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A Closer Look At The Rapture

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stream and palm trees soon found that the Rock was gone,<br />

the stream dried up, and the palm trees withered. And he<br />

knew not which way to go to catch up with those who moved<br />

on. This is the sad condition of the denominations today.<br />

Each of them found a place in God to their liking, stopped,<br />

failed to hear the signal to move on, and now they find their<br />

living water gone, their stream of revelation dried up, and<br />

themselves going in circles trying to get blessings from what<br />

is now only a mud puddle. And talk about mud<br />

slinging..political campaigns can't hold a light to the churches<br />

of today. That's all they have - mud. Scandals, bitterness,<br />

jealousies, murmurings, backbitings, debates, and religious<br />

political maneuverings in high places. <strong>The</strong>ir streams have<br />

dried up. <strong>The</strong>y didn't hear, or didn't heed, the trumpets. But,<br />

thank God, there are those who heard, who heeded, and who<br />

did not have their tent stakes driven too deeply to pull up<br />

and move on. This place may look good, but when the<br />

trumpet sounds, you can rely on it that God has a better<br />

place ahead. Pentecost looked very good to me as a young<br />

man coming out of the dead denomination I was in. And I<br />

was right in the middle of Pentecost when the trumpet<br />

sounded again. Raised in the Headquarters city, a graduate<br />

of their Headquarters Bible school, being accepted as a<br />

writer for their various national publications, the fair-haired<br />

boy with a great future in the organization. But I heard the<br />

trumpets. And it sounded a chord deep within my heart, for I<br />

hungered desperately for more of God. I knew I had to move<br />

on. I thought I could move on in God and still retain my<br />

position in the organization and the associations, but little<br />

did I know of the workings of the system of religious<br />

theology and ecclesiastical orders. But I learned. Many<br />

others have had the same experience as they heard and<br />

heeded the sound of the trumpet. However, there is still the<br />

danger today even for those who have "come out" that they<br />

will become satisfied, drive their stakes down, and not heed<br />

the next call. This is a never ending pilgrim journey through<br />

the wilderness, ever onward and upward to that cherished<br />

promised land of victory and rest. Many in so called "Latter<br />

Rain" have received prophecy, laying on of hands, ministries<br />

and gifts of the Spirit, and are now in the position where<br />

they are not moving on in God, afraid to journey further, not<br />

hearing the trumpet as it sounds loud and clear. But God has<br />

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