Ron McGatlin

2 months ago

“The Perfect Storm in the 7-Mountain Takeover” Ben Peters

Sep 27, 2021 | Archived Articles, Articles, Recent Articles
“The Perfect Storm in the 7-Mountain Takeover”
Ben Peters, Lincoln, CA

The Perfect Storm

Recently, God spoke to me regarding a great convergence of Heaven and Earth that He has been preparing. This convergence will produce His perfect storm, totally overpowering and obliterating the results of the current ‘perfect storm’ with which the enemy has assaulted us. This storm will involve both what happens on the ground and what happens in the heavenly realm.

Isaiah 64:1-3 (NKJV) was the chief Scriptural inspiration for this word and vision God gave me:

“Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence—as fire burns brushwood, as fire causes water to boil—to make Your name known to Your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at Your presence! When you did awesome things for which we did not look, You came down, the mountains shook at Your presence.”

The 7 Mountains, a Shaking and a Downpour

For those of you who are not familiar with the 7 Mountains of Culture, they have most often been categorized as the following:

1. FAMILY
2. RELIGION
3. EDUCATION
4. GOVERNMENT
5. ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
6. MEDIA
7. BUSINESS

I was teaching on the shaking of these seven mountains, when the Holy Spirit spoke to me: “I won’t only shake the mountains…I will also open the heavens and pour out the mighty rain of My Spirit. The mountains will shake and quake, but at the same time, the rain will come down from Heaven and loose the dirt and mud covering My mountains.”

At that point, the revelation jumped out at me—THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS OF CULTURE ARE HIS MOUNTAINS. He created every single one of them for our benefit. These mountains, perfectly beautiful and majestic, were created to bring order and structure to His people. However, sin and sinful men and women have covered God’s beautiful mountains with the dirt of this world, camouflaging them with artificial greenery. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)

Then I got the picture of these mountains shaking from underneath, while being washed with great revival rains from above. The result was a powerful mudslide that cascaded down the mountain like an avalanche, followed by more and more cleansing rain—thus revealing the original beauty of God’s majestic mountains.

Next, God reminded me of Isaiah 2:2:

“Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established at the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.”

God spoke to me, then, about the connection between the phrase “latter days” and the discussion of the mountains. It wasn’t until recent decades, within these ‘latter days,’ that anyone talked about the Seven Mountains of Society. I felt the Holy Spirit was saying that this Scripture was specifically prophetic of these seven mountains, and that His mountain—His majesty and presence—would rest on the top of each mountain.

This passage in Isaiah 64:1-3 is talking about His presence shaking the mountains, and at the same time, it is also talking about His presence being at the top of these mountains. Thus, my understanding is that these are both latter day prophecies, and are both talking about the same event. The first one we discussed was a prophetic prayer, and the second one was a beautiful, prophetic declaration.

How the Five-Fold Will Impact All 7 Mountains

The verse which follows, which is Isaiah 2:3, gives us an early prophetic picture of the five-fold ministries in the Old Testament, revealing to us how each ministry is to impact culture…I find this fascinating:

“Many people shall come and say, ‘Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob…'” (This is the role of the EVANGELIST. He invites people to come to experience God’s presence. God is calling for MANY evangelists in these “latter days.”)

“…He will teach us His ways…” (God teaches us His ways through His anointed TEACHERS. This ‘teacher’s anointing’ will go to new heights with an ever-increasing anointing.) (Photo via Pxhere)

“…and we shall walk in His paths…” (The SHEPHERDS [PASTORS] lead us in paths of righteousness [Psalm 23]. They are anointed to guide, provide and protect.)

“…For out of Zion shall go forth the law…” (It’s the APOSTLES who administrate the law or the government of the Kingdom. Apostles will realize more of their responsibilities and authority to empower the other gifts/ministries.)

“…and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.” (It’s the PROPHETS who speak the word of the Lord. The prophets will actually speak more powerful words than ever before, and will help to bring about the ‘shaking and the waking.’)

It’s so important to realize that all of this will take place on every mountain of culture.

A Great Awakening and Shaking in America

It has been said that whoever controls the top of these mountains, controls the direction of the culture. When America was young, especially after her great awakenings, God’s people ruled all of these mountains, to some significant extent. Today, we rule none of them. However, God has His plans, and a great convergence of Heaven and Earth will soon manifest, shaking everything that can be shaken. At the same time, a powerful and unprecedented Great Awakening will cause a cleansing of these crucial mountains of culture.

God will not be outdone by His enemy’s storm of global evil. God’s perfect storm will decimate the fragile structures of wickedness, replacing them with His glorious structures of faith and righteousness in our culture and society.

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Ben R. Peters
Kingdom Sending Center
Email: ohmint@gmail.com
Website: www.kingdomsendingcenter.org

Ben and Brenda Peters have said “YES” to the call of God to challenge, equip, and send dedicated lovers of Jesus into the harvest fields of the earth, including the seven mountains of society. Together they have ministered to tens of thousands of individuals in several countries of the world. After establishing and serving churches and Christian schools for almost thirty years, they began a traveling ministry under the name Open Heart Ministries. More recently, they also founded an Illinois-based ministry called Kingdom Sending Center. Ben has published over 23 books. Ben and Brenda now live near Sacramento, California, close to most of their children and grandchildren.

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Ron McGatlin

2 months ago

THE GREAT CONVERGENCE OF HEAVEN AND EARTH – Ron McGatlin

Sep 29, 2021 | Archived Articles, Articles, Recent Articles

THE GREAT CONVERGENCE OF HEAVEN AND EARTH – Ron McGatlin

All things becoming as one.

The greater glory manifesting on earth from heaven now is the beginning of all things on earth being made new. All things are being made into one all-inclusive system of the kingdom of God/Kingdom of heaven. All of God’s creation is designed to work together in perfect balance and harmony in the order of God’s love to the glory of God.

This article is a brief summary about some of the extreme and major works God is revealing by His Spirit.

Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the mountain of the Lord’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And all nations shall flow to it. Isaiah 2:2.

I see a huge beam of glory light coming from the throne of God.

From the throne, the narrow beam widens to cover the entire globe of Planet Earth and the atmosphere around it.

A living force of irresistible righteous power flows the perfect order of God, dissolving all that lifts itself against the order of God.

GREAT SHAKING

“The lofty looks of man shall be humbled,
The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,
And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

(12) For the day of the Lord of hosts
Shall come upon everything proud and lofty,
Upon everything lifted up—
And it shall be brought low—

13 Upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up,
And upon all the oaks of Bashan;

14 Upon all the high mountains,
And upon all the hills that are lifted up;”

“The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;
The Lord alone will be exalted in that day

18 But the idols He shall utterly abolish.

19 They shall go into the holes of the rocks,
And into the caves of the earth,
From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty,
When He arises to shake the earth mightily.

20 In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver
And his idols of gold,
Which they made, each for himself to worship,
To the moles and bats,

21 To go into the clefts of the rocks,
And into the crags of the rugged rocks,
From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty,
When He arises to shake the earth mightily.”
Isaiah 2:11-14, 17-21.

Communities, villages and entire cities are dissolved. Some nations, governments and authorities are dissolved and no longer exist.

Everything that remains, is being moved about at one time to a new position into alignment with the order of God. Houses, buildings, people, forests, rivers, hills and even the greatest of the mountains all shaking and rumbling in what appears as total confusion and great chaos as things rapidly move about and change. The furniture and fixtures inside buildings and houses seem to zoom from one placement to another all at the same time. Trees, shrubs, and entire cities are changed.

BEYOND THE SHAKING

After the shaking stops everything seems to settle into great peace. All things are fresh, the air is fresh and mild. The lands are peaceful the grass and trees seem greener and flowers more colorful. It seems like love and kindness fill the atmosphere. The great rush and stress of daily life of the old world are completely gone. Everyone just seems to know what they need to be doing and are blessed and happy to be doing it.

Every thought and activity of life is filled with the essence of God and His love. No one even seems to be confused about everything being new and no one looks back or missis the past or the people that are not here. Everyone seems to feel fully alive and well in the new life of peace and joy as one with God at all times.

All of this and much more is involved in the great event of heaven and earth converging into one order, one reality with Spirit heaven converged into physical created natural earth. Creator and creation become one in the glorious union of the marriage of the Lamb and His glorified Bride. The fullness of the pure holy love communion of God in and with His Bride people producing pure holy offspring of sons and daughters filling the earth with praise and honor to our Heavenly Father and Christ Jesus our King and Lord.

KINGDOM CULTURE OF LOVE

The earth is filled with His Glory as the culture of the world is changed in every area and every facet of life by the great convergence of heaven and earth, of God and man. All is as God designed and ordered it to be.

Yes, this will all manifest into the world. However, it is now here on earth in the hearts of God’s purified holy people.

The governance of influence in this world comes from inside the hearts and lives of mankind. All sources of cultural influence and governance is being called, drawn to and received by the Lord into a new mind set of restored alignment with God.

Multitudes of the lukewarm people sitting in darkness are being driven to the reality of oneness with God by the horrible acts of darkness of the devil. The King of Glory is filling their hearts and lives with the full love, power and glory of God.

In this season, many sons and daughters are turning to the reality of God that is reclaiming His people and His earth. They are arising in pure holy love and power of God to proclaim the full word of God into being in this world.

It is this new army arising from the dry bones that releases the convergence of heaven and earth. The praise and worship by the Bride opens the way for the King of Glory to release the will of God from heaven into this world.

This is the great convergence of heaven with earth that it is now in the hearts and minds of the holy people of God. It is now being spoken into the world.

This is the DAY that the LORD has made. Rejoice and be glad in it.

THE DAY OF THE LORD

“But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. 2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. 8 But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. 9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.” 1Thessolonians 5:1-10.

Ron McGatlin
openheaven.com
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Ron McGatlin

2 months ago

Is Australia Under Lockdown Still a Free Country? ‘The Media Has Just Scared People Senseless’

Sep 22, 2021 | News
09-21-2021Dale Hurd : CBNNEWS.COM

In a now-viral tweet, an Australian posted what they said is a view of the world’s largest prison from space.

It’s a map of Australia.

Democracy or Police State?

Australia used to be known as one of the freest countries in the world. Then COVID struck, and the loss of freedom has some saying Australia has turned into a police state.

Australia is still officially a democracy, but its COVID restrictions are severe. It’s hard to enter or leave the country unless you’re a politician or a celebrity. Citizens are tracked with apps and soon by facial recognition. In some states, you must have your phone scanned before entering a church. And some have been arrested for simply posting on social media about protests against COVD restrictions.

The rest of the world is starting to ask if Australia can still call itself a free country.

Australia’s lockdown has been so draconian, it’s brought comparisons on social media to how Australia began, as a prison colony.

A pregnant Australian mother was handcuffed and hauled away by cops in front of her children for simply posting on Facebook about a planned lockdown protest.

The charge was incitement.

The leader of an anti-lockdown group, also arrested for incitement, has been in jail for three weeks.

The “Heavy-handed Despotism” in Australia Has Been “Appalling”

Police helicopters look for lockdown violators. Officers have fired rubber bullets and tear gas at anti-lockdown protesters, including children.

James Allan, Garrick Professor in Law at the University of Queensland, calls it “heavy-handed despotism.”

“It’s been appalling in Australia,” Allan says, “and I say that as a big fan of Australia. I’m Canadian. But it’s come as a real shock to me, how people have reacted in Australia.”

Australia consists of six states and two territories, each with its own COVID restrictions.

Under a new home quarantine plan, if you don’t send the government your photo and location when it sends you a text, the police will come to your door.

Pastor Placed in Solitary Confinement

Melbourne Pastor Paul Furlong has been arrested three times and been placed in solitary confinement for opening his church during the lockdowns.

“The reason I did was for what I believe was a greater law and that was to obey the Word of God. And so I had to choose God’s law and not man’s law.” Furlong said.

One church in Sidney was raided and fined for holding what authorities called an illegal church service and for not scanning people’s phones before entering.

Some pastors are now concerned that the government could soon require a vaccine passport before entering a church.

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Loss of Freedom Has Been “Normalized”

We asked Evan Mulholland at Australia’s conservative think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs, if he still considers Australia a free country.

“Well, it’s a good question,” Mulholland replied, “It’s a question a lot of people across the political spectrum have been asking. These things don’t happen in a vacuum. They happen when the political and cultural elites slowly take away our freedoms and they become normalized.”

Australians have also begun turning one another into authorities, East German style. When an Australian mother was desperate to find a way home with her son and needed to cross a state border, violating lockdown restrictions, she was turned in to police.

And for What? Less Than 12-hundred COVID Deaths

With this kind of behavior, you might think many thousands of Australians have died from COVID.

The death toll is under 1,200, out of a nation of 25 million people, or about .0047 percent of the population.

Almost three times that many Australians die every week from normal causes.

But one poll showed most Australians favor living without freedom because they are more worried about COVID than any other western nation.

Allan says, “The media has just scared people senseless. The average person thinks, ‘If I catch this, I’m going to die.’”

There have been several large and sometimes violent demonstrations against the lockdowns and against planned vaccine passports, and hundreds have been arrested.

Australian Leaders: You Can Have Your Freedom When You’re Vaccinated

The government says the death toll would have been much worse without a lockdown, and now says life can only return to normal when most of the country is vaccinated.

Mulholland says, “They describe giving back our freedoms as some sort of a treat, as some sort of a reward, something that can be given back to us and all our fundamental freedoms that were stolen from us in the first place.”

Australian journalist Clive James once said, “The problem with Australians is not that so many of them are descended from convicts but that so many are descended from prison officers.”

It’s a quote that’s being talked about a lot these days.

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