Pearl went to a hipster church with all the popular 20’s and 30’s contemporary writers, thinkers, music, and teaching.
There were about three hundred people present. After singing, the pastor began preaching. She (Pearl) felt the fog of sleepiness, so she bound the spirit of sleepiness. Then Papa said, “Pearl, it is Me.” She continued to be sleepy, but not as intensely. She actually slept for two hours when she got home, but could feel Papa holding her while she slept. When she woke, she felt alert and normal.
Then she began to soak in His presence asking to understand what had happened in church. The Father told her to turn to Isaiah 29:9-14. She turned to her Bible which described what was going on in the congregation.
Papa explained to Pearl as she read.
“Lots of people would rather be asleep in bed than in church so Papa gives them what they want. Others are there for various reasons but seeking Him with all their hearts and loving Him are not the reasons. Therefore He gives them over to sleep.”
- Isaiah 29:9-14, 17-18 9 Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine; They stagger, but not with intoxicating drink.
My people have blinded themselves because my people don’t believe I am this or that way. They have placed me in a box and decided who I AM and how I work.
- 10 For the Lord has poured out on you The spirit of deep sleep, And has closed your eyes, namely, the prophets; And He has covered your heads, namely, the seers.
The prophets seers were the eyes for the people from Me. They taught and explained My Word. He has covered their heads with the deep sleep so they can’t hear Him because they don’t want to really hear what the Lord wants to tell them.
- 11 The whole vision (all of eternal truth) has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is literate, saying, “Read this, please.” And he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”
They don’t understand anything but the top surface of the Bible and only those things that fit into their paradigm of who and what they think is right.
- 12 Then the book is delivered to one who is illiterate, saying, “Read this, please.”And he says, “I am not literate.”
Do you want to abide in the vine? Do you know how to abide in the vine? The Book has been sealed up because the people don’t want truth anymore Abiding in the vine is an example of sealed Scripture. Few know how to “abide in the vine.”
- 13 Therefore the Lord said: “Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men
Men say we have the Bible and don’t need to seek the Lord for more. It is complete. Men don’t want to know Me or seek me in intimacy. They don’t want to abide with Me.
- 14 Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work among this people, a marvelous work and a wonder; for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.”
This is the work the Lord is doing now. He is confounding the wise men from truly knowing Him because they don’t want to know Him as He wants to be known so spiritual truths are being hidden from the church and the father has put them to sleep so they won’t even hear. Once they walk out of church they wake up.
- 17 Is it not yet a very little while till Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest? 18 In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
This will change for those who are really seeking Him. He will reveal Himself to those who truly seek Him and desire to abide/dwell in the Spirit with Him.