(By Celia R. Okhuysen, USA)

A large crowd of people¹ of various complexions and ages mingled together in a large spacious hall.² In the center of the crowd was a smaller group of people,³ also of various ages and complexions. They conversed among themselves as well as with people in the crowd who would approach them. It was a very peaceful and pleasant gathering.

I circulated to the right in the midst of the crowd, greeting people while pausing to chat with a few of them. One person in particular was a dark haired⁴ woman with whom I began a conversation. She was approximately thirty years old. I eagerly spoke of life after death and of eternal life while she carefully listened. She seemed to agree with what I was saying and would ask an occasional question. A short while later, many in the crowd became aware of a peculiar change⁵ taking place around us. At the same time I discerned that we seemed to know⁶ that we were leaving to join Jesus. I heard some people call out His name as excitement grew in the hall.

Suddenly, I was instantly taken up! I streaked through white clouds as fast as lightning. As I broke through the clouds, I abruptly became suspended high above them, alone. The sky was a brilliant and unbelievably clear blue color. There was no sun in the sky. I saw what could possibly be described as tranquil eternity while I looked at the clear horizon all around me. I hovered above a sea of endless rolling white clouds with nothing in sight.⁷ As I glanced to the right from a distance above, to my great and startling amazement I now saw a COLOSSAL figure of Jesus! The lower portion of His body was half way in the clouds⁸, and the upper portion of His body was half way out of the clouds. His arms were extended downward in an open gesture⁹ as He leaned forward, looking into the clouds. He was very still and did not move at all. He seemed to be carefully watching something with great attention and anticipation. The size of His appearance was IM-M-M-POSING (an awesome sight of grandeur)!

The radiance of the Lord is beyond words. Attributes of "regal" and "majestic" would do Him an injustice. His strong proportioned face was slender and of a radiant light complexion. The color of His hair and beard were a medium reddish blond. His hair was combed backwards while smoothly styled, neatly trimmed and immaculately groomed. It hung loosely, halfway to His neck while it turned under at the ends. It was not parted, and it covered His ears. It also had a luster. His beard was trimmed close to His face. He wore a long sleeved white gown with a beautiful sash of gold threaded fabric wrapped around His slender waist. His appearance was beyond further description. Simply said, Jesus radiates the Glory of God. His imposing figure against the backdrop of the brilliant blue sky was a magnificent sight to behold.

(To see Jesus WAITING for His Church in the clouds with great anticipation excites the heart and soul. Words fail to further describe this vision of the Son of God, our Savior and Lord, except to declare that, "I know that my Redeemer lives." (Job. 19:25))

I observed Jesus for a while as He continued to watch and wait while occasionally moving His head slightly. Then suddenly and instantly I was back in the large hall again. Many people were gone,¹⁰ but others remained.¹¹ They seemed to have wandered¹² away from the center of the hall. Some stood alone by themselves, while others formed small groups of from two to six or seven people, conversing among themselves. Only three people remained close to the center of the hall. They were surprised to see me. One of them was the dark haired woman¹³ with whom I had previously spoken. Another person was a blond haired woman,¹⁴ also in her¹⁵ mid-thirties. The third person was a grey haired¹⁶ man approximately fifty years old. I asked them why they were still here and why they were standing in the center¹⁷ of the hall. They were each totally confused, and although they tried, they could not explain why. I once again spoke about eternal life, and then was instantly taken up into the clouds again.¹⁸

(DREAM: March 18, 1994)

COMMENTS:
1. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and other churches.
2. An assembly hall of Christian denominations.
3. Spiritual leaders.
4. Her dark hair characterized a darkened mind; void of spiritual knowledge; a child of darkness. (1 Thes. 5:5) This particular woman understood with head knowledge rather than with heart conviction and spiritual understanding. Although she had joined a church, she did not know The Word.
5. Signs of the times as described in Matthew 24:3-44.
6. "For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. (BE ALERT! Check out ALL his nail scars.) And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows." (Mat. 24:5-8) "And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, ... Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near." (Lk. 21:25,26,28)
7. The Church will be gathered unto Jesus upon a sea of white clouds before He presents Her to the Heavenly Father.
8. Note that Jesus is already waiting for His Church in the clouds. He, too, is excited at the soon coming of His Church to be with Him at last. "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also." (Jn. 14:3) For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep (body remains resting in the graves). For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ (those body remains in the graves of souls who had embraced Him by faith as their Savior/Messiah) will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up (seized suddenly—raptured) together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. (1 Thes. 4:15-17)
9. (CHURCH! We’re almost there! We’re almost in the arms of the Lord Jesus! Persevere in the strength of The Word and remain faithful to the end. Keep your hearts pure before the Lord. The Word declares that you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. (Phil. 4:13) Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. (Phil. 2:12,13) Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish. (Eph. 5:25-27) "Be holy for I am holy." (1 Pet. 1:16) Pursue peace with all men, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. (Heb. 12:14))
10. Had been raptured.
11. Were not raptured.
12. Had strayed from the faith, or were never in Christ Jesus.
13. (See No. 4)
14. Her blond hair characterized a child of light, (1 Thes. 5:5); she had known The Word but had not remained faithful to Jesus. For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins. ... Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? ... "Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him." (Heb. 10:26,29,38) For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame. (Heb. 6:4-6) For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and (are) overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: "A dog returns to his own vomit," and, "a sow (hog), having washed, (returns) to her wallowing (rolling) in the mire (mud)." (2 Pet. 2:20-22) (See the account of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5:1-11. They lied to the Holy Spirit and were struck dead. Why?)
15. Both feminine genders portray churches.
16. This man’s grey hair characterized a leader of a church who should have known Jesus as his Savior, and should also have had spiritual knowledge, wisdom, understanding and maturity in the Word of God to guide, by the Holy Spirit, many searching and lost souls into the Kingdom of God. Evidently, he had been among those in the smaller group in the center of the hall. Being left behind portrays this church leader as not having fed the Word of God to those who were left behind because he, himself, had no relationship to Jesus Christ as his Savior and Lord, nor ever knew The Word in his heart. (Perhaps some of those spiritually dying people were among those standing away from the center in the hall.) He may have thought that he was saved because of his theological training, head knowledge and/or traditions, but in the end Jesus never knew him. "Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name (Mk. 9:38,39), and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, ...’" (Mat. 7:21-23)
17. "Center," here, is symbolic of the "heart" of the matter: knowing Christ as Savior and Lord.
18. In trying to understand the sequence of events in this dream, just as the Church was about to be raptured, the Spirit of the Lord ushered me above the clouds to witness a vision of Jesus waiting in great anticipation for His Church. This vision was given as a glimpse that was to be released to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in preparation for Her approaching departure into glory. It is a vision that announces to the Church that She is to be ready and vigilant to meet Her Redeemer at any moment, and which also releases an even greater excitement to His Church today. Yes, it is a vision that clearly shows Jesus LONGING FOR HIS CHURCH. (Note: In returning to the hall after the Rapture to give a further witness of the gift of eternal life to those left behind, only the Holy Spirit can bring further understanding in due time.)
 

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