The Oak at Sleepy Hollow

 

 

It was a cold winter evening in Upstate New York, in the village of Sleepy Hollow, the wind had calmed down from that afternoon so a certain man decides he will take an after-dinner walk.

He would generally go for walks along Kingsland Point Path, along the Hudson River, in the Kingsland Point County Park, so this evening he thought he will stick to the same area that he was familiar with.

It was cold in Sleepy Hollow that day, 19°F, but it felt like 6°F, so an extra pair of socks and thermal underwear were essential.

He could not find the new wool toque that his kids gave him for Christmas so he had to wear his ushanka instead.

His ushanka was a little tattered, being it used to belong to his dad before he passed-away, but it was actually a warmer piece of headgear than the toque.

“A ushanka and a good wool scarf are the best if you are going to keep warm in weather like this,” he thought.

After putting on his boots, coat and headgear, he heads out the door to drive to Kingsland before the park closes.

When he gets to the parking lot he reaches in the glove box to get his mittens so that he does not get frostbite on his fingers again.

He loves the biting cold, but he is also sure to take care of his hands ever since he got frostbite a few years back; he does not want to go through that again.

Many people consider him to be one tough individual, big and strong, built like a bull, but the doctor warned him that he was lucky he did not lose a couple of fingers back then.

Now he makes sure that if he is going to be out in the cold for any length of time he takes his mittens with him.

Once he gets out of his vehicle he begins to walk down, Kingsland Point Path, so he can go along the river, the water is frozen over this year, and he finds it relaxing to watch all the people skating on it.

People passing by say hello to him and he responds with only the nod of his head.

“There seems to be a lot of people out this evening even though it is bitter cold,” he thinks to himself. Then he speaks out loudly, with a bit of a laugh, “I guess I am not the only dummy in this village.” 

All of a sudden, he hears a voice from behind him say, “Guess you are not the only dummy.”

The man turns around quickly to see who said that, but the closest person to him was at least forty feet away; and they were not even paying attention to him.

“How could anyone have possibly heard me speak to myself,” he thought, “and where did that voice come from?” he wondered.

He keeps walking along, Kingsland Point Path, still wondering where that voice came from.

The man was not into hearing voices and usually thought that if anyone did than they were either just imagining it or they might have a psychotic illness.

He knew he heard a voice speak to him, but nobody was there, so he wondered if he just imagined it, because there is no-way that he is developing schizophrenia.

He is not feeling any of the cold right now, just a tingling feeling throughout his whole body; from his double socked feet to the top of his head that is covered with his dad’s old ushanka.

As he starts to walk a little more quickly he puts his eyes to the ground still being confused about his experience.

The snow is crunching under his snow boots with every step he takes, making its own melody in the cold evening air.

Bump! It is like he just walked into a wall, but it is not a wall it is another person.

Now the man is a big man, like I said, built like a bull, like a professional wrestler, with big shoulders and a strong back; he weighs 260 pounds and not an ounce less.

But, the person he just bumped into did not fall over, or was he even pushed back any, he just stood there like a hundred-year-old oak tree—unmovable.

“Woah!” The man said to the man like an oak tree. He added, “I truly am sorry, I was not watching where I was going, I have something on my mind.”

“Guess you were not,” said the man built like a hundred-year-old oak tree.

“Hey pal,” the man responded, “I said I was sorry, what more do you want?”

Then, the man questions the man built like an oak, asking him, “Hey buddy, do I know you?” He continues, “Did you not say something to me earlier, and how did you get in front of me?”

He knew that no one had passed him on the path, and that the voice that spoke to him before was defiantly behind him, so now he is wondering how the oak tree got in front of him.

The man built like a hundred-year-old oak tree says to the man out for a walk, “Come with me, because I have something that I want to show you.”

The man that was out for the walk just knew that he should not say no, so off they went together.

The man like an oak tree leads him out onto the Hudson River where all the skaters were, and when they were about sixty feet out he grabs him by the arm and they both go through the ice.

Now the ice did not break, or crack open, there was no whole for them to fall through, nevertheless they both just went through the ice as if they were ghosts.

As they were now below the surface of the ice, and literally sinking in the waters of the freezing Hudson River, the man that was only out for a walk realized that he was not drowning but could breathe; he also was aware that he did not feel the effects of the freezing water, and that he would be okay as long as the man like an oak tree held onto his arm.

The man like an oak tree then started to show the man through a vision some things that were to occur as was written in the word of God.

I have not mentioned it yet, but the man out for a walk happens to be the son of a former Christian pastor, and he was raised up in the church all of his life, in Upstate New York.

He would sit in church every Sunday with his mother and siblings, as his father would preach from the bible feeding his congregation the word of God.

His father-pastor, was not like other preachers because he always made sure that he peached on the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and especially about prophecy that taught about the end-times.

His father knew that Jesus Christ had commanded, and that the disciples recorded it in the Gospels, that those called to be servants of the word of God were to preach and teach the end-times doctrine with intensity, especially as the time drew near for Christ to rapture the Church.

He also knew of the consequences that the Lord said there would be for those that were appointed to this job and did not do so, so the man’s father-pastor made sure that he was obedient to the Lord.

As he was growing up, the man would listen to every word that his dad would preach, and by the power of the Holy Spirit was able to gain a good understanding of prophecy and the final days of the Church age.

Time passed by, the man grew older, and his mother and father both passed away.

His siblings all moved away from Sleepy Hollow down to New York City, the Big Apple, where the city never sleeps, because the small-town life was not enough for them; they wanted the excitement and all that the Big Apple has to offer.

The village of Sleepy Hollow was enough for the man and his children, as he used to say to his mother and father that this place is his home forever.

His brothers and sisters still keep in contact with him by email and text, and sometimes they Skype, but they really do not see each other in person as much as they should.

The man’s children really do not know much about their aunts and uncles, but only just what their dad speaks about them.

The man like an oak tree begins to reveal the prophetic word to him, and the man later would recall the memories of what his father had preached and spoke about around the old family table.

The man like an oak tree reveals to him what it will be like the moment Christ raptures his people, and the man that was only out for a walk sees everything in a vision.

He sees people as they hear the trumpet of God sound, and when they all raise their heads to the heavens he senses that they all know in their hearts what this remarkable sound is.

Some people begin to shout, others begin to cry, other begin to laugh with excitement.

He sees that in an instant they are all changed, in the twinkling of an eye, and they moved from having physical bodies into spiritual bodies.

Not like the bodies the angels of Heaven have, but glorified spiritual bodies like their Lord Jesus Christ has.

The man like an oak tree also showed him people that had died beforehand, and he revealed that at the time these people had passed away they were Christ’s followers too, like the people that he saw living and were changed—some of these people that had passed away had been out of their physical bodies for almost 2,000 years.

He saw how those that were once dead were now reunited with their physical bodies, the bodies they once occupied while they were still living breathing beings, but now their physical bodies were changed into glorified spiritual bodies, just like those that received glorified bodies but were yet living.

The man also saw that both these groups of people, those that were living and those that had been dead, were now together and they came face-to-face with the Lord Jesus Christ just on the other side of the physical realm, in the spiritual realm, where he then took them to meet his Holy Father in Eternity.

The man like an oak tree, then showed the man something else, he showed him a multitude of men that were members of the worldwide ministry, they had careers as ministers of the gospel over the last seventy years; all through the years since the year 1948.

This group of career ministers, were called by God to be in charge of his people, appointed to teach the Body of Christ from the Scriptures knowledge and revelation concerning the final days before Christ returns to redeem Israel—they were called to teach prophecy concerning the end-times. 

The man like an oak tree, revealed that certain people within this group of ministers did not have their bodies changed like the people that had been raptured, both the living and the dead, but instead these men were still in their bodies made of flesh, and they were seen looking up towards Heaven amazed at where all their fellow servants went to.

The man that was initially out for a walk, says to the man built like a hundred-year-old oak tree, “I know why these people are still in their earthly bodies,” and the man like an oak tree says, “I know you do, because you know the Scriptures.”

The word of God reveals that those that God appoints to feed his people Scripture in the final days of the Church-age are to feed his people prophecy concerning the end of the Church-age.

Teach them on a regular basis, among other things, prophecy pertaining to Israel, the rapture of the Church, the Antichrist, the seven-year Tribulation Period, and the day that Christ returns to redeem Israel.

All these topics and more, is required of those appointed to be ministers of the gospel to teach and preach, ministers called immediately after the day that Israel was reborn as a nation in 1948, because the rebirth of the nation of Israel is the timeline that ministers are to follow-by, up until the day of the rapture of the Church.

It is not theirs to ask why, but they are to preach and teach these prophecies, or to question the relevance of this worksheet because they are confused about end-time events, and certainly they are not to use the word of God out of context and use it as an excuse not to preach prophecy because no man knows the day and hour, it is just their responsibility to teach the Body of Christ this information because they have been commanded so; by Jesus Christ.

Every minister of God that is a faithful and wise manager-servant, those that he has put in charge over the Body of Christ, and does obey the Lord by preaching and teaching end-time prophecy, it will be good for them when Christ raptures the Church.

For Christ promises, that for everyone he has called to be kingdom-officers, and they continuously teach the Body of Christ end-time prophecy, then when the rapture occurs he will make them ruler of all he possesses.

However, when the rapture occurs, and those that have been called to take care of the Body of Christ, to teach them about things to come, and for whatever reason they do not, the Lord will then cut them to pieces and assign them a place with the hypocrites, the unbelievers, the unfaithful ones.

The Christ calls these unfaithful servants wicked, because they are really only interested in the agendas they have created and desire to only fulfill their destiny—he likens them to masters that beat their servants.

In the vision, the man that went for a walk, saw so many worldwide ministers that looked like they missed the rapture, because they were still on the earth after the rapture occurred.

They were left in their bodies of flesh, they did not receive glorified spiritual bodies like all the others, because they were to be sent to a place where there is weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

The Lord taught at other times, that the place of weeping and gnashing of teeth is a horrible place, it is a place outside of his kingdom, a place that is like a blazing furnace, a place of darkness, a place where worthless servants are cast into.

Jesus Christ prophesied, that not everyone that calls him Lord will enter into his heavenly kingdom, be raptured and given a glorified body, will be allowed into the literal presence of God the Father in Eternity, but only those that do the Father’s will.

It is God’s will that those called to be kingdom-officers, ministers of the gospel, should teach prophetic Scripture that pertains to the end-times on a regular basis, or Jesus Christ would not have commanded it so.

Jesus Christ also prophesied, that many would stand before him, declaring that they too had cast out demons, prophesied, performed miracles, all in the Lord’s name, but he will reply that he never knew these people.

The man that was receiving this vision asks the man built like a hundred-year-old oak tree, “The ministers that missed the rapture in this vision, are they like the foolish virgins in the Lord’s parable?”

The man like an oak tree replies, “In the parable, when the bridegroom finally came to get his bride, the foolish virgins were out buying oil for their lamps instead of always having enough before he came, they waited until there was no more time before they got serious about his coming, therefore, they missed the coming of the bridegroom and could not then see him after he came to retrieve the wise virgins. When they tried to see him, he turned them away claiming that he does not even know who they are.”

All of a sudden, the man who went out for a walk was back at his home, on the other side of Sleepy Hollow, stretched out on his bed with his eyes feeling heavy; like they were glued shut.

He gets off his bed, goes to the bathroom sink and washes his eyes with water, and then he looks back at himself in the bathroom mirror and just stares for a minute.

He feels a chill, and then patted down his shirt and pants to see if they are soaked with water from out of the Hudson River, and while looking at his image in the mirror, he says, “Whoa! I will never cut another oak tree down again.”

 

 

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