Friends,

First of all, let me tell you I know God has ordained deliverance for His people, and I believe with all my heart, for the sake of the Harvest, a short reprieve and Revival are upon this nation.

 I mean a short reprieve.

 I hold my spiritual breath some days watching all that is taking place so quickly and radically around the world, knowing that each passing day is a Stone of Remembrance before the Lord.  For the great joy of all the Promises of God being fufilled and the Reward that is set before us, I have hopeful and excited expectation; for the great sorrow over the delusion upon mankind, especially much of the Church, I weep into the bonfire of the vanities that consumes the false peace of our fallen world. 

Do we have hours, days, weeks, years? What is this turmoil I see just over the horizon? What is this world I perceive just beyond my field of vision even whose tender mercies are cruel? Yet we hope in God knowing our redemption draws nigh, praying the love of the Truth will be preserved, asking for deliverance from strong delusion and the doctrines of devils in the Last Moments of the Last Days!

I had a dream early this morning. I was driving through a city. I could tell there had been great trouble, even destruction, but people were working like ants or bees to restore order and to get it all right. This endeavor was approached by all with a sense of patriotism, purpose and expectation. They were very optimistic, even elated, and all seemed to be occupied and industrious, unified.

I rode past a car lot and was suprised to see old cars from the 40's on the same lot with cars all the way to modern cars. These were cars of all colors. I was suprised that there were no luxury vehicles. The things commonly shared by these cars were thrift and simplicity of operation. There were three men standing in the car lot that looked very official with suits—everyone else were laborers. They were discussing how proud they were of the older cars since they were solid, fuel efficient, and never broke down.

Then I heard the Lord tell me,

"When I return, men will not be concerned with the Gospel. They will be concerned with rebuilding the economy, with fighting inflation, with finding answers to make the world system work again. Money and restoring prosperity will be the common goal of mankind. I will not be important."

I immediately thought of how the war effort in WWII had unified Americans and how people worked together and sacrificed for a common goal. I realized this dream was not in the far distant future, and that the cars in the car lot represented people born from the 1940's onward, from every race.  There will be subtle deception, so apparently well-meaning, a gilded corruption of the American ideals of "duty and honor to God and country".

 Civic duty will be equated with serving God.
 
Older Americans will rise to the occasion with great fervor because of their memory of the greatness of this nation. It will be with religious zeal and unity among those who oppose evangelical Christianity cunningly or ignorantly...all will be under the sway of a whole new brand of leaders who are religio-political heralding the Golden Age of Mankind, espousing our national duty and universal brotherhood in "god": they will preach man's redemption and many will be deceived.

Unfortunately, it will be a corruption of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. It will be the cry of the spirit of antichirst prostituting the good intentions and dearest aspirations of those who just want to "have a life again" and to be good people engaged in productive answers to make the world a better place.

 Many will declare that America has "come back better than ever before"—it will be a rebirth of the American spirit, except without the true Jesus, after loss and sorrow with the promise of a much better life.  The humanistic optimism will be infectious and hard to resist. There will be innovation and release of "new" technology that has been witheld for generations because of corruption and greed.

Presently, a seal has been broken with this earthquake in Japan—God help the Japanese people and prepare the rest of us for the increasing birth pangs of creation: our planet reels on her axis like a drunkard. 

 While world leaders feverishly work to unify the Moslem world with "democracy", the nations of the world are increasingly turning against Israel. A deaf ear is turned to the repeated goal to kill every Jew. Christians are fodder in much of the world. Mankind is being given over to the blindness of great delusion. Human nature will respond to whoever or whatever pacifies conscience, puts money in the pocket, and food in the belly. Never forget that hungry people will do anything for food. 

When I was a boy in the Baptist Church, preachers often told us how costly was our faith. We were taught our Christian heritage and warned that our faith in Jesus might one day cost us our lives.  I was warned more about the perils of the Last Days in a back road church house 50 years ago than I hear on most Christian television now.

I will close this short letter with these Scriptures,

"And shall God not avenge His Own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?"—Luke 18: 7-8.

"And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:"—Luke 17: 26

These are days we must adapt to God's ways of doing things—we must all work while it is still day.

Vaughn Clark