The Eight Beast

Chapter 4

The Heavens Shaking

This last message is to help us understand why people do not understand how Jesus would come as a thief in the night. It is expected that the wicked and disobedient would not know when he is coming, but his strong warning was for saints to watch and pray. He said that it would be such a time of confusion and deception that he would cut the time short, so that the very elect would be saved. Thus he is implying that the pressure and deception will make its way against even the lives of the elect. Let’s look at how this happens:

• The natural Israel was shaken about 2000 years ago and the Days of Vengeance came upon it.

• The church, being a spiritual kingdom, has followed the pattern of Israel and it must also be sent a great light in the last days before the Days of Vengeance comes upon it.

• The Days of Vengeance is coming for the rebellious and disobedient and the righteous of the Lord must hear his voice to escape, just like when Titus came.

God’s people are being shaken today as the enemy wants to get them off the true foundation and join Satan’s army.

The Earth Was Shaken at Jesus' Time

When Jesus came about 2000 years ago he manifested to those in the earthly realm that much of what they believed, practiced, and lived was not true. They had no eternal life in them, but rather death and destruction. Many heard, believed and followed the message and doctrine from Jesus Christ. Others who were rebellious and of the stiff neck religious group also heard, but did not follow. Even the disobedient and wicked sinner saw and heard it. These felt this shaking going on through their country; but it did not change their life. Having faith or a spiritual ear was not required to hear God’s voice when he shook the earth at the time of Jesus Christ. However, to discern that this was God and understand his message did take a spiritual understanding.

In Haggai 2:6-9, Matt 24:29, Hebrew 12:25-28, we are promised that God will not only shake the earth again, but will also shake the heavens. During the time of the heavens being shaken, it can only be seen by the Spirit. That is why one cannot understand the prophecies that pertain to the end times by studying; it takes the spirit of revelation from God. The Word of God is given by the Holy Ghost and is written to speak to the natural kingdom and the spiritual kingdom. Many times God speaks to both in the same verse. Jesus in the last days is shaking the heavens, which is his kingdom he created 2000 years ago. He will also shake the earthly kingdoms, which have now become the kingdoms which Satan is the God of.

This shaking that is happening now in the spiritual realm is sometimes magnified by the natural elements in our life to accomplish the purpose of the shakening. The wind is blowing to move us off the foundation of Jesus Christ as it was given to us by him and the Apostles. At the same time it is also gathering God’s people to his Word, and gathering the Devil’s people to the false doctrine. The true saints are trying to stay true to the Lord in both doctrine and spirit, while the tares are worshipping an image of life that Satan has now manifested and brought forth.

Natural Israel Example

In the Old Testament when God was speaking to his people, he was speaking to Israel or Judah. He would speak to those that were righteous and those who were unrighteous in the natural kingdom of Israel. When necessary, God would send judgments into the land to purge out those things that had defiled the land. When the people could no longer be purged, he would take them out of the land and give them over to the wicked nations for a time. Later, he brought his people back into the land of promise.

Over time, they again became corrupted and perverted, even to the point that when Emmanuel came in Jesus Christ, to visit them, they rejected him. It was at that time of his first visit, that Jesus shook the earthly kingdom, not by an earthquake, but by manifesting Gods power and exposing Satan’s kingdom which was already intertwined with the religious system of that day. The abominations of Israel, the Priesthood, and their rejecting of Christ resulted in God sending Rome years later to destroy their city and tear down their worship in 70AD. God no longer had any purpose or need for the former type of worship. The Days of Vengeance were poured out upon God’s chosen people Israel for their abominations against God and Christ.

The Church

The New Testament church body of believers has followed the same course which the Old Testament natural Israel followed. They have mixed with the world as they desired to be like the other nations or groups of pagan worshippers. Finally, he sent the New Testament church down into a Spiritual Babylon. In later years, a small group returned to the path which Jesus had originally given them. God visited them with an outpour of the Holy Ghost with signs and wonders in the early 1900’s. Many did not accept or believe that this Spiritual manifestation was him.

Over time, those who received God’s 20^th century out pouring of the spirit, became corrupted again from wanting to be recognized among the nations and people. They simply wanted to be like them and fit in their religious system. Iniquity and perversion began to increase among this New Testament church until their worship was again perverted by the influences of false doctrines, uncleanness and false spirits. These abominations have led to desolations within the church. The Days of Vengeance have begun upon the church, as God has sent spiritual enemies to destroy the system of religion that contains both true and false.

The Days of Vengeance

Whenever God’s people disobeyed in the Old Testament, after the Law and the Kingdom were established, God sent natural enemies against them to vex or conquer them. His purpose was to help them recognize that they had turned from God, but they could choose to repent and bring healing and restoration to the nation of Israel. God sent them a great light through Moses when the nation was born and then he sent a greater light through Jesus at the end of the Old Covenant. Those that rejected the Law delivered by Moses where stoned and those that rejected the Gospel delivered by Jesus died in their sins.

Several of the surrounding nations were used to fulfill God’s purpose, when Israel or Judah’s sin reached the point when they would not repent and change any longer. God sent the cruel nations of Assyria, Babylon, Greece and Rome to afflict, punish and even destroy his people who had once been called the people of God. We see that the vengeance of God comes upon his people in stages. Then in the last days of the Old Covenant, God sent the Beast of Rome to destroy their corrupted worship and scatter the people.

Now in the days of the New Testament church, we have a Spiritual Kingdom, rather than a natural one. This new covenant of the Heavenly Kingdom follows the same principles as God dealt with those under the old covenant, the natural people of God in the Old Testament. God now sends spiritual enemies upon those that take on his name, for their transgressions away from His Word.

That is why he has sent the powers and principalities of darkness against the church since the mid 1900’s. The spiritual Assyrians have come and carried away the saints into another land, into another walk with God, because they had lost their first love and defiled themselves with the world. The spiritual Babylonians have come to destroy Jerusalem (the Church), destroy her house of worship and carry away God’s people into captivity of confusion. The spiritual Grecians have brought into the church their philosophy and theology, destroying the power of Faith in the Word of God. The spiritual Romans have brought in spiritual cruelty and spiritual oppression through organizations and denominations. The spiritual Catholicism has brought a perverted doctrine and spirit in these last days killing many of the saints. They have set up an image of the Holy Ghost temple of God with man’s leadership, which is corrupt and full of filth.

Nevertheless in the last days of the New Covenant the Lord will send a great light to the church, it will be rejected by the religious, but the elect of God will rejoice. Then God will send the Eighth beast to destroy this corrupted worship and scatter the people. The Eighth beast is already here and in control of the land and worship, just like Rome was at the time of Jesus Christ. God has said he will preserve or protect his people during this time, but that blessing is only to those that hear and obey the voice of the Lord.

God's People Are Being Shaken

The nation of God, the Church has thrust Christ’s leadership out of their lives even as he stands at the door knocking to come in. In an effort to keep peace with the world, the Church world has accepted the false spirit filled movement of these latter years. Today preachers cannot discern between the true or false or that which is just immaturity in the saints walking with God. Through the iniquity that has abounded in this last 50 years, false doctrines and false anointing have come in like a flood upon the church; shaking people completely out of the Kingdom of God and into the Kingdom of Satan.

We are approaching a similar time as the Old Testament people, but this time spiritual Rome is sending another army to destroy the church, God’s people. Many of those who seek shelter behind the walls of religion will lose their lives because they do not go out of the camp to follow Jesus. Satan is attempting to destroy Heavenly Jerusalem; but it cannot be destroyed. Like in the last days of the Old Testament church, before Rome’s armies came, all of their previous religious ordinances and worship did not fulfill any purpose in changing their relationship with God. In a similar manner, the day is coming when the days of preaching salvation will no longer have any effect and God will move on to His next message of deliverance. The elect or true born again, who walk after the Spirit of God, should not fear of being shaken out of Jesus’ Heavenly Kingdom even though they will suffer from many natural oppressions.

How the Heavenly Shaking Came

As preached in the previous messages this spiritual shakening has been happening for years now. First, the devil has been loosed from the bottomless pit bringing forth a smoke of iniquity that is tormenting and tempting many of God’s people. Secondly, the devil has sent forth an army of deception through Christianity to deceive God’s people and bring abominations upon their soul. The Eighth Beast has already sent a fire from heaven, and Gog and Magog are currently compassing the Church, the Heavenly Jerusalem, the Beloved of the Lord.

These same deceptions have been a major part in fulfilling the prophecy in Joel of an army that would come to devour Gods people. The vine is wasted and the new wine is dried up in the last days. The flow of the Holy Ghost is withered among the saints. These deceptions have stripped the bark off of God’s tree, bringing death. Moisture cannot travel up into the leaves and branches on a bark-less tree. The fields are wasted. The corn of the Word of God is dried up. Many are being deceived. Many are falling by the way side. Many have come to a valley of decision in their life. Do I walk with God or walk with religion?

In Revelation it speaks of an hour of temptation when the mighty wind would blow upon the saints. Today, we are in this hour of temptation and the saints of God are being tried, tested and purified. God has sent this army of Satan upon the entire world to bring destruction just as was spoken of by the prophet Joel.

The church as a whole has been backsliding allowing the adversary to get a hold on their life during this hour of temptation upon the world. Many in the church have become defiled. The church has joined itself to false doctrines which have come out of the mouths of the beast, the dragon and the false prophets.

A strange fire has fallen from heaven and many believers have allowed a different spirit to come into their life. Those who once where saints of God having the Spirit of Christ sit upon the throne of their heart, have now received a False Spirit, which now sits upon that same throne of their heart. The enemy of Christ is sitting in the temples of God. The abomination that leads to desolation is standing in the holy place, sitting in that place that should be reserved only for the Lord.

The fig tree is being shaken of a mighty wind and many figs or saints are falling as many stars are being cast down by the false prophet and false spirit from the dragon. Yet there are a few in the uppermost branches that are staying secured in their hold on the testimony of Christ and of the Word of God. Only those who have spiritual understanding can see or understand what I am saying, because this mighty wind that has come, has been against our Spiritual Kingdom of God.

Summary

The enemy wants to defile us and remove us from the Kingdom. At the same time that many are being defiled; God is purging out of his Kingdom the unclean and tares, the children of the wicked one whom the Devil sowed in the field. Both the godly and ungodly are slowing moving toward the group or camp, they wish to be a part of, as the next phase of God’s battle on the earth is being prepared.

Peter said that when the time of judgment begins, it will start with the church and then move to the sinner or world. This shaking of the heavens has begun and will continue to increase with intensity toward the saints until the time the two Prophets, or the Anointed ones has finished their divine purpose, are killed and resurrected as spoken of in Revelation.

Today, only those filled with the Spirit of Jesus Christ can see what is happening to the Spiritual Kingdom of God from this shakening that has been going on for years. This is not the sun, moon and stars which we see when we look into the night sky. No, the shaking of the heavens is the Kingdom of God. Things have entered into the Kingdom of Christ which is not supposed to be there. Abominations have set up their own altars and worship within His Kingdom. Saints have turned their back on worshipping in Truth and Spirit and are now worshipping the flesh, world, lust and greed. Every form of spiritual creeping thing has associated itself with the church or body of believers of Jesus Christ. And what makes it so bad is that the people of God cannot seem to discern the …true from the false doctrine …true from the false anointing … nor the clean from the unclean. Darkness is upon the world and the church again.

The vine and the fig tree are being shaken. This is not the enemy coming of his own desire; it is God sending the army of Satan against the church to make it desolate so that the sinners might be destroyed out of it. This adversary is not from any country …it is not from this physical world …it is not from our natural realm … it is Satan being loosed upon this earth in a spiritual manner. If the children of God stay true to God, devil’s enticing will not cause them to stumble and fall.

Those who do not spiritually run to the mountain of the Lord will be spiritually destroyed. Those who desire to keep their stuff (natural or spiritual) will be spiritually overcome. God is destroying and purging the unclean out of the Church. It is bringing the remaining part of the church to a place that they will cry out in pain and sorrows to be delivered. She is not crying from pains of bondage and affliction over the loss of her stuff. She is crying out because there is something in her that wants to be manifested, brought forth unto life. She wants to be free from this Adamic nature that is holding her in bondage.

Blessed is he that has an ear to hear what the spirit has to say to the church.