In
1982, I was returning to Dallas by plane from Hobbs, NM, when the Holy
Spirit began speaking the following sentence to me over and over:
"The
time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God ... The time
is come that judgment must begin at the house of God ... The time is
come that judgment must begin at the house of God."
(I had no idea what that might mean.)
The
following day, God caused me to remember something Jimmy Swaggart had
said and God showed me he needed to quit performing so much
(entertaining the people) and return to preaching. I had to get this
message to Swaggart.
God
also showed me I was to send a message concerning adultery to the
preacher Jim Bakker. I did send that message by cassette tape.
Jim Bakker wrote me the following reply.
Dear Jesus:
Thank you for sending your inspiring message.
Jesus, Tammy Faye and I want you to know we prayed for you today ...
(Obviously Bakker never heard the message.)
Later Bakker was committing adultery with a church secretary.
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The
message I had for Jimmy Swaggart concerned returning to preaching
rather than entertaining the congregation with so much with music.
But Swaggart was having sex with a prostitute at this period of time in addition to other sins.
I happened to visit a small Assembly of God church during that time. The preacher said, "We should pray for brother Swaggart."
It shocked me! For I know what Paul says to do in such cases in the Bible. (I Cor. 5)
Very softly I said, "Swaggart should be put out of the church." A woman sitting in front of me turned and glared at me.
But this is what the apostle Paul says to do in the New Testament Bible.
I Corinthians 5
2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
13 ... Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
(Do
what the Bible says. Counsel and prayer will not work in such cases
for the violator knows adultery and fornications are sins against God.
Do what Paul says. Put him away from you. Do not "eat" with him. Turn
him over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, "that the flesh may
be destroyed and the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.)
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I had been delivering some messages of correction to the church as a prophet of God during 1982.
I had also been going to the cities where I was on radio and speaking to the radio audience by seminars.
One
night, God gave me a dream. He showed me I was in great danger of
being injured at the meetings and God said this to me in the dream: "Don't go until you see Exodus 15."
I cancelled all meetings for the remainder of that year.
John 16:2-3 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor ME.
3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor ME.
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Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
💥 Acts 9:3-5 And
as he (Paul) journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there
shined round about him a light from heaven: 4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
💥 Acts 3:26 (Peter said in the synagogue:) Unto
you first God, having raised up HIS Son Jesus, sent HIM to bless you,
in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Acts 4:18 And they (the high priest) called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
33 And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
💥 Acts 5:17-21 Then
the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the
sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, 18 And laid
their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.
19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, 20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
21 And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught.
19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, 20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
21 And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught.
26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned. 27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, 28Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. 31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. 32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
33 When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
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