My
children, as the Time of Great Darkness overtakes the earth, you will be
greatly vexed by all you see around you. Even now, evil and filth prevail over
whole populations. This is not My will.
My
will is that you would forsake the things of the world and abide in Me, and
walk in purity. My Bride has covered herself in filth, even now. I desire to
wash her clean, but this washing will not be pleasant for her. She will resist
Me, for she is estranged from her first love. She has forgotten My great
kindnesses and blessings to her and gone whoring after the world.
NOTE: I heard such great sadness in His gentle voice when He
said that last sentence.
My
Bride, I long for you to come to Me, washed clean and ready for My return for
you! I long to take you to your rightful home, but you would not. I have called
to you to turn from your wickedness, but you would not.
I
will claim My Bride, but first I will wash her clean, that she may appear
before Me. I will wash her and if she refuses to be washed, then I will refine
her as silver is refined.
Which
will it be, My Beloved?
NOTE: He is asking us to choose - do we prefer to turn from our wickedness, or for Him to refine us - a much more difficult path.
Jeremiah 2:31-33
31 O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. Have
I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people,
We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her
attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love?
therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Jeremiah 16:8-12
8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of
feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
9 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in
your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew
this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the
Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or
what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?
11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your
fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and
have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not
kept my law;
12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for,
behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they
may not hearken unto me:
Matthew 25:1-3
25 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto
ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
2 And five of them were wise, and five were
foolish.
3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took
no oil with them:
Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in
the furnace of affliction.
Zechariah 13:8-9
8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land,
saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall
be left therein.
9 And I will bring the third part through the fire,
and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried:
they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people:
and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Psalm 73:26-28
26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the
strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall
perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I
have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works.