Introduction
Angelic Visitation
Pillar Of Fire
The End Of The World
The Feathers
The Serpent And The Bear
The Hour Of The Resurrection
The Graveyard
Spiritual Translation

The Feathers

(November 16, 1979)

Brethren in the Lord, or whosoever may read this article, I hope it will be helpful and not offensive, for it is truthfully a God-given vision.

"The preparation of man's heart is from God." The Lord tells us this in the Holy Scriptures. No man can receive anything, save it be given him of God. Let him that hath an ear, hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches, and whosoever is able to receive it, let him receive it.

In seeking and searching for an answer concerning the things of God, I went into a night vision, and the Lord took me back to the place of my youth. He had shown me a vision in the past of setting a tent in this place. I spoke of it, and even though I was informed that I could not secure the property for a tent setting, I insisted that God would arrange it, and He did, thus fulfilling that vision. But, in this particular vision that I am about to relate to you, it was so different that, at the beginning, I did not understand.

I was all grown up as a man, standing at a place near the old home place where I had lived as a boy, in the area of Ensign Village. Directly across from the house in which we lived was the home of a close friend or playmate. His name was Stewart.

I noticed that in this house, there sat a young lady, who was sitting at a desk. Over to her left was a long line of feathers that seemed to step themselves upward, one at a time, each one just a little above the other. They were filed beautifully in order. The young lady was in charge of them, and they were very beautiful and colorful. When I asked the young woman to give me the feathers, she was very reluctant, and being hesitant in her response to my request, I insisted. Then, she acknowledged my desire for the feathers by answering and saying, "The brethren won't like this!" I replied, "I know that, but give them to me anyway!" She surrendered the feathers into my hands and I returned to the house across the street.

I went into the front room of the house, and there I spread out the feathers. I took the feathers and proceeded to put them together one by one. At last, it began to form the image of a beautiful eagle. As I made ready to put the finishing touch to the right tip of the outstretched wing which was before me, I became very excited. Having become activated with such joy and jubilance, I began to cry out with great satisfaction, "See, I told you I could do it! I told you I could do it!" One or two that stood by saw that I had accomplished the purpose that I had set forth to carry out.

After this, immediately I came out of the vision. I told the Lord that I did not understand. He spoke to me like this: "The place called 'Ensign', where the vision transpired, shows that I will lift up an ensign to the people. The playmate, whose name was Stewart, in whose house the feathers were found, meant that we are stewards of the mysteries of God. The young lady had to do with the church order. The feathers represented writings or quotes, well cataloged and properly placed together, as written by a quill; this thing having transpired near a place where a man by the name of Quick had recently parked his trailer, who, along with a man named Glosson, had contacted me concerning a meeting in Upson County, where my tent later was caught up in a whirlwind, while a brother named John watched from a little camper called 'The Eagle'."

The Lord made me to know in the vision that it had to do with the rapture. Glosson showing glorification, Quick, as Paul referred to it, as "in the moment", Upson, the word separated in syllable form, showing the son being caught up (the tent landed on a tree, the veil was rent in twain). The meeting was later carried on by setting up a tee-pee like tent with light poles set around, which was later referred to by the wife of our Spanish missionary as the way they hold marriages in South America. The tent, having formerly come from Canada, which had belonged to Brother Franklin Walden, held a great significance in that the lady in the vision appeared to be one which was associated with him in his literature outreach. Brother Walden at this time was going through a real crisis, which was a siege of death. He had passed many stones. The Lord had sent us to him to tell him that he would not die, but that he would live.

Brother Walden was doing a work in Canada, which so beautifully denotes a symbolic meaning of Canaan. His ministry was changing at this point from the teachings of three gods over to one God. A few of the things that are notable in this are: Canaan Land and the stones of witness in coming out of the wilderness and crossing Jordan (death), the name Walden indicating the building back of the walls at the coming of the Messiah.

These things so precisely following, step by step, after the vision, made it evident that something spiritual had taken place, for the brother was restored to health and has continued on in a great ministry; God choosing the foolish and abase things of the world to intellectually confound those who consider themselves to be wise.