Please carefully note this morning’s (15 Sept 2020) confirming comment from the antipodean ‘ends of the earth’ (New Zealand) to my Triple Validation of Jesus’ Night-time Visitation.: Continue reading
Months after that night of destiny in 1989 I binned my occult and New Age books, but I still had a number of items that were significant to membership in those occult brotherhoods.
But very soon, troubles brewed up within my relationships. And they got worse, and worse. So I asked for prayer help and then gathered all remaining ritualistic items and pictures. Right at the peak of my trouble, 29 July 1991, I heard an almost audible voice instruct me,
“Burn what you’ve collected – NOW!”
Never, ever, would I have believed what was to happen next:
The Father has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in Whom we have our redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. [St Paul’s letter to the Colossians 1:13-14, Amplified Bible.]
As well as checking out Christians’ claims of hearing God direct and getting astounding personal evidence for that, I wanted to know lots more not only about Him, but also and especially to follow-up on the personally revelatory scriptures about false teachers.
In my great wariness of religious folk I’d assumed none would be able to comprehend my story because they’d be ignorant about those things. Doubtless, none would have been through my kind of bad, meditative ‘trips’ – or so I thought!
But direct help was again at hand from the Bible’s Author…Yet first, there’s one little-suspected aspect of His character that amazingly revealed a very personal thought and thus confirmed He knows all about me. Here’s what had happened many years earlier.: Continue reading
Lord, help me love everyone, even wrongdoers, with Your awesome, gracious undying love
Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Ephesus, ‘For I always pray to the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him by having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones), and [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when raising Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the heavenly [places], far above all rule and authority and power dominion and every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and in this world, but also in the age and the world which are to come…. [Eph1:17-21, Amplified Bible. We decree that the blindness be removed from the eyes of all the peoples of this land so they may see Jesus Christ is Lord.]
Life-changing as my ‘rescue’ was in that dream-visitation on 14th September 1989, I did not want to rush off to church. The event’s effect and ramifications upon my philosophy of life needed careful consideration. For example, I needed to check out widespread claims of the Bible having been compiled and modified by Church councils in the 4th Century after Christ, as well as learn about its history from authoritative sources. [Prof F.F. Bruce’s The Books and The Parchments (1991) was very helpful, especially about the ‘Muratorian Fragment’. Drawn up in late 2nd Century in the church at Rome, it lists practically all the canonical New Testament literature.]
So not only did I need to assess those personal implications, but also as possibly a new believer in Jesus Christ I wanted to find well-informed believers who take Him seriously. I soon did so, but then needed to put their claims of hearing direct from God to the test. After all, they believe we have a relationship with Him and so we have but to ask… Continue reading
Some time was needed to gain a fuller understanding of that awesome Visitation – the absolute holiness of the Lord Jesus Christ in contrast to my personal sinful nature. No wonder I expected to die and was convicted of my sin!
That encounter used two very personal aspects of my life to grab my attention, thereby validating the experience as real, not an imaginary one. Even more amazingly, both validations are directly related to the 1st and 2nd Advents! Thus, they couldn’t fail to remind me of and enhance my interest in End-Times and which had been launched a few years earlier by being given The Invisible Hand (described herein).
Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?” (Revelation 6:15-17)
So, hours after the evening’s visitor had left with my shutting the door to his returning to tell me more about Jesus, that night’s second visitor was far more challenging – this time it is life or death – MINE!!
THE HEAVENLY VISITOR
On 14th September 1989 I go back four decades in a MOST unusual dream to a house not visited since my dear mother’s funeral 12 years earlier. A dream so lucid it remains vividly etched within me. So it must be exceptionally significant.
Come back 37 years with me as, in standard dream-recall practice, I put it into present tense (dream content in blue typeface, my comments in black).:
I am in my childhood home and standing in front of the large casement window in one corner of the lounge (opposite corner to the doorway). I look up into the inky, dark night sky outside. A small flotilla of large, wingless aircraft drifts slowly across from left to right at high altitude and I groan, “Oh…not that flying saucer nonsense. I must be dreaming!”
I’m sceptical about the existence of UFO’s, but now another ‘fleet’ of some sort appears from the right and heads towards the first.
(The dream now changes gear by going up a level from the usual mix of mental material to that of absolutely convincing lucidity…)
The ‘light goes on’! In my ‘knower’, I realise the first fleet is demonic and the second is masses of angels under the command of Jesus Christ! (I did not believe in them, and regarded Jesus as one of many world teachers. Here, I see no individuals but inwardly know the situation)
I think I’m about to watch an amazing heavenly battle…but…OH NO! Somehow, I now know Jesus has espied me far down below and is coming down directly towards me!
All I see is a distant bright light very rapidly getting brighter and larger as it drops down to my location, just like an airliner approaching a runway to land at night.
Instantly, I realise my life has been one of sin that contrasts starkly against Jesus’ own holiness. Right away I realise what’s claimed about the Judgement is true – but mine is about to happen right now!
Beyond any doubt whatsoever I suddenly realise my involvement in the occult was most definitely wrong. Consequently, I deserve the undesirable abode!
Groaning “My number’s up!” I inwardly tremble in fearful knowledge I’m about to die at any moment. An invisible trapdoor I’m standing on will drop me straight into hell.
Utmost mortal terror strikes! I dive under the drop-leaf table by the wall to the left of the window so I can hide from Jesus. But he knows I’m hiding there and swoops down straight through the wall on the other side of the corner window. He’s standing in the room and right beside the table!
Cowering below the table with my back turned towards him, I glance over my shoulder and see him from the knees down, his body and face out of sight above the table.
Most unexpectedly, somehow I have the courage to reach my hand out backwards to grab at the hem of Jesus’ robe…
As I tug, the event goes into yet another level of revelation regarding my childhood…Then I awake! Thoroughly alert, further sleep eludes me!
The dream reminds me of an evocative small picture in mother’s Missal that impressed me as a child – the return of Jesus Christ:
Later I understand that my dream’s terror had been ‘the fear of God’ brought through the Holy Spirit convicting me of my own sinfulness (ie. wrongdoing) and, thus, preparing me to receive God’s grace (ie. undeserved favour).
Also, what happened after my reaching out for Jesus proves He’s closely acquainted with the private details of my thoughts as a little boy. The dream’s conclusion shows He’s going to topple those childish concepts and replace them with a sure knowledge of His true identity.
“The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love” (Psalm 111). Mercifully, He plucked me from the domain of darkness to bring me into His own and receive its blessings. I deserved none of that. Truly, Amazing Grace – how awesome and wonderful..!
As a result of the most remarkable dream I’d ever had, I resolved to reconsider my New Age and occultic notions. Meditational and mystical exercises had resulted in my having some unusual, ‘psychic’ dreams, but absolutely none whatsoever like this one.
The only remotely similar dream was that of an ‘altered’ state of consciousness known as ‘nirvana’, or bliss, where I’d been taken behind its alluring golden light. Ecstasy turned to abject terror as the light I was in got swept aside like a curtain to reveal a hideous, devouring beast of utter blackness approaching me – ‘The Devourer’ – far worse than any nightmare!
I wasn’t into drugs and was ignorant of the scripture ‘satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light‘ (2 Cor 11:14). Upon reading that verse a few years later I realised its truth had been dramatically demonstrated in reverse to me as a non-Christian!
But in this new dream terrifying fear had been overcome by Jesus Christ in person and His wonderful mercy and love.
INCREDIBLE TIMING OF FRESH CONFIRMATION
[Written October 2013] Later we will consider how that dream-vision was validated as being real. But for now I want to draw your attention to a remarkable revelatory word given two days before I’m due to give a brief account of my journey into freedom at a breakfast.
Before having that dream I don’t think I’d heard of Jesus being in charge of angels for I was unfamiliar with the Bible. Eventually, I learned the pre-incarnate Christ appeared to Joshua outside Jericho as ‘Commander of the LORD’s army’ (‘Chief of the host of Yahweh’ in original Hebrew at Joshua 5:14-15).
However, in weekly sessions of subsequent solid Biblical instruction at churches, I don’t recall hearing any in-depth teaching on Jesus’ role as the captain of the angelic hosts. That is, until last Sunday!
The timing of this fresh confirmation was the second of three clear references on three successive days to the content of a brief outline of my testimony, which had already been prepared for delivery on the 4th day!
Revd John Kilpatrick changed his sermon to bring a word the Lord had given him in the early hours of Saturday at 2hrs 22. We were listening live as part of the regular online congregation and the timing impacted my spirit because 22 is not only the date of my birthday but also and particularly because there are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet. (I’ve previously had occasion to note the personal relevance of two in 2.12.2012.)
Far more importantly in this word, the Lord of Hosts draws attention to the angelic hosts and their present and imminent activity. It reminded me of the above Visitation – AND it is notable that John focused upon the same scripture that’s precisely relevant to my dream, as will be explained in forthcoming instalments of my journey.
For now, however, Revd K’s mighty revelatory word deserves reverent consideration and reflection, and should you wish to read it before proceeding click here.
Next, I recount a most surprising TRIPLE validation of this life-changing Visitation >> (Continue reading).
[Bible quotations are by courtesy of BibleGateway.com.]
Not a normal, vertical door but a veritable trapdoor – one to be sprung open with yours truly standing on it!
As concluded in the previous post, my search for Truth led me unwittingly into captivity for I never suspected I’d been seriously misled and deceived!
Moreover, I did not realise how being against the true God’s teaching on Jesus Christ had been a grave mistake and put me in personal peril – but was it far too late?
How did I get there, you may ask. And, how on earth did I get out of it?
At Mum’s sister Jenny’s house, Leicester (1962).
The intellectual freedom of higher education in the ‘swinging 60’s’ enabled me to break loose from the values of my parents and their generation. Even so, I recognised they’d enabled them to come through the destruction and deprivation of the Great Depression, World War and post-war Britain austerity with great fortitude.
As recalled in the previous post, a formative influence upon me as a child of the post-war ‘baby boom’ was the disharmony between churches. In my mind it tarred all Christians with the same brush and badly reflected upon the God they believed in.
My grandmother gave me a child’s illustrated book of Bible stories and I recall thinking, upon hearing the Gospel readings during Mass, it must have been wonderful to have been around Jesus and watch everything He said and did.
Whilst playing with my school pals one of them suddenly stops, eyeballs me hard and scolds me, “You shouldn’t be at our school – you should be at the one Cat’licks go to!”
I’m stunned into silence. I can’t recall my response other than distress.
Upon reflection it’s possible I denied the accusation outright. I’d like to have responded, “So what? It’s where my parents want me to be!”
Such a riposte, however, may have plugged into something worse – parental conflict!
On Southport beach in mid-1950s
CONFRONTATION
It’s mid-1950s and the reality of the Protestant vs. Roman Catholic divide hit me hard. My friend’s tone clearly implied a stigma to being in the wrong Christian denomination. Continue reading
Jesus at Door – credit Del Parson
Having physically shut the front door thirty seven years ago last night, thus acting out my decisive intention not to hear more about the Gospel – I was very pleased to be able to wake up on 14th September 1989 after having nearly died of utter fright in the night!!
In ruminating over re-publishing my 7-part biography and testimony of encountering Jesus Christ in person, I’m struck by how it may fit in with our present activities.
The leader at a nearby church we visited yesterday opened the service by referring to their mission to Muslims. Now, not only does that ‘God-incidentally’ connect into a 1991 dream-vision about “the fall of Islam” as adherents turn away from it, but also his mention connects with the opening paragraph of this blog’s summary reference page of my testimony, as at Jesus Freed Me! – as follows and just for the record:
‘Do you know that masses of Muslims are dreaming of Jesus Christ? According to Islam he was just a man like the Old Testament prophets, but many are learning the truth of his divine identity through direct personal encounters!
That happened to me too! As an anti-Christian involved in occultism and the ‘New Age’ I had a totally unexpected encounter with Jesus in person and got scared out of my wits as I was about to suddenly die!!
The essential details were told for my baptismal testimony at Tilehurst Free Church (‘planted’ from Reading Baptist church) and recorded for the greater glory of God in 1992 as ‘More Than A Dream’. Upon launching this blog in late-2011 the account was published as a warning about our post-mortem existence – Death or Destiny? Choose Wisely. As twenty years had then elapsed, I included subsequent events verifying that truly awesome overnight Visitation.
Having renounced satan and all its works, I stayed away from digging up my ‘old man’ (which had died on my cross) but was asked to give my testimony at a ladies’ breakfast. Also, as the fuller story may help those who don’t yet know the depth of God’s love for them personally, I expanded it for the encounter’s 2013 anniversary.
The essential parts were extended and re-blogged in April 2017 in response to a visitor who remarked my brief reference to Islam indicated ignorance of it, and of deism in particular! So for the record, this true story needed to augment and clarify such details. It was re-published two years later for reasons given in One’s Destiny in Three ‘Bites’, and over 13-15 September 2019 main parts re-issued on 30th anniversary.’
A LIFE-CHANGING DREAM-VISION
I welcome and appreciate your taking time over the next days’ postings to read why I believe in Jesus Christ – and how invisible demonic shackles binding me got broken – as recounted in the following links:
**Truly a personal foretaste of the global shock of Jesus’ Return, as in Revelation.
After those events it was important to demolish every foothold the enemy of our souls had in me. This involved repentance and renunciation plus some deliverance ministry and I was mightily blessed with a baptism in wonderful Holy Spirit, the effect of which lasted 40 days.
Publication in 1920 brought An Antipodean Confirmation in Alex Alexander’s email.
FOUNDATIONAL INFORMATION
Other than the Holy Bible itself, below are some books that helped me immensely as a new Christian born afresh by Holy Spirit’s gracious presence. Prior to 1989, a few books had given me a good background on Biblical and Christian history; especially on the legends of Jesus’ disciples visiting the Marseille area of southern France and Roman Britain at Glastonbury; especially The Invisible Hand outlined in my Bio Info and which recounts ancient seers’ predictions for the Middle-East, some of which are now fulfilled. A subsequent house and job move, however, relegated that valuable data to the back of my mind.
In view of questions over this blogs 40th full circle analysis of the tragic murder of Henry Nowak, I’m grateful to the Lord speaking through a visiting Spirit-filled speaker Peter Gilbert that weekend. (It also prepped me for more bother over that first email’s account of a rapid healing twenty years ago!) We were on the ministry team and I asked Holy Spirit to bring His words through him – AND HE DID! I discerned it was so at the time and afterwards he confirmed it. Hence my emphases in the transcript below:
4 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
7 But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. 8 This is why it[a] says:
“When he ascended on high, he took many captives and gave gifts to his people.”[b]
9 (What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions[c]? 10 He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) 11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. (NIV BibleGateway.com)
Hit play to hear Pete Gilbert’s whole message from the beginning at 44:40 minutes:
Can I say that again? – I’m making this up as I go along? – No!
So, three three key things that the enemy always uses, three strategies of the enemy.:
He will always go to try to break communication so that people think they’ve communicated, but they’ve been misunderstood.
He will always go for identity. He will seek to rob you of your self-worth and your self-image and your identity – who you are in Christ.
That’s what he did with Jesus. You know all the time: “Did God say who are you?” here you to going for identity.
And the third thing always he goes for is to try to break relationships so that trust breaks down and people fall apart.
And that I think I would suggest to you and we Paul talks about this the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. This is delivered through peace. And you’re living in a world, we’re living in a world which is riven not with peace at all. As we sit in here this morning, there’s somewhere between eight, well, there’s eight major global conflicts going on at the moment as we sit here and somewhere between 50 to 130 minor conflicts of war going on. In 3,400 years of recorded history, there’s only been 300 years of peace.
So peace is not easy. It’s not. But Paul says this is the work of the Spirit, the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
You I know, you know this. Let me remind you. You ain’t going to find peace out there. Peace must first be found here. Peace to you and then peace through you. Which is why you’re called in Matthew 5 to be ‘Peace makers’. Not peace-keepers, not compromisers, but peace makers. The gospel of peace. It’s a gospel of peace.
And I think that’s why Paul then, it’s lovely, isn’t it? In the the next rolling few verses, four to six. I think that’s why he keeps using the word seven times in three verses he uses the word ‘one’. And it’s like he’s he’s emphasizing it spiritually. He’s emphasizing to the nature of God. He’s emphasizing how that lands on us. one baptism, one faith and so on. And so he uses that seven times as a kind of bang bang bang, an emphasis about unity, one body, one spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism…one God and Father of all, the oneness there….”
I’m reminded that whenever we’re under personal attack = we’re over the target!
Not only the superb teaching and content but also the timing of the guest speaker’s visit to 3Counties Vineyard Church on Sunday was of significance for the congregation, as well as personally and blog-wise.
Events last week delayed my intended blogging on a friend’s new book about the Book of Revelation, but I needed to finish what was in mind about Iran and the eventual fall of Islam with its growing schism between Sunni and Shiite branches – LOL as I type that I saw a picture in front of my monitor of branches falling off a tree!
The delayed timing, nevertheless, must be of the Lord – ‘God-incidental’ – because I had first to hear the Executive Director of Elam Ministries (UK) at our church, as in video intro:
‘This morning David Yeghnazar from Elam Ministries is with us as part of our “Mission March” focus on “Shining in the world”. He will be sharing about Elam, which exists to to strengthen and expand the church in the Iran region and beyond, and will also be speaking from Revelation chapter 1:’
The video link starts when our church team-leader Dave Wright shows a 5 minute video of the foundation and history of Elam Ministries in Iran and interviews David Yeghnazar for 12 minutes. After their prayer David proceeds to present a superb message from the 42 minutes mark . The transcript, however, is too long and complicated to publish here.
I was astonished at 48:45 minutes when he says the Book of Revelation gives a clue about Christians in Iran – here and elsewhere shining in the darkness – and tells why its first chapter is his favorite. Then at 1 hour 2 minutes he speaks into the dream vision I had of the glory of Jesus during His overnight Visitation on 13-14 September 1989!!
1:01:56 “Then it says, “Behold, he is coming with the clouds.” Verse seven, “And every eye will see him.” Behold, this word behold is so important. 19 times in the book of Revelation you see this word, ‘behold’. What’s it saying? It’s saying, guys, you need to SEE. And you need especially to see Jesus. Behold, HE, Jesus, is coming with the clouds.”
And I note my marginalia scribbled atop that chapter in my small Bible >
‘9/11/19 Vision whilst in ‘Fire’ ministry. J(esus) in brilliant light, me in golden Spirit.’ [Catch The Fire meeting in Fleet with John & Carol Arnott of Toronto.]
Moreover, in describing Jesus as King of Glory, David echoes the penultimate point of my recent Bible Update:
‘The founder himself had engaged in or else planned over four dozen battles and within 50 years of his death another battle between his followers split the movement.
SUCH A DEEP CONTRAST WITH THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH BORN FROM JESUS’ HOLY SPIRIT ANOINTED APOSTLES – IT DEFINES THEIR DIFFERENCE – MOST DEFINITELY NOT THE SAME GOD!’
So at 1:16:41 of our meeting I hear David say:
“And others begin to see it. One of my dearest friends, the one who was in the video, who was in prison for 5 year. While he was in prison one of the other prisoners came up to him was an Islamic cleric, but he was against the government, so he was in prison. And this Islamic man comes to him and says, “Ours is dead. Yours is alive. Ours is dead. Yours is alive!” And he asked him about Jesus Christ. So my friends, that’s my offering to you….”
SO. please carve out 50 minutes to listen to David’s uplifting, enlightening messages.
HOUSE GROUP DISCUSSION
Monday evening’s house group was highly enthused about that teaching and, with his kind permission, leader Clem Burford allows me to share his following notes:
Do You Love Jesus?
Rev. 1:1-20
40 YEARS AGO
Bear with me in returning to the personal pertinence of the morning and remind you my monitoring of Iran began with flicking through a history book on the religions and geopolitics of the Middle-East and seeing simultaneously a rehearsal of the storming and liberation of Jerusalem out of Israel.
Still not a Christian, a couple of years later I was stunned by a foretaste of Jesus’ glorious return on and rapid descent from the clouds.
A couple of years later, being born-again I witnessed in the heavens about the fall of Islam.
20 YEARS AGO
Let’s go back to a memorable evening in mid-2006 and join Lindell Cooley and Kelley Warren somewhere in the Caribbean in the next video, wherein Heidi Baker of Iris Ministries pops up nearby.
Dear Nina was struggling with severe back pain and upon return to UK we learned her lower spine had collapsed and she needed a wheelchair, thus officially registered as being disabled. BUT PRAISE THE LORD, she was healed from that necessity when John Arnott heard the Lord tell him the next year when in Bath City Church to put aside his sermon as He wanted to heal folk. (Click to read about her documented healing)
Ever since then that praise song stirs my spirit, especially this rendition:
12 YEARS AGO > Holy Lightning Beyond ‘The Pond’ Strikes IN THE UK!
Further to last week’s post on the widening schism in Islam and my closing reference to my email of 16 February 2011 recounting a dream vision of 6 January 1992 on the fall of Islam, now featured with updates of June 2025 and January 2026 atop this blog’s home page, let’s briefly remind ourselves of its details:
‘The BBC late evening news on 6th January 1992 announced that leaders in the Muslim community wanted to establish a Muslim parliament in Britain…:
In a dream that night I saw Western Europe, mainly France and the Mediterranean, as if from the space shuttle and heard the popular worship chorus ‘All Hail The Lamb’ being sung, as if in the atmosphere!
This praise was repeated many times most melodiously, as though by angelic choir, and seemed to spiral upwards. Then I heard a very loud, authoritative voice declare, “As Communism fell, so too will Islam fall”.
I understood this as the Almighty’s declaration that Islam’s demise would come when Muslims themselves want to be free and rise up en-masse. Clearly, by referring to the events that had rippled across the Eastern Bloc to end the Soviet empire, we could expect a similar, unanticipated wave to sweep across Africa, the Middle East and Asia to the Pacific. It, too, would be like dominoes falling….’
Now watch, or read the auto-transcript in view of surrounding sounds, this powerful testimonial of an ardent Muslim who’d supervised school prayer times when a child: [My ’22’ turns up yet again]
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A little time was needed to gain a fuller understanding of 1989’s awesome Visitation – the absolute holiness of the Lord Jesus Christ in contrast to my personal sinful nature. No wonder I expected to die and was convicted of my sin!
That encounter used two very personal aspects of my life to grab my attention, thereby validating the experience as real, not an imaginary one. Even more amazingly, both validations are directly related to the 1st and 2nd Advents! Thus, they couldn’t fail to enhance my interest in End-Times and which had been launched a few years earlier by The Invisible Hand (described herein).
The First Advent was the time when Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem of Judea about two thousand years ago. Hence, the four weeks leading into Christmas are designated within the church calendar as Advent, and which start the church year.
The Second Advent is coming soon and is expected to focus upon Jerusalem, Israel.
I inwardly ‘knew’ the heavenly visitor was indeed Jesus, and that the impressive action was a foretaste of his promised return, when He will come in all His power and glory.
The event reminded me of my favourite picture in mother’s Missal, or service book of the Roman Mass. This gave the content of every Sunday service throughout the year with a diagram symbolising the theme for each service. As a boy keen on astronomy I’d been fascinated by the picture for First Sunday in Advent. This depicted Jesus standing on the clouds over a burning earth in the midst of sun, moon and falling stars, indicative of events before his Second Advent!
The confirmation referred to above came almost as unusually. On a healing retreat soon after Ellel Ministries opened at Pierrepont near Farnham in 1995, a prayer-minister told me God would show me something after lunch. Indeed, a lady who’d been seated at my table later confided between sessions that the Lord told her to show me something she greatly treasured.
It was a photo taken, it was claimed, from an aircraft over a thunderstorm. When developed, the photo bore an image of Jesus Christ, as though standing within clouds. However, the facial features were hazy, not defined. It was exactly like Jesus in my dream because I’d not seen His face. (I recall dark, hazy clouds at the foot of the image. This one is published by Bible Probe – A MUST READ!)
Upon seeing this photo my legs gave way – I couldn’t stand but fell into a nearby chair! My companion said I went so white she thought I was going to faint or fall.
Yet, just how did a stranger know to show me this photo? I’d not divulged such a personal dream – she simply said, “It’s the Lord’s doing”.
I was puzzled over the closing element of the dream-event, namely: upon my reaching towards Jesus’ feet to grasp His robe, it turned into the branch of a Christmas tree! So, when I tugged, a Christmas tree toppled over and its fairy fell off and onto the floor.
Weird? Not really, because that spot by the window was where the family Christmas tree used to be erected. It was a corner closely associated with Christmas.
As a devout Catholic, my mother
had told me about Jesus from an early age. When I painted pictures I would put a blue stripe at the top of outdoor scenes to represent heaven, as children did. But I’d also draw a Christmas tree in heaven as being Jesus.
Why? Not only had I associated all the wonder of Christmas with his birthday but I also heard an actor on TV mention his name whilst looking at a small fir-tree. So in my childish way I took the actor at his word and would draw Jesus as a Christmas tree. Hence, four decades later the Visitation dream went on to connect real Jesus to that imaginary picture.
At its close, therefore, the dream-event signified the time had come to put away not only childish misconceptions but also all false teachings and replace them with absolute truth – the one who is the Truth in person.
Truly, the most fantastic Christmas present ever – one that’s daily an ever-present encouragement and help in every time of need, no matter how dire. Thank you Lord.
These events started in 1989 and culminated in 1995 with its prime confirmation. YET in another ‘coincidence’ – truly a ‘God-incidence’ – at a Pierrepont meeting that December I was sitting close to the large Christmas tree at the front of the hall and the speaker from Ellel Grange asked us to imagine how shocked and astonished Jesus’ disciples must have been when He walked through walls into their locked room after His Resurrection (John 20:19-20). It spoke straight into my own personal Visitation!
Yet more was to come! Sixteen years later upon revisiting this story for the purposes of this blog, I was surprised by a couple more insights that dropped unbidden into mind.
One was tantalising: could the street number of my childhood home (212 – or “two twelve” as we’d say) possibly be significant in pointing toward the coming year? That is, to 2012! (or, ‘two : no-number : twelve’).
Could that notion be true? Such musing would be confirmed in a fascinating numerical manner at 2012’s first Christian conference we were to attend…Upon our arrival at the venue in Torquay I was curious about distance driven from home. The car’s odometer was ‘212‘ miles!
Once again, timing proves crucial in presenting another objective confirmation! Again, had I not been writing about the visitation I would have missed the crucial linkage!
Whilst writing instalments of My Journey Into Freedom (Sept-Oct 2013) I inserted a report on something pertinent that happened at that time in the USA, as recounted in the previous post. This came as a ‘new revelatory word’ from the Lord to Revd John Kilpatrick and began at 2:22am. This too, is very interesting on two counts. Numerically, because my birthday falls on a 22nd. Orally, because that word is directly relevant to my dream visitation in referring to the angelic host as well as in closing with Luke 21:28, namely:
“But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, lift up your heads, because your redemption is at hand.”
My mother’s Missal for the First Sunday of Advent is shown below and notice how the scripture on page 69 links into my personal visitation and what pastor John brought.
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Find out what happened after the encounter upon my testing claims of checking out the Bible direct with its Author – His answers stunned me!! (next).
Note: originally published 12 December 2011 as ‘3 Validations Point to 2012-13: Part 3 of ‘Death or Destiny?’.
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The First Sunday of Advent in liturgical calendar celebrates Jesus’ Return
Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?” (Revelation 6:15-17)
A HEAVENLY VISITOR
In the early morn’ of 14th September 1989, only hours after the evening’s visitor had left and I’d orally and actually shut the door to his returning to tell me more about Jesus, that night’s second visitor was far more challenging – this time it is life or death – MINE!! Continue reading
It wasn’t a normal, vertical door but a trapdoor – and it was about to be sprung with yours truly standing on it!
In terror, moments beforehand I’d thought “My number’s up!” because I was suddenly at the end of my life AND shocked to realise hell’s below – AND, I’d be heading there – even though I used to think hell didn’t exist! I was wrong – oh so badly wrong!!
Being anti-Christian had been a serious mistake – but it was now far too late! Yet I’m now able to tell this true story; it is told purely for the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.
How did I get there? you may ask. And, how on earth did I get out of it?
We need to go back in time to the evening of 13th September 1989.
At Mum’s sister Jenny’s house, Leicester (1962).
The intellectual freedom of higher education in the ‘swinging 60’s’ enabled me to break loose from the values of my parents and their generation. Even so, I recognised their values had enabled them to come through the destruction and deprivation of the Great Depression, World War and post-war Britain austerity with great fortitude.
As outlined in “You Shouldn’t Be At Our School!”, a formative influence upon a child of the post-war ‘baby boom’ was the disharmony and hypocrisy between churches. In my mind it tarred all Christians with the same brush and badly reflected upon the God they believed in.
Nevertheless, when a child I’d once thought it must have been awesome to have been around Jesus and seen everything He said and did. Continue reading
Whilst playing with my pals one of them suddenly stops, eyeballs me hard and scolds me, “You shouldn’t be at our school – you should be at the one Cat’licks go to!”
I’m stunned into silence.
I can’t recall my response other than distress.
Upon reflection it’s possible I denied the accusation outright. I’d like to have responded, “So what? It’s where my parents want me to be!”
Such a riposte, however, would have plugged straight into something worse – parental conflict!
On Southport beach in mid-1950s
It’s mid-1950s and the reality of the Protestant vs. Roman Catholic divide hit me hard. My friend’s tone clearly implied a stigma to being in the wrong Christian denomination. Continue reading
This is a reprise of two earlier postings linked below to create a full 12-part theme to include last night’s publication on American administrations’ Christian history. So,
Part 10 – 26 February 2025:
Part 11 – 9 June 2025
Footnote: POTUS Watch explains why I blog about US Presidents since 2009.
The Father has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in Whom we have our redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. [St Paul’s letter to the Colossians 1:13-14, Amplified Bible.]
To continue the next part of my testimony upon my 36th spiritual birthday:
As well as checking out Christians’ claims of hearing God direct and getting astounding personal evidence for that, I wanted to know lots more not only about Him, but also and especially to follow-up on the personally revelatory scriptures about false teachers.
In my great wariness of religious folk I’d assumed none would be able to comprehend my story because they’d be ignorant about those things. Doubtless, none would have been through my kind of bad, meditative ‘trips’ – or so I thought!
But direct help was again at hand from the Bible’s Author…Yet first, there’s one little-suspected aspect of His character that amazingly revealed a very personal thought and thus confirmed He knows all about me. Here’s what had happened many years earlier.: Continue reading
