Sultry and Bougie
Recently, there’s a vehicle parked a couple of blocks away, that never moves from the street and has the personalized tag SULTRY.
I looked this up a few weeks ago, when I first saw it, and was surprised in the origination of Sultry.
Sultry, means “attractive, in a way that suggests sexual desire; as well as sweltering.” Sultry comes from a late 16th century word sulter, which means “Swelter.”
This is what surprised me; I looked up swelter and it comes from a Middle English word of Germanic origin, “swelt,” get this, which means PERISH!
WOW! When I saw that I was blown away. If that’s not crazy enough, last week, when [husband] Rich and I were watching something, they had the word “bougie,” in it, and I couldn’t understand what they were saying, and Rich pronounced it for me.
I really didn’t understand fully what it meant but only heard it. IF that’s not crazy, enough, a few days later, I saw a personalized tag BOUGIE!
Well today, we were working out in the gym, when I looked at the TV monitor, and saw a restaurant being advertised, with the name of BOUGIE!
I then remembered the tag and then looked up the definition.
Bougie comes from Mid 18th Century French, meaning “wax candle,” and in English means “exhibiting qualities of the Middle Class of pretentiousness, convenience, and materialism!
In other words, people who are trying to live as the world!
God already instructed me this morning to do a note on SULTRY, and unpack the scripture with that, continually sounding the alarm of the TIME OF PURIFICATION, THE TIME OF REPENTANCE, in which we’ve but a short time, until The LORD’s return.
Although, no one knows the hour, except God the Father, we’re given signs to point us to the place of WATCHING!
In the new book, I’m writing, and trying to get out this spring, “A Time of Purification,” I unpack the worldliness that’s in the church.
Hear this, VERY FEW will enter heaven. Although many are saved, those who have backslid, and are caught up in the things of the world ARE PERISHING, because they’ve left the NARROW WAY, where the Kingdom of Heaven is, and have entered the BROAD WAY, the way of destruction.
It cannot be emphasized enough, how LITTLE THINGS, hear this and imagine, its being repeated 10 times, LITTLE THINGS, like the little foxes that spoil the vine, in Song of Solomon 2:15, contaminating and blemishing our garments of righteousness.
Just because you’re saved and attend Church, doesn’t mean you will enter heaven. Only those who do the Will of God and keep His Commandments, Who Love Christ Jesus, and serve Him as LORD, will enter, as they continue to work out their salvation in fear and in trembling, lest they be contaminated and polluted by evil, enduring to the end!
“[My heart was touched and I fervently sang to him my desire] Take for us the foxes, the [d]little foxes that spoil the vineyards [of our love], for our vineyards are in blossom.” Song of Solomon 2:15 AMPC
Little in Hebrew is qâṭân pronounced kaw-tawn’ and means “least, little, and smallest.” The Hebrew letters that compose little are Qoph, Tet, and Nun.
Qoph is the ancient symbol that is the back of the head or sun on the horizon, which hear is the back of the head, signifying “last, follow, behind, and least.”
Tet is the ancient symbol of a snake surrounding a rock or basket, meaning “to surround.”
Finally, Nun is the ancient symbol of a fish in water meaning, “life and/or activity.”
Therefore, the word picture here for Little is the least thing that surrounds you, bringing its activity!
This Hebrew word qatan, comes from the Hebrew root word qûwṭ pronounced koot meaning, “To cut off!”
This is composed of the Hebrew letters Qoph, Vav, and Tet. Vav is the ancient symbol of a nail or tent peg, meaning “to add and secure.”
Therefore, the word picture from which little is derived, is the least thing is added to you because it is surrounding you!
WOW! A little leaven, leaven’s the whole lump!
Do you understand that the enemy looks for an opportune time to attack you, and when you get set free from the things of the world, you will be tested on that Word, and he will come in and try and tempt you, but you must resist the devil and he will flee! (James 4:7-10)
Foxes here in Song of Solomon 2:15 is the Hebrew word shûwʻâl pronounced shoo-awl meaning, “jackal and fox.”
The Hebrew letters that compose vox are Sheen, Vav, Ayin, and Lamed. Sheen is the ancient symbol of teeth, meaning “devour” in the negative. Vav is “to add and secure.” Ayin is the ancient symbol of an eye meaning, “to see, KNOW, and experience.”
Finally, Lamed is the ancient symbol of a cattle goad, meaning, “tongue, control, and authority.”
Thus, the word picture for foxes is seeing and experiencing the devouring that has been added to you by the tongue! Oh, my goodness!
Burrow means “move underneath or press close to something in order to hide oneself or in search of comfort.”
Do you understand that the enemy is going to hide in your soul, in the little things! He is going to get you to speak negatively and haughtily against truth, through the issues of your own heart, where, bit by bit, you’re not speaking truth, but speaking like the world!
Why do you speak like the world? Because you’ve given into its seductions, in the little places, and bit by bit, it’s added unto you!!
You don’t realize that you’ve become sultry and are perishing, because of the materialism that lies underneath, hidden from the eye! You look “normal,” right, because you’re not like “them.”
But oh, what if you knew that you were the Church of Laodicea, what would you do?
Would you rent your garments in anguish of the knowledge of that truth?
Would you fast and pray until your hardened heart was made tender again?
Saints, be on the wise, many are perishing and have no clue! If you are judging others, thinking they’re sultry and bougie, Guess what, four fingers are pointed back at you, and you are the one, who is sultry and bougie! Repent saints!
A daughter, in constant fear and in trembling with God’s Word!
“What leads to strife (discord and feuds) and how do conflicts (quarrels and fightings) originate among you? Do they not arise from your sensual desires that are ever warring in your bodily members?
You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your desires go unfulfilled; [so] you become murderers. [To hate is to murder as far as your hearts are concerned.] You burn with envy and anger and are not able to obtain [the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that you seek], so you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask.
[Or] you do ask [God for them] and yet fail to receive, because you ask with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives. Your intention is [when you get what you desire] to spend it in sensual pleasures.
You [are like] unfaithful wives [having illicit love affairs with the world and breaking your marriage vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world’s friend is being God’s enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world takes his stand as an enemy of God.
Or do you suppose that the Scripture is speaking to no purpose that says, The Spirit Whom He has caused to dwell in us yearns over us and He yearns for the Spirit [to be welcome] with a jealous love?
But He gives us more and more grace ([a]power of the Holy Spirit, to meet this evil tendency and all others fully). That is why He says, God sets Himself against the proud and haughty, but gives grace [continually] to the lowly (those who are humble enough to receive it).
So be subject to God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him], and he will flee from you.
Come close to God and He will come close to you. [Recognize that you are] sinners, get your soiled hands clean; [realize that you have been disloyal] wavering individuals with divided interests, and purify your hearts [of your spiritual adultery].
[As you draw near to God] be deeply penitent and grieve, even weep [over your disloyalty]. Let your laughter be turned to grief and your mirth to dejection and heartfelt shame [for your sins].
Humble yourselves [feeling very insignificant] in the presence of The LORD, and He will exalt you [He will lift you up and make your lives significant].
[My] brethren, do not speak evil about or accuse one another. He that maligns a brother or judges his brother is maligning and criticizing the Law and judging the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are not a practicer of the Law but a censor and judge [of it].
One only is the Lawgiver and Judge Who is able to save and to destroy [the One Who has the absolute power of life and death]. [But you] who are you that [you presume to] pass judgment on your neighbor?” James 4:1-12 AMPC.
Part of Stanley Frodsham’s 1965 Prophecy
Stanley Frodsham (1882-1969)
( NOTE: This prophetic word was spoken by Stanley Frodsham who was a personal friend of Smith Wigglesworth. It was given in Chicago in 1965 five years before he died. )
Great Judgments
“With great judgements will I plead with the population of this country.
Great darkness is coming upon the countries that have heard My gospel but no longer walk in it.
My wrath shall come upon them. The darkness shall be so great and the anguish so sore that men shall cry out for death and shall not find it.
There shall be a lingering death, famine and great catastrophes.
My wrath shall be manifested against all ungodliness. It shall come with great intensity.
You have known my love but have not experienced My wrath or My severity. My judgements are literal and not a thing to be passed over lightly.
Realise the severity of My judgements and My intense anger against the sin in My Household.
My judgements shall begin in My House, for I will cleanse My House that it be not a partaker of My wrath against the iniquities of the cities.
Before I visit the nations in judgement I will begin at My House. When I do cause My wrath to come upon the cities of the world My people shall be separate.
I desire a people without spot or wrinkle and such will be preserved by Me in the time of My wrath, which will be coming upon all iniquity and unrighteousness.
I AM going to prepare you for the coming days by a hard path that will cause many to cry out continually unto Me.
For when the going is easy men do not seek Me, but rejoice in a temporary blessing. And when that blessing is removed they so often turn this way and that way but do not come to Me.
I AM showing you these things in order that you may seek Me continually and with great diligence.
As you seek Me I will open up truths to you that you have not seen before, and these very truths will be such that will enable you to stand in these last days.
As you are persecuted, reviled and rejected by your brethren then you will turn unto Me with all your heart and seek Me for that spiritual life that you need.
So that when the tribulation comes you will have that which will enable you to stand.
For many will be tossed to and fro, men’s hearts shall fail them because of trouble on every hand.
These days shall be very terrible the likes of which have never been seen before..
Coming Glory — and — Deceiving Spirits
When I visit My people in mighty revival power, it is to prepare them for the darkness ahead.
With the Glory shall come great darkness, for the Glory is to prepare My people for the darkness.
I will enable My People to go through the darkness because of the visitation of My Spirit.
Take heed to yourselves lest you be puffed up and think that you have arrived.
Many shall be puffed up as in the olden days, for then, many received My message but they did not continue in it.
Did I anoint Jehu? Yet the things that I desired were not accomplished in his life.
Listen to the messengers, but do not hold men’s persons in admiration or adulation.
For many whom I shall anoint mightily with signs and miracles shall become lifted up and shall fall by the wayside.
I do not this willingly for I have made provision that they might stand. I call many into this ministry and equip them, but remember that many shall fall.
They shall be like bright lights and the people shall delight in them. But they shall be taken over by deceiving spirits and shall lead many of My people astray.
Hearken diligently concerning these things, for in the last days shall come seducing spirits.
They shall turn many of My anointed ones away, many shall fall through diverse lusts and because of ‘sin abounding’.
But if you will seek Me diligently I will put My Spirit within you so that when one shall turn to the right hand or to the left hand you shall not turn with them, but instead you will keep your eyes fixed wholly on your LORD.
The coming days are going to be most dangerous, difficult and dark for there shall be a mighty outpouring of My Spirit in judgement upon many cities and many shall be destroyed.
My people must be diligently warned concerning the days ahead. Many shall turn after seducing spirits and already many are seducing My people.
It is those who ‘Do Righteousness’ that are righteous. Many cover their sins by great theological words.
But I warn you of seducing spirits who instruct my people in an evil way. Many of these I will anoint that they in turn may purify and sift My people, for I will have a holy people.
When I come I shall not find faith upon the earth but in a few, for when the time of testing comes many will depart from their LORD.
Many shall come with seducing spirits and hold out lustful enticements. You will find that after I have visited My people again the way will become more and more narrow, and fewer shall walk therein.
Be not deceived, the ways of righteousness are My ways. For though Satan come as an angel of light hearken not to him; for those who perform miracles and speak not righteousness are not of Me.
I warn you with great intensity that I AM going to judge My House and have a church without spot or wrinkle when I come.
I desire to open your eyes and give you spiritual understanding, that you may not be deceived but may walk with uprightness of heart before Me, loving righteousness and hating every evil way.
Look unto Me and I will make you to perceive with the eyes of the Spirit the things that lurk in darkness, that are not visible to the human eye.
Let Me lead you in this way, that you may perceive the powers of darkness and battle against them.
It is not a battle against flesh and blood, for if you battle in that way you accomplish nothing.
But if you let Me take over and battle against the powers of darkness then they are defeated, and then liberation is brought to My people.
The Ways of Deceivers
I warn you to search the Scriptures diligently concerning these last days. For the things that are written shall indeed be made manifest.
There shall come deceivers among My people in increasing numbers, who shall speak forth the truth and shall gain the favour of the people.
For the people shall examine the Scriptures and say, ‘What these men say is true’.
Then when they have gained the hearts of the people, then and then only shall they bring out their wrong doctrines.
Therefore I say that you should not give your hearts to men, nor hold people’s persons in admiration or adulation.
For by these very persons Satan shall gain entry into My people. Watch for seducers!
Do you think a seducer will brandish a heresy and flaunt it before the people?
He will speak words of righteousness and truth and will appear as a minister of light, declaring the Word.
The people’s hearts shall be won. Then when the hearts are won, they will bring out their doctrines and the people shall be deceived.
The people shall say ‘Did he not speak thus and thus’? ‘And did we not examine it from the Word’?
‘Therefore he is a minister of righteousness. This that he has now spoken we do not see in the Word but it must be right, for the other things he spoke were true’.
Be not deceived. For the deceiver will first work to gain the hearts of many, and then shall bring forth his insidious doctrines.
You can not discern those who are of Me and those who are not of Me when they start to preach.
But seek Me constantly, and when these doctrines are brought out you shall have a witness in your heart that these are not of Me.
Fear not, for I have warned you. It is possible that the very elect may be deceived. But it is not possible if you walk in holiness and uprightness before The LORD, for then your eyes shall be open and The LORD will protect you.
If you will constantly look unto The LORD you will know when the doctrine changes, and will not be brought into it.
If your heart is right I will keep you, if you will look constantly to Me, I will uphold you.
The minister of righteousness shall be on this wise — his life shall agree with the word, and his lips shall give forth that which is wholly true, there will be no mixture.
When the mixture appears then you will know he is not a minister of righteousness.
The deceivers speak first the truth and then error, to cover their own sins which they love.
Therefore I exhort and command you to study the Scriptures relative to seducing spirits, for this is one of the great dangers of these last days.
I desire you to be firmly established in My word and not in the personalities of men, that you will not be moved as so many shall be moved.
I would keep you in the paths of righteousness. Take heed to yourselves and follow not the seducing spirits that are already manifesting themselves.
Diligently inquire of Me when you hear something that you have not seen in the word, and do not hold people’s persons in admiration, for it is by this very method that Satan will hold many of My people.
The Way of Triumph
I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly, that you may triumph where I triumphed.
On the cross I triumphed over all the powers of Satan and I have called you to walk in the same path.
It is when your life is on the cross that you shall know the victory that I have experienced.
As you are on the cross, seated in Me, then you shall know the power of the resurrection.
When I come in My Glory the principalities and powers in the heavenly places shall be utterly broken.
Fear not, for I have given you the power whereby you may tread down the powers of darkness, and come forth victorious through every trial.
As you are on the cross then you are victorious. It was on the cross that I triumphed over all the powers of the enemy.
My life shall flow through as you enter into these precious truths. Look unto Me and appropriate My life.
As your eyes and desires are toward Me and you know what it is to be crucified with Me, then you shall live and your anointing shall increase.
It was not in My life as I walked upon the earth but rather it was in My life as I hung upon the cross that I openly spoiled principalities and powers.
I AM showing you truth that shall cause you to overcome, to have power over the wicked one, this is the truth that will liberate you and those around you.
You shall know also the fellowship of My sufferings. There is no other way whereby you may partake of this heavenly glory and to reign with Me.
My Word says that If we suffer with Him we shall reign with Him. I desire to make these truths real within you.
As you keep them before you, you will in turn liberate many who are in bondage.
You will have revelation of those who are in darkness and will have the keys to liberate the captives.
Many seek to liberate but do not have the keys. Upon the cross continually you will know the power of My Resurrection.
If you will indeed judge yourself you shall not be judged. As you seek My Face and desire to be cleansed by Me in all truth and sincerity of heart, I will judge you in the secret place, and the things that are in the secret place of your heart shall not be made manifest to others.
I will do it in the secret place and no man will know it. The shame that will be seen on many faces shall not be seen on your face.
Therefore in mercy and love I AM instructing you in order that you may partake of My Glory.
As you are willing to walk with Me and rejoice in your sufferings, you shall in turn partake of My Glory.
Look unto Me for you have need of power to overcome the wicked one and the bondages in other’s lives.
I said that if a man will judge himself he shall not be judged. It is not My good pleasure that the shame of My people be seen by all.
How can I judge the world if I judge not first My own house?
Hearken unto these things that I AM telling you, for if you will not hearken unto Me thy shame shall be evident to all.
God’s Part and Our Part
I would have you consider My life on earth — the anointing upon Me was great and yet the temptations were great on every side; they came in one form and then in another, offering Me first the glory of the kingdoms of the earth and then in the form of reviling and persecution.
There will be great glory given to My People but also the temptations will be intensified on every side.
Think not that with the glory there shall be no temptations or persecutions. The glory to My Church shall be great and so also the temptations from the enemy to turn My People from My Paths.
I warn you again that when the glory shall be manifested the temptations shall be great until very few that started shall finish the course.
First of all they shall be offered great worldly possessions and then will come great revilings and unbelief.
Consider your LORD, that as He walked so it shall be for you. There shall be need of great intensity of purpose.
At times it will seem that everyone is rising up against you, trying to turn you from the course that I have set for you.
It is written of Me that I set my face as flint to go in the direction that My Father had prescribed for Me.
If you will finish the course The LORD has laid down for you, you too will have to set your face as a flint.
With great determination you must walk in the course laid down for you. Many of your loved ones and those who follow with you will seek to persuade you and try to turn you from the course.
With many words that seem right in the natural they will speak to you. Did not Christ rebuke Peter who would turn Him from the course God had prescribed?
Understand these two things and meditate upon them solemnly — the persecution and the darkness shall be as great as the glory in order to try to turn the elect and the anointed ones from the path The LORD has laid down for them.
Many shall start but few shall be able to finish because of the greatness of grace that shall be needed to be able to endure unto the end.
The temptation and the persecution of your LORD was continuous. He was tempted by Satan in many forms throughout His entire life and even to the cross where the ungodly cried out ‘if thou be the Christ come down from the cross’.
Think not that there will be a time of no persecution, for it shall be from the time of your anointing until the end.
Difficulties and great persecution will go on to the end. The LORD must prepare you to be an overcomer in all things, that you may be able to finish the course.
The persecution shall increase even as the anointing shall increase.
In paths of judgement and righteousness shall The LORD God lead His people and bring them into that place which He has chosen for them.
The LORD has chosen a place for His people, a place of righteousness and holiness where He shall encamp around them.
All who will be led of The LORD will be brought into this holy place. For The LORD delights to dwell in His people and to manifest Himself through His people.
The holiness of The LORD will be manifested through His people. Let The LORD lead you and He will lead you in the difficult places.
He led His people of old through a place where no man dwelt, where no man passed through, in a place of great danger and in the shadow of death.
The LORD will indeed lead His people again through such places, and at the same time will bring them out into a place of great glory.
Understand that the way toward the glory is fraught with great danger and many shall fall to the right or the left, many shall camp on lesser ground.
But The LORD has a place of holiness and no unclean thing shall dwell among His people.
Put your trust in Him and He will bring you into a place of holiness. He desires to bring His people into a great glory — the likes of which has never been seen, for this is what The LORD will do for those who put their trust in Him.
It is a place of darkness and great danger and it will separate His people into the place where He would have them walk.
He will protect them from the voices that would turn them from His path. He will bring them through the dark places and treacherous paths and lead them out into the light of His Glory.
He will rejoice greatly over His beloved and cause them to be filled with joy unspeakable. He seeks to lead His people into a new place of grace and glory where He will indeed encamp among them.
Put your trust in Him and He will surely bring you into this new place.
Fear not the days to come, but fear this only — that you shall walk in a manner pleasing to The LORD.
In this time I AM ordering and setting up My Church and it shall indeed be pure, without spot or wrinkle.
I will do a work in My beloved that has not been seen since the foundation of the world.
I have shown you these things that you may seek The LORD diligently with all your heart, and that you may be a preserver of His people.
Run not to this one or that one for The LORD has so ordained that salvation is in Him and in Him alone.
You shall not turn to this shepherd or to that one, for there shall be a great scattering upon the earth.
Therefore look unto Him for He will indeed make these things clear to you. You shall not look here or there, for His Wells shall increase your strength and your faith as He prepares you for the times that are coming.
The truths that I have revealed to you must become a part of you — not just an experience, but a part of your very nature.
Is it not written that I demand truth in the inward parts?
It is the truth of The LORD expressed in your very being that shall hold you. Many shall experience the truth but the truth must become a part of you, your very life.
As men and women look upon you they will hear not only the voice but see the expression of the truth.
Many shall be overcome because they are not constant in My ways and because they have not permitted the truths to become a part of them.
I AM showing you these things that you may be prepared, and having done all, to stand.”
A saint crying out to God for fullness of deliverance and the manifestation of salvation.
~ Robin Kirby Gatto
Robin Kirby-Gatto operates in the prophetic, bringing the testimony of Jesus into the earth through the scripture Revelation 19:10 “For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Robin walks in God’s Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding and is brought into areas to bring a revelation of God’s Truth, The Word as the Holy Spirit brings forth God’s anointing into her ministry.
Woo-hoo..tasty morsels..beautiful..thank you Lord..thank you prophetess..
Wow, Robin, thanks for sharing that word from so long ago. The good news is God is still a restorer May the people wake up before it is too late. Blessings, Sandi