Spiritual Food for the Tribulation

Generally, I wake early, by 6:00 AM, to pray and read the Word, but this morning when I awoke I wanted to sleep some more. It was my day off and I had a long list of things to do, and I thought, oh no, what will give if I stay in bed? Then I sensed the Holy Spirit say, "Sleep. I want to give you a gift".

I drifted off into sleep and dreamed I was within a group of people being herded along urban streets, and jostling among folks. (This is in the hard times of tribulation when the World Beast will take charge of people's lives.) I realized that I was not among people I knew, but we seemed about the same middle, lower-middle class crowd -- no one too fancy, and basically healthy. So I am standing in the middle of all these sacks of grain, and we have to move, suddenly, like we were being driven, so I asked the ones around me, "Can you help me carry these sacks?" (The Word we need to live by), and they laughed, saying, "No need to drag that along; we get plenty to eat". (Those who set aside obedience to the scripture.) But I figured, this is perfectly good grain, and I am not going to just throw it away, so I loaded my pack and pockets, and we walked/jogged on. (Revival among the poor, outside the camp of mainstream churchianity, who will "load up" on the grain of God's Word.)

Soon we stopped, out on this country road, and long board tables were set out, and we were instructed to line up on the sides, and then plates were put in front of us filled with this mush, that on closer inspection, was filled with maggots. Looking up and down the length of the table, I saw people just pick up the plates and start shoveling it in. (The Beast and their false prophets will feed their corrupt teachings to the spiritually starving.) Needless to say, I was NOT hungry, so I wandered away from the table and snatched a few grains to chew on. (Those who feed on the true Word. (Eze.34:13) And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.) Immediately, I could hear the boots of these uniformed troops as they rushed up to the table to see if the food was eaten and all the plates were empty, except mine. In a gruff voice, they asked, "Whose plate is this?" and everyone who had been alongside me turned and pointed to me, but the troops just stormed past me, as though I wasn't there. (Martial law will enforce the harlot's wishes on the multitudes, as in Jesus' day. Our site has testimonies of people being invisible to the enemy as they served the Lord. Jesus passed through the midst of those who would kill Him. Peter passed two trained guards as an angel led him out of prison.)

This wearying trek of meals and marching kept being repeated and I just munched on my grain and shared with anyone who asked for some. (The righteous will carry the Word to those hungry for life.) At first everyone liked the sweet taste, but they didn't like chewing it, so they spit it out, preferring the gruel. (The clean beasts chew the cud until the Word is thoroughly digestible and useful to the body.) The ones who did eat from both sources became sort of shadowy and wispy (spiritual), but also fearful, and they began to hide. (Those who begin to mix the Word in with their traditions become more spiritual but their corrupt lives are condemned and they fear without an understanding of grace.) Then they refused to eat what I offered and they became "solid" (fleshly) again but everyone had sort of an oily, flabby, fleshy muscle tone and they wheezed in an unhealthy way. (Those who hear the Word and turn back to walk in the flesh will be cursed. {2 Pet.2:20} For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first. {21} For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them. {22} It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.)

Eventually we came to a small strip mall that had already been looted and all the folks rushed into the ransacked stores to see if there was anything they could yet steal. Some were stuffing CDs and techno things into their packs, which was dumb, since they had no electricity or batteries. (The mall represents the buying and selling of the merchants of Babylonish Christianity. They don't know that they have been plundered of anything useful and what is left is useless and powerless.) In the strip mall I saw that there was a Christian book store and, although the windows were smashed, the shelves had been swept clear (no knowledge of God left) and piles of books were on the floor. (What knowledge was there was on the lowest level. The smashed windows represent no clear vision.) I went and picked up a book off the floor and, when I lifted it, all this ash fell out; I looked at the pages and they were completely empty. When I sifted through the ashes, I found a few little stones. When I licked one off it proved to be a tiny diamond, hard and translucent. (The only value in the teachings of Babylon are when they quote the scriptures. Nothing else will endure the fires of tribulation.)

I wrestled with whether I ought to pocket the tiny diamonds or leave them behind. I searched for some Bibles but found none. (The Word will not be found in the government-approved churches.) I went up to a full bookshelf and opened a standing book. Instantly, the printed words crumbled and slid off the page -- all of them except some bold-print quotes. Suddenly, these leapt off the page and coiled up like microfilm (hidden treasures) and fell at my feet. I realized these words were direct Bible quotes and they were the tiny diamonds. So I scooped up as many as I could gather before the marching orders were barked out. (The Bible will be treasured by the hungry and destroyed by the wicked.)

The people were gathering out in the front parking lot of the mall, so I went out to join them. They saw all the diamonds I had, tackled me and looted me! They were shaking me down and gulping down the diamonds by the fistful, without even chewing them, and then left me on the curb, in the middle of nowhere, and went on. (Those apostates who hear but do not digest the Word of truth will persecute the righteous. {Mt.7:6} Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them under their feet, and turn and rend you.) I saw that the back door of the store was standing open and I dragged myself over to the door. There was an enormous interior space that was floored like a warehouse and there were people in low wheelchairs scooting back and forth, from one end of the mall to the other. I felt afraid for them, realizing that they were the ones who would be culled from the herd, but I "understood" that these were below the radar: "In their weakness, My strength is made perfect"; so, even though they were physically handicapped they were rather healthier than the others. (Those whom the world considers crippled and unworthy of its company, God chooses and protects. {1 Cor.1:26} For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are called]: {27} but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; {28} and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, [yea] and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are: {29} that no flesh should glory before God.)

On the far end there was a kindly woman who was feeding the handicapped handfuls of the diamonds. The kindly woman was spry and very old (strength and maturity); she came up and asked me if I was a Christian. I said yes and then she asked, "How do you know?" I began sobbing and saying, "I was hungry and thirsty" (I felt like a little child who was over-tired). I then said, "Because I only want to eat diamonds" (You know you are a Christian when you hunger and thirst for the pure Word. {Mt.18:3} and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye turn, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven. {4} Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.)

This made me cry even more because I felt I had given the wrong answer. I started wailing and weeping and saying, "I gave all the grain I had to the others and they hate me. I try to walk with them and I share what I have, and I don't make trouble". (Many on fire Christians have had the sad experience of trying but failing to fit in among the apostates and being persecuted for it.) I went on and on about all the stuff I had done, knowing it all sounded so foolish, and I was overcome with exhaustion and was sobbing uncontrollably. (Failure to reach many lost souls with the true Word will be a grief to many saints.)

She gently put her hand on my shoulder and said, "You must go on now". Suddenly, she paused, turned and asked me, "Do you know how to get more diamonds whenever you want?" Before I answered, she held up a single page of NT scripture for me to see. The page was almost sheer and the lettering was moving like tiny riverlets of water (as "living water") and she asked me, "Do you recognize any of this?" I began crying and with such intense joy that it hurt and I could not even see through my tears. I reached up to try and grab the whole page to try to stuff it in my mouth but she would not let me lay hold of it. (Reading it too fast and missing the details.)

Laughing, she said, "No, you sit still and read the words so you can hear what they say and see what they mean". Calming myself down, I sat to read, and whenever I came to words I knew, they suddenly froze and became like a sticker, or label. (As we meditate on the Word, it becomes real to us -- digested into our being.) She said, "Peel them off and eat that", so I did just that. Some passages I ate 10 or 15 times, but immediately after peeling off the label/passage, it was replaced. So, like a hungry man, I gorged myself and thought I could eat until I fell asleep. She said, "Now, you can keep eating whenever you want, or you can lug the grain sack around". I was puzzled and asked, "Where will I carry it?" and she said, "It is in your mind and in your heart, but you must stand still and look for it and ask for it; there it will be". (There is a time when we only carry the Word of God in our hand, but as we digest it the Holy Spirit is able to bring it up out of our hearts to meet the needs around us.) Then she again said, "You must go on now". Now I was greatly strengthened, rested and fed. I even began to wake up, ready to conquer the day, but I heard her voice say, "Wait, there is more", and I fell into sleep again, into the same dream.

I was being dragged out of the crowd in the middle of a campground by some of the people I had fed earlier, and they began dragging me toward the troops. I didn't feel a bit afraid and I wasn't resisting. I said to them, "Let's just stand here; they can come over to us", which they did immediately! (The apostate church will use the beast government to persecute those whose doctrine doesn't please their flesh.) The troops asked, "Where is she?" and the others said, "Right here, between us", which I thought was odd; they would have had to be blind not to see me. (God will in some cases physically blind the wicked to protect his saints. They are "hidden with Christ in God". The spiritual blindness of the OT law and the letter of the Word "veils" the eyes and mind of apostate persecutors.) So they instructed the ones holding me to restrain me but I calmly stood up straight and tall, and watched as one of the troops lifted an enormous sword (like in the movie Braveheart) high above his head, and in slow motion watched it drop to the crown of my head. It sliced me right in half, all the way to my ankles, and there at my feet were all my clothes and all around my feet was a pile of these diamonds, like I was some sort of grain sack that had been slit open. (Just as Jesus was "the Word made flesh", so it will be with His disciples. The persecution will reveal this to those who have eyes to see.)

I felt that embarrassment of a dream when you are completely naked, yet no one even saw me, so I stood still. The ones holding my arms let go of me and dove on top of my clothing and started tearing them, eating them, ripping them up and passing them around. (When Jesus was naked and crucified they parted His garments. The garments of the righteous represent the "righteous acts of the saints", as in Rev.19:8,14. The apostates devour the righteous through their denigrating words and accusations. {Gal.5:15} But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.) Oddly, everyone wanted some of the fabric, and everyone was gobbling up the diamonds but completely forgot about me. (In the same way, they will criticize the truths of the Word that the saints have become but God will reprobate them.) When they turned away to march on, I noticed that no longer were they people, but almost like half-pig, half-human, and the feces that fell behind them was loaded with the diamonds -- unchewed, undigested and unharmed -- just dirty. (Like sows that had washed, they return to wallow in the mire. The church world and its greedy leadership have polluted the truths of God's Word. They have not digested the true meaning of Scriptures. Please read all of Eze.34. {Eze.34:18} Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? {19} And as for my sheep, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.)

I reached out, hesitant to touch the "stuff" but saw my hand was covered in a white glove, so I looked for something to put the rescued diamonds in and wondered where I would get water to wash them off. I squatted down and saw (to my relief) that my knees were covered in this satiny sheer curtain-like fabric, and low down I could hear water trickling. (The humble may go to their knees to find wisdom from God to turn the polluted hearts of the deceived to the pure Word. The white glove represents works of righteousness, as you take the clean water of the Word and Spirit.) I noticed then that ALL OVER the ground lay bodies of dead people. I was horrified and astounded. So I stood up and began to sing. The more I sang, the more clearly I could see the bodies. Some were being eaten by grubs, but others were rather like fertile ground, and when I flipped them over, they were filled with earthworms. In those bodies I "planted" some of the diamonds, just out of curiosity. Suddenly, I watched the diamonds unfurl and all the letters began sprouting roots and tendrils; they were alive! I became engrossed in putting out the diamonds, like one planting seeds by hand in a furrow. (The true gospel saves, heals, delivers and resurrects those who are dead in sin.) When I looked back, the field was filling with people coming out of the ground, who immediately turned to begin tilling the ground and planting bodies! We were all quite busy and a multitude was coming alive. (The sowers of the Word will sow the seed and bring forth life in others, who in turn go to work in the field.)

I woke myself up, shook off sleep, got out of bed and went to start a load of laundry, thinking, now that was weird! (We have been exhorted by this dream to clean up the garments of our works so that we are not partakers of the defilements of Babylon by their religious spirits. {Exo.19:10} And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their garments... {Num. 8:21} And the Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes... {31:24} And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean; and afterward ye shall come into the camp.)

I have a little box of scripture verses that is about 70 years old, from my grandmother's house, next to my washing machine. So, waiting for the water to fill the tub, I chose a card at random to read; it was {Mat. 7:7} Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

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