People often ask me how we survive, what we live of. The Lord told me to share my testimony.
First off, I want to say that when Jesus called me some years ago I asked Him to let me never be dependent on people because then I would compromise like I have seen so many do.
One night about 14 years ago, I had a dream that I was in a place called Baltimore on the east coast of the US. I did not even know that such a place existed. In this dream I was standing in front of my house. I remembered distinct architectural details that were confirmed when I went online and found this place called Baltimore. I knew Jesus was telling me to go there. I was at the cross roads. Jesus previously sent us to a place and I did not go because of doubt. It was now or never. My wife and I prayed and I asked Jesus to confirm to her. It would mean risking and giving up our entire livelihood, everything we worked for all our lives. Jesus did speak to my wife also. There were many obstacles to overcome. People called us crazy. I am South African, I have been a business manager all my life, corporate manager, factory manager etc. I had no desire to come to the US. I always said that if Jesus wanted me in another country He I would have been born in that country. We were well settled, our properties paid off, no debt, good CEO job. I was in my late 40's. We had to sell everything and give away. Eventually we had got rid of everything, we ever owned and were left with two suitcases each.
We did not know why we had to go there but we went and arrived in Baltimore with hurricane Isabel. Half the city was without electricity. We rented an apartment, slept on the floor the first few nights, there was no furniture. I bought an old Astro van, because the Lord told me to buy a van. Then followed a time of praying and fasting, seeking for guidance. Jesus told me to enroll for an MBA at a local University. I did not know why and I was not keen on going back to school but I obeyed. In that time the Lord told my wife to read the English Bible, she was not fluent at English as Afrikaans is our home language. The Lord also told me to start painting, I have an artistic talent that I never developed because I was too busy with work and other things. He showed me a specific art school to go to – I did not understand why but I obeyed. God had a plan, He was preparing us for His purpose. It was a time of extreme uncertainty, much prayer and fasting, listening, obeying and above all trusting. We also had to deal with immigration issues which few people who have not dealt with it, will ever understand. In all this time we were not allowed to work or earn money and we had to live on our savings.
February 2008, Jesus spoke to me three times. One night a voice said to me: “JESUS IS COMING. ARE YOU READY?” This happened twice. I started warning people. I made brochures and handed these out everywhere. The Lord spoke to me again. I heard the words as written in the parable of the wise and foolish virgins:”There comes the bridegroom, go out to meet Him!” this again happened twice the same night. Shortly afterwards the Lord spoke to me again. The voice came to me twice again one night saying:”Hell to heaven, Baxter.” The next morning, on my first internet search I found the testimony of Mary K Baxter, “A Divine Revelation of Hell.” What struck me of her testimony was that she saw many people in hell who were called to preach the gospel, but they never answered the call. That gave me the fright of my life. I was called at a young age but never answered the call. My wife and I started seeking the Lord in fasting and prayer like never before, seeking for direction.
Jesus spoke to my wife and said we had to organize a rally, BALTIMORE FOR JESUS. Jesus gave instruction that we rent the Ravens stadium. I wrote letters to hundreds of pastors in the Baltimore area, sharing our testimony requesting that we come together and win Baltimore for Jesus. I learned that you cannot even find the pastor's telephone number. They are not available. We had no response. I made contact with many pastors, attended the quarterly breakfast of the pastors association of Eastern Baltimore, presented the vision. None were interested. They wanted to know what was in it for them. There was no way that they would co-operate. I was shocked at the attitude of the pastors. Everyone was just interested in his own little church business – they were poking jokes at each other about doctrinal differences. None of them was serious about Jesus.
Jesus told my wife to write a letter to the mayor of Baltimore requesting that we do a presentation to the business leaders of the city, to win Baltimore for Jesus. There was no reply. We then decided to go on our own, rent the stadium and do the rally. With much difficulty I got hold of the right person at Ravens. He told me it would cost $45,000 to have the stadium for one day in the middle of the week, which was the only time available. I offered to pay up front. When he learned what we wanted to rent it for, he was not interested any more. No more calls were answered. I wrote a private letter to the owner of Ravens, explaining our call and asking his help. No reply. All doors were slammed in our faces.
Then Jesus told us to go to Baltimore harbor on a specific Sunday and go and warn the people. I bought a portable guitar amplifier and microphone. My wife carried a wooden cross (3ft long) with “REPENT” written on it. The harbor area was so packed with people you could hardly move. It was absolutely amazing. My wife walked in front of me carrying the cross. As she walked the crowd would just open a path for us. I would stop every few yards and speak on in the microphone, warning people to repent and prepare. The messages was:”Jesus is Coming. Are you Ready? - Does Jesus know you? Get ready!” As far as we would go, right around the harbor front, it would go silent, people would listen, even those sitting in the restaurants. There was a large sail ship preparing to leave, a large crowd was waving them off. The band was playing, a whole festive atmosphere. When I started speaking all went quiet. People listened. We got to the other end of the harbor at the visitors center. Then a huge crowd started pouring into the harbor area from Camden Yards, they had just come out of the baseball match. The most amazing thing happened. As I started speaking on the speaker it was like you were blowing leaves with a massive leaf blower. The people ran away, like a mighty wind was blowing them. I have never seen anything like it. We then worked our way back to the other end of the harbor as we had come. People still opened up in front of us. When we got to the other side the police were waiting for us. They told us that we are not allowed to do this, not allowed to preach in the harbor area. We had finished what we came for, so we just left.
We went back to the apartment. We had also received a notice from the apartment management warning us not to hand out fliers or witness to tenants. All doors had closed in our faces. What next?
We prayed and that night Jesus spoke to me. He told me to go onto Youtube. I knew nothing about Youtube or about making videos. That day I opened my account, finalcall07 and made my first video. We have been on the internet ever since. In that time Jesus started giving my wife daily messages in English that she also started posting on the internet. Her account is Lastrumpet08. I had 2,300 videos on Youtube when I was hacked by “Christians” and my videos were deleted, that happened in July 2011.
We started to understand why we were sent to the US and why we had been through years of preparation, why I had to go to University to do a MBA degree, why my wife had to learn to speak English. We would learn later why I had to take up my artistic talent and do paintings.
All along we had been living on our savings, paying University school fees, apartment, etc. Our savings were being depleted. One night I had a dream that a gray haired man came to me and said:”I open my house to you. Come live there.” Nothing happened. Six months later a man contacted me and asked to come and visit me. The man came over to our place. He said to me, I must please not think he is crazy but the Lord had laid something on Him and he had a proposal. He said that they had a house that He would like to offer to me to come and live in. I cried. I fetched my journal in which I wrote down the dream of six months before. We had been living in a noisy apartment block, in mean street among mean people. We drove out to the brother's house in the mountains. It was quiet and peaceful, in the woods. They had just recently got internet. The place was wonderful. We moved in six weeks later. The place was fully furbished, the freezer filled with meat and the kitchen cabinets stocked with food. There is a beautiful wood stove. What Jesus had supplied was better than we could ever ask for. We only need to pay electricity, internet and telephone. It is ideal for that which Jesus called us for. We can work seven days a week on the internet without being disturbed. The closest shops are eight miles away, we only need to go out for milk and supplies every 10 days or so.
At that time we also received permanent residence which meant that we were allowed to work. Jesus told me to make Giclee prints of my paintings and start selling them on the internet. We found a nearby scanning laboratory and printer who could do it for us at a reasonable price. I registered a business, created a website and started selling my paintings. Jesus has been sending buyers when we needed money and we even had enough to share with others as well as the IRS. I did not paint any new paintings since Jesus called us – we are busy seven days a week, witnessing on the internet. I have many paintings from which to sell prints.
I have also received job offers, offering more lucrative earnings than I ever earned in my life – these were from networking with people while I was at University. (I have extensive experience in manufacturing and international business management) These we declined because we are here to fulfill our calling, not to build a future for ourselves. If we put our hand to the plow and look back we are not fit for the Kingdom of Heaven.
The Lord has supplied in all our needs, from gifts of venison, to vegetables and even fire wood. We are not on medicare, we are on JesusCare. Neither my wife nor I take medication. We have been sick and we have needed dental care. We prayed and Jesus made a way for us. My wife had a lump the size of a golf ball in her lower abdomen for two years. She was fasting and praying and never even told me about it. One day Jesus told her to feel, the lump had disappeared! Jesus said to her:”I healed you , you trusted Me. I keep you alive.”
Man will not live from bread alone but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. When you live by faith you learn to LISTEN very carefully to Jesus and you don't trust in people. The righteous will live by faith and if he withdraws, the Lord says: “My soul will have no pleasure in Him.”
Persecution we have had, mostly from so called “Christians,” but that is what Jesus promised us. We rejoice in our trials because they work endurance in us. Jesus has never let us down. We have had many dark days and much uncertainty. There have been times that I have said:”Lord I have nothing here, I don't like it here.” My children and loved ones are 8,000 miles away. I have only seen my grand children on Skype and I don't know if I will ever see them in real life. Then the Lord rebuked me and said:”You are here for Me, not for you!”
We have been sent here to warn you: “Jesus is Coming! Are you ready?” We will keep on warning and praying that the Lord delays His coming because there are many who are not ready. Jesus promised us a revival and we hold on to Him. Whether we will see it or not, we don't know. We are just here to serve and to fulfill our calling until our time comes to move on and be with Jesus. Our home is not here, we are just aliens passing through. We hope to persuade many to follow Jesus as we do. There is no other way, but Jesus.
There are countless other things that we have experienced that we will share, with time, if given the opportunity. It is our reality, our testimony of our walk with Jesus. May we endure until the end and not be disappointed on the great day when the books are opened before the throne of our Lord Jesus. In all we are undeserving servants, doing what we were called to be doing. All the glory goes to Jesus.
Thank you for reading/listening.
May Jesus bless you.
On 28 March, 2013, after 10 years in the US and after being persecuted, rejected, threatened with death, Jesus told us to LEAVE.
More than 10 years ago, the Lord Jesus told me to go to the USA. I stopped what I was doing, my profession, everything. I sold my house, my property, gave it away and I went to the US. I did not know why but I knew He had sent me. The Lord told me to go to university and do a MBA degree. There I got to know the American people through and through, the economy, the way people think and I could relate to them.
Then in February 2008 the Lord Jesus spoke to me. He said: "Jesus is coming, are you ready?" twice in one night. Shortly afterwards He spoke to me again. He spoke to me the Words of the wise and the foolish maidens "There comes the Bridegroom go out to meet Him." He spoke that twice, then shortly afterwards He spoke to me again. He said: "Heaven to hell, Baxter." I didn't know what it was about. The next morning I found the testimony of Mary K Baxter where Jesus had taken her on a guided tour of Heaven and hell. What particularly struck me about her testimony was the servants of God that were called and did not answered their calling and they ended up in hell and I knew that Jesus was speaking to me. So I started warning. Me and my wife warned the people in Baltimore where we were living at that time, we went out in the streets. The Lord Jesus sent us to the inner harbor to go and warn the people. There the authorities stopped us and told us that we were not allowed to speak on the streets and I asked the Lord what must I do now? He said to me go onto Youtube. I have been on Youtube sins February 2008 warning America to repent. We have been working day and night for 5 years, twenty four hours a day. I haven't done anything else, no work, nothing. I did what the Lord told me to do.
On March 28, 2013 the Lord woke me up He said to me "You must go." I said Lord please speak to my wife also. So I did not speak to her but the next morning at 5 o'clock when I woke up she was sitting in bed next to me and she said to me:"Has the Lord spoken to you?" I said why? She said the Lord said to me: "We must go now." I said to her:"Yes the Lord spoke to me yesterday already." We wanted to delay our departure to sort out things. The Lord showed me judgment coming on America, a tsunami of the wrath of God. I made 3 very urgent videos, I was crying because I could see millions of people dying. People mocked me and scoffed me and then the Lord woke me up, Tuesday night (April 2, 2013)and He said to me:"WARN THEM NOW." So I immediately got up, I made a video and I warned them, that was 2 o'clock in the morning. The next morning there were many comments on that video mocking and scoffing me. The Lord said to me:"They did not listen to Me they will not listen to you, GO NOW!" So I immediately bought air tickets and I left the country, I left everything. After 10 years I left everything and I just flew out the very same day. May Jesus bless and keep you.
