Tornado Dreams

I had my first tornado dream in December of 1999. It was a very vivid dream. In this dream, I stood outside with a very good view of the country side when suddenly, I saw a huge dark tornado approaching me fast. In reality, I never saw a tornado except on the news or in movies, so this sight really frightened me. I wanted to seek shelter, but could not move. The tornado kept coming, I could feel the wind and hear its roar by now. "I will never survive this." I thought and began preparing for my death, praying for the Lord to accept my spirit when I heard a still, but clear voice in my mind saying, "Just hold on to that fence and trust Me."

Then I noticed this shaky fence in front of me, so I grabbed it as it was really way too late to run anywhere anyway and closed my eyes as this tornado hit me. I could feel the wind, its power and fury, but shockingly it was not affecting me at all! I still just stood there holding on to that shaky fence. I opened my eyes when the wind was gone and saw the calm. The sky was still cloudy, but clear of the storm. I looked to my side and saw bunch of other people holding the fence just as I did. We began banding together and looking for any other survivors. We saw devastated houses, but no people. The only ones who stayed alive were those who held onto that fence.

I knew it was a prophetic dream, so I prayed for an interpretation. What came to me was this. The storm (tornado) was some kind of trouble the enemy was going to cause in a near future and it is going to affect everyone. Believers and unbelievers alike will have to go through this, but only believers who trust God in the midst of this storm will be supernaturally protected from its effects and they are going to be brought together for His purposes. It seems that I am not the only one who had this kind of dream. The late John Paul Jackson was asked often for interpretation of similar dreams and his guidelines for its interpretation agreed with the interpretation I received as well. Just this past Sunday my pastor from Poland also shared a similar dream with his congregation. This storm is already upon us and will intensify, but all of us who know their God and listen to His voice will stay strong and carry out great exploits. (Daniel 11:32) I find it very interesting that this particular verse came to me just now as I am writing this because it is about resisting the evil in the person of Antichrist and his deceptive flattery. Is he about to appear on the world stage soon? I would not be surprised...

What To Make of The Untimely Passing of John Paul Jackson

I was terribly shocked and saddened, when I learned of John Paul's passing yesterday and like many of you I wondered why in the world did The Lord allowed this to happen. John Paul Jackson was a very godly man and his ministry blessed millions of people over the 30 years of his ministry. He was also one of the very few prophetic ministers in the church who still preached repentance.

In fact, teaching about sin and against sin was his very last message recorded on his TV program "Dreams & Mysteries" that is still available to watch free of charge on the website by the same name. I encourage you to watch it as well when you finish reading this post.

As I wrote before, this was a man of God, but even when he was still among us, he was accused by many of being a "false prophet." There will be many in the following days and years who will continue saying so. They will bring up such things as, "he said many times that The Lord revealed to him that he will be living into very old age, but look, he is already gone at the age of 65, so he must have been a false prophet." And other such things they will write and say, but this is not true.

What I believe had happened to John Paul was the same thing that happened to Moses and Elijah. They had a very close relationship with The Lord and were greatly beloved by Him as was brother John Paul, but they made some mistakes too. They were not infallible.

Moses died on the mountain and was not permitted by The Lord to go into the promised land because he hit the rock with his staff to give the people water just like he did before instead of following God's command to speak to it, so the Lord took him home earlier than He first had planned.

The Lord similarly dealt with Elijah who despite of very supernatural power that God displayed to confirm His message to Israelites, then got intimidated and ran away from Jezebel, even hiding in the rocks because of fear. The Lord then decided to take him to Himself in a fiery chariot and put Elisha as a prophet in his place.

I believe that a similar thing might have happened to John Paul. He often admitted himself that he had a very hard time delivering the messages of God's judgment to His people. Perhaps The Lord wanted John Paul to confront someone or some things in the church and John Paul was reluctant to do it, so the Lord took him home early and will raise someone else to deliver this difficult message.

The other possibility is that the Lord wanted to protect him from something. We know that the enemy planned to kill him. Even John Paul himself shared a dream a friend delivered to him shortly before his battle with cancer began. You can watch it yourself on  the Daystar Television archives:

http://www.daystar.com/ondemand/video/?video=3740101682001 

Either way, it was The Lord's will for him to pass at this time or else He would have prevented it from happening. For all we know, The Lord even now can raise him from the dead if his ministry is not complete yet. But if this does not happen, then we will know that the 11th hour ministry is now over and we must therefore be much closer to midnight than ever before.

The Bible teaches us that the Lord disciplines those whom He loves and I have strong conviction that we are entering the time of Church history during which The Lord Himself will separate the wheat from the chaff and discipline His people beginning with its leaders. John Paul was the servant of His and is now home with Him in heaven. He left an amazing legacy and his teachings will continue to bless many in the church. He will be greatly missed.

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Prophetic Vortex of 2015

What is in store prophetically this year can be characterized in no other way than "prophetic vortex." Let me show you what I mean.

There are of course the remaining two blood moons falling on the first days of the Jewish feasts of Passover( April 4) and Tabernacles (September 28), which I am more and more convinced relate to some difficult times for Israel coming soon (possibly another war or peace with Palestinians) that will result in the return of the access to temple mount back to the Jewish people, but there are also other prophetic signs at hand.

Next month, there will be parliamentary elections held in Israel that will decide who will lead Israel in those crucial times. Three days later there will be another celestial sign in the form of a total solar eclipse, which also falls on a Jewish holiday. This time it will be Nisan 1 ( March, 20) which coincides with the beginning of the Jewish religious year as well as the Persian New Year. It was on this day that the tabernacle was consecrated in the Sinai desert and the Aaronic priesthood was established.
Then in September besides the final blood moon, which will be also a super moon and visible from Israel, there will be the end of the Shemitah year on Elul 29, which is September 13 on our Western calendar.

It is on this day (Elul 29 which fell on different days of the Western calendar) that the two previous Stock Market crashes of 2001 and 2008 happened. Will there be another one? It is quite possible. But there is something else prophetically special that will happen on September 13 of this year and this is the beginning of Roshashana a.k.a. The Feast of Trumpets. It is on this very day that Messianic Christians expect the event that is popularly called " Rapture of the Saints," an event spoken of by Jesus Christ Himself and explained in more detail by Paul the Apostle in the New Testament and as he said himself we are not in the dark that this day should overtake us as a thief. We know the day, we only do not know the hour or the year and that is why we should watch, pray and be always ready. I am not saying that it will happen this very year, but it could.

It would for sure be the best Shemitah (release from debts) ever! But even if it does not happen this year, I believe that these signs show us that this time is getting closer because the Shemitah also finishes one biblical jubilee cycle ( 50 years) and begins another, of which many both Jewish and Christian Bible scholars believe it will be the last. They believe this last Jubilee will be the one during which the Messiah returns, so we have then really anywhere between 8 months to 50 years if they are correct, which is still not a very long time left anyway. Exciting days to live in for sure. I have no doubt that all the millions of persecuted Christians right now would not mind at all stepping into eternity and having themselves vindicated before their enemies by The Lord's return and neither would I. Come quickly Lord Jesus!