"...there shall be left in it a remnant who will be brought out..." (Ezek. 14:22)
 

INTRODUCTION

Dream of January 22, 1990. This dream portrays the remnant Church in America emerging unharmed from a catastrophic nuclear attack. God guides the remnant Church through the post nuclear attack aftermath and confirms His foretold destruction upon a once great nation, the Lady of Kingdoms (Isa. 47:5). The Interpretation, Interpretive Scriptures, and my Personal Testimony follow this dream. (See also Spanish Pastor [Father] Juan Paul Valdez' interesting prediction about nuclear WW 3: http://www.greatdreams.com/juan.htm)

DREAM

It was nighttime, and totally dark. However, I was able to clearly distinguish what I saw. I stood in the midst of a vast scorched environment on the side of a road watching a multitude of people of various ages approaching from the left. These men and women wore current western style clothing and appeared strong and healthy. No two persons walked together, nor did any one person talk to another. Their total silence was most extraordinary, and more interestingly, there were wide spaces of approximately five feet between each person. I did not recognize anyone, and after observing them for a while, I suddenly found myself walking in their midst.

The landscape and environment through which we walked were one of total devastation. A catastrophic event had occurred that left the environment, buildings, homes, properties and landscape in ruins. There was no evidence of electricity or burning bon fires in the dark anywhere. Uniquely, we were able to observe even the smallest details of the horrendous destruction around us near and far away in the moonless night. We walked through what probably had been either neighborhoods, large metropolitan areas, large and small places of commerce, and perhaps some recreational parks. We also walked in the midst of wide-open fields with only a few occasional houses' or buildings' foundations remaining in the midst of the rubble. There was no sign of life nor evidence of skeletal remains. (In a more current dream I saw several TREMENDOUS fire explosions occurring throughout the vast landscape, one explosion after another. I also saw people, properties and buildings go up in flames. Evidently, these explosions were nuclear missile strikes. People turned into torches right before my eyes. Properties, buildings, vehicles, etc. erupted into flames while I stood in the midst of an inferno as a mere observer. I was not burned or harmed.)

As we walked, we repeatedly glanced to the left and to the right. No one paused, or slowed down. It seemed as though we were on a conducted tour. Countless enormous and smaller buildings' steel girders were greatly twisted out of shape or practically melted. Almost unrecognizable were cars, trucks, public transportation vehicles and other types of transportation of all various sizes whose steel frames were bent out of shape and totally contorted. They had been destroyed by intense heat. Highways and overhead highway passes were broken apart, disconnected or nonexistent for the exception of the remaining, almost total or partially "decapitated," vertical cement supports. We witnessed utter devastation, charred ruins, chaos and desolation.

Throughout all that we attentively observed, no one spoke a word or expressed a mournful sound. We seemed to have an understanding of what had occurred, and were not grieved about it. We often looked up to observe remains of what at one time must have been tall buildings. We looked around at all the debris and wreckage that laid everywhere. Yet, and strangely, however, we walked on a very wide unlittered path. It was as though a newly paved road had been laid down in the midst of the ruins for us to walk on while we observed the surrounding chaos. It was an endless observation of charred destruction, endless ruins, rubble and ashes. These sights were all too familiar to many of us. Still, no one spoke, and the eerie silence continued except for the sound of our footsteps.

After an endless period of observation we began to see a faint hint of dawning light in the sky ahead of us. We changed our focus of interest and directed our attention ahead as the sky quickly became brighter. We sensed excitement building up in our midst as we became focused on the sky. Then, instantly, we were all dressed in long white robes! I quickly became aware that we were walking on wide open white grounds. We began to revel in the increasing brightness of the sky with tremendous excitement while running and sounding forth loud boisterous cries of joy while repeatedly crying out, "JESUS!" We became delirious with excitement and ran toward an even more overwhelming Light, almost as if we were soaring. While the Lord Jesus did not appear before us in person, we instantly knew that THIS WAS THE RAPTURE!

INTERPRETATION

The multitude of men and women coming out of the post nuclear attack ruins and destructions are the salt preservative within America: the remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. (See Ezek. 14:12-23 in Interpretive Scriptures.) This is in line with what the Lord had told me in June 1998 as I was about to post http://www.do-you-love-me.org/wsomers/gjoa-2.html that summer: "My Church will be kept here to preserve this nation during its judgment." Their presence and faithful integrity (see Job 27:3-6) during America's nuclear attack preserves her from total extinction, after which man will still be able to walk throughout the land, even as scorched and desolate as it will become.

MATTHEW 5 (13) "You are the salt of the earth."

MARK 9 (50) "Salt [integrity] is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another."

I compare what I saw in this dream to post WW II bombed out sites and post atomic destroyed environments of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. The destruction of a once thriving culture and illustrious nation which had been mightily blessed by God, a giant among nations, was tragic. Her shining glory had departed. Words fail me in trying to further describe these doomed and catastrophic scenes. They were horrendous to behold, and this emerging multitude of men and women are the remnant Church to whom God had previously revealed His declared judgment upon America (Babylon) in His Word (Jeremiah 50, 51; Revelation 18) as well as through visions, dreams and prophecies. They had already grieved in their hearts through prayer about this approaching calamity as God had repeatedly revealed it to them. However, it was futile to pray against it because "it was written" in God's Word. Their call as watchmen was to warn the Church of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and the world of impending judgment. (Ezek. 3:16-21) What they now witnessed was the full prophesied manifestation of God's wrath (His JUSTIFIED spent anger) upon a disobedient, faithless, sinful, decadent and rebellious nation because she had wilfully departed from God, rejected His Word, and mocked His grace. (Yet, all along she sang, "God Bless America.") She had legalized the killing of babies in the womb through abortion; legally ruled prayer unconstitutional in the schools and banned the public display of the Ten Commandments throughout the nation; openly exhibited acceptance and approval of sodomy, even the ordaining of homosexual ministers and performing homosexual marriages in some of the churches, and then allowing those couples to adopt children; abandoned herself to material idolatry, and prostrated herself to the worship of money. The tragedy of it all was that on her currency she had once declared "IN GOD WE TRUST" and yet that same currency became HER trust which she worshiped as her god. (Continue with the following scripture of Romans 1:24-32)

INTERPRETATIVE SCRIPTURES -- NKJV

ROMANS 1 (24) Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, (25) who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. (26) For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature [lesbianism]. (27) Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful [homosexuality], and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. (28) And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; (29) being filled with all unrighteousness [sinfulness], sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness [greed], maliciousness [spitefulness, bitterness]; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers [gossips], (30) backbiters [slanderers], haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, (31) undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; (32) who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of [eternal] death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.

PSALM 46 (8) Come, behold the works of the Lord, who has made desolations in the earth. (10) Be still, and know that I am God;...

PSALM 76 (7) You, Yourself, are to be feared; and who may stand in Your presence when once You are angry? (8) You caused judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared and was still, (9) when God arose to judgment...

JEREMIAH 18 (7) "The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, (8) if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it. (9) And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build it and to plant it, (10) if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey my voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it. (11) Now therefore, speak,...saying, 'Thus says the Lord: "Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good." ' " (12) And they said, "That is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own plans, and we will every one obey the dictates of his evil heart."

MATTHEW 23 (34) "Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes..."

LUKE 10 (16) "He who hears you [My servants] hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me."

JEREMIAH 25 (4) And the Lord has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear. (5) They said, "Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers forever. (6) 'Do not go after other gods to serve them and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will not harm you.' (7) Yet you have not listened to Me," says the Lord, "that you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt."

ISAIAH 5 (20) Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (21) Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! (24) Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom will ascend like dust; because they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. (25) Therefore the anger of the Lord is aroused...He has stretched out His hand against them and stricken them...

JEREMIAH 22 (6) For thus says the Lord...(8) "And many nations will pass by this city [nation]; and everyone will say to his neighbor, 'Why has the Lord done so to this great city?' (9) Then they will answer, 'Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshiped other gods and served them.' "

ISAIAH 3 (9) The look on their countenance witnesses against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought evil upon themselves.

ISAIAH 1 (9) Unless the Lord of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been made like Gomorrah.

EZEKIEL 14 (12) The word of the Lord came again to me, saying: (13) "Son of man, when a land sins against Me by persistent unfaithfulness, I will stretch out My hand against it; I will cut off its supply of bread, send famine on it, and cut off man and beast from it. (14) Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness," says the Lord God. (15) If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they empty it, and make it so desolate that no man may pass through because of the beasts, (16) even though these three men were in it, as I live," says the Lord God, "they would deliver neither sons nor daughters [backslidden Christians and the apostate Church]; only they would be delivered, and the land would be desolate. (17) Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, 'Sword, go through the land,' and I cut off man and beast from it, (18) even though these three men were in it, as I live," says the Lord God, "they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but only they themselves would be delivered. (19) Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out My fury on it in blood, and cut off from it man and beast, (20) even though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live," says the Lord God, "they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness....(22) Yet behold, there shall be left in it a remnant who will be brought out, both [My] sons and daughters; surely they will come out to you,...Then you will be comforted concerning the disaster that I have brought...(23) And they will comfort you, when you see their ways and their doings; and you shall know that I have done nothing without cause that I have done in it," says the Lord God.

ISAIAH 3 (24) And so it shall be: instead of a sweet smell there will be a stench; instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well-set hair, baldness; instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty. (25) Your men shall fall by the sword, and your might [power; strength] in the war. (26) Her [America, the Babylon of Rev. 18] gates shall lament and mourn, and she being desolate shall sit on the ground [lie in ruins].

LAMENTATIONS 5 (15) The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance has turned into mourning. (16) The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

EZEKIEL 12 (21) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, (22) "Son of man, what is this proverb that you people have about the land...which says, 'The days are prolonged, and every vision fails'? (23) Tell them therefore, 'Thus says the Lord God: "I will lay this proverb to rest, and they shall no more use it as a proverb..." But say to them, "the days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision. (24) For no more shall there be any false vision or flattering divination...(25) For I am the Lord, I speak, and the word which I speak will come to pass; it will no more be postponed; for in your days...I will say the word and perform it," says the Lord God.' "...(28) "Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God: "None of My words will be postponed any more but the word which I speak will be done," says the Lord God.' "

EZEKIEL Chapter 7 [The reader is well advised to read and study this extremely graphic chapter which describes the Babylonian conquest over Israel. It is a preceding present day commentary on what America (Babylon) will soon endure through great woe, humiliation and suffering.]

JEREMIAH 17 (5) Thus says the Lord: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord. (6) For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,... (7) Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord. (9) The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? (10) I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings." (13) O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake You shall be ashamed. "Those who depart from Me shall be written in the earth [dust and ashes] because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters."

ROMANS 1 (18) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, (19) because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. (20) For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, (21) because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. (22) Professing to be wise, they became fools, (23) and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man--the birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

ACTS 10 (42) "And He [Jesus] commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was ordained by God to be Judge of the living and the dead. (43) To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, whoever believes in Him will receive remission [forgiveness] of sins."

ROMANS 6 (23) For the wages of sin is [eternal] death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

JOHN 5 (19) Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. (20) For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. (21) For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will. (22) For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, (23) that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. (24) Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from [eternal] death into [eternal] life.

JOHN 11 (25) Jesus said..."I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. (26) And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die."

JOHN 14 (6) Jesus said..."I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

MATTHEW 11 (28) "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (29) Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. (30) For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."

ACTS 4 (12) Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

ROMANS 10 (13) For whoever calls upon the name of the Lord [Jesus Christ] shall be saved.
 

PERSONAL TESTIMONY

During a desperate time in my life and not knowing Christ as my Savior, I dreamt three powerful and vivid dreams in May, June and July of 1975 which are too lengthy to describe. Briefly, in the first dream I was told that I had to change my ways. (I was deeply involved in the occult and witchcraft.) In the second dream, Jesus appeared before me and beckoned me to come to Him. The third dream was as follows: an enormous ancient book of an approximate size of twenty-four inches in length by sixteen inches in width, and about eight inches thick materialized before me, suspended in mid-air. A golden aura surrounded the enormous Ancient Book. With the bound edge of the book to the left, the black leather cover opened from right to left by itself. I beheld O-L-D ivory colored pages with Hebrew writing neatly written on each page. I had seen many Jewish newspapers when I lived in New York City and recognized Hebrew writing. (A Hebrew book is read in reverse; the bound edge of the book is at the right. Therefore, I was being shown this book starting at the end. Since I am living in the end time, that was the stage from where God wanted to begin His instruction in the Ancient Book, slowly taking my understanding back in time to where He had already foretold and made His sovereign declarations.) As ancient as this book was, there wasn't one smeared, creased, torn, dog-eared or a corner-ripped page. It was absolutely perfect in appearance. The same powerful Voice that spoke to me in the first dream began to speak in an instructive tone and said, "From this time on I will..." and then the Voice continued, however, speaking in a different language which I did not understand. I stood before the Ancient Book intently looking at each page while the Voice spoke instructively without end. The dream seemed endless and the pages continued turning by themselves, one at a time, momentarily pausing so that I could quickly gaze at both pages. Eventually this seemingly eternal dream faded while the awesome Voice was still speaking in the strange language.

Thereafter, for a whole year following those stunning dreams, I entered into a deeply anguished walk under the shadow of death. Those dreams were instrumental in preparing and leading me to finally understand that my deepest need was God's grace, mercy, hope, peace and strength found only in His Son, Jesus Christ. I responded to Jesus' beckoning call in the dream of June 1975, accepted Him as my Savior, and surrendered my heart and my life to Him fourteen months later on August 30, 1976. I received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit on October 11, 1976. From that time forth, the Lord has ministered to me not only through His Word, but through dreams which continue to this day. From 1989 to 1994, I received a series of dreams which made absolutely no sense to me. I did, however, discern that most of them were end time dreams. The Holy Spirit prompted me to write and file them away. During an approximate period between 1994 and 1997, it never failed that whenever I opened any Bible anywhere it almost always fell open to the Book of Jeremiah! After this began to occur repeatedly I discerned in my spirit that the Holy Spirit was prompting me to read Jeremiah. I did, and also reviewed both the major and minor prophets until He called me to begin research work on the Web in May 1997 for http://www.do-you-love-me.org/wsomers/gjoa-1.html and other subsequent posted dreams on the Web. Also in the fall of 1997, through a pastor, He prompted me to begin working on those dreams I had filed away a few years earlier. (I sought interpretative assistance from Pastor Paula Cavu for only http://www.do-you-love-me.org/wsomers/ju9h.html.)

Since 1997 I have searched the scriptures so as to present those which the Holy Spirit shows me agree with what God is revealing in each dream and is saying to the Church. I am deeply convicted in my spirit that part of those instructive words which the Voice spoke to me in the third dream of July 1975 have a strong and overwhelming objective toward this end. Therefore, I urge (exhort) my brothers and sisters in Christ to heed (pay attention to) God's Word in these crucial and spiritually quenched desperate times we are living in. Do not be deceived, and do not lean on the arm of the flesh or on your own understanding. Judgment upon America is at hand. Listen to what the Holy Spirit is saying to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and heed the Word of God as declared in:

Heb. 3 (7) Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear His voice, (8) do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, (9) where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, and saw My works forty years. (10) Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, 'They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.' (11) So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.' " (12) Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; (13) but exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. (14) For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, (15) while it is said: "Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."

Heb. 4 (11) Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. (12) For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (13) And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
 

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POST DATE: March 19, 2000
 

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