Dear John and Doves,
 
    If anyone has first hand knowledge of Pastor John Hinkle today or his thoughts about Thursday June 9th, I would be very interested in receiving an update on him.  Since 2005 will be the first time that June the 9th has occurred on a Thursday since 1994, I have thought about him frequently lately.  I have wondered, if like Dr. Richard Eby, he could have been hearing from the Holy Spirit but allowed his own interpretation or thoughts to filter the message.
 
    I was in a Kenneth Hagin Camp Meeting in 1988 when Brother Hagin saw three angels fly into the meeting one at a time with a message for the America.  All three angels shouted "Change! Change! Change!", along with what was going to change.  The first angel said that there was going to be a change in the economy for good.  The second angel said that there was going to be political change for good, and the third angel said that there was going to be spiritual change for good.
 
    That fall we began to see un-thought of political changes with the collapse of the Eastern block countries and communism.  We saw unprecedented drops in interest rates and the economy boomed during the decade of the nineties.  However, I have not been able to identify a spiritual change.  I was thrilled to hear Pastor John Hinkle describe what was supposed to happen on Thursday June 9, 2004 because it would have been one dramatic spiritual change.  By then, I had seen the political change and the economic change and hungrily awaited the spiritual change, but it didn't happen.
 
    I am still looking for a spiritual change and believe just as Samson (a type of the church) destroyed more people in his death than he did in his life, that we will still see a harvest in the church before the rapture that will exceed the whole church age.  There are more people alive today than all the people put together that have lived during the last 2000 years.  As much as I hope that the Lord will return this year, the church seems to be a long way from being a glorious church without spot or wrinkle.  We need a spiritual change and one will be required to see the harvest brought in.
 
    As I write this, I hold in my hand a written message by Pastor John Hinkle in which he presented what he thought the Lord had showed him to his church on March 3, 1993.  He said, "This is the startling message that he gave me, ON THURSDAY, JUNE THE 9TH, I WILL RIP EVIL OUT OF THIS WORLD.  There was no doubt that this was the voice of God speaking."  When the voice told him this, he looked at his calendar and June 9th, 1993 was on a Wednesday.  Did he possibly confuse his own mind telling him to check 1994 with the voice of God?  Could June 9th, 2005 possibly be significant?  I don't know, but he sure seemed like a precious Christian brother that would not have published that report if he wasn't sure that God spoke to him.  I sure would like to receive word on his state today.
 
    At times, I too have heard the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking to me, and even carry on a conversation with me, and in those times, there's no doubt in my mind that God just spoke to me.  However at other times, I have to question, "was that God or just my thoughts?"  I am also reminded of Acts 21:10-12 how that the prophet Agabus declared the word of the Lord in revealing what awaited Paul at Jerusalem, but the people placed their own interpretation on it and besought him not to go.  The word was not to dissuade Paul, but to prepare him.  Many times we are guilty of getting what the Lord said correct, but placing the wrong interpretation on it.
 
    I hope to see a harvest first, but even so, Come, Lord Jesus!
 
David Robinson