tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23096554330667453892024-03-13T08:23:12.552-05:00watchman2009Prophetic Words,
Judgment,
Biblical teachingscliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.comBlogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-65557525314504290912023-06-03T17:23:00.001-05:002023-06-03T17:23:38.538-05:00United States Prophecy.com by John W. Johnston<p> Jack's website has been closed, however you can buy a printed copy of his site at <b><u>Amazon</u></b>. </p><p>Look for <b><u>United States Prophecy by John W. Johnston</u></b>, it's $9.95. <br /></p><span class="a-size-base"></span><span class="a-letter-space"></span><span class="a-size-base a-color-secondary"></span><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-6437346193543493752023-04-19T19:09:00.009-05:002023-04-21T15:45:45.463-05:00Jonathan Cahn's Latest Prophetic Message To Joe Biden<p> This is his latest prophetic word to Joe Biden. It is also to all those "Christians" who voted him into office and support him, his party and their agenda. If biden and his supporters DO NOT REPENT of their sinful and evil ways they WILL BE IN HELL, no ifs and and buts. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqCdG-TEtvI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqCdG-TEtvI</a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-56137538602646462372022-10-27T16:11:00.002-05:002022-10-27T16:11:53.587-05:00Some Of The Horrors Coming<p> In January this year I sent this email to a good friend of mine. It is self explanatory and the Lord just put it on my heart to post it on my blog. <br /></p><p><span style="color: red;"> I was just watching the movie "Midway", the 2019 production, and I
thought that those men who fought in the war were once our heroes, men
who had courage and bravery. They were true heroes who fought for the
freedom of this nation. But then I saw civil war coming to this nation
now - neighbor against neighbor, son against father, daughter against
mother, husband against wife, and it brought tears to my eyes that we
have sunken so low. It will be 10-15 years before it is really bad, but
it is coming, something we have known for some time. I also saw that the
Iranians will sneak a dirty bomb into the USA and blow up a stadium
filled with people. I have seen this coming for some years but I never
knew it would be the Iranians. I believe that it will happen very, very
soon, probably within a year or two. </span><br clear="none" /></p><div class="jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5"><div class=""><div><div class="qtd-body"><div class="yiv8523210734yqt6827682578" id="yiv8523210734yqt42983"><blockquote class="yiv8523210734iosymail"><blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div></div>
</div></div></div><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-39868241928926293412022-05-25T06:21:00.001-05:002022-05-31T09:49:52.624-05:00Uvalde Scool Massacre<p> Once again the schools of this nation have been attacked by an evil person. In Uvalde, TX yesterday there were at least 22 people murdered by an 18-year old gunman. The politicians are already screaming for gun control, they want to take everyone's guns away, except for the one's that the criminals have stolen. They want to blame guns for the problem. The real problem, the real cause for these school shootings, is that <u><i><b>this nation has thrown God out of the schools.</b></i></u> He has been told that He is no longer allowed to influence the kids and that His principles are not "woke". Instead, every sexual and immoral perversion has been introduced into the schools and the children are being told to worship that, not God. </p><p><u><b>These killings will not stop, either in the schools or in this nation until God is put back in place as the head and His principles and the Bible taught in schools. Unfortunately, that is not going to happen. </b></u><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-24003450961795109092022-05-14T12:29:00.002-05:002022-07-22T08:42:34.269-05:00God's Ways Are Not Our Ways<p> <u><span style="color: red;">Isaiah 55:8-9 - <span class="text Isa-55-8" id="en-NIV-18749">“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,</span><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-55-8">neither are your ways my ways,”</span></span><span class="right"><span class="text Isa-55-8"> declares the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.</span></span><span class="text Isa-55-9" id="en-NIV-18750"><sup class="versenum"> </sup>“As the heavens are higher than the earth </span><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"></span><span class="text Isa-55-9">so are my ways higher than your way </span></span><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-55-9">and my thoughts than your thoughts.</span></span></span></u></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-55-9"> <span style="color: black;">Ending the relationship with Linda is one of the most painful things that I've ever had to do. It has torn my heart apart and I have cried buckets of tears since God had me sever our relationship. It hurts terribly! The pain has been so great that twice I have cried so intensely, so deeply that I thought I was going to pass out, even leading me to the ER one time to make sure that nothing was physically wrong with me. I hurt also because I never wanted to do anything to hurt her. She was hurt too much already. It is like grieving for someone you love who has just died. It is an horrible experience that only those who have lost a loved one can understand. Thank God the grief comes in waves and not all at once, otherwise it would kill me. <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-55-9"><span style="color: black;"> This is certainly not the way I would have handled all this. I would have been loving, kind, understanding, compassionate and patient, like I was for the seven months she was in my life. God had bonded our hearts together like we were brother and sister from the days we were born and I loved her dearly. If it had been up to me I would never have given her that ultimatum to choose evil or good, that just isn't my way of doing things. To me that's not how you show love. But God's ways are not our ways. This is what He requires of me: <u><span style="color: red;">Micah 3:8 - </span></u></span></span></span><u><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-55-9"><span class="text Mic-3-8" id="en-NIV-22617">But as for me, I am filled with power,</span><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Mic-3-8">with the Spirit of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>,</span></span><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Mic-3-8">and with justice and might,</span></span><span class="text Mic-3-8"> to declare to Jacob his transgression,</span><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Mic-3-8">to Israel his sin.</span></span></span></span></u></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-55-9"><span style="color: black;"> There is a "good" side to this, if you want to call it "good". If I had not ended the relationship, then when the tragedies do come upon her - the warnings that God had given her which are going to cause her horrible pain and intense suffering - I would have been there to share in her pain, to take her pain into my heart, to carry it on my shoulders, and it would have been so heavy it would have destroyed me. It didn't matter if her disobedience to God had caused these things to come upon her, I would still have been there for her - but God would not let that happen, not let me be there for her. I told her when I began the 40-day fasting and prayer for her that when it was over that I could do nothing more for her because I was absolutely exhausted from all the battles that I had been doing for her in the last seven months. She accepted that, and the consequences. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-55-9"><span style="color: black;"> Because of the unbelievable stress that the battles of the past 39 years have caused me, I could not have emotionally handled Linda's pain also. It would have destroyed me. I would have been in a mental institution before it was all over, it would have completely broken me. I would have taken on her pain that intensely because she is my sister and I love her so dearly. I already was carrying her pain for the past seven months, the pain of her relationship with Chip for the last six years, plus all my own pain from the last 39 years, and am absolutely exhausted from it, worn out physically and emotionally. So, by God having me end my relationship with Linda before those terrible disasters come upon her, He was saving me from a complete breakdown. I guess that maybe that could be considered a "good" thing. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-55-9"><span style="color: black;"> But, if after some of the horrors come upon her she sees the error of her ways and and puts the evil one out of her life, then I would take her back into my life immediately. I'm not angry with her, she is still my sister whom I love dearly, that will never change. But I cannot support her and stand with her while she is being deliberately disobedient to God. Yes, it is traumatic for me, horribly painful, but it's what God requires of me. <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-55-9"><span style="color: black;"> <u><b>So, what is all this about, what is God's purpose in all I've been through with Linda?</b></u> It is about the way that God feels about this nation. He has warned and warned and warned the USA for many years now, He has shown us what His judgment will be on this nation if we do not repent and turn from our wicked and evil ways. He has pleaded with us time after time after time to turn around and return to Him and His ways. He has shown us the error of our ways and what He demands us to do. He has let us know far ahead of time what will happen if we do not obey Him. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-55-9"><span style="color: black;"> Yet, this nation has refused to listen to Him, refused to repent of its wickedness and turn from its perverted ways. God built this nation and blessed it like no other nation in history. He showed us what His love and blessings are like. He has also shown us how compassionate and patient He is. He has waited and waited and waited for us to make the decision to turn around and return to Him. But we have refused. Like I hurt for Linda, so also does God hurt for this nation. He hurts because we have persisted in our ways and now He is going to have to destroy the USA. Yes, His heart hurts, like mine does. He is in pain as I am because He is going to have to turn His back on this nation that He loves so dearly.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-55-9"><span style="color: black;"> Throughout history He has used His prophets to portray what His heart is like in regard to a nation, city or individual. He is using this situation with Linda as an example of how He cries for this country and how painful it will be for Him when He turns away from the USA and sends judgment upon us. But judgment will surely come. <b>ONLY</b> when we repent and turn from our evil ways will He turn back to us. <b>ONLY</b> then will He begin to show His love to this nation again. Anyone who thinks that they might want to be a prophet is a fool.<br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="line"><span style="color: red;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-55-9"><span style="color: black;"> <span style="color: red;"><u><span style="color: black;">There's also another lesson to be learned from this</span></u>. <u>Matt 10:34-36 - </u></span></span></span></span><u><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-55-9"><span class="text Matt-10-34" id="en-NIV-23452"><span class="woj">Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.</span></span> <span class="text Matt-10-35" id="en-NIV-23453"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">35 </sup>For I have come to turn</span></span></span></span><span class="text Matt-10-35"><span class="woj">“‘a man against his father,</span></span><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Matt-10-35"><span class="woj">a daughter against her mother, </span></span></span><span class="text Matt-10-35"><span class="woj">a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—</span></span><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Matt-10-36" id="en-NIV-23454"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">36</sup><span class="indent-1-breaks"></span>a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’</span></span></span></u></span></p><p class="line"><span style="color: red;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Matt-10-36" id="en-NIV-23454"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> Those days are here, now God is demanding that we separate ourselves from the evil in this world. </span></span></span><span class="text Matt-10-36" id="en-NIV-23454"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">God told us that we would have troubles, battles, tests, affliction. He didn't tell us to make peace with everyone. He told us that we would have trouble, we would be different, that we would be hated even by our own families, by our parents, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters because of our views and lifestyles and that we could not participate with them in their sins, that we had to be separate, different. That's what is happening with me right now. Obedience to Him is the only way, no matter how much pain it costs us. Yes, it hurts terribly. <br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="line"><span style="color: red;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Matt-10-36" id="en-NIV-23454"><span class="woj"></span></span><span class="text Matt-10-36" id="en-NIV-23454"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> I had a friend whose son was a homosexual, something that truly bothered her. But she and her husband invited their son and his homosexual lover to spend a few days with them "to show them love". Never once did they confront them about their sinful lifestyle. Their home is now perverted, and unclean spirits now can come and go as they please. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="line"><span style="color: red;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Matt-10-36" id="en-NIV-23454"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> I had young friend who thought she was a Christian and thought that obama was a wonderful man, that homosexual love was a beautiful thing, that abortion was a woman's right. I tried to reason with her, to show her the evil of those things. I sent her many Bible verses to back up what I was saying. But she refused to listen. She has been seduced by the perversions of the younger generations. She no longer wants anything to do with me . That's exactly what Jesus was talking about in the verses above.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="line"><span style="color: red;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Matt-10-36" id="en-NIV-23454"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> God sends people to me who need love, compassion, understanding and kindness, and I give them those things in abundance. But far too many times when I offer them counsel and show them things that they must do to prevent bad things from happening to them again in the future , or things that they must give up, they refuse to listen - like Linda. She told me that I am a good shepherd. But a shepherd cannot force the sheep to go on the right path. If they chose the wrong path even when they've been warned otherwise, the shepherd must set them free and let them learn from their disobedience. <br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="line"><span style="color: red;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Matt-10-36" id="en-NIV-23454"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> God doesn't tell us to get along with the world, He tells us to be different, to be an example of holiness. We have to separate ourselves from those who refuse to listen to God's warnings about holiness and obedience. We cannot let them think that their sins are just another lifestyle.<br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="line"><span style="color: red;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Matt-10-36" id="en-NIV-23454"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> <br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="line"><span style="color: red;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Matt-10-36" id="en-NIV-23454"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> </span> <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-55-9"> </span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-58460824395657520622022-04-03T09:10:00.006-05:002022-04-13T07:58:43.977-05:00False Apostles And False Prophets<p> <span style="color: red;"><u><i><b>Ps 141:5 - <span class="text Ps-141-5" id="en-NIV-16282">Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness;</span><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-141-5">let him rebuke me—that is oil on my head.</span></span></b></i></u><u><i><b><span class="text Ps-141-5"> My head will not refuse it.</span></b></i></u></span></p><p><span class="text Ps-141-5">A little preface to this story. fifteen years ago I was going to a bible church in Dallas and got there a little early on Wednesday night. I was sitting in the entryway talking to a guy who it turned out was the Chairman of the Board of Elders. He was an intelligent guy with a strong personality and we enjoyed bantering with each other. Sometime during the conversation he mentioned that he had been a pilot. I said "Yea, you have a pilot's arrogance", not meant in an ugly way, just the way guys with strong personalities challenge each other. His response was the verse above. I was stunned! A man just admitted his sin and repented of it! His humility was stunning! Never before or after have I seen such a thing, it was wonderful to see. It was truly an amazing experience!</span></p><p><span class="text Ps-141-5">Last week after I had written the message "Prayers For Linda", a friend of mine who was on my mailing list but whom I hadn't seen or spoken to in probably thirteen years emailed me and invited me to her church, telling me a little about the leader. I looked it up on the internet and immediately saw that the head of the church called himself "Apostle Raymond". The website was advertising a Holy Spirit Conference on Sunday afternoon at 5:00 at a church less than a mile from my house. I told her that I would come but that I had a real problem with people who promote themselves by using "Apostle" or "Prophet" as their title, it is a huge red flag to me. It speaks of the utmost in pride and arrogance, they are impressed with what they think they are. They think they are something very special and should be looked up to and admired. I called the church number listed on their website and got a voice mail "This is Apostle Raymond ......", another red flag. <br /></span></p><p><span class="text Ps-141-5">But I went on Sunday and was able to see my friend for a couple of minutes before the service when she told me that "Apostle" Raymond had gone to the Kenneth Hagin School. That was another HUGE red flag because Kenneth Hagin is one of those "name it and claim it" fools like Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, Marylin Hickey, Joyce Meyers and others of their ilk. They think that you can just go to the Bible and claim any verse you want and confess it enough times and it will come to pass. Of course they would never claim the verse in <span style="color: red;"><u><i><b>Luke 14:33 - </b></i></u></span></span><span style="color: red;"><u><i><b><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj">In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples </span></span></b></i></u><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">because that is not a "positive confession" verse. Nor would they ever claim the verses about sharing in Jesus suffering because those are not positive confession verses. They claim only the "good" verses as their "rights in Jesus". But that is for another message in the future. <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> Anyway, then I went into the auditorium and saw the huge crowd there was less than 10 people. "Apostle" Raymond was very well known obviously, a great man of God. "Apostle" Raymond walked in and started the service with a time of worship. During the time of worship I felt a great pain in my heart because I didn't know what would happen with Linda, whether God would honor my prayers for her or not. I was in terrible pain and it took every ounce of strength I had to keep my composure and not burst out in tears and sobbing. But I didn't want to interrupt the service and call attention to myself, so I controlled my emotions, hoping that during the time of personal ministry later in the service that God would give me a word of hope for her. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> Then "Apostle" Raymond went around the place greeting his huge following and came to me and introduced himself "Hi, I'm Apostle Raymond!" I introduced myself as Cliff Hilbert . Then I told him that God doesn't care about how many people were there, He only cares about people being ministered to personally and individually. (Earlier he "apologized" to the huge crowd for the small number of people there, and promised that it would be much larger in the future.) I was trying to encourage him not to be embarrassed by the few people there, and he smiled. Then he went back up on the stage and it was time for the offering. He said that the building cost $14,300/month. Yes, the actual building cost that much each month for the church that was leasing the space, but all he was doing was using the building on Sunday afternoons. He was not the actual lessee, he only paid a small amount to use it on Sundays, but this way he hoped to get large donations for himself.<br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> Then "Apostle" Raymond begin to "preach"for over an hour and he was all over the place during his sermon, meaning that he talked about fifteen or twenty different topics, none of them connected. He was talking to hear himself talk and trying to look important - he didn't succeed in looking important. He kept asking for "amens" and asking if he was helping anyone, desperately seeking approval from everyone. He got virtually no response. Maybe he wasn't yelling loud enough. I went out and sat in the lobby for about fifteen minutes because I couldn't take anymore of his inane babbling. <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> When he finally finished his "sermon" he began to minister to people prophetically, with a prophetic word for everyone there, except me. He asked if everyone had been ministered to (obviously with a crowd that large it was hard for him to remember if he had ministered to everyone), I said "no" and went up to be prayed for. His first words to me were "He (God) didn't give me a word for you". He asked me what I wanted prayer for and I told him Linda and my health. He then told me "Do you believe that God wants to heal you now?" I told him that God would heal me whenever it was His time for Him to heal me. But he continued to try and get me believe that in order to be healed I needed to believe that God wanted to heal me right now - I wouldn't, and simply told him that God would heal me when He was ready to heal me. I didn't fall for that Kenneth Hagin foolishness, it is utter nonsense. So he prayed a general prayer for me and I left. I wonder if Lazarus had enough faith to be raised from the dead?<br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">On Monday I received a call from someone at the church telling me that "Apostle" Raymond wanted to have lunch with me this week. I said that would be fine but he must read my story "In His Sandals" before we met, and I gave them the link. We set the lunch for Wednesday afternoon. I received an email saying that a lunch was set for "Apostle and Clifford Hilbert" on Wednesday at 3:00. Over the next two days I prayed in the spirit for about four hours about this meeting because I didn't know God's purpose for it. I suspected "Apostle" Raymond wanted to try and convince me that Hagin's idea of faith was the correct one - what idiocy! - and that he wanted me to join his church. Then God let me know what the meeting was actually for - I had a prophetic word for "Apostle'"Raymond. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">We met at a little hamburger joint near my house and ordered burgers for lunch. We sat down while waiting for the burgers and he asked me a little about myself and I told him how God had me give up my executive search firm in 1983 and stay home and read the Bible for eight hours a day - start in the beginning and read it through, over and over and over - for nine months. Then He had me sell everything I had and led me into the wilderness for the next thirty eight years, continuing to read through the Bible, not reading books about the Bible, but just reading the Bible itself from beginning to end and let the Spirit of the Lord teach me what He wanted me to learn, not what man wanted me to learn. <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">The hamburgers arrived and we started to eat. I then told him that I had a prophetic word for him and that it was in the form of a question. "Why do you think you are so important?" ( I was hoping that he would respond as the church elder I mentioned at the beginning of this message had, I was sure that he would. I was sure he would humble himself before the Lord and see what he was doing.) I could see the pride in him rise up and he pompously said that he didn't think he was important. I told him that God saw what his real thoughts were and so did I. I told him that he was trying to make himself look important by always referring to himself as "Apostle" Raymond, that he obviously took great pride in that title. He started arguing about it and I told him to argue with God, not me, because I'm just the messenger. I then gave him the verses:</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: red;"><i><u><b><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj">Matt 23:8-10 "But you are not to be called "Rabbi", for you have only
one Master and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth
"father", for you only have one Father, and He is in Heaven. Nor are you to be called
"teacher", for you have one Teacher, the Christ".</span></span></b></u><b><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"></span></span></b></i><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">His response was "Well, That could be interpreted in several different ways". In other words, he knew he was wrong but had too much pride to admit it. </span></span></span><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">Then he told me that he read my story "In His Sandals"and that I was proud and had a great hatred for the body of Christ, trying to intimidate me. With disdain in his voice he accused me of being self-taught in the Bible, not having gone to one of the "famous" Bible schools. He would have told the real Apostle Paul the same thing. I got up and walked out, I had done the job God sent me to do. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> <span style="color: red;"><u><i><b>Matt 23:25-28 - </b></i></u></span></span></span></span><u><i><b><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span class="text Matt-23-25" id="en-NIV-23944"><span class="woj">Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.</span></span> <span class="text Matt-23-26" id="en-NIV-23945"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">26 </sup>Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.</span></span></span></span><span class="text Matt-23-27" id="en-NIV-23946"><span class="woj">Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.</span></span> <span class="text Matt-23-28" id="en-NIV-23947"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">28 </sup>In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.</span></span></b></i></u></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><u><i><b><span class="text Matt-23-28" id="en-NIV-23947"><span class="woj"></span></span><span class="text Matt-23-28" id="en-NIV-23947"><span class="woj"><span class="woj"></span></span></span></b></i></u><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"><span class="text Matt-23-26" id="en-NIV-23945"><span class="woj"></span></span>Folks, when you run across people who refer to themselves as Apostle so and so, or Prophet so and so, run away from them as fast as and as far as you can. Do not pass Go, do not collect your $200, run away from them immediately. </span></span></span><u><i><b><span class="text Matt-23-28" id="en-NIV-23947"><span class="woj">Matt 24:24 - </span></span><span class="text Matt-23-28" id="en-NIV-23947"><span class="woj"><span class="woj">For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.</span></span></span></b></i></u></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> Yes, they can have gifts of the Spirit, they can even have different anointings - God gives them those to test their hearts, to see if they will respond with humility or with great pride. Unfortunately, some let those gifts go to their head and become filled with pride thinking they are great men of God. They are the ones spoken about in <span style="color: red;"><u><i><b>Matthew 7:22-23"</b></i></u></span></span></span></span><u><i><b><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span class="text Matt-7-22" id="en-NIV-23339"><span class="woj">Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’</span></span> <span class="text Matt-7-23" id="en-NIV-23340"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">23 </sup>Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’</span></span> </span></span></b></i></u><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> He will tell them "You didn't do it for Me, you did it to make yourselves look important. You never fooled Me".</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> The true apostles and prophets would NEVER, absolutely NEVER, NEVER refer to themselves using those titles or allow themselves to be called by those titles. God would put me <u>under the dungeon</u> if I ever referred to myself as "Prophet Clifford", He would discipline me very, very severely. We are here to SERVE the Lord's people, not to lord it over them or act as if we think we are something special. Do not be fooled by these charlatans! Do not become their disciples.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><br /><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Ps-141-5"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span></p><br /><p><span class="text Ps-141-5"><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-43232335037055165672022-03-24T15:14:00.004-05:002023-05-02T18:08:17.614-05:00Prayers for Linda - updated on 4/16<p>My friends who have been following my blog, I need your prayers for Linda, a woman who God brought into my life last year as my new sister and whom I love as if she were my sister from birth. She is a woman with the beautiful heart of a caretaker, a tender hearted and kind person, who also is strong-willed. Those are wonderful qualities when used in a Godly manner. </p><p>Unfortunately she has been in a relationship with someone for several years who is a narcissist, a people user, an alcoholic and a druggie. He is a servant of the evil one and has captured her emotionally. God has led her to break off that relationship 95% in the past few months through my love and prayers. But the last 5% is the hardest for her to let go of, it is also the most dangerous. I covet your fervent prayers for her. </p><p>On March 2 the Lord led me to begin a 40-day period of fasting one meal a day and praying for her one hour a day, most of the time more than one hour a day. I have never been in such an intense spiritual battle in my life, and at 76 years old it is wearing me out. But I will continue on until the end and hope that God will answer my prayers and harden her heart against that man and completely break off the relationship forever. </p><p>God is extremely serious about this and has given her several severe warnings in the past few weeks, especially in the last week. If she obeys her life will be wonderful, safe, happy and filled with joy. However, if she doesn't let him go completely the results will be catastrophic and extremely painful for her. Unfortunately, it will also be terribly painful for me because it would break my heart to lose her, to see her waste away from cancer, that is how serious God is about this. She will also be carjacked and her best friend, her beloved dog, will die. God is deadly serious about this. He demands obedience.</p><p>Linda is strong-willed and I can do no more to try to convince her to end this relationship completely and forever. The only thing I can hope on is prayer, which I have been doing a lot of. But it is an intense spiritual battle and I need your prayers also. The battle is between good and evil, and I don't want evil to win. Please keep her in your prayers daily. Pray for God to give her the strength to end this relationship forever. Pray for the Lord to win this battle with satan. </p><p>Thank you! I'll let you know what happens. </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: red;"><u><b>4/16/22</b></u></span></p><p><span style="color: red;">The day before my 40 days of fasting and prayer for Linda ended she called me and told me that she was going to be Chip's caretaker, regardless of my advice and the warnings of the Lord. The next day, the end of the fast, God had me write her and tell her that she had been warned, and severely warned, and that she had one final chance to choose to follow God or continue down her disastrous path, choose good or choose evil. And I told her that if she chose the path of evil then I would not be there to help her when the disasters came. Unfortunately, she choose the path of disaster. </span></p><p><span style="color: red;">That same morning I had a dream in which I was in the passenger seat of a moving car and my door was wide open. The meaning of the dream was that I was not the driver, but just a passenger in a car that Linda was driving (her life's path) and my heart was wide open to her, I loved her so dearly as my sister. I was there to offer advice and counsel as to what God's direction for her life was, but I couldn't force her to take that advice. But with my heart wide open there came a great danger of me being badly injured if her life turned into a disaster. As a watchman/prophet I saw that she was headed towards a great and horrible wreck if she didn't change course. When she told me that she was not going to change course I had to close the door to my heart to protect it. I knew that if I didn't the coming wreck could very well destroy me because my love for her was so great that I might not survive the pain when she is badly hurt by the tragedies that are coming her way. </span></p><p><span style="color: red;">Did God answer my prayers for her? No. She made the choice to continue on knowing that disaster was just ahead. But, because of that dream, He did have me harden my heart so that I wouldn't be badly hurt when she wrecks. The 40 days of fasting and prayer were apparently also to tell me that I had to get out of this relationship before disaster struck. Yes, it hurts me to have to end this relationship because she was truly my sister and I loved her so dearly. But there was only one way, and that is God's way. </span><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-16919162592127369272022-03-14T14:41:00.001-05:002023-09-12T15:50:19.053-05:00Judgment Gets Worse<p> On January 26, 2021 I wrote a message titled "A Prophetic Word To Joe Biden in which I wrote "From this point forward the USA will become the most perverted and
sinful nation in history. There will be no more patience by God, no more
mercy for an evil people". </p><p><br /></p><p>The lukewarm Christians of this nation refused to "trouble" themselves to go to D.C. in September, 2020 to humble themselves, repent and turn from their wicked and evil ways during the weekend of repentance assembled by Jonathan Cahn. Less than 50,000 people showed up there, when there should have been 50,000,000. God's mercy on this nation ended then. He sent me to D.C. to be there the day after that gathering to, what I thought was, repent for this nation. Instead, when I went to the Capitol that Sunday morning, there was an huge fence all around the Capitol complex preventing anyone from getting to the Capitol building - preventing me from getting on the steps of the Capitol and repenting for the sins of this nation. Like He told Jeremiah, I was not to pray for this nation, it's sins had gone too far. I knelt down by a bench and prayed in the Spirit for a few minutes but I knew that I was not praying for this nation, unless I was praying for judgment to be poured out upon this evil nation and it's politicians. <span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="color: red;">Jer 7:16 - </span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span class="text Jer-7-16" id="en-NIV-19136">So
do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them; do
not plead with me, for I will not listen to you. Jer 11:14 - </span></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span class="text Jer-7-16" id="en-NIV-19136"><span class="text Jer-11-14" id="en-NIV-19241">Do
not pray for this people or offer any plea or petition for them,
because I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their
distress. Jer 13:14 - </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span class="text Jer-7-16" id="en-NIV-19136"><span class="text Jer-11-14" id="en-NIV-19241">I will smash them one against the other, parents and children alike, declares the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>. I will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep me from destroying them.</span></span><span class="text Jer-7-16" id="en-NIV-19136"><span class="text Jer-11-14" id="en-NIV-19241"> <br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><br /></p><p>On the drive back to Dallas a few days later I was enraged because of things that I thought God said He was going to do for me on that trip, things which He didn't do. When I got home I tore down the 4' x 4' sign I had put on the upper eaves of my house several months before that - a sign that had on it the verse <span style="color: red;"><span class="text Jer-6-15"><span class="text Jer-7-16" id="en-NASB-19136"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Jer-6-17"><u><b>2Chron 7:14</b></u> - "</span></span></span></span><span class="text Jer-6-15"><span class="text Jer-7-16" id="en-NASB-19136"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Jer-6-17"><span class="text 2Chr-7-14" id="en-NIV-11339">If
my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray
and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from
heaven, and<b> <i><u>I will forgive their sin and will heal their land".</u></i></b><span style="color: black;"> I didn't realize that the anger inside me was God's anger at the people of this nation for their lukewarm attendance at the event at the Capitol several days before. <u><b>He has had it with this nation. </b></u><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><br /></p><p>Soon after that day Joe Biden was elected into office as President. No, the election wasn't "stolen", it was God who put Biden in office as part of His judgment upon this evil nation because the people refused to repent and turn from their wicked ways in September. Since he has been in office over 500,000 people have died from covid-19. Since he has been in office the USA has been humiliated in Afghanistan. Since that day the USA has been humiliated by Russia invading the Ukraine. Since that day gas prices have risen higher than ever before. Since that day inflation has reached higher at any time since Carter was President. It is obvious that the USA will soon be humiliated when China invades Taiwan. The USA has signed its death warrant and will no longer be the nation that all the others looked up to before. Instead we will be a nation of scorn, one that other nations look down upon - we already are. <br /></p><p><br /></p><p>We were once the most prosperous and strongest nation in history. We were once a nation that loaned money to other nations. We now owe more money to other nations than any country in history. We are a debtor nation. <br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-13816137846360722222022-02-25T12:34:00.001-06:002022-02-25T12:34:51.672-06:00Politics<p> Many are wondering why I have not brought up politics on my blog. </p><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>2Tim 2:4 - No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs. NIV</i></span></p><p>I am a soldier in God's army and thus cannot allow myself to be involved in politics. There have been cases when I wrote things about specific political parties and their leaders, but it was only to point out the evil in a specific party or President. <br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-19202114553356922732021-12-26T19:42:00.000-06:002021-12-26T19:42:53.167-06:00What's coming upon the USA.<p> </p><p><u><b>Luke 21:7-36</b></u></p><p> <span class="text Luke-21-7" id="en-NASB-25827"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>They asked Him questions, saying, “Teacher, when therefore will these things happen? And what <i>will be</i> the sign when these things are about to take place?”</span> <span class="text Luke-21-8" id="en-NASB-25828"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>And He said, <span class="woj">“See to it that you are not misled; for many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am <i>He</i>,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not go after them.</span></span> <span class="text Luke-21-9" id="en-NASB-25829"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>And when you hear of wars and revolts, do not be alarmed; for these things must take place first, <span style="color: red;"><u><b>but the end <i>will</i> not <i>follow</i> immediately.” </b></u><br /></span></span></span></p> <p><span class="text Luke-21-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>Then He <i>continued by</i> saying to them, <span class="woj">“<u><b><span style="color: red;">Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom,</span></b></u></span></span><u><b><span style="color: red;"> <span class="text Luke-21-11" id="en-NASB-25831"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>and there will be massive earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrible sights and great<sup> </sup>signs from heaven.</span></span></span></b><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Luke-21-11" id="en-NASB-25831"><span class="woj"></span></span></span></u><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Luke-21-11" id="en-NASB-25831"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> <span style="color: #a64d79;">(The liberal groups in this nation and the conservative groups in this nation will rise up against each other. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span class="text Luke-21-11" id="en-NASB-25831"><span class="woj"></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Luke-21-11" id="en-NASB-25831"><span class="woj"><span style="color: #a64d79;">I have spoken in the past about the swarms of great earthquakes that will strike this nation, I believe we are very, very near to that time. The solar storms will be a large part of the terrible sights and great signs from heaven. )</span><br /></span></span></span><b><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Luke-21-11" id="en-NASB-25831"><span class="woj"></span></span></span></b><u><b><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Luke-21-11" id="en-NASB-25831"><span class="woj"></span></span></span></b></u></p> <p><span class="text Luke-21-12" id="en-NASB-25832"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>“<u><b><span style="color: red;">But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, turning you over to the synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors on account of My name.</span></b></u></span></span><span style="color: red;"><u><b> <span class="text Luke-21-13" id="en-NASB-25833"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>It will lead to an opportunity for your testimony.</span></span> <span class="text Luke-21-14" id="en-NASB-25834"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>So make up your minds not to prepare beforehand to defend yourselves;</span></span> <span class="text Luke-21-15" id="en-NASB-25835"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>for I will provide you eloquence and wisdom which none of your adversaries will be able to oppose or refute<sup><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></sup></span></span></b></u><span class="text Luke-21-15" id="en-NASB-25835"><span class="woj"><sup><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> <span style="color: #a64d79;"> </span></span></span></sup></span></span></span><span class="text Luke-21-16" id="en-NASB-25836"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="background-color: white;">(</span><span style="background-color: #a64d79;"><span style="background-color: white;">You will be brought up before churches, their pastors and teachers. Do not try to plan what you will say because when it is needed the Holy Spirit will speak through you. I have experienced this very thing. But you will also be brought up before governmental authorities, i.e. courts of law, House and Senate committees, to explain why you hate abortion, why you are against homosexuality, transexuality, same-sex marriage, etc. You will be called bigots, haters, etc. Since these sins have been legalized you will be fined and/or sentenced to prison for "breaking the law" by discriminating against them. The liberals in the Congress will enact laws to this effect in the near future, whatever God means by "near"</span></span></span> </span>16<span style="color: red;"> </span></sup><span style="color: red;"><u><b>But you will be betrayed even by parents, brothers <i>and sisters, other</i> relatives, and friends, and they will put <i>some</i> of you to death,</b></u></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><u><b> <span class="text Luke-21-17" id="en-NASB-25837"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>and you will be hated by all people because of My name.</span></span> <span class="text Luke-21-18" id="en-NASB-25838"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>And <i>yet</i> not a hair of your head will perish.</span></span> <span class="text Luke-21-19" id="en-NASB-25839"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">19 </sup>By your endurance you will gain your lives.</span></span></b></u></span><span style="color: red;"><span class="text Luke-21-19" id="en-NASB-25839"><span class="woj"><span class="text Luke-21-20" id="en-NASB-25840"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> <span style="color: #a64d79;"> (Yes, even your closest relatives, your parents even, will speak against you and demand that you be put in prison and/or executed because they will fear for the loss of their businesses, their homes, their jobs if they dare to agree with your views)</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span class="text Luke-21-20" id="en-NASB-25840"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">20 </sup>“But when you see <span style="color: red;"><u><b>Jerusalem</b></u> <span style="color: #a64d79;">(substitute Washington, D.C. for Jerusalem) </span><u><b>surrounded by armies</b></u></span> <span style="color: #a64d79;">(Russian and Chinese),</span> then recognize that her desolation is near.</span></span> <span class="text Luke-21-21" id="en-NASB-25841"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">21 </sup>Then those who are in Judea must <span style="color: red;"><u><b>flee to the mountains, and those who are inside the city must leave, and those who are in the country must not enter the city;</b></u></span></span></span> <span style="color: #a64d79;">(This will be the time to flee to the places of refuge the Lord has prepared for you - you will know where they are when it is time, and He will provide the way to get to them)</span> <span class="text Luke-21-22" id="en-NASB-25842"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">22 </sup>because these are days of punishment, so that all things which have been written will be fulfilled.</span></span> <span class="text Luke-21-23" id="en-NASB-25843"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">23 </sup>Woe to those women who are pregnant, and to those who are nursing babies in those days; for there will be great distress upon the land, and wrath to this people;</span></span> <span class="text Luke-21-24" id="en-NASB-25844"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">24 </sup>and<span style="color: red;"><u><b> they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations</b></u></span> <span style="color: #a64d79;">(This will be the great slaughter and enslavement I talked about in my first message on this blog "The Destruction Of The USA"); </span>and<span style="color: red;"><u><b> Jerusalem</b></u></span> <span style="color: #a64d79;">(again, substitute Washington, D.C.) </span>will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until <i>the</i> times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. </span></span><span class="text Luke-21-25"><span class="woj"><span style="background-color: red;"><br /><b></b><u><b></b></u></span></span></span></p> <p><span class="text Luke-21-25"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">25 </sup>“<span style="background-color: red;"></span> <span style="color: red;"><u><b>There wills be signs in the sun and moon and stars </b></u><span style="color: black;"></span></span><span style="color: #a64d79;">(great explosions of stars and comets and also the immense solar storms that will paralyze huge areas of this country)</span>, and on the earth distress among nations, in perplexity at <span style="color: red;"><u><b>the roaring of the sea and the waves,</b></u></span></span></span><span style="color: #a64d79;"> (These will be the unbelievable tidal waves that will hit the coasts)</span><span class="text Luke-21-26" id="en-NASB-25846"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">26 </sup>people fainting from fear and the expectation of the things that are coming upon the world; <span style="color: red;"><u><b>for the powers of the heavens will be shaken</b></u></span>.<span style="color: #a64d79;"> (This will be great cosmic events that the world has never seen)</span></span></span> <span class="text Luke-21-27" id="en-NASB-25847"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">27 </sup>And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.</span></span> <span class="text Luke-21-28" id="en-NASB-25848"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">28 </sup>But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”</span></span></p> <p><span class="text Luke-21-29" id="en-NASB-25849"><sup class="versenum">29 </sup>And He told them a parable: <span class="woj">“<span style="color: red;"><u><b>Look at the fig tree and all the trees:</b></u></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><u><b> </b></u></span><span class="text Luke-21-30" id="en-NASB-25850"><span class="woj"><span style="color: red;"><u><b><sup class="versenum">30 </sup>as soon as they put forth <i>leaves</i>, you see for yourselves and know that summer is now near</b></u></span> <span style="color: #a64d79;">(This will be the time of the last great harvest of souls in this nation).</span></span></span><span style="color: #a64d79;"> </span><span class="text Luke-21-31" id="en-NASB-25851"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">31 </sup>So you too, when you see these things happening, recognize that the kingdom of God is near.</span></span> <span class="text Luke-21-32" id="en-NASB-25852"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">32 </sup>Truly I say to you,<span style="color: red;"><u><b> this generation</b></u></span> <span style="color: #a64d79;">(Jesus was not talking about the generation of that time, He was talking about the generation that will be living at the time of these things) </span>will not pass away until all things take place.</span></span> <span class="text Luke-21-33" id="en-NASB-25853"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">33 </sup>Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.</span></span></p> <p><span class="text Luke-21-34" id="en-NASB-25854"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">34 </sup>“<span style="color: red;"><u><b>But
be on your guard, so that your hearts will not be weighed down with
dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that this day will not come on you suddenly, like a trap;</b></u></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><u><b> <span class="text Luke-21-35" id="en-NASB-25855"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">35 </sup>for it will come upon all those who live on the face of all the earth.</span></span> <span class="text Luke-21-36" id="en-NASB-25856"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">36 </sup>But stay alert at all times, praying that you will have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”</span></span><span class="text Luke-21-36" id="en-NASB-25856"><span class="woj"> </span></span></b></u><span class="text Luke-21-36" id="en-NASB-25856"><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="text Luke-21-36" id="en-NASB-25856"><span class="woj"><span class="text Luke-21-33" id="en-NASB-25853"><span class="woj"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="text Luke-21-36" id="en-NASB-25856"><span class="woj"><span class="text Luke-21-33" id="en-NASB-25853"><span class="woj">In the past year or so when God showed me that I would be the head of a homeless ministry in Dallas in a very few years, He also let me know that I would be preparing those people for the endtime harvest. I am now 76 years old and think I will live another 20-25 years, so this will begin shortly. That's how near we are to those times spoken of above. I believe we are the last generation. However, this nation has a few years before those horrible times are upon us - whatever God means by a few years. His judgment has already begun upon this nation with Covid-19, and I believe it will continue to get worse each year until the horrible signs from the heavens begin. The great division in this nation will cause civil war here. The hatred between the political groups is going to continue to get worse regardless of who the President is. The leaning to the left will continue regardless of which party is in power. I fully expect the Supreme Court to declare abortion illegal, and all the Christians will rejoice. However, the Democrats will expand the Supreme Court and pack it with liberal judges who will once again legalize it. </span></span></span></span><span class="text Luke-21-36" id="en-NASB-25856"><span class="woj"><span class="text Luke-21-33" id="en-NASB-25853"><span class="woj"> <br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="text Luke-21-36" id="en-NASB-25856"><span class="woj"><span class="text Luke-21-33" id="en-NASB-25853"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="text Luke-21-36" id="en-NASB-25856"><span class="woj"><span class="text Luke-21-33" id="en-NASB-25853"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="text Luke-21-36" id="en-NASB-25856"><span class="woj"><span class="text Luke-21-33" id="en-NASB-25853"><span class="woj">Folks, these times are upon us. People have asked me about other countries, my response is that the Lord has not revealed to me about the rest of the world. I only have knowledge about the USA. </span></span></span></span><span class="text Luke-21-36" id="en-NASB-25856"><span class="woj"><span class="text Luke-21-33" id="en-NASB-25853"><span class="woj"></span></span></span></span></span><b><span class="text Luke-21-36" id="en-NASB-25856"><span class="woj"></span></span></b><u><b><span class="text Luke-21-36" id="en-NASB-25856"><span class="woj"></span></span></b></u></span></p><span style="color: red;"><u><b> <span class="text Luke-21-37" id="en-NASB-25857"></span></b></u></span><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-22724588612705656342021-09-26T19:10:00.001-05:002021-10-12T07:12:19.481-05:00The Invasion<p> The Invasion of the USA began several years ago but has increased in its intensity lately.No, I'm not talking about a Russian or Chinese invasion, not even a physical invasion, but rather a spiritual invasion. Yes, the invaders are actual humans, but it's the spirits that come with them that are what I'm speaking of. In the past few years it's the inhabitants of Latin American countries who have been allowed into this nation almost without interference, except during the Trump administration's time in office. Supposedly it's to help those people have better lives. When in actuality it's to let them in so that they will eventually be given the right to vote and vote for the Democratic Party which invited them in. Unfettered power is what the liberals' ultimate goal is, they could care less about helping anyone but themselves. <br /></p><p>But what is actually happening is the invitation to the powers of spiritual darkness to grow exponentially in the USA. Coming from Latin America is the abomination of Catholicism and the witchcraft that comes with it. The Catholic Church's goal is the worship of dead people, i.e. Mary and the saints, praying to them and worshiping them. The witchcraft of the bread host supposedly being miraculously turned into the body and blood of Jesus. The witchcraft of sprinkling people and objects with "holy water". The priests supposedly having the power to forgive sins and then to give penance for their sins, that "penance" being to pray rote, religious prayers that are meaningless. The demons that come with all that evil are powerful and deceive millions of people in this nation. It is the greatest invasion of evil into a nation in history, and it's only going to get worse. No, I'm not saying that all Catholics are evil because God sees their hearts and that's what He cares about. But Catholicism itself is evil due to its basic premises. <br /></p><p>Then during the evil obama's time in power he invited the wicked power of Islam into this nation. At heart he was a Muslim, not a Christian. He stood against God's chosen people, the Jews, and his actions have caused great judgment upon this nation, judgment which will only get worse when biden does the same. We can see the results of their folly by the evil little witch from Somalia who hates this nation and everything it stands for, wanting us to be like her home country which she left. The evil spirits of Islam have greatly increased their power in this nation since obama's time in office. </p><p>Next we have invasion of the Muslims from Afghanistan being given every opportunity to emigrate to the USA because they were too cowardly to fight for their own nation. Instead of standing up for what they believed in, they chose to flee to this nation so that we could provide for them. Along with them comes even more of the evil of Islam and what it will do to this once Christian nation. But our government tells us that we must welcome them with open arms and not discriminate against them because of their religion, just accept them and everything will be fine. Spiritually it's causing even more trouble for the USA. <br /></p><p>Last, but certainly not the final ones, are the refugees from Haiti whose witchcraft and voodoo caused God to curse their evil nation and send great destruction upon it, both physically and economically. Do you think that they will give up their evil ways when allowed into this country? They will most certainly not! They will only increase the invasion of evil spirits into this once Christian nation called the USA and cause more of God's judgment to be poured out upon this nation. Yet the leaders of our once Christian nation welcome them in, evil spirits and all. <br /></p><p>USA, the United States of America - we certainly are not united anymore. We are, in fact, more divided than we have ever been. But not as divided as we will be in the near future. A nation divided against itself WILL NOT STAND. </p><p>What brought this message on? A few days ago I began reading a book titled "The Sisters Of Auschwitz", about two sisters who helped hide Jews during Hitler's time. What struck me the most about it was how little by little the Germans turned against the Jews and anyone who helped them. How little by little that evil invaded many countries until it ruled them. I see the same thing happening to the USA - little by little the evil that has been allowed into this nation is turning this country against God and His servants. It's only going to get worse until this nation is destroyed by God for its evil. No true follower of the Lord can say "God bless America". <br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-19665669145441060452021-08-22T23:05:00.009-05:002022-03-28T14:51:29.907-05:00In His Sandals<p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><b>August, 2021</b></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Back in December I woke up one night and heard “And here the Holy
Spirit has brought your attention to a flying halt”. A few minutes
later I heard “And the stunning assumption was that you had to wait
until your reward came”. For months I tried to figure out what this
meant, but nothing came. Many times over the past thirty-nine years I
had been told by people that I should write a book about my walk. But
I thought that it would be written, if it ever would be written,
after the Lord stabilized my life and fulfilled all the promises that
He has made to me over all these years. But that was obviously not
the case. It is supposed to be written now while the wounds and pain
are still fresh in my heart and I am not concerned with talking about
the horrors that I've been through. That way people who are going
through terrible trials right now will be able to know that they are
not alone, that someone else has been through them and is not afraid
to talk about his feelings, bad and good. I think I know why God has
had me begin this book in 2005 when I moved back to Dallas from
Tyler, instead of in 1983 when it all began. I feel certain that
there will be another book in the future about my walk in the earlier
years, but it will be after God stabilizes my life and fulfills His
promises to me. In 1983 Paul Cain (before his fall from grace) came
to the church I was going to and pointed me out and prophecied this
to me “Lord you have promised to restore that which the locusts and
canker worm have eaten, and here the enemy has come in and made a
terrible situation for a believer. I pray that You will heal that
which is torn and replace all the unhappy thoughts in the wee hours
of the night with thoughts of peace and tranquility and the joy of
the Lord which will be this man's strength. I thank you for
prospering him spiritually and materially and in every way, and for
giving him a testimony that none can speak against or resist. And you
will stabilize his life and use him in an ardent way in these last
days”.
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<u><b>Chapter One</b></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">In July,
2005 after I had been living in Tyler, TX for eleven long years, God
once again had me divest myself of everything I owned (He had me do
the same thing in Feb., 1984) – <i><u><b>Luke 9:3 – And He said
to them “Take nothing for your journey, neither a staff, nor a bag,
nor bread, nor money: and do not even have two tunics apiece.”
Luke 14:33 - In the same way, those of you who do not give up
everything you have cannot be my disciples. </b></u></i>In my case He
did let me keep the money I had from selling my possessions in 2005,
my truck and a few things, i.e. clothing, fishing equip. I even had
to give up my wonderful two year old chocolate lab named Dallas,
which broke my heart. For those of you who think you can just go to
the Bible and claim all of God's promises, all the good things you
THINK He wants you to have, you'd better learn to obey His commands
first. Without obedience first, everything else is worthless.
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">When all that was finished I took off
and went fly fishing up in Mountain Home, Ark for a few days, having
no idea of where God was going to send me next. When I left Arkansas
I headed south, not knowing where I was headed. On the highway God
told me I was to go back to Dallas where I had lived for about
fifteen years before I moved to Tyler. Sixteen years later I still
have no idea why He sent me to Tyler for eleven years.
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">On the way to Dallas He said “Sojourn”.
Sojourn Church in Dallas (actually Carrollton, a suburb of Dallas)
was a church I had gone to once some years ago, a church that was
supposedly Spirit-filled and a “faith” church. I knew some of the
members from a church I had attended several years before. When I got
to Dallas God told me to go stay at the Dallas Life Foundation, a
shelter He had me stay in for a couple of months in 1984, and the
absolute worst and nastiest shelter I have ever been in. It was
straight from the pit of hell, and I mean that literally. It was the
darkest place I've ever seen, absolute evil with no good in it. But
God said go, so I had to go there even though I had several thousand
dollars in my pocket from selling everything I had in Tyler. I was
not very happy with God and told Him so many times. But He doesn't
care whether we're happy with Him or not, all He cares about is
obedience. Happiness is something He completely removed from my life
for the past thirty-nine years, something He still has not allowed me
to have.
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">But the night I was there (and I didn't
know it would only be one night) there were three men whom God put
next to me and whom I ministered to in three completely different
ways. But I encouraged, comforted and lifted them up. That night I
went to bed and couldn't get any sleep because the place is not
air-conditioned in the sleeping quarters and the evil there is almost
unbearable for a spiritual man. At about 4:00 in the morning God let
me know I could leave. So I went and got a room at the Comfort Inn in
Addison.
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The next day I began my stay at
Sojourn. I joined a Sunday school class and became a member. I
faithfully attended for a couple of months, even giving the church
some of the little money I had left.
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">On the first or second Sunday I went
there I met a guy named Steve and we talked for a few minutes when he
said “You need to forgive your ex-wife”. I knew this was the Holy
Spirit speaking through him because although I had been divorced for
twenty-four years I probably still had anger and unforgiveness in my
heart towards her, although Steve knew none of this because I hadn't
mentioned her to him. So When I went back to the motel I said “Lord,
I don't know how to forgive her but I ask you to help me do so.”
That night He delivered me from hypoglycemia which had been keeping
me from sleeping well since shortly after the divorce in 1981. It
turned out that it was a curse that she had put on me after the
divorce. (I was told in 1985 that she was a fallen angel. Yes, she
was that evil.) A few months later I developed Restless Leg Syndrome,
which keeps me from sleeping well. Was it another curse from her? I
don't know, but it persists to this day. `</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Another Sunday Steve and I were sitting
together when a so-called “prophet” from Africa came to the
church to preach. He was doing his thing and continually asking “Can
I have an Amen to that!!” Now you have to realize that this was a
very conservative congregation not prone to responding to that type
of emotional outburst. But every time the guy said that the people
would respond with “Amen!”. Then the guy told the people to line
up against the walls around the church and he would come lay hands on
them and ask God to double their blessings and endeavors. In other
words God would make them rich and successful. Naturally the people
got excited, they all wanted to hear that. He went around the church
“prophesying” to each person that God would increase their
blessings. When he came to me he said nothing because the lying
spirit in him knew that I knew what was going on, it was a farce.
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Afterwards I told Steve that Terry Moore, the apostle and senior
pastor to the church, wasn't doing his job and that he didn't
understand his role, responsibility and authority as an apostle and
spiritual head of the church. Terry should have been off to the side
in prayer, controlling the spirit of the church and not letting this
false prophet hijack the spirit of the church. Hearing all the people
responding with “Amens” told me that this guy had control of the
spirit of the church because they were an extremely conservative
people who would never normally do that. And with him going around
falsely prophesying to the people, it was obvious that Terry was not
in control of the spirit the way he should have been. The guy going
around giving false prophecies to the people also showed that the
real desires of the people in this church, including the leadership,
were materialistic, not spiritual. Terry was rich and he thought that
God wanted everyone to be wealthy and blessed, just like he was. They
were all excited and wanting to hear that God would prosper them,
make them rich. So the lying spirit obliged them by telling them what
they wanted to hear. <i><u><b>1Kings 22:22 - “I will go out and be
a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,’ he said.</b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span><i><u><b>2Corin 11:14-15 – And no wonder, for
Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is not
surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of
righteousness. Their end will be what their actions </b></u></i><i><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">deserve.</span></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span><i><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">2Tim</span></u></i><i><u><b>
4:3 - For the time will come when people will not put up with sound
doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around
them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want
to hear. </b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In
the bookstore at Sojourn there were a number of books by Marilyn
Hickey, Benny Hinn, Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland and the likes of
them, that tells you what that church is all about. </span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">During my time there I came down with fever for several days and I
asked Hugh Cunningham, an elder and a pastor, to come see me at the
motel with another elder and pray for me. He came with a, I guess he
could be called an asst. pastor, and after Hugh spent fifteen or
twenty minutes outside my room on his cellphone ,eventually did come
in and pray for me. He said I should stay in the room for several
days until I felt better and stay on a liquid diet. He never asked me
if I needed anything, if I had nourishment in the room, if he could
get me anything – he and the other guy just left me to fend for
myself. He didn't ask me to come stay with his family or try to get
anyone else in the church to take me into their home, he just left me
there to take care of myself. <i><u><b>Matt 25:42-46 - “For I was
hungry, and you didn’t feed me. I was thirsty, and you didn’t
give me a drink. I was a stranger, and you didn’t invite me into
your home. I was naked, and you didn’t give me clothing. I was sick
and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’Then they will reply,
‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or
naked or sick or in prison, and not help you? “And he will answer,
‘I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these
my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.’“And they
will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous will go into
eternal life.</b></u></i>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">During my time at Sojourn Hugh told me to come talk to him and two
other guys and we would talk and pray and see what God would have me
do as far as a job. I did and the resulting opinion was that I should
look for a job where my skills could be best utilized. I even offered
to take a job at the sandwich shop right next door to the motel but
he said he didn't think that's what I should do. So I listened to the
opinion of the three, thinking they were hearing from the Lord.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">After
a few weeks my money was running out and I tried to see Hugh but he
was very busy and I couldn't see him until a few days later, the day
my money ran out. When I saw him that day I told him that I was out
of money and had no place to stay. His response was “Go to the
Salvation army, they'll take care of you”. I was stunned and
extremely depressed because I KNEW that this church would help me.
</span></span></span><i><u><b>Prov 13:12 - Hope deferred makes the
heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.</b></u></i> <span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
couldn't believe that this well-off church that preached about faith
and the love of God would not help me. Obviously they had no idea
what love was all about. When I asked Hugh if the church could put me
up in a motel room for a little while longer he told me that they
weren't set up for that. This “faith” church had no love or
compassion for their members who were in dire straits. </span></span></span><i><u><b>Matt
25:43 - “ I was a stranger, and you didn’t invite me into your
home”. </b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
had been sick for several days and they didn't offer any help. Now I
was homeless and they didn't care. I was alone out in the wilderness
so to speak, and prey to all the wolves and beasts of the field and
my shepherds didn't care. </span></span></span>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">So I went down to the Salvation Army that night, depressed, angry,
disillusioned and abandoned. But I continued to go to church at
Sojourn on Sundays. The Salvation Army in Dallas is a place of
oppression, darkness, anger, despair and loneliness. It is not a
place that uplifts the downtrodden, the hurting, the lonely, the
oppressed, the depressed. It is a warehouse for the homeless, nothing
more. It might have once been a place of love and compassion, but it
is no more. It is a dark place, spiritually and emotionally speaking.
I became more and more depressed by the day. The “counselers” in
the men's section told the guys most nights that they were just
playing games and weren't serious about life. In other words they
were just bums.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">Seven weeks later I went to Sojourn for the last time. During the
service Terry Moore stood up and began talking about Hurricane
Katrina and the people in New Orleans and how he felt that the church
needed to show compassion to the people from there that needed help,
but you could tell from his facial expression and voice that his
heart was not really in it. I stood up and said in a very clear and
strong voice “Terry, my life has been ravaged by storms and
hurricanes for twenty one years, but when I asked my shepherds for
help they beat me and threw me out on the streets to be prey to all
the wolves and beasts of the field. The Lord rebuke you shepherds!
The Lord rebuke you shepherds! The Lord rebuke you shepherds! The
Lord rebuke you shepherds!” Then I turned around and left.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"> The next day I left the Salvation Army and was driving my truck to
find an empty field in Carrollton, take a bottle of pain killers I
had, and die. I was that depressed. If I had died that day my blood
would have been on the hands of the leaders of Sojourn – the blood
of a senior prophet. But God had other ideas and led me to another
church out there and I told them my story and they put me up in a
motel for a few weeks with money to eat and put gas in my truck. But
none of them ever called me or visited me or tried to find someone in
their church who would take me in. I was all alone in the wilderness
and no one really cared, not even God. He was, in fact, the one who
put me out in the wilderness to suffer so He could get glory for
Himself.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Four
years later the Lord instructed me to go to Sojourn Church on a
Saturday night with a can of black spray paint and spray several
verses on their building. I just sprayed the numbers of the verses,
not the entire verses themselves, </span></span></span><i><u><b>Rev
3:1 - To the angel of the church in Sardis write:He who has the seven
Spirits of God and the seven stars, says this: ‘I know your deeds,
that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. “ Rev
3:14-19 - “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:</b></u></i>
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<i><u><b> </b></u></i></p><p><i><u><b>The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of
the creation of God, says this:‘I know your deeds, that you are
neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because
you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My
mouth. Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and
have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched
and miserable and poor and blind and naked, I advise you to buy from
Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white
garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your
nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so
that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline;
therefore be zealous and repent. '”</b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
I sprayed those verses on a pillar on the front of the church, the
side of the building and on the surface of the parking lot in large
letters that no one could miss. Several days later I received a call
from a detective at the Carrollton Police Department asking me to
come there the next day. So before I left home I put my wallet and
money in the house and only brought my drivers license, expecting to
be arrested. When I got there the detective and I talked for a few
minutes and then he gave me a sheet of paper from Sojourn Church
telling me that I was not allowed on their property again, otherwise
I would be arrested for trespassing. The detective said the church
wanted me to sign the paper. I gladly did so and told the detective
that I could now spiritually wash my hands of Sojourn Church. I have
not seen nor heard from anyone at Sojourn since then but I can assure
you that the Holy Spirit no longer even visits that empty tomb called
Sojourn. They think they can work up the spirit by their singing,
but God says “You worship me with your lips, but your hearts are
far from me. You are focused on all the material things you think you
can get, but not on me.”</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">It just befuddles me that these co-called “faith churches” think
that God wants everybody to be happy, healthy and wealthy. I have no
idea where they get that kind of nonsense from. Paul, who wrote the
book on faith, certainly wasn't happy, healthy and wealthy. He was in
chains, in prison, whipped, hated and even rejected by some of the
churches he founded as well as many of those he discipled. Jesus was
certainly not a happy man and we are told to share in the<i><u><b>
fellowship of His sufferings</b></u></i>. Notice that it doesn't say
to share in His wealth and blessings, <i><u><b>but rather His
sufferings.</b></u></i> Oh, but that's not positive confession so
the churches just ignore that command. His disciples gave up
everything they had, they certainly weren't wealthy.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Yes, God can bless us and can give us the desire of our hearts, great
wealth and happiness, but He certainly doesn't do that to even most
Christians. Many times He gives people wealth to test them and see
the true desires of their hearts – most of them fail the test.
Remember how satan told Jesus that he could give Him all the kingdoms
on earth if He would just worship him. Too many people who have been
given great wealth have given their lives to satan. Their wealth has
become the focus of their lives. “Sell what you have, give to the
poor, and come, follow Me”.</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<br /><u><b> </b></u></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><u><b>CHAPTER Two</b></u>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">A few weeks after leaving Sojourn I ended up at Hillcrest Church in
Dallas, Hillcrest had been a huge non-denominational church at one
point but they fired the founding pastor Morris Sheats, for reasons
that are not applicable to this story, and hired Mark Brand. Because
of the changing of pastors the church lost a large number of its
members - I didn't know all this until later because I had never
heard of them before this Sunday. But as I was driving down Hillcrest
Ave. one day I saw this church and knew that I would be going there
at some point. I went there several weeks later when I was lonely,
hurting and depressed. The service was okay and afterwards there was
a time when people could go up front and be prayed for. I was walking
up to be prayed for and God focused my eyes on an older couple up
there who were praying for people. I got up there and it turned out
that it was Jack and Dorothy Powell, a couple I used to go to church
with twenty five years before. Jack was an elder in that church and I
knew him back then.
</p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">In fact, it was on New Years Eve, 1982 when I was at that church and
was devastated because of a broken romance a few weeks before, when I
went up to be prayed for and I was down on my knees weeping in great
pain when Dorothy spoke in tongues and Jack interpreted. All I
remember from it was that God said “You'll be a tower of strength
for Me. You'll lead many men to me. And you'll be victorious beyond
your wildest dreams”. That sounds wonderful, and it will be when it
happens. But it's been thirty nine years and I haven't seen anything
but the strength building. How does God build strength in us? He
knocks us down. We get up again, He knocks us down again. We get up.
He knocks us down again. We get up. He knocks us down again. This
goes on and on and on and on. But each time we get up we get
stronger. But it hurts like hell!! He stretches us like a rubber band
until we are ready to break. Then He lets us sit like that for a
while. No, He doesn't let up on the pressure, He just lets us sit for
awhile. Then He does the same thing over and over and over and over
again. That folks, is the reality of how God works in those He has
chosen for certain responsibilities. Just look what He did to Joseph,
Moses, David and all the prophets. He was certainly not a gentle,
compassionate and kind God to them, He was brutal. But He did what it
took to raise them up to be able to handle the tasks He had in store
for them, but the training was absolute hell.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">About ten years before the day I saw Jack at Hillcrest I was living
in Tyler and called him and asked him to go to lunch. Now you need to
understand that I hadn't seen Jack in many years since that previous
church folded, but God put it upon my heart to call him and drive to
Dallas to have lunch with him. While he and I were having lunch that
day the Lord told me that he was an apostle and also that he would
be a spiritual father to me at some point in the future. We had a
good lunch and I went back to Tyler, not seeing Jack again until that
Sunday at Hillcrest in 2005. God works like that.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">I was in tears when I realized it was Jack and Dorothy, I was so
happy to see them. My heart was still in great pain after the episode
at Sojourn and I was still staying in a motel with no one reaching
out to me and almost out of money and a place to stay. I was all
alone out in the wilderness, I had no one. The church that was
putting me up in a motel was a nice church but no one called me to
check on me, no one invited me into their home no one asked me over
for lunch or dinner. They had done their job giving me a place to
stay and were finished with me. It was so wonderful to see Jack and
Dorothy. I spent a few minutes with them but they had plans after the
service and we couldn't get together.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">But I went back in the evening and was in a Bible study with the
pastor and several other people. It was an intimate little group who
were sharing thoughts and feelings with one another. I told them that
I was lonely and hurting and needed a place to stay, having been out
in the wilderness for many years. Mark, the pastor, told me that
they would help me, and they did. They put me in a motel for several
weeks and I had found a church with caring people. They helped me
find a home to stay in, a place where I rented a room from a family.
I felt loved and cared for. On the third Sunday I was there I went up
to Jack and anointed him as the senior apostle in the church, the head of spiritual authority, and he
received it.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">One of my jobs as a senior prophet is to anoint people as apostles,
prophets and pastors. I don't appoint them, I simply anoint them as
the prophets of old did to the kings of the nations of Israel. Many
times I have helped them understand their roles and the training that
is required. I remember back in 1991 meeting a pastor in a little
church in Kemp, TX where I lived for a few years. I was driving
through downtown Kemp to go to the post office and saw a sign with
River Of Life Church written on it. I went in and asked for the
pastor and David Haines came out. I remember telling him that God
isn't impressed with large churches, what He cares about is seeing
His people ministered to personally and individually, and that
usually only happens in small churches. About two years later I
started going to that church, but that's another story that God will
not let me include in this book.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">David had a congregation of about 100 people at a converted
gymnasium in Kemp. He was the shepherd of a small flock in the
country and he was happy and content to be so. He was a humble,
gentle, kind and caring young man who did the best he could with the
flock God had given him. But several years later God pulled him out
of the ministry and had him move to another state where he was doing
telemarketing for some company – a job that was totally unlike
David, something I could never picture him doing, something I know
tore at his heart. But I'm sure he did it to the best of his ability
because that's what God gave him to do.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Yes, God will turn our lives upside down when He has a special
ministry for us in the future, and put us in jobs and places that are
completely different than anything we would ever normally do. Jobs
that we absolutely hate, places that we despise. He will make life
extremely difficult for us, like He did David, Joseph, Moses,
Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Paul and others, myself included. That's exactly what He
did to the apostle Paul when He sent him into the desert to make
tents. That's exactly what He has done to me for the last thirty nine
years.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">After he left the church in Kemp God gave me a prophetic word for
David, but I had to wait seven years to give it to him. Seven years
later I saw him at a conference at that church, he had come into town
to attend a seminar. Towards the end of the service he went up to the
front for prayers and was laying on his face crying his eyes out. He
was hurting so badly and didn't understand why God had called him out
of the ministry, away from his love for shepherding a little flock.
He had heard of the wagging tongues that went on after he left the
church, people criticizing and judging him and it had pierced his
heart. I went over to him and got on my knees next to him and begin
to give him the prophetic word that God had given me for him seven
years before. I said something like this “David, God has heard the
wagging tongues and they mean nothing to Him. He Himself called you
out of the ministry for reasons that you will understand in the
future, but not because he was unhappy with you. You have pleased Him
greatly and He will honor you for your obedience. The time is coming
when you will be the senior pastor of the remnants of Church On The
Rock. And He has a beautiful home across the street from this church
for you and your family.” In the following years I know that he has
returned to a pastoral role in several churches in several states.
Several years ago I heard that COTR had churches even in Russia. How
large or small COTR will be when David takes them over I have no
idea, but he most certainly will lead them in God's timing. Those
people at the church who spoke against and gossiped about that
tender, humble,loving servant of the Lord should be ashamed of
themselves. They will have a price to pay if they make it into
Heaven, they will have to repent before God and apologize to David.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Back to my time at Hillcrest. I found some work helping one of the
church members remodeling his house and became friends with he and
his wife. He didn't pay much but I had enough to pay the weekly rent
and buy food and gas for my truck. Unfortunately, after several weeks
this guy became jealous of my prophetic calling and begin to treat me
very poorly, even with contempt. He even tried to turn several of the
people in the church against me, but was unsuccessful. I finally had
enough and quit working for him. And since I couldn't pay the rent
anymore the family I was living with told me in a very ugly and
contemptuous manner to leave. God dealt with them for that.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Then I remember that a black woman in the church came up to me when I
was in the prayer room at Hillcrest and we began to talk. I told her
I needed a place to stay and she invited me to come stay in her
apartment. I stayed there for maybe three months and if I got any
work to do I split the money with her. If I didn't pick up any work
I'd be in the prayer room at Hillcrest during the day because she had
a preschool at her apartment during the day. While in the prayer room
God used to send people there for me to minister to in many different
ways, so there were purposes in me being in the prayer room in
addition to praying for the church. But after a few months some of
her relatives were coming to visit her in a few days and I couldn't
stay there any longer. I needed a place to stay.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Someone at the church had mentioned a ministry to the homeless that
the church helped support and thought that might be a place I should
look into joining as part of their staff. The ministry will be
unnamed at this time because I don't want to hurt them for reasons
that will be revealed sometime in the future. I went and spoke to the
director of the place and he agreed that I would stay there and serve
the ministry in whatever way they needed me. So I got a bed in a room
in a house with three bunk beds and five other guys.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">I was told me to help the cook in the kitchen, so that's what I did.
The next day Willie, the head of the men's ministry, came in the
kitchen and I greeted him with “Hi, Willie!” His arrogant
response was “Pastor Willie, if you please!”. He wanted to be
called “Pastor” because he was in charge. After that I never
spoke to him again and I remember often seeing him walking around the
ministry's grounds with his “pastor's hat” on, strutting with
great pride in every step. He thought he was something special
because he was a pastor and had authority. This I can tell you, God
was most certainly not impressed with Willie.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">While there I bonded with a guy named Rodney who took care of the
church property, set up the chairs in the gym before each meeting
there, etc. Rodney lived in the closet of the room I was staying in,
yes literally. God bonded our hearts together like two brothers and I
loved him like a brother. God showed me he was called to be a
prophet, and when I told him that it confirmed to him what he
believed God had already told him. Rodney had been in the Army
Special Forces and had been involved in some really dark things
while there. He knew that it messed him up emotionally and he knew
that God was healing him. But I saw a man who was a true, humble
servant of the Lord who had a heart of gold and who wanted more than
anything else to serve the Lord. He truly cared for the people in the
homeless program. Like me, he had read the Bible from beginning to
end over 70 times and God had revealed many things to him that 99.99%
of the Christians will never see or hear. He and I had many very deep
spiritual conversations while I was there. I've never known anyone
else who I could relate to and talk to on such a deep spiritual
level, and I still miss him dearly. I'm tearing up as I write this
because he is my brother whom I haven't seen in many years, a part of
my heart that is missing. The leaders treated him with contempt and
like dirt. Prophets go through absolute hell that most of you can't
even imagine. They were hated in the Old Testament, and we are hated
today.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">I was there for seventeen days before one of the “pastors” told
me I needed to go through their Orientation Program. I told him “No,
I am not here for that purpose, I am here to help the ministry and
the people here, but not to be part of the program”. He told me to
leave, and I had to go. Weeks later the director of that ministry
agreed that shouldn't have happened, but he never apologized.
Nonetheless I continued to go to church over there after a couple of
weeks because I knew I could help some of the people there, I knew
God had something for me to do over there. But I went back to
Hillcrest and ended up living in the prayer room there for one month.</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<br /><u><b> </b></u></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><u><b>Chapter Three</b></u>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">When Morris Sheats was the pastor of Hillcrest he had a large
calendar board on the wall in the prayer room so that people could
sign up to pray for the church in hourly increments, it was the
largest and most beautiful prayer room in the city. I was told that
Morris made sure that the prayer board was filled up 24/7, he knew it
was necessary for the well being of the church. But the current
pastor, Mark Brand, didn't see that as a necessity and so few people
signed up even though the prayer board was still on the wall. For a
full month I lived in the prayer room, every day going around the
sanctuary praying over every seat. At night I slept on the couch in
the prayer room. In the mornings I would go to one of the local
hotels that had free breakfasts for its guests and ate there. I
looked and dressed like the business executives that were guests
there, so they thought that I was a guest. I even showered in their
exercise room while there. At night I would go to another hotel that
had wine and hors d'oeuvres for their quests set out on a buffet
table and I had that for dinner. I had no where to eat lunch so I
fasted that meal because I had to.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">I really didn't understand what the Lord was doing having me live in
the prayer room because the church didn't want me there and wanted me
to leave, and I certainly didn't want to be there. One day Jack came
and told me that the pastor had asked him to tell me to leave, but
that night he had a dream and saw me as his son and he couldn't tell
me to leave anymore than he could have told his own son to leave. So
God kept me there. One night the guy who was the night watchman for
the church, Bill, a man God was calling to be a prophet, told me
that the church should be ashamed because the members were not in the
prayer room at night praying for the church and I had to be there to
do that. God was telling me that I was spiritually the watchman for
the church 24/7. Remember the watchmen on the walls for Israel in the
Old Testament? Well, that's what I was for Hillcrest but they didn't
see it.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Prophets
are watchmen, it is our job. My name is Clifford, I am a watchman who
stands on the edge of the </span></span></span><i><u><b>cliff </b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><b>
</b></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">watching
the </span></span></span><i><u><b>ford</b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ing</span></span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">place
in the river to see when the enemy is coming so that I can warn the
people. God named me for that purpose. The job involves sitting and
watching, waiting, doing nothing; I hate it, I despise it,, but it's
part of my responsibility. I thrive on being busy, on challenge, but
God absolutely refuses to let me do that much of the time. He makes
me sit and wait, sit and wait, sit and wait, most of the time all
alone with no one to talk to, nothing to do. It frustrates me beyond
belief. It is the complete opposite of who and what I am. I hate it!!
Being alone all the time is torture. God makes sure that no one
calls me , comes to visit me, invites me anywhere. It is hell! But
it's no different than what God did to the prophets of old. And he
hasn't changed, unlike what far too many spiritual little children
believe today. We are told to share in the </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">sufferings
of Christ</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
and that's exactly what God has forced upon me. . Jesus was homeless,
he didn't have a place of his own to stay, nor did I. </span></span></span><i><u><b>Matt
8:20 - Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but
the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” </b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
He probably lived in a tent or stayed with friends from time to
time. He was lucky to have friends to stay with from time to time. </span></span></span>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Hillcrest Church used to have a rather large coven of witches and
warlocks in the church, and the administration never knew they were
there - but they most certainly were. While I was living in the
prayer room the pastor's secretary used to come in the prayer room
several days a week and pray, or so I thought. One day I saw her
sitting in one of four chairs under a canopy in the corner,
apparently in prayer. But God showed me she was actually having a
séance with satan himself. I was stunned! After she left I went over
to that area and got some oil and anointed each chair with oil and
prayed in the spirit over them. The next time she came in she went
over there but couldn't sit down, and instead went over to a small
table with four chairs on the other side of the room and began her
evil there. After she left I got the oil and anointed that table and
chairs and prayed over them. The next time she came in she couldn't
sit there and went to one of the kneelers by the altar to do her
evil. After she left I anointed all the kneelers with oil and prayed
over them. I never saw her in the prayer room again.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">One day after I had been living in the prayer room for about three
weeks the Lord suddenly told me that there was going to be an attack
on the church. If I had a trumpet I would have gone throughout the
church blowing it loudly to warn the people. Instead I called the
elder in charge of prayer and told him that God warned me that an
attack was coming on the church. He knew I was a prophet so he should
have listened, but he didn't. I saw Rodney the next day and told him
what the Lord showed me, and he said “Yes, there will be infighting
inside the walls, many will be injured and many will leave. But if
they rebuild the 24/7 prayer walls the attack can be diverted.” I
told another elder what I saw and what Rodney said, but apparently he
didn't take it seriously. I told one of the pastors, one of the
trustees and several members, but no one did anything. In a desk
drawer in the prayer room there were some brochures on prayer that
one of the members had written a couple of years before, so I put
them out all over the prayer room. Someone came in and removed them.
No one listened or cared. I was just some homeless guy living in the
church, no money to give to the church, not famous or rich, so no one
paid attention. They wouldn't have listened to Jeremiah, Isaiah,
Ezekiel or any of the prophets of old, either.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Around this time Jack Powell fell down from a ladder at his house,
fractured his skull and was in Intensive Care at the hospital. Since
Jack was a spiritual father to me and to Bill, the night watchman, he
and I took turns staying at the hospital watching over Jack. After
all, we were both spiritual watchmen and Jack's spiritual sons.
When he came out of intensive care and was put in a private room, we
were in the room with him all day and all night, in twelve hour
shifts. No, we really didn't realize the importance of what we were
doing, we were there because we loved Jack. It was only later that
God revealed to me what we were actually there for. We were there to
protect him from the evil coven in the church who wanted to kill him
because they knew he was the senior apostle for the church and the
head of spiritual authority for the church, even though the
leadership didn't recognize him as such. They knew they had to get
him out of the way so they could destroy the church.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Jack was beginning to recover and to somewhat get his wits about him,
but he was still in serious shape. Then they moved him to another
area for physical therapy and we couldn't be there to watch over him.
That's when the witches and warlocks in the church did their thing
and killed him. I remember seeing several older people from the
church sitting in the waiting room and I felt uncomfortable around
them, there was something I could not put my finger on about them.
But afterwards I realized these people were evil, they were part of
the coven in the church. And since Bill and I were no longer able to
be with Jack to protect him, they could kill him with their evil, and
did. I know of no other way to explain it other than that.
Interestingly enough, when Jack was buried the Lord would not let me
go to his funeral, and it hurt me not to be able to do so. But God
told me “Let the dead bury the dead.” We have to obey whether we
like it or not, or whether we understand or not.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Yes, there was evil in the church. The older couple who were in
charge of the Deliverance Ministry for the church were a witch and
warlock, and no one in leadership at the church could see it. I had
been uncomfortable around them and then the Lord showed me what was
happening. When people went to them for deliverance they were given a
multi-page survey asking them questions from the day they were born
to the present. This information was then used against them when they
met with the couple for deliverance. They used the information in the
survey to put spiritual oppression on the people, not to set them
free. The Holy Spirit already knows all the information about people
and the Holy Spirit is the one who reveals whatever info is necessary
during deliverance, no survey is ever needed. After that every time I
saw them I saw the evil in them.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">God
has had me in over one hundred churches over the past thirty nine
years and I have seen evil in many of them, most of the time in the
leadership. </span></span></span><i><u><b>2Cor 11:14 - “And no
wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not
surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of
righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.”</b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Far too many of the leaders are wolves in sheep's clothing. They
love the attention they get, the authority they have, the way that
people look up to them. They love what they think is their
importance. They deceive most people.</span></span></span>
</p><p><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">My
commission as a prophet was the same as Jeremiah's – Jer 1:5 -
”Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I
set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” Jer
1:10 - “See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to
uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to
plant.” None of the churches that I have prophesied to, warned, or
counseled have listened – 99% of those don't exist anymore. </span></span></span>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><b>Chapter
Four</b></u></span>
</p><p><a name="en-NIV-20496"></a><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">While
Jack was in the hospital I was going to the church service at the
homeless ministry because it was less than a mile from the hospital.
While there the woman who founded it asked me if I would come back, I
told her that I would. The next day I went to a men's breakfast
meeting at Hillcrest and told them that I was going back to the
homeless ministry. A guy stood up and said to me: “</span></span></span><i><u><b>Ezek
2:1-7 - He said: “Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites,
to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me; they and their
ancestors have been in revolt against me to this very day. The people
to whom I am sending you are obstinate and stubborn. Say to them,
‘This is what the Sovereign </b></u></i><i><u><b>Lord</b></u></i><i><u><b>
says.’And whether they listen or fail to listen—for they are a
rebellious people—they will know that a prophet has been among
them. And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words.
Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns are all around you and you
live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or be
terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people. You must
speak my words to them, whether they listen or fail to listen, for
they are rebellious.”</b></u></i></p>
<p><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Later
that day while reading through Ezekiel the Lord gave me these verses:
Ezek 3:4-11 - </span></span></span><i><u><b>“He then said to me:
“Son of man, go now to the people of Israel and speak my words to
them. You are not being sent to a people of obscure speech and
strange language, but to the people of Israel— not to many peoples
of obscure speech and strange language, whose words you cannot
understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have
listened to you. But the people of Israel are not willing to listen
to you because they are not willing to listen to me, for all the
Israelites are hardened and obstinate. But I will make you as
unyielding and hardened as they are. I will make your forehead like
the hardest stone, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or
terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people.” And he
said to me, “Son of man, listen carefully and take to heart all the
words I speak to you. Go now to your people in exile and speak to
them. Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign </b></u></i><i><u><b>Lord</b></u></i><i><u><b>
says,’ whether they listen or fail to listen</b></u></i>.”
<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Needless
to say I was stunned. I really had no idea what I was getting into.
But I had to go, there was no choice. When I went to speak to the
director (not the founder who asked me to come back) about staying
there, he told me “I don't know how a prophet will fit in this
ministry”. The Lord showed him what I was so he had no excuse for
not listening. </span></span></span>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">That night Jack died and I was deeply distressed, badly hurting. The
next morning was the Sunday service at the homeless ministry and I
went early, hoping to find someone to talk to. The director's wife
came in and I asked her to pray for me. We went into a back room, she
pulled up a chair next to me and pressed her right breast firmly
against my arm and began to pray for me. I was appalled. I couldn't
believe that she would do such a seductive thing. But that's exactly
what she did. Lord, what am I getting into over here!!! Yes, she knew
EXACTLY what she was doing.</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">The next morning I went to a meeting of the staff, assuming that I
was to be part of it. But one of the house managers', a so-called
“pastor”, stood up and yelled “Get out of here!!”. I just
stood there and stared him in the eyes until he sat down. He didn't
like me when I was there before because I wouldn't kowtow to him.
Willie came and was angry at me instead of the idiot, and told me to
go to the house and he would let me know when he needed me. I never
heard from Willie again until I was called into the director's office
nine weeks later.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">So I went to the house and sat. After seven days I sent a note to the
director giving him a word from the Lord. It was about the parable of
the ten talents and that God had sent him a talent that had been
tested and tried in the fires of affliction for over twenty years,
taught and purified in the wilderness for twenty one years. I told
him that it seemed like they were trying to hide and/or bury that
talent. I never heard from him.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">This is one of the verses God gave me the day before I went there:
Ezek 3:14-15 - <i><u><b>“The Spirit then lifted me up and took me
away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with
the strong hand of the </b></u></i><i><u><b>Lord</b></u></i><i><u><b>
on me. I came to the exiles who lived at Tel Aviv near the Kebar
River. And there, where they were living, I sat among them for seven
days—deeply distressed. “ </b></u></i> What I did see in the ten
weeks I was there was an abomination to the Lord! I didn't see love,
mercy and compassion anywhere in the leadership, it didn't exist.
What I did see were a bunch of low-level people who thought that
because they were in a leadership role, something they had never been
in before, that they were something special. They were impressed by
what they thought was the “power” they had, their “authority”.
They all demanded to be called “pastor Willie” or pastor Phil”,
etc. I wouldn't call any of them by a title. I was tempted to tell
them they needed to call me “Prophet Cliff”, but I knew God would
kick my butt if I did that, lol.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
sat there every day out in the yard and read my bible or helped
Rodney around the church. Willie never asked me to do anything, nor
did the director. Many, many times guys who were going through the
program came and talked to me about what they were going through, how
badly the “pastors” were treating them. I tried to comfort and
encourage them the best I could,. They would tell me how they found
no love or compassion in the leaders. I watched during Bible study
classes and the services on Sundays how Willie used to go up in the
electronics loft and watch the people to try and catch them sleeping
or talking during the service, so he could jump all over them and
many times throw them out. He was always trying to catch them doing
something wrong so he could evict them. He was like an hawk trying to
catch his prey. </span></span></span><i><u><b>Jer 5:26-27 - “Among
my people are the wicked who lie in wait like men who snare birds and
like those who set traps to catch people. Like cages full of birds,
their houses are full of deceit; they have become rich and </b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><u><i>powerful</i></u>.</b>
I saw people thrown out for the slightest infraction of the rules.
But I also saw people giving things to Willie and other “pastors”,
and those people were treated very differently by the “pastors”.</span></span></span>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">One of the few people I saw there with any love and compassion was
the founder. She was a wonderful woman who truly cared about the
people there. She had a beautiful heart. The problem was in the
people she hired to run the ministry. They weren't qualified to be in
a management position in a ministry like that, but she didn't see
what was going on. That's why God sent me there as a watchman, to sit
and watch, to keep my eyes and ears open, which I did. The verses God
had given me from Ezekiel before I went there proved to be true. But
God will give her the desires of her heart in the near future, and
she will see the ministry God had shown her in a dream many years ago
come to pass and bloom into a beautiful thing.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">While I was there I met a guy named Roberto who had a landscaping
business and he hired some of the guys at the ministry to work for
him. I first saw him at a Sunday service and I knew he was an
apostle, it's just something God shows me about apostles and
prophets. I went and spoke to him for a few minutes and told him what
I saw in him, He confirmed that I was correct. After that time he and
I got together often and spoke about the leadership at the ministry
and the many problems we saw with it, but there was nothing he nor I
could do about it other than try to help the guys there. Roberto was
a true man of God, a humble, caring man. A true apostle. He and I had
many talks about the way people at that ministry were abused and
kicked out. He saw what I saw and it hurt and angered him as it did
me. But there was nothing we could do about it other than pray and
help those the Lord allowed us to help.</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">After sitting there for nine weeks I was called to the director's
office one day. When I got there he and Willie were sitting there and
began to tell me that I was causing trouble in the ministry. I didn't
even try to defend myself. Instead I looked them in the eyes and
spoke to them a verse that God had given me for them a couple of
weeks before. I said <i><u><b>“You have gone far enough O princes
of Israel. Stop your violence and oppression and do what is just and
right. Cease your evictions of my people says the Lord. Ezek 45:9”.</b></u></i>
Their response was “Huh.” In other words, they heard but refused
to listen and obey. Then I was told I had to leave in seven days.
They directly and immediately disobeyed what the Lord had just told
them. Talk about hard-headed and rebellious, just exactly what the
Lord had told me they would be.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">In the ten weeks there I would sit and read my Bible for several
hours a day, just start in the beginning and read it through. While
reading through it God gave me a number of verses regarding the
ministry and I would underline them. The day I left there I went to a
local library and typed out a five page letter to the director giving
him every one of those verses. It was not a pleasant letter, it was a
strong rebuke from the Lord. He still refused to listen. Some of
those verses were:</p><p><i><u><b>Jonah 1:2 - “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach
against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” </b></u></i>
</p>
<p><a name="en-NIV-204971"></a><i><u><b>Ezek 2:4-5 - ”The people to
whom I am sending you are obstinate and stubborn. Say to them, ‘This
is what the Sovereign Lord says.’ And whether they listen or fail
to listen—for they are a rebellious people—they will know that a
prophet has been among them.”</b></u></i></p>
<p><a name="en-NIV-18227"></a><a name="en-NIV-18228"></a><a name="en-NIV-18229"></a>
<i><u><b>Isa 30:9-11 - “ For these are rebellious people, deceitful
children, children unwilling to listen to the Lord’s instruction.
They say to the seers, “See no more visions!”<br />and to the
prophets, Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant
things, prophesy illusions. Leave this way, get off this path, and
stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!” </b></u></i>
</p>
<p><a name="en-NIV-11697"></a><i><u><b>2 Chron 24:19 - “Although
the Lord sent prophets to the people to bring them back to him, and
though they testified against them, they would not listen. “</b></u></i></p>
<p><a name="en-NIV-22974"></a><a name="en-NIV-22975"></a><i><u><b>Zech
7:11-12 - “But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they
turned their backs and covered their ears. They made their hearts as
hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that
the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier
prophets. So the Lord Almighty was very angry. “</b></u></i></p>
<p><a name="en-NIV-16426"></a><a name="en-NIV-16427"></a><a name="en-NIV-16428"></a><a name="en-NIV-16429"></a>
<i><u><b>Prov 1:25-28 - “since you disregard all my advice and do
not accept my rebuke, I in turn will laugh when disaster strikes you;
I will mock when calamity overtakes you—when calamity overtakes you
like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when
distress and trouble overwhelm you.“Then they will call to me but I
will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me,”</b></u></i></p>
<p><a name="en-NIV-12010"></a><i><u><b>2Chron 36:16 - “But they
mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his
prophets until the wrath of the Lord was aroused against his people
and there was no remedy. “</b></u></i></p>
<p><i><u><b>1Sam 15:23 - “Because you have rejected the word of the
Lord, he has rejected you as king.”</b></u></i></p>
<p><i><u><b>Matt 5:13 - “You are the salt of the earth. But if the
salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no
longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled
underfoot. “</b></u></i></p>
<p><a name="en-NIV-19569"></a><a name="en-NIV-19570"></a><a name="en-NIV-19571"></a><a name="en-NIV-19572"></a><a name="en-NIV-19573"></a>
<i><u><b>Jer 25:34-38 - “Weep and wail, you shepherds; roll in the
dust, you leaders of the flock. For your time to be slaughtered has
come; you will fall like the best of the rams. The shepherds will
have nowhere to flee, the leaders of the flock no place to escape.
Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the
flock, for the Lord is destroying their pasture. The peaceful meadows
will be laid waste because of the fierce anger of the Lord. Like a
lion he will leave his lair, and their land will become desolate
because of the sword of the oppressor and because of the Lord’s
fierce anger. “</b></u></i></p>
<p><a name="en-NIV-21318"></a><i><u><b>Ezek 34:4-6 - “You have not
strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You
have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have
ruled them harshly and brutally. So they were scattered because there
was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for
all the wild animals. My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on
every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one
searched or looked for them. “</b></u></i></p>
<p><a name="en-NIV-23037"></a><i><u><b>Zech 11:8 - “In one month I
got rid of the three shepherds.”</b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
About two months after I left God removed three of the so-called
“pastors” in a thirty day period, a month. </span></span></span>
</p>
<p><a name="en-NIV-22436"></a><i><u><b>Amos 5:12 - “For I know how
many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who
oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice
in the courts.”</b></u></i></p>
<p> </p><p>As of this date in 2021 that ministry no longer has a homeless
ministry. The previous director is no longer there, nor any of the
rest of the so-called leaders. Some of their property has been sold.
But it will flourish again when God re-opens the door. Many homeless
will be reached for the Lord and their lives completely changed. We
will be preparing them to go out into the fields for the last days
harvest. Yes, the last days harvest is that near. Is that the desire
of my heart? No. I am a businessman who enjoys the challenges of
running a business. But this ministry is what God has chosen for me
in the future, so this is what I'll do, and I'll do it to the best of
my ability. And it will be very satisfying to help people turn their
lives around.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<br /><u><b> </b></u></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><u><b> Chapter Five</b></u>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">As far as Hillcrest Church was concerned, shortly after I left I
heard that Morris Sheats, the former pastor, had begun a new church a
few miles away and sent a flier to the mailing list of Hillcrest
announcing his new church. Because of this there was great arguing
and bitter feelings at Hillcrest, many people were emotionally
wounded and many left – exactly what I told them would happen.
Several months later I sent a letter to Mark Brand and to the elder
in charge of prayer telling them that if they didn't begin to have
the members pray 24/7 then the church would fold. It is no longer in
existence and Prestonwood Baptist Church bought the building. Folks,
God is not playing games, He is dead serious. He is preparing us for <u>the last days ministry</u> and there will be no fooling around, no
place for disobedience. But the prophets of old were ignored, and the
prophets of today are ignored – unless, of course, we tell the
churches and ministries good things.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">After I left the homeless ministry I ended up again sleeping at
Hillcrest Church, although no one knew I was staying there, or at
least they couldn't find where I was sleeping. The day after I left
the ministry was a Sunday and I went to a little church on Arapaho
Rd., just a place I passed while driving around. When I went in I saw
a couple of people I knew from another church I had attended years
before, so I went and spoke to them for a few minutes, not telling
them of my situation. After the service I talked to the pastor and
told him I didn't have a place to stay, but he just turned away and
walked out. Another wonderful Christian showing me the love of Jesus.
That night I slept in the back bed of my truck in that church's
parking lot. The church no longer exists.
</p><p><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
few days later I was driving on LBJ Frwy. and saw Watermark Church,
so I stopped and went in to their Wednesday night service. While in
the lobby a guy came by and he asked me about myself and I told him
the situation I was in. He said that the church had $52,000,000 in
the bank for the church's building fund and he was sure they would
help me, I just needed to talk to the staff. I met a guy by the name
of Jim Wimberly who was one of the pastors over there, it turned out
I knew him from the first church I went to when I moved to Dallas in
1978. I told him what my situation was and his response was “Well,
go stay at the Union Gospel Mission, they'll disciple you”.
Another loving, compassionate servant of the Lord. Another church
that Jesus went to in need and they told Him to go to some homeless
mission and they would disciple Him. </span></span></span><i><u><b>Matt
25:41-45 - Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me,
you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and
his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you
did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I
was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ “They also
will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a
stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help
you?’ He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do
for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
</b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Unfortunately,
this is what most churches do to people the Lord sends their way to
test their hearts – they fail, as did Watermark. They will have to
answer to God on Judgment Day </span></span></span>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">During these few days I was still sleeping at Hillcrest and would
spend my days at the library. One day while at the library a gal came
over to me and it was someone I had met Hillcrest Church. She asked
me to come to a prayer lunch at her apartment the next day. I was
happy to go. There were three women and one man there and we talked,
prayed , ate and they said the rosary -yes, I know, vain, repetitious
prayer. I abstained from joining them in saying the rosary. But God
showed me later that He sometimes hears their prayers when they say
the rosary if their hearts are truly in it. So I can't judge them for
that. I used to be a Catholic when I was raised in New Orleans, an
altar boy, went to Jesuit High School, lived literally right next to
Loyola University in New Orleans, and even had an uncle who was a
Jesuit priest, so I am well-acquainted with the rosary and Catholic
theology. Yes, they have their theological and spiritual problems,
just like all the churches do. But God sees the hearts of people, and
that's what He cares about, not their theology, rules and
regulations. He is their judge, not us.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">After the others left she and I were sitting down talking and she
said “You need a place to stay, don't you?” It was something the
Holy Spirit showed her. I said “yes”, and she asked me if I
wanted to stay in her apartment. So I did for about a month. She
helped me find a little work with a couple of her friends, so I had a
little money. Then one day I remember stopping at some church in the
neighborhood and going to sit in one of the pews. I sat there and
said “Lord, what are you doing? You are filling my heart with love
for her. What is going on?” I certainly didn't fall in love with
her, but God was filling my heart with love for her. I didn't
understand it, but that's definitely what He was doing. I told one of
her friends what was happening, and of, course, she told Gail. Gail
was scared because we hardly knew one another, I understood that. But
I couldn't deny what God had done. One of her friends had a garage
apartment and asked her if I could stay there. I moved there a few
days later and things seemed to be turning around for the better. But
then Gail all of a sudden turned ugly and kicked me out of her life.
I was devastated. It turned out she was bipolar. It is an horrible
illness where people are nice one minute and terrible the next. There
was absolutely nothing I could do to change the situation. I believe
God did that because He wanted me to know how He hurts when people
turn their backs on Him.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
remember being extremely angry at God because He was the one who had
put this relationship together, and He was the one who had filled my
heart with love for her. I was deeply hurt. Just another nasty wound
that God inflicted upon me. </span></span></span><i><u><b>Deut 32:39
- I have wounded and I will heal.</b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span><i><u><b>Isaiah 30:26 - when the </b></u></i><i><u><b>Lord</b></u></i><i><u><b>
binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted.
</b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Yes, it is God who puts these things together. It is God who put me
on this unbelievably horrible, painful walk filled with virtually
nothing but pain and bitter disappointment for the past thirty-nine
years. I'm not happy with Him and there are times I absolutely
despise Him for the cruel wounds He has inflicted on my heart, the
despicable way He has treated me. The only thing that keeps me going
are the promises He made me at the beginning of this walk in 1983,
the hope that He will fulfill those promises one day. But as of this
day He has certainly not healed any of the wounds that He inflicted
on my heart, nor has He fulfilled any of the promises He made to me. </span></span></span>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">A friend of mine had a vacant rent house that needed some repairs
and he asked me if I could do the work for him. Since the house was
empty I stayed there for a couple of weeks while working on it. Then
I was driving down Hillcrest Rd again in Richardson and saw a bible
church that will be unnamed. God let me know I was to go there. I did
and I got some work from a couple of the families in the church that
needed their houses painted. So I was able to stay in a motel for a
while. But motel living is not very comfortable nor does it have any
stability. It's all temporary living. I even worked in the meat
market at Albertsons Grocery for about ten months. That was certainly
no fun. But that's the door that God opened for me. I would stay at
Motel 6 for a few days, then sleep on the floor of another friend's
apartment for a few days, then on the flea-ridden couch of another
friend's apartment for a few days. It was not a pleasant way to live.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">On March 8, 2008 a guy I had met through a fly fishing club was
single, living alone, and had an extra bedroom and he said I could
come live there. The place was an absolute pigpen, filthy and
unkempt. Dale, who weighed 450 lbs, hadn't cleaned or vacuumed it for
probably 10-12 years. It was nasty. He let the outside deteriorate
and did nothing to fix it. The weeds in the flower bed were six feet
tall, literally. He was so lazy that the City of Plano had to fine
him several times because he wouldn't even hire anyone to cut the
grass. All Dale liked to do was eat and sit and yap, yap, yap about
all the things he supposedly had done and the “important” people
he knew, 99% of it were lies. He would sit there in his undershorts (
can you imagine what it's like to have to look at a 450# blob of fat
in just his underwear) and yap, yap, yap, and then haw!,haw!, haw!,
with his fat jiggling all over. He never asked me anything about
myself, he only wanted to talk about himself. I listened to him but
after a few weeks I spent most of my days in the public library and
my nights in my bedroom. I got to the point that my doctor at the VA
gave me some mood-stabilizing drugs to help me. I have never known
such a lonely, lazy person before or after. I was very, very
uncomfortable living there but that's the place where God had put
me. Dale was so fat that he couldn't wipe himself after using the
toilet, he had to go in the shower and use the spray attachment to
clean himself off. Virtually every time I took a shower I had to
clean the feces out before I used it. He was that filthy. I was
extremely uncomfortable there, but that was where God made me stay.
While there I began to pick up some repair/remodeling work and made a
little money, but not much. But everyday I worried if the bank I had
bought my truck from would find out where I lived and come and
repossess my truck that I had not made a payment on since I left
Tyler in July, 2005. There was never a time when I could just sit and
relax. There was constant and unbelievable stress in my life, it
never let up.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sometime
in early 2009 my spiritual Kikuyu sister in Kenya told me that God
was going to have Dale give me the house. I figured that I would have
to see that to believe it after all the other bitter disappointments
of the past from God. Over the previous twenty-seven years God would
tell me some good thing He was going to do for me or give me. He
would give me hope like it would happen quickly, and then He would
suddenly pull the rug from out under me. Every time without fail it
was like “Oh, not yet, first you have to suffer”. </span></span></span><i><u><b>Prov
13:12 - Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled
is a tree of life.</b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
This stuff went on for over thirty years years and my heart was
deeply wounded and I became very, very bitter towards God. I used to
yell and scream at Him day after day after day. I was enraged at Him.
It was like He really got His kicks hurting me, like He enjoyed
sticking knives in my heart every chance He got. There were times I
absolutely hated Him and wished He were dead. Many days I wished that
I was dead. Hope deferred makes the heart sick, and it was God who
kept deferring every hope He gave me. He kept putting me in one
horrible situation after another after another after another. He kept
knocking me down, I would get up. He would knock me down again, and I
would get up again. It hurt like nothing I could ever have believed
possible. Naturally I got stronger each and every time, which
accomplished what He wanted. But I hated it, and sometimes hated Him
because of the torture He was putting me through. The pain was almost
unbearable.</span></span></span>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><u><b> </b></u></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><b>Chapter
Six</b></u></span>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">In 2009 God had me begin to write my blog<a href="http://www.watchman2009.blogspot.com/">www.watchman2009.blogspot.com</a>,
something He had been putting on my heart for several years. The
first message “The Destruction Of The USA” was a very potent
warning about how and why God is going to judge this wicked nation
which has turned not just away from Him, but against Him. It was a
message which was several years coming, something that my heart was
burning to tell, something from the heart of a prophet feeling God's
heart which is angry at this nation, it's people and its churches. In 1983 when
God had me give up my executive search firm and stay home and read
the Bible for eight hours a day, seven days a week, for what ended up
being nine months, I was reading in Revelation 18 and knew that was
what was going to happen to this nation. That, and the curses of Deut
28, were going to be its punishment for its sins. But it was twenty
six years later before God had let me put it in writing. Yes, He
makes us wait that long some times before we give warnings. He lets
things burn in our hearts for many years before He allows us to
speak. Do I know why? No, I have absolutely no idea why. What I do
know is that it is frustrating beyond belief. Moses probably felt the
same was having to wait for forty years before God sent him back to
Egypt to set his people free.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">And after all the churches He has put me in over the past thirty-nine
years I can now see that His judgment on the churches is not going to
be any gentler than His judgment on the USA. The churches are nice
social groups that get together a couple of times a week and talk
about how good they are and how God wants to bless them, give the
people everything their hearts desire. If they'll just give their
tithes to the church God will bless them hundreds of times over. I
remember one time watching Pat Robertson on tv on one of his
raise-money-a-thons, he calls them praise-a-thons, and he was telling
the people that so and so just sent him $100 and the next day God
gave that person $,10,000. In other words, give me your money and God
will bless you many times over – what absolute nonsense!! That's
what the focus of most churches is, give us your money and God will
give you much more. Give us your money so that we can have bigger
churches, more programs, more pastors, more staff, and we will look
so great and so important. They all seem to have missed the story of
the woman who gave her last cent to the synagogue and there was never
any mention that God gave her anything in return here on earth. They
missed in Luke where Jesus said “Unless you give up everything you
have you cannot be my disciple.” See, that's not “positive
confession”, so they ignore it. They want everything they can get
from God but forget that there is a heavy price for it.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">My friends, that kind of “faith” is not impressive to God. It is
an abomination to Him. He absolutely HATES that. He wants His people
to be ministered to personally and individually. He wants His people
to be taught to be holy, to be humble, to be kind, to be gentle, to
be patient, to be most of all loving. He wants His people to be
warned about sin and the judgment that comes from it. He wants His
people to repent for their sins. He wants this nation that He has
blessed more than any other nation in history to repent and turn from
its wicked and evil ways. He wants His people to be taught to take
care of the sick, the homeless, those in prison, the lonely, the
hurting, the ones without food or clothing. Unfortunately that is not
happening in today's churches. Today's churches are teaching people
how God wants to bless them, to prosper them, to give them everything
they want. Somewhere along the line they forgot to teach His people
that He wants them to be more like Jesus, even if that involves great
suffering and many times the loss of material goods and human
desires. Many times it means that you have to give up your own
desires and do what He leads you to do, just like the apostle Paul
and Moses had to do, just like I've had to do.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">In 1983 I went with the Bill Glass Prison Ministry to the Retrieve
Unit, a maximum security prison in south Texas, to spend the weekend
ministering to those in prison. I had never been on anything like
that before and I didn't have any expectations of evangelizing to
people there. I just went because I knew that God wanted me to go. I
remember sitting in the gym where many chairs were set up and they
let the prisoners in and they came and sat wherever they wanted to.
Several rather large black guys came and sat two rows in front of me,
guys that you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley. While the
entertainment was going on God gave me a vision of one of the guys as
a baby needing his mother to comfort him. After the show was over I
went up to one of the guards and asked him that guy's name and was
told it was William. So I went over to William and asked him if we
could talk. He said we could go to his cell and visit. So we went to
his cell and started to talk about nothing in particular, nothing
important. Suddenly he said “Brother Clifford, I ran away from God
many years ago and He sent you here to tell me it's time to return to
Him”. I was stunned!! It turned out that he was in prison for armed
robbery and the other prisoners thought he was a real mean guy. But
God knew his heart and sent me there to let him know that God still
loved him, that He hadn't forgotten him. Let me be very clear about
this, I did absolutely nothing to lead him to think this, it was the
Holy Spirit who did all the work. I was just a willing servant of the
Lord to be there. The next day at the church service I saw William in
the choir with the biggest angelic smile on his face! He glowed! You
would have thought there was an angel in the choir, and maybe there
was. I know in my heart that his life was forever changed after that
weekend. I knew he had returned to the Lord.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Another prisoner I met there was Charles, the chaplain's assistant.
He was a black man who had truly turned his life around in prison,
God had gotten a hold of him, he was a changed man. After I went back
home we corresponded a few times and I even went down there a few
months later to see him again. He was up for parole and I wrote a
letter to the parole board telling them that William was truly a
changed man and that he would never see the inside if a prison again
if they let him out on parole. A few weeks after that William wrote
me and told me that he was granted parole, I was so happy for him.
Then he told me something that still touches me to this day, he said
it was my letter to the parole board that caused the board to set him
free. I still shed a few tears when telling that story. But it was
God working through me that did all the work, I was just a willing
servant.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">I met another guy, a Latino named Ernesto, a man who was serving a
life term for murder. He was guilty and he admitted it. But he also
told me that the Lord changed his heart while he was in prison, and
God showed me it was real. He knew he was going to be in prison for
the rest of his life, but he had peace now because he had given his
life to the Lord. No, he never asked me for anything, no money,
cigarettes, nothing. He was a new man in Jesus and he helped to lead
others in prison to the Lord. He sets an example for them.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">I had no expectations when I went on that prison outing. I didn't try
to make anything happen. I didn't look for people to minister to. I
let the Lord put me together with people, or put them on my heart.
Then He did what He wanted to do through me. See, He's not looking
for people to do great works for Him, He wants to do great thing<u> THROUGH US</u>, which means we have to get out of the way and let
Him do it.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">In the homeless shelters and ministries God made me stay in for
probably nine to ten months over the last thirty nine years I saw
many who deserved to be there because of there own faults. But I also
saw many who had been through traumatic events in their lives and
were devastated by them. Maybe it was a nasty divorce, maybe the
death of a spouse, a parent, a child, maybe they lost their jobs due
to no fault of their own, maybe they had been in the military and
were in a war and came back traumatized and hadn't recovered from it.
Maybe some of those events caused them to turn to alcohol or drugs.
Whatever had happened they ended up homeless. But I saw men who if
given another chance in life would turn their lives around. If given
love, compassion, understanding, mercy and help, a second or third
chance, they could become contributing members of society again. They
could then help others who were going through the same problems they
had been through and have compassion for them.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">But it was rare to see any of that type of help in those shelters or
ministries, and even less of that type of love and compassion in the
churches. The churches send money to the shelters and think that
their job is over. They are very, very wrong. They are empty of love
and compassion, they are empty tombs. They are the very groups that
are supposed to help the homeless, the down and out, the hurting,
personally help them. They will have to answer to God for their
lukewarm and cold hearts.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> <u><b> </b></u></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><u><b> </b></u></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><u><b>Chapter Seven </b></u>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">A few months after I began living with Dale in 2008 I was driving
down the street in front of my house and saw a guy and his son who
lived across the street out in front of their house. His young son
was holding a 22 lb catfish in his hands. I stopped and admired it
and we spoke for just a couple of minutes, then I went into my house.
A few weeks later I was working in the garage and a guy walked in,
the one from across the street. His name was Neil and he needed
someone to talk to, he was going through a very painful and nasty
divorce and needed to talk, so we just sat down and began to get to
know one another. Since I had been through a very bad divorce in 1981
I knew what the pain and stress were like and had compassion for
others going through the same traumatic event. Years before this God
told me that He would send by my door many who needed ministry –
here He was doing exactly that.
</p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Neil and I spent many afternoons and evenings sitting in my garage
sharing about our lives. Neil was a large guy in his mid-30s and was
a weight-lifter. But he has one of the most gentle and tender hearts
that I've ever seen, a kind, caring and compassionate man, a
peacemaker; man of honor and integrity, morals and character. A man
you could trust with your life. He was not a spiritual man at that
time, but God told me He was calling Neil to the office of an
apostle. Neil had no concept of what an apostle was, but God has been
revealing that to him little by little. But Neil did have his
problems like all of us do. Several times God gave me warnings for
him, but he ignored them. In every case he paid a price for that
disobedience to the Lord. He, like Jesus, learned obedience by that
which he suffered. But once he learned the lessons he never forgot
them nor crossed those lines again. In all things he now wants to
obey the Lord. No, it's not easy. Sometimes the choices are extremely
difficult, they are painful, they cause great stress, but obedience
is the only way.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Before this, when God sent people to me for ministry I was always
comforting, encouraging and building them up, but in Neil's case He
would not let me encourage him. It was extremely frustrating for me
not to be able to encourage him, but God would not allow it. It hurt
me as well as him for me not to be able to do that. I didn't like it
at all because he was my brother and friend and he needed it. But God
would not allow it. Period. Yes, I could see God's purposes in doing
it that way because Neil got much stronger and stronger over these
years having to do this on his own. But I certainly didn't like God's
ways, they were painful for Neil and me. But his spiritual growth has
been a wonderful thing to behold. He is truly a servant of the Lord
now. Finally, after all these years, God is now beginning to let me
encourage him. It is a good feeling both for him and me. I know God
will use him mightily in the future. He has grown so much spiritually
that now God even uses him to give me spiritual insight on some
things from time to time.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<br /><u><b> </b></u></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><u><b>Chapter Eight </b></u>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">As for my blog, I found all kinds of “Christian” forums and
groups on the internet and would post the message “The Destruction
Of The USA” on them, hoping that the people would listen. Every now
and then someone would agree with what I was warning about, but most
of the time the response was not only someone disagreeing with my
message but with ugly rage against it. I was surprised at how people
absolutely refused to even consider that God was going to judge this
nation for slaughtering over 60 million unborn babies, and at the
highest levels promoting and parading in the streets its sins of
homosexuality, transexuality, lesbianism and same-sex marriage. I was
surprised at how people tried to judge me for every little thing they
thought they thought they could find wrong. <i><u><b>1Cor 2:15 – A
spiritual man judges all things. but is judged by no one. </b></u></i>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">The people were adamant that God would not destroy this country as
long as even one righteous man existed in it, citing Abraham's
argument with God about Sodom. What they didn't want to see was how
many times God sent the whole nation of Israel into slavery because
they turned away from Him – even though there were many innocent
people in Israel at that time. How many times He destroyed their
nation because of their disobedience. Those parts of the Bible were
negative so they chose to ignore them. They only wanted to hear how
God was going to bless them and the USA. They refused to hear the
truth. They've obviously never read the stories in the Old Testament
when David numbered the fighting men in Israel against the advice
from the elders and how God sent a plague that killed<b> </b><u><b>seventy
thousand innocent soldiers</b> </u>because David had sinned. Or how He
sent a plague that killed over<b> <u>twenty-six thousand innocent people</u></b>
in one tribe because one man had taken some forbidden objects when he
went to war. These stories they haven't read or been taught because
they are not “positive” stories about God's blessings.I remember
a prominent church that I went to in Dallas where I joined an adults
Bible study group and told them what was coming upon this nation. I
received a call from one of the pastors a few days later telling me
that I was not welcome in that group anymore.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">People
only want to believe that God is a good God who only wants to bless
them and make them happy, healthy and wealthy. They don't want to
hear that He disciplines His children and scourges every son He
receives. As I said in the first message on my blog, my messages are
for five percent of the people, the other ninety-five percent are too
immature to handle them – so also will it be for those reading this
story. The greatest part of so-called Christians are mere children
who need to be fed pablum, baby food, because they can't handle meat,
the hard stuff that requires teeth to chew. Babies only want the
soft stuff, and they need someone to feed them because they don't
want to feed themselves. That's why most people go to church on
Sundays, to be fed. They go from one church to another because they
are not being fed in the church they're in. They don't want to take
the time to read the Bible at home and feed themselves. God is
disgusted with them. Most of them will not inherit the kingdom of
heaven. </span></span></span><i><u><b>Matt 7:13 - Heaven can be
entered only through the narrow gate! The highway to hell is broad,
and its gate is wide enough for all the multitudes who choose its
easy way. Living Bible</b></u></i>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Most
Christians, at least ninety-nine percent, are children, not sons. God
doesn't give the riches and inheritance of His kingdom to children,
He gives it to those He has raised to sonship. The sons who God
scourges know what pain is all about. They know the suffering that
God has put them through. They know the hardship that He requires
them to endure, the pain, the rejection, the ridicule. The know that
the riches and inheritance of His kingdom are not what man thinks
they are, they are spiritual knowledge, wisdom and authority that
come only with spiritual maturity, suffering, spiritual adulthood - sonship.
Paul was a son and he was certainly not rich or happy, but he wrote
the book on what faith is truly all about. He wrote more of the Bible
than any other human being. His writings are filled with more
knowledge of God and His ways than anyone else's. His knowledge of
God's kingdom was greater than anyone's. He wrote what being a
Christian is truly all about, what it requires of us. And he got all
that knowledge because of what he suffered, what he gave up in human
terms. But suffering is not talked about in today's churches, it is
not “positive confession”, so people remain children, little
babies, great disappointments to God. </span></span></span><i><u><b>Hebrews
12:6 - For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, And He scourges
every son whom He receives.”</b></u></i>
</p><p><br /><u><b> </b></u></p><p><u><b>Chapter Nine </b></u>
</p><p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Over
the next few years at Dale's God began to give me some remodeling and
repair business little by little. But it was always just enough,
never anything extra that I could use to enjoy myself with. He
continued to give me hope of good things to come, making it seem like
they were coming immediately. But like always, He would pull the rug
out from under me, bitterly disappointing me. I couldn't believe
anyone, especially God, could be so cruel and heartless. Jer 20:7 -
</span></span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>You
deceived me, </b></span></i><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Lord</b></span></i><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>,
and I was deceived.</b></span></i> <span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">But
He treated Abraham, David, Joseph, Moses and others just the same way, He would give
them great hopes only to delay the promises for years and years. </span></span></span>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">But in June 2013 God actually did something really nice for me. I was
in San Antonio meeting some friends who lived near Mission, TX, at
their sons apartment in San Antonio. On the night before I had
planned to go back to Plano, the wife of my friend mentioned
something about her other son in California and God put it on my
heart to look up my stepson O.J. who I hadn't seen since the divorce
in January, 1981.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
was married in 1975 and divorced in 1981, when O.J. was 10 ½ years
old. He was my son as far as he and I were concerned since he didn't
have much of a relationship with his natural father. He called me
“Daddy” and in my heart he was my son. We had a wonderful
relationship and I couldn't have loved a natural son any more than I
loved him. But after the divorce my wicked ex wouldn't let me see him
or talk to him - step parents have no rights in Texas. She didn't
care how much it hurt O.J., all she cared about was getting even with
me. She told one of our friends to tell me that the next time I saw
O.J. would be at my funeral. I had filed for divorce and moved out,
but shortly afterward God let me know that I couldn't divorce her, it
wasn't His will. I called my attorney and told him and he understood
that I had to be obedient to God. I wouldn't move back in with her
because she was physically violent, but I couldn't divorce her. But a
couple of weeks later she hired an attorney and filed for divorce. I
was obedient to God and He was setting me free. </span></span></span><i><u><b>1Cor
&:15 - But if the unbeliever leaves, let it be so. The brother or
the sister is not bound in such circumstances. </b></u></i>
</p><p><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
few months after the divorce the Lord promised me He would bring my
beloved son back to me one day. As far as I knew he went to college
in Madrid, Spain and stayed there, married and had two children. That
night in San Antonio it was twenty-six years since I had seen him and
for all I knew he was still in Madrid. When I looked for him on the
computer that night I saw that he was now the Director of Education
at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in
….......................................San Antonio. You think this
was a coincidence, that it just happened? Nope, it was God all the
way. The next day I went by his office and needless to say he was
surprised to see me, and very, very happy. We went to a little coffee
shop down the block and talked for an hour, a very joyous hour. It
was like we had never been apart. It was absolutely wonderful. But
after I went back to Plano I called him and left messages for him,
emailed messages but never heard back. He was forty-three years old
and he was still scared of his mother finding out he had seen me. But
God will bring him back to me for good in the near future, He
promised me that. So once again, I have to rely on hope that God will
fulfill His promises to me.........someday in the future. </span></span></span><i><u><b>Prov
13:12 - Hope deferred makes the heart sick.</b></u></i>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="font-style: normal;"></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><b>Chapter
Ten </b></u></span>
</p><p> </p><p>In February 2014 God told me to go on Sunday to Eagles Nest
Cathedral, W.V. Grant, Jr.'s church. I couldn't understand why He
wanted me to go to that charlatan's church. I had seen him once in
1985 and I knew what a farce he was then. But, it's not mine to
understand, it's just my job to obey. So I went and wasn't at all
impressed, which I knew was going to be the case. Then God told me to
go seven times and He would heal me. What???? Why????? So I went
seven times hoping God would heal my body which was deteriorating
little by little, old age does that. But I didn't get healed, and
seven years later my body has still not been healed, not of even one
little thing. <i><u><b>Prov 13:12 - Hope deferred makes the heart
sick. </b></u></i>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">What
I did see was that Grant most certainly had been given the gift of
healing, that was not a fraud. </span></span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Rom
11:29 - for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.</b></span></i>
God still let's him use that gift, although he uses it to bring
attention to himself, and money for his bankroll. After the seventh
time there I sent him a letter of rebuke which included on it this
verse: <i><u><b>Matt 7:21-23 - Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord,
Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does
the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that
day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name
drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I
will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you
evildoers!’ </b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Of course he was too arrogant to listen. The last I heard he still
holds services in a dilapidated, very old building that needs major
repairs in Dallas. But as it was when I went there in 2014, there are
only less than 50 people in the services, most of them old and poor,
hoping for a miracle if they will donate enough money to Grant. Each
time I went there he told the people “God told me that 13 (the
number changed in each service) people are going to give me $366.17
(the amount changed each time)” today'. Then he would take the
offering. </span></span></span>
</p><p style="font-style: normal;"><br /></p><p style="font-style: normal;"><u><b> </b></u></p><p style="font-style: normal;"><u><b>Chapter
Eleven</b></u>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">On
March 5, 2014 Dale, my roommate, was transported to the hospital
because he couldn't get out of his chair. It took five EMTs to get
him on the stretcher, but the hospital wouldn't admit him because
they couldn't find anything wrong with him. So they brought him home.
Three days later on March 8, </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><b>the
exact beginning of the seventh year from the date I moved in, </b></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
he was taken back to the hospital. This time they kept him. He called
me about three weeks later, he knew he was dying, and told me he was
giving me the house, which was completely paid for. That was what my
Kikuyu sister in Kenya had told me in 2009. So God finally fulfilled
one of His promises. Praise the Lord for that miracle!! What a
wonderful surprise!! Dale died a month later and the house was mine
free and clear. Interestingly enough, God wakened me at 2:30 one
morning while Dale was in the hospital and had me begin to pray for
Dale. I was praying in the Spirit and had no idea why or what I was
praying for him, but it was intense. At 5:00 that morning I knew I
could stop praying for him. Thirty minutes later Dale's best friend
called me and told me that Dale had died a few minutes before. The
next day while I was reading through the Bible I came upon </span></span></span><i><u><b>Jude
9 - But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the
devil about the body of Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him
for slander but said, “The Lord rebuke you! “</b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
I realized then that I was fighting with Satan for the body of Dale.
It is very probable that Dale had a deathbed conversion and God had
me praying for him because of that, or during that very time. We have
to be obedient to God's leadings no matter how we feel about
something or someone. </span></span></span>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">This you have to understand, it wasn't Dale who gave it to me,
because after living there for awhile he didn't like me and I
certainly didn't like him, I was very uncomfortable there. This was
God who did this through Dale. Dale didn't work hard to earn the
house, he inherited a lot of money when his father died, and he quit
working and paid cash for the house out of that money. If it hadn't
have been for his inheritance he would have been living in an old,
dilapidated trailer in the country, with trash and junk pickups
strewn all over the place. That's just the type of guy he was. It was
absolute hell for me to have to live there for six years with him. I
am a “Type A” person who is always looking for something to do, a
new challenge, while all Dale wanted to do was sit, eat and watch the
idiot box night and day. I was a nervous wreck never being able to
relax for even a minute in that house. The idiot box was on
twenty-four hours a day. If it hadn't have been for the
mood-stabilizers I got from the VA I would have gone absolutely
bonkers. I was happy that God had given me the house but I paid a
heavy, heavy price for it - it wasn't free. Twice in twenty-one
years He had me give up everything I had, and then had me live with
Dale for six long, long, long years - the house wasn't a free gift.
Over the next few years when I had the money to spend on it I
completely remodeled the house, new flooring, new furniture, new
landscaping, etc. It is now a nice house, a comfortable place to
live, but it takes a woman to make a house a home - that's reality,
I have a house.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<br /><u><b> </b></u></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><u><b>Chapter Twelve</b></u>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">In May, 2015 I was pulling into the parking lot of a fast food
restaurant when a young kid driving through the lot, talking to his
girlfriend who was seated next to him, slammed into the passenger
side of my truck and did major damage. It was driveable but it looked
really bad with the passenger door all smashed in. The kid was not
insured and his parents didn't want to pay for the damages. I filed
suit and we went to court and saw an arbitrator but they still would
not agree to pay anything, so I let the lawsuit continue. For seven
months I had to drive this wrecked truck everywhere I went. It was
humiliating and I was quite angry at God for letting this happen.
After all He had put me through for the previous thirty-three years
He was doing this now. Don't you ever let up, God!!
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">In June I received a letter from some friends I met when I lived in
Phoenix in early 1986, but hadn't seen since 1988 when I went back to
Phoenix for a visit. They had sent the letter to my post office box I
had put on my blog, but I had closed that box over a year before
that. Normally the Post Office wouldn't forward a letter from an
address that old, but they did this time because God wanted me to
receive it. They had gotten my mailing address from my blog and just
wanted to see what was going on. I called them up and we talked for
awhile and I mentioned my accident to them and he said that he could
fix it, but I didn't have the money to do it so we just left it at
that. They were living in Holbrook, AZ at this time.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">In December the mother of the kid who hit me sent me a letter telling
me that they had gotten a Christmas loan (no, I still have no idea
what that is) and were willing to settle for $5,000. I told them okay
and they sent me a cashier's check. I went out looking for a good
used truck but could find nothing even close to a vehicle I could use
for my remodeling business. God put my friends in Arizona on my mind
and I called them up. When I asked Myron how they were doing he said
that they were almost out of money and food. I knew then that I
needed to send them some money from the accident settlement and head
over there to let him fix my truck so that he could earn some money
to live on.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">I arrived there three days later in Holbrook with two ice chests full
of meat and other food, and met Myron and his wife at an old building
that he was renting to own and wanted to fix up as a tire business.
Then I followed them out forty miles into the desert where they lived
in a mobile home without electricity, except for a small generator
they ran once a week, no running water and a Port-a-potty outside.
The mobile home was heated with a wood stove that they also boiled
water on. They had a propane-operated small refrigerator (I didn't
know such a thing even existed), a propane-operated stove, and
several fifty-five gallon drums that they stored water in which they
had to get from a public water supply about 30 miles away. He had a
200 gallon tank on the back of a wrecker truck he owned and they
would use that to collect water every week or two, then empty the
water into the drums. They had no garden to grow vegetables in and no
livestock to use as food. All their food came from the grocery in
town 40 miles away or from what friends in the area gave them. He had
probably twenty wrecked vehicles around the place which he had plans
to fix at some point in the next hundred years. Also on the property
was a trailer from an eighteen-wheeler which was filled with tools
and he used that as a workshop. Their nearest neighbor was about two
miles away. I had to drive forty miles into town to take a shower at
a truck stop. He worked on my truck at the place in town where he had
to use generators to operate his electric and air-driven mechanics
tools because the shop didn't have electricity, or running water, or
a a bathroom.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Every morning he woke up, looked out the window of the trailer and
began cursing “Those b#$^^*s are spraying again!!!” when he saw
the contrails of the airplanes flying over. Since they lived under a
major East-West flight path there were airplanes flying over all the
time. He knew, yes he knew, that they were spraying chemicals over
them to dumb down the people. It was all a big conspiracy by
pick-your-villian-of-the-month. The plans to dumb people down seemed
to be working well in Northern Arizona. At his place in town there
was a line of empty rail cars behind his shop, it was a major rail
artery going through there. These were cattle cars and he whispered
to me out there in the middle of nowhere, in case any spies were
listening, that the CIA had welded shackles on the inside of the
cattle cars to take the unruly citizens to the FEMA death camps that
Clinton had set up and where there were already millions of
guillotines to behead those nasty people. He also told me that he
knew the Russians were already here because in the grocery a few
weeks before that he had seen some blond headed, well- built guys
that were obviously Spetsnaz troops hiding in the desert. One day
when we were at his shop there was an Army helicopter flying over
town and he knew that they were watching him because they knew that
he knew what was going on. I listened to this stuff for fourteen days
before he finally finished my truck and I could go home. AARRGGHH!!
Lord, what did I do to deserve all this!!! And the whole time I was
there he never said one positive word. All he did was gripe, gripe,
complain and complain. I was soooo glad to be headed home.</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">The main reason God sent me there, other than helping that couple,
was to show me the kind of places of refuge where His people will be
living when His judgment is being poured out en masse upon the USA.
Those will be safe places where His people will gather and live for a
while. He will provide what we need to exist on, no more than that.
Those times are coming soon.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<br /><u><b> </b></u></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><u><b>Chapter
Thirteen</b></u>
</p><p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">During
most of the last thirty-nine years God made sure that I had no place
to go on holidays, that I had to sit all alone during those times. He
would not let anyone invite me over for Christmas dinner, Easter,
Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, etc., for most of those years. Only
for a very few of those years did He let me spend them with families.
He isolated me. I wouldn't that do kind of thing to my worst enemy,
but that's what God forced upon me. Some years I used to volunteer
with groups that fed the homeless on holidays. I remember driving
from Tyler to Dallas several years on Christmas and other holidays
helping to feed the homeless in downtown Dallas in below freezing
weather. It was so cold that it was hard to crack eggs without the
cold hurting my hands. But the people appreciated the meals that we
fed them, they felt that someone cared for them. But most holidays I
spent alone, sometimes in cheap, trashy motels. I didn't much care
for God during those times, He was certainly not my favorite person.
I thought of Him as a cruel, sadistic, hateful, sick being. There
were many days I raged at Him, the pain He was causing in my heart
was absolutely horrible. The hundreds of times He gave me hope, only
to pull the rug from under me each and every time and pierce my
heart. “Hope deferred makes the heart sick”, and He, and He
alone, was responsible for the pain and sickness in my heart. It
didn't matter what His reasoning and His purposes were, it still hurt
like hell. I realized what Jeremiah felt like when he said </span></span></span><i><u><b>Jer
20:7 - You deceived me, </b></u></i><i><u><b>Lord</b></u></i><i><u><b>,
and I was deceived.</b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Yes, Jeremiah was correct, God did deceive him. Although it's hard to
comprehend, it is true. He deceived me many, many times with the hope
He gave me, only to find out that they weren't going to be fulfilled
until some distant time in the future, if even then. </span></span></span><i><u><b>Isa
55:8-9 - “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your
ways my ways,” declares the </b></u></i><i><u><b>Lord</b></u></i><i><u><b>.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” </b></u></i>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">My blog brought to me people who needed someone to help them in
different ways. Sometimes it was to confirm to them that their
thoughts about what they felt God was going to do to this evil nation
were correct. Other times it was to show them that God was not going
to have mercy on this nation much longer. A couple of times I
revealed to people that God was calling them to be prophets. But
others were going through difficult times and needed someone to talk
to, someone who would listen and care, have compassion for them. I
was a bridge over troubled waters for quite a few of God's children.
But after they were on solid ground and didn't need me anymore, God
took them away from me. That hurt very, very badly many times, and
those wounds are still very deep in my heart.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">But He has brought me a few friends who are still with me, Neil is
one of those. My spiritual sister Anne is another one. She and I
became close as I was getting to know and work with her husband on
LSU Alumni projects, and he was a realtor I was getting work through.
I became very close with them over a period of several years and got
to know their son and daughter as well. When her daughter was
pregnant with her first child God told me that he would be a prophet
of the Lord and have a John the Baptist ministry – and he most
certainly will. For a few years I had a family I was part of,
spending holidays with them, invited to all their parties, having
them over to my house, etc. It was a wonderful time. I even anointed
their son in his late twenties as an apostle. But after six years
Anne's husband got angry with me for something that he caused, he was
completely in the wrong but had too much pride to admit it, and he
cut me out of his life. Anne and I are still close and I love her as
a sister. We still talk on a regular basis, but I can't join their
family on get-togethers anymore. Yes, it hurts. But that's the way
that God has done these things for the last thirty-nine years, time
after time after time after time.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">In 1986 I lived in Phoenix for a few months and met a guy who invited
me to a Christian business men's luncheon the next day. His name
was Lee and he and I hadn't talked but for about twenty minutes that
day, and it wasn't but a very little about me. At lunch the next day
Lee introduced me to the group as “Our brother Cliff Hilbert, the
most rejected member of the Body of Christ”. Lee had no idea what
he was saying, it was the Holy Spirit speaking through him. But he
was correct, that is who I am, and the rejections that I've written
about in this book are just a tiny particle of what I've experienced.
Do I want pity for that? No, I just hope that people will understand
where the pain in my heart comes from, and understand that my
thoughts and feelings toward God are a result of those wounds. Does
God have a reason for wounding me so horribly? Yes, so that I can
have compassion for others who have been badly wounded, people who
most will reject and walk away from just like they did me. But I
can't say that I'll have compassion for them because of the
compassion God has shown me, because He HAS NOT shown me ANY
compassion, ANY tenderness, ANY gentle care. I've had to walk all
through this without that, and I've had to walk it all alone. Because
I've walked through it all alone I know very intimately the pain and
will be more sensitive to others in pain. You might think “Praise
the Lord because he will be able to minister to many others”. Yeah,
that sounds so nice, unless you're the one going through what I've
been through. So when He said on New Year's Eve, 1982 that I would be
a tower of strength for Him, this is the way He has used to get me to
that point. His ways are certainly not my ways. His ways cause great
and horrible pain.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">My friend and brother-in-Christ, Lance in San Francisco, is another
one who has stood by me these last thirteen years since I started
writing my blog. His encouragement is what is keeping me writing this
book. He sees how wicked this nation is, living in one of the worst
spiritual states in this corrupt nation. He sees the evil every day
because of the legal field he works in, and it torments his soul. His
and his wife's prayers have helped me tremendously, given me the
strength to keep going.</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">But most of the time in the past thirty-nine years God would send
people to me for a period of time and then harden their hearts and
take them away from me. Or they would reject me for unbelievable
reasons which made no sense whatsoever. People rejected Jesus for no
reason whatsoever. Or God would take them away from me and send them
or me to another city or state, and I would have no way to contact
them. They were all of a sudden gone from my life and it left a holes
in my heart. I didn't blame those people most of the time because I
knew that it was God who was doing it, He was keeping me isolated and
in pain.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">One of the few blessings He allowed in my life has been my spiritual
family from Kenya – my daughter Esther, her husband Mwangi, their
daughter Wongoi and son Muturi. I met them through my Kikuyu sister
Virginia, Esther's aunt, in 2010 when I was fixing up their house so
they could sell it because they were moving back to Kenya. I didn't
know them for long but when they left here it was almost like I was
losing my daughter and grandchildren, a love that God had put in my
heart for them. But in 2016 they moved back here and it was so
wonderful to see them. Wongoi (Kui) and Muturi had grown up into
great teenagers, they had matured tremendously. Kui was not a little
girl anymore, she was a beautiful young woman, and Muturi was a
handsome young man. They are both perfect examples of what teenagers
should be like, I am very, very proud of them. Unfortunately, because they are black they are discriminated against. <br /></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Esther is like a daughter to me, and I remember her telling me that I
am like the father she never had. She is the sweetest, most humble
and caring person, a real sweetheart whom I dearly love. When I was
in the hospital for five days she came to see me the first night I
was there and a couple more times while I was there. I remember
introducing her to my doctor as Esther, my daughter from Kenya – it
was a perfectly natural thing to do. She looks after me like a
daughter would her father. Kui is now a Junior at Texas Tech, having
been on the President's List three times and the Dean's List for the
fourth semester. She is highly intelligent, gentle, kind and loving.
Muturi is now a freshman at University of Texas and a fine,
intelligent and strong young man. One night when I had their family
over to my house for dinner, I was in the kitchen and God told me to
get a bottle of oil and anoint Muturi as a prophet. So I went over to
him and put oil on his forehead and said “You will be called a
prophet of the Lord Most High!” I was amazed because I had no
indication of that beforehand. Interestingly enough, God has kept me
mostly apart from him since that time because He doesn't want me to
be an influence on him since he has his own prophetic role to play in
the future, not necessarily like mine. They are my grandchildren and
I love them dearly.
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<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Many years ago I had a dream where I saw the foundation of a house
laid and trenches cut in the concrete for the plumbing. Then I saw
the plumbing, white PVC pipes, assembled and hovering in the air
above the foundation. There were people all around and there was
great anger. Then the piping was put in the foundation and the anger
was gone. Then I saw a couple come up to me with a black labrador
puppy, and said “Have a puppy”. I told them “I can't have a dog
the way God moves me around”, but I knew I was supposed to take the
puppy. Then I saw an elderly gray-haired woman and she said to me
“Come stay with us for awhile”. I had no idea what it meant, even
though I tried to figure it out many times.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">About three years ago the City of Plano was installing new water
lines in my neighborhood and the streets were all torn up. The huge,
noisy machines were going up and down the streets for what seemed
like months. Dirt, large chunks of concrete, mud and trash were
everywhere. It seemed like we would never have peace and quiet around
here. Then one day it was all finished, the new waterlines were in,
the trash was gone, the dirt was gone, the machines were gone, the
workers were gone, the noise was gone – it was peaceful and quiet.
That very day I felt a small degree of peace about myself and the great
anger I had towards God was gone. He did it, He removed it, He didn't
require me to do anything beforehand or afterwards, He just did it
when He was ready to do it. After all these years of tearing up my
life He was finally starting to put things back together – but
little by little by little by little. Religious people judged and
condemned me because I was angry at God. But God didn't care, all He
cared about was that I obey Him along the way and let Him do His work
in me. Let that be a lesson to those of you who would try to judge
and condemn your brothers and sisters because of their feelings
towards God. Instead of looking for the speck in your brothers eyes,
maybe you should look at the logs in your own eyes, the coldness of
your hearts. Maybe you should try to help soothe people's pain
instead of causing them more. What hypocrites you are! <i><b>Rev
3:15-16 - “</b></i><i><u><b>I wish that you were either hot or
cold. But because you are neither hot or cold, but lukewarm, I will
spit you out of my mouth.”</b></u></i>
</p><p> </p><p>Then in March of last year one day God set me free of the bitterness
that was in my heart for so many years. I just woke up and knew it
was gone. I didn't do anything to cause God to remove it from me, He
did it because He knew He was the one who caused it by the absolute
hell He has put me through for so, so many years. It didn't matter to
Him that He was the target of most of that bitterness because He was
the one who caused it by continually wounding me, by sticking His
knife in my heart thousands of times until my heart was like raw
hamburger meat.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Oh,
you don't believe that God is the one who does these things? Then
you've never read the Bible. </span></span></span><i><u><b>Job 42:11
- All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before
came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him
</b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><b>over all the
trouble the </b></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><b>Lord</b></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><b>
had brought on him, </b></u></span><i><u><b>and each one gave him a
piece of silver and a gold ring.</b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Who does that verse say brought all the trouble upon Job? Oh, you
still think that Job had caused all this to come upon him? </span></span></span><i><u><b>Job
1:8 - Then the </b></u></i><i><u><b>Lord</b></u></i><i><u><b> said to
Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on
earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and
shuns evil.” </b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Do you think that God could say that you are blameless and upright,
that there's no one on earth like you? Why do you always try to find
the speck in your brother's eye when you have those huge logs in you
own eyes and you do nothing about them?</span></span></span>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">In March of 2019 I came down with a low grade fever which lasted nine
weeks. I spent five days in the hospital and they couldn't figure out
what was causing it. But God showed me. A friend in Massachusetts
called me and said she read that psychogenic fever, which is caused
by stress can cause fever like that, and she knew that I had been
under tremendous stress for many years because of the walk God had
put me on. The very same day my friend Neil and I were talking and he
said that this could be caused by stress, he knew some of the
horrible stress I had been under for far too many years. So, that was
the answer the doctors couldn't figure out, it was psychogenic fever
caused by the horrible stress that God had put upon me.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">On May 12, 2019 I was sitting in my easy chair and God said “You're
retired”. What!!! I'm not ready to retire!! I was certainly tired
of working with my hands for the past thirty-nine years while on this
horrid walk, but I definitely was not ready to retire at
seventy-three years of age. I expect to work into my mid to late
eighties. I love challenges. I love learning new things. I love using
my brain, but that wasn't taxed much in the past thirty-nine years.
Yes, owning a remodeling business was a responsibility, but it wasn't
much of a challenge to me. But retiring is what I had to do at that
point, although I think of it as a sabbatical. In the two months
after that I have received only three calls for small jobs, which I
had to turn down - God had shut the doors to that business. Yes, I
certainly needed a rest after what He put me through, I was exhausted
and on the extreme edge of a nervous breakdown, even though I didn't
know it. But after a few weeks I realized how close to a breakdown I
was.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">But I was not ready to quit working and sit around and do nothing,
that drives me crazy. I had a couple of small projects to do around
the house, took up the hobby of putting Ugears wooden models
together, had time read a lot of novels- but eventually that all
ran out and I was very, very bored. Retiring all of a sudden for
someone like myself is not a fun thing to do. It caused me a lot of
stress, the very thing that I didn't need more of. But that's the way
God does things in my life. No, I don't like it at all. During these
thirty-nine years in the wilderness virtually no one knew that I was
putting on an act that I liked the work that I was doing. It would
have done no one any good to know how unhappy I have been during
those years. So I simply acted like everything was fine, like I was
happy. I turned out to be a very, very good actor. It probably was
what kept me sane during those trying years. Strength? You'd better
believe it!</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Back
in 2014 when God gave me this house a couple of my friends suggested
that I get a reverse mortgage to give me enough to live on, coupled
with Social Security which I was already receiving. But I didn't feel
comfortable with that, I felt that was not what God wanted me to do.
I knew I was supposed to trust Him to provide enough work to keep me
going. So that's what I did. He did provide work for me and I made
enough to live on and and remodel the house little by little. But
there was certainly not enough to take a vacation anywhere, much less
take a much needed break. Nope, God certainly did not do that, which
didn't surprise me at all. Paul was a bondslave of Christ Jesus, and
so am I. A slave doesn't have free will, he does what his master
tells him to do regardless of how difficult it might be. Back in 1983
I was given this verse </span></span></span><i><u><b>Ps 91:11 - For
He will give His angels orders concerning you, to guard you in all
your ways.</b></u></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Sounds good doesn't it? But in my case I felt like the angels were
guarding me like a prisoner in a dungeon, making sure I had no
freedom, nor were they allowing any love, joy or happiness to come my
way for most of this walk. </span></span></span>
</p><p> </p><p>But several weeks before He had me retire, He nudged me to look into
a reverse mortgage. So I did and a few weeks later was when He told
me to retire. Thus I would have money to live on until I went back to
work. I was able to buy a 2017 Toyota Highlander Limited, a vehicle I
had been wanting for over fifteen years, paying cash for it. A few
days later on the Sunday after I bought it I took my truck, which I
hadn't made a payment on in fourteen years, and dropped it off at the
local branch of the bank I had bought it from, it was now theirs.
Now, since I had paid cash for my new car, I didn't have to ever
worry about it being repossessed. One less thing to be concerned
about.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">I also was able to take a few short days of vacation. I bought a
Canon DSLR camera to replace my favorite SLR camera that had been
stolen in a robbery when I lived in Tyler in 1998. Landscape and
wildlife photography used to be a hobby of mine that I really
enjoyed. Some of the pictures I took over the years were what I had
enlarged and framed and had decorated my home and office with. Of
course, all those pictures were lost when I had to give up everything
I owned in 1984 and 2005. Now that had a good camera I went on
several short trips and took a bunch of pictures, several of which
turned out nice and I had them enlarged and framed and they now
decorate my house. There will be more to come in the future.</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">However, last October I had just returned from three days of driving
around the mountains of Colorado, and the very night after I got home
satan himself tried to get me to pick up a gun I had bought a few
weeks before and kill myself. Yes, it was that serious an attack. It
didn't come when I was down or hurting, it came when I was on a high
after being in the mountains. It was definitely a satanic attack. But
I got through it and the next day put my pistol in my safety deposit
box at the bank so it couldn't happen again. I won't take it out
until this terrible walk is over and restoration and happiness come.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">A few weeks later I went to Beavers Bend State Park in Oklahoma for
three days. I got a little cabin in the park and planned on spending
two nights there in the peace and quiet of the park, waking up in the
morning and seeing deer right outside the cabin. There was no
cellphone reception in the cabin and no tv there, it should have been
very peaceful and relaxing. I drove around the park for a few hours
after getting there, taking a few pictures. I went to a restaurant in
the park and had a margarita with dinner. I got back to the cabin and
was there for only a few minutes when I was suddenly very disturbed
in my spirit. I was scared of something, but didn't know what it was.
It was quiet, no noise, no one anywhere around, something that should
have been wonderful, but it wasn't, it was frightening. I was glad
that I hadn't brought a gun with me because it would have been a hard
battle not to use it on myself. I knew that I couldn't stay there
that night. So I went to town and got a motel room where there were
people around and I could have a tv and use my cellphone - I made it
through that night. The next day I drove around the park for a few
hours and then drove home. It was extremely upsetting. It was a
demonic attack.</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">A couple of months after that I drove to Northern Arkansas to spend a
few days driving around and taking pictures. But that night at the
motel another demonic spirit came upon me and I didn't know what was
happening, it was traumatic. I called up my buddy Neil and we talked
for a few minutes. The Holy Spirit gave him some insight and he told
me it was a spirit of loneliness that was attacking me. He was
correct and I knew that I had to drive back home the next day. I've
never been uncomfortable being alone, I usually find it very
relaxing, so this was something entirely new to me, but very
disturbing and frightening. Then I called up Lance in San Francisco
and told him what I was going through and asked him and his wife to
keep me in their prayers. Lance and his wife are some of God's
foremost prayer warriors and their prayers reach the ears of God. Few
here will ever know of him and his wife, but the heavens shake when
they pray. God sometimes wakes them up in the middle of the night to
pray. Since they prayed for me I have had no more attacks. But I've
begun to feel the loneliness, an emptiness in my heart, a very
strange thing for me. And it's not very pleasant.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<br /><u><b>Chapter
Fifteen</b></u>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Sometime late in 2020 I decided to go see if I could find Rodney and
remembered that he had told me that he used to go to the 24/7 Club
from time to time. I had no idea what the 24/7 Club was or where it
was. I found it on the internet and saw that it was in the inner-city
area of Dallas. I went down there looking for him, but no one knew
him. You have to realize that it had been almost fifteen years since
I had seen him. But when I was leaving the 24/7 Club that day I knew
that I would be back there volunteering in the future. Earlier this
year I went there and talked to them about volunteering, but they
were closed to the public because of the Covid-19 virus. I was told
to come back in two weeks when they would be open, and so I did. They
needed someone to help them organize their clothes closet, so I
became Clothes Closet Cliff. They are a shelter for men and women who
have gotten off of alcohol and drugs and who want to stay clean, to
start a new life. They have a lot of clothes donated to them for the
residents and it takes several hours, several days a week, to keep up
with it all - so that became my task.
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<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">When I was in the closet taking care of the clothes I could hear and
see a lot of what goes on there and got to know a number of the staff
and residents. What I saw there was a completely different operation
than any of the other places that I'd been involved with in the past.
The staff there have all been through the program at the 24/7 Club
themselves, they had been addicts and alcoholics, and had great
compassion for the people who were coming there to straighten their
lives out because they themselves knew very personally what it was
like. They truly cared! They had true compassion! I had never seen
this at any of the other shelters or ministries. The leadership
really cared and it was so very obvious. I was elated at what I saw!
I saw several people who lives had completely turned around. It was a
wonderful thing to see! They have a great record of helping many
people to turn their lives around. While there I actually came out of
the closet. That's right I came out! They needed someone to sit at
the front desk and help visitors when they came in the front door, so
I came out of the closet to the front desk, lol. I was there for
three months when I got a call one morning telling me that they had a
couple of people who were covid-positive and that I shouldn't come in
until they let me know it was okay. If you want to donate to them
here is there email addy:
https://www.betterunite.com/dallas24hourclub-donatetodallas24hourclub</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">After a few days I knew that I wouldn't be back there, I was supposed
to write a book. I was supposed to come out of the emotionally
painful closet that I have been in for so many years and share my
thoughts and feelings, my pain, my struggles, my battles with others.
Why? Because there are so many out there who the Lord is bringing
through great and painful trials, people who don't understand why God
is putting them through so much suffering. And there is no one who
understands, no one who cares. This is to let them know that they are
not alone, they haven't earned God's wrath, He's not angry with them.
He is raising them up for significant responsibilities in the future.
He is preparing me to run a substantial homeless ministry in the
future.
</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Cliff Hilbert</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><br /></p>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-46036131743159783412021-07-05T15:52:00.001-05:002021-07-05T15:52:29.080-05:00Evil Has Won, America Is Lost<p>When the democrats won the presidency, the House and the Senate it marked the fall of the United States Of America. On Jan. 4 the Capitol Building became the Temple of Baal, the house of evil. From now on evil shall reign in the Capitol Building, this nation's temple. There will be fighting of good against evil in that building in the days ahead, but evil has already won. The Congress never asks what God wants for this nation because they don't believe in Him. They only care about keeping themselves in power. <br /></p><p>Millions more babies will be torn apart in their mothers' wombs and the nation will more and more lift up homosexuality and sexual impurity as things to be worshipped and honored. Those who honor God will be laughed at and hated, purity will be scorned. Honor and integrity will become things of the past, instead evil will be lifted up and worshipped. </p><p>With the evil democrats in power abortions will increase greatly and anyone who speaks against the slaughter of unborn babies will be laughed at, scorned and hated. With the evil democrats in power sexual abominations will be the norm, and sexual purity will be laughed at. Anyone who speaks against homosexuality will be called "haters" and thought to be evil. With the evil democrats in power Christians will be the most hated and ridiculed group in this nation. We will be persecuted. We will be hated. We will be laughed at. We will be discriminated against. "He that endures to the end will be saved".</p><p>With the evil democrats in power they will open the borders to every kind of evil and allow demonic activity like we've never seen before to accelerate in this nation. God has removed His hedge of protection from the USA, the walls have fallen. </p><p>The evil democrats and the wicked news media claim that biden is a "deeply religious man" because he attends Catholic church. Yet he is a man who is for abortion and homosexuality. But they hated Amy Coney Barrett and tried to destroy her because she is a Catholic. If the Catholic Church had any courage they would have excommunicated biden and pelosi long ago. That speaks of how the Vatican has become simply a political power with no spiritual insight or sense whatsoever. <br /></p><p>From God's eyes He sees the President celebrating Gay Pride Month and claiming that "Pride Month stands for love", and the Vice-President dancing in the streets with them - "They parade their sins in the streets". He sees the abomination of transexuality lifted up as something to be honored and looked up to, thought of as "courageous". He sees the military, which has already kicked Him out, paying for abortions and men who want their bodies to be physically transformed into women, and women who want to be physically changed into men. He sees homosexuals and transexuals in positions of honor and authority in the nation's government, and honored as "brave". He sees men who are dressed as women allowed into the women's restrooms and exposing their genitals to little girls. <br /></p><p> He sees criminals honored as heroes and civil authority hated as the enemy. He sees people who hate Him and Israel allowed into the Congress. He sees people who despise Him and this nation, i.e. obama, voted as President and worshipped ever since then. obama brought more evil into this nation than all the other Presidents before him, but biden will outdo him. </p><p>He sees that abortions will increase in this nation like never before, with millions more unborn babies murdered, and the taxpayers paying for that horror. </p><p>He sees that churches are claiming that homosexual love is beautiful. Even a former President, Jimmy Carter, saying in his Sunday School class that if Jesus were alive today He would approve of homosexuality. Jesus hated homosexuality when He was here on Earth, and He still hates it this day. He never said any type of sin was acceptable, and when He healed the sick He sometimes told them "Go and sin no more lest worse befall you". He NEVER accepted sin. And Carter doesn't understand that Jesus is alive and well today. </p><p>He sees that America has completely turned against Him and needs to be destroyed and the people sold into slavery. The time is short and you all need to pray about how God wants you to prepare for what He is about to do to this nation. <br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-72855785629738021562021-06-09T21:41:00.003-05:002021-06-10T06:08:37.606-05:00America The Beautiful?<p><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 30px; left: 355.883px; top: 64.8414px; transform: scaleX(1.0816);"></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" style="left: 364.883px; top: 121.028px; transform: scaleX(1.08766);">"O beautiful for spacious skies,</span><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" style="left: 386.083px; top: 144.061px; transform: scaleX(1.06684);">for amber waves of grain,</span><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" style="left: 364.483px; top: 167.061px; transform: scaleX(1.0818);">for purple mountain maj</span><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" style="left: 598.917px; top: 167.061px; transform: scaleX(1.08746);">esties</span><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" style="left: 398.483px; top: 190.061px; transform: scaleX(1.09085);"> above the fruited plain!</span><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" style="left: 421.683px; top: 213.061px; transform: scaleX(1.08173);"> America! America, </span><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" style="left: 375.083px; top: 236.061px; transform: scaleX(1.06075);">God shed His grace on thee, </span><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" style="left: 328.483px; top: 259.061px; transform: scaleX(1.09671);">and crown thy good with brotherhood</span><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" style="left: 392.283px; top: 282.061px; transform: scaleX(1.07656);"> from sea to shining sea."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" style="left: 392.283px; top: 282.061px; transform: scaleX(1.07656);">This was once a song that filled my heart with pride, a song that I loved to sing, one of the most beautiful songs ever written. Now I cannot sing it. This nation that I once loved has become a habitat for some of the most evil people on earth. It is a nation that rejoices in slaughtering its unborn children. A nation that takes delight in honoring the evils of homosexuality, lesbianism, transexualism, and same sex marriage. A nation that now despises its law enforcement officers and honors criminals, even to the point of welcoming the parents of those criminals to the White House and looking up to them. A nation that once loved and worshipped God but now admires everything that is abominable to Him. A nation filled with every abomination known to man. A nation that revels in evil and parades its sins in the streets. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" style="left: 392.283px; top: 282.061px; transform: scaleX(1.07656);">As I was sitting here a little while ago I was given a vision of what the political parties are really concerned with - and none of their thoughts are with God. None of them are truly worried about what God wants. None of them care about God. They are only concerned with power. They are a bunch of empty-headed fools fighting over things that mean nothing without God's leadership. Our national motto, "In God We Trust", has no meaning anymore. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" style="left: 392.283px; top: 282.061px; transform: scaleX(1.07656);"><span style="font-size: small;">God is on the verge of destroying this wicked nation, it has in fact already begun. It's only going to get worse. </span><br /></span></span></p><p><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 20px; left: 392.283px; top: 282.061px; transform: scaleX(1.07656);"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="text Judg-2-14" id="en-NIV-6560"></span></span><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-69967970951796170342021-04-29T20:04:00.006-05:002021-08-23T14:20:59.529-05:00Jack Johnston - United States Prophecy.com<p> Jack was taken to Heaven on March 21, 2021. He was probably God's foremost
prophet to this nation after David Wilkerson died. He was a senior
prophet. Heaven rejoiced when he entered into it. God bless you Jack.
Thanks for your service. </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-60669316511195781112021-04-06T20:15:00.002-05:002023-07-06T12:00:14.054-05:00God's View Of Slavery<p><u><b> </b></u></p><p><u><b> THIS IS WHAT GOD DID TO THE ISRAELITES WHEN THEY DISOBEYED HIM </b></u><br /></p><p> Judges 2:14 - <span class="text Judg-2-14" id="en-NIV-6560">In his anger against Israel the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> gave them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.</span></p><p><span class="text Judg-2-14" id="en-NIV-6560">Judges 3:8 - </span><span class="text Judg-3-8" id="en-NIV-6577">The anger of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim, to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.</span></p><p><span class="text Judg-3-8" id="en-NIV-6577">Judges 4:2 - </span><span class="text Judg-4-2" id="en-NIV-6602">So the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> sold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. Sisera, the commander of his army, was based in Harosheth Haggoyim.</span></p><p><span class="text Judg-4-2" id="en-NIV-6602">Judges 10:7 - </span>he became angry with them. He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites,</p><p>1 Samuel 12:9 - <span class="text 1Sam-12-9" id="en-NIV-7470">But they forgot the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> their God; so he sold them into the hand of Sisera, the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them.</span></p><p><span class="text 1Sam-12-9" id="en-NIV-7470">1 Chronicles 6:15 - </span><span class="text 1Chr-6-15" id="en-NIV-10470">Jozadak was deported when the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.</span></p><p><span class="text 1Chr-6-15" id="en-NIV-10470"> <u><b>THESE ARE RULES HE TOLD THE SLAVES TO OBEY</b></u></span></p><p><span class="text 1Chr-6-15" id="en-NIV-10470"></span>Eph 6:5 - Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.</p><p>Eph 6:6 - <span class="text Eph-6-6" id="en-NIV-29344">Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.</span></p><p><span class="text Eph-6-6" id="en-NIV-29344">Col 3:22 - </span><span class="text Col-3-22" id="en-NIV-29540">Slaves, obey your earthly
masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and
to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the
Lord.</span></p><p><span class="text Col-3-22" id="en-NIV-29540">Titus 2:9 - </span><span class="text Titus-2-9" id="en-NIV-29918">Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them. </span></p><p><span class="text Titus-2-9" id="en-NIV-29918">1 Peter 2:18 - </span>Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.</p><p>1 Tim 6:1-2 - <span class="text 1Tim-6-1" id="en-NIV-29790">All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and our teaching may not be slandered.</span> <span class="text 1Tim-6-2" id="en-NIV-29791"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>Those who have believing masters should not show them disrespect just because they are fellow believers.
Instead, they should serve them even better because their masters are
dear to them as fellow believers and are devoted to the welfare of their slaves.</span></p><p><span class="text 1Tim-6-2" id="en-NIV-29791">1 Tim 6:1 - </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-2" id="en-NIV-29791"><span class="text 1Tim-6-1" id="en-NIV-29790">All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and our teaching may not be slandered.</span></span></p><p><u><b><span class="text 1Tim-6-2" id="en-NIV-29791">RULES AFTER GOD FREED THE SLAVES </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-2" id="en-NIV-29791"> </span></b></u><span class="text 1Tim-6-2" id="en-NIV-29791"><u><b><span></span> </b></u></span></p><p><span class="text 1Tim-6-2" id="en-NIV-29791">Deut 6:12 - </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-2" id="en-NIV-29791"><span class="text Deut-6-12" id="en-NIV-5099">be careful that you do not forget the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.</span></span></p><p><span class="text 1Tim-6-2" id="en-NIV-29791"><span class="text Deut-6-12" id="en-NIV-5099">Deut 8:14 - </span></span><br /><span class="text 1Tim-6-2" id="en-NIV-29791"><span class="text Deut-6-12" id="en-NIV-5099">then your heart will become proud and you will forget the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.</span></span></p><p><span class="text 1Tim-6-2" id="en-NIV-29791"><span class="text Deut-6-12" id="en-NIV-5099">Romans 6:19 - </span></span><span class="text 1Tim-6-2" id="en-NIV-29791"><span class="text Deut-6-12" id="en-NIV-5099">I am using an example from everyday life
because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves
as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer
yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.</span></span></p><p><span class="text 1Tim-6-2" id="en-NIV-29791"><span class="text Deut-6-12" id="en-NIV-5099"> </span></span><b><u><span class="text Judg-2-14" id="en-NIV-6560"><span class="text Judg-3-8" id="en-NIV-6577"><span>RULES FOR SLAVE MASTERS</span></span></span></u></b></p><p><span class="text Judg-2-14" id="en-NIV-6560"><span class="text Judg-3-8" id="en-NIV-6577"><span>Col 4:1 - </span></span></span><span class="text Judg-2-14" id="en-NIV-6560"><span class="text Judg-3-8" id="en-NIV-6577"><span><span class="text Col-4-1" id="en-NIV-29544">Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="text Judg-2-14" id="en-NIV-6560"><span class="text Judg-3-8" id="en-NIV-6577"><span><span class="text Col-4-1" id="en-NIV-29544">Eph 6:9 - </span></span></span></span><span class="text Judg-2-14" id="en-NIV-6560"><span class="text Judg-3-8" id="en-NIV-6577"><span><span class="text Col-4-1" id="en-NIV-29544"><span class="text Eph-6-9" id="en-NIV-29347">And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="text Judg-2-14" id="en-NIV-6560"><span class="text Judg-3-8" id="en-NIV-6577"><span><span class="text Col-4-1" id="en-NIV-29544"><span class="text Eph-6-9" id="en-NIV-29347"></span></span></span></span></span><span class="text Judg-2-14" id="en-NIV-6560"><span class="text Judg-3-8" id="en-NIV-6577"><span><span class="text Col-4-1" id="en-NIV-29544"></span></span></span></span><span class="text Judg-2-14" id="en-NIV-6560"><span class="text Judg-3-8" id="en-NIV-6577"><span><span class="text Col-4-1" id="en-NIV-29544"> </span></span></span></span><u><span class="text Judg-2-14" id="en-NIV-6560"><span class="text Judg-3-8" id="en-NIV-6577"></span></span></u><span class="text Lev-25-44" id="en-NIV-3514"><sup class="versenum"></sup></span><span class="text Lev-25-44" id="en-NIV-3514"></span><span class="text Lev-25-44" id="en-NIV-3514"><sup class="versenum"> </sup></span></p><p><span class="text Lev-25-44" id="en-NIV-3514"><sup class="versenum"><b><u>OTHER VERSES ABOUT SLAVERY</u></b><br /></sup></span></p><p><span class="text Lev-25-44" id="en-NIV-3514"><sup class="versenum"> </sup></span><span class="text Lev-25-44" id="en-NIV-3514"><sup class="versenum">Lev 25:44 - </sup>Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.</span> <span class="text Lev-25-45" id="en-NIV-3515"><sup class="versenum">45 </sup>You
may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and
members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your
property.</span> <span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><sup class="versenum">46 </sup>You
can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make
them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites
ruthlessly.</span></p><div class="passage-text"><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"> </span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516">Ps 123:2 - </span><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="text Ps-123-2" id="en-NIV-16101">As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,</span><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-123-2">as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress,</span></span><span class="text Ps-123-2"> so our eyes look to the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> our God </span><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"></span><span class="text Ps-123-2">till he shows us his mercy.</span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"> </span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2">Gen 20:14 - </span></span></span><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2">Then Abimelek brought sheep and cattle and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham, and he returned Sarah his wife to him.</span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"> </span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2">Gen 20:17 - </span></span></span><br /><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"><span class="text Gen-20-17" id="en-NIV-513">Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelek, his wife and his female slaves so they could have children again</span></span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"><span class="text Gen-20-17" id="en-NIV-513"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"><span class="text Gen-20-17" id="en-NIV-513"> </span></span></span></span><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"><span class="text Gen-20-17" id="en-NIV-513"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"><span class="text Gen-20-17" id="en-NIV-513">Could it be that the Africans were one of the lost tribes of Israel and </span></span></span></span><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"><span class="text Gen-20-17" id="en-NIV-513">they turned against the Lord, just as the USA has? Or were they just another country that turned against the Lord? Maybe one day we will have the answer. But either way it is clear that the Africans turned away from the Lord and He sent them into slavery to punish them. Then He cursed their land and it remains so until this very day, and it will stay under a curse until their nation repents. <br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"><span class="text Gen-20-17" id="en-NIV-513"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"><span class="text Gen-20-17" id="en-NIV-513">But when they were in slavery here in America they turned back to the Lord and looked to Him for the hope that He would have something better for them in Heaven - that was their hope. their only hope. They humbled themselves and served their masters, most of them did anyway. They turned from their wicked and evil ways and turned back to the Lord, most of them anyway. Many of our spiritual songs come from the old black slaves who had no hope of a better life on earth, their only hope was in Heaven - that was the greatest faith this world has ever known. Many of them served their masters humbly and well and many of them were treated as members of the families that owned them. But many were abused, beaten, hung, tortured and treated worse than dogs, but many of those still kept their faith. They will be greatly honored in Heaven. </span></span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"><span class="text Gen-20-17" id="en-NIV-513"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"><span class="text Gen-20-17" id="en-NIV-513">Then, after many years in slavery, God set them free in the USA. If they remained humble and served well then God would have honored them here on earth. Many of them did just that and were loved and respected. If they continued on that path then they would have been greatly honored and blessed. Unfortunately too many chose another walk, the path to evil. They became belligerent, violent, arrogant, demanding, evil criminals. Too many were immoral and treated sex as a game and produced millions of illegitimate children that the fathers had nothing to do with. The black race in the USA has an abortion rate higher than all the other races. The black race in this nation kills one other at rates higher than all the other races combined. The black race in America has per capita the highest number of homosexuals. When God's judgment comes millions of them will be slaughtered, many will be sent back into slavery. The black race in America has the highest number per capita of their kind in prison than all the other races. <br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"><span class="text Gen-20-17" id="en-NIV-513"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"><span class="text Gen-20-17" id="en-NIV-513">But, interestingly enough, I believe that Africa will repent and turn back to the Lord many years before the USA does. We have sent missionaries to Africa for many years now, and I believe that in time Africa will be sending missionaries over here to call this nation to repentance and to teach the people here the truth, not the foolishness that the preachers over here blabber out every Sunday. I have many friends from Africa, most from Kenya. They are my brothers and sisters, sons and daughters and grandchildren whom I love very dearly. As are many of the Africans who migrate to the USA they are wonderful, humble, loving, honorable, hard-working Christians who come here for opportunity. They come knowing that they will experience racism and discrimination over here, but come anyway and this nation is better off because of them. To them I apologize for how they are treated over here, they deserve much better. God will honor most of them and send them back home before He destroys this country. </span></span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"><span class="text Gen-20-17" id="en-NIV-513"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"><span class="text Gen-20-17" id="en-NIV-513">If the USA had treated the slaves as God commanded us to then we wouldn't be having all the race problems we now have. But too many slaves were abused and treated worse than dogs, tortured, hated - we are now paying the price for that and it's only going to get worse, and the USA deserves it. <br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"><span class="text Gen-20-17" id="en-NIV-513"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"> </span></span></span><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"> </span></span></span></div><div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html"><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"></span></span></span><span class="text Lev-25-46" id="en-NIV-3516"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-123-2"><br /></span></span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-31797622860740015912021-03-13T07:56:00.001-06:002021-03-13T07:56:16.122-06:00The Woke Society<p> This is an article someone sent me a couple of months ago but God would not allow me to publish it on my blog until today. Why, I do not know. But just now He told me to publish it - His ways are not our ways and we are not to question His ways and His timing. <br /></p><div><span style="color: red;">The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America's largest and most
powerful LGBT lobby organizations, is pushing Joe Biden and Kamala
Harris to target Christian educational institutions, demanding that the
Biden Administration strip colleges that adhere to rules and positions
opposing homosexuality of their accreditation. </span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">The
HRC's "Blueprint for Positive Change," which offers 85 recommendations,
proposes eliminating non-discrimination exemptions for religious
colleges if they refuse to abandon the biblical position on marriage.</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">Al
Mohler, a theologian and president of the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, sounded the alarm on the HRC's push in an essay titled "A
Direct Threat to Christian Education." The laundry list demanded by the
HRC, he notes, are fundamentally transformational. </span></div><div>
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<span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">The HRC is demanding that the State Department "include a
non-binary gender marker" on identification such as passports and form a
panel to explore how the LGBT agenda can be classified as "inalienable
rights" and how this agenda can be pushed in international relations.</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">But the most dangerous proposal is aimed at essentially destroying Christian institutions overnight. As Mohler put it:</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">The
Blueprint states, "Language regarding accreditation of religious
institutions of higher education in the Higher Education Opportunity Act
could be interpreted to require accrediting bodies to accredit
religious institutions that discriminate or do not meet science-based
curricula standards. </span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">The Department of
Education should issue a regulation clarifying that this provision,
which requires accreditation agencies to 'respect the stated mission' of
religious institutions, does not require the accreditation of religious
institutions that do not meet neutral accreditation standards including
nondiscrimination policies and scientific curriculum requirements."</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">In terms of accreditation, that is an atomic bomb.</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">In
clear text, for all the world to see, the Human Rights Campaign summons
the Biden administration to deny accreditation--or, at the very least,
to facilitate the denial of accreditation--to Christian institutions,
Christian colleges and universities, and, for that matter, any other
religious institution or school that does not meet the demands of the
LGBTQ orthodoxy. </span></div><div>
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">This would mean abandoning biblical standards for
teaching, hiring, admissions, housing, and student life. It would mean
that Christian schools are no longer Christian.</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">This
is insidious from top to bottom. Schools that will not get in line with
the moral revolution, if the Biden Administration acts as demanded,
will be denied their accreditation. We must not miss the language:
Accreditation should be revoked for those who do not meet the LGBT
"non-discrimination" standards or "science-based curricula standards."</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">Wait
just a minute. The Human Rights Campaign is not known for any
particular agenda on the creation-evolution front, nor is the group
preoccupied with particle physics. The Human Rights Campaign is
targeting issues of sexual orientation and gender identity, cloaking
them in the language of "science." This is an undisguised effort to
require Christian schools and colleges to abandon biblical authority or
lose accreditation.</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">This is an open threat to
the ability of Christian colleges and schools to operate by Christian
conviction. This is an outright attempt to eliminate religious freedom
for Christian schools--or for any religious school that refuses to bow
to the moral revolutionaries at the Human Rights Campaign.</span></div><div>
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<span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">Mohler further noted that this is "an undisguised attempt
to shut down any semblance of a Christian college or university that
would possess the audacity to operate from a Christian worldview." As
I've noted before in this space, the LGBT lobby has been open about the
fact that when they achieve power, their goal is to "punish the
wicked"--their words, not mine. </span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">The Human
Rights Campaign and other LGBT organizations, infuriated by the
four-year pause in the rainbow blitzkrieg transforming American
institutions, is going to come after Christians with a vengeance.</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">Joe
Biden, it must be noted, is as radical as the HRC is on these issues.
He openly promised every LGBT leader who would listen that he would be
their man in the White House, and for LGBT activists, this means going
after their enemies. </span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">Their enemies, as the HRC
has made clear once again, are those who refuse to join the Pride
Parade and stubbornly cling to beliefs and traditions that have lasted
for thousands of years rather than joining them on the "right side of
history" (which is roughly less than two decades.) They have been
meticulously researching methods of toppling Christian institutions.
Their "Blueprint for Positive Change" is just a start.</span></div><div><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-89913990413124215632021-03-13T07:48:00.001-06:002021-03-13T07:48:52.011-06:00Earthquakes<p> For several months now I have felt an urging to warn of a swarm of earthquakes that I feel are coming very, very soon, but I didn't want to post about them until I was more certain. But this morning the thought came to my mind once again and I know it was from the Lord. Where in this nation they are going to hit and when I do not know, but I do know they will come very, very soon. They are part of the great shaking that God is sending upon this nation - not only a spiritual shaking but also a physical one - and part of His judgment as well for a nation that has told Him He is not wanted here any more. But I don't believe that the great quake that will literally split this nation in two is coming just yet, that is still a little ways off. <br /></p><p>I remember that David Wilkerson had said some years ago that they would start in Japan first and then proceed to the USA. Last month Japan had a 7.3 quake. Japan has minor quakes several times a month but they are getting stronger lately. </p><p>God has warned and warned this nation but we haven't listened. He was absolutely infuriated when so few people showed up at Jonathan Cahn's Repentance Gathering in DC in September, and His patience and mercy have run out. Now that the evil party, the Democrats, are in complete control the USA will plunge into the abyss of darkness quickly. I remember in the months preceding the election that Biden said several times that the election was about the soul of this nation. He was correct, now the soul of this nation is as dark as coal.<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-21107524901318503792021-02-17T16:38:00.001-06:002021-02-17T16:40:24.651-06:00Rush Limbaugh<p> One of America's greatest patriots died today. I wasn't a big listener of Rush, I probably only heard him for 4-5 hours in my life, but from everything I heard about him he was a good man who really loved this nation, a true patriot. And, from what I've heard, a strong Christian. I don't know nor care what denomination he was a part of, nor does God, but he loved Jesus and he loved the USA. President Reagan said that liberals considered him the most dangerous man in America, so he must have done something right. </p><p>With his death there is one less good, conservative Christian to fight the evil that is rapidly taking over America, evil that will grow faster and stronger each and every day. God took him home so that he wouldn't see the destruction of the country he loved so dearly. Rest in peace, Rush. You did what you could to help this nation, a nation that turned the other way and has chosen evil over good. <br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-64464232666675398622021-02-10T18:30:00.000-06:002021-02-10T18:30:20.839-06:00The Past And The Future<p> In 2020 we saw God unleash His fury upon this nation like never
before, and it's only going to get worse in 2021. The days of mercy upon
the USA are over and we can only expect more of God's wrath this year
and in the coming years. </p><p>In 2020 we experienced the Covid-19
pandemic that killed over 400,000 people in the USA. The economy
was shaken like never before, it was actually shut down for months, and
IT WILL NEVER FULLY RECOVER. Then, when we thought we had a cure for it,
it was discovered that there were many variations of it around the
world and the vaccines that work for the initial virus in this nation
might not fully protect us from the other variations of the virus from
around the world. This plague could last for much longer than we
thought.<br /></p><p>Last year was the most active hurricane season in
history with a total of 30 named storms, 12 of which hit the USA coast, 5
of which hit the Louisiana coast. It was the worst hurricane season in
history. </p><p>In 2020 58,250 wildfires occurred across the USA which
burned 10.3 million acres, 40% of them in California. One of the worst
destroyed the town of Paradise, CA - that was another example of how God
is about to destroy our paradise here in the USA. </p><p>We also saw
riots, burning and looting much of the year making racism even worse,
not better, in this nation. There is an underlying anger in this country
that is going to boil over in the coming years causing civil war in
this nation. We saw some of that on Jan. 6 this year with the riot in
the Capitol itself. <br /></p><p>Last year we saw how prejudiced the news
media is against conservatives and Christians, how filled with hatred
they truly are - they destroyed the presidency of Donald Trump, along
with the help of the liberals who have shown how hate-filled they are
toward anyone who doesn't agree with them. This year they will worship
Biden and the hate-filled liberals, they will call evil "good" and good
"evil". They will praise anything that is immoral. <br /></p><p>In 2020
this nation elected the most evil president we've ever had, a man who is
already showing how wicked he is. And he's only going to get much, much
worse in 2021. He is a wolf in sheep's clothing and he is slowly,
little by little, taking off his outer clothing and showing the evil
that truly exists inside him. Even his own people will be amazed at the
duplicity in this man. </p><p>The nation gave total power to the
Democrats by giving them the Presidency, the House and the Senate, and
now we will really begin to see the darkness that is inside of them.
Biden, Pelosi and Schumer will manifest evil like we've never before
seen in this wicked nation. The nation will get what it deserves. </p><p>When
I went to DC back in September and I was sitting down just outside the
fencing around the Capitol I felt something that I couldn't understand
at the time, when I looked at the Capitol I sensed what I thought was
peace. Now that didn't make any sense at all because there was no peace
in this nation at that time and no peace among the members of Congress
who worked in the Capitol building. Maybe it was a feeling of emptiness,
since the building was empty, but that made no sense either. So I just
let it go and didn't think any more about it. </p><p>A
few days ago I saw on Amazon that a new book had come out, a
compilation of two books that were written almost 50 years ago by David
Wilkerson, God's prophet to the USA, "Vision" and "Set The Trumpet To
Thy Mouth". So I ordered it and it came in yesterday. I've been reading a
little of it each day and today I read a verse he had put in the second
book - Deut 32:28 -<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 32:27-29&version=KJ21" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> KJ21</a>
“For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any
understanding in them." All of a sudden I knew what I had sensed that
day at the Capitol- I sensed the emptiness, the void of counsel in that
building, the absence of common sense, of reason. Neither is there any
true understanding of the situation this nation is actually in,
spiritually speaking. </p><p>We are on the verge
of destruction and NO ONE in that building sees it, NO ONE! The only
thing anyone in that building really cares about is power, something
that God will swiftly take away from them in the coming days. Their
power will be removed from them and they will be slaughtered by an
opposing army. What they felt on Jan. 6 will suddenly become very, very
real and they will be in a state of utter terror. The National Guard
will be no match for the forces of evil that will attack that building
and the members of Congress in it. They will be slaughtered. No army can
prevent it, for God has ordained it. The attack will come quickly,
suddenly and without warning. That is God's judgment upon that senseless
group of fools who care not about God, His ways or this nation. Many of
the current members of Congress will be there when this happens.</p><p>When will this happen? I do not know, but I do know it will be soon, whatever God means by soon. <br /></p><div class="ydp1b1eb181yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><div><div class="ydpcc669176singleverse-row"><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div><div><br /><br /></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-42839768450682828432021-01-26T15:23:00.005-06:002023-09-12T17:37:01.938-05:00A Prophetic Word to Joe Biden<p> </p><p> </p><p><a href=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrCtoQUXnmc"><span style="color: #741b47;"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrCtoQUXnmc</span></a></p><p> </p><p>This message to Joe Biden by Jonathan Cahn is the most important message in history to an American President. It is also a damning message to the USA. His words are straight from the mouth of the Lord. A friend sent me this last night and I was deeply touched by it because I have had the very same thoughts on my heart for several days now, some of them I put in my last message on this blog, The Day Freedom Died, The Death Of The United States Of America, which I posted on Jan. 22. </p><p>Contrary to what the false prophets are saying there will be no peace, no blessings, no great revival by this nation. Without repentance there will be no revival. There can be no true repentance unless the people turn from their wicked and evil ways, which HAS NOT AND WILL NOT HAPPEN IN THE USA. People have told me what many of the false prophets are saying, that Trump will be put back into office and he will turn this nation around, that we will once again be a great, powerful and prosperous nation that the Lord will once again smile upon and bless. They are liars, they are false prophets who have no idea who or what God is and what He is going to do to this lost, wicked and evil nation.The good times are over and a period of great weeping will soon be upon us. </p><p>From this point forward the USA will become the most perverted and sinful nation in history. There will be no more patience by God, no more mercy for an evil people. </p><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>Deut 28: 15-68 </b></u></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Deut-28-15"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>However, if you do not obey the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:</span></span></p><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><div class="left-1 child-first-line-1 top-05"><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Deut-28-16" id="en-NIV-5628"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Deut-28-17" id="en-NIV-5629"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Deut-28-18" id="en-NIV-5630"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Deut-28-19" id="en-NIV-5631"><sup class="versenum">19 </sup>You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.</span></span></p></div><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><p class="top-05"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Deut-28-20" id="en-NIV-5632"><sup class="versenum">20 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.<sup class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NIV-5632a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-5632a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=deut+28&version=NIV#fen-NIV-5632a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</sup></span> <span class="text Deut-28-21" id="en-NIV-5633"><sup class="versenum">21 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-22" id="en-NIV-5634"><sup class="versenum">22 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-23" id="en-NIV-5635"><sup class="versenum">23 </sup>The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-24" id="en-NIV-5636"><sup class="versenum">24 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.</span></span></p><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Deut-28-25" id="en-NIV-5637"><sup class="versenum">25 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-26" id="en-NIV-5638"><sup class="versenum">26 </sup>Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-27" id="en-NIV-5639"><sup class="versenum">27 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-28" id="en-NIV-5640"><sup class="versenum">28 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-29" id="en-NIV-5641"><sup class="versenum">29 </sup>At midday you will grope
about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in
everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with
no one to rescue you.</span></span></p><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Deut-28-30" id="en-NIV-5642"><sup class="versenum">30 </sup>You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-31" id="en-NIV-5643"><sup class="versenum">31 </sup>Your
ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it.
Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned.
Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-32" id="en-NIV-5644"><sup class="versenum">32 </sup>Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-33" id="en-NIV-5645"><sup class="versenum">33 </sup>A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-34" id="en-NIV-5646"><sup class="versenum">34 </sup>The sights you see will drive you mad.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-35" id="en-NIV-5647"><sup class="versenum">35 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.</span></span></p><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Deut-28-36" id="en-NIV-5648"><sup class="versenum">36 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-37" id="en-NIV-5649"><sup class="versenum">37 </sup>You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will drive you.</span></span></p><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Deut-28-38" id="en-NIV-5650"><sup class="versenum">38 </sup>You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-39" id="en-NIV-5651"><sup class="versenum">39 </sup>You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-40" id="en-NIV-5652"><sup class="versenum">40 </sup>You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-41" id="en-NIV-5653"><sup class="versenum">41 </sup>You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-42" id="en-NIV-5654"><sup class="versenum">42 </sup>Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.</span></span></p><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Deut-28-43" id="en-NIV-5655"><sup class="versenum">43 </sup>The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-44" id="en-NIV-5656"><sup class="versenum">44 </sup>They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.</span></span></p><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Deut-28-45" id="en-NIV-5657"><sup class="versenum">45 </sup>All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-46" id="en-NIV-5658"><sup class="versenum">46 </sup>They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-47" id="en-NIV-5659"><sup class="versenum">47 </sup>Because you did not serve the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,</span> <span class="text Deut-28-48" id="en-NIV-5660"><sup class="versenum">48 </sup>therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.</span></span></p><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Deut-28-49" id="en-NIV-5661"><sup class="versenum">49 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,</span> <span class="text Deut-28-50" id="en-NIV-5662"><sup class="versenum">50 </sup>a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-51" id="en-NIV-5663"><sup class="versenum">51 </sup>They
will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land
until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-52" id="en-NIV-5664"><sup class="versenum">52 </sup>They will lay siege
to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls
in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities
throughout the land the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God is giving you.</span></span></p><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Deut-28-53" id="en-NIV-5665"><sup class="versenum">53 </sup>Because
of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you
will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God has given you.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-54" id="en-NIV-5666"><sup class="versenum">54 </sup>Even
the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on
his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children,</span> <span class="text Deut-28-55" id="en-NIV-5667"><sup class="versenum">55 </sup>and
he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that
he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your
enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-56" id="en-NIV-5668"><sup class="versenum">56 </sup>The most gentle and sensitive
woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to
touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she
loves and her own son or daughter</span> <span class="text Deut-28-57" id="en-NIV-5669"><sup class="versenum">57 </sup>the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.</span></span></p><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Deut-28-58" id="en-NIV-5670"><sup class="versenum">58 </sup>If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God—</span> <span class="text Deut-28-59" id="en-NIV-5671"><sup class="versenum">59 </sup>the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-60" id="en-NIV-5672"><sup class="versenum">60 </sup>He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-61" id="en-NIV-5673"><sup class="versenum">61 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-62" id="en-NIV-5674"><sup class="versenum">62 </sup>You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-63" id="en-NIV-5675"><sup class="versenum">63 </sup>Just as it pleased the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.</span></span></p><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Deut-28-64" id="en-NIV-5676"><sup class="versenum">64 </sup>Then the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-65" id="en-NIV-5677"><sup class="versenum">65 </sup>Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-66" id="en-NIV-5678"><sup class="versenum">66 </sup>You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-67" id="en-NIV-5679"><sup class="versenum">67 </sup>In
the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the
evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill
your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.</span> <span class="text Deut-28-68" id="en-NIV-5680"><sup class="versenum">68 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.</span></span></p><p><span class="text Deut-28-68" id="en-NIV-5680"> </span><span class="text Deut-28-68" id="en-NIV-5680">ALL these things are coming upon this country which was once the greatest nation on Earth. I began this blog in 2009 with the message "The Destruction Of The USA", and we are now beginning to see these things come to pass - the coronavirus being the beginning, <u><i><b>just the beginning</b></i></u>. If this nation would have taken repentance seriously last year then the curses of Deut. 28 would have been delayed for 7-10 years, hoping that true repentance would happen across the country during that time. But that is no longer the case. <br /></span></p><p><span class="text Deut-28-68" id="en-NIV-5680">Yes, there will still be a revival. But it will happen during the time of great persecution coming upon the Christians in this nation. Revival will come from the hearts of the lost, the hopeless, the desperate, the street people, the unclean, the poor, not from the churches. The churches still have no idea what is really happening spiritually here. They are blind and lost. </span></p><p><span class="text Deut-28-68" id="en-NIV-5680">As I have said several times on this blog "A nation divided against itself will not stand". This nation will see a rapid falling apart. We will see a great shaking coming - earthquakes like the world has never seen. I would advise every one of you to get off the social forums: Facebook, Twitter, and whatever the rest of them are. Your statements on those forums will be used against you to prevent you from getting credit, buying a home or car, getting a job, etc. Great persecution of the righteous is coming. <br /></span></p><p><span class="text Deut-28-68" id="en-NIV-5680"><span class="text Deut-28-68" id="en-NIV-5680">May God watch over and protect those who are His true servants. <br /></span></span></p><p><span class="text Deut-28-68" id="en-NIV-5680"><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-8394415807363612602021-01-22T18:24:00.001-06:002021-05-13T11:32:17.355-05:00The Day Freedom Died, The Death Of The United States Of America<p> </p><p> Today is the day that freedom died in the USA. Today is the day that the United States sounded it's death knell. THREE STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT - today Biden will sign an executive order revoking the Mexico City Agreement, an agreement that "<span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">is a United States government
policy that blocks U.S. federal funding for non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) that provide abortion counseling or referrals,
advocate to decriminalize abortion, or expand abortion services". In other words we did not fund other countries' groups who counseled for, or provided, abortion. This program was started under Reagan, revoked by clinton, put back in motion by Bush, revoked again by the evil obama, put back as policy by Trump, then revoked again by biden in his first days in office. Three times the democrats told God that they rebuked Him and would defy Him. The third time they did this, today, they signed the death warrant for this nation.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">When I got to D.C. in September and went to the Capitol it was fenced off and I could not get to the steps to pray - this was the day after the Repentance Gathering. So I had to go to a bench just outside the fencing where I prayed in the Spirit for 1 1/2 hours. I didn't think much of it until today when God let me know it was HE who put the fencing up so that I could not get to the Capitol and pray on the steps. He was the one who prevented any prayers being prayed for this nation after so few people showed up for the gathering the day before. Yesterday He gave me these verses to let me know why He prevented me from praying on the steps of the Capitol: <span style="color: red;">Jer 7:16 - </span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span class="text Jer-7-16" id="en-NIV-19136">So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen to you. Jer 11:14 - </span></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span class="text Jer-7-16" id="en-NIV-19136"><span class="text Jer-11-14" id="en-NIV-19241">Do not pray for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their distress. Jer 13:14 - </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span class="text Jer-7-16" id="en-NIV-19136"><span class="text Jer-11-14" id="en-NIV-19241"><sup class="versenum"></sup>I will smash them one against the other, parents and children alike, declares the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>. I will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep me from destroying them.</span></span><span class="text Jer-7-16" id="en-NIV-19136"><span class="text Jer-11-14" id="en-NIV-19241"> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span class="text Jer-7-16" id="en-NIV-19136"><span class="text Jer-11-14" id="en-NIV-19241"><span style="color: black;"><span class="text Ezek-33-6" id="en-NIV-21287"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">There will be no more mercy for this country, no more patience by God - He has had enough!</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"> On the way back home from my trip to D.C. back in September I was very, very angry at God because He didn't do for me a couple of things that He led me to believe He was going to do for me while I was on that trip. By the time I got home I was enraged at Him! Then after a few days I got over it and I calmed down. I didn't think much of it after that. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">But after Trump lost the election and then the GOP lost control of the Senate when the two democrats in Georgia won the runoff election in January, God brought back to my mind how I felt after my trip to D.C. a few months ago. It was then I realized that I was feeling His rage at this nation after so few Christians showed up in D.C. at the Repentance Movement in September. The latest estimate I have seen was that fewer than 50,000 people showed up at that gathering. Here are the figures from some previous marches in D.C.: </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">1987 - 500,000 showed up for the homosexual rights march</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">1989 - 550,000 showed up for a march FOR abortion</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">1993 - 300,000 showed up for a homosexual rights march </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">1995 - 850,00 for the Million Man March</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">2000 - 400,000 for the homosexual rights march</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">2004 - 750,000 for abortion rights march</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">2017 - 1,500,000 for abortion and homosexual rights march</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="color: red;">2020 - less than 50,000 showed up to repent for this nation's sins. </span></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">Do those figures stun you? They do stun me. <span style="color: red;">Can you imagine how God must have felt when so few people showed up in D.C. for the most important march in this nation's history!! <span style="color: black;">It showed Him how little the Christians of the USA really care for Him and what's important to Him. Can you imagine if the Supreme Court outlaws abortion how many women will be rioting in rage in D.C. !!! But very few Christians cared enough to go to D.C. to repent for this nation's sins. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"> Yes, the Supreme Court will outlaw abortion in the near future and the nation will be enraged! But Biden will quickly have the number of Justices on the Court enlarged and once again abortion will be legalized. What will the churches do about this? Nothing. There are really few Christians who truly care about the abomination of abortion. Many have friends who believe that it is a good thing to slaughter a baby while it's still in it's mother's womb, and they will stand up for that friend's right to believe that. They will stand up for evil, believing it is a woman's right to approve of abortion. Those so-called "Christians" will share in the sins of those evil friends and the blood of the babies who are torn apart limb by limb in their mother's wombs because they stood by and said nothing. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">I thought that after the gathering in D.C. that God would have mercy on this country and that He would have Trump re-elected, but now I understand why that didn't happen - God was enraged that so few people cared enough to repent for this country's abominations. I still remember God telling me "three" regarding Trump, and I thought it meant that he would be in office for three more years. Obviously I was wrong in my understanding of that. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">On Dec. 6 , 2019 I posted a message on here titled "Demons Of Hatred Unleashed". In there I said "</span></span></span></span><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">The demons of <b>HATRED</b> have been unleashed upon this nation and
will get much, much worse next year. Just a peek at the impeachment
hearings show how evil and filled with <b>HATRED</b> the liberals have become." The liberals were filled with unbelievable hatred toward a President, like we've never seen before. Then George Floyd was killed and the blacks once again began rioting, burning and looting causing even more hatred. The nation's news media were so biased and filled with such hatred for Trump that they raised the bar of hatred even more when the election came near. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">In that message I also said this "</span></span></span></span><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Something else that will greatly increase in the USA is America's blacks killing each other. They <b>HATE</b>
each other so much that they presently kill one another at rates higher
than all the other races combined do. Those numbers will skyrocket next
year." That certainly has happened and the latest figures I've read state that in 2020 black-on-black murders have gone up over 50% in most major cities.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">I also said "</span></span></span></span><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Lawlessness will greatly rise next year also. The crime rates will soar. <b>HATRED</b> will increase like never before." That speaks for itself, it certainly has occurred. Would any of you ever have believed that we would see the far left taking over areas of major cities and banning the police from those areas?<br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">In that same message I also said "</span></span></span></span><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Next year we will see several Congressmen and Senators assassinated." The Lord told me that we would see several members of Congress assassinated and I thought He meant that it would happen in 2020. Obviously I was wrong on when it was going to happen, but it will most certainly happen soon. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Now that the democrats have complete control of the government we will see depravity and decadence like this nation has never seen. There will be no turning back to more innocent days. What can you do about all this? Get in your prayer closets and pray like you never have before, asking God to show you how to prepare for the horrors He is about to unleash upon this wicked, evil nation.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">One thing you should not do is turn to your pastors for help. 99% of the pastors in this nation did nothing to tell their flocks the differences in the platforms of the two major parties, how the democrats were for the slaughter of unborn babies and the abominations of homosexuality, lesbianism, transexuality and same-sex marriage. Those pastors were afraid to talk about the election because they were afraid that they might offend some people in their congregations by telling them the truth; they were afraid that those members would be angry and leave the church thereby hurting the financial coffers of the churches. They were afraid of losing members and thus the churches wouldn't have enough money to continue with their huge staffs and many programs, their building funds would deflate. They were afraid to tell their flocks the truth. Now those "leaders" are going to pay for their foolishness. <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br /></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><br /></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"> </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"> <br /></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><br /></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-20557197237715081212020-11-04T17:27:00.005-06:002022-05-05T09:51:42.407-05:00It's Not Over Until It's Over<p> Right now it looks like Biden has won the election. But take hope, it's not over until Jan. 20, Inauguration Day. God can do wonderful things at the very last second, which is how He usually works. When you think all is lost, that is when He steps in and does His work so that you will know it is Him who is doing it. So don't give up hope, keep in prayer and see what God does. <br /></p><p>Some of you are wondering how my trip to DC went at the end of September. On the second night of my drive there I had a dream/vision of a number of people with shackles in their hands trying to shackle a donkey standing there, the donkey being the symbol of the Democratic Party. Then I heard/saw this: "<span style="color: red;">A nation divided against itself <b>WILL NOT STAND</b>!</span>!". Were the people trying to shackle the donkey actually angels? I don't know. <br /></p><p>I arrived in DC late on Saturday afternoon, the day of the gathering at the National Mall to call this nation to repentance. I drove through DC looking for an hotel to stay for a night and happened by the National Mall. I was hoping to see hundreds of thousands of people packing the Mall from one end to the other. I did see a large crowd, but nothing like I had hoped to see. In 1995 the evil Louis Farrakhan called upon the black men to gather in DC on Oct. 16. The National Park Service estimated that there were 837,000 black men there. At the gathering for repentance this year there were less than 50,000 Christians. Yes, there were thousands watching on their computers but far fewer in DC then I had hoped to see. Unfortunately it showed me, and God, how very few Christians in this nation take the verse "<span class="text 2Chr-7-14" id="en-NIV-11339">If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land" seriously. <u><b>There should have been MILLIONS OF PEOPLE blanketing Washington, DC on their knees asking God for forgiveness for this nation's abominations. </b></u></span><span class="text 2Chr-7-14" id="en-NIV-11339">Yes, I know it was in the midst of the Covid-19 virus, but if the
Christians in this country were serious about repenting there would have
been hundreds of thousands more.</span></p><p>The next morning I went to the Capitol, which was completely fenced off, sat/knelt on a bench just outside the fencing and prayed in the Spirit for about 1 1/2 hours and then left. That was it. My job there was finished. </p><p>The one thing that people don't pay attention to is this part of the verse from 2 Chronicles: <span style="color: red;"><u><i><b> <span class="text 2Chr-7-14" id="en-NIV-11339">and turn from their wicked ways</span></b><span class="text 2Chr-7-14" id="en-NIV-11339"></span></i><span class="text 2Chr-7-14" id="en-NIV-11339"></span></u><span class="text 2Chr-7-14" id="en-NIV-11339"><span style="color: black;"> - that will be this nation's downfall. <br /></span></span></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-55476735120118324002020-09-08T19:29:00.007-05:002020-10-11T18:39:57.716-05:00Judgment And Your Arks<p> When I go to Washington, D.C. on Sept.27 and get on my knees on the steps of the Capitol Building I will not be praying for mercy for this nation, instead I will be praying for more time for a great harvest of salvation and for more time for His people to prepare their arks for the coming judgment. That is quite different than what I originally thought it would be. I cannot ask God to forgive this wicked nation after we have slaughtered over 60,000,000 unborn babies and overturned God's law of marriage. We now call good "evil" and evil "good". America's fall from God has deepened and accelerated. Jericho was destroyed because they were sacrificing their children to a false god. So also will America be destroyed. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of sexual immorality. So will America be destroyed. <br /></p><p>Since I first began my blog with warnings in 2009 this nation has turned even further away from God and gone deeper into the abyss of evil. There is no hope for this nation to repent, it has gone much too far and the scales of judgment cannot be brought back up. The darkness is weighing too heavily on those scales. God <u><b>will not relent</b></u> regarding His judgment. <u><b>There will be no forgiveness for America.</b></u> Not only has the nation itself turned against God, but the churches themselves haven't heeded the warnings of God's prophets. When He gave me the message "The Last Call" in May, He gave me that specific title, it wasn't something I came up with. I didn't realize until two months later what exactly it meant - it meant that this was t<u><b>he last call to repentance, the last call to this nation. </b></u>I was stunned when He showed me that, and <b><u>I know He was serious.</u></b> He also reminded me that ALL of Nineveh repented, from the king on down, only A FEW in America have repented. <br /></p><p>This is the state of today's churches: <span style="color: red;">"<span class="text Rev-3-1"><span class="woj">I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.</span></span> <span class="text Rev-3-2" id="en-NIV-30749"><span class="woj">Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God. </span></span><span class="text Rev-3-2" id="en-NIV-30749"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rev-3-15" id="en-NIV-30762"><span class="woj">I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!</span></span><span class="text Rev-3-16" id="en-NIV-30763"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum"> </sup>So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.</span></span><span class="text Rev-3-17" id="en-NIV-30764"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum"> </sup>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.</span></span><span class="text Rev-3-18" id="en-NIV-30765"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum"> </sup>I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.</span></span></span></span></span><span class="text Rev-3-19" id="en-NIV-30766"><span class="woj"><span style="color: red;"><sup class="versenum"> </sup>Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent."</span> The churches have been warned over and over again for over 50 years now, but they have not listened and they certainly have not repented, nor will they. God has has enough. This year and next thousands of churches will fall apart because of the coronavirus - judgment comes first upon the house of the Lord. I personally hope and pray that most television ministries will fail because they are nothing but thieves and liars, stealing money from the hopeless, the desperate, the widows and the poor. </span></span> </p><p>It is getting near the time to enter into your arks. I'm not going to go into a long explanation of what that means, I will instead refer you to a message I wrote on this site in December, 2009. I just re-read that message and it is even more applicable today. On Sept. 27 I will be asking God for more time for people to finish their arks. <a href="http://watchman2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/your-ark-and-coming-flood.html">http://watchman2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/your-ark-and-coming-flood.html</a> If the link doesn't work just go to my blog <a href="http://watchman2009.blogspot.com/">http://watchman2009.blogspot.com/</a>and scroll down to that message. 1 Pet 3:20 - <span class="text 1Pet-3-20" id="en-NIV-30445">God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. I believe He is VERY, VERY patient right now, but that won't last much longer.<br /></span></p><p>The other thing I will be praying for is for a harvest of souls like this nation had never seen, maybe like the world has never seen. The harvest, and the revival, will come from the streets, not the churches. Remember the parable of the wedding feast when those invited made excuses why they could not come and then the people in the streets and highways were invited in? That time is now. The church people have made all kinds of excuses why they couldn't come. Now the Lord will send the invitations out to the people on the streets - the unwanted, the rejected, the abused, the unwashed. That is where the greatest harvest man has ever known will come from. And we are the ones to invite them into God's wedding feast. Ask Him to show you how and let Him lead you. That will be the revival people have been hoping for for many years now. <br /></p><p>I believe that the two groups who will be in DC on the 26th and who will be asking God for mercy for this nation will succeed in assuring Trump's re-election and the end of coronavirus. But the Lord also has put three years on my heart regarding Trump. I think that means that he will only serve three more years in office, and I'm not going to speculate on what would cause him to leave the office of President, <u><b>nor should you</b></u>. If that is of the Lord He will let us know when it is time for us to know. Guessing why and how would be a foolish thing. </p><p>Will Trump be able to place another conservative Christian jurist on the Supreme Court? There is that possibility because the wicked Judge Ginsberg might die any day and leave an opening on the Court. If that happened most Christians would celebrate, hoping that the law on abortion would be overturned. But remember when the question of abortion came up before the Court recently and Judge Roberts voted with the liberals. Even if the question came up again and abortion was made illegal, when the Dems get back into office they will expand the Court and stack it with liberal judges who will once again make abortion legal. That is what WOULD happen. <br /></p><p>The Holy Spirit told me a few months ago that in 7-10 years the curses of Deuteronomy 28 would begin coming to pass upon the USA. Judgment has already begun with the 9/11 attack, the Great Recession in 2008 and the current coronavirus. Before judgment is over over 60,000,000 Americans will die, one life for every unborn baby that was not allowed to come into the world - yes, that is from the Lord, He HATES seeing His children murdered. </p><p>I have heard that there are some so-called prophets who are telling people that God will protect all His children and that none of them will be harmed. <b><u>This is utter nonsense.</u></b> All the people who died on 9/11 were certainly not heathens, there were many Christians who died that day. Of the 189,000 deaths attributed to Covid-19 man\y have been Christians. In the following years of judgment there will be many, many more of God's people who are killed. Millions in this country will be martyred in the years to come. God has told some people that He will protect them in the years ahead, but certainly not all. Be careful when you hear these foolish "prophecies". "He that endures to the end will be saved". Many are being taught that God will not judge the USA because of its Christians. God judged and destroyed Israel for its sins and He will judge and destroy the USA for its sins.<br /></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394;">"<span class="text Deut-14-2" id="en-NASB-5293">It
will be a time of great prosperity for His people,<u><b> but not necessarily
prosperity in the way most of you think </b></u>- get your focus off the things
of the world and get it back on things of the Spirit of God" .</span></span>That is a statement I made in "The Last Call". Unfortunately some have taken it to mean that they would be rich. That is not what I said if you read it carefully. God may very well prosper some of us, but He will certainly NOT prosper ALL of us. Prosperity in spiritual terms means that we will be blessed in the things of the Lord. That could mean the gifts of the Spirit, or in knowledge of His Word, or success in leading people to the Lord. You need to think spiritually about this, not carnally. </p><p> I just finished reading Harbinger ll, I actually read it twice, and the rest of this message is a small portion of what was said in it. I was startled and stunned when I read it. It is a book that will reveal things that will shock you, you will never see this nation in the same light ever again. <u><b>I highly recommend that you read both "Harbinger" and "Harbinger ll".</b></u> In the past 38 years God has not let me read but only a few Christian books, having me read the Bible 99.9% of the time. The reason was so that I would not let the words and thoughts of others taint my writings. But He specifically had me read David Wilkerson's and Jonathan Cahn's books. I have never come across anyone who puts the things of God together better than Jonathan. He has an anointing that is beyond anything I could comprehend, it is truly amazing. </p><p>Abortion is America's greatest sin. Over 60.000.000 unborn babies have already been slaughtered in their mothers' wombs. Before judgment upon the USA is completed there will be millions more murdered before they can take their first breaths.The stain from the blood of over 60,000,000 babies is too great to be erased. God's judgment will take the lives of over 60,000,000 Americans, one for every baby slaughtered. Israel was judged in the 6th century BC because of child sacrifice, they killed thousands of babies. The USA has slaughtered over 60,000,000. Germany was condemned for killing millions of Jews during the Holocaust, America has killed over 60,000,000 babies. <br /></p><p>Abortion was first legalized in 1970 by New York. NYC was the first place to be hit on 9/11. It was also the place that got hit the hardest by the Great Recession in 2008 - Wall Street. New York has killed more unborn babies than any other state - it is the abortion capital of America. <span style="color: #cc0000;"> Jer 19:4 - "</span><span class="text Jer-19-4" id="en-NIV-19412"><span style="color: #cc0000;">they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.</span>" </span>New York has had more Covid-19 deaths than any other state. <span style="color: #cc0000;">.Jer 19:6 - <span class="text Jer-19-6" id="en-NIV-19414">So beware, the days are coming, declares the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, when people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.</span> </span>NY legalized abortion up to the time of birth in 2019. When the politicians in New York approved that<span class="text Jer-19-6" id="en-NIV-19414"></span> legislation they all stood up and cheered. They celebrated that abomination and the mayor ordered that the New World Trade Center Tower be lit up to celebrate the occasion. The first Covid-19 case came in early 2020. There were so many deaths in NYC that the morgues and cemetaries could not handle them all, so they sent many to Hart Island. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Jer-19-11" id="en-NIV-19419">Jer. 19:11 - they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. <span style="color: black;">NYC will be the first place destroyed when the nuclear bombs and tidal waves hit. <br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Jer-19-11" id="en-NIV-19419"> </span></span><span class="text Jer-19-4" id="en-NIV-19412"></span>The initial attack by the Babylonians on the kingdom of Judah was in 605 BC, <u><b>19 years late</b></u>r in 586 BC the same army would return to destroy all of Judah. The first part of judgment upon the USA came on 9/11/2001. <u><b>19 years later Covid-19</b></u> came upon the USA. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Jer-19-11" id="en-NIV-19419"><span style="color: black;">19 years from the first judgment, Covid-19, Jeremiah 19. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Jer-19-11" id="en-NIV-19419"><span style="color: black;">Abortion was legalized in the US in 1973. A huge number of those who were adults at that time are still alive - a huge number of those supported abortion and too many of the rest didn't care. Is it any wonder why Covid-19 hits the older population the worst. </span></span><span class="text Jer-19-11" id="en-NIV-19419"><span style="color: black;">The generation that robbed millions of children of their first breath will have many of that generation robbed of their last breaths because of coronavirus. There has been much said lately about the plague striking blacks the hardest. Blacks abort a higher percentage of their babies than any other race, therefore their death rates by the plague are higher. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Jer-19-11" id="en-NIV-19419"><span style="color: black;">America has been the greatest of all nations, but a nation that turns away from God will lose its crown. <span style="color: #990000;">Corona</span> is a Latin word that means <span style="color: #990000;">crown</span>. America is losing its crown. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Jer-19-11" id="en-NIV-19419"><span style="color: black;">When the Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 the wall of God's protection surrounding this nation was breached. On 9/11 a foreign power came through that breach. America didn't heed the warning. Then the Great Recession came in 2008. Nobody listened to that warning. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Jer-19-11" id="en-NIV-19419"><span style="color: black;">In 2015 the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage - the wall of protection was removed and another foreign power was allowed to attack our nation, China where the virus originated. America is now a civilization fallen from God and heading toward judgment. There is no stopping it. We are following the EXACT PATH that Israel followed to their judgment. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Jer-19-11" id="en-NIV-19419"><span style="color: black;">Jeremiah 7:34 - </span></span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Jer-19-11" id="en-NIV-19419"><span style="color: black;"><span class="text Jer-7-34" id="en-NIV-19154"><sup class="versenum"></sup>I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Jer-19-11" id="en-NIV-19419"><span style="color: black;"><span class="text Jer-7-34" id="en-NIV-19154">I do believe that because of the groups in DC on Sept. 26 God will heal the land of coronavirus. Jeremiah asked "Is their no balm in Gilead?" One of the companies working on a vaccine is Gilead Scientific. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Jer-19-11" id="en-NIV-19419"><span style="color: black;"><span class="text Jer-7-34" id="en-NIV-19154">This is just a very, very small potion of the info that Jonathan has in "Harbinger ll". Much of it ties events from as far as the seventeenth century to recent happenings - much of them converging on 9/11, all having been planned by God to show how He plans everything </span></span></span><span class="text Jer-19-11" id="en-NIV-19419"><span style="color: black;"><span class="text Jer-7-34" id="en-NIV-19154">, everything, all of it showing why this nation is being judged. It is absolutely stunning, mind-boggling how it all fits together. I urge you to read his books. <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Jer-19-11" id="en-NIV-19419"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Jer-19-11" id="en-NIV-19419"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309655433066745389.post-34978068306212492142020-08-30T19:12:00.005-05:002020-08-31T09:24:07.706-05:00The Day Of Repentance<p> </p><p>When I first saw Jonathan Cahn's eight minute video titled "the Return" several months ago I was deeply touched because on it he was asking God's people to repent for the sins of this nation, hoping that God would have mercy on this wicked and evil nation. Immediately I had a vision of myself on my knees at the National Mall in D.C. weeping before God and repenting for this country. That is the last thing I want to do because the USA has gone too far and has told God He is not wanted here anymore. I want His judgment to fall on this evil nation. I feel like Jonah felt when he was told to go warn Nineveh. He didn't want to because he thought that God would have mercy on Nineveh and he wanted God's judgment to fall on that city because of their sins. But a prophet doesn't have a choice in the matter, as Jonah found out, we just do what the Spirit of the Lord orders us to do regardless of whether we like it or not. </p><p>Over the past few months I've been hoping that God would not make me do it. But on Friday Aug. 21 the Holy Spirit told me that I would be driving to D.C., leaving on Sept. 25 and arriving there on the night of the 26th or morning of the 27th. I will go directly to the steps of the Capitol Bldg., get on my knees and with tears and great emotion will repent for the sins of this country. I was even given explicit instructions that I would not be wearing my usual travel shorts and topsiders when in D.C. but would be dressed in a nice shirt, nice slacks and good shoes because this is a very serious occasion. When I'm finished in five or twenty-five minutes I will leave D.C. and my job will be done. That is how God does things. <br /></p><p>Last week I received an email from Jonathan Cahn requesting that we fast for the ten days preceding the meeting at the National Mall on the 26th. At 74 I can't fast but one meal a day, but that will be enough. Yes, his hopefully large group will meet at the National Mall on the 26th for a day of prayer and repentance for the USA. Franklin Graham will also be having a large group of people there at the same time praying for this country. This is from his website: </p><p><span style="color: #990000;">Want to do something to help our hurting nation? On September 26, join Franklin Graham for a <a href="https://billygraham.org/story/franklin-graham-announces-prayer-march/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">prayer march</a> in Washington, D.C.—from the Lincoln Memorial to the U.S. Capitol.“Our communities are hurting, our people are divided and there’s fear
and uncertainty all around us,” said Franklin Graham. “Let’s join
together and do the most important thing, and that is to pray. We’re
going to pray that God will intervene and save this nation.”</span></p><p>But I was specifically told not to participate in those gatherings, but to be there the day after they leave. The day I will be there is Sept. 27, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Please keep both groups in your fervent prayers during that time. If you can, please fast that day and during the preceding ten days. If at all possible please come to D.C. on the 26th and participate with either or both groups. And please keep me in your prayers also during my drive up there as well as on the 27th. May God bless all of you and may God bless America - if we repent. <br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">hilbertcliff@yahoo.com</div>cliff hilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717833330931982044noreply@blogger.com0