When I first heard the “Breaking News,”
I could not believe what I heard and saw. I watched for many hours, turning
from one news channel to another, both local and abroad, but the words
and pictures were always the same.
I was so distraught, so overwhelmed, that I could
not hear anything other than what was said over and again on all the news
channels. My eyes filled with tears as often as I saw the shuttle’s disintegration,
that ominous white trail of the Columbia’s break-up.
“I cannot believe this! This is too horrible,
too terrible! They disintegrated! Oh my G-d, they disintegrated! They must
have lit up like matches and disintegrated! There won’t be anything left
of them to bury! Oh my G-d, why did you allow this?” And I just kept on
watching, and crying.
At 8 p.m. I turned to the Israeli news channels
as is my custom, when suddenly I heard another voice within me, quite distinct
from those I had heard for hours. “Debris over Texas! Debris over Texas!”
the Lord said. And in an instant, as in a flash, the Lord let me see what
was happening besides the obvious I had witnessed on TV.
The understanding given was so very distressing
I cried out loud and wept. As soon as I had regained my composure, I called
my prophetic Psalmist friend in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, to see whether or
not she had received similar insights and had a confirming message. She
had!
We felt compelled to disseminate this urgent message
immediately, no matter how difficult, because of its dreadful warning.
As Jeremiah had to deliver messages that were ever more appalling while
his heart was breaking for sorrow and grief, so have I come to share the
same burden and sorrow. Jeremiah voiced his grief in the book of “Lamentations”,
for while his heart was breaking over the visions concerning his people,
they hated him the more for them and wanted to kill him. So they threw
him into a pit for speaking G-d’s warning, Who only desired their welfare.
Jerusalem did not repent because they trusted
in their own understanding and leaned on their own insight1,
reasoning in their hearts that there was no G-d2.
Therefore they did whatever they pleased.
The end of this was the destruction of Jerusalem
and the Babylonian exile!
Therefore, Robyn and I, and her husband Martin
who had himself received very disturbing messages, have put this word of
warning together from what both she and I received from the Lord. We realize
that this message is highly disturbing and might provoke reactions similar
to Jeremiah’s prophecies. Hence we would much rather keep silent than speak
up. However, woe unto us if we do not speak, seeing that necessity is laid
upon us for reason of the office with which we are entrusted3.
Just as G-d spoke the following words to Ezekiel
in 33:2-6, 8-9 [Living Bible], so we also are required to sound the alarm
and speak the warning we hear:
“… the watchman… when he sees the army coming,
and blows the alarm [the trumpet] to warn them, then anyone who HEARS the
alarm, [the SOUND of the trumpet], and refuses to heed it – well, if he
dies the fault is his own. For he HEARD the [SOUND of the trumpet] warning
and wouldn’t listen; the fault is his. If he had heeded the warning, he
would have saved his life. But if the watchman sees the enemy coming and
doesn’t SOUND the alarm [with the trumpet] and warn the people, he is responsible
for their deaths. They will die in their sins, but I will charge the watchman
with their deaths…”
“When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you
will die!’, and you don’t tell him what I say, so that he does not repent
– that wicked person will die in his sins, but I will hold you responsible
for his death. But if you warn him to repent and he doesn’t, he will die
in his sin, and you will not be responsible.”
In Ezekiel 3:17-21 [RSV], the Lord says the same
things: “… whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them
[the people] warning from me. If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely
die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his
wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked man shall die in his
iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the
wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way,
he shall die in his iniquity; but you will have saved your life.”
“Again, if a righteous man turns from his righteousness
and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall
die; because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his
righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood
I will require at your hand. Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man
not to sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took
warning; and you will have saved your life.”
Hence, here are the understandings Robyn, Martin
and I, Annelore, were given, which we have joined together into one message
to the Church and to all who have ears to hear and a heart to heed the
warning:
| 1
Proverbs 3:5-8 |
2
Psalm 14:1-5; Ps 53 |
3
1 Cor. 9:16-17 |
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2 | 3
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| 6 | 7
| 8 | 9
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