The Coal, The Wind & The Thunder and Lightning

In my reading this morning, I was caught up in the Spirit in a trance-like state. This has only happened 2 other times in my days of ministry. Both times brought powerful words. As did this one.

In this vision, I saw three rows of people, four people per row. The first row of people came and put their hands into a burning flame, pulling out handfuls of hot coals. The second row of people reached up into a storm and brought out a great wind. The third reached into the storm and brought out dark clouds with clapping thunder and lightning. Then, in unison, they turned and approached the United States.

The people in the first line (that carried the hot coals) scattered to different areas of the US. Two of them went west, one went east and the fourth went straight into the middle, like right in Kentucky where I live. They approached churches and laid coals upon each one. Some churches were consumed and burnt up by the fiery coals, while others were left charred, but semi-intact. And a few of the churches began to burn bright and glow like heated metal, standing firm in the flame.

The second row of people stepped forward and released the wind on those same churches. It began to howl and beat against them. When the wind hit the ones that were burnt up, it scattered the ashes until there was nothing left. You couldn't even tell that there was a church when the wind stopped. They were just empty, barren places.

Some of the burned churches that remained, crumbled under the mighty wind and were left just piles of what looked like charcoaled debris. Still, some of these churches were purged of the burning and stood. Rickety, but upright.

Then the wind struck those that glowed in the fire. They withstood the blowing and accepted the wind. In fact, the buffeting actually refined the buildings, leaving them even cleaner than before. I can only relate it to what I know, but it was almost like they were being polished by the wind instead of being damaged.

The third row of people, holding the thunder and lightning, stepped forward and released ir upon the churches. The lightening went forth and consumed up the barren ground of the destroyed churches, leaving nothing.

Then it went to the charred remains of the next churches. Some fell under the force of the lightning, and they were pulverized to powder. But some of the charred churches survived and began to take a new form. As though they were responding to and adhering to the judgments set forth by these violent actions.

Then these that held the lightning and thunder approached the remaining churches. However, this time the intensity seemed to strengthen them until they were made complete. They became like refined, tempered steel swords. Ready to be used in skilled and experienced hands.

I began to pray for revelation. I heard a clear voice speak, "My judgment is now falling on the Church. There will be those that will not survive my first wave of judgment (the hot coals) and will be completely consumed. Others will survive but will be adversely affected. And then some will revel in my judgment as if in great revival and so, instead of destroying them, they will be purified through the fire.

“The second wave of my judgment (the great wind) will bring a scattering that will drive away the feeble and worldly church completely. In this judgement, some will repent and begin to return to Me. And some will be consumed and destroyed because they were in denial to their sins and in rebellion to my Word. And some will accept my judgment and allow the wind to buff and shine them into a beautiful reflection of My goodness.

“The third wave of judgment, the thunder and lightning, will utterly remove the stench of the first churches. Mant of the churches that were most damaged by the wind will be driven out. Some will repent and then be shaped by the wind to start to look like the Church as it is called to be. The last group of churches will become tempered like steel and be able to be used as I need them to be used.

“Those churches who barely survived will be folded and heated and folded and heated until it can be used and brandished as the swords that the others have become.

“Do not doubt that my judgment is coming! I have spoken this many times and now it is at your door. Stand up and repent before I unleash my fire in your house. This judgment must be brought upon the Church. If it isn’t, then I will have to repent to my people Israel, for bringing my judgment upon them in the days of Isaiah, Nehemiah, and Ezekiel. I am not a man, that I should lie. Neither am I the son of man, that I should repent. What I have said, shall I not do? Or have I not spoken to make it right?”

I know all the words I have spoken lately have been about judgment, but I have to give what I hear and see.