A DREAM I JUST HAD

It's 6:58 AM, I do not want to be awake right now. I just had a dream.

It was a glimpse at the end times. It mainly took place in my city, because it is what I know and am familiar with.

It wasn't completely accurate because it didn't go over everything. It wasn't an actual vision of it... maybe it was I don't know. It focused on the hearts of men and the deceit the antichrist tells them to win their approval.

It started with Jesus leaving. The church was gone, I only knew this because I had a sense of it. I did not see the rapture, the people who were left behind... simply could've cared less. They dismissed it... and only cared about themselves. But some wondered as to what happened.

The antichrist moved quickly on the hearts of men.... wearing white. He said, he had an answer for the reason why the people were missing. He promised to rescue the people from their confusion and set everything straight.

He promised clarity of the bible, he promised clarity of truth, this repulsed me because he clearly was a fake and NOT truth. He promised men hope... and an understanding. A gaining of knowledge through what he would tell them.

He told them to join all they would have to do was give up their life.... by this he meant their soul... they took a mark... It wasn't a barcode like everyone thinks... or really anything... I don't know what it was... But in my dream for the sake of imagery. They all started wearing red. Red cloaks... The poor wore tattered red cloaks, as the richer wore more scarlet made of fine fabrics.

As soon as they agreed to it... He handed them this new.... "bible." They called it the bible because that's what they thought it was... to them, in no way was it different to what we read and have today... to THEM. Which makes me think most non believers today wouldn't see any difference between our sacred word of God... and a common cult book... all truth is relative anyway right? This sole fact is what satan moved on. Relative truth. Post modern culture. He used that as a tool to manipulate the hearts of man to win them to his way and himself. And please believe me when I say. This book that was handed to them... the way they so easily took to it, blows out of the water the way we see people are deceived today through cults and different religions.

This was not a dream that focused on God's wrath, I saw none of that. It was solely focused on the hearts of man and the lies they fell in to. The rampage the antichrist would feed them. I honestly could not believe how easily he persuaded them. It was disgusting.

The next part of the dream. An overshot of my city... Everyone walking in red. They were all marked. Some of them were... and didn't know why.. they almost walked around in circles as someone crying out for desperation, in help, but... they didn't know why they needed help. Others understood what was happening and there were guards "containing" them, making them public examples of what NOT to do. Others walked forward, you could see the people... not all, but the people who were walking forward were all going in one direction.

I was caught up with them... Walking forward in their midst... we started to go up a hill... I heard two men talking to my left. Both wearing red, one person was unsure about what was happening. The other sort of comforted him telling him, "My whole life it never made sense, but finally this man (the antichrist) has placed all the religions into one. I never knew what to believe, but who would've thought that believing was simply believing whatever you believed." I tell you the truth (in hindsight) satan BANKS on this. Today we can see how easily people could believe this. You know it to be true. This....... This is what bothered me........ this is why I woke up to write it down, when I cherish sleep more than anything. (That blessed gift of God) I was so... shocked... and awed... and worried for these people... I couldn't do anything about it. I watched them fall into the lie... knowing the truth. I couldn't help them. Here's the kicker. The lie they believed is EXACTLY what people are believing TODAY. My heart is heavy as I write this. I never knew that one of the reasons we need to act now and spread the truth is because when we are there... knowing the truth... and being saved from it all... how we will still see the people who are falling into the lie... and the amount of compassion from that perspective will affect us until the day things are set right. This part of my dream is when I realized and started to think, the gap between truth and lies is shorter than we think. We look to the end days as far off. But the way people reason with each other today... and so easily believe what they're told, often times the next best thing that makes sense to them, is the way satan moves on people... today and in the end times. Jesus is the only truth. If that is all you know, make it the only thing you know, because it's the only thing that matters. The only thing that saves.

This next part I will never forget. There he was... the antichrist himself, wearing white, walking amongst the people. Swiftly. Very swiftly. Each step was significantly more than the next. People turned to acknowledge him.. Some were excited. Not all. Only his true followers. He dashed through the crowd. Half smiling and tipping his head to people in return. This man was loved. We walked as the bible says "like a roaring lion, seeking to devour." Except his devouring looked like talking and smiling. And his talking brought this false peace. When he would talk to someone, using an idea of relativism for example... (as if you can imagine two people sitting down for coffee, exchanging ideas and opinions but the conversation was left empty because neither one of those people would change their minds or opinions for anything in the world)... The antichrist used this kind of stubbornness and lack of compromise to his advantage. He told them that believing your opinion.. or ideas, was believing in something and if they believed in something they believed in this... "movement."

The next part... as I walked up this hill with the people... There was a man, not wearing red. The antichrist walked right up to him. Put his arm around the man, who looked lost... He told him about this "movement." He told him he could help and rescue him from whatever he was feeling, pulling him away from confusion. (VERY similar to the promises the church makes to people today which is why people bought into it, because they heard it from the church for so long, that they finally decided this works for them, they were familiar with it) Pulled out a "bible," put it in the mans hands, put a red cloak around him, and he was marked before my eyes. His days were now numbered. Then the antichrist turned and stomped off... again very swiftly. This was incredible. The easiness it took for him to persuade someone into his thinking.

We got up to the top of the hill and this is when I was so disturbed and overcome by the magnitude of it all, I woke myself up from the dream. Right as we got to the top. What was at the top was unimportant. It was just a gathering of people. All lead to listen to a liar and die a tragic death.

I leave you with this. These words do not do it justice. If you have a heart for the lost, for people... this may move you. If you don't understand the deceptions of today, and you don't understand the gospel, this will mean nothing to you.

We are close.