Neil Lipken (16 Oct 2004)
"A very strange thing happened!"


In the last 24 hours something very strange happened to me that I wanted to relate to the Doves.  I started buying music CD's back around 1988, and now have a large collection of them, which I play everyday at my office and also at home.  Never, and I mean NEVER have I had one "go bad".  I have every CD that I have ever purchased, and all of them through the years have "played" just fine.  Yesterday I went to play a song from many years ago that I like a lot, Chris Rea's "Fool If You Think It's Over".  This song is from the 1970's.  I noticed that my office CD player would not play it at all, and then I took it home and noticed that likewise my home CD player would also not play it at all.  Just a week ago it played with no problem!  I then examined the CD disc itself and found that right over that particular song a layer of CD material had fallen out of the disc, so that all of the other songs on the disc play just fine!
 
At first I thought nothing about what had happened, but then I got to thinking about the words to that song, "Fool if you think it's over, for it's just begun!"  I then thought about my very powerful dream of October 1st (which is posted here at Five Doves).  In that dream (to make it short) I went to Purdue University to find classes and a place to live.  Unable to find either after a month on campus (late Sept.), I began screaming in the dream, "I AM OUT OF TIME!  I AM OUT OF TIME".  Again, this dream happened  on October 1st (early morning).  In another dream I posted here at five doves back in September, I dreamt that I HAD LEFT HOME, and had arrived in a very beautiful place.  The people there told me that A PLACE HAD BEEN PREPARED FOR ME TO LIVE IN (FOR I WOULD NOW BE LIVING THERE), and when they were about to take me to it, I woke up.  I specifically noticed in that dream that ABOUT HALF THE LEAVES HAD FALLEN OFF (IT WAS FALL), AND THOSE THAT WERE STILL ON THE TREES WERE IN BRIGHT COLORS.  Here in Indiana that would be from mid-October to probably no later than about the end of October.
 
Now back to that CD song.  "Fool if you think it's over, for it's just begun!"  All day today I have been thinking about that relative to the Rapture.  At the Rapture life is over here, but in reality life has just begun as we begin our eternity with the Lord, and all that He has prepared for us (I Cor. 2:9!!!!!!!).  I cannot but wonder if this is yet another sign that we are very close to His coming!  How very strange that I have never had a problem with a CD, and suddenly a "chunk" comes out of one of them (by the way, I did not drop the CD or anything like that) right over that particular song!  Again, just one week ago I had played that song, and it played with no problem!