Plucking the Eagle's Wings

Prophecies Involving America's Presidents

"The Lord wouldn't let me sleep last night. He said you had a particular need." She asked, "Would it be all right if I advanced my tithe to the church for six months?" The six months tithe was $64.00 and covered the overdrawn account at the bank. This was a faith-building incident for the Matthews family. It was later discovered that the banker was having an affair and had been juggling the accounts. The bank went out of business and the banker went to jail, while the church continued to be blessed! Mary also lived in the same town as the writer Erskine Caldwell. He is noted for writing God's Little Acre and Tobacco Road . Caldwell's father was a Presbyterian minister in Wrens, Georgia. Erskine attended the Saint Matthews Church of God to hear Mary preach and, after hearing her, he would write articles about her sermons and print them in the Augusta Chronicle. Mary evidently crossed Caldwell in some way and he began writing negative things about her. Mary would refute his writings with Scripture in the Macon Telegraph, which had a larger circulation. When he felt that he had lost the battle with Mary, he wrote the novel Tobacco Road . The main character, Betsy, was based upon Mary's life. Revelations Concerning the Presidents Years before John Kennedy announced he would run for president, Mary began preaching that the president following Eisenhower would be a Catholic. She based this on a dream that she had in which the dome roof of the White House was covered with black crows and each one had a padlock on its beak. She asked God what this meant and the Holy Spirit revealed the interpretation: "This is a padlock to put on every Protestant church door in America." Afterward, she felt a Catholic president would rule from the White House. Years later, John Kennedy became the first Catholic President of the United States. Because Kennedy never finished his presidency, it is uncertain how this would have played out. Yet today, we know that the Catholic Church is the head of the National Council of Churches and Catholic leaders consider the church to be the one true church of Christ on earth. Perhaps the most unusual event regarding Mary's life concerns President Dwight D. Eisenhower. One night while in prayer, Mary received a dream that she knew was from the Lord. There had been some disturbances in Turkey and the Middle East. Mary wrote the details of

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