Anthea (21 Apr 2008)
"For Jim Bramlett and Steve Berryman"


 
Yes! We are also awaiting Jesus as 'a thief in the night' to snatch away His bride in Spring 2008.  
 
We have been privileged to have a young boy (14) in our midst for a short time who had a series of visions about the end-time events, last year from April to mid September.  I believe you will enjoy seeing how they fit in with your views.  I was so thrilled to see them confirmed by your writings which I only discovered this last week as we do not have internet access at home.
Wow!  Our God is awesomely awesome!
 
Background:  We live at the southernmost tip of Africa in a small town and are part of a small assembly of believers gathering in our house.  We are also looking eagerly for the Lord's return, have been for years now.  We wrote down the visions and felt led to post it on our website www.insearchoftruth.info.   You may find it interesting and you may feel free to add our weblink to your site if your spririt witnesses with it.
 
The visions clearly indicate 3 periods of 3½ years each, making 10½ years in total, from the 'calling away' or the 'bride theft' as some call it to the 'Rapture and First Resurrection'.  (The Lord then ordered my husband to write a booklet on that 10½ years and to put it on our website as a 'survival manual' for those who will stay behind.)
 
But this is interesting:  Quite a number of years ago (8 years or more) a brother in the Lord phoned us and told us of a dream he had had.  He was very much in awe and struck to the core by what he experienced God showed him.  In the dream the Lord told him that 'by 2018 everything shall have been fulfilled'.  (Refer to Jesus' parable of the fig tree - Mat. 24:32-35.)   It was so vivid and clear, he was really shaken by the experience!  We kept it in our hearts, waiting for some confirmation.
 
Now if we accept 2018 as the end of this dispensation and the beginning of the Millennium, it makes 70 years (a full generation - Ps 90) since 1948 - when Israel was again established as a nation.   If we accept the 10½ years period and count back from the end of 2018, we end up in the first half of 2008 for the 'bride theft'.  (More specifically, if we put the rapture at the Feast of Trumpets of 2018, the Bride Theft is linked to the Feast of First Fruits of 2008.)
 
Adding this to all the other witnesses for this time, we are beyond excited!  Praying and eagerly watching to welcome Him!
 
In Christ Jesus our Lord
Anthea