Readers -

i have posted this before - but here it is again by way of reminder.

In the first week of December, 1997 i had a poweful, strange, terrible
and wonderful encounter with God, and saw many visions.

here is the one about The Locket.

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The Vision of the Locket:
this was a vision that was clearly a parable. it was a parable about
the state of some of the mainline churches in the west.

God showed me a small girl about 4 years old. her father gave a her a
locket as a gift. inside the locket were 2 small photographs, one of
him and one of her. he instructed her to take good care of the locket
and not to lose it. it was precious and represented the love
relationship they had together. she did well at first and cared for it,
protecting it, but as time went on, she got careless and neglected the
care of the locket. it began to tarnish, got scratched, dirt etc. as
she began to be grow up and be interested in the world, the locket took
a beating. at some point, she began to love another person, and forgot
her own father. she then did the unthinkable. she opened the locket,
tore out the picture of her father, and put the picture of another in
it's place.

the parable is this. the Locket represents the relationship the Father
God has with the Church in the west, the little girl. in her innocence
and youth, she willingly cares for her relationship, but over time, her
compromise with the world tarnished and dirtied her relationship with
the Father. then she began to love the world, and removed God from his
place in her heart.  she had betrayed Him. i felt God was saying that
many mainline churches in the west had betrayed Him, like Judas
betrayed Jesus. they love the world.

this whole vision caused me to weep uncontrolled, and i felt the deep
grief, and sadness of God in my soul. the immeasurable pain and burden
of rejection by someone you love was His. i did not sense He was mad or
angry about it but crushed emotionally.