My Road to Damascus

Many people have experiences of a spiritual nature. Some people have had visions, dreams, insights, revelations, ect.

Although I never talk about it to anyone except a few people, I myself have had numerous experiences, some of which would knock your socks off if I told you. But now, as required by a specific passage of Scripture, I will now clear the air about a few things publicly, for it is publicly that I messed up.

First, let me describe the vision I had yesterday just as I hit the sack and closed my eyes: The shinning and shimmering outline of a Man's face with shoulder-length hair and a beard. I could see faint details of His face. He looked familiar.

He looked at me and nodded His head back and forth 3 or 4 times, indicating a "yes" answer. He didn't look all that happy with me.

So why would I have this vision? It was in repsonse to a question I had asked. I'll tell you what my question was in a minute, but first, I'll explain the second part of this incredible experience that began yesterday afternoon, and ended last night:

After the vision I had when I hit the sack yesterday afternoon, I got up later that night to go to work. I went inside the building and after about 30 minutes, about midnight, I came back outside to my truck. I looked across the street to a row of other buildings (an outside stripmall of different businesses). I saw a man standing in front of a restaurant, he was somewhat hidden in shadow, but I could clearly see his body. There was nobody else anywhere in sight, since it was late. It was plainly clear that he was standing there looking directly at me for a reason. I recongized his demeanor. I have seen a person like this before, years ago (interestingly, also while I was working during the night).

It took me a few seconds to realize why he was standing there, deliberately looking at me from across the street. It was to confirm the vision I had earlier that day....there was no doubt about it.

But seeing that guy was no shock to me, since I am well used to things of a spiritual nature.

So I went back inside the building to continue working. After another 30 minutes or so, I locked the doors and walked to my truck, and that man was gone. My truck was the only vehicle in the parking lot. There were no other people around, since it was about 12:30am. I was the only person in that section of the lot.

I got in my truck and closed the door. When I looked up a second after closing the door of my truck, there were 3 girls about ten feet in front of my truck with their backs to me, slowly walking off the parking lot, stepping over a small retainer wall which separates the parking lot from another building.

These three girls then walked up to this building which was about 40 or 50 feet from where I sat in my truck, and stood there, continuing to keep their backs to me. This building has a small enclave (to a side door), and two of the girls stood inside this enclave so I couldn't see them. I could only see one of the girls who was standing just outside this enclave, but she still kept her back to me. I looked down for a second and when I looked back up at them, that girl had turned and was looking at me with the EXACT same demeanor and purpose as the guy I saw across the street 30 minutes earlier......and her purpose was the same....to confirm the vision I had earlier that day. And the expression on her face made her feelings clear: deep disappointment. And I'll always remember the look in her eyes....

I then started up my truck and left.

All four people I saw wore normal everyday street clothes. The guy across the street was clearly a white guy, probably in his 30s. But the 3 girls were Hispanic/Mexican in their 20s, I got a good upclose look at them, since they appeared just 10 feet in front of my truck and were less than 50 away when the one girl looked me right in the eye.


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So, what was the question I had asked about in a prayer yesterday afternoon as I hit the sack? I asked if the things I said a few years ago on the GOPUSA message board after Obamacare was passed, I asked if the things I said were wrong. I then had the vision immediately after I asked that question, and the answer was clear.....the things I said were wrong in a very big way, and the Lord was none to happy with me about it.

And why would I ask that question in the first place? It's because of an email newsletter. In that newletter, there was a specific quote of Scripture which was highlighted that blew me away when I read it. I was totally shocked. It was totally clear that the quote incriminated ME!!!

So in prayer, I asked if that quote referred to me, and if what I said on the GOPUSA message board a few years ago was wrong. And I received an answer BIGTIME.

And exactly what did I say on the GOPUSA message board? I encouraged racism, bigitory, and isolationism. I encouraged rebellion. I encouraged a lack of compassion. I encouraged division and bitter feelings between people.

And unfortunately, my words had a significant impact on the people who read them....a significant NEGATIVE impact.

For writing those words I am truly sorry. I ask that everybody who read my vicious words at that time on the GOPUSA message board to forgive what I said. My brutally negative words have continued on this board as well, and I'm equally sorry about that.

The Lord doesn't deal in negatives, He deals in positives.
Satan deals in negatives. This is the spirit that moved me to write what I did.






So.....I have done what that passage in Scripture demand that I do......to return to the people (the world of internet message boards), whom I have helped lead into wickedness with my seductive narrative (bigitory, racism, hatred, ect), and to openly admit my guilt.







I have openly and publically detailed my own Road to Damascus, just as the Lord commanded me to do.

Hmmmm......I have no idea if the people I saw were manifest in spirit or flesh, because you can't tell the difference by looking at them.

After those girls stopped and stood next to the building that's about 40 feet away, I actually considered going over to them and talk, since I knew for a fact they were from "across the veil", or "another dimension" and were here to confirm what happened to me earlier that day, just like the guy I saw across the street 30 minutes earlier.

But when the one girl turned and looked at me, and our eyes locked, the message was clear.....they weren't here to socialize with me. The LAST thing I was going to do is go over and talk. In fact, just the opposite.......when our eyes locked, the message was very clear: she was VERY disappointed and that I needed to make amends!!

But I have to say....that girl had the most AMAZING eyes I've ever seen.....definately a spiritual trait, since she communicated very clearly with her eyes, and there's no way to describe the depth and power of her eyes.......incredible.


Hey Magic.....maybe it's not such a great idea to research dimensional science.....believe me, it's a spirtual thing and it's WAAAAAY over our heads

Besides, it appears that it's not even neccessary to try to discover another dimension.....another dimension is coming to us!! There's no doubt the veil between dimensions is becoming thinner all the time as we all move forward during these Last Days.

What an amazing time to be alive in this world.....it's not easy, but it's worth it

It was what I was created to do......now that I am over the hill and can't play golf and basketball all the time

Stay out of Syria.

Hey it was a nice sunny day here today.....outside doing a little garden stuff.....no shirt on....warm....best day since last Fall.

But then you get warm weather pretty much every day down there.

Dad told me it was a little windy in Yuma

Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny again but I know rain always returns here and back down to 50

Ahhhhh......Damascus, Syria.


Well, I didn't actually mean that I was LITERALLY on a road to Damascus


I'm still here in Tucson


Yep, it was windy yesterday here, too. Probably a big system moving through from the west coast.

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By the way......I didn't mention much perspective I received at the time, but let me tell you something about that vision I had. I was given a good long look at Him for a solid five seconds, and all I can say is.....WHOA.

Talk about pure Authority and Power.....total command!! There's no way to describe it. He's truly a King.

And something else..........along with intense love and passion in His eyes, I also was made well aware that He is also someone not to be messed with or crossed. This came across to me very clearly as He nodded His head back and forth, answering my question. He is sincere and honest, and if each of us is the same, each of us will do well, me thinks.

Fear the Lord, indeed!!!!!


Oh, and one more thing: He looks very similiar to most of the paintings and drawings of Him that we all see. So as for me, this past month has been EXTREMELY painful, but it was well worth it!!

mighty_colts wrote:
Oh, and one more thing: He looks very similiar to most of the paintings and drawings of Him that we all see. So as for me, this past month has been EXTREMELY painful, but it was well worth it!!

You had your experience, but as far as this goes, I would think the mental picture each of us has of our own spiritual leader is the vision of them we'll see when its time or we have an spiritual experience as you did.

Oh, and not to make light by any means, but I know a guy that knows a guy that described a peyote experience he had in a very similar way... You been playin' around, Mighty?

HA!!

Are you insinuating that the 5 hits of acid I took that day had anything to do with it??






Nope!!



I'm talking the Real Stuff


Incredible.

Well I know Carlos Castaneda died back in 1998

So maybe he payed you a visit

(Yeah I read those books back in the 70's)

lol, bro you're crazy



Just wait until YOU look Him in the Eye!!




Whoa!!!!!



Been there, done that!!

To be honest, and I mentioned this to the lovely bride at dinner this evening, I hope I have a similar experience. I didn't mention anything about you or your tale. But I'll admit, you got me thinking.

I want to see a UFO. I want to see a ghost, or have a supernatural or religious experience of some sort. I want to have that feeling... the exhilaration, yet calmness of knowing.

If what you have found makes you happier with yourself, improves you in some way, then I'm very happy for you mighty_colts!

It would take a long explanation but I had one of those days myself today

Magic wrote:
It would take a long explanation but I had one of those days myself today

What, like mighty was worried about his word count?

ColtsKurt wrote:

Magic wrote:
It would take a long explanation but I had one of those days myself today

What, like mighty was worried about his word count?

I guess if I did type out my long story you would probably be the only one that would understand it since we are the same age and my day yesterday had me driving down the road thinking about when I was 17 playing the CD version of a certain album I bought back then with the only money I had 37 years ago......and riding with me was my 29 year old youngster.

And all the rest.

When I was a teenager I knew a girl that was supposed to have been demon possessed....


I think that she was just nuts now that I am older and little wiser though.....


Nonetheless she was a little unnerving to be around......


And I ran across a house for sale once in Dana Indiana that was for sale cheap and had "evil entity" in the description.... so I just HAD to schedule an appointment to see the house........ the guy met us to give us the key. (he wouldn't step foot in the house) And we gave it the once over.... but never saw or heard anything. I'm betting it had some black mold that just made him hallucinate or something.

Well, I would say that all spiritual experiences are positive in nature IF you learn from them, even if any one experience is painful.

I've described my own latest experience in detail, but I only mentioned one time how agonizing it was to go through over the course of about 3 weeks. It was agonizing because I was being severely "reprimanded" for something I did....so agonizing in fact that it almost killed me!!! It took me to my limit, no joke.

During those 3 weeks, my stress levels and heart rate went through the roof. My heart pounded almost non-stop during this time, and there was nothing I could do to stop it. During most of those 3 weeks, I thought the reason for the extreme stress levels and heart rate was because of the issues I was having with the IRS and credit card debt.

But I discovered that wasn't the case.

Less than an hour before I had that vision on March 1, my heart was pounding so hard, I was sure I was going to have a heart attack right then and there. Very painful!!! But it was wasn't just that......my entire SOUL was on fire!!!!

It was absolute agony, and there's no way to describe it

This MUST be what hell is like.....you are truly "on fire"......."fire and brimstone".

I was being SEVERELY punished for what I did.


So, it was at this point I prayed and asked my question. After that prayer, my heart rate slowed down to the point I could at least try to sleep. Then, as soon as I hit the sack and closed my eyes, I had the vision.

And immediately after that vision, my heart rate went completely back to normal, my stress disappeared, and that agonizing "soul on fire" feeling completely went away.


And now, after going through all of that, I don't feel any stress at all when it comes to my current issues with the IRS and credit card debt. It's a bad situation, no doubt, but it will all be resolved.


So here are a few lessons that I've learned from all this:


Fear God.
Pay your taxes on time and in full.
Don't go into credit card debt.

Ok, done.


I'd say I detailed THAT experience well enough

I probably detailed it TOO much for most folks



Kurt, you say you want a "spiritual experience"? Well.....not all spiritual experiences are created equal


However, I can say that most of them are very cool.


But not ALL of them

NOW I know wtf is going on in Phoenix

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/03/09/20120309phoenix-lights-skies-mystery.html