The Road of Destruction
July 4, 2024 6:12 PM
Anno.Domini.144K
July 4, 2024
In a dream vision, the Holy Spirit took me in the spirit and placed me into a car as the driver traveling down a back country road in western North Carolina near the border of South Carolina, a scenic area of the Appalachian Piedmont. I was nonchalantly driving toward a county main road, a wide 4-lane road with shops, restaurants, and gas stations on each side. As I approached the stop light at the junction, I jammed the brakes and could not believe what I saw ahead of me.
What lay before me on the county main road looked like a war zone. All along both sides of the road, every structure had been leveled to rubble. The walls and roofs had collapsed, the rebars of concrete bent and exposed. I saw human corpses lying half-trapped, left to decay. I did not see a single living human being. If there were any people left alive, they were well hidden or had deserted the road long ago.
I put my car into reverse and backed away, trying to process what I had just seen. Had there been a massive earthquake? The surface of the wide county road had been smooth, not cracked, so I dismissed that possibility. Then I wondered if war had come to the area. Had the county road been made ready for invading troops coming from the east to pass through? Had planes bombed structures on both sides of the road so the troops could go through without danger and resistance from the area’s residents? If so, the enemy’s planes had no mercy and had bombed and strafed civilians for miles on each side of the road. The standard rules of war had most definitely changed.
I awoke from the dream vision with a sick horror of the impending judgement America may face. This was war on US soil—not just in the big target cities, but in the country as well, along the enemy’s invasion routes. Can the repentance of millions of individuals, if not our nation’s public repentance, even begin to avert such a road of destruction? In the little time we have left, repent of our sins, call upon Jesus, and draw close to God.
Scripture:
Jeremiah 15:1-4 NIV
15 Then the Lord said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people. Send them away from my presence! Let them go! 2 And if they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ tell them, ‘This is what the Lord says:
“‘Those destined for death, to death;
those for the sword, to the sword;
those for starvation, to starvation;
those for captivity, to captivity.’
3 “I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” declares the Lord, “the sword to kill and the dogs to drag away and the birds and the wild animals to devour and destroy. 4 I will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.
Matthew 7:13-14 NIV
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 NIV
5 Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
4 But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. 5 You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. 6 So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. 9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. 10 He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. 11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
