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In January 2003 I began preaching at the entrance to a shopping mall in Levin, New Zealand. Toward the end of the year I felt spiritually exercised to write prophecies. Each morning I would write a prophecy which I would read out in Levin. Sometimes I would have up to three to read during one preaching session as time and opportunity prevented me traveling the 52 km return journey every day to the shopping mall. After 93 or 94 had been written the inspiration began to wane and so after 100 had been completed I stopped writing. But I continued to preach and read an occasional prophecy. In all 100 were written and it is mostly these that are placed on the website. Some of the prophecies are new. That is they were written as I felt so directed. Each prophecy is sited at the end of each article. Some articles may have more than one prophecy included.
The prophecies are not of the ‘prophecies of doom’ type. Rather they are to encourage, and give spiritual uplift. They are not so much for those persons who attend church but for those who do not. There are many wonderful souls ‘out there’ who rarely enter a Christian church, yet have a simple faith in Jesus, just as my mother had. For Jesus is “the light that lights every man that comes into the world.” They are especially for those who no longer have an association with a Christian fellowship. The simple message in nearly all of these prophecies is that God does care about you. Jesus died that you might live eternally with him in his coming kingdom. This promise is to you. I suppose the prophecies could be considered as a part of the good news of the Gospel Message.
The New Testament speaks of men – and women – who were prophets. This was their ministry. “to some he gave (to the church) “apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers.” Ephesians 4.11
A prophet should give the fellowship to which he belongs direction, and that direction should be specific to his fellowship. He should not have any influence over other fellowships for they will have, or should have their own prophets.
Sadly, the Church has refused to acknowledge the position and work of a prophet within individual fellowship’s. He has been banished from their midst, simply by the fact that he has not been recognised, or, has been recognised and resented, possibly because of envy, as Jesus was envied and resented by religious people.
For decades many promising new testament prophets have suffered at the hands of ministers and pastors because of persecution in its more subtle forms – such as the pastor discouraging a promising prophet. One way of accomplishing this is to prevent him or her from speaking before the assembly at all. The pastor will take the prophet’s time, money, and any spiritual gift, but will not permit him to speak on any subject, let alone allow him to express or recommend any change from the fellowship’s traditional ways. For a prophet to even suggest a directional modification is to sign his own ‘death warrant’.
The pastor of the Apostolic church to which I belonged told me that he was “frightened of losing control of the fellowship” by complying with a simple New Testament teaching I had given out at our weekly prayer meeting.
The Apostolic fellowship began a downward spiral. Two years later it closed its doors and put the building on the market. I believe, as I had on that prayer night, that if the pastor and the other members of the congregation had at least tried the change (tested the prophecy) the fellowship would have continued to grow. Alas, the pastor’s fear and pride, combined with opinions based on ignorance of the scriptures by women in the assembly decided the fateful outcome.
Jesus, being a prophet, was persecuted by his own people, so also have the latter day prophets been persecuted by the people to whom the Lord has sent them. Many have been ‘beaten up’ (spiritually harmed) and some have been ‘killed’ (left the faith). Some remain in the fellowship but are shunned by members of the fellowship, especially the pastor, to the point where the prophet either succumbs and becomes a dormant pew warmer, or leaves the group altogether. Jesus spoke of this peculiar type of persecution.
“There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard....and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants....and they did unto them likewise.” Mathew 21:33-36.
From the moment a prophet has been sent to a fellowship to bring the blessing of his particular gifts and suffers a beating, the fellowship begins to die a slow, painful spiritual death. It begins to ‘run out of gas ‘ (the Holy Spirit) as it were. And eventually the fellowship’s spiritual tank runs empty. There is little chance of the true blessings of God being restored.
Often, the fellowship may become a social club with a weak type of godliness which denies the power of the risen Christ. The operation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit cannot operate even if they were desired. Usually other spirits take over, one of those spirits has the name, Jezebel.
Several articles concerning the Church of Rome, hold dire warning for the shepherds of Israel who are the Ministers and Pastors of the Protestant denomination’s, such as Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, and especially those of the Assembly of God and Apostolic persuasion. These ones, by and large do not warn their people of coming end time events involving a great conflict between Catholicism and Islam. Neither do they speak out against the injustice and corruption they observe every day in their parish.
The reason is clear, they, and the traditional Protestant churches whom they represent are an intregal part of the Roman Catholic system of government. The Protestant church holds a secret desire to please Rome, for they are the “daughters of the great harlot”
It is also a warning to the Catholic Priests and other leaders within Catholicism to teach honestly the history of their church instead of brushing off the truth of its brutal past as of no consequence, and as having no bearing on the future position of the Vatican which will assist in the establishment of a New World Order. The warning to “come out of her my people” is an explicit command of the living God.
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