MAN WITH A VISION FOR OUR BELOVED NATION. (Part 1)
18-Apr-2008
Pastor Tuburuarua Apolosi Qalilawa is a retired church pastor. Early last year (2007) he had an amazing and overpowering vision while lying on the floor of his home. Pastor's dramatic vision has been told to many of the nation's leaders, in the church and in government.
Yesterday, Pastor Qalilawa called into the Fiji Daily Post and recounted his vision for us. An edited transcript is published here with pastor's permission:
The Vision Continues:
Through my vision, I believe God is talking to all the people of Fiji as one nation. There was corruption among the godly people of Israel too.
So God's message to us is the same as it was to them: 'If my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins, AND WILL HEAL THEIR LAND' (2 Chronicles).
As my vision went on, I saw people still staring at the Decalogue that was shining in their eyes.
They also inclined their ears toward the sound of the vucu or meke.
I took a few steps to the right to sit down and rest and as I looked down, I found some old heaps of cardboard. Underneath them, I saw new bank notes.
I picked up a few, but there were heaps. I sensed that I had found a fortune for our beloved country and for all our people.
As I looked at the notes they increased in heaps and heaps.
Billions of dollars seemed to be there. But I noticed something peculiar about the money. They were not the currency of Fiji; they were different notes, not from Fiji. I was surprised then when one of the chiefs stood up in front of me.
He was dressed in masi. He whispered to me, 'Throw them away the notes, get rid of them, they have no value'.
I realised they were Asian notes, Chinese notes. I looked at the chief straight in the face and shouted with an angry voice: 'It's money for our nation; we need it now. The government needs it; the people need it'.
The chief bounced right back with a command: 'Leave it alone, we don't need it. It is valueless. I'll show you something you need'.
Then he disappeared.
I stepped aside once more toward the vatuniloa - to my right.
The echoes of singing by the people in the shed still echoed around the setting and the third D - Decalogue - was still shining fast across the whole sky.
As I watched it grew bigger and bigger.
Now, what I saw next was not shown to others in my vision - no one else saw it except me and the chief who had warned me about accepting the notes and wealth from China and the rest of Asia.
It was this: I took a few steps to the right and saw some other pieces of cardboard and wood lying on the ground in heaps. I became tired and had to sit and rest.
As I did so, this pile of cardboard seemed to be swaying.
This caused me to stand again and to my astonishment I saw that I had sat down on a one-thousand dollar coin (saqa moli). I heard the chiefly voice again.
It said: 'That is the money you are sitting on. Start with it all over again and work hard. We are going to start again'.
The voice continued to echo slowly to my ears: 'Start again. Be content with what you have now. Look before you go, now go and open that'.
I looked and it was something like a big mail-bag with a golden knot fastening it.
The voice continued: 'Go and open it - see what is inside'. I followed the command and opened the bag up.
To my amazement, I saw three things glittering inside. First, at the bottom was something like a black liquid. It was shining. There were two other things inside shining as well.
I was asked: 'Have you seen it?'
'Yes', I responded.
'Close it now, for the time is near'.
I did so and then tried with all my best power to lift the bag into a more secure place.
Instead, I was told: 'Don't touch it. There is no machine in this whole wide world that will be able to lift it. It is for the nation. It is for my people. It is for the government. For rich and poor, for all classes that live in the nation. Leave it as it is. But listen, there are three conditions which if met by my people will enable them to claim it for it is already theirs'.
As I listened the three conditions were told to me as this:
(TOMORROW: The vision completed)
PASTOR TUBURUARUA APOLOSI QALILAWA
Source: Fiji Daily Post
Editorial: What, as the prophet Daniel once asked, is 'the true meaning' of all this?
MAN WITH A VISION FOR OUR BELOVED NATION. (Part 2)
19-Apr-2008
It was early in the morning at about 3.30am in my home in Naveiwakau where I was shown a vision from God. It was customary for me to wake up early every morning to pray at that particular time for our nation, our people, the leaders of our government, and chiefs of our beloved country. After prayers each morning I usually walk a few kilometers to a health institution to conduct short devotions.
It was on the 7th of February (2007) at 3.30 in the morning I lay on my back facing the ceiling when I saw a bright light.
Then came the vision. Things were shown to me in sets of three. The first set was of three different groups of people:
1. First, a group of chiefs was sitting on a newly developed flat ground with a big bure standing behind them;
2. The second group was of soldiers on parade with three heads of the military government on parade to my left. One head stood on each side of the present Interim Prime Minister who, standing in the middle, was dressed in civilian clothes. The officer to the right seemed to be the former PM of our country, Sitiveni Rabuka. The officer to the left was the Land Force Commander, Colonel Driti.
3. The third group was composed of representatives of the church. The ministers of three different denominations stood in front facing the officers of the military. It was if they were on parade too. All were silent. I looked toward the soldiers and the officers eager to know what would happen next.
I stood amazed as I noticed the former Prime Minister, Rabuka's face turned towards the Land Force Commander and he nodded his head for him to take command.
Unfortunately Colonel Driti tried three times to talk, but in vain, he couldn't open his mouth to give the command. His face was swollen with the effort, but he couldn't talk. After the third attempt, Rabuka himself tried to issue the command, but his effort was in vain too.
To my great astonishment darkness fell and lightning flashed from the sky with a big thunderclap.
It was a great noise and something like handwritten alphabet letters flashed and stood fast above the three leaders of the military.
This was the second set of three in my vision: three letter D's - two in red and one in green lit up the whole sky. It fell quiet and all of the people in the vision started to stare up at the three letters in the sky.
Two of my Christian brothers who were standing beside me took quick steps backward. I turned to wave them to come back, but in vain - they were gone. I stood alone, amazed and was eager to know what it was all about. Then I heard voice speaking to me saying 'stand still, don't hesitate, and don't move - look up and see the three Ds'. 'The first D represents Democracy'. 'The second D represents the Decree'
As I looked at the third D, the first two, the first and second D's were swallowed into the third D and they grew dim and vanished.
There stood the third D - a green, big and bold letter.
I heard the voice again which said, 'The third is the Decalogue of God. That D will stand forever. God the Creator in his own time will intervene. The law of God or the Ten Commandments of God represents the character of God the Creator of the Universe itself. People who are called by my name from every nation, tongue, class or creed are to bow before me here, saith the Lord'.
That was the first phase of the vision I received.
Remember to bear in mind that this was a vision from above. Nothing, I promise, has been added to it. It is pure - direct from above for our nation.
I was summoned by Him prior to the vision. The vision is not for me to hide or be ashamed of for its time is at hand. This vision is to be told to government leaders, the churches, chiefs and to all of the people of the nation.
Remember that God repeated these words to me: 'I will intervene in my own time'.
In my vision I stood alone facing the three high officials of the military [see Part 1, yesterday] - Driti, Rabuka and the present Interim Prime Minister.
The Interim Prime Minister stood in the middle of the three already dressed in the official civilian clothes of a Prime Minister.
As I saw this, I look around at the chiefs of our beloved country who were sitting on the ground. I saw one of them stand up and signal them all to stand up and leave that place immediately.
But a few of them stood up too, raising their hands and signaling the assembled to remain seated and to watch the hand-written DECALOGUE - the third D [see Part 1 yesterday] - of God that was still standing fast across the sky.
I then heard the voice again in my vision which said, 'Tell them that it is I the Lord God Almighty who has been leading the world, not man, even though circumstances may arise that people may query about'.
'Don't hesitate to tell them that nations will rise and nations will fall'.
'Kings will fall all into the hands and control of the Almighty God'.
The most important thing I heard was this: 'DO NOT FEAR WHAT IS HAPPENING - FEAR ME, YOUR GOD, FOR I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END'.
'Democracy's time has gone for now, and now, it's the time of Decree'.
'But remember to tell them that I am in control of the universe'.
I was thus reminded again and again of the command: 'Go and tell them I will take over, I will intervene'.
To me, this message is unique and for the nation to know about.
The vision wants us to look at the content of the Decalogue.
I can recall God loving the world that he gave to his Son to die for us as a people and a nation.
I thought also of the words of Jesus when he asked his followers: 'If you love me keep my commandment'.
Let us be assured that God loves this nation, Fiji, and all the people in it.
How can we respond to that unlimited love of God Almighty, the Creator?
Everything then stood still and it seemed there was a pause for a moment.
I thought I was standing alone. A new sound echoed around the ground.
The facial expressions of every head including those sitting and the soldiers as well as the three leading officer looked brighter and much happier.
I heard it too - the sound of an old melodious vucu or meke.
It sounded good to me and the facial expressions of the assembled told me too.
I stepped to my right and saw a newly built vatuniloa (i.e. shed).
A few persons dressed in white clothes were sitting and singing and old European man also dressed in white was conducting the song. I stood amazed at
the scene and looked toward the chiefs and the soldiers. Their faces were turned towards the brightness of the third D above the three leaders - the word Decalogue - which was shining above them. As they were looking up at it, they all had their ears inclined to listen to the melodious sound of the vucu coming from the vatuniloa. I asked myself what's all this about? What is happening?
I then heard the voice again: 'Can you hear the words used in the vucu?'
'Yes', I replied, 'I can hear it'.
'It's the message from God from the Book of Revelation and it says "Fear God and give him glory for the hour of his judgement is come; and worship him who made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountain of waters".
This vucu in the gospel of Revelation 14 verse 7 was being repeated again and again for us.
I asked myself why was the vucu or meke with its strange melodious voices of a few people, echoing across the whole place.
Then I heard the voice again.
It said: 'The Angel's message is for the world and the nation'.
'It is sung in vucu so it fits the ears of all those who are desperate to hear and know the words of God'.
'The gospel has to come down to their level of understanding'.
And why the conductor, I asked.
I was told: 'The gospel should be going out faster for the time is at hand'.
Yes, I was able to understand the voice's message and I thanked God.
The message was crystal clear: "Fear God and give him glory for the hour of
his judgement is come; and worship him who made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountain of waters".
What I understand is this:
1. Yes, it is time for this nation to fear God.
2. It is time for our beloved nation to glorify God.
3. It is time for the judgement hour message of God which is now going on in heaven.
4. It is time to worship the Creator rather than created things.
The solution for everyone's problem in Fiji, for all people of all classes and individually, is to turn to God - 'Fear Him and give him glory'.
I say that if this nation inclines their ear to hear once more the melodious sound of the warning of God in Revelation 14 we will see what our Mighty God has promised to do for our nation.
Just as it says in 2 Chronicles: 'If my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins, AND WILL HEAL THEIR LAND'.
Yes, God's promises never fail mankind. He says it and he promises to do it. Likewise for our beloved country.
Through my vision, I believe God is talking to all the people of Fiji as one nation. There was corruption among the godly people of Israel too.
So God's message to us is the same as it was to them: 'If my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins, AND WILL HEAL THEIR LAND' [2 Chronicles].
As my vision went on, I saw people still staring at the Decalogue that was shining in their eyes. They also inclined their ears toward the sound of the vucu or meke. I took a few steps to the right to sit down and rest and as I looked down, I found some old heaps of cardboard. Underneath them, I saw new bank notes. I picked up a few, but there were heaps. I sensed that I had found a fortune for our beloved country and for all our people.
As I looked at the notes they increased in heaps and heaps. Billions of dollars seemed to be there. But I noticed something peculiar about the money.
They were not the currency of Fiji; they were different notes, not from Fiji.
I was surprised then when one of the chiefs stood up in front of me.
He was dressed in masi. He whispered to me, 'Throw them away the notes, get rid of them, they have no value'. I realised they were Asian notes, Chinese notes.
I looked the chief straight in the face and shouted with an angry voice: 'It's money for our nation; we need it now. The government needs it; the people need it'.
The chief bounced right back with a command: 'Leave it alone, we don't need it. It is valueless. I'll show you something you need'. Then he disappeared. I stepped aside once more toward the vatuniloa - to my right.
The echoes of singing by the people in the shed still echoed around the setting and the third D - Decalogue - was still shining fast across the whole sky. As I watched it grew bigger and bigger. Now, what I saw next was not shown to others in my vision - no one else saw it except me and the chief who had warned me about accepting the notes and wealth from China and the rest of Asia.
It was this: I took a few steps to the right and saw some other pieces of cardboard and wood lying on the ground in heaps.
I became tired and had to sit and rest.
As I did so, this pile of cardboard seemed to be swaying.
This caused me to stand again and to my astonishment I saw that I had sat down on a one-thousand dollar coin (saqa moli). I heard the chiefly voice again.
It said: 'That is the money you are sitting on. Start with it all over again and work hard. We are going to start again'.
The voice continued to echo slowly to my ears: 'Start again. Be content with what you have now. Look before you go, now go and open that'. I looked and it was something like a big mail bag with a golden knot fastening it. The voice continued: 'Go and open it - see what is inside'.
I followed the command and opened the bag up.
To my amazement, I saw three things glittering inside. First, at the bottom was something like a black liquid. It was shining. There were two other things inside shining as well. I was asked: 'Have you seen it?'
'Yes', I responded.
'Close it now, for the time is near'.
I did so and then tried with all my best power to lift the bag into a more secure place.
Instead, I was told: 'Don't touch it. There is no machine in this whole wide world that will be able to lift it. It is for the nation. It is for my people. It is for the government. For rich and poor, for all classes that live in the nation. Leave it as it is. But listen, there are three conditions which if met by my people will enable them to claim it for it is already theirs'.
As I listened the three conditions were told to me as this:
1. 'Look to the Decalogue. "If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follows all his commands I give you today, the Lord you God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God" [Deuteronomy 28: 1-2]. Look to what the chiefs and government are staring at - it is they who should listen and obey and trust me. If they do as I command, I will open it'.
2. 'The wealth or fortune is for preaching the everlasting gospel to the nation and the other nations will come from all over the world because of the wealth, but they will bow down before Me here'.
3. 'The money is also for the debts to be paid in love for your brothers, the Indians, who were brought over to work hard for a better Fiji. They are your fellow human beings created in the image of God. They have to be shown my love for I love them too. They will sense the agape love of God and they too will worship the One God, the Creator of the universe'.
(NEXT WEEK: Qalilawa explains his vision)
PASTOR TUBURUARUA APOLOSI QALILAWA
Source: Fiji Daily Post
MAN WITH A VISION FOR OUR BELOVED NATION. (Qalilawa explains his vision)
21-Apr-2008
Pastor Apolosi Qalailawa is a retired church pastor. In February 2007 he had an amazing and overpowering vision while lying on the floor of his home next to his bed-ridden wife. She was ill with cancer and passed away subsequently. Pastor Apolosi's dramatic vision has been told to many of the nation's leaders, in the church and in government. Last week, Pastor Apolosi called into the FDP to relate his vision to us. We shared that with the nation last week.
Remember that the third phase of my vision was towards the hidden wealth in three forms.
The first was in liquid form.
The other two were like solid rocks glittering as they lay in the bag shown me.
I saw this wealth came from the top of the ground and from under the ocean bed.
According to my vision, God's character is to be revealed first to the leaders of our government, the chiefs and then all the people of the nation.
Some of the people reading this may ask: 'what is the Decalogue all about?'
It is the Law of God, the Ten Commandments written by the hand of God.
All life on this planet is regulated by laws that are real.
Some of these laws are invisible, are spoken, and are not written on pieces of paper, parchment or stone.
But they are real laws nevertheless.
God imparted these laws to every life form, but to Adam, the first human, the precious masterpiece of creation, he gave a knowledge of the great and basic principles of right living which later became embodied in the Ten Commandments.
Certainly Abraham knew of them because four centuries before Sinai it is said of Abraham that 'he obeyed my voice and kept my commandments, my decrees and my laws' (Genesis 26, verse 5).
But during Israel's captivity in Egypt, knowledge of God's rule of conduct gradually faded away.
A restatement became urgently necessary.
Hence the majestic scene on the mount of God when the supreme lawgiver came down and talked with Moses and gave him two tables of testimony.
These were tablets of stone written by the finger of God (Exodus 31, verse 18).
Upon these two tablets, written were the Ten Commandments which were divinely designed for humankind's well-being, to direct us in the paths of righteousness and preserve us from evil.
The Decalogue or the Ten Commandments is found in the Bible in the Old Testament book of Exodus, chapter 20, verses 3-17.
For the people of Israel, for all the nations of the world, and including this beloved nation of ours, at this point in time, knowledge of God's rules of conduct is fading away.
An urgent restatement is now urgently necessary.
Hence, I say again, that majestic scene on the mount of God when God came down and talked with Moses and gave him the Decalogue, the law.
For Fiji, as a nation, this same handwritten law - symbolised by the third D - was shining above the scene I saw in my vision.
It is a reminder to us, to all the people of the nation, to chiefs, to the leaders of government, leaders of all churches and religions, rich and poor, all races and classes of people who are part of our beloved nation.
I say something is going to happen next and it can be good if this solemn warning of God to the nation is respected.
But it can be far worse than anything we have experienced for our nation if this message falls on deaf ears.
It is only God the Creator who is able to see the future.
Ours is a future of either prosperity or dark destiny.
To say it again, obey God or something is going to snap soon in our beloved nation for people of all the nations in the world to see.
As Amos (chapter 3, verse 7) put it: 'Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets'.
God knows the future as perfectly as he knew the past.
Isaiah (chapter 42, verses 8 and 9) says 'I am the Lord, that is my name, and my glory I will NOT give to another, neither my praise to graven images. Behold the former things are come to pass and new things I do declare before they spring forth'.
He also says: 'I tell you of them again - remember the former things of old: for I am
God and there is none declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that are not yet done saying my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure'.
When God was challenged by other sources or other Gods, God responded.
As he says in Isaiah (chapter 41, verses 21-23), 'Present your case; set forth your arguments'.
God challenged all false gods and their equally false prophets to bring forth their strong reasons.
'Let them bring forth and show what will happen'.
'Let them show the former things, what they will be that we may consider them, and know
the latter end of them'.
'Or declare to us the things to come, show the things that are to come hereafter that we know you are Gods'.
Thus to our nation with utter confidence, God declares his knowledge of the future of our nation and all the nations of the world.
What proofs are there in support of our future?
(TO BE CONTINUED)
PASTOR TUBARUARUA APOLOSI QALILAWA
Source: Fiji Daily Post
MAN WITH A VISION FOR OUR BELOVED NATION. (Qalilawa explains his vision)
22-Apr-2008
Pastor Apolosi Qalailawa is a retired church pastor. In February 2007 he had an amazing and overpowering vision while lying on the floor of his home next to his bed-ridden wife. She was ill with cancer and passed away subsequently. Pastor Apolosi's dramatic vision has been told to many of the nation's leaders, in the church and in government. Last week, Pastor Apolosi called into the FDP to relate his vision to us. We shared that with the nation last week. This week, Pastor is explaining the meaning given to his vision.
THE VISION EXPLAINED - Part 2:
Yesterday, I concluded by saying that when God was challenged by other sources or other Gods, God responded. As he says in Isaiah (chapter 41, verses 21-23), 'Present your case; set forth your arguments'. God challenged all false gods and their equally false prophets to bring forth their strong reasons. 'Let them bring forth and show what will happen. Let them show the former things, what they will be that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them. Or declare to us the things to come, show the things that are to come hereafter that we know you are Gods'.
Thus to our nation with utter confidence, God declares his knowledge of the future of our nation and all the nations of the world. I asked, what proofs are there in support of our future?
Let me continue then by reminding you dear reader that only God is the Creator.
Only he is able to see the future. Not only sees the future, but knows the future perfectly. As perfectly as he knows the past.
So let me now remind you too that this vision was shown to me twice on the same morning.
The first time I was shown it I was confused as to whether it came from God or from the spirit of the Devil. This confusion is because the Devil can work miracles and can produce counterfeits to the truth of God's word.
For a moment I thought seriously about this possibility. But I sought God's guidance and a sign from above to prove that my vision came from on high. As I lay back facing the ceiling, to my powerless amazement, the vision came upon me again.
But this time it ended with a command: 'Go tell it to the government leaders; go tell it to the chiefs of our nation; go tell it to the leaders of all churches; go tell it to all people of the nation'.
The command continued: 'If you don't go and tell, someone else will go and tell, and you'll be a sad man'.
It took me nine long months now to pray and still seek God's guidance for I was commanded to tell, but the time to tell was still with God.
But now I am convinced that this vision is from God and his timing is right.
Ephesians chapter 6, verse 12 says, 'for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places'.
Here we are warned of forces working against humankind and we would be hopeless without the help of God.
Let us be very clear then on what the Bible says concerning spirits so there is no confusion on this subject.
1 John chapter 4, verse 1 says 'Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into this world'.
So how can we find out whether a person is led by the spirit of God or one of these false spirits?
In Isaiah chapter 8, verse 20, we are directed 'to the law and to the testimony'.
That is, 'if they speak not according to the word, it is because there is no light in them'.
In 1 John chapter 3, verse 1, we are told that in these days of peril we are not to accept everything that men bring to us for consideration as truth.
Professed teachers from God who come to us declaring that they have a message from God must be tested. It is proper for us to inquire carefully.
Jesus himself warned 'false prophets shall arise and shall deceive many'.
But we need not be deceived for the word of God itself gives us the test whereby we may know what is truth.
'To the law and to the testimony' is what it says.
'If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them'.
From these statements it is evident that it becomes us to be diligent students of the Bible that we may know what is according to 'the law and testimony'.
To our nation and all nations, the Lord has given humankind a rule by which to detect false prophets.
If they pay no heed to his will - to the law and to the testimony - if they belittle the law of God, if they ignore his will as revealed in the testimony, they are deceivers.
Let me repeat that I was commanded to give a warning about the dilemma the nation is facing right at this moment.
First, I say again that God's intervention toward our nation is what the Decalogue I saw in my vision is all about - that third 'D' that was shining high above our leaders which all were staring at, transfixed.
And what were the first and second Ds - democracy and decrees?
Why were they swallowed up by the third 'D', that third D that represented the
Decalogue, the law of God, the Ten Commandments?
Ecclesiastes chapter 12, verses 13 and 14, says this: 'Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter - fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man'.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
PASTOR TUBURUARUA APOLOSI QALILAWA
Source: Fiji Daily Post