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Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 11:02
AM
Subject: A DISTURBING VISION
"The Valley Of Jehoshaphat"
-Hollie L.
Moody. (Apr 10, 2002).
Joel 3:- "I will also gather all
nations, and will bring them down into the
valley of Jehoshaphat, and will
plead with them there for my people
and for my heritage Israel, whom they
have scattered among the nations,
and parted my land... Multitudes,
multitudes in the valley of decision:
for the day of the Lord is near in the
valley of decision..."
I experienced the following
vision:
I was on the ground, standing beneath tall
trees looking outwards and
downwards into a valley. The Lord was standing
next to me. The sides of the
valley were rocks. The valley itself was barren
and desolate. Clouds had
obscured the sun so that the valley was in shadows.
I saw multitudes of
people trudging between two mountain passes and
downwards into this valley.
As the people came into the valley, they paused.
The dimness of the valley
seemed to be confusing and frightening to them.
The people behind those who
had paused continued to come into the valley,
forcing those who had paused to
walk further into the valley.
I saw what appeared to be a heavy fog
swirling in the midst of the people
coming into the valley. At first, the
fog was only around the ankles of the
people. Gradually, however, the fog
began to swirl upwards towards the faces
of the people. This further
confused and frightened the people, and they
began to turn around in circles
as if trying to comprehend where they were
and what was happening.
I saw what appeared to be heavy sacks on
the backs of many of the people.
Others, had what appeared to be thorns
poking into their heads.
"What are these sacks and thorns?" I asked
the Lord.
"The sacks represent burdens and trials
that many of My children are
presently enduring, " the Lord explained to me.
"These trials are coming
against many of My children with no surcease. Their
health, families,
congregations, finances, marriages, and relationships are
under severe
attack.
"The thorns represent mental distress.This
mental distress is causing many of
My children to feel the pangs of
rejection, loneliness and despair.
"As the trials and mental distress
manifest themselves, many of My children
are being afflicted physically with
aches in their backs and with piercing
or persistent
headaches."
"What is the purpose behind the trials and
mental distress?" I asked the
Lord.
"To learn obedience, and to be perfected,
through suffering," the Lord
replied.
As the fog crept steadily upwards, I found
that it was becoming more and more
difficult to view what was transpiring
within the valley.
I noticed that the Lord was standing next
to me. "Climb to the top of the
tree in order to better view what is
transpiring in the valley," the Lord
instructed me. Somewhat surprised
(since I am not a tree climber), I climbed
to the very top of the tree I was
standing beneath.
When I reached the top of the tree, I had
to hold on tightly because it was
extremely windy and the top of the tree
was swaying wildly in the breeze. I
saw that the Lord was with me even at
the top of this tree.
"Behold the valley!" the Lord spoke to me
again.
As I looked down into the valley once
again, my perceptions of the scene
unfolding beneath me had broadened as a
result of the elevation where I was
now situated. The people were still
turning around and around almost
frantically to try to see where they were
and what was happening. This made
the valley appear to be as an ocean, with
waves undulating. The fog continued
to swirl between the people and
throughout the valley.
"Behold!" the Lord spoke once again.
I began to hear a loud roar as of a mighty
wind. I glanced around to see
which direction the sound of the wind was
coming from. The frightened,
startled cries of the people in the valley drew
my gaze back down to the
valley. I saw that the entire valley was beginning
to tremble and shake. As
the trembling and shaking intensified, many of the
people began to fall to
their knees or onto their faces, wailing and crying
out to God to have mercy
on them, and to spare them.
Suddenly, the valley floor burst open. I
then heard as the Lord cried out to
the people in the valley to come out of
the valley. Some of the people in the
valley began to scramble up the rocks
encircling the valley, attempting to
obey the voice of the Lord. Some of the
people stood still in the valley,
shaking their heads and staring up at the
rocks they would have to climb up
and over to exit the valley. They remained
in the valley.
I saw the sacks fall from the backs of
those who were fleeing from the
valley. The thorns that had been in their
heads also disappeared.
I then saw a swarm of what appeared to be
frogs, lizards, salamanders, etc.,
come streaming up from a crater that had
appeared when the valley floor burst
open. I was repulsed by the sight. To
my surprised astonishment, however, the
group of people remaining in the
valley cried out in excited awe at the
appearance of the swarm of creatures.
"They do not see these creatures as you
are seeing them," the Lord explained
to me. "You see them as the demonic
spirits they truly are. The people in the
valley see them through a spirit
of deception. They perceive these demonic
spirits to be angels, agents from
Me, sent from Me to instruct them and
reveal hidden truths and mysteries to
them. They know not that they are in
the process of being deceived. I have
chosen their deception."
"Why, Lord?" I asked, shocked by His
words.
"When I called, they did not answer," The
Lord replied. "When I gave them
instructions, they disregarded or set aside
My instructions. They looked to
man, and not to Me. They refused to hear My
voice. Therefore, I will cause
them to hear the lies of demonic spirits as
if it were My voice speaking to
them. I will choose their delusions," the
Lord repeated again.
"For what purpose, Lord?" I asked.
"To prepare for that which must be," the
Lord replied.
"And what is that?" I asked the
Lord.
"For the revealing of those who are of
Me," the Lord replied, "and those who
are not of Me.
"This has been a time of great intensity
in the heavens and on the earth, and
in men's hearts. Many have felt the
shaking. Many have seen the separation
that is occurring. What is seen with
the eye, is but a small fragment of that
which is being done in the spirit.
"I am shaking. I am separating. I am
sifting. I am refining. Much of this, I
am doing away from the eyes of
others. Much of this process, is an individual
process. It has also, for the
most part, been a process I have been
performing in isolation and in
silence.
"In the moments of silence, I have been
speaking quietly to those who had
ears attuned to hear My voice. They could
not hear me in the midst of
multitudes. They could not hear me over the
voices of others. I called them
to come aside to be apart for a time with
Me, and they obeyed and made the
necessary sacrifices.
"I purged and prepared them during this
time to speak only what they heard
from Me, and to speak only when I
instructed them to speak. They have been
prepared, and are now fully
prepared, to stand unflinchingly in the face of
the spiritual deception and
times of delusion being unleashed by the enemy of
My children.
"Behold, My child!" the Lord said to me.
I looked where the Lord was pointing. I
saw a great multitude of people from
every nation and of every nationality
gathering in the valley. They were
coming from the north and the south, from
the east and from the west. I
watched as they began to join hands with each
other.
"Though hand join in hand," the Lord said,
"yet they will be destroyed. Their
counsel will not stand or prosper."
I was confused by the words the Lord had
just uttered. "What do You mean,
Lord?" I asked.
"It is enough," the Lord replied. "Let
this suffice which I have revealed up
to this point.
"It is determined by Me to gather all
nations together to rain upon them My
anger and judgment. I will also judge
My children. I will judge between those
who are truly Mine, and between
those who say they are Mine, but hold also to
the doctrines of devils. They
have turned away back from Me. They have not
sought Me, but have sought the
words of others who say they know Me or have
heard from Me, but have not.
"Behold the multitudes in the Valley of
Jehoshaphat, child!" the Lord cried
out to me.
His arm swept the valley
scene before our eyes. "This is a time of decisions.
As these decisions are
being reached, it is a time of confusion and darkness
for many.
"Those who seek Me, will be hid from the
day of My wrath. They will go forth
before that great and terrible day with
My Spirit and anointing upon them. I
will empower and anoint them to preach
My word, to heal those who are wounded
in spirit and broken in heart, to
preach deliverance to those who are captive
to sin, to restore sight to
those who are spiritually blind, to set free
those who are bound by memories
of rejection. This is now the time to perform
and to proclaim the salvation
of the Lord!"
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Andrew Strom,
Thunder Ministries,
PO
Box 12-1022,
Henderson,
NEW ZEALAND 1008.