Foreword
I feel that the
foreword for this work was inadvertently written when I wrote this letter in
response to a fellow minister on the web who was engaged in a sincere and
earnest debate with my wife about my sermons and articles on the web regarding
the Rapture of the Church. He felt that
I was departing from the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the saving of souls in
order to sensationalize an event about which we had little or no information
and in which we would be automatically included when it occurred:
My
Dear Brother and Fellow Servant of the Lord Jesus,
I have taken note of the
conversations between you and my wife and I felt led by the Spirit to write to
and give you a little insight into why we are on the net as well as some
private details about my own calling and the message God has given to me. Our
prime objective, no, that’s incorrect.
The only reason we are on the
internet doing what we are doing is because our Master, Jesus, commanded that
we do so. In the word of God Jesus said:
“My meat is to do the will of him
that sent me, and finish his work.
Say not ye, There
are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up
your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
And he that reapeth receiveth wages,
and gathereth fruit unto life eternal that both he that soweth and he that
reapeth may rejoice together.
And herein is that
saying true, one soweth and another reapeth.
I sent you to reap
that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into
their labours.” John 4: 34-38
That is our commandment and sole reason
we are doing what we do. I agree that
the saving of souls is the order of the day, just as you do. Here’s the difference! In accomplishing that directive, God has
given this prophet a message that has not included the text of John 3:16. The message of the Spirit is and has been a
progressive truth which is why Jesus ordered believers in John 8:31 to "continue" in his Word. Continuing in his word would identify them as
his disciples indeed! The attached
promise is “and ye shall know that truth and the truth shall make you free."
I never looked for a rapture
message. I believed that Jesus would return
for his Church one day and that was fine with me. When God first revealed this section of his
word to me in 1994 I was astonished.
Once the Spirit revealed the date I thought that was the complete
message. Was I ever wrong! Since that year, the Spirit of Jesus has been
adding to the message: "precept upon precept, line upon line,
here a little, there a little."
The Holy Spirit told me that he would say more to the Church in these
last days than he has spoken during the entire Church Age. I believed the Spirit as I always do but
found such a statement to be astronomical in scope. Yet, true to his word, he has done just that
and has continually blown us away as he has progressively led us into more and
more truth. I once or twice attempted to
recap a year of revelations and was unable to do so because the number was
incredible.
Our assembly was formed in
the Word and the Word of God has been our focus since we first began gathering
together in 1987. Most of our membership
endures a drive averaging more than 100 miles round trip and they seldom
miss. The attendance at the mid week
bible study is the same as the Sunday morning gathering. I am not the speaker, Jesus is and He has a
whole lot to say. I was quoting the
passage one Sunday regarding where two or three are gathered together in his
name that he would be in the midst thereof.
At that moment the Spirit spoke in my ear with a question. The question was “doing what?” As always when the Spirit asks a question
during the message I not only do not have any idea of the answer, but it is
always a question that I never remotely even considered. Fortunately, he never leaves me looking and
feeling dumb for very long. He always
immediately gives the answer. The answer
to that question was “Speaking”. He has
done that on innumerable occasions. I
have received messages from the Lord and have experienced him changing the message as
I stood speaking. I have learned not to
put a subject on the board because he constantly changes what I thought I was
going to speak. I have gone so far as to
quit taking notes into the pulpit with me.
In my early days, I would be prepared to the max only to have the live
Speaker, the Holy Ghost pre-empt something he had previously given to me at
home. Our service is live and un-rehearsed
and He runs it and continues to make it the most exciting experience of my
life. And why shouldn’t it be? The gospels are full of remarks of those who
heard Jesus speak and they were mesmerized by his word. That same
Jesus is still speaking to his Church
and is still dazzling us with his eloquence!
I have been hearing God’s voice and preaching and
teaching what he has spoken all of my life.
If that had not been my experience in the past, this message and the
response to it would have caused me to quit.
The lot of a true prophet is not being believed. That’s the first response. The second response of the unbelieving
audience is murdering the prophet. The
prophets throughout history have had the highest mortality rate of any known
profession. Jesus labored in a field of
unbelief and outright rejection by spiritual leaders of Judaism. Those same leaders eventually engineered his
death. Jeremiah was given a prophecy
about the captivity by Babylon. It was so late in being fulfilled and he
received so much hate about that message that he decided to quit preaching the message. Check him out:
“O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and
I was deceived: thou are stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision
daily, every one mocketh me.
For since I spake,
I cried out, I cried violence and spoil because the word of the LORD was made
a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
Then I said, I
will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was
in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with
forbearing, and I could not stay. " Jer.
20:7
I feel
like I know that man personally. And not only him but many other prophets as
well. God introduced me to them before
he made known to me my calling. I don’t
go by the title "prophet" because the today's Church cannot handle
that title. The enemy has seduced the
Church into believing that prophets do not exist today. How many do you know?
I haven’t left the
mission of saving souls. In fact, the
Holy Ghost has made it very clear to me that this message he is currently
revealing will ultimately produce the greatest revival in the Church’s history
and it will come at the end of the Church Age.
The Church waited ten days before its birth on the day of
Pentecost. It will undergo another,
defined, ten day wait before it leaves this earth with the final day resulting
in the salvation of millions. I think it
would be wise just to let the Spirit have his way and deliver his message and
accomplish his will, which is saving souls.
One
last note before I close: There is a
short verse in I Thess. 5:19 that says,
“Quench not the
Spirit." The following verse tells us exactly what is
quenching the Spirit. “Despise not prophesyings." God is speaking through some called
prophets and their message has been and will be met with despise. God’s message
always has and always will cut across the grain of ingrained beliefs. What are we to do with a prophet like me who
claims to have a message from God about the time of and events surrounding the
rapture; a message straight from the words of Jesus and the Apostles? “Prove
all things; hold fast that which is good.” You don’t expose the message
of a false prophet with a list of yes and no questions. Jesus fielded all of the questions of his day
and they still didn’t believe. I am
under no obligation to answer any of your questions but, as a defender of the
truth and by the commandment of the word, I am commanded to take the scriptures God
gave in the revelation of this message and prove them to be true or false. The exercise does not allow the introduction
or insertion of other passages which you feel are contradictory but involves
examining whether or not the scriptures given to me are rightly divided and
correctly interpreted.
I took
the time to share a little bit about me and my calling because I believe you
are sincere about the business of saving souls and I pray that God uses you to
your fullest capacity in accomplishing the task set before you and I trust you
will do the same for me. A response is
not necessary or expected. I have a
great task to finish with a short time to do so which is why you won’t find me
in the internet conversations. Those who
have been taught by me are fully capable.
Pray for them also, please. God
bless you!
