Encounters with Jesus:
Our Testimony
Prologue
There is only one way to begin this story, and that is to say that I am one of the least qualified to tell it. Growing up, I always considered myself a Christian but rarely found myself living the way Jesus calls us to live. Like many, I got swept away in a world full of distractions with things that I considered more important. Living by my own nature led me down a path to constant stress, chaos and discontent. By the end of the year 2023, I found myself nearly broken and knew I needed to change. So, I decided to take a different approach going into the year 2024 – I gave over control to God and started focusing on my relationship with Jesus. The results have been life changing, and well, I guess you could even say supernatural.
Before I begin to tell you how the Lord has revealed himself to me, I think it is very important to reiterate who the person is writing this testimony. I am a basic, middle-aged man who currently works as a physician. I have no background in theology and have probably sinned as much or more than anyone currently reading this. I have read the Bible but admittedly have never truly studied it until recently. My goal is to inform you of a few experiences that happened to me in the year 2024, which I believe are all related to and preparing me for the message the Lord wants me to tell. It is my sincere prayer that you read my testimony with an open heart and know that the events that I am going to tell you about really happened to me and my family. I desire to gain nothing personally from sharing this with you and prefer to keep my identity private so that all the focus goes to the one that deserves all the praise: Jesus.
Experience 1:
Did my Creator just communicate with me!?
Date: March 2024
Location: St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands
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In the evening of March 9, 2024, I was on the porch of our Airbnb admiring the night sky. As I was standing there, something happened that I had never experienced before in my entire life: the Lord spoke to me. The way in which I received this message is very hard to put into words. It was not an audible voice, but it was strong and palpable.
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“If you want Me to show you something, just ask for it.”
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Of note, I have never been one to ask God for something supernatural or anything of the sort; so, my natural initial reaction was to downplay what I felt. However, over the next couple of minutes this conviction grew stronger as His words seemed to become louder within me.
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“If you want Me to show you something, just ask for it!”
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The feeling was overwhelming and indescribable; the only thing I felt that I could do was to respond. I silently prayed, “Okay Lord, whatever it is you want to show me, I would love to see it.” I felt as crazy as this sounds.
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Almost immediately after I prayed these words, my wife (fiancé at the time) and my daughters (who were 8 and 10 at the time) came outside to join me. As they sat down next to me, I was a little disappointed thinking that maybe I had missed my chance. I distinctly remember thinking/praying to myself with them right next to me, “I understand that it might be difficult for you to show me with my daughters here with me, but I am here all week and am open to whatever you want to show me.”
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Not even two minutes after this prayer, I hear my oldest daughter point to the sky and say, “Hey, what is that?”
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We all looked up to the sky. Coming from the direction behind us were two brilliantly glowing white orbs of the exact same size. They flew in synchrony right over our heads. As they traveled closer to us, they both stopped, and began flying to the east and west in the opposite direction of one another. After they reached a certain distance, they turned around and traveled back towards each other over our heads. As they get close together, the orb on the right produced a third orb, this one was a bright emerald green that disappeared quickly. Once the emerald faded, the two orbs slowly flew out in the exact same direction they came from and out of our sight.
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As I watched what was occurring in the sky, the realization of what was happening struck me to my core. The overwhelming sense of my Creator revealing himself to me left me weeping unexplainably. He gave me direct proof that He exists. Not that I needed proof, but the feeling that my Creator communicated and revealed Himself in this way was unlike anything I could comprehend. My faith was changed immediately.
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What do I think the orbs were? Many of you may have noticed a recent surge in experiences and videos of others seeing bright orbs in the sky as well. While I can’t speak that I know the source of every glowing light in the sky, I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that these were Heavenly messengers. I did not know what to make of this at the time, but I now realize that God was preparing me for what was to come.
Experience 2:
Heavenly skies in Sedona
Date: May 2024
Location: Sedona, Arizona
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Sedona is a unique place for many reasons, but the reason we have always been drawn to travel here is for the beautiful skies. It is one of our favorite places to look at the stars due to the “dark sky ordinance” in place here. One clear night, my wife and I were out staring up at the night sky from the patio of our Airbnb, when we saw something that we still cannot find to be likened to any known earthly phenomena to this day. It was very brief, only lasting about a second in time, but the memory is still vivid in our minds.
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What felt like about 200 meters above us, we saw a bright glowing orb flash across the sky. It had a brilliant orange center and yellow rim and seemed to enter our atmosphere from nowhere, only to quickly travel out again. It was as if it entered and exited through two invisible “doors”. As it flew, the orb developed a trailing cone or tail, which then became one again into an orb as it exited from view. The orb was about twice the size of the moon that night, and it felt much closer to us. There was no sound, no smoke, and no halo of light around it. It was extremely bright, but you could look straight at it without it hurting your eyes. For several hours afterwards, we could see its negative afterimage when closing our eyes, similar to when you look at a bright light and then immediately see its imprint on the back of your eyelids when you blink.
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This one seemed to hit harder for my wife than myself. She realized she had been trying to rationalize the experience in St. Thomas, thinking perhaps they were advanced drones or military planes. But upon seeing this, she realized this could not be explained away. It was as if God wanted her to know that it was truly Him, and for reasons we did not yet fully understand, He was trying to get our attention.
Experience 3:
An out-of-this-world experience
Date: November 2024
Location: Kentucky
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For Thanksgiving, my wife and I spent the week celebrating at her family’s house in Kentucky. I do not know how else to describe it, but I was really feeling in the Spirit this week. My heart was on fire for the Lord, and it seemed to be all I could talk about.
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Early in the week, I felt very convicted that God was telling me to go to His word and to read about a specific topic: End-Time prophecy. Again, I do not know how to describe the feeling other than it was strongly put on my heart to read the Scriptures related to this, so that is what I did.
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Of note, I have never been big into studying the ‘End-Times’. I have watched Left Behind, and heard many theories on the Antichrist, etc., but if I have learned anything from recent events, I am very skeptical of anything pushed by western culture, especially coming from Hollywood. So, going into this I decided to do a couple things: read it with a fresh and open mind about what John (the author of Revelation) was trying to tell us without any preconceived notions, and to read it in the context of the times that John was writing it.
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I read Revelation start to finish, and it read quite differently this time. Please don’t get me wrong, it is a complex Book full of colorful descriptions that are subjective, a lot of which I still do not fully understand. However, what really stood out to me were the sections that I feel are objective and clear; in particular, Revelation 13. I won’t go into all the details I have learned about here, but there are some objective points that really caught my attention.
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John describes two individuals that will become prominent figures leading up to Jesus’ return. When these figures come onto the scene, we should head it as a warning sign that the time is near. He describes them as the first beast (aka the final antichrist) and the second beast (aka the false prophet).
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John tells us that the first beast will be a leader that is boastful (‘mouth of a lion’) and speak blasphemies. He describes this person as a ruler that was once in charge, falls out of power, only to return to power much stronger the second time around for a final 3.5-year reign before meeting his demise (Revelation 17). He describes a scenario where an event will occur that is a core reason that he is able to garner enough support to return to power: he suffers a head wound and miraculously survives. Another critical part to his rise to power again is the support that he gets from the second figure in Revelation 13, the second beast.
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The second beast is described by John as a ‘lamb with two horns that speaks like dragon’ (meaning he looks gentle and friendly but has significant power when he speaks). The second beast is crucial in helping the first beast regain power. He exercises all the authority of the first beast on its behalf and made all earth's inhabitants worship the first beast ‘whose fatal wound had been healed’. The second beast also gains his authority and influence by performing miracles like ‘bringing down fire from the sky in front of many’.
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At this point, my mind was going crazy - this sounded a lot like Donald Trump and Elon Musk. This was a conflicting realization for me, as I was actually very happy that Trump won the election; not that I was a fan of him, just that I was fearing the direction our country was heading in under the leadership from the current party.
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By Friday morning, I was extremely convicted in what I was feeling; so much so that I felt a strong need to unload what I had discovered to both my dad, and my wife’s parents later that evening (again, this was not like me to do this at all). I now realized that the Lord wanted me to speak to them prior to what He was about to show me later that night, which I feel adds strength to my testimony.
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What happens next is when things got really wild. What happened to me on the night of November 29th/morning of November 30th is something I am still trying to understand myself; with that being said, the only way I know how to communicate it is to describe it to you the best I possibly can using written words to tell you exactly what happened.
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As my wife and I laid down in bed, neither of us were very sleepy so I asked her to remind me about the story of The Wizard of Oz, since she had just gone earlier that day to see the new Wicked movie with her sister. She happily obliged and started recounting the storyline as we laid down to sleep.
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After a few minutes, as she was speaking, I noticed a significant change in her voice. It was as if her voice carried a sense of urgency, as if she was telling me a story to solve something. This escalated to the end of the story, and the final words I remembered hearing her say were delivered in a somewhat ominous voice that was no longer hers: “Ding-dong the witch is dead, the wicked witch is dead!”
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At this point in time, I could not recall anything that she said beyond this. I was not asleep, but no longer physically present with her. The only way I know how to describe it is that it felt as though my spirit left my body, and I was in another realm. Call it a vision, call it an out of body experience, I am truly not sure, but it definitely was not simply a dream and felt more real than anything I have ever experienced before.
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I immediately found myself in a spiritual realm with a spiritual being, which I now believe to be an Angel of the Lord, and even possibly one of the Angels that we encountered in St. Thomas. I could not see them or describe their appearance; I just knew its presence and that it communicated directly with me. The communication here was not through spoken words, but what I have heard before described as telepathic communication. Their words were given to me, and my words were immediately transmitted to them as I thought them.
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The first thing I was told was that everything that I was feeling about Revelation was accurate, and that it was no coincidence that I was feeling convicted to read this scripture. It was relayed to me that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are the two figures that John described. They then told me they wanted to show me what the future might look like if I continued speaking on these things.
Immediately after this, I found myself somewhere else. This place was visual and vivid. I was on my knees on the dirt with my hands tied behind my back in what felt to be a military-type of arena. Surrounding me were military figures; while I did not see them directly, I knew that Donald Trump and Elon Musk were present and leading the others. I felt extremely hated, and I could sense that they all wanted me dead. I looked up, and the next thing I knew someone was striking me directly on the face.​​​​​​​​​​​​​
The moment they made contact, I was back in the presence of the Angel. I became overwhelmed with fear after experiencing this and realizing that I might be asked to face physical harm for my beliefs. My voice began to tremble as I pled my case; I told them that I am not physically strong, and that I really did not know if I could handle this. I was terrified.
As my fear began to peak, the Angel interrupted me by saying, “If you think this is scary, let me show you something that is truly to be feared.”
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I was then shown what looked like a dark void with a perfect circle in the center. Within the circle, there was a dark red background, and the bottom half of the circle contained what looked like numerous pointy tentacles or arms flailing desperately back and forth. Seeing this for even less than a second, I immediately knew what this place was: hell.​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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The Angel informed me that this is what we are fighting for, to keep people from being deceived and to help as many people as possible avoid ending up here. Immediately, my personal fear of physical harm on earth was completely replaced with the terror of what I had just seen. I have never been more terrified in my entire life, and it is a feeling that I will never forget. I was overcome by this, and the only thing I remember saying next is that I will do whatever it takes to keep as many people as possible out of this place.
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The next thing I knew, I was in another spiritual realm. The only thing that I knew to be different here is that it appeared to be whiter and softer in my surroundings, and I was in the presence of someone else. This time I knew the person there with me: it was Jesus. He could sense how scared I was, and I felt His Grace immediately. As He embraced me, it felt like a wave of cleansing went from the top of my head down to my feet – my fear was completely wiped away. The feeling of being in the presence of Jesus was so overwhelming and is impossible to truly describe, but I can promise you, a second with him is greater than a million lifetimes on this earth.
To further reduce my distress, Jesus showed me a glimpse of our reward to come for those who hold on to His word. In the distance, I began to see a beautiful bright orange glow fading into the white surrounding. The color reminded me very much of the thing we saw in the Sedona sky. This visual was quite different from the others, which were crystal clear; this was a brief hazy visual that appeared to be pixelated as it faded in. I have no doubt that I was given a glimpse of Heaven.
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The amount of information the Lord gave me was immense – but when I woke up, I was able to remember every single detail. While it would be impossible to write it all here, there are a few things that I feel convicted to communicate to others:
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Don’t be scared and trust in His word.
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First, He told me that I do not need to be afraid of the times that are about to come.
While things might get difficult for His believers, He has already won the battle for us on the Cross.
Be prepared for what’s to come and do not be caught off guard.
When the mark of the beast that John talks about near the end of Revelation 13 is enforced, YOU CAN NOT TAKE IT. The Bible is extremely clear on this. Taking the mark of the beast is something that everyone must avoid. Those that do not take it will not be able to participate in the economy.
Based on my experience and the scriptures, I believe that there will be a period of time (possibly several months) that believers will have to withhold from accepting this mark, which will require them to survive off the grid to wait for the arrival of Jesus.
Prepare for this now so that when the time comes, you will not be coerced into taking the mark to protect you and your family. While I know this is difficult to accept, even if you are to suffer and unable to survive, you would be better off dying for Christ than accepting the mark. Again, the scriptures are extremely clear on this.
He is coming back for us soon!
If things unfold the way I feel they are going to, you must do whatever you can to survive and patiently wait for the arrival of Jesus.
He showed me a glimpse of how He will return, and it is just as the scriptures say. He will come in like a rush on the clouds with His heavenly army behind Him.
This entire experience lasted about an hour in total. When I woke up, I was terrified. For the next few hours, I experienced significant physical impairments. At first, I felt paralyzed and struggled to make even the smallest movements. When I was finally able to move, I was extremely disoriented; it was as if my mind and body were almost entirely disconnected, and it look me over 3 hours to fall back asleep. Probably the most fascinating part to me was that when I woke up the following morning, I was nearly back to normal other than feeling sunburnt on my face. Two days later, my face peeled in particular areas as if I had suffered a moderate sunburn on the front part of my face only. I believe this was from the brief view of Heaven Jesus allowed me to see, and I now understand the need for heavy pixilation and brevity – I do not think human beings in our physical form can handle the Light that awaits us.
The months following have been very interesting to say the least. This experience changed me overnight, and my perspective on virtually everything has shifted. As I continue to watch things unfold, it has only confirmed everything I experienced and have been shown in the scriptures. Things are happening very fast, and I pray that my testimony will allow those that hear it to be aware and to prepare for what the next few years might bring.
Final Thoughts
I want to close by saying that I realize some people reading this might have a very tough time accepting anything I just laid out for many reasons, especially if they have loyalty to Donald Trump. I realize that it can be very conflicting. I am not saying that the other party or candidate would have been better; I am saying that it is all playing out exactly as God planned, and that we should not be putting our faith in any political party or any person on this earth. Our faith should always be with God, above all else.
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I also want to point out that there are warnings all throughout the Bible about the final deception before the end and how we must be vigilant. Think of it this way: If you were the adversary, what better way to go out than by influencing many for years to create terrible circumstances, which lays a perfect groundwork for a ‘savior’ to come in, expose the fraud and save the day. But we must remember that there is only one true Savior, and it is Jesus.
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As I mentioned before, I realize how crazy all of this may sound. It may be easier for some to write this off as conspiracy or delusion, but I am sharing this testimony because I am convicted to do so. As much as I have even tried to deny this myself at times, God keeps putting it on my heart that I must get the word out. I have nothing to gain from this, and possibly much to lose; however, the fear of not helping warn others of the things to come greatly exceeds any fears I have of sounding crazy or being wrong.
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What should you be doing to prepare? When the time comes that the mark of the beast is required, DO NOT FALL FOR THIS. John is clear when he tells us what this will look like, and I believe if we are looking out for this we can avoid being deceived. It would not hurt to also plan for the potential need to live off of the grid for a few months, if that helps to ease your worries while you wait for Jesus's return.
Finally, draw close to the Lord and trust Him. If you do not have a relationship with Jesus, I would urge you to seek Him. He offers the free gift of salvation, and He wants you to come to Him just as you are. He will take care of the rest. I have never heard a single story of anyone who embraced Jesus and accepted Him into their life and lived to regret it. Not one. And I can promise you that you will not be the first. If you already have a relationship with Christ, pray about this topic and do your best to tell others about Him. It is not up to me to convince you; spend time with the Lord, grow closer to Him during this time, and ask for discernment. I can attest to you that He is who He says He is. He loves you more than you can imagine. And I truly believe He is coming back for us soon.
The Meaning Behind "Ready Your Lamp"
Matthew 25:1-13
1 “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. 4 The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. 5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. 6 “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’ 7 “Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’
9 “‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’ 10 “But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut. 11 “Later the others also came. ‘Lord, Lord,’ they said, ‘open the door for us!’ 12 “But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’ 13 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
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To put it simply, ALWAYS be ready. If Jesus came back today, would your lamp be ready?