DAD'S BIRTHDAY 1993!--The Muslim Ministry!       DO 2856  18/2/93

         1. When I saw I might be well enough to come and talk to you on my birthday, I thought, "Well, what are we going to talk about? I don't know what to talk about. I mean, what's important? While I'm able to get in there and celebrate my healing, I should have some kind of message, something to encourage them, something direct, whatever the Lord has to say lately."
         2. Well, He was healing me, but I hadn't heard anything in particular He wanted me to tell you. I thought of all kinds of subjects I could talk about and that we could study together, about the future or whatever, but I didn't have anything straight from the Lord, not a thing! And that leaves me a little bit speechless if I haven't got something to tell you from the Lord, especially on an important day such as this. I said, "Lord, this is a special day. I need something from You!" And I woke up at exactly three o'clock yesterday afternoon, and I'd had a very vivid dream.--A very short, but very vivid dream.
         3. It was about Elijah! But it was a very shocking dream! I think it's probably the most shocking dream I ever had, and it may be one of the hardest you ever had to take, because it can cause a whole new transformation in our direction and associations, etc. But I can certainly see where it fits the times. It was absolutely shocking! It was like a vision, but it was a dream because I had it just before I woke up, and I have never had anything either in dreams or in visions or in wording that was ever so shocking--nor anything so mysterious! I still don't really understand it in the flesh, so to speak, I only seem to sense the meaning in the Spirit. Hallelujah! (Tongues) "Listen ye to the Words of your father!" Thank You Lord!

What Do We Know About Elijah?

         4. What do you know about Elijah? (Fam: He was after the reign of David and Solomon.) What was he? (Fam: A great prophet.) One of the greatest of all the prophets. (Fam: And one of the main things he did was to destroy Baal worship.) He slew 850 prophets of Baal! He took them down to the river, I guess where he wouldn't have to clean up the mess, and slaughtered them right there (1Kg.18:40). Well, they deserved it. They were probably a bunch of perverts and sodomites and whatnot who practiced some of the worst kind of heathen, Satanic practices that they had roped King Ahab into through Jezebel, because she was a Sidonian from the godless city of Sidon (1Kg.16:31). Well, not exactly godless; they had all kinds of gods! But it was a horrible, fiendish kind of worship.
         5. Elijah came along and in one fell swoop he just pretty well wiped'm out and cleaned things up, got Ahab away from Jezebel to work on him for a while, and turned the Northern Kingdom of Israel back to the Lord again.
         6. Let's think of a few more points about Elijah. (Fam: He ran up in the mountains and got discouraged after that.) Yes, he was fed by ravens and performed many miracles. But what made Elijah different from any of the other prophets? (Family: He never died.) Yes! He was one of the only two men translated in the Bible, without seeming to pass through the usual process of death. That wasn't even done for Jesus; He died for us on the cross.
         7. And what else do you know about Elijah besides the fact that he performed several outstanding miracles? That wasn't the most outstanding thing about him, because Elisha performed twice as many miracles. He asked for a double portion of Elijah's power (2Kg.2:9).
         8. The biggest miracle was probably at the time of the altar when he confronted the prophets of Baal. (Fam: He got it all wet first, and then he called down fire from Heaven.) He tried to show that he was going to make it even harder for his God, and soaked the offering and the altar with water. And the fire not only burned up the offering, it also burned up the water, and even burned up the rocks! It melted all the rocks together. (See 1Kg.18:17-40.)

Studying the Verses About Elijah

         9. There were some very significant things that were said about Elijah. After all his tremendous life and miracles and his amazing departure, read me the last two verses of the Old Testament. Those certainly must be significant verses for the Lord to end the entire Old Testament with those two verses! (Fam: Malachi 4:5 and 6: "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the Earth with a curse.")
         10. Now let's turn to the New Testament and see what it says there that Elijah was supposed to do. He's mentioned several times in the New Testament. As you find them, read them. (Techi: In Matthew 11:13 and 14 it says, "For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. And if ye will receive it, this is Elias [Elijah], which was for to come.") Jesus Himself said that, right? Who's He talking about? (Techi: John the Baptist. Starting with verse 12, it reads, "And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. And if ye will receive it, this is Elias [Elijah], which was for to come.")
         11. (Fam: Luke 1:17, also speaking of John the Baptist, says, "And he shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Elias [Elijah], to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.") He shall go before Whom? (Fam: Before Jesus.) What else did the Lord say?
         12. (Peter: In Matthew 17 it says, "And His disciples asked Him, saying, Why then say the Scribes that Elias must first come? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. But I say unto you, that Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. Then the disciples understood that He spake unto them of John the Baptist" [Mat.17:10-13].)
         13. John the Baptist preceded the first Coming of the Lord, and he did preach and he turned the hearts of the fathers and sons toward each other, and he turned the hearts of the people toward Jesus. He prepared the way of the Lord. The Lord even said that he came in the spirit and the power of Elijah. "And this," He says, "if you will receive it, is Elijah which was for to come."
         14. So what do you begin to fathom from this business about Jesus saying that John the Baptist came in the spirit and the power of Elijah? (Fam: Maybe Elijah was an actual spirit helper of John, but it doesn't mean that he was necessarily Elijah.) John himself denied being Elijah, personally (Jn.1:19-21). But Jesus is trying to show people the operations of the Spirit, and that is, John was operating under the influence, obviously, in the spirit and the power of Elijah, in doing what he did in preparing their hearts in those days before Jesus' first Coming. Was that day of John the Baptist the last manifestation of the ministry of Elijah?
         15. If Elijah could come at one time in his spirit and his power, to help John the Baptist, he's a spirit of God, right? So could Elijah do it again? (Fam: Sure!) Could he supernaturally and miraculously possess some other prophet who was almost as miraculous as John the Baptist and in some ways affected the world even more so?
         16. So now I think maybe you're ready for the dream! Hallelujah! Thank You Jesus! Help them to receive it, Lord! You've hinted at this time and again in other prophecies, even in recent days, Lord, that our ministry is going to be joined with others. (To Family:) I almost hesitate to tell you. If the Lord hadn't told me to go ahead and tell you, I don't think I'd have the courage. Jesus, Lord Jesus! I've had a lot of people go away over some of our doctrines. Will ye also go away? Will you find this too much to swallow? (Techi: "To whom shall we go? Thou alone hast the Words of Eternal Life.") Praise the Lord!

Dad Relates the Dream

         17. The dream is very short. I stood upon the great and holy mountain. Whatever that means, I don't even know. What mountain? Well, don't worry about that, there's more to come. And I looked down and saw these three Muslims. I don't know how I knew they were Muslims, I just knew they were. That's just the way things go in those dreams. And they were asking me questions, doubtful questions, interrogation sort of questions. "How could this be? How could that be?" I just said, "Look up and behold Moses, Jesus, and Elijah Mohammed!--And revere and believe!" Now here is the version as I originally told it to Mama right after I had waked up:
         18. I had the most mysterious dream! It was so strange! I don't know what it means. Behold, I stood upon the holy mountain with three servants (children) of Islam who questioned me. They said, "Well, let us see," and behold, three others appeared before us--Moses and Jesus and Elijah Mohammed! And the three children of Islam fell upon their knees and said, "Let us build here three mosques." I said, "Nay, let us rather reverence (revere) these and believe." (Dad speaks in tongues.) "Behold, these strange things Thou hast revealed unto Thy father David; may they be remembered in his heart."
         19. If Mohammed had the power and anointing of Elijah, that would certainly help to explain how he had such power to start truly the world's greatest religion outside of Christianity. I've always said he started off right, but they twisted his words after he died. He was even charitable toward Christians and called them "the people of the Book."
         20. In the dream I said, "Look up and behold Moses, Jesus and Elijah Mohammed!" What does the Lord mean by that? I was astounded! I was like the prophet, and I was telling them, "Behold and revere and believe!" Sometimes that's just the way the Lord leaves you hanging. He doesn't explain anything; He expects you to understand in the Spirit.

Did Elijah Inspire Mohammed?

         21. Well, it may sound a little crazy, but it depends on how far the Lord expects you to take that. I didn't take it at all that it meant that Mohammed was Elijah, but that the Lord was associating the two names, trying to show us how Elijah could have inspired Mohammed in the beginning. You know, Mohammed got all of his revelations from an angel in a cave out on Mount Hira. Muslims believe it was the angel Gabriel, but who knows, maybe it was the spirit of Elijah. (Fam: With all the idols the Arabs had when Mohammed came along, it was a lot the same situation as when Elijah was destroying the Baal worship.) Oh yes! Mohammed later went into the Kaaba there in Mecca, and he had his soldiers and men throw out every bit of their heathen, pagan idols and break'm up and burn'm, trying to get them to worship the one true God again. And he did! He was extremely successful at it.
         22. Could it have been Elijah who originally inspired him in that task to try to get rid of all that heathenism and idolatry and get'm back to the one true God?--Through a man who had enough knowledge of Christianity to talk about Christianity, and about Jesus, and Mary, and the Christians, and the Jews, a man with the knowledge of Christ. (Fam: Elijah knew how to use the sword, too!) Yes. It seemed like it was pretty necessary in Mohammed's day.

The Birth of Our Muslim Ministry!

         23. How far has the Arab Wall moved? (See "The Arab Wall," ML #274.) We have gotten a lot of Letters on the Arabs and Muslims! There used to seem to be a feeling that we were going to work together with the Arabs or the Muslims. I think we even had some prophecies along that line. I know I've heard good reports in the past about some Palestinians and Arabs and Muslims who have liked what we've said and liked what we have written, and definitely felt that we were sympathetic. I think any that have heard about us and know our writings at all certainly know that we have been very sympathetic, particularly with the Palestinian cause.
         24. (Fam: You could very easily picture the Muslims as a whole as the anti-antichrists.) (See ML #1890.) Oh, definitely. We've mentioned that and done Bible studies on the AACs! They are the Kings of the East who eventually turn against the Antichrist, and they cross the Euphrates on dry land to fight on the day of the Lord, the day of the Battle of Armageddon. Who else is the Antichrist fighting? These hordes from all over the East come raging against Jerusalem! We've written about that and interpreted it that way for years; there's nothing new about that.
         25. But that was a pretty strong statement for the Lord to make in this recent dream, and the thing that I gathered from it was this: There is coming a day when we are to show our sympathy more for the Muslims and try to show them what God has shown us about them--that we are to at least respect their prophet.
         26. My impression from the whole thing was that we are to try to give them more respect and sympathy. And the message for them was that they should have more respect and sympathy for us. And obviously, somehow, God only knows, that we should try to work with them.
         27. Let's face it, we've kind of talked about it, and we've talked to them and we've tried to win a few, but we've never really gone all out to try to reach the Arabs or the Muslims. They believe in prophets. What do you think they would think of that dream? Don't you think that would probably be a pretty good witnessing presentation? "Our prophet received a revelation that Mohammed was there with Moses and Jesus." Well, he was in the presence of Elijah, in a sense, if Elijah was representing them, which obviously he was.
         28. Don't you think they would think that was a very significant dream, and that they would have to consider that? It must be that the Lord's trying to show us something, at least that we're to be friends, and to respect each other. I told them that it wasn't hard for me to believe that Mohammed was a prophet. I just can't believe some of the long, drawn-out, strung-out extremes to which some of his followers have gone.
         29. Well, their misinterpretations are not so much different than Christians at large, churches who through their reading and misinterpretation of the Bible have twisted everything around to where it doesn't mean what it said at all! (Fam: And the Muslim mullahs have all these other teachings of man that they teach as the Word of God.) Yes, they've got another whole set of books that is a commentary about the Koran just like the Talmud is about the Old Testament. And that's where you find most of the falsities and false doctrines of the Muslims, in these records compiled by Mohammed's followers. Anybody remember the name of that? (Fam: The Hadith.)
         30. I believe that if this dream was nothing else, it was a sign to us that we need to push our friendship with the Muslims and the Arabs much more than we have. I took it to mean that we should at least be more friendly to them, and if we would befriend them more, it would open their eyes to at least consider us as friends, even if not the same religion.--If we don't go in for it too heavy like we're trying to proselytize them, but that we just want to show them that we are their friends. We're not necessarily trying to convert'm, because that would antagonize'm.
         31. We have not really carried through with reaching the Muslim world, considering all the Lord has shown us about the Arabs. You could tell them, "Our prophet has lived in Muslim countries and spent time there studying the Koran! What more could you ask than that? And he recently had a dream that Mohammed was standing on this holy mountain with Jesus and Moses." There you've got them together. I'm sure the Lord wants to get'm together. We certainly have a common enemy!
         32. Well I'm convinced, and certainly Mama and I were both convinced that it means we are now to turn more to the Arabs and the Muslims and the Palestinians, and show them our sympathy more. I'm sure you're going to pray that the Lord will have His way about a renewed ministry amongst the Muslims. Not to go after them real hard like you're pushing Christianity down their throats, but the idea was to show them respect and friendship and to try to win them as friends. Amen? Thank You Jesus! Praise the Lord!
         33. May we make this world Thine, Lord, and win as many friends to Thee as we can, and show these people love and friendship who need it and who are so terribly misused, abused and vilified by our enemies! Help us to show them our love and sympathy and to encourage them that we really mean business and that You love them, in Jesus' name. Amen! Praise the Lord! Thank the Lord! Well, I feel lots better! Thank You Jesus! Amen?

         [Note: In the illustration at the beginning of this Letter we are depicting the Prophet Elijah from the Bible, along with Moses and Jesus. Muslims forbid the portrayal of the Prophet Mohammed in pictures.]


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