Rev Mike wrote:So my apologies for questioning you, now get to it.
Yeah brother, funny you should say that...
I don't recall if I shared this here or not, but my ex-wife had a vision of the antichrist and the last days, after we had finished traveling for 2 or 3 weeks with a group of missionaries from South America. My ex-wife is from Peru, and though her English was more limited at the time, she was asked to translate for these missionaries, on this 3 week trip throughout 3 states, while they saw various ministries here in America, and they shared their experiences starting churches in their country. What she didn't realize at first, until we were in the midst of it all, was that part of her job was going to be translating their pastor for congregations here in America.
She was terrified, because her English was poor. But the Holy Spirit would come on her, and she translated amazingly well, and would be surprised at the end, wondering where many of the English words came from, since they were not words she used herself. It was VERY spiritual, and VERY powerful, and many hearts were moved on this trip, and this enabled these missionaries to get alot of support for continuing their work of starting churches and schools in places that didn't have either.
When we got home, we felt a great sense of accomplishment, and were on a high spiritual level. She crashed, and was dead asleep, but I was too awake to go to sleep right away. Then I saw them. Two angels blowing trumpets or horns of some kind, and they began rising up through the ceiling, until they were completely out of site.
I have done drugs in the past that made my heart race like hell, and NO DRUG I HAVE EVER TRIED made my heart beat out of my chest like seeing what I saw did. I was afraid to look at my own chest, because for one, I couldn't take my eyes off the angels, but secondly, I was afraid that my heart was literally outside of my chest, like I could put my hand around it if I just put my hand on my chest. I mean, I thought I could be having a heart attack at first, but was immediately comforted, that everything was fine. And I felt God say "Job well done". As if the angels were a visual confirmation that God had been pleased for the sacrifices and work we had done for these missionaries from an impoverished country.
My ex-wife slept through the whole thing, and it was reminiscent of many such experiences I had read about in the Bible before, where everyone around was almost magically put to sleep, and nothing would wake them, except for one guy, who was meant to be awake, and then something spiritual occurred, that only he was meant to see. And then other experiences where people were in the presence of angels, and felt like they were going to die, and in one case, actually DID die, because it gave him a heart attack, the shock of the event he was witnessing. This is EXACTLY how that felt.
The next day, my ex-wife was in the room with me, and I was on the computer, and God gave her a vision. A vision... meaning... seeing a movie before her eyes, different scenes, and yet her eyes are open, and she is not sleeping. That kind of vision.
The vision was of the last days. She saw the antichrist, He was in a powerful position. The scene changes to his bedroom, and he is laying on the bed, with his shirt off, and surrounded by other men. He is homosexual or at least bi-sexual, but the world doesn't know this. She saw his face, hair and features very clearly. I can't remember all the things that transpired now, but it wasn't a long vision. She told me that she had received visions before, but very rarely, and when they happened, what she had seen, always occurred later. I took this VERY seriously, and asked her to tell me the vision again, while I sat down at my computer and typed everything she told me.
This was quite awhile back. 10 or 12 years ago.
I am sharing this story, because she sent me a message on MySpace several days ago.
I have not talked to her in 5 or 6 years, since a little while after we divorced. She was a VERY devout Christian, and also a worker for God. Not being Catholic, she has faced a great deal of persecution from her own family, for "betraying" the Catholic faith, and joining a more Protestant type brand of Christianity. In her own country, she was so committed to reaching people for Jesus, that she occassionaly left her house, though she was still a young girl, and would take a bus to other cities, and go preach to people on the streets, and lead them to faith in Christ. One such night, she had missed an earlier bus, and had to remain there until late at night, waiting for another one to take her home. She saw two men fighting with knives, and she ran in between them, and pointed at them and said to them sternly and seriously, with authority
"You need Jesus!"
They dropped down to their knees in that very moment. BOTH OF THEM! And she began peaching to them about faith in Jesus, and in tears, they asked God for salvation, and found the Lord. This is the kind of faith she has. Being this kind of person, I always felt sure that God had brought us together for a powerful reason. And I felt this had been confirmed later, even after marriage, when I discovered how she had received her name.
We always thought it was cool, that BOTH of us had 4 names to our full name.
Even though she was from Peru and I was American.
But only AFTER marriage, did I realize that like me, her family always called her by one of her middle names, and also like me, she not only had her PERSONAL name, that the family called her by, but also her mother's name, and her grandmother's name. 3 generations in one name. Same with me. I have my personal name (one of my middle names) and my father's name and my grandfather's name. How coincidental is that? I took it as a sign at the time.
Nevertheless, she was a VERY jealous woman, enslavingly so, and though I had never cheated in any relationship I had been in, nothing could convince her of my loyalty. I assumed this would be dismissed as time went by, and she saw what a faithful partner I was. But rather than improve, the more I gave into her ridiculous demands on this, the worse she would get, to the point that I would get migrains when we went out and other people were around, cause I knew the qustions would start coming: "Why did you look at her? Did you like her?" etc... Her father's unfaithfulness to her mother, gave her a deep rooted fear of unfaithfulness and abandonment. I put up with it all, believing things would get better over time, but after 10 years it only got worse.
THEN - 9/11 HAPPENED.
She was out of the country at the time, getting dental work done in Peru, and I woke up after the first plane had hit, and I turned on the news. I saw the first tower smoking, but all that was known was that a plane had hit the building, but no one knew why yet. As I watched the amazing scene, it happened... the second plane hit the other tower, I was dumfounded to be sitting there watching this live on TV. After that one, there was no doubt what was happening. Then another plane hit the Pentagon, and a fourth plane went down in a field, and all air traffic across the country was grounded for the first time in our nation's history, and EVERYONE remembers what they were feeling at the time. It felt to me, like the world was falling apart. That for all we knew, this was only the beginning. Who knew if more was to come? I started realizing that I could very well die anytime for all I knew. Maybe a bomb would be set off in Atlanta next? No one knew what this would mean at the time. I started thinking of my mortality much more seriously.
In doing that, I realized that I could not go on any longer in that kind of relationship. I told God, that if I was wrong for this decision, I was sorry, but I couldn't live out the rest of my life like that, when for all I knew, the rest of my life, may only be months or days? I thought about asking her to get counseling, but I realized that my own effects from this relationship's bad side, were so severe, that I would probably get headaches for the rest of my life, just from walking into the WalMart. But I also knew, that if I was NOT in the relationship, I wouldn't feel that way. I felt 10 years had been a sufficient investment, in giving her the time to mend her ways. And I thought of it like an abused dog. If someone abuses a dog for many years. Even when that dog is turned over to a loving family, when the new owners raised their hand to pet him, he would still flinch, in fear, just as an old reaction. My life felt that way. That even if she agreed to counseling, I would have to FLINCH for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to live the rest of my life that way. Especially after 9/11
So, we divorced and I remarried later, and time has gone by, and even though the demise of that relationship was not really my fault, I always feel guilty to hurt anyone. I assumed she probably just hated me, even now. But when I think of her from time to time, I always think in God's direction, and have wished for her, happiness, and to remain the fighter for God that she was.
Well, as I said...
She contacted me a few days ago.
When I answered her message, she was surprised and didn't think I would ever want to talk to her again. I told her that I felt bad about everything that had happened, but in my heart I always wished her well. Then I asked her if she remembered having the vision about the anti-christ, that she had seen in the past. She said "Yes, but I didn't think you believed me." - I corrected her, and said, "You forgot that I wrote it word for word in the computer?" and then she said "Oh, that's right!" And then she said, "Well you remember that it was Russia's Putin I had seen!"
WOW!!!
How had I forgotten that?
Then I remembered that after she had this vision, maybe a year or two later, we were watching the News, and a new President had been elected in Russia... Vladimir Putin!!! And when she saw him, she nearly choked on her food and shouted out "That's him!! That's him Craig!!! That's the man I saw in the vision... the antichrist!!!!"
Now, when she had seen the vision originally, no one here really knew who Putin was. I had never seen him before, and neither had she!
SO FAST FORWARD:
I told her in my message back: "I forgot that it was Putin you had seen!"
And she responded: "Well I didn't, and I have been keeping an eye on him over the years, ever since. Even though he is not President anymore, he is still the power in Russia!"
I remembered that part of her vision, about this man being homosexual and keeping it from the world, and then I thought... "Wow, this guy Putin has been running around recently letting the Russian media take pics and videos of him without a shirt on, riding on horseback, etc... Like he is proud of his physique, showing off, etc.. Not exactly world leader behavior, you know?"
And my ex-wife wrote:
"You know he's not married don't you?"
Nope. I didn't really know that. I didn't think about his personal life, cause I had forgotten, he was the one she saw in her vision.
She said to me:
"The dollar is going to suffer soon, and go down in value, and the power is going to the East, and the world is about to change in a bad way! It is the time Craig. It is the time!"
She also said:
"You have so much talent Craig... In the brain, and in music. You are God's gift to the world... you need to hurry! The time is running out!"
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