Don't be swept away in the earthquake!

On the night of 11.11.19 I had a dream where I was ‘flying’ over a hill and I saw the words BAILLE FAILLE in big capital signpost letters positioned over the hill. It instantly reminded me of the Hollywood sign.

I had NO idea what this meant, but I knew it was the Lord. The words seemed French to me. (My French is basic and did not include knowledge of these two words!) Initially I had no idea why the Lord was speaking to me in French! However Proverbs 25:2 says: It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of Kings to seek it out. The wisdom of God is a hidden and mysterious thing and we find and uncover the things concealed when we actively seek and look. Also, the fact that the words were unknown to me, was assurance that this was not a product of my imagination. And there was yet another reason the words were in French, which became apparent as I studied.

I found three meanings for Baille … the original (now obsolete) meaning and two moden meanings. All very revealing!

The original (medieval) meaning:

• ‘Baille: used to designate a work or fortification which served as an outpost or exterior defence’. 

It is where the English ‘Bailiff’ and ‘Bailiwick’ and the Scottish ‘Baillie’ come from. I researched across various sources from The Collins dictionary, Wikipedia and Encyclopedias of English and American law, this is what I found:

• bailiff (from Middle English baillif, Old French baillis, bail "custody, charge, office"; cf. bail, based on the adjectival form, baiulivus, of Latin bajulus, carrier, manager) is a manager, overseer or custodian; a legal officer to whom some degree of authority or jurisdiction is given. 

• A bailiff is a law officer who makes sure that the decisions of a court are obeyed. 

• (It is) an individual who is entrusted with some authority, care, guardianship, or jurisdiction over designated persons or property. One who acts in a managerial or ministerial capacity or takes care of land, goods, and chattels of another in order to make the best profit for the owner..

So to summarise..the definition of baille is rooted in the understanding of a fortification or stronghold of defense; in being a custodian and a guardian of persons or property. It is associated with legal authority and jurisdiction.

What are the modern meanings?

• Baille in modern informal French is translated sea (more on this later)

• Bâille (verb bâiller) (with a circumflex) means ‘to yawn’, whilst a bailleur is a sleeping partner or a silent partner.

Three very different meanings!

The second word FAILLE means:

• ‘weakness or fault in the system and a ligne de faille is a fault line (as in earthquakes)’

I understood immediately that this was a word for the church:

There is a weakness in the current church system… a fault line (ligne de faille) in the realm of the spirit that has, for the most part been hidden and inactive.

The original  mandate of the church is that she should be a defending outpost on the fault line; a  legal custodian and guardian of all that has been entrusted to her on the earth by the courts of heaven. It is a position of governmental authority… but she has abandoned her God given authority; her governmental position of custodianship, and is instead yawning and ASLEEP! A silent, sleeping partner. When the church has departed from her governmental position of being the Ecclesia of God (The Greek word Ecclesia is defined as a political assembly of citizens), permission is given for other governmental forces to arise in the earth, bringing enormous conflict and chaos in the spiritual realms).

Why has the church fallen asleep? Because of how she has been building.

Fault lines occur at the meeting point of tectonic plates.

Tectonic means:

• Of or relating to building or construction

• Referring to the forces or conditions within the earth that cause movements of the crust.

We know from the word of God that there are two ways to build:

Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it. Matthew 7:24-27

By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames. 1 Corinthians 3: 10-15

We build on the rock (the revelation of Jesus Christ). Or we build on the sand (the things of the world). We build in accordance with doing the words we hear Jesus speak, or we build ignoring those words, in a manner that seems right to us. We build with gold, silver and costly stones (kingdom materials) or we build with wood, hay straw (combustible worldly materials).

The fault line is the meeting point of these two building systems. It should be a distinct line, for the church should be distinct from the world, but it has become blurry.

Consider church as business, teaching prosperity and humanistic psychology instead of the full gospel, consider the epidemic of divorce and the sanctioning of same sex marriages, consider hyper grace, consider the explaining away of fundamental bible truths, consider the control evident in many churches that stems from a religious spirit and results in the need to perform, and consider the lack of signs and wonders and the lack of true repentance or even teaching on it.

The church has not been watchful on the fault line, indeed she has almost forgotten there is a fault line and there has been a continual crossing over it, from one tectonic plate to another, a mingling and an intermarriage of systems, a blending of building materials, a borrowing of worldly ideas, ideoligies and a sharing of its methodologies and systems.

As I sat and wrote down all that the Lord was saying, He added another layer of meaning to the dream. The hill upon which the words Baille Faille were situated had instantly reminded me of Hollywood, but the Lord quickened to my spirit that, just as the word Baille represented two polarities, so the hill represented 2 polarities.. Hollywood and Golgotha. Both in stark contrast to each other. 

• Golgotha: The place of the skull; the place of the cross. This is where the church should be encamped: at the foot of the cross, for the centrality of the cross and all it represents is essential to sound doctrine and power filled witness. 

• Hollywood: Probably the most globally recognised symbol of worldly entertainment, carnality and indulgence. This is the seeker friendly church that has ‘modernised’ to fit in with the world; has built its platform on the mountains of influence in the world and has become lukewarm, blind and poor because of it.

Question.. Why would anyone who belongs to Jesus deliberately build using worldly materials and systems?

We need to go back to 1 Corinthians 3 (quoted above) to find the answer.  If we read on to the end of the chapter, we find a warning and instruction as to HOW to avoid building with worldly materials…. We are told in verse 18: DO NOT BE DECEIVED! It goes on to say that in our (worldy) wisdom, we must become fools again so that we can become wise. What foolishness is Paul speaking of? It is the foolishness of the cross. 

The wisdom of the cross is foolishness to those that are perishing. Let us not believe that to be found acceptable and wise in the eyes of the world is a good thing! Let us ask the Lord to examine our hearts again (for our hearts are deceitful above ALL things and are desperately wicked!!!) Jeremiah 17:9. Let us not depend on what we think we know but come to Him (and trusted others) in humility and honesty, confessing the sins in our heart...our pride and performance, our control and our unbelieving and judgmental ways.

Right now, in this hour on the earth, forces are being unleashed in the realm of the spirit that are shaking the church to its core, individuals and corporate bodies alike. Tectonic plates that have sat quietly side by side are being agitated and subject to tremors, with the result that a fissure is appearing.. A splitting apart of the tectonic plates, a separating out of 2 different ways and methods of building. How we have built is being revealed right now in the earth.

This leads me back to the second translation of Baille: of the sea. The Lord has spoken to me a lot about the sea, in particular a tsunami wave (the two waves) that is being unleashed on the earth. Where do tsunamis come from? They are generated by the shifting of tectonic plates!

The world has become mixed in with the church and  we are in a season where God is  revealing and removing the things that can be shaken.

At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth, but heaven as well.” The words “Once more signify the removal of what can be shaken— that is, created things— so that the unshakeable may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.… Hebrews 12:26-28

Jesus is coming soon and, in His love for His church and a world in desperate need of an authentic untainted expression of Jesus and his Kingdom, He is shaking us so that ONLY that which is unshakeable remains. Where we have not separated ourselves, He is separating us by a sovereign act. He is shaking us separate and He is calling to His beloved… COME OUT FROM AMONG HER!

What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”… 2 Corinthians 6:16-18

Earthquakes are mentioned 27 times in the bible. Some of great significance. It seems that if anything seismic happened in the spirit realm, the earth responded in like manner… with an earthquake:

Here are some of the most profound:

• Moses on Sinai: Exodus 19:18

• The Crucifixion of Jesus: Matthew 27:51-54

• The Resurrection of Jesus: Matthew 28:2

• Also future predicted earthquakes: When the sixth seal is opened Revelation 6:12 and when the seventh trumpet is sounded: Revelation 16:18

• And again in Zechariah 14:4 when Jesus returns to reign:

On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south.

He is coming again and soon!!! We are already feeling the tremors and seismic shaking that ultimately one day will split the Mount of Olives in two from east to west.

Friends, just as seismologists have predicted for many years... the big one is coming! Let us heed the shaking and repent for where we have served the false idols of the world; for where we have allowed the darkness of satanic and worldly systems to infiltrate our lives and deceive us, rendering us blind and ineffective. Beloved church come out from among them and be separate. Heed the judgement given to Korah, Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Levi in Numbers 16, who were swept away in an earthquake because of their rebellion.

God gave me this dream and this word last November, almost a year has passed, and now as we approach another November, the Lord has said it is time to release it. 

November is the 11th month. What does 11 symbolize in the bible. I felt a nudge to look it up.

Astonishingly 11 has 2 extreme dual meanings (that doesn’t surprise me, given the nature of this word!)

The negative meaning of 11 is lack of preparation, chaos, disorder, things falling apart, disintegration and judgement. The positive meaning is of readiness and valour... heroes rising up in a place of transition, those who believe God when others fall.

I am not a student of biblical / hebrew number meanings.. (There are those who are.. Please research this for yourself.. Don’t take my word for it!) Troy Brewer / number 11

However as I asked God to confirm this to me personally He reminded me of Matthew 25:6, the story of the 5 foolish and 5 wise virgins. The parable is set in the 11th hour  (it was the midnight hour when the bridegroom came). Both the wise and foolish virgins were asleep but there was a difference. The latter had no oil. The wise virgins on the other hand had oil and they arose and trimmed their lamps. The trimming of the wick symbolises circumcision of the heart. The Greek word for trimmed is very revealing.. It is kosmeo .. it is where we get the word cosmetic from and it means to beautify, having the right arrangement, to adorn, to make compellingly attractive, very appealing (inviting, awesomely gorgeous!!!) Strongs 2885

They were all virgins…(all church goers!)  5 were ready for the bridegroom and 5 were not. The 5 who were ready went in with Him to the wedding, whilst the door was shut on the 5 who were not prepared. 50% of the church was not ready! 

This is sobering stuff!! We are in the 11th hour church! Let us be prepared, adorned and ready to arise for our King. (Let us not be unprepared and subject to the judgement of a shut door!) And let us circumcise our hearts afresh! and go NOW to buy oil.. What is this oil? It is the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives that keeps the fire of God alight in our hearts. We buy it with the daily surrender and sacrifice of ourselves at the cross. A daily laying of our hearts upon the altar. This is how we become beautiful and pure to Him.  This is a place of intimacy with Jesus. It is not performance, it is not busyness, it is not religion and it is separateness from the systems of the world.

As we head into November and 2020 draws to a close, let us be prepared and ready. Jesus is waking up His church. The midnight hour is almost upon us!