Many Want to Build Their Own Kingdoms
“The Spirit of The LORD God is upon Me, Because The LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of The LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of The LORD, that He may be glorified,” Isaiah 61:1-3.
“You are a chosen generation. You are a Holy Nation, but no longer do I call you My Own, for you have wandered away from Me.
No longer do you follow My Mandates. You have drifted far from Me. You are as a ship tossed upon the sea.
You are as a bird without a home. I have watched as you bury your young. I have watched as the violence has risen.
Your prophets and spiritual leaders speak of great things that are coming, but they are not in touch with Me.
They look for the miraculous, but they don’t know of the truth of what is coming.
They look for large crowds and a following, but it only to build their own kingdoms.
But if you were truly with Me, then you would lift up the broken-hearted and set the captives free.
You want your own glory. You think you can jump up and down and declare this, and speak this, but your words have fallen to the ground.
I can take your mantle and tear your private kingdom to the ground.
The night is coming, and many will not be able to withstand the storms that are coming.
It is only through My Light that you will be able to see the way that is before you. Then many who are rich will be poor, and the world’s economy will fail.
But to those who look to Me, I will give them My White Stone, and a Light to see the road ahead.”
Selah,
~ Stephen Hanson
Stephen Hanson of In His Truth Ministries came to The LORD is a special way in 1975 and has prophesied regularly since. In these end-time birthing pangs we are reminded that judgment must first begin with the household of God. Will we be prepared and ready?
Stephen is a full-time Artist of original architectural, landscape, portrait, still-life and spiritual oil paintings, available at StephenHansonArtist.com
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During the days in which the book of Revelation was written, and days prior to that time, giving one a white stone meant that the person had been charged with some offense but had been acquitted; he had been shown as justified. Since works alone will be reviewed at the judgment seat, justification shown by the white stone must emanate out of a judgment of works. Justification on the basis of Christ’s finished work at Calvary cannot be in view at all, for overcomers and non-overcomers alike would receive such a stone if that were the case. A white stone will be given to every Christian whose works endure the fire, revealing justification on the basis of that coming under judgment — works emanating out of faithfulness .
A white stone was also given to the victor in a contest or battle, which is exactly what is in view through overcoming. Christians are presently in a battle, a warfare, against “principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world [‘age’], against spiritual wickedness in high places [‘against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenlies’]” (Ephesians 6:12). And Satan and his angels use the world and the flesh in their never-ceasing efforts to bring about a Christian’s defeat. It is the victor — the one overcoming the world, the flesh, and the devil — that the promised white stone will be given.
Bro Stephen what does the Lord mean by “I will give them My White Stone”?