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The Three Campaigns

A prophecy by Bill Somers
"Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down
unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the
horsemen thereof. And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and
arrows. And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it:
and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands. And he said, Open the window eastward. And he
opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S deliverance,
and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have
consumed them. And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel,
Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed. And the man of God was wroth with him, and
said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst
consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice." (2 Kings 13:14-19)
"And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities,
which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and
recovered the cities of Israel." (2 Kings 13:25)
In the above passage, the Lord established a pattern for victory which he repeats again in the New Testament.
The way to describe or characterize this pattern is this. He grants three victorious campaigns against the
enemy. In this context they are historic military campaigns, but they are also prophetic types of future
spiritual campaigns, against spiritual enemies.
There are three sets of three victorious campaigns. In other words this pattern of three victories in the natural,
is a pattern to be fulfilled three times in the spiritual. Two of them are found in the New Testament, the third is
yet to come.
The first of these spiritual campaigns is found in the three and one half year ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ,
the forerunner of the Church.
The second of the three is found in the three missionary journeys of Paul, a type of the Church.
The third will be found in the end time harvest of the Church.
Without going into exhaustive detail on the first two, I just ask you to recall that many editions of the Bible will
have maps in the back. Most always these maps include the three journeys of Jesus around Palestine, and
Paul's three missionary voyages. Both of these represent three victorious campaigns against enemy territory.
The enemy territory, in Jesus case, was the lands frequented by Jews of Galilee and Judea. For Paul, it was
the known world of Greek and Roman civilization.
For the Church of today and the end times we are entering into, enemy territory is the entire world!
The Prophecy.
Just as ancient Israel enjoyed three victorious campaigns against her enemies.
And just and the Lord Jesus carried out three victorious campaigns against His enemies.
And just as Paul's voyages represent three victorious campaigns against the enemy.
The Lord has shown me that His Church will experience:
THREE GREAT WAVES OF WORLD EVANGELIZATION during the end time harvest.
This will represent the final set of three victorious campaigns and will be the final fulfillment of the pattern set
down in 2nd Kings 13.
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Approaching Canaan
Received from Richard Riss
Subject: Prophecy
The following was forwarded from Pamela Ingram
Hi New Wine Friends!

Because the Holy Spirit, our Guide, has gone ahead of us seeing all that awaits the people of God, we can trust Him
when He says that we are approaching the days of fulfillment of all His promises:
"You Are Approaching Canaan" Prophetic Word Given to Jane Williams
"Shepherd your people with your staff. . . as in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt. . ." Micah 7:14, 15
"I say to you, you will know the staff of the Lord in these days as never before. For though I had a multitude to herd
from Egypt to Canaan, today I will lead even greater numbers from bondage to the promises of God. For My
people will be as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand of the sea.
In these days I will raise up many to follow the staff of the Lord. I will raise up men and women in every nation and
cause them to arise as a vast army before whom wickedness will be unable to stand. For the Lord will first crush the
iniquity of His people then allow you to crush iniquity round about.
Look closely at the trail of My people as they went from Egypt to the promised land. Did I not first purge them and
then give them strength to defeat their foes? Did I not first exercise patience and long suffering unto them - forgiving
and removing their iniquity as they traveled along the way?
Oh, they wandered through the wilderness learning the ways of the Lord. They learned about complaining and
murmuring, about authority and provision from My hand. They learned how I expected to be worshipped and how
to treat one another. I came to them with fire and plagues but also with My great love. I punished them with forty
years of wandering - one year for each day the spies had searched. And the spies who had reported hopelessness I
removed so they could discourage no more.
Oh church, you have known much the same journey. For of old, men began to retreat, to back off from My
promises and say they could never be possessed. They began to deny divine healing and the hiding of the Word in
their hearts. They began to substitute form for My Spirit and convinced themselves it was the acceptable way. For
the church of God knew great promises. It tasted the fruit of the land. Pentecost was its grape cluster and Caleb and
Joshua the disciples of great faith. But their voices were soon overshadowed by those who only knew doubt. Let's
back up to bondage, they said, for surely we were not meant to possess this. So My church was led to the
wilderness by doubt and despair and complaint.
And church, you have traveled for years now. Has it been one year for every day the land was spied out? I say, yes,
your wandering will soon be ended, for again you are approaching the promised land. Only this time you will not be
turned back to doubters, for the faithful will outnumber them, and you, oh church, will step over and enter the full
promises of God.
Oh, see how I have provided for My people, with manna and shoes that never wore out. For in each generation of
your wandering I have kept a remnant alive. I have spread My Spirit upon many as I did the seventy elders for
Moses' sake. For there have not just been one or two through the years who had wisdom, but righteous ones raised
up at appointed times.
And I say to you, oh church, your wanderings are surely about to end. For we are approaching Canaan, and this
time you will fully enter in. Oh, have no fears in these days, for I will accomplish it. You have victory after victory
ahead.
The land of promise has been prepared for you. For while I prepared you in the wilderness, I have prepared also
the enemies of God. I have allowed them to arise in pride and haughtiness. Ruled by arrogance with no fear of Me. I
have allowed them to arise so that their fall will be harder, for surely it will shake heaven and earth. The fall of the
wicked in your day will be deafening with tremors felt around the world. Oh, some will see you coming and run to
join you and even be of great use to you in the last days. But many will turn only to fight you and know defeat by My
hand.
The time and the hour is approaching for the people of God to arise. For the remnant I sustained through the
centuries is now crying out loud in My ear. They are saying, 'It is time! It is time!' Surely the time has drawn near.
They are urging Me to part the Jordan, and I say the time is near.
Take note! Take note, my people, of the manna and shoes not worn out. Take note! Take note of My presence that
has remained with you all these years. I am your Provider, your Guide and Protector, and in the days ahead you will
see My staff raised as never before. For I have a vast multitude I am gathering, preparing to take across.
Call out to those around you and tell them to join you as you go. As Moses called out to his brother-in-law and pled
with him to come along, so would I have you recruit others. For many are needed in these days. Many who have not
been a part will be called upon and used by My hand. So gather in neighbors and friends, acquaintances and those
with whom you work. Tell them of our plans and of the need we have of them. And perhaps it will disarm them to
think the Lord has need of them. For I say, many will be crossing the Jordan who knew nothing of the wilderness
life. You will teach them all that you learned and set them in their place. They will know great usefulness as we
conquer the land ahead.
Oh church, you are approaching Canaan, and the river is about to part. Gather as many together as possible for I
would have our company be large. It will be made up of every tribe and nation and people on the face of the earth.
The faithful will outnumber the doubters, and the promises of God will be won. For church, you are approaching
glory - the time and the hour is at hand." (also note Numbers 10:29-32 and 1 Corinthians 10:11)
Because of His tender mercies, Pamela Ingram Christian Fellowship Church Columbia, Missouri [email protected]
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Cycles of Mercy and Judgment

by Bill Somers
Part I
The Lord is moving in cycles of mercy and judgment to reveal Himself in these last days. The early to mid 80's saw
cycle of mercy. The late 80's and early 90's was a period of judgment. The refreshing of the mid 90's is a time of
mercy. Another time of judgment is imminent. Another term for this is cycles of warfare and blessing.
The present move of the New Wine refreshing [Isa 28:12] is a cycle of mercy. It is the Lord showing himself as a
God of mercy. It may seem to be out of balance or tending to error because it is only one side of his nature. But to
reject this move is a mistake. To feel that it is "just not God" or that somehow it is a great deception misses what
God is doing. This puts you in the seat of the scornful. Psalm 1 says blessed in the man who sitteth not in the seat of
the scornful …. " So to scorn or reject what God sends is to not be blessed. It is missing the blessing.
Those of us who reject the Toronto blessing are therefore put in the seat of the scornful. And may perhaps be
wearing the Crown of Pride. "Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom." (Proverbs
13:10). These are the scornful men who rule in Jerusalem [Isa 28:14] .
Conversely when judgment comes we must see it as that, judgment from God, lest we be among those who despise
the chastening of the Lord. Saying that the Judgment is 'not God', or especially, blaming the judgment on the sinners
in the world, will cause us to miss opportunities to cry out in repentance and to receive redemption [mercy]. We
need to repent for the sins of the Church and the world. Even worse to say that this judgment will not come against
us is to make lies our refuge [Isa. 28:15]. Yet when Mercy and Judgment meet and we become mature enough to
receive them both then His throne is established in us, the Church.
Then we will see the fruit of this revival, enter into the kingdom of god, in a spiritual sense, and be able to proclaim
"Our God Reigns!".
This blessing movement is God revealing Himself but only in part. "we know in part, and we prophecy in part, but
when ….." That is the Revelation of Jesus Christ as a God of Mercy.
When judgment comes, as it must begin at the house of God, it is the Revelation of Jesus Christ as a God of
judgment. The Lord is made known [revealed] by the judgment he executeth.
When mercy and judgment meet or come together it is the Revelation of Jesus Christ as the Lamb upon the Throne.
Part of the reason for this judgment is the rejecting or scorning of the mercy! To be in balance on this issue is to
behold both the severity of the Lord and his lovingkindness. Most of us are usually out of balance. We only get into
deception if we stay out of balance.
And what is the judgment that is coming? "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation
a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste." (Isaiah
28:16) The cornerstone is the Lord himself. As the Church is founded on the Lordship of Jesus, He will take his
place as the Head of the Church, the chief cornerstone, the headstone, and exercise His authority over it.
The point of The Final Quest by Rick Joyner is that the judgment [warfare] is to bring us to the judgment seat of
Christ. There, as we behold Him, we will see that it is also the Throne of Grace. Then we receive mercy and grace
[power to obey].
The seat of the scornful tends to make us hostile and bitter. I have been there and done that and repent when I find
myself thinking that way. Sometimes we are quick to criticize something. It may be a teaching, a prophecy or a
movement because 'we just don't see it in the scripture'. This doesn't mean that it's not there in the bible somewhere,
just that we don't see it!
There is a lot in the bible that we don't see if we were humble enough to admit it.
God is not seeking those whose doctrine is right, but those whose heart is right. None of our doctrine is
completely right, when you get down to it. Compared to revelations yet to come it can't really measure up because
there is so much more of the word yet to be revealed. The book is still mostly sealed to us, ( and this is not just the
book of Daniel, but the entire bible.)
But if you can come before His throne He'll give you what you need to know and His grace is sufficient. It is the faith
to believe and the ability to obey Him.
Sometimes we know in part because He only reveals in part. The 5 blind men who studied the elephant each came
away with a different description. Their disagreement is like a lot of our doctrinal squabbles. Based on our pride.
Who can know all about God?
These 5 blind men have one common failing. In their pride they forgot they were blind. There was a limitation on
what they could know and comprehend..
Thence the squabbles among us in our last day Laodicean Church . Or do we only think that the others are
Laodicean? We need to admit that we are the Laodiceans, especially those of us with prophetic or intercessory gifts.
This alone will pave the way for intercessory repentance. We need to admit being Laodicean before we can repent
of being Laodicean.
Part II.
I have been aware of the New Wine outpouring since early spring of 94 and partaking of it since Sep 94.
Only recently have I really dealt with any critics of the New Wine, or New Wind, on a personal level. Specifically I
refer to the writings of Andrew Strom found on his Web site, the New Zealand Revival Bulletin. I read a lot of his
material but it really didn't sink in till I had a long conversation with a brother from Indiana named John Webster.
Then the next morning the Lord gave me the above thoughts about cycles of mercy and judgment. Till then I guess I
just couldn't comprehend what they were getting at. It gradually dawned on me that these brothers actually believe
that the New Wine is a deception! And from this, following along in logical order, that it is of the devil, and those
involved are false teachers and false prophets! And all this leading to some pretty serious charges! And this from
spirit filled brothers! (Our ultra conservative brothers said pretty much the same things about speaking in tongues,
prophesying etc. )
Then the second day after my talk with John Webster, the Lord showed me that it was because of a stumbling
block! These brothers have been offended! ["A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their
contentions are like the bars of a castle." (Proverbs 18:19)]
The New Wine has been a stumbling block and rock of offense to some Christians because it does not meet
their expectations of what Revival is to be like. This is exactly the same kind of problem the Jews have in receiving
the gospel. "But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;" (1
Corinthians 1:23) It is a stumbling block to the Jews that Messiah should have to suffer and die. This was a case of
God revealing Himself in a manner that they did not expect, doing things they could not understand. It was an
offense to their national pride. So they could not accept Jesus as having been sent by God. Even his closest
disciples couldn't see it till He opened the word to them on the road to Emmaus. [Luke 24:13-32]
So some of our brothers are offended because expectations are not being met. Just a the Jews expected Messiah to
restore the Kingdom to Israel, many of us are expecting an awesome holiness revival like we see in history. This has
not yet happened. [Pensacola excepted.] And so frustration and rejection come forth; but it's only rooted in pride.
The Awesome Holiness aspect of God is yet to manifest in this move. This will likely come as the judgments come.
"The LORD is known [revealed] by the judgment which he executeth: …. (Psalms 9:16)
This is not the only stumbling block facing us today. The idea that Messiah must suffer and die is a stumbling block
to the Jews. So also is the idea that Christians must suffer and die a stumbling block to the Church. Yet, as the Lord
has clearly shown me, this is the price that must be paid in order to remove the veil of spiritual blindness on today's
Laodicean Church.
Recall that the Laodicean Church which receives the sternest rebuke from the Lord also receives the greatest
promises. "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set
down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches."
(Revelation 3:21-22) "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and
they loved not their lives unto the death." (Revelation 12:11)
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Bill Somers Prophetic Vision
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Gerald Derstines Prophecy

This following is the transcript of a tape of portions of a message given by Gerald Derstine in 1970 at the Christian
Centre in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada:
". . . the church itself, who we claim to be a part of, we're going to feel first the greatest effects of this coming of the
glory of God. The presence of God coming upon this earth is going to affect us, through other people. As the
presence of God comes, other people are going to try to disturb us. By that I mean, they don't know God. They
don't know that God is coming. They don't know that God's kingdom is coming. They don't want to believe it if we
tell them. They say, "you're crazy, impossible." We know it's true. God' word said so. Jesus Christ is returning. And
when He returns He's going to have a church without spot or wrinkle, a church that's being perfected by the powers
of evil that are upon the earth as these tests and trials come upon us, and it's going to get much worse. It's going to
get much worse than what it is. I mean the tribulations are going to increase, as God's presence comes closer upon
the earth. . . . The presence of God has been changing me, been perfecting me, been testing me. And he's changing
you. He's changing many of us. We're living in the end of time where His presence shall come, and it's going to move
upon this earth. In 1961, let me tell you this. In '61, in Sarasota, we had an unusual experience. . . . 'had a vision of
the wrath of God coming upon our American cities and this North American continent. Put your hands on me and
ask God to remove it from me, I can't stand what I am seeing and what I've been seeing,' and he was really
disturbed. I could tell by the way he was talking and crying that he really did have a genuine vision. Of course, I
didn't know what had happened until daylight, when I was out of bed, and I then was only out for a short while
when I met these other two brothers and they began to tell me what happened. They said, 'Brother Derstine, when
brother Bob left your house and came back, we were still in the room. We knew that God moved in him in a
tremendous way. In fact, he was crying and groaning.' When he left, that was the condition he was in. He figured he
had to see me. Come over to my house. 'But when he came into our room, the glory of God was so great and so
tremendous. It was so strong. As he was walking in the door, it seemed like a great, great glory, a brightness. It
caused us to tremble. We were on our beds, but our bodies began to tremble so violently we couldn't stay on the
bed, we were so frightened, and we cried out to God, we literally screamed out to God, 'Don't come any closer,
don't come any closer,' and he said, 'we fell off our beds, and were laying on the floor, just trembling, and then this
Bob, his voice began to speak the most unusual way--if you can imagine somebody speaking while they're spewing,
bringing up everything inside, and here are the words that came out of his mouth and they both heard it clearly: 'The
vileness and wickedness of man has come up before me as a stink in my nostrils. And I cannot stay my hand any
longer. The mockery of my word in the religious systems of America is an abomination to me.' As they were coming
out of his mouth, supernaturally, these words. That was in 1961. And during that day, that morning, as we were
assembled together, the Holy Spirit was still moving through this Bob, and one of the things that he said to us under
the anointing of the Holy Spirit, said that what had happened here that morning, had also happened in other parts of
the world--that same message and vision was given to others of God's people. And I was glad to hear that. . . . We
had the first evidence of it the next day. The next day God sent a man from Orlando, Florida, to our service. He
said, 'What this young man is telling you about this morning, that identical vision I saw. For several hours I cried and
I wept. He said, 'I couldn't stand it. I asked the Lord to remove it from me. I saw cities, I saw people crying in a
terrible state of desperation at the wrath of God coming upon the cities.' Well, this really shook me, you know. I
thought, Goodness, the next day already I hear one that had nothing to do with it in our own town but in another city
160 miles away. Three days later I received an air mail letter from the country of Haiti, describing a vision and it was
the same night, the same time. And they told us about the vision that came upon them. Several of them had it the
same night. One of the missionaries couldn't sleep all night long. The Holy Spirit was just speaking to him and telling
him what's coming to pass. And the other one had vision of the judgments coming upon the earth. In fact, one of
them saw unusual things. They saw people that were being destroyed, and there was another people with those
people that were not being harmed. They saw a people that were seemingly hid away. But they were amongst the
tribulations, but they were hid away--they were not being affected by it. Then they saw still a third party of people
that were right in amongst those that were being in this state of terrible sorrow and tribulation, and crying for help.
And they heard a voice cry out and say, 'how come YOU are not affected by this?' Because they saw they weren't
being hurt at all. They said, 'because we are the children of God and have already overcome the world and the
powers of the world.' Now this was written in that letter that came from Haiti to us. I still have a copy of that letter; I
think I have it written in this particular leaflet entitled, "God Spoke," which hundreds of thousands of these have been
printed already and distributed all over the U.S. and Canada and many countries of the world. (The little story I'm
telling you now.) But anyway, then I received a third confirmation of this. . . . He was weeping and crying. And he
said, 'What brother Derstine is telling you about, the same thing happened to me that same day--that same morning.'
So in just seven days' time I had the confirmation of at least three other people beside our own experience that
happened, and I was satisfied. I knew that God spoke. . . I believe that we are going to see a manifestation of the
presence of God and God's presence. It's going to produce either of the two reactions. The presence of God is
going to produce His wrath, His fire, consuming fire of judgment is going to burn and bring to pass the condition that
will cause man to want to receive Him. However, there's going to be many a man that's going to reject Him and this
fire is going to consume them, and they'll never be saved, but it's other people that are going to be ready to receive
Him. The greatest revival is going to come at the last day. He's only dealing with a people known as the
ECCLESIA, the Church. He's going to have a people from every kindred, nation, tongue and tribe, from all over the
world that are going to be those that are going to rule and reign with Him in His kingdom. Always remember in a
kingdom there's a king, and there's the ruling class, then there's the subjects that are going to be ruled over. And
God speaks of His kingdom being set up on this earth. Now I know that some people are looking for a better day.
They say, 'Well, don't you believe in the rapture, Brother Derstine? Don't you believe that we're not going to have to
go through any of these tribulations?' Well, there was a day I used to believe that very strongly, because I was taught
that way. But since I have been baptized in the Holy Spirit, God has been showing us, and revealing to us that the
object of tests and trials, and tribulation (and another word for tribulation is pressure), the object of pressures is to
perfect us, to refine us and purify us. If a thing is purified, that part of us that's being hurt and affected, will be
removed. Which means only the pure is remaining. And so why do we have to go away to some other location to
escape the troubles if we'll accept the test and trials now for the real purpose they're given to us. I can't help but feel
that if any man had a real rapture, it was Shadrach, Mishach and Abednego. When they were thrown in the fiery
furnace, I would say that if anybody experienced a rapture, they sure did. Why do you say that? Because when they
were thrown into the fiery furnace (they were already purified you see), they were already thrown into the arms of
Jesus and they were in heavenly places. . . . could it be that maybe this is why God is perfecting a people from every
kindred, nation, tribe and tongue, that when the great holocaust comes, and the troubles come, there will be a
people in every nation, tribe and tongue that are going to know their God as a consuming fire that has already dealt
with them and they love him and as a result of their loving Him, these other people will see the Christ, will see the
true living God, and will want that God in the end. As far as I am concerned, I know that God is able to keep us in
the midst, and I call that a rapture, when you're able to be kept in the midst of trouble. Religious people, Christian
people are not knowing it, because they have been taught by teachers it's going to be THIS way, and they are still
waiting for it to come to pass according to the way their eyes can see it."
[End of quotation]
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Catch the Fire '96

Prophecies from the conference.
The following prophecies were given on the evening of Friday, October 11, 1996, at the CATCH THE FIRE
CONFERENCE in Toronto. My recollection, as one of those present, is that October 11 is the correct date.
Special thanks are due to John Arnott and his staff for transcribing these prophecies and making them available.
Richard M. Riss
Prophecy - Carolyn Weis
The day of the Lord has come. The Lord is making even the difficult thing seem simple. A day when those things that
have been restricted opened that the flow may be complete. The day of the Lord has come to make those high
places brought down low and the low places brought into a place of level ground. The day of the Lord has come
where men are throwing down their crowns upon the ground and saying, Let the Lord alone be exalted. The day of
the Lord is come where the people are saying I will go deeply into the Rock of my salvation and hide myself in the
dust of the earth in humility before the Lord and He alone shall be exalted in this day. For as Isaiah in the day when
King Uzziah died looked up and saw the Lord high and lifted up, so I have brought My people to a place where
they see the things of old have died and have been brought to a place where their eyes have come to a focused
place to view the Lord in a new way.
And as your eyes have looked up you have seen the train, My train filled the temple with the glory of the Lord and
your gaze has ascended upon that train. It has brought your eyes unto a high place to view those things in heaven as
they are. Where the cherubim and surround the throne of God and the seraphim bring their hot coals and touch the
tongues of My people and again purify them to a place of holiness and a place of being set apart unto Me. The Lord
says, I have put upon My people a signet and upon their head it has been written, Holiness to the Lord, a dedicated
people set apart for the purpose of their God.
And even as that book of Isaiah began with the glory being seen in as a way as it had not been before by one man,
so the book of Isaiah ends in Chapter 66 with a host of people who are brought unto the day of the Lord. For the
Lord says in that book, in that chapter, in that verse, it is a day for Me to reveal My glory in the earth. And I will call
those who shall go into the distant lands, into the distant islands, to those who have never heard My name, and they
shall see My glory. But it is a day when men begin to behold My glory that it will be a day of fury and intense dealing
by My hand for have I not said that there shall be some, those who survive those days I will make of them priests
unto My God. I will make again a holy nation. I shall have again a holy nation of priests set apart unto Me, says the
Lord. For I am not looking for a nation of Kings who rule and who flaunt their greatness, but I am again looking for
a royal nation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation set apart unto the Lord. For the glory of the Lord to be exalted in
this day.
The Lord says, Set your focus upon Zion. Set your focus upon the train of the Lord that fills the temple. For as you
focus upon that train your eyes will look up and you will see things as I desire them to be seen. For truly it is a day of
revelation. For truly it is a day when I am opening men's eyes afresh to view things as I view them and to hear things
as I hear them. The Lord says, It is My eyes that I desire to put upon you, My eyes to burn upon you, My heart to
cause yours to beat with the pulse of Mine. Oh hear the new cadence that I am setting upon the earth for it is a
cadence, says the Lord, of love for the nations, love for the lost. And I shall again have a holy nation and a royal
priesthood as your focus stays sure upon the mercies of your God and upon the glory, the glory, says the Lord. For
it shall again take upon a new meaning for the glory of the Lord shall come in a way that you have not yet suspected.
And it shall be that there will be some who will not survive My glory and I am calling you to humble yourselves
afresh and again know that the glory of the Lord is a wonderful thing. But it is still an awesome thing to fall into the
hands of the living God. Look up. Look up for your redemption draweth nigh. Look up. See the glory and the
redemption of the Lord as it comes in power.
Prophecy - Marc Dupont
"Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and
in righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns.
He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His
name is called The Word of God. And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on
white horses. Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself
will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And
He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS." (Revelation
19:11-16)
And the Lord says that He has given a new song to His church this autumn. It is a high song of celebration of high
praise. It is a prophetic song. It is a song that sounds like the sound of a thousand horses galloping across the open
plain. And the Lord says He is releasing the horses. The white horses are on the run. And the Lord says this is the
time, this is the time. I have been calling My people. I have been speaking to My church. I have been calling out My
army into marching orders. And the Lord says that many have resisted Me, many have fought Me, many have
grieved Me. And the Lord would say, if you cannot run with the foot soldiers how can you ride with the horses and
the chariots. And the Lord says the time is at hand, the time is at hand. The Lord says, I am lifting off the veil. I am
lifting open the prophetic. And behold, because you call upon Me I will give you gazes into My glory. I will give you
insights into My heart and My compassion. And I will break your heart for the nations. And you will say, But Lord,
who will go? And I will put a burning vision within your fire and you shall go. You shall mount up with the wings of
eagles. You shall soar and you shall see the nations and you shall see My glory going forth. And I say to you, The
least of you, the least of you will take on ten. Ten of you will take on 100. 100 of you will take on 1,000. 1,000 of
you will take on a nation. And you say, Who am I? What can I do? And I say to you, Not by might and not by
power but by My Spirit, saith the Lord. I say to you, No longer shall you look on the great evangelist, no longer
shall you look upon the great faith healer, no longer shall you look upon the great prophet and say, Oh he has a
revelation, he has a message, he has anointing. But I say to you, My Spirit is upon you, My Spirit is with in you. I
say to you the gifts of My power, My compassion, My love, they flow through My presence. They flow through My
Spirit. And behold, I have been pouring out My Spirit as the ocean. I have been pouring out My Spirit as the wine. I
have been pouring out My Spirit as drops of precious love and life coming from My throne. And I say to you, you
have lifted up, you have cried out, you have opened up. And I say to you, I have filled you. I have filled you. I have
filled you and I say I have more for you but I say to you, you cannot contain, you cannot contain what I am giving
you. And I say to you, Freely, freely you have received. Now is the time, now is the time. But you still say, How can
I? But I say to you, Lift up My eyes and behold My glory because My glory is in your midst and My glory is upon
you. And I say to, I have a horse for you and I have a saddle for you. I have riding clothes for you. I will clothe you
in My Spirit. I will put My power upon you and you shall run and you shall not be weary. You shall walk and not
faint. And you shall mount up with wings of eagles and you will gaze and you will see what the prophets see. And I
will put My burning eyes within you and you shall see Me. You shall see My glory. You shall see My compassion.
And you will no longer say, Where is the Lord? And, What is He doing? But you shall all know My voice. You shall
all know My heart. You shall all know My compassion. You shall all know My power.
And I say to you the day of idolatry is over. I am lifting off My glory from those who have stolen My glory from Me
and My house. I am lifting off My glory from those and say, Look at Me. I am looking for the humble man. I am
looking for the humble woman. I am looking for the humble child. Look to Me. Look to Me. Look to Jesus. Look
to My Son, Jesus. Behold I am pouring out anointing upon many of you for teaching. I am pouring out anointing
upon many of you for preaching. I am pouring out anointing for preaching in power, in the power of My Holy Spirit.
And I say to you, you shall have a freedom for your neighborhood, for your office, for your workplace. You shall
have a freedom in the universities. You shall have a freedom in the schools. And I say to you, I am doing this thing
because My heart is for the lost. I am doing these things because My Son and His name shall be glorified upon the
nations. And I say to you to mount up. I say to you to mount up. My Spirit is upon you. My Spirit is with you.
And I say the time is at hand. I am bringing judgment upon leaders that have resisted My Spirit. I am bringing
judgment upon leaders who have grieved Me. I am bringing judgment on leaders who have fought Me and fought
Me and fought Me. And I say to you that I am going forth because I am the Lord of the harvest. And I say to you,
Lift up your eyes, lift up your eyes. The harvest is at hand. And I say to you to enter in, enter in, enter in, enter in.
Lift up your eyes and behold. Call out to Me and I shall raise you up as laborers of the harvest. And know this, I
have chosen you long before you chose Me. I chose you. I delight in you. You are My chosen ones and behold My
Spirit is upon you.
Prophecy - Carol Arnott
"But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For I tell you the truth, many
prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not
hear it." (Matthew 13:16-17)
And the Lord would say you need to open your eyes and you need to hear what God is saying because there is a
cloud the size of a man's hand. There is a cloud the size of a man's hand. It is coming. It is already on the horizon.
And the Lord would say to you, Do not tarry but this is a time to rend your hearts and not your clothes. Let Him
come and let Him do what is in His heart for you because the cloud is already on the horizon. And He is saying He
wants us to come and mount up like Marc said. And we must be ready because when that rain comes we will not
have time to get prepared. And He says as soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the Balsam trees
move out to battle because the Lord has gone out in front of you.
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Prophetic Word Given to Jane Williams October 28, 1996
Dear Friends,
I simply love our Western way of launching a new bride into her new life: just about everything she needs to serve
her new husband in her new household is received as a gift. And because we are His bride, today He exhorts us to
"register" for all that we need, everything we want, to be effective in His Kingdom. . .
Register for Heavenly Gifts

"These are days when those involved in ministry will have a greater capacity for all aspects of work in the Kingdom.
In this day, I will have evangelists who have deep concern for setting converts into the house as well as for saving
their souls. Teachers who will be preachers at times under the anointing of the Spirit. Pastors who will prophesy
during counseling appointments and singers and musicians who will preach the gospel between songs. Oh, these are
to be days when many in My Kingdom will be granted wide understanding and anointing for ministry. This will
enable more to be ministered to and will also promote unity as one will be given insight into another's role and
burden.
Ask Me to help you understand your brothers and sisters. Ask Me to grace you with some of the anointing you see
in them. Do they prophesy or have a burden for the lost? Though these things may not be your primary calling, ask
Me to impart in these areas to you. For I say to you, I will need many skilled workers in days ahead. I am taking
My people out into the streets and into places they have never gone. I am taking My people into dark places and,
yes, up to the very gates of hell. Would I send you into these places with one weapon or tool? No, I would have
you well-equipped.
Do you sing the song of the Lord? Don't be satisfied with that in these days. Ask that you might discern spirits as
well. Are you a shower of mercy? Consider that I might also want you to preach repentance. For in these days, I am
pouring out gifts from heaven and I will not stop giving to the willing vessel. Broaden your concept of what one can
do. For I will ensure that you all need each other and no one will be sufficient on their own. I will pour forth many
gifts to all who would ask in these days.
Have you always wanted to dream dreams or see visions? Speak a timely word of faith? Give Me your lists in these
days.
Be as a bride registering before her wedding. List the things you would like to have. As corporate bodies, come
before Me with what you would like to be about. Register for china and crystal and pots and pans - for linens and
appliances and beautiful vases.
Do not think small for you will have many come to your house in days ahead. You see, oh church, I am preparing
you to invite the world. Would I have you ask for one cup or just one saucer to match? No, you need a full set of
dishes and much more than even that.
Ask Me for gifting and enablement in areas where you never thought you could go. You may not become pastor of
a church or preach to stadiums full of people but I might give you unction to shepherd small groups or speak words
of salvation to a street corner crowd. You have no idea how I want to use you in these days. You have no idea how
big My plans are.
These are the days for the bride to register for gifts from on high.
These are days for you to think big. Consider that family dinner you might have at your home for Christmas not just
tea for two next week. You need lots of plates and silverware. You need much to serve those who will come.
And in your asking, check with those who are already experienced in a certain thing. Should I choose something
bold and ornate, or go with a neutral shade and simple lines? Does a prophecy need to begin with, 'Thus said the
Lord' or could I just pray my thoughts aloud? Submit yourselves to those who have walked ahead of you in ministry.
Do not think you are being called to walk alone.
These are days when I am interlocking ministry as never before - causing one to need another and find they are
more effective when they act together. I would have many go out in pairs or in small groups in order to draw from
each others' strength. But, again I say, I will give to each more than they thought possible. I will equip you for more
than you even dreamed.
I will take away your fears and fill you with great unction.
Have you lacked a shepherd's heart? Study the lifestyle of the pastor.
Have you been afraid to share your faith? Go to the evangelist and learn his ways. If spiritual gifts have always
seemed out of your reach, find out how those who prophesy began. For I say, I have much bigger plans for you than
you thought and I long to pour great understanding and gifting your way.
Learn from one another and expect to be taught from Me. For these are days of advancement and expansion for all
those who are willing. Be eager to expand your spiritual repertoire. Be willing to step out into new areas. I will help
you if you will proceed in faith.
Have you had difficulty understanding your pastor? Try discipling one or two and you may gain insights that will
increase your love and understanding of him. Have you been consumed with practical areas of ministry and not
understood how someone could spend hours in prayer? Join a prayer group and see what I may show you. And if
the opposite has been the case, begin to take part in practical ministry so that you may understand the needs being
met there.
Expand. Expand. Expand in these days. Become familiar with all you can. I would have there be great understanding
and love among My people and also multi-skilled and gifted ministry available to serve many.
Clear your calendar of things not pertaining to the Kingdom to make room for great service in My house. I would
not have you volunteer in one small area and think you have no greater call on your life. Expand. Expand.
There is much to be done and perhaps you are being underutilized. If you lack motivation or are beset with fears,
ask Me to help you step out.
For many in this day are destined to be used in power and in a variety of ways. Many in this day have a much
greater calling than they know. Step out and see what I might do. If you see something in another you would like to
have, call out and see if perhaps it is for you too. For I would cause you to covet good things in one another just to
prompt you to pray, 'Don't pass me by, Lord. I'd like some of that too!'
Be open to what I might lead you into. It may be different than what you thought but I assure you that, in the end,
you will proclaim, 'This is what I was always meant to do.' For I would have My house full of joyful workers
laboring with great unction and with a deep sense of fulfillment. I would have My house be a place like none other,
where each is linked with bonds of respect and great love."
Loving Him more each day,

Pamela Ingram
Christian Fellowship Church
Columbia, Missouri
[email protected]
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This Document last revised on July 25, 1996.
The Gospel of Martyrdom

by Michael Brown
Stephen stood before the Sanhedrin. The appointed Jewish leadership confronted this anointed Jewish believer.
They glared; he glowed. They were enraged; he was enraptured. Their faces were contorted with anger; his was like
the countenance of an angel. "Men and brothers," he said "listen to me."
He rehearsed the history of Israel, from Abraham to Moses to David, the faithfulness of God in spite of the
unfaithfulness of the people. But Stephen was not there that day merely to recite the lessons of history. He was there
to be a witness, and a a faithful witness he spoke. His word turned to piercing rebuke:
You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist
the Holy Spirit! Was there ever a prophet your fathers did not persecute? They even killed those who
predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered Him - you who have
received the law that was put into effect through angel but have not obeyed it (Acts 7:51-53).
Soon his body lay battered and bloody, a mangled, motionless mass. He had not backed down. He had not
compromised. He had not omitted a word. He was a witness and a prophetic voice. And that day he became the
Church's first martyr. The first, but not the last. Hundreds of thousands have followed in his path. Being a witness
for Jesus could cost you your life.
In the early Church, witnessing and martyrdom quickly became associated: The Greek word for "witness" is
martyros. Witnesses testify with their lives and often seal their words with their own blood. Have you done any
'witnessing' lately?
It's one thing to read the Word and be stirred by the examples of men like Stephen. But this was real life! He was
probably a young man with a wife and children. His whole future lay before him. His family was dependent on him.
There may have been a toddler waiting to greet him that day when he came home. But he never came home!
And then there was his ministry. He was a powerful preacher, anointed to heal the sick and perform miracles. Think
of all the lives he could touch! Think of all the good he could do for the kingdom of God.
Why didn't Stephen simply deny the false charges? "Men and brothers, the accusations are not true." Why didn't he
politely dismiss their questions and calm their anger? Why did he continue to stand up an speak out? The answer
challenges us all. He was not seeking to save his life; he was seeking to be a witness.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for Me will find it (Matt 16:25).
This is the story of the true Church in every nation and in every age:
You did not renounce your faith in Me, even in the days of Antipas, My faithful witness, who was put to
death in your city - where Satan lives (Rev. 2:13b).
This is the gospel of martyrdom, the gospel of Jesus. It is the gospel that Paul preached and lived:
I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has
give me - the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace (Acts 20:24).
That is why he could say:
I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as
always Christ will be exalted in my body whether by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ and to die is
gain (Ph 1:20-21) .
As Leonard Ravenhill observed, Paul didn't mind if the cost of his obedience was prison, for it were better that he
should be the prisoner of the Lord for a few years than that his fellow men should be the devil's prisoners in hell
forever (Why Revival Tarries, 118 .)
How different this is from the philosophy that rules in today's luxury soaked America. How different this is from the
modern gospel of success! Jesus cut to the very core of the issue. When Peter told the Lord in no uncertain terms
that He was not to go the way of suffering, rejection, and death ("Never, Lord!" he said. "This shall never happen to
you!"), Jesus identified Peter's words as Satanic.
Get behind Me, Satan! [Jesus said to Peter.] You are a stumbling block to Me; you do not have in mind the
things of God, but the things of men. (Matt 16:23)
What was at the root of this satanically inspired theology? What fueled Peter's opposition to the cross? It was a
different set of values, a different perspective, a different viewpoint, a different understanding: "you do not have in
mind the things of God, but the things of men." Now we're getting down to the basics!
One 'gospel' is interested in the things of this world, the things of men. The other gospel is interested in eternal things,
the things of God. One message cultivates preservation of self; the other cultivates denial of self. One says, 'Add to
your life!' The other says, 'Lose your life!' One message encourages self-satisfaction, the other encourages self-
denial. One message tells carnally minded people "what their itching ears want to ear" (2 Tim 4:3); the other message
tells the truth.
Whether or not we have much in this world is not the central issue. (Most of us in America have an incredible
abundance, dozens of times what we actually need to live.) What matters is our attitude towards our what we have.
And we who have an abundance must guard our hearts. Riches are deceitful!
Jesus rebuked the church of Laodicea;,
You say, "I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing." But you do not realize that you are
wretched, pitiful poor, blind and naked (Rev 3:17.
But Jesus commended the church of Smyrna:
I know your afflictions and your poverty - yet you are rich.... Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer.
I tell you, the devil will put some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution ten days. Be
faithful to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life (Rev 2:9-10).
We must see how tragically earthly the gospel of success really is. It still stands in the way of the cross. It still
rebukes Jesus for promising suffering and death. In fact, it actually calls the path to Calvary "religious" - meaning
traditional, unanointed, and fruitless.
It is no overstatement to say that there is no cross in the gospel of success. In its most extreme modern forms, it
originates from the pit. (Remember, it was Satan who Jesus rebuked for trying to keep Him from going to the cross.)
The gospel of success criticizes the message of the cross because it leads to 'death.' But the true gospel must lead to
death - death to the flesh, death to the will of man, death to this world's priorities. Only through death can there be
resurrection. Only through the cross can there be abundant life. In fact, if you want what some teachers call "the God
kind of life" you're going to have to experience "the Jesus kind of death." Which path will you take?
The last generation taught what is often called " Pie in the sky" theology - and this theology certainly had its
problems! There were plenty of negative distortions in the message. But we have substituted some thing worse. We
now have the theology of "have your cake and eat it too." The first message starved its hearers, depriving them of
the blessings of life in the Spirit in this world. The second message engorges them, robbing them of the light of
eternity.
People of God, we are not to center our lives around eating and drinking, gaining and possessing, having more and
being merry, because tomorrow we do not die. No. We live forever! How foolish that we conduct ourselves as if
this world were our lasting home. We're just passing through!
When Jacob was a frail old man he said to the Pharaoh:

The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not
equal the years of pilgrimage of my father (Gen 47:9) .
King David, in spite of the equivalent of billions of dollars of riches, could say at the end of his life:
We are aliens and strangers in Your sight, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow,
without hope (1 Chr 29:15).
Hebrews 11 commends Abraham - certainly a prosperous and influential man - because,
By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents as did
Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with
foundations whose architect and builder is God.... [All of them] admitted that they were aliens and strangers on
earth. People who say such thing show that they are looking for a country of their own ..a heavenly one(11:9-
10,13-14,16).
How much more does the New Testament call us to have in the light of eternity!
Jesus told His disciples to rejoice when they were persecuted and rejected, "because great is your reward in
heaven . . ." (Mat 5:12). He told them - and us! - to store up treasures in heaven (Matt 6:19-21), an Peter reminds
us that we have a heavenly inheritance "that can never perish, spoil or fade" (1 Pet 1:4). That is why we who suffer
for Jesus now will be 'overjoyed' when His glory will be revealed at His return (1 Pet 4:13). There is great joy now
because there will be endless joy then!
You sympathized with those in prison [for the faith] and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property,
because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. (Heb 10:34).
Consider the example of C. T. Studd. Raised in a wealthy, aristocratic home in England last century, he became a
national celebrity as a sensational cricket player at Cambridge. (He could have become the 'Michael Jordan' of his
generation.) But through the preaching of D. L. Moody, he experienced a deep transformation and left ever go to
the mission field.
Was he wrong for abandoning a phenomenal sports career in England in order to preach the Word in China and
Africa? Was he "religious" because he chose to forsake fame, fortune, and comfort to live sacrificially among the
heathen? The decisions he made and the path he chose make one thing perfectly clear: He was not seeking to get
ahead in this world. He was seeking to please the Lord. There is a difference!
On judgment day, and throughout eternity, men and women like C. T. Studd will be accounted wise. They will have
our and God's commendation. Does anything stop us from following their lead? It will mean going against the grain!
Our country is saturated with a "save your life, improve your life" mentality - from health clubs to exercise videos,
from savings plans to retirement funds, from insurance policies to computer programs guaranteed to put you "in
control of your life." Be successful! Live in greater security and ease! Enjoy the American dream! Jesus says,
"Follow Me - even to the point of death"
After His resurrection, He told Peter the kind of death by which he would glorify God (John 21:19). What a
concept! Think of a discussion among the first eleven disciples: "Matthew, Bartholomew, Thomas, by what kind of
death are you going to glorify Him?"
For these men, this would not have been idle talk: According to tradition, all the first apostles, with the exception of
John, died a martyr's death. (John was reportedly boiled in oil twice - and survived.) For them, the issue was not,
will we be called to die for the glory of God?" But rather, by what kind of death will we glorify Him?'
What about us? Is the call any different today? By what kind of death are we called to glorify God? Death to our
reputation? Death to human opinion? Death to our careers? Death to our plans and goals? Or maybe the literal
death of a martyr?
Savonarola, the prophetic priest in the fifteenth century Catholic Church under stood the cost of fidelity to the Lord.
When offered the red hat of a cardinal, he replied:
No hat will I have but that of a martyr reddened with my own blood.
The fatal flaw of the modern, carnal prosperity message is that it encourages us to set our eyes on the things of this
world. I makes it harder for us to leave all lose and follow Jesus. It eliminates the call take up our cross.
(Remember, Jesus was not the only One called to carry the cross. Read Luke 9:23 several times out loud, and
digest each word slowly: 'If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and
follow Me.')
The gospel of success says, "Jesus died for you so you could prosper and succeed in this world." (Of course, there
is some truth to the prosperity message, but its emphasis is way off.) The biblical message says, "Live so as to lose
your life for the Lord" meaning go anywhere, do anything, make any sacrifice - as long as souls are saved, lives are
changed, the kingdom is extended, and Jesus is exalted. As children of God, we now make our decisions based on
entirely different priorities. We are already subjects of the heavenly kingdom. We have already died to this world!
Of course, there are things in this present age that are important. Justice in our society is important. Compassionate
action on behalf of the poor and hurting is important. Righteousness and integrity are important. Morality and family
values are important. But only those whose lives are given over to a higher - and eternal - purpose can radically
change things here.
As C. S. Lewis said:
It is since Christians have largely cease to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this
one.
Can we be honest with ourselves? A major reason why we don't take a stand against godless laws is because we
don't want to risk our lives. We're not willing to suffer the consequences.
A key reason why we don't share our faith more clearly and - in love - more aggressively is because we don't want
to experience rejection. We don't want to lose our friends, or our jobs, or our ease.
One major factor that keeps man off from the mission field is that we're too comfortable here and now. (Let's face it:
Here and now is where it's at for most of us. There's only one way you can prove me wrong: Live differently!)
It's time for the old spirit of martyrdom to enter the church of America. (Much of the Church worldwide has no
choice in the matter. Christianity for them is synonymous with suffering. just ask the families of the Christian men in
Sudan or Ethiopia who were crucified for their faith - in the last few months.) It's time that we do God' will and
God's will alone.
I once heard Richard Wurmbrand ask why, when the Supreme Court passed the law removing public prayer from
our schools, American Christians chose to comply. What would have happened if we simply refused to obey? The
whole thing probably would have been turned around overnight. And if it wasn't turned around? Then at least the
church, through her biblical obedience, would have been turned around!
If only we would value obedience to the Lord more highly than we value self-preservation! If only the favor of God
were more meaningful to us than the opinions of people! If only we would count suffering for Jesus to be a privilege!
What could stop us then? This country boasts of fifty- seventy million born-again Christians. (Of course, that figure
is preposterous.) But what if just one million true believers here (just twenty thousand from each state!) decided to
obey God and stand up for what is right, regardless of the cost? Our nation would be absolutely shaken. Now is the
time to awake!
In 1984, after hearing K. P. Yohannan of Gospel for Asia preach a challenging message, a Christian man named
Samuel gave up his good job in South India and moved with his family to the region of Karnataka. There he began
preaching to unreached Hindus, known for their hostility to the gospel. The Lord blessed the work, an even a Hindu
priest was born again.
This was more than the extremists could take. They burst into a meeting one Sunday and severely beat Samuel with
iron rods, breaking his hand, arm, leg, and collar bone. When his seven year old son ran up and cried out, "Please
don't kill our daddy!" they struck the boy on the spine, breaking his back. Then they left, warning Samuel that if he
ever preached there again, they would kill him. The beating was so severe that Samuel and his son were hospitalized
for several months.
After his release, Samuel attended a workers' meeting with K. P. Yohannan. The first night, during a time of prayer,
his arm was supernaturally healed of paralysis he was suffering as a result of his beating. The next night he testified of
the things he had recently experienced for the Lord.
K. P. asked Samuel, 'What are you going to do now?' With a peaceful determination, the young man replied:
I am going back. Even if I am killed my blood will be the foundation for many more churches.
He returned and has continued to preach. His son is back in school and is also doing well. And Samuel has baptized
many more converts - and has been beaten again.
Would we have gone back and preached? K. P. was honest enough to admit that his own reaction might have been
different. First he would have come up with lots of good scriptures to justify not going back. And then he would
have used his best armament:
I'm only forty-some years old! God wants me to use my brain for His kingdom. With all the investment He has
made in my life since I was sixteen, would it be right for me to be killed by some fanatics next week? Don't be
stupid! I am going to leave this place so will have another forty years of my life to invest in and build God's
kingdom (Living in the Light of Eternity, 159-60).
Samuel thought differently. He was not out to save his life, he was out to save sinners. With such resolve how could
he be defeated? His life is not his own! In past centuries, missionaries endued with the same spirit sailed off to far
away lands with their belongings packed in caskets. They were making a one way trip!
A few years ago, a young evangelist moved into an area in Asia famous for its violent resistance to Jesus. The radical
religious opposition immediately came to his apartment, making their intentions clear: "We'll kill you if you stay here
and preach!" The evangelist only smiled. "I came to die," he replied. Today his church has 200 members. That is the
power of the gospel of martyrdom. That is true success.
Reprinted through the courtesy of :
Dr. Michael L Brown

ICN Ministries
P.O. Box 7355
Gaithersburg, MD 20898-7355
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This is an Excerpt from the book I Believe in Visions in which Kenneth Hagin shares a vision of Revival.
The Garden and the River

by Kenneth Hagin
The Lord appeared to me for the seventh time December 1962 while I was conducting a meeting Houston, Texas.
On the night of December 12, I was telling the people how the Lord had appeared to me in my first vision back in
1950. As I related some of the things that the Lord had told me in that vision, I began to understand more clearly
what He had meant by some of those statements, and I also saw where I had failed to obey Him completely.
Immediately I fell on my knees behind the pulpit I began to cry and say, "Lord, forgive me. I have not obeyed You
fully." As I knelt there, I fell into a trance such as Peter did on the housetop, when he had the vision of the sheet
being let down from heaven by the four corners (Acts 10). By this method God led Peter to bring the Gentiles into
the Kingdom of God.
The Vision of the Garden

While I was in this trance, I saw a beautiful flower garden. It seemed to be a square garden with a white picket
fence around it. It was overgrown with flowers. Climbing roses covered the fence in such profusion that it almost
appeared to be a fence made entirely of flowers. Inside the garden was a mass of flowers in full bloom. An arbor
covered with climbing flowers stood in the middle of the garden. This sight was so glorious it was absolutely
indescribable There are no words which could tell of its beauty. Such an aroma went up from these flowers that the
fragrance seemed to be multiplied a hundredfold, forming a cloud of incense. I walked up to the garden from the
east, and when I reached the gate, Jesus was there to open it for me. He stretched out His right hand, and, taking
my right hand in His, He pulled me through the gate into the garden. Then with His left hand He closed the gate. He
took me down a walkway through the middle of the garden to the arbor. He drew me under the arbor. I saw two
white marble seats, one on either side of the arbor. Jesus sat down and invited me to sit down on the seat on the
south side of the arbor. As I looked at Him I could see to the west of the garden. I asked, "What does this mean?
What are all these flowers? What do they represent? I have never seen any place like this in all of my life or smelled
any fragrance so magnificent!"
The River of People

To the west I saw flowing into the garden what looked like a river. It narrowed where it came into the garden. Then
it seemed to become wider and wider, rising into the sky. It must have been 50 feet wide or more. The river
appeared to be pouring tons of water into the garden. Then the water changed and ceased to be water. Instead of a
river of water, it was a river of people! I saw men with silk top hats and long-tailed coats and women in evening
gowns. I saw businessmen in smartly tailored suits and laborers and housewives with their work clothes and aprons
on. I saw people of all sorts-all of them singing praises as they flowed into the garden. Then the Lord said to me,
"These people whom you see flowing like a river into this garden are what you call 'denominational people' or
denominations other than the Full Gospel. ln this day I am visiting hungry hearts every where. Wherever I find hearts
that are open to Me, in what ever church they may be, I will visit them in this hour. I also will visit places you never
would have thought I would visit - not only what you call 'denominational churches,' but I also will visit other
religions where hearts are hungry and open to Me. I will bring them into a full salvation and into the baptism of the
Holy Spirit. "This river is all these people who will be called in these last days who will flow as one and who will
come together as one. The beautiful aroma of these flowers is the praise of these people ascending into heaven, even
as the incense of old ascended unto Me."
My Role Outlined
The Lord continued, "You must play a part in this. You will work with these people in the various denominations.
You will minister to Full Gospel people to help them be prepared for my coming. I will show you how and what to
do." Then He took my hand, lifted me up, and walked with me back to the gate. He opened it with His left hand, still
holding my right hand in His. I went through the gate and then He closed it behind me. As I stood just outside the
gate, the vision disappeared. I came to myself and realized I was on my face behind the pulpit. I arose and told the
people what I had seen, and it blessed and inspired all of us.
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Frank Hammond's Vision

taken from a teaching tape titled
Discerning the Lords Body

November, 1977
In this vision, I saw first of all a large parade ground, and on this parade ground there were about a dozen
companies of soldiers. And they were out there doing what we used to call short order drill. They were
marching back and forth. And so as they marched, each one of them was under his own separate commander.
And so this one over here was commanding his little group. His little company of soldiers. And they'd be
going this way and that way and the other way, as they marched back and forth. And the other groups were
all marching under their own commanders but each little group was doing their own thing. Each little company
was moving according to what their individual leader was telling.
Then I noticed another interesting thing happening. I noticed that sometimes the officer would say in one
group: "To the right, March!". And so they'd go to the right and there would be one that wouldn't go to the
right. He'd keep going straight. And he'd march right off the field and disappear. And I thought that's strange.
Now in the next segment of the vision I saw all these same companies. And they were all out there marching
but this time although they were all under individual leaders, they were all marching in coordination - in unity.
Say when one company moved to the right, they all moved to the right, simultaneously. When they moved
forward not just one moved forward but all of them moved forward. And still while they were doing that,
occasionally, there would be one, when an order was given to go a certain direction, that one in the group
wouldn't go in that direction. And he'd just march off the field and go out of sight.
Now I began to see as they continued to march. And this time they came all together. And they were all as
one big company. And they marched together in perfect order. And as they went in various directions back
and forth. I began to look to see if anybody was gonna march out of ranks. And there wasn't anybody that
marched out of rank. They were all together. Not one left but every time the command was given they all
went in perfect unity, under their leader.
Then I began to see another section of the vision. As all of these were marching forward, together, in unity.
And as they went forward, the first row, which would be about 50 men in that first row, that row just
ascended up into the heavens, up into the clouds. And then the next row would just ascend, up into the
clouds. And the third row. And so this is where the vision ended as these were just going row by row these
soldiers were just going up into the clouds.
Now I said now Lord, you didn't get all of these soldiers all ready to rapture them out. And the Lord said no
that wasn't the rapture.
This is what God gave me, the interpretation of that vision. He was showing me what is happening in the
church, in the world today. See there are companies of soldiers. We have a company here; we have a
company back in Texas. There are companies that are meeting today all over the world. And each of them are
under their own leader And so they're doing their thing, They're going this way and they're going that way.
They're learning to come under their leadership. They're learning to come under their authority, They're
learning to submit. But once in a while, there would be one when the command was given to go this way, he
marched out of rank. See he was lost to the ranks of God. He was the independent, he was the self-willed. He
was the rebellious. He couldn't march with the others, and he had to go his own way. So he marched out
yonder, not to have a part in what God was doing.
Then in the next section, you see where they were all marching, they were doing it in unity. Even though they
were still together in separate bodies, separate companies, they were till now moving together in unity. And I
see this. I see that this is happening right now. I see that what God is teaching, what is coming forth in this
body is the same, exactly the same that God is bringing forth in other bodies. See if you're not out traveling
around, you don't see this. But I've been privileged to be able to travel around. Recently I was up in Indiana.
There are a couple of bodies that I was with up there and they are receiving the same basic teaching. They are
worshipping, and serving God, and operating in the Spirit of God just like you are. Well they ought to! If it's the
same spirit leading there ought not to be division; there ought not to be confusion. And there's not!
Now God, in the next part of the vision, they were all brought together. They were really bonded together as
one. And when they came together in this condition. There was no lone ranger, There was no one leaving the
ranks. Hallelujah! For that day. Praise God for when we'll see that day …. When we can all move together, the
whole body of Christ. All of us really united in the spirit, hearing God, following God's direction and moving
together as one army of the Lord!
Now what was this all about? These that were entering up into the heavens. God said that's not the rapture.
I'm not taking them out. But I'm preparing the Church to enter against the principalities and powers in high
heavenly places. God is training us and God is preparing us. Because there are things ahead of us in which the
Church must participate, in which the Church must be involved. You know you've heard the saying 'You can't
see the forest for the trees'. You know sometimes we as Christians get like that. We can't see the overall
picture of what God is doing because we just see a little bit. And we get so concerned looking at one tree;
we can't see all the rest of the trees. God wants our vision lifted. This vision that God gave me was for the
purpose of lifting our vision, of lifting our understanding. So that we can have a broader perspective, and see
what God is doing.
Now God is dealing with Churches and he is dealing with individual lives. God, today, is intently busy pouring
out certain truths that He want's to work into our lives. Now listen to me people. These things that God is
saying, and these things that God is doing; they are not to be taken lightly. They're not to be treated with
indifference. These things are from the throne of God. And they are being given to get us ready; to prepare
us for things that are coming. It's like line upon line and precept upon precept. It's like stories being built on a
multi-story building. You don't lay the first and second story, and then skip up here and put on floor number
15. You put them in order. You have to do it 1, 2, 3 and you have to come up to 15. You can't skip; you can't
jump. And folks this is what God is doing in the body of Christ today. He is bringing forth truth; and it's laid
layer upon layer. God teaches us something and it becomes the foundation for something else. And that
becomes the foundation for something else. And some people look at something God brings forth and say
well I don't like that one, let's go on to the next one. We'll skip that one and go on to the next one. You can't
do it. There's something missing. If you don't have the foundation for this other one up here until the one
next to that is laid. And if you'll watch, you'll see that God is doing that in the Body of Christ. ….
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Hudson Taylors Vision

Hudson Taylor, missionary to China and founder of the first truly inter-denominational foreign mission, the China
Inland Mission, was graced by God to 'glimpse' some of today's events 140 years ago!
On one of his furloughs to England in 1855, Taylor was preaching when suddenly he stopped. He stood speechless
for a time with his eyes closed.
When he began to speak again he explained :
I have seen a vision. I saw in this vision a great war that encompasses the world. I saw this war recess and then start
again, actually being two wars. After this I saw much unrest and revolts that will affect many nations. I saw in some
places spiritual awakenings. In Russia, I saw there will come a general all-encompassing, national SPIRITUAL
AWAKENING so great that there could never be another like it. From Russia, I saw the awakening spread to
many European countries. Then I saw an all-out awakening, followed by the coming of Christ.
(From an original Russian article titled "Spiritual Revival" published in Finland in 1945, reprinted from "Food for Life
International". Quoted in "Intercessors for America Newsletter", vol 21, no 7/8, also in the "European Prayer
Bulletin", 3rd quarter 1994.)
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This Document last revised on October 10, 1996.
VISION OF JESUS AND THE

DRAGON
Seen by Kenneth Copeland
I had a vision one time. I was preaching in a little church down in south Texas, and I was back behind in the study area, in the
prayer room back behind the platform. Just a little small place, would seat about 150 people.
I was there praying, and suddenly I saw it just as plain as I'm looking at you. I saw the head of a dragon come through the front
door. And suddenly his body came through the door. And when his body followed his head through the door, suddenly he
swelled up and filled up the whole inside of the church. And he looked at me with fire blazing eyes, and this fire bellowed out of his
nostrils and out of his mouth, and hit me and burned of my clothes, and knocked me over on my back.
And Jesus was standing right there. And I thought, why don't He do something. And boy, I mean he was frowning. He's not liking
the dragon at all, and he's not too thrilled with me laying there on my back. And He's got this sword in His hand, and He sticks this
sword out there to me like that, and points that hand at that dragon. He's still looking at me, . . . the sword sticking right straight up.
And He sticks it out there to me.
Why I knew when He did that, oh man, I'm going to have to face that thing. Why no not really, That sword was going to do it, but I
didn't realize that then, you see. The sword is His word of the covenant. That's His sword, that's His weapon, that's His sword. I
wear His sword. We're covenanted together. He's given me His weapon's. And having done all to stand, I stand therefore with His
armor, His authority, His word. Hallelujah! I'm covenanted to Him. I can't turn around and expect Him to be gone, because He's
already covenanted to me and said, "I'll never leave you or forsake you, even to the end of the earth".
And so I reached up to get the sword, and when I did he turned it loose and it just hung there in mid air. I saw the sword's got
power in itself, And I reached up there and grabbed it, and at the same time, I was started up off the floor. And when I pulled
against that sword, I really pulled it to take it to myself, but when I did I didn't move the sword, I used it to pull myself up with. And
when I start pulling against it, it started pulling me, and I got up on my feet. I looked at Jesus, and He's standing there looking at me
. . . pointing to that dragon. He knew what I was thinking, "I don't want to do this". Boy, He's looking at me and pointing at that
dragon. I took my sword, and suddenly the strength of that thing started running through my arm, through my body, and suddenly
I wasn't afraid of this big lizard . . . Suddenly I couldn't care less, and I lunged at him with that thing. And it just barely touched him,
but boy it split him from gossle to goslin, man, I mean, . . . it just split him from one end to the other. And he rolled over on his back
and he split open. And he was full of people. And all the people jumped out.
Suddenly I saw it was all the people in that church. They'd been swallowed up by that dragon's devices, and they were kicking him
in the stomach, trying to get out. And God sent me there to take the word of God and split that dragon open with it. And it worked.
Praise God!!
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THE GREATEST MOVE AND MANIFESTATION OF THE SPIRIT

OF GOD
(Word of Knowledge through Kenneth Hagin in 1980)

You are right on the verge, right on the verge of the greatest move and manifestation of the Spirit of God that this
world has ever seen. You're right on the edge of it; and like on standing on the creek bank about to jump in. And if
you'll give the more earnest heed unto the things which you have heard, not only those things that you've heard about
faith and those things that you've heard about healing, but also those things which you have heard about the Holy
Spirit, and the things that you've heard about angels, and the things that you've heard about Divine Visitation, (for
remember that it was prophesied of Joel of old that in the last days, saith the Lord, I will pour out My Spirit upon all
flesh, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams, and upon My hand maidens will I
pour out My Spirit, and they will prophecy), so not only will it be that the young men will prophecy, but the young
women will prophecy, and the anointing and the out-flow of the Spirit of God shall be great and amazing in those
days -- for there shall be a visitation of angels.
Be not afraid, but yet take heed even in these areas, for Satan himself has at times come as an angel of light. But
examine things in the light of the scriptures and walk in the light of the Word of God. And sometimes the angel will
give you direction, and even in your finances, and the direction that would save you life, as in the case of the
shipwreck of Paul, and direction concerning ministry, as the salvation of Cornelius and his household, and Philip as
the angel spoke to him to go down to Gaza and the Ethiopian was converted.
And so in these days there shall come a mighty manifestation of the Spirit, and the work that God intended should be
done in these last days shall be accomplished. For the time is short and things must be speeded up. And you'll learn
much faster spiritual things then those of yesteryear. And you'll develop much faster and it'll be said of some they just
virtually matured overnight. And they shall go forth to speak in the name of the Lord, because they understood the
principle of faith. They'll understand the principles of the Kingdom. And they'll understand the laws of God. And
they'll operate and minister in that area. And nothing will be hid from them. And though there are some who stand
here now and have operated in a measure in those areas in times passed, and because they've let these things slip,
they themselves in ministry and in life have slipped. And they shall be restored. Yea, they shall even be restored this
night. And the manifestation shall come and the glory of the Lord shall rest upon it and rest upon thee. And His glory
shall be seen round about and the cloud of God will come and fill the house. And, yea, it will seem as though the
whole building is filled with smoke, because you see, the glory of God shall be in manifestation. And great, great
shall be the noise thereof and praise and adoration that shall go up from His people.
And it shall be noised abroad. And men from afar shall here it. And men from afar shall here of it. And men from
afar shall come to behold it. For the Lord shall be in manifestation in those days in all ways that He ever manifested
Himself, both in the Old Covenant and in the New Covenant, plus the multiplying of the Spirit in the power of God
of these days.
For men, as men grow more wicked and more wicked, and as Satan, because he knows his time is short, and all of
his cohorts and evil spirits go about as never before to devour, so the power of God, the glory of God, shall be
increased and shall be multiplied. And it will flow like a mighty river, flow like a mighty river. Yea, the Spirit of God
will flow like a mighty river. And many, not only hundreds, not only thousands, but millions will be swept into the
flow of that river, and shall flow forth in praised and glory. For the glory, for the glory of the Lord is in manifestation.
The glory of the Lord will be seen of the face of the saints. The glory of God shall shine forth until men will walk in a
place of business and people will fall on their knees and cry out to God though be said nothing. And women will
walk into a place of business and people will fall and their knees and cry out to God though she opened not her
mouth. For the glory of God will shine through. Yea, the glory of God will shine through. Yea, the glory of God will
shine through. For the manifestation of His power, and the manifestation of His glory, is reserved until this hour!
And if it could be told, if it could be told in a way that you could see it, even with the eyes of your spirit, if it could be
displayed at this moment before you in a tangible form that you could see with your physical eye, it would be very
difficult for you to believe that which shall shortly come to pass. It would be very difficult for you to accept it. But as
you walk with the Lord, as you prepare your heart, as you feed upon His word, as you listen to what the Spirit of
God says, your heart shall be prepared, and your mind will be changed until you will flow in the supernatural as
naturally as a bird flies through the air. And you'll flow in the super natural as naturally as a fish will swim in the
water. And you'll flow in the supernatural as naturally as you breathe the very air. You'll not be conscious of your
faith. You'll not be conscious of what's going on around you. But rather, you'll be conscious of the flow of the Spirit
God. And He will manifest Himself. And He will accomplish that which He desires.
For you see, these are the last days, and this is the end time. And what is done must be done quickly. And it will be
done. And the hearts of many will be cause to rejoice. So rejoice. Rejoice. Be glad and praise the Lord and prepare
your hearts. And let Him prepare you for that which He has prepared for you. And so walk in it. You shall walk in
it. And you shall run. And you shall fly, literally, spiritually speaking. And you shall enjoy the fullness of that which is
provided for you.
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J. R. Stevens on the Latter Rain

I don't know when John Robert Stevens preached this sermon; it was probably some time in the 1960s. I heard the
tape in 1975. Stevens was one of the most prolific, eloquent, and anointed preachers this century has ever seen, in
my opinion. As I mentioned in a note to Dennis Johnson, while he was still alive, he was coming out with sermons
faster than I could read them or listen to them, even when I was following his activity on a nearly full-time basis
during the academic year 1975-1976. The following tape, entitled "The Latter Rain," was designated tape #RN-02-
A035RC by his "Living Word Tape Library":
"Now tonight we're going to talk to you about the latter rain outpouring. Or it's called the latter rain revival. I want to
add just one little note to it, in case some of you during the last ten, fifteen years became acquainted with the latter
rain movement. It was a movement that called itself Latter Rain. This term, latter rain, has been used many, many
years. In fact, the Pentecostal publication in the Assemblies of God, wasn't it the LATTER RAIN EVANGEL
originally? And then they called it the PENTECOSTAL EVANGEL, and so forth. So the term "Latter Rain" has
been used a great deal. Let us get away from using it as a name referring to a movement, and go back to see the
spiritual significance of what the latter rain is, as far as the Bible is concerned. And if it's a term that has fallen into
reproach, well, that's too bad. But still we have to go back and see exactly what was meant. Because if the term
'salvation' came to be a term of reproach over the way people used it, it still is a Bible term and we still want to
know what the Bible meaning of salvation is, you see what I mean? So the same is true of the Latter Rain
outpouring.
"Now during the course of this, as we study it, we should be able to answer the first question: 'Will there be any
spectacular revival in the last days?' Yes, there will be. There will be many revivals and outpourings and movements
of the Spirit connected with this latter rain that the Lord is speaking about. When do these things occur? And in what
event do they culminate? And we must see it as the prelude to the tribulation period. We must see this as the
prelude, also, to Armageddon. And this is going to be rather astonishing to some of you, when you read the
prophecies as they occur in the word. . .
"In Joel 1 the prelude to this prophecy comes in verse four. . . .
"He probably lived in the days of Elijah and Elisha. There was a great famine. And the Holy Spirit uses the picture of
the whole gospel age and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit here typified in this famine that had occurred and what
God was going to do to break it by sending the rain. The famine had been occasioned by the locusts destroying
everything. This is not unusual. In fact, back in the history, it is said that 80,000 people in Libya and Syria and Egypt
perished in one plague of locusts according to one of the historians. Some commentators said that these insects
would just come over in such swarms that they would blot out the sun and just strip everything before it. So this
came like a devastation; like an army from the Lord, it came and swept through the land. It had stripped the
vineyards down so that there was no way that those vineyards could be fruitful, except the Lord said, 'I will pour out
the former and the latter rain in the first month.' In other words, when the fall season had ended, the new year had
begun. You remember that this is speaking of their agricultural year which is also now the Jewish New Year at this
time. It occurs at that time, about September or so. When this outpouring of rain would come, the former and the
latter rain would come in that one month. It would be all the seasons of rain in one. It wouldn't be spring rains or just
fall rains, it would be a whole season of rain poured down upon these stumps to revive them and cause them to
flourish right at a time they were ready to die because of the famine. Now, understanding what had gone on, this
analogy, or parable, that took place as a historical event has significance when you see the prophet begins to come
down to a time that the Holy Spirit is going to come like rain on the vineyard of the Lord. And we're His vineyard.
See, we're His vineyard. At a time when the stripping down of God's vineyard had left them desolate. This, in other
words, becomes one of the great passages of the Old Testament about the restoration of the Church. How God
would pour His Spirit upon His people when they had been stripped down by invasion and satanic forces that
brought the Church down to a point of dark ages, to a point of desolation. Then, the rain would descend upon them
and bring forth again the great blessing of the Lord. Because, the church has been desolate. But slowly, but surely
the rain is coming in order to bring the Church out again into its period of fruitfulness. . . . Joel 2:23 . . . This is
actually more or less mid-season. The harvest has just been completed in one sense (but in this case there was no
harvest) and in order to get a harvest that was almost out of season the rain was to come down upon it, the former
rain and the latter rain. Now the former rain is called the teacher rain in the Hebrew. The teacher rain, because it is
the rain that teaches the seeds to grow. Interesting the way the Hebrew was. It teaches the seeds to grow. Comes
down and coaxes them and teaches them how to grow. Have you ever noticed how spring rain can cause things to
just spring up so fast? And the latter rain was the pre-harvest rains that would bring the fruit right up to full maturity,
and especially where there were so many vineyards that was most important, because water and rain then would
bring forth the grapes into the freshness and juiciness that they would need at the time of maturity and their
sweetness. Now, he said he was going to send both: both the teaching rain, and also the finishing rain. So it goes to
show that what God was going to do in pouring out His Spirit was bring people into God, at the same time would
bring God's people into perfection, or into the maturity that we're to have spiritually. Oh, what a beautiful type.
Former rain and latter rain, meaning the Holy Spirit coming down for two purposes. To make seeds germinate, and
to bring forth fruit to maturity. And that's the whole purpose of what God will be doing. The revival we will see will
be two-fold. It will bring Christians out of their immaturity, but it will also bring sinners into the kingdom of God.
These are two objectives that God has in mind. . . . Plenty is promised here, because the floors will be full of wheat
and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil and in the restoration of everything that had been destroyed in the
vineyard. Now if you use the vineyard to refer to the Church, and we can certainly refer to it, 'cause in I Corinthians
3, didn't Paul say that ye are God's husbandry? Ye are God's vineyard. You are God's vineyard. You are God'
husbandry. You're the field or garden in which He is working. And we are likened in John 15 to the branches. He is
the vine, and we are to bring forth fruit. So, many times the vineyard has been used as a comparison--in the Old
Testament to Israel, and in the New Testament to the Church. So, here he says, 'I am going to restore. I'm going to
restore the vineyard.' It's going to be like it was before the great spiritual desolation came over us. We could look
dead if we interpret that quite literally. That the Lord is going to restore the church to its former purity and power.
That there will be nothing lacking in the Church when He comes for it again, and we'll show you why we say that. It
said, 'You shall eat of plenty and be satisfied and shall praise the name of the Lord your God that hath dealt
wondrously with you, and my people shall never be put to shame.' Two things--you see, the day will come that we
can make claims for the Lord that will really be backed up. But if you noticed what a selling job people have to do
because of the limit of restoration and power and authority that has come to the Church up to this point. And
sometimes there is a sense of shame upon the people of the Lord, for they want God's presence so much. They
want people who come into the assembly to be so blessed by the Lord. It would be like you invite somebody to
come and eat and when you sit down to the table, the fare is rather simple, maybe it's filling, but you wish there
could be all the fancy frills. Everything. You wish there could be beautiful silver and all kinds of courses, the loveliest
service set before your guests. So sometimes when they want to eat aplenty, the day will come when you will eat
aplenty and be satisfied. And God's people will never be put to shame. Because there will be days of such spiritual
abundance, that there will be no lack for me to set before my neighbor and my friend. Don't some of you feel
sometimes, "I don't have much that I can give," that's the idea. But the day will come when the storehouse of God is
just going to overflow. And you won't say, 'I don't have anything to give,' but you'll say, 'I have plenty to give.'
"(v.28) . . . Now this is an outpouring upon all classes of people, and there is to be the supernatural in abundant
evidence: there are to be visions, there are to be prophesyings and all of these things that are going to take place at
this outpouring. So you see that while the rain that came upon the vineyards in the time of famine was the first in the
picture in the prophecy, it was referring to a spiritual time when the Spirit of the Lord would be poured out. And the
vineyard would be the people. You would be the people. You would prophesy. You would see visions.
". . . Now, verse 32, 'And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered.
For in Mt. Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those that escape as the Lord hath said. And among the remnant
those whom the Lord doth call.' Now the King James gives you almost the same idea where it says that 'in Mt. Zion
shall be deliverance and in the remnant whom the Lord thy God shall call.' It indicates that there is a remnant of
people that will stand in that day and in them, inherent in them, by this outpouring of the Holy Spirit, will be the
deliverance so that whoever calls upon the Lord during this time of tribulation shall be saved. Sure doesn't sound like
a rapture has taken this elect out. But it shows that the power of God, rather, to the contrary, is so great, that there
is deliverance in the remnant whom the Lord God shall call. That remnant is standing in the earth to deliver, and the
promise that Peter quotes, 'It shall come to pass that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved,'
has its greatest fulfillment in the days when the wonders in the heavens and the earth, blood and fire, smoke, and the
sun is turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. So you see
these great signs, catastrophes apparently taking place in the heavens, all the rest, these things result that it shall
come to pass that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered. For in Mt. Zion and in
Jerusalem are going to stand those that escape. They're going to be the ones that have escaped. They have escaped
a lot of this tribulation. And whoever calls upon the name of the Lord can be delivered because the deliverance is
found in this remnant, that the Lord God has preserved. Now isn't this a somber thing to consider? What does the
next verse say, Joel 3:1, 'For behold, in those days and in THAT TIME when I shall bring back the captivity of
Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Jehosophat and I will
execute judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the
nations, and they have parted my land, and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot and sold
a girl for wine, that they may drink.' Now, what is the valley of Jehosophat in its significance? Have we not
interpreted that through all of the prophecies of the Old Testament and through the New to refer to the battle of
Armageddon? Isn't this a great time of disaster and catastrophe that everyone uses it as a figure of speech.
'Armageddon,' and they know that this will be the great war of all wars, and so forth. Some of the pictures of this in
Zecharaiah show how in that day, when men stand how that their eyes melt away in their sockets and the skin and
flesh falls off their bones, and so forth. You can't picture anything else except a war. Maybe something similar like
Hiroshima or someplace like that where the blast was so great that those within a certain range literally were just
almost dissolved by the heat.
" . . . Related to this is a revival first. An outpouring first. Well, you say, 'I'm really worried about that Armadeggon,
that's really got me worried.' Don't worry about that, you get in on the first thing. You get in on the revival, because
there's the remnant that will be delivered. There are the people that God is going to preserve. This is the thing for us
to be concerned about. What God is doing now, and how closely related the outpouring of His Spirit that is just
before us, we're in the preludes of it. We're like the coming events of bringing the sprinkles, what does that song say,
'Many drops around us are falling, but for the showers we plead.' And we're calling upon the Lord for those things.
We're in the prelude of it. And if we know there is going to be this kind of a revival, we know what the Lord said in
Matthew 24, 'And this gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached to all of the world for a witness, then shall the end
come.' There's going to be something outstanding done for the people of God again in this generation.
"In Acts 2:14-21, Peter quotes Joel 2, 'this is that which hath been spoken through the prophet Joel.' He did not say,
'this is the fulfillment,' or 'this is the answer,' but he said, 'this is that.' We get the idea that this prophecy is a vast
prophecy, and Peter very carefully wording it, so that it does not mean it was an exhaustive fulfillment--I'll show you
why--because James is still quoting it over in the fifth chapter of James, 23 years later as still being a prophecy that
was still to be fulfilled, in its main fulfillment, in the end time.
". . . Now, if we wonder, 'why are we believing for ministries?', why are we contending to get you people to the
place where you can move in the Spirit, with spiritual perception, and prophesy and so forth? Because this is just the
prelude to things. This is not an end in itself. God is preparing you people for something far greater than has faced
any other generation of believers since the apostolic days. This is a very significant thing that God is preparing us for.
And I'm glad I'm in it, aren't you? At least I'm glad I'm getting my feet wet. I don't think any of us are in it like we're
going to be. But these are the things that are going to come to pass.
". . . This early and the latter rain is going to be poured out upon the earth. And it is done for a distinct purpose. It is
to bring forth to maturity the precious fruit of the earth. Do you see that? That's us. See, the great problem of the
outpouring is to take the fruit that is not yet ripe, and bring it into maturity. Now do you wonder, 'what on earth will
help these Christians to grow up?'--don't you feel that sometimes when it comes to churches? What would really
help them to mature? Just an outpouring of the Spirit. There isn't any other thing. See, its a spiritual growth. Just let
the Holy Spirit move upon them. You say that, 'Oh, sometimes I get so discouraged with myself, and I wish I could
do better at this, and I wish I could move into this, I wish I could do that.' All right, why don't you just open your
heart and let the Holy Spirit just rain upon you? Let God just bless you. It's God's cure and answer for immaturity.
For every problem. Just let Him bless you. That's why worship is so important, and why we must never, never turn
away from worshipping the Lord. As we learn to worship the Lord, and sing in the Spirit and so forth, and really get
with it, we are placing ourselves not only in a place where we are giving praise and worship to the Lord, but we are
receiving, Oh, the flow of the Holy Spirit comes down upon us. We must learn to drink in of the Holy Spirit by faith.
So this opens the door.
"In Zechariah, it says, 'ask of the Lord rain in the time of latter rain.' And the Lord will make the lightnings and give
those showers of rain to everyone--grass in the fields. In other words, the grass springs up as a result of the rain. If
you understand, then, the thing that you seek for is fruitfulness. The thing you seek for in growth and spiritual
abundance and victory is not the thing for which you are to pray. You are to pray for the cause of these things, you
are to ask of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain, and in order for you to get the rain, He'll make the lightning.
And that will make the rain and then He'll give to everyone the grass in the fields, in other words, the fruitfulness
comes from it. All right, now you want the blessing on your life. You want the blessings. You want the help that's
going to come to you. Then ask the Lord for the cause of that. Ask the Lord for rain. How does He make the rain?
Well as you wait before the Lord, you are like one charge of electricity, and the cloud of blessing that's prophesied
is overhead, another charge. And when you begin to pray, then God will send the lightning, and releases the rain
that's in the cloud. It condenses it sufficiently so that precipitation begins to fall. . . . This latter rain that I'm teaching
you is not going to come to just anyone who is going to sit around and say, 'well, that's all going to come to all of us.'
No, it isn't. It's going to come to those that ask of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain. There's human initiative
involved. The other passage in Hosea implies the same thing. Hosea 6:3. 'Then shall we know if we follow on to
know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning, and He shall come unto us as the rain. As the latter and
the former rain onto the earth.' And if you have a Scofield Bible, even the Scofield Bible comes up with this--
amazing thing--it says that this is the cry of the remnant in the last days. That's quite a confession. It's the cry of the
remnant in the last days that there's going to be a rain. Then shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord, now
His going forth is prepared as the morning, and He'll come unto us as the latter and the former rain unto the earth.
See, He comes to us first in the great parousia, in the presence of the Lord, the first real coming of the Lord is in the
rain. He comes to us as the latter and the former rain. So don't look for the visitation of the Lord necessarily to be in
visions, or many things, but look for it to be in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit in
its basic function is to reveal Christ in you. He will come unto you in the rain. Do you get that? But how do you get
it? Then shall we know if we follow after . . . It says, 'know the Lord.' There's a desire in your heart to know the
Lord. It is following on and pressing in. Almost the same thing as you found in Zechariah. 'Ask of the Lord rain.'
You're following on to know Him. And He'll come and reveal Himself to you in the outpouring of His Spirit. Well,
there are some great things before us. How many have seen something here for the first time--that when we preach a
revival in the end time, it has real foundation to it. It is one of the great events. In fact, it is a thing culminating in such
magnitude that it's closely associated 'in those days' and 'in that time,' comes all these amazing signs, and on into
Armageddon. So God has this whole thing, I think, well in His hand. I've studied it very carefully. I've come to the
conclusion that God hasn't failed at all. I don't think He has, I think we should give Him a vote of confidence. . . .
And it looks like that He's going to keep on being exalted and glorified, and it's all going to come out just the way
He says. But in the meantime, what do we do? Shall we look for antichrist or shall we look for Christ coming to us
in the rain? Shall we look for the signs in the heavens and all of the troubles, or shall we look for the Lord as the
husbandman is patient over us and blessing us and bringing us forth? What is the outstanding thing we're to look for?
I think to be the remnant of God through all of these days. To be filled with the Holy Spirit. To be anointed and
pressing on with everything that's within us and saying, 'Lord, this is the thing. This is the thing for which you raised
me up.'"
Richard M. Riss
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A Prophecy by Ralph Martin

having certain end-time implications.
Taken from a talk on Fear of the Lord,
date unknown.
Yes, learn to fear me and you will learn that I am God, ruling in your midst. Let me rule over your lives and you will
learn that I am the one that rules over nations on your behalf. Yes, bow yourselves down before me and I will lift
you up. Humble yourselves before me and I will exalt you. I who have the power to do it. Learn to fear me. Bend
your spirit before me and I will raise it up.
When you learn to fear my power, you will see my power. When you bow your bodies down before me, you will
learn that I have the power to heal your bodies.
When you bow yourselves down before me you will see that I am the one who works miracles. Fall on your faces
before me, because I am your God. The God who has power, the God who has might and strength to accomplish
this all in your midst.
I tell you if you learn that I am God, if you conduct yourselves before me as before your God, then you will see me
act as God in the midst of the Nations. You will see me rule with power and bring about the establishment of my
kingdom. I am a king who reigns over you. Bow before me my people and you will see me reigning with power.
Amen.
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A Prophetic Dream
by Bill Somers
This is a dream I had during the summer of 1996.
This dream involves a warfare situation.
We, perhaps America, had been the subject of a foreign invasion. (I am familiar with prophecies that speak of
America being invaded at some point so that was my impression.)
Somehow I found myself a part of the army involved in the battle. Everyone was involved since this threat was so
great that all citizens automatically became soldiers. I seem to remember everyone wearing camo fatigues and
carrying small arms.
As a result of the invasion we were forced to retreat in confusion. We found ourselves in unfamiliar territory, at night,
and skirmishes were taking place all around. We had no idea where we were where the enemy was or what was
going on.
As the day dawned we could see that we were all on the same side and a cease fire went into effect at once.
I don't know if I was an advisor or what, but I had an urgent need to get a hold of my commanding officer and pass
along some critical advice. Based on my view of the situation there were three fundamental things that had to be
done as soon as possible. They are:
1. establish communications.
2. unify the command.
3. take the city.
At this point, I felt I had discharged my obligation. It was now up to the commanding officer to act on these
suggestions.
Afterward, the Lord showed me the interpretation. The War in question is the coming civil war in the Church.
The dawning of the day, with its cease fire marks the end of the judgment and the beginning of the blessing. It is The
Revelation of Jesus Christ, much like when the Lord opened Baalam's eyes. Then he understood the situation and
the danger he was in. Then he fell on his face and worshipped. Then he repented and became obedient to his Lord.
This is when we see that while we were fighting each other, we were really all on the same side. Now we would
begin to fight the real enemy!
The personal part I play was in a prophetic role, helping to lead to unity in the Church.
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Stringing Pearls on the Cross

by Bill Somers
Matthew 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they
trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Matthew 13:45-46 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls. Who,
when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
Revelation 21:21 And the twelve gates [were] twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the
street of the city [was] pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
I first heard the phrase 'stringing pearls' in a teaching of Zola Levitt. It was used in the time of Jesus to describe a
common method of expounding upon the scriptures practiced in the Jewish Synagogues in Galilee and Judea. A
speaker would hold forth on a theme of his choice and cite verses from different parts of the Law, the Prophets and
the Psalms as part of his teaching. The scriptures are compared to pearls and the train of thought that connects them
is a string joining the pearls. So pearls were understood to symbolize verses of Holy Scripture.
This helps us understand Matthew 7:6 quoted above. "Neither cast ye your pearls before swine...." Here dogs
and swine (unclean beasts) stand for unclean, unholy perhaps reprobate people. The intent of the verse is a warning
against carelessly sharing the Word of God in dangerous circumstances. (This of course in not the same as boldly
proclaiming the Gospel. The difference is in discerning, by the Holy Spirit, what to say, when to say it and who to
say it to! That is to say, we cannot judge by outward appearance whether the persons we are dealing with are
'swine' or 'lost sheep'.)
Now of course to proclaim the Gospel is to share Jesus. As the pearls are the written Word of God, Jesus in the
Living Word. And the merchant seeking pearls in Matthew 13:45 is willing to sell out for the Pearl of Great Price,
Jesus himself!
Since we have just cited two references to pearls, we have strung two pearls! A third one is found in Revelation
21:21, the gates of pearl in the Heavenly city. In John 10.7 "...said Jesus unto them ...I am the door of the
sheep". And in John 14.6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me." So if Jesus is the door and Jesus is the way and if Jesus is the Pearl of Great Price, then clearly
the entrance to heaven is by a gate of Pearl as seen in Rev. 21:21!
And that's what we mean by stringing pearls. Let's take another example of stringing pearls, as it relates to the word
of God.
"Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of
the way, nailing it to his cross; ...." Col 2:14
Here we have the mention of how Jesus took the handwriting of ordinances which was against us and nailed it to his
cross. It's certainly not clear exactly what that means but some comparisons may help us. The ideas here include the
word of God and the cross. Lets add some pearls: We preach Christ and him crucified. (1st Cor. 2:2) His name
is called the Word of God. (Rev. 19:13) The word was with God and the Word was God. (John 1:1) Keep in
mind that Jesus is identified with the Word of God; that he is God; that He is the Word of God; that the Word of
God is God. If Jesus nailed the handwritten ordinances (the Law or the Word) to his cross it is a reference to Jesus
being nailed to the cross, by Jesus. This is the paradox of God offering himself as the perfect sacrifice. ("And
Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering ...." Gen. 22:8) When Jesus
spoke of laying down his life he said: "No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to
lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." John 10:18
Now consider the passage in John where Pilate has an inscription written: "And Pilate wrote a title, and put [it]
on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS." John 19:19 Verse 20
tells us that it was written in Hebrew and Greek and Latin. Now take that and filter out the Latin (types don't have to
be exact) and you have reference to a writing in Greek and Hebrew. The original texts of the Bible are in Greek and
Hebrew. To say "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews" is to give a short, seven word, summation of the Bible! Now
note that Pilate is the author. In this context, Pilate is acting and speaking as a type of God the Father. It is he who
judges Jesus, and who says "I find no fault in this man. And still it is he who requires, and gives the order for Jesus
death. Next, this writing is nailed to the cross. And finally when Jesus enemies challenge Pilate on what he had done,
"Pilate answered, What I have written I have written." John 19:22 Which is a reference to the immutability of
the Word of God. In John 10:35 we read "... unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be
broken; ...." So here is another expression of the Word and the Cross. The Word is on the Cross!
Now in another place (Matt. 22:37-40) we find Jesus being asked about the two great commandments in the Law
(the Word). These are: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and soul and mind and ...."
and "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." To add these pearls to our string we must include Jesus
summation. "On these two hang the whole of the Law and the Prophets." (verse 40) The first principle, to love
God, forms the basis of our relationship with Him. If we are in a right relationship with the Father, we can stand
upright before God. This is known as a vertical relationship. The second principle, to love our neighbor, forms the
basis of our attitude toward our fellow man. If we have that attitude right, we are reaching out to our fellow man.
This is the proper horizontal relationship. When you stand upright and reach out to both sides, your body takes the
shape of a cross. On this cross, the right vertical and horizontal relationships, everything else depends. You can
easily make a case that you need both relationships working. If one fails the other will also. There is another paradox
here, not only is the Word on the cross, the word is the cross!
Now notice Jesus used the word 'hang'. "On these two 'hang' the whole of the Law and the Prophets." The Law and
the Prophets are the rest of the scriptures, the pearls. The reference to the Cross here is only implied, but the use of
the word 'hang' confirms this conclusion. On this cross hangs the Son of God who is the Word of God, the Pearl of
Great price. And without that cross we would not be able to stand upright before God nor reach out to our lost
brothers.
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PENSACOLA UPDATE -- DECEMBER 21, 1996

by Michael L. Brown
Dear Friends,
As we enter this end of the year holiday season, I thought it would be appropriate to send you a final, 1996 revival
update. We can then join together in giving thanks for these glorious days of visitation in which we are living. Who
knows what God will do in 1997 -- if we seek Him with all our hearts, walk humbly before Him, and are careful to
obey His Word? The possibilities are staggering.
With no attempt to be systematic or to follow any chronological order, let me give you some of the highlights from
the last few months. (This would have come sooner, but with the intensity of the revival schedule, the relocation of
our ministry offices -- and family! -- to Pensacola, and the raising up of our ministry training school, it was almost
impossible to get out a timely update.) Here is just a small glimpse of what has been happening (and as I write, it is
sometimes difficult to hold back the tears of joy):
The Spirit continues to fall among the young people -- dramatically. One Saturday night service, multiplied hundreds
of students, from grade school to college, were called to the front of the church. There were far too many to put on
the platform, so they filled the front area. When we prayed for them in mass, the Spirit fell on them in awesome
power, and most of them collapsed to the floor, consumed with God's presence. After we continued to worship and
intercede for our schools ("God, give us our schools!"), we were about to dismiss the young people back to their
seats when, suddenly and unexpectedly, some of them began to weep and wail in intercession. Soon, most of them
were caught up with the burden for their lost generation -- and the weeping and intercession became intense. There
was no formal preaching that night, but the altars were filled with lost and backslidden people. If there ever was a
service to attend, it was Saturday night, Oct. 12, 1996. (The video is called "Intercession for Our Schools.")
During a Thursday night youth service with about 700 in attendance (this is the one night that the teens have their
own meeting), conviction fell during the worship. One of the Brownsville young people had a word about some of
the kids having sinful, idolatrous things in their possession. (There were about 300 kids visiting that night.)
Spontaneously, they began to throw dozens of packs of cigarettes on the platform, then condoms, then joint paper,
then joints (and, apparently, other drugs), then diet and prescription pills. The pile was so big that it filled a large,
kitchen-size garbage bag! When the sheriff of the county, who happened to be in the main sanctuary that night,
heard what was happening in the youth chapel, he was escorted over to see things first hand. His comment? "This is
what will change America!" Several weeks later, his daughter was saved in one of the services. Yes Lord!
It seems that everything is increasing in intensity: the levels of praise, worship, and warfare, sometimes breaking out
spontaneously and continuing for long periods of time; the numbers of souls responding to the altar calls; the depth of
conviction. It is very common to see repentant sinners and backsliders drop their heads when you look at them --
even when you're trying to encourage them with a gentle smile. They're too ashamed of their sins -- until they know
they have all been washed away. At other times, even after my daytime teaching sessions for leaders and hungry
believers, the Lord's presence has been so heavy that people have tried to make it out to their cars, only to collapse
on their faces, or on their backs, or to their knees on the grass outside. It is a sight to see! On one such day, the
Spirit began to move on the line outside (they line up as early as 4:00 AM now, or even sleep in the parking lot at
night so as to be the first on line), and people began to fall under the power and repent of sin right there in the public
lot -- without anyone even praying for them. You can't contain revival in a building!
One night, three young black women made their way to the altar, all of them shaking, and the middle teenager
literally being carried down by her friends. She was coming forward to get saved and was under such conviction that
her friends had to support her as she tried to walk, her arms draped over the other girls, much like an injured
football player is helped to the sidelines. That's the way to come to the Lord -- utterly helpless and dependent.
Another night, early in his message, Steve Hill had a word for an unsaved young man named Scott. The Lord
revealed his desperate condition to Steve, so he urged him to get right that night. At the end of the altar call -- to
which, we learned later from Scott's brother, he did not respond -- Steve had a word for a military man that had
resisted God all his life. He told him to respond NOW. At that moment, a young man came rushing forward to
surrender his life to the Lord. It was Scott, the military man. Talk about being singled out by the Lord!
A few weeks ago, two lesbians who had been living together and using drugs for years got right with God, ending
their sinful relationship. Their baptismal testimonies the week following were glorious. One of the women had
previously been married, and she had brought her son into the home with this other woman to live with them. (She
confessed this with great sorrow at her baptism.) The night she got saved, she went home and told her son what
happened. He said, "My prayers have been answered!"
At this point, you might be wondering, "Well, what happens to all these people who get saved? Are they going on
with God?" Yes they are. Of course, I can't account for every single one, but I can account for many. In fact, some
of them are coming to our School of Ministry beginning next month! To give you one case in point, I told you in my
last update about a man from Chicago named Mark. He was an alcoholic for seventeen years, with a terrible family
life as a result. He was dramatically saved and instantly delivered right in his home, watching a 700 Club report on
the revival. That was in September. When I saw him in November, he looked so different: He was in the midst of a
40 day fast; his marriage and home were transformed; his brother and wife were wonderfully touched; and he and
his brother had brought their construction crew to Pensacola with them (they own a construction company). The
whole crew got saved! Some of these men are now candidates to attend our school.
You may have heard the testimony of Robert Lowell, the wealthy businessman who was radically converted when
we came to the revival at the beginning of this year to pull his wife out. The whole family has been touched, and in
the Fall, one of their daughters got married to an Iranian Muslim, her fiancé who had also been saved in the revival.
They got married on a Saturday afternoon and were in church that night. (That's revival!) Why? They had so many
unsaved friends and relatives with them that they couldn't miss the opportunity to bring them to the evening meeting.
At the end of the altar call, the young bride turned to her lifelong close friend (and member of her bridal party),
asking her if she wanted to give her life to Jesus. I could only weep as I saw the two them make their way to the
altar, dissolving in tears as they knelt side by side. What a wedding present! A good number of weeks later, I asked
the bride what happened to her friends. She told me that ALL of her unsaved friends in the bridal party (along with
one tragically backslidden girl) got right with God that week -- and all of them were on fire. What can you say?
The life and death urgency of the hour has been underscored to us when we hear of lost sinners getting saved, and
then suddenly dying one or two days later. And there was no warning that they were sick or in ill health. They got
saved, and then they were gone. This has happened several times now. Even more striking was the case of a man
who was in the meeting, felt conviction, and ran from it, ending up at the pool hall playing pool with three of his
drinking buddies. But the conviction there was even more intense, so he left his three friends and returned to the
church, giving his life to Jesus at the end of the night. It was just in time. He found out later that, shortly after he left
the pool hall, the three friends drove off in their Chevy Corvette which was almost totally disintegrated moments later
after a 100 mile per hour crash. Two were killed instantly; the third critically injured. This man would have been
among them, had he not responded to the Spirit's pull. He was literally snatched out of the fire!
Interest in the revival has increased. In recent months, the Pentecostal Evangel -- the international magazine of the
Assemblies of God -- devoted 15 pages to the revival (get the issue -- it's terrific), the Dallas Morning News ran a
front-page story about the outpouring in its Sunday morning edition (by the way, it was the front page of the main
section of the paper, not the religion section), and Charisma Now aired a powerful TV special on the revival.
Denominational leaders in the Church of God, Southern Baptists, and United Methodists (among others) have been
wonderfully touched, and our recent ministers conference was attended by leaders from about forty nations. This is
in addition to the large number of leaders -- ranging from 300-500 -- who attend every week. And best of all, the
fire is spreading!
A Southern Baptist testified to a dramatic rise in spiritual hunger in his church since he attended the meetings. His
son, the youth pastor was living in compromise and hardness -- until God sternly dealt with him and totally turned
him around. Back at the pastor's church, after a special series of meetings ended, congregants showed up at the
church anyway, even though the services had ended. They were so hungry for the Lord that they climbed into the
building through a hole in a broken window. And these are Southern Baptists!
Friends of mine from Phoenix visited Pensacola and went back ignited. The Spirit began moving freely in the
services, the power of God fell in unprecedented ways for that fellowship, people began repenting, some of then
fasting and gathering for 6:00 AM prayer, the young people got turned on and starting witnessing to all their friends,
winning some of them to the Lord . . . . Such stories are common now around the country! One Spanish-speaking
youth pastor from Texas with a teens group averaging 8-10 kids returned from Pensacola on fire, and he and his
wife began preaching repentance to their group. Six weeks later they were running 120 kids in the meetings! And in
many cities, where disunity and lack of cooperation had been the rule, pastors are now gathering together in sizable
numbers for special leadership meetings, repenting with many tears, confessing their sins, and committing to pray and
cry out UNTIL. That's the key!
One of my former students, an associate pastor in a Messianic congregation, showed the children at the
congregational school the video featuring eight year old Whitney Lane sharing her burden for the lost -- until she
breaks down crying. He invited the kids who wanted a similar burden to come forward for prayer and then, to his
amazement, the younger kids there (ages 5-8 especially) began to weep, sob, and shake -- for forty-five minutes! A
number of them had visions of heaven, hell, and Jesus, some of them dramatic. He arrived home with a plastic bag
full of the tissues these little ones had soaked with their tears. Jesus is moving in the land!
And here's a personal illustration of the love of God. A Philipino pastor from Chicago felt that he just had to attend
the revival services. He arrived at the church by way of Orlando on Dec. 10th, only to find out they we were in the
midst of a break until Jan. 3rd. He was totally crestfallen, coming back the next day with the hope that the services
would somehow resume. (Of course, they did not; but the revival itself continues.) He then received an out-of-the-
blue invitation to speak in Toms River, New Jersey that weekend. It was there that he learned that the very next day
-- this past Monday -- I would be speaking at a special minister's gathering in -- you guessed it! -- Toms River. So,
from Chicago to Orlando to Pensacola to Orlando to Toms River -- he got in the river! You can't limit the goodness
of God.
Finally, I should mention that there seems to be an increase in powerful healings these days, and this too is often
taking place outside of Pensacola. A well-respected pastor in Wisconsin, a man whose church has been in the midst
of an outpouring since visiting us in June, told me personally about the documented healing of a baby born blind. She
is fine today, after receiving prayer from the leaders in that church. Isn't God awesome?
Of course -- how pathetic! -- the critics continue to raise their voices and attack those things of which they are
ignorant. But what would revival be like without the critics? (That's similar to asking what the Gospels would be like
without the Pharisees.) When God starts moving, everyone falls into place: The hungry press forward and are filled,
the lost are drawn in and the backsliders drawn home, the laborers are raised up and thrust out -- and the critics
criticize! What else could we expect? Birds fly, fish swim, liars lie, and critics criticize.
Actually, we ought to pity those who cannot recognize the glorious fruit of tens of thousands of radically changed
lives because of a little shaking (as if God's presence makes mountains and houses shake -- but not people!) or
falling (as if it is illogical or unscriptural for someone to be overcome by God's power). They reject the Spirit
because they don't like the style. Pity their souls (think of having a ministry of criticism!) and pray for those whom
they mislead. We don't anyone to be left out.
A few months ago the Lord said to me that soon it will be an embarrassment to be associated with the critics. Day
by day, the truth of that word is becoming clearer and clearer. I would hate to find myself standing in the path of a
divine tidal wave, shaking my skeptical fist and shouting, "That's not God!" Heaven help the critics.
Please hear my heart: We are literally on the verge of seeing the Spirit's fire sweep through whole public schools,
ignite whole regions, and shake our nation from bottom to top. Young and old will meet their God, and the nation
could very well be transformed. For the first time in my life, real revival across America is within range. Let's press in
without compromise until the whole country is ablaze. It really is time. As Steve often cries out at the altar calls,
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
Mike Brown
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Transition to a Bigger Picture

by Bill Somers
At the recent Missions Conference held at our local Church, I was allowed to make a presentation to the Missions
Director; and to speak a word of prophecy to go with it.
What I presented was a large print of the painting "Threshing Wheat" by Thomas Hart Benton. Up to that point the
missions office had only one harvest painting on their wall. The picture I was giving them would be the second. As I
presented them with this print I had the missions pastor hold up the new picture and his wife hold up the old one,
side by side for comparison.
I had written out some of this prophecy but when the time came to give it, the Lord had given me something else.
The written version presented here is a combination of both.
A prophetic comparison of the harvesting paintings.
The first painting shows three people bending down and picking up stalks of wheat off the ground. The area they
work in is relatively small. They can only gather as much as they themselves can carry.
The second painting shows teams of men with wagons, trucks and machinery working in vast open fields. They are
harvesting and processing great wagon loads of wheat. The second picture also is a good deal larger than the first.
The prophetic element is the comparison of the two paintings. They are the before and the after.
For the Lord would say to his pastors and missionaries; to the local and the world wide ministries: You are now
called to a bigger picture! Behold you are called to have a greater vision, you are called to greater fields, you are
called to greater mobilization, you are called to greater authority, you are called to greater activity, you are called to
a GREATER HARVEST.. You are called into my end time harvest.
This is not just a little bit bigger; this is not just bumping it up 5 or 10 percent, this is not just a doubling or even a
tripling. This is WAY GREATER! This is way greater than you can even figure.
For there is a transition coming upon my Church, and it is already begun. Some are calling it a reformation, some
speak of repentance, some call it revival, I call it a Redemption. Some will see it as a collapse, a calamity or a civil
war. Some will see it as a scourging and a shaking. It is Judgment beginning at the House of God. Yet my judgments
are redemptive, remember that the Seat of Judgment is also the Throne of Grace. As my word says Zion shall be
redeemed with Judgment and her converts with Righteousness. The Lord of the Harvest must first be Lord of the
laborers. When Joel's army is finished, Gideon's army will march.
So this transition will redeem my Church and enable her to bring in my harvest of converts. The difference will be
like night and day, it will be like death and life, it will be like these two pictures.
These pictures are the before and after. The key difference is that the people in the second picture are using power.
There is a large plume of black smoke coming from the threshing machine. Where there is smoke, there if FIRE,
And where there is FIRE there is POWER!
For I am sending down the FIRE and You shall have my POWER!
Before you were like a car stuck in first gear

After you will pull out on the open road and put the hammer down.
Before you were just getting off the runway,

After you will pull back on the stick and light off the after burner like a Navy Blue Angel on takeoff.
Before you were like a Star Trek ship putzing along on impulse power,
After you will take it up to Warp 10!
Before you gleaned handfuls,

After you will harvest wagon loads.
Before you sent out a few workers, like scouts or skirmishers,

After you will mobilize entire divisions.
Before your people did pretty much the same identical tasks,
After they will operate in the unique ministries and roles I have created them for.
Before you operated in natural strength like the people in the first picture can only gather what they can carry
themselves,
After you will be born of the spirit, move in supernatural power Like the people in the second picture have trucks,
wagons and machines to allow them to do more than their own human strength would allow, so you will operate in
supernatural grace and strength. You will move in my Power!
Before you had short visits, and blessings and moves of my spirit,
After I will pour out my spirit without measure. I will dwell among you on an ongoing basis. And you shall see the
whole earth filled with my glory.
Up to now, I have called you to fields that were open; to places where people were hungry for the gospel. Now I
am calling you to places that are not open; where there is no hunger for the gospel; where they are even taught to
reject the name of Jesus from childhood. To bring in my harvest from these fields will take my Power. The Power
that I am about to give to my Church.
All through history, the adversary has erected walls. Walls intended to keep my people out and my spirit from
moving. But I say unto you. That they are only walls. They will fall in due time. The walls of Jericho were only walls,
when the time came they fell. The Berlin wall was just a wall, it fell. The wall of China is falling even now. The walls
of Mecca will fall shortly. The walls of the strongholds of Buddha, Krishna and Allah that keep the gospel from
penetrating the 10-40 window will fall soon. But first the walls that separate my people one from another will fall.
Then you will see the fire and walk in my Power
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A Word of Judgment
from Kevin Powers
reprinted by permission of Kevin Powers
The following is a letter originally from Kevin Powers to Allan Martin;
Brother Martin,
Just wanted to let you know about a couple of things that the Lord has really been trying to impress upon me and to
see what you think.
A)
First, that "Bill and Hillary" are America's Ahab and Jezebel. This concerns me because the Lord DID NOT say that
they were like Ahab and Jezebel, He said they are America's Ahab and Jezebel.
B)
Second, for about 2 weeks the Lord has been saying 3 words to me, which I did not understand. He said, "Behold,
it comes". I kept praying and asking what this meant. One day while I was on a long walk, the Lord told what it
meant. In my thoughts, I speculated about being either His judgment or the long prayed for revival of the church. The
Lord told it is BOTH! He said, "the darkness of my judgment shall be so great that it shall send many to their knees
in true repentance. It will also harden the hearts of many others who claim to be mine. Out of the darkness, shall I
bring a revival that shall burn brighter than the sun itself. The price of this revival shall be true death to self! I will no
longer tolerate the sin of the religious! Tell my people to stand and behold the majesty of the Lord."
Yours in Christ,
Kevin Powers
[email protected]
This Document last revised on October 12, 1996.
THE PRECIOUS
by Bill Somers
"Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." Ps. 116:15
Jesus asked one of his disciples, "… Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake?" (John 13:38)
In Mark 10:38 He asked "… can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I
am baptized with?
Romans 12:1 asks us to present our bodies, a living sacrifice.
1 John 3:16 tells us we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
In Rev. 2:10 we are told to be faithful unto death.
In Rev. 2:13 we are reminded of the faithful martyr Antipas.
Personally, I never expected to be caught away as an escape from persecution or tribulation. The Lord has told us
to expect persecution and tribulation. These verses here are a strong indication that He expects us to be ready to
give our lives for the Kingdom. After all we are not our own, but are purchased with His blood and must be at his
disposal. If He requires our death, at any time, He should be obeyed without hesitation. We really don't even have
the right to ask why! But there is a God in Heaven that reveals secrets!
As I said, I never expected to be caught away as an escape from persecution or tribulation, I expect that somehow,
somewhere I would die in the persecution! In John 7:16-17 we read "Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is
not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or
whether I speak of myself." This implies that the Lord reveals his will to the willing. That He opens an understanding
of His Word to those who are ready to obey.
Because of my willingness to obey Him in this, He has shown me something of Why the death of the saints precious
to God? That is, that in some cases, MARTYRDOM CONTRIBUTES TO THE HARVEST. And of course the
harvest is a major purpose of God. My first exposure to this idea came during a message I heard shortly after I got
saved. Here it is.
The following text is transcribed from a taped sermon given by T. George Koshy, an Indian national pastor. I hope
you can excuse his awkward English, which I try to quote as correctly as I can. This was given at Reserve Church,
Nov 17, 1985. Brother Koshy was preaching on Living in Holiness. The text was Daniel 9:20-23. This is how he
closed his message.
"Brothers and sisters, circumstances which we are in, its not favorable for you and me to serve the Lord. But don't
blame the circumstances. In the midst of the strained circumstances, you and I can take a stand for God.
I think 6 or 7 years ago, in a state in the northern border of India, that state passed a law against worship. That
means if I convert a man from Hindu to Christianity, that means the government can fine me three thousand rupees
and put me in the prison.
In that state an around 18 year old girl, a tribal Hindu girl, accepted Jesus as her personal savior.
Her mom, dad, brothers and sisters; all the relatives, all the tribe of people tried their best to bring her back to her
old religion. She said "No, I'm not going to deny my Jesus, I'm going to serve Him!"
The entire tribe of people gathered in one open place and brought this girl. They tried to persuade her to deny Jesus.
She said no. They hanged her upside down on a tree. They beat her up. Then her father, mother, brothers, sisters,
everybody implored her, "Please! Deny Jesus!" She said "NO!"
They put enough wood and things underneath, and put the fire on that wood, while she was hanging, burned and
give her life for Jesus.
It is easy for me to say that. If the same thing happened to me I don't know how I'm going to stand and face....
Brothers and sisters, the entire tribe is in Pentecost right now.
While she was burning, heaven will be calling her 'thou art greatly beloved.'
Brothers and sisters, take a stand. If you have to give your life, don't hesitate, don't turn back. Tradition says when
they tried to hang Peter, he escaped. But then he came back and said, "Hang me upside down, let me kiss the foot
of my master, and I'll die."
If that happened today, ... how many will say ... I'm going to give my life ... for the one who hanged on the cross ...
and gave his life for me. And heaven will say, 'thou art greatly beloved'.
My prayer, ... there was a prophecy towards me when I received the baptism. 'God will send me around the world
as a witness'... that happened ... and second, 'I'll be slain for the sake of the Gospel!' And I pray every day, God, if
I'm going to go through that kind of torture, ... give me the grace not to deny ... but to give my life ...."
I have included some ... pauses ... in my transcription of the tape to indicate the emotional content of Koshy's closing
remarks. All of us there were very touched by depth of feeling he showed.
One comment of his stayed with me, though he quickly passed over it. And it seemingly went unnoticed by the
congregation. That was when he said, "Brothers and sisters, the entire tribe is in Pentecost right now." This is to say,
they all have been saved and baptized in the Holy Ghost! How or why was never mentioned. Yet here is a case
where martyrdom apparently contributed to a harvest of souls!
Jim Elliot and four other American missionaries were killed in the late 1950's on an outreach to the Auca tribe in
Ecuador, South America. Subsequently, the entire tribe converted to Christianity. And the very first converts were
the men who had killed the missionaries. These missionaries gave their lives in a futile attempt to evangelize a tribe of
savages. Their mission was apparently a total failure! Yet their deaths contributed to a harvest, for that tribe totally
converted to Christ! Now why or how does this happen?
Here is another case. From Last of the Giants by George Otis page 157
Divine Visitations in Algeria
In the early 1980's, a truly remarkable incident took place in a North African village located some 125 miles east of
the city of Algiers. According to testimony, on one unforgettable night in 1983 - with no prior warning and for no
immediately discernible reason - God sovereignty descended upon this coastal township with gracious bounty.
Moving from house to house, and communicating through a combination of dreams, visions and angelic visitations.
He did not rest until every member of this Muslim community was properly introduced to His only begotten Son,
Jesus. As might be expected, come daybreak, nearly every villager had a story to tell.
As the Holy Spirit lingered and these simple citizens managed to piece together the magnitude of what had happened
to them, a sense of spiritual awe settled over the entire village. In the weeks that followed, their conclusions led to a
dramatic wholesale conversion involving some 400 to 450 Muslim villagers - a nearly eighteen fold increase in the
size of the Algerian national church!
When amazed mission workers, who had had no direct involvement in this extraordinary development, began to
investigate possible reasons for this sovereign visitation, they came across a stunning piece of information. It was at
virtually this very site that, in June 1315, Raymond Lull, a Spanish missionary from Majorca, had been stoned to
death by frenzied Muslims after preaching in the open market.
The blood of martyrs, it has often been said, represents the seed of the Church. Lull, who is generally considered to
be the first missionary to the Muslims, certainly believed this. In his book, "The Tree of Life", he wrote that Islamic
strongholds are best conquered "by love and prayers, and the pouring out of tears and blood." In retrospect, it
appears that it was precisely this formula that summoned the recent supernatural events in Algeria. Falling into the
ground on that summer day in the fourteenth century, the seed of Raymond Lull's poured-out life was subsequently
watered by the tears of generations of pious intercessors.
Faithfully tending their cause, these saints waited patiently until, some time in the late twentieth century, the golden
vials of heaven overflowed and God was released to summon forth fruit in its due season.
Adding even more luster to this marvelous story is the fact that it has apparently triggered a book of Acts - style
revival throughout other parts of Algeria, which continues to this day. During the summer of 1990, I had the high
privilege of meeting with several dozen former Muslims who had come to faith in Christ within the previous eighteen
months. Nearly all reported some type of supernatural intervention. Churches are spreading like wildfire, particularly
among the Habyle Berber people living in and around the Atlas Mountains. One recent Arabic speaking visitor
described as many as several thousand new believers meeting for Bible studies and marathon prayer sessions in
homes and on mountaintops.
(on page 247)
On a recent trip to Rochester, New York, I spoke with a middle aged missionary who in the late 1960's led a team
of young Americans in prayer on the very site of Raymond Lull's fourteenth century martyrdom in Algeria. Praying
that God would redeem the seed of Raymond Lull's poured out life and send a move of His Spirit, the team helped
to lay the groundwork for a sovereign outpouring of divine grace fewer than twenty years down the road. How and
why does this happen?
George Otis's explanation is that "strongholds are best conquered "by love and prayers, and the pouring out of tears
and blood."
In the late 1980's the Exodus II movement began under the leadership of Steve Lightle. One day in '88 the Lord
showed him he would be involved with the harvest in Arabia!
I shared this one day with an Arab Christian minister from Kuwait. According to this prophecy, Steve Lightle was
told he would one day preach the gospel in Mecca. Abdul Rahman (not his real name) told me that in the 1920's a
Christian had penetrated Mecca and had actually gotten into the Kaba (a famous shrine) to pray. The Muslims found
him there and killed him on the spot. (No further details were offered.)
I expressed a belief that the Lord would somehow honor that death and make use of it. He replied that the shed
blood of the saints is never wasted.
Has this unknown 'Martyr of Mecca' become the seed for a future outpouring of the Spirit, following the same
pattern as in the Algerian village? Do those who are interceding for the Muslims water this seed? Are both of these
contributing to a future harvest, fulfilling the prophecy given to Steve Lightle? I believe so.
It looks like, whenever Satan kills one of God's people, it costs him something.
American missionary David Hogan, heading up Freedom Ministries, based in Laredo Texas, is a man moving in the
anointing of a pioneer apostle. The Lord has used him, like Paul, in numerous miracles, especially raising the dead.
Hogan in fact, claims to have lost count of the number of times he has raised the dead. His testimony includes an
interesting incident related to our topic. While traveling on foot to a remote Mexican village his party was suddenly
accosted by a pair of communist gunmen. His immediate proclamation went something like this. 'Devil, if you kill me,
I'm claiming 100 more just like me to come take my place!'
The gunmen lowered their arms and disappeared into the brush! Every time the devil kills one of God's people, it
costs him something. Apparently, in this case, being confronted first hand with this high cost, the devil backed off.
Jesus gave his disciples authority over all the power of the enemy. He gave us the power to bind and loose in
spiritual warfare. Scripture teaches us to use the authority of His Name over the forces of Satan. Experience shows
that this works, when the anointing is there.
Jesus also taught that when a strong man is bound his house can be entered and his goods taken. In the cases above,
the Algerian village, the Hindu tribe and the American Indian tribe were all harvested. They were harvested in a total
and dramatic fashion that indicates a spiritual breakthrough. These souls were taken away from the strong men,
demonic rulers, who formerly held them captive. Somehow martyrdom contributed to these harvests.
We know that prayer can bind the strongman, but is there scripture showing that martyrdom can do so? We see that
it is highly effective, even crucial in some cases. So how and why does this happen? My speculation is that the 'death
of the saints', plus prayer, gives the Lord a reason to move. It provides justification for bringing judgment on the
demonic powers. ("Ye shall die like men" Ps. 82:7). And clearly demonic powers have to be broken for this type of
harvest to occur.
Suzette Hattingh (a teacher on intercessory prayer) gives the example of a policeman signaling for a truck to stop, as
an example of authority in spiritual warfare. The prayer warrior, dressed in the armor of God, is like the policeman in
his uniform. His authority is obvious because he is wearing the uniform. The Truck driver knows that he will be in a
lot of trouble if he ignores the policeman and fails to stop.
Now consider what kind of trouble the trucker is in if he runs over the policeman and kills him! Every cop in town
will be after him! If you translate this into the spiritual realm you can see what this means. This illustrates the power
and effect of martyrdom. The Devil is in big trouble whenever he kills one of the saints. Whenever Satan kills one of
God's people, it's going to cost him something sooner or later.
The scriptural key to the effect of martyrdom is as He says in Romans 12, "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves,
but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine
enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not
overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." (Romans 12:19-21)
More simply put, Martyrdom gives place to wrath. And then eventually vengeance comes. And then harvest comes.
"Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, I will repay." This verse is so often taken as a warning to the believer not to
avenge himself. But look to the second part, "I will repay" and see that as one of God's promises! HE WILL
REPAY! Not he might, and not he ought to and not he'll think about it. He WILL repay! You know our battles are
not with flesh and blood, our enemy is spiritual. It is the vengeance that the Lord executes in the spiritual realm that
breaks enemy strongholds, and brings such glorious results.
And so this summarizes my understanding of how martyrdom contributes to the harvest. I am reminded of the words
of Medhi Dibaj, the recent Iranian martyr who said: "It is a terrible waste for a Christian to die a natural
death!
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Prophecy
given by Rodney Howard-Browne
New Life Christian Fellowship Revival Service
November 10, 1994 Evening Service
For if the Pentecostals will not receive it, the wind of God shall blow upon the Catholics and upon the Methodists
and upon the Baptists. And a whole new seed shall be raised up and a whole new harvest shall be reached amongst
many that even now do not know my power and do not know my glory. I shall visit them in even a powerful way,
saith the Lord. They shall come in. Many that call themselves Pentecostals shall be ashamed. Many that call
themselves Full Gospel shall be ashamed. For they profess to know My Power and know My Glory, but they have
a form of godliness but deny the power thereof. But I am looking for hungry and thirsty people that will call out unto
me and I shall visit them in a very powerful way. You shall begin to see even as 95 comes closer and closer going on
into 96 you shall see. More and more doors shall be opened one by one. Many even that do not even profess the
power of God in the outpouring of the Holy Ghost shall fall into the river of God.
Hallelujah.
And great shall be the rejoicing. Great shall be the rejoicing. For the move of God shall not be limited amongst the
Pentecostals and the Charismatics, but shall go out amongst many of the Evangelicals, and then many of those that
are not any church affiliation at this time. It shall cross even over into those that are of other faiths. It shall cross over
and sweep throughout the world of Islam. Ha. The glory of God shall be revealed and many shall come into the
knowledge of the truth and profess Jesus Christ as Lord. It shall go into nations where other gods have been held
up, but the name of Jesus shall be declared and shall be made manifest and supernatural signs and wonders shall
take place. And the church, the church that will not receive the move of God, famine shall come unto them, and they
shall just dwindle away and go to nothing. But those that'll hunger no matter what denomination, no matter what
affiliation, those that thirst, the increase shall come, the harvest shall come, the blessing shall come and many shall be
added.
Hallelujah. There shall come even greater persecution for the move of God shall not go forth unhindered. But when
the persecution is the greatest, the victory shall be the greatest. Where the persecution is the strongest, the power of
God shall be the strongest. Many shall seek to even kill you to stop you and to stand in your way, but do not be
afraid. Do not be afraid, and do not back down nor compromise for even in those times My hand shall be strong
upon you. And you shall see wonderful and glorious manifestations of My Spirit and it shall be heard that even that
which transpired in the book of Acts has happened even in this day. When men and women shall be translated,
caught away, and shall be found on a foreign field speaking in a foreign language and they've had no former
education in that language. But they'll think they're speaking in English, but others will hear them speaking in those
foreign tongues and many shall be added and multitudes shall come into the Kingdom. And just before they're about
to lay a hand upon you to capture you, you shall disappear before their face. Oh-ho. (Shouting and clapping from
the congregation followed by about two sentences of tongues)
For awesome glorious signs and wonders shall transpire and take place. For this is the day of the outpouring of the
Spirit of God. This is the day when God shall manifest Himself unto His people in a new way. None shall stop that
which I shall do.
I shall do a quick work saith the Lord. I shall raise up ordinary people. I shall raise up ordinary men and women that
would just humble themselves before My might and My hand and say, "Oh, God, we will not touch Your glory, we
will not touch the gold. But we shall give unto You all of the glory and all of the praise and all of the honor." And I
shall use them in a great, in a wonderful, in a majestic, glorious way. And all glory and all praise and honor shall go
unto Me, saith the Lord. For I am the Lord Your God and I will move powerfully in your midst, saith the Lord, and
draw all men unto My name. So even this night hearken unto the voice of My Spirit, even this night hearken unto that
which I speak unto You. For it shall surely come to pass that not one word of My promises shall fall, but these are
the last days and the work that I will do shall be quick. It shall be a quick work; it shall be through ordinary people.
And doors shall open up, doors that men only dreamed of, doors that men haven't even dreamed of, doors of
utterance, ways of communicating My gospel, ways of propagating My gospel shall be opened up and afforded to
many that will be sensitive to My Spirit that shall say, "Oh, God, blow through me, touch through me, let Your fire
fall through me." And out of the bellies of My people My river shall flow, and the glory of God shall be made
manifest. But it shall only come to those that are hungry. It shall only come to those that are thirsty. It shall only come
to those that will lay aside the things of this life. They will not be pulled and swayed by that which man would say,
that will lose the fear of man for the fear of man brings a snare, and will hearken unto the voice of the Spirit of the
Lord your God. He shall bring you forth with a strong and a mighty hand. And, oh, even angel shall be seen and be
made manifest before your eyes and shall minister with you and accompany you. Ha. Oh, yes. And awesome
wonders and signs shall be done. For these are the days of the glory of the Lord being made manifest among men.
Hallelujah. Now in that day that these doors shall be opened unto you, in that day that these ways shall be made
plain before your eyes, do not say, "Lord, I cannot enter in for these people are unclean." No, no, no! For nothing
have I given you is unclean, saith the Lord. But you shall enter in and you shall boldly proclaim the truth not
compromising one iota, not stepping back one little bit from that which is known as the gospel. Oh, but speaking
words boldly and demonstrating boldly, they shall come and say, "Of a truth, the power of God has been made
manifest unto me and I would see Jesus. I would surrender my life unto Him this day, and great and mighty things
shall be done." I see a great move of God in the Middle East, great move of God in Israel, great move of God in
Iran and Iraq and Turkey, great move of God in the Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and other nations, Lebanon. I see a great
move of God sweeping throughout the Middle East, India, also, and China shall be shaken with the wind of God and
the glory of God. And then even in remote lands the wind of God shall blow, for He blows even at this time wonders
and signs you have not even heard for the news of the move has not even been carried to your ears. And here in
America you shall see even a stronger move of man to control that which I'm doing, but I shall bypass any efforts of
man to control the move of the Spirit. I shall bypass any efforts of man to get the glory and to seek the glory. I shall
bypass any efforts of man to even stick their hands on that and steady the ark of that which I'm doing . For some
would even try to steady the ark, when they'll touch the glory, and some shall even drop dead right in their pulpits.
For this is the day that the glory of God shall not be shared by anyone and any man. And there shall be many that
shall try to write and try to tell the story and try to explain about the revival, but they shall miss it for they'll not be
able to tell of My glory.
Oh, for none shall really be able to tell of My glory in the fullness for it is a joy unspeakable and full of glory and the
half has never yet been told. And so, when its genuine, its of My Spirit, they'll have a hard time telling of it. They'll
only be able to tell the half, the whole will not be able to be told. For these are wondrous things and glorious things
and things that are mysteries, hallelujah, in the church, glory to God. But there shall be greater demonstrations of the
Spirit of God, and you shall see that the glory of the latter house shall be greater than the former. That even the
prophets of old would have given anything to have lived in this day and this time. But you, My people, have been
chosen. You, My people, have been hand-picked. You have been brought into the Kingdom for such a time as this.
You have been brought forth by My Spirit. If I didn't think you could've handled the temptations of the 90s, would I
have had you born in this day and this hour? (shouting and clapping) But I know that you are those of the caliber that
can handle the temptations of the 90s. You are the generation that can rise up above all that which the enemy would
bring to try to stop the move of My Spirit in this day and this hour. You are those that will yield and not unto the
flesh but yield unto the Spirit of God. You are those that will allow the fire of God to come and to burn out the
dross. You are those that will allow the 17 works of the flesh to be burned out. You will allow the nine fruit of the
Spirit to be made manifest. You, oh, My people, are those that I have placed My finger and My hand upon, that I
raised up in this day and this hour to go forth and not share My glory but to show forth My glory and great and
wonderful things shall be done. Do not look upon the political situation and do not be swayed by the political
situation. For, yes, the kingdoms of the world advance and go forth and they march to the precipice. They march
with every day that goes by. They march closer and closer to the precipice of destruction. Every day as they make
declarations that great advances have been made in the financial arena and great advances have been made in the
political arena and great peace and safety have come, and this is the day of peace and safety. My word has declared
that sudden destruction shall then come. So do not be moved at all by the advances in the political arena or the
financial arena or any agreement or pact made amongst nations. Do not let that sway you. Do not even sit and think
about it for one moment and think that it will bring blessing in the church. For My world, My world, My Kingdom,
My plan and My purpose is not linked to the world system. And the world system will march on into oblivion. But
My Kingdom is marching on, too. And great strides are being made in My Kingdom and great moves of My Spirit.
The day shall come when they shall try to stop you from even proclaiming My gospel. Many shall even be thrown
into prison and forbidden to preach My word and shall be persecuted. But you shall see then supernatural
deliverances where the prison houses shall be shaken and you shall see men back on the streets proclaiming My
Kingdom (shouting and clapping) and they shall not stop that which I shall do in these last days. But, oh, yield
yourselves unto Me. Keep your eyes upon Me. Yield your vessels unto Me. Yield them not unto sin, but yield them
unto righteousness. For I shall move and manifest Myself in ways that you've not even seen up until this point. For
the glory of the Lord is among you, the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. Oh, do not even lift your voice in
protest against those that would attack the ministry and those that would attack the move of My Spirit. for they
come in opposition to Me, saith the Lord, and I shall deal with them. Do not even try to answer the critics. Do not
even try to justify yourself in the eyes of man.
But, oh, seek to walk uprightly before Me, and I shall provide for you. You shall not concern yourself about the
finances. You shall not concern yourself about money; for money shall be the least of your problems. I shall make
the crooked paths straight and I shall provide for you every step of the way. For My people shall know no lack. My
people shall know My provision, saith the Lord of Hosts, and they shall walk in abundance and the glory of God
shall be made manifest even in that realm. But you shall see that even closing out of 95 going into 96 as we move
into the latter part of the 90s, by 96 the church shall be in the middle of the greatest move of God that the world has
ever seen (shouting and clapping). Prepare ye your heart, for we are beginning to run even faster now. Were
beginning to move even faster now. The glory of the Lord, oh-ho, is being made manifest. And the glory of the Lord
will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord.
And you shall see, oh, hallelujah, (about 4 sentences of tongues) Drink all of the wine you can now. (about 1
sentence of tongues) Store up all of the oil you can now. For the time will come when men shall not be able to get
any oil. The time will come when there will be a scarcity of the wine. But eat now, drink now, get ready now. For
the days shall come when you shall use that which you've stored up. Be ready. Do not be like the 5 foolish virgins
and don't have enough in the vessels with your lamps. But keep your lamps trimmed. Keep your garments spotless.
Keep your robes white, saith the Lord. Keep your vessels filled with oil and prepare. For the night hour of the world
comes. For the night hour is now upon the earth. And it shall get darker and darker and evil men and wicked men
shall wax worse. And evil shall be made manifest and shall be rampant in the streets. Violence on every hand. Oh-
ho, the horror of hell shall be made manifest, but do not fear. It shall not touch those that dwell in the secret place of
the Most High, those that abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Do not fear one moment. You shall walk tall. A
thousand shall fall at your side, ten thousand at the other. It shall not come nigh unto you. No, only with your eyes
you will see and behold the reward of the wicked. Oh, pull yourself closer unto Me this night. Draw nigh unto Me
and I will draw nigh unto you. Call upon Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things that you
know not. And I shall open the eyes of many, and they shall see into the realm of the Spirit. And the blinkers of
religion and tradition shall fall off of them and the scales of religion and bondage shall fall away from them. And with
the eyes they shall clearly see My purpose and plan revealed for the church, and the church shall arise with great
power and great might, with great signs and great wonders. In this day and this hour I shall show forth My glory.
Oh, rejoice, saith the Lord, even this night for My hand is upon you for good and not for evil. Now, even in the
United States, you shall see in this great country, you shall see the move of the enemy encroaching more and more
upon the church. You shall see darkness coming even more and more to stop the church, to take away the rights
and the privileges that you have. Stand tall and stand strong, boldly. Do not compromise and try to win a place with
those who would come to seek to take you into their realm. Do not compromise. For if you compromise, you shall
not only lose the anointing that I placed upon you, you shall also lose your life. For if you seek to find your life, you
shall lose it, but if you lose your life for My sake, you shall find it, saith the Lord. Oh, draw nigh. Draw nigh unto Me
this night and I shall draw nigh unto you and great and wonderful and mighty and glorious things shall be done. Oh.
(about 6 sentences in tongues) Do not even be swayed by the disasters that take place. For, yes, there shall be even
greater earthquakes, and, oh, storms, violent storms shall some. But don't let that sway you and don't let that be
anything other than just know that the earth is groaning and travailing for the day of release. Its crying out for the day
of release which is soon upon us.
Do not hearken unto those that would come and just tell you that everything is going to be fine and try to lull you to
sleep. Like a Pied Piper they will come and lull you to sleep. But do not sleep, but be sober and be vigilant and stir
yourself up redeeming the time for the days are evil. For He cometh, He cometh, your Lord cometh. He comes in
great power, and He comes in great glory. And He shall come. And its not long now. He's preparing His bride. He's
getting His church ready. Its time to wash your garments. Its time to cleanse your heart. Its time to purify your heart
you sinners. Its time to cleanse your heart you doubleminded. Who shall ascend to His holy hill? He that hath clean
hands and a pure heart. Cleanse your life. Lay aside every weight and every sin that is so easy to beset you and get
ready. Do not be swayed by the things that shall happen in the earth. Nations shall continue to rise up against nations
and there shall be wars and rumors of wars violence on every hand. Oh, and the powers of hell shall be made
manifest upon the earth, but do not let that sway you, for this is not your kingdom. This is coming to pass that this
shall pass away. For your kingdom is not of the earth; yours is the kingdom that shall not pass away. Yours is a new
kingdom, a new heaven, and a new earth. Oh, for you've been bought with a price. For everything that you see,
including this very building that you sit in tonight, shall come to nothing and be brought to naught. But, oh, the glories
of heaven beyond shall be made manifest on that day. It shall be made manifest a kingdom that shall not pass away,
a kingdom that shall live on forever, and forever, and forever, and forever, and forever. (shouting and clapping)
Make sure, make sure, make sure that you do not strive to have your name on mans roll, but make sure that you
strive to have your name written in the Lambs Book of Life. Oh-ho, oh, for on that day that shall be declared that
those names that are not found in the Book of Life, their names if they're not found, they shall be thrown in the lake
of fire. (about 3 sentences of tongues) This is also the day when the power and the glory of God will be made
manifest in the church in ways that have not been seen up till now. This is the day when the true ministry of the
apostles shall come forth. This is the day when the true prophets shall stand and boldly declare. This is the day when
there shall come an increase in the anointing upon the servants that I have placed in the pulpits. And, oh, men shall
even fear when they walk into a place for the awesome, awesome, glorious presence of Almighty God shall be made
manifest. Oh. Oh. (about 1 sentence in tongues) The nine gifts of the Spirit shall be made manifest in full power and
full authority, and men shall not walk in title only, but shall come in signs and wonders and mighty deeds. And you
shall not have a problem to submit; you shall not have a problem to even get in the flow. Because, you see, when
you see My glory, you shall say, Yes, this is the way walk ye in it. No one shall need to convince you of it, for it shall
witness with your heart, and you shall say, Yes, this is the Lord. He is made manifest among us. And the voice, the
voice of wolves shall grow dimmer. The voice of strangers My sheep shall not follow, but they shall follow the voice
of the Good Shepherd in this day and this hour. Oh. (tongues) Open your heart. Hark and listen, listen to what the
Spirit of God is saying. Listen to what the Holy Ghost is saying. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen
to what the Spirit of God says in this day and this hour. (about 15 sentences in tongues) I have yet many things to
say unto you says the Spirit of God, but you cannot bear them now. You could not assimilate all that which I've
given to you this moment. For even that which has been shared already is beyond some's comprehension to even
understand that which I'm doing in this day and this hour. But feast upon these things. Oh, meditate upon these things
and as you spend more time in My Spirit, I shall unveil and reveal more and more things unto you.
And my angels shall come. My angels are even here right now in this place. My angelic hosts are even here now. My
angels shall come and minister unto you and shall minister alongside of you. For are not they all ministering spirits
sent forth to minister to them who shall be heirs of salvation? For you are an heir of salvation. You walk not alone.
Do not be afraid of the powers of darkness. Do not be afraid of the demon hordes. Do not be afraid of hell. No!
No, no! For hell cannot compare with the glories of the realm of My Spirit. Hell cannot even come into the realm of
My Spirit. For darkness cannot stand in the presence of light. And even the feeblest among you, even the weakest
believer, walking in such a tiny little light shall already overshadow the darkness.
Ha-ha. (about 5 sentences in tongues) Now as you're faithful with the little I have given you, I shall make you ruler
over much. If you're faithful with the small portion of my anointing and My Spirit that I've placed upon you, and
you'll be faithful to use it and not abuse it, I will bring an increase upon your life, and even some of you in the next 18
months (tape turns over here; words lost)...with that which you have right now. Be faithful. Be faithful. Be faithful,
saith the Lord. Be faithful. Hallelujah. (about 2 sentences in tongues) (I believe the rest is a personal word to
someone in the congregation.) You must obey. You must obey. For I said your tongue shall be as the pen of a ready
writer, and you shall speak and you shall write. You must write. You must be diligent. There are books that must
come forth. Things that I've shown you that people need to see. They need to hear it; you must write it. You must.
You must. You must. You must. You must. You must be bold. You must be bold. You must be bold. (about 6
sentences in tongues) And it will give the breakthrough that you've been seeking in your ministry which will then
spread across the globe. Ha-ha. For you've been praying saying God I need to reach out and more, more, more,
more, more. But with your pen, with your pen you shall tell, with your pen you shall write, and it shall go forth. Be
bold. Do not draw back. Be bold. Hallelujah. For Gods hand shall be upon it from the beginning. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Are you happy? (about 1 sentence in tongues) And He told me to tell you that He'll provide the finances
to get it done. But you start, and when you've finished it, the money will be there. The moment you finish that book,
and you get it ready for the publisher, the finances will be there to get it done. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord Jesus.
(clapping and shouting) (about 9 sentences in tongues)
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Prophecy of the Strongman

by James Hardeman
Given at Reserve Church 6-26-96
Behold, says the Lord, I am coming as a strong man fully armed against you. (Against) whom you have no defenses
says the Lord. And I am breaking in. You have asked for a breakthrough, and I am breaking in; into this place says
the Lord. And I shall refine you. I shall be as a refiners fire and a fullers soap says the Lord. And those stains in your
life which are stubborn, that you can't shake, that you can't remove says the Lord. I'm taking my place here and I'll
remove them from your life says the Lord. Those stubborn things that you can't get rid of, as a refiner's fire they'll be
burned off says the Lord. It won't be comfortable, says the Lord. But they'll be gone, says the Lord.
And it is I who will take camp in the midst of you and I shall place things in order, says the Lord. And I shall
rearrange in your midst says the Lord. But you'll know it is I saith the Lord. You'll know it is He who is at the front
of your camp and leads you forth.
And then there'll be another breakout into the community, you'll breakout on one side and on the other. And folks
will know; people in this community will know that the Lord camps here, saith the Lord. You've asked for a
breakthrough; a breakthrough you'll have. But it starts here says the Lord. First I'm breaking in, then I'll breakout
saith the Lord. And I am coming in your midst. I'm even beginning now saith the Lord.
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Tommy Hicks' Vision

The following vision originally appeared in a book entitled PERTINENT PROPHECIES I by John N. and Dorothea
M. Gardner, and was given by Tommy Hicks, a noted evangelist, in 1961.
THE BODY OF CHRIST AND

THE END-TIME MINISTRIES
My message begins July 25. about 2:30 in the morning at Winnipeg, Canada. I had hardly fallen asleep when the
vision and the revelation that God gave me came before. The vision came three times, exactly in detail, the morning
of July 25, 1961. I was so stirred and so moved by the revelation that this has changed my complete outlook upon
the body of Christ, and upon the end time ministries.
The greatest thing that the church of Jesus Christ has ever been given lies straight ahead. It is so hard to help men
and women to realize and understand the thing that God is trying to give his people in the end times.
I received a letter several weeks ago from one of our native evangelists down in Africa, Down in Nairobi. This man
and his wife were on their way to Tanganyika. They could neither read nor could they write, but we had been
supporting them for over two years. As they entered into the territory of Tanganyika, they came across a small
village. The entire village was evacuating because of a plague that had hit the village. He came across natives that
were weeping, and he asked them what was wrong.
They told him of their mother and father who had suddenly died, and they had been dead for three days. They had
to leave. They were afraid to go in; they were leaving them in the cottage. He turned and asked them where the
were. They pointed to the hut and he asked them to go with him, but they refused. They were afraid to go.
The native and his wife went to this little cottage and entered in where the man and woman had been dead for three
days. He simply stretched forth his hand in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spoke the mans name and the
woman's name and said, "In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I command life to come back to your bodies."
Instantaneously these two heathen people who had never known Jesus Christ as their Savior sat up and immediately
began to praise God. The spirit and the power of God came into the life of those people.
To us that may seem strange and a phenomenon, but that is the beginning of these end-time ministries. God is going
to take the do-nothings, the nobodies, the unheard-of, the no-accounts. He is going to take every man and every
woman and he is going to give to them this outpouring of the Spirit of God.
In the book of Acts we read that "In the last days," God said, "I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh." I wonder if
we realized what he meant when God said, "I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh." I do not think I fully realize nor
could I understand the fullness of it, and then I read from the book of Joel: "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and
rejoice in the Lord Your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for
you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain " (Joel 2:23). It is not only going to be the rain, the former rain and
the latter rain, but he is going to give to his people in these last days a double portion of the power of God!
As the vision appeared to me after I was asleep, I suddenly found myself in a great high distance. Where I was, I do
not know. But I was looking down upon the earth. Suddenly the whole earth came into my view. Every nation,
every kindred, every tongue came before my sight from the east and the west, the north and the south. I recognized
every country and many cities that I had been in, and I was almost in fear and trembling as I beheld the great sight
before me: and at that moment when the world came into view, it began to lightning and thunder.
As the lightning flashed over the face of the earth, my eyes went downward and I was facing the north. Suddenly I
beheld what looked like a great giant, and as stared and looked at it, I was almost bewildered by the sight. It was so
gigantic and so great. His feet seemed to reach to the north pole and has head to the south. Its arms were stretched
from sea to sea. I could not even begin to understand whether this be a mountain or this be a giant, but as I watched,
I suddenly beheld a great giant. I could see his head was struggling for life. He wanted to live, but his body was
covered with debris from head to foot, and a time this great giant would move his body and act as though it would
even raise up at times. And when it did, thousands of little creatures seemed to run away. Hideous creatures would
run away from this giant, and when he would become calm, they would come back.
All of a sudden this great giant lifted his hand toward the heaven, and then it lifted its other hand, and when it did,
these creatures by the thousands seemed to flee away from this giant and go into the darkness of the night.
Slowly this great giant began to rise and as he did, his head and hands went into the clouds. As he rose to his feet he
seemed to have cleansed himself from the debris and filth that was upon him, and he began to raise his hands into the
heavens as though praising the Lord, and as he raised his hands, they went even unto the clouds.
Suddenly, every cloud became silver, the most beautiful silver I have ever known. As I watched the phenomenon it
was so great I could not even begin to understand what it all meant. I was so stirred as I watched it, and I cried unto
the Lord and I said, "Oh, Lord what is the meaning of this," and I felt as if I was actually in the Spirit and I could feel
the presence of the Lord even as I was asleep.
And from those clouds suddenly there came great drops of liquid light raining down upon mighty this giant, and
slowly, slowly, this giant began to melt, began to sink itself in the very earth itself, and as he melted, his whole form
seemed to have melted upon the face of the earth, and the great rain began to come down. Liquid drops of light
began to flood the very earth itself and as watched this giant that seemed to melt, suddenly it became millions of
people over the face of the earth. As I beheld the sight before me, people stood up all over the world! They were
lifting their hands and they were praising the Lord.
At that very moment there came a great thunder that seemed to roar from the heavens. I turned my eves toward the
heavens and suddenly I saw a figure in white, in glistening white - the most glorious thing that I have ever seen in my
entire life. I did not see the face, but somehow I knew it was the Lord Jesus Christ, and he stretched forth his hand,
and as he did, he would stretch it forth to one and to another, and to another. And as he stretched fort his hand upon
the nations and the people of the world - men and women - as he pointed toward them, the liquid light seemed to
flow from his hands into them, an a mighty anointing of God came upon them, and those people began to go forth in
the name of the Lord.
I do not know how long I watched it. It seemed it went into days and weeks and months. And I beheld this Christ
as he continued to stretch forth his hand; but there was a tragedy. There were many people as he stretched forth his
hand that refused the anointing of God and the call of God. I saw men and women that I knew. People that I felt
would certainly receive the call of God. But as he stretched forth his hand toward this one and toward that one, they
simply bowed their head and began to back away. And each of those that seemed to bow down an back away,
seemed to go into darkness. Blackness seemed to swallow them everywhere.
I was bewildered as I watched it, but these people that he had anointed, hundreds of thousands of people all over
the world, in Africa, England, Russia, China, America, all over the world, the anointing of God was upon these
people as they went forward in the name of the Lord. I saw these men and women as they went forth. They were
ditch diggers, they were washerwomen, they were rich men, they were poor men. I saw people who were bound
with paralysis and sickness and blindness and deafness. As the Lord stretched forth to give them this anointing, they
became well, they became healed, and they went forth!
And this is the miracle of it - this is the glorious miracle of it - those people would stretch forth their hands exactly as
the Lord did, and it seemed as if there was this same liquid fire in their hands. As they stretched forth their hands
they said, "According to my word, be thou made whole."
As these people continued in this mighty end-time ministry, I did not fully realize what it was, and I looked to the
Lord and said, "What is the meaning of this?" And he said "This is that which I will do in the last days. I will restore
all that the cankerworm, the palmerworm, the caterpillar - I will restore all that they have destroyed. These, my
people, in the end times will go forth As a mighty army shall they sweep over the face of the earth."
As I was at this great height, I could behold the whole world. I watched these people as they were going to and fro
over the face of the earth. Suddenly there was a man Africa and in a moment he was transported by the spirit of
God, and perhaps he was in Russia, or China or America or some other place, and vice versa. All over the world
these people went, and they came through fire, and through pestilence, and through famine. Neither fire or
persecution, nothing seemed to stop them.
Angry mobs came to them with swords and with guns. And like Jesus, the passed through the multitudes and they
could not find them, but they went forth in the name of the Lord, and everywhere they stretched forth their hands,
the sick were healed, the blind eves were opened. There was not a long prayer, and after I had viewed the vision
many times in my mind, and I thought about it many times, I realized that I never saw a church, and I never saw or
heard a denomination, but these people were going in the name of the Lord of Hosts. Hallelujah!
As they marched forth in everything they did as the ministry of Christ in the end times, these people were ministering
to the multitudes over the face of the earth. Tens of thousands, even millions seemed to come to the Lord Jesus
Christ as these people stood forth and gave the message of the kingdom, of the coming kingdom, in this last hour. It
was so glorious, but it seems as though there were those that rebelled, and they would become angry and they tried
to attack those workers that were giving the message.
God is going to give to the world a demonstration in this last hour as the world has never known. These men and
women are of all walks of life, degrees will mean nothing. I saw these workers as they were going over the face of
the earth. When one would stumble and fall, another would come and pick him up. There were no "big I" and "little
you," but every mountain was brought low and every valley was exalted, and they seemed to have one thing in
common - there was a divine love, a divine love that seemed to flow forth from these people as they worked
together, and as they lived together. It was the most glorious sight that I have ever known. Jesus Christ was the
theme of their life. They continued and it seemed that days went by as I stood and beheld this sight. I could only cry,
and sometimes I laughed. It was so wonderful as these people went throughout the face of the whole earth, bringing
forth in this last end time.
As I watched from the very heaven itself there were times when great deluges of this liquid fire seemed to fall upon
great congregations, and that congregation would lift their hands and seemingly praise God for hours and even days
as the Spirit of God came upon them. God said, "I will pour My Spirit upon all flesh, " and that is exactly this thing.
And to every man and every woman that received this power, and the anointing of God, the miracles of God, there
was no ending to it.
We have talked about miracles. We have talked about signs and wonders, but I could not help but weep as read
again this morning, at 4 o'clock this morning the letter from our native workers. This is only the evidence of the
beginning for one man, a "do- nothing, an unheard-of, " who would go and stretch forth his hand and say, "In the
'Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, f command life to flow into your body." I dropped to my knees and began to pray
gain, and I said, "Lord, I know that this thing is coming pass, and I believe it's coming soon!"
And then again, as these people were going about the face of the earth a great persecution seemed to come from
every angle.
Suddenly there was another great clap of thunder, that seemed to resound around the world, and I heard again the
voice, the voice that seemed to speak, "Now this is my people. This is my beloved bride," and when the voice
spoke, I looked upon the earth and I could see the lakes and the mountains. The graves were opened and People
from all over the world, the saints of all ages, seemed to be rising. And as they rose from the grave, suddenly all
these people came from every direction from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and they seemed
to be forming again this gigantic body. As the dead in Christ seemed to be rising first, I could hardly comprehend it.
It was so marvelous. It was so far beyond anything I could ever dream or think of.
But as this body suddenly began to form, and take shape again, it took shape again in the form of this mighty giant,
but this time it was different. It was arrayed in the most beautiful gorgeous white. It's garments were without spot or
wrinkle as its body began to form, and the people of all ages seemed to be gathered into this body, and slowly,
slowly, as it began to form up into the very heavens, suddenly from the heavens above, the Lord Jesus Game, and
become the head, and I heard another clap of thunder that said, "This is my beloved bride for whom I have waited.
She will come forth even tried by fire. This is she that l have loved from the beginning of time. "
As I watched, my eyes suddenly turned to the far north, and I saw seemingly destruction: men and women in anguish
and crying out, and buildings in destruction.
Then I heard again, the fourth voice that said, "Now is My wrath being poured out upon the face of the earth." From
the ends of the whole world, the wrath of God seemed to be poured out and it seemed that there were great vials of
God's wrath being poured out upon the face of the earth. I can remember it as though it happened a moment ago. I
shook and trembled as I beheld the awful sight of seeing the cities, and whole nations going down into destruction.
I could hear the weeping and wailing. I could hear people crying. They seemed to cry as they went into caves, but
the caves in the mountains opened up.
They leaped into water, but the water would not drown them. There was nothing that could destroy them. They
were wanting to take their lives, but they could not.
Then again I turned my eyes to this glorious sight, this body arrayed in beautiful white, shining garments. Slowly,
slowly, it began to lift from the earth, and as it did, I awoke. What a sight I had beheld! I had seen the end-time
ministries - the last hour. Again on July 27, at 2:30 in the morning, the same revelation, the same vision came again
exactly as it did before.
My life has been changed as I realized that we are living in that end time, for all over the world God is anointing men
and women with this ministry. It will not be doctrine. It will not be a churchianity. It is going to be Jesus Christ. They
will give forth the word of the Lord and are going to say, "I heard it so many times in the vision and according to my
word it shall be done."
Oh, my people, listen to me. According to my word, it shall be done. We are going to be clothed with power and
anointing from God. We won't have to preach sermons, we won't have to have persons heckle us in public. We
won't have to depend on man, nor will we be denomination echoes, but we will have the power of the living God.
We will fear no man, but will go in the name of the Lord of Hosts!
Turn Your Face into the Wind

A Prophetic Word by David Minor
Published in the Intercessors for America newsletter, June 1988
The spirit of God would say to You that the wind of the Holy Spirit is blowing through the land. The Church,
however, is incapable of fully recognizing this Wind. Just as your nation has given names to its hurricanes, so I have
put My Name on this wind. This Wind shall be named Holiness Unto The Lord.
Because of the lack of understanding some of my people will try to find shelter from the Wind, but in so doing, they
shall miss my work. For this Wind has been sent to blow through every institution that has been raised in My Name.
In those institutions that have substituted their name for Mine, they shall fall by the impact of My Wind. Those
institutions shall fall like cardboard shacks in a gale. Ministries that have not walked in uprightness before Me shall
be broken and fall.
This is My wind. For this reason man will be tempted to brand this as a work of Satan, but do not be misled. This
is MY Wind. I cannot tolerate My Church in its present form, nor will I tolerate it. Ministries and organizations will
shake and fall in the face of this wind, and even though some will seek to hide from the Wind, they shall not escape.
It shall blow against your lives and all around you will appear crumbling, and so it shall.
But never forget this is MY Wind, saith the Lord. With tornado force it will come and appear to leave devastation.
But the Word of the Lord comes and says "Turn your face into the Wind and let it blow." For only that which is not
of Me shall be devastated. You must see this as necessary.
A Second Wind. Be not dismayed. For after this, My wind shall blow again. Have you not read how My Breath
blew on the valley of dry bones? So it shall breathe on you. This Wind will come in equal force as the first Wind.
This Wind too will have a name. It shall be called The Kingdom of God.
It shall bring My government and order. Along with that it shall bring My power. The supernatural shall come in that
Wind. The world will laugh at you because of the devastation of that first Wind, but they will laugh no more. For this
Wind will come with force and power that will produce the miraculous among my people and the fear of God shall
fall on the nation.
My people will be willing in the day of My power, saith the Lord. In my first Wind that is upon you now, I will blow
out pride, lust, greed, competition, and jealousy, and you will feel devastated, but haven't you read, "Blessed are the
poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven"? so out of your poverty of spirit I will establish My Kingdom.
Have your not read, "The Kingdom of God is in the Holy Spirit? So by My Spirit, My Kingdom will be established
and made manifest.
Know this also, there will be those who shall seek to hide from this present Wind and they will try to flow with the
second Wind. But again, they will be blown away by it. Only those who have turned their faces into the present
Wind shall be allowed to be propelled by the second Wind.
You have longed for revival and a return of the miraculous and the supernatural. You and your generation shall see
it, but it shall only come by My process, saith the Lord.
The Church of this nation cannot contain My power in its present form. But as it turns to the Wind of the Holiness of
God, it shall be purged and changed to contain My glory. This is judgment that has begun to the house of God, but it
is not the end. When the second Wind has come and brought in My harvest, then shall the end come.
Prophecy received Midnight, April 6, 1987
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THE UNITY OF ISRAEL

by Hannah Weiss
(Vision seen by Hannah Weiss, Israel, on Dec. 28, 1986)
I was praying and crying for unity in the Body of Messiah here in the Land (of Israel), and confessing our sins and
disobedience and pleading with the Lord to pour out His Spirit on us. But the I found myself asking God to call us to
repentance.
And He showed me a vision of how He saw the Body in Israel. It was a pipeline, running through a rocky, barren
area. I couldn't see the beginning or the end of it, but where I was standing, I could see it was made of clay (the kind
that they call "greenware" in the ceramic business, be cause it was brittle and had not been fired to give it hardness).
And there were cracks and holes, broken parts and places that were crushed, and even whole sections missing.
Some of the damage was caused by weather, some by attacks from the enemy, some of it by the sections of the
pipe rolling away and refusing to remain in the proper place.
I could hear some parts bragging that they had managed to collect a bit of rainwater in their sections. But it just sat in
a puddle here and there and didn't even go through the pipe, much less get to its destination. But there was great
excitement and boasting. Also some parts were praying for the Lord to release the water to come through the
pipeline.
The Lord just looked at the pipeline and said, "My people are praying for Me to release My power through them.
Do you know what would happen if I did it now? And I was aware of a huge, huge reservoir of water, big as a lake,
back at the beginning of the pipeline somewhere. The valves were shut to keep the water back. If the Lord opened
the valves, the force of that water gushing through would be tremendous. Not only would the water be misdirected
and out of control, but the pipeline would burst under the pressure.
Then I understood that the Lord had to completely over haul the pipeline, patch the holes, reconnect the sections,
put in whole new pieces. Then, after He put it together and all the tiny outlet holes were in place for releasing jets of
water in every direction -- He said, "It's still not ready. I have to send fire through it to turn it into tempered stone."
And I was afraid, because He was going to release a river of fire through the finished pipeline. I was afraid, not
because I though it would hurt the clay -- on the contrary, I knew it would improve its durable quality and also burn
out the garbage and dirt. But I was afraid because everyone was expecting water.
Then He showed me the plan -- what was to happen after the fire. When the valves were opened, the water came
through with such force the hundreds of tiny outlet holes sent shooting jets of water in every direction for hundreds of
yards -- even miles away. And in the mist, very high over the pipeline, a huge rainbow was formed, so beautiful it
made me cry. And the ground turned green everywhere, and animals started to gather around, and then people who
had seen the rainbow began to come over the hills, because they knew a rainbow meant water.
But then suddenly I was back at the broken pipeline I saw in the beginning. And the Lord said, "I have to have
people guarding the sections while I'm repairing the pipe. Call for laborers to come and take their places along the
line to guard it."
So I called and they came. But some were armed properly and some weren't. They were all in place but they were
not all equipped. Some had left their weapons at home because they had been told they wouldn't need this piece or
that.
And I said, "Lord! Equip your people!" But He looked at me, and I knew I had asked wrongly. He said to me,
"Pray for someone to come and bring their weapons to them, the ones I gave them, and to show them how to use
them." So I did, and I saw a few people coming and they started going down the lines and handing out things and
giving instructions. But some on the line were arguing, and some were refusing to take things (just a few, not many). I
knew that if they didn't submit themselves to the training, they would become casual ties in the attack that was
coming.
I began to pray that the Lord would send these home rather than to let them get hurt. But I hesitated, because I was
afraid that there wouldn't be enough defenders to protect the pipe. Then the Lord said, "If I had to, I could raise up
defenders out of the stones here. I just want my people to take part so that they can divide the spoil with Me."
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A VISION OF THE HARVEST

by Rick Joyner
[The following text is from the Morning Star circa 1988.
Copyright Morning Star Publications , 16000 Lancaster Hwy., Charlotte, NC 28277, phone: 704-542-0278]
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PREFACE
This is a brief summary of a vision the Lord gave me about the coming harvest. Lord willing I hope to publish the
entire vision in the near future. I am distributing this summary now because there are parts to it that have become
very timely for the body of Christ. I also have reason to believe this may be coming to pass much sooner than I had
previously considered.
To properly understand this vision you must keep in mind that it represents a GRADUAL unfolding which takes
place over a period of time, possibly many years. Though I do not know the timing of these events, it is obvious that
some are already beginning to take place. Whether the complete unfolding takes five years or fifty I do now know. I
do know they will come as travail does upon a woman in labor. That is, they will come in waves with relative calm in
between. As we get closer to the birth these "contractions" will become both more frequent and more intense until
they are constant. I also perceive that the timing of these events will not be the same for all parts of the body of
Christ.
Please let me include a caution. Much of this vision seems spectacular; its fulfillment will be even more so. Some
who are foreseeing these things have begun to question works they are presently involved in as being irrelevant and
destined to pass away. I think there are many works that should be questioned in this manner with or without the
vision, but I know that many works which are destined to pass away in this coming move are presently serving the
purpose of God and helping to prepare His way. I would question any drastic changes in direction caused by any
vision. This was given merely to aid and give confidence to the preparation He is already working in His people. Do
with all of your heart what He has given you to do. If we are abiding in Him, the changes that are coming will be an
exhilarating fulfillment of His work, not its destruction. When the Lord fulfilled the Law it did pass away, but it did so
with glory. When Jesus fulfilled it, for the first time its true purpose and all that it had accomplished was realized.
Many works will fade in this coming move, but they too will do so with great glory if they were indeed His work.
In this vision I do not see beyond this harvest. I believe I somewhat understand the unfolding plan of God beyond
this but that is my interpretation of the scriptures. As is was not given as a part of this vision I do not feel that it
should be included here. I believe that the scriptures verify this vision but I have included very few here to leave
room for the Lord to speak to those who receive it individually.
The Lord has revealed to many of His prophets that there will soon be a great outpouring of His Spirit. This revival
will be greater than all those preceding it. This vision includes key elements to this coming harvest and what the Lord
is doing in the church now to prepare for it.
This outpouring will ultimately result in some very radical changes for both the church and the world. These need to
be understood by those who would be used by God for one of the greatest events in History. To those who are
diligent seekers of God and obedient to His will, this vision does not represent disruption. These things will happen
to them as a natural flow of the Spirit moving them to increased light and intimacy with Him. Those that are
comfortable and resist change will have a very hard time. I ask you to openly and prayerfully reflect on what I am
herein sharing with you. Some of these things may not speak to you now, but I believe they will in the future and will
give you great peace and confidence as you remember them.
For the coming harvest the Lord is preparing a great spiritual "fishnet", one able to hold the catch that is coming. This
net is formed by the linking together of His people. The links in this net are the interrelationships of His people. The
stronger the intercommunication and interrelationships, the stronger this net will be. It in not only happening in the
local churches among members, but between ministries and congregations throughout the world. In Ephesians 4:15-
16, we see this principle: "...we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the Head, even Christ, from whom the
whole body, being fitted and held together by that which every JOINT supplies...." A joint is not a part, but it is
where two or more parts come together. There is a great fitting together going on in the Spirit now and it will
increase in the near future, on all levels.
The Spirit is compelling pastors to get together with other pastors, prophets with prophets, apostles with apostles,
and even whole congregations are beginning to visit and interrelate with other congregations apart from their own
circles of emphasis. This is the Lord's doing. Some of these meetings may seem fruitless because of improper
agendas but they will bear fruit, there will be links made. Soon the Lord's presence in these meetings will melt all
presumption and the facades which separate us from union with Him and each other. His presence will stimulate a
worship that brings about Psalm 133 unity - as we anoint the Head with our worship the oil will flow down to the
edge of His robes - covering the entire body.
He is beginning this breakdown of barriers with the leadership because this is where most originate and where they
are the strongest. As the walls come down here the entire body will begin to flow together. If the leaders resist this
move the Lord will continue through the congregations. These will begin to relate to other members of the body of
Christ and their bonds will grow stronger regardless of the resistance or warnings of their pastors. Some pastors and
leaders who continue to resist this tide of unity will be removed from their place, Some will become so hardened
they will become opposers and resist God to the end. Most will be changed and repent of their resistance.
Because on the magnitude of the "catch" this net will be rent many times and will be in need of constant mending.
Much of the discord now taking place in the church is used by the Lord to prepare those whose task in the harvest
will be almost exclusively devoted to the mending and binding of this great net. These peacemakers will have a great
part in building this net and have a major impact on the effectiveness of the entire revival. Those that seem to always
find themselves in the middle of conflicts should be encouraged with the knowledge that they are being prepared for
a great work.
Some that were used greatly of God in the past have become too rigid in doctrinal emphasis, or are too entangled
with spiritual "Ishmaels", to participate in this revival. Some of these will try to join the work but their
interrelationships will be so superficial that they will quickly be torn from the net with the first catch. Those who are
linked together by doctrine or who gather around personalities will quickly be torn away. Only those who are joined
by and through Jesus alone will stand the pressure this harvest will bring upon the church. (Col. 1:17). The
redemption of so many will bring much joy but they will come with problems which bring enormous stress to
congregations and ministers. The cords of unity must be very strong to stand this pressure. Those who have not
learned to take the Lord's yoke, and not try to carry the burdens themselves, will be overwhelmed. Entering the
Sabbath rest of the Lord will become a major emphasis in preparation for the harvest. Heed this word!
A large number who are now considered Christians, even spirit- filled Christians, have never been led to the Lord.
They were led to the church, to a personality, or to a doctrine or emphasis. Some of these will think they are
important links in the net but will actually become part of the harvest, starting over again on the proper Foundation --
Jesus. This group includes many well known ministers and pastors. Their humility in this will lead multitudes to
question and strengthen their own relationship to the Lord. This will strengthen and encourage the entire body of
Christ.
Many denominations, extra-local fellowships and circles of emphasis will begin disbanding and severing those ties,
even those that were ordained by God for a season, in order to take their place in this great net that the Lord is now
forming. For some these ties will just be ignored or forgotten until they have passed away, almost without notice,
because of the greater intensity and substance of this new move. For others it will be a very painful rending as they
are persecuted and rejected by those who do not understand. Those who are required to leave much behind will
soon receive many times that which they have left.
Some leaders will actually disband their organizations as they realize they are no longer relevant to what God is
doing. Others will just leave them behind to disband of themselves. Ultimately, all circles of ministry or influence with
individual identities will dissolve into a single identity of simply being Christians for all who become part of this
harvest. Single presbyteries will form over cities and localities. These will be made up of pastors and leaders from all
different backgrounds. Their unity and harmony in purpose, as well as that of the various congregations, will become
a marvel to the world. The Lord will give these presbyteries great wisdom and discernment but there will be no
doubt that Jesus alone will be the Head of His church. What is coming will be bigger than any man or council of men
could control or administrate.
The Lord's purpose in preparing for the harvest is to JOIN, not separate. The dismantling of organizations and
disbanding of some works will be a positive and exhilarating experience for the Lord's faithful servants. They will not
be just leaving something behind, they will be going on to a much greater work. Those who have fallen to worship
the work of God more than the God of the work will have trouble, but most of these too will be set free by the
tremendous anointing that is coming. Those that feel called to attack and tear down the old will not be sent from the
Lord. There will be many "stumbling blocks" circulating in the church that will cause confusion and some destruction
from time to time. They will perceive themselves as prophets sent to judge and deliver. Those serving in leadership
must trust their discernment and REMOVE the stumbling blocks.
To be distinguished from the "stumbling blocks," the Lord will raise up a great company of prophets, teachers,
pastors and apostles that will be of the spirit of Phinehas. Just as the son of Eleazar could not tolerate iniquity in the
camp of the Lord, this "ministry of Phinehas" will save congregations, and at times, even whole nations, from the
plagues that will be sweeping the earth. They will be moved by the jealousy of the Lord for the purity of His people.
They will be sent to save and preserve the work of the Lord, not tear down as the stumbling blocks so fashion
themselves.
For a time, there will be such an inflow of people that even this great net cannot hold them all. Many of the former
works and organized churches will be swelled with this overflow. Because of this they will assert that they are both
the cause and primary purpose for this revival. This delusion will not last long because concurrent with the harvest
there will be gripping tribulation in the world which will eventually consume them. This is the judgement of the Lord
against the works He did not commission: The great "sea," or mass of humanity, that they sought to rule, will rise up
to destroy them.
Wars will increase. There will even be some nuclear exchanges but on a limited basis, mostly between third world
nations. Far more will perish by plagues and natural disasters than by wars during the period of this vision. The very
foundations of civilization will shake and erode. Even the world's most stable governments will be melting like wax,
losing authority and control over their populations. Eventually it will be hard to find anyone with the courage to
assume authority. This will cause sweeping paranoia throughout the entire earth. Huge mobs will attack everything in
their path. The infra-structure of the great denominational churches and large visible ministries will be one of their
primary targets and will vanish almost overnight. Pagan religions, cults and witchcraft will spread like plagues but
these will also become targets of the mobs. By this time governments have broken down to the point where
lynchings and mass executions perpetrated by these mobs are ignored by the authorities. Fear and deep darkness
cover the earth, but this just makes the glory which is appearing upon the saints more striking. Huge masses of
people will be streaming to the Lord, the inflow so great in places that very young Christians will be pastoring large
bodies of believers. Arenas and stadiums will overflow nightly as the believers come together to hear the apostles
and teachers.
At this time few congregations remain separate or individual entities. Many elders and pastors may be stationary but
groups they oversee will be constantly changing. some of these are moving on because of persecution and others
because the Lord scatters them to carry His message abroad like seed. Near the end (of the vision) the body of
Christ is like a great flowing river sweeping about as freely as the wind. One day there may be meetings in a public
auditorium or stadium, the next day in a park, and continually from house to house. Great meetings that stir entire
cities will happen spontaneously. Extraordinary miracles will be common while those considered great today will be
performed almost without notice by young believers. Angelic appearances will be common to the saints and a visible
glory of the Lord will appear upon some for extended periods of time as power flows through them.
Conferences of apostles, prophets, pastors, elders, etc.. will be called and used greatly by the Lord, but without
denominating and separating from the rest of the body. Their unity will be in Jesus and He alone will be the Head of
His church. Eventually, The Lords presence will be so great during this revival that, like the twenty-four elders in
Revelation, all crowns will be cast at His feet and spiritual presumption will be unthinkable. Those in leadership
without calling will be apparent to all. The leaders of this move will be true servants, not interested in reputation or
position. Their humility will open them to become channels for wave after wave of living water. "He will dwell with
the humble of the land."
This harvest will be so great that no one will look back at the early church as a standard; all will be saying the Lord
has certainly saved his best wine for last. The early church was a firstfruits offering, truly this will be a harvest! It was
said of the Apostle Paul that we was turning the world upside down; it will be said of the apostles soon to be
anointed that they have turned an upside down world right side up. Nations will tremble at the mention of their name.
These men and women of God will take little notice of their own accomplishments because of their recognition of
His accomplishments. Like Jesus, they will flee to the mountains when men try to make them kings or exalt them in
any way. Their exaltation or authority will not come through man, it will only come from above. As the masses will
be seeking anyone to take authority during these times, this comes as a warning! If the people make you king, who
rules? The authority that the Lord will establish will be very different than what even His own people now perceive.
Do not try to rule, just SERVE. Through this His authority will flow and begin to bring order thought Peace.
III
I do not believe the actual magnitude of these events can be expressed here, neither the chaos nor the move of the
Holy Spirit. As to the "rapture" or second appearance of the Lord Jesus, I have my own ideas but was not given
anything concerning them in this vision. What I was allowed to foresee ended with increasing chaos and increasing
revival.
There will be words and exhortations, originating from the very throne of the Lord and carrying great authority;
coming to prepare His church for the days to come. Not to presume this will be all that He will be saying, but I
believe we will soon hear His prophets and teachers begin to emphasize the following:
1. BUILD UPON THE ONLY FOUNDATION THAT CAN BE LAID. JESUS HIMSELF. Works that are built
upon truths instead of The truth will not stand in this day. Many congregations and ministries are today devastated by
the slightest shaking. The works that are properly built on Jesus will with stand the greatest trials and attacks without
being moved. There will be a great emphasis on the Lord Jesus Himself in the days to come. The increasing
revelation of Him will overshadow the many emphases of the past like the sun does the moon when it rises. The
truths that have been such a distraction will begin to seem insignificant as the church begins to see Him "in whom are
hidden ALL of the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (Col. 2:3)
2. REMOVE THE BARRIERS AND FACADES THAT SEPARATE US FROM THE LORD AND EACH
OTHER. We must become more intimate with Him, and through Him, each other. Spiritual pride and the exaltation
of men, individual truths, or works, will soon be understood as "strange fire". Those who continue to offer it will
perish from the ministry with such demonstration that a pure and holy fear of the Lord will sweep the body of Christ.
This will help the church to move into true spiritual worship and a unity that is based on that worship.
3. ABIDE IN THE SABBATH REST OF THE LORD. This will become an increasing emphasis in the teaching
and a reality as the Lord enters His temple, the church. Our growing intimacy with Him will bring a peace that will
actually calm the storm of the rising sea of humanity. The intensity of the times will overwhelm any pseudo peace.
We must be one with the "Lord of the Sabbath."
4. HEED THE SPIRITUAL PREPARATION WHICH MAY BE REFLECTED IN THE NATURAL. For
example: Some have begun moving their assets into precious metals or land. This may be helpful, but it is far more
important to take the spiritual land an to lay up our treasures in heaven. The Lord is seeking givers who will become
channels of His supply. For them there will not be any lack. Those that hoard or do not learn to freely give may
suffer increasing crisis in their earthly affairs. This is the Lord's discipline to set them free. Some who are faithful and
generous givers may also experience increasing crisis in this, but it is for their preparation to be great channels for the
provision of many. Remember Joseph!
Some are feeling they should limit their travel to certain areas and are beginning to emphasize cleanliness because of
the AIDS epidemic. This may be helpful, but there is only one deliverance from the judgments of God - to be found
in Christ. Spiritual purity is far more important than the natural and can alone protect us from AIDS or any other
plague.
5. "THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH," NOT FEAR. Fears will greatly increase in the world. Actions taken by
the church because of fear will almost always prove destructive. Some "faith teaching" has muddied the waters to the
degree that some do not even want to hear the word "faith." This frequently happens before the Lord begins a great
work. A great revelation of true faith is coming; it will be an essential revelation for us to serve in these days. Some
will be called to walk where angels fear to tread. KNOW that He who is in us is MUCH greater than he who is in
the world. The vessels He is now preparing will walk in a boldness and confidence that will astonish a world gripped
in fear. Our faith will grow as the presence of the Lord increases. True faith is the recognition of the One in whom
we believe. When one truly and properly fears the Lord He will not fear anything else.
In the coming days many will exist in the miraculous in a continual basis. This will become as natural to them as the
gathering of manna was to Israel. Some of the Lord's exploits on behalf of His people will be UNPRECEDENTED,
exceeding the greatest biblical miracles. These will seem almost normal as they take place because the presence of
the Lord will cause more wonderment than his works. He will be very close to His people in these days.
6. THE LORD WILL SOON OPEN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HIS WORD AND PURPOSES TO A
DEPTH BEYOND OUR PRESENT COMPREHENSION. The "books" are yet to be "opened" as they will be.
When they are our understanding of even basic truths, such as salvation, being born again, etc.. will be enormously
increased. This will give far more substance and depth of purpose to the entire body of Christ. the functions of the
gifts and ministries will come with increasing authority and power as their confidence increases with knowledge. The
spiritual dimension will become more real to the church than the natural. When the proper Foundation has been
adequately laid in the church (our union and devotion to Jesus Himself) the Spirit of Revelation will be poured out as
never before.
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War and Glory

by Rick Joyner
from the Morning Star Journal Vol 4, nr. 2 Spring 1994
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In August of 1993, I had a vision of the church. It was represented as an island in the middle of a sea. There were
many different types of buildings all over this island, each of which I understood to represent a different
denomination or movement. These buildings seemed to clash with each other architecturally as there were very old
ones next to very modern ones. There was a war going on between many of the buildings, and most of them looked
like bombed out shells. People were still living in the buildings, but most were starving and wounded.
The Controlling Spirits

There were two dark spirits over the island directing this war. One was named Jealousy and the other one Fear.
They congratulated each other every time one of the buildings suffered damage, or people were wounded.
I then saw two powerful and frightening spirits rising over the sea. These became storms. One was named Rage and
the other Lawlessness. They were stirring up the sea and causing great waves to crash onto the island. Soon these
storms became so large that they seemed even more threatening to the island than the war.
I felt that the people in the city had to be warned about these storms, and several apparent watchmen were trying to
do this, but no one would listen to them. The people only debated and argued about whether the watchmen should
be trusted. This was remarkable because anyone who just looked up could see the storms for themselves.
These wars had left so many people wounded that the hospitals were fast becoming the largest buildings on the
island. The hospitals were movements or denominations that had given themselves to healing the wounded. As these
grew, the other warring factions had no respect for them as being a place where even their own wounded were
being cared for, but were instead more resolved to destroy them than the other buildings.
As the war continued, even those who were not badly wounded had the appearance of phantoms, or they became
grotesquely deformed from the starvation and disease. Anytime a building received a supply of food, which would
attract people, it would become a target. I could not comprehend how even a war could be so cruel-and this was
the church!
In the midst of the battle, men were still trying to add to their buildings, or start new ones, but it was futile. Whenever
one building would start to rise a little higher than the others, or any time a new building was started, it would
become the main target of all of the other buildings, and it would quickly be reduced to rubble.
I was then shown many powerful leaders who were conducting this war. All of them had the same word on their
forehead: "Treachery." I was surprised that anyone would follow someone with that written on them, but they did. I
was reminded of Il Corinthians 11:20, "For you bear with anyone if he enslaves you, if he devours you, if he takes
advantage of you, if he exalts himself, if he hits you in the face."
A Remnant
However, there were people who appeared as lights in almost every building. These lights refused to take part in the
fighting, but spent their time trying to repair the buildings, or nurse the wounded. Even though it was impossible to
keep up with the damage or the wounded, they did not stop trying.
It was also apparent that each of these lights had the power to heal wounds, and that power was increasing as they
worked. Those who were healed became lights just like those who healed them. It was obvious that these
individuals who were committed to healing the wounded were now able to do more than the hospitals because of the
ruthlessness of the attacks on the hospitals. Understanding this, the hospitals dispersed their people as "healing
teams" which spread out across the island and moved into many of the other buildings.
There were also many small camps around the perimeter of the island. Some of these were involved in the war
between the buildings, and seemed intent on trying to destroy all of the buildings so that they could bring the people
to their camps. The leaders of these camps had the same word "Treachery" written on their foreheads.
There were a few of these camps which were not involved in the war, and they too appeared as lights. These were
also growing in authority, but it was a different authority than the healing powers that the others had. They had
authority over events. They were praying to stop small battles, and to keep small storms away, and it was happening
as they prayed.
The two spirits over the city and the two storms became very intimidated by these small camps. I felt that these
intercessory groups were actually close to having the authority to stop the major battles and big storms, which were
obviously the source of agitation of these large spirits.
The Tragedy
There were multitudes of boats and ships all around the island that were waiting to enter the city as soon as the
fighting stopped. Many of these boats were full of refugees from other wars, and many were wounded. There were
also ships bearing kings, presidents and those who appeared wealthy and prosperous. These were all afraid of the
storms, but they could not enter the city because of the fighting. Their groans and screams were so loud I was
surprised that no one in the city could hear them; no one even seemed aware that they were out there.
In His Wisdom
Then I saw the Lord standing and watching. He was so glorious that I wondered why I had not seen Him before, or
why everyone in the city did not stop to worship Him. To my amazement, no one was able to see Him. I then
looked into the eyes of some of the people, and they were all so "bloodshot" that I was surprised that they could see
anything.
I then wondered why the Lord did not stop the fighting, and seemed content to just watch. As if He had understood
my thoughts, He turned and said to me, "This is My church. These were the houses men tried to build for Me. I
knocked on the door of each one, but they would not open to Me. l would have brought peace because I will only
dwell in the city of peace."
Then He turned and indicated the people in the ships, saying: "If I allowed all of these people to come to the city
now they would just be used in the war. When their cries become louder than the war, I will build a place for them."
Then He looked at me with great earnestness and said, "I allowed this to happen so that it would never happen
again!" It is hard to convey the power of this statement, but it imparted to me a deep understanding that He allowed
this conflict to continue out of profound wisdom. He then said, "Until you understand this you cannot understand
what I am about to do.n
When the cries of those in the boats became louder than the conflict in the city, the Lord gave a command and the
sea was released. Great tidal waves arose and began to sweep across the island until they covered the buildings.
The spirits that were storms joined the spirits over the island, and they all grew to almost double their previous size.
Then the island completely disappeared under the darkness of the spirits and the raging sea.
The Lord did not move as this was happening. I knew that my only protection was to stand as close to Him as
possible. I could not see anything but Him during this great storm. As I looked at His face I could see both hurt and
resolve.
The House Of The Lord Is Built

Slowly, the storms died down and the tides receded. The individuals who were the lights in the buildings emerged
and remained standing where the buildings had once been. Then the Lord, who had been on the edge of the island,
moved to the center and said, "Now I will build My house."
All of those who were lights started turning toward the Lord. As they turned, they became even brighter, and each
group was changed into a living pillar right where they stood. Soon it became obvious that these pillars were the
framework of a building which would almost cover the entire island.
The pillars were different colors, shapes, nd sizes. It was hard to understand how all of these, being so different,
would work as a single framework. However, the Lord seemed very pleased with each one, and they did eventually
all fit together.
The People Come

Then the ships and boats all started landing on the island. There were multitudes of people. Each ship or boat was
from a different country or race of people. Soon I began to think that, even as large as it was, there were too many
people for the building. Then the Lord looked at me and said very sternly, "We will build as many rooms as we
need-no one will be turned away."
This was said so sternly that I resolved to never again consider turning people away as an option. I also pondered
how the biggest problem before was how to get people to come to the buildings. Now the big problem was what to
do with all of the people.
The Cemetery
When each ship arrived, the people on it were led straight to the Lord. He looked into the eyes of each one and
said, "If you trust Me, you will die for Me." When one said, "I will die for You," He immediately thrust His sword
right through his heart. This caused very real pain. To those who tried to avoid the sword, it was obviously even
more painful. To those who relaxed, it did not seem to hurt as much.
They were then taken to a cemetery with the words "Obscurity" over the gate. I felt compelled to follow them.
Those who had been stabbed were checked to see that they were really dead before they were buried. Some clung
to life for a long time, and were laid off to one side. Quickly, those who were buried began to arise as lights just like
those who had survived the storm. I noticed that they were not staying in their tombs the same length of time. Some
of them arose before those who were clinging to life were even buried.
When I first looked at this cemetery, it looked like a dreadful place, and I did not think that it fit at all on this now
glorious island. As I left the cemetery, I turned to look back at it, and it looked beautiful. I could not figure out what
was different, when one of the workers said to me knowingly, "The cemetery has not changed-you have."
I then looked at the building and it was even more glorious than I had remembered. I then looked at the island and
felt the same thing-it had become much more beautiful I remembered the Scripture, "Precious in the sight of the Lord
is the death of His godly ones" (Psalm 116:15). The worker, who was still looking at me, then said, "You have not
died yet, but were changed just by being close to those who have. When you die you will see even more glory."
Those who were emerging as lights from the cemetery were each being led to their own place in the building, which
would have their name on it. Some joined the walls, others joined the pillars, some became windows or doors. They
remained people even after they became a part of the building.
The Test
I returned to the Lord's side. Standing in His presence was so wonderful I could not imagine why anyone would not
be willing to die for Him, but many of the people coming from the ships did refuse. These would all back away from
Him at the request. Many of these went back to the ships, some of which left and some of which remained in the
harbor.
A few of the people who refused to die stayed on the island and were allowed to walk about freely, and even enter
the House of the Lord. They seemed to love and bask in the glory of it all. Many of these began to shine with a glory
too, but they never had the glory within themselves-they only reflected what was coming from the others.
As I was thinking that it was not right for these to be allowed to stay, the Lord said to me, "My patience will win
many of these, but even those that never give me their lives, I love and am pleased to let them enjoy My glory.
Never turn away those who love My glory." These really did enjoy the house, and enjoyed the presence of the Lord
that radiated from the house, but they seemed timid, and retreated when the Lord Himself came close to them.
I then watched as those who had refused to die for the Lord began to act as if His house were their own, and had
been built for them. I wanted to be angry at their great presumption, but I could not feel anger even though I wanted
to. I then understood that it was because I was standing so close to the Lord that I could not be mad. This forced
me to make the decision to stay close to Him or move away so that I could be angry.
I was surprised that this was a difficult decision, that I would even consider wanting to move away from the Lord,
but it honestly was. Out of fear at what was arising within me, I stepped closer to the Lord. He immediately reached
out and grabbed me as if I was about to fall off of a cliff. As I looked behind me I was astonished to find that I had
been on the very edge of one, and had I taken that step away from the Lord to feel the anger, I would have stepped
off of it.
He then said to me, "In this house I can tolerate presumption more than that anger. That anger would start the war
again." I was then overwhelmed with the knowledge that I had not yet made the decision to die for Him either, and
that I too had been presumptuously feeling possessive of both the house and the Lord. When I saw this great evil in
my own heart I was appalled and immediately begged the Lord to destroy my evil heart with His sword.
Resurrection Life
When the Lord pierced My heart, I was surprised to feel so little pain when it seemed to have been so hard on
others. He then said, "Those who request death die easier." I remembered His statement in Matthew 21:44: "And he
who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whoever it falls, it will scatter him like dust."
I did not remember being carried to the cemetery, but just as if no time at all had passed, I was emerging from it
again. Now the glory of every thing I saw was unspeakable. I looked at a rock and loved it. I looked at trees, the
sky and clouds, and could not believe how wonderful they were. A sparrow seemed more glorious than any bird I
had ever seen. I wondered at the great treasure that this little bird was, and why I had not appreciated him like this
before.
I then looked at the presumptuous people. Not only did I feel no temptation to be angry, I loved them so much I
would have let each one pierce my heart again if it would help them. I then began to think of how blessed I was to
be able to meet them and be with them. Now I actually wanted them to stay and could not even comprehend how I
was ever tempted to be angry at them-they were much greater treasures than the sparrow!
Then the Lord stood next to me. Though I did not think it was possible, He was much more glorious than before,
and I was able to ear it. He said, "This is why the death of My people is so precious to Me. Those who seek to save
their life always lose it, but lose who lose their life for My sake find true life. Now you know true life because you
know love."
I then looked at the house and all of those who composed it. Everything and every one that I looked at seemed to
stir up this eat feeling of love that was more wonderful than anything I had ever felt before. I wanted to go look at or
talk to each one, but I did not want to leave the Lord's side, Whose presence was even more compelling. Knowing
my thoughts, he said, "You need never fear leaving My side, because - have made My abode in you and I will be
with you everywhere that you go."
As I watched the presumptuous people, they were enjoying all of the blessings, and even thought of themselves as
the reason for them, but they really were not even a part of what was being built. Having just been one of them I also
knew how shallow their enjoyment was, compared to what it could be, and a great compassion came over me for
them. As I continued watching these people, they gradually become thinner in substance until they were just like the
phantoms I had seen in the city that had been destroyed. Again I thought of the Lord's words, "Those who seek to
save their life will lose it, but those who lose their life for My sake will find it."
No Limits
Then I looked at how the building kept getting higher, and the higher it went the more glory it exuded and the further
it could be seen. This resulted in even more ships and people coming through the storms, which were still raging, but
seemed unable to affect the island. As I wondered how high the building could get, the Lord turned to me again and,
as if He were answering my thoughts, said, "There is no limit to how high we can build this because I am the
foundation and love is the cement."
This caused me to look at the cement, which was transparent but radiated a great power. I wondered how I had not
noticed this before; it was now so obvious and captivating. I then started pondering how I seemed blind to even the
greatest wonders of this building until the Lord directed my attention to them. This caused me to turn back to the
Lord and to watch everything to which He gave His attention.
The Lord then began looking at the people who now composed the building. As I looked at them again I was
immediately struck by the fact that they were more than people-I knew that they were the "new creation" that had
transcended this creation. They had bridged the gap between the physical and spiritual realms, and were clearly a
part of both. They were unquestionably supernatural, which did not mean that they were not natural, but were far
more natural than anything "natural" I had ever seen. They were more real than anything I had ever considered "real."
They made everything else seem like a shadow, and this sense increased as they continued to change.
Soon the glory that was coming from them could be both seen and felt. The feeling was not like a touch, but like an
emotion. As I walked close enough to this glory, it made me feel so good that the only way that I can describe it is
like a wonderful intoxication, not one that clouded the mind, but illuminated it. I felt somehow ennobled, not with
pride, but with a powerful sense of destiny. I also felt a profound security, as if I were in complete harmony with the
ground, the air and especially the Lord and His house. This feeling was so good that I never wanted to move again.
With the addition of each new boat load of people, the transformation of those already a part of the building would
continue, and the glory of the whole building would increase and expand. This made everyone in the building greatly
rejoice with the coming of each new group of people.
Sharing The Glory

When those who came from the cemetery took their place in the building, those who were already a part tried to
give the new ones their own glory. As they did this, the glory radiating from the Lord would increase, and He would
give even more to those who had given their own glory away. Those who were the most devoted to this sharing
would be the ones used to start the next level of the house, which kept going higher and higher.
I thought of how opposite this was from the jealousy which had prevailed previously in the city. I then tried to
ponder the jealousy to understand it more, but it was almost impossible to do. Because I could no longer feel
jealousy, I had a difficult time even understanding what it was-it seemed as unreal as if it had only existed in bad
dreams.
The joy of sharing was so great that not doing it now seemed incomprehensible. The more the glory was shared, the
more each one received to share. This joy of sharing was so great that I knew that all of us would be spending
eternity just seeking others with whom to share the glory. I had a strong sense of knowing that the Lord would be
creating many new worlds just for us to have new places to share His glory. I then knew that this was why He had
created the universe with such diversity, and why He created it to continually expand at a rapid pace. Those who
touched His glory were touched by a love that had to share the glory, which caused them to expand. He had given
us the universe to share His glory with. He had set in motion a glorious chain reaction that would never stop! There
were no limits on time or space, and we would need every bit of it!
The Storms Return

Then suddenly my attention was turned toward the storms that had continued to grow in the sea. To my shock they
had grown larger and faster than the house of the Lord, and were now coming toward the island.
Great waves covered the island and the building disappeared from my view, even though I was still very close to it.
The fury of this storm was beyond comprehension, but I felt no fear at all. I knew that it was because I had already
died to this world and had a life that could never be taken from me. As wonderful as the island had become, I was
just as happy to die physically so that I would be free to carry the glory of the Lord to the rest of the universe that
had so captured my attention. It really would have been hard to choose to stay or go, so I just rested and waited.
Gradually the storms abated and the building then re-emerged. Both the building and the island were much smaller,
but even more glorious. Then I noticed that the storms were just off shore and were returning. This happened several
times, and each time the building would emerge it would be smaller, but more glorious. Each time that this happened
the storms were also much smaller-they were wearing themselves out on the island. Soon the storms could only
generate small waves that posed no threat of any real damage. The glory of the house was now beyond any human
description.
Then the clouds dissipated altogether into the most beautiful sky I had ever seen. As I gazed into the sky I began to
realize that it was filled with the glory that was being emitted from the house. As I looked at the house I was amazed
that there was no damage from the storm, though it was much smaller. Even so, the glory now coming from the
house was much greater than before, and was reflected by everything. I felt that it was so great that it must already
be extending far beyond the earth.
Then the vision changed and I was alone with the Lord. All of the great feelings were gone - even the love. He
looked at me earnestly and said, "The war is almost over. It is time to prepare for the storms. Tell My people that no
one with His brother's blood on His hands will be used to build My house."
I was trying hard to listen to these words in order to heed them, while still thinking about the great love I had felt. He
then said, "This was a dream, but it is real. You have known everything that I have shown you in this dream in your
heart. Now believe with your heart and My love will be real to you again. This is your quest-to know My love."
Comments
The general interpretation of this vision is obvious, but I do think that many of the feelings that I had during this
experience are an important part of the message.
In looking at the different buildings which I knew represented denominations or movements, the architectural clash
was so striking that it was grotesque. It was as if they were all so intent on being different that the most hideous
skyline had been the result. I could not imagine anyone who happened upon such a city having any desire to enter it,
even if the conflict was not taking place.
The church is doing much more damage to herself through infighting than the enemies without are able to do. At that
time I was consciously surprised that the Lord did not intervene in this destructive fighting. Those who were fighting
against the other denominations, or movements, were all disqualified from being a part of the house which the Lord
built.
This reminded me of King David, who, because he was "a man of war and had shed blood" (I Chronicles 28:3),
was not allowed to build the temple of the Lord. This did not disqualify David from salvation, or from being
considered one of the great men of God of all time. I felt that many true saints, and even great men of God, were
tragically disqualifying themselves from this most wonderful work of all by becoming embroiled in this spiritual civil
war. This even caused them to lose the light that they had; only the peacemakers, and those who were trying to
repair and build instead of tearing down, radiated with light in this vision.
I think that it was significant that almost all, if not all, of these buildings contained those who were true lights. These
may appear as small lights now, but they will be the foundation upon which the Lord will build His house.
Because the sea sometimes represents "mass humanity" in Scripture (see Revelation 17: 15), the multitudes are going
to rise up in great waves which will destroy much of the present, visible structure of the church. Those who are true
lights will not be swept away by the waves. Those who walk in truth have a foundation which cannot be shaken.
The Lord's command to release the sea did not cause the sea to rise up, but just removed that which was restraining
it. The sea then came with fury against the island, as if it were being controlled by a great hatred. I believe this
represented a great hatred against visible, institutional Christianity that will arise, and the Lord will allow it to destroy
these institutions.
When these great tidal waves had stopped, there were no Christian institutions as represented by the buildings that
men had constructed. However, all of the real Christians remained. I do not think that it is wrong to keep trying to
repair these structures, as the Lord honored and preserved those who did, but this vision affirmed deep within me
the need to focus on building people, rather than trying to build another institution that will be able to stand in these
times - none of them will stand.
Even though these present buildings were destroyed, they each contained those who were to be pillars in His house.
The house of the Lord was a brand new building, but those who became the main supports in it came from almost
every denomination and movement. The Lord is "the wise Man who brings forth from His treasures things both new
and old." The Lord does have new wine to serve, but Isaiah 25:6 declares that the Lord will also serve "refined,
aged wine." The Lord will not use either the old or the new, but both the old and new.
The Lord's house was built in the midst of the increasing storms of rage and lawlessness. It radiated as an even
greater light because of those storms. I was encouraged that the Lord will build, on this earth, a church that really
will reflect His glory, and that this age will not end until He does.
It could not be any other way. Moses contended when the Lord threatened to destroy Israel, that this would only
leave the testimony that He could bring people out of Egypt, but could not lead them into the Promised Land. The
Lord will have a testimony, through the church, that will last for all eternity. That testimony will be that He not only
can forgive the sins of His church, but He also has the power and wisdom to deliver her from her sins, and make her
into a glorious bride without spot or wrinkle:
Now when Jesus came into the district of Ceasarea Philippi, He began asking His disciples saying, "Who do people
say that the Son of Man is?"
And they said, "Some say John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but others Jeremiah or one of the prophets."
He then said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
And Simon Peter answered and said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
And Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this
to you, but My Father who is in heaven.
And I say to you that you are Peter ("a stone") and upon this rock (a large rock or bedrock) I will built my church;
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." (Matthew 16:13-18).
Rick Joyner is the Executive Director of Morning Star Publications and is the Editor of The Morning Star Journal
and The Morning Star Prophetic Bulletin. He is the author of several books including Harvest, There Were Two
Trees In The Garden, The Passover, The Harvest Trilogy, Leadership, Management and the Five essentials For
Success, The Journey Begins, The World Aflame, and The Final Quest
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By the Year 2000:

Is God Trying to Tell Us
Something?
by Thomas Wang
[The Reverend Thomas Wang is founder and chairman of the AD 2000 Movement, Inc. He is the founding president of the Great
Commission Theological Seminary. He previously served as the International Director of the Lausanne Committee for World
Evangelization. This article first appeared in May 1987 in World Evangelization, the magazine of the Lausanne Committee.]
What is God trying to say to us today? Are we listening with discernment?

Recently, as we are drawing near to the close of this century, significant things are happening around us. Gigantic
plans of evangelism on a global scale are being creatively conceived, planned, and to a degree executed by different
groups and orders within Christendom. So much so that I think if only one or two of them succeed in all their
objectives, they would truly turn the world upside down.
What is equally noteworthy is that most of these movements take AD 2000 as their target year for an unprecedented
world in gathering of harvest for the Kingdom. These are overwhelmingly significant happenings. What is God trying
to say to us through them all?
Let me share with you a number of movements of evangelism that are currently either in the planning stage or are
already in operation.
The World by 2000

By the year 2000 the entire world will have the opportunity to hear the gospel through radio broadcast. This goal
was set by a historic meeting between leaders of three major Christian broadcasting groups in the fall of 1985; they
were Ron Cline (HCJB), Bob Bowman (FEBC) and Paul Freed (TWR).
A statement was jointly signed by the three presidents saying "We are committed to provide every man, woman and
child on earth the opportunity to turn on their radio and hear the gospel of Jesus Christ in a language they can
understand, so they can become followers of Christ and responsible members of His church. We plan to complete
this task by the year 2000."
"Technology is already in place to reach virtually every corner of the earth since short wave signals can literally travel
thousands of miles," Cline explained. "Our signals can already reach the remote hidden peoples."
The three major Christian broadcasters are spreading the gospel in more than 100 languages. Cline estimates that
more than 90 percent of the world's population can now hear the good news in a language they understand.
Bold Mission Thrust

This is the Southern Baptist denominational strategy on world evangelization which gives adequate emphasis to both
discipline and evangelizing.
It is a 'massive movement involving scores of denominational agencies, thousands of churches and millions of church
members at home and around the world. Its program emphasizes the importance of discipling, centered on the
phrase "evangelism that results in churches." Indeed, it has been labeled as "one of history's most extensive, most
organized, most detailed and most determined evangelistic plans."
Its pronounced objectives include:
To reach every living person in the world with the gospel by the year 2000.
To provide every person on earth the opportunity to hear the gospel by the close of the century.
To enable every person in the world to have an opportunity to hear and respond to the gospel of Christ by the year
2000.
Charismatic Initiatives
1. Singapore Consultation (February 9-11,1987)
Organized by Larry Christianson, Director of the Lutheran Renewal Center, St. Paul, Minnesota, the Consultation
took place in Singapore. It was attended by 30 charismatic leaders from a wide spectrum of denominations,
including Roman Catholics, from many parts of the world.
A consensus was reached among the conferees that the Singapore Consultation is to be a 'Consultation to consider
a 1990 World Conference that would usher in a Decade of Evangelization leading up to the year 2000."
2. General Congress an the Holy Spirit and World Evangelization (July 22-26, 1987)
The Charismatic conference attended by 50,000 in Kansas City in 1977 was followed by "New Orleans '86:
Leaders Congress" attended by 10,000 and sponsored by the North America Renewal Service Committee. This
again was followed by another huge gathering in July of 1987 The North America Congress on the Holy Spirit and
World Evangelization.
According to Congress Director, Vinson Synan, "Between 35 to 50 thousand members of over 40 denominations,
ministries, and fellowships are coming to New Orleans in July to worship and to learn how they can work together
to preach the gospel to all nations by the year 2000."
DAWN Movement
As a youth, Jim Montgomery had specific calling to commit himself to world evangelization. He served as a
missionary for twenty two years with Overseas Crusades in several overseas posts. In July of 1984 he had a clear
calling from God to launch the DAWN (Discipling A Whole Nation) movement worldwide.
DAWN's concern is that the whole church in every country work at the discipling of the whole nation, including all
its people groups.
DAWN's nation by nation strategy is to communicate the DAWN vision to national leaders, identify the 'John
Knoxes' of a nation (Give me my country or I die!), and serve as a consultant to him to fulfill the task.
The whole nation approach of DAWN has enjoyed successes in the Philippines and Guatemala. More national
churches are requesting their service. Their recent status sheet said, 'Worldwide movement is taking shape! Twenty
seven countries now involved!' [Ed. note: Today 122 countries are impacted by DAWN and 56 Countries have
DAWN projects underway.]
Evangelization 2000
Roman Catholics are planning a one billion dollar project called "Evangelization 2000," as reported by Julia Duin in
the News Section of Christianity Today (February 6, 1987). "The ten year project will culminate with a worldwide
satellite telecast on Christmas Day in the year 2000 when Pope John Paul II or his successor will speak to a
potential audience of at least 5 billion people.
Tom Forrest, the Redemptorist priest who is in charge of "Evangelization 2000," said, "The project is to give Jesus
Christ a 2,000th birthday gift of a world more Christian than not."
"Evangelization 2000," by using numerous portable satellite receiving dishes, will convey "a papal message to
Catholic missionaries around the world who will record the transmission on videotapes, then translate the audio into
the local languages." Forrest is also planning a retreat for the world's Catholic bishops in 1989. The conference will
inform them about 'Evangelization 2000" and provide them with books on evangelization. A worldwide conference
for 7,000 priests is planned for 1990 with the same goals in mind.
EXPLO '90
On December 31,1985, at the closing day of EXPLO '85 in Mexico City, Dr. Bill Bright, President of Campus
Crusade for Christ, announced that a similar but expanded event will take place in 1990.
"There is a great worldwide excitement that EXPLO '85 will accelerate the fulfillment of the Great Commission,"
Bright stated. "Because of this over whelming response ... (we) have decided to announce to you ... our plans for a
greatly expanded EXPLO '90.'
EXPLO '85 leaders were encouraged with the success of a worldwide video conference through 18 commercial
satellites, linked up with almost all the 94 sites in 54 countries. Simultaneous translation was provided in more than
30 languages. A continent by continent follow up training course is being conducted.
Pentecost '87
This is called 'A National Satellite Celebration of Catholic Evangelization," scheduled to take place across America
on June 6,1987. It is developed by the Paulist National Catholic Evangelization Association and sponsored by over
75
Archdioceses and Dioceses in America.
Using Pope Paul VI's 'On Evangelization In The Modem World" as a guideline, Pentecost '87 will give special focus
to
(a) evangelizing the 75 million unchurched of America,
(b) evangelizing the 15 million inactive Catholics, and
(c)evangelizing 52 1/2 million active Catholics in America.
The event will use the Catholic Telecommunications Network of America's
(CTNA) satellite to offer training courses to the 60,000 Catholic evangelizers in one day.
This carefully designed media event partially prerecorded and partially live, will be aired with new and expanded
contents on every Pentecost Saturday until the year 2000.
Mission 2000
For discussion purposes, the U.S. Center for World Mission has proposed a 15year plan called "Mission 2000" to
chart the course of cooperative mission effort (as reported by Missionary News Service, February 1, 1985).
Director Ralph Winter spelled out the underlying convictions of Mission 2000 (Mission Frontiers, April-June, 1985)
as follows:
'l. We believe that those who are blessed by God are automatically obligated to be a blessing to all the other peoples
of the world (Gen. 12:13).
'2. We believe that 'to be a blessing' means to spread the news of the saving power and sanctifying lordship of Jesus
Christ.
"3. We believe that the best way to do this is to plant the church within each and every me of the world's peoples.
"4. We believe that this unique ,'pioneer' Church planting activity is the most fundamental goal of missions. We are
encouraged by the fact that a broad consensus of mission scholars and leaders is in agreement with this conviction.
"5. We believe there are ample evangelical resources in the world community (i.e., 147 congregations per group to
be reached!) to make a serious attempt to plant the church within every people by the year 2000, and that such a
goal for the year 2000 is therefore a reasonable goal to work and pray for.
"6. We believe this task is thus more readily within our grasp than ever in history, and that the very end of history
may therefore be near."
What Is God Trying To Say?

The above is an impressive list. But it is only a portion of the whole. Some are still in the embryo stage pending
further decision, such as the International Satellite &fission of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Some are in
the early planning stage, such as the book distribution plan of the World Literature Crusade of putting two books on
salvation and Christian growth in the hands of every home on earth in their own language before the year 2000.
To these tremendous happenings David Barrett, author of World Christian Encylopedia, and his friends have
coined a new term: Global Evangelization Movement (GEM). But Barrett also gave his caution here. Throughout the
history of the church there have been at least 300 plans of world evangelization. Most of them have fizzled out and
about 30 of them are still in existence today.
What were the reasons for these failures? Barrett has this to say:
Perhaps the major reason for the failure has been the absence of an attempt either to structure the objective
or to deal realistically with, the major obstacles ... Pious hopes have been allowed to substitute for
determined organizational and logistical investigation and action on the part of thoroughly well informed
global missions leaders meeting and acting regularly together, with all the facts in front of them. We need to
structure this global movement somewhat more realistically.
He further added, 'The extraordinary thing is that most of these plans are operating in comparative isolation and in
virtual ignorance of the existence of the other 30 or so plans.'
Now, coming closer home, what do all of these mean to the Lausanne movement? What is God saying to us as
leaders and partners of the LCWE? We are catalysts. We are networkers. Our most up to date definition for
ourselves is, "a movement of people in Christ who covenant together for biblical world evangelization."
With the current world evangelization happenings before us, what should be our role? How should we chart the
course of the Lausanne movement for the next decade, or "unto the year 2000," in order to be more creatively useful
and instrumental to the total task of world evangelization?
More urgently, how should we plan the program for Lausanne's '89 Congress so that it would not be a mere
repetition or near repetition of 1974, but a dynamic and creative encounter of 6,000 "evangelizers" (and millions
more around the world if satellite communications are to be used) whom God has destined to use for the ultimate
fulfillment of spreading His redemption plan?
What is God trying to say to you and me?

Scientists and astronomers have built clusters of giant listening devices called the "Big Ear" to listen to radio signals
from outer space in order to probe the mysteries of the universe. Are we today tuning our "big ears" to the Creator
of the universe who is the Keeper of all mysteries?
We are all busy preaching, speaking, teaching, researching, writing, publishing, broadcasting and telecasting. But are
we listening? Has our frantic way of life made our relation to God a one way street? Again, what is He trying to say
to you and me through all these happenings around us today?
Perhaps we should all come before the Lord like young prophet Samuel did and say to God, "Speak, Lord, for thy
servant is listening."
I will be most happy to hear from you and to know if God has something to say through you to the church, to the
parachurch, to the Lausanne movement,, and to us all. I welcome your response.
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GENERAL WASHINGTON'S VISION

(Originally published by Wesley Bradshaw.)
(Copied from a reprint in the National Tribune,)
(Vol. 4, No. 12, December 1880.)
Also published in 'Will our president die in Office" by Gordon Lindsay, 1980
The last time I ever saw Anthony Sherman was on the Fourth of July, 1859, in Independence Square. He was then
ninety-nine years old, his dimming eyes rekindled as he gazed upon Independence Hall, which he had come to visit
once more. "I want to tell you an incident of Washington's life -- one which no one alive knows of except myself;
and which, if you live, you will before long see verified."
He said, "From the opening of the Revolution, we experienced all phases of fortune, good and ill. The darkest
period we ever had, I think, was when Washington, after several reverses, retreated to Valley Forge, where he
resolved to pass the winter of 1777. Ah! I often saw the tears coursing down our dear commander's careworn
cheeks, as he con versed with a confidential officer about the condition of his soldiers. You have doubtless heard the
story of Washington's going to the thicket to pray. Well, he also used to pray to God in secret for aid and comfort.
"One day, I remember well, the chilly winds whistled through the leafless trees. Though the sky was cloudless and
the sun shone brightly, he remained alone in his quarters nearly all afternoon. When he came out, I noticed that his
face was a shade paler than usual, and there seemed to be something on his mind of more than ordinary importance.
Returning just after dusk, he dispatched an orderly to the quarters of the officer I mentioned who was in attendance
at the time. After preliminary conversation of about half an hour, Washington, gazing upon his companion with that
strange look of dignity that he alone could command, said to the latter:
"Ì do not know whether it is due to the anxiety of my mind, or what, but this afternoon, as I was preparing a
dispatch, something seemed to disturbed me. Looking up, I beheld, standing opposite me, a singularly beautiful
being. So astonished was I, for I had given strict orders not to be disturbed, that it was some moments before I
found language to inquire the cause of the visit. A second, a third, and even a fourth time did I repeat my question,
but received no answer from my mysterious visitor, except a slight raising of the eyes. By this time I felt strange
sensations spreading through me, and I would have risen, but the riveted gaze of the being before me rendered
volition impossible. I assayed once more to speak, but my tongue had become useless, as though it had become
paralyzed. A new influence, mysterious, potent, irresistible, took possession. All I could do was to gaze steadily,
vacantly at my unknown visitor. Gradually the surrounding atmosphere seemed to become filled with sensations, and
grew luminous. Everything about me seemed to rarefy, including the mysterious visitor.
"Ì began to feel as one dying, or rather to experience the sensations which I have sometimes imagined accompany
dissolution. I did not think, I did not reason, I did not move; all were alike impossible. I was only conscious of gazing
fixedly, vacantly at my companion.
"`Presently I heard a voice saying, "Son of the Republic, look and learn," while at the same time my visitor extended
an arm eastward ly. I now beheld a heavy vapor at some distance rising fold upon fold. This gradually dissipated,
and I looked out upon a strange scene. Before me lay spread out in one vast plain all the countries of the world --
Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. I saw rolling and tossing between Europe and America the billows of the
Atlantic, and between Asia and America lay the Pacific.
"`"Son of the Republic," said the same mysterious voice as be fore, "look and learn." At that moment I beheld a
dark, shadowy being as an angel standing, or rather floating, in mid-air between Europe and America. Dipping water
out of the ocean in the hollow of his hand, he cast some on Europe. Immediately a cloud raised from these countries,
and joined in mid-ocean. For a while it remained stationary, and then moved slowly westward until it enveloped
America in its murky folds. Sharp flashes of lightning gleamed through it at intervals, and I heard the smothered
groans and cries of the American people. A second time the angel dipped water from the ocean and sprinkled it out
as before. The dark cloud was then drawn back to the ocean, in whose billows it sank from view.
"À third time I heard the mysterious voice saying, "Son of the Republic, look and learn." I cast my eyes upon
America and beheld villages and towns and cities string up one after another until the whole land form the Atlantic to
the Pacific was dotted with them. Again I heard the mysterious voice say, "Son of the Republic, the end of the
century cometh; look and learn."
"Ànd this time the dark, shadowy angel turned his face south ward, and from Africa I saw an ill-omened specter
approach our land. It flitted slowly over every town and city of the latter. The inhabitants presently set themselves in
battle against each other. As I continued looking, I saw a bright angel, on whose brow rested a crown of light on
which was traced the word "Union," bearing the American flag, which he placed between the divided nation. He
said, "Remember, ye are brethren." Instantly the inhabitants, casting down their weapons, be came friends once
more, and united around the National Standard.
"Àgain I heard the mysterious voice saying, "Son of the Republic, look and learn." At this the dark, shadowy angel
placed a trumpet to his lips and blew three distinct blasts; and taking water from the ocean, he sprinkled it on
Europe, Asia, and Africa. Then my eyes beheld a fearful scene. From each of these countries arose thick black
clouds that were soon joined into one; and throughout this mass there gleamed a dark red light be which I saw
hordes of armed men, who, moving with the cloud, marched by land and sailed by sea to America, which country
was enveloped in the volume of cloud. And I dimly saw these vast armies devastate the whole country and burn the
villages, towns, and cities that I had beheld springing up.
"Às my ears listened to the thundering of the cannon, the slashing of swords, and the shouts and cries of millions in
mortal combat, I again heard the mysterious voice saying, "Son of the Republic, look and learn." When the voice
had ceased, the dark angel placed his trumpet once more to his mouth and blew a long and fearful blast.
"Ìnstantly a light as of a thousand suns shown down from above me, and pierced and broke into fragments the dark
cloud which enveloped America. At the same moment the angel upon whose head still shown the word "Union" and
who bore our national flag in one hand and a sword in the other descended from the heavens attended by legions of
white spirits. These immediately joined the inhabitants of America, who I perceived were well-nigh overcome, but
who, immediately taking courage again, closed up their broken ranks and renewed the battle. Again, amid the fearful
noise of the conflict I heard the mysterious voice saying, "Son of the Republic, look and learn." As the voice ceased,
the shadowy angel for the last time dipped water from the ocean and sprinkled it upon America. Instantly the dark
cloud rolled back, together with the armies it had brought, leaving the inhabitants of the land victorious.
"`Then once more, I beheld the villages, towns, and cities springing up where I'd seen them before, while the bright
angel, planting the azure standard he had brought in the midst of them, cried with a loud voice: "While the stars
remain, and the heavens send down dew upon the earth, so long shall the Union last." And taking from his brow the
crown on which blazoned the word "Union," he placed it upon the standard while the people, kneeling down, said
"Amen."
"`The scene instantly began to fade and dissolve, and I, at last, saw nothing but the rising, curling vapor I had at first
beheld. This also disappeared, and I found myself once more gazing upon the mysterious visitor, who in the same
voice I had heard before said, "Son of the Republic, what you have seen is thus interpreted. Three great perils will
come upon the Republic. The most fearful is the third [The help against the third peril comes in the shape of divine
assistance], passing which the whole world united shall not prevail against her. Let every child of the Republic learn
to live for his God, his land, and his Union." With these words the vision vanished, and I started from my seat and
felt that I had seen a vision wherein had been shown me the birth, the progress, and the destiny of the United States.'
"Such, my friends," said the venerable narrator, "were the words I heard from Washington's own lips, and America
will do well to profit by them."
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THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE

Richard M. Riss
Union Bible Church, Old Bridge, N.J., July 26, 1992
As Christians, we know that at this very moment, we are part of a life and death struggle against the forces of
darkness. Whether we like it or not, we are soldiers in an army, and we must take part in spiritual warfare in order
to survive.
How can we truly engage ourselves effectively against the enemy? What will render him ineffective? Repentance, or
turning away from evil and turning toward God, is certainly a pivotal starting place. To be effective against the
enemy, we must continually pray, seek the Lord, and search the Scriptures, making them a part of the pattern of our
everyday lives, always refraining from ungodliness. We certainly also know the importance of fellowship with other
believers, and of taking authority over that which is not of Christ.
But what, really, specifically, are the weapons of our warfare? We know about our armor--the shield of faith, the
breastplate of righteousness, and the belt of truth--but these are for our defense. There are also offensive weapons,
like the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. But there are also many others. In fact, Paul tells us in II
Corinthians that these weapons are mighty, to the pulling down of strongholds, although he doesn't seem to go into a
great deal of depth as to what they are, and how they can be used to defeat the destroyer.
Many people don't realize that we have a veritable arsenal containing a vast array of spiritual weapons, although we
may need training on how to use some of them. A few are secret weapons, known only to the commander-in-chief
Himself, Jesus Christ, and those to whom he has committed them. Others are extremely powerful, and therefore
need to be used carefully, or they could cause damage both to ourselves and to our friends.
Let's pause, now, for a moment, to consider exactly what we mean by spiritual warfare. What do we mean when we
state that we are taking ground for the kingdom of God? Does this mean that we have more and more people
attending our churches? Or does it indicate that, in the political arena, our candidates are getting elected? What does
it mean to possess the land? To become wealthy? To be in charge of many people? What does it mean to rule and
reign with Christ? Does it simply signify that we have political power, and that we can therefore decide what
happens to large numbers of people? Or does this refer to something entirely different?
One of the peculiarities of the Christian Faith is that we, as Christians, are able to accomplish some of the greatest
and most important things by doing the exact opposite of what one would normally expect is necessary for the
fulfillment of a particular goal. This will become evident as I begin to name, specifically, some of the weapons that
I've been talking about.
You may disagree with me about some of these weapons. That's okay, you don't have to use all of them. At least for
the time being, just use the ones that you feel comfortable about using.
I would like to start simply by giving you a list of many of these weapons. This is not an exhaustive list, and I'm sure
the Lord will bring to your mind many others as I begin to mention them. Some are very, very powerful, and, as I've
already suggested, many of the most powerful ones are the ones that would seem to the uninitiated to be least useful,
or even completely useless. Of course, they must be used properly. Some should only be used during hand-to-hand
combat. Others can be used in sophisticated offensive maneuvers, but only when the commander has given the
express order. Timing is everything when you are engaged in warfare.
Okay, here are some of the weapons that God has given us to use: Returning good for evil. Doing the right thing,
even if it means suffering or persecution, or personal loss. Joy in the midst of trials. Obedience to God, regardless of
the cost. Never taking offense when you are wronged or betrayed. Acting according to conscience, whatever the
consequences. Never believing bad reports about others, no matter how convincing. Giving everyone the benefit of
every doubt. Trust in God in every situation despite all appearances. Excessive generosity. Fairness and kindness to
all people. Forgiving everyone for anything, no matter how seriously they have wronged you, even if they are not
sorry for what they have done. Genuine thankfulness for all things, even tribulation. Not defending yourself when
accused, knowing that God will vindicate the innocent who trust in Him. Praising God in adversity. Always dwelling
upon that which is good. Not allowing anything to be more important to you than God. Willingness to suffer
reproach by identifying with that which is of God. Not allowing yourself to become distracted from God's purpose
for you. Never being concerned about how others will view you. Relying upon God to help you in difficult
circumstances. Humility. Resisting temptation. Self-sacrifice. Being unassuming. Patience. Modesty. Courage, or the
refusal to fear. Unconditional love. Never doubting that God will provide for our needs. Deferring to others.
Thinking of others more highly than ourselves. Putting every suspicious proposition or assertion to the test.
The enemy would have us to believe that it is onerous to do these things. On the contrary, these are the things that
are in our greatest interest, and we are therefore delighted to make use of them. The deceiver would try to caricature
them as "obligations," and that we are duty-bound to try to perform them. But they are not our duty so much as they
are necessary to us for our own well-being. A person who makes frequent use of these weapons understands that it
is in his or her own interest to do so, although it is best not to use them because they are beneficial to us. Rather, we
should make use of them because it is pleasing to God that we do so. This is the way they become extremely
effective.
When we use these weapons, we destroy the work of the enemy in our lives and the lives of others. For example,
satan's work is circumvented when we refuse to take offense when we are wronged or betrayed. He is thwarted in
his attempts to bring about disunity when this happens.
Do you want to be a strong Christian warrior? Then forgive your enemies. Humble yourself. Let everyone else have
preeminence. Don't seek to be well liked or well respected. Don't maneuver your way into an enviable position. Let
God do it. Don't seek power or wealth. Then when God moves on our behalf, it becomes clear that it is God who
has raised us up, and that we could not possibly have done it ourselves.
The effective Christian warrior is not the one who looks good because he or she has taken care to make himself
look good outwardly. Rather, it is the one who is concerned with whether he or she is truly good inwardly.
Tremendous spiritual power is derived from putting this principle into practice.
We have listed far more spiritual weapons than we can describe in any detail, but let's just take a closer look at a
few of them:
First, let's consider forgiveness. One of the most effective ways of releasing the power of God is through the
forgiveness of one's enemies. If you really want to throw a monkey wrench into the enemy's plan to destroy you,
then forgive everyone who has ever wronged you, however seriously. There is tremendous power in forgiveness. It
brings about healing and the joy of restored fellowship.
We sometimes forget that there is an enemy who wants to destroy us. If we have bitterness or unforgiveness toward
someone, then that thing will eat away at us, and it begins to destroy us. You will even begin to feel the effects of it in
your physical body. Give it up! You can't afford to nourish hatred towards others. It will destroy you, spirit, soul and
body. This is exactly what the enemy hopes to accomplish, and you play right into his hands when you resist the
urgings of conscience to renounce unforgiveness.
Now let's look at a few other weapons. Humility: If we humble ourselves in the sight of the Lord, then, we are told,
He will raise us up in due time. This is an infallible principle for those who engage in it with proper motivations.
Modesty: To fight the good fight effectively, we must not boast. We must not do anything to make ourselves look
good. We must, in modesty, remain silent unless there is a clear mandate from God for us to speak. If we do this,
then God is able to show Himself to be strong on our behalf, when appropriate.
Trust in God: Absolute reliance upon God for everything does not constitute passivity, but trust in the power of God,
and recognition that, in and of ourselves, we are as nothing, but that if we are living and working in obedience to
God, He will bring to pass all that concerns us.
Thankfulness: When we are genuinely thankful for all things, even in tribulation, the enemy is thwarted once again,
since it is no longer possible for him to cause us to attribute that which is evil to God, who is sovereign over all
things. This means that we are no longer eligible for the miserable fate awaiting all those who will not trust Him in all
things.
Praising God in all Circumstances: There are many reasons why we should praise God, even in adversity. First, we
should do so because he is always, at all times, worthy of our praise. Secondly, in doing this, we acknowledge the
sovereignty of God over our lives and His love for us. He has control over all circumstances of our lives and uses
them for our benefit, despite all appearances to the contrary. When we praise God in adversity, we acknowledge
these facts. Third, God abides in the praises of His people. He will be with you during your experience of adversity,
and He will go before you and fight on your behalf in the battles of life.
These are just a few weapons, and we have only touched on them briefly. But the Lord will probably remind you of
many others as you think about these things. We should all be continually asking Him to show us what weapons we
should be using in various situations, and to teach us how to use them effectively. In many cases, it is simply a matter
of practice. In other cases, we need special wisdom as to how to use a weapon properly. May the Lord grant us
this wisdom and help us to use these weapons effectively and remind us to contend with them earnestly every
moment of our lives. In Christ's name we pray. Amen.
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Dave Wilkerson's Prophecy

synopsis and comment by Bill Somers
David Wilkerson wrote 'Set the Trumpet to Thy Mouth' in 1985. The first paragraph of chapter one reads thus.
America is going to be destroyed by fire! Sudden destruction is coming and few will escape. Unexpectedly,
and in one hour, a hydrogen holocaust will engulf America -- and this nation will be no more.
It is because America has sinned against the greatest light. Other nations are just as sinful, but none are as
flooded with gospel light as ours. God is going to judge America for its violence, its crimes, its backsliding, its
murdering of millions of babies, its flaunting of homosexuality and sadomasochism, its corruption, its
drunkenness and drug abuse, its form of godliness without power, its lukewarmness toward Christ, its rampant
divorce and adultery, its lewd pornography, its child molestations, its cheatings, its robbings, its dirty movies,
and its occult practices.
In one hour it will all be over. To the natural mind it is insanity to come against a prosperous, powerful nation
and cry out, "It's all over! Judgment is at the door! Our days are numbered!" The Church is asleep, the
congregations are at ease, and the shepherds slumber. How they will scoff and laugh at this message.
Theologians will reject it because they can't fit it into their doctrine. The pillow prophets of peace and
prosperity will publicly denounce it.
I no longer care. God has made my face like flint and put steel in my backbone. I am blowing the Lord's
trumpet with all my might. Let the whole world and all the church call me crazy, but I must blow the trumpet
and awaken God's people. Believe it or not, America is about to be shaken and set aside by swift and horrible
judgments. Many other praying believers who have been shut in with God are hearing the very same message -
"Judgment is at the door! Prepare, awaken!"
Ever since this message came to me, I have been searching God's Word from cover to cover. No prophecy is valid
unless it is positively confirmed by God's holy Word. I discovered in the Word God's pattern of judgment.....
He goes on to say, later in the chapter that, this will be an attack from Russia. And "The great holocaust follows an
economic collapse in America. The enemy will make its move when we are weak and helpless."
He says that
"America will not Repent"...."God promised to preserve America only if it turned from its evil....This nation has
not repented but has turned its back....I see almighty God even now slowly turning His back on this nation.
America is on the verge of committing the unpardonable sin by resisting the Holy Ghost. Soon, there will be
repentance only for individuals, but not for the nation."
The remainder of the book discusses at great length the sins of America and the Scriptural basis for her judgment at
the hand of God.
Note that he says that America will be destroyed in this attack. The attack will come well before Armageddon, the
day of the Lord. And that America will not repent, but will suffer judgment unto total desolation.
He does not hold out any hope of staying God's judgment through prayer or by the coming of revival. He feels the
judgment is unavoidable, perhaps because he feels America will not repent.
Personal Comment
I believe he is right about judgment coming, and that it is unavoidable. But he is wrong because the coming judgment
will not be one of total desolation. And there will come a point where America will finally repent, but only during the
judgment.
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Jesus rebuked the church of Laodicea;,

But Jesus commended the church of Smyrna:

When Jacob was a frail old man he said to the Pharaoh:

Hebrews 11 commends Abraham - certainly a prosperous and influential man - because,

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This dream involves a warfare situation.

2. unify the command.