A Vision
of the Coming Days
by Paul Keith Davis
by Paul Keith Davis
On
July 31, 2008 while in Red Deer, Alberta Canada for a
conference, the Lord took me into a very interesting and
enlightening revelatory experience. It was approximately
3 o'clock in the afternoon after spending considerable
time in preparation for the evening service. My subject
was one that I had been diligently studying for several
months involving the Lord's admonition saying:
For
the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days
of Noah. For as in those days before the flood they were
eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,
until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did
not understand until the flood came and took them all
away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be. -Matthew
24:37-39
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The Lord spoke to me clearly saying, "It would
behoove you to understand as much as possible concerning
the days of Noah; what overcame Noah's day, your generation
must overcome."
As a result of that charge I
have been consumed with passion to fully understand Genesis
6 and its relationship to the days ahead.The Vision
While
sitting on the couch in my hotel room in Red Deer, I was
contemplating the biblical implications of Genesis 6 in relationship to our day when suddenly I went into a revelatory
encounter. I found myself in the Spirit standing in an
evangelistic crusade being conducted on a football field.
My first observation involved the people riveted to a
message that was being preached from a podium on the field.
I then clearly recognized the voice of the evangelist...
it was the great Billy Graham preaching the cross of Jesus
Christ as only he could.
I was
able to recognize the people's attire resembled that from
the 1960's. I could hear Dr. Graham presenting his anointed
message from the four spiritual laws as complete silence
filled the auditorium with the exception of his voice.
Then I could hear the song, "Just As I Am" being
played as hundreds responded to his invitation and began
quietly and orderly making their way to the alter.
Then
a Voice spoke in the vision saying, "What is coming
will not be like this!" With that statement I
knew the coming revival would clearly have a strong evangelistic
anointing like a heard from Dr. Graham, but also of a
different nature that facilitated a compelling demonstration
of the Spirit's power producing reverential awe and conviction
according to 1 Thessalonians 1: 5 saying:
For
our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also
in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction;
just as you know what kind of men we proved to be among
you for your sake.
The Second Vision
With
that statement I found myself standing in a large auditorium
with a considerable altar area filled with the sick and
afflicted on cots, gurneys and wheelchairs. To my amazement
the entire altar was filled with the sick on a scale I
have only seen in pictures from past revivals. To my right
I noticed a man lying on a cot whose bones were twisted
like pretzels. Further to the right another man was seated
in a wheelchair with his legs elevated and his feet curled
under by a hideous bone disease. Beside him a man was
lying on a gurney with a large tumor protruding from his
abdomen.
Only the power and authority of Christ could help this family.
I actually
felt encouragement from this scene derived from the faith
that permeated the atmosphere. These people were here
because of the expectation and anticipation of God's Presence
to heal and deliver. Suddenly with that realization, the
double doors of the sanctuary burst open and a family
of approximately ten people came through the doors escorting
what appeared to be a young teenage girl that was clearly
demonized. I watched as she was screaming, cursing and
throwing grown men around like rag dolls.
Then
one of the men in the family spoke with a very demanding
tone saying, "somebody had better be here that can
deal with this." With that statement I could sense
the family's desperation for God's intervention. They
had tried every other alternative possible with no success.
Only the power and authority of Christ could help this
family.
It required "Christ in me, the hope of glory."
As
the family made their way up the aisle I walked towards
them with the profound awareness that there was no time
to call for a host of intercessors nor was there time
to pray and fast. It was like a Mount Carmel showdown
between light and darkness requiring that we call upon
God's grace and manifest Presence resident in us to meet
this incredible need. I was immediately reminded of the
Lord's confrontation with the demoniac of Gadara. I was
also thoroughly convinced that a mere spiritual gift,
as wonderful as spiritual gifts may be, was not sufficient
to overcome this level of darkness. It required "Christ
in me, the hope of glory."
As
I walked towards the family my spiritual eyes were opened
in the experience and I could see an evil being occupying
this young girl that seemed to be approximately 12 feet
tall. It was then I remembered my study concerning Genesis
6 and the Lord's admonition that the day of His coming
would be just as it was in the days of Noah. I knew that
I was dealing with a being in the spiritual realm that
had its origin in Genesis 6. What overcame Noah's day
in the natural, we must overcome in the Spirit!
Suddenly,
a realm of authority rose up within me that I knew transcended
present understanding of spiritual authority. Out of my
mouth the words "be gone," proceeded with great
power and authority. As quickly as the words were spoken
the spirit left the young girl. Of course, I realize this
was a teaching experience to illustrate the authority
we must aspire to and demonstrate in this generation to
meet the great demands and level of darkness that will
define the final days before the Lord's return. It is
the realm of Christ's authority that the Bride must come
to know in fullness in order to gather the great harvest.
As
soon as the evil being left the young girl, the entire
family came under the spirit of conviction and gave their
lives to the Lord. Then I heard the Voice speaking again
saying, "What has previously been relegated to
India and Africa is coming to America and somebody had
better get authority with Me and in a hurry."
I knew
that I had seen a spiritual confrontation that is commonplace
with ministry in Africa and India. Some form of restraining
force has been removed from our country that has sheltered
us from this realm and dimension of spiritual darkness
on a broad basis. It has been seen in isolated areas and
circumstance but not as widespread as we are about to
witness. We must prepare now to meet this incredible challenge.
This level of hostile opposition will require the Lord's
Bride to enter a level of maturity belonging to "the
fullness of Christ" and absolute demonstration of
the Lord's victory over death, hell and the grave. The
apostle Paul admonished us saying:
And
He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some
as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for
the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to
the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain
to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the
Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the
stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
-Ephesians 4:11-13
I believe with that admonition we will also see greater
expressions of the spirit of revival that will be of a
different nature than outpourings of the past.
We have
been ardently contending for mantels of revelation and
power that were demonstrated in prior generations to be
mingled with the fresh and unprecedented. Even though
the Lord promised Joshua that He would be with him as
He was with Moses, the ministry of Joshua had little resemblance
to that of Moses. Likewise, though we may carry the same
spirit of revelation and power that rested upon prior
champions, the model of ministry will be considerably
different.
Interestingly,
shortly after this experience Wanda and I had the privilege
of ministering in a conference alongside Heidi Baker.
I took the opportunity to convey this revelation to her
and asked her to share some of the confrontations with
deep realms of darkness that she has personally experienced
as a missionary in Mozambique, Africa. Without a moments
hesitation she recounted several encounters with evil
beings and people given over to them that most Christians
in the West couldn't fathom nor are prepared to deal with.
Clearly the Bible foretells this as part of the last day's
ministry. The book of Revelations outlines a period of
time in which the enemy is cast down to the Earth with
great wrath and anger. Likewise, at that time a voice
will be heard in Heaven with a promise to the Lord's people
that:
Now
the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God
and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser
of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them
before our God day and night. And they overcame him because
of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their
testimony, and they did not love their life even when
faced with death. -Revelations 12:10-11
This
confrontation is imminent. Since I have been bringing
this message we have already noticed numerous accounts
in the US media of darkness and spiritual violence that
is staggering to the imagination. The prophet clearly
admonished us saying:
Arise,
shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD
has risen upon you. For behold, darkness will cover the
earth and deep darkness the peoples; but the LORD will
rise upon you and His glory will appear upon you. Nations
will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of
your rising. -Isaiah 60:1-3
February
26-28, 2009, WhiteDove Ministries hosted one of our most
outstanding conferences in recent memory. Our guests Chuck
Pierce and Steven Shelley brought incredibly prophetic
and relevant messages, not only for the Tucson region
but also for this present time in church history.
On
the final day of our conference I was pleasantly surprised
by a guest who the Lord sent to be a part of our last
service. His name is Buford Dowell from Phoenix Arizona.
I heard his name mentioned during the Lakeland revival
and remembered the mention of a prophecy but knew little
else. It was a great pleasure getting to know brother
Dowell and hearing his experiences with some of the great
healing revivalist of the prior generation.
Most
interestingly, he shared with me a conversation that he
had with William Branham in June of 1965. Buford Dowell
had played the organ for Bro. Branham in a healing meeting
in Phoenix and asked Buford to join him for lunch that
afternoon. What transpired resulted in a fantastic prophecy
that I wholeheartedly believe. The following is an edited
transcript of Buford Dowell sharing in our conference
his testimony and the encounter with William Branham in
June of 1965.
Paul Keith Davis
Tucson, AZ February 28, 2009 PM
We
currently have "Joshua's and Caleb's" in our
midst; people that saw things with their own eyes in the
prior generation. I like to look someone in the eye when
they share a testimony or tell a story of the miraculous;
I want to watch their eyes, and I want to hear their voice.
I want to know what they saw is truth; you can discern
it. A Christian can discern truth from error. So I shared
all of that to just set the stage. I am not going to speak
tonight; but I want to share an unexpected blessing I
received today.
I met
a man by the name of Buford Dowell this afternoon. I had
heard his name before, and I had heard that he had a prophecy
involving William Branham. I found out today, I didn't
know this, but in 1965 in this very room he played the
organ for William Branham's meetings.
Isn't
it amazing that God would send him here for us tonight?
A Joshua or a Caleb, I don't know which, it doesn't really
matter. Both of them went in and obtained the inheritance.
He
was telling me about a day when he had lunch with William
Branham. And Brother Branham prophesied to him pretty
much what you and I are about to move into in our generation.
So
I asked Brother Buford, if he wouldn't mind sharing that
testimony. Would you like to hear it? Yes. Please welcome
Buford Dowell!
Buford
Dowell -- "Would somebody repeat after me
my favorite Scripture."
"For this purpose the Son of God was being manifest,
that he might destroy the works of the devil."
Guess
who He is going to use to do it? William Branham isn't
here. I still feel him here. Maybe he's part of that cloud
of witnesses, looking in on us. That is something bigger
than me.
He's
not here. A. A. Allen is not here. His son, Paul Allen
is sitting on the front row...I love him to death. We've
grown up together. Between him and me, and a couple of
seats over, Paul Hammond, we've been all over the world
and preached in more tents than Carter's got liver pills.
We've
seen the good, the bad and the ugly. I like the good a
whole lot better. If Brother Branham was here, if Brother
Allen was here or Jack Coe, who laid his giant hands on
my little bitty hands when I was around 13 and prayed
a big fancy prayer. Said, "Jesus, teach Buford how
to play the organ. Amen." Went and sat down.
And
I thought in my heart at the time, "Lord, he could
have prayed a little longer." But then all of a sudden
I remembered like it was yesterday, those are the same
hands that I saw reach up and take that cancer on that
lady's face and pull it off. I almost fainted when I saw
that. There was nothing left but a pink dot.
And
I thought, that's the same hands that took that man, whose
back was all hunch-backed. He looked like the hunchback
of Notre Dame.
Bro.
Coe was a big man, and he put his knee on his back, and
pulled back on his shoulders and screamed, "Jesus."
Then the man went out screaming, and I knew he'd killed
him. I knew he was hurt or wounded. I was sitting by the
organ. I couldn't play the organ then. I was sitting by
the organ, dreaming.
Anybody
got a dream in this place? Don't quit dreaming. God will
have somebody to lay their hands on you, you will wake
up the next day and your dream will become true.
I sat
up there and almost fainted when Jack Coe pulled back
on that man's shoulders. The man let out a scream that
I misinterpreted. And I began to have a suspicion he was
hurt. And the man took off running around the building.
And when he came back, his back was as straight as mine
is, because he was healed.
And
then it hit me, "I'm going to play the organ."
You see, that was important to me, because I had taken
three weeks of piano lessons, and a little 16-year-old
concert piano concerto pianist who played like Liberace
tried to teach me. And the third week he gave me my second
false prophecy. He grabbed the music book, threw it on
the floor and said, "You'll never play anything but
the radio." Well, that was good for my confidence.
Well,
I turned my radio on, Ten years of age at the time; I
turned my radio on and listened to A. A. Allen on the
radio. I listened to Jack Coe, and some other preachers.
I got saved every time. My God, they'd preach it, I could
hardly stand it. I could almost smell the smoke.
If
the walls of this building could talk they would testify
of the miraculous that occurred in this room when I played
the organ for William Branham in 1965. I also played for
him in Phoenix at the Ramada Inn; and if those walls could
talk.
I'm
going to tell you what he told me just a few months before
the Lord took him home. Today as I was leaving Phoenix
to come down here, I took an associate to the airport
and I had to drive down Van Beuren in Phoenix. Some of
you know where it's at.
And
I saw the place where there used to be an old cafeteria.
And on the last Sunday afternoon of the crusade in Phoenix
in 1965, Brother Branham walked over to the organ after
the service and he said, "Son, would you like to
go for lunch with me?"
I had
seen him many times in different places, and was privileged
to be with him on occasion. But that was a joy, and my
heart almost jumped out of my chest. "Oh yes, Brother
Branham I'd love to have lunch." I was 19 years of
age at the time.
I got
off the organ. We went and got into his car. It wasn't
a fancy Cadillac limousines like some of these preachers
have to have today. May God love them. (I'll leave that
alone.) But anyway, we got in his car and we drove over
to this little cafeteria.
When
we got out of the car he said, "Come here, I want
to show you something." Gets the key to the trunk,
and he opens it up, and to my shock he's got a gun case
in there. It was a hunting rifle. It was a 30/30 Winchester.
He took it out and handed it to me, "The Winchester
Company just mailed this to me," he said. It had
his name engraved in gold on the bottom, "Brother
William Branham."
I felt
like I was almost tucked into the Ark of the Covenant.
I didn't know how to shoot it, but I knew it was special.
I knew he liked to go deer hunting once in a while. I
had some minister friends who liked to go hunting with
him.
I said,
"Brother Branham, I heard about those times that
you would like to go hunting. Brother so-and-so and Brother
so-and-so went with you." He confirmed that was true.
Anyway,
we went on in the restaurant. And here's what I'm supposed
to be telling. We went on in the restaurant, got our
food, and we sat down. I'm ashamed to say this, but can
I just tell it like it was. I'm just going to tell the
truth.
- I had in my mind back then that if Brother Branham hired me for an advance man, why I could really help him have big crusades or so I thought. Now, of course, that was my carnal brain. I had helped a few preachers put some ads in the paper, and I had thought I had the answers for the preachers' advertisements
But
Brother Branham, he was sitting there and I said, "Brother
Branham, you know you're only in your 50's. (Actually Bro. Branham would have been 56 years
old) You've got plenty of energy. If you just had
the right promotion you could have the biggest crusades
you've ever had."
That
wasn't really what I wanted to hear, but how do you tell
William Branham something you didn't want to hear. He
was speaking for God, and I was listening with my old
carnal brain. I said, "What do you mean, Brother
Branham?"
He
said, "Well, you see, God's through with me."
And I almost fell off my seat. I said, "What
do you mean about that? You've got plenty of years left?"
He
said, "Well my season has come to a close."
He went on to explain how he had been part of a great
season of healing revivals; He mentioned all the Voice
of Healing preachers, many of them. He mentioned Brother
Allen and others. He had been in some of my father's meetings,
and he was kind to mention that. Dad had a great Holy
Ghost anointing.
Dad
and my mother could get more people through the baptism
than Elvis Presley could get in his concert. Sometimes
1500 people could get the baptism, because they had a
love to see people get the Holy Ghost.
We
need a fresh infilling and baptism into the Holy Spirit.
I'm not just talking about tongues, that's wonderful;
We're going to have to learn to walk in the Spirit to
get the job done in this hour.
Brother
Branham said, "I've been in this season where we
laid hands on people one at a time, and we saw blind eyes
open, cancers disappear, the lame walk. And oh, it was
wonderful."
But
he said, "I am about to leave you because God is
done with me but another season is coming; And this season
is going to be teaching and revelation of the Word of
Jesus Christ; who we are in Him, and who He is in us."
Not just Jesus hanging on the cross. That's wonderful.
But religion will leave Him on the cross.
Brother
Branham went on to emphasize, "It's about Jesus in
us, and us in Him." And he said, "This teaching
season will go for a while, and then it will come to a
close. And God is going to take every move of God in history,
and even what we witnessed, and what we saw in Bible days,
and put it all together in one great Holy Ghost bomb and
drop it on Planet Earth, and the nations will rock and
reel with the power of God, like we've never seen.
On
Prime Time News, not the late night talk/gab shows, not
the preachers; the Prime Time News will show the dead
being raised, and limbs created, and eyes being put back
in eye sockets, arms stretching out. And preachers won't
lay their hands on them like we did; they will simply
speak the word and blindness will leave.
There'll
be so many people, no auditorium, no church; no arena
will hold the people. And no tent. He said, "They'll
even stand in an open field. It's going to happen in America.
Brother Branham said, "God is going to bring the
ministry of the apostles and the prophets to the forefront.
"
How
many of you can remember when you never heard the word
"apostle or prophet" in your churches? All we
heard was pastors and teachers, evangelists, because they'd
been pushed in the background.
Jesus
said. (I didn't say it, William Branham didn't say it)
"Jesus said that His Church would be founded on the
foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Jesus Christ
the Head." The fivefold ministry functioning in the
Body of Christ!
God's
bringing them forth, into the forefront. But Branham said
to me, "They will have the mind of God, and the heart
of God, and the Voice of God. And when they speak, their
words will become the Words of God." They won't say
what man says. They won't say what denominations say or
tradition or any of that. They will speak as the oracle
of God. And they won't just speak about the future. Anybody
that reads the Bible can do that. You don't even have
to have the Holy Ghost to talk about the future.
We've
got a lot of people running around calling themselves
prophets. But simply calling yourself a prophet doesn't
necessarily make you a prophet. When this group emerges,
they will speak as the oracle of God, whatever they say;
God will create it because it will be His time, His will
and His Word. And it won't be about the ministers, it
will be about Him.
If
I learned anything, traveling with these precious men
of God from the past whom I love very much and could tell
countless testimonies of miracles and deliverance, but
the greatest miracle of all is the miracle of millions
of people coming to Jesus.
I got
to sit right here in this room and play the organ in 1965
and watched them come to Jesus. I saw people come and
get saved. I could see the conviction of God on them;
the Holy Ghost changed their lives right in front of me.
One
time in Bro. Allen's meeting, I got off the organ and
I told the associate, "I've got to go pray."
Went to my room and I stayed in my room for three days,
got saved all over again; because people were getting
more than I was getting. I sat on the organ so long, I
had backslid. I'm just being honest with you.
The
greatest place to lose your walk with God is sitting in
the church somewhere, with your mind tied up and tangled
up in religion and stuff, and all these do's and don'ts.
But if you want to know Jesus, He is here.
Oral
Roberts laid his hands on my hands when I was ten years
old. I had no idea what he was doing. He said, "Jesus,
bless this boy. Let him take Your healing power to the
nations."
I didn't
want to go nowhere. I was comfortable at home. I had my
bicycle and Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, black and white TV
set. What else could a boy want?
God
put the desire in my heart to sit on that organ. I saw
the power of God so much in those crusades till I couldn't
sit there. I'd go to the hotel and motel, and I'd dream
at night, and I'd be preaching and praying for the sick
in my dreams.
Finally,
I took $8000.00. That's all I had. Went to Nassau, Bahamas
and rented a ball park. Put money on advertising. Shipped
a little half pint organ, a little Spinet; Put a microphone
on it so they could hear it. 9-thousand people showed
up. And I didn't know what to do with them.
I just
played the organ and sang and testified. And when I ran
out, I started all over again. And they got to singing,
praising God with me. And in a few nights the crowd was
getting bigger. When it was raining, they wouldn't go
home. I was soaking wet, so were they. But we just kept
having church.
Anyway,
to make a long story short, I wound up going all over
the world in missionary crusades, because somebody took
the time to bless me and say, "Let him take your
healing power to the nations.
I believe
God's going to do it. I believe God's going to do it.
Here's the bottom line. "All of it, past, present,
future is not about men. They're just men. It's all about
Jesus."
When
Brother Allen went to be with the Lord, I raced across
America to get there in time for the funeral at Miracle
Valley. And I didn't make it. I got somewhere down there,
and I missed the funeral. And I was weeping and I said,
"God, I didn't want to miss that funeral. He was
such a blessing to me." And God said, "It wasn't
about him, it was about My deposit that I put in him."
He said, "Son, you can have the same."
T.
L. Osborne said, "William Branham was raised up to
show the Body of Christ that we can do what Jesus did."
It wasn't just about his message, it was all about Jesus.
You can lay your hands on the sick and God will heal them.
God
spoke to me on the way to this service. God said, "I'm
tired of you just praying for people to be healed. Pray
for them that they'd open their heart and let Me move
in, and bring My healing with Me. And it'll flow through
them to somebody else that's sick, and it will flow through
that person to somebody else that's sick. From Paul it
will flow through to another person.
Paul
Keith Davis. "If you believe that, say, "That's
nothing but the truth. Nothing but the Truth. I believe
it.
You
can look into his eye. Do you believe it? That man, this
brother, was with William Branham only to promote his
ministry. Brother Branham said, "That's not going
to happen. My life is coming to an end."
He
told me over here earlier today, "That was six months
before Brother Branham died in 1965." Just before
William Branham left he said, "Something is coming."
It's
about a Body of people, walking with God, becoming the
habitation of Him. It's not just about miracles, but it's
about God in us. We are about to encounter great realms
of darkness. If we don't get that level of the Lord in
us, we're not going to be able to meet the needs of our
generation. That's it.
He
said, "Every mantle, every anointing, every commissioning
that has existed will be dumped into our day." And
we've been through this qualification process. It's not
about how much we have done or what we have performed,
but instead it's about how emptied are you. "How
much have you pulled back your breastbone to allow God
to extract the tares of our soul.
I couldn't
have preached a message any better than what he just preached.
I want this man of God to release into us what he has
seen and carried and begin to walk it. We're going
to pray for you still, but I want this to be released.
And we're going to pray for him. Would you do that?
Buford
Dowell -If you went to the doctor and he examined
you, and he gives you a prescription, most of you would
go to the drug store and get the prescription.
Well
I've got a Holy Ghost prescription. There's a book laying
back there. Have you got them with you? "The Price
of God's Miracle Working Power." Perhaps one
of the most powerful books A. A. Allen wrote.
If
you've got it, you can give it. I've got healing power
in my hands, just like this brother. Jack Coe laid his
hands on me and God taught me how to play the organ. Now
everybody's not going to be an organist here, but if you've
got a desire, the Lord will give you a gift, a talent.
Maybe it's to play the piano, the guitar, or sing, or
write poetry, or just a gift.
I want
to impart the spirit of gifts. The Bible said, "Every
good and perfect gift comes from the Lord." I don't
play the organ because I was born with talent, I couldn't
even play the radio without getting stuck.
A man
of God imparted that anointing into my hands, and I started
doing what I couldn't do before within four weeks. I was
playing in Dallas at his church. And within two months
I was playing before 10-20-thousand people in worship.
And I didn't even know but how to play but two keys.
We're
going to pray. And it's not because of how great we are,
but because of how great He is. And I pray to God that
you'll never look at another national evangelist on TV
without seeing Jesus. If you don't see Jesus, you've missed
it. If you see all the sizzle and all the glamor and the
gold and whatever, you missed what God wants you to see.
PRAYER
Father,
on Your Word. Brother Branham preached this Word and You
confirmed it with signs and wonders and miracles. And
T. L. Osborne was sitting in the audience and never had
a miracle. And he went home and said "God, if You
can do it for that humble man, You can do it for me."
And
he got on a plane; he and Daisy went to India. And that
was the beginning of one of the greatest evangelistic
ministries this planet ever saw. Father if you can do
it for them, you can do it again; and You've given me
something, and I'm giving you all the honor.
Now
in Jesus' Name, these men join with me, and we transfer
our anointing. We transfer our gifting into this congregation.
If you'll open your heart right now, Jesus will walk right
into it and bring everything that you want with Him. Hallelujah.
Open
up, open up, open up in Jesus Name. Come on in, Lord Jesus.
Say it again. Come on in. Bring everything I need to do
the work. Your life will never be the same. Amen