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13).
Previously, from the time of my conversion and baptism I have suffered
persecution
from men, though inspired by Satan--and so have many of you. But never before
did
Satan strike the CHURCH AS A BODY until the lawsuit launched against the Church
January 3, 1979. It surely seems that fulfilled verse 13.
But our Work is not yet completed. This prophecy indicates it will be soon
--
and apparently during the decade of the eighties, if not during President
Reagan's
administration--though we cannot set definite dates. Yet WE SHOULD BE WARNED!
We should realize our time for completion of Christ's Great Commission is now
very
short, and growing shorter daily.
The lawsuit apparently is behind us--not definitely certain until June 30.
But
I have warned you all, Satan is now FURIOUS. He is mighty. He is powerful, next
to the power of GOD. He is subtle, clever and can deceive and outwit the best of
us. He is HARD AT WORK AGAINST THE WHOLE CHURCH RIGHT NOW in ways
you know not. But the Church NEEDS YOUR PRAYERS--even your most urgent,
believing and faithful FASTING AND PRAYING!
Continue this prophecy. Next, when our Great Commission is in God's sight
completed, we are to be taken--symbolically flown on the two wings of a great
eagle
--which could mean by a friendly government made friendly to us by my contacts
with
heads of so many governments these past 12 years--we shall be taken to a place
of
protection from the Great Tribulation, which in itself is the furious wrath of a
mad and
infuriated Satan (verse 14). While we are in this place of safety three and a
half years,
the two witnesses shall be preaching to the whole world, protected from Satan.
But Satan
in his mad wrath will then make war with the REMNANT Church. This has to be the
Laodicean era of the Church (verse 17).
Finally, what of the Laodicean era of God's Church? Remember, it, too, is
GOD's
Church--having the commandments of God and Testimony or Word of Jesus
(Revelation
12:17).
But that era of the Church is pictured in Matthew 25. Matthew 24 shows the
sign Jesus gave prior to his coming to end the present world order, and the
Great
Tribulation, Day of the Lord and Second Coming.
Matthew 25 shows the time just before Christ shall return. It pictures the
Laodicean
Church as 10 virgins who took their lamps (their Bibles) and went forth to meet
Christ