Dangerous Reaction

I was praying and felt the Lord give me a warning for His bride.

I saw a ship cruising at a quick/efficient speed. The ship had a handful of seats at its front, overlooking the foreword progress. Saws (blades) were affixed to the ship’s main mast; their purpose was to sever tethers that were suspended over the ocean. This was the ship’s purpose. As I kept watching it soon became apparent that the blades along the ship’s mast were not being guided accurately, and that the tethers would soon entangle the ship to point of rendering it immobile. This happened; the ship became hopelessly entangled, and all forward momentum was stopped.

Pondering this, I wondered why the ship was not able to accurately position/guide its main purpose. I then saw, transposed above the ship, a Bald Headed Eagle, but it was struck by lightning.

Here is how I interpret this.

The ship symbolizes a ministry. Its quick speed reveals that the ministry was making efficient progress, most likely succeeding within its ministry. Initially, it was effectively achieving its purpose by severing the suspended cords/tethers. The handful of seats at the ship’s forefront shows that the ministry’s leadership team was relatively united. It wasn’t a one man show; they had a decent team effort, probably within the Five-Fold-Ministry. Though, they no longer had an eagle, or prophet. The result was failure.

Why was an eagle struck by lightning above the ship? The ministry was most likely in relationship with a prophet in the past. The prophet, then, either fell morally or actually physically died. The ministry did not align itself with another prophet in time, resulting in the loss of all forward momentum.

I gleaned a few main points with this vision.

First, the necessity of prophets to help council and guide ministries, ministries will fail from short-sightedness without them.

Secondly, prophets can, and most likely will to some degree, fail or stumble at some point in their ministries. Some failures can be easily rectified, yet others can be quite devastating to a ministry. As with every minister, prophets need accountability and wise council too. They aren’t infallible.

Lastly, despite the struggles and hardships produced by prophets who make mistakes, and potentially lead people astray, their ministry role is vital to the Lord’s body. God has stationed His prophets as pivotal voices in the past, and He has stationed them as pivotal voices in the present (Ephesians chapter 4; 1 Cor. Chapter 12).

In these last days there will be many voices claiming to speak prophetically for God, but are not of Him and will lead many people astray. In Matthew 24:5 Jesus said that “many shall come in My name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many”. Christ means ‘anointed’. So basically, people will claim to be anointed and proceed to lead many people astray. With this said, it is vitally important to not blindly receive or accept someone as a prophet simply because they claim to be anointed, or even are anointed to some degree. If we are plugged into the community of Christ’s body, then we will be surrounded by many trustworthy, wise, discerning people who can keep us on track and balanced with our personal walks.

If the unfortunate circumstance happens where some are led astray for a time by false prophecies, then it is vitally important to not react by this sour experience and divorce from the prophetic ministry all together. Despite the pain and disillusionment produced by man’s problems let’s not forsake God’s ordained structure for His body.