The Great Shaking

We are living in a season where a great shaking is taking place in the heavens and the earth. The shaking we are seeing isn't because God is mad or because of some scary end time scenario coming on the scene. The shaking we are seeing is because we are about to see the greatest unveiling of Jesus, the desire of all nations, in the earth! The Church is about to be displayed among the nations. He's going to fill this House with His Glory!

For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts. Haggai 2:6-9

The book of Haggai took place shortly after the Jews came out of captivity in Babylon. In this setting God commanded them to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. Instead they went about rebuilding their lives. They dwelt in their houses, sowed in their land, ate, drank, and lived life. They said it wasn’t time to build the house of the Lord. The Lord comes to them and tells them to consider their ways. He told them because they neglect his house they sow and do not reap, they drink but don’t have enough, and what they earn they put into a bag with holes. Because of their neglect for the house of the Lord they were living in barrenness and poverty. This sounds like much of the Church today. Many of us are content to come out of the captivity of the world and be saved yet don’t press on to know the Lord. We build nice Churches, have excellent programs, and entertain people all without building His House! Beloved IT IS TIME to build the House of the Lord.

God has done away with physical temples. It was never His intention to dwell in a physical building. He’s looking for a Body in which He can dwell. God dwelt in a tent in the wilderness, then moved to a temple in the Kingdom of Israel, and finally tabernacled among us in the person of Jesus Christ (John 1:14). Today you and I are living stones being built into a spiritual house according to 1 Peter 2:5. We are being built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit (Ephesians 2:22).

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. John 14:2

We have all heard this verse referring to mansions waiting for us in Heaven. The word for mansions in the Greek is mone and it means abode or dwelling place. It's only other use in the New Testament is in John 14:23 where Jesus says that He and the Father will make their abode with us. I want to suggest to you that the only mansions in Heaven are you and I. You are the mansion of the Lord. God lives in you beloved!

Let's stop looking for a future mansion and be the Mansion. Your citizenship is in Heaven. You are raised and seated with Christ in Heavenly places. You've been blessed with all spiritual blessings in Heavenly places in Christ. There is an open Heaven over you right now! Heaven shouldn't be only a future reality for the Christian, but a very present one. The Kingdom is within you (Luke 17:21).

I hear the Lord saying in this hour to look up and lift up your heads for your redemption draws nigh (Luke 21:28)!

This isn't the time to hang our head in defeat. Our greatest hour is upon us. The Lord whom you seek is coming suddenly to His temple! A great shaking is taking place... but the result isn't going to be our destruction. This shaking is what Ezekiel prophesied in Ezekiel 37 where bones come together bone to bone.

A great season of equipping is on us. To equip means to set a broken bone. God is setting broken bones in the body of Christ. He's connecting believers from all walks of life out of every nation and he's releasing the winds of Heaven on them. What we have coming is greater than any upper room Pentecostal experience. We are entering a season of Tabernacles where God is inhabiting a people. A Body is coming together! It's going to be the greatest army the earth has ever witnessed.

In this latter house He will give peace! I'm believing for a greater unity in the body of Christ. We won't speak the same things in this day because of our doctrinal positions or teachings but because we are connected to the Vine Himself. It's His body. Don't settle for anything less than peace in His house.

Times of refreshing are coming from the presence of the Lord. Peter declared in Acts 3 that this is a precursor to the return of Christ. Enlarge the border of your tents and make room because the King of Glory is going to fill His House. The Desire of All Nations is coming!

Look up and lift up your heads for your redemption draws nigh.