Strange Sounds Heard Worldwide

I stumbled upon the you tube videos that report the strange sounds being heard worldwide since 2011. When I listened to them I heard something different than most. A recent vision I had received from the Lord put a different spin on some of these sounds for me.

The vision was one of a lion's head- almost like the Sphinx head I remember thinking.
And there came forth a roar and I saw fire breathing forth from this lion head in the process.

Smoke rose from his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth,
burning coals blazed out of it.
                                                   2 Samuel 22.9

And so I began to think about  a lion roaring and what it meant and examining it in light of Scripture.


They will follow the LORD; he will roar like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from the west.  They will come trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from Assyria. I will settle them in their homes," declares the LORD.            Hosea 11.10,11  

I imagined myself walking through a forest at night with nothing but the shirt on my back and hearing the roar of a lion nearby. I thought of the fear that would bring... the trembling...
the thinking that there is a very real chance I could get torn to pieces.  
I thought of the scriptural teaching on the fear of the Lord.

As well, I considered how foreign that kind of fear is to us modern Christians.
Most Bible teachers will water it down and explain the fear of the Lord as "awe".  
But you don't experiencing awe and trembling, it is "fear" that goes with "trembling", 
as in, "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling."   Philippians 2.12

Anyway those were some thoughts I had while considering the vision
and then I stumbled upon the videos.  
And having been prepped in this way I was hearing a lion's roar in some of them.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG9Mjx-Ca-M&feature=related

And after hearing some of those my heart trembled.

Serve the LORD with fear and rejoice with trembling.
                                                                    Psalm 55.5

Natural Man vs. Spritual Man

...her feet abide not in her house.

                                  Proverbs 7.11

 

She is not satisfied at home.

She is looking for something.

There is a hunger in her heart.

 

Aren't we like that sometimes?

 

One writer said that a most serious problem

plaguing all mankind

is evident in our inability

to spend one hour in a room alone.

 

This speaks to our emptiness.

Our boredom.

Our struggle with that great void, "Vanity".

 

Another proverb speaks to the solution.

 

A good man is satisfied from himself.

 

When a man who was once natural becomes  spiritual

he learns to draw from inner and hidden resources.

He can take an inner desert and make it

a well watered garden.

 

He finds an enabling to do this

through the inner illumination of faith.

 

 He can find a way

where there ‘seemeth to be no way’

and it becomes his habit.

 

Such a one as this learns to make his home

a happy home - just like that virtuous woman

of Proverbs who stays at home

and “she looketh well to the ways of her household,

and eateth not the bread of idleness.”

                                     from Proverbs 31

 

 

 

Mistress Vanity

 

 

empty

desolate

soul crushing

heart rending

 

vanity

 

though not of a sudden she strikes

like a desolate wilderness she surrounds us invisibly

and in her obscurity

reaches us     often only in a whisper

which many souls practice to ignore

 

come give us wine give us song give us pleasure

come eat and drink

we will not here her

hearken not to her

for she wails like the wind through the trees

Keep busy Keep moving that is the key

we…like the frog who swims lazily around

in a pot of water

on the stove and the fire....until....

 

we…like the waves that pound the shore

eating slowly away

slowly enough that none is stirred to action...until...

 

yet the Lord hath subjected

the creation to vanity… in hope…