An end-time vision

Dear friends

Kenneth E. Hagin is a great man of God. His teachings on faith and that of many others are straight from the Word of God and have been an inspiration to me over the years. As often happens, some have taken his teachings to an extreme, causing criticism, and I cannot say that I agree with him or anyone on everything (who does?), but I greatly respect him and his unswerving stance on the Word. The principles he teaches on faith have brought me many personal physical healings. I would not be alive today without the Scriptures that Hagin and others have emphasized to me, because God says, about His words "For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh" (Proverbs 422). I "found them," believed them, acted upon them, and have received the promises. No man or devil will deny me what God has provided, purchased with the blood of His Son.

The below was forwarded to me yesterday by a friend and is from pages 45-47 of Hagin's book, "I Believe in Visions." The book was published in 1984 but I do not know when he had the vision.

Jim

Excerpt:

About that time the Holy Spirit came upon me again. It seemed as if a wind was blowing on me, and I fell flat on my face on the platform. As I lay under the power of God, it seemed that I stood on a plain somewhere and could see for miles and miles around me, just as one can stand on one of the great plains of our nation and gaze off into the distance for miles in every direction.

I looked in every direction, but I couldn't see a sign of life anywhere. There were no trees or grass, no flowers or vegetation of any kind. There were no birds or animals. I felt so lonely. As I looked to the

west I saw what appeared to be a tiny dot on the horizon. At first it was the only moving thing that I could see and so I continued to look at it. As I watched it I saw that it was growing larger and was coming toward me. I continued to watch it until it began to take on shape and form.

Soon I could see that it was a horse. As it came still closer I could see a man upon the horse, riding toward me at full speed. I watched him as he approached. He held the reins of the horse's bridle in his right hand, and he held a scroll of paper in his left hand high above his head.

As I said, I was not conscious of my earthly surroundings, but seemed to be standing high on a plain somewhere in space. When the horseman came to me, he pulled on the reins of the horse and stopped in front of me. I stood on his right; he passed the scroll from his left hand to his right hand, and handed it to me.

As I unrolled the scroll, which was a roll of paper twelve or fourteen inches long, he said, "Take and read." At the top of the page in big, bold, black print were the words, "WAR AND DESTRUCTION." I was struck dumb. He laid his right hand on my head and said, "Read, in the name of Jesus Christ." I began to read what followed on the paper, and as the words instructed me, I looked and saw what I read about.

First of all I read about thousands upon thousands of men in uniform. Then I looked and saw these men marching, wave after wave of soldiers marching as to war. I looked in the direction they were going, and as far as I could see there were thousands of men marching.

I turned to read the scroll again, and then looked and saw what I had just read about. I saw many women - some old with snowy white hair, some middle-aged, others were young women, and some were teenagers. Some of the younger ones held babies in their arms. All of the women were bowed together in sorrow and were weeping profusely. Those who did not carry babies held their hands on their stomachs as they bowed over and wept. Tears flowed from their eyes like water.

I looked at the scroll again, and again I looked up to see what I had read about. I saw the skyline of a large city. Looking closer I saw its buildings were burned-out hulls, and portions of the city were in ruins. It was not written that just one city would be destroyed, burned, and in ruins, but that there would be many such cities.

The scroll was written in the first person and seemed as if Jesus Himself were speaking. I read, "America is receiving her last call. Some nations have already received their last call and will never receive another." Then in larger print it said, "The time of the end of all things is at hand." This statement was repeated four or five times.

It went on to say, "All the gifts of the spirit will be in operation in the church in these last days. The church will do greater things than even the early church did. It will have greater power, signs, and wonders than were recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. We have seen and experienced many healings, but we now behold amazing miracles such as have not been seen before. More and more miracles will be performed in the last days which are just ahead (referring to the end of the last days), for it is time for the gift of the working of miracles to be more in prominence. We now have entered into the area of the miraculous. Many of my own people will not accept the moving of my Spirit, and will turn back and will not be ready to meet Me at my coming. Many will be deceived by false prophets and miracles of Satanic origin. But follow me and you will not be deceived. I am gathering my own together and am preparing them, for the time is short."

There were several other exhortations to watchfulness, to awake and to pray and not to be deceived. Then I read, "As it was in the days of Noah, so also shall the coming of the Son of Man be. As I spoke to Noah and said, "Yet seven days and I will cause it to rain upon the earth, forty days and

forty nights, and every living substance will I destroy from off the face of the earth," so today I am speaking and giving America her last warning and call to repentance, and the time that is left is comparable to the last seven days of Noah's time.

"Warn this generation, as did Noah his generation, for judgment is about to fall. And these sayings shall be fulfilled shortly, for I am coming soon. This is the last revival. I am preparing my people for my coming. Judgment is coming, but I will call my people away, even unto myself, before the worst shall come. But be thou faithful and watch and pray."

Then the message concluded with the words, "For the time of the end of all things is at hand."

Those who were present that night under the tent at the time of this portion of the vision said that I read the scroll aloud for about thirty minutes. I handed the scroll back to the rider and he rode away in the direction from which he had come."

End of excerpt.