In early March 1983 Mike Bickle met with Bob Jones for the first time and they had a long conversation about Bob’s history and many dreams and visions he had over the last 8 years concerning what Bob believed was destined for the movement that Mike just began… He shared “Thus says the Lord, 'On the first day of spring, when the snow melts, we will sit around the communion table, and you will accept me!”

Bob Jones then shared with Mike a vision he had had about a man lying on a wooden board that was on the back of a white horse. The white horse had wings and was in a stream that was four inches deep. He told Mike that the four-inch stream depth was “enough water to keep oneself clean.” On the white horse’s right foot was a horn which represented the power in Habakkuk 3:4, “His splendor was like the sunrise; rays flashed from his hand, where his power was hidden.”

Bob explained that in this vision, the man on the board was crying out to God for deliverance. There were rabid dogs on either side of the stream that could not get into the river because they were afraid of the water. The Lord had told Bob, who was behind the white horse, that it was “his responsibility to keep the white horse in the middle of the stream, away from the rabid dogs.” He then saw the Lord come and flip the man on the board into the stream headfirst. When he fell into the water, revival exploded in great power. Bob said, “The Son of God Himself will come and deliver you.” …

Now as Bob Jones began to leave, he reached for the door to leave, then carefully turned around and said to Mike, “Oh, by the way, the Lord has told me that you like to add things up. So, you can add these four things up. The Lord told me to say that in the future, thousands of young people will be rallied to this movement. In the fullness of time you will see a full manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit among you. There will be a false prophet in your midst from the beginning and he is already here. And finally, there will be much persecution against this movement. The Lord is telling you this final thing before it happens so that you will be ready when it comes. The Lord said this would make sense to you.

This really blew Mike's mind, because what Bob just told him were the same four things that Augustine had prophesied about just before he had left St. Louis for Kansas City. Mike wondered if a false prophet could prophecy about himself. Mike was overwhelmed and went home and told his wife, Diane, about the meeting. “I met the strangest man in my life today.” He spoke, “he told me the same four things Augustine told me. This man is totally of God or totally of the Devil. I just cannot tell which he is?” As Mike talked to Diane, she tended towards thinking Bob being legitimately of God. Mike admitted that it would be amazing if anyone had the kind of imagination to make such detailed things up.1

Later, that week Mike invited Bob Jones over to meet his wife Diane, his brother Pat, his sister Tracey, her husband, Bob Scott, and a few others. When they met, Bob gave prophetic words that the Lord had given him to several of them.

Pat asked Bob Jones if he had seen anything about him. Bob responded, “No, I'm sorry, I haven't, but I'll be sure pray about it.” Pat, who was hoping Bob had a word from the Lord for him cynically thought, “Oh, great”! Pat was hoping that Bob was a “real prophet, who had a real word for him. Everyone at the meeting seemed to have a little bit of a different reaction about who Bob was. Diane received a very powerful prophecy, and Bob Scott was simply overwhelmed. He said later that he was thinking, “Whoa! This guy is too much for me!” 2 After the meeting was over, Mike and Pat talked together about Bob Jones for a while. They agreed that he was a nice guy, but they both said, “That he was most likely the false prophet” referred to by Augustine. Mike took the lead on this assessment and Pat reluctantly agreed. 3

Then March 20, 1983, Art Katz flew into Kansas City on a private plane to spend Sunday with Mike Bickle. Shortly after Mike finished preaching the Sunday morning service Mike could see Bob Jones approach Art Katz and spoke quietly to him for quite some time. Mike was still fairly certain that Bob was the false prophet, so this made him a little nervous. He had not mentioned anything to Art about Bob and did not want to taint Art's impression of his new fellowship.

At the end of the service, Art approached Mike and asked, “Who is that guy?”

“I don't really think I know,” Mike said, thinking Art was going to slam Bob. Instead, much to the astonishment of Mike, Art said, “That man is a prophet of God. He told me the secrets of my heart which no man could possibly know.”

Bob had told Art about a dream Art had had the previous night, which Art hadn’t shared with anyone. Mike was a bit confused since it contradicted his own questions concerning Bob being the false prophet. That afternoon it started snowing heavily, so Art decided to wait until the weather cleared before flying home. That evening Mike and Art attended an evening service led by Ernie Gruen, Pastor of Full Faith Church of Love [Full Faith had by then become the largest, charismatic church in the Kansas City Metro area]. Art knew Ernie, but Mike did not. So, Art wanted to introduce Mike to him after the service, but an emergency for Ernie came up and he had to cancel.

At 8:00 p.m., with unexpected time on their hands, Art, who had been burning with the presence of God for hours, asked Mike if it was possible to meet with Bob Jones. “I really need to see that grey-haired man again,” he said. “My heart is burning within me!” Art spoke with a trembling voice.

“Sure,” said Mike, “I’ll see what I can do. But I don't know where he lives. I don't even know if I have his phone number?” Then, Mike recalled writing down Bob’s phone number upon his first visit, “Wait a minute. I do have his number after all,” he said. “I'll give him a call.”

So, Mike phoned Bob, and Bob answered the phone.

Bob replied, “I've been waiting for your phone call all day.” Mike was taken aback by Bob's response. Bob then said, “I am surprised! I thought Art would call me; not you.”

Mike asked Bob if he could meet Art, along with some others later that night.

Bob replied, “I’d love that.”

That night, Mike, Diane, Art, Bob Jones, and his wife Viola met in the duplexes where Mike and Diane lived. The group listened as Bob spent several hours prophesying about what the Lord wanted to do in Kansas City, and Bob shared his own personal history too. He spoke about the rejection he had experienced by different churches over the years and some of the encounters with the Lord he had experienced. Several hours into the meeting, Art stood up and announced to Bob, “I don't care what kind of reproach you may have received, Bob. I will stand up and bear your reproach with you, because you are a true prophet of God!”

The Lord confirmed Bob's anointing to Mike too that evening. His acceptance of Bob was sealed in his own heart when Bob shared with Mike a vision he had had the previous night. Bob had seen Mike in the Spirit, and the heavy responsibility Mike was bearing concerning his brother Pat who was a quadriplegic. He told Mike that an angel of the Lord had shown him that he had “lied” to Pat earlier in saying he had not seen him in a vision and had no word for him.

Upon returning from the initial meeting, he had with Mike, Diane, Pat, Tracey and Bob, Bob Jones was reminded by the angel that he had previously forgotten parts of the vision he had of the man on the board on the white horse.

Bob told Mike that the angel had shown him that the vision of the man lying on a board on the top of the white horse did not represent Mike, but rather his brother, Pat. The time when Pat would be flipped into the living water was the time revival would explode. Bob said, “In the vision, I heard an angel say to me, ‘tell Mike, He’s not heavy; he’s my brother and that the Lord was going to descend and deliver him (Pat).” What Bob did not know was that these were the exact words Mike had used ten years earlier when agreeing with his dad to take on the responsibility of caring for Pat after he had been paralyzed in his football accident.

Mike was absolutely overwhelmed! He fell to the ground weeping. He had not told anyone of the covenant that he made with his dad, not even Diane. With deep emotion Mike said, “You must have been sent by God, because no one could have known that!” Bob then spoke that one of the primary responsibilities of Mike’s fellowship was to pray for Pat; that he would be lifted (healed) and that revival would stem from this happening.”

This meeting continued into the early morning hours as a circle of fellowship. During this time, on three distinct occasions, the Holy Spirit rested on the group, and they started to gently weep, as if he was sealing the importance of this meeting.

Near the end of the meeting Bob said to Mike, “Young man, you should have listened to me.” Just think if the snow didn’t come and Art would have left.

He then asked Mike with some frustration, “What day is it?”

Mike answered, “Sunday [For legalists, Monday morning by then].”

Bob said, “No, What day is it?”

“March twenty-first,” Mike replied.

Bob asked, “What is March twenty-first?” After thinking about this, Mike realized and said, “It is the first day of spring.”

Bob asked again, “What's happening outside?”

Mike said, “It is snowing.”

Bob continued, “What is the snow doing? Look! It’s melting” Mike concurred, “Yes, it is.”

Bob started to get frustrated with Mike who was not putting it together. Mike was starting to get confused. Bob finally pointed out that according to the first prophetic words he ever spoke to Mike, they were eating together and the people around the table, including Mike, were accepting him. Bob then reminded Mike of his words: “Thus says the Lord, 'On the first day of spring, when the snow melts, we will sit around the communion table, and you will accept me!” Mike was absolutely stunned! Bob told Mike that the Lord had ordained that night as a sign to all present regarding the plans He had for the future in Kansas City. He saw that the Lord had been responsible for sending the snow to keep Art Katz grounded. He said, “How would this day have ended if Art Katz had left earlier this morning? None of this would have ever happened.”4

Mike was so overwhelmed about this that he phoned and woke his brother Pat up at three-o-clock in the morning to tell him all that had happened that night, including the part about Bob seeing that Pat was the man on the board on the Whitehorse. Mike told Pat about how clear the vision had become and now had been interpreted through Bob. He said they all knew that the man on the board was Pat, and that the Lord was coming with a great anointing. In the “day of God’s power,” the streams of His river were going to overflow. The understanding this small group had then at that time was that this great anointing would be poured out when Pat was physically healed. This experience that Mike had with Bob Jones greatly encouraged and strengthened Pat’s faith the God was a going to powerfully heal him and use him in the days to come.5

As Bob left that evening, he told Mike, “It is my responsibility to keep you in four inches of water… It all begins now.” After that night Bob Jones started regularly giving Mike spiritual encouragement and prophetic direction.

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