In October 2010 the Lord gave me a dream that unveiled a stunning reality of the condition of the church of Jesus Christ. In the dream I had attended what seemed like a meeting or conference that gathered multitudes of preachers. I was sitting at a table in a cafeteria or restaurant, I could not tell. As I was sitting at the table with many other preachers I noticed a very inconspicuous and unassuming man sitting across the table from me. As I looked at the man everything in me knew that it was the Lord in disguise. He did not talk with anyone but sat quietly and observably. Somehow I knew that the Lord had returned to earth to speak to church leaders to inform them of how He wanted worship to be in His church.

 

The dream then moved as I could see myself sleeping in a bunk room. I was experiencing a strong sense of urgency to wake up so that I would not miss the Lord’s message to His leaders. As I awoke I noticed that everyone was already dressed and gone into the stadium in the next room. It was a sort of strange but there was a large tinted window in the wall of the bunk room that allowed you to see into the stadium from the top level. As I looked through the window I could see the stadium was full of leaders and I could barely see the Lord on stage because it was so far away. I became rushed and in a hurry to get dressed so that I could hear what the Lord was saying, but as I attempted to go where my luggage was, I noticed that there was dung, feces, waste all over the floor. I then tried to navigate around the contaminated areas of the floor to go into the bathroom area where I figured my clothes were. As I entered into the bathroom area there was a huge man that seemed to me as if he weighed 600 pounds or so. He was sitting on a toilet that was elevated about two or three steps above the floor. There was dung everywhere on the floor, on the walls it seemed to be smeared everywhere I turned. I was disgusted at the sight of the mess I saw. The man on the toilet was constantly making waste. Still driven with the urgency to get dress to see the Lord, I was now becoming frustrated that I could find no place to get dressed without getting dung on my clothes. As I realized that I could not successfully get dress without getting stained with dung, my last words in the dream was . . . “This has got to be cleaned up!” Then I awoke.

At first I thought the dream was concerning a personal challenge within myself because I had over-slept in the dream. I thought maybe I needed to become more alert as to the Lord’s direction or somehow this dream was indicating to me that there was a need to more attentive to being prepared. However, as I investigated all details I began to see a different meaning unfold.

 

I began to ask myself, “How could these other preachers have gotten dressed without getting stained with dung?” The answer immediately came . . . ‘they didn’t’  They were stained with dung and it did not concern them to the degree that they went into the meeting with Christ with dung in their garments.

I also inquired, ‘who was this 600 lb. man on the elevated toilet?‘

That’s when the Lord begin making it clear that this dream was much bigger than me. It was later revealed to me that the huge man on the elevated toilet was the ‘fleshy, man-centered, earth-bound religious spirit’ that has been in the church from almost the beginning of the church age. It was using men to live and lead in their religious forms with only the power to produce dung. This spirit or mindset does not know Christ as first love; it has divided the church into denominations; it is strongly legalistic and has a heavy hand for condemnation; It is judgmental in nature knowing very little about grace and even less about mercy and the way peace is not known. This spirit is over the top with the attraction to appearance, is fleshy, earthy, stylized and driven by the pride of life; It has never known true intimacy with God being without depth and empty of life while in pursuit of the glossy and the fashionable.

 

This is the huge man sitting on the throne-like toilet messing in the church.

It is a huge religious spirit that has enlarged itself over the years.

 

Mal 2:3 – “Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, [even] the dung of your solemn feasts; and [one] shall take you away with it.” (solemn feasts are religious  forms and ceremonies. they are worth nothing without a heart that loves and honors the Lord)

 

Phil 3:8 – “Yea doubtless, and I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ,

 

The only thing to be done with dung is gathered up and carried away to be burned, buried or flushed.

 

I had realized that the Lord was showing me the awful religious condition of the church that is in desperate need of being cleaned up. No wonder Jesus prayed in John 17 for the sanctification of the church through the truth. Scripture also declares in Eph 5:26 “That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,”

 

Le Yonn Armstrong

Love The Truth