The Judgments of God, Part 11

West Coast Disaster: 

Pray For More Time and Repentance

by Rick Joyner

Week 48, 2011

November 29, 2011

Will the Lord change His mind about the pending doom that is coming to our West Coast and the Central U.S.? He could,  and we should hope that He does, but that is up to us.  Repentance and intercession can change the Lord's mind.  We have examples of this under the Old Covenant,  and we have "a better covenant." We can appeal to God,  and I believe we should every time we are shown something  like this that is pending. However, just appealing  to Him is not enough when there is judgment pending because  of transgression-there must be repentance. We were shown that the Japan earthquake and tsunami would

 be markers; therefore, I have been praying for more time. I pray this even though I know the Lord has responded to this prayer  many times for those same pending consequences, and each time  that He gave more time, sin became worse with little repentance. 

Even so, until these things come, I am praying for all of the grace  possible, but especially for more time. This is what Abraham did  when he was shown what was about to happen to Sodom,  and even though it did not result in the salvation of Sodom,

 it is the right thing to do. 

Now I want to share in more detail what I was shown that would  come upon the West Coast of the U.S. First, I need to explain that  others have seen an even greater shaking for the Central U.S.  along the New Madrid fault line. I was not shown that personally,  but I believe them. Others have seen major disasters coming upon  the Eastern U.S., including a nuclear bomb going off. I believe  these too are true warnings from God, but I did not get them  myself. If you wonder why I was not shown these that were closer  to where I live rather than for the West Coast, maybe I am  too close to them just as it seems some are too close to their  situation to see well for the West Coast. Even so, I must stick  to what I was personally shown. When I had a two-and-a-half day prophetic experience in 1987,  which I wrote about in The Harvest, I saw major earthquakes  hitting California, which were so devastating that virtually  whole cities disappeared. Both L.A. and San Francisco were two  of the cities I saw that had almost entirely vanished. I then  saw those cities tied to a worldwide economic meltdown. Later, I was shown that the Lord was going to give a warning  earthquake that was like a shot across the bow of California.  I saw some details of this warning shot earthquake, which  I shared on many visits to the West Coast at that time.  Bob Jones had seen virtually the same things so we shared them  together at times. What we saw in this warning earthquake  were fulfilled in the last earthquake in Southern California. I only saw one of those warning earthquakes, but I have been  praying for another one to help prepare or move people out of  the area before the big ones that I saw hit. However, I have  to admit to being a bit ambivalent about praying for another  warning earthquake. The last one did little in waking up even  the Christians there and seemed to harden many in their  arrogance about being able to handle these things. We see in part and prophesy in part, and no one has the  whole picture. I have inquired of the Lord for more insight,  especially timing. After the Japan earthquake, Bob Jones said  that he did not think the earthquakes would hit our West Coast  for at least six months. Many interpreted this as him saying

 they would hit in six months, but that is not what he said.  He said that he felt they would not come before six months, 

 but who knows how long after this we have. 

As I write this, we are passing the six-month point from the Japan

 earthquake and tsunami (I'm writing this in the middle of September). 

In the early 1990s, I had a dream in which I saw waves of the sea  lapping at the bottom of the hills in Pasadena. Then I had dreams  in which I saw great destruction in the Northwest reaching far

 into Canada. In one of those dreams, I saw an overcast over the entire 

region that I recognized as volcanic ash, so I think what happens  in the Northwest will be linked to a volcanic eruption. I recognized  this volcanic ash because I was flying a Learjet over that region  when Mount St. Helens erupted. I don't think I will ever forget  the distinct type of cloud volcanic ash makes.

          Mt. St. Helens Eruption

As I shared before, on a recent trip to Seattle I was overcome with  supernatural grief for hours at a time like I have never experienced before. I felt that I was grieving not just for thousands but for hundreds of thousands.

I was shown earlier that many who survived  the earthquakes and volcanic eruptions  would be lost for lack of water.  The lakes and streams would be poisoned by the volcano and virtually all sources of fresh water would be  unusable there. Emergency services would not be able to  get nearly enough water to the people there because roads

 would be so damaged and even airports would not be usable. 

 In the Northwest, the volcano(s) will poison the water, but in 

California, the earthquakes will destroy the aqueducts.  For this reason, whenever I have gone to the region I have  encouraged people there to prepare emergency supplies of

 fresh water and ways to purify water to drink. The encouraging part of my last trip to Seattle was the way 

the believers were taking these warnings seriously, because many  have been hearing from the Lord. Some who had doubted our  warnings had dreams or revelations themselves and no longer doubt.  There was a large movement to have believers trained in  Disaster Response, and I had lunch with one mayor who was resolved  to have all city employees and as many of his citizens as possible trained.  He has even written a handbook for this that other mayors could use.  I did not talk to a single person there in any depth that  was not convinced a great calamity was coming, and I was glad that  I was so resolved to warn the people. Most were resolved to stay to  be a part of the ministry when it happened, but there were

 no illusions that it would be easy.  When I was first shown this in 1987, I inquired of the Lord about 

how to share these things. I was told that until the Japan  earthquake hit I should tell the people to stay if they had not heard  specifically to move away, but after the Japan earthquake they  should move if they had not heard specifically to stay. I stand  by that. The encouraging thing is that many are hearing.  Some are hearing to move, and some are hearing to stay.

 Others who are not from the region are hearing to move there to be 

 a part of it knowing that a great harvest will come.

 There will be "Goshens" where God's people will be protected.  There will be "cities of refuge" that will be great lights during 

 the dark times to come. I encourage everyone there to find these and join with them.

Practical things can be done now  to prepare for this water shortage  that will save many people.  I encourage everyone on our West Coast  especially to learn these, but this should  also be something we all  learn for the times to come.  Drinkable water will be one of the  most valuable commodities in the world  as this begins to unfold. After days of feeling this terrible grief for the region, I was then  shown that after the eruptions and earthquakes, the Northwest U.S.  and Western Canada would become one of the most geologically  stable and beautiful places in the world to live. I'm still processing  that, but I felt that somehow the pillars of the earth in this region  would be set in such a way that this would be as stable as  anywhere in the world after this.

 I have not seen anything about the future of California.

That doesn't mean it does not have one, and a bright one,   but I have not been shown it. There is always hope,

  but without a true and sweeping revival, 

California could become one of the

 so great that it will push the  world economy 

 that is tottering so near the cliff, over the edge. 

 The whole world will be impacted by this, and therefore the 

 whole world should have an investment in praying for revival 

 and repentance to come to California.