The dream conveys how God has His ways of influencing others. He sows His seeds of truth in one place, the wind of the Spirit spreads them elsewhere. They may lie dormant for some time, but they germinate according to God's timing and bring forth fruit for the Kingdom of God.

Such is the influence of written material. As the story of the Bible's preservation testifies, writings stay around a long time when God has a purpose for them.

We have had other dreams in which God has shown that what we are involved in for Him will bear fruit and shake the Worldwide Church of God to its foundations. Some of this shaking has already occurred.

What is sacrosanct in the WCG is its authority structure. Hierarchic rule – which I discussed briefly in the previous section (WCG Callousness) – gives church leaders the ability to condition and control the minds of their subjects. This is why WCG leaders are very careful to monitor and vet any other spiritual teachers who may influence their members. It is also why they repudiate prophets like me and ‘do their damnedest’ to keep true prophets out of their church.

But, what was written in God’s Church – Whose Authority? was not written just by me. Nor could I write that sort of stuff alone. It was revealed by the Holy Spirit and I was merely a physical vehicle for its transmission.

(The reference to Isaiah and Ephesians symbolise the most significant books – because of their teaching – to me, both past and future. God used Isaiah to enlighten me at the start of my ministry; Ephesians is a capstone.)

The dream which follows illustrates obliquely how WCG mentors vie for this influence against that which God sends via His prophets (in this instance, me – although there are other prophets elsewhere).