The “Christian” Gated Community
November 6, 2022 9:54 PM
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November 6, 2022
In a dream vision, the Holy Spirit put me inside the mind of a woman who suddenly saw the wild and forested land on the mountain next to her property turn into something else entirely.
Abutting her property line, within 40 feet of her house, the land had overnight turned into a cemetery, with one cross after another planted above each grave plot. Horrified, the woman realized that some large company had bought the adjoining land and used it for a cemetery of a new church at the top of the ridge. She was concerned that the value of her property had significantly dropped—who wants to buy a house with a cemetery next to it?—so she angrily hiked up the mountain to register her complaint with the new property owner.
When the woman arrived at the ridge, she was shocked to see that a gated Christian community had taken over and built what almost looked like a theme park. She walked first into what looked like a funeral home chapel, and demanded to talk to the manager. Those unsightly graves, despite their crosses, could be seen from her front door! But each employee tried to avoid her. Then the woman progressed further into the complex, announcing that she was a disgruntled neighbor and wanted to see the boss—her property value had dropped at least $100,000 with the cemetery placed right up against it! But no one would speak with her. The employees appeared well-dressed, conservative, and wholesome, but all shrank away from her.
As the woman went further, she walked past a shrine to the Christian writer C.S. Lewis and his Narnia series. Then she saw a real estate sales office and walked past models of quaint mountain country homes in three different styles. She saw golf carts driving around the property showing the potential buyers the lots available.
Unable to speak to anyone who was supposedly Christian, she—who thought she was a Christian herself—stood there reflecting on what she saw. She realized that EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE CHRISTIAN GATED COMMUNITY HAD TO DO WITH MONEY. And with her property located next to its cemetery, she had lost a significant amount of property value too. She felt as if she had been swindled by a well-dressed thief.
When I awoke from the dream vision, I asked the Holy Spirit for help with its interpretation.
“You cannot serve both God and money,” He said. Then He asked me if anyone in the Christian gated community was healing the sick in Jesus’s name.
“No,” I replied.
“IT’S TIME TO HEAL THE SICK,” He said. Then He asked me, “Was anyone raising the dead?”
“No,” I replied. “But they were selling plots to bury the dead.”
“IT’S TIME TO RAISE THE DEAD,” He said. Then He asked me, “Was anyone driving out demons?”
“No,” I replied.
“IT’S TIME TO DRIVE OUT THE DEMONS,” He said. “Was anything freely given?” He asked me.
“No. Everything cost something,” I replied. “They had to pay for what they received. And they didn’t give freely.”
“FREELY YOU HAVE RECEIVED; FREELY GIVE,” He said.
Scripture:
Leviticus 25:23-24 NIV
23 “‘The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers. 24 Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
Ezekiel 37 NIV
37 The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”
4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! 5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.
9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.
11 Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. 14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’”
Matthew 6:24 NIV
24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Matthew 10:8 NIV
8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.
John 14:12-14 NIV
12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
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