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[Pastor Clendennen speaking:]

For many years, in the church I pastored, we had an all-night prayer meeting the last Friday night of every month. One such Friday night, out of four-hundred members, there were forty-one of us present.

As I was praying, I heard this Word from the Lord:

“You are looking at the Rapture from this church.”

That Word got my attention. You are preaching to four-hundred people on a Sunday. You’ve got forty people in a prayer meeting, and God says these forty people represent the Rapture!

I stopped short, and in my heart I said, “Do you mean if You came tonight this is all that would go?”

God said, “I mean, that if I cannot call a man to a prayer meeting, I could never call him to the Rapture.”

[End of Pastor Clendennen experience.]

According to a message that was preached at Times Square Church by David Wilkerson and recorded in his newsletter of February 18, 2008, Only the Bride of Jesus Christ will go in the Rapture. All other Christians will be left behind.

David Wilkerson continues in his message as recorded in his newsletter in the third column on the last page:

“Let me ask you again: Are you ready?

Excerpted from: The Rapture by Rudolph C. Schafer

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