Friends,

Many trumpets and warnings are sounding in our nation and all over the world. The world is being drawn out by God with a hook in the jaw to oppose Israel. Time as we know it is spent, and we are entering into a season known to God and feared by man.  The Holy Spirit is doing His best to get convict mankind and to get Christians ready for the Lord's Return.

There is a cleansing and separation more intense than anything we have known in our lifetime.

"And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. I baptize with water unto repentance, but He Who is coming after me is mightier than I, Whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. His winnowing fan is in His Hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."—Matthew 3: 10-12

John the Baptist was baptising in the River Jordan those who heard his message of repentance—he was being used by God to prepare hearts for the appearance of Jesus. The Lord used him to stir up a hornet's nest among the religious crowd, as there had not been a move of God for a long time.

This is a fleeting time of testing of the Truth of Scripture and the foundation of our Faith in our souls.  It is also a temporary time of reprieve and preparation for what lies ahead, the appearance of Jesus. He has told me to tell this world a trumpet of repentance is sounding. 

Saul and Achan and Balaam and Jezebel—-rebellion, complacency, compromise, procrastination, stubborness—-are being bathed in fire, the Baptism of fire. God, in His Mercy, is pouring out His power upon all soul ties that bind us to that which is earthly, sensual, and demonic. He is exposing what we do not want to see but must.

He is giving not only the Church, but all mankind, a Choice.

Unique separation from what opposes the will of God and miraculous promotion to the will of God is upon us, a return from Babylon to Zion.  The Saints are experiencing frustrating warfare due to the ruthless demand of the human soul to create a controllable "reality" in the midst of the collapse of a system under God's Judgment.

It is a time of pain and suffering in the realm of the emotions that many have never known to this depth.
 
Our being has been groomed by generations of idolatry and self-dependence to deny, to try to escape from the possibility of being absolutely dependent on God. We must close the access the enemy has had to our inner beings through the culture.  We have filtered the Lord and the Kingdom of God through a system that opposes Jesus and the demands of Scripture on every level.

Jesus did not come to fix the world, but to save the world.

God is searching for faith and endurance in His people, and we are striving for deliverance. There is a brutal and ruthless competition for the soul of man, one that is sadly to the death.  Only two spirits are being manifested on earth really, Christ and antichrist as we plunge toward the revelation of the antichrist and the return of Jesus Christ, the insane delusion that man can create a perfect world without Him increases.

The cruelty of this world without the veneer of "human goodness" is a shock.

The bond of iniquity we have with this world, the inner recesses of sorcery, of rebellion and manipulation, along with all the inner-connectedness and interdependence of our emotions on all that is not Christ in us—-this are being hit by Holy Fire and the Sword of the Word of God. All that we have been oblivious to, in denial of, or in wrong harmony with is under the laser and knife. 

Delusional selfishness and self-centeredness have produced a narcissistic religion whose devotees pour themselves into macromanaging their own microscosm— swallowing camels and straining at gnats is a cultural connundrum.  The painful roots of idolatry and harlotry are being identified and pulled—they are like the roots of wisdom teeth that are infected and grown into sinuses near the brain.  Every part of us which enabled us to have peace and contentment without Him is being probed and exposed.

Simultaneously there has never been a greater effort of the spirit of antichrist to wear out the saints, or a greater need for God's people to walk and live by faith.  In many ways this is a purging of our faith and refinement of our motivation.

Bottom line, the rubber has hit the road.  God is ready to move and we are all vulnerable. WE HAVE FALLEN INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD AND HE WANTS US TO BE PART OF WHAT HE IS DOING IN THE EARTH.

A few days ago, our pastor was closing the service at our home church with this passage of Scripture,

"Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.  Beloved, now we are children of God,  and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure."—I John 3: 1-3

I had the following vision while he was reading this wonderful passage of Scripture.

I saw the whole earth as it was hanging in space. It was divided into Light and darkness and seemed to be pretty evenly divided. I saw a man being stretched between the Light and the darkness screaming and begging for help. The Lord Jesus had him by his hands pulling him into the Light. 

The man's feet were caught in a beartrap attached to a chain which Satan was pulling into the darkness. The man was literally being pulled apart and was in great pain.

I believe the man represented both mankind and the Church.

The problem seemed to be the man had to choose either the Light or the darkness, he could not have both.  His feet were trapped and maimed in the beartrap of the darkness. This is where he had walked.

I do believe the beartrap is the emerging financial system, as well as cultural Christianity, and stubborness.  Soon mankind will scream for a messiah, a man with all the answers, whose gospel says anything goes.

The Glory of God is covering the Earth as the waters cover the see and gross darkness is covering the people. The Light is manifesting the darkness.

The cover is blown.  GET READY!

Vaughn Allen Clark www.vaughnclark.com
Glorious Light Ministries
P.O. Box 16217
Dublin, GA 31040