Summary: What is a True Prophet? Can a Prophet appear as light while bending the Light? Is there a real Prophet of God in America today? What will America face in the future and what does a certain Prophet say? Can you find a real man of God whose Prophecies are 100 % accurate? I have come across such a person. But with all such men who appear as Prophets, do you accept them without scriptural proof?

Paul says that he was “born a Jew”. He also adds, he studied under “Gamaliel”, and followed the Law blameless. Paul knew his heritage. He also knew that when confronted with Jesus Christ, all this was vanity. He found grace and salvation. He was then sent to the Gentiles, as their apostle.

I too, know who I am. I was born of solid German heritage with a mixture of Norwegian and dutch. My Grandfather was an atheist, but one who had rock solid morals. He was featured in the paper, LA times many times, was the first “fire chief” in Catalina, the City Manager, and the sea ranger. But it was my grandmother who was “born Again”, and was in the Azusa street revivals where my Dad was saved. To this day my dad remembers the walk and being born again.

I also did not ask to be born Gentile, nor an American, nor have the parents I did. But God, who is rich in mercy, thought well ahead and made it possible for the heathen Gentile to have hope. Scripture says, “In Him, Messiah Yeshua, the gentiles would Hope”. It is in that Messiah I put my hope and trust today, who revealed a Father in heaven who loved us.

While the Jew had names for God, Jesus Christ came and revealed this God, who was seen many times as harsh, judgmental, and fierce as a loving Father. Jesus taught the Gentiles and Jews to pray, revealing the Lords Prayer. While many do not know what to call this God, Jesus told us to call him our “Father”.

It is to this Father, I have come, In Jesus name. He has dealt with me as a son. At times he has corrected me, with results that taught me not to do something. He has dealt with me with love and compassion, forgiving me of stupid mistakes I have made. I walk today, only by the Fathers grace, which sent me hope through Jesus Christ our Lord.

I have been in the largest of Christian meetings in America. I have had the top and most popular of ministers pray for me, laying their hands on me. I have been in the largest healing evangelist meetings in the nation and been prayed for by that person. My family and I have been in smaller meetings where we have seen the power of God. In all this I am familiar with men and women who claim to know God, have visions, and be a prophet or apostle. As a fact for the record, I do not like the Americanized word or station of the Prophet or Apostle, as many times the prophecies are inaccurate and teachings misleading. This is because, in all my gathering in such meetings, disappointment and unbiblical events shroud the experience.

So when a man appeared that was a Jew, who had open visions, and heard the audible voice of God. I wondered about it. This man appeared to be a prophet. Who, even against the judgment of some who knew I did so, I called a prophet and believed him. God has called me to “watch and declare what I see”. I never saw this Prophet in meetings; I never shook his hand, nor spent any time in person with him. I called him a prophet based upon very long phone conversations. While he was talking, I was judging and observing. I was taking him in and seeing what he said corresponded with scripture.

While I know this Prophet doesn’t talk to people on phones very long, and that his time is full. When talking to me, it took time, much too much time. I know that this could have irritated him, but he never said anything. I talked to him and even brought up subjects, pushing a little to see what he would say. If this man was a prophet, then I had to know. If he had a Word for the Gentiles I must know. If he had something special to say, I must know. So, armed with this, I deliberately talked at length. I came to understand a number of things. But there also came many things that he did not say.

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The scripture warns us of false Christ’s, false prophets, and false teachers. Coming, they will bring deceptions, signs that point to another. Paul warns us of another Jesus, another Gospel, and says that if an angel of God brings another Gospel, which there isn’t another gospel, let him be accursed. So it was with these warnings in mind that I talked to this apparently new voice in the wilderness. He spoke of a new time when God, upon sending judgment upon America would take the church by surprise. This came as no surprise to me, as I knew “the smelter of the Lord in the land of free” was coming. I even wrote a book about it called “D Day for America”, Xulon Press. I too had had God speak to me. But not as the Lord had done with this man. Nor had I been to foreign nations, nor speak or prophesy to leaders. I have had miracles, but not as what followed in the meetings this man held. So I, without seeing these things, believed him to be as he said. Thus, I wanted to know more about what this man had to say.

You cannot, however, tell the Gentiles nor the churches all they have been doing for years is wrong. Nor tell them they have to keep the commandments, which in Gentile speak means keep the law, without explaining it in detail with scriptural backing. Nor can you tell them to keep a particular Sabbath, when scripture tells us in the New Testament another side to it. Now I won’t list the scripture, nor do I push the Day of Sunday instead of the Sabbath. But to a gentile, when is the real Sabbath? How come Jesus broke the Sabbath and now a prophet tells us to keep a Sabbath? If we are to keep the Sabbath, keep the commands, and even the feasts or special days, how do we do it? What are the feasts?

The bottom line is, many in the Gentile church may be following an Americanized Gospel. They will be in the “smelter of the Lord”, but for many of them, as I truly believe, when faced with trials and even death, will stand up for Christ. Many will say, “Live or die, I am the Lords”. The Lord will not forsake the Gentiles, whom he has saved, whom he died for. I too, will live or die, in the Lords will, the Lords way, the Lords hand. I cannot but believe this, that the Lord will make it clear for us Gentiles.

I have listened to every radio interview this Prophet has done. In all of it, we can hear what is coming, what the Lord showed him in open visions, angel visits, and the voice of God literally speaking to him. Now all this I do not doubt, as I believe he is as he says. However, in the back of my mind, also in my heart is the need for scriptural backing. There is also the warnings I mentioned above. While I wrote a book detailing in almost two hundred pages this “smelter of the Lord”, this Prophet spoke of in detail coming judgments. Among them are “a piece of California falling into the pacific and the President declaring a day of mourning”, the coming of “the bird flu, which will kill many in the USA”, “the need to be ready”, and many other prophecies.

There is no doubt we are living in a nation bridled with lusts, carnal Christians and churches, debauchery, and like unto Sodom. It can be also said; the Lord is sending us ministers of justice called Prophets, Watchmen, and others who are warning this nation and the churches of what is coming. When I first took this journey to warn America and the church, I did not know how many voices were warning as I was doing, of what was coming to America. As I did not choose America, nor my parents, I am still American, but first I am the Lords. So live or die I am the Lords. What say you?

As I recollect this Prophet today, I do so with the words of this title “True Prophet or bending the Light”. This man is a true Prophet who is declaring the Lords word, as are many others today. Calling repentance, holiness, and dedication to the Lord, however, be warned there are many today that do bend the Light. The end time passages found in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21 are full of the warning to “Watch”, from which I get my own “Watchman” title to warn America and the Church. To find out more about this Prophet, go to our web sites and find articles on “Prophet Tom Deckard” or email me. We have a special section with his interviews and two I did on him for our WARN network.

..The Watchman Dana G Smith