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It has been a very special time since I last
wrote to you, especially because of two WhiteDove Ministries
conferences entitled "Revelations of the Open
Book" that have taken place in Frederick, Maryland,
and Tucson, Arizona, both of which Pastor Shelley spoke
at.
In this
update, I would like to share two divine
experiences that Pastor Shelley had in Frederick, but I
must start with a related experience he had last August.
Here are excerpts from his sharing of these events in Alabama
last month on February 24th.
Angels that Prepare the Bride for the
Open Book - 1st
Encounter
I went to bed one night in August here at my house
and had a dream. I was getting up the next morning to fly to
Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, to preach at a
conference.
In my dream, I was laying in
the bed and an angel came to me. The
angel said to me two very important things. But then my young
daughter, Olivia, woke me up by crying out in her sleep
from her bedroom, "The door is open. Can I go
through,
Daddy?" In
the morning, I could not remember what the angel had
said.
And I was so bombed out, just
really over-reacting inside to the fact that I couldn’t
remember. I even told
the Lord while I was getting dressed, “I am a poor steward of
revelation. God, have mercy on me and forgive me and help me
and restore my brain cells. What is wrong with me that
You would send to me an angel in a dream, give me revelation and tell
me that it was significant, and then I can’t
remember?”
And so all the way
to the airport I’m thinking about that. And when I get to the
airport, Paul Keith Davis and JoAnn McFatter are on the plane
as I go on. And I don’t
have an upgrade, so I don’t get to talk to them.
And all the way on
the airplane to Salt Lake City, I’m saying, “Lord, please help me to
remember. It’s
significant. I know it
may be for this meeting.”
But I couldn’t remember what it was
about.
We get to Salt
Lake City, get off the plane, start down the moving sidewalk, and
Paul Keith said, “Steven, what kind of revelation did you
get last night? And did
you see an angel, and what did he
say?”
And I was just
beat up. I could have
just crawled on the floor.
And I said, “Yes, I saw an angel and he told me two
significant things. But
I cannot remember what they are.” And I said, “Would
you please pray that God will help me recover this
information?”
He said, “Of course I
will.”
And I said, “By
the way, how did you know?”
He said, “I’ll tell you how.
I got up at four-something this morning.” That's because he
had to fly out of Pensacola.
And he said, “Wanda was standing over me like this with a pen
and a paper. And her
first words were, ‘I know you’ve had a
visitation because you were talking, and I want to know what it
was. Right now
we’ve got to write it
down.'”
And he said,
“Wanda, Wanda, give me a
minute. I’ve got to
have coffee. I’ve got to get woken up."
She said, “No, we
can’t wait because I saw in an experience in the night that
an angel was giving Steven Shelley a communication
device. The angel in this experience
called him by name."
And she said,
“I was told that he was receiving a visitation and you were
receiving a visitation at the same time. So what is
yours?”
 And he said, “Well, I was taken
to the valley looking up to Mount Hermon. I saw the heavens opened,
and I saw angels coming
down.”
And he said,
“There was a group of people that were going. There were two ways to
go and I knew in my
heart that most of the people were going the wrong way. And we were trying to get them on
the right
path."
Now, how many of you understand
that according to some Jewish sources it was on Mount Hermon that
these angels came down that cohabitated with the sons of
men? So Paul Keith had
been given the message on the days of
Noah.
This was a significant experience
because God was saying that in the same manner that angels were
released, or angels came down, to do things that they should not do,
to empower with wickedness and evil knowledge, and so forth, that
God was going to release angels to come down for the purpose
of redeeming and doing the right thing, and that a right
path was made. But people were missing it and
going in another
direction.
So I said, “Well,
that’s very wonderful, but I don’t know what I saw. But please
pray.”
After we got to Red Deer, I went
down to the service that had already
started. Peter Nash was preaching, and there
was a wonderful anointing.
But I just couldn’t sit long.
I just couldn’t be comfortable. I went back to the
room, met them for dinner a few minutes later and came back to the room for
the night.
And I got
down, opened my Bible and laid it on the
floor. And I didn’t
even open it with a marker or to anything particular. I just opened my
Bible wherever it opened up, and I laid my face in it. And I began to weep, really
weep.
And I was just
telling the Lord how sorry I was and how awful I felt. Normally, I don’t take
things quite so hard, but I said again, “I’ve been a terrible steward
of the revelation that You gave me. Lord, please have
mercy and help me and restore it and let me remember it.” I
was praying all this kind of
stuff.
And when I got
through, my tears had really filled up my Bible. And I raised my head up off
the Bible before I got up. And the first
thing my eyes fell on was Daniel
2:5.
(Daniel 2:5) “The king answered and said
to the Chaldeans, the thing is gone from me. If you will not make known
unto me the dream with the interpretation thereof, ye shall
be cut in pieces and your houses shall be made a
dunghill."
And I thought,
“What in the world? Why
would I come to a verse like that?” So I started reading the
entirety of Daniel, Chapter 2.
And remember, the king had a dream, but he forgot the
dream. And he was
trying to get Daniel and them to give him the dream and the
interpretation.
And they said to
him, “Hey, that’s not the way it works. You tell us the dream and
we’ll give you the interpretation.” And three times he told
them, “You don’t understand.
I don’t know the
dream.”
And I said,
“Lord, is that little verse a whisper of encouragement to me
that You’re going to give me my dream back?” And I felt perfect
peace.
I went to sleep, slept several
hours and started dreaming.
And God took me back to the night before. I was not in the hotel in
Red Deer. I dreamed
that I was in my bed in Salem,
Alabama.
And the angel came in the
dream just like he had the night before. And he said two things to
me. Amazingly enough, in my dream I even heard my daughter,
Olivia, say, "The door is
open. Can I go through,
Daddy?"
The first thing he said was
"A plumbline is now in the
hands of
Zerubabbel."
That’s a pretty
powerful Word for where we are right now, with God releasing such a
plumbline
revelation.
And then I
said, “Who are
you?”
And he said,
“I am one of those that has been sent to
prepare a people to receive the Open Book.” He paused, and then he said,
“And to eat
it.”
And so when God
gave me that, I released it in Red Deer and God did some amazing
things.
Angels that Prepare the Bride for the Open Book
- 2nd Encounter
When Pastor Shelley
and his wife went to the conference in Frederick, Maryland, they
were taken to a beautiful room in a nice hotel. Each side
of the bed was self-adjusting, but Pastor Shelley was having trouble
finding the controls for his side so he reached over to turn the
light on.
When
I pressed the button on the lamp, it sounded like a
shotgun.
It didn’t sound just like a light bulb
bursting. It sounded like a shotgun had shot
out. It sounded so
loud, I almost came out of my
skin.
And there
was a blue light that shot across the room. That’s the truth. It knocked off the
power, and everything became dark.
They finally got the
ladies at the desk to look at the situation, but they were
unable to find the problem. They said the maintenance man
would have to look at it in the morning. So they were given
another room for the night.
The next morning,
the maintenance man gets the breaker flipped and comes in. He goes over to the
lamp. And that’s all it
was. I blew a
breaker.
He goes over to
the lamp and takes the bulb out. He said, “This bulb
isn’t even blown. That’s the oddest thing I’ve ever
seen. You said that it popped?”
I said, “It
sure did. And it was a
blue light come flying out of there." He said, “But the bulb
doesn’t even looked
blown."
He sat down on the bed
and said, “I need prayer.”
He said, “Two nights ago, the night
watchman on this desk down at the hotel was at home. He wasn’t working,
and he committed suicide.
He left five children
behind."
And I’m thinking,
“What kind of spirits have been loosed over this hotel now because
of that and because of what he’d been going through?” So I prayed for the man and
then I started cleansing the
hotel.
Anyway, God had a purpose for it. I know the angel
that came to visit me must have known where I
was. And
surely I didn’t have to change rooms for this purpose. But we got down to the other
room and went to sleep pretty
quick.
And at 2:27 in the morning, I woke
up. I had the air
conditioner way, way down so that it would make noise and we could
sleep a little better. And at 2:27, the compressor kicked
on. And I woke
up.
I’m no longer asleep. I looked over and saw the
clock. I looked over in
the corner where the air conditioner is blowing. And standing by
the air conditioner is an
angel.
And I’m wide
awake, with open eyes.
I’m not asleep.
And I see with open eyes an angel standing
there. And I
raise up in the bed, and I just start getting up, almost like I’m
going to get out of the bed.
And he looks right
at me. And what he said
touched me so. He said,
“I’ve been waiting on you to wake
up.”
Now that just really touched me down
deep.
And later I
thought about it, and I thought, “I hope he’ll go home and tell
everybody that they could wake me up any time. I hope my reputation
in heaven is not that I don’t want to be awakened in the
night.” I
thought, “This is so strange that he would say that to me: ‘I’ve been waiting on you to wake
up.’”
And then my
reaction to him was even stranger than that. You do all kinds of things
when you’re sleep deprived.
And instead of me saying, “Who are you? Why are you here?” I said to him out loud,
“You look so familiar to me.”
And he said,
“Don’t you remember?”
And I said, “I
don’t remember.
I don’t remember who you are.” And he said, “I am one of those that . . ."
And he didn’t have to
finish the rest because as soon as I said those phrases, my
spirit-man recognized him.
My natural eyes didn’t seem to recognize him right away, but
my spirit-man recognized him to be the angel that I had
dreamed about last
August.
He said,
“I am one of those that has been sent to
prepare a people to receive the Open Book and to eat
it.”
Of course, I
released that Word in the Frederick conference, and God
did some amazing things
again.
Mount of Transfiguration
Experience
The next night
I had a dream like I never really had
before with such vividness. It was so vivid and so
detailed that I don’t want to tell every bit of the detail tonight
because I’m still processing
it.
I was taken to the
Mount of Transfiguration, which I believe is
Mount Hermon and not Mount Tabor, like the
traditional church has taught.
The Gospels say they were at
Caesarea Philippi, what we call Banyas now. And after that, it says,
“And they went into a high mountain.” Now
what would make anybody believe that He would travel two days down
to Mount Tabor through the Jezreel Valley to have this experience
when He was standing at the foot, right then, of the tallest
mountain of Israel? And so I believe He maybe just
turned and went right up to Mount
Hermon.
So that could
possibly tie in with what Paul Keith saw - those angels
coming down on Mount Hermon. He knew immediately that it
was Mount Hermon where this was taking place. And in my
spirit I felt like it was.
I saw the
Lord Jesus and Peter, James and John making their last few
steps before they got almost to the top. It wasn’t quite the
top. There was a little
higher place, but they got to a crest, like a little flat
place.
I saw them make their last few
steps. I saw the whole
scene unfold. I
saw the Glory of the Lord come down. It opened up like a light
over His head, just like a
portal.
Do you remember
that when Bob Jones saw my portal picture, he said to me, “Steve,
that is the exact same portal that Moses and Elijah came
through on the Mount of Transfiguration. God has given you a picture
of that exact same portal."
So I don’t
know. I’m just telling
you what was said. All
these things kind of tie
together.
So I look up and I see what is like
a portal and a light shining.
And I saw the Glory of the Lord as it came on Him and as He
was transfigured.
There are no words to describe it. It’s more than the light of
an
x-ray.
There is no way to tell you what it
looked like except that it looked like the pores of His skin
were emanating light
- not long rays of light, but
light that emanated from Him a few
inches.
And His
garment was white, and it glistened like gold.
And there were colors -subtle, subtle hues. (I feel such an anointing,
trying to tell you.)
The colors and the hues of colors were so faint, but so
vivid, so light - not heavy colors, but so light, so
distinguishable.
But the colors were alive. And yet His
garment was still white. I could always see
white, but in the white
was life. The
white was so white that it was alive.
And it was
so alive that it was moving. And as it would move,
these different hues of colors would mix in. But it was always
white. If you
would have asked somebody, “What color is His garment?” they would
have most certainly said, “Brilliant
white.”
And yet by looking
carefully, you could see the colors and how they were
constantly moving - not fast, but constantly moving,
like you can see molecules or cells under a
microscope wiggling and moving. It
was just very beautiful and unbelievable to
see.
And as this was
going on, I saw Moses and Elijah as they stepped
down. I didn’t see
them coming down.
It was like they stepped out of another
dimension. I
saw them standing
there.
And this whole
thing played out. I
heard the Voice speak, “This is My
beloved Son. Hear ye
Him!”
All of a sudden,
when the Voice said, “Hear ye
Him!” I saw a curtain behind Him
that I had not seen before.
It was there all the time. It was like a gauze
material. That’s not the right word, but you know what I mean. You could see
through it, but it had depth, thickness, to it. It wasn’t just a sheer, thin
panel.
I could see light
behind the curtain the whole time. But as soon as the Voice
said, “Hear ye Him!”
that veil began to lift up like a curtain was being lifted
up. And behind that curtain was a multitude of believers. I saw a multitude of people,
that I couldn’t even tell you
how many, standing behind the
Lord.
And I heard the
Voice say again, “This is My beloved
Son, hear Him!” And I knew that
what was being revealed was “the
sons.”
Not only was God revealing His only begotten
Son, now the glorified, fully-adopted Messiah, but His sons
who had come into full
adoption.
The first time, He was telling me,
“Hear Him!” The second
time, He was telling me, “Hear
Him!” but not just referring to the One Messiah, the
Lord Jesus standing there.
He was telling me to hear Him, the
corporate Man, the corporate Body of the Lord Jesus Christ -
the many-membered Body, as Bro. Branham called
it.
So we get up that
morning and everybody is telling their experiences. I don’t tell mine because I
can’t even hardly at that point describe it.
But as we were
riding over to the service, all of a sudden I just had
boldness. I
didn’t know I was going to say this until it already came
out. And if I
could have pulled it back in, I would have pulled it back in. It was too
late.
All of a sudden I said,
“Hey, guys,
I spent time on the Mount of Transfiguration last
night.” And I thought, “Ohhhh. I don’t want to talk about
that.” And it was dead
silent. And Paul Keith
spun around in the seat and he said, “And you are going to tell it
now.”
I said, “Well, I
just don’t know if I can or not.” Well, I told it. I got it out, the most I
could.
That night we all
felt that God wanted to minister to people. We hadn’t done a lot of
praying for people. First, Pastor Paul Black spoke on
sonship. But here was the amazing
thing. Two or three
times, he said, “When the veil is lifted
and the sons of God are revealed . . .”
I
thought, “Now, Lord, if You aren’t telling me to tell that,
then I have never had a hint.”
And so I get a chance to share
that.
And I wanted to
tell you this tonight because I know I have preached it from
every angle that I know to preach it from until you are wondering in
your mind, “How much longer are we going to have to hear variations
of the same message of
adoption?”
I can only speak what
He gives me to speak.
And it’s not that the other things don’t need to be
addressed. However,
don’t you understand that if we focus on your job problems, or we
focus on how we can’t pay the rent on Friday, or if we focus on our
children that won’t behave, or the practical problems of
life, we will miss the times and
seasons of the Lord.
And if tonight, if
in that hour, whenever that hour is, God Almighty, in the fulness of
times, decides to lift the veil and
reveal the sons of God, I tell you, Friday's rent won’t be
a problem. Misbehaving
children won’t be a problem.
How to prophesy or teach deliverance, or whatever, won’t be a
problem. It’ll be
solved in one moment’s time.
Boom.
Pastor
Paul kept saying, “It’ll be a
suddenly. It’ll be a suddenly.” And we’ve heard
that over and over
again.
But I just
simply feel that this is such a critical hour and that this is what
we must, I must, pursue.
I must pursue everything that God
would teach us about sonship because I’ve got to be a
son.
I’ve got to come to that
place.
(Rom
8:19) For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth
for the manifestation of the sons of
God.
I find it so encouraging that the
word "apokalupsis" is used here for "manifestation," and it
means “unveiling.”
All of creation is waiting for
the unveiling, the revealing, the coming forward and the coming out
of the sons of
God.
The Unveiling of God's
Masterpiece
Many years ago, Bro. William
Branham was in Los Angeles with a group of ministers. He went over to Forest
Lawn Cemetery where Aimee Semple McPherson is buried.
They have beautiful mausoleums, memorials, sculptures and statutes
there.
 He said that his favorite
sculpture was Michelangelo's sculpture of
Moses. And he said, “I think about all the
hours of labor, sacrifice and creativity it takes to make a
bigger-than-life sculpture."
Bro. Branham said
that Michelangelo works at it, and works at it, and works at
it. And after long
hours of work, he has his hammer in his hand one day, chiseling away
around some edges, and so forth, and he becomes so
carried away with the inspiration of what he has
created.
He is so inspired by what he sees
in front of him that without knowing it, without meaning
to, it was an involuntary action, he strikes the knee of Moses and he says,
“Speak!”
He catches himself
and realizes that he’s talking to a statue that he’s just made. But he is so
overwhelmed by the likeness and the reality and the beauty of what
his hands have created, and it looks so real to him, that
he’s expecting this stone Moses to speak to
him.
And Bro. Branham
says, “To me, the most beautiful part of the sculpture is
the mar because it speaks of the inspiration.” He decided to leave it
there. He decided to
leave the scar where he had marred the
sculpture.
And then Bro.
Branham said, “That is the book of Michelangelo. I want
to close the book of Michelangelo now, and I want to open another
Book. And I
want to talk about another Creator, another
sculpture.”
And he goes into this whole thing about
a masterpiece.
"Six thousand years behind the
curtain," he said, “God has been working on a
masterpiece.
It’s veiled.
He’s working underneath a veil, but we’re almost to the day that God will take off the
veil and He will uncover His masterpiece. And He will say to
her, like Michelangelo said to Moses, 'Speak.'”
Hallelujah! When I was reminded of that
today, I was reminded of how the veil lifted and the Voice
didn’t say again, “Hear
them!”
It said, “Hear
HIM!”
And it was confirmed again in my spirit-man that
His Voice, the Voice of
the Lord Jesus Christ, the Voice of Ultimate Authority, the Voice of
our Creator, the Voice of
the Bridegroom, will be heard in the
Bride.
With that great company of people
that was standing behind the Lord, it was just like the adoption
ceremony. God was
saying, “Hear My
sons.
Here they are.
They’ve come through the fire, they’ve come through the
flame, they’ve come through the flood. They’ve come to a place of being placed as sons
(adoption).
And now hear them! Hear what they have to
say."
It will not be their own thoughts, or their own
opinions, or their own ideas.
But when they come forth, they will only speak what
they hear Him speak and only think what He
thinks.
The longer it goes now that
we’re waiting on it, the more real it gets. It’s not getting less real
to me. It’s getting
more real.
Hallelujah!
Hallelujah!
And I know there are times that I’ve
been weary waiting, but I’m not weary waiting now. God has let me feel
enough. He’s let me
taste enough.
What He did for me in New Zealand and showed me what is
possible if you obey the Voice of God, if you are willing to obey
the Voice of God . . .
It was in a private setting for me, in a hotel
room where nobody could see me or know what was going on. But He spoke to me to do
something. And like the
meat of obedience, I obeyed Him without asking why or how I
would do it, or what it would feel like, or what it would
look like.
I did exactly what He
said. And because I did
that, I found that in obedience to Him, I was immediately
able to transcend the very laws of nature. So how
could I be weary in waiting, when God
would let me feel and see a token of what is about to come to the
sons of God?
You be careful, little
church, how you treat this day. Because God has called this
day a holy day.
Right? He set
this day apart. So be
careful how you treat it, because He chose this day. He chose this
generation.
He chose this season to bring
about the consummation of the
ages.
Revelations of the Open Book
Conference, East - CDs Available
To
order the CDs from the powerful WhiteDove
Ministries' Revelations of the Open Book
Conference, East Coast sponsored by Cornerstone
Fellowship, Frederick, Maryland, Feb.
19-21,
click
here.
Pastor Shelley's Speaking Itinerary -
2009
(For details, click here.)
Vanguard
Revival Ministries - Fire and Glory Conference
2009
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
Canada
May 14 -
16
Frontline Worship Center
Red Deer, Alberta,
Canada
July 26 - August
2
New Hope Revival
Ministries
Smiths Station,
Alabama
August 5 -
9
Prayer Link of St. Louis
St. Louis,
Missouri
August 23 -
25
Church of Glad Tidings
Yuba City,
California
August 28 -
30
Desert Rock Fellowship
Richland,
Washington
November 12 -
14
Fusion Church
Auckland, New
Zealand
November 19 -
21
In
Closing
In the next update, I hope to share with
you some of the highlights from the Revelations of the
Open Book Conference, West Coast held in
Tucson, Arizona, sponsored by WhiteDove
Ministries. The DVDs and CDs from this very special prophetic
conference should be available soon at www.whitedoveministries.org.
Now that I have stopped taking chemo
treatments, I have regained a lot of strength and endurance.
In spite of some occasional coughing spells, I continue to stand in
faith believing that I was and am healed by the stripes of Adonai
Yeshua! Thank you all so much for your prayers and
loving support! It is a great
blessing!
We are still
believing for the funds to be able to pay
back the portion that we had to borrow in order to
make our quarterly rent payment. If you are able to help us pay this debt, it would be
so great! Thank you in
advance!
(Rev
10:8) And the voice which I heard from
heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book
which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon
the sea and upon the earth.
(Rev
10:9)
And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little
book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly
bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as
honey.
(Rev
10:10) And I took the little book out of the angel's hand,
and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as
I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
(Rev
10:11) And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again
before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and
kings.
The Open Book was
unsealed by Yeshua and revealed in measure to the prior generation,
but the full revelation and fulfillment is for our
generation!
Lord, send the angels that will prepare us to
receive the Open Book and eat it!
Blessings,
Grace and Shalom from Alabama!
Nancy
Bergen
Jerusalem
Revival Center
PO Box
49380
Jerusalem 97882,
Israel
Tel. &
Fax: 972-2-5825301
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