I need to tell you up front - - - what I'm about to do is strange. (I'm a strange kind of guy anyway.)
It's almost like I've got a world-famous, prize-winning lasagna recipe. I'm going to fix it for you, set it on the table, let you smell it... and then ask you not to eat it.
That's this article.
I'm going to share three dreams I've had about the end times. Honest-to-goodness dreams. I could put my hand on the Bible and tell you I had every one of them.
Vivid. Specific. Dreams that rattled me to the bone.
And then I'm going to tell you why they don't matter.
Peter could stack more miraculous experiences in one pile than any man you'll ever meet. He walked with Jesus for three years. He stood on that mountain when Jesus was transfigured and saw His glory with his own eyes.
He heard the voice of the Father boom out of Heaven with his own ears. And yet here is what Peter wrote: "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place" (2 Peter 1:19).
Read that again. The man who saw the Transfiguration is telling you the written Word of God is MORE sure than what he saw. That's pretty awesome to me.
When the disciples asked Jesus what the end would look like, before He ever mentioned wars, famines, or earthquakes, the very first thing out of His mouth was this: "Take heed that no man deceive you" (Matthew 24:4).
For years I overlooked that. I thought it was just something He said to get to the good stuff. It IS the good stuff.
We are living in a day where people are more fascinated with a dream, a vision, or a "word from God" than with the Word of God. You ever had somebody walk up and say, "I've got a word from the Lord for you"? As much as I appreciate it - - - I'd rather stick to this one, the Holy Bible.
Paul put it plainly: "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed" (Galatians 1:8).
That one verse alone knocks out Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormonism. I'm not throwing rocks. I'm just saying both started with a "spiritual being" delivering something outside the Book.
If the dream disagrees with the Word of God, kick the dream to the curb and keep the Word.
That goes for the so-called prophet on YouTube. It goes for the preacher down the road. And it goes for me.
So why share my dreams at all? Because they line up with Scripture. If they didn't, I wouldn't share them - - - and I'd figure I just had too much pizza the night before.
Dream One: The Skyward Call
I got saved at 13. By my senior year of high school, you couldn't look at me and tell. But my freshman year of college, the Lord got a hold of me.
On November 18, 1998, I walked down to an old-fashioned altar and said, "Lord, I've made a mess of things. But whatever is left of me, I want You to use for Your glory."
Then, with His help, the changes started. The friends. The music. The places. And let me tell you, when you turn your life toward Christ, you find out real quick who your real friends are.
People I thought were my brothers were gone. The life I had mapped out - - - who I'd marry, what I'd do - - - gone.
Setting the stage: One night I prayed something honest. I told the Lord I don't believe in suicide. It's wrong for anybody, but especially for a Christian, to whom God gives all hope. That wasn't an option.
At that time, I was going through a season of testing, a sifting if you will. God blessed me during that time with a special dream…
A day or two later, I had the dream. I didn't see a thing. But I felt it - - - the rush of being caught up. It's the opposite of falling out of an airplane. Wind in my ears. Heading up.
Then, slowly, I started coming back down (I was really disappointed). And over and over, at least five times, maybe ten, I heard: "Your redemption draweth nigh. Your redemption draweth nigh."
I believe that was the Lord putting the fire back in me. I can't say it dogmatically, but I've always felt (with as close to a guarantee as one could get) He was telling me I would see the rapture in my lifetime.
But my dream doesn't matter. Here's what does: "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air" (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).
You might call me a fruit loop for believing in the doctrine of the rapture of the church. I'd like to ask you to remember that God took Enoch. He also took Elijah. And if you think we came from monkeys, you're crazier than I am.
If the resurrection of Jesus Christ really happened, the rapture is small potatoes.
Dream Two: The Voice in the Storm
The second dream came much later in life. In fact, I had this literally last year (2025). It was nighttime. I was on the earth looking up at thunderclouds split with lightning.
At the time I was looking up, a booming voice kept rolling out of the sky: "Woe to the inhabitants of the earth. God's judgments have begun." Over and over.
I woke up with my heart going a thousand miles an hour. I know Christ as my Savior. I know I'm going when that trumpet sounds. But to stand on the earth and hear that voice... oh my goodness - it was terribly frightening.
Here's what matters… Revelation 14 describes angels preaching from the sky, loud enough for the whole world to hear: "Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come" (Revelation 14:7).
A third angel follows, warning that anyone who worships the beast and takes his mark "shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God" (Revelation 14:10).
See, after the rapture, the world will be desperate for a Mr. Fix-It. The Bible says one is coming, and his name is Antichrist. He'll control the economy.
The symbol of your allegiance to him is called "The Mark of the Beast." No mark, no bank account. No mark, no doctor, no medicine.
If you get left behind, I'm begging you - - - do not take that mark. Not because Jason dreamed it. Because God said it.
Dream Three: The Burning Mountain
The third dream came just a couple of nights before I first preached a sermon by this title (also in 2025). I was looking up at the night sky, and it was lit by what looked like a mountain turned upside down - - - on fire - - - falling toward the earth.
It was so big there was nowhere I could look and not see it. The only reason I could make out its shape was the fire all around it.
I didn't stay in the dream long enough to see it hit. But I knew that when it did, millions would die. I woke up in a cold sweat.
Now look at Revelation 8: "And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood" (Revelation 8:8). Then a star called Wormwood falls on the rivers, "and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter" (Revelation 8:11).
Here's my read, and I'm not being dogmatic about it. I think it's one rock arriving in stages. When a big asteroid hits our atmosphere, it breaks up.
The first trumpet is the small fragments. The burning mountain is a bigger chunk. Wormwood is the big boy itself. And the fourth trumpet's darkened sun? That's the dust and debris thrown back into the sky.
Now… Let's think out loud about something interesting. Let me tell you about a rock named Apophis floating through space right now headed toward the Earth. - - - It's named, of all things, after an Egyptian serpent of chaos. It's about 1,100 feet across.
On Friday, April 13, 2029 (Friday the 13th, of all days), it will pass closer to Earth than the ring of satellites that beam down your television and your weather forecast.
Read that again. The powers that be are willing to admit it will come closer than our satellites. That is scarily close.
NASA says there's no risk of impact for at least 100 years. I want you to know that's their official stance on this huge rock hurtling towards us.
But I also want you to know what I think. NASA has been watching this asteroid since 2004. In 2022, they slammed a spacecraft into a different asteroid just to see if they could either pulverize it or at least knock it off course.
It worked, they celebrated like something HUGE had just happened - - - but the rock they hit was a fraction of Apophis's size.
And call me crazy, but I can't help noticing that some of the wealthiest men on the planet are pouring fortunes into rockets that will take them into space. Could they know more than they're letting on? I think they could.
That's my opinion, and I'm sticking to it. And honestly, I don't even blame them for keeping quiet. What would it accomplish if they disclosed this coming disaster to the world? Nothing…
In fact, if they told us, every roll of toilet paper in America would vanish by suppertime (and massive riots in the streets).
Could Apophis be Wormwood? It could be - and I personally believe it is. Am I saying dogmatically that it is? No.
But here's the point. Apophis or not, Revelation 8 says something big just like it is coming. Not because I dreamed it. Because God wrote it.
What Actually Matters
My duty as a Pastor is to never sell you a pie-in-the-sky gospel. Christians still get cancer. Christians still bury people they dearly love.
Sometimes, bad things in life still happen to us - - - we just have a Savior who walks us through it, and on the worst days, He carries us.
But hear this: "…God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thessalonians 5:9).
The trumpets. The burning mountain. The bitter waters. The mark. Those who belong to Jesus will not be here to see it.
Judgment is a missile that has already left the silo - - - and no man will stop it.
So I'm asking two things of you… First, check every dream, every vision, every "word from the Lord" against this Holy Bible. Mine included.
If it doesn't match, tell them, "No, thank you. Not interested."
Second, if you don't know Christ, please settle it today. "The Lord is... not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9).
You know what "all" means? It means everybody. There is enough power in the blood of Jesus to save over eight billion people - - - and more to spare.
One of the strangest scenes the morning after the rapture will be people coming to church looking for their pastor. "Where is he? I need him." Gone (I hope). And you'll never see him again this side of Heaven.
When that trumpet sounds, you can't get on the bus after we're gone. I want you to go with us. More importantly - - - God wants you to go with us.
Dreams are cool. Visions are amazing. But I agree with Peter…
What's in God's Book is even better!