Quick review: I had an experience September 9, 2026, wherein I encountered the Angels of the 9Rs. In that experience, the Angels of the 9Rs pulled me up into their world and we stood face to face.

The angels and the instruments they carried are as follows:

It’s important to remember, the angel’s instruments Plow, Prune, and Pour to bring about God’s heavenly will here on earth.

As I shared before, without words, I knew who they were and the name of each angel. They stood shoulder to shoulder, with specific instruments in their hands. There was great intensity emanating from them. The overall experience was incredibly overwhelming and to be honest, is still difficult to convey. It has been lifechanging for me. I believe it has the potential to be lifechanging for the intercessors who stand in the gap for both the nation and the Church if they will receive and embrace the revelation of their presence as they are partnering with us in our prayers.

They moved toward me, three at a time, grouped according to their instruments. Which instrument they carry is significant to the work they do. We communicated; they nodded and then took flight to their designated arena. This was repeated with each group. They were assigned to different locations depending on the need.

Last time we discussed the work of the “Plowshare Angels” then I shared the revelation from the Lord as to their partnership with us as we interceded in the GOEs to see Roe v Wade overturned.

Today, we are covering the “Pruning Hook Angels”. I want to discuss their work in both the Church and the nation.

What is the work of the pruning hooks? To discern removal and correction for increased fruitfulness. The pruning hooks are curved, with a round external edge and a razor-sharp internal edge. This design provides safe and precise navigation through the healthy branches to target unproductive branches for precise pruning.

The concept is seen and understood in Scripture for the purposes of discerning removal and bringing about correction to increase fruitfulness.

2 “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.”

Unlike the plowshare (which we discussed last week) which breaks up the ground, the pruning hook deals with what has already grown upon that ground.

2000 years ago, Jesus’ words would be fully understood by the listeners as agriculture and farming were widely considered necessary for the survival of a society. Their daily activities revolved around seed, plant and harvest. Pruning was critical to retain and maintain the health of trees and vines as well as increase production. Today, we don’t think twice about this practice. I learned this lesson the hard way.

(Quick disclaimer, at this point in my gardening life, I had not even grown so much as a green onion or tomato, so, I’m asking for grace from my master gardeners.)

Years ago, I purchased a peach tree from Costco to plant in my front yard. It was so small I could close my hand around the trunk, and it had two tiny branches sticking out on either side. It grew quickly and within a couple years, I harvested and enjoyed a handful of peaches. As time went on, I noticed a very small portion, maybe 5%, that tasted bitter. In my non-existent experience, I felt it was a bad peach. However, a few years later, I noticed the bitter fruit started to look different from the sweet fruit—from the faded color of the first blooms to the final fruit. The next year, the shape became distorted and the color was a muted yellow. I added nutrients, adjusted the watering schedule and waited until the next year.

Fast forward a few more years, the peach tree was quite large and when the blooms set, I noticed nearly 50% were lighter blooms and from experience, I knew those would be bitter. Through some research I learned fruit trees often have grafts and it’s important to prune the shoots below the graft union. If you don’t, this fruit will be bitter and over time, can impact the health of the tree. I went outside and traced the branches by the color of the blooms and could not only see a graft scar, but the bark also appeared different. I still hesitated to cut this branch; it was over half the tree by now. Instead, I looked for recipes to make the bitter fruit tolerable.

The two branches grew in opposite directions, yet the bitter fruit continued overtaking the sweet on both branches.

Two years ago, I ended the season with 70% bitter, 30% sweet. The tree is taller than my house. Clearly, I should have intervened years ago. I live in the Central Valley, we grow everything, so I reached out to a local peach orchard for guidance then called my gardener over and we discussed the plan—cut off the bitter branch. It was a mature tree, and the bitter branch was close to the base of the trunk, so this was a risky move. Still, we either removed the bitter branch, or we uprooted the tree.

Winter came, the tree went dormant and before Spring, he took a chainsaw to the bitter side leaving me with a lopsided tree with a visible scar where the bitter branch once was.

The new season came and the tree really struggled as it healed. The fruit that grew in the area closest to where the bitter branch grew, was smaller and lopsided and I was very concerned the whole tree was lost. However, when I tasted it, it was sweet! The fruit that grew the furthest from the removed branch was beautiful! Some were the size of softballs. I’d never had peaches that sweet or fragrant from my tree.

Today, there’s shoots coming up around the stump that was removed, but we’ll cut and seal them off too, we are not taking chances. If I had pruned the tree when I first tasted the bitter fruit, or saw the color change in the blooms, I would have enjoyed several years of plenty, instead, I’m looking at a lopsided peach tree that will take a few years to recover.

Discerning what needs to be removed, and decisively removing it is critical; this is the work of the Pruning Hook Angels.

Remember, the Pruning Hook Angels are the Angel of Revelation, the Angel of Renewal, and the Angel of Reformation. Just like the Plowshare Angels, these each have a distinct purpose.

13 “But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.”

Not everyone wants the Angel of Revelation exposing them…or they’d prefer to stay in denial like me with that peach tree.

“And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.”

Revelation provides a divine diagnosis. What needs pruning must first be exposed and accurately diagnosed. In the example of the peach tree, a pruning hook would have quickly removed that branch with minimal trauma had I acted in time, instead, we had to use a chainsaw. I’ll address this in greater detail at the end.

2 “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

This renewal allows us to retain and revitalize what God wants to preserve. We can hear the cry for this very thing in the Lord’s message to the church at Ephesus.

“2 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; 2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: 3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. 4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.”

This passage is one of the most difficult for me, because I see this as letter is to the Church of America. The call is the same, Repent and Return to your first love. That first love is the core of what God wants to revitalize in this hour. The Angel of Revelation is going to reveal to the Church in America what caused her to leave her first love. When he does, it will break her heart, and she will fall on her face and cry out to the Lord for forgiveness. When she arises, her tear-soaked face will turn toward her Savior and He will renew her as in:

“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings as eagles; They shall run, and not be weary; And they shall walk, and not faint.”

Pruning is not merely removal. Its objective is renewed health and greater fruitfulness. This is our greatest challenge as the people of God; we do not want to let go of what God wants to prune. We become emotionally attached or deny there’s a problem and this prevents us from discerning and walking out that perfect will of God. Over time, we become cluttered in our thoughts, we cannot hear from God, we cannot discern truth from deception, and that bitter fruit overtakes the whole tree. If we allow God to prune, we can be renewed.

Looking back to the peach tree, by removing the bad and bitter graft, I recouped more than what I lost by cutting the tree in half, and all the fruit is edible, and the tree is healthier than ever.

“See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.”

These words are strong words of correction through the prophet Jeremiah.

“And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; And thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.”

Isaiah’s words express the ultimate goal of Reformation. Hezekiah’s reign involved a mighty Reformation in Israel and Isaiah was his prophetic advisor. Reformation digs down deep into the waste places to get at the root of sin and bring about new beginnings. The Angel of Reformation repairs the waste places of generations.

Reformation therefore includes both removal and reconstruction—correcting what is wrong while building up what should exist to “paths” we can then dwell in.

I believe all 9 Angels have been here since we began the work of the Gatherings. Working together in their respective duties, preparing the way to turn America back to God.

That said, the Angel of Reformation was made known at our first GOE. He was here to prune and prune deeply. His mission is to correct, to restore and to rebuild this nation back to its intended form. Until this past year, he was the only one of the Angels of the 9Rs we’d seen and I believe it is critical for us to see this…there’s a reason they are showing themselves today, which is why this revelation can and will be lifechanging if we will grab hold of it.

I’ve pondered this for a month now, considering the things the Lord speaks through dreams, visions and experiences. It is a weighty thing to witness, and it’s important for us to learn and act when the Lord identifies what needs removal, what needs renewal, and what needs the deeper work of reformation.

Is it just with the individual? The Church? The Nation? I believe it’s all three, but there are different levels.

Let’s look at how the Pruning Hook Angels have been operating in the nation over the last several years:

In 2021, the Lord told me we’d entered the Year of Revelation. God began to expose and identify systems that were in place within individual hearts, the Church, and the nation. We did not know it at the time, but Covid was a catalyst. Through that and the Russia/Ukraine war, we saw an enormous amount of government overreach and fraud increased more than at any other time in my lifetime. With schools closed, online schooling streamed the anti-American Communist, Cultural Marxist agenda directly into our homes revealing the truth about the indoctrination station that academia is today. We saw media kick into hyper drive and spin fear-driven narratives for profit at the emotional expense of the American people. Young and old alike were wrapped in fear over a virus. The Angel of Revelation used Covid to expose and awaken the people.

We all partnered with HHS’s “2 weeks to slow the spread” campaign that stretched into months, more depending on our state. Churches under pressure or in fear, close their doors as their trust in government over God rose front and center. Those who refused to close were often persecuted even by their own congregations. As time went on, they could not maintain the cost of the Church without the weekly offerings and 1000s of those small churches never reopened.

The Pelosi reign partnered with the media moguls to spin lies about Trump, Covid, BLM protests, and ultimately January 6—likening it to 9/11. This divided Christians and families across the nation, paving the way for the Biden coup.

This same year, the Lord revealed how Communism was holding our nation back from fulfilling its destiny to release His Kingdom in the earth. In the vision entitled “The Eagle, the Flag, and the Weights our Nation Bears” the very things I mentioned—government, academia, media, bloodletting, and religion were deeply entrenched in compromise which led to the immense battles we are fighting our way through today both in prayer and in the natural.

The Lord sent the Angel of Revelation to go forth to diagnose, expose and mark that which needed to be pruned. This guided our prayers. Much of what opened us up to the chaos of 2020 to begin with was marked for removal. The expert at the peach orchard said to avoid trauma, it’s best to identify and prune when it’s small. As they say, “we didn’t know what we didn’t know” so much of the pruning has been traumatic, but necessary. It’s critical we consistently identify, mark, and prune what is revealed, it preserves the health of what has already grown. That’s the purpose and function of the Pruning Angels.

Throughout the work of the Angel of Revelation, the intercessors remained faithful. We logged more corporate prayer hours than any other time in our history, hundreds joined us faithfully 3-5 days a week to weep and war for the soul of the nation. During this time, the Angel of Renewal pruned the unnecessary things from our own lives so we could experience a spiritual renewal. This spread out in many areas of the nation, several church leaders took a stand, and truth was released across the land. Renewal is happening…our nation is being revitalized!

The Angel of Reformation went forth to correct the areas we as a nation had departed from, those areas which were pulling us off course from our destiny. These often involved painful, even traumatic pruning events, like the chainsaw. Even the separations, painful as they were, served to pave the way for the Angel of Renewal to revitalize both intercessors and the rods of righteousness who would awaken the masses. These healthy, fierce, weepers and sweepers, partnered with the retainers and maintainers, and together, we partnered with the Angel of Reformation to remove the diseased and unproductive branches so we could turn America back to God.

Intercession paved the way partnering with the Pruning Angels as they Revealed, Renewed, and Reformed our nation. The nation has been under the intense workings of the Pruning Angels in partnership with the intercessors since 2020.

When President Trump came back into office in 2024, he immediately went to work and through Executive Order began a deep pruning of the DC Swamp. We saw his partnership with Elon Musk and Doge as they pruned fraud, waste and abuse in rapid succession. Through his work, Elon saw how Congressional leaders gained their vast wealth confessing in an interview, “I know how they do it, but if I say it, they will certainly have me killed.” I felt the fear in him that day, but he believed in the work, so he persisted. Trump, Doge, Elon, identified and pruned everything that was possible while the corrupt politicians sought to stop it day after day. They were draining the swamp, and the swamp was fighting back. Little did the Swamp realize, they were exposing themselves every day.

The swamp’s primary laundry mat, however, was USAID. It funded more sick, corrupt, indoctrination material and programs within America and around the world than any other department in DC. Lord, let the pruning be swift!

What about the Angel of Renewal? You see, there were many operations in our nation that were good, they needed to be retained, pruned, and maintained rather than be cut down. We needed revitalization not destabilization! We saw this over the last four years as the size of government has been reduced to 60% because the rest really were unnecessary bureaucrats. When nearly 25 cents of every dollar we make goes to pay for “government” pruning is necessary. To have a government run by the people, for the people, you need to reduce the size of the government but not remove it all together. This is renewal!

Vance is exposing and pruning billions every week in fraud, waste and abuse in many areas including government programs meant to help those in need so those resources can go to those who really need them. Every week, he regularly reports his findings to a room full of reporters. This is exactly what the Lord showed me Vance would do in the dream He gave me entitled “2026, the Year of Open Books” in clear back in October of 2025. In addition, Vance is ensuring safeguards are put in place to protect future generations.

The Angel of Renewal is operating in the Department of War as they have prayer meetings and Bible studies every week. Men are issued Bibles with their field kits as in the early days of our nation.

The Angel of Renewal is operating at the State Department to bring international crime under our thumb and put the world on notice that America does not bow the knee to the NWO! Rubio pruned the State Department and instead of Marxist pride flags in our US Embassys, only the American Flag is flown, nothing else will be tolerated! Rubio is a firebrand in the hand of the Lord, and he himself is being prepared for greatness in this hour! Continue to pray for him!

The intercessors, the government, the Lord sent the Pruning Angels to reveal, to renew, and to reform so we can be effective for the Kingdom of God.

I talked about the intercessors and the nation, what about the Church?

Dream 10.6.2026

I was at a church preparing to speak. The sanctuary was set up like a classroom with tables and chairs. The Lord instructed me to show a short video before we began.

In the video, there was family in a traditional 50s home, with a 12-week-old puppy they’d just gotten. He was a grey/white/black husky and obviously very playful. The family gathered around the puppy and played with him for some time. In the afternoon, the father suddenly picked up the puppy, opened the door, and placed him on the porch landing. From the landing, there were 10 steps descending into the yard. The yard had no fence and led into a very busy street. The puppy started to descend and per the Lord’s instruction, I stopped the video.

In the dream I knew with each step, it grew darker outside because headlights came on about half-way through the puppy’s descent.

I began the two-hour teaching. I laid out the “Ten Steps to the Destruction of the Church” in great detail. The message centered around the path the Church was currently on and where it would end up if they did not change their ways. The example the Lord gave me to use was of a man putting his hand over a grill that was on, with each step the church descended, the man’s hand moved closer to the heat of the grill until his hand was on the grill and burned beyond recognition.

Throughout the message, I was an observer as well as the speaker. Most of what I heard as an observer had to do with the man’s hand getting closer to the fire with each of the 10 steps until it was burned beyond recognition. I heard myself address various levels of compromise and deception, and felt the message included many of the 10 plagues from the message “America’s Red Sea Moment Approaches.” It was not all of them, and there were additional points I covered. They are as follows:

Remember, this is in the Church, not the nation. I believe the nation has made greater headway than the Church in the last few years. In the dream, I knew that if the Church would rise up and lead the charge, we’d see an end to abortion, gender reassignment, LGTBQ in schools, and social justice narratives.

When I finished, I asked for questions/comments.

Hands were raised and I called on someone. He asked, “what happened to the puppy?” most of the people put their hands down and nodded in agreement as though they all had that same question.

My response: “If there’s no intervention, the same thing that happened to the man’s hand. It will be unrecognizable.”

I woke up.

I was an observer of the people’s response and at times, what I said seemed to be background noise. They seemed focused, but when they asked me about the puppy, I realized they were only focused on the status of the puppy.

I remember feeling a great deal of emotion over this—grief, frustration, even righteous anger when they questioned the safety of the puppy rather than asking questions about how to bring the Church out of its current state. I felt the Lord was exposing hearts, but I woke up before I could address them.

I believe the Church is about to go through some deep pruning-the chainsaw kind of pruning. Each one of these ten steps began as a tiny branch. It grew and produced some bitter fruit but instead of pruning, the Church denied it, adjusted the watering schedule, and even tried some fertilizer. The bitter fruit has been permitted to grow for long enough and the separation the Lord showed me was coming (2027, the Year of Separation) as the Lord carves the Church out of the stone and creates a malleable Church, usable for His work, is going to come forth. The Pruning Angels have partnered with the intercessors for years now to prune the corruption from the intercessors as well as the nation, and they have accomplished much. However, the Church is not ready for what is coming! Revival is here! The Awakening is here! And the Church is not ready for the harvest that’s set to come in and as much as the Angelic Host has partnered with us in prayer for the nation, we need to partner with them in their work on the Church. This will not be easy, and my heart is so broken I cannot breathe over this at times, but God will have His way in His Church.

Remember, the puppy did not reach the danger, the Lord cut it off and I believe if we will pray with great fervency for the Church, we can see the Pruning Angels sweep through and prepare the Church to be a sweet fragrance unto Him, one that will draw the newly saved in, where they can train and develop them and show them how to retain and maintain their first love.

As the Pruning Angels do their work in the Church, Revelation will expose what needs to be removed, there will be separation just as the Lord said, and the Angel of Renewal will enter upon the scene and renew the hearts and minds of God’s people in ways so profound, it will be a revival of the heart, renewing the first love, and the fire of God will burn so brightly within the leaders, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint, because they will be as the mourning dove who looks upon her Savior and longs only for Him, His will, and His ways and that fire will pour out of them and into the lives of everyone they encounter! This will lead us to the Angel of Reformation who will break the powers of darkness as he completes the pruning in the Church. He will target the 10 steps to Destruction, and it is going to transform the Church into an unwavering, powerhouse for the Kingdom of God! His work is to dig down deep to the root of sin and establish new beginnings, that new growth that will produce the most abundant life-giving fruit the Church and the people of this nation have ever seen!

A word of caution, as the Church goes through this pruning, do not stand in judgment lest ye be judged yourself. Keep the Church in prayer. The Pruning Angels are partnering with the weepers and the sweepers, and we will get the victory!

Next week, the “Oil Angels”

Blessings & love,

Ricci Johnson-Wilson