DAYS OF HEAVEN!                   DO 395            11/75

         1. (WE WERE PRAYING ABOUT ONE OF OUR GIRLS who wrote a letter to her former lover as though she wanted to leave us & go back to him. We were almost asleep when the answer came:)
         2. IT'S A LOVE FOR SODOM, A LOVE FOR THE FLESH. She's looking back, like Lot's wife, & she's going to have to go back to get it knocked out of her. What a chance she had, & she still wants the other! The Lord was unusually merciful to her & gave her a chance to escape. But that whole letter was a cry for Sodom: "I want to go back!"
         3. THE LORD DELIVERED HER, BUT NOW SHE WANTS TO GO BACK. When did she receive that letter from him? The way to a woman's heart is through her ears, & he knows how to play the tune!--That's all it took. It didn't take much encouragement.--Obviously the slightest little bit of attention & she just really flipped. She's going to be treated the way she treated others, as you reap what you sow, & it's probably going to be by her idol.
         4. THAT LETTER SHOWED HER TRUE COLOURS, & the fact that she was willing to reveal them to us shows how she feels & that she's not ashamed to say so. The Lord last night was giving her the Nth degree of His Love & patience, even preferring her above all the others, so if she wrote that letter today, I'm amazed!--'Cause I've really stuck out my neck for her & the Lord really did a miracle to keep her from being sent away the first time--& again the second time, & now this is the THIRD time!
         5. SHE'S GOT TO GO TO GET IT OUT OF HER SYSTEM.--Especially if she's living with a dream & not reality. I remember how it used to be when I got away from Eve: I was dreamy & optimistic & forgetting how she was now & longing for the old times. But it didn't take long to cure me after I got home. She'll get cured, but it may be too late.
         6. SHE STILL IS OBVIOUSLY MADLY IN LOVE WITH HIM & dreams of the day of getting back to him, bragging about his baby when she ought to be ashamed. This must be why the Lord never gave her mine. She'll never be satisfied unless she has a chance to get back to him. The Lord gave her a chance to escape. The Scripture I got for her woke me up, & I was praying, "Lord, what is the matter with her?"
         7. I SAW A PICTURE OF LOT'S WIFE LOOKING BACK. God gave her a chance to escape the fleshpots of Sodom, but she's still looking back & she still wants him. I think you will have to approach her. The first question I would ask would be, "Would you like to go back to him & take his baby?"--And see what she says.
         8. SHE'LL PROBABLY STALL, & if she doesn't give a clear concise answer it shows she's thinking about it. Just tell her, "After reading your letter to him, Dad thinks you want to go back to him & you're still madly in love with him & will never be satisfied until you have a chance to live with him." The first Scripture I got when I asked, "Lord, what's the matter with me that I'm so upset & furious about it?" was:
         9. "I WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME"!--Exo.20:3. I represent God & His Service to her, as close to God as she can get. But she wants Sodom, so that's what she's going to get. Because she's looking back, she's unworthy of me. Having put her hand to my plow & then looked nostalgically backward, she's unworthy of me.
         10. SHE WANTS TO GO BACK, THEREFORE SHE'S GOT TO GO BACK. Anybody that WANTS to go back always HAS to go back.
         11. O MY LORD!--WHAT A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY! What opportunities God gives people, & then they turn around & slap Him in the face! That letter to him stung! She might as well have slapped me in the face!
         12. I'M NOT GOING TO HAVE HER IN MY HOUSE enjoying all these privileges & at the same time writing love letters to someone else! If she wants him & wants to go back to him, then let her go.
         13. SHE PUT HER HAND TO MY PLOW & LOOKED BACK, so she's not worthy of me. God gave her a chance to escape, but she looked back. That letter doesn't show that she's thankful that God delivered her & she's thankful she doesn't HAVE to go with him. She doesn't say, "I'm so glad God delivered me from you with your fleshiness & carnality & stubbornness & disobedience, & gave me a place in the temple, in the house of the King to serve the Lord!"
         14. THAT LETTER SAYS, "I WANT TO GO BACK! I love the fleshpots & carnality of Egypt!" What it says is, "I'm sorry to be here & I'm looking forward to the day when I can be with you." That letter tells exactly what she wants & that's exactly what she's going to get!
         15. BUT GOD WOULDN'T STAND FOR IT. He rejected backsliders & turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt & she died there in the land of Sodom 'cause that's where she wanted to be. I'm sure as it was happening she was probably sorry, but that was too late because she showed her real choice & real preference & what her real decision was by looking back.
         16. (PROPHECY:) "SHE SHALL REMEMBER THE GOOD DAYS & THE FORMER TIMES & she shall long for those days, but she shall not have them, & she shall look back to that which was but is no more because of her iniquity."
         17. "BUT THE LORD SHALL NOT RESTORE THE FORMER THINGS because of the evil desires of her heart to return to that which was, rather than that which was to be. For the Lord shall give her the desires of her heart but He shall send great leanness to her soul (Psa.106:15) even in a time of plenty." (Tongues:)
         18. "BEHOLD, I SEE A DAY AFAR OFF WITH GREAT CLOUDS & STORMS arising in which thou shalt rue the day that thou didst leave the house of thy father to lie with thy lover, & thou shalt desire the former things. Thou shalt repent thyself of thy iniquity thou hast committed against him in thy heart.
         19. "THOU SHALT LONG FOR THAT WHICH WAS BUT CAN BE NO MORE in the days of thy distress when thou shalt call upon Me, & I shall hear thee & answer thee & spare thee when thou shalt cry unto Me. I shall hear thy cry & I shall spare thee for thy former mercy, & thou shalt reap the good that thou didst sow whilst thou art suffering the evil.
         20. "THEY SHALL BE AS A DREAM UNTO THEE THAT IS NO MORE but is gone from thee forever for thy faithlessness & thy fleshly desire, which thou shalt have & which shall be fulfilled, & thou shalt eat of it until it becometh ashes in thy mouth & clay within thy fingers until thou shalt loathe it & hate it in thy sorrow.
         21. "THUS SHALL I BE WITH ALL THEM THAT TURN BACK, for My soul abhorreth them that turn back & look back upon that which was & desireth the former things which shall be no more, but they shall be ashes & clay.
         22. "EVEN AS LOT'S WIFE, EVEN SO SHALT THOU BE BURIED in the salt of the tombs & shall come no more unto Me according to thy heart's desire & leanness of thy soul. Thou shalt seek these days but thou shalt not find them because of thy desire for his iniquity.
         23. "FOR THOU HAST FORSAKEN THY FATHER'S HOUSE IN THINE HEART, thou art already with thy lover in thy dreams, so ye shall have him according unto the Word which is spoken unto thee according to the desire of thy heart which shall be given thee in this day. And thou shalt no more see my face, for thou hast forsaken me in thy heart & loved another, which thou shalt have according to the desire of thy heart & the yearning of thy flesh & thy iniquity.
         24. "AND IT SHALL BE PARCHED & VERY DRY & not as the days which the Lord would have given unto thee hadst thou been faithful. And yet thou shalt have a little light in the midst of thy darkness because of thy repentance in that day, but thou shalt seek them & thou shalt not find them.
         25. "THE DAYS OF YORE SHALL BE NO MORE, those happy days which thou didst despise in thine heart & seek after another, which thou shalt have but not hold because of thy faithlessness unto Me & thy departure from Me. So shall he depart from thee & from thine as thou didst depart from me & from mine. Even so be it done unto thee as thou hast desired & as thou hast done unto me in thine iniquity.
         26. "BEHOLD THE DAYS OF JOY & MERRIMENT which thou hast forsaken for the shadows that are past & shall be no more but are as a dream in the night in the evil thoughts of thine heart, which thou desirest but shall no longer be, but are gone forever, even as he shall sicken of thee & tire of thy children & shall depart from thee even as thou hast departed from me for another.
         27. "BEHOLD & SEE THE WORD OF THE LORD SHALL BE FULFILLED IN THEE, & pray thou for His mercy & for those thou hast left behind in the stubbornness of thine heart & the lustfulness of thy iniquity in the day when thou didst despise thy birthright & thine inheritance in the house of the King & desired rather not the place of a daughter but of an handmaiden & a servant with the servants in the field. So shalt thou have even as thy soul desireth him whom thy heart longeth after in thy lust for thy shame. (Jesus, O Jesus!)
         28. "OH, HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS TO DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD & to enjoy the pleasures of His chambers forever! Kiss thou the Words & the voice of thy father David while they are nigh unto thee. Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, hearken unto His voice while it is nigh unto thee, 'ere the evil days come when thou shalt hear it no more.
         29. "LOOK, & BEHOLD THOU THESE DAYS OF HEAVEN UPON EARTH & be thankful 'ere they perish & shall be no more.--And the love which thou seest there!--You see it?--There?--And the brightness of the sunshine? Seest thou the love of thy father & of his children which shall be gone in the days of darkness that lie ahead?
         30. "O BELOVED!--CANST THOU NOT SEE? Hast thou not heard all that I have spoken unto thee, & yet thou hast not understood nor been thankful? But thou shalt be thankful for these days after they are gone from thee when thou shalt look back upon them as the days of Heaven upon Earth.
         31. "SO REMEMBER NOW THY CREATOR IN THE DAYS OF THY YOUTH, 'ere the evil days come when thou shalt say, `I have no pleasure in them'--Ecc.12:1. Rejoice now in the days of rejoicing. The time cometh in the days of thy lamentations..."
         32. OH, IT'S SO BRIGHT! IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL! O God, my eyes to behold Thy glory & my heart to receive Thy beauty & my body to know Thy Truth & my soul to feel Thy Love forever & ever & ever! In Jesus' Name, amen. TYJ! Lover of my soul! He's the lover of my soul! He will not let me go! Hallelujah!
         33. "SO LIFT UP THINE EYES & RAISE UP THINE HEART & CLING TO THY FAITH & thou shalt live forever with me in My Father's House in which there are many mansions.--Jn.14:2.
         34. "Look! Behold the beauty of the Lord in the days of eternal sunshine & the breath of everlasting Spring & the glories of the flowers of life that shall be forever!" Hallelujah! TYJ! "Look not back, for the former things shall be no more. But look up, for thy redemption draweth nigh that shall be forever & forever & forever & forever & forever." Amen.
         35. "OH THAT YOU WOULD HEAR THE WORDS OF THE LORD as streams that never run dry, that thine ears should be filled with their flowing, & thy heart should be ever nigh!"
         36. Oh yes, all she'll have is the shadow of the past. Just the shadows. That's all she'll have left. (David cries:)
         37. THE DAYS WERE SO PRETTY when she was here. But now they're all gone 'cause she wants something else, somebody else far far away. They were so pretty! The sun was so bright, the flowers were so colourful, the grass was so green! I don't know if they'll ever be so pretty any more.
         38. Those days are gone forever, they won't ever come back again. We cannot bring them back, ever.--They're so beautiful it makes me cry, 'cause soon they'll just be a memory!--These days of Heaven on Earth!

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