"A Circulating Word Suggests God Is Planning A Northwest Earthquake June 17 or 18! Is He? A Crucial Prophetic Teaching--

June 10, 2006


"A Circulating Word Suggests God Is Planning A Northwest Earthquake June 17 or 18! Is He? A Crucial Prophetic Teaching--
By Steve Shultz"

With almost 131,000 Email subscribers to THE ELIJAH LIST (not including our website www.elijahlist.com), you can just imagine how many catastrophic visions, dreams, and words are sent to us; the writers all hoping we will publish them. Since 1997, they number in the many thousands.

This is the case even now as a particular word is circulating, suggesting a catastrophic earthquake in the Northwest--the destruction of much of Portland, Salem and the Willamette Valley, the Breaking of a massive dam, and a tsunami. Since neither I nor my prophetic intercessors are getting a "witness" on this word about June 17 or 18, I feel the need to break my own rule (that of simply and silently "passing" on a word that I don't feel led to publish) and instead, give a small teaching--both to hopefully remove fear from many of you, and to help the reader learn to discern prophetic words.

Does the Prophetic Word Bear Witness?

But first, it would be valuable to give you just a few things (this is by no means an exhaustive list) of what we look for in a prophetic word submission:

1) Does the person writing the Word, Dream, or Vision have a documented history of getting words that turn out to be accurate?

2) Does the person writing the revelation seek to call for prayer to STAND IN THE GAP to prevent a word of judgment from coming to pass?

For instance, Abraham, the "Father of many nations," was known to get in God's face, as it were--to stand in the gap, to ask for mercy instead of judgment:

Genesis 18:25, "Far be it from You (God) to do such a thing--to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?" NIV

So we at THE ELIJAH LIST seek out words where, even if judgment is seen prophetically, the person hearing of an impending disaster, will instead of accepting that word only as a done deal--at face value--he or she will run to the "Throne of Grace" to find mercy instead. I've been a part of many repentance meetings where our purpose was to stop judgment we were being shown prophetically.

Our job as prophetic people is to "stand in the gap."

3) Does the man or woman who received a dream or vision, feel they have received it is because of their particularly pure doctrine? That is, do they feel that God has told them special information He has not told others; and do they conclude that because of their doctrine (including keeping the right type of Sabbath in the right type of way), they, and others, will be safe if they take on these same doctrines as a regular practice?

Said another way, sometimes, we find a person (in effect) suggesting that God might be giving them a revelation because they are holding a better set of doctrinal teachings on the law, the Sabbath, the Torah, etc., and thus they conclude that if others keep or hold these same doctrines, they will be safe too. These type of revelation words are not normally posted by us. It's not that the hearer of the Word isn't a Christian. Rather, it's because they come to a wrong conclusion about why God spoke to them. And thus the word, like a computer program, can become corrupted--all by accident of course.

The Word of Revelation

I've pretty much summarized the Word above, leaving out a few details.

Here in effect, is the revelation I'm speaking about which is circulating. I am not linking this to the person, or naming him, because I don't want to speak in any way against a specific person, or suggest in any way that he does not love God or Jesus. Of course he does. He serves Jesus. He just, in my prophetic opinion, is missing much related to the three points I just listed.

The summary of the two dreams circulating were this: This Messianic Christian (who I consider to be a brother in the Lord), received a dream in which on a given day, an evil parade was held in Portland, Oregon. Then he saw buildings collapse, the dam break, and a tsunami hit, which destroyed most of the Willamette Valley. He concluded that since the parade was evil, and the parade was on the 18th of June this year (though that date was not in the dream), this must be the date of inevitable destruction of most of Portland, and continuing down into the Salem area, etc. He further concluded that since he keeps the entire Torah including the Torah Sabbath, then those reading his word should do two things:

a) Be prepared with a full tank of gas in their car on the 18th of June.

b) Be sure they were attending a Torah-keeping Church.

There was no call to pray against the earthquake or catastrophe. No call to pray for repentance.

But there was an "assumption" or one might say, a "inference" that since he kept Torah, so should everyone else. So again, he says all the readers should: 1) keep Torah and 2) have a full tank of gas in their car on June 18th.

Please note that the dream or revelation never said there would be an earthquake on June 18th (though later he got a word that meant "18" in a second dream). And there was certainly no call IN THE DREAM to begin to keep more laws from the Old Covenant--specifically the entire Torah in order to be safe--though that suggestion was implied in the revelation as it was written.

As a result, we are getting many inquiries about this word. It's circulating all over the Willamette Valley where we are located.

Meanwhile....

I have friends who are ministering every week, under the bridges of Portland, to people caught in this same sin this man saw in the dream. They are putting "feet" to the Gospel, and seeing salvations. Rather than fearing that God is about to wipe out Portland, these friends are doing something about the sins seen there, and those caught in this sin. And they are praying for the safety of this area.

The entire Northwest and the West Coast is admittedly overdue for an over-the-top earthquake, volcanic eruptions, and tsunami's galore. Who would or could deny this?

But What Should You Do?

Will you repent and stand in the gap instead? Will you call out to God for mercy?

Many interpret a dream as a "done deal" when all God is wanting to do, is to say something like this, "Unless you repent, the day is coming....the time when one day, sudden destruction is possible because of this sin in this area. So I'm looking for a man or woman, or a Church, a city, or a people to stand in the gap so that judgment of destruction will not be required." (This is not a Scripture but a paraphrased idea of what God is saying through many prophetic revelations that He is giving to many people in many denominations.)

As the Church, we should not have the mentality that IF every doctrine is 100% accurate, and the car is full of gas, then we are in pretty good shape.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with some preparation in case a disaster ever happens to our area. Preparation is good. Fear is not. And yet, the thought process that suggests that, "Since I hold a better set of doctrines than the next person, I will be safer" --this is simply not Biblical. Sometimes, those with the best Theology and the Holiest of lives, suffer the most persecution and are attacked by the enemy.

Rather, we should always pray and always be "repented- up," and we should understand the Blood of Jesus, be ministering to all those around us, standing in the gap in prayer, and yes, living Holy lives.

A Very Common Set of Missteps in the Prophetic

With what has been circulating in the last week or so, all three of the above guidelines are being accidentally (and innocently I'm sure) forgotten.

These are good guidelines for which prophetic words to listen to and obey:

1) It is not normally only one person who will be given a judgment word by the Lord for a region. Rather, God would normally give it to many prophets and prophetic people from various denominations in the region--and many prophetic people will agree on the word.

2) A Call to pray and repent should always be urged to stop the judgment. Otherwise, we might as well be as Jonah was found to be--simply expecting a wicked city to be destroyed while he remained safe.

3) Biblically, you are not more protected because every law or doctrine is kept, or because you hold a more accurate set of doctrines, or even if you keep a certain day more holy than another person keeps it. Instead, most often (but not always) protection comes for those who live Holy Lives and who trust God, according to Psalm 91.

Psalm 91:1-3

"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, 'He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.' Surely He will save you from the fowler's snare and from the deadly pestilence." NIV
 

Steve Shultz
THE ELIJAH LIST
www.elijahlist.com
 

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