Early this morning around 5:45, I went to check the latest headlines on the Internet, before I tried to get some sleep. While I was perusing my favorite news sites. I heard a noise in the hallway. It was Danny Boy half-awake and staggering towards me. I said "good morning Papi, what are you doing up?" He replied "I needed to go the bathroom." "Ok, go a head" I said and then continued my quest for news bits.
While "mijo" was taking care of business, I looked up Matt Drudge's website, the DrudgeReport. I quickly scanned over the news items for anything interesting. And then this caption caught my eyes "WSJ: Scholar Warns Iran's Ahmadinejad May Have 'Cataclysmic Events' In Mind For August 22."
What? This August 22nd? I had to read on. Apparently, Matt Drudge had been given a scoop about an article that would appear later on today in the Wall Street Journal. Here is the leaked snippet as it appeared on Drudge:
WSJ: Scholar Warns Iran's Ahmadinejad May Have 'Cataclysmic Events' In Mind For August 22
Tue Aug 08 2006 10:22:35 ET
In a WALL STREET JOURNAL op-ed Tuesday, Princeton's Bernard Lewis writes: "There is a radical difference between the Islamic Republic of Iran and other governments with nuclear weapons. This difference is expressed in what can only be described as the apocalyptic worldview of Iran's present rulers."
"In Islam as in Judaism and Christianity, there are certain beliefs concerning the cosmic struggle at the end of time -- Gog and Magog, anti-Christ, Armageddon, and for Shiite Muslims, the long awaited return of the Hidden Imam, ending in the final victory of the forces of good over evil, however these may be defined."
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "and his followers clearly believe that this time is now, and that the terminal struggle has already begun and is indeed well advanced. It may even have a date, indicated by several references by the Iranian president to giving his final answer to the US about nuclear development by Aug. 22," which this year corresponds "to the 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427. This, by tradition, is the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on the winged horse Buraq, first to 'the farthest mosque,' usually identified with Jerusalem, and then to heaven and back (c.f., Koran XVII.1).
"This might well be deemed an appropriate date for the apocalyptic ending of Israel and if necessary of the world. It is far from certain that Mr. Ahmadinejad plans any such cataclysmic events precisely for Aug. 22. But it would be wise to bear the possibility in mind."
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This gave me the chills. I was literally dumbstruck as I read what could possibly be the Iranian President's hidden message to the world and to all those in the Middle East who, like him, want to wipe Israel off the map.
All of a sudden, a dizzying array of thoughts about the threat of Islamic militants started rushing to mind. I had just finished reading a book entitled Why I Left Jihad by ex-terrorist Walid Shoebat. Among other insights, he makes a startling connection between the Mark of the Beast and the prominent Muslim phrase bismillah.
Then, after this, in quick succession, I remembered an interview with Walid and two other former terrorists (one American-born) who talked about the threat posed by American-born terrorists who have been training underground for years here in America just waiting for the right time to wage jihad.
Within a split-second I was reminded of Saddam's "missing" WMD arsenal that had been shipped off to Syria before the start of the war on March 19th 2003, this according to both the written testimony of General Georges Sada, second in command of the Iraqi Air Force, and other established reports made to Congress.
The last thought that came in this semi-automatic mind rush was a prophecy I had received from a friend on June 30th. Among other alarming things, it prophesied that within three months the world would see the start of a war and that there would be a terrorist attack against America that would "shake the people of the country." The attack would be so severe that "the rest of the world will be shocked also." Amazingly, this prophecy has verified thus far with the month-long war in the Middle East that threatens to consume the whole region.
So there I sat, glued to the computer screen with mouth open and not quite believing what I was reading or thinking, when all of a sudden Danny Boy appeared right beside me. His unexpected presence sent even more shivers down my spine. I couldn't take it anymore. I quickly signed off and shut down the computer and headed for bed.
Not wanting to wake mother and Michael in the master bedroom, I gently guided Danny Boy to our guest room and its empty bed. There we pulled up the blankets and snuggled next to each other, our two heads on one Spiderman pillow.
Then with the thoughts of end-time events swirling in my sleep-deprived state, I looked over to Danny Boy and with some hesitation asked, "Danny Boy, can you pray with me for our country?" The last thing I wanted to do was to scare him with anything I was thinking. At that moment, though, I needed some comfort that I believed only prayer with another person could bring.
As if he knew everything I was going through, he replied "yes Dad, I know." Then he said "Dad, last night I had a dream that Jesus came back." "What?" I asked with amazement. All of a sudden I felt re-energized. He had my full attention.
"Go on, tell me everything" I asked. He then told me the following story of his dream. He said he first heard a loud noise outside. It was so loud that it awoke him from bed. He went to the door to look outside to see what it was.
When he opened the door, he looked up and saw Jesus in the clouds. Jesus looking at him told him to go inside and get the rest of us who were still asleep. He went to our bed and apparently even though we were asleep, we were reacting to the sound of the noise that was still emenating from outside. He quickly woke us up and we rushed to the door.
Immediately, he says we shot off from the ground towards the clouds leaving our clothes falling behind us on the ground. There in the clouds, he saw all of his friends that are his age. He saw many of his neighbors there, but did not see their parents. He said he saw all of our family and cousins whom he knew.
Then he said, we all heard a large noise coming from the earth below. He said the whole earth was shaking. There was a huge earthquake. He said in places the earth opened up and people who did not believe in Jesus fell into the earth. Then he said he woke up.
The dream was so real that he thought it was actually happening. I am not quite sure, but he may have just awakened from it when he came out to go to the bathroom.
Later that afternoon, around the dinner table, I asked him if he could draw a picture of what he had seen in his dream. Again, he said "yes Dad, I know, God told me up in the clouds 'Danny Boy I want you to draw a picture so that your dad can put it on his website.'" Excited and wanting to capture what he had seen, I asked him if he could type, using a blank e-mail, a little of what he saw. Here in his own words (with only spaces and returns added by me):
dear people listen to my dream one day i herd a loud noise so i went outside and i saw god and he said go get your family then we went up and are cloths went down but people that didnt believe in god went down to see what happened go to www.lighthefire.com/dailyplanet
I always prayed and hoped that my son, even in his youth, would be used of God to touch people for the Lord. I never knew that the Lord would use him to do just that with this dream. I also never knew that he would be the one to comfort me like he did with his dream. We prayed and then fell asleep in peace together.
Do you know the Jesus of Danny Boy's dream? He is coming soon in the clouds just as He did when He left the earth. Look up and find Jesus Today!
