In the year 1977 Just before that Easter Sunday, I had my "conversion"> At work, a went into a vision and saw 'Jesus hanging on the cross, blood runing down His face His eyes, and from the thorns sticking out from that crown on His Head, blood was dripping down and from the black tips of His strands of Hair and the Blood sadness of His eyes. He looked at me and Called me by name: "Chris, I die for you", I remember my heart started breaking and I said "no. Lord, Not me, not me Lord please not me, thinking I am to sinful and how could you take my place, and then it HAPPEN! My heart crack open and that "HOLY GHOST" pour into my heart, it blew me alway! I open my shirt and LOOked down at MY heart! Woo, I never knew it was like this! and the more i said "JESUS" the drunker I got! and I started walking like a drunk man! Now I know that was a vision of Him that He knew I would recognize as Jesus Christ, so that is waht He reveal to me.
Theologians calls it a "Beatific vision" I had of Christ.
They told me what happen to me! and my Parents! You know i didn't know what had happen to me! My youngest daughter who lives out of town, said sometime in my life i was "traumatize". by something, they way i talk about GOD. LOL. She says God want us to be happy and have a good time in this world and that is why He made it. and that is why Jesus came to keep us from suffering. And something is wrong with me. When she was a kid, she called me "The Prophet of DOOM" LOL.
And when I would Preach, the congregation would say they would wake up in the middle of the night having nightmares! About going to HELL! And Call on Jesus, to save them, The kids would too! Kids were calling on JESUS in their dreams. Those were nice days! We would laugh, and lot of people got saved, kids full of the Holy Ghost! The Little kids would pull on my suit coat, we like the way you Preach, "we ain't never heard no body preech like you! " Little kids! I would start preaching and then it would get quite, "you could hear a mouse pee on cotton' they said! LOL! Especially when i start talking about "Hell"!, You scare me man. I would say, heck I scare myself! Where have those days went? That Word of GOD, would come out so quick and sharp, "I would cut myself"! and would be bleeding before i knew it! GOD knows I miss those days of How we used to "Preach"! Places use to open up at 12 midnight during the week! You could hear Ministers Preaching! And they could Preach! They knew that WORD! Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Amos, Pure WORD of GOD, not what they think, But Preach those Battles that would be going on it the Old Testament! It seems like you could hear those "Battle horses" of GOD snorting and pounding the Ground! and Hear the voice of GOD coming out of those Preacher Mouths! It might be 3 o'clock in the morning before you got home! during the week!
Those were my younger days, You Preach that WORD for WORD, Telling those OLD Testament STORIES! You could see it as those Preacher Preach it.
And that "HOLY GHOST" would be roaring like a mighty wind! "Dietrich Bonhoeffer" had that experience here in American, He said WOW!
I have experience like most a strange life in Christ, and it is kinda scary, because it is not a picnic. "Fear and Trembling".
I guess i had a vision similiar to Pauls! But I thought everybody had one when they became "born again"! I did! I get to talking and everybody look at me like what is He talking about. I would be talking so fast, and telling the story, I can't breathe, the ministers would say stop and breathe! LOL! They would be looking at me! saying Ooo, Ooo ,Ooo , I would say, what, what, what, and they would say Wooo, Wooo, keep talking. This was new to me! My Heart is on FIRE! and I cannot stop talking! About GOD! I was saying stuff in the BIBLE i have never even read before but it was there in the BIBLE> Then when I would start reading the WORD then i would say 'It is in here too! I didn't know that was in the BIBLE! I thought everybody was like me.
did that answer your Question.
I have never seen a "Glorified Christ" but a "Beatific vision" of Christ on the cross" I have. I got saved at that moment! So it had to be real. And I am still on FIRE! I used to teach and preach in my dreams, and it would wake me up! And when i get up now when i awake, i have a message, I am coming out of a message! Blesseth is the man that meditate in the law of the LORD night and day!
1 blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
2But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; and his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
I took that literally since day one! and learned that whole Ist Division of Psalms by heart! in no time flat. and believe it!
"Happy is the MAN" That is How a child of GOD is to obtain "Happiness" in this life! You happiness does not come from any man or women! Your happiness comes from the "WORD of GOD" so do not believe the lies of mankind, if they claim there are other ways of Happiness! and If a christian, says it is , believe them not, if a counselor says you can find happiness over here, believe them not! and if any teacher or friends ,says you can fine happiness in "Marriage" believe them not! You find your Happiness in "SOLA CHRISTOS" In "Christ ALONE", and your Joy will be filled and your cup will be, running over!
I talk a lot.
