Theology

The following are examples of the type of dreams that I receive which tell me to put my faith in God.

On the morning of Aug. 12, 2004, I awoke with a dream in which our Lord told me that I would never again have to buy oil filters for my car, my wife’s car or my two daughters’ cars. This puzzled me somewhat because I change the oil in our cars about three times a year, usually around Spring Break, late Summer and then in late December. I had just changed the oil in the cars on the previous Monday and I knew that I would be changing the oil several more times before my death. I did not understand the dream so I did not think about it.

I got dressed and drove my wife’s car across the river to the Gretna Courthouse because I had jury duty on this Thursday. There were about 100 people in the jury assembly room. Then around 9:30 about 30 of us were called and told to go upstairs to a particular court room for voir dire; I was the 15th person called. The judge, the plaintiff’s attorney and then the defendant’s attorney each asked us questions. I was dismissed along with several other persons.

On the way home, while crossing the Huey P. Long Bridge I suddenly remembered the dream I had of that morning. Voir dire is a filtering process! In Louisiana once a person is called for jury duty he or she does not have to serve again for several years. What our Lord was telling me in the dream was that I would die before I was called for jury duty again. I would never again have to go through the voir dire filtering process again, the process of jury selection.

On Dec. 29, 2004, I had a dream where I saw an American Bald Eagle building a nest on top of an electrical scaffolding. While watching the eagle build his nest, I was reminded of Pale Male and Lola the two hawks who built a nest on the 12th floor of a Fifth Avenue apartment building in New York City. I hoped that this eagle’s nest would not be destroyed by the electrical company as the hawks’ nest was destroyed by the management of the apartment building.

Meanwhile, standing behind me, watching me watch the eagle was a police officer. Then suddenly a sink hole opened up and the earth swallowed me up. As I was going down into the sink hole I called upon God to have mercy on my soul. I then told myself that I will just have to dig myself out. I do not know the interpretation of this dream but I think it has something to do with my death.

On August 3, 2005 I had a dream of a clear blue sky. In the sky was a shelf on which there were thousands and thousands of people. They began jumping off the shelf down to the earth. They all had on brown shoes and each wore a rainbow for clothing. Other than the rainbow symbolizing the cleanliness of their souls and the brown shoes representing venial sin, I do not know the interpretation of this dream. But I believe that it does have something to do with the second coming of Christ.

On the night of August 27, 2005 I had a dream in which I looked out my door and saw hurricane Katrina heading toward New Orleans but my house was protected by a large thick white wall. I understood this to mean that our Lord wanted me to remain in the city when the hurricane hit and that my house would be protected from damage. My wife and daughters left the city with my mother-in-law and brother-in-law and some other relatives. I remained home even though everyone in my family urged me to come with them.

I did not tell anyone about the dream at that time but I did tell them of the dream about ten to fourteen days after the hurricane hit the city. My house sustained virtually no damage, my mother-in-law’s house sustained very little damage and no flood damage (hers was only one of a few houses in the entire neighborhood that did not receive any flood damage) and my brother-in-law’s house only received about 14 inches of flood water inside it and no wind damage (many houses in his neighborhood received much more damage, both flood and wind damage).

On about the 21st or 22nd of September I had a dream that told me that New Orleans would receive category two hurricane winds from hurricane Rita. I did not understand the dream at the time. Later when New Orleans received tropical storm winds from Rita I understood the dream.

If one considers a tropical depression as a “first category” hurricane, a tropical storm as a “second category” hurricane and a full blown hurricane as a “third category” hurricane then one has an interpretation of the dream. New Orleans received tropical storm force winds from Rita while the actual hurricane hit the west Louisiana and east Texas coast.

Finally, our Lord revealed to me a few days after hurricane Katrina hit, and the entire city of New Orleans and surrounding parishes were without electricity, that Katrina is the darkness before the dawn and that those who sat in darkness have seen a great light (Is.9:2).

On Sunday, July 1, 2001, I awoke with a locution telling me that “we begin in June.” I did some quick calculation and came up with December 2005. At the time I believed that I would have a three and one half year ministry with one and a half years quietly teaching the word of God and two years (100 weeks) openly teaching the word of God. Because of the dream I figured that my ministry would begin in June 2002, three and one half years before December 2005.

It is January 2006; I am confused. Because of the above dream, because of some other dreams I have had and from many other experiences I have had over the years, (for example, it snowed in New Orleans on Christmas day 2004, something that I have always wanted) I believed that I was to die on Dec. 23 and then rise again on Dec. 25, 2005. (He has called me Rudolph the Red nose reindeer.)

Now I do not know. I am again in the dark. My Lord has been revealing to me that my death is close but exactly how close I do not know as yet. I also know that eventually I will know, that my Lord will reveal this to me one of these Junes; I just do not know which June.

Lately my Lord has guided me to an adult only Internet chat room; I first entered the chat room on or about Dec. 20, 2005. I have met many wonderful and beautiful people there. Several months earlier I began to read some of the fictional stories published there. (I am also publishing some of my fictional writing through this same web site.)

I believe that it is through this chat room that my ministry will begin but I could be wrong. He told me to beware of “Dennis the Menace.” But again I do not know. I see through darkness, then through a fog, then finally clear light. I know that eventually I will see, that eventually I will know. Until then I will continue to remain His faithful watchdog. (I refer here to another dream I had that I discuss in Appendix A of Alpha Omega.)

March 2009, I now believe that I am to die and then 100 weeks after that I will rise from the dead on Christmas morning. I just do not know which Christmas. But I’m sure it is close.

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