On the morning of the 21st February 1991, while I was praying, God spoke to me; He said something like: 'There is going to be revival in Australia, such that has not been seen yet: There will be sign s and wonders; people will be falling down under the power of the Holy Spirit even when walking by where His word is proclaimed. And the keyword will be "HOLINESS".' Then the words came to me: "The edict has been issued, signed and sealed."
I told this to some Christians at work, but they mainly mocked. On the 11th March 1991 God spoke to me again and said: "Tell them I am going to give them a sign: 'Within a short period of time there will be three earthquakes in Australia'." I understood that it meant within two months. The very day He spoke to me there was an earthquake in Kalgoorlie, WA, and about two months later, 10th May 1991, I heard a discussion on the radio about two earthquakes (of a "moderate" strength) that hit the previous week some remote areas in Victoria.
Shortly after God showed me a vision: A country style fenced property with a horse drawn cart full of straw coming into the fenced area. The driver of the cart unloaded the straw and attempted to make a stack. He managed to make half a stack only, from the base to the top, but only half of it, like a cone sliced through the middle from top to bottom.
Then, towards the end of 1993 (October/November?) I suddenly remembered the vision and the words, and I asked the Lord, when these things would happen. He said: "By this season next year." Shortly afterwards, I saw in a vision a banner with "6-XI" written on it. I understood that the date was 6th November but, at the time, I wasn't sure if it was associated with another vision I had concerning a friend or if it could be the day the revival was to start in Australia?
When "this season next year" arrived and the "6-XI" (6th of November 1994) passed I started wondering if there was anything unusual taking place. So, I published a pamphlet and sent it to a number of churches: no news - till just before Christmas. A Messianic Jew told me that something was taking place in the Christian Growth Centre, Sutherland. I went to investigate and found out that "something" was happening, but I didn't really know what it was. There I heard about "Toronto Blessing". Early in February 1995 Rodney Howard-Browne visited Sydney and it was clear to me that definitely "something" big is in the making - still, I wasn't sure if this was that ("spoken of by the prophet"). Then, end of February 95, an article appeared on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald with a story of the "Toronto Blessing" taking place in the Randwick Baptist Church, and it "arrived" there on the 6th of November (1994)! Subsequently I learned that similar events started taking place in the Sutherland church and in the CLC, Mt. Annan and a number of other churches in NSW - on the same date!
Soon after (April 95) I had a short vision: The straw stack from the previous vision had been completed, and I saw a number of people in a circle around the stack each one eager to strike the match. But they all were dressed only casually, and I saw the one in white robe (like an angel of the Lord) standing by the stack and motioning to them with his hand not to approach the stack. In other words, as far as God is concerned, revival can start, but there is nobody worthy of lighting the fire! There is none who is clothed properly.
I also saw (May 95) the "stack" split from its top down to about one-third of its height, indicating the split in the renewal leadership. Then I saw the split bandaged with strips of straw, which is to say that the real revival will not start till this split is "bandaged".
The situation that is taking place in the church somehow reminds me on Ezekiel chapter 9 where the city of Jerusalem (the Church of Jesus Christ) went through a judgment, with all the inhabitants (individual churches) slain, starting from the sanctuary (the Church leaders), except those marked by the "One with the writer's inkhorn by His side". That is to say, all those churches and the church leaders that will not receive the mark from the "One with the inkhorn by His side" will be (spiritually) slain. And this renewal phase of the revival is symbolic of the individual churches being marked by the one with the inkhorn.
Indeed, I had a vision to that effect: A court room full of people with the accused (a certain pastor) lead in; he was terrified, yet he acted as if he was not concerned. As he was lead in, a voice announced: "The court is in session!". That is to say, the trial has begun.
During my attendance of the "Breakthrough to Revival" conference (Nov 95) in the Mt. Annan (south of Sydney, Australia) CLC, I had a brief vision: I saw the glory of the Lord remain over the city of Sydney for three days. The city looked as if enveloped in a mist, with the sunlight dimmed as if it was polar night over the city. There was no traffic in the city, no artificial lights of any kind and only a few people in the streets going about their "business". They were walking half bent and occasionally "jerking" as they walked, a familiar sight at the renewal meetings where some people are affected by the anointing present and walk in this fashion.
As I thought about the vision, I believe that this will literally take place in near future (perhaps no later than the year 2000 Olympics). The glory of the Lord will fall over the city with all the communications cut off, so that people will realize that something awesome is taking place. They will not be able, and will be terrified, to get out of their homes. Only a few who have been "conditioned" with the presence of God's anointing that is taking place in this renewal, will be able to get about and tell people that God is visiting us. This will bring in the "end time harvest" to the body of Christ.
On the morning of December 1, 95, I "saw" a diagram, kind of a curve of random distribution, could be a skewed normal or exponential, with an impression that we are now, with this renewal, at the very left hand end of the curve (marked "HERE") and are about to enter the section where the curve starts to rise steeply.
A diagram, kind of a curve of random distribution, with an impression that we are now, in this renewal phase, at the very left hand end, and the lower section of the curve and are about to enter the section where the curve starts to rise steeply, i.e. the anointing that is manifest in this renewal will "suddenly" increase! . The peak of the curve is still some way off and its tail a long, long way away. This revival will last for a long time!
I don't know how this will come out when you receive it. We are HERE now and are about to enter the steep rise section of the curve, The decision on the "split" between the Toronto Airport Vineyard and the leadership of the Vineyard churches "leaked" on the internet on December 6, 95 and the very next day I had two brief visions:
In the first vision I saw the one dressed in white (the angel of the Lord) climb the stack (seen in the earlier visions) and, by bouncing on it up and down, compressed it to about two-thirds of its original height. The base of the stack aparently remained unaffected and the top section of its centre-pole was exposed and was standing upright and also unaffected. Then the one in white placed another (already correctly shaped) top of the stack so that the stack looked complete and whole.
As I inquired, it became clear to me that the "stack" all along represented the "fuel", which is this renewal, required to start the fire of the revival. The top of the "stack" is the leadership of the renewal. When I originally saw the split in the "stack" I thought about the split between the RHB and the TAV streams of the renewal; not in the wildest dream I could imagine that the split would occur within the Vineyard leadership. The split existed for quite some time, and the Lord showed me that there would be no revival unless the split was "bandaged". Now, He is telling us that He has "bandaged" it in His own way: He has installed the new leadership - still in the spiritual realm. It will be interesting to see how it will look to the natural eye.
In the second vision I was looking from a great height into an empty river bed. The river bed was still wet but there was no water flowing in it. I understood that I was standing at the top of the Niagara Falls and looking down into the river's bed with no water in it. Is this to say that the "Toronto Blessing" will stop flowing from Toronto?
As I inquired about this vision the Lord showed me that the vision is for "the latter time". Let's wait and see.
6th January 1997 comment: The whole of 1996 went by and I had no significant revelation on the future of the revival (in Australia and, by implication, in the rest of the world), but I read with interest numerous prophecies given to the individuals all over the globe. And most of them line up with each other!
Only a couple of days ago (4th January '97), on three occasions, as I closed my eyes a saw high mountains under a heavy snow cover. It looked to be the spring time, with snow starting to melt looking "pregnant": ready to start a mighty avalanche! My impression is that each continent, each country, each church, each individual are "pregnant" with the expectation of what God is going to do next!
3rd April 1997, at our regular Thursday night revival prayer meeting, I had the following vision:
A long convoy of "tall ships" (18th/19th century war ships) entering an Australian harbour, which looked as it probably looked before the first settlers arrived - no buildings, only the rain forest type wilderness. As the first couple of ships entered the bay, they turned to their left, with their sides facing the shore. There was a group of native warriors on the shore, looking on. I saw the ship's crew, dressed like the 18th century British soldiers, but I knew that they were angels. The nets were thrown overboard, hanging down the side of the ship; not the fishing nets, but the nets (somehow I knew) used by the crew to climb out of or into the ship. It appeared that they were made ready for the soldiers to climb out of the ship and invade the land. However, I saw nobody leaving the ship. Instead, the crew fired a couple of rounds from the heavy ship guns into the group of the natives, who didn't appear to be perturbed by this bombardment. Then suddenly the ships lifted the sails and went back, in a long convoy, from where they came. However, I saw one of the soldiers (angels) stay behind on the shore, out of the sight of the natives. I didn't see when and how he left the ship and got to the shore.
Interpretation: The ships and the soldiers represent the invading "heavenly
army"
who visited the shores of Australia - the revival that has touched the
shores of this continent. However, the full scale invasion had not taken
place; it was aborted for some reason - we have not experienced the full
scale revival. The natives on the land represent the existing churches,
who were actually armed to "protect" the land from the "invasion" - the
churches were not willing to give up the land to this "invading army",
to the revial. However, they have been fired at, and they know that the
fleet may return any time. Indeed, the one left on shore is a sure sign
that the "fleet" intends to return.
Capellia
house church. He now has his Twelth Edition of Truth
Of Tithing there, a copy of which is on our website too.
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