I manifested Holy Spirit VERY strongly reading the following word, and pray you will read through it a couple times. It also is in synche with everything God has shown me. Pris
Old Wells, Fallen Mantles, and New Fountain (The Coming Great Awakening)
Date: 01/07/2007 08:00:17 PM
A Vision from the Lord given to Michael Edds
I moved to Cleveland, Ohio in June 2000 to assume the position as Head of School for an interdenominational Christian High School. The school was new and had many challenges. I was not thrilled about the move but followed the Lord's leading out of obedience. Being a Southerner, I never thought about moving North. The school was new but had severe problems, the most severe totally unknown to me. Prior to my arrival, a teacher had been arrested for involving a student in pornography. The teacher had been convicted and sentenced. Upon my arrival, the incident had become front-page news in Cleveland.
To say the least, I was shocked and angry with the board who hired me and with God who sent me. I felt someone should have informed me. I could not understand why God had sent me into a mess such as this. I have enjoyed success in building up, expanding and promoting ministries. However, it is another thing to rebuild a greatly tarnished image. The task seemed hopeless to say the least. I felt that I had jeopardized my family by taking this position. However, I understand more fully now that God does not make mistakes. He allows adverse things to come into our lives for our good.
One night I could not sleep. I was very angry with the Lord for putting me into this greatly stressful mess. "Surely, I thought, I desire better than this." Around 2 AM, I got up to sit on the couch and pout. In spite of my upset state, anger and disgust, the Presence of the Lord settled in the living room. God did not even pay attention to or address my complaint. Instead, His presence was so strong that I physically trembled. He spoke these words, "Old Wells, Fallen Mantles, and New Fountains." He instructed me to get my Bible. By that time, I too had set aside my complaint. His Presence was so great that I did not know if I could survive it.
I opened my Bible to Isaiah 35:3-7: "Strengthen ye the wake hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, be strong, and fear not: behold your God shall come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; He will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing for IN THE WILDERNESS SHALL WATER BREAK OUT AND STREAMS IN THE DESERT. AND THE PARCHED GROUND SHALL BECOME A POOL AND THE THIRSTY LAND SPRINGS OF WATER."
Then, I turned the page and Isaiah 41:17-18 fell open: "When the poor and needy seek water and there is none, and their tongues fail for thirst, I the Lord will hear them. I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I WILL OPEN RIVERS IN HIGH PLACES, AND FOUNTAINS IN THE MIDST OF VALLEYS: I WILL MAKE THE WILDERNESS A POOL OF WATER AND THE DRY LAND SPRINGS OF WATER."
Next followed Isaiah 43:20 which says, "...I GIVE WATERS IN THE DESERT TO GIVE DRINK TO MY PEOPLE." I was directed to verse 19 of that chapter: "BEHOLD I WILL DO A NEW THING. NOW IT SHALL SPRING (BURST) FORTH. SHALL YE NOT KNOW IT? I WILL EVEN MAKE A WAY IN THE WILDERNESS, AND RIVERS IN THE DESERT. Isaiah 44:3 followed stating: "FOR I WILL POUR WATER UPON HIM THAT IS THIRSTY, AND FLOODS UPON THE DRY GROUND: I WILL POUR MY SPIRIT UPON THEY SEED, AND MY BLESSING UPON THING OFFSPRING."
The Lord was moving so quickly through the scriptures that I could hardly keep up. His presence was incredibly strong. I felt like the law of gravity had been suspended. Isaiah 49:10 came next: "FOR HE THAT HAS MERCY ON THEM SHALL LEAD THEM EVEN BY THE SPRINGS OF WATERS SHALL HE GUIDE THEM.
Leaving Isaiah, the Lord took me to Joel 2:23: "BE GLAD CHILDREN OF ZION AND REJOICE FOR HE HAS GIVEN YOU THE FORMER RAIN MODERATELY, AND HE WILL CAUSE TO COME DOWN FOR YOU THE RAIN, THE FORMER RAIN AND THE LATTER RAIN IN THE FIRST MONTH." Then Joel 2:28 was given which states: " AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS AFTERWARDS THAT I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT ON ALL FLESH. YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTER SHALL PROPHESY, YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS."
Finally, Genesis 26:18 finished the scriptures that the Lord was rapidly giving me: "AND ISAAC DUG AGAIN THE WELLS OF WATER WHICH THEY HAD DUG IN THE DAYS OF ABRAHAM HIS FATHER."
The Lord revealed the meaning of this vision:
The Early Church experienced the fullness of God. They had the fullness, the gifts and revelation of the Holy Spirit. They were full of boldness, power and anointing. God turned the world upside down through them. The dead were raised, the blind received sight, the possessed were set free, the sick healed and the Gospel was preached to the poor.
The anger of Hell was violently aroused. The more the devil persecuted and killed them, the more they multiplied and spread. So Satan changed his tactics. By 300 AD Roman Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Empire. What Satan could not do through persecution, he accomplished through promotion, position, power, prestige, acceptance and prosperity. They SOLD OUT! The Church backslid and the all humanity fell into the brutality and nightmare of the Dark Ages.
The purpose of each Great Awakening or the bursting forth of a spiritual well was to restore back to the church an element of truth that the Early Church. Luther restored "the just shall live by faith." Wesley, Whitefield, Edwards and the First Great Awakening restored "repentance, inward holiness and the teaching of "Christ in you."
The Second Great Awakening with Barton Stone at Cane Ridge in the West and Francis Asbury in the East brought salvation and restoration to society. Evangelism, missions, and great social renewal was restored to the church. The Third Great Awakening of 1857 restored the power of prayer. Azusa Street Outpouring of 1905 restored the power and presence of the Holy Spirit.
The Lord stated that He was going to reopen all of the "old wells" of revival in order to restore "TOTAL" truth to His church. All of the fragmented elements of truth would be brought together as a collective whole. Fallen mantles of ministry and anointing that rested upon the great men and women of God of old would be picked up and placed on godly men and women today to finish what was started long ago. They are the "Isaacs" that will revisit the "old wells" of revival and reopen them. The mantles of ministry did not die nor were they buried with Asbury, Wesley, Stone, Amanda Berry Smith and others. They have only been "on hold" until a generation would be born that could relate to these mantles and pick them up.
Isaiah 58:12 refer to them: "And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places, thou shall raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in."
The Lord said, "What once was shall be again."
Malachi 4:5 prophecies that "I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." He said this was not just a generational reconciliation between the old and the young. It is a restoration of His people to the Faith once delivered to the Saints, the Faith of our fathers.
The Lord said He was tired of the apostasy, deadness, programs, personality cults, plans and politics that have nearly destroyed His church. He is going to restore HIS church by returning the "Faith of our Fathers to their children (their descendants) and the children to the Faith of our Fathers."
The old wells will BURST forth and the fallen mantles will be picked up. "Bursting forth" means it will be a "suddenly." Isaiah speaks of it occurring in the desert places and on the barren heights.
In other words, it will happen in the most unlikely of places.
The Lord continued His interpretation of the vision by explaining to me that "NEW FOUNTAINS" would gush or break forth also.
Isaiah 43:19 declares, "Behold I do a new thing. Now it shall SPRING or burst forth (a suddenly)."
Something that has never occurred in any Great Awakening or in any historic move of God will exploded upon the scene in our day.
Joel 2:23 speaks of God sending the former rain (the Old Wells of revival) and the latter rain (the New Fountains) in the SAME MONTH!!! In other words, all of the moves of God and fallen mantles from Pentecost until now will be reopened and picked up and combined with a totally new thing from God. It will literally shake the church and the world. HE WILL RESTORE A CHURCH WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE! HE WILL NOT ALLOW THE CHURCH TO GO OUT DEFEATED. HE WILL ARISE FOR HIS OWN NAME’S SAKE!
God has been preparing a "Joseph Generation" has been enrolled in a "School of Dung".
[ Interjection by pris: My spiritual mom calls this being posted at the Dung Gate ]
In this schooling, they have endured the pain of rejection, slander and isolation. The "Word of the Lord" has tried them severely. They have cried out, "God why? All I wanted to do is serve you. All seems to have "gone to hell in a hand basket." "It seems just the opposite of what You promised. I am lonely, the organized church thinks I am crazy, a fanatic, out on a limb.
They have rejected me and hated me because of my great love for you.
WHY, OH LORD?" God has been preparing and perfecting these "Josephs" in the darkness and in the prison houses of loneliness and isolation for a day and hour that they will be unleashed as a secret weapon on the kingdom of darkness. He has allowed all of these things to happen to them for their good. He has prepared a people that He can trust with His power, gifts, and anointing. In holiness, humbleness and boldness they will fulfill His plans in our day. They will give HIM the glory. They will give HIM total control of the coming Great Awakening. The door of their prison house of utter loneliness and rejection is about to open.
Their "word" is about to come. That word is "the King has need of thee." In a moment, they will be ushered from prison to position. In a moment, they will fully understand their long and severe sufferings. In a moment, they will be brought out into the light of God’s divine destiny for them. God will use them to lead the Coming Great Awakening.
Along with this final Great Awakening is coming Divine Judgment. Isaiah 35:4 declares, "Your God shall come with vengeance, even God with a recompense. He will come and save you." God is going to overthrow the abuse and control of man in His church. His church is like a ship that has been taken away from Him and turned into a luxury liner. He is going to take her back and restore her back to her original state: "a ship of war." HE IS GOING TO TAKE BACK THE CONTROL OF HIS CHURCH!!! The Church is HIS bride, not someone else's.
Additionally, this nation is going to be greatly shaken. The First Great Awakening preceded the American Revolution. Before the Second Great Awakening began at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, a massive epidemic of Cholera occurred. In its early days of the Third Great Awakening, every bank in the nation collapsed. This awakening was followed by the greatest disaster in American History when the nation was ripped apart and 600,000 Americans perished in the horrific War Between The States. A great earthquake hit California at the same time of the Azusa Street Outpouring. He is going to shake the Church and this nation. Only that which is of Him will be left standing.
A great hunger for repentance, seeking God, seeking holiness and seeking truth has exploded within the "Joseph Generation." They have studied, researched and sought out the "Old Wells" of revival. They intensely hunger for God to do it again! They cry out, "Just one more time, oh Lord! Programs, politics, personalities, manipulation, and plans in the church sicken them. THEY MUST HAVE GOD! THEY MUST BE IN HIS PRESENCE! They are meeting in the homes, in the fields, in the woods, in their prayer closets and any place that they can totally seek His face. Their despair has turned into an all-consuming hunger that says, "Give me God or let me die." GOD HAS HEARD! He is about to reopen the old wells of revival, He is picking up the fallen mantles and placing on men and women, and He is about to do a new thing!
Every Awakening has incurred the wrath and persecution of man. When the Presence and holiness of God confronts mankind, they must make a decision for or against Him. When they choose to reject Him, they lash out and fight against His messengers. In the mid 1700s, the Baptist in Colonial Virginia were beaten, imprisoned, and killed for preaching the Gospel.
The Methodist circuit riders were jailed, tarred and feathered, beaten, abused and martyred for the message of God. The leader of the First Great Awakening, George Whitefield, was beaten almost to death by two men wielding a club. John Wesley faced mob violence.
The reason there is little persecution against the Church in America today is that there is so little of the Presence of and Message of God to confront mankind. The world has heard how to get rich, how to prosper, how to have self-esteem, and to feel good. They have not heard the message, "repent of perish." They have not heard the anointed Word of God that demands a decision. Be forewarned, The Final Great Awakening will usher in a wave a persecution against the true Church of God.
Old Wells of Revival are on the threshold of being reopened. Fallen Mantles of ministry are being picked up. New Fountains are rumbling beneath the surface and about to burst forth. The most incredible move of God will suddenly explode upon the scene. Judgment and a great shaking are coming to the land and to the church. Persecution of the "Isaacs" and "Josephs", the true saints of God will occur. However, they will be covered with such zeal and boldness they will be like the Fathers of old: "And they loved not their lives even until death." (Revelation 12:11) God will harvest a holy remnant from this vile generation. He will have a church that is without spot or wrinkle, a pure bride for His Son.
Be encouraged. Lift up your heads. Your God has come! He will save you! Your destiny is at the door! "The King has need of thee!"
Frank Bartleman once said, "To understand what God is going to do, we must understand what He once did."
