Friends,

I have not written in a while. Several of you have inquired after me and I deeply appreciate your concern. I have been in what could best be described as “consternation” in prayer for our country—have also been battling exhaustion, but am much better.

“Allah” is the word that continuously comes to my spirit when I pray. Most Westerners do not understand Moslem witchcraft. This false religion is one of the purest manifestations of the antichrist spirit on the earth.

I have been to sites where human sacrifice was performed in Satanic ritual and knew the presence of evil. The most evil place I have been to date is the Dome of the Rock, the mosque on the disputed Temple Mount—my family and I went there on a tour before it was closed to the public.  The air literally crackled with evil that could be heard and felt.

Islam will dominate global politics in the Last Days because of whoredom for money and oil. We forget that those who live in the Tribulation will lose their heads for the testimony of Jesus.  Who beheads on the global net and television now? I have been praying for a couple of days and feel strongly some kind of attack on Iran is forthcoming to take out the madman megalomaniac, Mahmoud Ahmandinejab, who seeks to destroy Israel and the United States.

I would beg Christians here to pray for the safety of President Obama and his family, and also that nothing can be construed by our system to declare martial law and suspend the 2010 elections.

I am very serious about this request. Our nation is under siege from within and without.

It is also appalling to me to discern the manic zeal geysering in our society to silence common sense and the open mockery of any Christian virtue when we are such a fragile state militarily, economically, and in every way. The United States is quite literally a drunken, staggering giant who has never needed God’s help so desperately and has never hated Him so openly.

A young friend, Jonathan, sent me the following quote today, which I was not aware existed, but struck a deep place in my soul,

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”  —General George Washington

The strangulation of free speech and the declaration of the Word of God is coming openly through legislation with “hate crimes” attachments. 

The America of my childhood is being thrown away.

My father and mother were both veterans of WWII—my dad a disabled veteran who I am now convinced had P.T.S.D. from his service as a teenager in Europe. He never would talk about what he experienced. I went to see “Saving Private Ryan” and had to leave the theatre because of the Holy Spirit telling me, “Now you know why your dad is the way he is.”

My whole life has been shaped by WWII and the scars of my unstable dad, who is now dead.  All my uncles were in active combat. My wife’s uncle died on the beach at Normandy.

All that our parents and grandparents sacrificed for this nation, and the world for that matter, is being thrown away—BUT FOR GOD, THE LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE BRAVE WILL BE BOUND BY CRUEL TYRANNY!

The Lord has been speaking a word to me for the past year—2009 has been a year to remember for me, don’t know about the rest of you—which I found strange:  “SOLSTICE”. Solstice comes twice a year, the longest day of light in Summer, and the longest day of darkness in Winter.

I believe we are entering into a time of either the longest day or the longest night dependent on perspective, foundation, and source. Consider the following Scripture,

“Arise, shine;

For your light has come!

And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you!

For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,

And deep darkness the people;

BUT THE LORD WILL ARISE OVER YOU,

AND HIS GLORY WILL BE SEEN UPON YOU.” —Isaiah 60:1-2 (Caps mine)

This passage in Isaiah indicates that the Glory of God will be poured out on His people AT THE SAME TIME gross darkness is covering the earth: two kingdoms coming to their fullness side by side, Light and darkness. The Holy Spirit is being poured out upon all flesh and men’s hearts are responding based upon their will and perspective.

Mankind is manifesting, out of the abundance of each heart, either Christ or anti-Christ:  both Revival and Apostasy are upon us!

I was saved in the last 1970’s during the recession and inflationary interest rates of near 25% on home loans—Congress was in the same mode it is now, just not as far-reaching to the future. I prayed and fasted much for America, knowing 1980 was a great turning point one way or another.

During that time, the Lord made it plain to me that a great Visitation would begin in the 1990’s, and that huge Black ministries would arise, seemingly out of nowhere. He told me that trouble and division would come, but Revival would hit America that would be like the days of Heaven! I have prayed consistently for 30 years that at least 100,000,000 would be saved in the United States.

The Lord showed me also that on the backside of this Revival, heavy oppression would come from our government, whose minions would be furious their plans had been delayed. I saw more, but will not elaborate at this time. It will suffice to say that God will allow foreign powers to punish this nation at the right time, even as He did Israel in her rebellion.

God puts up with a lot, but don’t kill His servants and burn His churches!

We must draw close to the Lord and get our eyes upon Him, our perspective in the Light, “beholding the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world.”  The following lengthy passage of Scripture pretty much says it all:

“Be shattered all you peoples, and be broken in pieces!

Give ear, all you from far countries.

Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces;

Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces.

Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;

Speak the word, but it will not stand,

For God is with us.’

For the Lord spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:

‘Do not say, ‘A conspiracy,’ concerning all this people call a conspiracy,

Nor be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.

The Lord of Hosts, Him you shall hallow;

Let Him be your fear,

And let Him be your dread.

He will be as a sanctuary,

But a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense

To both of the houses of Israel,

As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And many of them shall stumble;

They shall fall and be broken,

Be snared and taken.

Bind up the testimony,

Seal the law among My disciples.

And I will wait on the Lord,

Who hides His face from the house of Jacob;

And I will hope in Him.

Here am I and the children whom the Lord has given me!

We are for signs and wonders in Israel form the Lord of Hosts,

Who dwells in Mount Zion.

And when they say to you, ‘Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,’ should not a people seek their God?  Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?

To the law and to the testimony!  If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

They will pass through it hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall happen, when they are hungry, that they will be enraged and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

Then they will look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.” —Isaiah 8:9-22

As I said, the days ahead will be “solstice” either the longest day, or the longest night, dependent upon one’s perspective.  The glory of God will cover those who seek Him unto seal and separation; darkness shall cover those who hate His ways.

It will, in so many ways, be the best of days and the worst of days during which those who hear will not be able to distinguish between the sound of rejoicing for the glory of God being poured out and the sound of weeping for the gross darkness that has stricken our pleasant lives.

Herein lies the Great Falling Away, the Apostasy, for American Christians I fear. A European minister confided in me that he strongly believed the spiritual darkness in Europe was a direct result of the horrors of WWII—many Christians felt betrayed by God, that He had let them down by allowing such destruction to come upon their world.  So many Christians here have embraced a belief system that will not accept they should ever see hard times.  God help and deliver us all!

The corruption of the faith message has become “The favor of God is equal to money and ease.” How sad for those men and women of valor who fought and labored for the Body of Christ! I sat under Dr. Kenneth Hagin, who openly said he knew people would take parts of what he preached and ruin themselves and others. He taught that Biblical prosperity was a lifestyle of giving and obedience to God and was for the Kingdom of God first, and the individual believer secondly. How far we have fallen!

May the Son of Man, the Lord Jesus, find faith here when we return, may we not be deceived in our prosperity, and may the love of the Truth never leave any of us or our loved ones, in Jesus Name! May the Blood of Jesus separate us from every deception!

Last night when I was preparing to sleep, I was praying for our nation, for our president, for our leaders, both secular and in the Church. I do so know a great storm is ahead! The following Scripture flickered across my soul,

“Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

Their soul abhorred all manner of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.

THEN they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, AND HE SAVED THEM OUT OF THEIR DISTRESSES.

HE SENT HIS WORD AND HEALED THEM, AND DELIVERED THEM FROM THEIR DESTRUCTIONS.

Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!

Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare His works with rejoicing.”

—Psalms 107:17-22 (caps mine)

I slept a peaceful and untroubled sleep after I read these words that literally shone on the page. I know God will visit us in the storm and will redeem our land.

Again, beloved, perspective is everything!

Feast on the Lord and His faithfulness and delight yourself in Him and lay every poison down. Don’t be afraid of anything but the awesome Holiness of our God! 

Lift Jesus up!

Don’t be surprised or caught off guard by anything, and give thanks in everything! Keep your gaze locked on Target.

In Jesus,

Vaughn Allen Clark
Glorious Light Ministries

P.O. Box 16217

Dublin, Georgia 3104

www.vaughnclark.com
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