Dreams and VisionsIntercession for Phoenix"White-Out" Night at BOB |
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As I dreamed I found my wife and I were in church together on a Sunday morning. When the church service was over we went home and had a nice day together. That afternoon we saw the first TV add and that is also the same time frame, I later found out, when the radio adds on Christian radio began running. The advertisements wanted all Christians in the Phoenix area and even those in outlying areas to gather in two weeks at the BOB ballpark located in downtown Phoenix. It did not matter what denomination or persuasion you were. Christians needed to come and hear the big announcement. They were also told to bring their bibles with them. They were told they needed a bible to get in free to the gathering. The ads went on to announce that if a bible was shown at the various parking lots around the ballpark, then parking was free. These ads made it very clear that they just wanted each person and child that attended to bring a bible with them to the gathering. We thought it odd since no reason for gathering was given. Over the next two weeks the Phoenix area was abuzz with speculation and questions why we should come together. Was there going to be a large praise celebration or a special political announcement? I just remembered how a call like this went out in Israel for the followers of Balaam to come out and have a large special meeting and how Jehu used it trap and then to kill those followers according to the Law of Moses with death. This was done to wipe out a pagan influence in northern Israel. I told my wife this and she kept silent. I decided to go but that I would go early and snoop around since I regularly pray and intercede for the entire church in the Phoenix area and for the entire state. The Lord had not given me anything prophetically about this meeting at all. The day came and I got up early and prayed. Then several hours before the meeting was to start we went downtown. Using my wife’s handicap sticker we found close parking and we walked around to the service entrance dock into the sports complex. We saw a lot of pre-meeting activity. We could hear those on the sound system testing it. There were a lot of musicians down on the playing field. There was a central stage that was about one story high that rose from the playing field. The musicians were set up in a large circle all the way around it like a base and then the stage itself rose above them. There were two main aisles that ran from the edge of the musician’s circle all the way to the base of the stage. I could not help but notice that there were lots of men and a few women all dressed up that looked like dignitaries running all over the building. A big group of them had gathered together just off the home base side of the stage and outside the musician’s circle. They were just talking amongst themselves and mostly they stayed together. They got excited as they recognized others who kept coming out on the field in little groups to join them. We noticed large groups of volunteers with dollies, flatbed hand trucks carrying boxes from the all the trucks that were coming and going in the service area. We could hear those in charge barking instructions to make sure there were enough boxes for each entrance to the ballpark. They could not run out, no matter what else happened. We asked one person with a clipboard that I noticed had a well-worn colored map of the ballpark clipped to it what was in the boxes. He said we should go outside and wait until the doors opened or grab a dolly and help them pass out the boxes. We went looking for a dolly, but could not find one. As we looked around I noticed an entrance near us that had a large stack of boxes already in place. Volunteers assigned to that entrance were busy with last minute preparations and were cutting the lids off each box and setting the boxes in a long three box high stack so that people coming in to the ballpark could walk by and get something out of the boxes. We stood there watching this small group and we noticed a box that fell over when a volunteer tried to stack it near a corner. Lots of little dark bottles fell all over the floor. I could tell that these bottles were all alike and that they had a simple white label with three words printed on each label. We went over and helped that volunteer pick up the scattered bottles. The first one I picked up I stopped and read the label after I put my reading glasses to my face. It read “Christian White-Out” Then I noticed in very small print “1 Full Ounce”. This was just under the center part of the label right under the title. “Christian white-out. What was this? I said out loud, not realizing that I had spoke and not just thought it. The nearest volunteer told us that each attendee was to get one full bottle as they entered the ballpark today. They would need it as the meeting progressed. I stood there scratching my head as to why would attendees need this of all things to attend a Christian gathering? The other volunteers gathered around and straightened out the box and got their display ready for the crowd gathering outside the nearby doors We just backed up and let them finish their display of boxes to the group leader’s satisfaction. We found ourselves a place on the nearest wall to allow my wife to lean on while we looked for a place to sit down so that she could rest her legs since they hurt her if she was on them for a long period of time. We found several chairs behind an empty concession and rested there for a few moments. As we rested I was pondering what was going on. I was questioning why were all gathering together in the first place. What was the reason? Was there going to be a big announcement of some kind? And my last question was why were we exhorted to bring our bibles to the meeting. There was even the free parking gimmick to ensure each person had a copy of the bible with him or her tonight. “Why, why, why?” was rolling around my insides. Suddenly I put two and two together and saw trouble. . Lots of trouble coming to our city and our state if we acted this out the plan for tonight in the soon coming judgments of the Lord. They were going to use white out to remove some of the scriptures from our own bibles. They were even going to have each of us mark out our own bibles. I stood up wondering what could one couple do in such a short time before the doors opened. Could we go over and destroy a display and break the bottles? Just then the loudspeakers cried out “Open the doors and let your Christian brothers and sisters in”. The volunteers near us did as instructed. The doors opened and soon the crowd was in and the hallway was full of the eager attendees. Each person, man woman and child got a bottle if they had their own bible. They were curious but each one took a bottle as it was handed to them as they went by the display. We decided to follow the crowd and go into the ballpark and see what was to happen. I noticed that the roof was wide open for tonight’s meeting. Once I got my wife seated I started telling those around me not to use the bottles tonight. I started crying and running to one person after another to throw the bottles down. They needed to get rid of those bottles before the meeting started. I remember hearing the first praise song start up and turning around to look down a entrance flight of steps and seeing the large group of dignitaries begin to move down the two main aisles in a procession and then move to the stage platform to reserved seats. I was mesmerized and noticed all kinds of clothing on these dignitaries. Some were in business suits and other wore clerical robes. You could begin to identify the various different groups within the local Christian community. Here were priests and pastors from all over the state and city all together in one meeting. An announcer began telling every one of the distances some had traveled to be here tonight. They even gave out a bible to someone that had traveled the most miles to be here. Then the singing began. A lovely lady and a man began to lead the entire ballpark in several moving songs of praise and worship. Just then I remembered my wife. She was all alone right now. I remember thinking that not one person I had accosted to get rid of their little bottle had even acted as if they heard me at all. I made my way back through the crowd and made it back to the entrance to where I had left her in the seats. I sat down beside her and started crying. She tried to comfort me and touched my head and brushed my hair. All I could do was weep. All those around us were so enjoying the event and the fellowship of other Christians. As the fourth song ended a beautiful man got up and started talking about how the Lord had told him to bring us all together this night and how our being there proved it was of the Lord. That the Lord wanted us here tonight to come together under a common cause and that this was the beginning of our coming together permanently all across this state. Just then several men cried out that this meeting was not of the Lord and to get out now. Hearing them I stood up and began shouting the same warning. We all were silenced by the crowed re-singing the last chorus of the last praise song as the beautiful man led the entire ballpark to sing. Each of us sat down and was quiet after this chorus was song a full four times. I think there were six in all who cried out within my hearing. There may have been more but I did not hear anymore than those six. Another beautiful man replaced the first speaker. He was peppier and acted so excited. He asked if everyone had his or her little bottle with him or her tonight? The crowd stood to a man and said, “Yes”. Then another man ran up to the main podium and asked everyone to lift their bibles high in the air as on to the Lord. Again everyone stood up and lifted their bibles high. He said, “Good. Now please be seated.” He then introduced the main speaker for the night ‘s activity. This was a renowned dean of a bible college who had been invited to come and speak tonight. He started off with a little joke and then got down to main theme. He described how much of the bible was not relevant for today in our modern age. Several others and I denied that very loud. He just put up his hand and shushed the crowd. He went to state that he was there tonight to first help us come together to fellowship. He then stated that his second reason was to help us join the world in which we live. He said that there were a few scriptures that no longer applied to our lives and now they were stumbling block to our future unity and our future membership in the world community. He had every one turn to the first scripture and then he showed everyone his own little bottle of Christian White-out. After making sure that everyone had their own bottle he opened his in front of the crowd. He then took the little lid and used the attached applicator to put white out on the entire verse he had mentioned. When he was done he turned his bible open to the crowd and held it high with the white out clearly visible to the crowd. He then turned all the way around to show every attendee the opened pages. With a strong confident voice he began in earnest to mention scripture after scripture to the crowd. I kept telling those around me not to touch the pages and to throw away the bottles. I remember my wife telling me to quiet down and just watch. I felt that I should obey her right now very strongly. I sat there and after about forty or so scriptures had been identified and time given to the crowd to white-out each one in their own bibles, I began to hear people around me comment that that they felt very light and that it was like they were almost floating in their seats about a ¼ of an inch or so above their seats. As the speaker lead them to another scripture to be blotted out someone across from us on the far side of the building just rose out of their chair about two feet. The speaker asked for the crowd around the person to grab him and pull him back down. When the time was given for the next scripture to be blotted out people all over the building began to lift up just like the first person. The people around them grabbed them and held them down in their seats. The next scripture was identified and this time when the people had completed blotting out that scripture in their bibles quite a few people just rose up very high and were very startled. Their eyes were huge and their faces were locked in a petrified scream. Suddenly more and more people rose up to join them and soon a lot of people were in a steady stream rising to the ceiling and even floating out of the open roof. As the speaker told everyone no to be afraid he explained that he had no explanation why people are floating but that it must be the Lord celebrating the actions of the crowd tonight. He gave one more scripture to be blotted out and when those that were still seated completed blotting it out this last scripture this time everyone with a bottle floated up high above the roof of the building. This included all the musicians that were left and everyone on the podium. This included the speaker. What was odd was that the bibles floated just like the people. If a person floating let go of their bible the bible just floated along with its owner. By now there were about a hundred or so of those who were left in the ballpark. Everyone else was about 200 feet in the air just floating around. By now the earlier floaters was beginning to enjoy the experience. Some of them started to cry out that they could see something in the far edge of the city in the air coming towards the ballpark and the downtown part of Phoenix. The crowd was very close together with their bibles floating in and out amongst everyone. This floating crowd included babies, kids, young adults and grown ups. As time progressed the crowd began to get loud over the approaching aircraft, or what ever it was. Suddenly the crowd began screaming and becoming frantic. They grabbed at each other and tore at any one they could reach like they were trying to climb over one another to get away. I mentioned this to my wife and she said that this is really strange turn of events. What was funny was that you could hear those in charge of the nights activities were still trying to run the crowd from a floating position. I thought that was very weird. They were acting as if floating in the air was natural for a person let alone a Christian believer. Suddenly the crowd got dreadfully quiet. Due to the level our seats were on we could now look out of the roof of the ballpark and see what was coming our way overhead that had scared the floating people above us. What we saw were two giant angels who were almost to the crowd of floating Christians. The next thing we noticed was that between them was a giant net. The floating people then screamed in one accord as the net gathered them up individually and in small groups. The two angels made just that one pass with the net. With that one pass they were able to get every floater into the net. As the last floating person with their bible was gathered in it the net, the two angels came together up over the ballpark roof. They stood there for a moment just facing each other. As we were sitting there in awe viewing this spectacular picture, the angel that was standing to our right handed his loop of the now full net to the net to the closet angel. We could still hear the crowd screaming and crying from inside the net. I could make out just some of their outlines and some faces In a thunderous voice he told the other angel to take the net to the judgment of the Lord. He then told the other angel as he was departing with the net and all the floating people “That since the Church here in Phoenix did not preach the message of salvation through Jesus Christ to the city inhabitants that he would stay one day and preach to all the inhabitants to make sure every citizen in the city limits heard the gospel.” He just stood there up in the air about two hundred feet or so and watched the other angel depart with that full net of believers until he could no longer see them. He then lowered his head and spoke to the little group still in the ballpark He said, ‘To go and tell everyone what we had just seen. That we were to warn everyone to be careful to guard their knowledge of the Word of the lord, the Bible”. I cried out to him a simple question without thinking “How come the people floated?” He replied that every time the white-out touched a page and a word it was also coating their hearts and removing the Word of the Lord from each individual heart. They were able to float because their hearts no longer had the truth in them to keep them from being a part of the great falling away that the prophets had predicted about the end times. This was to occur just before the great tribulation. By now all of us in the ballpark had no more tears to cry. We just quietly walked out and went back to our cars. It felt so weird to leave the meeting with all the cars still in the crowed parking lots. As we drove home we noticed that the rest of the city seemed to go on with their lives as if nothing special ever happened at all this night. We went home and typed this out for you to read. |
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