I am going to give you a brief overview of what God has shown me He is looking to do in each of these periods.
Wine- a call to intimacy, becoming a habitation of God. A revelation of Fatherhood, Sonship, royal Identity.
Fire-Gathering and removing of stumbling blocks. Releasing the Joshua Generation.
Wind-Judgment of God’s household. Harvest of Laborers. Shaking of world systems. Final harvest.
Firstly, there is a call to intimacy: God started doing this a while ago, and it will continue. I know of people struggle with intimacy. In church services, when we are praising the whole place is packed and full up at the front, but as soon as we begin moving into intimacy you can see people start to drift off. There is something totally different about us giving God praise (which comes from our spirit) and real intimacy (which comes from His Spirit and our spirit joined together). God wants us to know Him in intimacy.
Second, there is going to be a gathering and removing of stumbling blocks. Angels have begun gathering in meetings. people have seen them. They are not just the trumpet angels, the healing angels, or the breakthrough angels: they are the gathering angels. They have been watching, waiting for an opportunity to gather and remove stumbling blocks from us, from the church. There is going to be a whole move where God does that.
There is judgment coming from the household of God: it is going to divide what is of God and what isn’t, in the churches. However, judgment is not condemnation: with God, judgment is always an opportunity to change.
There are challenging times coming.
There is going to be a harvest of laborers. We are going to see thousands and thousands of people turning to Jesus, and that is not an end-time harvest, it is to prepare to send out laborers into the harvest fields to bring in the end-time harvest. Ask Jesus for them (Luke 10:2). There are going to be prodigals returning by the hundreds, streaming back to God. God is going to be drawing them.
Awesome times are coming, but we need to be very careful to prepare and equip those people to do the things that God is calling them to do. There is going to be a raising up of the Joshua generation at this time – Caleb and Joshua were people of a different spirit who were able to take the people into their inheritance, the promised land.
God is calling for a generation to be raised up, who will bring and equip those harvesters to bring in the final harvest. There are going to be apostolic centers to train those harvesters. There will be an increasing manifestation of the five-fold ministries and gifts of the Spirit to train people. There is going to be an increasing manifestation of people who seek first the Kingdom of God, people who live it, not just say it or know what it says, but who actually live it day by day and hour by hour.
There is going to be a shaking of the world’s systems, a storm of judgment coming on the earth through the ministry of judgement given to the sons of God, and we have to be ready, because we must have the answers in the judgment that is coming. When the world’s systems have fallen apart, the church is going to be raised up in authority, with answers. When the medical experts have no cure for some of the diseases that are going to be released, we will have healing in our hands. We have already seen in the past a minor shaking of the financial system, a little tremor, causing a crisis the experts could hardly manage, which turned into a worldwide recession: when it all collapses, we will be people who can say, ‘Oh, over there in that fish’s mouth there is a roll of 50 dollars in it!’ Or ‘You need food this week? Oh, OK, there you go, I’ll just multiply what you have.’
Do you remember Elisha and that story about the widow and her son, and the oil that didn’t stop flowing until they ran out of pots to fill? Oil was a precious substance, you could use it for cooking, but you could also sell it. As soon as they ran out of pots, the oil stopped flowing. That is a picture of what God is doing here.
If you don’t want the oil to stop flowing, you have to keep coming for more and bring more people who come as empty pots to be filled. And they will go on to fill others who are hungry and thirsty for more.
These world systems are all going to be shaken. Increasingly, we are going to see more ‘little’ examples of shaking which build up to a great shaking.