Salvation
I was watching this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmsoDztah_U&list=WL&index=4 about how he thinks people, who don’t hear the Gospel can be saved and he is pretty clueless.
I will share my personal salvation testimony with you because God used it to teach me how He gets the message of salvation to those who are never witnesses to by humans or have never read the Bible.
I was somewhere between 12 and 14 years of age in California in the early 1960s. I clearly remember asking my mother why Jesus was murdered before this experience took place, showing that I didn’t know anything about salvation through Jesus and she said it was because the Romans were mean or evil, showing she didn’t know either. I had absolutely no idea that Jesus died to pay for our sins, none.
This all took place with three dreams on three different nights in a row and, with each part of this, God taught me something.
Night one: The dream began with me looking over my left shoulder back behind me at a very bright white and beautiful small rail fence like some people use in gardens. The fence came out of the dark to my left traveling to my right and, right behind me, it made a beautiful arch, then continued a few feet to my right before it made a 90 degree turn away from me and disappeared into the dark.
Note that the gate to Hell was deceptively beautiful to draw people into Hell.
That arch was drawing me towards it to go through it but it was made known to me that, in that darkness within the fence was Hell so I was terrified and trying to run from it but I was moving in slow motion and not moving an inch on my own. That was telling me that I could not avoid Hell with my own abilities just like the Bible teaches but I didn’t know anything about the Bible at that time.
For that entire short dream I was either inside my body looking back behind me at the fence, feeling terrified, and trying to get away from Hell or standing in front of me looking back at me and the fence behind me and not gaining an inch in getting away from Hell on my own. I changed back and forth a number of times and then woke up so terrified it must have taken me at least 15 to 20 minutes to calm down enough to get back to sleep.
The next morning I woke up and had completely forgotten about the dream and that is important to remember because it is a lesson we will come back to.
Night Two: I had exactly the same dream with one addition. Satan was standing in front of the gate to Hell with his left arm bent at the elbow, his hand palm up, and he kept opening and closing the fingers of that hand beckoning me to come to him so he could take me into Hell.
Needless to say, I was even more terrified than the night before but still couldn’t gain an inch in getting away from Hell and Satan on my own. I could not do it myself. Once again, I kept changing from being inside my body looking back at Satan over my left shoulder and then standing in front of me and looking back at myself running from Satan and vainly trying to escape Hell and Satan on my own.
Then Satan suddenly blurted out every promise he could make such as wealth, fame, sex, and power, if I would come to him, He literally promised me the world. I completely understood everything he said, then I shook my head no and verbally said, “No!” and continued to run without gaining an inch.
Then it got super duper scary because Satan suddenly started running after me and he wasn’t running in slow motion and was closing on me very, very, very quickly. Yep, I was just a wee bit super duper terrified but still couldn’t move an inch away from him and Hell for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
He got right behind me and then the dream changed to a picture of the left side of my back with his hand about 6 to 8 inches from my back as he was reaching to grab me by my back and drag my young butt into Hell. Then I suddenly woke up and was just a wee bit more terrified than when I woke up the night before so it took me a while longer to calm down enough to get back to sleep.
I woke up the next morning and didn’t remember having that dream at all and that is important. Also remember that I never looked forward during either of those two dreams.
Night Three: I had the exact same dream as the second night with just one addition. I could see light from in front of me fading into the darkness to my sides but I still did not look to see what was in front of me.
Everything else was the same as the second dream. It started with Satan standing in front of the gate to Hell beckoning me to come to him with his left hand, he suddenly blurted out every promise he could make, I shook my head no and said, “No!”, he began chasing me again and, with me inside my body looking back over my left shoulder, he got right behind me and started reaching to grab me when I suddenly turned my head and looked forward.
Standing in front of me was Jesus with His arms outstretched to His sides, welcoming me to Him. Years later, when I began reading the Bible, I found out he looked exactly like John described Him in the Book of Revelation. His hair and beard were white, a soft, white light came from His eyes, He radiated a light out from Him that faded into the darkness at my sides and covered everything and everyone behind him, and he wore a white robe that went from His neck to the toes on His feet and heels of His hands so I could not see the nail scars.
To his right and covered by His light was a man that was made known to me was Paul half leaning and sitting on a big rock, while staring in adoration at Jesus. Behind Jesus were the rest of the Apostles and behind them were all of the saved, with all of them being covered by the light, righteousness, and salvation of Jesus.
All Jesus said to me was, “Come to me. I will take care of you. I love you.” He did not say or promise anything else.
The dream suddenly changed to the scene of the left side of my back with the hand of Satan only one or two inches from grabbing my back and dragging me off into Hell.
I suddenly work up in absolute terror, rolled onto my front in a fetal positions with my face buried in my pillow and, without anyone telling me what to do, I acknowledges my sins or crimes against God’s Laws, repented of them, and accepted Jesus as my savior. An absolute peace quickly came over me and I quickly fell back to sleep.
The next morning I didn’t remember a thing about any of the dreams but I did have a peace and assurance in my heart that I was saved by Jesus for the rest of my life. I did not know when or where I had accepted Jesus but I knew in my heart I had.
It wasn’t until the fall of 1973, when I was in the US Air Force at Korat AFB, in Thailand and I was walking from my shop back to my barracks that God caused me to remember every detail of all three dreams.
Since 1973 I have read and heard of numerous accounts where God caused other people from around the world, many of whom had never heard of Jesus, to accept Jesus and convert to Christianity because of dreams and visions. I have read and heard about numerous people from other religions like Islam, Buddhism, and the Occult who accepted Jesus and converted to Christianity because of dreams and visions.
Contrary to what he tells you and he says others believe, God does not need one human on this planet to tell anyone about His love and salvation because God does not need one human for anything and all humans need God for everything. If God tells you to witness to anyone, it is to test your love and faith in God to share the love and salvation of God with those people against potential persecution and even death. It is most often to help you grow and learn as a Christian to be a better Christian.
God not letting me remember my salvation event for 10 years taught me that God can witness to anyone and everyone Himself without using one human and, if that person rejects the love and salvation of God, God simply does not remind them of the event so they will not remember it and will just continue on with life as usual.
KNOW that every human from Adam to the last person conceived will have been witnessed to by either humans or God and will have no excuse on Judgment Day for having rejected salvation by God and the angels will testify about them rejecting the love and salvation of God on Judgment Day.
God taught me that everything he talked about other people believing in that video is pure ignorance based bull crap. NO ONE will have a valid excuse for not accepting salvation through Jesus. We will ALL have more than adequate opportunity to choose between good and evil, between God and Satan, and between salvation and eternal damnation. God will take care of it and I cannot believe that true Christians think God is so inept that He cannot take care of it.God does not need you for anything and you need God for everything.
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