Guest Post by Kenzel (kenzelsfire) – I wrote this post in June (during the period of Blood Moons). The HS prompted me to share it once again, here on IncreaseGlory.
Music video: Starry Night by Chris August, with lyrics.
For weeks (maybe even months) I’ve sensed it.
Beyond that, I’ve heard it as if it were a whisper in the wind.
The word: “Quickening”
I know a lot of people are reluctant to talk about The End of Days or End Times or The Tribulation. I imagine it frightens them. When I’ve accidentally happened upon the topic in conversation I hear:
- “I don’t want to think about it,”
- “I don’t want to talk about it,”
- “It’s never gonna happen, it hasn’t for millennia”
- “If God was coming, He would have come by now.”
The hard truth and reality is people (surrounded by a comfortable culture) don’t want to think or talk about something that might compromise, challenge or cause them to forfeit creature comforts.
Look at the bullet points above. And then consider what you might have to DO if you found out you were terminally ill? You WOULD have to THINK, TALK and PLAN for what was imminent…for what was coming. While mankind has been given a time frame of 120 years maximum to live….
3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not put up with humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years.”
….not everyone gets to fully live out that amount of TIME.
Let’s cover a few bases here. Most people “Look” at The End of Days or “The End Times” as the End of Life. Granted the Book of Revelations is the last Book of the Bible. Appropriately so. The Book of Revelation is God’s Climax and Denouement to the Life we See. That doesn’t mean it’s the end of Life. God is Life as we know it and His plans are bigger (and always have been) since long before you and I ever showed up.
Back on Track: The word “Quickening”
The term “Quickening” came up in a phone call with a friend yesterday.
I’ve had this innate sense that time has sped up. It’s not something you can see on a clock or easily identify. It’s something that exists as an internal alarm.
I have friends who say that the Church, God’s people have fallen asleep. God warned this might happen and He specifically said at some point we would need to WAKE UP.
The Message to the Church in Sardis
3 “Write this letter to the angel[a] of the church in Sardis. This is the message from the one who has the seven-fold Spirit[b] of God and the seven stars:
“I know all the things you do, and that you have a reputation for being alive—but you are dead. 2 Wake up! Strengthen what little remains, for even what is left is almost dead. I find that your actions do not meet the requirements of my God. 3 Go back to what you heard and believed at first; hold to it firmly. Repent and turn to me again. If you don’t wake up, I will come to you suddenly, as unexpected as a thief.
4 “Yet there are some in the church in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes with evil. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. 5 All who are victorious will be clothed in white. I will never erase their names from the Book of Life, but I will announce before my Father and his angels that they are mine.
6 “Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches.
As many times as I have heard friends acknowledge that it’s important we WAKE UP – it wasn’t until the point that I started to “sense” this “Quickening” that I realized – MAYBE there is more to what’s going on ALL Around us than WE want to admit.
Quickening is normally related to the time before a woman goes into Labor. It’s a time when the birth pains start.
Revelation 12
New Living Translation (NLT)
The Woman and the Dragon
12 Then I witnessed in heaven an event of great significance. I saw a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet, and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant, and she cried out because of her labor pains and the agony of giving birth.
But as time goes on and Labor goes on there is a “quickening” in events.
Things happen faster, more frequently. Strange things can happen. Shocking. Attention getting.
“The Quickening” and “Wake Up” calls aren’t meant to frighten us…they are (more or less) an alarm clock.
I’m pretty sure the cycle of Blood Moons officially ushered in the process. I’m not here to say WHAT the implications of the Blood Moons are but as an observer of what is happening ALL around the WORLD, something is going on.
Yes, it is easy enough to attribute all the phenomena to science and the process of life. God knows THAT, He IS bigger than that.
If this is a “Quickening” of God’s timetable, and it’s His call for us to Wake Up…I have to ask if you not only believe in God, but if you have accepted Jesus as your Savior?
It’s not hard. But the word repent is a small word with BIG implications.
If and when God does Rapture His Church (be it pre-tribulation or mid-tribulation) will you be ready?
Here is a simple prayer to get you there:
Dear Lord,
I admit that I am a sinner. I have done many things that don’t please you. I have lived my life for myself. I am sorry and I repent. I ask you to forgive me. I believe that you died on the cross for me, to save me. You did what I could not do for myself. I come to you now and ask you to take control of my life, I give it to you. Help me to live every day in a way that pleases you. I love you, Lord, and I thank you that I will spend all eternity with you.
Amen.
Music video: Until the Whole World Hears, by Casting Crowns
Let me also say, there are scoffers out there. People who, as I mentioned above, do not believe Jesus will come back for His Church. I have met and known many that feel this way or don’t want to believe it could happen in our lifetime.
I’m not saying it will….But, what if it does? What if it did?
What if there is a chance, no matter how slight…that it could happen?
I don’t want to see anyone perish, but it isn’t my decision….it’s yours.
May you reach out and accept God’s gift of Salvation.
It is FREE for the taking,
-Kenzel
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The Lord’s timing is always perfect. May we continue to get armored up daily in the word, prayer, worship and above all listen to the Holy Spirit. The Lord must be our focus and all other things should be left in his hands. There’s no time for scriptural debates or time to deal with scoffers/mockers. Just like Linda stated, many are being called out into new roles that must be accepted in total faith. Many of us are going through a spiritual cleansing, and she referred to that at “Roto Rooter from the Holy Spirit”. We need to allow the Holy Spirit to do this — remove all “Gunk”: prior sin that we have forgotten, prior ingrained Churchian doctrines and and much more. We need to be ready at all times.
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Thank-you for this wonderful and timely post.
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Kenzel, I just added photo and video links to match your original post as closely as possible. Hope that’s OK!
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Beautiful post Kenzel – well done. May more come into the truth and soon !!!!
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Very nice Kenzel, may Yahweh richly bless you as you continue to share this awesome gift He has given you. Great and timely truth. Thank you for doing this.
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