Glimpse into the future?

Dear friends

Does God give some people today glimpses into the future?

Of course, psychics claim this gift, although we know that many of their claims are purely bogus, and any real powers they may have are actually demonic. The gift is also manifested by certain people in the New Testament as a gift from God, who still gives this gift to His people today.

This story came to me today, October 20, 2001. I hesitated to share it, but then decided to do so, and let you judge it for yourself.

A friend, who wants to remain anonymous, called me today to tell me about his 19-year-old son. I will call my friend John and the son Bob. John is a medical doctor and a strong Christian, and his son, also a Christian, is a student at a state university. John is a very credible person. I have zero doubt of the reliability of this story, but I do not know what it might mean.

John tells me that his son has had the uncanny ability to foretell certain things that happen at, of all places, baseball or football games!

For example, one time Bob said to his dad, "See that guy over there, number so-and-so? He is going to catch the ball and run for a touchdown." Sure enough, on the next play, that same fellow caught the ball and ran for a touchdown!

John says that happens at most games, but does not happen at every game. Whenever his son calls a play, it always happens just like he says.

About a year ago they went to a baseball game and at the beginning of the game Bob told him that the pitcher was going to hit a home run during the game. John laughed and replied, "What? Pitchers rarely even get a hit, much less hit a home run." John said the game was one-sided and not too interesting and their team was losing, so they left at around the eighth inning. When they got to the parking lot they suddenly heard the crowd roaring and going absolutely wild. They rushed to their car to turn on the radio and leaned that the pitcher had just hit a home run!

A most amazing thing happened this year in June or July. The son was invited to a baseball game with a friend. Bob was sitting there at the game and suddenly turned to his friend and said, "You see that man in the gray shirt sitting in the center field bleachers?"

The friend said, "Yes, I do. I see him."

Bob said, "He’s going to catch a home run from this batter."

John said that about 20 seconds later, the batter at the plate hit a home run, and the same man in the gray shirt in the center field bleachers caught the ball!

John said, "This is not normal. I started to wonder. But I believe the Lord was giving my son credibility with me, so that I will listen to him."

Now the purpose of this story…

John said, "On September 11, 2001, the Day of Infamy, Bob was living at his college fraternity house. He was sleeping early in the morning and having a dream. In the dream, he was looking at the sky, and he began to see people screaming because a big ball of fire was coming down toward the earth. In the dream, Bob begins talking with a scientist, who said, ‘This thing will crash toward earth in 3 1/2 months or less.’ Then he heard another voice say, ‘November.’"

All of a sudden he woke up, at the same time somebody rushed through the door shouting, "Bob, terrorists just attacked New York and the World Trade Center."

John said he has been thinking about this and trying to decide whether to share his son’s experience, but he now feels burdened and led to tell others. He said that is why he called me. He believes something cataclysmic will happen in November and/or before 3 1/2 months from September 11, 2001, which will be before the latter part of December. John's interpretation is that it does not have to be a meteor, but something catastrophic.

Does this mean a devastating meteor will hit the earth in November or December? I do not know. Does it mean a devastating terrorist attack, perhaps with a nuclear weapon? I do not know.

Was this given so that God’s people will pray against it, and stop it. Very possible. It would certainly be a good prayer target.

I do not know the answers but dutifully pass it along for your discernment and action, as the Lord leads.

God bless you,

Jim