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Vision 01
The date was November 28, 2000
For the previous eighteen months leading up to the vision, I had been attending a weekly prayer meeting that began at 6 am on Thursdays, at a popular restaurant in Tampa.
We met upstairs in the banquet hall, a room of about 5000 square feet,
that at that hour was dark and empty. A small handful of people mostly
men,
and a few women gathered for about an hour every week to pray. There
was no conversation, just prayer , and usually some worship music
playing on a portable stereo. I enjoyed this early morning prayer so much, that I began to get up the remaining six days a week around 5am , to seek the Lord on my own.
There was an announcement made on the Thursday before Thanksgiving Day, that we would not be meeting for prayer on the 23rd of November,
which was Thanksgiving Day, because no one would come. I made the
comment that I would be
there, if anyone wanted to join me ( what is there to do on
Thanksgiving Day until 10:30 am anyway ). On the 23rd, I drove the
twenty miles to the restaurant as usual. As it turned out I was alone
that day . I spent the typical hour in prayer alone, with little
difference from the many other times I had been there , until I got
ready to leave , a little after 7am. I got on the elevator, which went
down to the restaurant below, and pressed the button. The elevator took
me down to the first floor, and the doors opened. I didn’t get off. I
just stood there for a moment, and the doors closed. The Holy Spirit
came on me in a very strong way. I realized I wasn’t going home, I was
going back up to the empty banquet
room to pray. For the next hour , I prayed like I have only prayed a
few times in my life. I could not shout loud enough. I marched the
perimeter of the room with my hand raised as if I was holding a sword. I
felt like a puppet. Some unseen force was in control. I marched and
prayed. I prayed and marched. I swung my invisible sword at invisible
enemies, I prayed until I was horse. Finally, after an hour, I was
exhausted. I returned to the elevator, went down to the first floor,
entered the restaurant, and ordered some café con leche ( coffee ). I
left after an hour or so, and got back home around 10am. The rest of
the day, was a typical Thanksgiving day with family. Five days later,
on a Tuesday morning, Nov. 28th 2000, I received the vision.
On the morning of Nov. 28th
, I was working alone in
my business , which was a small 1200 sq ft. warehouse, located at the
end of a long building, of similar tenants. The two doors next to me
were unoccupied at the time, so the closest business to me was maybe
150 feet away. I was trying to get a truck loaded with materials and
tools in preparation for going to a job site. I was very busy, and
running a little late. Around 10 am, the Holy Spirit came on me in a
very strong however familiar fashion. The first impression I had, was
wanting to go somewhere to weep and pray, but I resisted. I was too
busy.
For the next two and a half hours, God began to show me
various scenes of things to come in the near future. I would stop my
work periodically to write down what the Lord was showing me. I told no
one about this vision except my wife Donna, until Sunday night Dec
10th. That evening, I received an e-mail from a friend named
John Kidd ( US Navy Ret. ) who lived several hundred miles away, and
whom I had not heard from in several months. I had not seen him or
talked to him in eight years. His e-mail described , a very similar
experience, and used some of the same terms I was given in my vision. I
knew it was time to share what the Lord had shown me. At the end of this
vision, I will take a minute to share what the Lord has since shown me
about this terrible time that is coming. It is very positive!!
The Vision
Tuesday 11-28-00 10:30 am
***I feel like going somewhere to weep and pray. The greatest
recession we have ever seen in this country is on the way. Christians
will live communally. No one will have any money or work. I saw people
standing in long soup lines. ( I saw what looked like Bethel Temple AG, (
my church ) with a long line of people
stretching down the sidewalk to the west. All traffic on Hillsborough
Ave. was non existent . You could stand in the middle of the street and
talk if you wanted to. There were people living on the church property
and lots of activity ) .
*** Celestial phenomena : I saw
myself along with my wife and our two boys watching something in the
sky at night. Like we were on a happy family campout and marveling at
the "Hand of God" in the sky. It looked like a rocket or missile . Actually
it looked like the space shuttle to me,
having witnessed a night launch at the Cape, it is the best thing I can
compare it to. It lit up the night sky like daylight.
***Pastor
Bill Craver ( who was my pastor at the time ) Will come into a
tremendous role of Leadership and spiritual priesthood in the city of
Tampa. I saw him directing resources and functioning almost like a Mother Teresa or a John the Baptist on the streets of Tampa during this time. Sitting with city leaders and business people.
***
Pension Funds Will be wiped out. People who worked hard all their life
and thought they were secure and retired with plenty will find
themselves penniless.
***12:10pm It will be a time like Egypt
during Joseph and the seven years of famine. People will borrow from
the banks against their homes and property just to stay in their homes.
This will be the last shaking before the end of all that we have known
of "normal".
***12:55pm I saw Christians who up until this time have not been rooted and grounded in God's Word,
sitting in their homes in a daze, not knowing what hit them. Some of
them seem to be in mental illness. These are the silly women.
End of Vision
Now let me add a very unusual thing that took place at the same time that I was having the Vision.
About
the time that the vision occurred , a man came into my business,
through the open 10ft rollup door, near where my truck was parked, and
stood watching me. He didn’t say much, just stood watching me and
occasionally smiled, with beautiful white teeth. He was black, about six
feet tall, and powerfully built. It was hard to say how old he was , he
looked like he could be in his fifties. He was handsome, and dressed in
matching bronze colored pants and shirt, similar to what men wear in
the islands, I remember thinking that I would like to have an outfit
like that, but I could never do it justice ( oh well ) . He was there
quite a while. The only thing I remember him saying, was “ my work is
done now “. I really didn’t know what that meant, but somehow I knew he
was connected to the vision I was having. Looking back on the whole
thing, I am convinced that he either brought the vision to me, or he was
guarding it while I received it. I might be all wrong, but I didn’t see
him come in, and I don’t know when he left.
Since God showed
me these things, I have meditated
on them for almost seven years now. He has shown me what this last
"Great Shaking " is for. When I was a small child, we lived in North Carolina.
In the fall, the pecan trees on our property would begin to drop
pecans. We would gather them daily until the trees were nearly barren.
Finally my dad would take a rope with a block of wood tied around one
end, and throw it up into a tree and it would loop around one of the
large branches.
Then we would all gather around the base of the tree while he shook it
vigorously. The last of the stubborn pecans would begin to fall. It was a
lot of fun to run around and pick up the "LAST OF THE HARVEST". This is
what God is about to do. I say to all of you. GET READY FOR THE LAST
HARVEST.
In Christ's Great Love
Joe Chappell
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