian patriot, who settled near Walla Walla amongst the Cayuse Indians, was the man who saved the Oregon Territory and assured it would be a part of the United States.

In 1832 a council of chiefs sent a delegation of four Nez Perces chiefs over the mountains to St. Louis to ask for teachers to be sent to their tribe to instruct them in what the Great Spirit taught in the book from heaven. Before their return, one of the Indian chiefs spoke at a banquet of their failure to find that which was the object of their journey. This speech was a Macedonian cry of “Come over and help us. The American Board of Missions sent Rev. Samuel Parker and Marcus Whitman, M.D. to the Oregon Territory in 1835. Whitman returned to the East and encouraged missionaries to come minister to the Indians in the West saying that “If good men do not occupy these stations, bad men will and do great harm.”

In 1836 Marcus Whitman and other pioneers set out for the Northwest. Taking a wagon across the Rockies and into Oregon was considered impossible because the Hudson Bay Company had circulated stories that the mountains were impassible to wagons wanting to keep the Oregon Territory under British control. Not believing that claim, Whitman’s wagon turned out to be the very implement upon which the fate of Oregon would turn.

In late 1842 Whitman learned that the Hudson Bay Company planned to bring in English settlers which would result in British Sovereignty in the territory. Amidst severe weather and travel conditions Whitman traveled 4,000 miles back to the East Coast to meet with President Tyler, Secretary of State Daniel Webster and other government leaders to plead his cause for Oregon. He urged them to, “Immediately terminate the Treaty of 1818 and 1828 and extend the laws of the United States over Oregon.” Having risked his status with the American Missions Board and his life by going across the country in the dead of winter, Whitman was compelled to enter the political arena over the Oregon Territory and saw it as his patriotic duty.

The President and Secretary agreed that ownership of Oregon likely depended upon who would settle it first. Though Whitman’s representations of the Oregon Territory were in direct contradiction to others, including the Governor of the territory, President Tyler said Whitman’s frozen limbs were sufficient proof of his sincerity, and his missionary character was sufficient guarantee of his honesty, and he would, therefore, as President, rest upon them and act accordingly. If the Doctor could establish a wagon route through the mountains to the Columbia River, hitherto pronounced impassable, he would use his influence to hold Oregon. Whitman led a company of a thousand from Missouri to Oregon in 1843. He also wrote and presented to members of the government a proposed bill for the organization of Oregon. It greatly influenced the development of posts on the Oregon Trail, the extension of American law into the Northwest, and the founding of the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.

With the nearly 1000 new settlers, the Americans outnumbered the English three to one. In June of 1846 the United States and England entered into a treaty that set the boundary line for the northwest at latitude 49 degrees. A territorial government went into effect in 1849. In 1859 Oregon was admitted as a state into the Union. Washington was admitted on November 11, 1889 and Idaho in 1890.

Whitman was compelled to enter the political arena over the Oregon Territory considering his patriotic duty more important than his backing by the American Missions Board. If Whitman had waited for the next year and warm weather as his friends had demanded and he had not insisted, “I must go and now,” history would have been altered. God rules in the minds and hearts of men as He rules nations. Obedience to God was paramount even in the face of extreme difficulties and opposition.

(Notes taken from the Providential Perspective Newsletters 2004)

• Pray that men will not be intimidated by the fear of man and will obey God.

Burdell J. Austin
USSPN WA State Mobilizing Coordinator
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The Birth Place of the Charismatic Move - Seattle Washington

In January 2004 I was invited to present CONECT for the second time in the context of a city at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Seattle Washington. This happens to be the birth place of the Charismatic Move. On February 10, 2004, one year to the day that we began working on presenting CONECT to the world I ministered in the last meeting at St. Luke's. During that time the Lord weaved His prophetic tapestry.

The week prior to the last meeting I began doing research on the Charismatic Move that was birthed out of Rev. Dennis Bennett at St. Luke's in the 60's and 70's. I discovered some amazing things.

• The purpose of the Charismatic Move was to empower the individual believer in order to set the oppressed free
• Dennis never intended for Charismatic Churches to be formed. He wanted people to stay in their churches.
• He wanted to see leaders working together in a city and for a season in Seattle, over 150 ministers did.

So the first place God had me prophetically declare to the Church that "it was time to CONECT" was in Nassau Bahamas. The Gateway City to the Americas. The second place was in the birth place of the Charismatic Move. If you look at the vision and purpose of CONECT, the purpose of the Church in America that Tellis describes in his book, and the purpose of the Charismatic Move you'll see an amazing prophetic tapestry. The theme and the intent is the same.
It is Time to Re-dig the Well at St.

On February 10, 2004 the Lord had me rehearse the history and combine all of the prophetic words in order to show forth our Lord's intent. It led to this prophetic declaration. The purpose of CONECT is to see the body of Christ come together as it is prophesied in Ezekiel 37:1-11 so that it might rise up as an exceeding great and mighty army. The purpose of that army is to project power in order to see the oppressed set free.

The first place this was declared was in the Gateway City to the Americas and the second place is the birth place of the Charismatic Move. Whereas in the Charismatic Move the intent was to empower the individual, now it is time to see the body of Christ come together as one Man (Nehemiah 8:1-2) in order to project power in order to set the oppressed free.

Over the last 4 years the well was re-dug for the Healing Rooms founded by John G. Lake in Spokane. This led to over 200 healing rooms being planted in countries around the world, so it is here at St. Luke's. There is a well to be re-dug but that well is not for St. Luke's, it is not for Seattle but it is for the body of Christ around the world. The Lord would say, "it is time to re-dig the well and I am with you to re-dig it." In this well that you re-dig you'll see a corporate anointing, leaders and Churches working together in unprecedented teamwork. This will lead to the Church coming together as one man in order to project power in order to see the oppressed set free.

Watchmen Ministries

Excerpt from 2003 50-State Tour

Chuck Pierce began on the evening of Dec. 14 at Sonrise Chapel in Everett after the sound of many shofars were released with this sentence:

"I would say to you there is a great harvest in the midst of this State, and I am about to put an urgency and a passion in my people."

About 3/4 of the way through Chuck's talk he says, "One of the reasons that the West Coast is important, at the beginning of the year (2003), the Lord said, 'I start blowing My revival wind from the west' He said, "so this year, you prepare the way for the wind, and then next year the wind will blow.' I knew at that point the Lord was saying all the way up California, and then I saw something, from N. California, through Oregon, up through Washington, all the way into Vancouver, B.C.

I've never shared this before. I saw something, it was like....you couldn't see what was under you. It was like you had one level of foundation, but your foundation wasn't deep enough. And especially from N. California on. And the Lord said, 'There's a new wave coming.' And I said, Lord, what's the wave? And He said, "It will be both a wave of evil, that will try to effect that region, but it's also a wave of my Spirit.' and He said, 'They've not built the foundation in that area to handle the wave.'

And then I woke up and I actually saw a wave. I saw water hitting, and you weren't capable of dealing with the wave of the Spirit that God was going to bring in days ahead. So the Lord said, 'You declare that the wind, that will produce the wave will begin, but you pave the way for it. And then you declare that the foundation that needs to be built for what is ahead, be built from N. California through Vancouver, B.C. and it is just really clear, up in that area, up there. There is just such a heart of God for one of the key awakenings and outpourings of the Spirit of God for this region. It will shake this entire continent.

NOW HERE ME! What God wants to do from N. California up through Vancouver, B.C. will shake this continent!"

This is an excerpt from the Washington State stop on the 50-State Tour by Dutch Sheets and Chuck Pierce in 2003. From PacificMinistries.
If you have all or part of the 50-State Tour words for Washington, Oregon or California, please send them to northwestprophetic@gmail.com. Thanks! -Editor

Bob Jones word for Northwest in 2003

Submitted by Gary Severson.

Bob Jones' Vision (2003) for the Pacific Northwest (Words within parentheses are mine -Gary.)

A few weeks ago (in 2003), Bob was given a clear vision involving the Pacific Northwest and the Lord's heart for that region. Over the last nine years, I have heard Bob share hundreds of visions. However, rarely have I ever seen him as enthusiastic and emphatic as he was in sharing this revelation.

The vision began with him seeing a spiritual hourglass. He watched as the sand elapsed from the hourglass denoting that "time had run out." It was clearly communicated that the time has now come for divine purposes to be established in "the land of beauty." This expression concerning the land came from the Lord to signify His desire to establish "spiritual beauty" in the Northwest--- clearly a place of natural beauty. The Scripture that accompanied this revelation was Zechariah 11:7.

So I fed the flock for slaughter, in particular the poor of the flock. I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock. (Zech 11:7)

They are the divine staff's of "beauty" and "bands/unity." Bob saw in the vision, a tangible release of glory and beauty that is represented by the beauty of the land itself.

This is pointing to a release of favor and covenant or relationship among the people, through the divine grace that is coming. It is the land of immense splendor and attraction. The Lord is announcing His desire for the Heavens to be open in the land of great beauty. The hourglass has run out of sand. This will be a new beginning.

Nature itself will declare the handiwork of God. It is the emergence of His righteous "staffs" to heal and restore hurt and wounded sheep. The windows of Heaven were opened in the vision and revealed, through nature, the beauty of Heaven in the Pacific Northwest. How beautiful and awesome it was orchestrated.

Spreading to The West

Once deposited, this spiritual provision will go from the Northwest to the west and down to as far as Phoenix AZ. Somehow Phoenix was involved in this revelation (This is where Patricia King is located.) It is an old well that people thought was dried and filled with debris but now will be flushed of hindrances and obstacles in order to flow freely. Somehow in this divine scheme, Phoenix and the surrounding area is important.

March Conference

Presently, we are planning a conference in Coeur d'Alene March 6-8.

One of the additional encouragements from Bob's vision involved the leadership team for the conference. He saw there would be no division in the team. Instead, he saw covenant relationships and fraternal affection among the people participating. This will be necessary to touch heaven in a unified way to release the provision of Heaven to open the window over the Pacific Northwest.

He saw us, and those participating in the conference, as if we were sitting at a banqueting table- which he felt was the Psalm 103. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, {bless} His holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits; Who pardons all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases; Who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion; (Ps 103:1-4)

The Heavens became an open window to provide the benefits of God. This is to pave the way for strong evangelism.

Strong Evangelism

Bob saw in his vision, a man we know and recognize as an international evangelist, especially among young people. This aspect of the Lord's plan comes after the prophetic voice opens the window in the land of beauty. What is released in the coming days, will pave the way for strong evangelism.

He saw leadership teams coming together as a threefold cord- a very strong bond that is not easily broken. Bob saw a purging of the soul taking place in the conference through the worship. Once the soul of the people has been cleansed, it then allows for the beauty of the Lord to begin to fill them. It is to prepare a people to begin to enjoy the benefits of Heaven as described in Psalms 103. When we "eat" from the 103rd Psalm we have the strength to go forward.

Conclusion

Since receiving these revelations, we have discovered that Bob was in Coeur d'Alene 13-14 years ago. We have also now obtained a copy of the taped message delivered back then. It is interesting to discover that the essence of the word given at that time is the same as today. It outlined the Lord's desire to bring unity in place of division and pave the way for strong evangelism that will touch the entire region including portions of Canada.

As we have pointed out in our newsletter, we believe this year is the beginning of a new seven-year season of the Spirit. It is a new beginning that will change the spiritual environment in which we live. These times will be characterized by the Justice of God, unveiling both the kindness and severity of God. We must strive with all that is within us to be trustworthy stewards of this heritage and guard, through the Holy Spirit, the great treasures entrusted to us.

Submitted by Gary Severson.