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Just yesterday during my prayer time I had a short vision of Jesus Christ I want to share with you. To start off with, I know that there are false visions and dreams of which we might think they were from God, yet they were not. The enemy is able to produce all kinds of misleading stuff that might seem to have come from God and Jesus Christ. However, if God really shares a message with us, it won’t leave us unaffected, to say the least. From reading the prophets of the Old Testament, we might have realized that they did not always like it at first when the Lord had told them to speak up for Him. Sometimes it was even the contrary! If we think of Jonah, for instance, he actually ran away from the presence of the Lord.
We might remember that one of the reasons why Jonah tried to hide before God was that he thought that God was “a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.” (Jonah 4:2 ESV) Looking at our own experiences with Him, we might understand why Jonah who had to announce disaster coming on Nineveh refused to pass on God’s warning. If we have come to know God’s love, we know that He has a forgiving nature. Especially when we look at Jesus Christ, we know that God forgave the sins of the whole world in Him who died on the cross for us. But knowing this forgiving nature of God must not lead to the false conclusion that God might have ever changed because ”Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. “ (Heb 13:8 ESV) Therefore God, still, just as it was in Jonah’s time, does neither approve of sin nor of false spirits or of any false messages being spread among His people. As a warning we should heed, I want to refer you to what John the Baptist said,
“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.” (Jn 3:36 ESV)
Coming back to Jonah, we see that due to his initial refusal to obey, God taught him a bitter but wholesome lesson. Allowing Jonah to be thrown overboard of the ship into the stormy sea and being swallowed by a fish (or rather, a whale), being forced to stay there for even three days in the darkness, I assume everyone would deem this a frightening experience. I do not want to expound here on Jonah being a type of Christ who spent three days in Hades after His death on the cross. Instead, I want to make clear that God’s Word, both written and being received by Him at any given time, is nothing to be taken lightly.
Recently I have found myself increasingly awe-struck with the fear of God, in particular, with the fear of our Lord Jesus Christ. If someone has not come to know this fear yet, it is not necessarily so that you want to run away from Him. You still know He loves you (like all human beings), however, you sense your own smallness and apparent ‘unimportance’ confronted with this awesome and great God. You admire and worship Him with much fear and trembling, but you know, too, you have to obey Him as to whatever He tells you to do. Although you might want to do His will, you are very cautious to neither add nor to take away anything as to this message He has given you. With these thoughts in mind, I am going to share with you now what I saw yesterday.
I was praying in the afternoon as I needed some spiritual rest, having experienced an exhausting onslaught by the enemy that had lasted for a few days. My eyes were closed as I increasingly enjoyed Christ’s holy and breathtaking presence which put my soul to rest. Suddenly I got aware that ‘something’ was happening before my mind’s eye. I could not clearly focus in on it, but I saw Jesus Christ standing at an elevated position on the right side, only a few meters (about 16 ft) away from me. I could not discern his legs nor his feet as this vision remained dimly lit until the spotlight was turned on his chest and arms. At that moment you could see that He was taller and stronger than any man you might have seen before.
Behind and around Him everything was plunged into in a dark gray, almost black, and shadowy darkness. I still had a hard time to discern His facial expression although His features appeared to be chiseled, sharp, and bold. However, I observed Him opening His mouth, uttering one word only, a word consisting of two or three syllables. Strangely enough, I could not understand what He was saying! I only sensed that the word was not directed toward me. Instead, His word’s target seemed to be situated elsewhere to my right. Besides that, I did not recognize the language, nor the word itself, I only heard the sound of the word and somehow ‘saw’ IT flashing by on my right. (That might sound peculiar at first as we normally cannot ‘see’ words although we might find them uplifting, disgusting, or hurtful at times.) Finally, what I could clearly discern was the end of this vision. In fact, as this word had reached its goal, which was located deeper than the Lord, somehow on a level beneath His feet, I saw numerous pieces of shiny iron flying around. It appeared to me that this particular word Jesus had spoken had smashed a former radiant block of iron. The word that immediately came to my mind as I saw these iron pieces having been blasted away was ‘stronghold’.
I do not want to offer a deeper interpretation of this vision on here now. What came to mind, though, was that Jesus who is the Word of God as depicted in the Book of Revelation (see Rev 19:13) through His word will destroy any stronghold of the enemy (cf. also Heb 4:12). As we might know from Scripture, our Lord “must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.” (1 Cor 15:25 ESV) No false spirit will be able to deceive His children as long as they submit to Him and His guidance. God said that His word “that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” (Is 55:11 ESV)
Seeing Jesus Christ as the Son of God has changed my view of Him immensely. I know that I could never approach Him on my own unless He told me to. It is the fear of displeasing Him that holds me back to get closer. What is more, I want to respect His plan and His timing of all things. In conclusion I want to share the Scriptures I was reminded of after I had seen this vision.
Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord. I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’
How long shall there be lies in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart, who think to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell one another, even as their fathers forgot my name for Baal?
Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? declares the Lord. Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who steal my words from one another. Behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who use their tongues and declare, ‘declares the Lord.’
Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the Lord, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the Lord.” (Jer 23:24-32 ESV)
All images by Susanne Schuberth 2021
Entering the Promised Land 
Dear Susanne, thanks for this word of warning to the churches and all their false prophets. We both were writing our current blog posts at the same time and we had two sides of the same message. Mine was that we should not speak or do anything without waiting for the Spirit’s inspiration and for the Lord to direct us in His timing. Yours was a warning of what has happened and is about to happen to those who presume to speak and act in His name, but not by His inspiration and leading.
In the book of Daniel we read about a vision that King Nebuchadnezzar was given a dream of a giant statue of a man. This man had a head of gold, chest and arms of silver, loins of bronze, legs of iron and feet of clay and iron mixed and Daniel was called into the king’s court to interpret the dream. Daniel after describing the statue said,
“As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.” (Dan 2:34-35, ESV2011)
Daniel went on tell of what is coming upon the kingdoms of men that have usurped the place of Christ as their King. Clay speaks of humanism. God formed Adam from the clay of the earth. He is the potter and we are the clay. But when Christians seek to gain their strength by worldly means and buy building worldly kingdoms with men’s worldly resources here on earth, God is not pleased. God has always hated a mixture. What He builds is “not by might, nor by power, but by His Spirit.”
I believe that what we see here in Daniel and what you saw are related. Yes, His word is like a hammer that breaks rocks in pieces and everything that can be shaken will be shaken (just look at the world around us as it crumbles) until only HIS unshakeable Kingdom remains. This is not a time for us to be part of worldly gatherings and organizations that are ruled by false teachers, false prophets and carnal human despots. His judgment is at hand, Babylon is falling and He will clear His threshing floor of all that is chaff so that only His wheat remains. Thank you for sharing this, my sister.
May the eyes of all our hearts be opened that we might see things as the Father does and submit to Him alone. Amen.
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Excellent message, Michael! I have nothing to add. Thank you!
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Reblogged this on A Wilderness Voice and commented:
I believe this is a prophetic vision for this hour. It would be wise to take heed. The time is short and God’s judgment begins in the house of the Lord.
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Thank you for the reblog, Michael.
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You know that I do not do this very often and God definitely nudged me to do so this time. These are serious times we are in and the gathering dark clouds in your pictures speak of what is coming upon the whole earth. Everything that can be shaken will be shaken until only HIS spiritual kingdom remains.
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Yes, Michael. Actually, I have been running out of words after writing this message. It is exhausting to try to exclusively speak or write the words He wants to be heard or read. You know it yourself how often He nudges us to correct what we have already written as the verbalization has not yet been pleasing in His sight.
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Yes, for sure, Susanne. God knows…
“It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.” (Eccl 7:5, ESV2011)
Thank God that He has been merciful to us as we learn the difference and to hear His voice before we speak.
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“In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams” (Acts 2: 17).
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In fact, I thought about these verses, too. Anna. 👍🏼 But alas, not many people who have dreams and visions know the origin of what they see in their spirit. By sharing what they saw – no matter where their dreams or visions came from – they confuse others who believe them as they are becoming confused themselves. 😔 If someone relies on everything that pops up in their mind without being familiar with dying to our soulish nature daily, they will be surely led astray.
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Hi Michael,
Thank you for sharing your vision with us. I read the whole Book of Revelation about 2 days ago and I prayed for understanding of what is taking place right now. While I remain at rest during this time, I am fully aware that our Lord Jesus Christ is still in charge and the kingdoms of this world are falling. Isaiah 55:11 is a scripture that I have read and studied repeatedly over the years. Yes, Babylon is falling and many will suffer. Only Christ and His kingdom will remain.
Your friend in Christ,
Wanda
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Thank you, Wanda.
I guess it must have been quite difficult to read the whole Book of Revelation in such a short time. There are so many metaphors, pictures, and references to prophecies of the Old Testament that this book is anything but self-explaining. As only the Holy Spirit is able to lead us into all the truth, we must be patient until He does so. Waiting for Him and His timing regarding all things is not always easy as I know from personal experience.
I need to admit when I read your comment for the first time today, I was a bit confused initially. 😉 My name is Susanne Schuberth and I live in Germany. This vision I saw happened three days ago. In the introduction of the reblog of my post on Michael’s “A Wilderness Voice Blog” Michael did not mention my name explicitly since he wrote,
“I believe this is a prophetic vision for this hour. It would be wise to take heed. The time is short and God’s judgment begins in the house of the Lord.”
Maybe, you thought therefore you were commenting on his blog, I don’t know…
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Hi Susanne,
I am a little confused, I thought Michael saw the vision. Thank you for sharing! I am so glad to have fellow saints to discuss and share these experiences with.
Your friend in Christ,
Wanda
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Again, you are welcome Wanda. I hope your confusion turns into clarity soon. 🙏🏼😇👍🏼
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Dear Wanda, from time to time I am prompted to re-blog an article from different authors when I feel that it is a timely word for those who read my blog, thus I re-blogged Susanne’s prophetic vision. I hope you were able to read it and receive from Him, no matter who wrote it. God wants to expand in us the life changing revelation of His Son for the length of our entire lives right on into eternity.
As for trying to extrude meaning our of the book of Revelation, God made it clear to me that I had to wait on Him as he fed me from it a bit at a time over the last 50 plus years as I needed it. He was not going to open the whole things with its many types just to satisfy my curiosity and ego. If He had I would have written a book and become rich and famous like so many false prophets these days. He is a good Father and He doesn’t spoil His children.
Paul wrote,
“that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,” (Eph 1:17-18, ESV2011)
THESE are the things He wants to reveal to us!
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Yes, Wanda, just as Michael told you in his comment about how God dealt with him as to squeezing out meaning out of the Book of Revelation, it has been a similar experience for me.
Having joined a Christian cult where the pastors mainly focused on the end times, I saw later that they had tried to ‘force’ God to give them revelations as they saw fit. They did not want to wait on God and thus they lost the whole counsel of God. Sooner or later, it was all about eschatology(1) and nothing more, the signs accompanying the end times, and many, many false interpretations of the Bible as their approach of the Bible was anything but biblically balanced.
God made it very clear to me lately that if we try to ‘urge’ him to give us anything what we think we need, we will invite the wrong spirits instead. If we do not want to wait on Him and His timing, these false spirits will pull us deeper and deeper into deception and delusion since Satan eagerly waits to offer us a counterfeit gospel with an imitation of the real Jesus.
Please, take care, Wanda.
(1) According to Wikipedia eschatology is defined as “a part of theology concerned with the final events of history, or the ultimate destiny of humanity. This concept is commonly referred to as “the end of the world” or “end times”.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology
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