This is a great thread. As I was reading this, "All these things take a lifetime. We’re going to live “the seals”. A third part of the men died: that’s a third part of the man in us that is going to die. A third part of the carnality. God works in increments, you see. He wipes out some of the trees, and then He burns the grass…what is the trees and the grass? These are all things in us. We have islands, and mountains, and trees, and grass. All of these are belief systems and ideas and doctrines and philosophies of life and all these things. And they are all going to be burned out and broken down and destroyed. All of those seven seals, seven trumpets, seven plagues: they are all things that must happen in our lives. " I remembered a verse about the Lord not driving out all the peoples of the land at once. Here it is: "
Exd23:28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
Exd 23:29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
Amazing, the Lord knows that we would begin to credit the BEAST within us if He cleaned us up all at once.
I always seem to want the things the Lord is doing to be finished right now, but this seems to be why He doesn't do it all at once.
Josh