Another Visitation
from the Lord – Pastor T.D. Hale Nov.
24th 2012
I
was immediately standing in
front of the desk in the
Oval Office. Standing in the
Oval office I was in front
of the president. A voice
came forth and said, “Weep
and howl for the misery that
shall come shortly….”
There
on the floor of the Oval
office was the eagle I saw
him shoot back in Dec. He
walks from behind that desk
with the same smirk I saw on
his face and puts his foot
on the neck of the eagle. At
this point he picks it up by
its head and twisted it
three times until his head
came off from the body.
At
that point that voice said,
“The spirit of Rehoboam.” I
knew what that meant and I
knew it rested upon the
President.
The
president of the United
States was dressed in total
black; Black suit, tie,
shirt, shoes, pants, total
black. As I was standing in
front of him looking
directly at him, all of a
sudden his chest cavity
began to open and his heart
was exposed. As I was
looking at his heart, thick
black, dark mist was
swirling around his heart.
At
this point he picked up a
gavel in his hand which was
part wood and part stone.
Handle was wood; head of the
gavel was stone. He hits a
document on the desk and
when he did an earthquake
hit Washington .
All
of a sudden I was standing
above the White House and
saw the earth open and it
went towards the Washington
Monument then towards the
Jefferson Memorial. At that
point an odd color rain
started falling (color of
fire) and it started slowly
coming down and intensified
little by little until the
waters started rising, the
starting point was
Washington D.C.
As
the waters started rising, I
went up a little higher into
the atmosphere and saw the
map of the United States .
The waters left Washington ,
and begin to flood across
the nation. I seen it hit
MD, WV, OH, MI, KY, IN, SC
and on and on until it
covered America .
On
the document on the desk of
the President was written,
“The Final Abomination.”
I
begin to hear screams across
the nation as if it was a
mournful sound. I thought of
Noah and what it must have
been like for the people
outside of the Ark as the
flood waters came in and
they knew they had not
listened to Noah or the
voice God gave to them to
speak. The screams were as
if their lives were over and
there was no hope.
As
I was still in the air, and
I am going to try and
explain this as best I can.
I saw America in this state
of being covered with flood
waters and then all of a
sudden I saw beams of light
quickly coming out of the
flood waters like a speed of
light quickly going up into
the air. Millions it looked
like but at that moment I
was taken above the earth
and then I saw it around the
world. Possible the prayers
of the saints.
After
this point, now I was back
to the earth as if I was
back to the beginning of all
of this. I heard a voice
say, “The shifting has
begun!” At this point I was
looking over top of mega
churches and like a flash a
voice said, “A breeding
ground for sin, the people
know not me but play around
their calf.” I know that as
we enter into the “time of
the end” it will not be
large churches but homes
meetings of where the saints
will gather in secret where
God will abide and speak in
the last days because of the
persecution that will come
upon this generation.
Then
at this point I was looking
again at homes of people I
knew that loved and served
God. I saw the homes of men
and women that were gathered
together, praying in deep
prayers across the nation
and a voice that said, “The
season is upon the nation.
Because you have set the
abomination before my eyes,
I will set judgment before
yours!” When will these
things be? said the voice,
“After he will be sworn in.”
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SPIRIT OF REHOBOAM
National
disaster and Civil War!
After the death of Solomon in 930 B.C., the
kingdom divided. The northern tribes rebelled
against the house of David and established a new
nation which continued to be called “Israel”.
The southern kingdom continued to acknowledge
the authority of the house of David; they were
called “Judah”. It all happened during the reign
of Rehoboam, the son of Solomon. The split of
the nation into two smaller nations left both
much weaker. We often refer to Rehoboam's bad
decision to follow the counsel of his young
friends rather than that of the wiser counselors
of his father as the reason for the division of
the nation. And it is true that Rehoboam is
responsible for his decision and the
consequences of it, but it was not there that
the division had begun. The wheels had been set
in motion during the reign of his father,
Solomon. Ironically, the name “Rehoboam” means
"he who enlarges the people" – a misnomer if
there ever was one.
Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began
his rule and reigned for seventeen years in
Jerusalem. His time as king is described in 1
Kings 12; 14:21-31 and in 2 Chronicles 10-12. In
the 5th year of Rehoboam's reign Shishaq king of
Egypt, brought a huge army and took many cities
of Judah. When they laid siege to Jerusalem,
Rehoboam gave Shishaq all of the treasures out
of the temple as a tribute. Judah became a
vassal state of Egypt for a time. An account of
this invasion from the Egyptian perspective can
be found in the Shishaq Relief near the Temple
of Amun at Karnak in Egypt today.
Rehoboam had 18 wives and 60 concubines. They
bore him 28 sons and 60 daughters. When he died
he was buried beside his ancestors in Jerusalem.
He was succeeded by his son Abijahn.
The Division of the Kingdom Had Been Prophesied
God had spoken to Rehoboam's father, Solomon,
and told him of consequences that would result
if he became an unfaithful king. The Lord said,
"As for you, if you walk before Me as your
father David walked, even to do according to all
that I have commanded you, and will keep My
statutes and My ordinances, then I will
establish your royal throne as I covenanted with
your father David, saying, "You shall not lack a
man to be ruler in Israel.' But if you turn away
and forsake My statutes and My commandments
which I have set before you, and go and serve
other
gods and worship them, then I will uproot you
from My land which I have given you, and this
house which I have consecrated for My name I
will cast out of My sight and I will make it a
proverb and a byword among all peoples.” (2
Chronicles 7:17-20).
Also, the prophet Ahijah had prophesied to
Jeroboam “He said to Jeroboam, 'Take for
yourself ten pieces; for thus says the LORD, the
God of Israel, "Behold, I will tear the kingdom
out of the hand of Solomon and give you ten
tribes (but he will have one tribe, for the sake
of My servant David and for the sake of
Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all
the tribes of Israel), because they have
forsaken Me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the
goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of
Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon;
and they have
not walked in My ways, doing what is right in My
sight and observing My statutes and My
ordinances, as his father David did.
Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom
out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all
the days of his life, for the sake of My servant
David whom I chose, who observed My commandments
and My statutes; but I will take the kingdom
from his son's hand and give it to you, even ten
tribes. (1 Kings 11:31-35).
The Ultimate Cause of the Division Was Solomon's
Apostasy
Two independent kingdoms were formed. Jeroboam
was king over Israel (10 tribes) in the North (1
Kings 12:20) and Rehoboam was king over Judah
and Benjamin in the South (1 Kings 12:21). While
we understand that Rehoboam was not simply an
innocent bystander, we see that his reign is
adversely effected by his father's spiritual
failures. This did not relieve Rehoboam of the
responsibilty for his own decisions (1 Kings
11:9-13). But the actions and attitudes of his
father adversely effected Rehoboam.
Solomon was a very wise man. He was a good
governor and the nation prospered under him. But
during the middle of his reign, he began to
compromise his faith and convictions. His many
political marriages undertaken to cement
alliances with other nations brought great
influence upon him from his pagan wives, and
they influenced him to turn to idolatry. It was
in that failure that the seeds of division had
been sown.
After Solomon's death, the people, led by
Jeroboam, were concerned that Rehoboam would
continue to tax them heavily - as had his father
Solomon. Jeroboam and the people promised their
loyalty to Rehoboam if he would reduce this
load. The older men who had been Solomon's
advisors counseled Rehoboam, "If you will be a
servant to this people today, and will serve
them and grant them their petition, and speak
good words to them, then they will be your
servants forever." (1 Kings 12:7). However, the
new king sought the advice from the people he
had grown up
with as well, who advised the king to show no
weakness to the people, and to tax them even
more, which Rehoboam did. He proclaimed to the
people, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I
will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you
with whips, but I will discipline you with
scorpions." The Scriptures explain “So the king
did not listen to the people; for it was a turn
of events from the LORD, that He might establish
His word, which the LORD spoke through Ahijah
the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. (1
Kings 12:14-15).
Will We Effect Our Children As Badly as Solomon
Effected His?
Parents will effect their children's futures,
sometimes in ways completely unforseen.
Rehoboam, though responsible for his own errors,
needed faithful parents to look up to. Rehoboam
did not get that from his father Solomon. I do
not know how to make the message any plainer
than that.I doubt that Solomon planned on having
such an adverse effect on his son. His moral and
spiritual failures slipped up on him. That
happens when proper attention is not given to
the Lord and his will in our lives. Solomon had
given such matters their proper place at one
time, but somewhere along the he had lost his
way (1 Kings 11:9-13).
Why did Rehoboam listen to the unwise counsel
of his friends to increase the tax burdens of
the people instead of the wise counsel of his
father's counselors and decrease the tax
burden Was it pride? Was it greed? Was it a
lack of respect of his father, perhaps due to
his father's own spiritual failures? Whatever
it was, the end result was the same. National
disaster and civil war.
So that was then, and now is now. We fill the
roles of parents and children. We are now the
ones living our lives before God. It is our
children who are being influenced by us. They
are seeing in us examples of strong faith and
commitment, or spiritual weakness and failure.
The Bible says, “For He established a testimony
in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He
commanded our fathers that they should teach
them to their children, that the generation to
come might know, even the children yet to be
born, that they may arise and tell them to their
children, that they should put their confidence
in God and not forget the works of God, but keep
His commandments.” (Psalm 78:5-7).
In the New Testament we read, “Fathers, do not
provoke your children to anger, but bring them
up in the discipline and instruction of the
Lord.” (Ephesians 6:4). We also read of the good
effect godly parents (and grandparents) can have
on their offspring. Paul wrote to Timothy, “You,
however, continue in the things you have learned
and become convinced of, knowing from whom you
have learned them, and that from childhood you
have known the sacred writings which are able to
give you the wisdom that leads to salvation
through faith which is in Christ
Jesus.” (2 Timothy 3:14,15; cf. 2 Timothy 1:5).
Parents! Will we live for the Lord as the
examples of faith we ought to be before our
children and all, or will we conceal the
wonderful things God's grace has provided us in
compromise and neglect? “We will not conceal
them from their children, But tell to the
generation to come the praises of the LORD, And
His strength and His wondrous works that He has
done.” (Psalm 78:4). Let us prepare our hearts
and be faithful to our God! “And not be like
their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious
generation, a generation that did not prepare
its heart and whose spirit was not faithful to
God.” (Psalm 78:8). It does not take a “Solomon”
to clearly see what our choice ought to be.
By Jon W. Quinn
From Expository Files 19.2; February 2012