The Lord said "Prophesy to the earth" -

"Look up, oh earth, and see the fulfilment of the promise. Look and see the revelation that comes as the sons of God begin to walk upon you. For this you have waited and longed, and even now, great is your travail, oh earth, as the time of revelation draws near. These are the days in which I will pour out my glory upon you, as My sons and daughters are revealed and sent forth as the divine vessels made ready to pour out the glory I have placed within them, across the face of the earth. And My glory shall be carried by the four winds, east, west, north and south, as it spreads across you, even to the darkest places, even to the places that have been hidden, my glory shall know no bounds and shall not be stopped. It shall flow, it shall flow into all the secret places of the earth because my sons and daughters, the children of glory, shall not be stopped and shall not be hindered from fulfilling my purposes. And as it was in the first days of Adam, once again shall all creation not only wonder, but rejoice, as many sons are brought to glory. So prepare, oh earth, and rejoice, for the days of birth, the days of revelation are coming upon you with haste. Make way, make way, and rejoice, oh earth, at the coming forth of the sons of God!

And the Lord said "Prophesy to the nations" -

"Prepare, oh nations, be warned, oh nations, for my army has been summoned, and even now begins to ride. These are the sons of glory, these are the dread champions, these are the mighty men of valour, and before them nations will crumble and fall because I have commissioned each one and each one bears My Name. Make your choices, oh nations! Choose grace, choose redemption, choose holiness, for those who oppose and defy my mighty army will be put to shame and shall not stand. For every knee shall bow to Me and every tongue confess My Lordship upon the face of the earth and in the heavens. Hear Me, and choose wisely oh nations, because the sons of Almighty God are about to be revealed and shall not be held back!

And the Lord said "Prophesy to the Church" -

This is what the Lord says to His Bride, His Army, His Sons and Daughters. "Arise! You who have been hidden, you who have been sleeping, you who have been despised and broken. Now is the time of your revelation! The earth and the heavens look on in wonder as I prepare to unveil My best-kept secrets! Prepare the way! Prepare the way! For My Glory shall rise upon you and within you as you are uncovered and manifested to the world. Come My Bride, My Chosen One, now is the time when our betrothal shall be made manifest before the eyes of the world, as you are revealed as My overcoming Bride! For there is much to be done together before the final celebration of our union. Now is the time to make yourself ready. The world waits in both fear and anticipation of your manifestation. For in the former days (the first days of the church), the firstfruits were manifested, but in these latter days, the fullness of your inheritance in Me shall be evident to all, and My Kingdom shall be established once for all. Where you go, My Kingdom shall come, when you speak, you shall be heard, wherever you place your foot, peace shall enter, wherever you place your hands, life shall reign. The blind will see, the deaf will hear, the lame will walk, and the dead shall be restored to life, because your identity will be rooted in faith in Who I Am, and who I say you are, and in nothing else.

So prepare yourself, oh church, all those born of the water and the blood, all those led of My Spirit. All those who have not held back from the fellowship of My sufferings shall share in the power of My resurrection and the inheritance of My Glory. Prepare for the season of your manifestation to the world, My Children. As you fix your eyes upon Me alone, My Spirit shall lead you and anoint you in ever-increasing waves of glory. And so shall be the revelation of the Sons of God upon the earth!"

THE PROCLAMATION OF THE KINGDOM
I looked back again at the main army, and saw the black man raise his arm above his head and spin something in the air. It looked like a huge fishing line, with a great hook in it which unfurled in the air as he spun it. It went out a great distance through the air, and hooked into a great black bird through its throat. I then saw two mighty eagles come and attack the black bird and fight with it as soldiers from the army began to reel it in. The great black bird was bound in chains, but I did not see what happened to it after that.

I then remembered the other white man at the head of the two columned army, and looked to see what he was doing. I saw him take a scroll from out of one of the boots he was wearing, which he unfolded and began to read out loud (Ephesians 6:15). The scroll was pure white with gold writing on it. I could not see the words or hear what he was saying, but I knew it was a proclamation of peace. I saw there were many people coming out of the nations to gather in front of him, waiting to hear what he would say. As he read, the people began to weep and rejoice. Though I could not hear him speak audibly, I had the knowledge that he was announcing that a new Kingdom had come and that he was reading out an invitation from the Prince of Peace for them to enter His Kingdom.

I then saw many uniformed soldiers from the two-columned army dismount and move out amongst the multitude of peoples. These soldiers were all ages and both male and female. There were many children and youth among them. There were also ranks amongst them, and those who were obviously leaders moved around directing the soldiers here and there. Among the leaders were many youthful faces with stripes of authority on their uniforms, again both male and female. But there were also much older people in command. The youthful and more elderly officers worked side by side and conferred with each other continually. The soldiers walked up to individuals, touching them and speaking to them. Some of them were carrying food to people, others touched and healed, others simply spoke to them.

As this was happening I looked to see what the "transparent" army was doing, and saw them engaged in fierce battles, sometimes in hand to hand combat, with demons. Angels fought alongside them and in the skies above them. The two scenes, of the blessing army and the fighting army, were going on right alongside each other.

The final thing I heard the Lord say was "There is a cost."

Interpretation: I believe the black bird possibly represents Satan himself who is the "prince of the power of the air" and who will be bound for a thousand years (Rev. 20:1). The two eagles may represent the two witnesses of Revelation 11:3, but I will not be dogmatic about this and am open to other interpretations.

Concerning the Lord's statement that there would be a "cost" to the full coming of the Kingdom upon the earth, in the context of the army scene I can only say that when one joins the army there is most certainly a cost of loss of personal identity. The soldier has everything that stands for his individuality taken away from him - his hair is cut, his clothes are taken and he is put in uniform, his individual lifestyle dies as he is required to wake up and lay down at the same time

as all the other soldiers. He can no longer come and go as he pleases, but all that he does is subject to the corporateness of his unit, and ultimately the whole army. I believe the Lord was intimating that His church will no longer be a place where individuals come together and call themselves "church", but that individuality would give way to a true corporate identity, where each one will be willing to lay down his life for the next one. This means there will be no more "my ministry", "my giftings", or "my church", but a sense of unity in the Spirit as we have not known it, which will transcend all man-made barriers. The cost here will be a laying down of our own ambitions, goals and dreams for those of the Kingdom.

Look and see, My church in Australia. Do you not perceive it?. Do you not see the cracks in the hardness of the heart of your nation and the mercy pouring forth? Do you not see the tears I have brought forth in this hard-hearted place? Do you not see that I have broken the very heart of this nation?

For this is Australia' s time - this is the time I am calling you forth as a nation and to a maturity and a coming of age, Australia. For I have seen your longing, I have seen your stretching forth, I have seen your awakening to maturity, to adulthood, and I say to you that NOW, this is your time. Understand it has been I, who has restrained and held back those that you would traditionally turn to for support and to undergird you, that I might test your heart. And understand it has been I, the Lord, that has said "No, it is your time to stand and to come forth and to take up the responsibilities of adulthood."

And I have seen the tears and the willingness of this nation to stand in the gap, and I have seen a response in the heart of the people to the oppressed and to the downtrodden, as I have called this nation to an intercession and to be a bridge of mercy across the waters.

For I say to you Australia, that even though you are a nation that has known oppression, and you are a nation that was born in captivity, and you are a nation that has known cruelty and hardship, YET I HAVE PLANTED REDEMPTION WITHIN YOUR SOIL! It is because you have known what it is to be cast off and downtrodden that you shall have compassion and mercy on the oppressed, and you shall be carriers of redemption . For what the enemy meant for evil and for destruction, I have turned for good in these days, and I have called forth the heart of mercy and compassion in your midst. Are not the tears you have shed like the very streams in the desert I have promised to bring forth?

No more shall your nation walk in the chains of captivity, the chains of the past! And look, I have given you a sign. Just as you have seen the captives return from their captivity in these last weeks and the birth of a child*, so I declare that NO MORE SHALL YOUR NATION WALK UNDER THE SHADOW OF CAPTIVITY! I declare freedom and a breaking of the chains of the past over this nation, and I declare freedom over this next generation. For the child that has been born represents a generation that will not know a culture of captivity as the fathers have known captivity! I am calling forth a generation that shall throw off the chains of captivity and shall walk in freedom and liberation and justice.

And even as I have called to the nation, AS IT IS IN THE NATURAL, SO SHALL IT BE IN THE SPIRITUAL. And I call the church NOW! . This is a call to arms, just as I called the nation to arms. Quickly I did it, quickly! So shall I call the church to arms. - Quickly now! I call the church to arms, I call the church to mercy, I call the church to take up the fight, I call the church to stand in the gap, I call the church to intercession. I call the church to be liberators!

And just as I have declared and proclaimed and I have said "This nation shall now go forth as releasers of peace and enforcers of justice", will you not also rise My church? Will you not stop your busy-ness? Will you not stop, listen and perceive with your eyes what I am saying in your own nation? Will you not perceive and see what I do, and see what I say to you at this time, and know the season of your visitation? Will you not hear the alarm that I am sending forth, will you not now rise up and say it is OUR time, it is OUR coming of age, it is time for US to stand in the gap, to hear the cry of the oppressed and to respond? Will you not perceive it? Will you not open your eyes to the urgency of the hour?

For I have broken the heart of your hard hearted nation, will you not allow Me now to break the heart of My hard-hearted church? Hear Me now, My church, hear Me now - this IS the time of your visitation, this IS the time for you to respond, this IS your call to arms. Will you take it up?

So let Me break your heart, as I have broken the heart of the nation, let Me break the heart of My church, for in this you will find your freedom and in this you will find your healing. END

Relevant scripture references:

"Then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb sing. For waters shall burst forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert." Isaiah 35:6

"The spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterwards the spiritual." 1 Corinthians 15:46

"But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive." Genesis 50:20

"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart - These, O God, You will not despise." Psalm 51:17

In prayer I saw a vision of a river. The river was deep and full of light. In the river there were many people frolicking, diving, laughing, splashing etc. I was aware they were Christians enjoying the river with each other. However, the land along the banks of the river was dark. Along the banks many people stood watching those in the river. These people had sunken eyes, thin, malnourished bodies and were like shadowy figures standing in the darkness. I could only see the frontline of this group of people clearly, but had the impression that behind them stood many more shadowy figures. They stood watching those in the river, some with puzzled faces, some with deadpan, lifeless expressions.

As I watched those in the river, the water appeared to decrease gradually, until it was only around their ankles. As this happened, they began to look up and become aware of those watching from the muddy banks. They acted as if they had not been aware of those on the banks previously. Their focus changed from the river to those on the banks, and they started moving out of the river into the seemingly endless crowds gathered along the banks. I saw them start to move amongst and lay hands upon those gathered along the river's edge. Many of the "bank people" fell in the Spirit, many received healing, many were saved and restored as the "river people" moved among them ministering. I saw their malnourished bodies and faces fill with life and colour as they were touched by the river people. I knew the "river people" could only move in this kind of power because they had been in the river.

I looked back at the river and saw that all of the river people had left and were now moving amongst the "bank people" and that wherever they went and to whoever they touched they brought life, miracles and healing.

This is where the vision ended.

I asked the Lord if He was going to allow the river to dry up in order that His people would move out of it and into the world?

I believe this is what He said: "You, and many of My people, have not understood the river, nor its purpose. It does not dry up and will not, because it is not a PLACE, it is a PERSON. You don't just get into the river, the river gets into you. (John 7:37-39) The reason the people who had been in the river were able to do the things you saw them doing in the vision is because THE RIVER IS IN THEM. The river flows with Living Water - it is not confined or contained, nor is it limited. No longer say "The river flows here, so I am going here, but it does not flow there, so I will not go there" For in saying that you attempt to restrict and contain the flow of My Spirit. Know that the river is not a place - it is the very power and Person of My Spirit! The river is about to move out from its banks through My people - they are the carriers of the river, and the flow will depend on their obedience. I am not about to dry up My river - I am about to let it loose!".

A PROPHETIC WORD TO AUSTRALIA, Cheryl McGrath, 17 February, 1999

"The Lord is saying the nation is in danger. This is a warning to the nation. Do not submit again to spiritual colonisation. The nation is in danger of spiritual colonisation. For there are many who will come to this nation. And some would come who are sent by Me, they would come who are sent by Me, who would stir up , and stir up, and stir up the revival, the seeds of revival that have been planted in this nation, and they come to bless and they come to release. And they come to identify with this nation, and they come with My Heart, and they come with humility.

But there are others who would come, to spiritually colonise this nation. There are those who would come with a heart that believes they have come to release and a heart that believes that they have come to bless, but it is a heart that has come to reproduce, to reproduce, to reproduce in this nation what they have themselves. To reproduce, and not to bless this nation but to reproduce and to take from this nation.

Do not submit to a yoke of spiritual colonisation. For the revival that I would bring to this nation would be one that is conceived and one that is birthed in the loins of this nation and springs forth from the deep wells I have dug in this nation. The revival that I would bring to this nation will be a revival that is not like any revival anywhere else in the world. It will be a revival unique to this nation, it will be a revival born in this nation - a revival that has been born out of the struggles of this nation. To be born and to mature and to grow.

And just as in the natural there are stirrings of maturity, there are stirrings for this nation to grow to full maturity and to be released, just as a child would grow and leave the arms of the mother and leave the apron strings and mature in the natural, so I call My church - mature! I call My church to maturity, I call My church to growth, I call My church to a growing up, a season of growing up, that the revival that I send might be deep and it might be a revival that lasts and a revival that goes forth to the utmost, to the utmost corners of the earth, a revival that sends forth and reproduces ME in the other nations of the world, not a revival that is a false revival.

It is not My desire that you would settle for a false revival. It is not My desire that you would settle, as you always have, for the second best. As you always have, always have looked to the other nations, always have looked beyond the seas, and looked down upon yourselves and looked down and said "we cannot do this, we cannot do this". For I am about to do something new in this land, I am about to birth something new, and it will be of this land, it will be of this very very ancient land.

And just as the nation was called New South Wales, even before the other names came into being and it was divided up into states and territories, it was called New South Wales, so I would bring a spirit of South Wales in the revival that is coming. I would bring the anointing of the Welsh Revival on this nation - that Spirit and that anointing, and I will not have any other. I will NOT settle for any other nation imposing and colonising this nation!

I have called this nation to a last days revival and it will be one that I birth in this nation and will be one that no other nation will colonise. So look to ME, LOOK TO ME, LOOK TO ME! Not to the other nations, not to the other nations, not to the other nations - to bring your redemption, to bring what you've been asking for. Look to ME and I will do it in this nation, MY way. Do not settle for the second best once again, do not settle for false revival. Allow me to bring it forth from your very loins, from your very loins, from your very loins!"

Cheryl McGrath, 1st February, 1999.

On Monday, 1st February, 1999, I was praying and waiting on the Lord when He said "the time of separation is at hand". I said "What do you mean, Lord, what separation?"

Straight away I was given a picture of Australia full of sheep. I mean it was just an overview of Australia absolutely full of sheep. Then the picture zoomed in and I was at an Australian sheep station. Jesus was there and He was standing in front of a very large mob of sheep. He at first whistled to them, then I saw Him calling to the sheep and beckoning to them - but I couldn't understand what He was saying. I also noticed an Australian sheep dog running across the backs of the sheep, and behind them, helping Jesus round them up as sheep dogs do. (I believe this was symbolic of the Holy Spirit).

The sheep were all facing Jesus and looking at Him, but nothing seemed to be happening. The the Spirit said to me "look closer". I then saw many black sheep in amongst the mob, and individually they started moving out as Jesus called and stood beside Him.

The scene then changed and I saw Jesus in a fenced yard pouring a liquid over these black sheep who had moved out of the larger mob. I thought "Oh, Jesus is washing the sheep with water." Again the Spirit said "look closer" and I saw that it was not water but a red liquid Jesus was pouring over the sheep - I knew it was His Blood. As He poured the Blood over each sheep, they changed from black to white. Even though they changed to white, there were still burrs and crawly things in their fleece. Then I saw that after this each sheep walked to a typical Australian sheep dip, where one by one they were caused to be immersed in a deep trench of water and come out the other side. The Spirit said to me "this is the washing of water by the word". I noticed that after the sheep went through the water all the burrs and lice etc, were gone and their fleece shone brilliantly white. These sheep were then separated off into a separate flock.

Then I was taken back to the scene of the large mob of sheep. Jesus was again standing in front of them, but He had stopped calling, He was just watching. I saw wolves move in on these sheep. They attacked the flock, ripping and tearing at them - many were killed, many were left wounded and bleeding. The wolves were doing what they wanted - there was none to stop them. I cried out to Jesus and said "Lord, do something - these are your sheep! Why aren't you doing something? Aren't they all your sheep?" Then I heard the words "they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto death."

He again showed me the smaller flock which had been separated. They were grazing in a separate fenced paddock where the pasture was green and lush and rich. They were feeding on this pasture, and all around the outside of the fence there were large angels with drawn swords. Then Jesus said to me "This is My flock - the sheep who are being attacked are those who refused to respond to My Voice when I called. These are the sheep who recognised My Voice and responded to it. I am separating the sheep from the sheep."

He then told me He was presently visiting every church and assembly of believers across Australia - every single one where His Name was named, and He was calling His sheep. I saw Jesus standing at the door of a church - I have no idea where - calling the people. Certain individuals got up and came to Him. He was not calling them out of the church - He was looking for a response. I knew this was happening in every church He visited. He then said those who knew His Voice and responded to it would be His next generation church in Australia. He said they were His true flock.

At this point I said to the Lord "Lord, I know you said you would separate the sheep from the goats, but I am not sure about separation of sheep from sheep. (I was feeling the seriousness of what He was showing me). I asked Him to give me Scripture so I could understand and believe this was Him. He told me to go and read again John 10:1-16. He also led me to Ezekiel 34:11-24. Then He said "Speak it" ... and that is where the vision ended. I then went to the above scriptures and felt the Holy Spirit was specifically emphasising the following scriptures:

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