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Topic: The Liberty Bell will ring again
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Pamela Helmick
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Posted: 04/29/2007 at 7:33pm
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THE LIBERTY BELL WILL RING AGAIN
*THROW YOUR NETS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF REALITY
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"THE LIBERTY BELL WILL RING AGAIN"
(And the Angel of Freedom said, "Let Freedom Reign!")
~ by Chad Taylor
www.consumingfire.com
"FOLLOW ME..."
On Sunday April 15th, 2007 I found myself at a crucial prophetic
crossroads. In light of recent events this week as the Supreme Court's
Decision to Uphold Partial Birth Abortion Ban my encounter at this
important monument to the Civil Rights movement and American history
only cemented this experience.
I was a speaker at a conference in the Birmingham, AL. area but what
unfolded Sunday morning was unscheduled and divinely orchestrated.
Literally the night before my commitment to speak at another local
church was changed and I found myself awakened by the Lord Sunday
morning and then was led to drive toward downtown Birmingham at
approximately 10:00 am.
I was seeking directions to another part of the city and pulled off a
random exit and asked directions from a man who was exiting the gas
station. I had noticed a city marker that indicated that the "Civil
Rights Institute" and museum was nearby. I inquired about that as well
and the African American man said without hesitation, "Follow me..."
It was very cold and the rain was whipping by as unusual weather
patterns were also impacting the East Coast at the same time. The
downtown area was nearly empty considering it was an early Sunday
morning in the deep south.
After a few blocks the stranger led me to the doors of large building
that was the Civil Rights Institute. It was closed to the public. I got
out of my vehicle and another African American man was walking toward
me.
I suddenly had the realization that Martin Luther King Jr. had once
preached here and other historical landmarks became clear to me as I
looked around at the various markers and plaques. I asked the man,
"Where is the church that Martin Luther King Jr. preached at?"
He pointed behind me, "Right there!" A few feet from where I parked was
16th Street Baptist Church which become the epicenter of civil right
history and tragedy when a bomb exploded September 15th, 1963 claiming
the lives of four young girls. This was also the breaking point which
caused international attention to the civil rights stand and brought
about historic change.
"THE LIBERTY BELL IS RINGING AGAIN!"
As I climbed the old steps to the main entrance it was if I had stepped
back in time 50 years ago as this nation struggled deeply for its civil
and morale bearings and seemed to falter. By this time I could hear the
sound of the choir as they, "Marching to Zion" and I was welcomed
warmly
by the ushers as they handed me the bulletin - it read,
"TODAY WE CELEBRATE THE 134th YEAR OF THE SIXTEENTH STREET BAPTIST
CHURCH"
The very day that the Lord led me to this historic precipice was its
134th anniversary of its existence. 1873 was also marked by the Stock
Market crash which was the beginning of the "great depression".
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was also the first African American
church organized in Birmingham, AL. As I sat there transfixed by the
events the Lord spoke into my spirit, "THE LIBERTY BELL IS RINGING
AGAIN!"
I heard this over and over as I sat near the back of the building in an
old wooden pew, "THE LIBERTY BELL IS RINGING AGAIN!" I was also
suddenly
aware a massive angelic presence over this exact building I knew
immediately it was the Angel of Freedom and it was declaring as the
choir sang, "LET FREEDOM REIGN!"
"LET FREEDOM REIGN!"
I was still reeling from these events as I rose to exit. As I went down
the steep steps of the church again I asked a Police Officer that was
now parked across the street, again an African American, where the
historic marches had occurred as the water cannons pummeled the people
and the police dogs were seen on television attacking the marchers, he
said it was on 6th Ave. which was exactly where I was standing on 16th
Street and 6th Ave.
I got into my truck because of the cold and began driving the route of
the infamous march my windows down. What happened next still echoes in
my spirit... I heard clearly from a distance A LARGE BELL RINGING.
I turned toward it and tried to locate it again as it rang but from a
different direction. I looked all around trying to find the origins of
the sound and again it rang clearly but from a different direction.
I suddenly realized I was hearing an audible supernatural sound and the
Lord said again, "THE LIBERTY BELL IS RINGING AGAIN!" It was coming
from
all around me and had no particular rhythm it just rang; deep and
clear.
"PROPHECY TO THE FIRE OF REVIVAL TO SPRING UP ONCE AGAIN!"
As I continued to drive through the city I saw the fires of revival and
revolution that had once burned in this city. It was not only natural
water cannons that pummeled the people that marched for freedom in
Birmingham, Alabama it was also a religious flood that quenched the
fires of revival.
As I walked through the park across from 16th Street Baptist church
with
its life size memorial of Martin Luther King Jr. the Lord said,
"PROPHECY TO THE FIRE OF REVIVAL TO SPRING UP ONCE AGAIN!".
I saw as it was coals still burning right under the surface. A plaque
in
the park was etched with two words, "RECONCILIATION and REVOLUTION" I
began to prophesy RECONCILIATION, REVOLUTION and REVIVAL fires to begin
to burn brightly over America again securing liberty and justice for
ALL
from the streets of Birmingham, AL on the very same route the masses
marched over 40 years ago in the shadow of the 16th Street Baptist
Church.
"THE LIBERTY BELL IS RINGING OVER AMERICA AGAIN."
*****
"THROW YOUR NETS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF REALITY"
("You're about to Quantum Leap.")
~ Chad Taylor
"Look among the nations and watch--Be utterly astounded! For I will
work
a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told
you." (Habakkuk 1:5)
As the Lord gave me this Habakkuk Scripture above, I began to receive a
word from the Lord, "Throw your nets on the other side of reality,"
making reference to the disciples in John 21:5-6, when Jesus said to
them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find
some...."
I suddenly realized that this Scripture had nothing to do with the boat
or what part of the body of water that they were fishing in. What Jesus
was pinpointing here was their PERCEPTION and UNDERSTANDING of who He
was at that moment in time, which was incomplete.
As they sat adrift in the boat, Jesus to them was powerless and dead
because of their perception and understanding of who He was.
Suddenly, in a twinkling of an eye, He showed Himself able to do ALL
THINGS for them RIGHT NOW as John the revelator exclaimed, "It is the
Lord!" (verse 7).
The greatest breakthroughs that are about to happen will be because of
our perception of who Jesus is and what He is capable of doing in us.
The "lifeless waters" of our previous understanding that produced no
fruit and left us with empty nets, is suddenly going to be transformed
as our understanding of His heart changes and "We all with open face
beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the
same
image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2
Corinthians 3:18)
"ALL NATIONS SHALL CALL HIM BLESSED"
David declared, "His name shall endure forever: His name shall be
continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in Him: all
nations shall call Him blessed." (Psalm 72:17)
This will be one of the greatest phenomena that we will experience as a
corporate Church in this era of history--the unprecedented desire and
ability to reach the world for Jesus.
His promise in Matthew 24:14, which has been impossible to accomplish
within the confines of any one generation will be suddenly within reach
of all even at one time, "And this Gospel of the Kingdom will be
preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations...."
"ALL THE NATIONS" will not be such an overwhelming task as even the
smallest grassroots ministry without the previously required experience
will have within their means to reach "all the nations" in a moment of
time as their understanding of His promises are revealed.
What has been clearly and acceptably impossible before will literally
in
a twinkling of an eye be astonishingly possible and literal. A quantum
leap means:
"Any sudden and significant change, advance, or increase." Sudden and
significant change, advance, and increase will define this generation
as
they come into the fullness of Christ and His promises.
"BACK TO THE FUTURE AND THE KEYS TO THE PAST AND PRESENT"
I then saw a vision of an hourglass, but instead of it standing
vertical
(up and down), it was horizontal (to the left and right).
Rather than the sand emptying into the bottom of the glass indicating
the end of something, instead, both sides were running together as the
sand heaped up in the middle, pouring out on all sides. Horizontal also
means near, on, or parallel to the "horizon."
I heard the Lord say, "This is the appointed time that THE THINGS THAT
I
HAVE PROMISED IN THE PAST WILL NOW BECOME YOUR FUTURE!
Both are suddenly colliding with one another as that which I have
promised you for generations are now coming to pass. Promises hitherto
will now be your future as your future is defined by the fulfillment of
that which I have already promised.
I will take you BACK TO YOUR FUTURE!" says the Lord! "These are the
keys
that I gave to Peter. This is the rock of revealed truth that My Church
is built on. Now I will reveal the bedrock of that Truth to a single
generation as they fulfill My great commission."
"THE WAR IN HOLLYWOOD IS ONLY A BATTLE FOR YOUR PERCEPTION"
I heard the Lord say this statement with such clarity, "The war in
Hollywood is only a battle for your perception." The enemy's only
effective weapon is to rule our perception and understanding of who
Christ is and who we are in the world for Him. As that changes whether
for the good or bad, it changes the world that is around us instantly.
"Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus,
saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared
greatly, saying, 'Truly this was the Son of God!'" (Matthew 27:54).
As the centurion's perception of who they saw Jesus to be was altered
along with those around him, it also SUDDENLY AND WITH GREAT FORCE
CHANGED THE WORLD AROUND THEM!
Both of these events were hinged upon the other--the world changing
suddenly with great force AND their perception of who Jesus was--both
were changing with the same intensity.
As Jesus changes our perception of who He is and what He intends to do
through us, the world inevitably will radically change around us--not
only in the spiritual, but the natural as well. Earthquakes of
revelation and perception will rend the veils of limited understanding,
and those utterly incapable of reaching the world for Jesus will in a
moment of time rise up to move mountains and nations in Jesus' name.
No longer will the results be determined by their own abilities or
perceptions, but by the awesome promises of the Lord: "All kings shall
fall down before Him: all nations shall serve Him." (Psalm 72:11)
"NOW IS THE TIME TO FULFILL YOUR DESTINIES AND UNLOCK THE HIDDEN
TREASURES WITHIN"
"For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined
in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God
in
the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels,
that the Excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us." (2
Corinthians 4:6-7)
I saw the hand of the Lord as if He was reaching into a honeycomb of
some kind and pulling out handfuls of precious honey. Then I heard Him
say, "I am drawing out the hidden treasures of My glory that I have
placed in the hearts of My people before time as you know it--in a
predestined place of My will.
David saw this when he wrote, 'Your eyes did see my substance, yet
being
unperfected; and in thy book all my members were written, which in
continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. How
precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of
them!'" (Psalm 139:16-17)
"Those that currently see themselves as a 'lesser of the sum' and their
destinies 'without form' will come into a clarity of their future and
what I have called them to be and to do.
They will be a Lazarus that rises up from the grave of previous and
even
present understanding and will come into a world changed by their
perception of Me. Those that now perceive themselves as the lesser will
suddenly see the 'sum' of My thoughts toward them and they will do
mighty exploits."
"Literally, the earth will move before them, changing and
metamorphosing, as my sons and daughters are made manifest. The
invisible power that changes trends and perceptions will now give way
to
a greater day as My children cry, 'Abba Father.'"
The darkness of our own understanding is being shattered by the Light
of
His glorious appearing in us now. Then we will turn our faces to the
world as Moses did when he came down the mountain, and they will see
the
"Light of the knowledge of the glory of God" in us, and the world will
be changed. This truly is the day of visitation and the day that you
will be able to say with all boldness: "IT IS FINISHED!"
~ Chad Taylor
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