The
following word was shown to me beginning in August 1990 as a
result of
three dreams I had.
In
August the Lord spoke to me through a dream. Prior to that
dream He
gave me a scripture, Isaiah 21:6, which says, "This is
what
the sovereign Lord says, 'Go appoint a lookout and have him
report what
he sees'." When the Lord gave me that verse He said,
"I'm
doing this in your life. I'm appointing you as lookout. You
will see
things, and when you see these things, you report them."
I am now
reporting to you what I have seen.
The
first thing I saw in the dream was a flatbed trailer with a
curtain
behind it and two guitars on guitar stands sitting on the
trailer.
It looked like a stage but it wasn't a stage in a the-
atre; it
was a mobile stage that could be moved into the streets
or
parks. This trailer was at a carnival or at a fairground. The
two guitars
were sitting on their guitar stands with the micro-
phones
in place and the curtain was there. The colour of these
guitars was
the most vivid, electric blue that I could imagine.
They were
acoustic guitars and that caught my eye; you would
er see an
acoustic guitar that was electric blue.
I then saw
that the curtain was the same colour, and it captured
my
attention. As I stood and looked at it, two men came walking
out from
behind the curtain with sheet music in their hands. They
were
very excited as they looked at this, and they pointed out
the
different notes and the different measures, cadences and all
the
different features of this music. It was obvious that they
could not
wait to play this music. I looked over their shoulders
and I
could tell by looking at the music that it was a new song.
It was not
new like someone had just written it, but it was new
in quality.
In
the dreams my thoughts were, "This is new like the Beatles'
music was
new." When the Beatles appeared in the sixties it was a
new
sound and it took the world by storm. Whenever one of their
songs came
on, you would automatically turn it up; it had a spe-
cial
quality that caught your ear - it turned your head. It was
the most
arresting sound that our generation had ever heard. I
remember
looking at that sheet music in this dream and thinking
that this
music was going to be just like that, with one very
significant
distinction - this was of Christ. I stood on that
platform
thinking - "Wait 'til these people hear this song!"
I
couldn't
wait to see this happen, but the dream ended.
After
I had written the dream down, the Lord spoke to me and
said,
"I'm about to release a new kind of song in the streets. It
will
bring a revelation of the truth and it will usher men into
my
presence." I filed that away until about a month later when I
had another
dream.
In
the second dream, I was taken to a large church which had a
stage.
There were rooms on either side of the stage. The room on
the
right side was the equipment room - it had pianos, micro-
phones,
speakers, cables, cymbals, and drums; it looked like a
garage
packed with stuff. I looked around and saw a power ampli-
fier over
in the corner. The amp was unplugged, the cord had been
wrapped
around it, it was dusty like it had been sitting in the
corner for
awhile. I dusted it off. What I then saw
took my
breath
away. I gasped with a sense of discovery but also dread
because of
what I was holding in my hand. I held the power amp
that
the Beatles had used. I knew in that moment that this box
was the
source of their sound and their power.
I realized
that people would do anything to have this amp. There
are
bands who for years have been looking for that sound - and
for that
power. They had been doing everything within their scope
of
imagination to get that power. Here it was and I was holding
it in my
hand. I felt hunted; I felt vulnerable; I felt that I
was
threatened. I knew that I could be hurt by those who would
do anything
for the amp. As I stood there holding it, I asked
aloud this
question, "What is it doing here?"
Suddenly
I was out of the equipment room and standing behind the
pulpit at
this church, still holding the amp. The church
had
grown
to five times the size that it was at the beginning of the
dream.
There was a balcony and the place was packed with people.
As I
looked at all these people (they were oblivious to my pres-
ence), a
woman stood up in the middle of the church, and a light
shone
on her. She began singing a song of the Lord. Her voice
filled the
auditorium, and all she sang was this: "In the name of
Jesus
Christ the Lord we say unto you, be saved." She sang it
over and
over. She would turn to her right and sing, then turn to
her
left and sing; then she would turn behind her and before her
and sing
the same thing. As I watched her sing, it was like a
wind
blowing on a wheat field. These people began to swoon in the
presence of
God and men and women were collapsing in their seats,
converted
to Christ, just by the power of that song. That was how
the dream
ended.
When I
awoke, the Lord said that there was going to be a new and
distinctive
anointing and sound restored to music that will turn
the heads
and capture the hearts of men for Jesus Christ... Sim-
ply
singing the truth in the name of Jesus Christ, "We say unto
you be
saved," will release the power of His Spirit in such an
awesome
display that men and women will collapse in their seats
and be
converted to Christ. But the Lord said that a key to this
will be this
new anointing He is about to give to His music.
The
Lord said that in 1970 He lifted the anointing for that ex-
traordinary
music that could arrest the attention of men, and for
twenty
years He has held it in His hand. He is about to release
it again.
He said that it does not belong to the world, it be-
longs
to the church. That's why it (the amp) was in the church's
equipment
room, because it is part of the church's equipment. Mu-
sic
does not belong to Satan, but he has stolen much of it and
seeks to
use it for his own evil purposes. Music was given to
worship
the Lord but Satan has turned it for self-worship, which
is the
reason we tend to worship musicians, and they tend to re-
quire
that people worship them. That is all part of the perver-
sion of the
fall.
True
worship and true music belong to Jesus Christ. They are giv-
en
to His church to serve Him with. The anointing the Lord is
about to
release on music is going to sweep the world in a manner
like the
Beatles did when they first came out. It's going to be a
music that
is new in kind, new in sound, arresting in its con-
tent; it
will stop traffic, and it will turn men's heads and cap-
ture their
hearts, but this time it will do it for the Lord.
In this
dream I saw the balcony scene when the Beatles
first
played
on the Ed Sullivan Show. I saw the kids pulling their
hair,
crying... That is what I saw - the same emotion, the same
devotion,
the tears in the eyes and that earnest look of love and
adoration
on the faces, but this time they were crying for Jesus!
When
this anointing comes on the music He is about to give His
church, and
His servants step forth in true service and worship
to
Him with these gifts, He will display the Holy Spirit in such
a way that
it will bring that kind of adoration to the Son of
God, not to
the musicians or our own self-centredness.
I
know that there can be some misunderstanding with this Beatle
connection,
but that is how it was related to me in the dream and
I later saw
this principle related in the Scriptures. Psalm 68:18
reads:
"You ascended on high, you led captivity captive and gave
gifts
to men - even among the rebellious ..." "The earth is the
Lord's and
all it contains" (Psalm 24:1). It all belongs to Jesus
Christ...
The Lord makes His sun to shine on the just and the un-
just. He
makes His rain to come on the wicked and the righteous.
Gifts
and talents are given by the Lord, even though we may use
them for
evil.
We are now
on the threshold of a prophesied new move of God which
will
be precipitated by a musical revival that encircles the
world.
God is going to bring praise into the streets. The choir
that
preceded the army of Jehosaphat will once again lift up the
banners and
strike the chords, only this time they will turn the
hearts
of men to Jesus Christ and not to themselves. They won't
be saying,
"John, Paul, George, and Ringo," or, "l'm of Paul, I'm
of Apollos,
I'm an Evangelical, I'm a Baptist, I'm a Catholic, or
I'm a
Lutheran." This time the adoration will be to one person
alone -
Jesus.
I
was then given a third dream. Again I was taken to this large
church
where I had seen the amplifier. This time the church was
empty
except for one man. He was up on the stage playing a key-
board and
singing to the Lord. It was a beautiful song, and he
was
crying because of the tender exchange taking place between
him and the
Lord. He was writing the song right there, just mak-
ing
it up as he went. I was greatly moved by this song and the
man's pure
worship. I had a camera with me and I decided to take
a
picture of this to remember it. I took two polaroid pictures
that came
out immediately. When I looked at these pictures I was
stunned
because both of them were glowing with a golden light. I
looked up
and I then could see it on the man. The entire platform
around
him was also glowing like gold. I knew that it was the
anointing
of God.
I went up
to this man and said, "Brother look at this," but
it
startled
him. He quickly turned the instrument off and stepped
back.
I said, "Look at this, look at the anointing of God that's
on
you." He looked at the pictures
only for a second, and
putting his
hands in his pockets, he shrugged his shoulders and
started
kicking on the ground shyly saying, "Oh, gosh I didn't
know you
were here, I'm so embarrassed." As he was going on like
this
I just looked at him and asked, "What are you doing? You
don't have
to apologize for this - this is the anointing of the
Lord."
Immediately
the dream changed. I had these two photographs in my
left hand
and a parchment scroll in my right hand. I looked at
that
scroll and it was a letter written by an unknown soldier of
the
Salvation Army forty years ago. It was signed Unknown Sol-
dier.
I read this letter and it was a prophecy. It said that the
time would
come when the Lord God will release into the streets
an
army of worshipping warriors known as the 'Sons of Thunder'.
They will
bring forth praise into the streets that will birth
evangelism
and praise and give many children to God.
I was duly
impressed with this prophecy but I didn't know what to
do with it
or the photographs of the man worshipping. Suddenly
the
dream changed one more time. I was in the sky, about a hun-
dred yards
or so above the ground and I was over a highway. The
highway
was ten lanes wide and it only went in one direction. As
far as I
could see in both directions the highway was completely
grid-locked,
jam packed with Hell's Angels, shoulder to shoulder,
wheel to
wheel, just revving their motorcycles. I knew intuitive-
ly
that this was the broad path that led to destruction; I knew
that I was
looking at lost humanity.
Then I saw
on the side of the road, in single file, a group of
motorcyclists
who were the only ones moving. What caught my eye
was that
they were in single file and were moving in single file
on the
shoulder on this highway. They were headed towards a field
that was
about a mile and a half away. In the middle of
this
field there
was a stone that was almost like the Washington Monu-
ment, but
it wasn't that tall. It was a monolith-like stone, and
I
knew that these motor-cyclists were headed toward it. I also
knew that
they were headed there for the purpose of touching it,
because
when they touched it they would receive power to come
back and
lead all of these Hell's Angels to Christ.
I felt that
I also had to get to that stone, and that I had to be
there when
they got there. In the dream I was able to fly like an
eagle, so I
swooped down to get a closer look at the motorcy-
clists
who were in the single file. I could see on the back of
their
jackets the words 'Sons of Thunder'. I knew that this was
the
army of worshipping warriors about which the unknown soldier
from the
Salvation Army had prophesied.
I hastened
over to this stone, but when I got there it was com-
pletely
surrounded by officers of the law. They were locked elbow
to elbow in
riot gear with clubs and masks waiting for a big
ot. My
first thought was, "Oh NO! These guys are not going to let
us get near
the stone." I was so grieved. Then I had the thought
that all
that was necessary was for this parchment and these pho-
tographs to
touch that stone; if they touched that stone the
anointing
that this prophecy spoke of and the anointing that I
saw on that
man of music would be released on these Sons of Thun-
der.
They would then be empowered to go into the streets and
turn the
Hell's Angels to Christ.
So I
started to walk past the line, but they wouldn't
let me
through
either! Suddenly I got an idea - I took the parchment and
I folded it
into a paper airplane, put the photographs down in
the crease
in order to sail it over the heads of the officers in-
to the
stone. I knew that I would only have one chance and that I
could
not miss. The stone was so large that the only way I could
miss would
be to fall short. This may be the most important issue
for
us. The only thing that can stop us is our stopping. Will we
fall short
or will we touch it?
I took the
airplane with the photos and prophecy and let it fly.
It
flew as straight as an arrow. Just when it was about one foot
from
touching the stone the dream ended! I desperately wanted to
go
back to sleep and finish the dream but I could not. Then the
Lord began
to speak to me about it.
The Lord
said that the stone which I saw was symbolic of
Him
("The
stone which the builders rejected..."), but that it was al-
so symbolic
of the monument that men have built to Him. These men
now
feel that they must protect that monument from the very peo-
ple He is
calling to Himself. The 'officers of the law' stand in
riot
gear ready to defend the Lord from those that they don't
think are
worthy enough to come near Him.
The Lord
then said, "Say this to the man of music. Stop submit-
ting to
false humility. Stop apologizing for the anointing of God
which is on
you." There are many who in the privacy of their in-
timate
times with the Lord sing the song of the Lord which is
glorious.
But when they come into the church or into the pres-
ence
of people they let the fear of man choke the song. The Lord
says
"Stop it! You do not need to apologize for that anointing."
It
is the glory of God that rests on you and the Lord is saying
that it is
now time for you to bring forth that which He has put
in
your heart to do. Sing the song of the Lord for the salvation
of the
lost. And your ministry in this will begin at the burial
site of the
fear of men.
The Lord
said, "Say this to the church: 'Stand in the light, lift
up your
voice and sing in the streets. Sing the simple message of
the gospel
- in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord, be saved. Lift
up your
voice as a witness to Christ and the Spirit of God will
cause
people to be converted'."
The Lord
said to the Sons of Thunder: "I'm not endorsing a motor-
cycle gang.
That is not My point. These are symbols which speak
of
the issues involved. A motorcycle is a quick, agile means of
transportation
and represents those who rid themselves of their
excess
baggage.It can go where other vehicles cannot go." The
Lord is
calling men and women into a ministry of evangelism that
will
take them places where the churches cannot go. And like the
stigma
associated with motorcycle gangs, there will be rejection
and
misunderstanding associated with this ministry. Some will
not
understand why they go into bars and associate with people
who
look demonic (and sometimes are), just as the Lord Himself
was
misunderstood for His associations. Even so, the word of the
Lord to the
Sons of Thunder was be in the world but not of it!
Then
the Lord said, "Say this to the officers of the law: 'Put
down your
clubs and stop defending Jesus from people who
you
don't
think are worthy enough to touch Him. Open your doors and
let those
people come in. Stop being so enamoured by the monument
that you
take your eyes off the living stones'."
Then
the Lord said this, "The last call is a call to interces-
sion."
He said to me that the dream ended the way it did for an
important
reason. He wanted us to know that while it is going to
happen, it
is not happening yet. It's about to happen, and be-
tween now
and when it does there is a call for intercession. When
the
prophecy of that unknown soldier of the Salvation Army of a
generation
ago and the vision of the anointed man of music are
joined hand
in hand by those who will intercede, and those two
things
touch the heart of Jesus through intercessory prayer, the
anointing
will be released on the Sons of Thunder. And the Sons
of
Thunder will be released into the streets. We will then see a
worldwide
move of the Spirit of God.
There are
three groups that actually make up these Sons of Thun-
der.
They are the musicians, the evangelists who are not musi-
cians and
the musicians who are evangelists. Some who are musi-
cians
are being called to be a Son of Thunder even though they
are not
evangelists. Some are evangelists who are being called
though
they are not musicians. Of course, there are some who are
both
evangelists and musicians. In some cases there will be musi-
cians
on a flatbed trailer, drawing the crowds for the evange-
lists. When
the musicians who have dedicated themselves to the
Lord
Jesus Christ begin to play this new song, the Spirit of God
is going to
move in that crowd. The evangelists will touch these
people and
explain what is happening to them. The Sons of Thunder
are both
the musicians and the evangelists who work together.
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