Falling Grains, a Clever Hen, and a Cactus

This is a direct lift from here. I'm not saying I agree with it or endorse it; I'm just reporting.

A few days ago, I had a vision.

It ties in with things I have already spoken of lately about coming food shortages due to natural and manmade disasters, and it is just yet another way of God getting our attention – look this is REALLY important, PREPARE – now. And to specifically get my attention too, to get me moving on this and not just thinking on it, because I do not think this is just about people in America or other parts of the world any more - I think it is people in Europe too. It includes me! And more than that, there is no time for complacency, pp “I’ll get around to it soon.” It’s a call to me to get around to it now.

Vision of Grains Falling Through My Hands

In this vision from a few days ago, I was standing out with my hands outstretched and desperately trying to catch grains [wheat or rice - I don't know what - but they were food grains in order to eat], that were falling rapidly through the air – and I knew I had to catch them fast while I could or they would be lost to me and my family and we’d go hungry [there was a sense of darkness and of hunger and desperation in the surrounding circumstances].

The grains were falling fast like rain [but not in the positive sense of rain], and they were so tiny it was really difficult to catch many at all just with my hands – which is all I had to catch them – especially with the way in which they were falling, and their speed – and some just were bouncing out of my hands, and there was no container or apron to catch them in as I was not at all prepared. It was almost like a folly out there, with very sparse and meagre collection being possible for those who could grab them.

I believe the interpretation to this vision is clear. There is time now to prepare properly for the long hard ’winter’ ahead that is coming – and where people can, they should prepare and be like the wise squirrel storing up food when it is readily available and plentiful – he does not wait for the first frost to hit! Don’t be like this fool caught out. For without adequate preparation, when the time comes ‘out of the blue’, it will be very difficult for even ’normal’ complacent Western people – anyone – to get what they need.

Vision Of The Clever Industrious Hen In My Own Backyard

This ties in with another very similar vision I had last Autumn – albeit there was less urgency to it then [but still an urgency!]

In this vision, a hen was in my backyard [ie not just a million miles away in the Third World or another country - it was my own backyard!] This hen was rapidly pecking up pieces of grain with her beak – I mean rapidly, head bobbing up and down ridiculously fast in a comical fashion – and I understood then this was to do with food collection, and rapidly collecting what one could for the times ahead – for the hen knew what was coming. [Birds collect for their young too].

Vision Of The Well Watered Cactus

Today, I had yet another vision – linked in again to coming shortages. This time I saw a large well-watered cactus in the desert. I was reminded of how they store up water for the ‘dry’ periods ahead so they can survive for long periods in a season of ‘drought’.

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Please church, don’t be complacent. Prepare now while you still can.

In the Book of Acts, when the prophet Agabus was warned of the famine to spread through the entire Roamn World, the church did not pray against it or call for repentence so it could be averted, they did not rest on their laurals and say “God will provide, have faith!” – they knew God was providing by forewarning them so they could practically prepare. They said, right it is coming, let the church prepare for it. And they did so. A very similar thing with Joseph. He knew what was coming prophetically and adequately prepared.