Visions of the Coming Days

Loren Sandford R.

Description

Respected Prophetic Leader Offers BiblicallyGrounded Predictions for What Is to ComeR. Loren Sandford has long been internationally respected as a groundedand insightful prophetic leader. A regular writer for Charisma magazine's Prophetic Insight newsletter, he has cast a poignant prophetic vision for Christians everywhere during these uncertain times. Using Amos 2 and 3, Sandford presents detailed predictions of the days to come. He reveals the pattern of indictments and penalties leveled against Israel back then that mirror America and the Western world today.Yet within his sober reflection, he reveals the heart of the Father and the hope of glory for the body of Christ. With clarity and piercing biblical insight, he helps believers understand what is to come, and he gives them practical advice on how to prepare spiritually--for the events that will unfold and for their role in all of it.

Sujets

• Christianity
• Pentecostalism
• Philosophie et théologie

Informations

• Publié par: Baker Publishing Group
• Date de parution: 15 mai 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781441259998
• Langue: English

Extrait

© 2012 by R. Loren Sandford
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“Loren Sandford is a credible seer a prophet and has seen into the future. Visions of the Coming Days will provoke healthy questions in some and offer enlightening confirmation to many. Awesome days await those who are prepared. Loren Sandford, through this book, will help you prepare.”
Patricia King , XP Ministries
“As a healing ministry called to God’s leaders to enable them to deal with their wounding, it is refreshing to have a prophetic book direct us to Father’s heart. Loren’s many stern and direct cautions and warnings, based on current trends in Christiandom, are not to shame us, but to get us back on track to Father’s love. His love calls us higher, drawing us into His healing. As we heal, we can drop the defenses of pride, etc., enabling us to repent and seek the Father’s heart. Thank you, Loren, for this trumpet call.”
Chester and Betsy Kylstra , founders, Restoring the Foundations Ministries
“As a co-worker and fellow warrior of Loren in both the Western world and eastern Europe, I heartily recommend Visions of the Coming Days . His razor-sharp words of warning and rebuke can be startling, but they are tempered by the Father’s love for His people in an age of muddled values and lifestyles within the Body of Christ. His words pierce the conscience and drop the plumb line, but he is speaking from a heart longing for redemption and grace. This is a call for examination and accountability of self and the Church in the light of the mercy and truth of our Lord’s nature as the Lion and the Lamb. I’ve witnessed Loren’s focus on others and not self in very uncomfortable settings, so I know he is moving forward in personally living out what he writes here. Read with an open heart!”
Dan Slade , international coordinator, Partners in Harvest Network, Toronto, Canada
Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Endorsements
Foreword by John Paul Jackson
Introduction
Part I: Setting the Tone
1. Having God’s Heart
2. God’s Heart Revealed
3. Toward a Genuine Revival
Part II: The Days to Come
4. The Days of Amos Revisited
5. Five Years to Prepare
6. Preparing in Repentance
7. The Revealing of the Sons of God
8. The Final Invitation: Revelation 14
9. Signs of the Baal Spirit
10. Strategic Prayer Fire
11. The Cloud of Glory Has Moved
12. The Great Apostasy
13. The Samson Generation
14. Revelation Events Foreshadowed
Page Part III: Short Themes
15. Islam
16. A New Jewish Exodus
17. The Looming Threat of War
18. More on America
About the Author
Back Cover
Foreword

I love God’s ways, God’s power, God’s authority and how God acts on our behalf before we even ask. I also love true prophetic words, divine supernatural encounters and dreams from God. It is through these events and other miracles that God confirms His deity. He is constantly displaying His attributes of omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, immutability and eternality every day in our lives. Whether we recognize the splendor of His acts or not does not dilute or diminish the fact that He wants us to know Him in a vast panorama of ways.
In the midst of all of heaven’s interventions, I believe we are to do as the Bible has instructed us to do: We are to tell of His wonderful deeds and teach them to our children and our children’s children. In so doing, all remain in awe of God.
We are also to continue to give God all the glory and take none of that glory upon ourselves. We are not to exaggerate what He has done, diminish what He has said or tell things that He did not do as if He did them. We are to hold clear and strong biblical doctrines, and live those beliefs before mankind. In so doing, we are to be witnesses to others of all God has done and is doing, and give others hope that God will continue to act as He has.
Regrettably this is not happening on a widespread basis today. In fact, we, the Body of Christ, are experiencing less and less relevance to the world we were placed here to influence. As a result we are living in a time when the logic of politicians, the cleverness of pundits, the sermons of pulpiteers and the revelations of prophets are all failing to capture the hearts of the people they are hoping will listen. This should not be true, but it is.
Jesus and the prophets of Scripture prophesied, with alarming accuracy, that a time will come when the humanistic logic of man will lead to the perplexity of nations. That time has arrived. Today’s logic, at best, may solve human quandaries in the short term, but it exacerbates those quandaries in the long run. The fruit of this line of thinking is now being harvested, and the perplexity of nations has expanded and become global.
Conversely, especially within the broader charismatic/evangelical Church, there arises an equally anti-logic sentiment of a “nice” God who would never chastise or spank His children. Paralleling this anti-logic paradigm is a mindset in which spiritual experiences become the goal. If left unchecked, this mindset will broaden to become an accepted rule of theology. Thus, in some circles, spiritual experiences are sought more than a deep relationship with God. This experience-oriented atmosphere rapidly leads to a perspective that what happens to you is more important than what happens in you; when the verbalization of your experience becomes more important than the transformation of your being; and, even more saddening, when your philosophy becomes more important than your theology.
Subtly, almost imperceptibly, the yeast of a philosophical approach to Scripture is rising and a philosophically moralistic perspective of God is taking over. Thus, if God is love, there can be no such place as hell; marriage is seen as a convenience rather than a covenant; sin management is sought more than sin eradication; and even the devil will get saved.
If this continues, you will see an increasing emphasis placed on so-called spiritual feelings and the intellectualization of spiritual realities that attempt to make imagination equal to true supernatural experiences. In other words, if you can imagine it, you have experienced it. I am afraid we have arrived at a crossroads where the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life have become almost indistinguishable. Sadly, more are climbing the wrong tree and unknowingly getting steeped in the acceptance of New Age thinking as a legitimate means of promoting Christian experience.
If we are not careful, we will find that in our efforts to help the Body of Christ accept the biblical truth of the charismata of Scripture, we have lowered the standards for the exercise of those spiritual gifts. It seems we have forgotten the need for integrity and character to be woven into the life of any person who has been given a spiritual gift. Thus, weak and incomplete prophetic words are treated as if they were mature while errant prophecies are left unaddressed. This is already happening. As a result, those with supposed spiritual gifts, rather than creating a new hunger for biblical truths and the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit within the Church, have begun to alienate other believers.
If this malaise continues, we will find ourselves in a Church repelled by the new wine God is longing to display, since the old wine tastes good enough.
If mature, pure revelation from God is not released, the profane will take its place, and all too quickly we will find ourselves on a swift spiritual decline. In this decline, apathy will be touted as being peaceful, zeal will be choked out as being troublesome, lethargy will be seen as being compliant, and passion will be seen as rebellion.
Already, in many circles, the term holy is seen as a devilish four-letter word, and righteousness has become a synonym for legalism.
We are rapidly approaching a convergence in which, as Jeremiah wrote, prophets and priests cause people to err through their false dreams and recklessness. There is now increasing evidence that both are becoming epidemic in proportion.
A balance must be struck, a balance of Word and Spirit. In finding that balance, we will once again be able to separate the holy from the profane, the precious from the vile, and the clean from the unclean.
I believe what Loren Sandford has written in Visions of the Coming Days is not only a wake-up call toward that end, but it denotes a map on how to view prophecy today in respect to the even more important prophecies and revelatory principles contained in the Bible.
I am sure many who read this book will, at some point, become upset and even angry at Loren for the bold stance he is taking. This book is not a sugar-coated address of a caustic problem. It is tough love mixed with brute reality. Its intent is to stir a rethinking in the hearts and lives of those who are t