The Sound of the Hammers in the Wintertime of our Age

From : Julie Baxter AbundantLife@england-baxter444.freeserve.co.uk
Feb. 3, 1999

Introductory Notes from my journal; 6am For several days now I have felt the Spirit of the Lord brooding about me. I feel like He wants to speak to me regarding His view of English colonization and His plan for undoing what they've done. I have also felt an accompanying vision and if feels as if it will take much from me. I am praying to be strong enough to receive it and that I will be obedient to the heavenly commands.

9 am Later in the day: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, brooding, making me to feel weighty with prophetic vision. I am troubled and cranky. I am fussy and silently screaming for people to 'leave me alone'. I want to spend time with Him; I want to hear what He has to say. I must be alone with Him; I must find Him whom my soul loves and wait upon Him alone. I try to tend to my children and their needs, and the needs of our ministry team (there are 8 of us living in our home.) I try to explain to them, and they believe they understand, but they don't and continue to interrupt. I fight resentment and win, only to fight it again because I have to fight it. I've confessed this and asked for their prayers and consideration.

I feel His love, His all-consuming love holding me tenderly at arm's length, waiting for me to come, waiting for the moment when He will speak to me and I will hear. I feel His wrath, and know I am a sinner, I am undone and uncomfortable. I know He is not angry with me, but as a vessel of intercession, prophecy and repentance I am called and will bear the burden of the Lord.

I sit here, crying and praying "Come, Lord, come! Please come Lord! Please come and do as you will, but only end this frustration. End this waiting, fall upon your handmaiden and do as you will." Life goes on and I do the laundry by hand since the washer is broken. "Lord, help."

12 Noon finally ~ the prophetic vision encompasses me and I am undone.

I hear the spirit of the Lord saying, " It is the wintertime of your age, the wintertime of your souls". The trees stand out in their bleak skeletons stretched forth across a flat, dead gray sky. The few signs of life hand listlessly on the trees all brown, crumpled, and dead. Ravens and crows sweep through the trees endlessly seeking whom they may devour. It is the wintertime of your soul.

I hear the sound of metal upon metal, once, twice, three times. The strident, sharp sounds of iron sharpening iron. I hear the grating voices of arrogance, competition and pride of ministers wrangling to accomplish their will, building their kingdom, enhancing their vision. The sound comes both from the hammers pounding nails into the coffins of the ones who chose to die to self and the yet more cruel sound of the ones who would not die, and are taken out of the battle by the enemy.

The sound of the hammers first is irritating on a quiet winter's day, and then suddenly my heart wells up with remorse. I feel like a child observing a solemn day of mourning. Nothing in me understands why, I only grieve and weep silently. But my heart breaks inside. My heart hurts and breaks, and feels as if it's swollen weight will burst my chest.

The sound of the hammers continues until all is silent. I feel the cold breeze on my face. I sense the smell delicious spring in the air. What is it? What am I seeing, what am I feeling?

In this moment the Lord speaks and says to me "Peace, be still. It is neither for you to know the times or the seasons, nor for you to understand what I do in your life. Peace, and do not fear. I am coming in the time when men do not expect me, for if they truly looked for me to come they would prepare. I see few that are preparing. I see few that are acting out of obedience to my commands to prepare them and fill their vessels with oil enough for others. The ones who appear to be preparing lack the wisdom of my love to prepare enough for others, and selfishly take what I give upon them.

Peace and safety is the message of my enemy, but he only says what I am saying to those who will prepare for my coming with everything in them as swiftly as they are able. I alone can say 'peace and safety" for I am their peace. I am their safety.

This world shall soon reel with danger, want, and wars. The rulers of this world shall soon swagger with their promise to bring an end to the very demonstration of its lack of my presence. I alone can bring peace.

This world is foolish and my children are foolish who copy its mannerisms. I say unto my church, do not imitate this world and it's promises to make everything effortless and easy. It is not my will that my church is impotent or it's gifts atrophied for lack of use. It is not my will that my children be weak because their spiritual fathers sought to get them out of their trials by providing for them, instead of teaching them to endure like good soldiers. It is not my will that my church should be an affront to my testimony of learning obedience by the things I suffered. It is not my will that my church should not know the meaning of sacrifice. It is not my will that my church should be without power to overcome sin, by virtue of the fact they do not know me or my Word. It is not my will that my church be continually drunken and playing. They must also be sober and vigilant. They must also prepare for the great draughts of fishes, which are to come to all nations beginning at the first trump of my coming.

You will see and know my coming is soon, and it is very soon, by the great numbers of fishes trying desperately to get into your boats. Even as the world saw in the days of Noah, so they will be drawn into my church for safety and preservation.

Your preparation must encompass their nourishing, their weaning, and their maturing into soul winners. You must watch and wait, but not without putting your hand and back to the plow and working with all your might. You must drink of my new wine, but not allow old wineskins to dispense it to you or keep it for you. If I put my new wine into old wineskins they will burst. The ravens are attracted by the sounds of wineskins bursting and old leaves crackling. The preparation of my church entails teaching how to die, how to be transformed by the washing of the word, the renewing of your minds, and the demonstration of my works in your midst ever convincing you of my Lordship and authority.

I have instructed you with this message and I ask you to give it to my children in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. I have visited them in times past and planted my seed in them. I have seen the wickedness of their colonization, their continual wrangling among themselves, yea, even the death and destruction wrought within their borders in my Name. I have long grieved with a Father's heart as they have gone forth in my Name with the actions of my enemy, who comes to kill, steal and destroy.

I am calling them to repentance and restitution. I am calling them to be people of the Name, no longer people of theory or doctrines of so-called church fathers. I am calling them to know Me. I am calling them to be people of my Word. I am calling them to be responsible and accountable for what they believe, individually, corporately, and as a nation. I will not give independence to those who do not deserve it, nor will I clothe in bridal clothing those virgins whose garments are spotted by the worldly doctrines they call my truth.

The restitution I demand will overturn in history the wrong done in their nation in my Name. I demand this restitution be made in every home, every village, every town, every city, every county and every country. I will have perfect obedience in this matter.

If they do as I have asked, I will overturn history. The nation that conquered and colonized for personal and military conquest alone, I will make a nation that shows forth my glorious light to the nations. I will make of Great Britain a nation that provides for the lost, the poor, the hungry, and the fatherless and teaches her children to be dependent and accountable in their service to their one True King and Lord. I will make of them a great nation and I will use them to shout to the nations ~ 'Behold, the Bridegroom cometh!'

And the nations call cry in response "Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna. Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus."

If they will not, I will fall upon them like the raven and they shall know my wrath at their misrepresentation of my nature and my Name. Tell them, my daughter, and do not fear what they shall say of you. If they receive my word, they shall be saved. If they do not, they shall deal with me. See to your household, see that they love and fear me, for I am coming soon, and will delight to greet you and all you bring into my wedding feast."
 
 
 
 

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