THE GREAT SHAKING
By Dr. Stephen Jones
Apr
22, 2019
Haggai
2:6, 7
tells how God will “shake the heavens and the
earth.” Hebrews 12:26, 27 gives this some context, connecting it with
the time when God came down upon Mount Sinai and shook the earth. The
difference is that the second event will shake both the heavens and the earth
in some way.
Again,
the author of Hebrews focuses upon the second coming of Christ upon Mount Sion (KJV), which he compares to
the coming of Christ at Sinai
in the days of Moses. Its purpose is to shake all things that are contrary to
the Kingdom of God, and the only things left standing will be that which is of
the Kingdom. The “consuming fire”
is God’s own presence, and this is the cause of the great shaking (Hebrews
12:29; Deuteronomy
4:24).
I
have long believed that this “shaking” will be signaled by some great
earthquake here in America. There are earthquakes in many parts of the world,
of course, but places like Indonesia do not normally fit into Bible prophecy,
which focuses mostly on the old land of Israel or in places where the
Israelites were dispersed in the West. Because the gospel was given to them
first, after being preached in Judea and Samaria, those nations came to be
dominated by Christianity. Hence, prophecy itself, especially in the book of
Revelation, spoke of events in the Roman world, Europe, and later in other
places where they immigrated.
The
great “shaking” appears to be God’s way of overthrowing Babylon and its
cultural practices, which run contrary to the His will and His ways. So in my
view, this shaking began in 2017, coinciding with the transfer of authority
from the last beast system to the saints of the Most High. But this was only a
beginning point. Hebrews 12 makes it clear that this will be an ongoing process
until all is subdued under the feet of Christ.
The Shaking Has Begun
In
praying about this over the past few decades, my biggest question was whether
this shaking was physical, spiritual, or soulish (governmental, social,
economic, etc.). I concluded that it was all of the above, because all things
contrary to God’s Kingdom must be cast down. I believe, then, that we will see
a great earthquake in America soon, which will be either a precursor to a
government shakeup, or perhaps will occur about the same time.
I
lean toward the idea that the physical events are reflections of spiritual
events. Things such as spiritual warfare are designed to change conditions in
the heavens, which in turn bring changes upon the earth. We have seen many
great breakthroughs and major victories in the heavens. This has increased in
more recent years. However, the transfer of authority from 2014-2017 has been
the most important factor in this, because God could not actually overthrow
Babylon until its allotted time had come to a full end.
So
we look at the world from that perspective and assess the conditions as they
are. The election of Donald Trump in 2016 came in the midst of our transition of
authority from 2014-2017, and he is obviously shaking things here and abroad.
But the Mueller investigation for his first two years in office obviously
hampered him in many ways. Yet now that Mueller finished his investigation and
gave his report to AG Barr on March 22, 2019, the tide has turned.
Those
who oppose Trump were counting on the Mueller report to provide them with
grounds for impeachment. But many prophets, including the late Kim Clement,
prophesied long ago that there would be no impeachment of this president with
“hot blood.” So as of today, it appears that this is proving to be a true
prophecy.
The
important thing to note is that because the investigation itself was based on a
dossier that was paid for by the opposing political party (DNC) and presented
to the FISA court under false pretenses (withholding information), now the tide
has turned. The investigation has now shifted to the illegal circumstances that
brought about the Mueller investigation. The investigators will now be
investigated and probably prosecuted for treason—the attempt to overthrow a
duly elected president in an unlawful manner.
The Notre Dame Fire
The
Church of Notre Dame in Paris burned on April 15, 2019. Many churches in Paris
and around the world have been burned recently by arsonists, but for some
reason Notre Dame’s fire is being called “accidental.” Whatever the cause, we
view such events as signs, rather than focusing too much on the circumstances
or physical causes.
Notre
Dame is a clear representation of the church itself, and the Roman Church in
particular. In that the roof was completely burnt but the stone structure
remained virtually intact, we can take that to indicate that the hierarchical
structure of the Roman Church is heading toward the “consuming fire” (Hebrews
12:29). This will open the heavens to the living stones who, up to now,
have been covered by this hierarchy. The hierarchy claimed to point the people
toward the heavens, but in fact they have pointed to themselves, putting the
people into bondage to the church rather than to Christ Himself.
Keep
in mind that the primary reason for the great shaking is not to destroy but to
put the church and ultimately the earth back into the divine order of the
Kingdom. The Roman Church hierarchy has acted as Eli, who refused to correct
his sons. Hence, pedophile priests have been moved around to other parishes,
where they could continue to sin. When necessary, priests have been recalled to
Rome, where they enjoy diplomatic immunity. All of this was done under the
guise of God’s forgiveness. Perhaps that was Eli’s excuse as well.
The
fire of God, however, is coming, and it is accompanied by a great shaking. That
pattern was given to us at Mount Sinai in Exodus
19:16.
An Earthquake
We
have monitored the economic earthquakes for many years. We saw the bank crisis
of 2008 as a major earthquake. In fact, we foresaw that crisis long before it
happened and knew that some such event would begin in 2006-2007. We understood
that 2006 was “seven times” (7 x 360 years) after the completion of the second
temple in Jerusalem in the time of Haggai. We ourselves completed our 13-year
Jubilee Prayer Campaign on October 7, 2006, wherein we overthrew Mystery
Babylon. Hence, we knew that the end was near.
What
happened was the subprime mortgage crisis that began to be reported in May of
2007. This ultimately led to the bank crisis in September 2008.
The
question that arose at that time was whether or not we would see a physical
earthquake—and if so, where would it occur? In decades past, there was a lot of
prophecy about the San Andreas fault in California where some claimed to
foresee California falling into the ocean. In later years the New Madrid fault
seemed to fit the type, because a quake along the Mississippi River was overdue
and could “divide the nation.”
But
the recent fracking in Oklahoma and Texas has made the ground more porous, and
so the energy traveling east along the tectonic plate toward the New Madrid
fault has been absorbed before it hits the danger zone. Smaller quakes are now
hitting Oklahoma, relieving the pressure on the New Madrid fault.
So
now it appears more likely (to me) that the biggest danger is in the Northwest
coast of Washington and Oregon. The Cascadia Subduction Zone seems to hold the
biggest danger, and it took is overdue for a very large earthquake (9.0
Richter). Large quakes in that area occur an average of 240 years apart. The
last one struck on January 26, 1700, which is 319 years ago. It caused a
tsunami in Japan ten hours later, which is recorded in their own history books.
Because
we have already witnessed economic shaking, and now appear to be entering into
a time of political shaking, it seems to me that it would be wise to prepare
also for a physical shaking. I understand that God can take care of His people
in the most dire of circumstances, so everyone should be led by the Spirit.
There
are many good articles explaining the danger of the Cascadia fault and some
history of those earthquakes. Here are just two:
In the Pacific Northwest, the area of impact will
cover* some hundred and forty thousand square miles, including Seattle, Tacoma,
Portland, Eugene, Salem (the capital city of Oregon), Olympia (the capital of
Washington), and some seven million people.
Thanks to work done by Chris Goldfinger and his
colleagues, we now know that the odds of the big Cascadia earthquake happening
in the next fifty years are roughly one in three. The odds of the very big one
are roughly one in ten.
The Pacific Northwest sits squarely within the Ring
of Fire. Off its coast, an oceanic plate is slipping beneath a continental one.
Inland, the Cascade volcanoes mark the line where, far below, the Juan de Fuca
plate is heating up and melting everything above it. In other words, the
Cascadia subduction zone has, as Goldfinger put it, “all the right anatomical
parts.”
No comments:
Post a Comment