Please note: In October of 2004, Pastor Wayne had a unique experience with his wristwatch, where he felt God speaking to Him about the times we are living in. He shared his experience with our congregation, but as the report began to spread, certain inaccuracies crept in. Here is what he shared originally.

Wayne Hilsden, Pastor, King of Kings Community Jerusalem – October, 2004

It happened as I was returning to the Pavilion from a “Simchat Torah” celebration at the end of the Feast of Tabernacles. A new friend had called that morning and invited some of our ministry team to observe nearly a hundred ultra orthodox men dancing under a giant succah. As I watched the joyous celebration of the Torah I became engaged in a deep conversation with my host. Although very religious, and one of the organizers of this Simchat Torah celebration, she started singing some lines from “Lion of Judah,” the title song on Paul Wilbur’s messianic worship album. This was just one song that my host knew by heart from Paul’s albums as well as from our own King of Kings worship recordings. She also told me that she had been attending many of the services put on by the Christian Embassy during the Feast of Tabernacles. She then spoke of how much she loves believers and is so touched every time she is in a worship service. I was quite amazed that such a religious Jewish woman had such a love for Christians and that she loved Paul Wilbur’s music, knowing full well that he is a messianic Jew.

After the celebration I decided to walk back to the Pavilion, which I estimated would take me about 15 minutes. On the way I checked my watch to see the time and noticed it had stopped. Now, it’s not unusual for a watch to stop working. But what was very strange is that after I shook my wrist vigorously to try to get the watch moving again, the second hand started to jump four seconds at a time instead of its former smooth rotation.

In recent years, as I’ve become very sensitive to the Holy Spirit, I’ve started taking notice of many things that happen to me. I no longer assume that unusual occurrences are mere coincidences or accidents. I now believe that the Lord is constantly trying to get through to us and wants to speak to us if we’ll only pay attention. So I said to the Lord, “If you’re trying to say something to me, I’m listening.“ Within moments I had the distinct impression that He was saying: “Wayne, your watch has stopped because I am saying that a former era has now stopped. And in the same way that when you shook your wrist your watch started up again, so I am now shaking everything that can be shaken. And this shaking is the ushering in of a new era in which I will accomplish my endtime purposes. And just as your watch started operating again, but this time jumping four seconds at a time, so I am speeding up the fulfilment of my end-time purposes. It will be like the woman in travail whose contractions are sped up.”

If this wasn’t amazing enough, I remembered that this very same morning the first thing Ann said to me in the morning was, “Wayne my watch stopped.” I didn’t take much notice of this except later that morning when my own watch stopped too. When that dawned on me I called Ann and said, “I’m curious. What time did your watch stop? She said, “At 12 o’clock midnight.” I said, “Exactly at midnight?” Ann repeated, “Exactly midnight.” I said, “Ann did you know that my watch stopped too. And it stopped at 15 minutes to 12.”

Again, I went to the Lord. “What are you saying?” Then I sensed that the Lord was saying to me, “The new era you are now entering is a very short period leading up until My coming. That’s why your watch stopped with only 15 minutes left before 12. And just as you shook your wrist to start your watch so I will be shaking My people and you will see the veil over the eyes of my Jewish people begin to come down very rapidly.”

After the Lord revealed these amazing things, I then remembered the last two religious Jewish people I had spoken to just prior to, and just after, my watch stopped: The first person was my ultra orthodox host who expressed her love for Christians and who sang by heart the song, “Lion of Judah” that she had heard sung by a messianic Jew. And the person I met within minutes after my watch stopped was the most recognized anti-missionary in Jerusalem and he too was an ultra orthodox Jew. As I recalled these two close encounters I sensed the Lord was also saying to me; “The shaking that has begun and has inaugurated this rapid move of the Holy Spirit just before my coming will cause even the eyes of the ultra orthodox to open. In fact, don’t be surprised when you see that it is these who will be so suddenly brought into the Kingdom.”

I don’t often get such a dramatic word from the Lord. And being a very cautious person, I was so reassured when the Lord then brought the following verses to my mind: ‘but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth but also heaven.” ...Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. (Hebrews 12:26, 28)

And then I was reminded that the ultra orthodox are called “haredim,” which in Hebrew comes from the verb, “to shake.” God’s end-time shaking will cause a spiritual awakening among those who appear to be the most opposed to Yeshua, even the Haredim.

Another amazing “God-incidence” is the fact that the Lord led us over a year ago to purchase offices in the Clal building whose windows face north. The first neighborhood in our immediate line of sight from our prayer room window is “Mea Shearim,” the most religious neighborhood on the face of the earth.

One final amazing confirmation that the Lord was speaking to me about the coming to an end of one era and the beginning of another: This word came to me on the holiday of “Simchat Torah.” This is the day when the annual cycle of readings from the Torah ends and then begins anew at Genesis 1:1, where it says, “In the beginning…”