As I awakened, a voice said to me, "We met a Man from the other side who told us many things about the kingdom."
I cried, "Mankind has then no excuse for unbelief. You came from heaven to tell us about the other side. O Lord, forgive my feet of clay!"
" The voice responded, "Don't I know about your weaknesses? I formed those feet did I not? I look down from heaven on my created children and I understand. My heart is grieved at their unbelief in Me, but I know they are children of dust and I remember their frame. My desire is that they know many things about My kingdom, and I came to tell them so.
"My hand lies heavily over them as I reach down in love in a new way to try once again to cause them to believe. I am getting ready to release to them a mighty show of my hand as I perform miracles, signs and wonders among them. Tell them, my child, of my love for each of them and that I am coming soon. Tell them to prepare their hearts and minds for the restoration of my kingdom in them. They are a chosen generation, a generation I chose before the beginning of time. Nothing will stand in the way as I begin to make myself known. Lo, I am coming soon.
"The fields are already white with harvest and I will reap what I have sown. Is not the Lord of the harvest able to reap my own harvest? I will have my own people, a people who will love and worship Me, a people who have come through the fire of testing and have emerged as pure gold. Have no fear, I will uphold and guide them. Have I not created them? Is not the Creator of the world able to care for his own? I understand the weaknesses of the human heart and the folly of its ways, but how I love each one of my created children and yearn to remove them before my wrath is poured out on the sins of mankind who will not admit I came from the other side to tell them of eternal things.
"I lived among mankind as one of them. I ate and drank; I became weary as one of them. I even died for them, and rose again on the third day to tell them of my power over death. I prepared the Holy Scriptures over many centuries by many writers to show them I am one God manifested in three ways as Father, Son, and Spirit. I have explained it well, but my children close the covers of the scriptures determined to find their own way without Me. They refuse to listen to my still small voice telling them to repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand, and their Bridegroom cometh. They will not prepare for my coming, but I am not finished with them yet.
"I will show my hand of mercy and love in the days ahead in such a way that all who love Me will no more have excuse for unbelief. My angels are coming over the hills with their good news and rejoicing as I seek to restore my ways among my people. Tell them to fear not, I will not leave my own but will show my hand in an outpouring of my Spirit never before seen by man.
" Do not be deceived. Many will come in my name posing as one from the other side, but you will know them by their lack of fruits of goodness and righteousness. The devil has his own counterfeits for all my gifts; test the spirits as the Book says so that you can discern my miracles from the devil's miracles. He is a deceiver and a liar, and I am Truth itself. I am Light and he is darkness. What resemblance has light to darkness? Be not deceived, neither be afraid.
"I am still in control of my world and will not leave my own comfortless, but will cover them with my wings of love and mercy as a mother eagle protects her own.
"He who abideth in the secret places of the Most High need not fear while his gaze is fixed on Me, the Man from the other side."
I replied, "Lord, I believe; help thou my unbelief" (Mark 9:24).
© 1999, Doreen Palmer