A Wilderness Season is Coming to The Body of Christ

A Wilderness Season is Coming to The Body of Christ

I’ve been having a lot of visions as I’m about to fall asleep, and these have come to pass very quickly so I’m sharing my latest one here. A more discerned version will be on my blog. I may make a Youtube video about it too.

December 26, 2023

11:11pm

In this vision I see helicopters hover in the sky over a desert. The strange thing about these helicopters is that they are a mixture between normal looking helicopters and locusts. Their wings were beating so loudly they could have been mistaken for the helicopter’s blades.

A crowd of people rushed over to them and started to hurl stones at them. The whole scene made me think of the Stargate motion picture when the people of Abydos fought against Ra’s army. But they were no match for the helicopters who simply shot them down. They weren’t killed, just injured. They were left lying there bleeding and in pain.

Then I saw the face of a lion appearing out of the desert sand. It opened its large maw and zoomed across the desert and consumed all the people lying in the sand.

The helicopters were the locusts that came out of the abyss in Revelation 9:3. They didn’t kill the people but stung them like scorpions. In this vision, like many others like them, they were tormenting people psychologically in the desert. For Christians the desert represents a season in the wilderness where they are tried and tested and refined like silver in a fire, so that they lose their impurities (sin/less godly characteristics) and are transformed to be more like Christ. We often refer to this as a season of suffering because it is painful to go through. God will target our weaknesses in order to strengthen us. But some people can get stuck here so live in an unending cycle of suffering. It’s only through an obedience to God and His Word that they can get out of it. Job 42:10 teaches us to forgive those who have wronged us, pray they are blessed and then then we will see restoration come into our lives.

The locusts as helicopters are symbolic of spiritual warfare. In Revelation 9:7 it says the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. In verse 9 it says the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.

There will be many demonic attacks on the people of God. This doesn’t look obvious but is manifested through fatigue, chronic body pains, confusion, financial problems, storms (one thing going wrong after another), depression, anxiety, and relationship problems. Some of these attacks can be temptations to go back to old sinful ways such as giving into lust, addictive behaviour, idolatry (putting anything before God), and self-medication (alcohol/drugs).

And anytime a lion appears from a mountain or the sand, it depicts the devil who roams around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour (1 Peter 5:8). It represents a lure back into temptation to sin. Being consumed by it is representative of being under the oppression and bondage of the enemy and caught in a never ending cycle of sin.

This is a word for the Body of Christ. Many are about to go into a wilderness season where they will be psychologically tormented by locusts with anxiety, depression, despair, or other types of oppressive spirits. And this is how the devil will keep them in bondage.

They need to take this season to draw closer to God, allow the Holy Spirit to work in their lives to put them through a refinement process to transform them. And they need to get into the Word and declare it to the enemy.

In this season people aren’t just being put through a trial so they can be tested, reshaped and remolded, but for discipline. God is separating the wheat from the tares so He can purify His Bride (the Church) to prepare her not just for the Bridegroom (Jesus) but so He can protect her and provide for her as a great shaking comes to the world in 2024, which will be felt first in the Church (1 Peter 4:7). He’s going to make sure His remnant Church becomes unshakeable (Heb 12:27).

The enemy has used a lot of people in the Church to attack other members of the Body who are the pioneers and trailblazers who were forging a path for God’s new move in the Church and in the nations. But God is bringing about their vindication by putting those the devil had used to harm them, delay or even destroy their destiny, through a trial of discipline and deliverance. This is to give them a chance to not be cut off from the Body of Christ.

God will allow Satan to attack them in order to test and train them up in spiritual warfare and to see if they have what it takes to be in God’s Army. And Satan will do everything he can to keep them in his bondage and away from them stepping into their destiny; fulfilling the plans of purposes of God in the earth. So, they will have to put up a fight by resisting the temptation of giving into torment and find an escape through worldly pleasures. This resistance can only be achieved by the power of The Holy Spirit and not their own efforts. And by drawing closer to God’s presence and putting their trust in Him and having faith that He will get them through it.

Some will go through a period of physical isolation where God will keep them from receiving support from others so they only put their trust in Him.

The Apostle of Peace
Prophet, Seer, Evangelist

Prophecy: Bear Each Others Burdens

Prophecy: Bear Each Others Burdens

This prophecy came to me when I was listening to part 1 of my church, Anchor City’s sermon, ‘The Righteous Sufferer.’ It’s Jesus’ own words

Jesus wants us to be a community that doesn’t hide our pain and suffering from each other. And not one one that tries to keep a cheerful atmosphere by hiding true sufferings from each other. To be real with each other.

Jesus says:

I don’t want My church to have to suppress their sufferings from each other. I want them to be honest about their pain and grief and I want the members to give them support, a shoulder to lean on. Let them share their pain with them so they can be a listening ear, and provide gentle and loving advice with compassion and empathy, just like I would give them (Rom 13:8). I want them to use My words to comfort and reassure them that they can always open up in My church because this is where they can find support (1 Cor 1:7-8, 2:11-13, 14:3,7-8). I want them to bear each other’s burdens (Rom 13:13,15; Gal 6:2). You wouldn’t ignore a hurt limb, and you wouldn’t pretend it didn’t hurt, because it would be impossible to ignore, because it’s attached to you. Likewise, I want My Body to be so connected to each other that they feel the pain that other members are in (1 Cor 12:26-27). I want them to have deep loving and intimate relationships with each other (Rom 13:10) just like I do with My Father and Holy Spirit. We rely on each other’s love to pour love back into each other. How do you think We have been surviving all eternity with each other? That love is our sustenance (Matt 4:4, John 4:31, 6:27,57). It puts us in agreement with each other, though we speak to our children in individual ways. There is no disagreement or division. There’s no jealousy or desire to have power over one another. The members of the Body should do likewise (Romans 13:13,14:1,15:5–7; 1 Cor 1:10, Gal 6:10).

Here’s some more discernment with more explanation:

Look after each other: Hebrews 12:15
The weakest parts of the body are the most necessary: 1 Cor 12:22-25
The one who prophesies strengthens, encourages, comforts: 1 Cor 14:3
A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other: 1 Cor 14:7-8
Share in people’s weaknesses so you can bring them back to Christ: 1 Cor 10:22
Love strengthens the Church: 1 Cor 8:1

I come from the disability and mental health community in the secular world. It wasn’t just a place to find empathy and support, but a place to find people who related, so I could trust them to give me advice, because they got it. They rarely gave bad advice. When they couldn’t give advice or didn’t know if they should because they might make things worse, they admitted to that.

Even in the transgender and LGBT+ community, that support I needed could always be found online. We were honest with each other. Looking back I think we may have shared too much of our personal lives, but it brought us closer together and made us trust each other. 

The last couple of Sundays I have left church so depressed because I just could not find the support in my church, that I just desired to go back into the world. I’d still be depressed but I wouldn’t suffer alone (Gal 6:9). 

So, it’s the lack of emotional support in the church that makes me want to go back into the world and find that support (Gal 6:1). 

But I think it’s because we as Christians go through similar trials that we can relate enough to give helpful advice (1 Cor 10:13, 2 Cor 1:4-7). We all respond differently to advice and support. Personally I prefer “how may I help you?” because I prefer not to think about someone pushing in and interrupting my routine by offering to clean up or make me a meal. Both things which I get allergic reactions to.

The Apostle of Peace