Elias’ vision

Elias saw many visions during his life, and one of his friends wrote down several of them a short time before Elias died in 2014. A lot of it is some New Age mixture. I don’t know if it is his own fault or his friend, the author’s. Elias tends to interpret his visions in a Christian context, according to the Bible, while the author (who is an outstanding author of Star Wars Comics, by the way) seeks to understand them more according to Indian philosophies.

Occasionally Elias’ visions are remarkable. In 1963, Elias was living in New York, and one night he saw a vision in his dream:

”I am at home with my family. It is night. Suddenly the sky lights up. We run up to the roof to see a glowing cross stretching from horizon to horizon, and the words THE END OF THE WORLD written in blazing letters across the stars. The image of the crucified Christ appears on the cross, and the cross comes zooming down to earth. The stars begin to wink out, meteors flame across the heavens , and an amazing display of celestial phenomena sends the population of earth into hysteria. My father goes back into the house to save his possessions. In the dream I recall the words of the gospel:’When that time comes the man on his housetop must not go down to fetch anything’. (Matt. 24:17)

Then mobs of people are roaming the streets, lost and afraid. ’Where is Jesus?’ they cry. ’Has he come to take us with him? We saw him in the sky!’,

’He’s in here!’ others answer. ’He’s holding a meeting in town!’. So my mother and brother and I go to the meetinghall where Jesus and his apo0stles are speaking to the crowds. Jesus walks in and begins shaking hands. But something is amiss – when my turn comes to shake his hand I look directly into his eyes and realize at once that this is an imposter! I shout:’Hey, you’re not Jesus!’.

Hissing and obscenities erupt from the mouths of ’Jesus’ and his ’apostles’, their masks fall off, and they are revealed as Satan and his fallen angels.

I woke up realizing the whole ’end of the world’  display was a satanic trick. Everyone was fooled because they knew only the religious clichés and consoling images, but not the Spirit of Jesus himself”.

(From the book “The Visions of Elias” – Sky River Books 2016)

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