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February 13, 2009 - by Mike Bickle

I had a long, vivid prophetic dream. I woke up at 2:30 AM with a deep sense of reality.

In this dream I was in an outdoor conference with maybe 40,000 people. The conference venue was in an outdoor baseball stadium in a large fair ground. I was preaching on prayer, power and end-time judgment. I spoke at the two afternoon sessions. Leaders and their people from many different charismatic streams were there. I remember seeing Bill Johnson and his people at the conference. We were enjoying warm fellowship together.

In the break between the sessions, some were debating whether what I was preaching was right or wrong. IHOP people were talking to some from the various charismatic streams in the Body of Christ. They were debating in a friendly way about God’s power and prayer and its relationship to end-time judgment. There was no hostility but sincere debate with most of the people talking with humility and love. It was actually enjoyable.

I finished preaching after the second session about 5 PM, when the events of Rev. 12:7-9 began to occur. Demonic principalities were being cast to the earth. They looked like very large snakes (over 100 yards long and 50 feet thick) with large heads that looked like a dragon. Many of them were descending from the sky down to the earth. No one at the conference had sufficient understanding or faith to respond in power and confidence. All the leaders and the people in the various charismatic streams ran in fear and confusion, including the IHOP people.

These snake-like-principalities were filled with rage against the people. These were angry and even humiliated about being confined to the earth.

The people were terrified. Along with the demons, soot or wet muddy thick ash also descended. It darkened the sky as it fell on the people. There was no home run fence at the end of the baseball field, so many of us were running from the stadium in that direction toward the park offices at the end of the large fair grounds.

All were running in fear and confusion. No one had good answers. I managed to get to out of the vast fair grounds to the park offices (at the entrance). Wet ash was all over me as I ran. A lot of people didn’t get out but were bitten by the snakes and covered with wet ash.

There were evil policeman at the entrance. They told me, “You have to go back into the fair grounds. You either go back in or we take you to prison.” They were calloused about the danger I would face by going back into the fair grounds. I assumed they were in the Antichrist system. I was in a dilemma, I thought, “I just escaped from the most intense danger imaginable and I have to go back in”. When standing by the police I thought, “I wish we would all have taken the End Times events more seriously back when we had time to prepare.

I said to myself, “the debate about power is much bigger than the power we actually walk in”. I woke up with sense of urgency.

After I woke up, I was clear that this will NOT be the condition of entire Body of Christ when the events of Rev. 12:7 literally happen. The Lord was showing me what it would be like if these events happened now while the Church was still unprepared.

The point of the dream was to avoid the dilemma of being unprepared in that day.

All of the different charismatic streams today (including IHOP) have empty arguments about power in the End Times drama without actually being prepared for that day. What is coming is so much more intense than any of us can imagine. Real demons will fall from the sky filled with rage. We do need to entertain the arguments in the Church today about the seriously of that hour because no one understands the intensity of what is coming. Event those with the most insight do not understand at all the measure of the intensity of that hour. When the events of Rev. 12:7-9 occur, we must have revelation and power.

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This will probably be a disappointment if it was discovered in a Google search for heresies or some-such nonsense. This is a real letter, edited a bit for the blog-viewing audience. I came to this decision by way of a great conversations with Therese Engle and Dustin Bocks, and a bit of prayer and a dose of humility. In providing this, I in no way intent to place my conclusions upon anyone else. To each his own accountable to the Lord. Perhaps this will provide food for thought primarily in the exercise of the liberty in the spirit in contrast to the strengthening of those "soul rights" which are contrary to the things of the spirit.

Dear Mike Bickle and Allen Hood, and Lou Engle,

I wanted to write and thank you for your strong stand regarding social drinking in our community from today's All-Staff meeting. I felt that it was necessary for me to make a decisive statement of agreement and submission, mostly for my own sake. I felt that this email was necessary for the confirming of my commitment before the Lord on this matter.

I have been attempting to walk in the letter of the law (instead of the spirit of the law) on this issue to excuse my taste for specialty beer and fine wine. I've had dinner parties where everyone was over 21, and only those not on [IHOP KC] staff were allowed to have a glass of wine. I've relished the thought of trips to Canada where I could have a beer because it was "outside the country" or drinking by myself in my own home because it wasn't technically "social" drinking.

But despite all of my attempts, I have at times still been party to, or witnessed the consumption of alcohol in settings that were not appropriate. The Lord has been showing me that there has been a resistance in my heart to simply give up alcohol, and that is the greater vice and hindrance. My stubborn insistence of my "rights" has been my indiscretion.

When I read the New Testament, I see Paul's willingness to lay down his rights and give up meat lest anyone take offense. In comparison to his humility, I see the disparity in my own unwillingness to give up the little thing of an occasional Boulevard wheat and Pinot Noir. Avoiding alcohol is a pruning of my soul, and I am more aware now than ever of how needed that pruning is! Not that I need alcohol or drink it often, but that I have enjoyed the "right" to do so. Such "rights" are the exercise of a soul realm whose increasing strength has dulled my spirit.

I must also take into account that although I want to live like an established adult, play house, have dinner parties, enjoy my Pinor Noir, I cannot but recognize what I really am, which is a young single female in a community of primarily single young adults. For all of us in this situation, the renunciation of alcohol will only be a benefit to our reputation, conduct and heart before the Lord. I do not want to kick against the goads, but want to walk not just in the letter of the law, but in the spirit as well.

Thank you for your Leadership,

Joanna Reyburn

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