David Wilkerson's RAPTURE
1998 Dream
3/2/2010 9:64PM
David
Wilkerson's RAPTURE 1998 Dream, as related in a sermon entitled "Be Ye
Ready Is No Joking Matter":
Matthew
24:42-44: "Watch ye therefore for you do not know
what hour your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house
had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed
his house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is
coming at an hour you do not expect."
(Praying) Lord
you spoke so clearly to me this past week in a dream. You told me to preach
this afternoon, and I obey you...
I don't get
many dreams, and I don't preach on my dreams because I'm a bible preacher, and
anything that does not conform to the Word of God is to be rejected outright.
I'm just telling you how God awakened my soul, how I should preach this more
often...I want you to know this is not doctrine, it's not some new revelation,
it's simply the Holy Spirit prompting me, and speaking to me about His Coming,
I don't want to build any doctrine about it, remember that. I don't have much confidence
in dreams, any dream vision or revelation has to absolutely be framed in Scripture.
Now having
said that, let me share with you without trying to talk to you about doctrine
or anything else, just the Holy Ghost talking to me. In my dream I was suddenly
awakened by the knowledge that I had been snatched, I had been caught up, and I
was in some kind of conveyance, I don't know if it was a chariot, I didn't see
the conveyance, but I knew that there were others in it and that there was an
angel of the Lord... there was a sense of just racing swiftly through streets
and into houses, this conveyance knew no barriers and I had a sense that I was
on my way Home, I'm saved, the Lord has come.
I am being gathered by the angel of the Lord; the
chariots of the Lord, there are thousands upon thousands, the Coming of the
Lord is as lightning is from the east to the west...there was a sense of
swiftness, but it was almost as I was seeing it in slow motion, this lightning
coming, I was seeing it in slow motion, I didn't see a driver, I didn't see an angel, I didn't see
the conveyance, I just had a sense, I knew I was being carried and taken and it
was moving swiftly, and people were being snatched from homes and from the
streets.
And I remember
specifically going into a particular home and there were 3 people that I
recognized, 2 were friends and 1 was a family member, and we went right by, and
there was as sense, a sudden sense, oh God, they were being left behind, and
the Lord allowed me to, for a few fleeting moments, to sense the terror of what
it would be like to be left behind when the angels of the Lord come and gather
His elect from the 4 winds.
I was made to
know at that time that even those who call themselves Christians, and were not
really Christians, who despised the Grace of God went out and sinned and said I
can easily confess, never did forsaking their sin, there was a sense that even
though they were sleeping they were aware, there was an awareness that the Lord
is Coming and there is a sudden moment because I saw hands being raised, people
reaching out and waving.
In fact as we
kept moving on there were people that were moving and trying to get the
attention of this driver, this conveyance, and I was screaming and yelling get
out in the open, as if I thought if they were out in the open they could be
seen and get caught up but it went swiftly on, but there was a sense that I
have never experienced in my life, even though all my life my father taught on
the Coming of the Lord, my grandfather taught on the Coming of the Lord, taught
about it.
The bible says we shall all be changed, in the
twinkling of an eye, suddenly we're going to be changed, the bible says, this
corrupt body shall put on an incorrupt body just like His. And the bible says that we are to be
prepared and ready, expecting, the bible says He is coming for those who look
for His appearing. And those who are expecting, even though they are asleep,
they are going to be caught, if it's in the middle of the night.
Now I'm not
going to be get into the doctrine of the Rapture, when this happens, before the
Tribulation, I am just telling you I had a sense of the horror it's going to be
for those who knew the Gospel, who had one appeal after another, who knew the
Grace and the Mercy of God and they were not ready. They were not taken, they
were not gathered in this, and I remember the swiftness of moving, and seeing
the people left behind, the conveyance just passing by, and this terrible
sense. Lord I know I'm saved, I know I'm redeemed, I'm going home, but those 2
friends and that member of my family... and there was a terror. Two shall be
sleeping in a bed, one shall be taken the other left...watch therefore He's
coming as a thief in the night. He's coming folks.
There was no
sense of speed , there was no sense of traveling, but suddenly I was stepping
with everyone around me, we were stepping as out of a cloud, out of a fog, out
of time, into eternity, suddenly. There was no sense of being carried out into
a cosmos or anywhere else, suddenly we were...Home. We were in eternity and I
remember this sense of absolute serenity, as we stepped out into eternity
through this cloud, there was a sense of peace, and all I could see around me
people were feeling their bodies, they were feeling their hands, they were
caressing their faces, there was no shouting. I didn't see Jesus anywhere,it
was just a sense, it happened so quickly, it seemed to be a gathering place,
the bible say He's going to gather His elect from the the 4 winds, and suddenly
I looked and there were my 2 friends, and my loved one coming through the cloud
and into eternity.
Nobody was
looking at each other, nobody, there was no embracing, there was just a peace,
an incredible peace, and I experienced it for a moment, I am home, that earth
that I was on is gone, I am beyond the reach of satan, there is no sin, there
is no possibility of ever being lost, I am eternally His, He did what He said
He would do, He said He would come with His angels, He came with His angels, he
did everything I preached, everything I said, It's true! He's all sufficient;
He's everything that we need!
There was a
peace and a a serenity beyond anything I could imagine... and people were just
awed, in silence, there was an awe, there was a peace that was absolutely
indescribable, and the sense... it was a sense, it's all over, it's all over,
it was all... it was all true. That sense of reality and truth - that was not
the real world, this is the real world, this is eternity, that's all passed
away, it was just a dream, it was just grass, that's what the bible says, the
flesh is just grass, it comes up, it withers and it's gone. Time is just a
little piece, eternity is a great big realm, God cut a little piece and He gave
it to man, with His Grace and Mercy, saying, here is My Grace, My Mercy, My Glory.
He gives you space and time to repent and trust in Him...
But God wait a
minute, all of these who didn't come, all of those who were left behind, who
thought they were prepared and thought they were ready, they are not here, what
about them Lord... they're lost, there was a sense in me, now folks that will
not be there but I believe God was letting me feel the sense of this; of those
who were gone, and suddenly as I was thinking about all those who had not been
gathered, I woke up, I sat right up, and these words were like silent thunder
in my head. “David, be ye
ready is no joking matter.” And I lay back in my pillow and God said, "My people
are not taking it seriously, they talk about it but they are not taking it
seriously, and many, many are going to be left behind they are not ready... the
Age of Grace is about to end."