As I read Barry A's recounting of the years of watching, I was struck with the similarities of this long period of refinement. I began watching as a college student in the mid sixties, after studying Revelation and that "great city" that was destroyed in an hour...being convinced as a baby Christian that the only city that qualified was New York City (where my brother resides).
I, too, over the years have excitedly told family and friends each time the watching intensified. However, those people have moved from thinking I was extreme to joining me for the most part in this watching.
I now view those years as Esther's beauty treatments...times
of refinement and preparation to be the Bride of the King of Kings!
I am more excited than ever before, feeling that the time is indeed up.
Here are some of my reasons:
1. The Lord promised me a few years ago (by two
separate incidents of deer coming to the very edge of Interstate Freeways
in the middle of the day- something never seen in my lifetime or those
I told) that our funds would be plenty until He came...since the
real estate burst bubble, we have lived on savings which now are down
to a worrisome level.
(If you have read my dream/visions on John's home page,
some of this will be familiar).
2. Stephanie, you asked for responses to Sarah's dreams, i.e. the Sept. 17th dream. It is very similar to two of my dream/visions. In one, I saw a terrible storm approaching my son's office/warehouse building. It grew rapidly into a tornado that filled the horizon. While my son did not seem to be aware of the magnitude of the danger, I physically felt a death sentence as I watched his employees run for ditches to protect themselves as they arrived at work. Suddenly a softly glowing sphere interceded between the storm and my son and I. It was neither moon nor sun, it was a glowing orb that I have since seen on the Internet with a rainbow covering it. I said outloud in the dream, "The Lord has returned!" The dream ended and I knew we were safe observers of the horror.
In another dream, the Lord and I were walking on the beach...we were in perfect harmony with one another. I was wholly myself and yet I had the thrill of a Bride who fully trusts and responds in oneness to the Groom. We were joyously walking towards the events awaiting us, for a moment we both turned back and felt a deep sadness for the choices those who remained had made. But the absolute joy of what lay ahead for us drew us back to our focus ahead.
3. Recently, I had a dream similar to Sarah's in the transformation of my 95 yr. old mother-in-law whose care I supervise closely. She has a very rare cancer and we have been taking her for radiation treatment for it...I asked the Lord if she would indeed be alive at the rapture (which my daughter's rapture dream indicated). Very shortly after that I had a dream, very vivid, of her transforming before my eyes into a beautiful young woman. She wore a gown that was slightly translucent with gold threads woven with white linin...it had a shimmering glow. She herself was glowing and her hair radiated a golden glow...she was magnificent in beauty beyond anything I could imagine on my own.
4. All of the earlier facets of my four previous dreams with very specific details of the house we lived in at the time of the rapture, family circumstances for my son-in-law's parents, business details for my son's business...all remain exactly in place as they were in the dreams.
My personal sense is that the time is NOW and that we are indeed finished in our preparation as the Bride for her Bridegroom! Our love for Him has been intensified in our waiting, our compassion for those suffering has been maintained as we ourselves have been continuously tested, and in our own weariness, we feel the energizing joy of the realization of our deepest longing for the Bridegroom's call!
God bless you each in our long anticipated realization of our watching! John, so specially named, thank you again for your incredible faithfulness as you stood often seemingly alone but in actuality in good company (i.e. Jim Bramlett and Marilyn Agee, etc.). May this be the year and the season!
Judy M
