We are all acquainted
with what Scripture says about the absence of vision, namely, “where there
is no vision, the people are unrestrained [naked or perish], but happy is he
who keeps the Torah” (Proverbs 29:18).
In the past number of years many believers all around the world have
returned to the Torah, and learned from these scriptures that they themselves
are the ones whom the prophets were writing about. Thus, the great hope and vision before many
of the redeemed of Israel, in the nations, has been Yeshua’s return and what
has been termed the “Greater Exodus” (and I don’t mean the rapture).
I want to share
with you a dream that I had recently: I
was in a body of water that stretched as far as one could see. The water was
completely calm, there was not even a slight breeze stirring it. I was concerned, as without as much as a tiny
gust of wind there could not be any movement.
It felt like it was the calm before a storm. Upon waking up, I thought
that the waters were the body of humanity and that the winds of the Spirit of
YHVH were about to blow upon those waters. Many times when the wind changes direction, there
is a period of calm. As I have mentioned
in past letters, the words of the prophets of old are at the forefront of present
day fulfillment, indicating Messiah’s return (see Acts 3:19-21). Nature teaches us that the ocean waters are subject
to a cycle of evaporation, condensation and precipitation, and so it goes with the
waters of humanity and the prophetic word. This is why we must pay close
attention to the repeated rounds of prophecy:
“Yeshua the Messiah (The Word of Elohim) is the same
yesterday, today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8).
As mentioned
above, the vision that is before us is the “Greater Exodus” and of course the
return of our Messiah, themes which almost every prophet mentions or alludes
to. These events are set to be preceded
by a period of great difficulty and turbulence.
I believe we are about to witness the severity of the words of YHVH as
recorded in Isaiah 24: “Behold, YHVH lays the earth waste, devastates it,
distorts its surface, and scatters its inhabitants. And the people will be like
the priest, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer
like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor. The
earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for YHVH has
spoken this word. The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers,
the exalted of the people of the earth fade away. The earth is also polluted by
its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws [Torah], violated statutes,
broke the everlasting covenant. Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those
who live in it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are
burned, and few men are left…” Yet
the next chapter, 25, opens up with: “O YHVH, You are my Elohim. I will
exalt You, I will praise Your name, for You have done wonderful things; Your counsels
of old are faithfulness and truth.” Why
the exultation in YHVH and the praise? Let us read on: “For You have made a
city a ruin, a fortified city a ruin, a palace of foreigners to be a city no more;
It will never be rebuilt. Therefore the strong people will glorify You; The
city of the terrible nations will fear You.” How comforting are the next
words: “For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in
his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat; For the blast of
the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall…”.
Just as the prophet
Habakkuk was told, so it holds true for us too: “For the vision is yet for an
appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it
tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry” (2:3).
Those of us who have been holding on
to the vision of the restoration of the whole house of Israel, are in need of much
strength of faith and encouragement to not let it go, and to press on during
hardships. It is a time that will weigh heavily
on our souls, as we wait for the Spirit to blow from the four winds and gather
in YHVH’s harvest of the remnant to the threshing floors of His land.
