THE 7-FOLD CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR
(11) saying,e “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.” (Revelation 1:11, BSB)
Writing is the means by which the Lord chose for me to release all that He has given me as I was muzzled, ostracised and relegated to the peripherals of the church. It is now 10 years since those early days of mistreatment and like Joseph, I was forgotten, on a testing journey as everyone carried on with their lives. Well, it was on the 19th June 2021 I heard in my spirit ‘someone remembered Joseph’. Today, someone will remember me because God is the orchestrater of divine connections. I now await the fulfilment of a dream I had some 3 years ago, where two men in military uniforms were hurrying up a gradient calling out ‘Who Is Gwendolyn Smith?’. ‘Where is she?’. As I watched from the edge of my dream, I could see there was excitement on their faces as they hurried to find me and be in my presence. I announce that It is my season to be released from this place of waiting.
I have come to realise that the grace given me to write is the trajectory of where the Spirit is leading. It is no surprise to me as this mantle endowed upon me is a strategic one. I remember writing in one of my 2015 books that what I was being fed by the Spirit is that for the end time global Church, and by that I mean the Elect Body of Christ, there would be a unified approach to culminating the Kingdom work here on earth. Like Israel leaving Egypt, we are leaving a spiritual Egypt for Canaan. The journey in this end time will test our faith and confidence in God as the world order becomes more controlling and restrictive in an effort to maintain law and order. Repression, state control and curtailment of civil liberties will only increase as mutant variants of the demonic virus continues to weaken economies and wreak havoc in the nations. The fear coming to mankind will be real. Since 2015, I have continued to believe that there will be a Spirit-led strategic and unified approach to culminating the Kingdom work. It will be evident that it is mandated by God, through a chosen servant. God will speak through His chosen servant as He did with Moses to lead the desert Church.
I announce that there will be strategic leadership through a chosen servant to lead the end time Church through the perils facing mankind as we prepare to be with the Lord. As God showed with Joshua, chosen after Moses’ death, He will let the watching world know that He is with this chosen prophet to provide strategic leadership. “And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.” (Joshua 3:7, KJV)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
I will now recall a dream I had quite a few times as a child. This Germanic folklore tells of a town overrun with rats and a piper lures them away by playing a flute . It concludes with a twist of vindication. The mayor of the town did not pay the piper for his services to rid the place of the rats and so he decided to play the beautiful captivating tune to lure the children of the town to follow him to paradise. He began playing his piper and the children skipped and danced, following him out of the town to a beautiful paradise. The folks were bereft with grief at the absence of their children. Hamlin became a place without joy and laughter as the sounds of children playing and seeing them active in the life of the homes and community came to an abrupt and eerie end.
The dream I had was of me playing a flute, flying high above the earth over hills and mountains, joyous as throngs of people followed me through the atmosphere. It was the most beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky. The procession of multitudes of people were just coming, coming, coming over the distant horizon. As far as my eyes could behold it was a sea of happy people, singing, praising God and clapping their hands. Each time I turned my head to look behind, the endless stream of people of all nations kept coming over the horizon. It was electric.
A Word for Turkey
I have no doubt whatsoever that the dream is linked to the word given to me in the winter of 2012. ‘I want you to establish it in a conference in the place of the 7-fold churches’. The ‘out of Egypt’ deliverance that God has promised me in 2015 is the means by which the word given to me can come to pass in this season. An audacious move of evil has been hatched against any move of God to bring the persecuted church out of captivity in the nations. This move of God to bring the other sheep, not yet of this fold into the Body of Christ, is the crowning glory of His Elect Bride. The enemy has been using pious leaders and people in the Body of Christ to resist this move. But the fear of the Lord is returning to the Body of Christ as it is lopped off and scaled down to the Elect Bride of Christ. In 2020 a brazen attempt to prevent a move of God in the nations has been raging. Be not deceived people. The pandemic is a satanic force of strength to detract from the momentous New Order that God is ushering in for healing and restoration. Our Sovereign Lord, conferred with all power in earth and heaven will take advantage of the dire situation for His glory.
The Year of Release
“And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, (11)when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.” (Deuteronomy 30:10-11, KJV).
The healing and restoration of the nations is about to unfold as we enter Rosh Hashanah 5782 (2022), (6th – 8th September). “On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.” (John 7:37, BSB). The Feast of Sukkot, also known as the Feast of Tabernacle will be from 20th-27th September. The purpose of this important Festival in Jerusalem was for the people to commemorate the time during the wilderness journey when God gave provisions and protection to Israel. The significance of Jesus standing up on the last day at this great Feast and crying out ‘Come, Drink of Me’, was overlooked by the misguided people. It was actually an appeal to their spiritually thirsty hearts. He was the living water of life that would flow under the tabernacle of the living temples and the light that was to shine forth out of a dark place with illuminating works of righteousness.
We are coming into the 7th Sabbatical Year of Release (Shmita), (5782) – 2022. We are in a time of global healing when the people will be released from every captivity of sin. The fear of the Lord will come upon the people as they are made whole in the glorious presence of the Lord. This outpouring of healing and restoration will be like no other time in the history of the church periods. We have fallen short of God’s righteousness and the cleansing flow will bring healing in the recesses of the base visceral self. All that has lain hidden, undisturbed, comfortable and resident in the deep chambers of the heart will writhe and shift in fear as the forceful word provokes the lax atmosphere. It is the complete and perfect time to be released from every hidden sin. A time to repent and forgive your enemies and to do due diligence to those you have wronged.
As we are ushered into Rosh Hashanah 5782 (2022) on 6th – 8th September, I can announce that it will be a significant year of spiritual change. I believe we will see the release of the healing flow from under the threshold of the tabernacle – a reference to the Holy Spirit outpouring coming to our thirsty, sick and dying world. It is a time for rejoicing in a season of world chaos and unprecedented sickness and death. The best is yet to come, people.
Gwendolyn Smith. #NEWPENTECOST. 25th June 2021