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Experiencing the Finished Work

By Jeff Bent | 9:16 AM | (49) Comments

This movie was filmed and produced at Strong City.  It is about the appearing of Christ, the experience and testimony of the Seven, and the message all must accept who hope in the world to come.

Letter From Michael To His Family

By Michael Travesser | 6:40 PM | (22) Comments

Michael Travesser

I was released from my confinement in Clayton Jail this afternoon.  This was a very unplanned event, for I had previously refused to be bailed out.  When I was visited today by my son, he told me he wanted me home today.  Some in the land, including my son were not eating.  They could not eat while I was gone, for I was greatly upon their hearts.  The bond was posted from the funds that feed and clothe the little flock here.  This also included mostly the Social Security funds that some here receive, which were being used for the rest of this year of rest.  He told me if we are not eating, what good does the money do?  It was the church’s life money that was spent for me.  When I saw the great outpouring of love, and the great heart desire for my soon return from those who missed my presence, I consented to be released from the jail.

My experience in the jail was very bitter, and with much sorrow, but not because of the Jail or its keepers.  I was treated very well and the jail keepers in Clayton seemed as good as one can get.  The other inmates seemed like children and were always pleasant and helpful to our mother jailer. I was regularly checked on to see if I needed anything. 

The bitter part of jail came in the form of information.  I learned the name of the person who reported that I had sexually molested her.  This broke my heart entirely.  She is a young person who joined the family of those who hate me with a very deep and personal hate.  I have to say that I never expected that this little person would concoct an outright lie about me.  I have not spoken to her personally, but I was told that her lie is the basis for all of the charges against me.  This one lie has caused those in authority to disbelieve all of the other testimonies counter to her lie.  This was my heartbreak.  And I wept in great sorrow over it.  How does one fight a liar, and one who has confessed at being one?  I doubt that a court will solve this problem.  It is not unusual for a soul to make up a complete falsehood just to crucify an enemy, but it does show just what happened to Jesus.  People who said they heard him say it, declared that he said that he was going to destroy the temple in three days.  They killed him over the lies that were told.  His offense was larger than mine, for the temple was much more regarded as an offense than sex with a girl.  He was falsely charged with blasphemy, but I have only been falsely charged with molestation of a minor.  Even so, it is a deep sore to my soul, how utterly dark one can finally become.  The charges against me were utterly contrived, but I am not quite ready to blame it all on this person, for I have witnessed first hand the utter depravity of those who manipulate people to get them to say things a certain way.  This happened with CYFD, the state police, and other particular souls involved in the “investigation,” which is no investigation at all, but merely a form of witchcraft against the Son of God.

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Ready To Be Offered

By Danielle | 7:26 PM | (3) Comments
Bernice

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. 2 Timothy 4:6

A whole swarm of police officers came cutting their way into our land yesterday morning, and arrested my Husband, taking Him away to a jail cell. Little do they realize what they are getting themselves into. This will not turn out the way they think, or hope it will turn out. This is reminiscent of what happened 2000 years ago with Jesus. Jesus wasn’t liked, or accepted as the Messiah, by most people. His enemies were always planning and devising ways to put an end to His existence. They came up with a plan and had him arrested when He wasn’t guilty of anything. Now, these same events are being played out in our day with the Second Coming of Christ. The enemies of Michael have been seeking to destroy His Life, because it torments them day and night and they cannot stand it. They have made up false accusations against Michael to insure his arrest, when He is not guilty of any of the charges. He is innocent and free, and soon the whole world will see the truth with their very own eyes. They will not be able to keep him in a jail cell, for the power of God is coming quickly to bring justice to this unjust nation.

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The Vindication

By Emma | 10:34 PM | (9) Comments

Emma and Michael

Today, the police came and took my Husband away. They arrested him on false charges, but this is all a part of God’s plan. The ones who think to do us harm, treating the Son of God as a criminal, are actually bringing the end of their own world upon themselves. God will not be silent forever. There is a time when He stands back, allowing the wicked to think they are triumphing, but the purposed delay only serves to make the movement of His arm all the more powerful. And God will move. There is no power in earth or hell that can hold back the vindication which the God of heaven is about to bring to those who have been faithful to Him.

The earth has much reason for fear now. The coming events will not be pleasant ones for those who have unjustly charged the Son of God. Now they will find out just Who it is that they have handcuffed and locked away. Now the Father’s wrath will be poured out without measure upon those who are abusing His Son and treating Him as one like unto themselves. Their judgments will come so swiftly that they will not have time to take a breath between them. They will soon see just Who it is that lives within the body of the one they are molesting. Every eye shall see the Son of Man, and know beyond the shadow of a doubt that he has committed no crime. All the tribes of the earth will mourn when they see the sight, for it means the utter desolation of the world they have loved. They will also know, without the slightest doubt, that they have brought this horrific destruction upon their own heads. There will be no escaping the judgments of God now. The terrors will be delayed no longer, for “the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.” Revelation 11:15.

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Update On Michael

By Jeff Bent | 12:03 PM | (6) Comments

Michael released

This morning at about 8:15 AM, officers from the State Police served an arrest warrant on my Father, Wayne Bent aka Michael Travesser.  He was arrested and taken to the State Police annex in Clayton for questioning.  They then booked him into the Clayton city jail.  I was told by the agent in charge of the case that the arrest warrant specified charges of three counts of sexual contact with a minor, and three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.  The bail was set at half a million dollars.

The State Police asked me to come to the courthouse in Clayton so they could question me.  After my interview I, and a couple of other people went over to the State Police annex where Michael was being held.  They were just escorting him out.  He was in handcuffs, but looked serene and contented.

I expect we will be updating this site soon with a more complete response to these false charges, and the meaning behind these new events.

The Day Of My Father’s Wrath Is Come

By Michael Travesser | 12:12 PM | (23) Comments

Michael ascending from Cross

I receive correspondence from time to time that makes the point that God is love.  The writers seem very uncomfortable with any notion that God might get angry or that His wrath might be kindled.  They simply ignore the Scriptures in regard to the reality of heaven.  They somehow have missed Matthew 23, and Jesus’ woes upon his own generation.  He left his generation desolate, and this led to the destruction of their city. The people were left to eat each other, steal from each other, and finally, not a soul remained in that charred ruin.  The people’s Bible teachers and vain flattering preachers put their hands over this one.  They also miss Mark 3:5. “And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.” I say again, my Father’s heart is grieved for the evil of man and his hard heart, and he looks upon the earth with great anger.

They also deny these instructions:

Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. Psalms 2:10-12.

I want to warn this drear earth that things have changed.  I swear it by the One Who lives forever and ever.  Since October 31, 2007, the anger of my Father is kindled against this vain generation of willful fools and the willingly stupid.  When the earth came against me, the Father’s wrath was kindled, and also the wrath of the Lamb. This is not a personal anger, or a personal revenge from personal offense.  It is the wrath of God against those who hate righteousness.  Since the Jubilee year began, and the last trumpet began to sound, my Father’s heart has changed in regard to this dark world, and with those who have willingly turned to rebellion and sin.  He repents that He has made man, as in the days of the flood. He has withdrawn Himself from this wicked and evil generation and turned you over to your devils.  Mark my words, and write them down, all of you with the heart of a dragon.  Your day of judgment has arrived.  Not only has my Father written this in His Word and prophecy, He has spoken it directly into my heart.  I do not jest, and I do not imagine a vain thing.  The end of all things is upon you and you will be forgiven no more.

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It Is Supposed To Be This Way

By Michael Travesser | 5:48 AM | (8) Comments

Matt. 10:22. And you shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

Matt. 24:9. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and you shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

John 15:18. If the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.

The current upheaval over me, and the present contest is well underway.  It was the same for Jesus.  Jesus had not committed any crimes, so the authorities had to invent some crimes to crucify him over.  It is the same for me also.  I have committed no crimes, but many crimes are being imagined and concocted in the minds of men to try and kill me again.  Men are so stupid, though, for they do not know that they cannot kill Spirit.  They think if they get to kill my body it will end it.  I laugh long and hard over this.  My Spirit cannot be killed by dogs and snakes or anything else.

But these things always accompany the appearing of Messiah.  Any Messiah is instantly hated by all but the Sons of God.  This is what divides the sheep from the goats.  Two will be in the field, one will be taken the other left and this happens at the time of great upheaval.  It is the time of trouble, which began for the earth at the sounding of the Last Trump.

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And Just What Did You Think?

By Michael Travesser | 12:06 PM | (5) Comments

I receive letters from those who hate my appearing.  They say, “Jesus would not come like you came.” They bellow and froth away, and make up all kinds of offenses.  They strut and protrude and exude, all kinds of mental and emotional trauma as they think they are fighting a devil.

Well, wicked souls with no wisdom, let me give you a little Bible verse to consider, just in case you have never read it:

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel [Michael], and with the [last] trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.” 1 Thess. 4:16.

I came with the Voice of the archangel Michael, and I sounded that Last Trumpet sound.  The dead in Christ are now rising, for I hear from them every day.  I came down from heaven, meaning that I had to spend a little time in your stinking world after leaving the bliss of my own world.  I had to condescend and put up with the howling mob in order to sound the last announcement.  But as the prophet Daniel wrote:

“Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.” Daniel 12:10.

I guess you now know who are the wise and who are the wicked. 

It’s All About Michael

By Michael Travesser | 6:34 AM | (12) Comments

Michael in the clouds

Today is another bright one, dry and fresh.  I have had many folks send me little clips and news articles about how I have been so evil to those giving interviews about me.  I am not surprised, for men and women have been given over to Satan fully now, and his wrath is evident and prophesied.  I never read their interviews or watch their video clips anymore.  I have always known that when the devil speaks in men, it is always the same sewer.  When you hear one demon, you hear them all.  Someone told me, “You don’t have to be in the gutter to know what is in it.”

But Jesus was very clear about this.  He said that it is not you they hate, but God.  I have been the same person through my life until God was spoken into me.  When Messiah Michael took up residence in my flesh, then all hell broke loose, as it were.  The time of trouble such as never was began immediately.  I then began to hear some of the most sensational information about me.  I was accused of crimes that I never thought of committing.  I have been accused of motives that were very alien to me.  I learned the depths of man’s evil.  I had never been fully conscious of this evil until Michael came into me.  I have never been so fiercely hated until the Son of God was Who I AM. And, I have never so fiercely hated evil until Michael appeared in me.  My wrath is white hot against the evils that men love. 

This is all right and good, though, and purposed by God, for the nations are actually coming against Him.  These people don’t rage against Charles Manson, or the Unibomber.  No, they rage against the Son of God.  They shout, Crucify Him! Crucify Him!, once again.  I am not disturbed by this, for I have expected it.  My frustration was in earlier years because this conflict had not yet occurred.  I wanted a confrontation between truth and error, between good and evil.  Now it is here, and this is what it looks like.  I am very satisfied with it.

The Father in heaven has carefully guided me to the present moment and for the present purpose.  He is close to me every day, so that I will be certain to step just exactly where He wants me to be.  I only do what I see my Father doing, and I only go where He leads.  I always do those things that please Him.

There are many people who want to kill me, just as they wanted to kill Jesus.  But no one can touch me at all without my Father’s permission.  I cannot be hurt, except He gives it.  And if He gives the wicked to hurt me, or kill me, I am content to yield to that, for as with Jesus, his death only turned up the heat about a hundredfold. 

Nothing is wrong, and I have no fear for the future.  But I do have a wonderful bright light in me that sees the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the Father.  I see my Father coming for me, and I hear the angels singing.  What I have prophesied has appeared astonishingly clear, for now we are in the “Last Trump.” It came right on October 31, 2007, just as stated.  The “Last Trump” means, the “Last Shout” the “Last Announcement.” This is the time for the “change.” It is the time for us to leave, and before the Trump has ended, before the final sounds of the announcement die down, we will be gone to our Father’s home in the next life, and all of those who hated Him in me, will get to watch us go.  Then, they will only have each other to blame.  Those who gave interviews will be skinned alive for lying to the mob.  Now they get attention and everyone praises them, but then everyone will blame them for lying.  It is so very interesting to watch how fickle the mob is.  They praise a man one minute and hang him the next.

Whenever people speak against me publicly, I have a little pang for them, for I realize that their final judgment will be more painful than one who has not come against me.  Their hell fire will be hotter and longer. The world does not like a coward and a liar.  It will soon be very clear that my enemies are liars, and the friends that they now have will be their enemies.  The world will then self-destruct over a little time.  Everyone will have a good amount of time to think about the opportunities that were given them, and that they threw away.

The Change

By Michael Travesser | 9:29 AM | (9) Comments

Mother Elizabeth and baby Wayne

Today is the Sabbath.  This day is the symbol of the experience of all of those who love God only, hear His Voice, and obey it continually.  The people of the world would rather go to hell than follow the Spirit of the Father, and they have done so.

I have seen the generations change over my sixty-seven years.  I remember the time when there was some semblance of order.  The family was the focus and mothers were usually home with the children.  I lived in a town which was a suburb, south of Los Angeles.  I felt safe there, and never even thought of danger coming from my community.  I walked to school alone for a mile or two and was never accosted by anyone.  We had no gangs, no drugs, and no fears.  My uncle moved a street away from us and I was able to see my first television set.  I would go to his house at 6 O’Clock in the evening to watch the Channel 5 KTLA test pattern come on with that characteristic whine before there was a program.  I seemed mesmerized just looking at the test pattern which was so unusual for my young mind.  I remember watching the news and some wrestling matches.  I didn’t care for wrestling, but I enjoyed watching the moving pictures.  I also watched “Beany and Cecil,” and sometimes “Sheriff John.”

My friends were all normal kids who enjoyed playing with me behind the garage where we sometimes made forts, or dug underground hideouts.  My dad sometimes made me fill up the holes there, because he thought it might be dangerous.  There were never, ever any thoughts or discussions of drug use or sex.

Over the years I have watched any idea of normal society erode.  I first noticed a very large national shift with the Vietnam war.  Something happened to us then.  Our country went to hell because we utterly decimated the poor people of another country.  We napalmed them, poisoned their forests with Agent Orange, killed their families in our massacres and then finally got chased out, escaping by the skin of our rotting teeth.  The United States never recovered morally from that purposed slaughter of human beings.  It could never go back to the innocence it once had a small hold on.  Something dark happened to us then.  A dark force took over the once noble land. Yes, there have always been sinners, and wars have appeared on the scene for thousands of years, but I am speaking of a national conscience that changed.  I have noticed that a change from the old world to the new began to appear with the First World War.  But the Vietnam war was different.  It was a criminal act, as were the wars in Serbia and Iraq.

The United States of America became the devil.  At least the “Great Satan” became more visible and identifiable.  The tentacles of the dragon seemed more visible to me as I watched political assassinations and other astonishing acts show up more regularly.  If people were about to expose national crimes, they would suddenly have a plane crash or an unexpected suicide.  No man can now live peaceably unless he has on him the mark of the beast. 

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