Supernatural Theology 149: Prophetic Burdens of the Lord

I see the Red Sea part in front of me
I see the desert clouds bleed above me
I’m with the prophets on the final destiny
We’ll fight the heathens and the ghost enemy
This is the prophecy
This is the prophecy
I see the money beggin’ of the last temptation
We’re marching now through the devastation
I’m with the prophets on a mission of salvation
Cities falling, nations falling nations
This is the prophecy
This is the prophecy
I see the new millennium tribal warfare
I see them blind sheep going nowhere
The new exodus, just like they said
I see the crown of thorns, you know I was there
This is the prophecy
This is the prophecy
I see the times in this Armageddon
I see the flag of the conquering lion
I must reach the mountains of Zion
I’m with the prophets and the prophecy goes on
This is the prophecy
This is the prophecy

–Soulfly, “Prophecy”–

APPARENTLY KIM CLEMENT ACCURATELY PROPHESIED RUSSIA’S INVASION OF UKRAINE IN FEBRUARY 2022–BEFORE IT HAPPENED…or SOME ASPECTS WERE REVEALED BY FUTURISTIC DREAMS…HMM.

What next for Vladimir Putin? An unusual dream that shook my physical being was given to me in January, a dream about Putin and what he would try to do. I felt tremendous fear and rage coming from Putin, and in my physical body I started suffocating and battling to breathe. We will reveal to you the details of that dream that was given to me, and connect it with the news from Russia that has made global headlines regarding the murder of a leading opposition figure. How does it connect with Ukraine and our Boots on the Ground mission a year ago?   —Elijah List (March 6, 2015) — 7 YEARS BEFORE IT HAPPENED

I also caught a glimpse of Ukraine and Russia during this period. The stench of death almost overwhelmed me.   —Elijah List (May 1, 2015)  — 7 YEARS BEFORE IT HAPPENED



The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts. And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.   –Isaiah 19:1-5 (KJV)

Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err. Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel. And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones. For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod. And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.   –Isaiah 30:27-33 (KJV)

The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever. And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The Lord will be magnified from the border of Israel.    –Malachi 1:1-5 (KJV)

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.   –Acts 2:17-21 (KJV)

He that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification (faith building), and exhortation (urgent warning), and comfort…And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.   –1 Corinthians 14:3, 25 (KJV)

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.   –Revelation 20:11-15 (KJV)



Jeff Doles, Miracles and Manifestations, ch. 7: “The Scottish Covenanters.”

Archibald Alexander, Thoughts on Religious Experience (Banner of Truth, 1967), ch. 7: “Considerations on dreams, visions, etc.”

Daniel Jennings, ed. The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley, ch. 9: “John Wesley’s Experience with Visions and Dreams.”

Thomas Boys, The Suppressed Evidence (Hamilton, Adams, and Co, 1832), ch. 3-4. Prophetic dreams and their fulfillments among the Waldenses and the Reformers.


R. Loren Sandford, Understanding Prophetic People (Chosen Books, 2007), pp. 21-25.

—. Purifying the Prophetic (Chosen Books, 2005).

Jeremiah Johnson, Cleansing and Igniting the Prophetic: An Urgent Wake-Up Call (Destiny Image, 2018).

Harald Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification (Zondervan, 1984).

Christopher Morgan, Hell Under Fire (Zondervan, 2004).


The Bible Collection: Jeremiah, 1998.

Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity in Crisis: 21st Century (Thomas Nelson, 2009).

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Hallucinations, Spiritual Experiences, or Both?

The prophet Elisha summoned a man from the company of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take this flask of olive oil with you and go to Ramoth Gilead. When you get there, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. Go to him, get him away from his companions and take him into an inner roomThen take the flask and pour the oil on his head and declare, ‘This is what the Lord says: I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and run; don’t delay!” So the young prophet went to Ramoth Gilead. When he arrived, he found the army officers sitting together. “I have a message for you, commander,” he said. “For which of us?” asked Jehu. “For you, commander,” he replied. Jehu got up and went into the house. Then the prophet poured the oil on Jehu’s head and declared, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king over the Lord’s people Israel. You are to destroy the house of Ahab your master, and I will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the Lord’s servants shed by Jezebel. The whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—slave or free. I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah. 10 As for Jezebel, dogs will devour her on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and no one will bury her.’” Then he opened the door and ran.

11 When Jehu went out to his fellow officers, one of them asked him, “Is everything all right? Why did this maniac come to you?” “You know the man and the sort of things he says,” Jehu replied12 “That’s not true!” they said. “Tell us.” Jehu said, “Here is what he told me: ‘This is what the Lord says: I anoint you king over Israel.’” 13 They quickly took their cloaks and spread them under him on the bare steps. Then they blew the trumpet and shouted, “Jehu is king!” –2 Kings 9:1-13

Other renditions of “this maniac” in reference to the prophet in 2 Kings 9:11 are translated this way: “that madman” (NLT), “this mad fellow” (KJV), “this crazy fellow” (NASB), “this crazy person” (HCSB), and “that crazy prophet” (CEV).

A man with an unclean spiritwho had his dwelling among the tombs; and no one could bind him, not even with chains, because he had often been bound with shackles and chains. And the chains had been pulled apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; neither could anyone tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones. –Mark 5:1-5

The one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouraging and comfort. –1 Corinthians 14:3



Etzel Cardeña, ed., Varieties of Anomalous Experience, ch. 3: “Hallucinatory Experiences.”

Steve Thompson, You May All Prophesy.

The Star Wars Trilogy. (The Jedi are a Buddhist-Catholic idea of monks and knights).

Charles Spurgeon, Spiritual Warfare in a Believer’s Life, pgs. 54-55.

 

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The Infernal Dungeon of Hell – John Bunyan

Wake me so I can die inside of your arms or
Find a way to dream with me
It’s all over today
So dress me in
The starlight and light a candle
So if I wake I’ll see your shadow fading
Into the other side of nothing

–Society’s Finest, “Lucky 13”–

“Depart from Me, you who are cursed — into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels!” Matthew 25:41

Those in the infernal dungeon of Hell, will undergo a VARIETY of torments. Those who are most afflicted upon earth, have seldom any more than one malady at a time. But should they have the plague, the gout, the stone, and fever all at one time — how miserable would they think themselves! Yet all that is but like the biting of a flea — compared to those intolerable, pungent pains which those in Hell endure! There, they have all the loathed variety of Hell to grapple with:
  the unquenchable fire to burn them;
  a lake of burning brimstone ever choking them;
  eternal chains 
to bind them;
  utter darkness 
to affright them, and

  a worm of conscience which gnaws upon them eternally!
Any one of these is worse to bear — than all the torments which mankind ever felt on earth!

But the torments in Hell are also UNIVERSAL, afflicting each part of the body and soul — which renders what they suffer, most insufferable! In those illnesses which men are seized with on earth, though some parts are afflicted — other parts are free. But in Hell, each member of the soul and body is continually tormented:

  The eye is tormented with the sight of the devils, who appear in all the horrid and black shapes which sin can give them!

  The ear is tormented with the loud yellings and continual outcries of the damned.

  The nostrils are smothered with sulphurous flames.

  The tongue is covered with burning blisters.

  The whole body is rolled in flames of liquid fire!

  The imagination is tormented with the thoughts of what a Heaven has been lost.

  The memory is tormented with reflecting on those opportunities they had of being saved.

  The mind is tormented with considering how vainly precious time has been wasted.

  The understanding is tormented with the thoughts of of present pains, and future sorrows — which are to last forever!

  The conscience is tormented with a continual gnawing worm.

Another thing which makes the misery of Hell so dreadful, is the EXTREMITY of the torments. The fire which burns is so violent that all the water in the sea can never quench it! The pains suffered are so extreme, that it is impossible they should be known by any, but those who feel them!

Another part of Hell’s misery is the CEASELESSNESS of the torments. As various, as universal, and as extremely violent as they are — they are continual, also. Nor have they the least rest from them. If there were any relaxation — it might be some allay. But what makes this condition so deplorable — is that there is no easing of the torments! “They will go away into eternal punishment!” Matthew 25:46

The COMPANY they have there, is another element of their misery. Tormenting devils and tormented souls are all the company! Dreadful shrieks and howlings, under the fierceness of pain, and fearful blasphemies, is all the conversation!

The PLACE in which they suffer is another thing which increases the sufferings. Hell is the epitome of all misery —
  a prison,
  a dungeon,
  a bottomless pit,
  a lake of fire and brimstone,
  a furnace of fire which burns to eternity,
  the blackness of darkness forever!

The cruelty of our TORMENTORS is another thing which adds to the torments. The tormentors are devils, in whom there is no pity. Being tormented themselves, they take pleasure in tormenting others.

But that which makes these sufferings most grievous — is that they shall ALWAYS be so — these most intolerable sufferings shall last to all eternity. ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire!” will perpetually sound in the ears of the damned! The miserable situation they are in, shall be forever!

 

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Supernatural Theology 148: Praying to Feel God’s Presence

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who have sex with men, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.   –1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (NIV)

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. –James 4:8 (ESV)

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. –Romans 8:26 (ESV)

That they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us. –Acts 17:27 (ESV)

You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, Lord, do I seek.” –Psalm 27:8 (ESV)

The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. –Psalm 145:18 (ESV)

God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. –John 4:24 (ESV)

Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near. –Isaiah 55:6 (ESV)

Be still, and know that I am God. –Psalm 46:10 (ESV)



Charles Finney Sermons.


Augustin Poulain, The Graces of Interior Prayer (London: Kegan Paul, 1921), Chs. V-XIX.

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The Final Judgment – Paul Washer

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Is It the Sin of Gossip to Refute False Teachers?

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  –Matthew 23:13 (KJV)

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity. –Hebrews 1:9 (KJV)

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. –Ephesians 5:11 (KJV)

He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it. –Titus 1:9 (NIV)

The time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. –2 Timothy 4:3 (NIV)

There were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. –2 Peter 2:1 (NIV)

This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme. –1 Timothy 1:18-20 (KJV)

When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped; but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000. The Lord said to Moses, “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal. Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites.” –Numbers 25:7-13 (NIV)

Adam von Bartsch’s Shepherd Chasing a Wolf
Pinchas killing Zimri and Cozbi with a spear. Ottmar Elliger, 1666.



Erwin Lutzer, Who Are You to Judge? (Moody, 2002, 2016).

John R. Rice, The Ruin of a Christian, ch. 9: “Judge Not!”

John Wesley, “Catholic Spirit.”

Charles Finney, “Refuges of Lies.”

Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, p. 175. (below)

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Against Universalism and the Denial of Hell

Bow down
To the greatest corrupter
The second coming
Of the Antichrist on Earth
Live with a curse
Kill in the name of god
The devil’s won

Knife in the back
We ignored the truth
Rise above, rise above
Rise above, rise above
Can you see through the veil that covers you?
Rise above, rise above
Rise above, rise above

Evil in place of power

–Soulfly, “Evil Empowered”–

The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.  –2 Timothy 4:3-4 (NKJV)

As you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.   –1 John 2:18 (NKJV)

I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands.   –Revelation 20:4 (NKJV)


If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:11 And THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT ASCENDETH UP FOR EVER AND EVER: AND THEY HAVE NO REST DAY NOR NIGHT, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. –Revelation 14:9-12 (KJV)

The devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.15 And WHOSOEVER WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. –Revelation 20:10-15 (KJV)

The fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.   –Revelation 21:8 (KJV)

A lava lake forms at Halemaʻumaʻu as seen from the west rim of the Kilauea caldera during the volcano’s eruption in Hawaii, U.S. June 7, 2023 in a still image from webcam video. USGS/Handout via REUTERS.
David Howard Hitchcock, Halemaumau, Lake of Fire, Kilauea Crater, 1888.

“Jews, Mohametans, Deists, Heathens, are all members of the Church of Christ! Should we not add devils too?…There can hardly be any doctrine under Heaven more agreeable to flesh and blood; nor any which more directly tends to prevent the very dawn of conviction…These are your arguments to prove that Christ is in every man — a blessing which St. Paul thought was peculiar to believers. He said, ‘Christ is in you except ye be reprobates,’ unbelievers (2 Cor. 13:5, KJV). You say, Christ is in you whether ye be reprobates or no. ‘If any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His,’ saith the Apostle (Romans 8:9, KJV). Yea, but ‘every man,’ saith Mr. Law, ‘hath the Spirit of God. The Spirit of Christ is in every soul’ (Spirit of Prayer, Part I. p. 63). ‘He that hath not the Son of God hath not life,’ saith St. John (1 John 5:12, KJV). But Mr. Law saith, ‘Every man hath the Son of God.’ Sleep on, then, ye sons of Belial, and take your rest; ye are all safe: for ‘he that hath the Son hath life.’” (“Letter to William Law,” (January 6, 1756) 2.5, in Thomas Oden’s John Wesley’s Scriptural Christianity, p. 218).



The Jesus Trip, “The Lake of Fire: The Consuming Fire Episode 3 of 10.”

Christopher Morgan and Robert Peterson, Hell Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents Eternal Punishment (Zondervan, 2004), ch. 8: “Universalism: Will Everyone Ultimately Be Saved?” (J. I. Packer).

William G. T. Shedd, The Doctrine of Endless Punishment (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1886), pp. 94-117. Addresses the universalists’ “Greek word translation” objection about for ever.

Robert Peterson, Hell on Trial: The Case for Eternal Punishment (P&R Publishing, 1995), ch. 8: “False Witnesses (1): Universalism.”

Harry Buis, The Doctrine of Eternal Punishment (P&R Publishing, 1957), ch. 7: “Denials and Their Answers.”

Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley, Reformed Systematic Theology: Church and the Last Things, Volume 4, ch. 39: “Eternal Punishment in Hell, Part 2: Objections and Applications.”


Thomas C. Oden, John Wesley’s Scriptural Christianity, p. 218.

Denny Burk, “Eternal Conscious Torment,” in Four Views on Hell (Zondervan, 2016).

John Walvoord, “The Literal View,” in Four Views on Hell (Zondervan, 1996).

John Wesley, “Of Hell.”

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Bible Answers for Atheists, Deists, Unitarians, Universalists, and Sodomites

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The Doctrine of Endless Punishment (Part 3): Paradise, Annihilation, Universalism – W. G. T. Shedd

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The Doctrine of Endless Punishment (Part 2): Hell vs. The Underworld – W. G. T. Shedd

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