My husband Mike and I gave our lives to Jesus in the early part of 2000. It didn't start out that way, We had avoided this subject at all cost simply because we had bad feelings and memories surrounding Christianity...
We read the Bible and we couldn't put it down reading several hours per day and discussing what read at night which lead us to read more together in the evening. We prayed and soon found a church (we had a limited knowledge of denominations) and chose a church based on where we felt the Lord led us, and we still can see how He led us to this church and how He used us, in the end, to bring information about the Sabbath there and plant seeds. Once we discovered that the Sabbath was not Sunday and from looking at some information on the WWW we discovered that the 7th day was Saturday (according to man's calendar) we wanted to obey God out of our love and thankfulness to Him for sending Jesus here for us. Since we didn't know anyone who kept that day holy we kept it at home. We were persecuted (at the time I thought it was heavy persecution) and we were basically abandoned by our church "friends" and leadership.
We discovered the Seventh Day Adventist church and for a short while we poured everything that we had into that church (5 years) until we started to see things that were not right. I had 3 dreams in less than a year (which I am posting later in this testimony) and through wrestling and struggling with the dreams I finally went to 2 of the pastors and 2 of the elders, along with my husband to tell them the dreams. I felt the dreams were a warning from God that the church was in trouble and that we (as a church) needed to repent and turn fully to Him. The dreams were not well received and so we left that particular church and went to another SDA church…where we were sitting in the pew and had fullness of bread and idleness and we were not happy to do that, so we prayed to see what God wanted us to do (we had been wiped out with service in the other church and were exhausted from that and from the emotional ordeal of bringing this warning to the church) but we still felt compelled to serve God. The church had a big weekend event that was coming up here with Pastor Doug Batchelor and since my husband is a professional at sound and recording, he was asked to lead the technical team and the recording of the presentation. We thought that God was going to use Mike to get the message out.
Just a short time before this, Mike was approached by a gentleman that we didn't know. This man gave Mike some web sites to study and told him, "Study for yourself". There was a Spiritual shaking going on in our lives already because I had told the leadership about the dreams and the church did not take it lightly. So we had to go through meetings with the conference and pastors and things were still not settled. Mike was studying and I was still dealing with the aftershock of the episode with the leadership about the dreams. We have been going through many trials as a result but I know that it is through much tribulation that we enter into the
At the same time that Mike was discovering that the 7th day Sabbath was not Saturday according to God's calendar, I decided to do my own research.
My study began in Genesis I thought I might as well start at the beginning. So when Genesis 1:14 was studied I was shocked. My understanding from searching the word "seasons" and going into the roots of this word blessed me so much. It has strengthened me to the point that even if it means that I lose everything…I want to follow God no matter what.
A synopsis of what I found in Gen.1:14 is this….God said let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day (light portion of the day) from the night (darkness), let them be for signs (omen, beacon, flag) and for seasons (to gather the congregation, the betrothed together at the appointed time for the purpose of lifting up the hands and worshipping and consenting with God) and for days and years.
I am still very prayerful, watchful, thankful and I am still studying. Immediately I thought that the leaders must not know about this so I sent links and asked them questions and appealed to them. I was grieved at their response, if any…I still grieve some times. I needed to hear the leadership tell me for themselves what is going on. I began reading on 4 Angels website and looking into the history of what the church has said and done. I began asking pastors what they could show me from the Bible to prove if this was wrong. Many of them said that it is wrong and that this is strong delusion, but they give no Biblical evidence. Most have not even answered me and the ones that have only gave a short pat answer, "it's wrong". We have had some very serious and upsetting experiences with pastors and the church. Like I said before I am still studying and I pray that everyone would do the same for your own selves. STUDY…if you ask God for wisdom, and your heart truly wants wisdom to follow Him, He will give it. But if your heart wants to be like the rich young ruler, only obeying outwardly so that you can "get into heaven" then you will not make it. So ask God to search you and to try you to see if there be any wicked way in you and that He would clean you and give you a new heart…because He will. Many are thinking that they are saved and that they are going to heaven, proud, boastful, blasphemers, these statements from the Word of God are serious and we have to be on our knees to see where we stand with God…there are 5 wise virgins and 5 foolish…God help us all.
Here are the dreams that I had in 2008.
Dream #1) I came to the door of the church that I was attending at that time. I entered into the church and saw that there was chaos in the church. The church was full of strangers and I saw a pig running around. I shouted "Hey you can't bring that pig in here this is God's house and that is an abomination to God!" but no one would listen, they all kept running around the church. I went into the kitchen and I saw a large white bowl on the countertop, as I peered into the bowl I saw a mound of white flour and on top of the flour a piece of pork. I immediately took a fork and lifted out the piece of pork. The instant that I did that I saw pork everywhere in the church, on the counter on the floor everywhere I looked there was pork.
Dream #2) I had to go and tell the pastor about the abominations in the church, I had to alert him as it was my duty. I came into a dark room in the church and in the middle of the room was a large red, wing backed, swivel easy chair. As I approached the chair (I knew that the pastor was in that chair) I told the pastor that there were abominations in the church. As he began to swing the chair around toward me I saw he had his elbow leaning on the arm of the chair and I saw him as he slowly turned toward me, he was leaning back so relaxed in this chair he said, "Don't worry sister Heather, it alright love, it doesn't matter" as he waved his hand. Once he was fully turned toward me I saw that there was another man in the chair with him.
Dream #3) I knew that the church was in abomination, I also knew (in my mind in my dream) that the pastor's wife had left him. I entered into the church and I saw people talking everywhere in the foyer and everywhere else in the church as per usual. I looked up and saw the pastor standing on the balcony, he had a man beside him with his arm around him. The pastor looked as though he was mesmerized…as though he had gone too far and now this man had complete control of him. They were looking down onto the congregation, the pastor with a blank look and the man that was with him had a look of accomplishment or satisfaction and a stance of dignified treachery…almost as though he was a conqueror.
Please understand that these dreams are symbolic of what is happening in all churches...they are not a statement of what a particular pastor is or is not doing.
Those are the dreams, and even now as I recount them I can see everything vividly in my mind as though they happened this morning. They are disturbing to me and I believe that they are revealing. They do reveal that there are many abominations in the churches (not just the
I tremble when I think of these dreams, we are experiencing prophecy being fulfilled and I pray for God's people that we would be very sober and seriously humble ourselves in the sight of God and do not get complacent, thinking that we have it all (Laodecia). I pray for myself that I would only speak His words and do His will, I want to follow and obey Him not to "get saved" but because I have surrendered my life the Lord Jesus Christ and because God Almighty is the Creator of Heaven and Earth and we ought to obey, we ought to give Him glory and honor and praise always. He is a Father of order and perfectness. Yes, He is a Father of mercy and forgiveness, but He is also a Father Who is Just and it is to Him that we must give an account.
I pray that whoever reads this WLC website would humbly bow before the Lord and seek His truth because there is only One Truth. The path is narrow and the gate is straight which leads to righteousness, that means there has to be a lot of "letting go" of traditions, of fleshly desires, of our own ways, of things and even people…remember Lots wife…as in the days of Noah and Lot so shall it be in the coming of the Son of Man…we really are at a sobering time. Look up for your redemption is nigh. God bless you all.
