Anthony (2 Sep 2005)
"vision - father's house and bride"


I have been through a lot personally the last year.  I enjoy so much all of the insight the 5 Dove's website provides.  Here are some significant things that have happened to me personally that I believe may be a foreshadowing of things to come:
 
* April 13th 2004 (last day of Jewish Passover I believe) - I had been 10 months in a custody battle for my children.  Their Mom has repeatedly driven drunk with them in the car.  She acted as her own attorney and I was "drilled" on the stand in court for my belief in Jesus.  I was awarded primary care of the children, but contrary to the court appointed Guardian for the children the Judge ordered liberal and unsupervised visitation for them.  I cried out to God and asked "why?"  About 3 days later, He spoke to me tenderly in his Spirit saying "Who was innocent - Barrabas or Jesus?, Who was the sacrificial lamb? - you are called to a life of Christ."  Once I heard him in my heart on this I did have peace that surpassed understanding.
 
* Late April 2004:  I was working at a company where I had been sued for being a "born again Christian" (I believe in this, but don't refer to myself in this way).  I felt God calling me to resign.  I prayed and spent time with him and opened my Bible to something that was not even a verse, it simply said "Life of Christ".  I knew that God did want me to resign and totally depend on him.  I did turn in my resignation that day.  Little did I know that the company was planning a layoff and since I resigned I was given two weeks pay and all my vacation was paid out.  I would be totally jobless for the summer, but God provided the whole time.
 
* Late April - early May 2004:  Being jobless, I was available to go on three field trips with my children.  Each of these I believe was a message and leading from the Lord and potentially prophetic in nature.
 
1.  Late April.  I went with my son to visit the Capital building in Lincoln, NE.  God opened my eyes to many things.  At the front of the building as a lady was giving the class a tour was a monument to human achievement (tower of babel).  There were many places where references to God or the Bible used to be and had been replaced by Indian spirit gods and various greek gods.  In the center of everything, very large and in the center of the floor in marble is a picture of the Queen of Heaven throwing her manna down to the earth.  Above her, very high up on the ceiling is a mural of 7 angels.  The tour lady said that they stood for virtue and other qualities.  Once of the children asked "why do they have horns on their head?" - I'll let you answer that one for yourself.  If I were to have appealed the court decision for my custody of my children this is the legal entity it would have gone to.  I never did appeal.  I knew God was with me and that he is Sovereign and Love.  I take this as him showing me the corrupt Government, leadership and Judicial system our country has.
 
2.  May 3rd - May 5th.  I went on a second field trip with my daughter.  About two months earlier God had given me a promise through a verse - Proverbs 18:22 "He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord."  I had been alone as a single Father for 3 years.  I had no logical reason to see any fulfillment.  When God first gave me this verse I felt it deep in my heart and knew that he would soon fulfill this.  My birthday is May 5th.  I was praising God in my truck when I first saw, Kellie who is my fiancé.  This year ascension day was May 5th.  I held high hopes for that day.  Under explainable only by God circumstances before May 5th I had an alarm that I had not set going off as I walked in the room at 5:55 p.m.  I have never set a clock for that time.  I still believe that in some way a clock did go off on May 5th.  I believe that 153 days (see the end of John for the 153 fish catch with Jesus and the Apostles) may be a countdown of sorts.
 
3.  Mid - late May.  I went on my youngest son's field trip to the zoo.  In Omaha we have a great zoo, and it has a dome building with a Jungle in it.  When I was there I could not hold back the tears.  I felt God's presence and his spirit telling me that everything was going to be okay and giving me a vision of Paradise and Heaven through that jungle.  I've been back hoping to have the same feeling or vision - and have not been able to recapture that day.
 
* I had a situation where I had been jobless through the summer and where I needed to find a home for my family.  I also through circumstances and God's calling had to sell the home I was living in.  I had looked a number of places with no good success.  I then had a dream from God about living in Papillion, NE (attached community to Omaha).  I walked into a home and knew it was where God wanted me, but it was far beyond my means.  I was able to put an offer in on it through what is called a Bridge loan (bridging the gap from my other home selling on my offer on this home).  I had just found employment, but it was quite a bit below my former earnings.  I offered in faith the owner of this home $1,000 more than they were asking.  I was very stressed out about this as we approached the closing date for this home.  In the last few days I was told that they were going to "unapprove" my bridge loan - only my home selling and selling near the asking price would do.  They put a Monday deadline on this that was quickly approaching.  There was a home in my neighborhood that sold for $30,000 less by an older woman - it didn't look good.  I also needed to come up with a substantial amount of money.  About 6 months earlier I had given my IRA away to a Church plant I was involved in the amount of about $15,000.  It was all my savings and anything extra I had.  I began to regret doing this and prayed to God about it.  The Saturday before the Monday deadline I went to visit my Grandmother.  Without me asking she offered to give me some money to help.  Without me saying an amount to her, she wrote me a $15,000 check - praise God!  .  When I went to go close on this offer, the Real Estate lady came to me and said "You won't believe what happened...your home sold, and the lady buying it offered $1,000 more than your asking price and paid cash."  Everything was done and settled (I've gone back and checked this date multiple times) on October 6th of last year.
 
I take this as God's way to show me that "in my Father's house are many, many Mansions...if it were not so I would have told you..".  I'm not sure why all of this finalized on paper October 6th, which is not exactly Rosh Hashanah - but I would be happy to ask our Father in person.  There has just been too much that has gone on in a personal and prophetic way for me to ignore.
 
I wanted to share to see if anyone has had anything similar, or if it would help in some way.  There is actually many more details that testify to God's Sovereignty and Glory, but I tried to hit the most important details.
 
Blessings in Jesus!