Are You Ready?

The word God birthed in my heart yesterday in prayer was SHAKEN. And all today that word shaken, a shakening kept coming up over and over again. Then I found this article by David Wilkerson. It's eye opening!

Are You Ready for the Coming Storm?
by David Wilkerson

Isaiah prophesies that God will one day rise up and shake the whole earth. The prophet writes: "Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty... and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof... all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.... When thus it shall be in the midst of the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree..." (Isaiah 24:1, 11, 13). God is going to shake the earth as if it were an olive tree - till every bit of fruit falls!

"...for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake... the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro...and shall be removed like a cottage..." (verses 18-20). The entire earth shall appear to be a mere cottage when God begins His shaking!

Other prophets concur with Isaiah's word:

* Ezekiel says that when God's fury arises, He will shake terribly all that can be shaken: "...all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground....and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord" (Ezekiel 38:20-23).

* Joel says: "The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of (His) children..." (Joel 3:16).

* Haggai writes: "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..." (Haggai 2:6-7).

* The writer of Hebrews says: "...Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven... that [only] those things which cannot be shaken may remain" (Hebrews 12:26-27).

God is going to shake everything in sight - so that He alone is revealed as the only unshakeable power!
We Have Seen the Beginnings of God's Shaking in the Past Few Years!

The Lord literally began to shake the earth with earthquakes in the late 1980s. A quake in Armenia wiped out almost that whole province. A quake in Japan measuring 6.9 nearly destroyed an entire city. Then came the horrible quake in San Francisco - and others followed almost daily in that area. Quakes hit the west coast constantly, from northern California to San Diego and down into Mexico. At one point, a New York newspaper headline asked, "Is God Trying to Quake Us Up?"
Let me ask you something: What does a loving parent do when a child is sleeping but must wake up? That parent takes his child gently by the shoulders and shakes him. If the child doesn't wake up immediately, the shaking then becomes a bit more firm and serious - because the parent knows the child will suffer if he doesn't wake up.
That's just what God is doing right now - both to America and to the world! At first, He shook us very tenderly. But now His shaking has become violent - because He has still not succeeded in waking us up!
The prophets I mentioned weren't just speaking into the wind. When the Lord says, "I'm going to shake the earth one more time," He means it! He will literally shake our economy, our education system, our government - everything we put our trust and confidence in, everything that seems safe and secure.
Could you ever have imagined the greatest nation on earth closed down because of bipartisan politics flirting with national bankruptcy, threatening payments of our international debts?
I have had a very vivid, recurring dream about the President of the United States - which President, I don't know. In the dream he is looking out the window of the Oval Office, shaking his head in disbelief and saying, "How did it happen? What went wrong?" None of his solemn Cabinet members or aides could explain America's collapse to him.
And that's just the way it will be when God does His shaking: No one will be able to explain it! I think of the stock market crash eight years ago. Overnight it went down 500 points - and there was no reason for it. Indeed, things will be going along nicely when suddenly a quake will hit - not a physical quake, but an unexpected economic quake. God will shake our very foundations!
The Bible also warns us that, simultaneous to God's shaking, a great demonic flood is descending upon humankind. The devil is about to bring a fierce downpour of filth, wickedness and testings beyond anything our minds can conjure. He knows his time is short - and he is preparing to unleash overwhelming winds and waves of evil!
For example: Many people now own a computer. What better way could Satan invade people's homes than with a demonic flood through the information superhighway? This superhighway could become a direct line to hell. It's already a purveyor of pornography. I realize this great information development can be used to produce many wonderful services. But it has the potential to become a powerful tool of Satan!
In fact, it may be the very tool the Antichrist uses to usher in his kingdom and power. For example, it might become the source of a cashless society. Already, Chase Manhattan Bank has instituted computer banking in New York, with no paperwork involved at all - only numbers.
I believe the flood of evil is now reaching critical mass, where everything has begun to spin out of control. And, tragically, we don't know it - because we have become inured to it! Things that once bothered us now have become commonplace. We've seen and heard so much evil that nothing moves us anymore.
I wonder: When the storm comes - when everything begins to spin out of control - how many Christians will be able to stand? How many will have the foundation of faith necessary to endure that time?
I believe that is the Lord's great concern for His people at this moment. And it is my great concern as a shepherd: "Lord, how many of Your people will fall when the storm strikes with full fury? How many will stand unmoveable? And how can I prepare them for the great shaking?"

More of his article can be found at this link

http://www.worldchallenge.org/en/node/2511