Murderous Pirates Stealing Money
I then saw a dream of being on a beach and the young people were honoring us for our exploits. Then I saw money float ashore attached to a life preserver but when I looked closer it was not ‘rescue money,’ it was money being driven ashore by demonic murderous pirates who had just murdered the real owners they hijacked. I saw these demonic pirates walking proudly on the water surface in a line, coming our way quickly. There were maybe five or six of these large beings side by side. They were marching with great strides very purposefully, swaggering, swinging their arms as they walked, like proud bullies, coming on the surface of the water in my direction. They were murderers—demonic principalities obviously—and this was their money that they just stole.
I turned to flee.
My ‘vehicle’ was parked and facing the ocean and I needed to leave as fast as I could. So I ‘shrunk’ my vehicle (my ministry obviously shrunk when I left) and turned it around, ready to leave. But they were already ashore so I hid and watched the pirates as they sat around a campfire dividing up the money. But then a man walked up not appreciating the danger of taking money from murderous pirates and he asked to join them! “I want a share,” he said. He looked like one of the two new elders, the businessman’s ministry leader, a guy from Singapore, who voted to embark on TLC2.
The pirates said, knowingly and with a sinister joy, “OK, we’ll give you insurance.” Which I’m sure you can interpret yourselves.
Upon seeing this and confirming my suspicions I fled carefully and my vehicle, which was like a camper van / caravan before now seemed to turn into a boat and I drove away and then into a bay behind the beach and boated out into a clear, open area where I was safe but alone and I stopped, waiting for directions about what I should do next. [End]
Finally I saw a dream of pastor Mike riding a bicycle and he crashed so badly it was just too painful to watch—he was really injured and I didn’t want to look or make it worse by drawing attention to it, so I quietly kept riding my own bicycle past him, then—WATCH OUT!—there was a HUGE hole in the street! I had my own pitfalls to avoid! Don’t judge!! I then came to the main road with lots of car traffic and I merged with the traffic but I was still on a bicycle but it was going downhill so I could keep pace. I turned into the small village store and looked in my bag. I wanted TWO FISH (provision) but I only had one (but it was enough). [End]
When in real life pastor Mike’s ‘crash’ actually came to pass it was so horrendous, the real life consequences were so bad, so awful, and what happened—I just don’t want to talk about out of respect and compassion for his family. I also had my own dangers to avoid; how I can judge? I can’t. As a prophet, I am privy to a lot of secrets, but I am still human, just a messenger.
Another vision I saw was a circus tent and I asked God what it meant and He said he would, “End the carnival in a day.” But added, “You will miss some of the fun!” How to explain that? We had an all-night prayer once and to keep people awake it was a night of activities and coffee and well, some games and just anything to keep our fleshly bodies awake. We ended at dawn and served people fancy crêpes with berries from the coffee bar, which incidentally was run by the ‘Coffee Pastor.’ What’s the carnival? He said the way they ran this overnight prayer, for example.
Later I was at someone’s house for a prayer meeting and the husband of Eunice, who teaches at a theological seminary, just turned on me and began to berate me directly about being a false prophet. “It’s a Wonderful Life” was playing on the TV in the background, and I saw over his head a structure of many wooded beams, man’s ideas, false concepts of God, etc. I saw that some had gotten onto his wife, Eunice, the lead prophetic voice in our community—and when he started to attack me I told him what I saw over him and he shut up. I think it was the power of the anointing that made him stop. Then I saw a vision of him coming to discover there are so many people walking in the power of the Kingdom he never imagined. He must have felt all this ‘spiritual stuff’ was for a fringe element, childish pursuits, silly ideas … but it included his wife! Getting ready to leave we prayed for each other and I prayed with one of the other ‘prophetic voices,’ a law professor who now lives in Canada, and she shared the same word God gave her that moment about “the circus being stopped.” So I stopped her, why did you say that? She said she saw a circus, a carnival that God needed to put an end to! And so I pressed her, Why is it if I share a word that God will “End the carnival in a day—and you’ll even miss some of the fun,” that there’s something wrong with me and I’m a false prophet—but God told you the exact same word, and now it’s true?!! She just stared at the wall.
This is actually exactly what Jeremiah complained about—he warned the people for 23 years but they just wouldn’t listen! It’s what God told Ezekiel, that to the people he was just like a singer with a beautiful voice—they came to hear him prophecy but never did what he said to do. It’s what James said, that people deceive themselves being hearers but not doers of his word. Is there anything new under the sun?
Then I also saw a vision of a Saw and he said, “I will cut off their expectations.’ Then he said, they would seek him but he would hide himself from them. But I won’t include all the visions and words from other people at this time confirming what God was telling me. There is just too much to share.
The Tree of Life is Sinking
I also dreamed that the Tree of Life was a sinking ship, actually two sinking ships (probably the original Tree of Life Center and TLC2). I was in the old office as it was sinking, and there were four men still in it, one looked like the elder John M. but everyone else had already left and gone to the larger ship which I could see out the window. It looked like, you guessed it, the Titanic, and it was already sinking as well.
I was looking for things to salvage in the old office but couldn’t find anything of value. Out the window I could see the other larger new ship already sinking, and knew my wife was there with my daughter but they were only there to get off—they were not in danger. Like they were not a part of the main crowd. But before I left I asked the men about the sinking office and they said they knew it was sinking but wanted to stay anyway! I felt an urgency to leave or risk drowning myself but before I did I told them, knowing they would soon die, “Listen, the only way to get to heaven is through Jesus,” and I gave them a kind of non-standard sinners’ prayer to pray so when they died they might actually get saved. Then I said, “OK, bye!” and left.
A Friend’s Word: The Tree of Life is Sinking
Then a friend had a dream of the Tree of Life as a sinking ship as well although I didn’t tell her my vision until after she shared. Her ‘word’ is a combination of insights, visions and impressions and is not clear, but has so much confirmation that I want to mention it. She hears a lot about ‘man’s plans,’ etc. She shared:
“The paint is faded, chipped, and dried out. The boat does not appear to have been taken care of properly. I hear “not well oiled” and “cups not kept full of the anointing oil” and “ship not dedicated to Christ before launching” and “man’s plans belong in the garbage cans” … etc.
And another friend, Adrian Bell, had the same word, but also he would not share it. I asked him why not, and why did he agree with them moving to TLC2 in Imperial Theatre if he knows it’s wrong? And he said, It is God’s will to punish them; if that’s what they need, then so be it. He agreed with their plan he said knowing it was their chastisement!
Other Voices Share Confirmation Words
And I was not the only one to have such dreams and visions, but my record was the most complete and maybe I had the most revelations since I took it so seriously. The confirmation from other people didn’t really help my confidence—I was hearing God so often and in such detail that I did not need any reassurance from anyone—but it did help other people to listen to my words if I shared if they already saw something similar, and it was nice to hear people talking about these things so I didn’t feel so alone.
As the Lord had told me, “Many opportunities have passed them right by,” since they would not listen to the Lord’s direction, they were not positioning themselves to catch his blessings or be ready to act on his words—but now their disobedience was getting more and more serious! For example, one friend had several visions in a row, I think 10 or 12, and it was about the same issues. Only she saw money being handled in a way by one of the pastors, taking a share of the money and putting it in a secret bag under his desk, and the Lord called it ‘illegitimate’—
In fact I recall one service when that pastor was being the emcee and started to introduce the speaker and stopped because he forgot something and actually said, “Oh! I almost forgot the most important part of the service—the collection!”
Someone had another vision and there was a knock at the door to his office and when the pastor opened it demons flooded into his office. Another vision was where the other pastor, Henry, was playing golf but slipped into the water trap and suddenly got into a ‘battle’ he ‘miscalculated’ and almost died (which later actually happened). Another friend had a dream of Pastor Mike sitting in a throne that was being controlled and polluted by green demons, unclean spirits. So much confirmation, if you had ears to hear it that is.
But I became aware and very concerned that they just wouldn’t listen to anything I shared or the Lord speaking through me at all. So I prayed in earnest that if I was the problem, that they didn’t respect me or would not listen to me personally, then would the Lord please send people who they WOULD listen to, at which Jackie Pullinger came and did a big series of sermons, and then Alan Hood from IHOP came and they both gave the same kind of direction in their messages, but there was no change. Esteban Antonio the prophet and guitar player even came, who is someone I consider a real prophet, and also Maurice Sklar the violin player who used to work with Benn Hinn, who is another authentic prophet I am so blessed to have met. But nothing came of it.
Shooting Bears in a Boat
I shared a few words over that time as I was asked to by the Lord but now I compiled about 40 of these words in one document to give to Eunice, the former elder and lead intercessor, but who by now was busy with other ministry projects in town. I had a dream of her holding the right weapon to stop the demonic forces that were in the church (seen as bears in a small boat hugging the pastor) but she chose consciously not to fight them (‘They comfort the pastor so I won’t kill them,’ she said in the vision). So I, also in the vision, sought a weapon for myself but could only get a target rifle but I shot that bear in the face again and again and again but it only angered him—I could not kill them with this target practice rifle. I needed a real weapon. I went to find one but could not. Eunice had the weapon I needed but no, she wouldn’t use it herself and the bears took over.
I shared this vision with Eunice, but didn’t tell her it was her in the vision, and I asked her, what I should do? “Pray for that woman to wake up!” she said. A few days later I emailed and said casually, that maybe the lady in the vision was her? What did she think? She wrote back to confirm that yes, she knew it was her. But there was no change and soon there was a point of no return when God stopped warning and just gave advice on how to leave and what would happen next.
Three Final Words
So I’m trying to share over three or four years of words in a way that can be understood. I’m grouping things by theme where I can and trying to weave others into a meaningful narrative, but it was a long time as this unfolded slowly and there are many dozens of words on topic, and hundreds more personal words that I just can’t share now. But honestly it began to wear me down. I was learning so much from the Lord and training people and trying to look forward with hope to the future despite the hardships we continually endured, but looking around at the blatant stubbornness, pride, carnal thinking around me and so often so poorly disguised, well, it was obviously upsetting to me. And God said, he understood me being upset but that it was better that I said three words from His Spirit of Power than to complain at length about what I see that is wrong.
After another year of dealing with this, this is what He finally said, three words …
By this time I had been producing the monthly HKI Journal of prophecy for three years, wow, so much revelation and learning. That means I had probably read over 15,000 pages of personal prophecy over that time! I also had been given the wonderful book 40 Days in Heaven to republish which is the testimony of a man who went to heaven for 40 days and returned only long enough to give his testimony! We gave away many HUNDREDS of copies for free and at our expense despite our financial hardships! What a blessing!
As Jesus asked me to, we had started the training and equipping ministry, calling it Prayer Mountain, as he also asked, and we were training scores of people, ministering to dozens a week in spiritual deliverance, healing, inner healing and revelation. I was the Lord’s equipper! Jesus told me! The ministry with the Filipino ladies was solid and they were all walking in weekly open communication with the Holy Spirit and helping so many people in so many deep ways each week.
So of course, we were already teaching people about Communion and I had already written a book on it as well! We printed 2,000 copies and gave away many hundreds of copies of that as well. (And I was preparing to write the main teaching collection of revelations I call Foundations of the Kingdom, which the short book Communion was based on one chapter from.) I still had uncounted thousands of copies of the comic Silver in a warehouse I was still renting and was just sitting on the other magazines waiting for the opportunity to revive them as God had so emphatically asked me to do, once I found people to help me.
Wow, those teachings were such huge blessings to share with people. And he was already beginning to talk about his huge plans for the Philippines, but at this time he was still not openly sharing very much with me on that topic.
I mentioned it was also during this time he showed me the revelation of the Mind of Christ! Wow! It’s not prophecy, it’s not even Communion, it’s when our mind and Jesus’ mind are ONE and we are not told things, we think his thoughts in our own shared mind. Incredible!
Finally, Communion and even the Mind of Christ were only two of a set of nine or 10 revelations the Lord gave me about the reformation of the modern church. God showed me these separate ideas were all linked when he revealed his interpretation of Isaiah 61 to me and it simply blew my mind—as he knew it would—changing the very way I understand the nature, purpose and methods of ministry, Christianity and our callings to serve Him and his Body! Those Keys make up the set of revelations I call the Foundations of the Kingdom. That is serious revelation, meat for the sincere straight from the mouth of the Lord Jesus Christ for his end time church!
When Jesus explained Isaiah 61 to me line by line I said, ‘This is the model of your ministry!” Jesus said “No, this is the model of your new life.” I write on that a lot and the full articles on my website, and later in chapter 20 here as well.
… all this revelation came at a huge personal cost, as he said it would. But I had already paid the price to catch it, and was now sharing it freely. This was truly the Revelation of the Knowledge of the Kingdom. So wouldn’t you think this would be valuable to share? Valuable to know and teach your people? Major international ministries are built on far less!
Finally in October after Jesus told me he knew I was upset but it was better to speak three words of power than to just complain about everything I saw that bothered me, he gave me these three final words:
“They’d rather have you leave, and take with you what I have given you …” All the things God was giving me! So much divine treasure! And they valued none of it. Good, you say, don’t cast your pearls before swine kind of thing. Sure, but just think of it … They’d rather have me leave and take it all with me than what? Than just repent of their sin, idolatry and Man’s ways and serve the Lord rightly? What justification could they possible give to defend such a decision? We needed more confirmation? We needed more time?
Then I was in the stairwell up by the offices during service that was so messed up, polluted and mixed with the spirit of the world that I could not stand to attend it anymore. I was up in the hallway by the interior staircase that linked the offices and the worship hall and in the Spirit I heard the cries of many suffering people, people who needed the ministry of the Holy Spirit to ease the pain and suffering in their broken hearts, for healing, for deliverance, for understanding … but the Tree of Life music suddenly got so loud that it drown out the cries and moaning of the suffering of the people … someone had opened the door to the stairwell during the closing music set and the cries of the people could no longer be heard because of the music … then I saw pastor Mike walking up the stairs followed by a Korean boy who often came to our Filipino ministry for fellowship and healing. He was mentally unstable because of the demons from his drug use and he had a lot of family stress as well. He needed real help but it was time for the public service not personal ministry! Mike walked by me followed by the boy who seemed like he wanted something from him and the Lord said with such exasperation in his voice, “What have I made them FOR? … it is to COVER these people,” and the Lord motioned to sweep over the people with a shepherd’s robe to cover the people to protect and comfort them … but they were too busy preserving their ministry ‘DNA’ and ‘doing church’ and performing their excellent music to rake in their huge collections to help the very people they existed to serve.
I leaned my head against the wall, exhausted and despairing, and said in their defense, “But God, they are just people …” But as soon as I said this, my spirit bore immediate witness in the Holy Spirit—I mean my spirit somehow spoke up to join the voice of the Holy Spirit in unison as a confirming voice to finish my own sentence, They are just people … “who know the Will of the Lord.”
I resigned my volunteer position as a ministry leader, much to the relief of probably everyone, and when I turned in my key to the ministry storage locker, I walked across town and never realized there is so much open sky in Hong Kong! I was shocked! It was like I was walking outdoors for the first time! BLUE skies, WHITE clouds! I never felt so much freedom! I actually started singing out loud as I walked the ten or so blocks to Union Church where I was attending a Bible study that night, and walking somewhere by Alexander House or Prince’s Building I suddenly could discern something I never knew. The spirit of the Tree of Life Church was the spirit of a business. I suddenly could smell it, feel it—what word do you use for describing spiritual discernment? Whatever the word is, I was sensing this but it was clear and tangible like a taste I could hold onto and savor. The Tree of Life Church spirit was the exact same spiritual covering as an ordinary business, like this bank, like those shops, like these offices. Ha, what was the first sermon I heard there? “Let go of Saul, there’s a David right in front of you!”—indeed! But like Saul they preferred he leave and take with him all that God had given him!
Reflections
Afterwards, by the time the dust settled, I laid out most of the words God spoke to me about that church over that four year season in a pamphlet … but I had no one to give it to!
I kept that for a long time and shared it with only one or two prophetic people after I left who were intercessors and ought to know what God had said over that community. Later I revised the booklet since the season was really over and I added the other words I heard into a larger booklet of about 70 words, more for posterity than anything else. I never before shared most of what God was showing me. I may have told a few people who I felt needed to know or were in a position to do something about it, or when God told me to, but I felt strongly that I was not to just broadcast these things across facebook for everyone to read!
I look back now and I think if I had been more public and tried a ‘name and shame’ tactic it might have been more effective. But first, God knew I wouldn’t do that, so what he gave me was given to me knowing what I would do with it; second, in the visions I had I was not told to do that. I just shared the word of God that exposed situations, consequences and gave people warning about their ways when God told me to.
I don’t really think it would have made much of a difference how I handled it actually. Would they repent from their hearts if all this was made public? I honestly don’t think so. They would just have made their attacks on me more public as well. The problem was not between me and them, but between them and the Holy Spirit.
Maybe these things were just to teach me, strengthen me and help me know how to pray? Maybe it was just all an academic exercise?
But no, I don’t think so. God wanted and intended for them to repent and even said so. Their church, He told me, did not have to fail. This was not just a classroom exercise!
But I still felt a fair amount of guilt that nothing I did bore any fruit. The Tree of Life did not have to fail, the Lord said plainly. But it failed, and on my watch. So yes, I know it’s not my fault, but it still weights on me like a colossal failure. Someone will say, just because they didn’t repent does not mean there is no fruit. Yes, that’s true, but still not the fruit I wanted.
I also never had a vision about them changing and making things right. I think I came into the situation late, but God says no, there was still time for them to repent and avoid those awful consequences. Most of what I saw was pretty dire, but yet He was still calling to them to change their ways while it was still time to repent. There was still time to change.
In the end I made sure the people I was sent to knew very clearly what God was saying, and in such a way that they could respond in their own personal space and I would not embarrass them. It’s what a professional would do. I respected them and figured this was the right way to act. Would Christ do it that way? Or Paul? Would Elijah? Maybe I had the wrong tack? But they can’t fault me for my genuine respect despite saying I was just ambitious and rebellious and just trying to take over their church—a disgruntled liar. In truth I treated them in the way I wanted to be treated. So they had ample instruction and warning—and this was truly coming from the Lord, God—but they still simply chose their own way.
After it was over and I was leaving, God did say their church did not have to fail, but also … that they would know a prophet was among them.
Passing the Torch Their church was given an Asian-wide calling to be a torch-bearer and lead change across the region. They were called to train, equip people to minister in the power of the Kingdom and flow in the power of the Holy Spirit, and also to support many other small churches and pastors and other ministers all over Asia, a calling that has since been passed to a different church, one that actually took over their former premises.
