To the Puzzle Master,

One thing I have noticed in many of the warnings the Lord has given to the Christians of America, is that the warnings of judgment are coupled with promises of protection for those who trust and obey Him. Though God grants unto those whom He deems worthy, the supreme honor of suffering for his name sake, He also shields them from that which is intended to punish the wicked.

Matthew 4:12:16-21 tells us: 6And Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, 18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 20And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

It should be noted that He closed the book in the middle of the passage and did not read the rest, indicating that the only portion of the prophesy which was being fulfilled at that point in time was what He read. May I be so bold as to say, “The rest of this great work was be fulfilled in the days, through His many-membered body , at the exact time the Day of Vengeance was to begin. The remainder of the passage reads as follows:

To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, “ and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. Isaiah 61:2

What we shall witness and experience in the coming days as the events, which you have talked about so often, begin to unfold, is an increasing unction from the Holy Spirit to declare that God&Mac226;s Vengeance is being poured out upon the earth. And along with that, a manifestation of God&Mac226;s Spirit and Power upon those who follow the Lamb, the likes of which have never been experienced before in all of church history. The reason being, it will be a time of trouble, tribulation, and distress, such as has never been experienced in human history. There shall be great mourning, tremendously heavy grief and sorrow experienced by everyone upon the whole face of the earth, but in proportion to it, the fulfillment of the whole of Isaiah&Mac226;s prophesy, including Beauty for ashes, the Oil of Joy in exchange for mourning, and the Garment of Praise in exchange for the spirit of heaviness.

Though it is still a great mystery to most American Christians, there are a substantial number of prophesies foretelling the nature of the work which the believers in the last days will accomplish with Christ. Things that have only been done in small measure throughout church history, including the first century church. The following is one of many from the book of Isaiah. Meditate upon it long enough to grasp the magnitude of what it is promising to those who belong to him upon the earth at the time of its fulfillment.

1Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. 2For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD SHALL ARISE UPON THEE, and HIS GLORY SHALL BE SEEN UPON THEE. 3And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. (Isaiah 60: 1-3)

Because the necessity of suffering with Christ in order to reign with Him, is rarely taught in American Churches, as well as the many passages which foretell that His people will go through great tribulation, the greater portion of biblical promises detailing what Christ will accomplish through His church during the last seven years of it, are not taught either. But if the majority of believers, knew and believed those promise, fear, and denial (which has become a convenient mechanism of that fear) would begin to vanish from their hearts, and they would begin to look forward with expectation to those events which the Shepard and Bishop of their souls said would surely come to pass.

5Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 16And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 17Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. I John 4:16-18

The need now arises to couple the declaration of the Day of Vengeance of our God, with the comfort which can only come from a God-given revelation of those great and precious promises having to do with what He shall do through His Body, the church, in the events which are about to unfold upon the earth. It is absolutely imperative, that the people of God maintain their First Confidence, which they received from Christ when He first came into their hearts; at the time when they first began believe that God loved them with an unconditional Love. This Confidence, when it first enters the spirit and soul, is God&Mac226;s great gift, His undeserved favor. It must be zealously maintained and guarded throughout the coming crisis, and unto the end of it This is what Jesus meant when He said, “He that endures to the end shall be saved.

Satan' s number one devise, which he uses to steal this great gift from the heart of believers, is to stir up evil and iniquity in the hearts of unbelievers all around them, to perpetrate all manner of cruel persecutions upon the believers with the intent to make them doubt God&Mac226;s unconditional love for those who believe in His first born Son, and to extinguish the Love which God has shed abroad in their hearts with which they are to love others.

Satan knows the scriptures. He heard Jesus tell his disciples, “If you don' t forgive others, neither will your Heavenly Father forgive you. Therefore, his ability to control persecution against believers becomes a powerful tool in his sinister hand. Will you forgive the terrorist if they kill your husband or wife? will you forgive them if they cut off the hand and foot of your son or daughter, or someone else that you dearly love, before your eyes? Your brethren in nations under Islamic and Communist control are enduring this now, and by the grace of God, they are prevailing. In spite of poverty, pain, cruelty, slavery, rape, rejection, imprisonment, and being separated from their loved ones, which they are experiencing on a daily basis, they are proclaiming the message of God&Mac226;s love, and adding proof to their testimony by loving their enemies, blessing those that curse them, doing good to those that hate them, and praying for those who are despitefully using them and abusing them. And now, at this point in time, the same opportunity is about to be presented to the church in America. The question is: “Are the Christians of America ready and prepared to obey Jesus during the crisis? Or will they yield to the same fallen human nature which exist in the unbelievers around them, and return evil for evil, violence for violence, hatred for hatred? This is why the bible calls this fiery ordeal, “testing."

Let Jesus live his Life in you and you will pass the test. Begin to give full attention to the reality that the Father and the Son have made their home in your heart. Meditate in the coming days and nights upon the good news, which the Apostle Paul wrote to us who stand at the end of the age:

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galations 2:20)

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation” (II Corinthians 5:17-18)

Then you will join those who overcome and will sit down with him on His Throne, and to whom will be given power over the nations. Along with them, you will rule the nations with a rod of Iron. You will be a part of the Stone, which Daniel saw cut out of the Mountain without human hands, and shatters in pieces the image representing satanic global government which has been in the making since Daniel's day.

We must learn, so that we can declare, the WHOLE Truth concerning what God is about to do in the earth. To only declare the day of Vengeance to those around you is telling only part of the truth. And if we don' t walk in what we declare, the deception of Islam, Communism, Globalism, and Satanism, will dominate, and reign supreme in the heart of every man, woman, and child on this planet.

The following Vision was given in the early 60s. The mechanisms, which would bring to pass the events, which the vision foretells, were being secretly put in place, from the time of, and even before the vision was given. It is a declaration of the Day of Vengeance of our God, as well as a message of comfort to those who love God and are called according to His Purpose.

THE VISION An unusual event occurred in Sarasota, Florida, on January 27, 1961. At that time I was associate pastor or the Revival Tabernacle in Sarasota, ministering with pastor Gerald Derstine. T will now share the story of what happened there at that time in Bro. Derstine 's words as published in the April, 1961 issue- of HARVFST TIME magazine:

"We had been conducting a revival for two weeks with John H. Osteen as the evangelist. With only three nights remaining of the revival, he felt led of the Lord to return home. I wondered whom God would provide for the remaining three nights, but He sent three men from Miami, Florida. They said the Lord had told them to come to see me at Sarasota. That night they retired not; knowing that an unusual event would happen. At five o'clock I heard a knocking on my door, with someone crying out, "Brother Derstine! Brother Derstine!" When I opened the door, one of the men, trembling all over, pleaded: “Oh, Brother Derstine, please lay your hams on me and pray for me! God gave me a vision of the wrath of God, the judgment God is going to send upon the world and our America. Oh, my God, my God, I whish that I had not seen this. Before I could pray for him, he cried out: 'I feel must go up and down the streets and tell the people! I asked God to comfort him and him- peace. "Upon returning to the room where he and the two other men had been sleeping, the Lord came into a portion of' the room, and the power and the brightness was so intense that the men shielded their eyes with their arms and cried out for the Lord not to come any closer, for they could not stand His presence! The fear of God was upon them. Then the Lord spoke through Brother Robert Lambert, as his voice and his whole being took on a different form giving forth this message:

“Write this down! This is of the Lord! THE VILENESS AND WICKEDNESS OF MAN HAVE COME UP BEFORE ME AS A STINK IN MY NOSTRILS AND I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO STAY MY HAND ANY LONGER. I AM SICK TO MY STOMACH. THE MOCKERY OF MY WORD IN THE RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS OF AMERICA ARE AN ABOMINATION TO ME. I HAVE COME TO MY BURSTING POINT AND WILL SPUE OUT MY WRATH UPON THE LAND.

That morning when daylight had come, at approximately nine o&Mac226;clock, a group of twelve, (I was one of these), assembled in my office to hear in more detail what happened through the night concerning the vision by Bro. Robert Lambert. For four hours he admonished us and prophesied to us under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes he would tremble and shake, sometimes he would kneel. It was as though God was speaking directly to us! It was awesome! The Lord declared: “ the Wrath of God, and The Day of the Lord are here now! These things shall be known around the earth! There will be others, this particular morning who will know that this is the hour, and that I am not going to wait any longer!

“The next evening, we had a service for the public and a minister from Orlando, Florida was led of the Spirit to come to this particular meeting to have fellowship with us. He did not know about the visitation we had, until he heard the speaker relating the testimony of the great vision. With great. fear, this visiting minister from Orlando, told us of his terrible dream (vision) he had the same night concerning the great wrath of God coming upon our land. He told us he saw such terrible things that he wished he had never seen this dream. This was identical to the vision Bro. Lambert had on the same night. Three days later, we received a letter from rnissionaries in Haiti telling us of a great unusual visitation of which they experienced on the night of January 27. The missionary, in writing this letter, stated what his wife experienced in her vision that particular night: 'The Lord showed her terrible persecutions that are coming on the earth and how that men will be killed and maimed.

She saw a large city whose buildings were falling upon people and huge fires were to be seen everywhere. Some knelt before idols for help and the idols fell on them. The saints were hidden during this time, and THE SPIRIT LED SAINTS WERE WALKING AROUND VIEWING ALL THIS TERRIBLE CONFUSIONON, DEATH, AND WEEPING. The people that; were being tormented asked why the Spirit led saints were not affected by all this trouble, and they said it was because they were led by the Lord, and He had overcome the world, and that THEY TOO had overcome the world through Him. ' "Several days later I attended the Regional Convention of the full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International at the Continental Hotel, in Washington, D.C. I was called upon to speak and in my message I was proclaiming that which God showed and revealed to us here in Sarasota. Amongst the many men from all over the United States and Canada, was a man from Kitchner, Ontario, Canada, who stood to his feet and trembling, began to tell the congregation in this meeting that he also had an identical vision from the Lord of the great wrath of God coming on the North American Continent. He said it was such a terrible sight, he wished he had not experienced this. The significant fact was that his vision also came on the same night as the other three afore mentioned.

With the Love of Jesus, Mike (last name withheld)
April 6, 2002