Submitted by: Chris M
 
In the early morning hours Monday, I dreamed of a thunderous sound.
As I turned around I saw a whirlwind and I heard God's voice speak to me in my mind as I stood before it. And, I heard him say it was time. I understood this to mean it was time for my death.
I looked before me and there was scattered brush laying around me and I saw that I had a match in my hand. At first I became afraid, thinking of the pain that would be felt if I lighted this brush around myself and was burned by it. I quickly moved all the brush together in a pile away from me on my hands and knees and the match became lighted and I put it to the brush, which instantly caught on fire.
I stepped back as the whirlwind by now was beginning to circle the pile of brush and moved over it as it caught fire. By moving over the brush, the whirlwind God was in became on fire as well and it consumed everything around. He began to move toward me in the fire and I stepped backward into a pile of strips of metal and nails, as if he were moving me there.
I felt an unbelievable peace come over me, as I felt my God, the Great Physician wanting me to trust Him - that he would not let the pain of death endure. I trusted him and the whirlwind of fire passed onto me and I was caught up in it along with the strips of metal and the nails. I felt my hands and feet stretched out and I was bound hand and foot with the strips of metal and nails. The nails pierced me but I felt no pain.
In a few moments of being suspended I was let to fall, but not roughly, until I came down upon my back and onto a single nail that went into my spine. The Lord then showed me in my mind a lifeline that held my body and mind together. It was severed partially by the nail. I saw His hammer raise. I saw his hands work as he moved the back of the hammer into position on my lifeline, knowing that when he pulled it apart with the hammer I would no longer exist in this world any longer. With a swift pull that I never saw the end of my vision became as black as night and I felt I no longer existed in that place.
Very quickly I came to see light, and then shapes. It came as quick as one could blink their eyes and there I was. I was in a workshop of some sort with cabinents and tools and a workbench. A cousin of mine appeared from the darkness and was moving aimlessly, first toward me and then away. Though he is my age at thirty, he appeared to be a young child.
I awoke in a sweat. It's been with me all day and obviously into the evening. It is more complex than I have the capacity to interpret. I have given it to the Lord and if anyone here has a gift of insight from him on these matters, I would most welcome it.
The Lord be with you all.