The Holy Spirit showed a vision to me. I saw the Father, in an inner room. He was standing and waiting. I asked Him what He was waiting for. He said that He was waiting on the Remnant, to see if they would respond to the Holy Spirit's attempts to draw them to the throne room. He said that He is also waiting on a major move that the enemy is about to make. He is going to respond with power.

I got the sense, as He waits in that room, that He is waiting to be sought out by those who desire Him, and His will. He can be found, but He must be sought. He said that some are keeping busy with religious activities, which the enemy is fostering, instead of seeking Him out. He showed me again the warfare that His Remnant have been experiencing, and explained a little deeper, why He is allowing it. He said that at this time the enemy is attempting to deceive the Remnant. The enemy has already tried to get the Remnant to give up, out of discouragement, or out of pain from the bludgeoning blows with which the enemy has struck them in his attempts to dislodge us from our place of trust in Jesus, and obedience to His Spirit. (These attacks are described in Hand to Hand Combat.)

The Father showed me the valley of dry bones being drawn together to form an army, as described in Ezekiel 37.

This army will serve the Father in the final days and weeks and months of intense warfare, which will continue, and increase, until Jesus returns to the earth. Those in the army are presently being individually contested by the enemy, but the Father is allowing it, because He uses this testing ground, to help Him to separate "the tares from the wheat". The tares are those who are religious. Tares claim to want Jesus, and they claim to want His will, but they will not trust Him. They trust the written Word of God, but not the Living Word of God. He referred to these people, as "well-worn Bibles". He said to me, "I want to call a people out of those who have well-worn Bibles."

Well-worn Bible people love the Scriptures, and they love God. They do not trust Him, but they think that they do. Although they know that Abraham and Moses and Noah and Paul trusted Him and trusted His voice, they will not trust His voice themselves. As a consequence, the enemy can turn them away from doing the Father's will, by quoting Scripture to them, or lying to them. Jesus did not allow the enemy to overcome Him like this. Jesus said, "Man must live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." Jesus meant every word, whether written or spoken. If there is any question about how the Scriptures apply, or what a prophecy means, or whether or not a prophecy is from Him, we must ask the Father ourselves. If you do not know Him well enough to ask Him anything and everything, then you must go to Him now in that inner room, and seek Him until He responds to you. Now is the time to get prepared to be part of that obedient army.

To truly have faith in Him, you must trust Him to speak to you and show you the truth. Faith is not credited only becaause you believe the Bible. The Father is the One who spoke to Abraham, and He is the One who will speak to us. You must have faith in Him, because you know Him and have found Him trustworthy. Without this trust in Him, it is impossible to please Him. (Hebrews 11:6) The Bride knows her Bridegroom. We must seek Him out and come to know Him. This relationship with Him is necessary, and on the foundation of our love for Him, He will give His Spirit to us.

The Father showed that there is a campaign from the enemy, to turn aside the Remnant by deception. Satan is attempting to lure Jesus' servants into religious activity, with an emphasis on a multitude of prophecies, and visions and "words from God". The Remnant must have discernment, in the light of this attempt to deceive. Some prophecies are from the Holy Spirit, others are from man's religious minds, and some false prophecies are from religious demons, who find entrance through religious christians. We MUST know the voice of Jesus, so that we can be shown the truth. The Father is allowing this testing, as He waits to see who will come to Him for wisdom in sorting all this out. Those who love religious activity, and prophecy, and self-important religious games, as opposed to those who truly want Jesus and His will, will be weeded out. The Father said that when this removal of the tares is complete, then we will move on to the next stage in the prophetic vision shown to Ezekiel.

The Father said that He has drawn the army together, but has not yet sent the breath into them, which is His Spirit. He said that He will send His Spirit into them, when there remains only those who are single-minded to do only the will of Jesus. This does not mean to say that we do not have His Spirit individually. We do, but He is referring to sending His Spirit in power to this army. He said that this work of separation is almost finished. Those who remain are wheat, not tares. It is truly only a remnant who remains, but through us He will do all that He wishes to do in the earth; to oppose Satan, and to hold up Jesus to the world, which has despised and rejected Him.

The Father said also that He has been sending signs, by His Holy Spirit, to the Church of Laodicea, in an attempt to bring them to repentance, and to bring them into doing His will. One of these signs is the gold dust and gold teeth, which He has given to many people as they worship Him. He told me that this gold was spoken of by Jesus concerning the Laodicean Church in Revelations 3. This gold is a sign from Him, to draw people to Himself. He will see who responds to these signs, and who comes to Him personally, out of love and gratitude, to know His will. As they come to Him, and know Him, and are obedient to Him, He will include them also in His army, when He pours out His Spirit.