Hi all,
If you have been around Christian teachings very long then you'll know that some teachers began teaching years ago that we are already in the Tribulation. I still get emails about one a month at least asking if we are in the Tribulation - so prevalent was/is the error. Most realized it was wrong when more than 7 years passed, but some hang on...
 
When one considers the whole picture of what will occur to the planet during those years, it becomes obvious we are not yet in the Tribulation. 
 
Solar flares
Last week I explained the double asteroid/comet hit the earth will take during those last days of this age, but there is another celestial event that will happen as well: Solar flares hitting the earth.
 
Revelation 16:8-10 reveals fire from the sun will scorch the earth and burn people. From a scientific point of view, the earth's electromagnetic field protects us by stopping the solar flares that reach the earth. The 'northern lights' are part of that protection in action. For the flares to get through the atmosphere to cause burns means something has happened to that electromagnetic field - it is no longer there during that time. 
 
It could be a result of the double asteroid/comet hit, it could be from the magnetic poles suddenly 'flipping', in which the compass needle instead of pointing north, would point south, or a combination of both. There are theories suggesting if that flip occurs, there would be a time the earth would not be protected by the magnetosphere.
 
It is interesting that magnetic north is shifting very rapidly, with several published reports of this phenomenon. When first tracked it only moved about 5 miles (9k) per year, but has sped up to 34 miles (55km) per year, headed towards Siberia away from Canada. 
 
Economic issues in the Tribulation
Revelation chapter 6 details the breaking of the first 6 seals on the scroll which Jesus took out of the right hand of the Father, as detailed in 5:7. Seal 5 is about martyrs before the Father asking how long until He avenges them, and seal 6 is about the return of Jesus. The 7th is peace, when it is all done. Even heaven is silent for a brief time. 
 
The first 4 seals are 'The 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse', symbolized by 4 horses - white, red, black and pale. They reveal someone rising to power with a false righteousness (white horse), followed by war (red), economic collapse (black), and then death (pale). 
 
All these are logic progressions. For if you have a double asteroid hit, a massive dust/water cloud blocking sunlight, solar flares/EMP burning people and systems, starvation for many, then economic and societal collapse is inevitable. It will take a strong leader to take control and unite nations, economies, and armies - and that person is known as anti-Christ.  
 
But before these things...
As I said at the start, there are many voices on the web sharing this or that dream, this or that word, some perhaps from the Lord some perhaps from emotional and religious filters mixed with last night's leftovers. But know that words from God may be for the time of the Tribulation, and not our time. Stay away from wild speculations - do not feed on them. Contemplate, wonder, think about, but establish boundaries for yourself for these things do not form our Christian walk. What is Jesus asking you to do today? That is your focus, not on what may be in the future of the world.
 
Look at the peace in your spirit. It is there. Lay aside your emotions and guard peace. Let the peace 'hem in' your mind, emotions, and thoughts. Stay in that peace. Discipline yourself to stay away from web sites and speakers that would violate that peace - you may wonder in your mind what is true and how it may happen - but don't let that wondering block the peace in your spirit. 
 
As I said before, even words warning of things to come, when by the Spirit, are enveloped in peace for God's Kingdom is not threatened by the workings of man or nature. God is not in fear and confusion, you'll find Him in peace. 
 
I like what the late noted Presbyterian pastor and author, Eugene H. Peterson said: “My feelings are important for many things. They are essential and valuable. They keep me aware of much that is true and real. But they tell me next to nothing about God or my relation to God. My security comes from who God is, not from how I feel. Discipleship is a decision to live by what I know about God, not by what I feel about Him or my neighbors.”
 
Next week, What will the Millennial be like? Until then, blessings,
John Fenn
cwowi.org and email me at [email protected]
 
 

Hi all,
There are so many voices 'out there' proclaiming all kinds of wild and confusing things about the last days, that it seemed good to just go by chapter and verse so that fears may be set aside in favor of God's peace. 
 
First thing to understand
Prophecy does not always stay within boundaries of a current age, meaning a prophetic word given in one age could come to pass in another age. 
 
The Old Testament, which was completed about 2,500 years ago, prophesies many things about the Millennial Age which is (still) yet to come, completely skipping over the day and age in which we live. For instance, Isaiah 11: 6-9 and 65: 25 talk about wild animals which are natural enemies at peace with each other in the Millennium. 
 
Therefore, realize that if some prophecy, vision or dream is about the future, it may be about the tribulation time or even the Millennium - far enough future that it won't affect you in this age. All prophecy is not of this age and for this time. Prophecies in our day if from God, may in fact be for a time yet future - maybe they will happen in the tribulation. So let your heart be at peace. 
 
I would add that includes words for you personally, about your call in Him. If you received a word earlier in your life about your call, and then life happened and you feel in this life you have failed God because that word will not come to pass - rest - because His Word does not return void, and it may very well be that you will be fulfilling your call in the next age, perhaps 100, 300, 500 or more years from now. It WILL come to pass. You will not have failed your call. 
 
Removing the religious glasses
When the apostle John was caught up to heaven in Revelation 4:2 and saw the unfolding of the scroll, he was doing so in the 1st century. Much of The Revelation is symbolic, but some of that symbolism is because a 1st century man had no idea what life in the 21st century would look like. So we're going to take off our religious glasses for a moment and just read in modern terms what that 1st century man might be trying to describe. 
 
A double asteroid or comet hit
The Revelation, 8: 6-12 describes what he calls 'a burning mountain' that falls from the sky onto land, and another 'star, burning like a lamp' that falls into the ocean. The result is 1/3 of land based plants die, and 1/3 of sea life die. Verse 12 tells us also that 1/3 of the light of the sun, moon, and stars is obscured (from the dust cloud). 
 
Think about what 1/3 less sunlight would mean to the world. Think about food production. Travel. Commerce. Political upheaval. All these things are described in The Revelation, and I'll cover them next week. But for now think about turmoil caused by 1/3 of sunlight blotted out by the dust cloud from the hits. 
 
I do have a series called 'The Natural Disasters of The Revelation', that comes with a hand-out showing how the 7 seals, trumpets, and bowls fit together, I'm writing just to touch on a few main points. 
 
That means the long feared asteroid or comet hitting the earth that no one sees coming, will happen. Or perhaps it is seen as it approaches, but it splits into 2 pieces by natural forces or man's efforts to blow it up like so many Hollywood movies - we don't know - but a double hit from space rocks/ice that blots out 1/3 of sunlight is going to happen to planet earth. 
 
And what would 2 asteroid hits throw up into the air? 
Immediately following the descriptions of a double asteroid/comet hit in chapter 8, chapter 9 opens with a description of a massive dust cloud rising and out of which come diseases. In 9:1-12 it reveals a large column like smoke arising, and the sun and moon are darkened because of the cloud of dust. 
 
An asteroid that hits the land, and the asteroid/comet that hits an ocean, will send up enough dirt and water to cause the sun to be darkened, and disease to break out world wide. It says the disease will last 5 months, and will feel like scorpion stings on the skin. 
 
Scientists report that anthrax, tetanus, botulism, skin and respiratory diseases would break out if such a dust cloud spread by winds circled the earth, so modern science agrees with what the apostle saw. 
 
NOTE: In Judaism's Feast of Trumpets, which is what Paul taught, the Rabbi's teach there will come a 'catching away' of dead believers in Messiah, who will meet Him in the air, be judged, and then all will celebrate a 7 year long wedding feast in heaven. Paul added new revelation to that in I Corinthians 15, saying that those alive at that time will also be changed and meet Messiah in the air. 
 
In the Feast of Trumpets they teach that while believers in Messiah have joined Him in heaven, the earth will go into a 7 year time called 'The time of Jacob's trouble', in which God divides in His mind, all people into 3 groups: The wholly wicked, the wholly righteous, and by far the largest group, The Intermediates. 
 
They teach there will be people who come to Messiah AFTER the 'catching away', so will have to go through the Time of Jacob's Trouble. The rest of the time is devoted to focusing on Israel and the end of the government of man. I have multiple teaching series on Rosh Hashanah and the Feast of Trumpets, I only add this in case someone reading isn't aware of what Paul taught about that feast. 
 
These are things current believers will see from the vantage point of heaven. There is a lot of error floating around about who will 'make it' in the catching away, but let's look at Scripture. Paul wrote I Corinthians to a very carnal group of believers. Among the 10 or more issues he wrote about, included are some of them choosing sides and cliques in envy and strife, some were visiting temple prostitutes, 2 men suing one another, a man having sexual relations with his step-mother, misuse of the gifts of the Spirit, some very prejudiced brethren refused to have the Lord's Supper with those they had bias against, and so much more. 
 
Yet Paul said they would all 'make it' one the rapture, dead or alive - for after trying to correct all their carnality, all their strife, all their sinfulness in chapters 1-14, he teaches in chapter 15 all those dead in Christ, and all those alive at that time, will all go 'up'. That's not a license for sin, rather a revelation of grace that the Lord does not expect perfection, for we are not accountable to perfection, but to growth. 
 
Next week - what the world looks like before and after a double asteroid/comet hit. Until then, blessings,
John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at [email protected]

Hi all,
I've shared that one of the things the Lord talked about was 'social miracles' that would be seen in home based churches, meetings, and within the family and community of faith. 
 
Looking in all the wrong places
Those of us raised in the faith within the auditorium service have been trained to look for miracles within the confines of that auditorium. That's not being critical, it's just an observation, having been there and done that. 
 
Once in a while a pastor may be secure enough to let a cell group deviate from the bulletin-published outline to let the Spirit flow in worship and prayer if his leaders are trusted, but that is relatively rare. All programs of the church are directed back to the Sunday morning service in the auditorium.
 
So the church populace dutifully looks towards the auditorium service as the font of God's wisdom, and the place where miracles happen. When a special speaker is given the pulpit for a service, expectation is high that God may do something special. Add in Christian TV, ministry videos, and tales of missions trips where great miracles happened, and it is confirmed that the auditorium church is the place that God moves by His Spirit.
 
Look where miracles occurred in the New Testament
It is often rightly observed by pastors and teachers that much of Jesus' and the apostles' miracles were done in homes or out in public, usually with the exhortation that the congregation needs to 'get out there' to the highways and byways. The pastor then becomes the cheerleader and the congregation feels guilty because witnessing to a perfect stranger is uncomfortable and breaches normal social protocol.
 
We read of Jesus' first miracle of water turned into wine in a home, and nod in agreement and maybe wonder what that wedding reception must have been like. We see all the other healings that took place in homes, sometimes even when He was eating a meal, and maybe we realize even Lazarus was raised from the dead at his home. We read that Pentecost happened in a home, and later in Acts 9 Dorcas was raised from the dead while lying in repose in a home. 
 
We even observe that Acts ends with Paul healing the ruler of the island, a man named Publius, of what was probably dysentery, which led to many of that region being healed. Jesus' first miracle was a social miracle, and the last miracle of Acts was a social miracle - and done in homes. 
 
But it never sinks in to our own thinking that for us and our lives, the first place to look for healings, miracles, and signs is the home. We don't first look to God doing a miracle for social reasons - benefitting a larger group of people. 
 
Is that an indictment of the poor spiritual quality of our home life, or of our incorrect understanding of scripture - not understanding the whole of the New Testament was written by apostles doing church in the home and writing to people who did church in the home?
 
That is about to change
What Jesus told me: "Much of my body has been looking in the wrong place for miracles and healings. Many live isolated spiritual lives, having no true relationships with others in Me. They have no spiritual family or community for their support, yet within that family and community is where miracles may be found."
 
That is not to say it is wrong to look for miracles and healings for ourselves - it isn't. But that focus on self only is going to change. 
 
The days are coming when the Father will for instance, multiply milk for a family that has run out but for a small amount in a container, yet that milk will not run out until more milk maybe be purchased. The days are coming when a family that has no food will hear a knock at the door, and it will be someone whom the Father either directed or told outright to take food to them. They days are coming when the needs of clothing and pantry foods will be supplied with miraculous timing by others in their network of faith who has those items, and felt prompted to told to give them. 
 
The days are coming of the underground economy in the body of Christ that He said I would see, in that visitation about 10 years ago - all within the framework of Christian relationships.
 
The fence is more narrow now
Many readers will remember I've shared what the Lord told me on February 4, 2001 that set CWOWI in motion. He said at that time: 
 
"See what I see, many running to and fro to this meeting and that looking for the spectacular, thinking that is supernatural; While they miss the supernatural work in their midst, even in their own hearts, for the process of discipleship IS supernatural." 
 
“Many are running to and fro asking, ‘Where is the next move, what is the next season of the Spirit?’, and I say to you it is under their very noses. They stumble at the supernatural work in their midst and refuse to humble themselves and be taught, because they seek the sensational and that which appeals to the outward man. They fail to recognize the true move of God because it must be spiritually discerned.”
 
There is an awakening happening within millions which will cause them to stop chasing the spectacular in favor of settling down to actually grow in Christ. While culture and society increasingly become anti-Christ, behind the scenes, in millions of hearts, the body of Christ is growing up, leaving spiritual childhood behind, and entering into maturity. 
 
They want something real. They want real people. They want a network of people who will be each other's safety net. True friends. That is what is happening from the heart up, a cry in the body of Christ for the real, the genuine, the True. There is so much more...but I feel led to stop there. New subject next week, until then, blessings,
John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at [email protected]
 

Hi all,
He raised the dead, multiplied food for thousands, healed leprosy, prophesied, and so much more - and I'm not talking about Jesus. 
 
More of what He said
The last 3 weeks I've shared part of what the Lord said about the work He is doing in the hearts of what we would call 'carnal' believers. Today I'll share other things He said for those already walking with Him.
 
One of the things the Lord spoke to me in this recent visitation is how the Father will be doing miracles in home based churches and within the relationships found in those churches. He told me home based churches would become well known as the place to receive answered prayer, healing, and miracles. He said it will be similar to the days of the Charismatic Renewal of the 1970's, but different because our culture is different and millions will be leaving charismatic churches to seek Him. 
 
"In the past many looked for miracles in church services and within the auditorium, and many do so even now, but I've never left the home. And that is where you'll find healings and miracles in abundance. The days are coming in which home meetings will be commonly known in my body as the place to find their miracle, their healing, their answered prayer, and that which is real to their faith. Remember that I told you, 'As it was in the beginning, so it must be now.'"
 
He continued: "As you know even now, answered prayers and healings are commonplace in house church, so common it is a lifestyle to many, so that they are locally acknowledged, but just normal Christianity for many. But that is unseen and new to those now on the outside. But to this you are called. Help those in transition. There is coming a day when many more will flock to small gatherings in home to seek answers, to seek healing and answered prayer, to seek Me. There, within those relationships, within a true body in Me, they will find Me. They all find their Father." 
 
Leading up to this, was this
For about 2 months before this visitation I had been studying among other things, the ministry of Elisha. I noticed that nearly all of Elisha's miracles were what I call 'social' miracles. By social I mean they affected larger groups of people, not just one individual. 
 
Elijah's ministry came before Elisha. The ministry of Elijah included dramatic miracles to bring people and a nation to repentance: The confrontation with the prophets of Baal and fire from heaven, twice fire came from heaven to kill 2 squads of 51 soldiers who had come to arrest him, and many confrontations with kings and those in authority. 
 
But Elisha's miracles were largely social in nature, very similar to Jesus' miracles.  If John the Baptist relates to Elijah, and he does for Jesus made that link very clearly - then Elisha relates to Jesus. History bears this out, but I had not studied it before.
 
I realized much of modern church culture is seeking not 'social' miracles to help people, but rather personal healings and miracles which benefit only them. 
 
So when the Lord appeared to me, He commented on that self-focused element in some of the body of Christ. He spoke very specifically on what I had noticed, that much of the body seeks miracles and healings for self-focused reasons, including their entertainment, to boost their faith, to confirm all this is real, or for a need in their life. He did not find fault, just stated that is where many are in their faith and life, for that is how they were trained, to look for self-focused miracles and healings. 
 
Social miracles: Elisha's miracles - which is who I was talking about in my opening line above:
Healed the water supply for the city of Jericho, blessing a whole city. II Kings 2: 18-22
Multiplied oil for a widow that she could sell to pay all her debts. II Kings 4: 1-7
Poison soup made healthy for a large group of people in midst of famine. II Kings 4: 38-41
Food multiplied for a whole town in the midst of famine. II Kings 4: 42-44
Healing Naaman the Leper, an official with Syria which contributed to peace in Israel. II Kings 5: 1-14
Made a borrowed and expensive axe head float, that had fallen into the water. II Kings 6: 1-7
Enemy army made blind, treated them as honored guests, peace in nation as a result. II Kings 6: 15-23
Prophesied food would be available the next day for a besieged city, feeding the city. II Kings 6: 25-33, 7: 1-20
 
Look at the social aspect of many of these. His miracles helped whole groups and communities. 
 
Think of some of Jesus' miracles:
Water turned into wine which prevented the host of a wedding feast from embarrassment.
Twice provided large catches of fish which was a financial windfall for the fishermen. 
Multiplied food that fed 5,000 men plus women and children.
Multiplied food that fed 4,000 men plus women and children.
Healed Peter's mother in law so she could host them all as He sat at her door to heal multitudes.
Calmed 2 storms, saving the lives of at least 12 men each time.
Miraculously provided money to pay taxes.
 
These are social miracles. And in this visitation, the Lord said that the Father would move in this way in home-based churches, meetings, prayer meetings - in the community and family of faith that is a relationship-based faith. 
 
I'll pick it up there next week, until then, blessings, and I pray this resonates in your spirit and causes a leaping for joy, which is the witness of the Holy Spirit of the truth of what He said. I can barely contain myself, my perspective has changed in terms of what I'm looking for the Father to stretch forth His hand to do in our midst...blessings,
 
John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at [email protected]