Author Blasts Televangelists in Fictional 'The Church of Jezebel'

The Christian suspense novel The Church of Jezebel, Hijacking the Gospel is fictional. However, theauthor says his book is based on the real life corruption and cult side of some televangelists and churches.

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(Image: Derik R. Girdwood)

Girdwood doesn’t name anyone in particular in his book, but he told The Christian Post that in his writing he eludes to three or four televangelists and specifically what they have said or have written in books they've authored.

“Some churches and televangelists seem to speak in what’s called ‘spiritualese.’ One example would be ‘seedfaith.’ Basically, they’re asking for money and if you give money you should have this expectation of 100 percent return in some way,” said Girdwood, 59, a Michigan-based attorney.

“I think that is a faulty reason for a Christian to give. We give out of compassion. We give out of love. We give out to support a church, but I think that seed faith is not a good principle for tithing or giving.”

Secondly, Girdwood sees a problem with televangelists who teach “word faith,” which is the “name it and claim it” type of preaching in which church members are encouraged to visualize their desires as if they were already received.

“I think that standing on the word of God is a good thing, but I think that if we think it’s going to eliminate God’s sovereignty, then I think we are going to be sorely mistaken,” he said. “We can name and claim anything we want, but ultimately it’s up to God. God isn’t a vending machine.”

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The third problem area that Girdwood addresses in The Church of Jezebel by way of fictional storytelling is “faith healing.” Again, he said he believes God has the final say on who does or does not get healed.

“I don’t think there is any dispute that people like Benny Hinn, or Kenneth Copeland, or Kenneth Hagin, generally promote a lot of that stuff,” Girdwood said. “These type of televangelists only care about how much money they can get, how big of a church then can build, how many networks or how many radio stations they can get on. [Also,] what kind of car they can get or how many mansions they can get. I really think it’s a perversion of the Gospel.”

The Church of Jezebel follows the story of Christina, 18, who attends a megachurch and starts attending a Bible college. She is also “easily awed by the power of the dynamic speeches.”

“She has a real heart for God,” Girdwood said of Christina. “She’s excited to join this Bible college and church. It’s somewhat of a legalistic and overly spiritualistic type of church. She has some confrontations with her father over her faith and over this church.

“She winds up giving her total obedience to this church and Bible college only to find that they really don’t care about her at all and they will use her in any way to increase the church’s wealth,” he said.

Girdwood told CP that one of the reasons he wrote the book was because of what he witnessed his wife going through before she died from cancer a little more than seven years ago.

“She was a very devout Christian. She leaned more toward the legalistic church. She didn’t see a doctor because maybe she thought her faith was strong enough to overcome it. She didn’t see a doctor until too late,” he said. “Seeing some of the things through her eyes and my eyes and watching the televangelists on TV...”

“It got to the point where [I thought] somebody should write a book because there is a lot of good people with good hearts who want to really please God. Then, they find themselves joining or tithing to a church or televangelist that really doesn’t care about them.”

“It’s unfortunate that sometimes good people end up getting abused and manipulated by some of these churches and televangelists,” he said.

Girdwood said he knows that he is not the only one that feels that way about some ministers and churches.

“When Jesus would criticize people in the Bible or criticize things it was mostly the church leaders that he criticized. He dined with the sinners and the tax collectors, and everybody else. He had compassion for them. I don’t think too much has changed. There are many, many good churches, but there [are] a lot of bad ones, too,” he explained.

WAR WAR WAR dream Oct 16-2011 EJ Ouellette

I was driving a small car down a side-road in Richmond Hill. (Bethesda Side road). I was driving at a normal pace and was headed towards Wilcox lake. The road ended at Wilcox lake. I was just about to make a right hand turn when I heard someone beep his horn furiously I turned around to my right and noticed another road that was adjacent to mine and driving at a high rate of speed was a tan colored Semi Truck. It was a flat army like finish and looked European in origin. It was going way to fast to stop at the corner and just barreled through towards the lake but instead got caught in the trees on the shore. The truck blocked the road I was about to turn on so I got out of my car and proceeded to walk around the truck. ON the far side of truck and in the ground was what looked like a huge man-hole. The lid flipped open and a huge missile began to emerge. It was tan in color and the same finish as the truck. I became frightened at this point. The missile fully erected and then tilted towards the west. Somehow the missile blocked my ability to go any further on the road so I climbed inside the missile silo to see a way out. It was full of hydraulics and motors and such and there was no way around so I  climbed back out.

I awoke at this point and I heard God speak to me these three words “WAR, WAR, WAR”. As time went on that morning I pondered the dream and wondered why it took place at that intersection and then it hit me. Bethesda side-road and Wilcox lake road was the dividing point at the beach. On one side was a Jews only side until the 1950s. A huge steel fence separated them. Now I wasn’t born back then but my mother told me the stories of the segregation between the Jews and rest of the population here in Richmond Hill Ontario. Back then it was a separate town called Oak Ridges. This occurred when Canada gave the Jewish people refuge after the war.

MY QUEST TO SAVE THE WORLD by EJ Ouellette

In my quest to save the world I have determined that there are basically three types of people.

     

   1. Those that are nuts!

   2. Those that are completely nuts!

   3. (People like me) Those that are highly allergic to nuts!

Now the third category is the best to be in I think but it’s definitely a lonely place to be. The closer I became to God the more allergic I became. The more allergic I became the more likely I would isolate myself from all the nuts. The social dysfunction in the church today is off the normal charts. Narcissistic personalities dominate the congregations and the leadership. Oh yah, and if you dare mention it, you might well have opened a barrel of angry vipers on a Women’s Aglow meeting in Beverly Hills.

I met a man recently who for lack of a better term was completely nuts. He said he felt called to being a pastor. He never let me speak once and he rattled on about absolutely nothing for hours. Well that cinched the deal for me he was obviously ready for the ministry. I mean after all he was in love with himself and seemed to be power crazy what else was needed. Maybe he needed just a push from me! (off a cliff). His inability to hear anything I was saying certainly qualified him, after all, ministry today wasn’t about serving, it was about getting people to worship you and milking the sheep down to their last dime. He never did shut up! I think sometimes late at night I still hear him talking endlessly, forgetting simple punctuation rules like commas and periods. I think he might qualify for the Guinness book of records for the longest run on sentence in all of history. I think my ears are bleeding. (still) :(

GOD KEEPS A RECORD EVEN WHEN MAN IS DELUDED.

THE CHINESE have the highest level of abortions but stats in some of these countries are not published. Most middle east countries still have the death penalty for abortions as it should be.

A  woman once asked me arrogantly (in a church in Virginia) "Why would God Judge America"? Unfortunately I was so taken back by their stupidity I was unable to find any words and never answered. A scripture came to my mind right away but I never spoke it.

The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

 LUKE 18:9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’

   13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

   14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Ezekiel 9

Judgment on the Idolaters

 1 Then I heard him call out in a loud voice, “Bring near those who are appointed to execute judgment on the city, each with a weapon in his hand.” 2 And I saw six men coming from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with a deadly weapon in his hand. With them was a man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. They came in and stood beside the bronze altar.

 3 Now the glory of the God of Israel went up from above the cherubim, where it had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple. Then the LORD called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing kit at his side 4 and said to him, “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it.”

 5 As I listened, he said to the others, “Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity or compassion. 6 Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, the mothers and children, but do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the old men who were in front of the temple.

 7 Then he said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city. 8 While they were killing and I was left alone, I fell facedown, crying out, “Alas, Sovereign LORD! Are you going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel in this outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?”

 9 He answered me, “The sin of the people of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice. They say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’ 10 So I will not look on them with pity or spare them, but I will bring down on their own heads what they have done.”

 11 Then the man in linen with the writing kit at his side brought back word, saying, “I have done as you commanded.”

REFUGE FROM THE STORMS dream by EJ Ouelleette

Dream 11-10-11

Dreamt I was at my childhood home in Richmond Hill. I was walking up the back way through the ravine at nighttime. The creek had dried up so I was walking on the riverbed. Suddenly (and I’m not sure how) It began to snow and I knew all the money stopped. I don’t know if the banks collapsed or suddenly the job market crashed to depression levels but I knew that most people suddenly had no money to live with. I somehow knew that I was unaffected. In front of me was a skunk so I decided to turn to my right and climb the ravine to get away from it. It looked me squarely in the eye and actually seemed friendly. We had a large enclosed patio in our backyard and for some reason I went in. In the dark I could see something move so I tried to see what it was. On the shelf in the dark corner was a 5ft Alligator. (There were shelves all over the patio in this dream but not in reality.) It moved its tail when it saw me but did nothing. I turned around to get away and almost kicked a baby ocelot playing on the ground in the dark.  It scared me, as I knew its protective mother would be close by. Suddenly the mother ocelot appeared and the fence with another baby next to her but she was not aggressive in any way. In fact she almost seemed thankful to find the refuge. Again I turned back towards the alligator and noticed the whole patio was filled with wild animals in the dark. I didn’t know how I missed them but they were not afraid of me nor I of them. They seemed thankful for the refuge. Suddenly a large Raven flew in with two babies flying behind it and landed on my shoulder. At first it really freaked me out, but then I knew I was safe.

I awoke at this point and a scripture came to my mind. While I was looking it up I also saw that my patio was like Noahs Ark.

 Daniel 4:9 I said, “Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no mystery is too difficult for you. Here is my dream; interpret it for me. 10 These are the visions I saw while lying in bed: I looked, and there before me stood a tree in the middle of the land. Its height was enormous.11 The tree grew large and strong and its top touched the sky; it was visible to the ends of the earth. 12 Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit abundant, and on it was food for all. Under it the wild animals found shelter, and the birds lived in its branches; from it every creature was fed.

MEETING WITH JESUS,ANDREW,JAMES AND PAUL from my book Majesties of His kingdom.

      Jesus stood in front of me in a grassy field. He was dressed, as He would be during his earthly ministry. He was laughing and seemed so joyful. I had never imagined him this way. Any previous times I had met him He was always so serious. However, this time was different.

      He immediately called me his best friend Joe and then asked me to turn around and meet his other friends. I didn’t know anybody was behind me, so I turned and looked. From left to right He said, “This is my brother James and Andrew and Paul”. It stunned me! They didn’t look anything like I thought they would.

      James looked a lot like Jesus but with a wider face and seemed warm and compassionate. His hair was dirty blonde, had piercing blue eyes, and wore an ear-to-ear smile.

      Andrew was thinner in the face and had more Jewish features and slightly darker hair.

      Paul was nothing what I had imagined. I thought that somehow he was a tough hombre. Instead, he was almost small and thin. He had black hair and dark eyes but also had a compassionate look to him.

      All four of them dressed in robes of their period and all were about five foot two. They appeared to want to meet me!

      Jesus showed me a path. The path was extremely narrow and did not seem well traveled. It was only as wide as my feet and almost completely covered over with growth. It turned after a little bit and then ended abruptly. I could also tell that each part of the path, represented years and that each part was a different part of my life.

GOD HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU! by EJ Ouellette

The group of people I am talking to is someone like me. The current establishment has rejected you. Every time you thought, God was about to use you; a torrent of adversity would come against you. You tried to fit in but were unable. Even your friends came against you. You went through tremendous trials while others next to you were constantly blessed. Many of your friends even became “Job comforters” and provided no help at all. You clung to God everyday and could hear his voice. He carried you, not any man. You were alone and felt like you were crazy. The other Christians around you never seemed like Christians at all. They slandered you and everyone else. They had no love in their hearts. Even now, you feel rejected by your fellowman, but not by God. God perhaps has given you great promises, and how He wants to use you in the last days. You feel that you are on the run and homeless. You can’t stand religiosity and desire freedom.

You are like many others that God has tucked away and kept hidden for the last days. You have been like a sleeper spy, held back for a special task. That day is coming soon. These spies and the young people will soon wage a great war against the false church and take back what rightfully belongs to God. Soon the enemy will be swept away and the true church will again take back the kingdom. It will be a church led by the Lord himself. It will be a nameless and faceless army, which will not seek any glory for itself. No one with selfish ambition will be leading it. He will again establish the apostolic and the prophetic as the head in the church. Miracles will be commonplace and even the children will perform these miracles. The dead shall be raised. Revival with the young people shall sweep across this land. All the people will be healed, not just some. Hospitals will be emptied and even the government will Glory in this. Stadiums will be filled with people worshipping God. Many people will enter into the Holy of holies while others will not. Only those that have repented of their sins will enter. They will take their place as high priests even though they are yet children. This current generation will see with their eyes but will not taste it themselves.

MT 22:8 "Then He said to his servants, `The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. 9 Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.' 10 So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

    MT 22:11 "But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 12 `Friend,' he asked, `how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man was speechless.

    MT 22:13 "Then the king told the attendants, `Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

        MT 22:14 "For many are invited, but few are chosen."

REV 19:9 Then the angel said to me, "Write: `Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!' “And he added, "These are the true words of God."

By J Ouellette

THE RED PILL DREAMS Aug 8th-2001 by EJ Ouellette

      Jesus and I were walking together into a large assembly. Jesus was at my left and appeared to be looking for something. Green, glove-leather, covered the well-padded seats. The people in the seats looked like glass jars and I could see right into them. Some were flopping around on the floor frantically, others lay precariously in the padded chairs. They were people who were playing in the river of God but had no intimate relationship with the Father. They were there for a good time but had no commitment or relationship with him. Each one had no love in their hearts for anyone but themselves. I could clearly see their sins and I felt sorry for the Lord that He should have to come and see such an abomination. I could hear over the PA someone preaching a message. The Lord seemed oblivious to it. Still I could not help but listen.

      The man at the microphone was preaching saying “As it says clearly in Jeremiah 14:14 Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, "Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain." And God granted his request.

      I knew instantly that this was not true in fact I knew that Jeremiah 14:14 was a rebuke because of false prophets.

      As Jesus and I turned to the right I saw stands set up like lemonade stands. There were signs above each one saying “Positive prophecies for seventy-six cents each.” Each one had someone standing behind the stand with a veil around the lower portion. A man at one of the stands turned to me and asked me if I wanted to buy a positive prophecy. His suggestion appalled me and embarrassed me that Jesus had to see this. I then woke up.

      I went to my bible to read Jeremiah 14:14 and this is what it said...

     

 JER 14:14 Then the LORD said to me, "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds. 15 Therefore, this is what the LORD says about the prophets who are prophesying in my name: I did not send them, yet they are saying, `No sword or famine will touch this land.' Those same prophets will perish by sword and famine. 16 And the people they are prophesying to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out on them the calamity they deserve.

      Also since the Lord also gave me the num “76" in the dream I looked up Psalm seventy-six and this is what it said.

 PS 76:1 In Judah God is known;

    His name is great in Israel.

  PS 76:2 His tent is in Salem,

    His dwelling place in Zion.

  PS 76:3 There he broke the flashing arrows,

    The shields and the swords, the weapons of war.

        Selah

  PS 76:4 You are resplendent with light,

    more majestic than mountains rich with game.

  PS 76:5 Valiant men lie plundered,

    they sleep their last sleep;

  not one of the warriors

    can lift his hands.

  PS 76:6 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob,

    both horse and chariot lie still.

  PS 76:7 You alone are to be feared.

    Who can stand before you when you are angry?

  PS 76:8 From heaven you pronounced judgment,

    and the land feared and was quiet--

  PS 76:9 when you, O God, rose up to judge,

    to save all the afflicted of the land.

        Selah

  PS 76:10 Surely your wrath against men brings you praise,

    and the survivors of your wrath are restrained.

  PS 76:11 Make vows to the LORD your God and fulfill them;

    let all the neighboring lands

    bring gifts to the One to be feared.

  PS 76:12 He breaks the spirit of rulers;

    he is feared by the kings of the earth.

      The Lord spoke to me. “Tell my people to quote Jabez no more. For I am coming against these false prophets and churches who are proclaiming blessings, I have said clearly that these blessing are for those who have truly sought me out not those who have refused to spend the time seeking me with prayer and fasting. I have promised to remove all the curses and to restore all your lands when you seek me with all of your hearts”.

     

 2CH 7:13 "When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. 16 I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

      The Father made it clear how we get our restoration. It comes through intimacy with him. There is a reason the first two of the Ten Commandments are “Love the Lord your God with all of your heart soul and minds”. There is no need for the other commandments if we just followed the first two. They have devised all kinds of methods to their healing, including repeating prayers over and over again but without any repentance. They break curses that don’t even exist, just so they can avoid the relationship that God has called us to. Why did we have to complicate something that was so simple?


AUG 9th 2001

      I dreamed I was lying on the floor of this same church and I had my eyes closed. I heard someone beside me speak, so I opened my eyes to look. It was a demon!

      This is what he said “Hi! I am one of the many new age spirits that reside in this place. Our job is to bring confusion to this place and to stop Gods true work from going forth. We do this by bringing new age Ideas and mix them with the word of God. For instance, by finding new doctrines that claim blessing without going directly to the Father we are able to stop many great warriors from reaching their potential and we are able to hold them back with confusion and doubt. We also prevent them from having the intimacy the God requires in order to give them the power of the age to come. We came in through the doctrine of “No Religion” and we fooled many people by being so unreligious that they became unholy following the ways of the world instead. They believe that they can enjoy all the things of this world. That it is not sin and anyone who apposes them is religious. When they started enjoying the things of this world through the TV and music it brought confusion in and undermined Gods true word. When God would bring them a true promise, we would work through the Media with alternate voices that would bring doubt to his word.”

      I got angry at this great deception and started to rise. When I looked to my left, I saw someone that I knew. She was also being deceived. I said to her “Rise up O daughter of the King. It is time to go forth”. I lead her to a clean area outside this place and we began to minister to people prophetically, breathing life into their sorrows.

ROOFS IN VIRGINIA FACTORIES COLLAPSING Oct2nd-2011 EJ Ouellette

Sunday, October 2, 2011 - EJ Ouellette

Dreamt I was in Virginia USA. I was flying over several factories and saw all of their roofs collapse. There was nothing but rubble. Suddenly I was inside a large factory when the roof began to cave in on us. We were trapped in some corridor unable to escape. I wondered if it was an earthquake but didn’t remember feeling any shaking first.

1968 PROPHECY from 90-YEAR-OLD WOMAN in NORWAY

1968 PROPHECY from 90-YEAR-OLD WOMAN in NORWAY

An old woman of 90 from Valdres in Norway had a vision from God in 1968. The evangelist Emanuel Minos had meetings (services) where she lived. He had the opportunity to meet her, and she told him what she had seen. He wrote it down, but thought it to be so unbelievable that he put it in a drawer. After 30 years, he understood he had to share the vision with others.

The woman from Valdres was a very alert, reliable, awake and credible Christian, with a good reputation among all who knew her. This is what she saw:

"I saw the time just before the coming of Jesus and the outbreak of the Third World War. I saw the events with my natural eyes. I saw the world like a kind of a globe and saw Europe, land by land. I saw Scandinavia. I saw Norway. I saw certain things that would take place just before the return of Jesus, and just before the last calamity happens, a calamity the likes of which we have never before experienced.

She mentioned four waves:

1. "First before Jesus comes and before the Third World War breaks out there will be a ?dÇtente? like we have never had before. There will be peace between the super powers in the east and the west, and there will be a long peace. [Remember, that this was in 1968 when the cold war was at its highest. -E. Minos]. In this period of peace there will be disarmament in many countries, also in Norway and we are not prepared when it (the war) comes. The Third World War will begin in a way no one would have anticipated - and from an unexpected place.

2. "A lukewarmness without parallel will take hold of the Christians, a falling away from true, living Christianity. Christians will not be open for penetrating preaching. They will not, like in earlier times, want to hear of sin and grace, law and gospel, repentance and restoration. There will come a substitute instead: prosperity (happiness) Christianity.

"The important thing will be to have success, to be something; to have material things, things that God never promised us in this way. Churches and prayer houses will be emptier and emptier. Instead of the preaching we have been used to for generations -like, to take your cross up and follow Jesus, - entertainment, art and culture will invade the churches where there should have been gatherings for repentance and revival. This will increase markedly just before the return of Jesus.

3. "There will be a moral disintegration that old Norway has never experienced the likes of. People will live together like married without being married. [I do not believe the concept ?co habitor? existed in 1968 - E. Minos.] Much uncleanness before marriage, and much infidelity in marriage will become the natural (the common), and it will be justified from every angle. It will even enter Christian circles and we pet it - even sin against nature. Just before Jesus returns there will be TV- programs like we have never experienced. [TV had just arrived in Norway in 1968. -E. Minos]

"TV will be filled with such horrible violence that it teaches people to murder and destroy each other, and it will be unsafe in our streets. People will copy what they see. There will not be only one station? on TV, it will be filled with ?stations.? [She did not know the word ?channel? which we use today. Therefore she called them stations. -E. Minos.] TV will be just like the radio where we have many ?stations,? and it will be filled with violence. People will use

it for entertainment. We will see terrible scenes of murder and destruction one of the other, and this will spread in society. Sex scenes will also be shown on the screen, the most intimate things that take place in a marriage." I protested and said, we have a paragraph that forbids this kind of thing. -E. Minos.]  There the old woman said: "It will happen, and you will see it. All we have had before will be broken down, and the most indecent things will pass before our eyes."

4. "People from poor countries will stream to Europe. [In 1968 there was no such thing as immigration. -E. Minos.] They will also come to Scandinavia - and Norway. There will be so many of them that people will begin to dislike them and become hard with them.

They will be treated like the Jews before the Second World War. Then the full measure of our sins will have been reached [I protested at the issue of immigration. I did not understand it at the time. -E. Minos.]

The tears streamed from the old woman?s eyes down her cheeks. "I will not see it, but you will. Then suddenly, Jesus will come and the Third World War breaks out. It will be a short war." (She saw it in the vision.)

"All that I have seen of war before is only child?s play compared to this one, and it will be ended with a nuclear atom bomb. The air will be so polluted that one cannot draw one?s breath. It will cover several continents, America, Japan, Australia and the wealthy nations. The water will be ruined (contaminated?). We can no longer till the soil. The result will be that only a remnant will remain. The remnant in the wealthy countries will try to flee to the poor countries, but they will be as hard on us as we were on them.

"I am so glad that I will not see it, but when the time draws near, you must take courage and tell this. I have received it from God, and nothing of it goes against what the Bible tells.

"The one who has his sin forgiven and has Jesus as Savior and Lord, is safe."

WHEN the OIL FLOWS

An elder in the Pentecostal Church at Moss, Norway, Martin Andersen, heard the following prophecy in 1937, in Moss:

?When oil comes out of the North Sea and along the Norwegian coast, things will begin to happen, and the return of Jesus is approaching.?

When these words had been proclaimed, people stood up in the congregation and asked the man to sit down and not speak such nonsense. In 1937 it was indeed nonsense to talk about oil being pumped along the Norwegian coast. Today all the world?s big oil companies are pumping oil along the coast of Norway. Norway is the world?s third greatest exporter of oil - after Saudi Arabia.

Original source editor?s note:

Because of my fear of transmitting false prophecy, I have diligently inquired concerning the information in this letter. Publication has been delayed until permission could be secured from Ragna [Von Porat] in Israel. In my contact with her, she has assured me that these accounts are true and reliable. In fact, she relates that the first account has already been published in one of Norway?s Christian newspapers.

I have found in my own research that the first account was also published by the Christian Information Service in Germany. The website of Dr. Emanuel Minos is active today and can be accessed for verification. Although the language on this site is Norwegian, the very similar story of the woman and her vision is posted there in English. The above accounts are transmitted just as they were received.