Dear Church at Doves:
 
I live part of the year in an area not so far from Washington D.C.  Since my moving there, they have had an unprecedented hurricane taking up 10,000 trees, an unprecedented  5. earthquake and last but not least a flood.  I didn't happen to be in town for any of them, which did not surprise me since I've been living in "constant DELIVERANCE" for decades now.  For me deliverance has been the hallmark of my Christian walk. If anyone suggests to me that the church will go through the tribulation, I say, don't tell me the sun isn't shining when I SEE IT SHINING.  Even if I do happen to be where there is disaster and fear, the Lord doesn't let me know about it.  I was in New York the first time the terrorists tried to blow up the World Trade Center.  Know how I found out about it?  A friend from Los Angeles had to call and tell me.  I had been asleep as I remember, but all I know is, I have found in all these decades of deliverance that the Lord doesn't even want me to be around where I can feel a pang of fear or discomfort regarding these things. I am assured that He will not allow those belonging to Him to suffer a moment's panic regarding the things coming on the earth.  That's why we'll be out of here in the twinkling of an eye.  As for the actual bombing of the Trade Center on 9/11, Father airlifted me out of NY before that.  Having worked in those offices in New York for many years, after I heard about 9/11 I felt my spirit right there with them just as they were jovially having coffee in the mornings and reporting yesterdays incidents to each other when SUDDENLY their soul was required of them.
 
I've been getting some e-mails where folk say they are just barely hanging on, and let me just say  -- hang on, and look up for the redemption of our bodies draws nigh. In line with the report of rapture dream, I offer this encouragement unto the moment.
Every time I turn toward the Washington D.C. area I get a little pang of "wonder what's next" -- you get my drift.  Nothing happened on the national scene, however, no planes flying around the capitol or otherwise unsettling incidents in the world, but disaster was brought closer home to me this time, and it made me know that the Lord is doing some fine polishing on EACH one of us in our personal lives, amen? "FOR THE TIME IS COME THAT JUDGMENT MUST BEGIN AT THE HOUSE OF GOD: AND IF IT FIRST BEGIN AT US, WHAT SHALL THE END BE OF THEM THAT OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL OF GOD?" I PETER 4:17  Note, the Lord didn't have to frighten me to teach me because as I noted, I believe if we walk close to Him, he will deliver us from fright, but still He is teaching and refining us.
 
 My trip having been delayed by a day, I grumbled about this until I finally arrived in the wee hours of  Friday morning and  discovered that my apartment looked ransacked.  I called the emergency and they said not to worry that a pipe had broken while I was gone and flooded my apartment.  Another flood missed!  This time right in my living room. Except for the moved furniture, all was "healed" though, so good.  But a notice on my door had let me know that they had repaved the whole area that day, and all cars were diverted to another parking area. Were it not for being DELAYED by a day, I'd have arrived in the midst of the paving, and no way to get in, and nowhere to go with the flying zoo (three cats in my car.)
Note that I had GRUMBLED and MURMURED because I was delayed when Father was actually just taking care of me. Know why the Hebrews didn't enter the promised land?  That's right.  They "murmured."  Doesn't seem like such a big sin you say?  Our Father thinks it is.  Note Deborah's dream....she didn't go in the rapture until she forgave that one person.  LET'S STOP REBELLING AND MURMURING, AND LET'S GET OUR ACT TOGETHER, AND LET'S DO AS THEY SAY SOME "REALITY CHECKS."  WE'RE DOWN TO THE FINISH LINE HERE.  FATHER COULD HAVE BEEN MERCIFULLY KEEPING ME FROM A A-BOMB ON WASHINGTON!  Remember why many missed 9/11 even though they worked in the Trade Center?  They were delayed by flukes, which many now understand to be the guidance of the Lord. By the way, do you ever have the distinct feeling you are walking around between disasters big and small?  I do.  How can we know where to run?  WE CAN'T.  It's a matter of being in the right place at the right time as long as we are here, and the ONLY way for that is TO BE DEAD CENTER -- REPEAT DEAD CENTER IN THE WILL OF YAHWEH EL SHADDAI  YESHUAH HAMACHIACH, amen? "HE THAT ABIDETH IN THE THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH SHALL ABIDE UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY."  PSALM 91:1
 
In closing, I kept getting rapture lessons.  I had to head back out on the next Wednesday BUT I find out -- they AREN'T THROUGH PAVING THE ROAD OUTSIDE MY DOOR!  Everyone must be out by 9:00 am. or their car will be towed, and I don't feel like getting the zoo on the road at that hour, so I am pleading with them about how I can get out a little later --" NO", THEY SAY -- so I feel myself getting closed in like TRAPPED in there, and I'm pleading about the time, and I say "what about till 10:00 a.m.?" but they won't budge....then they gave in and assured me,  "all right you have till 10:00," and know what? -- I didn't trust them by that time!  So I try to get up and get going, but don't think I'm going to make it, and all I can think is I HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE, about which time our FATHER sends RAIN and THEY CAN'T PAVE IT AT ALL THAT DAY -- SO I HAPPILY LEFT AT 12:30 P.M.  I'M ON THE SIDE OF THE VICTOR.  THE LORD WILL ABSOLUTELY TAKE CARE OF US UNTIL HE  ABSOLUTELY TAKES US OUT.
BUT DO WE THINK ANY KIND OF PLEADING  OR COMPROMISING WITH OR PLACATING THE DEVIL ON ANY LEVEL WILL HELP US OUT?   DO WE THINK WE CAN TRUST ANYONE BUT OUR FATHER? NO, BUT WE CAN TRUST FATHER AND FATHER IS  GOING TO GET US OUT!  LET US REPLACE DOUBT AND IMPATIENCE WITH OBEDIENCE AND THANKSGIVING!  SEE YOU SOON AT THE THRONE!  AND REMEMBER, THE THRONE ROOM REQUIRES PURITY. "AND THE VERY GOD OF PEACE SANCTIFY YOU WHOLLY; AND I PRAY GOD YOUR WHOLE SPIRIT AND SOUL AND BODY BE PRESERVED BLAMELESS UNTO THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.  FAITHFUL IS HE THAT CALLETH YOU, WHO ALSO WILL DO IT." I THESS 5:23-4
 
Maranatha,
Rachel
cloudsbenjamin@charter.net