Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel (Amos 4:12). Many times Israel has met her God, but not always has she been prepared for it. The history of the wandering Jews is one of immense contrast. Never have a people been so blessed nor a people so persecuted, hated and yet so loved as the Jewish people. God has treated them with unbelievable tenderness; and then because of judgment they brought on themselves, He has destroyed them by the thousands as though they were animals and not human beings.

God scattered the Israelites throughout the world—He had warned He would if they refused to repent. Three different times they have been scattered, enduring hatred and persecutions. Why? Because of disobedience.

I have learned a great deal from the Jewish people. Their misfortunes, their disobediences, their turning their backs on God have taught me much about seeking and contacting God. The wandering Jews have shown me what to avoid, how to open my ears to the call of God twenty-four hours around the clock. They taught me obedience, humility, the vital necessity of doing the whole will of God. The historic Jews demonstrated the unbelievable faith that God will do anything for an obedient people He loves.

We who are Gentile Christians have been adopted into the family of God with all its marvelous promises. God took us by choice, not because He had to; and He has proven again and again that we are His very own, that He loves us, adores us and wants us to be consecrated and dedicated unto Him.

As one thinks of the words, “prepare to meet thy God”, one thinks about the sinner. But the Lord is saying to His children as well as to sinners, “Prepare to meet thy God.” Prepare to be caught up into the air because you will meet your Lord there. He is coming for you in the form of His Son Jesus. Jesus will appear in midair at His second coming, and there are preparations to be made.

In order for the Israelites to be brought out of Egyptian bondage, great care, great preparations were manifested; and great preparations are vital to us today. It has taken many, many years to bring us to the place of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in this latter rain; and it has taken many, many years to gather the Jews back to the Holy Land. This gathering is happening in our day. In 1948, the Jewish State was formed. Israel was told to prepare to meet God, and they are now meeting God in a very special way.

The Season of His Coming

Almost twenty-six hundred years have elapsed since the Lord told Ezekiel of the time He would draw the Jews back for the final gathering. Jesus declared that the generation on the face of the earth when the fig tree bloomed—when the Jews became a nation—would not pass away until all would be fulfilled (Matthew 24). Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors (verses 32-34). Jesus is speaking here of the season of the Rapture and the Great Tribulation Period. Jesus told us that we would know the season, not the exact hour, but the season. He told us about our preparation for the Rapture, Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh (Matthew 24:44). We do not know the exact hour that Jesus will come again, but we do know this is the season. Jesus said that those who walked with Him, those who were obedient to Him would recognize the times.

Elijah the prophet was a busy man, hurrying to Bethel, Jericho and Jordan to finish all his work, for he knew he was going to be taken to Heaven by the Lord. He did not know the exact hour, but he knew the season. Elisha, too, knew Elijah would be leaving. Elijah said to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so. And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it (II Kings 2:9-12). Ask anything you want, Elisha. Ask what you will! Elisha asked for double the power of Elijah. “If you see me when I go away, you can have it,” Elijah said, “you can have it”

“Well, when are you going?”

“In the near future.”

“When, really?”

“Soon. This is the season; I’ve heard it from Heaven, but I don’t know the very hour.”

Today we are hearing the call from Heaven, telling us to get ready. This is the season for the coming of the Lord. Our work is almost done; we like Elijah are hurrying to finish our last-minute work. As Elijah moved closer and closer to his rapture time, the power of God moved greater and greater through him. God poured all of Himself through Elijah, it seems, at the last. When he reached Jordan, Elisha must have wondered how they would cross over. Then he saw Elijah lift his mantle into the air. Down it came, striking the waters, and the waters separated. Elisha followed Elijah through the Jordan on dry ground.

The waters are separating today for the children of God, opening up; and we are following our leader Jesus. Just as Elisha had Elijah, we have Jesus. Jesus came, demonstrating the greatness of God’s power with miracles in abundance. As Elijah dropped his mantle on Elisha, Jesus dropped His mantle on the children of God, the mantle we must use in preparation for His return, the mantle of His love, His strength, the mantle of His deliverance for all people. Jesus said, If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you (John 15:7). Ask what you will in the name of Jesus—we have the authority to use that name. We speak the will of God and miracles take place through the power of the Holy Ghost. Ask what you will—as long as you abide in Him and He in you.

Our Protector

The Lord is very patient with us as He gives us His great love and care daily. He has sent the wonderful Holy Spirit, the third personality in the Trinity of the Godhead to tabernacle with you, to live and dwell with you, to be with you twenty-four hours around the clock.

The Holy Spirit is a person. He lives inside of you who are saved and born again, to guide your path, to give you a sense of direction daily. He is your protector, the one to dry your tears when you sorrow. He is there to do for you what no other power can do. You are blessed, fortunate.

Be mindful of the Holy Spirit, of God’s tender care and respect for you as a child of God. You once were lost, degraded in sin; but God in His mercy picked you up out of the gutter, made you clean, washed away all your sins and stood you on your feet, making you a new creature, giving you new life.

Greater Promises

God has promised that if you live that new life, you will have an eternal place in His Kingdom; and He furnishes daily the power for you to live it. He promises that when you enter into His Kingdom, you will never shed a tear, never have sickness to fight, never feel another pain. Everything you do will be a pleasure. In His Kingdom you will experience nothing but joy and happiness. No more lonely moments. God has it all planned. Paul said, But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God (I Corinthians 2:9,10).

The Lord planned to bring the Israelites out of Egyptian bondage, but it took Him many, many years. Much preparation had to be made, miraculous preparation. Over four hundred years they were slaves; but at last God had a man, a leader, ready to bring them out. It took God many, many more years to raise up mankind to the place He could send His Son to bring them out of sin.

Moses was not perfect like Jesus, but loving God with an everlasting love he grew meek and lowly before the Lord. The patience and the love of God that went into Moses are fantastic indeed. God would like to have made Moses more quickly, but He couldn’t. God can only work with what man gives Him to work with.

God had made an Adam overnight. How quickly He made an Adam! Why?—because Adam had no will of his own, no say in it. God can move in perfection when He is not hampered and held back with mankind’s will.

God put a great limitation on Himself concerning man when He gave man the freedom to choose good or evil. It’s a limitation that cannot be lifted until all prophecy up to the perfect age is fulfilled and the thousand-year reign of Christ begins. The Kingdom at that time will not be operated by the will of man in any way, but entirely by the will of Almighty God. Man’s own will shall have no say in it at all. Everyone taking part in the Kingdom, those given any authority, will be completely obedient people who adore God more than life itself, people like angels in Heaven who will not disobey God in anything. That perfect Kingdom is coming.

What will it be like when man no longer has any control or say? Life will be completely different than it is now; it will be life in God’s perfection. You wonder why God does not move for you, why He doesn’t deliver you more quickly, why this sorrow, this heartache, this despair come. God can work no other way under the circumstances. God has given man many rights, but man has used them without regard to the God who made him. Have you ever thought of the bill of rights that belongs to you as a child of God? God will not take that bill of rights from you; you have free choice to go any path you want. There are many paths, many things to choose; but only one path is the right path on which the unclean cannot walk. It took the blood of Jesus to make you clean enough to walk that road.

Jesus was God’s masterstroke of love. God will never show you greater love than the love it took to make a Calvary. God used all His love to give us Calvary; He had never used it all before. If Calvary won’t provide your path to Heaven, you will never get there. God has nothing else with which to help you. He had used every plan possible to reconcile man to His God before Jesus came, and every plan failed. Then He gave Jesus. It wasn’t that He wanted to give Jesus, but Jesus was our only hope—that’s how much God loves you and me.

Just as God sent Moses to bring the Israelites out of slavery, the Lord sent Jesus to bring us out. With signs and wonders, miracles and healings the Israelites were delivered. We read in Psalm 105:37 that He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes. The power of God moved so greatly that everyone received a miracle or healing who needed it. A sick, sick nation, a nation scarred, marred, a nation that looked as though it could never recover was brought out whole and strong. Josephus the historian recorded that many of the Israelites had worn their fingers down to stubs working in the slime pits of Pharaoh. What happened? What turned their situation around so drastically? God furnished deliverance through a lamb’s body; and those who ate the lamb’s body, those who placed the blood on the doorpost found that even death had no power over them in that great night of the Passover.

God loved them so much that He made a covenant with them, saying that He would keep sickness away from their door. They wouldn’t even get sick as long as they would obey the Lord, keep His commandments and embrace His statutes: for I am the Lord that healeth thee (Exodus 15:26). I will take sickness away from the midst of thee (Exodus 23:25).

Through Jesus we are offered more than was available to the Israelites. God has promised us that we will never shed a tear, be sick or die. The Lord did not tell the Israelites they would never die; but because on the Cross Jesus, our Sacrificial Lamb, killed the power of sin, we have eternal life offered us. God let the Israelites know He would drive out their enemies before them, that He was taking them to a land of milk and honey; but there would still be valleys. He has promised us a day when there will be no more valleys, no more mountains to climb, a day of no separation from Him and loved ones; it’s the life in Heaven with Jesus. He did not promise this to the Israelite people. At first glance it looks as though the Israelites were promised more then we are, but not so. When Jesus came, all Heaven was promised to you and to me, all Heaven including the Throne of God. We were told we can be co-heirs with Jesus Christ the Son of God. But like God’s promises to the Israelites, His promises to us are conditional. Make the preparations the Lord wants you to make—salvation, the Holy Ghost baptism and total obedience to Him—so that you can claim all He has in store for you. Salvation alone will take you to Heaven when you die, but salvation alone will not take you into the deepness and greatness of God while you’re still here on Earth.

The Power of God Is More Than a Marvel of the Past

Without the Holy Ghost, without the power of God, the name of Jesus will not be able to provide all the benefits of the Kingdom that God wants you to have. But when the Holy Spirit uses that name, the blind receive their sight, the deaf hear, the crippled are made to walk.

It took preparation before the disciples were ready to wear the mantle of Jesus—they had thought they were ready, but they weren’t until they went to the Upper Room and were baptized in the Spirit. Through fastings, prayers and living in the Word of God, they were able at last to use that mantle. It isn’t enough to just have the mantle of Jesus; the mantle of Jesus will bless no one unless it is used. As long as the power of God was in Heaven it did not bless the people; but when Jesus brought it down to earth, signs, wonders and miracles took place.

It isn’t enough to preach, sing or talk about the power of God; that power must be used if it is to be effective. The Christian world has experienced too much talking and not enough doing. Singing, cooing over the power of God, talking about it and nothing more, people all too often have reverenced it as a marvel of the past. They accepted only the greatness of the God of yesterday.

If Jesus isn’t your Master today, you are not ready for the Rapture; you are not making preparations, for you have no vision. You’re blind, blind, blind and deaf, deaf, deaf. This is a time of awakening by the Holy Spirit. We are being called to put on the whole armor of God and to then stand. The midnight hour is almost here. The Holy Spirit of the Lord is affecting the whole earth—all the inhabitants—for good or for bad, causing those who love evil more than they love God to turn from Him completely, to seek to do the will of the devil. That is the way it is to be in the final hour.

There Really Is an Antichrist

The Antichrist will soon make his appearance, the devil/man. Just as there is a God/man—Jesus—there will be a devil/man. Just like the God/man thought in righteous perfection, the devil/man will think in all ungodly ways. It will be the most incredible hour that has ever been, an hour of absolute evil as the Antichrist comes into power.

The devil is gaining more and more control, sweeping people into his nets. He is after you to destroy the crown of God’s love you are wearing. Jesus wore the crown of thorns that you might wear His crown of love. His badge of dedication—love, love, love—is yours. Your heart has become pure and clean…and the devil despises anyone with a pure heart. He despises your daily communion with the Lord, your favor with the Lord and the power of God you have that defeats him. He despises you when you sing with all faith, “There’s power, power, wonder-working power in the blood of the lamb.” Trying to contaminate you, to soil your garments of righteousness that the Lord has clothed you in, the devil wants to get into your mind in hopes you will let him pry open the door of your soul. When he cannot get into the soul, he tries to discourage the mind. He uses high pressure tactics, coming against you in many, many ways to drag you into valleys of despair, but through the power in the blood of Jesus, you are far from helpless before him. That power tramples demons underfoot.

Fasting Tortures Satan’s Kingdom

When you fast, you torture the throne of Satan; you torture armies of his demons. If you could see Satan’s kingdom as I have been able to see it through the gift of God, you would understand more what you are battling. When you fast, especially a long fast—a real Bible fast like Jesus taught in which you’ve consecrated and dedicated every part of you, every thought and have yielded completely to His will—the devils work around you in masses. It is something to behold! You torture them; they can’t be still but are continually moving—just thousands of them it seems. Why some of the strange sensations when you fast? You are conquering, casting down part of Satan’s kingdom. You’re receiving more and more power, and those demons are calling for other demons to re-enforce their efforts to battle you. Even demons being cast out sometimes cry for another devil in someone else to come to their aid. You are not conscious of Satan’s kingdom the way you ought to be and could be. It isn’t pleasant, but knowing your enemy in time of battle is important.

After Jesus fasted forty days and nights, more devils came at Him than at any other time before His crucifixion. When Jesus fasted forty days and nights, He tortured the whole kingdom of Satan. The demons were lined up with the devil himself in charge. He didn’t trust one of his demons to take care of the situation; the devil did the talking. “If you be the Son of God,” he sneered, “turn these stones into bread. If you be the Son of God, cast yourself down from this high pinnacle where I have taken you. Didn’t God say you couldn’t be destroyed, that nothing could hurt you? Hm-m-m?” What did Jesus do in the face of temptation? He rebuked the devil with the Word of God “It is written…it is written…it is written,” He said; and the Word conquered the devil. Jesus was showing us how we should handle Lucifer: Throw the Word of God at him. Give him the Word, not feelings or thoughts. Use thus saith the Lord, thus saith the Lord, thus saith the Lord.

Demons Flee Like Rats from the Power of God

Seeing demons and devils is a dreadful experience. When the gift of discerning of spirits began working in my life through the Spirit of God years ago, I looked into the faces, into the eyes of demon spirits just like the Master did when He was here. I looked into the souls of human beings and saw the devils that bound them. In teaching me the gift of discerning, the Lord would let me look into a soul to see those devils. As the power of God cast them out through me, it would be as though I had cords tied to them; and I could pull them out with those cords—pull them right out of a soul. Lifting my hands through the power of God, I had the sensation of demon claws scratching the inside of a human being while they came out. With great jubilation I would rejoice as that soul was delivered. It was unreal to me in the flesh, but it was the reality of demon spirits. When the power of God came upon me, I had such confidence I almost felt as though I were made of steel. The demons were helpless. Through the Spirit of God I became so sensitive that I could feel a deaf spirit moving in an ear when the power of God came upon my finger touching that ear.

Now in this hour, however, there is no more clawing. The demons do not have time to claw. “In the name of Jesus,” I cry, “Out!” and out they come in masses. I’ve seen them like rats running over a dam, fleeing to get out of the way. They just pour out of souls who a spilt second before had been demon possessed. Through God I have that authority. I feel great when the power of God comes upon me. As I reach out to touch people, God’s power shoots through me into them. Many cannot remain standing. Big men fall like they’re dead. It shocks them. I’ve seen the eyes of people roll back as demons go out of the souls they are possessing. When the people stand to their feet, they’re amazed; the devils are out.

Lucifer the Accuser of the Brethren

We are in the final hour now. All hell, all the armies of Lucifer are being turned loose on us. You’re not going to reach Heaven easily. The devil is offering you everything. When he can’t win you with honey, he’ll hound you with worry, fear and anxiety every day and every night—if you let him. He’ll torture your mind, make you uneasy, restless, frustrated as darkness settles over you instead of the light of God’s holiness and righteousness. You’ll find yourself stumbling through the night because you have forgotten who you are in the Lord. You’ve forgotten your path; you’ve forgotten that the Lord walks with you, forgotten that He is the one who can calm your storm, lift you up and let you walk on the waters of life. You have forgotten!

Fear can torture and torment you. It can take over until you tremble before the powers of Satan when you would not have to tremble at all. With joy and gladness you can step onto the promises of God that cannot be destroyed by Lucifer. Those promises are for you, promises—thousands of promises—paving a path for your feet. Nothing can sink you; nothing can cast you down as long as you hold to His promises.

You have been prepared for this hour, and now it’s here. Make the most of it. Don’t let Lucifer cast you down before your God; you are not a castaway. The Bible tells us that Lucifer is an accuser of the brethren, of the children of God. Day and night he accuses us before God. He tells God that we’re not living right, that we’re not really worth anything at all. Do you think God listens for a moment? No. Do you think for a moment that God believes him? No. God does not believe anything the devil tells him. God knows that the devil is a liar and the father of lies. Why would you believe the devil either? God has no trust, no confidence whatsoever in the devil. Why should you?

God’s Words Are Our Lifeline

As you study the Old Testament prophets you find that when they said thus saith the Lord, it came to pass. Thus saith the Lord was their strength, their life, their everything, thus saith the Lord. In this final hour thus saith the Lord is going to be our love: thus saith the Lord. It’s going to be our song, our conversation. Thus saith the Lord you cannot be conquered. Thus saith the Lord you are preparing to get out of here; you are being cleansed. Thus saith the Lord Jesus is coming after a Church without spot or wrinkle. Thus saith the Lord there’s no case too hard for God. All you have to do is surrender to Him, and thus saith the Lord you’ll not all sleep; but you’ll be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye—it’s thus saith the Lord! We are getting out of here! We are leaving! Thank God for the promises of God! Thank God for the Old Rugged Cross, for the power of His holiness, for His love and care! Thank God that we can walk and talk with the King of Glory today while we are yet on planet Earth.

And thank God we have a force that defeats Lucifer; it’s the power of Jesus, the power in God’s word. Do you believe it? Yes? Then prepare and finish your work as Elijah did. You have places to go, things to do before that catching-away hour. You must help send this Gospel to the nations, help tell the story of Jesus and bind the powers of Lucifer through the Word of God. When you help send me and my team to the nations, it isn’t only we who are telling the story of Jesus and binding the power of Lucifer. You, too, are telling the story of Jesus and binding the power of Lucifer, thus saith the Lord. You are there doing it, you, with your prayers, your fastings, your finances, your strength, your love and trust, your belief in the prophecies of the living God.

Prepare to Meet Thy God in the Rapture

Prepare to meet thy God, not in judgment but in love and deliverance. Prepare to meet thy God. His arms are spread wide for you the rest of your journey. Ask what you will. I will open the widows of Heaven and rain down blessings, the Lord is saying. You will need them for the final hour!

Why did God promise to pour out His Spirit upon us? It’s the only way we will be able to stand, the only way to get out of here—yielding to the Holy Ghost. You must have a baptism in the Spirit, you must. If you do not yield enough to receive the baptism in the Spirit, you are not yielding enough to be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye when Jesus comes in midair to take His bride home. You will never be yielded to all of God until you are Holy Spirit filled, wholly possessed by the Holy Spirit, until you are under His control, operated by Him, doing His bidding. Those totally yielded to the Holy Spirit are aware that “it is not I that speaketh, but He that speaketh through me.” Paul said, I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:20). Not I that liveth, but Jesus who lives in me. How did Jesus live in Paul?—through the power of the Holy Ghost.

You’re Groomed Either by God or the Devil

Why sit by the wayside listening to the tantalizing words of Lucifer? Why let him taunt you; why let him plant one little seed of doubt in your mind that the Lord will not come in your day? Why?

The world could be sober and sane, but it will have none of it. Many worldly-pleasure-mad people will be left behind. You see it everywhere: pleasure, pleasure, pleasure. Moses knew he would rather suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt (Hebrews 11:25,26). There were many pleasures in Egypt for Moses as the Son of Pharaoh’s daughter; he had been groomed for the things of the world, but he turned his back on them all. The devil will groom you for many things and entice you; but when you look at yourself in God’s mirror, you will decide that the world is not for you. You cannot enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season and still have an eternity with God. That sinful act, that lie, that deceiving spirit you embrace will contaminate you, and you will not be prepared to meet thy God.

Oh, Israel, prepare to meet thy God! He’s coming down to fight a war for you; get ready. I hear the tramp, tramp, tramp of many feet from all nations, footsteps of Jews who are yielding to the drawing of the Spirit of God, being gathered back to the land of their forefathers.

Our Great Hour of Visitation

It’s the great hour of visitation. We’re being visited now; the Holy Ghost is falling. God is dealing with Jews and Gentiles alike. It won’t last long. Only briefly has God dealt with both Jews and Gentiles together. As you hear the many, many footsteps, as the Holy Spirit is moving on more and more Jews, the Lord is crying to the rulers of Russia to, “Let my people go!” Oh, Russia, God said you would be buried by the Israelite people in the land of Israel! So be it. It’s thus saith the Lord. God will gather the Jews back. If God has to destroy all the people of Russia in order to get His people out He will do it, for His people are coming out. God buried Pharaoh’s army in a coffin of water, and He’ll bury Russia in Israel. It’s been prophesied; it’s thus saith the Lord. “Hear ye the Word of the Lord! Hear ye!” is the cry of Jehovah God, the Lord God Almighty.

The Holy Spirit is gathering you close, pouring God’s love into your very being, anointing your eyes daily so you can see. He is reaching out, bringing you into the closet of dedication and consecration, saying, “Come, Child, the Master hath need of you. You must hurry. There is much work to be done, and you have been ordained to do it just before go-home time. Think not of the strength you are giving or of the finances. Soon you will have everything. Deny yourself these last few moments. Deny yourself completely; present your body as a living, holy sacrifice unto God. Give all.”

Almost Midnight

Prepare to meet thy God. He cometh in the clouds; He cometh with no more warning than a thief in the night. Prepare to meet thy God. It’s almost midnight. The work is about finished, yet there seems so much to be done. Oh, Holy Spirit, the task is too great for just human beings. God must live and dwell in the inside of us. We must be like Jesus, more and more like Him every moment that we have left.

Take the whole world, but give us Jesus! Take the whole world, and we’ll be somewhere working for the Lord. We’ll be reaching out to gather in the last soul for the Kingdom before we hear the call, “Behold the Bridegroom cometh! Go ye out to meet Him!” Your love will have brought that last one into the Kingdom as you lift your head to the heavenly sound of a trumpet.

Nothing can hold you back. No one can keep you from going—only self. But you denied self, and now self has no more control over you. You have given that control over to the Holy Spirit so He can change you as you go out to meet Him. You take that step; you feel the warmth of the Holy Spirit like soothing oil pouring over you. Now it’s gushing forth in a mighty volcano of power; you are ready; you know it. In just a few moments you will see Him! In just a few moments you will see your loved ones who have died in the Lord; He said He would bring them with Him. Oh wonderful joy! If He didn’t give you any other reward but that, it would be enough.

Thus Saith the Lord:

And you will be caught out of great tribulation and great despair. You will be caught up into the glory of my strength and into the glory of my rest. The veil of consecration will be yours. I will lift it on that day, and you will behold my face. You will look into my eyes, and I will reveal my love to you like I have always wanted to reveal my love to you. You will know for the first time how much I have loved you and how much I have cared. I will dry all your tears on that day, and there won’t be any more. I will take away all the hurt; I will even erase the scars. Your feet that are scarred with thorns will no longer be scarred. I will be the only one that will be scarred. But with an unending love I will keep my scars to remind you of my love for you for all time and eternity.

For the first time you will know how close and nigh I was unto you. For the first time it will be revealed unto you how I heard every prayer that you prayed and saw every tear that you shed. I felt all your sicknesses and diseases. I walked with you. I sheltered you, cradled you in arms of love when you didn’t know that I was there; but for the first time you will be able to know the real happiness of your Lord and the real eternal peace of your God. And for the first time you will fully understand the way of the Lord thy God. For the first time you will know what my Crucifixion meant for the human race and what Heaven gave and what Heaven suffered and the price that was paid. But I will erase all of your anguish…and no more tears. Your veil of consecration has adorned you because my love and my suffering made that veil for you, saith the Lord unto His people.

Preparation: Prepare to meet thy God with joy and gladness. Prepare to meet Him with His divine revelation of His love for you, His understanding and what Calvary has meant to mankind. Prepare to meet thy God in all the greatness and glory of His second coming. Prepare to meet thy God!