America Under Judgment: Ezekiel's Vision of the End-Time Church

America and its citizens are increasingly experiencing suffering under judgment. Why is the Lord removing his protecting hand and allowing us to feel his wrath? God is calling us to repentance and because of His love and our deafness he is increasing the volume of the message. Through judgment mixed with mercy the Lord is pleading with us to return to him. As the wrath of God is felt in this country it is having an awakening effect.

Early one morning at the end of this past April I had a five second dream: A voice simply said to me: “In yet five months I will purify the sons of Levi.” That’s all I heard. There was no visual image, only those words. It was about 4:00AM so I got up and decided I should spend some time studying it. I looked up Malachi 3:3 and read the quoted phrase “purify the sons of Levi” in the surrounding context. Then I did a time calculation and found that five biblical months from the day I had the dream, April 30, is the Day of Atonement this year, September 23/24. That captured my attention.

Eight weeks later, the Supreme Court issued it's decision annulling the biblical definition of marriage.

In the Jewish sacred calendar the Day of Atonement known as Yom Kippur stands for the fixing of one's eternal destiny, the day of judgment for people and nations. This day is being fulfilled. America and the rest of humanity is facing a final reckoning of truth. We are at the crossroads of grace and judgment.

In the last several months a number of bible students and scholars have identified 2015-2016 as a biblical Jubilee year. The Jubilee is directly linked to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The Jubilee began anciently with a trumpet blast on the Day of Atonement. In scripture, the Jubilee is the year of liberty when slaves are freed and lost inheritances restored. It occurs at the end of a 49 year cycle after the seventh Sabbatical or Shemitah which just passed us recently, September 2014 to September 2015.

The link between the Day of Atonement and the Jubilee is explained in a vision of Ezekiel. The prophet Ezekiel was shown a new temple where the Day of Atonement is replaced by a dual atonement service that spans a week rather than one day, a super Atonement. And with the super Atonement comes a renewal of all inheritances, a super Jubilee.

Ezekiel's temple vision is a type of the climax of the most comprehensive promise and greatest mystery in scripture: Christ in you, His church, the hope of glory. This mystery is the final establishment of the New Covenant. The prophet Isaiah identifies this super Jubilee as the “acceptable year of the Lord”; the year of full and complete liberty from sin under the power of the Holy Spirit.

But Isaiah also calls it the “day of vengeance of our God”. Isaiah 61:1-2. Likewise, the temple vision of Ezekiel warns of the consequences of being unprepared for God's next big move – the outpouring of the latter rain that ripens the gospel harvest.

The prophets Daniel and John amplify this warning. They reveal that at the very time God pours out the blessings of the Spirit there will also be a false latter rain. And it will be a masterpiece of satanic deception. It will be so subtle that it will entrap the great majority of this world's citizens. “All the world wondered after the Beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?” Rev. 13:3-4.

So is this year, 2015-2016, the year of the latter rain? Maybe. No one knows for sure. But two thing we do know:

1. All of the signs of the times point us to the nearness of it.
2. As we will see, according to scripture, the super Jubilee, the time of Ezekiel's temple is here, so can the latter rain be far behind?

It's time to put our house in order and turn with all our hearts to the Lord so that we're ready. Preparedness for this event is key.