About 10 years ago, the Lord showed me ... an oil derrick, tower, fallen on its side in the desert and an Arab, a shiekh in his white garb, standing beside it, forlorn at this great loss.
At that time, within only certain areas of the media ... there came the news of the discovery by an America christian, who's profession was finding oil ... of the discovery of vast amounts of oil under the land of Israel ... this has, is not commonly known ... at least one can say the presss have not made much of it as a worthy news source.
With this picture, I heard the Lord say ... to the effect, to the Arab ... "what will you do now, now that your wealth has floundered?"
And is pointing out, how influencial and powerful, over the decades the Arab wealth and source of oil has been and how it affected the world , nations and their positions .
but at the same time ... the Lord was saying to Israel perhaps prophetically ... "now that you are rich in oil, what will you do with ME, what need will you have of me"?
I rejoiced over the fact, that thousands of years ago, when the land of Israel was formed, that God, had ensured, that under and within the land of His people, there would be oil ... oil to be independent to some extent on the world powers, oil for itself, oil for others in trade maybe ... but it spoke to me of Gods wisdom, in that his children would not be without.
at the same time, shielding them from the control of richer oil nations.
But within this as the Lord spoke to the Arabs, He ALSO spoke to Israel ... "what will you do? where will your trust now lay?"
Even though God had protected and provided, he knew that Israel itself, had the scope to move further away from their Lord due to the added security politically and finacially that this resource within would provide ...
... and i heard God cry out .. of his need to give them His Oil, the Oil of His Spirit ... to bathe them , to flow to and over them so, that He may show them His mercies ... tend to their wounds and needs, show compassion to their many hurts, cuts and bruisings.
I feel WE are like them, we too are rich in oil, but we also need to allow God to bathe us, to show his mercy to us, to touch us with the OIL of His provision, to heal our wounds ... to meet the need HE HAS , HE NEEDS to MEET for us and with us.
The curent circumstances in the world , physically and spiritually are like the Arabs oil derreck falling, the natural supply stopping, drying up ... in the midst of it ... I believe He is saying TO US in his word ...
Hab 6:1-3 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth.
because, though God has plans for his church and needs to prepare us ... to inform us ... we still must see that we are for ourselves, within ourselves in DESPERATE need ... we must not become as Israel can become, dependent on what they have now or AHEAD, because God has overcome the might of the Arabs ... we must recognise the need of our own falling, our own healing, the tumbling down around us of different types of oil towers(derrecks) that RESULT in the opening up of our need, and older wounds and paths that have gone crooked and not been healed and straightened... or is it THAT WE ARE RICH WITH THE THOUGHT OF REVIVAL,though wondeful that that would be ... we cannot SEE our NEED
I sense ... the shaking of , in particualr, the Arab economic derrecks, are a PROPHETIC SIGN to US of our OWN need.
... within the vison, the cry to Israel, was plain and sincere, but it was alo sincere from God ... in that he wanted the Arabs to find and to come to him, to trust and be healed by Him, and like us ACKNOWLEDGE that IT IS HIM who smites them.
Whether we are Israel or whether we are Arab ... out towers, derrecks and supports have or are tumbling down ... we need ... Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
but that the richness of the OIL of any FUTURE revival, a future time of prosperity does NOT act NOW or THEN as a palliative, as an anaesthetic to our real NEED OF the NOW.
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