I saw a large whitewashed tower in a somewhat half built fortification.
This whitewashed tower was taking up most of the space inside this fortification,
and the Spirit revealed to me it was satan's presence in the church. This
tower was whitewashed with both false righteousness and demonic traditions
within the church. More significant is what I saw and heard next. God said,
that he will rise up the individual within the church, and as they take
their place and authority within the church body and structure....they
will each start taking a brick out of this tower, eventually weakening
it and causing it to crumble. In the vision I saw the crumbled tower, destroyed
by the saints of God reaching up and taking out the bricks it was made
of.
But behind the tower, coming out from behind it, were poor, ragged,
weak and emaciated saints of God. They had been overshadowed and dominated
by the shadow of this tower and they came staggering so to speak, out from
behind it into the light of God. In my mind , the understanding was given
that this tower had been spiritually suffocating the saints, but God said
he is in the process of bringing this tower down.
The fact that satan could have such a position and prominence in the
church structure and tradition, is serious cause for evaluating and scrutinizing
our way of handling the living organism called "the church". God free us
from the bondage of what was......move us into a vibrant and powerful body,
created in equality and openness, where everyone is an active part, and
esteemed as such.
Father release the ministers of God that are caught in the mold of
being "the Pastor" and bring them out into the knowledge of what you offer
not just through them but your whole body. Tear down the idols father......clean
the house......and set the saints free..
SOURCE: Keith Wells kwells@istar.ca
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