JOHN G. LAKE’S MANTLE

Now – I have lived in this mantle since 1994 or twenty-four years. Did it change my life?  Yes, it did. Do I feel it on me?  No.  But this mantle from Jesus has been burning on me, changing my outlook and giftings.

HOW HAS IT CHANGED MY LIFE?

1.  Only two months after the Lord placed the mantle on me, I began going into Heaven.  Yom Kippur was in September.  I began visiting Heaven the early part of December (Hanukkah). Life changing.

CAN YOU REFUSE A MANTLE AND STILL GET IT?

Yes, you can.  I refused that mantle when it was first offered because of righteousness sake.

Remember, David was anointed to be king when he was but a youth. There were many times, after he was grown, that he could have reached out and taken the crown.  But, to him, taking something that, by right was his but having to sin to fulfill that which was promised, would show a flaw in his character.  Even with the king trying to kill him, he would not raise his hand against the Lord’s anointed.  That was pleasing to God . . . not displeasing.

Our Heavenly Father wants righteousness first.  Undercutting a leader – for any reason – is unrighteous in the eyes of God.  Better that you do not receive the blessings of a mantle than to act unrighteously toward a leader in order to receive it.

I turned down receiving the mantle when I first saw it because I had gone to Spokane to stand with our friend.  I believed then and I believe now I chose the “better part”.  Given the same challenges now, I would choose righteousness over the blessing of the mantle any day.

The next time I saw the mantle, the Lord did not give me a choice, He put it on me.

2.  I’ll give you another instance of someone refusing a mantle: Bob Jones.  Bob was a young boy when he was offered a mantle.

He was walking, barefoot down a long dirt road in rural Arkansas when, about a football field away, an angel came down on a winged, white horse.  The angel was wearing armor.

Even though it was a great distance, the angel’s eyes burned into his.  Without speaking, the angel threw down a mantle of skins onto the road and then flew off.

Bob was “scared spitless”.  He turned around, ran home and got under the bed.  He had heard that when you saw an angel you were going to die – because, of course it had to be the Angel of Death.  He knew instinctively that the garment the angel had thrown down was from a dead man and he was afraid that he, too, had been marked for death.  That is the reason he hid under his bed.

Years later, when he came into his prophetic gifting, he wanted the mantle.  So, he asked the Lord for it.

He told me that angels had kept it for him – however, he would add, that for two weeks after he received it, it smelled like moth balls.

When the fulness of time came, both Bob and I received the mantles the Lord intended us to have.

Bob’s came from a black prophet – a holy man in Africa.  The prophet’s son was not righteous.  Therefore, the Lord refused to allow the mantle to be passed down in the family line. When the prophet died an angel took it to Bob.

Bob told me that years later, a young man from Africa knocked on his back-screen door.

Bob went to the door and asked the young man who he was.  The young man said that he was the grandson of the prophet whose mantle Bob wore.  He said that he had come to get his grandfather’s mantle.

I asked Bob – “What in the world did you do?”

He said: “I gave it to him.”

I was amazed for I felt that, now, he was without it.

“No,” he said, “you can give the mantle and yet retain it.”  He smiled: “He has it now – but so do I.”

JOHN G. LAKES MANTLE

With the mantle I received, it had been with John G. Lake for years and years.  It was given to me – but, I am sure that power still remains in that grave.

A QUESTION FOR THE PROPHET

After being in possession of the mantle that came from John G. Lake’s grave site, I was puzzled about how I was making use of it for the Kingdom’s sake. I decided to address my question to Bob Jones.

“Bob,” I said, “I have been wearing this mantle for several years now. I really do not see an increase in the gift of healing through me.  That was John G. Lake’s major gift.  But I do not see that I acquired the gift with his mantle.”

Bob answered: “The mantle was multicolored wasn’t it?”  Perhaps Jesus wanted to emphasize another gift through you . . . writing for instance.  John G. Lake was a writer of books wasn’t he?  Perhaps He wanted to emphasize the writing part of the mantle.  He will stir the healing part of His (Jesus) mantle when He needs it.

Mantles are mysterious and we are just starting to explore them.