MY MOURNING DOVE
Lately Father has been speaking to me of the imminency of
His taking out of the Bride and that the workers will be sent out. This is in line with the context of my
devotional teachings and has become a focus on the Spirit being poured out,
what the harvest workers will be exposed to, and preparing them for their
assignments. This teaching in particular
focuses quite a bit on the disposition of the Bride and the responsibility of
the Worker Bride. As usual, Father has
spoken to me by numbers and dreams and various means to confirm the content for
this teaching as He wants it communicated to His children. Once again, there is a great imminency of His
return to take His Bride. And while we
have heard many times that He is coming soon, we know that the Bride will be
watching and praying, responding to His call to make ready to stand before the
Son of Man. I pray that we will all be
earnest in hearing and applying what the Father is speaking in this devotional
teaching, while there is yet still a little time.
About a month ago I was in my kitchen, and the Spirit came
over me and I began to cry. I began
crying out to Him longing to see His face.
I told Him it felt like a long-distance relationship where you read each
other’s letters but you never see each other’s faces. I long to look at His face and look into His eyes;
I want to behold Him. I told Him I
wanted to see His countenance and stand before Him and touch Him. What was interesting is that I was not even
thinking about these things; it was the Spirit that came over me. It was the Spirit in me that started crying
out for Him. The words that came out of
my mouth are, “When are you coming?”. I
told Him that dates have come and gone and I am longing to see Him, asking
again, “When are you coming; when will I see you?”. I didn’t expect Him to answer me as it was
simply a cry from my heart. (Honestly,
we should stay away from people who say the Lord told them a date as to when He
is coming; this is not going to happen.)
It was the next morning that I woke up with the following words, “My
mourning doves will take flight in the morning”.
Anytime I hear the word dove, I think of the Song of
Solomon where He is speaking to His bride, and He calls her a dove. You will remember that in Luke 11 Yeshua’s
disciples asked Him what the signs for the times to come would be, to which He
responded that He will be here as a greater Solomon. When He said this, He is referring to two
things. The first is that He is the
Bridegroom, and the second is that He is the Builder; He is a Bridegroom
Builder. This is also what the Bride is;
she is a Bride Builder. Of course, they
will be working together.
About seven years ago, I went into my garden and found a
baby dove. This little dove was a
newborn with no feathers, eyes not open, and it was completely dependent on its
mother. It was as good as dead, and as I
looked at it the Spirit said to me, “This is what I am bringing you into… as
good as dead”. And since then, this is
what He has done in me. This is what I
spoke about in my last devotional teaching, “Counting
the Cost”, where He puts you in such a place of
dependence and death that unless He is the life in you, you do not have any
life in you at all. This is what He
brings the Bride into.
Let’s go to the Song of Solomon and read all of chapter 2,
as it is such a beautiful love letter.
SONG OF
SOLOMON 2
1 I
am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
2 As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the
daughters.
3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my
beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his
fruit was sweet to my taste.
4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over
me was love.
5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick
of love.
6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth
embrace me.
7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and
by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he
please.
8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the
mountains, skipping upon the hills.
9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he
standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself
through the lattice.
10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my
fair one, and come away.
11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of
birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines
with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come
away.
14 O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the
secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice;
for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines:
for our vines have tender grapes.
16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the
lilies.
17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my
beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
When I cried out to Him asking when I would see Him, I was
sick with love and desperate to see Him, just as she shares in verse 4. I wasn’t crying out to leave this earth and
the things of this earth, because I know I am going to be here to work; but I
was crying out to see His face and be with Him.
In verse 8, she hears His voice!
This reminds me of a past devotional teaching called “When
God Speaks” that covers this hearing of
His voice. She continues speaking about
how He bids her to rise up and come to Him and all is fresh and new and the
green figs and tender grapes have appeared.
She is specifically speaking here of their young ones of the harvest,
and she wants the little foxes that spoil the vines to be taken away. In verse 16, she is speaking of how her
beloved feeds among the lilies which represent the virgins who follow the
Bride. In my teaching called “The
Queen of the South”, I talk about the lilies and
how these are the virgins who accompany the Bride. In verse 17, it is speaking of the morning,
and this ties back to what He said to me that morning, “My mourning doves will
take flight in the morning”.
To dissect a little further, let’s go back to verses 10 –
12. We can see from the winter being past
and the flowers appearing that it is springtime, and this is obviously a
reference to new life. The singing of
the birds is a reference to worship, a time of joyful singing about this new
life. The voice of the turtle spoken of
is actually the turtle dove, a mourning dove to be specific. When Father said that His mourning doves will
take flight in the morning, He was referring to the turtle dove. The turtle dove is singing a song of mourning
for His return. Many people are so used
to hearing of the return of Yeshua that they are actually not even looking for
Him anymore. They are busy with eschatological
studies and trying to understand all of these things, but there is not actually
a true mourning for His return. They are
busy with the things concerning His return but not necessarily focused on Him. This turtle dove in verse 12 is truly mourning
for His return. In verse 14, she is
talking to Him, and she is telling Him that He is her dove. This dove is different from the one in verse
12. This one in the Strong’s is defined
as a “rock dove”. She is telling Him
that He is her Rock and she wants to hear His voice in the secret place. This mourning dove and rock dove are love
birds completely in love with each other.
The words “day break” in verse 17 refer to the morning, specifically
with “day” referring to a day, time, or year.
The next words “until the shadows flee away” refers to a sundial. Specifically with the “shadows”, the Strong’s
says that it is that time when the sun is as its highest peak and there are no
shadows, which is basically noon. So He
comes and breaks forth in the morning until the time when there are no more
shadows, and she welcomes Him to come as a roe or a hart and break through the
darkness and come upon the mountains.
The mountains speak of tribulation, so she is saying for Him to come to
her during those difficult times and get her.
With regard to the “mountains of Bether”, “Bether” means a sacrifice
that is cut in two, which immediately gives us an understanding that this is about
covenant. She is in covenant with
Him.
During the time the Worker Bride, this turtle dove, is
being prepared for the Rock Dove, in the valleys and hills, she is crying out
and been cut as she has placed herself as a sacrifice on the altar (Romans
12). He as the High Priest has dealt
with every area in her life, and she has entered into covenant with Him. She identifies with His death by allowing Him
to bring her to a place where she is as good as dead. She is that dove who has entered into
covenant with Him. The mountain “Bether”
made me think of Yeshua on the cross when He was pierced in His side, or when
the Rock was cleft, and what flowed out of Him was water and blood. What flows out of a woman when she gives
birth is water and blood. The piercing
or cleft from which the Bride comes out speaks of that birth that will take
place when the escape, or rapture, takes place.
That event will birth things that will take place as spoken of in Acts
2, where signs and wonders will happen and the great harvest will come in. That will only be for a short while.
She also refers to Him as a roe, and this means “beauty,
glory, and honor”. She tells Him to come
in His majesty and glory, to come forth in all His beauty. Think of Solomon the king. She also mentions Him being as a hart, which
is “a ram, sacrifice, mighty, splendor, glory, chief, a pillar, a strong
man”. In my “Queen
of the South” teaching I speak of how He is
the pillar and the Queen is standing next to Him as a pillar, with her being on
His right hand, which means “south”. She
as the Queen of the South, the Bride rising up with Him, is also a pillar, and
they have been made into one. This is
her, the turtle dove, crying out to her rock dove to come as a pillar in His
stately, kingly stature as the Bridegroom Builder, to come over the mountains
and find her. In my recent teaching, “My
Disciples”, I also spoke of how the
Bride is also seen as a deer (or hart) as Psalm 42:1 says, “As the hart panteth
after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God”. Also in Habakkuk 3:19 it says, “The Lord God
is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me
to walk upon mine high places”. The
Bride is also a deer or a doe, and the enemy is hunting her; he’s after the
Bride and he’s after the Bridegroom.
A few days ago I woke up at 23:21, which is 2321, and in
the Strong’s it is a Greek word that means “friend of God”. Once again, the word “friend” is a covenant
term. The words “loving-kindness” and
“friend” both refer to being in covenant.
If you go back to David and Jonathan (who was from the tribe of Benjamin),
they had covenant with one another. The
Word says that their souls were knitted together as one, which is very
important for us to understand. David
took of his armor, his coat, and shoes and sword and gave it to Jonathan. In the same way, Christ comes to us to be in
covenant with us through the cross, where He has been slaughtered like the
animals were slaughtered before Abram.
He stands in covenant with us as His Bride, and we are in covenant with
Him as well. He says that whatever is
His is ours, and whatever is ours is His.
The other day I was thinking about this verse in Song of
Solomon 2:16 where it says, “My beloved is mine, and I am His…”, and I was
pondering this and wondering if we really understand and believe these words
that we are truly His in covenant. Is
everything really His, including our spouses, our jobs, our children, our
parents, our siblings, our possessions, our dreams, our ministry? Can He take any of these things from us when
He wants and how He wants, should He want to?
Have we really counted the cost?
Are we as good as dead, so that whatever happens we are so resigned to
His perfect will that we are truly all His?
A few years ago I said to Him, “You are my everything”. Then He said to me, “I am only your
everything when I am all you have”. The
price that He asks of us is ultimate, but so is the glory, the intimacy, and
the friendship; so is the way He is over us when we give Him all, when He sees
we long to give Him all. The Word says
in 2 Chronicles 16:9, “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the
whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is
perfect toward him”. This speaks of the
heart being perfect – the heart of one that longs to give Him everything and is
willing and who is pure and authentic toward Him. This is a process, as they search their
hearts and ask the relevant questions about themselves. They ask if the Word of truth is true in
them. And if they find out it is not
true, they seek Him earnestly, because they desire to give Him all. This is not in fear but in awe and love. When you’re in love, you will give anything
to that person. No one has greater love
than he who lays down his life for his friends (John 15:13), and He calls us
His friends (John 15:15). “Friend” is a
covenant term that once you have entered into it, you can truly say, “I am His
and He is mine”. Psalm 25 tells us more
about this relationship.
PSALM 25
14 The secret of the Lord is
with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
The word “secret” is Strong’s H5475 and it means “counsel,
secret counsel, familiar converse, intimacy with God, a circle of family,
familiar friends”. This “secret” is the
intimacy and close union that the Father has with those who fear Him and who
have set apart their lives for Him. Not
those who have said a prayer at some time, but those who are actually living
their lives in a way that is completely given over to Him. He shares His heart with them; they know Him,
and they are in His inner circle as His closest friends. They are His Benjamins as He is Joseph; they
are the Elijahs and the John the Baptists, and they are friends of the
Bridegroom. The word “show” is H3405 and
it means “to make myself known or to reveal oneself. “Covenant” is H1285 which means an “alliance
of friendship and an alliance of marriage”.
A few days ago I woke up at 5:22, and I looked it up in the
Strong’s. It is a Greek word that means
“I take away, remove, pass, I am taken away, withdrawn”. It is from the word H142 which means “to
raise, take up, lift, I raise, lift up, take away, remove”. He is clearly speaking that He is coming
soon to take His dove away.
Let’s read more about the dove in Psalm 68.
PSALM 68
13 Though ye have lien among the pots,
yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers
with yellow gold.
With regard to “lien among the pots”, we know that Christ
was crucified outside the camp. This is
a reference to the potter’s field where all the broken pots were thrown
out. We are all broken pots outside the
camp that He will use. He uses broken
vessels, and He pours out His gold into all the cracks so His glory can shine
through. We have lien among the pots and
become so dark like the Shulamite who says not to look upon her because she is
black, as she is referring to her sin because she is clay and dust like the
pots. She is aware of all of this. He says that even though we have lien among
the pots and become black, our wings (of the dove) will be covered with silver
with feathers of yellow gold. I looked
at a commentary on this from the Biblestudy.org website, and I would like to share
what I found, because it so beautifully speaks of the Bride.
COMMENTARY ON PSALM 68:13 – BIBLE STUDY.ORG
The
philosopher observes that the necks of doves appear of a golden colour by
the refraction of light. And this describes the saints and people of God as
they are by grace. They are comparable to the dove on many accounts: like doves
of the valleys, every one of them mourn for their iniquities; like the
trembling and fearful dove, tremble at the apprehensions of divine wrath, and
judgment to come under first convictions; and are fearful of their enemies, and
of their own state; are humble, modest, and meek; think the worst of
themselves, and the best of others; flee to Christ for refuge, and to
ordinances for refreshment; are chaste and affectionate to Christ, and harmless
and inoffensive in their lives and conversations. Being "as the wings of a
dove covered with silver" may denote the purity of doctrine held by them;
the words of the Lord being as silver purified seven times, and the
preciousness and sincerity of their faith, by which they mount up with wings as
eagles; and the holiness of their conversation, being as becomes the Gospel of
Christ: and being as the "feathers" of a dove covered "with
yellow gold" may denote their being adorned with the graces of the Spirit,
as faith, hope, and love; which are more precious than gold that perisheth, and
are called chains of gold, see; or their being clothed with the righteousness
of Christ, signified by gold of Ophir [this is a reference to Psalm 45 where
the Bride stands in gold of Ophir, who is the Queen of the South – my note],
and clothing of wrought gold; or their being enriched with the unsearchable,
solid, substantial, and durable riches of Christ.
It
describes the church in the latter day, when her light will be come, and the
glory of the Lord will rise upon her; when her stones will be laid with fair
colours, and her foundations with sapphires; when she shall have the glory of
God upon her and be as a bride adorned for her husband.
Here we have a description of the Queen of the South,
and she is the mourning dove that will take flight. In Song of Solomon 2:10 when he tells her to
rise up and come away, it means to take flight.
I know Father was without a doubt referring to Song of Solomon 2 when He
gave me the words that His mourning doves will take flight in the morning. We also find here that her foundations are
with sapphires.
Not long ago I had a dream about doves that is very
applicable to this teaching.
MY DREAM - FOUNDATION
A dove was sitting on my shoulder, and it was
a beautiful dove (the commentary just shared is how I saw this dove). It had the most beautiful sapphire, emerald
green, and deep pink colors. This dove
loved me; it would come against my neck and just wanted to be held. This dove was so lovable. I wanted to go downstairs and tell my husband
about it. However, my husband in a fit
of rage threw something out of the door of the room he was in, and I knew I
couldn’t share this with him then because the dove was so fragile and would be
frightened very easily. I turned around
to go back, and there were dogs all around me.
Then when I got to the top of the stairs, I saw the feathers of this
dove on the floor covered in blood. End
of dream.
Interpretation
The government of the love of the Holy Spirit
was resting on my shoulder. As I went
down the stairs, this represents going down in humility. My husband represented the back-slidden church
that is angry. In protecting the dove,
the Holy Spirit, and then onIy finding the feathers and the blood represents
the persecution that Christ in us will suffer as we are persecuted. The dogs represent man, or man’s best friend,
and the Lord said He would bring those friends along my path. We can see how the Bride and the Spirit as
the dove are all the same thing.
I’d like to now share a related word that Father gave
me back on July 5, 2021.
WORD FROM FATHER - MESSAGE OF HOPE
My precious Doves, you who have a single eye, focused on Me, not only in
your lives, but a heart wholly given over...I will send you out in flight to
all the nations, that the token of true peace in the midst of chaos may be seen
by all.
As I descended on My Son when He rose from the waters of baptism, so I
will descend upon you, you who have risen in My might from the waters of the
baptism of death into new life.
Just as your life has been sustained by My Spirit, so I will sustain
you. I will shine upon you and you will declare My glory amongst the
nations so that all will call upon Me in a time of need. For only in Me
will they find true peace in a time of war and calamity.
Arise My Doves and come away with Me. Arise and shine with My
glory that will come upon you.
You have given me your all, now I will give you all things in this time
of great need. That you may be a comfort to My people, just as I have
comforted you. That you may speak tenderly to them as I did to you.
That you may rise with healing in your wings, as I rose over you.
So come My Doves, let us fly over the nations. Let us bring hope,
faith and love amidst the darkest hour. I will bear you up with My wings,
My Doves. I will be the wind beneath your wings. I will cause you
to soar above the storms that the eyes of the blind may see and the deaf may
hear and call upon Me.
The window of opportunity, only a small opening. But those who
desire to be free to know My ways, will hearken.
So come and fly away with Me. A message of hope in a dark world
where there will seem as if there is no hope at all, is what you will be.
Amen.
The other day, Father lead me to read 2 Chronicles 3
about Solomon building the temple. The
Spirit came over me, and as I was reading He began speaking and gave me the word now titled “Greater than the Latter” (YouTube video).
This was about the glory of the Lord that will greater in the time to
come, because that One greater than Solomon will be here.
The Worker Bride are all builders, and we will build
the Church with Him. This is just like
the ark, which represents the Bride that brings in the animals, or the flock,
into the ark of safety. She will bring
them in. The ark was made of different
woods, and cedar wood was one, which is actually the gopher wood that is spoken
about. When Solomon made the temple, he
made the pillars of cedar wood because of its durability, its length, and its
ability to sustain harsh weather. These
pillars represent endurance, durability, and strength, and of course being on
the right hand.
A while back Father began speaking to me about the
forum I had been involved with, and He guided me through a dream that He gave
me that showed me I would be moving offices, so to speak.
MY DREAM – MOVING
OFFICES
In this dream, I was packing up
everything I had in my prayer room, including my art materials and books and
other things. We were living on a farm,
and I was going to move my office to an abandoned house on the property. When I walked into the house, there was dust
everywhere and it was unkept, but there was nothing in there. But I then found two women in the scullery
who were washing dishes. Someone was
with me, who I believe represented the Holy Spirit. I then went to look for a room where I could
put my things. End of dream.
Interpretation:
The Father was telling me that He was taking
me away from where I had previously been ministering to people and would be
taking me to a new place.
At the time of the dream I had no idea of what that
new place was, but I knew to be obedient to what He was showing me. This was not an easy thing for me to do,
because I had been involved with the people of this forum for almost five years
and I love them very, very much. No
longer being involved there was a death I had to enter into, but it was also a
prophetic act of Him showing me that I would go from place to place, just as
Yeshua said we would go from house to house, representing church to
church. The other day I was speaking to
the Lord about how He had told me He would be moving me to this new place but
had not yet shown me where it is. Afterwards
as I was going about my day, suddenly He reminded me of John 21 when He spoke
to Peter the exact words He used when He told me I needed to go. This is in verse 15 when Peter came from the
ship and sat down on the beach, and Yeshua was making them breakfast. He then asked Peter, “Do you love me more
than these?”. When I read those words, I
knew He was asking me if I loved Him more than those to whom I had been
ministering. Of course, my answer was
“yes”. My name is Pietra, a derivative
of Peter, and I knew He was speaking to me, just as He is speaking the same to
the church. The next thing He said to
Peter was “Feed my lambs”. Then a second
time He said, “Feed my sheep”, and even a third time, “Feed my sheep”. Each of these times He said this actually has
different meanings. The lambs are a
reference to the first fruits; they represent the Bride… who is innocent and unblemished. The place where I was ministering at that
time were those types of workers, and I had been ministering to them for quite
some time. He wasn’t saying to me at
that time He moved me to feed His lambs, but instead He showed me that now
where He is sending me is to feed His sheep.
I had been feeding the lambs, but He is now sending me to feed the
sheep. Remember that in Luke 10, Yeshua
tells His disciples that He is sending them as lambs amongst the wolves, so the
disciples, or the Worker Bride, are those lambs, the first fruits. They will be sent to the different churches,
or houses, to where the sheep are… those who are lost. This is part of the imminence of the message
He is bringing to us. He is saying that
He is sending us out to the sheep, to minister to the churches. He is saying that the time is here when His
dove will be taken, and once she is taken, His glory will be upon her and He will
send her out to the churches.
Going back to the dream of me moving offices and
seeing the two ladies in the scullery, I had a quick related vision just
yesterday. I saw a dove come into my
scullery and sit on my dishwasher.
Immediately the Holy Spirit reminded me of this dream with the two
ladies in this abandoned house that was so dusty. What He wanted to share with me is that the
two ladies represent those who will be sent out two by two, and they are
servants. In dreams, there is a difference
between being in a kitchen verses a bathroom.
The kitchen represents servanthood, and the bathroom represents
sanctification. Once again just
yesterday, He was showing me that the dove will rest upon those servants who
will be cleaning the house of God getting rid of the foxes in the vineyard, or
the house of God. They will tend to the
figs and the vines, which is a reference to their children. Remember these servants are pillars, which also
references foster fathers and mothers in the Strong’s concordance.
During this week as I was preparing this message, many
people spoke to me about occupying and cleaning house with either a related
dream or something physically happening.
My friend Myha has had two dreams about a house being dusty, I had my
dream about the abandoned house being dusty, and I remember that sister Donna
had a dream about the dust that filled the church and the Bible. The church is asleep at the moment,
represented by the dust, and He is sending in His servants to clean and to get
rid of the things that need to be cleared out.
They will speak with authority about the things that need to be cleaned
up to help awaken the church and get them ready, because of the judgment that
is coming. We are spiritual mothers and
fathers sent to the churches. Let’s now
read Luke 11 where Yeshua is speaking to the Pharisees about a house being
cleaned.
LUKE
11
24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh
through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return
unto my house whence I came out.
25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more
wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of
that man is worse than the first.
27 And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain
woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the
womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the
word of God, and keep it.
Here He is talking about a house where an evil spirit is
taken out. But the spirit comes back to
find it swept and cleaned and no one is there, and it brings back in seven
other spirits worse than itself. Then Yeshua
ends in verse 28 with saying that those who hear the Word of God and keep it are
blessed. Occupying the house is to hear
the Word of God and keep it; we occupy by hearing and obeying. These blessed ones are those who are
authentic and do what the Word of God says – not some of it, but all of
it. Now we will look at verse 21 of Luke
11.
LUKE
11
21 When a strong man armed keepeth his
palace, his goods are in peace:
Here He is talking about a strong man who is in the house
who keeps his palace and does this by hearing and obeying the Word of God. This strong man is walking in obedience, and
his goods are safe and cannot be stolen.
After this is when He begins to talk about the evil spirits leaving and
coming back, because they have found it unoccupied. This “strong man” in the Strong’s means
“strong, mighty, living beings, strong either in body or in mind, one who has
strength of soul to withstand the attacks of satan, exhibiting many
excellencies; of an inanimate thing, strong, violent, firm, and sure”. This strong man references the pillar, that
Christian or Bride, who is able to come against the enemy because she walks and
lives in obedience to the Word and she keeps it. She has grown and has become strong; she
herself is a strong man, strong in both mind and spirit. The word “keepeth” means “to observe for
oneself something to escape, to avoid, to shun, and flee from; to guard oneself
for safety’s sake so as not to violate, to keep, to observe the precepts of the
law”. This once again refers to hearing
the Word and obeying it, and by that growth becoming a strong man that protects
the palace – or your house. The church
as a whole is one body, but the body has many members; or in the case many
houses and a temple, as our body is a temple.
Luke 21 tells us the following:
LUKE 21
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts
be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so
that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the
face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be
accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand
before the Son of man.
The day referred to in verse 34 is the day He will
come. This will not come as a snare to
the Bride as it will to the world and lukewarm church, for she will be watching
and waiting with urgency in her heart.
She will know that it can happen at any time, so she will actively watch
and wait. The Spirit in her will cry out
in mourning, and she will be a mourning dove.
In verse 36, to be “accounted worthy” is to be deemed worthy by keeping
our palaces as a strong man. “Account”
means to “tally up, counting the cost, those who have not only counted the cost
but paid the cost of following Him”.
Psalm 45 says that she left her people and her father’s house. The Queen of Sheba, who represents the Queen
of the South, left everything to go to Solomon to learn his wisdom. Let’s look more in Luke 11 about this.
LUKE 11
22 But when a stronger than he shall come
upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he
trusted, and divideth his spoils.
23 He that is not with me is against me:
and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.
Yeshua is speaking here about someone who comes into your
house who is stronger than you and takes what you have, because you have not
kept the Word. Everything of you is
taken; they steal from you. He says that
this is the reason you are spoiled… because you are not for Him. You think you are for Him but you are
actually not, because you are divided.
You are not completely His; you have still kept things from your life
back from Him. The word “scattereth” is
G4650 and it is the word “skorpizo”. It
means “apparently the same from G4651; to dissipate, put to flight, waste, be
liberal, disperse abroad, and scatter”.
This says that you are not gathering in, you are not part of those who
bring in souls, and you are not occupying until He comes. You are in your house doing your “Christian
thing”, and you think you are right with Him, but you are not a strong
man. The enemy is going to come, and he
is going to spoil your house. He’s going
to take from you, because you are not strong enough to endure. Because your heart is not perfect with Him,
you are actually scattering. This Greek
word “skorpizo” actually means scorpion, so this connects to the scorpions that
will come into the church and be against the prophets of God and those who will
be sent out.
Let’s also consider that Yeshua, as we read in Song of
Solomon 2:15, is a hart, and this means a strong man and a pillar as well. Let’s look at this in context of what will
happen when He is here and He leaves, as we see in Psalm 19.
PSALM 19
1 The
heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth
knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not
heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their
words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and
rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his
circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Here we find the strong man as a bridegroom, and back in
Luke 11:21 there is a strong man who protects his palace. This is also Yeshua protecting our palace and
our heart. The reference to the sun coming out of his chamber in verse 5 is like
in Song of Solomon when the day breaks and he comes forth. When the son comes and enters into the darkness,
the darkness cannot overtake it, referencing John 1 where the light comes in
with John the Baptist as a light pointing to the Light. This is the Bridegroom, again with all the
imminency of His return.
Back in Luke 11:23 when He says, ”He that is not
with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth”, the word
“gathereth” means “to fish, to bring into a house”. He is saying that there is no middle ground
here… either you are gathering or you are scattering. When the house is found empty and unoccupied,
that means not only are you not doing what is expected of you in obedience, you
are also not bringing in souls. You are
not ministering to people; you are not busy as a servant. Yeshua told us to occupy till He comes.
In
Luke 19 Yeshua gives a parable right at the end of the chapter, and He is
talking to the servants, or the workers.
He gives them a parable where He gives the servants each 10 pounds, and
this number means completeness. In other
words, He has given more than enough to do what is needed. Each one did their own work to increase the
10 pounds, and based on what they did during this time of the harvest, they
were given cities as a reward. The one
who increased by 10 pounds had 10 cities, and the one who increased by five
pounds had five cities. This is just how
the workers will inherit the kingdom and rule and reign with Christ during the
millennial reign. Apart from Him being
their main reward, this will also be their reward. Prior to this parable, Yeshua
speaks of His call, which is also our call.
LUKE 19
10 For the Son of man is come to seek and
to save that which was lost.
This scripture speaks of the lost sheep – not the lambs –
but the sheep that need to be fed who have wandered off, who have not kept
their palace, who have been compromising, and who have been ascribing to being
something but not being the real thing.
They are not truly in love, utterly and desperately in love, and they
have not forsaken all for Him.
A few years ago I had two visions that I would like to
share, as they hold hands with the dove.
We read that the foundation of the dove, Jerusalem, will be
sapphires. I received these two visions
on May 2, 2021.
MY TWO VISIONS
The first
vision was during my morning prayer. I saw a little boy of
approximately 8 years old, sitting on the ground looking very
dirty. He had black curly hair, a beautiful child. He
looked poor and was lifting the edge of what looked to me like a square piece
of sackcloth from the ground, as to carefully peek underneath
it. And what he found was absolutely beautiful. It was a
very huge blue sapphire. I would say about the size of a
football. It was buried under the ground. End of vision.
Then I had
another vision later in the afternoon, that of the front page of the “TIME”
magazine. I knew that it was the “TIME” magazine because of the
yellow outline. On this page was a picture of a little blond girl
with ponytails. She was looking ahead of her. Very
innocent and cute. But I think there was something different about
her. The cute factor was not there, but a seriousness I would
say. In big bold yellow letters the heading read: “WE ARE HERE.”
And then the
same morning on my YouTube feed, one of these random videos came up of rescuers
that rescued a girl of the same age, also with two ponytails, from out of a
well.
Interpretation:
The poor
boy and the two girls resemble the sons and daughters of God. The
disposition of the children of God is that they are poor in spirit and
innocent. They are in the dust and the sackcloth speaks of mourning
and a humble attitude of heart, as well as the fact that the boy was sitting on
the ground. The treasure that he found was “veiled” or hidden under
the sackcloth. The “TIME” magazine is an indication of “timing” and
the “WE ARE HERE” heading is saying, the TIME IS NOW for the manifestation of
the Sons and Daughters of God.
We read
about this in Romans 8, which for me is quite interesting that it says that the
whole of creation is waiting for this manifestation. That means
heaven and earth are waiting for this manifestation. This is not about just the rapture/escape
taking place but that His glory will be manifest in His sons and daughters.
The blue sapphire is the treasure found. It is found in the ground, not on the
ground. This speaks of the foundation
being sapphire, just like the dove with her fair colors. Isaiah 54 says that her foundation of the New
Jerusalem/Zion is laid with sapphires.
This points to the Church being the foundation, and the workers in the
Seals period will finish the foundation laid by the elders spoken of in Hebrews
11 and 12.
The Spirit kept prompting me to go back and read these
visions, and of course now I understand why.
We know now that this foundation has to do with sapphire. Let’s look now at the state of the current church,
remembering that we’ve discussed that she is unoccupied, dusty, broken down,
not doing what she is supposed to be doing, and she is lost. The church of the lost sheep is where we will
be sent.
We find an example of this in Acts 5 when we read about
Ananias and Sapphira. They came to Peter
at the time when the church had all things in common, which means that
everything they owned belonged to everyone.
They shared everything, because everyone was in need and they were being
persecuted. Because they shared
everything, no one had need or want any longer.
Ananias and Sapphira sold their land to contribute to the church, but
they decided amongst themselves to keep some back and only give in part. When they came to Peter, the Holy Spirit
revealed to him that they had lied by giving the impression they had given in
full when they only had given in part.
Peter told them that they had lied to the Spirit. What this tells us now is that the church in
this state of poverty and brokenness, in contrast to the Bride, has not given
all. They have lied not only to the
Spirit, but they have lied to themselves.
They convince themselves they are ready and are part of the true Bride
and that Yeshua will come and get them.
Because Ananias and Sapphira lied to the Spirit, judgment came over
them. They were not truthful when the
Holy Spirit convicted them. The name
“Ananias” means “Jehovah has graciously given”, and “Sapphira” means
“sapphire”. She represents the church
that only gives in part, to whom the Worker Bride will be sent.
At one point, I realized that my Telegram account had 77
subscribers and I continued to see this number.
It is a Greek word in the Strong’s that means “without cost”. That is no coincidence that my last
devotional teaching was called “Counting
the Cost”.
This church is made up of those who have not counted the cost and were
not willing to pay the cost, which is everything – absolutely everything. They were not willing, and they lie to
themselves saying they have given all.
They say and think they love Him with all their hearts, but they
don’t. They still keep back; they still
hold back and have not forsaken all to be His disciple. I also saw that my YouTube subscribers were
at 392, and this is a Hebrew word in the Strong’s that means “to lie or
deception”. These in the church have
lied to the Holy Spirit and they have deceived themselves.
In my previous devotional “Counting
the Cost”, I spoke about how the Father brings us
to dust. I also spoke about Ecclesiastes
3 where Solomon prayed that man would know that without God they are as beasts;
and just like the beasts die and return to dust, the same is true for us. During this week, I was listening to a song
by a group of men, and it was absolutely amazing with beautiful voices bringing
me to tears. As I turned the song off,
the Spirit came over me and I started to cry and sob. I realized what I was crying about was man. This was in complete contrast of what I had
spoken about in “Counting
the Cost” where it is about becoming like dust and
being as beasts without God. At the time
of the song, the Spirit was showing me the cost that He paid when He lost Adam
(man) to a lie. When He made Adam there
in the garden, He said it was “very good”.
His glory in that dust was very good!
When the serpent came and lied, he stole from God; he stole His
son. He broke the communication and took
away the glory. He stole from God
because of a lie, and this is why God hates lies. When we lie to the Spirit and we lie to
ourselves, it causes many sons and daughters to be stolen from the Father. This is what the Bride and Workers will be
doing… they will be going to get His sons and daughters. They will be ruthless with the enemy’s lies
and deception. When I saw these men
singing so beautifully, I was thinking how all of us were created for Him…
every single person. When you see
someone that is in satanism or is a homosexual or transvestite, and you see
them suffering, you are seeing a son or daughter who was stolen from God. You see them stolen and broken by the enemy,
and Father longs to bring them back.
When God cried out to Adam in the garden asking where he was, we also
see Christ on the cross asking the Father where He was and why had He forsaken
Him. He entered into the dust of
humanity and into this life in order to bring many sons and daughters back to the
Father. The manifestation of the sons
and daughters of God is not just about the great revival that will take place
during the tribulation, but it is the return of that which He originally
intended… the return of the prodigals. Like
the parable of the prodigal the Father longs to run to them with kisses and take
them out from the pigs, giving them a new robe, new shoes, a new ring, and a
banquet. We as the elder brother will be
rejoicing, instead of the other elder brother in the story who was more like a
Pharisee. This is the heart of the Father…
that we will go to the dusty house of the churches and bring His children back. There is no middle ground. “He that is not with me is against me; and he
that gathereth not with me scattereth.” (Luke 11:23)
The Bride can honestly say, “My Beloved is mine, and I am
His”. She is in covenant with Him where
everything that she has and everything that she is – all of her – is His. What is hers is His and what is His is hers. She has paid the price by leaving everything,
and she is utterly in love with Him. She
longs and mourns for His return. Ask
yourself if you are really longing and mourning for Him to return. She is watching and praying. She lives in truth and authenticity, and she
worships Him in spirit and truth, because she and the Spirit are one.
I remember when Father started the sanctification process
in my life. My aim and purpose was to be
one with Him; that was my sole desire and was what drove me to give Him my all. It wasn’t so I would be accounted worthy to
escape and be a worker or work for Him, but being a worker and a servant was the
outflow of my union with Him. It’s not
what I can do for Him but what He can do through me. When Yeshua prayed the high priestly prayer
in John 17, He was praying that we would be one as He and the Father are
one. Being one is that covenantal
oneness where one soul is tied with the other in full union, so that when the
Spirit cries out of us, it means that we are one with the Spirit. Whatever is in your house that is not fully
given over or is still divided where there are still room in your house that
you have not allowed Him to come and clean… this means you are still not completely
one with Him. He desires to be a strong
man in your house and occupy through you, so that together with the Spirit you
are one voice. You hear the same thing,
see the same thing, and speak the same thing.
The Bride has been baptized not just in water but in His
death, a real felt death. She has truly
entered into the baptism of death, and that is what the Jordan represents. She is also not hesitant, wondering if He
will come and fetch her, and she is not unsure.
What Bride knowing that her Bridegroom is coming will stand at the
window and question and hope that He will come get her and not reject her? That is not the Bride of Yeshua, no! His Bride has come from a place of being
unsure to knowing and expecting that He is coming to get her. This is not prideful; it is knowing how much
He loves her. When you know how much
someone loves you, you trust them. Not
only do you prepare yourself, but you are expecting them. She is not unsure; she is watching and
waiting, not out of fear but out of knowing.
She is ready. When you are in the
place where you don’t know if you are ready because you still have issues to
deal with, remember that His eyes are roaming to and fro in search of those whose
hearts are perfect towards Him. In other words, their whole being wants Him,
cries out to Him, and is willing to pay the price. Whatever He shows them to do, they do
it. They are in preparation the whole
time; they are occupying by hearing His words and keeping them. Although it is a process and they may not be
finished with their sanctification, it is because their hearts are perfect
towards Him that makes them ready. They
are watching and waiting.
The question is, are you ready? Is your heart perfect towards the One who is
making it clear that very soon He is coming to get His dove? Are you as this dove mourning for His return,
because you long to see His face… not because you want to leave earth, but
because you want to be with Him? Are you
that dove who is so in love with Him that every moment is about Him?
I will now end with a prayer:
Father I thank you for this message. I pray that you will deeply work in the
hearts of every person who listens to and reads this message. We can become so busy with your work that we
neglect you, and we constitute this as the whole when we are really only giving
part. Just because we are busy with your
works does not mean that we are in love with you. Help us to make that distinction, and help us
to be willing to pay the price and occupy.
Help us to cry out and mourn for you to return, because we can’t wait to
see you. I pray this in the name of
Yeshua. Amen.
