Hi Doves,

Although I'm the rapture "watcher" in our marriage, my husband, Troy, loves the Lord and I admire his strengths as a believer, such as the discipline of a morning quiet time in the Word.  Last night, he experienced a very vivid dream of the rapture.  He had his first dream earlier this year, but it was much shorter and without as much detail - in fact, he didn't even tell me about that one until he had this one...  He commented that today's dream felt very real and he was quite disappointed when he woke up still here.  Because I woke when I heard him stir, he was able to recall much of it as he retold me what had occurred.  We fell back to sleep for a few hours and when we awoke, I encouraged him to write down his dream while it was still fresh in his mind.  Below is what he recorded this morning.  

 

My Rapture Dream 12/31/12

I had a dream I was on a business trip driving through the Arizona desert and stopped at a gas station/restaurant. The few buildings that comprised the town were on one side of the highway that ran through the middle of a valley. The ground was a desert tan with small scrub brush and no trees.

 

Everyone took notice of what appeared to be a B-1 Bomber looking aircraft flying low and making maneuvers in the valley. The plane made a loop into a low pass over an Abrams tank in the valley below us, strafing it with a high speed machine gun. It then pulled up into a loop and made a second pass only this time flying low over the highway. It was pouring some kind of foaming agent onto the surface of the road that expanded and hardened into a 10-13 foot high blockade the length of the highway extending past a turn a ½ mile down the road.

 

The surface was uneven and I joked with a few of the other onlookers as one of the many people trying to flee the scene high centered his sports car trying to drive over the top of it. I realized that I needed to get back home myself, which luckily was the other way from the blockade. I called my boss to let him know what was happening and that I would not be continuing on with my trip. Our call was cut short, and I was in a hotel room (I was confused why I would rent a room when I was leaving). I then found myself outside in the dark and walking through a barrio on one side of the town. It must have been the middle of the night because all the lights were off and there was no one on the street.

 

Suddenly the darkness was illuminated with a bright light like a reflection from the moon, but unusually brighter. I looked up and saw a round shape in the sky passing between the earth and the moon. There was a crescent shadow on one side from the earth blocking the sunlight, but the light was definitely reflecting from this object.  My first reaction was to call Gidget and tell her what was happening, but could not find my phone on me. I suddenly felt compelled to call out “Lord, Lord, is this you”? I was accelerated from the ground upward and saw others ahead of me in the sky. In moments we were in the sky with clouds around us. The people were all around, but not crowded. I immediately thought that I needed to find Gidget. Everyone around me must have had the same thought about their loved ones because they all suddenly started moving every direction at the same time. I was easily passing through the crowd and found her almost immediately.

 

She looked at me and said: “For reals”? I smiled as I know that she has been diligently watching waiting for this moment for many years and had seen many “high watch” times come and go. I gave her a hug and we both set off to find our two boys. We saw our younger son Drew first and as we approached him, our older son Zack was approaching from the right.

I felt joy as our family was reunited in heaven, but was suddenly jolted back into reality when I woke up at 5:07a.m.  I slapped my hands against the mattress and called out “Oh no?” when I realized that it was just a dream. Gidget woke up from the commotion thinking I was expressing concern about my work or woke up with a headache. I paused for a minute and then hugged her and told her what happened. She reads blogs from others with these types of dream experiences and was pressing me for details. I told her what I could recall and she encouraged me to write it down.

Troy

 

BTW - I share a lot of interesting facts I learn on the Five Doves blog with Troy - things like how headlines and Bible prophecy appear to be lining up, etc... What I haven't read to him is the dreams/visions of other believers, except in mentioning that people are experiencing them.  I thought it was really interesting how similiar elements of my husband's dream compared to others...

 

P.S. I have yet to have a rapture dream of my own, but I'm so thankful that God gave the gift of one to Troy and that he was able to recall it and share it with me - oh, and I love that he thought of looking for me right away - too cool, huh?  Husband of the year move, right? :)

Gidget