STUNNING 2005 PROPHECY
Posted by: prophetic <prophetic@...>
-given by Steven Dobbs (U.K.), 2005.
I received this from the Holy Spirit in early summer 2005. The
Lord showed me that there is going to be a flood of deception*
infiltrating much of the U.S church in the near future, (the gift of
discernment of spirits is therefore going to become increasingly
important). Why the Lord will allow these deceptions: I was
extremely disheartened by this as the U.K receives a lot of help
from some good U.S ministries and there are close links between
these two nations.
The Spirit then ministered to me again and showed me that God
was sovereign and that this was His will. I saw that although this
increase in deception will test the Christians in the U.S.A. It will
also filter the global church from the less reliable U.S teaching
ministries and reduce their influence in the global body of Christ.
Many of the world's largest and best known teaching ministries
come from the U.S.A. I was shown that many were propagating
poor, badly emphasized or erroneous teachings. The Lord showed
me that He could not allow them to continue influencing the
worldwide church as they are at present. This is because we will
soon be entering into the end times and this season will test the
faith of all of us. God therefore wants His people to be prepared for
this with good teachings that have the same emphasis as found in
the New Testament.
The filtering process: I was shown that the ministers that teach
errors or a poor emphasis will also tend to have this reflected in
their own walk with God. They will not therefore be rooted very
deeply into the truth themselves even though many of them may
be well known teachers or preachers. These people will therefore
tend to be amongst those most open to this flood of deception.
When exposed to such deception many of them will start to move
in increased spiritual error and folly as a result. Many will get
deceived as they fail to discern the difference between which
spiritual phenomena are of the Lord and which are counterfeit and
from the enemy. Their true spiritual maturity will then be revealed
for all to see.
Many other Christians from around the world, those who are able
to discern these things better, will then start to question the
maturity and teachings of such ministries. They will start to look
more closely at these teachings and notice the errors and wrong
emphases that already exist, errors that they had not noticed
before. People will then start to turn away from the worst teachers
and listen instead to those who are teaching the full council of God
in line with the whole of scripture. The overall level of teaching in
the global body of Christ will improve as a result of this.
How this will realign ministries: The ministries which have the
poorest levels of teaching will become less popular around the
world as a result of this. Those teaching ministries that are the
most mature and have the best quality teaching will become more
popular than before. The overall quality of teaching ministries in
the global body of Christ will therefore improve as a result of this
filtering effect.
The "prosperity gospel": God showed me that one of the main
teachings that He is concerned about is that which has become
known as the "prosperity gospel". Although truths are taught within
this I understood that errors and wrong emphases are taught as
well. At present this teaching has a great deal of influence in the
global body of Christ. This results in many believers around the
world taking on board the errors and wrong emphases contained
within it. I saw that the Lord does not want this situation to
continue. We are heading into the end times in the near future and
God wants us to be strong, built up with good, solid teachings that
prepare us for the difficulties we are going to encounter and the
sacrifices we may have to make to follow Christ.
A realigning of national churches at a global level: The Lord wants
those national churches that are submitting the most to Him to
have the greatest proportion of well known ministries at a global
level. The Spirit showed me that at present the U.S.A is over-
represented by such ministries. This filtering process will reduce
the number of influential U.S ministries on the world stage. At the
same time, other ministries from other nations will become more
popular and will increase in influence as a result of this. The overall
church of the U.S.A will also therefore lose some of its influence
within the global body of Christ because of this filtering. The
churches of some other nations, (those that have been submitting
the most to Christ), will, however, see an increase in their
influence in the global church.
This is God's will and the global body of Christ will be strengthened
as a result. The Lord wants the body of Christ to be led by, and
follow the example of, the best international ministries. He also
wants the global church to be influenced the most by those
national churches that are submitting the most to Jesus.
The better ministries from the U.S.A: I was then shown a picture
of a vessel of milk which had cream floating to the top of it. The
interpretation was that as this filtering takes place, and the overall
level of deception* increases in the U.S church, the better U.S
ministries will then come to the forefront at a global level. I
understood that many of these were presently only medium sized
ministries because their popularity was presently overshadowed
by some larger but poorer quality U.S ministries. I saw that many
of these medium sized ministries already have a better walk with
the Lord and that they would therefore be less likely to be
influenced by the coming flood of deception. They will be seen to
be mature as they discern and avoid these deceptions. In due
course this will vindicate them and earn them respect from other
believers from around the world. Their ministries will then become
more popular and grow in influence because of this. I saw that
some of them will then start to minister and preach at the highest
levels on the world stage within the body of Christ in the future.
*I understand "deception" to mean all sorts of counterfeits of the
Holy Spirit. These will include counterfeit moves of God's power
which will come from other spirits, from New Age/occult spirits,
counterfeit healings and miracles even, false teachings, false
prophecies, counterfeit visions from the enemy, counterfeit
experiences of heaven, fake appearances of Jesus and, please
note, many counterfeit appearances of angels which will really be
fallen angels come to deceive any believers who are open to them.
Of course Christians can have such experiences genuinely from
the Lord but there is also going to be an increase in these
counterfeits as we move towards the end-times, as the enemy
attempts to "deceive if possible even the elect", (Matt 24;24).
*Concerning the U.S church, this increase in deception will have
its entitlement at a national/ corporate level. We should not
therefore see any deception as a judgement on individuals
themselves. At a personal level some believers will be more
exposed to these deceptions than others for reasons that are not
necessarily their fault, e.g. if they happen to be in a church where
the enemy is moving in a lot of deception. I believe, though, that
those whose hearts are set to follow Christ will eventually come
through any serious deception if they persevere in following the
Lord and keep on submitting to Him.
At an international level, though, this wave of enemy deception will
expose and reduce the global influence of the worst U.S ministries
and will bring about the realignment of national churches and
ministries that God desires. It will improve the quality of teaching
and the quality of the most well known ministries at an
international level. This is due to God's sovereignty, and will
strengthen the global body of Christ and prepare God's people for
the difficult years ahead.
-S. Dobbs, 30th Oct 2005.