We write from England having only recently heard of your father going home to be with the Lord. May the wonderful hope we have comfort you all, that we will all be together again soon. What a day that will be.
Your father's prophetic writings that pointed us beyond Pentecost in the Lord's plan to bring forth His Kingdom in those sons who would walk by the Spirit was, for us, most timely. When Clayt sent out copies of 'Beyond Pentecost' in late 1992 it brought us answers and insight to what we found were unfolding in our midst as that very next year began. The Lord was telling us that He was beginning to separate the Harlot and the Bride, a word which within days saw what man had taken out of the Holy Spirits hands was indeed beginning to separate and crumble.
Your father's insight, obtained by his own experiences of the previous forty plus years, made sense of what God was having to do to bring forth His church, led by His Spirit with Jesus as its Head; to the reality of Tabernacles.
Your father and mother visited us in our home that year and we spent a little time with them in Minnesota some time afterwards.
The understanding the Lord had been unfolding to us here I wrote in a little booklet entitled 'Who Is Leading The Church?' Your father asked for and distributed copies to all his mailing list. We found ourselves walking alongside your wonderful parents in bringing forth understanding of what God was going to do in bringing His church, His body, to maturity.
Since then we have realised that Pentecost is over yet still we wait for the promised final feast whist the trumpet is already sounding that only those with ears to hear seem to hear or recognise.
The plan of God for His church is already two thousand years in its unfolding, part of His bigger plan that stretches from Genesis to the end of Revelation. Your father has played an essential part in this, testifying as he has despite much spiritual opposition, to the move of God that began in 1948 but which became a river that became more and more polluted the wider it became. The lessons your father learned and shared as to the reasons for this, its inevitability, but its final victory we will always be indebted to him for. Hopefully, by God's grace, we can carry on the banner.
Your father often spoke that there were many who were called, many chosen, but we needed to be faithful. Your father was of this latter band. He glorified the Lord Jesus through His life and we thank God for him with all our hearts.
With much love in Jesus to you all. Our prayers are with you all
Colin Winfield
UK.
