River of Life — David Wilkerson

River of Life — David Wilkerson

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The River of Life in Ezekiel’s Vision

Well, I'll tell you what, I'm going to get happy tonight. Because I've got a prophecy that's just as sure as Pentecost. In fact, it is a measure of Pentecost beyond anything we can conceive. It's promised to the church of the latter day.

The river of life. The river of life. Ezekiel 47. I'm going to read the first 12 verses. I'm reading from King James. This is important. Listen very closely. Afterward, he brought me again unto the door of the house, and behold...

This is a vision that the Lord Jesus is giving to Ezekiel. Afterward, he brought me again unto the door of the house, and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the forefront of the house stood toward the east.

And the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar. Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without, unto the utter gate, by the way that looketh eastward.

And behold, there ran out waters on the right side. And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters. The waters were to the ankles.

Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters. The waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters. They were to the loins. Afterward he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I could not pass over, for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.

And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

Then said he unto me, These waters issued out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea. Now that's the dead sea, folks, which is death, which he will finally conquer. Which being brought forth unto the sea, the waters shall be healed.

And it shall come to pass that everything that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the river shall come, shall live. And there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither, for they shall be healed, and everything shall live, whether the river cometh.

And it shall come to pass that the fish shall stand upon it from En Gedi even unto Egla. They shall be a place to spread forth nets. Their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea exceeding many.

But the miry places," now watch this, but the miry places thereof and the marshes thereof shall not be healed. They shall be given to salt. And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaves shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed.

It shall bring forth new fruit according to its month, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary. And the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. Now, Holy Spirit, I ask you to open up this prophecy.

Open it. You've come now, Holy Spirit, to open prophetically that which came from the very throne of God. Holy Spirit, you birthed this in my heart. I didn't get it from man, I didn't get it from a book.

It came from your heart in prayer. Now, Lord Jesus, you're going to show us tonight what you have in mind for your church, for us as individuals, for those who will walk in righteousness and holiness.

Lord, help us not to miss it tonight. There'll be many people who hear this and not comprehend it. But, oh God, there will be a body, there will be a people tonight that have the ear of the Holy Spirit, that have the mind of God, they have a hungering heart, they have a listening ear, they have a seeing eye, they're going to see and they're going to hear, and it's going to register in their heart.

And, oh God, there'll be a hunger and thirst as we've never known. Pour out your Spirit in this place tonight. Let the Word come forth sharp and quick and powerful. Let no one, oh God, let no one sit blindly or deaf in the midst of the Holy Ghost as it goes forth.

The Messianic Age and the House of God

In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Ezekiel had a vision in which the hand of God picked him up and took him to a high mountain. And there he saw a picture of a mighty city. Now, when it says he took him to a high mountain, it's very significant.

The hand of God picked him up and planted him on this high mountain. Now, when it says high mountain, he's talking about a vision of Messianic age, our time, from the cross to the end time. He put him on a high mountain.

In fact, I want to read you just a few scriptures to establish this. Ezekiel in 43 .12 said, Upon the top of the mountain, the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. What the Holy Spirit is showing this prophet is not for his own age.

When he says he took him to the holy mountain, he took him on this mountain, it means he took him into history. He took him into Messianic age. Ezekiel 20 .40 says, For in this mountain is the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord God.

There shall all the house of Israel serve me. There will I accept them. There I will gather you, that I will be sanctified in you before all the nations. In fact, Isaiah said, And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountain, and shall be exalted above the hills.

And all nations shall flow into it. What he's saying, Going to show the prophets, Ezekiel, Isaiah, your day. Going to take him to a high mountain. That high mountain is the Messianic age in which we live.

And there a man appeared to him. And the man looked like his feet had been in a furnace, his brass. The same man that John saw in the Olipatmos. He said as though he were in a furnace, burnished brass.

That's none other than Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ appeared to him and said, I'm going to take you on a trip. I'm going to show you a day that's coming. A day beyond anything anyone could ever comprehend.

This was the Lord bringing Ezekiel into the house of God. And that house of God on the mountain represents Jesus Christ. A house that we are. We are of his building. He's building this house. And this prophet was given one of the most amazing visions in all the word of God.

He was being shown the future of the church of Jesus Christ and what it would be like in the final days of time. Now this vision's about Jesus. In fact, this whole book's about Jesus. But this vision especially focuses on Jesus.

And it's about an outpouring of the Holy Ghost in the last days. So mighty, so overwhelming in scope that Ezekiel couldn't understand it. In fact, he couldn't even comment on it. He just gives us the vision without any kind of commentary.

Seeing the Glory of the Coming Church

He never did understand it. And I'll prove that to you in just a moment. In fact, halfway through the vision, after he took him out into these waters, Jesus stops him. He has his measuring rod in his hand.

And he turns to the prophet Ezekiel after showing him all of this increase of water and this great flood that's happening. And he says, See us now. In fact, I want you to look at it there. It's in verse 6.

And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Is that in your Bible? Have you seen it? You know what God's saying? You know what the Lord is saying to Ezekiel? He's showing him this incredible vision.

And this vision is so incredible. It's so important. Its truth is so mighty. Jesus stops the prophet. And he said, Are you getting it yet, Ezekiel? Are you seeing what I'm trying to say to my people? It's so mighty.

It's so important. I have to stop and I'm going to ask you, Do you see it? Do you see the magnitude? Do you see the glory of what is coming? And folks, I read this vision this week and the Holy Ghost stopped me at the same verse and wouldn't let me move on.

And he said, David, do you see it? You've read it. Do you understand it? Do you understand the magnitude of it? That it's a prophecy not for Ezekiel's day. It was not for the day of the prophets at all.

It's not for natural Israel. It's for the church of Jesus Christ in the last days from the day of Pentecost and to our very day and especially for the last day in which we live. God said, David, don't miss it.

And by God's grace, I'm not going to miss it tonight. And I'm going to ask you all through this message, Are you seeing it? Do you see it? Do you hear it? And I'm asking you to pray the Holy Ghost open this to you tonight.

Open it up, the truth, the magnitude of what the prophet is saying. He's saying, this is so awesome, so incredible, so mind-boggling, you dare not miss it because there's a glory coming to the church.

Now, the vision must have so astonished Ezekiel. And though it's not written or recorded, I'm convinced that Ezekiel did not understand it. In fact, the astonishment on his face was why Jesus said to him, Have you seen it?

Are you understanding? Now, you know what Jesus Himself said? Verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see, and they have not seen them. And to hear the things which you hear, and they've not heard them.

Hear ye therefore. He's saying, men like Ezekiel saw great visions and they didn't understand them. They heard a voice from heaven and they couldn't comprehend it because they had such a limited vision of Jesus.

Brother, sister, they weren't even in the trickle yet. They weren't even in it to the ankles because the Spirit had not yet been outpoured. This was not even for Ezekiel's time. Ezekiel would have given anything to understand what he was hearing and what he was seeing.

Jesus said they saw it, they heard it, but didn't understand it. But you see it, you hear it. He said, therefore, you understand it. Don't miss it. Now, what is this revelation? This prophetic vision given to Ezekiel?

First of all, there's coming in the last days an ever-increasing outpouring of the Holy Ghost. There is going to come an increasing outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And what Ezekiel's being shown is the church of Jesus Christ in the last days is going to be more glorious, more victorious, with more of Jesus, more revelation, more of the presence of Jesus than the early church, than any church in history.

The church of Jesus Christ is not going to go out timid, broken, stumbling, falling. The church of Jesus Christ is going to go out in a blaze of glory and power and spiritual authority. The true church of Jesus Christ will not weaken and sputter.

It's not going to be diminished in its numbers, as my Bible says, the fish shall be exceeding many. That's verse 10. The fish. I'll make you fishers of men. He said the fish, the converts will be many.

You'll spread your nets when this river flows and the nets will be full. There is going to come forth, according to this prophecy, a body of believers who will be swimming in rising waters of the Lord's presence.

The knowledge and the presence of Jesus is going to rise to the very end and it will crest just at the coming of the Lord. It will grow and increase. Now you see, there's been a tendency among Christians who are blessed to limit God to their own little group or their own little area or their city or their town or their ministry.

And the Lord is pouring out His Spirit in a number of places all over the world today. And sometimes there are hundreds and even thousands involved in these little puddles or these little, not puddles, but these little areas of blessing and anointing.

And God's doing a new work and usually the tendency is we have got it. This is God's move for the last day. If you want to get in it, you've got to come here and network with us. And we've got groups networking.

That's the new charismatic phrase, networking. In other words, you come here. This is the fountainhead of the new move of God. If you're going to be a part of it, you have to come here and sit under it.

You have to be a part of what God is doing here. Oh, how we limit God like that! Denominations have been doing that for centuries. Even the assemblies of God. I used to belong to the assemblies of God and I'm not putting them down.

But they've become, to me especially, very condescending. And almost as if you don't... I had one preacher who said, Brother Dave, I'm telling you, how did you get out of the... What do you say? How did you get out of the move of God?

If you don't belong to the assemblies of God, you're not in what God is doing in these last days. Well, denominations have been doing that for centuries. Limiting God! There's an old false teaching that is being resurrected again and it goes something like this.

There's only one authority, spiritual authority, in every city, every town. And there is only one true church in every city and town. In fact, there was a movement called the Church in the City. The church in Akron.

The church in New York. The church in New Jersey. There's only one church that God is moving in. They call it The Church. And in fact, they have apostles now. They're dividing up the United States into territories.

And they have apostles now. There's a certain group dividing the United States. They've got a map and they've cut it all up. And they've appointed these self-appointed prophets and apostles who are the spiritual authority.

New York City's got one. In fact, I was informed that we were under their authority. In so many words. This man has the spiritual authority and he rules and reigns in the earthly heavens over this city.

How we limit God. There's another tendency. This tendency is to go back to the New Testament and try to resurrect the New Testament church. As if they had more revelation of Jesus than we do. As if their methods worked better than anything the Holy Ghost could reveal to us today.

And so we believe that if we can go back and find the pattern of the New Testament church and do it just like Paul did it, then we would have a successful overcoming church. Why would we want to go back to the trickle when we've got waters to swim in?

The Cross as the Fountainhead of the River

God doesn't want us to look back. He's got something better for this generation. Something far, far greater according to this prophecy. Now, the spring and the fountainhead of this river is the cross of Jesus.

One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side and forthwith came there at blood and water. That's where the river began. This is He that came by water and blood. Even Jesus Christ. Not by water only, but by water and by blood.

Hallelujah. The blood cleanses, the water flows to heal and bring life to everything it touches. Now, this is exactly what Ezekiel is seeing in this vision as it opens. He's seeing, the Lord is taking him on this vision and he walks him out of the north gate.

He takes him around the wall and brings him to the east gate. The river is flowing out of the east gate because the glory comes from the east and the river follows the glory. And so, he takes him around and he says, look and there's water coming right out from the altar under the threshold.

And it's just a trickle. You know what that is? That's Pentecost. That's Pentecost. That's where it began. This is the beginning of the last days. That's when the trickle began. When Peter stood and said, these are the last days.

And you see, the Bible makes it clear that, well, look at verse 1. You'll see the trickle begin. Afterward he brought me again under the door of the house and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward for the forefront of the house stood toward the east and waters came down.

Waters came down. What came down on Pentecost? The Holy Ghost came down from heaven was poured out upon all men. These bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost. And he said, out of your innermost belly shall flow rivers of living water.

So, at Pentecost, God opened up a fountain. That was the altar. God didn't give Pentecost because they prayed it down. He didn't give Pentecost because they were so righteous or because they had faith.

They received it because it was the appointed time. It was a promise of God. It was an eternal promise. This is the promise that was given out through the Old Testament. And what God is going to do in these last days has nothing to do with our holiness.

It has very little to do even with our praying it down. That's a part of it. The praying, the believing has to do with us preparing our heart to receive what God has promised. It has to do with us, not Him.

Because what He said will happen, will happen. Whether you and I are going to be a part of it or not, depends on us. Depends on our prayer. Depends on our faith. But the promises of God are eternal. Nothing.

Not the devil, no angels in hell. Nobody can stop the eternal purpose of God. And He's determined that in the last days the water's going to rise. There's going to be an outpouring of the Holy Ghost beyond anything the world has witnessed.

We're going to see more of it as we progress in this vision. Scripture says the waters came down. There ran out waters. There ran out waters. How best can you describe Pentecost than there ran out waters?

And it's been running and flowing ever since. Peter stood on the day of Pentecost up to the ankles. That's as far as as the trickle began. It's coming out now out of the upper room. Began at the cross.

That's the fountainhead. I want you to stop just now. Are you beginning to see? I'm going to ask you all to. Do you see it? That's what Jesus asked me. Do you see what's beginning to happen? Pentecost, with all of its glory, all of its manifestations, was just a trickle flow coming out of the house.

Reformation and the Rising Waters

As it flows, it grows, this prophecy says. It grows in width, in depth, in volume, in power, and resurrects in life. Now, hundreds of years go by and Constantine comes to the throne after the first century or the first millennium, a thousand years.

And there's been probably 500 years, more like 700 years of persecution. At this time, just before Constantine comes to the throne and gets his vision and turns the empire Christian, the preachers, most of the preachers are in salt mines.

Christians have been murdered. Churches have been burned. There are no churches. There are no houses of worship. There's been nothing but persecution. That ended under Constantine. But I want you to know, folks, under that persecution, they came to the waters to the knees.

There was a fresh revelation of Jesus. There was an overflowing of revelation. They saw Christ clearer. Some of the writings of our church fathers during that time that came out of great persecution came up out of those salt mines.

They had a touch of Jesus, powerful. They had waters to the knee. Time goes by and another darkness sets in all the way to the time of Martin Luther. Martin Luther said the way to deal with an anthill is put the river to it.

You see an anthill? You want to deal with an anthill? Put the river to it. Let the river flow it away. And that's exactly what happened. God put the river to the anthill of apostasy. And they were selling indulgences.

The church had been corrupted. And God said nothing's going to stop the flow. Hallelujah! It looked like the church was going to die. And Martin Luther got a vision of justification by faith. And God brought the church to the waters to the loins.

He brought the church to the waters to the loins because there was a new revelation of Jesus that we are saved by faith in Him alone. And there was a fresh revelation of Jesus. And the waters began to rise.

It must have been a sight to see multitudes flock into the great cathedrals, tear down the idols, tear down the images. It must have been something to see multitudes being baptized all over York and around the then known world.

God was pouring out His Spirit. The river was rising. Now, you and I live in the last thousand cubits. You and I live in the last measurement. And Ezekiel comes to this place. And it overwhelms him. He can't go on.

It's over his head. He said, I could not pass over. What he's saying, I don't understand this, Jesus. Because if this river represents the Holy Spirit, if this represents an ever-increasing glory that You're going to give Your people, who are these?

Who's going to be in waters to swim in? Because I can't even pass over it now. He knew God. He was touched by the Spirit of the Lord. But he sees something he can't understand. He said, I couldn't pass over.

He never did swim in these waters that you and I swim in. He couldn't see it. It was so overwhelming to Ezekiel. He couldn't grasp it. The Bible says they were walking through the midst of the water. In fact, he said, He brought me through the waters.

See, the Lord kept urging him on. Come on a little deeper, Ezekiel. There's going to be more for the church. See, this is what it's going to be like in the church of the last days. There will be a people that have this vision to the ankles.

Another generation will have it to the knees. Another, closer to my coming, will have it to the loins. But now, Ezekiel, come a little deeper. And he's probably up to his chin. And he can't go any further.

And he stops. He stops. He said, I could not pass over, for the waters were risen, waters to swim in. Could it be that he said to the Lord, Lord, what is this sea that you're showing me? What is this vast thing that I see ahead of me?

I see it opening up to a sea. I see rivers. It's this trickle. It's the same trickle, but it's miraculously increasing. Where's the increase coming from? And it's just over my head. He does not understand or comprehend it.

Brother, sister, if you think that you and I have experienced the presence of Jesus in a glorious way, if you think we've had a marvelous revelation of who Jesus is, we have seen nothing in comparison to what He wants to show us, and what He has promised to show us, and what He is going to show a people.

There has to be a people come into this. God said it. There has to be a people that are going to be in waters to swim in. What are these waters? The Holy Ghost. The Holy Spirit. And what is the work of the Holy Spirit?

To reveal Jesus. To reveal Jesus. There is coming what He was saying, finally a people who were in such a vast glory. Jesus was manifesting Himself in such a measure among them. They were swimming. They were abandoned in this great waters of life.

Protection in the River of Life

Total abandonment to Jesus. Now, it was given to the prophet Isaiah to see something even more glorious about this river. I want you to go with me to Isaiah 33. Isaiah 33. Are you beginning to see it?

Say amen if you are. Isaiah 33. I'm going to ask you that three or four more times probably. Isaiah 33. I figured if Jesus can ask it of the prophet, I can ask it of you. Isaiah 33. Same river. Verse 21.

Isaiah 33 verse 21. But there the glorious Lord will be unto us as a place of what? Rivers and streams wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. Verse 23. Thy tacklings are loosed.

They could not well strengthen their mast. They could not spread the sail. Then is the prey of a great spoil divided. The lame take the prey. Now, let me tell you what that means. Look this way please.

He said there's coming a great flood. The rivers are going to rise. There will be a people swimming in these waters. Abandoned to Jesus. Lost in his presence. Reveling in the revelation of who he is. And the enemy is going to try to come against them.

But what Isaiah is saying that the people of these last days who are in this flood, those who enjoyed this great outpouring of the Holy Spirit, are going to have a special protection against satanic attack.

Beyond anything any generation is known. He said no ship with galley oars. That's a warship with slave sailors. You see those men with the whip. And they're telling one, two, one, two. And they're oaring these warships.

No gallant, gallant is war. No warship, no slave ship with those slave sailors are going to be in these waters. In fact, this is a picture of the devil trying to get into these waters, trying to get at you and I in these last days.

And you know what? He's got his boat. And he can't get anything started. Well, read it right there. The tacklings are loosed. They could not strengthen their mast. They could not spread the sail. There's the devil blocking orders.

Strengthen the mast. Put up the sails. Let's get going. And everything's going wrong. Total confusion. Because the angel of the Lord's aboard ship. And said no warship on these waters. No more. No galley ships.

You don't even have a puff of breath. There's no wind that can come into these sails. And there's the devil in total confusion. And then the scripture says the lame take the prey. Even the lamest of the believers can overcome him.

There's going to be waters to swim in. And there'll be no galley ships in these waters. Oh, hallelujah. Brother, sister, God's with his people in these last days. The devil's not going to prevail against the church of Jesus Christ.

Not at all. David said let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul. And let them be turned back and brought to confusion. That desire my hurt. Let the angel of the Lord chase them.

Hallelujah. Let the Lord pursue after them. That's exactly what he's promised. Now the second thing. Go back to Ezekiel 47. The second thing that I want to point out in this vision. Are you ready? There is coming a time of unprecedented reviving from the dead.

Unprecedented reviving from the dead. Start at verse 7 with me again. Now when I had returned, behold at the bank of the river, there were very many trees on the one side and on the other. Then said he unto me, These waters issued out toward the east country and go down into the desert and go into the sea.

Which being brought forth into the sea, the water shall be healed. And it shall come to pass that everything that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the river shall come, shall live. And there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither.

For they shall be healed. And everything shall live whither the river cometh. The New American Standard reads, So everything will live where the water goes. Is that in yours? Everything will live where the water goes.

Is that correct? Everything will live where the water grows. Ezekiel in the vision is returned to the bank.

This is the end of side one.

All along the bank on both sides, trees are springing up. Life flowered everywhere. Life is springing up. Everything the water touches comes to life. And he's intelligent because he sees where the waters are going.

The waters are going to the dead sea. And in the dead sea nothing lives. There's no vegetation. There are no fish. There's nothing. And as soon as these waters get there, it's going to heal the dead sea.

And the dead sea is death itself. And finally Jesus is going to conquer even death by his very life. That's the picture he's showing. That's the vision that is going to finally end in victory over death itself.

Life in the Midst of Increasing Death

But in the meantime, this vision is not for the millennial age. It's not for the kingdom age. Because we're going to show you that the dead sea is there and there's death. And there can't be any death on the other side.

There's no need for waters over there to resurrect anything that's dead. There's no death on the other side. So it's on this side. That settles it for me once and for all. But you see, along with this life that's coming, there's a corresponding increase of death in the last days.

Now, the Scripture makes it very clear. You know this. Jesus said the love of many are going to wax cold in the last days. There's a death coming to love for Christ in many. Evil men, seducers are going to wax worse and worse, deceive and being deceived.

That's going to be the dying or death of morals. The Bible said there'd be scoffers come mocking the message of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's the death of expectancy. There's death everywhere.

Sin will abound. False prophets will spread doctrines of demons. That's the doctrines of death. Everywhere you look in the last days is going to be that. That's what age is. Age is the modern dead sea.

It's full of death. It's a sea of death. Multitudes dying from age, from alcoholism, from drugs. There's death all over. There's spiritual death even in many churches. And this is what this vision is trying to point out to us.

In the midst of all the death and destruction of the last days, the Lord comes along with a prophecy that's so mind-boggling. He said, get your eyes off the death. Don't focus on the death. Because the river is rising.

And that river is the river of life. And everything the river touches is going to come to life. It appears, it appeared for many years as though the church in China was dead. For many, many years, for decades, there was no word out of China.

Nothing came out of China. Nobody could get a message that many people thought the church was dead. But it wasn't dead. The river was rising. And now we understand that it had been rising and spreading life all over China.

Because the scripture says, so everything will live where the river goes. The river went all through China and brought life to multitudes. And the river is still rising in China. What about New York City?

City of death. Multiplied numbers are dying with AIDS, overdose, murder, sexual assaults. Everything seems out of control. We've got a lot of people trying to move out of New York. Almost everyone. Buddy, I talk to you now, except those here at Times Square Church, saying I'd like to get out of here.

They've got commercials on radio now. It's saying, do you want to move to Florida? Everybody wants to move to Florida. The exodus, well, forget it. It's the exodus. But I want to tell you something. We have an ironclad promise.

That the rivers are to rise. And I tell you, God dug a well on Broadway. And Jesus is appearing on Broadway. And the river is rising. And the waters are flowing. And nobody in City Hall can keep it out.

The homosexuals can't keep it out of the village. The abortionists can't keep it out of the clinics. Nobody can keep it out of Broadway. Because the waters are rising. And he said, everywhere the river goes, there will be life.

Nothing can stop it. Now the river is flowing through Romania. East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Russia. Life in Jesus is springing up all over the world. What about your household? What about your loved ones?

You see spiritual death. And has it been discouraging to you? You pray and nothing seems to happen. You know what my Bible says? I just read it to you. I'm going to say it again. And I'm going to ask you, are you seeing it yet?

Everywhere the river goes, there will be life. There will be life. I don't know how God's going to do it. But I tell you, if God in just a few months can destroy communism right under our noses, he can do everything he's prophesying in this book and in this vision.

He can do it anytime. He can do it within a few weeks. He can pour out the waters, can rise so quickly and spread through this city, spread through your household, and bring life. Everywhere the river goes, there shall be life.

The Warning of the Marshes and Salt

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The Scripture says in the midst of all this healing and reviving, there's going to be some that will be left out. The Bible says they're going to be given to salt. Given to salt.

Verse 11. But the Maori places thereof and the marshes thereof shall not be healed. They shall be given to salt. Now listen to me closely, please. Here's a warning. This is so heavy on my heart tonight.

This is where I'm prophesying. There are little mud puddles the prophet's seeing. It astonishes him. Because the river has just flooded it. It's just gone over all the marshes, all the mud holes. The river's gone over.

It's purged and cleansed everything but these little mud holes. These little marshes. And the river goes by and leaves them. It's still there. And these little puddles begin to dry up and turn to salt.

They turn so white, dry, white, barren salt. They're given to salt. That word means barrenness, fruitlessness. These are professors of Christianity who have been inundated with the gospel reproof. They have had the Spirit of God plummet their souls.

They have had the Spirit of God woo them. But they're unmoved. These are those that live in rebellion. They're blind and insensitive to their own danger. These are Christians who feel deeply but do not change.