Excerpts from a prophetic word given by Rev. Neil Glasse in AUGUST, 1979.

(For the complete word, PLEASE write or e-mail Pastor Judith.

"DEAR ONES, KNOW YOU NOT, A SOLDIER CAN HAVE NO VICTORIES WITHOUT BATTLES.  THEREFORE, YOU WILL FACE BATTLES, BUT YOU WILL NOT BE DEFEATED.  YOU WILL SUFFER PERSECUTION FOR MY NAME'S SAKE, BUT YOU WILL NOT BE FORSAKEN.  I HAVE ANOINTED YOU A LIVELY STONE, AND YOU ARE PART OF THE LIVING TABERNACLE OF GOD, MADE WITHOUT HANDS, SAITH THE LORD.

TAKE HEED, TAKE HEED TO MY WORDS LEST YOU FIND YOURSELF WANDERING IN THE DRY PLACE WITHOUT THE LIVING WATER OF THE HOLY GHOST.  TAKE HEED TO THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.  IF YOU LOOK WITH THE EYES OF SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING, YOU WILL SEE A TIME OF SORROW COME ON THE EARTH LIKE AT NO OTHER TIME.  THE JUDGMENT OF THE LORD SHALL REST UPON THE WICKED NATIONS AND UPON THOSE WHO WANTONLY AND WILLINGLY DO EVIL WITH BOTH MIND AND HEART.  I HAVE LOVINGLY AND FREELY PROVIDED SO GREAT AN ESCAPE FROM MY JUDGMENTS, BUT MULTITUDES HAVE KNOWINGLY AND WILLINGLY, WITHOUT ANY ATTEMPT TO HIDE THEIR SCORN AND REBELLIOUS ACTS, REFUSED ME AND MY ABUNDANT MERCIES.  THUS, THE JUDGMENT OF THE LORD SHALL SWEEP THE EARTH LIKE A REAPER WITH SCYTHE IN HAND, CUTTING DOWN THE KINGDOMS OF MEN AND THE MEN OF EVIL WHO REFUSE ME, SAITH THE LORD.

YEA, I WILL TURN THE WISDOM OF YOUR LEADERS TO FOOLISHNESS.  I WILL TAKE THE SKIRTS OF THIS NATION AS A WOMAN WOULD TAKE A RUG IN HAND, AND SHAKE IT, SAITH THE LORD.  WHERE PEACE AND SAFETY IS SOUGHT, ONLY TROUBLE AND TURMOIL WILL BE FORTHCOMING.  I SAY UNTO YOU MY PEOPLE, YOU LIVE IN A NATION OF IDOLATERS AND WHOREMONGERS.  YOUR LEADERS HAVE DANCED TO THE TUNE OF GREED AND AVARICE, SELLING TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER THE WELFARE OF MULTITUDES FOR SELFISH GAIN.  THE GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND.  THE FAITHFUL MAN HAS MELTED AWAY LIKE THE SHADOWS OF EARLY MORNING IN THE FACE OF THE RISING SUN.  IS NOT THIS TRUE?  IS NOT THE INDICTMENT I LAY BEFORE YOU FULL OF TRUTH AND NO ERROR IN IT AT ALL?....LEADERS AROUND THE WORLD SPEAK AND DO THOSE THINGS WHICH THEY THINK WILL GIVE RELIEF AND BRING ORDER AND VICTORY TO TROUBLED TIMES, BUT THEY ARE CONFOUNDED.  THEY ARE PERPLEXED.....EACH OFFERS HIS OWN WISDOM AND MOCKS THE WISDOM OF THOSE AROUND THEM, BUT ALL, TOGETHER, SPEAK OF SOLUTIONS AND FIND NONE.

THE LORD IS GOING FORTH THROUGHOUT THE LAND LOOKING FOR THOSE WHO WILL STAND FAITHFUL...TO THOSE WHO WILL LISTEN, AND IN LISTENING, WILL OBEY WITHOUT MURMURING, WITHOUT DOUBTING.  WHY SHOULD IT BE SO?  BECAUSE A MULTITUDE OF MEN HAVE CONSPIRED TO WILLINGLY DEFRAUD MY PEOPLE AND MY CHURCH OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND POWER THAT I HAVE GIVEN TO MY TRUE CHURCH.  THEY HAVE TURNED MY HOUSE INTO A THIEVES' DEN AND MADE MY WORD OF LITTLE EFFECT IN THE LIVES OF MULTITUDES.  LO, THIS IS A SORE EVIL IN MY SIGHT.  AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, SO IT IS BECOMING IN THESE DAYS.  MEN'S HEART MORE AND MORE ARE DESIRING TO DO EVIL BOTH DAY AND NIGHT.  GOOD IS MOCKED.  UPRIGHTNESS IS SCORNED AND LOATHED.  THE HOLY COMMANDS OF YOUR GOD ARE BROKEN WITH INTENSE DELIGHT.  ...THEREFORE I SAY UNTO YOU, MY BELOVED, A DAY OF AWAKENING AND VISITATION IS AT HAND.  TO MY PEOPLE, WHO WALK OBEDIENTLY BEFORE ME AND SERVE ME FAITHFULLY AND WITH A WILLING HEART, SHALL IT BE A VISITATION OF POWER AND ANOINTING AND GLORY SUCH AS MY CHURCH HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE.  TO MY ENEMIES AND THE ENEMIES OF THE CROSS OF CHRIST SHALL IT BE A VISITATION OF WOE AND JUDGMENT.  TO MY BELOVED, IT SHALL BE A DAY OF AWAKENING TO THE VOICE OF THE LORD, AND, BY MY SPIRIT SHALL I OPEN THE EYES OF THEIR UNDERSTANDING AND THE EARS OF THEIR HEARING THAT THEY MAY KNOW AND UNDERSTAND AND HEAR THAT I AM POURING OUT MY SPIRIT, AND THAT I AM PREPARING A BRIDE....AND IT SHALL BE TO THEM THAT FEAR ME, AND WILLINGLY SERVE ME AND JOYFULLY OBEY ME, A TIME OF GREAT GROWTH AND STRENGTH.  IT SHALL BE A TIME OF MATURING, A TIME OF PREPARATION, A TIME OF CLEANSING, TO BRING FORTH THE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE LIVES OF ALL MY PEOPLE....PREPARE YOURSELF FOR MARRIAGE.  YEA, BE VIGILANT, SOBERMINDED, NOT PRIDEFUL NOR FLIGHTY.  DISCIPLINE YOURSELVES AS IT IS PROPER FOR A FAITHFUL SOLDIER.

BEHOLD, I DECLARE TO YOU THAT THIS NATION SHALL NOT GO UNPUNISHED FOR ITS WILLFUL REBELLION AND IDOLATROUS WORSHIP.  MULTITUDES HAVE WORSHIPPED THE GOD OF MONEY.  MULTITUDES HAVE WORSHIPPED THE GOD OF PLEASURE.  MULTITUDES HAVE WORSHIPPED THE GOD OF POWER.  YEA, IN ALL MANNER OF EVIL THINGS HAVE THIS PEOPLE PROVOKED ME.

THEREFORE, HEAR YOU THESE WORDS WITH OPEN EARS AND A MIND TO UNDERSTAND.  FOR I DECLARE TO YOU THAT I WILL TEAR DOWN THE KINGDOMS THAT MEN HAVE BUILD.  I WILL MAKE A GRAIN OF WHEAT MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD.  I WILL MAKE A CUP OF PURE WATER TO BE DESIRED MORE THAN A CUP OF DIAMONDS.  I WILL CAUSE THE PLAGUE OF WAR TO SIT ON THE SHORES OF THIS NATION.  I WILL CAUSE THIS NATION TO KNOW WHAT MULTITUDES HAVE EXPERIENCED IN OTHER LANDS AS THEY FELT THE CRUEL HEEL OF FOREIGN SOLDIERS LAID HEAVILY UPON THE SOULS OF THEIR NATIONS, AS IT WERE.  LO, THERE WILL BE A TIME IN WHICH MANY WILL HAVE TO WORSHIP ME IN THE HIDING PLACE AS IN OTHER NATIONS.  THERE WILL BE A TIME IN WHICH THE WORD OF LIFE SO MANY HAVE HANDLED SO CASUALLY SHALL BE MORE DEAR THAN LIFE ITSELF.  TO WORSHIP ME, MANY WILL HAVE TO GATHER BY TWO, OR THREE, IN SECRET PLACES AND WITH WATCHFUL CARTING FOR THEIR LIVES, FOR THIS NATION SHALL DECREE THE SENTENCE OF DEATH UPON MANY WHO CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE JEHOVAH AND HIS CHRIST.

....THERE WILL COME A TIME WHEN NEIGHBOR WILL TURN AGAINST NEIGHBOR, AND LAWLESSNESS AND ANARCHY WILL ABOUND.  THE TIME WILL COME WHEN THE WEAK SHALL FALL PREY TO THE STRONG AND THE DEFENSELESS SHALL BE HELPLESS TO RESIST.  YEA, THERE SHALL BE A TIME OF GREAT UPHEAVAL ALL ACROSS THE LAND, AND EVERY MAN WHO KNOWS ME NOT AS SAVIOR, SHALL TREMBLE IN FAR.  MANY SHALL PERISH FROM FAILING HEARTS BECAUSE OF UNBRIDLED FEAR.  MANY SHALL PERISH FROM DISEASE AND PESTILENCE.  MANY SHALL PERISH IN EARTHQUAKES AND DIVERS CATASTROPHES.  LO, THIS STILL SHALL NOT BE THE END.  YEA, MY HOLY WORD WHICH HAS BEEN PROCLAIMED LONG AGO SHALL BE FULFILLED FULLY AND WITHOUT MEASURE.

BEHOLD, I CALL YOU TO THE TIME OF STRENGTHENING AND AWAKENING....IF YOU WILL PRAY, AND WILL WORK, AND WILL OBEY, AND WILL GIVE WITH A CHEERFUL AND TENDER ATTITUDE, I WILL DO A MIGHTY AND QUICK WORK IN THESE DAYS.  ...I WILL MOVE TO EXTEND, FOR A TIME AND SEASON, THE TIME YOU HAVE TO WORK.  YEA, THIS IS NOT AN HOUR TO SEEK TIME TO PLAY.  THIS IS NOT THE HOUR TO SEEK TIME TO FOLLOW FLESHLY PURSUITS.  THIS IS THE TIME TO WORK AND SEEK AND CARRY WITH BOTH ARMS FULL, THE HARVEST OF SOULS THAT AWAIT THE HARVESTING.

UNTO YOU IS GIVEN TO KNOW WHAT IS MY HOLY DESIRE FOR YOU.  EVEN WITH ALL THESE THINGS TO COME, THEY WHO SERVE ME AND WALK UPRIGHTLY BEFORE ME SHALL ABIDE UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY.  YOUR HEARTS SHALL NOT FAIL FOR FEAR.  YOUR HEARTS SHALL BE FULL OF FAITH AND HOPE.  YOUR HANDS WILL BE STRONG FOR REAPING....

THE LORD KNOWS THE THOUGHTS OF HIS PEOPLE, EVEN AS HE KNOWS THE THOUGHTS OF EVERY MAN.  I KNOW THOSE WHO WILLINGLY PURPOSE TO HEAR MY WORDS AND CONSIDER THEM IN THE LIGHT OF MY WRITTEN WORD AND DO THEM.  TODAY IS NOT THE DAY THESE THINGS WILL COME ON THIS NATION, NOR IS TOMORROW THE DAY IT WILL COME.  BUT AS SURELY AS YOU HOLD MY WRITTEN WORD IN YOUR HAND, AND AS SURELY AS YOU SEE THE DAY SPRING FORTH, AND THE NIGHT SETTLE INN AT ITS APPOINTED TIME, SO SHALL THESE THINGS COME TO PASS, SAITH THE LORD. BE NOT AFRAID, BUT  REJOICE FOR THE DAY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD DRAWS CLOSER THAN YOU SUSPECT. BUT ALL MY PEOPLE WHO ARE WAITING AND WATCHING SHALL NOT BE CAUGHT BY SURPRISE.

BEHOLD! THE GREAT WORKS OF THE LORD ARE OPEN TO YOU. YOUR VISITATION SHALL BE AS THE TIME OF A HEAVENLY DOWNPOUR OF RAIN...IT SHALL BE THE FORMER RAIN WHICH WAS GIVEN MODERATELY AND THE LATTER-RAIN WHICH SHALL BE TO YOU FOR A DOUBLE-PORTION.  YOUR HEART AND YOUR MIND SHALL REJOICE WHEN YOU LOOK ON THE WORKS THAT MY HANDS WILL WORK IN THESE LAST DAYS.  YOU WILL CAREFULLY AND REVERENTLY CONSIDER MY WORDS FOR THEY CONTAIN LIFE AND POWER......I WILL LEAD YOU BY GENTLE WATERS AND WILL SIT YOU UNDER A SHADE TREE TO GIVE YOU SHELTER FROM THE HOT SUN, AND WORK A WORK IN YOUR BEHALF THAT YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CONTAIN....HE THAT HAS EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR.  HE WHO HAS A MIND AND HEART TO UNDERSTAND, LET HIM UNDERSTAND, AND KNOW EVEN AS EVIL ABOUNDS, MUCH MORE SHALL THE GRACE OF GOD ABOUND TO THEM THAT BELIEVE."