"...there
shall be left in it a remnant who will be brought out..." (Ezek. 14:22)
INTRODUCTION
Dream of
January 22, 1990. This dream portrays the remnant Church in America
emerging unharmed from a catastrophic nuclear attack. God guides the
remnant Church through the post nuclear attack aftermath and confirms His
foretold destruction upon a once great nation, the Lady of Kingdoms (Isa.
47:5). The Interpretation, Interpretive Scriptures, and my Personal
Testimony follow this dream.
DREAM
It was nighttime, and
totally dark. However, I was able to clearly distinguish what I saw. I
stood in the midst of a vast scorched environment on the side of a road
watching a multitude of people of various ages approaching from the left.
These men and women wore current western style clothing and appeared
strong and healthy. No two persons walked together, nor did any one person
talk to another. Their total silence was most extraordinary, and more
interestingly, there were wide spaces of approximately five feet between
each person. I did not recognize anyone, and after observing them for a
while, I suddenly found myself walking in their midst.
The landscape and
environment through which we walked were one of total devastation. A
catastrophic event had occurred that left the environment, buildings,
homes, properties and landscape in ruins. There was no evidence of
electricity or burning bon fires in the dark anywhere. Uniquely, we were
able to observe even the smallest details of the horrendous destruction
around us near and far away in the moonless night. We walked through what
probably had been either neighborhoods, large metropolitan areas, large
and small places of commerce, and perhaps some recreational parks. We also
walked in the midst of wide-open fields with only a few occasional houses'
or buildings' foundations remaining in the midst of the rubble. There was
no sign of life nor evidence of skeletal remains. (In a more current
dream I saw several TREMENDOUS fire explosions occurring throughout the
vast landscape, one explosion after another. I also saw people, properties
and buildings go up in flames. Evidently, these explosions were nuclear
missile strikes. People turned into torches right before my eyes.
Properties, buildings, vehicles, etc. erupted into flames while I stood in
the midst of an inferno as a mere observer. I was not burned or harmed.)
As we walked, we
repeatedly glanced to the left and to the right. No one paused, or slowed
down. It seemed as though we were on a conducted tour. Countless enormous
and smaller buildings' steel girders were greatly twisted out of shape or
practically melted. Almost unrecognizable were cars, trucks, public
transportation vehicles and other types of transportation of all various
sizes whose steel frames were bent out of shape and totally contorted.
They had been destroyed by intense heat. Highways and overhead highway
passes were broken apart, disconnected or nonexistent for the exception of
the remaining, almost total or partially "decapitated," vertical cement
supports. We witnessed utter devastation, charred ruins, chaos and
desolation.
Throughout all that we
attentively observed, no one spoke a word or expressed a mournful sound.
We seemed to have an understanding of what had occurred, and were not
grieved about it. We often looked up to observe remains of what at one
time must have been tall buildings. We looked around at all the debris and
wreckage that laid everywhere. Yet, and strangely, however, we walked on a
very wide unlittered path. It was as though a newly paved road had been
laid down in the midst of the ruins for us to walk on while we observed
the surrounding chaos. It was an endless observation of charred
destruction, endless ruins, rubble and ashes. These sights were all too
familiar to many of us. Still, no one spoke, and the eerie silence
continued except for the sound of our footsteps.
After an endless period
of observation we began to see a faint hint of dawning light in the sky
ahead of us. We changed our focus of interest and directed our attention
ahead as the sky quickly became brighter. We sensed excitement building up
in our midst as we became focused on the sky. Then, instantly, we
were all dressed in long white robes! I quickly became aware that we were
walking on wide open white grounds. We began to revel in the increasing
brightness of the sky with tremendous excitement while running and
sounding forth loud boisterous cries of joy while repeatedly crying out,
"JESUS!" We became delirious with excitement and ran toward an even
more overwhelming Light, almost as if we were soaring. While the Lord
Jesus did not appear before us in person, we instantly knew that THIS
WAS THE RAPTURE!
INTERPRETATION
The multitude of
men and women coming out of the post nuclear attack ruins and destructions
are the salt preservative within America: the remnant Church of Jesus
Christ of Nazareth. (See Ezek. 14:12-23 in Interpretive Scriptures.)
This is in line with what the Lord had told me in June 1998 as I was about
to post
http://www.do-you-love-me.org/wsomers/gjoa-2.html that summer: "My Church will be kept here to preserve
this nation during its judgment." Their presence and faithful
integrity (see Job 27:3-6) during America's nuclear attack
preserves her from total extinction, after which man will still be able to
walk throughout the land, even as scorched and desolate as it will become.
MATTHEW 5 (13)
"You are the salt of the earth."
MARK 9 (50)
"Salt [integrity] is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you
season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another."
I compare what I saw in
this dream to post WW II bombed out sites and post atomic destroyed
environments of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. The destruction of a once
thriving culture and illustrious nation which had been mightily blessed by
God, a giant among nations, was tragic. Her shining glory had
departed. Words fail me in trying to further describe these doomed
and catastrophic scenes. They were horrendous to behold, and this emerging
multitude of men and women are the remnant Church to whom God had
previously revealed His declared judgment upon America (Babylon) in
His Word (Jeremiah 50, 51; Revelation 18) as well as through
visions, dreams and prophecies. They had already grieved in their hearts
through prayer about this approaching calamity as God had repeatedly
revealed it to them. However, it was futile to pray against it because "it was written" in God's Word. Their call as watchmen was to warn
the Church of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and the world of impending
judgment. (Ezek. 3:16-21) What they now witnessed was the full
prophesied manifestation of God's wrath (His JUSTIFIED spent anger)
upon a disobedient, faithless, sinful, decadent and rebellious nation
because she had wilfully departed from God, rejected His Word, and mocked
His grace. (Yet, all along she sang, "God Bless America.") She had
legalized the killing of babies in the womb through abortion; legally
ruled prayer unconstitutional in the schools and banned the public display
of the Ten Commandments throughout the nation; openly exhibited
acceptance and approval of sodomy, even the ordaining of homosexual
ministers and performing homosexual marriages in some of the churches, and
then allowing those couples to adopt children; abandoned herself to
material idolatry, and prostrated herself to the worship of money. The
tragedy of it all was that on her currency she had once declared "IN
GOD WE TRUST" and yet that same currency became HER trust which
she worshiped as her god. (Continue with the following scripture of
Romans 1:24-32)
INTERPRETATIVE
SCRIPTURES - NKJV
ROMANS 1 (24)
- (32)
PSALM 46 (8)
Come, behold the works of the Lord, who has made desolations in the earth.
(10) Be still, and know that I am God;...
PSALM 76 (7)
You, Yourself, are to be feared; and who may stand in Your presence when
once You are angry? (8) You caused judgment to be heard from heaven; the
earth feared and was still, (9) when God arose to judgment...
JEREMIAH 18 (7)
"The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to
pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, (8) if that nation against whom
I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I
thought to bring upon it. (9) And the instant I speak concerning a nation
and concerning a kingdom, to build it and to plant it, (10) if it does
evil in My sight so that it does not obey my voice, then I will relent
concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it. (11) Now
therefore, speak,...saying, 'Thus says the Lord: "Behold, I am fashioning
a disaster and devising a plan against you. Return now every one from his
evil way, and make your ways and your doings good." ' " (12) And they
said, "That is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own plans, and
we will every one obey the dictates of his evil heart."
MATTHEW 23 (34)
"Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes..."
LUKE 10 (16)
"He who hears you [My servants] hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me,
and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me."
JEREMIAH 25 (4)
- (7)
ISAIAH 5 (20)
- (25)
JEREMIAH 22 (6)
-(9)
ISAIAH 3 (9)
The look on their countenance witnesses against them, and they declare
their sin as Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have
brought evil upon themselves.
ISAIAH 1 (9)
Unless the Lord of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would
have become like Sodom, we would have been made like Gomorrah.
EZEKIEL 14 (12)
-(23)
ISAIAH 3 (24)
And so it shall be: instead of a sweet smell there will be a stench;
instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well-set hair, baldness; instead of
a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty. (25)
Your men shall fall by the sword, and your might [power; strength] in the
war. (26) Her [America, the Babylon of Rev. 18] gates shall lament and
mourn, and she being desolate shall sit on the ground [lie in ruins].
LAMENTATIONS 5
(15) The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance has turned into mourning.
(16) The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
EZEKIEL 12 (21)
-(28)
EZEKIEL Chapter
7 [The reader is well advised to read and
study this extremely graphic chapter which describes the Babylonian
conquest over Israel. It is a preceding present day commentary on
what America (Babylon) will soon endure through great woe,
humiliation and suffering.]
JEREMIAH 17 (5)
-(13)
ROMANS 1 (18)
- (23)
ACTS 10 (42)
"And He [Jesus] commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that
it is He who was ordained by God to be Judge of the living and the dead.
(43) To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, whoever
believes in Him will receive remission [forgiveness] of sins."
ROMANS 6 (23)
For the wages of sin is [eternal] death, but the gift of God is eternal
life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
JOHN 5 (19)
JOHN 11 (25)
Jesus said..."I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me,
though he may die, he shall live. (26) And whoever lives and believes in
Me shall never die."
JOHN 14 (6)
Jesus said..."I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the
Father except through Me."
MATTHEW 11 (28)
"Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest. (29) Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and
lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. (30) For My yoke is
easy and My burden is light."
ACTS 4 (12) Nor
is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven
given among men by which we must be saved.
ROMANS 10 (13)
For whoever calls upon the name of the Lord [Jesus Christ] shall be saved.
PERSONAL
TESTIMONY
During a desperate time
in my life and not knowing Christ as my Savior, I dreamt three powerful
and vivid dreams in May, June and July of 1975 which are too lengthy
to describe. Briefly, in the first dream I was told that I had to change
my ways. (I was deeply involved in the occult and witchcraft.) In
the second dream, Jesus appeared before me and beckoned me to come to Him.
The third dream was as follows: an enormous ancient book of an
approximate size of twenty-four inches in length by sixteen inches in
width, and about eight inches thick materialized before me, suspended in
mid-air. A golden aura surrounded the enormous Ancient Book. With the
bound edge of the book to the left, the black leather cover opened from
right to left by itself. I beheld O-L-D ivory colored pages with
Hebrew writing neatly written on each page. I had seen many Jewish
newspapers when I lived in New York City and recognized Hebrew writing.
(A Hebrew book is read in reverse; the bound edge of the book is at the
right. Therefore, I was being shown this book starting at the end. Since I
am living in the end time, that was the stage from where God wanted to
begin His instruction in the Ancient Book, slowly taking my understanding
back in time to where He had already foretold and made His sovereign
declarations.) As ancient as this book was, there wasn't one smeared,
creased, torn, dog-eared or a corner-ripped page. It was absolutely
perfect in appearance. The same powerful Voice that spoke to me in the
first dream began to speak in an instructive tone and said, "From this
time on I will..." and then the Voice continued, however, speaking in
a different language which I did not understand. I stood before the
Ancient Book intently looking at each page while the Voice spoke
instructively without end. The dream seemed endless and the pages
continued turning by themselves, one at a time, momentarily pausing so
that I could quickly gaze at both pages. Eventually this seemingly eternal
dream faded while the awesome Voice was still speaking in the strange
language.
Thereafter, for a
whole year following those stunning dreams, I entered into a deeply
anguished walk under the shadow of death. Those dreams were instrumental
in preparing and leading me to finally understand that my deepest
need was God's grace, mercy, hope, peace and strength found only in His
Son, Jesus Christ. I responded to Jesus' beckoning call in the dream of
June 1975, accepted Him as my Savior, and surrendered my heart and my life
to Him fourteen months later on August 30, 1976. I received the Baptism of
the Holy Spirit on October 11, 1976. From that time forth, the Lord has
ministered to me not only through His Word, but through dreams which
continue to this day. From 1989 to 1994, I received a series of dreams
which made absolutely no sense to me. I did, however, discern that most of
them were end time dreams. The Holy Spirit prompted me to write and file
them away. During an approximate period between 1994 and 1997, it never
failed that whenever I opened any Bible anywhere it almost
always fell open to the Book of Jeremiah! After this began to occur
repeatedly I discerned in my spirit that the Holy Spirit was prompting me
to read Jeremiah. I did, and also reviewed both the major and minor
prophets until He called me to begin research work on the Web in May 1997
for
http://www.do-you-love-me.org/wsomers/gjoa-1.html and other subsequent posted dreams on the Web. Also in
the fall of 1997, through a pastor, He prompted me to begin working on
those dreams I had filed away a few years earlier. (I sought
interpretative assistance from Pastor Paula Cavu for only
http://www.do-you-love-me.org/wsomers/ju9h.html.)
Since 1997 I have
searched the scriptures so as to present those which the Holy Spirit shows
me agree with what God is revealing in each dream and is saying to the
Church. I am deeply convicted in my spirit that part of those
instructive words which the Voice spoke to me in the third dream of July
1975 have a strong and overwhelming objective toward this end.
Therefore, I urge (exhort) my brothers and sisters in Christ to
heed (pay attention to) God's Word in these crucial and spiritually
quenched desperate times we are living in. Do not be deceived, and do not
lean on the arm of the flesh or on your own understanding. Judgment upon
America is at hand. Listen to what the Holy Spirit is saying to the Church
of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and heed the Word of God as declared
in: (Hebrews).
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