Dear John and Doves,
 
I have a lot of dreams lately - feel led to share this one with you!!
 
In the dream I was speaking to my mother-inlaw who's been dead for almost 20 years. I said to her that "since you went away, everything's changed!!" We have to do NIGHTWATCHING now so that they dont steal everything we have. (The house was surrounded by small little shacks/informal settlements - like the one's in Darfur's refugee camp).
 
I sence that the Lord wants to tell us that:
1) the dead will rise at a time when there will be a lot of refugees - struggling to survive;
2) that He will come like a thief in the night (1Tess 5:2)
3) we'll have to do some nightwatching - like Paul said "So then, let us not be like others who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled."(1 Tess 5:6)
4) The dead will be raised first at the SECOND COMING - Paul warned the church of the Thessalonians : "Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction" (2 Tess 2:3)
                                           BUT:
5) "For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work: but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way" (2 Tess 2:7)  (THE BRIDE AT THE RAPTURE?)
 
Love and Greetings in Yahshua
Anson