Slumber, Ex Pats and Calling Out
Dear Diary,
Ever since reading “The End of America” by John Price, it got ahold of me. The scripture
“Then I heard another voice from heaven say: ‘Come out of her my people,
so that you will not share in her sins,
so that you will not receive any of her plagues.” Revelation 18:4
I didnt really realize when Jonathan Cahn writes and says things are a “Mystery” I thought this was his own thing in his speaking and writing, I did not realize the scripture uses the word Mystery, saying things are a mystery. Which it also says this about Babylon.
A mystery is something to be unlocked and later revealed that you read clues along the way until it becomes clear.
Its really too hard to explain the book in one journal entry, so I recommend you read it if you are wondering what Im talking about, then come back and comment here if you have a question.
I have met online, read blogs and listened to several people who have left the USA. I never felt the need, even though they were saying God spoke to them about this, whether by dreams, visions, words revealed etc. I thought “Well yes, thats what God has for you, not for me” but at the same time I see that things are happening in the world, at a rapid pace, with the end times as stated in scriptures, things are speeding up.
Did you know that the first 3 verses of Revelation Chapter 1 says the following? ” The revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who testifies to everything he sawâthat is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.”
It says “BLESSED IS the one who READS THESE WORDS OUT LOUD” along with those who HEAR IT and TAKE IT TO HEART. Just reading it out loud you will be blessed. I never caught that.
After hubby and I got to Chapter 14, he said to me “Looks like we need to leave” I have never uttered a word, I have never told him I know people who have left and why and all of that and that its been pressing on my heart, wondering where fit into all of this. Wondering what the Lord is doing in our lives.
Chapter 14 in the book was the real shaker upper. Showing world events with world leaders going against Israel, and each time, something major happening in the US as a result. I mean WOW, Hurricane Katrina was really the one that hit me the most reading what was happening in politics at that exact same time and hour and about past history…. It goes over the Bush and Clinton presidencies also and things that went down, and even early days with Netanyahu and how the scriptures tells Israel NOT to give up her land. And what has been going on with Israel? Constantly being pressured to give up more and more of its land. Anyways, read the book, and Chapter 14 its an eye opener!
Each time I am alone, its my special quiet time with the Lord, I have had my third week I believe alone, and it seems like such an intense time of being with the Lord and reading and just being in a different place. Hubby will return and start his new job Monday.
I have also felt, not sure if I posted he is being called out of his career, with banking, his last job for him to say “It was like a veil was over my eyes and I could not grasp their system and Im good at my job, ive been doing this for over 10 yrs” and then him wondering “What will I do?” and getting let go. He is picked up once again for another job. On one hand its a contract job so its not set as a long term job, but yeah, so much, I have been in prayer for him, for some wisdom and guidance that he seeks on his OWN. He tends to go along with me on a lot of things, on one hand its nice that he trusts or believes in me, well the Lord that I follow, but I so wish to hear from his own heart if that makes sense.
So I posted on a forum last night asking stories of people who left the USA, and there are Ex Pats all over, not all christians, just those who are NOT happy with what is happening in the USA, the economy, the dollar, the politics, the taxing, and living somewhere simpler, getting rid of all their “Stuff” to live simpler in places where their $$ will get them more, a lot in their retirement ages and reading their stories.
So I asked for peoples stories, why they left, have they left the US, what made them go, etc.
And I got several replies, but then a woman sent me a message privately, I have never seen her before on the page, I looked and say she just joined 2 mos ago, she had never posted but she wrote me personally. Said if I had questions to just ask. She and her husband left the USA a few yrs ago and are in an island in Scotland. See many people I have seen are in other countries, Ecuador and Believe, Panama, Costa Rica..
I started to read her blog, and I was just glued to it, I am reading others stories that are fascinating, but the spiritual component of hers was so engaging and spoke to me. I finished reading it this afternoon and broke down in tears. I am not sure how to describe it, overwhelmed, disbelief, confirmation, I dont know, it just hit home, I went and took a several hour nap after that and here I am. I have been wanting to write here and put my thoughts down, and she had a journal herself and referred back to her old writings that confirmed things happening.
Basically it was her husband first who Revelation 18 he could not shake and told her that he felt they were to leave, they had a major medical business. She started to think he was losing his marbles. And if God was showing this to her husband, why not to her also… but as i read it became more and more clear how God was working, their story is truly amazing.
Some things she had shared….
Charles Stanley’s radio program yesterday. In reference to Revelation, he said: ‘In the end we don’t have to fully understand, we have to trust. We must move forward day by day in faith…the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.”
Jesus words to the church at Philadelphia (Rev. 3):
“I know thy works: Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou has a little strength, and has kept my Word, and hast not denied my Name. Behold…because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation that is coming upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I will come quickly: Hold fast that which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall GO NO MORE OUT…” (The Greek for ‘OUT’, by the way, is ‘ex-o’, the root of exit and expat)
Deuteronomy 32:47: “These are not idle words for you, these are your life!” “It’s not about leaving,” She wrote, “It’s about His coming. It’s about the establishing of His kingdom. That’s our focus. That’s our commission.”
“Never dread any consequence resulting from absolute obedience to His command. Dare to trust Him! Dare to follow Him! Then discover that the forces that blocked your progress and threatened your life become, at His command, the very materials He uses to build your street of freedom.” (Streams in the Desert)
I am in the middle of getting my passport stuff together, hubby and I have discussed traveling now and visiting places. But neither of us have ever traveled outside the US before. So its a whole new thing for us… I have my documents but he doesnt have a cert birt certificate on hand, so either he has to send for one 4-6 wks to get it, or drive into the Los Angeles office and get one(or see if his mom has a copy, which I believe she does)
It would be easier if he would get it while hes there, but I am not sure if he will do that… he comes home friday night. But seeing all these stories of people leaving and having to wait for documents and driving to cities to just get it instead of waiting, you take that for granted when you live in your hometowns all your lives and you can get documents at local offices, but once you move? You have to order them from the county you were born in or go in their offices to get a copy.
I am in prayer, in prayer as to what God has for us….
So for those who know me here a long time and think Ive lost my marbles, I just need you to know, you can not agree with me or not understand, but I want it put out there so when things are more clear you can say “WOW, she said this already” etc,
Some areas that I feel compelled to tackle in my own life and self…
Part with and get rid of much my “Stuff” this year, be done by the end of 2015. And the family pieces? Take them to the family cabin.
And to phase out of Antiques and collectibles by the end of 2015 also.
I need to stop, its an area of struggle for me and always has been, its ovewhelming and I get in way over my head and it brings me joy in the moment but also feels like a weight around my neck. I am sure I have said this before….
Despite the instability of hubbys job, despite boughts of being out of work, despite everything, the Lord has set us up in a better financial place then ever in our lives and keeps blessing us, but I also dont feel good about our $$ here in the USA and the banks etc.
Im even okay with selling our home.
Being mobile, renting. Able to go.
Still praying for exact direction, but I know he will answer, but I know I have a lot of work to do also. And I know with hubby starting a new job we cant travel out of the country until he has time off or the contract ends, but then again, the Lord closes doors when he needs to, I just hope this isnt hubby wandering in his own wilderness with this job of his, getting another and an another, when maybe the Lord is trying to send him down a new path…. when we do our own thing and not listen to HIM over and over, at a certain point he says “Okay, you wont listen to ME, have your own way” and thats how they wandered in the wilderness for 40 yrs in the Bible.
We can all wander in the wilderness…
For those who read who understand or feel this burden please share or message, those who dont, feel free to ask questions, I will answer the best I can. I dont have all the answers to Life, I just know my own life where Im feeling directed, and i know much of the world is in a “Slumber”…. its time to wake up, and if my words can help wake up one person, praise God!