February 13, 2009 - by Mike Bickle

I had a long, vivid prophetic dream. I woke up at 2:30 AM with a deep sense of reality.

In this dream I was in an outdoor conference with maybe 40,000 people. The conference venue was in an outdoor baseball stadium in a large fair ground. I was preaching on prayer, power and end-time judgment. I spoke at the two afternoon sessions. Leaders and their people from many different charismatic streams were there. I remember seeing Bill Johnson and his people at the conference. We were enjoying warm fellowship together.

In the break between the sessions, some were debating whether what I was preaching was right or wrong. IHOP people were talking to some from the various charismatic streams in the Body of Christ. They were debating in a friendly way about God’s power and prayer and its relationship to end-time judgment. There was no hostility but sincere debate with most of the people talking with humility and love. It was actually enjoyable.

I finished preaching after the second session about 5 PM, when the events of Rev. 12:7-9 began to occur. Demonic principalities were being cast to the earth. They looked like very large snakes (over 100 yards long and 50 feet thick) with large heads that looked like a dragon. Many of them were descending from the sky down to the earth. No one at the conference had sufficient understanding or faith to respond in power and confidence. All the leaders and the people in the various charismatic streams ran in fear and confusion, including the IHOP people.

These snake-like-principalities were filled with rage against the people. These were angry and even humiliated about being confined to the earth.

The people were terrified. Along with the demons, soot or wet muddy thick ash also descended. It darkened the sky as it fell on the people. There was no home run fence at the end of the baseball field, so many of us were running from the stadium in that direction toward the park offices at the end of the large fair grounds.

All were running in fear and confusion. No one had good answers. I managed to get to out of the vast fair grounds to the park offices (at the entrance). Wet ash was all over me as I ran. A lot of people didn’t get out but were bitten by the snakes and covered with wet ash.

There were evil policeman at the entrance. They told me, “You have to go back into the fair grounds. You either go back in or we take you to prison.” They were calloused about the danger I would face by going back into the fair grounds. I assumed they were in the Antichrist system. I was in a dilemma, I thought, “I just escaped from the most intense danger imaginable and I have to go back in”. When standing by the police I thought, “I wish we would all have taken the End Times events more seriously back when we had time to prepare.

I said to myself, “the debate about power is much bigger than the power we actually walk in”. I woke up with sense of urgency.

After I woke up, I was clear that this will NOT be the condition of entire Body of Christ when the events of Rev. 12:7 literally happen. The Lord was showing me what it would be like if these events happened now while the Church was still unprepared.

The point of the dream was to avoid the dilemma of being unprepared in that day.

All of the different charismatic streams today (including IHOP) have empty arguments about power in the End Times drama without actually being prepared for that day. What is coming is so much more intense than any of us can imagine. Real demons will fall from the sky filled with rage. We do need to entertain the arguments in the Church today about the seriousness of that hour because no one understands the intensity of what is coming. Even those with the most insight do not understand at all the measure of the intensity of that hour. When the events of Rev. 12:7-9 occur, we must have revelation and power.

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