Crying Rocks
"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse." (Malachi 4:5,6)
One evening quite a few years ago, while I was in prayer and in Toronto, the Lord spoke to me that I was to pray for an Elijah remnant to be raised up in Toronto (and in other cities). In short, I was told then that if the Lord does not come through a prophetic remnant to turn the hearts of people (and even most of the Christian church) from disobedience to the understanding of the righteous, then something in the form of wrath would come to them.
Now, if I'm hearing correctly (and scripture seems to bare this out), God has a plan to avert much of His wrath in the end of this age, and this plan is to sound a loud and clear voice of praise in the earth, and to give a demonstration of His love and an awesome witness to the truth through an Elijah remnant empowered by the latter rains. This is a company of holy, consecrated, and discerning saints, who have been shut up for a long season with God Himself, away from the tainted and warped teachings of apostate Christendom.
These that I speak of, beloved, are they who shall "spread their garments before the Lord" in preparation for His Tabernacles coming. They are "the friends of the bridegroom" who must prepare the way of the Lord, and this by "crying aloud and sparing not." For if these anointed disciples of the Lord do not cry out, friends, THE ROCKS WILL CRY OUT!! (which speaks of wrath in the Day of the Lord, or of "the land being smitten with a curse").
Dear ones, in the day of Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the Pharisees tried to shut up the disciples who were preparing the Lord's way. The Pharisees said to Jesus "Teacher, rebuke Your disciples," but the Lord said to them, "I tell you, if these become silent, the rocks will cry out!"
Now, it seems to me, friends, that in the laying down of their garments and branches before the Lord in that day, and in them bearing witness to others of the truth in that day, the disciples of that day were foreshadowing the Elijah work of today. This is the work of preparing people for the Lord's Tabernacles coming. Regarding this, I think that what Jesus meant for us in the statement, "I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out," is a prophecy of something that is directly related to Malachi 4:5-6 - which is about the way that God intends to turn hearts to Him so that He does not have to smite the land with a curse; so that the rocks WILL NOT cry out! ("stones" in the days of Jesus were often used in the administration of wrathful judgment. I really think that Jesus may have been using "crying rocks" as an analogy for this).
Anyway, wrapping this up here; I've got to tell ya, in a lot of the teaching and preaching today, and in the hearts that are revealed in the preachers and teachers through that teaching and preaching, I'm getting much more of a sense of the wrong-hearted and overly zealous "sons of thunder" than I am of sons of God who know something of the father-heart of God.
I think that there is probably no other subject that has been talked about more and practiced less than the subject of loving one another. We all know that we are supposed to love one another. We have heard it preached a thousand times. But, beloved, there is a BIG difference between knowing the Path and walking the Path. There is a BIG difference between knowing that we are to lay our lives down in an expression of God's love for people (all people) ... and then actually doing it.
Beloved ones, God has a plan to soon reveal a people who actually do it (lay down their lives in a demonstration of God's awesome love for humanity). This is intended to turn the hearts of men from disobedience to the understanding of the righteous ... lest the land be smitten with a curse; lest the rocks cry out for wrath.
Please, think on these things ...