One way is individual and purely spiritual regarding one’s personal experience with God (Definition #1). The other way is corporate and can be physical or spiritual, or both; and, whatever the case, it speaks of the revival of
Sean Michael Morris·Jun 5, 2019·Updated Aug 19, 2026
The Doctrine of the Wilderness
There are two categorically different ways of defining the Wilderness in Scripture. One way is individual and purely spiritual regarding one’s personal experience with God (Definition #1). The other way is corporate and can be physical or spiritual, or both; and, whatever the case, it speaks of the revival of a special operation of glory for the establishment of Church Purity (Definitions#2, #3, #4, #5, #6).
Backslidden believers of all ages are made to individually experience a wilderness via the evaporation of spiritual water (the Spirit of God) resulting in soul bareness or fruitlessness (this is the experience of individual backsliders rather than the corporate body of believers, thus it is not to be mistaken with the following definitions).
Definition #2
Wilderness Experience #1
In a Corporate Physical Wilderness to the body of Israelites in the Exodus Generation, called, “the Church in the Wilderness” the people collectively experienced the glory of God in a Physical Wilderness as a definitive precedent of the Rule of God among His chosen people ( for the righteous, theWilderness was a land flowing with RIVERS of WATER and raining the BREAD OF HEAVEN, while for the wicked it meant certain death).
Definition #3
Wilderness Experience #2
In a CorporateSpiritual Wilderness to the body of Israelites, the national regions of Israel & Judah were invaded, conquered, taken captive, and dispersed by Assyria & Babylon of Old ( for the righteous, the Wilderness was the wooing of LOVE in ROMANCE & the scaling of HIGH PLACES in RESTFULNESS, while for the wicked it meant certain death).
Definition #4
Wilderness Experience #3
In a CorporateSpiritual Wilderness to the body of Israelites, the Jews / Christians collectively underwent the war-wrought captivity and or a systematic persecution of Rome ( 1st Century Spiritual Babylon according to Revelation 17:1-11; Christian Doctrine of spiritual prosperity in the current age of the New Covenant was forged in the parameters of this Wilderness Experience. Accordingly, loss is gain, death is life, poverty is riches, and humiliation is exaltation!).
Definition #5
Wilderness Experience #4
In a CorporateSpiritual Wilderness to the body of Israelites, the Jews / Christians will collectively experience the war-wrought captivity and or systematic persecution of future Babylon ( for the righteous, the Wilderness will be a FEEDING or NOURISHING in a divinely prepared place, or, it will be a place of safety and freedom comparable to a MOUNTING UP on the WINGS OF EAGLES, while for the wicked it will mean certain death).
Definition #6
Wilderness Experience #5
In a Corporate Physical Wilderness to the body of Israelites, like the Exodus out of Egypt, only now out of Babylon’s World in the aftermath of the fiery consummation, lo and behold: the surviving Israelites will voyage across a Physical Wilderness on their journey back to Jerusalem for the commencement of the Millennial Reign of Christ (and by this time every wicked Jew is already dead!).
At the sounding of the seventh trumpet, Jesus Christ appears in the eastern sky and gathers the saints “in the twinkling of an eye.” As divine wrath descends and the nations muster against the Lamb, the word is fulfilled: “all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him.”
The Sword of the LORD is coming, and it’s not what you think (Hab. 1:5-10). You don’t want to be stabbed, cut, and hewn by this sword (Hos. 6:5)! If the Christ of God does brandish the sword
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the House of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God?
"Salvation is by grace through faith in Christ (Eph. 2:8-10)! It is not our work; it is God's work. Therefore, it will produce in believers obedience and perseverance according to the Scriptures."
God is going to regather and restore the Jews to Jerusalem for the commencement of the Millennial Reign in the aftermath of the 2nd Advent War. It is then that the surviving Kings and Queens of the earth will come
Sodom & Gomorrah became Hell on earth! The same kind of fire that is eternally burning in Hell was employed by God to consume “the Cities of the Plain” in the days of Abraham & Lot (Gen. 13:12,19:25,29).
