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5-4-99

The following was forwarded to me ... I believe it has circulated widely on the internet, but I felt that it had much prophetic merit and deserved to be distributed on the prophetic-word list. I apologize, but I do not have the email address for James Berkley, who is the author of most of this post.

(Usually this list only distributes prophetic words, but from time to time the Lord's signature is on current events and the events themselves become a prophetic statement. That is what I believe happened in this case...)

- owner-prophetic-word@xc.org

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God Redeems a Tradegy in Canada

Amazingly, just a month ago, James and Kathy Berkley, The Elijah Commission, (who are senior Ministers of Judah Praise Center in Marysville, WA and part of International Apostolic Ministries) ministered in Pastor Dale Lang's church and prophesied this over Pastor Lang:

. . . "the nations youth are waiting to hear from you".

It did not mean much to him at that time. Monday, Pastor Dale (who has already spoken on Canada's national media) will speak to the entire student body and to the nation as well as at the memorial service for his son.

The nations flags are all at half mast. The CBC has asked Pastor Lang to "come back on TV and just tell us (Canada) what we should do now!"

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MESSAGE FROM James and Kathy Berkley

>From the home of Canadian Pastor Dale Lang Father of 17-Year Old JASON LANG who was gunned down by a 14-year old former student 8 days after the Columbine shooting in Colorado

Friday April 30, 1999

Dear Friends of the Berkleys,

I'm writing this to you from Pastor Lang's Home in Taber, Alberta, Canadian. As many of you know, Jason Lang, the son of Pastor Dale and his wife, Diane Lang; was shot to death in the hallway of his high school on Wed. April 28th, at 1:09 PM. Dale and Diane are the Pastors of the Anglican Church that I ministered in at Taber about a month ago. Taber is a small town southeast of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Jason, the boy that was killed, is a Christian and is now with the Lord in heaven!

When I heard the news that Jason Lang had been killed I felt strongly that I should go to Canada to comfort and minister to the Lang Family. I called Pastor Lang and told him that I believe the Lord wanted me to be with him at this time. He agreed. then I prophesied to Him saying, "The Devil has meant this for evil; but God will turn it around for Good!"
I continued...

"Your son's blood was spilled unjustly and it is now crying out from the ground and it must be answered with a harvest of souls!"
Also...

"Jason glorified God while living here with us in his body; but now he will glorify the Lord a thousands of times over in the hour of his death!"

Pastor Dale took great comfort in this and encouraged me to come as soon as possible.

After the phone call to Pastor Dale, I left my hotel room to speak at the conference that I am a guest speaker at in Spokane, WA. This is the Passion for Jesus Conference with Wayne Anderson, Steve Hampton and myself. After ministering the Word at the morning session Wayne came up and prophesied two things:

1. Because of this tragedy in Canada, God had opened an effective door to me for the preaching of the gospel in Canada.

2. I was to go to be with the Lang family and the church here in Taber. He said , "to confirm it, we would see all the finances come in needed to fly me in to Canada.

It happened just as he said! I was on a flight out of Spokane at 5am the next morning.

Arriving at 10AM this morning at the Calgary airport, I saw Pastor Langs face and testimony all over the front page of every newspaper in Canada! I picked up a rental car to drive the three hours Southeast to Taber. The radio talk shows were all filled with heart searching discussions about this whole thing. Everywhere I went I asked people what they thought of what has happened in Taber. They all without exception, stopped what they were doing, many with tears in their eyes said the same thing, We don't know why this happened and we don't know what to do.

Pastor Dale was on CBC (a Canadian national TV Network) yesterday morning to issue his statement. Here is what was said and what the news media printed and broadcast all over Canada:

"A piece of your heart is gone and it can't come back. But we give thanks for having Jason for 17 years. We give thanks for all our children. And we pray that people will see by this incident that lots of things have to change in our society. Lots of things need to be healed. Thank you." -Rev. Dale Lang

The nations flags are all at half mast. The CBC has asked Pastor Lang to "come back on TV and just tell us (Canada) what we should do now!" Hallelujah! " God is opening the hearts of an entire nation. When I was here last I prophesied to Pastor Lang that, "the nations youth were waiting to hear from you". It did not mean much to him at that time. Monday, Pastor Dale will speak to the entire student body and to the nation as well at the memorial service!

Because the shooting took place there at the W.R. Myers High School, the student body are traumatized so that many do not want to go back into the school. Pastor Dale said, "I want to have the memorial service at the high school gymnasium. When I'm done, I want to lead a procession down into the hallway where my son and his friend fell. I want to pray right there! We must take it back! We must reclaim the school for the students!" AMEN!

It seems that the Lord has used this to reopen the hearts and conscience of this entire nation!

We have heard that the Prime minister of Canada and the Premier of Alberta are making plans to attend the memorial service. Even the Mormons have brought food and offered their building for the memorial. School boards and local clubs like the Kiwanis etc.. are all contributing to help with food and expenses.

A young man called today and said to the family that he was an atheist until he heard their story, now he is a believer in Christ! Hallelujah!

A woman in British Columbia called and said when she couldn't stop looking at Jason's picture in the paper. She said it is so filled with peace. Then she asked, "Is this the one who will save us?" Diane said, "No, what you see is the peace of Jesus Christ in Jasons eyes. He will save us!" Then she prayed with her and led her to the Lord!

A TV station in B.C. cancelled a violent program announcing to the viewers that they were doing this in honor of Jason.

People have been calling from all over the world to say they are praying for them! It is amazing how God is using this!

Pastor Dale said that he feels as though his whole life's purpose is unfolding before at this, his weakest moment. He said, "It's so strange that in the middle of all this grief there is such peace and joy mixed with moments of incredible mourning and pain. "When we are weak, He is strong!" Hallelujah!

Pastor Dale and the Pastor Ian Byrd of New Life Church, a Charismatic church in the same city have just launched weekly joint revival meetings (largely as a result of our ministry in Taber). I believe the Devil thought he could kill the revival through this. Just like he did with killing Jesus. It not only didn't work, It caused the thing to go worldwide!