I don't know if I should put this here, it's related to something we were talking about earlier...it can be moved if that would be more appropriate.
A few months before the American presidential election, the Lord showed me in His word in Isaiah 45 that Donald Trump would win the election and be used by Him as a type of Cyrus. (This was before I had heard anything about others receiving similar words.) I was dumbfounded, because that man didn’t seem to fit the part, judging from my own mind and perspective, not like someone I would have thought the Lord would use because he was not a politician to start with, and obviously not a born again believer. I didn’t know what to make of it, at first I thought it meant that America was getting a reprieve from judgment, a little more time for the remnant believers to mature and be better prepared for the difficult times that are coming. And orchestrating the timing of things may be part of God’s plan in this, but also if we think about what Cyrus meant to Babylon…it meant judgment, and also the freeing of God’s people from captivity to allow them to return to Zion/Jerusalem.
In March I had a dream…….I was going on holiday somewhere by boat with my Husband and Son, it was a warm destination on the sea. Suddenly I found myself going into the city by bus and then on my way back as we were riding through the city a tall mountain like a phallic symbol was suddenly seen in the midst of the city. It had smoke coming from the top as though it was about to erupt. People were panicking and running away from the mountain. Suddenly my daughter was with me and she was clutching my hand out of fear. I looked and saw an office building, a row of windows suddenly opened and garbage was thrown out of them all at once. I decided to try and get my daughter down to the safety of the water and the boat where my husband and son were and that meant we would have to find some way around the mountain. (overcome it?)
Being on holiday means rest and not being at home (in the world). Husband and Son symbolizes Jesus. The boat symbolizes the ark (Jesus and the gospel). The city represents Babylon, the world….running back into the burning building so to speak to go fetch the daughter of Zion (church and/or Jews) and bring her to Christ (Husband/Son, Ark). The mountain symbolizes Babylon….but in another way it also represents the instrument of the Lord in judging her (a man…Cyrus). The buildings and windows opening to throw garbage out symbolizes repentance….people were repenting and getting rid of things in their life that were not of God, flesh, carnality etc. All these things will happen suddenly or quickly. In the bible it was Cyrus who God used to conquer/judge Babylon and let the people of God go free and return to Zion/Jerusalem.
(As the remnant are mostly those who are dwelling in the wilderness right now, I think of Moses in the wilderness….how after his 40 years in the wilderness as a sheepherder and knowing that wilderness like the back of his hand, and being changed by the Lord….suddenly one day the Lord appeared to him and he was called to go back to Egypt/Babylon to rescue the captive people of God and help them navigate that very same wilderness that he knew so well by then, and the same mountain of the burning bush was Mt. Sinai.)
It’s amazing how the Lord speaks and confirms His word. The other evening after I posted those thoughts about praying for the erring church…..He took me right to Jeremiah 50 and I continued reading on the same theme in Ch. 51………all regarding the judgment of Babylon and Israel coming out of her to seek the Lord and return to Him. Remember Daniel praying for the captive people of God when the 70 years was up, about a generation. The whole book of Daniel is all about the last days. It even shows the image of the beast….Nebby’s image….dimensions are 60 x 6 x 6 cubits.
I encourage you to read the entire chapters 50 and 51 of Jeremiah, but for now I am just posting some of the pertinent verses in Jer.50/51……..which allude to the judgment of Babylon by Cyrus/Media-Persia and pertains to a harvest of souls returning to the Lord from out of Babylon:
Jer 50:4-6
In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.
Jer 50:8
Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
Jer 50:20
In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.
Jer 50:24-25
I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.
The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
Jer 50:28
The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
Jer 50:33-34
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jer 50:44
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them SUDDENLY run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me? (Cyrus)
Jer 51:6
Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
Jer 51:8
Babylon is SUDDENLY fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
Jer 51:9
We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
Jer 51:10
The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
Jer 51:11
Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
Jer 51:13
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
Jer 51:24-25
And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.
Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
Jer 51:33
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and THE TIME OF HER HARVEST SHALL COME.
At this point I was overjoyed and could only say, glory, glory, hallelujah, praise the Lord, thank you Father! \o/
So we are to pray for the captive church and ask for the Lord to work….we will not judge them or write them off, because the Lord will pardon and many will repent. Times are going to get rough but we can be encouraged that a harvest will result.
Here is some icing on this cake, to me at least, and hope it will bless others as well……shortly after that dream I had another brief little dream….I saw a house with the roof being put on it. The CAPSTONE! The roof was made of panes (pains) of glass….which speaks to the sorrows/travail that will give birth to it. I believe the capstone speaks to the final outpouring of the Spirit…which we only have the foundation cornerstone of Christ, but not the capstone yet….we only have the earnest (deposit) of the Holy Spirit and are waiting for the ‘balance owing’ which will “crown” His people.
The Lord is being wonderfully consistent in the things He has been speaking in various ways, though I know this is only a part…..for example I don’t know how these things fit in with other prophesied events concerning the end, or the timing of it all. Only that if Donald Trump is a Cyrus, we should expect things to start shaking in “Babylon” pretty soon, at least in America…and perhaps in Israel. His first year of office was accompanied by unprecedented disasters. But knowing how the Father has foreseen and foretold and is ruling & reigning in these things whatever comes, will help us to remain in faith and not be in worry and fear as others will. We are prepared and expecting it.
Psa 46:2-3
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Thank you Lord Jesus, and bless and help your people, amen.