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The Staff and Sword Ministry
December 15, 2009
ADDENDUM THE CLIFF SITUATION (continued) Then one brother in North Carolina telephoned me and told me something that I inwardly knew was true but again, did not want to accept it. While we (Cliff and I) were in North Carolina speaking to a group, this one brother told me that when I spoke he saw the Light of Christ coming from me but that when Cliff spoke he saw only darkness covering him. I remembered it because I had an inner witness that it was true and at the same time I refused to believe it. Cliff and I had been through a lot together, I considered him to be a best friend as well as a fellow prophet. After we gave the Lord's Word and revelations of coming judgment we endured a virtual storm of false accusations and personal attacks that were stinging and difficult to bear. Then on a trip to San Diego in early 1979 while praying to prepare for a meeting Father GOD spoke to me and said, "CLIFF HAS BECOME MY ENEMY." I was stunned to the point of tears and did not know how to react or what to do. I then received a communication from Cliff about a month later in which he plainly told me that he was been working behind my back to undermine the ministry and to discredit me in any way he could. I had assumed that we both had authority in Christ but Cliff then told me something that was bewildering. He went to the Lord and said something like this, "If I have this power, then bring 30 tornadoes east of the Mississippi that destroys many places and kills 500 people. If that happens I will stay in the Ministry, if not then I do not have this authority and will quit. " He had set a date for this plague of tornadoes and it came and passed with no tornadoes, so he sent me a communication of what he had done and with it his resignation from the ministry. Later I learned that some Ministers had approached Cliff privately and offered him a respectable position in the church if he did this. They told him that they'd keep this a secret between each other and believed that I'd follow and resign as well. Cliff later told me that they were "snakes in the grass" In that Cliff has written a denial, saying that there was no truth to what was written as they went nationwide and broadcast his resignation and views that the Ministry was all made-up. They'd betrayed his confidence and the last thing Cliff told me (the last time I saw him in 1979) was this: They won 't believe God 's Word until a Russian bayonet is sticking in their throats."