Post by Deleted on May 18, 2014 14:00:30 GMT -5
Okay so I need to give a little bit of background information first. The past few days I've been heavily studying one thing in particular to include in my school project. I'll mention what it is and my findings in another post. However, I felt like even though everything led to it being scientific, it was "too good to be true" and must have something satanic behind it. I kept doing research and I found a video claiming that it was, but the reasons made no sense at all. Then I looked at some websites with "lists of demons" and according to them, this form of science is categorized under something they would consider satanic (mental science). I saw a website that claimed that psychotherapy/counselling was satanic but the reason they used was simply "because it is secular and does not include Jesus in it". Still, even though I refuted all of the possible claims, I felt like there was something I was missing and that I was going down a "new age" route. Eventually after going through the information over and over again, I had no conclusion. Firstly (since I participated in this exercise multiple times) I asked God to forgive me if I did anything wrong and I tried casting out demons. I couldn't cast any out (which tells me that none were there). For the first time in a long time, I felt like I was missing something. Before I went to bed, I prayed to God to show me the truth regarding this matter and I mentioned how I felt lost and like I was straying from The Faith. When I was praying, I said that I understand why people leave The Faith when they come across stuff like this as it is hard to figure out which way to go (it will make more sense when I make the other post). Plus I've always had this feeling that I've messed up so many times that unless I make some serious change I won't be saved. For example, I didn't feel like I read the Bible enough. While some people are busy reading it for hours a day, I sometimes will only read something once a week. Anyways, I went to sleep after that.
Suddenly I had a dream. I don't remember exactly what happened to cause this, but my left arm was slashed open. Then I said something along the lines of, "please Holy Spirit let me feel your presence and heal my arm in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen". I looked at my arm and I saw it healing in an accelerated natural state, become a scar and then have the scar go away. Out of nowhere I heard this voice and somehow began having a conversation with it (I don't recall how..). There is a little bit of a gap here as I don't remember what was exactly said, but I remember breaking down in front of what I knew to be God. Not crying but worrying. I was describing how I felt like I wasn't going to be saved or raptured or [insert a synonym here] and like I wasn't going to make it to the finish line. Basically just describing the thoughts I had earlier. I got a very odd response. After everything I said, all that I heard back was "you've already been raptured on May 18th". I was thinking "what the heck? May 18th? I need to remember this date". I woke up immediately.
Once I woke up, I checked my phone to see the time and noticed that it was sometime after 7:00AM EST (I don't remember the exact time). I thought to myself "well it's early so I'm gonna go back to bed but I want to type this out so I don't forget". I went into my memos app and wrote "'You've already been raptured on May 18th" so I could remember later on. Then I started trying to remember everything to make sure I had it right (so I wouldn't miss the details when I went back to my memo). I knew the date was the most important thing (which is probably the reason why I forgot some other stuff) so I focused on trying to figure out the meaning. I thought "well maybe He meant you were always saved up until this date" and tried figuring out important dates in my life spiritually to see if it fit. I couldn't think of anything. I got tongues in the month of September about a year and a half ago, I starting studying the Bible sometime during the summer a few years ago. Then something hit me. This is the month of May. So I thought "let's check the date". When I checked my phone it said "May 18th". I was completely freaked out. So I pieced it together. I was being told that I was saved now, even in my current lifestyle no matter how much doubt I had. Just a side note, the answer I got back about May 18th sounds exactly like something God would say. I mean, how many times did Jesus get a question and respond in a way that seemed confusing to so many people? God loves those kind of answers. But something else hit me a little bit later on...7 is often seen as the number of perfection and the number of God because of the times it is used in the Bible. So that was something else that freaked me out. I thought "well assuming it was God, that would be the perfect time to start and end the 'appointment'".
Of course, I still had doubts regarding the dream. I thought "well I never had time to test it, so what if it was a demon?" After some thought I decided that it wouldn't exactly make sense as I used the name of Jesus Christ to heal my arm in the dream, so whatever followed had to be of the same Spirit. Am I wrong for making this assumption?
So...assuming this was God talking to me....I can make a few deductions:
1. I'm saved regardless of how many of my views are untraditional (especially the recent discovery I made yesterday).
2. The direction that God is sending me will most likely continue to be full of untraditional view points.
3. By definition of what I was told, I was "raptured" meaning I must have been in the Third Heaven. Not necessarily in the physical but in spirit (which is similar to how the rapture is described as we have to undergo a transformation first).
Might I add, this seems to be somewhat scriptural too and similar to the experiences of those in the Bible. Firstly, I never saw a body nor face. I was too busy looking in astonishment at my arm the whole time. This coincides with scripture (John 1:18, Exodus 33:20). It also is similar to what Moses experienced in Exodus 33:11 (face-to-face being a figure of speech here). This wasn't a near death experience so I wasn't ascending into Heaven (or violating John 3:13). If it was only my spirit being, then it isn't the "full me" as our bodies also consist of a soul and flesh, so it could have been me in the spirit experiencing the dream without violating what God has said. People in the Bible had similar experiences. Paul mentioned that he knew a man who was caught up in the Third Heaven (II Corinthians 12:1-5). The Apostle John too had his vision (which is recorded in the Book of Revelations), in the Third Heaven. This is evident by the mention of the "Day of The Lord", how he saw angels and especially Jesus.
Still, I've never had a dream from God before so I don't know what to expect. The fact that it is something of this magnitude is shocking. All I know is that we're told in Joel 2:28 and Acts 2:17 that the Holy Spirit will give people dreams and visions.
What do you make of my dream? Am I correct for assuming it is God?
Suddenly I had a dream. I don't remember exactly what happened to cause this, but my left arm was slashed open. Then I said something along the lines of, "please Holy Spirit let me feel your presence and heal my arm in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen". I looked at my arm and I saw it healing in an accelerated natural state, become a scar and then have the scar go away. Out of nowhere I heard this voice and somehow began having a conversation with it (I don't recall how..). There is a little bit of a gap here as I don't remember what was exactly said, but I remember breaking down in front of what I knew to be God. Not crying but worrying. I was describing how I felt like I wasn't going to be saved or raptured or [insert a synonym here] and like I wasn't going to make it to the finish line. Basically just describing the thoughts I had earlier. I got a very odd response. After everything I said, all that I heard back was "you've already been raptured on May 18th". I was thinking "what the heck? May 18th? I need to remember this date". I woke up immediately.
Once I woke up, I checked my phone to see the time and noticed that it was sometime after 7:00AM EST (I don't remember the exact time). I thought to myself "well it's early so I'm gonna go back to bed but I want to type this out so I don't forget". I went into my memos app and wrote "'You've already been raptured on May 18th" so I could remember later on. Then I started trying to remember everything to make sure I had it right (so I wouldn't miss the details when I went back to my memo). I knew the date was the most important thing (which is probably the reason why I forgot some other stuff) so I focused on trying to figure out the meaning. I thought "well maybe He meant you were always saved up until this date" and tried figuring out important dates in my life spiritually to see if it fit. I couldn't think of anything. I got tongues in the month of September about a year and a half ago, I starting studying the Bible sometime during the summer a few years ago. Then something hit me. This is the month of May. So I thought "let's check the date". When I checked my phone it said "May 18th". I was completely freaked out. So I pieced it together. I was being told that I was saved now, even in my current lifestyle no matter how much doubt I had. Just a side note, the answer I got back about May 18th sounds exactly like something God would say. I mean, how many times did Jesus get a question and respond in a way that seemed confusing to so many people? God loves those kind of answers. But something else hit me a little bit later on...7 is often seen as the number of perfection and the number of God because of the times it is used in the Bible. So that was something else that freaked me out. I thought "well assuming it was God, that would be the perfect time to start and end the 'appointment'".
Of course, I still had doubts regarding the dream. I thought "well I never had time to test it, so what if it was a demon?" After some thought I decided that it wouldn't exactly make sense as I used the name of Jesus Christ to heal my arm in the dream, so whatever followed had to be of the same Spirit. Am I wrong for making this assumption?
So...assuming this was God talking to me....I can make a few deductions:
1. I'm saved regardless of how many of my views are untraditional (especially the recent discovery I made yesterday).
2. The direction that God is sending me will most likely continue to be full of untraditional view points.
3. By definition of what I was told, I was "raptured" meaning I must have been in the Third Heaven. Not necessarily in the physical but in spirit (which is similar to how the rapture is described as we have to undergo a transformation first).
Might I add, this seems to be somewhat scriptural too and similar to the experiences of those in the Bible. Firstly, I never saw a body nor face. I was too busy looking in astonishment at my arm the whole time. This coincides with scripture (John 1:18, Exodus 33:20). It also is similar to what Moses experienced in Exodus 33:11 (face-to-face being a figure of speech here). This wasn't a near death experience so I wasn't ascending into Heaven (or violating John 3:13). If it was only my spirit being, then it isn't the "full me" as our bodies also consist of a soul and flesh, so it could have been me in the spirit experiencing the dream without violating what God has said. People in the Bible had similar experiences. Paul mentioned that he knew a man who was caught up in the Third Heaven (II Corinthians 12:1-5). The Apostle John too had his vision (which is recorded in the Book of Revelations), in the Third Heaven. This is evident by the mention of the "Day of The Lord", how he saw angels and especially Jesus.
Still, I've never had a dream from God before so I don't know what to expect. The fact that it is something of this magnitude is shocking. All I know is that we're told in Joel 2:28 and Acts 2:17 that the Holy Spirit will give people dreams and visions.
What do you make of my dream? Am I correct for assuming it is God?
