I heard a voice "Take off your clothes for this is holy ground... kneel."
Suddenly I found myself lying in the battlefield naked.
A voice said "stand up" I was disorientated, trying to get my bearings I looked around but all i could see was lush knee high grass. I looked up and saw the vague image of Jesus and clapsed back down.
"Stand Up" I heard again, this time the voice was different, louder closer. I looked up to see an angel at least 8 ft tall leaning toward me hand outstretched. Disturbing images flashed through my mind off the town that I had earlier seen burnt to the ground. Images of building's flashed before. I saw the blacksmiths, the prophets and a strange building that had the word 'apostle' on it, all destroyed to some degree either by fire, some simply torn down some vandalised, I saw a library it was untouched but as i was taken into it I could see it was empty of books.
These images disturbed me, they seemed to be from the castle not the town that had burnt down and more images of something that was about to happen. It couldn't be that the castle would undergo the same fate, surely not with the tower housing the throne room?
I then found the strength to get up, i was standing naked in this field, looking around all I could see was green. I knew where I was but I didn't know when I was? The angel said "here's some humility" and rapped a brown woolen blanket around me.
Just then I found myself back in the throne room. i was sitting in a seat sat next to an angel. The angel was silent, head hung low. I sat still clinging to the blanket and shivering.
I looked around, Particularly close to me, empty seats were now full. The whole throne room was full and i felt like I had never felt so alive looking at what I was seeing but at the same time I felt something was missing inside me, deep down.
I shivered, Jesus spoke saying "You are hungry"
I nodded and shivering i said "and c c cold..."
I saw to the centre a host of angels busying themselves doing something but I did not know what that was but there was anticicpation in the air that I had never felt anything like in the world, let alone in this place, an anticipation that something was about to happen.
Jesus then began to speak to me
"You are not allowed here, this is not for you" he said cautiously "The you that is here is the you is past from this moment and the you that is present should not be here yet because this is yet to come for you. What is for you is to go back to the time you have come and make preparations for what is to come.... The wedding celebration with my bride."
I was shocked and concerned at what he meant but before I had a chance to question him Jesus made his way to the floor and began to walk across the room, I raced after him and stopped. I could see something more happening angels were moving to and thro. Tables were laid were the red carpet was that lead up to the throne. I looked carefully as many tables were made into a long straight line all the way to the throne and then overlaid with white tableclothes, candles and cutlery.
After stopping momentarily I began to catch up, all the time my gaze begin fixed on what was going on, I arrived at the door to the throne room still my gaze fixed around, I could tell there was going to be a great banquet as the angels began bringing out food and arranging tables, I knew that this was the banquest, the marriage supper of the lamb. I was know at the end of the table and I could see the tables I looked up the line of tables that seemed to go on forever and could just make out the throne room at the other end.
I starred at the doors as Jesus left me, he was walking along the row of tables lined up and as I turned to momentarily glance at Him as if to say why are you kicking me out of this moment, this experience, this place. I opened my mouth but nothing came out and just before I plucked up the courage to speak he said
"You must know more about what is to happen to you, you have things you must see before you can return here for this now.
"This is not for you, now. Your time will come but I have many things to show you before your time. This is not your time." and just as he said this the door opened in front of me and I looked to see Jesus turn and began "This is your time" he said "and at this time these are the things I have for you." His voiced faded he turned, I turned, wanting to stay more than anything else I had ever wished in my heart I turned around again to see Him in the distance, He was walking away He turned and waved at me smiling and that turned back again and continued walking off.
I starred at the wooden doors before me. Although it seemed to me that I knew these doors well and walked through them many times I had never actually turned to see what they looked like on the other side and neither had I walked out of this room but always come into it.
The doors they were much bigger on this side, much like the doors to a traditional chuuch, wodden and arched but many times the size or so it seemed to me. I could see something shinning out of the wall above them. Written in what looked like stained glass it said 'Seated in Heavenly Places.'
Smiling to myself as i starred at these words above and I stepped through the door.
An angel greeted me, he was more regal than any angel I had seen. There was an elegance in the way he stood he began to speak and with a great authority said.
"I am Michael."
"This is the great and terrible day of the Lord. "
As he said this two angels came out and began to clothe me before they did this, first they cleaned the mud that was still clinging to my body. Michael looked me up and down, I wondered what he was stairing at and realised looking myself up and down what I was exactly dressed in - nothing. One of the angels began messing with my feet and legs immediately I could feel him lifting my feet before I could look down i felt my hands suddenly go up as I was being dressed. I looked down I was wearing boots. I watched as the angel polished these boots until they began to shine, pausing momentarily they continued. All the while I was aware the other angel was tugging and pulling.
As the great angel before me continued my attention swithched back to him.
"Before this day begins you must prepare yourself, tell the Bride she must prepare herself. Speak to your brothers and sisters and prepare for the Bride is being called to War. for She must prepare herself for a war that she has never seen in all of her history. This is a war she is being called to fight and she must overcome."
He finished and I looked at myself, I was a warrior dressed for battle. I sat down on the chair waiting to go into the first room.
After a while I got up and I walked into the first room and immediately walked to the nearest wall and began to touch it gently, in rainbow colours the words "My house shall be a house of prayer" were written, I began to slide my fingers gently across these words when light begin to spring forth out of them and as if a box lept out of the room i could see a picture of Jesus topperling over tables.
Just then i heard a door open. Turning to see an angel of equal stature to Michael standing in the gap between the doors, light shinning from behind him.
"I am Gabriel I am here to show you what you must see"
I walked through the doors. To my surprise I stepped out and I saw smoke rising in front and everything had been topalled to the ground.
i stepped out into the road before me. Long and straight with patches of grass down the middle with trees. Images of statues began to flash in place and then disappear. I looked around and I could see there was just rubble where many buildings had been before.
Flashes of buildings I had seen before flashed in my mind and then disappeared a library flashed then what seemed like a big open barn. I looked behind me at the tower with the seven angels standing with their trumpets on each side, relieved to see it was untouched. I turned to look at Gabriel.
"Hurry up" he responded, he seemed to be in a rush and I had fallen behind him i quickly sped up to catch up with him. He paused briefly and turning to me said
"This is Kingdom Road' then continued
We passed the building of the prophets it looked burned out from the outside and where there was once a large sign.
we passed the blacksmiths or what remained of it and it was just rumble lying on the ground. Dust was floating up in the air where the building had once stood. We kept walking I noticed a man standing on the space around the middle of where the building should have been, it was the only there was as all around him were just piles of bricks around his feet, he just stood there with his hands on his hips like a stature. In total shock he was just taking it all in wondering just what had happened to him? He wasn't the only one?
We then came to the chapel which looked untouched. Only I could see people around it who seemed to be yelling and shouting. As we came closer I could see an angry mob, I looked around at there was not another building around that hadn't become rubble in some way. The crowd were clutching various weapons which mostly seemed to be made of pitch forks and home made spears. The angel came to the crowd and began pushing them to one side, making his way to the door. As we did this I looked at the sign to the left that clearly distinguished the chapel from the rest. Then a white man stepped out of the mob he wore black trousers and shirt and around his neck was a dog collar
"oy what are you doing, what makes you think you can go in there. I want them to come out. I had a church over there" to which he waved his hand in a direction somewhere behind him "laid waste, nothing, not one thing left just stone, rubble and dust. what you gonna do about that and what are you gonna do about this lot" pointing to the building in front of us that we were just about to walk into. There were loud shouts of agreement.
The Angel replied "Do....Do? What am I going to DO? nothing! Not one thing. Have you ever thought why your church was laid waste as to become rubble?" Pausing he continued "Exactly, exactly" while poking him in the belly
Gabriel turned and starred at a big black man dressed in a suit with a hankerchief in his pocket saying "And you" while too poking him in the chest to and continuing "you, standing on your platform. Speaking this and speaking that. You spend all your time speaking and when you are not speaking your spend the rest of the time thinking about speaking and all the while these images pop up in your head and they whispher to you in your sermons and all the while your preaching with these images are playing over and over in your head. rggghh." Gabriel becomeg angry he paused, calmed himself and continued "you, your no better" then shaking his head.
Turning to the previous man he pointed and said "neither are you and you both wonder? You all wonder... none of you are any better"
Continuing he opened the door, stepping in and with me following.
I looked up the chapel was packed there was not a seat free and as I looked up i saw in front of me written in big white letters:
Jesus then appeared in front of both of us, he spoke "isn't it beautfiul" he lifted his head and closed his eyes and I knew he was not referring to the building but the worship that took place in it.
"My house will be known as a House of Prayer" he said
Gabirel then left the Chapel and quickly made his way to another building further down the road. I tried to follow him though again he was moving quickly, leaving me no time to pause and wonder. He stopped at an odd building. It was much further down the road than I had ever been in either the city or the town.
To me it looked like a broken down windmill, it was very beautiful, it had a very old fashioned look like it was built hundreds of years ago but also a shiny brand new look like something that had just come out of it's packing. I touched the wall and much to my surprise as i did the walls seemed to move and i pushed my finger at the surface further and it disappeared as like being pushed into a sponge. It felt like it was made from Polystyrine. Gabriel pushing the door wide open took a giant step with me following before I crossed the thershold of the door I noticed letters and words and i looked up just in time to read 'house of the apostles'
The door shut and surprisingly we were met by Jesus he was standing in the middle next to a beam that shot up from the floor. Inside it looked like a barn, all I could see was straw and the odd beam of wood.
He smiled briefly and stopped before saying "This is the apostles house", he then just leant on the beam until it slowly began to move and all of sudden just topalled over taking the top of the house with it and within the blink of eye the world seemed to be full of straw flying around chaotically in the air so it seemed like we were standing in a field of straw just being harvested by a massive combine harvest.
I looked down to where the beam had been and there was a square hole witten around it were the words "Jesus Christ" on one side "Cornestone" adjacent.
Suddenly I found myself lying in the battlefield naked.
A voice said "stand up" I was disorientated, trying to get my bearings I looked around but all i could see was lush knee high grass. I looked up and saw the vague image of Jesus and clapsed back down.
"Stand Up" I heard again, this time the voice was different, louder closer. I looked up to see an angel at least 8 ft tall leaning toward me hand outstretched. Disturbing images flashed through my mind off the town that I had earlier seen burnt to the ground. Images of building's flashed before. I saw the blacksmiths, the prophets and a strange building that had the word 'apostle' on it, all destroyed to some degree either by fire, some simply torn down some vandalised, I saw a library it was untouched but as i was taken into it I could see it was empty of books.
These images disturbed me, they seemed to be from the castle not the town that had burnt down and more images of something that was about to happen. It couldn't be that the castle would undergo the same fate, surely not with the tower housing the throne room?
I then found the strength to get up, i was standing naked in this field, looking around all I could see was green. I knew where I was but I didn't know when I was? The angel said "here's some humility" and rapped a brown woolen blanket around me.
Just then I found myself back in the throne room. i was sitting in a seat sat next to an angel. The angel was silent, head hung low. I sat still clinging to the blanket and shivering.
I looked around, Particularly close to me, empty seats were now full. The whole throne room was full and i felt like I had never felt so alive looking at what I was seeing but at the same time I felt something was missing inside me, deep down.
I shivered, Jesus spoke saying "You are hungry"
I nodded and shivering i said "and c c cold..."
I saw to the centre a host of angels busying themselves doing something but I did not know what that was but there was anticicpation in the air that I had never felt anything like in the world, let alone in this place, an anticipation that something was about to happen.
Jesus then began to speak to me
"You are not allowed here, this is not for you" he said cautiously "The you that is here is the you is past from this moment and the you that is present should not be here yet because this is yet to come for you. What is for you is to go back to the time you have come and make preparations for what is to come.... The wedding celebration with my bride."
I was shocked and concerned at what he meant but before I had a chance to question him Jesus made his way to the floor and began to walk across the room, I raced after him and stopped. I could see something more happening angels were moving to and thro. Tables were laid were the red carpet was that lead up to the throne. I looked carefully as many tables were made into a long straight line all the way to the throne and then overlaid with white tableclothes, candles and cutlery.
After stopping momentarily I began to catch up, all the time my gaze begin fixed on what was going on, I arrived at the door to the throne room still my gaze fixed around, I could tell there was going to be a great banquet as the angels began bringing out food and arranging tables, I knew that this was the banquest, the marriage supper of the lamb. I was know at the end of the table and I could see the tables I looked up the line of tables that seemed to go on forever and could just make out the throne room at the other end.
I starred at the doors as Jesus left me, he was walking along the row of tables lined up and as I turned to momentarily glance at Him as if to say why are you kicking me out of this moment, this experience, this place. I opened my mouth but nothing came out and just before I plucked up the courage to speak he said
"You must know more about what is to happen to you, you have things you must see before you can return here for this now.
"This is not for you, now. Your time will come but I have many things to show you before your time. This is not your time." and just as he said this the door opened in front of me and I looked to see Jesus turn and began "This is your time" he said "and at this time these are the things I have for you." His voiced faded he turned, I turned, wanting to stay more than anything else I had ever wished in my heart I turned around again to see Him in the distance, He was walking away He turned and waved at me smiling and that turned back again and continued walking off.
I starred at the wooden doors before me. Although it seemed to me that I knew these doors well and walked through them many times I had never actually turned to see what they looked like on the other side and neither had I walked out of this room but always come into it.
The doors they were much bigger on this side, much like the doors to a traditional chuuch, wodden and arched but many times the size or so it seemed to me. I could see something shinning out of the wall above them. Written in what looked like stained glass it said 'Seated in Heavenly Places.'
Smiling to myself as i starred at these words above and I stepped through the door.
An angel greeted me, he was more regal than any angel I had seen. There was an elegance in the way he stood he began to speak and with a great authority said.
"I am Michael."
"This is the great and terrible day of the Lord. "
As he said this two angels came out and began to clothe me before they did this, first they cleaned the mud that was still clinging to my body. Michael looked me up and down, I wondered what he was stairing at and realised looking myself up and down what I was exactly dressed in - nothing. One of the angels began messing with my feet and legs immediately I could feel him lifting my feet before I could look down i felt my hands suddenly go up as I was being dressed. I looked down I was wearing boots. I watched as the angel polished these boots until they began to shine, pausing momentarily they continued. All the while I was aware the other angel was tugging and pulling.
As the great angel before me continued my attention swithched back to him.
"Before this day begins you must prepare yourself, tell the Bride she must prepare herself. Speak to your brothers and sisters and prepare for the Bride is being called to War. for She must prepare herself for a war that she has never seen in all of her history. This is a war she is being called to fight and she must overcome."
He finished and I looked at myself, I was a warrior dressed for battle. I sat down on the chair waiting to go into the first room.
After a while I got up and I walked into the first room and immediately walked to the nearest wall and began to touch it gently, in rainbow colours the words "My house shall be a house of prayer" were written, I began to slide my fingers gently across these words when light begin to spring forth out of them and as if a box lept out of the room i could see a picture of Jesus topperling over tables.
Just then i heard a door open. Turning to see an angel of equal stature to Michael standing in the gap between the doors, light shinning from behind him.
"I am Gabriel I am here to show you what you must see"
I walked through the doors. To my surprise I stepped out and I saw smoke rising in front and everything had been topalled to the ground.
i stepped out into the road before me. Long and straight with patches of grass down the middle with trees. Images of statues began to flash in place and then disappear. I looked around and I could see there was just rubble where many buildings had been before.
Flashes of buildings I had seen before flashed in my mind and then disappeared a library flashed then what seemed like a big open barn. I looked behind me at the tower with the seven angels standing with their trumpets on each side, relieved to see it was untouched. I turned to look at Gabriel.
"Hurry up" he responded, he seemed to be in a rush and I had fallen behind him i quickly sped up to catch up with him. He paused briefly and turning to me said
"This is Kingdom Road' then continued
We passed the building of the prophets it looked burned out from the outside and where there was once a large sign.
we passed the blacksmiths or what remained of it and it was just rumble lying on the ground. Dust was floating up in the air where the building had once stood. We kept walking I noticed a man standing on the space around the middle of where the building should have been, it was the only there was as all around him were just piles of bricks around his feet, he just stood there with his hands on his hips like a stature. In total shock he was just taking it all in wondering just what had happened to him? He wasn't the only one?
We then came to the chapel which looked untouched. Only I could see people around it who seemed to be yelling and shouting. As we came closer I could see an angry mob, I looked around at there was not another building around that hadn't become rubble in some way. The crowd were clutching various weapons which mostly seemed to be made of pitch forks and home made spears. The angel came to the crowd and began pushing them to one side, making his way to the door. As we did this I looked at the sign to the left that clearly distinguished the chapel from the rest. Then a white man stepped out of the mob he wore black trousers and shirt and around his neck was a dog collar
"oy what are you doing, what makes you think you can go in there. I want them to come out. I had a church over there" to which he waved his hand in a direction somewhere behind him "laid waste, nothing, not one thing left just stone, rubble and dust. what you gonna do about that and what are you gonna do about this lot" pointing to the building in front of us that we were just about to walk into. There were loud shouts of agreement.
The Angel replied "Do....Do? What am I going to DO? nothing! Not one thing. Have you ever thought why your church was laid waste as to become rubble?" Pausing he continued "Exactly, exactly" while poking him in the belly
Gabriel turned and starred at a big black man dressed in a suit with a hankerchief in his pocket saying "And you" while too poking him in the chest to and continuing "you, standing on your platform. Speaking this and speaking that. You spend all your time speaking and when you are not speaking your spend the rest of the time thinking about speaking and all the while these images pop up in your head and they whispher to you in your sermons and all the while your preaching with these images are playing over and over in your head. rggghh." Gabriel becomeg angry he paused, calmed himself and continued "you, your no better" then shaking his head.
Turning to the previous man he pointed and said "neither are you and you both wonder? You all wonder... none of you are any better"
Continuing he opened the door, stepping in and with me following.
I looked up the chapel was packed there was not a seat free and as I looked up i saw in front of me written in big white letters:
One Thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.
Jesus then appeared in front of both of us, he spoke "isn't it beautfiul" he lifted his head and closed his eyes and I knew he was not referring to the building but the worship that took place in it.
"My house will be known as a House of Prayer" he said
Gabirel then left the Chapel and quickly made his way to another building further down the road. I tried to follow him though again he was moving quickly, leaving me no time to pause and wonder. He stopped at an odd building. It was much further down the road than I had ever been in either the city or the town.
To me it looked like a broken down windmill, it was very beautiful, it had a very old fashioned look like it was built hundreds of years ago but also a shiny brand new look like something that had just come out of it's packing. I touched the wall and much to my surprise as i did the walls seemed to move and i pushed my finger at the surface further and it disappeared as like being pushed into a sponge. It felt like it was made from Polystyrine. Gabriel pushing the door wide open took a giant step with me following before I crossed the thershold of the door I noticed letters and words and i looked up just in time to read 'house of the apostles'
The door shut and surprisingly we were met by Jesus he was standing in the middle next to a beam that shot up from the floor. Inside it looked like a barn, all I could see was straw and the odd beam of wood.
He smiled briefly and stopped before saying "This is the apostles house", he then just leant on the beam until it slowly began to move and all of sudden just topalled over taking the top of the house with it and within the blink of eye the world seemed to be full of straw flying around chaotically in the air so it seemed like we were standing in a field of straw just being harvested by a massive combine harvest.
I looked down to where the beam had been and there was a square hole witten around it were the words "Jesus Christ" on one side "Cornestone" adjacent.
