Know These Forces

Part Two

by Wayne Dailey

Senior Pastor, Bethel Revival Center

43 Norwood St.

Everett, MA 02149

 


 

PROPHETIC MESSAGES FEBRUARY 24 AND MARCH 1, 1988

 

February 24, 1988

The Lord spoke to me on this date:

 

The evil forces will fight, and the awful battle will continue on until the very end, when I come to put down and destroy all those wicked and evil forces – and reign over My kingdom and over My people.

 

Christ Will Destroy These Wicked And Evil Forces At His Coming

 

Yes, Christ will destroy these wicked and evil forces at His coming.  We can take courage in this, and know that we can be more than conquerors through Him.

 

March 1, 1988

On this date, the Lord said to me:

 

My Son, I want you to know the modern wicked and evil forces that fight to destroy My Church and My people.  Many *intellectual and *arrogant men who sit in high places control schools of theology.  They are raising up a new generation.

 

Their Work

Their work is to deny the truth - men of corrupt minds; men who hold not the truth, who have not the truth.  These deny the same things as always: My miraculous birth; My shed blood; and My resurrection from the dead.  The things they deny are the same as in past times.

 

Their Ways

Their ways have changed.  They are very intellectual and learned in their way: and very subtle.  Their influence over men is much greater than it was in other generations.

 

They not only teach these damnable doctrines, but cast their awful influence into the hearts of those that hear them.  They are raising up a whole new brand, or group, of deceivers.

 

*Intellectual:

·     an intellectual person;

·     developed or chiefly by the intellect;

·     engaged in activity requiring the creative use of the intellect

 

*Arrogant:

·     to exaggerate one’s own worth or importance

 

THE VISION OF THE INNOCENT LOOKING WATER

 

The Lord gave me a vision some years before this, and then referred to that vision here in 1988.  Here is what I saw:

 

Have you ever been by the ocean on a calm day, when the water is real smooth?  One wave after another gently rolls in, thinning out until it has vanished to nothing.  And, as you look out, still another wave calmly rolls towards the shore.

 

Well, this is what I saw in this vision.  What did a calm ocean have to do with my early morning prayer meeting?  As I stood pondering this vision, God spoke to me: Satan is beginning to do a new work in the world that is more subtle - more subtle - more subtle than anything he has ever done.

 

Anyone who felt like wading wouldn’t have hesitated to walk right into that calm water.  But, when the Lord spoke to me, I looked closer: anyone who was drawn to walk in that innocent looking water was suddenly caught in an undertow that pulled them right under.

 

The Lord then told me, It looks so innocent, but the undertow will pull you right under – and once it gets a hold of you, it won’t let you go.

 

Now I could understand what God was trying to show me.  That water looked so innocent, so peaceful and calm.  It looked so normal, without any appearance of being treacherous.  It didn’t look like somebody would be suddenly sucked under by an undertow and be carried away, without being able to get out from underneath.  It didn’t look that way – yes it was.  And that’s the subtle way Satan is working, to cause things to look so innocent that will suck you under if you wade in.

 

Wow, when the Lord spoke to me in 1988, He went on to refer to this vision of the innocent looking water:

 

I showed you the vision of the innocent looking water with the feeling to walk right in.  This is like the subtle work Satan is doing.  Those who feel compelled to accept these damnable doctrines wade right in, not knowing the awful undertow that is in the water – and they are pulled under, never able to get out.

 

All those who accept this damnable doctrine of the rejection of Christ and His sacrifice will be lost forever – without hope, with no chance to ever repent.

 

The Word Of God Is Under Attack

 

The attack of these men and women is against those who were inspired to write the Word of God.  They speak evil of those dignitaries of old, and of their writings.  They dare to challenge the Scriptures of Truth.  They don’t accept the inspiration of the Word of God.

 

They are of the spirit of antichrist: and, like the antichrist, they attack those in heaven.

 

They are the architects and engineers of the *falling away of the church, the rise of the antichrist.

 

An Attack Against The Church From Within

 

The course of events of the end of the age is an attack against the Church from within – to destroy those who believe in Jesus and in the Word of Truth.

 

These wicked and evil forces work under this spirit of antichrist to promote these awful doctrines of Satan.  They will cause the Church to suffer this great *falling away, and to support the rise of the antichrist in this world.

 

*Falling Away:

Greek word is “apostasia” (ap-os-tas-ee'-ah), meaning:

·        A defection from truth

·        Apostasy

 

Apostasy:

·        A renunciation of a religious faith

·        Defection

 

Defection:

·        Conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause,

or doctrine)

·        Desertion

 

Spiritual leaders who would lead people to a state of apostasy are often referred to as “apostate teachers.”

 

SCRIPTURES DEALING WITH THE TRUTH

 

·                 The way of truth:  II Peter 2:2         

 

·                 They love not the truth: II Thessalonians 2:10    

 

·                 They believe not the truth: II Thessalonians 2:12         

 

·                 They turn their ears away from the truth:  II Timothy 4:4                

 

·                 They rightly divide the Word of truth:  II Timothy 2:15                   

 

·                 They are never able to come to the knowledge of the truth:  II Timothy 3:7        

 

·                 The Scriptures of truth:  Daniel 10:21                

 

·                 The Scripture cannot be broken:  John 10:35               

 

·                 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God:  II Timothy 3:16                  

 

·                 Those who oppose the truth are heady, high-minded (arrogant):

II Timothy 3:4,5   

 

PROPHETIC MESSAGES MARCH 7 AND 19, 1988

 

March 7, 1988 

On this date, the Lord said:

 

I want you to see how men wrest the Scripture.  Many men wrest them unto their own destruction.

 

It is very important that every word be established in truth.  And it is important that you establish every word in truth, because you are saying ‘God said’!  (see II Peter 3:15-17 and II Peter 1:12) 

 

The Temptation Of Jesus

 

(See Matt 4:1-11and II Tim 2:15)

My son, in the temptation of Jesus, you see a very good example of rightly dividing the Word of Truth.  My son, learn to stand on the truth; learn to anchor yourself in the truth, and to stand on it.  My salvation is founded on the Scriptures of truth.  My grace and mercy are also founded on the Scriptures of truth.

 

Search The Scriptures

 

Search the Scriptures John 5:39

Men wrest the Scriptures unto their own destruction II Peter 3:16 

I am the way, the truth, and the life John 14:6

Let every word be established in truth Matthew 18:16

 

Message given March 7, 1988 continued

All teaching that denies the Scriptures is antichrist.  All teaching that wrests the Scriptures about Me and My coming is antichrist.

 

It is very important to compare all teaching with the Scripture: Many common teachings of the day don’t compare with the Scripture (hereby know we the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error).

 

When I speak unto you, it can be verified with the Scriptures of truth.  Men make very grave errors because they listen to the spirit of error, and don’t compare what they hear with the Scriptures.

 

My son, open both of your eyes and both of your ears, and behold what you see and hear: and perceive in your heart.  Compare what you see and hear with the Scriptures.

 

March 19, 1988 

On this date, the Lord said to me:

My son, draw near unto the Lord your God, and give ear to what I shall say unto you!  Draw near!

 

A Massive Upheaval

 

You are going to hear of a *massive *upheaval; a massive trembling.  And it’s going to seem like it’s never going to end.

 

My son, these wicked and evil forces that are unleashed in the world, that fight against the church and God’s people to destroy – these evil forces are surveying and plotting and planning.  They are surveying the happening of the past months.  It is as it was in the days when Peter and John went down unto the city of Samaria – after Philip had preached unto the city and baptized them.

 

*Massive:      

·      Bulky;

·      weighty;

·      impressive

 

*Upheaval:

·      The act or state of being raised or overturned, especially a raising of the earth’s crust;

·      a violent turmoil

 

 

(See Acts 8:14-24)

Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they        might receive the Holy Ghost: (for as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

 

Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

 

Simon Offers Money To Receive The Gift Of God

 

And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.

 

But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

 

This was done to bring corruption into the early Church.  These wicked and evil forces who are surveying the happening of the past months are plotting and planning to bring this power of *sorcery into the Church to corrupt it. 

 

*Sorcery:      

·     magic;

·     performance of tricks with pretended help from evil spirits;

·     witchcraft

 

Simon the Sorcerer (Acts 8: 9 -11):

·     Boasted of being some great one

·     Used sorcery to bewitch the people

·     Held as a great power of God

 

August 1988 - What The Lord Showed Me

 

Now, in this same year (1988) after the Lord gave me this message, Time Magazine had a very strange picture on the front cover of the August 15th issue.  Inside the magazine there were eight pages of blaspheming Jesus Christ, with a write-up entitled A Holy Furor, which stated – a new sensational movie hits the theaters and causes a holy furor based upon a 1955 best selling novel: The Last Temptation of Christ.

 

The cover picture was as follows:

A mans face: designed like a cross, blocked out in blocks one and a half inches by one; and one inch by one and a quarter inches.

 

This man’s eyes and the bridge of his nose were in three of the blocks of the cross arms.

 

Across his left cheek and his nose and the block where his right cheek would have been was a plaque with the inscription WHO WAS, and his mouth was in the bottom block.

 

In the top three blocks there was a crown of thorns.

 

This came out just five months after the Lord spoke to me of this very type of thing fighting against the truths of God’s Word.

 

Conclusion

 

Take what you have read in these two parts of Know These Forces, examine the Scriptures carefully with the prophetic messages and visions, and pray the Lord will keep you in this serious hour which we are living in.