This came via a FREEPMAIL to me just now. I believe it is from The Lord. We shall see. It's not something I have great super electric goose bumps about but there is a moderately strong conviction that there's something to it.

It has some specific prophecies highlighted in red or blue, by me.

Read it with discernment and pray for The Lord to show you how true it is, or not and therefore what for you, your life and your family. Note: It's highly unLIKELY that God will tell you much about it unless you have a bonafide relationship with Him.

FWIW:

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The Preparation of the Bride

November 24, 2005
Maurice Sklar
Maurice Sklar Ministries

Dear Friends,

During the past few weeks the Lord has led me to intercede for the nations. The world has experienced numerous disasters and tragedies and continues to do so. There is no question that we are living in the final days before the return of our Messiah, Jesus. This prophecy was given to me a few weeks ago, and I was reluctant to release it because it is so strong. But the Lord has compelled me to do so. I want to say emphatically that I believe that it is conditional. If we will pray and intercede, perhaps, many of these calamities can be averted and/or postponed.

I pray that as you read this, that you will keep an open mind and receive the main message: We must be ready for the Lord's return. We must return to our first love and live a pure and consecrated life if we are to be pleasing to Him when He appears.

May the Lord purify our hearts so we can be a part of His wonderful and beautiful Bride!

Amen.

{ASLANs changed KJV ancient thees/thous wording}
"And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write…
I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot:
I would you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew (vomit) you out of my mouth.

Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods,
and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched,
and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white rainment that you may be clothed,
and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear;
and anoint your eyes with eye-salve, that you may see.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

To him that overcoms will I grant to sit with me in my throne,
even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

He that has ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches."

( Revelation 3:14-22)


As I was reading and meditating on this scripture, the Lord said to me:

"I am sending my refining fire into the church. I am separating My bride from the Laodicean church of today. I am preparing her. I am purifying her. She will be without spot and without blemish. I will return for her in the midnight hour. Only those that are watching and praying; only those who are embracing the message of the cross and holiness; only those that walk in the power of My spirit in moment by moment obedience; only those who are overcomers will be a part of My bride.

Most of those in the church will not be ready for Me when I come for My bride. Many think they are saved, but they are not at all. They are serving pleasures, lusts, and are in love with themselves. They are consumed with this present world and its' selfish ways. They are in love with money, success, and covet fame, position and power. They do not want to deny themselves, take up their cross and follow Me. They refuse to forsake all. Therefore, they will not be ready and will be left behind to face the great judgments that are about to come upon the world. Warn those that are lukewarm and have left their first love for Me, that if they do not repent, I will vomit them from My body.

I am preparing My bride. This is her hour of glory! I am purifying her. I am adorning her with My crowns and My jewels and My beautiful gowns. She shall be without spot or blemish. She will be dressed in My robes of righteousness – pure, clean and white. Who will come to Me and buy from Me what they so desperately need? It still is not too late. Repent, and return to Me with all of your hearts, so that you do not perish with this evil world.

I am sending a mighty army from mainland China along the old silk trade routes and into the unreached nations that have been called the 10/40 window. When they finally reach Jerusalem, THEN KNOW that the wedding day is upon you. Look up, for your redemption draws nigh. I will then come in the clouds and meet you in the air! But, the remaining nations must still hear my gospel of grace. This will be the final and greatest harvest that the world has ever seen.

Many hundreds of millions are waiting to hear the good news in China, in India, and in the other Buddhist and Muslim dominated regions of Asia, the near east and the middle east, as well as the poorest of nations in Africa and central and South America, as well as the hundreds of islands in the oceans of the earth. I am shifting my focus to them.

But you, O church of America and the West have prostituted yourself at every opportunity before every high place and idol shrine. You have substituted religion for My Presence. You shall surely perish when the fullness of My wrath comes upon Babylon. You shall be utterly burned with fire. You have heard and received the fullness of My love and grace, America. Still, you spit in My face and harden your hearts and refuse to turn back to Me.

Europe, you rejected Me and through Me out. For hundreds of years you provoked Me to wrath. You despised My people Israel and slaughtered them in a rage that reached to heaven after robbing the Jewish people and throwing them out of nation after nation. You did this all in My Name!! How can you escape the wrath to come?! You cannot. Therefore, you shall receive and drink the fullness of My cup of wrath. Prepare to meet your God, O Europe! Europe, you shall receive the King that you desire to worship instead of Me. He is soon to come forth. When you receive his mark, you will be eternally damned.

O Babylon, You drove My people from their homes in Gaza, and then started upon Judea and Samaria in Israel. Therefore, I will drive you from your homes in direct proportion, of 10,000 to 1, as you have seen in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Gulf Coast. There will follow two more judgments – one in a major city of Europe and one in the Arab nations in the middle east before the end of this year.

I will shake California in a warning, and then there shall finally come the earthquake that I have mercifully withheld for so many years. Millions shall perish in the ensuing floods and the west coast of America shall be removed and fall into the ocean. Boston shall experience a major attack upon a great school that once preached My gospel in ages past but has left the faith of their fathers – never to return again. It will never be rebuilt again. {ASLANs comment: A decade or two ago I prayed earnestly regarding Harvard--that God would redeem it and/or discipline it as an example. This sounds like a very sobering level of such.}

There shall be 5 terrorist attacks that will hit America in ever increasing destruction upon the major cities. Before the end of 2007, a nuclear "dirty bomb" will blow up in a major city in the south of America.

New York City will receive 3 major judgments before the end of 2008. Each one will be more devastating than the last. One will shake the entire financial world and cripple the once invincible financial power of America. Millions will lose everything in a moment. It will make the crash of the stock market in 1929 look like a little thing in comparison. America will no longer be the financial leader of the world.



[COLOR=BLUE] But for the sake of the Jewish people in New York, I will supernaturally spare them. After this, I will cause the largest aliyah (return) of My people (the Jewish people) from New York (and other regions throughout the developed world to Israel) in all of history. But only after the entire financial system that they are dependant on collapses will they all return to the land that I have promised them.

Tokyo, Japan. Hong Kong, China. Johannesburg, South Africa. Calcutta, India. Sidney, Australia. Chicago, Illinois. Los Angeles, California. Paris, France and many other cities will experience major catastrophies in the next five years. Millions upon millions will perish.

The aids epidemic will devastate the population in Africa to half of its' present size in the next 4 years. Many other incurable diseases, famine, drought and starvation will soon devastate the under-developed nations of the world in a way that has never occurred before.

North Korea will launch a sudden nuclear attack and then be completely destroyed. Only the prayers of South Korea can stop it. Pakistan will become a leading center for world terrorism and will experience a nuclear attack, also.

Israel is soon to once again send their planes and blow up the nuclear "plants" of Iran. Syria will soon collapse economically and be replaced by a fanatical Islamic government.

A major coordinated Al Qaeda terrorist attack will blow up many historic places in Europe that were once bastions of true Christian faith, worship, art and music.

If America does not stand up now and defend Israel instead of forcing Israel from their land, we will continue to face the devastating consequences here. At the rate of 10,000 to 1, we will continue to face destruction of our homes and communities. For every Jewish soul that is touched – I will require 10,000 souls in America to account for it.[B][COLOR=RED]
{ASLANs comment: I deeply and intensely feel that this is true. This will come to pass exactly as stated.}

[B][COLOR=BLUE]This is but a fraction of what is soon to come if there is not repentance and turning back to Me.

I will shake all the nations, and then after each disaster, I will pour out My grace and bring in a mighty harvest of souls for My kingdom. As birth contractions happen with a pregnant woman, so will these events happen ever faster and greater. Each one will be more devastating than the last one, and each one will come closer and closer together. Haven't I said exactly this in My Word? Each disaster will judge and smash an idol that is worshipped by the world system of Babylon. I will then show Myself as the one true God over them all. {ASLANs comment: I very much believe this is true.}

I will judge Hollywood and the entire movie industry for the millions upon millions of souls that they seduced and sent to hell. I will judge the news media and the television industry. I will judge the music industry. I will overturn the whole music industry in such a way that they can never pollute the world ever again. I will judge the internet pornography industry. Whole internet computer systems will be permanently shut down. I will judge the abortionists and their supporters. I will judge and reverse the Supreme Court. For a short time they shall change the laws to fear and honor Me. {ASLANs: I expect to see this, too. I don't know in precisely what form or degree. But I expect to see these things.}

There is coming a revival of morality and religion in America as a result of these calamities, but it will be a false one for the most part. God will become popular in the culture, but not the Bible and My name (Jesus). It will be a false gospel message. Not many will truly be born again. Only a remnant in My church will truly stay in right relationship to Me. When you see me take Billy Graham and Oral Roberts home, you will know that America and the West have received their last call.

[B]As I said in My Word, unless the Father would shorten these days, even the elect would not be saved. The deception of "Christian religion" will grow so great, that it will be nearly impossible to recognize the true prophets and teachers from the false ones. [COLOR=RED]Counterfeit miracles and false "signs and wonders" will come and deceive many. Churches will preach a "success and personal achievement" gospel. Even false healing meetings will come and actually produce real miracles, but they will not bring the people to Me. The preaching of My supreme Lordship, the cross, My blood, holiness, and the fear of the Lord will become more and more rare, even more than it has become during the last 35 years.

Nevertheless, I have supernaturally preserved and kept My bride pure and faithful to Me. I will continue to do so. Most of My bride is in mainland China now. Many are in Asia, and Korea and India and Brazil and Russia and Kenya and Nigeria and throughout Africa. [COLOR=RED]Most of My bride is hidden away in their prayer closets and have been persecuted and driven out of the churches by abusive pastors and false prophets, ministry leaders, and oppressive government leaders. Many are in prison. Some are daily dying of starvation and disease. Most of My bride has been beaten and left by the side of the road by the religious 'wolves in sheep's clothing'. They have been forgotten by the blinding greed of those hoarding their money and riches. Only the Good Samaritans can even spot them and see them. The rest are blinded. Only a few really love My bride the way that I do.

My bride is being purified through the fire of many trials of afflictions and persecutions at this present hour. [COLOR=PURPLE] Those that walk in My love and embrace the cross are being separated and persecuted by the Laodicean church. Those that are truly anointed and bringing the pure Word from My throne are being thrown out of the pulpits of the land and off of 'Christian Television' in favor of the confession of the Laodicean church: 'I am rich, I am increased with goods and have need of nothing. I am healed. I am blessed.' Really???? Are you???? It doesn't look that way from My throne in heaven!

Beware of any teaching that is selfish and appeals to your lusts and feeds the love of money in your lives. THAT teaching does not come from heaven. That is not My voice. My blessings come through seeking first the Kingdom and My righteousness, not from heaping riches upon yourself while the rest of the world starves to death and dies and goes to hell because of your selfishness and greed. You will see when you stand before Me what the TRUE RICHES are. The souls of the lost are the jewels in the crown of My bride.

My worshippers and musicians, artists and those that carry special anointings have been almost systematically removed from ministries and church leaders in favor of what is popular and can bring in the most money and please the people. This is an abomination in My sight.

Watch and pray that you may be accounted worthy to escape the things that are coming upon this earth. Receive My grace through the refining fire of the Holy Spirit so that you can be a part of that beautiful lady and bride. I am preparing her! It still isn't too late! Join with her and take up your cross and deny yourselves and follow Me.

That is how to be TRULY blessed and healed and delivered and fulfilled in life! That is the only way that My gift of eternal life can shine into the darkness of the world around you"


"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty…Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God."

(1 Corinthians 6:17-18, 7:1)

"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
Come out of her (Babylon), my people,
that you be not partakers of her sins,
and that you receive not of her plagues."

(Revelation 18:4)


Love in Our Messiah,

Maurice Sklar

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Er...rrrright.

PRETEND, PLEASE,

that at the predicted times . . . the first 4 of the scheduled prophecies come true essentially as predicted.

What would be your position, stance, feelings and actions then?

I'm very seriously curuious.

Aslans...do you see anything wrong here?

What will you say if they don't? Probably "well, I was never really convinced of it, anyway."

The first three of the first four prophecies I assume are these vaguely worded things:


The author seems to suggest that the "driving from homes" will precede the two latter judgements, which will occur before the year is out. This message was dated November 25, and I can't see anything like that having happened in Europe since then, so all three prophecies have precisely thirteen days to come to fruition. Let's then start the countdown for your god to hatch his vile, disgustingly evil scheme.

Are you trying to incite anohter crusade?

No, Dear Heart Tutu,

In my construction on reality, God Almighty defines right and wrong. And, by definition, He can do no wrong. There isn't the faintest hint of wrong in His Nature. And, He cannot go against His own nature.

Yes, He can be extremely severe. But He is even more merciful and long suffering than He is severe. But He does have limits.

Personally, I have begun to think that He has set our whole era up to be a massively vivid object lesson to all creation--all galaxies; all worlds; all peoples; all multi-verses--for all eternity. I certainly can't even point to Scriptures attesting to that. But it's begun to be the only thing that makes sense out of a lot of diverse bits of data.

And the ration desribed in this prophecy one Jewish life for 10,000 others . . . sounds like a very Biblical sort of retribution though of the Old Testament ilk.

I think we are going to see things that will make the Old Testament demonstrations of God's priorities look like tepid Sunday picnnics.

Some will learn from them.

Yet, Scripture says, some will merely curse God and die in their rebellion. Not a pretty picture.

no I dont mean that Aslans...I mean in the context of its wording...pay careful attention to the wording of the passage...its written inconsistently...

I think, Tutu, it's a very foolish thing to judge someone more powerful . . . say from . . . Mars or Alpha Centauri . . . when we know nothing of their culture, standards, reality, values, priorities etc.

All the worse to judge Almighty God who stands outside our time/space dimension as Creator God who defines what is right and what is wrong. We are finite. Yet too often humans presume to judge God on their finite terms. We do not know much about His prspective OUTSIDE OF our time/space reality.

His perspective on eternity could change all our priorities and values upside down in a flash. He has given us plenty of hints and clear statements to get in line with the highest of His priorities. But He does not give us more than flash card views of His eternal pespective. We are incapable of appreciating the fact that:

(as He declares):

The worst of the sufferings of this present life are not worthy to even be compared (hypothetically or otherwsie) with the glories of eternal life with Him.

He's The Boss. He sees eternity in ways I cannot in my finiteness. I'll trust Him as well as His vision and His priorities.

Maybe it was a disservice to you--to share this with you. Many Christians would think I'd shared such quite out of turn with unbelievers. True enough. You aren't really equipped with the spiritual whatevers to make the best sense of it.

But, I wanted to see if your responses would be as predictable as I thought they'd be. I hoped I'd be surprised. Not so far.

Sadly, I have tempted you to miss the mark with your attitude and comments. I'm sorry for that. I would feel bad if I'd encouraged you to rob a bank and you did. This is worse. Very sorry for that.

Yes, we don't many days to wait.

I've always been very skeptical of folks setting dates on such things. But I HAVE ALSO been expecting that there would arise prophetic giftings, voices which REALLY WOULD have the accurate messages from The Lord and even their timing statements would be proven true.

I don't know if this will be the case with this one. But it feels more likely than a lot of others I've read. We shall see.

I like to give folks the benefit of the doubt and wait and see what falls off the shelf as proven in real life.

I certainly expect to see many things OF THE SORT he has outlined.

Dimitru Duduman had more such things to say--especially about WWIII with China and Russia attacking. I'm beginning to think he was a lot more accurate than I've wanted to believe, too.

BTW, When you see God HIGH AND LIFTED UP . . . and see that you are but as grass . . . you will have a different appreciation about who is evil and who is Good. A different perspective tends to yield different awareness and understanding.

Pardon me Aslans...but who you are trusting here...or seemingly so...is an individual who claims to have had a prophetic revelation from God and you can not see inside this person's mind to ascertain the truth of their claim...I, myself, could claim a revelation and write just as eloquently...though I would not switch tense and confuse 'we' with 'I' in the same context. Surely you can appreciate the advice to watch out for 'false prophets'?

I think God Almighty will be doing His own warfare in our era.

The main part humans will play will be purely by prayer and enlisting angelic forces and Holy Spirit in God appointed ways.

I fully expect to see young children speaking and causing generals and their whole armies to be swallowed up by the earth.

The times are a changing.

Crusade is not the word for it. The world will see evil surfaced and flood the planet as never before. Then the world will see evil totally cleansed from the earth.

That's considerably more potent and more comprehensive than any crusade.

But it will be God and His angelic forces doing it. Even human believers will mostly be watchers and pray-ers.

Sorry, Tutu, I'm not seeing what you are seeing.

My take on the fellow is that he may be a non-native English speaker. I get the drift of his meaning and see no reason to pick at his grammar and wording. I am happy to give him grace about his wording as long as I can get the drift of what he heard from The Lord.

anyway--please spell out what you're talking about and I'll give a candid response.

LUB

Certainly one must watch out for the false.

But, the . . . human flaws evident in his writing speak more of authenticity to me. I'd be more wary if it were a polished piece. Just from my experience with a lot of prophetic and purported prophetic folks.

I don't know that I trust very emphatically much of anything in the piece except that it's a confirmation of stuff I've felt was coming down the pike in general terms, myself.

The specifics I hold loosely and wait and see what God confirms.

Folks can be wrong for a number of reasons.

1. Certainly one is that they are false prophets.

2. Another is that they are young and inexperienced in walking in their prophetic gifting and haven't had 40 years or more in the wilderness desert being purified so their hearing and speaking really is accurate per what God says and wants.

3. They had a bad day and somehow got their hearing screwed up or somehow selfishness or pride contributed noise on the channel. Maybe they weren't "prayed up" enough or walking a clean enough life or some such.

4. They may have heard right but they weren't aware of all the Chinese churches praying for that problem and that the intercessions of the Chinese changed God's hand in the matter. Jonah was angry with God because Ninaveh repented and God spared them making Jonah out to look foolish.

just imho, of course.

I believe you

And I don't know if this fellow has heard accurately on timing, or not.

But the rough outline seems accurate, to me.