There were the most people on the first 2 bridges, and many people on the next 2 bridges, with only a handful on the 5th bridge. The 5 Bridges represent the Season that we are all in. We are in a Season of Great Grace to transition and to move into the fullness that the Lord has determined for us to arrive at.
Each bridge is kind of like links in a chain, or like cars in a train, but there is a transition phase between each bridge. The danger is that many will think that they have arrived at their destination and will not move on further into what the Lord has.
The 5 bridges were: 1. Refreshing. 2. Visitation. 3. Revival. 4. Glory. 5. Habitation.
Scriptures:
1. Refreshing.
Acts 3:19 So repent (change your mind and purpose); turn around and return [to God], that your sins may be erased (blotted out, wiped clean), that times of refreshing (of recovering from the effects of heat, of reviving with fresh air) may come from the presence of the Lord;
Job 29: 21 Men listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel. 22 After I spoke, they did not speak again, and my speech dropped upon them [like a refreshing shower]. 23 And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths wide as for the spring rain.
Isaiah 28:11 No, but [the Lord will teach the rebels in a more humiliating way] by men with stammering lips and another tongue will He speak to this people [says Isaiah, and teach them His lessons]. 12 To these [complaining Jews the Lord] had said, This is the true rest [the way to true comfort and happiness] that you shall give to the weary, and, This is the [true] refreshing—yet they would not listen [to His teaching]. 13 Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them [merely monotonous repeatings of]: precept upon precept, precept upon precept, rule upon rule, rule upon rule; here a little, there a little—that they may go and fall backward, and be broken and snared and taken.
2. Visitation.
Luke 19:44 And they will dash you down to the ground, you [Jerusalem] and your children within you; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, [all] because you did not come progressively to recognize and know and understand [from observation and experience] the time of your visitation [that is, when God was visiting you, the time in which God showed Himself gracious toward you and offered you salvation through Christ].
3. Revival.
Psalms 69:32 The humble shall see it and be glad; you who seek God, inquiring for and requiring Him [as your first need], let your hearts revive and live! 33 For the Lord hears the poor and needy and despises not His prisoners (His miserable and wounded ones).
Psalms 85:1 Lord, You have [at last] been favorable and have dealt graciously with Your land [of Canaan]; You have brought back [from Babylon] the captives of Jacob. 2 You have forgiven and taken away the iniquity of Your people, You have covered all their sin. Selah [pause, and calmly realize what that means]! 3 You have withdrawn all Your wrath and indignation, You have turned away from the blazing anger [which You had let loose]. 4 Restore us, O God of our salvation, and cause Your anger toward us to cease [forever]. 5 Will You be angry with us forever? Will You prolong Your anger [and disfavor] and spread it out to all generations? 6 Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You? 7 Show us Your mercy and loving-kindness, O Lord, and grant us Your salvation.
Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear [submit and consent to the divine will] and come to Me; hear, and your soul will revive; and I will make an everlasting covenant or league with you, even the sure mercy (kindness, goodwill, and compassion) promised to David.
Isaiah 57:14 And the word of One shall go forth, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way! Take up the stumbling block out of the way [of the spiritual return] of My people. 15 For thus says the high and lofty One—He Who inhabits eternity, Whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, but with him also who is of a thoroughly penitent and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the thoroughly penitent [bruised with sorrow for sin]. 16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be angry always, for [if I did stay angry] the spirit [of man] would faint and be consumed before Me, and [My purpose in] creating the souls of men would be frustrated.
4. Glory.
Psalms 63:1 O God, You are my God, earnestly will I seek You; my inner self thirsts for You, my flesh longs and is faint for You, in a dry and weary land where no water is. 2 So I have looked upon You in the sanctuary to see Your power and Your glory. 3 Because Your loving-kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You.
Psalms 85:9 Surely His salvation is near to those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him, [and is ready to be appropriated] that [the manifest presence of God,] His glory may tabernacle and abide in our land.
Romans 5:2 Through Him also we have [our] access (entrance, introduction) by faith into this grace (state of God’s favor) in which we [firmly and safely] stand. And let us rejoice and exult in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the glory of God.
5. Habitation.
Psalms 114:2 Judah became [God’s] sanctuary (the Holy Place of His habitation), and Israel His dominion.
Psalms 107:4 Some wandered in the wilderness in a solitary desert track; they found no city for habitation. 35 He turns a wilderness into a pool of water and a dry ground into water springs; 36 And there He makes the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation, 37 And sow fields, and plant vineyards which yield fruits of increase.
Exodus 15:13 You in Your lovingkindness and goodness have led the people whom You have redeemed; In Your strength You have guided them with care to Your holy habitation.
Psalm 26:8 O Lord, I love the habitation of Your house and the place where Your glory dwells.
Reminder to us all:
The 5 Bridges represent the Season that we are all in. We are in a Season of Great Grace to transition and to move into the fullness that the Lord has determined for us to arrive at.
Each bridge is kind of like links in a chain, or like cars in a train, but there is a transition phase between each bridge. The danger is that many will think that they have arrived at their destination and will not move on further into what the Lord has.
When the biggest group of people crossed the 1st and 2nd bridges and many decided to stay in the land between the next bridge. They were lulled into thinking that the new revelations and freedom they experienced here was the place they wanted to remain in. So most did not continue to move on to the next bridge.
Those I saw who continued on to the 3rd and 4th bridges were being transformed as they went, and many were so amazed at their new transformations that they were satisfied with the breakthroughs that had occurred that they stayed there to enjoy the new freedom they found in the Glory and the spiritual expansion that they had received there. I knew that they should move on, but only a handful wanted to.
I saw some of the people urge the people to keep going, but they would not. So, the handful of people then left, and they walked on across the 5th golden bridge, and they stepped onto the land that opened up before them.
And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. Isaiah 11:10
Thus says the Lord of hosts: If you will walk in My ways and keep My charge, then also you shall rule My house and have charge of My courts, and I will give you access [to My presence] and places to walk among these who stand here. Zechariah 3:7(A)
The current experiences and encounters that we are all having in the plan of the Lord for this Season is not the final destination. We are all moving from Refreshing to Visitation, to Revival, to the Glory, and on into full Habitation, which is fully abiding in His Permanent Rest.
There are many delights and glorious encounters that we will have in each phase of our transformation, but we must keep allowing the Lord to bring us fully into Him. We can't stop at any level and think we have fully arrived. The Lord has a great burden for all of His people to fully enter into His Rest, into Him.
We are to be His Habitation in which He will dwell, and in which we will dwell within Him! Union must occur so we can fully release the fullness of the revelation of the measure of the stature of Christ in the earth.
Hebrews 4:1 Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still holds and is offered [today], let us be afraid [to distrust it], lest any of you should think he has come too late and has come short of [reaching] it. 2 For indeed we have had the glad tidings [Gospel of God] proclaimed to us just as truly as they [the Israelites of old did when the good news of deliverance from bondage came to them]; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not mixed with faith (with the leaning of the entire personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness) by those who heard it; neither were they united in faith with the ones [Joshua and Caleb] who heard (did believe). 3 For we who have believed (adhered to and trusted in and relied on God) do enter that rest, in accordance with His declaration that those [who did not believe] should not enter when He said, As I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter My rest; and this He said although [His] works had been completed and prepared [and waiting for all who would believe] from the foundation of the world.
1 John 3:2 ·Dear friends, Beloved, now we are children of God, and ·we have not yet been shown it has not yet been revealed what we will be in the future. But we know that when ·Christ comes again, he/it is revealed, we will be like him, because we will see him as he really is. – EXB
Psalms 132:4 I will not permit my eyes to sleep or my eyelids to slumber, 5 Until I have found a place for the Lord, a habitation for the Mighty One of Jacob.
We cannot be satisfied with where we are, or even with experiencing His Glory, we must become "as He is"
- He is the final destination!
- Susan G O'Marra
- 05-16-16

