Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning (Psalm 30:5). Keep telling your heart, Joy cometh in the morning. In the daytime also he led them [the Israelites] with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire (Psalm 78:14). God gave light to the Israelites when they wandered forty years in the wilderness. They had light through the Lord. He wrapped Himself in a pillar of fire for their light at night and their warmth in the wilderness. In a cloud by day He “umbrellaed” them, sheltered them from the heat, looked out for them in a most beautiful way.

In this hour, we are led by the fire of the Spirit; we have His light. Walking in the light, we are children of light. We see the way we take; we know where to place our feet. The light of God directs us, shows us each step; and we are not struggling through the night.

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee (Psalm 139:11,12). Remember this, Saints of God: we have the light of Heaven, the light of God. The darkness is not to be feared, for God’s light shines as the sun shineth in the day for the children of God in this long night before the Rapture. The darkness and the light are alike to God when it comes to His children. God sees us as clearly in the dark as in the light. His light is upon us, and He sees us wherever we are.

Watchman, What of the Night?

Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh (Isaiah 21:11,12). In Isaiah’s time, watchmen patrolled the walls of the city. People passing below would call, “Watchman, what of the night?” This watchman that Isaiah brings to us answered, “The morning cometh; the morning is almost here.”

With great expectation we are declaring in this hour: The morning is almost here! The longest night is about to end for the Church, for the Bride of Christ. The true watchmen of God on His walls of salvation, promises and prophecies are crying, “The morning cometh! The Lord cometh!”

We have endured some nights so long they seemed to never end. Calamity had come, maybe a loved one had passed away, and what a long, long endless night began!

In searching the Bible I find many long nights. This longest night I am bringing to you, this night of 2,000 years of the Church dispensation is about to close, saith the Lord, and the morning cometh. All true watchmen on the walls of God, seeing as God sees, declare the Word of the Lord, the glad tidings that the morning cometh, there is nothing to fear.

The Church Went into Darkness

In Song of Solomon we find a time when the Bride was not following hard after the Lord. The Groom stood at her door, but she was so drowsy she didn’t open the door to let Him in. Later she changes, searches for Him diligently.

In this long night, the members of the bridal company have searched for the Groom. In the beginning, the opening of the Church Age, they found Him in all His glory and power and vowed to never let Him go. But lukewarmness, the spirit of indifference, crept in. They lost sight of the Master, Jesus the Groom. Unconcerned, they no longer traveled hard to keep up with Him and follow in His steps. Like the Israelites of old, they ceased altogether one day to follow the cloud, and they were stranded in the wilderness; the Lord moved off and left them. All kinds of sins entered the hearts of people. The Church went into such darkness it seemed the light was going out completely.

The Just Shall Live by Faith

In the fifteenth century when Martin Luther came on the scene, the light still flickered feebly. Martin Luther had climbed the steps of the church in Rome seeking forgiveness, doing penance, and then one day the voice of God fell from Heaven saying, The Just shall live by faith. Martin Luther standing to his feet, never to do penance again, started living by faith.

With Martin Luther’s great revelation, the light of God, broke through the darkness. A small band of people began to follow Jesus, living by faith.

Different periods of time have known awakenings to the truth in the Word, but nothing like today. This is the great awakening, the endtime hour.

We find the bride in Song of Solomon, a type of the Bride of Christ, now wide awake. In love with the Groom, she longs to be with Him. When King Jesus comes to her door to sup with her, she is ready. She has lost sight of everyone else, of the world.

The Bride’s long night is about to come to an end. Of course she’s weary, tired from the journey. Although Jesus dwells in her heart, still she wants to see Him face to face, to hold His hand, to walk down the Avenue of Glory with Him. Longing for that time there will be no separation, she wants to be with Him every moment.

It seems the break of day will never come, but the watchman said the morning cometh. Never has there been a night so dark but what it ended. All God’s true watchmen today have the glorious message of the Rapture to give.

Adam and Eve Turned Out the Light of God

We go back to the beginning of mankind to search the nights, to compare them with this longest night we are now in which will close with the Rapture of the Bride of Christ. In Eden, the days and nights were the light of God. Man didn’t need anything other than that light. Even as night fell in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve could see through the darkness. Without fear, man knew God’s steps, knew his way; man knew no steps but godly steps.

Because you are familiar with your home, you can walk around in the night—if the furniture hasn’t been moved. Adam and Eve could stroll through Eden in the night; they didn’t need electric lights; no one lurked in the shadow to attack them. Then it happened: they turned out the light of God. Never had they spent a night away from God until that first night outside Eden. Think of the fear and terror they must have felt. I doubt they slept at all. Since God had created them, they had never before experienced difficulty falling asleep. Fear was a new sensation; they didn’t know how to handle it.

The Garden of Eden was watered by a mist coming up from the ground. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth…But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground (Genesis 2:5,6). Now outside Eden the storm was raging. Man and woman spent their first night of terror as the thunder roared and the lightening flashed. What a long, seemingly endless night that must have been! But when the next morning came, they were still in darkness—spiritual darkness. There would never be a light for them like they had before; never would they get back into Eden.

Each morning, no doubt, Adam and Eve would find their way back to the Garden gate, hoping the flaming sword of judgment would be missing. But it was always there.

Never were Adam and Eve to escape their long, long night of terror. Their children and their children’s children would live in that night of the darkness of the kingdom of Satan, taught by him. Lives would be overtaken by demonic powers until darkness was everywhere.

Light in the Night

It was one long night for God. The man and woman whom He loved like He loved Himself were lost, wasted in the clutches of the devil. Darkness continued to hang over the earth. God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth (Genesis 6:5-7).

But the Lord saw a tiny flicker of light coming from a home buried down there in the night. It was the only place He saw light. One little light of the knowledge of God, one light of honoring God saved the Noah family. Noah was told to build an ark because the inhabitants of the earth—everyone else but the Noah family—would be destroyed. Eight souls waited and worked in that long night of over one hundred years, enduring sacrifices, persecutions, scorn and mockery. Every kind of darkness blanketed them as the devil taunted night and day, trying to stop the work of God. The mind battles must have been severe; neighbors and kin alike all stood against them. The powers of hell were raging. The devil was determined to get them all, that every soul would be destroyed, that the whole civilization God had created would be his. The devil worked overtime, but he didn’t get the Noah family.

Repentance Came Too Late

Finally the deluge came, lightning flashed and thunder roared. Not only the heavens opened, but the ground gushed forth mighty rivers of water. The same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened (Genesis 7:11). People beat on the ark door, screaming, pleading, crying, desperate to be let in. They believed in that hour what Noah had been telling them for so many years. I’m your aunt, your uncle; let me in! I’m your sister; I’m your brother; I’m your neighbor—let me in! Don’t let us die out here, Noah!

The Noah family heard their names called, but there was nothing they could do. The ark door had been closed by God. For those outside the ark, that longest night ended in all-out terror filled with the screams and cries of the drowning. Repentance had come too late for them. What a night that was! What a nightmare! Then no more sounds were heard but the pounding rains and rushing water as the ark was lifted higher and higher.

All They Had Was Faith

The Noah family had to use their faith to know the ark would not leak, that it would stand the battering of the storm. All they had was their faith. Not knowing where they were going, where they would end up nor what the conditions would be like when they came out of the ark, they didn’t even know how long they would be in the ark.

The longest night—one hundred twenty years the ark was in the building—and then came that last fantastic time, over a year, when Noah and his family were shut up in the ark. They traveled by pure faith and love with nothing to help them keep their sanity but the promises of God. No other human hands, no radar or sonar, no detectors were available to tell them anything about the conditions outside. They were a people of pure faith, a type of the Bride in the ark of Jesus.

The Bride of Christ today will survive only with the pure faith, pure love and greatness of God. That’s the reason the miracles will be supplied from God. We must look to God for all things to be supplied, for our health, our happiness, our well-being, for our food, for our supply.

Some people depend on today’s banking system, on the savings companies, but many financial institutions already have failed. In great distress, people have been left standing outside, unable to get their money.

Put your trust in the Lord your God and nothing else. You will survive when your trust is in Him. Walk with Him; talk to Him. He is your sunshine, your everything. That’s the way you will keep the victory through this last part of the longest night just before the Rapture.

You have the song to sing that will bring sunshine at midnight, the song of peace and joy, the song of the hope of the soon coming of the Lord. Sing: He will come; He promised! the morning cometh! The weeping in the midst of God’s people will cease as joy dawns in the morning. Thank God for that joy; thank God for it all!

God Will Provide

Let your mind go back to Abraham and his long night when he went to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac as a burnt offering. What a terrible night that must have been, What a long, long night! To look at his son again and again on that journey, not wanting to tell him what the sacrifice was to be, must have been heart-rending. How do you tell a son, twelve years of age, that you are going to sacrifice him as a burnt offering? You’ve told him that he is God’s promised seed who would father many descendants. Will this new plan destroy him? He will have to find it out sooner or later. Will his faith in almighty God be ruined? Abraham endured that longest night, knowing he was going to place his son on the altar of sacrifice.

At last they reached Mount Moriah. Isaac looked at his father and said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide (Genesis 22:7,8). In Abraham’s longest night he had faith that God would provide. And God did provide. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son (verses 10-13).

The Bride in her longest night will say the same thing, God will provide! Do you think God wouldn’t provide for the Bride of His Son Jesus, the one so greatly loved by Him? The Lord will do anything for the Bride.

Rejoice in the Light of God

Talk about the darkness being poured out—in contrast, Heaven is going to be poured out upon the Bride, saith the Lord, in this her last walk, in this her final hour because of her dedication, her separation, her consecration and her yielding to everything that God has said. She will be yielded to His Word every day, every hour, every moment that she has. When she goes to sleep, her soul will be packed full of Heaven’s best, of Heaven’s strength. The Holy Spirit will be able to work in her body and in her spirit while she sleeps, and she will awake refreshed to go forth in the power of Him. By His spirit it will be done, the meal barrels will be filled, the loaves and the fishes multiplied.

It’s almost dawn, the darkness is about to fade away. Until the darkness passes, we will rejoice in the light of God, walk in His light and not be afraid of the night. No terror in the night, in the darkness, will ruffle us because we know God sees just as well in the dark as in the light—and so will we. Through the eye of faith we will see as God sees, we will know the plan of God for our lives. We will listen—for our ears have been cleaned out—to what the Holy spirit is saying.

We’re Almost Home

To know the mind and the will of God night and day, to be connected to Heaven all the time is the privilege of the Bride. Not wandering around unsure of where to go or what to do, the Bride will have direction. We are on target, walking the straight highway of God. How can one get lost on a straight road? All we have to do is keep going, ignoring the enemy’s detour signs. The devil can flash his lights, but we pay no attention. We are on the highway of holiness with Heaven just ahead. The morning cometh, the night is about to end. Accelerating more and more until we reach full speed, we rejoice that the night will soon pass and the morning cometh. We are almost home.

In this darkness we are seeing souls, the lost that can be won. As the light of God illuminates the way, the Holy Spirit will direct us and we will go to them straight as an arrow with the Gospel, not wasting time on people who do not want God. The Holy Spirit will take us to those who will yield to Him. The hour is late, the night is about over, making way for the glorious dawn.

Abraham’s long night, remember, ended in glory with the Lord providing the miraculous supply. When God gives the miraculous supply for any individual or nation, every need is taken care of. We shout, Hallelujah, all is well! We have the miracle supply!

His Righteous Soul Was Vexed

Think of the longest night for Lot in Sodom. He had to put up with filthy conversation and unlawful deeds day after day. But the morning came when God delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished (II Peter 2:7-9). Although Lot didn’t know who they were, angels had come to take him, his wife and two daughters out of the city before it would be destroyed. The long night had been terrible, but it ended and the glorious morning came as the two angels led them to safety.

Today we have the two “angels” that will lead us out of the night, the Word of God and the Holy Spirit. We don’t have to worry about the dark night of Sodom and Gomorrah that this world is now in, although our righteous souls are vexed with the sins around us and way people have forgotten God. This long night is about to end just as it ended for Lot and his children. They heard the screams, the cries of the people being destroyed in that night—an awful thing. Their hearts grieved for a moment, but there was the glorious morn, and they could see their way.

The longest night would have ended for Lot’s wife, but she chose the night; she loved the fruits of darkness. She didn’t want the fruit of God, the knowledge and deliverance of God. Her heart still in Sodom, she looked back, and God turned her into a pillar of salt.

If your heart is in the night, then in the night you will stay, left behind when the glorious morning comes. Those who love the Lord and His ways have put on the whole armor of God, filled to the brim with the good Holy Ghost.

God Wants Man to Have the Miracle Supply

Genesis opened with light, the miracle supply of God for mankind. God always intended for man to receive through the miracle of supply. But then in great sorrow Genesis closed with a dead man nailed in a box and no way out.

The cruel night devours those who love the treasures of darkness, the fruits of the night. Will man ever be free from death? No human being can deliver another from death; it will take divinity to bring him out. When you turn away from God, you turn away from the miracle of supply, you cut it off. God is ready to supply your needs.

In the New Testament we read that the Apostle Paul found God to be the God of supply through Jesus Christ. He wrote: My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19). We live in a prosperous hour of the miracle of supply. We can expect our God to supply everything we need. He wants us to trust Him for it, believe Him for it so He can perform and fulfill His glorious promises for the Bride. God works through faith. He wants the Bride to reap the benefit of all His promises.

Many of God’s promises have been seldom used down through the years, and then by only a few people. But now the Bride will use all the promises, saith the Lord; and all the promises will be fulfilled for her. No wonder her night is a glorious night, and yet a night of longing, weeping for the lost. But joy cometh in the morning when she will cry no more, when the Lord will wipe away all her tears. Never will she shed another tear. That’s the miracle supply for the Bride, the miracle supply from Heaven.

Hidden on the Nile

Abraham’s seed went into bondage for a longest night, over four hundred years of darkness, slavery, going without because man had spit in the eye of God, turned away from Him. But God was merciful, and He raised up a deliverer, Moses, to lead His people to the Promised Land. God will supply the needs of His people.

Moses was born into that long night, a babe whose life was in great danger. Other babies were killed, but Moses’ mother and dad took courage, hid their son although they knew it meant death if they were discovered. What a long night that was, those three months Moses was hidden from neighbors and friends as well as from the soldiers of Pharaoh. Babies will cry, and Moses was a normal baby.

When they could hide Moses no longer, his mother put him in a little basket and laid it in the flags by the river’s brink (Exodus 2:3). What a long night for a baby in a basket! Mother had faith he would be safe. She had to have faith to have trusted him to a basket. Carefully she had made that little basket, carefully sealed it with pitch so no water would enter. How long before he would be found? That bit of milk in his stomach wouldn’t last very long. How often would he cry? Surely the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would watch over the little basket, direct it, in that longest night.

Moses’ sister stood afar off to see what would happen to him. The daughter of Pharaoh spied the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to get it. When she opened the basket the baby cried, and Pharaoh’s daughter had compassion on the infant. Moses’ sister came over and asked, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother. And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages (Exodus 2:7-9).

Reared in the House of Pharaoh

The longest night had ended for the mother of Moses as she held her baby to her bosom—so she thought. But not really. The night would continue. With a heart of love she watched her son grow, but she couldn’t keep him in her home.

And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son (Exodus 2:10). How that mother’s heart must have bled—what a long night!

When Moses did come forth as the messenger of God, the deliverer, the night was still on. He had to flee to the wilderness and there he stayed forty years; it was forty years of preparation before he returned to stand before Pharaoh on behalf of his Hebrew people.

Connected with Heaven

As Moses faces Pharaoh it looks as though he doesn’t have much of a supply. He is not armed, not royally dressed. He stands before Pharaoh with a shepherd’s staff—but he has the miracle of supply. He is connected with Heaven, with everything necessary to destroy what needs to be destroyed to bring a nation out of a nation. He knows that the staff represents all God’s promises.

Our staff, the Word, the rod of God, represents all the promises of God, all the strength, all the holiness and righteousness of God, everything we need, the whole armor of God, the miracle of supply for us. But we must claim the promises.

You didn’t receive salvation until you accepted the promise of salvation. You didn’t receive the baptism in the Holy Ghost until you accepted the promise of the baptism. And you are not going to receive the strength of the second coming of the Lord until you fully accept the promise of His coming.

Endtime Signs

Some people are in and out with the promise of His coming. Sometimes they believe the Lord will soon come, and other times they don’t think He is coming for many, many years—if at all. Look for Him now because all the endtime signs are around us. Jesus said, And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh (Luke 21:28).

In believing God, you have to believe His signs and wonders. If you don’t believe His signs, you don’t believe Him. Many claim to believe Him, but they don’t believe His signs. They have invented an unreal God in their own minds and hearts. Just like the Israelites turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel (Psalm 78:41), people today have limited God, tied His hands.

God’s Promises Are Conditional

Ponder the destruction, the downfall of Israel. Multitudes never made it to the land of promise. Although Canaan had been promised them, all of God’s promises are conditional. In the long, long night, a vicious Pharaoh, driven by ferocious devils, persecuted the Hebrews. As the dawn of deliverance drew nearer and nearer, he was stirred into greater frenzies of persecutions. The devil raged, but God moved and the miracle supply of God shone the light for the Israelite people.

While darkness covered the kingdom of Pharaoh, in the camp of the Israelites beamed light, light, light. God supplied them with good food, good health. He protected them from the flies when right across the way flies swarmed over everything. On the Egyptian side the people had blood to drink, but on the Hebrew side the miracle supply brought cool, fresh water gushing forth. The Nile River flowed bloody red, but Israel had the miracle supply.

Live by Promise

Don’t let the terrors of the world in this darkest night destroy your faith. The light of God will show you the miracle supply. God’s great, miraculous storehouses will be open day and night, twenty-four hours around the clock to serve the Bride in this her last hour. Nothing is too good for the Bride of Christ, saith Heaven; in all the promises there is no promise too good for her.

Take your place in the body of Christ, Child of God, knowing you can take it only through your love for Him and your faith in Him, accepting all His promises in His World. You can’t be in the place the Lord wants you with out His promises. Living by promise is the only way to get the miracle supply—by and through His promises.

The dark night came when the angel of death passed through Egypt and struck down all the firstborn who weren’t protected by the blood of the doorposts. The Israelites left Egypt in haste. Although they had no time to finish making their bread, they took great wealth with them, for they had borrowed the best clothes and jewelry of the Egyptians, the wealth of Egypt. The Lord gave them much favor. God had supplied. He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes (Psalm 105:37). God healed all of them. Had they only used their supply with the wisdom and knowledge of God—but they failed.

Seeing the mighty way the Lord moved for Israel, know that He will also move for the Bride in her last hour with all-out miracles. The gifts of healing and gift of miracles will be working twenty-four hours a day. In this wonderful, blessed time, God will even re-create portions of bodies.

Jesus brought healing when He was here on Earth, and He wants the Bride to have that good health in this last hour. The Bride is ready for all the blessings of God, ready to enjoy the last part of the longest night. Don’t let the devil discourage you.

Stand Still and See the Salvation of the Lord

At the Red Sea, the Israelites looked with fear on the army of Pharaoh coming after them. What a vicious king Pharaoh was, intent on destroying them. Although the Israelites had no walls, no armaments, they had protection, the miracle of supply. God did battle for them. The watchman on the wall, Moses, cried to the people: Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to-day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever (Exodus 14:13).

Moses couldn’t handle that great army, but the Lord could, and Moses believed God. The morn had come, the sea opened up and the people crossed over on dry land.

The way for the Bride will open up in this last hour. Some people don’t think our Lord is coming, but just as surely as the Red Sea opened up for the Israelites, a hole will open in the sky through which the Lord will appear—and the glorious morning will be ours. By His Spirit it will be done.

By His Spirit the waters of the Red Sea piled up like a mountain to the right and to the left. It has been estimated that about three or four million people crossed the Red Sea dry shod, a distance close to twelve miles. Imagine what a sight that was! No wonder they had a song in their hearts when they got across. They shouted, they danced, they sang the song of Moses, that great song of deliverance of Pharaoh’s magnificent army being destroyed. The morn had come, and they were going to sing it. Had they only kept that song, lived it—but they didn’t. When everything didn’t go exactly the way they wanted, they complained. They didn’t ask for the will of God, for the mind of God. They needed that song as they journeyed to Canaan.

You must live the song in the night or it won’t give you strength. Let the love flow from it to you daily as you sing it. It’s your song in the long, long night.

Remember, the Israelites looked around and complained. Let this be a lesson to you, oh Bride of Christ, oh righteous one; God can’t stand grumbling and complaining. It’s a disgrace and dishonor to the God who made you. He promised He would take care of you, look out for you. When you grumble it means you doubt, you are disputing Him. You are saying you don’t believe God will do what He said in His Word.

A great supply fell in the wilderness for Israel, the manna from On High, and the keeping of their clothing and shoes from wearing out. But the Bride will have all God’s supply because she will have Jesus for this last part of the longest night before the great morning cometh. Just as He supplied the needs of Israel in the wilderness, much more will God supply the Bride in her final hour.

The Tree Sweetened Bitter Waters

Where is our water? the Israelites wanted to know. The water is bitter; we can’t drink it. We have no decent water to drink. The Lord had done so much for them—all they would have had to do was say, Moses, it’s time for another miracle of supply. There is nothing more we can do. We can’t purify the waters. Moses would have lifted up the rod of God, the promises of God, and the Lord would have purified the waters.

Even after they had grumbled and complained against God, God still loved them so much that He gave another miracle of supply. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD they God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee (Exodus 15:24-26).

God didn’t tell them that the tree cast into the waters prefigured the cross that His Son would die on, that through Him the waters of life would be sweetened for all peoples who would accept His death on the cross for them.

Moses cut down the tree, cast it into the waters, and it purified the waters. Come and drink! The people should have been ready. That longest night in Egypt had lasted over four hundred years, and now it had ended; but they wouldn’t accept it. The longest night was behind them, and they didn’t appreciate it enough to hold to the promises of God straight into Canaan. Even when God visited on Sinai, they turned out the lights of Heaven. God had come down, but they didn’t want the voice of God, and so they turned it off. Not wanting to honor the Law, they preferred the golden calf. They disgraced God and themselves, and the Lord let them wander in the wilderness another long night of forty years that He hadn’t planned. They made their own forty-year night of darkness just as Adam and Eve made their life-long night of darkness by listening to the devil.

Let the Light of God Be Part of You

It looked as though that longest night of wandering would never end for Israel; but at last it came to an end, and the Lord was able to bring the morning. Through the light of that morning they invaded Canaan; they had the miracle of supply to do it.

Seven nations the Lord drove out to give them the land of Canaan—but then they brought darkness on again. They had all of that light, all of that greatness at different times—then lost it.

Child of God, when you have the light of God, treat it right, appreciate it, live for it, let it shine through you and be a part of you, warming you through and through so you will never grumble and complain. The light of God must be a part of your mind as well as your soul so that you won’t murmur against the God who made you.

The Parable of the Fig Tree

The longest, longest night—oh Israel I cry for you! I wept for you so many, many times when you turned out the light of God, and now you have been in the longest night of all, scattered among all nations. Think what a long night of terror! Never has there been such a night of terror as that period of time. Six million Jews killed were in the darkness of Hitler, the darkest dark for the Jewish people.

But the morning cometh. The Jews are being gathered back for the glorious dawn of the appearance of their Redeemer, and a nation will be saved in a day. They are being gathered from all nations to the Holy Land. The gathering of the Jews is one of the great signs that Jesus will soon come again.

Israel in the Bible is compared to a fig tree. 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. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled (Matthew 24:32-34). The drawing back to Israel, beginning in 1948, was the fulfillment of the fig tree putting forth leaves. The generation on the earth when that happened will see the coming of the Lord. Jesus said He would come again, and He will. He is pouring out His Holy Spirit upon the Bride.

Take heed—how sad for people to turn out the light of God! Many have turned out His light and are in the longest night without hope. The Bride is in the longest night, but she has the light and direction of Heaven. There is no way she will become lost. The intelligence of God is available to her at all times. She is His and He is hers. What a relationship! The divine One, the wonderful Jesus went to Calvary to make that relationship possible.

Heaven’s Darkest Night

God knew that Adam and Eve could never come back to Eden, that His Son would have to die to redeem man from the sin he had entered. Would darkness ever reach Heaven? Calvary must have made the darkest night for Heaven. God couldn’t bear it; it was too much for the great God of the universe. He had to turn away or He would have destroyed all, the whole human race. What kind of darkness was it? A darkness so overwhelming that it blacked out the terrible scene on Calvary. God had to turn away from His Son dying, and when He turned away, that pitiful cry came: My God, why hast thou forsaken me! Everyone had forsaken Jesus, and now God, too. You have forsaken me, left me alone to die. Father, why have you done it? Only the sacrifice of sinless blood could reconcile mankind back to God. Sin had entered man when he disobeyed God in Eden. Now Jesus paid the penalty for that sin for all by willingly sacrificing His sinless blood. He took on our sin nature so we could take on His divine nature. The darkness that covered Heaven was thicker than any light. Even Lucifer’s fall didn’t put out the lights in Heaven—but the Crucifixion did. Sorrow filled all Heaven; the angels were crying. What a night, the longest night for God in His existence! There will never be a night that dark again.

God went through that darkness to bring us eternal day, eternal light, eternal love, eternal peace, eternal joy, eternal protection. He did it for us, for you and me—the longest night for God. He knows how you feel in your struggles, how you feel when a loved one is dying.

God knows; He’s been there. He felt helpless when He didn’t allow Himself to deliver His own Son from the death of crucifixion, from that cross. He had obligated Himself to mankind, and there was His Son crying, Why, God, why? I never expected you to forsake me, Father, but even you have forsaken me.

Jesus and the Father hadn’t talked that part over before Jesus came to Earth. God had never gone through anything like that. Our God feels, our God loves, our God cares. Oh, how He loved that Only Begotten One! There He is; His face beaten to a pulp, His hair matted with blood and dirt, His eyes tortured. The voice that the Father loved above all voices was crying for help, and God couldn’t intervene.

Remember the Father in Your Darkest Night

In your longest night, remember the Father. When death takes a loved one and it seems you can’t live without that one, that the sun needn’t come up again or the moon and the stars shine, remember the Father. It will take more that a sunrise to bring life, warmth to your cold, cold soul. You don’t want to see another day—I know I didn’t when my wife, Angel, died. I wished it had all ended. Angel was dead; Angel was gone, and I didn’t care if the sun never came up. I would have said Amen to it had God decreed the sun, the moon, the stars to never shine again. I would have said, Oh blessed Lord, I thank you. All was gone from the earth as far as I was concerned.

When Angel died, I died with her. I couldn’t feel any life except for a small space around the soul. No life in my hands, in my body. I didn’t think I would ever laugh again. I had come to my longest night, and there was no need for the dawn to come. It wouldn’t do me any good, only make me hurt more. Oh, that I would never wake up—if I could ever go to sleep! Would I ever breathe right again? I got to the place my breath didn’t come right, but it didn’t matter to me. I didn’t care if I died; I wasn’t alarmed at all. How I would have welcomed death at that time! Death, why did you take just one? Oh precious Jesus, surely you knew I couldn’t live without her! The Lord had to bring me back to life.

Angel and I had shared great times—now they were stabbing memories. No one sleeping by my side, no hand to hold, no one to kiss goodnight. The bed was empty and my heart just as empty. I would drive out in my car to sit on the church grounds all hours of the night. The snow and ice piled high on the mound of clay where she was buried, and I would think, Oh God, my heart is colder than the ice on her grave. Oh God, I’m so cold; it doesn’t seem like I’ll ever be warm again.

It’s horrible to lose someone you love that much, someone you feel you can’t exist without. You have no desire to go on living. For the first time, I lost the vision of the mission that Angel and I were on. It had ended as far as I was concerned. Everything had ended. I had no heart to continue, no desire. For the first time I couldn’t talk to the Lord; for the first time since God had brought me into His greatness, He wasn’t talking to me. From the hour that God had saved me, I had never been in a place I couldn’t talk to Him. I was as one dumb.

The fire had been blazing; God had always been on our mount for Angel and me, but Sinai was silent now. No movement of God, no breeze. Everything was deathly still. Death everywhere, and I couldn’t die. Death wouldn’t take me, and I would have welcomed death. Surely I understand a little bit of how God felt, surely, as much as a human being can feel it.

What a precious bride she was, the sweetest wife a boy ever had. God had made her for me. God adored her, and no wonder. No wonder He wanted her in Heaven with Him. Those long, slender fingers made beautiful music—the organ in our home wasn’t played anymore, nor the piano. All was silent. My longest night had begun; it has continued for years—but it will end one of these days. I dream about her, I think about her, I long to be with her—and then I turn from that longing, and oh, precious Lord, breath on me. Pour your love to me and give me strength to go on, strength to serve.

I love the Lord so much. I delight in serving Him, in serving Jesus to the people. I will serve until the night ends—and it will end. As I studied the Word of God I discovered that all the longest nights had endings. And I am able to look up, thank the Lord that the morning cometh. It’s just out there.

I Live to Fulfill God’s Mission

The vision went on hold for a time, but it didn’t die; it was a part of me. Angel died, but the vision didn’t. For the moment, I was in such a condition that nothing mattered, not even the vision; but then it was there again. I reached over with faith, took hold of the vision and said, God, no matter what it costs, I promised you I would pay. No matter, I will pay, Lord, whatever the cost. I shout through my tears the great endtime message. I lie at His feet, drink of His greatness so that I can fulfill all that He wants of me. I live for Him to fulfill the mission. When it’s finished, then my soul will be satisfied to no longer be on Earth but in His presence.

The mission is what keeps me satisfied, the mission to win the lost. I must help you, lead you into all His green pastures for this last hour so that you will dwell with Him and abide in Him in such a glorious way that you will have strength to do all He wants you to do. We know weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. The darkness will all clear away.

The Lord said He would bring our loved ones with Him when He comes again. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord (I Thessalonians 4:17). I plan my next meeting with Angel in the air. It’s a wonderful, blessed thought of mighty strength and courage—our next meeting will be in the air. I’m becoming more and more eager—the night has been so long, so long. Instead of loving her less, it seems I love her more and more. But the Lord has preserved that beautiful personality for all eternity. Oh, I do love the Lord for that! The personality that I love so much above all personalities on Earth is preserved for eternity.

You who find yourself in your longest night—you didn’t think it would happen to you, but it’s happened. It will end. In the song in the night, the Lord made me to laugh again. I never thought I would know genuine laughter again. That was amazing for a boy who had been so filled with laughter. I always had much laughter in the Lord.

Take heart, Pilgrim. We’re getting closer and closer to the coming of the Lord. Watchman, what of the night? And the cry of the true servants of the God, The morning cometh, the morning cometh!

Will You Die without the Lord?

Oh, Sinner, where art thou? Oh, Sinner, what will it be like to die without Jesus? What will it be like to take your last breath with the hideous demons waiting there to usher your soul into hell? The Lord allows me to see those devils that bind people; He has gifted me with His gift of discerning of spirits. Not that I will them, but it’s the will of God for me to see them. Jesus saw them when He was here. I’m here to help you, ordained of God to bring the warning. I’m a watchman set on His wall of the Gospel to proclaim that the morning cometh; get right with God. If you have that need, pray the sinners’ prayer with me: Oh, God, I have sinned against you. I don’t want to be left in eternal darkness. I don’t want eternal night. I want eternal life. I want eternal light. Please, God, I do believe that your Son died for me, that He spilled His blood for me. I believe there is power in the blood of Jesus to wash away all of my sins, all of my sins. Come on in Jesus! Come on in!

If you meant that prayer, He has come, He is yours. What a miracle supply He offers!

God Is the Healer

I received a miracle supply at twenty-three years of age. In my awful afflicted condition—I had been very close to death—He came to me one night with His miracle supply and healed me. Later He reminded me that He had made me whole all over. The Lord who healed me can also heal you. If you need healing, let me pray with you now. Lord, I bring the sick and afflicted to you in obedience to what you told me. Lord, I’m your believer; you are the Healer. I bring the cancer victims to you. You can give them life. I bring the diabetics; you can give them life. You have given so many life. I bring the heart patients, the crippled ones, I bring the little disabled ones. I bring them all. They’re so helpless. Give life, give healing! From your gift of miracles it comes; from your gifts of healing it comes, it comes. In the name of your Son Jesus, Heal! Heal! in the holy name of the Lord, the all-powerful name of Jesus.

God’s healing power is flowing. Don’t you feel His presence? The glory of the Lord is here flowing for you. He is wonderful. Let that power keep flowing to drive out all the sickness, all the disease, all the afflictions. The miracle supply is healing for the whole person. Wilt thou be made well?

Our lives are on the line. The Bride, willing to live or die for His name’s sake, has all the will they had in the Early Church. The Lord has given me what He wants you to know about this longest night. It will help open your eyes to the last few hours we have left. The longest night for the Bride will soon end. How wonderful to have the light of God for direction in this our longest night just before the Rapture of the Bride of Christ! Look up, weary Pilgrim, redemption draweth nigh. Our longest night will end; the glorious morning will come. See you in the Rapture!