Wedding Rings

[Steve Epley]

Originally Posted by Felicity

In a way this story about the ring being destroyed reminds me a bit of the faith healers who come by and pray for peoples joints and indigestion problems when they're sick with other things that could kill them.

Why would God destroy a ring in that manner when there would have been issues such as pride, jealousy, immorality, infighting, contention, division and so on much more important, serious and threatening and that needed the Lord 's attention much more than the presence of a ring on somebody's finger.

Please!

Now for the rest of the story. Elder Wiliams at that time has the Apostolic Bible College if not the first one of the first in the UPC. Men were pressuring Elder Williams to relax his standard against wedding bands since people from all over the nation were coming to college there. A man out of the Tulsa church had married a lady from the North who put her own ring on and refused to take it off. Elder Williams said that the outside pressure had gotten so great that morning he had decided to relax his stand and as he made his way to the pulpit NO ONE knowng what he was going to say this woman screamed out her ring had broken in pieces and fell into her lap. When Elder Williams told the congregation what he had planned to the the power of the Lord fell in the congregation for hours. Mock if you want but Gid gave this sign to show this congregation the stand he had made was correct. Elder Bean had been there preaching and it had upset the woman. My memory may be foggy on all the details but in summary this is what happened. I am told at LIfe Tabernacle a prophecy was given and the power of God fell and revival exploded during Elder Bean's revival and the stand Elder Kilgore took on rings at that time. The prophecy was given that Life Tabernacle would effect the world and Pentecost because of this committment after that Search for Truth was born. Mock if you want(not speaking of Felicity she is too much of a lady to do that.) But signs have always accompanied moves of God.