Things We Already Know

There are a ridiculous number of people claiming to have received visions from God.  Almost invariably, these are actually dreams but they like to call them "visions" for dramatic effect and to make themselves sound more important.  The vast majority of these so-called "visions" involve seeing or experiencing events which are already constantly on peoples' minds.

For example, dreaming of a massive earthquake hitting California is hardly a dream from God.  The reason is simple:  God does not inform us of things we already know or believe.  Dreams and visions from God are invariably TRUE REVELATIONS of some kind... but a dream about California being destroyed by a major earthquake is hardly eligible for the status of revelation.

Geologists have been speaking and writing about such an event for well over a century.  Cinematographers have made numerous films of such an event.  Millions of people speak about it on a daily basis and it is clear to anybody with a brain that the frequency of strong earthquakes has been on a dramatic rise over the past twenty years, informing us of where we are in accordance with the Lord's own words regarding the time of the end.  On top of it all, California is perhaps one of the most morally depraved places in the world, so much so that God's protection of it from the evil consequences of sin is by now all but completely withdrawn.  Where is the revelation in such a dream "vision"?  Is there something there, some obscure point being made that will reveal something new?  Is it any surprise, any at all, that having been bombarded by all of that information I have just mentioned week after week over many years that people are going to have dramatic dreams about a massive earthquake destroying California or any other somewhat seismically active place, for that matter?

The same principle applies to many things we hear about.  There are people calling rapture "visions" a vision from God but it is just a dream they have after spending endless days and even years reading about it, thinking about it, talking about it and so forth.  There are many such nonsensical claims being made, with people claiming that "God gave me a dream about this..." and "God game me a vision of the night about that..." and so forth.

There are simple rules of thumb you can use to protect yourself against this insanity because listening to these people or watching their worthless YouTube videos will eventually cause you nothing but great anxiety and perhaps even mislead you into taking foolish actions or missing important and genuine prophetic visions or dreams.

First, consider the main content being referred to.  This can usually be done without even watching the video or listening to the audio.  The title often says enough but sometimes you need to dig a little.  If it is claiming to confirm something already well known or widely believed then just ignore it.  Such a "vision" will reveal nothing, it has no revelational value.

Secondly, assuming there seems to be something of value, examine the content in the powerful light of the revealed word of the Lord.  Does it run counter to even the smallest point?  Remember, a single fly in the jar of perfume can make the entire thing stink.  If it stinks, flush it away.  Obviously there are claims made that can neither be confirmed nor denied by scripture but there are other tell-tale signs and, additionally, one should not concern oneself with non-scriptural prophetic claims.  It may be true or it may be false and there may be no way to tell up front before the time is passed, so it is perhaps not worth being concerned about.

Finally, having reached this point, examine the "prophet's" history if he or she has prior form.  Does this person make frequent prophetic claims?  If so, do any predictions of future events come true or are the predictions falsified?  To dodge this bullet, many have been careful not to put a timeline on their claims but claims of a generic nature are always eventually fulfilled and such "prophecies" reveal nothing new, anyway, so they fail the first test.  If seemingly true, be careful because the "devil is in the detail".  For example, in one instance a particular church group who make frequent claims of prophetic, God-given revelations (and who shall remain anonymous for the sake of the repentant amongst them) said that some bridge in a particular state of the USA was going to be destroyed.  About a month or two later, a bridge in some African location was damaged and a few people were killed and others injured.  The so-called "prophets" then claimed that this was fulfillment of their prophecy.  This is an obvious lie but the tricks can often be much more subtle so be very wary of the claims being made.  The signs of a false claim are here obvious (it happened in Africa and not in the USA, the bridge was damaged and not destroyed) but other points can be more subtle, such as the fact that such a generic event is going to happen, sooner or later, in one place or another.  Such events happen frequently enough to occur within a few months or even a few years but infrequently enough to seem isolated or unusual because of the very short term news cycles we are subjected to (typically four to eight weeks).

There are numerous other points of examination which I could go on to write about but by now I am sure that you get the essence of it and can work it out for yourself without much trouble.  As always, pray first and ask the Lord for guidance in your understanding.

In the end, true dreams or visions from God have very telling characteristics to the one who receives them and content that is not usually understood immediately and is not a subject of popular thought or ideas.  Such dreams and visions, when correctly understood, reveal something deep and previously unknown and are always concordant with holy writ.  Personally, I have had about twenty such dreams across a lifetime and I keep learning new things from a number of them even to this day... they are really quite astonishing and they have the nature of the true memory of an actual event because they never fade from memory like ordinary dreams.  They are almost always simple in structure and make a single key point, and are not cluttered with lots of meaningless and confusing things and sudden jumps from one scene to another in a seemingly random manner, as is often the case with dreams.  On one occasion I had two seemingly different dreams on the one night, waking up between them, only to later realise that, although the content of each dream was diverse, they were saying exactly the same thing in a manner just like the two dreams that Pharaoh had which were interpreted by Joseph.  This is like a "witness" dream, for there are two.  Finally, a dream from God is unmistakable because it has the quality of reality almost more than reality itself and there is a deep inner sense that it came from "above".  I have no desire to reveal the contents of the dreams the Lord has given me because most of them are of a personal nature, although a few are not and of those that are not personal I have made some references to in this blog, though sometimes some details are kept out for reasons I will not divulge here.

My desire, in writing this post, is just to help any sensible soul navigate their way through all of the "end-of-days" rubbish we are being constantly hammered with.  Such madness causes anxiety and an increasing sense of hopelessness and such is contrary to what the Lord said we should have.  This applies as much to other "information" as it does to so-called prophetic "visions" and dreams.  I hope that what I have here written will be of some assistance to you.

God is the revealer of mysteries, not a chatterbox mindlessly echoing common gossip!

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Addendum 2017-11-25.

There is a plethora of YouTube rubbish that should be carefully and studiously avoided.  For example, if you see titles such as, "Something huge is happening and nobody is talking about it!!!", or "Watch this before it is taken down!!!!", or "This video has been banned in almost every country!!!!", and so forth... just ignore them completely.  They tell you nothing useful in the title because they have nothing useful to say.  They are invariably complete rubbish, stupid ideas built up around a foolish belief in the mind of a paranoid and ignorant person.  The things depicted are almost always very ordinary but just strung together in a jumbled fashion for dramatic effect and the titles make unjustifiable demands of your time without saying anything useful.  Finally, when you see long strings of exclamation marks at the end of the title or the excessive use of them or capitalisation of letters throughout the author's writings, they are yelling at you so just ignore it and never go back to that silly channel.  I have watched a few over the years and what I have said here has been true every time without fail, so now I do not bother at all.  You are paying for Internet access and that rubbish is just costing you and you're get nothing of value from it, and perhaps just receive another dose of increased anxiety.  Every time you click on a link to one of their videos they immediately have their "views" counter incremented even if you did not view the video beyond the first few seconds and that just encourages the midget-minded, attention-seeking idiots, doesn't it?  So, do not bother any more... do yourself and everyone else a favour and discourage this stupidity.  That the author claims to be a Christian or not is irrelevant... you would be well advised to ignore that channel for the sake of your own sanity and well-being.

The End of Australia

Today, in what must be the most abominable outcome any right-minded person could witness, the same-sex "marriage" plebiscite outcome was announced, the result being that support for the overthrow of God's law governing marriage came in at 61 percent.  This is a tragedy, an unmitigated disaster and marks the end of this nation.

A nation is a large society of people, being many smaller communities who, in general, work together and agree on many things and disagree peacefully (though with left-wing fanatics, peaceful disagreement has generally ceased to exist).  Each community is a small society and all generally are under one law, the law of the land.  The basic building block of any successful human society is the God-given structure of true marriage, that between one eligible man and one eligible woman.  This forms a mini-society, indeed, the smallest possible society that can exist, a social atom.  From this union there is growth, for only this type of union has the correct balance, strength and capability to bring into the world additional people.  Society, as a whole, is built on this union.  Additionally, the basis for the success of western society to date, despite its incredible falling away from Christian values over the past century (and more so in the past ten years than in the previous ninety years), is the Christian-based system of law.  It is this that brought "human rights" into existence as a political object.  It is this that formed the basis for every right and freedom that we currently enjoy, and it is this Christian foundation that has been the basis for the incredible advancements in social welfare, living standards, science and medicine leading to the high level of technological and social achievement we see today.

However, as a result of the decline of Christian-based law over recent decades, we have been witnessing an erosion of every other part of modern western society.  Same-sex "marriage" is the final straw in this accelerating collapse because, from here, there is no recovery.  Australia is now going to fall into the abyss.  Peace will quickly leave this land.  By this action, Australia will finally capitulate to becoming another vassal state under Satan's global government, the UN, and will completely cease as a sovereign state.  Although that has been happening gradually over the years, this final turn of events destroys the very fabric that brought this nation into being.  This means that Australia, as of this day, the 15th day of November, 2017, has ceased to exist.  Only the name shall continue as a fading echo of what once was a nation of peace-loving, God-fearing people, a nation that has vanished with the eroding winds of wickedness and lies buried in the sands of time, lost forever.

The destruction of true marriage, which is precisely the aim of the same-sex "marriage" lobby, exposes their total rejection of the most sacred of human covenants and, thus, the overthrow of all covenants of any true worth.  The wicked have rejected God's covenant wrought by the blood of Christ, so now they are given over to their wicked lusts in order to destroy themselves.  They are given over to a depraved mind and to strong delusion for, in not receiving a love of the truth, they love the lie and, by the lie, they will die.

The ultimate goal is to reduce every corporate body of resistance to Satan's totalitarian control via the UN to nought, causing every human being to be disconnected from every other human being, enabling total control over every individual on Earth so that the world can be readied to receive its final leader, the son of perdition.  This has been achieved through the gradual destruction of the freedoms we have enjoyed by the tools of financial collapse, an endless war on "terrorists" and the media-managed decay of moral standards, all engineered by the wicked at the helm of the global financial system and through their various marionettes, such as the UN and various governments.  So-called same-sex "marriage" now opens the way to an onslaught of freedom-destroying, faith-denying legislation and law whose final outcome will be the mass murder of Christians across the world.  Satan cannot make the true followers of Christ Yeshua bow to him so he intends to have them all killed so that, at long last, that wicked spirit will, via the vehicle of the son of perdition, convince himself, by the worship of all people, that he is god... but he is NOT god, and he will never actually achieve his goal.  He is not of God... he is of the devil.

Great storms will come upon this land and the wicked will scream, "climate change, climate change!", but the climate that has changed is the moral climate and, with that, now comes God's withdrawal of protection against the broadly destructive consequences of sin.  It is to be expected that, in addition to the social evils that will now appear as never before, great and very destructive storms, fires and other "natural" catastrophes will come, seemingly targeting the large urban centres and the most important farming and forest areas.  Although the righteous and wise will understand, the wicked, the walking dead, will NEVER, NOT EVER understand!

Time is short.  Three days are as a day, three weeks as a week, three months as a month.