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Friday, August 11, 2017

The Dreamer Dreamed (A Story that Contains Prophetic Words from God) (PART 14) - The Attack -


The Dreamer Dreamed 
- The Visions of Judgment 

(A Story that Contains Prophetic Words from God) (PART 14)

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This is a short story about a young man named Steven who was given dreams 
from God that reveal truth God has shown me (the writer) that His Church needs 
to hear. Though this is written as fiction, the words spoken by Jesus are actual words 
that God showed me. So, this is not just a fictional work. It applies to our current 
world and to the Church. I encourage you to seek God about this to find out what He 
would show you about this story.


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Chapter 11

The Attack

Steve was translated or moved quickly to a spot about three hundred feet above coastal water. A few miles away, the sandy beach of the California coast appeared. Palm trees swayed in the sea breeze and some sailboats plied through the water. The sun caused the sea to sparkle as it rolled up and down in a perpetual undulation. Then, Steve looked directly below him and saw a large, dark shape below the surface of the ocean crawl to a stand-still. It looked like a huge whale, but this was much larger than a whale. Now, Jesus took Steve down toward the water.

“Jesus, I don’t want to drown,” he said as he saw the water closing in.

“My son, you won’t because this is a vision,” Jesus said.

Steve descended through the water and saw small fish darting here and there, in a frenzy. The dark shape of a conning tower loomed off to his left, and the hull of a large submarine drew closer. He was somehow able to see the inside of the submarine without being physically present. A flurry of activity had been set in motion within the submarine. Men spoke in Russian, giving orders and acknowledging orders. [See the "Note" at the end.]

Steve somehow understood that orders had reached the submarine from top-ranking military officials, who themselves had been given orders from the highest visible authority in the Russian government. Officers were moving about from one control panel to another, overseeing a complex procedure. Lighted buttons were being pressed by crew members while the commanding officer and executive officer gave orders.

Steve lost track of what happened next, but he felt the submarine begin to shake. Suddenly, he was moved up through the submarine and into the water above its launch tubes. A hatch flew open and a missile blasted through the water, churning it up as it rocketed skyward. A second hatch opened, followed by a third. The water churned and boiled as missiles blasted up through the depths. Steve was drawn up through the water and into the air above the sea. Exhaust trails snaked through the air, coming from the ocean surface directly above the nuclear submarine.

Then, Steve was moved forward, and accelerated, up into the atmosphere, to an incredible speed of 180,000 miles per hour. The continental United States passed by in a blur of colors. In seconds, Steve saw California and the arid Great Basin of Nevada, zip by. The Great Plains and the Midwest with its farm fields, deciduous forests, and sprawling cities raced by. In seconds, the New England states appeared.

Steve slowed to a stop and tried to see where he was at. He could not tell exactly what state it was, but he could now see a large military base spread out below him, about a hundred feet beneath him. Suburban neighborhoods that seemed to stretch out from a city center reached up to the perimeter of the military base. Steve was not familiar with military bases or their locations, but he could tell it was a significant installation.

Something made him think to look up, and as he did, Steve noticed a white line of smoke appear in the blue sky above. It was an exhaust trail from a missile. He knew all too well what it was. In seconds, it descended toward the base and detonated into a blinding flash of light and smoke about eighty feet above the ground. A deafening explosion pulsed through the air, following a powerful shock wave that knocked buildings over as if they were toys.


Vehicles flipped like paper models in a strong wind, scores of feet from the blast. Windows shattered farther away. People were instantly vaporized near ground zero. In seconds, most of the base was reduced to rubble. The stone buildings that still stood were missing windows that faced ground zero. A huge column of dust, ash, and debris rose up into the atmosphere and began to enfold on itself into an iconic mushroom cloud. Steve knew that if he had been there in real life, he would be fried.

A second exhaust trail appeared in the sky, and a missile rushed toward the earth faster than a bullet. It detonated above the city center and pulverized the downtown area in a bright ball of heat, high pressure, and intense radiation. A powerful boom shook the air seconds later. The destruction was awful and shocking. It was as if a small star had crashed into the earth. Steve couldn’t comprehend why the Russians had launched the missiles. [See the "Note" at the end.]

As he thought on this, he noticed a second cloud of radioactive dust, ash, and super-hot air that was ascending into the atmosphere. In a short time, it would cool off and rain down radioactive dust and ash on the surrounding areas. This would be inhaled into lungs and would cause radiation poisoning. People’s organs would begin to fail and hemorrhage.

Steve wanted to ask his Lord a question, but he was suddenly moved to the Atlantic coast of the United States. The coastline of the east coast appeared below. Nestled within a wide inlet sat a huge, sprawling naval base with ships at anchor. It appeared to be somewhat busy with men and equipment moving about. Suddenly, an explosion turned the calm scene below into a nightmare. Within a few seconds, the main part of the base was torn to pieces by a powerful shock wave and intense radiation. A second nuke detonated, followed by a third. Within half a minute the entire base was reduced to rubble.

Three white columns rose high up into the atmosphere, enfolding as they cooled. Below, the installation resembled a section of the lunar surface. Charred skeletons of buildings some distance away, surrounded by wreckage, stubbornly maintained some semblance of the military base that had existed only seconds ago. Figures in the distance were running for cover.

Suddenly, Steve was snatched away from that sad location and found himself hovering several hundred yards away from the Statue of Liberty in the Upper New York Bay. He could see Manhattan with its glistening skyscrapers and graceful bridges across the water. The non-stop flow of traffic, which ran through the streets of New York City, reminded Steve of ants in an ant colony. Millions of people worked, played, and ate within those structures, oblivious to the destruction Steve had just witnessed. Then, Steve shuddered at the thought that those millions of people with their majestic towers might be destroyed in a few seconds of time, sent to eternity before they knew what hit them.

Small boats crisscrossed the bay, creating frothy wakes, avoiding large container ships, which were guided by tugboats. These merchant vessels were brought toward the city dockyards, with their costly cargoes. Food, apparel, shoes, trinkets, and widgets were waiting in all those shipping containers to be eventually purchased and placed in the homes of the New Yorkers and the people living in the northeastern half of the United States. Steve knew that this city is the largest in the United States, and was one of the most important cities in the U.S. It had started out as a Dutch colony but soon began to grow into a prosperous trading town and immigration hub.

A super-loud explosion suddenly erupted, sending a shock wave through Steve’s body. Before Steve’s eyes, a bright, expanding sphere of gas melted the glass and steel buildings in Manhattan with a temperature of 180 million degrees Fahrenheit. This blistering temperature was equal to temperatures found within the sun. In seconds, it had erased whole neighborhoods within Manhattan. Several more nukes rained down on the metropolis, turning the famous skyline into a wasteland. The boroughs of New York City swiftly turned into radioactive debris with columns of very hot smoke rising above, and somewhat resembling geysers. Queens, The Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn each resembled a wasteland or landfill. Staten Island was mostly untouched, but radioactive fallout would likely settle on it within an hour or less, depending on the wind.

“This couldn’t be happening,” Steve thought. “How could such an important and wealthy city as this be utterly destroyed?”

“My son,” Jesus said, hearing his thoughts, “what you are seeing before you is what shall happen in the near future because New York City and all of America has greatly hardened its heart against Me. I have pleaded with it to repent, but most of the people in your country have resisted My Spirit, and hardened their hearts against Me.

“Most have refused to repent, and refused to seek Me, even though I have been pleading with them and warning them. Most do not want to forsake their idols, and forsake their hobbies to seek Me and know Me intimately, and personally, as their best Friend. Instead, they want to pursue sin and depravity. Instead, they want to follow their own will, over Mine. Instead, they want to forsake Me, and choose sin and rebellion.

“Instead of humbling themselves and trusting in Me for salvation, they have trusted in their own works to save them. They have delighted in the pleasures of sin, and have chosen to forsake Me. I will continue to plead with them and call out to them, but the time is getting shorter and the days are closing.

“Soon, very soon, you will begin to see these things happen in your nation, and you will hear of judgment strike your country in very severe ways because it is not repenting from its wickedness. Soon, you will hear of such destruction and calamity as will make your ears tingle. That is what shall happen to your nation, but those who seek Me and turn to Me will be led into places of refuge and safety, where I will provide for them. But, those who refuse to seek Me will be warned and pleaded with, but they will go into judgment. Their homes shall be taken from them and given to others.

“Their wives and children shall be separated from them. Their houses shall be destroyed and burned with fire, with their belongings. I shall continue to call out to them, but these things shall happen to those who will not repent. I am pleading with your nation to repent. But, I cannot continue to plead before the judgment strikes. So, warn your family about these things. They need to hear this. And, I the LORD your God have spoken.”

Steve took it in and thought about what his Lord just said. He could see from other parts of this vision that people were resisting God, and that they suffered as a result. If only they would turn to God, he thought, then God would lovingly receive them and forgive them.

“My son,” Jesus said with kindness and love, “I will now take you to a scene that will represent the majority of the pastors in your country, and will show you their hearts. They have compromised with the world so much that when it comes down to it, they will compromise with the kingdom of the Antichrist, and with the deception of the Beast, if they were still to be alive at that time. But, judgment will fall on them shortly, unless they repent from compromising with the world and with false brethren. Now, we will visit a special location to give you an idea of their ungodly hearts.”


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The scene of destruction was swept away, and Steve instantly found himself floating above a congregation of people within a large church building sanctuary or auditorium. A speaker was standing behind a pulpit on which he had placed a Bible and some notes. He was speaking to the crowd with eloquent speech that seemed to keep his listeners engaged.

But as he spoke, Steve noticed something very unusual. A demonic creature appeared standing behind the speaker, and mimicking the speaker’s exact movements and facial expressions. He appeared to be influencing or controlling the man as if the speaker were a marionette or some kind of puppet. Other demons were wrapped around the man’s body.

The master demon had black goat-like hoofs; legs that resembled a goat; black, bat-like wings; a man-like head with a long goatee and pointy horns on his head; and scaly skin that was dark-grey in color. He wore a leather kilt that hung to his knees and carried a sword in a scabbard, which hung on a leather belt. Steve shuddered to think that this man was being controlled or influenced by demons.

The demons evidently did not see Steve because they were looking at the crowd below and were working nimbly with their living puppet. Snake-like specters crawled around the speaker’s neck while gecko-like imps crawled over his arms and back. They resembled real-life snakes and geckos, but they had dark-grey skin and red, glowing eyes.

Apparently, no one in the audience noticed the demons, so Steve understood that they were invisible to all people except for him, in this particular vision.

The speaker paced back and forth, speaking calmly and sometimes enthusiastically about his topic. As Steve listened, he became very appalled at what this man was saying.

“We’re free-thinkers,” the speaker said, motioning to his audience, “and 21st century Christians, who are open-minded. We are not close-minded to new ideas. We are positive and open to new truths that will be brought before us by the wise of this world [“Footnote” A.]. Truth changes over time, they say. So, we pastors should learn to adapt to the way truth is being perceived now. Years ago, we used to speak of sin, but now we believe that what society called sin before is really just a perception of what is not socially acceptable.

“In other words, sin is simply what is not socially acceptable, or what most people agree to be wrong. So, if the consensus agrees that something is fine, then we can agree with them, so that we can be relevant to them. We don’t want to look different than the world, so that we can win them to Christ. Isn’t that the Gospel? We become all things to all men [See “Footnote” B.].  We conform to the world’s tastes, live in conformity to society, and bring the world into our churches, and the world will come to church.”

The man paused and looked over his audience, smiling. He asked them, “Do I have this right?”

Some said, “Amen, brother.” Others simply nodded in agreement.

The speaker continued, “If the world is not cool with our worship music, no problem. We’ll just change our worship style to meet their expectations. I think you would all agree. Why give them old songs when popular culture is moving on to new styles of music? Didn’t King David say in the Psalms that he liked to sing new songs? [“Footnote” C.].

“Some members of your churches might be offended at this teaching, and especially about your speaking on controversial social topics, but don’t let their rhetoric turn you off from your mission. You have a lost world to win for Christ, so don’t let anyone stop you. If some members of your church want you to preach sermons about Hell, tell them that you are concerned about lost souls that might be offended, and that might never want to come back to church again. They should understand.

“If they don’t, let them leave your church. You don’t need those people. Hell is for the devil and his demons. It isn’t for the human race. God is tolerant of people, isn’t He? He’s not willing that any should perish [“Footnote” D.]. Forget Hell and forget preaching about repentance. That is old fashioned and offensive to our present-day society. …”

This appeared to be a pastor’s conference, Steve realized, but it was very troubling to view. What this man was saying disturbed him. He looked to Jesus who stood beside him.

My son,” Jesus said, “this man had fallen away due to pride, deception, and greed. He has forsaken the right way, and gone after Balaam, which is a curse to him. Instead of seeking Me, he is seeking his own agenda and his own goals. He loves the praises of men more than My praises.

“Speaking with smooth words and a double tongue, this man utters falsehoods that seem to have truth backing them [“Footnote” E.]. But, it is deception. Lost souls need to be shown the true Gospel that saves. They need to know that Heaven and Hell are real places, and that Hell brings eternal suffering for the unrepentant soul, and Heaven brings eternal blessing for the soul that trusts only in Me for salvation.

“Souls must learn the truth about Heaven and Hell to understand why I died on the cross for them. It is not about conforming to the world to win them over. The apostle Paul would be greatly offended to think that his words, which I placed into his mind, were being misused to support sin [“Footnote” B.]. I never intended for these Holy Scriptures to support conforming with sin. This is an abomination to Me.

“I do not want My Church to live like the world. I want them to come out from the world, and be separate from its evil ways [“Footnote” F.]. I say in My scripture not to love the things that are in the world, and that any man who loves the things that are in the world shall be destroyed, for the ways of the world are destructive to those foolish enough to pursue them [“Footnote” G.].

“Sin is always going to be sin. I do not change My Word. My Word remains the same. When I had Moses bring the two stone tablets up into Mount Sinai, I wrote on them with My own finger the Ten Commandments. These holy commandments existed from the beginning of the time that mankind was placed on this earth. Cain killed his brother Abel, breaking the commandment not to kill. Abraham broke the commandment not to lie, for he spoke a half-truth to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, when he went down to Egypt with Sarah his wife.

“He said that she was his sister, but she was his wife. Now, it is true that she was his half-sister, but she was still his wife, and he was leading Pharaoh to believe that she was available for his harem. He did this out of fear for his life, thinking that Pharaoh would kill him to take her to be his wife because she was very beautiful, even for an older woman. I corrected Abraham for that sin, and he repented.

“The sin of adultery and incest committed by a man in the book of 1 Corinthians was dealt with in the way Paul wrote to deal with a person who commits this sin. Such as person was to be rebuked and shunned until he repents. For such a person to be part of a Church would only bring the Church into contempt with My Word, and into disgrace in the community in which it existed. The people in Corinth shunned this ungodly man, and he repented.

“And, he was restored to fellowship after he repented. For, he truly repented and truly had a change of heart. He forsook that sin of adultery and incest with his father’s second wife, who was not his mother, but was certainly his father’s wife. The false churches of your time would allow such a wicked man to continue living in sin and would not separate themselves from his company.

“In Corinth, they followed Paul’s instruction to separate themselves from him, and he felt convicted and repented. But, in the case of the false churches, they would accept him, and the whole church would become more and more wicked, and more and more ungodly, because many of its members would forsake Me, and turn after sin.

“The false churches shall become worse than they have ever before, and shall accept Sodomy, and fornication, and adultery like never before. They shall never speak against any sin, but they shall grow bolder in their error and in their wicked ways. They shall preach messages to draw foolish souls into the fires of Hell by way of their deceit, and cunning, and manipulation of the scripture, and by way of appealing to popular sentiments.

“That is indeed what they have done, and what they shall do. And, I shall have to judge them for this. I am grieved with their hearts, for I see that I shall have to judge them very soon. And, I the Lord your God and Abba Father have spoken, because I am One with God the Father.


Steve pondered what Jesus had just said. It was sad that so many people had chosen to forsake the Bible, and follow the teachings of men instead.


My son,” Jesus said, “let us now go to a certain place where you will see why I will have to judge your land, and why it will be great destruction that comes to America for all its evil and rebellious ways.
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[Note: Russians are not the enemy, neither are the Chinese. Both are people just like you and me. But, God will use Russia and China to judge wicked nations, which will not repent from their rebellion against Him.]


Footnote:

(A.) 1 Corinthians 3:19-20 says: 
"[19] For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. [20] And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain."

(B.) 
1 Corinthians 9:18-23 does not justify sin or conforming to the world to bring people into God's Kingdom. Romans 6:15-16 says: "[15] What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. [16] Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?"

(C.) 
Psalm 96:1 speaks of singing a new song to God. It does not justify worldly music.

(D.) 
2 Peter 3:9 which speaks of God's desire that all men might be saved does not say all will be saved. Romans 10:13 says "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." The people who call on the Name of Jesus Christ will be saved. Acts 4:12 says: "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

(E.) 
Psalm 10:7, Romans 16:18, and Psalm 144:11 all speak of deceivers.

(F.) 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 teaches to separate from the world and from its ungodly ways. 

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 says: "[14] Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? [15] And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?"


(G.) 
1 John 2:15-17 says: "[15] Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. [16] For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. [17] And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever."

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