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5-27-99

This word is submitted by Ching Co

THE MIRROR
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For many weeks, my mind has been occupied with the events that has been happening around us and I've notice that many of them are unpleasant, confusing, painful and destructive. Deep inside my heart, I longed to understand the "why" of it all. I desired like Habakkuk to be able to grasp the Father's heart to help me walk by faith despite the times. And to be honest, I've found myself not far from where the prophet has been, I found myself questioning Him for I see so many things that I cannot understand. Wickedness seem to be winning over righteousness, those whom we perceive not to be living justly and righteously seem to be flourishing. Everything seem so unfair and wrong, yet deep inside my heart, I also know that there is no mistakes in all these, but that our God is still in control. So I decide to wait for Him to speak to me, and I waited and waited.......

Today, while again back in that state of mind after watching events as reported from the TV broadcast, I saw this vision. And somehow through this vision, the Holy Spirit impress to me a message in answer to what I've been asking Him about, I pray that even as you read this, your heart will be stir up by the Great I Am and He will grant you confirmation and understanding.

THE VISION:

I found myself entering a room with a big mirror on the wall. There was a table and a chair facing the mirror and nothing more. Beside this room I can see that there was a second room, and there were several person in white robes sitting on chairs watching and keeping notes of all the activity on the other room through the back of the mirror which turn out to be a one way mirror. The robed observers can see all that is happening on the other room, but the person who enters the first room cannot see them and in fact was not aware that someboby is watching them from the second room.

Then I saw people come in and go out. Each one always takes a look at the mirror, for those who are in a hurry or whose mind are preoccupied with many things, what they saw in the mirror is a reflection of themselves and then I saw them hurried away, not even bothering to sit down.

However, there were another group of people who went in the room , like the others they also looked at the mirror. At first, they saw their faces reflected back to them. But something was different with this group of people, they did not appear to be in a hurry. For I saw them taking the time to sit down, and they continue to watch and stare at their reflection from the mirror.

Then something happened, the mirror began to change into a movie screen, and instead of the person's reflection seen in it, various things were flashing through it, I cannot see what was being showed to each one but I can see the reaction of the person watching. Always, after viewing the scenes from the mirror screen, they all come out smiling and rejoicing and their faces were glowing.

THE INTERPREATATION:

What I received to be the interprepation of this vision comes as a WARNING TO GOD'S PEOPLE. So many of us are so busy with many activities which are by themselves not wrong, for so often we always reasoned out that what we are doing is for the Lord. But yet, the Spirit is warning us that many Christians are engaged in works and activities who to the eyes of the Heavenly watchers are woods and hays and in the final testing, we will discover that they have not brought any good at all.

The robed observers are heavenly messengers that God has send to observed His people and take note of their coming in and going out specially when nobody is watching them.

The mirror symbolize all that is happening around us these days, whether personal or in a larger scope. So many of us are watching these events through different eyes, to those people whose mind are focus solely on mere physical outward appearance, what they will see will only be their own reflection and they will received nothing.

But to those who are willing to take the time to sit down and contemplate and CHECK THEIR HEARTS, these people will discover that in so many ways, these events happening around us are ALL SIGNS AND WARNING from the Lord to all of us. Each of these events that we see occuring before our very eyes, calls for a season of PERSONAL REFLECTION, an honest look at ourselves, a willingness and humility to acknowledge our own shortcomings, willingness to accept responsilibities for our in-actions instead of blaming others or judging others, a holy anger towards sins and unrighteousness as we see their present effects and consequences upon the people and in the nations.

God is showing us the danger of power without character, the danger of authority and leadership without godly counsel, the folly of human wealth and wisdom. The ways of the world and its foolishness are being revealed, the danger of playing with fire and with sin and fiddling with it because sin has consequences that goes beyond our own person and our own generations, that sin and disobedience can kills and affects others and even nations. He is teaching us about stewardship, accountability, integrity, honestly, justice, compassion BUT HE IS SHOWING ALL THESE TO US THROUGH THE WRONG SIDE OF CIRCUMSTANCES. In same manner that the Law of Moses become like PLUMBLINE which exposes sin and wrongdoing and our own helplessness without Him, so today's current events is accomplishing the same purpose.

In the midst of all these trials and difficulties, we need to keep our focus and perspective in line with God's leading. We must not allow our hearts to be hardened by all the sins and unrightoueness that abounds, we need to continue to press on to the Holy, Mighty, Just God whose heart is as much grieve and torn as ours in these times.

And yet the Lord is allowing many things which seem to be bad to surfaced. He is allowing us to watch and to see the folly of men and all it's reaping. He is forcing us to face the difficult issues of life. But in the midst of these, the LOVE OF THE FATHER REMAINS CONSTANT DESPITE HIS SILENCE IN MANY FRONT. For the Bible has promised us, "Where sin abound, grace aboundath the more."

The Bible talks about the season of God, and this is the season to GO DEEP WITHIN, TO ALLOW THE SPIRIT OF GOD TO PLOW INTO OUR DEEPEST BEING, TO BRING FORTH ALL THAT IS UNFRUITFUL AND HARDENED, TO ALLOW GOD TO SIFT US THOROUGHLY, TO GIVE HIM THE CHANCE TO RENEW ALL THINGS INCLUDING DEEP ROTTED FEARS AND HABITS INGRAINED WITHIN OUR VERY SOUL DUE TO VARIOUS REASONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES. HE IS ENCOURAGING US TO LAY BEFORE HIM ALL THINGS THAT MATTERS TO US.

In closing, please allow me to share the various verses which the Lord has used to confirmed these messages.

GOD'S WORDS & PROMISE (Taken from the Amplified Bible)

" Come near, you nations, to hear: & hearken, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it; the world , and all things that come forths from it. For the Lord is indignant against all nations, and His wrath is against all their host. He has utterly doomed them. He has given them over to slaughter." (Isaiah 34:1-2)

" Gather together to Me My saints [ those who have found grace in My sight], those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice. And the heavens declare His righteousness (rightness and justice), for God, He is judge. Selah [ pause, and calmly think of that]! " Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Isreal, I will testify to you and against you; I am God, your God. I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before Me. Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High, and call on Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall honor and glorify Me.

" But to the wicked, God says: What right have you to recite My statutes or take My covenant or pledge on your lips , seeing that you hate instruction and correction and cast My words behind you? Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there is none to deliver.

" He who brings an offering of praise and thangsgiving honors and glorifies Me; and he who orders his way aright [ who prepares the way that I may show him], to him I will demonstrate the salvation of God." (Psalm 50:5-8,14-17,22-23)

" To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me [ Unless they are the offering of the heart ]? says the Lord. I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts [ without obedience ]; and I do not delight in the blood of bulls or of lambs or of he-goats [ without righteousness]. Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes! Cease to do evil. Learn to do right! Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless, plead for the widow." (Isaiah 1:11,16-17)

" Woe to the rebellious children, says the Lord, who take counsel and carry out a plan, but not Mine, and who make a league and pour out a drink offering, but not of My Spirit, thus adding sin to sin. Therefore this iniquity and guilt will be to you like a broken section of a high wall, bulging out and ready [ at some distant day ] to fall, whose crash will [then] come suddenly and swiftly, in an instant.

" For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Isreal: In returning [ to Me ] and resting [ in Me ] you shall be saved; in quietness and in [ trusting ] confidence shall be your strength." (Isaiah 30:1,13,15)

" For I desire and delight in dutiful steadfast love and goodness, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of and acquaintance with God more than burnt offerings. " (Hosea 6:6)

" The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is His delight! The way of the wicked is an abomination, extremely disgusting and shamefully vile to the Lord, but He loves him who pursues righteouness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation). There is severe discipline for him who forsakes God's way; and he who hates reproof will die [ physically, morally, and spiritually]. (Proverbs 15: 8-10)

" The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as are the watercourses; He turns it whichever way He wills. Every way of man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs and tries the hearts. To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. The sacrifice of the wicked is exceedingly disgusting and abhorrent [ to the Lord ] - how much more when he brings it with evil intention? There is no [ human ] wisdom or understanding or counsel [ that can prevail ] against the Lord. The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but deliverance and victory are of the Lord." (Proverbs 21:1-3,27,30-31)

" The Lord is a jealous God and avenging; the Lord avenges and He is full of wrath. The Lord takes vengeance on His adversaries and reserves wrath for His enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power and will by no means clear the guilty. The Lord has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet. Who can stand before His indignation? And who can stand up and endure the fierceness of His anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by Him.

" The Lord is good, a Strength and Stronghold in the day of trouble; He knows those who take refuge and trust in Him." ( Nahum 1:2-3,6-7)

" The Lord is in His Holy temple; let all the earth hush and keep silence before Him." (Habakkuk 2:20)

" Be silent before the Lord God, for the day [ of the vengeance] of the Lord is near; for the Lord has prepared a sacrifice, and He has set apart [for His use ] those who have accepted His invitation. The great day of the Lord is near - near and hastening fast. Hark! the voice of the day of the Lord! The mighty man will cry then bitterly. (Zephaniah 1:7, 14)

" Collect your thoughts, yes, unbend yourselves [ in submission ] and see if there is no sense of shame and no consciousness of sin left in you ],...

[ The time for repentance is speeding by like chaff whirled before the wind!] Therefore consider, before God's decree brings forth [ the curse upon you ], before the time [ to repent ] is gone like the drifting chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord comes upon you - yes, before the day of the wrath of the Lord comes upon you!

" Seek the Lord [ inquire for Him, inquire of Him, and require Him as the foremost necessity of your life], all you humble of the land who have acted in compliance with His revealed will and have kept His commandments; seek righteousness, seek humility [ inquire for them, require them as vital]. It may be your will be hidden in the day of the Lord's anger. (Zephaniah 2:1- 3)

" The Lord in the midst of her is [ uncompromisingly] righteous; He will not do inequity. Every morning He brings justice to light; He fails not..

" Therefore [ earnestly ] wait for Me, says the Lord, [ waiting ] for the day when I rise up to the attack [ as a witness, accuser, or judge, and a testimony]. For My decision and determination and right it is to gather the nations together, to assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them My indignation, even all [ the heat of ] My fierce anger; for [ in that day ] all the earth shall be consumed with the fire of My zeal and jealousy.

" Sing, O Daughter of Zion; shout, O Isreal! Rejoice, be in high spirits and glory with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem.

" The Lord your God is in the midst of you, a Mighty One, a Savior [ Who saves]! He will rejoice over you with joy; He will rest [ in silent satisfaction ] and in His love He will be silent and make no mention [ of past sins, or even recall them]; He will exult over you with singing.

" Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you; I will save the limping [ ones ] and gather the outcasts and will make them a praise and a name in every land of their shame. At that time I will bring you in; yes, at that time I will gather you, for I will make you a name and a praise among all the nations of the earth when I reverse your captivity before your eyes, says the Lord." (Zephaniah 3:5,8,14,17,19-20)

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Blessings to you all in the Most Wonderful Name of our Savior Jesus Christ!

Sis. Ching Co
Cebu City
Philippines