Posted by Taita [Taita] on November 07, 1999 at 09:14:39 {zExURjw8QAgy8SS8Re/QPAuMZZj0o.}:
In Reply to: *12/26/92:SIGN SON OF MAN posted by FaithFulJW on November 07, 1999 at 08:13:19:
I have read your story with interest. It seems to me that you are sincere in relating this experience. I also noted the condition you were in at the time of this experience. The fact you were dehydrahted might have something to do with this vision. Heat and dehydration can do funny things to people, hallucinations being one. Doesn't mean you're crazy. Perfectly sane people who get lost in the desert without water have been known to strip off there clothes and start doing weird things and seeing strange stuff.
I don't disbelieve visions by any means and I have heard many stories and experiences that people have had with God. For example a man I know was walking in the Australian bush one night. He had become lost and was trying to find a way out. While he was walking in the dark he heard a voice say "stop now and lie down and go to sleep" So he stopped and went to sleep. When he woke in the moring he discovered he was very close to a huge drop, one that no doubt would have killed him if he kept on walking. He felt that this was God talking to him.
On the other hand I wouldn't put much stock in a vision obtained while taking drugs or under some other kind of influence, like mind control and trances.
Bibleman has his clouds but today I saw a cloud like a dragon and it looked like it was swallowing a planet. I read nothing into it. It was just a cloud. Grab an areoplane and make you're own fantastic cloud art.
Looking at your experience it's being born again.
:The image of my Lord is imprinted there, when I close my eyes I see him in all his glory. The bright light is always shining there. I only have to close my eyes to see him, to talk to him. He is inside me
So you were born again or now you're an annoited one (as you put it). What makes me wonder about all this is why indeed are you still a JW? You see people the world over have experienced Jesus and the Holy Spirit in a similar way. So many more than 144,000. So many feel that Jesus and the Holy Spirit dwell inside them. The JW's have taken Jesus who is a man for all men and made him a man for just a few. He died for me and lives in me every bit as much as he died for you and lives in you.
Taita