5 December 2002

The following was a series of dreams, visions and revelations the Lord shared with me over the course of a few weeks' time. I feel that these dreams, visions and revelations encompass situations from the immediate past, the present and the immediate future. I lack the words and the ability to fully put to words what the following article ministered to my spirit. I can only pray that the Holy Spirit will be able to enlighten the following to the hearts of those reading it.

I was standing next to the Lord. I saw a large group of people gathered. The Lord and I were slightly to the back and one side of the large group of people. There was a river behind the people and a large mountain before them. I heard the sound of the Lord's voice.

The Lord spoke again. A small group of people separated themselves from the large group of people and stood directly before the mountain. I watched as the small group of people took water and began to pour it over themselves and to wash themselves with the water.

This smaller group of people then began to climb the mountain. At first, the large group of people stood around the base of the mountain and watched the people who were climbing up the mountain. I heard a noise beginning to come towards where the large group of people were gathered. This unidentified noise soon surrounded the people and was in the midst of the people. Yet, no one seemed able to understand or comprehend what the noise was. The large group of people began to be distracted and vaguely disturbed by the noise. Many of them left the base of the mountain and began to mill around in aimless confusion.

I then saw as many of these people began to come under some type of attack. Yet just as the noise couldn't be fully understood, the attacks didn't seem to be fully understood, either.

"What is this sound of a noise, Lord?" I asked the Lord.

"This noise is a feint from the enemy against many of My children," the Lord replied.

(Feint: A feigned attack designed to draw defensive action away from an intended target. A deceptive action calculated to divert attention from one's real purpose. A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck.)

"The enemy is seeking to distract many of My children from what I am striving to accomplish in this hour by bringing numerous attacks against them," the Lord said to me.

"These feints from the enemy are attacks against the minds, bodies and relationships of My children," the Lord continued. "While My children are focused upon the feints from the enemy, they are failing to comprehend the true attack from the enemy: which is an attempt to divert the attention of My children from Me. Unless My children keep their eyes and attention focused completely upon Me, they will not grasp or understand how I am moving."

"How are You moving right now?" I asked the Lord.

"I am moving in levels and stages of separation, callings, anointings and combining of ministries," the Lord replied.

I felt a bit confused by the Lord's reply. Then I heard the Lord speak again. I glanced towards the mountain. I noticed that when some of the people who were climbing up the side of the mountain heard the sound of the Lord's voice, they stopped climbing and remained where they were. Only a handful of people continued to climb completely up the side of the mountain. They were not climbing as a group, though, but individually.

The top of the mountain was covered with what appeared to be a thick, dark cloud. When the small group of people each began to reach the top of the mountain, I noticed that the Lord was no longer standing next to me, but was now on the top of the mountain. I suddenly found myself on the top of the mountain also. There was an intense blue light surrounding the Lord.

The Lord began to speak individually to each of the people who had climbed to the top of the mountain. Each person only heard what the Lord spoke to them personally. They were unable to hear what the Lord spoke to anyone else. I had the impression that the Lord was giving instructions and directions to each individual.

After the Lord finished speaking to each individual in the group of people at the top of the mountain, He gave each person a set of two stone tablets and sent them back down the mountain to join the rest of the people. On their way back down the mountain, they were rejoined by those who had stopped at various points in their ascent up the mountain. The people who had stayed at various levels on the side of the mountain began to help those who had climbed completely to the top of the mountain.

"What are these two stone tablets?" I asked the Lord.

"The two stone tablets represent My law," the Lord replied.

When the people with the stone tablets reached the bottom of the mountain, they began to build an altar. I watched as they placed the two stone tablets in their hands upon the altar. As each person's stone tablets were laid on their own individual altar, I heard the Lord's voice once again. The people who had just come down from the mountain began to climb up the mountain once again. Those who had been to the top of the mountain, returned to the top of the mountain. Those who had made it to various levels on the mountain, went a bit higher than they had been before, then stopped once again at varying levels on the mountain. Only a few from this group went all the way to the top of the mountain.

I was puzzled as to why the people had to ascend the mountain again after just having made the trip. "Why are these people going back up the mountain again?" I asked the Lord.

"This is the next stage in their level of anointing," the Lord replied. I was even more puzzled by His explanation.

When the people once again reached the top of the mountain, the Lord spoke. I saw what appeared to be fire go out from His mouth. The fire from the Lord's mouth went in a rush over the heads of the people. I saw the people put their hands over their mouths and fall flat to the ground on their faces.

The Lord spoke again. Slowly, the people got back to their feet. I saw that they were trembling as they stood before the Lord. The Lord was holding a goblet in His hand. He held the goblet out to the lips of each of the people. I watched as each person took a long sip from the goblet. After the people had taken a sip from the goblet, the Lord then handed each person a small golden box and sent them back down the side of the mountain.

As they continued down the mountain, those who had stayed at various levels on the side of the mountain rejoined them. The people who had not been to the top of the mountain began to minister to the ones who had been to the top of the mountain and to help them get down the mountain.

"Who are these groups of people?" I asked the Lord.

"The ones who stayed at various levels upon the side of the mountain are intercessors and teachers of My truth, shepherds and prophets," the Lord replied. "Those who went to the top of the mountain are apostles and prophets whom I called to a higher level of anointing from Me. While obeying the call from Me to go higher, they also had to separate themselves from something I had also called them to do. Many times, this separation meant leaving people and places of ministry that they dearly loved. This separation process was a sacrifice upon their part."

"Why did fire go out of Your mouth?" I asked the Lord.

"I will explain to you the significance of the fire from My mouth, the goblet and the golden box," the Lord said to me. "The fire from My mouth is to burn and take from My people words which are not of Me and give them truth from My mouth. The goblet contains suffering. Obeying My call also entails a certain degree and amount of suffering. The golden box represents My mercy."

When the people reached the bottom of the mountain, I watched as they carried their small golden box to the altar each of them had erected earlier. Very carefully, they reached out, removed the hot stone tablets from the fire on the altar. They then placed the stone tablets in their small golden box. The people then placed the golden box which now contained the two stone tablets back upon the altar. A fragrant smoke began to issue out of the golden boxes and wafted way up into the heavens.

"Why did the people put the stone tablets into the golden boxes and place them back on the fire of the altar?" I asked the Lord.

"They have placed the law of My word into the golden box of mercy as a sacrifice unto Me," the Lord replied. "The things many of My people are enduring and suffering is to prepare their hearts in order to be able to take My law and combine it with My mercy."

The large group of people who had not climbed the mountain were still under various types of attacks from an enemy they could not fully see or discern. When the smaller group of people who had climbed the mountain attempted to rejoin the larger group of people, they were at first resisted. The larger group of people didn't seem to understand what the smaller group of people were attempting to do.

The Lord spoke to the smaller group of people. I saw as they each reached out to the ones in the small group and joined hands. As they began to join hands, they encircled the large group of people. When this circle around the large group of people began to form, I saw what appeared to be electrical currents or small flames of fire begin to pass through the joined hands of the people encircling the large group of people.

The large group of people also began to join hands with one another. When they began to join hands, the electrical current/flames began to flow from the joined hands of the smaller group of people to the larger group of people. I then saw as the smaller group of people took one of their hands from the hand of the person next to them and began to join hands with the larger group of people they were encircling.

As this joining of hands was being done, the unseen and undetected enemy within the large group of people began to be revealed. As the enemy began to be more easily seen by all the people, they appeared to become more powerful in appearance and were able to withstand the enemy more easily.

I also saw as all the people began to join hands, that they were beginning to form into a large building. The large building appeared to be a temple. This temple was alive. It was powerful and glorious. The Lord was the head of this temple.

Psalm 85:10 ~~ "Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other."

Ephesians 4:11-16 ~~ "{11}And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; {12}For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: {13} Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son fo God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: {14} that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; {15} But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: {16} From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love."

In Him,

~~ Hollie L. Moody