I had a dream last night.   It all happened rapidly; I saw a beach at night; where there seemed to be a group of young people; Christians of various sorts who were observing the sea slowly encroaching upon the dunes as some sort of tidal flooding was beginning to ensue.   It seemed there was rain arriving; but nothing appeared out of the ordinary.   There was an urgent evacuation being shouted-to those not expecting anything; a seemingly maddening rush out of there (some sort of seashore in the Eastern US; probably New Jersey).   I don't remember much of that part except people being surprised to barely make it out of there (I am not sure if everybody did who didn't heed the warning).   The next part I remember is a sort of historical movie brief of a history of sorts of persecution in the Middle East; of Jews I would assume; although not necessary limited to Israel being persecuted.   Nonetheless, th! e Islam ic violence among small groups of people was sort of viewed by those in America as a sort of sideshow; or documentary where everyone seemed to shrug it off and ignore the issue; perhaps feeling the distance of such persecution to our shores and America was not meriting their attention.   The last two clips or so were of the last year or so.   Immediately afterwards; there was a brilliant white/yellowish light in the southern sky; rapidly ascending in a sort of north/northwesterly direction; I had assumed it was during the day but maybe was still night or early morning but it outshone the sun and people including myself were running like mad trying to get away from the heat into some sort of gully or inside.   The heat was clearly felt on my back and I was afraid.   I saw the light go where the sun doesn't ascend to in the N. Hemisphere at our latitudes; and as it approached the Northern sky; I found refuge ! ;in wha t seemed a strange room; but I recognized my dad (currently unsaved) in the living room area (my mom wasn't there but I didn't have time to think about that until I woke).   I told my dad-why weren't you prepared for this?   You only have 23 (or some number close to that) minutes.   Then I woke up.

I suppose it could mean 23 minutes to live but I sensed it would be the Rapture; I didn't get the impression that there would be necessarily immediate death; for it didn't look like a mushroom cloud; but an EMT sort of explosion if it would be MOVING like that (I always thought it would just blow up in a few seconds in one spot not be moving like that).   It seemed odd; that the heat was so soon like before it either peaked or ended-being that you would expect it to take some time before reaching earth; with radiation or heat.   I don't remember any vegetation burning either...more characteristic perhaps of a fusion explosion or EMT or something?   There was at the time no perceptable wind blowing either; the rest of the sky seemed clear and rather surprisingly calm.
 

Well; others have had the dream about NY City; my dad currently resides in Philadelphia; but I sense it was further inland in NJ where he lived when this happened; as I have had other dreams about him living there before; AND about the heat from this type of explosion and panic similar to this dream.

Haven't had one like this for several years though.

Interesting to hear your thoughts; so I sent this out to several people who I consider of wise counsel.

It would be nice to think He is coming sooner rather than later; but this would have to be a bit in the future anyways; if it happened a few years off anyway since my parents have no intention of moving in the near term.

In Him;  Rich