I’ve had this on my heart since near the beginning of this year…

This is quite a somber post…

The Holy Spirit said to me, when I went into our local Supermarket earlier on in the New Year, “It’s over”…

I didn’t completely understand what He meant but I knew He was serious…

Today I get what He meant and feel to share this…

The way that Western civilisation has been has not been pleasing to the Lord…

He is going to do away with it and bring those who remain from these Western countries into a place of dependence on Him – dependence on Him for everything – even their daily bread…

The way that we in the Western world have been living is, as of this year, over…

We trust ourselves, we provide for ourselves, we freeze our food, we stockpile our food, we have everything we need – but the Lord is not pleased…

James 5 has come to my attention earlier on this year…

The Lord is not pleased with us…

He has warned us and we have not heeded His warning…

We have known the truth of the Gospel but we have not lived the Gospel – we have not shared with those less “fortunate” than ourselves…

We have lived in selfishness and greed in the West and that is now over…

God is going to chastise us as a culture – the whole lot of us…

I have seen widescale devastation…

Widescale devastation…

Whole nations, whole countries decimated…

There will be those left and these ones will return unto the Lord with their whole hearts – putting right the things which have been wrong – on a national or cultural scale – and relating to their fellowman in a way which is pleasing to the Lord – “Love your neighbour as yourself”…

I am sorry to bring this message but I am not sorry – we have been living in defiance to the Lord in the West – using His blessings on our culture because of our honour of Him in days gone by to commit all manner of wickedness and believing that His blessing is still upon us – as a nation or as a culture – which it is not…

Defiance will never bring the blessing of God…

New Zealand will experience this first…

Christchurch will be the first city to experience it…

We have had nothing yet in the city of Christchurch…

God has been gently turning us…

Yes, God is going to do great things in this city…

Yes, God is going to bring salvation to this city…

But God is going to judge this city…

There are many who will die in the judgement which God will bring on this city…

There is an eviction of the ruling spirit in this city which is coming and coming quickly…

The Holy Spirit will reign preeminent over the spirit of this city…

Forevermore…

But for this to occur many “structures” must fall…

Control must go…

Pride must go…

Fear must go…

Once these have gone sexual immorality must go…

Greed must go…

Selfishness must go…

Independence must go…

Submission must come…

Submission to the Lordship of Christ…

This will be painful for many people in this city…

It is like tearing off what has become so much a part of ourselves…

(Like the fifth mask which a prophetic friend of mine saw many years ago)

God is going to do this throughout our civilisation…

There will be no escape…

God is going to bring Revival to this earth and this means shaking and this means pain…

There is no avoiding this…

He has “had enough”…

He is coming to restore His Image in our civilisations…

The Western civilisation has lost His Image…

He is going to restore It…

Those whom the Lord loves He disciplines and chastens, therefore we are to be zealous and repent…

Much intercession has been completed for this city and for this nation…

Much intercession (I sense in the Spirit) has been completed for many Western nations – the powers which have “held sway” over these civilisations for many generations are now being challenged by our Almighty God – they will fall…

He will come – His Presence will come to the spiritual atmosphere over nations and cities and they – the spiritual principalities – will fall…

They will be removed…

Wholesale devastation will come with the coming of His Presence…

I will never forget the day – it was Waitangi Day – when I sat reading of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah – and felt the Righteous Judgement of God for their wickedness which had reached His Ears…

This will happen in the West before He comes again…

Wholesale Judgement…

Everything will be judged – including those of us who know the Lord – for us it is more refinement and testing – it will purify us (practically – as we are already pure positionally) and line us up to be ready to serve in the expansion of the Gospel as it goes throughout the whole world one last time before the end…

Everything will be judged – everything will be shaken…

What cannot be shaken – our faith – is all that will remain…

We – those who know the Lord – will live by faith…

We will have nothing else…

Literally…

It is a very strange world which I am seeing…

I believe Isaiah 24 and Jeremiah 25:30-38 will be fulfilled in our generation…

Amazing salvation but amazing desolation…

It all hinges on how we treat Israel and how we treat our fellowman…

I am speaking on a national level here not a personal salvation level…

I have seen destruction in this city, in this nation and in the nations of the West…

I have also seen great salvation in this city, the city of Jerusalem, this nation and in the nations of the West and following this in the remaining nations of the world…

All Israel will be saved…

It will be “life from the dead” for the nations of the earth…

For all who have interceded for Israel will be rewarded with salvation…

“Those who bless you I will bless”…

And we also as the spiritual descendents of Abraham are also blessed with this promise…

I am not scared…

I am looking forward to the Lord’s Judgements…

A close friend of mine shared from this scripture (see bold italics below),

At night my soul longs for You, Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently; For when the earth experiences Your judgments The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. (Isaiah 26:9 NASB)

Those that are left will learn righteousness…

I know this…

They will learn…

We, in the West, are being asked by the Lord to support His work in the rebuilding of Israel, the re-gathering of Israel both to their land and to their God…

Before He comes again all Israel will be saved…

The Salvation of Israel will be the Salvation of the world…

This is prophesied in the Word…

We, the Western world, along with the remainder of the Gentile Church have a part to play in the history of the world…

We must move the nation of Israel to jealousy…

Our fervent devotion to their Messiah, Yeshua Ha’Mashiach, is meant to move them to jealousy…

The only way this can occur is for the Lord to bring judgement and shaking to the earth…

To remove from us the “crutches”, the worldly “crutches”, which we have leant on – as Israel of old leant on the reed of Egypt (being the world) – “Behold, you rely on the staff of this crushed reed, even on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.” (Isaiah 36:6 NASB) – and make us again depend on Him alone and lean on the Everlasting Arms which are underneath…

We will in this chosen generation…

We have a destiny to move the nation of Israel to jealousy…

I believe that is the destiny of the Western Church…

We have not completed our job in the Mind of God…

Yes, His attention is turning back to His People Israel but we still have a function in His Hand – to move them to jealousy…

Their salvation will be our ultimate blessing – our restoration and the restoration of all nations under heaven…

We have an amazing call and we know for this call to become a reality that first – as Joseph experienced – we must go through the crucible of testing…

Everything which we hold dear must be stripped from us…

He will leave nothing that we love which is not surrendered to Him…

To His Lordship…

He is Lord and He will be seen to be Lord…

The Jewish Nation will behold their Messiah in the faces of their Western brothers and sisters in the Lord – in their dependence upon Him and in their support of their “brothers and sisters to be”, the Nation of Israel…

One new man…

One new man in Christ…

All saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ – The Messiah – The Saviour of the World…

It will be painful and unbelievable – unbelievable upheaval – we will have nothing but our faith in God and we will learn to pray with reality the prayer Jesus – our Master – taught us to pray…

‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.’ (Matthew 6:9-13 NASB)