2017 – The Year of Suddenly by Lanny Swaim

By Lanny Swaim
We know the fulfillment of Isaiah 66:8 took place when Israel was born all at once, coming out of Egypt a wealthy nation in one night. In 539 BC, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylon, where exiled Jews were being held captive. God used this heathen king to orchestrate the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the temple after seventy years of Jewish captivity in Babylon, sending a remnant back to Judah and financing their efforts. This too happened rather suddenly, even though it had been prophesied years before by both Isaiah and Jeremiah.
 
 
 
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Who hath heard such a thing? Who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children (Isaiah 66:8).
 
Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last (Revelation 22:12-13).
 
We know the fulfillment of Isaiah 66:8 took place when Israel was born all at once, coming out of Egypt a wealthy nation in one night.
 
In 539 BC, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylon, where exiled Jews were being held captive. God used this heathen king to orchestrate the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the temple after seventy years of Jewish captivity in Babylon, sending a remnant back to Judah and financing their efforts. This too happened rather suddenly, even though it had been prophesied years before by both Isaiah and Jeremiah.
 
There are three places in the book of Revelation where Jesus said, "Behold, I come quickly" (see Revelation 3:11; 22:7; and 22:12). Quickly doesn't necessarily mean soon, but rather, suddenly.
 
Israel was in Egypt four hundred years before their suddenly occurred. The Jewish captives were in Babylon seventy years when their suddenly happened.
 
Acceleration
 
I keep hearing the Spirit of the Lord say that we are in a season of suddenly, and I believe 2017 is going to accelerate this current suddenly phenomenon.
 
Much that has been in a process of preparation for perhaps a long time is going to snowball, and suddenly appear to happen. I believe this is true of individual lives and ministries, of the corporate Body of Christ, and of history in general. What has taken a long time and seemed impossible will suddenly come to pass.
 
Last year I attended a conference in Albany, Oregon. On Saturday morning, before going to the meetings for that day, Jane Hamon, who was one of the speakers at the conference, gave me a prophetic word in the breakfast room of the hotel where we were staying.
 
She said, "Eighteen months ago there was a separation. You separated from someone you had been involved in ministry with over certain issues." She assured me that the separation was part of God's plan for my life and ministry and then told me that this year would be a year of divine connections that would benefit my ministry.
 
She had no way of knowing about the separation that took place eighteen months earlier, but she was right on the mark. And the divine connections she prophesied about had already started happening and are accelerating in 2017—suddenly!
 
Saints of God, expect this in your lives and ministries—2017 is going to be a season of suddenly! What's happening right now is the culmination of things that have been in motion, in some cases, for many years.
 
Surely we were born for such a time as this!
 
Lanny Swaim