God gave me this very VERY real and powerful dream during the night of 3/18/14:
I'm out in the dark of night on the deck of the house I grew up in in Oroville, California, USA. This house is in the hills and the deck looks out over a valley to the southwest. I cannot see the valley because it is dark but I can make out the trees and the landscape near the house where the hillside slopes down away from the house. I sense something is in the air, I am suddenly gripped with excitement. A light shines brightly up from down the hill. The light is streaming through the trees up to me. It is obvious that the source of the light must be extremely powerful because I can tell it comes from a long way down the hill. It therefore has to be incredibly powerful to penetrate all the way though the woods up to the house. The air is alive with something very intense, excitedly I say, “It's the Lord!" I am thrilled but afraid at the same time. Then I turn and see off to the northeast I see great billowing smoky dark purple and black roiling clouds billowing up very very high into the sky, tens of thousands of feet high. The sight of it is indescribably awesome and fills me with awe. The immensity of the overwhelming power of what is happening is indescribable. I feel safe but I am trembling with awe at the sheer power and awesomeness of it all and the wonder of what he is doing. Although I am safe I have clear sense that what is happening is totally overwhelming in its nature and terrifying deadly. There’s sense of, "He is coming." This is the scripture to describe the experience.
Psalm 18:7-15New King James Version (NKJV)
7 Then the earth shook and trembled;
The foundations of the hills also quaked and were shaken,
Because He was angry.
8 Smoke went up from His nostrils,
And devouring fire from His mouth;
Coals were kindled by it.
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down
With darkness under His feet.
10 And He rode upon a cherub, and flew;
He flew upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness His secret place;
His canopy around Him was dark waters
And thick clouds of the skies.
12 From the brightness before Him,
His thick clouds passed with hailstones and coals of fire.
13 The Lord thundered from heaven,
And the Most High uttered His voice,
Hailstones and coals of fire.[a]
14 He sent out His arrows and scattered the foe,
Lightnings in abundance, and He vanquished them.
15 Then the channels of the sea were seen,
The foundations of the world were uncovered
At Your rebuke, O Lord,
At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
God is holy. In understanding this we need to understand that although he is love and that he is patient and kind, he cannot tolerate sin indefinitely. He is patient in dealing with sin but in the end, if it persists, he has to crush it . To not do so would not be loving because the sin, if allowed to remain, would destroy all of creation because sin brings death:
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
So God moves with terrifying power to crush sin. When he moves this way he is utterly terrifying and cannot be stopped until he is appeased, which only true repentance and righteous living can accomplish. In America where I live we are very near seeing God move this way because of our very great sin as a nation.
Steve Pursell, 3/19/14, revised 11/25/14
For about of a year or so now God has been showing me the eruption of a Colossal Volcano. I wonder now if that is what he had showed me in the dream above.
Steve Pursell, 10/10/17