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In mid August I had a powerful prophetic encounter with the Lord. 

God spoke to me about a sin that’s really bothering him. 

Sexual Predators 

Years ago, some of us learned the Catholics had a few, perverted priest-leaders. And many of us undoubtedly thought their problems were probably just because of some weird Catholic beliefs. 

Unfortunately, sexual predator wolves have now turned out to be inside every single one of our denominations, and our independent works, among our singers, our preachers, our theologians, and our mega ministries. 

This isn’t a brand new problem but I hear the Lord saying

It’s not a problem that was limited to last year or the last 40 years. 

It’s still happening. 

There are still monsters among us.

They try to hide their predatory and lustful actions. 

When I had this prophetic encounter, I could feel that this was bothering God much more than the recent known sins had bothered us. 

So, God made me to know that He wanted voices to shoot the arrows of justice at this wickedness. He showed me that He wanted the prophetic sword to swing at this devil. 

We’re not at war with persons. Sins are committed by persons. But temptations, traps, and seductions are firstly concocted by devils. 

• Persons can be forgiven. 
• Persons can sometimes be restored. 
• But devils must be resisted. 
• Devils must be stomped, cast out, shaken into fires, sent into swine, told where to go, beheaded. 

Sanctification is like the beheading of devils. We can ask forgiveness for messing up. But until that devil is beheaded, we are in all probability going to repeatedly mess up. 

Alas, there is an evil spirit that must be addressed. There is a spirit that needs to be beheaded. There’s a reason that Ephesians 6 reveals truths to us about spiritual warfare and one of those truths is that the sword of the Spirit is available to us.

I strongly sense we shouldn’t allow this revelation to be lost on immature, emotional responses. We must understand from God’s point of view. 

God hurts. Yes, He can be grieved (Eph. 4:30). Our behaviors can really sadden and bother God. And that’s what this prophetic encounter was about. He was sharing with me His heart.

Accordingly, here’s some specifics of what God showed me:

For the last TOO MANY years God has been watching as some of our spiritual leaders have fallen into the same trap as…

—David

—Phinehas

—Hophni

And God is STILL seeing grievous sin from within. 

This prophetic word isn’t about past sins, for the most part. Although…

God does want to expose the pattern and the spirit that has been the underlying root.

This prophetic word is even more so about the ongoing, and yet undiscovered, sexual predators within the body of Christ. 

Concerning this ugly blight, I clearly heard Holy Spirit saying:

Where are our Nathan’s? 

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Where are our voices?

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Where are our prophets? 

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Nathan was a Prophet who addressed the hidden sin of King David (2 Sam 12). David had become a sexual predator (2 Sam 11). Nathan pointed a  spiritual prophetic sword at David’s chest and said “you’re the [guilty] man.”

John Baptist was a prophetic “voice” that pinpointed sin with the spiritual sword of the Lord. One such occasion, John denounced the unlawful marriage of King Herod (Mk 6:18). Herod was a sexual predator. 

An unnamed prophet (man of God) came to Eli the high priest and Judge over Israel. This unnamed prophet delivered a prophetic word to Eli that rebuked him for his dishonorable sons and his pilfering of sacrifices (1Sam. 2:27–36). The sons of Eli were Phinehas and Hophni. Both of these sons were sexual predators. 

God Sees:

God is seeing the hypocrisy among us. 

God is seeing the perversion…the sexual sins. and not just any sexual sins, but ministers who become secret sexual predators. 

This prophetic word God is giving me is God saying…

“ENOUGH! No more of this filth.”

Like the sexual predator sins of David, Herod, and Phineas and Hophni, God is seeing the same sexual predator sins again and…

they are yet hiding within the current church. 

Some, in recent times, have already been exposed. I feel that God is saying to me those individuals repeatedly ran spiritual stop signs and pleadings of the Spirit. Likewise, I believe they also refused to hear godly warnings, just as Phinehas and Hophni refused to hear godly warning. Eli told his sons that their actions were sins against God and if they continued, there would be no mediator for them (1 Sam. 2:25).

God is angry. And God is ready to cut. He wants to sever the body from this fiend. 

God wants to bring a mighty work of sanctification.

Consider this, Phinehas’ name means mouth of the serpent. In Genesis’ story we were also hearing from the mouth of a serpent, and a subsequent penalty of death came to the Earth. There was also a separation established between man and God. In essence, the glory departed. Eventually a curtain was even hung. Then, In 1 Samuel we hear from this Phinehas (mouth of the serpent) and again a death punishment follows the related sinful action. Literal death came to Eli the high priest, and to his two sons, Phinehas and Hophni. Also, on the same day, Ichabod was born. Ichabod’s name was a prophecy…the glory has departed. 

Hear me on this: In Genesis’s garden, the serpent said, “did God really say…” 

A. The devil was attempting to soften the Word of God. 

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B. The devil attacked the warnings of God’s  Word. 

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C. The devil tried to erase the punishment mentioned in the Word of God. 

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Dear friends, the Lord says:

this serpent is speaking still. 

• The mouth of this serpent has entered the pulpits of today’s church and has       

1. exaggerated grace into erroneous application 
2. made itself fat with earthly excess, and has
3. Theologically put out the fires of Hell with its supposed now-we-know-better intellect. 

Pay Attention! 

This is Happening Now:

• We have the talking serpent 
• We have the sin of sexual predators 

And thus…

WE WILL HAVE:

I. Death on the land. 

Death is a punishment associated with this spirit:

1 John 5:16 says “There is a sin that leads to death.”

• animals died for Adam and Eve to be clothed and humanity received a promise of death 
• Uriah died in David’s betrayal. 
• Eli, Phinehas, and Hophni died.
• John Baptist died

II. NO GLORY. 

We will continue living with Ichabod. For the most part, the glory has departed from the American Church. There are occasional, small tastes of it, but it’s sparse and that reality will continue for now. 

• God will only share His glory with those who climb the mountain of the Lord 
• He will listen for Davids. The real Davids are those who are after His heart. The path to God’s heart is repentance, contrition, humility, brokenness.
• However, God reserves the right to make surprise visits. Sometimes He knocks on the door and gives us opportunities to open to Him (Rev 3:20). Still yet, the glory filling the room is soo different than how we usually do church that it might be challenging for some doorkeepers to really allow such occurrences. Besides, will we even recognize Him, if He comes for a visit?

God has been watching these sins unfold and they are sins against Him. I didn’t use to know why Eli told his sons that these sins are against God and there is no one to mediate for them (1 Samuel 2:22-25). But Jesus later explains a scenario to us, saying “when you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it unto me. (Matthew 25:31-45). 

We must see the victims differently. They are the least of these. They are the vulnerable ones. They matter to God. Those who take advantage of them are wolves.

These ARE sins against God. These sins require heavy, great, sincere, zealous repentance (Rev 3:19).

O God, a prayer of us asking forgiveness doesn’t even seem sufficient anymore. 

Heavenly Father, do what you need to do. Let your word go forth and accomplish what you deem righteous. We surrender. We trust you. We say yes. 

Now, if you would, help us. Aim our voices to be like arrows of justice. And raise up prophetic preachers of righteousness that will wield your sword in resistance to this enemy that has sneakily brought warfare inside our camp. Anoint our prayers, prophecies, declarations, sermons, and songs with a fresh, new anointing. An anointing of purity, sanctification, and deliverance. 

John 10:7

So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

It was one night last week. Shortly after 2:00 a.m. I awoke from a dream. In the dream I felt startled and started running. I was in a church’s multi-purpose space. I remember thinking “my goodness, I hope they’re not having tomorrow’s wedding in here because this place is a dirty mess.” Anyway, I hurried along as I was trying to get to family or friendly, familiar faces because I was still feeling such alarm. Then, as I was exiting one wing of a t-shaped campus, I awoke from the dream.

And, even though I was awake and the dream was over, for more than 20 minutes I could hardly settle my nerves. My heart rate felt escalated and my senses were jittery. I felt a bit frantic for some unknown reason. So I tried to still my spirit and focus on the Lord. That’s when I heard,

“the wolves are at the door.”

I quickly focused my reasoning into and started contemplating what this meant and what God was trying to speak to me. Then, in my spirit I began to hear more:

“You’ve heard it said…wolves in sheep’s clothing, but these are wolves in lion’s clothing. Beware of them and their ravenous ways. They are not of me, and they are not lions—they’re wolves with a taste for blood. They’re wolves, they’re destroyers. They are not sent by me and I am not with them. They are watching, drooling, wanting to pounce, wanting to bite. The lion wannabes—the wolves—are at the door.

Ezekiel 22:23-30a

23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 24 “Son of man, say to her, ‘You are a land that is not clean or rained on in the day of indignation.’ 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in the midst of her. 26 Her priests have done violence to My Law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the pcommon, and they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have closed their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I am defiled among them. 27 Her leaders within her are like wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to make dishonest profit. 28 And her prophets have coated with whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘This is what the Lord God says,’ when the Lord has not spoken. 29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery, and they have oppressed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the stranger without justice. 30 I searched for a man among them who would build up a wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land

Consider these warnings from Ezekiel 22…

• False prophets (Ez 22, Matt 7:15)

• False visions (Ez 22)

• Wolf-like leaders (Ez 22)

Acts 20:29b-31a

savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; 30 and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after them. 31 Therefore, be on the alert

1 Peter 5:8 Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour

These lion-like wolves are

—demons,

—False prophets

And they deliver

—False prophetic words from

—False dreams and

—False visions,

—False encounters

They are

—-Predatory leaders

They present

—a gospel other than holiness.

Maybe not always, but by and large, those among us right now who are fascinated with lions are manifesting the violence of another spirit than the Holy Spirit. They’re Lion this, Lion that. Roar! Fight! Whatever.

They do not have, nor do they want peace. They do not exude meekness, humility, gentleness, kindness, patience, goodness, love, joy, faithfulness, self-control. They do not live by Jesus teachings from the sermon on the mount. They are far too alive in their flesh and their soul to be excellently accurate in the spirit. They shoot from the hip, and they have no cross.

Matthew 7:15-16a “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits”

A few nights ago, just minutes before midnight, I was pulled into a vision. I saw a prominent Christian leader. Then, as I was looking at him, his appearance changed. He was now wearing a Milwaukee jersey. Then, his head was transformed into a buck. A buck is a male deer, antelope, or goat.

After seeing this metamorphosis, God quickly began speaking clearly to me about goats.

These spiritual goats…

They have eyes but do not see

They have ears but do not hear (Jer 5:21, Ez 12:2 Mark 8:18).

They have been given over to a depraved mind (Rom 1:28).

Yes, they are sometimes seeing visions and dreams, and they are possibly hearing words, but they are mostly seeing what they want to see and hearing what they want to hear.

Some of them think they are mighty lions in prayer and fasting. But they are really just goats, bucking and fussing. Some of them are educated and have theological , preaching, and ministry respect. Others of them have prophetic gifts and callings.

They are proud, boisterous, and their lungs are filled with violence. Like Peter when he became suddenly filled with Satan, and he bucked against Jesus’ destiny (Matt 16:23). They are haters of God’s true will, His perfect way…they buck against His “cross” plan and directive. These goats are frictional, and they house murder in their hearts. They have virulent tendencies. They’re dirtied by wickedness. They are distracted with their perpetual craving of this world, and their unethical perversions. They are mired in ever-increasing hypocrisy. They have become too earthly—dominion—minded to be any kingdom-of crosses good.

I heard God say, “I’m about to take the goats to court.”

Remember, the goats are the opposite of sheep, and sheep are what Christians are called to be (Matthew 25).

For clarity, I think the “courts” are both literal and figurative. I think many people that are being firmly separated into the goat community are going to also face many various legal issues as their crimes and sins are revealed and exposed. On the other hand, I think the “courts” will also be metaphorical, as in judgment is coming—they are being set aside for judgment. Jer 5:29a Shall I not punish them for these things?

Post script: 1.this morning I had an inbox message, inviting me to an upcoming event to be hosted by the minister I saw in last night’s vision. 2. I did not know until tonight that the Republican convention is happening in Milwaukee. Politics is the primary entanglement and sin of idolatry that has led many believers into ignorantly (unaware) becoming goats.

For the past few years God has had me to repeatedly warn of deception. Earlier in the spring of this year (‘24), I felt another strong warning from God concerning deception. But first, here are some of the warnings I have felt led to give.

On January 20, 2022 I wrote, “My oldest daughter just had a dream about spirits of deception and false prophets. She was shown and told (in the dream) that these evils have now been released upon the earth. Btw, this completely coincides with

1 John 4:1-6, and other places.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. ² By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; ³ and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now it is already in the world.⁴ You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. ⁵ They are from the world, therefore they speak asfrom the world, and the world listens to them. ⁶ We are from God. The one who knows God listens to us; the one who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

I believe the viral spread of misinformation is the realest, surest sign indicating we’re in the final hour. I write about the supernatural force of deception in my book.

https://a.co/d/6bfYagX

We must take heed, and live with discernment, having our spiritual eyes open.

On January 23, 2021 I wrote, “Beware of the tricks of deception that attempt to lure with entertaining, suspicious, preposterous imaginations. Huge, bizarre stories will bait some folks in with this type of mind candy, this deception of the soul.

Meanwhile, Truth is simple. It isn’t convoluted. It often stands right in front of us. And it doesn’t require a YouTube or TikTok video to prove itself. “

On January 21, 2021 I wrote, “The Gospel gives quite a few warnings about false Christs, false teachers, false sheep, false apostles, and false prophets that would be part of the last days. Nonetheless, we are emphatically beckoned to not be deceived.

On April 17, 2023 I wrote, “There was a wave of deception that came into America especially in 2019-2020. Conspiracies were rampant like never before. The church was not immune and neither was the prophetic camp.“

On January 24, 2021 I wrote, “Demons are working nonstop, creating and expanding their deceptive conspiracies. This is an hour of great deception.”

Colossians 2:8 Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that comes from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ.

On Feb 16, 2021 I wrote, “It is vitally important that Christians have discernment, especially during this hour of deception. We will need to rely on Holy Spirit to help us differentiate between right and wrong on a slew of various issues, happenings, and the many changes taking place around us. We will also need our spirit to remain pure and keen in its ability to dissect whether God is at work, or if it’s some other spirit.”

1 Cor 2:14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

On Jun 15, 2021 I wrote, “False narratives are escalating and accelerating as we race toward time’s finish line. Deception is mounting.“

On July 27, 2020 I wrote, “there’s currently a counterfeit spirit operating in the land. These are the last days, and these are days of deception.

Be alert, aware, and sober. Be strong in the Word, and pray in the Spirit often.”

Then on March 27 of this year (‘24), I wrote: “Friends. I feel impressed to give a warning about deception again. This snake hasn’t raised its head with such venomous purpose since 2019. Please beware of deception. Steer clear of conspiracies. The enemy is trying to hatch eggs in our suspicious minds. Stay in the Word. Keep your prayer life active. Test the spirits. Don’t believe every prophet or prophecy. Be suspicious of viral, oft shared posts, even if they’re supposedly prophetic. I feel the Spirit of God telling me to warn folks. Deception has been loosed by the enemy and the Bible warns us to take heed, and be sober minded. There’s another, new trick that the enemy has been crafting and this multi-layered attack of deception is going to take many more people off track. Stay humble. Keep your eyes on Jesus.

Don’t fight off the skepticism you feel in your spirit towards upcoming big events or much ballyhooed prophecies. “Y2K” and “Trump will be re-elected in 2020” represent huge deceptions that gobbled up way too many of us.

We’ve had way too much goofiness and error in the prophetic camp in recent years and I can’t help but fear there will be more to come.

An interesting Scripture stood out to me while I was reading the Bible this past week.

Luke 17:20 Now He was questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, and He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs that can be observed”

And my friend, Phelim McIntyre who is a prophetic voice in the UK, recently said: “The issue for me is that we are told to not engage with the “signs in heavens” like the pagans do. We are told that there will be multiple signs, wars and rumours of wars, signs in the earth, and everything else BUT we are told not to use them to try and predict the end of the age.” Sadly too much of the prophetic movement is akin to superstition and on the same level as the ‘mancies and fortune telling of the pagan nations.”

Then, when McIntyre was questioned about Genesis 1:14 “God said the ‘lights in the heaven would be’ for signs.” He replied, “if we look at the signs mentioned in Genesis 1:14 we see that they are to mark the physical seasons. The Jewish calendar is based on the new moon, but anything else is condemned in Scripture. Jesus actually warns against using “signs in the sky” to predict the end of the world.

Furthermore, McIntyre points out, “there is a view in the USA that they are God’s chosen nation and anything that happens [there] is a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. This is the heresy of replacement theology. Jesus Christ will return to Jerusalem not Capitol Hill.

Dearest friends, keep your eyes on Jesus. Keep your prayer life engaged. Stay in the Word. Be humble. Pick up your cross. Ask God to help you not get tricked by the deceiver.

If I may, I’d like to marry Keith Green’s “My Eyes Are Dry” to One of Jeremiah’s laments.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

The depth of Jeremiah’s lament continues into chapter 9 revealing the backslidden state of God’s people.

Likewise, Keith Green’s song also prays for tears. Jeremiah was willing to lament, to weep. Much like Jeremiah, Green was volunteering to be a weeper. He prayed for a heart that would be transfixed by God’s remarkable sweetness. Consider these lyrics:

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