Conference yukon::christian_v7

829.0. "A vision of these times...." by PAULKM::WEISS (For I am determined to know nothing, except...) Tue Nov 28 1995 15:34

This is posted from another mailing that I receive.  It really spoke to me...

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For what its worth.

I may have related a dream which I had last week in which the Lord
told me to "look at the sky at sunrise". Well the day I got it, it was
overcast and raining, and the sun was already up.

However, Friday morning in Savannah, GA from the 6th floor of the Hyatt
Hotel, a large expanse of the horizon was unobstructed, and the Lord woke
me just before sunrise, and I looked, watched for more than 1/2 hour.

First off, it was just spectacular! There were many low, half circular
clouds, then above them long narrow ones, and even some thick ones. The
light playing off these was remarkably beautiful.

I had half expected to see something unusual, in the cosmic sense - but did
not. Having missed this, I went for the spiritual metaphor of what I was
"seeing" in the real world with my eyes. That worked for me, and I want to
share it, offering it as a potential prophesy, subject as always, to the
discernment of those fellow prophets who lurk here.

First I will describe what I observed.

Before the sun arose, there was darkness, but some overall dim light which
allowed one to "see" the clouds a bit. As the sun was still below the
horizon, its light shone through the thinner clouds with a beautiful orange
glow, which stretched across the entire horizon, as far as I could see. The
clouds appeared to be stationary, holding their positions in relation to
the horizon at least, but the sun - of course - was not. It was rising. As
it moved the light played through the clouds, changing the orange
illumination in a marvelously rich way, like some master cosmic painter,
stiring his paints.

As the sun continued to approach the horizon the sky got lighter, but the
illumination of the clouds began changing in an interesting way. First the
lowest, semicircular ones nearest the horizon had intensely bright orange
lines at their very tops, but completely blocked out every where else, as
if someone had taken bright orange paint, and drawn a narrow line on parts
of their curvy tops.

Concurrently, the orange shining dimmed at the two opposite ends of the
higher and thinner clouds, reducing their overall illumination with orange
light and causing them to "fade" a bit into the general tone of the sky,
which was pretty dark. However near the point where the sun would
eventually appear, on both sides the orange got brighter, making those
clouds have a brighter orange than previously. It was as if the light had
been gathered up from the edges of the clouds along the horizon and
concentrated in the center, near where the sun would appear.

Then the sun appeared, and even as it just broke the horizon, the
brightness was so intense as to be almost unwatchable. I put on sun
glasses, and avoided looking right at it, but watched the sky around it
instead. Once it appeared, it quickly came, and I stopped watching.

As I reflected upon this, asking myself what I had seen, and why God wanted
me to "watch" this, I had these thoughts, which I describe as a "prophesy",
not so much because "thus sayeth the Lord", but because they didn't seem to
fit something else.

The clouds are the "church" in its broadest sense. The sky around them is
the world. The "light" before the sunrise was dim, dark - but some light
was showing through the whole expanse of the clouds (church) and into the
sky (world). It changed with time, but was always striking and beautiful.
As the sun got closer to arising, the light was taken away or dimmed in the
clouds (church) furthest from the sunrise, and concentrated in the clouds
nearest the sunrise. It became generally much brighter there. The clouds
nearest the horizon, were dense, but the light on them was the most
brillant and intense, marking them in highlight with short, bright orange
lines. Perhaps these are those on the church on the front lines? Or perhaps
those who are oldest in their walk with the Lord, nearest death? I don't
know exactly.

Before the sun came it was possible to look across the whole sky and
clouds, but as it arose, it became impossible to see things very near it,
as its brightness was so intense, so that as you tried to look at the
clouds, you only say the brightness of the sun. The sun was Jesus. Those
nearby perhaps those most mature or obedient, most fruitful, or most
dependent upon him. Those "nearest" in some sense.

Broader application to the church I leave for others here to discern and
comment upon.