An Account of 12/97

This is a detailed account of my supernatural encounter with God during
the week of 12/05/97 thru approximately 12/12/97, that caused me to
begin to study Bible numbers. many readers are aware of these
happenings, but many may not be. there also may be details in this
record i have not previously posted to this site.

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I began to notice that something was happening in the Spirit about 1-2
months before the week of 12/05/97. the presence of God began to get
stronger and stronger on me without me praying, fasting or seeking God
in any way other than was normative. this occurred slowly over some
weeks  in an increasing manner. I was very aware of God's Spirit on me
on a daily basis, specifically in regard to praying in the Spirit,
which i found i was doing constantly. Prayer and praise in the Spirit
was coming out of me like a fountain. it can be likened to driving a
car at night, and suddenly lights appear to be coming toward you,
getting brighter and brighter until suddenly they are upon you. God's
presence was similar in that it started far off but closer and closer -
than it was upon me in full measure.i specifically remember taking a
shower, and speaking in tongues at a rapid fire rate, asking myself
"what is happening to me? what is going on?"

at the time, i did not keep track of the actual dates , but i have been
able to reconstruct the beginning date based on patterns God used to
reveal Himself later on. the start date was December 5th, 1997. on this
morning i woke up early, and sat up in bed with a vision clearly
embedded in my mind, and i was also covered in the Spirit of God
heavily. it was like being slain in the Spirit, except you are still
able to walk around. it physically felt like i had an electric
generator inside my body that was cranking power out thru every part of
me. it was God's power and presence inside my physical being. in
addition, i also quickly noticed that my thinking was radically
different. the only way to describe it, which unfortunately sounds
quite new age in concept, was that 'my mind was opened'. like you would
take the top off of a container and began to pour something in, God
began to pour His information into my mind. there was a strong physical
sensation of being smarter, or more intelligent, and able to retain
more, and more 'advanced' information than i had been able to
previously. specifically this was Bible Truth. i often said aloud that
it was like standing under a waterfall of revelation. my head was in
the clouds and my feet were not on the ground - it felt like i was
floating when i walked. my head was swimming under the presence of God.

the vision i had in my head that morning was of 3 geometric shapes
circling around a bright center like a sun, in counterclockwise
fashion. the shapes were:

a square, a circle and a triangle.

i can still see the image clearly in my memory. in my mind, God spoke
to me and said, "This is the Trinity", referring to the Bible truth of
God existing in the form of 3 persons, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. each
geometric symbol represented one person of the Trinity. The square was
the Father, the triangle was the Son, and the circle was the Spirit. my
english words will now fail me as a descriptive tool. there is no way
to fully describe what happened when i viewed the vision, because it
transcends human words.... it is spiritual - of another world, God's
world. all i can say is that in every part of my being, body, soul,
spirit, i completely and totally understood in an instant how God could
be 3 persons and yet one God, all at the same time. here was the
explanation before me being given to me by the Creator Himself. God
then said, all persons of the Trinity work in complete harmony, based
on the Bible principle of 'agreement'. they are in complete agreement
with each other, and therefore are both three and one. again, this
short description fails to communicate clearly what i understood and
saw in the Spirit.

this overpowering sensation of being in the presence of God, and having
my mind 'expanded' so as to understand His Truth did not lift for
approximately 7 - 8 days; and even though it did abate slowly over
time,  2 months later i still had the feeling of God's power in my
body, like an electric current.

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The vision of the geometric shapes was the first of four main visions i
had that week. here is the next one:

The Vision of the Heavenly Library:
in the middle of one of the first nights of that week, i found myself
suddenly in Heaven, in what was clearly a Library. my vision was
restricted by a heavy fog, or cloud bank that flooded the room in all
directions, so that i could not see very clearly, very far. though i
did not physically see Him, i felt the Lord's presence to my left. to
my right there were library 'stacks'. shelves and shelves of books
going off in the distance. i saw a few angels going to the shelves and
obtaining or returning books in this area. the Lord directed my vision
to what was straight in front of me. on a wall directly in front of me,
about chest height, was a bookcase that appeared to be approximately
six feet long and about 12 inches tall, 12 inches deep. it had only one
shelf, and was really an open front gold case, that contained a set of
volumes. this case was mounted on the wall and was the only thing on
the wall. the books in this case were the books of the Bible, each book
had it's own volume. the books were arranged left to right, Genesis to
Revelation. the books were bound in gold, and several of the volumes
had colored ribbons around the spines, like purple , blue, scarlet etc.
these ribbons indicated a particular Bible Truth associated with that
book. the case and the volumes were extremely beautiful.

in an instant God allowed me to understand what i was looking at. God
opened my mind and i perceived the Bible for what it was - a living
record, permeated with God's Spirit, that was Perfect. it was
infinitely beyond the understanding of perfection that man knows. it
was a creation of the most exquisite beauty, that was flawless and
Perfect as God is Perfect, full of glory. the Bible was completely in
harmony in subject matter and complete. it was a finished work. after
that initial perception, God then allowed me to understand what He was
really trying to communicate to me about it. in an instant, i
understood with all of my senses, perceptions, feelings, and intellect
that this Bible that God created was the record of the entire human
race and that all persons ever born on this planet and their personal
data was somewhere recorded in the Book. this is the Book of the
Judgment. in a heartbeat i clearly perceived the names and some
information about people in other countries that were alive now that i
did not know; but everyone who had ever lived or died in the entire
course of human history was in the Book. how long people lived, when
they were born, when they died, their addresses, etc etc.

still, this was not all God showed me about this set of books. also in
an instant, i clearly understood and could cross reference in my mind
all of the numbers in the Bible - this included Bible scripture
reference numbers, as well as in-text Bible numbers  The Bible is full
of numbers of all kinds, and i perceived all of them as a perfect whole
that God had created, and was beautiful and full of glory, His glory.
all these numbers pointed back to each other like a brilliant woven
tapestry of math.

when i awoke from this night vision shortly, i still perceived the
beauty, the perfection of the numbers, the glory, His presence, the
memory of the place,etc, but God did not allow me to remember any
specifics about the personal data of people (alive or dead), or even
the Bible numbers. i was left with the memory that i had known it, and
understood it and that it was a reality.

under the impetus of this vision i began to study Bible numbers, under
God's direction and mandate.

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The Vision of the Locket:
this was a vision that was clearly a parable. it was a parable about
the state of some of the mainline churches in the west.

God showed me a small girl about 4 years old. her father gave a her a
locket as a gift. inside the locket were 2 small photographs, one of
him and one of her. he instructed her to take good care of the locket
and not to lose it. it was precious and represented the love
relationship they had together. she did well at first and cared for it,
protecting it, but as time went on, she got careless and neglected the
care of the locket. it began to tarnish, got scratched, dirt etc. as
she began to be grow up and be interested in the world, the locket took
a beating. at some point, she began to love another person, and forgot
her own father. she then did the unthinkable. she opened the locket,
tore out the picture of her father, and put the picture of another in
it's place.

the parable is this. the Locket represents the relationship the Father
God has with the Church in the west, the little girl. in her innocence
and youth, she willingly cares for her relationship, but over time, her
compromise with the world tarnished and dirtied her relationship with
the Father. then she began to love the world, and removed God from his
place in her heart.  she had betrayed Him. i felt God was saying that
many mainline churches in the west had betrayed Him, like Judas
betrayed Jesus. they love the world.

this whole vision caused me to weep uncontrolled, and i felt the deep
grief, and sadness of God in my soul. the immeasurable pain and burden
of rejection by someone you love was His. i did not sense He was mad or
angry about it but crushed emotionally.

The Vision of the Destroyed City.
this vision terrified me and was clearly prophetic. an event that was
going to happen.
I stood on a flat plain looking west, i was in the United States. in
front of me was a scene that filled me with an overwhelming fear and
terror. so much so that i screamed to God to take it away several
times, that i couldn't bear it. it was too much for me.

a major western city on the west coast of the United States was
completely and utterly destroyed. it was an ash heap. the ruins were no
taller than 2 stories. i was standing in ash and i knew i was several
miles out from the city center, say about 25 miles. the entire
landscape was completely flat, having been obliterated. what was left
of the city was covered in this gray ash, looking like Hiroshima. it
was totally silent and i saw no people anywhere. it looked similar to
the ground zero area of New York City after the 9-11 attacks, and it
was the entire city and it was not NYC. i'm sure it was Los Angeles. it
was nuclear winter and the sky was a depressing oppressive gray color.
there was no sun light showing thru the clouds.

i then looked up in the sky and saw a huge raven flying above my head.
suddenly it recoiled, like it had been shot and it plummeted to the
earth, landing in front of me about 10-20 feet. the bird was not dead,
but wounded and moving. this bird had a body on it about 3-4 feet long.
the Lord showed me that this was satan, having been cast to earth, and
that this was where he would land - outside this destroyed city, and
that his demon armies would set up headquarters in what remained of the
city of the Lost Angels, in it's burned out ruins.  the whole vision
was horrible, causing me to shake like i had a fever my impression was
that the fate of this city was to be shared by many other major
American cities. this was the judgment of God on this country which is
to come. reader be warned.

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The Ascensions
on three different nights during this week i had an experience i can
only describe as Harpazo-like. Harpazo is the  greek word Paul uses in
I Thessalonians 4:16 for the 'catching-away', i.e. the Rapture. it
means to pluck up quickly or snatch up. when i was trying to sleep, i
found myself suddenly go straight up into the air at a blinding rate of
speed. with a heavy rush of wind on me that is likened to standing
behind a jet engine, or like being in a hurricane. there was no pain
and the air was warm. this seemed to go on for a couple of minutes each
time. what was notable was that the sense of 'ascension' was so strong.
i knew i was going up and the wind was going all over me from the top
of my head downward. it is possible that i actually went to heaven this
way and saw the Library.

since the week of 12/5/97 i have had the experience twice more. the
first time was identical to the others. this last time in early 2004
was different, and expanded. i again was caught up at a blinding rate
of speed for a minute or so, but stopped and found myself in outer
space looking at the earth. i was not cold and i could breath. i was
passing the earth left to right. for a milli-second i was nervous as i
was floating in space. i liken it to Peter walking on the water. mid
wave walking he begins to wonder what in the world he is doing! i had
doubts about the feasibility of me being in space ... for a
mili-second.
the instant i had that thought, i felt a massive, mega-powerful hand on
me that i do not believe to be human, but angelic or the Lord Himself.
the hand grabbed me around my left arm to steady me and reassure me. it
felt like no touch from anyone i had ever experienced. the only analogy
i can come up with is it was like being chained or shackled to a
gigantic boulder. i instantly knew i was in solid contact with someone
that wasn't going to let me fall or be in danger of any kind.
astounding experience.

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The Sketches
immediately after the events of that week started, i began to furiously
write down everything the Lord was showing me, or trying to show me. i
ate almost nothing and slept little. God's presence was so heavy and so
demanding, it required me foregoing all normal activities. the pace at
which He spoke by His Spirit was brutal to keep up with. i would stay
up all day and night filling notebooks full of material about subjects
i previously knew nothing about, including Bible numbers. subjects like
the Melchizedekian priesthood, the judgment of man and the fallen
angels, the coming exchange of positions between the Bride and the
adversary, the truths about God that were intertwined in the cultural
histories of different people groups, God's use of constellations, the
universe and the  rooms of the Father's house, the Bride's garden, etc.

one of the more notable occurances involved some sketches that i felt
led to make one night. i drew 2 sketches, both of number lines. one was
curved like an arc, with negative numbers on the left, and positive
numbers on the right, and zero in the middle. i drew i circle around
the zero, but inclosed the -1, -2, +1 and +2 numbers. i also drew a
timeline on a wavy line with high points and low points. while i was
drawing this, the Lord spoke to me and said Bible numbers are like
flocks of birds, schools of fish, and galaxies of stars. like kinds
group together as in the animal kingdom. as in a galaxy of stars, the
gravitational pull of a central core (Bible truth of a certain kind)
pulls individual stars (numbers) toward it's center. i later discovered
(to my extreme shock) the exact drawings i had made were graphics that
were actually printed in Del Washburn's book entitled Theomatics II.
his book details gematric (numerical) values of hebrew and greek words
and phrases in the Bible, showing them to be related by theme based on
common prime numbers. these are found on page 31 of his book, along
with a discussion of the 'clustering principle, and the plus or minus 1
or 2 principle in gematria. gematria is the study of the numerical
values of Bible words based on the traditional number value of the
letters themselves, added together. when i wrote the author and
described my experience, and the sketches i had made he was quite
unnerved, and took a while to believe i was a perfectly normal
christian with no ulterior motives, but who found himself in the middle
of a supernatural God-orchestrated series of events. special note: this
is not an endorsement Del Washburn's book or his conclusions, which i
do not agree with in some instances.

I also made sketches that showed an up - down transfer of something in
heaven to something on earth, and vice-versa. i now believe it was a
drawing of the exchange God will make between the adversary (who will
be cast down to earth) and the Bride (who will be caught up to heaven).

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Bible numbers
the main thrust of what God was doing was to push me quickly into Bible
number study. at this point in my christian walk (i had been saved
approximately 20 + years) i did all the normal things any other
christian does: Bible reading, prayer, church life etc. i had no
interest in Bible numbers, and no real idea what numbers were actually
in the Bible other than 666 (Revelation 13:18) and 153 (John 21:11). i
knew nothing of prime numbers or triangle numbers or number systems or
any of it. there wasn't any choice involved on my part. God was making
me be involved in this field of study. i have some background in math,
but was always terrible at it. let me clarify that this was not some
hobby i wanted to start, or something i was interested in, or something
fun i was looking to do - this was a mandate from God, and God created
me to do it from the beginning.

one of the prime truths God wanted me to understand was that Strong's
concordance numbers were accurately assigned, and that God had Bible
truth buried in this number system. this was the Bible in ABC order,
hebrew and greek. in addition, Bible scripture reference numbers were
also deliberately assigned and were not to be discounted or thought of
as arbitrary, placed by man at a later date. the interconnectivity of
Bible numbers was to be found in these different number systems. later
i was to find that base conversions were also a major 'hiding place'
for Bible truth that God was now revealing.

it took 3 + years of number study to get enough background math and
Bible numbers under my belt to finally be at the place where i could
work on what God was really after (in my opinion) in the events.

specifically, the Rapture Puzzle. why is the Rapture when it is, and
where is it found in scripture, and what numbers and what Bible 'types'
and persons is it based on.

a smart or clever person has no hope of 'figuring this material out' or
coming up with the correct solution. only God can reveal this
information.

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Jesus is Lord.

my prayer is that God will glorify Himself with this testimony, and
fulfill His every intention.