In December of 2008, Wayne Bent was wrongly convicted of criminal sexual contact of a minor and given an 18-year sentence, 10 of which was prison time. There was no evidence presented in court, and no testimony from anyone, that the touching of sexual parts of any minor had occurred.

Wayne Bent appealed his conviction and the Appellate Court then unanimously ruled that the trial of Wayne Bent was illegal and that no trial had actually occurred.

The state then appealed to the Supreme Court and after over a year’s time ruled that there was “no remedy” for Mr. Bent’s illegal trial. The Supreme Court sustained the illegal trial and the wrongful conviction and returned the case to the Appellate Court for consideration of eight additional issues.

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Dear family,

I am writing to you from a personal standpoint today. I pray that this is my last writing, for reasons you will understand as you take in the picture of my events.

Until the Anointing came upon me in the year 2000, I see my life as somewhat ordinary. I was happy to go along and do as best I could, pastoring within our church mostly from my place of writing, except for campmeetings, since we were scattered all over the western United States.

But when the Anointing brought the “change” upon me, nothing would be the same again. My experience of life is quite extraordinary since then, even from my own perspective. I often study my own experience and meditate on what happened to me to try and understand the transformation and even the “translation” I experienced from one world to the other. I received a letter from a brother the other day that reflects some of this. I will share part of it here.

And the Final Fulfillment of Their Messages

Dear family,

On February 23, as I lay upon my prison bed, a prophetic progression was opened to me in a very simple manner. I had not been contemplating or thinking about this subject at all, but now Father just kept bringing the three angels of Revelation 14 to my mind, and it was in the light of what He took us through during our time in the land.

You will remember that Father took us through the 3 angels’ messages before. Those three messages had been like Father’s great cleaver of truth, and they resulted in separating us from the congregations of those who didn’t love truth more than their own life, and in bringing us together as a church family in 1987. At the time, we didn’t know that God had sent those three angels to harvest us and was leading us through the fulfillment of their messages — until He had brought us through their progression of events and then drew us to them, showing us what He had done. We could then look back and clearly recognize each angel’s message and how God had brought us through it.

The truth is obvious if one only has his eyes open. In the first grade I learned to read and add 1+1 and get 2. From then on everything was obvious. I know what the law and Constitution say because I can read. Education is a horrible thing for a dictatorship. Someone eventually checks up on the facts and the devil has to hide.

Of God’s people it is said, “For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to counsel him? But we have the mind of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 2:16. Again, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” Phil. 2:5. We are given to think and reason as Jesus thought and reasoned. We are anointed with the very same Spirit that Jesus was anointed with. For us, justice is related to what is true, but it is only the mind of Christ that can know that.

Dear little family,

We have now entered the period of the world’s time of trouble. Prophetically this time has been called, “the great time of trouble.” (Jer. 30:7, Dan. 12:1) I know we are entering this event because Father recently showed me the prophecy which marked the beginning of it, which I will be sharing with you here. However, the godless inhabitants of the earth cannot readily see these things, for if they can watch a ball game and drink a beer they believe they are doing well. If the stock market shows improvement where the rich get richer, they feel good about themselves. They do not realize it, but their perceived happiness actually comes from a silly, drooling stupidity as to what constitutes true joy. Those of the churches of this earth are also just as blind to real, spiritual events. Even though the events God prophesied are coming to pass right before their very eyes they cannot see them, for they have their various religious activities which make them feel good about themselves and like everything is going along well. This is why the final destruction will be a surprise for them. They were not watching for the telltale signs, so the flood comes in a moment and sweeps them all away.

The Words of God to His Son, and with the Spirit of the Comforter;

“My son, when you come to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for trials. Be sincere of heart and steadfast, undisturbed in time of adversity. Cling to him, forsake him not; thus will your future be great. Accept whatever befalls you, in crushing misfortune be patient; For in fire gold is tested, and worthy men in the crucible of humiliation.” Sirach 2:1-5, NAB.

The words of the state (the beast) and the spirit of antichrist, against the Son;

“Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us; he sets himself against our doings, Reproaches us for transgressions of the law and charges us with violations of our training. He professes to have knowledge of God and styles himself a child of the Lord. To us he is the censure of our thoughts; merely to see him is a hardship for us, Because his life is not like other men’s, and different are his ways. He judges us debased; he holds aloof from our paths as from things impure. He calls blest the destiny of the just and boasts that God is his Father. Let us see whether his words be true; let us find out what will happen to him. For if the just one be the son of God, he will defend him and deliver him from the hand of his foes. With revilement and torture let us put him to the test that we may have proof of his gentleness and try his patience. Let us condemn him to a shameful death; for according to his own words, God will take care of him.” These were their thoughts, but they erred; for their wickedness blinded them, And they knew not the hidden counsels of God; neither did they count on a recompense of holiness nor discern the innocent souls’ reward.” Wisdom 2:12-22, NAB.

The Words of God in the Spirit of Christ, against those who rule and judge, in answer to their assault against the Son;

“Hear, therefore, kings, and understand; learn, you magistrates of the earth’s expanse! Hearken, you who are in power over the multitude and lord it over throngs of peoples! Because authority was given you by the Lord and sovereignty by the Most High, who shall probe your works and scrutinize your counsels! Because, though you were ministers of his kingdom, you judged not rightly, and did not keep the law, nor walk according to the will of God, Terribly and swiftly shall he come against you, because judgment is stern for the exalted - For the lowly may be pardoned out of mercy but the mighty shall be mightily put to the test. For the Lord of all shows no partiality, nor does he fear greatness, Because he himself made the great as well as the small, and he provides for all alike; but for those in power a rigorous scrutiny impends.” Wisdom 6:1-8, NAB.

“At this point in the proceedings there is simply no adequate remedy.”

To my dear family,

I want you to know that my heart goes out to your present difficulties, whatever they might be. I have had a “time of trouble” also, but all of this must be. I want to share with you a few of my thoughts and opinions concerning the recent Supreme Court’s ruling. I think their ruling had some far-reaching implications and consequences.

The court stated, “At this point in the proceedings there is simply no adequate remedy.” As you know, this relates to the illegal Grand Jury. But you and I know, and the Appellate judges knew, and my attorneys knew, there was an adequate remedy. It was the same remedy carried out hundreds of times in history when the Grand Jury was not legal. The remedy is that one throws out the wrongful charge, seats a legal Grand Jury and carries out the trial according to the law. For some strange and unexplained reason the Supreme Court did not want to follow the law in this matter. But there is something even more strange. We requested a legal Grand Jury before trial and the judge denied our request. We also tried to get a higher court to consider our request but that too was denied. Now the Supreme Court rules we should have remedied that before trial. Truly, something smells bad in all of this. I personally don’t believe we are dealing with honest people. In the oral arguments one of the judges asked, “How do you un-ring a bell?” Well, you don’t have to. You just ring it again right.

Yet I have considered these things carefully and I believe that it was God’s will. God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, for it was time to bring Egypt into judgement. I believe God also hardened the Supreme Court and blinded their eyes for a very real and practical purpose, which I will share with you. As I have shared with you before, God has used me for judgment. How that is carried out is, how men judge me is how God will judge them. Truly, God set up an awesome parable that is reflected in the biblical verse, “…inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren you have done it to me.” Matthew 25:4.

Today, October 22, 2012 — the anniversary of The Great Disappointment of the Millerites one hundred and sixty-eight years ago — I received the judgment of the Supreme Court in my case, overturning the ruling of the Appellate Court. The opinion was read to me over the phone. I considered what was read to me and gathered a general, non-legal overview of the Supreme Court’s opinion.

It is clear that the judgment of the Appellate Court was according to the law. It was a clear, honest judgment that reflected a strong, moral compass, something a citizen could trust in, to respect and follow. But the Supreme Court, with the stroke of a pen, while acknowledging my trial was not according to the law, basically stated it does not actually matter. The Supreme Court admitted that the nation does not follow the law strictly, any longer, as in the old days. Yes, my wrongful and illegal Grand Jury, which clearly prejudiced my case, was ignored. The laws of the Grand Jury were made to protect the defendant from abuse by the state. The time limit of the Grand Jury was like a stoplight. The Supreme Court decided that running a stoplight does not matter.

In my own estimation there is no reason to believe now that the other eight issues in my appeal will make any difference to a court that does not regard the law. It won’t matter that there was no evidence for my “crime,” since the wrongful juries indicted and convicted me and it is now “too late” to undo it. It won’t matter that the DA withheld information from the Grand Jury because it is “too late” to remedy it. No, since the law is not strictly regarded, it won’t matter that my trial was illegal. The experienced Appellate judges are simply relegated to the house of fools.