The summer of 2001 started and what I had told them was going to happen didn't occur. Jesus said in Matthew 24 "when summer is near it is at the door" so I began to think maybe the door is about to be busted down anytime now. But I still could not relent from talking about the sudden disaster, it's coming, and then I was told: "If you don't stop talking about it, we don't want you coming to church here anymore." You are frightening people and some have even stopped coming because of it.

        I later realized that there are some cowards even in the churches.

         Revelations 21:8 tell us that the cowards will have their part in the lake        of fire along with the murderers and liars and idolaters and fornicators.

 It becomes clear that all those forms of behavior are choices.

You have a choice to be strong and courageous or you can choose

to be a coward. It is a clear choice, have faith or let fear rule in your life.

Fear has torment, but God has not given to us a spirit of fear,

but of power and of love and a sound mind. Perfect love casts out all fear.

Cowards are to be despised, for there is no place for them in God's kingdom. 

I said, “I’ve got news for you. I have never come to church because I thought that’s what you wanted me to do. I come to church because it’s what I want to do, and I still want to come, furthermore, I intend to continue to come as long as I want to.”

Shortly thereafter, one evening in July of 2001, the local sheriff’s patrol car pulled up to my house, and a deputy came to the door, and delivered a letter to me from the church. It said that the elders had all agreed that I was no longer a member of the church after 29 years—and the letter said for me not to go there anymore.

I thought, “This is a free country that was established by the shed blood of our founding forefathers to give us freedom of religion—to worship when and where we choose.”

And I decided to go to church that following Sunday morning. I felt strongly that if the day had come where people could be arrested simply for attending church, “Then let that day start here and now with me” I said.

THE PASTOR ORDERED ME TO LEAVE THE CHURCH

I arrived at church that Sunday, late during services; the singing just over. I sat down in a pew near the back row. In front of the whole congregation, the pastor said over the microphone to me, “Everett, we told you not to come. Now if you don’t leave, we’re going to call the police.”

I said, This the Lord's house, and He doesn't tell anyone that they can't come. But you do what you’ve got to do.”

The police were called, and the officer who arrived sat down next to me in a pew at the rear of the church. He said, “Everett, will you come outside and talk to me for a minute?”

“No,” I said. “I’m in the middle of a church service, and I don’t appreciate being disturbed right now. When church is over, I’d be happy to answer any questions you might have for the rest of the day.”

The deputy left, and a short while later he returned with the Chief of Police. Together, they asked me if I would go outside, and again I said, “Not right now, I’m practicing my freedom of religion.”

The pastor came down and stood by them, and asked them, “Aren’t you going to arrest him?”

They said, “No. He’s not doing anything wrong. So, we can’t arrest him.”

Then, the pastor said, “Well, I’m going to make a citizens arrest.”

“For what?” the officers said.

“For trespassing; I told him not to come in here, and he did anyway.”

And so the officers said, “Okay, Everett, stand up. You’re under arrest.” They put handcuffs on he, and took me to jail.

DEPUTIES THREW ME IN JAIL

After being fingerprinted and booked, deputies put me in a booking cell—the only one in the cold and clammy room. I lay down on a plastic mat, buried my head in my arm, covered up my eyes, and began to pray: “Lord, why are these things happening to me? I don't understand what is going on. Why am I here?”

It occurred to me, “You’re being charged with trespassing.” Immediately, the Lord’s Prayer came to mind.

“Father, forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.”

I thought, if I have trespassed against them, they certainly are not forgiving me, I then shuttered at the thought of their predicament, of their trespasses not being forgiven them.

Upon being released for $300 bail, I went home, prayerfully seeking the Lord about why these strange trials were coming upon me, I got my Bible out to read it. And upon opening it, that’s when I discovered the verse in Hosea 9:8, which says about the watchman: “Snares await him in all his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.”

All I wanted was to talk about what the Bible says at church, and for that I am handcuffed and taken to jail? You might expect that kind of reaction at a tavern or bar but church is supposed to be where you can talk about the Bible. That is finding hostility in the house of God. The cold hard fact is that the Lord God Almighty himself has without a doubt called me to be a watchman. Again,, strangely enough God's word contains information that is beyond co-incidence and appropriately applies to my situation in an astoundingly accurate and timely manner.

“THE WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL IS HARDENED AND OBSTINATE”

One day, I read to a friend of mine the verses about the Watchmen in Ezekiel 3 that says, “They’re not willing to listen to you, because they’re not willing to listen to me—for the whole house of Israel is hardened and obstinate.

“But I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are. I will make your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint.”

After I read that verse to my friend, he said, “The Lord must have known what he was doing, when he chose you—for you are the stubbornest and most hard-headed person I know.”

Over and over, the scriptures describe things that happen to me, and what has occurred in my life. I found myself daily telling people about what has happened to me, as far as slipping off of the roof and breaking my left arm and left leg—and then, telling them how I came home from the hospital, and opened the Bible to the verse in Ezekiel 4 that says, “As for you, lie down on your left side.”

As I began to tell them, I would unbutton and roll up the sleeve of my shirt, to show them the scars that remain on my arm from where the fractured and splintered bone came out and the holes made by the bolts from orthopedic surgery. I had been doing this repeatedly and one day as I was reading, I suddenly realized that Ezekiel 4:7 says, “With bared arm prophesy against them.”

I thought "Hey, that's exactly what I have been doing without even thinking about it, and here are the instructions telling the watchman to do just that!" 

I had just stepped up onto a newly installed colored metal roof when suddenly my foot slipped and down I fell. That is described in Deuteronomy 32:35 ...In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near; their doom rushes upon them. The preceding context: vs 20 & 29 say what their end will be; the four judgments of Ezekiel 14 sword-famine-plague-wild beasts are in verses 24 & 25; and consistent will end time judgment verse 32 has the link to Sodom and Gommorah. 

Finding in the scriptures verses that describe what I am already doing on a daily basis  has only continued to convince me even more so, that who I am is the watchman sent to this generation. So I remain compelled to warn of this impending disaster to all who will listen, for I cry at the thought of anyone's blood on my hands.

THE WORD OF THE LORD REMAINS IN MY HEART LIKE A BURNING FIRE

Every year since 1999, the Lord has revealed to me abundant evidence...signs of the coming end-time that marks the beginning of a new era.

In the process, predictions made by Jeremiah in the Old Testament have come true to me.

As Jeremiah stated, I’ve been ridiculed all day long, and everyone mocks me whenever I speak. Even so, just as he foretold, I cry out “claiming violence and destruction.”

So, conveying the Word of the Lord has brought me insult and reproach all day long. I cannot avoid mentioning Him, or speaking more in His name.

His Word is in my heart like a burning fire. I’m unable to hold these details within me for to do so would make me weary.

ENVISION WHAT IT HAS BEEN LIKE FOR ME TO BE RIDICULED

What has it been like for me to face ridicule and rejection?

Although well-liked throughout my community, when I enter a crowded room, people ignore me or walk away. They know what the main topic of my conversation is. I tell everyone about this coming day of destruction and they don't particularly care to hear about it. Even among groups of close friends, they will say to each other "please don't get him started".

People who used to say: “Hey, Everett! It’s good to see you, and how have you been doing,” now just look away.

Faced with such rejection, at times I’m guilty of failing to follow the Bible’s instructions for the watchman: “Let them refuse who refuse; let them listen who will listen.” Ezekiel says “whoever will refuse, let them refuse for they are a rebellious house.”

I’ve had a difficult time trying to be obedient to that particular scripture. Essentially, this means that if people don’t listen, in those instances I need to just give it up and walk away. Yet I have an overwhelming desire to find someone who cares to hear the truth. And there are some of those who do listen and tell me that they greatly appreciate the insight that I share with them. Some have taken action and began to acquire quantities of essential supplies.

REPENT AND LIVE

Here we can cherish the promise of a new world coming, like heaven on earth—as in the Lord’s Prayer, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, here on earth as it is in heaven.” This is a loving place enjoyed by those who are righteous. This is the way the meek shall inherit the earth, while souls of sinners die.

But since the Bible urges us to be righteous, how do we know what that is? The Holy Book continually defines this as avoiding of sins by paying attention to and keeping God's laws such as the 10 Commandments, while also loving our neighbors without reservation.

On numerous occasions in various chapters Ezekiel repeatedly warns us that the “soul who sins is the one who will die.” In 18:30, he warns us to “turn away from all your offenses; sin will not be your downfall.

“Rid yourself of the offenses you have committed. Get a new heart and a new spirit.” Driving the point home, the Lord says, “Why will you die, oh house of Israel, for I take no pleasure in the death of anyone—declares the sovereign Lord. Repent and live.”

 “THEY ASKED JESUS TO SHOW THEM A SIGN”

The last night of my trip to Washington, D.C., I awakened in my hotel room at 2 o’clock in the morning. There was an eerie stillness about the room. I thought it strange and suspected that the Lord had awakened me. So, I picked up the Bible and opened it to Matthew 16:2-4: They asked Jesus to show them a sign. He said, “When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy because the sky is red and overcast.’

“You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.”

Jesus then left them and went away. I thought about this present day and age, and today it is a wicked and adulterous generation. People I’ve talked to have said to me, “I have to see a sign.”   

 Jesus is saying that although they are looking for a sign at the time of the end, “no sign will be given to them”—except the sign of Jonah. We need to focus on that exception, because it is the only sign that they will be given. The they are the generation who this end time destruction comes on. So there is going to be a sign given to them after all. And it is the sign of Jonah. I began to think about what that could possibly mean.

Well, in construction the building codes also have exceptions and I do pay careful attention to them. Also many county ordinances like planning and zoning laws have numerous exceptions. I have had to pay careful attention to these exceptions.

I AM THE SIGN OF JONAH

So, I thought a great deal about Jonah. He was an ordinary man whom the Lord told to go preach to the capitol city of Nineveh because of its wickedness. Bear in mind that I am reading this while trying to warn our capitol city of Washington, D.C., and all the high ranking elected officials there as well.

But Jonah tried to run away, and he got aboard a ship—and a violent storm arose. The ship was threatened and the sailors were afraid. They found out that Jonah was responsible. So, he told them to throw him into the sea, and that it would become calm.

And when they threw him overboard, the raging sea became calm. All the sailors greatly feared the Lord, who provided a great fish to swallow Jonah. He was inside the fish for three days and three nights.

When he began to pray from inside the belly of a whale, the Lord commanded the fish to vomit Jonah onto dry land. It was then that Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord, and went to the very large city of Nineveh and preached to them—like he was supposed to from the beginning.

No doubt, Jonah’s three days in the belly of the whale altered his physical appearance. Some say his skin would have been bleached completely white by the stomach acid of the whale. At any rate, if a man comes to you and tells you that he just spent three days in the belly of a whale, and the only reason he’s standing before you is because God delivered him out of the belly of the whale—well, that’s a whale of a fish story.

COMPARE MY STORY TO JONAH’S

But the story I tell about all that has happened to me is no less strange than what happened to Jonah. And I bear scars that physically reflect the reality of my story. When I recount the series of strange things that have happened to me I’m convinced that I’m the sign of Jonah to today’s wicked and adulterous generation that is seeking signs.

No sign will be given to them except me. How else can I explain all these things that have happened to me? I returned to my hometown and summer passed by without the biblical disaster called the Day of the Lord.

I’m at a loss for an explanation to why we seem to have escaped the sudden end-time disaster in 2001. I began to re-read the history of Jamestown. And I discovered that it was in 1612 that they learned how to grow and cure tobacco. But tobacco is what saved the colony from becoming a wretched failure. 

Tobacco transformed the colony into a raging boomtown. Well, I immediately recognized tobacco as sin, for the Bible tells us: “The wages of sin is death.” And we know tobacco kills people. But sin is also described in another place, that “whatever you yield yourself to, that you will become enslaved by.”

Whoever yields to smoking becomes enslaved by one of the most powerful addictions known to man. It is said that heroin addiction is more easily broken than addiction to tobacco.

EZEKIEL WITNESSED MEN SMOKING TOBACCO PIPES

So, I began to add 390 years to 1612, and became convinced that it would happen the next year in 2002.  My conviction was re-inforced when I was re-reading in the Book of Ezekiel, and discovered scriptures that fit the description of tobacco. Ezekiel is told to go see the wicked, detestable things they are doing.

So, he went and looked, and he saw in a room 70 elders of the House of Israel. We’ve already been told they’ll be punished 390 days, a day for each year of their sins. Each one of them is holding in his hand a sensor.

How do you describe a sensor? It’s a small fireproof container, holding a smoldering substance. Out of it rises a wisp of smoke.  Ezekiel also sees a cloud of incense in the room rising above them. Tobacco smoking began with pipes, held in the hand while cigars and cigarettes came later.

A roomful of men smoking pipes will create a cloud of smoke in the air. I began to recognize the beginning of their sin, and it is tobacco..

 Add 390 to 1612 and you get 2002.  Isaiah 29:1 says add year to year, so now I am convinced of the need to continue to prepare for the next year and rejoice in the extension of time.

PIECES OF THE BIBLICAL PUZZLE FIT TOGETHER

I see each Bible verse like a piece of a puzzle, and I see one fitting into another one—in the same way that if you have the wrong piece of the puzzle, it may appear that it fits into an adjoining piece. But when the other puzzle pieces begin to fill in around it, it’ll become obvious that piece doesn’t belong there.

The Bible says we know in part, and I know the Lord has given me a large part, of what I see coming. It’s a cleansing on our land. I tell people that I know what is going to happen. I’m not a rocket scientist. I just read about it in God's Word..

In II Peter 2, it says, “The Lord condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and he made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly.”

At first, I had trouble with this verse. How can a city suffer nuclear devastation but only the ungodly suffer—exclusively?

Right after Jeremiah 6 reiterates terrible destruction from the north—(linking this to Ezekiel 7:5’s unique end-time coming disaster; and that being Ezekiel 1:4's immense fire cloud infolding itself and coming from the north)—he tells us that they planned to attack at noon. But alas, the daylight fades and the shadow grow long, indicating that they had trouble logistically getting everything into place on time. So, they make a last-minute change of plans and decide to make it an attack at night.

But it’s God’s mercy on the righteous that their intended plans are delayed. For the city is a crowded place at noon and the population is near peak levels as they first planned, the devastation and human casualties would be much greater. But because it happens in the middle of the night, when the typical city has the lowest level of population in a 24-hour cycle during the wee hours of the morning. There is a lingering element of society that continue to mill about, looking for drugs, sex, and other criminal activity and it is upon their heads this disaster will fall.

9/11 THE ATTACK ON AMERICA

On Sept. 11, 2001, I got up and went to work, and was unaware of what was taking place till I stopped at a convenience store to get a drink. The man I met coming out of the door of the store said, “I bow down before you.”

He was a friend who I had discussed at great length how convinced I was that we were facing the end-time disaster. I told him, “I don’t want anyone to bow down before me. What are you talking about?”

He said, “You were right. Haven’t you heard?”

“No,” I told him. “I haven’t heard anything.”

He then informed me.

I told him that this was not the Day of the Lord disaster that is coming. But I did recognize it to be like a contraction in the birth pain process. The Day of the Lord is coming, and it’ll be like the breaking of the water. When the water breaks the pains greatly increase. This is the actual beginning of the baby passing through the birth canal.

GENERALS REVEAL THE BEST TIME FOR AN ATTACK

But the Lord confirmed my understanding about this, later as I watched a couple of retired generals being interviewed on a talk show. They were asked, “When do you think the Bush administration will attack Iraq?”

By this time, officials had announced their plans to do so in advance. That didn’t seem particularly prudent, from my point of view to make an announcement that you’re coming to attack your enemy. But nevertheless, one general responded to the question by saying, “With today’s technology, and equipment, the best time for an attack is in the middle of the night—with our night vision goggles, we have the advantage.

“The cover of darkness keeps our enemies from seeing us coming,” the general said. “The darker it is the better, and the darkest nights are during the phase of the new moon.”

This is what the Bible is talking about. Another scripture that verifies what the Lord has shown me is in Genesis, Chapter 1. It says, “The Lord made the lights in the sky to separate the night from the day. God said, ‘Let there be light in the sky to separate the night from the day, and let them serve as SIGNS, and to mark seasons, and days, and years.’”

It’s easy to understand that the sun marks the day. And the seasons are caused by the tilt of the earth. We revolve around the sun once each year. But when it says, they serve as a signs it’s telling us that the sun and the moon both serve as indicators of timing references to when this end-time disaster will come.

ATTACK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

The scriptures are clear that this coming disaster doesn’t refer to the entire earth. The primary reasons:

1        SEASONS: Since the disaster is at the door as summer approaches, it can only happen only in one hemisphere—either the north half or the south half, because when it's summer in the United States, it’s winter in South America.

2        NIGHTTIME ATTACKS: As the earth turns on it's axis, no more than half is experiencing night time at the same time but nighttime is continuously moving.

One half times one half equals one fourth and that is why the four horsemen of Revelations chapter six are given power to kill by sword, famine, plague, and wild beasts over ONE FOURTH OF THE EARTH.

By continuing to seek out the specific descriptions pretaining to the "day of the Lord" you will become convinced exactly which ONE FOURTH OF THE EARTH is awaiting this destruction.

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