Page 21 - The Road from Babylon to Zion

I have corresponded with many of the saints of God and have learned that my own
experience is not unusual. As a minister, the Father was directing me to urge those
people I was among to walk in faith. Various trials and tests were sent by the hand
of God, particularly in the areas of health and finances, in order to elicit from the
people a response of faith. My own family knew great trials, and although it was with
fear and trembling, we stood firm in faith and we saw the salvation of God. Yet the
other ministers whom the Father had placed me among could only see the giants and
the walled cities. They saw themselves as grasshoppers in comparison to the giants
in the land and great fear gripped them.

These ministers became angered that I was urging them to walk in faith and they
began to rail against me. I was accused of being prideful and arrogant for thinking
I had heard God speak when the rest of them denied that such a walk of faith was
being demanded of them. But this is ever the response of those who have not the
faith to face the giants before them. In a similar way David’s elder brother Eliab
accused him of mischief, pride and unfaithfulness because David was willing to face
Goliath when all others were hiding behind rocks. In the same way the people of
Israel picked up stones to hurl at Caleb and Joshua for urging them to trust Yahweh
and go in and take possession of the good land before them.

Yahweh showed me that these ministers would eventually put me out of their midst.
As I was embroiled in the midst of this controversy a book arrived that I had not even
ordered, and it was from a friend. It was entitled “The Harlot Church” and the
subtitle said “Come out of her My people....” The Spirit spoke to me with great clarity
and said that a separation was coming and that I would be put out of the church. He
said I was not to resist this separation for it was of Him. It happened just as He said.

Many are the citizens of Zion who are finding themselves forced outside the camp of
mainline Christianity in this hour. It is often with sorrow and great pain that the
separation comes. How painful it is to have brothers and sisters pick up rocks to
stone us with. With sorrow we find that those we once broke bread with no longer
will make room for us at the table. But we have this promise:

Isaiah 35:10
And the ransomed of Yahweh will return and come with joyful shouting
to Zion, with everlasting joy upon their heads. They will find gladness
and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Even if Zion finds herself mistreated and rejected and persecuted by saints whose
hearts are enslaved to Babylon, she is not to despise or become embittered toward
them. Instead she is to have the heart of Yahshua who when being crucified said,
“Father, forgive them. They know not what they do.”